Off the top of my head:
1) Renovate my house
2) Time to exercise
3) Time to read
4) A three hour nap in a half-hour lunch break.
5) Finish work projects on time
I used to run a home brew Ubuntu Minimal + LXDE + Opera on my laptop and the only reason I redid it in Kubuntu was the lack of WiFi support on my laptop. If that starts showing up on Lubuntu, Kubuntu goes buh-bye again. Loved the speed and low resources.
I am, although my poor lappy isn't - it's just too old to handle the CPU load properly. Once I jump to Maverick I'm going to install Lubuntu-core and see if that helps. LXDE with KDE apps - should be fun!
That I get, although I still question the ROI about pulling still servicable working systems out and replacing them. If they are busted or obsolete then have at 'er.
I was going to mod you up, but I want to ask you about your post. What caused you to "retire any and all Dell hardware with *extreme* prejudice"? If a machine is working fine and not outdated, why would you pull it for another model, even if it is labelled 'Dell'? My wife has a Dell which I grant is a POS but it is also 8 years old and in it's first life was abused in a call center.
While fancy rats are inquisitive, friendly and sociable, a cat-brained robot would really be the most sociopathic cyborg I can imagine.
Where the hell are my mod points?!? I used to have two cats (now down to one) and it doesn't give two shits about you unless it wants something. To quote Robin Williams: 'Is it me or are cats drag queens? With the way they just go (flaunts bottom), “Who loves kitty? Ya love kitty? Are these your shoes? (retches) Who loves kitty? Who loves kitty?”'
According to the team's calculations, 300 meters (984 feet) of copper wire, attached to a two-meter-wide (6.6-foot-wide) receiver and a 10-meter (32.8-foot) sail, would generate enough power for 1,000 homes.
So why would we build one sail, which would be a target and fought over by countries and an untold number of businessess when you could run up a bunch of smaller sails? Easier to build and maintain, which lowers the barrier to entry and stops the wars and lawsuits which would inevitably break out over THE sail. I guess you have to dream big, but like anything, start small.
Damn - you're right. It would have to be arriving right now into the stores from their DCs to be ready for the holidays.
Of course, he said available by Christmas. Doesn't mean you'll be able to find them anywhere except one store out in Los Angeles which has two. Whatever - if Microsoft's involved and it doesn't have more computing power then some small nations have, I assume it will fail.
These clowns couldn't get the XO-1 out without getting way too cozy with Microsoft and abandoning everything which made geeks interested in it. They wouldn't get the XO-2 out of R&D because the tablet is the new hotness. Whatever. They will tank it out too. If you want my attention, scrap sugar and put on Android. Otherwise don't bother.
I totally agree with you on frameworks - not really a good idea. However, artwork is very portable as is UI concepts. I think LibreOffice looks horrible and that it needs a serious overall on it's look. I think functionally it's damn good but it's not clean and it's falling seriously behind when even distros like Puppy and Lubuntu are kicking it's ass in looks.
Actually, I was not suggesting joining the groups - I don't think that would work well at all and the smaller the groups the better they can service their area of expertise. What I'm suggesting is that Scribus & Inkscape's interfaces are very nice looking and if the Scribus & Inkscape camps can lend a hand in UI design and new logos then LibreOffice can lend their weight in the realms of advertisement and so on. The install base of LibreOffice is HUGE compared to Scribus & Inkscape - letting people know there is a FOSS solution (along with GIMP) to the Microsoft & Adobe Design suites could be huge. I know I'm looking at moving away from Publisher this winter to Scribus.
Fair enough, but you always need the most power to get something going from stop and every little bit helps! And even if Google doesn't do much with respect to code it can do HUGE things by way of marketing and such.
Maybe if we're REALLY REALLY lucky they could talk to the guys from Scribus and Inkscape and do something really cool together. LibreOffice has the mass, Scribus & Inkscape have the game. It could be a win-win for all.
What's really sad is that if Oracle were to come back with "You can have the name for one million dollars" the LibreOffice people wouldn't be able to come up with the money. Chump change for Ellison, deal breaker for OSS.
I think the monatary amount would be beside the point. If Oracle said that they could have it for $1000 I would tell them to turn it sideways and shove it up their asses. Oracle has basically given the finger to FOSS so why deal with them at all unless they are truly willing to give up something of value?
Personally, I think LibreOffice should pick a new name, totally redo the icon set and then have the big three push it like crazy. I think the biggest problem with LibreOffice is that it's ugly. Sad, but true.
Some of the supporters: FSF, Google, Novell, Red Hat, and Canonical.
When those guys are with you - it'll happen. My only question is if OpenOffice will become LibreOffice next month with the new releases of Ubuntu, OpenSUSE & Fedora or if it'll wait until spring?
I think they could do it, but I suspect that Symbian will become an also-ran with iOS, Android and Blackberry's new QNX-powered OS. It WAS good, but they don't have the marketshare nor, and more importantly, the mindshare, to fight it. What I don't understand is why they aren't looking at throwing themselves behind Android. Nokia owns QT, which is the base of KDE. Of anyone, you would think they would support a platform which would use their own stuff quite easily.
The BareNaked Ladies strikes me as having been the most popular band with some Canadian references in the songs. (Not a fan) but otherwise Neil Young and Tom Petty are probably the next closest. But even then substitute a few words here and there and you're listening to an American performing the same song.
Three words: The Tragically Hip. How can you even rant like that when their stuff is there, is popular right across the country and I would say could be considered in the argument that they are the best music act to come from this country. And on top of that, they have a lot of songs which are distinctly Canadian:
Last American Exit
At the Hundredth Meridian
50 Mission Cap
Three Pistols
I for one am happy to see IE becoming competitve again. It is good to have more than one viable alternative out there.
Highlights mine.
What do you define as a viable alternative? Firefox, Opera & Chrome have been around for quite a while and they all have been eating IE's lunch. By a lot of accounts, the big story is that IE9 is a radical departure from IE7/8 and has made major strides in catching up but it's not there yet.
Personally, I hope IE9 gets pushed out tomorrow. At work I'm stuck using IE8 and I would love to have something which approaches the Opera browser I use at home.
Windows: What you use when you don't give a shit.
OSX: What you use when you have more money then anything.
Seriously, Ubuntu is an operating system. Fedora is an operating system. Just because they both use a common kernel doesn't mean they aren't operating systems. If that was the case, Windows 2000 & Windows XP are distributions.
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I was thinking myself.
Off the top of my head:
1) Renovate my house
2) Time to exercise
3) Time to read
4) A three hour nap in a half-hour lunch break.
5) Finish work projects on time
I used to run a home brew Ubuntu Minimal + LXDE + Opera on my laptop and the only reason I redid it in Kubuntu was the lack of WiFi support on my laptop. If that starts showing up on Lubuntu, Kubuntu goes buh-bye again. Loved the speed and low resources.
I am, although my poor lappy isn't - it's just too old to handle the CPU load properly. Once I jump to Maverick I'm going to install Lubuntu-core and see if that helps. LXDE with KDE apps - should be fun!
That I get, although I still question the ROI about pulling still servicable working systems out and replacing them. If they are busted or obsolete then have at 'er.
I run Kubuntu 10.04 on my laptop and I haven't had any of those problems. The wireless GUI worked like a charm.
I was going to mod you up, but I want to ask you about your post. What caused you to "retire any and all Dell hardware with *extreme* prejudice"? If a machine is working fine and not outdated, why would you pull it for another model, even if it is labelled 'Dell'? My wife has a Dell which I grant is a POS but it is also 8 years old and in it's first life was abused in a call center.
While fancy rats are inquisitive, friendly and sociable, a cat-brained robot would really be the most sociopathic cyborg I can imagine.
Where the hell are my mod points?!? I used to have two cats (now down to one) and it doesn't give two shits about you unless it wants something. To quote Robin Williams: 'Is it me or are cats drag queens? With the way they just go (flaunts bottom), “Who loves kitty? Ya love kitty? Are these your shoes? (retches) Who loves kitty? Who loves kitty?”'
According to the team's calculations, 300 meters (984 feet) of copper wire, attached to a two-meter-wide (6.6-foot-wide) receiver and a 10-meter (32.8-foot) sail, would generate enough power for 1,000 homes.
So why would we build one sail, which would be a target and fought over by countries and an untold number of businessess when you could run up a bunch of smaller sails? Easier to build and maintain, which lowers the barrier to entry and stops the wars and lawsuits which would inevitably break out over THE sail. I guess you have to dream big, but like anything, start small.
Damn - you're right. It would have to be arriving right now into the stores from their DCs to be ready for the holidays.
Of course, he said available by Christmas. Doesn't mean you'll be able to find them anywhere except one store out in Los Angeles which has two. Whatever - if Microsoft's involved and it doesn't have more computing power then some small nations have, I assume it will fail.
Or the bigger question - which of the big Linux distros have drivers for touchscreens? I can see Ubuntu being all over this one.
These clowns couldn't get the XO-1 out without getting way too cozy with Microsoft and abandoning everything which made geeks interested in it. They wouldn't get the XO-2 out of R&D because the tablet is the new hotness. Whatever. They will tank it out too. If you want my attention, scrap sugar and put on Android. Otherwise don't bother.
You, Sir, deserve mod points.
I at the very least owe you a coke.
I totally agree with you on frameworks - not really a good idea. However, artwork is very portable as is UI concepts. I think LibreOffice looks horrible and that it needs a serious overall on it's look. I think functionally it's damn good but it's not clean and it's falling seriously behind when even distros like Puppy and Lubuntu are kicking it's ass in looks.
Actually, I was not suggesting joining the groups - I don't think that would work well at all and the smaller the groups the better they can service their area of expertise. What I'm suggesting is that Scribus & Inkscape's interfaces are very nice looking and if the Scribus & Inkscape camps can lend a hand in UI design and new logos then LibreOffice can lend their weight in the realms of advertisement and so on. The install base of LibreOffice is HUGE compared to Scribus & Inkscape - letting people know there is a FOSS solution (along with GIMP) to the Microsoft & Adobe Design suites could be huge. I know I'm looking at moving away from Publisher this winter to Scribus.
Fair enough, but you always need the most power to get something going from stop and every little bit helps! And even if Google doesn't do much with respect to code it can do HUGE things by way of marketing and such.
God, I hope so.
Maybe if we're REALLY REALLY lucky they could talk to the guys from Scribus and Inkscape and do something really cool together. LibreOffice has the mass, Scribus & Inkscape have the game. It could be a win-win for all.
What's really sad is that if Oracle were to come back with "You can have the name for one million dollars" the LibreOffice people wouldn't be able to come up with the money. Chump change for Ellison, deal breaker for OSS.
I think the monatary amount would be beside the point. If Oracle said that they could have it for $1000 I would tell them to turn it sideways and shove it up their asses. Oracle has basically given the finger to FOSS so why deal with them at all unless they are truly willing to give up something of value?
Personally, I think LibreOffice should pick a new name, totally redo the icon set and then have the big three push it like crazy. I think the biggest problem with LibreOffice is that it's ugly. Sad, but true.
Some of the supporters: FSF, Google, Novell, Red Hat, and Canonical.
When those guys are with you - it'll happen. My only question is if OpenOffice will become LibreOffice next month with the new releases of Ubuntu, OpenSUSE & Fedora or if it'll wait until spring?
Actually, funny enough - I went to school with a guy who played for the Hitmen, and I grew up an hour away from Brandon to boot!
How did I forget that one?
I think they could do it, but I suspect that Symbian will become an also-ran with iOS, Android and Blackberry's new QNX-powered OS. It WAS good, but they don't have the marketshare nor, and more importantly, the mindshare, to fight it. What I don't understand is why they aren't looking at throwing themselves behind Android. Nokia owns QT, which is the base of KDE. Of anyone, you would think they would support a platform which would use their own stuff quite easily.
The BareNaked Ladies strikes me as having been the most popular band with some Canadian references in the songs. (Not a fan) but otherwise Neil Young and Tom Petty are probably the next closest. But even then substitute a few words here and there and you're listening to an American performing the same song.
Three words: The Tragically Hip. How can you even rant like that when their stuff is there, is popular right across the country and I would say could be considered in the argument that they are the best music act to come from this country. And on top of that, they have a lot of songs which are distinctly Canadian:
Last American Exit
At the Hundredth Meridian
50 Mission Cap
Three Pistols
I for one am happy to see IE becoming competitve again. It is good to have more than one viable alternative out there.
Highlights mine.
What do you define as a viable alternative? Firefox, Opera & Chrome have been around for quite a while and they all have been eating IE's lunch. By a lot of accounts, the big story is that IE9 is a radical departure from IE7/8 and has made major strides in catching up but it's not there yet.
Personally, I hope IE9 gets pushed out tomorrow. At work I'm stuck using IE8 and I would love to have something which approaches the Opera browser I use at home.
Hasn't this already been done in Opera and other browsers? How is this innovative?
Windows: What you use when you don't give a shit.
OSX: What you use when you have more money then anything.
Seriously, Ubuntu is an operating system. Fedora is an operating system. Just because they both use a common kernel doesn't mean they aren't operating systems. If that was the case, Windows 2000 & Windows XP are distributions.