This doesn't really matter you know, especially with circumstances like realplayer using >50% cpu for a realmedia file in fullscreen while mplayer using 5%. Mplayer is simply superior technology and that's about it.
another interpreted language... i think i had quite enough of this scripting and bytecode stuff why don't they develop a compiler capable of generating native code? (thus getting faster code and smaller memory consumption?)
The removal of the keyboard text entry widget is a crime... typing the first few letters of a filename/directory and then pressing tab is -MUCH- faster than pointing and clicking (especially if you have to scroll).
I tried to use Linux as my desktop for almost an entire year. I spent more time updating libraries and patching my system then I spent using the thing. And for what? Just to use a GUI that is looking more and more like Windows 95?
I really wish that people like you actually spent some time on checking out linux's alternative desktops, and learning them. They won't look like Windows 95; yes, they will be hard to begin with; but then, your desktop experience will easily be better than either windoze or that macos thing.
The keyword here is study. One can use common people's desktops right away, there is little or nothing to familiarize oneself with; good ones, however, take effort.
When was the last time anyone used the shitty little embedded speaker in a monitor? Why do they consider now that little tweeter an unseparable part of a computer display?
He gives the Free software community a bad name, and with him on the forefront, Free software will never be part of corporate america (which is becoming more and more synonymous with America itself.)
Thank god for that. I would never want anything to become a part of corporate America, especially not free software...
Using a method like this, you can't possibly divine the quality of a product (an album in this case). You might be able to obtain some information on popularity, but as we know, nothing is more unrelated than how much the public likes a thing and how good the thing really is.
Well, he's right in one thing. I do believe copyrights should be eliminated... or at least seriously shortened (something like at most 15 years would work out).
Since static memory sticks have no problems with random access, it doesn't make sense to use traditional filesystems which were designed to minimize seek latency involving mechanical components.
That's true, but my USB drive is also an mp3 player (I have a Creative Nomad MuVo). I'm pretty sure that it can only read FAT. And what about digital cameras? This MS move can seriously jeopardize Linux hardware compatibility. I'm worried.
Funny that I don't get this sort of problems... I use 1600x1200 on a 19" monitor as well (and 1024x768 on 17" as a secondary display). Of course I use an increased font size, both with GTK2 (set in gnome-control-center - no distorted widgets, everything looks perfect), and the web browser, which is Galeon (also, everything looks good). Heck, even Japanese text looks fine in any font size. (The fact that I don't use bitmap fonts (except for my programming terminal w/ vim) might make a difference though...)
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In my experience, the only people who bash the shell (no pun intended) or especially make are the people who don't seriously grok them. Who know them to their fullest, learn to appreciate them as well...
like I said, without a gui and multiple windows maybe vi is the best, but now it's old and shit.
try vim. i would've never believed it myself, but after giving in and trying it out, i found it to be the freaking best text editor ever (that is, for programming purposes). it's not exactly intuitive, but if you are a fast touch typist, have some intuition and a sense of adventure, you can do anything vit vim at least two times faster.
of course, it also has multiple files/windows support.
If you have a linux-based gateway, or just a linux machine on the same unswitched ethernet, you can test this with a program called "driftnet" (it switches the network card to promiscuous mode and displays all images it receives). Start it up, then open an e-mail that contains images for the first time with Outlook, and see what happens.
This means that by default, my primary monitor does 1600x1200 and the secondary 1024x768; when something requests a resolution switch to 1024x768 or 640x480, the second monitor is turned off and the picture is centered on the first one. (This is an nVidia-specific option, of course. RTF nVidia doc file, there are lots of other useful options, too.)
The DVI output is always the first display though.
Plus as a matter of fact, Jabber does support the shows-when-the-other-party-types feature. It has worked for me for months - how the hell can people be granted patents when such prior art exists??
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That might be true; in fact, I used Visual Studio myself and it wasn't all bad. I don't exactly like Java either.
However, what you say is no excuse for using and especially developing for anything that's even remotely related to Microsoft and it's closed-in, proprietary platform! Openness and portability are the most important things, and even more so these days. That means you shouldn't ever use.NET or anything such, even if the open alternatives are inferior. (IMHO. That doesn't mean it's not true though.)
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This doesn't really matter you know, especially with circumstances like realplayer using >50% cpu for a realmedia file in fullscreen while mplayer using 5%. Mplayer is simply superior technology and that's about it.
This doesn't change that vim (as opposed to vi) is one of the most powerful programmer's editors available, and it's very widely used too..
The 'moc' tool even brings extra features to C++ that normally don't exist.
This of course also means total unportability.
Not to mention GTK, which has the advantage of not having to muck about with OO when there's no need for it.
Unfortately, it's that "You've gotta type a command to do that!" mentality that keeps average desktop users away.
yes. many people fail to recognise that as a good thing...
another interpreted language... i think i had quite enough of this scripting and bytecode stuff
why don't they develop a compiler capable of generating native code? (thus getting faster code and smaller memory consumption?)
The removal of the keyboard text entry widget is a crime... typing the first few letters of a filename/directory and then pressing tab is -MUCH- faster than pointing and clicking (especially if you have to scroll).
Not a good move.
I tried to use Linux as my desktop for almost an entire year. I spent more time updating libraries and patching my system then I spent using the thing. And for what? Just to use a GUI that is looking more and more like Windows 95?
I really wish that people like you actually spent some time on checking out linux's alternative desktops, and learning them. They won't look like Windows 95; yes, they will be hard to begin with; but then, your desktop experience will easily be better than either windoze or that macos thing.
The keyword here is study. One can use common people's desktops right away, there is little or nothing to familiarize oneself with; good ones, however, take effort.
(which could add support for named buffers)
That's an excellent idea! With an appropriate extension to vim (interfacing it with these buffers), it would be like the desktop of dreams.
When was the last time anyone used the shitty little embedded speaker in a monitor? Why do they consider now that little tweeter an unseparable part of a computer display?
Anyone else noticed that pro-gnome posts tend to get moderated Troll but pro-kde ones always get Insightful? Pray, why does this happen?
let's burn karma
He gives the Free software community a bad name, and with him on the forefront, Free software will never be part of corporate america (which is becoming more and more synonymous with America itself.)
Thank god for that. I would never want anything to become a part of corporate America, especially not free software...
Using a method like this, you can't possibly divine the quality of a product (an album in this case). You might be able to obtain some information on popularity, but as we know, nothing is more unrelated than how much the public likes a thing and how good the thing really is.
We can only hope that the Hollywood studios will be losers (would any of the possible configurations happen).
Well, he's right in one thing. I do believe copyrights should be eliminated... or at least seriously shortened (something like at most 15 years would work out).
That's true, but my USB drive is also an mp3 player (I have a Creative Nomad MuVo). I'm pretty sure that it can only read FAT. And what about digital cameras?
This MS move can seriously jeopardize Linux hardware compatibility. I'm worried.
Funny that I don't get this sort of problems... I use 1600x1200 on a 19" monitor as well (and 1024x768 on 17" as a secondary display). Of course I use an increased font size, both with GTK2 (set in gnome-control-center - no distorted widgets, everything looks perfect), and the web browser, which is Galeon (also, everything looks good). Heck, even Japanese text looks fine in any font size. (The fact that I don't use bitmap fonts (except for my programming terminal w/ vim) might make a difference though...)
In my experience, the only people who bash the shell (no pun intended) or especially make are the people who don't seriously grok them. Who know them to their fullest, learn to appreciate them as well...
People should really learn to author HTML with vim. (Knowledge of the HTML syntax itself is of course essential in this day and age.)
like I said, without a gui and multiple windows maybe vi is the best, but now it's old and shit.
try vim. i would've never believed it myself, but after giving in and trying it out, i found it to be the freaking best text editor ever (that is, for programming purposes). it's not exactly intuitive, but if you are a fast touch typist, have some intuition and a sense of adventure, you can do anything vit vim at least two times faster.
of course, it also has multiple files/windows support.
If you have a linux-based gateway, or just a linux machine on the same unswitched ethernet, you can test this with a program called "driftnet" (it switches the network card to promiscuous mode and displays all images it receives). Start it up, then open an e-mail that contains images for the first time with Outlook, and see what happens.
That's what "MetaModes" are for in your XF86Config file. I have the following line in my "Device" section:
Option "MetaModes" "1600x1200,1024x768;1024x768,;640x480,"
This means that by default, my primary monitor does 1600x1200 and the secondary 1024x768; when something requests a resolution switch to 1024x768 or 640x480, the second monitor is turned off and the picture is centered on the first one. (This is an nVidia-specific option, of course. RTF nVidia doc file, there are lots of other useful options, too.)
The DVI output is always the first display though.
Plus as a matter of fact, Jabber does support the shows-when-the-other-party-types feature. It has worked for me for months - how the hell can people be granted patents when such prior art exists??
However, what you say is no excuse for using and especially developing for anything that's even remotely related to Microsoft and it's closed-in, proprietary platform! Openness and portability are the most important things, and even more so these days. That means you shouldn't ever use