Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:53:01 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: Eduardo Cerejo <ejcerejo@optonline.net>, FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE: What a monster! Message-ID: <20090128105301.33618aac.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20090128100117.X23975@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <20090123191547.fd43d651.ejcerejo@optonline.net> <20090125022647.6b379fed.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090125144428.B44198@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20090126150019.387d538b.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090127234024.Q18824@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20090128042954.90cdb848.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090128100117.X23975@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:17:06 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > that's why i bought it for ca 50$ USED, already had 86000 pages printed, > and i printed about 35000. On my printer, the page counter has stuck / turned over and does show that approx. 1500 pages have been printed. Hey, I could sell it with the description of "very few pages printed, just like new". :-) > All you have to do is to lubricate with oil some parts every half a year > or so, when it starts to have problem with paper jamming. And buy some replacement for 60 Euro. Yes, I invested that much to get this old friend running again. > You can even swap toner cardridge on the fly. > There are polish-produced replacement cardridges that costs 35$ for 10000 > pages. That's not much and a good deal. Original HP toner is approx. 100 Euro, formerly it was 120 DM. > > better, try this with a "consumer class" ink-pee "printer". :-) > > > it's crap don't use it. I know... my dad thought he was clever and bought the printer I told him NOT to buy. Some months later, he asked me if I could repair a printer... :-) > i used mpg123 on 160Mhz 486 and it used ca 50% CPU at full quality. > i don't know any player that needs less CPU power. Apropos 160MHz... I'd like to tell a story that is completely true, and it makes me wonder whenever I hear users of uber-powerful hardware, "tons of Megs", huge hard disks and two-fan GPUs start complaining that they have "skipping audio" in their KDE / Gnome programs... I don't get this. With all the power of today's computer, this cannot be. When a P1 150MHz, 64 MB RAM, 3dFX GPU, 6,4 GB HDD was my first FreeBSD system (4.x), I did ALL AT THE SAME TIME: 1. download some ISO via FTP 2. burn another ISO onto CD (Mitsumi 4x recorder) 3. compile something 4. browse the web with still responsive Opera and finally 5. listen to NON-SKIPPING MP3s. It's not a lie, I really DID THIS. And I have this machine here, it will be turned into an experimental server soon. > >> ports/misc/mc-light > > > > Will try this, sounds promising. I tried to change the code in MC > > definitely try this. it contains only those part of mc that are actually > useful. I hope the mcedit with syntax highlighting belongs to that. I spent some time getting the syntax color definitions acceptable as well as creating new ones. In fact, I like the MC editor. > >> it's really worth spending these few $ on windoze that case. > > > > Here in Germany, it's more convenient NOT to pay, but still to use. > > And "Why should I pay you to work on my computer?" :-) > > that's wrong. You should pay or not use it. Many "Windows" users that I know do use a pirated copy of "the good XP" or something else. No idea how they get it running without product key, maybe cracked versions. I never had any situation when to think: "Well, I need 'Windows' now.", and I don't think I have a system that is supported. So I'll keep clean. :-) > You should fight software piracy. Not because it's bad, but because it's > the best microsoft friend. I like this one: http://razzor.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/open_source_communism.jpg Software pirates of "Windows" get always punished because they have to use what they pirated, that's punishment enough, as well as all the fine viruses (virii), trojans, worms, the nice spyware, the malware, the bloat and the time they spend re-installing everything. :-) The downside is that everyone else gets punished, too, or what do you think more than 90% of the e-mail transferred today is spam? > Without piracy microsoft wouldn't exist today at all. That's the reason for the big "usage share" (like "market share") of the many different "Windows" (and people keep complaining about many different Linux distributions). Funny picture on this: http://beconfused.com/images/2007/01/the-joy-of-tech-the-many-editions-of-windows-vista.jpg I'm always happy that "Windows" is NOT a topic to me. > > "Democracy simulation". That's why less and less people go voting. > > i don't vote since 4 years. I don't know how the voting system is in Poland, but I think not going to vote is the wrong way. The German voting system leaves you three choices: 1. You vote for a party, this party's votings increase by 1. 2. You don't go to vote. Your voting is associated to the party that already has the most votings (relatively). So not going to vote supports the big parties. 3. You go to vote, but give an invalid voting, either by not making any mark, or marking all parties, or striking them through (that's what I do to express that I don't want any on them). I had the idea that the voting system should be inverted. Instead of giving a voting to a party, parties are marked as "denied". The more a party is denied, the less good it is, because at a certain point, the party will be disassembled or forbidden. So we would get rid of all those self-claimed "representatives" very fast. :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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