I'd go for Linux MInt with KDE. It won't quite look like windows, but I've moved three people to Linux Mint this way with no problems. It's based on Ubuntu, but I've found it easier to use.
Tell me about it, I use Linux Mint 7, based on Ubuntu 9.04. Put the wireless card in and it just works. Same for when I had Mint 6. I was so looking forward to using ndiswrapper, but was denied the pleasure. I, too, like the command line. Also, I bought my mother a new HP color laser all-in-one. On the same laptop, it took 3 minutes to be able to print, and 2 hours to be able to scan, including eating lunch half way through. On my mother's computer, XP, it took about 15 hours over two days, and it still isn't installed properly. And this is using HP's install disc.
I do not understand this concept of 'it is fiction, so nothing in it can be true'. Read Cryptonomoicon, has some good stuff about cryptography. How about historical fiction? Many authors who write try to get the background information right. You can't use it as a source, but you can get a feel for it that can then be built upon with books in that particular subject.
Because many people run with whatever is on their box at time of purchase. If you can get these people to update half of the time, you're doing good. This is why it is important. Not because you, me, and most/.'ers wipe the drive clean and put the OS of their choice on it.
My local bank's web access is apparently browser agnostic. It works in Firefox on XP, Firefox on Ubuntu, and Opera on Ubuntu. No problems at all with the browser. The only problems I have had were between the chair and keyboard.
They could have called it something other than 'I Robot' and left that title to someone who would have made a movie closer to the book. I feel the same way about 'Starship Troopers'. Only barely related to the book. I thought both were good enough movies, but why cause such problems, come up with a new title.
People removed from the direct customer pay-out and from higher-level managers just frequently get overlooked. I've seen this happen in academia. I find that scary. If your department did not have a direct income for the university you were not important. Mind you, one of these 'unimportant' groups was the group of programmers who maintained the drop-add and finance systems.
Where are the Amish growing exponentially? The last I had seen, they were slowly shrinking because people would leave that lifestyle and very few would enter it.
I'm barely even christian and I know more about that book than most bible-thumpers. You have to understand them; they only care about the parts that tell you what your neighbor is doing that is not permitted in the bible. And the parts that list the punishiments for various crimes and where it says to hate gays and enslave women. They don't seem to remember 'love thy neighbor' or 'judge not, lest ye be judged' or similar passages. They conviently overlook the tolerence passages and any of the redeeming parts of the bible. The part about all of this is that there are so many christians in the US, and when one of these bible-thumping idjits opens his mouth to spew hate, they just sit back and let it go. No outrage, no comment, nothing.
Yes, I have some programs (DOSBox is one) that will not run in a limited account. Between things like this and seeing what MS is doing with Vista, I am trying, very quickly, to find a Linus distro that I like.
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I think one of the worst things done by schools was the elimination of recess. The kids need that little bit of unstructured time.
Same here. 100 miles is further than I go most times. And to not need to hit a gas station every week would be nice.
I'd go for Linux MInt with KDE. It won't quite look like windows, but I've moved three people to Linux Mint this way with no problems. It's based on Ubuntu, but I've found it easier to use.
Tell me about it, I use Linux Mint 7, based on Ubuntu 9.04. Put the wireless card in and it just works. Same for when I had Mint 6. I was so looking forward to using ndiswrapper, but was denied the pleasure. I, too, like the command line. Also, I bought my mother a new HP color laser all-in-one. On the same laptop, it took 3 minutes to be able to print, and 2 hours to be able to scan, including eating lunch half way through. On my mother's computer, XP, it took about 15 hours over two days, and it still isn't installed properly. And this is using HP's install disc.
I do not understand this concept of 'it is fiction, so nothing in it can be true'. Read Cryptonomoicon, has some good stuff about cryptography. How about historical fiction? Many authors who write try to get the background information right. You can't use it as a source, but you can get a feel for it that can then be built upon with books in that particular subject.
Because many people run with whatever is on their box at time of purchase. If you can get these people to update half of the time, you're doing good. This is why it is important. Not because you, me, and most /.'ers wipe the drive clean and put the OS of their choice on it.
My local bank's web access is apparently browser agnostic. It works in Firefox on XP, Firefox on Ubuntu, and Opera on Ubuntu. No problems at all with the browser. The only problems I have had were between the chair and keyboard.
They could have called it something other than 'I Robot' and left that title to someone who would have made a movie closer to the book. I feel the same way about 'Starship Troopers'. Only barely related to the book. I thought both were good enough movies, but why cause such problems, come up with a new title.
There are the three laws and robots and one character. That's it. Everything else is different.
Where are the Amish growing exponentially? The last I had seen, they were slowly shrinking because people would leave that lifestyle and very few would enter it.
I'm barely even christian and I know more about that book than most bible-thumpers. You have to understand them; they only care about the parts that tell you what your neighbor is doing that is not permitted in the bible. And the parts that list the punishiments for various crimes and where it says to hate gays and enslave women. They don't seem to remember 'love thy neighbor' or 'judge not, lest ye be judged' or similar passages. They conviently overlook the tolerence passages and any of the redeeming parts of the bible. The part about all of this is that there are so many christians in the US, and when one of these bible-thumping idjits opens his mouth to spew hate, they just sit back and let it go. No outrage, no comment, nothing.
Yes, I have some programs (DOSBox is one) that will not run in a limited account. Between things like this and seeing what MS is doing with Vista, I am trying, very quickly, to find a Linus distro that I like.