I had the same problem over the same time period. In my case it turned out to be a cheap cable into the ADSL router whose degradation caused it all. One new cable and the problem went away.
That happened to me. I kicked it by building robots for fun. Robots require you to be a mechanicla engineer, an electrical engineer and a programmer. It gives the prograaming a new perspective and walking autonomous robots are fun in a way that never gets old.
Many people marry people who remind them of their opposite parent. Other people sometimes marry people who look as unlike as possible which often brings cultural conflict without an agreed means to resolve it. I've tried both kinds of marriage and unlike is more fun but much harder work. All marriage is hard work of course, disparate partners just makes it harder work.
Another thing men often do is marry women whose natural scent is like their mother's. I did that once out of three and it is terrifying and comforting at the same time once you realise what you've done.
By the time you get into your fifties you have more answers, less problems, some entrenched bad habits that are nearly impossible to break, a whole lot of dreams that you know you'll never achieve, someone who looks like your parent looking back at you in the mirror, and the search for sex is no longer an overarching need - but inside you'll still feel young.
At thirty you probably feel as old as you'll ever feel. You always feel young inside but at thirty the world stops looking new. That soon passes though once you realise that you haven't been paying close enough attention. The world will always be new and that you'll always feel young even if you live to be a hundred.
Yes, I used to have that setup for debug mode in TurboPascal. One day I plugged the MDA monitor into the EGA port and vice versa by mistake. When I turned it on the monitor started squealing, the cat rocketed out of the room, and I just managed to rip out all the power cords before monitor's internals burst into flame. I can still remember the ghastly smell as if it was yesterday, not the smell of cooking electronics at all, closer to but different from cooking car tyres.
I'm using the standard Fedora distro with KDE, the version is whatever version of KDE comes with Fedora and kde.org says it should be 4.8. I can't actually maximise a window across monitors on it, I could make a very large window that imitates it but not by maximising it. Now that I recall, KDE on Kubuntu is nowhere near as graceful on the same system although it does work really well on my laptop.
On my system it isn't like that. There are two monitors, one of which never changes which is 1920x1080, and one which varies.which is usually either 1920x1080 or 1920x1200. Everytime I log in it checks the monitor setup and sets it accordingly. About one boot in 400 it will get in wrong and a quick log out and back in is required. I've certainlyt never seen the login window split between the two monitors.
There is no dead zone on the smaller monitor when different resolutions are used. The smaller or equal monitor is always the main monitor and that may be of importance.
Wallpaper cannot be strecthed across the two monitors. If I want that then I cut the image into two parts and assign them separately.
Second video adapters do not work if I want to add a third monitor.
Panels and desktop icons can only be set on the main display
I have not had the problems you describe with my KDE setup and I've never edited my conf files manually. It has all just worked, but it is only this year that I've dared to use monitors of different resolutions. I love KDE and my only regret is that it took the self-immolations of Canonical and Gnome to push me to discover it.
I don't understand. When I plug in an extra monitor on my Fedora with KDE it is automatically recognised and configured, even when the monitors are different resolutions. All I have to do is to choose to extend my desktop onto it and chase up wallpaper for it.
Of course unplugging a monitor without first moving all windows defaults away from it can cause problems that can be hard to resolve. Yeah, I begin to see the problem, but this certainly isn't just a KDE issue.I remember the same problems with another much more popular and rather less gracious OS back when I used to use Microsoft's offering.
I've been using Red Hat with KDE so long that I'd totally forgotten that they offer Gnome 2 as well. Their implementation of KDE is the best that I've used, but, the thing about KDE is that it isn't for everyone. I'd guess that Mate would be the best fit for Red Hat, at least in the short to medium term, even so, business decisions are not like personal decisions. This one could go any which way.
The difference is feedback. Bad feedback on eBay pushes up expenses, has your listings moved off centre stage, and can really do you over as a seller. EBay sellers, myself included, do a lot to avoid negative feedback. On Alibaba and Aliexpress the feedback system seems to be almost an after thought.
EBay. Most of the big sellers have their own websites selling the same or similar stuff. Even I do and I'm only a red star seller. To find out where those sites are simply look through eBay for some item you're interested in from a big seller. Go to the "About me" on that seller and you will see some way to contact them and ask them directly. Some even have links through to their sales sites but I don't know if that is permitted by eBay or not so don't depend on it.
Another way is to search directly on one of the search engines for something overly specific such as "52mm xorbit condensor with left-hand stem bolts -self-sealing" and then sift through the results.
And don't forget eBay itself, last week I picked up a lovely colour laser with full genuine toner cartridges for $25 because the woman who listed it mispelled it terribly and I had searched for "printer" with the options "buy now" and "price+postage lowest" and "Australia only" (I live in Australia) and "search content". She gave me a scanner as well for free because she was so relieved that someone had at last answered her ad.
I have often bought from Aliexpress, the part of Alibaba that sells small amounts and has prices for all its items and doesn't require you to ask for quotes on every sodding thing. I actually bought so much that I had my account upgraded just at the time I stopped using them. When everything goes right, and it usually does, it is a delight to use. When things go wrong, about one shipment in twenty then one of two things happens, it is either solved immediately and smoothly, or, you enter a Kafkaesque labyrinth of WTF and WDIDTDT (what did I do to deserve this). I actually wrote off a $300 payment for a shipment that was never shipped but when I mentioned it to a lovely lady there nine months later she had it refunded to me within two days without me asking her to.
All in all I was mostly happy with Alibaba and Aliexpress and I only stopped using it because I found it wasn't cost effective and that I could get small quantities cheaper elsewhere and without the one in forty shipment from Hell.
The early and mid 1970s. Don't feel like you're missing anything though, after the first "oh wow did it snow?' moment it's just a nuisance that fills every outside place and which never melts.
He's an Icelander and they're not like normal people. In 1973 a group of Icelanders stopped a lava flow from engulfing their town with hoses while any township in any other country would have admitted the futility of even trying and walked away to start new lives somewhere else.
I'm personally quite familiar with living near active volcanoes, occasionally waking to find the city covered with one or two centimetres of volcanic ash - pretty but not fun. I've been able at times to look out of my relatives' windows to see a direct view of Mount Tongariro and its ever changing plume, and I've even spent time in places where people cook food by burying it and letting the natural heat of the ground do the cooking. But nowhere I've been or even heard about matches the Icelanders' strange relationship with their volcanoes.
That is an eye-opener and no mistake. I never realised Gnome's problems ran so deep. I just thought the pigs had taken over the farm and were now putting on a little lip gloss to make themselves pretty.
You have to assume that Mate has inherited all of these problems and while Unity is still as ugly as a bulldog's backside and less use than a chocolate ashtray you have to wonder if its completely rewritten core could not in fact one day be used as the basis of something both elegant and useful.
If the Altaic family of languages no longer exists then where is Korean? Sometimes Koreans get a look about their noses that is rather Turkish and my wife can tell Koreans at a glance by the grace with which they walk - I don't see it myself but she has demonstrated her ability to me time and time again so I have to believe her. The Altaic origins of Korean always fit nicely with my preconceptions and I find myself uncomfortable with the idea of two isolates (Japanese and Korean) living side by side with no connection to each other and no related languages anywhere else.
Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time. I actually tried to learn Snobol once with a failure so complete it's only matched by the utterness of my failure to learn Lisp
It is curious that the spread started just at the time that the Black Sea Flood occurred about 8000 years ago. I suspect that the two are directly connected. I do wonder about some of the links given on the graph though. For example Sardinian is much closer to Italian in reality than Ladino is and yet Ladino is listed as a close relative and Sardinian a much more distant one.
That is so, so true and the issue has become obvious to me now that my HTC phone has the same HD resolution as my second desk monitor. No other screen looks quite sharp enough since I got the new phone. I don't much like Apple but we are lucky that they keep pushing the envelope and forcing the others to compete with them.
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"There is market for maybe five Babbage machines in the world."
Apologies to Thomas Watson for misusing his quote for a cheap laugh.
I had the same problem over the same time period. In my case it turned out to be a cheap cable into the ADSL router whose degradation caused it all. One new cable and the problem went away.
That happened to me. I kicked it by building robots for fun. Robots require you to be a mechanicla engineer, an electrical engineer and a programmer. It gives the prograaming a new perspective and walking autonomous robots are fun in a way that never gets old.
Scary, but very often true.
Many people marry people who remind them of their opposite parent. Other people sometimes marry people who look as unlike as possible which often brings cultural conflict without an agreed means to resolve it. I've tried both kinds of marriage and unlike is more fun but much harder work. All marriage is hard work of course, disparate partners just makes it harder work.
Another thing men often do is marry women whose natural scent is like their mother's. I did that once out of three and it is terrifying and comforting at the same time once you realise what you've done.
By the time you get into your fifties you have more answers, less problems, some entrenched bad habits that are nearly impossible to break, a whole lot of dreams that you know you'll never achieve, someone who looks like your parent looking back at you in the mirror, and the search for sex is no longer an overarching need - but inside you'll still feel young.
At thirty you probably feel as old as you'll ever feel. You always feel young inside but at thirty the world stops looking new. That soon passes though once you realise that you haven't been paying close enough attention. The world will always be new and that you'll always feel young even if you live to be a hundred.
I'll have you know that dwarf jokes are NPC!
Yes, I used to have that setup for debug mode in TurboPascal. One day I plugged the MDA monitor into the EGA port and vice versa by mistake. When I turned it on the monitor started squealing, the cat rocketed out of the room, and I just managed to rip out all the power cords before monitor's internals burst into flame. I can still remember the ghastly smell as if it was yesterday, not the smell of cooking electronics at all, closer to but different from cooking car tyres.
I'm using the standard Fedora distro with KDE, the version is whatever version of KDE comes with Fedora and kde.org says it should be 4.8. I can't actually maximise a window across monitors on it, I could make a very large window that imitates it but not by maximising it. Now that I recall, KDE on Kubuntu is nowhere near as graceful on the same system although it does work really well on my laptop.
On my system it isn't like that. There are two monitors, one of which never changes which is 1920x1080, and one which varies.which is usually either 1920x1080 or 1920x1200. Everytime I log in it checks the monitor setup and sets it accordingly. About one boot in 400 it will get in wrong and a quick log out and back in is required. I've certainlyt never seen the login window split between the two monitors.
There is no dead zone on the smaller monitor when different resolutions are used. The smaller or equal monitor is always the main monitor and that may be of importance.
Wallpaper cannot be strecthed across the two monitors. If I want that then I cut the image into two parts and assign them separately.
Second video adapters do not work if I want to add a third monitor.
Panels and desktop icons can only be set on the main display
I have not had the problems you describe with my KDE setup and I've never edited my conf files manually. It has all just worked, but it is only this year that I've dared to use monitors of different resolutions. I love KDE and my only regret is that it took the self-immolations of Canonical and Gnome to push me to discover it.
I don't understand. When I plug in an extra monitor on my Fedora with KDE it is automatically recognised and configured, even when the monitors are different resolutions. All I have to do is to choose to extend my desktop onto it and chase up wallpaper for it.
Of course unplugging a monitor without first moving all windows defaults away from it can cause problems that can be hard to resolve. Yeah, I begin to see the problem, but this certainly isn't just a KDE issue.I remember the same problems with another much more popular and rather less gracious OS back when I used to use Microsoft's offering.
They'll be able to run up and down behind the fence and bark at the meteors as they go past.
I've been using Red Hat with KDE so long that I'd totally forgotten that they offer Gnome 2 as well. Their implementation of KDE is the best that I've used, but, the thing about KDE is that it isn't for everyone. I'd guess that Mate would be the best fit for Red Hat, at least in the short to medium term, even so, business decisions are not like personal decisions. This one could go any which way.
That will make it the fasting growing interface in the world.
Look out Microsoft!
Look out Apple!
The Gnome 3 steamroller is going to crush you!
She was very Chinese.
The difference is feedback. Bad feedback on eBay pushes up expenses, has your listings moved off centre stage, and can really do you over as a seller. EBay sellers, myself included, do a lot to avoid negative feedback. On Alibaba and Aliexpress the feedback system seems to be almost an after thought.
EBay. Most of the big sellers have their own websites selling the same or similar stuff. Even I do and I'm only a red star seller. To find out where those sites are simply look through eBay for some item you're interested in from a big seller. Go to the "About me" on that seller and you will see some way to contact them and ask them directly. Some even have links through to their sales sites but I don't know if that is permitted by eBay or not so don't depend on it.
Another way is to search directly on one of the search engines for something overly specific such as "52mm xorbit condensor with left-hand stem bolts -self-sealing" and then sift through the results.
And don't forget eBay itself, last week I picked up a lovely colour laser with full genuine toner cartridges for $25 because the woman who listed it mispelled it terribly and I had searched for "printer" with the options "buy now" and "price+postage lowest" and "Australia only" (I live in Australia) and "search content". She gave me a scanner as well for free because she was so relieved that someone had at last answered her ad.
I have often bought from Aliexpress, the part of Alibaba that sells small amounts and has prices for all its items and doesn't require you to ask for quotes on every sodding thing. I actually bought so much that I had my account upgraded just at the time I stopped using them. When everything goes right, and it usually does, it is a delight to use. When things go wrong, about one shipment in twenty then one of two things happens, it is either solved immediately and smoothly, or, you enter a Kafkaesque labyrinth of WTF and WDIDTDT (what did I do to deserve this). I actually wrote off a $300 payment for a shipment that was never shipped but when I mentioned it to a lovely lady there nine months later she had it refunded to me within two days without me asking her to.
All in all I was mostly happy with Alibaba and Aliexpress and I only stopped using it because I found it wasn't cost effective and that I could get small quantities cheaper elsewhere and without the one in forty shipment from Hell.
The early and mid 1970s. Don't feel like you're missing anything though, after the first "oh wow did it snow?' moment it's just a nuisance that fills every outside place and which never melts.
Hamilton, at least when I lived there. Mount Ruapehu was quite active at that time.
He's an Icelander and they're not like normal people. In 1973 a group of Icelanders stopped a lava flow from engulfing their town with hoses while any township in any other country would have admitted the futility of even trying and walked away to start new lives somewhere else.
I'm personally quite familiar with living near active volcanoes, occasionally waking to find the city covered with one or two centimetres of volcanic ash - pretty but not fun. I've been able at times to look out of my relatives' windows to see a direct view of Mount Tongariro and its ever changing plume, and I've even spent time in places where people cook food by burying it and letting the natural heat of the ground do the cooking. But nowhere I've been or even heard about matches the Icelanders' strange relationship with their volcanoes.
That is an eye-opener and no mistake. I never realised Gnome's problems ran so deep. I just thought the pigs had taken over the farm and were now putting on a little lip gloss to make themselves pretty.
You have to assume that Mate has inherited all of these problems and while Unity is still as ugly as a bulldog's backside and less use than a chocolate ashtray you have to wonder if its completely rewritten core could not in fact one day be used as the basis of something both elegant and useful.
If the Altaic family of languages no longer exists then where is Korean? Sometimes Koreans get a look about their noses that is rather Turkish and my wife can tell Koreans at a glance by the grace with which they walk - I don't see it myself but she has demonstrated her ability to me time and time again so I have to believe her. The Altaic origins of Korean always fit nicely with my preconceptions and I find myself uncomfortable with the idea of two isolates (Japanese and Korean) living side by side with no connection to each other and no related languages anywhere else.
Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time. I actually tried to learn Snobol once with a failure so complete it's only matched by the utterness of my failure to learn Lisp
It is curious that the spread started just at the time that the Black Sea Flood occurred about 8000 years ago. I suspect that the two are directly connected. I do wonder about some of the links given on the graph though. For example Sardinian is much closer to Italian in reality than Ladino is and yet Ladino is listed as a close relative and Sardinian a much more distant one.
That is so, so true and the issue has become obvious to me now that my HTC phone has the same HD resolution as my second desk monitor. No other screen looks quite sharp enough since I got the new phone. I don't much like Apple but we are lucky that they keep pushing the envelope and forcing the others to compete with them.