"user@user-desktop:~$ apt-get install wine
E: Could not open lock file/var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?"
That's the problem
(I know how to fix that but an average user won't)
Although creating an article seems to be free, it is not. Aside from the tiny actual cost of hosting it, there is a significant opportunity cost: time taken ensuring that it is up to scratch, free of vandalism, not violating copyrights etc. While (imo) Wikipedia's main strength is the long tail of articles about obscure subjects, a requirement of basic notability is reasonable.
So then, the question is, are high schools notable? I would say yes, an institution that forms the main part of thousands of people's lives should count as notable. But an article detailing the maths building should not, unless there is some special reason.
I wrote an article about a useful program, blogged on Lifehacker amongst other blogs (presumably then, lifehacker is considered notable), however apparently blogs aren't sufficient for establishing notability. Nor are high numbers of downloads. It seems like on one hand, they are encouraging participation by anyone, and on the other hand putting the same things down saying that it has to be reported by traditional media to make it notable.
I've been involved in upgrading some computers just for Choose and Book. What I want to know is why on earth you people made Internet Explorer 6 a requirement?? I must admit I haven't seen it in action, but I find it hard to believe that you couldn't accomplish the same things without IE6-only technology. No-one can upgrade to IE7, or use an alternate browser to run this thing. So, you're forcing hundreds of thousands of computers with highly sensitive medical information on them to run without the maximum security available.
That's because to mozilla, release candidate actually means release candidate, a build that will be released if no major problems are found (unlike Vista "release candidates" which are really beta releases).
You're not the only one. If you go to tinyurl.com, you can turn on the 'Preview Feature' (left menu). This shows you the full address of the page you are being redirected to before going there. However this relies on cookies.
Except they're just including a youtube-hosted flash file, right? So they could redesign the interface to have the video taking up a portion of the embedded area, and ads in the other portion, rather than just video. Problem solved.
A lot of people accuse Metallica of being whiney money grabbers, but they do this as well. They even release MP3 downloads of old shows roughly once a month for free. 128k MP3s are $9.95, FLACs are $12.95 (DRM-free of course!).
http://www.jrmediacenter.com/
Works fantastically on huge music libraries (e.g. hundreds of thousands of songs), huge amounts of customisation (browse your library by genre/artist/album, year/genre/chartposition) etc. Not free or opensource, but well worth a look if you're on windows.
I use digital guitar tuner, for doing nasty tunings quickly and easily, and Jesusonic. Jesusonic doesn't exactly help with learning to play, but it can add a bit of motivation when you can get your crappy guitar sounding really good for free.
No, see, it's inevitable. Open source development is like commercial development, so as it grows we'll start seeing the same marketing speak, incentivizing, status reports, bullshitting and so on. But it will be open source bullshitting!
I disabled java for performance reasons, but then I found out that you need it enabled to use any part of the database component - the error messages aren't particularly helpful either. You can load the database program, but it won't connect to the data source.
Actually, the code they are using started off as an extension (Google Safe Browsing). But, they decided that the users that most need protecting are the ones that have no idea what an extension is.
Who modded this insightful?! Microsoft/Bungie aren't idiots, they wouldn't put the money into doing this if it wasn't gonna be profitable. Secondly, you may think Halo isn't a great game, but when you look at the huge, (still) active fanbase, you have to admit there's got to be something good about it. And it probably will to some extent push vista sales - it adds another reason to upgrade, and may tip people over the edge. And I wouldn't be suprised if they did some kind of bundles.
What would be really interesting is if using a combination of honeypot PCs (to match trojans to controllers) and the commands used to control the botnets, these vigilantes could make the zombified PCs download and run a cleaning tool to rid themselves of the trojan.
Insightful?!? Come on... stop treating 'the public' like complete morons. Everyone I know, even the ones who know next to nothing about computers know whether they are using windows media player or real player. A got a phone call earlier from one of them asking me where realplayer had gone. 'They' are not all stupid, so don't be so damn condescending.
Novels are absolutely canon. The toys are as well, although they don't add anything to the story. On an aside, the novels (all 3 of them: Fall of Reach, The Flood, First Strike) are fantastic, and well worth reading.
Why are graphics seen as a detriment to gameplay? I consider graphcis in games to be art - half life 2 being a prime example. It's a beautiful game. Entirely dismissing a game because of below par gameplay is just as bad as only liking games because of good graphics.
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"user@user-desktop:~$ apt-get install wine E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?"
That's the problem
(I know how to fix that but an average user won't)
Mod this person up, this isn't flamebait, unfortunately it's the truth.
Although creating an article seems to be free, it is not. Aside from the tiny actual cost of hosting it, there is a significant opportunity cost: time taken ensuring that it is up to scratch, free of vandalism, not violating copyrights etc. While (imo) Wikipedia's main strength is the long tail of articles about obscure subjects, a requirement of basic notability is reasonable. So then, the question is, are high schools notable? I would say yes, an institution that forms the main part of thousands of people's lives should count as notable. But an article detailing the maths building should not, unless there is some special reason.
Kinda - premade physics and graphics engines are used all the time (such as Havok and Unreal0. There is also SpeedTree. But none of these come cheap.
I wrote an article about a useful program, blogged on Lifehacker amongst other blogs (presumably then, lifehacker is considered notable), however apparently blogs aren't sufficient for establishing notability. Nor are high numbers of downloads. It seems like on one hand, they are encouraging participation by anyone, and on the other hand putting the same things down saying that it has to be reported by traditional media to make it notable.
I've been involved in upgrading some computers just for Choose and Book. What I want to know is why on earth you people made Internet Explorer 6 a requirement?? I must admit I haven't seen it in action, but I find it hard to believe that you couldn't accomplish the same things without IE6-only technology. No-one can upgrade to IE7, or use an alternate browser to run this thing. So, you're forcing hundreds of thousands of computers with highly sensitive medical information on them to run without the maximum security available.
That's because to mozilla, release candidate actually means release candidate, a build that will be released if no major problems are found (unlike Vista "release candidates" which are really beta releases).
You're not the only one. If you go to tinyurl.com, you can turn on the 'Preview Feature' (left menu). This shows you the full address of the page you are being redirected to before going there. However this relies on cookies.
Except they're just including a youtube-hosted flash file, right? So they could redesign the interface to have the video taking up a portion of the embedded area, and ads in the other portion, rather than just video. Problem solved.
Use Scrapbook for Firefox - saving to disk as quickly as bookmarking, edit the pages, highlight them, etc.
Well, IIRC, it was an EU move to make it illegal to charge extortionate roaming rates on mobile phones. That's one way.
A lot of people accuse Metallica of being whiney money grabbers, but they do this as well. They even release MP3 downloads of old shows roughly once a month for free. 128k MP3s are $9.95, FLACs are $12.95 (DRM-free of course!).
If you don't like it, file a bug, don't just sit around here shouting about it!
http://www.jrmediacenter.com/ Works fantastically on huge music libraries (e.g. hundreds of thousands of songs), huge amounts of customisation (browse your library by genre/artist/album, year/genre/chartposition) etc. Not free or opensource, but well worth a look if you're on windows.
I use digital guitar tuner, for doing nasty tunings quickly and easily, and Jesusonic. Jesusonic doesn't exactly help with learning to play, but it can add a bit of motivation when you can get your crappy guitar sounding really good for free.
No, see, it's inevitable. Open source development is like commercial development, so as it grows we'll start seeing the same marketing speak, incentivizing, status reports, bullshitting and so on. But it will be open source bullshitting!
It wouldn't surprise me if I saw this story in a couple of years time, but not on april fool's day. We really are the lobsters slowly being boiled.
I disabled java for performance reasons, but then I found out that you need it enabled to use any part of the database component - the error messages aren't particularly helpful either. You can load the database program, but it won't connect to the data source.
Actually, the code they are using started off as an extension (Google Safe Browsing). But, they decided that the users that most need protecting are the ones that have no idea what an extension is.
Who modded this insightful?! Microsoft/Bungie aren't idiots, they wouldn't put the money into doing this if it wasn't gonna be profitable. Secondly, you may think Halo isn't a great game, but when you look at the huge, (still) active fanbase, you have to admit there's got to be something good about it. And it probably will to some extent push vista sales - it adds another reason to upgrade, and may tip people over the edge. And I wouldn't be suprised if they did some kind of bundles.
Or you can click Help>Check for updates to do it straight away.
What would be really interesting is if using a combination of honeypot PCs (to match trojans to controllers) and the commands used to control the botnets, these vigilantes could make the zombified PCs download and run a cleaning tool to rid themselves of the trojan.
Insightful?!? Come on... stop treating 'the public' like complete morons. Everyone I know, even the ones who know next to nothing about computers know whether they are using windows media player or real player. A got a phone call earlier from one of them asking me where realplayer had gone. 'They' are not all stupid, so don't be so damn condescending.
Novels are absolutely canon. The toys are as well, although they don't add anything to the story. On an aside, the novels (all 3 of them: Fall of Reach, The Flood, First Strike) are fantastic, and well worth reading.
Why are graphics seen as a detriment to gameplay? I consider graphcis in games to be art - half life 2 being a prime example. It's a beautiful game. Entirely dismissing a game because of below par gameplay is just as bad as only liking games because of good graphics.