They exist. Just because something isn't the 'norm' over here doesn't mean it doesn't exist. (And I want to know what % of Dutch use these services).
Lexington, KY has the BrokeSpoke. A not for profit bike repair shop. You can rent bench time, volunteer or pay an annual fee. You get access to all their tools and knowledge. Craigslist has become a boon for people looking to sell stuff second hand. My entire apartment is furnished with second hand stuff. Be it my surplus projector and printer or my good will 5.1 surround sound system (with real floor speakers).
I have jeans that I've had for 10 years that I've had to repair at least twice. They fit perfect and often just have minor problems. My dad's riding lawn mower I've gone through and replaced about every bolt on it. I was shocked to see that the manufacturer actually provided full diagrams with part numbers. I found my local mower shop and ordered some odd parts and had it back together in no time.
Cart leading the horse. They barrel into each other because they have the armor. If you want to reduce long term brain/body damage injuries to Football players you need to take away their pads.
Yeah, like that dying project "Arduino" and everything people are doing with it. And lets not forget the dying art of making stuff like RepRap/DIY CNCs.
Maybe the Germans can exhibit a bit of self control behind the wheel while driving?
So the story goes with VW's engineers that they kept getting complaints from the American dealers that their cars lacked cup holders. The engineers couldn't fathom why you would want a cup of anything while driving. So they determined it was just to store something while driving to a destination. So for the Mk3 Golf/Jetta we got cup holders... That will hold exactly a 12 floz can. Anything larger won't fit.
The Germans have a complete different mentality about driving that most Americans don't get. I got to visit a while ago for a week and when you're doing 200 kph you don't have time for a cell phone. The autobahn gently twists and turns unlike some American highways which you could write your biography if the car's aligned.
Scares the shit out of me. Why the hell not just use launchd. Yes it came from the evil company Apple but it's OSS and on a BSD license. It's complete magic compared to other predecessors.
From Wiki: The launchd daemon is essentially a replacement for: init rc init.d script rc.d script SystemStarter (Mac OS X) inetd xinetd atd crond watchdogd
It needs the ability to mix and vary arbitrary sound source
So ALSA since 2001(?). DMix works just fine once I purged my system of Pulse and went straight ALSA. I haven't touched a config and yet it works with arbitrary sound sources. Granted I can't select random things to mute nor can I send my audio to a random networked server but it freaking works.
>Ubuntu takes about 30 minutes to setup flash, mp3s, standard codecs, etc. for basic use from a clean install.
And then you're stuck with the aborted baby of Unity. When I have a lay person complaining about how much her computing experience sucks and me ready to throw the thing out the window when I use it... you've fucked something up seriously hard core.
It sounds more like some Congressmen are getting lazy at funneling money into their constituents. "Hey. I'm finding it hard to send money back to my state of ________. Economy is down, everything is made in China." "Remember that program from the 80s that spent billions of dollars and did absolutely nothing?" "Brilliant!"
Tada. You have a program resurrected. Look at the committee. Most are states that are hurting for money and/or industry. I'm sure the guy from Washington had nothing to say about Boeing's involvement. I wouldn't be shocked to find boeing suppliers or subcontractors in any of the other states that make up that committee.
Sound doesn't work out of the box. They have the abomination (IMHO) that is PulseAudio so I do an apt-get purge. Suddenly sound works.
So I go and try to play 2 things at once. [Unless you have ALSA setup a specific way with mixers it won't do it because only one PID gets to talk to hardware at once.] Wow it works. Maybe they started shipping a working ALSA config. I go check/etc/asound.conf. Everything is still set to pulse.
So I check task manager. Sure enough the pulse server is still cranking away. But by purging all the files it somehow magically started to work. So I re-install it.
I repeat the test. Somehow mplayer decides it wants to grab ALSA instead of pulse but ALSA then grabs the hardware, so pulse dies and can't communicate to ALSA (which is actually doing the hardware interfacing if I read my workflow correctly). So now I have no sound, again.
So I try it straight from mplayer specifying the hardware device and it works. Except only in mplayer. So now I'm going to spend another few hours dicking with either the dmix plugin or deciding to give Pulse a 5th chance.
Fork something or start something from scratch. Something like MATE/GNOME2. And make it 'just work'.
I just installed Linux Mint Debian Edition. It's 100% compatible with Debian Testing. I run Debian Sid on every linux machine in my house (HTPC, server, sheevaplug, sound server in the basement). I've tried other distros. My girlfriend has Ubuntu and every single update she bitches about how they changed something. First they forced Unity. Then they managed to make unity worse. She's going to give the latest LTS a chance before switching to Mint or back to Windows.
I wanted to see if I could finally replace my Mac. I'm very, very impressed and think I may finally switch to a Linux "Desktop" (it's my laptop). MATE is excellent with Compiz.
But the one problem with Linux is what everyone touts as its biggest advantage: The paradox of choice. When I was setting up scale (aka Expose) on Compiz I could drag the speed slider all the way from 0 to 50. What they ment, fuck if I knew until I tested it. And could I really see a difference between 5.3 and 5.5? No. Say "Slow, Medium, Fast". If nothing else hide it behind a "advanced user" dialog.
A perfect example is the pointer acceleration/speed in the mouse dialog. XP has 10 discrete spots. MATE has infinite. I spent almost 9 hours getting the desktop how I wanted it. The average user doesn't want to do this, but if they DO want to change something how about we not overwhelm them with choices.
GE anyone? How much did they dodge the year they paid $0? BP paid $0 because the cleanup of the oil spill was a "business expense". I have no idea why anyone thinks this is new news. This is "Holy hell, you'll get wet if you jump into a lake!" style news.
Hell if I could dodge all my taxes I would. It's going to fund a whole lot of wars and taking money away from those that could use it (health care, students, planned parenthood etc). And when people jump up and whine that "But the Socialists will take all your monies!" well at least I'll see something out of it. The bets roads in Illinois are a joke compared to the worst section of autobahn I drove on.
Not sure if serious or just that stupid: Use Internet to download additional files during installation. Useful when the install target has no Internet connection.
You also have at least as many options on the Ubuntu download page:
I haven't installed from 'disk' since I don't know when. My router boots to a netboot install on a TFTP server. I have an apt-cacher-ng server running on my server also.
I can have a new debian installed in almost no time.
Where are you from? When I visited out in Halifax I didn't notice it as much as when I visited northern Minnesota / Wisconsin. I'm going to guess that central canada has it a bit heavier than where ever you are from.
the US is (mostly, there are obvious and absurd exceptions) governed in a way that assumes consenting adults can engage in mutually beneficial relationships
You mean like gay marriage? You mean like smoking pot?
I didn't claim it was already made. They claimed that you were funding development of the Flex and he would be selling the Prime which is a replication of his prototype. As I read that all the Prime needed was produced.
No, it's not. They have levels that you can buy into for each of the different products. For example Diaspora promised everyone that donated $5 "Once the software is released as open source, we will send you a CD with diaspora all set up and ready to go, with a note from our team!". I don't think anyone has gotten that.
It's even worse on the hardware side of things. So far I've backed 4 things in the last year and physically have 1 of them. Anywhere from "Sorry guys my supplier changed all my quotes" to "I just wanted to add ONE more feature." The one that I got actually showed up a week after the kickstarter ended. I got the Oblique wine bottle holder. The guy had a manufacturer (in the US) already set up. He had prototypes done and I wouldn't be surprised if the second he saw another order he had another 2 made. This guy actually knew what he was doing.
Look at the HexBright. I really debated getting it and just going with the prime because as the description says I conceived the HexBright Flex but I was tapped out of cash to actually make one. Kickstarter became an obvious solution. To raise capital I am offering reproductions of my original and first-made HexBright Prime for just $35. As that's worded you get something that's already been made. As far as I can tell no one has gotten anything yet.
If you want this to be a donation to fund further development. Flat out say that. There are projects that do that. But all the projects I've bought into have been pitched as "Guys I've been working really hard on this and I'm ready to show it to the world taking pre orders so I can get 5000 from China." And then all this money shows up and he decides continue engineering.
I'm starting to see why MBAs are needed. Everyone that has a project on there is an engineer of some sort and unless everything is 110% perfect they push the release date.
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They exist. Just because something isn't the 'norm' over here doesn't mean it doesn't exist. (And I want to know what % of Dutch use these services).
Lexington, KY has the BrokeSpoke. A not for profit bike repair shop. You can rent bench time, volunteer or pay an annual fee. You get access to all their tools and knowledge. Craigslist has become a boon for people looking to sell stuff second hand. My entire apartment is furnished with second hand stuff. Be it my surplus projector and printer or my good will 5.1 surround sound system (with real floor speakers).
I have jeans that I've had for 10 years that I've had to repair at least twice. They fit perfect and often just have minor problems. My dad's riding lawn mower I've gone through and replaced about every bolt on it. I was shocked to see that the manufacturer actually provided full diagrams with part numbers. I found my local mower shop and ordered some odd parts and had it back together in no time.
Cart leading the horse. They barrel into each other because they have the armor. If you want to reduce long term brain/body damage injuries to Football players you need to take away their pads.
Yeah, like that dying project "Arduino" and everything people are doing with it. And lets not forget the dying art of making stuff like RepRap/DIY CNCs.
> 3rd world country by most standards
By all standards I believe. I don't think they backed the US nor the USSR during the cold war.
Maybe the Germans can exhibit a bit of self control behind the wheel while driving?
So the story goes with VW's engineers that they kept getting complaints from the American dealers that their cars lacked cup holders. The engineers couldn't fathom why you would want a cup of anything while driving. So they determined it was just to store something while driving to a destination. So for the Mk3 Golf/Jetta we got cup holders... That will hold exactly a 12 floz can. Anything larger won't fit.
The Germans have a complete different mentality about driving that most Americans don't get. I got to visit a while ago for a week and when you're doing 200 kph you don't have time for a cell phone. The autobahn gently twists and turns unlike some American highways which you could write your biography if the car's aligned.
Because that runs the A5X?
Scares the shit out of me. Why the hell not just use launchd. Yes it came from the evil company Apple but it's OSS and on a BSD license. It's complete magic compared to other predecessors.
From Wiki:
The launchd daemon is essentially a replacement for:
init
rc
init.d script
rc.d script
SystemStarter (Mac OS X)
inetd
xinetd
atd
crond
watchdogd
Just put them in a dome. Let gravity do natural fracturing. Given a large enough dome and enough cows you could probably run near for ever.
Difficulty: Clear dome so that grass grows.
mplayer Movie.avi doesn't manage to break my OS X.
It needs the ability to mix and vary arbitrary sound source
So ALSA since 2001(?). DMix works just fine once I purged my system of Pulse and went straight ALSA. I haven't touched a config and yet it works with arbitrary sound sources. Granted I can't select random things to mute nor can I send my audio to a random networked server but it freaking works.
As was said above. Adopt the FreeBSD model.
>Ubuntu takes about 30 minutes to setup flash, mp3s, standard codecs, etc. for basic use from a clean install.
And then you're stuck with the aborted baby of Unity. When I have a lay person complaining about how much her computing experience sucks and me ready to throw the thing out the window when I use it... you've fucked something up seriously hard core.
Mint at least "works"... other than sound.
It sounds more like some Congressmen are getting lazy at funneling money into their constituents.
"Hey. I'm finding it hard to send money back to my state of ________. Economy is down, everything is made in China."
"Remember that program from the 80s that spent billions of dollars and did absolutely nothing?"
"Brilliant!"
Tada. You have a program resurrected. Look at the committee. Most are states that are hurting for money and/or industry. I'm sure the guy from Washington had nothing to say about Boeing's involvement. I wouldn't be shocked to find boeing suppliers or subcontractors in any of the other states that make up that committee.
I know this. And YOU know this. But would my parents or any lay person know this?
Windows: Sound works.
Linux: Sound doesn't work.
Not using linux.
Alsa dmix doesn't need a config file for several years
Unless the system came with pulseaudio. Then you have to purge all of that and then go through and reinstall all the Alsa stuff. (not just alsa base).
because it works
No. No it doesn't.
It's the year 2012, fix sound.
Sound doesn't work out of the box. They have the abomination (IMHO) that is PulseAudio so I do an apt-get purge. Suddenly sound works.
So I go and try to play 2 things at once. [Unless you have ALSA setup a specific way with mixers it won't do it because only one PID gets to talk to hardware at once.] Wow it works. Maybe they started shipping a working ALSA config. I go check /etc/asound.conf. Everything is still set to pulse.
So I check task manager. Sure enough the pulse server is still cranking away. But by purging all the files it somehow magically started to work. So I re-install it.
I repeat the test. Somehow mplayer decides it wants to grab ALSA instead of pulse but ALSA then grabs the hardware, so pulse dies and can't communicate to ALSA (which is actually doing the hardware interfacing if I read my workflow correctly). So now I have no sound, again.
So I try it straight from mplayer specifying the hardware device and it works. Except only in mplayer. So now I'm going to spend another few hours dicking with either the dmix plugin or deciding to give Pulse a 5th chance.
Fork something or start something from scratch. Something like MATE/GNOME2. And make it 'just work'.
I just installed Linux Mint Debian Edition. It's 100% compatible with Debian Testing. I run Debian Sid on every linux machine in my house (HTPC, server, sheevaplug, sound server in the basement). I've tried other distros. My girlfriend has Ubuntu and every single update she bitches about how they changed something. First they forced Unity. Then they managed to make unity worse. She's going to give the latest LTS a chance before switching to Mint or back to Windows.
I wanted to see if I could finally replace my Mac. I'm very, very impressed and think I may finally switch to a Linux "Desktop" (it's my laptop). MATE is excellent with Compiz.
But the one problem with Linux is what everyone touts as its biggest advantage: The paradox of choice. When I was setting up scale (aka Expose) on Compiz I could drag the speed slider all the way from 0 to 50. What they ment, fuck if I knew until I tested it. And could I really see a difference between 5.3 and 5.5? No. Say "Slow, Medium, Fast". If nothing else hide it behind a "advanced user" dialog.
A perfect example is the pointer acceleration/speed in the mouse dialog. XP has 10 discrete spots. MATE has infinite. I spent almost 9 hours getting the desktop how I wanted it. The average user doesn't want to do this, but if they DO want to change something how about we not overwhelm them with choices.
GE anyone? How much did they dodge the year they paid $0? BP paid $0 because the cleanup of the oil spill was a "business expense". I have no idea why anyone thinks this is new news. This is "Holy hell, you'll get wet if you jump into a lake!" style news.
Hell if I could dodge all my taxes I would. It's going to fund a whole lot of wars and taking money away from those that could use it (health care, students, planned parenthood etc). And when people jump up and whine that "But the Socialists will take all your monies!" well at least I'll see something out of it. The bets roads in Illinois are a joke compared to the worst section of autobahn I drove on.
Hell try
> mplayer
from MacPorts.
Not sure if serious or just that stupid:
Use Internet to download additional files during installation.
Useful when the install target has no Internet connection.
You also have at least as many options on the Ubuntu download page:
http://ubuntu.virginmedia.com/releases//precise/
It's not exactly "Download" But "Getting Debian" is a pretty close.
I haven't installed from 'disk' since I don't know when. My router boots to a netboot install on a TFTP server. I have an apt-cacher-ng server running on my server also.
I can have a new debian installed in almost no time.
Where are you from? When I visited out in Halifax I didn't notice it as much as when I visited northern Minnesota / Wisconsin. I'm going to guess that central canada has it a bit heavier than where ever you are from.
I had to re read this a few times.
the US is (mostly, there are obvious and absurd exceptions) governed in a way that assumes consenting adults can engage in mutually beneficial relationships
You mean like gay marriage? You mean like smoking pot?
I didn't claim it was already made. They claimed that you were funding development of the Flex and he would be selling the Prime which is a replication of his prototype. As I read that all the Prime needed was produced.
No, it's not. They have levels that you can buy into for each of the different products. For example Diaspora promised everyone that donated $5 "Once the software is released as open source, we will send you a CD with diaspora all set up and ready to go, with a note from our team!". I don't think anyone has gotten that.
It's even worse on the hardware side of things. So far I've backed 4 things in the last year and physically have 1 of them. Anywhere from "Sorry guys my supplier changed all my quotes" to "I just wanted to add ONE more feature." The one that I got actually showed up a week after the kickstarter ended. I got the Oblique wine bottle holder. The guy had a manufacturer (in the US) already set up. He had prototypes done and I wouldn't be surprised if the second he saw another order he had another 2 made. This guy actually knew what he was doing.
Look at the HexBright. I really debated getting it and just going with the prime because as the description says I conceived the HexBright Flex but I was tapped out of cash to actually make one. Kickstarter became an obvious solution. To raise capital I am offering reproductions of my original and first-made HexBright Prime for just $35. As that's worded you get something that's already been made. As far as I can tell no one has gotten anything yet.
If you want this to be a donation to fund further development. Flat out say that. There are projects that do that. But all the projects I've bought into have been pitched as "Guys I've been working really hard on this and I'm ready to show it to the world taking pre orders so I can get 5000 from China." And then all this money shows up and he decides continue engineering.
I'm starting to see why MBAs are needed. Everyone that has a project on there is an engineer of some sort and unless everything is 110% perfect they push the release date.