I don't know if it's anymore there, but along C drive residing in '~/.wine/drive_c/' Wine has defaulted to mapping Z to '/'. So for some extra protection be sure to remove that. And in this case, just remember to move all the installers and stuff in the virtual C drive before starting them.
It's still scary how some years ago Slashdot was all about opposing DRM, but when you have it in a nice enough package, all the concerns suddenly go out of window. (That said, still I think there are worse things in world than Steam.)
I also wonder what people 10 years ago would have thought about having a semi-public list of your friends online. "Way too personal, I would never disclose something like that..."
I see no value in it. If people want to get ahold of me, they can text, email, IM me. If they want to know what I'm up to, they can ask or check out my website for info.
There's the problem. People might perceive the methods you suggest so clunky that they might not ultimately contact you at all.
Now maybe you consider the service Facebook provides worth it, but I consider the cost of being on Facebook not worth any service.
I have to admit that I value the service that Facebook provides more than I worry about the (very real) privacy concerns. It's just so ubiquitous and therefore so powerful for reaching people. Sigh...
Well, CEO is just the CEO. What do we know about Windows project team leaders, key developers, etc? Decisions on that level must have also had a meaningful impact to awesomeness of Windows 7, suckiness of Windows 8, and other things.
New stuff is find. New stuff is great. New stuff is not the problem.
Throwing away or breaking the old stuff is the problem.
Looking back, an interesting choice would have been just to keep on polishing GNOME2 and KDE3. We might not have the latest whizbang desktop metaphor, but a very fast and solid basic desktop experience. Something like that might be much better showcase for desktop Linux rather than some slow, broken crap no one wants to use.
Now, of the current options, Unity and KDE4 look the most sane ones. A good general desktop and a good swiss army knife desktop. As you said, let's just not flush all this work down the toilet too soon, ok?
In the last 10 years, MS and Linux have switched places in the useability and maintenance aspects. Windows needs far more maintenence than previously, and more than Linux, and is far less useable than Linux. This is the opposite of the situation 10 years ago. Anyone who has used both OSes lately is aware of this.
On the other hand, Windows and Linux have changed roles as of Linux being now more buggy and slower than Windows.
But I agree, the driver support is actually pretty good in Linux these days. And you get a good bunch of usable software out of the box -- Windows just carries the same stupid barebones Notepad, Paint and Calculator, year after year.
Aside gaming, which is important, the parent brings up another important point. Many businesses would be interested if you got Linux to play very smoothly in the Office and Exchange ecosystem.
This has very little to do with displaying the image, it has a lot to do with reading the files, and unpacking them both of which hardware acceleration will not help with at all...?
I was about to say pretty much the same thing, but then thought that maybe the GPU would help in scaling the thumbnails.
Anyone who is still waiting for the "year of the Linux Desktop" will be waiting for a long time.
I don't know about that, but Ubuntu has clearly not sang its last song. With smooth and nice Wayland coming, Steam for games and, the slick Unity interface (yes, I like it, especially when it runs faster now), there's interesting times ahead for desktop Linux too.
One of my Simpsons favorite moments is the episode where Homer works from home, and just leaves a drinking bird to automatically hit 'Y' at every prompt of the power plant remote control terminal.
Actually an really environmental idea would be to have standard batteries and power supplys for laptops. Then all laptops would come without the AC/DC converter and, you could just reuse the one from your old one. It usually still works and could probably serve the new machine from a technical standpoint. You could have two variants, 50W and 100W, for different categories of laptops.
On a side note, does anyone know how many thunderbolt devices are actually available for consumer purchase at this point? Are any of them reasonably priced?
Currently only consumer-like product I was able to find is a Buffalo 1TB hard drive for about $230. The other Thunderbolt stuff is mostly studio gear: big hard drives, RAID enclosures and A/V interfaces.
Probably the stuff he needs is so specialized that it is not available out of the box in any phone. So it would be more like installing a bunch of James Bond gizmos in your brand new car.
There are indeed some Ask Slashdots (for example those that go on building some kind of datacenter at home) that overthink the problem, but I don't think this is one. The guy is just asking for some niceties to get alerts from the server room and extras for e-mail. A little bit of automation like that might actually make things smoother for him.
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I don't know if it's anymore there, but along C drive residing in '~/.wine/drive_c/' Wine has defaulted to mapping Z to '/'. So for some extra protection be sure to remove that. And in this case, just remember to move all the installers and stuff in the virtual C drive before starting them.
It's still scary how some years ago Slashdot was all about opposing DRM, but when you have it in a nice enough package, all the concerns suddenly go out of window. (That said, still I think there are worse things in world than Steam.)
But you probably have seen much more kickass commercial titles than open source ones?
I also wonder what people 10 years ago would have thought about having a semi-public list of your friends online. "Way too personal, I would never disclose something like that..."
I see no value in it. If people want to get ahold of me, they can text, email, IM me. If they want to know what I'm up to, they can ask or check out my website for info.
There's the problem. People might perceive the methods you suggest so clunky that they might not ultimately contact you at all.
Now maybe you consider the service Facebook provides worth it, but I consider the cost of being on Facebook not worth any service.
I have to admit that I value the service that Facebook provides more than I worry about the (very real) privacy concerns. It's just so ubiquitous and therefore so powerful for reaching people. Sigh...
And how many actually have contacts to sell that kind of stuff?
Well, CEO is just the CEO. What do we know about Windows project team leaders, key developers, etc? Decisions on that level must have also had a meaningful impact to awesomeness of Windows 7, suckiness of Windows 8, and other things.
I suppose you could wire it in /etc/acpi/lid.sh (or similar).
Then you just have to click it.
New stuff is find. New stuff is great. New stuff is not the problem.
Throwing away or breaking the old stuff is the problem.
Looking back, an interesting choice would have been just to keep on polishing GNOME2 and KDE3. We might not have the latest whizbang desktop metaphor, but a very fast and solid basic desktop experience. Something like that might be much better showcase for desktop Linux rather than some slow, broken crap no one wants to use.
Now, of the current options, Unity and KDE4 look the most sane ones. A good general desktop and a good swiss army knife desktop. As you said, let's just not flush all this work down the toilet too soon, ok?
Maybe Jolla provides some comfort.
In the last 10 years, MS and Linux have switched places in the useability and maintenance aspects. Windows needs far more maintenence than previously, and more than Linux, and is far less useable than Linux. This is the opposite of the situation 10 years ago. Anyone who has used both OSes lately is aware of this.
On the other hand, Windows and Linux have changed roles as of Linux being now more buggy and slower than Windows.
But I agree, the driver support is actually pretty good in Linux these days. And you get a good bunch of usable software out of the box -- Windows just carries the same stupid barebones Notepad, Paint and Calculator, year after year.
Aside gaming, which is important, the parent brings up another important point. Many businesses would be interested if you got Linux to play very smoothly in the Office and Exchange ecosystem.
Your neck might start to hurt using so tall display (especially if you are a 170cm mickeymouse like me).
This has very little to do with displaying the image, it has a lot to do with reading the files, and unpacking them both of which hardware acceleration will not help with at all ...?
I was about to say pretty much the same thing, but then thought that maybe the GPU would help in scaling the thumbnails.
Anyone who is still waiting for the "year of the Linux Desktop" will be waiting for a long time.
I don't know about that, but Ubuntu has clearly not sang its last song. With smooth and nice Wayland coming, Steam for games and, the slick Unity interface (yes, I like it, especially when it runs faster now), there's interesting times ahead for desktop Linux too.
One of my Simpsons favorite moments is the episode where Homer works from home, and just leaves a drinking bird to automatically hit 'Y' at every prompt of the power plant remote control terminal.
Actually an really environmental idea would be to have standard batteries and power supplys for laptops. Then all laptops would come without the AC/DC converter and, you could just reuse the one from your old one. It usually still works and could probably serve the new machine from a technical standpoint. You could have two variants, 50W and 100W, for different categories of laptops.
On a side note, does anyone know how many thunderbolt devices are actually available for consumer purchase at this point? Are any of them reasonably priced?
Currently only consumer-like product I was able to find is a Buffalo 1TB hard drive for about $230. The other Thunderbolt stuff is mostly studio gear: big hard drives, RAID enclosures and A/V interfaces.
What do you mean?
Don't know who the dumb fuck was going through modding all these posts down, but (s)he needs to have their head smacked.
As I noted yesterday, there seems to be some malicious modding going on here.
Probably the stuff he needs is so specialized that it is not available out of the box in any phone. So it would be more like installing a bunch of James Bond gizmos in your brand new car.
Oh yes. We at slashdot are so much smarter than the common pleb.
Give me a break. The only thing greater is the undeserved ego.
Nah. If you don't get too cocky about it, I think it's fine to be slightly proud to be a professional IT dude. ;)
some people over think everything, don't they?
There are indeed some Ask Slashdots (for example those that go on building some kind of datacenter at home) that overthink the problem, but I don't think this is one. The guy is just asking for some niceties to get alerts from the server room and extras for e-mail. A little bit of automation like that might actually make things smoother for him.