Your id isn't from 97 as some others have already pointed out. I think it was late 97 early 98 when the registration system was implemented. I think I waited a while before registering and still have a four digit one. People liked the anonymity of the original site, heh.
Yea, who better to host this than HP, lmfao. I worked there as a direct hire for a while last year but it was such a clusterf*ck I left and let them know why in my written exit interview, they don't even bother to do them in person. I will have to say my coworkers and direct supervisors were all top notch people but the upper management is just insane. Of course it didn't hurt that I got a huge pay increase at the same time, but I wouldn't have been looking for that job in the first place if HP wasn't so bad off.
I agree with a previous poster that most of the time a person will leave a company due to a bad (direct) manager, but in HP's case it is unfortunately upper management that is driving all the good employees away.
I'm not sure that anyone actually nailed the complete reason. I scanned through the response so far but none seem to really cover it.
1. Debian policy -- this is by far the biggest reason, Debian policy is very detailed and packages are required to adhere to it to be in the official repos 2. Debian repository -- it contains nearly all open source software, which combined with 1 makes Debian/Ubuntu based systems much more stable in general 3. deb format -- this is actually more of a toss up but the deb format is still much more flexible than rpm 4. apt -- existed since at least the mid 90s, long before yum was added to replicate the feature on rpm based distros, so not so much a reason now
I might have missed some additional reasons but the above are the biggest. You can still break a Debian/Ubuntu system but that is usually due to using non-official repositories by people who haven't properly made debs, eg some random launchpad ppa, which haven't gone through vetting process via Ubuntu REVU, or lintian, etc.
I've used Debian/been a DD for 13 years, and used Ubuntu/core dev for 7 years. I've used RH/Fedora on and off for 15 years.
I don't remember anyone complaining about Windows 95 interface, maybe that it was unstable, but not its interface. Windows 3's interface was so horrible I just used DOS instead.
Your user id is so high were you even born yet when Windows 95 came out?;-)
The best way to be able to tell if the location services bug was likely affecting you is to turn on the display option and see how often it is being polled. For my wife's 4S it appeared to be always on for the time setting location service.
I've used Linux since 1995, Debian since 1998 and Ubuntu since mid 2004, when the first 4.10 test release came out. Ubuntu Unity and Gnome 3 may be perfectly useful for computer newbies, who have no prior experience with any OS, but they are both very annoying for experienced computer users and unfortunately Windows 8 looks to be more of the same. So I switched to Xubuntu apparently the only decent option left, and I seem to be in good company there with Linus having switched to Xfce as well. I used to work for Canonical but really don't get what they are attempting to do. They kept talking about wanting to jump the chasm but it seems to be more of jumping the shark, losing a lot of their long time users in the process.
If they are attempting to reinvent all the OSes for tablet use, which is the only sane reason for this interface change, they are going to fail badly and lose their desktop and laptop share in the process. Apple's already won the tablet market, with Android trailing far behind, and chasing after it this late in the game is not going to be of much use.
Conroe is the county seat of Montgomery county which has nearly 500,000 people. So while there may only be 56,207 people in Conroe itself, apparently wikipedia hasn't been updated, its in a much larger county, a fair chunk of Conroe's ETJ was ceded so that The Woodlands can form a city in a few years. Oh and they also managed to get an Intel processor named after the town.
Firefox and all the Netscape/Mozilla based browsers before it have always seemed to use all available memory on my system. I do not close my browser down often though so it may be that it is just really leaky like the previous poster said.
Yes, the 32-bit flash version running on 64-bit Ubuntu would crash very often. I switched to the 64-bit packages provided by kees in his ppa http://launchpad.net/~kees/ years ago but since Adobe has now dropped 64-bit Flash for Linux it will probably not be installable anymore. The 64-bit version was much more reliable at least as reliable as Flash ever is, of course it still ate CPU like crazy as it does on every platform.
Agreed, also when many of us started using Linux, for myself that was 15 years ago, there was no 'easier' distro, though I suppose Debian could be considered to always have been relatively easy at least compared to its contemporary distros. I have used Ubuntu for the last 5 of those 15 years.
Linux From Scratch and Gentoo users > Ubuntu and Fedora users. When something breaks on your Linux system and you don't know how to fix it, guess which one you'd rather hear from? A LFS user, or someone who uses Ubuntu because he's scared of the command line? Yeah, that's what I thought. Pwnd.
This site does a good job describing the typical Gentoo user...;-D
No, its okay because Microsoft uses patents as weapons and not just defensively, and so they are now getting what they deserve. See the TomTom case for example.
"Ubuntu needs all the good press they can get, I don't understand why they would risk it."
That's pretty funny considering Ubuntu is still in the lead on DistroWatch on all timespans except the last week. For the last week an Ubuntu derivative Linux Mint is number 1 with Ubuntu at number 2.
I would never buy a Mac especially not with all the reliability problems they have and mis-features like locking the SATA port to SATA 1 speed, disabling 802.11n on the older ones and requiring people pay to get the feature, etc. On top of that I would never run MacOS X, as I am a Linux developer, so why pay more (the Apple tax) for less hardware. I personally own a ThinkPad X200 which is much better and cheaper than anything I have seen from Apple.
As far as open phones go, there is really not much choice on that front. There is Openmoko which doesn't even have Edge/3G support or the T-Mobile G1 Android phone. It also looks like openmoko is dying off and they have canceled their phones planned to have Edge/3G support. Android looks promising but the phone still needs a lot more work and/or there needs to be more than one of them available. More Android phones should be available later this summer so perhaps it will gain more marketshare. So I am not surprised at all that currently people at open-source conferences are using iPhones. I recently bought one for myself after sitting on the fence about whether to continue to wait until a nicer Android phone became available. Hopefully in 2 years once my at&t contract finally runs out there will be much better Android phones available. With respect to at&t they are planning on releasing an Android phone as well but with crippled resolution only 320x240.
These apartments are extremely tiny at only 283 - 465 sq ft and for $7,800 - $13,400 that isn't really that cheap as it is around $28-29 per sq ft. The condo I own in Houston only cost me $43 per sq ft and they are now going for much cheaper than that after the economy meltdown.
I seem to recall there being lots of security updates shortly after RH5 release also, and RH at that time had no way to automated upgrades, eg apt-get or yum. Which was why I stopped using it and switched to Debian.
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for fuck sake when did the audience for this site become so dimwitted and unintelligent.
Probably around the time it became overrun by Windows users.
Your id isn't from 97 as some others have already pointed out. I think it was late 97 early 98 when the registration system was implemented. I think I waited a while before registering and still have a four digit one. People liked the anonymity of the original site, heh.
Yea, who better to host this than HP, lmfao. I worked there as a direct hire for a while last year but it was such a clusterf*ck I left and let them know why in my written exit interview, they don't even bother to do them in person. I will have to say my coworkers and direct supervisors were all top notch people but the upper management is just insane. Of course it didn't hurt that I got a huge pay increase at the same time, but I wouldn't have been looking for that job in the first place if HP wasn't so bad off.
I agree with a previous poster that most of the time a person will leave a company due to a bad (direct) manager, but in HP's case it is unfortunately upper management that is driving all the good employees away.
Though probably not until after me, as mine is lower.
Darn noobs get off my lawn! ;-)
I'm not sure that anyone actually nailed the complete reason. I scanned through the response so far but none seem to really cover it.
1. Debian policy -- this is by far the biggest reason, Debian policy is very detailed and packages are required to adhere to it to be in the official repos
2. Debian repository -- it contains nearly all open source software, which combined with 1 makes Debian/Ubuntu based systems much more stable in general
3. deb format -- this is actually more of a toss up but the deb format is still much more flexible than rpm
4. apt -- existed since at least the mid 90s, long before yum was added to replicate the feature on rpm based distros, so not so much a reason now
I might have missed some additional reasons but the above are the biggest. You can still break a Debian/Ubuntu system but that is usually due to using non-official repositories by people who haven't properly made debs, eg some random launchpad ppa, which haven't gone through vetting process via Ubuntu REVU, or lintian, etc.
I've used Debian/been a DD for 13 years, and used Ubuntu/core dev for 7 years. I've used RH/Fedora on and off for 15 years.
lol, you predate me a bit, I didn't start using Linux until around Feb 1995.
I don't remember anyone complaining about Windows 95 interface, maybe that it was unstable, but not its interface. Windows 3's interface was so horrible I just used DOS instead.
Your user id is so high were you even born yet when Windows 95 came out? ;-)
The best way to be able to tell if the location services bug was likely affecting you is to turn on the display option and see how often it is being polled. For my wife's 4S it appeared to be always on for the time setting location service.
Microsoft is planning to force the tablet UI on you as well with Windows 8 next year...
I've used Linux since 1995, Debian since 1998 and Ubuntu since mid 2004, when the first 4.10 test release came out. Ubuntu Unity and Gnome 3 may be perfectly useful for computer newbies, who have no prior experience with any OS, but they are both very annoying for experienced computer users and unfortunately Windows 8 looks to be more of the same. So I switched to Xubuntu apparently the only decent option left, and I seem to be in good company there with Linus having switched to Xfce as well. I used to work for Canonical but really don't get what they are attempting to do. They kept talking about wanting to jump the chasm but it seems to be more of jumping the shark, losing a lot of their long time users in the process.
If they are attempting to reinvent all the OSes for tablet use, which is the only sane reason for this interface change, they are going to fail badly and lose their desktop and laptop share in the process. Apple's already won the tablet market, with Android trailing far behind, and chasing after it this late in the game is not going to be of much use.
Conroe is the county seat of Montgomery county which has nearly 500,000 people. So while there may only be 56,207 people in Conroe itself, apparently wikipedia hasn't been updated, its in a much larger county, a fair chunk of Conroe's ETJ was ceded so that The Woodlands can form a city in a few years. Oh and they also managed to get an Intel processor named after the town.
And I live there. :-)
Firefox and all the Netscape/Mozilla based browsers before it have always seemed to use all available memory on my system. I do not close my browser down often though so it may be that it is just really leaky like the previous poster said.
Yes, the 32-bit flash version running on 64-bit Ubuntu would crash very often. I switched to the 64-bit packages provided by kees in his ppa http://launchpad.net/~kees/ years ago but since Adobe has now dropped 64-bit Flash for Linux it will probably not be installable anymore. The 64-bit version was much more reliable at least as reliable as Flash ever is, of course it still ate CPU like crazy as it does on every platform.
Agreed, also when many of us started using Linux, for myself that was 15 years ago, there was no 'easier' distro, though I suppose Debian could be considered to always have been relatively easy at least compared to its contemporary distros. I have used Ubuntu for the last 5 of those 15 years.
Linux From Scratch and Gentoo users > Ubuntu and Fedora users. When something breaks on your Linux system and you don't know how to fix it, guess which one you'd rather hear from? A LFS user, or someone who uses Ubuntu because he's scared of the command line? Yeah, that's what I thought. Pwnd.
This site does a good job describing the typical Gentoo user... ;-D
http://funroll-loops.info/
No, its okay because Microsoft uses patents as weapons and not just defensively, and so they are now getting what they deserve. See the TomTom case for example.
Just use the Google method, of course there is the little problem of it being patented.
"Ubuntu needs all the good press they can get, I don't understand why they would risk it."
That's pretty funny considering Ubuntu is still in the lead on DistroWatch on all timespans except the last week. For the last week an Ubuntu derivative Linux Mint is number 1 with Ubuntu at number 2.
I would never buy a Mac especially not with all the reliability problems they have and mis-features like locking the SATA port to SATA 1 speed, disabling 802.11n on the older ones and requiring people pay to get the feature, etc. On top of that I would never run MacOS X, as I am a Linux developer, so why pay more (the Apple tax) for less hardware. I personally own a ThinkPad X200 which is much better and cheaper than anything I have seen from Apple.
As far as open phones go, there is really not much choice on that front. There is Openmoko which doesn't even have Edge/3G support or the T-Mobile G1 Android phone. It also looks like openmoko is dying off and they have canceled their phones planned to have Edge/3G support. Android looks promising but the phone still needs a lot more work and/or there needs to be more than one of them available. More Android phones should be available later this summer so perhaps it will gain more marketshare. So I am not surprised at all that currently people at open-source conferences are using iPhones. I recently bought one for myself after sitting on the fence about whether to continue to wait until a nicer Android phone became available. Hopefully in 2 years once my at&t contract finally runs out there will be much better Android phones available. With respect to at&t they are planning on releasing an Android phone as well but with crippled resolution only 320x240.
Yes... but 100km outside of Mumbai isn't Manhattan.
These apartments are extremely tiny at only 283 - 465 sq ft and for $7,800 - $13,400 that isn't really that cheap as it is around $28-29 per sq ft. The condo I own in Houston only cost me $43 per sq ft and they are now going for much cheaper than that after the economy meltdown.
Yea me too. ;-) I think the first RedHat I tried out was the mothers day release in 1995.
I seem to recall there being lots of security updates shortly after RH5 release also, and RH at that time had no way to automated upgrades, eg apt-get or yum. Which was why I stopped using it and switched to Debian.
Not quite yet, but almost:
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/20/1627243