I know what is wrong in US economy but I have no comment for how to fix it. It is almost impossible to fix it because of greed people and those who are not willing to give the power away what the people gave to them.
History has lots of nice examples what told what is going to happened. But because media control and greed people, no one is wanting to sit down and listen what has happened in the history.
Same thing is with Linux. To know how to actually develope it, you need to understand the history. But young people are too lazy and erregant to spend time to learn stuff, before they can get their hands dirty.
Welcome media overlords, thanks for burning our young peoples minds with all kind crappy media, so they can not think by themselves.
Whem they are older, they might start understanding what actually is happening and then it is already too late.
It would not be anything else than a software system using linux as OS. "OS/2 would be a Linux distribution. Who cares actually does it have a own desktop or server services. Only intresting point here is that IBM chosed Linux to be the OS for that. (And Linux means the Linux kernel, a monolithic OS).
That means there is lots of already working software for that "OS/2" as well.
I do have. I have (almost) paperless office. All work is done digitally with few computers. Coffee cup is usually with the wireless keyboard and mouse. I do not even have a mousepad because laser mouse.
One key for 99% paperless office is to have a scanner and not to have a printer in front of you. Every paper what you get, you scan it to digital format and throw away the original if there is no need to store it to shelfs (laws demanding it etc). If something is needed to send via paper format, then you can print it out. Otherwise none of stuff gets printed. This works very well when moving around the country. All documents can be backupped easily, shared and edited if needed. The Office can be totally clear from paper. (This does not mean other rooms would not have paper, like magazines).
And my desk is glass and about 50% opaque. Very easy to keep clean. Just move keyboard and mouse and wipe it two times a week. Monitor is positioned so it can be easily moved up. My next project is to get a 100% transparent glass, place monitor under the glass and use a very thin mousepad (1mm) with 30x30 area. This would leave whole desk clear when placing keyboard and mouse (+pad) to shelf.
But for me this kind technology has no use. I would like more about the touch functions in the table itself. More like MS Surface but should be better.
My mother does not even know what is the web browser (or Internet search engine). She still reads multiple websites daily. And she does have Linux as OS in her computer. Just changed distro from Ubuntu to openSUSE for faster speed and for better backages for her use.
Linux has be ready for mainstream now since 1995. Problem for its popularity has not be in the Linux OS (you can not see it) but the GNU/Linux propaganda and mostly, the user interfaces (like Gnome) and lack of needed special apps. And because MS could lock users to itself, having a dominant market position what to abuse. There has not be any good changes for Linux before few years ago. Canonical just happened to come littlebit later than all the software for daily use was developed. And desktops were starting to have good usability. Nothing special didn't Canonical add to the palet, just happened to be a new distribution with good marketing point from rich man who founded the Canonical and distrohoppers and new users happened to catch Ubuntu before any other as good distro. And same thing is even valid today. Nothing special in Ubuntu, just fame.
And that fame does not give anything special knowledge how to change internet search engine in your browser. You need to know how to actually do it and what the internet search engine is. And Linux has nothing to do with that task.
Will MeeGo bring up the Linux OS static up on web sites in future? Linux OS (the monolithic kernel) is great example why Open Source OS works in servers, desktops, mobile devices, embedded systems and supercomputers.
But we should not just stay on Linux. Nokia should start using GNU's OS as well. Even that Hurd is not so mature OS as Linux is, it still has potential to be a such one. Only developers are missing. Maybe problem is that Hurd is with GPLv3 while Linux is GPLv2.
Now when Linux is the OS in the Android and MeeGo and it is used on many different desktop systems in its distributions focused to that usage, like Fedora, Mandriva, OpenSUSE, Debian and Ubuntu. We can start having such big steps on mobile side as well and then get people understand that Linux is just the monolithic OS and they can choose what kind different softwares they use as desktops and application programs they run. So in the end, there might be balance of desktop markets as well because of MeeGo (and Android).
OS does not need to report anything differently. In this case, Linux does still report data as so far. Only other non-OS softwares like in this case GNOME, gets changed to show correct data. GNOME does the change like KDE did for KDE SC. Canonical is not doing anything here, they just follow what GNOME does.
Only change what happens is that GNOME starts using IEC standard as SI standard can not be used.
Canonical is not doing anything, GNOME is doing. Do not blame Canonical for stuff what GNOME does. And do not blame GNOME from this because it is correctly done!
Even KDE started to use standards on KDE Software Compliation 4th generation. You do not get wrong size information, only one letter is added to follow international standard (as it has always be).
And there are cellphones using same technology. Nokia is just trying to patent a own kind idea what is used on flashlights ( I have one such where the magnet moves from end to end. Uses one bright LED and with about 1 hour shakecharging the flashlight lights up very brightly for one week continuesly). Here is the cellphone with technology what Nokia is patenting. http://www.uncells.com/models/product-details/ Altough Nokia is trying to get battery and all other functions in the rack and slide it inside the phone.
GPL would not be unnecessary at all then. Because the copyright being only 10 (or less) years, it would make all available open source code as public domain and you can close it and never show the source to anyone.
GPL is demanding that the software user who gets the binary, gets the sources as well by some way.
We can not throw away all the copyrights. There are many situations that you need to maintain the copyright. In one case 5 years is enough, but some cases over 50 years is enough.
And why we are always fighting with copyright laws in US or GB? There are lots of countries where are sane laws about copyright.
Example Finland. If you buy a CD or DVD (or Blu-ray) you have rights to make few copies of it for your own personal use or to your closest friends and family. Few means here 3-10. And those who gets copies, can not copy or deliver them to any other. So you can make your backups and copies to car, MP3-player, to summer house etc.
You can even break the encryption to see or listen video/music what you bought and translate the music to format what fits to you.
But you can not sell or share the mixed version of the copyrighted material what you have. No one can not stop you to mix it for yourself such thing but not to share it. If you mix music and you actually create something new what is not the original or similar, you can share it and you have the copyright for it. But that line is very thin and very hard to say when you step over that so you can do it.
U.S and GB and many of their old ruled countries has a common law and it allows them to have very stupid laws in place. In other germanic countries there are laws but you always need to understand what is the reason why something has be done and judge it by moral and wisdom.
First, it is not KDE 4.4 but a KDE SC 4.4 (KDE software compilation 4.4)
Second, Akonadi and Nepomuk (+ Strigi) does not suck at all if you use distribution what has focused to stability and quality. Ubuntu is not one of them.
I use distribution what has always got Pulse Audio, Nepomuk and Akonadi working right of the box as they are meant. Now about over year I have just enjoyed about those but everytime you need to use Ubuntu. They fail, they suck and you can not blame the upstream from that but only the distributors who do not READ the FAQ's how to make them work.
2004 I had a Ericsson phone. It was pretty big on that time, but same time as most Nokia's phones.
I dropped it in accidentally in the kokko (http://www.fotopankki.fi/dispVeryLarge/6316245-Kokko) on the midsummer day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer
I noticed that I had lost the phone about 5 minutes later. I tought that I had dropped in the path when I carried few times big woods to fireplace.
I went to search the phone from the 50 meter path and didn't find it. I tought that I call it from my friends phone to find it.
I called to it and it ringed 7 times and then it hanged up and did not take calls anymore but went to answering machine. I tought that batter went empty because it was already warning few hours ago.
I said to my friend that I would come to next day to search it. Then I noticed that in the kokko is small green flame. And right away I understanded that when I awas carrying the woods, the cell phone was slipped from my belt between the woods and gone in the kokko when throw there.
We were all amazed how the Ericcson was survived there about 10 minutes and even taken the calls until the batteries and everything else was melted totally and the cell phone did not anymore take calls.
Now every midsummer day friends are asking from me have I planned to burn my current phone for testing how well it would stand the fire or did I leave it to home for that night.
Okay, check out the SupCom2 (Supreme Commander 2) game. The SupCom itself was great and its addon (standalone) added lots of new features.
But on SupCom2 developers were just thrilled how easy they made the game to play. How they added new tactics and new units.And same time they announced the SupCom2 will come for 3rd generation game consoles as well...
You say what? a RTS game to consoles? Not everyone own a keyboard+mouse but everyone owns a gamepad. Just check out the just released SupCom2 demo and you can notice only one thing, the game sucks. Smaller, Faster, SImpler and lots of simpler strategies. Now it is more like point and click game than a stratetic game.
When you do games, DO NOT MAKE THEM FROM SIMPLER DEVICES FIRST! (= consoles). Make the game first for the PC platform (and make it available for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX) with all the glory and playability. THEN AFTER THAT, make the slim version of the game to game consoles, with dimmed down controls and blocked areas. You could even rip off all the functionality from the game and you could even then pleasure for both gamers groups, advanced, skilled and smart players. And then those who just want to sit down on coach 2 meters (6 feet) away from screen pushing those 10 buttons just for relaxing.
Seems you have not used Windows 7 and noticed how well it run on slower computers even with 512 RAM. It can be (not with every computer) faster than XP with fresh install and it stays longer running well. Now I want to know how well does it run on these laptops well until starts slowing down.
I do not trust that myth that you need latest hardware to run the Windows. Thats why I skipped Windows Vista totally because it was crap. 7 is what Vista should be and as far it has worked but it just is eating all the batter and I can not trust it is the fault of firmware or anything outside of Windows 7. Because if earlier release of Windows or other OS's and their heavier systems can not suffer it, what is the problem then in them.
How well does page support standards and is it designed that blind people can run it trough voice syntetisator or Lynx to read it with the "blind keyboard".
I would not like that any page is designed for specific browser at all. Was it FF, Opera, Safari, IE etc.
I would support last two Windowses and the latest Internet Explorer browser for them.
IE8 is available for XP so I can not find reason to support IE7 (or the IE6 at all) anymore.
Admins should start to notice that it is better to update to latest stable version of used software and we should drive all developers as well to understand that.
It is not good that one software company can keep all its clients having old version of other software when they need to use their one software and it is not supporting newer versions of next ones. Usual problem is the license fees of updating (every update costs extra), even that they are fixing bugs what they have done in the first place.
Just support last two version what is supported by browser developers but do not tie yourself to last one but always the newest.
I would like to know do we still need in the bottom the fine print "Best viewed with browser X and Y with resolution XY"?
Okay, I saw this in the news when it came. I thought "Okay, some laptops seems to have problems." But I do not think so anymore. Why?
a) I have three laptops. 1. 4 years old (2006), Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A1645 (windows 7, Linux 2.6.31) 2. 1.5 years old (2008) Acer Aspire 1520 (Windows 7, Linux 2.6.31) 3. 3 months old (2009) Asus EeePC 1008HA (Windows 7, Windows XP, Linux 2.6.31, latest stable FreeBSD) (Okay, they are not all mine, only the newest)
b) I now run dual- or quadboot on every one of them with Windows 7, Windows XP, + Linux 2.6.33 (Distro = Mandriva 2010.0) (+FreeBSD = latest FreeBSD stable)
c) I needed to install Windows 7 just on last sunday (family pack)
Here is estimation of battery state in hourhs when WWW surfing, coding and compiling stuff (usually the 2. and 3.)
1. 1h 15min. 2. 1h 3. 5-6 hours
These are on FreeBSD and Linux and Windows XP.
Windows 7 gives these.
1. about 30-35 minutes. 2. None..... NONE! 3. 1.5-2 hours!!!
Okay.... is Microsoft now really saying that my 3 MONTHS OLD BATTERY (6-cells) is DYING? And that 1h battery what has worked fine with Linux OS from last 2.6.28-2.6.31 releases is ALREADY DEAD?
Why does Windows 7 eat the battery but when I boot to other software system I get just normal times?????
I have only one thing to say. Sorry about bad language (and typos!): Microsoft, GO TO YOURSELF!!! And I cant not even RETURN THE "#!"#! Family Pack!
Blender doesn't allow you to do anything unless you spend a few hours just configuring things and doing tutorials, which is a pain in the ass compared to 3D studio max (yes, you get what you pay for, 3DS Max is not cheap).
Yes, the money makes the software to be such that it is 100% intuitive and not the UI. We all know that 3D Studio Max is very expensive and thats why it is 100% intuitive so every new users can do same kind effects as we see on the movies when they just pay the license. It is just so awesome that my 80 year old grandmother did better effects to her family movies than what we all have seen on movies like Titanic, Matrix, Final Fantasy and so on. Too bad that the movie studios are so stupid that they do not use 3D Studio Max because it just allows you to create everything so easily without studying and learning first the 3D modeling.
And the blender UI... it really is just so terrible. You see that you can configure it how you want it and how you want it to be on every project. It is just so awful that you need different kind UI with different set of tools for different kind modelings. We really should get a samekind UI what MS copied to Office and started to call them as "Ribbon". Yeah, the Blender would be MUCH easier by that way. No wait... the ribbon is so easy but why does 3D Studio Max have the old 80's looking UI then? Hmm... wonder just why...
But really. When it comes to UI's. The most powerfull UI is not the default. Good defaults just makes the learning easier. But it does not mean that the using the application is easier. The Blender is not designed for new comers, to be a simple tool. It is designed for powerusers who knows what they need and they can get the UI to adapt their demands. Same thing is with GIMP. You can just simply change the UI to such what you like to do. The GIMP has almost everything what any PS user needs to get things done. But problem is that it is not the Adobe Photoshop but GIMP and problem is caused from attitude about it because by default it is not similar with GIMP.
Question is only about do you know the power of GIMP/Blender UI or not. Seems you have never even tried to solve problems. But you just made up your mind and you try to stick with it as long as possible. You believe the problem is on GIMP. But you do not accept to notice the problem is you. For those new users who comes to Linux and have used someway PS. I configure GIMP look more like this http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/9131/gimpps.jpg That is not a perfect because I use myself different kind UI what fits my needs better. But I know it can be configured pretty close one to PS. And they do not usually miss anything and actually they like GIMP because it teach them the basic thinking how to do manipulate photos and not just using automatic filters getting similar looking results every time.
No, sorry. Earth is just 6000 thousand year old so there is no prophesy what means no problem... but they still wants your money so give it away and sell your house, car and all property!
I did swith from CFS to Deadline about week ago. I didn't even know this is now suggested. I just wanted to try does it help situation at all. Somehow I have feeled that CFQ has slowed my system.
You can swtich the scheduler in running system, no need to even logout or restart. This is one reason why I love Linux OS (monolithic kernel = OS).
became a root (or use sudo if it is a must).
First to check out what scheduler you are currently using and what are available on your Linux OS:
cat/sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
then switch to deadline by simply giving command:
echo deadline >/sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
The Linux OS will first execute all currently running jobs with old scheduler what it was doing and then switch to new scheduler. On my system, it was right away because I was not running any heavy tasks.
check again has the switch be done.
cat/sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
And you should see [deadline] and not [cfq]
That's it. Simply as that. But when you reboot the Linux OS, you need to do that again or then you can pass that to GRUB to order Linux OS to start with that scheduler.
By adding in menu.lts option, to same line what starts by "kernel". To the end of that line just place this:
elevator=deadline So it is the last on that line. Then it will be the used scheduler of Linux OS for all process just from begin of system boot.
On my system, the speedup is good when running few applicatios only. But when multitasking few I/O apps, I got feeling it is slower. Like running a database sync, watching video and updating system packages made few hickups. Thats why I am littlebit curious this change by default. And I would like to test the BFS.
and CFQ is better on multiuser environments than deadline.
But this is the current one and mayby the newer should be tested first.
AAA batteries... if it would use AA batteries, it would be very nice. But AAA is always harder to find when needed. You can not even find so easily a charger for such batteries than for AA.
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I know what is wrong in US economy but I have no comment for how to fix it. It is almost impossible to fix it because of greed people and those who are not willing to give the power away what the people gave to them.
History has lots of nice examples what told what is going to happened. But because media control and greed people, no one is wanting to sit down and listen what has happened in the history.
Same thing is with Linux. To know how to actually develope it, you need to understand the history. But young people are too lazy and erregant to spend time to learn stuff, before they can get their hands dirty.
Welcome media overlords, thanks for burning our young peoples minds with all kind crappy media, so they can not think by themselves.
Whem they are older, they might start understanding what actually is happening and then it is already too late.
It would not be anything else than a software system using linux as OS. "OS/2 would be a Linux distribution. Who cares actually does it have a own desktop or server services. Only intresting point here is that IBM chosed Linux to be the OS for that. (And Linux means the Linux kernel, a monolithic OS).
That means there is lots of already working software for that "OS/2" as well.
Oh, you mean more like the idea of server-client OS's (Minix, Hurd, NT, XNU etc) had over monolithic OS's like Linux, BSD's, SunOS?
I do have. I have (almost) paperless office. All work is done digitally with few computers. Coffee cup is usually with the wireless keyboard and mouse. I do not even have a mousepad because laser mouse.
One key for 99% paperless office is to have a scanner and not to have a printer in front of you. Every paper what you get, you scan it to digital format and throw away the original if there is no need to store it to shelfs (laws demanding it etc). If something is needed to send via paper format, then you can print it out. Otherwise none of stuff gets printed. This works very well when moving around the country. All documents can be backupped easily, shared and edited if needed. The Office can be totally clear from paper. (This does not mean other rooms would not have paper, like magazines).
And my desk is glass and about 50% opaque. Very easy to keep clean. Just move keyboard and mouse and wipe it two times a week. Monitor is positioned so it can be easily moved up. My next project is to get a 100% transparent glass, place monitor under the glass and use a very thin mousepad (1mm) with 30x30 area. This would leave whole desk clear when placing keyboard and mouse (+pad) to shelf.
But for me this kind technology has no use. I would like more about the touch functions in the table itself. More like MS Surface but should be better.
My mother does not even know what is the web browser (or Internet search engine). She still reads multiple websites daily. And she does have Linux as OS in her computer. Just changed distro from Ubuntu to openSUSE for faster speed and for better backages for her use.
Linux has be ready for mainstream now since 1995. Problem for its popularity has not be in the Linux OS (you can not see it) but the GNU/Linux propaganda and mostly, the user interfaces (like Gnome) and lack of needed special apps. And because MS could lock users to itself, having a dominant market position what to abuse. There has not be any good changes for Linux before few years ago. Canonical just happened to come littlebit later than all the software for daily use was developed. And desktops were starting to have good usability. Nothing special didn't Canonical add to the palet, just happened to be a new distribution with good marketing point from rich man who founded the Canonical and distrohoppers and new users happened to catch Ubuntu before any other as good distro. And same thing is even valid today. Nothing special in Ubuntu, just fame.
And that fame does not give anything special knowledge how to change internet search engine in your browser. You need to know how to actually do it and what the internet search engine is. And Linux has nothing to do with that task.
So you do not want to take HTML5 in use and allow standard to replace propietary Flash....
Hopefully no one will anymore use your sites.
Will MeeGo bring up the Linux OS static up on web sites in future? Linux OS (the monolithic kernel) is great example why Open Source OS works in servers, desktops, mobile devices, embedded systems and supercomputers.
But we should not just stay on Linux. Nokia should start using GNU's OS as well. Even that Hurd is not so mature OS as Linux is, it still has potential to be a such one. Only developers are missing. Maybe problem is that Hurd is with GPLv3 while Linux is GPLv2.
Now when Linux is the OS in the Android and MeeGo and it is used on many different desktop systems in its distributions focused to that usage, like Fedora, Mandriva, OpenSUSE, Debian and Ubuntu. We can start having such big steps on mobile side as well and then get people understand that Linux is just the monolithic OS and they can choose what kind different softwares they use as desktops and application programs they run. So in the end, there might be balance of desktop markets as well because of MeeGo (and Android).
OS does not need to report anything differently. In this case, Linux does still report data as so far. Only other non-OS softwares like in this case GNOME, gets changed to show correct data. GNOME does the change like KDE did for KDE SC. Canonical is not doing anything here, they just follow what GNOME does.
Only change what happens is that GNOME starts using IEC standard as SI standard can not be used.
Canonical is not doing anything, GNOME is doing. Do not blame Canonical for stuff what GNOME does. And do not blame GNOME from this because it is correctly done!
Even KDE started to use standards on KDE Software Compliation 4th generation. You do not get wrong size information, only one letter is added to follow international standard (as it has always be).
And there are cellphones using same technology. Nokia is just trying to patent a own kind idea what is used on flashlights ( I have one such where the magnet moves from end to end. Uses one bright LED and with about 1 hour shakecharging the flashlight lights up very brightly for one week continuesly). Here is the cellphone with technology what Nokia is patenting. http://www.uncells.com/models/product-details/ Altough Nokia is trying to get battery and all other functions in the rack and slide it inside the phone.
And how you would ensure that the code stays open without copyright?
GPL would not be unnecessary at all then. Because the copyright being only 10 (or less) years, it would make all available open source code as public domain and you can close it and never show the source to anyone.
GPL is demanding that the software user who gets the binary, gets the sources as well by some way.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pirate-party.html
We can not throw away all the copyrights. There are many situations that you need to maintain the copyright. In one case 5 years is enough, but some cases over 50 years is enough.
And why we are always fighting with copyright laws in US or GB? There are lots of countries where are sane laws about copyright.
Example Finland. If you buy a CD or DVD (or Blu-ray) you have rights to make few copies of it for your own personal use or to your closest friends and family. Few means here 3-10. And those who gets copies, can not copy or deliver them to any other. So you can make your backups and copies to car, MP3-player, to summer house etc.
You can even break the encryption to see or listen video/music what you bought and translate the music to format what fits to you.
But you can not sell or share the mixed version of the copyrighted material what you have. No one can not stop you to mix it for yourself such thing but not to share it. If you mix music and you actually create something new what is not the original or similar, you can share it and you have the copyright for it.
But that line is very thin and very hard to say when you step over that so you can do it.
U.S and GB and many of their old ruled countries has a common law and it allows them to have very stupid laws in place. In other germanic countries there are laws but you always need to understand what is the reason why something has be done and judge it by moral and wisdom.
First, it is not KDE 4.4 but a KDE SC 4.4
(KDE software compilation 4.4)
Second, Akonadi and Nepomuk (+ Strigi) does not suck at all if you use distribution what has focused to stability and quality. Ubuntu is not one of them.
I use distribution what has always got Pulse Audio, Nepomuk and Akonadi working right of the box as they are meant. Now about over year I have just enjoyed about those but everytime you need to use Ubuntu. They fail, they suck and you can not blame the upstream from that but only the distributors who do not READ the FAQ's how to make them work.
2004 I had a Ericsson phone. It was pretty big on that time, but same time as most Nokia's phones.
I dropped it in accidentally in the kokko (http://www.fotopankki.fi/dispVeryLarge/6316245-Kokko) on the midsummer day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer
I noticed that I had lost the phone about 5 minutes later. I tought that I had dropped in the path when I carried few times big woods to fireplace.
I went to search the phone from the 50 meter path and didn't find it. I tought that I call it from my friends phone to find it.
I called to it and it ringed 7 times and then it hanged up and did not take calls anymore but went to answering machine. I tought that batter went empty because it was already warning few hours ago.
I said to my friend that I would come to next day to search it.
Then I noticed that in the kokko is small green flame. And right away I understanded that when I awas carrying the woods, the cell phone was slipped from my belt between the woods and gone in the kokko when throw there.
We were all amazed how the Ericcson was survived there about 10 minutes and even taken the calls until the batteries and everything else was melted totally and the cell phone did not anymore take calls.
Now every midsummer day friends are asking from me have I planned to burn my current phone for testing how well it would stand the fire or did I leave it to home for that night.
Okay, check out the SupCom2 (Supreme Commander 2) game. The SupCom itself was great and its addon (standalone) added lots of new features.
But on SupCom2 developers were just thrilled how easy they made the game to play. How they added new tactics and new units.And same time they announced the SupCom2 will come for 3rd generation game consoles as well...
You say what? a RTS game to consoles? Not everyone own a keyboard+mouse but everyone owns a gamepad.
Just check out the just released SupCom2 demo and you can notice only one thing, the game sucks. Smaller, Faster, SImpler and lots of simpler strategies. Now it is more like point and click game than a stratetic game.
When you do games, DO NOT MAKE THEM FROM SIMPLER DEVICES FIRST! (= consoles). Make the game first for the PC platform (and make it available for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX) with all the glory and playability. THEN AFTER THAT, make the slim version of the game to game consoles, with dimmed down controls and blocked areas. You could even rip off all the functionality from the game and you could even then pleasure for both gamers groups, advanced, skilled and smart players. And then those who just want to sit down on coach 2 meters (6 feet) away from screen pushing those 10 buttons just for relaxing.
What, are you saying that from iTunes store 144 000 apps there is not even single game?
Why the Solitaire is most played game in the world?
Seems you have not used Windows 7 and noticed how well it run on slower computers even with 512 RAM. It can be (not with every computer) faster than XP with fresh install and it stays longer running well. Now I want to know how well does it run on these laptops well until starts slowing down.
I do not trust that myth that you need latest hardware to run the Windows. Thats why I skipped Windows Vista totally because it was crap. 7 is what Vista should be and as far it has worked but it just is eating all the batter and I can not trust it is the fault of firmware or anything outside of Windows 7. Because if earlier release of Windows or other OS's and their heavier systems can not suffer it, what is the problem then in them.
How well does page support standards and is it designed that blind people can run it trough voice syntetisator or Lynx to read it with the "blind keyboard".
I would not like that any page is designed for specific browser at all. Was it FF, Opera, Safari, IE etc.
I would support last two Windowses and the latest Internet Explorer browser for them.
IE8 is available for XP so I can not find reason to support IE7 (or the IE6 at all) anymore.
Admins should start to notice that it is better to update to latest stable version of used software and we should drive all developers as well to understand that.
It is not good that one software company can keep all its clients having old version of other software when they need to use their one software and it is not supporting newer versions of next ones. Usual problem is the license fees of updating (every update costs extra), even that they are fixing bugs what they have done in the first place.
Just support last two version what is supported by browser developers but do not tie yourself to last one but always the newest.
I would like to know do we still need in the bottom the fine print "Best viewed with browser X and Y with resolution XY"?
Okay, I saw this in the news when it came. I thought "Okay, some laptops seems to have problems." But I do not think so anymore. Why?
a) I have three laptops.
1. 4 years old (2006), Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A1645 (windows 7, Linux 2.6.31)
2. 1.5 years old (2008) Acer Aspire 1520 (Windows 7, Linux 2.6.31)
3. 3 months old (2009) Asus EeePC 1008HA (Windows 7, Windows XP, Linux 2.6.31, latest stable FreeBSD)
(Okay, they are not all mine, only the newest)
b) I now run dual- or quadboot on every one of them with Windows 7, Windows XP, + Linux 2.6.33 (Distro = Mandriva 2010.0) (+FreeBSD = latest FreeBSD stable)
c) I needed to install Windows 7 just on last sunday (family pack)
Here is estimation of battery state in hourhs when WWW surfing, coding and compiling stuff (usually the 2. and 3.)
1. 1h 15min.
2. 1h
3. 5-6 hours
These are on FreeBSD and Linux and Windows XP.
Windows 7 gives these.
1. about 30-35 minutes.
2. None..... NONE!
3. 1.5-2 hours!!!
Okay.... is Microsoft now really saying that my 3 MONTHS OLD BATTERY (6-cells) is DYING? And that 1h battery what has worked fine with Linux OS from last 2.6.28-2.6.31 releases is ALREADY DEAD?
Why does Windows 7 eat the battery but when I boot to other software system I get just normal times?????
I have only one thing to say. Sorry about bad language (and typos!): Microsoft, GO TO YOURSELF!!! And I cant not even RETURN THE "#!"#! Family Pack!
Even that this is not so special news for tech people, but this might be first time when the network deive manufacturer is marketing it with Linux.
Blender doesn't allow you to do anything unless you spend a few hours just configuring things and doing tutorials, which is a pain in the ass compared to 3D studio max (yes, you get what you pay for, 3DS Max is not cheap).
Yes, the money makes the software to be such that it is 100% intuitive and not the UI. We all know that 3D Studio Max is very expensive and thats why it is 100% intuitive so every new users can do same kind effects as we see on the movies when they just pay the license. It is just so awesome that my 80 year old grandmother did better effects to her family movies than what we all have seen on movies like Titanic, Matrix, Final Fantasy and so on. Too bad that the movie studios are so stupid that they do not use 3D Studio Max because it just allows you to create everything so easily without studying and learning first the 3D modeling.
And the blender UI... it really is just so terrible. You see that you can configure it how you want it and how you want it to be on every project. It is just so awful that you need different kind UI with different set of tools for different kind modelings. We really should get a samekind UI what MS copied to Office and started to call them as "Ribbon". Yeah, the Blender would be MUCH easier by that way. No wait... the ribbon is so easy but why does 3D Studio Max have the old 80's looking UI then? Hmm... wonder just why...
But really. When it comes to UI's. The most powerfull UI is not the default. Good defaults just makes the learning easier. But it does not mean that the using the application is easier. The Blender is not designed for new comers, to be a simple tool. It is designed for powerusers who knows what they need and they can get the UI to adapt their demands. Same thing is with GIMP. You can just simply change the UI to such what you like to do. The GIMP has almost everything what any PS user needs to get things done. But problem is that it is not the Adobe Photoshop but GIMP and problem is caused from attitude about it because by default it is not similar with GIMP.
Question is only about do you know the power of GIMP/Blender UI or not. Seems you have never even tried to solve problems. But you just made up your mind and you try to stick with it as long as possible. You believe the problem is on GIMP. But you do not accept to notice the problem is you. For those new users who comes to Linux and have used someway PS. I configure GIMP look more like this http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/9131/gimpps.jpg That is not a perfect because I use myself different kind UI what fits my needs better. But I know it can be configured pretty close one to PS. And they do not usually miss anything and actually they like GIMP because it teach them the basic thinking how to do manipulate photos and not just using automatic filters getting similar looking results every time.
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No, sorry. Earth is just 6000 thousand year old so there is no prophesy what means no problem... but they still wants your money so give it away and sell your house, car and all property!
I did swith from CFS to Deadline about week ago. I didn't even know this is now suggested. I just wanted to try does it help situation at all. Somehow I have feeled that CFQ has slowed my system.
You can swtich the scheduler in running system, no need to even logout or restart. This is one reason why I love Linux OS (monolithic kernel = OS).
became a root (or use sudo if it is a must).
First to check out what scheduler you are currently using and what are available on your Linux OS:
cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
then switch to deadline by simply giving command:
echo deadline > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
The Linux OS will first execute all currently running jobs with old scheduler what it was doing and then switch to new scheduler. On my system, it was right away because I was not running any heavy tasks.
check again has the switch be done.
cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
And you should see [deadline] and not [cfq]
That's it. Simply as that. But when you reboot the Linux OS, you need to do that again or then you can pass that to GRUB to order Linux OS to start with that scheduler.
By adding in menu.lts option, to same line what starts by "kernel". To the end of that line just place this:
elevator=deadline So it is the last on that line. Then it will be the used scheduler of Linux OS for all process just from begin of system boot.
On my system, the speedup is good when running few applicatios only. But when multitasking few I/O apps, I got feeling it is slower. Like running a database sync, watching video and updating system packages made few hickups. Thats why I am littlebit curious this change by default. And I would like to test the BFS.
and CFQ is better on multiuser environments than deadline.
But this is the current one and mayby the newer should be tested first.
AAA batteries... if it would use AA batteries, it would be very nice. But AAA is always harder to find when needed. You can not even find so easily a charger for such batteries than for AA.