I personally think the (very improbably) reason that in German "Windows Nine" would sound like "Windows NEIN!" or, well, "Windows NO!", and thus causing failure in the German market was the best explanation;-)
Thanks! I'm looking at the install script provided for Linux. Relatively decent, and they add their own repos which I consider very good. It would be even better if the installation were a.deb that you could doubleclick, actually doing these actions (adding a repo, etc.) just like Steam (or Skype) does, but the basics seem quite decent.
I haven't found the source code yet. Will keep looking.
It probably means they had decent people consulting the decision makers. For my country it feels as if someone sold them an "enterprise solution", but "enterprise solutions" are made for homogenic controlled computing environments. That's not what a population/country is.
Truly just a question: How proprietary is it exactly? Most solutions I've seen for all this stuff are highly proprietary and usually don't play well with Linux (or even macOS). Did Estonia solve this? My country also had the ambition to become a leader in digital identities. Their Gemalto-based signing cards/sticks sucked donkeys balls, and only ever correctly worked on Windows and that only if you kept the balance between up-to-date and working software just right.
By now, the whole country has basically been forced to get a 2FA Token (which you can only use for banking or state stuff, it's not as if I can couple it to auth to my ssh servers). Technically they call it a signing server token, so - if I understand it correctly - a server signs on your behalf if you authenticate right. It is also immensely funny when their service is down.
At least that thing works with non-Microsoft systems, so that's good.
Many non-tech people think there is no other option. O365 is the 'new office', like in 2003, Office 2003 was the 'new office'. People outside of slashdot.org don't understand these subtle differences.
It happens all over the place. Recently, I recommended an iPhone SE to someone with smartphone needs but rather limited ones. The question was then: I never heard of the SE, but the X is the newest one, isn't it? Shouldn't I get that instead. (My reply was: if you want to spend 1000€, go ahead. )
Be careful with such large PST files. They get unstable very quickly and you might lose your 12 years worth of email.
My over 15 years worth of email is on a self hosted IMAP server using MailDir format. That means it's very stable, is theoretically readable with a text editor and gets an automatic backup every night.
My wife had a smashed ancle, an external fractured tibia and a broken back. While after surgery she always had drip morphine, they always got rid of it as quickly as possible. After that paracetamol and ibuprofen. Massive amounts, I admit. She was in pain for years, until she got a phrostetic ancle. Destroyed joints is one of the most painful things you can have.
The one bundled with Ubuntu 18.04, developer branch. Others have said it should be there. I can only suppose my upgrade went wrong. It's exactly what I want to see...
Because I found the results not great. Tried it with notify-send. Not as seamless as you'd expect and the fact that my script runs as root and my desktop runs as me. Notify-send does not like that.
Oh, I tried that. The notifications tools from shell suck hard. Never mind that script runs as root and the desktop doesn't. Complicates stuff. So, learn phython and an API and and and... just to pull up a connection? Seriously? No. A simple script does the job.
It was upgraded from 16.04 with do-release-update -d... today! I'll have to look tomorrow (machine is at work), but what you say was not there when I wrote those comments. I'd send you screenshots, but this is slashdot. I assure you I clicked everywhere I could think of, right-clicked everywhere I could think of and tried finding tooltips (hover over). That's how you discover unknown interfaces. I guess upgrading is a no-go and I should reinstall from ISO, right?
Network Settings? Sure, I can get those. It will say "automatic" (DHCP) and that's it. It will not give your actual settings, it will not give wifi speed (as it did in 16.04), etc... Yes, Ubuntu is targeted to simplicity, but there is such a thing as dumbing down too much. Even worse is taking away useful functionality.
Yes, in my 16.04/Unity there is exactly the same feature. (I don't have only one machine. I upgraded an expendable one) I tested 18.04 development branch and it misses there. We're 1 month from release, and I doubt such a fundamental feature will be added at the last stretch. Now, I guess Xubuntu may do this better...
Fair enough. What I am illustrating is that there was a nice feature, and it got taken away. That is the "Gnome" way of doing things. Another example? Gnome-terminal: before you could specify in the interface how double-click on the text would behave (usually select a word based on delimiter characters). That was changed. "Too advanced". It now is a gsettings command.
I am well aware that I will most likely have to switch to MATE or Cinnamon in order to change my experience. Defaults matter! How many of us have cursed Windows and its programmers because to get a usable desktop you have to change two dozen settings to make an acceptable desktop? Well, with Ubuntu I used to get something very decent out of the box. Now, I need to tweak as much as before...
Tweaks make support harder: If I need to help someone, it is most likely that they have the default settings and I have to be extra careful when assuming things. (For a Windows comparison: never assume you can see file extensions)
I mean something like this. Scroll down to the screenshot "NetworkManager’s Connection Information". A commenter below says something like that exists in Fedora Core. it doesn't in Ubuntu 18.04.
I have my reasons: I use a specific feature of OpenVPN that isn't included in NetworkManager configuration plugins (http-proxy-option AGENT to be specific). Given I need to launch that using a script (basically a desktop file added to my dock, that launches pkexec with a script I wrote, which in turn launches openvpn using systemd. Launching the same script again toggles the VPN off again. It's just a script: I don't get visual feedback whether the connection is actually running correctly. At that point, I just opened up the graphical IP address info and I'd know I'd be on tun0 running off the VPN.
So, instead of now just double clicking on my dock icon, and entering the password, and then checking (graphically) whether tun0 is available, I need to load up the terminal and look at my interfaces. Is it hard? No. It was just very convenient before.
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I know. I actually know German. It ruins the joke though.
I personally think the (very improbably) reason that in German "Windows Nine" would sound like "Windows NEIN!" or, well, "Windows NO!", and thus causing failure in the German market was the best explanation ;-)
I haven't found the source code yet. Will keep looking.
It probably means they had decent people consulting the decision makers. For my country it feels as if someone sold them an "enterprise solution", but "enterprise solutions" are made for homogenic controlled computing environments. That's not what a population/country is.
By now, the whole country has basically been forced to get a 2FA Token (which you can only use for banking or state stuff, it's not as if I can couple it to auth to my ssh servers). Technically they call it a signing server token, so - if I understand it correctly - a server signs on your behalf if you authenticate right. It is also immensely funny when their service is down.
At least that thing works with non-Microsoft systems, so that's good.
I just run my own. Not that hard.
It happens all over the place. Recently, I recommended an iPhone SE to someone with smartphone needs but rather limited ones. The question was then: I never heard of the SE, but the X is the newest one, isn't it? Shouldn't I get that instead. (My reply was: if you want to spend 1000€, go ahead. )
This comment is to undo an accidental "offtopic" moderation. Please carry on.
Yeah, I see. I don't think you know what floating point is and in what context to use it. Hint: FPGA is not it.
What you are looking for is "Field Programmable Gate Array".
Where is the slashdot of my youth?
My over 15 years worth of email is on a self hosted IMAP server using MailDir format. That means it's very stable, is theoretically readable with a text editor and gets an automatic backup every night.
Yes, we live in Europe.
I'm also pretty sure normal people didn't notice. I most certainly didn't.
The differences between C/Java/Pascal and Haskell, Lisp and Prolog aren't merely syntactic.
The one bundled with Ubuntu 18.04, developer branch. Others have said it should be there. I can only suppose my upgrade went wrong. It's exactly what I want to see...
It's what I plan to do. I was just shocked how poor the stock Ubuntu interface is.
Because I found the results not great. Tried it with notify-send. Not as seamless as you'd expect and the fact that my script runs as root and my desktop runs as me. Notify-send does not like that.
Oh, I tried that. The notifications tools from shell suck hard. Never mind that script runs as root and the desktop doesn't. Complicates stuff. So, learn phython and an API and and and... just to pull up a connection? Seriously? No. A simple script does the job.
Where is the time that upgrades actually worked?
Let's just say I expected better from open source.
No. That's not the IP address I'm talking about. If you do that you'll get the gateways IP address, not the local one. Totally different things.
Network Settings? Sure, I can get those. It will say "automatic" (DHCP) and that's it. It will not give your actual settings, it will not give wifi speed (as it did in 16.04), etc... Yes, Ubuntu is targeted to simplicity, but there is such a thing as dumbing down too much. Even worse is taking away useful functionality.
Yes, in my 16.04/Unity there is exactly the same feature. (I don't have only one machine. I upgraded an expendable one) I tested 18.04 development branch and it misses there. We're 1 month from release, and I doubt such a fundamental feature will be added at the last stretch. Now, I guess Xubuntu may do this better...
I am well aware that I will most likely have to switch to MATE or Cinnamon in order to change my experience. Defaults matter! How many of us have cursed Windows and its programmers because to get a usable desktop you have to change two dozen settings to make an acceptable desktop? Well, with Ubuntu I used to get something very decent out of the box. Now, I need to tweak as much as before...
Tweaks make support harder: If I need to help someone, it is most likely that they have the default settings and I have to be extra careful when assuming things. (For a Windows comparison: never assume you can see file extensions)
I mean something like this. Scroll down to the screenshot "NetworkManager’s Connection Information". A commenter below says something like that exists in Fedora Core. it doesn't in Ubuntu 18.04.
Is Ubuntu at fault?
So, instead of now just double clicking on my dock icon, and entering the password, and then checking (graphically) whether tun0 is available, I need to load up the terminal and look at my interfaces. Is it hard? No. It was just very convenient before.