Get real. You've memorized the commands. Good for you. stripped of that you'd be fumbling in the dark.
That's my point. I've memorized what I need to do, just as I would have to do with any GUI. If you don't know where things are, you're fumbling, whether it's commands or GUI menus.
The command line is great for people that have memorized all the commands, know exactly what they want to do, and can run the operations in their sleep. But for everyone else it's a hinderence. They have to do queries and check forums to figure out what the program is called.
How is this any different than having to remember where a program is located? Every release of Windows, they've managed to move things around. Gnome is guilty of this too.
If anything, it's much easier to remember a command and its syntax than to go hunting for a GUI program.
Here in rural Manitoba we get 7Mbps down / 768Kbps up for $46 + tax for a 60GB cap. Fucking sense of entitlement.
I'm in rural Wisconsin. We don't get nearly that speed, but the 60GB cap seems awefully low.
As an example, I watch maybe three to four hours of streamed TV a night and use up maybe 3GB a day doing it. Everything else I do (email, web, whatever, is nothing compared to the streaming), and the streaming is always at its lowest bit rate due to speed limitations, but I'd consistently go over the 60GB cap if it were placed on me.
If I were in a city or heavily popluated area that offered higher speed, you can bet I'd easily hit 200GB a month, and probably find a way to hit 300GB, with file syncing, etc., which, again, I limit due to the slow speed here.
I see a lot of participation with the photography community within G+ - something I don't really see on Facebook, although my FB set of friends is pretty small, and I know all of them in real life.
Just go to G+, click on "What's Hot" and look at all the activity. There really is a lot of activity going on, just not necessarily the same interests that most people have.
Even though I'm a technophile, I've often been accused of being a bit luddite, because I sometimes use old tech. Instead, I use old tech when it is better, and I love new tech when it is better.
So I have a little story of my own about using old technology (returning to old technology, actually).
I have a cheap knock-off android tablet from China that I managed to bork trying to install a newer ROM on it. So it's been out of commission while I figurre out how to get it back to working condition. Enter and old Zaurus sl-5600 that I've had lying around for the better part of a decade. Because I like to do light surfing/check email/read from bed first thing in the morning, I charged it up and started to use it again.
First off, it still holds a decent charge with the original battery, and that's after sitting in a drawer for most of these years and going through extreme temperature changes in an unheated cabin. Any newer battery would have exploded after having gone through those temperature changes.
This thing has an ancient version of QTopia on it (1.5.4), an old Linux 2.4.18 kernel, and an ancient Opera browser (7) on it. While the software is no great shakes, it still does a respectable job at what it was meant to do. Actually, come to think of it, the PDF reader is better than any PDF reader I've found for android, so that's one piece of software that still outperforms newer tech.
But what really impresses me about it is the hardware. I can't help but ask why a nearly decade-old piece of hardware can run circles around a year old piece of junk out of China. This thing can actually be used outside in sunlight. The screen is actually more responsive to touch that any modern resistive screen I've touched, stylus or not.
It's made me really appreciate how much better made older hardware was/is. Granted, it was expensive when it came out, but that price shines through in the hardware build quality. When I originallly purchased it, I would have never thought I'd be using it nearly a decade later.
You joke, but actually, each light array has a small 6x6 inch panel that your could mount either outside or hang in a window (the power cord from panel to battery pack is 16 ft. long). They provide enough energy to store in the enclosed small battery packs to last about 12 hours a charge. It's really not a bad solution to the problem.
In any case, energy is energy, whether it's generated at a coal plant and then distributed or directly to a battery pack for later use.
My point was really that, while they're currentlly not the most attractive lighting, that won't always be the case - they can be made fashionable as well as usable.
Why must a single LED provide all the light? Couldn't an array of, say, four LEDs, each equivalent to a 25W incandescent and using mirrors and/or lenses to even out the light distribution, get the same efficiency and substitute for a 100W bulb? Am I missing something obvious?
That's exactly what is being done now with many of these "shed' lights. I purchased a couple of these that have 20 LEDs inside a casing that has a highly reflective back (they're attached to small solar panels) for my cabin, since our electricity is quite prone to outages from all the thunder/lightning storms we have in Northern Wisconsin. Each one is enough to illuminate a 10x12 room on their own. I can read comfortably with just this light from pretty mch anywhere in the room.
They're not the prettiest lights, but I built a wood/translucent plastic shade, to make them at least a bit better looking. They also come with their own remote control switch so you can turn them on/off as you would any other sconce or ceiling light.
It's only a matter of time before some decent designs start coming out for these things.
Well, I still use OpenOffice at home because based on the LibreOffice install at work what's changed is mostly bugs, crashes, and perverse behaviour.
For example: it seems to be impossible to open a tab-separated file in Calc. Try it from within Calc, and it'll dump the file into Writer instead.
Confusing language. Are you saying that this happens in OpenOffice or LibreOffice? I use Calc/LibreOffice all the time to import tab-delimited files with no trouble. Writer's not involved at all.
Is there a way to do this but then activate the Like button on demand? So I don't get tracked by the Like button, but I can then share an article I read on ars technica or something at a later time if I so desire?
I think a balance can be struck.
I use the Disconnect plugin for Firrefox. It gives me a button on the nav bar to turn on/off tracking on not just FB, but Google. Twitter, etc.
I didn't really need you before, I sure don't need you now.
Truer than you know.
For any current show, we've always been able to go directly to the network's website and stream episodes. Hell, Hulu offers shows from the CW, but they're a week behind what's on CW's own site. Do they think people are just that stupid that they're unable to go elsewhere? Especially when the very same networks listed on Hulu make it so easy to find shows on their own sites.
Logout, chose fallback session (or whatever it's called). Was that so hard?
Or, if you don't like Unity, just install Gnome Shell. It's pretty much the way forward as far as Gnome is concerned, so we might as well at least become familiar with it, instead of bitching about how different it is.
Personally, I've learned to really like it and have become quite productive using it.
If you were around before Linux had a mascot, you'd remember that there was a lot of criticism for choosing a penguin as the mascot. For a variety of reasons.
Actually, I hope a fan ends up taking a picture of themselves with an athlete in the background (preferably consuming a non-approved beverage, snack), and I hope they get hauled into court.
This rabid "it's mine, you can't look at/listen to/draw it, much less record it" mentality has always been silly, now it's just ridiculously silly and needs to be challenged. Until it's challenged, it's going to keep getting more ridiculous.
I've got 50GB free at Box and 30GB free on EchoFS.com. Why should I care about 5GB? Just because it's Google?
Hey, I don't know why you've been modded down to oblivion, but thanks for mentioning EchoFS. I'd not heard of it before. It works great with davfs in Linux... something that is pretty difficult to find, at least with this amount of space.
All these things, bar the lake are things that google will almost certainly never have on their map, and this is precicely why OSM is better than google &ndash
No, actually, Google has all of that, OpenStreetMap does not. No need for me to add anything.
If this and DuckDuckGo start gaining momentum google may find itself in Altavista's shoes.
Eh... OpenStreetMap is good for just that: street maps. It's got nothing on Google's other mapping features. Hell, it doesn't even show the lake where my cabin is at, just the streets. Google Maps offers detailed satellite and terrain imagery, for one thing.
Not to mention effectively being limited to your town or city, extremely few areas have so dense population you have an unbroken wifi connection to neighboring cities. If they do, those few houses would become an immense choke point. I'd much rather go with a virtual network on top of my regular Internet connection.
I've got a wireless virtual network on top of my neighbor's wireless. There's a row of about 10 cabins here. My neighbor gets the wired internet connection and serves me an IP address with his bog-standard Netgear router. I have an Alfa Network high-powered Wifi interface that I use to pull in the signal. I serve IP addresses through a GSky high powered Wifi interface to cabins further up from me. It doesn't take anything more than those two interfaces on a lowly netbook with a couple free USB ports and Ubuntu running. It's pretty damned stable, too. Together we can blanket a mile-long lake with Wifi, albeit slowly.
But becuse the place is seasonal for most people here, there are rarely more than three people using it at any one time.
Not saying Crashplan is bad or anything, but $6/month for something that will "maybe" have my data whenever I need it is too much for me.
Crashplan is free for most of what you want to do, such as back up to a NAS, a friends computer or other local disk drives, as well as scheduling. And it's got a decent, comprehensible GUI that takes seconds to get through. That was my point, not that you should be paying any company anything to handle backups.
I'm just a fan - I don't use Crashplan for its paid services, but the software itself is solid and useful for the home user. And I can say first hand that restores work with the software.
Sounds like you like playing the role of sysadmin.
For what it's worth, Crashplan can handle a good deal of what you want to do without any hassle. Won't cost you anything either, other than the download/install time.
Fuck you AC. You know you're full of shit when you say there are a lot of people who like the direction that GNOME is going. The Internet disagrees with you.
Gosh, how were you able to measure that on "The Internet"?
We see what we want to see. Because of the things I've subscribed to on Reddit, Google+, Twitter, etc. I see a lot of love for Gnome3/Gnome Shell. You probably see a lot of dislike because of what you subscribe to/read.
As for Slashdot, I really don't see all that much hate for Gnome3/Gnome Shell. I see a fairly vocal group shouting it down, but that's it: one group.
I clicked away as soon as I saw the opt-in requiring my web history, which I've specifically turned off. I wouldn't mind seeing my email usage analysed, though.
Slashdot Mirror
Get real. You've memorized the commands. Good for you. stripped of that you'd be fumbling in the dark.
That's my point. I've memorized what I need to do, just as I would have to do with any GUI. If you don't know where things are, you're fumbling, whether it's commands or GUI menus.
The command line is great for people that have memorized all the commands, know exactly what they want to do, and can run the operations in their sleep. But for everyone else it's a hinderence. They have to do queries and check forums to figure out what the program is called.
How is this any different than having to remember where a program is located? Every release of Windows, they've managed to move things around. Gnome is guilty of this too.
If anything, it's much easier to remember a command and its syntax than to go hunting for a GUI program.
Here in rural Manitoba we get 7Mbps down / 768Kbps up for $46 + tax for a 60GB cap. Fucking sense of entitlement.
I'm in rural Wisconsin. We don't get nearly that speed, but the 60GB cap seems awefully low.
As an example, I watch maybe three to four hours of streamed TV a night and use up maybe 3GB a day doing it. Everything else I do (email, web, whatever, is nothing compared to the streaming), and the streaming is always at its lowest bit rate due to speed limitations, but I'd consistently go over the 60GB cap if it were placed on me.
If I were in a city or heavily popluated area that offered higher speed, you can bet I'd easily hit 200GB a month, and probably find a way to hit 300GB, with file syncing, etc., which, again, I limit due to the slow speed here.
Just go to G+, click on "What's Hot" and look at all the activity. There really is a lot of activity going on, just not necessarily the same interests that most people have.
Even though I'm a technophile, I've often been accused of being a bit luddite, because I sometimes use old tech. Instead, I use old tech when it is better, and I love new tech when it is better.
So I have a little story of my own about using old technology (returning to old technology, actually).
I have a cheap knock-off android tablet from China that I managed to bork trying to install a newer ROM on it. So it's been out of commission while I figurre out how to get it back to working condition. Enter and old Zaurus sl-5600 that I've had lying around for the better part of a decade. Because I like to do light surfing/check email/read from bed first thing in the morning, I charged it up and started to use it again.
First off, it still holds a decent charge with the original battery, and that's after sitting in a drawer for most of these years and going through extreme temperature changes in an unheated cabin. Any newer battery would have exploded after having gone through those temperature changes.
This thing has an ancient version of QTopia on it (1.5.4), an old Linux 2.4.18 kernel, and an ancient Opera browser (7) on it. While the software is no great shakes, it still does a respectable job at what it was meant to do. Actually, come to think of it, the PDF reader is better than any PDF reader I've found for android, so that's one piece of software that still outperforms newer tech.
But what really impresses me about it is the hardware. I can't help but ask why a nearly decade-old piece of hardware can run circles around a year old piece of junk out of China. This thing can actually be used outside in sunlight. The screen is actually more responsive to touch that any modern resistive screen I've touched, stylus or not.
It's made me really appreciate how much better made older hardware was/is. Granted, it was expensive when it came out, but that price shines through in the hardware build quality. When I originallly purchased it, I would have never thought I'd be using it nearly a decade later.
In any case, energy is energy, whether it's generated at a coal plant and then distributed or directly to a battery pack for later use.
My point was really that, while they're currentlly not the most attractive lighting, that won't always be the case - they can be made fashionable as well as usable.
Why must a single LED provide all the light? Couldn't an array of, say, four LEDs, each equivalent to a 25W incandescent and using mirrors and/or lenses to even out the light distribution, get the same efficiency and substitute for a 100W bulb? Am I missing something obvious?
That's exactly what is being done now with many of these "shed' lights. I purchased a couple of these that have 20 LEDs inside a casing that has a highly reflective back (they're attached to small solar panels) for my cabin, since our electricity is quite prone to outages from all the thunder/lightning storms we have in Northern Wisconsin. Each one is enough to illuminate a 10x12 room on their own. I can read comfortably with just this light from pretty mch anywhere in the room.
They're not the prettiest lights, but I built a wood/translucent plastic shade, to make them at least a bit better looking. They also come with their own remote control switch so you can turn them on/off as you would any other sconce or ceiling light.
It's only a matter of time before some decent designs start coming out for these things.
Well, I still use OpenOffice at home because based on the LibreOffice install at work what's changed is mostly bugs, crashes, and perverse behaviour.
For example: it seems to be impossible to open a tab-separated file in Calc. Try it from within Calc, and it'll dump the file into Writer instead.
Confusing language. Are you saying that this happens in OpenOffice or LibreOffice? I use Calc/LibreOffice all the time to import tab-delimited files with no trouble. Writer's not involved at all.
Is there a way to do this but then activate the Like button on demand? So I don't get tracked by the Like button, but I can then share an article I read on ars technica or something at a later time if I so desire?
I think a balance can be struck.
I use the Disconnect plugin for Firrefox. It gives me a button on the nav bar to turn on/off tracking on not just FB, but Google. Twitter, etc.
Come on, it was absolutely not just the design. Google gave much more relevant search results from the beginning than Altavista ever did.
But do they now? I know that many of the results I get now are useless.
I didn't really need you before, I sure don't need you now.
Truer than you know.
For any current show, we've always been able to go directly to the network's website and stream episodes. Hell, Hulu offers shows from the CW, but they're a week behind what's on CW's own site. Do they think people are just that stupid that they're unable to go elsewhere? Especially when the very same networks listed on Hulu make it so easy to find shows on their own sites.
#apt-get install gnome-panel
Logout, chose fallback session (or whatever it's called). Was that so hard?
Or, if you don't like Unity, just install Gnome Shell. It's pretty much the way forward as far as Gnome is concerned, so we might as well at least become familiar with it, instead of bitching about how different it is.
Personally, I've learned to really like it and have become quite productive using it.
If you were around before Linux had a mascot, you'd remember that there was a lot of criticism for choosing a penguin as the mascot. For a variety of reasons.
This rabid "it's mine, you can't look at/listen to/draw it, much less record it" mentality has always been silly, now it's just ridiculously silly and needs to be challenged. Until it's challenged, it's going to keep getting more ridiculous.
I've got 50GB free at Box and 30GB free on EchoFS.com. Why should I care about 5GB? Just because it's Google?
Hey, I don't know why you've been modded down to oblivion, but thanks for mentioning EchoFS. I'd not heard of it before. It works great with davfs in Linux... something that is pretty difficult to find, at least with this amount of space.
I should point out that we're northwest Wisconsin, so maybe we're too backwater for OpenStreepMap at this point.
All these things, bar the lake are things that google will almost certainly never have on their map, and this is precicely why OSM is better than google &ndash
No, actually, Google has all of that, OpenStreetMap does not. No need for me to add anything.
If this and DuckDuckGo start gaining momentum google may find itself in Altavista's shoes.
Eh... OpenStreetMap is good for just that: street maps. It's got nothing on Google's other mapping features. Hell, it doesn't even show the lake where my cabin is at, just the streets. Google Maps offers detailed satellite and terrain imagery, for one thing.
Cool.... is your neighbor aware of all this? ;^)
Absolutely. It's a rural area. People tend to talk to each other around these parts :-)
Not to mention effectively being limited to your town or city, extremely few areas have so dense population you have an unbroken wifi connection to neighboring cities. If they do, those few houses would become an immense choke point. I'd much rather go with a virtual network on top of my regular Internet connection.
I've got a wireless virtual network on top of my neighbor's wireless. There's a row of about 10 cabins here. My neighbor gets the wired internet connection and serves me an IP address with his bog-standard Netgear router. I have an Alfa Network high-powered Wifi interface that I use to pull in the signal. I serve IP addresses through a GSky high powered Wifi interface to cabins further up from me. It doesn't take anything more than those two interfaces on a lowly netbook with a couple free USB ports and Ubuntu running. It's pretty damned stable, too. Together we can blanket a mile-long lake with Wifi, albeit slowly.
But becuse the place is seasonal for most people here, there are rarely more than three people using it at any one time.
Not saying Crashplan is bad or anything, but $6/month for something that will "maybe" have my data whenever I need it is too much for me.
Crashplan is free for most of what you want to do, such as back up to a NAS, a friends computer or other local disk drives, as well as scheduling. And it's got a decent, comprehensible GUI that takes seconds to get through. That was my point, not that you should be paying any company anything to handle backups.
I'm just a fan - I don't use Crashplan for its paid services, but the software itself is solid and useful for the home user. And I can say first hand that restores work with the software.
For what it's worth, Crashplan can handle a good deal of what you want to do without any hassle. Won't cost you anything either, other than the download/install time.
This was posted elsewhere much earlier in the day.
Fuck you AC. You know you're full of shit when you say there are a lot of people who like the direction that GNOME is going. The Internet disagrees with you.
Gosh, how were you able to measure that on "The Internet"?
We see what we want to see. Because of the things I've subscribed to on Reddit, Google+, Twitter, etc. I see a lot of love for Gnome3/Gnome Shell. You probably see a lot of dislike because of what you subscribe to/read.
As for Slashdot, I really don't see all that much hate for Gnome3/Gnome Shell. I see a fairly vocal group shouting it down, but that's it: one group.
I clicked away as soon as I saw the opt-in requiring my web history, which I've specifically turned off. I wouldn't mind seeing my email usage analysed, though.