Well I don't like Gnome 3 because it is ugly, but I believe that both Gnome 2 and Compiz are still available through the add applications facility of most distros. I haven't tried it myself because while KDE takes a while to get used to and become familiar with, it can be made nearly as beautiful as Gnome 2 without too much trouble. I still haven't worked out how to stretch one wallpaper across multiple monitors - I ended up chopping the image into pieces and assigning one part to each monitor.
One distro I have used to replace Gnome 2 with great success is Lubuntu which uses LXDE. It's quick, it looks nice, and it feels good if you come from a Gnome 2 paradigm. Best of all it's maintained by supporters rather than Canonical so it's not going to get messed up on you.
It all depended on which enemies you took out first. The guys who wrote the game could wipe out any horde of attacking space ships in no time at all and made it look like anyone could do. Sure they played the game every day of their lives but it was knowing which enemies to kill first that made the hard missions easy.
Of course they didn't kill their wingman when they got too annoying as I sometimes did. That strategy never had any long term success.
In 1978 the hard drive on the minicomputers I operated used to stop my watch if I stood next it. The hard drive platters were the size of a dinner plate and a blue plastic cowling with a handle in the middle so you could mount and unmount them.
I totally agree. I use Fedora 16 on two of my computers but with KDE instead of Gnome 3 and the look and feel is good. Actually I find it better than Kubuntu except that I don't like Apper very much and Fedora doesn't let you use anything else.
When I read the review and saw that Gnome 3 desktop on what is now my customary desktop I couldn't believe how plug-uglified it was. I couldn't finish reading the review. I really didn't like Unity when I used it and that was why I moved to KDE, but Gnome 3 seems to be ugly for ugly's sake. Seeing Gnome now is like seeing George Best or OJ Simpson after the meltdown. Even Tiger Woods is looking better than Gnome.
The AC post wasn't from me and, just for the record, I'm fairly sure that Victoria University doesn't do refunds, LOL. I was really relieved when I saw that I'd made a mistake and that it was Intel and not IBM (nor Oracle FWIW). Intel's participation can only be good. I use LibreOffice every day for major documents and minor spreadsheets so its survival is a matter of some importance to me.
Given how IBM gave OpenOffice to Apache for its own business purposes I find that I more than a little uncomfortable about this. After all, LibreOffice was forned as a direct result of IBM's handling of OpenOffice.
Just when I had settled on Kubuntu as my distribution after Unity and Gnome 3 ruined most of the others.
Still, I've been using Lubuntu too and that is based on Ubuntu but nothing to do with Canonical and it's pretty good. Kubuntu could even become stronger and better for being cast loose. The more I think about it the more I think that this is definitely good for Kubuntu and possibly good for Canonical.
But Xena is much more fun than Eris, and while Xena was a planet, Eris is a minor planet, which for some strange reason that defies my comprehension is no longer a planet at all - at least among the press and the astronomers who speak to the press. It's all moot though because as Sockatume explained, you can't gravity assist off the plane - actually I'm guessing you can, but only a little and not enough.
I believe that the Civil War (American Civil War for those not from the US) was ultimately all about the unity of voice with which the United States speaks - which has blessed the rest of the globe when we screwed things up royally, and cursed the rest of the globe once we had your attention but didn't want ir. I'm not forgetting Emancipation, but let's not mix moral rectitude with ultimate effect. The Blacks fought for another hundred years more to get equality, but the United States spoke with one voice directly after Appomattox - and has ever since.
Just for the record, all of the various Americans I have met have been cultured, kind, and intelligent - but with strange blind spots, mostly with regard to firearms and foreign policy. Few Americans are aware that the US has been found guilty of terrorism for example. I once asked an American to marry me. She knocked me back. She made a good wife when she did get married though.
So, disc = optical and disk = magnetic according to Apple. Thank you, I've often wondered about the origin of the distinction. In practice however I've found that Mac people use disc and PC people use disk, here in Australia at least. There are exceptions of course, but not too many in my experience.
That's a very good point. I never played myself but my nephew captained his nation at the World Cup (he's a lock forward) and I doubt that he misses anything from the TV broadcasts. When it is all forward play then the coverage is really pretty good. What I miss though is seeing why the back chose to kick here instead of there or, less often, why he jinked left instead of right or why they didn't pass or why they did. Some TV stations are better than others and rugby is a layered game that is hard to fit into one size so I shouldn't complain. Especially when you get games like the recent New Zealand Nude Male team playing the Spanish Nearly Nude Female team as happened two months ago in Dunedin, New Zealand as part of the recent World Cup party.
The same thing happens in rugby. Don't know if it's for the same reasons though. The whole field shot is something that I'd very much like to see from time to time.
I totally get what you are saying but look what happed to Hitchhikers when they turned it into a movie the second time. The first Trillian still sets my socks on fire though so it isn't all bad and Whoopi Goldberg would make an excellent companion - as would Ashton Kutcher, lolol!
I know this is probably not typical but where I live, western Sydney, blank DVDs are incredibly cheap and ubiquitous. Blank CDs come individually packaged and the cost is much higher, I want to say iniquitous but that would not represent the reality. If you want a spindle of cheap CDs you have to scrounge around and ask people.
Surely this is simply natural progression from CD to DVD, although I do agree that most Linuces are getting a rather bloated - but I prefer that for the moment because it is still sexy bloat and not pushware.
As I recall it, in Australia you can marry almost anyone, including your aunt, uncle, nephew, niece, even grandmother.
You cannot marry your mother, father, son, daughter, brother, sister, or grandfather.
I've never heard of anyone that close getting married though - just imagine the wedding though: Friend of the bride or the groom? Yes.
I also will definitely be buying it but it does seem very blocky, the only angles being right angles and the beta being a little clunky. Only last week I was wondering why there were no good new games, it is several years since I bought one although I shop around all the time and invariably come away disappointed. Now I realise that my tastes are well and truly stuck in the past but I find I have two new games to look forward to - this and Diablo 3. Yay!
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Well I don't like Gnome 3 because it is ugly, but I believe that both Gnome 2 and Compiz are still available through the add applications facility of most distros. I haven't tried it myself because while KDE takes a while to get used to and become familiar with, it can be made nearly as beautiful as Gnome 2 without too much trouble. I still haven't worked out how to stretch one wallpaper across multiple monitors - I ended up chopping the image into pieces and assigning one part to each monitor.
One distro I have used to replace Gnome 2 with great success is Lubuntu which uses LXDE. It's quick, it looks nice, and it feels good if you come from a Gnome 2 paradigm. Best of all it's maintained by supporters rather than Canonical so it's not going to get messed up on you.
It all depended on which enemies you took out first. The guys who wrote the game could wipe out any horde of attacking space ships in no time at all and made it look like anyone could do. Sure they played the game every day of their lives but it was knowing which enemies to kill first that made the hard missions easy.
Of course they didn't kill their wingman when they got too annoying as I sometimes did. That strategy never had any long term success.
In 1978 the hard drive on the minicomputers I operated used to stop my watch if I stood next it. The hard drive platters were the size of a dinner plate and a blue plastic cowling with a handle in the middle so you could mount and unmount them.
I totally agree. I use Fedora 16 on two of my computers but with KDE instead of Gnome 3 and the look and feel is good. Actually I find it better than Kubuntu except that I don't like Apper very much and Fedora doesn't let you use anything else. When I read the review and saw that Gnome 3 desktop on what is now my customary desktop I couldn't believe how plug-uglified it was. I couldn't finish reading the review. I really didn't like Unity when I used it and that was why I moved to KDE, but Gnome 3 seems to be ugly for ugly's sake. Seeing Gnome now is like seeing George Best or OJ Simpson after the meltdown. Even Tiger Woods is looking better than Gnome.
The AC post wasn't from me and, just for the record, I'm fairly sure that Victoria University doesn't do refunds, LOL. I was really relieved when I saw that I'd made a mistake and that it was Intel and not IBM (nor Oracle FWIW). Intel's participation can only be good. I use LibreOffice every day for major documents and minor spreadsheets so its survival is a matter of some importance to me.
Brain Failure - pure and simple brain failure. I even did a search to make sure I ahd my facts right...,
Sorry, saw Intel read IBM, oops.....
Given how IBM gave OpenOffice to Apache for its own business purposes I find that I more than a little uncomfortable about this. After all, LibreOffice was forned as a direct result of IBM's handling of OpenOffice.
Just when I had settled on Kubuntu as my distribution after Unity and Gnome 3 ruined most of the others. Still, I've been using Lubuntu too and that is based on Ubuntu but nothing to do with Canonical and it's pretty good. Kubuntu could even become stronger and better for being cast loose. The more I think about it the more I think that this is definitely good for Kubuntu and possibly good for Canonical.
Welcome to Sheldonopolis, the Capital of Sheldistan, on the beautiful planet Sheldon Prime.
But Xena is much more fun than Eris, and while Xena was a planet, Eris is a minor planet, which for some strange reason that defies my comprehension is no longer a planet at all - at least among the press and the astronomers who speak to the press. It's all moot though because as Sockatume explained, you can't gravity assist off the plane - actually I'm guessing you can, but only a little and not enough.
Pardon my ignorance, but do gravity assists have to be in plane? Can they not go sideways?
There just happens to be a very interesting planet off plane that would be well worth visiting.
I believe that the Civil War (American Civil War for those not from the US) was ultimately all about the unity of voice with which the United States speaks - which has blessed the rest of the globe when we screwed things up royally, and cursed the rest of the globe once we had your attention but didn't want ir. I'm not forgetting Emancipation, but let's not mix moral rectitude with ultimate effect. The Blacks fought for another hundred years more to get equality, but the United States spoke with one voice directly after Appomattox - and has ever since. Just for the record, all of the various Americans I have met have been cultured, kind, and intelligent - but with strange blind spots, mostly with regard to firearms and foreign policy. Few Americans are aware that the US has been found guilty of terrorism for example. I once asked an American to marry me. She knocked me back. She made a good wife when she did get married though.
So, disc = optical and disk = magnetic according to Apple. Thank you, I've often wondered about the origin of the distinction. In practice however I've found that Mac people use disc and PC people use disk, here in Australia at least. There are exceptions of course, but not too many in my experience.
That's a very good point. I never played myself but my nephew captained his nation at the World Cup (he's a lock forward) and I doubt that he misses anything from the TV broadcasts. When it is all forward play then the coverage is really pretty good. What I miss though is seeing why the back chose to kick here instead of there or, less often, why he jinked left instead of right or why they didn't pass or why they did. Some TV stations are better than others and rugby is a layered game that is hard to fit into one size so I shouldn't complain. Especially when you get games like the recent New Zealand Nude Male team playing the Spanish Nearly Nude Female team as happened two months ago in Dunedin, New Zealand as part of the recent World Cup party.
The same thing happens in rugby. Don't know if it's for the same reasons though. The whole field shot is something that I'd very much like to see from time to time.
Nah, Ashton's the Companion. Whoopi Goldberg will be the Doctor.
Samwise to Frodo in Osgiliath... "We don't belong here."
I totally get what you are saying but look what happed to Hitchhikers when they turned it into a movie the second time. The first Trillian still sets my socks on fire though so it isn't all bad and Whoopi Goldberg would make an excellent companion - as would Ashton Kutcher, lolol!
I know this is probably not typical but where I live, western Sydney, blank DVDs are incredibly cheap and ubiquitous. Blank CDs come individually packaged and the cost is much higher, I want to say iniquitous but that would not represent the reality. If you want a spindle of cheap CDs you have to scrounge around and ask people. Surely this is simply natural progression from CD to DVD, although I do agree that most Linuces are getting a rather bloated - but I prefer that for the moment because it is still sexy bloat and not pushware.
As I recall it, in Australia you can marry almost anyone, including your aunt, uncle, nephew, niece, even grandmother. You cannot marry your mother, father, son, daughter, brother, sister, or grandfather. I've never heard of anyone that close getting married though - just imagine the wedding though: Friend of the bride or the groom? Yes.
I also will definitely be buying it but it does seem very blocky, the only angles being right angles and the beta being a little clunky. Only last week I was wondering why there were no good new games, it is several years since I bought one although I shop around all the time and invariably come away disappointed. Now I realise that my tastes are well and truly stuck in the past but I find I have two new games to look forward to - this and Diablo 3. Yay!