thingie

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by thingie 16y ago
Well, btrfs is a new filesystem with a completely new implementation, and it is still not in "production quality". It's in the mainline kernel, it works (I recently converted my / to btrfs), but still I had to check an option labeled experi
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by thingie 16y ago
So, I've sent quite a lot of (pretty much blank, but should I lie?) resumes, mostly didn't get any answer at all, and… what now? :) It's almost funny.
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by thingie 16y ago
I also think that intentionally breaking the website (in the worst possible way) in an unsupported browser is exactly the behavior we're trying to get rid of, along with IE6.
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by thingie 16y ago
tjmaxal.name (for example) would be completely fine, if you don't need/want anything fancy. Not so heroic. :)
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by thingie 16y ago
Well, in that initial map scroll-in, you can clearly see that the video is set somewhere in Oslo. (Or at least gives the impression.)
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by thingie 16y ago
Some preview of gnome-shell was already present in F12. And sugar spin isn't new either. Well, it doesn't really matter, but still, I'd like to see some more attention paid to present Fedora as "KDE distro" too.
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by thingie 16y ago
It's quite sad that this promo page doesn't mention KDE (spin, SIG, anything) even at least once.
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by thingie 16y ago
Interesting. I was reading it as an actual (and modest) proposal and, living in Europe, wasn't able to understand what's the deal. Carry you ID on you? Oh, sure, I've been doing that since I was 15 and never had a problem with it. Quite a s
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by thingie 16y ago
http://palisada.net/files/video.html This is enough (look at the source, that's all I did, except uploading the video file). Of course, custom controls and other stuff would take more effort, but just puting a video on your website is thi
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by thingie 16y ago
Oh, sure. H.264 is just a codec, and <video> is just an HTML tag, but somehow, that's exactly what I want. I can (very easily) make a H.264 or Ogg Theora video and wrap it inside <video> tag and it is going to work, I don't
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by thingie 16y ago
I tried. I tried really hard. I really wanted to see it this way. But hey. Sorry. I can't. This is just a mockery to me. I can't stand it anymore, happy faces, banal everyday stories "what are you doing tonight? I am… blah blah!". So you ar
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by thingie 16y ago
I wonder how could any Facebook replacement (or Facebook itself) allow somebody to support some group while not telling anyone. Of course it's possible, donate some money, do some job for them, but… on Facebook or something like Facebook? H
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by thingie 16y ago
Which result would mean a governable country? There are possible coalition governments or even a minority government. Possibly, they won't be as strong as a single party majority government would be, but they are definitely workable. I'd ra
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by thingie 16y ago
It's always client/server asymmetric communication. Server supports QueryExtension and ListExtensions commands. You can see extensions supported by your X server with xdpyinfo command. (see www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/x11proto/proto.html
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by thingie 16y ago
While it would be very surprising to actually be the only one, it's not surprising to feel as the only one. It's quite reasonable to believe that a randomly chosen person is not gay, so you can't just pick someone and think, he is too, fi
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by thingie 16y ago
Well, I was hoping for many more than just two. I don't really see any other way than many competing projects, one eventually killing all others. But it shouldn't be that painful. As you've said, it's mostly about toolkits, and it's easy to
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by thingie 16y ago
X.org considers hardware acceleration, with XRender, for example. Quite too often, buggy and incomplete graphic drivers and other problems makes it even worse than no acceleration at all. I don't really see these problems as X.org specific,
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by thingie 16y ago
How cleaner? X11 is very extensible, if you wanted some vector graphics methods, you could just make an extension. Whole font drawing got replaced in this way, nobody really use old X core fonts anymore, everybody now uses client-based Xft
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by thingie 16y ago
Yes, suse build service is a very nice tool and much more interesting than a single package format, which wouldn't help much. And if the dream is to provide just a single binary package for any distro in the world, it won't work anyway. Wel
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by thingie 16y ago
Did you listen to the talk? :) X.org is quite an advanced graphic system mostly doing what you want it to do. Throwing it out and trying to make something new (for what gain?) means wasting so much resources that it's not even nice. (And ho
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by thingie 16y ago
I really want to check the posted URL and be sure that it points exactly where I want, and doesn't reveal anything unnecessary (all those URLs with tons of information after '?'). I'd feel very embarrassed if I had posted something spam-lik
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by thingie 16y ago
You can, but the support is only optional. I don't know why, but if you use recent gnome notification-daemon and that standard (black, I believe) theme, it escapes the markup. In fact, it already shows all the text in notification in bold,
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by thingie 16y ago
Well, I'd rather sacrifice HTML than the desktop integration in such visually important part of the desktop. In fact, desktop notifications spec (for Linux desktops) allows (very) small subset of HTML, which should fully suffice for any rea
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by thingie 16y ago
Hm, I have no idea how much I pay for the connection (it's included in the rent, I don't pay for it separately) and don't even know exact parameters. It seems to be enough. (Certainly not more than 12mbps or so, but that's enough for me). I
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by thingie 16y ago
And still. Does anyone except military use in-flight refueling? Is every attempt of in-flight refueling successful? If you suddenly lose some speed or something (unfriendly wind or whatever), you have plenty of space to maneuver, and even i
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by thingie 16y ago
It's most useful in such cases (and trams and so on), with very frequent braking and starts and a lot of trains. There is always some other train accelerating. And you have majority (if not all) axles powered, so you can have regenerative b
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by thingie 16y ago
Coupling two things together in 200 or 300 kph is not a hard problem? That's like people without any programming experience saying, hey, that traveling salesman can be easily solved for 10 nodes, so just add more power and solve it for 100
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by thingie 16y ago
High speed trains don't have any locomotives (only German ICE1 uses this approach), powered axles (and other electric equipment) are distributed across the whole unit. (So you can't split it, only couple/uncouple two units together.) But, i
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by thingie 16y ago
It's quite common. Except that there are no batteries (battery won't do, you can't charge it fast enough), you just need to have another train in the same section to consume it (or whole network, if your converter substations are ready for
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by thingie 16y ago
Well, even just weight of the people in the transfer car will make it quite heavy (few tons at least). And you are not going to make this for just 10 people at each (non)stop. You could save some energy by using only recuperating electrodyn

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