SubscribeFor example, I recently tried installing a remote desktop server because tunneling X through SSH is molasses-slow.You want to know why it's so slow? The encryption. Using Blowfish speeds it up a bit, but that's nothing compared to the old days when you could disable post-auth encryption. That's now impossible to do in OpenSSH, because some neckbeard decided that the feature (an optional one that had to be manually enabled on both ends) was evil and should be removed. It makes tunneled X not an option on slow machines, which are precisely the ones you want to use as X -terminals. So instead, I have to use totally insecure remote X with no tunneling.
Also, I've got every repository, including multiverse and proprietary, turned on and I can't find an Ubuntu package with the string "freenx"This too is a feature: That package you want? It's not in our repositories!
Well, that and they'd have to pay a license for the codec if they wanted to distribute it internationally. But yeah, rail away, because lord knows it's so fucking difficult to get your machine playing MP3s, WMVs, MOVs, and all those other proprietary multimedia files.Of those three, only WMV is actually propreitary (both MP3 and MOV are ratified MPEG standards), and all three are well supported by GPLed software like VLC and Mplayer. Fraunhofer has openly stated that no, they aren't going to go around suing linux distributions. Neither Apple nor MPEG are going to sue anybody either. There is no actual legal problem, or a lot of people would have been sued a long time ago. Some neckbeard spent time removing features on pedantic ideological grounds. That chaps my ass.
man select and got a man page for the goddamned SQL keyword — well, best not to elaborate; I'm not too clear on the statute of limitations here.The Gibbon won the G-race to be our engineering mascot for this next release, but it was a close run. We very much wanted to honour the tremendous contributions of the GNU project to Free Software by awarding the role to the Glossy Gnu. This prompted an intense internal debate about trademarks, at which both the Fiery Fox and the Icy Weasel were heard. In the end, however, the judge, jury and elocutionary (that would be me) took a liking to the Gibbon's extraordinary reach, and the Gibbon won outright.It's a wonder the man can sleep at night, what with the screams of all those tortured puns ringing in his ears.
Debian's package manager (and thus, Ubuntu's) is the best going in Linux; it's fast, it's very smart, and it's very easy to maintain. Yes, all the packages are modified slightly to put files in the Debian-specific locations, but if you're willing to accept that files might *gasp* be in a different place than what you're used to, it hangs together incredibly well.What the fuck are you talking about? There's tons of circular dependencies, and most of the packages have been modified from the defaults that the authors shipped them with (changed default prefs, build options, features removed, etc.). APT itself has plenty of serious issues -- you can't run more than one process that installs packages at a time, period. That is fucking stupid poop.
dpkg --get-selections >somefilenamecat somefilename | dpkg --set-selectionsdpkg --get-selections | grep -i linux >somefilenameapt-get dselect-upgradeecho "linux-image-2.6-686 hold" | dpkg --set-selectionsi use bittornado, actually, btlaunchmanycurses in one of my virtual terminals. it sits there monitoring the specified directory and when a .torrent file appears it downloads. when the file is 100% acquired, it seeds. when the .torrent file leaves the dir, it stops. its that simple. controlled from my x session by moving .torrents into and out of the directory. no memory hogging gui client.quonsar, check out rtorrent. I use it exactly as you describe, except with features! You can actually interact with it to set bandwidth chokes, pick and choose files, pause torrents, re-announce, etc. It's also even faster!
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