IIRC, the T60 does not have a keyboard that lights up if it's too dark to type.
The keyboard on my desktop computer is a Unicomp SpaceSaver with 105 blank keys.
Unicomp couldn't offer me one with Croatian layout, and I can touch-type.
Yes, a backlit keyboard is nice, but it wasn't among the selling points that did it for me.
With a few days' use, I must say I'm quite impressed with the elegance of OS X, not just in the overall design, but in attention to detail; I, for one, would love to see dialog windows in Linux handled the way they are in OS X.
And tomorrow, I hope, I'm starting to install Gentoo as a second OS. I guess I'm crazy;)
I just purchased a MacBook Pro. I had been aiming for an IBM ThinkPad T60p, which had similar specs and cost a bit less (I was aiming for the Windows-free version), but while I waited for my money, it went out of stock, and nobody could tell me if there were going to be any more until September.
I do see it's going to take me a while and quite a bit of effort to set up the dual boot with Gentoo just the way I like it, but whatever... it's going to be well worth it.
Though I must say, OS X is shiny.
Well, this has been the first/. flooding I've ever witnessed...
It is rather interesting that you should flood flood like you do, then bemoan cultural intolerance... I participate in a forum where several users (or "morons", as I dub them) demand and exercise their "right to flood", claiming that cleaning up their flood is denying them their right to free speech.
I just don't understand how do you find the time to do things like that...
And yes, you English speakers do use it, though it is not standard usage. In non-standard speech, however, you English speakers do use it so; take a look at Conrad's post below.
So yes, you do use it. Maybe you shouldn't, maybe your prescriptivists frown upon such abominations, but you do use it.
And so do I, sometimes.
And by 'you English speakers' I, of course, mean 'you native English speakers'. Oh, I wonder, will you also berate me for improper punctuation within quotes?
Gentoo 2004.1 to 2006.whatever, I no longer recall (my old machine). Ubuntu 2005.10 to 2006.4 to 2006.10 to 2007.4, if I got my numbers right (my father's machine).
Or maybe even on all distros, and UNIX, and BSD, and Windows? Like, maybe Sun could come up with something we could use for that? Strange that they haven't already thought of that:p
I just love the pun, though I'm fairly sure it wasn't intended.
Well, Linux usage is rising. The number of distributions is growing.
You do the math: was it ever valid?
Besides, the number of distributions is irrelevant; only the several largest one really matter. The rest are niche distros, tailored to specific purposes, there for the taking if anyone ever needs them, but letting you recognize the need first.
Then there is the fact that too large communities begin to waste time on their internal squabbles, instead of on development. Thus you get more fragmentation, smaller communities and less squabbling. And faster development. In all directions at once.
It seems (to me, at least) that this is good for Linux and good, though perhaps slightly inconvenient, for the users as well.
Who has ever heard of a MAD RUSH to get the latest and greatest Linux "distro" - wasn't there a new kernel release a month ago -- did anyone give a rats arse --- nope!
Us Linux users are not mindless cattle to stampede the shops and get the latest and greatest distro there.
Instead, we are gentlemen of leisure; our systems are updated via network as soon as the new packages hit the server - we have no need to wait for them to be burnt onto CDs, packaged in pretty boxes, delivered to stores and sold at premium price, while we risk our lives in the stampede.
Then again, when you wait for a new version of your OS for five years or more, it is understandable that you want to upgrade immediately; you have tested your patience long enough. We, on the other hand, live upgrading what we choose, when we choose; our patience is never tried, never tested, never gone.
Oh, yes. I nearly forgot. If we really really want the CDs with Linux on them and can't afford to download the ISO, we simply order a bunch from Canonical and have them delivered to our doorstep. And we chuckle when they arrive, for we imagine you standing in line or stampeding the stores to get the bestest and latest, while we sip our drinks and surf the net while our systems upgrade.
Keep your mad rushes. We don't need them, we don't want them.
Wow... I had no idea the guys at IRB were working on that...
It's actually quite amazing... they work on superconductivity, quantum mechanics and similar interesting stuff, though they're not exactly well-financed, AFAIK...
But go figure... the IRB is within walking distance from me, yet I learn about this on/.
Either I spend too much time here or these guys don't get nearly enough media coverage in Croatia.
In all honesty, while on/. it may seem as an unnecessary swipe at Windows (if there can be such a thing here), the closing sentence only mirrors the fact that Windows are still on a vast majority of computers.
None of us regularly get phonecalls such as "oh, my Linux won't start, OMG, what I'm gonna do?". We do get them related to Windows, though.
So while I'm just guessing (and assuming stupidity and not malice), I'd say the OP typed Windows instead of $OS_OF_CHOICE or whatever.
Besides, it's obvious that the issue affects every and any OS, since it's a hardware issue; so even if the swipe at Windows was intentional, it was supposed to be humorous. Yet the/. mob swarms in on obvious trivialities, thus proving that geeks are just as easily baited as the rest. Yay.
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... however, if I recall correctly, before coming to Mozilla, she used to work for Microsoft.
And let me tell you, when that piece of news hit /., the jokes and the puns were way better than today.
I can't believe you forgot the GNAA.
By the FSM's Noodly Appendage, those walls of text are annoying...
The keyboard on my desktop computer is a Unicomp SpaceSaver with 105 blank keys.
Unicomp couldn't offer me one with Croatian layout, and I can touch-type.
Yes, a backlit keyboard is nice, but it wasn't among the selling points that did it for me.
With a few days' use, I must say I'm quite impressed with the elegance of OS X, not just in the overall design, but in attention to detail; I, for one, would love to see dialog windows in Linux handled the way they are in OS X.
And tomorrow, I hope, I'm starting to install Gentoo as a second OS. I guess I'm crazy ;)
Seconded.
I just purchased a MacBook Pro. I had been aiming for an IBM ThinkPad T60p, which had similar specs and cost a bit less (I was aiming for the Windows-free version), but while I waited for my money, it went out of stock, and nobody could tell me if there were going to be any more until September.
I do see it's going to take me a while and quite a bit of effort to set up the dual boot with Gentoo just the way I like it, but whatever... it's going to be well worth it.
Though I must say, OS X is shiny.
I'm an atheist and an antitheist, and I still think you're an idiot.
Among all the things he said, you could find nothing else to comment on?
Unlike you, he wasn't even preaching.
Grow up.
Umm... Torpark?
Well, this has been the first /. flooding I've ever witnessed...
It is rather interesting that you should flood flood like you do, then bemoan cultural intolerance... I participate in a forum where several users (or "morons", as I dub them) demand and exercise their "right to flood", claiming that cleaning up their flood is denying them their right to free speech.
I just don't understand how do you find the time to do things like that...
Since it's OpenHAL, this is the one that did open the pod bay door...
What do you mean, framed? He only paid for 4 digits, and got 6. That's, like, 50% free.
At least that's what everyone tells me...
While we're at it, I think I should link this graph, just in case.
Awwwwww, a Grammar Nazi... how sweet.
And yes, you English speakers do use it, though it is not standard usage. In non-standard speech, however, you English speakers do use it so; take a look at Conrad's post below.
So yes, you do use it. Maybe you shouldn't, maybe your prescriptivists frown upon such abominations, but you do use it.
And so do I, sometimes.
And by 'you English speakers' I, of course, mean 'you native English speakers'. Oh, I wonder, will you also berate me for improper punctuation within quotes?
And why do I keep replying to ACs?
Security by malware author assassination?
Hey, if it works... I'm buying a Mac.
How fitting, that a person glorifying beating up weaklings writes as Anonymous Coward.
I know. But (the) Sun comes up every morning.
Gentoo 2004.1 to 2006.whatever, I no longer recall (my old machine). Ubuntu 2005.10 to 2006.4 to 2006.10 to 2007.4, if I got my numbers right (my father's machine).
No problems whatsoever.
Ah, well... two, three... the keys are, like, right next to each other...
Oh, I'm so sorry.
Guess I forgot you could upgrade your Windows installation from 3.x to 9x to XP to Vista through Windows Update.
My bad.
I just love the pun, though I'm fairly sure it wasn't intended.
Damn, I wish I had mod points.
Well, we can always name it the CmdrTaco effect...
Well, Linux usage is rising. The number of distributions is growing.
You do the math: was it ever valid?
Besides, the number of distributions is irrelevant; only the several largest one really matter. The rest are niche distros, tailored to specific purposes, there for the taking if anyone ever needs them, but letting you recognize the need first.
Then there is the fact that too large communities begin to waste time on their internal squabbles, instead of on development. Thus you get more fragmentation, smaller communities and less squabbling. And faster development. In all directions at once.
It seems (to me, at least) that this is good for Linux and good, though perhaps slightly inconvenient, for the users as well.
Us Linux users are not mindless cattle to stampede the shops and get the latest and greatest distro there.
Instead, we are gentlemen of leisure; our systems are updated via network as soon as the new packages hit the server - we have no need to wait for them to be burnt onto CDs, packaged in pretty boxes, delivered to stores and sold at premium price, while we risk our lives in the stampede.
Then again, when you wait for a new version of your OS for five years or more, it is understandable that you want to upgrade immediately; you have tested your patience long enough. We, on the other hand, live upgrading what we choose, when we choose; our patience is never tried, never tested, never gone.
Oh, yes. I nearly forgot. If we really really want the CDs with Linux on them and can't afford to download the ISO, we simply order a bunch from Canonical and have them delivered to our doorstep. And we chuckle when they arrive, for we imagine you standing in line or stampeding the stores to get the bestest and latest, while we sip our drinks and surf the net while our systems upgrade.
Keep your mad rushes. We don't need them, we don't want them.
Surely you mean, those of us who failed to see it the first two hundred times. Or so.
Wow... I had no idea the guys at IRB were working on that...
It's actually quite amazing... they work on superconductivity, quantum mechanics and similar interesting stuff, though they're not exactly well-financed, AFAIK...
But go figure... the IRB is within walking distance from me, yet I learn about this on /.
Either I spend too much time here or these guys don't get nearly enough media coverage in Croatia.
In all honesty, while on /. it may seem as an unnecessary swipe at Windows (if there can be such a thing here), the closing sentence only mirrors the fact that Windows are still on a vast majority of computers.
None of us regularly get phonecalls such as "oh, my Linux won't start, OMG, what I'm gonna do?". We do get them related to Windows, though.
So while I'm just guessing (and assuming stupidity and not malice), I'd say the OP typed Windows instead of $OS_OF_CHOICE or whatever.
Besides, it's obvious that the issue affects every and any OS, since it's a hardware issue; so even if the swipe at Windows was intentional, it was supposed to be humorous. Yet the /. mob swarms in on obvious trivialities, thus proving that geeks are just as easily baited as the rest. Yay.