Re:Nah, everybody knows how this one goes.
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It's not an inside joke if you explain it to everyone. Cool doesn't need +5 Funny.
Re:Nah, everybody knows how this one goes.
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When you can debug, at a glance, Perl scripts that look like core dumps, you come down from the mountain and beat the crap out of the Windows guy with your esoteric skilz.
The point wouldn't be to fork it, but to separate the application and server code from the protocol code. Once you get a libnotes.so you can write a plugin for Evolution, KMail or Thunderbird to access your Notes email.
I believe that any changes a person makes in Firefox are applied only to their profile, and not to the system wide install. Therefore if someone were to screw up their own profile with extensions and such, it would only be their profile that got screwed up.
(Although I've lost track of the number of times I've asked on Slashdot how to do something in Linux, and, with no hint of sarcasm, the response has been some command. Perhaps things have changed - maybe this year it'll be ready for the desktop?)
When you ask for help online, you will almost always get a command, even if there is a fully functional GUI to do the same thing. The reason is that you're less likely to get lost copying and pasting, than you are if you're following multiple step instructions.
Yeah, that's a pretty bad comparison. Were the testers at Phronix completely unaware of the performance work Sun has been putting into update 10? They've only been talking about it for like a year.
Yes, but playing "Hide the binary" isn't technically a matter of re-learning, because you never learn it in the first place, and it's equally chaotic across releases. And it's not like there aren't several standard directories in Windows that contain binaries.
And the user profiles in Windows used to be under c:\Windows\Profiles or c:\WINNT\profiles. That is, unless your NT admin has it mapped to a shared drive.
This may have been meant as a troll, but it's correct. The "Year of Linux on the Desktop" has nothing to do with how many boxes Linux is running on, and everything to do with how many boxed-items run on Linux. It isn't about it's adoption among consumers, but it's adoption among suppliers.
Because as Linux gains market share, it also gains support from software and hardware vendors, which means there is more hardware and software available to the original Linux users.
Apple could have already beaten Linux to the punch if they had licensed OSX to other hardware manufacturers. As it is, Apple can't get enough of the hardware market in order to beat Windows in the software market.
The general population wants what they know and until a Linux distribution is pulled together in a nice, neat, familiar (to mainstream users, meaning Windows) package, they will not buy it. It will also need to be packaged with their shiny new HP/Dell/Gateway/whatever. The only way I see it happening at this stage is if Microsoft continues to stumble with Windows.
So what you're saying is that all we need is exactly what happened in 2008.
Just for clarification, this is only true for the version of Firefox you installed from Ubuntu's repositories. You can install the version provided by Mozilla and it should have it's own updater enabled.
Ubuntu disables Firefox's own auto-updater, instead all Firefox updates are pushed through Ubuntu's repositories so that they are kept in sync with the rest of the system.
Maybe they post upcoming changes on the Firehose, and they just get down-modded. If only they would submit them in the form of a "Stupid Tricks" article, or something involving Ubuntu, we'd know about them well in advance.
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It's not an inside joke if you explain it to everyone. Cool doesn't need +5 Funny.
When you can debug, at a glance, Perl scripts that look like core dumps, you come down from the mountain and beat the crap out of the Windows guy with your esoteric skilz.
Everybody stand back! I know regular expressions.
But without Windows nobody could use SQL Server, and without Outlook nobody could use Exchange.
OpenOffice has a better UI than StarOffice, so in that case open sourcing it helped.
The point wouldn't be to fork it, but to separate the application and server code from the protocol code. Once you get a libnotes.so you can write a plugin for Evolution, KMail or Thunderbird to access your Notes email.
I think he's referring to the lifetime of a US Patent.
I believe that any changes a person makes in Firefox are applied only to their profile, and not to the system wide install. Therefore if someone were to screw up their own profile with extensions and such, it would only be their profile that got screwed up.
(Although I've lost track of the number of times I've asked on Slashdot how to do something in Linux, and, with no hint of sarcasm, the response has been some command. Perhaps things have changed - maybe this year it'll be ready for the desktop?)
When you ask for help online, you will almost always get a command, even if there is a fully functional GUI to do the same thing. The reason is that you're less likely to get lost copying and pasting, than you are if you're following multiple step instructions.
Or create a custom install CD with those packages already installed, and leave them a copy of that as the "restore disk".
Wouldn't it have been easier to just set them up with different Firefox profiles, and create a custom shortcut and icon for each?
Yeah, that's a pretty bad comparison. Were the testers at Phronix completely unaware of the performance work Sun has been putting into update 10? They've only been talking about it for like a year.
the version he speaks of is the version that comes preinstalled in Ubuntu.
Which was installed from Ubuntu's repositories.
Or, to use a car analogy, it's like saying that GM doesn't have a financial problem because their stock was up yesterday.
Isn't that a bit like trying to prove that ocean levels aren't rising by showing a strong correlation between water level and lunar orbit?
Yes, global temperature and solar activity are linked, but when you average out the highs and lows, it's still an increasing function.
Yes, but playing "Hide the binary" isn't technically a matter of re-learning, because you never learn it in the first place, and it's equally chaotic across releases. And it's not like there aren't several standard directories in Windows that contain binaries.
And the user profiles in Windows used to be under c:\Windows\Profiles or c:\WINNT\profiles. That is, unless your NT admin has it mapped to a shared drive.
This may have been meant as a troll, but it's correct. The "Year of Linux on the Desktop" has nothing to do with how many boxes Linux is running on, and everything to do with how many boxed-items run on Linux. It isn't about it's adoption among consumers, but it's adoption among suppliers.
Because as Linux gains market share, it also gains support from software and hardware vendors, which means there is more hardware and software available to the original Linux users.
Apple could have already beaten Linux to the punch if they had licensed OSX to other hardware manufacturers. As it is, Apple can't get enough of the hardware market in order to beat Windows in the software market.
The general population wants what they know and until a Linux distribution is pulled together in a nice, neat, familiar (to mainstream users, meaning Windows) package, they will not buy it. It will also need to be packaged with their shiny new HP/Dell/Gateway/whatever. The only way I see it happening at this stage is if Microsoft continues to stumble with Windows.
So what you're saying is that all we need is exactly what happened in 2008.
You're joking, right? I mean, I understand your post is to "rah, rah" Linux, but seriously? Relearning Windows?
Every new release of Windows brings the joyful game of "Where did they put user folders this time?"
Outlook Express has been made irrelevant. Encarta too, but that was always just a "bonus" app to make a bundle sound bigger.
But yeah, the web largely invented a new application space, which rarely overlaps with Microsoft's desktop app space.
Just for clarification, this is only true for the version of Firefox you installed from Ubuntu's repositories. You can install the version provided by Mozilla and it should have it's own updater enabled.
Ubuntu disables Firefox's own auto-updater, instead all Firefox updates are pushed through Ubuntu's repositories so that they are kept in sync with the rest of the system.
There isn't anybody at the entire Sourceforge/Slashdot corporate entity I'd call a "web developer".
Oh? And exactly how many people in the Sourceforge/Slashdot corporate entity have you actually spoken to?
Maybe they post upcoming changes on the Firehose, and they just get down-modded. If only they would submit them in the form of a "Stupid Tricks" article, or something involving Ubuntu, we'd know about them well in advance.