I'm in the exact same boat as you. Don't like evernote, but plan on using this. I mean, I'm pissed that Reader is dying, but they made it easy to get my data out. Same with notebook. I've tried Catch and Astrid on Android, and they never really synced well. When they did, I had to log into their site or jump through hoops to get the data into Google. Ever note (and recently the other two) are really busy, don't look as sleek and simple as Google apps, and have WAY more functionality than I need, so they take a while to open and connect and feel bloated. Google Keep, on the other hand, is lightweight and easy to use. And one day, I may have to export the data. And that's OK. I've already transitioned to TTRSS and I'll do it with Docs and Gmail if I have to.
[fluffman@moria:~]$ s bejeweled kdiamond - three-in-a-row game for KDE gweled - A "Diamond Mine" puzzle game monsterz - arcade puzzle game monsterz-data - graphics and audio data for monsterz [fluffman@moria:~]$ i gweled [sudo] password for fluffman: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed:
gweled 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 87 not upgraded. Need to get 163kB of archives. After this operation, 479kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe gweled 0.7-2ubuntu6 [163kB] Fetched 163kB in 2s (76.8kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package gweled. (Reading database... 231023 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking gweled (from.../gweled_0.7-2ubuntu6_amd64.deb)... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils... Processing triggers for python-gmenu... Rebuilding/usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache... Processing triggers for menu... Processing triggers for python-support... Setting up gweled (0.7-2ubuntu6)...
Processing triggers for menu... [fluffman@moria:~]$ gweled
Actual time spend searching for and installing bejeweled clone: 10 seconds. And it's actually pretty good, with music too!
Exactly. From a legal perspective, SC and the CSA had a better legal argument for leaving the USA than the Colonies had for leaving England.
Legally, colonies aren't allowed to secede from a mother country. But SC had freely entered into a contract with the other states, and should have been freely allowed to leave.
Wow, I'm a linux geek and my wife is a literary/gaming geek. We just got married last year.
From experience: -- Change "sports" in those books to "games and linux" -- Do *NOT* install the latest Alpha release of your distro because "it's stable enough" ----- If you *STILL* do the above, be sure you do it on a computer that she doesn't use -------- If you *STILL* do it on *HER* computer, be sure to show her any and all of the differences. ----------- If you *STILL* don't show her what's new and let her know what's going on, be prepared for no sex / a divorce.
Depending on who's using the computer, don't bother, unless you're programming in Qt or your users are very tech savvy.
I first started using Linux full time around Kubuntu 7.04 alpha 5-ish. I looked at Gnome and KDE and thought KDE looked nicer. I couldn't even boot the standard Ubuntu on my PC at the time, so it wasn't really an option anyway. KDE was great, but I found it was pretty difficult for my fiancee and parents to use. It has a LOT of menu options, and it was overall pretty difficult to do common tasks like mounting windows shares and stuff like that. Most tutorials were written for Gnome, but I could generally convert the necessary instructions.
Then, I started getting more people interested in putting Ubuntu on their computer. I went with Ubuntu (Gnome) because it was generally easier to use. I switched to Gnome myself out of necessity, and once I figured out how to do the stuff I had learned in KDE (and since it actually booted into Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon) I began to love Gnome more and more.
I still find KDE interesting, and would probably use it personally if I was the only one using the computer and if I didn't have to help friends/family with their computers over the phone. It's just much easier to describe how to do something if you're using the same desktop environment. Even so, Gnome is still quite capable despite being simplistic.
but it seems like I've been getting random freeze-ups since using it. Usually happens when downloading 500mb of gmail into evolution, or when deleting/adding more than 100 or 200 MB of files in one fell swoop.
Actually, I just ordered a Mini 9 from Dell. I checked the prices and sure enough I saved $40 by getting Ubuntu instead of XP.
Funny thing is though, I called in the order to talk to a real person about different discounts (epp, sales, etc.), and she tried her *darnedest* to get me to *not* get that laptop! First she wanted to make sure I "had a *real* laptop" (yes, that's a quote!), then she asked what I would be using it for.
ME: Oh, you know it's a netbook, so...the Internet.
HER: Oh, you won't be typing papers at all or using Excel or anything? Because you need Windows to run MS Office
ME: No...it's Ubuntu, it comes with OpenOffice, I don't need MS Office.
HER: But you can't open word or excel without windows...
ME: Yes, I can edit and create MS Office documents. Move along, please.
Next, she urged me to upgrade the RAM.
HER: And would you like to go ahead and get the 64GB hard drive [even though it's actually solid state] and 2 GB of RAM? This is a small laptop and is very hard to upgrade.
ME: Actually, I've seen the videos online. It takes 2 screws and you just pop off a little lid and the extra ram or the new SSD just pops right in.
Then, of course, she wanted to sell me the latest gizmos and gadgets they have. No, thanks. Finally, when the build is complete, I get the most hilarious thing EVER:
HER: Ok, almost done here, one last question. Right now, we have a special on McAfee Antivirus and it's only $X/month and it will protect your system from...[I cut her off here]
ME: Would you like to tell me A) how McAfee is going to run in Linux and B) what viruses I would be protected from? I'll go ahead and answer that: McAfee doesn't even run on Linux, so the question is moot. What's my total?
I'm guessing that even if they sell McAfee and have to give a refund, they'll still charge people for that first month, or even if they give the refund on that, then McAfee gives dell a kickback for so many licenses sold.
In Windows, I like Sumatra. It's smaller and faster than Foxit, and doesn't allow javascript and crap that causes problems in Adobe Reader. It does, however, sometimes have trouble rendering some more complicated pdf's, but you could always keep foxit around for that rare occasion.
I have a "televisor" (television set in Spanish...the actual hardware), but not "television" (television in Spanish...the actual feed coming into the home).
Why? Because:
A) I can't really afford cable.
B) 99% of what's on TV (cable and broadcast alike) is tripe.
C) The ads drive me crazy.
D) I can't pick up a decent broadcast signal from the nearest city.
Instead, I am perfectly capable of buying/downloading my favorite shows that I can watch when I want AND without the ads. As for the live debate, the BBC has a great feed (as I already mentioned above).
I haven't found a single decent US-based company for watching the debates live. The BBC, on the other hand, is awesome and provides an auto-updating live blog (using javascript) and a purely flash-based live video feed. They don't even have branding or ads on the actual feed.
for less than $5/month if you pay a couple years in advance, site5.com will give you unlimited web and email hosting. I've had them for 2 years and have been nothing but pleased. They are quick to answer tech support questions...which are rare given pretty good online documentation, standards compliance, and *great* uptime.
They also support lots of scripting languages, including Ruby and PHP. You have free, unlimited access to Fantastico, which installs lots of free web-based programs with a single click.
In fact, the only problem with Site5 that I've found is a lack of support for WebDAV.
Not a book, but the History Channel has several series about the OT, including explanations of miracles and battle tactics. As a logical, somewhat-scientific, forward-thinking Christian, let me say that they are really quite good.
*If a scribe made an error while copying, he had to completely start over on that page. He was not allowed to blot out a word and rewrite it.
*When a scribe completed a page, it was checked against his original. Every line was counted to ensure that each line had the same number of characters, and each page the same number of lines.
*When a scribe came across the name of God, the vowel symbols were never written, leaving (a transliterated) YHVH.
*Even though the scribe was writing the full name of God, he was still required to ceremonially wash his hands and break his stylus before continuing.
Religious Texts do offer a good historical perspective if you read them with the fact that they have been translated many times, passed by word of mouth for a longer time.
As for the older stuff that you mentioned (Creation, Flood, Destruction of Sodom, perhaps), I suppose that these stories would indeed either need to be passed by word of mouth or else given by direct inspiration from God.
Most of the later stuff in the Old Testament (really everything except for Genesis and parts of Exodus), though, was written down from the beginning.
Leviticus, for example, is recorded Ceremonial, Religious, Moral, and even Secular Law. This was VERY highly regarded and as such copied extremely carefully. In other words, when a priest or scribe was charged with copying a scroll, he was not allowed to copy line-by-line or word-by-word. Instead, he was required to copy letter-by-letter. All of the other scrolls were held in the same regard--they all either dealt with essentially History, Prophecy, or Law.
The scribes had some VERY strict laws on how to copy, which means that today, of the stuff that remains, there are fewer discrepancies among texts than with copies of any other ancient text.
I saw statistic once that compared Homer's Odyssey with the Old Testament. The OT is significantly longer and has more copies remaining. Statistically, that would mean there is a higher chance of error while copying as well as a higher chance of discrepancies among the surviving texts. This, however, is not the case. Homer's shorter work actually contains many more errors overall--not just per line, but over the course of a shorter book.
How you choose to interpret the Bible is up to you. But at least let it be said that the Bible was properly copied.
That program already exists. It's called shred. We use it at my University IT department on a very small gentoo live cd to wipe old PPC Macs. Norton Ghost has a similar feature that works well on x86 PCs.
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An RSS reader?
I'm in the exact same boat as you. Don't like evernote, but plan on using this. I mean, I'm pissed that Reader is dying, but they made it easy to get my data out. Same with notebook. I've tried Catch and Astrid on Android, and they never really synced well. When they did, I had to log into their site or jump through hoops to get the data into Google. Ever note (and recently the other two) are really busy, don't look as sleek and simple as Google apps, and have WAY more functionality than I need, so they take a while to open and connect and feel bloated. Google Keep, on the other hand, is lightweight and easy to use. And one day, I may have to export the data. And that's OK. I've already transitioned to TTRSS and I'll do it with Docs and Gmail if I have to.
Actual time spend searching for and installing bejeweled clone: 10 seconds. And it's actually pretty good, with music too!
NOOO! The search dog's name is Rover. He was my friend back when I was using Microsoft Bob. He helped me build my home! :D
Exactly. From a legal perspective, SC and the CSA had a better legal argument for leaving the USA than the Colonies had for leaving England.
Legally, colonies aren't allowed to secede from a mother country. But SC had freely entered into a contract with the other states, and should have been freely allowed to leave.
Get a Dell Mini, or some other netbook.
http://download.openoffice.org/next/other.html has .deb's for you dowload and double-click to install. Or check for a ppa.
I personally prefer _WE_ by Yevganey Zamyatin.
Wow, I'm a linux geek and my wife is a literary/gaming geek. We just got married last year.
From experience:
-- Change "sports" in those books to "games and linux"
-- Do *NOT* install the latest Alpha release of your distro because "it's stable enough"
----- If you *STILL* do the above, be sure you do it on a computer that she doesn't use
-------- If you *STILL* do it on *HER* computer, be sure to show her any and all of the differences.
----------- If you *STILL* don't show her what's new and let her know what's going on, be prepared for no sex / a divorce.
Depending on who's using the computer, don't bother, unless you're programming in Qt or your users are very tech savvy.
I first started using Linux full time around Kubuntu 7.04 alpha 5-ish. I looked at Gnome and KDE and thought KDE looked nicer. I couldn't even boot the standard Ubuntu on my PC at the time, so it wasn't really an option anyway. KDE was great, but I found it was pretty difficult for my fiancee and parents to use. It has a LOT of menu options, and it was overall pretty difficult to do common tasks like mounting windows shares and stuff like that. Most tutorials were written for Gnome, but I could generally convert the necessary instructions.
Then, I started getting more people interested in putting Ubuntu on their computer. I went with Ubuntu (Gnome) because it was generally easier to use. I switched to Gnome myself out of necessity, and once I figured out how to do the stuff I had learned in KDE (and since it actually booted into Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon) I began to love Gnome more and more.
I still find KDE interesting, and would probably use it personally if I was the only one using the computer and if I didn't have to help friends/family with their computers over the phone. It's just much easier to describe how to do something if you're using the same desktop environment. Even so, Gnome is still quite capable despite being simplistic.
but it seems like I've been getting random freeze-ups since using it. Usually happens when downloading 500mb of gmail into evolution, or when deleting/adding more than 100 or 200 MB of files in one fell swoop.
See https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/327509 for more.
Actually, I just ordered a Mini 9 from Dell. I checked the prices and sure enough I saved $40 by getting Ubuntu instead of XP.
Funny thing is though, I called in the order to talk to a real person about different discounts (epp, sales, etc.), and she tried her *darnedest* to get me to *not* get that laptop! First she wanted to make sure I "had a *real* laptop" (yes, that's a quote!), then she asked what I would be using it for.
ME: Oh, you know it's a netbook, so...the Internet.
HER: Oh, you won't be typing papers at all or using Excel or anything? Because you need Windows to run MS Office
ME: No...it's Ubuntu, it comes with OpenOffice, I don't need MS Office.
HER: But you can't open word or excel without windows...
ME: Yes, I can edit and create MS Office documents. Move along, please.
Next, she urged me to upgrade the RAM.
HER: And would you like to go ahead and get the 64GB hard drive [even though it's actually solid state] and 2 GB of RAM? This is a small laptop and is very hard to upgrade.
ME: Actually, I've seen the videos online. It takes 2 screws and you just pop off a little lid and the extra ram or the new SSD just pops right in.
Then, of course, she wanted to sell me the latest gizmos and gadgets they have. No, thanks. Finally, when the build is complete, I get the most hilarious thing EVER:
HER: Ok, almost done here, one last question. Right now, we have a special on McAfee Antivirus and it's only $X/month and it will protect your system from...[I cut her off here]
ME: Would you like to tell me A) how McAfee is going to run in Linux and B) what viruses I would be protected from? I'll go ahead and answer that: McAfee doesn't even run on Linux, so the question is moot. What's my total?
I'm guessing that even if they sell McAfee and have to give a refund, they'll still charge people for that first month, or even if they give the refund on that, then McAfee gives dell a kickback for so many licenses sold.
In Windows, I like Sumatra. It's smaller and faster than Foxit, and doesn't allow javascript and crap that causes problems in Adobe Reader. It does, however, sometimes have trouble rendering some more complicated pdf's, but you could always keep foxit around for that rare occasion.
"In fact, you can do that. Plug the ipod into a PC without itunes and it appears to be a usb drive."
But then you can't play the mp3's you copy to it. He depends on a "internal database" which is generated by iTunes.
Generated by iTunes...or Banshee or Rhythmbox or AmaroK or any of a dozen other music players available on Windows.
I use objection just fine with FF 3.0.3. Although, I may have compatibility checking turned off....
I have a "televisor" (television set in Spanish...the actual hardware), but not "television" (television in Spanish...the actual feed coming into the home).
Why? Because:
A) I can't really afford cable.
B) 99% of what's on TV (cable and broadcast alike) is tripe.
C) The ads drive me crazy.
D) I can't pick up a decent broadcast signal from the nearest city.
Instead, I am perfectly capable of buying/downloading my favorite shows that I can watch when I want AND without the ads. As for the live debate, the BBC has a great feed (as I already mentioned above).
I haven't found a single decent US-based company for watching the debates live. The BBC, on the other hand, is awesome and provides an auto-updating live blog (using javascript) and a purely flash-based live video feed. They don't even have branding or ads on the actual feed.
for less than $5/month if you pay a couple years in advance, site5.com will give you unlimited web and email hosting. I've had them for 2 years and have been nothing but pleased. They are quick to answer tech support questions...which are rare given pretty good online documentation, standards compliance, and *great* uptime.
They also support lots of scripting languages, including Ruby and PHP. You have free, unlimited access to Fantastico, which installs lots of free web-based programs with a single click.
In fact, the only problem with Site5 that I've found is a lack of support for WebDAV.
found an Amazon link of the Bible Battles show...it's really really good.
http://www.amazon.com/Bible-Battles-History-Channel/dp/B000T28PHY
Not a book, but the History Channel has several series about the OT, including explanations of miracles and battle tactics. As a logical, somewhat-scientific, forward-thinking Christian, let me say that they are really quite good.
A few other interesting tidbits on OT scribes:
*If a scribe made an error while copying, he had to completely start over on that page. He was not allowed to blot out a word and rewrite it.
*When a scribe completed a page, it was checked against his original. Every line was counted to ensure that each line had the same number of characters, and each page the same number of lines.
*When a scribe came across the name of God, the vowel symbols were never written, leaving (a transliterated) YHVH.
*Even though the scribe was writing the full name of God, he was still required to ceremonially wash his hands and break his stylus before continuing.
Pretty cool, huh? :)
Religious Texts do offer a good historical perspective if you read them with the fact that they have been translated many times, passed by word of mouth for a longer time.
As for the older stuff that you mentioned (Creation, Flood, Destruction of Sodom, perhaps), I suppose that these stories would indeed either need to be passed by word of mouth or else given by direct inspiration from God.
Most of the later stuff in the Old Testament (really everything except for Genesis and parts of Exodus), though, was written down from the beginning.
Leviticus, for example, is recorded Ceremonial, Religious, Moral, and even Secular Law. This was VERY highly regarded and as such copied extremely carefully. In other words, when a priest or scribe was charged with copying a scroll, he was not allowed to copy line-by-line or word-by-word. Instead, he was required to copy letter-by-letter. All of the other scrolls were held in the same regard--they all either dealt with essentially History, Prophecy, or Law.
The scribes had some VERY strict laws on how to copy, which means that today, of the stuff that remains, there are fewer discrepancies among texts than with copies of any other ancient text.
I saw statistic once that compared Homer's Odyssey with the Old Testament. The OT is significantly longer and has more copies remaining. Statistically, that would mean there is a higher chance of error while copying as well as a higher chance of discrepancies among the surviving texts. This, however, is not the case. Homer's shorter work actually contains many more errors overall--not just per line, but over the course of a shorter book.
How you choose to interpret the Bible is up to you. But at least let it be said that the Bible was properly copied.
Yes, they can, if you install plug-ins for Ubiquity that do that. It's all talked about at the official site.
That program already exists. It's called shred. We use it at my University IT department on a very small gentoo live cd to wipe old PPC Macs. Norton Ghost has a similar feature that works well on x86 PCs.
ditto. closing the tab in firefox 3.0.1 on Ubuntu 8.04 works for me.