I admit I didn't stick to the LTS releases, but Linux changes so fast you end up with an even worse experience if you do use only the LTS anyway.
This might be a mistake on your side - AFAIK the Ubuntu team plus their beta-testers are mostly focused on upgrades from one previous version, PLUS previous LTS version of Ubuntu. So upgrades between LTS versions are usually well tested and discrepancies documented, if not solved before release.
So to get out of the cycle, just wait for next LTS version expected in April 2010, and then wait for another LTS version... unless they change their release process in the meantime:-)
You should think about what you say! You just want the dissenter to shut up and go exile, because he thinks the current system (the best one, as you say) can still be improved. From this I can only concur you're working in government and your position depends on the "grease" (pork etc.) that oils the hands of both plutocratic parties that are currently ruling over the land of the free and the home of the brave.
/me sees advertisers claiming that their "targets" are circumventing their double-ROT-13 content protection algorithm.. and asking DMCA-style action agains them.
(for mods.. i'm not sure if this is funny or prophetic)
(apologizing to moderators for not keeping on topic of Nano...)
Your reply seems to be "a bit" biased.
In the first link, they're buying back cars that are beyond warranty, partly because trying to make up for bad paint job in American factory. Pure PR job to improve their image.
In the second link, they have problems notifying customers - nothing special that other manufacturers couldn't possibly experience (how can anyone be sure of not having been missed in some other recall?)
In the third link, the data is only for 2008, method is unclear (probably total number of sold units of recalled models) and the site seems to be Chrysler-centric. I would like to see merged data for last 5 or 10 years to see something interesting.
Bystanders are innocent or guilty - depending on their actions. How can you be so sure that they were those who allowed the government to come to power, let alone supported it? Maybe there were not proper elections for ages..
The anti-war crowd is just as guilty of prejudice as you, every one of them who is accusing all Americans. Personally... half of you didn't vote for GWB, but I don't see any reason for the other half of Americans come to harms way, even if they voted in [insert swearword adjective of choice] government.
Well, you're right, especially on Amazon.co.uk - that's one of the shiny examples.
But some (usually non-EU-based) companies still don't recognize new EU countries. For example, ThinkGeek only added my home country (new EU-member) to their shipping destinations during last year, despite of the fact that neighboring countries (also new-EU members) were present there for many years before. I've been nagging them for years...
Lots of distributors still follow the DVD model, where world is divided into many boxes. In some parts, you cannot buy software X or movie Y at all. Somewhere, you're obliged to use PayPal, because they're afraid that your VISA credit card is different from US equivalent (WAKE UP!).
Some companies just don't see their customers outside of US, Canada, UK, and maybe France or Germany - they don't offer shipping outside selected countries. This is a big source of frustration for big part of EU, where there customers willing to pay for stuff... only to find out they must take other means to get it.
Gregorian Calendar system is used in Europe as well.. most of non-English nations start their weeks on Monday, maybe they had a glitch in their software;-)
there are cables/cradles on sale just for this very reason. check your store for usb accessories, and you'll save lots of climbing under the desk for just a couple of bucks.
screw my karma, man:)) > which i'd note is a *text* mode installer, not exactly 21st century is it? Expecting people to run X without X driver man? There is a thing called VESA driver, but nobody bothers setting it up unless there's no other way. > a 40mb download if you have the sources wget patch-[something].bz2 man patch But anyways I strongly agree with the rest of your comments (the failures on driver installation/usage are ridiculous in these days)
One idea is for the germans to hold 80% of AOL shares while 30% stay with Time Warner, a cooperation that would change the media-landscape. It would happen due to the deal-making of Middelhoff.
I guess that would change the landscape of math as well;-)
my own bit of the story: Deutsche telekom has stakes in many Telco companies, some of them still not quite unregulated (e.g. Slovak Telecom).. so the money flows in:)
"...India is full of incredibly ingenious people..." I have read (dont remember where) that India is the country with most progressive software development and with more software engineers than any other country of the world. Maybe its because of 1bil people living there... but it is strong reason for the government to provide Internet access for them, dont you think?
Similar thing is probably going to happen in Slovakia. The railroad company of Slovakia will become second phone operator after the end of monopoly of Slovak Telecom. I am sure it will extend its services towards Internet...
About two years ago, I saw a couple of keyboards in local PC-shop. They were quite usual, except some of them had trackball just where the arrow keys should be. Anothe one (equipped with touchpad) was in catalogue. They looked pretty, but I wasn't in need for new keyboard. I haven't seen similar keyboards since then...
You are mostly right about EU not being a country at all. It's only a union of independent countries. But those states are willing to create tight form of co-operation. According to Schengen declaration, you can drive across EU without being stopped at any border, except the outermost one (between EU member and another country). There is free trade (with some exceptions, too). And, not to forget, currency union.
I think EU is moving towards creating "a state of states" with political and economical power. Think about elections in Austria a bit - EU had pushed down the leader of FPO by political and economical attacks to whole Austria. But Austria isn't the topic now.
That's why I think the.eu domain would be good for companies operating across whole Europe (Union).
BTW. What about "Russia"? It isn't one state, it's group of states having one president and a cross-republic parliament... Those states have their own domains. Russia (the most-known state of them) has.ru. The whole group had.su domain, now the.su-NIC is.ru-NIC..ru is domain available for every state in Russia (the group of states) and another states have their own (.tj,.tm) plus.ru. Strange, isn't it?
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you didn't know the IKEA 19-inch rack solution? that's LACK :)
I admit I didn't stick to the LTS releases, but Linux changes so fast you end up with an even worse experience if you do use only the LTS anyway.
This might be a mistake on your side - AFAIK the Ubuntu team plus their beta-testers are mostly focused on upgrades from one previous version, PLUS previous LTS version of Ubuntu. So upgrades between LTS versions are usually well tested and discrepancies documented, if not solved before release.
So to get out of the cycle, just wait for next LTS version expected in April 2010, and then wait for another LTS version... unless they change their release process in the meantime :-)
Also, for bonus political points, periodically asking neighboring countries to shut down their nuclear power plants or stop building new ones :-)
moderation undo (sorry for OT)...
You should think about what you say! You just want the dissenter to shut up and go exile, because he thinks the current system (the best one, as you say) can still be improved.
From this I can only concur you're working in government and your position depends on the "grease" (pork etc.) that oils the hands of both plutocratic parties that are currently ruling over the land of the free and the home of the brave.
/me sees advertisers claiming that their "targets" are circumventing their double-ROT-13 content protection algorithm.. and asking DMCA-style action agains them.
(for mods.. i'm not sure if this is funny or prophetic)
Maybe they found out that optical tracking of clouds doesn't work reliably ;-) Or they got a late-night visit of sorts...
(apologizing to moderators for not keeping on topic of Nano...)
Your reply seems to be "a bit" biased.
In the first link, they're buying back cars that are beyond warranty, partly because trying to make up for bad paint job in American factory. Pure PR job to improve their image.
In the second link, they have problems notifying customers - nothing special that other manufacturers couldn't possibly experience (how can anyone be sure of not having been missed in some other recall?)
In the third link, the data is only for 2008, method is unclear (probably total number of sold units of recalled models) and the site seems to be Chrysler-centric. I would like to see merged data for last 5 or 10 years to see something interesting.
Saw it first time now.. you're not alone, it definitely has some hidden power :-)
Insightful? Prejudice!
Bystanders are innocent or guilty - depending on their actions. How can you be so sure that they were those who allowed the government to come to power, let alone supported it? Maybe there were not proper elections for ages..
The anti-war crowd is just as guilty of prejudice as you, every one of them who is accusing all Americans. Personally... half of you didn't vote for GWB, but I don't see any reason for the other half of Americans come to harms way, even if they voted in [insert swearword adjective of choice] government.
Well, you're right, especially on Amazon.co.uk - that's one of the shiny examples.
But some (usually non-EU-based) companies still don't recognize new EU countries. For example, ThinkGeek only added my home country (new EU-member) to their shipping destinations during last year, despite of the fact that neighboring countries (also new-EU members) were present there for many years before. I've been nagging them for years...
Unobtainable.. exactly.
Lots of distributors still follow the DVD model, where world is divided into many boxes. In some parts, you cannot buy software X or movie Y at all. Somewhere, you're obliged to use PayPal, because they're afraid that your VISA credit card is different from US equivalent (WAKE UP!).
Some companies just don't see their customers outside of US, Canada, UK, and maybe France or Germany - they don't offer shipping outside selected countries. This is a big source of frustration for big part of EU, where there customers willing to pay for stuff... only to find out they must take other means to get it.
And Veronica... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_(computer)
Gregorian Calendar system is used in Europe as well.. most of non-English nations start their weeks on Monday, maybe they had a glitch in their software ;-)
there are cables/cradles on sale just for this very reason. check your store for usb accessories, and you'll save lots of climbing under the desk for just a couple of bucks.
screw my karma, man :))
> which i'd note is a *text* mode installer, not exactly 21st century is it?
Expecting people to run X without X driver man? There is a thing called VESA driver, but nobody bothers setting it up unless there's no other way.
> a 40mb download if you have the sources
wget patch-[something].bz2
man patch
But anyways I strongly agree with the rest of your comments (the failures on driver installation/usage are ridiculous in these days)
are you sure it was a good & new 2.5" drive?
</flame>
just wait a while, Andrew will eventually update the patch as well :-)
hehe you could try Red dwarf as well...
"everybody's dead, Dave... comes to my mind"
One idea is for the germans to hold 80% of AOL shares while 30% stay with Time Warner, a cooperation that would change the media-landscape. It would happen due to the deal-making of Middelhoff.
;-)
:)
I guess that would change the landscape of math as well
my own bit of the story: Deutsche telekom has stakes in many Telco companies, some of them still not quite unregulated (e.g. Slovak Telecom).. so the money flows in
"...India is full of incredibly ingenious people..."
I have read (dont remember where) that India is the country with most progressive software development and with more software engineers than any other country of the world. Maybe its because of 1bil people living there... but it is strong reason for the government to provide Internet access for them, dont you think?
Similar thing is probably going to happen in Slovakia. The railroad company of Slovakia will become second phone operator after the end of monopoly of Slovak Telecom. I am sure it will extend its services towards Internet...
About two years ago, I saw a couple of keyboards in local PC-shop. They were quite usual, except some of them had trackball just where the arrow keys should be. Anothe one (equipped with touchpad) was in catalogue. They looked pretty, but I wasn't in need for new keyboard. I haven't seen similar keyboards since then...
You are mostly right about EU not being a country at all. It's only a union of independent countries. But those states are willing to create tight form of co-operation. According to Schengen declaration, you can drive across EU without being stopped at any border, except the outermost one (between EU member and another country). There is free trade (with some exceptions, too). And, not to forget, currency union.
I think EU is moving towards creating "a state of states" with political and economical power. Think about elections in Austria a bit - EU had pushed down the leader of FPO by political and economical attacks to whole Austria. But Austria isn't the topic now.
That's why I think the .eu domain would be good for companies operating across whole Europe (Union).
BTW. What about "Russia"? It isn't one state, it's group of states having one president and a cross-republic parliament... Those states have their own domains. Russia (the most-known state of them) has .ru. The whole group had .su domain, now the .su-NIC is .ru-NIC. .ru is domain available for every state in Russia (the group of states) and another states have their own (.tj, .tm) plus .ru. Strange, isn't it?
- The ad-owners will pay me for their consumption of my bandwidth. I have to pay every second from my phone bill, no free local calls...
- The ad-owners will prompt me if I want to see their offer. The ads are stupid when they come unwanted and draw away my attention (and money, too!)
It's simple to put an animated GIF on page when you know the other side of line will pay it...