I remember those CDRW drives too! Boy, was that a bad buy. Mine never managed to write above 1X without coastering, and it finally died after about a year with - get this - clicking noises.
I was amazed by the support on my ThinkPad. Originally sold in Italy, bought as a second-hand refurb by me in the UK a year later. I then move to Australia and another year after that the hard drive breaks down. Called IBM support in Australia with the serial number - no worries sir, it's under warranty - new HD shipped out the next working day. For free.
I'm sticking with IBM from now on:) And no, I don't work for them...
"In fact, there is a great body of historical evidence that American English is much closer to historical English in England, than the version that is spoken today in modern day Britain.
It may come as a surprise to the sneerers to learn that words such as fall, for autumn, mad for angry, trash for rubbish and scores of other Amercanisms all come from Elizabethan England. Many linguists believe that the accent Shakespeare's plays would have been performed in would have sounded nothing like the classic renditions we've heard by Gielgud or Olivier. These linguists believe that the accent typically heard in Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, would had a distinct twang that we would associate today with the west country. A little bit more like, shock of shocks, the American accent."
It uses H323 so it's compatible with a lot of stuff. I use GnomeMeeting to chat to Windows users and OS X users. OpenPhone and NetMeeting for Windows, OhPhoneX for OS X.
Also I believe GnomeMeeting is now (just about) usable on OS X with Fink.
That's a good plan. A variant that I often find useful is to use virtual desktops to divide distracting stuff (email, slashdot, etc) from work stuff. So virtual desktop 1 contains evolution, galeon pointed at slashdot etc, and desktop 2 contains vi editing my code, galeon pointed at my dev site, etc.
It does of course require a certain level of discipline to not switch back to the distracting desktop all the time;)
Just closing evolution and only opening it once an hour when I want to check my mail also helps me to get on with the job.
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry, your slashdot post writing has just been outsourced. Thanks for all your posts over the years. You might find some work over at kuro5hin. :)
What they're saying is that, after their tech support refuse to repair it, it'll spend 30 years on the shelf.
I remember those CDRW drives too! Boy, was that a bad buy. Mine never managed to write above 1X without coastering, and it finally died after about a year with - get this - clicking noises.
I'm sticking with IBM from now on :) And no, I don't work for them...
Popularity of programming languages
Doesn't seem to be fading just yet... ;)
[spelling nazi]It's spelled grammar[/spelling nazi] etc, etc...
From this site:
"In fact, there is a great body of historical evidence that American English is much closer to historical English in England, than the version that is spoken today in modern day Britain. It may come as a surprise to the sneerers to learn that words such as fall, for autumn, mad for angry, trash for rubbish and scores of other Amercanisms all come from Elizabethan England. Many linguists believe that the accent Shakespeare's plays would have been performed in would have sounded nothing like the classic renditions we've heard by Gielgud or Olivier. These linguists believe that the accent typically heard in Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, would had a distinct twang that we would associate today with the west country. A little bit more like, shock of shocks, the American accent."
It uses H323 so it's compatible with a lot of stuff. I use GnomeMeeting to chat to Windows users and OS X users. OpenPhone and NetMeeting for Windows, OhPhoneX for OS X.
Also I believe GnomeMeeting is now (just about) usable on OS X with Fink.
...or if you're three-handed like this guy then you can use two hands to cover the third!
Backed up here: "Microsoft Corp. on Thursday confirmed that the source code for two versions of its Windows operating system has been leaked"
Dude, that's 5,000 FAQ's an hour! You must have a helluva lot of unanswered questions ;)
Adobe (Chris Cox in particular) are not big fans of Linux (more here), so don't hold your breath waiting for that Photoshop port :-/
It does of course require a certain level of discipline to not switch back to the distracting desktop all the time ;)
Just closing evolution and only opening it once an hour when I want to check my mail also helps me to get on with the job.
I agree, Free Software is a good thing. But I don't see how lower wages and fewer jobs would benefit a society!