They plan to come back to april-october-april route... so Edgy is scheduled for october. AFAIR it was mentioned in TFA (not sure tho, I read it couple hours ago).
Anyways, Edubuntu seems well suited for school use. A funny (I guess) story. Couple of months ago I said "enough" after my parents' 20th virus-related emergency, so I burnt Ubuntu CD and installed it on the their computer next time I visited them... just to find out that I burnt the wrong image (I had Edubuntu iso in the same dir) and didn't notice it during installation and first booting (Ubuntu/Edubuntu have that dark brown logo on a black background when you boot them... and my parents have a monitor with crappy contrast).
Also, it might be a good idea to contact people from tuXlab - what they do is they deploy OSS (probably (Edubuntu, because it's Shuttleworh Foundation) in Sourth African schools. I bet they could give tons of useful advices.
My 6 year old just celebrated his year anniversary of running Edubuntuwww.edubuntu.org/news.html - Edubuntu has been launched 4.5 months ago:)
Anyways, Edubuntu seems well suited for school use. A funny (I guess) story. Couple of months ago I said "enough" after my parents' 20th virus-related emergency, so I burnt Ubuntu CD and installed it on the their computer next time I visited them... just to find out that I burnt the wrong image (I had Edubuntu iso in the same dir) and didn't notice it during installation and first booting (Ubuntu/Edubuntu have that dark brown logo on a black background when you boot them... and my parents have a monitor with crappy contrast).
Also, it might be a good idea to contact people from - what they do is they deploy OSS (probably (Edubuntu, because it's Shuttleworh Foundation) in Sourth African schools. I bet they could give tons of useful advices.
Because throwing has already been down. Accidental burning of the whole headquarters would be an amazing PR stunt... also imagine all./'ers around the world dancing the ritual dance of "yes, they got screwed". Based on average amount of pizza consumed by./'ers, I guess that would be one hell of an earthquake;)
"Ubuntu (open source software being used by Google)"
which clearly is the most accurate and informative definition of Ubuntu
Lesson learnt: those who don't know shit about technology, try to explain everything in relation to Google. I guess keyboard is a "device used by Google engineers to input data into computers" from now on.
I've never used that computer thing people keep talking about, but honestly - I can't see what else I would want in a data-processing tool that my abacus doesn't already give me.
Last week I switched to FF (kinda fell for its extensions, it also works better with Gnome) after many years of using Opera as the primary browser. There are quite a few things that piss me off, but most of them are fixable by extensions (Session Saver, Fasterfox, etc.).
BTW... few dozens post upwards someone said he gets irritated when closing the tab brings focus to the last used tab, not the last to the right... I still can't get used to FF's way and it does piss me off:). So it's just a matter of habits, ladies.
It's been a while since I attended English lessons, so I can't remember the name of this tense... I meant a tense that is related to 'past simple' in the same way as 'present perfect' is to 'present simple' (50% chance I screwed names here;) ), so a tense used to denote something that happened any (not specific) time before some specific moment in the past. Could it be past perfect?
It was rather something with a sound device (some crap that came with a mobo). On my own box, I have PLF version. I think that I installed Skype via Easy Ubuntu, Automatix or something like that (can't check now, they're behind a firewall).
My sister has exactly the same first- and surname as a famous actress. She sometimes receives fanmail, which is usually funny as hell ("I'm 13 and there's so much we have in common" stuff):)
My father (who is 55), had never used a computer until 2 years ago or so (sorry for poor grammar. "paster than past" tenses were always a nightmare for me). He just didn't have a reason to do it. Right now he's on the PC for most of his spare time, reading news, watching stock market (and making transactions), doing e-banking, searching for a new house (apparently that's not a task that might be accomplished faster than in 3 years), etc. I used to encourage him and now I have to pay for it. Whenever I visit them on weekends and try to do some work, all I hear is "are you done?", "would you please let me sit for a second?", "go help your mother" or "can you remove the snow from the driveway? now would be a good time". Last night he called asking whether he should restrain from logging into windows today (I can't get Skype to work under Ubuntu @ their place... some weird stuff happens). You know, that file-overwritting virus that's about to strike.
The point is: he's not 80 and he was perfectly fine without ever touching a computer as recently as 2 years ago. It's just not a thing that a regular person can't survive without. Yet.
The context of my sentence was also "I don't know much about networking" (which should be pretty obvious). When I said "more stable" I meant "the transfer/time graph doesn't have a peaky natury, it's pretty much steady". There was some windows app (not sure about the name - Net Limiter?) that allowed you to limit up/down transfers on a "per application" basis (for example limit uploads in BitTorrent to 10 kB/s). I played around with it for a bit once and yes, I noticed that when I limited overloaded line's transfer to something a bit below max, it would be much more steady than if it was set to unlimited. That's what I meant when I said "more stable transfers".
And since I suck at networking, I might be confusing this stuff, so don't make any assumptions about my roommate (wchich, BTW, is a main admin of a neighborhood LAN in his home city. They only have 2x2Mbit lines and provide an awesome (and cheap - it's non-profit) service to over 200 apartments... and it's Poland - a country where piracy is skyrocketing and virtually everyone screws RIAA, movie studios and software vendors all the time.... so p2p is used quite heavily by most of those 200 people).
I'm sorry if I offended you. Honestly, I didn't mean to. I kinda think that people that criticize others over something irrelevant are arrogant assholes. And certainly I don't like thinking of myself as an arrogant asshole, particularly if I'm not a native English speaker and make mistakes on a daily basis. I just found it funny that skipping one comma changed the meaning of your comment.
Back on the topic: wouldn't it be funny to make a website which would include a set of such idiotic security enchancements?
Yeap, I'm getting max 243kB/s on my 2Mb/s line (instead of "full" 256 kB/s). also, my admin-roommate has capped our upward transfer (256 kb/s) at 31 kB/s (not sure why exactly, he said something about transfers being much more stable this way).
Last time I checked, I was not duped, thus I could only be a sarcastic person. But I wasn't sarcastic. There's a slight chance I could be wrong though - my grandmother just called me saying that she read my post and I could be wrong. She claims that my files haven't been overwritten only because the worm hasn't stroke yet. She also said that it's a scandal that her Ubuntu doesn't provide that ultimate security option.
[cut!] enumeration... [cut!] the latest anti-virus signature... [cut!] CME-24.... [cut!] Nyxem.E, BlackWorm, Grew and Mywife.E.... [cut!] permutations... [cut!] detailed analysis... [cut!] advisory... [cut!] Windows Live Safety Center Beta... [cut!] security... [cut!]
Nah, nobody needs that voodoo stuff. The virus only overwrites files of certain types. All you need to do is to turn off "show file extensions" option in Explorer to totally confuse the virus;)
Sorry if I confused that option's name... I haven't touched a windows box in a while.
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almost like a first post :)
The story is fake. Nothing in our industry is released early.
before it hits backports, it needs to appear in Edgy... which will take at least several weeks.
They plan to come back to april-october-april route... so Edgy is scheduled for october. AFAIR it was mentioned in TFA (not sure tho, I read it couple hours ago).
Ubuntu is the distro of the week
Man, that's got to be the longest week ever. I remember reading the same thing 50 weeks ago, when I was making the switch from Fedora to Ubuntu.
it was mentioned separately just to emphasise that he didn't forget Poland.
let's try "re-bugged" (or "rebugged") as in "the account got re-bugged"
by the time you finished typing your comment, 2 newer distros were released. man, you must practise and go beyond 60 wpm!
and you'd have to press "start" to stop the car.
argh.... sorry for messing up :/
:)
My 6 year old just celebrated his year anniversary of running Edubuntu
www.edubuntu.org/news.html - Edubuntu has been launched 4.5 months ago
Anyways, Edubuntu seems well suited for school use. A funny (I guess) story. Couple of months ago I said "enough" after my parents' 20th virus-related emergency, so I burnt Ubuntu CD and installed it on the their computer next time I visited them... just to find out that I burnt the wrong image (I had Edubuntu iso in the same dir) and didn't notice it during installation and first booting (Ubuntu/Edubuntu have that dark brown logo on a black background when you boot them... and my parents have a monitor with crappy contrast).
Also, it might be a good idea to contact people from tuXlab - what they do is they deploy OSS (probably (Edubuntu, because it's Shuttleworh Foundation) in Sourth African schools. I bet they could give tons of useful advices.
My 6 year old just celebrated his year anniversary of running Edubuntu www.edubuntu.org/news.html - Edubuntu has been launched 4.5 months ago :)
Anyways, Edubuntu seems well suited for school use. A funny (I guess) story. Couple of months ago I said "enough" after my parents' 20th virus-related emergency, so I burnt Ubuntu CD and installed it on the their computer next time I visited them... just to find out that I burnt the wrong image (I had Edubuntu iso in the same dir) and didn't notice it during installation and first booting (Ubuntu/Edubuntu have that dark brown logo on a black background when you boot them... and my parents have a monitor with crappy contrast).
Also, it might be a good idea to contact people from - what they do is they deploy OSS (probably (Edubuntu, because it's Shuttleworh Foundation) in Sourth African schools. I bet they could give tons of useful advices.
Because throwing has already been down. Accidental burning of the whole headquarters would be an amazing PR stunt... also imagine all ./'ers around the world dancing the ritual dance of "yes, they got screwed". Based on average amount of pizza consumed by ./'ers, I guess that would be one hell of an earthquake ;)
And yet we learned one more thing from TFA:
"Ubuntu (open source software being used by Google)"
which clearly is the most accurate and informative definition of Ubuntu
Lesson learnt: those who don't know shit about technology, try to explain everything in relation to Google. I guess keyboard is a "device used by Google engineers to input data into computers" from now on.
I've never used that computer thing people keep talking about, but honestly - I can't see what else I would want in a data-processing tool that my abacus doesn't already give me.
Now you tell me how can I put the tab-bar in FF below the page content and just over the task bar.
:). So it's just a matter of habits, ladies.
Tabbrowser Preferences extension enables such option.
Last week I switched to FF (kinda fell for its extensions, it also works better with Gnome) after many years of using Opera as the primary browser. There are quite a few things that piss me off, but most of them are fixable by extensions (Session Saver, Fasterfox, etc.).
BTW... few dozens post upwards someone said he gets irritated when closing the tab brings focus to the last used tab, not the last to the right... I still can't get used to FF's way and it does piss me off
Sorry to disappoint you guys, but it's neither. Just a Polish actress that's very popular over here, but I don't think anywhere else.
It's been a while since I attended English lessons, so I can't remember the name of this tense... I meant a tense that is related to 'past simple' in the same way as 'present perfect' is to 'present simple' (50% chance I screwed names here ;) ), so a tense used to denote something that happened any (not specific) time before some specific moment in the past. Could it be past perfect?
It was rather something with a sound device (some crap that came with a mobo). On my own box, I have PLF version. I think that I installed Skype via Easy Ubuntu, Automatix or something like that (can't check now, they're behind a firewall).
My sister has exactly the same first- and surname as a famous actress. She sometimes receives fanmail, which is usually funny as hell ("I'm 13 and there's so much we have in common" stuff) :)
My father (who is 55), had never used a computer until 2 years ago or so (sorry for poor grammar. "paster than past" tenses were always a nightmare for me). He just didn't have a reason to do it. Right now he's on the PC for most of his spare time, reading news, watching stock market (and making transactions), doing e-banking, searching for a new house (apparently that's not a task that might be accomplished faster than in 3 years), etc. I used to encourage him and now I have to pay for it. Whenever I visit them on weekends and try to do some work, all I hear is "are you done?", "would you please let me sit for a second?", "go help your mother" or "can you remove the snow from the driveway? now would be a good time". Last night he called asking whether he should restrain from logging into windows today (I can't get Skype to work under Ubuntu @ their place... some weird stuff happens). You know, that file-overwritting virus that's about to strike.
The point is: he's not 80 and he was perfectly fine without ever touching a computer as recently as 2 years ago. It's just not a thing that a regular person can't survive without. Yet.
The context of my sentence was also "I don't know much about networking" (which should be pretty obvious). When I said "more stable" I meant "the transfer/time graph doesn't have a peaky natury, it's pretty much steady". There was some windows app (not sure about the name - Net Limiter?) that allowed you to limit up/down transfers on a "per application" basis (for example limit uploads in BitTorrent to 10 kB/s). I played around with it for a bit once and yes, I noticed that when I limited overloaded line's transfer to something a bit below max, it would be much more steady than if it was set to unlimited. That's what I meant when I said "more stable transfers".
And since I suck at networking, I might be confusing this stuff, so don't make any assumptions about my roommate (wchich, BTW, is a main admin of a neighborhood LAN in his home city. They only have 2x2Mbit lines and provide an awesome (and cheap - it's non-profit) service to over 200 apartments... and it's Poland - a country where piracy is skyrocketing and virtually everyone screws RIAA, movie studios and software vendors all the time.... so p2p is used quite heavily by most of those 200 people).
I'm sorry if I offended you. Honestly, I didn't mean to. I kinda think that people that criticize others over something irrelevant are arrogant assholes. And certainly I don't like thinking of myself as an arrogant asshole, particularly if I'm not a native English speaker and make mistakes on a daily basis. I just found it funny that skipping one comma changed the meaning of your comment.
Back on the topic: wouldn't it be funny to make a website which would include a set of such idiotic security enchancements?
Yeap, I'm getting max 243kB/s on my 2Mb/s line (instead of "full" 256 kB/s). also, my admin-roommate has capped our upward transfer (256 kb/s) at 31 kB/s (not sure why exactly, he said something about transfers being much more stable this way).
Mod +5 funny, he's being sarcastic people.
Last time I checked, I was not duped, thus I could only be a sarcastic person. But I wasn't sarcastic. There's a slight chance I could be wrong though - my grandmother just called me saying that she read my post and I could be wrong. She claims that my files haven't been overwritten only because the worm hasn't stroke yet. She also said that it's a scandal that her Ubuntu doesn't provide that ultimate security option.
[cut!] enumeration... [cut!] the latest anti-virus signature... [cut!] CME-24. ... [cut!] Nyxem.E, BlackWorm, Grew and Mywife.E.... [cut!] permutations ... [cut!] detailed analysis ... [cut!] advisory ... [cut!] Windows Live Safety Center Beta ... [cut!] security ... [cut!]
;)
Nah, nobody needs that voodoo stuff. The virus only overwrites files of certain types. All you need to do is to turn off "show file extensions" option in Explorer to totally confuse the virus
Sorry if I confused that option's name... I haven't touched a windows box in a while.