Ha! I wonder if this pushed up radiation counts over NSW? Even normal dust storms should be slightly radioactive, because the normal radioactive material in the ground.
That might have been the 1982 or 83 storm. I could see it coming just like and tasted the dust on my tongue before the main part of the cloud got to us.
(and spreadsheets aren't databases, you can't write SQL queries against them)
I know. Where I work they would probably employ an intern to copy and paste passwords between the database and the spreadsheet because the database in complicated while everybody understands excel. SQL has been pretty much replaced by the scripting and macro languages supported by excel anyway.
Ummm. Where I work spreadsheets are called "databases". I get stupider things in my email every morning at work than the email described here.
And incidently, since POP and SMTP were switched off to force us to use outlook the number of misdirected emails has gone through the roof. Humans search by first name but Outhouse searches by last name. I have a common last name... And so does a certain senior manager.
A lot of their customers will be Dear Old Ladies who call their ISP when they have lost the little bit of paper their daughter wrote the password on. You don't want to give them a new password at that point because their daughter isn't around to write it down again. And in practice, the password isn't protecting anything of value anyway.
Select which resolution you properly want, hit the TAB key, then hit the ENTER key. Voila. This works even if the OK button isn't onscreen. It's called keyboard shortcuts and Windows has had them since at the very least Windows 3.0.
In this case the font had been set so large that the top left 10% or so of any single letter filled the screen. It wasn't possible to select a different resolution by looking at the screen.
... That is easy to fix. You reinstalled the OS for that? You're comparing two things which are not alike. Fixing his Ubuntu problem would require intricate knowledge. Fixing your font problem only requires a little digging.
For the record, what is the answer? I did a lot of digging at the time and I couldn't fix it.
Remember you said "it will do everything that Windows will". Everything means everything with virtually no exceptions.
But windows out of the box does very little. Whats it got? Notepad and a web browser. Ubuntu comes with openoffice.
I had something similar to that screen resolution issue on windows 95 or 98. The owner had set the desktop font to the biggest possible size. We ended up reinstalling the OS.
That's easy. You take the first battery and put the positive terminal up, then you take the second battery and put the positive terminal down. If you do it right, the two positive pins will be on opposite sides.... Which is how lesbians do it too. That's a neat trick to remember where the heads -- er, I mean positive terminals -- go.
I have a bicycle tail light which takes four batteries in the configuration: + + B B | | B B - -
ie its series parallel. It a bit melted from the time I put my NiCDs in as if it was four in series. The only vibrator I own takes just one battery. Its low on power but easy to load in the dark (and in a hurry).
Linux may not have any relevance to consumers in some products; but does the word itself carry a commercial stigma
Maybe it's a competitive advantage and they don't want to advertise all the details of what lets them produce a device cheaper and faster than their competitors. Really, the Linux community needs to stop seeing adversaries around every corner.
Maybe they have to pay Linus if they use the L word.
And, speaking of Malaysia, they already go after anyone with "Mc" in the name - so no trademarking "McSandwich" or "McBreadWithMeat" or "McDoubleMcMeatProductWithMcCheeseProduct."
Malaysia is a melange of 5 or more cultures. Good luck.
They mean Malay food. If it was possible for me to get decent malay food outside Malaysia this would worry me. But as it stands I doubt nothing would change.
There might be some inherent value in knowing how to use the underlying skills that make up the essential underpinnings of literacy? Gee I don't know, I use a calculator to do all my math at work, why should I learn how to do long division?
I have a slide rule on my desk. I find using it to be good mental exercise.
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Ha! I wonder if this pushed up radiation counts over NSW? Even normal dust storms should be slightly radioactive, because the normal radioactive material in the ground.
Yes but everyone knows Australia is in the future.
It's only just happening now for real.
Send me cash and I will give you tomorrows lottery numbers.
The submission form should have a field for "don't bother with this article after [date]"
That might have been the 1982 or 83 storm. I could see it coming just like and tasted the dust on my tongue before the main part of the cloud got to us.
(and spreadsheets aren't databases, you can't write SQL queries against them)
I know. Where I work they would probably employ an intern to copy and paste passwords between the database and the spreadsheet because the database in complicated while everybody understands excel. SQL has been pretty much replaced by the scripting and macro languages supported by excel anyway.
Ummm. Where I work spreadsheets are called "databases". I get stupider things in my email every morning at work than the email described here.
And incidently, since POP and SMTP were switched off to force us to use outlook the number of misdirected emails has gone through the roof. Humans search by first name but Outhouse searches by last name. I have a common last name... And so does a certain senior manager.
A lot of their customers will be Dear Old Ladies who call their ISP when they have lost the little bit of paper their daughter wrote the password on. You don't want to give them a new password at that point because their daughter isn't around to write it down again. And in practice, the password isn't protecting anything of value anyway.
Its payback for all the blackberry homesick poms planted in Australia.
does safe mode reset those settings?
No, strangely.
Select which resolution you properly want, hit the TAB key, then hit the ENTER key. Voila. This works even if the OK button isn't onscreen. It's called keyboard shortcuts and Windows has had them since at the very least Windows 3.0.
In this case the font had been set so large that the top left 10% or so of any single letter filled the screen. It wasn't possible to select a different resolution by looking at the screen.
... That is easy to fix. You reinstalled the OS for that? You're comparing two things which are not alike. Fixing his Ubuntu problem would require intricate knowledge. Fixing your font problem only requires a little digging.
For the record, what is the answer? I did a lot of digging at the time and I couldn't fix it.
But I thought Linus was Caucasian? Jeez, you learn something new every day.
Swedish speaking people are the blacks of Finland.
Remember you said "it will do everything that Windows will". Everything means everything with virtually no exceptions.
But windows out of the box does very little. Whats it got? Notepad and a web browser. Ubuntu comes with openoffice.
I had something similar to that screen resolution issue on windows 95 or 98. The owner had set the desktop font to the biggest possible size. We ended up reinstalling the OS.
If, and only if, they made any changes to the GPLed code. And, even then, only the bits integrated into the GPLed code.
If you distribute any GPL code, such as the Linux kernel or the GNU userland, you have to offer the sources to the recipient.
That's easy. You take the first battery and put the positive terminal up, then you take the second battery and put the positive terminal down. If you do it right, the two positive pins will be on opposite sides. ... Which is how lesbians do it too. That's a neat trick to remember where the heads -- er, I mean positive terminals -- go.
I have a bicycle tail light which takes four batteries in the configuration:
+ +
B B
| |
B B
- -
ie its series parallel. It a bit melted from the time I put my NiCDs in as if it was four in series. The only vibrator I own takes just one battery. Its low on power but easy to load in the dark (and in a hurry).
Maybe it's a competitive advantage and they don't want to advertise all the details of what lets them produce a device cheaper and faster than their competitors. Really, the Linux community needs to stop seeing adversaries around every corner.
Maybe they have to pay Linus if they use the L word.
And, speaking of Malaysia, they already go after anyone with "Mc" in the name - so no trademarking "McSandwich" or "McBreadWithMeat" or "McDoubleMcMeatProductWithMcCheeseProduct."
You missed the news.
No, they don't. The secret recipes of McDonalds and KFC are trade secrets.
How about the secret recipes of McCurry?
Malaysia is a melange of 5 or more cultures. Good luck.
They mean Malay food. If it was possible for me to get decent malay food outside Malaysia this would worry me. But as it stands I doubt nothing would change.
she has outlawed it EVER being in our house.
Gee, my wife is Malaysian and I wish she would outlaw durians.
I only promise not to complain about Roland Piquepaille articles.
I doubt that you will ever need to.
Has anybody else noticed that slashcode is broken in the top story? Have we filled a disk or something?
There might be some inherent value in knowing how to use the underlying skills that make up the essential underpinnings of literacy? Gee I don't know, I use a calculator to do all my math at work, why should I learn how to do long division?
I have a slide rule on my desk. I find using it to be good mental exercise.
I strongly disagree, and would post this reply in cursive were it possible.
In the Diamond Age universe I imagine you would be a Victorian.
Apparently not.