Ah, then it suddenly starts making sense. Thanks.

OK, I get the deduplication part to save capacity. But aren't those deduped pages supposed to be treated in CoW manner?

Dude, they have been extremely lucky to be in such a great show!

I second to this.

Since almost forever konsole was my favorite term, and still is. All yakuake did was adding said drop down capability which helps to remove desktop clutter, and instant availability is nice too.

Your hate really does not matter as long as you keep giving them your money.

Long time I have been promising myself to try it out and recently I did. Basically it's network filesystem with local cache for offline usage. Setup, while not for Joe Average, is not as hard as it looks on the first sight. Syncing is done in background and this offline mode is exactly what I was looking for. Now I'm far from home but I have a snapshot of the shared directory which will update the server repository when I reconnect next time. If you have public IP address and DNS (for publishing some SRV records), you can even access it from everywhere (by design it's global filesystem).

But it's not perfect:
- Small team, slow development
- Lack of good GUI offering all necessary functionality, especially conflict resolution
- CLI could be more consistent
- Lack of explicit cache management
- Poor handling of big volumes and big files (porn archive is out of question)

Nonetheless, as I stated, I use Coda everyday. Not for entire /home but for dedicated shared directory where I put stuff I know I will need to access from other machines.

P.S. Funny thing but when I was digging the subject about half year ago, I found no alternative offering similar semantics: shared filesystem with offline access capability (yeah, Andrew, but as Coda grew out of it, let's call it same family).

Cheers,
Greg

In fact, I was using this software. Not for its features but because of Ultrasoft Money on Palm. This duo was/is greatly integrated and only with this combination personal accounting started making sense to me. So while I'm kind of MS anti-fan I actually bought license for Money so I could keep my finances synced both on Palm and on PC. I wish there was FOSS alternative but last time I checked there was nothing worth mentioning.

Cheers,
Greg

I second to this. The game is scariest of what I have tried - so scary I just couldn't finish is [as a Marine]. What's most fascinating is the very simple rules which caused such great effect:

1. Low/poor visuals, like stated in original article.
2. Again, extensive use of sound (also music, which enhances creepy atmosphere).
3. Low firepower.
4. Take away or limit The Most Powerful Spell Ever (Save&Reload, that is).

In such environment you don't need many aliens to make you shit your pants.

Oh, yes, and the motion scanner. This thing deserves own essay. You can't shoot while scanning, and vice versa. And while scanning you still don't really know where the guys are but the pings keep counting your time towards death...

Final note: if you see someone playing in the dark AvP as a Marine while wearing headphones, don't grab them suddenly from behind. Their life is hard enough at the moment.

I love it too. Bought one about ten years ago, overpaid like hell (airmail & customs) but never regretted for a while. I'd just like to add two things to consider:

1. It's much easier to learn touch typing on this keyboard than with traditional one. Why? The keys are aligned in vertical columns so you reach to them with up-down movement, not diagonal. And keycaps are nicely profiled so fingers just drop on them.

2. It's frackincrazyawesome for playing FPS/TPS games! In neutral EDSF position you have all expected keys under four of your fingers PLUS six under thumb. I'm not sure if it beats game pads but I never needed to check it out (we're talking about Jedi Academy, if you know what I mean). The only PITA are games hardcoded to use arrow keys - they just plainly suck.

Cheers
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Krecik