Yes, as easy as that. Given that you're updating an entire operating system plus all the applications, I don't see how much easier it should be. Plus, this is possible also from a GUI, with synaptic.
The OP left out the part in which you modify the package repositories list to point to dapper instead of previous releases, though.
Well, Ubuntu, as Windows, has a graphical update manager, called synaptic. You should change the repositories it uses from breezy to dapper. By the way, this is not doable in Windows, not without the not-so-quick-and-easy way of buying the upgrade, inserting the CD/DVD, and updating from there. This is not just "Windows Update".
Well, there are also public manifestations and meetings when the shit hits the fan, but they're rare. There is, as you say, voting the candidate who best represents you and writing to them to make sure they know your opinions (without founding yourself a new party). You could also lobby the existing representatives to accomplish what you want. Finally, you could also terrorize the candidates. This is obviously not my recommendation, but equally obviously something that could be done.
Given that their platform has caused the other parties in Sweden to reconsider their own stances on filesharing and IP, I'd say go Pirate Party, even if I wouldn't vote them. There are other ways to accomplish this, but this is a nice one.
It's ok. I've tried the two distros mentioned, debian, redhat, suse, fedora and (just quick peeks) plan 9 and openBSD. They all have their quirks, they all suck in some ways. I just find that Mandriva and Ubuntu do the most to keep out of my way when I want to do something. If you find them unbearable, it's ok.
Using SuSE, doesn't YAST list the files installed? I know that Mandriva's urpmi does. Even in the graphical mode (actually, moreso). And why should she download RPMS? Were they specific SuSE packages or simple RPMs packaged for another distro? Aren't there package repositories for SuSE Linux? I understand that these are steps you might have tried already, but since you say nothing about them... Even in the worst case, downloading RPMS from RPMbone or similar sites, they provide a list of the files contained in the packages.
I know that for a developer, catering to different distros is a pain. This is a non issue for a user, though, _unless they try to break the system on purpose_. This is a new operating system, not a walk in the park. I see no icecream cones here. And a normal user hasn't got the problem of multiple directory paths of install because he/she uses only one distro. Hopefully.
Plus, if she was so eager to get geek cred, a little search on a console wouldn't have hurt. Just trying the same name as the package should work. Impatience and geek cred do not go together.
Lastly, there are binaries compiled for Gentoo, you know, which solve the problem for the worse waiting times.
Me? I use Ubuntu. Mandriva's good, too, or at least it was until a few months ago. They keep out of my way, things install correctly and menu items appear as they should... No problems.
What if those songs aren't quite the ones you want to listen to? Sometimes, you know, the single is not the best song for someone. And, as the other poster said, they're more expensive per track than the ITMS (aren't they? 6 bucks for a couple original songs and four remixes... I'll have to pass).
Science, as defined today, arguably starts with the scientific method, defined first by Galileo Galilei in the XVI century. And since we're looking at Science and Philosophy with our definitions, I think we should look at when there was something we now recognise as Science or as Philosophy, even if it wasn't called like that then.
It's easy: a similar thing was once proposed in Italy and quickly shot down, but now some other idiots are refloating its corpse in the EU administration.
I guess the kid's 60 years worth of future is too unimportant compared to your job huh?
Because turning him over to the police ensures a rosy future, doesn't it? And yes, I know he might be innocent. Still, being expelled from a school is nothing compared to having a criminal record.
I might be being trolled, but Stallman doesn't refer to free as in money. He means the freedom for the users to modify the program according to their needs. A free software developer is perfectly enabled to charge for his software. It's just that many decide not to.
So maybe you are the one coming off as ignorant. IMHO you should be quiet and stay out of discussions you know nothing about.
It's a reference to the original utterance of that phrase by Sherlock Holmes (in "Silver Blaze", I think). The curious incident of the dog in the night-time was that the dog didn't bark.
I suppose he refers to his opinion (haven't read the article yet to call it fact) that Sun has actually accomplished nothing while everyone is celebrating because it seems like something. If this is the case, I would actually use a better fitting metaphor.
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They have. Kate and Vim at the very least. I don't know about Emacs, but if I had to bet, my money would be on "yes, it can".
> What do you propose that should be where the desktop is now?
All the windows in which I'm actually doing stuff.
That's "above the desktop", not "where the desktop is". Everybody with a GUI uses windows over the desktop. That doesn't mean the desktop isn't a useful place to put stuff you're currently working on. Again, I ask, what do you propose that could be used as an alternative to the desktop? what's your new user interface metaphor?
The desktop enviornment was king back in the System 7 days, but these days I use my desktop as a temporary downloads folder, but otherwise leave it empty. It's a redundant part of OS X which Apple would have purged long ago, if not for the outcry of older Mac-heads who don't want to let go of it.
Yes, because the best thing to do with screen real-estate is not use it, right? What do you propose that should be where the desktop is now? I understand that having it cluttered with too many icons is a waste of time, but not using the desktop as an area in which to work seems silly too.
I've not been in a large enterprise organisation that did NOT have office customization. (Nor in one where the customizations were NOT silly, or NOT dependent on ancient VB macros - it must be on page 1 of the MCSE book)
That's like saying that you haven't been in a large enterprise organisation that did NOT have shell scripts in their unix machines, or that didn't depend on C programming - it must be on page 1 of The Unix Programming Environment.
Seriously, if you buy a tool and don't use its features... Sure, you might be able to accomplish what you want in some other way, maybe Perl, but still...
[...]"a clear sign of your moral and mental inferiority"
"a clear sign of your moral, mental and dick-size inferiority", ITYM, for most forums. Otherwise I agree. You (or The Forge) left out Deus Ex, though. What a game that is.
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Nope, it's called more properly Corporatism.
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That's where you made me laugh. That sentence is completely wrong.
Yes, as easy as that. Given that you're updating an entire operating system plus all the applications, I don't see how much easier it should be. Plus, this is possible also from a GUI, with synaptic.
The OP left out the part in which you modify the package repositories list to point to dapper instead of previous releases, though.
Well, Ubuntu, as Windows, has a graphical update manager, called synaptic. You should change the repositories it uses from breezy to dapper. By the way, this is not doable in Windows, not without the not-so-quick-and-easy way of buying the upgrade, inserting the CD/DVD, and updating from there. This is not just "Windows Update".
Well, there are also public manifestations and meetings when the shit hits the fan, but they're rare. There is, as you say, voting the candidate who best represents you and writing to them to make sure they know your opinions (without founding yourself a new party). You could also lobby the existing representatives to accomplish what you want. Finally, you could also terrorize the candidates. This is obviously not my recommendation, but equally obviously something that could be done.
Not directly. You could ask Honken.
Oops. Go figure, with the name.
Ehmmm... It is an "aqua" lift, if the police force had to drain the hidraulic mechanism.
Given that their platform has caused the other parties in Sweden to reconsider their own stances on filesharing and IP, I'd say go Pirate Party, even if I wouldn't vote them. There are other ways to accomplish this, but this is a nice one.
It's ok. I've tried the two distros mentioned, debian, redhat, suse, fedora and (just quick peeks) plan 9 and openBSD. They all have their quirks, they all suck in some ways. I just find that Mandriva and Ubuntu do the most to keep out of my way when I want to do something. If you find them unbearable, it's ok.
But that wasn't an answer to my questions.
Using SuSE, doesn't YAST list the files installed? I know that Mandriva's urpmi does. Even in the graphical mode (actually, moreso). And why should she download RPMS? Were they specific SuSE packages or simple RPMs packaged for another distro? Aren't there package repositories for SuSE Linux? I understand that these are steps you might have tried already, but since you say nothing about them... Even in the worst case, downloading RPMS from RPMbone or similar sites, they provide a list of the files contained in the packages.
I know that for a developer, catering to different distros is a pain. This is a non issue for a user, though, _unless they try to break the system on purpose_. This is a new operating system, not a walk in the park. I see no icecream cones here. And a normal user hasn't got the problem of multiple directory paths of install because he/she uses only one distro. Hopefully.
Plus, if she was so eager to get geek cred, a little search on a console wouldn't have hurt. Just trying the same name as the package should work. Impatience and geek cred do not go together.
Lastly, there are binaries compiled for Gentoo, you know, which solve the problem for the worse waiting times.
Me? I use Ubuntu. Mandriva's good, too, or at least it was until a few months ago. They keep out of my way, things install correctly and menu items appear as they should... No problems.
What if those songs aren't quite the ones you want to listen to? Sometimes, you know, the single is not the best song for someone. And, as the other poster said, they're more expensive per track than the ITMS (aren't they? 6 bucks for a couple original songs and four remixes... I'll have to pass).
Science, as defined today, arguably starts with the scientific method, defined first by Galileo Galilei in the XVI century. And since we're looking at Science and Philosophy with our definitions, I think we should look at when there was something we now recognise as Science or as Philosophy, even if it wasn't called like that then.
It's easy: a similar thing was once proposed in Italy and quickly shot down, but now some other idiots are refloating its corpse in the EU administration.
I guess the kid's 60 years worth of future is too unimportant compared to your job huh?
Because turning him over to the police ensures a rosy future, doesn't it? And yes, I know he might be innocent. Still, being expelled from a school is nothing compared to having a criminal record.
I might be being trolled, but Stallman doesn't refer to free as in money. He means the freedom for the users to modify the program according to their needs. A free software developer is perfectly enabled to charge for his software. It's just that many decide not to.
So maybe you are the one coming off as ignorant. IMHO you should be quiet and stay out of discussions you know nothing about.
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If you reread my post, you'll see that this is what I was saying... I know that story.
It's a reference to the original utterance of that phrase by Sherlock Holmes (in "Silver Blaze", I think). The curious incident of the dog in the night-time was that the dog didn't bark.
I suppose he refers to his opinion (haven't read the article yet to call it fact) that Sun has actually accomplished nothing while everyone is celebrating because it seems like something. If this is the case, I would actually use a better fitting metaphor.
They have. Kate and Vim at the very least. I don't know about Emacs, but if I had to bet, my money would be on "yes, it can".
According to the version number (and reality), Windows XP is an upgrade for Windows 2000.
> What do you propose that should be where the desktop is now?
All the windows in which I'm actually doing stuff.
That's "above the desktop", not "where the desktop is". Everybody with a GUI uses windows over the desktop. That doesn't mean the desktop isn't a useful place to put stuff you're currently working on. Again, I ask, what do you propose that could be used as an alternative to the desktop? what's your new user interface metaphor?
The desktop enviornment was king back in the System 7 days, but these days I use my desktop as a temporary downloads folder, but otherwise leave it empty. It's a redundant part of OS X which Apple would have purged long ago, if not for the outcry of older Mac-heads who don't want to let go of it.
Yes, because the best thing to do with screen real-estate is not use it, right? What do you propose that should be where the desktop is now? I understand that having it cluttered with too many icons is a waste of time, but not using the desktop as an area in which to work seems silly too.
That's like saying that you haven't been in a large enterprise organisation that did NOT have shell scripts in their unix machines, or that didn't depend on C programming - it must be on page 1 of The Unix Programming Environment.
Seriously, if you buy a tool and don't use its features... Sure, you might be able to accomplish what you want in some other way, maybe Perl, but still...
It's nerds we're talking about. What's this "sunlight" you were thinking of? If light was the only excuse to wear shades, nobody here would buy them.
Yes, this is a joke.
[...]"a clear sign of your moral and mental inferiority"
"a clear sign of your moral, mental and dick-size inferiority", ITYM, for most forums. Otherwise I agree. You (or The Forge) left out Deus Ex, though. What a game that is.