Comment Re:Good thing (Score 1) 949
Someone really thinks this is flamebait??
Comment Re:EA, you've missed the point (Score 1) 313
For one, Steam doesn't charge you to store crap in their cloud. For two, there is still a copy of the save on disk. You could manage all your saves manually just like before (keep a backup in case the cloud copy overwrites it). The service just copies them to new installs/computers so you don't have to.
Comment Re:Saving Yourself A World Of Pain (Score 1) 766
Well, it's a primary partition and if you plan on adding more two on top of that you'd be stuck with extended or LVM and the like. It's not the size that's so much of a problem - its the fact that it's a partition.
Atlas V's Sonic Boom Made Visible By Sundog
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Ross-Shire Geek writes "Atlas V lifted off on Feb 11 from Kennedy. As it goes supersonic through a sundog (aka parhelion) you can see (video link) wonderful visible ripples of the shock wave in the sky."
Which Linux For Non-Techie Windows Users? 766
obarthelemy writes "Having at last gotten Linux to run satisfactorily on my own PCs, I'd now like to start transitioning friends and family from XP to Linux instead of Windows 7. The catch is that these guys don't understand or care much about computers, so the transition has to be as seamless and painless as possible. Actually, they won't care for new things; even the upcoming upgrade to Windows 7 would be a pain and a bother, which is a great opportunity for Linux. I'm not too concerned about software (most of them only need browser, IM, VLC, mail and a Powerpoint viewer for all those fascinating attachments). What I'm concerned about is OS look-and-feel and interface — system bar on the bottom with clock, trash, info on the right, menu on the left, menu items similar to those of Windows. Is it better to shoot for a very targeted distro? Which would you recommend? Are there themes/skins for mainstream distributions instead? I've been looking around the web, and it's hard to gauge which distros are well-done and reasonably active."
Comment Re:No G4 Cube? (Score 1) 469
The question is, is it a big enough difference to justify blowing a grand? My point was that giant displays are getting to be dirt cheap, so your argument that you're going to be spending $1600 anyway isn't justified.
Comment Re:No G4 Cube? (Score 1) 469
Considering you can get a 27" at 2048 x 1152 for $450 right now, I'd save myself the $1000 or so and just get something like this.
Comment Re:And? (Score 1) 469
For myself, I know many people are critical of the iPad, on the other hand, I think I will still buy one - it looks like a cool ebook reader - whether it has multi-tasking or not.
Except for the whole screen-that-melts-your-eyes thing. For long reading sessions, nothing beats a screen designed for it (E Ink).
Comment Re:Statecraftsman's free software article (Score 1) 819
Believe it or not, most people use their computers for tasks other than playing games. The problem is the loudest people only complain about not being able to play their Call of Duty 6: Modern Warfare 3.
Comment Re:Multi-window mode is also improved. (Score 1) 401
Most people I know run Gimp on a desktop solely for image editing. That way you just swap over to the image editing desktop and you don't have to fool with the taskbar at all.
Comment Re:What's a good KDE distro? (Score 1) 368
I'm running Fedora 12 with KDE 4.3 and it's rock solid. Add in the fact that the experimental mesa drivers are packaged and work with no fiddling in F12 (I'm an ATI owner) and you have a perfect setup.
Comment Re:Open source? (Score 2, Informative) 400
Even if Mozilla paid the fee, it would still die. The license can't be distributed downstream so everyone bundling Firefox or shipping it with a distro would have to strip it down and call it Iceweasel. I'm not sure about you but I can't remember the last time I actually went to mozilla.com to download a copy of Firefox.
Comment Previous series of cards has good acceleration... (Score 1) 159
The 4800 series of cards have excellent acceleration support with the radeon driver these days (the latest source releases). It's not quite fast enough to play Nexuiz at high settings but compositing runs great and the desktop is stable! I honestly can't remember a time when the proprietary driver wasn't locking up or corrupting the screen, so this makes me pretty happy as an AMD owner.
Hopefully it's only a matter of time until the 5000 series is supported -- the proprietary driver just isn't an option if it's going to be crashy and have poor image quality.
Hopefully it's only a matter of time until the 5000 series is supported -- the proprietary driver just isn't an option if it's going to be crashy and have poor image quality.
Comment Re:Very good question. (Score 1) 460
Xmonad is ridiculously slick for this kind of situation. Even if you don't like the idea of a tiling wm, it's worth trying out. On my multihead work machine it's a life saver! The fact that it can be controlled via keyboard makes using my netbook a lot more enjoyable as well.
100% Free Software Compatible PC Launches 458
crimperman writes "The Open-PC project has announced that its first PC will be available at the end of February for €359. They claim the mini-ITX desktop machine is energy efficient, consumer ready, easy to upgrade, and — significantly — uses only hardware that has free software drivers available. As you'd expect, it comes with GNU/Linux which is running KDE (a €10 donation to the KDE project in included in the price). Interestingly all the key decisions on design, pricing etc. have been made by the community via online polls. The spec of the machine is pretty reasonable for the price: Atom 1.6GHz dual-core processor, 3GB RAM, 160GB HDD, Intel 950 graphics."
