Comment Re:f**k nvidia... (Score 1) 192
In fairness there's something about it in the release notes, and a workaround that seems farily easy (no dicking around in the command line)
In fairness there's something about it in the release notes, and a workaround that seems farily easy (no dicking around in the command line)
Amstrad CPC6128 was very successful, especially popular in Europe - cheap price as a dedicated monitor was always bundled and a floppy drive was integrated, whereas other stuff like C64, Spectrum etc. tended to be used with a cassette drive and on the television.
It's not a killer machine, though. Rudimentary sound and no sprites - but it was colorful, with 16 colors out of a 32 color palette (much better than 8 fixed colors on some of the 8bit crap
Then it did have an upgrade that made it a "killer 8-bit"! These were the ill-fated CPC Plus and GX-4000 console. Typical fate of an upgraded model and a failed, unsupported console. It didn't help that the year was 1990, well into the times of Amiga 500 and Megadrive/Genesis and NES utterly dominating the game consoles.
France had that usual Colbertian, Louis XIV attitude of über strong centralization applied to nearly everything, so you have a single giant company (formerly 100% state owned, now 84% state owned) managing well over 50 nuclear reactors, and another virtually 100% state owned company dealing with plant building and the whole fuel cycle.
I guess that is what the nuclear industry needs. It's as if you had a company headquartered in Washington D.C., owned at 100% by the Department of Energy that operated all the 210 or so reactors. I guess that for many US readers such an idea would lead to many raised or frowned eyebrows. (But the US situation is almost like Mr Burns owning a single nuclear plant and nothing else and that isn't sustainable)
I wish the European Union could be used for such endeavours. And, I have some many anarchist tendancies but when it comes to such things as this I'm a big Statist. It's like single payer healthcare, where the giant government thing is actually twice as efficient as private industry : the more "privatized" the system is, the more issues of undercoverage, surveillance and endless paperwork, effectively dozens or hundreds fiefdoms of power are created that leech off people and have the absolute word on what they can and cannot do. (I'm dwelling off-topic here to address some philosophical issue)
Varying the production more often and with more amplitude decreases the efficiency and increases the maintenance costs. Maybe that's a claim by the power industries but that seems to be a legit one.
Like, this stuff is not free and to just build solar and wind capacity (whose nominal megawatts/gigawatts are inflated and capacity factor overestimated) while not caring about the grid is myopic and stupid.
Wind is especially problematic as it can fall off a cliff from one hour to the next and this may happen country-wide.
Mind you I believe I'm a pretty hard line environmentalist next to most everyone. I "hate" all those renewables because Germany has shown up what actually happens when you apply the dogmatic, simplistic no-thinking thinking. Higher costs for everyone who pays and the CO2 emissions increasing.
I believe we need new industries that can consume the intermittent surplus energy.
E.g. a place that manages a fleet of light trucks (for companies to use and for people to rent for the day), that perhaps routinely does battery swaps, where a shit ton of battery charging happens when it's the cheapest but the power use is strongly coupled to consumption goals, updated every 5 minutes and they may quickly collapse or rise back as dictated by the utility provider or some kind of regulatory structure. I'll call that a "push smartgrid".
Chemical industry with a production that can easily be scaled up/down or rather "scaled out", as per the computer jargon. Well I hope such things can be done (with "reverse fuel cells", water treatment/dessalination, or who knows what) and obviously there would be a lot of engineering and investment needed.
It's used by the Gimp. Seriously!
Also, major environments : XFCE, Mate, LXDE ; and many major or common applications. Some of them support a choice of GTK2 or Qt, or GTK2 and GTK3.
No need to break stuff.. And the Gnome team owns GTK3, and has shown itself rather hostile to developers. GTK1 is completely dead, but GTK2 will probably stick around just like some other stuff does (motif, Tk, and the kind of stuff that was already ugly in 1989)
As long as doing that sort of thing won't kill people by carbon monoxide poisoning, sure.
But many people who made GTK3 themes were alienated by the spec changing at every minor version. I have no idea if the thing is settled now, plus a theme has to support GTK2 apps so what is needed is a combined theme working for two or more versions..
Not sure if that's the only reason but e.g. Linux Mint comes with one single theme. I have not tried to get others.
xcalc is pretty good as a basic calculator, not too ugly and right mix of small but not hiding stuff like 1/x, trig and x^y.
One cost-effective method is called "wood", but while it's underutilized in some first world countries it is grossly overexploited in some other countries (and even causes respiratory diseases)
I use NetworkManager - as it doesn't hang or something on that particular computer and looks good enough, I did not rip it out for wicd - and it does automatically connect to a wifi network, but that does not give actual connectivity on a public or semi-public hotspot. There's still the task of opening a web browser page, have it "hijacked" by the hotspot and do whatever is needed there.
I recommend Filezilla to people for that task, it's DE-independant and OS independant too (runs on both Windows and Linux, probably on others).
Nemo is great, I ran some Mate franken-desktop with it ; now Mate's caja got even more similar (as a fork of Nautilus 2.x) so I believe you would find it to be a very decent option, would you be running a Mate desktop.
May I say how I like pcmanfm, too. Though I don't feel like I can easily try the latest version on my current OS.
It seems like all nautilus clones are great, except nautilus itself.
What is leftist about it? Free subsidies to corporations and a lack of will to do anything about global warming is a right-wing thing.
Wrong : the 80% efficiency is not electricity but heat + electricity. Or that is what I understand. 80% eletric efficiency would be big news. And even then, maybe the figure is optimistic i.e. apply perfect black paint to a piece of cardboard and you have a 100% efficient device, even though it's of no pratical use.
I hate Gnome 3 as much as anyone, but I once used it on a computer which I assume was probably just debian wheezy (when wheezy was still late testing). It seemed decent at showing one or two windows seemingly guessing where I wanted them to be moved to.. Maybe I can't explain myself about it. It seemed very good at managing a handful terminal and browser windows. While not providing something like a taskbar. Kind of an OpenGL accelerated, black-themed Windows 3.1.
It's not a real desktop environment, but if you have a computer with a recent enough GPU and good enough I/O it might be usable if you think of it as a window manager.
but my terminal says :
No command 'term' found, did you mean:
Command 'aterm' from package 'aterm' (universe)
Command 'aterm' from package 'aterm-ml' (universe)
Command 'bterm' from package 'bogl-bterm' (main)
Command 'terd' from package 'tcm' (universe)
Command 'kterm' from package 'kterm' (universe)
Command 'xterm' from package 'xterm' (main)
Command 'ferm' from package 'ferm' (universe)
Command 'pterm' from package 'pterm' (universe)
Command 'qterm' from package 'qterm' (universe)
Command 'qterm' from package 'torque-client-x11' (universe)
Command 'qterm' from package 'torque-client' (universe)
term: command not found
If I'm in an environment I'm not familiar with (perhaps I never used it at all) I will expect that alt-f2 on *nix or win+r on Windows will give me a "run box" that works at least with raw executable names, but maybe not more than that. So on a random *nix desktop (but maybe not twm or any random weird stuff) I'll hit alf-f2 and then xterm, on Windows I'll hit win+r and then cmd. So I could e.g. shut down Windows 8 the old way without trying to figure out the GUI way.
fortune: No such file or directory