Billie PIper (not Billy) is female, previously "famous" for trying to be the British Britney, she dropped out of pop stardom (ahem) after marrying Ginger Gobsh*te Radio DJ and TV Moghul Chris Evans. A few years later, she reinvented herself last year as an actress (she attended theatre school in her youth, not sure for certain, but possibly RADA) appearing in one of the BBC's acclaimed remakes of The Canterbury Tales.
I was sceptical, but I believe very much that it's important to make classic stories available and accessible to a new generation (OMG, I'm 27, and I'm talking about today's youth like they're somehow detached from me by an unscalable chasm), so I watched.
In short, she was excellent, as a singer, she was shocking beyond belief, her songs mind-mashing ("why d'you play those songs so loud? Because we want to, because we want to"), her voice grating. But my word, the girl can act, she had sensitivity and maturity beyond her years. The weird thing was that she played a singer, and can actually sing as well. What on earth did they do to her voice in post-production?
Bottom line? I think she's an excellent casting as the Doctor's assistant, she'll bring serious acting ability (which the role has been crying out for - think Bonnie Langford) and a cute smile that will nicely counter Christopher Eccleston's "thin-mouth" look. Bring her on!
I started university over here in the UK In '94, and my hall of residence's bar had various pinball tables over the five years I was there, including the World Cup '94 one, it was possibly the most fun I've ever had with a set of flippers and a little metal ball.
The great thing about it was that it was designed in the States, the one nation on earth that doesn't get football. It showed.
At no point in playing this table did any of the bonuses, options or 'rounds' bear any resemblance to real football terminology. I'm so glad they didn't, it was much more fun taking the piss out of it while playing it for three or four hours a day.
I was the person who posted the anonymous comment the writer of the eWeek article quoted "Quick, disable your AV software, and get some windows boxes on the internet".
I can only assume that the writer had his sense of humour surgically removed at a young age, it was intended as a joke, and I'm astounded that it was taken any other way.
I mean, it got modded +5 (Funny), so it was obviously a joke, right?
They've been trying - GNOME 2.4.1 packages have appeared on ftp.suse.com, but they blow, they really really blow, and everyone who's tried them (me included) has backed out to 2.2.x again.
For decent GNOME on SuSE, you can do a lot worse (understatement) than look at usr local bin.
We have a national day (it's not actually a holiday) in the UK (well, England certainly) on the 5th of November to celebrate the fact that Guy Fawkes, and his fellow conspiritors we prevented from commiting a major act of what was essentially religious-inspired terrorism, namely the assisnation of the monarch and parliament.
That's why effigies of Mr Fawkes are burnt as part of the celebrations.
Of course, given that Mr Fawkes represented the oppressed (at the time) Roman Catholic community, was he a terrorist, or a freedom fighter?
No, that's the CND logo (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament)
The Anarchist logo os also held within a circle, but is an upper-case A with the horizontal bar extended on both sides to reach the circle. The ends of each diagonal leg, and the angle at the top of the A also reach the circle.
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What about the only benchmark that matters: glxgears?
As this develops, news on the announcement as well as blogs from the SuSE community (and staffers) discussing it will be on Planet SuSE.
SuSE binaries are uploading even as I type this. Enjoy.
Well, Ximian patches for GNOME go into the SuSE builds (reading the RPM changelogs is fascinating).
In any case, most SuSE GNOME users prefer ULB GNOME.
Actually, no, ULB GNOME is a community provided effort, independent of SuSE/Novell
(and "ti" is a unique spelling of "to" in case anyone's wondering ;)
a College campus network environment is by far the most unique environment...
Sorry ti be pedantic, but unique means one of a kind, there are no degrees of uniqueness, something's either unique or it isn't.
Billie PIper (not Billy) is female, previously "famous" for trying to be the British Britney, she dropped out of pop stardom (ahem) after marrying Ginger Gobsh*te Radio DJ and TV Moghul Chris Evans. A few years later, she reinvented herself last year as an actress (she attended theatre school in her youth, not sure for certain, but possibly RADA) appearing in one of the BBC's acclaimed remakes of The Canterbury Tales.
I was sceptical, but I believe very much that it's important to make classic stories available and accessible to a new generation (OMG, I'm 27, and I'm talking about today's youth like they're somehow detached from me by an unscalable chasm), so I watched.
In short, she was excellent, as a singer, she was shocking beyond belief, her songs mind-mashing ("why d'you play those songs so loud? Because we want to, because we want to"), her voice grating. But my word, the girl can act, she had sensitivity and maturity beyond her years. The weird thing was that she played a singer, and can actually sing as well. What on earth did they do to her voice in post-production?
Bottom line? I think she's an excellent casting as the Doctor's assistant, she'll bring serious acting ability (which the role has been crying out for - think Bonnie Langford) and a cute smile that will nicely counter Christopher Eccleston's "thin-mouth" look. Bring her on!
All the details of where to stick the bits are in my blog, and can also be read at Planet SuSE
SuSE 9.1 is lovely, it's polished, friendly, YaST is now Free (we've wanted that for so long), and even the box feels nice.
Once the usr local bin GNOME updates are ready (I'm getting there...) it'll be even better.
I started university over here in the UK In '94, and my hall of residence's bar had various pinball tables over the five years I was there, including the World Cup '94 one, it was possibly the most fun I've ever had with a set of flippers and a little metal ball.
The great thing about it was that it was designed in the States, the one nation on earth that doesn't get football. It showed.
At no point in playing this table did any of the bonuses, options or 'rounds' bear any resemblance to real football terminology. I'm so glad they didn't, it was much more fun taking the piss out of it while playing it for three or four hours a day.
Now, why didn't I get my degree again...?
In my GNOME setup (which with regards to this is the defaults)
Alt-Rt.click in a window gives me the window menu, which includes resize, as well as (mini|maxi)mise, move and close.
Alt-Lt.click moves the window.
Users of SuSE 9.0 can get pre-built packages from usr-local-bin.org.
You can follow news leading up to the release, as well as blogs of members of the SuSE community as 9.1 approaches at Planet SuSE
I was the person who posted the anonymous comment the writer of the eWeek article quoted "Quick, disable your AV software, and get some windows boxes on the internet".
I can only assume that the writer had his sense of humour surgically removed at a young age, it was intended as a joke, and I'm astounded that it was taken any other way.
I mean, it got modded +5 (Funny), so it was obviously a joke, right?
If your incoming mail server is an Exchange box, use IMAP - that way the TNEF is decoded on the server
It's targetted for version 1.5.2.
...raise shields?!
They've been trying - GNOME 2.4.1 packages have appeared on ftp.suse.com, but they blow, they really really blow, and everyone who's tried them (me included) has backed out to 2.2.x again.
For decent GNOME on SuSE, you can do a lot worse (understatement) than look at usr local bin.
P400 with 64MB and Redhat 9 + Gnome thrashed disk like mad while the P100 32MB Win95 machine it replaced was much much better
So, you're comparing an OS from 2003 with one from 1995 - EIGHT YEARS previously.
Gee, that's a realisitic comparison.
Try putting XP on your P400/64MB and see how *it* likes it!
You can get in trouble for thinking unpatriotic thoughts like that.
;)
Hey, this isn't America you know...
We have a national day (it's not actually a holiday) in the UK (well, England certainly) on the 5th of November to celebrate the fact that Guy Fawkes, and his fellow conspiritors we prevented from commiting a major act of what was essentially religious-inspired terrorism, namely the assisnation of the monarch and parliament.
That's why effigies of Mr Fawkes are burnt as part of the celebrations.
Of course, given that Mr Fawkes represented the oppressed (at the time) Roman Catholic community, was he a terrorist, or a freedom fighter?
Are we talking about the "peace sign"?
No, that's the CND logo (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament)
The Anarchist logo os also held within a circle, but is an upper-case A with the horizontal bar extended on both sides to reach the circle. The ends of each diagonal leg, and the angle at the top of the A also reach the circle.
Also on Alias, I saw a photo being "enhanced" using the GIMP 1.2.x running under WindowMaker (IIRC).
[Former SuSE employee]
The release numbers are basically decided by the marketing department, to not appear to be a major version behind RH/Mandrake.
Also, there is one very significant change, RPM has been upgraded to 4.1.1 from 3.0.6 in 8.2