of course. what i meant - with svn you only get one copy, so a video file that has been replaced 10 times will be N. with git, you would get Nx7 (wild guess at compression capabilities). inability to checkout partial tree makes this inefficiency worse.
btw, i remember reading about git being able to simulate cvs server for a git repository. would it also be technically feasible to simulate svn server ? that would allow checking out parts of repository with svn for people who wish to do so, and also allow to use svn for binary parts of the repo.
thanks, i haven't tried bisecting for a vriety of reasons - first, the machine in question doesn't have git, second, intermediate kernel versions do not even compile. but the bug has been picked up, so i'll try to do some more testing with reboots and such:)
oh, that's understandable. but see, i'm willing to test various kernels, revert/apply patches... if only somebody would have told me that could help any. i tried to find exact kernel version that broke cciss support, but, as you can see, i only managed to nail it down to several versions.
of course, to make things harder, there were quite some updates to cciss code during that time:)
heh, maybe you should still try it;) there are quite a lot of other features that could make it up for fully destructible terrain. i don't code, but as far as i understand, fully (there are some things that can be destroyed) destructible terrain is very tricky to implement because of server-client architecture. i'm sure nobody would object to that if somebody offered a viable implementation.
this reminded me. will we see lotus opensourced... just few years too late to do real damage to microsoft offerings ? there have been enough examples of this, so seeing ibm holding to steady income (hard to blame them here) only to lose long term (still, hard to blame them - it's not easy to see such trends, even more to exploit them) wouldn't be that surprising. few entities are able to drastically change and survive - or even keep their current levels - at the same time.
well, maybe not as retro... but we'd like to know your opinion about UFO:AI http://ufoai.sourceforge.net/;) improving over the original design as much as possible - and to please both new and old players - would be the most satisfactory.
Commander Keen != realistic, even a classic like Loom wasn't realistic, although it was certainly colorful and "pretty"
wouldn't this imply that simply _better_ graphics are important, not exactly realistic from a viewpoint several years forward ? in a retrospect, loom might even be somehwat more realistic than keen was... the key here is - do not sacrifice gameplay, story and immersion for graphics or some sort of perverted "interactivity". simply improving appearance can be huge, but if you create shit for gameplay, no graphics will rescue you. i'm not that much into games, but i can recall two huge disappointments that i associate with graphics (marketing ?) taking over gameplay. 1. simon the sorcerer 3d. what a sad state of affairs (pardon the pun). the huge enjoyment brought by two previous parts... destroyed. awful.
2. leisure suit larry 8. the one after "love for sail". even worse than simon crap. i mean, larry 7 was approx 10 times better. while i have played most larry series games, if not all, i liked number 7 a lot. after they created that 3d crap... in a sober moment i could hit the producer in the face (i'm sorry).
start menu search sounds like something kde3 suse menu has had for quite some time. then they moved to kickoff (10.2, i think ?), which searches even more data.
breadcrumb navigation has been available in gtk dialogs for quite some time now, though i personally don't like the inability to select opened path as text and copy or modify it directly.
i'll admit, i haven't tried kde4 for some time, so maybe it has something new to offer. sounds like tag 'kde' is not without a reason:)
game saves would probably be written to/home (mounted rw). while log and pidfiles might cuse some problems,/var could also be mounted rw, or trick that are used by livecds applied (limited logging to ramdisk, disabling logging etc). making/var rw would be easier, of course:)
no personal offence - english is far from my native language - but mentioning iraq makes me think it might be yours... except the part that says "Your lucky if you can find". sorry about the weak grammar nazi:)
I also realize though that these repressive regimes could just outlaw the crypto and make that penalty very harsh/cruel/insane, but then there's also the whole field of stenography, and this cat and mouse game can still continue ad nauseum.
i would take pictures of airforce bases. as would a lot of other people - 1. it's cool; 2. in other countries people explicitly photograph airplanes - ok, not quite my poison, but i know persons who drive all over europe to shoot (using a camera, yaknow) some rare plane; 3. taking several photos of an inaccessible location allows to triangulate and map it nicely - yeah, i'm doing some minor work for openstreetmap.
there was recently a slashdot article about china censorship. as i commented there, i don't quite know my own actions if i was forced to choose between more peace or more freedom. one thing i am quite sure about - freedoms can never be regained. giving up some freedom will make sure it will have to be fought back, possibly by losing more than initial giveup gained. but that's not my call, not in the topic discussed here. people living there have to evaluate the means necessary to reclaim such freedoms.
a very good point you made there. i can easily see how stability can be favoured over free speech - and i'd even expect a large part of the world to be ready for such a system (africa comes to mind).
there are two problems, though. one for the people who support this, and one for everybody else.
1. freedoms are grabbed and never released. in every country. so giving up those in a (relatively) short term basically guarantees that there will be absolutely no willing return of freedoms (if i'm using this word correctly). it is hard for most people to consider these circumstances, because not too many have experienced a situation of legal chaos. i would not be able to choose the right thing always. i can imagine situations where i indeed would do the same - give up freedoms (while i haven't had a chance to decide upon such matters in a large scale, i already have freedoms restricted).
2. while any group can endanger any other group, totalitarian regimes are more likely to perform atrocities. thus other people have vested interest in free speech for citizens of other countries - that way these countries are less likely to harm others, if only because they can find out why their leaders might wish to opress, kill and demonize others. note, this is no guarantee that such people will research and form their own opinion - handling the masses is a huge science in itself and such masses are very easy to manipulate (as am i). but this manipulation is somewhat harder than just stomping down with brutal force.
while i'd expect them to mention this themselves, hosting provider and isp deac in latvia has been using ex-ussr bomb bunker for quite some time. http://www.deac.lv/?object_id=1083. it is said to be 9m above sea level and 12m under the ground.
Ethel, install this operating system by following it's instructions. When you are done open a word processor and write a letter to some one and save it.
sounds like an interesting list. i should try this out, if i get enough free time;)
They get confused looking at a map of cities. Why not just show the F'ing time zones to start? Seriosuly they all know they are in Central Time, why the hell would people in Minnesota pick Chicago (their words not mine.)
i guess this depends on location. here, less than 1% would have an idea what timezone they are in. choosing a city, yes, that will work.
With all the Linux fanboys and MS haters, they need a reality check that not everyone can write BASH scripts, use VIM\EMACS, and program in PERL. Linux suffers from a bad case of denial in the INTUITIVE department.
why would simple users need that ? they don't. for some 5 yers at least. i have set desktop linux for several people. with few exceptions (strong cases of "i'm used to old way and i don't have to pay for it"), all cope surprisingly well. i even had a user tell me a week ago that they feel windows & microsoft office at their college are unintuitive, because they have used linux/oo.org at home and work for several years (though they were a bit puzzled with interface change when abiword popped up instead of oo.org because of some repo/mine fuckup few years ago;) ). as long as there's somebody to deal with major problems or offer minor advice (like, where to look for custom effects in oo.org impress), they aren't that dumb and can cope really well.
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hardlock without any log records sounds like a hardware issue - maybe the newer version used some capabilities that triggered this. what you could have tried, redirecting syslog to a remote networked machine - though in my experience this has not helped much, as nothing gets logged in that case either.
speaking about suse/opensuse release quality, personally, i felt that including zmd as default was _the_ worst release[s] (10.1-10.2, if i remember correctly). parts of zmd were written in mono (eww), and it was one of the things mentioned in howtos - as in "disable zmd upon install", or "remove it if you were not smat enough to deselect it during the install". yes, it really was that bad. i was unlucky enough to install it (it was selected and enabled by default). i was relieved to find out that solution to many, many problems was to simply remove that incarnation of zmd.
i've heard that zmd was included as a corporate "push" to get more testing for it - no idea how true that was, but if it was... fuck.
other than this huge mess i like opensuse quitealot, and i have been installing/suggesting it for users, most of whom are very happy with it:)
regarding your problems with 11.0 - i personally haven't had the chance to install/use it yet, but i know several people who had, and they all expressed quite positive opinions about this release. which stringly hints at some weird hardware problem of yours, that is exposed by some component of opensuse 11.0.
...and which is also what google have been doing for quite some time, if i remember correctly - they have datacenters around the world _already_. so, another case of journalist not getting it ?
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of course. what i meant - with svn you only get one copy, so a video file that has been replaced 10 times will be N. with git, you would get Nx7 (wild guess at compression capabilities).
inability to checkout partial tree makes this inefficiency worse.
btw, i remember reading about git being able to simulate cvs server for a git repository. would it also be technically feasible to simulate svn server ? that would allow checking out parts of repository with svn for people who wish to do so, and also allow to use svn for binary parts of the repo.
thanks, i haven't tried bisecting for a vriety of reasons - first, the machine in question doesn't have git, second, intermediate kernel versions do not even compile. :)
but the bug has been picked up, so i'll try to do some more testing with reboots and such
oh, that's understandable. but see, i'm willing to test various kernels, revert/apply patches... if only somebody would have told me that could help any.
i tried to find exact kernel version that broke cciss support, but, as you can see, i only managed to nail it down to several versions.
of course, to make things harder, there were quite some updates to cciss code during that time :)
that, and exploding checkouts for all users if your repository also contains binary data like media (images, music, videos).
oh, how true ;)
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12164
heh, maybe you should still try it ;)
there are quite a lot of other features that could make it up for fully destructible terrain.
i don't code, but as far as i understand, fully (there are some things that can be destroyed) destructible terrain is very tricky to implement because of server-client architecture. i'm sure nobody would object to that if somebody offered a viable implementation.
this reminded me. will we see lotus opensourced... just few years too late to do real damage to microsoft offerings ?
there have been enough examples of this, so seeing ibm holding to steady income (hard to blame them here) only to lose long term (still, hard to blame them - it's not easy to see such trends, even more to exploit them) wouldn't be that surprising. few entities are able to drastically change and survive - or even keep their current levels - at the same time.
well, maybe not as retro... but we'd like to know your opinion about UFO:AI http://ufoai.sourceforge.net/ ;)
improving over the original design as much as possible - and to please both new and old players - would be the most satisfactory.
Commander Keen != realistic, even a classic like Loom wasn't realistic, although it was certainly colorful and "pretty"
wouldn't this imply that simply _better_ graphics are important, not exactly realistic from a viewpoint several years forward ?
in a retrospect, loom might even be somehwat more realistic than keen was...
the key here is - do not sacrifice gameplay, story and immersion for graphics or some sort of perverted "interactivity". simply improving appearance can be huge, but if you create shit for gameplay, no graphics will rescue you.
i'm not that much into games, but i can recall two huge disappointments that i associate with graphics (marketing ?) taking over gameplay.
1. simon the sorcerer 3d.
what a sad state of affairs (pardon the pun).
the huge enjoyment brought by two previous parts... destroyed. awful.
2. leisure suit larry 8. the one after "love for sail". even worse than simon crap. i mean, larry 7 was approx 10 times better. while i have played most larry series games, if not all, i liked number 7 a lot. after they created that 3d crap... in a sober moment i could hit the producer in the face (i'm sorry).
start menu search sounds like something kde3 suse menu has had for quite some time. then they moved to kickoff (10.2, i think ?), which searches even more data.
breadcrumb navigation has been available in gtk dialogs for quite some time now, though i personally don't like the inability to select opened path as text and copy or modify it directly.
i'll admit, i haven't tried kde4 for some time, so maybe it has something new to offer. :)
sounds like tag 'kde' is not without a reason
game saves would probably be written to /home (mounted rw). /var could also be mounted rw, or trick that are used by livecds applied (limited logging to ramdisk, disabling logging etc). making /var rw would be easier, of course :)
while log and pidfiles might cuse some problems,
no personal offence - english is far from my native language - but mentioning iraq makes me think it might be yours... except the part that says "Your lucky if you can find". :)
sorry about the weak grammar nazi
I also realize though that these repressive regimes could just outlaw the crypto and make that penalty very harsh/cruel/insane, but then there's also the whole field of stenography, and this cat and mouse game can still continue ad nauseum.
steganography, i guess ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
i would take pictures of airforce bases. as would a lot of other people -
1. it's cool;
2. in other countries people explicitly photograph airplanes - ok, not quite my poison, but i know persons who drive all over europe to shoot (using a camera, yaknow) some rare plane;
3. taking several photos of an inaccessible location allows to triangulate and map it nicely - yeah, i'm doing some minor work for openstreetmap.
there was recently a slashdot article about china censorship. as i commented there, i don't quite know my own actions if i was forced to choose between more peace or more freedom.
one thing i am quite sure about - freedoms can never be regained. giving up some freedom will make sure it will have to be fought back, possibly by losing more than initial giveup gained.
but that's not my call, not in the topic discussed here. people living there have to evaluate the means necessary to reclaim such freedoms.
a very good point you made there. i can easily see how stability can be favoured over free speech - and i'd even expect a large part of the world to be ready for such a system (africa comes to mind).
there are two problems, though. one for the people who support this, and one for everybody else.
1. freedoms are grabbed and never released. in every country. so giving up those in a (relatively) short term basically guarantees that there will be absolutely no willing return of freedoms (if i'm using this word correctly). it is hard for most people to consider these circumstances, because not too many have experienced a situation of legal chaos.
i would not be able to choose the right thing always. i can imagine situations where i indeed would do the same - give up freedoms (while i haven't had a chance to decide upon such matters in a large scale, i already have freedoms restricted).
2. while any group can endanger any other group, totalitarian regimes are more likely to perform atrocities. thus other people have vested interest in free speech for citizens of other countries - that way these countries are less likely to harm others, if only because they can find out why their leaders might wish to opress, kill and demonize others.
note, this is no guarantee that such people will research and form their own opinion - handling the masses is a huge science in itself and such masses are very easy to manipulate (as am i). but this manipulation is somewhat harder than just stomping down with brutal force.
i prefer to blame religions for demonising sexuality for so long, which in turn makes most people unable to communicate about it in a normal way :>
while i'd expect them to mention this themselves, hosting provider and isp deac in latvia has been using ex-ussr bomb bunker for quite some time.
http://www.deac.lv/?object_id=1083.
it is said to be 9m above sea level and 12m under the ground.
i thought it's some sort of a nickname given to him because of his, umm, lawless actions.
bummer.
hmm, i didn't see it mentioned, so gere it goes ;)
http://ufoai.sourceforge.net/
Ethel, install this operating system by following it's instructions.
When you are done open a word processor and write a letter to some one and save it.
sounds like an interesting list. i should try this out, if i get enough free time ;)
They get confused looking at a map of cities. Why not just show the F'ing time zones to start? Seriosuly they all know they are in Central Time, why the hell would people in Minnesota pick Chicago (their words not mine.)
i guess this depends on location. here, less than 1% would have an idea what timezone they are in. choosing a city, yes, that will work.
With all the Linux fanboys and MS haters, they need a reality check that not everyone can write BASH scripts, use VIM\EMACS, and program in PERL. Linux suffers from a bad case of denial in the INTUITIVE department.
why would simple users need that ? they don't. for some 5 yers at least. ;) ).
i have set desktop linux for several people. with few exceptions (strong cases of "i'm used to old way and i don't have to pay for it"), all cope surprisingly well.
i even had a user tell me a week ago that they feel windows & microsoft office at their college are unintuitive, because they have used linux/oo.org at home and work for several years (though they were a bit puzzled with interface change when abiword popped up instead of oo.org because of some repo/mine fuckup few years ago
as long as there's somebody to deal with major problems or offer minor advice (like, where to look for custom effects in oo.org impress), they aren't that dumb and can cope really well.
hardlock without any log records sounds like a hardware issue - maybe the newer version used some capabilities that triggered this.
what you could have tried, redirecting syslog to a remote networked machine - though in my experience this has not helped much, as nothing gets logged in that case either.
speaking about suse/opensuse release quality, personally, i felt that including zmd as default was _the_ worst release[s] (10.1-10.2, if i remember correctly).
parts of zmd were written in mono (eww), and it was one of the things mentioned in howtos - as in "disable zmd upon install", or "remove it if you were not smat enough to deselect it during the install".
yes, it really was that bad. i was unlucky enough to install it (it was selected and enabled by default). i was relieved to find out that solution to many, many problems was to simply remove that incarnation of zmd.
i've heard that zmd was included as a corporate "push" to get more testing for it - no idea how true that was, but if it was... fuck.
other than this huge mess i like opensuse quitealot, and i have been installing/suggesting it for users, most of whom are very happy with it :)
regarding your problems with 11.0 - i personally haven't had the chance to install/use it yet, but i know several people who had, and they all expressed quite positive opinions about this release. which stringly hints at some weird hardware problem of yours, that is exposed by some component of opensuse 11.0.
...and which is also what google have been doing for quite some time, if i remember correctly - they have datacenters around the world _already_.
so, another case of journalist not getting it ?
But that means nobody will be able to make a living writing applications for these netbooks — they already have all the software their users need.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_window_fallacy
oh. that's actually even better, thanks for the detail :)