I've been using it a couple of months on a Dell Mini 9.
The upgrade was *flawless*. I've done enough bad Ubuntu upgrades that I find this remarkable, and very cheering. Ubuntu upgrades are notoriously terrible - particularly compared to how well Debian does - and I'm glad they appear to be paying more attention now.
Using it has been just fine and absolutely smooth. I'm using standard 10.10, not the netbook version - there's no reason not to IMO.
Two thumbs up! Four stars! Upgrade, er, tomorrow, when the servers aren't melting!
The ACCC are quite popular in Australia because they actually make companies behave.
They're the reason you can't enforce DVD region-locking in Australia, for example. (DVDs are still often sold region-locked, but players can play any region.)
"Assange leaked information that caused real-world consequences. Big consequences, like death and torture"
Citation needed. Even the Pentagon had to attach a "might possibly" to that claim. If you can actually back up that assertion, you'll be doing better than them.
They're heavily into creationism too. To the point where if a creationist says "we have scientists", they usually mean engineers. This is called the Salem Hypothesis.
The numbers are from Citizendium. The statistics are that it's dead, Jim - participation is at an all-time low. But maybe the charter will make everything good again. Maybe.
It's terribly sad, but Citizendium died some time ago. It has about 20 regulars left. Larry Sanger had to be phoned by one of the constables when he couldn't be found for three weeks and they needed him to approve holding a charter vote.
This thing takes an entire silicon wafer. Off the top of my head, I'd guess at least thousands of dollars per sufficiently defect-free 20cm x 20cm sensor. Though I suppose it depends on the resolution of the features on the sensor.
Because the Independent had space to fill, and it's August. Hence claiming that anonymous IPs on a talk page are "approved Wikipedia committee members," something that doesn't exist, and calling up Matthew Prichard to try to pump up the story. Another 500 words down.
The online encyclopedia Wikileaks stands accused of revealing the ending of The Mousetrap, recklessly endangering the income of Agatha Christie's descendants.
"My grandmother always got upset if the plots of her books or plays were revealed in reviews," said Matthew Prichard, who personally put in the years of hard-working effort one would expect it to take to accumulate the stream of income from the play when it was given to him as a ninth birthday present, "and I don't think that a site whose purpose is supplying encyclopedic information just going and supplying encyclopedic information is any different as far as my money is concerned. They should go and get real jobs, like decent working people. But it's not a question of money, or anything like that."
The article on The Mousetrap reveals that Vader is Luke's father, Rosebud was Kane's sled, Kristin shot J.R. and Snape in turn was killed by Barry Trotter. And something about a war in Afghanistan and shooting journalists.
The encyclopedia does, however, include a comprehensive spoiler warning, noting that they use the forward motion of a car to push it down, helping the tyres grip the road better — thus slowing it down, rather than speeding it up. Barryboys across east London pointed out the unreliability of Wikileaks as a source and questioned the veracity of the references.
The online encyclopedia Wikileaks stands accused of revealing the ending of The Mousetrap, recklessly endangering the income of Agatha Christie's descendants.
"My grandmother always got upset if the plots of her books or plays were revealed in reviews," said Matthew Prichard, who personally put in the years of hard-working effort one would expect it to take to accumulate the stream of income from the play when it was given to him as a ninth birthday present, "and I don't think that a site whose purpose is supplying encyclopedic information just going and supplying encyclopedic information is any different as far as my money is concerned. They should go and get real jobs, like decent working people. But it's not a question of money, or anything like that."
The article on The Mousetrap reveals that Vader is Luke's father, Rosebud was Kane's sled, Kristin shot J.R. and Snape in turn was killed by Barry Trotter. And something about a war in Afghanistan and shooting journalists.
The encyclopedia does, however, include a comprehensive spoiler warning, noting that they use the forward motion of a car to push it down, helping the tyres grip the road better — thus slowing it down, rather than speeding it up. Barryboys across east London pointed out the unreliability of Wikileaks as a source and questioned the veracity of the references.
YMMV. I have a habit of running Ubuntu alphas, which I submit gives one solid Debian sysadmin experience fixing broken systems;-)
XMMS is so... ten years ago. You know the thing that finally put me off XMMS? That it wrote absolute pathnames in.m3u files. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Actually, the main thing is the concept of a well-maintained repository. Debian's is of superlative quality, Ubuntu inherits that. It's not really apt itself. (Fink uses apt and its repo is really badly maintained; Fedora has a well-maintained repo meaning yum is highly usable in practice. YMMV, all software sucks.)
Watching the ports tree eat itself when I tried to upgrade Gaim in 2004 (when that was a classic example of Linux weenie software) was quite instructive as to ports' failure modes.
After that I installed Ubuntu on a laptop and found the ease of use of Synaptic in the GUI and apt-get on the command line haunting compared to faffing about with ports.
Not the question you asked, bu related: it's a lot easier to get current software into an apt repository than it appears to be in ports. The amount the FreeBSD ports' maintainers mess around with the software is frequently ridiculous. (Nearly as much as Debian's do, to be fair.)
Don't let me stop you using FreeBSD and ports all you like, of course. The important thing to remember is that all software sucks and this is really a matter of opinion.
"They could jump out of 1994 while they're at it and upgrade to a packaging system/package distribution architecture/anything more modern than what they're got while they're at it too, but that's probably too much to ask for."
This is part of why I moved from FreeBSD to Ubuntu. (The other half being my laptop at the time being supported by Linux but not FreeBSD.) I really hate sysadminning a Linux kernel, BSD is so much saner - but apt is so ridiculously good that BSD should adopt it yesterday. Of course, they won't.
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Obviously the answer is to move to a Dell Mini 9.
I've been using it a couple of months on a Dell Mini 9.
The upgrade was *flawless*. I've done enough bad Ubuntu upgrades that I find this remarkable, and very cheering. Ubuntu upgrades are notoriously terrible - particularly compared to how well Debian does - and I'm glad they appear to be paying more attention now.
Using it has been just fine and absolutely smooth. I'm using standard 10.10, not the netbook version - there's no reason not to IMO.
Two thumbs up! Four stars! Upgrade, er, tomorrow, when the servers aren't melting!
With the announcement email timestamped 11:10:10 BST, which is of course 10:10:10 UTC.
Trick they missed: not getting 808 State's 10x10 for the official theme tune.
I was wondering why I couldn't connect to gb.archive.ubuntu.org today ...
And they tend to come with a sheet on how to unlock them.
Mind you, they seem to have paid no attention to region-locking of computer DVD players.
The ACCC are quite popular in Australia because they actually make companies behave.
They're the reason you can't enforce DVD region-locking in Australia, for example. (DVDs are still often sold region-locked, but players can play any region.)
"Assange leaked information that caused real-world consequences. Big consequences, like death and torture"
Citation needed. Even the Pentagon had to attach a "might possibly" to that claim. If you can actually back up that assertion, you'll be doing better than them.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Engineers_and_woo
They're heavily into creationism too. To the point where if a creationist says "we have scientists", they usually mean engineers. This is called the Salem Hypothesis.
The numbers are from Citizendium. The statistics are that it's dead, Jim - participation is at an all-time low. But maybe the charter will make everything good again. Maybe.
Except it's dead, Jim. It failed and died. And the people that are left are pseudoscientists who convinced Dr Sanger they have credentials.
I would submit that judging by the results, CZ is not a good model to follow.
It's terribly sad, but Citizendium died some time ago. It has about 20 regulars left. Larry Sanger had to be phoned by one of the constables when he couldn't be found for three weeks and they needed him to approve holding a charter vote.
And "Dick In A Box". Timberlake's music is horrible, but the guy himself is brilliant and funny.
This thing takes an entire silicon wafer. Off the top of my head, I'd guess at least thousands of dollars per sufficiently defect-free 20cm x 20cm sensor. Though I suppose it depends on the resolution of the features on the sensor.
Because the Independent had space to fill, and it's August. Hence claiming that anonymous IPs on a talk page are "approved Wikipedia committee members," something that doesn't exist, and calling up Matthew Prichard to try to pump up the story. Another 500 words down.
The online encyclopedia Wikileaks stands accused of revealing the ending of The Mousetrap , recklessly endangering the income of Agatha Christie's descendants.
"My grandmother always got upset if the plots of her books or plays were revealed in reviews," said Matthew Prichard, who personally put in the years of hard-working effort one would expect it to take to accumulate the stream of income from the play when it was given to him as a ninth birthday present, "and I don't think that a site whose purpose is supplying encyclopedic information just going and supplying encyclopedic information is any different as far as my money is concerned. They should go and get real jobs, like decent working people. But it's not a question of money, or anything like that."
The article on The Mousetrap reveals that Vader is Luke's father, Rosebud was Kane's sled, Kristin shot J.R. and Snape in turn was killed by Barry Trotter. And something about a war in Afghanistan and shooting journalists.
The encyclopedia does, however, include a comprehensive spoiler warning, noting that they use the forward motion of a car to push it down, helping the tyres grip the road better — thus slowing it down, rather than speeding it up. Barryboys across east London pointed out the unreliability of Wikileaks as a source and questioned the veracity of the references.
(on the right article this time)
b*gger, wrong article! Sorry about that.
The online encyclopedia Wikileaks stands accused of revealing the ending of The Mousetrap , recklessly endangering the income of Agatha Christie's descendants.
"My grandmother always got upset if the plots of her books or plays were revealed in reviews," said Matthew Prichard, who personally put in the years of hard-working effort one would expect it to take to accumulate the stream of income from the play when it was given to him as a ninth birthday present, "and I don't think that a site whose purpose is supplying encyclopedic information just going and supplying encyclopedic information is any different as far as my money is concerned. They should go and get real jobs, like decent working people. But it's not a question of money, or anything like that."
The article on The Mousetrap reveals that Vader is Luke's father, Rosebud was Kane's sled, Kristin shot J.R. and Snape in turn was killed by Barry Trotter. And something about a war in Afghanistan and shooting journalists.
The encyclopedia does, however, include a comprehensive spoiler warning, noting that they use the forward motion of a car to push it down, helping the tyres grip the road better — thus slowing it down, rather than speeding it up. Barryboys across east London pointed out the unreliability of Wikileaks as a source and questioned the veracity of the references.
No idea! Never had to unfuck a broken RH/Fedora this decade ...
YMMV. I have a habit of running Ubuntu alphas, which I submit gives one solid Debian sysadmin experience fixing broken systems ;-)
XMMS is so ... ten years ago. You know the thing that finally put me off XMMS? That it wrote absolute pathnames in .m3u files. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Actually, the main thing is the concept of a well-maintained repository. Debian's is of superlative quality, Ubuntu inherits that. It's not really apt itself. (Fink uses apt and its repo is really badly maintained; Fedora has a well-maintained repo meaning yum is highly usable in practice. YMMV, all software sucks.)
Watching the ports tree eat itself when I tried to upgrade Gaim in 2004 (when that was a classic example of Linux weenie software) was quite instructive as to ports' failure modes.
After that I installed Ubuntu on a laptop and found the ease of use of Synaptic in the GUI and apt-get on the command line haunting compared to faffing about with ports.
Not the question you asked, bu related: it's a lot easier to get current software into an apt repository than it appears to be in ports. The amount the FreeBSD ports' maintainers mess around with the software is frequently ridiculous. (Nearly as much as Debian's do, to be fair.)
Don't let me stop you using FreeBSD and ports all you like, of course. The important thing to remember is that all software sucks and this is really a matter of opinion.
"In a previous job I once got change control approval to clad my entire building in two foot thick lead to prevent ram parity errors."
And you didn't go through with it? A schoolboy error!
Most recruiters are a waste of time, but the good ones are fantastic. All my best jobs have come through recruiters.
That said, remember that the company is their customer; you are the slice of beef product.
Speaking as someone who's used both - and fixed both when they ate themselves - apt knocks ports into a cocked hat.
"They could jump out of 1994 while they're at it and upgrade to a packaging system/package distribution architecture/anything more modern than what they're got while they're at it too, but that's probably too much to ask for."
This is part of why I moved from FreeBSD to Ubuntu. (The other half being my laptop at the time being supported by Linux but not FreeBSD.) I really hate sysadminning a Linux kernel, BSD is so much saner - but apt is so ridiculously good that BSD should adopt it yesterday. Of course, they won't.