"So long as the gateway appliance that you own either..." And so long as you own it, too. In my experience, they're owned by the ISP, esp. since they got all fancy with VoIP, TV provided over DSL, semi-public hotspot etc.
and I mean it. They all say that they're protected because they have an antivirus, and that they don't need stinking updates because "they will break something" or "I don't want more crap installed". Talking friend into installing security updates is a chore. Updates that patch over a buffer overflow or similar don't break things either. Well at least the security updates don't break things in Windows 7 and if they did : does anyone install them one by one, then reboot, then test the computer for some time?
Now for "evil" updates that are feature updates (or just a driver update that worsen your system, though that is rare.. and driver updates that are security updates exist too) we'll have to see what happens..
Not quite the same thing. Instead of downloading fat source code in thousands of files and spending a day compiling it, you would receive already compiled bytecode and translate it, which would take less than a day even on a weird and slow computer or PC (say generate i486, i586, i686 or armv6, armv7 machine code).
And probably you wouldn't call that Gentoo anymore:) I'm thinking more of a bytecode version of Arch there. (as a thought experiment, because I suppose some stuff only works or is tested with GCC on the compiler, and so on)
Fast, simple and hierarchical : is that a bit like an LDAP? Out of curiosity, do people sometimes build a database application on LDAP? Then if you need to do some desktop or other LDAP-enabled software, for more traditional purpose of not having to log in again and manage permissions etc. you already know how to do it.
Interesting. With no gmail, if I wanted a smartphone I would really consider a Windows phone, despite running linux on desktop. I don't know how long the support lasts but they're in the business of selling desktop OSes with 11 year long support, so I guess that for long/mid term support for a phone you have MS and Apple (not Google) The one thing I wouldn't like is needing to create a Microsoft account so still I would look for Firefox OS 2.x, which is said to allow adding app stuff without the need for an online account.
Attacking Libya (directly) and Syria (by proxy) is what Obama has done that is absolutely fucking stupid, if we are to believe that such matters are determined by the presidential IQ. At this point I guess everyone has forgotten he got a Nobel prize, which must either have been a joke prize or a desperate move to have the US not invade or otherwise destroy countries (well, the US did not invade but still got what it wanted)
What about that little civil war on European soil. Great job. The sociopath murderers are alive and well. The Nobel committee ought to create a Nobel War Prize and hand it to Mr Obama. I'm not disagreeing with your first paragraph:) I have no part in the false dichotomy that is US national politics.
It sucks as you can't set a whitelist (for soundcloud.com at least, and perhaps youtube for some convenience)
Have to add a random extension or two, but who knows how long the extension will work. I used flashblock for about a decade but somewhat recently, it imploded (I suppose it depended on one person that can't do the maintaining job anymore)
I got lazy and simply block the ads now. For a decade I had the web with ads and all flash blocked, now I have no ads (including the flash based ones) but there are those horrid, unsollicited autoplaying video - website "content" is worse than ads, who knew.
Saudi Arabia would be playing quite a funny game then. With their money they're just funding ISIS and helping them acquire weapons. If they go at war with ISIS, will they still be funding them?
1366x768 is an actual improvement over 1024x768, not so much for people who "upgraded" from 1280x1024 though. A damn shame that 1440x900 isn't the standard.
Yesterday I was reading about people registered as sex offenders in the US. One case was a married couple having car sex in a mountainous area with no one miles around, and a police patrol comes in and surprises them.
Isn't an ICBM harder than LEO? The ICBM needs higher reliability and launch on a short notice (and possibility on bad weather), plus you need to develop a re-entry vehicle for the warhead. And the warhead's landing (or explosion above a city) needs to be accurate after all that.
You have countries with access to LEO and no ICBMs (e.g. Iran, DPRK) In fact I learnt that DRPK's Taepodong-2 missile didn't exist : it was the space rocket instead. In that case, instead of a rogue country secretly developing an ICBM and pretending it's a peaceful LEO rocket, it might be the other way around (!).
Which is a mode I've never been able to use under linux. All I can get is 80x25 text mode or graphical text mode that uses the monitor's maximum resolution. (which can maybe be capped) Configuration is very arcane and hidden. (it's very easy in DOS and Windows)
Flash 11.2 doesn't prevent the screen saver from kicking in, so till now I either disable it or set the time ridiculously long. Applet is in Mate, I've added it and will try it.
Ubuntu 14.04's kernel is the 3.13 version, originally, and that is the version in Mint 17 and 17.1.
Ubuntu 14.04.2 has 3.16, while 14.04.0 and 14.04.1 have 3.13 (If you originally installed a version earlier than 14.04.2 and applied the default updates, it's still the same Ubuntu, but the kernel upgrade is an optional update/upgrade. Also there's a different version of Xorg/Mesa in there - which Mint doesn't follow exactly) The point versions of Ubuntu are addressed there : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel...
That's nitpicking but if you do have some issue with hardware with either of the kernels (perhaps more likely with a laptop) then it's good to know. Upgrading from Mint 17.0 or 17.1, you get the choice of upgrading the kernel or not.
As a DOS/Windows old timer I can set it up so it is very decent. In fact, a huge flaw of Windows Update is that it may get stuck and not install or offer updates, or fail to find them if you ask it to search.
If you come across a random Windows 7 laptop though, you pretty much should format it first because malware has rigged it so that trying to get rid of it is pointless (hell, you can even trigger countermeasures that will make the situation worse. And Windows Update might be disabled by the malware too)
Installing warez Windows 7 is safer : torrent some iso with patches built-in up to a few monthes ago (people don't even have install media for their legit Windows anyway) Then choice of software is paramount (and you should only download them from the author's site or use ninite) I know, "friends don't help friends install microsoft software" but sometimes there's that one vital piece of software, or e.g. VIA graphics. Else the latest Mint with Mate is great (and makes a single core PC fast as it's meant to, not a slide show)
Which ubuntu flavor? Unity sucks unless you're only launching Firefox, LibreOffice and the file manager (which might be good enough for many people still). For everything else the GUI requires you to type the program's name instead of selecting it from a menu. Which is braindead, especially if you don't know what's installed.
High end laptop with low end hardware and mid end price might be something very desirable, though. Low heat and good cooling, good keyboard, good display (even if not very high res - a great 1600x900 would be about right), good hinges, good battery life (in last place because virtually everyone uses a laptop with the power supply plugged in)
And it's still closer to a video editing workstation than something to do word processing on. Though I'd like it better with 8GB RAM and 2TB HDD (or 4GB RAM and 2TB HDD). Well I guess you referred to the idea as "business class".
A manual? you rarely even get off-line help files in desktop software. Can you even get a readme.txt included with a smartphone app, find it and read it? How do you press the F1 key?
These smartphone things are sold as simplified computers where you just press a virtual button and don't need to learn or maintain them, too. There's not even the basic usability you had with a Windows 3.1 PC with keyb and moues (or trackball)
You won't have vending machines and soup machines : these ugly machines are deprecated and instead there's a small room where Neelix the alien is cooking some soup and breverages etc. for you.
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"So long as the gateway appliance that you own either..."
And so long as you own it, too. In my experience, they're owned by the ISP, esp. since they got all fancy with VoIP, TV provided over DSL, semi-public hotspot etc.
and I mean it. They all say that they're protected because they have an antivirus, and that they don't need stinking updates because "they will break something" or "I don't want more crap installed".
Talking friend into installing security updates is a chore. Updates that patch over a buffer overflow or similar don't break things either. Well at least the security updates don't break things in Windows 7 and if they did : does anyone install them one by one, then reboot, then test the computer for some time?
Now for "evil" updates that are feature updates (or just a driver update that worsen your system, though that is rare.. and driver updates that are security updates exist too) we'll have to see what happens..
Not quite the same thing. Instead of downloading fat source code in thousands of files and spending a day compiling it, you would receive already compiled bytecode and translate it, which would take less than a day even on a weird and slow computer or PC (say generate i486, i586, i686 or armv6, armv7 machine code).
And probably you wouldn't call that Gentoo anymore :)
I'm thinking more of a bytecode version of Arch there. (as a thought experiment, because I suppose some stuff only works or is tested with GCC on the compiler, and so on)
Fast, simple and hierarchical : is that a bit like an LDAP? Out of curiosity, do people sometimes build a database application on LDAP? Then if you need to do some desktop or other LDAP-enabled software, for more traditional purpose of not having to log in again and manage permissions etc. you already know how to do it.
Interesting. With no gmail, if I wanted a smartphone I would really consider a Windows phone, despite running linux on desktop.
I don't know how long the support lasts but they're in the business of selling desktop OSes with 11 year long support, so I guess that for long/mid term support for a phone you have MS and Apple (not Google)
The one thing I wouldn't like is needing to create a Microsoft account so still I would look for Firefox OS 2.x, which is said to allow adding app stuff without the need for an online account.
Attacking Libya (directly) and Syria (by proxy) is what Obama has done that is absolutely fucking stupid, if we are to believe that such matters are determined by the presidential IQ.
At this point I guess everyone has forgotten he got a Nobel prize, which must either have been a joke prize or a desperate move to have the US not invade or otherwise destroy countries (well, the US did not invade but still got what it wanted)
What about that little civil war on European soil. Great job. The sociopath murderers are alive and well. The Nobel committee ought to create a Nobel War Prize and hand it to Mr Obama. :) I have no part in the false dichotomy that is US national politics.
I'm not disagreeing with your first paragraph
It sucks as you can't set a whitelist (for soundcloud.com at least, and perhaps youtube for some convenience)
Have to add a random extension or two, but who knows how long the extension will work. I used flashblock for about a decade but somewhat recently, it imploded (I suppose it depended on one person that can't do the maintaining job anymore)
I got lazy and simply block the ads now. For a decade I had the web with ads and all flash blocked, now I have no ads (including the flash based ones) but there are those horrid, unsollicited autoplaying video - website "content" is worse than ads, who knew.
Why would they help an AQ that wants to kill them all?
Iran even made an offer to cooperate in Afghanistan in 2003, which the US turned down.
Saudi Arabia would be playing quite a funny game then. With their money they're just funding ISIS and helping them acquire weapons. If they go at war with ISIS, will they still be funding them?
1366x768 is an actual improvement over 1024x768, not so much for people who "upgraded" from 1280x1024 though.
A damn shame that 1440x900 isn't the standard.
Yesterday I was reading about people registered as sex offenders in the US. One case was a married couple having car sex in a mountainous area with no one miles around, and a police patrol comes in and surprises them.
Isn't an ICBM harder than LEO?
The ICBM needs higher reliability and launch on a short notice (and possibility on bad weather), plus you need to develop a re-entry vehicle for the warhead. And the warhead's landing (or explosion above a city) needs to be accurate after all that.
You have countries with access to LEO and no ICBMs (e.g. Iran, DPRK)
In fact I learnt that DRPK's Taepodong-2 missile didn't exist : it was the space rocket instead. In that case, instead of a rogue country secretly developing an ICBM and pretending it's a peaceful LEO rocket, it might be the other way around (!).
Which is a mode I've never been able to use under linux. All I can get is 80x25 text mode or graphical text mode that uses the monitor's maximum resolution. (which can maybe be capped)
Configuration is very arcane and hidden. (it's very easy in DOS and Windows)
Wait for Ubuntu 16.04 (then three monthes after, you'll long for Ubuntu 18.04 but sssh...)
Flash 11.2 doesn't prevent the screen saver from kicking in, so till now I either disable it or set the time ridiculously long.
Applet is in Mate, I've added it and will try it.
It's very likely that Mint switches to systemd with Mint 18 and LMDE 3 (i.e. those on Ubuntu 16.04 and the debian after jessie)
Ubuntu 14.04's kernel is the 3.13 version, originally, and that is the version in Mint 17 and 17.1.
Ubuntu 14.04.2 has 3.16, while 14.04.0 and 14.04.1 have 3.13 (If you originally installed a version earlier than 14.04.2 and applied the default updates, it's still the same Ubuntu, but the kernel upgrade is an optional update/upgrade. Also there's a different version of Xorg/Mesa in there - which Mint doesn't follow exactly)
The point versions of Ubuntu are addressed there :
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel...
That's nitpicking but if you do have some issue with hardware with either of the kernels (perhaps more likely with a laptop) then it's good to know. Upgrading from Mint 17.0 or 17.1, you get the choice of upgrading the kernel or not.
I suppose you can create a trajectory that will end up catching up to Pluto's orbit and position, but that would take decades or even a century.
A tablet or phone, most likely running Android is the only thing worse than a Windows PC. The OS itself is malware.
As a DOS/Windows old timer I can set it up so it is very decent. In fact, a huge flaw of Windows Update is that it may get stuck and not install or offer updates, or fail to find them if you ask it to search.
If you come across a random Windows 7 laptop though, you pretty much should format it first because malware has rigged it so that trying to get rid of it is pointless (hell, you can even trigger countermeasures that will make the situation worse. And Windows Update might be disabled by the malware too)
Installing warez Windows 7 is safer : torrent some iso with patches built-in up to a few monthes ago (people don't even have install media for their legit Windows anyway)
Then choice of software is paramount (and you should only download them from the author's site or use ninite)
I know, "friends don't help friends install microsoft software" but sometimes there's that one vital piece of software, or e.g. VIA graphics. Else the latest Mint with Mate is great (and makes a single core PC fast as it's meant to, not a slide show)
Which ubuntu flavor? Unity sucks unless you're only launching Firefox, LibreOffice and the file manager (which might be good enough for many people still).
For everything else the GUI requires you to type the program's name instead of selecting it from a menu. Which is braindead, especially if you don't know what's installed.
But before laptops were cheap hardly anyone bought them. They became a consumer item about 10 years ago or so.
High end laptop with low end hardware and mid end price might be something very desirable, though. Low heat and good cooling, good keyboard, good display (even if not very high res - a great 1600x900 would be about right), good hinges, good battery life (in last place because virtually everyone uses a laptop with the power supply plugged in)
And it's still closer to a video editing workstation than something to do word processing on. Though I'd like it better with 8GB RAM and 2TB HDD (or 4GB RAM and 2TB HDD).
Well I guess you referred to the idea as "business class".
A manual? you rarely even get off-line help files in desktop software.
Can you even get a readme.txt included with a smartphone app, find it and read it? How do you press the F1 key?
These smartphone things are sold as simplified computers where you just press a virtual button and don't need to learn or maintain them, too.
There's not even the basic usability you had with a Windows 3.1 PC with keyb and moues (or trackball)
You won't have vending machines and soup machines : these ugly machines are deprecated and instead there's a small room where Neelix the alien is cooking some soup and breverages etc. for you.