As someone who lives in the Northern US, I would prefer that we stay on DST all the time. I don't mind driving to work in the dark in the winter months, but it's a bummer to drive home, again, in the dark. Staying on DST in the winter would alleviate that to some degree.
For example daylight on January 1st will be from 08:51 to 17:42. Getting home before dark just doesn't happen for me as I work ~08:30 to ~17:30 but on DST those daylight hours would be from 09:51 to 18:42! That means I can actually use a small amount of daylight after work. Now, compare that to abandoning DST and how it impacts the summer months.
July 1st this year under DST daylight was from 05:30 to 21:03. That's a long day, but 5:30 AM is also a somewhat reasonable time to be awake in my opinion. Without DST July 1st daylight would have been 04:30 to 20:03. I don't know anyone who would make use of the extra hour in the morning while everyone I know still enjoys that extra hour in the evening.
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Bummer.
How is this different than just using a selfie stick?
I really hope so! After each distro I've been trying as of late (about one a night after work), I tend to return to Ubuntu Hardy 8.04, and it really is one of the best. That or Linux Mint.
Yeah. I'm familiar with System>Adminstration>Screen and graphics. But thanks for the help. I can usually crash that application in about 30 seconds and I've never gotten my screens close to set properly with it. When I just had a single 1280x1024 monitor I would admit that I didn't even have to think about screen resolution, but my configuration (dual 1680x1050 LCDs) seems to be beyond it's competency. I've gotten much closer with xorg.conf.
Simply put, it's xorg.conf or something around there. I've given a dozen distros and flavors of Linux a try on the desktop and it always comes down the the exact same thing. Whether it's Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Linux Mint, Open Suse, Debian Testing, Mandriva, Red Hat, etc, No matter what video card (used 3 different ATI and 2 different nvidia) I use I cannot ever manage to drive my 1680x1050 LCDs properly at native resolution without completely hosing up X and the system in general. I'm talking to a point where I can't even get a TTY on screen without a reboot -- I have to SSH into the box and go back to driving everything at 800x600 with vesa drivers by restoring the config and rebooting.
I'm probably a moron, of course, by all of your super-geek standards. But I've been rolling around in technology for 20 years now and if it's not a no-brainer for me, then I can guarantee that for mom and pop Linux is infinitely far away from useful.
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As someone who lives in the Northern US, I would prefer that we stay on DST all the time. I don't mind driving to work in the dark in the winter months, but it's a bummer to drive home, again, in the dark. Staying on DST in the winter would alleviate that to some degree.
For example daylight on January 1st will be from 08:51 to 17:42. Getting home before dark just doesn't happen for me as I work ~08:30 to ~17:30 but on DST those daylight hours would be from 09:51 to 18:42! That means I can actually use a small amount of daylight after work. Now, compare that to abandoning DST and how it impacts the summer months.
July 1st this year under DST daylight was from 05:30 to 21:03. That's a long day, but 5:30 AM is also a somewhat reasonable time to be awake in my opinion. Without DST July 1st daylight would have been 04:30 to 20:03. I don't know anyone who would make use of the extra hour in the morning while everyone I know still enjoys that extra hour in the evening.
Let's keep DST and just never switch back!
"Thank you for your request. If selected, you will receive an email with an invitation to purchase. This product is available by invitation only." Bummer. How is this different than just using a selfie stick?
I really hope so! After each distro I've been trying as of late (about one a night after work), I tend to return to Ubuntu Hardy 8.04, and it really is one of the best. That or Linux Mint.
Yeah. I'm familiar with System>Adminstration>Screen and graphics. But thanks for the help. I can usually crash that application in about 30 seconds and I've never gotten my screens close to set properly with it. When I just had a single 1280x1024 monitor I would admit that I didn't even have to think about screen resolution, but my configuration (dual 1680x1050 LCDs) seems to be beyond it's competency. I've gotten much closer with xorg.conf.
Simply put, it's xorg.conf or something around there. I've given a dozen distros and flavors of Linux a try on the desktop and it always comes down the the exact same thing. Whether it's Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Linux Mint, Open Suse, Debian Testing, Mandriva, Red Hat, etc, No matter what video card (used 3 different ATI and 2 different nvidia) I use I cannot ever manage to drive my 1680x1050 LCDs properly at native resolution without completely hosing up X and the system in general. I'm talking to a point where I can't even get a TTY on screen without a reboot -- I have to SSH into the box and go back to driving everything at 800x600 with vesa drivers by restoring the config and rebooting. I'm probably a moron, of course, by all of your super-geek standards. But I've been rolling around in technology for 20 years now and if it's not a no-brainer for me, then I can guarantee that for mom and pop Linux is infinitely far away from useful.
Wait .. does this mean the "harmless" active denial system that melts contacts and turns watches into flaming hot metal pain will alo cause permenent vision damage?
http://www.willthomas.net/Convergence/Weekly/Micro waving_Iraq.htm
My bad. http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,59764,00.html ?tw=wn_story_related .. there was an apple cube. Nevermind.