I have no ads at all since months - if my open source "AdBlock Plus" for Firefox at least oversee one, I add its link with one mouse click to the other ad's!
Use Firefox, not stupid IE.. Even Opera has a AdBlocker!
It doesnt but you can install a putty on it, in the meantime, so as I do, until I have a usable linux smartphone with the manufacturing quality of a Nokia phone.
With a E61i and Putty on it, and the many public access points (+ open wifi networks *g*) you can do SSH stuff much more convinient and cheaper.
I also use my Nokia for python programming stuff while travelling with train or bus. Python for Symbian S60 rocks! Plus and syntax-highlighted editor:)
When I got internet connection and need to know something my colleges couldnt answer, and have no computer around, I use my IRC client on my phone, MIRGGI.
But for the long traveling home, I use the predecessor of this smartphone, the Nokia E61i, to try some coding stuff out.
You can install Python on the Symbian Platform, and with a additional syntax highlighted editor - of course also programmed in python for symbian - it is much smaller than have always a laptop.
Also I have installed a Putty, and a IRC client for it, so when I recognize I am at home in a few minutes, I upload it to my home computer and then write further:)
Such things are already possible, if you want, and will get easier and more convinient when Linux arrives of the mobile phones.
If the only problem is the keyboard on this smartphones, why not using this holographic keyboard stuff already available?
You find them also much cheaper if you look a little bit. But the "Star Trek" - feeling you got when you use them, makes such a thing worth. Also the people in the bus who thinks you are a time traveller:)
If its too expensive, they are also physical, foldable bluetooth keyboards with the end-size of a cigarette box.
"And then it rebooted"
What? But that means..
Oh my god, please please do not tell me that in our nuclear power plants they run WINDOWS on critical parts of the system?
Are they f...ing stupid?
It is even dumb enough to run it at home, when you want a stable system, but there..
I try to ask our plant what they use and if I get the same answer I really considering to move my home to the place where I am most far away from it (and another).:(
I read the article and I was sure, to find a GIMP joke here - because the UI of Gimp is really a bad joke;)
There was already a good GUI redesign - but because this guy was ignored by the GIMP developers (which are not really open-minded) he started "GIMPshop" - http://www.gimpshop.com/ - a picure can be found via Google Picture Search.
But they want to stay with their window policy which is IMHO unusable for a image manipulation program.
I don't say that GIMP should orientate on Adobe Photoshop.
But at least it should also do a complete redesign of the GUI.
For a complex program like that they also shouldn't go to tight with the Gnome UI definitions, it is completely okay to go the "blender way" - a own UI for a program like the blender 3D program.
You've could used wget, or some better tool than wget (axel for example) from a compiled version you temporarily put in your home folder and change the conf-file to use it.
But you are right, such thing are some of the most-heard reasons why they change, right after the difference between getting a binary in a few seconds and wait hours to getting something compiled.
I really like it that I can configure some tool otherwise its been done by the MOTU's and build server for the binaries by using my suggestion above. Or some program which is not in the repositories by the "checkinstall" tool.
And hey, if you want to do it, like you did on gentoo, than why not?
There are almost no reasons to do it like you do it there - the speed factor the self-compiling guys (*BSD, Gentoo) are pointing out isn't really there, thats so minimal you can forget about this argumentation.
1.) If you really have to - the package management is flexible enough to let you do this - try it like this:
Load the package you need to configure and compile like this, so the dependencies are resolved like you apt-get some binaries:
apt-get build-dep exampletool
Now do the configure stuff, you find it in debian/rules.
Then use this combined command to get the sources, compile them, and make a package out of them:
apt-get -b source exampletool
2.) Another, less automated way is to download the program you want to compile yourself, and then use a tool like "checkinstall" (its in the repositories).
In this scenario you do the usual things:./configure --somespecialconfigureoptions make (and then instead of sudo make install you do:) sudo checkinstall
Answer the questions and the selfcompiled program is also added to the package managment and also could be removed like you do it otherwise.
As you can see, if someone says "Ubuntu can't do this or this because its focused for beginners" it's just not true.
And not to forgot the rock-solid "Ubuntu-Server" flavour.. We put all our server also from Debian to Ubuntu, because its a lot easier to have actual versions of server-related software with a long-term support (security updates etc.) than to handle on D_____ with a massive amount of backports to achieve the same. And if you have security issues on packages there, you can hope, some people give the same massive amount of time in putting security updates up in a recent time.
Really, if someone can say me something I can't do there, please tell me, perhaps I am missing something:)
If you wanna do SoC stuff and do amazing wiki stuff, join the MoinMoin project, who also get accepted this year.
If you ask why you surely would prefer it, I have just one short answer: MoinMoin is coded in python, while MediaWiki is, uhm, "coded" in PHP..:)
But all in all - the MoinMoin project is developing a popular wiki engine with steadly growing popularity - big names like Apache, Ubuntu, Python, Debian, Fedora, Xen, KernelNewbies, linuxwiki.org (de), etc. are all using MoinMoin to keep the contact going with their users and developers and for documentation.
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Syncany!
http://www.syncany.org/
And the best: I has more features than ALL other dropbox-like programs - also more functionality than the commercial ones!
First real release is coming soon but you can use the source already to make it.
Kate Bush did also a song about Pi, which is far better:
http://youtu.be/N-nIRHe-4HM
Sorry did not find a better version, and voice is a little muted, so look at the lyrics here:
http://www.absolutelyrics.com/lyrics/view/kate_bush/pi/
Have a good day :9
Also by Kate Bush.. Which is a great song while working :)
Isnt there a option for "extremely unfunny" that I can filter on?
Even if I got more beers in me I could not laugh at that :)
+1 from me..
I have no ads at all since months - if my open source "AdBlock Plus" for Firefox at least oversee one, I add its link with one mouse click to the other ad's!
Use Firefox, not stupid IE..
Even Opera has a AdBlocker!
It doesnt but you can install a putty on it, in the meantime, so as I do, until I have a usable linux smartphone with the manufacturing quality of a Nokia phone.
With a E61i and Putty on it, and the many public access points (+ open wifi networks *g*) you can do SSH stuff much more convinient and cheaper.
:)
I also use my Nokia for python programming stuff while travelling with train or bus. Python for Symbian S60 rocks! Plus and syntax-highlighted editor
When I got internet connection and need to know something my colleges couldnt answer, and have no computer around, I use my IRC client on my phone, MIRGGI.
But for the long traveling home, I use the predecessor of this smartphone, the Nokia E61i, to try some coding stuff out.
:)
:)
You can install Python on the Symbian Platform, and with a additional syntax highlighted editor - of course also programmed in python for symbian - it is much smaller than have always a laptop.
Also I have installed a Putty, and a IRC client for it, so when I recognize I am at home in a few minutes, I upload it to my home computer and then write further
Such things are already possible, if you want, and will get easier and more convinient when Linux arrives of the mobile phones.
If the only problem is the keyboard on this smartphones, why not using this holographic keyboard stuff already available?
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/8193/
You find them also much cheaper if you look a little bit. But the "Star Trek" - feeling you got when you use them, makes such a thing worth. Also the people in the bus who thinks you are a time traveller
If its too expensive, they are also physical, foldable bluetooth keyboards with the end-size of a cigarette box.
"And then it rebooted" What? But that means.. Oh my god, please please do not tell me that in our nuclear power plants they run WINDOWS on critical parts of the system? Are they f...ing stupid? It is even dumb enough to run it at home, when you want a stable system, but there.. I try to ask our plant what they use and if I get the same answer I really considering to move my home to the place where I am most far away from it (and another). :(
YES, its mostly about the plugins. A "vanilla" firefox is ROCK STABLE, even a Release Candidate.
I read the article and I was sure, to find a GIMP joke here - because the UI of Gimp is really a bad joke ;)
There was already a good GUI redesign - but because this guy was ignored by the GIMP developers (which are not really open-minded) he started "GIMPshop" - http://www.gimpshop.com/ - a picure can be found via Google Picture Search.
But they want to stay with their window policy which is IMHO unusable for a image manipulation program.
I don't say that GIMP should orientate on Adobe Photoshop.
But at least it should also do a complete redesign of the GUI.
For a complex program like that they also shouldn't go to tight with the Gnome UI definitions, it is completely okay to go the "blender way" - a own UI for a program like the blender 3D program.
You've could used wget, or some better tool than wget (axel for example) from a compiled version you temporarily put in your home folder and change the conf-file to use it.
But you are right, such thing are some of the most-heard reasons why they change, right after the difference between getting a binary in a few seconds and wait hours to getting something compiled.
I really like it that I can configure some tool otherwise its been done by the MOTU's and build server for the binaries by using my suggestion above. Or some program which is not in the repositories by the "checkinstall" tool.
Welcome to the circle of friends.. ;)
./configure --somespecialconfigureoptions
:)
And hey, if you want to do it, like you did on gentoo, than why not?
There are almost no reasons to do it like you do it there - the speed factor the self-compiling guys (*BSD, Gentoo) are pointing out isn't really there, thats so minimal you can forget about this argumentation.
1.) If you really have to - the package management is flexible enough to let you do this - try it like this:
Load the package you need to configure and compile like this, so the dependencies are resolved like you apt-get some binaries:
apt-get build-dep exampletool
Now do the configure stuff, you find it in debian/rules.
Then use this combined command to get the sources, compile them, and make a package out of them:
apt-get -b source exampletool
2.) Another, less automated way is to download the program you want to compile yourself, and then use a tool like "checkinstall" (its in the repositories).
In this scenario you do the usual things:
make
(and then instead of sudo make install you do:)
sudo checkinstall
Answer the questions and the selfcompiled program is also added to the package managment and also could be removed like you do it otherwise.
As you can see, if someone says "Ubuntu can't do this or this because its focused for beginners" it's just not true.
And not to forgot the rock-solid "Ubuntu-Server" flavour.. We put all our server also from Debian to Ubuntu, because its a lot easier to have actual versions of server-related software with a long-term support (security updates etc.) than to handle on D_____ with a massive amount of backports to achieve the same. And if you have security issues on packages there, you can hope, some people give the same massive amount of time in putting security updates up in a recent time.
Really, if someone can say me something I can't do there, please tell me, perhaps I am missing something
Of course there is. Do you know any real programming language that doesn't allow you that? :)
If you wanna do SoC stuff and do amazing wiki stuff, join the MoinMoin project, who also get accepted this year.
:)
;)
If you ask why you surely would prefer it, I have just one short answer: MoinMoin is coded in python, while MediaWiki is, uhm, "coded" in PHP..
But all in all - the MoinMoin project is developing a popular wiki engine with steadly growing popularity - big names like Apache, Ubuntu, Python, Debian, Fedora, Xen, KernelNewbies, linuxwiki.org (de), etc. are all using MoinMoin to keep the contact going with their users and developers and for documentation.
Try it out!
And if you like it, why not apply for SoC?