Have you tried Exaile yet? Exaile is a music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python, uses about 100 MiB resident memory with my ~8500 song library and a bunch of loaded plugins. It's surprisingly fast despite being a Python program. The UI closely resembles the old Amarak 1.x series although it carries less eye candy which you probably like as a GNOME user.
My other favorite for older systems or a laptop running on batteries is ncmpcpp, an ncurses based MPD client written in C++, similar to ncmpc but with a bunch of nice extra features like a flexible search form. Also, the name ncmpcpp has to be the pinnacle of FOSS marketing & branding! That name basically melts on your tongue!
Some sicko tied up a cat's tail to his car and dragged it to death. I'm usually not a violent person but I still feel the urge to beat up that low-life badly, years after it happened.
Some free mail providers have been offering HTTPS for a long time, for example the Russian https://www.pochta.ru/ . Their web mail interface is decent too. Unfortunately they've been bought out by or merged with "qip" and have dropped their English language option since. It's still usable though and a good option if you need a free mail account with secure authentication outside of the western countries for some reason.
Some users insist that there's no way for consumers to get affordable native IPv6 at home. Consider this: http://www.sixxs.net/faq/connectivity/?faq=native You can get native IPv6 DSL almost anywhere in Germany. I'm going to switch soon as well. Also more and more data centers provide native IPv6 at no additional cost as well because they're actually running out of IPv4 addresses already.
You don't need to access external DNS servers directly for IP-over-DNS to work. As long as your internal DNS server doesn't block your domain and acts according to the RFCs, the tunnel would still work.
Do you allow DNS on your network? OpenVPN-over-UDP-over-IP-over-DNS isn't lightning fast but it does the job most of the time. It's a neat way to (ab)use commercial WiFi hotspots too. You can't stop a determined power user except maybe with a whitelist of a small set of whitelisted remote hosts.
Edit: For those who doubt that you can notice such small delays, try this: - Connect an electronic instrument to your computer and artificially delay the audio by 30 ms. - Try to play accurately - ??? - No profit.
I also strongly doubt that any kind of game on this platform can be enjoyed by people who are sensitive to input latency. For example my old high quality PVA TFT panel used an overdrive circuit to reduce ghosting. The overdrive logic in TFT panels usually buffers about 1 or 2 full frames to analyze and optimize the pixel voltages which leads to about 20-50ms input latency. I for one already notice it when I just work to the point where it annoys me when the desktop or terminal sessions somehow always feel sluggish, let alone fast 3D games.
I can't imagine that the complete round-trip time for sending my input over the internet, waiting for a frame to be rendered and encoded remotely, sent back over the internet, decoded and displayed locally would be less than 20ms and then you'd still have the latency of your display. It might be bearable with a very fast internet connection and a CRT display which has 0ms input latency.
Maybe others aren't that sensitive to latency and can enjoy at least slower games like turn-based strategy with this service. Good for them.
I curse Slashdot's handling of unicode... It's Stanislav Lem with a "Unicode Character 'LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH STROKE' (U+0142)" in his first name...
As Stanisav Lem said (loosely translated): My suspenders are intelligent! They adapt themselves to the size of their user. Everything is intelligent today!
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
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1. Design crippled file system (8.3 filenames)
2. "Invent" "ingenious" fix that fixes the aforementioned flaw somewhat (long filenames)
3. Patent & license. Win.
No "???" here. Only "WTF" and where is our society heading?
Aye... and who needs Windows in a world without walls?
Some people don't want Site B to show their content
So they block the HTTP referrer of Site B.
Have you tried Exaile yet? Exaile is a music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python, uses about 100 MiB resident memory with my ~8500 song library and a bunch of loaded plugins. It's surprisingly fast despite being a Python program. The UI closely resembles the old Amarak 1.x series although it carries less eye candy which you probably like as a GNOME user.
My other favorite for older systems or a laptop running on batteries is ncmpcpp, an ncurses based MPD client written in C++, similar to ncmpc but with a bunch of nice extra features like a flexible search form. Also, the name ncmpcpp has to be the pinnacle of FOSS marketing & branding! That name basically melts on your tongue!
Unfortunately many gamers seem to be not very persistent with their boycots ;)
can afford to eat so much junk food that they're FAT.
That's a weak argument because junk food is usually cheaper than healthy food.
Some sicko tied up a cat's tail to his car and dragged it to death. I'm usually not a violent person but I still feel the urge to beat up that low-life badly, years after it happened.
Believe me, you are better off without it.
Adobe Flash will die rather sooner than later and it won't be missed. Now if only all browser vendors could agree on a video codec for HTML5.
One of the mentioned calculators has a pretty usable CLI though: "Qalculate!" - a great calculator for dealing with units, especially currencies.
Example:
> sphere(2 furlong) * (1.293 g/m^3) to kilogram
approx. 352739.273 kg
emacs and VIM are capable of using spell-checking only in comments:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Spelling.html
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.editors/2008-09/msg00049.html
It would probably just buy 15 years plus another "5 and we're fucked". It would only delay the situation.
What would be the benefit of a stable binary kernel interface except the possibility to use proprietary drivers that nobody
wants anyway?
It's sickening how some feel entitled about this. The next step is demanding their money back.
+5 insightful to you, mate.
Some free mail providers have been offering HTTPS for a long time, for example the Russian https://www.pochta.ru/ . Their web mail interface is decent too. Unfortunately they've been bought out by or merged with "qip" and have dropped their English language option since. It's still usable though and a good option if you need a free mail account with secure authentication outside of the western countries for some reason.
Some users insist that there's no way for consumers to get affordable native IPv6 at home. Consider this: http://www.sixxs.net/faq/connectivity/?faq=native
You can get native IPv6 DSL almost anywhere in Germany. I'm going to switch soon as well. Also more and more data centers provide native IPv6 at no additional cost as well because they're actually running out of IPv4 addresses already.
You don't need to access external DNS servers directly for IP-over-DNS to work. As long as your internal DNS server doesn't block your domain and acts according to the RFCs, the tunnel would still work.
Do you allow DNS on your network? OpenVPN-over-UDP-over-IP-over-DNS isn't lightning fast but it does the job most of the time. It's a neat way to (ab)use commercial WiFi hotspots too. You can't stop a determined power user except maybe with a whitelist of a small set of whitelisted remote hosts.
The suggested fix is just silly... They postpone the problem to 2020-01-01:
3) change '/20[1-9][0-9]/' to '/20[2-9][0-9]/'
Edit: For those who doubt that you can notice such small delays, try this:
- Connect an electronic instrument to your computer and artificially delay the audio by 30 ms.
- Try to play accurately
- ???
- No profit.
I also strongly doubt that any kind of game on this platform can be enjoyed by people who are sensitive to input latency. For example my old high quality PVA TFT panel used an overdrive circuit to reduce ghosting. The overdrive logic in TFT panels usually buffers about 1 or 2 full frames to analyze and optimize the pixel voltages which leads to about 20-50ms input latency. I for one already notice it when I just work to the point where it annoys me when the desktop or terminal sessions somehow always feel sluggish, let alone fast 3D games.
I can't imagine that the complete round-trip time for sending my input over the internet, waiting for a frame to be rendered and encoded remotely, sent back over the internet, decoded and displayed locally would be less than 20ms and then you'd still have the latency of your display. It might be bearable with a very fast internet connection and a CRT display which has 0ms input latency.
Maybe others aren't that sensitive to latency and can enjoy at least slower games like turn-based strategy with this service. Good for them.
Even if it's not the popular way to count currencies, it's certainly not a bad idea. How much is 1 billion again?
I curse Slashdot's handling of unicode... It's Stanislav Lem with a "Unicode Character 'LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH STROKE' (U+0142)" in his first name...
As Stanisav Lem said (loosely translated): My suspenders are intelligent! They adapt themselves to the size of their user. Everything is intelligent today!
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."