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		<title>Comment on The Friday Grab Bag: Adobe AIR, Chromium vs Firefox, Ext4 and More by tecosystems » The Friday Grab Bag: Google Gripes Edition</title>
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		<dc:creator>tecosystems » The Friday Grab Bag: Google Gripes Edition</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] it remains the fastest and lowest UI footprint browser available. For the time being, I’ve mostly cut over to using it as my primary browser, although I still spin up Firefox a half dozen times of day when [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] it remains the fastest and lowest UI footprint browser available. For the time being, I&#8217;ve mostly cut over to using it as my primary browser, although I still spin up Firefox a half dozen times of day when [...]</p>
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		<title>Comment on Current State of Intel Video, Ubuntu, and Composited Desktops by sogrady</title>
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		<dc:creator>sogrady</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That's actually how the system identifies itself, both in LSPCI and in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. 

(--) PCI:*(0:0:2:0) 8086:2a42:17aa:20e4 Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller rev 7, Mem @ 0xf0000000/4194304, 0xd0000000/268435456, I/O @ 0x$

But yes, it's definitely a bug ;)

Will try launching it a different way.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s actually how the system identifies itself, both in LSPCI and in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. </p>
<p>(&#8211;) PCI:*(0:0:2:0) 8086:2a42:17aa:20e4 Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller rev 7, Mem @ 0xf0000000/4194304, 0xd0000000/268435456, I/O @ 0x$</p>
<p>But yes, it&#8217;s definitely a bug <img src='http://redmonk.com/sogrady/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Will try launching it a different way.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Current State of Intel Video, Ubuntu, and Composited Desktops by Roy Schestowitz (schestowitz) 's status on Friday, 06-Nov-09 00:35:16 UTC - Identi.ca</title>
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		<dc:creator>Roy Schestowitz (schestowitz) 's status on Friday, 06-Nov-09 00:35:16 UTC - Identi.ca</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Assessment of #GNU #Linux by #RedMonk Analyst http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/11/04/intel-video/ [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Assessment of #GNU #Linux by #RedMonk Analyst <a href="http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/11/04/intel-video/" rel="nofollow">http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/11/04/intel-video/</a> [...]</p>
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		<title>Comment on Current State of Intel Video, Ubuntu, and Composited Desktops by Links 05/11/2009: KDevelop Beta 6, ApacheCon Coverage | Boycott Novell</title>
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		<dc:creator>Links 05/11/2009: KDevelop Beta 6, ApacheCon Coverage | Boycott Novell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Current State of Intel Video, Ubuntu, and Composited Desktops The most interesting aspect of the project, from my perspective, is Mutter. Mutter is essentially Metacity with the Clutter technologies baked into it. As Joe Gregorio noted back at OSCON, Clutter’s a popular project these days, and for good reason. Built by the Intel-acquired OpenedHand team, among others, Clutter offers aesthetically pleasing, thoroughly modern graphics capabilities that, even better, are fast. Indeed, of the available compositing options for my hardware, the only one that performs adequately is the next generation option in the Clutter based GNOME Shell. That is most unusual; the bleeding edge stuff is typically very slow. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Current State of Intel Video, Ubuntu, and Composited Desktops The most interesting aspect of the project, from my perspective, is Mutter. Mutter is essentially Metacity with the Clutter technologies baked into it. As Joe Gregorio noted back at OSCON, Clutter’s a popular project these days, and for good reason. Built by the Intel-acquired OpenedHand team, among others, Clutter offers aesthetically pleasing, thoroughly modern graphics capabilities that, even better, are fast. Indeed, of the available compositing options for my hardware, the only one that performs adequately is the next generation option in the Clutter based GNOME Shell. That is most unusual; the bleeding edge stuff is typically very slow. [...]</p>
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		<title>Comment on Current State of Intel Video, Ubuntu, and Composited Desktops by Adam Williamson</title>
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		<dc:creator>Adam Williamson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What you have looks rather like what we extremely technical people like to refer to as a 'bug'. :) have you tried launching compiz a different way - with compiz-icon, or just from the command line? I wonder if it's a bug in Ubuntu's compiz-activation-doohickey.

you're not really identifying hardware precisely enough to be sure other people have the same as you. When it comes to Intel chipsets you can really only go by the PCI ID, the exact identifying line from /var/log/Xorg.0.log is a good thing to cite.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What you have looks rather like what we extremely technical people like to refer to as a &#8216;bug&#8217;. <img src='http://redmonk.com/sogrady/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  have you tried launching compiz a different way &#8211; with compiz-icon, or just from the command line? I wonder if it&#8217;s a bug in Ubuntu&#8217;s compiz-activation-doohickey.</p>
<p>you&#8217;re not really identifying hardware precisely enough to be sure other people have the same as you. When it comes to Intel chipsets you can really only go by the PCI ID, the exact identifying line from /var/log/Xorg.0.log is a good thing to cite.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Why I Am Voting No On 1 by james governor</title>
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		<dc:creator>james governor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>its great to see right thinking flow through the ages. we tend to think of this discussion as something new, but philip spooner doesn't, and sog senior doesn't and evidently sog's dad's dad wouldn't either. tolerance is not new.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>its great to see right thinking flow through the ages. we tend to think of this discussion as something new, but philip spooner doesn&#8217;t, and sog senior doesn&#8217;t and evidently sog&#8217;s dad&#8217;s dad wouldn&#8217;t either. tolerance is not new.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Current State of Intel Video, Ubuntu, and Composited Desktops by sogrady</title>
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		<dc:creator>sogrady</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Paul Cooper: interesting, as Thinkwiki.org reports that you have the same on board video hardware as i do. i'm not sure it's an Ubuntu problem, though, as i've tried a variety of Ubuntu and non-Ubuntu video drivers with no impact: it just doesn't work for me. 

maybe it's time to pave this instance (it's been upgraded four times now). 

as for Mutter, yeah, i was surprised too. works pretty much seamlessly. video is a little wonky after multiple suspends, but otherwise it's pretty, but fast.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#comment-573397">Paul Cooper</a>: interesting, as Thinkwiki.org reports that you have the same on board video hardware as i do. i&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s an Ubuntu problem, though, as i&#8217;ve tried a variety of Ubuntu and non-Ubuntu video drivers with no impact: it just doesn&#8217;t work for me. </p>
<p>maybe it&#8217;s time to pave this instance (it&#8217;s been upgraded four times now). </p>
<p>as for Mutter, yeah, i was surprised too. works pretty much seamlessly. video is a little wonky after multiple suspends, but otherwise it&#8217;s pretty, but fast.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Why I Am Voting No On 1 by Dave Neary</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dave Neary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Stephen,

Re: "Stripped of the fearmongering, the issue before us is not complicated: should a citizen of this state be denied a basic human right because of the way that they were born?"

While I agree with you on same-sex marriage, I don't think it serves the argument well to frame marriage as "a basic human right" - there's no right to marry written in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and civil marriage is mostly an administrative thing.

That administrative thing certainly leads to a whole bunch of other things which are discriminatory - succession rights, parentage of adopted or surrogate children, access to adoption in the first place, the ability to have joint tax returns, and a host of other issues. But those are separate from the institution of marriage in essence, and it is possible to pass laws giving access to them without calling the union a marriage. Right now, that's often not the case - and it's these differences that are clearly discriminatory, and can serve as a basis for convincing people.

In the end, marriage comes down to is symbolism. Some people believe that marriage is a sacred institution that exists to give a framework for a family - and same-sex couples can't reproduce on their own.  Others see the ability to marry as a way to say "I'm yours and you're mine, forever", so there's nothing sacred, religious or family-related about it.

If you did away with every other difference between a civil union (like the PACS in France) and marriage, all that would be left is the label. And gay couples have as much right to have access to the label as straight couples.
 
Selling marriage as a fundamental human right doesn't win any marginal votes, IMHO, because most people don't think that marriage is a human right, they think of it either as a privilege, or as an administrative thing.

Dave.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Stephen,</p>
<p>Re: &#8220;Stripped of the fearmongering, the issue before us is not complicated: should a citizen of this state be denied a basic human right because of the way that they were born?&#8221;</p>
<p>While I agree with you on same-sex marriage, I don&#8217;t think it serves the argument well to frame marriage as &#8220;a basic human right&#8221; &#8211; there&#8217;s no right to marry written in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and civil marriage is mostly an administrative thing.</p>
<p>That administrative thing certainly leads to a whole bunch of other things which are discriminatory &#8211; succession rights, parentage of adopted or surrogate children, access to adoption in the first place, the ability to have joint tax returns, and a host of other issues. But those are separate from the institution of marriage in essence, and it is possible to pass laws giving access to them without calling the union a marriage. Right now, that&#8217;s often not the case &#8211; and it&#8217;s these differences that are clearly discriminatory, and can serve as a basis for convincing people.</p>
<p>In the end, marriage comes down to is symbolism. Some people believe that marriage is a sacred institution that exists to give a framework for a family &#8211; and same-sex couples can&#8217;t reproduce on their own.  Others see the ability to marry as a way to say &#8220;I&#8217;m yours and you&#8217;re mine, forever&#8221;, so there&#8217;s nothing sacred, religious or family-related about it.</p>
<p>If you did away with every other difference between a civil union (like the PACS in France) and marriage, all that would be left is the label. And gay couples have as much right to have access to the label as straight couples.</p>
<p>Selling marriage as a fundamental human right doesn&#8217;t win any marginal votes, IMHO, because most people don&#8217;t think that marriage is a human right, they think of it either as a privilege, or as an administrative thing.</p>
<p>Dave.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Current State of Intel Video, Ubuntu, and Composited Desktops by Paul Cooper</title>
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		<dc:creator>Paul Cooper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Compiz works fine for me in Fedora 11 (on an x200s, and Intel gfx Macbook), so I would assume that this is a problem of how Ubuntu integrates the driver. Similarly colleagues haven't had any issues with Debian or Mandriva.

That Mutter works best is pleasing but strange too because it relies more DRI2 etc being setup correctly.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Compiz works fine for me in Fedora 11 (on an x200s, and Intel gfx Macbook), so I would assume that this is a problem of how Ubuntu integrates the driver. Similarly colleagues haven&#8217;t had any issues with Debian or Mandriva.</p>
<p>That Mutter works best is pleasing but strange too because it relies more DRI2 etc being setup correctly.</p>
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		<dc:creator>stephen o'grady</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Gordon Haff: agreed. engineers generally underestimate the importance of barriers to entry.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Gordon Haff: agreed. engineers generally underestimate the importance of barriers to entry.</p>
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