Who ever likes to mod me as offtopic I'd like to say thanks to you. You really make my day. Apperently the 40+ people that have already downloaded the odt document didn't think it was offtopic.
I think this is very ontopic because the article has to do with not being able to remember the names of commands, which is exactly why I made the quick reference sheet. Because I couldn't remember some options at important moments.
The problem is, I never received the certificates. I just receive a bank statement every once in a while saying that I have 0.125 in my account or something. I was buying them on the risky chance that something would come of the stock. I guess I was young and stupid and too much into my Amiga. Now I'm a little older, a little less stupid and into Linux. Time for an investment.
This might lead to desparate measures. Of course, seeing the Bush administration heed desperate measures will probably be more like watching a train wreck. Makes you cringe, but entertaining at the same time.
I think that role playing games help you visualize space in your head as well as build vocabulary and reading skills. Maybe not so much when you are an adult. But when you are 13, you can become really engrossed in reading through players handbooks and so on and learn a lot of new words. Plus, it is a good practice of organizational skills. One of the little aspects I find enjoyable about playing RPGs is organizing everything.
You know what? I think that DnD and the rest of RPGs will go on for a long time and eventually be an old pastime like playing chess, go or even Monopoly and Scrabble. When people read about the history of these RPG games, there will be a small note about its early history like this:
"When Dungeons and Dragons was originally released over 100 years ago, it caused quite a social stirring among parents concerned over their childrens activities. It was used as a scapegoat for otherwise normal social problems. Now its a game that is enjoyed by the whole family and is generally accepted as a great way to build many mental feats."
Perhaps you've never worked in a corporation that uses groupware effectively.
I have and I am. Worked in a few of them for long periods of time. Sure, being ignorant in such an environment may be the status quo, but that doesn't make it a good goal or example to set. The other day I about smacked an executive because of the attitudes they had towards their password. It is that kind of attitude that makes it so easy to hack corporate networks nowadays.
If we continue to make applications that appeal to stupidity, then we will create nothing in the end but stupid applications that create more stupid users and create a stupid society (because we depend so much on computers). Big applications that do everything lack flexibility and don't evolve.
And don't ever try to tell me or anybody that just because everybody is stupid, that we should expect nothing but stupidity out of them. We need to try to improve and be a balanced society at a higher level.
In a few weeks you are going to see me release a piece of software that will not appeal to stupidity, but help to prevent it by encouraging people to do what is best. THAT is what we need in applications.
Eh hem, at the risk of being marked as flamebait, I would like to say that it should have been "Intelligent people are Linux Desktop's key to success". For someone to say that Linux has a lack of powerful email clients is just absurd. People just don't know where to look or realize that sometimes, programs like mutt, fetchmail and all the other "do one thing well" programs are a better solution than having a large bloaty email app. If you don't believe me, look at the state of Internet email as caused by large GUI email applications. I'm all for more intuitive interfaces and GUI apps that make
People, computers are not cars, they are not toasters, they are not televisions.... they are anything that you want them to be, and this is fundamental reason they are hard to use, change so often and are prone to crashing.
I'm surprised nobody has commented on the fact that in the subnote for people using virtualization that they spelled Xen as Zen by mistake. Probably the person editing it thought it was a mistake.
Way to go KDE folks and supporters. Even though I'm a Gnome user (actually, I'm a closet FVWM user), KDE never ceases to impress me and I do try it for periods of time. The last 8 years I've been using Open Source Software and Linux have been amazing. The amount of progress that all of us have made. There is still more to go, but its not hard to see that the gap is really closing in now. All the hard work and patience has paid off. Everyone give yourself a pat on the back.
I should follow up about the dual head thing. I have a dual head setup at work and I find that one monitor ends up being used for the most part and I just end up bleeding windows into the other monitor and leaving them there. Maybe its just that I'm not used to having dual monitors or something. So what I end up doing is putting the main monitor directly in front of me and the supplimental monitor off to the right. Then I put my email client (I use thunderbird at work) on the supplimental screen.
The only thing where I find dual monitors to be really useful is for running Qemu or VMWare in one screen and some terminals or other programs in the other. Also, its really nice if you need to run a 3D program like Blender. Especially since Blender's interface is so customizeable I ended up putting a quad TFR Camera view on one screen and free roaming view on the other.
3x3 virtual desktops with a web browser in the middle one. Of course, I think what you end up doing should depend on what you are trying to do with your computer. For me, I do a lot of system administration so I tend to use a lot of terminals. I got used to using a 160x60 sized terminal for my suso.org screen session (which runs things like mutt, etc.). I think gkrellm makes good use of space and I like it for controlling the volume. Figure out what programs you use the most and put them in the panel (gnome, kde, xfce or whatever). Don't put everything in the panel or on the desktop, it will just make common icons harder to find. And use tabs for web browsing of course. Its all good.
I think making good use of virtual desktops is a must. And you can't use too many. I think a lot of people get turned off by programs like the Gimp because they don't use virtual desktops properly and think too much about the way things work in Windows and Mac OS X. Its different here.
one of the guys that I worked with in the 90s always thought that they should just drop TLDs or make is to that everyone could register their own TLDs. I kinda agree with him now. It sure would solve the problem with people registering.com,.net and.org and people going to.com when the address is.org, etc.
You have to admit though. Those are some decent crash screens. Not unlike the screens you'd see when pulling out a Atari 2600 game cartridge with the power on. Hey wait, the crashes themselves look better than atari 2600 games. Oh no!
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Who ever likes to mod me as offtopic I'd like to say thanks to you. You really make my day. Apperently the 40+ people that have already downloaded the odt document didn't think it was offtopic.
I think this is very ontopic because the article has to do with not being able to remember the names of commands, which is exactly why I made the quick reference sheet. Because I couldn't remember some options at important moments.
That's why you need a Linux command quick reference sheet:
http://www.suso.org/infosheets/
So is google becoming the new Xerox Parc?
I run Windows as a Linux screen saver all the time. Or at least the major parts. ;-)
And with the new modularized X, if it crashes it won't bring down the fonts.
Wow, this is kinda like that auction of someone's cat looking at the auction of Eminem's house on Ebay.
Reference to what I'm talking about
I thought it was extremely silly that this showed up on Wired. Now it's doubly silly that it's shown up on Slashdot.
And now its become even more silly that people are commenting about it.
The problem is, I never received the certificates. I just receive a bank statement every once in a while saying that I have 0.125 in my account or something. I was buying them on the risky chance that something would come of the stock. I guess I was young and stupid and too much into my Amiga. Now I'm a little older, a little less stupid and into Linux. Time for an investment.
Maybe they'll buy my 400 shares of CBM. ;-)
This might lead to desparate measures. Of course, seeing the Bush administration heed desperate measures will probably be more like watching a train wreck. Makes you cringe, but entertaining at the same time.
How about Where in the world is Carmen Sandiago? (Oh wait, that's copyrighted too)
Maybe a game like geographical 20 questions or something. You have a list of questions that narrow things down to a city.
I think that role playing games help you visualize space in your head as well as build vocabulary and reading skills. Maybe not so much when you are an adult. But when you are 13, you can become really engrossed in reading through players handbooks and so on and learn a lot of new words. Plus, it is a good practice of organizational skills. One of the little aspects I find enjoyable about playing RPGs is organizing everything.
You know what? I think that DnD and the rest of RPGs will go on for a long time and eventually be an old pastime like playing chess, go or even Monopoly and Scrabble. When people read about the history of these RPG games, there will be a small note about its early history like this:
"When Dungeons and Dragons was originally released over 100 years ago, it caused quite a social stirring among parents concerned over their childrens activities. It was used as a scapegoat for otherwise normal social problems. Now its a game that is enjoyed by the whole family and is generally accepted as a great way to build many mental feats."
Perhaps you've never worked in a corporation that uses groupware effectively.
I have and I am. Worked in a few of them for long periods of time. Sure, being ignorant in such an environment may be the status quo, but that doesn't make it a good goal or example to set. The other day I about smacked an executive because of the attitudes they had towards their password. It is that kind of attitude that makes it so easy to hack corporate networks nowadays.
If we continue to make applications that appeal to stupidity, then we will create nothing in the end but stupid applications that create more stupid users and create a stupid society (because we depend so much on computers). Big applications that do everything lack flexibility and don't evolve.
And don't ever try to tell me or anybody that just because everybody is stupid, that we should expect nothing but stupidity out of them. We need to try to improve and be a balanced society at a higher level.
In a few weeks you are going to see me release a piece of software that will not appeal to stupidity, but help to prevent it by encouraging people to do what is best. THAT is what we need in applications.
Eh hem, at the risk of being marked as flamebait, I would like to say that it should have been "Intelligent people are Linux Desktop's key to success". For someone to say that Linux has a lack of powerful email clients is just absurd. People just don't know where to look or realize that sometimes, programs like mutt, fetchmail and all the other "do one thing well" programs are a better solution than having a large bloaty email app. If you don't believe me, look at the state of Internet email as caused by large GUI email applications. I'm all for more intuitive interfaces and GUI apps that make
People, computers are not cars, they are not toasters, they are not televisions.... they are anything that you want them to be, and this is fundamental reason they are hard to use, change so often and are prone to crashing.
The fix for this is here
I'm surprised nobody has commented on the fact that in the subnote for people using virtualization that they spelled Xen as Zen by mistake. Probably the person editing it thought it was a mistake.
That would be Unamerican
I think that depends on whether the year is mod 4.
Well the joke is on you. It was added to portage today. Er, you said available. Ok you're right.
Way to go KDE folks and supporters. Even though I'm a Gnome user (actually, I'm a closet FVWM user), KDE never ceases to impress me and I do try it for periods of time. The last 8 years I've been using Open Source Software and Linux have been amazing. The amount of progress that all of us have made. There is still more to go, but its not hard to see that the gap is really closing in now. All the hard work and patience has paid off. Everyone give yourself a pat on the back.
I should follow up about the dual head thing. I have a dual head setup at work and I find that one monitor ends up being used for the most part and I just end up bleeding windows into the other monitor and leaving them there. Maybe its just that I'm not used to having dual monitors or something. So what I end up doing is putting the main monitor directly in front of me and the supplimental monitor off to the right. Then I put my email client (I use thunderbird at work) on the supplimental screen.
The only thing where I find dual monitors to be really useful is for running Qemu or VMWare in one screen and some terminals or other programs in the other. Also, its really nice if you need to run a 3D program like Blender. Especially since Blender's interface is so customizeable I ended up putting a quad TFR Camera view on one screen and free roaming view on the other.
3x3 virtual desktops with a web browser in the middle one. Of course, I think what you end up doing should depend on what you are trying to do with your computer. For me, I do a lot of system administration so I tend to use a lot of terminals. I got used to using a 160x60 sized terminal for my suso.org screen session (which runs things like mutt, etc.). I think gkrellm makes good use of space and I like it for controlling the volume. Figure out what programs you use the most and put them in the panel (gnome, kde, xfce or whatever). Don't put everything in the panel or on the desktop, it will just make common icons harder to find. And use tabs for web browsing of course. Its all good.
I think making good use of virtual desktops is a must. And you can't use too many. I think a lot of people get turned off by programs like the Gimp because they don't use virtual desktops properly and think too much about the way things work in Windows and Mac OS X. Its different here.
$_ =~ s/cannot everyone/cannot keep everyone/;
You cannot everyone organized, except by law. And even then its difficult.
one of the guys that I worked with in the 90s always thought that they should just drop TLDs or make is to that everyone could register their own TLDs. I kinda agree with him now. It sure would solve the problem with people registering .com, .net and .org and people going to .com when the address is .org, etc.
You have to admit though. Those are some decent crash screens. Not unlike the screens you'd see when pulling out a Atari 2600 game cartridge with the power on. Hey wait, the crashes themselves look better than atari 2600 games. Oh no!