Microsoft is best at locking up a market with its architecure, then convincing everyone in the market they have to buy into it. They're terrible at desiging that architecture to do more than lock in and work for the immediate release. So once everyone's locked in, they coast on momentum. Meanwhile the actual software sucks, and there's constant market demand pressure for others to fill the gap.
I like Open-Xchange, because it is feature-complete (though still somewhat buggy), supports open *DAV interfaces (and others like HTTP/LDAP/SMTP/IMAP/etc), and offers an Outlook "driver" that lets it drop-in replace Exchange without Outook (or even ActiveDirectory) even knowing the difference. Right now there's an opportunity for quality open (format, protocol, source, project) groupware apps to turn their niche beachheads into strategic assaults on Microsoft's complacency. The more the various open apps work together with the same open protocols, the more easily the Lilliputians will surround the hapless Gulliver, and take him (Microsoft) down to their level. Then commence to kick his ass at ground level, for the amusement of the onlooking market all dining on Lilliputware.
I watched as all the various plays were taken by the various players through the years. I'm biased because I know how Microsoft buys media and politicians to protect its anticompetitive monopoly. You're the one in fantasyland, who thinks the competitors just didn't compete well enough in the market.
Novell's NetWare was the #1 and #3 "PC Network OS", in two different versions, when Microsoft's late-1990s NT onslaught targeted it. IT media routinely compared the marketshare of either one or the other Novell versions to the combined marketshare of all Microsoft OS products, including DOS. Just one example of how IT buyers were sold lies to make the monopoly look like the only choice. While NetWare was a superior product, even more interoperable among MS OS products than the MS products were with each other.
Earlier, IBM's OS/2 suffered even more serious dirty tricks, bound by their "partnership" with MS in OS/2. No one serious believed that Windows was superior technology to OS/2.
Netscape was defeated by Microsoft's monopoly abuse, just as proven in the monopoly case against Microsoft. A travesty of a defense that should have seen Gates and his lying execs do jailtime for perjury, evidence tampering, and contempt of court. But despite being declared an abusive monopoly, in violation of their bundling consent agreement with the court, Microsoft has continued to bundle products with its monopoly package anticompetitively. They still get in some trouble, even today, for such practices. But once Bush took over the White House and Justice Department from Clinton, his Republican government let go of the solution to that problem. A clear case of political favoritism. No wonder, because the Republican Party is the Monopoly Party.
All of these facts are clear history. It is you who is denying them with your false revisions and fantasy world. And it is you, a consumer in the market, who is hurt by them. Unless you're a Microsoft employee or shareholder, in which case you're shortsighted in addition to amnesiac.
IBM backed the "Netscape" antitrust case the government won against Microsoft in the 1990s. That decision didn't protect consumers from Microsoft's monopoly abuse so well, but it did protect IBM's Lotus/Notes product line from Outlook/Exchange taking over the Internet. Let's see how well either of them fare, without a Republican government to protect Microsoft and with a real competition between them keeping them too busy to crush the smaller players entering the groupware market, especially on Linux servers. Interoperability is the most likely winner in a multilateral vendor competition.
I was working (learning) in the biggest graphics lab in the world at the time _Tron_ was made, Summer 1982. The New York Institute of Technology had a DEC VAX/VMS datacenter, with DEC GIGI graphics terminals and other rendering HW. We were busy scanning 1970s progressive rock album covers and inserting our own adventures into the cover art. Then Disney opened their Tron lab, and we weren't the biggest anymore - just another little college computer room.
It was like our bong hits wore off, just as someone else at the school prom dosed us all with LSD, then they started flying around the dance hall.
I knew it was possible, but thanx for saving me poring thru the man pages:).
Do you know if there's a way to visualize the dependency graph of that selections file, or other APT output? I want to prune out unfamiliar packages, but not if they're dependencies of pacakges I want to keep.
Of course there's a wide spectrum of "effective". Gorbachev's USSR and Hussein's Iraq were ineffective.
I usually vote for Democrats, though I'm not a member of their party, because they're fairly adequate managers (and sometimes excellent, like Clinton). But not so adequate that they can get the government organized to threaten my freedom. While Republicans are terribly ineffective, except for enriching their corporate cronies at the expense of threatening my freedom. So the choice is clear, if not entirely cheerful.
I like the American system that pits government against itself, distrusting it and its officers. I'm looking forward to its return.
1: Kennedy's been dead for over 40 years. Killed by Republicans, like his brother. 2: Kennedy was killed partly because he was withdrawing troops from Vietnam, thwarting the perennial Republican agenda for perennial war. 3: Even Kennedy's small, overt war in Vietnam didn't destroy the country. Certainly not like the bigger, covert wars around the world under every Republican have, and the huge, covert/overt wars - like Iraq. 4: I never mentioned Kennedy. He's been dead for over 40 years.
The guy you're looking to blame for Vietnam is Johnson. But then I'd mention Nixon, who ran on plans to end the war, but of course spiralled it out of control, and lost it. Which would bring up your boy Rumsfeld, the man who lost Vietnam while he was Secretary of Defense - or maybe while he was working for Nixon with your boy Cheney. The guy who failed to win Iraq while he was Secretary of Defense under Bush Sr, and is now busy destroying the country in every way, including another catastrophe in Iraq.
No, instead you'll throw out Kennedy - dead these 40 years by Republican assassins. Yep, you mention him only because his popularity and heroic legacy makes you and the rest of you Republicans look like pigfuckers. Anonymous pigfucker Coward.
As I said, I searched for the fix for the bug. I didn't find one, though this thread a couple of months later has turned up another person who might have the same bug.
I spend my programming/configuration/admin time on the most return possible. I don't use Linux to play around with it - I do so to solve problems. So yes, I'm lazy. If reinstalling rather than time-consuming debugging is the fastest way to solve my problem, I'll do it. While you're looking for someone to insult who's to blame for my problem, blame the programmers actually committed to developing my distro. But then, since you make the outrageous claim that "everything in Linux is documented", I'm sure you'd rather apologize for developers' inadequacies and slam users preference for getting our own jobs done.
Oh, and if you're going to act like such a Linux expert, you'll be better off suggesting the actual technique for using APT as I said I would for re/storing my installed apps. The kind of reason I use Linux, and have learned to listen only to the constructive Linux fans.
We're just seeing the whining of the ever-narcissistic Baby Boomers turning old and decrepit. Just like they act like they invented fun in the 1950s, they're acting like creativity is dying along with their own will to create.
Of course, theirs will become the conventional wisdom. Because the corporate media has incubated them from before conception to cashing in their life insurance. The truth doesn't matter, just the ease of marketing to Baby Boomers; fools ever easily separated from money, as long as the "truth" is "as seen on TV(TM)".
The rest of us will carry on without them, as we did before, during and after their blight on demographic marketing.
Jack Abramoff's casino clients pay "Christian" Republican politicians to write laws cutting out competition. Internet gambling is a big threat to their innumeracy scams, so of course there's a law against it.
Er, the only reason I want to reinstall is to fix this one bug. Otherwise, the Ubuntu ongoing upgrade automation thru APT suits me well. And OSX doesn't run on my x86 HW (yet, or ever).
I don't mean "damage", I mean "destroy". Damage that threatens the existence of the country, not just weakens it. How can the current damage compare to the damage by the Democrats?
I don't like the "either/or" theory. The switchbacks just create damage in each swing, never undone by the next, or even paid for.
I learned from history that the party system is more destructive to the country than it is even beneficial to its sponsors. A better theory is that political parties are conspiracies by their very nature, and must not retain exclusive control of politicians. At most, cross-endorsement by interested groups can be allowed, so voters can tell which politicians are consistent with which larger policy organizations, if any.
The political party duopoly is worse than any other merely commercial duopoly. And the Republican political monopoly has created more quantifiable destruction than any other, as advertised in their "starve the beast" policy to destroy the government.
Unfortunately, Bush has spent a solid 5 years and hundreds of billions of dollars destroying the infrastructure, "starving the beast" with one hand to "drown in a bathtub" the previous functional government, while feeding the unsustainable beast on which his cronies feast as America often literally drowns. So fixing the problem is a lot harder than seeing and describing it. Not that doing so is easy - most people don't do so, and even simple statements of the obvious problem get arguments like yours, which are not constructive. And typically "ironically" self referential: your complaint is merely the utmost "my polarized status quo party is doing better than yours".
But since you asked, I'll take a stab. Even though my solution is up against a problem designed for decades by legions of smart, or at least organized, corporate think tanks, followed by over a decade of their Republican Congress and a half decade of an entirely Republican government. And I'm posting a short, off the cuff comment in a Slashdot forum. But here's something:
Remove the overwhelming redundancy of the FBI, NSA, the CIA, the Department of Defense, and Homeland Security (including all its various police/military/intelligence offices). Especially the National Security Advisor, Director of Central Intelligence, Secretary of Defense, Director of Homeland Security, and whatever they call the "Intelligence Czar" this election cycle. Create the Domestic Police and Foreign Military under Executive Branch control, with House and Senate committees for each service with budget and performance supervision, including all operational rules. Create a single Intelligence Agency with completely separated Foreign and Domestic gathering departments, separate reporting departments for each "client" (Executive, Legislative, Judicial agencies, including the different military/police/policy consumers). The interior of Intelligence includes both groups for synthesizing information as well as enforcing lawful separation to prevent both domestic espionage and covert operations.
With Secretaries of Military, Intelligence and Police each in the Cabinet. Each of those three secretaries heads their own department, and serves as undersecretary in the others. Congress has supervision committees in each of the House and Senate for each of those three Executive agencies, and the Judicial Branch evaluates evidence submissible to each department/committee's ongoing investigations in overseeing the other.
Other than those restructures which should have been the plan of the vast undertaking known as "Department of Homeland Security", along with various other restructures like the "Intelligence Czar", all of which have obviously failed, I have my own set of extra patches. The attorney general should be nominated by the president, evaluated by the Justice Department, voted up/down by the House, confirmed or (more often) denied by the Senate. Dismissal/resignation/retirement should be by presidential application to the Justice Department, with "debrief" hearings by the relevant Senate and House supervision committees. No more Nixonian "Saturday Night Massacres". And, as mentioned, ongoing investigations by supervisory departments/committees, as well as a permanent investigation of the Executive staffed by the Judiciary and run by the Congress. Applying the fundamental American justice principle that humans are presumed innocent until proven guilty, while government is presumed guilty until proven innocent. With each balanced branch incented to watching, and catching, the other.
There's of course lots more to do. The election/finance/compensation/conflict system needs fundamental changes. But you asked about who to replace DHS. I expect the over $1TRILLION annual combined budget would be reduced to somewhere below $500BILLION. Since it would reduce warmongering, maybe below $300BILLION. That would balance the budget, and offer funding for higher-quality bureaucrats and experts. And the redundancy clearing would leave plenty of capable people from w
I use the GNOME desktop "update notifier" bundled in Ubuntu every few days when it offers upgrades. FWIW, it offers kernel upgrades (requiring reboot).
As I detailed in my post, I'm planning to reinstall the OS because the usual update system isn't fixing a bug. Since it seems that some component is corrupt, or some metadata, maybe the fonts themselves or their registration, I'm going to reinstall from scratch. Ubuntu's APT system will make reinstalling all my apps a lot easier. Maybe even selecting to rebuild them from source this time, and reviewing the collection to weed out unnecessary packages - one of which might be causing the problem.
I'm learning from my experience with the behemoth Windows, which years ago taught me to "just wipe and reinstall" to "solve" persistent problems. And which taught me that reinstalling apps is by far the hardest part of the process. Which in turn taught me to love APT.
But now that Linux is nearing the complexity of Windows, I find the same problematic techniques are appropriate. Which tells me someone (or many someones) are not learning from Windows' failures, but rather repeating them as they develop Linux.
I prefer the GNOME applications, especially Evolution. And GNOME's overall integration tech is more complete under the supposedly joint GNOME/KDE/etc desktop alliance specs. So I put up with the noncritical bugs, while friendly KDE users gently remind me that they don't have them. Of course, there are probably noncritical KDE bugs to annoy, but mainly I stay because the pros outweigh the cons.
And GNOME really loves me, and always apologizes so nice when the bruises really show:(.
If the 9/11/2001 planebombs (including direct hit on the Pentagon) and the ever-increasing terrorism rate since we invaded Iraq aren't enough for Bush to get even a passing grade in Homeland Security, he never will. Even the Katrina flood disaster, in which an entire American city was destroyed while Homeland Security's FEMA agency flailed, wasn't enough to get their asses in gear. Meanwhile, that vast catastophic failure of DHS is used to justify spying on Americans. Including spying on completely peaceful pacifists, just because they peacefully oppose Bush's war policies.
We have never been weaker or more unsafe. Our union is divided everywhere, persecuted by our government, churning our experienced national security personnel (including our military) into a useless, expensive albatross around our neck. If someone actually attacked us, we'd be worse off than before we got all these "warnings", many of which are already killing thousands of Americans.
Will the new version move most rendering operations into the GL hardware on my Inspiron8000's GeForce2Go? Without crashing my desktop like CompMgr does?
The detail of how they will accomplish anything is right there in your statement: it's their 2006 election year agenda. Vote out the corrupt, lazy Republicans, and replace them with corrupt, lazy Democrats. At least the Democrats' corruption doesn't destroy the country.
I'm glad they fixed some text rendering. Because after the last upgrade, my Ubuntu 5.10 renders text illegibly (some weird garbage font that does display properly after being selected with the cursor) in some apps, including Firefox and Evolution (but not Mozilla). I never even got a response to my discussions in the GNOME bug forums.
I'm hoping a reinstall of Ubuntu's next release, now delayed, will return the lost quality of the previous version with the promised speed of the next version.
And I'm hoping that biannual OS reinstalls aren't the price of a feature-complete OS, as Microsoft would have me believe.
Not only is your vehement "no" merely the uncited denials of an Anonymous Coward, another poster has actual eyewitness accounts that contradict you. As did the very public downtimes during the failures to switch.
As well as your own "guarantee" that their OS has been substantially changed to accomodate that "new" app. An app that didn't seem to require upgrading unix to originally deploy. An OS that, by its name alone, shows the depths of the switchover fiasco: they started switching in the late 1990s; the 2003 OS is "more robust" as a result; the migration is "still ongoing" in 2006. Everything you say is a lie, or evidence Windows wasn't adequate to the major task, or both.
And you don't know what "guarantee" means.
Why are the Microsoft apologists indistinguishable from the Bush apologists? It's a monopoly thing, I just don't understand.
Original post: "it took them years and many failed efforts to switch it over from unix to Windows". I said they switched. You can't turn years of failure into instant success just by loving Microsoft as hard as you can.
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Microsoft is best at locking up a market with its architecure, then convincing everyone in the market they have to buy into it. They're terrible at desiging that architecture to do more than lock in and work for the immediate release. So once everyone's locked in, they coast on momentum. Meanwhile the actual software sucks, and there's constant market demand pressure for others to fill the gap.
I like Open-Xchange, because it is feature-complete (though still somewhat buggy), supports open *DAV interfaces (and others like HTTP/LDAP/SMTP/IMAP/etc), and offers an Outlook "driver" that lets it drop-in replace Exchange without Outook (or even ActiveDirectory) even knowing the difference. Right now there's an opportunity for quality open (format, protocol, source, project) groupware apps to turn their niche beachheads into strategic assaults on Microsoft's complacency. The more the various open apps work together with the same open protocols, the more easily the Lilliputians will surround the hapless Gulliver, and take him (Microsoft) down to their level. Then commence to kick his ass at ground level, for the amusement of the onlooking market all dining on Lilliputware.
I watched as all the various plays were taken by the various players through the years. I'm biased because I know how Microsoft buys media and politicians to protect its anticompetitive monopoly. You're the one in fantasyland, who thinks the competitors just didn't compete well enough in the market.
Novell's NetWare was the #1 and #3 "PC Network OS", in two different versions, when Microsoft's late-1990s NT onslaught targeted it. IT media routinely compared the marketshare of either one or the other Novell versions to the combined marketshare of all Microsoft OS products, including DOS. Just one example of how IT buyers were sold lies to make the monopoly look like the only choice. While NetWare was a superior product, even more interoperable among MS OS products than the MS products were with each other.
Earlier, IBM's OS/2 suffered even more serious dirty tricks, bound by their "partnership" with MS in OS/2. No one serious believed that Windows was superior technology to OS/2.
Netscape was defeated by Microsoft's monopoly abuse, just as proven in the monopoly case against Microsoft. A travesty of a defense that should have seen Gates and his lying execs do jailtime for perjury, evidence tampering, and contempt of court. But despite being declared an abusive monopoly, in violation of their bundling consent agreement with the court, Microsoft has continued to bundle products with its monopoly package anticompetitively. They still get in some trouble, even today, for such practices. But once Bush took over the White House and Justice Department from Clinton, his Republican government let go of the solution to that problem. A clear case of political favoritism. No wonder, because the Republican Party is the Monopoly Party.
All of these facts are clear history. It is you who is denying them with your false revisions and fantasy world. And it is you, a consumer in the market, who is hurt by them. Unless you're a Microsoft employee or shareholder, in which case you're shortsighted in addition to amnesiac.
IBM backed the "Netscape" antitrust case the government won against Microsoft in the 1990s. That decision didn't protect consumers from Microsoft's monopoly abuse so well, but it did protect IBM's Lotus/Notes product line from Outlook/Exchange taking over the Internet. Let's see how well either of them fare, without a Republican government to protect Microsoft and with a real competition between them keeping them too busy to crush the smaller players entering the groupware market, especially on Linux servers. Interoperability is the most likely winner in a multilateral vendor competition.
I was working (learning) in the biggest graphics lab in the world at the time _Tron_ was made, Summer 1982. The New York Institute of Technology had a DEC VAX/VMS datacenter, with DEC GIGI graphics terminals and other rendering HW. We were busy scanning 1970s progressive rock album covers and inserting our own adventures into the cover art. Then Disney opened their Tron lab, and we weren't the biggest anymore - just another little college computer room.
It was like our bong hits wore off, just as someone else at the school prom dosed us all with LSD, then they started flying around the dance hall.
I think the last team in left their ship behind to blast the patient's brains out... to the sequel, stat!
I knew it was possible, but thanx for saving me poring thru the man pages :).
Do you know if there's a way to visualize the dependency graph of that selections file, or other APT output? I want to prune out unfamiliar packages, but not if they're dependencies of pacakges I want to keep.
Of course there's a wide spectrum of "effective". Gorbachev's USSR and Hussein's Iraq were ineffective.
I usually vote for Democrats, though I'm not a member of their party, because they're fairly adequate managers (and sometimes excellent, like Clinton). But not so adequate that they can get the government organized to threaten my freedom. While Republicans are terribly ineffective, except for enriching their corporate cronies at the expense of threatening my freedom. So the choice is clear, if not entirely cheerful.
I like the American system that pits government against itself, distrusting it and its officers. I'm looking forward to its return.
1: Kennedy's been dead for over 40 years. Killed by Republicans, like his brother.
2: Kennedy was killed partly because he was withdrawing troops from Vietnam, thwarting the perennial Republican agenda for perennial war.
3: Even Kennedy's small, overt war in Vietnam didn't destroy the country. Certainly not like the bigger, covert wars around the world under every Republican have, and the huge, covert/overt wars - like Iraq.
4: I never mentioned Kennedy. He's been dead for over 40 years.
The guy you're looking to blame for Vietnam is Johnson. But then I'd mention Nixon, who ran on plans to end the war, but of course spiralled it out of control, and lost it. Which would bring up your boy Rumsfeld, the man who lost Vietnam while he was Secretary of Defense - or maybe while he was working for Nixon with your boy Cheney. The guy who failed to win Iraq while he was Secretary of Defense under Bush Sr, and is now busy destroying the country in every way, including another catastrophe in Iraq.
No, instead you'll throw out Kennedy - dead these 40 years by Republican assassins. Yep, you mention him only because his popularity and heroic legacy makes you and the rest of you Republicans look like pigfuckers. Anonymous pigfucker Coward.
As I said, I searched for the fix for the bug. I didn't find one, though this thread a couple of months later has turned up another person who might have the same bug.
I spend my programming/configuration/admin time on the most return possible. I don't use Linux to play around with it - I do so to solve problems. So yes, I'm lazy. If reinstalling rather than time-consuming debugging is the fastest way to solve my problem, I'll do it. While you're looking for someone to insult who's to blame for my problem, blame the programmers actually committed to developing my distro. But then, since you make the outrageous claim that "everything in Linux is documented", I'm sure you'd rather apologize for developers' inadequacies and slam users preference for getting our own jobs done.
Oh, and if you're going to act like such a Linux expert, you'll be better off suggesting the actual technique for using APT as I said I would for re/storing my installed apps. The kind of reason I use Linux, and have learned to listen only to the constructive Linux fans.
We're just seeing the whining of the ever-narcissistic Baby Boomers turning old and decrepit. Just like they act like they invented fun in the 1950s, they're acting like creativity is dying along with their own will to create.
Of course, theirs will become the conventional wisdom. Because the corporate media has incubated them from before conception to cashing in their life insurance. The truth doesn't matter, just the ease of marketing to Baby Boomers; fools ever easily separated from money, as long as the "truth" is "as seen on TV(TM)".
The rest of us will carry on without them, as we did before, during and after their blight on demographic marketing.
Jack Abramoff's casino clients pay "Christian" Republican politicians to write laws cutting out competition. Internet gambling is a big threat to their innumeracy scams, so of course there's a law against it.
Er, the only reason I want to reinstall is to fix this one bug. Otherwise, the Ubuntu ongoing upgrade automation thru APT suits me well. And OSX doesn't run on my x86 HW (yet, or ever).
I don't mean "damage", I mean "destroy". Damage that threatens the existence of the country, not just weakens it. How can the current damage compare to the damage by the Democrats?
I don't like the "either/or" theory. The switchbacks just create damage in each swing, never undone by the next, or even paid for.
I learned from history that the party system is more destructive to the country than it is even beneficial to its sponsors. A better theory is that political parties are conspiracies by their very nature, and must not retain exclusive control of politicians. At most, cross-endorsement by interested groups can be allowed, so voters can tell which politicians are consistent with which larger policy organizations, if any.
The political party duopoly is worse than any other merely commercial duopoly. And the Republican political monopoly has created more quantifiable destruction than any other, as advertised in their "starve the beast" policy to destroy the government.
Unfortunately, Bush has spent a solid 5 years and hundreds of billions of dollars destroying the infrastructure, "starving the beast" with one hand to "drown in a bathtub" the previous functional government, while feeding the unsustainable beast on which his cronies feast as America often literally drowns. So fixing the problem is a lot harder than seeing and describing it. Not that doing so is easy - most people don't do so, and even simple statements of the obvious problem get arguments like yours, which are not constructive. And typically "ironically" self referential: your complaint is merely the utmost "my polarized status quo party is doing better than yours".
But since you asked, I'll take a stab. Even though my solution is up against a problem designed for decades by legions of smart, or at least organized, corporate think tanks, followed by over a decade of their Republican Congress and a half decade of an entirely Republican government. And I'm posting a short, off the cuff comment in a Slashdot forum. But here's something:
Remove the overwhelming redundancy of the FBI, NSA, the CIA, the Department of Defense, and Homeland Security (including all its various police/military/intelligence offices). Especially the National Security Advisor, Director of Central Intelligence, Secretary of Defense, Director of Homeland Security, and whatever they call the "Intelligence Czar" this election cycle. Create the Domestic Police and Foreign Military under Executive Branch control, with House and Senate committees for each service with budget and performance supervision, including all operational rules. Create a single Intelligence Agency with completely separated Foreign and Domestic gathering departments, separate reporting departments for each "client" (Executive, Legislative, Judicial agencies, including the different military/police/policy consumers). The interior of Intelligence includes both groups for synthesizing information as well as enforcing lawful separation to prevent both domestic espionage and covert operations.
With Secretaries of Military, Intelligence and Police each in the Cabinet. Each of those three secretaries heads their own department, and serves as undersecretary in the others. Congress has supervision committees in each of the House and Senate for each of those three Executive agencies, and the Judicial Branch evaluates evidence submissible to each department/committee's ongoing investigations in overseeing the other.
Other than those restructures which should have been the plan of the vast undertaking known as "Department of Homeland Security", along with various other restructures like the "Intelligence Czar", all of which have obviously failed, I have my own set of extra patches. The attorney general should be nominated by the president, evaluated by the Justice Department, voted up/down by the House, confirmed or (more often) denied by the Senate. Dismissal/resignation/retirement should be by presidential application to the Justice Department, with "debrief" hearings by the relevant Senate and House supervision committees. No more Nixonian "Saturday Night Massacres". And, as mentioned, ongoing investigations by supervisory departments/committees, as well as a permanent investigation of the Executive staffed by the Judiciary and run by the Congress. Applying the fundamental American justice principle that humans are presumed innocent until proven guilty, while government is presumed guilty until proven innocent. With each balanced branch incented to watching, and catching, the other.
There's of course lots more to do. The election/finance/compensation/conflict system needs fundamental changes. But you asked about who to replace DHS. I expect the over $1TRILLION annual combined budget would be reduced to somewhere below $500BILLION. Since it would reduce warmongering, maybe below $300BILLION. That would balance the budget, and offer funding for higher-quality bureaucrats and experts. And the redundancy clearing would leave plenty of capable people from w
I use the GNOME desktop "update notifier" bundled in Ubuntu every few days when it offers upgrades. FWIW, it offers kernel upgrades (requiring reboot).
As I detailed in my post, I'm planning to reinstall the OS because the usual update system isn't fixing a bug. Since it seems that some component is corrupt, or some metadata, maybe the fonts themselves or their registration, I'm going to reinstall from scratch. Ubuntu's APT system will make reinstalling all my apps a lot easier. Maybe even selecting to rebuild them from source this time, and reviewing the collection to weed out unnecessary packages - one of which might be causing the problem.
I'm learning from my experience with the behemoth Windows, which years ago taught me to "just wipe and reinstall" to "solve" persistent problems. And which taught me that reinstalling apps is by far the hardest part of the process. Which in turn taught me to love APT.
But now that Linux is nearing the complexity of Windows, I find the same problematic techniques are appropriate. Which tells me someone (or many someones) are not learning from Windows' failures, but rather repeating them as they develop Linux.
I prefer the GNOME applications, especially Evolution. And GNOME's overall integration tech is more complete under the supposedly joint GNOME/KDE/etc desktop alliance specs. So I put up with the noncritical bugs, while friendly KDE users gently remind me that they don't have them. Of course, there are probably noncritical KDE bugs to annoy, but mainly I stay because the pros outweigh the cons.
:(.
And GNOME really loves me, and always apologizes so nice when the bruises really show
If the 9/11/2001 planebombs (including direct hit on the Pentagon) and the ever-increasing terrorism rate since we invaded Iraq aren't enough for Bush to get even a passing grade in Homeland Security, he never will. Even the Katrina flood disaster, in which an entire American city was destroyed while Homeland Security's FEMA agency flailed, wasn't enough to get their asses in gear. Meanwhile, that vast catastophic failure of DHS is used to justify spying on Americans. Including spying on completely peaceful pacifists, just because they peacefully oppose Bush's war policies.
We have never been weaker or more unsafe. Our union is divided everywhere, persecuted by our government, churning our experienced national security personnel (including our military) into a useless, expensive albatross around our neck. If someone actually attacked us, we'd be worse off than before we got all these "warnings", many of which are already killing thousands of Americans.
These clowns have got to go.
Will the new version move most rendering operations into the GL hardware on my Inspiron8000's GeForce2Go? Without crashing my desktop like CompMgr does?
The detail of how they will accomplish anything is right there in your statement: it's their 2006 election year agenda. Vote out the corrupt, lazy Republicans, and replace them with corrupt, lazy Democrats. At least the Democrats' corruption doesn't destroy the country.
I'm glad they fixed some text rendering. Because after the last upgrade, my Ubuntu 5.10 renders text illegibly (some weird garbage font that does display properly after being selected with the cursor) in some apps, including Firefox and Evolution (but not Mozilla). I never even got a response to my discussions in the GNOME bug forums.
I'm hoping a reinstall of Ubuntu's next release, now delayed, will return the lost quality of the previous version with the promised speed of the next version.
And I'm hoping that biannual OS reinstalls aren't the price of a feature-complete OS, as Microsoft would have me believe.
Not only is your vehement "no" merely the uncited denials of an Anonymous Coward, another poster has actual eyewitness accounts that contradict you. As did the very public downtimes during the failures to switch.
As well as your own "guarantee" that their OS has been substantially changed to accomodate that "new" app. An app that didn't seem to require upgrading unix to originally deploy. An OS that, by its name alone, shows the depths of the switchover fiasco: they started switching in the late 1990s; the 2003 OS is "more robust" as a result; the migration is "still ongoing" in 2006. Everything you say is a lie, or evidence Windows wasn't adequate to the major task, or both.
And you don't know what "guarantee" means.
Why are the Microsoft apologists indistinguishable from the Bush apologists? It's a monopoly thing, I just don't understand.
We're just viruses infecting a milkyway cell.
Coming this November: the Bush administration unveils cyborg voters from the Diebold Agency.
Original post: "it took them years and many failed efforts to switch it over from unix to Windows". I said they switched. You can't turn years of failure into instant success just by loving Microsoft as hard as you can.