Yeah, especially when MadWifi-NG doesn't want to work with WPA at all. My experience had been good in one laptop, then turned to crap with another, both with (different) Atheros wireless chips.
With the next one, I opted with the Intel 4000-series chip, and it's worked perfectly fine.
<p>I thought this was the ed of web browsers:</p><code>#!/bin/sh<br/> if [ $# -ge 1 ]; then<br/> F=`mktemp`<br/> wget "$1" -O "$F"<br/> ed "$F"<br/> fi</code>
Doesn't San Francisco already have trolleybuses on several of its local routes? They've already had a major electric vehicle system from that for quite some time.
I happen to live near Seattle, so I do know the problems associated with being on a paved road while receiving power overhead.
I don't know, online stuff is good and all, but I've been in enough situations without access to the Internet (or any other network) to where I still see value in local applications. A hybridization of the two seems like the best compromise.
That said, my favorite type of online program is something running locally, but with the ability to connect to a server with a local cache. The IMAP protocol is my favorite way to fetch my e-mail, and I'd love for there to be more applications following a similar methodology. Trying to force a dynamic UI into HTML isn't the most ideal solution, at least in my opinion.
Using an entire virtual machine to run Adobe Flash seems a bit backwards compared to getting Gnash's Flash support complete. By the way, using Flash in a virtual machine has nothing to do with native anything in the host's browser.
The iPod is just fine; its OS is a bit of a pain, though. If you don't care about synchronizing with other iTunes or Video, try RockBox. I've been using it for three years on multiple different devices.
Or in the case of Apple, buy a new entire computer every eighteen months.
If I recall correctly, the majority of Core 2 Duos share the same slots as the Core Duos, so an motherboard replacement wouldn't be necessary unless one wants a faster FSB. Unlike the Macs, you could keep the rest of the parts, so a few hundred dollars for a new CPU for this upgrade isn't out of the question.
Hey, that sounds like why I use Gentoo. Sure, USE != --with-, but it still grants a greater degree of flexibility than a lot of those (pure) binary distros, especially when it comes to kernel stuff.
Not only that, you can use the API from Python. You can just write a simple script to do it, rather than dealing with regular annoyances from web pages.
RSS is an application of XML, though. I guess in terms of drugs, you could call it something "derived from XML," despite being structured in XML itself.
I've been buying hardware that I know to work under Linux for quite a while. All of the computers I currently use follow that philosophy, and the other ones are so old that they've been supported for ages. Voodoo3, anyone? As far as current hardware goes:
Try ASUS's motherboards. Heck, almost anything with an nForce, Intel, or VIA chipset in it will take care of most of the hardware issues (hardware sensors,
SATA, IDE, wired Ethernet, and so on).
For graphics cards, nVidia still provides the best drivers, and those same drivers also work with their integrated chipsets (nForce). Intel's chipsets are well-supported, but I usually avoid them in favor of nVidia.
Wireless cards (as someone else posted) are one of the worst-supported pieces of hardware under Linux, especially if you rule out NDISWrapper. The Intel wireless chips should all work, and Atheros's should (The Atheros chip in my laptop can't connect to WPA at all).
I still find my old SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 to be the best sound card for Linux. The X-Fi needs driver support for it to be any good (Using OSS4 is the only option for one of my computers; Creative's ALSA driver is worthless).
PuTTY is available for Windows Mobile, which is what I sometimes use. Sure, it drains the battery, but some things are worth it.
I'm just glad the university here provides SSH access to its students, which is what I use when on wireless with my laptop. The login system here is either web-based or some Windows-only auth (proprietary 'solution'), and after about two hours it repeatedly asks you to log in without letting you on. SSH is the only way around that, and it always works here.
... Also, you have more freedom to customize your machine...
Is that a joke? Laptops are some of the least-customizable devices aside from (most) cell phones out there. Unless you want to crack the entire case open, you can usually only change the hard drive and RAM. On mine, it's possible to change the wireless card (thanks to the MiniPCI-like slot), but the video chip can't be upgraded, even though it's discrete. Like it, the CPU is also soldered to the motherboard.
Unless you want to be tied to a desk and an outlet, you also can't use a different monitor unless you crack your case open and put one of close enough size in. It may not even work, depending on the video chipset and what the laptop manufacturer has done to it. On my laptop, I haven't even found an option to replace the glossy LCD with a matte equivalent.
The most freedom for customization is still limited to the non-portable set, at least for now. Sometimes I wish laptop manufacturer would agree on a standard, extensible hardware setup like the desktops have (ATX, standard PCIe, ZIF sockets, etc.).
It is not an interpreted language because it's compiled at runtime. Why do you think there isn't an interactive Perl interpreter (at least that I know of)?
It's called an interpreter for the lack of a better name. It's usually used to run a script; I haven't seen it used too often to compile the scripts. The closest I can think of is perlcc.
Umm, GIFs by definition are 8-bit, so it's not "almost." You mean GIF 89a's indexed transparency support, which IE also supports with PNGs.
Considering PNGs yield smaller compression ratios universally in 8-bit (indexed, with support for the indexed transparency) compared to GIF, there's really no reason to use the obsolete format anymore, except for browsers from the early-mid 90's. Heck, even Netscape Navigator 4.0 supports PNG rendering, so the "old browser" argument isn't really useful anymore.
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Yeah, especially when MadWifi-NG doesn't want to work with WPA at all. My experience had been good in one laptop, then turned to crap with another, both with (different) Atheros wireless chips.
With the next one, I opted with the Intel 4000-series chip, and it's worked perfectly fine.
Accidentally hit submit. You get the idea, though. Should probably have not have "Submit" and "Preview" appearing in the same area.
<p>I thought this was the ed of web browsers:</p><code>#!/bin/sh<br/>
if [ $# -ge 1 ]; then<br/>
F=`mktemp`<br/>
wget "$1" -O "$F"<br/>
ed "$F"<br/>
fi</code>
Doesn't San Francisco already have trolleybuses on several of its local routes? They've already had a major electric vehicle system from that for quite some time.
I happen to live near Seattle, so I do know the problems associated with being on a paved road while receiving power overhead.
I don't know, online stuff is good and all, but I've been in enough situations without access to the Internet (or any other network) to where I still see value in local applications. A hybridization of the two seems like the best compromise. That said, my favorite type of online program is something running locally, but with the ability to connect to a server with a local cache. The IMAP protocol is my favorite way to fetch my e-mail, and I'd love for there to be more applications following a similar methodology. Trying to force a dynamic UI into HTML isn't the most ideal solution, at least in my opinion.
Time to start building computers with three-phase 220V inputs, or perhaps require two power cables to 110V./
So we should work on/donate to Gnash?
Using an entire virtual machine to run Adobe Flash seems a bit backwards compared to getting Gnash's Flash support complete. By the way, using Flash in a virtual machine has nothing to do with native anything in the host's browser.
You can't grep dead trees.
The iPod is just fine; its OS is a bit of a pain, though. If you don't care about synchronizing with other iTunes or Video, try RockBox. I've been using it for three years on multiple different devices.
Or in the case of Apple, buy a new entire computer every eighteen months.
If I recall correctly, the majority of Core 2 Duos share the same slots as the Core Duos, so an motherboard replacement wouldn't be necessary unless one wants a faster FSB. Unlike the Macs, you could keep the rest of the parts, so a few hundred dollars for a new CPU for this upgrade isn't out of the question.
So you're not a fan of Ubuntu?
Hey, that sounds like why I use Gentoo. Sure, USE != --with-, but it still grants a greater degree of flexibility than a lot of those (pure) binary distros, especially when it comes to kernel stuff.
Or even better: sudo -s
Not only that, you can use the API from Python. You can just write a simple script to do it, rather than dealing with regular annoyances from web pages.
It's actually called ELinks.
Try looking here: IcedTea. You can't always count on the primary source for your needs.
I'm using IcedTea on my 64-bit boxes; it isn't perfect, but it's good enough.
I wish I could get one of those. Too bad I don't have any FPGAs, a fab plant, or one of Sun's newer servers.
RSS is an application of XML, though. I guess in terms of drugs, you could call it something "derived from XML," despite being structured in XML itself.
I've been buying hardware that I know to work under Linux for quite a while. All of the computers I currently use follow that philosophy, and the other ones are so old that they've been supported for ages. Voodoo3, anyone? As far as current hardware goes:
PuTTY is available for Windows Mobile, which is what I sometimes use. Sure, it drains the battery, but some things are worth it.
I'm just glad the university here provides SSH access to its students, which is what I use when on wireless with my laptop. The login system here is either web-based or some Windows-only auth (proprietary 'solution'), and after about two hours it repeatedly asks you to log in without letting you on. SSH is the only way around that, and it always works here.
Or you could just use AdBlock Plus and NoScript, which tend to run a lot faster than Greasemonkey. User scripts aren't a solution for everything.
What about file encodings? Unicode won't last forever.
... Also, you have more freedom to customize your machine ...
Is that a joke? Laptops are some of the least-customizable devices aside from (most) cell phones out there. Unless you want to crack the entire case open, you can usually only change the hard drive and RAM. On mine, it's possible to change the wireless card (thanks to the MiniPCI-like slot), but the video chip can't be upgraded, even though it's discrete. Like it, the CPU is also soldered to the motherboard.
Unless you want to be tied to a desk and an outlet, you also can't use a different monitor unless you crack your case open and put one of close enough size in. It may not even work, depending on the video chipset and what the laptop manufacturer has done to it. On my laptop, I haven't even found an option to replace the glossy LCD with a matte equivalent.
The most freedom for customization is still limited to the non-portable set, at least for now. Sometimes I wish laptop manufacturer would agree on a standard, extensible hardware setup like the desktops have (ATX, standard PCIe, ZIF sockets, etc.).
It is not an interpreted language because it's compiled at runtime. Why do you think there isn't an interactive Perl interpreter (at least that I know of)?
It's called an interpreter for the lack of a better name. It's usually used to run a script; I haven't seen it used too often to compile the scripts. The closest I can think of is perlcc.
Umm, GIFs by definition are 8-bit, so it's not "almost." You mean GIF 89a's indexed transparency support, which IE also supports with PNGs.
Considering PNGs yield smaller compression ratios universally in 8-bit (indexed, with support for the indexed transparency) compared to GIF, there's really no reason to use the obsolete format anymore, except for browsers from the early-mid 90's. Heck, even Netscape Navigator 4.0 supports PNG rendering, so the "old browser" argument isn't really useful anymore.