Gnome and Ubuntu Unity have removed the linux edge of customizability.
I've been customizing linux desktops for over 15 years now, and i'm sick of it!
Back in the mid-90s, you had no choice but to customize almost everything in a linux system, as the defaults were skeletal. But, gradually, over the years, more and more usable defaults were built in to distros - which has been a very good thing.
With virtually nothing i can waste hours customizing now, i can just adapt to what's there and spend that time doing productive work (or, more likely, unproductive procrastination, like this!).
Get used to it. It's the way it's been going forever!
If it were me, and I only had 3 minutes left, I'd grab a pen from my pocket and carve into my shoulder "4-8-15-16-23-42" to send a message to my family that 'even if the ending sucked, at least I will find happiness in purgatory.'
I'm sure the sharks that ate your body would have been impressed by your ingenuity and would have passed the message on to your family.
Interesting. I wonder if it reports 20.21 bogomips regardless...
Off-topic's often generally the way to go on/., isn't it? I kinda feel that this is the way this ui stuff is all inevitably going to go and it's better to get used to it now than resist it, because you'll be using something like it sooner or later anyway. And i'm of the early adopter sort of inclination - even though it's always more hassle in some ways there are always benefits too. And if you evolve with it, you're in a better position in the long run. KDE will go a similar way soon enough, so don't get too attached to it the way it is!;-)
RPM's not that bad. Just make sure you install yumex! It's not as good as synaptic, but not that far off nowadays - just a bit clunky!
Hmmm... Maybe that explains why your (obviously much more powerful) laptop gets the same virtual processor speed as my puny netbook! Win 7 + FF? Or maybe that's just what this VM reports no matter what...
Try Fedora 15. They've gone with Gnome 3, which freaked me out a bit at first, but i can live with it - and i know it's the way things are going so there's no point resisting, plus it will get better over the next few months no doubt.
Yeah, that seems to be true. It's mainly fear that causes people to think like that. It ought to be curable, in the way phobias are. But you have to want to cure a phobia, and those people don't want to cure their fear - they don't even realise they suffer from it.
It's mindboggling. And i'm very glad i don't have to live in that country. But surely there are still enough rational people in the US to put up a reasonable battle against the loonies? Or have all the sane people given up and retreated into apathy?
It's bizarre that the US is trying to fight off the middle ages and loopy religious fundamentalism in Afghanistan, but is so eagerly rushing to it at home!
Thank [insert name of imaginary friend] we don't have that sort of barking mad fundamenatlism in Australia!
I started working as a programmer over 30 years ago and i don't agree. It's no longer necessary to know what's going on in the guts of the machine, but there's a phenomenal amount more higher level stuff you have to know. It's not much different really - except the internet's made it a lot easier to share ideas and knowledge.
$50/month for 5Gb? GTFO! That sounds cheap! I live in.au though.
I get 3GB for $50 a month on Telstra prepaid - and, with their cap option, that includes 400 and something dollars worth of calls and texts too. Not quite as good as 5GB, maybe, but it does me most months. For some reason, this month i ended up with about 6GB and $900 worth of calls for $50. I don't know if they fucked up or if they just like me.
But only as toxic as salt, of course - which is also a preservative. Their preservative action derives from osmosis. Like eating lots of salt, eating lots of sugar won't do you very much good - but the damage they do probably depends on how much water you drink.
Sugar is definitely toxic in high concentrations for some organisms - that's why it's used as a preservative. High concentrations of sugar kill many bacteria.
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Sugar's not really food. It's a drug. The first drug of addiction for most people on the planet.
Just the usual bullshit from Schneier! I read New Scientist every week and i know they know very little about networking and are even less capable of writing coherently about it. It's a good magazine, but the journalism very often sucks. Of course Schneier's silly enough to quote their misconceptions.
[......] here in the UK. Too many people are on ADSL connections that are effectively tunneled to london.
Which is mostly relatively close to where they are (although not close enough to be significant). In Australia, ADSL connections can be tunneled to routers thousands of kilometres away.
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Gnome and Ubuntu Unity have removed the linux edge of customizability.
I've been customizing linux desktops for over 15 years now, and i'm sick of it!
Back in the mid-90s, you had no choice but to customize almost everything in a linux system, as the defaults were skeletal. But, gradually, over the years, more and more usable defaults were built in to distros - which has been a very good thing.
With virtually nothing i can waste hours customizing now, i can just adapt to what's there and spend that time doing productive work (or, more likely, unproductive procrastination, like this!).
Get used to it. It's the way it's been going forever!
I've been using an HTC Desire for nearly a year now and i've had no problems with it. I'd certainly buy an HTC phone again.
If it were me, and I only had 3 minutes left, I'd grab a pen from my pocket and carve into my shoulder "4-8-15-16-23-42" to send a message to my family that 'even if the ending sucked, at least I will find happiness in purgatory.'
I'm sure the sharks that ate your body would have been impressed by your ingenuity and would have passed the message on to your family.
is there a option to update over the Internet yet?
Yes, you can do an online upgrade. I haven't tried it though.
So you haven't used it, and know nothinpg about it, but still feel the need to comment???
Interesting. I wonder if it reports 20.21 bogomips regardless...
Off-topic's often generally the way to go on /., isn't it? I kinda feel that this is the way this ui stuff is all inevitably going to go and it's better to get used to it now than resist it, because you'll be using something like it sooner or later anyway. And i'm of the early adopter sort of inclination - even though it's always more hassle in some ways there are always benefits too. And if you evolve with it, you're in a better position in the long run. KDE will go a similar way soon enough, so don't get too attached to it the way it is! ;-)
RPM's not that bad. Just make sure you install yumex! It's not as good as synaptic, but not that far off nowadays - just a bit clunky!
guys, guys... it's Java remember.
No it's not, it's JavaScript - which is totally unrelated to Java!
Hmmm... Maybe that explains why your (obviously much more powerful) laptop gets the same virtual processor speed as my puny netbook! Win 7 + FF? Or maybe that's just what this VM reports no matter what...
Try Fedora 15. They've gone with Gnome 3, which freaked me out a bit at first, but i can live with it - and i know it's the way things are going so there's no point resisting, plus it will get better over the next few months no doubt.
bogomips : 20.21
Interesting. It's 20.21 bogomips on my system too - chrome on a linux netbook. What are you running it on?
20.21 bogomips in Chrome 11.0.696.68 on my Samsung N140 netbook running Fedora 15 Linux.
I think "u" should head back to highschool English.
Highschool Dutch might be more appropriate!
Yeah, that seems to be true. It's mainly fear that causes people to think like that. It ought to be curable, in the way phobias are. But you have to want to cure a phobia, and those people don't want to cure their fear - they don't even realise they suffer from it.
Where's the like button on this goddam site???
It's mindboggling. And i'm very glad i don't have to live in that country. But surely there are still enough rational people in the US to put up a reasonable battle against the loonies? Or have all the sane people given up and retreated into apathy?
It's bizarre that the US is trying to fight off the middle ages and loopy religious fundamentalism in Afghanistan, but is so eagerly rushing to it at home!
Thank [insert name of imaginary friend] we don't have that sort of barking mad fundamenatlism in Australia!
I started working as a programmer over 30 years ago and i don't agree. It's no longer necessary to know what's going on in the guts of the machine, but there's a phenomenal amount more higher level stuff you have to know. It's not much different really - except the internet's made it a lot easier to share ideas and knowledge.
I don't know why every industry thinks it's better to put complete morons in charge of more and more complicated processes..
Because complete morons are considerably cheaper than experts. And you don't have to put much effort into hiring them.
$50/month for 5Gb? GTFO! That sounds cheap! I live in .au though.
I get 3GB for $50 a month on Telstra prepaid - and, with their cap option, that includes 400 and something dollars worth of calls and texts too. Not quite as good as 5GB, maybe, but it does me most months. For some reason, this month i ended up with about 6GB and $900 worth of calls for $50. I don't know if they fucked up or if they just like me.
Vitamins are more dangerous than sugar at the same quantities.
Arsenic's more dangerous cyanide at the same quantities, but that doesn't mean cyanide's not dangerous.
[......] are you saying that crystallizing the sugars from it somehow makes sugar molecules poisonous?
Concentrating it certainly makes it more hazardous.
But only as toxic as salt, of course - which is also a preservative. Their preservative action derives from osmosis. Like eating lots of salt, eating lots of sugar won't do you very much good - but the damage they do probably depends on how much water you drink.
Sugar is definitely toxic in high concentrations for some organisms - that's why it's used as a preservative. High concentrations of sugar kill many bacteria.
Sugar's not really food. It's a drug. The first drug of addiction for most people on the planet.
Just the usual bullshit from Schneier! I read New Scientist every week and i know they know very little about networking and are even less capable of writing coherently about it. It's a good magazine, but the journalism very often sucks. Of course Schneier's silly enough to quote their misconceptions.
[......] here in the UK. Too many people are on ADSL connections that are effectively tunneled to london.
Which is mostly relatively close to where they are (although not close enough to be significant). In Australia, ADSL connections can be tunneled to routers thousands of kilometres away.