This Week in Hax

I've just recently switched to Ubuntu from Win...

2012-05-08T01:32:31.934-04:00

I've just recently switched to Ubuntu from Windows and was having a bit of trouble with this. Thanks to your crystal clear instructions, I'm all good.
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PCLinuxOS. Srsly. I resisted, because I told myse...

2012-04-12T02:53:03.081-04:00

PCLinuxOS. Srsly.

I resisted, because I told myself "Ubuntu uses Debian packages...sort of...so if I just find somekindabuntu to stick with, I'll have easy access to newer stuff". Honestly, any halfway decent distro has lots of stuff, it's 2012, I was fooling myself.

For those of you who feel like Linux on the Desktop was doing so good, and now it is so fucking awful...it isn't. It is just the somebuntus. Load up Arch or PCLinuxOS 2012, and remember why you used to think Linux was good.

PCLinuxOS. Srsly. I resisted, because I told myse...

2012-04-12T02:52:31.377-04:00

It all boils down to the war between making music ...

2012-04-02T07:04:39.683-04:00

It all boils down to the war between making music for the sake of making music, and making music to earn money. I agree, if the music industry start caring less about income, the world just might be a better place.

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I've been meaning to try Mint as it sounds lik...

2012-02-29T01:34:09.645-05:00

I've been meaning to try Mint as it sounds like they are explicitly trying to fix these kinds of usability problems.

Right now I've got Arch set up. It's not really a newbie distro, but good for a box to hack on with the latest software. It's rolling releases like Gentoo. Arch only has gnome 3 though.

Debian is also quite good and less buggy than Ubuntu ever was. It's more geared towards servers I think, but if you are willing to deal with a little bit older software (they have a 2 year release cycle) it's probably ideal. It comes with Gnome 2 which is a plus for me.

:( It's too bad, because I used to be able to...

2012-02-28T22:03:43.407-05:00

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It's too bad, because I used to be able to say to GNU/Linux newbies "Ubuntu" and have that take care of everything for them. Now, there isn't a clear answer; I'm definitely not letting a new GNU/Linux user anywhere near the useless bag of ass that is Ubuntu these days.

What do you recommend? Linux Mint? I've not tried out any other distros since moving to Ubuntu from Gentoo in 2005.

Ubuntu is dead. It's just not worth the time t...

2012-02-28T17:44:06.435-05:00

Ubuntu is dead. It's just not worth the time to try to fix the things Canonical messed up with so many other distributions out there which will work out of the box.

Right now Canonical is drifting on the brand recognition that Ubuntu built up over the years, but there's no way that will last much longer.

For a safer transaction, it's much better to i...

2012-01-25T04:07:22.531-05:00

For a safer transaction, it's much better to implement encryption. Choose the right tool available.

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The new Ubuntu is terrrible

2011-12-24T07:47:08.740-05:00

The new Ubuntu is terrrible

What we want from a linux OS with a graphical inte...

2011-12-24T07:44:54.592-05:00

What we want from a linux OS with a graphical interface?:
1)Maximum freedom of flexible personalization
2)Maximum possibility of interface configuration, lightness, speed
3)Maximum stability and security

This new Ubuntu, from the 11.04 to this 11.10 version rapresent a strong involution. No dubt!! I'm very sorry but I will immediately change it with Mint.

The new Ubuntu is terrrible

2011-12-24T07:35:04.579-05:00

The new Ubuntu is terrrible

Everything in Ubuntu 11.10 is broken. My ethernet ...

2011-12-22T19:30:09.751-05:00

Everything in Ubuntu 11.10 is broken. My ethernet driver broke after an update, pulse audio crashes, my nvidia driver crashes, Unity freezes up... and then on top of that comes all the new sucky interface bloat.

The only thing I'd like to emphasize is LightDM, which is truly fast and nice.

I loved my Ubuntu for a few years now, but 11.10 m...

2011-12-22T11:39:36.190-05:00

I loved my Ubuntu for a few years now, but 11.10 marks an abrupt end to this affair... With no task bar, no application menu, copy progress bar not showing except after restarts is completely unproductive.
Time to look for something fresh!

I think that the scenario which best makes the ben...

2011-12-19T20:23:41.088-05:00

I think that the scenario which best makes the benefits of homomorphic encryption clear is cloud computing. It is often much more economical to buy computing resources from a cloud provider then to build a data center yourself. This is especially true if your need for computing horsepower fluctuates.

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Been a ubuntu fan since 7.04 I have a Desktop runn...

2011-11-30T19:30:14.606-05:00

Been a ubuntu fan since 7.04 I have a Desktop running multi screen which completely broke on 11.10 so ive had to move to debian squeeze (loads more stable and still have great features)

My laptop - vostro 1500 has a fresh install of 11.10 and frequently crashes.

Very poor effort from Ubuntu, but what do you expect for a 6 monthly release cycle! My productivity goes down the pan. I've rolled back the Linux kernal and sticking with stable OS - Debian :)

"1) is important for obvious reasons; if the ...

2011-11-22T06:01:55.919-05:00

"1) is important for obvious reasons; if the system isn't secure, it is just a fancy waste of time. If doing the fully homomorphic encryption is much, much slower then this won't see much use outside of specialized applications." There has to be more improvements on the encryption.
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So with this setup you are just using Eclipse to w...

2011-11-17T14:08:47.485-05:00

So with this setup you are just using Eclipse to write the code, or can you debug the application with Eclipse?

@Brendan Taking another look at XFCE, it seems a l...

2011-10-24T19:24:20.990-04:00

@Brendan Taking another look at XFCE, it seems a lot nicer than I was giving it credit for. I'd definitely have to do some customizations (dock = nope), but as long as I can have focus-follows-mouse (without raising the focused window! Defeats the whole purpose!), wobbly windows (yeah, I know), and a system stats monitoring widget like the "System indicator such and such" from GNOME 2, I'll be happy.

One turn-off of XFCE is that it has its own basic desktop applications. I like Nautilus just fine, so I don't really need Thunar. I guess I could always just launch Nautilus instead...

This is definitely a case study of "why you should keep designers on a leash."

Man, they are both (Gnome3 and Unity) so terrible....

2011-10-24T18:25:54.493-04:00

Man, they are both (Gnome3 and Unity) so terrible.

It feels like a bunch of UI designers got together, and mocked all this stuff up on a whiteboard, but never actually tried sitting down and using the interface. They had a bunch of "woah, dude, it would be really cool if" ideas, but never actually tried to see if they were usable by real human beings.

Thankfully there are many alternatives to gnome and unity...

I've switched to XFCE 4.8 at home... honestly, it's almost identical to gnome 2, though maybe with a little less graphical polish. It's definitely better than gnome 3's "fallback" mode at least.

I could do a whole separate post on the current st...

2011-10-24T15:43:04.377-04:00

I could do a whole separate post on the current state and direction of GNOME 3 and Unity, but I'll (try to) keep this short.

Basically, I hate this new trend of coming up with new "metaphors" for the "desktop experience." Unity has "panes" and "perspectives" which "represent" some kind of physical-like interaction with applications. A computer is not a "set of pages" on "different panes of glass" that you interact with metaphorically. There are applications. Sometimes I want to open them. I do this by clicking on the "Applications" menu, then the relevant subcategory, then the application. Why would Ubuntu run away from that?

I got to agree full heartedly here, I have been a ...

2011-10-24T03:05:46.268-04:00

I got to agree full heartedly here, I have been a fan of gnome since the beginning and now they have trashed it beyond repair, I wish more people would stand up against it..

hello,can u post the whole source,thanks.

2011-09-26T04:59:15.493-04:00

hello,can u post the whole source,thanks.

@Tom I just updated the URLs to the repos. It now ...

2011-04-16T19:45:50.106-04:00

@Tom I just updated the URLs to the repos. It now lives at github.com/haxney/ezbl.

Thanks for the interest!

Hi there. The link to the necessary branch of ema...

2011-04-16T12:29:58.119-04:00

Hi there. The link to the necessary branch of emacs is broken. Would love to try ezble, but I can't without the xembed branch!

To be honest, this won't be terribly useful fo...

2011-04-04T11:18:18.838-04:00

To be honest, this won't be terribly useful for servers unless it supports craftbukkit, as it is kind of the defacto server these days.