LMDE will soon just track debian jessie, with a major release in November. It will effectively become "Linux Mint debian stable"! That effectively puts an end to the LMDE semi-rolling model, but they'll still have their Minty stuff. You should expect security updates as in regular debian or ubuntu and also support for upgrading to the debian stable that comes after jessie.
There are special purpose live CDs just for the task of GRUB 2 booting now (Super Grub Disk). I got used to grub 2, though it pissed me off of course (ditto empty xorg.conf, followed by custom resolutions moved out of xorg.conf)
If you want a new nightmare there's UEFI:D, ah, sorry for mentioning that I guess. Main gripe here is if you install Mint (and probably deb, ubuntu and others) on a UEFI system you don't get a memtest86 entry in grub, because hey it's UEFI so it no longer can boot "legacy", useful stuff. On that same PC, Windows 7 was more dumb : it refused to install. Maybe destroying the whole partition table and starting over would have worked but no thanks, no. In good BIOS times, Windows installed and only fucked your bootloader over, now it doesn't want to work! That is funny.
It's true that you can chat with Skype but Skype is known as the platform to make calls abroad. But maybe I wouldn't be complaining if you could use 3rd party software, i.e. MSN worked with aMSN, Gaim, Trillian.
Just get a netbook (or 11.6 incher) if with the best keyboard you can find, put debian or something, lxde, firefox. Done. It's very lightweight and simple enough for a first-time computer user.
Incidentally "Chromebox" is sold, with the intent of connecting it to a 22" monitor or bigger. It even support dual display and 4K monitors.
I'm sure it would be an interesting machine with 6GB to 10GB memory - imagine such a browser-only shitbox on an ultrawide 34" 3440x1440, and a worthwile pair of speakers, non-flat keyboard and reliable mouse. Chromebook can be plugged into a 1080p monitor and (I presume) keyb/mouse too.
Speaking of Photoshop, my wife CAN use ChromeOS to adjust the brightness and contrast of her photos before posting them to Facebook
But Paint Shop Pro on Windows 3.1 had more features than that.
I'm still pissed at the loss of MSN messenger. No, I don't want Skype, because I want to chat with people on my desktop, not phone them. If I want to phone, I'll use my phone. I don't live in the US where people pay to receive calls. A smartphone and a data plan are also vastly more expensive, so I have a dumbphone and a desktop, and I don't want to buy a USB headset and an extension cord and install Skype with no option of just a third party client. s/Skype/Whatsapp-with-VoIP if you wish except Whatsapp is on smarthpones only.
I thought one guy did it in 1890 but the flight was extremely short and in a straight line ; the Wrights could fly in a circle or describe an eight perhaps landing roughly where they took off.
Which is fine for the crowd with a less than two-year-old Intel laptop and a less than two-year-old smartphone, not so much for an eight-year-old desktop. On random computers, if you're lucky it might show garbage and make the browser very slow till you close the WebGL app, if you're less lucky you crash the browser, if less lucky here's overheating or driver crash. I'm not so much against the concept but it's still years away from working or even a decade till enough older computers have been replaced (think end of support for Windows 7)
It eats less resources and kills less browsers than javascript. The only really obnoxious thing about it is it tripled CPU requirements to play streaming video, when it replaced Real Player and WMV for that use. Full screen playback especially was incredibly demanding, perhaps similar to the requirements for real time encoding of said video. Every late 90s video card had a YUV to RGB converter and a scaler that made full screen, better quality divx and DVD good on about a 500MHz CPU or less.
If they sell Chromebooks with a 320GB hard drive, then surely you can expect to use mass off-line mass storage (repeating "mass" here since 360KB can be considered mass storage depending on context)
With that kind of storage you can e.g. expect a lot of music and movies, even with strings attached like you get to use a built-in player and that's all. The built-in hard drive storage even is on ext4 for fuck sake. More people listen to music and watch movies than people upload photos from a camera.
If you want to use another OS? Then why not get a regular PC in the first place, it will be a bit more expensive but more flexible and will include the printscreen and pause keys.
Chinese characters have a stroke order when painting/drawing them. So maybe they're somewhat easy? Graffiti was arguably similar in codifying how you draw letters, not just how they look.
It is easy to be the "top selling laptop" when there's about a couple ChromeOS models, pitted against 60+ PC laptops or more that sometimes differ by one component or memory amount. iPod was simarly the top MP3 player, or even "sold more than all others combined" but the cheapie no-brand ones had more sales by the many millions, only they were a great many different products and weren't even accounted for - it's probably impossible to know how many there are.
Last time I tried, linux couldn't fsck or chkdsk the NTFS file system. Need to boot into Windows. So, with this Chrome thing you can use an external hard drive, but if it's become corrupt you need a Windows laptop or desktop to fix the drive's content. But maybe file system checks are deemed too confusing and are inaccessible from the GUI regardless of the file system, I don't know.
Parents could install keyloggers and such but then the kid can wipe the OS clean. On the other hand with a mobile phone (even a dumbphone that does not do Java) the parent can sign up to a service and get location data, which isn't escaped easily except by switching the phone off and maybe the child having a second, "undeclared" phone.
Sure, I agree very much. For best effect you have to maintain a good retro-gaming collection and use Windows 7 32bit (which replaces Windows XP, which replaced 98se - once the best OS for gaming) Linux can work if you basically restrict yourself to SNES roms, NES roms and some carefully picked stuff that will run 100% fine on Wine and Dosbox, which is annoying next to Windows running almost everything. Even adding game shortcuts to the start menu or desktop is easier on Windows.
A pair of X360 controllers will be great but about the same price as the PC itself!, old PS2 controllers plus USB to PS2 adapter is fine if you don't mind the ugly cables.
With tokamaks there's precisely been exponential progress over 50 years, which got us around Q=1 these days (which is not actually enough and we need more than seconds or minutes or operation too). That makes tokamaks somewhat credible and ITER/DEMO have a chance of working.
Yes funding should be higher. I don't think fusion research costs that much. I would rather see all manned space programs abandoned, and maybe too many resources (minds) are wasted on string theories for example.
You could have e.g. lithium burning, but from a quick google search it is expected from about 65 jovian masses and above, and deuterium fusion would occur at 13 jovian masses. So let's imagine Jupiter had been 20 times as big in terms of mass (radius would be virtually the same). It would have been kind of a star, but the "fuel" would have been depleted for billions years anyway.
Shame that opening pictures in mail is the default, too. That means an instant acknowledgement that the spam mail was read and it's somewhat more serious than an attachement or a link that leads to a javascript attack if the computer is otherwise secure.
I imagine it's happening in an extremely boring cubicle-like environment with hapless minions, dumb managers, a middle manager that moves air around and so on.
The rail that provides electric power to the train is a good place to start. Problably can be used to send data, and though maybe not good enough you still can cut the power.
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LMDE will soon just track debian jessie, with a major release in November. It will effectively become "Linux Mint debian stable"!
That effectively puts an end to the LMDE semi-rolling model, but they'll still have their Minty stuff. You should expect security updates as in regular debian or ubuntu and also support for upgrading to the debian stable that comes after jessie.
There are special purpose live CDs just for the task of GRUB 2 booting now (Super Grub Disk).
I got used to grub 2, though it pissed me off of course (ditto empty xorg.conf, followed by custom resolutions moved out of xorg.conf)
If you want a new nightmare there's UEFI :D, ah, sorry for mentioning that I guess. Main gripe here is if you install Mint (and probably deb, ubuntu and others) on a UEFI system you don't get a memtest86 entry in grub, because hey it's UEFI so it no longer can boot "legacy", useful stuff. On that same PC, Windows 7 was more dumb : it refused to install. Maybe destroying the whole partition table and starting over would have worked but no thanks, no. In good BIOS times, Windows installed and only fucked your bootloader over, now it doesn't want to work! That is funny.
Humans are animals obviously, it follows that all human exploitation should cease immediately. Quit your jobs and live a peaceful existence!
It's true that you can chat with Skype but Skype is known as the platform to make calls abroad. But maybe I wouldn't be complaining if you could use 3rd party software, i.e. MSN worked with aMSN, Gaim, Trillian.
Just get a netbook (or 11.6 incher) if with the best keyboard you can find, put debian or something, lxde, firefox. Done.
It's very lightweight and simple enough for a first-time computer user.
Incidentally "Chromebox" is sold, with the intent of connecting it to a 22" monitor or bigger. It even support dual display and 4K monitors.
I'm sure it would be an interesting machine with 6GB to 10GB memory - imagine such a browser-only shitbox on an ultrawide 34" 3440x1440, and a worthwile pair of speakers, non-flat keyboard and reliable mouse.
Chromebook can be plugged into a 1080p monitor and (I presume) keyb/mouse too.
Speaking of Photoshop, my wife CAN use ChromeOS to adjust the brightness and contrast of her photos before posting them to Facebook
But Paint Shop Pro on Windows 3.1 had more features than that.
Systemd already has quantum core dumps and the logs are in a state of superposition. If you try to look at them they disappear!
I'm still pissed at the loss of MSN messenger. No, I don't want Skype, because I want to chat with people on my desktop, not phone them. If I want to phone, I'll use my phone. I don't live in the US where people pay to receive calls. A smartphone and a data plan are also vastly more expensive, so I have a dumbphone and a desktop, and I don't want to buy a USB headset and an extension cord and install Skype with no option of just a third party client.
s/Skype/Whatsapp-with-VoIP if you wish except Whatsapp is on smarthpones only.
Your own property? yes, feel free to drive without a permit *ON* your own property. Public roads aren't such.
I thought one guy did it in 1890 but the flight was extremely short and in a straight line ; the Wrights could fly in a circle or describe an eight perhaps landing roughly where they took off.
Which is fine for the crowd with a less than two-year-old Intel laptop and a less than two-year-old smartphone, not so much for an eight-year-old desktop.
On random computers, if you're lucky it might show garbage and make the browser very slow till you close the WebGL app, if you're less lucky you crash the browser, if less lucky here's overheating or driver crash. I'm not so much against the concept but it's still years away from working or even a decade till enough older computers have been replaced (think end of support for Windows 7)
It eats less resources and kills less browsers than javascript.
The only really obnoxious thing about it is it tripled CPU requirements to play streaming video, when it replaced Real Player and WMV for that use. Full screen playback especially was incredibly demanding, perhaps similar to the requirements for real time encoding of said video. Every late 90s video card had a YUV to RGB converter and a scaler that made full screen, better quality divx and DVD good on about a 500MHz CPU or less.
If they sell Chromebooks with a 320GB hard drive, then surely you can expect to use mass off-line mass storage (repeating "mass" here since 360KB can be considered mass storage depending on context)
With that kind of storage you can e.g. expect a lot of music and movies, even with strings attached like you get to use a built-in player and that's all. The built-in hard drive storage even is on ext4 for fuck sake. More people listen to music and watch movies than people upload photos from a camera.
If you want to use another OS? Then why not get a regular PC in the first place, it will be a bit more expensive but more flexible and will include the printscreen and pause keys.
Chinese characters have a stroke order when painting/drawing them. So maybe they're somewhat easy?
Graffiti was arguably similar in codifying how you draw letters, not just how they look.
Wasn't Graffiti like in 1996? Should be unpatented or the patent will run out soon (yeah with some padding for the rule changes and whatever)
It is easy to be the "top selling laptop" when there's about a couple ChromeOS models, pitted against 60+ PC laptops or more that sometimes differ by one component or memory amount.
iPod was simarly the top MP3 player, or even "sold more than all others combined" but the cheapie no-brand ones had more sales by the many millions, only they were a great many different products and weren't even accounted for - it's probably impossible to know how many there are.
I would worry about a 1TB fat32 file system or even soon-to-be low grade 128GB flash drives / memory cards.
Last time I tried, linux couldn't fsck or chkdsk the NTFS file system. Need to boot into Windows.
So, with this Chrome thing you can use an external hard drive, but if it's become corrupt you need a Windows laptop or desktop to fix the drive's content.
But maybe file system checks are deemed too confusing and are inaccessible from the GUI regardless of the file system, I don't know.
Parents could install keyloggers and such but then the kid can wipe the OS clean.
On the other hand with a mobile phone (even a dumbphone that does not do Java) the parent can sign up to a service and get location data, which isn't escaped easily except by switching the phone off and maybe the child having a second, "undeclared" phone.
Sure, I agree very much. For best effect you have to maintain a good retro-gaming collection and use Windows 7 32bit (which replaces Windows XP, which replaced 98se - once the best OS for gaming)
Linux can work if you basically restrict yourself to SNES roms, NES roms and some carefully picked stuff that will run 100% fine on Wine and Dosbox, which is annoying next to Windows running almost everything. Even adding game shortcuts to the start menu or desktop is easier on Windows.
A pair of X360 controllers will be great but about the same price as the PC itself!, old PS2 controllers plus USB to PS2 adapter is fine if you don't mind the ugly cables.
With tokamaks there's precisely been exponential progress over 50 years, which got us around Q=1 these days (which is not actually enough and we need more than seconds or minutes or operation too). That makes tokamaks somewhat credible and ITER/DEMO have a chance of working.
Yes funding should be higher. I don't think fusion research costs that much. I would rather see all manned space programs abandoned, and maybe too many resources (minds) are wasted on string theories for example.
You could have e.g. lithium burning, but from a quick google search it is expected from about 65 jovian masses and above, and deuterium fusion would occur at 13 jovian masses.
So let's imagine Jupiter had been 20 times as big in terms of mass (radius would be virtually the same). It would have been kind of a star, but the "fuel" would have been depleted for billions years anyway.
Shame that opening pictures in mail is the default, too. That means an instant acknowledgement that the spam mail was read and it's somewhat more serious than an attachement or a link that leads to a javascript attack if the computer is otherwise secure.
I imagine it's happening in an extremely boring cubicle-like environment with hapless minions, dumb managers, a middle manager that moves air around and so on.
The rail that provides electric power to the train is a good place to start. Problably can be used to send data, and though maybe not good enough you still can cut the power.