CM9 just took sooo long. In fact the final release isn't out yet.
I just couldn't resist and put Jellybean on my Galaxy Nexus. But CyanogenMod still has a few features that are not incorporated into plain Android, nor are there apps for them. Not that I could find anyway. For example I want the battery in the status bar to show a percent number (there are apps that add that, but IN ADDITION to the regular battery), and I/love/ the Volume-Button-Long-Press-Skips-Tracks. Very very very useful while jogging. Oh and the power widgets in the pull-down, way better than the Power Control Widget.
CM9 took so long because they had to start from scratch. They are saying that CM10 should not be NEARLY as big a deal, so here's hoping!
I have never been obese, but I did abuse my body with sugary treats which is likely what lead to me having type 2 diabetes. I tried meds and frankly they just made things worse (the closest I came to obese was directly because of diabetes meds). So I tried diet and exercise. And it works for me. First, my glucose level NEVER hits 500 anymore, and if I go run a few miles every day and don't eat a hell of a lot of carbs, it stays at very normal levels. As a side-effect I'm also in the best physical shape I've been in my entire life.
But that's not a cure, that's treatment. If I ate a kit kat right this minute, my glucose level would spike to ~180 and stay there for hours. I can't ever eat a big bowl of pasta, or make an awesome grilled cheese sandwich (well I can make it, but I can't eat it).
Doctors tell me (once they're stopped being shocked that my a1c level is well below 7) that yeah this treatment is working now, but statistically it gets a LOT harder to manage using diet and exercise as you age. And realistically, I won't be able to maintain this level of physical activity forever, so SOMEONE CURE THIS DAMN THING ALREADY. By now I have the discipline to get a lot of exercise and not eat a ton of junk food, but hell, it's 90 degrees today, I'd love to pick up a fruit smoothie on the way back from the park.
People are buying phones like mad. RIM didn't keep up with the times - they figured they've got Business Users all tied up, and why would business users want a shiny new iPhone? Well, at ${LARGE_COMPANY} where I work, us peons have been asking for iPhones forever and been told no, never gonna happen. Then the managers started wanting them, and the rest is history.
That... uh... so you're tricking the phone into thinking it's seeing you by showing you a picture of yourself which I assume looks like you?... it's not exactly supposed to be doing a retina scan.
You can run jpeginfo -c. I have a script that runs against a directory and makes a list for when I do data recovery for all my friends who don't listen when I tell them their 10 year old laptop may be dying soon.
The sad thing is, as someone who's used and created sharepoint sites, I'm pretty sure that it doesn't work great without seeing any proof. Maybe it works great for a sharepoint site, but that's like saying my refrigerator is a pretty good family sedan, for a refrigerator.
I'm not claiming the parent comment (or, for that matter, this port) are in any way worthwhile, but sharepoint DOES evoke these feelings on occasion. The amount of voodoo required to get it to work the way you want it, and the ease with which someone can destroy all your work, are staggering.
Eh. Honestly I don't really care, to be honest. As far as I'm concerned, it's a gas/electric hybrid. The kind of driving I do, it'll end up using gas.
I'd really love a car that doesn't use gas at all, but I can't get one of those with the kind of driving I do which occasionally involves a 100+ mile drive. The volt is a good option FOR NOW. But I have absolutely no illusions about what kind of car it is.
There was a story going around a while back that claimed the Chevy Volt used the gasoline engine to drive the wheels, and a lot of people were very upset about this. This was later debunked. I'm afraid I'm way too sleep deprived to look up references but I'm fairy sure you can google that up. It/is/ an electric car with a generator. I personally still call that a hybrid, and am still looking forward to the day I can get a practical car that uses no gasoline.
I know it's not. But like I said, there aren't any decent all-electrics yet, so I'm willing to consider a volt as a stop-gap until those (hopefully) show up.
If you factor out Prius owners? The most popular brand of hybrid? The one bought by people who like hybrids? Yeah I suppose if you don't count the people who like hybrids, then only 35% of the rest still like hybrids?...
I'm on my second hybrid. Neither has been a Prius. The next one might be. I'd love an all-electric but I'm still waiting for a practical one. Maybe if they start selling the volt up here.
Ask whomever is responsible, would be my point. I work for a very large company, and the employee handbook is very clear on such matters. HR would, at the very least, know who to refer you to. But yeah, ask whoever it is who's responsible.
And I agree about your second point, too. That's really why I use my own laptop. Just easier/safer that way.
Read your company's employee handbook and policies. it's very likely that they allow "limited personal use". Just don't do anything stupid like watching porn or pirating stuff on the thing.
If you have any doubts about running any specific software on it, talk to your boss or call HR. They should know what the company's policies are.
I have a work-issued laptop. I'm allowed to browse the internet on it so long as it's a reasonable amount, and the corporate image came with media players, including a DVD player, so I'm fairly sure I can watch movies/listen to music on it when I travel.
But I never do. I take my own personal laptop with me. It's just a lot more comfortable that way.
The EV1, which was around for a VERY short time, had improved DRAMATICALLY over that period. The first gen had a range of 60 miles, and the second had a range of 100. And that was with NiMH batteries which at the time were the highest tech in batteries.
They didn't sell any of them because they REFUSED to sell any of them. People were literally BEGGING to buy their leases out. Some people refused to return the things because they knew they were going to be destroyed!
I'd love an all-electric vehicle with an 100 mile range, and the EV1 could do that in 1996. 1996! Imagine if GM hadn't just taken them back and trashed them, but continued to make them, and did serious research. Imagine what the EV5 would've been like today, 16 years later.
Um, I've been using Window Maker on multiple displays for the better part of a decade. I've been using it with three monitors for at least three years. It works ABSOLUTELY PERFECTLY. In fact, one of the main reasons I've never switched to Gnome or KDE is they mess up my multiple monitor setup HORRIBLY.
But I have a very heavily customised xorg.conf that I've also been maintaining since it used to be called x11.conf, and Window Maker just lets xorg run the show.
Window Maker has some nice features that/I/ like. I like the dock and dockapps. I like the easily configured menus (that can be generated on-the-fly from a perl script). I like that it doesn't try and reinterpret the way I set up my X server. I like how configurable it is. I really like the look and feel (minimal window decorations, keyboard shortcuts, etc).
For me the biggest thing is that I've been using it forever so it's pretty much second nature. In fact it's pretty much first nature. And it sounds like you have that with openbox, so my answer to you is "you probably shouldn't!"
For what it's worth, I've been using WindowMaker since the mid-1990s. I hate the paperclip too. That's why I disabled it in 1997, and any application that doesn't go in the dock has it's app icon disabled. Piece of cake. I've never thought configuring Window Maker was complicated, and it's had a GUI config utility for ages.
Over the years I've tried several times to switch to a more, uh, current desktop environment, like Gnome or KDE. I found both to be uncomfortable... and here's the thing. I have three monitors. Window Maker doesn't care about that and doesn't try to micromanage the displays in some weird ways that ignore what my heavily hacked xorg.conf tells it to do. Gnome just goes NUTS.
For example, I currently have the Window Maker Dock on the rightmost monitor. I can move windows between monitors, but when I maximise a window, it only maximises to the screen it's on. Same goes for telling, say, a youtube video or mplayer to go full-screen (in fact, mplayer automatically fullscreens to the big monitor all the way on the left).
This setup with Gnome makes the menubar repeat three times, makes windows maximise wherever the hell they feel like, makes the "taskbar" grab windows from wherever, etc.
Now possibly BusyBox wouldn't have these issues - in fact it very likely wouldn't. And I definitely wouldn't expect you to switch over from an environment you're comfortable with. And the actual benefit of Window Maker, for me, is that I've been using it forever and there's nothing else out there that gives me any more features that I desperately need.
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CM9 just took sooo long. In fact the final release isn't out yet.
I just couldn't resist and put Jellybean on my Galaxy Nexus. But CyanogenMod still has a few features that are not incorporated into plain Android, nor are there apps for them. Not that I could find anyway. For example I want the battery in the status bar to show a percent number (there are apps that add that, but IN ADDITION to the regular battery), and I /love/ the Volume-Button-Long-Press-Skips-Tracks. Very very very useful while jogging. Oh and the power widgets in the pull-down, way better than the Power Control Widget.
CM9 took so long because they had to start from scratch. They are saying that CM10 should not be NEARLY as big a deal, so here's hoping!
This is, sadly, true.
I have never been obese, but I did abuse my body with sugary treats which is likely what lead to me having type 2 diabetes. I tried meds and frankly they just made things worse (the closest I came to obese was directly because of diabetes meds). So I tried diet and exercise. And it works for me. First, my glucose level NEVER hits 500 anymore, and if I go run a few miles every day and don't eat a hell of a lot of carbs, it stays at very normal levels. As a side-effect I'm also in the best physical shape I've been in my entire life.
But that's not a cure, that's treatment. If I ate a kit kat right this minute, my glucose level would spike to ~180 and stay there for hours. I can't ever eat a big bowl of pasta, or make an awesome grilled cheese sandwich (well I can make it, but I can't eat it).
Doctors tell me (once they're stopped being shocked that my a1c level is well below 7) that yeah this treatment is working now, but statistically it gets a LOT harder to manage using diet and exercise as you age. And realistically, I won't be able to maintain this level of physical activity forever, so SOMEONE CURE THIS DAMN THING ALREADY. By now I have the discipline to get a lot of exercise and not eat a ton of junk food, but hell, it's 90 degrees today, I'd love to pick up a fruit smoothie on the way back from the park.
Don't be ridiculous. I'm saying management demanding iPhones is what caused global warming.
Yup, you'll note I already replied to myself stating that fact.
Wait a minute... this isn't the story I clicked on...
People are buying phones like mad. RIM didn't keep up with the times - they figured they've got Business Users all tied up, and why would business users want a shiny new iPhone? Well, at ${LARGE_COMPANY} where I work, us peons have been asking for iPhones forever and been told no, never gonna happen. Then the managers started wanting them, and the rest is history.
That... uh... so you're tricking the phone into thinking it's seeing you by showing you a picture of yourself which I assume looks like you?... it's not exactly supposed to be doing a retina scan.
Glad I could help!
You can run jpeginfo -c. I have a script that runs against a directory and makes a list for when I do data recovery for all my friends who don't listen when I tell them their 10 year old laptop may be dying soon.
The sad thing is, as someone who's used and created sharepoint sites, I'm pretty sure that it doesn't work great without seeing any proof. Maybe it works great for a sharepoint site, but that's like saying my refrigerator is a pretty good family sedan, for a refrigerator.
I'm not claiming the parent comment (or, for that matter, this port) are in any way worthwhile, but sharepoint DOES evoke these feelings on occasion. The amount of voodoo required to get it to work the way you want it, and the ease with which someone can destroy all your work, are staggering.
Eh. Honestly I don't really care, to be honest. As far as I'm concerned, it's a gas/electric hybrid. The kind of driving I do, it'll end up using gas.
I'd really love a car that doesn't use gas at all, but I can't get one of those with the kind of driving I do which occasionally involves a 100+ mile drive. The volt is a good option FOR NOW. But I have absolutely no illusions about what kind of car it is.
There was a story going around a while back that claimed the Chevy Volt used the gasoline engine to drive the wheels, and a lot of people were very upset about this. This was later debunked. I'm afraid I'm way too sleep deprived to look up references but I'm fairy sure you can google that up. It /is/ an electric car with a generator. I personally still call that a hybrid, and am still looking forward to the day I can get a practical car that uses no gasoline.
Ugh, 5 hours of sleep over the past 4 days doesn't help reading comprehension...
I know it's not. But like I said, there aren't any decent all-electrics yet, so I'm willing to consider a volt as a stop-gap until those (hopefully) show up.
If you factor out Prius owners? The most popular brand of hybrid? The one bought by people who like hybrids? Yeah I suppose if you don't count the people who like hybrids, then only 35% of the rest still like hybrids?...
I'm on my second hybrid. Neither has been a Prius. The next one might be. I'd love an all-electric but I'm still waiting for a practical one. Maybe if they start selling the volt up here.
Is this a thing now?...
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Ask whomever is responsible, would be my point. I work for a very large company, and the employee handbook is very clear on such matters. HR would, at the very least, know who to refer you to. But yeah, ask whoever it is who's responsible.
And I agree about your second point, too. That's really why I use my own laptop. Just easier/safer that way.
Read your company's employee handbook and policies. it's very likely that they allow "limited personal use". Just don't do anything stupid like watching porn or pirating stuff on the thing.
If you have any doubts about running any specific software on it, talk to your boss or call HR. They should know what the company's policies are.
I have a work-issued laptop. I'm allowed to browse the internet on it so long as it's a reasonable amount, and the corporate image came with media players, including a DVD player, so I'm fairly sure I can watch movies/listen to music on it when I travel.
But I never do. I take my own personal laptop with me. It's just a lot more comfortable that way.
The EV1, which was around for a VERY short time, had improved DRAMATICALLY over that period. The first gen had a range of 60 miles, and the second had a range of 100. And that was with NiMH batteries which at the time were the highest tech in batteries.
They didn't sell any of them because they REFUSED to sell any of them. People were literally BEGGING to buy their leases out. Some people refused to return the things because they knew they were going to be destroyed!
I'd love an all-electric vehicle with an 100 mile range, and the EV1 could do that in 1996. 1996! Imagine if GM hadn't just taken them back and trashed them, but continued to make them, and did serious research. Imagine what the EV5 would've been like today, 16 years later.
Like others have been saying, you don't have to use anything you don't want to. I've been using Ubuntu for years and I still use Window Maker.
Um, I've been using Window Maker on multiple displays for the better part of a decade. I've been using it with three monitors for at least three years. It works ABSOLUTELY PERFECTLY. In fact, one of the main reasons I've never switched to Gnome or KDE is they mess up my multiple monitor setup HORRIBLY.
But I have a very heavily customised xorg.conf that I've also been maintaining since it used to be called x11.conf, and Window Maker just lets xorg run the show.
Window Maker has some nice features that /I/ like. I like the dock and dockapps. I like the easily configured menus (that can be generated on-the-fly from a perl script). I like that it doesn't try and reinterpret the way I set up my X server. I like how configurable it is. I really like the look and feel (minimal window decorations, keyboard shortcuts, etc).
For me the biggest thing is that I've been using it forever so it's pretty much second nature. In fact it's pretty much first nature. And it sounds like you have that with openbox, so my answer to you is "you probably shouldn't!"
For what it's worth, I've been using WindowMaker since the mid-1990s. I hate the paperclip too. That's why I disabled it in 1997, and any application that doesn't go in the dock has it's app icon disabled. Piece of cake. I've never thought configuring Window Maker was complicated, and it's had a GUI config utility for ages.
Over the years I've tried several times to switch to a more, uh, current desktop environment, like Gnome or KDE. I found both to be uncomfortable... and here's the thing. I have three monitors. Window Maker doesn't care about that and doesn't try to micromanage the displays in some weird ways that ignore what my heavily hacked xorg.conf tells it to do. Gnome just goes NUTS.
For example, I currently have the Window Maker Dock on the rightmost monitor. I can move windows between monitors, but when I maximise a window, it only maximises to the screen it's on. Same goes for telling, say, a youtube video or mplayer to go full-screen (in fact, mplayer automatically fullscreens to the big monitor all the way on the left).
This setup with Gnome makes the menubar repeat three times, makes windows maximise wherever the hell they feel like, makes the "taskbar" grab windows from wherever, etc.
Now possibly BusyBox wouldn't have these issues - in fact it very likely wouldn't. And I definitely wouldn't expect you to switch over from an environment you're comfortable with. And the actual benefit of Window Maker, for me, is that I've been using it forever and there's nothing else out there that gives me any more features that I desperately need.