Even then, if this is not the computer's first boot, you have to find that tutorial. Plus in the end some computers are running 8.0, others 8.1 and others 8.11. I didn't find the tutorial, but did not actively look for it.
Oh, so if I install Vista I'll get the quick toolbar without messing around? Taking notes.. You can even pick colors when using the Classic theme I guess.
Eh, I'd install it right now if I had an SSD or a shit ton of RAM (or both) but I'm used to some linux niceties like not caring whether upgrades failed to download (and I have the same excuse about a needed SSD to not try KDE)
The sound volume icon is shit anyway both in 7 and 8.1. Slow to come up when you're suffering some over loud thing bursting on the crap speakers on someone else's computer, icon too small and faint and hidden in the tray, doesn't support changing the volume by simply hovering the mouse and using the scrollwheel. When I had my own Windows I would use Autohotkey to change volume ; when I use someone's Windows 6.x (any flavor) I hit win+r and type "sndvol".
And the local plants which give high availability are coal, gas and nuclear, plus hydro. That's the problem with simplistic and rosy renewable propaganda : all that talk about "decentralized" energy production is meaningless. Not only we have to take that word for granted and are supposed to think it's a good thing, well because, er, it must be better ; but the reality is you need to integrate production over very large regions, make numerous multi-billion investments in the grids and even "smart grids" and even then it all relies on powerful nation-states injecting billions more into subsidies or making the consumers pay even more.
So there's nothing decentralized - a nuke plant powering a whole small region is more decentralized than that - and the producer boasts about green credentials while passing on the investment and grid costs to the tax payers and consumers, which is the most "decentralization" actually taking place.
They do. Intel never crippled away these feature ; most Pentium 4 don't have NX but it is commonly found on late Pentium 4 Celeron (which can be 64bit even) Parent might have a Celeron 440 or 450 (core 2 solo) and that's another beast. Excellent CPU with low power use, still actually worth using.
It's too late, people waste the pipe by using as their music player, and thus often their ONLY music player. And then the 1080p setting is useless already. 60 fps is something new at least.
It's just about voting! Becoming a voter is akin to making basic computations in your analogy Becoming a mathematician would be more like running for elections, getting elected and serving mandates successfully - and it has almost jack shit to do with electronic vs paper voting.
You buy something as mundane as a coffee and a donut with a smart card? and how come the history is shared with everyone, not just your bank and the NSA?
Isn't the battery a CR2032, same as on motherboards? That costs a few bucks. I once needed a couple of them to put in old 3D glasses, I bought them at a tobacco shop 4 euros a piece, knowing it was overpriced.
a greeter (or a "thingdm") is good for auto-login, so I never see it except in rare circumstances like trying a random old window manager or really needing to log out (if ssh localhost doesn't cut it lol) A shit one like slim or lxdm can be used if you care about precious footprint, with lightdm more modern but funnily a lot uglier when used raw.
I remember trying autogin on tty1 but it's semi-hackish and you have to google for it. I think I'd like best to have both autologin on tty1 or tty1-4 and autologin on a graphical session.
It's about customizing the login window, simply by clicking around in a GUI. In the previous version, you can select between two variants baked by the devs. Under Windows, you can't do anything about it (except perhaps enabling NT4-style login) and under OSX I don't know.
In older or other distros it would be a matter of editing/etc/xwurgdm/shitllist.conf to load a new WWTK theme with a modified XHTSGML file that points to/usr/share/pixmaps/242434/uglyflower.xpm instead of/usr/share/pixmaps/242434/nerdy_background.xpm
In this particular case the OS are almost identical, with Mint having their own front-end (cross-DE) for updating, configuring package sources etc. and some sugar like the flash player installed by default. Most customizations will relate to Ubuntu (they will be the same) or KDE - I'm not familiar with it but I guess everything is in ~/.kde or ~/.config/kde.
Of course it's a bit boring but there's some worth in having a "disaster plan" by being able to do this crap very quickly.
They have just switched to Ubuntu LTS on the main editions. Well, Mint 13 is Ubuntu LTS already but this time they won't do versions based on 14.10, 15.04 etc. but will provide updates to the 14.04 based version in the form of Xorg, drivers etc. and certain software. At worst the new model will be an optional reinstallation every couple years, with each major edition benefitting from Ubuntu's five-year term.
It makes me think of xscreensaver, often included when you install lxde on a row ubuntu box.. The thing apparently sucks up 100% CPU on old computers by design. I call it the screenwaster, but it's pretty sometimes.
In general screen saver / screen blanking is often a very sad affair in linux! You never know where the "correct" way to set the time out (or time outs) is, power management or screensaver options?, and then the options seemingly conflict or I don't remember what was set. Today after waking up I saw the monitor had spent entire night not going blank. A few years ago it was worse as I had two screensavers installed and I toggled between about 10 minutes and two hours (so it doesn't kick off when watching a long Flash video)
I remember that at the time this was annouced, and especially in slashdot and the linked article we were told to take the story with a grain of salt. Oh well, seems the slashdot blurb didn't but the article included : “These results are as extraordinary as they get, and they will require the most extraordinary scrutiny,” Kamionkowski said. (...)
Maybe slashdot comments were better at pointing out these were initial, preliminary etc. results. The general media failed to put any nuance and announced the find as fact, sure. (even some science vulgarization publications)
I have a friend who runs a 16:9 CRT TV, he watches IPTV that comes through ADSL on the ISP provided box, and digital movies from Samba shares on his desktop computer, which is connected to a 100Hz CRT monitor. I was amazed that he set up the shares himself, lol.
Downloaded SD movies look and sound better than ever, by the way. Generated by competent people, from BD rips and with the sound in at least AAC 128K if you're lucky.
With residential solar owners receiving a payment, they're essentially getting a free lunch and dump the cost of the burden they put on the grid onto others. The more irregular and unpredictable power production is, the more external costs in form of maintenance of grids and power plants, power plants that run at reduced efficiency because of running at a lower regime and ramping up/down. Lower income people living in flats and inner city buildings, with likely no legal means to climb on the building's roof get shafted as their bills increases.
But Intel is getting out of the motherboard business? still making small integrated stuff like NUC and Galileo but that's all, unless something is going on with server motherboards specifically.
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Even then, if this is not the computer's first boot, you have to find that tutorial. Plus in the end some computers are running 8.0, others 8.1 and others 8.11. I didn't find the tutorial, but did not actively look for it.
I guess I could like it but would prefer it gray, unanimated and with a regular old boxy scrollbar.
Oh, so if I install Vista I'll get the quick toolbar without messing around?
Taking notes..
You can even pick colors when using the Classic theme I guess.
Eh, I'd install it right now if I had an SSD or a shit ton of RAM (or both)
but I'm used to some linux niceties like not caring whether upgrades failed to download (and I have the same excuse about a needed SSD to not try KDE)
The sound volume icon is shit anyway both in 7 and 8.1. Slow to come up when you're suffering some over loud thing bursting on the crap speakers on someone else's computer, icon too small and faint and hidden in the tray, doesn't support changing the volume by simply hovering the mouse and using the scrollwheel.
When I had my own Windows I would use Autohotkey to change volume ; when I use someone's Windows 6.x (any flavor) I hit win+r and type "sndvol".
And the local plants which give high availability are coal, gas and nuclear, plus hydro.
That's the problem with simplistic and rosy renewable propaganda : all that talk about "decentralized" energy production is meaningless. Not only we have to take that word for granted and are supposed to think it's a good thing, well because, er, it must be better ; but the reality is you need to integrate production over very large regions, make numerous multi-billion investments in the grids and even "smart grids" and even then it all relies on powerful nation-states injecting billions more into subsidies or making the consumers pay even more.
So there's nothing decentralized - a nuke plant powering a whole small region is more decentralized than that - and the producer boasts about green credentials while passing on the investment and grid costs to the tax payers and consumers, which is the most "decentralization" actually taking place.
The sentence makes perfect sense either way ;)
They do. Intel never crippled away these feature ; most Pentium 4 don't have NX but it is commonly found on late Pentium 4 Celeron (which can be 64bit even)
Parent might have a Celeron 440 or 450 (core 2 solo) and that's another beast. Excellent CPU with low power use, still actually worth using.
So the solution is to use the kernel and throw out everything than ran on top?
Why not.. I'd rather use Windows than get a google account, though.
It's too late, people waste the pipe by using as their music player, and thus often their ONLY music player. And then the 1080p setting is useless already. 60 fps is something new at least.
It's just about voting! Becoming a voter is akin to making basic computations in your analogy Becoming a mathematician would be more like running for elections, getting elected and serving mandates successfully - and it has almost jack shit to do with electronic vs paper voting.
I don't think people plan much for the day they become the "customer" of a SWAT team and I don't even wish that you become one ;).
You buy something as mundane as a coffee and a donut with a smart card? and how come the history is shared with everyone, not just your bank and the NSA?
Isn't the battery a CR2032, same as on motherboards? That costs a few bucks. I once needed a couple of them to put in old 3D glasses, I bought them at a tobacco shop 4 euros a piece, knowing it was overpriced.
a greeter (or a "thingdm") is good for auto-login, so I never see it except in rare circumstances like trying a random old window manager or really needing to log out (if ssh localhost doesn't cut it lol)
A shit one like slim or lxdm can be used if you care about precious footprint, with lightdm more modern but funnily a lot uglier when used raw.
I remember trying autogin on tty1 but it's semi-hackish and you have to google for it.
I think I'd like best to have both autologin on tty1 or tty1-4 and autologin on a graphical session.
It's about customizing the login window, simply by clicking around in a GUI. In the previous version, you can select between two variants baked by the devs.
Under Windows, you can't do anything about it (except perhaps enabling NT4-style login) and under OSX I don't know.
In older or other distros it would be a matter of editing /etc/xwurgdm/shitllist.conf to load a new WWTK theme with a modified XHTSGML file that points to /usr/share/pixmaps/242434/uglyflower.xpm instead of /usr/share/pixmaps/242434/nerdy_background.xpm
In this particular case the OS are almost identical, with Mint having their own front-end (cross-DE) for updating, configuring package sources etc. and some sugar like the flash player installed by default.
Most customizations will relate to Ubuntu (they will be the same) or KDE - I'm not familiar with it but I guess everything is in ~/.kde or ~/.config/kde.
Of course it's a bit boring but there's some worth in having a "disaster plan" by being able to do this crap very quickly.
Except when there are little subtle "issues" which force a reinstallation anyway. We'll have to see if future big LMDE updates are trouble-less.
They have just switched to Ubuntu LTS on the main editions. Well, Mint 13 is Ubuntu LTS already but this time they won't do versions based on 14.10, 15.04 etc. but will provide updates to the 14.04 based version in the form of Xorg, drivers etc. and certain software.
At worst the new model will be an optional reinstallation every couple years, with each major edition benefitting from Ubuntu's five-year term.
It makes me think of xscreensaver, often included when you install lxde on a row ubuntu box.. The thing apparently sucks up 100% CPU on old computers by design. I call it the screenwaster, but it's pretty sometimes.
In general screen saver / screen blanking is often a very sad affair in linux! You never know where the "correct" way to set the time out (or time outs) is, power management or screensaver options?, and then the options seemingly conflict or I don't remember what was set. Today after waking up I saw the monitor had spent entire night not going blank.
A few years ago it was worse as I had two screensavers installed and I toggled between about 10 minutes and two hours (so it doesn't kick off when watching a long Flash video)
It should be a 20 / 30 minute job, including copying over most or all all your .files and .directories.
But when it comes to flying armed drones in missions where missiles are fired at targets, it's the CIA doing it !?!?
I remember that at the time this was annouced, and especially in slashdot and the linked article we were told to take the story with a grain of salt. Oh well, seems the slashdot blurb didn't but the article included : “These results are as extraordinary as they get, and they will require the most extraordinary scrutiny,” Kamionkowski said. (...)
Maybe slashdot comments were better at pointing out these were initial, preliminary etc. results. The general media failed to put any nuance and announced the find as fact, sure. (even some science vulgarization publications)
I have a friend who runs a 16:9 CRT TV, he watches IPTV that comes through ADSL on the ISP provided box, and digital movies from Samba shares on his desktop computer, which is connected to a 100Hz CRT monitor. I was amazed that he set up the shares himself, lol.
Downloaded SD movies look and sound better than ever, by the way. Generated by competent people, from BD rips and with the sound in at least AAC 128K if you're lucky.
With residential solar owners receiving a payment, they're essentially getting a free lunch and dump the cost of the burden they put on the grid onto others. The more irregular and unpredictable power production is, the more external costs in form of maintenance of grids and power plants, power plants that run at reduced efficiency because of running at a lower regime and ramping up/down.
Lower income people living in flats and inner city buildings, with likely no legal means to climb on the building's roof get shafted as their bills increases.
But Intel is getting out of the motherboard business? still making small integrated stuff like NUC and Galileo but that's all, unless something is going on with server motherboards specifically.