You're right, my WP7 phone (a Lumia 900) lasts way longer than my Galaxy S3... Never mind that WP7 can't run any apps in the history of ever (most notably it cant run a microsoft account-capable version of Skype, a microsoft product) but hey the battery will be there when I NEED it...
But will it work as a phone when you need it? Perhaps the experience has been enhanced for those that just want a mobile voice communications device (only one with a pretty touch screen and useless tiles).
Bullshit!
Ahem, http://www.internode.on.net/residential/broadband/adsl/easy_broadband/ 1TB per month for AU$130 a month, less if you bundle
I'm currently paying $60 a month for 60GB naked ADSL2, land line on VoIP, so no monthly rental fee to Telstra for a service I don't use.
The industry in.au is changing, slowly, but it is changing... and the NBN is one of the catalysts
Read Earth by David Brin, one of the characters in there spends her time "modding" old movies for profit, giving them things like extra scenes, sound effect and colour.
The other good protections that I have seen dealt with having to enter in words from the pages of the instruction manual (which could be defeated by copying the whole manual...) but most people didn't go and copy a 100 page manual.
I had one of these for my a few C-64 games and a few early PC games. The best one was one that had the code sheet printed in dark blue on a dark red background. Copying it with a traditional B&W photocopier resulted in a black page:). Now you'd just scan it and print it in colour, but it was effective when colour printers cost $1000 or more.
Another popular method was a "code wheel" that came with the app, but again, these days it would just be scanned and then an industrious person could print it out and cut the appropriate holes out.
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1) Can't search portage. Under FreeBSD just do: "make search name=blarg". This will give you a wealth of information.
emerge -s package
2) Poor documentation for portage. This may be the reason I never figured out how to do the previous. Under FreeBSD, do a "man ports" and you get all the information you need. (there's also the excellent Handbook and Porter's Guide)
emerge --help gives a wealth of information as does man emerge or even man ebuild, ebuild is what does most of the work, emerge is just a nicer front end that does all the ebuild steps automatically.
Want more? Gentoo Documentation
3) No package descriptions!... Even a one line lazy-developer's description is better than nothing.
Look at the output from emerge -s foo
4) For difficult source code, it may be easier to create a Gentoo emerge file. But for simple straightforward source, the FreeBSD port Makefile is easiest.
If your source code is as simple as: ./configure
make
make install
then all you need to put in an.ebuild file is the url for the source, something like: $SRC_URI="http://application.sourceforge.net/foo-$ {PV}.tar.gz"
Name your.ebuild appropriately (foo-1.0.ebuild) and ${PV} is populated from the.ebuild name.
5) Ability to install binaries packages as an option. Building from source is great, but sometimes you don't have the time.
You can install Portage created binaries (they are just tar.bz2 files).
If you want to you can even install RPMs, however since on a Gentoo system you are not going to have a wealth of RPMs installed you will probably need to use --nodeps or even --force.
Summary: I expect the Gentoo portage system to eventually address my concerns. In the meantime it was a very painful experience.
I hope it does address your concerns eventually. Remember that Gentoo is still a "young" distribution, I'm sure that the other major flavours all had their problems during the development of their respective packaging systems.
Also find out which of your users are Linux friendly and are willing to use it solely on the desktop (with the old 400MHz machine for Outlook and Word, if necessary).
If your shop doesn't use Exchange, then Evolution is a more than adequate replacement for Outlook. If you do use exchange, look into the CodeWeavers Exchange plugin solution.
As for Word, Excel & Powerpoint... OpenOffice.org is a more than adequate replacements for general day to day use. Heck, it can't really run any slower than MS Office on a 400MHz machine.
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That's why most house framing material is based on multiples of 300mm.
e.g.: 1200x2400mm (see http://www.boral.com.au/plaste... for more sizes)
300mm, 450mm or 600mm centers
1800mm, 2400mm or 2700mm lengths of timber
And 300mm is pretty close to 12 in
1 1/2 x 3 1/12 is more like 38x90 mm
You're right, my WP7 phone (a Lumia 900) lasts way longer than my Galaxy S3... Never mind that WP7 can't run any apps in the history of ever (most notably it cant run a microsoft account-capable version of Skype, a microsoft product) but hey the battery will be there when I NEED it...
But will it work as a phone when you need it? Perhaps the experience has been enhanced for those that just want a mobile voice communications device (only one with a pretty touch screen and useless tiles).
And the Spiderbait version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU1VfYYKMDk
So you still don't own a mobile phone or a laptop? How's that abacus going?
Bullshit! Ahem, http://www.internode.on.net/residential/broadband/adsl/easy_broadband/ 1TB per month for AU$130 a month, less if you bundle I'm currently paying $60 a month for 60GB naked ADSL2, land line on VoIP, so no monthly rental fee to Telstra for a service I don't use. The industry in .au is changing, slowly, but it is changing ... and the NBN is one of the catalysts
And for novelty wines there are plenty of other names us Aussies can use like "Alice Springs Leg Opener".
That's actually beer, not wine ... it's called VB
Still somewhat in it's infancy .. Catalyst.
It is usable now, just requires a little effort to get everything working smoothly.
Untar kernel sources
/path/to/kernel/sources
cd
make menuconfig
make bzImage modules modules_install
cp arc/[your arch]/boot/bzImage [appropriate place]
modify lilo/grub config, run lilo if required
get the new module-init-tools and install them (debian can apt-get them I believe, gentoo just emerge them)
reboot, enjoy.
I can't recommend this book highly enough.
My boss recommended it to me a few weeks ago, and I just picked it up, and can't set it down.
Same here. I think I actually read it in about 2 days (granted I was travelling). I've since re-read it, an excellent read.
Jennifer Government by Max Barry.
You can even play the game, Nation States.
Stay tuned for the movie.
would anyone on /. object to "Matrix" prisons for criminals? what about for the severely physically disabled? just for research?
Try this: Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan.
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.35.html#subj5.1
Read Earth by David Brin, one of the characters in there spends her time "modding" old movies for profit, giving them things like extra scenes, sound effect and colour.
The other good protections that I have seen dealt with having to enter in words from the pages of the instruction manual (which could be defeated by copying the whole manual...) but most people didn't go and copy a 100 page manual.
:). Now you'd just scan it and print it in colour, but it was effective when colour printers cost $1000 or more.
I had one of these for my a few C-64 games and a few early PC games. The best one was one that had the code sheet printed in dark blue on a dark red background. Copying it with a traditional B&W photocopier resulted in a black page
Another popular method was a "code wheel" that came with the app, but again, these days it would just be scanned and then an industrious person could print it out and cut the appropriate holes out.
1) Can't search portage. Under FreeBSD just do: "make search name=blarg". This will give you a wealth of information.
... Even a one line lazy-developer's description is better than nothing.
./configure
.ebuild file is the url for the source, something like:$ {PV}.tar.gz"
.ebuild appropriately (foo-1.0.ebuild) and ${PV} is populated from the .ebuild name.
emerge -s package
2) Poor documentation for portage. This may be the reason I never figured out how to do the previous. Under FreeBSD, do a "man ports" and you get all the information you need. (there's also the excellent Handbook and Porter's Guide)
emerge --help gives a wealth of information as does man emerge or even man ebuild, ebuild is what does most of the work, emerge is just a nicer front end that does all the ebuild steps automatically.
Want more? Gentoo Documentation
3) No package descriptions!
Look at the output from emerge -s foo
4) For difficult source code, it may be easier to create a Gentoo emerge file. But for simple straightforward source, the FreeBSD port Makefile is easiest.
If your source code is as simple as:
make
make install
then all you need to put in an
$SRC_URI="http://application.sourceforge.net/foo-
Name your
5) Ability to install binaries packages as an option. Building from source is great, but sometimes you don't have the time.
You can install Portage created binaries (they are just tar.bz2 files).
If you want to you can even install RPMs, however since on a Gentoo system you are not going to have a wealth of RPMs installed you will probably need to use --nodeps or even --force.
Summary: I expect the Gentoo portage system to eventually address my concerns. In the meantime it was a very painful experience.
I hope it does address your concerns eventually. Remember that Gentoo is still a "young" distribution, I'm sure that the other major flavours all had their problems during the development of their respective packaging systems.
But if you want to you can use the Mozilla rendering engine in Konqueror.
You can do more than that in KDE.
Just alter the key bindings in the KDE Control Panel.
I've currently got Win+ mapped to switch to the next desktop in the appropriate direction.
The only drawback with this is that if you reduce the height of the taskbar that the pager is in you go from a grid of desktops to a line of desktops.
I added Ctrl+Win+F# to move the active window to desktop #
... strengthens the security of the citizens, both in their role as legitimate owners of information managed by the state ...
... their role as consumers ...
And spend less time attempting to control this:
Try one of the latest -ac patches for you kernel.
I'm currently running 2.4.19-pre7-ac2 and VMWare runs great, Windows @ 1024x768 24bit and the sound is just about spot on.
If your shop doesn't use Exchange, then Evolution is a more than adequate replacement for Outlook. If you do use exchange, look into the CodeWeavers Exchange plugin solution.
As for Word, Excel & Powerpoint
If that doesn't work, hit bugs.gentoo.org, there is an