It's amazing no one's mentioned TuxType so far. Just do 10-15 minutes every day as a rule, and you'll improve your technique in no time.
Even though I know how to touch type, I find that my technique deteriorates, and using Tux Typing for a week or so refreshes my skills, especially if I know I have a lot of typing to do for a given project.
The problem with this is that when the US wanted to ban offshore gambling sites, they did so not directly but through the backdoor by prohibiting credit card transactions to such offshore sites.
Whether it gets to that point or not is anybody's guess, but don't underestimate the US Government's penchant for trying to control anything and everything inside or outside its borders.
It's true that the all-in-one updater is a big advantage for Ubuntu vs. Windows.
As for trivial fixes being trivial-sized, that's not my experience. Often you'll see minor security updates in a huge multi-megabyte update for OpenOffice apps.
I wonder if a binary patch updater might be a good idea. Then again, it might be unwieldy to manage deltas (people might be starting from various different versions updating to the latest).
* Making food and handing it out (for free!) to your family, friends, and neighbors * Caroling for free in the holidays * Free sex (some have even institutionalized this theft as "marriage") * Developing software and giving it out... for free * Free thoughts and writing. Also get rid of WordPress, an enabler for the freebies. * Handing out free food to the homeless. * Free search engine results * Free web browsers * Free on-the-air TV signals
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Hmm, Slashdot messed up the apt link.
<a href="apt://tuxtype">
click here from FF to install</a>
turned into:
<a href="apt:tuxtype" title="apt" rel="nofollow">
click here from FF to install</a apt>
Anybody know a way to get protocols other than "http" to work?
It's amazing no one's mentioned TuxType so far. Just do 10-15 minutes every day as a rule, and you'll improve your technique in no time.
Even though I know how to touch type, I find that my technique deteriorates, and using Tux Typing for a week or so refreshes my skills, especially if I know I have a lot of typing to do for a given project.
sudo apt-get install tuxtype (or click here from FF to install).
Windows/Mac/BSD/RPM here.
The problem with this is that when the US wanted to ban offshore gambling sites, they did so not directly but through the backdoor by prohibiting credit card transactions to such offshore sites.
Whether it gets to that point or not is anybody's guess, but don't underestimate the US Government's penchant for trying to control anything and everything inside or outside its borders.
It's true that the all-in-one updater is a big advantage for Ubuntu vs. Windows.
As for trivial fixes being trivial-sized, that's not my experience. Often you'll see minor security updates in a huge multi-megabyte update for OpenOffice apps.
I wonder if a binary patch updater might be a good idea. Then again, it might be unwieldy to manage deltas (people might be starting from various different versions updating to the latest).
Is Windoze any different in this respect than most Linux distributions?
Ubuntu wants you to update with a trivial security fix, it seems, every day or so. And that's hundreds of megabytes of changes.
Care to share which OS themes (on Windows, Mac, or Linux) are appealing? To everybody?
The overly glossified Mac OS/X?
Plain grey Windows 2000? Primary colors WinXP? Ugly green/blue Vista/Win7?
Brown is just fine because it doesn't stand out. The main point of an app window is the app, not the window cruft.
I do agree the new light brown isn't bad. And the black one is OK too.
But the purple wallpaper is horrible. Please somebody fix that.
* Making food and handing it out (for free!) to your family, friends, and neighbors ... for free
* Caroling for free in the holidays
* Free sex (some have even institutionalized this theft as "marriage")
* Developing software and giving it out
* Free thoughts and writing. Also get rid of WordPress, an enabler for the freebies.
* Handing out free food to the homeless.
* Free search engine results
* Free web browsers
* Free on-the-air TV signals
The point is whether the ordinance is a good law, not whether the council has the right to enforce it.