Not to mention they keep an online record of everything you ever search for.
No fucking thanks, and no I won't sign up for your implantable microchip pilot project either, Amazon.
Can you elaborate on why you you feel newbies are "stuck" with Mandrake? That's what I've been using to get acclimatized to Linux and am wondering what you feel I'm missing by not running something Debian-based.
I have Mozilla set as my default e-mail app in Windows, but when I click on mailto: hyperlink in Firefox, it always says "starting MS Word as default e-mail editor"!!! What gives?
When I run the service pack 2, it unpacks its files and then says:
"Could not verify the integrity of the file update.inf. Please verify the cryptographic service is running."
It IS running, I even tried restarting it and no luck.
What to do?
I wish you had actually speficied what the damn good reason is -- I'd like to know -- instead of just putting the word "damn" between two asterisks for added emphasis. Really, capital letters should have been used for that instead.
Is switching to a 64-bit distribution basically a transparent move, or will a lot of programs that were available in the regular 32-bit version not be there or be broken?
Can someone post a link to the latest Sveasoft Satori firmware on a free server? I don't feel like giving this guy $20 for a GPL product that I can't even try first.
Actually, even if you're not compiling stuff, Gentoo on average performs roughly on par with most other precompiled distributions. Studies have shown that there is no significant advantage to compiling your own OS.
Don't get so testy.. NO I don't have a problem with that.
It's just that I didn't know they still allowed blacks in England. Sheesh.
In all seriousness though I just never pictured Ford as black. More of an unkempt almost-40 white-trashy looking journalist/artist/hippy type.
I call bullshit on #2. They pretend they are concerned about protecting the users, but the fact of the matter is there are a LOT of CRITICAL security updates now needed just to get a virgin XP install to be able to be on the net safely. An unpatched system is a threat to the general public, and MS rightly realizes they have an obligation to correct these weaknesses in their own software to procet the public, regardless of whether an individual OS installation is licensed or not. If they withheld the patches they would very likely be exposing themselves to serious liability issues.
Since Comcast is a government-regulated monopoly (in theory) one of the only avenues of recourse might be to petition the municipal authority where you live to ban Comcast from using this stuff (espectially the "disable LAN segments" when the next contract negotiations come up.
Call 1-800-Comcast and tell them that you won't be buying this garbage and are less happy with Comcast for even thinking of using this kind of big-brotherish technology on their own paying customers. If a lot of people call in to complain, they may think twice about rolling this out. For awhile, at least.
Well, you could move to India with all your skills and make $10K a year.
Me, I currently work for AT&T as a support tech for voice messaging platforms in the local services division. It's a telecom/computer type of job, pays fairly well. But with the telecom and IT fields as bad as they are, I've enrolled in nursing school starting this fall. In two years' time, I'll have another associate's degree, but this one will guarantee me $23-$30 an hour, base pay, in a field guaranteed to have no shortage of jobs for the next 10-15 years, and a highly portable skill at that.
So if I highlight a URL in an e-mail, then go to my browser window, I can NOT simply middle-click in the "Address" box to paste my URL, unless I first blank it out by deleting all characters manually. If I were to click to highlight the URL that is already there, then THAT would be the selected text in the primary clipboard... hmm.
I guess my question is, is there an easy way to use middle click in a situation like this, to save having to right-click and choose "Paste"?
Thanks for bringing this up as this is something that has confused me. I understand the concept of a Windows clipboard, but I am NOT clear on how the UNIX middleclick thing is different or when and how it is supposed to work, exactly. Can you elaborate?
I've been playing with Mandrake 10 (still new to Linux overall) and didn't realize half this stuff was available.
Is there a newbie guide available that explains these apps and what they do?
Was there any question such as I asked when XFree86 changed their license? Were there people who had submitted code not anticipating the change? Just curious.
If I am a programmer who submits code to a GPL project, can the project leaders legally change the licence a year later if it still includes the code I submitted, believing it was GPL??? It seems to me that doing so constitutes an attempted theft.
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Not to mention they keep an online record of everything you ever search for. No fucking thanks, and no I won't sign up for your implantable microchip pilot project either, Amazon.
Can you elaborate on why you you feel newbies are "stuck" with Mandrake? That's what I've been using to get acclimatized to Linux and am wondering what you feel I'm missing by not running something Debian-based.
I have Mozilla set as my default e-mail app in Windows, but when I click on mailto: hyperlink in Firefox, it always says "starting MS Word as default e-mail editor"!!! What gives?
When I run the service pack 2, it unpacks its files and then says: "Could not verify the integrity of the file update.inf. Please verify the cryptographic service is running." It IS running, I even tried restarting it and no luck. What to do?
I wish you had actually speficied what the damn good reason is -- I'd like to know -- instead of just putting the word "damn" between two asterisks for added emphasis. Really, capital letters should have been used for that instead.
Is switching to a 64-bit distribution basically a transparent move, or will a lot of programs that were available in the regular 32-bit version not be there or be broken?
/usr means "Unix System Resources," not "user," IIRC.
Can someone post a link to the latest Sveasoft Satori firmware on a free server? I don't feel like giving this guy $20 for a GPL product that I can't even try first.
Maybe you should have also "baught" a dictionary.
Actually, even if you're not compiling stuff, Gentoo on average performs roughly on par with most other precompiled distributions. Studies have shown that there is no significant advantage to compiling your own OS.
Don't get so testy.. NO I don't have a problem with that. It's just that I didn't know they still allowed blacks in England. Sheesh. In all seriousness though I just never pictured Ford as black. More of an unkempt almost-40 white-trashy looking journalist/artist/hippy type.
Wait, a black guy is playing Ford Prefect? What?
I call bullshit on #2. They pretend they are concerned about protecting the users, but the fact of the matter is there are a LOT of CRITICAL security updates now needed just to get a virgin XP install to be able to be on the net safely. An unpatched system is a threat to the general public, and MS rightly realizes they have an obligation to correct these weaknesses in their own software to procet the public, regardless of whether an individual OS installation is licensed or not. If they withheld the patches they would very likely be exposing themselves to serious liability issues.
Since Comcast is a government-regulated monopoly (in theory) one of the only avenues of recourse might be to petition the municipal authority where you live to ban Comcast from using this stuff (espectially the "disable LAN segments" when the next contract negotiations come up.
Eventually, they'll probably ban non-"approved" routers.
Call 1-800-Comcast and tell them that you won't be buying this garbage and are less happy with Comcast for even thinking of using this kind of big-brotherish technology on their own paying customers. If a lot of people call in to complain, they may think twice about rolling this out. For awhile, at least.
Well, you could move to India with all your skills and make $10K a year. Me, I currently work for AT&T as a support tech for voice messaging platforms in the local services division. It's a telecom/computer type of job, pays fairly well. But with the telecom and IT fields as bad as they are, I've enrolled in nursing school starting this fall. In two years' time, I'll have another associate's degree, but this one will guarantee me $23-$30 an hour, base pay, in a field guaranteed to have no shortage of jobs for the next 10-15 years, and a highly portable skill at that.
So if I highlight a URL in an e-mail, then go to my browser window, I can NOT simply middle-click in the "Address" box to paste my URL, unless I first blank it out by deleting all characters manually. If I were to click to highlight the URL that is already there, then THAT would be the selected text in the primary clipboard... hmm.
I guess my question is, is there an easy way to use middle click in a situation like this, to save having to right-click and choose "Paste"?
So I'm lazy.
Thanks for bringing this up as this is something that has confused me. I understand the concept of a Windows clipboard, but I am NOT clear on how the UNIX middleclick thing is different or when and how it is supposed to work, exactly. Can you elaborate?
Is there a cheatsheet available for all the Alt- key combinations?
I've been playing with Mandrake 10 (still new to Linux overall) and didn't realize half this stuff was available. Is there a newbie guide available that explains these apps and what they do?
Was there any question such as I asked when XFree86 changed their license? Were there people who had submitted code not anticipating the change? Just curious.
If I am a programmer who submits code to a GPL project, can the project leaders legally change the licence a year later if it still includes the code I submitted, believing it was GPL??? It seems to me that doing so constitutes an attempted theft.
How does one learn how to do this?
From Strunk and White's The Elements of Style:
"... Do not dress words up by adding ly to them, as though putting a hat on a horse." (Ed: Oh, the irony of "orally.")