Uhm right, but Firefox 3.5 is what is in recently released major STABLE distributions. Sure, you can play with unstable versions at home if you don't mind crashes -- heck, I use Debian sid and Firefox 7.0a1 here, but I wouldn't put them anywhere something that is supposed to stay up reliably. This includes any version of Chrome -- which doesn't receive a modicum of maintenance other than "move to this shiniest but buggiest trunk". Bleeding edge is, well, bleeding and sharp.
You can't expect businesses to drop things that work and jump to something new every a few months. This costs money... will you pay for unnecessary upgrade costs? What else, will you demand people to replace their cars of less than two years age because there's a new model out there?
There is a point where maintaining old junk is pointless, but these guys are ridiculous.
Until then, please install the MafiaaFire redirector, it handles some of domains stolen by DoJ. You probably won't need any of them and can search for the new URLs in seconds, but it's more about spreading the word.
Even if they added such notifications, it is so trivial for the bad guys to connect from IPs from any country they want. As a private person, there are many proxies you can use -- and if you have a botnet, you have millions of those on your own. And for a good portion of these attacks, even just a single proxy would be enough.
There are no big organizations in China that don't have government approval. In many cases it's just paying officials to look the other way, but it's still with their knowledge.
So what we have here? A large scale undertaking that the Great Firewall would make harder without a permission to bypass, and one the government can use to spy on people. There's no way it's not at least closely tied with them.
The HUGE fps difference is because of accelerated video via DirectX as you must be on Vista or Windows 7 correct?
Cthulhu forbid, no!
Your cheap-ass card can do wonders with Direct2D which is what Firefox 4 for Windows renders compared to 3.6.
Comparing with nouveau, the speed decrease is small, roughly consistent with that on programs which don't do hardware rendering at all. I even doubt Firefox actually uses any hardware acceleration there.
This is why it sucks on Linux.
The same hardware, a Windows 7 partition (sad to break its 4 months non-uptime): 24 fps on FF4, XP: 27 fps. So no, not quite "sucks".
Wolf3D didn't have dedicated keys for strafe (only Alt-direction), Doom had both dedicated and alt, bound to comma and dot by default. Since it is vital to be able to turn all the time, you can't afford to use alt strafe in a fight. It's only for abusing the double-strafe bug.
Video card hardly makes any difference, browser does. 35 fps full-screen on Firefox 7.0a1, 34 on Firefox 4.0, slideshow on Firefox 3.5. This is on a cheap-ass 2.8Ghz Phenom II. It uses no OpenGL, about any graphics card can handle shoving such bitmaps around. It's single-threaded, too, so what you're ripping on your other cores doesn't matter.
However, without such basic controls as strafe, this demo is not playable. No mouse input hurts but DOS versions had unusable mouse anyway so it's just a throwback to the old times. I estimate I've clocked around 4000 hours those days so I'd cope:p Heck, even comma/dot might be acceptable if they don't want to allow redefining keys, although I'd really prefer a sane setup like Z/X=strafe, alt=fire, shift=run (assuming no autorun like in the original).
It's disturbing to me that RMS, a person who has dedicated his life to freedom, would be willing to speak in Palestine at all. It is ruled by people who deny the right to live to anyone who don't follow a bloodthirsty religion that aims to dictate all parts of its believers' life -- that's pretty much the definition of "totalitarian".
In Israel, muslims who don't follow a party that advocates religious war -- and not just advocates, they send actual missiles that kill actual "heathens" -- enjoy more freedoms than their fellow muslims in neighbour countries. Except that they have to "suffer" living next to druzes, baha'is, jews and atheists. As an atheist, I wouldn't call a country where not worshipping a fairy in the sky is punishable by death.
The oldest machine I had at the time I took it was a 486 (in a corner of a cellar), but it crashed the same way as the emulator did. There was some error reading the 5 1/4 installation floppies, after several tries it finally claimed success, so it might have been data corruption rather than a problem with Windows, though. Still, it had the correct colour:p
Uhm, I do test if it at least builds on BSD every a few months. Just as I test that it builds on mipsel or s390.
My point was that there are no users who gave any feedback, and there is plenty from those on Linux and Windows, and a bit from Mac. There is a guy who maintains a bunch of ports for BSD, but no bug reports from those who actually play. And with a fast moving code, there's always a bunch of bugs, most platform independent.
I guess you wanted to say: 1920x1440 (16:12) have been degraded to 1920*1080 (16:9) ones.
The latter might be possibly of some use with a pivot... even 4x3 already suffers from having too much width compared to height. There's a reason almost all books use portrait not landscape.
As a dev of Dungeon Crawl, I see that systems that smell like Unix these days are a monoculture of Linux and Linux only. Even though you'd expect roguelike players to be biased towards obscure systems, I don't recall a single bug report from a *BSD or Solaris user. Even Hurd had one. Big-endian systems are dead too (two distinct users, one with an old MacOS X, one with Debian on powerpc).
Everyone these days uses either Windows, Linux or x86 Mac.
And whoever paid the maid had more than enough ways to put whatever he wanted into the door record. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so much noise about "unambigous evidence" that the defense "may claim" $bullshit_explanation to weasel out of.
This case is about as believable as the one against Julian Assange.
LILO is mostly dead, though. It was completely dead for many years until Joachim Wiedor stepped up to maintain it at a last minute just as it was going to get the boot from Debian. It still isn't kicking much.
Btrfs is faster than traditional filesystems for many loads, too. It does suffer from abysmal fsync() speed, though. The latter applies to certain databases -- which are essentially filesystems in a file, and dpkg which fsync()s both the updated files and its info files every roughly a single byte or so. Dpkg includes hacks like sync_file_range(temp file); fsync(temp file); close(temp file); opendir(dir); fsync(dir); rename(temp file, real file); fsync(dir); -- for every single file it operates on, to work around bugs in ext3/4. This ends up nearly an order of magnitude slower on btrfs. If dpkg had support for btrfs transactions, it'd be that order of magnitude faster than ext4.
And it does. Unlike closed projects, the only way for a FOSS one to die is if everyone loses interest.
Another example: when the creators of Encyclopaedia Dramatica decided to shut it down and replace it with a commercial piece of crap, several forks popped overnight even though there was no good way to recover the data. These forks soon coalesced into one, with nearly all data recovered already. And it's more vibrant than it was before, even with serious efforts to censor any news about the revival -- try for example the Wikipedia article, admin-protected with a gag on anyone claiming that ED is not dead.
If the heart isn't moving, there is only a short period of time when pacemaker trying to restart it does anything good. The generator is needed -- it should let you survive until the medics arrive, but the UPS attached to that generator doesn't need to be big.
It would be good for Starcraft to receive an update. Monitors that work at 1600x1200 or 2400x1800 are rare, and controls could be better.
Oh, you might say "but there is one". Sorry, I mean one that is capable of network play. As long as Starcraft 2 has no reliable and low-ping way of playing, it is unfit either for serious competitive play nor for a number of home setups.
Er what? Chromium is _slightly_ faster if at all than Firefox if you don't adblock anything or almost anything. Once you get rid of hidden junk, Firefox becomes a whole deal faster.
Sample numbers, from loading CNN's main page on a slow machine with no memory pressure, the page was visited just before closing the browser and starting it anew: * empty adblock: Firefox 37 seconds, Chromium 35 * configured adblock: Firefox 8, Chromium 35
And then, Chromium has a number of deficiencies that make it pretty useless: no notion of restricting cookies to a session (you may at most delete ALL cookies on exit), no way to reliably block tracking beacons, no way to fix the intentional crash to desktop on closing the last tab, and so on.
It was a secure semi-fortress made for the Pakistani intelligence agency and still owned by them. It was designed to be hard to penetrate, not to be comfortable.
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Uhm right, but Firefox 3.5 is what is in recently released major STABLE distributions. Sure, you can play with unstable versions at home if you don't mind crashes -- heck, I use Debian sid and Firefox 7.0a1 here, but I wouldn't put them anywhere something that is supposed to stay up reliably. This includes any version of Chrome -- which doesn't receive a modicum of maintenance other than "move to this shiniest but buggiest trunk". Bleeding edge is, well, bleeding and sharp.
You can't expect businesses to drop things that work and jump to something new every a few months. This costs money... will you pay for unnecessary upgrade costs? What else, will you demand people to replace their cars of less than two years age because there's a new model out there?
There is a point where maintaining old junk is pointless, but these guys are ridiculous.
Until then, please install the MafiaaFire redirector, it handles some of domains stolen by DoJ. You probably won't need any of them and can search for the new URLs in seconds, but it's more about spreading the word.
Even if they added such notifications, it is so trivial for the bad guys to connect from IPs from any country they want. As a private person, there are many proxies you can use -- and if you have a botnet, you have millions of those on your own. And for a good portion of these attacks, even just a single proxy would be enough.
There are no big organizations in China that don't have government approval. In many cases it's just paying officials to look the other way, but it's still with their knowledge.
So what we have here? A large scale undertaking that the Great Firewall would make harder without a permission to bypass, and one the government can use to spy on people. There's no way it's not at least closely tied with them.
The HUGE fps difference is because of accelerated video via DirectX as you must be on Vista or Windows 7 correct?
Cthulhu forbid, no!
Your cheap-ass card can do wonders with Direct2D which is what Firefox 4 for Windows renders compared to 3.6.
Comparing with nouveau, the speed decrease is small, roughly consistent with that on programs which don't do hardware rendering at all. I even doubt Firefox actually uses any hardware acceleration there.
This is why it sucks on Linux.
The same hardware, a Windows 7 partition (sad to break its 4 months non-uptime): 24 fps on FF4, XP: 27 fps. So no, not quite "sucks".
Wolf3D didn't have dedicated keys for strafe (only Alt-direction), Doom had both dedicated and alt, bound to comma and dot by default. Since it is vital to be able to turn all the time, you can't afford to use alt strafe in a fight. It's only for abusing the double-strafe bug.
8 fps? Your phone is awesome then, I'm getting only 2.8 fps on mine. Oh, wait, you meant a regular computer?
(2.8 fps in the start room of EP 1, in busy rooms it gets down to ~1.1 fps. And the sound, well, let's skip it.)
Video card hardly makes any difference, browser does. 35 fps full-screen on Firefox 7.0a1, 34 on Firefox 4.0, slideshow on Firefox 3.5. This is on a cheap-ass 2.8Ghz Phenom II. It uses no OpenGL, about any graphics card can handle shoving such bitmaps around. It's single-threaded, too, so what you're ripping on your other cores doesn't matter.
However, without such basic controls as strafe, this demo is not playable. No mouse input hurts but DOS versions had unusable mouse anyway so it's just a throwback to the old times. I estimate I've clocked around 4000 hours those days so I'd cope :p Heck, even comma/dot might be acceptable if they don't want to allow redefining keys, although I'd really prefer a sane setup like Z/X=strafe, alt=fire, shift=run (assuming no autorun like in the original).
It's disturbing to me that RMS, a person who has dedicated his life to freedom, would be willing to speak in Palestine at all. It is ruled by people who deny the right to live to anyone who don't follow a bloodthirsty religion that aims to dictate all parts of its believers' life -- that's pretty much the definition of "totalitarian".
In Israel, muslims who don't follow a party that advocates religious war -- and not just advocates, they send actual missiles that kill actual "heathens" -- enjoy more freedoms than their fellow muslims in neighbour countries. Except that they have to "suffer" living next to druzes, baha'is, jews and atheists. As an atheist, I wouldn't call a country where not worshipping a fairy in the sky is punishable by death.
Here's a screenshot from an accurate emulator.
The oldest machine I had at the time I took it was a 486 (in a corner of a cellar), but it crashed the same way as the emulator did. There was some error reading the 5 1/4 installation floppies, after several tries it finally claimed success, so it might have been data corruption rather than a problem with Windows, though. Still, it had the correct colour :p
Well, 1200 and 1960 were the resolutions of 10 years ago, so we're actually going down here.
aptitude stands for: uninstall the world, install a few totally unrelated packages, without doing what you asked it to do.
Seriously, why does it even consider a "solution" that includes no foo if I typed "aptitude install foo"?
Heh... one thing: there is no ./configure in Crawl...
Uhm, I do test if it at least builds on BSD every a few months. Just as I test that it builds on mipsel or s390.
My point was that there are no users who gave any feedback, and there is plenty from those on Linux and Windows, and a bit from Mac. There is a guy who maintains a bunch of ports for BSD, but no bug reports from those who actually play. And with a fast moving code, there's always a bunch of bugs, most platform independent.
I guess you wanted to say: 1920x1440 (16:12) have been degraded to 1920*1080 (16:9) ones.
The latter might be possibly of some use with a pivot... even 4x3 already suffers from having too much width compared to height. There's a reason almost all books use portrait not landscape.
As a dev of Dungeon Crawl, I see that systems that smell like Unix these days are a monoculture of Linux and Linux only. Even though you'd expect roguelike players to be biased towards obscure systems, I don't recall a single bug report from a *BSD or Solaris user. Even Hurd had one. Big-endian systems are dead too (two distinct users, one with an old MacOS X, one with Debian on powerpc).
Everyone these days uses either Windows, Linux or x86 Mac.
And whoever paid the maid had more than enough ways to put whatever he wanted into the door record. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so much noise about "unambigous evidence" that the defense "may claim" $bullshit_explanation to weasel out of.
This case is about as believable as the one against Julian Assange.
LILO is mostly dead, though. It was completely dead for many years until Joachim Wiedor stepped up to maintain it at a last minute just as it was going to get the boot from Debian. It still isn't kicking much.
Btrfs is faster than traditional filesystems for many loads, too. It does suffer from abysmal fsync() speed, though. The latter applies to certain databases -- which are essentially filesystems in a file, and dpkg which fsync()s both the updated files and its info files every roughly a single byte or so. Dpkg includes hacks like sync_file_range(temp file); fsync(temp file); close(temp file); opendir(dir); fsync(dir); rename(temp file, real file); fsync(dir); -- for every single file it operates on, to work around bugs in ext3/4. This ends up nearly an order of magnitude slower on btrfs. If dpkg had support for btrfs transactions, it'd be that order of magnitude faster than ext4.
This is what I meant: you need only a small amount of storage. Not the 10 years it carries today, a few hours at most.
And it does. Unlike closed projects, the only way for a FOSS one to die is if everyone loses interest.
Another example: when the creators of Encyclopaedia Dramatica decided to shut it down and replace it with a commercial piece of crap, several forks popped overnight even though there was no good way to recover the data. These forks soon coalesced into one, with nearly all data recovered already. And it's more vibrant than it was before, even with serious efforts to censor any news about the revival -- try for example the Wikipedia article, admin-protected with a gag on anyone claiming that ED is not dead.
If the heart isn't moving, there is only a short period of time when pacemaker trying to restart it does anything good. The generator is needed -- it should let you survive until the medics arrive, but the UPS attached to that generator doesn't need to be big.
It would be good for Starcraft to receive an update. Monitors that work at 1600x1200 or 2400x1800 are rare, and controls could be better.
Oh, you might say "but there is one". Sorry, I mean one that is capable of network play. As long as Starcraft 2 has no reliable and low-ping way of playing, it is unfit either for serious competitive play nor for a number of home setups.
Er what? Chromium is _slightly_ faster if at all than Firefox if you don't adblock anything or almost anything. Once you get rid of hidden junk, Firefox becomes a whole deal faster.
Sample numbers, from loading CNN's main page on a slow machine with no memory pressure, the page was visited just before closing the browser and starting it anew:
* empty adblock: Firefox 37 seconds, Chromium 35
* configured adblock: Firefox 8, Chromium 35
And then, Chromium has a number of deficiencies that make it pretty useless: no notion of restricting cookies to a session (you may at most delete ALL cookies on exit), no way to reliably block tracking beacons, no way to fix the intentional crash to desktop on closing the last tab, and so on.
It was a secure semi-fortress made for the Pakistani intelligence agency and still owned by them. It was designed to be hard to penetrate, not to be comfortable.