1) You child wants a movie. Then the disk breaks and you have no backup. You can teach a seven year old top be careful with disks, but you cannot do that to a three year old.
2) You want to play the disk on your PC. You have to install non-free software on it, perhaps a whole non-free OS.
Just admit you're murdering. I would have so much less a problem with it if you didn't go down the "being an jerk is not murder since I didn't deprive anyone of life". You did deprive them - of years of happy life. If at least you'd admit it, I wouldn't care so much. It's just the stupid logic you guys use that is so infuriating.
That would be version 8.04. Ubuntu is released twice a year, in April (x.04) and in October (x.10). But Ubuntu may skip H since they had Hoary Hedgehog already.
To all legislators:
Please leave the internet alone. It works well. People smarter than you created it. It has revolutionized our world. Parents need to take care of their kids, not you. The more changes you make, the more likely you are to break something. Here's a deal. You don't need to get in the news to get my vote. Stay out of the news for a year, and I'll vote for you.
ACHTUNG!
ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS! DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKSEN. IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS. ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.
KWin is a part of KDE, and I was replying to a post mentioning KDE configurability. Sure, replacing KDE components with non-KDE components would help.
Every time I tried KDE I could not use it for more than a day. It gives some visibility of choice, but I could not fix what annoyed me most.
My impression is that KDE is for keyboard-challenged users. Many standard operations are hard to perform from the keyboard in a way similar to other environments.
Also, all KDE themes are garish and hard on the eye. There are many themes, but none is close, say, to the default Firefox theme.
GNOME is much better with the themes, but its configurability is next to none. Tweaking the "registry" is not my thing.
Last time I tried KDE, I could not configure it to understand both Alt-Tab and Alt-Escape. I had to choose which of them I want and then assign the key! IceWM has no problem supporting both, by default. And Windows supported both at once at least from the 3.1 days.
Some company waited for 802.11a chips instead of releasing 802.11b cards. That company is not in wireless business anymore. Sometimes it pays off to be first with an inferior product and then offer incremental compatible updates, rather than wait for the perfect solution and have your product perceived as offering little difference at the price of incompatibility with competing products already on the market.
A laptop with 4Gb of RAM may actually work better than you expect. Lots of memory is used for caching. Once there is little free physical memory left, the disk cache start shrinking, but it doesn't affect the performance very much until the cache is reduced to less than 10Mb. At this point, the OS may start swapping some rarely used memory to the hard drive. Given 4Gb, I don't think you'll see swap used very often if at all. And the way to compensate would be to get a faster hard drive. Hybrid flash-magnetic drives are going to appear on the market soon, perhaps before the 4Gb memory modules.
You may also want to move whatever you want to run in VMware to a separate machine. I don't know if it has to be mobile. Even if it has, it's easier to move two laptops than one desktop. It would help if you have all accessories (power cords, mice) at every site where you use the laptops, so you don't have to lug them back and forth every time.
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2) You want to play the disk on your PC. You have to install non-free software on it, perhaps a whole non-free OS.
Dell is not going to install Wine. I guess you meant Whine.
That's 43 Canadian Kelvin.
Innocent? Incapable of harming the US? Nothing has ever harmed the United States more than the Confederation!
Just admit you're murdering. I would have so much less a problem with it if you didn't go down the "being an jerk is not murder since I didn't deprive anyone of life". You did deprive them - of years of happy life. If at least you'd admit it, I wouldn't care so much. It's just the stupid logic you guys use that is so infuriating.
The US Constitution doesn't preclude the states from regulating public places.
+5, Troll
Montavista hired spammers to send their ad. Not nice. They didn't even reply to the developer who complained in LKML.
Who would you call people looking for your keys on Google Maps? Spimers? Spimps? Spiminals?
Sarcasm and ignorance don't mix.
That would be version 8.04. Ubuntu is released twice a year, in April (x.04) and in October (x.10). But Ubuntu may skip H since they had Hoary Hedgehog already.
How dare you deny the genocide of polar bears?
If Earth is getting warmer, why does Chewbacca live on the planet Endor?
I would say 1.0*10^2 wins.
It's more like making donated clothes fit everyone.
... which leaves 0W for the noise.
It was tried before and didn't work.
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They can make another release now.
GNOME is much better with the themes, but its configurability is next to none. Tweaking the "registry" is not my thing.
Last time I tried KDE, I could not configure it to understand both Alt-Tab and Alt-Escape. I had to choose which of them I want and then assign the key! IceWM has no problem supporting both, by default. And Windows supported both at once at least from the 3.1 days.
Diesel fuel is more expensive by volume, but not by mass. It's heavier.
Some company waited for 802.11a chips instead of releasing 802.11b cards. That company is not in wireless business anymore. Sometimes it pays off to be first with an inferior product and then offer incremental compatible updates, rather than wait for the perfect solution and have your product perceived as offering little difference at the price of incompatibility with competing products already on the market.
You may also want to move whatever you want to run in VMware to a separate machine. I don't know if it has to be mobile. Even if it has, it's easier to move two laptops than one desktop. It would help if you have all accessories (power cords, mice) at every site where you use the laptops, so you don't have to lug them back and forth every time.