Years ago, I'd heard/read that in the 70's, NASA had pilots who were regularly under effects of jet lag due to their constant flying from coast to coast or Canaveral to JSC/SOCAL... Supposedly, the solution became an embarrassing one, and they (NASA) used national security markings to cover up the solution. The solution? LOTS AND LOTS of sex... to discharge their bodies like batteries getting reconditioning. Interesting, to me, considering that many laptops' users keep the batteries in while using AC. One laptop expert said to remove the battery, but, i don't. I never know when power will fail, and one bonus of a laptop is the battery acts as a power backup for me, more than it acts as a power supply.
As for the sex worker brought in for exams... imagine trying to explain THAT to cops...
As for the prostate, I wonder if some of these engineers perform P2P-DRE (Peer-to-Peer Digital Rectal Exams)... could add some intense camaraderie to the team...
"Operation Goldenflow"... (for urinalysis, as described by Sailors...)
But, at first, I thought a contractor required this urine. SO, if they have a performance clause involved, and don't/can't get enough, will they be subject to fines for "piss-poor performance"? (LOL!)
Also, reminds me of "Prior proper planning prevents piss-poor performance"...
"I...I.. well... I COULD burn the building down..."
Slidell: Oh, yess. yess.. That's it... Um... Could you move your leg jussst i little to the right? Oh... yess, that's it... Now, arch your back a bit... Oh... purrrfukt...
Especially since Mugabe and his cronies and accountants have in the West as many friends as they have in Asia and Europe, all helping him launder, recycle, redirect and so on untold sums of cash and other instruments. The US and UK found SOME monies, but they cannot and will not find it all.
So, Zimbabwe dollars are probably converted to LOTs. Seems to me, Zimbabwe dollars are worth a LOT, if lots of people take risks to convert and hide them... But the, i'm not an economist or anything near it...
Is there some way to graft these systems onto one or more virtual systems? This could be a whole new line of business strategy for VMWare, possibly VirtulBox, QEMU... If you can somehow make an ISO of a running OS.
But, I suppose any devious, capable saboteur would have inserted booby traps that periodically check for live, undocumented, random, one-time "pulse-points". If enough of them don't respond properly (assuming the saboteur assumes the infrastructure won't change drastically in a short period of time...), and if they don't interact at commanded moments based on his own interaction, then the systems melt as if he is arrested, dead, etc.
But, assuming that is not the case, still, it might be interesting to find out if it is msoft or VMWare that saves the day and creates a new or augments an existing aspect of the data recovery industry.
entity might solve their problems. What 2-letter entity? Well, ms, of course. Didn't they just release to law enforcement a USB-based security bypass? Now, the THREE-letter agencies don't even have to get involved-- except to say, "ms, make sure you don't leave the USB device unattended, and be sure to retrieve it upon your departure for each system you use it on."
(That is, assuming the non-government intel agencies cannot legally obtain the bypass device already...)
Troll my ASS, you troll-marking dipshit. By marking me a troll, you are saying it's OK for sysadmins to hold hostage their employers, the public, and the clients of government or business.
SHAME on you.
ANYone who is a sysadmin is quite likely in a VERY trusted position. IF such a person with SOOO much access and control decides to hold hostage and harm people, then even though such person might not have directly killed or mutilated anyone, his/her ACTION puts police, the public, and workers, even patients and other clients at risk. So, why should such a hostage-taker NOT be pummeled or beaten for the information and systems he/she admits to locking down?
Sure, the NSA or CIA might be able to unscrew the systems he screwed, but letting him off or punishing him is a circumstantial situation, just like court cases are. But if his supervisors or cowards or unions or others protect him for reasons of agenda, rather than business or government system continuity, then THEY are part of the problem.
gave more ore rejuvenated ammunition to send people to Guantanamo-like facilities. Except, being citizens, but still considered "ter'rist", he probably can be subject to torture. I bet that guy IS NOT trained in resisting torture.
San Francisco is NOT just a city services government, but a COUNTY, too. Probably as burdened if not more than LA City & LA County, meaning a LOT of underserved, needy, and numerous other social and revenue services could be under duress. What's that import film I saw when a bad guy asked furiously of another bad guy, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?", which elicited the response, "Oh, what's a little torture?".
Probably the other problem is this guy MIGHT have been a union member (I don't know at what level SF's IT are exempt or become non-union), but often it is HARD to legitimately purge slackers or even dangerous types from union protection. Short of arson or murder or paedophelia, a LOT of unions will fight tooth and nail out of position rather than practicality. OTOH, it seems that guy either had personal issues for which he could NOT be fired, or he has goods/bads on the staff and that knowledge makes/made them too fearful to fire him. Maybe he had/has too much intimate, embarrassing knowledge about shitty financials, inadequate security, knowledge of moles, narcs/CI (confidential informants), and resettled/refugee types of residents records. If this guy is quirky, but too hot too handle, he might emerge from this relatively untouchable if he gives up the passwords and discloses ALL of his booby-traps, disarms and then becomes a consultant of some sort for the entire state... Oh, the irony of things...
Because, as with people, businesses won't change their (bad) habits until they experience an "STE": Sudden Traumatic Event. Hopefully, Tesla will continue to be a recoil-inducing shocker and strip some of the valence off the oil companies...
OTOH, i don't drive, so if the price of gas goes past $4.91 (here, in SF, it's around $4.91 to $4.98 for Premium...) it may or already did trigger increase in MUNI transit fares for riders, but hopefully, it'll change habits of lots of people. In case anyone hasn't notice, it seems the Bay Bridge traffic is down dramatically... people SEEM to be commuting now.
Sadly, it appears many of the lettered commuter buses don't seem too packed, at least not when I see them drive past me as I'm walking in the evening. If higher prices put even MORE people on the buses, GREAT.
As exciting as eating 3-day-old/room-temp mayonnaise? Hehehe.... Somebody left some out here at work, and one co-worker said, "Anybody eat that and they will have a REAL exciting night..."
Actually, I saw Metisse work in 2006 Nov on a card i "rented" (bought/returned) from CompUSA, and in my old Gateway Select, 800 MHZ CPU/256 MB RAM, ~64 MB (I think it was 64 MB) PCI card, got Metisse... I showed Metisse and Compiz to the Comcast technician who was inspecting my cable (i think I was having probs getting TV out of the cable). Needless to say, he was bedazzled by KDE/Compiz/Metisse/Linux...
I think before I buy Mandriva 2008 I need to get another, bigger laptop drive. I have a 160 GB and an 80 GB, and PCLOS is on my 160 and it's nearly full, what with having the recovery version of vista in a partition, and all my Linux and other files in another partition.
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Oh, boys & Girls, if you're looking for Linux-friendly CAD that is quite like AutoCAD, see:
The Linux version, as can be expected, lacks some of the windows version's features, but.... Well, I still like Punch! ViaCAD. And BricsCAD is out of my budget limits. Still, it's nice to see Linux-supporting companies out there....
I see the:P, but I'm still peeved that those hurst people coerced Mandrake to change names, munging Mandrake with Connectiva. Mandrake the software company wasn't selling porn, or writing or distributing newspapers, didn't operate out of a sex-howling castle in the sky or off the beach cliffs. I'm STILL pissed. I LIKED the name Mandrake. And, the word Mandrake preceded by HUNDREDS OF YEARS that so-called empire that acquired the name Mandrake through (a)sexual reproduction... It's not as if Linux Mandrake/Mandrake were selling seeds, roots, stems, buds, or other agricultural/recreational materials...
I want my MANDRAKE back. I think I'll keep calling Mandriva Mandrake just to rattle some cages and cattle some rages. Damned lawyers (when they're on the wrong side....).
By crippled background I meant the LOGIN screen. It's REALLY kewl to me when in public having my login screen up, but in the background having the images rotate every 60 seconds. This is neat advertising of Linux when in kiosk situations.
Usually, when it comes time to upgrade, I usually do a quick assessment of what I could not handle having broken, and then i often go ahead with a complete new install. Often, for me, things are just "cleaner" that way.
As for VirtualBox, I found that one of my Lotus Approach "apps" I created is running gnawed-dog-slow and now I have a reason to miss Win4Lin in my previous installs on my desktop. But, on my laptop, Win4Lin (3x) won't run in the latest kernels. And, installing win98 in VirtualBox is painful in the end because the f*ker refuses to STICK with 1020x768. Same ole crappy problems I hated win98 for in the past when I was in IT. Sucker only sticks to 640x480.
So, I cannot fall back on win98 for its relative leanness and speed over vista when running Lotus SmartSuite. (No, there is NO WAY IN HELL that anything in OpenOffice can one-for-one replace my Lotus SmartSuite addiction, functionality, or other aspects that make SmartSuite a smart suite. It's aged, but SmartSuite is what IBM should have morphed into Symphony, and it would have paid a helluva better homage to the lineage of Lotus when it was cutting edge.
Now, I'm contemplating having to plunk down some $170 for xp pro cuz vista just PLAIN SUCKS. Well, so far. I probably will see gains if I get ahold of a patch to it, but I only want the patch if it's not requiring me to hook my machine (vista) to a LAN. I only want a single download, and I hope the bandaid/patch is under 500 MB, or something REASONABLE.
After all, on my Gateway having an extremely (relatively) limited Intel i810 chip with a max of under 300 MB shared RAM, the speed gains from using XP in VirtualBox will trump anything Vista Home claims to offer. Moreover, the Compiz 3D graphics on my laptop are spiffy, impressive, and snappy and offer more than Vista does for the eye candy sugar's worth. Now, if only Compiz didn't compress KDE multiple desktops into ONE desktop. It should automagically create the number of cube sides matching the number of virtual desktops already present, and then match them to the cube's sides. I am suspecting that many of my past and current issues in Compiz have something to do with.kde config files being munged here and there.
Xrandrtray was crashing on EVERY SINGLE BOOT of KDE, well, until this AM, when I chose a different Mandriva-modded kernel from the Grub list. I was surprised to see KRR running without crashing. Interestingly, my virtual desktop display was behaving as if ~~2000x6000, because it was HUGE, but I right-clicked and disabled auto start of KRR, and reduced it to my preferred 1440x900.
Some of you might have issues where Vista DOES start, but then your disk just thrashes for 4 hours (mine did for longer, and when I woke up I had to shut it down so I could bag up my lappy and head for work) with sluggish mouse response, where 10 seconds would pass before the mouse would move. VBox menus didn't respond, so maybe 5 times in the past 4 days I had to reboot the laptop. But, for $80, before I pay for MDV 2008.2 Spring, I sure as hell want a FULL install (maybe timed demo modded disk) that I can put thru the motions and then send in the USD $80. I'm all for rooting around in Linux, but mostly at the power user, but not hacker or anywhere NEAR hacker level.
I LOVE PCLinuxOS, but am seriously checking out MDV2008.1 Spring FREE (and, that could be where my problems lie...). However, NONE of the current kernels intercepts the shutdown/suspend buttons on my laptop to do proper/graceful shutdowns. PCLOS (from 2007) does, and my VirtualBox install runs just fine...
I am having a HELLUVA time getting MDV 2008.1 to run my.mdi files as my own user account. I can open another user account, open konsole, su to myself, and THEN run my VirtualBox instance of vista, so, after a few days of head-banging, i've decided i must create a new instance of my user account, copy the.vdi in, and re- chown -R (just in case) my VirtualBox files, and then try again. Failing that, reinstall Vista and all my apps and re-register them. Presumably that is all unnecessary.
Likely, my problems also lie in minor changes tween VirtualBox 1.5.4 and 1.5.6, like in Free there is no set of extensions readily apparent. I had to copy them from my other drive.
But, I am reallllly tempted to plunk down for the Powerpack. In my past experiences with MDK/MDV, the Powerpack tended to resolve in one go all my issues with Free.
Another potential area of my problems is that the install disk that came with Linux Magazine might be damage, or it could be my wonky DVD burner, since the install aborts EVERY SINGLE TIME at the same place, forcing me to copy the entire DVD with auto-skip-on-error of a file copy. After that, I managed to create a local repository from which to install and upgrade in place the Mdv 2008.0 Spring I installed back around February.
Not knocking Mandriva. But one of the best personal reasons for me to avoid Free is I am sick of the crippling of the rotating background, and when I show off Mandriva, I hate having the Free background overriding the settings i made.
Nicely, the 3D Compiz works, tho, humoursly, Metisse DOES NOT, on my laptop. I ran a DVI (Azumi 2 for those interested) in LinDVD (which, now makes me care less and less whether it's Xine or VLC or Kaffeine as long as I can damned watch damned legally-paid for DVDs, and as long as having LinDVD mitigates or obviates the fracking risk of the federales confiscating my laptop for having dvdccs on my machine JUST to watch DVDs I legally paid for.)
They will probably have to learn the hard way like MicroCenter, years ago. If you DO NOT DISPLAY IT ON HARDWARE, then how will first-time-observers know what the hell they are looking at?
Mark Shuttleworth and the publisher need to rethink this and if Ubuntu is not on displayed laptops, desktops, and Asus devices, then from WHERE will the "WOW!" factor come?
These displays need plenty of RAM and running VirtualBox touting Win98, 2K, XP, AND Vista as.vdis, all running simultaneously and networked. They need, as well, WIFI, bluetooth, wireless, CAT-5, Multi-head display (in this case, multiple machines so that spanning as well as other modes can be displayed), Amarok, LinDVD/Xine, USB, Web Cam and other multimedia functionality practically BLARING at the shoppers so they can SEE, TOUCH, and LEARN this "Ubuntu thing" at which they are looking. And, geeks in the store can kick up more conversations with the few geeks already working there "in the closet". Otherwise, Ubuntu Linux is just another boxed item that will take up or waste shelf space.
Well, aren't the Lizards hiding teleportation technology? THAT would make a GREAT ssssubssstituttttion for carssss.... (ssssorry, had a tough time getting that overssssized moussse down my throat...)
He better rise her from the dead so he can defrag or get out of the cluster fscked filing system that's going to spin his platter for 15 years at 7200+ RPM....
Too bad. To bad he didn't get a snapshot of immutable evidence and use it as grounds for divorce, if there was infidelity. (Assuming he had no skels to hide by which she would negate his attempt or a divorce...)
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Well, NASA *could* try using a modified salad spinner for the solids, and use Brita for the liquids. Mash-up the two, and let sit
Years ago, I'd heard/read that in the 70's, NASA had pilots who were regularly under effects of jet lag due to their constant flying from coast to coast or Canaveral to JSC/SOCAL... Supposedly, the solution became an embarrassing one, and they (NASA) used national security markings to cover up the solution. The solution? LOTS AND LOTS of sex... to discharge their bodies like batteries getting reconditioning. Interesting, to me, considering that many laptops' users keep the batteries in while using AC. One laptop expert said to remove the battery, but, i don't. I never know when power will fail, and one bonus of a laptop is the battery acts as a power backup for me, more than it acts as a power supply.
As for the sex worker brought in for exams... imagine trying to explain THAT to cops...
As for the prostate, I wonder if some of these engineers perform P2P-DRE (Peer-to-Peer Digital Rectal Exams)... could add some intense camaraderie to the team...
"Operation Goldenflow"... (for urinalysis, as described by Sailors...)
But, at first, I thought a contractor required this urine. SO, if they have a performance clause involved, and don't/can't get enough, will they be subject to fines for "piss-poor performance"? (LOL!)
Also, reminds me of "Prior proper planning prevents piss-poor performance"...
Ken Starling.... Or, Commander Braxton, of the Federation Timeship Aeon...
"I...I.. well... I COULD burn the building down..."
Slidell: Oh, yess. yess.. That's it... Um... Could you move your leg jussst i little to the right? Oh... yess, that's it... Now, arch your back a bit... Oh... purrrfukt...
Bird Baths...
(damned Post Anonymously button... and damned "slowdown" verbiage when I didn't follow the /logic...)
Especially since Mugabe and his cronies and accountants have in the West as many friends as they have in Asia and Europe, all helping him launder, recycle, redirect and so on untold sums of cash and other instruments. The US and UK found SOME monies, but they cannot and will not find it all.
hear "Looting", at:
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/07/15/zimbabwe_loot/
So, Zimbabwe dollars are probably converted to LOTs. Seems to me, Zimbabwe dollars are worth a LOT, if lots of people take risks to convert and hide them... But the, i'm not an economist or anything near it...
Is there some way to graft these systems onto one or more virtual systems? This could be a whole new line of business strategy for VMWare, possibly VirtulBox, QEMU... If you can somehow make an ISO of a running OS.
But, I suppose any devious, capable saboteur would have inserted booby traps that periodically check for live, undocumented, random, one-time "pulse-points". If enough of them don't respond properly (assuming the saboteur assumes the infrastructure won't change drastically in a short period of time...), and if they don't interact at commanded moments based on his own interaction, then the systems melt as if he is arrested, dead, etc.
But, assuming that is not the case, still, it might be interesting to find out if it is msoft or VMWare that saves the day and creates a new or augments an existing aspect of the data recovery industry.
entity might solve their problems. What 2-letter entity? Well, ms, of course. Didn't they just release to law enforcement a USB-based security bypass? Now, the THREE-letter agencies don't even have to get involved-- except to say, "ms, make sure you don't leave the USB device unattended, and be sure to retrieve it upon your departure for each system you use it on."
(That is, assuming the non-government intel agencies cannot legally obtain the bypass device already...)
Troll my ASS, you troll-marking dipshit. By marking me a troll, you are saying it's OK for sysadmins to hold hostage their employers, the public, and the clients of government or business.
SHAME on you.
ANYone who is a sysadmin is quite likely in a VERY trusted position. IF such a person with SOOO much access and control decides to hold hostage and harm people, then even though such person might not have directly killed or mutilated anyone, his/her ACTION puts police, the public, and workers, even patients and other clients at risk. So, why should such a hostage-taker NOT be pummeled or beaten for the information and systems he/she admits to locking down?
Sure, the NSA or CIA might be able to unscrew the systems he screwed, but letting him off or punishing him is a circumstantial situation, just like court cases are. But if his supervisors or cowards or unions or others protect him for reasons of agenda, rather than business or government system continuity, then THEY are part of the problem.
gave more ore rejuvenated ammunition to send people to Guantanamo-like facilities. Except, being citizens, but still considered "ter'rist", he probably can be subject to torture. I bet that guy IS NOT trained in resisting torture.
San Francisco is NOT just a city services government, but a COUNTY, too. Probably as burdened if not more than LA City & LA County, meaning a LOT of underserved, needy, and numerous other social and revenue services could be under duress. What's that import film I saw when a bad guy asked furiously of another bad guy, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?", which elicited the response, "Oh, what's a little torture?".
Probably the other problem is this guy MIGHT have been a union member (I don't know at what level SF's IT are exempt or become non-union), but often it is HARD to legitimately purge slackers or even dangerous types from union protection. Short of arson or murder or paedophelia, a LOT of unions will fight tooth and nail out of position rather than practicality. OTOH, it seems that guy either had personal issues for which he could NOT be fired, or he has goods/bads on the staff and that knowledge makes/made them too fearful to fire him. Maybe he had/has too much intimate, embarrassing knowledge about shitty financials, inadequate security, knowledge of moles, narcs/CI (confidential informants), and resettled/refugee types of residents records. If this guy is quirky, but too hot too handle, he might emerge from this relatively untouchable if he gives up the passwords and discloses ALL of his booby-traps, disarms and then becomes a consultant of some sort for the entire state... Oh, the irony of things...
If they start cracking the hash WRONG, they'll be hacking the crash LONG....
Even tho his spite is not right, they will work hard, night after night...
No, sir, I am not Cyrano, You didn't know, no?
A few BILLIONS of logs would be either or a dump or a logger-jammer... And, boy, i would not want them in MY underwear.
companies, these studios want to OWN not only the content, but they want to own the DELIVERY MECHANISM, too.
So, since YouTube is doing well, in contrast to the stodgy studios, they are envious.
Because, as with people, businesses won't change their (bad) habits until they experience an "STE": Sudden Traumatic Event. Hopefully, Tesla will continue to be a recoil-inducing shocker and strip some of the valence off the oil companies...
OTOH, i don't drive, so if the price of gas goes past $4.91 (here, in SF, it's around $4.91 to $4.98 for Premium...) it may or already did trigger increase in MUNI transit fares for riders, but hopefully, it'll change habits of lots of people. In case anyone hasn't notice, it seems the Bay Bridge traffic is down dramatically... people SEEM to be commuting now.
Sadly, it appears many of the lettered commuter buses don't seem too packed, at least not when I see them drive past me as I'm walking in the evening. If higher prices put even MORE people on the buses, GREAT.
Go, Tesla, GO!
As exciting as eating 3-day-old/room-temp mayonnaise? Hehehe.... Somebody left some out here at work, and one co-worker said, "Anybody eat that and they will have a REAL exciting night..."
Actually, I saw Metisse work in 2006 Nov on a card i "rented" (bought/returned) from CompUSA, and in my old Gateway Select, 800 MHZ CPU/256 MB RAM, ~64 MB (I think it was 64 MB) PCI card, got Metisse... I showed Metisse and Compiz to the Comcast technician who was inspecting my cable (i think I was having probs getting TV out of the cable). Needless to say, he was bedazzled by KDE/Compiz/Metisse/Linux...
I think before I buy Mandriva 2008 I need to get another, bigger laptop drive. I have a 160 GB and an 80 GB, and PCLOS is on my 160 and it's nearly full, what with having the recovery version of vista in a partition, and all my Linux and other files in another partition.
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Oh, boys & Girls, if you're looking for Linux-friendly CAD that is quite like AutoCAD, see:
http://www.bricscad.com/en_INTL/bricscad/features.jsp
The Linux version, as can be expected, lacks some of the windows version's features, but.... Well, I still like Punch! ViaCAD. And BricsCAD is out of my budget limits. Still, it's nice to see Linux-supporting companies out there....
"What's mandriva? :P"
I see the :P, but I'm still peeved that those hurst people coerced Mandrake to change names, munging Mandrake with Connectiva. Mandrake the software company wasn't selling porn, or writing or distributing newspapers, didn't operate out of a sex-howling castle in the sky or off the beach cliffs. I'm STILL pissed. I LIKED the name Mandrake. And, the word Mandrake preceded by HUNDREDS OF YEARS that so-called empire that acquired the name Mandrake through (a)sexual reproduction... It's not as if Linux Mandrake/Mandrake were selling seeds, roots, stems, buds, or other agricultural/recreational materials...
I want my MANDRAKE back. I think I'll keep calling Mandriva Mandrake just to rattle some cages and cattle some rages. Damned lawyers (when they're on the wrong side....).
Besides, what IS a "mandrake"?
See wikipedia...
By crippled background I meant the LOGIN screen. It's REALLY kewl to me when in public having my login screen up, but in the background having the images rotate every 60 seconds. This is neat advertising of Linux when in kiosk situations.
Usually, when it comes time to upgrade, I usually do a quick assessment of what I could not handle having broken, and then i often go ahead with a complete new install. Often, for me, things are just "cleaner" that way.
As for VirtualBox, I found that one of my Lotus Approach "apps" I created is running gnawed-dog-slow and now I have a reason to miss Win4Lin in my previous installs on my desktop. But, on my laptop, Win4Lin (3x) won't run in the latest kernels. And, installing win98 in VirtualBox is painful in the end because the f*ker refuses to STICK with 1020x768. Same ole crappy problems I hated win98 for in the past when I was in IT. Sucker only sticks to 640x480.
So, I cannot fall back on win98 for its relative leanness and speed over vista when running Lotus SmartSuite. (No, there is NO WAY IN HELL that anything in OpenOffice can one-for-one replace my Lotus SmartSuite addiction, functionality, or other aspects that make SmartSuite a smart suite. It's aged, but SmartSuite is what IBM should have morphed into Symphony, and it would have paid a helluva better homage to the lineage of Lotus when it was cutting edge.
Now, I'm contemplating having to plunk down some $170 for xp pro cuz vista just PLAIN SUCKS. Well, so far. I probably will see gains if I get ahold of a patch to it, but I only want the patch if it's not requiring me to hook my machine (vista) to a LAN. I only want a single download, and I hope the bandaid/patch is under 500 MB, or something REASONABLE.
After all, on my Gateway having an extremely (relatively) limited Intel i810 chip with a max of under 300 MB shared RAM, the speed gains from using XP in VirtualBox will trump anything Vista Home claims to offer. Moreover, the Compiz 3D graphics on my laptop are spiffy, impressive, and snappy and offer more than Vista does for the eye candy sugar's worth. Now, if only Compiz didn't compress KDE multiple desktops into ONE desktop. It should automagically create the number of cube sides matching the number of virtual desktops already present, and then match them to the cube's sides. I am suspecting that many of my past and current issues in Compiz have something to do with .kde config files being munged here and there.
Xrandrtray was crashing on EVERY SINGLE BOOT of KDE, well, until this AM, when I chose a different Mandriva-modded kernel from the Grub list. I was surprised to see KRR running without crashing. Interestingly, my virtual desktop display was behaving as if ~~2000x6000, because it was HUGE, but I right-clicked and disabled auto start of KRR, and reduced it to my preferred 1440x900.
Some of you might have issues where Vista DOES start, but then your disk just thrashes for 4 hours (mine did for longer, and when I woke up I had to shut it down so I could bag up my lappy and head for work) with sluggish mouse response, where 10 seconds would pass before the mouse would move. VBox menus didn't respond, so maybe 5 times in the past 4 days I had to reboot the laptop. But, for $80, before I pay for MDV 2008.2 Spring, I sure as hell want a FULL install (maybe timed demo modded disk) that I can put thru the motions and then send in the USD $80. I'm all for rooting around in Linux, but mostly at the power user, but not hacker or anywhere NEAR hacker level.
I LOVE PCLinuxOS, but am seriously checking out MDV2008.1 Spring FREE (and, that could be where my problems lie...). However, NONE of the current kernels intercepts the shutdown/suspend buttons on my laptop to do proper/graceful shutdowns. PCLOS (from 2007) does, and my VirtualBox install runs just fine...
I am having a HELLUVA time getting MDV 2008.1 to run my .mdi files as my own user account. I can open another user account, open konsole, su to myself, and THEN run my VirtualBox instance of vista, so, after a few days of head-banging, i've decided i must create a new instance of my user account, copy the .vdi in, and re- chown -R (just in case) my VirtualBox files, and then try again. Failing that, reinstall Vista and all my apps and re-register them. Presumably that is all unnecessary.
Likely, my problems also lie in minor changes tween VirtualBox 1.5.4 and 1.5.6, like in Free there is no set of extensions readily apparent. I had to copy them from my other drive.
But, I am reallllly tempted to plunk down for the Powerpack. In my past experiences with MDK/MDV, the Powerpack tended to resolve in one go all my issues with Free.
Another potential area of my problems is that the install disk that came with Linux Magazine might be damage, or it could be my wonky DVD burner, since the install aborts EVERY SINGLE TIME at the same place, forcing me to copy the entire DVD with auto-skip-on-error of a file copy. After that, I managed to create a local repository from which to install and upgrade in place the Mdv 2008.0 Spring I installed back around February.
Not knocking Mandriva. But one of the best personal reasons for me to avoid Free is I am sick of the crippling of the rotating background, and when I show off Mandriva, I hate having the Free background overriding the settings i made.
Nicely, the 3D Compiz works, tho, humoursly, Metisse DOES NOT, on my laptop. I ran a DVI (Azumi 2 for those interested) in LinDVD (which, now makes me care less and less whether it's Xine or VLC or Kaffeine as long as I can damned watch damned legally-paid for DVDs, and as long as having LinDVD mitigates or obviates the fracking risk of the federales confiscating my laptop for having dvdccs on my machine JUST to watch DVDs I legally paid for.)
Well, the worrywarts can daub some Scalosian water on their skins and speed up things a wee bit...
Somehow, I'm seeing a Borg Maturation Chamber and a Borg Vinculum ahead....
They will probably have to learn the hard way like MicroCenter, years ago. If you DO NOT DISPLAY IT ON HARDWARE, then how will first-time-observers know what the hell they are looking at?
Mark Shuttleworth and the publisher need to rethink this and if Ubuntu is not on displayed laptops, desktops, and Asus devices, then from WHERE will the "WOW!" factor come?
These displays need plenty of RAM and running VirtualBox touting Win98, 2K, XP, AND Vista as .vdis, all running simultaneously and networked. They need, as well, WIFI, bluetooth, wireless, CAT-5, Multi-head display (in this case, multiple machines so that spanning as well as other modes can be displayed), Amarok, LinDVD/Xine, USB, Web Cam and other multimedia functionality practically BLARING at the shoppers so they can SEE, TOUCH, and LEARN this "Ubuntu thing" at which they are looking. And, geeks in the store can kick up more conversations with the few geeks already working there "in the closet". Otherwise, Ubuntu Linux is just another boxed item that will take up or waste shelf space.
"There is no substitute for this."
Well, aren't the Lizards hiding teleportation technology? THAT would make a GREAT ssssubssstituttttion for carssss.... (ssssorry, had a tough time getting that overssssized moussse down my throat...)
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/05/10/offbeat.klingon.interpreter/index.html
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/0235254
He better rise her from the dead so he can defrag or get out of the cluster fscked filing system that's going to spin his platter for 15 years at 7200+ RPM....
Too bad. To bad he didn't get a snapshot of immutable evidence and use it as grounds for divorce, if there was infidelity. (Assuming he had no skels to hide by which she would negate his attempt or a divorce...)