I can still enjoy a magic show while knowing that none of it is supernatural...
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So when someone tells about a supernatural event, my default position is that it didn't happen, until there is actual evidence. You might call this close minded but I call it the only sane way to approach things. You can take another stance and just go into the "conspiracy theory" communities and end up believing that the government is out to kill most humans, that the government are shapeshifting reptilians, that the illuminati control the government, that the government is trying to control you with fluoride in your water and toothpaste or with chemtrails or that vaccines cause autism.
> Many people are never the same, Moody says. They abandon careers that were focused on money or power for more altruistic pursuits.
Yet every single link in the article leads to a book that is sold for profit. None of them have an ebook free of charge.
Also, I didn't see any proof.
Also there is this relatively new colord stuff which gnome seems to support (I think only loading profiles)...
VST... well, it's a "standard" but it uses compiled native code. What can you expect? There are some projects like festige/fsthost/dssi-vst that try to integrate with wine. When I tried it I got very mixed results but then I did not try with a realtime kernel and additionally I only tried it with the default priority of jackd run as user. I was told it would work much better on low latency systems. Ubuntu Studio is apparently still a thing, so there are probably an number of easy to setup distribution with this stuff enabled. But yes, the VST situation is bad.
http://stackoverflow.com/a/1695250
Even with reverse mapping.
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Well, he is a mac user.
As a Linux user this is how the original android emulator with the intel image looks like:
https://anonfiles.com/file/cb80d8bd4b46c09c37efd1bd850cc0ed (may not directly play in all browsers, in midori it does, you may have to "download" it)
I only modified the system partition a bit so that I have the google apps. Google Search for some reason doesn't work, but the rest is ok.
I haven't found a website where intel does provide the latest images, but there it's apparantly all there in that xml file: http://download-software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/android...
On my laptop the touchpad does pretty much behave how I expect it to behave.
Also, a Netbook I bought 2008 or so had two-finger scroll. True, many backwards notebook manufacturers were behind the times but most just have been using the standard synaptics hardware I think. The windows drivers have the scroll area preconfigured by default but then the scrolling behaviour with the synaptics tool is pretty bad no matter how you configure it.
On linux synaptics touchpads are just fine (for me).
Tl;dr:
They used bogus metrics that favor clean installs, Apple's notebooks were the only ones they installed a "clean" windows on.
But... Why does it make sense?
We... "We"...
Let's see what the situation with germany's Telekom is like:
2010: http://heise.de/-1102458 - At the end of 2011 all DSL connections will be switched to ipv4/ipv6 dual stack
Mid 2012: http://heise.de/-1605061 - At the end of 2012 they will provide ipv4/ipv6 dual stack
End of 2012: http://heise.de/-1763557 - Only customers with VOIP or ISDN are getting ipv6.
It's not "me" who loves it, it's the ISPs.
15 * Microsoft
8 * Intel
2 * Apple
1 * Android
4 * Tablets
2 * Smartphones
0 * Linux
0 * AmdOn the other hand, he uses apple hardware and loses "100′s of hours of productivity" (why didn't he just have it repaired) and what about it? "Long live Apple"
Such is the mentality of another apple user. (I realize that probably the vast majority of apple users are the ones I don't read about). But those that do and often end up having an article here... really?
I'm not an apple user so I had to google what that means. Apparently it is a synonym for mainboard and it seems to be mainly used for apple computers. Is there a reason to use "logic board" instead of "mainboard"?
It's just another linux and everything can be ported from it if necessary. Even unity would work fine, once ubuntu's patched x.org and libindicator were on Archlinux.
As far as I know ubuntu has been the the most popular (for targetting software) distribution for several years now, so why not?
I still don't understand that. Simply support ubuntu only, the other distributions will do the rest. E.g. the steam beta worked fine on archlinux and fedora from day one. And if they have problems you can either decide to look into it or ignore it because you officially only support ubuntu.
As usual with linux they provide downloads like "dropbox_1.4.0_amd64.deb". So I went to the windows and mac os download page to look at what version the blog post was about (the blog did not say that it was 2.0).
Then I tried the link they have for the command line install: https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64
This actually downloads a dropbox that is versioned with 2.0. At least there's a file VERSION included that has 2.0.0 as its content.
The "gui" (tray context menu I guess) of course hasn't changed, it's still the same it was a long time ago.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/KB_German...
There's something in the wiki but I have no mac, so I don't know what I'm talking about: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBook#Touchpad
> NDISwrapper. Unfortunately, I had to end up Googling around for hours to find a solution consisting of modifying the driver itself before the USB adapter would work. Once it was actually working, it would just randomly stop every once in a while.
No, you didn't "have to do that". You could have invested $10 and get an usb wifi adapter from a company that doesn't produce highly proprietary windows-only hardware. With buying the original usb adapter you were giving a company money that contributed to the vendor lockin for windows. You personally contributed to the problem.
> Next, came the display. Ubuntu, for some reason, labeled my two monitors as “Laptop” and treated it as a single screen.
No, ubuntu didn't do that. The nvidia driver did that.
> I was forced to use the NVIDIA display configuration utility.
Yes, because nvidia did not implement the randr freedesktop.org standard. Recently they implemented it I think but for a long time the proprietary nvidia driver was stuck with buggy and nonstandard configuration.
>Onto the windows manager.
window manager
I have used ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10 for a few days so I don't have any long term data.
> Beyond the frequent crashing for no particular reason, #
I don't think I have seen a crash. How frequent exactly?
> there were constant glitches. Leave the computer for a while and come back? Title bars for windows would become glitchy and unreadable. Restoring a window from being minimized? Sometimes it’ll just be white. Go ahead and minimize and restore it again to fix.
Sounds like bugs in the nvidia driver.
> Icons randomly disappearing from the dock, requiring a restart of Unity? Yup, pretty consistent there too.
I haven't seen this but at least it sounds like the first actual problem in ubuntu's unity.
> Not only this, but the experience felt laggy. On the beefy machine it was running on, I expected the performance to be smooth and responsive but it was quite the opposite.
Do you have a video from the laggyness? I have used 12.04's and 12.10's unity on a nvs 300 which is a really slow card and it felt fine.
>At the login screen, it’s possible to select GNOME instead of Unity so I gave that a shot, assuming going back to GNOME would work. As soon as it booted in I was greeted by a monitor that didn’t work and a window full of error messages.
"booted in"?
Any screenshot?
> After Googling around for a while, I found some configuration changes to make in my xorg.conf file and was able to actually get it working.
Which were? No seriously, what could you possibly change in xorg.conf that would make gnome go from only displaying error messages to work?
> I was met with even more errors and problems
Like what?
> so I decided it wasn’t going to work for me. I decided to switch back into Unity.
Fair enough. But if before you change to completely new hardware with a completely different operating system and gui, there are still other alternatives to consider like KDE.
>When I came back? All of my settings were gone. All of my changes to use a sane Alt-Tab in the CompizConfig Settings Manager, my keyboard shortcuts, everything.
That's interesting. I just deleted my compiz config and started ccsm and by default it used the flat file backend for the configuration and it stored its setting in ~/.config/compiz/compizconfig/Default.ini
Perhaps ubuntu had set the gconf backend by default... But unless you deleted either ~/.config/compiz/ or ~/.gconf I don't see how that could have happened.
> Extremely frustrated, I decided to give the Mint side of things a try and give Cinnamon a shot. Again, a few weird problems
Like what?
> Cinnamon didn’t quite fit the bill either. I ran into a display issue or two and found myself actually missing a few things from Unity
Basically half of what you write is absolutely worthless and can be loslessly summarized with "I had some problems".
> When I purchased a printer for my computer? Of course Ubuntu had no idea what to do with it.
But you still gave a company (again, you don't say which one) money for highly proprietary windows-only hardware and then complained about it?
Here is the thing: Companies develop new hardware. Then they sell that hardware and they give you some windows specific software with it to make it work. How do you imagine it starts working in linux? The driver doesn't simply spawn out of thin air, someone has to write it. And if the company producing that hardware doesn't do it, then someone else has to do it. The problem is that there is too much different hardware and not enough people to support every single existing piece of hardware. What you are expecting is magic. Keep that paragraph in mind, I will come back to it later.
> Of course there was a run around necessary to get it working.
Sigh which was?
Also, workaround.
> Even the mouse had problems. My old Logitech MX500, for one reason or another, would spam the logs in dmesg whenever I was using the scroll buttons on it
With what messages? I'm getting a bit tired of asking the same question over and over again... (I'm using a similar logitech mouse right now and it has worked fine for 5+ years now I think)
> Sound would skip while listening to music using anything Flash or HTML 5 related like Grooveshark or Pandora.
Almost surely a bug in the alsa driver. Unfortunate for you, but at least it's a real problem.
> The whole system would lock up occasionally pegging a quad core CPU for no reason at all.
Interesting. Which process would use all the cpu time?
> Sometimes, it would just crash entirely.
Yes, but that happens on all operating systems with buggy drivers. I still sometimes get bluescreens on a windows boot from the amd graphics driver.
> When I’m at a computer, its because I want to get things done. Gone are the days where I have time to tinker around and spend countless hours Googling for some obscure mail archive to find I need to change “bop” to “boop” in /etc/something/config.ini. The amount of time that I had to spend doing this crap was growing instead of shrinking. This is not a good direction for an operating system to go.
Sadly you have not given a single real example of you doing this, only a very unclear anecdote about the xorg.conf that doesn't sound right from the beginning.
The bad thing is that I would agree with the sentiment that recently the linux experience became quite buggy. But not really for any reason you described.
> iPad. It was incredibly powerful,
"powerful"?
> had a beautiful screen,
Yes, probably.
> and was light years beyond any tablet experience in terms of responsiveness,
Well, android tablets are often a little bit laggy, but not to the point were it actually annoys me. Light years, really?
> design
Maybe it's because I don't really give much on design, but I have a hard time taking this seriously. "The iPad is so good, it is light years beyond any tablet experience in terms of design!". Doesn't really work for me.
> and construction.
This may be an actual advantage. A Nexus 7 for example bends and breaks the display quite easily so I would appreciate a better constructed tablet.
> “I’m not building anything in iOS, yet. Maybe I’ll hate the OS and be stuck with a $2,500 bad decision. Walled garden. Non-customizable.” Those were the thoughts that were keeping me from taking the plunge.
Why? You could have still always installed linux on it and would have kept your status quo with just an expensive computer.
> The unboxing was, of course, elegant and easy as my previous Apple products had been. The physicality of the product was awesome.
What the fuck did I just read
> What I found was absolutely shocking: it was far more customizable than I had ever dreamed. Want to move the dock around? Sure, go ahead. In Ubuntu? Nope.
Wrong.
A little bit more correct: In Ubuntu's Unity without changing to one of the numerous alternatives? Nope.
Correct: In Ubuntu's Unity without altering the source code they provide you? Nope.
> Ubuntu had introduced the ability to launch a program or find something from the dash and I had started to like it, even though it was buggy and extremely slow in a lot of cases. Spotlight? Completely blows it away. It’s fast, responsive, and gets me to the program or thing I’m looking for every time.
I don't have a direct comparison but so far I am satisfied with quicksand from kde. Remember: The article supposedly describes how ubuntu pushed you away "from the pc", not just from Ubuntu, or even just Unity.
When comparing the performance, have you also considered that you are comparing a not so new computer with a brand new machine?
> Every device I hooked up to the machine worked flawlessly. Printer? Plug it in, it finds what you need, and you’re good to go.
So you can buy literally any printer and mac os will make it work? I mean, that's what you expected Ubuntu to do, do you still have that expectation?
> Monitor? Plug it in and it recognizes it correctly and makes it available to start working right away.
Just a quick reminder that your problem was never with ubuntu but with software developed and supplied by nvidia.
> OSX was everything I wanted Linux to be and more.
I think it is quite important to say that you don't care about the free software stuff. I think it is one of the biggest reasons to use linux.
1. Slight inconvenience 2. Strong inconvenience 3. Giving away "content" for free
I propose 4.: No inconvenience for the users, charge as you wish and simply sue the people making money illegally off your works.
Because the argument that it doesn't stop illegal copying anyway is correct. Consumers don't like it: http://www.amazon.com/Assassins-Creed-2-Pc/product-reviews/B... http://www.amazon.com/Spore-Mac/product-reviews/B000FKBCX4/ Those people giving 1 star reviews, those are the people who are interested in the game, research it, many of them probably pay money for it and then they are dissatisfied.
For text articles I think the big problem is really if someone copies an article and has some kind of decent traffic on the copy. This should be trivial to find via a search engine and you can take appropriate action directly.
For music and videos... I am not a friend of watermarks but it may be the best method of just selling drm free and going after those people who share the most "commercially".
Mandatory?
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
* log out
* choose kde
* log inI would much prefer an approach like this:
1. Test google maps on the mobile ie. Notice it runs acceptable. 2. Perhaps publicly, ask google why they have the redirect when it actually works fine and refrain from throwing around theories and accusations. 3. Wait maybe 3-5 days for a reaction. 4. If there's no or a negative reaction, THEN create the outrage.
What exactly are you speaking of? Android will display some annoying tips about how to use the app menu and the home screens but after about one minute you are through that. Other than that the only thing that pops up for me are the "What's new" information after an app update. Anything else is is by design by the specific app you are using or by samsung.
> I was told that deleting crapware from Android phones would be easy, however, it seems to be very hard. Even then, there is no way to know which apps you can delete and which you cannot. I gave up on it. It seemed like too much of hassle.
Some apps are preinstalled in the system partition and without root you don't have the write permission to delete it. You know which one these are because when you are in the "apps" settings and click on the app you cannot "uninstall" it but only "disable" it. The result will be almost the same - it won't show up in the app chooser and it will certainly not run. Just take up a little space in the system partition. Why they did introduce that system - I don't know, but I honestly don't understand how you could "give up on it" just because the button says "disable" instead of "uninstall".
>The settings are a mess, unorganized, not explicit, confusingly vast, with very bad descriptions and many options on a same hierarchical level
Define unorganized. I mean, there are groups like "Wireless & Networks", "Interface", "Device", "Personal", "Accounts", "System". I would agree, it's messy but mostly I go through the settings once and then only occassionally. What exactly was so hard to find for you?
> That Play Store! Thousands of confirmation dialogs,
Installing and app is pressing install, then confirming the permissions and then closing the confirmation popup. That last step is rather unneccessary but not really that annoying.
> updating apps is an ordeal.
In the play store, go to settings, check "auto-update apps" and you can update all apps at once and only have to confirm when the permissions of one change. Today I installed cyanogenmod and it was the default. Maybe it's not for yours.
> I gave up.
Why? You still gave no specifics whatsoever what these "thousands of confirmation dialogs" is or what "ordeal" you have to go through to update your apps.
> Scrolling inertia is wrong. Ugh. That's real ugly.
Couldn't find something wrong with it other than the occassional odd behaviour but I think it's the touchscreen hardware. Can you describe what's wrong with it? I really don't understand it.
> Contacts crashed, showing a black screen for a good 20 seconds. When iOS apps crash you are back to the home screen immediately. (Apps crash. I have no problem with that. But they shouldn't crash like that.)
When apps crash on android you should get the typical feedback dialog pretty much instantly. When you have a black screen it probably hang in some strange way (strange because you get the "application not responding" screen after about 5 seconds normally). Maybe if you had exceptionally much i/o operations on the sd card at that time it was slowed down too much? (That is one of the actual problems)
> That inconsistent back button! You never know what it will do (since it's not consistent, there is no rhyme or reason). Sometimes it means back in the app hierarchy, sometimes it takes you back to the last screen you saw, independent of app hierarchy.
That's both pretty cool and pretty annoying depending on what you want to do and what it does. You know what it does when you try and remember it. When I start a first person shooter my "a" key suddenly doesn't type "a" in the chat, it moves me left. And in some other games it rotates me. That's not something that confuses me because it is so inconsistent that's just learning the convention of the application. But maybe I am "special" as I am comfortable with using fluxbox, kde, gnome3 or unity all the same.
> That damn menu button! It hides tons of crap, you never know what there will be. It's seemingly used by lazy UI designers to throw in everything they thought they needed and couldn't fit into the normal UI.
That describes pretty much my browser, chromium, at the moment. It has some buttons in the normal UI and then there is one menu button that hides all the other functionality. Actually that's most menu bars everywhere: You will never know what is hiding there - until you try it.
> The translation to German of the interface is atrocious. Apple make their fair share of embarrassing mistakes, Samsung/Google puts it on a whole new level. Labels that don't fit and are cryptically abbreviated and so on.
Reminds me of blueman: http://ompldr.org/vZ3M3MA/blueman.png ("Audio Sink", for the off chance that you didn't guess it).
The most prominent feature of your rant is the lack of any specific labels that "don't fit" or are "cryptically abbreviated".
> I have to note that I'm talking about my personal taste here.
Honestly, how long have you tried it? I would say at least a week of daily use to get used to the basic functionality.
And you should slow a bit down to condemn "android" when all you have used is one samsung-modified version. Because that's what your first sentence in the other post does.
As I said I installed cyanogenmod on a smartphone today and and I think I like it even better than the stock android on my nexus tablet. This is android too - stock android and a "fan-made" customization of android.