Write your pages for mostly-standards-compliant browsers, then use http://dean.edwards.name/ie7/ to make them look right in IE. Sure, your pages will take an extra few tenths of a second to render in IE, but it saves you hours of fucking around to make it look right.
There already is one. It's called Nexenta and it's a melding of Solaris with the Ubuntu userland. They have a LiveCD you can try out and everything. Worked pretty nicely when I tried it back in September.
my question is, what's the difference between openwrt and dd-wrt?
It's like the difference between Linux and Ubuntu (well, sort of). OpenWRT is mostly a nice kernel - very basic package that doesn't have a pretty interface and all that stuff that people want. They do provide a minimal distribution, but (at least last I checked) it's not very polished. DD-WRT is the OpenWRT kernel with a nice web interface, some good defaults, etc. added on.
Quartz/Aqua 3D graphics (which unlike Vista's Aero can't be turned off)
Well, they _can_ be turned off, it's just not pleasant. OSX can run in console mode, or with just X as a GUI. But if you do that, you lose the ability to use most Mac apps and may as well be running Linux (or FreeBSD, or Solaris, or whatever your favorite *nix is).
The current system essentially amounts to anticompetitive bundling. It frosts me that I cannot take "my" phone with me if I change carriers.
You can take your phone with you to another carrier, if you pay full price for it. No one is forcing you to buy your phone from your carrier, or to take the discounts they have for signing up for a multi-year contract. You can buy a brand new, unlocked, phone from a retailer (tigerdirect.ca, for example, sells unlocked phones), then take it to any carrier with whose network it's compatible and get it activated on a plan. When you decide to switch carriers, you just put in a different SIM card.
Why not just build packages than can be installed to the main Ubuntu distro(s) already out there?
Well, knowing Ubuntu, that is probably how it will work. Say you install Ubuntu and you decide you want to use Kubuntu instead. apt-get install kubuntu-desktop. I imagine it will be very similar with this: apt-get install ubuntu-studio-desktop.
Making Studio its own "version" makes it easy for people who know they want that to download and install it in one shot instead of installing Ubuntu first and then intalling the Studio stuff. It also means that the Studio packages can be wrapped up together into a single metapackage, just like they are for ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop and xubuntu-desktop.
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has evidence that global warming is actually caused by the shrinking number of pirates since 1800. I feel that students should be made aware of this in their science classes and encouraged to think about becoming pirates to aid the situation.
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Arrow keys and function keys are relatively recent inventions. Pretty well every terminal has a control key and an escape key, so *nix apps tend to use Control and Meta/Esc for shortcuts. Also, Control is easier to reach when it lives in the right place (between shift and tab).
And then Apple enters your review. I can understand a comparison to other competitive MP3 players but you just start using the brand name Apple. Why? Why not give me a rundown of this versus iRiver or Creative's MP3 players? So the Toshiba MP3 player is $40 cheaper, doesn't tell me much if it sucks even more. Are they also compatible with podcasts and WMA codecs?
While I agree with most of your post, I think you're a bit off here. It's fairly standard (and sensible) practice to make a comparison to the industry leader when reviewing a product; in this case the industry leader is Apple's iPod. You wouldn't expect a review of a new Ford car to include comparisons to Bricklins, would you?
There are a lot of good reasons to do the things Microsoft proposes. Stolen laptops, Malware, Leaked confidential information (think patient records, social security numbers, etc..). The problem is, of course, that most such technologies cut both ways.
To quote a co-worker, "technical solutions to non technical problems will only lead to insanity."
Malware, stolen laptops and confidential information being leaked are not technical problems. They're social problems. Stop keeping confidential information in places where it can be leaked (i.e. on employees' laptops) and these problems go away. A technical solution is not called for.
I agree. That said, I love my Microsoft ergonomic keyboard with the 9 degree reverse tilt.
Also, why does every fucking keyboard manufacturer in the world feel that they have to screw around with the enter key at every opportunity? You'd think they'd learn that people want a rectangular enter key, with a rectangular backslash/pipe key above it and a rectangular, full-width backspace key above that.
I would suggest using EasyUbuntu post-installation to install the various non-free packages that make Linux nicer to use. You can be sure that your friends and relatives won't want to keep using Linux very long if they don't have Flash, Java, WMV codecs, etc installed. EasyUbuntu makes it not look like doing this is an ugly hack.
Automatix is also a good choice, but I've heard some stories about people having problems with it not backing up their config files and such.
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One major flaw was the inability to enter in a pathname or filename manually.
If you just start typing, it accepts a path. At least on my machine (I tested it before posting this).
Of course, most open-source projects also have project managers. Of course, usually we call them maintainers, but they essentially serve the same purpose: review submitted code/content and decide whether it should be included in the production version of the product.
Sounds like what you need is LaTeX. Seriously, if what you do is type plain text with minor formatting, and you want something that's portable and available (nearly) anywhere, LaTeX seems like the best option.
Plus, your documents won't look like ass. Major bonus.
Do you remember elementary school? The books you had access to at school were the ones that the school decided you should have access to. It's no harder for the school to say "only books that say ________ is evil are allowed" as it is to change e-books to say "_________ is evil."
I would love to suggest Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. Unfortunately, it's probably a bit heavy for elementary school students.
Great book, though. It'd be nice to see some computer scientists represented in science curriculums along with the usual physicists, chemists and biologists.
Agreed. Why would you paraphrase an interview with two incredibly intelligent and interesting people, instead of just giving us the interview verbatim? We don't give a flying fuck about what the interviewer has to say, so his commentary is irritating and irrelevant.
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Write your pages for mostly-standards-compliant browsers, then use http://dean.edwards.name/ie7/ to make them look right in IE. Sure, your pages will take an extra few tenths of a second to render in IE, but it saves you hours of fucking around to make it look right.
The only reasonable conclusion, then, is that only idiots post that XP is more secure than Vista.
There already is one. It's called Nexenta and it's a melding of Solaris with the Ubuntu userland. They have a LiveCD you can try out and everything. Worked pretty nicely when I tried it back in September.
It's like the difference between Linux and Ubuntu (well, sort of). OpenWRT is mostly a nice kernel - very basic package that doesn't have a pretty interface and all that stuff that people want. They do provide a minimal distribution, but (at least last I checked) it's not very polished. DD-WRT is the OpenWRT kernel with a nice web interface, some good defaults, etc. added on.
Well, they _can_ be turned off, it's just not pleasant. OSX can run in console mode, or with just X as a GUI. But if you do that, you lose the ability to use most Mac apps and may as well be running Linux (or FreeBSD, or Solaris, or whatever your favorite *nix is).
Well, knowing Ubuntu, that is probably how it will work. Say you install Ubuntu and you decide you want to use Kubuntu instead. apt-get install kubuntu-desktop. I imagine it will be very similar with this: apt-get install ubuntu-studio-desktop.
Making Studio its own "version" makes it easy for people who know they want that to download and install it in one shot instead of installing Ubuntu first and then intalling the Studio stuff. It also means that the Studio packages can be wrapped up together into a single metapackage, just like they are for ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop and xubuntu-desktop.
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has evidence that global warming is actually caused by the shrinking number of pirates since 1800. I feel that students should be made aware of this in their science classes and encouraged to think about becoming pirates to aid the situation.
Arrow keys and function keys are relatively recent inventions. Pretty well every terminal has a control key and an escape key, so *nix apps tend to use Control and Meta/Esc for shortcuts. Also, Control is easier to reach when it lives in the right place (between shift and tab).
No, we all know that when bad things happen, it can only be the fault of video games.
Or, open up a terminal and use mv or rename. There's no reason to dick around with the mouse to rename files.
I'd say it's more like God has the root password. Jesus and the Holy Spirit just have sudo.
While I agree with most of your post, I think you're a bit off here. It's fairly standard (and sensible) practice to make a comparison to the industry leader when reviewing a product; in this case the industry leader is Apple's iPod. You wouldn't expect a review of a new Ford car to include comparisons to Bricklins, would you?
To quote a co-worker, "technical solutions to non technical problems will only lead to insanity."
Malware, stolen laptops and confidential information being leaked are not technical problems. They're social problems. Stop keeping confidential information in places where it can be leaked (i.e. on employees' laptops) and these problems go away. A technical solution is not called for.
I agree. That said, I love my Microsoft ergonomic keyboard with the 9 degree reverse tilt.
Also, why does every fucking keyboard manufacturer in the world feel that they have to screw around with the enter key at every opportunity? You'd think they'd learn that people want a rectangular enter key, with a rectangular backslash/pipe key above it and a rectangular, full-width backspace key above that.
No, no, Al Gore invented the _internet_, not the _web_. There's a huge difference!
I would suggest using EasyUbuntu post-installation to install the various non-free packages that make Linux nicer to use. You can be sure that your friends and relatives won't want to keep using Linux very long if they don't have Flash, Java, WMV codecs, etc installed. EasyUbuntu makes it not look like doing this is an ugly hack.
Automatix is also a good choice, but I've heard some stories about people having problems with it not backing up their config files and such.
If you just start typing, it accepts a path. At least on my machine (I tested it before posting this).
Of course, most open-source projects also have project managers. Of course, usually we call them maintainers, but they essentially serve the same purpose: review submitted code/content and decide whether it should be included in the production version of the product.
Sounds like what you need is LaTeX. Seriously, if what you do is type plain text with minor formatting, and you want something that's portable and available (nearly) anywhere, LaTeX seems like the best option.
Plus, your documents won't look like ass. Major bonus.
Which could be why it was one of the top-ranked AVs in the CR tests (if my memory serves me correctly; I have the magazine at home).
Do you remember elementary school? The books you had access to at school were the ones that the school decided you should have access to. It's no harder for the school to say "only books that say ________ is evil are allowed" as it is to change e-books to say "_________ is evil."
I think this is a non-issue here.
I would love to suggest Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. Unfortunately, it's probably a bit heavy for elementary school students.
Great book, though. It'd be nice to see some computer scientists represented in science curriculums along with the usual physicists, chemists and biologists.
Of course. That's the one true keyboard layout. And emacs is the one true editor. Everyone knows that.
Agreed. Why would you paraphrase an interview with two incredibly intelligent and interesting people, instead of just giving us the interview verbatim? We don't give a flying fuck about what the interviewer has to say, so his commentary is irritating and irrelevant.