I would ask him if he wanted a pitcher and some ice.
Because, y'know, it's a goddamn good thing I found that hose and spigot on the side of the fire station when I was approaching heat-stroke on a hot summer day 40 miles away from home on a bicycle.
Teamviewer (one of the software packages they'll talk you into downloading) is completely legitimate and useful software and is truly cross platform. Not just "maybe it works on Linux" but it works on Linux flawlessly.
You can't fix layer 8 except through education about best practices, and that's only if the person you're teaching is willing to actually listen - a rarity.
The button position is something I used under OS/2 20 years ago.
Just changing it without asking us then forcing us to google for the solution to put it back is just annoying
I have never understood why the Gnome devs make settings so difficult. People complain about the bloat of KDE, but Gnome is just as fat and KDE's settings are easy to change.
The claim is that too many options are confusing. I prefer the workspace to work for me, not fight against it.
You place a bet with an unscrupulous bookmaker that a certain person will live beyond the next month. When that doesn't happen, you have to pay the bet.
Fedora's constant kernel updates... It is irritating plugging the damn machine into the router again (they live in different rooms, and I'm no fan of trailing metre after metre of cable around), but that's the price you pay for updating without thinking.
And this is why you keep at least one old kernel in Grub to boot from. I've never had a kernel kill wireless (Atheros FTW) but I've had kernels I didn't like that had regressions elsewhere.
>For example, when I use an app to move some large documents into iCloud, the app returns automatically. The actual transfer on the device is then handled in the background. If Box could do this, it would keep them up to speed.
>One should not have to do that in the first place...
I know this is tough, but CS2 is free for download. I would think a "registration" through a temporary email address is a small enough hurdle to step over. Would you rather that Adobe take it out of the free downloads?
Adobe is evil in a lot of ways, but the registration "requirement" for CS2 isn't one of them.
and doesn't seem to leave a user with any option to permanently bypass product registration, nagging the user every single time it starts up until they do.
You have a 6-digit slashdot ID.
I would think that someone with one would have been around the block long enough to know how to set up a disposable email account, like 10-minute-mail.
I find the faux elitism by people like SuricouRaven odious.
So he doesn't like American Football. Yes? And? I'm sure I could point out aspects of his culture that I don't like and ridicule that too. But ya know what? Life is too fucking short. I will never understand Cricket, but I'm not going to begrudge people who do and enjoy it.
You just want to bitch and moan and not read a damn thing. You've demonstrated here: diagnose/fix most common issues in under 30 minutes without the need to research commands,
You are unwilling to even open a manpage or use Google.
Stick with Windows. You deserve it.
Windows keeps getting worse and people want to move away but there's no Linux option that can fill the gap between Win8 idiocy and OSX walled garden.
My 60 year old "Uncle Joe" (He's not my uncle, we just call him that) with an 8'th grade formal education from the Old Country (Madeira) has been using Linux since Ubuntu's Dapper.
"I don't see what's so hard about it. It's just like DOS and Windows" - Uncle Joe.
And the grandkids like the games.
Your problem with Linux isn't Linux. It's your intransigence.
Even if they do exist you've got to go hunting for the right one, then learn how to use it properly or you'll fuck up the system even more.
Because you didn't have to learn how to use the tools in Windows? Because misusing Windows tools won't fuck up Windows?
You're arguing that you were born knowing how to use Windows and that you should never have to learn anything, ever, you know that? An argument *for* ignorance.
Gott im Himmel.
> whether by crash or failure to resume the result is the same.
No it's not. Language has a use. While being a stickler for precision is not always productive or possible, being kind-of accurate in a broad sense helps people help you.
(without an "EventViewer" to make it easy)
Because/var/log doesn't exist and google doesn't exist. And grep and head and tail don't exist, and more doesn't exist, neither does pico, vi, or emacs.
>participated in launchpad thread
Yes? And? Your failure to describe the problem correctly even in broad terms means that your participation in such threads just muddies the water.
Slashdot Mirror
They have a special printer that prints out those petitions on toilet paper.
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I would too.
I would ask him if he wanted a pitcher and some ice.
Because, y'know, it's a goddamn good thing I found that hose and spigot on the side of the fire station when I was approaching heat-stroke on a hot summer day 40 miles away from home on a bicycle.
Compassion. Get some.
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After reading your post, there is not enough of money you could pay me to get me to work for you, qualified or not. None. Zero. Zilch. Nada.
If you had my dream job, and it was a perfect match for me, I wouldn't take it. Because I would spend my entire paycheck on therapy.
Not. Worth. It.
If you want a robot, build one, jerk.
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In the anaerobic environment of a landfill?
That's a big fat NOPE.
We are preserving our trash for future archaeologists by putting it in huge landfills. Archaeologists and anthropologists just love landfills.
Here's a well-written webpage about the pros-and-cons of each. https://www.ncga.coop/newsroom/paper-or-plastic
The answer to "paper or plastic" is BYOB and recycling.
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(Hons) 1st Class in Computer Science.
And I am Eleanor Roosevelt.
bully,
HOLDS UP MIRROR
my main point.
Was pure content-free Ad-Hom.
If he's a bully, you're a douchebag. Go away.
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Go. Fuck. Yourself.
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>You implied that the insurance companies don't take climate change into consideration yet.
No, you read that into my message.
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Where, exactly, did I say that they haven't had a history of raising rates?
Hurr.
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"The state government has been perceived as hostile to action on climate change;"
It's all fun and games until the insurance companies believe that climate change is a threat.
And they do.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/business/insurers-stray-from-the-conservative-line-on-climate-change.html?_r=0
Even if you don't believe the scientists, you'll have to believe your insurance company, especially when you get the bill.
Perhaps the so-called "Fiscal Conservatives" of NC should be, you know, fiscal.
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This scam works regardless of OS.
Teamviewer (one of the software packages they'll talk you into downloading) is completely legitimate and useful software and is truly cross platform . Not just "maybe it works on Linux" but it works on Linux flawlessly.
Here, go get it and play around.
http://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/linux.aspx
You can't fix layer 8 except through education about best practices, and that's only if the person you're teaching is willing to actually listen - a rarity.
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The button position is something I used under OS/2 20 years ago.
Just changing it without asking us then forcing us to google for the solution to put it back is just annoying
I have never understood why the Gnome devs make settings so difficult. People complain about the bloat of KDE, but Gnome is just as fat and KDE's settings are easy to change.
The claim is that too many options are confusing. I prefer the workspace to work for me, not fight against it.
>Windows
I use Windows in a VM.
If it wasn't hardcoded, I'd change it there too.
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You place a bet with an unscrupulous bookmaker that a certain person will live beyond the next month. When that doesn't happen, you have to pay the bet.
Isn't this called insurance?
"The good-hands people" around yer neck.
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>buttons
Close on left
Minimize and Maximize on right. As God and IBM intended.
It's the first thing I change in KDE and every other environment if I can (if the devs don't remove the friggin' option).
You'll never fat-finger the Close button again.
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Fedora's constant kernel updates ... It is irritating plugging the damn machine into the router again (they live in different rooms, and I'm no fan of trailing metre after metre of cable around), but that's the price you pay for updating without thinking.
And this is why you keep at least one old kernel in Grub to boot from. I've never had a kernel kill wireless (Atheros FTW) but I've had kernels I didn't like that had regressions elsewhere.
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singers are so mush-mouthed these days
These days? Really?
And they weren't 45 years ago?
Go ahead, try to sing "Jumpin' Jack Flash" accurately without looking at a lyrics sheet.
I dare you.
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Refusal to learn something new when trying to do something new is a kind of disease. It is madness.
And you are a douchebag.
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>For example, when I use an app to move some large documents into iCloud, the app returns automatically. The actual transfer on the device is then handled in the background. If Box could do this, it would keep them up to speed.
I use Box as a davfs filesystem.
It does exactly this.
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>One should not have to do that in the first place...
I know this is tough, but CS2 is free for download. I would think a "registration" through a temporary email address is a small enough hurdle to step over. Would you rather that Adobe take it out of the free downloads?
Adobe is evil in a lot of ways, but the registration "requirement" for CS2 isn't one of them.
>CS2 crashes in XP
FLP is a de-goobered XP. Try it.
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and doesn't seem to leave a user with any option to permanently bypass product registration, nagging the user every single time it starts up until they do.
You have a 6-digit slashdot ID.
I would think that someone with one would have been around the block long enough to know how to set up a disposable email account, like 10-minute-mail.
http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html
You're welcome.
CS2 crashes frequently on Windows...
On what version? It runs just fine in FLP.
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I find the faux elitism by people like SuricouRaven odious.
So he doesn't like American Football. Yes? And? I'm sure I could point out aspects of his culture that I don't like and ridicule that too. But ya know what? Life is too fucking short. I will never understand Cricket, but I'm not going to begrudge people who do and enjoy it.
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>The Cult of the Hand-Egg,
I didn't know Rugby was a cult.
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I want to like Linux, I really do
No you don't.
You just want to bitch and moan and not read a damn thing. You've demonstrated here: diagnose/fix most common issues in under 30 minutes without the need to research commands,
You are unwilling to even open a manpage or use Google.
Stick with Windows. You deserve it.
Windows keeps getting worse and people want to move away but there's no Linux option that can fill the gap between Win8 idiocy and OSX walled garden.
My 60 year old "Uncle Joe" (He's not my uncle, we just call him that) with an 8'th grade formal education from the Old Country (Madeira) has been using Linux since Ubuntu's Dapper.
"I don't see what's so hard about it. It's just like DOS and Windows" - Uncle Joe.
And the grandkids like the games.
Your problem with Linux isn't Linux. It's your intransigence.
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fluid filling,
I prefer a creme filling.
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That's because the store had bondage gear and the pants you were buying were leather.
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Even if they do exist you've got to go hunting for the right one, then learn how to use it properly or you'll fuck up the system even more.
Because you didn't have to learn how to use the tools in Windows? Because misusing Windows tools won't fuck up Windows?
You're arguing that you were born knowing how to use Windows and that you should never have to learn anything, ever, you know that? An argument *for* ignorance.
Gott im Himmel.
> whether by crash or failure to resume the result is the same.
No it's not. Language has a use. While being a stickler for precision is not always productive or possible, being kind-of accurate in a broad sense helps people help you.
(without an "EventViewer" to make it easy)
Because /var/log doesn't exist and google doesn't exist. And grep and head and tail don't exist, and more doesn't exist, neither does pico, vi, or emacs.
>participated in launchpad thread
Yes? And? Your failure to describe the problem correctly even in broad terms means that your participation in such threads just muddies the water.
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