When you navigate to a page and there's a header saying that the page is scheduled for deletion. Hello? I found the page useful and anyone else searching for information on the topic may also.
It's particularly annoying when a wikipedia article references another page. "examples of X are A, B and C". You navigate to B and it may or may not be there if some wiki-editor was in a bad mood.
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For the purists. debian do 99.9% the right thing but give the user the discretion to add 'nonfree' at their whim.
For example, I downloaded the mini installer iso to attempt to install debian on my machine.
It couldn't connect to the network to complete the install! Culprit - My usb wifi dongle, which worked fine under Ubuntu. Acquiescing to load a firmware and I was up and running.
My otherwise 'pure' system is thus tainted but this wifi dongle has served me 5+ years already, so the pragmatist favours working hardware.:)
Seriously, what do people want? That nothing must be using Linux specific kernel features ever, because that is unfair to other OS's?
When I use gimp, pidgin, geany etc on a Windows desktop, it's because they consistently work well with a thin Gtk+ shim over Win32. That's without installing a Linux compatibility layer like cygwin.
If in future one has to install some cygwin-systemd abomination just to run Gimp, then free software will have lost a fan.
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I was thinking of emigrating, any suggestions? :)
i.e. Go home, Yanks! :)
I must have missed that one - which Back To The Future movie was that in?
pretty much.That's what shits me about wikipedia.
When you navigate to a page and there's a header saying that the page is scheduled for deletion. Hello? I found the page useful and anyone else searching for information on the topic may also.
It's particularly annoying when a wikipedia article references another page. "examples of X are A, B and C". You navigate to B and it may or may not be there if some wiki-editor was in a bad mood.
For the purists. debian do 99.9% the right thing but give the user the discretion to add 'nonfree' at their whim.
For example, I downloaded the mini installer iso to attempt to install debian on my machine.
It couldn't connect to the network to complete the install! Culprit - My usb wifi dongle, which worked fine under Ubuntu. Acquiescing to load a firmware and I was up and running.
My otherwise 'pure' system is thus tainted but this wifi dongle has served me 5+ years already, so the pragmatist favours working hardware. :)
http://www.gnu.org/distros/com...
HTML, JS, CSS are all W3C standards, so why should a web developer care what software the user browses with?
Idealism I know but hopefully we are done with the age when shitty non-compliant browsers had to be coded against specifically.
but for reference, the Mozilla Developer Network has extensive compatibility tables about what features are supported by what browsers.
That's not to say one shouldn't test on a variety of platforms but "Best works in Chrome" should be a thing of the past...
As we speak, there's an election campaign in the state of Victoria.
A pornography ring has been discovered, allegedly, in the Premier's office (same party as the PM).
Justice moves slowly, so any investigation won't conclude until after the campaign.
Doesn't the Android driver employ some kind of binary blob? Maybe Qualcomm are tired of expending resources on it.
If freedreno becomes good enough for everyday use and can be retrofitted to work with Android then Qualcomm can reduce their software division.
So a port to ARM could be forseeable, with or without Oracle's involvement.
Mozilla recently stopped doing builds for Android, despite builds of CM11 being actively developed by the androidarmv6.org community.
AFAIK, Firefox OS currently only supports the armv7 architecture as found in later Qualcomm SoCs.
Apple phones are outside the price range of the masses in the developing world Mozilla is supposedly targetting.
So what you're saying is Firefox, the desktop browser, is too 'heavy' for a raspberry pi?
Firefox OS has been optimised for devices of 256MB or less.
As it happens, Miss Piggy and Yoda are both the puppets of Frank Oz.
I guess you don't know any "old people", then.
My uncle, by marriage, was born in 1920. His creaky 94yo bones don't get around so well but he still remembers the 20s and 30s quite sharply.
In my country dirty coal supplies most of the power, so electric cars might actually increase emissions.
Does USA electricity come from "clean" sources? I guess Monty Burns supplies much of the energy from low-emission nuke reactors...
Ubuntu does have backports - does this not handle 'Universe'? If it does then the dev just needs to add their package, surely.
Ease up, Android will be one of the few Linux distros by 2016 not using systemd. :-)
My government licenses Doctor Who through the ABC, the federally funded national broadcaster
Why addict hundreds of thousands of Australian schoolchildren to Doctor Who, such as my 13yo nephew, and then deny them access? :(
We still have the queen - maybe I'll write an angry email to prince william!
Commonwealth citizenship apparently grants no privileges.
bo-ku is a perfectly cromulent word.
http://www.urbandictionary.com...
When I use gimp, pidgin, geany etc on a Windows desktop, it's because they consistently work well with a thin Gtk+ shim over Win32. That's without installing a Linux compatibility layer like cygwin.
If in future one has to install some cygwin-systemd abomination just to run Gimp, then free software will have lost a fan.
War of 1812?
...in Nova Scotia?
If, in practice, the whole 'distro' is compiled using the same compiler, i.e. g++, then it matters not about a standardized binary API?