Supposedly, the operating system that "we" made was supposed to have full keyboard support, so we won't have to leave our beloved home row, right?
Wrong. I had a mouse go bad one time, and found out just how wrong.
For starters, just to log off or turn the computer off, you have to click a button in the top panel (in Ubuntu/Gnome), but, although there's a shortcut for the top menu (Alt+F1), you can't get to the panel buttons from there.
Plenty of other annoyances as well, including being not able (or hardly able) to switch among different sections of a program (such as file browser or web browser) with the keyboard.
Protip: I think Gnome's supposed to have support for MouseKeys. I used to use it all the time in Windows, but haven't in Ubunutu. In Windows, there's a handy keyboard combo for turning it on and off. Without that, you've disabled your numpad.
That's really quite amazing that an industrial city like Pittsburgh would adopt such a radical provision, which could be good or bad depending on your view.
I wonder what the rights of nature would mean in practice. After all, Bambi can't file a lawsuit on her own.
This a really nasty piece of malware that actually prevents you from reaching any security-related sites.
This was also the impetus for my finally moving from XP to Ubuntu full-time.
Word for the wise: after you run a standard battery of antivirus programs, you should also run conciller.exe . That's the only way to get rid of it for good. Otherwise it embeds itself into system files and re-emerges even after you apply a service pack.
This was supposed to be the entire point of Ubuntu in the first place. If your preferred configuration is just a setting away, then why not just run Debian and make the 10 or 20 adjustments you need?
This. The whole Android kinda-sorta Java virtual machine kludge was just a hack to avoid paying Sun any money.
If they had come to a reasonable agreement with Sun paying them a couple hundred million for a catchall license, Sun could've still been in business. Of course, Sun had no business sense, either.
>Students may use OpenOffice, but only until they encounter some serious bug that threatens their paper (which will occur on the last night before submission date.)
What? Just substitute "Word" in that sentence and it would reasonably approximate the truth.
Has the poster of that sentence actually used Word for long (200+ pages) documents copiously illustrated with sections, headings, hanging indents, toc, index, etc.? Word crashes regularly. OO? Not once.
Yeah, just an anecdote, but I lost quite a bit of work (work for $$, not school).
Yes, I remember all the Star history. I was talking about from the time Oracle bought it. Poor planning/judgement on their part. They should have taken the community along, assured them that their bugs would be fixed, and there wouldn't have been any need for a fork.
-It's called COMPETITION
The very existence of OpenOffice changes the marketplace dynamic. No longer do people have no choice whatsoever. OpenOffice functions as a drag on the profitability of Office, one of the two MS cash cows that let it expand into other areas, like gaming.
What I was trying to get at was that it's asymmetrical. It's not as if Oracle has to spend the hundreds of millions or even billion that has gone into Office development to make M$ sweat. (Example which I hate to use: $20 boxcutters doing billions, some say $trillions of damage to the US.) Just a few million does a huge amount of damage to their competitor.
-Office and server products
It's like this: now that people have iPods and iPhones, they are very comfortable with the idea of buying an Apple computer. If people are using Office, they will be very comfortable with the idea of using MS server products (if not techs, then CxO's).
Similarly, OpenOffice is a gateway drug toward the open/Linux family of applications/servers.
I'm not saying anything that MS themselves did not say in leaked documents which have been posted on/. .
Well, one of the problems I see with the "if you don't like our proposal, we'll take our ball and play with an outside vendor" attitude is:
What happens when a department contracts with an outside entity and comes up with a scheme like we saw yesterday in the story about Citibank with the account number == URL fragment? (Just surmising, but the fact is vanilla cloud server employees have root access to all your data.)
So, I think it's not just a matter of "big, bad IT" spoiling the day again.
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Google's CFO's glad they didn't take the next step after pi: tau (6.28...)
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100% off on the India customer list
... fail.
Supposedly, the operating system that "we" made was supposed to have full keyboard support, so we won't have to leave our beloved home row, right?
Wrong. I had a mouse go bad one time, and found out just how wrong.
For starters, just to log off or turn the computer off, you have to click a button in the top panel (in Ubuntu/Gnome), but, although there's a shortcut for the top menu (Alt+F1), you can't get to the panel buttons from there.
Plenty of other annoyances as well, including being not able (or hardly able) to switch among different sections of a program (such as file browser or web browser) with the keyboard.
Protip: I think Gnome's supposed to have support for MouseKeys. I used to use it all the time in Windows, but haven't in Ubunutu. In Windows, there's a handy keyboard combo for turning it on and off. Without that, you've disabled your numpad.
Never upgrade your Linux distribution in place.
Have 2 (or more) OS partitions of about 20GB each.
Install your OS's to partition 1.
Install your upgraded version to partition 2.
Easily switch back and forth.
Oh, and keep a separate /home partition.
That was an expensive way to get a slashvertisement on the front page.
This goes beyond simple net neutrality.
The article also says Pittsburgh has also recognized the rights of nature. (Not natural rights, but the rights of the flora and fauna.)
http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/drafting-natures-constitution
That's really quite amazing that an industrial city like Pittsburgh would adopt such a radical provision, which could be good or bad depending on your view.
I wonder what the rights of nature would mean in practice. After all, Bambi can't file a lawsuit on her own.
Lime-powered?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lime_(fruit)
This a really nasty piece of malware that actually prevents you from reaching any security-related sites.
This was also the impetus for my finally moving from XP to Ubuntu full-time.
Word for the wise: after you run a standard battery of antivirus programs, you should also run conciller.exe . That's the only way to get rid of it for good. Otherwise it embeds itself into system files and re-emerges even after you apply a service pack.
More here.
Corporate-esque thinking by a 'droid throwing together a Powerpoint.
The thinking must be that the pirate sites are in low-traffic, undesirable segments of the Internet.
Meanwhile, "mainstream" sites that "normal people" go to should be fine.
I guess I could excuse dropping Synaptic if it weren't part of a disturbing trend.
The point is: defaults matter.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/defaults.html
This was supposed to be the entire point of Ubuntu in the first place. If your preferred configuration is just a setting away, then why not just run Debian and make the 10 or 20 adjustments you need?
Ubuntu forums discussion on defaults
Their words, not mine
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/06/the_war_on_phot.html
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/115726/
http://www.google.com/search?q=war+against+photography
OK, so you see corporations as a deviation.
But how would factories get built?
Do you have a webpage where you elaborate your views?
Would you care to elaborate what you would see as the capitalist ideal?
This. The whole Android kinda-sorta Java virtual machine kludge was just a hack to avoid paying Sun any money.
If they had come to a reasonable agreement with Sun paying them a couple hundred million for a catchall license, Sun could've still been in business. Of course, Sun had no business sense, either.
Following up on The Right to Read, posted in relation to a story yesterday, maybe we also need someone to write a parable about the right to sew.
OK, so somebody "stole" the length/width/heigth (sic) of the iPad.
But the right to sew is imperiled by the fashion copyright bill.
is because there are only, what, 4 ISPs left in the US?
Not like in the day when there were hundreds in every city.
The Feds would have had a hard time rounding up ISPs to do their bidding back then.
This.
Richard Stallman's famous parable about the Right to Read, and what will happen if intellectual monopoly laws continue to grow:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
>Students may use OpenOffice, but only until they encounter some serious bug that threatens their paper (which will occur on the last night before submission date.)
What? Just substitute "Word" in that sentence and it would reasonably approximate the truth.
Has the poster of that sentence actually used Word for long (200+ pages) documents copiously illustrated with sections, headings, hanging indents, toc, index, etc.? Word crashes regularly. OO? Not once.
Yeah, just an anecdote, but I lost quite a bit of work (work for $$, not school).
-releasing it in the wild
Yes, I remember all the Star history. I was talking about from the time Oracle bought it. Poor planning/judgement on their part. They should have taken the community along, assured them that their bugs would be fixed, and there wouldn't have been any need for a fork.
-It's called COMPETITION
The very existence of OpenOffice changes the marketplace dynamic. No longer do people have no choice whatsoever. OpenOffice functions as a drag on the profitability of Office, one of the two MS cash cows that let it expand into other areas, like gaming.
What I was trying to get at was that it's asymmetrical. It's not as if Oracle has to spend the hundreds of millions or even billion that has gone into Office development to make M$ sweat. (Example which I hate to use: $20 boxcutters doing billions, some say $trillions of damage to the US.) Just a few million does a huge amount of damage to their competitor.
-Office and server products
It's like this: now that people have iPods and iPhones, they are very comfortable with the idea of buying an Apple computer. If people are using Office, they will be very comfortable with the idea of using MS server products (if not techs, then CxO's).
Similarly, OpenOffice is a gateway drug toward the open/Linux family of applications/servers.
I'm not saying anything that MS themselves did not say in leaked documents which have been posted on /. .
1. If they were going to release it into the wild at the end, they should have done so at the beginning.
2. They fail to understand the advantage that MS Office integration brings in MS's SQL Server and other server strategy.
OpenOffice is the one thing that MS sales reps really hate. A few million investment can have a big impact on MS's bottom line.
Well, one of the problems I see with the "if you don't like our proposal, we'll take our ball and play with an outside vendor" attitude is:
What happens when a department contracts with an outside entity and comes up with a scheme like we saw yesterday in the story about Citibank with the account number == URL fragment? (Just surmising, but the fact is vanilla cloud server employees have root access to all your data.)
So, I think it's not just a matter of "big, bad IT" spoiling the day again.
We've got a runner!
How old was she?
Also, I assume she was actually a she, not using it as a generic pronoun.
I gave up my mod points to post that!
Anyway, sorry for taking an informative comment (yours), and focusing only on the single French word in it.
visa vi -> vis-a-vis
accent on the "a"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vis-a-vis