Strange, my Ubuntu latop with an Intel 945GM graphics card drives its internal LVDS plus an external LCD monitor just fine. System -> Preferences -> Display, drag the monitor icons to the arrangement I want, press Apply. Done.
Are you trolling, or are you just talking about a Linux distro more than a couple of years old?
You missed a critical problem: no master password. Chrome lets you save your passwords, but there's no way of protecting those saved passwords. That's a complete show-stopper.
I dunno, when you look at the bill in detail, it seems rather, well, moderate.
It's the old "boiling a frog" situation. This government continually chips away at civil liberties, a little at a time. It's two steps forward, one step back, but it's still a steady march towards authoritarianism.
So how does that really differ from Linux? If you stick with a single Linux distro, then the management for that distro decides what goes in and what doesn't. If Haiku gets big, why do you expect that it won't end up just like Linux - same basic core, but multiple almost-but-not-quite-compatible distributions? What if someone adds a really cool feature to a forked Haiku, and 50% of Haiku users switch to that new Haiku distro?
IF Haiku ever made it big (by which I mean, at least as popular as any leading Linux distro), what makes you think it'll keep its "unified vision"? If it's an open source OS, then sooner or later people are inevitably going to "run around doing their own thing", and the more developers who are attracted to it, the more different directions it'll be pulled in. Which is not necessarily a bad thing.
Dunno why, but running Firefox 2.0.0.8 on Ubuntu Gutsy, the new interface is really slow and clunky. It takes the screen several seconds to redraw if I select a message, and scrolling is just painful. I'd wondered why it had suddenly slowed down over the last couple of days - this so-called 2.0 interface explains it. Think I'll stick with v1 for now.
(Just tried it with Firefox on Windows - just as bad)
Because you dealt with a couple of idiot customers, you now think that the entire american population are a bunch of impossible-to-satisfy, rude customers?
I'm sure you're not all rude, but I'd say the general level of customer politeness in the US is pretty low compared with other parts of the world.
I was on holiday in Breckenridge, Colorado a few years back - one day when grabbing lunch from a stall I was told by the guy behind the counter that I was first person of the entire day to actually say "please" when ordering my meal. But that's just basic politeness as far as I'm concerned. Politeness costs nothing and makes everyone happier.
On the other hand I have some American friends who think that the level of customer service here in the UK is really poor, since we don't have such a "customer is always right" attitude here.
Guess it's just a cultural thing...
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Didn't work here. I was already using "English (US)" but no IMAP link. I tried switching to "English (UK)" and back to US again, but no joy.
-Ubuntu: I had a lot of hope for this one. That is till it failed to start up after installing because the kernel was not compatible with my system (via epia). Of course this has been known for 6 months, no solutions were given anywhere and no notices were given during the install itself. I do not have time to recompile a kernel so I said F it.
That EPIA PC that's sitting beside my TV and happily running MythTV on Ubuntu (Dapper, Edgy & Feisty) for the last 2 years must be a figment of my imagination then.
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If the Daily Mail headline is "Could X do/cause/be Y?", the answer is almost certainly "No".
Unless X = "dirty foreign immigrants" and Y = "coming over here stealing our jobs".
Strange, my Ubuntu latop with an Intel 945GM graphics card drives its internal LVDS plus an external LCD monitor just fine. System -> Preferences -> Display, drag the monitor icons to the arrangement I want, press Apply. Done.
Are you trolling, or are you just talking about a Linux distro more than a couple of years old?
I've seen 8 American karaoke labels die in the last 10 years, and as of now there's only like 3 or 4 left
You say that like it's a bad thing!
Why are you messing around with temporary files in the first place?
$ tar czf - directory | ssh remote "tar xzf -"
or
$ scp -Cr directory remote:
or even better:
$ rsync -az -e ssh directory remote:
OK, so ssh & rsync are not stock Solaris, but then neither is mc.
Am I the only one who found this attempt at humor disturbing and objectionable?
No, you're not.
Yeah, I played AO too, for all of a month before I gave up on it. What a train wreck.
I've heard AoC stands for "Anarchy Online Continued".
Linux Format is a UK publication. The clocks did indeed go back last weekend in the UK.
You missed a critical problem: no master password. Chrome lets you save your passwords, but there's no way of protecting those saved passwords. That's a complete show-stopper.
Metallica started in the early 80s but I am still unable to find their synth pop album.
Synth Pop up Your Ass is one of their more obscure recordings, it's true.
Could he tell you where he's been?
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I dunno, when you look at the bill in detail, it seems rather, well, moderate.
It's the old "boiling a frog" situation. This government continually chips away at civil liberties, a little at a time. It's two steps forward, one step back, but it's still a steady march towards authoritarianism.
Why would an entity pay for something they are disinterested in.
"Disinterested" does not mean "uninterested" (although the two terms have been conflated in recent usage). A more correct meaning is "unbiased".
So how does that really differ from Linux? If you stick with a single Linux distro, then the management for that distro decides what goes in and what doesn't. If Haiku gets big, why do you expect that it won't end up just like Linux - same basic core, but multiple almost-but-not-quite-compatible distributions? What if someone adds a really cool feature to a forked Haiku, and 50% of Haiku users switch to that new Haiku distro?
IF Haiku ever made it big (by which I mean, at least as popular as any leading Linux distro), what makes you think it'll keep its "unified vision"? If it's an open source OS, then sooner or later people are inevitably going to "run around doing their own thing", and the more developers who are attracted to it, the more different directions it'll be pulled in. Which is not necessarily a bad thing.
Dunno why, but running Firefox 2.0.0.8 on Ubuntu Gutsy, the new interface is really slow and clunky. It takes the screen several seconds to redraw if I select a message, and scrolling is just painful. I'd wondered why it had suddenly slowed down over the last couple of days - this so-called 2.0 interface explains it. Think I'll stick with v1 for now.
(Just tried it with Firefox on Windows - just as bad)
Because you dealt with a couple of idiot customers, you now think that the entire american population are a bunch of impossible-to-satisfy, rude customers?
I'm sure you're not all rude, but I'd say the general level of customer politeness in the US is pretty low compared with other parts of the world.
I was on holiday in Breckenridge, Colorado a few years back - one day when grabbing lunch from a stall I was told by the guy behind the counter that I was first person of the entire day to actually say "please" when ordering my meal. But that's just basic politeness as far as I'm concerned. Politeness costs nothing and makes everyone happier.
On the other hand I have some American friends who think that the level of customer service here in the UK is really poor, since we don't have such a "customer is always right" attitude here.
Guess it's just a cultural thing...
Didn't work here. I was already using "English (US)" but no IMAP link. I tried switching to "English (UK)" and back to US again, but no joy.
What the CIA is doing is nasty. But it's nowhere near as bad as the KGB got up to.
Which is pretty much the US all over these days.
"USA - less nasty than the USSR!"
"USA - fewer human rights violations than Uzbekistan!"
"USA - not too nice, but hey, we're better than Burma!"
... says the AC who's too cowardly even to put his name to his petty little flamebait.
Writing algorithms, however, in Prolog isn't much fun.
No.
Smokers are the vocal minority here; around 80% of people in the UK (including me) support a smoking ban.
Quit your whining and take your stinking, toxic, cancer sticks outside.
-Ubuntu: I had a lot of hope for this one. That is till it failed to start up after installing because the kernel was not compatible with my system (via epia). Of course this has been known for 6 months, no solutions were given anywhere and no notices were given during the install itself. I do not have time to recompile a kernel so I said F it.
That EPIA PC that's sitting beside my TV and happily running MythTV on Ubuntu (Dapper, Edgy & Feisty) for the last 2 years must be a figment of my imagination then.
Sure about that?
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7046
No. X11 is not a GUI, any more than the GDI or DirectX are GUIs for Windows.
X11 is the device-independent driver upon which GUIs (KDE, GNOME, GnuSTEP, XFCE...) are built.