Yeah, I wonder how long other features like Speed Dial, or Tab stacking will last before someone copies them.
I wish that people knew where all of these fancy features are coming from, that way Opera would have more funding to innovate. They certainly haven't slowed down since they created tabbed browsing eons ago...
Every linux user I know is pretty happy about this.
I can't say I am... I use Linux not because of the ideology behind GNU, but rather because I have so much more control over my system and I find myself much more productive in it.
I have no problems with Steam or Valve, so long I can both use the OS I rather and be able to play good games on it.
It's not like the FSF ideal is going to go away when Steam hits Linux, there will always be the option to ignore it if it doesn't suit you. All people do when they try to push back is limit the choice of other people who may not share the same opinion.
I don't mean the bang command, I mean the literal character... You can search special characters in DuckDuckGo, ones that are ignored by other search engines...
For ":wq" that would search up the literal string ":wq", which is the Vi command for Writing and quitting, on Bing though, it ignores the ":" and only searches up "wq", so you get results like the Wikipedia article for "Water Quality" and other acronyms that it could stand for.
Interesting, I wonder the correlation between Gentoo and OS X is? They are polar opposites.
I went OS X -> Gentoo -> Arch -> Ubuntu -> Mint
Gentoo was just fun though since it was installed on an iBook (Old-style Macbook) with an INCREDIBLY FAST 500MHz PPC processor of raw power! (Because OS X broke)
It costs money, but it's pretty cheap, and apparently quite a reliable way to work around the firewall.
My only recommendation is to set it up before you get there since it requires OpenVPN, and http://openvpn.net/ is blocked within China. (The website, not the service)
You can search verbatim characters in DuckDuckGo, but not in Bing (Go ahead, search ":wq" on both, and notice that DuckDuckGo doesn't ignore the ":"), how is this done if DuckDuckGo uses Bing?
I personally much rather saying that my old Android ran "Cupcake" instead of claiming it used "1.5"... It's kinda cute in a way, and when used in conversation, it almost lightens whatever the topic is...
Really, try to sound disgruntled when saying that your phone runs on "Ice Cream Sandwich".
If you are looking for a free program to filter with... Snort does a good job. It is an IDS (Intrusion detection system), but it is flexible enough that it would work as a very good filter, allowing you to filter by keywords, domains, ports, have-at-you...
You can combine that with lists of questionable content and you'd have yourself a pretty effective and versatile system.
It costs a bit, but pretty much on every restart it will revert any "frozen" drives to their previous state, this is usually done in unison with a second partition that is "unfrozen" so people can save files... And if you want to update your system, you can turn Deep Freeze off temporarily. It also has a user permission system so some people can save files.
Fantastic for management, and as someone who was on the user end of it for a while, it wasn't that bad because of the unfrozen drive for my files. (You could permanently install with a password if you needed to)
I know this may sound a bit weird to some, but I always found Emacs org-mode to be the most effective way for me to take notes in class... Here is a Google Tech-talk about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTwQvgfgMM
It's pretty much just plaintext, but the way org-mode handles it makes it very effective. It's one of the easiest parts of Emacs to learn, and it is known as quite a killer feature in the program. You can even export it to PDF (ala LaTeX), HTML, and a few other types of formats (Like GameFAQs style text document, complete with table of contents and headings.)
Since there really is no overhead, you are only limited by how fast you can type. It is also very easy to navigate after writing them.
I haven't written off Google+ yet... I actually quite like it...
Sure, there is less people there, but it's nice seeing only a couple posts from a few good friends as opposed to posts every couple of minutes about what some acquaintance of mine ate.
Circles was an awesome feature, I always quite enjoyed the control I had over views and who viewed what. The simple markdown interpreter worked for simple markup on posts, hangouts were awesome, that and chat completely replaced Skype for me.
I also quite like the interface better.
And recently, I have noticed a lot of people joining.
The 36 people in this article isn't a very large number... A lot of the people that play Pokemon today are actually in our 20s. Addictive? Perhaps a little. But the games have gotten a lot more elaborate than they have in the past. It's more than just collecting them all now, it's about the literally hundreds of things to do in each of the worlds, the oh-so difficult Battle Frontier which very few have beaten, the Breeding to get Pokemon with higher stats and moves not normally known by a particular species, EV training, the mini games, random quests, all of the post-game quests, harvest-moon style farming, and of course, catching them all... Not to mention all of the new multiplayer aspects, like the launcher battles in Black and White (The newest games) which add a whole new depth to battles.
tl;dr I am a Pokemon nut, this article misleads about the general state of the Pokemon franchise, and the age a majority of us are.
It's getting there... Often in the games, you have to breed many Pokemon to get them to pass down desirable traits like higher attack or speed IVs, and moves that a particular species doesn't learn normally to get higher end Pokemon...
Reddit's default homepage is horrible, I'm not going to beat around the bush about that... But when you sign up, and find subreddits you like, you can add them to/your/ frontpage, and usually, the most upvoted content (The stuff people like) from each of those subreddits gets aggregated onto your front page, meaning if you have made subscriptions according to your interests, it's/far/ more interesting than most sites.
The default subreddits are often there because of people that just want to quickly browse for a quick laugh or two, but if you are looking for more insigtful content, subreddits like/r/science (http://www.reddit.com/r/science/) look a lot more like/.'s homepage. You can edit your subreddits after you log in here: http://www.reddit.com/reddits/
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Year of the Linux rootkit.
Yeah, I wonder how long other features like Speed Dial, or Tab stacking will last before someone copies them.
I wish that people knew where all of these fancy features are coming from, that way Opera would have more funding to innovate. They certainly haven't slowed down since they created tabbed browsing eons ago...
I don't mean the ideal, but rather, the functionality that comes from it. Closed source can be functional as well...
I don't mind if the software I use is open source or not, provided I can do what I like with it.
Open is nice, but avoiding "closed but functional" is not really something I can see myself doing.
That is a pretty good imagination you have.
Every linux user I know is pretty happy about this.
I can't say I am... I use Linux not because of the ideology behind GNU, but rather because I have so much more control over my system and I find myself much more productive in it.
I have no problems with Steam or Valve, so long I can both use the OS I rather and be able to play good games on it.
It's not like the FSF ideal is going to go away when Steam hits Linux, there will always be the option to ignore it if it doesn't suit you. All people do when they try to push back is limit the choice of other people who may not share the same opinion.
Still haven't mastered butterflies, n00bz?
Dammit Emacs.
I don't mean the bang command, I mean the literal character... You can search special characters in DuckDuckGo, ones that are ignored by other search engines...
For ":wq" that would search up the literal string ":wq", which is the Vi command for Writing and quitting, on Bing though, it ignores the ":" and only searches up "wq", so you get results like the Wikipedia article for "Water Quality" and other acronyms that it could stand for.
Compare:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22%3Awq%22
http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22%3Awq%22&qs=n&form=QBRE&pq=%22%3Awq%22&sc=0-0&sp=-1&sk=
Interesting, I wonder the correlation between Gentoo and OS X is? They are polar opposites.
I went
OS X -> Gentoo -> Arch -> Ubuntu -> Mint
Gentoo was just fun though since it was installed on an iBook (Old-style Macbook) with an INCREDIBLY FAST 500MHz PPC processor of raw power! (Because OS X broke)
Apparently Private Internet Access (VPN) is quite a popular way of getting around the great firewall of China...
It costs money, but it's pretty cheap, and apparently quite a reliable way to work around the firewall.
My only recommendation is to set it up before you get there since it requires OpenVPN, and http://openvpn.net/ is blocked within China. (The website, not the service)
You can search verbatim characters in DuckDuckGo, but not in Bing (Go ahead, search ":wq" on both, and notice that DuckDuckGo doesn't ignore the ":"), how is this done if DuckDuckGo uses Bing?
Is there something in the API maybe?
I investigated this, I really wish I hadn't...
Not because I wasn't expecting it, but because it wasn't scaled to epic proportions so I did it for pretty much nothing... :(
There was also a Minecraft Creeper chasing a miner...
References are everywhere.
I love how hilariously likely that comment is, but it also makes me kinda sad since I use Opera. :(
Year of the Linux desktop!
I find absurd names endearing in a way...
I personally much rather saying that my old Android ran "Cupcake" instead of claiming it used "1.5"... It's kinda cute in a way, and when used in conversation, it almost lightens whatever the topic is...
Really, try to sound disgruntled when saying that your phone runs on "Ice Cream Sandwich".
Remix
If you are looking for a free program to filter with... Snort does a good job. It is an IDS (Intrusion detection system), but it is flexible enough that it would work as a very good filter, allowing you to filter by keywords, domains, ports, have-at-you...
You can combine that with lists of questionable content and you'd have yourself a pretty effective and versatile system.
These kinds of rules are probably most relevant to your interests.
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.ids.snort.general/33780
It sounds like you may like Deep Freeze. http://www.faronics.com/enterprise/deep-freeze/
It costs a bit, but pretty much on every restart it will revert any "frozen" drives to their previous state, this is usually done in unison with a second partition that is "unfrozen" so people can save files... And if you want to update your system, you can turn Deep Freeze off temporarily. It also has a user permission system so some people can save files.
Fantastic for management, and as someone who was on the user end of it for a while, it wasn't that bad because of the unfrozen drive for my files. (You could permanently install with a password if you needed to)
I know this may sound a bit weird to some, but I always found Emacs org-mode to be the most effective way for me to take notes in class...
Here is a Google Tech-talk about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTwQvgfgMM
It's pretty much just plaintext, but the way org-mode handles it makes it very effective. It's one of the easiest parts of Emacs to learn, and it is known as quite a killer feature in the program. You can even export it to PDF (ala LaTeX), HTML, and a few other types of formats (Like GameFAQs style text document, complete with table of contents and headings.)
Since there really is no overhead, you are only limited by how fast you can type. It is also very easy to navigate after writing them.
Besides, I heard the movie was to die for.
I haven't written off Google+ yet... I actually quite like it...
Sure, there is less people there, but it's nice seeing only a couple posts from a few good friends as opposed to posts every couple of minutes about what some acquaintance of mine ate.
Circles was an awesome feature, I always quite enjoyed the control I had over views and who viewed what. The simple markdown interpreter worked for simple markup on posts, hangouts were awesome, that and chat completely replaced Skype for me.
I also quite like the interface better.
And recently, I have noticed a lot of people joining.
Well... Even to this day Pokemon is the second best selling franchise out there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Selling_Video_Game_Franchises
The 36 people in this article isn't a very large number... A lot of the people that play Pokemon today are actually in our 20s. Addictive? Perhaps a little. But the games have gotten a lot more elaborate than they have in the past. It's more than just collecting them all now, it's about the literally hundreds of things to do in each of the worlds, the oh-so difficult Battle Frontier which very few have beaten, the Breeding to get Pokemon with higher stats and moves not normally known by a particular species, EV training, the mini games, random quests, all of the post-game quests, harvest-moon style farming, and of course, catching them all... Not to mention all of the new multiplayer aspects, like the launcher battles in Black and White (The newest games) which add a whole new depth to battles.
tl;dr I am a Pokemon nut, this article misleads about the general state of the Pokemon franchise, and the age a majority of us are.
It's getting there... Often in the games, you have to breed many Pokemon to get them to pass down desirable traits like higher attack or speed IVs, and moves that a particular species doesn't learn normally to get higher end Pokemon...
It's surprisingly elaborate.
Reddit's default homepage is horrible, I'm not going to beat around the bush about that... But when you sign up, and find subreddits you like, you can add them to /your/ frontpage, and usually, the most upvoted content (The stuff people like) from each of those subreddits gets aggregated onto your front page, meaning if you have made subscriptions according to your interests, it's /far/ more interesting than most sites.
/r/science (http://www.reddit.com/r/science/) look a lot more like /.'s homepage. You can edit your subreddits after you log in here: http://www.reddit.com/reddits/
The default subreddits are often there because of people that just want to quickly browse for a quick laugh or two, but if you are looking for more insigtful content, subreddits like
Mmmm... yeah. ... If you could just go ahead and make sure you do that by Friday, that will be great. Mmmm, Ok?
Brohoof, my friend!