I still prefer gnome-terminal. But I need to find a really good, fast, configurable, screen-like term.
Or just type screen.
Here's your answer, install urxvt and set your icon to launch with the following...
urxvt -bg black -fg white -sr -geometry 1024x47 -fn "xft:inconsolata"
-e screen
heh after browsing to page 2... I am going to go
fry me some venison I personally killed, butchered and packaged... I am thinking butter some garlic and red wine gravy.
Yes I qute literaly held it in my arms as it died, and sung it to the Next World.
The Hour of the Hunter comes for us all, but we must eat.
The upgrade was a bit rough - the GUI system update tools are very prone to breaking, often freezing to the point that only a forcequit can put things back to normal (I almost always use the command line because of that). Unfortunately the only way I knew of to update to 9.10 was using a GUI tool, which naturally broke, forcing me to restart the upgrade (although it was called a "partial upgrade".
I have never once gotten the GUI system update tools to work properly.
Use the CLI version like the Omnissiah intended.
1) Install update-manager-core if it is not already installed:
sudo apt-get install update-manager-core
2) Launch the upgrade tool:
sudo do-release-upgrade
3) Follow the on-screen instructions.
I did an upgrade from Jaunty... I had three issues...
1) I lost the system bell. (turns out its now blacklisted, a notice in the upgrade notes would have been nice) 2) Caps lock led no longer lights up (Bug in console-setup, affects Debian as well) 3) Num lock and scroll lock led's no longer light up.
I plug it in to charge it and I can use it as a usb drive.
I can simply copy videos I want to watch on the quite lovely screen over no syncing required.
Ringtones is as easy as sliding a mp3 into the correct folder.
Amarock syncs with it, no hassles.
I'd like an iphone, but AT&T sucks compared to the coverage I get with sprint, and I can roam on verizon too. (If you do have to roam call and they will take it off your bill, or at least they have done so for me in the past.)
All rights not explicitly granted to you are withheld to the sovereign body.
A hint: That sovereign body is not the individual.
Actually, that is not entirely accurate.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
I'll admit it's ignored like a redheaded step-child... but the intent is there.
This is what drives me nuts. When most places have a series of questions to select from it's always mothers maiden/first car/etc, which I never want to answer. If they do have something other than those, it's "What's your favorite author/movie/food/band". Well that's helpful, it's whatever book I just read / movie I just saw / what I'm making for dinner / what's going through my headphones. Three weeks later, they're useless
Or my favorite: canned questions, and a minimum length allowed for an answer.
Um, perhaps the name of my first dog was less than six letters long.
I used to use Unstable years back, but thought better of it when a nasty lilo bug rendered my hard drive non-bootable. This would have been in the period between 2.2 and 3.0.
After that I switched to Testing.
If you are going to run Unstable, apt-listbugs is a darn good idea.
It might have spared you some grief.
That, however, is not so troubling to me. Tying a "weapon" to a "crime" after the fact is a pretty standard and legitimate technique. What I'm more troubled by is the idea that camera makers would *pre-emptively* record a unique fingerprint of each camera, *in case* it ever gets used to do something illegal, or just to snoop and follow a trail of photographs on the web or elsewhere.
And yet when laws were passed required doing exactly that to sell a legal product in California, it was lauded as a wonderful idea.
But firearms don't count, I guess. I am glad in some ways that other's hobbies are now being treated with as much disdain as mine.
Maybe in addition to the National Rifle Association we need the National Photography Association.
I did have to call tech support to get the developer password for my phone... then a simple install of mgmaps from www.mgmaps.com and it Just Worked...
Even better idea, use the E-Paper for subscription magazines...
Your subscription entitles you to the range of issues you have paid for... you can access them at any time... all tied to your account for marketing research.
Lower costs: ie, no printing, no mailing. Unlimited access to all your back issues; charge a fee for any back-issues in the archives that you haven't paid for.
The porn industry alone, could save thousands a year on just mailing charges. It would be better for the enviroment, no literal tons of paper choking landfills.
Better, Faster, Cheaper (for the producer); what's not to like?
The fact that the majority of a gaggle thinks blinking lights are the important part of a system does not make it so. Form must follow function, or we end up with Windows quality, where an evolutionary process of continuous improvement is interrupted by those that love the blinking lights, because they are the ones buying the product - in the free software world, for many years the "buyer" of the product was the developers themselves - anyone else was free to use it if they found it useful, not blinking light pretty, or not as they chose - trying to attract the unwashed masses is antithetical to success.
Hell, Debian supports platforms that don't even have GUIs.
Who, besides idiots, cares what the installer looks like. Give me an
installer that is laid out sensibly and WORKS. Linux and especially Debian is not Windows, you install once; for the life of the machine.
Now that you mention it, that's exactly what I'm thinking of doing. Color doesn't matter much to me, so I've been seriously considering an inexpensive B&W laser. I used to use one from Epson when I was a kid, and I'd get thousands of pages out of a single toner cartridge! (Ah yes, the days when technical documents were long and screen space was short.)
My current printer is a ancient HP LaserJet 4+ with 64Mb of ram,
real PostScript, 10baseT network card and a duplexer I paid less
than $200 for it five years ago on Ebay.
I am willing to bet that my lj4+ will be here for another decade.
You're out of touch. Most of the boards out there that say they support Conroe actually don't. They're either very unstable or have features that don't work with it, and/or require BIOS updates in order to run with a Conroe chip at all. Even then there's no indication of how stable they'll be.
That's why I am looking at the Intel D975XBX.
Intel says it does Conroe and I guess they should know.
All that and great Linux support, what more do you need?
Well besides a IDE controller card (I intend to reuse my old drives).
I don't know if users really find it easiest to use. It's just "what's installed on the computer". I would say that way under 5% of the user community has made any kind of comparison between alternative operating systems and decided, as a personal choice, which one they want to use.
My mom (age 62) had never used a computer before, I installed SuSE 8.1
on a older machine running KDE. I made a taskbar icon for solitare and mozilla (her homepage is set to her Yahoo email account).
Before her last power-outage her machine had 290 days uptime (logged into KDE, 24/7), no viruses, no spyware, no glitches.
Now, she is a happy Ubuntu Dapper user. (The admitedly old HD in her machine started to fail. (Current uptime of 15days, darn power outages)) The grandkids really like Potatoguy, and have no problems using it for Cartoon Network and stuff like that.
In short, It Just Works. She has no interest in adding new software, any hardware she asks me first anyway as she has no idea what to buy.
(90+% of the hardware out there Just Works anyway)
So for anyone like her who uses their computer for email, web-browsing,
and solitare, Linux already meets their needs, with less annoyance and lower cost than Windows.
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And who can forget Microsoft Services for Unix... with the offical abbriviation of SFU
Here's your answer, install urxvt and set your icon to launch with the following... urxvt -bg black -fg white -sr -geometry 1024x47 -fn "xft:inconsolata" -e screen
heh after browsing to page 2... I am going to go fry me some venison I personally killed, butchered and packaged... I am thinking butter some garlic and red wine gravy. Yes I qute literaly held it in my arms as it died, and sung it to the Next World. The Hour of the Hunter comes for us all, but we must eat.
I have never once gotten the GUI system update tools to work properly.
Use the CLI version like the Omnissiah intended.
1) Install update-manager-core if it is not already installed:
sudo apt-get install update-manager-core
2) Launch the upgrade tool:
sudo do-release-upgrade
3) Follow the on-screen instructions.
I did an upgrade from Jaunty... I had three issues...
1) I lost the system bell. (turns out its now blacklisted, a notice in the upgrade notes would have been nice)
2) Caps lock led no longer lights up (Bug in console-setup, affects Debian as well)
3) Num lock and scroll lock led's no longer light up.
That's the only things I noticed
I am kicking myself...
I gave away my baby... HP Laserjet 4+... with the postscript module,
jet direct, duplexer and maximum ram it would support.
I gave it to a youth organization that would actually put it to work.
I know my samsung ML-2851ND is faster, much lighter (the 4+ was roughly 60lbs);
but damn it, it has no soul...
I plug it in to charge it and I can use it as a usb drive.
I can simply copy videos I want to watch on the quite
lovely screen over no syncing required.
Ringtones is as easy as sliding a mp3 into the correct folder.
Amarock syncs with it, no hassles.
I'd like an iphone, but AT&T sucks compared to the coverage
I get with sprint, and I can roam on verizon too. (If you do
have to roam call and they will take it off your bill, or at
least they have done so for me in the past.)
Actually, that is not entirely accurate.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
I'll admit it's ignored like a redheaded step-child... but the intent is there.
Or my favorite: canned questions, and a minimum length allowed for an answer.
Um, perhaps the name of my first dog was less than six letters long.
No Fucking Way. Postscript is a printer language. without some more-friendly front end.
Postscript is a Turing-complete language.
As for front end maybe a2ps, and then edit by hand.
You are right it entered the repository in November of 2002
according to the changelog.
If you are going to run Unstable, apt-listbugs is a darn good idea. It might have spared you some grief.
But the config files out there are extremely poorly commented...
Here's a link to mine: http://home.insightbb.com/~bmsims1/Scripts/Screenrc.html
I actually show you what the line noise does and
what it will look like.
apt-get install firefox-2, easy as pie.
/usr/bin/firefox-2 instead of /usr/bin/firefox.
Though I did have to edit my preexisting firefox icon by changing it to
And yet when laws were passed required doing exactly that to sell a legal product in California, it was lauded as a wonderful idea.
But firearms don't count, I guess. I am glad in some ways that other's hobbies are now being treated with as much disdain as mine. Maybe in addition to the National Rifle Association we need the National Photography Association.
I have a Sprint LG550... and my GPS works...
I did have to call tech support to get the
developer password for my phone... then a simple
install of mgmaps from www.mgmaps.com and it
Just Worked...
Even better idea, use the E-Paper for subscription magazines...
Your subscription entitles you to the range of issues you have
paid for... you can access them at any time... all tied to your
account for marketing research.
Lower costs: ie, no printing, no mailing. Unlimited access to all
your back issues; charge a fee for any back-issues in the archives
that you haven't paid for.
The porn industry alone, could save thousands a year on just mailing
charges. It would be better for the enviroment, no literal tons of
paper choking landfills.
Better, Faster, Cheaper (for the producer); what's not to like?
I know that for myself, I use KDE or wmaker... rarely gnome.
Kinda odd for an Ubuntu Feisty user, but gnome just chaps my
butt in odd ways.
I use KDE because I can make it work the way I want to...
with Gnome I have to work the way they want me to.
That said, I really want the ability to define two different
actions for a single icon like I can in windowmaker.
In WindowMaker, I have an oocalc icon; left click it opens just
the application, middle click it opens my checkbook spreadsheet.
Speaking of The Masses procreating; http://www.pornotube.com/
Link is in no way safe for work.
Hell, Debian supports platforms that don't even have GUIs.
Who, besides idiots, cares what the installer looks like. Give me an installer that is laid out sensibly and WORKS. Linux and especially Debian is not Windows, you install once; for the life of the machine.
My current printer is a ancient HP LaserJet 4+ with 64Mb of ram, real PostScript, 10baseT network card and a duplexer I paid less than $200 for it five years ago on Ebay.
I am willing to bet that my lj4+ will be here for another decade.
That's why I am looking at the Intel D975XBX.
Intel says it does Conroe and I guess they should know. All that and great Linux support, what more do you need? Well besides a IDE controller card (I intend to reuse my old drives).
You forgot Evil Dead II.
Although that was more of a remake than a sequel.
> 8. PDF support and web browser in the core OS.
/own/ the ebook market...
9. Licence Palm eReader, or pay to have uBook ported.
This device would
My mom (age 62) had never used a computer before, I installed SuSE 8.1 on a older machine running KDE. I made a taskbar icon for solitare and mozilla (her homepage is set to her Yahoo email account).
Before her last power-outage her machine had 290 days uptime (logged into KDE, 24/7), no viruses, no spyware, no glitches.
Now, she is a happy Ubuntu Dapper user. (The admitedly old HD in her machine started to fail. (Current uptime of 15days, darn power outages)) The grandkids really like Potatoguy, and have no problems using it for Cartoon Network and stuff like that.
In short, It Just Works. She has no interest in adding new software, any hardware she asks me first anyway as she has no idea what to buy. (90+% of the hardware out there Just Works anyway)
So for anyone like her who uses their computer for email, web-browsing, and solitare, Linux already meets their needs, with less annoyance and lower cost than Windows.