Slackware, Arch and Gentoo all have and use it. I don't know about current versions of Fedora, but RedHat from 5.2 through 7.0 had it. If you're basing your claims on a passing knowkedge of Ubuntu, then I would suggest you actually learn something about the other distributions. Ubuntu is non-standard in many ways, for instance the absence of a root user, and the absence of/etc/inittab to give just two examples off the top of my head.
The other great feature avout VLC is that it entirely ignores region encoding on commercially-produced DVDs. I have discs encoded in the US, UK and Canada, and not all of them play nicely with my regionless DVD player. VLC just happily bypasses all that and plays anything.
Yah, we knew stars became red giants. But that's not the right way to look at it.
This is true, but if (if) we're still around when our insignificant little star turns red, the most gobsmackingly awesome thing is that it's unlikely we'll be anyone we'd recognise now.
It's true that you don't have to use Safari, and there seem to be no objections to your choosing an alternative as your default browser. However, on one occasion when I thought to delete Safari, back when I was using OS X 10.4, all sorts of things started going wrong (I can no longer remember exactly what). I went back and pulled the package off the install disc, and all was well again. So it would seem that Apple had in some way made Safari as integral to OS X as IE is to Windows. I don't know if this is still the case, but food for thought nonetheless.
And IMHO, Apple users don't deserve any better for buying overpriced eye-candy.
In a way, I agree, except in so far as Apple's laptops are excellent products for general purposes, and make a compact and convenient platform if you obtain them second-hand. I've had a couple now - I let my wife upgrade to the latest and greatest and take over her old laptop.
It's a solution that works for me, since I have a perfectly good Linux desktop machine to do the heavy lifting when required. If Apple weren't so considerate as to provide a proper terminal, along with zsh by default, I might bave been tempted to try out one or another of the various Linux flavours on it, but I'm too lazy.
I wonder what choices Microsoft will suggest. Maybe Lynx or Links? Or Konqueror? Who knows, maybe they'll even suggest Opera. If they suggest Firefox or Chrome, I will be very surprised.
If you've ever worked with such off-shore developers, you'll immediately understand why Reader is such a shitty piece of software.
Nevertheless, the Adobe reader still (I'm sorry to say) does a noticeably better job of rendering PDFs than any of the FOSS alternatives I've tried on Linux. Especially if the PDF includes much in the way of text scanned at too low a DPI setting.
I have to admit, this is not what I expect to see from Australians.
Not many Australians happen to like it, but the Minister has the bit between his teeth and does not have our concerns at heart. And this is with the collusion of a Prime Minister who seems determined to adopt a Tony Blair-like position as conservative cuckoo in the nest of the Labor Party.
I can't believe the Obama administration went to Australia for broadband advice.
Actually, it's really not a bad idea to learn from other people's mistakes. Of course, that rarely happens, and stupid ideas are recycled time and again, but the principle is a fine thing.;-)
We're fucked either way eventually when one of these bunches of cocks decides it's a good idea and has the numbers to push it through.
Well, fortunately our illustrious government hasn't had such an easy ride lately at getting the numbers to do anything, and there's plenty of opposition to this filter, so there is still hope that sanity will prevail.
Australia Post already does this. I've had quite a few packages arrive which have obviously been opened in transit for someone to have a good snoop inside. After all, 1984 is so 25 years ago...
Seriously? I haven't tried it for a few years, and I would be interested to see if it was any more capable of handling writing a letter to my Grandma than it was in the late '90s. At the time, I was looking hard to find something other than the superannuated WordPerfect to handle writing scientific reports on Linux, and AbiWord wasn't up to the job. (Note to trolls: please don't bother with shill posts for TeX/LaTex. I'm sure it's very good, but I've got work to do.)
For some years I ended up stuck on StarOffice until OpenOffice became mature enough to replace it, and Abi never got a look-in since. It's sort of a shame that the Gnome Office suite fizzled the way it did. Although Abi sucked, Gnumeric was (and presumably still is) a truly awesome spreadsheet program.
It's a bit nasty of them to fool with skype. It's not as if it creates a huge demand on bandwidth, even if it does use P2P to underpin its protocol.
I've had this problem from time to time with certain university connections, and have sometimes found that changing skype's default port setting to port 80 helps to get around some of the lag. YMMV.
I've heard good things about Internode too. I've been with iiNet ever since they were first of the block with dsl2+, and I strongly suspect them of throttling P2P. Fortunately I don't use it enough to care much, and I'm moving in 6 months, so it's not worth the trouble of dumping them.
All of which assumes what look like ear plugs are not actually ear bud monitors that allow the musicians to hear more, not less, of the music.
I won't deny that the latter must in all likelihood occur from time to time, but what I have observed is the common-or-garden variety you get from industrial safety stores. And, indeed, a musician friend who is staying with me at the moment makes a point of taking plugs to every gig she plays...
While all our governments are in a nanny-state frame of mind, they might turn their attention more usefully to the kind of amplification given to bands in pubs and clubs, where the dimensions of the places are often small enough to hear the sound of a mouse fart from one side of the room to another, but the bands turn up the volume as high as they can anyway. Or at least in a mathematically inverse ratio to their musical ability.
It's common to see musicians playing with plugs stuck in their ears so they don't drive themselves stone deaf, while they obviously consider it perfectly OK for them to obliterate the hearing of customers frequenting the place.
I realise I'm probably a tedious old fart, but I've long been forced to recognise that my hearing is far from what it was when I was a teenager or even in my twenties, and I hold many of these crappy bands to blame.
GNu Object Model Environment. 'Nuff said. But if RMS et al. at GNU don't like it any more, then it's nobody's loss but their own. Without GNOME, GNU might well have lurked in the archives of might-have-beens to be superseded by the BSDs.
If Gnome chooses a non FOSS path it will definitely become 2nd best or even disappear from debian, ubuntu, fedora etc and its new reality is guaranteed slide into oblivion.
No-one ever suggested that Gnome was ever going to become non-FOSS. In fact it can't, given that the individual components of it are already licenced under the GPL, and nobody would be able to close the source without having a large-scale insurrection on their hands. But there is no logical reason why the Gnome developers must exist under the aegis of the GNU project if the latter is making demands of them that are counter to their interests.
I have a lot of respect for Stallman and the work he has done, but if he refuses to pull his head out of his ass on this matter, then he might as well shove it in the rest of the way.
but that doesn't mean ICANN should make domain takedown an acceptable policy.
But it hasn't. A normally configured DNS will still point you to 318x.com if your heart is set upon it, but it is always the right of individuals or groups to just say "No thanks".
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Linux doesn't have 'the wheel'.
/etc/inittab to give just two examples off the top of my head.
Slackware, Arch and Gentoo all have and use it. I don't know about current versions of Fedora, but RedHat from 5.2 through 7.0 had it. If you're basing your claims on a passing knowkedge of Ubuntu, then I would suggest you actually learn something about the other distributions. Ubuntu is non-standard in many ways, for instance the absence of a root user, and the absence of
The other great feature avout VLC is that it entirely ignores region encoding on commercially-produced DVDs. I have discs encoded in the US, UK and Canada, and not all of them play nicely with my regionless DVD player. VLC just happily bypasses all that and plays anything.
You're right, I didn't read it, but the idea of Microsoft suggesting Lynx was too much to resist... :-)
Yah, we knew stars became red giants. But that's not the right way to look at it.
This is true, but if (if) we're still around when our insignificant little star turns red, the most gobsmackingly awesome thing is that it's unlikely we'll be anyone we'd recognise now.
Minor correction:
It's true that you don't have to use Safari, and there seem to be no objections to your choosing an alternative as your default browser. However, on one occasion when I thought to delete Safari, back when I was using OS X 10.4, all sorts of things started going wrong (I can no longer remember exactly what). I went back and pulled the package off the install disc, and all was well again. So it would seem that Apple had in some way made Safari as integral to OS X as IE is to Windows. I don't know if this is still the case, but food for thought nonetheless.
And IMHO, Apple users don't deserve any better for buying overpriced eye-candy.
In a way, I agree, except in so far as Apple's laptops are excellent products for general purposes, and make a compact and convenient platform if you obtain them second-hand. I've had a couple now - I let my wife upgrade to the latest and greatest and take over her old laptop.
It's a solution that works for me, since I have a perfectly good Linux desktop machine to do the heavy lifting when required. If Apple weren't so considerate as to provide a proper terminal, along with zsh by default, I might bave been tempted to try out one or another of the various Linux flavours on it, but I'm too lazy.
and websites that were designed for IE 666
I wonder what choices Microsoft will suggest. Maybe Lynx or Links? Or Konqueror? Who knows, maybe they'll even suggest Opera. If they suggest Firefox or Chrome, I will be very surprised.
If you've ever worked with such off-shore developers, you'll immediately understand why Reader is such a shitty piece of software.
Nevertheless, the Adobe reader still (I'm sorry to say) does a noticeably better job of rendering PDFs than any of the FOSS alternatives I've tried on Linux. Especially if the PDF includes much in the way of text scanned at too low a DPI setting.
I have to admit, this is not what I expect to see from Australians.
Not many Australians happen to like it, but the Minister has the bit between his teeth and does not have our concerns at heart. And this is with the collusion of a Prime Minister who seems determined to adopt a Tony Blair-like position as conservative cuckoo in the nest of the Labor Party.
I can't believe the Obama administration went to Australia for broadband advice.
;-)
Actually, it's really not a bad idea to learn from other people's mistakes. Of course, that rarely happens, and stupid ideas are recycled time and again, but the principle is a fine thing.
In the last case, we have a Senate and the Australian people are generally not idiotic enough to give the Government unmitigated power there.
They were that idiotic in the previous election. They handed Howard a Senate virtually trussed up with an apple in its mouth.
We're fucked either way eventually when one of these bunches of cocks decides it's a good idea and has the numbers to push it through.
Well, fortunately our illustrious government hasn't had such an easy ride lately at getting the numbers to do anything, and there's plenty of opposition to this filter, so there is still hope that sanity will prevail.
Australia Post already does this. I've had quite a few packages arrive which have obviously been opened in transit for someone to have a good snoop inside. After all, 1984 is so 25 years ago...
Is there anyone out there that can point me to an expected error?
...when as we all know, the correct response is "No, it's NOT fucking OK, you dipshit."
What's worse is that insulting little click-box that sits there jeering at you saying [OK]
Have you tried Abiword?
Seriously? I haven't tried it for a few years, and I would be interested to see if it was any more capable of handling writing a letter to my Grandma than it was in the late '90s. At the time, I was looking hard to find something other than the superannuated WordPerfect to handle writing scientific reports on Linux, and AbiWord wasn't up to the job. (Note to trolls: please don't bother with shill posts for TeX/LaTex. I'm sure it's very good, but I've got work to do.)
For some years I ended up stuck on StarOffice until OpenOffice became mature enough to replace it, and Abi never got a look-in since. It's sort of a shame that the Gnome Office suite fizzled the way it did. Although Abi sucked, Gnumeric was (and presumably still is) a truly awesome spreadsheet program.
It's a bit nasty of them to fool with skype. It's not as if it creates a huge demand on bandwidth, even if it does use P2P to underpin its protocol.
I've had this problem from time to time with certain university connections, and have sometimes found that changing skype's default port setting to port 80 helps to get around some of the lag. YMMV.
I've heard good things about Internode too. I've been with iiNet ever since they were first of the block with dsl2+, and I strongly suspect them of throttling P2P. Fortunately I don't use it enough to care much, and I'm moving in 6 months, so it's not worth the trouble of dumping them.
flash cookies. I can safely bet 99% of you never remember to clear them
Cue BetterPrivacy addon for Firefox. Works for me.
All of which assumes what look like ear plugs are not actually ear bud monitors that allow the musicians to hear more, not less, of the music.
I won't deny that the latter must in all likelihood occur from time to time, but what I have observed is the common-or-garden variety you get from industrial safety stores. And, indeed, a musician friend who is staying with me at the moment makes a point of taking plugs to every gig she plays...
While all our governments are in a nanny-state frame of mind, they might turn their attention more usefully to the kind of amplification given to bands in pubs and clubs, where the dimensions of the places are often small enough to hear the sound of a mouse fart from one side of the room to another, but the bands turn up the volume as high as they can anyway. Or at least in a mathematically inverse ratio to their musical ability.
It's common to see musicians playing with plugs stuck in their ears so they don't drive themselves stone deaf, while they obviously consider it perfectly OK for them to obliterate the hearing of customers frequenting the place.
I realise I'm probably a tedious old fart, but I've long been forced to recognise that my hearing is far from what it was when I was a teenager or even in my twenties, and I hold many of these crappy bands to blame.
GNu Object Model Environment. 'Nuff said. But if RMS et al. at GNU don't like it any more, then it's nobody's loss but their own. Without GNOME, GNU might well have lurked in the archives of might-have-beens to be superseded by the BSDs.
If Gnome chooses a non FOSS path it will definitely become 2nd best or even disappear from debian, ubuntu, fedora etc and its new reality is guaranteed slide into oblivion.
No-one ever suggested that Gnome was ever going to become non-FOSS. In fact it can't, given that the individual components of it are already licenced under the GPL, and nobody would be able to close the source without having a large-scale insurrection on their hands. But there is no logical reason why the Gnome developers must exist under the aegis of the GNU project if the latter is making demands of them that are counter to their interests.
I have a lot of respect for Stallman and the work he has done, but if he refuses to pull his head out of his ass on this matter, then he might as well shove it in the rest of the way.
My apologies, I think that must have got buried by my viewing settings.
but that doesn't mean ICANN should make domain takedown an acceptable policy.
But it hasn't. A normally configured DNS will still point you to 318x.com if your heart is set upon it, but it is always the right of individuals or groups to just say "No thanks".
Come to think of it, what exactly was it?
;-)
Maybe it's a new business model: Lob a dodgy rocket into the sky, then send Norway an invoice for the fireworks display. Sounds workable to me.