I didn't even notice that until the end, and then I felt all dirty for clicking the link.
Of course he like it better than the ThinkPad and the Air, he hates IBM and he hates Apple.
Fan death is no joke. When I lived in Korea, old people without air conditioning would die from fan death in the dead of summer every year. I know some people may scoff and say it was heat stroke, but I KNOW Better. I've seen fan death on the news with my own eyes.
Radiohead is one of the few bands I like enough to buy their music without hearing it first. I bought the download for $5.00 ($6.00 after their fees), which is what I usually pay for a used CD anyway. This is a win win for me - I get it on release day, I'm supporting the band directly, and I'm not paying $15.00 for it.
I dunno. I was all set to get a Zen Vision M until this new gen of iPod came out.
Granted, I had to compile three libraries from CVS to get it to synch with Banshee, but that's the geek factor.
Been running compiz and Xgl on Ubuntu Dapper Drake for some months now (since way back in beta status) and the Quinnstorm and Reggaemanu compiz, Xgl, and Mesa debs are not only very very good, but very very stable as well. I cannot recommend this combination highly enough - it works really well. Dash me an email if you want the specifics.
Got the cheapo Winbook A210 at Microcenter, saved $250 by buying a mini-pci wireless card and antenna, slapped on an Ubuntu testing daily cd and my only issue was it tried to use my wired connection, rather than my wireless connection during the install.
After my first boot, I plugged in my WEP key, and I was off to the races. Seriously, that's all I had to configure - everything other piece of hardware worked right out of the box - off a 750MB CD no less. Vista comes on a DVD, with enough room for every driver under the sun and it couldn't detect my wireless or integrated graphics or my wired NIC.
My neighbor came over to get a "shareware" copy of WinXP Corp, and when I rotated the cube to get over to my filesystem browsing window to find the ISO and burn it for him, his first, and computer noob reaction was "Woah, what the hell is that??", after I demoed the wobbly and opaquefocus plugins, he says "So, do you think you could come over and install this for me some time?"
There seems to be a lot of animosity to Novell's path of development of Xgl (keeping it all inhouse until it was mostly done and then merging it back into the xorg tree), and this is the reaction to that.
Personally, having used Xgl and compiz since a few days after its release, I have to say I'm underwhelmed by AIGLX, I like the fact that everything is accelerated. This just smells like sour grapes to me.
I've been running Xgl and Compiz on Ubuntu and I have to say, the Novell guys are way out in front of Fedora for this, Xgl is ready for primetime and runs nearly flawlessly for me. This looks more like sour grapes over Novell holding onto Xgl until nearly the last minute before opening it up to the community. While I don't agree with how Novell developed this, it's hard to argue with the product.
Also in the US disaster preparedness and recovery are normally the venue of the States and localities. By tradition they are supposed to ask for aid.
After 1992 (and largely because of the lackluster response to Hurricaine Andrew) FEMA was raised to a cabinet level position to facilitate a better response. And FEMA was created in the first place to make this the job of the Federal Government, not State or Local, because the Feds have access to more resources.
FEMA is now part of the Department of Homeland Security, and judging their response to this, aren't you glad a major city hasn't been attacked since 9/11?
This was the IBM modus operandi during the heyday of the mainframe. Someone would announce a really great utility for sale, IBM swoops in and says "Oh yeah, we're doing that in our next OS release" - Company folds, feature is implemented in a half-assed way. Net gain: IBM.
And appropriation bills cannot be fillibustered. Which is why I have such heartache with this and the other things in this bill that have nothing to do with funding the mission in Iraq and Afghanistan. There was no floor debate on this act in the Senate - it got added on in comittee and is being rammed through.
It's chronologically the first in the set, but it details the Professor as a young boy going to Narnia when it was first formed, encountering the future White Witch, and other nifty things that make you want to go back and reread the first book after you're done. One of my favorites in the series along with The Silver Chair.
I have plenty of sarge and sid debs installed on ubuntu hoary - and I even use mariliat when I apt-get upgrade and to grab certain non free pacakges I want. No problems whatsoever.
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I didn't even notice that until the end, and then I felt all dirty for clicking the link. Of course he like it better than the ThinkPad and the Air, he hates IBM and he hates Apple.
Fan death is no joke. When I lived in Korea, old people without air conditioning would die from fan death in the dead of summer every year. I know some people may scoff and say it was heat stroke, but I KNOW Better. I've seen fan death on the news with my own eyes.
Radiohead is one of the few bands I like enough to buy their music without hearing it first. I bought the download for $5.00 ($6.00 after their fees), which is what I usually pay for a used CD anyway. This is a win win for me - I get it on release day, I'm supporting the band directly, and I'm not paying $15.00 for it.
I dunno. I was all set to get a Zen Vision M until this new gen of iPod came out. Granted, I had to compile three libraries from CVS to get it to synch with Banshee, but that's the geek factor.
Been running compiz and Xgl on Ubuntu Dapper Drake for some months now (since way back in beta status) and the Quinnstorm and Reggaemanu compiz, Xgl, and Mesa debs are not only very very good, but very very stable as well. I cannot recommend this combination highly enough - it works really well. Dash me an email if you want the specifics.
Got the cheapo Winbook A210 at Microcenter, saved $250 by buying a mini-pci wireless card and antenna, slapped on an Ubuntu testing daily cd and my only issue was it tried to use my wired connection, rather than my wireless connection during the install.
After my first boot, I plugged in my WEP key, and I was off to the races. Seriously, that's all I had to configure - everything other piece of hardware worked right out of the box - off a 750MB CD no less. Vista comes on a DVD, with enough room for every driver under the sun and it couldn't detect my wireless or integrated graphics or my wired NIC.
My neighbor came over to get a "shareware" copy of WinXP Corp, and when I rotated the cube to get over to my filesystem browsing window to find the ISO and burn it for him, his first, and computer noob reaction was "Woah, what the hell is that??", after I demoed the wobbly and opaquefocus plugins, he says "So, do you think you could come over and install this for me some time?"
There seems to be a lot of animosity to Novell's path of development of Xgl (keeping it all inhouse until it was mostly done and then merging it back into the xorg tree), and this is the reaction to that.
Personally, having used Xgl and compiz since a few days after its release, I have to say I'm underwhelmed by AIGLX, I like the fact that everything is accelerated. This just smells like sour grapes to me.
I've been running Xgl and Compiz on Ubuntu and I have to say, the Novell guys are way out in front of Fedora for this, Xgl is ready for primetime and runs nearly flawlessly for me. This looks more like sour grapes over Novell holding onto Xgl until nearly the last minute before opening it up to the community. While I don't agree with how Novell developed this, it's hard to argue with the product.
Ubuntu, i386, GeForce 5500, runs as smooth as glass. No issues at all.
Do what we say and no one gets hurt.
I Zimbra!
FEMA is now part of the Department of Homeland Security, and judging their response to this, aren't you glad a major city hasn't been attacked since 9/11?
I've been trying to get people to sign in all morning and play with the shiny new toy and no one will! scottricketts at gmail dot com
Ditto. I think I'll keep this account in my Gaim list and hit it again tomorrow.
This was the IBM modus operandi during the heyday of the mainframe. Someone would announce a really great utility for sale, IBM swoops in and says "Oh yeah, we're doing that in our next OS release" - Company folds, feature is implemented in a half-assed way. Net gain: IBM.
Genius reading.
Fantastic! Best comment yet!
And appropriation bills cannot be fillibustered. Which is why I have such heartache with this and the other things in this bill that have nothing to do with funding the mission in Iraq and Afghanistan. There was no floor debate on this act in the Senate - it got added on in comittee and is being rammed through.
It's chronologically the first in the set, but it details the Professor as a young boy going to Narnia when it was first formed, encountering the future White Witch, and other nifty things that make you want to go back and reread the first book after you're done. One of my favorites in the series along with The Silver Chair.
It doesn't work that way. It only cools solid objects. Knives and stuff.
Multi chicks? Lining up women in an SLI mode that would be willing to do so with me? THAT my friend, would be a great thing.
Mind you, it's price range is beyond my means, but that's why you have online shopping carts you can always clear out.
I have plenty of sarge and sid debs installed on ubuntu hoary - and I even use mariliat when I apt-get upgrade and to grab certain non free pacakges I want. No problems whatsoever.
Unlike the above, I get the joke.