I used gOS to introduce my wife to the idea that she could use Linux instead of Windows. E17 (or 16.999) has been pretty and useful for a long time.
I use E17 on Arch Linux and most of the major updates don't break things enough to be a problem. I've lost a few utilities (screen cap) but there has always been a replacement easily available. Often built in, but with a new name.
I don't like Starter Linux any more than the rest of the bearded ones here, but if you are having trouble hibernating/sleeping in Linux, try running up their live CD and see if it works out of the box on there.
You might find that more systems do support it than you thought.
I have just run a Raspberry Jam (albeit a little one) because I believe in this Foundation and their stated aims, but I cannot abide SONY and their company ethos vis a vis customer respect and DRM.
If I could I'd buy RasPis that had been made somewhere else. Both of mine came from China, but the one that I got for a friend came from SONY. As will my next one, unfortunately.
Shitty SONY. Bad SONY. May everything you touch (aside from RasPis) turn to sand in your clutches.
It ain't $50. It's $50 plus the cost of a Windows license.
Last I heard (unverified unchecked fact coming up) you could send off for a rebate of $20 for not wanting to use a preinstalled MSFT OS.
That means they are double dipping on this and that's just annoying.
They could have asked a community member to make the OS perfect out of the box and they would have done it for love. Gouging Linux users like this is right out of order. It's not about the money, it's the fact they are Doing It Wrong.
I used to advocate that service too, but these days I have trouble finding a working login for the sites that I don't want to hand over my details to.
I can't give you any examples, just in case you ask. So take this as anecdotal. However, I stand by my comment. In the last 2-3 years I've found it 90% non working.
A good idea, but IP logging defeats it too easily. Or whatever it is sites use.
the network switch, modem, router, etc. should be moved to the basement if you have one, or a dedicated area
My cable comes in through the guest room so the modem is in there. There is a Cat5e going under the floorboards to the office, where it connects to my RT-N56U. My downstairs laptop station where I do playing, movies, testing has my old WRT54G (with Raspberry Pi inside) connected over WiFi as a bridge. I can plug people's crap into that without the hassle of putting my 63 character key into their devices.
Very useful, I've found.
I run E17 (nearly) on my laptop and it works fine under Arch.
Features appear and are removed from the SVN with distasteful regularity, but my config gets a small tweak and all the functionality is back and looking great.
Dolphin I will agree is a great program. Apart from the inability to surgically remove it from the rest of the KDE junk. Don't get me wrong, I like KDE, I used KDE 3.5 for a long time on Gentoo after 4.x was out, but Strigi, Nepomuk and a whole boatload of other undesirable bloat turns me right off. It is just so hard to pare down KDE programs in the same way it's hard to remove Gnome bloat from their useful items. KIOslaves aren't useful to me, neither is Konqueror.
I consider it a no-win scenario. You can't have a hybrid system without having the worst of both worlds.
E17 with Qt and GTK (2 AND 3!) nomming up resources is the only way for me to be happy.
So I bought a decent PC with RAM and cycles to spare. Headache over. My EEE PC (4G SSD, 512MB) can carry on running LXDE, my laptop can run teh pretty and I can use KDE and Gnome apps when I think they're the right tool for the job.
This is my usage scenario, YMMV. Linux is about choice and sometimes there isn't a perfect choice for everyone. Id rather love the freedom to be unhappy rather than have Stockholm Syndrome set in and tell people how much I love Win 7.
Evolution could take care of toxicity in our food supply given chance, but we're so good at medicine now that we're not evolving any longer. Anyone who suggests returning to an evolutionary lifestyle is accused of supporting eugenics and labelled a right wing nutjob. There may be something to that. Anyhow to avoid a quick and easy Godwin, I'll leave that there.
I see it as a psychological problem. We put car chases and murder on the TV frequently, but anything that shows romance and love for each other is classed as a "chick flick". Machismo seems to be the mode du jour in everything. The softer side of our nature is ineffective in a competitive money making world and falls by the way as we teach our kids to be more aggressive and to work harder (not smarter) for the things they want.
If it were possible to live and eat organically these factors would still be present, although I'd happily allow that toxins contribute, even though I have no knowledge about the subject. I'm just guessing.
But thanks for posting, obviously as AC points out, my google-fu is weak =)
Thank you.
I agree entirely that some people will perpetrate violence on others for teh lulz. Society has removed the idea of respect for another person from itself. It's doing a pretty good job of removing respect for oneself too.
Dangerous. How can the security services monitor all passage of ideas between individuals if it happens without network communication?
I've long held the belief that the majority of the laws passed in my country (UK) are helping to make it less desirable to mingle in public places.
Several laws make it illegal to congregate in a public place with other people, and taxes on alcoholic potions mixed with the advertising of binge drinking leading to hooliganism on a large scale make consumption of alcohol lead to violence on others rather than commingling.
Caffeine is priced so highly that most of the people who talk to strangers don't frequent those outlets because of the snobbery of the middle classes who wish to remain aloof from the shoppers scurrying around.
YMMV, but my tinfoil is starting to oxidise, I must apply another layer.
Their Gmail interface could be considered a loss leader then. Most people use the web interface do see the ads.
They are aware that even a lot of web interface users run AdBlock so they must be making enough money from the ones that see the ads to continue running the service.
On the more paranoid side, I'd bet that they read your emails anyway and use them when profiling you for doubleclick ads and other annoyances. This could be why they feel the service is valuable enough to run.
When did we lose the capability to sympathize with the families of those affected?
I'd guess about the time that we stopped being able to trust that people were bringing their kids up with a value system that we could relate to.
To politicise this, when we lost faith that our elected representatives were in any way cognisant of our wishes with respect to the way we are governed and our tax monies spent.
When life got so damn hard that suicide was just another symptom of depression brought about by failure of the state to put money into education, welfare and freedoms instead of criminalising cannabis, waging war on second world countries and terrorising people who want to go on holiday just to get away from the rat race that our lives have become of these days.
Sure. Let's air car chases that cause death, mayhem, destruction of property and recklessness by criminals; glamourising their Darwin-award-worthy lifestyles, but no way on this green earth can we show sex or nudity because children might be watching.
Natural and essential procreation that done wrongly can lead to STDs and AIDS (most agree), we're leaving to kids in the playground to speculate over. How to get away from the cops and spend years in a jail where you might get raped and/or murdered (if you survive the chase) we're televising internationally.
Avira is nothing but nagware.
Even replacing avnotify.exe with dud.exe and making it read only to every user on the system only shuts the damn thing up until an update.
I can't cope with it and have removed it from my systems.
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So you missed gOS then?
I used gOS to introduce my wife to the idea that she could use Linux instead of Windows. E17 (or 16.999) has been pretty and useful for a long time.
I use E17 on Arch Linux and most of the major updates don't break things enough to be a problem. I've lost a few utilities (screen cap) but there has always been a replacement easily available. Often built in, but with a new name.
I don't like Starter Linux any more than the rest of the bearded ones here, but if you are having trouble hibernating/sleeping in Linux, try running up their live CD and see if it works out of the box on there.
You might find that more systems do support it than you thought.
It's OK "Steve" we understand.
With a UID as low as yours it must be time for your nap and for all us damn kids to get off your lawn.
In case of uncertainty; this was intended to be +1 funny, not -1 asshole.
Please, don't.
I have just run a Raspberry Jam (albeit a little one) because I believe in this Foundation and their stated aims, but I cannot abide SONY and their company ethos vis a vis customer respect and DRM.
If I could I'd buy RasPis that had been made somewhere else. Both of mine came from China, but the one that I got for a friend came from SONY. As will my next one, unfortunately.
Shitty SONY. Bad SONY. May everything you touch (aside from RasPis) turn to sand in your clutches.
It ain't $50. It's $50 plus the cost of a Windows license.
Last I heard (unverified unchecked fact coming up) you could send off for a rebate of $20 for not wanting to use a preinstalled MSFT OS.
That means they are double dipping on this and that's just annoying.
They could have asked a community member to make the OS perfect out of the box and they would have done it for love. Gouging Linux users like this is right out of order. It's not about the money, it's the fact they are Doing It Wrong.
Aircrack-ng.
Although whenever I open it I do tend to tap my mouse on my monitor and say "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good".
I'm Spartacus!
Actually, I'm PReDiToR, but you know what I mean.
I used to advocate that service too, but these days I have trouble finding a working login for the sites that I don't want to hand over my details to.
I can't give you any examples, just in case you ask. So take this as anecdotal. However, I stand by my comment. In the last 2-3 years I've found it 90% non working.
A good idea, but IP logging defeats it too easily. Or whatever it is sites use.
Get an old version then.
Skype has been too integrated and full of crap and ads for a while now.
the network switch, modem, router, etc. should be moved to the basement if you have one, or a dedicated area
My cable comes in through the guest room so the modem is in there. There is a Cat5e going under the floorboards to the office, where it connects to my RT-N56U. My downstairs laptop station where I do playing, movies, testing has my old WRT54G (with Raspberry Pi inside) connected over WiFi as a bridge. I can plug people's crap into that without the hassle of putting my 63 character key into their devices.
Very useful, I've found.
Thank you for your informed (and patient) reply.
I've only really attempted to remove them from the systems (openSUSE mostly), not disable them. I'll bookmark your info for later use.
I run E17 (nearly) on my laptop and it works fine under Arch.
Features appear and are removed from the SVN with distasteful regularity, but my config gets a small tweak and all the functionality is back and looking great.
Dolphin I will agree is a great program. Apart from the inability to surgically remove it from the rest of the KDE junk. Don't get me wrong, I like KDE, I used KDE 3.5 for a long time on Gentoo after 4.x was out, but Strigi, Nepomuk and a whole boatload of other undesirable bloat turns me right off. It is just so hard to pare down KDE programs in the same way it's hard to remove Gnome bloat from their useful items. KIOslaves aren't useful to me, neither is Konqueror.
I consider it a no-win scenario. You can't have a hybrid system without having the worst of both worlds.
E17 with Qt and GTK (2 AND 3!) nomming up resources is the only way for me to be happy.
So I bought a decent PC with RAM and cycles to spare. Headache over. My EEE PC (4G SSD, 512MB) can carry on running LXDE, my laptop can run teh pretty and I can use KDE and Gnome apps when I think they're the right tool for the job.
This is my usage scenario, YMMV. Linux is about choice and sometimes there isn't a perfect choice for everyone. Id rather love the freedom to be unhappy rather than have Stockholm Syndrome set in and tell people how much I love Win 7.
You mean vote the other party in who are lobbied by the same groups, but with different coloured ties?
Doesn't work. You'd have to clean out the whole of Westminster/Washington of lobbyists before you could get some clean politicians installed.
Never happen.
Yeah, you would.
There are several variations of the old "your call" scenario though.
He's not the guy that dresses in a red and white suit and comes in December.
Evolution could take care of toxicity in our food supply given chance, but we're so good at medicine now that we're not evolving any longer. Anyone who suggests returning to an evolutionary lifestyle is accused of supporting eugenics and labelled a right wing nutjob. There may be something to that. Anyhow to avoid a quick and easy Godwin, I'll leave that there.
I see it as a psychological problem. We put car chases and murder on the TV frequently, but anything that shows romance and love for each other is classed as a "chick flick". Machismo seems to be the mode du jour in everything. The softer side of our nature is ineffective in a competitive money making world and falls by the way as we teach our kids to be more aggressive and to work harder (not smarter) for the things they want.
If it were possible to live and eat organically these factors would still be present, although I'd happily allow that toxins contribute, even though I have no knowledge about the subject. I'm just guessing.
But thanks for posting, obviously as AC points out, my google-fu is weak =)
Thank you.
I agree entirely that some people will perpetrate violence on others for teh lulz. Society has removed the idea of respect for another person from itself. It's doing a pretty good job of removing respect for oneself too.
I searched "knockout kings" and found a game and a band.
Is there another definition that I'm missing please?
Dangerous. How can the security services monitor all passage of ideas between individuals if it happens without network communication?
I've long held the belief that the majority of the laws passed in my country (UK) are helping to make it less desirable to mingle in public places.
Several laws make it illegal to congregate in a public place with other people, and taxes on alcoholic potions mixed with the advertising of binge drinking leading to hooliganism on a large scale make consumption of alcohol lead to violence on others rather than commingling.
Caffeine is priced so highly that most of the people who talk to strangers don't frequent those outlets because of the snobbery of the middle classes who wish to remain aloof from the shoppers scurrying around.
YMMV, but my tinfoil is starting to oxidise, I must apply another layer.
We're on a diplomatic mission to Diaspora!
Their Gmail interface could be considered a loss leader then. Most people use the web interface do see the ads.
They are aware that even a lot of web interface users run AdBlock so they must be making enough money from the ones that see the ads to continue running the service.
On the more paranoid side, I'd bet that they read your emails anyway and use them when profiling you for doubleclick ads and other annoyances. This could be why they feel the service is valuable enough to run.
We could consider ourselves a lot more special and worthy of note if one day we could do something more like The Chase.
When did we lose the capability to sympathize with the families of those affected?
I'd guess about the time that we stopped being able to trust that people were bringing their kids up with a value system that we could relate to.
To politicise this, when we lost faith that our elected representatives were in any way cognisant of our wishes with respect to the way we are governed and our tax monies spent.
When life got so damn hard that suicide was just another symptom of depression brought about by failure of the state to put money into education, welfare and freedoms instead of criminalising cannabis, waging war on second world countries and terrorising people who want to go on holiday just to get away from the rat race that our lives have become of these days.
Sure. Let's air car chases that cause death, mayhem, destruction of property and recklessness by criminals; glamourising their Darwin-award-worthy lifestyles, but no way on this green earth can we show sex or nudity because children might be watching.
Natural and essential procreation that done wrongly can lead to STDs and AIDS (most agree), we're leaving to kids in the playground to speculate over. How to get away from the cops and spend years in a jail where you might get raped and/or murdered (if you survive the chase) we're televising internationally.
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Avira is nothing but nagware.
Even replacing avnotify.exe with dud.exe and making it read only to every user on the system only shuts the damn thing up until an update.
I can't cope with it and have removed it from my systems.