For what it's worth, the Dutch GreenLeft MP Arjan El Fassed asked written questions in Parliament about American pressure on EU countries to support internet freedom-threatening laws.
The HTC Flyer is especially designed for this type of usage. It comes with a stylus and full Evernote integration. Plenty of demo videos on Youtube, if you want to know more.
As a techie, I like DDG. But my girlfriend who is used to Google's regionally optimized results doesn't like it at all. When looking for some article for shopping online she wants results from Dutch webshops, not US-based ones.
If you want to put items on your desktop, that's simple: use gnome-tweak-tool or set the org.gnome.desktop.background.show-desktop-icons property to true manually.
The fact that this isn't enabled by default doesn't convey an arrogant attitude, but is a simple design decision that flows from the fact that Gnome3 doesn't implement a traditional desktop metaphor, and it wants to minimize visual distraction. For sure, this doesn't mean Gnome 3 is finished. It's only just taking off. There's a lot more in store in the area of 'finding and reminding' in upcoming releases, for instance. In the mean time you can try out some of the Gnome Shell Extensions to tweak the environment to your liking.
I could understand it if they used Gnome2 as the foundation, and added to it, but they didn't.
That makes so little sense I can hardly believe you actually wrote that. Basically, the major (visual) change between Gnome 2.32 and Gnome 3.0 is that Metacity and gnome-panel have been replaced by Gnome Shell, in the default configuration that is. Did you really think that the Gnome developers put thousands of man-hours of development effort in the trash and started over from scratch?!
I open a Konqueror window w/ the folder that has those music files - be they mp3, wma, m4a or whatever, and I just put my cursor on the file - don't even open it. As long as my cursor is on top of it, the song in question plays. If I move my cursor away from that file, it instantly stops. If I wanted the playing to be uninterrupted, I'd go ahead and open the file in question w/ the music player of my choice - and under KDE, there are some 6 or more of them, not counting the video players. It's not doable under Gnome 2
Funny that you should give that as an example. Nautilus has been doing the same thing since at least 2004, probably earlier.
The GNOME Conference (GUADEC) will be in The Hague (NL) this year from July 26-30.
You can bet there'll be a lot of GNOME 3.0 hacking going on there.
More information: see the GUADEC website.
This happens wherever people's livelihood depends on Government Grants. Invariably, someone will end up committing fraud to keep getting the grants.
And what makes you think the situation would be better if people's livelihood depended on non-government grants? Are you suggesting that the private sector is a shiny beacon of objectivity that wouldn't ever want something "proven" for them?
And when perfectly legitimate questions are posed, by perfectly reasonable people, the answer tends not to be scientific debate, but rather arguments from authority, personal attacks, handwaving, etc.
Care to provide some evidence backing up that assertion? I have seen a number of reports on researchers who have taken the time to invalidate skeptics' claims with facts and hard data (including all the "climategate" emails). What "personal attacks, handwaving etc." are you talking about?
OT, but: Is being "politically correct" such a stigma nowadays that you have to defend yourself to the accusation by declaring that you adhere to a "non-PC" viewpoint in an entirely unrelated matter?
By any chance did you use the "dual" (works on both i586 and x86_64) iso for installation? It's made for a minimal install, but you can simply setup the software repositories with rpmdrake and install anything you like (KDE is under the task-kde metapackage).
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Mod parent funny! (at least if you know your Ghostbusters classics)
Evolution was still at Ximian, to be exact. (Imagine how old I must feel now.)
It isn't. Gnome-tweak-tool will allow you to do the same thing, without any network connectivity required.
For what it's worth, the Dutch GreenLeft MP Arjan El Fassed asked written questions in Parliament about American pressure on EU countries to support internet freedom-threatening laws.
So maybe for once they could take all this money from donations and build say a windfarm and sell clean electric energy to people?
Guess what Greenpeace Germany is doing!
The HTC Flyer is especially designed for this type of usage. It comes with a stylus and full Evernote integration. Plenty of demo videos on Youtube, if you want to know more.
but I just use Firefox for the desktop integration (I use GNOME 3) and because it's much more configurable than Chrome right now.
If you think Firefox integrates in the GNOME 3 desktop, wait until you try Epiphany.
As a techie, I like DDG. But my girlfriend who is used to Google's regionally optimized results doesn't like it at all. When looking for some article for shopping online she wants results from Dutch webshops, not US-based ones.
If you want to put items on your desktop, that's simple: use gnome-tweak-tool or set the org.gnome.desktop.background.show-desktop-icons property to true manually. The fact that this isn't enabled by default doesn't convey an arrogant attitude, but is a simple design decision that flows from the fact that Gnome3 doesn't implement a traditional desktop metaphor, and it wants to minimize visual distraction. For sure, this doesn't mean Gnome 3 is finished. It's only just taking off. There's a lot more in store in the area of 'finding and reminding' in upcoming releases, for instance. In the mean time you can try out some of the Gnome Shell Extensions to tweak the environment to your liking.
How about you try it for more than 5 minutes (say, 5 days), instead of 'immediately' switching away?
I could understand it if they used Gnome2 as the foundation, and added to it, but they didn't.
That makes so little sense I can hardly believe you actually wrote that. Basically, the major (visual) change between Gnome 2.32 and Gnome 3.0 is that Metacity and gnome-panel have been replaced by Gnome Shell, in the default configuration that is. Did you really think that the Gnome developers put thousands of man-hours of development effort in the trash and started over from scratch?!
I open a Konqueror window w/ the folder that has those music files - be they mp3, wma, m4a or whatever, and I just put my cursor on the file - don't even open it. As long as my cursor is on top of it, the song in question plays. If I move my cursor away from that file, it instantly stops. If I wanted the playing to be uninterrupted, I'd go ahead and open the file in question w/ the music player of my choice - and under KDE, there are some 6 or more of them, not counting the video players. It's not doable under Gnome 2
Funny that you should give that as an example. Nautilus has been doing the same thing since at least 2004, probably earlier.
Nice, but do you have a link to a HOWTO for your setup for mere mortals?
Read the release notes in your favorite language here: http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.0/
Are you aware that Gnome Shell is programmed in Javascript?
Yeah. Because you know, when Mandriva gets bought, your Linux installation will stop working instantly!
The GNOME Conference (GUADEC) will be in The Hague (NL) this year from July 26-30. You can bet there'll be a lot of GNOME 3.0 hacking going on there. More information: see the GUADEC website.
And a new pdf viewer window is exactly what you want in this case. (Unless your browser is your OS, of course...)
No, you should click it and have it opened automatically in your pdf reader. That doesn't take more than one click.
The real WTF is that you are trying to view a PDF in your browser in the first place. Try opening it with a real pdf viewer instead.
This happens wherever people's livelihood depends on Government Grants. Invariably, someone will end up committing fraud to keep getting the grants.
And what makes you think the situation would be better if people's livelihood depended on non-government grants? Are you suggesting that the private sector is a shiny beacon of objectivity that wouldn't ever want something "proven" for them?
And when perfectly legitimate questions are posed, by perfectly reasonable people, the answer tends not to be scientific debate, but rather arguments from authority, personal attacks, handwaving, etc.
Care to provide some evidence backing up that assertion? I have seen a number of reports on researchers who have taken the time to invalidate skeptics' claims with facts and hard data (including all the "climategate" emails). What "personal attacks, handwaving etc." are you talking about?
OT, but: Is being "politically correct" such a stigma nowadays that you have to defend yourself to the accusation by declaring that you adhere to a "non-PC" viewpoint in an entirely unrelated matter?
By any chance did you use the "dual" (works on both i586 and x86_64) iso for installation? It's made for a minimal install, but you can simply setup the software repositories with rpmdrake and install anything you like (KDE is under the task-kde metapackage).
I tried to install Mandriva 2010, but aparently its installer doesn't think my SSD is a harddrive...
Please don't forget to file a bug. Thanks!