Why do people make posts like this when they know its a simple typo? It is obvious that I meant gouge, and its also a very understandable error since in general people type gauge a lot more than they type gouge. I guess some folks just love those dictionary hunts!:-D
I've installed Ubuntu a ton of times on relatively ancient computers (p2 233s come to mind) and its always very easy to do, and very easy to get help with from Ubuntu's user forums.
I've more recently tried out Fedora on a couple of higher end comps (I have no $$ for computers so higher end might mean P3 700 )to act as servers to small groups of the Ubuntu comps and really enjoyed that as well.
I think there is a nice feeling to Ubuntu, its labeled, packaged, and branded very well. But, at the same time, I'm a complete Linux newb and I set up Fedora (plus suse just to try it out) and had no more problems with any of them, well actually I didn't have any problems with any of them. After I got used to it a bit more, I prefered working in Fedora to the others.
I think its image more then anything. People don't feel as threatened by Ubuntu. Linux can seem daunting sometimes and Ubuntu has built an image and community to get people past that painlessly. I never got the same impression from the other distros I've tried (not saying there aren't others out there that do this, just not ones I've tried).
In the end I think it comes down to Ubuntu defining their target audience differently then most other distros, and the audience they are (successfully) appealling to is a pretty large one.
I've always considered SC2 to actually be SC1.5. Cleaned up the graphics, cleaned up the audio, added some gimmicks, but it was far from being as much of an impact on gaming as SC was. That was a very large improvement over the previous installments, Soul Blade/SoulEdge.
Interesting. Thanks for the post, I never would have found that one otherwise. It sounds like they are making some switches away from MS but it doesn't sound like they are just going cold turkey on MS products.
I really like how you summed that up. I started programming back in the day with QBasic because I had it, it was simple, and the help file was extremely easy to get around with a sample for everything. I think that is a real key to the beginning language, having the help files be as easy to deal with compared to really indepth manuals as the programming language itself is easy to program compared to more robust and capable languages.
The company I work for is a not-for-profit organization that has over a thousand employees spread around a handful of offices with an Exchange server for email. Users have a 120meg limit by default. Some, like graphic designers, need more and are given it but for the majority of users, a personal Outlook file is kept on one of the local office servers and users are instructed on how to drag and drop batches of files from the exchange folders to the personal folders stored on the local server. These folders obviously aren't available to them via Outlook Web Access but I actually get extremely few complaints about the setup. A full server restore takes about 5.5 hours I believe.
Its interesting to see their brand of humor applied to a video game. Its almost like they were making an anti-game. 2 minute pointless videos when you pause, an 8 hour trip in a straight line across the desert, Debbie Harry behind every shop counter...
Precisely. Personally, I'd be more pissed at Apple. HDCP isn't in the mix yet and last I checked their 30" studio monitors don't have HDCP. I guess you could get a dell 30" flat panel instead though...those have HDCP. Ehh, it probably doesn't matter. They'll just end up changing the standard before they start using it and outdate everything on the market...for kicks.
I set up a computer lab for a school that had a single server (dual P3 1ghz, 2gb Ram) plus 12 P2-233 desktops with 128MB ram, using LTSP with K12Linux. I admit I am a fan of Windows 2000 because of its versatile and low requirements, but the performance out of those P2 233s plus the single good (although extremely outdated) server was phenomenal.
And also, honestly, it didn't make a difference to the kids what OS it was. They were all in the 4-7th grade range. When I was in that range, we were learning on Apple IIe's. I graduated from college in 2003 to enter the workplace and boy had a lot changed. Despite the incredible amount of change that occurred, I think myself and my classmates still benefited from that original work on the ancient computers with totally different interfaces from modern computers. And the same goes for using a Linux distro on an education computer. Its all going to change in a couple of years anyway. Does it make much difference whether they use a 100% standard MS layout for the apps now?
I am saddened by how many of those I owned. Turbo Touch 360 I got for free. Atari 5200 the `rents paid for. U-Force I bought of my own free will -_-, Sega Activator I ended up having, not sure why.
I was young and inexperienced, I thought "Hey, they're just controllers that are a little different, how bad can they be?" How wrong I was.
For the record I also had the NeGCon, an NES controller that looked like motorcycle handle bars (that one was actually pretty comfy), a PSX one that looked like a Battarang (best controller ever), the Super Scope (which kind of rocked). Hell, I even had the Odyssey (but not until like 1986 because my uncle was one of the designers and they found a bunch in a closet somewhere). Its controllers were barely classifiable as controllers. I felt like I was sharpening pencils.
Ahh the memories. I definately learned to stay clear of those oddball controllers. So, anybody heard any news on the Revolution or PS3 o.O?
I'm pretty sure they could do it, but why not make as much as possible in house if you can? They aren't a bunch of idealistic programmers communing to build a better tomorrow. They are a company that, successfully, makes a lot of money. When I am making money by the truckload, I am pretty certain I will ignore the complaints of small foundations telling me I need to adhere to their standards when they only have a small market share.
Well, I guess that rant was mostly about browsers, because thats where I usually see complaints. Active Directory and WMP though? This is getting down right stupid. Next people will sue them because they bundle Explorer with windows.
"We should be able to choose Litestep or BlackBox instead of Explorer when we install Windows! Boo! Why doesn't M$ make everything open and standard? That has to make it better right?"
And to boot I just went through and converted the 2d fighting game I was making over so the AI runs in a different thread then the graphics (I use a neural network to analyze movements for a more reactive computer opponent) thanks to the built in threading tools of Allegro. I think I'll stick with this one.
I've used Allegro in the past but I am a n00b and was wondering how Allegro compares to things like SDL. I've had people tell me to try out SDL instead but can't really find a good reason to. Is it supposed to be more powerful or something? Or more compatible? Or do people just like it more?
Opera uses disk cache and ram cache. It uses as much ram cache as it can for the speed benefit, and on older systems with less memory it tones down the ram cache usage to avoid stepping on toes. In any case how much disk and ram cache it uses can both be controlled manually from the preferences. Ram is set to auto by default meaning it will take a percentage of the free memory for itself. On my 1gb system it tends to use about 90-120megs of ram if I've been browsing for a while, but it does keep a cap even on that system so it never gets so large that it gets bogged down. Then on systems like the one I am on right now that has 128mb ram, it relies mostly on disk cache and doesn't really suffer any hits in performance for it.
Have you tried setting a limit on the memory cache in the preferences? Its set to automatic by default so by default it'll go pretty crazy. It still won't slow down though, even on systems like the 128MB ram one I am on now. The 10 tabs with long histories in each don't seem to affect performance.
Donkey Kong Country for SNES. Mmmmm that game was too good. And the first SNES game I know of to use the scanline trick to push the max on screen colors from 256 to 4096.
Slashdot Mirror
This place is a giant collection of links.
If you click on any category theres a very good chance that the first few links listed will give you error 404.
I could use google to make this website in a few hours. It has no original content to add.
When Firefox can pass the Acid 2.0 Test, come back to me.
Sincerely,
Opera 9tp Fan
(disclaimer, not bashing FF, just found the previous comment to be an offer too tempting to turn down)
Why do people make posts like this when they know its a simple typo? It is obvious that I meant gouge, and its also a very understandable error since in general people type gauge a lot more than they type gouge. I guess some folks just love those dictionary hunts! :-D
I assume that would be when I do something more then just install a distro.
On numerous occasions, those nVidia drivers you refer to have made me wish to gauge my eyes out :-(
I'll never buy an nVidia board again, regardless of the reviews.
I am a n00b when it comes to Linux.
I've installed Ubuntu a ton of times on relatively ancient computers (p2 233s come to mind) and its always very easy to do, and very easy to get help with from Ubuntu's user forums.
I've more recently tried out Fedora on a couple of higher end comps (I have no $$ for computers so higher end might mean P3 700 )to act as servers to small groups of the Ubuntu comps and really enjoyed that as well.
I think there is a nice feeling to Ubuntu, its labeled, packaged, and branded very well. But, at the same time, I'm a complete Linux newb and I set up Fedora (plus suse just to try it out) and had no more problems with any of them, well actually I didn't have any problems with any of them. After I got used to it a bit more, I prefered working in Fedora to the others.
I think its image more then anything. People don't feel as threatened by Ubuntu. Linux can seem daunting sometimes and Ubuntu has built an image and community to get people past that painlessly. I never got the same impression from the other distros I've tried (not saying there aren't others out there that do this, just not ones I've tried).
In the end I think it comes down to Ubuntu defining their target audience differently then most other distros, and the audience they are (successfully) appealling to is a pretty large one.
Of all the things they could have named a dot in the sky after, they had to go and name it after an existing dot in the sky.
Holy crap, I hadn't even noticed that they'd implemented SVG in Opera. Good stuff.
Firefox and Thunderbird are developed and distributed by Mozilla Corporation. Its a subsidiary of Mozilla Org and its a taxable for-profit entity.
I've always considered SC2 to actually be SC1.5. Cleaned up the graphics, cleaned up the audio, added some gimmicks, but it was far from being as much of an impact on gaming as SC was. That was a very large improvement over the previous installments, Soul Blade/SoulEdge.
Interesting. Thanks for the post, I never would have found that one otherwise. It sounds like they are making some switches away from MS but it doesn't sound like they are just going cold turkey on MS products.
Actually the article is talking about the desktops that the employees use, not computers that IBM sells to the public.
I really like how you summed that up. I started programming back in the day with QBasic because I had it, it was simple, and the help file was extremely easy to get around with a sample for everything. I think that is a real key to the beginning language, having the help files be as easy to deal with compared to really indepth manuals as the programming language itself is easy to program compared to more robust and capable languages.
The company I work for is a not-for-profit organization that has over a thousand employees spread around a handful of offices with an Exchange server for email. Users have a 120meg limit by default. Some, like graphic designers, need more and are given it but for the majority of users, a personal Outlook file is kept on one of the local office servers and users are instructed on how to drag and drop batches of files from the exchange folders to the personal folders stored on the local server. These folders obviously aren't available to them via Outlook Web Access but I actually get extremely few complaints about the setup. A full server restore takes about 5.5 hours I believe.
Its interesting to see their brand of humor applied to a video game. Its almost like they were making an anti-game. 2 minute pointless videos when you pause, an 8 hour trip in a straight line across the desert, Debbie Harry behind every shop counter...
Can't wait to try it out.
Precisely. Personally, I'd be more pissed at Apple. HDCP isn't in the mix yet and last I checked their 30" studio monitors don't have HDCP. I guess you could get a dell 30" flat panel instead though...those have HDCP. Ehh, it probably doesn't matter. They'll just end up changing the standard before they start using it and outdate everything on the market...for kicks.
I set up a computer lab for a school that had a single server (dual P3 1ghz, 2gb Ram) plus 12 P2-233 desktops with 128MB ram, using LTSP with K12Linux. I admit I am a fan of Windows 2000 because of its versatile and low requirements, but the performance out of those P2 233s plus the single good (although extremely outdated) server was phenomenal.
And also, honestly, it didn't make a difference to the kids what OS it was. They were all in the 4-7th grade range. When I was in that range, we were learning on Apple IIe's. I graduated from college in 2003 to enter the workplace and boy had a lot changed. Despite the incredible amount of change that occurred, I think myself and my classmates still benefited from that original work on the ancient computers with totally different interfaces from modern computers. And the same goes for using a Linux distro on an education computer. Its all going to change in a couple of years anyway. Does it make much difference whether they use a 100% standard MS layout for the apps now?
I am saddened by how many of those I owned. Turbo Touch 360 I got for free. Atari 5200 the `rents paid for. U-Force I bought of my own free will -_-, Sega Activator I ended up having, not sure why.
I was young and inexperienced, I thought "Hey, they're just controllers that are a little different, how bad can they be?" How wrong I was.
For the record I also had the NeGCon, an NES controller that looked like motorcycle handle bars (that one was actually pretty comfy), a PSX one that looked like a Battarang (best controller ever), the Super Scope (which kind of rocked). Hell, I even had the Odyssey (but not until like 1986 because my uncle was one of the designers and they found a bunch in a closet somewhere). Its controllers were barely classifiable as controllers. I felt like I was sharpening pencils.
Ahh the memories. I definately learned to stay clear of those oddball controllers. So, anybody heard any news on the Revolution or PS3 o.O?
I'm pretty sure they could do it, but why not make as much as possible in house if you can? They aren't a bunch of idealistic programmers communing to build a better tomorrow. They are a company that, successfully, makes a lot of money. When I am making money by the truckload, I am pretty certain I will ignore the complaints of small foundations telling me I need to adhere to their standards when they only have a small market share.
Well, I guess that rant was mostly about browsers, because thats where I usually see complaints. Active Directory and WMP though? This is getting down right stupid. Next people will sue them because they bundle Explorer with windows.
"We should be able to choose Litestep or BlackBox instead of Explorer when we install Windows! Boo! Why doesn't M$ make everything open and standard? That has to make it better right?"
Thank you that was helpful.
And to boot I just went through and converted the 2d fighting game I was making over so the AI runs in a different thread then the graphics (I use a neural network to analyze movements for a more reactive computer opponent) thanks to the built in threading tools of Allegro. I think I'll stick with this one.
I've used Allegro in the past but I am a n00b and was wondering how Allegro compares to things like SDL. I've had people tell me to try out SDL instead but can't really find a good reason to. Is it supposed to be more powerful or something? Or more compatible? Or do people just like it more?
Opera uses disk cache and ram cache. It uses as much ram cache as it can for the speed benefit, and on older systems with less memory it tones down the ram cache usage to avoid stepping on toes. In any case how much disk and ram cache it uses can both be controlled manually from the preferences. Ram is set to auto by default meaning it will take a percentage of the free memory for itself. On my 1gb system it tends to use about 90-120megs of ram if I've been browsing for a while, but it does keep a cap even on that system so it never gets so large that it gets bogged down. Then on systems like the one I am on right now that has 128mb ram, it relies mostly on disk cache and doesn't really suffer any hits in performance for it.
Have you tried setting a limit on the memory cache in the preferences? Its set to automatic by default so by default it'll go pretty crazy. It still won't slow down though, even on systems like the 128MB ram one I am on now. The 10 tabs with long histories in each don't seem to affect performance.
Donkey Kong Country for SNES. Mmmmm that game was too good. And the first SNES game I know of to use the scanline trick to push the max on screen colors from 256 to 4096.