i have to disable it each update, which sucks, but OOo is at least painless to disable. If I recall correctly, it's all in the context menu. but it should figure out from the previous version whether or not to have it turned on for an upgrade.
you should just buy Trendnet routers. They never actually offer any firmware updates. must be because the devices are such high quality to start with...
"current" project = project with "current" funding. It didn't say 'hot new project ideas'. The Army has a current project to develop Silicon Carbide power electronic devices. It's a decade or so old now. Significant progress has been made. There's still more to come. The idea is old. The project is current. See?
I find adblock to give the biggest boost in page-load speed compared to anything else. Just the mass reduction in server calls for 30 different webmetric and add servers and whatnot just for a single front page is insane. I spend more time waiting for servers to respond than for the page to download
It is definitely ME focused. There are a large number of open source (or at least free) EE design tools, but high quality mechanical design tools are much more rare. (less of us making our own, i guess). That said, I posted an inquiry in the developer forum just to be sure, and no, there currently aren't any SPICE or EDA tools included. After mentioning a few tools (U.C. Berkeley's SPICE, gEDA, etc.) I was told that it was really just a lack of discipline involvement, and that they'd look to throwing some of those onto the next LiveDVD release.
That said, my guess is they'd need a volunteer or two to help verify that things are set up properly for the LiveDVD. I'd recommend any of you real EE's interested in supporting this head over to the forum and express interest. Here's a link to my initial inquiry post. (my MSEE was in semiconductor processing, so it doesn't really count. I've come back from the dark side since then.)
I believe PCLinuxOS is trying to target the same windows-transition crowd that Ubuntu's been targeting. I started with them when I tried out the CAELinux distribution. (recommended for all engi-nerds by the way. www.CAELinux.com )
if by "quality improves" you mean resolution, I'll give you that one. But a quick glance of some of what litters youtube goes to show that 'quality' isn't going anywhere...
FTFA:"How on earth is a user supposed to know what Transmission is?"
This is the most insightful part of that task. How many times do I see a slashdot or digg headline saying "PoorlyNamedApp v.1.332.13432 has been released!" Sometimes I read the description and scroll through half a page of comments before I ever find out what the heck the actual program does and if I care or would be interested in it at all. the gimp? Konqueror? Thunderbird? tranmission? evolution? heck, even firefox. I mean "internet explorer" is a rather obvious. windows media player, paint shop pro, photoshop, etc. If you're working on converting someone, this is the level of application-name-interpretation that they're accustomed to.
How hard is it to sit down and run a simple test like the (excellent) one this guy did with his girlfriend for every release?"
The required resource (girlfriend for the test) must be rather scarce among the developing crowd.
Seriously, though, "girlfriend" could have been easily replaced with "mom", "dad", "sister", "grandma"... with test tasks adjusted for what that person would do.
Now that I think about it, I'm highly suspect that this was originally written with the mom/sister actually available, and he later ran a Find/Replace All to substitute in "girlfriend" hoping it would be more likely to get frontpaged...
so, can anyone post a copy of the EULA from back when the agreement was first made? Not that EULA's are worth the electrons they're written with, but I'd be curious to see what both parties agreed to, and if anything remotely like the current situation was hinted at...
I heard that the guy who submitted that patent did so deliberately to demonstrate the absurdity of the patent system. Iirc, he was a lawyer, possibly a patent attorney.
Peter Norton gave us Norton. Symantec bought out his company in 1990, and has been slapping the brand name on everything they've put out since. Bloat and decline in quality followed.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Utilities
"The Norton Utilities releases were collections of software utilities. Peter Norton published the first version for DOS, The Norton Utilities, Release 1, ca 1981. Release 2 came out several years later, subsequent to the first hard drives for the IBM PC line. Peter Norton's company was sold to Symantec in 1990. However his name remains as a "brand" for Symantec's range of utility and security software for home users."
ahhh... but wait till the next 4 day power outage (I live below baltimore, and the last one wasn't that long ago.), when your cell phone runs out of juice. Those of us still on copper may just start a little phone-access profiteering..
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bad bad bad AC. Learn to discriminate between 1st, 2nd and 3rd world countries before you discriminate.
the previous employers have less incentive to lie. (i.e., no need to offload an employee.)
i have to disable it each update, which sucks, but OOo is at least painless to disable. If I recall correctly, it's all in the context menu. but it should figure out from the previous version whether or not to have it turned on for an upgrade.
you should just buy Trendnet routers. They never actually offer any firmware updates. must be because the devices are such high quality to start with...
um... unless I'm recalling correctly, i believe it is Science Theory...
you're assuming a being that senses time linearly, like we do. Might I suggest a little Kurt Vonnegut for your enjoyment
"current" project = project with "current" funding. It didn't say 'hot new project ideas'. The Army has a current project to develop Silicon Carbide power electronic devices. It's a decade or so old now. Significant progress has been made. There's still more to come. The idea is old. The project is current. See?
I find adblock to give the biggest boost in page-load speed compared to anything else. Just the mass reduction in server calls for 30 different webmetric and add servers and whatnot just for a single front page is insane. I spend more time waiting for servers to respond than for the page to download
That said, my guess is they'd need a volunteer or two to help verify that things are set up properly for the LiveDVD. I'd recommend any of you real EE's interested in supporting this head over to the forum and express interest. Here's a link to my initial inquiry post. (my MSEE was in semiconductor processing, so it doesn't really count. I've come back from the dark side since then.)
I believe PCLinuxOS is trying to target the same windows-transition crowd that Ubuntu's been targeting. I started with them when I tried out the CAELinux distribution. (recommended for all engi-nerds by the way. www.CAELinux.com )
if by "quality improves" you mean resolution, I'll give you that one. But a quick glance of some of what litters youtube goes to show that 'quality' isn't going anywhere...
This is the most insightful part of that task. How many times do I see a slashdot or digg headline saying "PoorlyNamedApp v.1.332.13432 has been released!" Sometimes I read the description and scroll through half a page of comments before I ever find out what the heck the actual program does and if I care or would be interested in it at all. the gimp? Konqueror? Thunderbird? tranmission? evolution? heck, even firefox. I mean "internet explorer" is a rather obvious. windows media player, paint shop pro, photoshop, etc. If you're working on converting someone, this is the level of application-name-interpretation that they're accustomed to.
The required resource (girlfriend for the test) must be rather scarce among the developing crowd.
Seriously, though, "girlfriend" could have been easily replaced with "mom", "dad", "sister", "grandma"... with test tasks adjusted for what that person would do.
Now that I think about it, I'm highly suspect that this was originally written with the mom/sister actually available, and he later ran a Find/Replace All to substitute in "girlfriend" hoping it would be more likely to get frontpaged...
FairUse4WM FTW!
so, can anyone post a copy of the EULA from back when the agreement was first made? Not that EULA's are worth the electrons they're written with, but I'd be curious to see what both parties agreed to, and if anything remotely like the current situation was hinted at...
STOP THE PRESSES, FOLKS! This guy doesn't see any problems. There must not be any!
there is no rocket science. by that point, it's called engineering.
I heard that the guy who submitted that patent did so deliberately to demonstrate the absurdity of the patent system. Iirc, he was a lawyer, possibly a patent attorney.
I recommend Craigslist. I've had better turnover that when I put stuff on eBay.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Utilities
"The Norton Utilities releases were collections of software utilities. Peter Norton published the first version for DOS, The Norton Utilities, Release 1, ca 1981. Release 2 came out several years later, subsequent to the first hard drives for the IBM PC line. Peter Norton's company was sold to Symantec in 1990. However his name remains as a "brand" for Symantec's range of utility and security software for home users."
you believe they gave you Norton? wow, have some more Kool-aid.
ahhh... but wait till the next 4 day power outage (I live below baltimore, and the last one wasn't that long ago.), when your cell phone runs out of juice. Those of us still on copper may just start a little phone-access profiteering..
depends... are you going for "bad movie" or "bad movie with partial nudity"?
now, you just take all that kumbaya B.S. and get back in the corner where you belong... we don't tolerate that kind of stuff in here.
since when do engineers not get tenure? and to boot, we get sizable research dollars.