What is with the branding scheme on these things? I see a summary with lots of letters and numbers and almost no useful information as to what the hell good they all are.
The "shapes" derive from the Fedora Infinity logo, which iirc debuted with Fedora 8. It's basically the mathematical sign for infinity, rotated counter-clockwise by 45 degrees with the lowercase Fedora "f" imposed onto it. It's quite elegant.
No, but park it in my parking space, don't remove it after I have you served with a notice to either do so or that I will go to court and get title of it, and guess what - I *can* go to court and get title transferred.
Uhhhh...what?? What law is this? IAAL and I've never heard of this legal maneuver.
I believe what is being referred to (and misinterpreted) are abandoned vehicle laws. Some states have abandoned vehicle laws where a property owner can file a title claim on vehicles that are determined to be abandoned. Different states have different rules for what qualifies as "abandoned". For example, Minnesota Statute 168B.
Here's how I run "Chrome":
First I go to http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/waterfall/console
Then I find the build that's all green for Windows and green for the first dot in the first column. This is how I decide it's a good Windows build. Do the same for your OS of choice. Make note of the build number on the left.
Find the build here: http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/
Navigate to the snapshot build directory.
For Windows, you'll find a "portable" zip directory. Doesn't require install. There's also a mini-installer, which I use.
End result is Chromium, up to date, and without some of the Google-added things that I don't really want.
I haven't switched, but sometimes Bing's results genuinely are better. I still use Google for "interesting" searches, but when I just can't remember the URL to something or similar, Bing is typically better.
Experiment for the reader:
A very specific thing. I want the WikiBooks LaTeX guide, and I can never be bothered to remember the kinda-long URL.
Type "wikibooks latex" (no quotes) into both Bing and Google. Tell me which results are better.
"Higher education" is really a medieval style guild system, and it has no place in modern society. With ubiquitous internet access anyone with sufficient talent and motivation can teach themself any subject to any level. The only remaining step is to decouple the certification from the training.
It's true that some people will learn better with a teacher and fellow students, but there's no reason this has to be within academia. Students could save a lot of money by cutting out the middle-men and hiring teachers directly.
Maybe, but the problem is sufficient motivation. I was definitely NOT motivated when I first enrolled in college for a Computer Science degree. I quit after about three semesters. After a few years of partying my ass off, I decided to get a real job. After a few years of manual labor I began to appreciate the value of an education. When I say "the value of an education" I mean the ability to get a sufficiently challenging and satisfying position (clue: most of them require a degree). Now I'm enrolled again at 27 years old, with about three years to go before I graduate with my first degree in Electrical Engineering. I enjoy it, and I'm now taking it seriously. But that doesn't mean I'm motivated enough to learn all this material, all the fundamental concepts and higher level applications, without people who know what the hell they're talking about within easy reach. Try as you might, you can't replace real human interaction with the motivated types you find in a good engineering program with internet access.
It's been about ten years since I was a track & field athlete, but the cleats I wore for track running had a hard cleat plate under the ball of your foot and a soft, nearly weighless, heel.
You might like joe. It's an editor that's very powerful, has syntax highlighting, and usually much friendlier than nano/pico. Fire it up, and do Control-K then H. There's your helpful help screen, much like the bottom area of nano. You can also use Control-N/P/F/B to navigate instead of taking your hands off the home row to get to the arrow keys.
It bothers me a little bit to say this, because it's more fun to think Windows 7 is only slightly less botched than Vista:
Windows 7 runs almost as well as Windows XP under VirtualBox on my meager host system (running Fedora 10).
I'm running it virtualized, with 512MB RAM allotted, it's using about 6.2GB disk space, and the system is a Pentium M 1.8GHz single-core laptop with integrated Intel 915 graphics. Under VirtualBox I have no video acceleration, which means it looks nice but there are no special effects.
Granted, I haven't really installed anything, but I think that the hardware requirements will be respectable for Windows 7 such that if a person is so inclined to run Windows 7 on a system that has been purchased within the last couple years, they'll probably be able to do so.
I'm interested to see how well it keeps running if I install a bunch of software, but I'm not really interested in Windows 7 enough to bother at the moment.
I HATE the way Microsoft's evangelists have switched to this "Blame the user" mentality to try shift attention from their failures. It's hypocritical, dishonest, and most of all, it allows them to sit on their laurels and continue serving up variations of the same stale OS they've been facelifting for the past 15 years.
It works both ways.
$FAV_OS evangelists: If it is a $FAV_OS problem, blame the users. If there's a $OTHER_OS problem, blame the OS.
I can't vouch for HeadOn, but many people suffer "headaches" that are actually "tension headaches" or "muscle contraction headaches", where if HeadOn is any kind of muscle relaxer or topical anasthetic it could have some value.
I agree... especially some of these new "remastered" CD editions.... the Rolling Stones' "Let It Bleed" latest remastered edition with the big black "REMASTERED" tag on the jewel case actually sounds rather terrible next to my "Let It Bleed" vinyl. The track "Midnight Rambler" gets a lot of it's punch from the dynamics and volume changes in the song and on the remastered CD it just sounds kind of dead, like you're waiting for a crescendo that never comes because the whole damn track is loud. I can't speak for early CD releases of the same album because I don't own any. I do have an early CD release of King Crimson's "In the Court of the Crimson King" and it sounds great.
On a side note, I record a bit of my own stuff just using Ardour and the stuff I do sounds perfectly fine without any compression or clipping, I just adjust my levels when recording and mixing so that the peaks come close to the clip boundary without crossing it. And it sounds just fine on both my home stereo, car stereo, and (gasp) my iAudio player. I've found enough utility in LADSPA to work round little hiccups and such in the recordings without ever having to resort to compression or clipping, and my recordings aren't perceptibly "quieter" than my store-bought CDs either.
Why this loudness situation on new releases and remasters even exists is beyond me, a good recording sounds good on any respectable audio player.
Opera has had your bookmark-homepage idea for some time... It's called speed dial.
Also, Opera 9.5 (still in beta, has a few bugs but http://my.opera.com/desktopteam has more info) has a new thing called Opera Link which lets you synchronize bookmarks, speed dial, and your personal bar (like a bookmarks shortcut bar that holds other things as well) across any Opera 9.5+ browser anywhere, and gives you http://link.opera.com/ to access your bookmarks from any browser.
I've been using 9.5 at work since alpha and it is looking to be one sweet release. At home I still use the stable 9.2x branch which doesn't have Link but does have Speed Dial.
I only have Firefox around these days for the sites that don't always play nice with Opera, which are actually very very few. And I know Opera isn't open source, but they're very community-friendly and their development team is easily accessible and responsive to bugs and they produce packages for just about every major Linux distribution, as well as Mac, Windows, Solars (sparc and intel), QNX, BeOS, FreeBSD and OS/2.
Red Hat has a 7 year support cycle on their enterprise linux products, so if you installed RHEL 2.1 back in 2002 it is still receiving security & bug fixes and will be until 2009. In fact the most recent released fix for the 2.4 kernel it shipped with was August this year.
RedHat does *not* hate CentOS... the issue has come up on the mailing lists over the years, and some see CentOS as the "gateway drug" that eventually brings more users to RHEL. Others feel that having CentOS around increases the RHEL{,-derived} userbase and therefore indirectly helps increase the quality of RHEL itself.
I haven't really seen anything exciting from the Eclipse camp lately. Maybe I haven't been looking hard enough, but I hope that the continued development of a GPL alternative (NetBeans) keeps Eclipse from stagnating.
Personally I still use vim, but I haven't worked on a project large enough to cause me to want a full IDE like Eclipse or NetBeans yet.
that Microsoft could give away XP and subsidise the price of the laptop.
Sure they'd make a loss, but wouldn't it be worth it just to secure dominance? That's about it. Microsoft wants you to use Microsoft products, period. Whether it be your servers, your desktop, your laptop, your gaming system, your router, your keyboard, your mouse, your joystick, your PDA, your portable audio player, or the XO (OLPC) system.
When Microsoft sees a technology market where they aren't present (or dominant), they do everything in their power to secure a position in that market. Competition is bad, m'kay?
Actually I've had similar issues as yours, but none in the past few years. I run Fedora at home (Fedora 7 if you're curious) and haven't had an issue with breakage in the past three Fedora versions. I administer a *lot* of RHEL5 boxes at work and haven't had a single issue with updates or breakages.
Now, some distributions (like Fedora) are considered to be "fast-moving" distributions and therefore there are a *lot* of updates that become available very regularly. Doesn't mean they're untested, just that there is likely to be a lot of them. On the other hand there are more "stable" distributions like Debian stable, Slackware, or CentOS that focus mainly on necessary security updates and not much else.
There's also the issue of 3rd party repositories. Some are better than others, but if you enable non-supported repositories or just randomly install a lot of junk that isn't made available in the official repositories then you must accept the inherent risk of running unsupported software. The updates that come from upstream (Fedora, in this example) are designed to work with and are tested on Fedora systems. Not Fedora+atrpms+livna+freshrpms, and not Fedora+"some 30 odd programs I compiled and installed using `make install`". I'm not saying you're guilty of this, but a lot of broken installations are broken because of people doing exactly these things.
Each distribution is a little different as well, and if you use Debian you should learn to use Debian-specific tools. If you learn Fedora you should learn to use Fedora-specific tools. Hacking about things on a Fedora box using some guide on the Gentoo wiki isn't the proper way to go about things.
I highly doubt that if you take any modern well-supported distribution (Fedora, Debian, Slackware, CentOS, etc), install the latest version, and keep up on updates that you're going to have any breakages. At least I haven't seen it happen.
*I didn't mention *buntu in this post because I *have* had issues that distribution in the several versions that I've tried, and therefore (contrary to the vast majority) when I discuss linux or GNU/Linux I'm referring to just about any distribution other than *buntu or its many derivatives.
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What is with the branding scheme on these things? I see a summary with lots of letters and numbers and almost no useful information as to what the hell good they all are.
The "shapes" derive from the Fedora Infinity logo, which iirc debuted with Fedora 8. It's basically the mathematical sign for infinity, rotated counter-clockwise by 45 degrees with the lowercase Fedora "f" imposed onto it. It's quite elegant.
Graphics-heavy Fedora Wiki page on F8 artwork.
No, but park it in my parking space, don't remove it after I have you served with a notice to either do so or that I will go to court and get title of it, and guess what - I *can* go to court and get title transferred. Uhhhh...what?? What law is this? IAAL and I've never heard of this legal maneuver.
I believe what is being referred to (and misinterpreted) are abandoned vehicle laws. Some states have abandoned vehicle laws where a property owner can file a title claim on vehicles that are determined to be abandoned. Different states have different rules for what qualifies as "abandoned". For example, Minnesota Statute 168B.
Here's how I run "Chrome": First I go to http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/waterfall/console Then I find the build that's all green for Windows and green for the first dot in the first column. This is how I decide it's a good Windows build. Do the same for your OS of choice. Make note of the build number on the left. Find the build here: http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/ Navigate to the snapshot build directory. For Windows, you'll find a "portable" zip directory. Doesn't require install. There's also a mini-installer, which I use. End result is Chromium, up to date, and without some of the Google-added things that I don't really want.
I haven't switched, but sometimes Bing's results genuinely are better. I still use Google for "interesting" searches, but when I just can't remember the URL to something or similar, Bing is typically better.
Experiment for the reader:
A very specific thing. I want the WikiBooks LaTeX guide, and I can never be bothered to remember the kinda-long URL.
Type "wikibooks latex" (no quotes) into both Bing and Google. Tell me which results are better.
"Higher education" is really a medieval style guild system, and it has no place in modern society. With ubiquitous internet access anyone with sufficient talent and motivation can teach themself any subject to any level. The only remaining step is to decouple the certification from the training.
It's true that some people will learn better with a teacher and fellow students, but there's no reason this has to be within academia. Students could save a lot of money by cutting out the middle-men and hiring teachers directly.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north748.html
Maybe, but the problem is sufficient motivation. I was definitely NOT motivated when I first enrolled in college for a Computer Science degree. I quit after about three semesters. After a few years of partying my ass off, I decided to get a real job. After a few years of manual labor I began to appreciate the value of an education. When I say "the value of an education" I mean the ability to get a sufficiently challenging and satisfying position (clue: most of them require a degree). Now I'm enrolled again at 27 years old, with about three years to go before I graduate with my first degree in Electrical Engineering. I enjoy it, and I'm now taking it seriously. But that doesn't mean I'm motivated enough to learn all this material, all the fundamental concepts and higher level applications, without people who know what the hell they're talking about within easy reach. Try as you might, you can't replace real human interaction with the motivated types you find in a good engineering program with internet access.
It's been about ten years since I was a track & field athlete, but the cleats I wore for track running had a hard cleat plate under the ball of your foot and a soft, nearly weighless, heel.
I used to wear Adidas (fit my foot best), and the soles looked pretty much like this:
http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/962/75009410.JPG
I would imagine that somebody makes a non-cleat shoe with a simliar design.
There's never any love for the WTFPL. It's like cc0 for software: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/
that 8000 people hearing it, have guaranteed 8000 no-sales.
It's terrible.
Well kudos to U2 for consistency then.
You might like joe. It's an editor that's very powerful, has syntax highlighting, and usually much friendlier than nano/pico. Fire it up, and do Control-K then H. There's your helpful help screen, much like the bottom area of nano. You can also use Control-N/P/F/B to navigate instead of taking your hands off the home row to get to the arrow keys.
It bothers me a little bit to say this, because it's more fun to think Windows 7 is only slightly less botched than Vista:
Windows 7 runs almost as well as Windows XP under VirtualBox on my meager host system (running Fedora 10).
I'm running it virtualized, with 512MB RAM allotted, it's using about 6.2GB disk space, and the system is a Pentium M 1.8GHz single-core laptop with integrated Intel 915 graphics. Under VirtualBox I have no video acceleration, which means it looks nice but there are no special effects.
Granted, I haven't really installed anything, but I think that the hardware requirements will be respectable for Windows 7 such that if a person is so inclined to run Windows 7 on a system that has been purchased within the last couple years, they'll probably be able to do so.
I'm interested to see how well it keeps running if I install a bunch of software, but I'm not really interested in Windows 7 enough to bother at the moment.
I HATE the way Microsoft's evangelists have switched to this "Blame the user" mentality to try shift attention from their failures. It's hypocritical, dishonest, and most of all, it allows them to sit on their laurels and continue serving up variations of the same stale OS they've been facelifting for the past 15 years.
It works both ways.
$FAV_OS evangelists:
If it is a $FAV_OS problem, blame the users. If there's a $OTHER_OS problem, blame the OS.
Sounds a bit like an ancestor to the Atari Portfolio.
I still have mine, with a bunch of accessories, and it's still fun to play with.
I can't vouch for HeadOn, but many people suffer "headaches" that are actually "tension headaches" or "muscle contraction headaches", where if HeadOn is any kind of muscle relaxer or topical anasthetic it could have some value.
http://picasaweb.google.com/
Integrated with the Picasa software, or you can use it like I do, which is entirely via its web interface to upload & organize pics. 1GB of storage.
But lions sleep a lot.
(The previous statement is based entirely on the twenty minutes of Animal Planet I caught earlier this week.)
I agree... especially some of these new "remastered" CD editions.... the Rolling Stones' "Let It Bleed" latest remastered edition with the big black "REMASTERED" tag on the jewel case actually sounds rather terrible next to my "Let It Bleed" vinyl. The track "Midnight Rambler" gets a lot of it's punch from the dynamics and volume changes in the song and on the remastered CD it just sounds kind of dead, like you're waiting for a crescendo that never comes because the whole damn track is loud. I can't speak for early CD releases of the same album because I don't own any. I do have an early CD release of King Crimson's "In the Court of the Crimson King" and it sounds great.
On a side note, I record a bit of my own stuff just using Ardour and the stuff I do sounds perfectly fine without any compression or clipping, I just adjust my levels when recording and mixing so that the peaks come close to the clip boundary without crossing it. And it sounds just fine on both my home stereo, car stereo, and (gasp) my iAudio player. I've found enough utility in LADSPA to work round little hiccups and such in the recordings without ever having to resort to compression or clipping, and my recordings aren't perceptibly "quieter" than my store-bought CDs either.
Why this loudness situation on new releases and remasters even exists is beyond me, a good recording sounds good on any respectable audio player.
Opera has had your bookmark-homepage idea for some time... It's called speed dial.
Also, Opera 9.5 (still in beta, has a few bugs but http://my.opera.com/desktopteam has more info) has a new thing called Opera Link which lets you synchronize bookmarks, speed dial, and your personal bar (like a bookmarks shortcut bar that holds other things as well) across any Opera 9.5+ browser anywhere, and gives you http://link.opera.com/ to access your bookmarks from any browser.
I've been using 9.5 at work since alpha and it is looking to be one sweet release. At home I still use the stable 9.2x branch which doesn't have Link but does have Speed Dial.
I only have Firefox around these days for the sites that don't always play nice with Opera, which are actually very very few. And I know Opera isn't open source, but they're very community-friendly and their development team is easily accessible and responsive to bugs and they produce packages for just about every major Linux distribution, as well as Mac, Windows, Solars (sparc and intel), QNX, BeOS, FreeBSD and OS/2.
How do you top that?
The Asus Crotch-Rocking Awesomeness-Oozing Ultimus-imus Titan-Crushing Extreme?
Red Hat has a 7 year support cycle on their enterprise linux products, so if you installed RHEL 2.1 back in 2002 it is still receiving security & bug fixes and will be until 2009. In fact the most recent released fix for the 2.4 kernel it shipped with was August this year.
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0673.html
RedHat does *not* hate CentOS... the issue has come up on the mailing lists over the years, and some see CentOS as the "gateway drug" that eventually brings more users to RHEL. Others feel that having CentOS around increases the RHEL{,-derived} userbase and therefore indirectly helps increase the quality of RHEL itself.
In fact, CentOS and Fedora shared a developer booth at FOSDEM this year.
http://wiki.centos.org/Events/Fosdem2007
http://spevack.livejournal.com/2007/02/25/
Additionally, it would have taken the author of TFA about 10 minutes of reasearch to turn up the FOSDEM tidbit and these little bits that make TFA completely irrelevant:
http://www.linux.com/?module=comments&func=display&cid=1161341
http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=511
(scroll down to the RH Q&A) on the second link.
I haven't really seen anything exciting from the Eclipse camp lately. Maybe I haven't been looking hard enough, but I hope that the continued development of a GPL alternative (NetBeans) keeps Eclipse from stagnating.
Personally I still use vim, but I haven't worked on a project large enough to cause me to want a full IDE like Eclipse or NetBeans yet.
Sure they'd make a loss, but wouldn't it be worth it just to secure dominance? That's about it. Microsoft wants you to use Microsoft products, period. Whether it be your servers, your desktop, your laptop, your gaming system, your router, your keyboard, your mouse, your joystick, your PDA, your portable audio player, or the XO (OLPC) system.
When Microsoft sees a technology market where they aren't present (or dominant), they do everything in their power to secure a position in that market. Competition is bad, m'kay?
The longer these "scientists" keep doing shit like this the more pissed of God is gonna get.
Actually I've had similar issues as yours, but none in the past few years. I run Fedora at home (Fedora 7 if you're curious) and haven't had an issue with breakage in the past three Fedora versions. I administer a *lot* of RHEL5 boxes at work and haven't had a single issue with updates or breakages.
Now, some distributions (like Fedora) are considered to be "fast-moving" distributions and therefore there are a *lot* of updates that become available very regularly. Doesn't mean they're untested, just that there is likely to be a lot of them. On the other hand there are more "stable" distributions like Debian stable, Slackware, or CentOS that focus mainly on necessary security updates and not much else.
There's also the issue of 3rd party repositories. Some are better than others, but if you enable non-supported repositories or just randomly install a lot of junk that isn't made available in the official repositories then you must accept the inherent risk of running unsupported software. The updates that come from upstream (Fedora, in this example) are designed to work with and are tested on Fedora systems. Not Fedora+atrpms+livna+freshrpms, and not Fedora+"some 30 odd programs I compiled and installed using `make install`". I'm not saying you're guilty of this, but a lot of broken installations are broken because of people doing exactly these things.
Each distribution is a little different as well, and if you use Debian you should learn to use Debian-specific tools. If you learn Fedora you should learn to use Fedora-specific tools. Hacking about things on a Fedora box using some guide on the Gentoo wiki isn't the proper way to go about things.
I highly doubt that if you take any modern well-supported distribution (Fedora, Debian, Slackware, CentOS, etc), install the latest version, and keep up on updates that you're going to have any breakages. At least I haven't seen it happen.
*I didn't mention *buntu in this post because I *have* had issues that distribution in the several versions that I've tried, and therefore (contrary to the vast majority) when I discuss linux or GNU/Linux I'm referring to just about any distribution other than *buntu or its many derivatives.