- i have a relatively decent config - amd 64 3000+, asus k8n, 512mb pc3200 ddr, geforce 2 gfx, soundblaster, 160 gb sata hdd - so its not like the machine might be an impediment for smooth running of firefox
So has Gecko jumped on the hardware-accelerated-widgets bandwagon, or were you giving us a bit too much information?
Having to manually symlink the plugins is annoying, and I think it comes partly from distributions using non-standard plugin dirs, and partly from the way so many Firefox plugins are still notionally "for Netscape" (whatever Netscape means now...).
Flash can be automatically installed, I've done it in Windows and Linux. Just visit a page with an SWF in and it prompts you. Of course, you need root on a Unix box.
There is a space half way through your sig. Furthermore, Slashdot doesn't put it on a line on its own in the page source.
Either of those will stop it from triggering any AV scanners.
When mass-producing a robot, the very expensive, unique hardware makes open source more profitable. The "lock-in" that stops others copying your product is the fact that your robot OS will not do much on a desktop.
That said, Windows has never been a very customisable system, and it doesn't seem to make sense to run dedicated equipment on it.
(Insert joke about robot not needing IE preloaded in memory here).
Original here
I think we are seeing recursive RSS blogging. I have a theory that someone who reads Slashdot is running a website/blog in another timezone. During the American night, he writes articles on many stories, some of which come from Slashdot. When the/. editors wake up in the morning, they read this guy's RSS feed, and write about any interesting stories, unaware that they may have given him the news in the first place.
This would explain the regular pattern of stories that pop up again the next day. News that comes back after two days may be explained by American sites, which don't write articles in the night but instead during the following day.
Wine is a re-implementation of some of the Win32 API for Linux. Unless combined with an actual hardware emulator, it only works on x86. It just runs x86 binaries on an x86 processor like Windows does, but providing some commonly used Windows API calls.
In short, running programs using Wine is "native", and, programs that work at all are often actually faster with Wine than with Windows for the same reasons that anything runs faster on Linux.
BTW, thats a great sig. I've lots count of the number of times people have asked me how they got spyware (usually browser "search" toolbars) when their firewall is meant to protect them. But can you turn off what you don't need in Windows?
There are projects to use the Wine API clone with an x86 architecture emulator to run windows binaries in Linux on other hardware platforms. Which really should be called "Wie"...
They should be put to use writing software.
Get some of them to type random code, and others to alpha test. When you get some code which compiles fairly cleanly and which can open and edit a few common formats (MS word, PDF, Oo.o sxw, etc.), sell it and start them on something else, like a photoshop clone. Yes, there will be issues with bloat, what with all the random peices of code which don't do anything, but it probably won't be as bad as the bloat in MS Word...
Oh no you won't.
When you have three arms you will keep one (the artificial, carpal tunnel proof one) on the mouse and the others on the keyboard. You'll need a fourth. And when four hands becomes normal, they'll invent three-handed keyboards.
we can teach them to type!
This will do wonders for the quality of discussion on Slashdot. CmdrTaco, if your reading this, please give extra mod points to non-human/.ers.
Actually there is a lot of "climate data" that can be deduced from the fossil record. For a start you can deduce temperature from the types of plants that grew at different times in different areas. CO2 and other gas levels can be measured from air trapped in deep Antarctic ice, from which we can obtain at least several thousand years of the history of the composition of the atmosphere.
Slashdot Mirror
Spoken like a gentleman.
(Monty Python quote).
Show off.
Never had trouble with realplayer plugins...
Having to manually symlink the plugins is annoying, and I think it comes partly from distributions using non-standard plugin dirs, and partly from the way so many Firefox plugins are still notionally "for Netscape" (whatever Netscape means now...).
Flash can be automatically installed, I've done it in Windows and Linux. Just visit a page with an SWF in and it prompts you. Of course, you need root on a Unix box.
There is a space half way through your sig. Furthermore, Slashdot doesn't put it on a line on its own in the page source.
Either of those will stop it from triggering any AV scanners.
IIRC, go doesn't work well on even-number sized boards. I can't remember why though...
Can someone fill me in on this?
I wonder if anyone actually has this set as a cron job?
Pizza every two hours, automatically...
Sorry> I should have quoted, but nevertheless RTF parent (now been modded down). That was exactly my point.
Both self-extracting RAR and self extracting zip files are *.EXE binaries. They just contain ta decompresser and some data to decompress.
.RAR files or something?
Did you think that Windows automatically knows to try and execute
When mass-producing a robot, the very expensive, unique hardware makes open source more profitable. The "lock-in" that stops others copying your product is the fact that your robot OS will not do much on a desktop.
That said, Windows has never been a very customisable system, and it doesn't seem to make sense to run dedicated equipment on it.
(Insert joke about robot not needing IE preloaded in memory here).
No, but mldonkey was running...
Some of the more bizzare usernames of other p2p users maybe...
Original here /. editors wake up in the morning, they read this guy's RSS feed, and write about any interesting stories, unaware that they may have given him the news in the first place.
I think we are seeing recursive RSS blogging.
I have a theory that someone who reads Slashdot is running a website/blog in another timezone. During the American night, he writes articles on many stories, some of which come from Slashdot. When the
This would explain the regular pattern of stories that pop up again the next day. News that comes back after two days may be explained by American sites, which don't write articles in the night but instead during the following day.
Yes, but in my case there were some less explicable ones too. Like "Llamaboy". Or "CHEESE STEAK JIMMYS" when grepping for cheese...
Wine Is Not an Emulator.
Wine is a re-implementation of some of the Win32 API for Linux. Unless combined with an actual hardware emulator, it only works on x86. It just runs x86 binaries on an x86 processor like Windows does, but providing some commonly used Windows API calls.
In short, running programs using Wine is "native", and, programs that work at all are often actually faster with Wine than with Windows for the same reasons that anything runs faster on Linux.
That was very convincing.
BTW, thats a great sig. I've lots count of the number of times people have asked me how they got spyware (usually browser "search" toolbars) when their firewall is meant to protect them. But can you turn off what you don't need in Windows?
It seems almost common sense to move away from the sea if it does something unusual. I wonder what it says about modern culture that most didn't...
Not everyone uses x86, you insensitive clod!
There are projects to use the Wine API clone with an x86 architecture emulator to run windows binaries in Linux on other hardware platforms. Which really should be called "Wie"...
What about this Google fight then?
P.S. Arghh! It's all been redone in flash!
They should be put to use writing software.
Get some of them to type random code, and others to alpha test. When you get some code which compiles fairly cleanly and which can open and edit a few common formats (MS word, PDF, Oo.o sxw, etc.), sell it and start them on something else, like a photoshop clone. Yes, there will be issues with bloat, what with all the random peices of code which don't do anything, but it probably won't be as bad as the bloat in MS Word...
Not master, overlords.
"I, for one, welcome our new cyborg monkey overlords!"
Oh no you won't.
When you have three arms you will keep one (the artificial, carpal tunnel proof one) on the mouse and the others on the keyboard. You'll need a fourth. And when four hands becomes normal, they'll invent three-handed keyboards.
we can teach them to type! /.ers.
This will do wonders for the quality of discussion on Slashdot. CmdrTaco, if your reading this, please give extra mod points to non-human
Actually there is a lot of "climate data" that can be deduced from the fossil record. For a start you can deduce temperature from the types of plants that grew at different times in different areas. CO2 and other gas levels can be measured from air trapped in deep Antarctic ice, from which we can obtain at least several thousand years of the history of the composition of the atmosphere.
A controlled explosion?
You were running IE under Wine then?