noone will agree with all of the sites they list, should make for robust discusson.
nonetheless, bear in mind they are not talking about current influence, they are talking about the sites that shaped the web as it is today. slashdot may have less visitors/subscribers than digg (i have nfi, actually), but it was a groundbreaker.
though napster, the software, was the thing, not napster.com. okay, lots people went to napster.com to get it, but i think thats stretching - mirror sites dont get included as they shold by that criteria.
i think it is an interesting and quite surprisingly good list. for a change - these things are usually a bit light/trite.
romana is/was in espace. implied that she came back for the war (and i suspect many of the new adventure books will saythis), but..who knows?
timelords are wily - the dcotor,everyone, believes he is the last one. but if*HE* survived....
the daleks and the cybermen have been put - somewhere. they werent destroyed.
really? where in oz? i used to work in the adelaide software centre....
and yes, dilbert cartoons wee frequently posted inthe cubicles for such reasons;)
in my experience, yes they are.got an extended warranty formy acer, AU$2k worth. the case had always been hard to close,when one day, 2mths out of normal excellent acer warranty, hinge snapped. i tried to move lid to see problem better,two keys fell off keyboard - it was warping. hmm.left well enough alone,never moved it,worked CAREFULLY on it finishing a job for acplmths,then took in under extended warranty.
tech guy said he cld see problem, would takeup to 3 mths to fix or replace. not a problem.
so,four mths of calls trying to find out wtf is going on, (no worries, waiting on new parts list for quote,they have swapped staff at acer, so still waiting, etc etc), i get hold of his manager (by mistake actually,as he wasnt around this day). within a day,i get told no way is anything being fixed on it,it had impact damage,and liquid residue in keybrd.obviously user damage.
lesson here kids - extended warranty is provided by an insurance company. they dont want to pay. and piss off the tech making recommendations, you get screwed.
demanded thelaptop back. the second hinge snapped day i got it home,so wonder what they did to it.no sign of impact damage. basic puter bit still good, so husband modded a wooden shell for it to sit in.its not ideal, but with a back injury, i need a laptop. and its a great laptop besides the issues. it would be perfect without them!
upgraded from breezy to dapper on my xubuntu laptop on weekend. lost all my xfce settings, dammit. oh well. now is all reconfigured and happy, fast and shiny:
dammit people please let me poke something before its slashdotted;)
server won't play nicely. get to ajaxwrite page, but actual application server is too busy.....
Terrific. I have it syncing under Linux. TF card (with SD card adapter) just mounts nicely. A1000 is Symbian OS, so I added an Ebook reader, GPS program, and MP3 program. Oh and some nice file management tools:) The ONLY issue is the limit on the TF capacity. 8gb would mean my dream all in one device is not so limited, and no ipods for me. Thats exactly what I wanted!!!
Agreed, tried Kmymoney2 and Gnucash, and am buying a Moneydance licence. Its just the best option for home finances atm. As soon as there is a F/OSS to match, I will switch my support. More to the point, I also have no objection to donating to F/OSS where I can, in lieu of licences.
i am enjoying my fifth gen ipod. headphones are the key to quality. but linux support is flakey. amarok, for example, crashes regularly, taking the contents with it. gtkpod is ok, as is yamipod, but both crash on occasions. none of them get podcasts into the podcast dir, let alone sync photos or video in anyway. and before people gripe about manual transfer, hey, if revolting itunes can do it, why not linux? linux does everything else i need...but i am sure that the issues i am having will change as more people take it on:)
..his wife has graciously and thoughtfully allowed fans to post tributes that will fly with him.
given the choice between spy satellites and military hardware cluttering space, and people like gene rodenberry, and now james doohan, having some sky, hell, its a non issue, surely:)
1) fully compatible or better office suite (OOo2 looking damn good)
2) accounting oftwarefolks, thats so far behind its insane. no myob or quicken. forget business without those.
meh, its growing on me, i took a while to warm to it though...but once you stop missing sg1, and treat it for what it is, a new series in same universe type of thing, its funky. recent eps i have seen have been way hot, given that sg1 has been a bit, well, a bit flat lately:(
DNA was not just an author of amazingly funny and insightful books, he wrote many stories for Doctor Who. So a space object appropriate in many ways, imho:)
my now husband proposed by getting me to demonstrate an ap he 'set up for me'. i showed people kismet, and wham, up came ssid "will_you_marry_me". i look at him, and hes holding a ring, and saying, yep, its for real....:) ok, i'm so geek i think it was romantic:)
I have a zaurus, phone, usb stick (on key ring), wallet, and laptop. My beloved Debian bag didnt fit my laptop, Linux Conf Au bag did, but is fiddly to get otehr stuff. So now I have a laptop backpack that just looks like a normal backpack. With hal inside (the laptop), it still has room for my toys AND the nappies for the toddler geeks. I also have a nice bag from Oxfam shop, that fits all toys and nappies and stuff but is small goddness, without being handbaggy. Hate handbags. But clothing - man, NEVER enough pockets on our stuff!!!!
OK Anonymous coward - YOU tell me which app that is? Because your arrogant presumption I havemt looked is ill informed. I have looked, and while there ARE book keeping apps out there, there is NOTHING that compares to MYOB - and its what my organisation, and a business I help with, need. ITs not sticking with the devil I know - anyone who knows me knows how much I loathe windows. But also, ask anyone in business who would like to use Linux about their accounting requirements - nothing currently available meets that. yes, I've tried GnuCash - its a good start, but it just hasnt got what MYOB has. And thats what I need, unfortunately. And bitching that the user hasnt trawled sufficiently to find an app doesnt alter the fact that a comparable one for Linux isnt there - yet. Id be overjoyed if someone knows of one - as I stated.
Dude, as much as I loathe M$, I find myself having to keep a partition for XP on my puter...there are apps that DON'T run on Linux, or have equivalents yet. The killer for me is MYOB, a book keeping program - I'd be deleting the yukness of Windows in a heartbeat if there was an equivalent or a reliable port. And no, its NOT reliable under Wine, or listed under Crossover.....I sodding hate having to reboot into XP yukness, and am hanging out for a MYOB equiv for Linux. Give corporations, and SMEs these sort of needed tools, as Open Office is doing, and you would see a swifter transition to Linux - hell a stampede! Oh, and if anyone knows a really equivalent type tool for MSAccess or MSPublisher, trying to transition a Community Centre to Linux would be simpler:)
Slashdot Mirror
noone will agree with all of the sites they list, should make for robust discusson.
nonetheless, bear in mind they are not talking about current influence, they are talking about the sites that shaped the web as it is today. slashdot may have less visitors/subscribers than digg (i have nfi, actually), but it was a groundbreaker.
though napster, the software, was the thing, not napster.com. okay, lots people went to napster.com to get it, but i think thats stretching - mirror sites dont get included as they shold by that criteria.
i think it is an interesting and quite surprisingly good list. for a change - these things are usually a bit light/trite.
romana is/was in espace. implied that she came back for the war (and i suspect many of the new adventure books will saythis), but..who knows? timelords are wily - the dcotor,everyone, believes he is the last one. but if*HE* survived.... the daleks and the cybermen have been put - somewhere. they werent destroyed.
theres a vaccine being trialled in australia. i know, im a volunteer guinea pig. or should that be guinea fowl?
but the headline made me start singing the blues clues theme song;)
Oh, one of the movers;) Hows Perth? What you doing now? Is this thread just a catch up with old colleagues thing?:)
really? where in oz? i used to work in the adelaide software centre.... and yes, dilbert cartoons wee frequently posted inthe cubicles for such reasons;)
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux -source-2.6.15/+bug/30766 (if you have a dwl card you need new firmware)
its the atheros firmware shipped with dapper. its a bug, fix here: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux -source-2.6.15/+bug/30766
in my experience, yes they are.got an extended warranty formy acer, AU$2k worth. the case had always been hard to close,when one day, 2mths out of normal excellent acer warranty, hinge snapped. i tried to move lid to see problem better,two keys fell off keyboard - it was warping. hmm.left well enough alone,never moved it,worked CAREFULLY on it finishing a job for acplmths,then took in under extended warranty.
tech guy said he cld see problem, would takeup to 3 mths to fix or replace. not a problem.
so,four mths of calls trying to find out wtf is going on, (no worries, waiting on new parts list for quote,they have swapped staff at acer, so still waiting, etc etc), i get hold of his manager (by mistake actually,as he wasnt around this day). within a day,i get told no way is anything being fixed on it,it had impact damage,and liquid residue in keybrd.obviously user damage.
lesson here kids - extended warranty is provided by an insurance company. they dont want to pay. and piss off the tech making recommendations, you get screwed.
demanded thelaptop back. the second hinge snapped day i got it home,so wonder what they did to it.no sign of impact damage. basic puter bit still good, so husband modded a wooden shell for it to sit in.its not ideal, but with a back injury, i need a laptop. and its a great laptop besides the issues. it would be perfect without them!
yeah. i agree they need a new one. why not the actual ubuntu one?
upgraded from breezy to dapper on my xubuntu laptop on weekend. lost all my xfce settings, dammit. oh well. now is all reconfigured and happy, fast and shiny:
dammit people please let me poke something before its slashdotted;) server won't play nicely. get to ajaxwrite page, but actual application server is too busy.....
Terrific. I have it syncing under Linux. TF card (with SD card adapter) just mounts nicely. A1000 is Symbian OS, so I added an Ebook reader, GPS program, and MP3 program. Oh and some nice file management tools:) The ONLY issue is the limit on the TF capacity. 8gb would mean my dream all in one device is not so limited, and no ipods for me. Thats exactly what I wanted!!!
Agreed, tried Kmymoney2 and Gnucash, and am buying a Moneydance licence. Its just the best option for home finances atm. As soon as there is a F/OSS to match, I will switch my support. More to the point, I also have no objection to donating to F/OSS where I can, in lieu of licences.
i am enjoying my fifth gen ipod. headphones are the key to quality. but linux support is flakey. amarok, for example, crashes regularly, taking the contents with it. gtkpod is ok, as is yamipod, but both crash on occasions. none of them get podcasts into the podcast dir, let alone sync photos or video in anyway. and before people gripe about manual transfer, hey, if revolting itunes can do it, why not linux? linux does everything else i need...but i am sure that the issues i am having will change as more people take it on:)
..his wife has graciously and thoughtfully allowed fans to post tributes that will fly with him. given the choice between spy satellites and military hardware cluttering space, and people like gene rodenberry, and now james doohan, having some sky, hell, its a non issue, surely:)
1) fully compatible or better office suite (OOo2 looking damn good) 2) accounting oftwarefolks, thats so far behind its insane. no myob or quicken. forget business without those.
meh, its growing on me, i took a while to warm to it though...but once you stop missing sg1, and treat it for what it is, a new series in same universe type of thing, its funky. recent eps i have seen have been way hot, given that sg1 has been a bit, well, a bit flat lately:(
DNA was not just an author of amazingly funny and insightful books, he wrote many stories for Doctor Who. So a space object appropriate in many ways, imho:)
my now husband proposed by getting me to demonstrate an ap he 'set up for me'. i showed people kismet, and wham, up came ssid "will_you_marry_me". i look at him, and hes holding a ring, and saying, yep, its for real....:)
ok, i'm so geek i think it was romantic:)
i mean, ignoring the eye candy of elena (expressed previously by you guys), is what accuracy does her article have?
I have a zaurus, phone, usb stick (on key ring), wallet, and laptop. My beloved Debian bag didnt fit my laptop, Linux Conf Au bag did, but is fiddly to get otehr stuff. So now I have a laptop backpack that just looks like a normal backpack. With hal inside (the laptop), it still has room for my toys AND the nappies for the toddler geeks. I also have a nice bag from Oxfam shop, that fits all toys and nappies and stuff but is small goddness, without being handbaggy. Hate handbags. But clothing - man, NEVER enough pockets on our stuff!!!!
OK Anonymous coward - YOU tell me which app that is? Because your arrogant presumption I havemt looked is ill informed. I have looked, and while there ARE book keeping apps out there, there is NOTHING that compares to MYOB - and its what my organisation, and a business I help with, need. ITs not sticking with the devil I know - anyone who knows me knows how much I loathe windows. But also, ask anyone in business who would like to use Linux about their accounting requirements - nothing currently available meets that. yes, I've tried GnuCash - its a good start, but it just hasnt got what MYOB has. And thats what I need, unfortunately. And bitching that the user hasnt trawled sufficiently to find an app doesnt alter the fact that a comparable one for Linux isnt there - yet. Id be overjoyed if someone knows of one - as I stated.
Dude, as much as I loathe M$, I find myself having to keep a partition for XP on my puter...there are apps that DON'T run on Linux, or have equivalents yet. The killer for me is MYOB, a book keeping program - I'd be deleting the yukness of Windows in a heartbeat if there was an equivalent or a reliable port. And no, its NOT reliable under Wine, or listed under Crossover.....I sodding hate having to reboot into XP yukness, and am hanging out for a MYOB equiv for Linux. Give corporations, and SMEs these sort of needed tools, as Open Office is doing, and you would see a swifter transition to Linux - hell a stampede! Oh, and if anyone knows a really equivalent type tool for MSAccess or MSPublisher, trying to transition a Community Centre to Linux would be simpler:)
also nice for geocaching accuracy....