It's not exactly hard to upgrade the kernel in debian to the latest version. The Liquorix Project, http://liquorix.net/ , has a debian sid repository which works in Jessie. The MX / MEPIS Community Repositories have those repackaged for Wheezy.
Running debian stable, or even testing, on the desktop has always required some backports. That's why all the debian derivatives like Ubuntu, Mint, Antix, PCLinuxOS, and the rest are popular.
I wouldn't suggest you upgrade the kernel on your production server without good reason - but why would you be running Chrome on your server anyway?
While commercial beekeepers have been having trouble with their bees, here in Florida we've had more wild bees than ever before. They're building hives in residential areas - in attics, in backyard trees, under manufactured homes, in walls of abandoned homes, etc.
Commercial beekeepers don't want these bees because it's more expensive to test them to determine whether they are "Africanized" than to buy new, so they are usually killed by exterminators.
If bees were truly as threatened as the headlines claim, wouldn't at least some beekeepers be collecting these hives instead of homeowners having to pay hundreds of dollars to have them killed?
In 1972 when I was a H.S. Sophomore, my High School (Cleveland Heights/University Heights High School) acquired a PDP-8e with 8k core memory & 4 teletype terminals using paper tape for program storage. It ran a version of DEC Basic. That took 20 minutes to load from paper tape after a minimal boot loader had been keyed in with the toggle switches on the front panel. Fortunately the machine was very stable because a crash meant you probably couldn't get it rebooted that class period.
Computer Science was an 9 week elective class which I took in 1973. After the mandatory "Hello World", branching, subroutine & data statement lessons, I remember having an assignment to program a craps game.
I also wrote a program that punched out words on the paper tape that one of the candidates for Student Council used for mini election banners.
With only about 1.2k of ram left for each terminal after Basic was loaded and no disk storage, our programs were necessarily short & simple - but we did learn programming basics.
Where i got a 1998 CD set with Slackware, TurboLinux, Debian & RedHat. None of which I could get working well on my anemic hardware. The drivers for my CDRom had to be compiled into the kernel, so I had to make floppies from Windows 95 to install a barebones system that could compile the CD drivers before I could get X installed...
In 2000 when I first got DSL I re-purposed an old 386 to be my first router with Coyote Linux.
Mandrake from 2001 to 2004 -> Ubuntu in 2005 -> SimplyMEPIS 2006 - present.
With my music server running running Slackware, then Vector, then MEPIS
With trials along the way of Antix, Debian, Puppy, Damn Small, Feather, Knoppix, Zenwalk, Gentoo & probably some I've forgotten.
Robins Love Brazilian Pepper Berries, and fly around drunkenly after consuming them. Have you ever seen a robin come in for a landing on a wire & miss? Or catch it with one claw and dangle underneath? Common sights on Sanibel when the berries are ripe.
BankAtlantic, a florida bank.
I never tried to download more than a month's worth before, so I just tried it.
Downloaded 4 years worth with no fuss. Had the choice of OFX, QFX, QBO & CSV
Yes, copying GPL software within a company can be considered distribution. It's ditribution whether or not the company modifies the code and the GPL must be followed.
So that act of distribution triggers the fearsome legal obligation of offering the source code for those programs to the people it was distributed to - that is, to the company that already HAS the source!:-)
Gee, I can see why a corporate lawyer might be scared of that!
</sarcasm>
That's a false dichotomy. Abolishing the FDA won't make drugs unsafe. It is in the best interest of the drug companies to make their drugs safe, so they will. After all, they still have the tort system to deal with if they make and sell a dangereous product.
Decades of government agencies saying only they can keep us safe, doesn't make it true. Governmental bureaucracies are notoriously ineffecient at doing practically anything. Why would they be the best solution to making products safe?
Electrical appliances have virtually no government regulation and as a result can be designed & put on the market rather quickly. Safety issues are nevertheless rare. A private organization, Underwriters Laboratories, certifies the appliance's safety quickly & efficiently. You don't HAVE to get a UL certification, but Fire insurance companies (the Underwriters in UL) won't pay for electrical fires caused by uncertified appliances, so stores won't sell them.
If the FDA wasn't there, private enterprise would come up with a certification system for drugs as well, and it would likely work better than the FDA does.
Mepis (http://mepis.org/) is the distro Kubuntu should have been. It defaults to KDE & uses the Ubuntu repositories but it's set up correctly out of the box and is pretty snappy even on my 500mhz notebook.
Ahhh, but with opendns you can turn off those features http://www.opendns.com/prefs/, restoring you to standard DNS functionality. Earthlink on the other hand doesn't give you the choice.
If you're looking at Ubuntu, you really ought to give Mepis a look. http://www.mepis.org/
IMHO, it's a lot easier for a Windows user to pick up and use than Ubuntu - It Just Works.
It's a LiveCD so you can check it out before commiting to installing it and it's got a great installer that on a modern machine it only takes about 15 minutes to install and happily sets up dual-boot with Windows.
Ubuntu is very good - I used to use Ubuntu. Mandriva is also worth a look - I used Mandrake for years and I think it's the best of the RPM based distros.
But for my money, Mepis has them all beat.
I have a PSC 1210xi and while I am currently quite happy with both its scans and printing, I also had a difficult time getting it installed - both in Windows 98SE and Mandrake 9.1 After much time on the phone with HP support I found out that Win98 installations almost always require reinstalling Windows if your install is more than 6 months old. HP still hasn't figured out precisely why (and they were trying at the time - they had me email install and error logs and some registry dumps to them). The last I heard they thought it was probably some registry cruft. I wouldn't be surprised if that happened with other Windows versions as well. I'm sure it doesn't help that the Windows drivers are written in a scripting language (VBscript IIRCC) rather than something closer to the hardware.
The problem with gnu/linux was that the drivers (both HPOJ & libusb) hadn't been sufficiently developed yet. I could either set it up to print, or to scan but not both. That was fixed almost 2 years ago and it now works better under Mandrake than Windows.
I've voted in Florida since 1976 and Florida DID have a uniform standard for what counted as a vote. Every ballot included instructions directing the voter to inspect their card to make sure their holes were punched all the way through before turning it in. The Florida Secretary of State tried to stick to this standard. The Democratic Party filed lawsuits to CHANGE the standard. Childish behavior IMO. "No Fair! You're winning - let's change the rules!"
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IMHO, MX-15 has got XFCE right.
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/...
As good a manual as I've seen for a Linux distro.
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/...
It's not exactly hard to upgrade the kernel in debian to the latest version. The Liquorix Project, http://liquorix.net/ , has a debian sid repository which works in Jessie. The MX / MEPIS Community Repositories have those repackaged for Wheezy.
Running debian stable, or even testing, on the desktop has always required some backports. That's why all the debian derivatives like Ubuntu, Mint, Antix, PCLinuxOS, and the rest are popular.
I wouldn't suggest you upgrade the kernel on your production server without good reason - but why would you be running Chrome on your server anyway?
While commercial beekeepers have been having trouble with their bees, here in Florida we've had more wild bees than ever before. They're building hives in residential areas - in attics, in backyard trees, under manufactured homes, in walls of abandoned homes, etc. Commercial beekeepers don't want these bees because it's more expensive to test them to determine whether they are "Africanized" than to buy new, so they are usually killed by exterminators. If bees were truly as threatened as the headlines claim, wouldn't at least some beekeepers be collecting these hives instead of homeowners having to pay hundreds of dollars to have them killed?
In 1972 when I was a H.S. Sophomore, my High School (Cleveland Heights/University Heights High School) acquired a PDP-8e with 8k core memory & 4 teletype terminals using paper tape for program storage. It ran a version of DEC Basic. That took 20 minutes to load from paper tape after a minimal boot loader had been keyed in with the toggle switches on the front panel. Fortunately the machine was very stable because a crash meant you probably couldn't get it rebooted that class period.
Computer Science was an 9 week elective class which I took in 1973. After the mandatory "Hello World", branching, subroutine & data statement lessons, I remember having an assignment to program a craps game. I also wrote a program that punched out words on the paper tape that one of the candidates for Student Council used for mini election banners.
With only about 1.2k of ram left for each terminal after Basic was loaded and no disk storage, our programs were necessarily short & simple - but we did learn programming basics.
Where i got a 1998 CD set with Slackware, TurboLinux, Debian & RedHat. None of which I could get working well on my anemic hardware.
The drivers for my CDRom had to be compiled into the kernel, so I had to make floppies from Windows 95 to install a barebones system that could compile the CD drivers before I could get X installed...
In 2000 when I first got DSL I re-purposed an old 386 to be my first router with Coyote Linux.
Mandrake from 2001 to 2004 -> Ubuntu in 2005 -> SimplyMEPIS 2006 - present. With my music server running running Slackware, then Vector, then MEPIS With trials along the way of Antix, Debian, Puppy, Damn Small, Feather, Knoppix, Zenwalk, Gentoo & probably some I've forgotten.
Robins Love Brazilian Pepper Berries, and fly around drunkenly after consuming them. Have you ever seen a robin come in for a landing on a wire & miss? Or catch it with one claw and dangle underneath? Common sights on Sanibel when the berries are ripe.
BankAtlantic, a florida bank. I never tried to download more than a month's worth before, so I just tried it. Downloaded 4 years worth with no fuss. Had the choice of OFX, QFX, QBO & CSV
Yes, copying GPL software within a company can be considered distribution. It's ditribution whether or not the company modifies the code and the GPL must be followed.
:-)
So that act of distribution triggers the fearsome legal obligation of offering the source code for those programs to the people it was distributed to - that is, to the company that already HAS the source!
Gee, I can see why a corporate lawyer might be scared of that!
</sarcasm>
That's a false dichotomy. Abolishing the FDA won't make drugs unsafe. It is in the best interest of the drug companies to make their drugs safe, so they will. After all, they still have the tort system to deal with if they make and sell a dangereous product.
Decades of government agencies saying only they can keep us safe, doesn't make it true. Governmental bureaucracies are notoriously ineffecient at doing practically anything. Why would they be the best solution to making products safe?
Electrical appliances have virtually no government regulation and as a result can be designed & put on the market rather quickly. Safety issues are nevertheless rare. A private organization, Underwriters Laboratories, certifies the appliance's safety quickly & efficiently. You don't HAVE to get a UL certification, but Fire insurance companies (the Underwriters in UL) won't pay for electrical fires caused by uncertified appliances, so stores won't sell them.
If the FDA wasn't there, private enterprise would come up with a certification system for drugs as well, and it would likely work better than the FDA does.
Mepis (http://mepis.org/) is the distro Kubuntu should have been. It defaults to KDE & uses the Ubuntu repositories but it's set up correctly out of the box and is pretty snappy even on my 500mhz notebook.
I'm 49 and I can certainly hear it. That's a headache producer for sure!
Ahhh, but with opendns you can turn off those features http://www.opendns.com/prefs/, restoring you to standard DNS functionality. Earthlink on the other hand doesn't give you the choice.
IMHO, it's a lot easier for a Windows user to pick up and use than Ubuntu - It Just Works.
It's a LiveCD so you can check it out before commiting to installing it and it's got a great installer that on a modern machine it only takes about 15 minutes to install and happily sets up dual-boot with Windows.
Ubuntu is very good - I used to use Ubuntu. Mandriva is also worth a look - I used Mandrake for years and I think it's the best of the RPM based distros. But for my money, Mepis has them all beat.
I have a PSC 1210xi and while I am currently quite happy with both its scans and printing, I also had a difficult time getting it installed - both in Windows 98SE and Mandrake 9.1
After much time on the phone with HP support I found out that Win98 installations almost always require reinstalling Windows if your install is more than 6 months old. HP still hasn't figured out precisely why (and they were trying at the time - they had me email install and error logs and some registry dumps to them). The last I heard they thought it was probably some registry cruft.
I wouldn't be surprised if that happened with other Windows versions as well. I'm sure it doesn't help that the Windows drivers are written in a scripting language (VBscript IIRCC) rather than something closer to the hardware.
The problem with gnu/linux was that the drivers (both HPOJ & libusb) hadn't been sufficiently developed yet. I could either set it up to print, or to scan but not both. That was fixed almost 2 years ago and it now works better under Mandrake than Windows.
I've voted in Florida since 1976 and Florida DID have a uniform standard for what counted as a vote. Every ballot included instructions directing the voter to inspect their card to make sure their holes were punched all the way through before turning it in.
The Florida Secretary of State tried to stick to this standard. The Democratic Party filed lawsuits to CHANGE the standard. Childish behavior IMO. "No Fair! You're winning - let's change the rules!"