I installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my new AMD64 laptop and tried to play some music. Aqualung (my preferred player) did not work properly with Pulse's ALSA emulation. For example, switching tracks caused a delay of several seconds. Next I tried to switch to Audacious, but it also behaved weirdly, and the sound quality was horrible. I also think I had problems with other applications.
Next, I got rid of pulseaudio and suddenly everything worked 100%. Just reading this thread shows that this is not an uncommon experience.
Conclusion: Pulseaudio is not ready to be installed by default on desktop systems.
Apparently, many (if not most) people occasionally recall events from past lives once they get to advanced stages of meditation. In the usual, confused state of mind, you can barely remember the events of previous day, so it's kind of reasonable that you don't recall past lives either. Unfortunately, hardly anyone has the inclination (or karma, if you will) to dedicate a significant portion of their lives to meditation. You don't realize how significant and life-changing the practice is, until after you've done it for a while.
Why is this act of vandalism being reported on Slashdot? The guy who did this is clearly disturbed, publicity is what he is seeking, and publicity will serve to do further damage to the people involved.
Yeah, it's too complicated. I've used Debian exclusively for almost 10 years at home and at work, and I have some experience with installing and configuring software. I tried to install MythTV two times and ran out of patience on both occasions. Last time, I was getting some weird errors from MySQL and the thing wouldn't run. I may be getting too old for this or something, but debugging a database server to watch TV is too much for me.
(I recently started using Klear because Kaffeine SIGSEGVs all the time. A GNOME app for DVB with tuning, deinterlacing and timed recording would be very nice.)
Next they will come up with BrowserShield Defender to protect the shield, then BrowserShield Defender Shield to protect the Defender, etc. Soon IE will be so heavily fortified that no malware can get through. Why didn't anyone think of this before?
Nuke Medina and Mecca? And this was modded "insightful"?
There are a lot of muslims reading Slashdot. Do you think that your comment will "promote an atmosphere where people do not want to attack us"?
Your comment alone will probably make quite a few people feel even more alienated and disgusted with Americans.
From the article:
"...an electronic device connected to headphones and strapped to a third student's body exploded, leaving a bleeding hole in his abdomen..."
Maybe he was applying to an EE program to become a designer of portable electronics. If that's the case, I think it's good that he failed his entrance examination.
I wonder if all the Compton gangstas will launch their own drones, equipped with fat sound systems, to shoot down the police drones? That would be interesting to watch from the ground, and a lot healthier than gunfights on the streets.
This seems to work beautifully. Tested on Debian etch, kernel 2.6.16, and NVidia QuadroFX 540. Tried it out for couple of hours, really fast and smooth, no crashes. Thanks Google!
Sony's real punishment comes in the form of antipathy from customers. Previously I didn't have anything against Sony. After this mess, merely seeing their logo makes me feel a bit sick. I definitely won't buy anything made by Sony in the near future (probably at least a few years), even if the product has nothing to do with their music division. Maybe ordinary people (non-Slashdot readers) don't feel quite as strongly about it, but even so, this incident will cost Sony a lot in terms of lost sales and damage to their corporate image.
interesting bit in the Gnome human interface guide
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Sensitivity to cultural and political issues is also an important consideration. Designing icons and sounds, and even choosing colors requires some understanding of the connotations they might have to a user from a different part of the world.
Examples of elements it is best to avoid for these reasons include:
[...]
Icons depicting only hands or feet
Now, I wonder what is that small icon in the upper left corner of my screen?
"Alpha waves" commonly mean electromagnetic brain activity that is produced in a relaxed state. Its frequency in EEG in around 10 Hz. I'm not sure how the player can "emit alpha waves". I don't think a 10 Hz sound produces any relaxation response or alpha waves in humans.
Yeah, and when the dynamic splash server gets hax0red, you will get a nice goatse-themed splash screen. Probably it will happen when you are trying to demonstrate the professional quality of open-source software to your boss.
why the EU has this kind of power over Microsoft? I thought that Microsoft is a U.S. based company that must obey U.S. laws.
Of course you have to obey the laws of the country you do business in. Let's say a hypothetical company in Fuckmenistan is allowed to kidnap and murder their competitors at will, according to Fuckmenistan's laws. Now are you saying that they should be able to do this in the U.S. too, because they are a "Fuckmenistan based company"?
A downside where it's even easier to create viruses and worms that cripple Windows, given an intimate knowledge of it's propritary inner workings.
Well, intimate knowledge of inner workings of Linux is available freely, but not many viruses and worms seem to be roaming around. Maybe more openness could be a good thing, if MS is willing to improve their products based on criticism? Also, this is probably not about the inner working of the OS, but communication protocols.
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I installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my new AMD64 laptop and tried to play some music. Aqualung (my preferred player) did not work properly with Pulse's ALSA emulation. For example, switching tracks caused a delay of several seconds. Next I tried to switch to Audacious, but it also behaved weirdly, and the sound quality was horrible. I also think I had problems with other applications. Next, I got rid of pulseaudio and suddenly everything worked 100%. Just reading this thread shows that this is not an uncommon experience. Conclusion: Pulseaudio is not ready to be installed by default on desktop systems.
Looks like it's gonna be one hell of a rig.
Apparently, many (if not most) people occasionally recall events from past lives once they get to advanced stages of meditation. In the usual, confused state of mind, you can barely remember the events of previous day, so it's kind of reasonable that you don't recall past lives either. Unfortunately, hardly anyone has the inclination (or karma, if you will) to dedicate a significant portion of their lives to meditation. You don't realize how significant and life-changing the practice is, until after you've done it for a while.
It would be more humane to nuke the offending student from orbit. The cost is probably about the same, taking lawsuits into account.
That blue flash is not due to Cherenkov radiation. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_accident for more information.
Why is this act of vandalism being reported on Slashdot? The guy who did this is clearly disturbed, publicity is what he is seeking, and publicity will serve to do further damage to the people involved.
Yeah, it's too complicated. I've used Debian exclusively for almost 10 years at home and at work, and I have some experience with installing and configuring software. I tried to install MythTV two times and ran out of patience on both occasions. Last time, I was getting some weird errors from MySQL and the thing wouldn't run. I may be getting too old for this or something, but debugging a database server to watch TV is too much for me.
(I recently started using Klear because Kaffeine SIGSEGVs all the time. A GNOME app for DVB with tuning, deinterlacing and timed recording would be very nice.)
Next they will come up with BrowserShield Defender to protect the shield, then BrowserShield Defender Shield to protect the Defender, etc. Soon IE will be so heavily fortified that no malware can get through. Why didn't anyone think of this before?
Nuke Medina and Mecca? And this was modded "insightful"?
There are a lot of muslims reading Slashdot. Do you think that your comment will "promote an atmosphere where people do not want to attack us"?
Your comment alone will probably make quite a few people feel even more alienated and disgusted with Americans.
From the article:
"...an electronic device connected to headphones and strapped to a third student's body exploded, leaving a bleeding hole in his abdomen..."
Maybe he was applying to an EE program to become a designer of portable electronics. If that's the case, I think it's good that he failed his entrance examination.
I wonder if all the Compton gangstas will launch their own drones, equipped with fat sound systems, to shoot down the police drones? That would be interesting to watch from the ground, and a lot healthier than gunfights on the streets.
This seems to work beautifully. Tested on Debian etch, kernel 2.6.16, and NVidia QuadroFX 540. Tried it out for couple of hours, really fast and smooth, no crashes. Thanks Google!
Sony's real punishment comes in the form of antipathy from customers. Previously I didn't have anything against Sony. After this mess, merely seeing their logo makes me feel a bit sick. I definitely won't buy anything made by Sony in the near future (probably at least a few years), even if the product has nothing to do with their music division. Maybe ordinary people (non-Slashdot readers) don't feel quite as strongly about it, but even so, this incident will cost Sony a lot in terms of lost sales and damage to their corporate image.
Sensitivity to cultural and political issues is also an important consideration. Designing icons and sounds, and even choosing colors requires some understanding of the connotations they might have to a user from a different part of the world.
Examples of elements it is best to avoid for these reasons include:
[...]
Now, I wonder what is that small icon in the upper left corner of my screen?
if enemy.shot_down
cockpit_announce("Top Gun!");
kill_count += 1;
if kill_count > 5
cockpit_announce("Killing Spree!");
end
end
that the sharks will welcome their new remote-controlling human overlords.
"Alpha waves" commonly mean electromagnetic brain activity that is produced in a relaxed state. Its frequency in EEG in around 10 Hz. I'm not sure how the player can "emit alpha waves". I don't think a 10 Hz sound produces any relaxation response or alpha waves in humans.
Yeah, and when the dynamic splash server gets hax0red, you will get a nice goatse-themed splash screen. Probably it will happen when you are trying to demonstrate the professional quality of open-source software to your boss.
What about a non-action-adventure called "Slashbot Chronicles"? It would feature a young man with mild OCD and his giant online ego. No girls though.
why the EU has this kind of power over Microsoft? I thought that Microsoft is a U.S. based company that must obey U.S. laws.
Of course you have to obey the laws of the country you do business in. Let's say a hypothetical company in Fuckmenistan is allowed to kidnap and murder their competitors at will, according to Fuckmenistan's laws. Now are you saying that they should be able to do this in the U.S. too, because they are a "Fuckmenistan based company"?
A downside where it's even easier to create viruses and worms that cripple Windows, given an intimate knowledge of it's propritary inner workings.
Well, intimate knowledge of inner workings of Linux is available freely, but not many viruses and worms seem to be roaming around. Maybe more openness could be a good thing, if MS is willing to improve their products based on criticism? Also, this is probably not about the inner working of the OS, but communication protocols.
Search for "KDE sucks": 329,000 results
Search for "Gnome sucks": 527,000 results
So Gnome sucks 60% harder than KDE.
Otherwise, more like
apt-get install abcde
# put cd in drive
abcde
It does CDDB queries too, and encodes while still ripping the disk.