Comments on: When “fast” is less than 600Mhz

By: Calvin

Calvin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:38:03 +0000

Meh, 9.10 is the start of adding even more useless crap. Ekiga was removed, but it adds featured that only benefits people who use social networkers or WINE or Compiz and that crap. Thank god I finished my 9.04 downloads. For XFCE, 9.10 is still decent, but 9.04 should be used for GNOME.

I’MA SWITCHING TO DEBIAN!

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:30:15 +0000

I’ve had a couple people ask that question. For some of them, ordering mplayer to use the framebuffer output device seemed to work. Try

mplayer -vo fbdev filename.ext

Of course, I am using Crux with a customized kernel and a customized mplayer build, so it’s possible that the options I am relying on don’t exist in other distros. Check to see how your versions are built, and if there is any incompatibility. When I get back from vacation, I’ll try to chase this a little more.

By: zowki

zowki — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:50:47 +0000

Kmandla,
I often see in your screenshots that you can run mplayer within screen? How do you do that? Screen never lets me run framebuffer programs like fbi, screen, links-g, etc…

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:54:42 +0000

Yes, I do. The problem is that on an 800×600 screen, links get wrapped or obscured regardless, so screen’s copy-paste is only partially helpful.

Compared to a right-click-copy-link action, I’m afraid it’s just easier and more convenient to use the GUI.

By: dawn

dawn — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:59:28 +0000

Don’t you use screen’s copy and paste capability?

By: JoshMiller

JoshMiller — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:32:53 +0000

I’ve always preferred the GUI. And I’ve used the command line, a lot. I grew up with DOS and the Commodore 64. I still use the command line for some tasks.

I guess it would be more accurate to say I prefer a hybrid. While I mostly use Windows, I know a crap ton of Keyboard shortcuts that make things much faster, almost as fast as using the command line.

It drives me nuts to be watching someone use the GUI without using shortcuts actually. I want to scream “Why are you navigating through those menus?! Just push Window Key+Whatever or Control+alt+Letter.”

I remember once in college though in my controls class, I don’t remember what we were doing but we had an older machine and I brought up the DOS window and went to town. These weren’t computer engineers or anything but they were in a pretty high level mechanical Engineering class, so they are pretty technology minded and smart. But they were all impressed at all of the things I could do on the command prompt.

Still, I prefer the GUI. Everything looks prettier. If I want to jump back to an earlier part of whatever I’m typing it’s easier to navigate with the mouse.