All I want to know is how do I make the new Gnome file dialog let me traverse directories that start with a dot. I recently was forced to switch to evolution for email and have since been forced to make symbolic links to all my dot-directories in order to make use of them.
Is there a better way?
You can right-click and enable show hidden directories. (ctrl-h might work here, don't recall)
You can hit ctrl-l (lower case L) and get a text box to type in a location.
You just start typing and the text box to type in location will come up.
Once NetworkManager is completed, with full WPA support, things will be much smoother.
Does NetworkManager still do caching DNS (either builtin or using nscd)? Last time I tried using NetworkManager DNS was too slow. I like the interface it provides for configuring wireless, but I just couldn't handle the slow DNS.
The only requirement I'm waiting to see is unlocked phones so the carriers can't keep stifling cool new technology. Verizon really screws customers be disabling/removing nice features that the manufacturers put in and advertise.
I used to big real big on using putty, until I got tired of having too many putty windows up. For a while I tried setting up a single ssh session to a linux box and x-forwarding konsole back to my local display, but that was annoying to have to go through the hoops for that. So I looked around for a tabbed windows app, and found SecureCRT. It rocks the house over putty. The only problem is that it costs $100. But it is seriously sweet. One feature I like is for any SSH2 tab (it supports SSH1/2, rsh, rlogin, telnet, and I think a couple others) you can right-click, select "open sftp" and you get a new tab for the same host with an sftp prompt, without having to login again. It also includes a full set of command-line apps in addition to the gui.
PuTTY is a pretty nice standalone app, but for free ssh, I definitely prefer openssh under cygwin. That way you also get the rootless X server, bash, and rxvt (for line-wrapping select-to-copy and middle-click to paste with sensible word anchors (double-click on/path/to/file/the/i/want/to/email and the whole path is selected, unlike putty/cmd which will highlight one word within/s or select the whole line, but not wrap).
We already have Sunbird for standalone, and an xpi to add to Firefox and an xpi to add to Thunderbird. So everyone can have it their way. I want to keep it this way. I personally prefer the Firefox plugin, since I use gmail's web interface for all my mail, so I get all three in one, but with a lighter footprint than using mozilla/seamonkey.;)
Why would they change from the current model? It's really nice having the option to use it standalone, as a Thunderbird dropin, or as a Firebird dropin. Forcing me to go through Thunderbird would be really irritating.
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If you've got a 35-hour workweek, 6 weeks of paid vacation every year, free healthcare, free schooling through Bachelor's-level for your kids, and a guaranteed old-age pension.... would you give it all up so you could live in a country that had a slightly higher GDP????
What country is that?
Sounds like France. The healthcare in many European countires is crap, though. When you have free office visits with a doctor the offices over swamped with hypocondriacs so a regular visit takes longer. Emergency room trips that aren't immediately life threatening take way longer too, same reason. I know someone who had a knee operation perfored in the Netherlands, she almost lost her leg to infection. She also has some pretty bad dental work (same country) which took some pretty comprehensive work in to get right when she moved to New York.
But the retirement benefits are freakin awesome. Her husband was laid of at about 7 years away from retirement age. He received 5 years severance and the company is continuing to pay into his retirement fund until he reaches retirement age.
but they are -still- on roughly annual upgrade cycles. They stop maintaining the old kernel and go into some kind of security patches updates only for a short time thereafter.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux has a 5 year support life cycle. Which should mean 5 years of security/bugfix patches to a specific release of the kernel that came with the RHEL distro you bought (assuming you bought it with the service contract, and all that jazz).
In gmail, you can set up 'labels', but I set up a label to handle all of the email from a mailing list I later unsubbed from, and they still cluttered up my inbox.
Are you unaware that GMail also supports filters, with a filter action of "Skip inbox"? This action is the same as archiving an email from the Inbox view. The mail will show up in both All Mail and by clicking on the label. If a certain label is applied to an unread mail, the label is displayed in bold. So basically, they have all the functionality of folders and filters, but the added bonus of the mail being viewable from more than one label without storing multiple copies.
so basically they are saying that if somebody buys a $150 package of their software, they have the complete freedom to distribute it to anyone they want at will?
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doesn't that completely kill their money-making opportunities?
No, businesses (including both for coporate desktop rollout and OEM repackaging for sale preinstalled with a computer) will want to pay for copies so they get support.
I'm all for Linux on the desktop, but confusing new users by having no GUI for Printer configuration (among other omissions and inconsistancies) can't help the cause.
I haven't had to touch the command line to install my HP Deskjet 932c printer under Linux (multiple versions of ubuntu, fedora, centos, and suse) for several years. Honestly, what crappy distro (or crappy printer) are you using that the printer installation gui can't autodetect it?
Jabber uses a bidirectional presence subscription model. You ask to subscribe to someone's presence, they must approve the request before they will be notified of you logging on/off. But that doesn't entitle you to seeing their presence, you must in turn request to subscribe to their presence. I believe it is a per user option to choose whether or not the server will deliver messages to you from people who do not subscribe to your presence. Your roster is technically just a list of presenece subscriptions and which direction the subscriptions flow.
that won't work for current editions of AOL. When I looked at all the tools out there that do this sort of thing, none supported the latest version. And none that were on track to support it were all that pragmatic (you would have to save each email individually). Easier to just setup IMAP in thunderbird/outlook.
You can use an IMAP client to access your AOL account. If he has anything in his Personal Filing Cabinet (proprietary format for mail saved to the computer), he would have to move it back to the AOL server. From the IMAP client, you could save it locally. I'm not sure about how to get it into gmail from there, but it will at least be out of AOL and stored in a more portable format. Perhaps the GMail wizards are working on an "import your pst/mbox file" feature. One can dream...
If I was on a Windows network where all the IP addresses were dynamic, I might think twice about a Mac or Linux.
On every Linux distro I've used, samba has an NSS lib for WINS, so you can put 'wins' in your/etc/nsswitch.conf for hostname resolution and then refer to Windows machines by name, even if they're on dynamic IP. I would imaginge OS X's samba has some equivalent.
mDNSrepeater is related to zeroconf to have your machine automatically configure itself on your netowkr and seamlessly locate services provided by other machines. It's part of Apple's Bonjour suite (formerly known as Rendezvouz).
I worked at Optical Solutions from 2000-2002, developing a fiber-to-the-home product. Your best bet is actually rural and independent telcos. They get more federal subsidies to upgrade their infrastructure and have less invested in existing copper networks. What actually screwed Optical Solutions was focusing too much on RBOCs like Qwest and Verizon, because they move too slow, because they have too many hundreds of millions invested in copper in the big cities.
That and it isn't the hack of "you've changed your settings, now go restart your network service for settings to stick" type crap that Fedora was.
I've never actually rebooted when it says that. I'm also pretty certain it says you "might" have reboot for some applications, rather than flat out telling you to reboot. At most I've only ever had to restart an application, but that's pretty reasonable considering your changes may have just closed a bunch of active connections.
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The Centrino branding applies to CPU, chipset, and wireless. I have a Centrino branded laptop without an integrated video chip (Ati Fire GL v5000).
Is there a better way?
You can right-click and enable show hidden directories. (ctrl-h might work here, don't recall)
You can hit ctrl-l (lower case L) and get a text box to type in a location.
You just start typing and the text box to type in location will come up.
Does NetworkManager still do caching DNS (either builtin or using nscd)? Last time I tried using NetworkManager DNS was too slow. I like the interface it provides for configuring wireless, but I just couldn't handle the slow DNS.
But you have to log in and then set invisible, you can't log in invisible.
The only requirement I'm waiting to see is unlocked phones so the carriers can't keep stifling cool new technology. Verizon really screws customers be disabling/removing nice features that the manufacturers put in and advertise.
I used to big real big on using putty, until I got tired of having too many putty windows up. For a while I tried setting up a single ssh session to a linux box and x-forwarding konsole back to my local display, but that was annoying to have to go through the hoops for that. So I looked around for a tabbed windows app, and found SecureCRT. It rocks the house over putty. The only problem is that it costs $100. But it is seriously sweet. One feature I like is for any SSH2 tab (it supports SSH1/2, rsh, rlogin, telnet, and I think a couple others) you can right-click, select "open sftp" and you get a new tab for the same host with an sftp prompt, without having to login again. It also includes a full set of command-line apps in addition to the gui.
/path/to/file/the/i/want/to/email and the whole path is selected, unlike putty/cmd which will highlight one word within /s or select the whole line, but not wrap).
PuTTY is a pretty nice standalone app, but for free ssh, I definitely prefer openssh under cygwin. That way you also get the rootless X server, bash, and rxvt (for line-wrapping select-to-copy and middle-click to paste with sensible word anchors (double-click on
We already have Sunbird for standalone, and an xpi to add to Firefox and an xpi to add to Thunderbird. So everyone can have it their way. I want to keep it this way. I personally prefer the Firefox plugin, since I use gmail's web interface for all my mail, so I get all three in one, but with a lighter footprint than using mozilla/seamonkey. ;)
Any bug that prevents them from using the project internally as their official corporate calendar app.
Why would they change from the current model? It's really nice having the option to use it standalone, as a Thunderbird dropin, or as a Firebird dropin. Forcing me to go through Thunderbird would be really irritating.
Sounds like France. The healthcare in many European countires is crap, though. When you have free office visits with a doctor the offices over swamped with hypocondriacs so a regular visit takes longer. Emergency room trips that aren't immediately life threatening take way longer too, same reason. I know someone who had a knee operation perfored in the Netherlands, she almost lost her leg to infection. She also has some pretty bad dental work (same country) which took some pretty comprehensive work in to get right when she moved to New York.
But the retirement benefits are freakin awesome. Her husband was laid of at about 7 years away from retirement age. He received 5 years severance and the company is continuing to pay into his retirement fund until he reaches retirement age.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux has a 5 year support life cycle. Which should mean 5 years of security/bugfix patches to a specific release of the kernel that came with the RHEL distro you bought (assuming you bought it with the service contract, and all that jazz).
Are you unaware that GMail also supports filters, with a filter action of "Skip inbox"? This action is the same as archiving an email from the Inbox view. The mail will show up in both All Mail and by clicking on the label. If a certain label is applied to an unread mail, the label is displayed in bold. So basically, they have all the functionality of folders and filters, but the added bonus of the mail being viewable from more than one label without storing multiple copies.
Here is a link to buy a copy of it for $9. copies
yes
doesn't that completely kill their money-making opportunities?
No, businesses (including both for coporate desktop rollout and OEM repackaging for sale preinstalled with a computer) will want to pay for copies so they get support.
Assuming the distro is released under GPL, anybody who has paid for a particular release can then distribute it for free to everyone else.
I'm all for Linux on the desktop, but confusing new users by having no GUI for Printer configuration (among other omissions and inconsistancies) can't help the cause.
I haven't had to touch the command line to install my HP Deskjet 932c printer under Linux (multiple versions of ubuntu, fedora, centos, and suse) for several years. Honestly, what crappy distro (or crappy printer) are you using that the printer installation gui can't autodetect it?
Jabber uses a bidirectional presence subscription model. You ask to subscribe to someone's presence, they must approve the request before they will be notified of you logging on/off. But that doesn't entitle you to seeing their presence, you must in turn request to subscribe to their presence. I believe it is a per user option to choose whether or not the server will deliver messages to you from people who do not subscribe to your presence. Your roster is technically just a list of presenece subscriptions and which direction the subscriptions flow.
that won't work for current editions of AOL. When I looked at all the tools out there that do this sort of thing, none supported the latest version. And none that were on track to support it were all that pragmatic (you would have to save each email individually). Easier to just setup IMAP in thunderbird/outlook.
I'm pretty sure that doesn't support your existing aol.com address, though.
You can use an IMAP client to access your AOL account. If he has anything in his Personal Filing Cabinet (proprietary format for mail saved to the computer), he would have to move it back to the AOL server. From the IMAP client, you could save it locally. I'm not sure about how to get it into gmail from there, but it will at least be out of AOL and stored in a more portable format. Perhaps the GMail wizards are working on an "import your pst/mbox file" feature. One can dream ...
On every Linux distro I've used, samba has an NSS lib for WINS, so you can put 'wins' in your /etc/nsswitch.conf for hostname resolution and then refer to Windows machines by name, even if they're on dynamic IP. I would imaginge OS X's samba has some equivalent.
mDNSrepeater is related to zeroconf to have your machine automatically configure itself on your netowkr and seamlessly locate services provided by other machines. It's part of Apple's Bonjour suite (formerly known as Rendezvouz).
I worked at Optical Solutions from 2000-2002, developing a fiber-to-the-home product. Your best bet is actually rural and independent telcos. They get more federal subsidies to upgrade their infrastructure and have less invested in existing copper networks. What actually screwed Optical Solutions was focusing too much on RBOCs like Qwest and Verizon, because they move too slow, because they have too many hundreds of millions invested in copper in the big cities.
You need to look into slipstreaming drivers onto your install CD.
I've never actually rebooted when it says that. I'm also pretty certain it says you "might" have reboot for some applications, rather than flat out telling you to reboot. At most I've only ever had to restart an application, but that's pretty reasonable considering your changes may have just closed a bunch of active connections.