Am I the only person here still using Mandriva? It certainly would explain why some bug reports I've filed seem to have taken forever for anyone to look at them, and even longer for a fix.
Now which distro to support, Mandriva or the new fork?
I settled on Mandrake (as it was then) when it was known as bleeding edge, run on just about anything, and the most user friendly of the installations (with a decent partition manager when installing so you don't install into the wrong place / drive).
Would be more descriptive to say that they launched some new features that drain the phones battery even faster.
Now, I have a Android HTC to replace a ancient dumb phone. Excuse my ignorance, but it's my first smart phone... and it took me by the second day of ownership that switching off the Bluetooth, GPS, Wi-Fi and other enabled stuff saved a tonne of battery power. They may be smart phones, but they really do need more battery power packed in to the phone.
So what Microsoft are saying is that in three years time, Slashdoters will be writing an article comparing which is more fragile - the hardware or the Operating System. For the first time people really will be able to use the moniker "broken Windows"!?!
Here in the UK for as long as it's been, you used to get the deeds to a house when you bought it / paid off the mortgage. It is basically a printed piece of paper which tells you the details of the house, like boundary rights or restrictions, and who is the owner of the house. When under a mortgage, you can see that the mortgage company's details are used as the owner. This document gets updated whenever the property is sold or a mortgage is obtained against it.
Now a few years ago, these documents which you HAD as the ultimate proof you own your home became a museum piece, and now the only proof that you own the property is an electronic record in the Land Registry.
Unfortunately these electronic records have already been tampered with, and people have lost their homes because the government decided to trust a computer, rather than have the backup of who has the deeds to the property.
There was an article in the BBC TV news about the scam, and just how easy it is. This is what you get when you have easily bought politicians who think the answer to everything is a bloody computer system.
I think these folks are actually trying to use scare-tactics in order to increase their own budgets short-term
Dear citizens of the United States,
In case you have not noticed, your government is spending and borrowing so much that the economy is seen by outsiders as being virtually on it's last legs, you cannot carry on printing money thinking it's going to fix the problem. You may fantasise that you can spend money on this and that, but you no longer can.
Trying to "fix" the internet is the least of the US problems. Your budget deficit needs IMMEDIATE attention.
Yours Sincerely, Someone who loves in another country who's previous government was in La-La land over their budget deficit and also wanted to control the internet
Yes, but it's only 32bit, and if you want to install it on a 64bit version, you will be shocked at how much 32bit crap it wants to drag into your nice clean 64bit system..... all for a crummy downloader. I passed at the opportunity to mess up my system more (Skype was bad enough but at least that is useful).
Why go to all that effort of targeting criminals? You could do like what the UK has done, install CCTV EVERYWHERE and make the entire country a virtual prison.
Speaking from my experience, it feels nice to get out of the UK on holiday. However, due to the number of cameras and them being everywhere everywhere, the UK really does feel like one large open prison when you return. So much for being a free country.
I don't know about retro programming, but my first experience of hard programming is being introduced to Assembly language using a Hektor computer, originally designed for the UK's Open University. http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=602&st=1
At least using it and it's plug in sensors module helped you understand what all the moving data to / from the stack and all the rest of the commands was actually doing to the hardware.
Maybe modern versions of this kind of simple kit would help people understand programming more when they start out in it?
Who cares what they do with UTC, I'm bigging up GMT (at great risk of troll mods).
You all use UTC because you can't stand being reminded it's GREENWICH Mean Time, a UK concept of time that stuck around the world.
Hold one a moment, if Demon are going to offer high speeds for gamers traffic, that means that when they need tech support, it will take even longer to get help?;)
At risk to my karma and troll votes... I say the technology to manipulate the genetic make-up of food and enforcing controls such as patents and copyrights, then exporting this food with it's claimed "benefits", is one of the ways that the US companies will try to keep the US economy from totally sinking into oblivion*.
* You can't carry on borrowing money or printing it, even if you are the world's reserve currency.
IF you have a family member doing your IT support you will have Firefox.
I am the guy the family turns to for IT stuff. I installed Firefox on one of their machines, and they thought if IE works then why bother with Firefox. When they use my machine they use Firefox, because that's all I allow them to (in Linux). It is installed with Flashblock / Adblock and a few other things. They then moan that the website is broken. It is VERY difficult to explain to people that no, the web browsing experience is fixed.
After explaining the point of all those blocking add-ons, they say they don't want to keep on clicking on a site to "white list" it, they just want a browser to work straight away, so they stick to Internet Exploder. I have not managed to get anyone to change their mind, they are hung up on the concept of white listing popular sites, and having to click to enable a site if it only uses Javascript or Flash.
You don't need fancy multi-millon Dollar gadgets to make people run away. A loudspeaker with a few tracks from say Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Beyonce and Katy Perry, will do far more damage.
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What does a 7 year old playing BZFlag learn then? (Apart from loosing badly and crying about it).
Am I the only person here still using Mandriva? It certainly would explain why some bug reports I've filed seem to have taken forever for anyone to look at them, and even longer for a fix.
Now which distro to support, Mandriva or the new fork?
I settled on Mandrake (as it was then) when it was known as bleeding edge, run on just about anything, and the most user friendly of the installations (with a decent partition manager when installing so you don't install into the wrong place / drive).
Would be more descriptive to say that they launched some new features that drain the phones battery even faster.
Now, I have a Android HTC to replace a ancient dumb phone. Excuse my ignorance, but it's my first smart phone... and it took me by the second day of ownership that switching off the Bluetooth, GPS, Wi-Fi and other enabled stuff saved a tonne of battery power. They may be smart phones, but they really do need more battery power packed in to the phone.
So what Microsoft are saying is that in three years time, Slashdoters will be writing an article comparing which is more fragile - the hardware or the Operating System. For the first time people really will be able to use the moniker "broken Windows"!?!
Here in the UK for as long as it's been, you used to get the deeds to a house when you bought it / paid off the mortgage. It is basically a printed piece of paper which tells you the details of the house, like boundary rights or restrictions, and who is the owner of the house. When under a mortgage, you can see that the mortgage company's details are used as the owner. This document gets updated whenever the property is sold or a mortgage is obtained against it.
Now a few years ago, these documents which you HAD as the ultimate proof you own your home became a museum piece, and now the only proof that you own the property is an electronic record in the Land Registry.
Unfortunately these electronic records have already been tampered with, and people have lost their homes because the government decided to trust a computer, rather than have the backup of who has the deeds to the property.
There was an article in the BBC TV news about the scam, and just how easy it is. This is what you get when you have easily bought politicians who think the answer to everything is a bloody computer system.
I think these folks are actually trying to use scare-tactics in order to increase their own budgets short-term
Dear citizens of the United States,
In case you have not noticed, your government is spending and borrowing so much that the economy is seen by outsiders as being virtually on it's last legs, you cannot carry on printing money thinking it's going to fix the problem. You may fantasise that you can spend money on this and that, but you no longer can.
Trying to "fix" the internet is the least of the US problems. Your budget deficit needs IMMEDIATE attention.
Yours Sincerely,
Someone who loves in another country who's previous government was in La-La land over their budget deficit and also wanted to control the internet
Because reading the words "Produced in Australia" is too difficult for us Europeans?
Why doesn't the EUSSR do something useful, like getting out of people's lives, instead of coming up with more and more ways to interfere?
it has a linux version.
Yes, but it's only 32bit, and if you want to install it on a 64bit version, you will be shocked at how much 32bit crap it wants to drag into your nice clean 64bit system..... all for a crummy downloader. I passed at the opportunity to mess up my system more (Skype was bad enough but at least that is useful).
Do all destinations in this map equal 42?
Why go to all that effort of targeting criminals? You could do like what the UK has done, install CCTV EVERYWHERE and make the entire country a virtual prison.
Speaking from my experience, it feels nice to get out of the UK on holiday. However, due to the number of cameras and them being everywhere everywhere, the UK really does feel like one large open prison when you return. So much for being a free country.
no no no, those are govt property...
Actually, police equipment is taxpayers property.
I don't know about retro programming, but my first experience of hard programming is being introduced to Assembly language using a Hektor computer, originally designed for the UK's Open University. http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=602&st=1
At least using it and it's plug in sensors module helped you understand what all the moving data to / from the stack and all the rest of the commands was actually doing to the hardware.
Maybe modern versions of this kind of simple kit would help people understand programming more when they start out in it?
Who cares what they do with UTC, I'm bigging up GMT (at great risk of troll mods). You all use UTC because you can't stand being reminded it's GREENWICH Mean Time, a UK concept of time that stuck around the world.
Why not simply forget about the card and tattoo the number in your arm?
Adolf Hitler already tried that idea.
I tried your aluminium foil suggestion, but I don't think it works very well.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil_hat
Hold one a moment, if Demon are going to offer high speeds for gamers traffic, that means that when they need tech support, it will take even longer to get help? ;)
They play Quake and learn about gun shot wounds?
At risk to my karma and troll votes... I say the technology to manipulate the genetic make-up of food and enforcing controls such as patents and copyrights, then exporting this food with it's claimed "benefits", is one of the ways that the US companies will try to keep the US economy from totally sinking into oblivion*.
* You can't carry on borrowing money or printing it, even if you are the world's reserve currency.
I bet that a large part of the cost was due to Oracle fees.
I bet that a large part of the cost was due to backhanders.
There, fixed your comment.
Perhaps only in Mandriva?
For all it's technological brilliance, they still have not solved the problems that Weird Al Yankovic sang about in "Another One Rides The Bus."
IF you have a family member doing your IT support you will have Firefox.
I am the guy the family turns to for IT stuff. I installed Firefox on one of their machines, and they thought if IE works then why bother with Firefox. When they use my machine they use Firefox, because that's all I allow them to (in Linux). It is installed with Flashblock / Adblock and a few other things. They then moan that the website is broken. It is VERY difficult to explain to people that no, the web browsing experience is fixed.
After explaining the point of all those blocking add-ons, they say they don't want to keep on clicking on a site to "white list" it, they just want a browser to work straight away, so they stick to Internet Exploder. I have not managed to get anyone to change their mind, they are hung up on the concept of white listing popular sites, and having to click to enable a site if it only uses Javascript or Flash.
I suspect that my family is not atypical.
Is that 2 cents for listening to the opinion, and one cent for profit?
You passed Go, please collect $ from bank, where $ = Amount Input.
You don't need fancy multi-millon Dollar gadgets to make people run away. A loudspeaker with a few tracks from say Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Beyonce and Katy Perry, will do far more damage.