Try MEPIS. It's closer to Debian than Ubuntu, so you can use the entire Debian archive of software safely; it's just as easy to install (comes on a bootable CD so you can check everything will work before installing, installs in about 15 minutes); and it has the browser configured so all the usual plugins work. Oh, and it also has the added benefit of KDE instead of Gnome.
Ubuntu vs MEPIS is an interesting example of hype vs substance.
Just to save anyone else wasting time looking at Guild Wars: if you dig through three or four levels of navigation to the online store, it turns out it's Windoze only.
Corporations incorporate overseas and operate over here to avoid paying tax. They do business here while they outsource jobs overseas.
If AllOfMP3 is legal in Russia, and it's legal for me to buy things in Russia and import them to the USA (which as far as I know, it is), why shouldn't I "outsource" my music purchases to my financial advantage?
I've yet to see anyone put together a convincing case that AllOfMP3.com is illegal in Russia, or that it's illegal for me to buy something in Russia and import it.
How about learning to look at the URL in your browser before clicking on it, if it bothers you? Or installing a Firefox plugin to flag PDFs? And then quitting whining about PDF?
Because there are a lot of machines in business which are pretty much just used for e-mail and access to web applications. If those applications all ran flawlessly on Linux, why would anyone put Windows on the desktop?
I've had the same experience. I've never managed to download anything from eDonkey, ever, in spite of opening firewall ports and leaving it running for days. People seem to be able to download from me just fine, though.
If the Debian derived distromakers have their own repository where they can work together changing Debian to their common goals without getting bogged down in Debian rules/games, then that is just great, IMHO.
So if they want to fork Debian, why not just admit they're going to fork it and call it something that doesn't use the name "Debian"?
As I see it, the problem is that they want to fork Debian because they have different goals from Debian, but they don't want to admit it.
AOL already use IE, and really, Mozilla isn't a threat to Microsoft right now; IE still has 90% of the market or thereabouts.
No, I predict that if this goes ahead, AIM is gradually killed off to be replaced with MSN, giving Microsoft instant monopoly control over instant messaging--and heading off the threat of Google Talk helping to open up IM.
There's no point whining about Intel's prices. Do what I do and buy AMD or VIA. You'll often get a better (more powerful and/or lower power) chip into the bargain.
The core problem, in the age of the internet, is that anyone can say anything about anybody and be potentially accessible on a world stage.
That's not a bug, it's a feature.
The problem is that significant numbers of people will believe any crap they read or see on TV, without engaging in any kind of critical thinking. That's the problem we should be solving. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who would prefer that it not be solved.
That's an interesting correlation. The more the government has gotten involved in health care and health insurance industries, the worst the quality of the service has gotten.
Yes, but which is the cause and which is the effect?
To me, it seems that as US healthcare has gotten worse and worse, the government has reluctantly been dragged into trying to do something about the problem, where previously it was ideologically opposed to any kind of intervention.
fact |fakt| noun a thing that is indisputably the case [examples cut] - (the fact that) used in discussing the significance of something that is the case [examples cut] - (usu. facts) a piece of information used as evidence or as part of a report or news article -/chiefly law/ the truth about events as opposed to interpretation
No indication that a fact can be false or disinformation.
A pair of Etymotic in-ear canalphones can be had for around $80. They'll block 25-30dB of noise, enabling you to listen to music on the street at safe levels.
If you don't like in-ear, Sennheiser PX100. $40. Fold to pocket size. Pretty good sound isolation from the pads, and sound much better than the iPod buds too.
For planes, Sennheiser PXC250. Pretty good sound isolation from the pads, plus active noise cancellation. The drawback is you'll need a headphone amp, but then again a headphone amp will massively improve the sound from your iPod so it's not a bad idea anyway. The PXC250s are about $150, a headphone amp will run about the same. I got a Xin Supermini amp, which is about the size of a box of matches, only just larger than the 3AA cells that power it.
With PX100s and a Xin mini-amp, you'll be amazed how good the sound from an iPod is. And the whole setup still fits in a coat pocket.
Yeah, but having your airbags triggered by a thief is several orders of magnitude worse than having a window broken. [...] For all intents and purposes (in America, at least), a car whose airbags have deployed is effectively "totaled" because, from the insurance company's perspective, it's cheaper to pay the claim as a total loss and sell the car to a broker for export to some third-world country where the car can legally be repaired without the airbags and recertification than it is to pay to have it repaired, recertified, and liability-insured for use in the US.
So if the airbags are triggered, the insurance company buys me a brand new car? And it's clearly a no-fault incident?
I guess I must have missed something. How is that worse than having the windows smashed?
Frankly, I am perfectly satisfied with the speed of Reiser3. What I want to see is increased reliability and recovery. Performing fsck --rebuild-tree is a Royal pain and takes an eternity on large partitions and the need to perform this operation is far to frequent.
That's interesting, as in several years of running servers on Resier3 I've never had to do a tree rebuild. How many servers are you running, and what distribution(s) are you using?
I think Apple will do just fine, so long as they start addressing the gaps in their hardware lineup.
Personally, I have zero interest in buying a cheap beige box to run OS X. I'm running an old iBook G3, which I intend to keep until the new turd sandwich PowerBooks are out.
However, I want a Mac tablet. And since Steve Jobs is apparently religiously opposed to Apple selling tablet computers, I might have to buy from another company and run hacked OS X to get what I want.
I know I would be keen on paying $8-$10 for the option of trying out half a dozen PSP games just to see if I'm happy with the control scheme or the framerate or simply the game itself.
Get a digital answering machine like the one I have, which will route caller ID blocked calls straight to "leave a message" mode. If you hear the mother-in-law, you can pick up. Or just let her leave a message, if she doesn't like it she'll learn to dial the right number, won't she?
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Try MEPIS. It's closer to Debian than Ubuntu, so you can use the entire Debian archive of software safely; it's just as easy to install (comes on a bootable CD so you can check everything will work before installing, installs in about 15 minutes); and it has the browser configured so all the usual plugins work. Oh, and it also has the added benefit of KDE instead of Gnome.
Ubuntu vs MEPIS is an interesting example of hype vs substance.
Just to save anyone else wasting time looking at Guild Wars: if you dig through three or four levels of navigation to the online store, it turns out it's Windoze only.
*plonk*
Am I the only one who thinks "Commander Keen: 3D" would make a good comeback title?
No it wouldn't; check the Oxford English Dictionary.
Corporations incorporate overseas and operate over here to avoid paying tax. They do business here while they outsource jobs overseas.
If AllOfMP3 is legal in Russia, and it's legal for me to buy things in Russia and import them to the USA (which as far as I know, it is), why shouldn't I "outsource" my music purchases to my financial advantage?
I've yet to see anyone put together a convincing case that AllOfMP3.com is illegal in Russia, or that it's illegal for me to buy something in Russia and import it.
Looks like yet another case of "Hey, we managed to find one lone scientist who will disagree with everyone else".
There used to be a set of alternate key bindings for emacs called HierarKeys. That was back in the late 80s...
It seems as though HierarKeys disappeared. I know that once I was faced with the normal Emacs key bindings, I quickly switched to vi.
How about learning to look at the URL in your browser before clicking on it, if it bothers you? Or installing a Firefox plugin to flag PDFs? And then quitting whining about PDF?
Similarly, thank goodness Python is attracting people like Eric Raymond, and keeping them away from Ruby...
Because there are a lot of machines in business which are pretty much just used for e-mail and access to web applications. If those applications all ran flawlessly on Linux, why would anyone put Windows on the desktop?
I've had the same experience. I've never managed to download anything from eDonkey, ever, in spite of opening firewall ports and leaving it running for days. People seem to be able to download from me just fine, though.
So I gave up on it.
So if they want to fork Debian, why not just admit they're going to fork it and call it something that doesn't use the name "Debian"?
As I see it, the problem is that they want to fork Debian because they have different goals from Debian, but they don't want to admit it.
AOL already use IE, and really, Mozilla isn't a threat to Microsoft right now; IE still has 90% of the market or thereabouts.
No, I predict that if this goes ahead, AIM is gradually killed off to be replaced with MSN, giving Microsoft instant monopoly control over instant messaging--and heading off the threat of Google Talk helping to open up IM.
There's no point whining about Intel's prices. Do what I do and buy AMD or VIA. You'll often get a better (more powerful and/or lower power) chip into the bargain.
That's not a bug, it's a feature.
The problem is that significant numbers of people will believe any crap they read or see on TV, without engaging in any kind of critical thinking. That's the problem we should be solving. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who would prefer that it not be solved.
Yes, but which is the cause and which is the effect?
To me, it seems that as US healthcare has gotten worse and worse, the government has reluctantly been dragged into trying to do something about the problem, where previously it was ideologically opposed to any kind of intervention.
Same alleged facts, different interpretations.
New Oxford American Dictionary:
/chiefly law/ the truth about events as opposed to interpretation
fact |fakt|
noun
a thing that is indisputably the case [examples cut]
- (the fact that) used in discussing the significance of something that is the case [examples cut]
- (usu. facts) a piece of information used as evidence or as part of a report or news article
-
No indication that a fact can be false or disinformation.
Three words: Get better headphones.
A pair of Etymotic in-ear canalphones can be had for around $80. They'll block 25-30dB of noise, enabling you to listen to music on the street at safe levels.
If you don't like in-ear, Sennheiser PX100. $40. Fold to pocket size. Pretty good sound isolation from the pads, and sound much better than the iPod buds too.
For planes, Sennheiser PXC250. Pretty good sound isolation from the pads, plus active noise cancellation. The drawback is you'll need a headphone amp, but then again a headphone amp will massively improve the sound from your iPod so it's not a bad idea anyway. The PXC250s are about $150, a headphone amp will run about the same. I got a Xin Supermini amp, which is about the size of a box of matches, only just larger than the 3AA cells that power it.
With PX100s and a Xin mini-amp, you'll be amazed how good the sound from an iPod is. And the whole setup still fits in a coat pocket.
So if the airbags are triggered, the insurance company buys me a brand new car? And it's clearly a no-fault incident?
I guess I must have missed something. How is that worse than having the windows smashed?
That's interesting, as in several years of running servers on Resier3 I've never had to do a tree rebuild. How many servers are you running, and what distribution(s) are you using?
I think Apple will do just fine, so long as they start addressing the gaps in their hardware lineup.
Personally, I have zero interest in buying a cheap beige box to run OS X. I'm running an old iBook G3, which I intend to keep until the new turd sandwich PowerBooks are out.
However, I want a Mac tablet. And since Steve Jobs is apparently religiously opposed to Apple selling tablet computers, I might have to buy from another company and run hacked OS X to get what I want.
Yeah, but what would they do for issue 2?
GE Model # 2-9992A. Looks (from Google) like it has been off the market for a long time, but I see models out there with similar capabilities.
Make sure your message says "I don't return calls unless you're a friend or relative or I recognize your number".
Have to do the same for the mobile phone, otherwise random assholes page me with numbers I've never seen before.
Get a digital answering machine like the one I have, which will route caller ID blocked calls straight to "leave a message" mode. If you hear the mother-in-law, you can pick up. Or just let her leave a message, if she doesn't like it she'll learn to dial the right number, won't she?