Install MATE desktop ( http://mate-desktop.org/ ), if you want the full GNOME2 style, or just the MATE apps if you like GNOME shell, but want a full featured file browser (caja), pdf viewer (atril), text editor (pluma) etc.
If a company is incompetent enough to ship such insecure software, why would you trust that their firmware drivers were safe. If a company thinks its good econmic sense to ship adware, why would trust them use high quality components where they might save a few cent by cheaper low quality ones.
I have bought thinkpads in the past, because they are great hardware (i like the track point, wide set of ports even on the ultraportable x series, replacable battery, easily swapable disks, IPS screens). But my 18 month old x230 has just developed a random shutdown fault, so my opinion of Lenovo is failling fast.
Thanks, great examples. Heartbleed was found because by a company (google) who wanted to audit the code they were using. Because openSSL is opensource they were able to do that.
From wikipedia: "The major natural source of radioactivity in plant tissue is potassium: 0.0117% of the naturally-occurring potassium is the unstable isotope potassium-40 (40K). This isotope decays with a half-life of about 1.25 billion years (4×1016 seconds), and therefore the radioactivity of natural potassium is about 31 Bq/g – meaning that, in one gram of the element, about 31 atoms will decay every second.[2][3] Plants naturally contain other radioactive isotopes, such as carbon-14 (14C), but their contribution to the total activity is much smaller.[citation needed] Since a typical banana contains about half a gram of potassium,[4] it will have an activity of roughly 15 Bq.[5] Although the amount in a single banana is small in environmental and medical terms, the radioactivity from a truckload of bananas is capable of causing a false alarm when passed through a Radiation Portal Monitor used to detect possible smuggling of nuclear material at U.S. ports."
I don't see why the active areas of the drag handles couldn't be a few pixels bigger than the visible areas. that way you could avoid wasting precious screen space, but still have easy to resize widows.
Nuclear is currently the safest energy source (measure in deaths per KWh http://www.forbes.com/sites/ja... ). Even in the worst combination of things going wrong, the harm to people is small, while there are hundreds of fatal accidents in the fossil fuel industry each year (search for something like 'gas explosion' on google news).
Imagine if cars were held to the same standards as nuclear power plants. You'd need to get crash rates below 1 in 100 million user years. Make sure that even in the worst crash imaginable (e.g. car at max speed hitting a crowd of people) nobody (except maybe the driver) was exposed to a harmful level of force. All fuel would need to be transported in something that could survive being hit by a plane. All emissions would have to be captured and stored until they were safe. You could get road deaths down from the 1.2 million per year ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) (not including deaths from pollution) but I think cars would not be cheap.
Have a check which model you got. Atleast with the early RAM bump, the new models shipped before the annoucement, so some people ordered the old one, and received the new one.
Looks like the column limit is still an issue. https://bugs.documentfoundatio... "The tl;dr is: "increasing the column limit will increase the the memory needed for every sheet extremelly" unless we "change the column container to a dynamic container," a change that "might take much more time" than a month." On the other hand 4.2 made big changes to how data is held in spreadsheets https://wiki.documentfoundatio... so maybe there is some improvement for large sheets if you don't actually hit the the hard limit.
You have to take steps to make progress. You can take something useful and make it more open (like librem) or you could start from scratch and make something very basic that is completely open.
You can take bigger strides towards openness and get something like Novena, but then you make other sacrifices (size, cost, performance).
I guess if you had infinite money you could make a high spec, completely opensource laptop.
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if you are searching for code (eg function names and how to use them), then use a code search engine. Since google shut down theirs you can try https://code.openhub.net/ https://codesearch.debian.net/ ( !co and !dsource respectively on duckduckgo https://duckduckgo.com/bang )
and http://www.lowrisc.org/
Install MATE desktop ( http://mate-desktop.org/ ), if you want the full GNOME2 style, or just the MATE apps if you like GNOME shell, but want a full featured file browser (caja), pdf viewer (atril), text editor (pluma) etc.
Can't go wrong with a good old 746
So you advocate an immediate halt to all unnatural emission? (i.e. completely stop burning fossil fuels today)
If a company is incompetent enough to ship such insecure software, why would you trust that their firmware drivers were safe. If a company thinks its good econmic sense to ship adware, why would trust them use high quality components where they might save a few cent by cheaper low quality ones.
I have bought thinkpads in the past, because they are great hardware (i like the track point, wide set of ports even on the ultraportable x series, replacable battery, easily swapable disks, IPS screens). But my 18 month old x230 has just developed a random shutdown fault, so my opinion of Lenovo is failling fast.
Thanks, great examples. Heartbleed was found because by a company (google) who wanted to audit the code they were using. Because openSSL is opensource they were able to do that.
I'll believe that Jolla is more secure when they release the source code.
Nice to see an IPS screen. Still to few laptops with them (and not always easy to tell from spec sheets).
From wikipedia:
"The major natural source of radioactivity in plant tissue is potassium: 0.0117% of the naturally-occurring potassium is the unstable isotope potassium-40 (40K). This isotope decays with a half-life of about 1.25 billion years (4×1016 seconds), and therefore the radioactivity of natural potassium is about 31 Bq/g – meaning that, in one gram of the element, about 31 atoms will decay every second.[2][3] Plants naturally contain other radioactive isotopes, such as carbon-14 (14C), but their contribution to the total activity is much smaller.[citation needed] Since a typical banana contains about half a gram of potassium,[4] it will have an activity of roughly 15 Bq.[5] Although the amount in a single banana is small in environmental and medical terms, the radioactivity from a truckload of bananas is capable of causing a false alarm when passed through a Radiation Portal Monitor used to detect possible smuggling of nuclear material at U.S. ports."
Replacing 100 shell scripts with a single binary is a simplification.
I don't see why the active areas of the drag handles couldn't be a few pixels bigger than the visible areas. that way you could avoid wasting precious screen space, but still have easy to resize widows.
MATE have been migrating their forks of the GNOME 2 apps from GTK2 to 3 without removing features.
OMG WTF TLA OCR CCGs?
Wait, Fox News is a comedy channel right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Can be used for good or evil. Depends if control is in the hands of the hardware manufacturers or the users.
Running Raspbian Jessie on a raspberrypi with systemd here. Works great.
Nothing bad actually happened. No one was killed or injured.
So much safer than your gas and steel industies
http://www.al.com/news/birming...
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/20...
http://www.bizjournals.com/pit...
http://blog.al.com/live/2013/0...
Nuclear is currently the safest energy source (measure in deaths per KWh http://www.forbes.com/sites/ja... ). Even in the worst combination of things going wrong, the harm to people is small, while there are hundreds of fatal accidents in the fossil fuel industry each year (search for something like 'gas explosion' on google news).
Imagine if cars were held to the same standards as nuclear power plants. You'd need to get crash rates below 1 in 100 million user years. Make sure that even in the worst crash imaginable (e.g. car at max speed hitting a crowd of people) nobody (except maybe the driver) was exposed to a harmful level of force. All fuel would need to be transported in something that could survive being hit by a plane. All emissions would have to be captured and stored until they were safe. You could get road deaths down from the 1.2 million per year ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) (not including deaths from pollution) but I think cars would not be cheap.
Have a check which model you got. Atleast with the early RAM bump, the new models shipped before the annoucement, so some people ordered the old one, and received the new one.
he still worked there 2 weeks ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
They released all the docs for the GPU, drivers are on their way http://dri.freedesktop.org/wik... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Looks like the column limit is still an issue. https://bugs.documentfoundatio...
"The tl;dr is: "increasing the column limit will increase the the memory needed for every sheet extremelly" unless we "change the column container to a dynamic container," a change that "might take much more time" than a month."
On the other hand 4.2 made big changes to how data is held in spreadsheets https://wiki.documentfoundatio... so maybe there is some improvement for large sheets if you don't actually hit the the hard limit.
Maybe you could file a bug for the second one.
Thanks, that's interesting stuff.
You have to take steps to make progress. You can take something useful and make it more open (like librem) or you could start from scratch and make something very basic that is completely open.
You can take bigger strides towards openness and get something like Novena, but then you make other sacrifices (size, cost, performance).
I guess if you had infinite money you could make a high spec, completely opensource laptop.