Because I rarely use many programs at once, I am usually limited to one or two windows at once. If stray windows get left open, I close them (if I want them later, I will save/bookmark everything). I like to have a tidy desktop.
I didn't have any problems with my upgrade after I was finished, though the process itself was kind of a pain because halfway through the dist upgrade I got some major dependency errors. My solution to this was to uninstall the unsatisfiable packages and then hold back the ones which were asking for them. After updating that far, I reinstalled the packages post update and everything worked fine. That took a few minutes, but overall the process was not hard.
Unfortunately, I recently noticed that VNC does not work anymore because of an issue with xfonts. I have heard this is a common problem, though, but I haven't figured out how to solve it yet. I'm not going to give it too much effort since I think I'm going to play around with another distro soon.
There are lots of good choices. Debian is one of them. Ubuntu is also a popular choice, and you might consider Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) because Canonical has pledged 5 years of support for this release. You can rest easy knowing that you'll be getting security updates well into the future.
I like English because of the breadth of vocabulary. It allows for a certain level of nuance that enables me to express myself precisely while using as few words as possible. Also, the grammar is pretty simple. Pronunciation is not hard either, but our writing system needs work! As long as you practice spelling, there is nothing that makes English spectacularly difficult compared to other languages.
The Fedora Core 6 release was rushed because their website was down on the day of release? What does that have to do with the development process? Maybe by rushed he meant that people were rushing to get it.:-/
I tried putting Ubuntu LTS on my girlfriend's laptop months ago. That was their heralded stable release. The install went okay at first, but one update on the apt repos turned the system into an unrecoverable mess. It even somehow managed to install Xubuntu packages without asking (all I did was a simple apt update in aptitude).
After being scared shitless by what happened, I tried Fedora Core 5 and crossed my fingers. System install was smooth, full update, no errors. She has encountered a few system bugs (hey, it's not flawless software--we knew that), but for the most part everything is holding together well.
I love Ubuntu--I run it on my main box and have had very few issues, but I have to say that when Ubuntu bites, it bites hard. I have no qualms about using Fedora as a stable alternative.
I've seen extensive deep freeze deployment starting from when I was in high school and continuing through higher education. I work in a computer lab now, and that is what they use; I've seen the software in action and have also done some light administration with it.
From what I can tell, it basically makes the system invincible. It doesn't matter what weird crap the students pull on our machines (and trust me, young students can destroy any system they touch in no time, guaranteed--you have no idea how uncanny this is), all we have to do is reboot. Spyware? Malware? Unexplained system malfunction? With this software, rebooting actually *does* solve the problem, and I've never seen the process fail.
It's sad that an operating system is so insecure and fragile that it requires special third party software to have these features (ie protect the system from undesired changes).
I actually think that this is a good idea (sort of). I think that when it comes to publications (not private data), anonymity is one of the Internets weak points. There would be less people mucking things up if they were personally identified.
I don't see personal identification as a problem in places like the US where there are laws that protect their right to speech and whatnot, but in China I have a feeling that this will get a lot of people in prison.
Sometimes people need to know who you are so that you will watch how you behave. You could argue that this is an infringement upon personal freedom, but successful societies do rely on certain levels of moderation (neither too loose or too tight). Not all information should be kept private, right?
Don't want to spam this article, but I remembered a joke that I'd like to share:
There were three men at a bar, an architect, a lawyer, and an economist. After a few drinks, they got into a debate over who had the oldest profession:
"Of course my profession is the oldest," said the architect. "It says right in the Bible that Joseph was a carpenter."
The lawyer interrupted, "But if you look in Genesis, you will see that my profession is the oldest because the first act ever detailed was how God brought law and order to the universe--before that it was just confusion!"
The economist chuckled wryly and said, "Where do you think the confusion came from?"
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It doesn't suprise me that they sidesteped MS Office support. Can you even imagine why it's important at all to support those proprietary formats?
I know interoperability is a key feature, but that's what we have OpenOffice for; KOffice is just trying to be the best office suite that it can be all by itself. It's that kind of focus that gives the project much of its promise. The article mentions that the suite surpasses OO.org and GIMP in many key features. I don't think that's a coincidence.
Also, now that the open document format is becoming more standard (and MS is begrudgingly obeying that standard), KOffice has more room to grow than it did before.
In my opinion, a good word processor/office suite acts as a tool for creation first. It just happens to double as a document viewer and exporter later, but that should not be the primary function.
I don't want to sound like a radical, but it really seems to me that it is only a matter of time before these practices are going to become illegal.
It seems to me that the license simply demands too much from the licensee, and that the terms are anti-consumer.
Eventually there will be some sort of legislation that defines some sort of limitations to the use of copyright in this way.
Other possibilities are that Microsoft might loosen their licenses eventually after they realize that no one can obey them, or possibly people will simply start using different software products.
It may be superstitious, but sure is a freaky thing to experience. When I worked late nights at the office, I would walk a secluded path to the parking lot that was a bit out of the way (but the end of the path was closer to my car). There was a particular light that often turned off when I walked by it. I always just chocked it up to the fact that I walk out of the office usually at the same time, but even a sensible person like me gets surprised a few times by something like that.:)
I can't help but wonder, though, if my presence didn't have some sort of effect (for example, my footsteps causing a harmonic vibration to reach the light mechanism, which caused it to reach a state of change sooner than it would have all by itself). The reason why I think that is because I can't recall ever seeing the light go off before I arrived at it. Maybe I did and my brain rejected the memory of it. o_O
Quest for Glory (especially the first two in the series), will always be the ultimate comfort games to me; I have played through them several times in my life, and I can sit down any time and go back to them. They were a big part of my childhood, and it always gives me the warm fuzzies. Even after all these years, those games are still as colorful, rich, and imaginative as they ever were. Most modern games can't even come close to them.
Another one of my favorite things to do is to go back and play old Final Fantasy games. VI is my favorite.
I'm going to have to agree with you about that. Over the years I have fine-tuned my listening habits. In defense of my younger self, what I listen to now is not worlds apart from what I used to like, but merely a logical extension of it--I just took what I liked and felt my way into side-genres.
As I investigate new kinds of music, I find myself drawing from artists in the genre all throughout its history. For example, when I started listening to progressive rock, I did heavy listening to bands that were more than 30 years old alongside new releases.
Since I knew what I liked, all of it was good to me. Usually it's easier to find old bands that are good because their reputation precedes them. With contemporary music you have to take more chances because, to put it in technical terms, there is less metadata available.
You raise a good point--I am sure that to me the system would not be very difficult to use at all (after all, I grew up using the computer, and my current major is computer science). However, all the experience I have had with other people (friends, family, coworkers, clients), have lead me to believe that the usage of software systems is a lot more difficult than I could imagine. I consider a lot of people I know to be perfectly intelligent, but unless they have a certain level of experience even things that are simple to us are totally unmanagable to them!
I've never had to use their service since I tested out of all but one English course for my degree, but I work with students every day as an employee for the English department, and I have to say that this service bites. It did nothing but give us headaches (none of the support staff knew how the site worked, and the students wasted so much time figuring it out that they could have written better essays with it). It's like living in the Soviet Union--even something as innocent as low-level academic papers written by undergraduates are being scanned and torn apart for "unauthorized" content.
Imagine my discomfort when I found out that they had begun indexing my personal website without permission. They had every right, to be sure (the site *is* public, after all), but I knew what they were doing with the information, and I don't publish material just to have it used against my fellow students. Not only do I disagree with the effectiveness of Turnitin.com's service, but also the ethics behind it.
As a response, I let them know that they weren't going to be using my content. I also blogged about it on my main page.
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Because I rarely use many programs at once, I am usually limited to one or two windows at once. If stray windows get left open, I close them (if I want them later, I will save/bookmark everything). I like to have a tidy desktop.
I didn't have any problems with my upgrade after I was finished, though the process itself was kind of a pain because halfway through the dist upgrade I got some major dependency errors. My solution to this was to uninstall the unsatisfiable packages and then hold back the ones which were asking for them. After updating that far, I reinstalled the packages post update and everything worked fine. That took a few minutes, but overall the process was not hard.
Unfortunately, I recently noticed that VNC does not work anymore because of an issue with xfonts. I have heard this is a common problem, though, but I haven't figured out how to solve it yet. I'm not going to give it too much effort since I think I'm going to play around with another distro soon.
Don't flatter yourself...
Once it gets a Vim port, I'm switching.
M-x viper-mode
Done. :)
You could also try running VIM from an emacs command shell, although the default shell program won't do curses apps.
There are lots of good choices. Debian is one of them. Ubuntu is also a popular choice, and you might consider Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) because Canonical has pledged 5 years of support for this release. You can rest easy knowing that you'll be getting security updates well into the future.
I like English because of the breadth of vocabulary. It allows for a certain level of nuance that enables me to express myself precisely while using as few words as possible. Also, the grammar is pretty simple. Pronunciation is not hard either, but our writing system needs work! As long as you practice spelling, there is nothing that makes English spectacularly difficult compared to other languages.
That's funny. =)
Let me get this straight:
:-/
The Fedora Core 6 release was rushed because their website was down on the day of release? What does that have to do with the development process? Maybe by rushed he meant that people were rushing to get it.
I'm going to have to back you up on this one.
I tried putting Ubuntu LTS on my girlfriend's laptop months ago. That was their heralded stable release. The install went okay at first, but one update on the apt repos turned the system into an unrecoverable mess. It even somehow managed to install Xubuntu packages without asking (all I did was a simple apt update in aptitude).
After being scared shitless by what happened, I tried Fedora Core 5 and crossed my fingers. System install was smooth, full update, no errors. She has encountered a few system bugs (hey, it's not flawless software--we knew that), but for the most part everything is holding together well.
I love Ubuntu--I run it on my main box and have had very few issues, but I have to say that when Ubuntu bites, it bites hard. I have no qualms about using Fedora as a stable alternative.
I've seen extensive deep freeze deployment starting from when I was in high school and continuing through higher education. I work in a computer lab now, and that is what they use; I've seen the software in action and have also done some light administration with it.
From what I can tell, it basically makes the system invincible. It doesn't matter what weird crap the students pull on our machines (and trust me, young students can destroy any system they touch in no time, guaranteed--you have no idea how uncanny this is), all we have to do is reboot. Spyware? Malware? Unexplained system malfunction? With this software, rebooting actually *does* solve the problem, and I've never seen the process fail.
It's sad that an operating system is so insecure and fragile that it requires special third party software to have these features (ie protect the system from undesired changes).
I actually think that this is a good idea (sort of). I think that when it comes to publications (not private data), anonymity is one of the Internets weak points. There would be less people mucking things up if they were personally identified.
I don't see personal identification as a problem in places like the US where there are laws that protect their right to speech and whatnot, but in China I have a feeling that this will get a lot of people in prison.
Sometimes people need to know who you are so that you will watch how you behave. You could argue that this is an infringement upon personal freedom, but successful societies do rely on certain levels of moderation (neither too loose or too tight). Not all information should be kept private, right?
Dear Danny,
Your mom will kill the "Linux Revolution."
Ah, the classic technique of getting modded up by saying you are going to be modded down. The force is strong with this one.
Don't want to spam this article, but I remembered a joke that I'd like to share:
There were three men at a bar, an architect, a lawyer, and an economist. After a few drinks, they got into a debate over who had the oldest profession:
"Of course my profession is the oldest," said the architect. "It says right in the Bible that Joseph was a carpenter."
The lawyer interrupted, "But if you look in Genesis, you will see that my profession is the oldest because the first act ever detailed was how God brought law and order to the universe--before that it was just confusion!"
The economist chuckled wryly and said, "Where do you think the confusion came from?"
It is.
It doesn't suprise me that they sidesteped MS Office support. Can you even imagine why it's important at all to support those proprietary formats?
I know interoperability is a key feature, but that's what we have OpenOffice for; KOffice is just trying to be the best office suite that it can be all by itself. It's that kind of focus that gives the project much of its promise. The article mentions that the suite surpasses OO.org and GIMP in many key features. I don't think that's a coincidence.
Also, now that the open document format is becoming more standard (and MS is begrudgingly obeying that standard), KOffice has more room to grow than it did before.
In my opinion, a good word processor/office suite acts as a tool for creation first. It just happens to double as a document viewer and exporter later, but that should not be the primary function.
I don't want to sound like a radical, but it really seems to me that it is only a matter of time before these practices are going to become illegal.
It seems to me that the license simply demands too much from the licensee, and that the terms are anti-consumer.
Eventually there will be some sort of legislation that defines some sort of limitations to the use of copyright in this way.
Other possibilities are that Microsoft might loosen their licenses eventually after they realize that no one can obey them, or possibly people will simply start using different software products.
It may be superstitious, but sure is a freaky thing to experience. When I worked late nights at the office, I would walk a secluded path to the parking lot that was a bit out of the way (but the end of the path was closer to my car). There was a particular light that often turned off when I walked by it. I always just chocked it up to the fact that I walk out of the office usually at the same time, but even a sensible person like me gets surprised a few times by something like that. :)
I can't help but wonder, though, if my presence didn't have some sort of effect (for example, my footsteps causing a harmonic vibration to reach the light mechanism, which caused it to reach a state of change sooner than it would have all by itself). The reason why I think that is because I can't recall ever seeing the light go off before I arrived at it. Maybe I did and my brain rejected the memory of it. o_O
Quest for Glory (especially the first two in the series), will always be the ultimate comfort games to me; I have played through them several times in my life, and I can sit down any time and go back to them. They were a big part of my childhood, and it always gives me the warm fuzzies. Even after all these years, those games are still as colorful, rich, and imaginative as they ever were. Most modern games can't even come close to them.
Another one of my favorite things to do is to go back and play old Final Fantasy games. VI is my favorite.
thanks :)
What is Beryl?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole Always.
Music didn't change my friend, YOU changed.
I'm going to have to agree with you about that. Over the years I have fine-tuned my listening habits. In defense of my younger self, what I listen to now is not worlds apart from what I used to like, but merely a logical extension of it--I just took what I liked and felt my way into side-genres.
As I investigate new kinds of music, I find myself drawing from artists in the genre all throughout its history. For example, when I started listening to progressive rock, I did heavy listening to bands that were more than 30 years old alongside new releases.
Since I knew what I liked, all of it was good to me. Usually it's easier to find old bands that are good because their reputation precedes them. With contemporary music you have to take more chances because, to put it in technical terms, there is less metadata available.
You raise a good point--I am sure that to me the system would not be very difficult to use at all (after all, I grew up using the computer, and my current major is computer science). However, all the experience I have had with other people (friends, family, coworkers, clients), have lead me to believe that the usage of software systems is a lot more difficult than I could imagine. I consider a lot of people I know to be perfectly intelligent, but unless they have a certain level of experience even things that are simple to us are totally unmanagable to them!
I've never had to use their service since I tested out of all but one English course for my degree, but I work with students every day as an employee for the English department, and I have to say that this service bites. It did nothing but give us headaches (none of the support staff knew how the site worked, and the students wasted so much time figuring it out that they could have written better essays with it). It's like living in the Soviet Union--even something as innocent as low-level academic papers written by undergraduates are being scanned and torn apart for "unauthorized" content.
Imagine my discomfort when I found out that they had begun indexing my personal website without permission. They had every right, to be sure (the site *is* public, after all), but I knew what they were doing with the information, and I don't publish material just to have it used against my fellow students. Not only do I disagree with the effectiveness of Turnitin.com's service, but also the ethics behind it.
As a response, I let them know that they weren't going to be using my content. I also blogged about it on my main page.
It's about time somebody protested.