Yep you can get Microsoft Home Server 2008 for about $150 on NewEgg, so it isn't expensive. I personally use XP Pro 64 bit and wish I'd known about this solution.
How did this get modded Insightful? 1.) While the article's title sensationalized the findings, it does make it clear that this all supposedly happened in Africa to the the local branch of Homo sapiens sapiens, at no point are Homo sapiens neanderthalensis mentioned, nor are the European and African Sapes. 2.) Even at their height, there were never much more than 10,000 Neanderthals. So where did you get your figure of 198,000? 3.) This all occurred before the Stone Age, so how exactly would this have shown up in the archaeological record from the Stone Age?
What's sad about this is they responded as if they hadn't read what you wrote. Your statement is everything the Linux community needs to hear, if only they would unclench. If you want Linux to become a mainstream OS, Usability will have to become as important if not more so than pretty code.
Get LIRC working, MythTV cannot recognize a Streamzap remote until it is compiled in LIRC. The average user should never see the words "compile" or "command line" in print.
BeyondTV (Snapstream) is undoubtably at the top of the pack. MediaPortal coming up second is extremely stable and easy to setup, it just has a very basic feature set. The Linux equivalent of MediaPortal is the rather unstable Freevo.
I was one of the idiots who bought both Meedio Essentials licenses before they sold out to Yahoo, and speaking from experience it was a good product, the new product Yahoo GoTV is free, but it is markedly inferior to Meedio. When MythTV does work it is pretty damned good.
Avoid LinuxMCE like your sanity depends on it, horrible, horrible frankensteined install. It would be nice if everyone built interfaces as clean as FreeNAS (M0n0wall), but sadly they do not.
I've been using Kubuntu (used to be a SUSE man) and Dolphin for a month now and it makes life a hell of a lot easier. If you want to convert someone from Windows, put in the KDE XP theme and KBFX, and then show them Dolphin, Krita (fuck Gimp), Liferea, Amarok, and Pan. Setup the Media folder as your default in Dolphin and it is basically My Computer. You'll have to put the Home folder and Trash folder on the desktop for them as well (I hate that Ubuntu puts the trash icon on the taskbar, or that it can't do something as simple as mount a second hard drive without editing fstabs).
If you want people to be comfortable using Linux, then never ever fucking mention "su", "make", "command line", "fstab" or "config file". Everytime someone mentioned to me that if I wanted a certain application or driver I'd have to compile it myself, I immediately deleted that flavor of Linux from that lab computer and installed Windows. I started doing this back with Red Hat 7, and seeing as I am never planning on migrating from Windows, I have the luxury of experimenting with Linux. I will not compile anything. Ever. Nor will I edit config files of any stripe. It doesn not matter that I know how to do this, i should not have to. And if I have to do that then you are not ready.
I'm not interested in spending ten hours configuring an operating system for every one hour of usability. And Gimp guys I will not use a shitty interface just because you feel that it is "intuitive".
This really isn't funny, the employee of a subcontractor tried to sabotage a space station. This is huge, what this idiot did could have taken the lives of Astronauts. And while it may not be a treasonable offense, it is extremely disquieting to me. And it makes me wonder how many such incidents have gone by unnoticed. I need to know if this man or woman was a crazed Evangelical, a North Korean spy, or just a terrorist.
The subcontractor reported the damage themselves, so it wasn't like NASA employees caught this.
I wouldn't use BS Player if I was you, all current versions are chock full of spyware. The best free player in the community right now is KMPlayer. And don't overlook Songbird for music, that is one sweet piece of software.
I'm betting that the anonymous submitter was either Wayan Vota of OLPC News, or someone who frequents his website.
Wayan's homepage is rather interesting, if you're into conspiracy theories.
Wayan Vota has a decade of global experience in sales and management, ranging from redesigning workflows for PricewaterhouseCoopers, Moscow to designing economic development programs for the International Executive Service Corps.
Wayan Vota also develops unique, informative marketing campaigns and creates engaging, authoritative website content for multiple distribution channels.
His site reminds me of Mozillaquest in the early days.
It would be awesome if they could somehow tie this together with Google Spreadsheets and Gmail. I'd like the option in Gmail to "open a document in Writely" instead of having to download it. And if spreadsheets was already a part of Writely then I wouldn't need need two separate option buttons to do so. Add a spreadsheet tab to writely and tie them together.
I also don't want the application opening new tabs in my browser, I want new documents to be opened in their own tabs within the application window.
Maybe it's time for a serious fork from GIMP that embraces CinePaint and FilmGimp and is a lot less unixy. From what I've seen Gimp's usability has festered for over six years under a team that ignores user requests, if it was possible to take it away from the current development team I'd say do so.
Otherwise move to Krita it has an interface that works, as for content just give it time. I've already started using it in tandem with Inkscape for very basic stuff because it's comfortable to use.
I'm thinking that combined with Info-Mica storage there are a lot of things you could do with this. Imagine animated refrigerator magnets, or DVD covers with previews. Or really, really cheap third world computers with ePaper screens, 3 gigs of Info-Mica storage from http://www.info-mica.com/en/comparison/index.html an Indian knockoff of the Dragon processor, cheap flash memory and a forward thinking Linux gui similar to the one being developed at http://www.symphonyos.com/.
I really want to believe Mars will be settled in my lifetime, or at least before senility wipes away my appreciation of the event.
But I just don't see it happening.
Maybe some of you should RTFA, and see just how much work Cameron put into his research. And check out the hardware designs and mission framework he came up with.
"The thing I found about human mission architectures for going to Mars is that if you change one piece or one assumption, it has a ripple effect through the whole thing, and it looks different coming out the other end. You do things differently, your spacecraft are configured differently, your surface mission looks different, the time you spend on the planet looks different. So a certain set of fundamental assumptions had to be made and then we had to design everything for what it was going to look like."
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There are excellent reviews of the device at UMPC Portal here http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/05/smart-devices-q7-7-pad-for-189, and at Mobileread forums here http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48934. You can find one online for under $200. It comes with a version of Ubuntu Linux, FBReader and Evince are in the standard install. The Mer Project over at Maemo.org is currently porting Maemo to the device, they have a thread here http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=27433, discussing ports for the Smart Q5 and Q7.
Yep you can get Microsoft Home Server 2008 for about $150 on NewEgg, so it isn't expensive. I personally use XP Pro 64 bit and wish I'd known about this solution.
How did this get modded Insightful? 1.) While the article's title sensationalized the findings, it does make it clear that this all supposedly happened in Africa to the the local branch of Homo sapiens sapiens, at no point are Homo sapiens neanderthalensis mentioned, nor are the European and African Sapes. 2.) Even at their height, there were never much more than 10,000 Neanderthals. So where did you get your figure of 198,000? 3.) This all occurred before the Stone Age, so how exactly would this have shown up in the archaeological record from the Stone Age?
Don't you mean SARLACC?
What's sad about this is they responded as if they hadn't read what you wrote. Your statement is everything the Linux community needs to hear, if only they would unclench. If you want Linux to become a mainstream OS, Usability will have to become as important if not more so than pretty code.
Get LIRC working, MythTV cannot recognize a Streamzap remote until it is compiled in LIRC. The average user should never see the words "compile" or "command line" in print.
BeyondTV (Snapstream) is undoubtably at the top of the pack. MediaPortal coming up second is extremely stable and easy to setup, it just has a very basic feature set. The Linux equivalent of MediaPortal is the rather unstable Freevo.
I was one of the idiots who bought both Meedio Essentials licenses before they sold out to Yahoo, and speaking from experience it was a good product, the new product Yahoo GoTV is free, but it is markedly inferior to Meedio. When MythTV does work it is pretty damned good.
Avoid LinuxMCE like your sanity depends on it, horrible, horrible frankensteined install. It would be nice if everyone built interfaces as clean as FreeNAS (M0n0wall), but sadly they do not.
I've been using Kubuntu (used to be a SUSE man) and Dolphin for a month now and it makes life a hell of a lot easier. If you want to convert someone from Windows, put in the KDE XP theme and KBFX, and then show them Dolphin, Krita (fuck Gimp), Liferea, Amarok, and Pan. Setup the Media folder as your default in Dolphin and it is basically My Computer. You'll have to put the Home folder and Trash folder on the desktop for them as well (I hate that Ubuntu puts the trash icon on the taskbar, or that it can't do something as simple as mount a second hard drive without editing fstabs).
If you want people to be comfortable using Linux, then never ever fucking mention "su", "make", "command line", "fstab" or "config file". Everytime someone mentioned to me that if I wanted a certain application or driver I'd have to compile it myself, I immediately deleted that flavor of Linux from that lab computer and installed Windows. I started doing this back with Red Hat 7, and seeing as I am never planning on migrating from Windows, I have the luxury of experimenting with Linux. I will not compile anything. Ever. Nor will I edit config files of any stripe. It doesn not matter that I know how to do this, i should not have to. And if I have to do that then you are not ready.
I'm not interested in spending ten hours configuring an operating system for every one hour of usability. And Gimp guys I will not use a shitty interface just because you feel that it is "intuitive".
This really isn't funny, the employee of a subcontractor tried to sabotage a space station. This is huge, what this idiot did could have taken the lives of Astronauts. And while it may not be a treasonable offense, it is extremely disquieting to me. And it makes me wonder how many such incidents have gone by unnoticed. I need to know if this man or woman was a crazed Evangelical, a North Korean spy, or just a terrorist.
The subcontractor reported the damage themselves, so it wasn't like NASA employees caught this.
I wouldn't use BS Player if I was you, all current versions are chock full of spyware. The best free player in the community right now is KMPlayer. And don't overlook Songbird for music, that is one sweet piece of software.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_KMPlayer
You know what's sad? It's not a contest, he's not challenging you, he's telling you as a user what he needs.
Wayan's homepage is rather interesting, if you're into conspiracy theories. Wayan Vota has a decade of global experience in sales and management, ranging from redesigning workflows for PricewaterhouseCoopers, Moscow to designing economic development programs for the International Executive Service Corps. Wayan Vota also develops unique, informative marketing campaigns and creates engaging, authoritative website content for multiple distribution channels.
His site reminds me of Mozillaquest in the early days.
Yep same here, my dream has always been moving to New Zealand.
It would be awesome if they could somehow tie this together with Google Spreadsheets and Gmail. I'd like the option in Gmail to "open a document in Writely" instead of having to download it. And if spreadsheets was already a part of Writely then I wouldn't need need two separate option buttons to do so. Add a spreadsheet tab to writely and tie them together.
I also don't want the application opening new tabs in my browser, I want new documents to be opened in their own tabs within the application window.
Maybe it's time for a serious fork from GIMP that embraces CinePaint and FilmGimp and is a lot less unixy. From what I've seen Gimp's usability has festered for over six years under a team that ignores user requests, if it was possible to take it away from the current development team I'd say do so. Otherwise move to Krita it has an interface that works, as for content just give it time. I've already started using it in tandem with Inkscape for very basic stuff because it's comfortable to use.
I'm thinking that combined with Info-Mica storage there are a lot of things you could do with this. Imagine animated refrigerator magnets, or DVD covers with previews. Or really, really cheap third world computers with ePaper screens, 3 gigs of Info-Mica storage from http://www.info-mica.com/en/comparison/index.html an Indian knockoff of the Dragon processor, cheap flash memory and a forward thinking Linux gui similar to the one being developed at http://www.symphonyos.com/.
I really want to believe Mars will be settled in my lifetime, or at least before senility wipes away my appreciation of the event. But I just don't see it happening.
You could waste your time with a beta build of snapstream. Or even go through installation hell with MythTV.
Or you could just get the excellent Windows based free alternative MyHTPC. MyHTPC is modular and it works, its is also incredibly customizeable.
Maybe some of you should RTFA, and see just how much work Cameron put into his research. And check out the hardware designs and mission framework he came up with.
"The thing I found about human mission architectures for going to Mars is that if you change one piece or one assumption, it has a ripple effect through the whole thing, and it looks different coming out the other end. You do things differently, your spacecraft are configured differently, your surface mission looks different, the time you spend on the planet looks different. So a certain set of fundamental assumptions had to be made and then we had to design everything for what it was going to look like."