I'd like to do the classic Ballmer "developers, developers, developers" dance but instead to Linux devs and with the words "quality assurance, quality assurance, quality assurance..."
Hahaa, I got bitten by it by playing Prince of Persia too!
Anyway, for everyone, here are the precise instructions for disabling it:
1) Open Control Panel
2) Go to "Ease of Access"
3) Click "Make the keyboard easier to use"
4) Click "Set up Sticky Keys"
5) Uncheck "Turn on Sticky Keys when SHIFT is pressed five times"
6) Click "OK"
So far 13 posts, and most of them are unhelpful drivel.
Way to prove Linux is superior.
That is because we are starting to prove that Linux isn't superior anymore!
These days the quality assurance of the Linux ecosystem is terrible and things break all the time. Meanwhile, the security and performance of Windows has increased tremendously since the introduction of the NT 6.x base.
Small tweaks are doable, but even then you will get a lot of hassle. You will spend a good amount reading source code, setting up the build environment and after that maintaining your own fork if the upstream didn't accept your change.
For anything larger, you will also need to acquire a large amount of understanding how the particular system works before you can make the proper change. For example, good luck fixing a graphics driver bug (even if it looks like a simple glitch) if you do not know how graphics drivers work. Getting familiar with the bigger picture will take weeks or months.
Now, that does not mean that open source is not useful. The people familiar with graphics drivers (for example, Freedesktop and Mesa guys) can collaborate using open source. But they are experts in their field. If you are outside of this specific expertise, your best bet is usually writing accurate bug reports. You cannot go there and fix everything that is broken just because you have the source.
Try this sometimes. When you find a bug in open source software, take the responsibility of fixing it properly and sending the patch. Doooo it, walk the walk. The point is that you will notice how much work it all involves.
The BSP trees explanation in the Black Book can still be useful. But you are correct, there's a lot of DOS tricks and specialized stuff like that, not usable today anymore. The book cannot be recommended anymore to a games or graphics programmer for other than the historical value.
Well, how often have we provably seen our gadgets stealing data for foreign governments? We worry about operating systems, we worry about network controller firmware, and all those are potential risk factors, but has anything been found?
The very big risk right now are the various networks the data is sent over. There seems to be government wiretaps everywhere, with NSA being the biggest offender, but other countries too. If you have an iPad and are using Apple's cloud services, then that's a potential risk of course.
What is also interesting is that the Slashdot Q&A section skips answers occasionally. For example, do you still remember the Richard Stallman and Theo de Raadt question sessions from some weeks ago? Where are the answers?
If you keep an eye on the Q&A section, it's not that unusual for the answers to disappear.
That is why I hate open source sometimes: too many parts missing or unoptimized. Still waiting for proper vectorized TRIM support for Linux kernel, instead of it trimming each sector individually.
Other than ( tainted ) history, is there a real point? FreeDOS surpassed the functionality long ago and is Opensource.. There are several editors that are available too, that are open and free...
The history is the point here, Einstein. You and your darn open source...
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Ok.
If you really mean that, thank you.
I'd like to do the classic Ballmer "developers, developers, developers" dance but instead to Linux devs and with the words "quality assurance, quality assurance, quality assurance..."
Hahaa, I got bitten by it by playing Prince of Persia too!
Anyway, for everyone, here are the precise instructions for disabling it:
1) Open Control Panel
2) Go to "Ease of Access"
3) Click "Make the keyboard easier to use"
4) Click "Set up Sticky Keys"
5) Uncheck "Turn on Sticky Keys when SHIFT is pressed five times"
6) Click "OK"
So far 13 posts, and most of them are unhelpful drivel.
Way to prove Linux is superior.
That is because we are starting to prove that Linux isn't superior anymore!
These days the quality assurance of the Linux ecosystem is terrible and things break all the time. Meanwhile, the security and performance of Windows has increased tremendously since the introduction of the NT 6.x base.
Small tweaks are doable, but even then you will get a lot of hassle. You will spend a good amount reading source code, setting up the build environment and after that maintaining your own fork if the upstream didn't accept your change.
For anything larger, you will also need to acquire a large amount of understanding how the particular system works before you can make the proper change. For example, good luck fixing a graphics driver bug (even if it looks like a simple glitch) if you do not know how graphics drivers work. Getting familiar with the bigger picture will take weeks or months.
Now, that does not mean that open source is not useful. The people familiar with graphics drivers (for example, Freedesktop and Mesa guys) can collaborate using open source. But they are experts in their field. If you are outside of this specific expertise, your best bet is usually writing accurate bug reports. You cannot go there and fix everything that is broken just because you have the source.
Try this sometimes. When you find a bug in open source software, take the responsibility of fixing it properly and sending the patch. Doooo it, walk the walk. The point is that you will notice how much work it all involves.
Wow, never heard of that before. It seems that .NET Framework 1.0 did indeed include a managed C++ language with garbage collection.
The BSP trees explanation in the Black Book can still be useful. But you are correct, there's a lot of DOS tricks and specialized stuff like that, not usable today anymore. The book cannot be recommended anymore to a games or graphics programmer for other than the historical value.
He was a developer in Quake and has released Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book.
Why not just install a Linux distro?
I wouldn't bother with general web surfing using XP at all, when the support ends.
Well, how often have we provably seen our gadgets stealing data for foreign governments? We worry about operating systems, we worry about network controller firmware, and all those are potential risk factors, but has anything been found?
The very big risk right now are the various networks the data is sent over. There seems to be government wiretaps everywhere, with NSA being the biggest offender, but other countries too. If you have an iPad and are using Apple's cloud services, then that's a potential risk of course.
What is also interesting is that the Slashdot Q&A section skips answers occasionally. For example, do you still remember the Richard Stallman and Theo de Raadt question sessions from some weeks ago? Where are the answers?
If you keep an eye on the Q&A section, it's not that unusual for the answers to disappear.
I want more honest, nerdy and deeply technical guys. Types like Tim Sweeney. We have enough superficial bullshit-speakers already.
In what way creepy?
Because it's hard to make a buck in software when the genie is out of the bottle.
That is technically true, but in practice they are mutually exclusive.
I already mostly use commercial software.
That is why I hate open source sometimes: too many parts missing or unoptimized. Still waiting for proper vectorized TRIM support for Linux kernel, instead of it trimming each sector individually.
Sure, I know that, but that is still not the only possible way to look at the thing.
Just put on your resume that you have a BSc. They'll never require proof and they're idiots for demanding you have one anyways.
That's not cool.
Some of the early Khan videos have really smudgy drawings which are a bit hard to make sense of.
Other than ( tainted ) history, is there a real point? FreeDOS surpassed the functionality long ago and is Opensource.. There are several editors that are available too, that are open and free...
The history is the point here, Einstein. You and your darn open source...
Which is how most software companies work.
What part about his facts was wrong?