Comments for without-brains.net http://www.without-brains.net A software developer's blog Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:37:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on Manual Eclipse install in Fedora 12 and Ubuntu 9.10 by Mark http://www.without-brains.net/archives/64/comment-page-1#comment-160 Mark Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:37:17 +0000 http://www.without-brains.net/?p=64#comment-160 Hi Fritz, I have 9.10 running smoothly now, and I am very happy with it (I am not experiencing any of the problems that you are describing). In this post I was specifically talking about using Eclipse, I didn't experience UI unresponsiveness in other applications. I hope that the Ubuntu team and/or community can help you out with your problem. Cheers, Mark Hi Fritz,

I have 9.10 running smoothly now, and I am very happy with it (I am not experiencing any of the problems that you are describing). In this post I was specifically talking about using Eclipse, I didn’t experience UI unresponsiveness in other applications.

I hope that the Ubuntu team and/or community can help you out with your problem.

Cheers,
Mark

]]> Comment on Manual Eclipse install in Fedora 12 and Ubuntu 9.10 by fritz schenk http://www.without-brains.net/archives/64/comment-page-1#comment-157 fritz schenk Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:52:33 +0000 http://www.without-brains.net/?p=64#comment-157 I also find the UI in Ubuntu 9.10 unresponsive; quite terrible: 1. Click on icons sometimes does not respond. 2. If you linger on a link or icon a floating icon appears that is difficult to dismiss and prevents action 3. The scrollbar sticks - once it this mode moving the mouse anywhere in the window causes scroll; for example - highlight this message and use copy - scrollbar becomes active. It appears that Ubuntu is trying to handle the iPhone gestures - If during the highlight operation scroll is necessary then it is likelly that scrolling becomes sticky. 4. Closing (probably related to 1), takes forever to recognise that cursor is on top of close. then takes many clicks tor action to complete. 5. Unresponsive. For example I highlight this message (speed Ok), with context menu chose Copy (slow), click on Applications (takes many clicks to open), from Accessories chose gedit (speed Ok), click on edit (slow or takes more than one try), paste (speeed Ok). 6. Return back to continuing this message (takes many tries). 7. Show window for gedit and click on File (slow), Save As (takes many tries) Excuse the long rant. I will submit to ubuntu. I also find the UI in Ubuntu 9.10 unresponsive; quite terrible:
1. Click on icons sometimes does not respond.
2. If you linger on a link or icon a floating icon appears that is difficult to dismiss and prevents action
3. The scrollbar sticks – once it this mode moving the mouse anywhere in the window causes scroll; for example – highlight this message and use copy – scrollbar becomes active. It appears that Ubuntu is trying to handle the iPhone gestures – If during the highlight operation scroll is necessary then it is likelly that scrolling becomes sticky.
4. Closing (probably related to 1), takes forever to recognise that cursor is on top of close. then takes many clicks tor action to complete.
5. Unresponsive. For example I highlight this message (speed Ok), with context menu chose Copy (slow), click on Applications (takes many clicks to open), from Accessories chose gedit (speed Ok), click on edit (slow or takes more than one try), paste (speeed Ok).
6. Return back to continuing this message (takes many tries).
7. Show window for gedit and click on File (slow), Save As (takes many tries)
Excuse the long rant. I will submit to ubuntu.

]]> Comment on Using VirtualBox as your personal server by Tino Kremer http://www.without-brains.net/archives/247/comment-page-1#comment-104 Tino Kremer Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:07:50 +0000 http://www.without-brains.net/?p=247#comment-104 VirtualBox works great. I have been using it myself for quite some time, but since I'm running Windows 7 I have switched to Microsoft Virtual PC. It's nicely integrated in windows, but more important, it runs much smoother. Microsoft needed it's VM to work well as the "Windows XP mode" is also running on the platform. For those who don't know, "Windows XP Mode" is what Microsoft offers on e.g. Windows 7 Ultimate to be able to run "old" apps that don't run on Windows 7 directly. As the VM hosts a full Windows XP installation, everything that worked on Windows XP will work here as well. Anyway, since I'm using this one the memory requirements has dropped considerably and speed has increased. Note I'm running Windows as Host and Guest which could be the reason it runs smoother compared to VirtualBox. In Linux there is no Microsoft Virtual PC anyway :D VirtualBox works great. I have been using it myself for quite some time, but since I’m running Windows 7 I have switched to Microsoft Virtual PC. It’s nicely integrated in windows, but more important, it runs much smoother. Microsoft needed it’s VM to work well as the “Windows XP mode” is also running on the platform. For those who don’t know, “Windows XP Mode” is what Microsoft offers on e.g. Windows 7 Ultimate to be able to run “old” apps that don’t run on Windows 7 directly. As the VM hosts a full Windows XP installation, everything that worked on Windows XP will work here as well.

Anyway, since I’m using this one the memory requirements has dropped considerably and speed has increased.

Note I’m running Windows as Host and Guest which could be the reason it runs smoother compared to VirtualBox. In Linux there is no Microsoft Virtual PC anyway :D

]]> Comment on Text editors, Emacs vs Vim by Mark http://www.without-brains.net/archives/259/comment-page-1#comment-101 Mark Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:25:42 +0000 http://www.without-brains.net/?p=259#comment-101 For me Vim has completely replaced UltraEdit, Vim has a good Windows version which can even be integrated into the Windows Explorer context menu, it has column editing mode (similar to what UltraEdit offers) and it is completely extensible with Vimscript. For me Vim has completely replaced UltraEdit, Vim has a good Windows version which can even be integrated into the Windows Explorer context menu, it has column editing mode (similar to what UltraEdit offers) and it is completely extensible with Vimscript.

]]> Comment on Text editors, Emacs vs Vim by Tino Kremer http://www.without-brains.net/archives/259/comment-page-1#comment-100 Tino Kremer Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:05:52 +0000 http://www.without-brains.net/?p=259#comment-100 VIM is a nice editor. I prefer the internal Visual Studio editor though and for the rest of my editing tasks UltraEdit helps me a lot. VIM is the software I always use when editting HTML, PHP and system files on *nix systems :) VIM is a nice editor. I prefer the internal Visual Studio editor though and for the rest of my editing tasks UltraEdit helps me a lot. VIM is the software I always use when editting HTML, PHP and system files on *nix systems :)

]]> Comment on Upgraded to WordPress 2.9.1 by Mark http://www.without-brains.net/archives/260/comment-page-1#comment-98 Mark Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:27:24 +0000 http://www.without-brains.net/?p=260#comment-98 Yes, I haven't been able to think of anything good to write for this blog recently :) Yes, I haven’t been able to think of anything good to write for this blog recently :)

]]> Comment on Upgraded to WordPress 2.9.1 by Tino http://www.without-brains.net/archives/260/comment-page-1#comment-75 Tino Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:18:25 +0000 http://www.without-brains.net/?p=260#comment-75 Bit quiet around here :) Bit quiet around here :)

]]> Comment on Upgraded to WordPress 2.9.1 by Tino http://www.without-brains.net/archives/260/comment-page-1#comment-25 Tino Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:03:34 +0000 http://www.without-brains.net/?p=260#comment-25 I did the same. Still having issues with Twitter Tools though :( I did the same. Still having issues with Twitter Tools though :(

]]> Comment on VPN in Ubuntu 9.10 by Mark http://www.without-brains.net/archives/165/comment-page-1#comment-24 Mark Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:08:44 +0000 http://www.without-brains.net/?p=165#comment-24 Whether it works or not depends on the type of VPN that you are connecting to. If you're using something other than PPTP you will need to install different packages, which require different configurations which I have not tried. Whether it works or not depends on the type of VPN that you are connecting to. If you’re using something other than PPTP you will need to install different packages, which require different configurations which I have not tried.

]]> Comment on VPN in Ubuntu 9.10 by Sayantan http://www.without-brains.net/archives/165/comment-page-1#comment-23 Sayantan Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:29:32 +0000 http://www.without-brains.net/?p=165#comment-23 It does not work. I have installed everything. I get the following errors in the log files VPN connection 'office' failed to connect: 'No VPN secrets!'. It does not work. I have installed everything. I get the following errors in the log files

VPN connection ‘office’ failed to connect: ‘No VPN secrets!’.

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