I agree with you that gnome should not belong with fsf any more. But at least on paper they are still the official desktop of GNU. I think RMS is trying to get them to behave but not having much success.
The biggest idiocy of GNOME 3 last time I tried it (Ubuntu 11.10) was that Right click on the panel didn't work. You had to alt-right-click for everything. This is because the GNUssolini decided it was too distracting for me to right click and I wouldn't get any work done if I right clicked. So they changed all context menus to alt-right-click.
So, is there a GNOME Shell Extension that makes right-click work the way it used to?
Many on Slashdot would say that it's because iOS devices are status symbols. That real, discerning users use Android.
iPhone as "status symbol" was maybe about 4 years ago? I just saw my garbage man checking his iPhone, somehow I don't think they are status symbols anymore. I think you need to get the spray-painted yellow or diamond-encrusted to get back to status symbol.
Smartphones---whether android or iOS---they are just now common tools that any person would spend money on if they have the money, like a car or a TV.
Does opera mini not use a competing browser engine? It must, since it compresses stuff, the render just feels different and is resistant to my adblocker:-P
Unless I'm misremembering, I think opera mini proves competing engines are allowed by apple, and that yet again Mozilla = focused on the wrong goals lately.
Sorry Mozilla---unlike the PC, where everyone can download and install Linux, you cannot just download and install a mobile OS unless you are in a tiny minority. Your only hope is open hardware, which, good luck with finding any.
Not trying to dissuade you from exercising your right to tinker, just trying to understand why I should care.
How about a firefox for iOS instead, mmmh? Wouldn't that be a better usage of your resources? Lots of us here would love that.
I'm still in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I fear this thing called Gnome 3 that I'm going to have to install in the LTS. Can any either write up or point me towards a good informative write-up what exactly the biggest differences are which a Gnome 2 user might find confusing or annoying?
VNC or things like NX help in that if you turn off your laptop, your session is still running on your desktop. You can literally stop in the middle of what you're doing, suspend your laptop, and whatever you were doing with your remote session still keeps on chugging.
Also, in general, VNC or NX are much much faster than the straight X protocol. Even when compressed, there is something incredibly laggy and slow about the X protocol when you're throwing up windows that are non-text. A graphics-heavy application will run much faster in VNC or NX than in X-forwarding, even though the former are doing movies of the desktop and the latter is supposedly doing something more intelligent.
Some say that the new Makers are so cool that hip chicks like Andraste are even into them, and say that they want to marry them. Of course, Andraste's hubby is not going to be so happy about this and it will surely end badly for someone.
He will gladly speak with you if you think free software is bad for society or ruins capitalism and that patents are necessary for innovation. What he *doesn't* want to do is re-argue useless conversations like free vs. open source, GNU/Linux vs. just Linux. Those points are not the points of his speeches and he doesn't want to rehash them during his species, hence asking that the events and reporters move beyond those particular issues. He's interested in the broader ethics, and nothing in the runner says that you should disinvite disagreers.
That having been said, I'm not letting him sleep on my couch.
WTF is up with slashdot. Usually the stories border on sensational, but lately the fraction of blatant lies masquarading as stories has skyrocket. Cmdrtaco, where art thou?
OK. I will begin bitching. I have been burned so many times by non-LTS (non long term support) Ubuntu releases that I am not even willing to consider installing them any more. Random regressions that you discover one week into your install that cost you time and that will be fixed "in the next release." I don't care if Ocelot is perfect for you and your uncle and your third cousin; chances are, when I install it, something relevant to me will have been broken and bug reports will be marked WON'T FIX because the devs are already focused on the next release.
Non-LTS releases are alpha software to me, and LTS releases are beta software that turns relatively stable two weeks into the release.
That said, I have never been burned by waiting two weeks for the Ubuntu LTS releases and then installing. That one tends to be a quality product. I'm looking forward to seeing it!
Agreed. Yahoo is around only because there is a % of people who could only be bothered to "learn the internets" once, therefore they are still slaves to Yahoo Groups/Yahoo Mail/all that awful stuff. Most of these people somehow appear to wind up in my kids parent/teacher associations, basically anyone who is technically clueless but needs to organize online stuff. They looked into it once, in the 90s, and now they can't be bothered to learn any of the newer solutions.
Now, Yahoo actually did some pretty cool stuff on the other end, like Pipes is really neat (though I could never get it to work with Google Reader, funny that), and their finance site is actually still probably the best. But overall you've gotta ask yourself, what is Yahoo actually about.
Allright, allright, I think I just need to add my experience: that since FireFox 5, updates have never broken ANY of my plugins. The list of plugins I use is below. I don't know what plugins are affected but all this ranting on Slashdot may just be symptomatic of this being Slashdot and nerds using weird hacked together plugins that scratch a particular itch and are realistically speaking, fringe. Can you name any popular plugins that have been broken since the recent high speed updates? You know what, I'm not a web developer, as aren't most Chrome users, and for me the FF experience has been just FINE.
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Ironically, Google Desktop is the only Desktop search that actually works in Linux (at least on GNOME)! Every thing else is either horribly broken, horribly slow, or lacks basic functionality. Sad to see this go.
Let's face it: this is about GNOME/KDE, not Linux the kernel. Linux the kernel has won already. It's not the year of "Linux on the Desktop", it's the year of Linux on the Android/Tivo/VirginAmerica/the list goes on...
Linux the kernel is no longer relevant to this discussion. FWIW, Apple's Mach kernel is just as good as Linux. The discussions are about GNOME/KDE vs. Mac OS/iOs vs. Windows.
The backend is just catching up to Debian/yum, but the front end is way ahead. Once there is parity between the Linux backends and the Apple/Windows ones, there will be little reason to switch. Especially given how many of the best free and open source software is available now natively compiled for Windowds and Mac OS. The big game changer was the fact that Windows 7 doesn't suck any more. It's actually usable, if still closed.
Mod parent up. "Linux" as synonymous for "Linux on the Desktop" is a disservice to both Linux and GNU/KDE. Aren't most Linux kernel users now Android users? Whereas they still wouldn't touch Ubuntu with 10 foot pole.
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I agree with you that gnome should not belong with fsf any more. But at least on paper they are still the official desktop of GNU. I think RMS is trying to get them to behave but not having much success.
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I hate to break it to you but you can switch between unity and gnome shell in Ubuntu. My statement is correct as it stands.
The biggest idiocy of GNOME 3 last time I tried it (Ubuntu 11.10) was that Right click on the panel didn't work.
I hate to break it to you, but Ubuntu's UI is Unity, not GNOME Shell. It has nothing to do with GNOME.
The biggest idiocy of GNOME 3 last time I tried it (Ubuntu 11.10) was that Right click on the panel didn't work. You had to alt-right-click for everything. This is because the GNUssolini decided it was too distracting for me to right click and I wouldn't get any work done if I right clicked. So they changed all context menus to alt-right-click.
So, is there a GNOME Shell Extension that makes right-click work the way it used to?
Yeah, but that difference is about an order of magnitude more subtle than shown on Dell's site.
We both have SlashID's starting with 68... Hmmmm... sound like a glitch in the system, then.
Up until 2006 or so, I used to get mod points regularly, every week.
Then suddenly I stopped getting mod points. That was about 5 YEARS ago.
*Nothing* for 5 YEARS.
Then, suddenly, yesterday, I got some again.
What the hell kind of algorithm can lead to a 5 YEAR hiatus in mod point allocation?
Many on Slashdot would say that it's because iOS devices are status symbols. That real, discerning users use Android.
iPhone as "status symbol" was maybe about 4 years ago? I just saw my garbage man checking his iPhone, somehow I don't think they are status symbols anymore. I think you need to get the spray-painted yellow or diamond-encrusted to get back to status symbol.
Smartphones---whether android or iOS---they are just now common tools that any person would spend money on if they have the money, like a car or a TV.
Oh I see so I guess they are continuing their monkey-see-monkey-do with Mac OS X LOL.
I actually like that behavior BTW but realize that it must be frustrating as hell for most geeks as exemplified by Linus's rant.
Does opera mini not use a competing browser engine? It must, since it compresses stuff, the render just feels different and is resistant to my adblocker :-P
Unless I'm misremembering, I think opera mini proves competing engines are allowed by apple, and that yet again Mozilla = focused on the wrong goals lately.
Sorry Mozilla---unlike the PC, where everyone can download and install Linux, you cannot just download and install a mobile OS unless you are in a tiny minority. Your only hope is open hardware, which, good luck with finding any.
Not trying to dissuade you from exercising your right to tinker, just trying to understand why I should care.
How about a firefox for iOS instead, mmmh? Wouldn't that be a better usage of your resources? Lots of us here would love that.
I'm still in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I fear this thing called Gnome 3 that I'm going to have to install in the LTS. Can any either write up or point me towards a good informative write-up what exactly the biggest differences are which a Gnome 2 user might find confusing or annoying?
VNC or things like NX help in that if you turn off your laptop, your session is still running on your desktop. You can literally stop in the middle of what you're doing, suspend your laptop, and whatever you were doing with your remote session still keeps on chugging.
Also, in general, VNC or NX are much much faster than the straight X protocol. Even when compressed, there is something incredibly laggy and slow about the X protocol when you're throwing up windows that are non-text. A graphics-heavy application will run much faster in VNC or NX than in X-forwarding, even though the former are doing movies of the desktop and the latter is supposedly doing something more intelligent.
Some say that the new Makers are so cool that hip chicks like Andraste are even into them, and say that they want to marry them. Of course, Andraste's hubby is not going to be so happy about this and it will surely end badly for someone.
He will gladly speak with you if you think free software is bad for society or ruins capitalism and that patents are necessary for innovation. What he *doesn't* want to do is re-argue useless conversations like free vs. open source, GNU/Linux vs. just Linux. Those points are not the points of his speeches and he doesn't want to rehash them during his species, hence asking that the events and reporters move beyond those particular issues. He's interested in the broader ethics, and nothing in the runner says that you should disinvite disagreers.
That having been said, I'm not letting him sleep on my couch.
I cannot tell 256kbps VBR MP3 from lossless on my stereo. I listen mainly to classical music.
Mod parent up, LOL. Noone here gets it that they PLANNED to shed those customers to up profits, given high-cost nature of DVD business.
WTF is up with slashdot. Usually the stories border on sensational, but lately the fraction of blatant lies masquarading as stories has skyrocket. Cmdrtaco, where art thou?
They are using the RTM calendar in iCal, so no, not an API access at all. Just a calendar.
OK. I will begin bitching. I have been burned so many times by non-LTS (non long term support) Ubuntu releases that I am not even willing to consider installing them any more. Random regressions that you discover one week into your install that cost you time and that will be fixed "in the next release." I don't care if Ocelot is perfect for you and your uncle and your third cousin; chances are, when I install it, something relevant to me will have been broken and bug reports will be marked WON'T FIX because the devs are already focused on the next release.
Non-LTS releases are alpha software to me, and LTS releases are beta software that turns relatively stable two weeks into the release.
That said, I have never been burned by waiting two weeks for the Ubuntu LTS releases and then installing. That one tends to be a quality product. I'm looking forward to seeing it!
Agreed. Yahoo is around only because there is a % of people who could only be bothered to "learn the internets" once, therefore they are still slaves to Yahoo Groups/Yahoo Mail/all that awful stuff. Most of these people somehow appear to wind up in my kids parent/teacher associations, basically anyone who is technically clueless but needs to organize online stuff. They looked into it once, in the 90s, and now they can't be bothered to learn any of the newer solutions.
Now, Yahoo actually did some pretty cool stuff on the other end, like Pipes is really neat (though I could never get it to work with Google Reader, funny that), and their finance site is actually still probably the best. But overall you've gotta ask yourself, what is Yahoo actually about.
They mean biggest in terms of light collecting power, not baseline.
Allright, allright, I think I just need to add my experience: that since FireFox 5, updates have never broken ANY of my plugins. The list of plugins I use is below. I don't know what plugins are affected but all this ranting on Slashdot may just be symptomatic of this being Slashdot and nerds using weird hacked together plugins that scratch a particular itch and are realistically speaking, fringe. Can you name any popular plugins that have been broken since the recent high speed updates? You know what, I'm not a web developer, as aren't most Chrome users, and for me the FF experience has been just FINE.
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CookieExporter
FlashGot
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LastPass
NoScript
Open in Browser
Personas
Tab Mix Plus
Ironically, Google Desktop is the only Desktop search that actually works in Linux (at least on GNOME)! Every thing else is either horribly broken, horribly slow, or lacks basic functionality. Sad to see this go.
Let's face it: this is about GNOME/KDE, not Linux the kernel. Linux the kernel has won already. It's not the year of "Linux on the Desktop", it's the year of Linux on the Android/Tivo/VirginAmerica/the list goes on...
Linux the kernel is no longer relevant to this discussion. FWIW, Apple's Mach kernel is just as good as Linux. The discussions are about GNOME/KDE vs. Mac OS/iOs vs. Windows.
The backend is just catching up to Debian/yum, but the front end is way ahead. Once there is parity between the Linux backends and the Apple/Windows ones, there will be little reason to switch. Especially given how many of the best free and open source software is available now natively compiled for Windowds and Mac OS. The big game changer was the fact that Windows 7 doesn't suck any more. It's actually usable, if still closed.
Mod parent up. "Linux" as synonymous for "Linux on the Desktop" is a disservice to both Linux and GNU/KDE. Aren't most Linux kernel users now Android users? Whereas they still wouldn't touch Ubuntu with 10 foot pole.