Some Linux games: Savage, Savage 2, NWN Other applications: Cygwin, Crossover Office
Most proprietary Linux applications come in distribution-specific packages because they mesh better with the system. But a lot of vendors also provide a generic binary tarball that includes whatever dependencies the program has, that you just extract to/opt or/usr/local. Usually, this is done automatically through a self-extracting tarball/script with a Windows-like GUI wizard.
It's also possible to extract the binaries from a package for another distribution on your system, and just use it. There are even nice conversion utilities like alien that will roll it back up into the appropriate package for your system and hand it back to you.
The issues generally come up when a proprietary Linux package depends on a specific version of a shared library that it doesn't include in its package. That itself is no different whatsoever than good old "DLL hell", but in Linux you have a package manager, and in the worst of cases, manual link/path modification to help you.
Open source developers probably tend to see a stable API as less necessary than closed-source developers do, especially open source developers who want to implement new features and avoid bloat.The idea is that you modify the old, stable source code to work with new features selectively, as-needed, for your new drivers. It works in a lot of cases, and avoids both the instability of fresh Windows releases, and the incapability of old ones.
However, it does make a lot more work for kernel module maintainers, and it makes things difficult for 3rd-party, closed-source hardware developers, who have to re-link their kernel modules each time a new kernel is installed. That sucks bad.
There are no distributions of OS X which include NTFS-3G (there is only one, and it does not include any form of write support for NTFS). There are many distributions of Linux which include NTFS-3G.
It's not really an apples-to-apples comparison. It's a single distribution being compared against a large, hugely various set of distributions designed for different purposes.
It makes more sense to say, for example, that Ubuntu has solid NTFS support while OS X fails. Or that Fedora has solid NTFS support while OS X fails. Or that OpenSUSE has solid NTFS support while OS X fails. And so it goes.
I did the same thing on my external HDD for a long time. This all worked fine until I made some friends who use Macbooks. Little did I know, while Linux NTFS support is good, OS X still can't write to NTFS by default. The solution? Install NTFS-3G for OS X. Hrm.
where I am a freshman. Some computer labs on campus contain Linux machines. Campus WiFi is accessible on Linux (I use Jaunty 9.04, too). Shared printing under Linux is functional (actually better; you can do it without authentication because of a current issue with Samba and IPP both sharing the same printer with different setups). The school provides SSH/SFTP access to several campus Unix machines (Solaris & Debian Linux, iirc) for uploading files and running Unix applications.
It can be a slippery slope if you treat these kinds of operations as "fixing people", but I think if you treat it instead as enabling them to do something new (to them, at least), you don't run the risk of "fixing" people who don't feel that they are broken.
You really couldn't figure out how to manage font scaling in KDE?
1.) Well, all of the KDE settings are located in one place. Remember KControl from KDE 3.5.x? They call it "System Settings" now. It's the first item of the "Computer" section of the menu. 2.) This handy dandy menu consists of a list of items separated by two tabs, and a search bar. Let's type "font" into the search bar. 3.) This eliminates all items in the main tab but "appearance" and "font installer". You were complaining about the appearance, weren't you? 4.) The fourth item down the list is fonts. Let's click it.
Oh look! It has a list of all the different fonts/sizes within KDE, and even a button labeled "adjust all fonts".
What you said is not necessarily true. "Blogging professionally" does not necessarily directly equate to "blogging as a profession". It could mean "blogging with professionalism". The grandparent poster could then be criticizing what he perceives to be the unprofessional nature of blogging.
Actually, those things measure electrical resistance and display it with the leftmost part of the gauge representing resistance greater than current, and the right side representing no resistance.
The last time I was downtown, I decided to test this as I walked by a Scientology booth. During my "free stress test", I touched the two cans together, and the needle jumped all the way to the right.
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I think he meant "literally" in the sense of "actually", which is the third definition for the adverb on Dictionary.com.
The identity of the noun being compared by "such as" is vague in the originally quoted sentence. Whether the writer is referring to the rules or violation when he says "such as" could be made obvious with better sentence structure.
The reporter's sentence is correct, but poorly phrased.
Editing a plain text file is not not not not not the same as editing the God awful binary-only hexidecimal-string-infested monster called the registry. And if you do it using a GUI (Adept or Synaptic), it's still not nearly as bad as the regedit interface.
I'm only a high school French student, but even my class noticed differences when we watched a Quebecois TV recording and were all very, very confused. Basically, they just talk faster and change some vowel sounds. I wish I could remember a specific example for you, but they are different.
That widget is not a KNotes replacement. KNotes has a KDE4 version and has even since 4.0. There are a number of widgets relating to sticky notes, one of the coolest I have running when the screensaver loads. It asks a passerby to "leave a note" for me. A user can enter in their note, and then click "send" and then when I log in, I have a new KNote sitting on my desktop, from them. The note is saved, just like other KNotes.
How are keyboard shortcuts "more limited"? I know that I noticed that on my laptop some keyboard shortcuts weren't automatically set up (that had been before) because KMilo still has some catching up to do, but featurewise, it still gives you the same range of options for creating shortcuts.
I agree that KDE 4.0 was very disappointing, and so was even 4.1, but at this stage (4.2), I find the desktop quite functional.
that you probably thought of when you read the summary ("So now I get a larger-than-FLAC sized file on my portable player so I can get 128kbps?") is acknowledged in TFA.
The problems
At face value it's remarkably convenient, like a car that doubles up as a plane. But like your aeromobile, there are problems for the average consumer. Firstly, file size. A normal 320Kbps MP3 of the same Pink Floyd song was just 14.6MB, and 320Kbps is all you'll hear if you listen to an mp3HD track on your iPod.
But the lossless audio stored in the file will be stored on your iPod nevertheless, taking up precious storage space. (Although we should point out to audiophiles that the hybrid files are smaller than the combined size of a FLAC and 320Kbps MP3, although are less efficient to encode than FLAC.)
I don't really see to whom this will be a valuable technology--audiophiles will probably have a large enough music collection that they don't see the benefit in taking up 10x as much space on their portable device, and are probably capable of reencoding when they transfer (some media players can do this automatically). Most everyone else just listens to low quality Limewire rips on their PC anyway.
Anyone here think they would really want to use this format? (genuine question)
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"The inspiration for the title and for much of the argument of this book comes from the work of Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation. Indeed, as I reread Stallman's own work, especially the essays in Free Software, Free Society, I realize that all of the theoretical insights I develop here are insights Stallman described decades ago. One could thus well argue that this work is 'merely' derivative". -- Lawrence Lessig, "Free Culture"
Some Linux games: Savage, Savage 2, NWN
Other applications: Cygwin, Crossover Office
Most proprietary Linux applications come in distribution-specific packages because they mesh better with the system. But a lot of vendors also provide a generic binary tarball that includes whatever dependencies the program has, that you just extract to /opt or /usr/local. Usually, this is done automatically through a self-extracting tarball/script with a Windows-like GUI wizard.
It's also possible to extract the binaries from a package for another distribution on your system, and just use it. There are even nice conversion utilities like alien that will roll it back up into the appropriate package for your system and hand it back to you.
The issues generally come up when a proprietary Linux package depends on a specific version of a shared library that it doesn't include in its package. That itself is no different whatsoever than good old "DLL hell", but in Linux you have a package manager, and in the worst of cases, manual link/path modification to help you.
Open source developers probably tend to see a stable API as less necessary than closed-source developers do, especially open source developers who want to implement new features and avoid bloat.The idea is that you modify the old, stable source code to work with new features selectively, as-needed, for your new drivers. It works in a lot of cases, and avoids both the instability of fresh Windows releases, and the incapability of old ones.
However, it does make a lot more work for kernel module maintainers, and it makes things difficult for 3rd-party, closed-source hardware developers, who have to re-link their kernel modules each time a new kernel is installed. That sucks bad.
( DKMS does help with some of these issues: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support )
The statements are not equal.
There are no distributions of OS X which include NTFS-3G (there is only one, and it does not include any form of write support for NTFS).
There are many distributions of Linux which include NTFS-3G.
It's not really an apples-to-apples comparison. It's a single distribution being compared against a large, hugely various set of distributions designed for different purposes.
It makes more sense to say, for example, that Ubuntu has solid NTFS support while OS X fails. Or that Fedora has solid NTFS support while OS X fails. Or that OpenSUSE has solid NTFS support while OS X fails. And so it goes.
I did the same thing on my external HDD for a long time. This all worked fine until I made some friends who use Macbooks. Little did I know, while Linux NTFS support is good, OS X still can't write to NTFS by default. The solution? Install NTFS-3G for OS X. Hrm.
where I am a freshman. Some computer labs on campus contain Linux machines. Campus WiFi is accessible on Linux (I use Jaunty 9.04, too). Shared printing under Linux is functional (actually better; you can do it without authentication because of a current issue with Samba and IPP both sharing the same printer with different setups). The school provides SSH/SFTP access to several campus Unix machines (Solaris & Debian Linux, iirc) for uploading files and running Unix applications.
It can be a slippery slope if you treat these kinds of operations as "fixing people", but I think if you treat it instead as enabling them to do something new (to them, at least), you don't run the risk of "fixing" people who don't feel that they are broken.
I think girls are nice.
You really couldn't figure out how to manage font scaling in KDE?
1.) Well, all of the KDE settings are located in one place. Remember KControl from KDE 3.5.x? They call it "System Settings" now. It's the first item of the "Computer" section of the menu.
2.) This handy dandy menu consists of a list of items separated by two tabs, and a search bar. Let's type "font" into the search bar.
3.) This eliminates all items in the main tab but "appearance" and "font installer". You were complaining about the appearance, weren't you?
4.) The fourth item down the list is fonts. Let's click it.
Oh look! It has a list of all the different fonts/sizes within KDE, and even a button labeled "adjust all fonts".
Now I'm the confused one.
What you said is not necessarily true. "Blogging professionally" does not necessarily directly equate to "blogging as a profession". It could mean "blogging with professionalism". The grandparent poster could then be criticizing what he perceives to be the unprofessional nature of blogging.
Nice semantic argument, dude. :-)
You linked to a news article about his link, goofball.
Did you read the fact sheet? The issues it raises are described in the specification, and it takes care to say so.
Actually, those things measure electrical resistance and display it with the leftmost part of the gauge representing resistance greater than current, and the right side representing no resistance.
The last time I was downtown, I decided to test this as I walked by a Scientology booth. During my "free stress test", I touched the two cans together, and the needle jumped all the way to the right.
I think he meant "literally" in the sense of "actually", which is the third definition for the adverb on Dictionary.com.
And the generic Coby player my girlfriend bought yesterday.
Hint: he informed us about what Canadian content laws are.
The identity of the noun being compared by "such as" is vague in the originally quoted sentence. Whether the writer is referring to the rules or violation when he says "such as" could be made obvious with better sentence structure.
The reporter's sentence is correct, but poorly phrased.
It's to a nasty javascript-tastic shocksite
Editing a plain text file is not not not not not the same as editing the God awful binary-only hexidecimal-string-infested monster called the registry. And if you do it using a GUI (Adept or Synaptic), it's still not nearly as bad as the regedit interface.
Haha. It hasn't been that bad in my experience, actually. I'm currently running Jaunty beta, and this has been the same install since 7.10.
I'm only a high school French student, but even my class noticed differences when we watched a Quebecois TV recording and were all very, very confused. Basically, they just talk faster and change some vowel sounds. I wish I could remember a specific example for you, but they are different.
That widget is not a KNotes replacement. KNotes has a KDE4 version and has even since 4.0. There are a number of widgets relating to sticky notes, one of the coolest I have running when the screensaver loads. It asks a passerby to "leave a note" for me. A user can enter in their note, and then click "send" and then when I log in, I have a new KNote sitting on my desktop, from them. The note is saved, just like other KNotes.
How are keyboard shortcuts "more limited"? I know that I noticed that on my laptop some keyboard shortcuts weren't automatically set up (that had been before) because KMilo still has some catching up to do, but featurewise, it still gives you the same range of options for creating shortcuts.
I agree that KDE 4.0 was very disappointing, and so was even 4.1, but at this stage (4.2), I find the desktop quite functional.
that you probably thought of when you read the summary ("So now I get a larger-than-FLAC sized file on my portable player so I can get 128kbps?") is acknowledged in TFA.
I still can't play my half life 2 because my CDs are stuck in a box that in some land fill
fuck them
'nuff said
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