Super+A will open the applications lens. I don't know of a shortcut to show/hide the filter pane, but as you mention it's remembered so you only have to click it the first time.
The app is Adobe Editions, and it's a completely different app. Chances are good that it's already installed on the computer of most people with an ebook reader.
... unless they run Linux, which Adobe promised a DE client for but never delivered. Unfortunately for me, this means I won't be reading any Google books on my nook, which is a shame.
What happens if I change my hardware configuration after I've already installed Ubuntu?
The same utility detects the change and if a proprietary driver is available offers do download it for you. Incidentally, it does the same thing if a new driver is detected (e.g. nVidia updates their driver).
And, by the way, while I'm at it, how about the fact it automatically downloads updates and then forces them to install the next time I open Firefox, without asking me.
Why can't I browse and tell Firefox where to put it instead of being arbitrarily forced to put it in the same inappropriate location?
Edit - Preferences - Main - Select "Always ask me where to save files" under Downloads.
The reason these things are like that by default is because, for most people, they're the Right Choice. If you don't like them, they're extremely simple to change. Being asked where to put a file every bloody time annoys me (and everyone I know) to no end. Similarly, many (if not most) people using Firefox have permissions to update their own extensions, but many don't know how or don't think to check for updates. Should they be kept at old versions because you are too lazy to uncheck a single box in a preference window?
I take the libertarian point of view; what you make belongs to you.
While you are, of course, entitled to your own opinions, please don't conflate your misguided ideas with the Libertarian view. I'd advise checking lp.org and googling around to find that you've been strenuously arguing against the Libertarian position on copyright.
It may be objected that the person who originated the information deserves ownership rights over it. But information is not a concrete thing an individual can control; it is a universal, existing in other people's minds and other people's property, and over these the originator has no legitimate sovereignty. You cannot own information without owning other people.
(from http://libertariannation.org/a/f31l1.html)
Now that I can get behind. Those people need to have an ATM machine dropped on them (without the PIN number) and have the NIC cards taken out of their computers.
Except that "AFAIK" traditionally expands to "As Far As I Know". In fact, there's no expansion to "And For All I Know" in the first page of Google results for "AFAIK". So AFAIK, you're the only person that expands it to that.
My apologies if this is incorrect, but I believe nautilus is responsible for the disgustingly *bad* interface that pops up when you run firefox under gnome and want to choose an application to open something with. I can't just type in a command and hit enter... that would be too easy.
Yup, you're incorrect. That's the GTK2 file dialog, not Nautilus. They look similar because they're both GNOMEish, but the file dialog isn't actually a part of Nautilus. Oh, and you *can* type in a path... did you try to just start typing? As soon as you hit that first/, a textbox will appear. It even automagically completes as you type. It's extremely slick and fast if you already know the path you want.
Windows Media Player may be produced by the Evil Empire, but it's still head and shoulders above Real.
The fact that you're about the zillionth person I've heard say this makes me finally break down and say "Wuhhh?"
I've never had anything but terrible experiences with WMV. Skipping in a local file entails ~30 seconds of waiting for the video to catch back up while I look at a still frame of pr0n -- it's instant in Real. Skipping streaming video, as far as I can tell, isn't even possible with WMV. The controls are either disabled or just nonfunctional.
Admittedly, I haven't used WMV on Windows. (Ever.) I'd ascribe it to Microsoft's shitty Mac support if it were just OSX that I saw this in, but even in all the flavors of Linux I've ever used, using the codec DLLs from Windows, it's the same story.
While Real used to make it a real bitch to find their free player, once I got it I've never had a bad experience with it. No spyware or popups or any annoyances at all. (Again, I haven't used it on Windows since about 1998, the last time I had a Windows machine for personal use.)
So honestly, not trolling or flamebaiting... does WMV actually work on Windows?
Wow. Do you honestly not see the difference between saying "Child pornography shouldn't be used as an excuse to create a police state." and "Kiddie porn is great! Everybody go grab a kid and start fondling!"?
But I guess that since I'm not with you I'm against you, right?
States that don't want it are free to not take federal money.
Except that they're required by law to pay for the upkeep of the interstate highways within their borders whether they accept the federal money or not. That's the problem.
The Bomberman games all rocked, but I would gladly stab anyone to get Saturn Bomberman playable on a modern console. That was the best party game ever made, bar none.
I'm not sure, but I'm guessing that if you're trying to upgrade one package and it prompts you to upgrade a bunch of others, there are some dependencies involved.
If you upgrade package a package that depends on some library "libfoo" that also has a newer version out, there's a chance that all of the other packages that use "libfoo" will need updated as well. This is because OSS tends to do a huge amount of software reuse. Windows and MacOS [X] software doesn't do that to the same extent.
The reason you can't just upgrade thet first package and not libfoo and all the others is that it will completely break things. Instability is what you'll get if you're extremely lucky, but it's far more likely that all those programs will crash as soon as you try to run them, because you're using an incompatible older library.
The good news, though, is that Ubuntu only makes minor security or stability upgrades within a release. You won't see a package go from version 1.5 to 2.0 within a given Ubuntu release, specifically because it's newer and less tested. If there's an upgrade available, you can rest assured that it's extremely unlikely to break anything -- these are minor, well-tested updates. If an upgrade is available, take it! You may be at risk if you don't. The updates you see are guaranteed not to be bleeding-edge.
(NB: This isn't true of all distributions, but it is true of Ubuntu.)
Because he posted a similar rant last time Ubuntu got mentioned. I just happened to remember it because I was shocked enough at his behavior to reply, so it was easy to find again.
The way he linked to evidence of his own jerkishness as if he thought it defended him, I think the guy really might honestly need therapy.
Make sure you read the thread that he posted on the Ubuntu forums before feeling too sorry for this jerk. He had a problem, and people tried very hard to help. He refused to try anything anyone suggested and became very abusive. People continued to give him suggestions and try to help. He just got nastier and nastier. His experiences are bad only because he chose for them to be.
Why is it that everyone always goes on about it being better to use open source when the issue is Opera or Firefox, yet MacOS X is worshipped here on Slashdot, and no one would ever dare criticise it on that point.
Maybe because there are oodles of different peope here, and the ones that use only open source apps aren't the same ones that praise OSX as the Second Coming?
Tough to imagine, I know... different people with different opinions. Crazy!
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It's not application-specific. It's at the toolkit level.
it seems there is no keyboard shortcut for that
Super+A will open the applications lens. I don't know of a shortcut to show/hide the filter pane, but as you mention it's remembered so you only have to click it the first time.
Canonical does usability testing constantly.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2011-April/032988.html
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/11/user-testing-of-unity-reveals-some-surprising-results/
It does work to an extent, but you can't do things like transfer an ebook to an ereader, rendering it basically useless for me. YMMV.
The app is Adobe Editions, and it's a completely different app. Chances are good that it's already installed on the computer of most people with an ebook reader.
... unless they run Linux, which Adobe promised a DE client for but never delivered. Unfortunately for me, this means I won't be reading any Google books on my nook, which is a shame.
What happens if I change my hardware configuration after I've already installed Ubuntu?
The same utility detects the change and if a proprietary driver is available offers do download it for you. Incidentally, it does the same thing if a new driver is detected (e.g. nVidia updates their driver).
I'm paranoid, as my idea of a good AFJ would be publishing genuinely malicious code as joke malicious code.
There's an AF achievement? (And should me not looking in the FAQ earn me a "didn't read TFA" achievement?)
How many nanofurlongs is that?
30,303,030,300.
And, by the way, while I'm at it, how about the fact it automatically downloads updates and then forces them to install the next time I open Firefox, without asking me.
Edit - Preferences - Advanced - Update - Uncheck "Installed Add-ons"
Why can't I browse and tell Firefox where to put it instead of being arbitrarily forced to put it in the same inappropriate location?
Edit - Preferences - Main - Select "Always ask me where to save files" under Downloads.
The reason these things are like that by default is because, for most people, they're the Right Choice. If you don't like them, they're extremely simple to change. Being asked where to put a file every bloody time annoys me (and everyone I know) to no end. Similarly, many (if not most) people using Firefox have permissions to update their own extensions, but many don't know how or don't think to check for updates. Should they be kept at old versions because you are too lazy to uncheck a single box in a preference window?
While you are, of course, entitled to your own opinions, please don't conflate your misguided ideas with the Libertarian view. I'd advise checking lp.org and googling around to find that you've been strenuously arguing against the Libertarian position on copyright.
Now that I can get behind. Those people need to have an ATM machine dropped on them (without the PIN number) and have the NIC cards taken out of their computers.
;)
Except that "AFAIK" traditionally expands to "As Far As I Know". In fact, there's no expansion to "And For All I Know" in the first page of Google results for "AFAIK". So AFAIK, you're the only person that expands it to that.
HTH, HAND.
It's kind of like Karma but it's even more powerful because its three-fold.
*snort*
Log in if you're going to post gems like these -- I want a name to quote this with. It's priceless.
OK, which party is the one wholly against censorship in any form?
That'd be the Libertarian Party.
My apologies if this is incorrect, but I believe nautilus is responsible for the disgustingly *bad* interface that pops up when you run firefox under gnome and want to choose an application to open something with. I can't just type in a command and hit enter... that would be too easy.
/, a textbox will appear. It even automagically completes as you type. It's extremely slick and fast if you already know the path you want.
Yup, you're incorrect. That's the GTK2 file dialog, not Nautilus. They look similar because they're both GNOMEish, but the file dialog isn't actually a part of Nautilus. Oh, and you *can* type in a path... did you try to just start typing? As soon as you hit that first
Windows Media Player may be produced by the Evil Empire, but it's still head and shoulders above Real.
The fact that you're about the zillionth person I've heard say this makes me finally break down and say "Wuhhh?"
I've never had anything but terrible experiences with WMV. Skipping in a local file entails ~30 seconds of waiting for the video to catch back up while I look at a still frame of pr0n -- it's instant in Real. Skipping streaming video, as far as I can tell, isn't even possible with WMV. The controls are either disabled or just nonfunctional.
Admittedly, I haven't used WMV on Windows. (Ever.) I'd ascribe it to Microsoft's shitty Mac support if it were just OSX that I saw this in, but even in all the flavors of Linux I've ever used, using the codec DLLs from Windows, it's the same story.
While Real used to make it a real bitch to find their free player, once I got it I've never had a bad experience with it. No spyware or popups or any annoyances at all. (Again, I haven't used it on Windows since about 1998, the last time I had a Windows machine for personal use.)
So honestly, not trolling or flamebaiting... does WMV actually work on Windows?
Wow. Do you honestly not see the difference between saying "Child pornography shouldn't be used as an excuse to create a police state." and "Kiddie porn is great! Everybody go grab a kid and start fondling!"?
But I guess that since I'm not with you I'm against you, right?
TFA did mention that the amount they offered him was less than it costs him to deal with the influx of traffic they're shooting at him.
States that don't want it are free to not take federal money.
Except that they're required by law to pay for the upkeep of the interstate highways within their borders whether they accept the federal money or not. That's the problem.
The Bomberman games all rocked, but I would gladly stab anyone to get Saturn Bomberman playable on a modern console. That was the best party game ever made, bar none.
I'm not sure, but I'm guessing that if you're trying to upgrade one package and it prompts you to upgrade a bunch of others, there are some dependencies involved.
If you upgrade package a package that depends on some library "libfoo" that also has a newer version out, there's a chance that all of the other packages that use "libfoo" will need updated as well. This is because OSS tends to do a huge amount of software reuse. Windows and MacOS [X] software doesn't do that to the same extent.
The reason you can't just upgrade thet first package and not libfoo and all the others is that it will completely break things. Instability is what you'll get if you're extremely lucky, but it's far more likely that all those programs will crash as soon as you try to run them, because you're using an incompatible older library.
The good news, though, is that Ubuntu only makes minor security or stability upgrades within a release. You won't see a package go from version 1.5 to 2.0 within a given Ubuntu release, specifically because it's newer and less tested. If there's an upgrade available, you can rest assured that it's extremely unlikely to break anything -- these are minor, well-tested updates. If an upgrade is available, take it! You may be at risk if you don't. The updates you see are guaranteed not to be bleeding-edge.
(NB: This isn't true of all distributions, but it is true of Ubuntu.)
Because he posted a similar rant last time Ubuntu got mentioned. I just happened to remember it because I was shocked enough at his behavior to reply, so it was easy to find again.
The way he linked to evidence of his own jerkishness as if he thought it defended him, I think the guy really might honestly need therapy.
Make sure you read the thread that he posted on the Ubuntu forums before feeling too sorry for this jerk. He had a problem, and people tried very hard to help. He refused to try anything anyone suggested and became very abusive. People continued to give him suggestions and try to help. He just got nastier and nastier. His experiences are bad only because he chose for them to be.
Why is it that everyone always goes on about it being better to use open source when the issue is Opera or Firefox, yet MacOS X is worshipped here on Slashdot, and no one would ever dare criticise it on that point.
Maybe because there are oodles of different peope here, and the ones that use only open source apps aren't the same ones that praise OSX as the Second Coming?
Tough to imagine, I know... different people with different opinions. Crazy!