I feel much more comfortable with Gnome. I admit Konqueror is far more powerful than Nautilus but I tend to use the CLI for non trivial tasks, however- Nautilus scripts do the trick for me as well.
I've tried KDE-4 from Ubuntu repos and it is unusable. Probably because Ubuntu repos are broken or something alike. I expect KDE-4 at Hardy be just OK.
Nevertheless, what I've seen is that the KDE-4 philosophy is closer to Gnome's than KDE-3 used to be, and I like that. I like minimal^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H medium-size desktop environment. Perhaps I end up switching to KDE-4 when I install Hardy; who knows...
Somebody should throw some money and programming time at libSDL. Would porting the relevant portions to consoles and extending where necessary be useful? (Just throwing up an idea.)
This is the case of Quake IV on linux at least. They have patched LibSDL to their needs, they include the patch in the package distribution and a compiled library called libSDL-1.2.id.so.0
Also, the package contains libgcc_s.so.1 and libstdc++.so.6 which I think they are not modified but ensured to be frozen to a certain version ID knows that works just fine (so addressing the multiple distros issues). The binary uses other libraries as well, but then takes them from the system (I guess, ID is confident they won't change dramatically in the short term).
If I recall correctly, Unreal tournament 2003 used a similar approach (perhaps without libSDL modification).
Boarding strategies do not obey to speed but to mass center location!.
Some planes (the ones which are longer, i.e. 200 seats with one aisle or the 400 seats with two aisles) have strong dependency of the airplane center of masses with the position of the people seating...
Of course, load and fuel have their influence in this, but people is yet important
Correct center of masses is vital because has a direct impact in fuel consumption and security: if the center of masses gets out of the range, the airplane would not fly (would fail at take off!)
So please, do not mess with this!!!
In my end of carrer project, a 200 seat airplane with one aisle design, I had to take into account the position of every one seating in the airplane (for all the possibilities from one passenger to 200), and I can ensure that having 50 people only flight in the front of the deck would place the center of masses out of the safety margin.
Air pilots have a one year subject dedicated only to these issues (including of course, load and fuel).
hmmmm, In my case, I connect my two ubuntu computers with an inverted ethernet cable and:
1. They automagically negotiate an IP address thanks to avahi (zeroconf).
2. I can access the other machine like the_other_machine_name.local
3. Thus, thanks the very first thing I check after an installation is the presence of ssh-server:
4. I can access the other machine filesystem with Nautilus (just placing ssh://the_other_machine_name.local/. at the location bar)
5. I can also mount the other machine filesystem, with sshfs so I can play whatever you want.
6. Displaying PDF files, with evince, does not need the filesystem mount. Runs pretty well out of the box. However:
7. Seems that Totem is not totally aware of the ssh:// gnome-vfs protocol. It is like a bug, because seems to locate the file but fails to know wich kind of file it is. When solved, it will allow directly playing movies or sound files without mounting the filesystem. If you think this is important, you may fill a bug report...
8. Further, I can start remote applications painless. This is typically useful to for instance check the email you have physically stored at the other computer without having to place both computers one side to the another. Hey, you can even start a video player remotely...
My sister bought a Dell inspiron 6400 with nvidia card. I deleted the windows partition and installed Ubuntu Feisty Fawn beta (was a week time before Feisty was released). Everything worked except the suspend-to-disk, the modem (conexant) which was not required to work and has proprietary drivers available for small fee, and the multi-card reader which does read SD cards but not usb-sticks. All I had to do is to install nvidia proprietary drivers, a common situation easy to follow from the forums/wiki/googling. She was able herself to upgrade to oficial Feisty when it was released, without loosing any hardware featuring.
After the success we had, I asked my boss to buy me a Dell inspiron 9400 with nvidia card. Same story here. Basically it is the same machine, with larger screen and better video card and CPU. Both run pretty well with Ubuntu, and I guess they do with any recent distro.
The suspend-to-disk feature seems to work but then it does not start properly. I've not tried to tweak kernel options, since I do not miss that feature because the machine starts up quite quickly. I'm not sure if this can be solved nowadays
Also, when using latest compiz built, I detected a quite known nvidia bug which is solved editing the modules file, adding some options I read in the nvidia/compiz forums.
Also, I remember figuring out how to disable the system bell since it is very very loud.
I cannot remember if there were more tweaks required, but these are the two laptops with lower ammount of problems with linux distros I've tested. In fact, just by starting the LiveCD it was clear that almost everything was just OK.
, but here is the deal... You have to go active to see targets
Unless you have AWACS tracking the targets and emitting their positions to you.
I've been told here in slashdot that the F-22 which get run out of ammo do go away from the battle field and act as AWACS for the rest of still fighting F-22s.
So the F-22 is a very powerful weapon, specially when combined with AWACS.
The thing comes with a "save as zip" option, which saves the html, images and javascript files, cleanly classified into folders, that allow the presentation to be shown completely offline.
He's completely right. Should Google have run windows instead of Linux as many others did, Google would have miserably failed as those others did as well. Google can be happy because of so much competition failed because MS.
I think the main problem with Linux is that if a vendor releases a closed source driver (which some are obliged to do by legal agreements for other companies technologies) that the next minor Kernel release can break the driver. In the Windows world, it takes a major release to break drivers (i.e. Windows 4/Windows 98 to Windows 5/Windows 2000 or Windows 5.1/Windows XP to Windows 6/Windows Vista)
You are wrong. The Closed-source nvidia binary comes with the open-source kernel module which you can compile with your kernel headers so it adapts to your current status. Thus, the same nvidia-driver can be installed among all the ubuntus (for instance) and first ubuntu release (Warty?) is about the same time XP appeared while current ubuntu (Feisty) was released about the same time than Vista. Now try to install XP drivers on Vista...
Goto nvidia downloads and you'll see that there is only one driver for *all* the linux distributions/flavours/whatever.
Of course, deep changes in kernel break this model and if you conserve the current driver and try to install in future releases perhaps it does no longer work and that's what people are complaining about, in the sense that your card can get unsupported in the future by the next driver releases. However the approach is elastic enough so the linux driver spanlife seems better than the Windows one.
The other day I connected via wifi my laptop to my desktop and X11 apps behaviour (ssh -X) was sluggish whereas file transfer was just OK. I then tried to do a xdmcp login and everything went with lags and lags: unusable.
I'm not expert in networking, but I think it was a problem of latency.
Not everyone uses X11 apps across machines, I know, but I guess that remote-desktop services will work just as painful if not more.
Seriously, I don't really know LaTeX (just some small quirks), but since I tested LyX some years ago I have never looked back again. I love structuring my documents. I've ended up generating my presentations with LyX and latex-beamer: they look fantastic and well organized.
I wish I knew LaTeX, but for lazy people as I am, LyX covers most of the required functionality and it does LaTeX:)
Drawing tools: Er..., well, xfig can output latex code... er... Winner: Not LaTeX.
Inkscape produces alpha-channeled pdf figures from png files. Latest versions of convert (imagemagik?) produce alpha-channeled pdf figures as well. Those figures + pdflatex (+ latex-beamer for presentations): we have a winner again. Also, openoffice writter produces alpha-channeled pdf figures which can be included in pdflatex.
If I'm at home I have to ssh in from another machine and kill X so I can use the thing again, or if I'm anywhere else I have to reboot (keyboard and mouse are frozen as is everything on the desktop, ctrl-alt-backspace doesn't do anything). Next time try Alt+Print_Screen+K (search for Raising Skinny Elephants is Utterly Boring at the wikipedia)
Slashdot Mirror
I feel much more comfortable with Gnome. I admit Konqueror is far more powerful than Nautilus but I tend to use the CLI for non trivial tasks, however- Nautilus scripts do the trick for me as well.
I've tried KDE-4 from Ubuntu repos and it is unusable. Probably because Ubuntu repos are broken or something alike. I expect KDE-4 at Hardy be just OK.
Nevertheless, what I've seen is that the KDE-4 philosophy is closer to Gnome's than KDE-3 used to be, and I like that. I like minimal^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H medium-size desktop environment. Perhaps I end up switching to KDE-4 when I install Hardy; who knows...
typically, erection. YMMV.
"Down" is the word, yes.
true! mod parent up!
there are several parallel needs out of there besides of making the desktop feel smoother.
Also, the package contains libgcc_s.so.1 and libstdc++.so.6 which I think they are not modified but ensured to be frozen to a certain version ID knows that works just fine (so addressing the multiple distros issues). The binary uses other libraries as well, but then takes them from the system (I guess, ID is confident they won't change dramatically in the short term).
If I recall correctly, Unreal tournament 2003 used a similar approach (perhaps without libSDL modification).
I missed the point. Here they are talking about the order of entering to the plane, not the seats which are filled at the end. Sorry.
Boarding strategies do not obey to speed but to mass center location!.
Some planes (the ones which are longer, i.e. 200 seats with one aisle or the 400 seats with two aisles) have strong dependency of the airplane center of masses with the position of the people seating...
Of course, load and fuel have their influence in this, but people is yet important
Correct center of masses is vital because has a direct impact in fuel consumption and security: if the center of masses gets out of the range, the airplane would not fly (would fail at take off!)
So please, do not mess with this!!!
In my end of carrer project, a 200 seat airplane with one aisle design, I had to take into account the position of every one seating in the airplane (for all the possibilities from one passenger to 200), and I can ensure that having 50 people only flight in the front of the deck would place the center of masses out of the safety margin.
Air pilots have a one year subject dedicated only to these issues (including of course, load and fuel).
Is mentioning Natalie Portman in a Slashdot story a good idea?
hmmmm, In my case, I connect my two ubuntu computers with an inverted ethernet cable and:
1. They automagically negotiate an IP address thanks to avahi (zeroconf).
2. I can access the other machine like the_other_machine_name.local
3. Thus, thanks the very first thing I check after an installation is the presence of ssh-server:
4. I can access the other machine filesystem with Nautilus (just placing ssh://the_other_machine_name.local/. at the location bar)
5. I can also mount the other machine filesystem, with sshfs so I can play whatever you want.
6. Displaying PDF files, with evince, does not need the filesystem mount. Runs pretty well out of the box. However:
7. Seems that Totem is not totally aware of the ssh:// gnome-vfs protocol. It is like a bug, because seems to locate the file but fails to know wich kind of file it is. When solved, it will allow directly playing movies or sound files without mounting the filesystem. If you think this is important, you may fill a bug report...
8. Further, I can start remote applications painless. This is typically useful to for instance check the email you have physically stored at the other computer without having to place both computers one side to the another. Hey, you can even start a video player remotely...
My sister bought a Dell inspiron 6400 with nvidia card. I deleted the windows partition and installed Ubuntu Feisty Fawn beta (was a week time before Feisty was released). Everything worked except the suspend-to-disk, the modem (conexant) which was not required to work and has proprietary drivers available for small fee, and the multi-card reader which does read SD cards but not usb-sticks. All I had to do is to install nvidia proprietary drivers, a common situation easy to follow from the forums/wiki/googling. She was able herself to upgrade to oficial Feisty when it was released, without loosing any hardware featuring.
After the success we had, I asked my boss to buy me a Dell inspiron 9400 with nvidia card. Same story here. Basically it is the same machine, with larger screen and better video card and CPU. Both run pretty well with Ubuntu, and I guess they do with any recent distro.
The suspend-to-disk feature seems to work but then it does not start properly. I've not tried to tweak kernel options, since I do not miss that feature because the machine starts up quite quickly. I'm not sure if this can be solved nowadays
Also, when using latest compiz built, I detected a quite known nvidia bug which is solved editing the modules file, adding some options I read in the nvidia/compiz forums.
Also, I remember figuring out how to disable the system bell since it is very very loud.
I cannot remember if there were more tweaks required, but these are the two laptops with lower ammount of problems with linux distros I've tested. In fact, just by starting the LiveCD it was clear that almost everything was just OK.
I've been told here in slashdot that the F-22 which get run out of ammo do go away from the battle field and act as AWACS for the rest of still fighting F-22s.
So the F-22 is a very powerful weapon, specially when combined with AWACS.
wait safely until 4294967295 ID is given...
Slashdot has not been here from the beginning of time? What did ancestors do with their lives then?
The thing comes with a "save as zip" option, which saves the html, images and javascript files, cleanly classified into folders, that allow the presentation to be shown completely offline.
It is interesting that the firefox integrated spellchecker works just fine in the dynamically placeable text boxes.
He's completely right. Should Google have run windows instead of Linux as many others did, Google would have miserably failed as those others did as well. Google can be happy because of so much competition failed because MS.
Goto nvidia downloads and you'll see that there is only one driver for *all* the linux distributions/flavours/whatever.
Of course, deep changes in kernel break this model and if you conserve the current driver and try to install in future releases perhaps it does no longer work and that's what people are complaining about, in the sense that your card can get unsupported in the future by the next driver releases. However the approach is elastic enough so the linux driver spanlife seems better than the Windows one.
I'm not expert in networking, but I think it was a problem of latency.
Not everyone uses X11 apps across machines, I know, but I guess that remote-desktop services will work just as painful if not more.
I wish I knew LaTeX, but for lazy people as I am, LyX covers most of the required functionality and it does LaTeX :)
You are Mr. Wolf, aren't you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_2