Most hearing aids don't amplify (well, not as their primary purpose anyway) anymore. Back in the old days, sure, that's what they did (electronic equivalent of an ear horn).
Modern hearing aids shift frequencies (usually downward, high frequencies have the most energy so you damage the short hairs in your cochlea first) to a frequency range you *can* still hear.
So if you're thinking about making your own, *please* do the proper research first. It will work better, and you will be less likely to damage your hearing further.
Only LTS releases will get point releases, but they're not really "releases" just refreshes of the ISOs, it's nothing meaningful as far as installed systems are concerned (I guess it's useful for setting milestone goals or something, but that's not technical). They take the updated packages, throw them on the CD so you don't have to download as many updates after you install. Having an installed system that you updated completely the day the images were released* would leave you with the same system.
And while we're being thorough they're offset by three months, so January an August.
Took me all of 10 seconds with google: "Firefox3 Awesomebar disable". So... I guess you'll enjoy firefox 3 with the smaller memory footprint (assuming TFM is correct).
LTS to LTS upgrades have always been part of the plan, and LTS without it, really doesn't make a whole lot of sense. http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/faq (scroll down to "Enterprise Release" which is marketspeak for LTS)
The 'illegal' part of this thing is nothing but a footnote.
The important thing is that it's a stupidly dangerous (to your system) piece of software, that most members of the Ubuntu community are trying to inform everyone about. A lot of community sites swear by it, and when anyone argues they give the 'it works fine for me' argument.
This is not the mentality we want to have as a linux community. The automatix team refuses to make their software better, and launced a few all-out assaults on the communities that warn against it. Even going as far as to say (on their website, up until a few months ago) if you go ask help for automatix in their IRC channel, and claim that the people in the ubuntu channel sent you there, they (automatix team) won't help you. Which is stupid in and of itself, but that's the mentality that the automatix people have exhibited time and time again.
Because of this, and in some random attempt to clear their piece of software (and argue about it's proper terminology whether 'package manager' or 'packaging script' or whatever), and to get their lead developer (arnieboy) unbanned from the ubuntu forums (for trolling, more or less), they went to the Forum Council and petitioned, the forum council rejected some stuff, and said that they shouldn't make a decision on the technical merits (since they're not technically qualified or whatever). I imagine this is the fruit of their lack-of-verdict, someone higher up (who was qualified to assess its technical merits) finally took a semi-official look.
I've been looking to implement this for... a while. But haven't been able to find a solution to sending email. I *dont* want to have to enter the account details for each account that I want to send mail as. What do you use/do/whatever? Relay it through your IMAP?
I'd like to be able to send as multiple people as well, personal, business, etc.
dist upgrade isn't recommended because update-manager does it, and some extra stuff (makes sure some metapackages are installed and stuff).
But, in the case of this question, once you've installed 7.04, upgrading to the final release will be identical to upgrading when a new version of a package comes out. update-manager will take care of it.
7.04 is this release name (as were 6.10 and 6.06). And, yes, that's "six point ten" not "six one oh", it's Year.Month (and there have been a few discussions on changing it to a dash, or a slash, to prevent confusion, like truncation as 6.1).
Anyway, Those are the REAL names of the releases. Feisty Fawn is just a codename while under development, and only lives on upon release with the repository name. You won't see "Feisty Fawn" anywhere, you'll see "7.04", with 'feisty' when you lsb_release and when you manually edit/browse repositories.
Motorolas predictive text input is far from unusable.
You tend to push about half the letters for a third of the words. Or... I do anyway. It does usually predict my input halfway through the word, but... when things are 8 letters, and I need only push four more... I usually just type the whole thing out (it's not like buttons take a while to press anyway).
But even if you don't use the prediction thing, it's the same as using one keystroke per letter. With the occassional correction (for words you haven't used before, etc, I had to type in 'interblag' using 12 keystrokes the first time).
The only qualm I have with it is it doesn't treat punctuation specially in the user dictionary. So when I type "what time are you coming home?" the next time it autocompletes "home" it has the question mark tacked on the end.
If your goal is to install Ubuntu, and not try it out, what you really want is the 'alternate' CD, which is the old fashioned, tried and true, textmode installer.
Sure, it's not as pretty, but you can do a lot more with it (RAID, other hardware stuff, install gui-less, etc), and even use it as a repository for some more software on it. You also need this CD to upgrade via apt-cd (just like downloading 6.10 from the internet via the updater, only without the package by package download).
The liveCD is best for people who are still on the edge about linux, or who need a liveCD to do... whatever (although there are better liveCD centric distros out there, for everyday use, and for administration stuff). But, if you're downloading something to install, especially on more than one machine, the Alternate CD is what you want, works better, no waiting for the LiveCD to boot before installing, etc.
The previous siblings of this thread covered it: In OSX, there are two types of installer package things, admin ones and root ones. Running as an admin user (that is, a user that can become root-ish (like through sudo), if you install a root-level installer, you are prompted for your root password, yadda yadda. If you run an admin-level installer, no password is asked, and the vulnerability is here. Inside of that admin-level installer, root-level things can be done.
So no. Your password is never asked, and things that should have been asked about are installed.
And for completeness, the level of the installer is set by the creator of the installer.
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Seriously, why would I WANT to have to update all of my programs because a hole was found in the networking code (that they all share - because it's a full featured drop in library - BSD licenced and everything)?
Did anyone think this through? Or, is this a follow up to the "OS of the future" article?
Software-assisted virtualization: 393 seconds. Hardware-assisted virtualization: 484 seconds. Ouch. It sounds to me like a hybrid approach may be the best answer to the virtualization problem.
So, um, a hybrid approach is better because it will take 439* seconds? Why?
* - I imagine in real life it's not a 1:1 ratio, but for the sake of argument, work with me.
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What benefit do you get from trading one arbitrary system for another?
And yes, that's what both of them are (both QWERTY/DVORAK and Standard/Metric). They are all arbitrary systems.
Most hearing aids don't amplify (well, not as their primary purpose anyway) anymore. Back in the old days, sure, that's what they did (electronic equivalent of an ear horn).
Modern hearing aids shift frequencies (usually downward, high frequencies have the most energy so you damage the short hairs in your cochlea first) to a frequency range you *can* still hear.
So if you're thinking about making your own, *please* do the proper research first. It will work better, and you will be less likely to damage your hearing further.
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/910overview
Only LTS releases will get point releases, but they're not really "releases" just refreshes of the ISOs, it's nothing meaningful as far as installed systems are concerned (I guess it's useful for setting milestone goals or something, but that's not technical). They take the updated packages, throw them on the CD so you don't have to download as many updates after you install.
Having an installed system that you updated completely the day the images were released* would leave you with the same system.
And while we're being thorough they're offset by three months, so January an August.
See http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/146 for more information (including fancy pictures).
* It's likely a day or two before release, whenever the images are created, yadda yadda.
See Restricted and Multiverse:
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/components
On the off chance you're not just trolling...
Instructions are here:
http://www.kennycarlile.net/2008/06/17/disable-firefox-3-awesomebar/
Took me all of 10 seconds with google: "Firefox3 Awesomebar disable". So... I guess you'll enjoy firefox 3 with the smaller memory footprint (assuming TFM is correct).
BOTH versions will be supported.
However, neither will be an LTS, but they will support upgrading from 6.06 (Dapper).
LTS is the 3 year desktop support bit. Instead, Kubuntu 8.04 will be supported for 18 months, just like all non-LTS releases.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardyUpgrades#head-e7f287c730b93116f89de7ea7e05efbe95fa6dd1
Remember, Hardy is still alpha software.
LTS to LTS upgrades have always been part of the plan, and LTS without it, really doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/faq (scroll down to "Enterprise Release" which is marketspeak for LTS)
The 'illegal' part of this thing is nothing but a footnote.
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The important thing is that it's a stupidly dangerous (to your system) piece of software, that most members of the Ubuntu community are trying to inform everyone about. A lot of community sites swear by it, and when anyone argues they give the 'it works fine for me' argument.
This is not the mentality we want to have as a linux community. The automatix team refuses to make their software better, and launced a few all-out assaults on the communities that warn against it. Even going as far as to say (on their website, up until a few months ago) if you go ask help for automatix in their IRC channel, and claim that the people in the ubuntu channel sent you there, they (automatix team) won't help you. Which is stupid in and of itself, but that's the mentality that the automatix people have exhibited time and time again.
Because of this, and in some random attempt to clear their piece of software (and argue about it's proper terminology whether 'package manager' or 'packaging script' or whatever), and to get their lead developer (arnieboy) unbanned from the ubuntu forums (for trolling, more or less), they went to the Forum Council and petitioned, the forum council rejected some stuff, and said that they shouldn't make a decision on the technical merits (since they're not technically qualified or whatever). I imagine this is the fruit of their lack-of-verdict, someone higher up (who was qualified to assess its technical merits) finally took a semi-official look.
I wish I had links for the meeting, here it is: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/ForumCouncil/
How do you send mail?
I've been looking to implement this for... a while. But haven't been able to find a solution to sending email.
I *dont* want to have to enter the account details for each account that I want to send mail as.
What do you use/do/whatever? Relay it through your IMAP?
I'd like to be able to send as multiple people as well, personal, business, etc.
dist upgrade isn't recommended because update-manager does it, and some extra stuff (makes sure some metapackages are installed and stuff).
But, in the case of this question, once you've installed 7.04, upgrading to the final release will be identical to upgrading when a new version of a package comes out. update-manager will take care of it.
7.04 is this release name (as were 6.10 and 6.06).
And, yes, that's "six point ten" not "six one oh", it's Year.Month (and there have been a few discussions on changing it to a dash, or a slash, to prevent confusion, like truncation as 6.1).
Anyway, Those are the REAL names of the releases. Feisty Fawn is just a codename while under development, and only lives on upon release with the repository name. You won't see "Feisty Fawn" anywhere, you'll see "7.04", with 'feisty' when you lsb_release and when you manually edit/browse repositories.
http://catb.org/~esr/writings/world-domination/wor ld-domination-201.html
So, here we go into the 64bit market.
Anyone have details on Microsofts 64bit offerings? I've never kept up on it.
The page is old too.
a ter.html
archive.org says the page was created April 2006, but I *know* I saw it before that as well.
Further research reveals this:
http://www.blikstein.com/paulo/projects/project_w
which dates all the way back to 2004.
So yes, both the concept, and the site, are old.
It's in the Wiimote section of the setup screen.
System settings 2 > Sensor Bar > Sensitivity
Page 50 of your Operations Manual.
I mean, they just want to play WoW and have a little fun. Is that too much to ask?
Or are you too afraid you'll be replaced? Too afraid you might have to try a little harder playing against someone a little bit better than you?
Fight for machine rights!
Motorolas predictive text input is far from unusable. You tend to push about half the letters for a third of the words. Or... I do anyway. It does usually predict my input halfway through the word, but... when things are 8 letters, and I need only push four more... I usually just type the whole thing out (it's not like buttons take a while to press anyway). But even if you don't use the prediction thing, it's the same as using one keystroke per letter. With the occassional correction (for words you haven't used before, etc, I had to type in 'interblag' using 12 keystrokes the first time). The only qualm I have with it is it doesn't treat punctuation specially in the user dictionary. So when I type "what time are you coming home?" the next time it autocompletes "home" it has the question mark tacked on the end.
That in a nutshell is why we aren't living in a democracy.
A Democratic Republic is different than a democracy, because the framers knew better than mob-rule.
Remember those people whining to abolish the Electoral College? Mhmm. Guess what we would be without it?
Yep, you win. A democracy.
If your goal is to install Ubuntu, and not try it out, what you really want is the 'alternate' CD, which is the old fashioned, tried and true, textmode installer. Sure, it's not as pretty, but you can do a lot more with it (RAID, other hardware stuff, install gui-less, etc), and even use it as a repository for some more software on it. You also need this CD to upgrade via apt-cd (just like downloading 6.10 from the internet via the updater, only without the package by package download). The liveCD is best for people who are still on the edge about linux, or who need a liveCD to do... whatever (although there are better liveCD centric distros out there, for everyday use, and for administration stuff). But, if you're downloading something to install, especially on more than one machine, the Alternate CD is what you want, works better, no waiting for the LiveCD to boot before installing, etc.
Since when are half of those films NOT science fiction?
Jurrasic Park? War Games? Independance day?
Could they please give me tickets to their dinosaur park? And, while they're at it, give the ID4 aliens my number, I'd like to have lunch sometime.
The previous siblings of this thread covered it:
In OSX, there are two types of installer package things, admin ones and root ones. Running as an admin user (that is, a user that can become root-ish (like through sudo), if you install a root-level installer, you are prompted for your root password, yadda yadda. If you run an admin-level installer, no password is asked, and the vulnerability is here. Inside of that admin-level installer, root-level things can be done.
So no. Your password is never asked, and things that should have been asked about are installed.
And for completeness, the level of the installer is set by the creator of the installer.
Taking pre-orders now for exciting new products to be released soon!
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If you purchase 10 or more, we'll give you a COMPLIMENTARY Firewall Commander (a $100 value), to simplify the process of setting up rules for multiple applications!
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Seriously, why would I WANT to have to update all of my programs because a hole was found in the networking code (that they all share - because it's a full featured drop in library - BSD licenced and everything)?
Did anyone think this through? Or, is this a follow up to the "OS of the future" article?
* - I imagine in real life it's not a 1:1 ratio, but for the sake of argument, work with me.
He does get +3 cool points for hacking, but then +1000 idiot points for faking it, and doing a bad job at that.