These are always a double-edged sword. When releasing accurate details, you help administrators to secure their servers, but at the same time you give attackers more information to help them conduct their attack.
Opening a window and setting up rendering context in DirectX makes my head hurt every time. You always need a hundred line boilerplate for that. OpenGL combined with SDL or SFML it's usually something like under ten lines.
Please describe calmly and accurately what kind of problems have you experienced with Intel HD Graphics hardware. They have stable and accurate DirectX and OpenGL support, run shaders properly, work great on all operating systems, and have good performance per watt. For a PC, right now they are probably the best integrated graphics solution.
What a monster. Let's make an experiment where we put this Dr. Rebecca Roache behind bars in a normal fashion for just 1 year without any fancy drugs, and she'd be surprised how long and uncomfortable even that time will feel.
Staying up all night drinking? If in hindsight it still seems smart, you may have brain damage...
Tell me about it. By pulling a beer binge 1-2 times a week I got a nasty brain fog and couldn't think clearly during challenging tasks anymore (programming, schoolwork, etc). Also alcohol wrecks the quality of sleep, making the problem worse. Finally been able to curb that stupid addiction.
but damn, was it fun? I'm asking.
Yeah, there's always many sides to these things. It's really whether you ask from a doctor or a philosopher. Drinking can indeed be fun and relaxing too. And the truck driver gets his income by pulling the crazy all-nighters.
I hope everyone could gain as clear mind as possible.
I have also noticed that mild sleep deprivation (sleeping for only 6 hours for example) can temporarily make me feel better if I have been feeling a bit "moody" lately.
There are some nice and clean themes for KDE/GNOME, but the theming system in both seems a bit lacking in flexibility. All the themes look kind of the same but with different colors.
Back in 1999 Linux desktops were horrible mismashes of different widgets and applications that didn't fit together, but the window title bars had beautiful pixel art vines running on them and stuff like that. That was fun, I miss those parts.
Interesting. Then the people complaining about Wayland missing remote support should actually be fine? RDP seems to be able to forward windows of individual applications.
It allows more direct access to application framebuffers, prevents tearing and, allows booting to a graphics mode early on and from there a smooth transition to desktop. As a downside, it does not allow applications to be displayed on a remote desktop and for example VNC has to be used instead.
I do not understand why open source projects are so eager to stay on 0.x version numbers even when the software is perfectly usable and polished. It just unnecessarily gives them an image of an unfinished or beta quality software. E17 could as well be 17.0 instead of 0.17, and for a while E19 could be "19.0 beta".
There is also a Wayland distro called Rebecca Black OS. Although when I tested it last time, it was super glitchy and crashed all the time. It has been recently updated so it might be worth another shot.
Anyway, great to see the Wayland stuff rolling in.
Funny. It would seem IBM has no problem with their DB/2 UDB releases, which run on every version of Linux I've thrown them at over the past 5-6 years. Sure you have to install some optional modules on some platforms, but how much more complex do you get than a database server?
Actually server apps are easy. Well, of course they can be very complex, but they don't necessarily need that many fancy interfaces like games do. What do you need for a server... a TCP/IP stack, a network card driver, a disk driver, a simple terminal for administration... other than that, it is just running lots of standard CPU code.
This is also why Linux works so well on servers, but has still some rough edges on the desktop.
"3D hardware acceleration" on linux may mean any of slowness, glitches, instability, overheating, high CPU usage. e.g. folks with a Radeon 4000 series graphics card encounter problems with the 3D accelerated desktops (Gnome 3, Cinnamon).
I have similar experiences with newer low-end Radeons (6290 and 6320). Even the basic desktop effects are choppy. Not to speak of games: for example Half-Life 2 has terrible frame rate. Both the open source and fglrx drivers are kind of crappy.
I learned to program in a very simple fashion, write a script and work your way to the desired outcome in a straight forward logical way. If I needed to save or reuse code, I created include files with functions. I could program my way through any problem, with limited bugs, but I never learned to use a framework or write modular, DRY code. Flash forward to today, there are hundreds of frameworks and thousands of online tutorials, but I just can't seem to take the tutorials and grasp the concepts and utilize them in a practical manner.
I can see where the problem is. You just have to accept that everything is million times more complex than when you started. The new big frameworks and sophisticated build systems are going nowhere. You are were used to writing relatively simple programs. Today you need some serious grit to get through projects.
Become the next revolutionary zuckerberg and start a DRM-free online store for movies. Download it, keep it forever. Of course you wouldn't initially be able to slice deals with the big movie companies, but start with indie and semi-indie stuff. The big ones will follow as they see that the concept is working. DRM-free works for GOG just fine, why not also for movies?
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These are always a double-edged sword. When releasing accurate details, you help administrators to secure their servers, but at the same time you give attackers more information to help them conduct their attack.
Opening a window and setting up rendering context in DirectX makes my head hurt every time. You always need a hundred line boilerplate for that. OpenGL combined with SDL or SFML it's usually something like under ten lines.
Indeed, Quake 3 Arena is a smokin' game.
It's not a fake commercial. It's a real commercial. They just made it without having been asked or paid.
"Unofficial commercial" would be a good term.
So I'm doing it wrong when running on the field with a notebook and calculator?
Please describe calmly and accurately what kind of problems have you experienced with Intel HD Graphics hardware. They have stable and accurate DirectX and OpenGL support, run shaders properly, work great on all operating systems, and have good performance per watt. For a PC, right now they are probably the best integrated graphics solution.
There surely is no shortage of angry ACs today.
It's not a psychological effect but a very well-known convention that the major version number 0 is reserved for beta releases.
Yes, it would make a difference. Any other questions?
What a monster. Let's make an experiment where we put this Dr. Rebecca Roache behind bars in a normal fashion for just 1 year without any fancy drugs, and she'd be surprised how long and uncomfortable even that time will feel.
What?
Staying up all night drinking? If in hindsight it still seems smart, you may have brain damage...
Tell me about it. By pulling a beer binge 1-2 times a week I got a nasty brain fog and couldn't think clearly during challenging tasks anymore (programming, schoolwork, etc). Also alcohol wrecks the quality of sleep, making the problem worse. Finally been able to curb that stupid addiction.
but damn, was it fun? I'm asking.
Yeah, there's always many sides to these things. It's really whether you ask from a doctor or a philosopher. Drinking can indeed be fun and relaxing too. And the truck driver gets his income by pulling the crazy all-nighters.
I hope everyone could gain as clear mind as possible.
I have also noticed that mild sleep deprivation (sleeping for only 6 hours for example) can temporarily make me feel better if I have been feeling a bit "moody" lately.
What I'm not getting - what does Enlightenment offer that the others don't do better?
Cool window decorations!
There are some nice and clean themes for KDE/GNOME, but the theming system in both seems a bit lacking in flexibility. All the themes look kind of the same but with different colors.
Back in 1999 Linux desktops were horrible mismashes of different widgets and applications that didn't fit together, but the window title bars had beautiful pixel art vines running on them and stuff like that. That was fun, I miss those parts.
Interesting. Then the people complaining about Wayland missing remote support should actually be fine? RDP seems to be able to forward windows of individual applications.
Agreed, YY.M would work great for Chrome and Firefox, as they both are mostly about incrementally improving the browser.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that there is also Maui Project.
I haven't heard of any remote Wayland solution coming.
It allows more direct access to application framebuffers, prevents tearing and, allows booting to a graphics mode early on and from there a smooth transition to desktop. As a downside, it does not allow applications to be displayed on a remote desktop and for example VNC has to be used instead.
I do not understand why open source projects are so eager to stay on 0.x version numbers even when the software is perfectly usable and polished. It just unnecessarily gives them an image of an unfinished or beta quality software. E17 could as well be 17.0 instead of 0.17, and for a while E19 could be "19.0 beta".
There is also a Wayland distro called Rebecca Black OS. Although when I tested it last time, it was super glitchy and crashed all the time. It has been recently updated so it might be worth another shot.
Anyway, great to see the Wayland stuff rolling in.
Funny. It would seem IBM has no problem with their DB/2 UDB releases, which run on every version of Linux I've thrown them at over the past 5-6 years. Sure you have to install some optional modules on some platforms, but how much more complex do you get than a database server?
Actually server apps are easy. Well, of course they can be very complex, but they don't necessarily need that many fancy interfaces like games do. What do you need for a server... a TCP/IP stack, a network card driver, a disk driver, a simple terminal for administration ... other than that, it is just running lots of standard CPU code.
This is also why Linux works so well on servers, but has still some rough edges on the desktop.
"3D hardware acceleration" on linux may mean any of slowness, glitches, instability, overheating, high CPU usage. e.g. folks with a Radeon 4000 series graphics card encounter problems with the 3D accelerated desktops (Gnome 3, Cinnamon).
I have similar experiences with newer low-end Radeons (6290 and 6320). Even the basic desktop effects are choppy. Not to speak of games: for example Half-Life 2 has terrible frame rate. Both the open source and fglrx drivers are kind of crappy.
I learned to program in a very simple fashion, write a script and work your way to the desired outcome in a straight forward logical way. If I needed to save or reuse code, I created include files with functions. I could program my way through any problem, with limited bugs, but I never learned to use a framework or write modular, DRY code. Flash forward to today, there are hundreds of frameworks and thousands of online tutorials, but I just can't seem to take the tutorials and grasp the concepts and utilize them in a practical manner.
I can see where the problem is. You just have to accept that everything is million times more complex than when you started. The new big frameworks and sophisticated build systems are going nowhere. You are were used to writing relatively simple programs. Today you need some serious grit to get through projects.
Become the next revolutionary zuckerberg and start a DRM-free online store for movies. Download it, keep it forever. Of course you wouldn't initially be able to slice deals with the big movie companies, but start with indie and semi-indie stuff. The big ones will follow as they see that the concept is working. DRM-free works for GOG just fine, why not also for movies?