Hi, this is the real world calling. The last software distributed on CDs that wanted kernel access in the way you're condoning, instead of behaving itself and using system libraries, was the Sony Rootkit.
Your anger should not be aimed at the unnelected construct of law who's only legal purpose for existing is profit - it should be aimed at the assholes in gov't who did this.
In my high school I had to break the brain-damaged "security" just to get my work handed in on time; the only way I could get files onto the system was via http and anything not txt/pdf/doc/etc. was blocked - the system deliberately killed the browser process to prevent me downloading a zip file. With my work in it. I ended up opening it as a text file in dreamweaver and fishing the file out of the cache folder.
I'll spare the complaints about the rest of that whole experience as they're offtopic, but I will say those working conditions would be completely fucking illegal in the real world.
In all honesty, Firefox sucks. It's been 4 years now since they separated the browser from the suite and they still have dangling, nonfunctional menu options referring to email. The "UI integration" is a joke. Scrolling has been broken in compositing WMs ever since Xorg 6.9. The filetype/plugin menus haven't been improved at all since they were first added in one of the 0.x releases. Konqueror is nice but it's not really an option until I can use all my userContent.css hacks in it.
The GUI? GTK+ and Qt. Just about every system has GTK installed. If you want to complain about that, first show me three mainstream multimedia apps in Windows that use the same toolkit. There's a reason you don't see dozens of nonstandard bitmap-based apps on Linux. They look like shit. The system binaries are glibc, gcc, ncurses, bash, etc. DLL Hell doesn't exist because the distros handle all the dependencies for you. The kernel setup is only a problem if you're writing drivers or have severe NIH syndrome. For graphics you have opengl. For sound and input you have SDL, and optionally OpenAL if you want hardware accelerated sound. DX10 doesn't give you the option of hardware accelerated sound. How is that "better"?
Did you choose your OS based on the same metrics? What's the point of running (Debian|Fedora|SuSE|*) if you're not going to install all 15000 packages and fill your RAM with as many as possible?
The hardware support is what's unstable. Right now the only choices are:
nvidia/ati blobs, which aren't an option on a Beryl livecd (and ATI's drivers just suck)
intel's driver, which ties you into their motherboard/cpu
The r200/r300 driver, which is painfully slow in Beryl (it disables most of the 2D acceleration)
I've tried running Beryl on a bunch of other AGP/onboard chips (S3, VIA, Matrox and an old Rage128). Nothing works, you're forced to use one of the above.
Slashdot Mirror
Old news.
I want to see the maps. Just to see if they're anywhere near as badly-built as Eric Harris' ones.
Hi, this is the real world calling. The last software distributed on CDs that wanted kernel access in the way you're condoning, instead of behaving itself and using system libraries, was the Sony Rootkit.
In summary, fuck off.
The Tux server has never been a part of the official tree. What's there to explain?
I'd prefer cables going to NZ/Aus. The internet service there is third-world.
There's a difference?
I just write everything as plain HTML.
Does it run a proprietary DRMed Linux?
In my high school I had to break the brain-damaged "security" just to get my work handed in on time; the only way I could get files onto the system was via http and anything not txt/pdf/doc/etc. was blocked - the system deliberately killed the browser process to prevent me downloading a zip file. With my work in it.
I ended up opening it as a text file in dreamweaver and fishing the file out of the cache folder.
I'll spare the complaints about the rest of that whole experience as they're offtopic, but I will say those working conditions would be completely fucking illegal in the real world.
I bet he's reconsidering helping them now.
7.5% of 0.
Well, that's why I dumped nVidia. My Radeon 9250 "Just Works", like my network card or sound card.
For the record, they didn't in Windows and this is an OEM machine.
Why wait five years to test it in Wine? Why not now? If it's good enough for Google Earth why not everyone?
libata supposedly has a driver for my old IDE-only chipset, but I've never got that to work. Maybe it just doesn't work for some people.
How does it compare with Encarta in terms of article count?
...Like GHz or lines of code.
Take the Itanic for example, or the P4, or WindowsME/Vista.
In all honesty, Firefox sucks. It's been 4 years now since they separated the browser from the suite and they still have dangling, nonfunctional menu options referring to email. The "UI integration" is a joke. Scrolling has been broken in compositing WMs ever since Xorg 6.9. The filetype/plugin menus haven't been improved at all since they were first added in one of the 0.x releases.
Konqueror is nice but it's not really an option until I can use all my userContent.css hacks in it.
Which part of Linux has too much choice?
The GUI? GTK+ and Qt. Just about every system has GTK installed. If you want to complain about that, first show me three mainstream multimedia apps in Windows that use the same toolkit. There's a reason you don't see dozens of nonstandard bitmap-based apps on Linux. They look like shit.
The system binaries are glibc, gcc, ncurses, bash, etc. DLL Hell doesn't exist because the distros handle all the dependencies for you. The kernel setup is only a problem if you're writing drivers or have severe NIH syndrome.
For graphics you have opengl. For sound and input you have SDL, and optionally OpenAL if you want hardware accelerated sound. DX10 doesn't give you the option of hardware accelerated sound. How is that "better"?
The 1st/2nd gen had limited EVs as well, the 3rd gen just changes it so it's a points pool instead of per-stat caps.
You know, I don't think I can remember anything on /. that mentions Gartner in a way that doesn't imply they're paid MS shills.
The universe uses portal-based rendering. The only question now is, is it Direct3D or OpenGL?
Did you choose your OS based on the same metrics? What's the point of running (Debian|Fedora|SuSE|*) if you're not going to install all 15000 packages and fill your RAM with as many as possible?
I've tried running Beryl on a bunch of other AGP/onboard chips (S3, VIA, Matrox and an old Rage128). Nothing works, you're forced to use one of the above.
Actually, it can compress sparse files.
Beryl/Compiz costs nothing.
If it matters that much to you then vote with your wallet, because your words are worthless.