You know that Opera does something right, when there is a whole Firefox extension named ImgLikeOpera (translation: "listen fscking Firefox, just handle the fscking images like my favorite Opera did"): https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/1672
It allows to browse with images disabled, or load cached images only, and selectively download only the images you want with right-click -> Load image.
This is Very Important when you pay $0.2 per megabyte, or $1 per hour of internet connection, like it was for a LONG time in Russia/CIS.
The extension was authored by a Russian guy.
I have been using Opera from version 3.6 to 9.11, but some time ago decided to use only Free Software as much as possible, and migrated to Iceweasel (Firefox).
Since I advertise myself as a sysadmin/programmer/network engineer/security engineer/DBA/etc, it would be silly to put a pre-packaged blog software on there.
No, actually it wouldn't. Unless you also advertise yourself as a wheel reinventor.
Don't suppose I can interest you in some S3 Virge and Matrox PCI cards?
Heh, you might be saying that as a joke, but the old PCI-based video cards do have a very real use these days: if one's building a GNU/Linux or BSD server box and uses a motherboard with no built-in GPU (for example, this one, based on the AMD 790FX chipset), any old PCI video card with as little as 1 MB of memory will fit the bill perfectly. There is no point in buying a new PCI-Express GPU if all it will ever do, is sit around in text mode, 100% of the time. An old PCI card will be several times cheaper, will never get hot, and of course will consume less electricity too.
My Siemens C60 phone (a 2003 model) has an option called "Buddhist year". Just enabled it and it shows year 2552 instead of 2009. No other alternative calendars offered, just the regular one and the Buddhist one.
Yeah, I thought the same too. Remember, that's not the regular Red Bull, but the Red Bull COLA the story is talking about. It's not even an energy drink, it's just a similarly flavoured cola. And from what I see, they are really struggling to push it in shops (as in: no one buys it). Most shops have some sort of "buy one get one for free" deal on this drink. Because without that, it is basically too expensive for what it is. So, all in all, it's not surprising that someone in the marketing decided to stir up some "spicy" rumors.
1. Massimo has been invited to the IRC to discuss the architecture with Alexandre, but hasn't;
2. Conversely, Alexandre hasn't commented on any of the DIB threads
Because surely it is better to keep important technical matters to private corners of IRC and away from archived, publicly-accessible and searchable mailing lists.
DGA sucks. It's a painful kludge. When you use DGA, you are asking both X and the kernel to stand back and respect your right to draw whatever you like on the framebuffer.
It is true that the framebuffer part was deprecated, however DGA also includes a mouse handling extension. Please read the bug report comments.
Last time I've used DGA was in 2004, and it required the application (not just the X server) to run as root because it writes directly to the video hardware.
DGA shared memory video was deprecated because it required superuser privileges
(essentially it mapped the video memory into application memory space, so that
a game could draw stuff at the fastest possible speed, provided that the window
was completely uncovered).
In essence, it was useless for security reasons.
DGA mouse grab has never been deprecated, and is still fully supported in most
xorg input modules (evdev did not support it until recently though).
I don't see any reason that DGA mouse grab would ever be deprecated without a
better replacement, and as long as it does work we should use it (it is a
queryable extension after all).
The developers in charge insists that it could only be fixed by making changes in the code all the way down to X.org layers and perhaps even in the kernel mouse handling. However, this is demonstrably false, because: A) there is no such issue in Wine's fork Cedega; and B) some "outside" developers pointed out that there is a way to deal with this problem without asking for personal favors from X.org and the Linux kernel, namely, to use the DGA subsystem to achieve the required mouse behavior. But that's not going to be accepted either, because someone somewhere decided that DGA was "deprecated" and never mind that the deprecation was ONLY concerning its graphic component.
The bug was reported almost three years ago, and it's almost like it's kept "in" on purpose, so that Wine never works properly with many games, and so that users will always have a need for the proprietary Crossover Games product.
They basically suggested ditching the ambitious from-scratch "national software platform", or the infamous vapourware "Russian OS", and instead focusing on contributions to existing Free Software projects.
The key sentence from TFA: "The communications ministry has instead suggested to use the possibilities offered by the Free Software development model. The limited national resources should be put to further the development of "the best internationally-created solutions, in cooperation with the leading specialists from around the globe".
> IOPS went to zero for over 60 seconds. No data in or out to those devices!
Heh, I regularly have a situation when a couple of desktops is running with Root-over-NFS, and I have to shutdown the NFS server. ...for like half an hour, or so.
Nothing crashes from this. Bring up the server, all the desktops instantly unfreeze and continue where they left off.:)
Planes usually blink and lighted in funny colors (e.g. red), maybe even several spots (nose/tail/wings).
ISS and satellites OTOH, look simply like a white point, like stars, but are moving.
And if you see such star-like object not just moving, but changing speed/direction, remember the "Truth is out there".:)
I'd consider S3 Savage and development of S3TC (licensed by Microsoft and others, renamed DXTC, still lives to this day in both ATI and nVidia cards) to be their moment of fame, and not Virge, which was also known as the first "graphics decelerator".:)
There is something wrong with your system, I use both SMPlayer and VLC, and while I agree that SMPlayer is a fine program and is more pleasant to use, the video quality in both players is exactly the same (i.e. good).
The summary makes it sound like this is some major advantage over Google.
That is not the point. The post is not to imply that Yandex is somehow better than Google now. In fact, Google is mentioned more as a way to answer the inevitable "Yandex-who?", and as an eyecatch.:)
The real news here is that a company with 50%+ market (and mind-) share in a sizeable part of Internet, which serves as a success story for all other Internet-based companies in the region, decides to throw its weight behind FOSS and open standards. This is big, and this means good news first and foremost for XMPP, but also for the region's (and worldwide) perceived credibility and usage share of open source.
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You know that Opera does something right, when there is a whole Firefox extension named ImgLikeOpera (translation: "listen fscking Firefox, just handle the fscking images like my favorite Opera did"): https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/1672
It allows to browse with images disabled, or load cached images only, and selectively download only the images you want with right-click -> Load image. This is Very Important when you pay $0.2 per megabyte, or $1 per hour of internet connection, like it was for a LONG time in Russia/CIS.
The extension was authored by a Russian guy. I have been using Opera from version 3.6 to 9.11, but some time ago decided to use only Free Software as much as possible, and migrated to Iceweasel (Firefox).
No, they will just move you to the basement and take away your red stapler. :P
No, actually it wouldn't. Unless you also advertise yourself as a wheel reinventor.
Heh, you might be saying that as a joke, but the old PCI-based video cards do have a very real use these days: if one's building a GNU/Linux or BSD server box and uses a motherboard with no built-in GPU (for example, this one, based on the AMD 790FX chipset), any old PCI video card with as little as 1 MB of memory will fit the bill perfectly. There is no point in buying a new PCI-Express GPU if all it will ever do, is sit around in text mode, 100% of the time. An old PCI card will be several times cheaper, will never get hot, and of course will consume less electricity too.
My Siemens C60 phone (a 2003 model) has an option called "Buddhist year". Just enabled it and it shows year 2552 instead of 2009. No other alternative calendars offered, just the regular one and the Buddhist one.
Yeah, I thought the same too. Remember, that's not the regular Red Bull, but the Red Bull COLA the story is talking about. It's not even an energy drink, it's just a similarly flavoured cola. And from what I see, they are really struggling to push it in shops (as in: no one buys it). Most shops have some sort of "buy one get one for free" deal on this drink. Because without that, it is basically too expensive for what it is. So, all in all, it's not surprising that someone in the marketing decided to stir up some "spicy" rumors.
Because surely it is better to keep important technical matters to private corners of IRC and away from archived, publicly-accessible and searchable mailing lists.
It is true that the framebuffer part was deprecated, however DGA also includes a mouse handling extension. Please read the bug report comments.
Please read the fine bugreport comment thread.
Another long-standing issue is "Bug 6971: Mouse "escapes" window or is confined to an area in the full screen program", which affects A LOT of games out there.
The developers in charge insists that it could only be fixed by making changes in the code all the way down to X.org layers and perhaps even in the kernel mouse handling. However, this is demonstrably false, because: A) there is no such issue in Wine's fork Cedega; and B) some "outside" developers pointed out that there is a way to deal with this problem without asking for personal favors from X.org and the Linux kernel, namely, to use the DGA subsystem to achieve the required mouse behavior. But that's not going to be accepted either, because someone somewhere decided that DGA was "deprecated" and never mind that the deprecation was ONLY concerning its graphic component.
The bug was reported almost three years ago, and it's almost like it's kept "in" on purpose, so that Wine never works properly with many games, and so that users will always have a need for the proprietary Crossover Games product.
> FreeBSD Jails are a kind of light-weight server partitioning scheme, in the same vein as Solaris Zones.
Or as Linux-VServer, or as OpenVZ.
They basically suggested ditching the ambitious from-scratch "national software platform", or the infamous vapourware "Russian OS", and instead focusing on contributions to existing Free Software projects.
The key sentence from TFA:
"The communications ministry has instead suggested to use the possibilities offered by the Free Software development model. The limited national resources should be put to further the development of "the best internationally-created solutions, in cooperation with the leading specialists from around the globe".
Yay, there are sane people in our government.
Who is this "we" that you speak about?
> IOPS went to zero for over 60 seconds. No data in or out to those devices!
...for like half an hour, or so. :)
Heh, I regularly have a situation when a couple of desktops is running with Root-over-NFS, and I have to shutdown the NFS server.
Nothing crashes from this. Bring up the server, all the desktops instantly unfreeze and continue where they left off.
Planes usually blink and lighted in funny colors (e.g. red), maybe even several spots (nose/tail/wings). :)
ISS and satellites OTOH, look simply like a white point, like stars, but are moving.
And if you see such star-like object not just moving, but changing speed/direction, remember the "Truth is out there".
Learn wonderful technologies going by acronyms of VNC, SSH and DynDNS, and have the future right now, for you, and only for you. :)
I'd consider S3 Savage and development of S3TC (licensed by Microsoft and others, renamed DXTC, still lives to this day in both ATI and nVidia cards) to be their moment of fame, and not Virge, which was also known as the first "graphics decelerator". :)
You have no way to know, he might as well be in the Slashdot hosting datacenter, reading the site from their LAN. :)
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There is something wrong with your system, I use both SMPlayer and VLC, and while I agree that SMPlayer is a fine program and is more pleasant to use, the video quality in both players is exactly the same (i.e. good).
"Grunt" in Russian basically means "Soil".
Yes. ^_^
Then Gdium or Lemote would be a good choice, if they actually sold these anywhere, that is.
I hope that's not because the girlfriend is imaginary and the hospital was a mental one. :P
That is not the point. The post is not to imply that Yandex is somehow better than Google now. In fact, Google is mentioned more as a way to answer the inevitable "Yandex-who?", and as an eyecatch. :)
The real news here is that a company with 50%+ market (and mind-) share in a sizeable part of Internet, which serves as a success story for all other Internet-based companies in the region, decides to throw its weight behind FOSS and open standards. This is big, and this means good news first and foremost for XMPP, but also for the region's (and worldwide) perceived credibility and usage share of open source.