I was saying this in 2002. Ten years later, it has become clear that while we can boycott a software company as individuals, there are way too many people out there who don't really care what MS does differently because (a) they are non-technical and they don't even know what web standards are, (b) it came with their computer, it suits their needs just fine and they would rather concern themselves with other things, and (c) they will trust a large corporation like MS before they listen to a bunch of geeks like us.
I have encouraged countless people to stick with alternative browsers over the years and it has served them well, however these days even IE seems to do a pretty good job of adhering to standards. MS still tries to be naughty from time to time, and I still don't use IE9 for more than testing, but they seem to have made some vast improvements in recent years.
When you employ good practices with HTML and CSS, making a page look and display properly in IE8+ is trivial. Even common jquery effects are fairly browser independent now.
If you have to fight a lot to get a common result between browsers, then you may be trying too hard to reinvent the wheel. And if your visitors are still using IE6, then it is easy to have the webpage notify them that their 10+ year old browser is incompatible and needs to be upgraded.
1. In Mint's installer, how would I config the custom partitioning scheme to use that?
Well, via my preferred method, I would let it auto-create its own/home directory in the root partition.
2. In fstab, what would I change to "restore" my/home partition?
First, empty or rename/home so that it exists on the root partition as an empty directory. Then in fstab you can add a line to use that as a mounting point for the separate home partition.
3. Maybe there's a way I could edit the Mint installer to roll my own distro that always installs like that by default?
Scammer: Okay, I need you to click on "start." Me: Start... I don't know what that is. Sc: The Start Menu. Down in the corner, it says "start." Me: I don't see anything that says "start" on it. Sc: Ok, there should be a glass ball with the Windows logo on it. Me: No... But I do see an orb with a flag. Sc: Yes. Click on that and then click on Internet Explorer. Me: Ok, I clicked on it but I don't see Internet Explorer. Sc: Click on "All Programs" and find it in there. Me: But if I click on all programs, won't that slow my computer way down? Sc: What? No, there is a button that says "All Programs." Me: Oh... I see. Internet Explorer. Got it. Sc: I need you to go to whatismyip.com and tell me what it says. Me: Ok...
[Two minutes pass]
Me: Ok, now what? Sc: Tell me what it says. Me: "No proxy detected." Sc: What does it say for the address? Me: It says, whatismyip.com. Sc: No, what is your IP address? Me: I don't know. Shouldn't you know this? Sc: I do not know for security reasons. What does the number say on your screen? Me: Let's see here... It says, 192.198.1.---
But unfortunately, that also means that you'll have to tell Ubuntu's / Mint's installer that you're using a custom partitioning scheme. So you'll need to get a little more involved during the installation process than if you hadn't used a separate partition for your/home directory.
I usually just let it go with the defaults in the OS partition and then later I edit fstab to restore my/home partition. Far less hassle that way.
Mint's UI philosophies tend to be more traditional. Out of the box you have a different take on KDE4, Mint-centric improvements to GNOME3 (formerly Mint GNOME Shell Extensions; now Cinnamon) as well as easy access to MATE.
It obtains the packages, installs them with default configuration and starts the services. Just edit or import config files, and you're good to go. What more do you need?
Windows Metro wasn't even a thing in early 2011. Even now, it's still nascent and will likely never become a part of Windows 7, which is good for another eight years anyway.
As long as you leave the non-LTS releases alone, Ubuntu offers a very polished experience. I'm even willing to tolerate Unity to reap the benefits of 5 years of LTS.
100% agree. I used to upgrade my laptop to the newest release every six months because I loved having the latest greatest thing. I had upgraded every version from 6.04 all the way to 10.04 (and even hopped from kubuntu-desktop to ubuntu-desktop) without ever needing to do a fresh reinstallation.
Of course, it was also a lot more work, I would have to give the computer half a day to upgrade itself, and the occasional bug would arise after an upgrade (though never anything that couldn't be fixed by hand). I eventually settled happily with the LTS since it's just a lot less hassle. Less crazy experimental shit to have to fight with.
Now I just use Live CD's and Virtualbox to play with the latest releases in my spare time without messing with my machine. =)
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so at 4 million solar masses how much would a teaspoon of that stuff weigh?
That depends on how much the teaspoon itself weighs. =)
Let's try this again.
When you employ good practices with HTML and CSS, making a page look and display properly in IE8+ is trivial.
Give that code a doctype and then try again. It will give you the same result, even using IE8 (with or without compatibility mode).
They must have Dell servers in those caves.
There are a number of anti-religious and anti-Islamic individuals here who will have a field day with news like this.
I was saying this in 2002. Ten years later, it has become clear that while we can boycott a software company as individuals, there are way too many people out there who don't really care what MS does differently because (a) they are non-technical and they don't even know what web standards are, (b) it came with their computer, it suits their needs just fine and they would rather concern themselves with other things, and (c) they will trust a large corporation like MS before they listen to a bunch of geeks like us.
I have encouraged countless people to stick with alternative browsers over the years and it has served them well, however these days even IE seems to do a pretty good job of adhering to standards. MS still tries to be naughty from time to time, and I still don't use IE9 for more than testing, but they seem to have made some vast improvements in recent years.
When you employ good practices with HTML and CSS, making a page look and display properly in IE8+ is trivial. Even common jquery effects are fairly browser independent now.
If you have to fight a lot to get a common result between browsers, then you may be trying too hard to reinvent the wheel. And if your visitors are still using IE6, then it is easy to have the webpage notify them that their 10+ year old browser is incompatible and needs to be upgraded.
1. In Mint's installer, how would I config the custom partitioning scheme to use that?
Well, via my preferred method, I would let it auto-create its own /home directory in the root partition.
2. In fstab, what would I change to "restore" my /home partition?
First, empty or rename /home so that it exists on the root partition as an empty directory. Then in fstab you can add a line to use that as a mounting point for the separate home partition.
3. Maybe there's a way I could edit the Mint installer to roll my own distro that always installs like that by default?
Anything's possible.
We went around in circles for ages
True story:
Scammer: Okay, I need you to click on "start."
Me: Start... I don't know what that is.
Sc: The Start Menu. Down in the corner, it says "start."
Me: I don't see anything that says "start" on it.
Sc: Ok, there should be a glass ball with the Windows logo on it.
Me: No... But I do see an orb with a flag.
Sc: Yes. Click on that and then click on Internet Explorer.
Me: Ok, I clicked on it but I don't see Internet Explorer.
Sc: Click on "All Programs" and find it in there.
Me: But if I click on all programs, won't that slow my computer way down?
Sc: What? No, there is a button that says "All Programs."
Me: Oh... I see. Internet Explorer. Got it.
Sc: I need you to go to whatismyip.com and tell me what it says.
Me: Ok...
[Two minutes pass]
Me: Ok, now what?
Sc: Tell me what it says.
Me: "No proxy detected."
Sc: What does it say for the address?
Me: It says, whatismyip.com.
Sc: No, what is your IP address?
Me: I don't know. Shouldn't you know this?
Sc: I do not know for security reasons. What does the number say on your screen?
Me: Let's see here... It says, 192.198.1.---
[*Click*; line goes dead]
But unfortunately, that also means that you'll have to tell Ubuntu's / Mint's installer that you're using a custom partitioning scheme. So you'll need to get a little more involved during the installation process than if you hadn't used a separate partition for your /home directory.
I usually just let it go with the defaults in the OS partition and then later I edit fstab to restore my /home partition. Far less hassle that way.
Out-of-the-box hardware support.
Same here. Being a mod, it's basically just using Minecraft as the GUI for its virtual operations...
Mint's UI philosophies tend to be more traditional. Out of the box you have a different take on KDE4, Mint-centric improvements to GNOME3 (formerly Mint GNOME Shell Extensions; now Cinnamon) as well as easy access to MATE.
Smell-o-vision?
...because EMACS is way too cumbersome for config file editing.
Eleven is extremely old in Internet years.
It obtains the packages, installs them with default configuration and starts the services. Just edit or import config files, and you're good to go. What more do you need?
Why? I think it's a cohesive theme.
Windows Metro wasn't even a thing in early 2011. Even now, it's still nascent and will likely never become a part of Windows 7, which is good for another eight years anyway.
As long as you leave the non-LTS releases alone, Ubuntu offers a very polished experience. I'm even willing to tolerate Unity to reap the benefits of 5 years of LTS.
100% agree. I used to upgrade my laptop to the newest release every six months because I loved having the latest greatest thing. I had upgraded every version from 6.04 all the way to 10.04 (and even hopped from kubuntu-desktop to ubuntu-desktop) without ever needing to do a fresh reinstallation.
Of course, it was also a lot more work, I would have to give the computer half a day to upgrade itself, and the occasional bug would arise after an upgrade (though never anything that couldn't be fixed by hand). I eventually settled happily with the LTS since it's just a lot less hassle. Less crazy experimental shit to have to fight with.
Now I just use Live CD's and Virtualbox to play with the latest releases in my spare time without messing with my machine. =)
Is there a Linux Mint package for setting up LAMP
apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php5 libapache2-mod-php5.1 php5-mysql
Or at least those are the package names employed by Debian...
Why is this modded as a troll?
I've been car shopping for five years for just this reason.
I had thought the same thing. "RT" could stand for a lot of fun things. Like Windows "Rectal Thermometer" edition.
I don't think everybody is arguing about the same thing here....
Chrome uses WebKit as well, actually.