The official 2.26.0 "release" of evolution-mapi had a small bug whereby it would crash immediately upon trying to connect to anything.
2.26.0.1 fixes one of the various issues contributing to that, but there are other changes needed in other libraries and Ubuntu has yet to pick those changes up.
It's quite amusing to see this trumpeted everywhere though given that anyone who actually tries to use it is in for a world of hurt.
Mozilla breaks things all the time. Witness the bang up job they did with removing support for install.js (which allowed plugins to install without a browser restart):
It should be possible to do what you described, i.e. to remote your X session over to your Mac and run the console. You might see screwed up colors on your display. If you don't care about actually running the full VMware Remote Console and you just want remote access to the guest's display, however, it's much easier to just activate the VNC server for the VM by adding:
RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled = TRUE RemoteDisplay.vnc.port = xxxx... to your config file and then using an off-the-shelf VNC client for the Mac. There are some caveats, however; please read the KB article (1246) on this:
Amen. Anyone who thinks that Linux driver compatibility problems somehow magically disappear once the driver is released with the kernel clearly has never worked on such a driver.
A kernel ABI is not *just* about making the lives of proprietary vendors easier; IMO, the anti-ABI camp is throwing out the baby with the bath water.
Microsoft has an insanely high in-house QA to developer ratio (it's over 50% I believe). That alone could account for a large discrepancy in the number of bugs found.
Wrong. The Linux kernel team does *not* maintain the module ABI across kernel versions. Linus has explicitly stated that he is opposed to the constraints that would be imposed if they were to maintain the interface.
Nvidia is as helpless as any other Linux vendor, including my employer, who might want to ship a single binary rather than dealing with trying to distribute compileable source and Makefiles.
Also, FireFox can inline find more than the first result: just hit F3 and you'll keep on jumping...
Not useful without developers testing it
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This isn't going to be of much use unless app developers of common gtk apps actually test it - it may work fine for the Gtk demo app but (speaking from experience as a developer at a mid-size company that ships a GTK UI) real GTK apps often abuse GTK to get around window manager incompatibilities, resize and widget placement restrictions, etc., and developers, OSS or otherwise, aren't going to verify that their crazy hacks actually work on the TTY port. This is exactly why the Windows GTK port sucks in real life even though in theory it should work just like GTK on X.
I'm not trying to troll here, but I feel like assertion of the Apollo missions' value is at least somewhat questionable. Yes, I'm aware of the benefit to the scientific community, but I feel like it's possible to make a decent argument to the effect that the money could have been better spent on some domestic and/or international concern (world famine, disease, peacekeeping, etc), though I realize this argument won't curry any favor with the slashdot crowd;-)...
What further complicates the matter, at least in my mind, is that the primary motivation for the Apollo missions was grounded largely in Cold War politics, and hence in many respects the basis for funding these exorbitantly espensive ventures is an easy target for the armchair politician.
My current choice is definitely the whole laptop power management issue. I recently purchased a new Dell D600 Latitude and spent all weekend toying with 2.5.x kernels, -ac branches, ACPI and swsusp patches and what not all so I could get decent power management support. In the end I got everything except speedstep to work, but I still get only about 2/3 the battery life with Linux, and hibernate is flaky as hell.
Of course, this is really a symptom, rather than a root cause. Laptops are kind of a worst case scenario since custom hardware/software solutions are much more common, and vendors obviously only worry about Windows.
Please.. I just tried this thing out. Sure it's "minimalist", but without Xinerama support, *real* window cycling or any intelligent placement, it's useless to me.
Use blackbox or one of it's derivatives (personally I'm a fan of Openbox), turn off window decorations, and you get everything Evil gives you.
I have a Samsung ML-1430 that I'm extremely happy with... It prints ~15 ppm, and costs about $150 by PriceWatch, $185 on buy.com. It has great print quality, ships with Linux drivers (includes Cups + some PPD files and other crap on the CD) and works via over USB or Parallel. Unless you need to print color photos, I don't believe there's any good reason to get an inkjet over a printer like mine...
Also, there is a version of the Archos that does have USB 2.0 and encoding (check their website). A friend brought this along on our cross-country roadtrip and it worked fine, really convenient. I'd still go for an iPod if I could afford the price premium (actually the prices have dropped now...) but it's a nice little unit and makes most of the debate here over USB 1.0 moot.
The problem with that suggestion is that the University probably has a pile of money from different sources that was all donated to do "research", and they may allocate that money as they please between the different projects in their field... So it may be very easy for them to claim that a certain now-profitable project that they have sold was funded by private money, ex post facto.
Just a side note, I think it's a little pretentious to state that in "any other field outside of IT... people rarely work more than 40-50 hrs a week" - lawyers routinely put in 70 hour plus weeks for years, and first or second year finance folks, I-bankers etc. can top those numbers...
Of course, that's one of (several) reasons why I actually chose IT over the other two aforementioned careers;-).
Moreover, what incentive would the FAA have to permit such a launch?
If it goes well, NASA, the government etc. end up looking foolish for spending so much money when some clown with a quarter-mil got himself into space.
If it goes badly (a far more likely scenario IMHO;), then they get criticized for allowing such an obviously reckless and foolhardy stunt to be carried out.
Well spoken.
These are indeed the most relevant aspects of the whole debate: while I cannot defend the actions of individual pirates with a straight face, I think that framing it this way really gets to the heart of the issue...
I'm fairly certain that "The Killer" and "Hard Boiled" are 1-2 for the body count record. Actually, if I recall correctly, Hard Boiled has 576 bodies - and I mean you see 576 *different* people take bullets to the head/face, chest, etc. etc. etc.
The last scene of the movie is an hour long, and consists of a bunch of terrorists 1) mowing down patients, doctors, nurses etc. in a hospital and 2) then shooting rocket launchers at the cops in the parking lot, followed by 3) (repeat 1 and 2).
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Not well at all.
The official 2.26.0 "release" of evolution-mapi had a small bug whereby it would crash immediately upon trying to connect to anything.
2.26.0.1 fixes one of the various issues contributing to that, but there are other changes needed in other libraries and Ubuntu has yet to pick those changes up.
It's quite amusing to see this trumpeted everywhere though given that anyone who actually tries to use it is in for a world of hurt.
Mozilla breaks things all the time. Witness the bang up job they did with removing support for install.js (which allowed plugins to install without a browser restart):
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352762
But hey, they're OSS lovers, so they must be angels.
AntiVirus programs seem to be largely useless, and McAfee is particularly awful because of its horrendous implementation that sits there just sucking.
http://www.cnet.com/internet-security-and-firewall/mcafee-virusscan-plus-2007/4505-3667_7-31995275.html?tag=prod.txt.2
It's just you.
[Disclaimer: I work at VMware]
... to your config file and then using an off-the-shelf VNC client for the Mac. There are some caveats, however; please read the KB article (1246) on this:
K C&docType=kc&externalId=1246&sliceId=SAL_Public&di alogID=589398&stateId=0%200%20591108&doctag=Author ,%20KB%20Article
It should be possible to do what you described, i.e. to remote your X session over to your Mac and run the console. You might see screwed up colors on your display. If you don't care about actually running the full VMware Remote Console and you just want remote access to the guest's display, however, it's much easier to just activate the VNC server for the VM by adding:
RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled = TRUE
RemoteDisplay.vnc.port = xxxx
http://kb.vmware.com/vmtnkb/search.do?cmd=display
Amen. Anyone who thinks that Linux driver compatibility problems somehow magically disappear once the driver is released with the kernel clearly has never worked on such a driver.
A kernel ABI is not *just* about making the lives of proprietary vendors easier; IMO, the anti-ABI camp is throwing out the baby with the bath water.
Microsoft has an insanely high in-house QA to developer ratio (it's over 50% I believe). That alone could account for a large discrepancy in the number of bugs found.
Wrong. The Linux kernel team does *not* maintain the module ABI across kernel versions. Linus has explicitly stated that he is opposed to the constraints that would be imposed if they were to maintain the interface.
Nvidia is as helpless as any other Linux vendor, including my employer, who might want to ship a single binary rather than dealing with trying to distribute compileable source and Makefiles.
Or was it not meant to be a research project?
Also, FireFox can inline find more than the first result: just hit F3 and you'll keep on jumping...
This isn't going to be of much use unless app developers of common gtk apps actually test it - it may work fine for the Gtk demo app but (speaking from experience as a developer at a mid-size company that ships a GTK UI) real GTK apps often abuse GTK to get around window manager incompatibilities, resize and widget placement restrictions, etc., and developers, OSS or otherwise, aren't going to verify that their crazy hacks actually work on the TTY port. This is exactly why the Windows GTK port sucks in real life even though in theory it should work just like GTK on X.
I'm not trying to troll here, but I feel like assertion of the Apollo missions' value is at least somewhat questionable. Yes, I'm aware of the benefit to the scientific community, but I feel like it's possible to make a decent argument to the effect that the money could have been better spent on some domestic and/or international concern (world famine, disease, peacekeeping, etc), though I realize this argument won't curry any favor with the slashdot crowd ;-)...
What further complicates the matter, at least in my mind, is that the primary motivation for the Apollo missions was grounded largely in Cold War politics, and hence in many respects the basis for funding these exorbitantly espensive ventures is an easy target for the armchair politician.
My current choice is definitely the whole laptop power management issue. I recently purchased a new Dell D600 Latitude and spent all weekend toying with 2.5.x kernels, -ac branches, ACPI and swsusp patches and what not all so I could get decent power management support. In the end I got everything except speedstep to work, but I still get only about 2/3 the battery life with Linux, and hibernate is flaky as hell.
Of course, this is really a symptom, rather than a root cause. Laptops are kind of a worst case scenario since custom hardware/software solutions are much more common, and vendors obviously only worry about Windows.
Please.. I just tried this thing out. Sure it's "minimalist", but without Xinerama support, *real* window cycling or any intelligent placement, it's useless to me. Use blackbox or one of it's derivatives (personally I'm a fan of Openbox), turn off window decorations, and you get everything Evil gives you.
I have a Samsung ML-1430 that I'm extremely happy with... It prints ~15 ppm, and costs about $150 by PriceWatch, $185 on buy.com. It has great print quality, ships with Linux drivers (includes Cups + some PPD files and other crap on the CD) and works via over USB or Parallel. Unless you need to print color photos, I don't believe there's any good reason to get an inkjet over a printer like mine...
yeah actually it says 10.9, which is Wired issue 9, volume 10 I believe - making it current (besides which it says september 2002 right next to it).
Also, there is a version of the Archos that does have USB 2.0 and encoding (check their website). A friend brought this along on our cross-country roadtrip and it worked fine, really convenient. I'd still go for an iPod if I could afford the price premium (actually the prices have dropped now...) but it's a nice little unit and makes most of the debate here over USB 1.0 moot.
Chill duke, just cuz you didn't get in doesn't mean you gotta go ape on his ass...
The problem with that suggestion is that the University probably has a pile of money from different sources that was all donated to do "research", and they may allocate that money as they please between the different projects in their field... So it may be very easy for them to claim that a certain now-profitable project that they have sold was funded by private money, ex post facto.
Ever read ESR's guide to dating?
Just a side note, I think it's a little pretentious to state that in "any other field outside of IT... people rarely work more than 40-50 hrs a week" - lawyers routinely put in 70 hour plus weeks for years, and first or second year finance folks, I-bankers etc. can top those numbers...
;-).
Of course, that's one of (several) reasons why I actually chose IT over the other two aforementioned careers
Moreover, what incentive would the FAA have to permit such a launch? ;), then they get criticized for allowing such an obviously reckless and foolhardy stunt to be carried out.
If it goes well, NASA, the government etc. end up looking foolish for spending so much money when some clown with a quarter-mil got himself into space.
If it goes badly (a far more likely scenario IMHO
Well spoken.
These are indeed the most relevant aspects of the whole debate: while I cannot defend the actions of individual pirates with a straight face, I think that framing it this way really gets to the heart of the issue...
I'm fairly certain that "The Killer" and "Hard Boiled" are 1-2 for the body count record. Actually, if I recall correctly, Hard Boiled has 576 bodies - and I mean you see 576 *different* people take bullets to the head/face, chest, etc. etc. etc.
The last scene of the movie is an hour long, and consists of a bunch of terrorists 1) mowing down patients, doctors, nurses etc. in a hospital and 2) then shooting rocket launchers at the cops in the parking lot, followed by 3) (repeat 1 and 2).
Incredibly well put ;)
I was about to scream "READ ATLAS SHRUGGED" and then you brought it home