I think I'd have to agree with the OP. Ape-ing microsoft is not where I'd personally like to see linux and its various desktop environments go. I'd prefer we do it *better*. Evolution, as far as I see it, is the former. Same goes for mono.
Example, with nautilus. WHY does nautilus do the copy/paste/rename cycle for making a copy of a file via GUI? The way ROX Filer (as an alternative example) does it is so much more elegant. On copy action, you can rename the file with a dialog that pops up and then drag to the location of your choosing. One step vs. 3 kludgy ones. Yeah, you could keep the microsoft copy behavior, and even add that ROX type stuff, but nautilus chose to do only the former. The restrictive 'scripts' directory is also annoying. This is supposed to be a flexible environment, dammit. Why do I have to have all of my apps I want to run from a menu in a specific place, ordered by name??? Windowmaker does this so much more elegantly. One reason I like linux is the flexibility and the 'fun' of being able to do things more suited to the way I like to work. That is being eroded by things like your beloved evolution and mono based apps.
If only all environments would take the best ideas from the others and choose to either get rid of or push aside the other stuff.
I just got done re-numbering my home LAN for similar reasons. I want to make sure that wherever I am, I can likely use my VPN without collision. I re-did everything for a random spot within 172.16.0.0/12.
1) be a project manager 2) lead projects where you are also the lead tech guy. The architect, if you will.
It's all about being the guy SOLVING business problems. You have to get out of operations roles and move to strategic roles. Then you will be respected, or hated, depending on personality conflicts with management, and sometimes what you actually accomplish (or don't).
Odd how I used to use google as the better search engine, but Yahoo! for maps, tv listings, movie listings, weather, etc.
They blew it.
When I gave mom a new computer, I really *wanted* to just give her a yahoo account instead of gmail. But they won't allow imap without paying them for it? wtf? Then there's what they did to the tv and movie listings, and the general fuckuppery of the entire site so they could be 'cool' with that 'web 2.0' stuff.
Yeah. They had a good thing, and an edge. And pissed it all away.
Ideally, Hulu needs more content (doctor who, etc), and a set top box that can replace a DVR. *THEN* I definitely would pay them money. I still like regular tv for just background noise, or seeing news or things that I normally wouldn't watch or even know about as a stream, but Hulu fills the DVR and on demand gap quite nicely.
It'd be nice if the cable companies would cooperate with hulu and use it as their 'dvr' service. Greed and such will make that impossible, however.
which has the same shows. Why would I pay for this too? I use hulu every now and then. Usually when comcrap's service (which I'm paying for) craps out (the SA HD DVR is a piece of flaming shit). It's nice for when on the road too. But, really, I'm already paying for that content, so why would I pay for it again? I'm sure the cable companies don't want to pay for this... but aren't they already, and that's why they charge us?
Run a small distribution amp ($40 at radio shack), and make custom rca/rj11 dongles for each room you'd like your music. Get some amplified computer speakers for each room, and plug them in to the dongles. That way the existing jacks stay intact. You could also just replace the jacks themselves with the RCA jacks. I don't even know how well this will work interference and ground-loop wise, but it works very well for me over cat5e using leviton jacks to the amp. You'd need to find a place where all the phone wires splice together (every place I've ever lived it's been like this), break that, and make individual connections to the amp, is all.
I use my sansa at the gym and when camping. A USB stick on the car while driving.
But at home, I have a roku soundbridge, and guess what? I don't use it for anything but streaming, usually from Radio Paradise.
You can have both. Yeah, ubiquitous internet access would mean portable devices could then stream, but until then, there are options, and I stream quite a lot when at home.
If I were an artist, I'd treat streaming as free advertising and be happy that somebody was laying down their own money for an infrastructure to get my stuff out to the masses.
I'm paddling almost every weekend. Riding singletrack every other day.
Yes, public transporation is a great thing. No, it doesn't solve all problems. Especially if you don't live in a city or have hobbies that require you to carry a bit more than what will fit on your back, or require you to go quite a distance to get to the nearest treeline (just think if we didn't have so much urbanization, many of us wouldn't need to drive so much just to play in the woods).
My kayak and various camping gear, workstands, tools, etc, don't fit on my bike, sorry. Bikes don't work so well in the winter to get to the mountains to ride my board either. And hundreds of miles of hilly roads aren't exactly fun on the bike, and not possible for a weekend away from work anyway.
But, to you city dwellers, enjoy. Some of us have good reason to own a car, and perhaps even a truck. Enjoy your concrete jungle that is so well suited to the skinny high pressure tires.
Same goes for things like sendmail + mimedefang. But those are server things that are typically managed differently anyway (they run custom code and configs). But on the desktop? Ubuntu's package management 'just works'. I haven't had to compile anything on my new laptop to date. And I'm the type that will definitely look for the problems that need to be tweaked. Worst so far was having to write a script to deal with syndaemon on suspend/resume.
My current one is called 'synaptic', I think. I just go there, and say I want "this, this, and this" and it says "you need this for that, wanna put it on too?", and then I'm all like "hell yeah!" and it is done.
Nice. I was about to comment on that:-) Very innovative for its time. In fact, before Netscape starting spewing properietary tags around, Webex on OS/2 was probably the best browser out there.
Indeed. And for those of us using compiz fusion, if you don't like multiple windows, you can even tab group those together as well. Voila. Elegant tab grouping via multiple windows merged into one.
But I really agree with you. Tabs work great as is. If you want a group of tabs, then open another window, and let your OS/window manager take care of managing those windows.
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I think I'd have to agree with the OP. Ape-ing microsoft is not where I'd personally like to see linux and its various desktop environments go. I'd prefer we do it *better*. Evolution, as far as I see it, is the former. Same goes for mono.
Example, with nautilus. WHY does nautilus do the copy/paste/rename cycle for making a copy of a file via GUI? The way ROX Filer (as an alternative example) does it is so much more elegant. On copy action, you can rename the file with a dialog that pops up and then drag to the location of your choosing. One step vs. 3 kludgy ones. Yeah, you could keep the microsoft copy behavior, and even add that ROX type stuff, but nautilus chose to do only the former. The restrictive 'scripts' directory is also annoying. This is supposed to be a flexible environment, dammit. Why do I have to have all of my apps I want to run from a menu in a specific place, ordered by name??? Windowmaker does this so much more elegantly. One reason I like linux is the flexibility and the 'fun' of being able to do things more suited to the way I like to work. That is being eroded by things like your beloved evolution and mono based apps.
If only all environments would take the best ideas from the others and choose to either get rid of or push aside the other stuff.
nastygram? I sent them an 'attaboy' in the hopes they'll continue down this path and put themselves out of business.
fsck you. And when their customers complain about their limited access, tell them to take it up with the broken website they are trying to visit.
I just got done re-numbering my home LAN for similar reasons. I want to make sure that wherever I am, I can likely use my VPN without collision. I re-did everything for a random spot within 172.16.0.0/12.
1) be a project manager
2) lead projects where you are also the lead tech guy. The architect, if you will.
It's all about being the guy SOLVING business problems. You have to get out of operations roles and move to strategic roles. Then you will be respected, or hated, depending on personality conflicts with management, and sometimes what you actually accomplish (or don't).
It's really just finger, done poorly, and an interface to the equivalent of a script that fingers all the people you are interested in every so often.
Yeah. Twitter was much cooler when it was called finger.
What kind of genius would enjoy those fields?
Odd how I used to use google as the better search engine, but Yahoo! for maps, tv listings, movie listings, weather, etc.
They blew it.
When I gave mom a new computer, I really *wanted* to just give her a yahoo account instead of gmail. But they won't allow imap without paying them for it? wtf? Then there's what they did to the tv and movie listings, and the general fuckuppery of the entire site so they could be 'cool' with that 'web 2.0' stuff.
Yeah. They had a good thing, and an edge. And pissed it all away.
True, but that's not the current model.
Ideally, Hulu needs more content (doctor who, etc), and a set top box that can replace a DVR. *THEN* I definitely would pay them money. I still like regular tv for just background noise, or seeing news or things that I normally wouldn't watch or even know about as a stream, but Hulu fills the DVR and on demand gap quite nicely.
It'd be nice if the cable companies would cooperate with hulu and use it as their 'dvr' service. Greed and such will make that impossible, however.
which has the same shows. Why would I pay for this too? I use hulu every now and then. Usually when comcrap's service (which I'm paying for) craps out (the SA HD DVR is a piece of flaming shit). It's nice for when on the road too. But, really, I'm already paying for that content, so why would I pay for it again? I'm sure the cable companies don't want to pay for this... but aren't they already, and that's why they charge us?
Run a small distribution amp ($40 at radio shack), and make custom rca/rj11 dongles for each room you'd like your music. Get some amplified computer speakers for each room, and plug them in to the dongles. That way the existing jacks stay intact. You could also just replace the jacks themselves with the RCA jacks. I don't even know how well this will work interference and ground-loop wise, but it works very well for me over cat5e using leviton jacks to the amp. You'd need to find a place where all the phone wires splice together (every place I've ever lived it's been like this), break that, and make individual connections to the amp, is all.
If your acceptable use policy actually allows streaming music (likely not), this is what transparent proxies are for.
I use my sansa at the gym and when camping. A USB stick on the car while driving.
But at home, I have a roku soundbridge, and guess what? I don't use it for anything but streaming, usually from Radio Paradise.
You can have both. Yeah, ubiquitous internet access would mean portable devices could then stream, but until then, there are options, and I stream quite a lot when at home.
If I were an artist, I'd treat streaming as free advertising and be happy that somebody was laying down their own money for an infrastructure to get my stuff out to the masses.
Oh well.
I'm paddling almost every weekend. Riding singletrack every other day.
Yes, public transporation is a great thing. No, it doesn't solve all problems. Especially if you don't live in a city or have hobbies that require you to carry a bit more than what will fit on your back, or require you to go quite a distance to get to the nearest treeline (just think if we didn't have so much urbanization, many of us wouldn't need to drive so much just to play in the woods).
so, the software somehow uses a gas or liquid turbine? I'm confused.
My kayak and various camping gear, workstands, tools, etc, don't fit on my bike, sorry. Bikes don't work so well in the winter to get to the mountains to ride my board either. And hundreds of miles of hilly roads aren't exactly fun on the bike, and not possible for a weekend away from work anyway.
But, to you city dwellers, enjoy. Some of us have good reason to own a car, and perhaps even a truck. Enjoy your concrete jungle that is so well suited to the skinny high pressure tires.
...log in as guest?
I actually don't use that myself, as you can't customize it, and created my own guest account that wipes settings on each login instead.
My favorite, if I had to be pushed against one, is Larry's daughter.
Same goes for things like sendmail + mimedefang. But those are server things that are typically managed differently anyway (they run custom code and configs). But on the desktop? Ubuntu's package management 'just works'. I haven't had to compile anything on my new laptop to date. And I'm the type that will definitely look for the problems that need to be tweaked. Worst so far was having to write a script to deal with syndaemon on suspend/resume.
My current one is called 'synaptic', I think. I just go there, and say I want "this, this, and this" and it says "you need this for that, wanna put it on too?", and then I'm all like "hell yeah!" and it is done.
This.
I hate writing styles that originate from 4chan...
Nice. I was about to comment on that :-) Very innovative for its time. In fact, before Netscape starting spewing properietary tags around, Webex on OS/2 was probably the best browser out there.
Indeed. And for those of us using compiz fusion, if you don't like multiple windows, you can even tab group those together as well. Voila. Elegant tab grouping via multiple windows merged into one.
But I really agree with you. Tabs work great as is. If you want a group of tabs, then open another window, and let your OS/window manager take care of managing those windows.