First, I can't say I've even seen a "correction" on SlashDot. Ever. One has to wonder what advertiser threatened to pull what ads to make this near Act of God happen.
While corrections are uncommon, they're definitely not unheard of. I've seen at least half a dozen before.
Well, since the current web standards are garbage...
No, the current web standards aren't garbage. The browsers that don't even attempt to pretend to follow the standards are garbage (I'm looking at you, IE).
The correct solution is to rip and replace IE, not the perfectly good web standards that it ignores.
You do know that QEmu can suspend and resume images as well, right? Even better, with -snapshot, it won't commit any of the changes to the disk image (unless you tell it to while running), so you can keep resuming from the same point again and when you're done, just close it.
Games may be an inhibitor for Linux adoption in the home market, but Xen/QEmu/KVM/VMWare aren't aimed at the home market at all. When you consider the fact that what you want is most definitely not a simple task, you may understand why nobody has done it yet.
AFAIK, the only advantage of hibernate over suspend is that hibernate doesn't take any power, because it actually shuts off the computer, while suspend "only" takes several orders of magnitude less power than normal use.
Now, the big advantage of suspend over hibernate is that it's many times faster, usually on the order of 2-3 seconds, though it tends to require more cooperation from the hardware. Having said that, suspend works perfectly on both of my ThinkPads (T60 and T40).
Once I went laptop-only, hibernating became the truth, the light and the way.
Do you mean suspend? Hibernate is only very slightly better than shutting down and restarting again. Suspend on the other hand, is overwhelmingly fantastic.
What is the performance loss in htaccess files anyway?
The performance loss comes from Apache having to check the current directory and every directory above it up to the webroot for.htaccess files. This means that if you store your images in/foo/bar/etc/images/ and you have 50 images per page, Apache needs to check for 5*50 = 250.htaccess files just to serve the images. A stat isn't that expensive, but they add up.
For instance, would it be faster to have htaccess redirect moved pages or would it be faster to have a server-side script (i.e. php, python, etc.) do redirecting?
Maybe. It depends on the use case. Try it yourself.
Maybe the problem is that I'm on x86_64. I'm not a novice linux user, but linux is for work stuff for me and I've never taken much effort to get the multimedia working.
It works largely the same on x86_64, the only difference is that for most WMV you need to use a 32-bit media player, on Gentoo, that means running gmplayer-bin rather than gmplayer.
I didn't even know there was a DVD version, as I don't see it for 6.06 or for 6.10. Nevertheless, the CD install doesn't give you any of those options. Note that my complaint wasn't that things weren't installed (kcontrol is still there for example, but you have to run it directly), but that they weren't discoverable (ie, in the K menu) unless you already knew about them, the fact that the DVD version is so well hidden merely highlights my point. Perhaps the DVD version is only available through the mail?
My Thinkpad T40 suspends in about a second and resumes in 2 or 3 seconds. After a day of suspend, it's consumed perhaps 5% battery power. Of course it runs Linux exclusively, no idea how Windows (doesn't) work on the same hardware.
Most other people I see with laptops appear to either completely turn their computer off and on every time they move it, or use hibernate and not suspend, thus they're stuck with grotesquely long wait times before they can actually use their computer. It's known that many laptops have notoriously broken and buggy ACPI implementations, to the point where ACPI isn't useful anymore, so I suspect many people just avoid using ACPI completely.
I think I have not installed my kubuntu properly, because I have the whole shebang here, not a dumbed-down version.
Here's a shot of a relatively vanilla KDE K menu vs a freshly installed Kubuntu K menu. In the graphics menu, only GIMP and Openoffice Draw wouldn't be there in a completely vanilla menu, that leaves 13 items vs Kubuntu's 5. Also note the complete omission of "Development", "Edutainment", and "Games".
Now, for a shot of the KDE "Control Center" vs the Kubuntu "System Settings". If you count them, there are 62 items in the left tree for the Control Center, not including the Konqueror branch. There would be even more if I had built in Bluetooth support (like Kubuntu does), but I don't have any bluetooth hardware. For Kubuntu's System Settings, I count 27 items.
KDE is a non-starter for commercial desktop environments because of the cost of Qt for commercial users: that's why Sun, IBM, Ubuntu, RedHat, Eclipse, and SuSE are all basing their major products on Gtk+, not Qt.
4/6 brands (Ubuntu, Red Hat, Eclipse, Suse) you mention would not be burdened with the financial cost of Qt if they chose to develop with it. In fact, with the exception of Sun and (maybe) Eclipse, all of those brands use Qt to one degree or another. You may also find that many people use Qt for closed source development anyways, despite the financial cost associated with it.
Yes, it's unfortunate that many of the more common distros are shipping Gnome as the default DE now. I think this is due to the perception that Gnome is "simpler" and thus more suitable for the "average" user. Even Kubuntu completely lobotomizes the default KDE install by removing the majority of entries from the K menu, replacing the control center with a dumbed down version, etc.
Despite the number of distros shipping with Gnome as the default DE, polls suggest that KDE is still the most used DE, for now anyways. I suspect we'll see Gnome absorb many users migrating from Windows, but I don't see many KDE users changing over to Gnome.
They didn't lock down the Sega or Dreamcast articles because the Dreamcast is so many orders of magnitude better than all of the other consoles, it's not even worth attempting to dispute. Even trolls are smarter than that, clearly.
The PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360 (listed alphabetically) on the other hand are all pretty close, so there's plenty of argument to be had there.
Because it is horribly slow, even over a DSL connection.
I find it's much more sensitive to latency than bandwidth, but it's certainly (at least) usable over every connection I've tried it on. (Mind you, I've never tried it over dialup, mainly because I haven't used dialup at all for at least 5 years.) Over a LAN, it's hard to tell the difference between local and non-local.
I always have at least 10 separate windows open (many more if you consider each open session within screen distinct), but I usually average closer to 15 or 20. Konqueror is one of my omnipresent applications and I frequently queue things up in new tabs that I mean to get to eventually (often I'll have tabs open for weeks or months at a time that I haven't looked at yet). Within Konqueror, I have a minimum of 3 tabs open, though frequently more, I'm not sure about an average there.
Also, what about multiple computers? I work across several computers and each has it's own set of different applications open at any given time. I was only counting my primary computer above, but if you count all of them, the numbers above would be roughly tripled.
As for MySQL - it's now owned by Oracle and IMHO Larry Ellison has a far better shot at being the antichrist than Bill Gates. Yes we have all that GPLd code but the company, talent and non-GPL rights to the code are owned by Oracle.
Um... no. Oracle bought InnoDB and BDB (both separate projects from MySQL), two of the many backend formats that MySQL can use. It still has MyISAM and a few others, not to mention that Oracle hasn't bought MySQL itself or anything it owns.
I don't see why you wouldn't just emerge -ev system && emerge -ev world and let it go, as suggested by the GCC upgrade guide. The X.org upgrade would happen as part of the world rebuild and you can even continue to use the computer as it goes.
The only way I could get one of my systems back to running was to completely bebuild [sic] it, and it literally took me over a week of compiling on a 2GHz P4.
I doubt that, I have a P4 2.0 GHz right here running Gentoo:
...and that includes KDE and Openoffice. Without KDE and Openoffice, the above would take well under a day. Not to mention that the only reason you'd need to completely rebuild your system is if you did a major gcc or glibc update, neither of which happens very often and both of which can be postponed indefinitely.
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While corrections are uncommon, they're definitely not unheard of. I've seen at least half a dozen before.
No, the current web standards aren't garbage. The browsers that don't even attempt to pretend to follow the standards are garbage (I'm looking at you, IE).
The correct solution is to rip and replace IE, not the perfectly good web standards that it ignores.
You do know that QEmu can suspend and resume images as well, right? Even better, with -snapshot, it won't commit any of the changes to the disk image (unless you tell it to while running), so you can keep resuming from the same point again and when you're done, just close it.
Games may be an inhibitor for Linux adoption in the home market, but Xen/QEmu/KVM/VMWare aren't aimed at the home market at all. When you consider the fact that what you want is most definitely not a simple task, you may understand why nobody has done it yet.
AFAIK, the only advantage of hibernate over suspend is that hibernate doesn't take any power, because it actually shuts off the computer, while suspend "only" takes several orders of magnitude less power than normal use.
Now, the big advantage of suspend over hibernate is that it's many times faster, usually on the order of 2-3 seconds, though it tends to require more cooperation from the hardware. Having said that, suspend works perfectly on both of my ThinkPads (T60 and T40).
Do you mean suspend? Hibernate is only very slightly better than shutting down and restarting again. Suspend on the other hand, is overwhelmingly fantastic.
The performance loss comes from Apache having to check the current directory and every directory above it up to the webroot for .htaccess files. This means that if you store your images in /foo/bar/etc/images/ and you have 50 images per page, Apache needs to check for 5*50 = 250 .htaccess files just to serve the images. A stat isn't that expensive, but they add up.
Maybe. It depends on the use case. Try it yourself.
It works largely the same on x86_64, the only difference is that for most WMV you need to use a 32-bit media player, on Gentoo, that means running gmplayer-bin rather than gmplayer.
Does Gentoo count? cnn.com videos play perfectly for me after telling them that no, I don't need to "upgrade" to WMP9.
What about it? I put a DVD in and it plays.
I've never once seen an mpeg not play before.
I didn't even know there was a DVD version, as I don't see it for 6.06 or for 6.10. Nevertheless, the CD install doesn't give you any of those options. Note that my complaint wasn't that things weren't installed (kcontrol is still there for example, but you have to run it directly), but that they weren't discoverable (ie, in the K menu) unless you already knew about them, the fact that the DVD version is so well hidden merely highlights my point. Perhaps the DVD version is only available through the mail?
My Thinkpad T40 suspends in about a second and resumes in 2 or 3 seconds. After a day of suspend, it's consumed perhaps 5% battery power. Of course it runs Linux exclusively, no idea how Windows (doesn't) work on the same hardware.
Most other people I see with laptops appear to either completely turn their computer off and on every time they move it, or use hibernate and not suspend, thus they're stuck with grotesquely long wait times before they can actually use their computer. It's known that many laptops have notoriously broken and buggy ACPI implementations, to the point where ACPI isn't useful anymore, so I suspect many people just avoid using ACPI completely.
Here's a shot of a relatively vanilla KDE K menu vs a freshly installed Kubuntu K menu. In the graphics menu, only GIMP and Openoffice Draw wouldn't be there in a completely vanilla menu, that leaves 13 items vs Kubuntu's 5. Also note the complete omission of "Development", "Edutainment", and "Games".
Now, for a shot of the KDE "Control Center" vs the Kubuntu "System Settings". If you count them, there are 62 items in the left tree for the Control Center, not including the Konqueror branch. There would be even more if I had built in Bluetooth support (like Kubuntu does), but I don't have any bluetooth hardware. For Kubuntu's System Settings, I count 27 items.
See the pattern yet?
4/6 brands (Ubuntu, Red Hat, Eclipse, Suse) you mention would not be burdened with the financial cost of Qt if they chose to develop with it. In fact, with the exception of Sun and (maybe) Eclipse, all of those brands use Qt to one degree or another. You may also find that many people use Qt for closed source development anyways, despite the financial cost associated with it.
Yes, it's unfortunate that many of the more common distros are shipping Gnome as the default DE now. I think this is due to the perception that Gnome is "simpler" and thus more suitable for the "average" user. Even Kubuntu completely lobotomizes the default KDE install by removing the majority of entries from the K menu, replacing the control center with a dumbed down version, etc.
Despite the number of distros shipping with Gnome as the default DE, polls suggest that KDE is still the most used DE, for now anyways. I suspect we'll see Gnome absorb many users migrating from Windows, but I don't see many KDE users changing over to Gnome.
It can if it has root permissions.
You are correct. As soon as you have to trust the client, you have lost.
They didn't lock down the Sega or Dreamcast articles because the Dreamcast is so many orders of magnitude better than all of the other consoles, it's not even worth attempting to dispute. Even trolls are smarter than that, clearly.
The PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360 (listed alphabetically) on the other hand are all pretty close, so there's plenty of argument to be had there.
Who plans on bookmarking this story so they can laugh heartily at it again in a year?
I find it's much more sensitive to latency than bandwidth, but it's certainly (at least) usable over every connection I've tried it on. (Mind you, I've never tried it over dialup, mainly because I haven't used dialup at all for at least 5 years.) Over a LAN, it's hard to tell the difference between local and non-local.
This applies to both technical and non-technical users.
Why not use X11 forwarding via ssh?
I always have at least 10 separate windows open (many more if you consider each open session within screen distinct), but I usually average closer to 15 or 20. Konqueror is one of my omnipresent applications and I frequently queue things up in new tabs that I mean to get to eventually (often I'll have tabs open for weeks or months at a time that I haven't looked at yet). Within Konqueror, I have a minimum of 3 tabs open, though frequently more, I'm not sure about an average there.
Also, what about multiple computers? I work across several computers and each has it's own set of different applications open at any given time. I was only counting my primary computer above, but if you count all of them, the numbers above would be roughly tripled.
Um... no. Oracle bought InnoDB and BDB (both separate projects from MySQL), two of the many backend formats that MySQL can use. It still has MyISAM and a few others, not to mention that Oracle hasn't bought MySQL itself or anything it owns.
I don't see why you wouldn't just emerge -ev system && emerge -ev world and let it go, as suggested by the GCC upgrade guide. The X.org upgrade would happen as part of the world rebuild and you can even continue to use the computer as it goes.
I doubt that, I have a P4 2.0 GHz right here running Gentoo:
...and that includes KDE and Openoffice. Without KDE and Openoffice, the above would take well under a day. Not to mention that the only reason you'd need to completely rebuild your system is if you did a major gcc or glibc update, neither of which happens very often and both of which can be postponed indefinitely.