THIS!! I wanted to have my own dropbox-like file sync, and since I'd heard good things about OwnCloud, I signed up for a Xen virtual server which came with 40GB of diskspace, put Debian on it, and installed Owncloud.. Was a piece of cake to get working.. Works like dropbox, and with the sync client on my systems and my wifes systems, we get a real-time sync of our critical files. I still back up music/videos & less critical stuff locally only as there is just too much to try and "cloud backup" all of that..... I'm considering getting another vps from another vendor and rsync'ing across the Owncloud datastore to the second vps..
Say what you want about Glen Beck, but he does a segment on his radio show called "Moron Trivia" where he talks to random people called by his staff and asks four VERY simple questions to answer, for those who are NOT "low information voters".. questions like "who is the vice president?", "what is socialism?".. The terrifying part of this is that a vast majority of these people do not know the correct answers to these simple questions. One segment he did, where he asked several self-identified female Obama voters WHY they voted for him.. Their answers were very scary.. "We voted for him cuz he's cute"... ARGGGG THESE type of voters, plus all of the election fraud, is why we have another four years of this shitbag and his ilk...
I recently signed up for a Xen Linux vps thru a vendor to run a mail server on, I provisioned it with Debian/squeeze, and while installing everything, I happened to notice that the apt-get sessions were talking to the Debian repos via ipv6. Was kinda startled, as I'm not used to seeing those humongous ipv6 addresses.. The vps vendor gives you at no extra charge two v4 addresses and three v6 addresses. Although I see in their blog, they are dropping the v4s to one per vps without a significant extra charge starting this month. If anybody's looking for a 512mb Xen vps at a truly awesome price, check out Virpus Networks. In the past I'd always gone with OpenVZ slices as they were the cheapest as my "projects" requiring a vps are personal, and have a VERY low budget. But I wanted to get away from some problems that my last OpenVZ vendor had, and I found Virpus offering a 512mb Xen vps for less than I'd been paying for the 512mb OpenVZ slice.. Anyway, have nothing to do with Virpus other than being a satisfied customer...
Microsoft has really "jumped the shark" with Windows 8.. Have been *trying* to use it/like it since the pubic beta.. We used to joke about the garish XP default UI as the "PlaySkool" interface, but this turd called Metro takes THAT crown from XP.. Once I downloaded and installed the "Start8" app and installed it, then Win8 became Win7, with no real percievable difference from the real Windows 7, which I'm already using.. So tell me again why I'm supposed to upgrade to Win8? Seems Canonical/Ubuntu has been infected with the same insanity as Microsoft with their stupid, brain-dead Gnome 3/Unity.. I used to be a staunch Ubuntu supporter, having used it since 7.04, but have moved to Mint Debian/Cinnamon..
I live in Las Vegas, and friends always assume that because I live in SinCity, I must be a party-animal... Nothing could be further from the truth.. My partying days are LONG past (62 y/o), so the wife and I hit the sack about the same time we do the rest of the year, namely 10pm-ish.. Frankly, you couldn't pay me enough to go down to the "Resort Corridor" (what the local newsmedia calls the "Las Vegas Strip") on NYE... And you can only watch that stupid glass ball drop on TV so many times before its "been there.. seen that.." It's 6:30pm here in the Pacific timezone, so there's only about 5 1/2 hours left of 2012... WHERE THE HELL DID IT GO????
Everybody seems to rag on SecondLife and its opensource brother OpenSim for all of sorts of things, such as being a den of perverts/furries, a virtual whore-house, and other "complaints" that don't come to mind at the moment, but I've been active in SecondLife for while, and I've met a lot of great people from around the world, and the point of this comment, that the capability to build virtual constructions in SecondLife is essentially like an electronic virtual Lego set. All construction in SecondLife is based on geometric shapes, called, suitably, prims (primitives) which can be textured with uploaded images. Until recently, Linden Lab, the company behind SecondLife had limited the size of any prim (primitive) to a maximum of 10 meters, but they recently increased it to 64 meters, making the building of truly huge constructs feasable. You're only limited by your imagination, kind of like Legos.. But UNlike Legos, once you've built your huge sci-fi build you (your avatar) and your friends avatars can walk/fly withIN your creations.. Frankly it blows my mind, and it takes a lot to do THAT.. There is a project in SecondLife called "Deshima Station" that covers 4 sims (each "sim" comprises roughly 16 acres of "virtual" land) and it models a VERY large sci-fi space station design and it is the most downright realistic build I've ever seen in SecondLife.
I'm 62, and the direction this country is going makes me absolutely sick to my stomach, but if you were to leave for another country, where would it be? As bad as America is getting, its still FAR better than 99.99% of the rest of the world. Take Australia for example.. I visited there twice back in the 70s, once on US Army RnR from Vietnam and once on temporary duty with my Army unit, for a total of just over 2 weeks. I was so taken with the people, the VAST open spaces, and the opportunity, I came very close to emigrating there. When I was there I read the papers (Sydney) and saw virtually no violent crime during both visits. But now, I read that violent crime is WAY up, since the Australian people have, essentially, been disarmed, like Britain. Not to mention, all of the Orwellian stuff that the current Australian (and UK) governments are constantly trying to shove down the peoples throat... TL;DR; I have NO idea where you could go that's any better than the USA..
There is no "Ubuntu 6". There was Ubuntu 6.04 and 6.10.
There was no Ubuntu 6.04 EITHER.. It was officially called Ubuntu 6.06, a bit late for the first LTS release out of the then new-kid-on-the-block Ubuntu...
I wonder just how many non-Australians realize just how BIG Australia is.. The distance between Perth, on the west coast and Sydney on the east coast is very close to the distance between San Francisco and New York City. The US has ~300 Million people in that sized area, and when I was in Sydney, Australia for R&R in 1971, the population of Australia was something like 13 Million, more like the population of California, with 95% of that population in a narrow band on the west/east and southern coasts. Dunno what the population is now, but even *if* it had ballooned to the population of the US, the central parts of the country are still gonna be desolate desert-y areas with nobody but kangaroos...
But I'm not so sure that this is the right solution. I think that maybe RMS should encourage someone to fork Ubuntu and have a version of Ubuntu without the objectionable feature. Positive change often tastes a lot better and is easier to rally people around than change involving a negative action.
I believe you are speaking about Mint, which is either a fork of Ubuntu or in the case of LMDE, a fork of Debian... In the case of the Ubuntu fork, it doesn't have the recent idiocies from Ubuntu, such as Unity or this search issue... Typing this on Mint Maya 13.. Don't know much about the Debian fork as I've yet to use it..
Once again, RMS, despite his fetish for eating fresh toejam (ugh), is absolutely RIGHT on the money... I'm from the old school, where we DON'T tell every Tom's dick is harry our bidness.. Yes, I do have a Facebook account, primarly to keep in touch with relatives in Europe, and have it locked down as tight as I can. I do have a LinkedIn account to keep my hand in with ex-co-workers (am retired now), but weird stuff like Twitter blow my old-school mind... As for Ubuntu, it *used* to be my favorite distro, having started down the "Linux trail" in 1994, with Slackware, then Redhat/Fedora till a friend introduced me to Ubuntu in 2007. Been with it since then, *but* that is changing VERY rapidly.. With the stink from the Unity turd, and now this, I'm off to Mint, and more than likely the Debian derivitive of Mint if Ubuntu keeps going down this road... In fact, I'm typing this on Mint 13, and loving it...
If we wait for world governments to do a mission to Mars, we'll be waiting a VERY long time.. I've read Mars-One's plans and damn it if they don't sound like they have a VERY viable plan to get humans on Mars. Sure its a one-way trip, colonization usually is, and from the looks of their plans, the first few arrivals will be living pretty spartan lives, and there, obviously, is a good chance that they may die. But since the colonists are all volunteers, it is their right to take these kind of chances if they wish. The commenters who say "if you volunteer for this, you're stupid or insane, and thus should be disqualified" have no right to impose their standards on these potential volunteers. Frankly, I think this is a fantastic plan and IF it goes as planned, and, IF I'm still around in 2023, (62 now, 73 then) I plan to watch the tv shows "live" from Mars.. THOSE would make watching the first moon landing pale in comparison. For that, I was a 19 y/o kid, on a road trip with friends where we watched the "first steps" on a TV in a bowling alley in Ridgecrest Calfornia.
So we can't eliminate being tracked on the web. We can't eliminate tracking from smart meters We can't eliminate tracking from water meters We can't eliminate tracking from doctors. We can't eliminate tracking from drones.
Just who the fuck is left upholding their oath? This isn't America, it's a fucking corporation.
I gotta ask the obvious question here... Did you JUST figure THAT out???? A LOT of us have known this for a few years now... I often wish I could forget how America is now owned, lock-stock-and-barrel by corporations...
Bluntly, the main difference between "capitalist" and "communist" (I use the terms loosely here and just to label things) repression is just that "we" have the better PR department.
The word "authoritarian" pretty much sums up both China and the USA, soon to be USSA, now that Mr Soetero has secured at least another four years to accomplish his puppetmasters plans for America.. Watch China.. we'll be completely there in a short while...
The point is, IF you stick to Dell's corporate line of desktops/laptops (Optiplex/Precision for desktops, Latitude/Precision for laptops) they ALREADY work pretty much out of the box with Linux. With the exception of the Broadcomm wifi the Latitudes pretty much come with AND Ubuntu 12.04, my experience with quite a few older (and current model) Latitudes is they "Just_Work" with Linux. The Broadcomm/Ubuntu 12.04 issue I refer to I found on a Dell D620 which had been running 10.04 for several years with no wifi issues. I put a clean drive in, and installed 12.04 and lsmod showed the wifi driver had loaded, but net-manager didn't show any wifi entries.. I wiped the 12.04 install and replaced it with Mint, and wifi came up out-of-the-box.. Anyway, to charge $50 more than a equivalent Windows system is likely just them trying to recover the lost crap-ware profit...
Then do it yourself. And then order that laptop instead. Good luck.
That's what I always do... Never owned any laptops besides Dells, won't buy any besides Dells.. their corporate models that is,.. When I feel the need to refresh my current laptop, which is a Latitude D620, I go to the Dell Outlet, find a "scratch&dent" of the model I want, and buy it.. Usually priced about 20% below the same model from "build-to-order"... On arrival, the hard drive is pulled and stored with the un-EULA'ed Windows install intact, and another 320-500GB SATA drive is installed, and Mint Linux gets installed on it.. The drive pull is incase theres a warrantee issue during the warantee period.. I pull the linux drive, slap the Windows drive back in to allow all the diags they have you run. After the warantee period, the windows drive gets wiped and reused.. Been doing this for myself and friends for about 5 years.. It used to be Ubuntu until the Unity turd was shoved down Ubuntu users throats, now Mint is the OS-of-choice... Never had ANY driver problems with Mint on any Dell Latitude I've installed it on, BUT upon my first clean install of Ubuntu 12.04 on a Latitude D620 with the Broadcomm wifi, which by the way worked perfectly first-time/everytime under Ubuntu 10.04, the wifi driver showed loaded in an lsmod, but network-manager did not indicate the wifi stuff was loaded.. Went to Mint (Maya), and once again, worked perfectly immediately.. Having been a loyal Ubuntu-ite since 7.04, I strongly believe Canonical/Ubuntu has truly jumped the shark.. Mint for me and mine from here on out...
Yeah.. One of my clients I "upgraded" to Ubuntu 10.04 last year caught me in Church yesterday and said her desktop changed.. After she mentioned "all the icons are now on the left side" AND "the system is really, really SLOOOW now", I realized, since I had her system, an older Sony Pentium 4 Vaio, set to autoupdate, she apparently got downgraded to that turd of a UI called Unity along an UPgrade to 12.04. I told her I had a fix that would get her back to very close to what she had before, namely XFCE.. Told her I'd be over on Tuesday to fix it...
GOOD GOD! I wish this hadn't been posted by an AC and I had mod points.. I've felt this way since somewhere in the Clinton administration.. I *had* been "drinking the koolaide" as a lifelong (R), but somewhere around 2001, I realized to my chagrin that (R) was pretty damned close to as bad as (D) and dumped the (R) for an (I).. Since then I've had to not vote FOR any particular candidate, but rather AGAINST the worst one, which in this case was (and IS) Obama.. *IF* its still worth voting AT ALL, which I have grave doubts, you might as well vote for someone who has a snowballs chance of winning. ie: Rommey. As it turned out, after all of the voter fraud by the left, and everyone with their hands out for freebies, and those "On The Dole" as the UK so aptly puts it, we wound up with Mr Obama for one more four years of ever increasing misery. The parent AC is DEAD ON.. Mr Obama HATES America... All the conservative talking heads seem to think he's incompetent, a buffoon, but its become BLINDLY CLEAR he is VERY smart and HATES America VERY much and after another four years of him and his policies, you'll be able to stick a fork in us, cuz WE WILL BE DONE.....
Jesus.. people like you are why companies can get away with stupid shit like this... Anyone with brains, who bought a $189 mouse and has it quit working in less than a year AND THEN goes out and buys ANOTHER mouse from the SAME F**KING manufacturer IS A MORON. I swear, just when I think people can't get any stupider, I read about this bozo, AND then not to mention all the SUPREMELY stupid people who think Mr Obama is Santa Claus and gave him another four years to complete his conversion of the USA into the USSA...
Strange, I thought the US were supposed to be supporters of that whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing.
Where have YOU been? That hasn't been in effect for at least the last 11 years.. And its USSA, if you please.. Yesterday's election cemented THAT for at least the next four years...
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I wanted to have my own dropbox-like file sync, and since I'd heard good things about OwnCloud, I signed up for a Xen virtual server which came with 40GB of diskspace, put Debian on it, and installed Owncloud.. Was a piece of cake to get working.. Works like dropbox, and with the sync client on my systems and my wifes systems, we get a real-time sync of our critical files. I still back up music/videos & less critical stuff locally only as there is just too much to try and "cloud backup" all of that..... I'm considering getting another vps from another vendor and rsync'ing across the Owncloud datastore to the second vps..
Say what you want about Glen Beck, but he does a segment on his radio show called "Moron Trivia" where he talks to random people called by his staff and asks four VERY simple questions to answer, for those who are NOT "low information voters".. questions like "who is the vice president?", "what is socialism?".. The terrifying part of this is that a vast majority of these people do not know the correct answers to these simple questions. One segment he did, where he asked several self-identified female Obama voters WHY they voted for him.. Their answers were very scary.. "We voted for him cuz he's cute"... ARGGGG
THESE type of voters, plus all of the election fraud, is why we have another four years of this shitbag and his ilk...
I recently signed up for a Xen Linux vps thru a vendor to run a mail server on, I provisioned it with Debian/squeeze, and while installing everything, I happened to notice that the apt-get sessions were talking to the Debian repos via ipv6. Was kinda startled, as I'm not used to seeing those humongous ipv6 addresses.. The vps vendor gives you at no extra charge two v4 addresses and three v6 addresses. Although I see in their blog, they are dropping the v4s to one per vps without a significant extra charge starting this month. If anybody's looking for a 512mb Xen vps at a truly awesome price, check out Virpus Networks. In the past I'd always gone with OpenVZ slices as they were the cheapest as my "projects" requiring a vps are personal, and have a VERY low budget. But I wanted to get away from some problems that my last OpenVZ vendor had, and I found Virpus offering a 512mb Xen vps for less than I'd been paying for the 512mb OpenVZ slice.. Anyway, have nothing to do with Virpus other than being a satisfied customer...
Microsoft has really "jumped the shark" with Windows 8.. Have been *trying* to use it/like it since the pubic beta.. We used to joke about the garish XP default UI as the "PlaySkool" interface, but this turd called Metro takes THAT crown from XP.. Once I downloaded and installed the "Start8" app and installed it, then Win8 became Win7, with no real percievable difference from the real Windows 7, which I'm already using.. So tell me again why I'm supposed to upgrade to Win8?
Seems Canonical/Ubuntu has been infected with the same insanity as Microsoft with their stupid, brain-dead Gnome 3/Unity.. I used to be a staunch Ubuntu supporter, having used it since 7.04, but have moved to Mint Debian/Cinnamon..
I live in Las Vegas, and friends always assume that because I live in SinCity, I must be a party-animal... Nothing could be further from the truth.. My partying days are LONG past (62 y/o), so the wife and I hit the sack about the same time we do the rest of the year, namely 10pm-ish.. Frankly, you couldn't pay me enough to go down to the "Resort Corridor" (what the local newsmedia calls the "Las Vegas Strip") on NYE... And you can only watch that stupid glass ball drop on TV so many times before its "been there.. seen that.." It's 6:30pm here in the Pacific timezone, so there's only about 5 1/2 hours left of 2012... WHERE THE HELL DID IT GO????
Everybody seems to rag on SecondLife and its opensource brother OpenSim for all of sorts of things, such as being a den of perverts/furries, a virtual whore-house, and other "complaints" that don't come to mind at the moment, but I've been active in SecondLife for while, and I've met a lot of great people from around the world, and the point of this comment, that the capability to build virtual constructions in SecondLife is essentially like an electronic virtual Lego set. All construction in SecondLife is based on geometric shapes, called, suitably, prims (primitives) which can be textured with uploaded images. Until recently, Linden Lab, the company behind SecondLife had limited the size of any prim (primitive) to a maximum of 10 meters, but they recently increased it to 64 meters, making the building of truly huge constructs feasable. You're only limited by your imagination, kind of like Legos.. But UNlike Legos, once you've built your huge sci-fi build you (your avatar) and your friends avatars can walk/fly withIN your creations.. Frankly it blows my mind, and it takes a lot to do THAT.. There is a project in SecondLife called "Deshima Station" that covers 4 sims (each "sim" comprises roughly 16 acres of "virtual" land) and it models a VERY large sci-fi space station design and it is the most downright realistic build I've ever seen in SecondLife.
I'm 62, and the direction this country is going makes me absolutely sick to my stomach, but if you were to leave for another country, where would it be? As bad as America is getting, its still FAR better than 99.99% of the rest of the world. Take Australia for example.. I visited there twice back in the 70s, once on US Army RnR from Vietnam and once on temporary duty with my Army unit, for a total of just over 2 weeks. I was so taken with the people, the VAST open spaces, and the opportunity, I came very close to emigrating there. When I was there I read the papers (Sydney) and saw virtually no violent crime during both visits. But now, I read that violent crime is WAY up, since the Australian people have, essentially, been disarmed, like Britain. Not to mention, all of the Orwellian stuff that the current Australian (and UK) governments are constantly trying to shove down the peoples throat... TL;DR; I have NO idea where you could go that's any better than the USA..
There is no "Ubuntu 6". There was Ubuntu 6.04 and 6.10.
There was no Ubuntu 6.04 EITHER.. It was officially called Ubuntu 6.06, a bit late for the first LTS release out of the then new-kid-on-the-block Ubuntu...
Fortunately, the blog post seems to suggest that this won't be happening, and they'll be removing, or at least changing, that language. Good for them.
IF you believe THAT, I have a really nice bridge in NYC I'll sell you for ten bucks.....
I wonder just how many non-Australians realize just how BIG Australia is.. The distance between Perth, on the west coast and Sydney on the east coast is very close to the distance between San Francisco and New York City. The US has ~300 Million people in that sized area, and when I was in Sydney, Australia for R&R in 1971, the population of Australia was something like 13 Million, more like the population of California, with 95% of that population in a narrow band on the west/east and southern coasts. Dunno what the population is now, but even *if* it had ballooned to the population of the US, the central parts of the country are still gonna be desolate desert-y areas with nobody but kangaroos...
But I'm not so sure that this is the right solution. I think that maybe RMS should encourage someone to fork Ubuntu and have a version of Ubuntu without the objectionable feature. Positive change often tastes a lot better and is easier to rally people around than change involving a negative action.
I believe you are speaking about Mint, which is either a fork of Ubuntu or in the case of LMDE, a fork of Debian... In the case of the Ubuntu fork, it doesn't have the recent idiocies from Ubuntu, such as Unity or this search issue... Typing this on Mint Maya 13.. Don't know much about the Debian fork as I've yet to use it..
Once again, RMS, despite his fetish for eating fresh toejam (ugh), is absolutely RIGHT on the money... I'm from the old school, where we DON'T tell every Tom's dick is harry our bidness.. Yes, I do have a Facebook account, primarly to keep in touch with relatives in Europe, and have it locked down as tight as I can. I do have a LinkedIn account to keep my hand in with ex-co-workers (am retired now), but weird stuff like Twitter blow my old-school mind... As for Ubuntu, it *used* to be my favorite distro, having started down the "Linux trail" in 1994, with Slackware, then Redhat/Fedora till a friend introduced me to Ubuntu in 2007. Been with it since then, *but* that is changing VERY rapidly.. With the stink from the Unity turd, and now this, I'm off to Mint, and more than likely the Debian derivitive of Mint if Ubuntu keeps going down this road... In fact, I'm typing this on Mint 13, and loving it...
If we wait for world governments to do a mission to Mars, we'll be waiting a VERY long time.. I've read Mars-One's plans and damn it if they don't sound like they have a VERY viable plan to get humans on Mars. Sure its a one-way trip, colonization usually is, and from the looks of their plans, the first few arrivals will be living pretty spartan lives, and there, obviously, is a good chance that they may die. But since the colonists are all volunteers, it is their right to take these kind of chances if they wish. The commenters who say "if you volunteer for this, you're stupid or insane, and thus should be disqualified" have no right to impose their standards on these potential volunteers. Frankly, I think this is a fantastic plan and IF it goes as planned, and, IF I'm still around in 2023, (62 now, 73 then) I plan to watch the tv shows "live" from Mars.. THOSE would make watching the first moon landing pale in comparison. For that, I was a 19 y/o kid, on a road trip with friends where we watched the "first steps" on a TV in a bowling alley in Ridgecrest Calfornia.
So we can't eliminate being tracked on the web.
We can't eliminate tracking from smart meters
We can't eliminate tracking from water meters
We can't eliminate tracking from doctors.
We can't eliminate tracking from drones.
Just who the fuck is left upholding their oath?
This isn't America, it's a fucking corporation.
I gotta ask the obvious question here... Did you JUST figure THAT out???? A LOT of us have known this for a few years now... I often wish I could forget how America is now owned, lock-stock-and-barrel by corporations...
Tomorrow? It's already here, just better veiled.
Bluntly, the main difference between "capitalist" and "communist" (I use the terms loosely here and just to label things) repression is just that "we" have the better PR department.
The word "authoritarian" pretty much sums up both China and the USA, soon to be USSA, now that Mr Soetero has secured at least another four years to accomplish his puppetmasters plans for America.. Watch China.. we'll be completely there in a short while...
The point is, IF you stick to Dell's corporate line of desktops/laptops (Optiplex/Precision for desktops, Latitude/Precision for laptops) they ALREADY work pretty much out of the box with Linux. With the exception of the Broadcomm wifi the Latitudes pretty much come with AND Ubuntu 12.04, my experience with quite a few older (and current model) Latitudes is they "Just_Work" with Linux. The Broadcomm/Ubuntu 12.04 issue I refer to I found on a Dell D620 which had been running 10.04 for several years with no wifi issues. I put a clean drive in, and installed 12.04 and lsmod showed the wifi driver had loaded, but net-manager didn't show any wifi entries.. I wiped the 12.04 install and replaced it with Mint, and wifi came up out-of-the-box.. Anyway, to charge $50 more than a equivalent Windows system is likely just them trying to recover the lost crap-ware profit...
Then do it yourself. And then order that laptop instead. Good luck.
That's what I always do... Never owned any laptops besides Dells, won't buy any besides Dells.. their corporate models that is,.. When I feel the need to refresh my current laptop, which is a Latitude D620, I go to the Dell Outlet, find a "scratch&dent" of the model I want, and buy it.. Usually priced about
20% below the same model from "build-to-order"... On arrival, the hard drive is pulled and stored with the un-EULA'ed Windows install intact, and another
320-500GB SATA drive is installed, and Mint Linux gets installed on it.. The drive pull is incase theres a warrantee issue during the warantee period.. I pull the linux drive, slap the Windows drive back in to allow all the diags they have you run. After the warantee period, the windows drive gets wiped and reused.. Been doing this for myself and friends for about 5 years.. It used to be Ubuntu until the Unity turd was shoved down Ubuntu users throats, now Mint is the OS-of-choice... Never had ANY driver problems with Mint on any Dell Latitude I've installed it on, BUT upon my first clean install of Ubuntu 12.04 on a Latitude D620 with the Broadcomm wifi, which by the way worked perfectly first-time/everytime under Ubuntu 10.04, the wifi driver showed loaded in an lsmod, but network-manager did not indicate the wifi stuff was loaded.. Went to Mint (Maya), and once again, worked perfectly immediately.. Having been a loyal Ubuntu-ite since 7.04, I strongly believe Canonical/Ubuntu has truly jumped the shark.. Mint for me and mine from here on out...
Sorry, RHEL3 was moved to EOL as of Oct 31, 2010. RHEL4 EOL'ed on Feb 29, 2012. Dunno about Solaris 9...
Just goes to show you, MS does NO testing, and has completely jumped the shark....
Yeah.. One of my clients I "upgraded" to Ubuntu 10.04 last year caught me in Church yesterday and said her desktop changed.. After she mentioned "all the icons are now on the left side" AND "the system is really, really SLOOOW now", I realized, since I had her system, an older Sony Pentium 4 Vaio, set to autoupdate, she apparently got downgraded to that turd of a UI called Unity along an UPgrade to 12.04. I told her I had a fix that would get her back to very close to what she had before, namely XFCE.. Told her I'd be over on Tuesday to fix it...
GOOD GOD! I wish this hadn't been posted by an AC and I had mod points.. I've felt this way since somewhere in the Clinton administration.. I *had* been "drinking the koolaide" as a lifelong (R), but somewhere around 2001, I realized to my chagrin that (R) was pretty damned close to as bad as (D) and dumped the (R) for an (I).. Since then I've had to not vote FOR any particular candidate, but rather AGAINST the worst one, which in this case was (and IS) Obama.. *IF* its still worth voting AT ALL, which I have grave doubts, you might as well vote for someone who has a snowballs chance of winning. ie: Rommey. As it turned out, after all of the voter fraud by the left, and everyone with their hands out for freebies, and those "On The Dole" as the UK so aptly puts it, we wound up with Mr Obama for one more four years of ever increasing misery. The parent AC is DEAD ON.. Mr Obama HATES America... All the conservative talking heads seem to think he's incompetent, a buffoon, but its become BLINDLY CLEAR he is VERY smart and HATES America VERY much and after another four years of him and his policies, you'll be able to stick a fork in us, cuz WE WILL BE DONE.....
Its a mental illness.. All humans have it to some extent.. Some manage to control it...
Jesus.. people like you are why companies can get away with stupid shit like this... Anyone with brains, who bought a $189 mouse and has it quit working in less than a year AND THEN goes out and buys ANOTHER mouse from the SAME F**KING manufacturer IS A MORON. I swear, just when I think people can't get any stupider, I read about this bozo, AND then not to mention all the SUPREMELY stupid people who think Mr Obama is Santa Claus and gave him another four years to complete his conversion of the USA into the USSA...
Strange, I thought the US were supposed to be supporters of that whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing.
Where have YOU been? That hasn't been in effect for at least the last 11 years.. And its USSA, if you please.. Yesterday's election cemented THAT for
at least the next four years...
Even odder...
Obama sponsors Romney's campaign victory...