And we have that, in spades. Gnome, MATE, KDE. Sure, they have variations, but Windows had variations between releases. Concepts stay the same - menu button or ribbon with launchers in it or combination thereof. It isn't a software usability issue per se. Personally, I prefer MATE, and I prefer it the way Mint ships/configures it.
Not that it is my place to put words in Linus' mouth, etc. but it seems that what he is really complaining about is the package management landscape, the variations in libraries and versions and compile options, etc from distribution to distribution. Even starting with one of the Big Distros like Debian, you never know when/what Ubuntu (and therefore Mint, etc) will grab when they pull from -testing or -unstable to start their next release. The only real place you have cross-distro compatibility somewhat guaranteed is with true parent/child distros like Mint and its matching Ubuntu release that it shares package repos with.
Indeed. I work for the state of Florida, and on request our HR dept has to supply names, salaries, job titles, etc. Unless you are a cop or related to a cop or a DA or judge or...
And there are plenty of other laws that restrict people, other than cops. Heck, every single gun control law passed in the last 30 years has exemptions for police officers, even if the stuff isn't issued as a duty weapon/accessory.
Whatever happened to "equal protection under the law" ?
Yup. And hopefully some protection for the poor geek at the end of the line, who is being told the CxO (or Provost in my case) is PO'd as heck and "just create those 100 instructor accounts with the same default password and tell them what it is to get them started" when the password still works and cant be changed after LDAP credentials are linked/added (after the other part of ITS did their job)....
root@darkstar:~# apt-get install gopher Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed:
gopher 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 38 not upgraded. Need to get 89.5 kB of archives. After this operation, 275 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://mirror.atlantic.net/ubu... bionic/universe amd64 gopher amd64 3.0.16 [89.5 kB] Fetched 89.5 kB in 1s (105 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package gopher. (Reading database... 397011 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack.../gopher_3.0.16_amd64.deb... Unpacking gopher (3.0.16)... Setting up gopher (3.0.16)... Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1)... root@darkstar:~#
He's nothing but a low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous perverted worm! Hanging's too good for him. Burning's too good for him! He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!
I'm somewhat rural, and until recently could only get 1.5mb dsl due to distance from the magical box down the road. Now there is fiber connecting them, so I can get 6mb and possibly 12mb, but the fiber is running literally 200 feet from my front door... why shouldn't I be able to get fiber to my phone junction box?
Worked in the physical therapy department of an acute care hospital for a while. Every summer we'd get a few folks volunteering to get their hours in to apply to go to PT school (easier to get into med school - similar pre-reqs, far fewer seats per year).
Every year I'd take 'em into the whirlpool room to work on a burn victim, or some poor old stroked out person iwth massive bed sores, or someone about to loose a leg from diabetic ulcers and complications thereof...
And every year one or two of 'em would quit and change majors....
Regarding the "know how the cars work" part... some of that is in fact due to technology.
With $300 in tools from walmart and $50 worth of books, you can completely take care of a VW bug or bus (or Porsche 356, 912, or 914), including rebuilding the engine and transmission. With computerized timing, fuel injection, etc. you simply can't do that anymore.
Almost miss the days of dialup - monopoly on wires, choice of service providers. Ended up switching as less congested operations sprang up, final switch was to one that supported dial-in to the same subnet they ran their Quake servers on, which meant with 2 phone lines and one account I could game and the wife could dial in on her computer and surf the web
Sure, you'll loose those nice integrations with Big Blue Button (conferences tool), some of the Speed Grader stuff, the equation editor, the "record from webcam" function in the HTML editor, etc. since those are licensed services or hosted via 3rd party contracts, but you can also replace them yourself.
Strangely, what the college I work for pays for Canvas hosting and support (not a license fee) is about what we paid Angel/Blackboard for license and hosting, but the software is better and our support experience is better AND we get a LOT more resources.
Unless that company/institution is using other (expensive in either time, money, people, or all) software that runs on it, that specifies in its support contract that "thou shalt only use these specific versions of java from oracle". Similar example is running linux on IBM mainframes via z/VM - only supported distros were/are redhat and suse. Not running the exact specific version of one of those two? No support.
Got one when first released as an upgrade to my "no more OS updates and out of internal storage" 4s. I'll admit to being an edge case on use pattern and such, but I get almost 72 hours use out of a full battery charge.
Got it for a 3 reasons -
Form factor. The size is right to me. I don't need/want to carry a "phablet", etc.
Supposed to be last w/ headphone jack. Weird, but this is one of my must haves, as is the ability to use it while charging without paying more money for various adapters.
OS updates. My 4s was no longer supported for updates.
As to "minimalist"... well, I have other more minimal phones available, my favorite is hanging on the wall in the kitchen.
Universities perhaps but community or junior colleges or tech schools or whatever you want to call them DO focus on teaching the skills in various AS degree programs, like nursing, radiology or nuke med tech, respiratory therapy, and even IT stuff. here is a sample degree audit for a AS degree in "Programming and Analysis". Could use technical writing vs. a second term of college composition (aka writing about literature) but otherwise not bad.
Better than new accounts is to use extended addressing - the default character is a + so foo+bar@domain gets delivered to foo@domain. Some webmail clients or email validation scripts have issues with the + although it is valid per RFCs, so I changed it on my postfix config to a hyphen (-) - foo-bar@domain gets to foo@domain
Keep it all. Anything older than a month or so gets moved to archive storage. Default view is sorted by date and then unread. I read it, deal with it, and ignore or read it, flag it as unread and deal with it later. Rarely anything more than 24 hours old. Some notifications, etc. I get I typically just select and file, unless it is one I am looking out for in particular (student questions from course management system, open issue on my work code, etc)
The issue seems to be, for someone to be wealthy they need a lot of money up front, and if they are wise with their money they will be paying less overall.
âoeThe reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.â
Disembowel-Meself-Honourably Dibhala sold suspiciously fresh thousand-year eggs in the Agatean Empire (Interesting Times).
Cut-Me-Own-Hand-Off Dhblah sold disturbingly live yoghurt in Omnia (Small Gods). In Discworld 2, his name is wrongly spelt D'blah and gives secrets about pyramid power in Djelybebi.
Al-Jiblah, a merchant in Klatch (Jingo).
Fair Go Dibbler sold the archetypal pie floaters on the lost continent of Fourecks (The Last Continent).
May-I-Never-Achieve-Enlightenment Dhiblang is apparently from Hublands 'wisdom country', based on the name and his selling of disreputable yak-butter tea; mentioned in The Last Continent.
Dib Diblossonson sold bottomless smorgasbord in the Hubland barbarian fjords; mentioned in The Last Continent.
May-I-Be-Kicked-In-My-Own-Ice-Hole Dibooki apparently only gathered whale meat after a conveniently beached whale had exploded into bite-sized chunks of its own accord; mentioned in The Last Continent.
Swallow-Me-Own-Blowdart Dhlang-Dhlang sold green beer, location unknown but suspected to be tropical rain forest, possibly Howondaland; mentioned in The Last Continent.
Point-Me-Own-Bone Dibjla, an Aboriginal Dibbler from Fourecks in the Discworld 2 PC game.
And of course, the theme continues in really good fanfic like the works of AA Pessimal
Sadly my house has no land line, and I have very poor cell reception. My position is not an on-call position, and I cannot/will not take an on-call position because of this.
But lets face it - between a couple of corporate behemoths fighting it out over standards that will eventually dictate how the web works, etc. I would much prefer for one of the players to be backing a F/OSS based standard/implementation. Better of course would be all backers being behind various F/OSS standards/implementations and letting the technical best win
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Well, actually it is a pig. So like bacon and pork loin and ribs and ham and ....
Of course, if it were a sheep then you could make yourself a nice MLT - mutton lettuce and tomato - where the mutton is all nice and crisp and ...
And we have that, in spades. Gnome, MATE, KDE. Sure, they have variations, but Windows had variations between releases. Concepts stay the same - menu button or ribbon with launchers in it or combination thereof. It isn't a software usability issue per se. Personally, I prefer MATE, and I prefer it the way Mint ships/configures it.
Not that it is my place to put words in Linus' mouth, etc. but it seems that what he is really complaining about is the package management landscape, the variations in libraries and versions and compile options, etc from distribution to distribution. Even starting with one of the Big Distros like Debian, you never know when/what Ubuntu (and therefore Mint, etc) will grab when they pull from -testing or -unstable to start their next release. The only real place you have cross-distro compatibility somewhat guaranteed is with true parent/child distros like Mint and its matching Ubuntu release that it shares package repos with.
Indeed. I work for the state of Florida, and on request our HR dept has to supply names, salaries, job titles, etc. Unless you are a cop or related to a cop or a DA or judge or ...
And there are plenty of other laws that restrict people, other than cops. Heck, every single gun control law passed in the last 30 years has exemptions for police officers, even if the stuff isn't issued as a duty weapon/accessory.
Whatever happened to "equal protection under the law" ?
Yup. And hopefully some protection for the poor geek at the end of the line, who is being told the CxO (or Provost in my case) is PO'd as heck and "just create those 100 instructor accounts with the same default password and tell them what it is to get them started" when the password still works and cant be changed after LDAP credentials are linked/added (after the other part of ITS did their job) ....
Not quite. Otherwise there wouldn't be laws regarding the safe secure storage of firearms, laws requiring immediate report of theft of firearms, etc.
Not that most of us gun owners wouldn't do all of that anyway... but you know... gotta pass laws.
Where indeed can you get gopher today...
root@darkstar:~# apt-get install gopher ... 397011 files and directories currently installed.) .../gopher_3.0.16_amd64.deb ... ... ... ...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gopher
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 38 not upgraded.
Need to get 89.5 kB of archives.
After this operation, 275 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://mirror.atlantic.net/ubu... bionic/universe amd64 gopher amd64 3.0.16 [89.5 kB]
Fetched 89.5 kB in 1s (105 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package gopher.
(Reading database
Preparing to unpack
Unpacking gopher (3.0.16)
Setting up gopher (3.0.16)
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1)
root@darkstar:~#
He's nothing but a low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous perverted worm! Hanging's too good for him. Burning's too good for him! He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!
In that case, I may be hosed. On well w/ septic system. I do get electric service though, so could we use that for the comparison?
I'm somewhat rural, and until recently could only get 1.5mb dsl due to distance from the magical box down the road. Now there is fiber connecting them, so I can get 6mb and possibly 12mb, but the fiber is running literally 200 feet from my front door... why shouldn't I be able to get fiber to my phone junction box?
Worked in the physical therapy department of an acute care hospital for a while. Every summer we'd get a few folks volunteering to get their hours in to apply to go to PT school (easier to get into med school - similar pre-reqs, far fewer seats per year).
Every year I'd take 'em into the whirlpool room to work on a burn victim, or some poor old stroked out person iwth massive bed sores, or someone about to loose a leg from diabetic ulcers and complications thereof...
And every year one or two of 'em would quit and change majors....
Surprisingly, "fuckits" was found 52 times, but "fuckITS", "fuckITS!" and both "fuckyouITS" and "fuckyouits" were declared "unfound".
Regarding the "know how the cars work" part... some of that is in fact due to technology.
With $300 in tools from walmart and $50 worth of books, you can completely take care of a VW bug or bus (or Porsche 356, 912, or 914), including rebuilding the engine and transmission. With computerized timing, fuel injection, etc. you simply can't do that anymore.
Almost miss the days of dialup - monopoly on wires, choice of service providers. Ended up switching as less congested operations sprang up, final switch was to one that supported dial-in to the same subnet they ran their Quake servers on, which meant with 2 phone lines and one account I could game and the wife could dial in on her computer and surf the web
Except Canvas is AGPL licensed.
https://github.com/instructure...
Sure, you'll loose those nice integrations with Big Blue Button (conferences tool), some of the Speed Grader stuff, the equation editor, the "record from webcam" function in the HTML editor, etc. since those are licensed services or hosted via 3rd party contracts, but you can also replace them yourself.
Strangely, what the college I work for pays for Canvas hosting and support (not a license fee) is about what we paid Angel/Blackboard for license and hosting, but the software is better and our support experience is better AND we get a LOT more resources.
Unless that company/institution is using other (expensive in either time, money, people, or all) software that runs on it, that specifies in its support contract that "thou shalt only use these specific versions of java from oracle". Similar example is running linux on IBM mainframes via z/VM - only supported distros were/are redhat and suse. Not running the exact specific version of one of those two? No support.
Got one when first released as an upgrade to my "no more OS updates and out of internal storage" 4s. I'll admit to being an edge case on use pattern and such, but I get almost 72 hours use out of a full battery charge.
Got it for a 3 reasons -
Form factor. The size is right to me. I don't need/want to carry a "phablet", etc.
Supposed to be last w/ headphone jack. Weird, but this is one of my must haves, as is the ability to use it while charging without paying more money for various adapters.
OS updates. My 4s was no longer supported for updates.
As to "minimalist" ... well, I have other more minimal phones available, my favorite is hanging on the wall in the kitchen.
Ah yes, the "who to rob" directory.
Universities perhaps but community or junior colleges or tech schools or whatever you want to call them DO focus on teaching the skills in various AS degree programs, like nursing, radiology or nuke med tech, respiratory therapy, and even IT stuff. here is a sample degree audit for a AS degree in "Programming and Analysis". Could use technical writing vs. a second term of college composition (aka writing about literature) but otherwise not bad.
Better than new accounts is to use extended addressing - the default character is a + so foo+bar@domain gets delivered to foo@domain. Some webmail clients or email validation scripts have issues with the + although it is valid per RFCs, so I changed it on my postfix config to a hyphen (-) - foo-bar@domain gets to foo@domain
Keep it all. Anything older than a month or so gets moved to archive storage. Default view is sorted by date and then unread. I read it, deal with it, and ignore or read it, flag it as unread and deal with it later. Rarely anything more than 24 hours old. Some notifications, etc. I get I typically just select and file, unless it is one I am looking out for in particular (student questions from course management system, open issue on my work code, etc)
The issue seems to be, for someone to be wealthy they need a lot of money up front, and if they are wise with their money they will be paying less overall.
âoeThe reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.â
Almost ... May-I-Never-Achieve-Enlightenment Dhiblang
The canonical Dibbler run down -
Disembowel-Meself-Honourably Dibhala sold suspiciously fresh thousand-year eggs in the Agatean Empire (Interesting Times).
Cut-Me-Own-Hand-Off Dhblah sold disturbingly live yoghurt in Omnia (Small Gods). In Discworld 2, his name is wrongly spelt D'blah and gives secrets about pyramid power in Djelybebi.
Al-Jiblah, a merchant in Klatch (Jingo).
Fair Go Dibbler sold the archetypal pie floaters on the lost continent of Fourecks (The Last Continent).
May-I-Never-Achieve-Enlightenment Dhiblang is apparently from Hublands 'wisdom country', based on the name and his selling of disreputable yak-butter tea; mentioned in The Last Continent.
Dib Diblossonson sold bottomless smorgasbord in the Hubland barbarian fjords; mentioned in The Last Continent.
May-I-Be-Kicked-In-My-Own-Ice-Hole Dibooki apparently only gathered whale meat after a conveniently beached whale had exploded into bite-sized chunks of its own accord; mentioned in The Last Continent.
Swallow-Me-Own-Blowdart Dhlang-Dhlang sold green beer, location unknown but suspected to be tropical rain forest, possibly Howondaland; mentioned in The Last Continent.
Point-Me-Own-Bone Dibjla, an Aboriginal Dibbler from Fourecks in the Discworld 2 PC game.
And of course, the theme continues in really good fanfic like the works of AA Pessimal
and thankfully finger is old and out of date ...
Sadly my house has no land line, and I have very poor cell reception. My position is not an on-call position, and I cannot/will not take an on-call position because of this.
But lets face it - between a couple of corporate behemoths fighting it out over standards that will eventually dictate how the web works, etc. I would much prefer for one of the players to be backing a F/OSS based standard/implementation. Better of course would be all backers being behind various F/OSS standards/implementations and letting the technical best win