I can do a vast amount of things now, using Gnome, that i could never do when i used FVWM - although i'm not sure what's Gnome, strictly speaking, and what's metacity, nautilus, or whatever. But, as far as i remember, the main difference between FVWM and Gnome was that with FVWM i used to have to manually edit configuration files, rather than just, for example, right click on the panel and add something from a menu.
Linux is not a desktop operating environment, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise (such as myself, two years ago, before I wised up).
I've been using Linux as a desktop o/s for 15 years now. I've also used Windows at various times over that period - and there's never been a time when i preferred using Windows as a desktop environment over Linux.
The clock starts ticking when you're born. Just because you're young doesn't mean you won't be dead tomorrow.
If you could do anything you wanted, but were sure to die in a decade or two, would you really spend time programming computers?
Yes - and particularly so as i got older. The worst thing you can do when you're getting old is let your brain turn to mush. Programming keeps the neural pathways clear.
I'm running Fedora 11 on my Samsung N140 netbook and it wakes from suspend almost instantly. I can't see any reason to shut down and reboot when the battery will last quite a few days in suspend. With 2GB RAM, apps start and run nearly as fast as they do on my Core 2 Duo Thinkpad.
That probably depends a lot on which netbook it is. I just got a Samsung N140 and installed Fedora 11 on it and increased the RAM to 2GB. For most things i use it for (including web development, apache and mysql, and running XP in a virtual machine), it's not noticeably much slower than my Core 2 duo Thinkpad with 4GB RAM.
Right, because so many people have issues where Windows breaks on their hardware. So few companies publish Windows drivers for their products these days.
Windows 7's barely out and you've forgotten Vista already!
Can you sit in a room for hours, just watching boring TV, and tolerate one another's annoying quirks? If you can then you can build a marriage that will last forever (or at least 'til death).
If sit in a room for hours watching boring TV, it will feel like it's lasted for ever, even if it doesn't!
3. Cell phone company employee or maybe even a shopper copies down the numbers on the outside of a phone's box and uses that to clone the phone. I'm not sure if those numbers are sufficient to impersonate the phone, or if it has some private key of some kind hidden inside.
If the "numbers" you're talking about are the IMEI (International Mobile Eqipment Identifier), then yes, that's all you need to impersonate a phone. I'm not sure about anywhere else, but in Australia it's illegal to change a phone's IMEI - but it's trivial to do it with most (all?) phones.
That's interesting. I think in Britain the preferred form of anything is to put an apostrophe anywhere it can possibly be put and drop any syllables that can possibly be dropped.
It seems the version with the final 's' is more modern than the version without it. Considering their efforts to update the language, it's perhaps not entirely surprising that the Americans prefer the more modern form.
There doesn't seem to be any hard and fast rules about anything in British english!;-)
In Fowler's Modern English Usage, which is generally considered to be the bible of english usage by UK journalists and writers, there's an article called "Possessive Puzzles". In that, he says it was "formerly customary" to drop the last 's', but not any more.
If it was formerly customary in Fowler's day, i reckon it must be well and truly archaic now.
Exactly. Microwaves are allowed leak up to 5 mW/cm2 at 5 cm according to the FCC. Half that leakage (2.5mW/cm2), is almost exactly the same output as a typical wi-fi access point.
Yet if he does use a microwave oven, and you were to point this out to him, he would quickly declare that the WiFi transmissions must have some additional quality that makes them "bad" as compared to microwave oven radiation.
Whether it makes them "bad" or not, wifi transmissions do have some additional quality that microwaves don't - the RF radiation is modulated.
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I can do a vast amount of things now, using Gnome, that i could never do when i used FVWM - although i'm not sure what's Gnome, strictly speaking, and what's metacity, nautilus, or whatever. But, as far as i remember, the main difference between FVWM and Gnome was that with FVWM i used to have to manually edit configuration files, rather than just, for example, right click on the panel and add something from a menu.
Are you still using a 486?
What do you do with fvwm that you can't do with gnome? I used fvwm for quite a few years from about 15 years ago, and i can't say i miss it.
I've been using Linux as a desktop o/s for 15 years now. I've also used Windows at various times over that period - and there's never been a time when i preferred using Windows as a desktop environment over Linux.
[......] as publishers of news and music are saying while they struggle to stay afloat in the digital age.
Publishers of music aren't struggling to stay afloat - they're raking it in as fast as ever. They're just whining cos they want even more.
The man's 60, and the clock is ticking.
The clock starts ticking when you're born. Just because you're young doesn't mean you won't be dead tomorrow.
If you could do anything you wanted, but were sure to die in a decade or two, would you really spend time programming computers?
Yes - and particularly so as i got older. The worst thing you can do when you're getting old is let your brain turn to mush. Programming keeps the neural pathways clear.
In the UK at least, the Sale of Goods Act would disagree with that statement.
As would the fair trading laws in most (all?) Australian states and territories.
I'm running Fedora 11 on my Samsung N140 netbook and it wakes from suspend almost instantly. I can't see any reason to shut down and reboot when the battery will last quite a few days in suspend. With 2GB RAM, apps start and run nearly as fast as they do on my Core 2 Duo Thinkpad.
Why can't you?
That probably depends a lot on which netbook it is. I just got a Samsung N140 and installed Fedora 11 on it and increased the RAM to 2GB. For most things i use it for (including web development, apache and mysql, and running XP in a virtual machine), it's not noticeably much slower than my Core 2 duo Thinkpad with 4GB RAM.
Right, because so many people have issues where Windows breaks on their hardware. So few companies publish Windows drivers for their products these days.
Windows 7's barely out and you've forgotten Vista already!
The same way as we distinguish bark (as in dogs) from bark (as in trees).
It's very hard to really be sure about spelling - as US spelling sort of leaks into everything else - but, i'm fairly sure, yeah.
I guess that's the difference between US English and UK/Australian English. We spell it "silicon".
If sit in a room for hours watching boring TV, it will feel like it's lasted for ever, even if it doesn't!
I agree. Silicon tits are disgusting. I can't see the attraction at all. Anyway, more than a handful is a waste!
If the "numbers" you're talking about are the IMEI (International Mobile Eqipment Identifier), then yes, that's all you need to impersonate a phone. I'm not sure about anywhere else, but in Australia it's illegal to change a phone's IMEI - but it's trivial to do it with most (all?) phones.
Probably more accurately: atheists believe there isn't a god and agnostics don't care whether there's a god or not.
Yeah, that's what Fowler reckons, too.
That's interesting. I think in Britain the preferred form of anything is to put an apostrophe anywhere it can possibly be put and drop any syllables that can possibly be dropped.
It seems the version with the final 's' is more modern than the version without it. Considering their efforts to update the language, it's perhaps not entirely surprising that the Americans prefer the more modern form.
There doesn't seem to be any hard and fast rules about anything in British english! ;-)
In Fowler's Modern English Usage, which is generally considered to be the bible of english usage by UK journalists and writers, there's an article called "Possessive Puzzles". In that, he says it was "formerly customary" to drop the last 's', but not any more.
If it was formerly customary in Fowler's day, i reckon it must be well and truly archaic now.
No, it's not - but you're wrong. :"Linus's" is correct. The 's' after the apostrophe only gets dropped in plurals.
Maybe, maybe not. The RF radiated by a microwave oven isn't modulated, so you're not comparing like with like.
But it's not modulated like signal is.
Whether it makes them "bad" or not, wifi transmissions do have some additional quality that microwaves don't - the RF radiation is modulated.