Graphics driver says "INTEL IGD X86 MMX SE2" so yes I suppose I am using the proprietary video driver. I had a quick look around the system but I can't find the app for choosing proprietary drivers. I will look into an alternative. I just noticed that when an application "dims" to indicate that it is running slow, the window border flashes in the way I described above. Maybe that was a different issue but it doesn't look good.
I upgraded to 12.10 last night and spent the morning with a non-functinal system. Disabling my externa monitor has stopped the UI from hanging. At the moment it looks like the window manager (or what passes for one these days) can't cope with multiple monitors, at least configured the way I use them (laptop with a large external monitor, laptop monitor configured to be geometrically below the external montitor). I noticed that windows on the laptop screen go into this mode where the window border pulses, as if something in the window manager is thrashing.
When I broke my arm I had regular x-rays to check my progress. On more than one occasion I had to wait because of a virus problem on the x-ray equipment. I think the problem is the transfer of binary files. I was given a CD with my x-rays which I viewed at home (on linux). If transfers between hospitals are done the same way then there is potential for malware to be transferred.
Brings to mind hang glider launches over water where the tow boat would accelerate to full speed as the rope fed out. The glider pilot got to watch the loop of rope in front of him getting smaller and smaller.
Brings to mind Arthur C Clarke's short story Travel By Wire where the experimenters turned a rabbit into a pile of 1 cubic centimetre 3D pixels, and decided they had to up the resolution. The next test subject died of fright and the one after that lived because it had been blindfolded.
No because Canonical want to make money from their product. Not just break even and keep a few engineers employed. They want to make billions of dollars out of it (like Thwaite). The product is certainlty worth that sort of money. To do that they have to sell information and services. You don't opt in to paying money when you buy a house. You pay up front. Why should using ubuntu be any different? And for the rest of us there are the command line tools.
My mother and my wife's mother will never use a touch screen phone. They will not relearn how to make phone calls ad they don't want all that other stuff in the way. They both have old nokia phones and we would probably have bought new symbian phones for them. Okay its a dying market but its there for another five years at least.
Nobody in his right mind would buy one right now, even if they liked the platform, with Windows Phone 8 on the horizon. If 8 takes off, *and* Nokia can survive until 8 takes off
Its basically saying that Amazon can keep the data they get and it might find its way to Government at some point. **But** most operating systems these days are centralised around package repositories. You install and update from one place so canonical already knew that what you installed, as do debian, mint, etc. Microsoft knows that as well. The information about what you search for is more valuable but you can disable that but then you lose the integrated search with amazon, which might actually be useful to some people.
I have done this many times in sailplanes. You have two positions: high and low tow. Both are outside the wake of the tug. This waveriding trick must be inside the wake so I reckon it would be a bumpy ride.
You didnt miss much. Just some conclusions about the evolution of insects:
They explained that up until now, research on insects has been divided into two camps. While some researchers believe that insects evolved from the same ancestor that gave rise to malacostracans, a group of crustaceans that include crabs and shrimp, the majority of scientists believe that they were derived from a group of crustaceans called branchiopods, a species that includes include brine shrimp, which have a simpler brain anatomy than malacostracans.
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Or just go back to 12.04
sucks Amazon cock
So would I if they were going to pay money to support my business.
Graphics driver says "INTEL IGD X86 MMX SE2" so yes I suppose I am using the proprietary video driver. I had a quick look around the system but I can't find the app for choosing proprietary drivers. I will look into an alternative. I just noticed that when an application "dims" to indicate that it is running slow, the window border flashes in the way I described above. Maybe that was a different issue but it doesn't look good.
Thanks for the suggestion.
I upgraded to 12.10 last night and spent the morning with a non-functinal system. Disabling my externa monitor has stopped the UI from hanging. At the moment it looks like the window manager (or what passes for one these days) can't cope with multiple monitors, at least configured the way I use them (laptop with a large external monitor, laptop monitor configured to be geometrically below the external montitor). I noticed that windows on the laptop screen go into this mode where the window border pulses, as if something in the window manager is thrashing.
When I broke my arm I had regular x-rays to check my progress. On more than one occasion I had to wait because of a virus problem on the x-ray equipment. I think the problem is the transfer of binary files. I was given a CD with my x-rays which I viewed at home (on linux). If transfers between hospitals are done the same way then there is potential for malware to be transferred.
But the RAF.
Brings to mind hang glider launches over water where the tow boat would accelerate to full speed as the rope fed out. The glider pilot got to watch the loop of rope in front of him getting smaller and smaller.
Also in The American Way.
Brings to mind Arthur C Clarke's short story Travel By Wire where the experimenters turned a rabbit into a pile of 1 cubic centimetre 3D pixels, and decided they had to up the resolution. The next test subject died of fright and the one after that lived because it had been blindfolded.
Because you know exactly how to do his job, right?
No because Canonical want to make money from their product. Not just break even and keep a few engineers employed. They want to make billions of dollars out of it (like Thwaite). The product is certainlty worth that sort of money. To do that they have to sell information and services. You don't opt in to paying money when you buy a house. You pay up front. Why should using ubuntu be any different? And for the rest of us there are the command line tools.
My mother and my wife's mother will never use a touch screen phone. They will not relearn how to make phone calls ad they don't want all that other stuff in the way. They both have old nokia phones and we would probably have bought new symbian phones for them. Okay its a dying market but its there for another five years at least.
Suck on that you FOSS faggots
iOS is mostly free software.
Motoralla's radio products are awesome
Its not the same company as Motorolla mobility. Like Rolls Royce cars and turbine engines have nothing to do with each other.
Nobody in his right mind would buy one right now, even if they liked the platform, with Windows Phone 8 on the horizon. If 8 takes off, *and* Nokia can survive until 8 takes off
And here is me running android 1.6
Nothing stops you from compiling an ubuntu derived distribution with this feature taken out by default and distributing it.
Its basically saying that Amazon can keep the data they get and it might find its way to Government at some point. **But** most operating systems these days are centralised around package repositories. You install and update from one place so canonical already knew that what you installed, as do debian, mint, etc. Microsoft knows that as well. The information about what you search for is more valuable but you can disable that but then you lose the integrated search with amazon, which might actually be useful to some people.
They are trying to make money supplying linux to private users.
lof ast year
Finally a use for sealand which might make money.
I have done this many times in sailplanes. You have two positions: high and low tow. Both are outside the wake of the tug. This waveriding trick must be inside the wake so I reckon it would be a bumpy ride.
Especially since the US now openly bombs friendly countries to kill people they don't like.
You didnt miss much. Just some conclusions about the evolution of insects:
They explained that up until now, research on insects has been divided into two camps. While some researchers believe that insects evolved from the same ancestor that gave rise to malacostracans, a group of crustaceans that include crabs and shrimp, the majority of scientists believe that they were derived from a group of crustaceans called branchiopods, a species that includes include brine shrimp, which have a simpler brain anatomy than malacostracans.
However, researchers from the latest study say that the new finding shows that insects did in fact evolve from creatures that already possessed complex brains.
Read more at http://www.medicaldaily.com/articles/12631/20121010/520-million-year-old-bug-creature-first.htm#hclmrDOPXj8WW6PR.99
But then the unified menu doesn't work well because I also like sloppy focus
I got that by installing gnome-tweak-tool.
This idea that they'd ever be in local data centers all over the world is just stupid. That is expensive and difficult to do.
Done properly it could just be like Akami. Think distributed web caching moving towards distributed application hosting.