I have to agree about the UI and icons. I love me some Ubuntu, but the GNOME interface feels VERY dated. It's improved a lot recently, for sure, but it still seems to have a lot of quirks. Lack of dragging and dropping between windows/apps in a lot of places. That ugly "handle" or whatever you call it when you *do* drag something. I want to play with the new KDE stuff sometime, I just haven't had a chance to do it.
I've throw a question about for anyone to answer...
My day job is web development maintaining classic ASP and using C# and.NET....good ol' Microsoft shop. I've got hobby experience with PHP/MySQL from my web host and tinkering with scripts like Wordpress and the like. If I wanted to pick up an open source language and skills for web development, with something that could also be used for enterprise use or scalability later, what should I choose? Stick with PHP? Python? Ruby?
That's what I ended up doing (well, I followed some tutorial on running nightlies that made is so that when I run "firefox" it runs the new version instead of the default installed version), and it works OK. But I still have to "gksudo firefox" every few days to pull new updates. I could probably set up a cron job or something to auto download the latest nightly archive to my/opt/firefox folder or something, but my point is I shouldn't have to do any of that.
I have about a half dozen apps that I use most often, and most all of them have their own update notification built-in. It is trivial to maintain these on my own in Windows, but it seems like I have to jump through a lot of hoops at home on Ubuntu to do that same.
I actually *dislike* this function of Ubuntu, at least when it comes to Firefox. I always want the *latest* Firefox available. As I do for a small number of other apps. In Ubuntu, I have to rely on the package managers to decide they want to update the packages, or search out and find an unofficial package or something. Synaptic is great for 95% of the software on my system, but the apps that I use often I want to always be on the latest version. As soon as a new version is released, let me update it.
And don't even get me started on the PITA it is to try out a Firefox beta or nightly on Ubuntu...
If anything, I would think Office 2000 documents would have a much better chance at being compatible than Office 2003/2007. I've had very few problems with OO opening and working with MS documents. I *have* had problems with Excel formatting Calc docs, though.
Why not go by something like Rotten Tomatoes and word of mouth from friends? I've never really placed much stock in reviews on any site that is also "selling" me stuff at the same time, whether it's Netflix, Amazon, even Newegg sometimes.
Unless I'm mistaken, you can run Google Apps (Mail, Docs, Calendar, etc) on your own hardware with your own storage if you want.
Do you have a reference for this? I was looking for a self-hosted Gmail solution for a long time, and such a thing didn't exist as far as I knew. I've *love* to be able to have the GMail interface, but control the hosting and storage myself. I thought the only "appliance" google made was their search appliance...
It's too bad that GNotebook is stopping development. I've seen the usual recommendations of Evernote as a replacement, but I don't want that. I want something complete web-based, and I'm on an Ubuntu desktop so as far as I know the Evernote desktop client won't work. I've heard that the web-based Evernote doesn't have as many features or something.
What I think I really want is something that I can host myself. If I'm depending on a 3rd party to continue it's support, but they fall through, I'm stuck. I don't really want to sign up for *another* online service; it was nice having everything underneath the Google umbrella. Is there anything like Google Notebook out there that supports "web clipping" either by bookmarklet or Firefox extension, that I can install and run on my own php/mysql host? I've looked at some of the personal wikis, something like that might work, too. MediaWiki seems like overkill, though, and securing it so that only I can use it seems like a pain, too.
I'm not really sure where to throw this out there, so I'm just gonna do it:
On top of the usefulness of micro-blogging and other social media connections, I think we [I?] will run into either a distillation of a common platform, or spin out of control into chaos. Ok, so twitter can be useful to post out content in short blips, that wouldn't otherwise be useful in the context of a blog. A full-blown blog lets me analyze and write exactly what I want. But my facebook profile probably gives me more exposure than my blog, at least at this point.
So then we [I] have the problem of "where do I post this content?". I've found a cool new link that I want to share - do I post it on my blog where I can write more commentary that I could on the other services? Do I post it on twitter and merely share the link? Do I post it on Facebook so that more people see it? Do I blog it and post a link to that blog on Facebook and twitter? It's like I need a way to string them all together in a coherent manner. Not to mention the whole concept of keeping my blogging personality different from my twitter personality different from my Facebook profile. Or maybe I want to link them all and have any one of them actually reflect me?
I think we're seeing lots of different ways to communicate with others, and then we'll start seeing things boil down to a workable method to connect everything.
Partially tongue-in-cheek, partially serious....but my Internet in the US works just fine to connect to other US destinations likely without passing through the Mediterranean. 99.9% of my destinations are US-based and hosted - I know the US isn't the center of the world, but this sounds like an Achilles' Heel for the *other* side of the world:-P
I'm wondering if the Android development might take some cues from this and improve it's own offerings? It sounds like webOS does some really cool things with it's UI and data management, from a PIM standpoint. Could an open OS like Android in turn improve it's shortcomings by adopting some of the ideas from Palm?
It would be really nice if software would get all-around better rather than having separate options that do certain things exceptionally well and other things mediocre...
Maybe they'll trade the Storm for the Pre within the year? I, too, hate that Verizon seems to get the shaft for almost every handset....they have the best coverage around here out of anybody.
I'm hoping maybe they'll get some Android phone (Motorola maybe?) that'll even things out.
Why not? Apple banked on people switching to AT&T when the iPhone wasn't available on CDMA networks...why wouldn't people in turn drop GSM for other networks for other phones?
It's too bad we can't have one stupid network here and use any phone on any network, though.
Personally, my nomination would be still having to edit fstab as root to permanently mount a network share. Mapping a network drive is dead simple in Windows. It should be just as easy on Ubuntu.
I'd nominate that in a heartbeat. That and getting CUPS/printing in general to work over the network has been my two major headaches since I switched. Otherwise, everything else has been mainly gravy!
No, I'm just as cynical as the next guy. But I've seen plenty of "people like you and me" at the local level, working for the community in various aspects (even as the police!) that are good people that want to truly help people. Saying that cops are all blanketed with sociopathic violent personalities is is just as ignorant as believing that no one is corrupt in those professions.
There are good and bad people no matter what you do or where you go. I was only taking issue with the statement that government or police workers were automatically evil, and those people were drawn to those positions because of that. At the local community levels there are plenty of people that actually *do* want to make the world a better place for people other than themselves.
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I have to agree about the UI and icons. I love me some Ubuntu, but the GNOME interface feels VERY dated. It's improved a lot recently, for sure, but it still seems to have a lot of quirks. Lack of dragging and dropping between windows/apps in a lot of places. That ugly "handle" or whatever you call it when you *do* drag something. I want to play with the new KDE stuff sometime, I just haven't had a chance to do it.
Even better, can I give /. access to my Gmail and Yahoo accounts so that they can invite and add my email contacts as /. friends?
heh, I think you described every single developer my company employs. WTF are they using client-side VBScript???
Because nobody uses Safari?
Do they? Or is it just anecdotal proof that they exist? Do they truly exist, or do they only exist because a blog says they exist?
And isn't that the whole point of questioning the blog in the first place?
Server is down...anyone have screenshots?
I've throw a question about for anyone to answer...
.NET....good ol' Microsoft shop. I've got hobby experience with PHP/MySQL from my web host and tinkering with scripts like Wordpress and the like. If I wanted to pick up an open source language and skills for web development, with something that could also be used for enterprise use or scalability later, what should I choose? Stick with PHP? Python? Ruby?
My day job is web development maintaining classic ASP and using C# and
That's what I ended up doing (well, I followed some tutorial on running nightlies that made is so that when I run "firefox" it runs the new version instead of the default installed version), and it works OK. But I still have to "gksudo firefox" every few days to pull new updates. I could probably set up a cron job or something to auto download the latest nightly archive to my /opt/firefox folder or something, but my point is I shouldn't have to do any of that.
I have about a half dozen apps that I use most often, and most all of them have their own update notification built-in. It is trivial to maintain these on my own in Windows, but it seems like I have to jump through a lot of hoops at home on Ubuntu to do that same.
I actually *dislike* this function of Ubuntu, at least when it comes to Firefox. I always want the *latest* Firefox available. As I do for a small number of other apps. In Ubuntu, I have to rely on the package managers to decide they want to update the packages, or search out and find an unofficial package or something. Synaptic is great for 95% of the software on my system, but the apps that I use often I want to always be on the latest version. As soon as a new version is released, let me update it.
And don't even get me started on the PITA it is to try out a Firefox beta or nightly on Ubuntu...
If anything, I would think Office 2000 documents would have a much better chance at being compatible than Office 2003/2007. I've had very few problems with OO opening and working with MS documents. I *have* had problems with Excel formatting Calc docs, though.
Why not go by something like Rotten Tomatoes and word of mouth from friends? I've never really placed much stock in reviews on any site that is also "selling" me stuff at the same time, whether it's Netflix, Amazon, even Newegg sometimes.
Unless I'm mistaken, you can run Google Apps (Mail, Docs, Calendar, etc) on your own hardware with your own storage if you want.
Do you have a reference for this? I was looking for a self-hosted Gmail solution for a long time, and such a thing didn't exist as far as I knew. I've *love* to be able to have the GMail interface, but control the hosting and storage myself. I thought the only "appliance" google made was their search appliance...
It's too bad that GNotebook is stopping development. I've seen the usual recommendations of Evernote as a replacement, but I don't want that. I want something complete web-based, and I'm on an Ubuntu desktop so as far as I know the Evernote desktop client won't work. I've heard that the web-based Evernote doesn't have as many features or something.
What I think I really want is something that I can host myself. If I'm depending on a 3rd party to continue it's support, but they fall through, I'm stuck. I don't really want to sign up for *another* online service; it was nice having everything underneath the Google umbrella. Is there anything like Google Notebook out there that supports "web clipping" either by bookmarklet or Firefox extension, that I can install and run on my own php/mysql host? I've looked at some of the personal wikis, something like that might work, too. MediaWiki seems like overkill, though, and securing it so that only I can use it seems like a pain, too.
Any ideas?
I still have to restore from the backup in the cloud!
Quantity always outweighs quality, too!
Can I realistically get net radio in my car, in a convenient and easy-to-use form?
I'm not really sure where to throw this out there, so I'm just gonna do it:
On top of the usefulness of micro-blogging and other social media connections, I think we [I?] will run into either a distillation of a common platform, or spin out of control into chaos. Ok, so twitter can be useful to post out content in short blips, that wouldn't otherwise be useful in the context of a blog. A full-blown blog lets me analyze and write exactly what I want. But my facebook profile probably gives me more exposure than my blog, at least at this point.
So then we [I] have the problem of "where do I post this content?". I've found a cool new link that I want to share - do I post it on my blog where I can write more commentary that I could on the other services? Do I post it on twitter and merely share the link? Do I post it on Facebook so that more people see it? Do I blog it and post a link to that blog on Facebook and twitter? It's like I need a way to string them all together in a coherent manner. Not to mention the whole concept of keeping my blogging personality different from my twitter personality different from my Facebook profile. Or maybe I want to link them all and have any one of them actually reflect me?
I think we're seeing lots of different ways to communicate with others, and then we'll start seeing things boil down to a workable method to connect everything.
Partially tongue-in-cheek, partially serious....but my Internet in the US works just fine to connect to other US destinations likely without passing through the Mediterranean. 99.9% of my destinations are US-based and hosted - I know the US isn't the center of the world, but this sounds like an Achilles' Heel for the *other* side of the world :-P
I'm wondering if the Android development might take some cues from this and improve it's own offerings? It sounds like webOS does some really cool things with it's UI and data management, from a PIM standpoint. Could an open OS like Android in turn improve it's shortcomings by adopting some of the ideas from Palm?
It would be really nice if software would get all-around better rather than having separate options that do certain things exceptionally well and other things mediocre...
Maybe they'll trade the Storm for the Pre within the year? I, too, hate that Verizon seems to get the shaft for almost every handset....they have the best coverage around here out of anybody.
I'm hoping maybe they'll get some Android phone (Motorola maybe?) that'll even things out.
Why not? Apple banked on people switching to AT&T when the iPhone wasn't available on CDMA networks...why wouldn't people in turn drop GSM for other networks for other phones?
It's too bad we can't have one stupid network here and use any phone on any network, though.
Looks like the iPhone wins on every count.
How do you figure that? If I'm looking at 3G talk time, the Storm and G1 both top it....
Personally, my nomination would be still having to edit fstab as root to permanently mount a network share. Mapping a network drive is dead simple in Windows. It should be just as easy on Ubuntu.
I'd nominate that in a heartbeat. That and getting CUPS/printing in general to work over the network has been my two major headaches since I switched. Otherwise, everything else has been mainly gravy!
No, I'm just as cynical as the next guy. But I've seen plenty of "people like you and me" at the local level, working for the community in various aspects (even as the police!) that are good people that want to truly help people. Saying that cops are all blanketed with sociopathic violent personalities is is just as ignorant as believing that no one is corrupt in those professions.
There are good and bad people no matter what you do or where you go. I was only taking issue with the statement that government or police workers were automatically evil, and those people were drawn to those positions because of that. At the local community levels there are plenty of people that actually *do* want to make the world a better place for people other than themselves.
People that want to help the common good and their fellow man? Lay off the cynicism buddy...