At least with apt most of your upgrading prompts are centralized. Also, pinning can be done from Synaptic package manager: choose your package, then go (in the menu bar) Package->"Lock version" ("Force version..." does something too, but I cannot get the manual to explain it in a manner consistent with reality.)
On Ubuntu (and probably most other GNOME based systems), Applications->Add/Remove...->Check the boxes for the software you want->Hit Apply->Give your password->???->Profit!
Obviously the GP meant that it was originally at.5% (can't figure out the html entity/charmap entry for the 1/2 glyph, and Slashdot doesn't work well with my compose key).
cardinality (~size) of the set of all natural numbers (counting numbers) == cardinality of the set of all integers. All natural numbers are integers, but not vice-versa.
However, when deciding to buy a new machine, why use an 8-9 year old operating system? There is no reason for a home user to not use Vista on a new machine.
There are many reasons. $150 reasons actually, but your logic is flawed. In fact if you don't desire some new feature there is no reason to not use what you are comfortable using. Applying changes when changes are not needed is introducing risk...Uhh.. Do you work for Microsoft? Just wondering..
Wait, who's going to pay me $150 for not using Vista? I'd like to meet (him|her|it|them|what-have-you)!
Unless your office is unfortunate enough to have a recent enough version of Office to have to deal with that silly "ribbon" nonsense, OOo == MS Office for most intents and purposes.
For those who will say "But I tried Linux and I had to do XYZ" You're not an average user and you have been with windows long enough to learn how to get it to work for you. You ignore all the hiccups because it's now natural to you. Linux is foreign and it requires you to change your usual fixing methods. You will have a learning curve th same as when you began using windows
Case in point: Rebooting rarely solves anything in Linux. It's one of the basic reflexes that the Ubuntu docs warn against.
OpenGEU (which runs E17, the bleeding-edge version of Enlightenment) looks pretty sexy. What more do you want? Enlightenment is totally original -- it has ~nothing to do with windows's look and feel (grammar nazis, noone cares!).
I'm working on a single drop-in ASPX/C# page that contains a web proxy, so that any newbie web hacker can have an anonymising web proxy in their own web site. I'll leave the PHP version to somebody else:-) The idea being that if thousands of (overwise legitimate) web sites in dozens of countries have proxy pages in then the national firewalls will have a lot of trouble blocking them out. The basic rule i'm going with is that it remains text only - so that it's below the MAFIAA and think-o-the-children lobbiests' radars. Watch this space.
Am I missing something, or am I about to be "whoosh!"ed?
Will you be scared if/when ACTA gets signed and combines (catastrophically) with this (thereby outlawing much of freenet/darknet (not sure about darknet)(IANAL))?
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Your dissing of Windows wasn't enough to save you from your dissing of Mac (especially) and Linux (to a lesser extent). IANAMod.
For those who have never heard of it (and are failing to find anything via Google), it's avant window navigator, not manager.
They don't need the command line at all in GNOME, let alone having to figure out sudo.
At least with apt most of your upgrading prompts are centralized. Also, pinning can be done from Synaptic package manager: choose your package, then go (in the menu bar) Package->"Lock version" ("Force version..." does something too, but I cannot get the manual to explain it in a manner consistent with reality.)
On Ubuntu (and probably most other GNOME based systems), Applications->Add/Remove...->Check the boxes for the software you want->Hit Apply->Give your password->???->Profit!
Um, duh? Spammers (such as Jack Thompson) are complete assholes! Who needs 'em?
No shit!
Obviously the GP meant that it was originally at .5% (can't figure out the html entity/charmap entry for the 1/2 glyph, and Slashdot doesn't work well with my compose key).
cardinality (~size) of the set of all natural numbers (counting numbers) == cardinality of the set of all integers. All natural numbers are integers, but not vice-versa.
IANAL. You sure about that?
However, when deciding to buy a new machine, why use an 8-9 year old operating system? There is no reason for a home user to not use Vista on a new machine.
There are many reasons. $150 reasons actually, but your logic is flawed. In fact if you don't desire some new feature there is no reason to not use what you are comfortable using. Applying changes when changes are not needed is introducing risk. ..Uhh.. Do you work for Microsoft? Just wondering..
Wait, who's going to pay me $150 for not using Vista? I'd like to meet (him|her|it|them|what-have-you)!
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What, that scares you?! Get over it. You can't have your cake and eat it too...
...unless you run Linux.
What about server admins? ~Every server on the planet runs some form of Linux, no? And surely admining a computer counts as "using" it?
Unless your office is unfortunate enough to have a recent enough version of Office to have to deal with that silly "ribbon" nonsense, OOo == MS Office for most intents and purposes.
For those who will say "But I tried Linux and I had to do XYZ" You're not an average user and you have been with windows long enough to learn how to get it to work for you. You ignore all the hiccups because it's now natural to you. Linux is foreign and it requires you to change your usual fixing methods. You will have a learning curve th same as when you began using windows
Case in point: Rebooting rarely solves anything in Linux. It's one of the basic reflexes that the Ubuntu docs warn against.
Maybe he just missed your sarcasm somehow?
The problem is MS paying off Best Buy etc. to not sell preinstalled Linux computers.
OpenGEU (which runs E17, the bleeding-edge version of Enlightenment) looks pretty sexy. What more do you want? Enlightenment is totally original -- it has ~nothing to do with windows's look and feel (grammar nazis, noone cares!).
Cosplaying, attending conventions, hiding deformities...
Protip: remember your audience :)
What, is the Phantom reading this?
No, I don't expect Congress to "step in" on Obama either.
I'm working on a single drop-in ASPX/C# page that contains a web proxy, so that any newbie web hacker can have an anonymising web proxy in their own web site. I'll leave the PHP version to somebody else :-) The idea being that if thousands of (overwise legitimate) web sites in dozens of countries have proxy pages in then the national firewalls will have a lot of trouble blocking them out. The basic rule i'm going with is that it remains text only - so that it's below the MAFIAA and think-o-the-children lobbiests' radars. Watch this space.
Am I missing something, or am I about to be "whoosh!"ed?
Will you be scared if/when ACTA gets signed and combines (catastrophically) with this (thereby outlawing much of freenet/darknet (not sure about darknet)(IANAL))?
Silly AC, teh internets ARE t00bz!
If you're going to do B1FF, at least do him right.
It should be "D'oh!"
There. Fixed that for you (the quote marks; bold-facing didn't work well).
Sorry, didn't read your sig.