While the building has 16 floors, the "first" floor is actually on the second level, the "ground" floor being on what we would consider the first. If there is no "16th" floor, maybe it's an allusion to the roof?
You say that you don't think Samba should have a GUI config, but honestly Samba is one of the WORST things to configure with only the text config program as it's horribly (and quite needlessly) complex in places. GUI config programs for it generally only offer 20% or so of the functionality that it can provide, and that's what the vast majority of users want. I wasn't trying to say there shouldn't be a GUI for configuring Samba shares, I was trying to say that it shouldn't be a part of Samba.
Gnome/Nautilus and KDE/Konqueror should manage your shared folders, regardless of if they're shared through Samba, NFS, or whatever else. They could managed the 20% of configuration which is all that 99% of users would care about. The rest is easier to configure by editing a text file than by providing a maze of dialogs.
This point is pretty much just "perception" though, and really I think probably "the proof is in the pudding", and once they try it, they'll become accustomed fairly quickly. I agree that the "proof is in the pudding". Given that those who most often use these Compiz, Vista and OSX rely heavily on a CLI should say something. The fact that Microsoft invested in creating a more productive command shell, and that Apple based their new OS off the BSD userland, should also tell you something.
Do you think it sounds reasonable to go for a "middle ground" between the GUI config program and the text file, by having a button or menu item (or whatever else makes sense) somewhere in the app that when activated will open the user's default text editor containing the config file in question? No, because like I said, most GUI applications provide GUI configuration dialogs. You shouldn't need to modify a text file to change settings in Gimp. It's the non-gui services that usually use text files, because they didn't include a GUI for use so it wouldn't make sense to include a GUI for configuration. Many distros make GUI configuration front-ends to things like X11, Samba and networking, but I don't think Samba should include a GTK dialog, or a KDE dialog, for changing it's settings.
(Sorry, I'm not sure what technology the second option uses or what it's called.) It creates a disk image as a file on your Windows (NTFS) file system. It then modifies the boot loader to add the option to use the new disk image as the boot device. Once booted, Ubuntu thinks the file on the NTFS filesystem is a disk drive that it is installed on. So you're running Ubuntu on a stack like this:
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NTFS
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WinBoot
The first option is probably going to reboot into a LiveCD session, I don't think they've incorporated a VM yet, though there has been discussion about it.
For you and I yes... but for many people, they'd rather have the "layers of dialogs and wizards" (as long as they're well designed of course). They're used to dialogs and wizards, that doesn't necessarily mean they would prefer them. The command line and text files are less ambiguous than GUIs, and they change much less frequently. I can give exact CLI instructions for someone that they could run with a simple copy+paste operation, or I can give a couple pages of GUI instructions, screen shots, alternative instructions and screen shots if you're using XP instead of 2000, etc, and they'd still be lost on Vista.
The main problem for these people is that the very IDEA of opening one program (a text editor) to change the settings of another program is completely alien and makes no sense to them. Most user applications provide their options in dialogs, it's the OS services that you usually end up changing config files for. And Windows users are accustomed to opening a "Control Panel" or some other dialog to modify OS settings. Try telling a Windows user how to stop or start a system service using the Windows GUI.
In my more cynical moments, I'm quite happy to simply call these people idiots and say that they need to learn because it's REALLY not that hard, but realistically, they won't. Yes they will, they always do. Nobody wanted to re-learn the MS Office menus, or Vista, but they will anyway. Linux devs should focus on making them learn something better, not just something different, but the idea that we should make it so they don't have to re-learn anything is nonsense.
So, if we want them as users (which is another question entirely!), then we need to cater for their needs, no matter how stupid we think those needs are. I think it's equally important that we separate their needs from their wants. We should always try to cater to their needs, but should only cater to their wants when it makes sense.
Making a configuration program that writes these text based config files is about the most trivial GUI development task one can imagine. Is it only because it's so easy that no-one wants to do it? There's also the fact that it's usually easier to edit a text based config file than to step through layers of dialogs and wizards to accomplish a simple task.
You're completely missing the point -- Photoshop isn't free; it can't be ported without Adobe's permission. I think his point was that Adobe could port it to any operating system. Heck, all Adobe would really need to do is help Wine run the latest Windows version, though a native binary would be preferred.
The quality of Outlook is irrelevant; it's so popular as to be nearly ubiquitous and lots of people feel stuck with it. All of the largest businesses I've worked at use Lotus Notes/Domino, not Outlook/Exchange. Lotus now has a native (Eclipse-based) client for Linux.
I've been trying to find instances of prime numbers or multiples of primes, to determine a spacing/grouping range.
If there were 49 digits per line (2 of your "0"s are actually "00"s), that would be a logical breaking point if you are using 7 bits per character (ASCII?), because 49 is the multiple of 2 prime numbers (in this case, both 7), there would be no other way to include a whole number of groups with n>1 on a 49 character line.
Unfortunately, the scratch marks don't align easily into a grid, even though it looks like they should, probably due to them being written by hand without a guide.
I don't think it's necessarily a key. If it were just a substitution key, they wouldn't need to repeat characters. Maybe it's a message in both glyphs and hex, like a Rosetta stone?
Do you really need to see the source of EVERYTHING to learn? You do if you want to learn about EVERYTHING. The original goal of the OLPC, as I understood it when the project started, was to give children a laptop that they could maintain, modify, and inspect in every way possible. Every application was supposed to have a "View Source" button so they could see how it worked, could change how it worked, and could share their changes with others. You couldn't do that with Windows.
I learned the principals of how OSes work, without ever seeing the source to Windows. I'm guessing you either learned how OSes work based on non-windows OSes, or you have only a general detached knowledge of how an OS works. The Goal of OLPC, again as I understood it, was not to give a general knowledge of the principles of computing, but to give them the tools that they needed to do whatever they wanted with those computers. Again, Windows doesn't let you do that.
Also, the goal is education, not necessarly teaching children to program. If Windows runs all the educational software that was planned, what's the problem? It's not just about the educational software, it's about software education. It's "teach a man to fish" combined with "teach a man how to make a fishing pole". Windows is "teach a man to fish only with a pole he can't make or modify himself".
Especially given that, whether you like it or not, knowing Windows is almost a requirement. Where is knowing Windows a requirement? Poor kids in the Congo aren't going to become paper-pushing cube-dwellers in rural America. For the vast majority of the world, knowing Windows is _not_ a requirement. Just because the US and Canada are too deeply invested in Microsoft to even think of using anything else, doesn't mean the rest of the world is the same way.
The reason OLPC approached Microsoft is because it turned out there was very little interest in a laptop running Linux; most buyers (governments) wanted Windows.
At least from this article, Microsoft don't appear to have made any claims that they're offering Windows for the XO for any reason other than customer demand for it. And if this were Intel or ASUS or Everex that would be an acceptable reason. But the goal of OLPC wasn't to give governments what they wanted, it was to give children what they needed to learn. Distributing XO laptops with Windows on them would be a failure of their primary goal.
a=1; if( a==1) { stop(); } alert("I shouldn't appear if a==1"); will come up with an alert... now THAT is unintuitive. As a developer, that is exactly the outcome I would expect. "stop();" is a method call, processing should return to the rest of the code when it finishes. Since the alert() is outside the if(a==1) block, I would expect it to be executed after the stop() is called. Just because your animation stopped, doesn't mean your code execution stopped too.
You've already been corrected multiple times in this thread, so I won't repeat the same thing. Rather, I'll provide an analogy that may make it clearer:
AMD does not emulate x86, it implements it. Similarly, WINE does not emulate the Win32 API, it implements it.
Conversely, QEMU emulates x86, it does not implement it.
Yeah, but the delay between needing the strike, and being able to carry it out, will be measured in days or weeks. With that amount of delay, an enemy could launch their own nukes at our asteroids, and if not destroy them at least change their orbits enough to make them useless to us.
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OO.o 3 will include support for VBA macros. That should help.
Oh, and MS Office 2008 for Mac will not.
You didn't get your check?
Google open textbook and you'll find lots of sources and initiatives for free educational texts.
You'd get even more karma if you can work in blaming the RIAA/MPAA too.
Interestingly, if you turn the paper side-ways, it kind of looks like Robert Wilson Hall with it's associated obelisk.
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/about/campus/architecture.html
Oh, and Wilson's ID number is 014, not 000001 as mentioned below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Robert_Wilson_ID_badge.png
The building has 16 floors, labeled "Ground" and 1 through 15 I would assume. So Basse 16 could refer to an "attic" or roof-top.
While the building has 16 floors, the "first" floor is actually on the second level, the "ground" floor being on what we would consider the first. If there is no "16th" floor, maybe it's an allusion to the roof?
Could suggest using low-bit order?
Gnome/Nautilus and KDE/Konqueror should manage your shared folders, regardless of if they're shared through Samba, NFS, or whatever else. They could managed the 20% of configuration which is all that 99% of users would care about. The rest is easier to configure by editing a text file than by providing a maze of dialogs.
Ubuntu
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Grub
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WUBI
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NTFS
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WinBoot
The first option is probably going to reboot into a LiveCD session, I don't think they've incorporated a VM yet, though there has been discussion about it.
There's also KMmail/Kontact and Krita if you're using KDE.
No, the stroke is completely different from the stroke used for 5 in the Hex section.
I've been trying to find instances of prime numbers or multiples of primes, to determine a spacing/grouping range.
If there were 49 digits per line (2 of your "0"s are actually "00"s), that would be a logical breaking point if you are using 7 bits per character (ASCII?), because 49 is the multiple of 2 prime numbers (in this case, both 7), there would be no other way to include a whole number of groups with n>1 on a 49 character line.
Unfortunately, the scratch marks don't align easily into a grid, even though it looks like they should, probably due to them being written by hand without a guide.
I don't think it's necessarily a key. If it were just a substitution key, they wouldn't need to repeat characters. Maybe it's a message in both glyphs and hex, like a Rosetta stone?
At least from this article, Microsoft don't appear to have made any claims that they're offering Windows for the XO for any reason other than customer demand for it. And if this were Intel or ASUS or Everex that would be an acceptable reason. But the goal of OLPC wasn't to give governments what they wanted, it was to give children what they needed to learn. Distributing XO laptops with Windows on them would be a failure of their primary goal.
if( a==1) { stop(); }
alert("I shouldn't appear if a==1");
will come up with an alert
Close, it's Ultra Low-cost PC. I took the acronym from the linked article.
Yes, but Linux dominates the ULPC market, and that has Microsoft's attention.
You've already been corrected multiple times in this thread, so I won't repeat the same thing. Rather, I'll provide an analogy that may make it clearer:
AMD does not emulate x86, it implements it. Similarly, WINE does not emulate the Win32 API, it implements it.
Conversely, QEMU emulates x86, it does not implement it.
Yeah, but the delay between needing the strike, and being able to carry it out, will be measured in days or weeks. With that amount of delay, an enemy could launch their own nukes at our asteroids, and if not destroy them at least change their orbits enough to make them useless to us.