^ this. When I first spotted it (last week, during which I thought the coming weekend was a bank-holiday weekend**) I did a search and discovered a report for this very issue.... from last year. You'd think they'd learn!
Also, even though it has been corrected in Google Calendar, my Android now has two "Spring Bank Holiday" Mondays in succession! If there's a way to remove the erroneous one, it evades me.
** Although the weather was nice so obviously it could not possibly be a bank-holiday weekend!
I *never* dine with software. It's just a rule I have.;)
It will appear on the left bar as an icon... right on the icon, and Pin it. That's all.
I can't test it right now, but that might work. The script itself l don't really want running in a terminal, but it uses Zenity for a few dialogs, so perhaps they can be pinned.
The thing I hate about the launcher is how ridiculously hard it is to create a custom launcher. My use-case: I have a shell script I like to run occasionally. I'd like to have a nice clicky icon to run it from. This should be simple to do... but is sooooo isn't. Worst part is any documentation I found suggested I could create a file on the desktop, right-click that and choose a "Create launcher" open. Or something like that. Anyway, I think that option used to exist, but they dropped it from 12.04 without apparently thinking to create an alternative.
...I find myself ranting quite a lot over 12.04, but to be fair, I do like that DVD's play perfectly right from a fresh install, and I don't get any screen tearing when watching DVDs / web video. So it's not all bad. Only the bad bits are bad!
The irony for me here is that right now one of the things I'm struggling to get working in Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit) is the Adwords Editor + Wine; this is *always* a complete pain in the arse, firstly to install, and then later on when you think you've got it working and then it wants to update... and fails.
The worst thing is, isn't Adwords Editor written with XUL? Shouldn't that make it portable or something? At this point, I'd prefer it was written in Java!
Might be better using the "identify" command of ImageMagick. The man page says:
The identify program is a member of the ImageMagick(1) suite of tools. It describes the
format and characteristics of one or more image files. It also reports if an image is incomplete or corrupt.
You're correct that his qualifications are less important than track record, but I feel that him being caught lying is kind of significant. Aside from the legal ramifications, it doesn't really do much for company culture if the CEO has lied about his qualifications; if having a CS degree was so irrelevant, then why did he have that listed? And if you're a new company recruit, how do you feel about the fact that your "leader" isn't really who he says he is.
I really think there needs to be repercussions for Scott Thompson personally otherwise the wrong message is sent out.
Excellent. I'm amazed Mozilla implemented this... last time I was looking at this, they were adamant it would not be implemented in Firefox because they didn't want to do anything that would increase download size, and since no one used it (for the obvious reason there were no implementations) they weren't going to implement it.
I know slashdot now uses PNGs for the icons to fit with the theme... but I *really* miss the old Gimp icon with the animated eyes. Can't an exception be made?
I've no idea what might be causing that particular bug, but ever since this bug (360493) was active, I've enabled/disabled saving passwords as I need them. The reason being, FF seemed far to happy to automatically insert saved usernames/passwords when really I'd have much preferred have a button that *I* have to press to do activate this. I believe that is/or was the solution in Opera using a magic-wand button? (never used Opera for anything other than browser testing).
That said... I've switched to Chrome for my day-to-day browsing now!:D
Initially the foundation expected the R-Pi would be only picked up by enthusiasts and developers (Like Arduino boards) so EC mark was not a requirement. Since it was being sold as a "Development" board NOT a finished Consumer item.
Confirming that "we must manufacture abroad because finished gadgets don't attract import duty" is bunkum.
The Raspi was always going to be sold as a finish board; it's not possible for it to be hand soldered. The original intent was to manufacture in the UK but that proved to be too expensive in part due to the import issues... I believe the duty costs on the parts was greater than the duty costs on a completed board. Which is dumb, but not the fault of the Raspi Foundation.
The original plan was that the Raspi would be sold like Arduino/Beagle boards - i.e. as development boards - and thus would not require CE certification in the first instance. However, either due to the volume of demand and/or the way it was being promoted - i.e. as a board you can just plug straight into your TV for immediate use - the distributors then decided they needed certification from the get-go.
And before you say "but they should've known the demand would be high; how would they have delivered it to millions of school kids like this", the original manufacturing volumes were always going to be low, but they had expected the types of people who would pick up the intial Raspi's would be nerds/developers who would help in creating the eco-system for when production ramped up and certification had been completed.
And I guess for RS/Farnell, the problem was that with such huge demand, they'd be legally vulnerable if the product wasn't certified.
But when they realised the demand and reached out to the 2 companies to licence it, the companies WANTED the EC mark before they would sell it.
Huh. Neither Upton nor anyone relevant at Broadcom would have any idea that one of the largest electronics distributors in the UK would expect EMC testing on a finished product?
Think I mostly dealt with this above, but just to reiterate, nope neither Upton nor Broadcom would have expected that *because* they expected it to be treated the same as other "development boards". In that sense, the Raspi was a victim of it's own success... had the launch been lower profile, and the demand lower, CE certification probably would not have been required initial. Indeed, it might be that RS/Farnell would not have been brought on-board so early.
The English are great at feigned ignorance, I must admit.
Casual racism... smooth! You do understand that the people running the show actually have day jobs and that they haven't done this before. They're smart people, but much of this has been a learning experience... albeit, if you've ever started a business yourself, you'd recognise the whole "on-going learning experience" that is running a business. However, since you'd don't appear to understand this, I have to assume that you're just one of these people who coasts along in life whilst snearing at others who *do* make the effort.
You seem to be making a lot of effort poking holes in a product that you apparently feel is worthless, which srikes me as odd.... it's almost as if you're some kind of... I dunno... internet troll or something! If you don't like the product and feel that other products exist and are better, buy those.
But just to get things in some kind of perspective, the Raspi is approx. 6 months late against what the foundation originally said. This seems entirely consistent with the rest of the industry as far as I can tell, but the difference here is that Upton and co. have been entirely up-front with where they are and what the problems are. And for a first effort, and entirely for charity, I'd say they've done fantastically well and should be getting credit they deserve.
**Note: this comment is entirely based on what I know purely by following the Raspi news. I'm not affiliates with the Foundation or anything, and I'm still waits for my Pi!
I switched from Orange to GiffGaff. GiffGaff actually runs on the O2 network. They're much cheaper than Orange PAYG *and* you get the option to buy "Goody Bags" which in effect means you can upgrade to something like pay-monthly, but whenever you want, on a month-by-month basis without a contract.
It's not perfect though! GiffGaff have had a few reliability problems, officially you're not supposed to use it for business, and I've heard the data speed isn't as good as O2, but it suits me and might suit you. Sir!;)
Re Nautilus, I totally agree. It's even slow to close a nautilus window! I'm still running Gnome 2.32 so I'd be interested if they've managed to improve this (or indeed anything) in Gnome 3.
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Install linux on a macbook air and you will see how much a difference machine temperature and battery performance are.
Isn't this Linus's preferred platform?
They did. Eventually.
^ this. When I first spotted it (last week, during which I thought the coming weekend was a bank-holiday weekend**) I did a search and discovered a report for this very issue.... from last year. You'd think they'd learn!
Also, even though it has been corrected in Google Calendar, my Android now has two "Spring Bank Holiday" Mondays in succession! If there's a way to remove the erroneous one, it evades me.
** Although the weather was nice so obviously it could not possibly be a bank-holiday weekend!
You can simply lunch the application...
I *never* dine with software. It's just a rule I have. ;)
It will appear on the left bar as an icon... right on the icon, and Pin it. That's all.
I can't test it right now, but that might work. The script itself l don't really want running in a terminal, but it uses Zenity for a few dialogs, so perhaps they can be pinned.
:D
Anyway... good suggestion. Thank you!!
That's useful. Cheers!! :D
The thing I hate about the launcher is how ridiculously hard it is to create a custom launcher. My use-case: I have a shell script I like to run occasionally. I'd like to have a nice clicky icon to run it from. This should be simple to do... but is sooooo isn't. Worst part is any documentation I found suggested I could create a file on the desktop, right-click that and choose a "Create launcher" open. Or something like that. Anyway, I think that option used to exist, but they dropped it from 12.04 without apparently thinking to create an alternative.
...I find myself ranting quite a lot over 12.04, but to be fair, I do like that DVD's play perfectly right from a fresh install, and I don't get any screen tearing when watching DVDs / web video. So it's not all bad. Only the bad bits are bad!
I'm surprised some post-install scripts don't switch the default environment to 2D for computers with weak graphics cards.
..or indeed, people with nVidia cards which are still waiting for a stable driver.
The irony for me here is that right now one of the things I'm struggling to get working in Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit) is the Adwords Editor + Wine; this is *always* a complete pain in the arse, firstly to install, and then later on when you think you've got it working and then it wants to update... and fails.
The worst thing is, isn't Adwords Editor written with XUL? Shouldn't that make it portable or something? At this point, I'd prefer it was written in Java!
I thought exactly the same... and then thought, yep, that is pretty cool.
You've not done much work with IE6, have you? Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is definitely in play.
+1 Genuinely did LOL at that! :D
The identify program is a member of the ImageMagick(1) suite of tools. It describes the format and characteristics of one or more image files. It also reports if an image is incomplete or corrupt.
You're correct that his qualifications are less important than track record, but I feel that him being caught lying is kind of significant. Aside from the legal ramifications, it doesn't really do much for company culture if the CEO has lied about his qualifications; if having a CS degree was so irrelevant, then why did he have that listed? And if you're a new company recruit, how do you feel about the fact that your "leader" isn't really who he says he is.
I really think there needs to be repercussions for Scott Thompson personally otherwise the wrong message is sent out.
Have to agree. I can see the fun and interest in screwing with stuff for art, so that's all fine. But they *do* talk an incredible amount of bollocks!
Maybe if people stop paying attention to him, he'll go away? LET'S FIND OUT!
Sadly other news outlets, such as the BBC, will still probably quote him.
How can you sue over magic tricks? I mean, everyone knows they're not real. Duurrrrrrr
No need for exceptions, png supports animations https://people.mozilla.com/~dolske/apng/demo.html
Excellent. I'm amazed Mozilla implemented this... last time I was looking at this, they were adamant it would not be implemented in Firefox because they didn't want to do anything that would increase download size, and since no one used it (for the obvious reason there were no implementations) they weren't going to implement it.
Wonder what caused the change in heart?
I know slashdot now uses PNGs for the icons to fit with the theme... but I *really* miss the old Gimp icon with the animated eyes. Can't an exception be made?
I've no idea what might be causing that particular bug, but ever since this bug (360493) was active, I've enabled/disabled saving passwords as I need them. The reason being, FF seemed far to happy to automatically insert saved usernames/passwords when really I'd have much preferred have a button that *I* have to press to do activate this. I believe that is/or was the solution in Opera using a magic-wand button? (never used Opera for anything other than browser testing).
:D
That said... I've switched to Chrome for my day-to-day browsing now!
Initially the foundation expected the R-Pi would be only picked up by enthusiasts and developers (Like Arduino boards) so EC mark was not a requirement. Since it was being sold as a "Development" board NOT a finished Consumer item.
Confirming that "we must manufacture abroad because finished gadgets don't attract import duty" is bunkum.
The Raspi was always going to be sold as a finish board; it's not possible for it to be hand soldered. The original intent was to manufacture in the UK but that proved to be too expensive in part due to the import issues... I believe the duty costs on the parts was greater than the duty costs on a completed board. Which is dumb, but not the fault of the Raspi Foundation.
The original plan was that the Raspi would be sold like Arduino/Beagle boards - i.e. as development boards - and thus would not require CE certification in the first instance. However, either due to the volume of demand and/or the way it was being promoted - i.e. as a board you can just plug straight into your TV for immediate use - the distributors then decided they needed certification from the get-go.
And before you say "but they should've known the demand would be high; how would they have delivered it to millions of school kids like this", the original manufacturing volumes were always going to be low, but they had expected the types of people who would pick up the intial Raspi's would be nerds/developers who would help in creating the eco-system for when production ramped up and certification had been completed.
And I guess for RS/Farnell, the problem was that with such huge demand, they'd be legally vulnerable if the product wasn't certified.
But when they realised the demand and reached out to the 2 companies to licence it, the companies WANTED the EC mark before they would sell it.
Huh. Neither Upton nor anyone relevant at Broadcom would have any idea that one of the largest electronics distributors in the UK would expect EMC testing on a finished product?
Think I mostly dealt with this above, but just to reiterate, nope neither Upton nor Broadcom would have expected that *because* they expected it to be treated the same as other "development boards". In that sense, the Raspi was a victim of it's own success... had the launch been lower profile, and the demand lower, CE certification probably would not have been required initial. Indeed, it might be that RS/Farnell would not have been brought on-board so early.
The English are great at feigned ignorance, I must admit.
Casual racism... smooth! You do understand that the people running the show actually have day jobs and that they haven't done this before. They're smart people, but much of this has been a learning experience... albeit, if you've ever started a business yourself, you'd recognise the whole "on-going learning experience" that is running a business. However, since you'd don't appear to understand this, I have to assume that you're just one of these people who coasts along in life whilst snearing at others who *do* make the effort.
You seem to be making a lot of effort poking holes in a product that you apparently feel is worthless, which srikes me as odd.... it's almost as if you're some kind of... I dunno... internet troll or something! If you don't like the product and feel that other products exist and are better, buy those.
But just to get things in some kind of perspective, the Raspi is approx. 6 months late against what the foundation originally said. This seems entirely consistent with the rest of the industry as far as I can tell, but the difference here is that Upton and co. have been entirely up-front with where they are and what the problems are. And for a first effort, and entirely for charity, I'd say they've done fantastically well and should be getting credit they deserve.
**Note: this comment is entirely based on what I know purely by following the Raspi news. I'm not affiliates with the Foundation or anything, and I'm still waits for my Pi!
Slightly OT, but you know how Iran complained how the London 2012 Olympics logo spells the word "Zion", and you know how Iran has just recently blocked the London 2012 Olympic website... well, I'm wondering if using a company called Interxion might just be taking the piss out of Iran a little bit?!
And a link to your web-server too, so we can test it! :D
I switched from Orange to GiffGaff. GiffGaff actually runs on the O2 network. They're much cheaper than Orange PAYG *and* you get the option to buy "Goody Bags" which in effect means you can upgrade to something like pay-monthly, but whenever you want, on a month-by-month basis without a contract.
;)
It's not perfect though! GiffGaff have had a few reliability problems, officially you're not supposed to use it for business, and I've heard the data speed isn't as good as O2, but it suits me and might suit you. Sir!
Re Nautilus, I totally agree. It's even slow to close a nautilus window! I'm still running Gnome 2.32 so I'd be interested if they've managed to improve this (or indeed anything) in Gnome 3.
The city asks test companies to exclude 'creatures from outer space' as well - for unspecified reasons.
So how are they going to get their qualifications? THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!
Mind moving the cursor somewhere else, please?
Eben's cat did try to remove it to be fair!
The last one kept goofing off all the time.
Amusingly, that's true by their own admission if you listened to the hacked voice recording a week or two back!