I did a fresh install of 9.10 was done this weekend on a spare PC and I NEVER saw that popup on first boot.
As to using media player the first time, very cool that they did that, but I knew that Ubuntu had no mp3 capabilities so I needed to go hunting for mediabuntu and install it.
Binary drivers are a fact of life if you want a 3d video card with any real performance. Even a 6 year old Nvidia card outperforms the latest and greatest from intel. I understand the reasoning behind not including the drivers, but not including a icon on the desktop that is a "click here to download, install and enable the nvidia non free closed source evil drivers." is a must have. Either that or include a linux guru with every download so grandma sprinkles can install it herself.
Also the mediabuntu repository while easy for us that are familiar with ubuntu to reinstall at every release are near impossible for a newbie to install.. Again a icon that states," click here for media drivers if you are in a country that is not opressive and looks at such an act as illegal"
If ubuntu was able to come with nvidia, ati, and mediabuntu installed it would be very much grandma ready out of the box. They really need to find ways around those issues to get more newbie users and non techie users.
(mind you, they never fixed my pet peeve which was adding a sensor to the phone so the screen turned off when you held it to your ear - instead going for ugly software hacks that never really worked properly)
Like how NOKIA has had for a while now. My 5800 and my wife's 5530 as well as my older N61 all did this, and the backlight comes back on when I take it from my ear...
non compete clauses are not enforceable when the clause will cause you undue hardship.
I.E. you are a game programmer, and your clause says you cant program at a competitor. Well EVERYONE is their competitor, there fore the clause is 100% unenforceable.
Remember, just because it's in a contract or a lawyer says it does not make it real nor enforceable. I personally strike out any clause like that, initial next to my strike out and ten sign it. I have never signed a contract that I did not modify.
At the office where I'm working there is a regular episode where a lady who knows how the fax machine works talks developers and other skilled techies through sending their timesheets to payroll.
That blows my mind. what arcane company uses FAX for timesheets or payroll? Email them, or use the web time tracking app. I freaked out a client once by sending him a PDF of a work order signed by me instead of faxing.
I got the following....
Him: HOW DID YOU DO THAT?? Me: What? I emailed you a PDF, nothing special. Him: No, you SIGNED IT, how did you do that? Me: multiple ways. I can use a tablet to sign it, print it out, sign it, scan it and send it on it's way.... I simply dragged my signature over the signature box, adobe acrobat will even do it for you with a single click (same as the pro version of foxit)
He is still amazed. I'm amazed that I'm the only one that is sending him everything electronically.
It's typically because whoever is in charge is incredibly under-educated. Probably their CTO or CIO really knows nothing at all, and then filled the ranks below him with yes-men that knows as little as he does.
At the bottom you have the guys wanting to get things done and secure, they pound their heads against the wall.
99% of it does not. Internally designed stuff in a company is usually the biggest messes there are. They were started by some mananger that was handy in VB 6 years ago and then perpetuated. nobody is ever given time to take a year and rewrite it, so everything is not even bolted on, it's slapped on with duct-tape.
to fix this we need to force managers to understand that software is not easy nor fast. Some say it takes education, I say it needs kneecaps broken.
Since complete coverage (floor, ceiling, windows, doors, etc) isn't realistic...
why not? paint all the walls, celing and flooring below the carpet and doors with it as a base coat. Windows you simply cover with a fine aluminum or copper screening. It's very realistic and easily doable.
Granted it will make life very miserable for any wireless technology in your home.
Magnetic paint from home depot in the paint section is FAR cheaper and works great IF you ground it. I.E.: give it a drain to ground which is easy enough if you get a piece of copper foil tape and paint to it and wire that to the ground in your outlet.
I did this to let my daughter stick magnets to her walls in her bedroom, It added a side effect of the cellphones, wifi and even the cordless phones stop working when her door was closed (we painted that too)
Very true, make it come back every 30 seconds until the clear code given by the tech support is entered into the dialog box.
Granted the fact that the code is 4534 will spread about the office fast, so write the app so that it looks for the code on the server and uses a new one every day.
1 - No balls on women, ask a woman if they find that a punch or kick to the groin area is painless. Guess what it hurts like hell to them there too. DUH, please get a basic education, then come back and refine your response.
Also hating your users when they LIED on their resume that they are "experienced in using office computers and software" gives you 100% justification. It's simply an example that management and HR are incompetent in screening new hires.
Sorry, but becoming confused with the windows login screen means that user needs to be fired right there and escorted from the building. They will be nothing but a liability to the IT department from that moment on. Dont get me started about the endless fight with saving your damned files on your H: drive directly or into your "my documents" so they go there anyways instead of random locations all over the hard drive.
WE use angry midgets that punch them in the groin if they dont read the error message. One assigned to each workstation.
works great, problem is the pay rate we have to give the midgets is 2X that of the positions that they are working at, except for management, we can get midgets to punch managers and executives in the groin for nearly free, problem is they have a high rate of false positives and un-necessary groin punches. Some have also escalated in severity, the marketing manager started wearing an aluminum groin protector, the midget assigned to him started bring in golf clubs and baseball bats...
Ok so you feel that you need to throw away a working system and start from scratch then? DIRECT leverages existing infrastructure and existing designs.
your idea is the same as Ford deciding to release a new F150 pickup truck but abandoning using Steel and internal combustion engines as well as wheels.
It's really dumb to redesign it all with fancy new pie in the sky technology. Use what works and get it in place fast. Why set your self up for a 2 year delay because of a problem that needs to be corrected? The SRB's and current tech works and works well no problems to have to design out. ALL DONE.
They dont need to release ALL information about the cards just ALL the interface information for control. which should easily hide all their secrets unless they are cheating and doing a lot on the computer with a software application masquerading as a driver. Like Winmodems did.
Considering orbital velocities. a single 1/8th inch ball bearing would rip through a Military armored humvee like it was tissue paper. so a booster stage.... would turn both objects into several hundreds of thousands 1/8th inch to 2 inch sized jagged particles and pieces that are all now going to spread out and turn into a satellite death cloud.
Exactly, so we should build a gigantic ground based laser that can vaporize a school bus sized object in 1/4 a second. I want the beam to be 30 feet wide and blackout every city in a hemisphere when it fires. Heck make it powerful enough that it adjusts the earth's orbit due to the amount of photos being fired.
Plus we can use it when the aliens get here all pissed off that we are cluttering up the lower EM spectrum with a lot of useless chatter.
Because they don't have a space trucker with unlimited fuel to do that.
It's far easier to use the last of the fuel to decay the orbit and crash it to earth than design the satellite to be 80X larger so it has giant fuel tanks and a big engine to get it to escape velocity.
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I did a fresh install of 9.10 was done this weekend on a spare PC and I NEVER saw that popup on first boot.
As to using media player the first time, very cool that they did that, but I knew that Ubuntu had no mp3 capabilities so I needed to go hunting for mediabuntu and install it.
Shut up, if you anger them they will start putting root-kits on CD's and DVD's again!
Because you are using the wrong form of bug.
the correct use is....
"That instance is completely buggered!" and yes the UK use of buggered is 100% correct in any sense of the term bug.
Binary drivers are a fact of life if you want a 3d video card with any real performance. Even a 6 year old Nvidia card outperforms the latest and greatest from intel. I understand the reasoning behind not including the drivers, but not including a icon on the desktop that is a "click here to download, install and enable the nvidia non free closed source evil drivers." is a must have. Either that or include a linux guru with every download so grandma sprinkles can install it herself.
Also the mediabuntu repository while easy for us that are familiar with ubuntu to reinstall at every release are near impossible for a newbie to install.. Again a icon that states," click here for media drivers if you are in a country that is not opressive and looks at such an act as illegal"
If ubuntu was able to come with nvidia, ati, and mediabuntu installed it would be very much grandma ready out of the box. They really need to find ways around those issues to get more newbie users and non techie users.
(mind you, they never fixed my pet peeve which was adding a sensor to the phone so the screen turned off when you held it to your ear - instead going for ugly software hacks that never really worked properly)
Like how NOKIA has had for a while now. My 5800 and my wife's 5530 as well as my older N61 all did this, and the backlight comes back on when I take it from my ear...
Want that feature? buy Nokia.
non compete clauses are not enforceable when the clause will cause you undue hardship.
I.E. you are a game programmer, and your clause says you cant program at a competitor. Well EVERYONE is their competitor, there fore the clause is 100% unenforceable.
Remember, just because it's in a contract or a lawyer says it does not make it real nor enforceable. I personally strike out any clause like that, initial next to my strike out and ten sign it. I have never signed a contract that I did not modify.
WEll then I better not have any more fun here at work.
Oh wait I dont work for assholes.. I guess that is the key to "working for fun"
At the office where I'm working there is a regular episode where a lady who knows how the fax machine works talks developers and other skilled techies through sending their timesheets to payroll.
That blows my mind. what arcane company uses FAX for timesheets or payroll? Email them, or use the web time tracking app. I freaked out a client once by sending him a PDF of a work order signed by me instead of faxing.
I got the following....
Him: HOW DID YOU DO THAT??
Me: What? I emailed you a PDF, nothing special.
Him: No, you SIGNED IT, how did you do that?
Me: multiple ways. I can use a tablet to sign it, print it out, sign it, scan it and send it on it's way.... I simply dragged my signature over the signature box, adobe acrobat will even do it for you with a single click (same as the pro version of foxit)
He is still amazed. I'm amazed that I'm the only one that is sending him everything electronically.
There is no document because such a document would be outdated the moment you wrote it.
That's why you put it on a Wiki!
It's typically because whoever is in charge is incredibly under-educated. Probably their CTO or CIO really knows nothing at all, and then filled the ranks below him with yes-men that knows as little as he does.
At the bottom you have the guys wanting to get things done and secure, they pound their heads against the wall.
99% of it does not. Internally designed stuff in a company is usually the biggest messes there are. They were started by some mananger that was handy in VB 6 years ago and then perpetuated. nobody is ever given time to take a year and rewrite it, so everything is not even bolted on, it's slapped on with duct-tape.
to fix this we need to force managers to understand that software is not easy nor fast. Some say it takes education, I say it needs kneecaps broken.
But then I'm a humanitarian.
Hams typically are well educated unlike Slashdot AC posters that like to be outraged at things they know absolutely nothing about.
P.S. you have a 1000Watt 2.4ghz transmitter in your home.
The scar across my hand from holding a 3db gain 5/8th wave antenna when I transmitted on 6 meters at 580 watts tells you otherwise.
High power drunk QSO contesting is not a safe hobby.
Why its it not working??? CQ,CQ AAAAAAAHHHHGGGGAAHHH THAT HURTS!
Sideband is a harsh mistress.
Although, I believe this is the Manhatten that's in New Your City, so I don't think he can legally bring a gun into the city anyway.
you are correct. It's why New York has no more crime and no more murders.. Those guns are banned and now there are no more guns.
Since complete coverage (floor, ceiling, windows, doors, etc) isn't realistic...
why not? paint all the walls, celing and flooring below the carpet and doors with it as a base coat. Windows you simply cover with a fine aluminum or copper screening. It's very realistic and easily doable.
Granted it will make life very miserable for any wireless technology in your home.
Magnetic paint from home depot in the paint section is FAR cheaper and works great IF you ground it. I.E.: give it a drain to ground which is easy enough if you get a piece of copper foil tape and paint to it and wire that to the ground in your outlet.
I did this to let my daughter stick magnets to her walls in her bedroom, It added a side effect of the cellphones, wifi and even the cordless phones stop working when her door was closed (we painted that too)
Very true, make it come back every 30 seconds until the clear code given by the tech support is entered into the dialog box.
Granted the fact that the code is 4534 will spread about the office fast, so write the app so that it looks for the code on the server and uses a new one every day.
Dear uninformed...
1 - No balls on women, ask a woman if they find that a punch or kick to the groin area is painless. Guess what it hurts like hell to them there too. DUH, please get a basic education, then come back and refine your response.
Also hating your users when they LIED on their resume that they are "experienced in using office computers and software" gives you 100% justification. It's simply an example that management and HR are incompetent in screening new hires.
Sorry, but becoming confused with the windows login screen means that user needs to be fired right there and escorted from the building. They will be nothing but a liability to the IT department from that moment on. Dont get me started about the endless fight with saving your damned files on your H: drive directly or into your "my documents" so they go there anyways instead of random locations all over the hard drive.
Or they expect something akin to movies where error messages flash in neon colors with a big ERROR or WARNING in the middle of the screen
i WISH the damn things would do that. BLink as well in ALL red and play a air raid siren wav at full volume.
ony then would it get the attention of many of the zombies here at the office.
WE use angry midgets that punch them in the groin if they dont read the error message. One assigned to each workstation.
works great, problem is the pay rate we have to give the midgets is 2X that of the positions that they are working at, except for management, we can get midgets to punch managers and executives in the groin for nearly free, problem is they have a high rate of false positives and un-necessary groin punches. Some have also escalated in severity, the marketing manager started wearing an aluminum groin protector, the midget assigned to him started bring in golf clubs and baseball bats...
Ok so you feel that you need to throw away a working system and start from scratch then? DIRECT leverages existing infrastructure and existing designs.
your idea is the same as Ford deciding to release a new F150 pickup truck but abandoning using Steel and internal combustion engines as well as wheels.
It's really dumb to redesign it all with fancy new pie in the sky technology. Use what works and get it in place fast. Why set your self up for a 2 year delay because of a problem that needs to be corrected? The SRB's and current tech works and works well no problems to have to design out. ALL DONE.
They dont need to release ALL information about the cards just ALL the interface information for control. which should easily hide all their secrets unless they are cheating and doing a lot on the computer with a software application masquerading as a driver. Like Winmodems did.
Considering orbital velocities. a single 1/8th inch ball bearing would rip through a Military armored humvee like it was tissue paper. so a booster stage.... would turn both objects into several hundreds of thousands 1/8th inch to 2 inch sized jagged particles and pieces that are all now going to spread out and turn into a satellite death cloud.
Exactly, so we should build a gigantic ground based laser that can vaporize a school bus sized object in 1/4 a second. I want the beam to be 30 feet wide and blackout every city in a hemisphere when it fires. Heck make it powerful enough that it adjusts the earth's orbit due to the amount of photos being fired.
Plus we can use it when the aliens get here all pissed off that we are cluttering up the lower EM spectrum with a lot of useless chatter.
Because they don't have a space trucker with unlimited fuel to do that.
It's far easier to use the last of the fuel to decay the orbit and crash it to earth than design the satellite to be 80X larger so it has giant fuel tanks and a big engine to get it to escape velocity.