Virtualbox performance is just as good as VMWare Server in my experience. Once the guest additions are installed for Windows guests there is essentially no difference in *apparent* performance. Can you atleast tell us what you found to be wrong with it?
Even without extensions Firefox's memory footprint steadily increases with use. Recent evidence puts this down to memory fragmentation, not leaks. Google it and see.
It is irrelevant, unless the page containing the login form itself is transfered securely you are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle on-the-fly rewriting of the page.
My prediction is that IE 8 will have exactly the same rendering capabilities, but it will have some sort of annoying new UI, plus maybe a few extremely annoying security features that everyone will turn off immediately. This is a perfect description of IE 7. There were only *bug fixes* to the rendering capabilities of IE6.
I can buy Vista Upgrade for $100, but i have to install XP, then upgrade it to vista every time i format.
Yeah it is strange, you'd think they'd just have the Vista upgrade installer to do a fresh install but ask you to insert your XP CD and type your XP product key for verification. I guess MS just aren't that smart.
The get yourself a Vista RTM ISO off of BitTorrent and utilize the little app at the very bottom of this page to save your OEM license. I've done it and it works a charm.
There is absolutely nothing in Vista that will deliberately sabotage playback of unDRM'd AVI files (The AVI format doesn't even support DRM). Try installing the correct codecs, GSpot should be able to identify the video and audio codecs required by the AVI's you're having problems with. If in doubt, try ffdshow which will decode most formats.
Also try other players, particularly ones which may have their own AVI parser rather than using the one shipped with DirectX/Windows, Media Player Classic perhaps.
That is because we (College students) don't have a choice in the short term. It is either hand over your paper for automated anti-plagiarism analysis or fail the class.
Recursive file permissions and ownership changes: Nautilus' interface for this clunky and doesn't work right.
Yeah, and their current permissions tab on the folder/file properties dialog which was introduced in 2.18 (I think), made the whole dialog a whole lot taller. It's pretty ugly.
Directory compare & synchronization: sync two folders by content. Yes, I know there are tools for this, but most of them are too difficult for the average user to setup and use.
This is a good idea, in fact I'd be happy if instead of saying
A file named "morgan.jpg" already exists. Do you want to replace it? it said
A file named "morgan.jpg" already exists, but the files are the same and then gave me some options.
Easy interface for massive file renames by pattern matching. I think it'd be great if there was a way to sequentially number files using rename (Windows Explorer has this) or to mass change extensions, but anything more complex should resort to the command line. Perhaps with some easier to use command line renaming tools, like "chgext" or something.
An easy interface for installing QEMU and Windows like QEMU Launcher and QEMU Control polished and fully supported by Canonical.
> App resources all contained in the.app directory structure instead of scattered all over the file system
This is a fucking terrible idea. The Linux/*nix file system layout IS CLEAN.
All your user apps are in/usr/bin, what is wrong with that? All your user libraries are in/usr/lib, what is wrong with that? All your library/executable hybrids (stuff that can function as either), is in/usr/libexec, what is wrong with that?
If you shove everything in an "/App" dir you're going to end up with a massive symlink fiasco so all your apps can find shared libraries. Or do you want to do away with shared libraries?
In fact the only thing I agree with you on is that config files should be put in your home directory in a more structured manner, along the lines of the rest of the well structured / file system.
None of these figures tell you anything about how IPod sales have influenced PC vs Mac sales. The only figures that are going to do that are those of people who bought an IPod and then later bought a Mac (Say within 1 year), and there are all kinds of factors involved. It's pointless to even speculate.
I installed Ubuntu about 2 weeks ago, and somehow the installation screwed up my hard drive completely...*snip* At the time, I figured it was GRUB that had done it, but according to this news, it was Ubuntu.
Even assuming this bug effected you 2 weeks ago and taking it to its maximum impact this bug still probably wouldn't have killed your drive in such a short time. My immediate suspicion is a faulty drive.
> For now it's just another post on Full Disclosure [seclists.org], I will give it a better home one day. > I wish Mozilla used something like this instead of the messy code they have now
Where is the Mozilla code in question? Maybe someone can file a bug and/or patch?
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If you can tell me a way to cheaply and conveniently backup my /home, which is approximately 1 TB in size, please do so.
Virtualbox performance is just as good as VMWare Server in my experience. Once the guest additions are installed for Windows guests there is essentially no difference in *apparent* performance. Can you atleast tell us what you found to be wrong with it?
...and you can replace Cowon firmware with the completely FOSS Rockbox on some of their players.
Even without extensions Firefox's memory footprint steadily increases with use. Recent evidence puts this down to memory fragmentation, not leaks. Google it and see.
Not surprising, I couldn't be bothered to stick C wrappers around a whole ton of C++ classes either.
It is irrelevant, unless the page containing the login form itself is transfered securely you are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle on-the-fly rewriting of the page.
... and AMD isn't (currently) going to fix it.
The article summary says they released a BIOS workaround to mobo manufacturers. A fix with a 20% performance hit is still a fix.
I can buy Vista Upgrade for $100, but i have to install XP, then upgrade it to vista every time i format.
Yeah it is strange, you'd think they'd just have the Vista upgrade installer to do a fresh install but ask you to insert your XP CD and type your XP product key for verification. I guess MS just aren't that smart.
The get yourself a Vista RTM ISO off of BitTorrent and utilize the little app at the very bottom of this page to save your OEM license. I've done it and it works a charm.
By its strict scientific definition, the Kilogram is a measure of mass not weight. Therefore the force of gravity is irrelevant.
Vista can't play movies.
Or you're an idiot.
I thought this driver signing to protect DRM'd data crapola had been bypassed by means of replacing the Vista boot loader?
There is absolutely nothing in Vista that will deliberately sabotage playback of unDRM'd AVI files (The AVI format doesn't even support DRM). Try installing the correct codecs, GSpot should be able to identify the video and audio codecs required by the AVI's you're having problems with. If in doubt, try ffdshow which will decode most formats.
Also try other players, particularly ones which may have their own AVI parser rather than using the one shipped with DirectX/Windows, Media Player Classic perhaps.
That is because we (College students) don't have a choice in the short term. It is either hand over your paper for automated anti-plagiarism analysis or fail the class.
How can they prove you are using encryption and are just in fact, not transmitting garbage for fun? ;-)
SETI is a passive scanning project, therefore your point seems to be we are safer if we are ignorant.
Or swfdec
http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/wiki/
Yeah, and their current permissions tab on the folder/file properties dialog which was introduced in 2.18 (I think), made the whole dialog a whole lot taller. It's pretty ugly.
This is a good idea, in fact I'd be happy if instead of saying A file named "morgan.jpg" already exists. Do you want to replace it? it said A file named "morgan.jpg" already exists, but the files are the same and then gave me some options. Easy interface for massive file renames by pattern matching. I think it'd be great if there was a way to sequentially number files using rename (Windows Explorer has this) or to mass change extensions, but anything more complex should resort to the command line. Perhaps with some easier to use command line renaming tools, like "chgext" or something.
Try VirtualBox, it'll blow you away
> App resources all contained in the .app directory structure instead of scattered all over the file system
/usr/bin, what is wrong with that? /usr/lib, what is wrong with that? /usr/libexec, what is wrong with that?
This is a fucking terrible idea. The Linux/*nix file system layout IS CLEAN.
All your user apps are in
All your user libraries are in
All your library/executable hybrids (stuff that can function as either), is in
If you shove everything in an "/App" dir you're going to end up with a massive symlink fiasco so all your apps can find shared libraries. Or do you want to do away with shared libraries?
In fact the only thing I agree with you on is that config files should be put in your home directory in a more structured manner, along the lines of the rest of the well structured / file system.
None of these figures tell you anything about how IPod sales have influenced PC vs Mac sales. The only figures that are going to do that are those of people who bought an IPod and then later bought a Mac (Say within 1 year), and there are all kinds of factors involved. It's pointless to even speculate.
I installed Ubuntu about 2 weeks ago, and somehow the installation screwed up my hard drive completely...*snip* At the time, I figured it was GRUB that had done it, but according to this news, it was Ubuntu.
Even assuming this bug effected you 2 weeks ago and taking it to its maximum impact this bug still probably wouldn't have killed your drive in such a short time. My immediate suspicion is a faulty drive.
How exactly is the drive hosed?
I shouldn't have to click that link to find out which one won then, since Vista won't play DVD's (decode MPEG2) out of the box.
> For now it's just another post on Full Disclosure [seclists.org], I will give it a better home one day.
> I wish Mozilla used something like this instead of the messy code they have now
Where is the Mozilla code in question? Maybe someone can file a bug and/or patch?