Dropbox used to integrate well with Linux, but now it refuses to sync if the filesystem isn't unencrypted ext4, which is not even the ubuntu's default.For google drive there are third-party solutions which work quite reliably, some are not free, but still cheaper than Dropbox if you arre happy with 10-100GB storage
I did not know that pathologist was a disease, must be one of these new psychiatric conditions that keep popping every now and than. Anyway I'm happy that an AI can diagnose that.
Also, looking forward to see the automated "you got cancer" email, written by an underpaid Indian contractor.
Maybe AMD has understood that if you have the geeks on your side, than the next generation of general consumers will be yours as well. Because nobody, except the geeks, can tell two brands of hardware apart but everybody ask their geek family member for advice
With the current record of manufacturers and carriers not giving a damn about porting the Android updates to their products, I'm happy that google is developing a patch, but I'm wondering if anybody will actually receive the patch.
If you had a clue about geography (or just checked a map) you may have noticed that the cable would pass entirely in Tunisia, closer to the border with Algeria than with Libya. Both Tunisia and Algeria are relatively politically stable, although Algeria is not very democratic.
Anyway, it is possible that the project will go nowhere, but I'm pretty sure that the engineers and politicians involved will take due care to read all this Slashdot discussion and take in account your valuable expertise on the subject, they may even send you some money for the invaluable insight you have provided!
This story is the best reply to all those who claim that closed source offers intrinsically better security than open source: close source code is only closed for you.
The problem of Opera (and Vivaldi) on Linux is that they do not have a license for h264, they try to grab the dynamic library codec from google chrome or firefox, but often it does not work. And the instructions to do it manually change every 3 weeks, and you have to read through 20 forum posts written by pimpled youths to find out how. So the 4 milliseconds you saved loading the page faster are wasted
Solution: just use Firefox, it is slow and ugly, but it is actually free, and it is the only browser that supports ublock on Android, and one you get used to ublock you cannot surf the normal internet any more.
Since they have ditched FirefoxOS and all that horsepiss, Firefox has begun to improve again. It will take a couple more decades before it is a good browser, now it is just the best
I would argue that a goto to break out of the loop is clearer that the break. While examining the code, it is possible to miss a break in the middle of a long complicated loop, but you will certainly notice a label statement coming after its end.
This is one of the reasons why so many former Linux users have moved to FreeBSD or NetBSD after being driven away from Linux by systemd, PulseAudio, GNOME 3, and other problematic software like that. Most Linux programs worth using compile just fine on the *BSDs, but if there are legacy, closed-source Linux applications that must be used there is at least some chance that they may work on FreeBSD or NetBSD. This makes for a very easy transition path away from Linux, or more correctly, away from systemd (it isn't the Linux kernel itself that most people have problems with, of course).
Do you think that switching to a *BSD is easier than just installing a distribution without systemd?
I'm not even going to comment about the obvious gnome3 fallacy
Except that many websites do not accept very long passwords, and most will require it to contain an upper case letter and/or a number, and may even bitch if you put the upper case at the beginning and the number at the end, at which point you put them somewhere else and you forget the password the moment you press "ok".
"It's not fast, but the best at all the things you want to do." -- "So you should be using Chrome instead!"
Yeah, right.
To strengthen you point: if you want to use the same browser on desktop and on your smartphone, Firefox is the only one that has proper ad-blocking on mobile. Many other mobile browsers have ad-blocking, but none of the block those intolerable "related content" fake news bottom-of-the-page spammers. Only Firefox with ublock origin properly blocks invasive ads on Android.
The other ad-blockers on mobile (integrated in the browser or not) suck so much that I'm beginning to think they are all getting money from advertisers. And of course, google chrome does not block anything at all, which is very bad considered how much android malvertising there is. There is one Android browser called Yandex, that support desktop extensions, but surprise!, ublock and adblock plus are not supported. You are stuck with its built-in adblocker, which does not block anything.
I've tried so many times to use anything else that firefox on Android, but after two days of surfing the web in a minuscule square in the center of flashing advertisement, after being redirected to the play store to install stupid games, after too many pop-overs with a minuscule x, I always go back to Firefox.
To sum up: if Firefox is noticeably slow on Android, it is much less noticeably so on any decent desktop or laptop. Also, I like syncing desktop with mobile, to avoid having to retype password on the virtual keyboard, and to quickly find in the history a page I may have visited on my phone. So Firefox be it, on mobile because it is by far the best (even if very slow) and on desktop because it does not really suck that much, and it is the only one that sync with mobile.
But the day where Chrome or Opera support proper ad-blocking on Android (and Opera can do ffmpeg decode on Linux without going crazy), or Vivaldi releases an Android version, I'm sorry for Firefox, if it has not catch up on performance, its going to be retired.
But they don't. They use a computer-controlled flappy paddle gearbox now.
Don't play fool: you know perfectly well that I (imprecisely) used the term "manual" to refer to the gearbox based on gears with different ratio of teeth, instead of the one (usually referred as automatic) based on planetary gears.
Saying that Linux still uses the archaic terminal, is like saying that F1 drivers still uses the archaic manual transmission. Seriously, we use it because it works for us. Actually, most of us use Linux because of the terminal, not the terminal because of Linux.
When OSX started to properly support terminal interface it started to attract developers, and now that more an more operations have become difficult without a GUI (i.e. debugging), developers are dropping it again.
They sold this plan until 2011, at that time 3G connection had been available for 8 years, and 4G was already being discussed. They are a professional service provider, they had the ideal amount of information to predict future technology and market development. Still they decided to sell unlimited plans.
Seriously, those of us who can install an operating system are hardly scared by "moving to a desktop environment like GNOME or Unity can be confusing and scary (from TFA)." Those of us who are scared by such a monstrous change in paradigm will never be able to install an OS, or understand that an OS is not part of the laptop, for what matters.
Either these guys manage to get their stuff preinstalled on some decent PCs, and I wish them the best luck possible, or I hardly see some hacker giving them 15 bucks for the privilege of a macosx-inspired theme, 20 crappy games and video wallpapers (I may give them some money to NOT have video wallpapers).
The problem is, they don't know who's the culprit! They dropped version control years ago, because it was confusing, and now they all just work on the same source three in a shared folder.
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Dropbox used to integrate well with Linux, but now it refuses to sync if the filesystem isn't unencrypted ext4, which is not even the ubuntu's default.For google drive there are third-party solutions which work quite reliably, some are not free, but still cheaper than Dropbox if you arre happy with 10-100GB storage
So when your iPhone get stolen, how do you manage to lock it remotely?
I did not know that pathologist was a disease, must be one of these new psychiatric conditions that keep popping every now and than. Anyway I'm happy that an AI can diagnose that.
Also, looking forward to see the automated "you got cancer" email, written by an underpaid Indian contractor.
If it's a full-screen game causing problems, you can usually just CTRL-ALT-ESC+click
Maybe AMD has understood that if you have the geeks on your side, than the next generation of general consumers will be yours as well. Because nobody, except the geeks, can tell two brands of hardware apart but everybody ask their geek family member for advice
The fact that Cortana only uses Edge is in itself an excellent reason to not use Edge.
With the current record of manufacturers and carriers not giving a damn about porting the Android updates to their products, I'm happy that google is developing a patch, but I'm wondering if anybody will actually receive the patch.
There is a huge demand for this new chat app, this is going to be a big hit! All the people who use google+ will also want to use Allo
If you had a clue about geography (or just checked a map) you may have noticed that the cable would pass entirely in Tunisia, closer to the border with Algeria than with Libya. Both Tunisia and Algeria are relatively politically stable, although Algeria is not very democratic.
Anyway, it is possible that the project will go nowhere, but I'm pretty sure that the engineers and politicians involved will take due care to read all this Slashdot discussion and take in account your valuable expertise on the subject, they may even send you some money for the invaluable insight you have provided!
But this would kill the purpose of having a random order
Systemd is not kernel code
This story is the best reply to all those who claim that closed source offers intrinsically better security than open source: close source code is only closed for you.
The problem of Opera (and Vivaldi) on Linux is that they do not have a license for h264, they try to grab the dynamic library codec from google chrome or firefox, but often it does not work. And the instructions to do it manually change every 3 weeks, and you have to read through 20 forum posts written by pimpled youths to find out how. So the 4 milliseconds you saved loading the page faster are wasted
Solution: just use Firefox, it is slow and ugly, but it is actually free, and it is the only browser that supports ublock on Android, and one you get used to ublock you cannot surf the normal internet any more.
Since they have ditched FirefoxOS and all that horsepiss, Firefox has begun to improve again. It will take a couple more decades before it is a good browser, now it is just the best
I would argue that a goto to break out of the loop is clearer that the break. While examining the code, it is possible to miss a break in the middle of a long complicated loop, but you will certainly notice a label statement coming after its end.
If you were using windows you would get it not throttled, but covered in ads. The "choice" is yours.
This is one of the reasons why so many former Linux users have moved to FreeBSD or NetBSD after being driven away from Linux by systemd, PulseAudio, GNOME 3, and other problematic software like that. Most Linux programs worth using compile just fine on the *BSDs, but if there are legacy, closed-source Linux applications that must be used there is at least some chance that they may work on FreeBSD or NetBSD. This makes for a very easy transition path away from Linux, or more correctly, away from systemd (it isn't the Linux kernel itself that most people have problems with, of course).
Do you think that switching to a *BSD is easier than just installing a distribution without systemd?
I'm not even going to comment about the obvious gnome3 fallacy
Yeah, my bank actually uses my birthday and a 6 digit code for password. I wish all their backups may be filled with goatsee
Except that many websites do not accept very long passwords, and most will require it to contain an upper case letter and/or a number, and may even bitch if you put the upper case at the beginning and the number at the end, at which point you put them somewhere else and you forget the password the moment you press "ok".
"It's not fast, but the best at all the things you want to do." -- "So you should be using Chrome instead!"
Yeah, right.
To strengthen you point: if you want to use the same browser on desktop and on your smartphone, Firefox is the only one that has proper ad-blocking on mobile. Many other mobile browsers have ad-blocking, but none of the block those intolerable "related content" fake news bottom-of-the-page spammers. Only Firefox with ublock origin properly blocks invasive ads on Android.
The other ad-blockers on mobile (integrated in the browser or not) suck so much that I'm beginning to think they are all getting money from advertisers. And of course, google chrome does not block anything at all, which is very bad considered how much android malvertising there is. There is one Android browser called Yandex, that support desktop extensions, but surprise!, ublock and adblock plus are not supported. You are stuck with its built-in adblocker, which does not block anything.
I've tried so many times to use anything else that firefox on Android, but after two days of surfing the web in a minuscule square in the center of flashing advertisement, after being redirected to the play store to install stupid games, after too many pop-overs with a minuscule x, I always go back to Firefox.
To sum up: if Firefox is noticeably slow on Android, it is much less noticeably so on any decent desktop or laptop. Also, I like syncing desktop with mobile, to avoid having to retype password on the virtual keyboard, and to quickly find in the history a page I may have visited on my phone. So Firefox be it, on mobile because it is by far the best (even if very slow) and on desktop because it does not really suck that much, and it is the only one that sync with mobile.
But the day where Chrome or Opera support proper ad-blocking on Android (and Opera can do ffmpeg decode on Linux without going crazy), or Vivaldi releases an Android version, I'm sorry for Firefox, if it has not catch up on performance, its going to be retired.
But they don't. They use a computer-controlled flappy paddle gearbox now.
Don't play fool: you know perfectly well that I (imprecisely) used the term "manual" to refer to the gearbox based on gears with different ratio of teeth, instead of the one (usually referred as automatic) based on planetary gears.
Too bad Linux still use the archaic terminal.
Saying that Linux still uses the archaic terminal, is like saying that F1 drivers still uses the archaic manual transmission. Seriously, we use it because it works for us. Actually, most of us use Linux because of the terminal, not the terminal because of Linux.
When OSX started to properly support terminal interface it started to attract developers, and now that more an more operations have become difficult without a GUI (i.e. debugging), developers are dropping it again.
They sold this plan until 2011, at that time 3G connection had been available for 8 years, and 4G was already being discussed. They are a professional service provider, they had the ideal amount of information to predict future technology and market development. Still they decided to sell unlimited plans.
If they intended it to be 100 GB/month, why did they sell it as unlimited?
Seriously, those of us who can install an operating system are hardly scared by "moving to a desktop environment like GNOME or Unity can be confusing and scary (from TFA)." Those of us who are scared by such a monstrous change in paradigm will never be able to install an OS, or understand that an OS is not part of the laptop, for what matters.
Either these guys manage to get their stuff preinstalled on some decent PCs, and I wish them the best luck possible, or I hardly see some hacker giving them 15 bucks for the privilege of a macosx-inspired theme, 20 crappy games and video wallpapers (I may give them some money to NOT have video wallpapers).
The problem is, they don't know who's the culprit! They dropped version control years ago, because it was confusing, and now they all just work on the same source three in a shared folder.