What motherboard are you currently using? I never seem to be sure whether regular mobos support ECC or not. My ASUS A8V has ECC options in the BIOS but somehow I doubt that reflects what the board & chipset can really handle.
Windows with snapshots! Being able to save and load the vm's state makes Windows much more tolerable.
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KDE's configurability just scares me
I know what you mean. I had to configure my background in KDE once. Christ, it gave me THREE options! 'No picture', 'Picture' and 'Slide show'. I mean, WTF? I'm not a rocket surgeon.
Then I wanted Konqueror to open links in tabs. People are right when they say KDE has a cluttered interface. It dragged me into Settings, then into something called Web Behaviour, and then forced me to click the box saying 'Open links in new tab'. After that I had to rest with 2 hours of TV.
The problem was, people who drink Coke exclusively don't like the ultra-sweet taste of Pepsi.
All your talk about sweetness made me chuckle. Both Coke and Pepsi are insanely, sickeningly sweet to a non-drinker. I have no idea how I managed to stomach so much Coke back in high school.
But that's what the developers think too, when contemplating whether to spend 6 months on optimisations for your P4, knowing that in another 6 months your Core 2 Duo will run the game much faster anyway.:-)
Window managers are not the cause of slowness. It's what gets rendered in the windows that matters. To illustrate: run Openbox, load Firefox, and mess around inside the window (scroll, drag, resize, load Java or Flash). Then do the same on Windows. The difference is night and day.
I do this with Squid proxy ACLs. Sad as it may be, I also find it has worked pretty well. I've also limited instant messaging to my laptop so that I'm not constantly on IM at my desktop throughout the day. I'm starting to not like 'always-on' internet. Never had these issues with dial-up!
I tried switching my dad to Open Office when we couldn't find the MS Office CD - he immediately complained that the small fonts he was using in his spreadsheets (less than 8 points) didn't render nicely in OO compared to Excel, so he went and bought a copy of Office 2003.
Little things like that count for a lot. OO might be more secure than MS Office, but it's terrible quality software in user-visible ways (i.e. it's ugly, slow and bloated). These things count to people. Little problems can't just be overlooked because it's free. My dad could pick it apart within minutes, and he doesn't normally care about software at all. He didn't care about paying for Office either, in fact he didn't think twice about it.
That's why. Nothing to do with TCO, Microsoft being evil, security, monopoly or anything else. OpenOffice just isn't very good in the ways that count to regular users.
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Yeah, just the shortcuts are removed. Ditto Movie Maker, Messenger, Media Player, IE and probably others.
That is absurd. I'm the same height as you and I'm currently about 220 pounds (100kg). I can tell you that is nowhere near a 'healthy' weight. Nothing of the sort. I have a fairly muscular build, but I also have a double chin, a fat arse, a gut that hangs over my jeans, sore knees, and man-boobs that wobble around every step I take. Nothing healthy about it.
I put this weight on over the last 10 months or so, up from about 84kg. That's 185 pounds. So your statement: "In order to get a BMI score that does not read overweight I would need to weigh 187 lbs" is spot on, for us at least.
You were up to 143kg, whereas 100kg is the heaviest I've been, so I realise your perspective is a little different. But you should be aiming for well below 225 pounds long-term if you want to be healthy. 225 is indeed well overweight, trust me!
Nah, it consumes a lot of memory and crashes occasionally. You don't need to lower your standards that far.
GUI responsiveness is perfect
Nope. Mozilla software is easily the slowest GUI software on any Linux desktop, save OpenOffice. It's more responsive on Windows (in the same way Java apps are more responsive on Windows), but still doesn't fit or feel or respond like a native app would.
The only thing Firefox has going for it is extensions. Extensions extensions extensions! For better or worse, this is a big enough feature to outweigh the general poor quality of the software.
I agree with your VB comments, but that C# snippet is atrocious. Braces given their own newlines... matter of fact, braces at all?! And types! The method in Python:
When you're finished with the mouse, I'd rather have a plastic cord in landfill than a lithium ion or nickel-metal-whatever battery in landfill. Nothing else is relevant.
I have a 9250 running 2 displays, using the free drivers and also on a dual-core 64-bit system. It works fine and fast although I have had a few glitches with 3D (some sort of Mesa bug that draws OpenGL stuff partly off-screen).
I used to get hardware hangs with Cool&Quiet enabled (I have an X2). Happened with both an nvidia card and the current 9250. I put it down to a cheapo motherboard and just disabled CNQ. I used to run 32-bit before kubuntu dapper was released, but didn't see any change when I went to 64-bit dapper.
The whole thing feels like a bit of a gamble really. I'm attracted to the idea of going all-Intel next time around, now that the P4 is retiring. Intel chipset, Intel video, all free drivers. Seems like there's a higher chance of things working properly.
You'd be quite happy to kill the "golden goose" for the sake of short-term benefit
Considering that not using binary drivers equates to the golden goose having its head chopped off, then yes. Not happy about it, but that's the way it mostly is.
sigh
That's the sigh of a man hunting for an old r200 or Matrox on ebay, I presume? Or is the sigh of disappointment when confronted with the incompleteness of the available DRI for a years old card? The sigh of poor performance? Do let us know!
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What motherboard are you currently using? I never seem to be sure whether regular mobos support ECC or not. My ASUS A8V has ECC options in the BIOS but somehow I doubt that reflects what the board & chipset can really handle.
Windows with snapshots is still Windows.
Oh Stewie...
Windows with snapshots! Being able to save and load the vm's state makes Windows much more tolerable.
KDE's configurability just scares me
I know what you mean. I had to configure my background in KDE once. Christ, it gave me THREE options! 'No picture', 'Picture' and 'Slide show'. I mean, WTF? I'm not a rocket surgeon.
Then I wanted Konqueror to open links in tabs. People are right when they say KDE has a cluttered interface. It dragged me into Settings, then into something called Web Behaviour, and then forced me to click the box saying 'Open links in new tab'. After that I had to rest with 2 hours of TV.
The problem was, people who drink Coke exclusively don't like the ultra-sweet taste of Pepsi.
All your talk about sweetness made me chuckle. Both Coke and Pepsi are insanely, sickeningly sweet to a non-drinker. I have no idea how I managed to stomach so much Coke back in high school.
Also, ionice would have made my old machine much more usable when doing backups... Oh well.
/home.
Is it any different with your new machine? My Athlon X2 (SATA disks, 2GB etc) crawls when I start rsyncing my
It's downright wasteful.
:-)
But that's what the developers think too, when contemplating whether to spend 6 months on optimisations for your P4, knowing that in another 6 months your Core 2 Duo will run the game much faster anyway.
I actually make a point of scanning the ads in my GMail messages from time to time, and following those that might interest me.
That is truly bizarre behaviour. Can you remember when you started to develop that? And do you do it with any other products/services?
And the only bubble to burst is the term 'Web 2.0'. The sooner the better.
Window managers are not the cause of slowness. It's what gets rendered in the windows that matters. To illustrate: run Openbox, load Firefox, and mess around inside the window (scroll, drag, resize, load Java or Flash). Then do the same on Windows. The difference is night and day.
I do this with Squid proxy ACLs. Sad as it may be, I also find it has worked pretty well. I've also limited instant messaging to my laptop so that I'm not constantly on IM at my desktop throughout the day. I'm starting to not like 'always-on' internet. Never had these issues with dial-up!
I tried switching my dad to Open Office when we couldn't find the MS Office CD - he immediately complained that the small fonts he was using in his spreadsheets (less than 8 points) didn't render nicely in OO compared to Excel, so he went and bought a copy of Office 2003.
Little things like that count for a lot. OO might be more secure than MS Office, but it's terrible quality software in user-visible ways (i.e. it's ugly, slow and bloated). These things count to people. Little problems can't just be overlooked because it's free. My dad could pick it apart within minutes, and he doesn't normally care about software at all. He didn't care about paying for Office either, in fact he didn't think twice about it.
That's why. Nothing to do with TCO, Microsoft being evil, security, monopoly or anything else. OpenOffice just isn't very good in the ways that count to regular users.
Yeah, just the shortcuts are removed. Ditto Movie Maker, Messenger, Media Player, IE and probably others.
CSIRO is Australian.
Your country does indeed take this sort of technology, and doesn't like to honour the patents on it either! So stop complaining.
refactoring is really a kind of maintenance optimization and like all optimizations it's problematic if you do it too early.
QFT.
a few lines of code repeated in several places is not necessarily a class waiting to emerge.
That's right - it's a function waiting to emerge.
Desktop, Server, or Enterprise?
Is this a spot the difference challenge?
I second that. Used conditioner one morning when I ran out of shaving cream, and found it was much better.
At 225, I would be a VERY healthy weight
That is absurd. I'm the same height as you and I'm currently about 220 pounds (100kg). I can tell you that is nowhere near a 'healthy' weight. Nothing of the sort. I have a fairly muscular build, but I also have a double chin, a fat arse, a gut that hangs over my jeans, sore knees, and man-boobs that wobble around every step I take. Nothing healthy about it.
I put this weight on over the last 10 months or so, up from about 84kg. That's 185 pounds. So your statement: "In order to get a BMI score that does not read overweight I would need to weigh 187 lbs" is spot on, for us at least.
You were up to 143kg, whereas 100kg is the heaviest I've been, so I realise your perspective is a little different. But you should be aiming for well below 225 pounds long-term if you want to be healthy. 225 is indeed well overweight, trust me!
Good luck with it.
Firefox works fine.
Nah, it consumes a lot of memory and crashes occasionally. You don't need to lower your standards that far.
GUI responsiveness is perfect
Nope. Mozilla software is easily the slowest GUI software on any Linux desktop, save OpenOffice. It's more responsive on Windows (in the same way Java apps are more responsive on Windows), but still doesn't fit or feel or respond like a native app would.
Konqueror is no better.
Konqueror feels significantly faster. Crummy browser though.
The only thing Firefox has going for it is extensions. Extensions extensions extensions! For better or worse, this is a big enough feature to outweigh the general poor quality of the software.
F = C × 1.8 + 32 is far more useful.
Or, even more useful: just use C like everyone else does!
Too complicated? Too proud to give up fahrenheit? Or maybe you need the accuracy? How does a 90 day feel compared to a 91, anyway?!
I agree with your VB comments, but that C# snippet is atrocious. Braces given their own newlines... matter of fact, braces at all?! And types! The method in Python:
def Add(num1, num2):
return num1 + num2
Now that's nice.
When you're finished with the mouse, I'd rather have a plastic cord in landfill than a lithium ion or nickel-metal-whatever battery in landfill. Nothing else is relevant.
I have a 9250 running 2 displays, using the free drivers and also on a dual-core 64-bit system. It works fine and fast although I have had a few glitches with 3D (some sort of Mesa bug that draws OpenGL stuff partly off-screen).
I used to get hardware hangs with Cool&Quiet enabled (I have an X2). Happened with both an nvidia card and the current 9250. I put it down to a cheapo motherboard and just disabled CNQ. I used to run 32-bit before kubuntu dapper was released, but didn't see any change when I went to 64-bit dapper.
The whole thing feels like a bit of a gamble really. I'm attracted to the idea of going all-Intel next time around, now that the P4 is retiring. Intel chipset, Intel video, all free drivers. Seems like there's a higher chance of things working properly.
You're simply an ignoramus
Oops, you misspelled pragmatist.
You'd be quite happy to kill the "golden goose" for the sake of short-term benefit
Considering that not using binary drivers equates to the golden goose having its head chopped off, then yes. Not happy about it, but that's the way it mostly is.
sigh
That's the sigh of a man hunting for an old r200 or Matrox on ebay, I presume? Or is the sigh of disappointment when confronted with the incompleteness of the available DRI for a years old card? The sigh of poor performance? Do let us know!