I went to the last LinuxWorld Expo in London. I didn't go to LRL2005, but I'm off this time. From what I'm told it's a lot less corporate, and much more fun. I hope so!
Not noble impartiality. I take reviews into account, but I don't base my decision to watch solely on them. I wasn't wholly impressed by the first two episodes. I did enjoy them though. There are also previous works to base my opinions on. I rate "A New Hope" amd "The Empire Strikes Back" better than the first two "new" episodes.
Most people I have spoken to agree that BT are a bit , well, bad at customer, or even ISP relations. I haven't heard that much about NTL, so I can't say anything about their level of service
Having said that, my experience with two different ISPs has been mostly good.
Zen Internet managed to get ADSL for one place setup in just a week. The advertised lead time was 12 days. A year later, an upgrade from 512kbit/s to 1Mbit/s. They informed us we would lose our connection for a short while, and told us when it would happen. It happened, but the new connection did not appear to have come online. A couple of technical support calls to some friendly and helpful operators who said the problem was (apparently) BT had been a bit slow changing the line, and they would take the matter up with BT immediately. The next day, we have a 1Mbit/s connection. There have been no real problems with the service, except for fires in some cable tunnels taking out half of the telephone lines in the area.
I have not had first hand experience dealing with Bulldog Broadband setup, but the existing service I get from them has been exemplary.
Both Bulldog and Zen provide service alerts on their respective sites, informing of any problems or upgrades, as well as emails to the account holder.
For those looking for a provider for broadband, I highly recommend these ISPs. If you feel like looking around a bit more, try ADSLguide and ISP Review to get the low-down on UK providers.
"Chicken or the egg?" does seem to be the general consensus in schools. There are two major factors that count for this:
Schools target their education at the industry, (the majority of) the industry uses Microsoft applications.
Teachers are already familiar with Microsoft applications. Teacher training is done with Microsoft applications. Teachers are reluctant to change, re-learn, re-train. Re-training costs.
On a higher note, at least two schools I know have dual boot Windows and Linux. The main problem we have is getting them to cooperate, after all, both will be around for a bit, so pupils (and teachers) should probably learn both.
For another the only people who will noticed the difference between mirror.ac.uk and any european FTP site are those on janet (joint academic network).
UK ISPs tend to more or less directly peer with JANET, through MaNAP and LINX for example, and so get speedy access to services hosted on JANET. Connections to hosts in the rest of Europe often have to go through at least an extra level of indirection, which makes a bit of a difference.
The properties of the ISO paper sizes are nice for photocopying, especially when scaling.
If you have two sheets of A4 and want them on the same piece of paper, you can photocopy onto A3 which is exactly the right size for the job.
If you have something on A3 paper that you want to fit on the smaller size of A4, you can scale it down and it will fit exactly, with no horrible gaps or bits being cut off.
If we wanted consistent numeric dates we could always use the format described in ISO 8601:1988 and write 2004-05-14.
It also has the nice property that if you wanted to sort a list of dates in chronological order, you can sort it as a string (at least for the ASCII, ISO-8859-x, and UTF-8 encodings).
The old dot matrix printers with continuous paper with the holes down the side used to use Letter sized paper.
You mean like this box of tractor feed paper I have which is labelled as 'Computer Listing Paper - 11 2/3 x 9 1/4 [inches]'? Taking the holes off results in a piece of paper very much the same size as A4 (210 x 297 mm or approximately 8 1/4 x 11 2/3 ins), which is a bit far away from Letter (8 1/2 x 11 ins).
There have been a few comments from people saying that they prefer a MDI interface as used by programs such as Adobe Photoshop. In other words, they want the application to manage it's own windows. Surely this is a job for your window manager?
From what I can remember, Windomaker had the ability to deal with all the windows of an application at once. A window manager I used once allowed you to put windows into logical groups so you could perform actions on all windows in a group. Fluxbox has the option of grouping windows together and selecting them with tabs. Saving window positions is an option in a fair number of window managers.
There may be room for improvement with many parts of the interface, but how to organise the windows is not one of them in my opinion. The GIMP developers need to concentrate on creating a decent image manipulation program, not a windowmanager.
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I went to the last LinuxWorld Expo in London. I didn't go to LRL2005, but I'm off this time. From what I'm told it's a lot less corporate, and much more fun. I hope so!
Not noble impartiality. I take reviews into account, but I don't base my decision to watch solely on them. I wasn't wholly impressed by the first two episodes. I did enjoy them though. There are also previous works to base my opinions on. I rate "A New Hope" amd "The Empire Strikes Back" better than the first two "new" episodes.
Well, I'll be watching it whether the critics love it or hate it. I like to form my own opinions.
Most people I have spoken to agree that BT are a bit , well, bad at customer, or even ISP relations. I haven't heard that much about NTL, so I can't say anything about their level of service
Having said that, my experience with two different ISPs has been mostly good.
Zen Internet managed to get ADSL for one place setup in just a week. The advertised lead time was 12 days. A year later, an upgrade from 512kbit/s to 1Mbit/s. They informed us we would lose our connection for a short while, and told us when it would happen. It happened, but the new connection did not appear to have come online. A couple of technical support calls to some friendly and helpful operators who said the problem was (apparently) BT had been a bit slow changing the line, and they would take the matter up with BT immediately. The next day, we have a 1Mbit/s connection. There have been no real problems with the service, except for fires in some cable tunnels taking out half of the telephone lines in the area.
I have not had first hand experience dealing with Bulldog Broadband setup, but the existing service I get from them has been exemplary.
Both Bulldog and Zen provide service alerts on their respective sites, informing of any problems or upgrades, as well as emails to the account holder.
For those looking for a provider for broadband, I highly recommend these ISPs. If you feel like looking around a bit more, try ADSLguide and ISP Review to get the low-down on UK providers.
"Chicken or the egg?" does seem to be the general consensus in schools. There are two major factors that count for this:
On a higher note, at least two schools I know have dual boot Windows and Linux. The main problem we have is getting them to cooperate, after all, both will be around for a bit, so pupils (and teachers) should probably learn both.
UK ISPs tend to more or less directly peer with JANET, through MaNAP and LINX for example, and so get speedy access to services hosted on JANET. Connections to hosts in the rest of Europe often have to go through at least an extra level of indirection, which makes a bit of a difference.
If we had 16 fingers there might be even more competition in the IT industry -- I'll stick to 10.
The actual paper sizes are determined by root 2, then rounded.
I'm from the UK and I learned the SI units (metric) at school, although we were taught how to convert some imperial measurements.
Paper in the UK is now predominantly measured according to the ISO standards, although I do have a couple of Foolscap sized folders.
The properties of the ISO paper sizes are nice for photocopying, especially when scaling.
If you have two sheets of A4 and want them on the same piece of paper, you can photocopy onto A3 which is exactly the right size for the job.
If you have something on A3 paper that you want to fit on the smaller size of A4, you can scale it down and it will fit exactly, with no horrible gaps or bits being cut off.
If we wanted consistent numeric dates we could always use the format described in ISO 8601:1988 and write 2004-05-14. It also has the nice property that if you wanted to sort a list of dates in chronological order, you can sort it as a string (at least for the ASCII, ISO-8859-x, and UTF-8 encodings).
There have been a few comments from people saying that they prefer a MDI interface as used by programs such as Adobe Photoshop. In other words, they want the application to manage it's own windows. Surely this is a job for your window manager?
From what I can remember, Windomaker had the ability to deal with all the windows of an application at once. A window manager I used once allowed you to put windows into logical groups so you could perform actions on all windows in a group. Fluxbox has the option of grouping windows together and selecting them with tabs. Saving window positions is an option in a fair number of window managers.
There may be room for improvement with many parts of the interface, but how to organise the windows is not one of them in my opinion. The GIMP developers need to concentrate on creating a decent image manipulation program, not a windowmanager.
Hehe, if you were English you would have spelt humour correctly.
Mod me down, I'm British.