I actually hate the concept that it is easier to add yet another layer of abstraction to make things 'easier' for the lazy idiots who can't be bothered to apply themselves to learning how to use something properly (most computer users - inc. most Ubuntu users.) Most of the problems in computing actually come from these added and unnecessary layers of abstraction. This added layer results in MacOS and Ubuntu, operating systems designed for idiots to goo and ga at and watch kittens fall over on youtube with, which brings me to my next hate.
I really, really hate 'autoconfig' systems which cannot be hand configured or disabled easily. Cannot stand them. At least put in a 'would you like to hand configure this?' option and don't do it through a f***ing gui. Give us a text file to play with and a man page. Or a really good gui. CUPS is probably one of the best examples of good autoconfig design. Most of the time, I plug in a printer and it just works. For the other occasions, I can configure it myself. Auto video config for X is one of the worst examples. Try and do your own config with xorg.conf. It will be overwritten with crap the next time you log in. Mine was with Ubuntu anyway.
And if you want to be pretty close to the cutting edge, but have decent reliability and development leadership that isn't either insane or sadistic, there is Fedora.
Debian is also fantastic, for different reasons, so my servers will prob. run Debian, while my personal laptop will run Fedora which I'm actually finding to be quite, well, fun.
Synaptic is as slow or slower than Yumex on my machine. To tell you the truth, I actually like the layout of Yumex better than Synaptic. I haven't found Yum to be very slow either, and I don't run a very fast machine. Fedora runs faster in general than Ubuntu on my machine. It works. Haven't had time to poke into the filesystem too much, but need to go delving into a few things soon. If the filesystem is too wild it'll probably annoy me, but I haven't had any probs yet.
Not me, I switched to Fedora - which I recommend heartily to anyone with a desktop or laptop system. I didn't realise how much I had grown to hate Ubuntu until I made the switch. Computing is fun again now! My computer actually works reliably again, which it hadn't for the last year of my running Ubuntu. In the future all the machines I look after should be running a mix of Fedora and Debian.
There are more twists and turns than you'd think in vision. I for one have had an out of body experience when I was about 14 (not an NDE) and what I saw was verified afterwards to be accurate. Years later I had a strange experience whereby I could see with my eyes closed, sort of like seeing shadows of things around me on a black field. When I described my experience to a friend who was trained in martial arts, he said it sounded like how he 'saw' his sparring partners while training blind-folded.
Occam's Razor gets blunt when you deny possibilities. Science is for those things which can be quantified, studied, experimented with and tested against hypothesis in the physical realm. It does not deny or confirm the supernatural, nor is science in it's purist form able to.
Oooh. I'll have a look at that. I used to stuff around with Ubuntu to make my own recovery/maintenance disk for my PC repairs business, but the last two versions have gotten harder and harder to hand configure.
I've looked at it a bit on VirtualBox. Looks ok. Have they got everything working again after the Karmic Kock-up? I had to downgrade again from 9.10 so I could get basic features working on my laptop. If Lucid doesn't work well, I'm going to Debian.
The problem I've had is that on perhaps 30% of my machines, Ubuntu Krappy won't even finish booting, let alone provide security. The same machines will boot 8.10 or even 9.04 without problems. Puppy Linux has worked on pretty much everything so far, but has a harder time with wifi.
The rebooting is a bit of a pain, but probably worth it for those running XP. For Vista or Windows 7 users with adequate security, I think it is possibly less necessary.
Included instructions on how to print statements/receipts to PDF files (say, on a USB stick) would be handy.
Also, why stick with Ubuntu? I find on an increasing amount of machines that the newer versions of Ubuntu do not 'just work' - especially since 9.04 and it takes forever to boot up a liveCD on any older system. I've found that 9.10 in particular tends to fail on anything slower than a dvd-rom, plus who needs all the bloat of a Gnome desktop? Better perhaps to configure Puppy linux with Firefox to boot up in full screen mode with sites limited to the online banking site. Boots up in hardly any time at all and can boot off a thumb drive. Far better solution in my thinking.
Australia is one of those culturally diverse and rich countries where, especially in Melbourne or Sydney, you can get pretty much any food or drink from anywhere in the world. I've grown up in Melbourne and there are cafes and restaurants almost without number where you can get a good cup of coffee made by a decent barrista. Where were you trying? Hotel restaurants?
You'd probably be surprised where corn syrup pops-up. Besides soft drinks:
I live in Australia, so instead of the Corn lobby, we have the Sugar Cane lobby. Corn syrup is not commonly used in foods here as far as I have noticed (and due to dietary issues, I've had to learn to scan ingredients pretty carefully.)
Vanilla, hazelnut, etc. coffee flavourings are usually based on corn syrup. How was your hazelnut latte this morning?
Hazelnut latte? No wonder the USA is in trouble! Not only are the people fat, but they don't know about real coffee anymore!
So soft drinks and sweet foods are worse for you in the USA than other places where they are more likely to be sweetened with cane or beet sugar? Did the sugar cane industry have anything to do with the research?
Yes! TV's and Windows have finally evolved to the er, terminal. With the capabilities of X forwarding. Except for the TV as the terminal, this is, like sooo early 1990s...
Technology has increased paper use far more than it has reduced it. One office worker will create a document, probably printing it at least three times during revising so he/she can hand it to someone in the next cubicle for review. Then it'll be sent to a manager who'll probably print at least two copies, one for review, and one for filing. from there, who knows.. possibly to a line printer that'll bang out seven thousand pages per second (ok, slight exaggeration) and feeds off a four foot spool of eleven inch paper rather than stacks of Xerox paper. Yep. We live in a paperless office.
I agree fully with you. Desktop publishing apps are just not designed for collaborative work as required in an office environment.
Office printers. It's just too easy to prepare a document and hit 'print'. It's also incredibly easy to produce larger quantities with the good old photocopier. In short, while the human preference for paper has not diminished to any great degree, the ease of producing paper documents in large quantities has increased dramatically.
I really don't see that China has anything much to lose over this. Google had some pretty staunch competition anyway from Baidu, which seems to be like a combination of google, youtube and wikipedia, set for the Chinese market.
China is well within it's rights as a sovereign nation to govern it's people in the way it sees fit. We may not agree with all of it's measures, but we don't have to! Google, as a foreign company, should keep it's nose out of Chinese politics.
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I actually hate the concept that it is easier to add yet another layer of abstraction to make things 'easier' for the lazy idiots who can't be bothered to apply themselves to learning how to use something properly (most computer users - inc. most Ubuntu users.) Most of the problems in computing actually come from these added and unnecessary layers of abstraction. This added layer results in MacOS and Ubuntu, operating systems designed for idiots to goo and ga at and watch kittens fall over on youtube with, which brings me to my next hate.
I really, really hate 'autoconfig' systems which cannot be hand configured or disabled easily. Cannot stand them. At least put in a 'would you like to hand configure this?' option and don't do it through a f***ing gui. Give us a text file to play with and a man page. Or a really good gui. CUPS is probably one of the best examples of good autoconfig design. Most of the time, I plug in a printer and it just works. For the other occasions, I can configure it myself. Auto video config for X is one of the worst examples. Try and do your own config with xorg.conf. It will be overwritten with crap the next time you log in. Mine was with Ubuntu anyway.
And if you want to be pretty close to the cutting edge, but have decent reliability and development leadership that isn't either insane or sadistic, there is Fedora. Debian is also fantastic, for different reasons, so my servers will prob. run Debian, while my personal laptop will run Fedora which I'm actually finding to be quite, well, fun.
Synaptic is as slow or slower than Yumex on my machine. To tell you the truth, I actually like the layout of Yumex better than Synaptic. I haven't found Yum to be very slow either, and I don't run a very fast machine. Fedora runs faster in general than Ubuntu on my machine. It works. Haven't had time to poke into the filesystem too much, but need to go delving into a few things soon. If the filesystem is too wild it'll probably annoy me, but I haven't had any probs yet.
Not me, I switched to Fedora - which I recommend heartily to anyone with a desktop or laptop system. I didn't realise how much I had grown to hate Ubuntu until I made the switch. Computing is fun again now! My computer actually works reliably again, which it hadn't for the last year of my running Ubuntu. In the future all the machines I look after should be running a mix of Fedora and Debian.
I refused to throw out my two Apple II's. One day I'll get one working again. Man that was a cool computer.
I realised I had a problem with hoarding when I realised how many ISA boards I had... I threw them out. Then the 386 motherboards too.
I find it odd that it doesn't mention this 'discovery' being over ten years old either!
Better a shark with a fricken laser - they're right where the action is!!!
There are more twists and turns than you'd think in vision. I for one have had an out of body experience when I was about 14 (not an NDE) and what I saw was verified afterwards to be accurate. Years later I had a strange experience whereby I could see with my eyes closed, sort of like seeing shadows of things around me on a black field. When I described my experience to a friend who was trained in martial arts, he said it sounded like how he 'saw' his sparring partners while training blind-folded.
Occam's Razor gets blunt when you deny possibilities. Science is for those things which can be quantified, studied, experimented with and tested against hypothesis in the physical realm. It does not deny or confirm the supernatural, nor is science in it's purist form able to.
And the US gov was having a go at Australia about proposed Internet censorship? Oh, I see. Your's is just for terrorist threats... right...
America - Land of the scared and home of the watched.
It's not necessarily just about seeing all the colours. A lot of us just see colours slightly differently.
So. Would I risk someone screwing around with my DNA and possibly what I pass on to my children so I can see colours a little bit differently?
Hell no!
The big difference is that any changes in Debian get tested a lot more thoroughly.
Oooh. I'll have a look at that. I used to stuff around with Ubuntu to make my own recovery/maintenance disk for my PC repairs business, but the last two versions have gotten harder and harder to hand configure.
I've looked at it a bit on VirtualBox. Looks ok. Have they got everything working again after the Karmic Kock-up? I had to downgrade again from 9.10 so I could get basic features working on my laptop. If Lucid doesn't work well, I'm going to Debian.
The problem I've had is that on perhaps 30% of my machines, Ubuntu Krappy won't even finish booting, let alone provide security. The same machines will boot 8.10 or even 9.04 without problems. Puppy Linux has worked on pretty much everything so far, but has a harder time with wifi.
The rebooting is a bit of a pain, but probably worth it for those running XP. For Vista or Windows 7 users with adequate security, I think it is possibly less necessary.
Included instructions on how to print statements/receipts to PDF files (say, on a USB stick) would be handy.
Also, why stick with Ubuntu? I find on an increasing amount of machines that the newer versions of Ubuntu do not 'just work' - especially since 9.04 and it takes forever to boot up a liveCD on any older system. I've found that 9.10 in particular tends to fail on anything slower than a dvd-rom, plus who needs all the bloat of a Gnome desktop? Better perhaps to configure Puppy linux with Firefox to boot up in full screen mode with sites limited to the online banking site. Boots up in hardly any time at all and can boot off a thumb drive. Far better solution in my thinking.
Australia is one of those culturally diverse and rich countries where, especially in Melbourne or Sydney, you can get pretty much any food or drink from anywhere in the world. I've grown up in Melbourne and there are cafes and restaurants almost without number where you can get a good cup of coffee made by a decent barrista. Where were you trying? Hotel restaurants?
You'd probably be surprised where corn syrup pops-up. Besides soft drinks:
I live in Australia, so instead of the Corn lobby, we have the Sugar Cane lobby. Corn syrup is not commonly used in foods here as far as I have noticed (and due to dietary issues, I've had to learn to scan ingredients pretty carefully.)
Vanilla, hazelnut, etc. coffee flavourings are usually based on corn syrup. How was your hazelnut latte this morning?
Hazelnut latte? No wonder the USA is in trouble! Not only are the people fat, but they don't know about real coffee anymore!
So soft drinks and sweet foods are worse for you in the USA than other places where they are more likely to be sweetened with cane or beet sugar? Did the sugar cane industry have anything to do with the research?
Yes! TV's and Windows have finally evolved to the er, terminal. With the capabilities of X forwarding. Except for the TV as the terminal, this is, like sooo early 1990s...
Technology has increased paper use far more than it has reduced it. One office worker will create a document, probably printing it at least three times during revising so he/she can hand it to someone in the next cubicle for review. Then it'll be sent to a manager who'll probably print at least two copies, one for review, and one for filing. from there, who knows.. possibly to a line printer that'll bang out seven thousand pages per second (ok, slight exaggeration) and feeds off a four foot spool of eleven inch paper rather than stacks of Xerox paper. Yep. We live in a paperless office.
I agree fully with you. Desktop publishing apps are just not designed for collaborative work as required in an office environment.
Office printers. It's just too easy to prepare a document and hit 'print'. It's also incredibly easy to produce larger quantities with the good old photocopier. In short, while the human preference for paper has not diminished to any great degree, the ease of producing paper documents in large quantities has increased dramatically.
The 96 is ok out of peak times. Not crowded all the time!
Well, Sunday as far as Melbourne is concerned...
I really don't see that China has anything much to lose over this. Google had some pretty staunch competition anyway from Baidu, which seems to be like a combination of google, youtube and wikipedia, set for the Chinese market.
China is well within it's rights as a sovereign nation to govern it's people in the way it sees fit. We may not agree with all of it's measures, but we don't have to! Google, as a foreign company, should keep it's nose out of Chinese politics.