GUI means (to me) that, unless shown in a text box, long error messages will be truncated or summarized.
That said, I've never installed Debian from scratch. Instructions to get (which?).iso file are too damned confusing.
I've had no problems with the Ubuntu alternate install. A few years back I was installing Gentoo and though it was involved, I wasn't confused about what to download, thanks to the Handbook.
If they want to market to Joe Average, they should clean up their website.
OK, so this gets a 250 mile range in California Suburbia. Wonder what it would get in Buffalo NY during a snowstorm with the heater on? Or climbing the Rockies in the hot summer with AC?
Be sure to use the alternate CD to do your installations, especially for low memory systems. The LiveCD is fun to play with on a machine with 128 megs, but IMHO Ubuntu should not have enabled the LiveCD installer in the immature state it was in when published. Just use the alternate CD.
Why do you say PDF's aren't easily editable?
Oh, you're using the free Adobe Reader. If you look around, there are other cheap or free software that can import or mark up PDF's.
Just because it's not easy for you, doesn't mean someone else can't do it easily. It's easy when you know how!
An "Open Source project" is worthy, but just an "open licensed project" isn't anything special, is what I'm taking from the parent poster, a man who should know.
It's difficult as me, a consumer and advocate of what I call "good software", to understand what's good to back. The FOSS, F/LOSS, or whatever the hell they're calling the community nowadays has a branding problem. I think the devs are the only ones who can solve it.
OpenOffice needs more user input to be workable in an office environment. While the software's interface is much improved over the StarOffice that Sun purchased, it needs the touch of the lay person's input. Microsoft was able to do this for their suite by locking some clerical people in a room with close monitoring. But that was so many years ago...
Microsoft Office is the only thing a lot of people have had access to in order to get their jobs done. People have abused it so much -- spreadsheets for accounting instead of databases; word processors for automated reporting; OLE embedding video in documents. But now, thanks to Open Source projects, they will have access to the proper tools for the job. If they can only find them!
I'm much happier popping open Abiword or Gnumeric than loading OpenOffice. Small, light apps with a responsive desktop environment are what I like to get work done. The PHB's can ooh and aah over their little office macro apps all they want. I have entire programming suites at my disposal to leverage my limited knowledge!
The time of the office suite has passed.
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January 5, 1961: Mr. Ed debuts
-- source: Wikipedia
Also on January 5th: 1781 - American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
1900 - Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
1914 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
I'm 5'8" (173 centimeters for those not metrically impaired). I don't consider myself too much shorter than the average. So why do I have to stand on my tiptoes to avoid touching the urinal rims? When I'm done, I have to shake like hell or I end up with a dribble when I put it away.
Why do plumbers have to mount these so damn high? Most urinals have lots of vertical aiming area. If they mounted them eight inches (20 cm) lower, what portion of the population would not be comfortable with it?
If they don't have a kiddy urinal, I usually go in the hopper. That wastes water, but I feel as if I have no choice.
Disclaimer: I don't usually expose myself in public fora, but this just pisses me off.
If the intent here is to include evolution, selection (natural and otherwise), and related topics in a biology class, there are other species to use for study better suited than Homo Sapiens. Take canines, felines, or bovines -- it's simple to point out the diversity and historical changes in these mammal families.
I'm sure that better biology lessons is not the real intent of this debate, though.
If we left out the Origin of Man from our curriculum, as we do with many other items, would our graduates be much worse equipped to contribute to society?
Our curriculum debates would be much more productive if they revolved around topics like personal credit management, the need to include sewing in these days of cheap manufactured textiles, or if we really have to fund equipment for five full football teams at a single high school.
Good link to a great article. If I had mod points you'd get 'em.
Does this design mean that the reactor doesn't need to be built on a coastline? This might help a lot with "environmentalist" concerns and nuts like me who don't think the coast is a great place to build an expensive project.
The record industry... believes the recording capability [of satellite radio receivers] is a clear copyright violation and could take revenue away from paid download music services.
Point 1: Recording capabilities don't violate copyright, people do.
Point 2: No, they can't have my 15 year old clock/radio with built-in cassette recorder.
Point 3: I'm sure they receive some whopping royalty on the blank cassette media I buy in the five-for-a-buck package.
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GUI doesn't necessarily mean easy to me.
.iso file are too damned confusing.
GUI does mean slow and many times buggier to me.
GUI means (to me) that, unless shown in a text box, long error messages will be truncated or summarized.
That said, I've never installed Debian from scratch. Instructions to get (which?)
I've had no problems with the Ubuntu alternate install. A few years back I was installing Gentoo and though it was involved, I wasn't confused about what to download, thanks to the Handbook.
If they want to market to Joe Average, they should clean up their website.
What's so hard about this? Carry a camera on one side of you, and a big frameless plasma screen on the other. And lots of batteries on your back.
OK, so this gets a 250 mile range in California Suburbia. Wonder what it would get in Buffalo NY during a snowstorm with the heater on? Or climbing the Rockies in the hot summer with AC?
"Unfortunately, the government just doesn't have the resources to investigate every single incident of computer trespassing."
Why the hell not????
Be sure to use the alternate CD to do your installations, especially for low memory systems. The LiveCD is fun to play with on a machine with 128 megs, but IMHO Ubuntu should not have enabled the LiveCD installer in the immature state it was in when published. Just use the alternate CD.
Why do you say PDF's aren't easily editable? Oh, you're using the free Adobe Reader. If you look around, there are other cheap or free software that can import or mark up PDF's. Just because it's not easy for you, doesn't mean someone else can't do it easily. It's easy when you know how!
I guess you should have spent your ten minutes installing EasyUbuntu to get your mp3's working. There's a reason why they don't play "out of the box".
I haven't seen much about Ubuntu being used for clusters, though, but I'm sure its possible to do. I wonder why they brought it up in the article?
I guess he faded in the sun. I'm colorblind anyway, dammit.
Orange is not appetizing, except for a real orange. That's why they call it an orange -- everything else is just a cheap fake.
If it doesn't get to market I'd rather come up with a conspiracy theory than to think it was just a lack of engineering talent or budget.
How well do these CVD nanotubes hold up being jostled around, anyway? You should see the potholes we have around here.
For example, Americans tend to associate orange with hunger ...
I'm curious as to why. Care to explain?
I'm an American, and the only thing I can think of is Ronald McD's hair. Doesn't make me hungry at all.
Run your SSH over port 80. You didn't need to host your own blog, anyway.
Is Pacifica included with this? Can we finally run unmodified Windows under Xen?
thanks, ...and maniacs don't blow holes in bandsmen by remote control.
Ok, then don't give me that do goody-good bullshit.
I resent the above implication that these other comparisons relate "buying wine in a box". I love wine in a box!
An "Open Source project" is worthy, but just an "open licensed project" isn't anything special, is what I'm taking from the parent poster, a man who should know.
It's difficult as me, a consumer and advocate of what I call "good software", to understand what's good to back. The FOSS, F/LOSS, or whatever the hell they're calling the community nowadays has a branding problem. I think the devs are the only ones who can solve it.
OpenOffice needs more user input to be workable in an office environment. While the software's interface is much improved over the StarOffice that Sun purchased, it needs the touch of the lay person's input. Microsoft was able to do this for their suite by locking some clerical people in a room with close monitoring. But that was so many years ago...
Microsoft Office is the only thing a lot of people have had access to in order to get their jobs done. People have abused it so much -- spreadsheets for accounting instead of databases; word processors for automated reporting; OLE embedding video in documents. But now, thanks to Open Source projects, they will have access to the proper tools for the job. If they can only find them!
I'm much happier popping open Abiword or Gnumeric than loading OpenOffice. Small, light apps with a responsive desktop environment are what I like to get work done. The PHB's can ooh and aah over their little office macro apps all they want. I have entire programming suites at my disposal to leverage my limited knowledge!
The time of the office suite has passed.
January 5, 1961: Mr. Ed debuts
-- source: Wikipedia
Also on January 5th:
1781 - American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
1900 - Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
1914 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
See more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_5
"linus isn't usually sold"
I want him on my machine!
I'm 5'8" (173 centimeters for those not metrically impaired). I don't consider myself too much shorter than the average. So why do I have to stand on my tiptoes to avoid touching the urinal rims? When I'm done, I have to shake like hell or I end up with a dribble when I put it away.
Why do plumbers have to mount these so damn high? Most urinals have lots of vertical aiming area. If they mounted them eight inches (20 cm) lower, what portion of the population would not be comfortable with it?
If they don't have a kiddy urinal, I usually go in the hopper. That wastes water, but I feel as if I have no choice.
Disclaimer: I don't usually expose myself in public fora, but this just pisses me off.
"individual dust grains returned by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972 and the Russian Luna-24 sample-return spacecraft that landed on the Moon in 1976"
Another government program that doesn't understand the concept of turnaround time. Demand efficiency, or farm it out to the free market!
(Ha ha, only serious.)
If the intent here is to include evolution, selection (natural and otherwise), and related topics in a biology class, there are other species to use for study better suited than Homo Sapiens. Take canines, felines, or bovines -- it's simple to point out the diversity and historical changes in these mammal families.
I'm sure that better biology lessons is not the real intent of this debate, though.
If we left out the Origin of Man from our curriculum, as we do with many other items, would our graduates be much worse equipped to contribute to society?
Our curriculum debates would be much more productive if they revolved around topics like personal credit management, the need to include sewing in these days of cheap manufactured textiles, or if we really have to fund equipment for five full football teams at a single high school.
p.s. I am a fan of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Good link to a great article. If I had mod points you'd get 'em.
Does this design mean that the reactor doesn't need to be built on a coastline? This might help a lot with "environmentalist" concerns and nuts like me who don't think the coast is a great place to build an expensive project.
The record industry ... believes the recording capability [of satellite radio receivers] is a clear copyright violation and could take revenue away from paid download music services.
Point 1: Recording capabilities don't violate copyright, people do.
Point 2: No, they can't have my 15 year old clock/radio with built-in cassette recorder.
Point 3: I'm sure they receive some whopping royalty on the blank cassette media I buy in the five-for-a-buck package.
Running a Windows machine sans viruses, worms and other malware is trivial for technically adept users.
Don't plug it into a network or phone line, and don't insert any media. Be careful what you type on the keyboard. No problems.
"in a corp IT environment "answered within hours, sometimes minutes" doesn't cut it."
Gee, maybe it would be worthwhile to actually pay for support in this instance.