Fair enough. I guess windows just trained me to shift-delete when I really mean it.
It does have some config shortcomings - i.e. on laptops I like tap to click on touchpads. Xfce has no option for this, you have to dig into an X config file. You also can't stop Thunar from launching when you click a folder link on the desktop, even if nautilus is set as your preferred file manager.
You know there's a common theme to those two transitions, right?
"Break old stuff and tell users they're stupid for any criticism of the new way of doing things"
Gnome 3 is particularly bad for this, any question that throwing away the last decade of desktop development wasn't the best move in the entire universe ever, and you're labelled as resistant to change or just plain dumb.
MATE isn't available on debian wheezy, so when Gnome 2 went away I switched to XFCE. Five minutes of tweaking and I have the desktop looking and acting pretty much exactly like Gnome 2.x
My only issue is that it's hard to get rid of 'thunar' the file manager, even when nautilus is your default it still opens any folder links you have on the desktop. This is very minor though. And if you like compiz then xfce and compiz seem pretty friendly.
I use XFCE extensively, the only time I've ever seen things get screwy is when the card was on the way out. THis manifested in linux slightly before windows.
No, you're quite right. Most coders, even most of the extremely good and very productive ones, work the working week then go on to have some sort of a life outside work.
Working insane hours is acceptable for short bursts at crunch time. If it's consistently expected or needed then it's a management failure.
Some of us remember the good times, when people, when people who actually knew stuff about things used to come here, and most of the front page wasn't paid advertisements.
It can be hard to let go, but I'm getting there, slowly.
Actually, pretty sure that Dasani not only had worse levels than tap water but had to be recalled because it went over some or other legal limit.
And I never heard it called cancer water, I did hear a lot of people saying "fuck coke, trying to bottle out water and sell it back to us, what do they think we are, morons?"
For some reason it is way, way cheaper for me to order stuff from the far east, the US or even the UK and have it shipped over, than it is to get it from an australian website or retailer. Don't tell me that bulk shipping adds a 100% plus markup over individual shipping, these things work the other way around.
And then there are other things like games, which you get online, which often launch at $50-60 in the US and AUD 100 ($102 right now) here. For the same thing, delivered over the internet.
Not anyone with unresolved problems, there are always unresolved problems on any platform you can think of. I'm talking about anyone who can't make linux work satisfactorily for themselves.
It may well not be ready for grandma, but for someone that reads and posts here it points to a stunning lack of competence with computers.
If it takes you several hours of googling to get ubuntu up and running, and three weeks later it's still not working as you like, then you are incompetent and have no business posting on a tech site.
Seriously. OS politics aside, if you're finding it that difficult then you probably should't be working in the tech sector.
Yeah, or there's open source, which you don't have to pay for, and you can get the source too. I realise this is of little consequence to most, but I like it.
I do think that the BSA should go after everyone they cam though. High visibility lawsuits against users will drive many more people to open source, some of whom may eventually be the sorts of folks that contribute.
Not sure if he invented the science behind it, but he was certainly the engineer that made it work properly. Also invented stereo sound recording and playback decades before it was thought of commercially. His (expired) patents ensured that one company couldn't stitch up the entire market.
This is exactly what we're talking about. Clever fella, certainly. God who took with him to the grave secrets we haven't discovered even to this day? Not so much.
Oh wait, was this a troll?
"There is enormous speculation about his death and his later work in dealing with bending space-time"
Yup, this is a major, major problem with the books too. The further the books go on, the wider they get and the smaller steps they have to take because there are just too many characters doing too many irrelevant things.
I mean, WTF is Daenarys doing for the last few books and WTF does it have to do with any storylines we actually care about?
Sorry, no, you can't credit Labour with the good years and then pass off that bad years as a worldwide phenomenon, when both were happening worldwide! My faulty thinking?
They rode the worldwide financial waves, and while doing it they expanded the public sector massively and ran up huge amounts of debt, all seemingly in anticipation that Gordon Christ had ended boom and bust forever. They were shown up to be incompetents that left the country in a financially dangerous state. So in answer to your facile points -
1) The world economy went well, so Labour spent like there was no tomorrow 2) Tomorrow came, it's their fault the UK has piles of debt and too many people sucking the government teat.
You'd have to be a cretin of enormous proportions to not see that the specifics of the British economy as it now stands are entirely the fault of the retards on the red side of the house.
"The British have always been staggeringly incompetent when it comes to software projects."
Would you mind altering that to the British Government? Or the large multinational corps that run the projects for them?
There's a lot of good software comes out of the UK, and a lot of very competent engineering departments. The fact that the government uses incompetents and gives them an unlimited budgets should not be used to draw conclusions about the entire country.
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Thankyou. There are lines and boundaries to anything.
Where these lie is a subject for discussion, sure, but the childlike scream of absolute freedom of speech/communication is naive.
Child porn is the reason I can't in good conscience run a tor or freenet node.
Fair enough. I guess windows just trained me to shift-delete when I really mean it.
It does have some config shortcomings - i.e. on laptops I like tap to click on touchpads. Xfce has no option for this, you have to dig into an X config file. You also can't stop Thunar from launching when you click a folder link on the desktop, even if nautilus is set as your preferred file manager.
Overall though, I find those points minor.
You know there's a common theme to those two transitions, right?
"Break old stuff and tell users they're stupid for any criticism of the new way of doing things"
Gnome 3 is particularly bad for this, any question that throwing away the last decade of desktop development wasn't the best move in the entire universe ever, and you're labelled as resistant to change or just plain dumb.
What do you find lacking about xfce?
MATE isn't available on debian wheezy, so when Gnome 2 went away I switched to XFCE. Five minutes of tweaking and I have the desktop looking and acting pretty much exactly like Gnome 2.x
My only issue is that it's hard to get rid of 'thunar' the file manager, even when nautilus is your default it still opens any folder links you have on the desktop. This is very minor though. And if you like compiz then xfce and compiz seem pretty friendly.
Likewise.
With a few tweaks it looks and behaves a lot like the gnome 2.x desktop I had come to know and love over the last several years. This is a good thing.
shift-delete permadelete's stuff AFAICT. Just like it always has in all sorts of different places, like gnome and windows.
And what is this trash you talk of? Is that what happens when you don't shift-delete?
You may have a graphics hardware problem.
I use XFCE extensively, the only time I've ever seen things get screwy is when the card was on the way out. THis manifested in linux slightly before windows.
No, you're quite right. Most coders, even most of the extremely good and very productive ones, work the working week then go on to have some sort of a life outside work.
Working insane hours is acceptable for short bursts at crunch time. If it's consistently expected or needed then it's a management failure.
Some of us remember the good times, when people, when people who actually knew stuff about things used to come here, and most of the front page wasn't paid advertisements.
It can be hard to let go, but I'm getting there, slowly.
That's what I thought when 'podcast' happened.
Nobody killed it :(
That is not anywhere near 'all' the DMCA does, you're either woefully misinformed or being disingenuous.
Takedown notices are a very small part of the monstrosity.
Actually, pretty sure that Dasani not only had worse levels than tap water but had to be recalled because it went over some or other legal limit.
And I never heard it called cancer water, I did hear a lot of people saying "fuck coke, trying to bottle out water and sell it back to us, what do they think we are, morons?"
No, it gets here by mail order.
For some reason it is way, way cheaper for me to order stuff from the far east, the US or even the UK and have it shipped over, than it is to get it from an australian website or retailer. Don't tell me that bulk shipping adds a 100% plus markup over individual shipping, these things work the other way around.
And then there are other things like games, which you get online, which often launch at $50-60 in the US and AUD 100 ($102 right now) here. For the same thing, delivered over the internet.
There is no justification.
Um, in England, on the BBC channels, there are no ads.
There are trailers for upcoming shows, but no advertising. It's one of the reasons to love the BBC.
Not anyone with unresolved problems, there are always unresolved problems on any platform you can think of. I'm talking about anyone who can't make linux work satisfactorily for themselves.
It may well not be ready for grandma, but for someone that reads and posts here it points to a stunning lack of competence with computers.
If it takes you several hours of googling to get ubuntu up and running, and three weeks later it's still not working as you like, then you are incompetent and have no business posting on a tech site.
Seriously. OS politics aside, if you're finding it that difficult then you probably should't be working in the tech sector.
Surely VP of SAP doesn't need to be doing that?
Some sort of mental illness of thrill-seeking?
Yeah, or there's open source, which you don't have to pay for, and you can get the source too.
I realise this is of little consequence to most, but I like it.
I do think that the BSA should go after everyone they cam though. High visibility lawsuits against users will drive many more people to open source, some of whom may eventually be the sorts of folks that contribute.
No, it was exceptionally stupid because he doesn't own the equipment or pay the energy bills, regardless of what the bitcoin outcome was.
Radar - Blumline.
Not sure if he invented the science behind it, but he was certainly the engineer that made it work properly. Also invented stereo sound recording and playback decades before it was thought of commercially. His (expired) patents ensured that one company couldn't stitch up the entire market.
Yeah, no.
This is exactly what we're talking about. Clever fella, certainly. God who took with him to the grave secrets we haven't discovered even to this day? Not so much.
Oh wait, was this a troll?
"There is enormous speculation about his death and his later work in dealing with bending space-time"
He bent space time after his death?
Yup, this is a major, major problem with the books too. The further the books go on, the wider they get and the smaller steps they have to take because there are just too many characters doing too many irrelevant things.
I mean, WTF is Daenarys doing for the last few books and WTF does it have to do with any storylines we actually care about?
Sorry, no, you can't credit Labour with the good years and then pass off that bad years as a worldwide phenomenon, when both were happening worldwide! My faulty thinking?
They rode the worldwide financial waves, and while doing it they expanded the public sector massively and ran up huge amounts of debt, all seemingly in anticipation that Gordon Christ had ended boom and bust forever. They were shown up to be incompetents that left the country in a financially dangerous state. So in answer to your facile points -
1) The world economy went well, so Labour spent like there was no tomorrow
2) Tomorrow came, it's their fault the UK has piles of debt and too many people sucking the government teat.
You'd have to be a cretin of enormous proportions to not see that the specifics of the British economy as it now stands are entirely the fault of the retards on the red side of the house.
Yup, great piece of software that, found it after my last Sony purchase (a good few years back now) and it really made a difference.
Of course it came preloaded with Vista which was just horrible anyway.
"The British have always been staggeringly incompetent when it comes to software projects."
Would you mind altering that to the British Government? Or the large multinational corps that run the projects for them?
There's a lot of good software comes out of the UK, and a lot of very competent engineering departments. The fact that the government uses incompetents and gives them an unlimited budgets should not be used to draw conclusions about the entire country.