I spent 15 minutes yesterday trying to disable autoplay (for all drives, not just the cdrom) in Windows. In the end I had search on the internet to find the solution, download a program and do some very non-intuitive stuff.
In GNOME I just go to System->Preferences->Removable Drives and Media.
Everybody has stories of how they have had a hard time with an OS. It's all just anecdotes which don't prove anything. For me, Linux is easy and pretty because it's what I'm used to. When I have to use Windows it's unfamiliar and illogical. And it sure as hell isn't pretty.
BTW, the reason I had to disable autoplay is because it was going crazy grinding the system to a halt whenever I connected a usb drive. Never happens in Linux. But again, that's just another anecdote. Doesn't prove anything. I just wish folks from the other side could admit the same thing whey they're talking about the problems they've had with Linux.
"Winter of" can only be followed by obviously bad things:
Discontent
Darkness
Slack (we had one of those when our advisor went on sabbatical. It wasn't bad then but since I still haven't graduated I regret it now)
etc
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His point was that since every distro has a very easy install these days (with the exception of some distros that aren't meant for noobs) there's no point in talking about the install in a review. It's a waste of space and time.
For distros like SUSE, Mandriva etc. the only thing that needs to be said about the install is 'it's easy'.
Way too many reviews talk about the install way too much and then don't spend enough space talking about how it is to actually use the distro.
They kept telling me that if I really want children, I should go out and buy them -- or, in the case of the parent comment, simply ask for them.
That's not nearly as much fun as the usual way. And when they're doing something to piss you off and you wonder to yourself 'what made me have this kid anyway?' you won't be able to answer 'oh yeah, all the sex'.
Yeah, those damn greedy professors and politicians. Always driving around in their chauffeured luxery cars and vacationing at their ranch or yacht. I've lost count of the number of times I've had to get signed purchase orders from my advisor faxed from his private jet.
Yes, I expect a job that pays enough to have a nice house and support a family. But there's a big difference between that and rich at 35. Or rich at any age.
I never claimed we were doing it purely for the love of science. Just that we're not looking to get rich. People who are smart enough to make a career in science know there are other ways that they could make more money. And people who are expecting to get rich by going into a science field are probably not smart enough to be scientists. If that's flat out wrong, then please, show me a bunch of rich physicists. It will give me something to look forward to.
Maybe we have a different definition of rich. My first, sarcastic paragraph is what I call rich.
Actually, most of us just like what we do. As grad students and post-docs we do very good research, and are willing to work for peanuts because it translates into being able to continue doing very good research as a career. But it doesn't translate into automatic riches. Nor do we expect it too.
And even if distros did use different file structure I still don't understand why it's supposed to be hard for commerical companies to package software for every distro. Every commercial app I've ever installed came with everything it needed and put it in one folder. No dependency problems, no worries about where to put it's libraries. And they work with any distro.
For programmers that want to use existing libraries I can see how a lack of standards in file structure between distros might cause trouble for packaging but this isn't a problem for the commerical companies. They have their own libraries and toolkits anyway. How many of us had trouble installing Doom3?
"that's why things like debian and slackaware exists."
As long as they resist things like the so-called Debian Common Core which, like this Adobe-Intel-etc thing here, might just be another conglomerate of businesses that want to tell GNU/Linux how to be disguising themselves as the white horse of standards and uniformity.
Yeah,.. It's the sorry assed situation in some African countries (as well as other developing countries around the world I'd imagine) that it's actually cheaper to buy clothes from America than clothes that were made in country with cotton grown in country.
I like the gist of your post, but it sure is irritating to hear someone talk of how 'Africans' are as if all 53 countries and nearly a billion people are all the same. Water is a rare resource everywhere? And every African has gone through civil war you say? Which Africans did your fiance talk to anyway? All of them?
It's language like that that keeps people ignorant. You could have informed everyone reading about how things are in a specific west African country. At the very least they might have learned the name of a country they never knew existed. But now people will read it and come away with 'all Africans have no water but they are all cunning and know how to use computers'.
It's still ridiculous. What if I figure out a way to use a newly found muscle group to propel one'self at hithertofore unreachable speeds? Can I patent it and not let anyone else try it unless they pay me?
That would be silly, it's their damn body. They should be able to do with it what they please.
If they are only patenting the physical method (that involves lab equipment and such) that they developed which is necessary to use the genes for some purpose that might be ok. But if I come up with another method in order to use my genes for the same purpose I should be albe to do it. the description sounds like if they come up with a way to use gene A to do B, then I can't use my own gene A to do B no matter if I find a totally different way to do it.
Interesting. I never thought about it that way. Puts the victims in a new light. And if someone were trying to funnel millions out of Germany or France the recipient of the email would probably call the authorities.
I also like how these scams take advantage of peoples' amazing ignorance of current events in African countries.
There's also the Agnula distribution. Comes in two flavours, one based on Red Hat, one based on Debian. Supposedly low latency and comes with all these audio apps.
I've used neither Agnula or CCRMA. Anybody care to compare or praise/criticise?
As TFA says, there are lots of audio editing apps out there. I'm looking for apps that can create the sound as well. I know about the Beast. Any one have any other ones they know of and like?
Give people a killer app that doesn't exist in the Windows world. Something that the average joe will say 'wow, that saves so much time...' or 'wow, I didn't know it was that easy to do that'
I actually do get Windows users looking at my desktop and saying stuff like that. Or a Windows user asks how I do something and I say something to the effect of "well in Linux I just blah blah blah, but I don't know how you'd do that in Windows" and they get a dissapointed look and I get a smug one ('cause I'm a jerk).
There may not be one killer app (although I still don't know of a good free IDE for Windows so that would keep me in Linux even if I wanted to switch) but there are alot of little things that add up.
Can't it belong to both of them? Uughh. That brings horrible visions of Linus injecting his kernel, or seed as it were, into Stallmans fertile GNU userspace.
Almost makes me want to stop using their bastard child.
Affiliating light with quantum theory seems like a stretch as quantum theory answers seem deus ex machina to me.
Quantum theory pretty much came out of studying light. Planck's constant, one of the defining characteristics of quantum theory was a result of Planck studying blackbody radiation. Same kind of radiation emmitted from a light bulb, just at a lower energy.
And the measurement process, which almost no one is in agreement about, is about the only thing in the theory that has elements of deus ex machina.
Ubuntu might be popular within its own community, but the distro won't go mainstream until its image matures past high school sophomore.
Or until some people become less anal-retentive. Did you read the part about NASA being one of their customers? And is an interacial menage a trois somehow worse than a single race one?
we won't have to hear questions of why Ubuntu isn't part of the 'DCC', From TFA:
Why is Ubuntu not part of the DCC Alliance? I don't believe the DCC will succeed, though its aims are lofty and laudable. It would be expensive to participate, and it would slow down our ability to add the features, polish and integration that we want in new releases. I'm not prepared to devote scarce resources to an initiative that I believe will ultimately fail.
Ouch. I thought the simple fact that DCC is based on Sarge, and Ubuntu on Sid was reason enough.
Also, this FAQ should put to rest the question of leeching and other dumb shit that Ubuntu has been accused of.
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I spent 15 minutes yesterday trying to disable autoplay (for all drives, not just the cdrom) in Windows. In the end I had search on the internet to find the solution, download a program and do some very non-intuitive stuff.
In GNOME I just go to System->Preferences->Removable Drives and Media.
Everybody has stories of how they have had a hard time with an OS. It's all just anecdotes which don't prove anything. For me, Linux is easy and pretty because it's what I'm used to. When I have to use Windows it's unfamiliar and illogical. And it sure as hell isn't pretty.
BTW, the reason I had to disable autoplay is because it was going crazy grinding the system to a halt whenever I connected a usb drive. Never happens in Linux. But again, that's just another anecdote. Doesn't prove anything. I just wish folks from the other side could admit the same thing whey they're talking about the problems they've had with Linux.
No, no, no.
"Winter of" can only be followed by obviously bad things:
Discontent
Darkness
Slack (we had one of those when our advisor went on sabbatical. It wasn't bad then but since I still haven't graduated I regret it now)
etc
His point was that since every distro has a very easy install these days (with the exception of some distros that aren't meant for noobs) there's no point in talking about the install in a review. It's a waste of space and time.
For distros like SUSE, Mandriva etc. the only thing that needs to be said about the install is 'it's easy'.
Way too many reviews talk about the install way too much and then don't spend enough space talking about how it is to actually use the distro.
They kept telling me that if I really want children, I should go out and buy them -- or, in the case of the parent comment, simply ask for them.
That's not nearly as much fun as the usual way. And when they're doing something to piss you off and you wonder to yourself 'what made me have this kid anyway?' you won't be able to answer 'oh yeah, all the sex'.
Yeah, those damn greedy professors and politicians. Always driving around in their chauffeured luxery cars and vacationing at their ranch or yacht. I've lost count of the number of times I've had to get signed purchase orders from my advisor faxed from his private jet.
Yes, I expect a job that pays enough to have a nice house and support a family. But there's a big difference between that and rich at 35. Or rich at any age.
I never claimed we were doing it purely for the love of science. Just that we're not looking to get rich. People who are smart enough to make a career in science know there are other ways that they could make more money. And people who are expecting to get rich by going into a science field are probably not smart enough to be scientists. If that's flat out wrong, then please, show me a bunch of rich physicists. It will give me something to look forward to.
Maybe we have a different definition of rich. My first, sarcastic paragraph is what I call rich.
Actually, most of us just like what we do. As grad students and post-docs we do very good research, and are willing to work for peanuts because it translates into being able to continue doing very good research as a career. But it doesn't translate into automatic riches. Nor do we expect it too.
And even if distros did use different file structure I still don't understand why it's supposed to be hard for commerical companies to package software for every distro. Every commercial app I've ever installed came with everything it needed and put it in one folder. No dependency problems, no worries about where to put it's libraries. And they work with any distro.
For programmers that want to use existing libraries I can see how a lack of standards in file structure between distros might cause trouble for packaging but this isn't a problem for the commerical companies. They have their own libraries and toolkits anyway. How many of us had trouble installing Doom3?
"that's why things like debian and slackaware exists."
As long as they resist things like the so-called Debian Common Core which, like this Adobe-Intel-etc thing here, might just be another conglomerate of businesses that want to tell GNU/Linux how to be disguising themselves as the white horse of standards and uniformity.
Yeah,.. It's the sorry assed situation in some African countries (as well as other developing countries around the world I'd imagine) that it's actually cheaper to buy clothes from America than clothes that were made in country with cotton grown in country.
I like the gist of your post, but it sure is irritating to hear someone talk of how 'Africans' are as if all 53 countries and nearly a billion people are all the same. Water is a rare resource everywhere? And every African has gone through civil war you say? Which Africans did your fiance talk to anyway? All of them?
It's language like that that keeps people ignorant. You could have informed everyone reading about how things are in a specific west African country. At the very least they might have learned the name of a country they never knew existed. But now people will read it and come away with 'all Africans have no water but they are all cunning and know how to use computers'.
Ah well, maybe he can come out to more of my local lug meetings now! :)
Maybe he can do something about those 3-12 Tigercats now!
Well, I agree that the article was not very useful. Maybe all the good stuff is in the book. Kidding.
But at least he's not proposing that everyone should be able to abandon MS as the post I replied to suggests.
"The just say no or linux only group always propose stuff for you to get by without ms, but some of us need to do more then use word and excel"
Then they are not talking to you. On the first page of TFA he is asked what his target audience is, and the answer is not 'everyone'.
It's still ridiculous. What if I figure out a way to use a newly found muscle group to propel one'self at hithertofore unreachable speeds? Can I patent it and not let anyone else try it unless they pay me?
That would be silly, it's their damn body. They should be able to do with it what they please.
If they are only patenting the physical method (that involves lab equipment and such) that they developed which is necessary to use the genes for some purpose that might be ok. But if I come up with another method in order to use my genes for the same purpose I should be albe to do it. the description sounds like if they come up with a way to use gene A to do B, then I can't use my own gene A to do B no matter if I find a totally different way to do it.
Interesting. I never thought about it that way. Puts the victims in a new light. And if someone were trying to funnel millions out of Germany or France the recipient of the email would probably call the authorities.
I also like how these scams take advantage of peoples' amazing ignorance of current events in African countries.
Thanks!
There's also the Agnula distribution. Comes in two flavours, one based on Red Hat, one based on Debian. Supposedly low latency and comes with all these audio apps.
I've used neither Agnula or CCRMA. Anybody care to compare or praise/criticise?
As TFA says, there are lots of audio editing apps out there. I'm looking for apps that can create the sound as well. I know about the Beast. Any one have any other ones they know of and like?
Give people a killer app that doesn't exist in the Windows world. Something that the average joe will say 'wow, that saves so much time...' or 'wow, I didn't know it was that easy to do that'
I actually do get Windows users looking at my desktop and saying stuff like that. Or a Windows user asks how I do something and I say something to the effect of "well in Linux I just blah blah blah, but I don't know how you'd do that in Windows" and they get a dissapointed look and I get a smug one ('cause I'm a jerk).
There may not be one killer app (although I still don't know of a good free IDE for Windows so that would keep me in Linux even if I wanted to switch) but there are alot of little things that add up.
Can't it belong to both of them? Uughh. That brings horrible visions of Linus injecting his kernel, or seed as it were, into Stallmans fertile GNU userspace.
Almost makes me want to stop using their bastard child.
He runs on a PPC so that narrows it down a bit. Between Gentoo, Ubuntu, Yellowdog and Mandriva, I'd guess Gentoo.
I'd rather have to replace the kernel (by doing something like switch to BSD) than replace all the GNU software I use.
Affiliating light with quantum theory seems like a stretch as quantum theory answers seem deus ex machina to me.
Quantum theory pretty much came out of studying light. Planck's constant, one of the defining characteristics of quantum theory was a result of Planck studying blackbody radiation. Same kind of radiation emmitted from a light bulb, just at a lower energy.
And the measurement process, which almost no one is in agreement about, is about the only thing in the theory that has elements of deus ex machina.
Ubuntu might be popular within its own community, but the distro won't go mainstream until its image matures past high school sophomore.
Or until some people become less anal-retentive. Did you read the part about NASA being one of their customers? And is an interacial menage a trois somehow worse than a single race one?
we won't have to hear questions of why Ubuntu isn't part of the 'DCC', From TFA:
Why is Ubuntu not part of the DCC Alliance?
I don't believe the DCC will succeed, though its aims are lofty and laudable. It would be expensive to participate, and it would slow down our ability to add the features, polish and integration that we want in new releases. I'm not prepared to devote scarce resources to an initiative that I believe will ultimately fail.
Ouch. I thought the simple fact that DCC is based on Sarge, and Ubuntu on Sid was reason enough.
Also, this FAQ should put to rest the question of leeching and other dumb shit that Ubuntu has been accused of.