I do see the distinction you, and the law make on this. But on the other hand, I also maintain that a person would have to be either very gullible, or very stupid to have any more likelihood of mistaking the two explorers and windows/lindows. I'm by no means an expert on watches, but if someone offered to sell me a Bolex watch I don't think I'd have much of a problem figuring out what was wrong with the situation.
Any partitions beyond swap and everything-else I don't like KDE!!! Don't force it on me.
I can't recall the specifics, but you can get additional partitions by editing a configuration file created by the installer. As for KDE, who's forcing it on you? apt-get install gnome.
I've got a weird button issue as well. I'm using the Debian Unstable build, and about a month ago the 'do you want to save'password dialog started taking about 50 seconds to over a minute in order to open. I'm certainly not going to complain when something odd happens on a distro labled unstable, and in a pre 1.0 application compiled from cvs, but it does make me wonder if it was some mistake I personally made somewhere.
I find the sales arguments for the first hobby computers the worst miss at all. Or is it just me who isn't using the computer to keep track of all my recipes?
One of the few comercials I actually remember is an amusing one for Microsoft Bob. It was the one with the two housewives gathered around the computer which they kept in the kitchen. Even aside from the fact that it was running MS BOB, the idea of keeping such an early computer in the kitchen, or even moving it constantly from room to room, scared me.
more importantly it sounds like it was written by a real person who just wants to do the right thing.
It's sad how rare something like that is. I've been growing increasingly tired of statements that either read like they were churned out of a lawyer machine, or which speak in an agonisingly condecending manner. I find it hard to trust any company which will write for pages and pages, throwing around buzzwords, and in the end managing to not say one single concrete statement about their product.
I really disagree with that. If anything, I think that package installation in many linux distros is superior to the method in windows. When I distribute a Linux program, I know that dependancies are going to be automatically taken care of by apt, urpmi, or whatever. With Windows I wind up having to list things the user needs to download and install first.
Depends on what side of the fence you're on. If I was an administrator, I probaly would try to keep people from installing applications on the computers. Unfourtunatly I'm just a student working part time, and I have to say that from this position I see where he's coming from. I was expected to spend a large amount of time gathering data off the internet - with internet explorer. If I hadn't snuck in firebird I'd likley still be working on it.
Unless by that you mean they sent out written notifications to everyone owning one of their drives, I don't consider it fixed.This would only make someone I gave one of these things to slightly less pissed off at me when their drive died, instead of compleatly pissed off. Which I'm sure would quickly change to totally again when I tried to blame them for not making regular updates to their hardware.
Don't get me wrong, for the most part I like the direction Mandrake takes. But there's not a chance I'd ever recomend anything, whether it's windows, beos, or a paint program if it could wind up with me being blamed for messing up someones hardware.
when they just had to pull an entire release because of a patch they added to the kernel
I don't think they pulled the release. I don't use Mandrake, but I remember people complaining about them shipping the isos with the cd killing code in it, long after the problem had been identified and a fix written.
What's really unfourtunate is that I might not only watch, but 'want' to watch comercials if they were trying to sell me on the basis of what the product can actually do. But these days that's a rarity, instead companies sell image and hype, with little to no information about what it actually does. And that kind of rot I'm going to skip by whenever possible. Thankfully in a way, there's little enough left on tv that just recording the few shows left I like is little effort - and the freedom to just skip the comercials very satisfying.
I only watch a couple of shows on tv anyway. I'd be much happier paying for them on an individual basis, and in doing so casting a vote to keep them from being canceled. Please don't expect me to get teary eyed over the idea that I might lose such precious memories as watching football run over one of the shows I keep cable around for, and then seeing it canceled because people don't watch a show that dosn't air.
I wish that could have happened to me when I was a kid. That would have vastly speeded up my, then undeveloped, disillusionment with the public education in my small town.
I hate to say it, but I have a feeling that this isn't too different from the way most of our bosses see us anyway. Hell, a talking fish is possibly a step up from the mental image they have of us when we're telling them why replacing everything with buzzword 30006 isn't such a good idea.
While this might end up sounding like a usual "go linux m$ux lol!!!!" post, I do honestly think kernel test releases are more important than Windows releases. Not so much for the importance to the end user, but because test releases depend on a community to locate bugs, and if possible help to track down the problem before the kernel gets a stable release. Windows on the other hand, there's really nothing for us to do with other than use it. Which is all fine and good, but it rates much lower on the 'stuff that matters' scale for a geek site than having a chance to help in the development of an operating system.
That sounds like a useful feature to have. Hopefully I'll not need it, but just in case - anyone recall what this is called or where it's located in the kernel configuration?
I agree, III needed it more than any other game in the series. The entire game was like a list of high concepts that often just didn't quite make it in practice. For what it's worth, a group of us got together and have been working on a PS 3 remake for a while now. Mostly held back by how slow my coding has gone. Most of that work has gone on the editor, but what there is of the engine runs on the dreamcast as well as windows and linux. So at least we'll get it onto one console.
What I don't like about HCI and so called usability experts is that they seem to want to lump everybody into a single catagory. I don't use a computer the same way my grandmother does, and a system that tries to force me to isn't intuitive for me. Sometimes I want a page of 80 clickable options instead of one wizard that allows a choice of five and a requirement to then go edit a registry.
So the geek operating system is ahead on things geeks care about, and the "normal person" operating system is ahead on things "normal people" care about? Good. I don't think I'd want either one turning into the other.
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I do see the distinction you, and the law make on this. But on the other hand, I also maintain that a person would have to be either very gullible, or very stupid to have any more likelihood of mistaking the two explorers and windows/lindows. I'm by no means an expert on watches, but if someone offered to sell me a Bolex watch I don't think I'd have much of a problem figuring out what was wrong with the situation.
I'm hoping for Professor Bobo myself.
People who confuse the term PC with Windows.
You can't use knoppix to install:
Any partitions beyond swap and everything-else
I don't like KDE!!! Don't force it on me.
I can't recall the specifics, but you can get additional partitions by editing a configuration file created by the installer. As for KDE, who's forcing it on you? apt-get install gnome.
I've got a weird button issue as well. I'm using the Debian Unstable build, and about a month ago the 'do you want to save'password dialog started taking about 50 seconds to over a minute in order to open. I'm certainly not going to complain when something odd happens on a distro labled unstable, and in a pre 1.0 application compiled from cvs, but it does make me wonder if it was some mistake I personally made somewhere.
and i was just about to download it to get some songs i REALLY need.
If you're to the point of REALLY NEEDING them, and not just wanting them, you could always go buy the cd.
1. Gain controll of Linux
2. Command army of Linux robots
3. Take over the world!
I find the sales arguments for the first hobby computers the worst miss at all. Or is it just me who isn't using the computer to keep track of all my recipes?
One of the few comercials I actually remember is an amusing one for Microsoft Bob. It was the one with the two housewives gathered around the computer which they kept in the kitchen. Even aside from the fact that it was running MS BOB, the idea of keeping such an early computer in the kitchen, or even moving it constantly from room to room, scared me.
more importantly it sounds like it was written by a real person who just wants to do the right thing.
It's sad how rare something like that is. I've been growing increasingly tired of statements that either read like they were churned out of a lawyer machine, or which speak in an agonisingly condecending manner. I find it hard to trust any company which will write for pages and pages, throwing around buzzwords, and in the end managing to not say one single concrete statement about their product.
I really disagree with that. If anything, I think that package installation in many linux distros is superior to the method in windows. When I distribute a Linux program, I know that dependancies are going to be automatically taken care of by apt, urpmi, or whatever. With Windows I wind up having to list things the user needs to download and install first.
Out of curiosity, would you say that something like "i kan spel beter than u!" is also "not wrong"?
Going by the name, it sounds like they're tarketing a group of people to whom 'most' things look like spiders crossed with other things.
Depends on what side of the fence you're on. If I was an administrator, I probaly would try to keep people from installing applications on the computers. Unfourtunatly I'm just a student working part time, and I have to say that from this position I see where he's coming from. I was expected to spend a large amount of time gathering data off the internet - with internet explorer. If I hadn't snuck in firebird I'd likley still be working on it.
Unless by that you mean they sent out written notifications to everyone owning one of their drives, I don't consider it fixed.This would only make someone I gave one of these things to slightly less pissed off at me when their drive died, instead of compleatly pissed off. Which I'm sure would quickly change to totally again when I tried to blame them for not making regular updates to their hardware.
Don't get me wrong, for the most part I like the direction Mandrake takes. But there's not a chance I'd ever recomend anything, whether it's windows, beos, or a paint program if it could wind up with me being blamed for messing up someones hardware.
when they just had to pull an entire release because of a patch they added to the kernel
I don't think they pulled the release. I don't use Mandrake, but I remember people complaining about them shipping the isos with the cd killing code in it, long after the problem had been identified and a fix written.
What's really unfourtunate is that I might not only watch, but 'want' to watch comercials if they were trying to sell me on the basis of what the product can actually do. But these days that's a rarity, instead companies sell image and hype, with little to no information about what it actually does. And that kind of rot I'm going to skip by whenever possible. Thankfully in a way, there's little enough left on tv that just recording the few shows left I like is little effort - and the freedom to just skip the comercials very satisfying.
I only watch a couple of shows on tv anyway. I'd be much happier paying for them on an individual basis, and in doing so casting a vote to keep them from being canceled. Please don't expect me to get teary eyed over the idea that I might lose such precious memories as watching football run over one of the shows I keep cable around for, and then seeing it canceled because people don't watch a show that dosn't air.
I wish that could have happened to me when I was a kid. That would have vastly speeded up my, then undeveloped, disillusionment with the public education in my small town.
I hate to say it, but I have a feeling that this isn't too different from the way most of our bosses see us anyway. Hell, a talking fish is possibly a step up from the mental image they have of us when we're telling them why replacing everything with buzzword 30006 isn't such a good idea.
While this might end up sounding like a usual "go linux m$ux lol!!!!" post, I do honestly think kernel test releases are more important than Windows releases. Not so much for the importance to the end user, but because test releases depend on a community to locate bugs, and if possible help to track down the problem before the kernel gets a stable release. Windows on the other hand, there's really nothing for us to do with other than use it. Which is all fine and good, but it rates much lower on the 'stuff that matters' scale for a geek site than having a chance to help in the development of an operating system.
That sounds like a useful feature to have. Hopefully I'll not need it, but just in case - anyone recall what this is called or where it's located in the kernel configuration?
I agree, III needed it more than any other game in the series. The entire game was like a list of high concepts that often just didn't quite make it in practice. For what it's worth, a group of us got together and have been working on a PS 3 remake for a while now. Mostly held back by how slow my coding has gone. Most of that work has gone on the editor, but what there is of the engine runs on the dreamcast as well as windows and linux. So at least we'll get it onto one console.
What ever happen to Dick and Jane?
I don't know about the latter, but the former is living happily on Slashdot when read at -1.
What I don't like about HCI and so called usability experts is that they seem to want to lump everybody into a single catagory. I don't use a computer the same way my grandmother does, and a system that tries to force me to isn't intuitive for me. Sometimes I want a page of 80 clickable options instead of one wizard that allows a choice of five and a requirement to then go edit a registry.
So the geek operating system is ahead on things geeks care about, and the "normal person" operating system is ahead on things "normal people" care about? Good. I don't think I'd want either one turning into the other.