How about Oracle? Some of their customers might be a little security conscious and may wish to prohibit programs like Flash on their networks. However, using their support requires flash.
Sometimes it is the other way around too. About 5 years ago, I bought an el-cheapo Kodak camera from Best Buy. I needed to download pictures to my PC and didn't want a lot of fuss so I plugged it into my Windows 2000 machine. Nothing, no new drive letter, just nothing. Finally after spending about 1/2 hour fiddling around with it and installing 100MB of Kodak crapware I was finally able to download pictures to it. "This is bullshit, there has to be a better way." Just out of curiosity, I plugged it into my Linux box and it popped up a dialog box: "A camera has been detected. Would you like to import your photos into F-Spot?" F-spot has been my photo manager ever since.
Recently, my building maintenance guy asked me about replacing his broken Windows installation with Ubuntu. I didn't even know he had a computer. If I want to talk about beer, I know who to talk to, but Ubuntu? BTW, I still own him some home brews:)
I once rode a motorcycle from Los Angeles to DC in January, coming right into DC's first snowstorm of the year, about 6" worth. Nothing like navigating a sloping, icy parking lot on a fully loaded bike without a side stand (it had fallen off somewhere in Arkansas). I had so much shit on my bike that my Army sponsor couldn't fit it into his car.
I also ride bicycles year round. Once I made a bagel run of about 1/2 mile with the wind chill around 0. With a ski mask on and proper clothes it wasn't that bad. I parked the bike in front of the store and took my ski mask off before entering - holy shit, it was cold!
My poor Huffy now has a lot of snow and salt rust on it, but I have been able to keep it at bay with WD-40.
The biggest obstacle to riding a bike more is not the weather - it is having enough places to ride where you are not tangling with high-speed car traffic. If we had more bike paths, wide sidewalks, quiet side streets, I would be there.
I have yet to see a single version of VI/VIM which did not properly support arrow keys, and I have been using both since 1992. The main issue here is that not all terminals support them, so they have the other keys so they can be run on them too.
While no-one has ever visited a Linux page with typo's, I will give Dell a pass here. Their webpage may not be perfect but for 3 years their hardware has been.
I am posting this from one of the original Ubuntu Dells. I think it originally came with 7.04 but I am now running 10.04. I have never reinstalled, just upgraded (6 times now). I also have one of their laptops. Absolutely flawless. Wireless, random USB devices, everything *Just Works(TM)*
The main reason to buy a PC with Linux (any distro) preloaded is that your shit will just work. No mucking about with things like NDISWRAPPER, ATI video drivers or other shit.
Plus, M$ won't be able to call your PC as a sale of "Windows"
One word is: $DOUGH$. Both of my kids computers were falling apart. I needed new ones that could dual boot into Ubuntu but didn't really feel like shelling out the $500 each that a reasonable Win7 machine would cost. Ebay is your friend. 2 machines with XP pro, SP3 for about $300. Add in 2 Nvidia cards for about $60 each, and I got 2 nice machines for under $500.
We have a train system here, which relies on automated systems to control the trains and this is what happens when they fail. The train operator is really only there as a backup to push the emergency brake. Unfortunately, this failure occurred in a section of track with a curve and an overpass, so the operator couldn't actually see the train until it was too late. Effectively, in areas of the system with limited visibility, there is no backup if the automated system fails. I would hate to think about that on a plane.
Back in the late 1990's, I had seen enough of this to expect pretty box art and awesome teasers followed by crappy game play. I remember buying a remake of Centipede which which had graphics that could have been 486. So when I picked a copy of the remake of Battlezone, I really wasn't expecting much. My first clue was the installer, which while it was installing, played various news stories leading up to the game. Very well done, gets you into the mood before the installation is even completed. OK, now firing up the game. The teaser is predictably awesome, an original arcade screenshot morphing into a desperate battle worthy of box art. Now I am starting the game and fully expecting something crappy. Imagine my utter shock when the game play was EXACTLY like the artwork and teaser. This blew away every game I had played at the time, and I think the graphics were even better than Half-Life which came out at about the same time. In fact, the graphics still look good today (12 years of replay value and counting, runs fine on XP, don't know about Vista/W7, get it from E-bay if you can).
The weird thing, I have a Lexmark (x204n) which fully supports Linux, even to the point of having Tux on the box alongside the Mac and Windows logos. Even scanning with xsane works. Too bad the printer itself is kind of crappy...
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How about Oracle? Some of their customers might be a little security conscious and may wish to prohibit programs like Flash on their networks. However, using their support requires flash.
Its "Get off my LAN", you insensitive clod!
Don't you know, the correct spelling is:
PFFTFTHTF!!!!!!!
How can a website go PFFTFTHTF!!!!!!! anyway?
Where are my mod points when I need them?
if some indie online music finding service ever becomes both popular and legal - the RIAA is even more screwed. www.jamendo.com
I would also love to welcome our new zombie penguin overlords on my Website. Perhaps an an image of them in the Quake fashion would be appropriate?
Sometimes it is the other way around too. About 5 years ago, I bought an el-cheapo Kodak camera from Best Buy. I needed to download pictures to my PC and didn't want a lot of fuss so I plugged it into my Windows 2000 machine. Nothing, no new drive letter, just nothing. Finally after spending about 1/2 hour fiddling around with it and installing 100MB of Kodak crapware I was finally able to download pictures to it. "This is bullshit, there has to be a better way." Just out of curiosity, I plugged it into my Linux box and it popped up a dialog box: "A camera has been detected. Would you like to import your photos into F-Spot?" F-spot has been my photo manager ever since.
Recently, my building maintenance guy asked me about replacing his broken Windows installation with Ubuntu. I didn't even know he had a computer. If I want to talk about beer, I know who to talk to, but Ubuntu? BTW, I still own him some home brews:)
I once rode a motorcycle from Los Angeles to DC in January, coming right into DC's first snowstorm of the year, about 6" worth. Nothing like navigating a sloping, icy parking lot on a fully loaded bike without a side stand (it had fallen off somewhere in Arkansas). I had so much shit on my bike that my Army sponsor couldn't fit it into his car.
I also ride bicycles year round. Once I made a bagel run of about 1/2 mile with the wind chill around 0. With a ski mask on and proper clothes it wasn't that bad. I parked the bike in front of the store and took my ski mask off before entering - holy shit, it was cold!
My poor Huffy now has a lot of snow and salt rust on it, but I have been able to keep it at bay with WD-40.
The biggest obstacle to riding a bike more is not the weather - it is having enough places to ride where you are not tangling with high-speed car traffic. If we had more bike paths, wide sidewalks, quiet side streets, I would be there.
What kind of stupid password is that? It looks like something an idiot would have on his luggage! And someone change my slashdot password...
I think this happened about 10 years ago.
I have yet to see a single version of VI/VIM which did not properly support arrow keys, and I have been using both since 1992. The main issue here is that not all terminals support them, so they have the other keys so they can be run on them too.
In a Unix based system like a Mac, wouldn't something along the lines of:
# rm -rf /opt/symantec
do the trick?
While no-one has ever visited a Linux page with typo's, I will give Dell a pass here. Their webpage may not be perfect but for 3 years their hardware has been.
I am posting this from one of the original Ubuntu Dells. I think it originally came with 7.04 but I am now running 10.04. I have never reinstalled, just upgraded (6 times now). I also have one of their laptops. Absolutely flawless. Wireless, random USB devices, everything *Just Works(TM)*
The main reason to buy a PC with Linux (any distro) preloaded is that your shit will just work. No mucking about with things like NDISWRAPPER, ATI video drivers or other shit.
Plus, M$ won't be able to call your PC as a sale of "Windows"
One word is: $DOUGH$. Both of my kids computers were falling apart. I needed new ones that could dual boot into Ubuntu but didn't really feel like shelling out the $500 each that a reasonable Win7 machine would cost. Ebay is your friend. 2 machines with XP pro, SP3 for about $300. Add in 2 Nvidia cards for about $60 each, and I got 2 nice machines for under $500.
Runs on Linux in '98
Or if someone decides at the last second to pull out in front of you.
*** NO CARRIER ***
How about:
File/Export as PDF...
Oh, wait - wrong office suite
We have a train system here, which relies on automated systems to control the trains and this is what happens when they fail. The train operator is really only there as a backup to push the emergency brake. Unfortunately, this failure occurred in a section of track with a curve and an overpass, so the operator couldn't actually see the train until it was too late. Effectively, in areas of the system with limited visibility, there is no backup if the automated system fails. I would hate to think about that on a plane.
$ whatis apropos apropos (1) - search the manual page names and descriptions $
I have got a few hundred dollars. The name and logo should be worth at least that. Perhaps I could build a Linux distro...
There already is one.Visual Pinball also has a MAME style emulator for arcade game like Terminator and Addams Family.
Back in the late 1990's, I had seen enough of this to expect pretty box art and awesome teasers followed by crappy game play. I remember buying a remake of Centipede which which had graphics that could have been 486. So when I picked a copy of the remake of Battlezone, I really wasn't expecting much. My first clue was the installer, which while it was installing, played various news stories leading up to the game. Very well done, gets you into the mood before the installation is even completed. OK, now firing up the game. The teaser is predictably awesome, an original arcade screenshot morphing into a desperate battle worthy of box art. Now I am starting the game and fully expecting something crappy. Imagine my utter shock when the game play was EXACTLY like the artwork and teaser. This blew away every game I had played at the time, and I think the graphics were even better than Half-Life which came out at about the same time. In fact, the graphics still look good today (12 years of replay value and counting, runs fine on XP, don't know about Vista/W7, get it from E-bay if you can).
The weird thing, I have a Lexmark (x204n) which fully supports Linux, even to the point of having Tux on the box alongside the Mac and Windows logos. Even scanning with xsane works. Too bad the printer itself is kind of crappy...