Porting kdelibs doesn't really mean that all KDE apps can straight away be ported to Win32 because many of them depend on non-KDE libraries which may not be cross-platforum. The Amarok team, for example, have stated that they will not try to port Amarok, because Windows lacks the multimedia libraries that Amarok uses (imagine Amarok with WMP engine support *shudders*).
Gentoo offers both Linux and BSD kernels, and both GNU and BSD utilities (i.e. cd, rm, ls, etc.). Last time I checked, not all combinations are supposed to work yet, but the devs are aiming for such support eventually. There have been options like using BSD's telnet for a while, but a couple of months ago they introduced a package to replace the GNU userland with FreeBSD stuff. Presumably, the GNU compiler toolchain (which is a seperate package from the utilities) will still be required.
So, pretty soon Gentoo will support BSD utilities on a Linux kernel, not as a manually configured hack, but as an install option for the OS.
FFS. Don't ever cut mains power cables. It is inevitable that the blade will short the live and the neutral at some point during the cut, which will cause everything to get very hot and some fuses to blow in a louder and more fun fashion than is normal. This could really really not be done undetected.
If you like Gnome, use Nautillus. If you like KDE, use Konqueror. You'll find that the file managers from both big DEs can act as very nice FTP clients, because they display the share just as if it was a local folder. Very easy to use.
Hah. People still use Flash, which works fine on 32-bit x86 Linux (only). Shockwave, however, is just not an issue. I briefly tried to find a Linux version, gave up, and since then have simply not come across any sites using it...
I love that quote! "Fluidity", used to describe a property of Outlook! On my not-that-bad hardware, I couldn't keep it open waiting for mail to arrive (and there is a serious lack of nice biff-type apps for Windows) because it's memory usage was inconsistent with running other programs at the same time. Also, the interface tended to be unresponsive while receiving mail. I really don't know what "fluidity" is supposed to mean.
Agreed. I have actually known people switch to Linux primarily in order to use Amarok. NOTHING on Windows (and probably nothing, period) is as good if you like a featureful player. For example, using iTunes, you can't queue the next track in shuffle mode, short of turning off shuffle and rearranging the playlist.
Although Amarok has removed or not implemented some features (hardware mixers was given as an example by some guy on IRC, though I've always considered forcing their use a problem in most other players), they say this is only because no one uses them, and I tend to believe this. In terms of useful features, I have failed to find a single instance in which Amarok is not a superset of all Windows audio players.
Also, I think that the last.fm player functionality is probably unique in a serious audio player (because the official last.fm client is not a serious audio player). I hope it actually starts working on my machine in the next release.:)
Hmm... We don't just use variable resolution. We also do the first stages of processing in the retina, so the comparison could be likened to transfer of vector versus bitmap images.
IMHO this is a very good move. It's a sad thing, but no one knows or cares what DRM is. However, everyone cares if his/her computer won't do what he or she wants. This makes it much easier for a normal person to understand things. Including a plain language explanation is an important strength of this license.
We call them inverted commas, at least in en_GB. "Quotation marks" can mean a range of things including inverted commas and the marks that look a bit like double angle brackets which are used in French.
Thats way out of context. Read my post. I wasn't talking about writing proof-of-concept viruses or even about releasing real worms into the wild. I was talking about this banner ad, which was served to a million people with clear malicious intent. No one was learning anything. Yes, the first WMF exploit was needed to make the vunerability public and force MS to fix it, but this was just malicious use of a flaw for profit.
The creation of this basically malicious content was wrong and should be punished by the Law, but please don't join the media and the less educated parts of our governments in refering to all computer security exploits as "viruses".
This attack is not a virus because it cannot spread to new hosts from infected machines. It is, more accuratly, a trojan, in that it is "executed" under the false pretence of being non-malicious code (I put "executed" in inverted commas because there is the additional issue of how it ended up actually executing native code on the infected machines).
Also, the people who recieve harsh sentances are normally writers of worms, rather than viruses. This is because the extremely rapid way in which some worms infect new machines can cause serious overload of the networks over which they spread, which tends to cause more $s of damage than the damage to the actual machines. Although these ads are wrong, they have not had that sort of global impact on networks.
So, while I agree that these people should be prosecuted and severely punished, I believe that it is misguided to say that they should be prosecuted under the same laws as virus and worm authors, as this would just muddy the water and add to the current situation where all computer users have to be worried about which laws they might be breaking.
The way they've done things, no proccessor, however awesome, could make a significant difference, short of putting in an old 486 or something. The CPU is not the bottleneck. They are benchmarking CPUs in a test where the CPU does not even approach 100% utilization.
Can't find a link, but this was covered on/. a year or two ago. Some people made a cheap desktop for education in Africa or something, with 2 video cards and dual keyboards and mice (USB presumably). It acted more or less like a machine with two thin clients; you could log in independantly on either of the heads.
I don't think they had to do anything very special; AFAIK they were using pretty standard x86 hardware and (two seperate) stock Xorg servers (using 2 config files). Dunno how they did it, but I know that seperate mice (and presumably keyboards) have seperate files in/dev/, and at least the nVidia drivers allow you to specify the hardware address of the card to be used.
It would be interesting to hear about what specific abnormalities they suffered from - "abnormal patterns of growth" sounds a lot like what goes wrong with many clones. I wonder if the problems are caused by similar changes in gene expression.
The scary thing about stock tip spam ("XXXXX set to rocket on Wednesday!!!") is that presumably enough suckers buy it that it really does increase in price.
I suspect that the spammers or their contacts buy stock just before sending out the spam, wait for the price to be artificially inflated by thousands of idiots who think they've accidentally received a valuable tip intended for someone else buying it all up, then sell shortly before the rise they promised happens (as this is when the fools realise that they've been tricked and start cutting their losses).
Oh god. I really really hate those. I suppose it may be some instinctive reaction to mosquitoes, the same way some people dislike spiders or snakes. I'm not in any way phobic of actual mosquitoes, which I can kill quite calmly, but somehow crane flies (which are harmless, but at least an order of magnitude bigger) terrify me. It really makes no sense. I don't even mind spiders.
Also, they all seem to lose at least one leg over their lifetime, which is rather disturbing.
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Porting kdelibs doesn't really mean that all KDE apps can straight away be ported to Win32 because many of them depend on non-KDE libraries which may not be cross-platforum. The Amarok team, for example, have stated that they will not try to port Amarok, because Windows lacks the multimedia libraries that Amarok uses (imagine Amarok with WMP engine support *shudders*).
Read the data. Finally, conclusive proof that AOL users are stupid.
Gentoo offers both Linux and BSD kernels, and both GNU and BSD utilities (i.e. cd, rm, ls, etc.). Last time I checked, not all combinations are supposed to work yet, but the devs are aiming for such support eventually. There have been options like using BSD's telnet for a while, but a couple of months ago they introduced a package to replace the GNU userland with FreeBSD stuff. Presumably, the GNU compiler toolchain (which is a seperate package from the utilities) will still be required.
So, pretty soon Gentoo will support BSD utilities on a Linux kernel, not as a manually configured hack, but as an install option for the OS.
FFS. Don't ever cut mains power cables. It is inevitable that the blade will short the live and the neutral at some point during the cut, which will cause everything to get very hot and some fuses to blow in a louder and more fun fashion than is normal. This could really really not be done undetected.
If you like Gnome, use Nautillus. If you like KDE, use Konqueror. You'll find that the file managers from both big DEs can act as very nice FTP clients, because they display the share just as if it was a local folder. Very easy to use.
Hah. People still use Flash, which works fine on 32-bit x86 Linux (only). Shockwave, however, is just not an issue. I briefly tried to find a Linux version, gave up, and since then have simply not come across any sites using it...
I love that quote! "Fluidity", used to describe a property of Outlook! On my not-that-bad hardware, I couldn't keep it open waiting for mail to arrive (and there is a serious lack of nice biff-type apps for Windows) because it's memory usage was inconsistent with running other programs at the same time. Also, the interface tended to be unresponsive while receiving mail. I really don't know what "fluidity" is supposed to mean.
Agreed. I have actually known people switch to Linux primarily in order to use Amarok. NOTHING on Windows (and probably nothing, period) is as good if you like a featureful player. For example, using iTunes, you can't queue the next track in shuffle mode, short of turning off shuffle and rearranging the playlist.
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Although Amarok has removed or not implemented some features (hardware mixers was given as an example by some guy on IRC, though I've always considered forcing their use a problem in most other players), they say this is only because no one uses them, and I tend to believe this. In terms of useful features, I have failed to find a single instance in which Amarok is not a superset of all Windows audio players.
Also, I think that the last.fm player functionality is probably unique in a serious audio player (because the official last.fm client is not a serious audio player). I hope it actually starts working on my machine in the next release.
Mosaic? How can you consider a web browser to be a server app?
Hmm... We don't just use variable resolution. We also do the first stages of processing in the retina, so the comparison could be likened to transfer of vector versus bitmap images.
IMHO this is a very good move. It's a sad thing, but no one knows or cares what DRM is. However, everyone cares if his/her computer won't do what he or she wants. This makes it much easier for a normal person to understand things. Including a plain language explanation is an important strength of this license.
I M2'ed the Troll mod. So there.
We call them inverted commas, at least in en_GB. "Quotation marks" can mean a range of things including inverted commas and the marks that look a bit like double angle brackets which are used in French.
"Quotation marks, also called quotes or inverted commas, are punctuation marks used in pairs to set off speech, a quotation, or a phrase." (My italics).
Thats way out of context. Read my post. I wasn't talking about writing proof-of-concept viruses or even about releasing real worms into the wild. I was talking about this banner ad, which was served to a million people with clear malicious intent. No one was learning anything. Yes, the first WMF exploit was needed to make the vunerability public and force MS to fix it, but this was just malicious use of a flaw for profit.
The creation of this basically malicious content was wrong and should be punished by the Law, but please don't join the media and the less educated parts of our governments in refering to all computer security exploits as "viruses".
This attack is not a virus because it cannot spread to new hosts from infected machines. It is, more accuratly, a trojan, in that it is "executed" under the false pretence of being non-malicious code (I put "executed" in inverted commas because there is the additional issue of how it ended up actually executing native code on the infected machines).
Also, the people who recieve harsh sentances are normally writers of worms, rather than viruses. This is because the extremely rapid way in which some worms infect new machines can cause serious overload of the networks over which they spread, which tends to cause more $s of damage than the damage to the actual machines. Although these ads are wrong, they have not had that sort of global impact on networks.
So, while I agree that these people should be prosecuted and severely punished, I believe that it is misguided to say that they should be prosecuted under the same laws as virus and worm authors, as this would just muddy the water and add to the current situation where all computer users have to be worried about which laws they might be breaking.
The way they've done things, no proccessor, however awesome, could make a significant difference, short of putting in an old 486 or something. The CPU is not the bottleneck. They are benchmarking CPUs in a test where the CPU does not even approach 100% utilization.
On release day, because we'll build them ourselves.
/.ers have an off-the-shelf PC anyway?
How many
Can't find a link, but this was covered on /. a year or two ago. Some people made a cheap desktop for education in Africa or something, with 2 video cards and dual keyboards and mice (USB presumably). It acted more or less like a machine with two thin clients; you could log in independantly on either of the heads.
/dev/, and at least the nVidia drivers allow you to specify the hardware address of the card to be used.
I don't think they had to do anything very special; AFAIK they were using pretty standard x86 hardware and (two seperate) stock Xorg servers (using 2 config files). Dunno how they did it, but I know that seperate mice (and presumably keyboards) have seperate files in
I think that's why they're wiping the disk and reinstalling. It's the only sensible course of action when a machine has been compromised.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish?
I think I deal with this by getting new software all the time. It's a lot cheaper, especially on Linux :)
It would be interesting to hear about what specific abnormalities they suffered from - "abnormal patterns of growth" sounds a lot like what goes wrong with many clones. I wonder if the problems are caused by similar changes in gene expression.
Safer to sell just before the time they said it would go crazy at. That way, you get whatever percentage they get, plus you hurt their yield a little.
The scary thing about stock tip spam ("XXXXX set to rocket on Wednesday!!!") is that presumably enough suckers buy it that it really does increase in price.
I suspect that the spammers or their contacts buy stock just before sending out the spam, wait for the price to be artificially inflated by thousands of idiots who think they've accidentally received a valuable tip intended for someone else buying it all up, then sell shortly before the rise they promised happens (as this is when the fools realise that they've been tricked and start cutting their losses).
Oh god. I really really hate those. I suppose it may be some instinctive reaction to mosquitoes, the same way some people dislike spiders or snakes. I'm not in any way phobic of actual mosquitoes, which I can kill quite calmly, but somehow crane flies (which are harmless, but at least an order of magnitude bigger) terrify me. It really makes no sense. I don't even mind spiders.
Also, they all seem to lose at least one leg over their lifetime, which is rather disturbing.