Smaller recording companies and independent musicians won't see a dime. It all goes to the companies who lobbied for the bill. It'd be like paying $50 for a Microsoft Windows OEM license when you buy a Mac.
You paid for a bundle of hardware and OS X. It's one unit. You can't point at part of it and say that part was free. If the OS X was free, then that was some expensive hardware you purchased. You'd be just as accurate to say you paid nothing the hardware (it came with the OS).
Strangely, Dell will sell you a PC with Windows for less than they'd sell it to you without. It's like getting paid $20 to install an OS you don't like on an otherwise blank system, but you're really still paying for it despite that they won't give you a discount to have it removed.
In OO, you can make the MS Office formats the default, under "Tools / Options / Load/Save / General / Standard file format", then the warnings go away. I haven't lost anything yet.
It was an NTFS partition created by XP Home. The drive was not a flash drive, but a laptop hard drive which I removed from a dead laptop and connected to a USB adapter to connect to a desktop to recover the data.
If that was the case it would have worked on all 3 Windows PC's. They do each have a network drive on Z:. I'm sure we've used USB drives in the past without trouble. I'm curious if the disk having been C: when it was in the laptop matters, like if it tries to remount hard disks as the drive letter they were previously and failed because C: is taken. I found several forum postings by people having the same exact problem, trying to access a hard disk removed from another system, without any mentioning having found a solution. After a few hours of frustration, I figured that my best remaining bet was using Linux to copy a Windows NTFS formatted drive to a Windows (actually Samba) server because Windows itself wasn't up to the task of supporting its own media.
I tried plugging a laptop hard drive to a USB adapter and then into a Windows desktop so I could recover the drive (the laptop was dead). It recognized it as a USB mass storage device, but did not give it a drive letter. Took a look in the Disk Management control panel. It saw the drive, and its partitions, and acknowledged that there was no drive letter. I right clicked the partition and the option to assign it a drive letter was greyed out. So I tried the diskpart command line tool. It said that the drive was active, and it saw the NTFS windows partition, but that the drive was hidden and had no volumes. There was no command to mount the partition.
I tried the drive on 3 computers, with XP home, XP professional, and 2000 professional. Same results on each, except that the 2000 computer spontaneously rebooted and afterwards could no longer mount any usb drives.
So I plugged it into an ancient computer running Ubuntu Hoary. The drive was immediately detected and mounted. An icon was placed on the desktop. A nautilus window was popped up to browse the drive's contents. I was able to backup the entire drive to a server without error and without the use of a command line. I just dragged & dropped.
I haven't encountered your problem yet. You could try Ubuntu Hoary to see if that fixes it. To upgrade from the command line: sudo gedit (or whatever text editor you prefer)/etc/apt/sources.list replace each "warty" with "hoary" and save sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
I've spent hours installing and testing theme after theme only to return to the Red Hat default of BlueCurve. I even made it my default in XFCE on Ubuntu. It's just easier to look at.
Dell recommends Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (it says so on their handhelds page) and offers only Intel® XScale(TM) processors in their handhelds.
I was hooked on a programming game for 6 years. My grades fell through the floor, but I doubt it harmed my intelligence. Excessive caffiene may have done some damage though.
Sometimes I get involved in a game, and don't get anything done at home for weeks, and I'm 23. I've beaten Chrono Trigger probably 6 or 7 times.
I had an entire project full of.cpp files that it wouldn't let me open by right clicking and choosing "open in text editor". It was confused that they first few lines of each file was a comment with copyright information and a url. It identified them as some sort of GEM files, can't remember exactly. I'm sure the url was the issue, but given that the license wants me to keep the copyright headers intact, I'm not going to risk infringing in 30 or so.cpp files just to make gnome happy.
Something else that really screws it up is when two similar file types can have the same extension. Then all but one of those types will always be blocked.
Ubuntu Warty - It did what you say, but not nearly as much as I'm looking for in a menu editor. But I could type applications:// into nautilus and do some other minor editing.
Ubuntu Hoary - Menu editing no longer works. Even applications:// is gone. I don't have more details since a week later nautilus crapped itself and I switched to XFCE (I hate KDE).
CentOS4 (RHEL clone) - The context menu is there, but all the actions you describe are greyed out, even when logged in as root. Can't add or remove launchers or edit properties. applications:// editing also disabled. Maybe a Red Hat decision, but not a big deal since the alternative is broken anyway. A post that I won't bother to search for said that they found the context menu editing to be too buggy.
To sum it up, there was once a sort of minimal menu editing in Gnome 2, but now it appears to be gone. I can't change my menus except using a text editor.
I use Gnome every day, so naturally I'm concerned about its declining quality. I have done some manual editing, but it's a real pain. Gnome seems to pull menu items from all over the place, stored in multiple formats, which is probably part of the reason there's no longer a good user interface for editing them.
Why did you have to recompile the kernel to print?
I don't think the wild distribution forking isn't as bad as it looks. Most work goes into the apps themselves. And all but 50 or so are personal projects or dead. And only about a dozen or so (not counting special purpose/embedded) distros are big enough to really matter.
None of the destop environment projects seem to really agree on where to go, but for the most part, you can mix and match them all. It goes beyond just running KDE apps on Gnome and vice versa. I can run almost any program meant for almost any desktop environment and it'll work fine, aside from occasional clipboard and sound issues. I grab often components I like from each and make a custom environment, like a KDE panel, a Gnome desktop, and an XFCE window manager. They're all just individual programs and libraries that connect to an X server to create a graphical desktop. Freedesktop.org publishes many standards which are meant to improve interoperability. For example, I see the same menu under almost every desktop environment I try.
For the office suites, OpenOffice.org works very well and offers better compatibility than any other office suite. MS office translation isn't perfect. It can't translate VBA macros or display unknown OLE objects on other platforms, but to do either would be an amazing feat. My documents load and save just fine, so well that I have OOo set to default to MS Office formats. KOffice is pretty good. Gnumeric and Abiword both load quickly and can open some files that I can't open in either MS Office or OpenOffice. But there's only one Microsoft Access, unfortunately (some would say fortunately).
Open source does have a couple big faults. One, which you seem to be hinting at, is that non-paying non-developers will find a lot of OSS software that doesn't meet their needs AND provide an intuitive user inteface to do it. If you need something changed, development time must be invested, meaning that either you do it yourself or pay someone else to do it, unless your interests match those of willing developers. Should a developer work for free to write features that aren't important to them, just to satisfy the demands of non-contributing users?
Also if a project or feature is not important enough for an individual or business to implement for their own needs, it will often not be done despite being worthwhile for the community as a whole. Everyone wants the same thing, but individually, each would see more benefit by letting someone else do it and not get involved themself, so important things don't get done until. This is called a free rider problem, and is hard to solve without mandated fees (sales). On the other hand, if something is important enough for you to write it yourself, you have a good chance of finding it has already been written by someone else, because it was important enough to them too. The software's hardly ever pretty but it tends to do serve its purpose very well.
Sometimes I say too much. I didn't leave much time left to proofread.
It has: * No menu editor. * Hard coded un-overridable mime-sniffing that gets lots of things wrong (because it's foolish to even try to anticipate every single file format and code to handle them all) and then forces its will on the user (won't open some of my text files in gedit for "security" reasons). * A file browser that defeats all that paranoid mime-sniffing "security" by hiding extensions.desktop extensions (like Windows does with.lnk files, but without the arrow telling you it's a shortcut) allowing them to spoof regular documents with icons and everything. * Menus that scroll like win95 when very full. A menu editor and/or overflowing into columns would help a lot. * And a continually decreasing level of configurability.
I suppose aside from that it's very good. It's the desktop environment I'm using now, and the one that I keep coming back too after repeatedly trying to dump it in favor of the alternatives.
run installer in wine wait a long long while when the error dialog pops up, do not close it yet find the windows temp directory (example:/home/david/.wine/drive_c/windows/temp), and make a copy of the pftbdb~tmp you may close the installer open a terminal and cd to the copy of the temp install director you just created install "unshield" if you do not already have it $ mkdir data1 $ unshield -d data1 x data1.cab $ cd data1/Java_Classes $ ls WTF!?? It's Java, but with tons of Windows dependencies.
I've had this conversation about 5 times: "I saved a spreadsheet and I'm having trouble finding it to open on this other computer." Well, where did you save it to? "I saved it in Excel" Did you save it somewhere on the server? "I don't know. I saved it in Excel, wherever that goes."
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Smaller recording companies and independent musicians won't see a dime. It all goes to the companies who lobbied for the bill. It'd be like paying $50 for a Microsoft Windows OEM license when you buy a Mac.
You paid for a bundle of hardware and OS X. It's one unit. You can't point at part of it and say that part was free. If the OS X was free, then that was some expensive hardware you purchased. You'd be just as accurate to say you paid nothing the hardware (it came with the OS).
Strangely, Dell will sell you a PC with Windows for less than they'd sell it to you without. It's like getting paid $20 to install an OS you don't like on an otherwise blank system, but you're really still paying for it despite that they won't give you a discount to have it removed.
$90k sounds a little steep, and you need/ought to know a lot more than PHP. Where are you getting your statistics?
In OO, you can make the MS Office formats the default, under "Tools / Options / Load/Save / General / Standard file format", then the warnings go away. I haven't lost anything yet.
It was an NTFS partition created by XP Home. The drive was not a flash drive, but a laptop hard drive which I removed from a dead laptop and connected to a USB adapter to connect to a desktop to recover the data.
If that was the case it would have worked on all 3 Windows PC's. They do each have a network drive on Z:. I'm sure we've used USB drives in the past without trouble. I'm curious if the disk having been C: when it was in the laptop matters, like if it tries to remount hard disks as the drive letter they were previously and failed because C: is taken. I found several forum postings by people having the same exact problem, trying to access a hard disk removed from another system, without any mentioning having found a solution. After a few hours of frustration, I figured that my best remaining bet was using Linux to copy a Windows NTFS formatted drive to a Windows (actually Samba) server because Windows itself wasn't up to the task of supporting its own media.
If Metro will let you embed videos?
It seemed important enough for Word.
I tried plugging a laptop hard drive to a USB adapter and then into a Windows desktop so I could recover the drive (the laptop was dead). It recognized it as a USB mass storage device, but did not give it a drive letter. Took a look in the Disk Management control panel. It saw the drive, and its partitions, and acknowledged that there was no drive letter. I right clicked the partition and the option to assign it a drive letter was greyed out. So I tried the diskpart command line tool. It said that the drive was active, and it saw the NTFS windows partition, but that the drive was hidden and had no volumes. There was no command to mount the partition.
/etc/apt/sources.list
I tried the drive on 3 computers, with XP home, XP professional, and 2000 professional. Same results on each, except that the 2000 computer spontaneously rebooted and afterwards could no longer mount any usb drives.
So I plugged it into an ancient computer running Ubuntu Hoary. The drive was immediately detected and mounted. An icon was placed on the desktop. A nautilus window was popped up to browse the drive's contents. I was able to backup the entire drive to a server without error and without the use of a command line. I just dragged & dropped.
I haven't encountered your problem yet. You could try Ubuntu Hoary to see if that fixes it. To upgrade from the command line:
sudo gedit (or whatever text editor you prefer)
replace each "warty" with "hoary" and save
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Better use protection.
http://www.dict.cc/?s=tust
Originally in German.
I've spent hours installing and testing theme after theme only to return to the Red Hat default of BlueCurve. I even made it my default in XFCE on Ubuntu. It's just easier to look at.
Dell recommends Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (it says so on their handhelds page) and offers only Intel® XScale(TM) processors in their handhelds.
I was hooked on a programming game for 6 years. My grades fell through the floor, but I doubt it harmed my intelligence. Excessive caffiene may have done some damage though.
Sometimes I get involved in a game, and don't get anything done at home for weeks, and I'm 23. I've beaten Chrono Trigger probably 6 or 7 times.
Have you tried installing Metal Blob Solid?
I had an entire project full of .cpp files that it wouldn't let me open by right clicking and choosing "open in text editor". It was confused that they first few lines of each file was a comment with copyright information and a url. It identified them as some sort of GEM files, can't remember exactly. I'm sure the url was the issue, but given that the license wants me to keep the copyright headers intact, I'm not going to risk infringing in 30 or so .cpp files just to make gnome happy.
Something else that really screws it up is when two similar file types can have the same extension. Then all but one of those types will always be blocked.
So you're saying that in chat rooms less than half are honest about their gender? Where have you been chatting?
I knew that much. It's not helpful though.
Ubuntu Warty - It did what you say, but not nearly as much as I'm looking for in a menu editor. But I could type applications:// into nautilus and do some other minor editing.
Ubuntu Hoary - Menu editing no longer works. Even applications:// is gone. I don't have more details since a week later nautilus crapped itself and I switched to XFCE (I hate KDE).
CentOS4 (RHEL clone) - The context menu is there, but all the actions you describe are greyed out, even when logged in as root. Can't add or remove launchers or edit properties. applications:// editing also disabled. Maybe a Red Hat decision, but not a big deal since the alternative is broken anyway. A post that I won't bother to search for said that they found the context menu editing to be too buggy.
To sum it up, there was once a sort of minimal menu editing in Gnome 2, but now it appears to be gone. I can't change my menus except using a text editor.
I use Gnome every day, so naturally I'm concerned about its declining quality. I have done some manual editing, but it's a real pain. Gnome seems to pull menu items from all over the place, stored in multiple formats, which is probably part of the reason there's no longer a good user interface for editing them.
Why did you have to recompile the kernel to print?
I don't think the wild distribution forking isn't as bad as it looks. Most work goes into the apps themselves. And all but 50 or so are personal projects or dead. And only about a dozen or so (not counting special purpose/embedded) distros are big enough to really matter.
None of the destop environment projects seem to really agree on where to go, but for the most part, you can mix and match them all. It goes beyond just running KDE apps on Gnome and vice versa. I can run almost any program meant for almost any desktop environment and it'll work fine, aside from occasional clipboard and sound issues. I grab often components I like from each and make a custom environment, like a KDE panel, a Gnome desktop, and an XFCE window manager. They're all just individual programs and libraries that connect to an X server to create a graphical desktop. Freedesktop.org publishes many standards which are meant to improve interoperability. For example, I see the same menu under almost every desktop environment I try.
For the office suites, OpenOffice.org works very well and offers better compatibility than any other office suite. MS office translation isn't perfect. It can't translate VBA macros or display unknown OLE objects on other platforms, but to do either would be an amazing feat. My documents load and save just fine, so well that I have OOo set to default to MS Office formats. KOffice is pretty good. Gnumeric and Abiword both load quickly and can open some files that I can't open in either MS Office or OpenOffice. But there's only one Microsoft Access, unfortunately (some would say fortunately).
Open source does have a couple big faults.
One, which you seem to be hinting at, is that non-paying non-developers will find a lot of OSS software that doesn't meet their needs AND provide an intuitive user inteface to do it. If you need something changed, development time must be invested, meaning that either you do it yourself or pay someone else to do it, unless your interests match those of willing developers. Should a developer work for free to write features that aren't important to them, just to satisfy the demands of non-contributing users?
Also if a project or feature is not important enough for an individual or business to implement for their own needs, it will often not be done despite being worthwhile for the community as a whole. Everyone wants the same thing, but individually, each would see more benefit by letting someone else do it and not get involved themself, so important things don't get done until. This is called a free rider problem, and is hard to solve without mandated fees (sales). On the other hand, if something is important enough for you to write it yourself, you have a good chance of finding it has already been written by someone else, because it was important enough to them too. The software's hardly ever pretty but it tends to do serve its purpose very well.
Sometimes I say too much. I didn't leave much time left to proofread.
It has: .desktop extensions (like Windows does with .lnk files, but without the arrow telling you it's a shortcut) allowing them to spoof regular documents with icons and everything.
* No menu editor.
* Hard coded un-overridable mime-sniffing that gets lots of things wrong (because it's foolish to even try to anticipate every single file format and code to handle them all) and then forces its will on the user (won't open some of my text files in gedit for "security" reasons).
* A file browser that defeats all that paranoid mime-sniffing "security" by hiding extensions
* Menus that scroll like win95 when very full. A menu editor and/or overflowing into columns would help a lot.
* And a continually decreasing level of configurability.
I suppose aside from that it's very good. It's the desktop environment I'm using now, and the one that I keep coming back too after repeatedly trying to dump it in favor of the alternatives.
I haven't used it, since our management changed their minds, but it would have been my first choice:
http://www.hylafax.org/
It couldn't have been that informative. I didn't try very hard.
The application forms are in XFDL, if that helps anyone.
Beyond that, I couldn't get it to run.
run installer in wine /home/david/.wine/drive_c/windows/temp), and make a copy of the pftbdb~tmp
wait a long long while
when the error dialog pops up, do not close it yet
find the windows temp directory (example:
you may close the installer
open a terminal and cd to the copy of the temp install director you just created
install "unshield" if you do not already have it
$ mkdir data1
$ unshield -d data1 x data1.cab
$ cd data1/Java_Classes
$ ls
WTF!?? It's Java, but with tons of Windows dependencies.
auto-balance?
It goes beyond that.
I've had this conversation about 5 times:
"I saved a spreadsheet and I'm having trouble finding it to open on this other computer."
Well, where did you save it to?
"I saved it in Excel"
Did you save it somewhere on the server?
"I don't know. I saved it in Excel, wherever that goes."