i know this sounds kinda crazy, but did it ever occur to you to actually go up to one of the people working there and tell them that you wanted to buy something?
it's the nature of the.files that means they should be edited in the command line. if you're gonna edit a file that starts with a dot, chances are it's because you're configuring something that you would run or test in the command line.
you'd only want to go near the.bash_profile if you logged in at the command line.
if you're a power user then maybe you should use KDE. it's silly the way people that want a simple interface complain about kde and power users complain about gnome trying to dumb everything down.
you should upgrade to sarge then. it is really stable.
i don't see the point in gentoo. i think a distro's speed has to do with the amount of programs installed and running. this is why gentoo, debian and slackware are the fastest. they don't lump loads of stuff upon installation.
gentoo seems like too much hassle just to get a 5% speed increase. especially for a desktop where you want to install an app and use it straight away.
files beginning with a dot are hidden files. they're not meant to be seen. if you want to edit something like.bash_profile, you should do it in the command line.
i don't use gnome but i don't see the point in mindless gnome bashing.
there is a distro that follows this ethos. it's called debian.
i started on this linux thing with mandrake but i found it a bit too unstable and moved on to debian. debian really does rock. i've also tried xandros and suse but debian sarge is way faster and more stable than any other distro. apt is amazing. not just for the ease of installation and upgrading of packages, but also for the way the packages are built.
as soon as the new installer gets out of beta and someone writes a good gtk frontend onto it, debian will be the best distro in all respects.
if you knew absolutely anything about language, you'd know that there is no wrong or right, just understandable or not understandable.
just because a word is not in a dictionary, it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. if your view of language was right then language wouldn't have existed before dictionaries were invented and new words would never be formed.
i'm on a little crusade of my own to stomp out pedantic assholes like you who feel the need to dictate to everyone else how they should use language.
ok, fair point, but i think that apple should work on openoffice.org and ship it with their os. if people want ms office then they can buy it. i just think apple should provide a decent alternative to ms office.
i think less people would fork out for ms office if they already had a good enough office suite that came with their os.
imagine if they worked on openoffice.org, gave it an aqua look 'n' feel and also threw in ximian's connecter so it could connect to ms exchange! it would be better than having to depend on microsoft for a proper office suite. let's face it, appleworks plain sucks. it never opens any ms office documents. even though openoffice.org is only 1.0.3 and needs x11 to work, it's still way better than any other alternative to ms office.
a lot of people think that they need ms office but they don't at all.
look at the safari situation. apple making their own browser from an existing open source rendering engine was the best thing they ever did. safari is way better than mac ie
i do realise how much they hate us, i get fox news on cable here:) i suppose you may have a point. i just think that it's a tad extreme, but hey, so are the republicans.
ha! that is hilarious! invade europe? you're stupider than i thought.
do you think, if i stopped buying american goods that american forces would instantly stop killing people all around the world? i don't even know why i'm arguing with you, you're clearly trolling.
i can't believe that killjoe (766577) is getting modded up! i hate this kind of "anti-american" mindless bullshit. the fact is that all americans aren't inherently evil. if you ever took your head out of your ass you'd realise that people are people, no matter where they come from, their leader doesn't speak for them, either does their countries' media. any american i have met in my travels has been really, well, normal. i think the leader of my country (Ireland) is an asshole, tony blair is clearly an asshole and jack chirac is most definitely an asshole (remember the nuclear arms testing? or the fact that they dragged american into the vietnam war?).
i disagree with america's foreign policy, and i hate the terrorist tactics that are used by israel but that doesn't mean that i hate everything american, i like to watch american films, i like american fashion and i listen to american music.
don't be such a moron. just because people like billy o' reilly are moronic reactionaries, it doesn't mean that people that disagree with people like him should act just like him.
here in ireland there are no adds for linux or Mac. just some adds for IBM and Dell but these are aimed at the server market. tis a pity there isn't a drive to inform the average consumer about alternatives to Wintel in the Desktop market.
it seems there's a real drive in promoting alternatives , especially linux, in the east and asia, why isn't there an effort in this regard in the west? i understand that in places like india and china where the IT boom is only starting, there is a bigger potential market for linux but i would still like to see a push in advertising for linux here.
you make some good points there but i still think that Java needs to be controlled. i think that MS should be made stop their botched version of Java. it'd be much better if currently unsupported platforms had a native Java port but i wouldn't want to see what happened to XFree86 happen to Java
bindings with GTK!?!? but what if someone ran a GTK'd app on a machine with no GTK libs? what would be the point in writing an app in a cross platform language with bindings for a platform dependent library?
this is why java isn't and shouldn't be gpled. open source is great for certain situations but not for others. i think that it's great that java comes from one company, it means that it's completely controlled.
why are people pushing so much for this? java is free (as in beer) and is very well documented. there is no need to "port" an app that you write, all that's necessary to run a java app is the jre. and you can write an open source java app if you want with no restrictions.
oss advocates like this guy above are well intentioned but they can do more harm than good. with freedom comes responsibility and unfortunately developers can be egotistical and not think about the greater good of software when they make decisions.
really what's more important, a model that's free (as in speech) or something that works.
I was out and about on Saturday night and it's really cool. The actual designs aren't great but it's pretty mad the way they all change around every 14 seconds. It's kinda like that 20th century fox thing that you see before a film 8)
O'Connell Street's getting to be bit crazy, first big pole is stuck in the middle of it and now this. I wonder what other ingenious ways they're gonna waste money...
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i know this sounds kinda crazy, but did it ever occur to you to actually go up to one of the people working there and tell them that you wanted to buy something?
...their source code is already available! just point your browser at google.com, left click on the page and choose "View Source"
it's the nature of the .files that means they should be edited in the command line. if you're gonna edit a file that starts with a dot, chances are it's because you're configuring something that you would run or test in the command line.
.bash_profile if you logged in at the command line.
you'd only want to go near the
if you're a power user then maybe you should use KDE. it's silly the way people that want a simple interface complain about kde and power users complain about gnome trying to dumb everything down.
you should upgrade to sarge then. it is really stable.
i don't see the point in gentoo. i think a distro's speed has to do with the amount of programs installed and running. this is why gentoo, debian and slackware are the fastest. they don't lump loads of stuff upon installation.
gentoo seems like too much hassle just to get a 5% speed increase. especially for a desktop where you want to install an app and use it straight away.
files beginning with a dot are hidden files. they're not meant to be seen. if you want to edit something like .bash_profile, you should do it in the command line.
i don't use gnome but i don't see the point in mindless gnome bashing.
there is a distro that follows this ethos. it's called debian.
i started on this linux thing with mandrake but i found it a bit too unstable and moved on to debian. debian really does rock. i've also tried xandros and suse but debian sarge is way faster and more stable than any other distro. apt is amazing. not just for the ease of installation and upgrading of packages, but also for the way the packages are built.
as soon as the new installer gets out of beta and someone writes a good gtk frontend onto it, debian will be the best distro in all respects.
if you knew absolutely anything about language, you'd know that there is no wrong or right, just understandable or not understandable.
just because a word is not in a dictionary, it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. if your view of language was right then language wouldn't have existed before dictionaries were invented and new words would never be formed.
i'm on a little crusade of my own to stomp out pedantic assholes like you who feel the need to dictate to everyone else how they should use language.
this comment isn't informative, it's moronic.
good point. what do the C pointers do that Java ones can't?
dude, all those chicks are fucking wrecked which just shows how much of a desperate geek you are.
why can't you crazy BeOS people just accept the fact that BeOS is dead? :p
ok, fair point, but i think that apple should work on openoffice.org and ship it with their os. if people want ms office then they can buy it. i just think apple should provide a decent alternative to ms office.
i think less people would fork out for ms office if they already had a good enough office suite that came with their os.
imagine if they worked on openoffice.org, gave it an aqua look 'n' feel and also threw in ximian's connecter so it could connect to ms exchange! it would be better than having to depend on microsoft for a proper office suite. let's face it, appleworks plain sucks. it never opens any ms office documents. even though openoffice.org is only 1.0.3 and needs x11 to work, it's still way better than any other alternative to ms office.
a lot of people think that they need ms office but they don't at all.
look at the safari situation. apple making their own browser from an existing open source rendering engine was the best thing they ever did. safari is way better than mac ie
i do realise how much they hate us, i get fox news on cable here :) i suppose you may have a point. i just think that it's a tad extreme, but hey, so are the republicans.
everyone knew that you were going to invade iraq. it was blatantly obvious for about a year.
ha! that is hilarious! invade europe? you're stupider than i thought.
do you think, if i stopped buying american goods that american forces would instantly stop killing people all around the world? i don't even know why i'm arguing with you, you're clearly trolling.
LOL! this proves that scammers are dumb as dog shit!
i can't believe that killjoe (766577) is getting modded up! i hate this kind of "anti-american" mindless bullshit. the fact is that all americans aren't inherently evil. if you ever took your head out of your ass you'd realise that people are people, no matter where they come from, their leader doesn't speak for them, either does their countries' media. any american i have met in my travels has been really, well, normal. i think the leader of my country (Ireland) is an asshole, tony blair is clearly an asshole and jack chirac is most definitely an asshole (remember the nuclear arms testing? or the fact that they dragged american into the vietnam war?).
i disagree with america's foreign policy, and i hate the terrorist tactics that are used by israel but that doesn't mean that i hate everything american, i like to watch american films, i like american fashion and i listen to american music.
don't be such a moron. just because people like billy o' reilly are moronic reactionaries, it doesn't mean that people that disagree with people like him should act just like him.
I read an email sent from an MEP to the ILUG, saying that she was dead against it.
link to the email
http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/d ilbert2004366030506.gif
...has to be full read 'n' write support for sftp in finder. Tis crappy to have to use Fugu.
Also, to have Finder always open up in column view. It's annoying when opening up a CD or an ftp folder and have to hit the column view button.
Also, to be able to map certain characters to certain key combos. I'd like to be able to write ö without having to open up the character palette.
here in ireland there are no adds for linux or Mac. just some adds for IBM and Dell but these are aimed at the server market. tis a pity there isn't a drive to inform the average consumer about alternatives to Wintel in the Desktop market. it seems there's a real drive in promoting alternatives , especially linux, in the east and asia, why isn't there an effort in this regard in the west? i understand that in places like india and china where the IT boom is only starting, there is a bigger potential market for linux but i would still like to see a push in advertising for linux here.
you make some good points there but i still think that Java needs to be controlled. i think that MS should be made stop their botched version of Java. it'd be much better if currently unsupported platforms had a native Java port but i wouldn't want to see what happened to XFree86 happen to Java
bindings with GTK!?!? but what if someone ran a GTK'd app on a machine with no GTK libs? what would be the point in writing an app in a cross platform language with bindings for a platform dependent library?
this is why java isn't and shouldn't be gpled. open source is great for certain situations but not for others. i think that it's great that java comes from one company, it means that it's completely controlled.
why are people pushing so much for this? java is free (as in beer) and is very well documented. there is no need to "port" an app that you write, all that's necessary to run a java app is the jre. and you can write an open source java app if you want with no restrictions.
oss advocates like this guy above are well intentioned but they can do more harm than good. with freedom comes responsibility and unfortunately developers can be egotistical and not think about the greater good of software when they make decisions.
really what's more important, a model that's free (as in speech) or something that works.
I was out and about on Saturday night and it's really cool. The actual designs aren't great but it's pretty mad the way they all change around every 14 seconds. It's kinda like that 20th century fox thing that you see before a film 8) O'Connell Street's getting to be bit crazy, first big pole is stuck in the middle of it and now this. I wonder what other ingenious ways they're gonna waste money...