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General Software Discussion / Re: "Enable advanced performance" - the optimization that isn't
« Last post by Edvard on March 12, 2009, 04:18 PM »
Boy did I have to dig for that one on my XP box at work!

So until 2.6.30 gets the patches, us Linux folks should tweak our writebacks:
Unfortunately, the default VM tuning parameters, which can be controlled by /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centiseconds and /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centiseconds, means that in practice, a newly created file won't hit disk until about 45-150 seconds later...
or
Another solution is to make sure your system is reliable. :-)
but then again...
The final solution, is we need properly written applications and desktop libraries. The proper way of doing this sort of thing is not to have hundreds of tiny files in private ~/.gnome2* and ~/.kde2* directories. Instead, the answer is to use a proper small database like sqllite for application registries, but fixed up so that it allocates and releases space for its database in chunks, and that it uses fdatawrite() instead of fsync() to guarantee that data is written on disk.

 :huh: A Registry for Linux?

Do I smell torches? and are those pitchforks?
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Edvard on March 11, 2009, 06:06 PM »
Just found this one..

imetabutterflytheotherdgn9.png

(as I shed a tear for Piggy, 3 years late...)
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Living Room / Re: Samsung's 24 x 220MB/s SSD RAID
« Last post by Edvard on March 10, 2009, 02:42 PM »
I thought having 53 programs opened and fully loaded in a matter of seconds was fairly impressive...
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Edvard on March 06, 2009, 03:02 PM »
...
Now... back to the light sabres with you, daylight sabring time is almost upon us!
-cranioscopical (March 06, 2009, 12:00 PM)

Okay! Okay!

youngjedi.jpg

(where Jedis come from... Early Training)
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Edvard on March 06, 2009, 02:07 PM »
See what happens?...

horsing-around-something-always-gets-broken-demotivational-poster.jpg
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Edvard on March 06, 2009, 10:14 AM »
Mouser: I did the light saber pictures, everything else is the work of others.
Because this stuff is all over the web, it's rather difficult to credit everything as I'd like to.

EDIT: I also did the Petaminx demotivator, but that's another thread...

P.S. The correct response was "If you call me in the morning I'll tell you what to do"  ;D
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Edvard on March 05, 2009, 06:46 PM »
limecoconut.jpg

Thumbs up to whoever answers first.... ;D
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Living Room / Re: The Making of The Petaminx - Rubik's Cube Cubed and Made by Insane People
« Last post by Edvard on March 05, 2009, 06:22 PM »
Oh... my... god.

Has the universe imploded yet?
-f0dder (March 04, 2009, 11:08 AM)
petamotivator.jpg

 :(
1859
Living Room / Re: The Greatest Graphic Novel of All Time: Watchmen
« Last post by Edvard on March 05, 2009, 06:12 PM »
Oops.
Sorry.
Fixed.
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Living Room / Re: The Greatest Graphic Novel of All Time: Watchmen
« Last post by Edvard on March 05, 2009, 05:28 PM »
Although I haven't read comics for almost 20 years, there are many that are stuck in my memory forever... The afore-mentioned Cerebus and ElfQuest I remember fondly but my favorite must be the trade paperbacks of the Mage series.
mage.jpg
I read them in a strange order as I was able to acquire them: 2nd book first, then the 1st one, then the last one (the TB's came out in 3 issues).

Do not read! Spoiler!
In the second book, the scene where Edsel was killed and Kevin Matchstick is revealed to be the Pendragon by Mirth still gives me the chills to this day.
 :tellme:

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General Software Discussion / Re: First looks at OpenOffice 3.1
« Last post by Edvard on March 04, 2009, 06:55 PM »
Gee, I kinda like Draw. :(

Sure, it's no Inkscape, but when I need a quick layout with a few pasted-in logos and large text, it works a peach! This new version has a few tweaks that are nice, so I'm looking forward...
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General Software Discussion / Re: First looks at OpenOffice 3.1
« Last post by Edvard on March 03, 2009, 06:16 PM »
Aha, I understand now.

Yes, the new OpenOffice 3.1 starts up much faster even with the startup load.
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General Software Discussion / Re: First looks at OpenOffice 3.1
« Last post by Edvard on March 03, 2009, 05:52 PM »
Quickstart should only open once and sit in your tray, or you can set it to open on startup.
If it goes everytime you open a file, maybe you have it actually disabled and so it loads every time you open a OO file?
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Living Room / Re: The Making of The Petaminx - Rubik's Cube Cubed and Made by Insane People
« Last post by Edvard on March 03, 2009, 01:05 PM »
We are doomed.  :(
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Edvard on March 03, 2009, 11:11 AM »
@nosh: It's a scientific fact... It's impossible to not stare at cleavage.
Here's the proof:
Part 1 & Part 2
(may be NSFW depending on your sensibilities)  :P
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Edvard on March 03, 2009, 10:28 AM »
Thanks guys, it was actually my first attempt at a light saber effect in Gimp, and I thought it silly enough to post here.
 ;D
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Edvard on March 03, 2009, 10:21 AM »
From App's random pictures:

flynocerous.jpg

and two more from the light saber brigade:

statue-of-liberty.jpg

crowdcontrol.jpg

If I do anymore, it risks becoming a forced meme so I'll stop now.
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General Software Discussion / Re: First looks at OpenOffice 3.1
« Last post by Edvard on March 03, 2009, 10:03 AM »
Yes, the quickstart I'm referring to is the thing that sits in your tray and has some OpenOffice components pre-loaded into memory. It's supposed to reduce start-up time and, well, with this version it actually works.
You can start up any component you want from your start menu (draw, writer, etc).
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Edvard on March 02, 2009, 07:15 PM »
the Final Countdown Ultimate Showdown song was in my brain for weeks.  one of the best.
-mouser (March 02, 2009, 07:08 PM)
Oh good gravy, me too... Thanks for reminding me  :mad:

Here's some Gimp/Photoshop silliness of my own:
1-Take a random picture off the 'net.
2- Add a light saber.
3-???
4-Profit!!

emperorsister.jpg

inthebar.jpg
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Edvard on March 02, 2009, 07:03 PM »
Sorry, maybe it missed your nationality or age group, here's an explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earworm
and for your listening enjoyment:
http://www.last.fm/m.../The+Final+Countdown

So replace "The Final Countdown" with an annoying song that refuses to leave the background soundtrack in your head.
The song "Stand" by REM will do, as well as the "lalala-la-lala" part from "New Soul" by Yael Naim.
If those aren't example enough, hit the powerswitch at Maim That Tune and stand back.
maim.jpg
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General Software Discussion / Re: First looks at OpenOffice 3.1
« Last post by Edvard on March 02, 2009, 06:40 PM »
Whoa...
It is faster...

The initial startup with the splash screen and all took less than a count of 10 (minus the 'Registration' part)
After the quickstart loads, the start-up is darn near instant.

Damn.

I haven't had much time to play around, but it looks very nearly the same, with a few 'perks' as mentioned in OOoNinja's article.
I'll keep poking around and see what I find...
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by Edvard on March 02, 2009, 04:44 PM »
 >:D
countdown.jpg
From The 'Chive
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Living Room / Re: They drew first blood, sir!
« Last post by Edvard on March 02, 2009, 02:16 PM »
Your simplification is fairly accurate, but that's not exactly what's happening.
Microsoft says: "You can do anything you please with our technology, but you must pay us for the right. If you don't want to pay, go invent your own way to do it."
They did. They invented a filesystem that was read-write compatible with the FAT filesystem. Now Microsoft is coming down on one small company that uses it in hopes to force their hand. What are they trying to force them to do?
Pay Microsoft for using someone else's free product, for one thing. That's the knife in the back.

Now, if you add onto my GPL (over)simplification: "Oh, and if you decide to pay Microsoft at all then you can't use our stuff, even if you're following all of our other rules", I just can't see how the GPL folks can come looking like white knights.
What is the conflict here? Microsoft has EULA's and nobody reads them but everybody knows that all they mean is that you follow Microsoft's rules when you use their software. Understood.
The GPL has rules also, and this is one of them.
Deal with it.
In order to guarantee your freedom to use the software as you see fit, they have to put in a restriction that says you can't restrict anybody else's freedom to do the same. Get it?

So what all this means is:
If TomTom signs the deal, they will lose their right to sell their GPS units with GNU software unless they use a different filesystem. That's the rules.
If Microsoft loses this suit, then we will finally have a sane definition of how their patent applies to real-world application of the FAT filesystem.
If Microsoft wins, then they will have established an authority over the FAT filesystem in general not just their code for it. So then everyone developing or distributing GPL software will suddenly lose the right to freely distribute software that uses the FAT filesystem. That will be a new rule.
After that? Anything else Microsoft deems fair game to assert ownership over in hopes that Linux and GPL software in general will collapse under the legal strain.
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General Software Discussion / Re: First looks at OpenOffice 3.1
« Last post by Edvard on March 02, 2009, 11:30 AM »
Thanks for the tip, Ehtyar, but has anyone tried OOo 3.1?

I think I'll try portablizing my current 3.0 install and give 3.1 a whirl, I'd love to know how it's coming along.
BBL with comments...
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Living Room / Re: They drew first blood, sir!
« Last post by Edvard on March 02, 2009, 11:25 AM »
This is a sort of war between Microsoft and the OSS folks. I can understand your annoyance with Microsoft, but why isn't this accompanied by an exact mirror back to the GPL zealots? If the GPL forbids any sort of compromise, don't they deserve every bit as much blame as Microsoft?
-CWuestefeld (March 01, 2009, 10:28 AM)

Hell. No.

The sort of behind-the-back card tricks and shenanigans that Microsoft does so well are exactly what the GPL is trying to stop.
"Ah, but", you may say, "the GPL limits your freedom."
Freedom to what? Freedom to accept a knife in your back?

In a war between Blue Team and Red Team (I'll keep away from good guys vs. bad guys rhetoric...), if Red Team builds a wall to stop Blue Team from invading, looting and claiming territory, of course you would be accused of keeping Red Team in at the same time you're keeping the Blue Team out.
You could also say that if Red Team hadn't built that damn wall, Blue Team wouldn't have attacked so brashly. Sure, but you'd stand a good chance of waking up one day with your children stolen from their beds, your wife ravaged in the pantry and Blue Team shrugging and saying "What? It was in the contract, remember?"
Sorry, but I'll side with Red Team on this one.

Kudos to TomTom. I hope they win. Damn I hope they win.
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