Switched from Kubuntu to Squeeze and never missed it. Rock solid, simple to install (btw does *buntu live installer supports LVM now?) and has everything what I need and much more.
(Although, for my new Desktop at work with newest Intel graphic I needed to use backports)
The spermatophores are not fully formed organisms, though they are complex, which is why they may be termed as such, according to science20.com. They are no baby squid eyes or legs or tentacles, as one might imagine.
If I understand it right, the testicle of a male squids contained the sperm bags which "exploded" in the mouth and stung "victim" in the tongue and the mouth. There was no chance of developing a new squid from it, so the women from the story could not get "pregnant" with baby squid in her mouth. It's just a sensationalistic journalism.
Yeah you should stop learning. In the middle of your career, the return on investment is going to be weak. You only have about 40-ish years of good work in you (assuming you don't encounter issues with age-discrimination). It's one thing to learn on your own in the context of your job/career or personal time. It's another thing to invest time and money in a further formal education that is only going to provide so much return.
What are you going to do, go be a 45 or 50 year old entering a new path? Right. That'll be taken seriously.
What return on investment has to do with his question? He clearly says: "...my desire to work on something more interesting than business applications has pushed me toward looking into going back to school..."
Additionally, having PhD will actually help him against age-discrimination
Now instead of no-name or proxy companies holding giants hostage, the giants themselves will become the hostage takers, violating patents left and right, and daring any little guy patent holders to try, just try, to take em to court. Then when the giant outspends I mean wins the court case, the lil guy is now really fookered cause he had to the giant's lawyer bill for its high profile team of super expensive attorneys.....
Result: no lil guy will ever take on a giant that violates his patents, and when he contacts the company for any kind of settlement or sale offer, they'll just brush him off.
Indeed. Unfortunately, power hungry people who are actually not good at real world things jump into politics instead. In other words, we end up with a bunch of retarded ass holes running our nation. What a bunch of fuckers.
Nope, we end up with a bunch of retarded ass holes serving as a front-end for people ruling the World in the background.
... there is no denying that ME, which people say was "bad" was way better than 3.11, which people say was "good", and that similarly that Vista, also rated by most people in these threads as "bad", wasn' t a way better OS than, say, 98se, which people rate as "good"...
Quite good analysis until this sentence. Why do you compare a different product generations? Comparing Toyota Prius with Ford Model T. Both are cars and it will drive you from point A to point B, but comparing their speed, comfort and security doesn't make sense.
And this in a standard that now supports 4 operating speeds - low speed, full speed, hi-speed and now 'super-speed' (which moron thought up that last name?)
Power is addictive like narcotics. After every shot they need a bigger dose too feel high. You can't explain that using "rational" arguments. They are bunch of junkies ready to kill, enslave, exploit all of us too get more power.
It's hard for some geeks to grasp that concept and to think about something from someone else's perspective, but it's true.
You would be surprised to know that many "geeks" earn for living thinking about something from someone else's perspective.
If a programmer doesn't think how every single sane and insane input would be handled, software would be in much worse shape as it is today.
You might be surprised to learn that some other people use Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Quicken, TurboTax, etc. play certain popular games, etc. There are perfectly usable substitutes for many of these on Linux, but they are not the same, familiar apps. Similar != The Same.
You might be surprised to learn that some other people use Eclipse, Firefox, VLC, OpenOffice on both Windows and Linux.
Maybe it doesn't matter to you, but other people are sometimes different from you. Understand?
It's very important to me that all other people are always different from me (except if some clone of mine is not wandering around). Understand?
Sane has pretty good scanner support... at least the last time I used it. Try it out.
That was a first thing what I did. I was insane to buy a scanner before checking on Net if it's supported by sane. But on other hand it was just 30 euro. I should just buy a new one.
Take a look at VueScan. Best $79.95 I ever spent on software and the only single proprietary software I use on Linux. I'm just a happy customer, I have nothing to do with the creator and/or company.
Thanks, but I think the right solution for me would be to invest those $80 in some better scanner:-)
It does NOT just work. I wanted to perform the equivalent of cloning my system partition to a newer, larger drive, then I wanted to turn that into my startup disk. On a Mac, that's a quick run of SuperDuper!, followed by setting the startup disk in System Preferences. There MAY be a similarly troublefree way to do this in Linux, but I could not find it. I did, eventually, succeed. It wasn't fun. (Answer: LVM, and then I think I used grub from the command line, because the magic-friendly UI buttons didn't seem to work.)
Clonezilla and Partimage are the first they pop on my mind. They have GUI, they can do anything what a normal person can imagine to do (and command line with dd for the rest)
Other gripe, adding a new disk (one of those big ones that lies about its block size), the tools were an abomination. Command-line tools were borked by the block size (ask for N gig, get N/8 gig, awesome), GUI tools would by default misalign the partitions, then tell me what a bad stupid person I was to not align the partitions, why don't you repeat the operation and see if you get a different result? And I know, after extensive Googling, that it doesn't matter that much for ext4 anyway. It's UI clusterfuck of misinformation, poorly chosen defaults, and irrelevant insults to the luser.
So you say that adding non-standard new disks to the Linux PCs (including opening the case, connecting cables and everything else) is a operation which an average user can do on Windows and/or Mac.
There's all sorts of fun stuff you can do in Linux, that does not matter to most people.
The same applies to all computer systems. Do you really think that Mac and Windows don't have fun stuff under the hood?
My experience with MacPorts on the Mac suggests that it is possible to have a generally-useful computer that is also 90% nerd-friendly
My windows PC is nerd-friendly, why Mac shouldn't be. It's only a question how you use your system.
so I think that the Linux problems are more developer-side cultural rather than technical; stuff that matters to nerds (or to companies sponsoring nerds to work on Linux) does not matter to "most people".
To most people only what matter is a web browser.
The "wrong stuff" is what gets optimized, the stuff that matters to people who buy Macs, does not.
That is a reason why I take Linux and not Mac. For me is the right stuff optimized.
So here's my advice:
1) The defaults should be set right for "normal" people, in the interface that "normal" people use.
Defaults are tried to be set to the be most logical and effective.
Treat that interface like it is the most important one, not an afterthought.
Why? Do you start programming the interface or the functionality? Interface is (as the name says) the intermediary between a human and a program functionality.
Consider operations at a high level, not a low level -- add a disk, remove a disk, backup a disk, (maybe) convert to RAID. NOT, "align a partition", "copy blocks", "install a bootloader" (and I have bootloader choices, and one of them is apparently VERY WRONG, WTF did you hand me that kryptonite for?)
The reasons are historical. Linux is a UNIX child, and UNIX used that names. If the "normal user" first came in touch with those terms, they would be more used. Or do you think that RAID. DISK, BACKUP are natural expressions?
2) The need to RTFM before doing anything at all is a bug. Figure out what people want to do with your tool, and give them instructions to do that, with progressive disclosure as they get more confident, adventurous, interested.
You will need to give us some examples here... I'm not sure on which tools are you hitting here. Most too
Really? At least around here the tax program is java and runs quite nicely in Linux.
You must say where "around here" is:-)
Since you are paying taxes, it makes sense you ask your government that..err.. the tax program is cross-platform, no?
I know you are kidding, but actually one part of the government tax program can really run under Linux, but not tho whole package, You can use the online version from Windows, Linux or MAC.
The only problem is that I really don't understand what should I fill-in. That is a reason why I'm buying the additional tax software where I can use a simple wizard to fill all the forms. Then, the tax software uses government software to upload the tax report.
Look, Linux is a kernel. Users don't care about kernels.What users care about is the userland apps and user interface.
I supposed that we are talking about GNU/Linux (userland and kernel). And yes, GNU/Linux with it's kernel and it's applications works great for me. What is so strange in that?!
Windows offers them familiar apps and a familiar UI.
I use the same applications at work on my working Windows PC and Linux PC, as I use it at home. If you didn't notice, the number of exceptionally good open source applications is constantly raising. It doesn't mater if you are using Windows or Linux or MAC.
OS X offers them some better apps and a better UI.
You will need to quote some sources here...
iOS offers them a metric tonne of cheap apps and a slick UI. Android offers them the same sort of thing without less lock-down.... wait, you say that Android is Linux? Exactly. It's Linux with a userland and UI that offer something that matters to the user, something they don't get elsewhere.
We are talking about desktop here.
I'm just curious, but did you ever tried a decent Linux distro? Obviously not.
I only keep a Windows box around so I can play commercial games. For me, it's just a glorified game console.
I don't play commercial games anymore. The only reason why I have one virtual machine with Windows is to use Tax software and if I need something to scan (stupid cheap scanners)
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Hire Mark Russinovich, that is the only safe bet.
Many people with Ph.D. are religious. Here you can find some interesting (statistical) information: Does More Educated Really = Less Religious?
Switched from Kubuntu to Squeeze and never missed it. Rock solid, simple to install (btw does *buntu live installer supports LVM now?) and has everything what I need and much more. (Although, for my new Desktop at work with newest Intel graphic I needed to use backports)
The spermatophores are not fully formed organisms, though they are complex, which is why they may be termed as such, according to science20.com. They are no baby squid eyes or legs or tentacles, as one might imagine.
If I understand it right, the testicle of a male squids contained the sperm bags which "exploded" in the mouth and stung "victim" in the tongue and the mouth. There was no chance of developing a new squid from it, so the women from the story could not get "pregnant" with baby squid in her mouth. It's just a sensationalistic journalism.
Eating raw squid recently resulted in an Asian woman getting pregnant with baby squid in her mouth... Eeeeeewwwww!!!
That is an urban legend. It's also filmed in one episode of "Beyond Belief"
Yeah you should stop learning. In the middle of your career, the return on investment is going to be weak. You only have about 40-ish years of good work in you (assuming you don't encounter issues with age-discrimination). It's one thing to learn on your own in the context of your job/career or personal time. It's another thing to invest time and money in a further formal education that is only going to provide so much return.
What are you going to do, go be a 45 or 50 year old entering a new path? Right. That'll be taken seriously.
What return on investment has to do with his question? He clearly says: "...my desire to work on something more interesting than business applications has pushed me toward looking into going back to school..."
Additionally, having PhD will actually help him against age-discrimination
As far as I know the iphone doesn't use full disk encryption. It's not that difficult to get all the data off it.
What 'law enforcement' means is that it's not convenient to steal people's data.
Why should they steal data when they just need to ask Apple to give them on a silver plate.
Now instead of no-name or proxy companies holding giants hostage, the giants themselves will become the hostage takers, violating patents left and right, and daring any little guy patent holders to try, just try, to take em to court. Then when the giant outspends I mean wins the court case, the lil guy is now really fookered cause he had to the giant's lawyer bill for its high profile team of super expensive attorneys.....
Result: no lil guy will ever take on a giant that violates his patents, and when he contacts the company for any kind of settlement or sale offer, they'll just brush him off.
Ya this is a great idea.
I don't see any difference to current situation.
Indeed. Unfortunately, power hungry people who are actually not good at real world things jump into politics instead. In other words, we end up with a bunch of retarded ass holes running our nation. What a bunch of fuckers.
Nope, we end up with a bunch of retarded ass holes serving as a front-end for people ruling the World in the background.
... there is no denying that ME, which people say was "bad" was way better than 3.11, which people say was "good", and that similarly that Vista, also rated by most people in these threads as "bad", wasn' t a way better OS than, say, 98se, which people rate as "good"...
Quite good analysis until this sentence. Why do you compare a different product generations? Comparing Toyota Prius with Ford Model T. Both are cars and it will drive you from point A to point B, but comparing their speed, comfort and security doesn't make sense.
And this in a standard that now supports 4 operating speeds - low speed, full speed, hi-speed and now 'super-speed' (which moron thought up that last name?)
What will be the 5th operating speed? Über-speed?
What about CowboyNeal?
shot CowboyNeal at 1 m/s into a vat of HOT GRITS ?
Power is addictive like narcotics. After every shot they need a bigger dose too feel high. You can't explain that using "rational" arguments. They are bunch of junkies ready to kill, enslave, exploit all of us too get more power.
Because it creashes occasionally, leaving it in a state where it looks like it's working but it is actually offline.
Well, that's what it does to me. YMMV.
My Skype crashes occationally under Windows too.
Sorry, around here is Portugal.
And around here is Germany :-)
It's hard for some geeks to grasp that concept and to think about something from someone else's perspective, but it's true.
You would be surprised to know that many "geeks" earn for living thinking about something from someone else's perspective.
If a programmer doesn't think how every single sane and insane input would be handled, software would be in much worse shape as it is today.
You might be surprised to learn that some other people use Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Quicken, TurboTax, etc. play certain popular games, etc. There are perfectly usable substitutes for many of these on Linux, but they are not the same, familiar apps. Similar != The Same.
You might be surprised to learn that some other people use Eclipse, Firefox, VLC, OpenOffice on both Windows and Linux.
Maybe it doesn't matter to you, but other people are sometimes different from you. Understand?
It's very important to me that all other people are always different from me (except if some clone of mine is not wandering around). Understand?
you just have to type zombo.com in your browser
Ok, just did. And?
Sane has pretty good scanner support... at least the last time I used it. Try it out.
That was a first thing what I did. I was insane to buy a scanner before checking on Net if it's supported by sane. But on other hand it was just 30 euro. I should just buy a new one.
Take a look at VueScan. Best $79.95 I ever spent on software and the only single proprietary software I use on Linux. I'm just a happy customer, I have nothing to do with the creator and/or company.
Thanks, but I think the right solution for me would be to invest those $80 in some better scanner :-)
It does NOT just work. I wanted to perform the equivalent of cloning my system partition to a newer, larger drive, then I wanted to turn that into my startup disk. On a Mac, that's a quick run of SuperDuper!, followed by setting the startup disk in System Preferences. There MAY be a similarly troublefree way to do this in Linux, but I could not find it. I did, eventually, succeed. It wasn't fun. (Answer: LVM, and then I think I used grub from the command line, because the magic-friendly UI buttons didn't seem to work.)
Clonezilla and Partimage are the first they pop on my mind. They have GUI, they can do anything what a normal person can imagine to do (and command line with dd for the rest)
Other gripe, adding a new disk (one of those big ones that lies about its block size), the tools were an abomination. Command-line tools were borked by the block size (ask for N gig, get N/8 gig, awesome), GUI tools would by default misalign the partitions, then tell me what a bad stupid person I was to not align the partitions, why don't you repeat the operation and see if you get a different result? And I know, after extensive Googling, that it doesn't matter that much for ext4 anyway. It's UI clusterfuck of misinformation, poorly chosen defaults, and irrelevant insults to the luser.
So you say that adding non-standard new disks to the Linux PCs (including opening the case, connecting cables and everything else) is a operation which an average user can do on Windows and/or Mac.
There's all sorts of fun stuff you can do in Linux, that does not matter to most people.
The same applies to all computer systems. Do you really think that Mac and Windows don't have fun stuff under the hood?
My experience with MacPorts on the Mac suggests that it is possible to have a generally-useful computer that is also 90% nerd-friendly
My windows PC is nerd-friendly, why Mac shouldn't be. It's only a question how you use your system.
so I think that the Linux problems are more developer-side cultural rather than technical; stuff that matters to nerds (or to companies sponsoring nerds to work on Linux) does not matter to "most people".
To most people only what matter is a web browser.
The "wrong stuff" is what gets optimized, the stuff that matters to people who buy Macs, does not.
That is a reason why I take Linux and not Mac. For me is the right stuff optimized.
So here's my advice:
1) The defaults should be set right for "normal" people, in the interface that "normal" people use.
Defaults are tried to be set to the be most logical and effective.
Treat that interface like it is the most important one, not an afterthought.
Why? Do you start programming the interface or the functionality? Interface is (as the name says) the intermediary between a human and a program functionality.
Consider operations at a high level, not a low level -- add a disk, remove a disk, backup a disk, (maybe) convert to RAID. NOT, "align a partition", "copy blocks", "install a bootloader" (and I have bootloader choices, and one of them is apparently VERY WRONG, WTF did you hand me that kryptonite for?)
The reasons are historical. Linux is a UNIX child, and UNIX used that names. If the "normal user" first came in touch with those terms, they would be more used. Or do you think that RAID. DISK, BACKUP are natural expressions?
2) The need to RTFM before doing anything at all is a bug. Figure out what people want to do with your tool, and give them instructions to do that, with progressive disclosure as they get more confident, adventurous, interested.
You will need to give us some examples here... I'm not sure on which tools are you hitting here. Most too
Really? At least around here the tax program is java and runs quite nicely in Linux.
You must say where "around here" is :-)
Since you are paying taxes, it makes sense you ask your government that ..err.. the tax program is cross-platform, no?
I know you are kidding, but actually one part of the government tax program can really run under Linux, but not tho whole package, You can use the online version from Windows, Linux or MAC.
The only problem is that I really don't understand what should I fill-in. That is a reason why I'm buying the additional tax software where I can use a simple wizard to fill all the forms. Then, the tax software uses government software to upload the tax report.
You're trolling. The default on Ubuntu is brasero, which gives you the option to burn on the fly right in the dialog.
Next time, pick a less transparent lie.
Mart
To support the claim:
Brasero features
Quoting:
Features
...
...
Data CD/DVD:
supports edition of discs contents (remove/move/rename files inside directories)
can burn data CD/DVD on the fly
"Why not?" is lousy marketing.
Look, Linux is a kernel. Users don't care about kernels.What users care about is the userland apps and user interface.
I supposed that we are talking about GNU/Linux (userland and kernel). And yes, GNU/Linux with it's kernel and it's applications works great for me. What is so strange in that?!
Windows offers them familiar apps and a familiar UI.
I use the same applications at work on my working Windows PC and Linux PC, as I use it at home. If you didn't notice, the number of exceptionally good open source applications is constantly raising. It doesn't mater if you are using Windows or Linux or MAC.
OS X offers them some better apps and a better UI.
You will need to quote some sources here...
iOS offers them a metric tonne of cheap apps and a slick UI. Android offers them the same sort of thing without less lock-down.... wait, you say that Android is Linux? Exactly. It's Linux with a userland and UI that offer something that matters to the user, something they don't get elsewhere.
We are talking about desktop here.
I'm just curious, but did you ever tried a decent Linux distro? Obviously not.
no, it does not. It works great, but it is not "grandma simple".
For me is important to be "me simple".
I only keep a Windows box around so I can play commercial games. For me, it's just a glorified game console.
I don't play commercial games anymore. The only reason why I have one virtual machine with Windows is to use Tax software and if I need something to scan (stupid cheap scanners)