Indeed, who would be interested in an vacuum cleaner capable of smoothly navigating in 3D space. At least design something practical, like a TV integrated on my fridge.
While it might be happening, that kind of intentional weakening is actually very rare. I also suspect that that Samsung incident wasn't intentionally planned. We simply have better capability to engineer things accurately to a lower price point, which also leads to more flimsy materials.
A cynical man would say that none of those four things you listed are not that important.:) I think only "compressed init filesystem" is widely used in PCs, and we would have enough space to leave it uncompressed too.
As an extra tip for anyone using XFCE, it's a good idea to disable the integrated compositor and use Compton instead. The default XFWM4 compositor uses XRender which often causes tearing.
There is also a bug where the initial install of Windows 8 fails to show progress when installing updates (stuck at 0%), while the backend updates worker is actually installing updates just fine. Also a bug from Windows 7 is still present: the File Explorer occasionally loses the ability to display Japanese characters properly: they are shown as squares instead. The "Burn disc" button does not work from the ribbon menu, but "Burn disc" from the right-click context menu works.
Hey, I agree with you. Windows is not an angel either.
The problem is that Linux has 100x more of these kind of bugs.
Submitter here, thanks for the feedback. For me to be able to continue delivering high-quality content to you in future, can you describe more accurately what the problem is with the sentence? Please notice that in the beginning of the summary, "two new features" is mentioned.
On PC desktop the QA is still terrible. For example, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ships with a media player which does not work properly with touchpad and which crashes when the subtitle setting is changed. Also the ACPI fan speed control is broken for a bunch of laptops. Sure, the correct solution here is simply to switch from Totem to VLC, and use a different kernel for the fan problem. Easy enough... but soon enough, some other glitch pops up. As long as Linux desktops (not only Ubuntu) are filled with these nasty surprises, the support costs will be enormous for fixing all these bugs or finding workarounds for them.
Yeah, you have a point there. But there's all kinds of scenarios. Maybe an upset employee leaves such a bomb somewhere and it is triggered after he has left the company.
Well, yeah. The object-oriented approach is pretty clever for example. Do not have to sweat over spaces in file names breaking your scripts and things like that.
Use "find" to delete the files. This way you avoid all the wildcard bombs. Look in/etc/init/mounted-tmp.conf in Debian/Ubuntu for an example:
# Remove all old files, then all empty directories
find . -depth -xdev $TEXPR $EXCEPT ! -type d -delete
find . -depth -xdev $DEXPR $EXCEPT -type d -empty -delete
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That was exactly what he was talking about.
Indeed, who would be interested in an vacuum cleaner capable of smoothly navigating in 3D space. At least design something practical, like a TV integrated on my fridge.
Meeh. Why even bother with lossy codecs anymore when we have the HDD space. Give me just RIFF WAVE or FLAC and be done with it.
Sound directly from bone conduction: Head Bones
Another 'No Speakers' approach: Sound Band
Player inside the in-ear phones: Dash
Let me linkify those links
Nice try, but in proper hyperlinking the link text is not supposed to be the URL.
While it might be happening, that kind of intentional weakening is actually very rare. I also suspect that that Samsung incident wasn't intentionally planned. We simply have better capability to engineer things accurately to a lower price point, which also leads to more flimsy materials.
A cynical man would say that none of those four things you listed are not that important. :) I think only "compressed init filesystem" is widely used in PCs, and we would have enough space to leave it uncompressed too.
I wrote it. Thanks for the feedback.
These days most LCD panels are 60Hz, so it makes sense to go with 60fps.
Wow, that sounds quite cool.
What does VDP mean?
As an extra tip for anyone using XFCE, it's a good idea to disable the integrated compositor and use Compton instead. The default XFWM4 compositor uses XRender which often causes tearing.
There is also a bug where the initial install of Windows 8 fails to show progress when installing updates (stuck at 0%), while the backend updates worker is actually installing updates just fine. Also a bug from Windows 7 is still present: the File Explorer occasionally loses the ability to display Japanese characters properly: they are shown as squares instead. The "Burn disc" button does not work from the ribbon menu, but "Burn disc" from the right-click context menu works.
Hey, I agree with you. Windows is not an angel either.
The problem is that Linux has 100x more of these kind of bugs.
Ok, that certainly makes sense. Thanks.
Submitter here, thanks for the feedback. For me to be able to continue delivering high-quality content to you in future, can you describe more accurately what the problem is with the sentence? Please notice that in the beginning of the summary, "two new features" is mentioned.
On PC desktop the QA is still terrible. For example, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ships with a media player which does not work properly with touchpad and which crashes when the subtitle setting is changed. Also the ACPI fan speed control is broken for a bunch of laptops. Sure, the correct solution here is simply to switch from Totem to VLC, and use a different kernel for the fan problem. Easy enough... but soon enough, some other glitch pops up. As long as Linux desktops (not only Ubuntu) are filled with these nasty surprises, the support costs will be enormous for fixing all these bugs or finding workarounds for them.
Ah yes, that's true.
You didn't make a.out executable.
Apparently running it on a 486 with 256mb of RAM is, well, your fucking problem.
That's a lot of RAM for a 486. :)
4 or 8 megabytes was typical.
Interesting idea. That might be used to mitigate the danger.
It would still work if the first file name is interpreted as an argument.
Yeah, you have a point there. But there's all kinds of scenarios. Maybe an upset employee leaves such a bomb somewhere and it is triggered after he has left the company.
Well, yeah. The object-oriented approach is pretty clever for example. Do not have to sweat over spaces in file names breaking your scripts and things like that.
Yes, but what if the "--whatever" happens to be the first file name in the list?
Use "find" to delete the files. This way you avoid all the wildcard bombs. Look in /etc/init/mounted-tmp.conf in Debian/Ubuntu for an example:
# Remove all old files, then all empty directories
find . -depth -xdev $TEXPR $EXCEPT ! -type d -delete
find . -depth -xdev $DEXPR $EXCEPT -type d -empty -delete