June 1, 2010
08:24
Well, I think there was some sort of underlying conspiracy to see both Pier and Darkwyrm take this Thank You Award together (just kidding)!
With all those votes and them being that close, it would have been bad to see either lose out. So, once again, we'll have to award two prizes :)
This was probably the poll with the highest number of voters. Thanks all for voting. So, once again, we have:
DarkWyrm - ForPaladin and his fantasticintroduction to C++ programming and the Haiku API.
Pier Luigi Fiorini - for theCaya project - Native Multiprotocol Instant Messaging Software
As the winners for this award. Thanks on behalf of the community for both of your contributions - well deserved. Also, lets not forget the other candidates; their work is also very much appreciated. As announced on our TYA mailing list, we're no longer going to be recycling the candidates. I'll be in touch with the winners shortly to ship out their Haiku Golf Shirts.
P.S - fancy wizard-like people icon by mmadia.
08:24
Well, I think there was some sort of underlying conspiracy to see both Pier and Darkwyrm take this Thank You Award together (just kidding)!
With all those votes and them being that close, it would have been bad to see either lose out. So, once again, we'll have to award two prizes :)
This was probably the poll with the highest number of voters. Thanks all for voting. So, once again, we have:
DarkWyrm - ForPaladin and his fantasticintroduction to C++ programming and the Haiku API.
Pier Luigi Fiorini - for theCaya project - Native Multiprotocol Instant Messaging Software
as the winners for this award. Thanks on behalf of the community for both of your contributions - well deserved. Also, lets not forget the other candidates; their work is also very much appreciated. As announced on our TYA mailing list, we're no longer going to be recycling the candidates. I'll be in touch with the winners shortly to ship out their Haiku Golf Shirts.
P.S - fancy wizard-like people icon by mmadia.
12:41
Looks like I have configured my backup script wrong and now #Duplicity is going nuts creating backups.
14:27
It wasn't actually #duplicity going crazy, it was my #cron job!
15:36
The mysqlcheck command can keep your #MySQL database in tip-top shape. I wrote a quick article on it at http://ur1.ca/04ogz #bash #linux
16:09
@hughbris most government websites/applications are mega fail. Centerlink is only up 50% of the time.
Comment by DDevine
on 1 Jun 10 at 23:58 EST
I wish this would happen more often. The facts are that administering Windows systems is far too resource consuming to make sense. Even after all the effort you can't bend Windows to fit every situation and you get gaping security holes there.
21:42
Ubuntu's longstanding policy of not pulling in new major versions of packages into their stable repositories is facing a slight change. Canonical along with the Ubuntu development community have been making it easier to deploy Mozilla Firefox web-browser updates into existing Ubuntu releases...
Comment by DDevine
on 2 Jun 10 at 0:01 EST
Ubuntu: now with MORE bonus bugsI don't think this decision is *too* silly though. If they work closely with upstream (which they have a horrible record of doing) then this can work.
June 2, 2010
01:31
The first version of the X protocol for the X Window System emerged in 1984 and just three years later we were at version 11. However, for the past 23 years, we have been stuck with X11 with no signs of the twelfth revision being in sight, even though there is a whole list of X12 plans and hopes on the FreeDesktop.org Wiki. Julien Danjou, an XCB developer, has written a lengthy blog post looking at the situation and the prospects for the X protocol...
09:58
Moving on from exploring the Interface Kit, we turn our attention to the Storage Kit in this lesson. We take a look at the kit from a broad perspective and also begin using some of its many of the classes. We take a break from writing GUI applications and, instead, write a console directory-listing program using C++.
Learning to Program With Haiku, Lesson 20
Source Code: 20ListDir.zip
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Fedora 13 was released last week with a number of new features like Btrfs system rollback support and support for easily using the open-source 3D NVIDIA driver, but how does its performance compare to that of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, which was released a month earlier? We have the benchmarks today from three different systems to tell you.
Comment by DDevine
on 3 Jun 10 at 10:30 EST
EXT4 gives both of them regressions. Defaults of the systems make comparing them almost like apples vs oranges.
June 3, 2010
10:35
Fixed Network Manager being stuck on "Network Management Disabled" in !Fedora (with !KDE) delete the NetoworkManager.state file.
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@sirpengi Why use CentOS as your desktop? Also it may not *support* 4.x but you can probably install it from kde-redhat repo.
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There's an excellent article by Andrew Hudson (andrewzx1 at Haikuware) about the history and current function of BeOS' and Haiku's filesystem including two short interviews with an anonymous x-BeOS employee, and Axel Doerfler over at ArsTechnica - highly suggest reading it.
23:10
There's an excellent article by Andrew Hudson (andrewzx1 at Haikuware) about the history and current function of BeOS' and Haiku's filesystem including two short interviews with an anonymous x-BeOS employee, and Axel Doerfler over at ArsTechnica - highly suggest reading it.
June 4, 2010
Comment by DDevine
on 4 Jun 10 at 8:30 EST
It sounds to me like they want to strengthen the Linux mobile user-space and apparently also hardware. I think one of the existing (Limo, Open Handset Alliance) could probably have taken this objective on-board, but they haven't really and to be honest they are doing well nonetheless!
08:57
In terms of audio on #ARM, would OSSv4 be the logical choice choice over #PA? I assume it is a lighter stack so wouldn't that make sense?
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Comment by DDevine
on 4 Jun 10 at 10:46 EST
He is running "pv /dev/sdb | strings" but I have no idea what "pv" does. "cat" should to the trick.
He is checking for what might be on a supposedly blank hard drive.
He is checking for what might be on a supposedly blank hard drive.
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@basilgohar I suspected that... Let us know if you do! I am usually to impatient to try something like this because I want to install asap!
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Looking at #Postfix and #Dovecot setup again... I had a stab a few years ago and failed.
Comment by DDevine
on 5 Jun 10 at 12:53 EST
I thought this company was dead. MorphOS looks pretty decent however without X86 or even ARM support they basically have no hardware because PPC is fast on the way out!
They might be doing what Hyperion is doing to Amiga fans and taking handfuls of cash from hardcore enthusiasts.
If they had a way forward it would be a great little OS for geeks to play with - or they could sell it to a company who is looking for a pretty OS (not HP anymore!).
They might be doing what Hyperion is doing to Amiga fans and taking handfuls of cash from hardcore enthusiasts.
If they had a way forward it would be a great little OS for geeks to play with - or they could sell it to a company who is looking for a pretty OS (not HP anymore!).
June 5, 2010
01:19
Linux-based mobile operating systems, led by Android, will own 33 percent of the global smartphone market by 2015, growing faster than the smartphone market at large, says ABI Research. In addition to examining Android's fast rise, the report looks at WebOS, MeeGo, Bada, LiMo, and ALP versions of mobile Linux....
07:07
Dell announced it would launch its Android-based Streak tablet in the U.S. for $500 at the end of July. Meanwhile, this week's Computex show was awash in Android tablets from companies including Compal, MSI, and others, while a Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet peeked out into the blogosphere via South Africa....
07:54
At Computex, Shenzhen-based Joyplus announced four tablets that run Android, only two of which use the same CPU. The five-inch Joyplus M508 and seven-inch 5701 both tap the 624MHz Marvell PXA303, while the seven-inch M702 runs on a 600MHz WonderMedia Prizm MW8505, and the seven-inch M703 uses a 600MHz ARM926 CPU paired with a 600MHz DSP, says Joyplus....
Comment by DDevine
on 5 Jun 10 at 13:03 EST
I thought the specs looked OK (light on RAM) but when looking closer they are really nothing but another "me too!" product. The Joyplus M703 is nothing but an iPad clone with Android. Looking at the pictures one of them which apparently runs Android has a screen full of Microsoft products and in the specs it claims to run a bunch of Microsoft products that not even WinCE runs.
Comment by jack
on 7 Jun 10 at 11:28 EST
In response to DDevine, I also find it nice that people who like the iPad can get a cheaper version with Android. :D
Comment by jack
on 7 Jun 10 at 11:31 EST
In response to DDevine, I also find it nice that people who like the iPad can get a cheaper version with Android. :D
08:55
Last month we reported on four indie games going open-source that were part of the pay-what-you-want "Humble Indie Bundle" after the developers experienced very favorable returns. The source-code to Aquaria has now been published with the source-code to the three other titles (Lugaru, Gish, and Penumbra Overture) already being available...
Comment by DDevine
on 5 Jun 10 at 12:49 EST
Not my type of game but it would be good to have this ported to (open) mobile platforms.
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@chicagonpg Mac User Group - lol!!! Though I attend Home Unix Machines Brisbane User Group (#HUMBUG) where OSX is technically welcome.
21:12
@segphault Does your new computer work without issues? Well hardware issues anyway - as you are running #Ubuntu. Squigglies yay!
June 6, 2010
11:17
@quidome I don't get that problem with KDE. My laptop only has 2GB DDR1 RAM, No swap partition, 1.6GHz P4 Moblie on Fedora.
11:19
@quidome I hit a CPU limit before I hit a memory limit. Perhaps you have too much crap (or firefox tabs) running.
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