User Conversations
posted by Laurence on Mon 21st Jul 2008 08:44
What's this currently set to and is it worth extending it (or possibly even removing it altogether?) While I see the point in a time limit on news items, because a conversation doesn't have to be (and often isn't) bleeding edge news plus the fact that most people don't check conversations frequently, I don't really see the point in a time limit on conversation threads before they're closed off.
posted by Laurence on Mon 14th Jul 2008 23:55
'musician' isn't the term to use, but does anyone else here produce music on their computer? If so, what kind of music and what's your set up?
Currently I'm using FL Studio (not the greatest peice of kit, but it's doing the job for now) and Ableton to build up the individual tracks into an album peice. I also have a number of midi controllers hooked up, but other than that, not actual hardware as such.
The stuff I'm producing at the moment is an Aphex Twin inspired story. Kind of like war of the worlds, but without the narration.
I've not been at it for long though so I'm still relatively low down on the huuuuuge learning curve that is digital music.
It will be interesting to hear what other OS geeks are working on as I know there's a few audiophilles on there.
posted by Laurence on Fri 11th Apr 2008 12:05
ZFS is listed as "experimental support" - does anyone know how stable and reliable this support is (or know where I can look to find more information out about FBSD's ZFS support)?
posted by Laurence on Tue 1st Apr 2008 10:02
After recently being converted to the excellent Arch distro of Linux I'm slightly saddened to read the following announcement: http://www.archlinux.org/ (item in pink)
While I understand that the majority of Arch users are German speaking, I also can't help thinking that this move will only hinder the distro from gaining more "market share" (for want a better term).
While there are hundreds of other distro's available, Arch was the only one (aside Slackware) I've liked: it's package manager was simple and effective, it used BSD style init's (I've never agreed with Linux's excessively complex run-time modes). But despite all the simplicity, it never felt 'dumbed down' (like the more 'mainstream' of desktop distros can do â€" particularly Ubuntu), it's free from bloat and highly configurable.
Not being a German speaker, I feel my support is going to be somewhat neglected.
What are your thoughts Arch or distro langauges in general?
posted by Laurence on Mon 10th Mar 2008 22:05
Any chance of making this bigger? I'm often finding myself typing my comments out into a text editor so I can easier see my full post before submitting it.
It feels particularly small when I'm quoting a parent message as i'm often need deep in quote tags.
posted by Laurence on Wed 6th Feb 2008 00:19
In the Ubuntu virtulisation story summary, it announces that there is 1 comment yet at the bottom of the story no comments appear: http://www.armyofcrabs.com/snapshot5.jpg
posted by Laurence on Mon 4th Feb 2008 14:56
Lately (possibly since OSNews v4.1?) I've noticed the following characters creap in: "�€�s" At first I assumed it was Firefox on Slackware having a different charater set to the post in question, but it seems to do with my work desktop (IE7 on WinXP).
This is a known bug?
posted by Laurence on Thu 9th Aug 2007 11:56
As someone who is just starting out in OS development (purely as a hobby project) I would find articles on this subject extremely useful. Whether it be something as complicated as hints for coding your own kernel to something as brief as an overview / review of student OSs to study and learn from. I'd love to write a few articles on this myself, but clearly 1 week of building my own kernel is not even remotely enough experience to write anything informative to others starting out (or even just a passing interest).