They want to make machines which seek out the smell of dead humans? What could possibly go wrong. One small logic glitch and the whole damned robot army will suddenly know just how to make that smell they were sent out to locate.
I hate that Linux has such bad graphical card support. Games are the only thing that are keeping me on the Windows platform. I think it really is the only thing that is keeping the world from a "Linux on the desktop" utopia.
Please don't copy-and-paste from 10 year old slashdot comments.
Just a day or two ago/. does the responsible thing and posts an article that actually discusses what is going on and shows that it's really not that big a deal. The very next day they're bad to spreading fud. Make up your mind, and stop trying to have it both ways.
But it's worse than that; this is an article telling noob users how to open Settings and untick a bunch of options. With screenshots. Any regular slashdotter should feel quite insulted having this article posted here. Seriously, somebody thinks we need to see some screenshots of how the Settings pages work.
Yes but personally I stopped using the 'visual' aspect of it years ago. Sure it makes for some nifty presentation videos, look you just drag one of these onto here and drag a whatsit onto that thingy and your program writes itself.... riiiight.
It's a great code editor, the 'visual' power for me is in good syntax highlighting. That is useful for most any programming or markup language.
MicroFocus has been trying to decades to get people to use COBOL off of the mainframe, but haven't had much luck
Could it be their pricing model? I was tempted to try it some time ago, as a nostalgia kick, but found it was quite an expensive platform, which nobody is going to pick up to try out if it means they would have to take on a major mission of convincing their employer that there was a future with it, when it wasn't even possible to find out how good it was in the first place.
I have used suspend for at least 6 months on my debian box. Its on a KVM switch so I switch to it and wake it up and its going in no time at all, then I leave it to drift off in its own time. My TV can also wake it up for media files. Haven't had any problems yet.
I put a trap in my ceiling space to conquer a rat invasion. The first strike was within hours, but the next one I never heard and a few days later when I got up there to check it, there was a scattering of chewed bone pieces around the trap, none larger than a centimetre, and not a trace of anything else, not even fur. So where is their ethics cut-off, and how to we measure ours against theirs?
Still, I would rather NOT be part of a project which uses coercion (torture?) such as depriving a bunch of rats of water until they do what I want.
I'm gonna wait until they invent transparent Liquidmorphium, then the case and screen can all be one big unbreakable piece... with a whale song ringtone.
Have you tried the Snap To option on Win7 mouse settings? This makes the mouse jump to the default button on dialog boxes. It takes some getting used to and probably needs good eye tracking but it can reduce required mouse movement a bit.
If you are happy using Windows, my guess is you probably wouldn't have even noticed the change-over in Debian. Did you even try it? Did you have some amazingly complicated problem that made your computer unusable? Did the sun stop rising in the morning?
Nothing is any different for me using Debian with systemd. If you don't have the need to tweak start/stop scripts or mess with default configurations then you most certainly won't have any issues. Isn't that the primary reason people used to praise Ubuntu? Installing and using it without having to edit text files, seems to be one of the good points people talked about.
The only serious complaint I have read by anti-systemd folks appears to be those responsible for setup and maintenance of complex servers or non-standard hardware combinations, where they rely on a lot of custom coded config files. The rest just seem to be parroting nonsense and hate without any proof that they have even experienced an actual bad problem from using it.
3d printer filament costs $20/pound. That's more then junkyard price for any plastic interior part. Yes they will ship, but that will cost more.
Granting the junkyard part will be old and brittle. Almost as brittle as the 3d printed part.
My car is a 24 year old Fairlady. The majority of these have been wrecked and/or dismantled, and altho there are some replacement parts available from both the original manufacturer and 3rd-party aftermarket parts manufacturers (mostly on the other side of the world from me) the used parts supply in my country is a dwindling resource. The wreckers here know that and pump up their prices to somewhere just a little below the cost of getting the part shipped here.
The cost of printer filament is probably still a lot lower, and also the time and effort put into this is a labour of love, rather than an attempt to sell for profit.
Its a while since I had to use one of them, but I recall some odd driver requirements.
It would be interesting if you had also posted your experience of trying to install Windows 7 or 8 from a generic Windows install disc, and not the modified version provided with the Optiplex.
Are you able to boot from a USB stick? I found this tool quite useful for trying out a variety of live-linux iso's on a usb drive: yumi
It provides some useful links to download what is needed to try out a whole bunch of different distros. You can also stack a number of different distros on the same usb drive and choose which one to boot from at startup.
Personally I have been using Debian for quite a few years now, gave ubuntu a brief try but wasn't too happy with it. I have installed Mint on virtual recently and it really does look as good as people here have stated. Mint would be my final recommendation too.
I would like to have a good Yahoo mail app on my android, but when I tried their app it had a lot more than just mail and I couldn't find any way to turn off all the crap I didn't want. I already know how to read news and search the web, why the fuck would I want my Yahoo email viewer bloated up with all that as well? Uninstalled the app pretty quickly after trying it.
Perhaps he shouldn't have spent $3M trying to corrupt the government with his failed political party. It all worked out in the end, the incumbent party he was trying to take down gathered even more votes that the previous election.
We don't all carry a NZ flag to wave around in a patriotic frenzy, and most of us can't remember more than the first 6 words of the national anthem, but dammit he shouldn't have attacked our Prime Minister, thats our job.
If the paperwork had been properly prepared and everybody had sought the appropriate legal advice in the first place, he woulda been pushed into a plane when they first stormed his rent-a-manor instead of being left to waste taxpayers money here in Auckland, not to mention the man hours wasted by our legal system etc. Personally I think he should just head over to the US to prove his innocence in their courts, then *if* he makes it back, he can re-assess how well NZers accept him as the people's hero, and not a moment before that.
By the way, a hard hat does not protect against an I-beam that weighs several tons. If a cable breaks and the beam drops on your head, that plastic cap isn't going to save your life.
Yes, but you sure as hell won't be worrying about ebola after that.
With all the extra mass of the ship, is this really more efficient than just strapping on some flippers?
At this stage it just looks like a special-interest art project, or a sculpture you can sit in. Video of it being used in more than 1 metre of water would make this more interesting.
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They want to make machines which seek out the smell of dead humans? What could possibly go wrong.
One small logic glitch and the whole damned robot army will suddenly know just how to make that smell they were sent out to locate.
I hate that Linux has such bad graphical card support. Games are the only thing that are keeping me on the Windows platform. I think it really is the only thing that is keeping the world from a "Linux on the desktop" utopia.
Please don't copy-and-paste from 10 year old slashdot comments.
"we just found lots and lots of plastic"
These guys sound really sciencey. Couldn't they give their measurements in layman terms?
Yes but with vmware viewer installed, I can run a really fast Linux desktop inside of win10.
Just a day or two ago /. does the responsible thing and posts an article that actually discusses what is going on and shows that it's really not that big a deal. The very next day they're bad to spreading fud. Make up your mind, and stop trying to have it both ways.
But it's worse than that; this is an article telling noob users how to open Settings and untick a bunch of options. With screenshots. Any regular slashdotter should feel quite insulted having this article posted here. Seriously, somebody thinks we need to see some screenshots of how the Settings pages work.
Yes but personally I stopped using the 'visual' aspect of it years ago. Sure it makes for some nifty presentation videos, look you just drag one of these onto here and drag a whatsit onto that thingy and your program writes itself.... riiiight.
It's a great code editor, the 'visual' power for me is in good syntax highlighting. That is useful for most any programming or markup language.
MicroFocus has been trying to decades to get people to use COBOL off of the mainframe, but haven't had much luck
Could it be their pricing model? I was tempted to try it some time ago, as a nostalgia kick, but found it was quite an expensive platform, which nobody is going to pick up to try out if it means they would have to take on a major mission of convincing their employer that there was a future with it, when it wasn't even possible to find out how good it was in the first place.
I have used suspend for at least 6 months on my debian box. Its on a KVM switch so I switch to it and wake it up and its going in no time at all, then I leave it to drift off in its own time. My TV can also wake it up for media files. Haven't had any problems yet.
Don't try to soften the blow... just tell us... how many months does the universe have left?
I put a trap in my ceiling space to conquer a rat invasion. The first strike was within hours, but the next one I never heard and a few days later when I got up there to check it, there was a scattering of chewed bone pieces around the trap, none larger than a centimetre, and not a trace of anything else, not even fur.
So where is their ethics cut-off, and how to we measure ours against theirs?
Still, I would rather NOT be part of a project which uses coercion (torture?) such as depriving a bunch of rats of water until they do what I want.
I'm gonna wait until they invent transparent Liquidmorphium, then the case and screen can all be one big unbreakable piece... with a whale song ringtone.
And how about a bluetooth interface to a watch app, so I can monitor the services on my wrist... all the trendy gadgets are getting that nowdays
"At Slashdot, people have been very nervous about systemd"
I want a fucking t-shirt with that on it.
Have you tried the Snap To option on Win7 mouse settings?
This makes the mouse jump to the default button on dialog boxes. It takes some getting used to and probably needs good eye tracking but it can reduce required mouse movement a bit.
If you are happy using Windows, my guess is you probably wouldn't have even noticed the change-over in Debian.
Did you even try it? Did you have some amazingly complicated problem that made your computer unusable? Did the sun stop rising in the morning?
Nothing is any different for me using Debian with systemd. If you don't have the need to tweak start/stop scripts or mess with default configurations then you most certainly won't have any issues. Isn't that the primary reason people used to praise Ubuntu? Installing and using it without having to edit text files, seems to be one of the good points people talked about.
The only serious complaint I have read by anti-systemd folks appears to be those responsible for setup and maintenance of complex servers or non-standard hardware combinations, where they rely on a lot of custom coded config files. The rest just seem to be parroting nonsense and hate without any proof that they have even experienced an actual bad problem from using it.
3d printer filament costs $20/pound. That's more then junkyard price for any plastic interior part. Yes they will ship, but that will cost more.
Granting the junkyard part will be old and brittle. Almost as brittle as the 3d printed part.
My car is a 24 year old Fairlady. The majority of these have been wrecked and/or dismantled, and altho there are some replacement parts available from both the original manufacturer and 3rd-party aftermarket parts manufacturers (mostly on the other side of the world from me) the used parts supply in my country is a dwindling resource. The wreckers here know that and pump up their prices to somewhere just a little below the cost of getting the part shipped here.
The cost of printer filament is probably still a lot lower, and also the time and effort put into this is a labour of love, rather than an attempt to sell for profit.
Its a while since I had to use one of them, but I recall some odd driver requirements.
It would be interesting if you had also posted your experience of trying to install Windows 7 or 8 from a generic Windows install disc, and not the modified version provided with the Optiplex.
Are you able to boot from a USB stick? I found this tool quite useful for trying out a variety of live-linux iso's on a usb drive:
yumi
It provides some useful links to download what is needed to try out a whole bunch of different distros. You can also stack a number of different distros on the same usb drive and choose which one to boot from at startup.
Personally I have been using Debian for quite a few years now, gave ubuntu a brief try but wasn't too happy with it.
I have installed Mint on virtual recently and it really does look as good as people here have stated. Mint would be my final recommendation too.
This sentence is false.
The person who said that was lying.
I would like to have a good Yahoo mail app on my android, but when I tried their app it had a lot more than just mail and I couldn't find any way to turn off all the crap I didn't want. I already know how to read news and search the web, why the fuck would I want my Yahoo email viewer bloated up with all that as well?
Uninstalled the app pretty quickly after trying it.
Perhaps he shouldn't have spent $3M trying to corrupt the government with his failed political party.
It all worked out in the end, the incumbent party he was trying to take down gathered even more votes that the previous election.
We don't all carry a NZ flag to wave around in a patriotic frenzy, and most of us can't remember more than the first 6 words of the national anthem, but dammit he shouldn't have attacked our Prime Minister, thats our job.
If the paperwork had been properly prepared and everybody had sought the appropriate legal advice in the first place, he woulda been pushed into a plane when they first stormed his rent-a-manor instead of being left to waste taxpayers money here in Auckland, not to mention the man hours wasted by our legal system etc. Personally I think he should just head over to the US to prove his innocence in their courts, then *if* he makes it back, he can re-assess how well NZers accept him as the people's hero, and not a moment before that.
By the way, a hard hat does not protect against an I-beam that weighs several tons. If a cable breaks and the beam drops on your head, that plastic cap isn't going to save your life.
Yes, but you sure as hell won't be worrying about ebola after that.
With all the extra mass of the ship, is this really more efficient than just strapping on some flippers?
At this stage it just looks like a special-interest art project, or a sculpture you can sit in. Video of it being used in more than 1 metre of water would make this more interesting.
And yet at the same time the majority if cowboys depicted in movies etc. were male, but girls still wanted a pony.
Its a conspiracy led by the tech employers; they want tech employees who they can pay less.
Oh wait, they have that already.