Robocalls are literally unkown in Germany. For one simple reason:
It is illegal to call a private person as a business,...
That is not the [main] reason. The reason is that when you call somebody in Germany, *you* pay for the call. In USA, you pay for the cost of call in your network and the receiver pays for the routing in his network. And callers have very cheap arrangements in their originating networks.
It is also much more difficult in Germany and other civilized countries to spoof a phone number. In USA telecos claim that they can't prevent spoofing. It is interesting that Deutsche Telekom has no problem with that;-)
A bathroom is a fucking luxury. I mean, who has time to take a bath at work?
When you have to visit factory floor from tine to time, or go on-site to inspect or supervise something, a shower might be highly welcome when you want to change from your dirty work clothes.
It takes place on Earth. Some of it during the Cultural revolution. Some of it takes place in an advanced computer simulation / virtual world.
It is... different. Very different from a typical "western world" SciFi. I have tried to read it three times. Every time I got further in and then I abandoned the book. I will try again. Soon;-)
AutoCAD and other AutoDesk products can not even be purchased anymore. You have to rent them. Just like Adobe stuff. I still have a purchased license installed, that you can upgrade through a subscription service, but if anything happens to this PC, or disk, or whatever I will need to reinstall and it will have to connect to the internet for activation. So still not ideal condition. Nowadays a recent version of [rented] AutoCAD (and other AutoDesk products) will check licensing server periodically and will cease to run when it can't reach it for something like 30 days. So, you grab your notebook with AutoCAD and head to Puerto Rico to work as a contractor and soon you are without access to your own drawings.
In the "Good Old Days" (TM) you had your hardlock dongle and you did not have to beg for permission to run software for which you have purchased license. You wanted to take a laptop to a job site, you installed AutoCAD on it, unplugged the hardlock from your workstation, plugged it to your laptop and you were golden. Nowadays you have to piss against a wind every time you need to [re]install something.
Recently I have started to use DraftSight at home and at work as a replacement for AutoCAD. But DraftSight has to be reactivated periodically and it is starting to be huge PITA. You have to jump through the hoops to get it activated, because in more than 50% cases it doesn't work and you have to google for solution, update the software, disable this or that in the network settings... At home my DraftSight installed on Linux refuses to run even when I reinstall and activate it.
This is different SCO - SCO Group.
This SCO Group was originally called Caldera. Caldera purchased *some* intellectual property for SCO Unix from the original Santa Cruz Operation. Santa Cruz Operation then renamed itself to Tarantela and the new SCO proceeded with their racketeering scam against IBM and Linux users in general.
I switched to the Mint Linux at home in 2008 because my FreeBSD 4.xy and later PC-BSD was getting hard to keep up-to-date at that time. The main issue was flash plugins for browsers and suchlike. At that time I had problems running newer versions of FreeBSD on my computer built from quite a few salvaged parts, and I was too poor/frugal to purchase a new PC. Just like with FreeBSD, Mint Linux was a love at first sight. Much more to my taste than other Linux distributions that I kept testing.
So, for some of us it wasn't the dislike of Windows, but love for Unix.
I am using DraftSight as a replacement for Autocad on Linux. Free as a beer. It is very compatible opening drawings and other Autocad related files and has 95% of features in comparison with full AutoCAD.
Yes. The vast majority of things are cheaper in USA. I do not deny that. And the Internet isn't really that cheap here, comparatively, because we have lower average income. We also pay higher taxes.
Only a few things besides Internet are cheaper here. Little things, such as mobile plans, education, especially University education, health care, public transport. Also retirement pensions are done differently...
I live in Europe. I pay 16Euro per month for 70Mbit/s Internet connection. A "landline" is included in the price - IP telephony device included - with 20 free minutes to landlines here in my town and free calls within provider network and reasonable prices for calling cellular providers or out-of-town numbers. AND, included in that 16Euro/month package, I get some 100 cable channels, with 15 most popular channels having an archive - ability to play, and skip adds for any program from the last 20 days. I pay about 7Eur per month extra for package with various Discovery channels, History channel and cartoon channels for my kids (cartoons being the main reason I keep the extra package, because most documentary programs air various reality shows 95% of the time)
This is what you get when you do not allow companies to create artificial monopolies for the last mile. I live in town and 5 different providers have fiber optics cable leading to my apartment building. People living in small distant villages have more limited choice, but they still can get ADSL for some 10Euro/month for uncapped contract, plus satellite package for TV for some 10Euro/month for about 100 channels.
Nobody uses vi/vim without "strong religious feelings" !
*I* use [g]Vim without any religious feelings.
It is just an editor that I happen to like, with features such as very strong regular expressions support and a commandline where I can do interesting things with text objects.
It has 512MB RAM, instead of 256 the previous model had, because it needs them for the VoiceView interface. You do not even need a dongle for VoiceView, it has built-in Bluetooth.
I only bought the Gen3 Kindle because it was the last e-reader on the planet that still had physical buttons
PocketBook still makes reader with buttons.
PocketBook 626 Touch Lux 3.
There are also others, such as Onyx Boox, Boyue (and its OEM versions), Cybook Muse, but you mentioned PB 360.
I have immediately subscribed when they became available here in my European country. During the first month I have seen all programs from their very limited list that I am interested in. Then I have canceled. There are lots of other programs in their worldwide catalog that I would like to see and that I am willing to pay for. See, I am not interested in most of contemporary movies or series. I was interested in documentaries. Sadly, those are not available here. I am not going subscribe until there are enough programs for me to watch for at least a month.
In the meanwhile I got motivated to have a look at the cable selection I am subscribed to. I have made some changes and I am happy. I am not interested in paying for History Chanel and similar channels that used to have quality programming and that feature mainly reality shows nowadays.
There are other manufacturers that make devices that are much more configurable, such as above-mantioned Kobo. There are even Android based E-ink readers, even with Google Play enabled by default. No rooting necessary. I personally find PocketBook devices to be the most configurable non-Android based devices. You can even install third party apps, such as Gvim editor, terminal emulator or sftp server.
Why on earth would one ever apply an update to the reader?
You have no option other than disabling the WiFi or filling the flash memory completely with content so that there is no space for Kindle to download the update to. If you disable the WiFi you have to side-load all your purchases using USB cable
The last update - the one with the new certs for connecting to the Amazon servers is only a few kilobytes.
Many e-book reading apps for Android allow you to side-load font for that app. Just create fonts directory on an SD card and place your fonts there. I know it works for FBReader and Coolreader and I think it works for other apps. Just google up details.
There are e-ink devices that run FBReader. A few of those need rooting - usually the ones that are based on Android. Please note that there are Android based e-ink devices that have google play store or at least can use side-loaded apk without rooting. At least one e-ink device manufacturer - PocketBook - provides FBReader as the main reading app. It also supports installation of third-party apps, including Coolreader. PocketBook can use any font you copy to device with fine-grained settings of size, margins, line-spacing, justification, content of the status line. It also supports large number of other configuration options, "screensavers" (pictures displayed then the device is switched off), user dictionaries (the manufacturer provides [unofficial] windows application for generating dictionaries), third-party apps (the manufacturer provides [unofficial] SDK) so you even have a linux console of full-blown Vim [on older version of firmware]. No hacking or rooting needed to make changes.
The most recent generation of firmware is screwed-up compared with the legendary firmware from two generations of PocketBook devices ago. But even this slightly screwed-up firmware 5.xy is vastly more configurable than other main-stream devices, such as Kindle, Kobo, Nook...
PocketBook is the most popular device that is sold in brick-and-mortar stores here in Europe. Nobody except Amazon high ranking executives knows how many Kindles they sell here.
If you are stuck with Kindle or other device, you can always liberate the DRM-ed content, just search for apprentice Alf. From this liberated e-book you can generate pdf file with page-size of your e-ink display and any fancy typographical formatting you wish.
Here in Europe it is 8Eur/month for basic package, 10 Eur/month for standard package with HD and 2 devices used to watch simultaneously, 12Eur/month for premium package with 4k content on 4 devices at the same time. All that for a small fraction of content available in USA. Roughly 200 series and 550 movies available in countries around here, for example.
If you use VPN, you can watch 1157 shows and 4593 movies available in USA. See http://www.finder.com/global-n... for more numbers and http://www.finder.com.au/inter... for complete lists. The links are from summary of article about Netflix published here yesterday. Mind you, even some programs produced by Netflix are missing, such as House of cards, because our local TV stations have recently purchased broadcasting rights
I am surprised that VPN and DNS tricks are used only by a small fraction of customers.
Just change the release name in your/etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list file, apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade, and then apt-get autoremove
Clearly Linux is ready for the desktop.
Isn't Mint intended to be easy for the "average user"?
Yes, it is ready for the desktop.
You can, of course, use the above commands in the terminal. That is the easiest way if you need to write the steps in a post or do a support over a phone.
You can also
- click on the "updates" icon in a right edge of the task bar. There is an icon indicating whether there are updates available.
- in the Update Manager go to the Edit menu
- check item "Update to 17.3" and let the Update Manager do its thing. You will be asked for password. Once.
I have used the above steps to update from 17.1 to 17.2
Install Kindle for PC. The unofficial Calibre plugin developed by "apprentice Alf" can get the key from the Kindle for PC when the book is first opened on the Kindle for PC.
PocketBook uses FBReader as a default reading app. Plus, you can install Coolreader. Firmware isn't what it used to be in earlier models but PocketBooks are still pretty capable devices. The new generation of firmware programmers didn't manage to screw up [yet] all the cool features built into the legendary models, such as PocketBook 360Â. They support hierarchical directories in library, *lots* of configuration options for reading, there is limited number of third-party apps, such as Coolreader, ftp server [so you can rummage inside the filesytem and send in books without cable], terminal emulator, a few simple games and even Vim text editor.
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Robocalls are literally unkown in Germany. For one simple reason: ...
It is illegal to call a private person as a business,
That is not the [main] reason. The reason is that when you call somebody in Germany, *you* pay for the call. In USA, you pay for the cost of call in your network and the receiver pays for the routing in his network. And callers have very cheap arrangements in their originating networks. ;-)
It is also much more difficult in Germany and other civilized countries to spoof a phone number. In USA telecos claim that they can't prevent spoofing. It is interesting that Deutsche Telekom has no problem with that
When you have to visit factory floor from tine to time, or go on-site to inspect or supervise something, a shower might be highly welcome when you want to change from your dirty work clothes.
It takes place on Earth.
Some of it during the Cultural revolution.
Some of it takes place in an advanced computer simulation / virtual world.
It is ... different. ;-)
Very different from a typical "western world" SciFi. I have tried to read it three times. Every time I got further in and then I abandoned the book. I will try again. Soon
AutoCAD and other AutoDesk products can not even be purchased anymore. You have to rent them. Just like Adobe stuff. I still have a purchased license installed, that you can upgrade through a subscription service, but if anything happens to this PC, or disk, or whatever I will need to reinstall and it will have to connect to the internet for activation. So still not ideal condition.
Nowadays a recent version of [rented] AutoCAD (and other AutoDesk products) will check licensing server periodically and will cease to run when it can't reach it for something like 30 days. So, you grab your notebook with AutoCAD and head to Puerto Rico to work as a contractor and soon you are without access to your own drawings.
In the "Good Old Days" (TM) you had your hardlock dongle and you did not have to beg for permission to run software for which you have purchased license. You wanted to take a laptop to a job site, you installed AutoCAD on it, unplugged the hardlock from your workstation, plugged it to your laptop and you were golden. Nowadays you have to piss against a wind every time you need to [re]install something.
Recently I have started to use DraftSight at home and at work as a replacement for AutoCAD. But DraftSight has to be reactivated periodically and it is starting to be huge PITA. You have to jump through the hoops to get it activated, because in more than 50% cases it doesn't work and you have to google for solution, update the software, disable this or that in the network settings ... At home my DraftSight installed on Linux refuses to run even when I reinstall and activate it.
This is different SCO - SCO Group.
This SCO Group was originally called Caldera. Caldera purchased *some* intellectual property for SCO Unix from the original Santa Cruz Operation. Santa Cruz Operation then renamed itself to Tarantela and the new SCO proceeded with their racketeering scam against IBM and Linux users in general.
Install Calibre and google for Calibre plugin made by Apprentice Alf.
Problem with converting of DRM protected Kindle books will be solved.
I switched to the Mint Linux at home in 2008 because my FreeBSD 4.xy and later PC-BSD was getting hard to keep up-to-date at that time. The main issue was flash plugins for browsers and suchlike. At that time I had problems running newer versions of FreeBSD on my computer built from quite a few salvaged parts, and I was too poor/frugal to purchase a new PC.
Just like with FreeBSD, Mint Linux was a love at first sight. Much more to my taste than other Linux distributions that I kept testing.
So, for some of us it wasn't the dislike of Windows, but love for Unix.
I drink water with a little bit of lemon juice.
Sometimes I drink carbonated mineral water (similar to soda only without sugar, sweeteners and artificial flavoring ;-) )
I also drink "fake coffee" - made from roasted grains. It is a little bit bitter and I drink it with a bit of milk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I am using DraftSight as a replacement for Autocad on Linux. Free as a beer. It is very compatible opening drawings and other Autocad related files and has 95% of features in comparison with full AutoCAD.
Yes. The vast majority of things are cheaper in USA. I do not deny that. And the Internet isn't really that cheap here, comparatively, because we have lower average income. We also pay higher taxes.
Only a few things besides Internet are cheaper here. Little things, such as mobile plans, education, especially University education, health care, public transport. Also retirement pensions are done differently ...
I live in Europe.
I pay 16Euro per month for 70Mbit/s Internet connection.
A "landline" is included in the price - IP telephony device included - with 20 free minutes to landlines here in my town and free calls within provider network and reasonable prices for calling cellular providers or out-of-town numbers.
AND, included in that 16Euro/month package, I get some 100 cable channels, with 15 most popular channels having an archive - ability to play, and skip adds for any program from the last 20 days.
I pay about 7Eur per month extra for package with various Discovery channels, History channel and cartoon channels for my kids (cartoons being the main reason I keep the extra package, because most documentary programs air various reality shows 95% of the time)
This is what you get when you do not allow companies to create artificial monopolies for the last mile.
I live in town and 5 different providers have fiber optics cable leading to my apartment building. People living in small distant villages have more limited choice, but they still can get ADSL for some 10Euro/month for uncapped contract, plus satellite package for TV for some 10Euro/month for about 100 channels.
Nobody uses vi/vim without "strong religious feelings" !
*I* use [g]Vim without any religious feelings.
It is just an editor that I happen to like, with features such as very strong regular expressions support and a commandline where I can do interesting things with text objects.
It has 512MB RAM, instead of 256 the previous model had, because it needs them for the VoiceView interface. You do not even need a dongle for VoiceView, it has built-in Bluetooth.
I only bought the Gen3 Kindle because it was the last e-reader on the planet that still had physical buttons
PocketBook still makes reader with buttons. PocketBook 626 Touch Lux 3. There are also others, such as Onyx Boox, Boyue (and its OEM versions), Cybook Muse, but you mentioned PB 360.
I have immediately subscribed when they became available here in my European country. During the first month I have seen all programs from their very limited list that I am interested in.
Then I have canceled. There are lots of other programs in their worldwide catalog that I would like to see and that I am willing to pay for. See, I am not interested in most of contemporary movies or series. I was interested in documentaries. Sadly, those are not available here.
I am not going subscribe until there are enough programs for me to watch for at least a month.
In the meanwhile I got motivated to have a look at the cable selection I am subscribed to. I have made some changes and I am happy. I am not interested in paying for History Chanel and similar channels that used to have quality programming and that feature mainly reality shows nowadays.
There are other manufacturers that make devices that are much more configurable, such as above-mantioned Kobo. There are even Android based E-ink readers, even with Google Play enabled by default. No rooting necessary.
I personally find PocketBook devices to be the most configurable non-Android based devices. You can even install third party apps, such as Gvim editor, terminal emulator or sftp server.
Why on earth would one ever apply an update to the reader?
You have no option other than disabling the WiFi or filling the flash memory completely with content so that there is no space for Kindle to download the update to. If you disable the WiFi you have to side-load all your purchases using USB cable The last update - the one with the new certs for connecting to the Amazon servers is only a few kilobytes.
Many e-book reading apps for Android allow you to side-load font for that app.
Just create fonts directory on an SD card and place your fonts there. I know it works for FBReader and Coolreader and I think it works for other apps. Just google up details.
There are e-ink devices that run FBReader.
A few of those need rooting - usually the ones that are based on Android. Please note that there are Android based e-ink devices that have google play store or at least can use side-loaded apk without rooting.
At least one e-ink device manufacturer - PocketBook - provides FBReader as the main reading app. It also supports installation of third-party apps, including Coolreader. PocketBook can use any font you copy to device with fine-grained settings of size, margins, line-spacing, justification, content of the status line. It also supports large number of other configuration options, "screensavers" (pictures displayed then the device is switched off), user dictionaries (the manufacturer provides [unofficial] windows application for generating dictionaries), third-party apps (the manufacturer provides [unofficial] SDK) so you even have a linux console of full-blown Vim [on older version of firmware]. No hacking or rooting needed to make changes.
The most recent generation of firmware is screwed-up compared with the legendary firmware from two generations of PocketBook devices ago. But even this slightly screwed-up firmware 5.xy is vastly more configurable than other main-stream devices, such as Kindle, Kobo, Nook ...
PocketBook is the most popular device that is sold in brick-and-mortar stores here in Europe. Nobody except Amazon high ranking executives knows how many Kindles they sell here.
If you are stuck with Kindle or other device, you can always liberate the DRM-ed content, just search for apprentice Alf. From this liberated e-book you can generate pdf file with page-size of your e-ink display and any fancy typographical formatting you wish.
Here in Europe it is 8Eur/month for basic package, 10 Eur/month for standard package with HD and 2 devices used to watch simultaneously, 12Eur/month for premium package with 4k content on 4 devices at the same time. All that for a small fraction of content available in USA. Roughly 200 series and 550 movies available in countries around here, for example.
If you use VPN, you can watch 1157 shows and 4593 movies available in USA. See http://www.finder.com/global-n... for more numbers and http://www.finder.com.au/inter... for complete lists. The links are from summary of article about Netflix published here yesterday.
Mind you, even some programs produced by Netflix are missing, such as House of cards, because our local TV stations have recently purchased broadcasting rights
I am surprised that VPN and DNS tricks are used only by a small fraction of customers.
Yes, it is ready for the desktop.
You can, of course, use the above commands in the terminal. That is the easiest way if you need to write the steps in a post or do a support over a phone.
You can also
- click on the "updates" icon in a right edge of the task bar. There is an icon indicating whether there are updates available.
- in the Update Manager go to the Edit menu
- check item "Update to 17.3" and let the Update Manager do its thing. You will be asked for password. Once.
I have used the above steps to update from 17.1 to 17.2
Install Kindle for PC. The unofficial Calibre plugin developed by "apprentice Alf" can get the key from the Kindle for PC when the book is first opened on the Kindle for PC.
PocketBook uses FBReader as a default reading app. Plus, you can install Coolreader.
Firmware isn't what it used to be in earlier models but PocketBooks are still pretty capable devices. The new generation of firmware programmers didn't manage to screw up [yet] all the cool features built into the legendary models, such as PocketBook 360Â.
They support hierarchical directories in library, *lots* of configuration options for reading, there is limited number of third-party apps, such as Coolreader, ftp server [so you can rummage inside the filesytem and send in books without cable], terminal emulator, a few simple games and even Vim text editor.
When I see drill bit sizes defined like 3/64" I always say ... WTF?
When I see 1.2mm I know exactly how big it is.