Standard Ubuntu (10.4LTS) fits quite happily in the smaller (8Gb) SSD on my eeePC 1000, with room to spare and the whole larger (32Gb) SSD left over for data.
It's really annoying that nearly all the cheap netbooks/small laptops switched from small SSDs to larger (160Gb/250Gb) hard drives; I don't need that space on a netbook, I'd rather have the speed and shockproofing of an SSD.
Obviously AC is using Steve Job's definition of "stealing"...
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Mint decided to "upgrade" to GNOME 3... so I guess your happiness won't endure much.
Despite defaulting to Gnome 3, they *will* support Gnome 2 in the next, long term support release, so the happiness should endure for about 3.5 years from now at least. Which is like a century in computer terms.
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And before you say "but ppas!" if one had to install ppas on an LTS that sort of defeats the point.
No it doesn't. I've got a highly stable 10.4 setup on a desktop and notebook, with just one ppa for firefox. For many people, this is an ideal combination of stable+up-to-date.
Now Mint goes with Gnome 3 which takes out of my list.
As mint say they will continue to support Gnome 2, and the next release will be long term support, you should be able to get 3.5 more years of Gnome 2 at least from mint. Crossing them off you list for something that may happen in 3.5 years time seems a bit unnecessary.
I'm likely to switch from Ubuntu to Mint at the next release so I can have the choice of Gnome 2 for several years, or Gnome 3 as it matures.
My experience is the opposite; I used to use a moderate quality 35mm camera, and I was constantly disappointed with the results; I tired my best but the focus and/or lighting were always poor and the colours never looked quite right. In the end I virtually stopped taking pictures, it seemed a waste of time. About 6 years ago, I got a moderate quality point-and-shoot digital camera, and I love the results; clean, sharp, vibrant colours, I display the results on a large-screen TV and I really feel I'm there. I use it all the time.
Right now you still have that option, but I don't understand why you would want to wait until the last release to switch.
*If* this fallback to gnome classic still works in the 12.04 Long Term Support release, then you can run with it for another 3 years from then. By then things will have changed radically, it'll be clear if either Unity or Gnome 3 have developed to something you like or if a gnome 2 fork has suceeded etc.
If you're really content with Ubuntu+gnome classic it's premature to switch distro now; wait until it's clear whether classic will work OK with 12.04
Fax is patented and it is still used today worldwide and is unlikely to go away.
*Is* patented? It *was* patented, (first patent 1843). All the basic fax patents expired long before it became popular in its current form. As for Coke, Pepsi etc. you're talking total rubbish. They have secret recipes (which anyone can reproduce if they can figure them out independently) , and the names are trademarked. Patents don't come into it anywhere.
Sometimes, on their way home or whatever, they come through my street, and yell, fight or piss in my entrance. If I ever catch one in the act, I've sworn to myself I'll rough him up badly.
Don't you think a more sane and proportionate response would be to throw a bucket of water (or better, a bucket of piss) over them? Particularly given that 'roughing up badly' can easily turn into 'accidentally killing' when he falls awkwardly and cracks his head? And no, I'm not some wimpy pacifist type - if he's attacking you, threatening you or you family etc., whatever, then go for it (and hopefully the law will be on your side). In this case you'd be risking destroying your entire life (by going to prison and losing your job, house etc.) if you beat the shit out of someone for taking a piss in your entrance. The law *would not* be on your side in this case.
By all accounts (apart from those of Chiropractors) their specific use of this term (as opposed to the proper medical use of 'subluxation') is pseudo-scientific nonsense - in particular the blaming of (e.g.) gut disorders and various other unrelated matters on 'Vertebral subluxation'
I suppose I should also point out that some Chiropractic back manipulations may be beneficial *for back problems*, not for unrelated ailments (the evidence is contradictory), but that doesn't mean that the basis of Chiropraxis is sound.
Cool how you got Chiropractors in there with belly button massage. Got an agenda?
Absolutely. Chiropractors can be dangerous since as well as being based on nonsense (Vertebral subluxation), certain manipulations, particularly of the neck, can lead to death or serious injury. Belly button massage is probably just largely pointless but harmless.
I was lost on Thomas when they went PC and they started calling "The Fat Controller" "Sir Toppham Hat
You should watch the UK versions instead, apparently only Americans are offended by the use of the term "fat" (I leave it to others to speculate why this is so, given that the UK is in the same obesity ballpark as the US).
Of course, this isn't such a travesty because his real name *is* actually "Sir Topham Hatt" (mentioned in the books, where he is also three different people, all called "Sir Topham Hatt" but with different first names).
And by the time the copyright expires on the first Star Wars film, everyone who had seen it in the theater will be long dead...
Given current legal trends it's more likely that by the time the copyright expires on the first Star Wars film, the entire human race will be long dead...
Business shouldn't do blacklisting. They should do whitelisting
We had such a system back in about 1997, when the web was quite young and small. It lasted about a couple of years until the point where the number of entirely legitimate work-related websites we needed to access made it totally impractical to maintain. Now we have a 'good enough' blacklisting system.
The traditional Linux desktops are already ruined, KDE3, Gnome2, all butchered, all gone.
I'd hardly say Gnome2 is 'gone' when it's got more than 6 years support left (in Centos 6/RHEL 6).
I may switch to Centos purely on the strength of this if I'm not eventually won over to Gnome 3 or whatever.
(And I'm not implying that CentOS is going to become a mega-popular distro and increase Linux desktop share or anything; I'm sure it will remain a minority interest - but Gnome2 is not 'gone' as far as I'm concerned until there's no serious distros supporting it).
Another thing: I have also read from several sources that Gnome 3 can relatively easily be configured to look and feel almost the same as Gnome 2; *if* this is true and particularly if a popular distro (?Mint perhaps) comes with this as the default configuration, the whole 'end of Gnome 2' issue may turn out to have been a bit of a non-event.
The download links to 'digitalrivercontent' appears to be legal, they seem to be a microsoft partner. Some of the links appear to point to 'network installers' but others such as this one for Ultimate 64 bit: http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-24395.iso seem to be full versions which presumably allow you to install the 30-day trial.
I haven't actually tried this, but I have read many times that the isos were legally available so I'm pretty sure it's all genuine.
I think the point is, you can use WriteCheck to see if it would count as plagiarism, then modify it to the point where it won't.
The thing is, if you have to modify it a lot, you will have to actually understand the material and put it in your own words - so yes, it won't be detected as plagiarism any more - but it won't actually *be* plagiarism any more.
That's not to say that I believe WriteCheck is that sophisticated (judging from some comments it is not), but the principle stands.
Technically, the cheat detection customer didn't get what they wanted
Yes they did. They wanted to show the *appearance* of taking reasonable measures to prevent cheating, by paying a suitable sum of money in a documented way to an 'established' company in the relevant field. Technically, this was what they actually wanted.
I'm trying to work out why any self-respecting geek would participate in any pastime that requires passive, slack-jawed consumption of entertainment over something that requires active involvement.
Maybe because they've already done their statutory 16 hours kernel hacking or equivalent for the day and they need to chill out and unwind before their brain blows a fuse?
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Standard Ubuntu (10.4LTS) fits quite happily in the smaller (8Gb) SSD on my eeePC 1000, with room to spare and the whole larger (32Gb) SSD left over for data.
It's really annoying that nearly all the cheap netbooks/small laptops switched from small SSDs to larger (160Gb/250Gb) hard drives; I don't need that space on a netbook, I'd rather have the speed and shockproofing of an SSD.
...SHOOT that agent.
OK, you go first; let us know how it turns out...
Obviously AC is using Steve Job's definition of "stealing"...
Mint decided to "upgrade" to GNOME 3... so I guess your happiness won't endure much.
Despite defaulting to Gnome 3, they *will* support Gnome 2 in the next, long term support release, so the happiness should endure for about 3.5 years from now at least. Which is like a century in computer terms.
And before you say "but ppas!" if one had to install ppas on an LTS that sort of defeats the point.
No it doesn't. I've got a highly stable 10.4 setup on a desktop and notebook, with just one ppa for firefox. For many people, this is an ideal combination of stable+up-to-date.
Now Mint goes with Gnome 3 which takes out of my list.
As mint say they will continue to support Gnome 2, and the next release will be long term support, you should be able to get 3.5 more years of Gnome 2 at least from mint.
Crossing them off you list for something that may happen in 3.5 years time seems a bit unnecessary.
I'm likely to switch from Ubuntu to Mint at the next release so I can have the choice of Gnome 2 for several years, or Gnome 3 as it matures.
My experience is the opposite; I used to use a moderate quality 35mm camera, and I was constantly disappointed with the results; I tired my best but the focus and/or lighting were always poor and the colours never looked quite right. In the end I virtually stopped taking pictures, it seemed a waste of time. About 6 years ago, I got a moderate quality point-and-shoot digital camera, and I love the results; clean, sharp, vibrant colours, I display the results on a large-screen TV and I really feel I'm there. I use it all the time.
Right now you still have that option, but I don't understand why you would want to wait until the last release to switch.
*If* this fallback to gnome classic still works in the 12.04 Long Term Support release, then you can run with it for another 3 years from then. By then things will have changed radically, it'll be clear if either Unity or Gnome 3 have developed to something you like or if a gnome 2 fork has suceeded etc.
If you're really content with Ubuntu+gnome classic it's premature to switch distro now; wait until it's clear whether classic will work OK with 12.04
If you want 'Gnome 2' back I think all you need to do is install 'gnome-panel' and select at login time...
And to the world's non-nerd population, it just gives the impression that free software is for socially inept bearded types.
99.99% of the world's non-nerd population is probably entirely unaware of his existence, so he has no influence, negative or positive, upon them.
Fax is patented and it is still used today worldwide and is unlikely to go away.
*Is* patented? It *was* patented, (first patent 1843). All the basic fax patents expired long before it became popular in its current form.
As for Coke, Pepsi etc. you're talking total rubbish. They have secret recipes (which anyone can reproduce if they can figure them out independently) , and the names are trademarked. Patents don't come into it anywhere.
Sometimes, on their way home or whatever, they come through my street, and yell, fight or piss in my entrance. If I ever catch one in the act, I've sworn to myself I'll rough him up badly.
Don't you think a more sane and proportionate response would be to throw a bucket of water (or better, a bucket of piss) over them? Particularly given that 'roughing up badly' can easily turn into 'accidentally killing' when he falls awkwardly and cracks his head?
And no, I'm not some wimpy pacifist type - if he's attacking you, threatening you or you family etc., whatever, then go for it (and hopefully the law will be on your side).
In this case you'd be risking destroying your entire life (by going to prison and losing your job, house etc.) if you beat the shit out of someone for taking a piss in your entrance. The law *would not* be on your side in this case.
MLS for realtors is a famous example of a page that wants to be IE only
Just tried the Canadian and US MLS sites and they work fine in Firefox 7, no warnings or anything.
Subluxation, you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I don't 'keep using that word', I mentioned it once as part of the term 'Vertebral subluxation' because that is what Chiropractors use. See e.g.:
http://www.worldchiropracticalliance.org/consumer/subluxation.htm
By all accounts (apart from those of Chiropractors) their specific use of this term (as opposed to the proper medical use of 'subluxation') is pseudo-scientific nonsense - in particular the blaming of (e.g.) gut disorders and various other unrelated matters on 'Vertebral subluxation'
I suppose I should also point out that some Chiropractic back manipulations may be beneficial *for back problems*, not for unrelated ailments (the evidence is contradictory), but that doesn't mean that the basis of Chiropraxis is sound.
I hope this clarifies my comment.
Cool how you got Chiropractors in there with belly button massage. Got an agenda?
Absolutely. Chiropractors can be dangerous since as well as being based on nonsense (Vertebral subluxation), certain manipulations, particularly of the neck, can lead to death or serious injury. Belly button massage is probably just largely pointless but harmless.
I was lost on Thomas when they went PC and they started calling "The Fat Controller" "Sir Toppham Hat
You should watch the UK versions instead, apparently only Americans are offended by the use of the term "fat" (I leave it to others to speculate why this is so, given that the UK is in the same obesity ballpark as the US).
Of course, this isn't such a travesty because his real name *is* actually "Sir Topham Hatt" (mentioned in the books, where he is also three different people, all called "Sir Topham Hatt" but with different first names).
And by the time the copyright expires on the first Star Wars film, everyone who had seen it in the theater will be long dead...
Given current legal trends it's more likely that by the time the copyright expires on the first Star Wars film, the entire human race will be long dead...
Business shouldn't do blacklisting. They should do whitelisting
We had such a system back in about 1997, when the web was quite young and small. It lasted about a couple of years until the point where the number of entirely legitimate work-related websites we needed to access made it totally impractical to maintain. Now we have a 'good enough' blacklisting system.
2) easily switches from a touch UI to a classic desktop UI,
And apparently then switches back every time you click the Start button, whether you like it or not...
The traditional Linux desktops are already ruined, KDE3, Gnome2, all butchered, all gone.
I'd hardly say Gnome2 is 'gone' when it's got more than 6 years support left (in Centos 6/RHEL 6).
I may switch to Centos purely on the strength of this if I'm not eventually won over to Gnome 3 or whatever.
(And I'm not implying that CentOS is going to become a mega-popular distro and increase Linux desktop share or anything; I'm sure it will remain a minority interest - but Gnome2 is not 'gone' as far as I'm concerned until there's no serious distros supporting it).
Another thing: I have also read from several sources that Gnome 3 can relatively easily be configured to look and feel almost the same as Gnome 2; *if* this is true and particularly if a popular distro (?Mint perhaps) comes with this as the default configuration, the whole 'end of Gnome 2' issue may turn out to have been a bit of a non-event.
If MS has any faith in their 'activation' systems they should make ISOs available. If they don't trust their copy protection methods enough to do so, they shouldn't have bothered...
See this:
http://techpp.com/2009/11/11/download-windows-7-iso-official-direct-download-links/
The download links to 'digitalrivercontent' appears to be legal, they seem to be a microsoft partner.
Some of the links appear to point to 'network installers' but others such as this one for Ultimate 64 bit:
http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-24395.iso
seem to be full versions which presumably allow you to install the 30-day trial.
I haven't actually tried this, but I have read many times that the isos were legally available so I'm pretty sure it's all genuine.
Please - if you are going to complain about "appalling English skills" - do not use "This." as a sentence. It really is an abomination.
I think the point is, you can use WriteCheck to see if it would count as plagiarism, then modify it to the point where it won't.
The thing is, if you have to modify it a lot, you will have to actually understand the material and put it in your own words - so yes, it won't be detected as plagiarism any more - but it won't actually *be* plagiarism any more.
That's not to say that I believe WriteCheck is that sophisticated (judging from some comments it is not), but the principle stands.
Technically, the cheat detection customer didn't get what they wanted
Yes they did. They wanted to show the *appearance* of taking reasonable measures to prevent cheating, by paying a suitable sum of money in a documented way to an 'established' company in the relevant field.
Technically, this was what they actually wanted.
I'm trying to work out why any self-respecting geek would participate in any pastime that requires passive, slack-jawed consumption of entertainment over something that requires active involvement.
Maybe because they've already done their statutory 16 hours kernel hacking or equivalent for the day and they need to chill out and unwind before their brain blows a fuse?