Rarely. My laptop regularly sees 100+ day uptimes. Suspend/resume is the way to go.
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Because less doesn't have to read the entire file into RAM before it can display it? Try opening a several hundred meg file in less, then try it in vim, and you'll see what I mean.
...(like the "often used" cruise control on every car)...
Are you insane? Cruise control is by far one of the most useful features in a car. I don't want to be continuously checking my speed to ensure that I'm going the speed I want to, thus I set cruise control and don't worry about it.
Cars without cruise control drive me absolutely insane. The same goes for drivers that don't use it. They're easy to spot because they'll often drift between say 105 km/h and 120 km/h on the highway, and they probably don't even notice.
If the gait biometric fails, and the system falls back to a password, then the system is still no stronger than a password based authentication scheme. So why add the extra complication and expense that developing this technology must surely add?
Because the device isn't secure at all when the owner turns off the password protection because they're tired of entering their password. If they only have to enter it 2% of the time, they're less likely to disable it.
I think we can both agree that password protection is better than nothing.
* Yes, I'm aware of the ridiculous chance of me actually winning but it's my money and I'll do with it what I want. You spend more on your coffee/soda every day than I spend on lottery tickets in a month.
What if we don't drink coffee or "soda"? *takes another sip of chocolate milk*
IE does use ActiveX for XMLHTTPRequest, but only to instantiate the initial object, after that you can manipulate it using JavaScript, like in any sane browser.
I want the option to use some version of standard regular expressions on the entire message, including full header, for my own spam filtering.
KMail has this already. I haven't actually used the feature before, but it seemed like something that KMail would have, and sure enough I found it after merely a cursory glance. In Settings > Configure Filters you can perform actions based on regexes on any number of fields, including the message body, any header and a plethora of other things.
Would it have killed IBM to use a standard keyboard?
They do use standard keyboards! You can take your blasted space wasting Windows key and shove it.
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Try using lbxproxy (slightly dated but still useful howto). I find it makes a pretty big difference over non-LAN connections towards the "very usable" part of the slider.
The LGPL allows you to use its code in commercial projects without releasing the source. This way they can charge for any improvement they make over OpenOffice.
I think you're mistaking the LGPL for the BSD license. LGPL is essentially just the GPL with an additional clause that allows you to link against it from other (potentially binary only) programs. See libc for a good example of where this is useful (unless you don't ever want to run any binary only programs on Linux).
I'm using Gentoo sources (2.6.11 something and 2.6.9 something) on my laptop and server, no problems. With regards to 2.4 vs 2.6, the biggest improvement I've noticed is the addition of preemption, it really makes a huge (perceived) difference for a desktop machine. ACPI support is nice too, I'm not sure how it is in 2.4, I always used APM with 2.4.
Well, there's really no conversion that happens between ext2 and ext3... the only difference between the two is that ext3 uses a journal. If you disable the journal on an ext3 partition, it effectively becomes ext2.
Desktop Linux will still be a long way off until applications can be installed and un-installed in an easy way.
Easily installed: emerge program
Easily uninstalled: emerge -C program
Update all your software: emerge --sync; emerge -uD world
I don't know how it could possibly be easier. Windows doesn't even come close.
The other thing Desktop Linux needs is good fonts.
See my post here with regards to fonts. The short and skinny is that Linux already has gorgeous fonts.
Next thing is multimedia and multimedia applications. Totem in the GNOME world and Amarok in the KDE world will not play mp3s out of the box, yet there are no licensing restrictions on these formats! These are so many other examples in the multimedia field.
Strangely enough, on Gentoo, mp3s just play out of the box for me! How surprising. Same thing for any and every video I've tried to play. No headaches searching high and low for some obscure codec like you would be on Windows.
There is a bug/feature I found in Linux that needs attention in relation to how devices are mounted.
Automounting isn't the job of the DE/WM, if you want it, the kernel should be doing it. Having said that, automount and supermount have existed for years and work very well. Many distributions include automount or supermount.
Remember that we in the Linux world are aiming at domination.
No, we're interested in having the best software. Microsoft is interested in domination. We're both doing pretty well with those goals thus far.
Last but not least, we need publicity - good publicity. Right now, Linux is being touted as very good or good enough for the average user.
I partially agree with you up to this point...
What happens is that folks then have to understand that Linux is just a KERNEL and that there are many implementations associated with this kernel.
But I don't agree here. Very few people will care if they're using Ubuntu, Gentoo or Slackware, and further explaining how they're similar or different will not make an impact on them. They're never going to install their own OS, and they're extremely unlikely to influence anyone else to install an OS for themselves. The most likely way they'll ever use Linux is if it comes preinstalled on their computer, or if one of their techically savvy friends installs it for them. In neither case is their general thoughts on Linux (if any) likely to affect the chances of them using it.
If our goal is a larger install base, we need 1) OEMs to start preinstalling Linux in significant numbers or 2) A hugely destructive new worm/malware/etc that totally rips apart Windows installs and hits a huge number of people, such that the people who could fix them, refuse to do so because it's not worth their time, so they just install Linux instead.
Situation one is unlikely while OEMs are still in Microsoft's pocket for Windows licenses. All or nothing says Microsoft.
Situation two doesn't seem unlikely, if it happens, I wouldn't be surprised if it happens to Vista. Of course it won't have much effect if it happens immediately after launch, unless it affects more than just Vista, it needs to hit a large user base.
It's not trollish. You just prefer linux-style font rendering. Most people don't. I am one of them. I always found both linux and windows font rendering to be too blocky, not smooth enough, with linux being the worse of the two.
Well, if these fonts are too blocky and not smooth enough, then I don't want unblocky or smooth.
How long can you keep your X session running using nvidia's drivers? A honest question. I never made it past the five day mark when I was still on linux (on various hardware combo's, but admittedly, this was two years ago). My mac's gui has not crashed once in the 6 months that I've owned it.
Well my desktop machine has a Geforce 3 and uses the NVidia drivers, I don't think I've ever had an X session die without me telling it to die first. Right now it's at 10 days since I accidentally bumped the reset button (it was more sensitive than I remember!).
(off the top of my head,.txt iframes in konqueror opening kwrite... try going to www.crownweather.com/tropical.html in konq to see what I mean)
I just did that, the result was a lot of Save as/Open/Cancel dialogs, though after clicking open, each of the iframes had it's respective text as you'd expect, and you can skip over the dialog so that it goes straight to opening text documents instead of asking first. Though I do remember (in older version of KDE) when text documents would open separately rather than inline, but I'll admit I'd never seen them used other than as a separate document (a link to a text file for example) where opening in a separate program versus inline really isn't an issue. Even for that, Konqueror will open things inline by default now.
...or the lack of a decent user switching dialog.
Recent versions of KDE (might be a separate package before 3.4, I know Mandrake 10.0 (KDE 3.2 CVS) had it but 3.3.2 in Gentoo didn't automatically) are actually quite good in that respect. In the K menu there's a "Switch User" action right above "Lock Session" which allows you to start a new session or switch to another one, listing all of the currently running ones. Also, when you lock the screen, there's a "Start New Session" button beside "Unlock" and "Cancel" that fires up a new session and lets you log in normally using kdm or your Display Manager of choice.
How upgrading WINE suddenly broke DVDShrink (yea yea, I know, whatever you say though doesn't change the fact that this is something I had to deal with...would be nice if there were a DVDShrink equiv in Linux).
So why didn't you go back to the previous version of Wine that you were using? Perhaps file a bug/regression in Wine in the mean time? Portage maintains quite a few versions of Wine at any given time (I count 8 at the moment), as there are no guarantees that new versions won't break something (because Wine moves at a relatively fast pace and often goes through major changes).
Its ashame that techies have a tainted view of Windows because they had a bad expierence or too many BSODs. Anyone who uses Windows 2000 or earlier has these problems. Windows XP is much more solid though.
You're right, "XP doesn't BSOD anymore"! It just reboots on BSODs instead of hanging.
In KDE at least, using KHotKeys, you should be able to set a mouse gesture or keyboard shortcut to raise all of the GIMP windows. In the KDE Control Center under Accessability, open up KHotKeys, then add a new group of shortcuts for GIMP using the window class of "gimp" (all the GIMP windows appear to have this), then just set up a shortcut to raise all of the GIMP windows. This probably sounds pretty opaque right now, but it should be reasonably self explanatory when you're looking at it.
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Does this mean that the copy and paste troll about installing Quake 3 in Linux vs Windows will have to find a new troll to copy and paste?
Rarely. My laptop regularly sees 100+ day uptimes. Suspend/resume is the way to go.
Because less doesn't have to read the entire file into RAM before it can display it? Try opening a several hundred meg file in less, then try it in vim, and you'll see what I mean.
Are you trying to troll the AC? There's no GoatseFS in there.
Are you insane? Cruise control is by far one of the most useful features in a car. I don't want to be continuously checking my speed to ensure that I'm going the speed I want to, thus I set cruise control and don't worry about it.
Cars without cruise control drive me absolutely insane. The same goes for drivers that don't use it. They're easy to spot because they'll often drift between say 105 km/h and 120 km/h on the highway, and they probably don't even notice.
Because the device isn't secure at all when the owner turns off the password protection because they're tired of entering their password. If they only have to enter it 2% of the time, they're less likely to disable it.
I think we can both agree that password protection is better than nothing.
What if we don't drink coffee or "soda"? *takes another sip of chocolate milk*
IE does use ActiveX for XMLHTTPRequest, but only to instantiate the initial object, after that you can manipulate it using JavaScript, like in any sane browser.
You'll have to at least brush off most of that sulphur first...
KMail has this already. I haven't actually used the feature before, but it seemed like something that KMail would have, and sure enough I found it after merely a cursory glance. In Settings > Configure Filters you can perform actions based on regexes on any number of fields, including the message body, any header and a plethora of other things.
They do use standard keyboards! You can take your blasted space wasting Windows key and shove it.
Try using lbxproxy (slightly dated but still useful howto). I find it makes a pretty big difference over non-LAN connections towards the "very usable" part of the slider.
Err... wait a minute, what's the problem here?
I think you're mistaking the LGPL for the BSD license. LGPL is essentially just the GPL with an additional clause that allows you to link against it from other (potentially binary only) programs. See libc for a good example of where this is useful (unless you don't ever want to run any binary only programs on Linux).
Maybe it's just me, but from the looks of it, OOo is already LGPLed.
You mean they don't even compile it for you?!
I'm using Gentoo sources (2.6.11 something and 2.6.9 something) on my laptop and server, no problems. With regards to 2.4 vs 2.6, the biggest improvement I've noticed is the addition of preemption, it really makes a huge (perceived) difference for a desktop machine. ACPI support is nice too, I'm not sure how it is in 2.4, I always used APM with 2.4.
Well, there's really no conversion that happens between ext2 and ext3... the only difference between the two is that ext3 uses a journal. If you disable the journal on an ext3 partition, it effectively becomes ext2.
Did you try using ntp? It's designed to deal with clocks that gain or lose time. Even beyond that, it'll keep your clocks set properly.
Easily installed: emerge program
Easily uninstalled: emerge -C program
Update all your software: emerge --sync; emerge -uD world
I don't know how it could possibly be easier. Windows doesn't even come close.
See my post here with regards to fonts. The short and skinny is that Linux already has gorgeous fonts.
Strangely enough, on Gentoo, mp3s just play out of the box for me! How surprising. Same thing for any and every video I've tried to play. No headaches searching high and low for some obscure codec like you would be on Windows.
Automounting isn't the job of the DE/WM, if you want it, the kernel should be doing it. Having said that, automount and supermount have existed for years and work very well. Many distributions include automount or supermount.
No, we're interested in having the best software. Microsoft is interested in domination. We're both doing pretty well with those goals thus far.
I partially agree with you up to this point...
But I don't agree here. Very few people will care if they're using Ubuntu, Gentoo or Slackware, and further explaining how they're similar or different will not make an impact on them. They're never going to install their own OS, and they're extremely unlikely to influence anyone else to install an OS for themselves. The most likely way they'll ever use Linux is if it comes preinstalled on their computer, or if one of their techically savvy friends installs it for them. In neither case is their general thoughts on Linux (if any) likely to affect the chances of them using it.
If our goal is a larger install base, we need 1) OEMs to start preinstalling Linux in significant numbers or 2) A hugely destructive new worm/malware/etc that totally rips apart Windows installs and hits a huge number of people, such that the people who could fix them, refuse to do so because it's not worth their time, so they just install Linux instead.
Situation one is unlikely while OEMs are still in Microsoft's pocket for Windows licenses. All or nothing says Microsoft.
Situation two doesn't seem unlikely, if it happens, I wouldn't be surprised if it happens to Vista. Of course it won't have much effect if it happens immediately after launch, unless it affects more than just Vista, it needs to hit a large user base.
Well, if these fonts are too blocky and not smooth enough, then I don't want unblocky or smooth.
Well my desktop machine has a Geforce 3 and uses the NVidia drivers, I don't think I've ever had an X session die without me telling it to die first. Right now it's at 10 days since I accidentally bumped the reset button (it was more sensitive than I remember!).
I just did that, the result was a lot of Save as/Open/Cancel dialogs, though after clicking open, each of the iframes had it's respective text as you'd expect, and you can skip over the dialog so that it goes straight to opening text documents instead of asking first. Though I do remember (in older version of KDE) when text documents would open separately rather than inline, but I'll admit I'd never seen them used other than as a separate document (a link to a text file for example) where opening in a separate program versus inline really isn't an issue. Even for that, Konqueror will open things inline by default now.
Recent versions of KDE (might be a separate package before 3.4, I know Mandrake 10.0 (KDE 3.2 CVS) had it but 3.3.2 in Gentoo didn't automatically) are actually quite good in that respect. In the K menu there's a "Switch User" action right above "Lock Session" which allows you to start a new session or switch to another one, listing all of the currently running ones. Also, when you lock the screen, there's a "Start New Session" button beside "Unlock" and "Cancel" that fires up a new session and lets you log in normally using kdm or your Display Manager of choice.
So why didn't you go back to the previous version of Wine that you were using? Perhaps file a bug/regression in Wine in the mean time? Portage maintains quite a few versions of Wine at any given time (I count 8 at the moment), as there are no guarantees that new versions won't break something (because Wine moves at a relatively fast pace and often goes through major changes).
You're right, "XP doesn't BSOD anymore"! It just reboots on BSODs instead of hanging.
In KDE at least, using KHotKeys, you should be able to set a mouse gesture or keyboard shortcut to raise all of the GIMP windows. In the KDE Control Center under Accessability, open up KHotKeys, then add a new group of shortcuts for GIMP using the window class of "gimp" (all the GIMP windows appear to have this), then just set up a shortcut to raise all of the GIMP windows. This probably sounds pretty opaque right now, but it should be reasonably self explanatory when you're looking at it.
...and the ever popular AGP Port.