I'm in a similar boat. I did the upgrade over the weekend from 9.10. When I went from 9.04 to 9.10 I was mostly pleased, except a few irritating bugs and the fast user switch applet was removed - this previously made wife-friendly usage in the living room a breeze. I was all excited to get to 10.04 as it was returning. This would be Ubuntu's last chance to keep me.
Yes it returned (in a less intuitive place, the menu with your name is now all 'communication' based. The fast switching is located under the *power* icon... huh?)
I have already had a system freeze while switching user.
Sun Java was booted and now isn't even in the repositories. "OpenJDK is good enough for most people". I will try it for a while but I hope it is up to scratch for Java EE 6 development (doubt that). Now I have to jump through the proverbial hoops.
The whole Indicator applet/Indicator applet session/Notification Area/Volume control/Battery meter/Network icon mess is a joke. - The combinations of icons that you are allowed ends up with far less efficient usage of space in some circumstances. The reason they made the changes? To increase efficiency of space used.
I know some of these are minor irritations in reality, but it's mucking about with stuff like this, causing frustration with the users, that pisses me off. I know, I will get used to it.. *sigh*.
So it's time for a switch. Is Fedora Core wife-friendly? She is begging for Win7 so I may just partition it with FC/Win7 & Hackintosh - Maybe this is the OS that will lure me, cos linux (Well, Ubuntu) only seems to be going backwards.
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Too many people feel the need to take their jobs home with them. If it's a job necessity for you to do so then the company has to supply the means to do it.
Yeah:) Also handy to know for when your clutch cable/hydraulics break. Starting can be tough though if you have to be in neutral to start, need foot on brake to start or any other such annoying safety aid.
The other day, I was in a private car park and it was snowy. I admit, I love to have a little play in the snow from time to time. One, it's fun, I cannot lie:) Two, it helps me learn how THIS car feels in slippery snowy conditions, it keeps my 'controlling a sliding car' skills in check and, I feel, makes me a safer driver in slippery conditions. Sometimes I have quite a lot of fun in *completely* empty car parks, lots of drifting etc. The only thing at risk is my rims & suspension.
So this one time in a private car park in Toronto, I reverse out of my parking space. a little heavy footedly, give the steering a flick to put it into a J-Turn and come to a halt. I must have moved backwards about 5 Metres - nothing compared to my normal car park antics. The cop in the police car that happened to be on the road outside the car park was not so impressed. He lectured me about dangerous driving and stunt driving. He 'let me off' but it was private so he couldn't do anything anyway. he did, however put a note in the computer against me that I was doing what I did. I should have stayed in the car park and gone back in my parking space - he wouldn't be able to do anything. I was too slow to think of this at the time.
And the part that makes this relevant to the parent post, and what REALLY pissed me off. When he drove off, he did a huge burnout and fish-tailed the car down the road - "look at me, I can do what I fucking like cos i'm a complete fucking wanker, and there is nothing you can do about it low life commoner" - It's this attitude that really gives police a bad name I feel.
I also like this... "racing in Dirt 2 on a 3x2 Eyefinity configuration is a totally different experience than playing on a single, smaller screen" - Indeed, but I also think that probably, "racing in Dirt 2 on a 3x2 Eyefinity configuration is just like playing on a single, similar sized screen, except with annoying frames"
Surely a projector would be just as good/better?
One area that I think this kind of setup would be very great is where the 'peripheral' screens were displaying 'peripheral' view-ports so that when you look to the side, you have a 'to the side' camera angle rather than just the widened forward view. For a racing game say, then you could glance to the side for your mirrors and for people coming up beside you (but not level yet) - just like real driving!
I really thought this was what EyeFiniti would be when I first heard of it but was quite disappointed that it was just an expanded screen. I guess it may even be possible to do it without specialist game support, assuming that the 3d world is pretty much rendered fully on-card. If the card has the whole 3d world in its memory for any frame then surely it can generate a new viewport (I'm not up on the internals of modern graphics hardware, is this even viable?)
VERY interesting, thank you. My wife loves this but it's ridiculously $$$ for what it is (A small piece of BASF Basotect V 3012 foam). I just tried looking for suppliers in Ontario and haven't found anything yet. I also just phoned BASF Canada and they don't supply or sell finished products.
No sign of melamine foam or Basotect on fleabay either.
I too had Elite, on my Acorn Electron (My first computer). However, it was near impossible for me to save games with the cassette recorder and so I got bored of restarting the game every time very quickly. In fact I got bored of most stuff pretty quickly due to an inability to save stuff reliably.
I wonder if I would have gotten more geeky in life if I had a better cassette player with my Electron!
My answer? Give them cash or get them to get with the fucking programme and get a bank account lol. If you don't have an account, don't expect to use efficient modern banking methods.
I get that you can cash cheques and they would like to use this. Tough tittie for them I say, it's an antiquated system.
In Germany at least, you don't. You have their bank information (Most businesses have it publicly displayed). They don't have a fucked up system whereby anyone having your bank details is a bad thing.
Tom...
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Don't get me wrong, I still love it, but these annoyances do not give me brownie points with the wife when I want to have a no-windows home... :)
I'm in a similar boat. I did the upgrade over the weekend from 9.10. When I went from 9.04 to 9.10 I was mostly pleased, except a few irritating bugs and the fast user switch applet was removed - this previously made wife-friendly usage in the living room a breeze. I was all excited to get to 10.04 as it was returning. This would be Ubuntu's last chance to keep me.
Yes it returned (in a less intuitive place, the menu with your name is now all 'communication' based. The fast switching is located under the *power* icon... huh?)
I have already had a system freeze while switching user.
Sun Java was booted and now isn't even in the repositories. "OpenJDK is good enough for most people". I will try it for a while but I hope it is up to scratch for Java EE 6 development (doubt that). Now I have to jump through the proverbial hoops.
The whole Indicator applet/Indicator applet session/Notification Area/Volume control/Battery meter/Network icon mess is a joke. - The combinations of icons that you are allowed ends up with far less efficient usage of space in some circumstances. The reason they made the changes? To increase efficiency of space used.
I know some of these are minor irritations in reality, but it's mucking about with stuff like this, causing frustration with the users, that pisses me off. I know, I will get used to it.. *sigh*.
So it's time for a switch. Is Fedora Core wife-friendly? She is begging for Win7 so I may just partition it with FC/Win7 & Hackintosh - Maybe this is the OS that will lure me, cos linux (Well, Ubuntu) only seems to be going backwards.
Tom...
I think what you mean is, "me too".
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Too many people feel the need to take their jobs home with them. If it's a job necessity for you to do so then the company has to supply the means to do it.
Tom...
You had the perfect line-up for a good banging joke, and you go for barn doors in a heavy wind? Seriously?
I love how the correct voices automatically get overlaid in your mind when you read quotes like this.
Here, have some eat.
I know what you are saying, but I feel quite qualified in saying I am not guilty of said overpopulation boom.
4 Grandparents -> 2 Parents -> 1 child.
Between me, my wife and our parents, we are responsible for a reduction of population* by 4x over 3 generations.
If that doesn't give me 'population boom smug points' I don't know what does.
*Obviously only if everyone was to do this.
The only way we could do better is to have no kids and then if everyone did this, byebye human race.
Tom...
As another fresh father, I challenge that *my* baby boy is the cute one! :)
Wait, is 1yr still considered fresh? Still feels it.
Tom...
When I was a kid, I got the catalogue every year and read it like a book lol.
But where does one go in Canada for such non-mail-order goodness?
Tom...
Yeah :) Also handy to know for when your clutch cable/hydraulics break. Starting can be tough though if you have to be in neutral to start, need foot on brake to start or any other such annoying safety aid.
Tom...
This.
:) Two, it helps me learn how THIS car feels in slippery snowy conditions, it keeps my 'controlling a sliding car' skills in check and, I feel, makes me a safer driver in slippery conditions. Sometimes I have quite a lot of fun in *completely* empty car parks, lots of drifting etc. The only thing at risk is my rims & suspension.
/rant :)
The other day, I was in a private car park and it was snowy. I admit, I love to have a little play in the snow from time to time. One, it's fun, I cannot lie
So this one time in a private car park in Toronto, I reverse out of my parking space. a little heavy footedly, give the steering a flick to put it into a J-Turn and come to a halt. I must have moved backwards about 5 Metres - nothing compared to my normal car park antics. The cop in the police car that happened to be on the road outside the car park was not so impressed. He lectured me about dangerous driving and stunt driving. He 'let me off' but it was private so he couldn't do anything anyway. he did, however put a note in the computer against me that I was doing what I did. I should have stayed in the car park and gone back in my parking space - he wouldn't be able to do anything. I was too slow to think of this at the time.
And the part that makes this relevant to the parent post, and what REALLY pissed me off. When he drove off, he did a huge burnout and fish-tailed the car down the road - "look at me, I can do what I fucking like cos i'm a complete fucking wanker, and there is nothing you can do about it low life commoner" - It's this attitude that really gives police a bad name I feel.
Tom...
Ahhhh, good memories.
And no stairs or lights to find your way :)
Jesus holly fucker, I think you may be right!
I agree.
I also like this... "racing in Dirt 2 on a 3x2 Eyefinity configuration is a totally different experience than playing on a single, smaller screen" - Indeed, but I also think that probably, "racing in Dirt 2 on a 3x2 Eyefinity configuration is just like playing on a single, similar sized screen, except with annoying frames"
Surely a projector would be just as good/better?
One area that I think this kind of setup would be very great is where the 'peripheral' screens were displaying 'peripheral' view-ports so that when you look to the side, you have a 'to the side' camera angle rather than just the widened forward view. For a racing game say, then you could glance to the side for your mirrors and for people coming up beside you (but not level yet) - just like real driving!
I really thought this was what EyeFiniti would be when I first heard of it but was quite disappointed that it was just an expanded screen. I guess it may even be possible to do it without specialist game support, assuming that the 3d world is pretty much rendered fully on-card. If the card has the whole 3d world in its memory for any frame then surely it can generate a new viewport (I'm not up on the internals of modern graphics hardware, is this even viable?)
Oh well.
Tom...
Well I haven't heard anything about them suing Whitby library (near Toronto) and they already have games.
Tom...
VERY interesting, thank you. My wife loves this but it's ridiculously $$$ for what it is (A small piece of BASF Basotect V 3012 foam). I just tried looking for suppliers in Ontario and haven't found anything yet. I also just phoned BASF Canada and they don't supply or sell finished products.
No sign of melamine foam or Basotect on fleabay either.
I wonder when I can get it.
Tom...
I too had Elite, on my Acorn Electron (My first computer). However, it was near impossible for me to save games with the cassette recorder and so I got bored of restarting the game every time very quickly. In fact I got bored of most stuff pretty quickly due to an inability to save stuff reliably.
I wonder if I would have gotten more geeky in life if I had a better cassette player with my Electron!
Tom...
That's not a PhonE jack, Bob.
Good point, I missed that he said that.
My answer? Give them cash or get them to get with the fucking programme and get a bank account lol. If you don't have an account, don't expect to use efficient modern banking methods.
I get that you can cash cheques and they would like to use this. Tough tittie for them I say, it's an antiquated system.
Tom...
In Germany at least, you don't. You have their bank information (Most businesses have it publicly displayed). They don't have a fucked up system whereby anyone having your bank details is a bad thing. Tom...
OK, I admit I had to go look at it again after seeing your comment - just so I could see what it *did* say.
:)
I read it as herpes, didn't get it, and moved on.
it makes much more sense now
Tom...
Are you related to Agrajag?
Tom...
Ahh got it. I had assumed you meant the error was there but no desktop.
Alles klar!
Tom...