One of the scientists concluded that the most likely way of obtaining viable dinosaur DNA would be to build a time machine. Perhaps Mr. Palmer will try that.
I hope so. I really want to steal a tardis and time travel around the multiverse with hot women. Where do i sign up to fund that kickstart!
You just made everyones point for them. They should not have to install gnome tweak to bring back basic functionality. We should not have to install extension to make a desktop usable. As for those extension, how do you build them when the api is a moving undocumented target as you yourself admitted? You said your a developer and now have a mess because mate uses gtk2 and gnome uses gtk3, well those are just libraries pick one, you can have both on the same system. that won't even be an issue long because (iirc) mate plans to port all of their apps to gtk3 eventually.
You could always press the Super/"windows" key or whatever itls labelled on your keyboard. Gets you to the overview without needing to lift your hands off the keyboard - pretty much everything in gnome-shell can be done with keyboard shortcuts, often the same shortcuts that worked in Gnome 2 (ctrl-alt-up/down arrow to switch workspaces for example).
To launch an application, I press Super, type the first few letters of the program name (or what it does, like "mail", which gets me Thunderbird), hit Enter and go. Much quicker than the Gnome 2/Windows way of clicking Applications, mousing down to the correct sub-menu, and selecting from there.
thats the problem. Gnome 3 is built for touch screens but you need a keyboard shortcut for everything does that not mean that said touchscreen useless? and if you are telling all of the linux users to use a keyboard shortcut for everything why not use a terminal instead or a window manager like awesome where it is all keyboard driven anyway? desktops are primarily controlled by mice with the data entered by keyboard. not the other way around.
What? you switched of linux because one among may dozens of DE's fubared their desktop when a better one was a few clicks away? i mean sudo apt-get install kde-plasma-desktop OR xfce4 OR any-of-a-bajilion-other-DE's.
It makes since switching from windows over gui problems because there are no other easy/reasonable options not so much once you are already on linux. on linux gui fixs are no big deal unless you have to manually monkey with X-config
So do you actually install it as a different user, or do you just feel warm and fuzzy that they can't modify your system, even though most of what you probably care about exists within your user account?
Even if you install it as a different user, you would need to log out of your main account every time (or, I suppose, run a secondary X server) as the rights required to display to your X server pretty much give full access to your account.
Could you not simply Sudo su steam-user-name then run steam?
Um isn't linux desktop already fragmented? look at how software is distributed, you have deb (ubuntu debian mint, superdeb (superubuntu), ebuilds (gentoo) rpm (opensuse redhat fedora) pkg.tar.xz (arch) pisi (pardus) tgz (slackware) LZM (slak) pup & pet (puppy linux) all incompatible with one another. the only reliable way to distribute software on all linux flavors is in source code. hell debian debs wont work on mint or ubuntu and vis versa. but do we complain about fragmentation nope. and that fragmentation is far worse than any android has. i don't think proprietary software stores will break the Linux desktop. it will how ever give some distros more influence in the community, Debian derivatives are here the most likely to gain. (they may actuality get a say in the Linux standard base). it may get normal people to switch over from windows. I personally know several people who have said what keeps them out of linux is games and they are heavy users of steam. They have also said they would like a android desktop. With linux and getting steam, and linux and android looking like they could converge some time in the next several years maybe windows will dry up and die yet.
i haven't but i haven't set that as one of my primary goals. Hurd was one of their(gnu)/his(rms) primary goals that was never fully achieved. it is there for a failure. I was at least partially joking when i made my comment. no need to get so up tight dude
i have on because it is a site where all of my freinds are. i don't post much maybe like once a month but i us it as a chat account a lot it makes it easer to communicate with them. but they won't find much real personal data about me on there that they wouldn't be able to find by scouring the rest internet for information about me.
So? You may not agree with their beliefs but you have to respect them for standing by them. they put their money where their mouth is unlike a lot of others.
It won't help you now but what i would do when i start working for a company that issues me a computer is; image the hard drive with clonezilla and keep the encrypted back up on a drive in a locked drawer. when time comes to leave pull out a live cd whack the disk write it over with random data till its full then whack it again. next drop the clonzilla image back on the system so it is as if you never touched it. also any personal information you have on a company computer should be saved on a encrypted (preferably linux) virtual machine on a external drive where it is also encrypted. let them try extracting your data then.
exactly. for example my uncle bought a antique rhinoceros safari gun. as far as i know he has shot it all of once and that was to make sure it was working. the reason he said he bought it was because they make it. it now is displayed in his gun room/office. will he ever go hunting with it no. will he ever go shot someone with it not likely. it is an art piece, a piece of history, and collectors item. there are lots of reason to own guns not all are to kill people or hunt.
not really all that far fetched Microsoft would love to be the only os on pc's. they have actively smeared Linux and spread fud, they brought xp back form the dead to keep Linux off of mass marketed net-books, and tried to kill it by proxy with sco, they have accused it of being a cancer and communist, they have likened Linux users to pirates and malicious hackers. they have also baselessly accused Linux of patent infringement. Why would they not try to lock down PC's? and they tried to do the same thing before with palladium.
it won't prevent malware drive by downloads form being installed only root kits and that is until someone('s) shows of an exploit at the black-hat/def-con conference in Las Vegas next year and kills even that. and if the corporate IT department is worth a damn they will know that. and as for Linux admins wanting that in particular wanting it when have any of those been a problem for them? what it will do is be a pain in the ass for them to run installs of linux on those system because of the lack of signed distros.
Has this ever been an issue with you on Linux? If secure boot does not allow you to run Python, a lot of scripts won't run. If it does allow you to run Python, a malicious Python script might still get you.
Since when does any Linux have auto run for anything enabled by default, and any you download you would have to set the executable bit on anyway. not an issue.
red hat may have lots of money but microsoft has a shit ton more and the all of the people in power in their pocket. canonical has been running in the red for years and is pretty much run off of shuttelworths bank account and donations of time and money not going to be in a challenger to MS in court any time soon.
for now they require it on X86 and X64 systems but it is locked on arm. but what about windows 9? will it be removed because like the start menu because "so few people were using it".
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One of the scientists concluded that the most likely way of obtaining viable dinosaur DNA would be to build a time machine. Perhaps Mr. Palmer will try that.
I hope so. I really want to steal a tardis and time travel around the multiverse with hot women. Where do i sign up to fund that kickstart!
You just made everyones point for them. They should not have to install gnome tweak to bring back basic functionality. We should not have to install extension to make a desktop usable. As for those extension, how do you build them when the api is a moving undocumented target as you yourself admitted? You said your a developer and now have a mess because mate uses gtk2 and gnome uses gtk3, well those are just libraries pick one, you can have both on the same system. that won't even be an issue long because (iirc) mate plans to port all of their apps to gtk3 eventually.
why mint is a stable debian derivative. it is more secure than windows and free so they aren't paying for a license with your money?
except mate plans to eventually move on to the gtk3 framework.
You could always press the Super/"windows" key or whatever itls labelled on your keyboard. Gets you to the overview without needing to lift your hands off the keyboard - pretty much everything in gnome-shell can be done with keyboard shortcuts, often the same shortcuts that worked in Gnome 2 (ctrl-alt-up/down arrow to switch workspaces for example).
To launch an application, I press Super, type the first few letters of the program name (or what it does, like "mail", which gets me Thunderbird), hit Enter and go. Much quicker than the Gnome 2/Windows way of clicking Applications, mousing down to the correct sub-menu, and selecting from there.
thats the problem. Gnome 3 is built for touch screens but you need a keyboard shortcut for everything does that not mean that said touchscreen useless? and if you are telling all of the linux users to use a keyboard shortcut for everything why not use a terminal instead or a window manager like awesome where it is all keyboard driven anyway? desktops are primarily controlled by mice with the data entered by keyboard. not the other way around.
What? you switched of linux because one among may dozens of DE's fubared their desktop when a better one was a few clicks away? i mean sudo apt-get install kde-plasma-desktop OR xfce4 OR any-of-a-bajilion-other-DE's.
It makes since switching from windows over gui problems because there are no other easy/reasonable options not so much once you are already on linux. on linux gui fixs are no big deal unless you have to manually monkey with X-config
So you want to build eureka?
. i have been running mate on ubuntu through a ppa but mainline support or even a full spin like xfce and kde have would be nice. hmm Mubuntu?
So do you actually install it as a different user, or do you just feel warm and fuzzy that they can't modify your system, even though most of what you probably care about exists within your user account?
Even if you install it as a different user, you would need to log out of your main account every time (or, I suppose, run a secondary X server) as the rights required to display to your X server pretty much give full access to your account.
Could you not simply Sudo su steam-user-name then run steam?
Um isn't linux desktop already fragmented? look at how software is distributed, you have deb (ubuntu debian mint, superdeb (superubuntu), ebuilds (gentoo) rpm (opensuse redhat fedora) pkg.tar.xz (arch) pisi (pardus) tgz (slackware) LZM (slak) pup & pet (puppy linux) all incompatible with one another. the only reliable way to distribute software on all linux flavors is in source code. hell debian debs wont work on mint or ubuntu and vis versa. but do we complain about fragmentation nope. and that fragmentation is far worse than any android has. i don't think proprietary software stores will break the Linux desktop. it will how ever give some distros more influence in the community, Debian derivatives are here the most likely to gain. (they may actuality get a say in the Linux standard base). it may get normal people to switch over from windows. I personally know several people who have said what keeps them out of linux is games and they are heavy users of steam. They have also said they would like a android desktop. With linux and getting steam, and linux and android looking like they could converge some time in the next several years maybe windows will dry up and die yet.
i haven't but i haven't set that as one of my primary goals. Hurd was one of their(gnu)/his(rms) primary goals that was never fully achieved. it is there for a failure. I was at least partially joking when i made my comment. no need to get so up tight dude
pulled that statistic out of you ass didn't you. i need some citation b4 i can buy that one
i have on because it is a site where all of my freinds are. i don't post much maybe like once a month but i us it as a chat account a lot it makes it easer to communicate with them. but they won't find much real personal data about me on there that they wouldn't be able to find by scouring the rest internet for information about me.
With the exception of halo. Because halo is awesome. But they bought bungi an apple software company to get it.
Well by not being put in the same group as MS Bob and MS ME and universally hated. I think that would be a good way.
So? You may not agree with their beliefs but you have to respect them for standing by them. they put their money where their mouth is unlike a lot of others.
It won't help you now but what i would do when i start working for a company that issues me a computer is; image the hard drive with clonezilla and keep the encrypted back up on a drive in a locked drawer. when time comes to leave pull out a live cd whack the disk write it over with random data till its full then whack it again. next drop the clonzilla image back on the system so it is as if you never touched it. also any personal information you have on a company computer should be saved on a encrypted (preferably linux) virtual machine on a external drive where it is also encrypted. let them try extracting your data then.
exactly. for example my uncle bought a antique rhinoceros safari gun. as far as i know he has shot it all of once and that was to make sure it was working. the reason he said he bought it was because they make it. it now is displayed in his gun room/office. will he ever go hunting with it no. will he ever go shot someone with it not likely. it is an art piece, a piece of history, and collectors item. there are lots of reason to own guns not all are to kill people or hunt.
kill or hurt innocent tasty animals
there fixed that for you.
exactly
not really all that far fetched Microsoft would love to be the only os on pc's. they have actively smeared Linux and spread fud, they brought xp back form the dead to keep Linux off of mass marketed net-books, and tried to kill it by proxy with sco, they have accused it of being a cancer and communist, they have likened Linux users to pirates and malicious hackers. they have also baselessly accused Linux of patent infringement. Why would they not try to lock down PC's? and they tried to do the same thing before with palladium.
it won't prevent malware drive by downloads form being installed only root kits and that is until someone('s) shows of an exploit at the black-hat/def-con conference in Las Vegas next year and kills even that. and if the corporate IT department is worth a damn they will know that. and as for Linux admins wanting that in particular wanting it when have any of those been a problem for them? what it will do is be a pain in the ass for them to run installs of linux on those system because of the lack of signed distros.
Has this ever been an issue with you on Linux? If secure boot does not allow you to run Python, a lot of scripts won't run. If it does allow you to run Python, a malicious Python script might still get you.
Since when does any Linux have auto run for anything enabled by default, and any you download you would have to set the executable bit on anyway. not an issue.
red hat may have lots of money but microsoft has a shit ton more and the all of the people in power in their pocket. canonical has been running in the red for years and is pretty much run off of shuttelworths bank account and donations of time and money not going to be in a challenger to MS in court any time soon.
for now they require it on X86 and X64 systems but it is locked on arm. but what about windows 9? will it be removed because like the start menu because "so few people were using it".