The Ubuntu forums are pretty well trashed now, since there are *way* too many people asking questions, and all the people who could answer them got tired out a few years ago.
I have a reasonable amount of basic Linux competence and enjoy answering 'simple' questions on the Ubuntu Forums, and seem to get positive feedback from my answers. I get the impression there are still quite a number of people like myself on these forums who just want to help new Linux users make the most of their system, and get satisfaction from this.
Yes, there most certainly are. But gone are the days where no thread went unsolved. It's a bit of a gamble that anyone will ever see your thread, much less anyone who can help you.
Most of the really helpful people I saw around the forums when I was using Ubuntu were from other distros (Arch, in particular, seemed to have a lot of evangelists). I think that they just got worn out dealing with people asking the same questions over and over and went back to their own forums.
Linux will not magically create a 100MB partition that you cannot erase and is essential to the operating system, unlike Windows 7 that will refuse to boot after removing the 100MB magic partition using Knoppix and cannot repair even with the original installation disks
100MB is about 1/100th of a percent of a common 1TB hard drive, right? Who cares? Why were you trying to remove it?
You can only have 4 primary partitions (or 3 and a bunch of logical) per disk, and iirc none of Windows, OS X and BSD will work in a logical partition. I don't know if this is the OP's issue, but I've run into it before.
I considered Suse but noticed that Ubuntu not only looked easier, but had UbuntuForums.org which seems to be the place to search for info or ask for answers, and didn't see anything as popular for Suse or other distros.
The Ubuntu forums are pretty well trashed now, since there are *way* too many people asking questions, and all the people who could answer them got tired out a few years ago.
The auto-workers can do the same thing. They can just "find another job", and it's so easy anyone can do it!
The difference between a good and mediocre programmer is much more than that of two auto workers. If you know what you're doing, it's not that difficult to find a good job, even in this economy.
Yeah, and the SSL bug in Debian never happened, and was caught before it was released due to all the "scrutiny" of the review process. I am not claiming it happens all the time, just that it happens more than "never".
It would have been caught if he submitted it upstream to the actual software, rather than just applying it in his private fork (that he happens to share with a bunch of people).
Monkey-patching is different from software development.
Though I do agree that "Computer Science" is a stupid name. They already have Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, etc - why not just call it "Software Engineering"?
The Droid is limited to Verizon, but then again that's not much of a limitation as Verizon is more likely to have good coverage in your area than the others.
There is also, of course, the Nexus One, which comes unlocked.
Assuming this is legal where you live: But if not, hey, try it anyway...
1. Create app that gives people a chance to win $500,000, (but only pays out if app is biggest download) as a free lottery thing.
2. Distribute for free. Give codes to people so you get an extra "ticket" for everyone you recruit to download it, and from those they recruit etc.
3. Sit back and wait.
4. PROFIT
5. Send $50,000 to me for the idea. Thanks
You misspelled "Profit!!!", and you missed step "???".
At one of my jobs, I was given a laptop, with the full expectation that I would erase the Vista partition and install Linux. At the other, I was given a desktop with a blank hdd, and a day to configure it.
Why not simply work on virtual machines? Then you know they are clean and you can have all the rights you want and still have comply with company rules.
VMs generally restrict a lot of keycombos, which is deathly important to some of us.
Even as an iTunes user I'll admit that my purchases there are about the convenience of having everything easily searchable and of a known quality. Not having to deal with shady torrent sites, spending hours looking for something, and then discovering that it's a bad rip, fake, etc, it more than worth $0.99 per song to me.
Although, of course, certain torrent sites can be better at providing consistent high-quality music files than official sources; you just have to know where to look.
the parameters are sorted alphabetically - so you might have to scroll through 50 screenpages of obscure parameters that you most certainly never need until you find the one you're looking for (IF you are still reading at that point)
You can search by hitting/, just like in firefox. 'n' goes to the next instance. Press 'h' if you want to know more.
Why the hell are you using Fedora if you want to know what's going on in your system? You'd probably be much happier going back to Slack, or trying something like Arch or Gentoo.
Crossloop is, indeed, amazing. A good friend of mine had success with his mother using it, and she is the type who has problems turning on the computer on occasion.
I know, I myself have written several tools in Ruby CLI and RubyCocoa for work and other things, but Rails is really how I, and a lot of people over the last few years have received their entre to the language.
Rails was my introduction to Ruby, and the reason I hated it. Once I found learned about the language itself, it was the start of a new love.
Just sayin', there are different experiences out there.
By "bleeding edge versions of Ubuntu" you mean "bleeding edge versions of Debian Unstable", right?
Actually, he meant "already out of date, but altered so that it's unstable when mashed together with all the other software". Vanilla bleeding-edge packages keep my computer much more stable than it was with Ubuntu on it.
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The Ubuntu forums are pretty well trashed now, since there are *way* too many people asking questions, and all the people who could answer them got tired out a few years ago.
I have a reasonable amount of basic Linux competence and enjoy answering 'simple' questions on the Ubuntu Forums, and seem to get positive feedback from my answers. I get the impression there are still quite a number of people like myself on these forums who just want to help new Linux users make the most of their system, and get satisfaction from this.
Yes, there most certainly are. But gone are the days where no thread went unsolved. It's a bit of a gamble that anyone will ever see your thread, much less anyone who can help you.
Most of the really helpful people I saw around the forums when I was using Ubuntu were from other distros (Arch, in particular, seemed to have a lot of evangelists). I think that they just got worn out dealing with people asking the same questions over and over and went back to their own forums.
Finally, read a good algorithms book (can't think of any examples, sorry).
Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen et al. I have the 2nd edition, but the 3rd seems to have come down in price a bit now.
Linux will not magically create a 100MB partition that you cannot erase and is essential to the operating system, unlike Windows 7 that will refuse to boot after removing the 100MB magic partition using Knoppix and cannot repair even with the original installation disks
100MB is about 1/100th of a percent of a common 1TB hard drive, right? Who cares? Why were you trying to remove it?
You can only have 4 primary partitions (or 3 and a bunch of logical) per disk, and iirc none of Windows, OS X and BSD will work in a logical partition. I don't know if this is the OP's issue, but I've run into it before.
I considered Suse but noticed that Ubuntu not only looked easier, but had UbuntuForums.org which seems to be the place to search for info or ask for answers, and didn't see anything as popular for Suse or other distros.
The Ubuntu forums are pretty well trashed now, since there are *way* too many people asking questions, and all the people who could answer them got tired out a few years ago.
Check his wiki
Hmm, I didn't know that Benoit Schillings owned the English Wikipedia.
A netbook will fulfill all of your stated requirements, and is significantly cheaper, unless you really want the touchscreen for some reason.
You find another job? You make it sound so easy!
The auto-workers can do the same thing. They can just "find another job", and it's so easy anyone can do it!
The difference between a good and mediocre programmer is much more than that of two auto workers. If you know what you're doing, it's not that difficult to find a good job, even in this economy.
I don't know about the other VCSs, but for git at least, there are a shit-ton of interopability scripts.
Yeah, and the SSL bug in Debian never happened, and was caught before it was released due to all the "scrutiny" of the review process. I am not claiming it happens all the time, just that it happens more than "never".
It would have been caught if he submitted it upstream to the actual software, rather than just applying it in his private fork (that he happens to share with a bunch of people).
Monkey-patching is different from software development.
Though I do agree that "Computer Science" is a stupid name. They already have Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, etc - why not just call it "Software Engineering"?
Some of us do.
The Droid is limited to Verizon, but then again that's not much of a limitation as Verizon is more likely to have good coverage in your area than the others.
There is also, of course, the Nexus One, which comes unlocked.
Assuming this is legal where you live: But if not, hey, try it anyway...
1. Create app that gives people a chance to win $500,000, (but only pays out if app is biggest download) as a free lottery thing. 2. Distribute for free. Give codes to people so you get an extra "ticket" for everyone you recruit to download it, and from those they recruit etc. 3. Sit back and wait. 4. PROFIT 5. Send $50,000 to me for the idea. Thanks
You misspelled "Profit!!!", and you missed step "???".
At one of my jobs, I was given a laptop, with the full expectation that I would erase the Vista partition and install Linux. At the other, I was given a desktop with a blank hdd, and a day to configure it.
Why not simply work on virtual machines? Then you know they are clean and you can have all the rights you want and still have comply with company rules.
VMs generally restrict a lot of keycombos, which is deathly important to some of us.
Even as an iTunes user I'll admit that my purchases there are about the convenience of having everything easily searchable and of a known quality. Not having to deal with shady torrent sites, spending hours looking for something, and then discovering that it's a bad rip, fake, etc, it more than worth $0.99 per song to me.
Although, of course, certain torrent sites can be better at providing consistent high-quality music files than official sources; you just have to know where to look.
And that's why we don't accept changesets that don't include documentation updates.
who uses Hotmail or Live messenger?
Long live ICQ!
ICQ? I'll stick with Jabber and irc, tyvm.
I found it on accident one time. *shrug*
the parameters are sorted alphabetically - so you might have to scroll through 50 screenpages of obscure parameters that you most certainly never need until you find the one you're looking for (IF you are still reading at that point)
You can search by hitting /, just like in firefox. 'n' goes to the next instance. Press 'h' if you want to know more.
Why the hell are you using Fedora if you want to know what's going on in your system? You'd probably be much happier going back to Slack, or trying something like Arch or Gentoo.
Crossloop is, indeed, amazing. A good friend of mine had success with his mother using it, and she is the type who has problems turning on the computer on occasion.
The client (your side) works in Wine, as well.
I know, I myself have written several tools in Ruby CLI and RubyCocoa for work and other things, but Rails is really how I, and a lot of people over the last few years have received their entre to the language.
Rails was my introduction to Ruby, and the reason I hated it. Once I found learned about the language itself, it was the start of a new love.
Just sayin', there are different experiences out there.
By "bleeding edge versions of Ubuntu" you mean "bleeding edge versions of Debian Unstable", right?
Actually, he meant "already out of date, but altered so that it's unstable when mashed together with all the other software". Vanilla bleeding-edge packages keep my computer much more stable than it was with Ubuntu on it.
He said that it is working flawlessly now, not that the installation procedure was flawless.