Biggest annoyance for me on the linux desktop is the way Nautilus doesn't support windows style UNC paths or network mounts. If a colleague sends me a link to a file on our shared drive ('s:\filename.txt') I have to translate that into a pathname that nautilus understands. That, and there's no Mozy client.
Well that's just a bad way of transferring file links. There is no guarantee that you have mounted the network drive in Windows on the same drive-letter. Still, Nautilus is open source. So fix it yourself/Ask the geeky kid next door to fix it.
Yes you can. Don't forget the sun still has an enormous gravity, many times stronger than its radiation pressure. If you decrease your orbital speed by aiming you sail a bit off, your orbital speed decreases and you'll slowly spiral into the sun.
It's somewhere in the Wikipedia article about solar sails under 'Limitations'
The overall user experience sucks at best. Go ahead and flame me.
Allright I will. I'm surprised you people still exist and even more surprised you still dare posting such nonsense on/.. The user experience of the desktop-geared distributions matches OS X and even transcends it a lot of times.
And saying it's hard to install makes no sense. OS X is preinstalled and can only be installed on a very, very limited number of computers. You can't just compare them. OS X is not 'better' at installing, it's just out of category. And Linux still does a lot better than Windows in terms of hardware compatibility.
That's the easy part. A couple of electric and magnetic fields and it'll work out.
The hard part is creating the antimatter. By the way, for warp drives we need something more exotic than antimatter. Matter with negative mass or something.
I hope my grandkids can one day go outside to take a spin around Mars with their solar sails. Still, the idea of a science-fiction object being realized in the real world is mighty interesting. Maybe tomorrow they will think about warp drives.
I'm don't care at all about 100 or 10,000 or maybe even 100,000 cells. I realize they have the spark of human life, but still I think it's unreasonable and hypocrite to be so protective about embryos. I'm a vegetarian, because I value a living, breathing, eating, (thinking?) creature more than a squishy thing that won't even fit on my little pinkies nail.
Open Flash. Well, in any case, me (and the average desktop user) cares more about it than some content management system. Come to think of it, can't we smuggle something into the project that'll send us the sources we need?
I played most of the games he writes about and I get the MGS references and about the other games I didn't play.Still, after a while the rape jokes became old.
And what's so funny about everybody from Phoenix Wright getting boobs? Or Altair spiking himself with his pointy thingie? Or Miyamoto beating his wife/mama/whatever. Or a Portal Turret killing a baby It might be my inferior intellect but I just don't get what's so funny about them.
I heard the jokes that are good months before he made them. Just because they are so predictable
No we've been cooling down since the Little Ice Age. We've been warming up since the '50's and a lot more than should be excepted if the Earth took it's natural course.
Not really. I don't know about pre-Christ temperatures, but the last 2 millenia, Earth has been cooling down. I live in Belgium and there used to be a vineyard close to where I live in the Middle-Ages. Nowadays that completely impossible. Man is trying to reverse that trend.
Also, every climate change that happened the last 10,000 years has been very, very slow and minuscule in comparison to the 0.7 degrees we did in only one century. But the question is not who is right, the question is: what are we going to do about it. Regardless if it's our fault or just natural, our society can't take any climate changes. We need to reverse any changes happening until we are able to cope them. And everything is making clear that greenhouse gases heat up our planet waaaay faster than it should.
I would translate "Voorwerp" as "Object". It's weird. That thing, whatever it might be, is probably quadrillions times bigger than our Earth, it's looking at us, and we have no idea what it is. I for one welcome our new Voorwerp-overlords.
There is a lot to be said about global warming. Some say it's nature, some say it's not that bad, some say it is our fault, others say it's our fault but a good thing.
But what EVERYBODY can agree about is that the average temperature of the Earth has risen 0.74C the last hundred years.
There is no denying that. You might be one of those dimwits that say it's a natural or good thing, but the Earth is warming up.
Brace yourself. Your ignorance is not going to help you when society and our climate collapses.
I'm sorry, it sounded a bit too harsh.
I still read them because for some reason when I read some, I must see the next ones. I just don't have the courage.
Here on Slashdot I view all the comments Raw and Uncut, because I'm so curious I'm always clicking them open.
Except for VGCats, I don't read any really bad webcomic.
Offence is not the best defence, defence isn't either.
The only way to stop this is by stopping killing people.
Some may call me naive, but the truth is: they're naive. They think this can be solved by killing people. By doing what we did for 8000 years. Because it helped all those years...
Oh no, you got me again. Now I have to make a new account. Just great, now that I have one with a prime ID. I'll sou you with my 1-Click Sue technology.
I'm pretty sure you're not the first one to propose that. I think GoboLinux does something like that.
But the obvious problems don't outweigh the benefits. You'll have to redesign all programs and it'll make so much things so much harder to work with.
Uhm, yes it is. More and more people realize you can get an equivalent or more likely a better desktop experience from Linux.
But Apple is in contrast to Microsoft ruled by intelligent people that understand technology so I'm sure they'll back up.
So they've finally decided to go 64 eh?
That makes them the latest mainstream OS to do that.
Although they an still become the second successful 64 OS, if you see what Windows has done.
Here in Belgium and other European countries, bandwidth is not throttled but capped.
I can Bittorrent as much as I want, but I fall back to 1-3 kB/s as soon as I hit the 100 gigabyte barrier.
This system is waaaay less underhand or hypocrite.
FYI, I'm at 30.7 GB this month. It resets the day after tomorrow.
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Biggest annoyance for me on the linux desktop is the way Nautilus doesn't support windows style UNC paths or network mounts. If a colleague sends me a link to a file on our shared drive ('s:\filename.txt') I have to translate that into a pathname that nautilus understands. That, and there's no Mozy client.
Well that's just a bad way of transferring file links. There is no guarantee that you have mounted the network drive in Windows on the same drive-letter. Still, Nautilus is open source. So fix it yourself/Ask the geeky kid next door to fix it.
Yes you can. Don't forget the sun still has an enormous gravity, many times stronger than its radiation pressure. If you decrease your orbital speed by aiming you sail a bit off, your orbital speed decreases and you'll slowly spiral into the sun.
It's somewhere in the Wikipedia article about solar sails under 'Limitations'
The overall user experience sucks at best. Go ahead and flame me.
Allright I will. I'm surprised you people still exist and even more surprised you still dare posting such nonsense on /. .
The user experience of the desktop-geared distributions matches OS X and even transcends it a lot of times.
And saying it's hard to install makes no sense. OS X is preinstalled and can only be installed on a very, very limited number of computers. You can't just compare them. OS X is not 'better' at installing, it's just out of category. And Linux still does a lot better than Windows in terms of hardware compatibility.
That's the easy part. A couple of electric and magnetic fields and it'll work out.
The hard part is creating the antimatter. By the way, for warp drives we need something more exotic than antimatter. Matter with negative mass or something.
I hope my grandkids can one day go outside to take a spin around Mars with their solar sails.
Still, the idea of a science-fiction object being realized in the real world is mighty interesting.
Maybe tomorrow they will think about warp drives.
I'm don't care at all about 100 or 10,000 or maybe even 100,000 cells. I realize they have the spark of human life, but still I think it's unreasonable and hypocrite to be so protective about embryos.
I'm a vegetarian, because I value a living, breathing, eating, (thinking?) creature more than a squishy thing that won't even fit on my little pinkies nail.
you know what'll really help open source?
Open Flash.
Well, in any case, me (and the average desktop user) cares more about it than some content management system.
Come to think of it, can't we smuggle something into the project that'll send us the sources we need?
Seriously, thank you.I'm sure this will help FOSS in the enterprises and industries.
(Nobody ever does that here)
I played most of the games he writes about and I get the MGS references and about the other games I didn't play.Still, after a while the rape jokes became old.
And what's so funny about everybody from Phoenix Wright getting boobs?
Or Altair spiking himself with his pointy thingie?
Or Miyamoto beating his wife/mama/whatever.
Or a Portal Turret killing a baby
It might be my inferior intellect but I just don't get what's so funny about them.
I heard the jokes that are good months before he made them. Just because they are so predictable
No we've been cooling down since the Little Ice Age. We've been warming up since the '50's and a lot more than should be excepted if the Earth took it's natural course.
Don't you know Al Gore received a Nobel Prize?
All scientists are screaming with all the power they have: "It is happening and it is our fault."
You can try and go against the stream of common sense. But don't be upset if you're ignored or ridiculed by intelligent people.
Not really. I don't know about pre-Christ temperatures, but the last 2 millenia, Earth has been cooling down.
I live in Belgium and there used to be a vineyard close to where I live in the Middle-Ages. Nowadays that completely impossible. Man is trying to reverse that trend.
Also, every climate change that happened the last 10,000 years has been very, very slow and minuscule in comparison to the 0.7 degrees we did in only one century.
But the question is not who is right, the question is: what are we going to do about it. Regardless if it's our fault or just natural, our society can't take any climate changes. We need to reverse any changes happening until we are able to cope them.
And everything is making clear that greenhouse gases heat up our planet waaaay faster than it should.
W00t! Another one bites the dust!
I would translate "Voorwerp" as "Object".
It's weird. That thing, whatever it might be, is probably quadrillions times bigger than our Earth, it's looking at us, and we have no idea what it is.
I for one welcome our new Voorwerp-overlords.
There is a lot to be said about global warming. Some say it's nature, some say it's not that bad, some say it is our fault, others say it's our fault but a good thing.
But what EVERYBODY can agree about is that the average temperature of the Earth has risen 0.74C the last hundred years.
There is no denying that. You might be one of those dimwits that say it's a natural or good thing, but the Earth is warming up.
Brace yourself. Your ignorance is not going to help you when society and our climate collapses.
Nobody wants to do that of course, but can't they technically be trialed for this?
Willfully excluding a competitors product is not so nice. [/naive]
I guess Microsoft is still Microsoft. Will they ever change?
I'm sorry, it sounded a bit too harsh. I still read them because for some reason when I read some, I must see the next ones. I just don't have the courage. Here on Slashdot I view all the comments Raw and Uncut, because I'm so curious I'm always clicking them open. Except for VGCats, I don't read any really bad webcomic.
Offence is not the best defence, defence isn't either. The only way to stop this is by stopping killing people.
Some may call me naive, but the truth is: they're naive. They think this can be solved by killing people. By doing what we did for 8000 years. Because it helped all those years...
*Ctrl-Alt-Delete
http://www.cad-comic.com/rss/rss.xml
Stupid webcomic
*Looking for Group
http://feeds.feedburner.com/LookingForGroup?format=xml
Webcomic.
*Least I Could Do
http://feeds.feedburner.com/LICD?format=xml
Webcomic.
*Linux Kernel
http://www.kernel.org/kdist/rss.xml
(no explanation)
*NationStates
http://69.60.14.82/cgi-bin/rss.cgi?nation=windhelm
A sort of game where you have to govern a nation. I develops based on the laws you vote.
*Questionable Content
http://www.questionablecontent.net/QCRSS.xml
Webcomic
*The Book of Biff
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheBookOfBiff
Webcomic
*The Perry Bible Fellowship
http://pbfcomics.com/feed/feed.xml
Webcomic (not updated i a looong time)
*VG Cats
http://www.vgcats.com/vgcats.rdf.xml
Stupid and bad webcomic
*xkcd
http://www.xkcd.com/rss.xml
FANTASTIC webcomic
*Linux Journal
http://feeds.feedburner.com/linuxjournalcom
I dunno why it's in there. I like the articles
*Slashdot
http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot
I guess that's about it. I'm going to delete a couple of webcomics though. Some are just too awful.
Well it's more the opposite. And who can blame me for not trusting them. It's still Microsoft.
Oh no, you got me again. Now I have to make a new account. Just great, now that I have one with a prime ID. I'll sou you with my 1-Click Sue technology.
I declare these planets property of mine . Anybody trespassing on these planets will be orbitally bombarded.
I'm pretty sure you're not the first one to propose that. I think GoboLinux does something like that. But the obvious problems don't outweigh the benefits. You'll have to redesign all programs and it'll make so much things so much harder to work with.
Uhm, yes it is. More and more people realize you can get an equivalent or more likely a better desktop experience from Linux. But Apple is in contrast to Microsoft ruled by intelligent people that understand technology so I'm sure they'll back up.
So they've finally decided to go 64 eh? That makes them the latest mainstream OS to do that. Although they an still become the second successful 64 OS, if you see what Windows has done.
Here in Belgium and other European countries, bandwidth is not throttled but capped. I can Bittorrent as much as I want, but I fall back to 1-3 kB/s as soon as I hit the 100 gigabyte barrier. This system is waaaay less underhand or hypocrite. FYI, I'm at 30.7 GB this month. It resets the day after tomorrow.