I see your point, but it seems that every day that I run apt-get update, there are at least a few packages that need to be updated, and I don't have assloads like some people (1113 at the moment, many of which are developmental packages and libraries). This issue is not Mozilla-centric.
I don't know about you, but according to my proclist, firefox-bin is running as a child of sh as a child of sh (eh?), all owned by matt (me). No root or any use of the 15+ other daemon users I have on my system...
I've been a trunk tester for a few months now (first on win32 and now on GNU/Linux i686), and I must say that the binary patcher has come a long way from simply overwriting all the files with the most recent to making literal binary patches on actual changed files, and in both cases would restart Firefox with minimal bugs (which eventually get fixed as the binary patching system is an important feature for 1.5). It takes less than 6 seconds total to download the patch, apply it, and restart/reload Firefox on my system, so I'm sure it can be done faster on other systems as well. Of course I'd like to see some better system where distros can distribute the updates easier, but once this binary patching mechanism hits the mainstream Firefox users, I'm sure that it will only become an issue to system admins who would have to apply the updates across a large network of computers (which will also be easier with the.msi packages for win32 networks and whatnot).
Well, it's not that hard to get some sort of auto-update script going if you can't get the internal binary patching system to work (for me, however, it works orgasmically):
#!/bin/bash cd ~ wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/\ n ightly/latest-trunk/\ firefox-1.6a1.en-US.linux-i 686.tar.bz2 tar -xjf firefox-1.6a1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2 sudo mv./firefox/usr/local/firefox
Really now, not that difficult to to once a day (cron it up). Then again, I'm not too advanced with shell scripting, so I'm sure you could shorten that and undoubtedly be able to use/bin/sh instead, but I love bash, so nyah.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2005092017
For someone like you who is willing to shell out twice the worth of a product because it's made by Apple, sure, I don't see any problem with settling with AAC, but for those of us who like to be able to use any hardware we decide to use at that time, we don't want to have a vendor lock-in with proprietary music formats and subpar MP3 players.
Ogg Vorbis will get a much better quality ripped at the equivalent 192 kbps of either AAC or MP3, and generally with around the same size (or smaller) as well. Don't forget that Vorbis is complete open (public domain) and supported by any operating system you want to use.
And saying the iPod is the best audio player to an audiophile would be analogous to screaming racist remarks to those walking down Martin Luther King Drive in Chicago...
The latest screwup was somebody left the CD tray slightly open and then closed the front access door so the tray was stuck between open and closed. The kernel started logging millions of messages about not being able to access the CD drive. After a couple of days, it filled up the OS partition and MythTV stopped working.
That's why you make individual partitions for things like/var and/usr so that logs don't fill the device up. A few months ago, I had that same problem on a web server; in summary, the database locked up due to the unavailability of space, and I ended up finding that the logs had become exponentially huge do to some error that's escaping me at the moment. Setting a limit to the logs as well as setting up a cron to purge old unneeded logs fixed that problem.
Now that you point that out, that reminds me of previous thoughts on what the Revolution's controller would include. The possibility of a modular controller where you can swap the analog sticks, buttons, and d-pad seems like a good idea, especially due to preferences like yours.
Other than Blogger or LiveJournal, what popular blog software would actually bother to add in anything that helps outside users? If they can't even add Tidy to their output (a somewhat trivial process), what makes you think they'd "waste time" to add a trivial line of code to help search indexes? They do provide their own searching (which normally requires signing up at that site to use).
I'd have to go with whatever system MySpace uses. I can't believe that any system could sustain such a heavy flow of pointless "X updated!" emails to hundreds of millions of users...
And that damn proprietary attribute (that doesn't seem to be disableable) is used by a few E-Mail providers *cough* in order to piss me off by making me use an easier password rather than a 20+ character one generated by something like KeePass.
Now now, that's complete bullshit. You probably know as well as I that MPEG, Ogg, and several other developer and media groups have created plenty of open audio formats that would be fine for use. Vorbis, MP3, MP4, FLAC, etc. I'm sure a decent DRM model could be applied to a fork of any of those formats, but it should follow Apple's philosophy of "the only good DRM is a weak DRM."
Formats that are worth using for old (and sometimes new) documents: * RTF (quite universal) * PDF (somewhat universal, will always have the same formatting) * Plaintext (never becomes unreadable unless the file's character set ceases to exist somehow)
Laptop drives are usually 2.5". My laptop here sports an 80 GB HDD, and as far as I've seen, the highest capacity on the market in 2.5" drives is usually around 100 GB or 120 GB (possibly). The problem with laptop HDDs is that they have to use significantly less power to be able to extend battery life to the fullest, and for that, they must sacrifice speed and capacity (large capacity => longer read-times and such).
Now, something like the Xbox 360; I'm sure it can theoretically use a standard 3.5" 133 UltraIDE or SATA/150 drive with no problems, but MS apparently thinks that using the lowest capacity HDD is best. *sigh*
Yeah, but $100 extra for a 20 GB harddrive? I can get one of those for half the price, let alone getting a 160 GB HDD for less than $100 still!
The Xbox360 better allow "3rd party harddrives", or Microsoft is fucking themselves over. I personally liked ripping music to my Xbox to listen to in sports games, GTA:SA, etc.
OpenOffice has that lightbulb thing, and at least it doesn't overlay a useless message (e.g. "your quotes have been replaced with left-side and right-side double-quotes") unless you click it.
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Spreadsheet work? Real men use CSV files.
I see your point, but it seems that every day that I run apt-get update, there are at least a few packages that need to be updated, and I don't have assloads like some people (1113 at the moment, many of which are developmental packages and libraries). This issue is not Mozilla-centric.
I don't know about you, but according to my proclist, firefox-bin is running as a child of sh as a child of sh (eh?), all owned by matt (me). No root or any use of the 15+ other daemon users I have on my system...
I've been a trunk tester for a few months now (first on win32 and now on GNU/Linux i686), and I must say that the binary patcher has come a long way from simply overwriting all the files with the most recent to making literal binary patches on actual changed files, and in both cases would restart Firefox with minimal bugs (which eventually get fixed as the binary patching system is an important feature for 1.5). It takes less than 6 seconds total to download the patch, apply it, and restart/reload Firefox on my system, so I'm sure it can be done faster on other systems as well. Of course I'd like to see some better system where distros can distribute the updates easier, but once this binary patching mechanism hits the mainstream Firefox users, I'm sure that it will only become an issue to system admins who would have to apply the updates across a large network of computers (which will also be easier with the .msi packages for win32 networks and whatnot).
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2005092017
For someone like you who is willing to shell out twice the worth of a product because it's made by Apple, sure, I don't see any problem with settling with AAC, but for those of us who like to be able to use any hardware we decide to use at that time, we don't want to have a vendor lock-in with proprietary music formats and subpar MP3 players.
Ogg Vorbis will get a much better quality ripped at the equivalent 192 kbps of either AAC or MP3, and generally with around the same size (or smaller) as well. Don't forget that Vorbis is complete open (public domain) and supported by any operating system you want to use.
And saying the iPod is the best audio player to an audiophile would be analogous to screaming racist remarks to those walking down Martin Luther King Drive in Chicago...
The latest screwup was somebody left the CD tray slightly open and then closed the front access door so the tray was stuck between open and closed. The kernel started logging millions of messages about not being able to access the CD drive. After a couple of days, it filled up the OS partition and MythTV stopped working.
/var and /usr so that logs don't fill the device up. A few months ago, I had that same problem on a web server; in summary, the database locked up due to the unavailability of space, and I ended up finding that the logs had become exponentially huge do to some error that's escaping me at the moment. Setting a limit to the logs as well as setting up a cron to purge old unneeded logs fixed that problem.
That's why you make individual partitions for things like
Now that you point that out, that reminds me of previous thoughts on what the Revolution's controller would include. The possibility of a modular controller where you can swap the analog sticks, buttons, and d-pad seems like a good idea, especially due to preferences like yours.
Other than Blogger or LiveJournal, what popular blog software would actually bother to add in anything that helps outside users? If they can't even add Tidy to their output (a somewhat trivial process), what makes you think they'd "waste time" to add a trivial line of code to help search indexes? They do provide their own searching (which normally requires signing up at that site to use).
I'd have to go with whatever system MySpace uses. I can't believe that any system could sustain such a heavy flow of pointless "X updated!" emails to hundreds of millions of users...
HTTP isn't that outdated. I mean, at least it was updated more recently that MSIE's renderring engine was!
Basically, SSL 2.0 is to HTTP/1.0 as SSL 3.0 is to HTTP/1.1
Er, what about HTTP/1.1? It's around the same age as SSL 3.0 IIRC, so there's no harm in that.
And TCP/IP is already trying to be updated (IPv6), but much less successfully as of now.
And that damn proprietary attribute (that doesn't seem to be disableable) is used by a few E-Mail providers *cough* in order to piss me off by making me use an easier password rather than a 20+ character one generated by something like KeePass.
lack of a standard digital audio format
Now now, that's complete bullshit. You probably know as well as I that MPEG, Ogg, and several other developer and media groups have created plenty of open audio formats that would be fine for use. Vorbis, MP3, MP4, FLAC, etc. I'm sure a decent DRM model could be applied to a fork of any of those formats, but it should follow Apple's philosophy of "the only good DRM is a weak DRM."
Formats that are worth using for old (and sometimes new) documents:
* RTF (quite universal)
* PDF (somewhat universal, will always have the same formatting)
* Plaintext (never becomes unreadable unless the file's character set ceases to exist somehow)
Well, that problem is easily fixed in most Linux window managers: Virtual Desktops.
Well, 50% of the time, the attacker is wrong. ;)
Laptop drives are usually 2.5". My laptop here sports an 80 GB HDD, and as far as I've seen, the highest capacity on the market in 2.5" drives is usually around 100 GB or 120 GB (possibly). The problem with laptop HDDs is that they have to use significantly less power to be able to extend battery life to the fullest, and for that, they must sacrifice speed and capacity (large capacity => longer read-times and such).
Now, something like the Xbox 360; I'm sure it can theoretically use a standard 3.5" 133 UltraIDE or SATA/150 drive with no problems, but MS apparently thinks that using the lowest capacity HDD is best. *sigh*
Yeah, but $100 extra for a 20 GB harddrive? I can get one of those for half the price, let alone getting a 160 GB HDD for less than $100 still!
The Xbox360 better allow "3rd party harddrives", or Microsoft is fucking themselves over. I personally liked ripping music to my Xbox to listen to in sports games, GTA:SA, etc.
OpenOffice has that lightbulb thing, and at least it doesn't overlay a useless message (e.g. "your quotes have been replaced with left-side and right-side double-quotes") unless you click it.
There's always Gaim and Miranda IM if they're looking for simple and efficient multi-protocol messengers.
Don't diss Meetro! I haven't gotten this much underage action since I watched the move Thirteen...
Don't forget about that damn hidden arrow in the "Ex" part of their logo! ARGH!
Because personalised Google is still "beta", duh!