Oh Noes! I have to install Linux myself? My god what next? Nuclear Armageddon??
My girlfriend can install Ubuntu *.** and she is a nurse by trade who uses her laptop 3x a week. Also there was someone who posted on/. that his 2yr old son could install ubuntu but not windows xp which he attributed to the fact that one must be able to *read* to install winxp but not ubuntu. Made me laugh because it's funny because it's true.
IMO kubuntu is a great choice for an arts student;o)
But it's probably been that way for a very long time. I'd imagine that some illiterate peasant bog-farmer had more kids than, say, Sir Isaac Newton, for example.
Sir Isaac didn't have any kids. By all acounts, he was gay.
Is it just me or does "Genius Bar" sound like a bunch of wank? I mean it is merely hyperbole to describe computer techs as "geniuses" as much as it would be to describe auto mechanics as such.
IMO people do go overboard in describing anyone who knows what a computer is and what it does as "clever" or whatever and IMO a genius is someone who comes up with something that no-one had seen before (eg special relativity) not some prole who can fix a mac...sheesh
We know next to nothing (and in some cases, I'd bet we know EXACTLY nothing) about a great many of the universe's more detailed workings.
Thanks Captain Obvious but I think you're projecting there. All YOU can be sure of is that YOU know nothing and that the knowledge of others is beyond your knowledge. Humans understand a lot more than you realise and I can tell how little you realise by the tone of your post and it's inappropriate and overly simplistic analogies.
That's ridiculous. That's like saying an airline pilot knows about the latest top secret fighter plane designs.
What a ridiculous comparison. What the astronaut said and what you said bear no relation. Plenty of pilots have seen UFOs too and this includes one I have spoken to. He didn't report it as it is well known in the piloting trade that a UFO report will get you grounded with little chance of returning to the air.
Maybe you're just not as competent as you think you are? And your rant doesn't explain how or why ubuntu works seamlessly for me, straight "out of the box" on a box I put together myself from swapped parts...it went like a dream - I could hardly believe my luck that it was free;o) . I've even had some apple-fanboys/users drooling with jealousy over compiz-fusion and the desktop cube/sphere/cylinder
making cube caps transparent is under cube transparency in the Desktop Cube plugin. By setting the cube transparency during mouse rotation it deals with the cube caps transparency as well.
put deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/compiz/ubuntu hardy main and
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/compiz/ubuntu hardy main in your sources list (sudo kate/etc/apt/sources.list) and update...this will install compiz 0.7.6 (look at the cube deformation and reflection plugin;o)- awesome!) and fix all the bugs that came with the default compiz in K/Ubuntu 8.04
Have you tried Mandriva 2008.1 ?
I have a Linux-resistant hp ze4315ap that didn't work well with any linux distro. It would work to a point but there would be a show-stopper with Debian3.1, openSUSE, Fedora and Mepis (usually the external wireless USB LAN connector) . Ubuntu would work but was a bit slow and cranky. I got Mandriva coz I don't like to give up;o) and it fit like it was made for it. Even the basic compiz-fusion worked on the ATI 340M IGP that has been blacklisted in ubuntu heron.
So, if you want Linux on your lappy, keep trying as I'm sure you'll be able to get one sooner or later as it took me about 3 years;o)
A properly configured Compiz Fusion and Emerald (with stuff like shadows and plugins like Group and Tab, Expo) coupled with Screenlets and Avant Window Navigator/Kiba-Dock and proper themes looks almost as good as a Mac if not better.
almost as good? Mac "eye candy" is shite compared to compiz-fusion, and windows is a macs dyslexic retarded cousin when it comes to desktop candy that is also useful. I run compiz 0.7.6 on hardy heron and everytime I go to use a windoze comp I get a nasty shock when I realise that it only has one desktop *shrieks*
dude, seriously, compiz-fusion is light years ahead of any eye candy that the competition has to offer
try working in a female-dominated environment sometime. It is hell. Decisions take ages to get made and then get made poorly, volunteer projects start spring up like mushrooms on a turd, HR depts flourish and the quality and integrity of the organization generally goes to hell.
Mind you I look forward to seeing the new colour-scheme for the space shuttle, as well as extra cargo space for chocolate and other feminine "needs"
But seriously, I was a rabid Ubuntu user until about 4 hours ago when I d/lÂd Mandriva 2008.1 and my heartiest congratulations go out to Adam Will and the team there for a top-notch distro.
IÂm typing this on my girlfriends hp pavilion ze4315ap which is 7 years old and is the most Linux resistant computer I have ever had the misfortune to use, even ubuntu just doesnÂt quite work right on it, ever. Mandriva on the other hand is working like an absolute fucking charm and I had it up and running, wireless net, browsers and email all configured in ~45 min.
I can see Mandriva and I having a very long term abd satisfying relationship, sorry ubuntu, but youÂre only good for the latest compiz with spheres and cylinders;o)
Ecologically, from a global warming POV, having diesel *not* emit useless soot is absolutely catastrophic, as the carbon has to go somewhere. It's either soot, or carbon dioxide.
I still call bull on the claims, though...
Since/. seems to ignore my AC comments, here goes again...
When will you nerds get it into your heads that "global warming" is the biggest case of FUD since the cold war? They don't even call it "global-warming" any more, rather, it has become "climate-change" as if there is something wrong with climate changing or anything we can do about it.
Humans make less than 1% of all CO2 produced annually. Co2 constitutes less than 1% of atmospheric gases. You do the maths.
well IMO they should get of their fat lazy arses and learn what they are dealing with. Some users remind me of men who cannot change a car tyre...I mean c'mon fer forks sake!
Wonderful post!
Life etc may be rare, yes, but the universe is so fucking big that I would bet $ that we are not the only planet with "intelligent" life on board.
IF you RTFA then you'll find no mention of some freaking 'Huge' moon being necessary to life. While probably not necessary, it is probably helpful.
the most common thing I've heard quoted as that a large moon serves as an anchor for a planet, significantly reducing the amount of wobble in it's orbit. A wobble of less than 1 degrees can have serious climate impacts on Earth (the Sahara was once a jungle . ..), but we generally don't wobble much because of the moon anchoring us down. Other rocky planets like Mars or Venus wobble MUCH more, which would make climate conditions that would be difficult for life to spring up.
IIRC, one special that I saw suggested that while life might have formed in the absence of the Moon, it probably would have been confined to the oceans only.
WTF are you talking about? How does the moon "anchor" us down and what does it anchor us to? WTF is this wobble? If anything, the moon makes us wobble MORE since the earth/moon system revolves around the centre-of-mass of the system...
About which dimension/plane/axis or direction are we wobbling? Are you talking about precession or the eccentricity of the earths orbit?/. gibberish at its finest.
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Oh Noes! I have to install Linux myself? My god what next? Nuclear Armageddon??
My girlfriend can install Ubuntu *.** and she is a nurse by trade who uses her laptop 3x a week. Also there was someone who posted on /. that his 2yr old son could install ubuntu but not windows xp which he attributed to the fact that one must be able to *read* to install winxp but not ubuntu. Made me laugh because it's funny because it's true.
IMO kubuntu is a great choice for an arts student ;o)
But it's probably been that way for a very long time. I'd imagine that some illiterate peasant bog-farmer had more kids than, say, Sir Isaac Newton, for example.
Sir Isaac didn't have any kids. By all acounts, he was gay.
Not that there's anything wrong with that....
Men and women are different because of our genes.
I think you'll find it is because of the differences in chromosomes
Richard Stallman is a petty dictator who is afraid of competition.
I was pretty much with you until I read this. Stallman a dictator? Maybe a dictator wannabe, but not even close to the real thing.
IMO people do go overboard in describing anyone who knows what a computer is and what it does as "clever" or whatever and IMO a genius is someone who comes up with something that no-one had seen before (eg special relativity) not some prole who can fix a mac...sheesh
We know next to nothing (and in some cases, I'd bet we know EXACTLY nothing) about a great many of the universe's more detailed workings.
Thanks Captain Obvious but I think you're projecting there. All YOU can be sure of is that YOU know nothing and that the knowledge of others is beyond your knowledge. Humans understand a lot more than you realise and I can tell how little you realise by the tone of your post and it's inappropriate and overly simplistic analogies.
That's ridiculous. That's like saying an airline pilot knows about the latest top secret fighter plane designs.
What a ridiculous comparison. What the astronaut said and what you said bear no relation. Plenty of pilots have seen UFOs too and this includes one I have spoken to. He didn't report it as it is well known in the piloting trade that a UFO report will get you grounded with little chance of returning to the air.
It is *still* a made up fairytale
that is more important than whether a dozen copies of what amounts to an ancient version of LOTR match each other or not
Yes I'm sure you know better than an experienced businessman like Mark Shuttleworth, in fact I think he should quit and make you CEO of Canonical.
Maybe you're just not as competent as you think you are? And your rant doesn't explain how or why ubuntu works seamlessly for me, straight "out of the box" on a box I put together myself from swapped parts...it went like a dream - I could hardly believe my luck that it was free ;o) . I've even had some apple-fanboys/users drooling with jealousy over compiz-fusion and the desktop cube/sphere/cylinder
Doesn't Compiz make the distros just as resource hungry as Vista? Rendering a non-compiz comparison ... invalid?
No it doesn't. Also compiz works and looks a shitload better than Vista...
better looks for the same resource suckage? altho that is doubtful considering the machine i'm runnning it on now
looks like linux/compiz wins again...
making cube caps transparent is under cube transparency in the Desktop Cube plugin. By setting the cube transparency during mouse rotation it deals with the cube caps transparency as well.
put deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/compiz/ubuntu hardy main and deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/compiz/ubuntu hardy main in your sources list (sudo kate /etc/apt/sources.list) and update...this will install compiz 0.7.6 (look at the cube deformation and reflection plugin ;o)- awesome!) and fix all the bugs that came with the default compiz in K/Ubuntu 8.04
Have you tried Mandriva 2008.1 ? I have a Linux-resistant hp ze4315ap that didn't work well with any linux distro. It would work to a point but there would be a show-stopper with Debian3.1, openSUSE, Fedora and Mepis (usually the external wireless USB LAN connector) . Ubuntu would work but was a bit slow and cranky. I got Mandriva coz I don't like to give up ;o) and it fit like it was made for it. Even the basic compiz-fusion worked on the ATI 340M IGP that has been blacklisted in ubuntu heron.
So, if you want Linux on your lappy, keep trying as I'm sure you'll be able to get one sooner or later as it took me about 3 years ;o)
A properly configured Compiz Fusion and Emerald (with stuff like shadows and plugins like Group and Tab, Expo) coupled with Screenlets and Avant Window Navigator/Kiba-Dock and proper themes looks almost as good as a Mac if not better.
almost as good? Mac "eye candy" is shite compared to compiz-fusion, and windows is a macs dyslexic retarded cousin when it comes to desktop candy that is also useful. I run compiz 0.7.6 on hardy heron and everytime I go to use a windoze comp I get a nasty shock when I realise that it only has one desktop *shrieks* dude, seriously, compiz-fusion is light years ahead of any eye candy that the competition has to offer
try working in a female-dominated environment sometime. It is hell. Decisions take ages to get made and then get made poorly, volunteer projects start spring up like mushrooms on a turd, HR depts flourish and the quality and integrity of the organization generally goes to hell. Mind you I look forward to seeing the new colour-scheme for the space shuttle, as well as extra cargo space for chocolate and other feminine "needs"
yeah but it would reach a point of neutral buoyancy due to the density of the atmosphere decreasing exponentially with height...
History has shown time and time again that you are essentially correct...
Ubantu?
OMG ponies!! Another distro to try!! ;o)
But seriously, I was a rabid Ubuntu user until about 4 hours ago when I d/lÂd Mandriva 2008.1 and my heartiest congratulations go out to Adam Will and the team there for a top-notch distro.
IÂm typing this on my girlfriends hp pavilion ze4315ap which is 7 years old and is the most Linux resistant computer I have ever had the misfortune to use, even ubuntu just doesnÂt quite work right on it, ever. Mandriva on the other hand is working like an absolute fucking charm and I had it up and running, wireless net, browsers and email all configured in ~45 min.
I can see Mandriva and I having a very long term abd satisfying relationship, sorry ubuntu, but youÂre only good for the latest compiz with spheres and cylinders ;o)
Ecologically, from a global warming POV, having diesel *not* emit useless soot is absolutely catastrophic, as the carbon has to go somewhere. It's either soot, or carbon dioxide.
I still call bull on the claims, though...
Since /. seems to ignore my AC comments, here goes again...
When will you nerds get it into your heads that "global warming" is the biggest case of FUD since the cold war? They don't even call it "global-warming" any more, rather, it has become "climate-change" as if there is something wrong with climate changing or anything we can do about it.
Humans make less than 1% of all CO2 produced annually. Co2 constitutes less than 1% of atmospheric gases. You do the maths.
see http://www.climatescience.org.nz/ for more info.
well IMO they should get of their fat lazy arses and learn what they are dealing with. Some users remind me of men who cannot change a car tyre...I mean c'mon fer forks sake!
Wonderful post! Life etc may be rare, yes, but the universe is so fucking big that I would bet $ that we are not the only planet with "intelligent" life on board.
IIRC, one special that I saw suggested that while life might have formed in the absence of the Moon, it probably would have been confined to the oceans only.
WTF are you talking about? How does the moon "anchor" us down and what does it anchor us to? WTF is this wobble? If anything, the moon makes us wobble MORE since the earth/moon system revolves around the centre-of-mass of the system... About which dimension/plane/axis or direction are we wobbling? Are you talking about precession or the eccentricity of the earths orbit?that's just your dull and frivolous mind at work.