kile and kate's scripting feature don't work anymore
I think it should be back in KDE 4.4, but this is of course an upstream issue.
well, the features *are there* in 4.3, too, they just don't work (they do very random looking things)
dragon player is working quite well for me on KDE 4.2 on Mandriva 2009.1. The only thing I am missing in dragon is a decent playlist.
I just don't like dragon player... it always want's to download codecs and when you select the PLF ones, they don't work (at least they didn't, when I tried last time - since then, I've uninstalled dragon player and codeina on all mandy installations, right after installation)
mandriva 2009 was completely unusable with kde 4.1...
Which is why KDE3 was still available for it, unlike other distributions that were released at the same time.
have you tried that? it was a bloody mess, because you only had the configuration tools for kde 4 - if you selected to use kde 3, you just couldn't configure it...
okay, my bad
aparently when the choices are [i586, amd64, dual], then "dual" doesn't mean "both architectures", it means "both architectures, but just a base system with no software whatsoever, although the installer pretends to have it"
okay, making the SSD master helped - now I've tried it and it's a f*cking piece of shit! You select what software you want and it doesn't give shit about it! it installs just a base system, that is hardly more than damn small linux! not even KDE!? although I selected it!? are you f*cking kidding me!? am i supposed to build my system from scratch!?
okay, now I've managed to install Mandriva 2010 (making the SSD master helped) and it's a f*cking bad joke! hardly any of the packages that I had selected were installed - it didn't even install kde (although I selected it)
instead I have LXDE now and I have f*cking 3 Programs in my menu. why tf were 800 MB installed? This is like damn small linux or windows 95! This shit shouldn't require more than 50 MB!
kde 4 really kicked mandrivas usability... I currently use 2009 Spring and kde 4.3 is a big improvement over older kde 4 versions, but quite often I regret switching from 2008 Spring. many features, that worked in 2008 spring are now broken
akregator and kmail now have problems with some servers
kile and kate's scripting feature don't work anymore
kaffeine can't handle non-square pixels anymore, so DVD playback is stretched on my 16:9 TV - and my bugreports are just ignored)
i get errors from PulseAudio all the time
I cant mount encrypted harddrives at boot-time, not even with initscripts or using crypttab (i have to mount them manually after booting
the one thing that's really improved is kdenlive)
I tried to install Mandriva 2010, but aparently its installer doesn't think my SSD is a harddrive... although all previous mandriva versions installed on it just fine... maybe I'll switch the ports where my harddrives are plugged in - that may change something, but then again i'll have to reinstall grub manually (mandrivas bootloader repair tool never worked for me)
mandriva 2009 was completely unusable with kde 4.1... I think what I'll do soon is using mandriva-online to update my system (although I'd prefer a fresh installation) and if it goes bad, I'll switch back to 2008 Spring...
So, does this mean that the year of the linux desktop is delayed until 2010 after all? Everyone seemed so optimistic in january...
seriously, wtf is wrong!? lately I see nothing than completely broken distros and programs! Lots of features in programs don't work anymore, although they did before (e.g. the script execution in kate and kile, akregator and kmail still have trouble connecting to some servers, dolphin still has far to go - no previews of txt, od* and videos!?). KDE 4 is still a pain (although 4.3 is a huge step forward) and don't get me started on PulseAudio (PulseAudio is a great idea, but it's so damn buggy right now)
If I were a conspiracy-theorist, I'd say that Microsoft pays some coders to "work" on linux-progs and commit obscure, broken code.
couldn't you legally force them to give updates to pirated copies? I mean leaving it like this puts other people at risk! thats like a (CAR ANALOGY FTW!!!) car manufacturer who goes and cuts stolen cars' breaks!
I think growing need for anonymous P2P systems will lead to development of easier solutions. And if one day there are enough users to get bearable transfer-rates, then the media industry is done for...
Man, how often have I read here that Bill Gates really IS a geek, because he wrote an early version of BASIC (hooray!)? yes, he did that, but BASIC's syntax is LL(1), so it is extremely easy to write a compiler for it (even easier to write an interpreter, which it was). Look up "recursive descent parsers". The only thing that might be a bit outside of LL(1) are arithmetic expressions, but they can be parsed easily with 3 mutually recursive functions either... at my university we learn this stuff in semester 2.
as i already replied in another post: iirc BASICs syntax is LL(1), so writing an interpreter for it is quite simple (look up "recursive descent parsers"). arithmetic expressions may be a bit outside of LL(1), but they are still easy to implement using 3 mutually recursive functions...
iirc BASICs Syntax is LL(1), so writing an interpreter for it is really simple... arithmetic expressions may be a small bit outside of LL(1), but hard-coding them is still easy...
meaning that governments and Rights Holders could now have grounds to force UK ISPs into disconnecting their customers from the Internet
which sounds like this only affected the UK, but it seems to me like this is a british website debating what the decision means FOR THEM - but the text of amendment 138 affects ALL states of the european union!...
I should become fortuneteller - only days ago I predicted this, because germanys new government decided against the 3-strikes model without much resistance by CDU/CSU, which I found very odd and I thought they wouldn't do this, unless they knew that the EU will soon "force us" to do it (so we "can't do anything about it - it came from Brussels - WE were against this!")
restrictions may only be taken in exceptional circumstances and imposed if they are necessary, appopriate and proportionate within a democratic society.
Copyright violations by no means are a danger to society... unless ruled by a judge otherwise, nor is a cutting of the line in any way appropriated.
we are talking about the UK and politicians that have been brainwashed by the content-industry lobbyists...
they do not seem to have addressed the question of what happens to customers' access to purchased content if the Keychest service itself is discontinued
SHUT UP! The user is not supposed to think about that until they launch keychest 2!
I agree that PA is very buggy. I agree that normal users won't need it. But people say they had "networked" audio without PA and that is utter bullshit! they have file-access protocols and read the audiofiles over the net to play them locally (the player runs on your machine, it just reads the file from the server) whereas Pulse enables you to run the player on the server and get just the output on your machine. If you ever digged into the X-forwarding of SSH, you know what I mean. that is a friggin awesome technology and I'd be happy to have that functionality for audio as well (if it's stable).
yes, it's buggy - it's buggy as shit and it has a long way to go, but I'm happy that someone does this, because if you really think it to the end, a server/client architecture (like X has) really is the better idea.
It may be buggy (and by now I deactivate it on every machine that I administrate) but in the long run, I think we NEED something like PulseAudio and it really IS a good idea, because that is what you need if you want audio-forwarding for remote-sessions (like the X-Forwarding in SSH)
yes, you are right. but think about how many political decisions in the last 8 years were justified by "al quaeda*". Now think about how many people died in the last 8 years through al quaeda terrorism in the USA...
the immense gap makes me LAUGH about "al quaeda*" arguments, no matter how serious they might be this time... I guess politicians just cried "wolf" a few times to often... and I don't say this because I'm german - we get a lot of "terror-warnings", too - and I laugh about them, too...
women's participation in FOSS development is over seventeen times lower than it is in proprietary software development.
Wait a minute... women's participation in GEEK DATING is over seventeen times lower than it is in regular-men dating... so does that mean that geeks refuse dating women?
okay, that analogy is a bit exaggerated. I think everyone has SOME prejudice - I heard from a psychologist once, that we adapt the prejudices from our parents. I guess smart people are sooner prepared to abandon them and I guess that FOSS programmers don't care much about who wrote the code, they care more about the quality of the code... okay, they'll double-check the code for backdoors if it came from a muslim... or a chinese... or a russian... or an eastern european... or an african... or a frenchman...
well anyways - as someone who tutored some computer-science courses, it is my impression, that most women don't enjoy programming that much... they do what is neccessary to pass the exam, but none of the ones in my classes ever swept the board. Most of them don't seem to have the passion for it, so it makes sense to me, that they don't program on their leisure time...
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What's PowerPoint? My Profs use LaTeX with the beamer package...
Don't be silly! Doctor Franzhaufer uses Linux...
They should also sue TV for not being Radio!
And the deaf should sue Radio for not being TV...
well, the features *are there* in 4.3, too, they just don't work (they do very random looking things)
I just don't like dragon player... it always want's to download codecs and when you select the PLF ones, they don't work (at least they didn't, when I tried last time - since then, I've uninstalled dragon player and codeina on all mandy installations, right after installation)
have you tried that? it was a bloody mess, because you only had the configuration tools for kde 4 - if you selected to use kde 3, you just couldn't configure it...
okay, my bad
aparently when the choices are [i586, amd64, dual], then "dual" doesn't mean "both architectures", it means "both architectures, but just a base system with no software whatsoever, although the installer pretends to have it"
user friendliness FTW!!
okay, making the SSD master helped - now I've tried it and it's a f*cking piece of shit! You select what software you want and it doesn't give shit about it! it installs just a base system, that is hardly more than damn small linux! not even KDE!? although I selected it!? are you f*cking kidding me!? am i supposed to build my system from scratch!?
okay, now I've managed to install Mandriva 2010 (making the SSD master helped) and it's a f*cking bad joke! hardly any of the packages that I had selected were installed - it didn't even install kde (although I selected it)
instead I have LXDE now and I have f*cking 3 Programs in my menu. why tf were 800 MB installed? This is like damn small linux or windows 95! This shit shouldn't require more than 50 MB!
the one thing that's really improved is kdenlive)
I tried to install Mandriva 2010, but aparently its installer doesn't think my SSD is a harddrive... although all previous mandriva versions installed on it just fine... maybe I'll switch the ports where my harddrives are plugged in - that may change something, but then again i'll have to reinstall grub manually (mandrivas bootloader repair tool never worked for me)
mandriva 2009 was completely unusable with kde 4.1... I think what I'll do soon is using mandriva-online to update my system (although I'd prefer a fresh installation) and if it goes bad, I'll switch back to 2008 Spring...
okay, I learned that it's just a myth that pirated copies of windows were blocked from Windows Update... I apologize for my false statement.
So, does this mean that the year of the linux desktop is delayed until 2010 after all? Everyone seemed so optimistic in january...
seriously, wtf is wrong!? lately I see nothing than completely broken distros and programs! Lots of features in programs don't work anymore, although they did before (e.g. the script execution in kate and kile, akregator and kmail still have trouble connecting to some servers, dolphin still has far to go - no previews of txt, od* and videos!?). KDE 4 is still a pain (although 4.3 is a huge step forward) and don't get me started on PulseAudio (PulseAudio is a great idea, but it's so damn buggy right now)
If I were a conspiracy-theorist, I'd say that Microsoft pays some coders to "work" on linux-progs and commit obscure, broken code.
couldn't you legally force them to give updates to pirated copies? I mean leaving it like this puts other people at risk! thats like a (CAR ANALOGY FTW!!!) car manufacturer who goes and cuts stolen cars' breaks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEvEthIZ4lg
I think growing need for anonymous P2P systems will lead to development of easier solutions. And if one day there are enough users to get bearable transfer-rates, then the media industry is done for...
Man, how often have I read here that Bill Gates really IS a geek, because he wrote an early version of BASIC (hooray!)? yes, he did that, but BASIC's syntax is LL(1), so it is extremely easy to write a compiler for it (even easier to write an interpreter, which it was). Look up "recursive descent parsers". The only thing that might be a bit outside of LL(1) are arithmetic expressions, but they can be parsed easily with 3 mutually recursive functions either... at my university we learn this stuff in semester 2.
as i already replied in another post: iirc BASICs syntax is LL(1), so writing an interpreter for it is quite simple (look up "recursive descent parsers"). arithmetic expressions may be a bit outside of LL(1), but they are still easy to implement using 3 mutually recursive functions...
iirc BASICs Syntax is LL(1), so writing an interpreter for it is really simple... arithmetic expressions may be a small bit outside of LL(1), but hard-coding them is still easy...
only if the algorithm is numerically instable...
which sounds like this only affected the UK, but it seems to me like this is a british website debating what the decision means FOR THEM - but the text of amendment 138 affects ALL states of the european union!...
I should become fortuneteller - only days ago I predicted this, because germanys new government decided against the 3-strikes model without much resistance by CDU/CSU, which I found very odd and I thought they wouldn't do this, unless they knew that the EU will soon "force us" to do it (so we "can't do anything about it - it came from Brussels - WE were against this!")
we are talking about the UK and politicians that have been brainwashed by the content-industry lobbyists...
SHUT UP! The user is not supposed to think about that until they launch keychest 2!
yes, it's buggy - it's buggy as shit and it has a long way to go, but I'm happy that someone does this, because if you really think it to the end, a server/client architecture (like X has) really is the better idea.
since Linux got 14% marketshare in the servermarket?
It may be buggy (and by now I deactivate it on every machine that I administrate) but in the long run, I think we NEED something like PulseAudio and it really IS a good idea, because that is what you need if you want audio-forwarding for remote-sessions (like the X-Forwarding in SSH)
yes, you are right. but think about how many political decisions in the last 8 years were justified by "al quaeda*". Now think about how many people died in the last 8 years through al quaeda terrorism in the USA...
the immense gap makes me LAUGH about "al quaeda*" arguments, no matter how serious they might be this time... I guess politicians just cried "wolf" a few times to often... and I don't say this because I'm german - we get a lot of "terror-warnings", too - and I laugh about them, too...
Wait a minute... women's participation in GEEK DATING is over seventeen times lower than it is in regular-men dating... so does that mean that geeks refuse dating women?
okay, that analogy is a bit exaggerated. I think everyone has SOME prejudice - I heard from a psychologist once, that we adapt the prejudices from our parents. I guess smart people are sooner prepared to abandon them and I guess that FOSS programmers don't care much about who wrote the code, they care more about the quality of the code... okay, they'll double-check the code for backdoors if it came from a muslim... or a chinese... or a russian... or an eastern european... or an african... or a frenchman...
well anyways - as someone who tutored some computer-science courses, it is my impression, that most women don't enjoy programming that much... they do what is neccessary to pass the exam, but none of the ones in my classes ever swept the board. Most of them don't seem to have the passion for it, so it makes sense to me, that they don't program on their leisure time...