probably easier if I explain each sunday there is a sunday lunch menu which changes each week to a certain extent some items appear every sunday some are variations e.g there will be a soup on the menu but it will be a different soup. special event menu's are handled similarly.
So I will generally take the last sunday menu and edit it for the current sundays items. while i could do the layout from scratch removing the images and putting them back it would just be extra work and take longer. Since i've found options to lock the images from moving or resizing its become easier with fewer accidents.
I guess what i am looking for is a lock on certain page elements, the images are purely decoration. being able to lock elements and essentially ignore them would be a great help even text blocks would be handy to lock so i can focus on the task in hand be it titles menu sections page backgrounds and borders.
maybe even an option to composite pages say a page of images a page of text and then overlay the two pages or perhaps a two stage print out so there could be a little colour printed by an inkjet but the bulk of the page printed by laser. In the main i tend to do bulk printing by laser and one off jobs that need colour with my inkjet.
touchpad indicator, allows you to turn on/off the track pad with a key combo of your choice its in a ppa for ubuntu the disable trackpad while typing option only works if you don't pause to think. I've found it helps but isn't a cure, it just reduces the frequency.
touchpad indicator seems to be quite good although it didn't start on startup for me that might just be a glitch
libre office does have a protect mode for images to lock them in place at the size you set. however if you are editing text over an image the image will get selected instead of say a line of text and pressing escape will take you to the beginning of the page of text.
Ideally i'd like a protected mode which allows the image to be ignored completely
You don't need to have a handicap to have problems with mouse interaction.
case 1 your writing a reply in slashdot and you brush the trackpad as you are writing and suddenly the insertion point has moved and your now writing into an earlier sentence.
case 2 your using openoffice or libre office and creating a document with both text and graphics. One of the trickiest has to be an image as a page border a second image as a water mark within the border and then text on top.
precisely locating the images where you want them is not easy with a mouse, but having done so its a real bitch to work on the text without accidentally selecting the image and moving it.
it's practically impossible to select a line of text with the mouse once there is an image behind the text.
case 3 combining images in the gimp isn't easy to make say 5 copies of the same image in to 1 column usually there is some horizontal or vertical misalignment you only see when printing.
These issues could be addressed within applications and the operating system.
first why not a hot key to turn the trackpad on and off, capslock might be an ideal candidate for this.
why not a keyboard combo which would allow you to move the pointer a pixel at a time. thus eliminating the judder which always makes moving things precisely such a balls.
finally couldn't we get a lock on different elements in a document. so when I have my images in place i can then ignore them while i work on the text.
If these sorts of issues were addressed then there would be less of a problem for people with disabilities as well.
The on / off button for the trackpad would be a start.
I don't think it is possible to equate a recording of something to the actual experience itself, without exception.
While a mp3 or cd largely sounds the same and has little personality, a record is quite individual. A record can be a treasured and valued possession. You share a history with that piece of vinyl a lot of memories are tied up in a record collection. There is a weight in a good quality 60's recording, the vinyl got thinner as record companies saved money on cheaper pressings you can feel the difference. A record picks up scratches and dust even though you will try to minimise the damage handling by the edge carefully lowering the stylus rather than dropping it. You probably wouldn't let anyone else play or borrow your copy not being certain that the record would survive the experience. I'm not even getting into the artwork and information on the sleeves or the smell of an old record
I guess we still have the music we had back then with a sound which is as perfect as when we first acquired it. and no longer do we need those heavy boxes of records that these days could be replaced by a thumb drive. better more efficient but like books to ebooks there is a loss because much as a book is more than its pages a record is more than the songs engraved on its surface.
Personally it's been around 30 years since I last saw an 8 track, and maybe 2 years or so since I last saw a record. I would expect if i went to a car boot fair I'd probably find a few records somewhere.
I guess it's possible for someone under the age of 20 to have not seen either format. I'm certain there are children who have never seen either.
I found the Toms Hardware guide Informative and interesting, I have to admit I really disliked unity when the first version appeared and decided it wasn't for me and stuck with Lucid. I liked Lucid's netbook remix very clear and easy to use especially combined with gnomeshell.
The article went through a lot of the changes, the colour coding of the icon states the little tweaks to the launch bar showing which applications are open and the number of windows. The global menu feature makes good use of the screen. looking at my desktop screen as I write this on lucid nearly an inch is wasted on window borders and task bars that I don't need, as my focus is writing this reply.
While unity is the default, It will also allow me the classic desktop mode I am using now. So it seems to me that it will do no harm to at least download the live 11.04 cd and give it a spin.
I wasn't intending to do that prior to reading the article and now i've been walked through the system I don't think it will be as frustrating as my previous experience with unity.
Now obviously I can't get a real feel for it without downloading it and trying it for myself but that article has done enough to convince me to download it and give it a spin.
I can spare time for that, your right it is an advertisement in all but name but adverts are not all there to persuade you to buy lousy products some are actually pretty good once you get them out of the box.
It's not the current software's value that is the problem but the use of patents to block new developments even in unrelated area's not even thought about by the patent holder.
Software patents are an intellectual tar pit. Luckily there are large area's of the world where software patents are invalid so innovation can continue sadly american software engineers are now bogged down in a legal quagmire which in the long term will contribute to making america a backwater instead of a leader in technology.
The summary for the model airport is quite misleading as the airport is part of a number of miniature attractions and employ's 150 people and cost millions to make and is a popular tourist attraction.
But when I'm hurting, there's almost nothing I can do to not make it hurt.
May I recommend a cod liver oil or Omega 3 capsule a day. While I can offer no scientific evidence other than it works for me. My Doctor diagnosed me with carpal tunnel and my fingers were in a terrible state (playing a guitar became impossible since i couldn't hold a chord without severe pain). I decided to take the capsules to help my over all level of health (and they were cheap enough to buy) I already was taking a bunch of other meds due to diabetes and a heart attack so one more thing to take was no big deal.
The results were unexpected but my physical symptoms disappeared of course when i got to the end of the bottle I stopped and within 2 weeks the pain returned. I restarted and have had very little trouble since. I've been taking 1 a day now for around 2 years now. It seems to work for other people I know as well.
Nothing to lose by trying it for a month and seeing if it improves things. Has anyone else any experience with cod liver oil / omega 3 giving relief or not ?
thank you for reminding me i do have a 10/100 hub somewhere i was going to dig out a couple of wireless cards since i'm using one of my routers else where but that will do nicely:)
'Free Services' are all about delivering an audience. They are not really free, the costs are carried by the advertisers who gain customers who buy stuff from them and thus increase the revenues and profits of the company that advertises.
If you compare with advertising fliers getting 2,000 fliers printed might cost 13 cents a flier so $260 is invested in the fliers + the cost of delivering them maybe $50 or so to get them dropped in mail boxes. If you generate 50% profit on your sales (a bit optimistic maybe) then you need to sell $620 worth of kit to break even. If average sales are $30 per customer per visit then 25 sales will about cover the cost of advertising after that its increased profits. You need about 1.25% return to break even.
Compared to advertising with google its pretty expensive to get those sales. $310 would buy you the eyes of lets say 200,000 people and if 0.1% are interested that would be 200 new customers on an average spend of $30 making $6,000 gross sales and maybe $3,000 in increased profits if they only come to you once.
In reality each new person you introduce to your business will likely bring you much more than $15 profit as they are going to tell their friends and family.
The only problem with online advertising is it only hits a fraction of the potential market for your products. In my own area a good proportion of sales will come from people over the age of sixty who will not be online and seeing my ads, so to draw them fliers are a more appropriate advertising medium.
So now I hope you can see that free services are not built on a house of cards but have a very real cost and a genuine return for the advertisers that support them.
It is a bit tricky to keep ad costs low with google, but if you can keep bounce low then google will also keep the click cost down too. Linking to related sites will help with that, you need to ideally move your customers through your site and on to anywhere else but google.
Thank you for this post, you just inspired me. I have an archos 7 and it has usb Host mode and I just tried plugging in a cuecat. Wasn't sure if there would be enough power on the usb port to run it but it does.
Simple test capturing to the browser (google is pretty good on finding barcodes) works fine. Now I have a very portable handheld scanner:)
I am confused here a developer produces 2 similar apps puts one on google market and the other on other markets.
App1 works as advertised and costs a couple of bucks App2 is a trojan but is free on the third party app sites.
App2 is pretty much a clone of App1 and made by the same author no less. The end user has not pirated App1 he/she downloaded App2 which was offered for free.
Just where does piracy even enter into it? There are lots of apps which are ad supported and free and also a paid for version which is ad free. Why would the end user think that the free version of this particular app isn't legitimate?
Even directing the user of app2 to app1 isn't that suspicious after all many trial versions will nag you to buy the paid version. Normally on the first time you run the application and still haven't decided if its worth buying yet.
This authors business model appears to be very little different to the one used by the antivirus 2011 malware vendors who tell you your infected and attempt to get you to purchase a "full" version to make the problem go away.
Even the name isn't distinctive, its so generic that anyone might use it for a program for texting while walking.
So really it appears there is only one criminal here and that is the guy/ company that created both of these applications and he/they are liable to be sued in civil court and or prosecuted under computer crime legislation in criminal court.
In my country the cost of the texts are trivial but the damage to someones character is worth a good few thousand and it is very likely the author would be found guilty. (typically 14,000 compensation ten years ago)
The computer crime statutes here would also leave the author liable to a large fine or jail time.
Anyway Incorporate Apps will be added to my do not recommend list.
The Board intends to complete the process for final approval of the New gTLD implementation program at an extraordinary meeting of the ICANN Board to be held on Monday, 20 June 2011, at the ICANN public meeting in Singapore.
which is why there are 0 sites for india to ban yet as none exist.
i run to a bit earlier , jon pertwee was my first dr and he was good (tom baker was better) some good stories and very scary at times. I do like the early drs especially the first.
sylvester mccoy totally killed dr who and turned it to junk,
interesting link but there is the problem that an image file is shown as an image file of the image on the desktop or even in the home directory certainly in the case of 10.04 . Even in the article its mentioned xubuntu isn't vulnerable to this. It's also from 3 years ago and was using 8.10 we are now in 2011 and ubuntu has had 9.04, 9.10, 10.04. 10,10 and in a few weeks 11.04 will be released.
ok lets say the truth is that its still possible to infect a Desktop or OSX or Linux system. it is still pretty minimal currently and likely to remain so for a number of years.
To use an analogy who are you more likely to catch a dose from some whore or your wife. Hopefully your wife is faithful but you can't be 100%
using Linux for the internet is like practising safe sex, and to be even more secure you can run it from a live cd and have a totally clean operating system running.
now i'm not saying you should throw out windows completely as it does have its uses there are plenty of programs which are essential for many people and need windows to run. Just use safer practices and you can have the advantages of both.
so according to you its because the users are stupid that windows is over run with virus and malware problems and osx and linux are largely left alone. Even with android it takes a trojan from an unofficial market place on a rooted phone to get infected and there is no replication.
I'm just not buying that,there are stupid users on every platform but they are not getting hit. You don't need to be great with computers to use Linux and there are a good number of people that are not good with computers using Linux these days. Often because they have had it installed as a dual boot option by the person that cleaned their last windows infection. I've personally been doing this for a few years and the results have been great. All it takes is getting them to use Linux for most of their net related activities and windows for their games. You can play flash based browser games on either so for the facebook crowd they can still play farmville and mafia wars and chat with facebook chat. Generally Linux runs faster on a given pc than a secured version of windows which gives a better user experience.
Even if windows gets reinfected they can still do most of what they want to do and bring their pc to me for cleaning at a convenient time for both of us.
Cleaning gets a lot easier when you can boot into Linux and do the scans and removal from there. Avast actually do a free Linux version which can clean the windows partition, which these days will have had any av installed crippled by the malware.
I guess one advantage of android and the iphones are the introduction to the general public of alternative operating systems.
I know that this comes off as an antimicrosoft dig but with what is it 200 million pieces of malware and growing its well deserved isn't it? Theres good even great software that runs on windows and nowhere else and without microsoft we wouldn't have the cheap hardware we have today but in thirty years they have been unable to stem the flow of malware aimed at their software platforms.
i compromise, i'll fix windows and convert the system to dual boot ubuntu (lucid) as well. no dual boot you can find someone else to fix it.
i haven't found a system yet where ubuntu doesn't perform better than windows on the same system.
if windows gets trashed a second time, they can boot ubuntu until i get time to fix windows.
I also throw in some training on the ubuntu system a pdf of the ubuntu user guide and make sure their bits and pieces work.
I dislike windows,but i aso accept sometimes its needed but most of the time it isn't and i've found that most people can get on well with ubuntu and will use windows when there is no alternative.
I won't because Kahled Mardem-Bey is an arse. his mirc program was full of proprietary extensions to the 'IRC protocol which would only work properly with other mirc users. which was only available for windows.
We did correspond by email over interoperability and his attitude was everyone shoud use Mirc and had no regard for open standards which the internet was built on.
it was mirc which introduced ctrl codes for different colored texts and backgrounds.
so don't feel guilty about that not sending money to that arrogant dick.
you can see from his own faq he hasn't changed at all, he is promising a version not in English soon. Mirc was started in 1994 the faq appears to be current in 2011 and 17 years after starting to write Mirc a non - english version will be coming 'soon' .
I have to admit i'm not quite so keen on ubuntu as I once was. Maverick is not an option i dislike unity so I stuck with lucid which is pretty good and I will probably wait a while till canonical make a better release or perhaps I will look towards debian or mint. I kind of feel like I should have left Ubuntu behind and moved on but it is easy to stick with what I know.
What canonical seem to have done is taken their first apple like steps and I don' like it at all. Ubuntu doesn't really have an app store. Taking a cut from Amazon referral fee's away from gnome just sucks. to be honest the devs could spend it on crack and whores if they wanted too. Banshee is not Canonicals. Maybe they want to take a slice of firefox's revenues next after all you can run it on ubuntu and mozilla get revenue from google. UbuntuOne is canonicals baby and they can do as they please with that.
incidentally
You can cancel your account by doing the following:
1. Open https://one.ubuntu.com/account/ 2. Click on the "View details or make changes" link 3. Click the "Cancel this subscription" link 4. Click the "Cancel subscription" button
I'm cancelling now. well I would be but apparently its down for maintenance. coincidence?
I'm not biased oracle is a lot worse but seriously Ubuntu seems to be acquiring people with poor people skills like a cat gets fleas.
Slashdot Mirror
You might try an x86 build of android in virtualbox, its faster than the emulator , probably not up to honeycomb yet thou
probably easier if I explain each sunday there is a sunday lunch menu which changes each week to a certain extent some items appear every sunday some are variations e.g there will be a soup on the menu but it will be a different soup. special event menu's are handled similarly.
So I will generally take the last sunday menu and edit it for the current sundays items. while i could do the layout from scratch removing the images and putting them back it would just be extra work and take longer. Since i've found options to lock the images from moving or resizing its become easier with fewer accidents.
I guess what i am looking for is a lock on certain page elements, the images are purely decoration.
being able to lock elements and essentially ignore them would be a great help even text blocks would be handy to lock so i can focus on the task in hand be it titles menu sections page backgrounds and borders.
maybe even an option to composite pages say a page of images a page of text and then overlay the two pages or perhaps a two stage print out so there could be a little colour printed by an inkjet but the bulk of the page printed by laser. In the main i tend to do bulk printing by laser and one off jobs that need colour with my inkjet.
probably not the hardest features to add.
touchpad indicator, allows you to turn on/off the track pad with a key combo of your choice its in a ppa for ubuntu
the disable trackpad while typing option only works if you don't pause to think. I've found it helps but isn't a cure, it just reduces the frequency.
touchpad indicator seems to be quite good although it didn't start on startup for me that might just be a glitch
libre office does have a protect mode for images to lock them in place at the size you set. however if you are editing text over an image the image will get selected instead of say a line of text and pressing escape will take you to the beginning of the page of text.
Ideally i'd like a protected mode which allows the image to be ignored completely
You don't need to have a handicap to have problems with mouse interaction.
case 1
your writing a reply in slashdot and you brush the trackpad as you are writing and suddenly the insertion point has moved and your now writing into an earlier sentence.
case 2
your using openoffice or libre office and creating a document with both text and graphics. One of the trickiest has to be an image as a page border a second image as a water mark within the border and then text on top.
precisely locating the images where you want them is not easy with a mouse, but having done so its a real
bitch to work on the text without accidentally selecting the image and moving it.
it's practically impossible to select a line of text with the mouse once there is an image behind the text.
case 3
combining images in the gimp isn't easy to make say 5 copies of the same image in to 1 column usually there is some horizontal or vertical misalignment you only see when printing.
These issues could be addressed within applications and the operating system.
first why not a hot key to turn the trackpad on and off, capslock might be an ideal candidate for this.
why not a keyboard combo which would allow you to move the pointer a pixel at a time. thus eliminating the judder which always makes moving things precisely such a balls.
finally couldn't we get a lock on different elements in a document.
so when I have my images in place i can then ignore them while i work on the text.
If these sorts of issues were addressed then there would be less of a problem for people with disabilities as well.
The on / off button for the trackpad would be a start.
I don't think it is possible to equate a recording of something to the actual experience itself, without exception.
While a mp3 or cd largely sounds the same and has little personality, a record is quite individual. A record can be a treasured and valued possession. You share a history with that piece of vinyl a lot of memories are tied up in a record collection. There is a weight in a good quality 60's recording, the vinyl got thinner as record companies saved money on cheaper pressings you can feel the difference. A record picks up scratches and dust even though you will try to minimise the damage handling by the edge carefully lowering the stylus rather than dropping it. You probably wouldn't let anyone else play or borrow your copy not being certain that the record would survive the experience. I'm not even getting into the artwork and information on the sleeves or the smell of an old record
I guess we still have the music we had back then with a sound which is as perfect as when we first acquired it.
and no longer do we need those heavy boxes of records that these days could be replaced by a thumb drive.
better more efficient but like books to ebooks there is a loss because much as a book is more than its pages a record is more than the songs engraved on its surface.
Personally it's been around 30 years since I last saw an 8 track, and maybe 2 years or so since I last saw a record. I would expect if i went to a car boot fair I'd probably find a few records somewhere.
I guess it's possible for someone under the age of 20 to have not seen either format. I'm certain there are children who have never seen either.
unity is awkward by default however it gets easier for a user as the system learns what the user uses
i think i can live with it
I found the Toms Hardware guide Informative and interesting, I have to admit I really disliked unity when the first version appeared and decided it wasn't for me and stuck with Lucid. I liked Lucid's netbook remix very clear and easy to use especially combined with gnomeshell.
The article went through a lot of the changes, the colour coding of the icon states the little tweaks to the launch bar showing which applications are open and the number of windows. The global menu feature makes good use of the screen. looking at my desktop screen as I write this on lucid nearly an inch is wasted on window borders and task bars that I don't need, as my focus is writing this reply.
While unity is the default, It will also allow me the classic desktop mode I am using now. So it seems to me that it will do no harm to at least download the live 11.04 cd and give it a spin.
I wasn't intending to do that prior to reading the article and now i've been walked through the system I don't think it will be as frustrating as my previous experience with unity.
Now obviously I can't get a real feel for it without downloading it and trying it for myself but that article has done enough to convince me to download it and give it a spin.
I can spare time for that, your right it is an advertisement in all but name but adverts are not all there to persuade you to buy lousy products some are actually pretty good once you get them out of the box.
It's not the current software's value that is the problem but the use of patents to block new developments even in unrelated area's not even thought about by the patent holder.
Software patents are an intellectual tar pit. Luckily there are large area's of the world where software patents are invalid so innovation can continue sadly american software engineers are now bogged down in a legal quagmire which in the long term will contribute to making america a backwater instead of a leader in technology.
is twitter more secure and spam free?
possibly true about more secure but there is spam. which kind of torpedo's your argument.
you probably were not insulated from the ground by the tyres as most tyres these days conduct electricity
google it for more
It is a very interesting website full of interesting stuff
The $25 computer for example
http://singularityhub.com/2011/05/10/a-25-computer-the-size-of-your-thumb-video/
or an actual flying car ($200,000)
http://singularityhub.com/2010/07/06/terrafugia-car-plane-gets-more-faa-aproval-hitting-skies-and-roads-2011-video/
There are some interesting robots/ milling machines
http://singularityhub.com/2010/04/05/5-axis-robot-carves-metal-like-butter-video/
for example
The summary for the model airport is quite misleading as the airport is part of a number of miniature attractions and employ's 150 people and cost millions to make and is a popular tourist attraction.
But when I'm hurting, there's almost nothing I can do to not make it hurt.
May I recommend a cod liver oil or Omega 3 capsule a day. While I can offer no scientific evidence other than it works for me. My Doctor diagnosed me with carpal tunnel and my fingers were in a terrible state (playing a guitar became impossible since i couldn't hold a chord without severe pain). I decided to take the capsules to help my over all level of health (and they were cheap enough to buy) I already was taking a bunch of other meds due to diabetes and a heart attack so one more thing to take was no big deal.
The results were unexpected but my physical symptoms disappeared of course when i got to the end of the bottle I stopped and within 2 weeks the pain returned. I restarted and have had very little trouble since.
I've been taking 1 a day now for around 2 years now. It seems to work for other people I know as well.
Nothing to lose by trying it for a month and seeing if it improves things. Has anyone else any experience with cod liver oil / omega 3 giving relief or not ?
thank you for reminding me i do have a 10/100 hub somewhere :)
i was going to dig out a couple of wireless cards since i'm using one of my routers else where but that will do nicely
'Free Services' are all about delivering an audience. They are not really free, the costs are carried by the advertisers who gain customers who buy stuff from them and thus increase the revenues and profits of the company that advertises.
If you compare with advertising fliers getting 2,000 fliers printed might cost 13 cents a flier so $260 is invested in the fliers + the cost of delivering them maybe $50 or so to get them dropped in mail boxes. If you generate 50% profit on your sales (a bit optimistic maybe) then you need to sell $620 worth of kit to break even. If average sales are $30 per customer per visit then 25 sales will about cover the cost of advertising after that its increased profits. You need about 1.25% return to break even.
Compared to advertising with google its pretty expensive to get those sales. $310 would buy you the eyes of lets say 200,000 people and if 0.1% are interested that would be 200 new customers on an average spend of $30 making $6,000 gross sales and maybe $3,000 in increased profits if they only come to you once.
In reality each new person you introduce to your business will likely bring you much more than $15 profit as they are going to tell their friends and family.
The only problem with online advertising is it only hits a fraction of the potential market for your products. In my own area a good proportion of sales will come from people over the age of sixty who will not be online and seeing my ads, so to draw them fliers are a more appropriate advertising medium.
So now I hope you can see that free services are not built on a house of cards but have a very real cost and a genuine return for the advertisers that support them.
It is a bit tricky to keep ad costs low with google, but if you can keep bounce low then google will also keep the click cost down too. Linking to related sites will help with that, you need to ideally move your customers through your site and on to anywhere else but google.
well thats my take on it.
Thank you for this post, you just inspired me.
I have an archos 7 and it has usb Host mode and I just tried plugging in a cuecat. Wasn't sure if there would be enough power on the usb port to run it but it does.
Simple test capturing to the browser (google is pretty good on finding barcodes) works fine. :)
Now I have a very portable handheld scanner
That is useful.
I wouldnt have thought about this as an option.
I am confused here a developer produces 2 similar apps puts one on google market and the other on other markets.
App1 works as advertised and costs a couple of bucks
App2 is a trojan but is free on the third party app sites.
App2 is pretty much a clone of App1 and made by the same author no less. The end user has not pirated App1
he/she downloaded App2 which was offered for free.
Just where does piracy even enter into it? There are lots of apps which are ad supported and free and also a paid for version which is ad free. Why would the end user think that the free version of this particular app isn't legitimate?
Even directing the user of app2 to app1 isn't that suspicious after all many trial versions will nag you to buy the paid version. Normally on the first time you run the application and still haven't decided if its worth buying yet.
This authors business model appears to be very little different to the one used by the antivirus 2011 malware vendors who tell you your infected and attempt to get you to purchase a "full" version to make the problem go away.
Even the name isn't distinctive, its so generic that anyone might use it for a program for texting while walking.
So really it appears there is only one criminal here and that is the guy/ company that created both of these applications and he/they are liable to be sued in civil court and or prosecuted under computer crime legislation in criminal court.
In my country the cost of the texts are trivial but the damage to someones character is worth a good few thousand and it is very likely the author would be found guilty. (typically 14,000 compensation ten years ago)
The computer crime statutes here would also leave the author liable to a large fine or jail time.
Anyway Incorporate Apps will be added to my do not recommend list.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.incorporateapps.walktext&feature=search_result
from icann
The Board intends to complete the process for final approval of the New gTLD implementation program at an extraordinary meeting of the ICANN Board to be held on Monday, 20 June 2011, at the ICANN public meeting in Singapore.
which is why there are 0 sites for india to ban yet as none exist.
i run to a bit earlier , jon pertwee was my first dr and he was good (tom baker was better) some good stories and very scary at times.
I do like the early drs especially the first.
sylvester mccoy totally killed dr who and turned it to junk,
interesting link but there is the problem that an image file is shown as an image file of the image on the desktop or even in the home directory certainly in the case of 10.04 . Even in the article its mentioned xubuntu isn't vulnerable to this. It's also from 3 years ago and was using 8.10 we are now in 2011 and ubuntu has had 9.04, 9.10, 10.04. 10,10 and in a few weeks 11.04 will be released.
ok lets say the truth is that its still possible to infect a Desktop or OSX or Linux system. it is still pretty minimal currently and likely to remain so for a number of years.
To use an analogy who are you more likely to catch a dose from some whore or your wife. Hopefully your wife is faithful but you can't be 100%
using Linux for the internet is like practising safe sex, and to be even more secure you can run it from a live cd and have a totally clean operating system running.
now i'm not saying you should throw out windows completely as it does have its uses there are plenty of programs which are essential for many people and need windows to run. Just use safer practices and you can have the advantages of both.
so according to you its because the users are stupid that windows is over run with virus and malware problems and osx and linux are largely left alone. Even with android it takes a trojan from an unofficial market place on a rooted phone to get infected and there is no replication.
I'm just not buying that,there are stupid users on every platform but they are not getting hit. You don't need to be great with computers to use Linux and there are a good number of people that are not good with computers using Linux these days. Often because they have had it installed as a dual boot option by the person that cleaned their last windows infection. I've personally been doing this for a few years and the results have been great. All it takes is getting them to use Linux for most of their net related activities and windows for their games. You can play flash based browser games on either so for the facebook crowd they can still play farmville and mafia wars and chat with facebook chat. Generally Linux runs faster on a given pc than a secured version of windows which gives a better user experience.
Even if windows gets reinfected they can still do most of what they want to do and bring their pc to me for cleaning at a convenient time for both of us.
Cleaning gets a lot easier when you can boot into Linux and do the scans and removal from there.
Avast actually do a free Linux version which can clean the windows partition, which these days will have had any av installed crippled by the malware.
I guess one advantage of android and the iphones are the introduction to the general public of alternative operating systems.
I know that this comes off as an antimicrosoft dig but with what is it 200 million pieces of malware and growing its well deserved isn't it? Theres good even great software that runs on windows and nowhere else and without microsoft we wouldn't have the cheap hardware we have today but in thirty years they have been unable to stem the flow of malware aimed at their software platforms.
Actually amirc was what i was using at the time and the color control codes were really annoying when mirc users used them.
i compromise, i'll fix windows and convert the system to dual boot ubuntu (lucid) as well.
no dual boot you can find someone else to fix it.
i haven't found a system yet where ubuntu doesn't perform better than windows on the same system.
if windows gets trashed a second time, they can boot ubuntu until i get time to fix windows.
I also throw in some training on the ubuntu system a pdf of the ubuntu user guide and make sure their bits and pieces work.
I dislike windows,but i aso accept sometimes its needed but most of the time it isn't and i've found that most people can get on well with ubuntu and will use windows when there is no alternative.
I won't because Kahled Mardem-Bey is an arse. his mirc program was full of proprietary extensions to the 'IRC protocol which would only work properly with other mirc users. which was only available for windows.
We did correspond by email over interoperability and his attitude was everyone shoud use Mirc and had no regard for open standards which the internet was built on.
it was mirc which introduced ctrl codes for different colored texts and backgrounds.
so don't feel guilty about that not sending money to that arrogant dick.
http://www.mirc.com/pfaq.html
you can see from his own faq he hasn't changed at all, he is promising a version not in English soon. Mirc was started in 1994 the faq appears to be current in 2011 and 17 years after starting to write Mirc a non - english version will be coming 'soon' .
I have to admit i'm not quite so keen on ubuntu as I once was. Maverick is not an option i dislike unity so I stuck with lucid which is pretty good and I will probably wait a while till canonical make a better release or perhaps I will look towards debian or mint. I kind of feel like I should have left Ubuntu behind and moved on but it is easy to stick with what I know.
What canonical seem to have done is taken their first apple like steps and I don' like it at all. Ubuntu doesn't really have an app store. Taking a cut from Amazon referral fee's away from gnome just sucks. to be honest the devs could spend it on crack and whores if they wanted too. Banshee is not Canonicals. Maybe they want to take a slice of firefox's revenues next after all you can run it on ubuntu and mozilla get revenue from google. UbuntuOne is canonicals baby and they can do as they please with that.
incidentally
You can cancel your account by doing the following:
1. Open https://one.ubuntu.com/account/
2. Click on the "View details or make changes" link
3. Click the "Cancel this subscription" link
4. Click the "Cancel subscription" button
I'm cancelling now. well I would be but apparently its down for maintenance. coincidence?
I'm not biased oracle is a lot worse but seriously Ubuntu seems to be acquiring people with poor people skills like a cat gets fleas.