I've had a couple of minor procedures requiring anaesthesia for the past 8 years, last one this spring.
I have resistive trypanophobia, a fancy term for a fairly extreme phobia towards needles and restraint (if I know there's a needle heading my way to inject me with something my heart starts racing and my body goes into "fight or flight" mode), which happens to be rather inconvenient when you're about to get a needle stuck in your hand to administer anaesthesia.
So in order to prevent me from entering this basic survival mode my anaesthesiologists have given me a nice and healthy dose of laughing gas which leaves me without a care in the world.
The fact that it seemed fairly routine for the anaesthesiologist to give me laughing gas seemed to indicate that they do use it fairly often for situations like my own.
Really? You have a file system that allows me to group together songs that I have previously rated at 4 stars and I haven't listened to for 3-4 weeks and have it order them by the year their respective album was released? Wow.
As much as I don't agree with Iran's policy towards Israel, I must object to Iran being explicitly anti-Jewish. Their gripe is with the state of Israel and not Jews. Calling a country that is home to the second-largest Jewish population in the Middle East (largest of course being Israel), and where Jews are explicitly protected by the consitution, as being anti-Jewish is prejudice at best.
To install software on my mac that doesn't come with it I download a file which I then drag into my Applications folder and run (no installation, 95% of the software I run on my mac runs just like that, a self-contained application)
To update software that's already on my mac I 1) tell the software to update itself (a lot of software updates itself completely to the new version) 2) download a file and drag it into my Applications folder. 3) If it's Apple software I click the Apple logo in my top-left corner and click "Software Update" which then updates my Apple software.
I'm not exactly sure how you can come up with an easier, more foolproof method of installing/updating software short of making it 100% automated and invisible to the user (still wouldn't trust completely automated/invisible update/install procedures after Debian decided to render my laptop unusable after I configured it to do apt-get update && apt-get upgrade once a week 8 years ago).
Why is it that every Linux system I've used in the bast 13 years has both the 'adduser' and 'useradd' commands and while both of those do create a user on the machine, only one of them also creates a base environment (based on/etc/skel) for the newly created user?
How about reading the very thing you're replying to before you go off thinking your method is better?
1. Find the software you want to install 2. apt-get (or GUI) install it
Your parent post described the Apple method whereby you download an application, drag it into the Applications folder and start using it. If you haven't tried it before I suggest you have a Mac user you know demonstrate this for you to show you how easy it is.
You mistakenly assume that your method of finding the software you want to install and then apt-get installing it (and woe unto you if it's not in the standard repositories, or worse, doesn't even have a Debian/Ubuntu build of it and therefore no APT repository at all!) is inherently better! This goes especially for closed and/or semi-closed yet simple software like Flash. You are at the mercy of someone maintaining an APT repository with your distribution (the article mentioned e.g. Ubuntu 8.04 and Open Office 3.0).
Also, your snide remark regarding dependency hell just goes to show that YOU don't know what you're talking about. My last attempt at upgrading a single piece of software (ffmpeg) for my Ubuntu server at home resulted in my upgrading the entire distribution (8.04 -> 8.10). This is exactly how it was 13 years ago when I started using Linux and still remains a problem today (yes, I've been using fore nearly a decade and a half straight, albeit in a server setting, so I would like to think l know what I'm talking about).
Also, your derogatory remarks regarding which "clueless home users" installing applications across multiple distributions... Well if it's a big hassle to install what is probably world's most popular browser plugin (Flash), then it's not ready for "clueless home users", dropping into command line to install a GUI BROWSER PLUGIN is backwards at best.
No, "absence of data" in the Date of Death column simply means that we don't have it, whatever the reason may be - it simply doesn't matter as far as the database is concerned.
If you are trying to install vanilla Windows XP (i.e. no applied service packs or anything) on that laptop, then I'm not surprised given that XP was released 2 years before SATA (XP in 2001, Serial ATA in 2003). Kinda hard to have DRIVER SUPPORT for something that won't be released for another 2 years.
Try creating a slipstreamed install CD with at least service pack 2 and possibly the drivers for the SATA controllers. Should save you a ton of trouble in installing a fresh XP installation.
If the store in France prohibits me from doing business with them based on my residency, actually, yes. If a person in France (unless I am mistaken, if so, please do correct me) attempts to make a purchase in the Netherlands iTunes Store using a French creditcard they will not be able to complete their transaction. This is blocking free flow of goods no matter how you cut it.
It's especially bad for people in, say Poland, who might like to use the iTunes Store but are being discriminated upon based on their residency.
It is illegal because it violates one of the Four Freedoms of the EU, i.e. the free movement of goods (other 3 being free movement of persons, services and capital). Apple also violates this with the iTunes Store not being available in all EU countries.
By that logic Amazon in the US and other online retailers in the US selling physical CDs should immediately cease selling CDs to customers outside the US since they don't have distribution rights outside the US.
Vista on laptops has a bug- if closing the lid is set to put the machine to sleep, then closing the lid during a shutdown causes the machine to sleep during shutdown. Next time you turn on your computer, you can watch it finish shutting down.
Nope, that's not new in Vista. That was there in XP too.
I saw XP complete a shutdown after opening the lid hours after initiating a shutdown WAY before Vista was even a gleam in Bill Gates' eyes.
Huh? What non-upgradable proprietary form-factor SSDs that some laptops have, are you talking about?
Please inform me, I'm finding it hard to believe that laptop manufacturers and SSD manufacturers are going out of their way to come up with a non-standard form-factor to fit hard drives into.
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One telltale sign of an ape descendant: He thinks digital watches are a neat idea.
Assuming the Xbox firmware is up to date, it does play divx files from a USB hard drive.
Nah, actually just damage to your vision.
European here,
I've had a couple of minor procedures requiring anaesthesia for the past 8 years, last one this spring.
I have resistive trypanophobia, a fancy term for a fairly extreme phobia towards needles and restraint (if I know there's a needle heading my way to inject me with something my heart starts racing and my body goes into "fight or flight" mode), which happens to be rather inconvenient when you're about to get a needle stuck in your hand to administer anaesthesia.
So in order to prevent me from entering this basic survival mode my anaesthesiologists have given me a nice and healthy dose of laughing gas which leaves me without a care in the world.
The fact that it seemed fairly routine for the anaesthesiologist to give me laughing gas seemed to indicate that they do use it fairly often for situations like my own.
And quite a lot of those millions of servers are stored in a nice cool and well airconditioned place.
Your average Xbox is however stuffed inside a closet with the rest of the entertainment center.
And that's different from regular COPS, how exactly?
Really? You have a file system that allows me to group together songs that I have previously rated at 4 stars and I haven't listened to for 3-4 weeks and have it order them by the year their respective album was released? Wow.
Really, only Firefox? Because I could SWEAR it was working for me in Safari 4 with Youtube's HTML 5 demo site.
As much as I don't agree with Iran's policy towards Israel, I must object to Iran being explicitly anti-Jewish.
Their gripe is with the state of Israel and not Jews. Calling a country that is home to the second-largest Jewish population in the Middle East (largest of course being Israel), and where Jews are explicitly protected by the consitution, as being anti-Jewish is prejudice at best.
Hell, not even repair, but standard maintenance (as demonstrated by 5th gear: Changing a lightbulb in a Renault Megane vs. VW Golf)
No no, this is RMS we're talking about here.
man pages are old'n'busted.
info pages that only an elite few know how to browse are all the rage!
Why should he have to add a special repository to his configuration to UPDATE a piece of software he already has installed?
To install software on my mac that doesn't come with it I download a file which I then drag into my Applications folder and run (no installation, 95% of the software I run on my mac runs just like that, a self-contained application)
To update software that's already on my mac I
1) tell the software to update itself (a lot of software updates itself completely to the new version)
2) download a file and drag it into my Applications folder.
3) If it's Apple software I click the Apple logo in my top-left corner and click "Software Update" which then updates my Apple software.
I'm not exactly sure how you can come up with an easier, more foolproof method of installing/updating software short of making it 100% automated and invisible to the user (still wouldn't trust completely automated/invisible update/install procedures after Debian decided to render my laptop unusable after I configured it to do apt-get update && apt-get upgrade once a week 8 years ago).
... Speaking of 'adduser'.
Why is it that every Linux system I've used in the bast 13 years has both the 'adduser' and 'useradd' commands and while both of those do create a user on the machine, only one of them also creates a base environment (based on /etc/skel) for the newly created user?
How about reading the very thing you're replying to before you go off thinking your method is better?
1. Find the software you want to install
2. apt-get (or GUI) install it
Your parent post described the Apple method whereby you download an application, drag it into the Applications folder and start using it. If you haven't tried it before I suggest you have a Mac user you know demonstrate this for you to show you how easy it is.
You mistakenly assume that your method of finding the software you want to install and then apt-get installing it (and woe unto you if it's not in the standard repositories, or worse, doesn't even have a Debian/Ubuntu build of it and therefore no APT repository at all!) is inherently better!
This goes especially for closed and/or semi-closed yet simple software like Flash. You are at the mercy of someone maintaining an APT repository with your distribution (the article mentioned e.g. Ubuntu 8.04 and Open Office 3.0).
Also, your snide remark regarding dependency hell just goes to show that YOU don't know what you're talking about. My last attempt at upgrading a single piece of software (ffmpeg) for my Ubuntu server at home resulted in my upgrading the entire distribution (8.04 -> 8.10). This is exactly how it was 13 years ago when I started using Linux and still remains a problem today (yes, I've been using fore nearly a decade and a half straight, albeit in a server setting, so I would like to think l know what I'm talking about).
Also, your derogatory remarks regarding which "clueless home users" installing applications across multiple distributions... Well if it's a big hassle to install what is probably world's most popular browser plugin (Flash), then it's not ready for "clueless home users", dropping into command line to install a GUI BROWSER PLUGIN is backwards at best.
No, "absence of data" in the Date of Death column simply means that we don't have it, whatever the reason may be - it simply doesn't matter as far as the database is concerned.
If you are trying to install vanilla Windows XP (i.e. no applied service packs or anything) on that laptop, then I'm not surprised given that XP was released 2 years before SATA (XP in 2001, Serial ATA in 2003). Kinda hard to have DRIVER SUPPORT for something that won't be released for another 2 years.
Try creating a slipstreamed install CD with at least service pack 2 and possibly the drivers for the SATA controllers. Should save you a ton of trouble in installing a fresh XP installation.
err... you're linking twice to the same pic.
If the store in France prohibits me from doing business with them based on my residency, actually, yes. If a person in France (unless I am mistaken, if so, please do correct me) attempts to make a purchase in the Netherlands iTunes Store using a French creditcard they will not be able to complete their transaction. This is blocking free flow of goods no matter how you cut it.
It's especially bad for people in, say Poland, who might like to use the iTunes Store but are being discriminated upon based on their residency.
It is illegal because it violates one of the Four Freedoms of the EU, i.e. the free movement of goods (other 3 being free movement of persons, services and capital). Apple also violates this with the iTunes Store not being available in all EU countries.
By that logic Amazon in the US and other online retailers in the US selling physical CDs should immediately cease selling CDs to customers outside the US since they don't have distribution rights outside the US.
6. Not sold outside USA
Vista on laptops has a bug- if closing the lid is set to put the machine to sleep, then closing the lid during a shutdown causes the machine to sleep during shutdown. Next time you turn on your computer, you can watch it finish shutting down.
Nope, that's not new in Vista. That was there in XP too.
I saw XP complete a shutdown after opening the lid hours after initiating a shutdown WAY before Vista was even a gleam in Bill Gates' eyes.
Huh? What non-upgradable proprietary form-factor SSDs that some laptops have, are you talking about?
Please inform me, I'm finding it hard to believe that laptop manufacturers and SSD manufacturers are going out of their way to come up with a non-standard form-factor to fit hard drives into.
Or if you are on Windows, you can use iArtwork to fill in the gaps.
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The free edition allows you to update artwork for up to 60 albums.
For $7.80 you can upgrade to a full version to update all your artwork.