Just replace the name of the release in apt/sources.list do an aptitude update; aptitude upgrade
This is amazingly bad advice and we are dealing with the fallout of such on the Ubuntu support forum/lists all the fucking time. Yes, it is possible to upgrade with aptitude, but (1) don't do it if you need to ask how, and (2) "aptitude upgrade" is WRONG.
"upgrade" is aptitude's deprecated command for package upgrades in the current distro release. Its up-to-date name for the same command is safe-upgrade. It is safe because it is guaranteed never to remove packages. This is nice in general, but if you upgrade from one distribution release to the next, it is very likely to get you into dependencies that cannot be resolved. "aptitude full-upgrade" (deprecated: dist-upgrade) is the command you want; it will also remove packages if that is needed to resolve dependencies.
Laws usually have to follow the general principles of the constitution which in most cases guarantees freedom of religion, morals, etc., among other things. Fundamentalist religious morals do not follow these principles.
In my job I frequently have to clean up after the monkeys that wrote code in easy-to-learn environments like VBA, and I am 100% convinced that long-term it is better to have a threshold that results in actually having to have a bit of clue before writing code.
Call me when the $%%&$%#^ that maintains that part of it allows people to actually tune the Gnome-screensaver modules without ripping it all out and replacing it with xscreensaver.
If you had cared to, you'd know that the old way of doing this was wrong and sucked, and the gnome-screensaver maintainer is happy to accept patches to restore the functionality in a sane way.
- automatic save and restore of multi-workspace sessions
Works for me in Lucid, and I think it's for the first time that it also works for Firefox.
- handy window operations like maximize-vertically and maximize-horizontally
Middleclick or rightclick the maximize button, and IIRC it's been like this for a long time (I use Compiz though, so YMMV)
- easy to change settings like which app to handle movies, etc.
I don't know what's your problem there, rightclick file -> Properties -> Open With works fine for me, and for disk media it's even simple because it asks on insertion, else go to Edit -> Preferences -> Media in a file manager window in Ubuntu; IIRC stock Gnome has a settings entry in the desktop-wide menu System -> Preferences, too.
I remember when clicking on a menu button gave an instant response, not a several second delay for the first time in a session.
I don't try to be an ass, but works for me, I think. At least I never noticed anything annoying. And I think that your nostalgia clouds your judgement, because on the topic of delays, I remember that opening the application menu in earlier Gnome 1.x took several seconds for the first time in a session due to scanning for menu icons. And I'm sure about this because I was the one who filed the bug. It's almost instantaneous now.
I don't know about your mh trouble, but there are at least two workarounds that took 1 sec to google: http://www.mail-archive.com/evolution@lists.ximian.com/msg13503.html Anyway, I think it's a bit unreasonable that all apps will forever support data formats for edge cases just because you are too lazy to convert them. And if you find that evo is missing features that you need, well, what about using a mail client that fits your requirements?
Call me a spoilsport, but on/. we should still remember that a banana peel can indeed spin the car out if you manage to run a loaded wheel over it when your traction is already on the limit. Same as if putting a tyre on a wet patch of road or anything else with less traction - happens in racing all the time.
I don't think there is an "official" (FIA) conclusion, but there may be other "official" conclusions by courts. Anyway it may well have ultimately been the steering column, but he *did* bottom out, it's plain to see in the video. We'll never know because the FIA fucked up yet again.
On further reflection, the actual reason for going off the road was never officially determined, but on Youtube there are on-board videos of Senna on the approach to Tamburello which clearly show the car bottoming out, and it wasn't the first time either. The Wikipedia article is quite good and lists several competing theories including cold tires after the safety car period and steering column breakage. However, suspension breakage is not among the suspected reasons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Ayrton_Senna
If they can't monitor several things like flexi floors or mass dampners, then surely monitoring one thing is beyond possibility.
A flexi floor is on the car and can be measured at any time during a race weekend. This is certainly easier than monitoring the spending at a, say, Mercedes development department that officially has nothing to do with the F1 team.
You restructure to FIA to control one aspect- money with more control than it has with controlling double diffusors.
You are making no sense grammatically to begin with, I don't know what you are saying. But you mention "restructure to FIA", which shows that you have no idea about the sport. That aside, how do you propose to police it if an F1 team shows up with some brilliant new piece of kit and says that it was very cheap, the idea came to an engineer in a dream. How do you prove that *actually* it was developed with a lot of money in some other part of the team's parent company that officially has no connection to the team? I mean, Mosley envisioned accountants combing the books, which is exactly why the idea was killed last year.
You set the minuim so you can either have venturi tunnels or a high horsepower motor, but not both (duh).
Duh, venturi tunnels are cheap as hell, certainly much cheaper to get efficient downforce with than today's regulation-limited aerodynamics. Indycar has them, what more do you need to know? If you set the limit so low that you can't have both venturi tunnels and high-horsepower engines, then you have killed F1, which is supposed to be the pinnacle of motorsports.
Besides, check out how cheap Colin Chapman's cars where compared to today's standards, how fast, and how deadly.
Your lack of imagination is pretty much what is killing motorsports.
I can assure you that it has no effect whatsoever on motorsports.
It's true that a suspension part going through his helmet is what killed Senna, but he went off the road in the first place because his car bottomed out on a bump into the Tamburello corner. It's pretty reasonable to argue that this wouldn't have happened with an active suspension, especially since drivers - and most of all Senna - had been complaining all season that the removal of active suspension from cars that were built for it makes them difficult to control. As far as I am concerned this premature removal was yet another error of the governing body, the FIA. And generally, the FIA is what really is wrong with F1.
Didn't know that Max Mosley posts on/. Welcome. Have you still not understood that when the FIA cannot even police double diffusers, flexi floors and mass dampers correctly, it has no way whatsover of policing the financials of the McLaren Group or Mercedes?
Otherwise, yes, great idea.... oh wait, the cars would have movable aerodynamics and huge venturi tunnels. They would easily pull >5 g even on a shoestring budget and do at least 400 kmph in Monza, thus forcing spectators to stands located a mile from the track. It's a pity, but the 60ies won't come back.h
Well, while I don't really mind the button order in Lucid, I do have to say that the top left window corner does become a bit crammed with the menus being there, too. OSX does not have this problem because the windows don't have their own menus.
But I like the scrollbar to the left and have used it myself as far as possible, e.g., in gnome-terminal. With the scrollbar changes that are considered (mentioned in previous posts), like making it less wide because people nowadays use wheels and touch for scrolling, and the scrollbar turning into a position indicator more than an actual scrolling device, it makes even more sense to me and I'm looking forward to trying it.
It may make most sense in terminals and text entry windows because of the other stuff you mentioned.
I agree about trade-offs having to be made, but I'm not sure that it takes away from other, maybe more important changes. Maybe they do, maybe they don't, and everyone will see it differently. Shuttleworth has made his choice, so...
I absolutely don't get what perceived obfuscation people are talking about. Just like the OP I've been running linux distros for 15 years and I agree that Slackware in 1995 was more transparent if one took the time to learn about it. It also did much, much less.
So yes, mainstream linux distros have become more complex. Debian in 2000 also seemed more complex than 95's Slackware. But that's because the systems actually do more on your behalf. And if you can learn how 95's Slackware works under the hood, you will also manage to understand Ubuntu 10.04. And once you do, its not any more obfuscated than things were 15 years ago.
And don't tell me there were less sound problems in 95.
They were on the left side in NeXTSTEP (screenshot). The reasoning, AFAIK, was that in left-to-right languages the user is focused more on the left-hand side of windows (at least those that contain text), and so that's where the scrollbar should be. To me this makes a lot of sense.
Good luck finding a torrent where somebody bothered to rip both the closed-captioning and subtitles with it
You are aware that you can download the subtitles separately from a lot of sites and can easily make any video player drop them in, yes? Not all are high-quality, but many are, and always at least good enough. In the rare case that they are out of sync with the video you have, use a player like smplayer, which has keyboard shortcuts for syncing. Takes a few seconds to make them sync at the start of the movie.
Good points. Add to that buildchain bugs or library bugs, which can take ages to figure out. Or, as in our case, hacking third-party binaries (which we need to interact with - don't ask) in hex to remove bugs that you just cannot live with. I'm not sure whether to be happy or sad that I'm not intelligent enough to be the guy who does that.
Yeah, you are correct that they removed Tomboy, I hadn't realized this yet at the time of writing. Though I'm not sure that this means that Gbrainy is the only app that depends on Mono because as far as I am aware F-spot is still in the UNE default install.
Anyway, it's all very, very weird and IMO misguided. Ignoring the mono disagreements for the purposes of this argument, Tomboy is a great little note taking app that together with its Ubuntu One syncing is a great tool for netbooks. And having Google Docs as default IMO clashes with the Ubuntu promise that Ubuntu core applications will always be FOSS.
Except that Tomboy is more like a desktop wiki, and it's great at that. Also, Tomboy syncs with Ubuntu One, which is a great thing to have especially on a netbook. Take notes on the road and have them sync automatically to your home machine via the cloud. Pulling it is a weird idea. I still love Ubuntu, but some devs do make weird decisions at times.
Ubuntu 9.10 and later come with UbuntuOne which does more or less the same thing: https://one.ubuntu.com/ So yeah, I agree that this negates at least one of the GD advantages.
I believe Tomboy and F-spot were installed by default in previous UNE releases, so if you install gbrainy it does not pull in mono, it's already there.
Except that that's not true enough to make much difference. I occasionally support a friend's Samsung NC 10, which has a first-generation Atom, a non-SSD HD, 1 GB RAM, and runs Ubuntu Netbook Edition. It loads OO.org in a breeze and it's totally ok to work with it.
And while safes with locks are great for preventing gun accidents, they also easily make the possession of a gun useless against intruders, at least unless you have one in each room of the house and the keys always with you.
There are certainly judges/juries with less pity for a 20 year old tramp than an 80 year old lady, as wrong as it is. I doubt that rapists think all that much about consequences though.. But who knows, it's possible
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Just replace the name of the release in apt/sources.list do an
aptitude update; aptitude upgrade
This is amazingly bad advice and we are dealing with the fallout of such on the Ubuntu support forum/lists all the fucking time. Yes, it is possible to upgrade with aptitude, but (1) don't do it if you need to ask how, and (2) "aptitude upgrade" is WRONG.
"upgrade" is aptitude's deprecated command for package upgrades in the current distro release. Its up-to-date name for the same command is safe-upgrade. It is safe because it is guaranteed never to remove packages. This is nice in general, but if you upgrade from one distribution release to the next, it is very likely to get you into dependencies that cannot be resolved. "aptitude full-upgrade" (deprecated: dist-upgrade) is the command you want; it will also remove packages if that is needed to resolve dependencies.
Most users should simply follow http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading
You must have misread my comment in some way or misclicked the post you wanted to reply to. I'm very much in agreement with you.
Laws usually have to follow the general principles of the constitution which in most cases guarantees freedom of religion, morals, etc., among other things. Fundamentalist religious morals do not follow these principles.
In my job I frequently have to clean up after the monkeys that wrote code in easy-to-learn environments like VBA, and I am 100% convinced that long-term it is better to have a threshold that results in actually having to have a bit of clue before writing code.
Call me when the $%%&$%#^ that maintains that part of it allows people to actually tune the Gnome-screensaver modules without ripping it all out and replacing it with xscreensaver.
If you had cared to, you'd know that the old way of doing this was wrong and sucked, and the gnome-screensaver maintainer is happy to accept patches to restore the functionality in a sane way.
- automatic save and restore of multi-workspace sessions
Works for me in Lucid, and I think it's for the first time that it also works for Firefox.
- handy window operations like maximize-vertically and maximize-horizontally
Middleclick or rightclick the maximize button, and IIRC it's been like this for a long time (I use Compiz though, so YMMV)
- easy to change settings like which app to handle movies, etc.
I don't know what's your problem there, rightclick file -> Properties -> Open With works fine for me, and for disk media it's even simple because it asks on insertion, else go to Edit -> Preferences -> Media in a file manager window in Ubuntu; IIRC stock Gnome has a settings entry in the desktop-wide menu System -> Preferences, too.
I remember when clicking on a menu button gave an instant response,
not a several second delay for the first time in a session.
I don't try to be an ass, but works for me, I think. At least I never noticed anything annoying. And I think that your nostalgia clouds your judgement, because on the topic of delays, I remember that opening the application menu in earlier Gnome 1.x took several seconds for the first time in a session due to scanning for menu icons. And I'm sure about this because I was the one who filed the bug. It's almost instantaneous now.
I don't know about your mh trouble, but there are at least two workarounds that took 1 sec to google: http://www.mail-archive.com/evolution@lists.ximian.com/msg13503.html
Anyway, I think it's a bit unreasonable that all apps will forever support data formats for edge cases just because you are too lazy to convert them. And if you find that evo is missing features that you need, well, what about using a mail client that fits your requirements?
Call me a spoilsport, but on /. we should still remember that a banana peel can indeed spin the car out if you manage to run a loaded wheel over it when your traction is already on the limit. Same as if putting a tyre on a wet patch of road or anything else with less traction - happens in racing all the time.
I don't think there is an "official" (FIA) conclusion, but there may be other "official" conclusions by courts. Anyway it may well have ultimately been the steering column, but he *did* bottom out, it's plain to see in the video. We'll never know because the FIA fucked up yet again.
On further reflection, the actual reason for going off the road was never officially determined, but on Youtube there are on-board videos of Senna on the approach to Tamburello which clearly show the car bottoming out, and it wasn't the first time either. The Wikipedia article is quite good and lists several competing theories including cold tires after the safety car period and steering column breakage. However, suspension breakage is not among the suspected reasons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Ayrton_Senna
If they can't monitor several things like flexi floors or mass dampners, then surely monitoring one thing is beyond possibility.
A flexi floor is on the car and can be measured at any time during a race weekend. This is certainly easier than monitoring the spending at a, say, Mercedes development department that officially has nothing to do with the F1 team.
You restructure to FIA to control one aspect- money with more control than it has with controlling double diffusors.
You are making no sense grammatically to begin with, I don't know what you are saying. But you mention "restructure to FIA", which shows that you have no idea about the sport. That aside, how do you propose to police it if an F1 team shows up with some brilliant new piece of kit and says that it was very cheap, the idea came to an engineer in a dream. How do you prove that *actually* it was developed with a lot of money in some other part of the team's parent company that officially has no connection to the team? I mean, Mosley envisioned accountants combing the books, which is exactly why the idea was killed last year.
You set the minuim so you can either have venturi tunnels or a high horsepower motor, but not both (duh).
Duh, venturi tunnels are cheap as hell, certainly much cheaper to get efficient downforce with than today's regulation-limited aerodynamics. Indycar has them, what more do you need to know? If you set the limit so low that you can't have both venturi tunnels and high-horsepower engines, then you have killed F1, which is supposed to be the pinnacle of motorsports.
Besides, check out how cheap Colin Chapman's cars where compared to today's standards, how fast, and how deadly.
Your lack of imagination is pretty much what is killing motorsports.
I can assure you that it has no effect whatsoever on motorsports.
It's true that a suspension part going through his helmet is what killed Senna, but he went off the road in the first place because his car bottomed out on a bump into the Tamburello corner. It's pretty reasonable to argue that this wouldn't have happened with an active suspension, especially since drivers - and most of all Senna - had been complaining all season that the removal of active suspension from cars that were built for it makes them difficult to control. As far as I am concerned this premature removal was yet another error of the governing body, the FIA. And generally, the FIA is what really is wrong with F1.
So you set a dollar limit and allow any tech.
This is not that hard.
Didn't know that Max Mosley posts on /. Welcome. Have you still not understood that when the FIA cannot even police double diffusers, flexi floors and mass dampers correctly, it has no way whatsover of policing the financials of the McLaren Group or Mercedes?
Otherwise, yes, great idea .... oh wait, the cars would have movable aerodynamics and huge venturi tunnels. They would easily pull >5 g even on a shoestring budget and do at least 400 kmph in Monza, thus forcing spectators to stands located a mile from the track. It's a pity, but the 60ies won't come back.h
Well, while I don't really mind the button order in Lucid, I do have to say that the top left window corner does become a bit crammed with the menus being there, too. OSX does not have this problem because the windows don't have their own menus.
But I like the scrollbar to the left and have used it myself as far as possible, e.g., in gnome-terminal. With the scrollbar changes that are considered (mentioned in previous posts), like making it less wide because people nowadays use wheels and touch for scrolling, and the scrollbar turning into a position indicator more than an actual scrolling device, it makes even more sense to me and I'm looking forward to trying it.
It may make most sense in terminals and text entry windows because of the other stuff you mentioned.
I agree about trade-offs having to be made, but I'm not sure that it takes away from other, maybe more important changes. Maybe they do, maybe they don't, and everyone will see it differently. Shuttleworth has made his choice, so ...
I absolutely don't get what perceived obfuscation people are talking about. Just like the OP I've been running linux distros for 15 years and I agree that Slackware in 1995 was more transparent if one took the time to learn about it. It also did much, much less.
So yes, mainstream linux distros have become more complex. Debian in 2000 also seemed more complex than 95's Slackware. But that's because the systems actually do more on your behalf. And if you can learn how 95's Slackware works under the hood, you will also manage to understand Ubuntu 10.04. And once you do, its not any more obfuscated than things were 15 years ago.
And don't tell me there were less sound problems in 95.
They were on the left side in NeXTSTEP (screenshot). The reasoning, AFAIK, was that in left-to-right languages the user is focused more on the left-hand side of windows (at least those that contain text), and so that's where the scrollbar should be. To me this makes a lot of sense.
Good luck finding a torrent where somebody bothered to rip both the closed-captioning and subtitles with it
You are aware that you can download the subtitles separately from a lot of sites and can easily make any video player drop them in, yes? Not all are high-quality, but many are, and always at least good enough. In the rare case that they are out of sync with the video you have, use a player like smplayer, which has keyboard shortcuts for syncing. Takes a few seconds to make them sync at the start of the movie.
Good points. Add to that buildchain bugs or library bugs, which can take ages to figure out. Or, as in our case, hacking third-party binaries (which we need to interact with - don't ask) in hex to remove bugs that you just cannot live with. I'm not sure whether to be happy or sad that I'm not intelligent enough to be the guy who does that.
Yeah, you are correct that they removed Tomboy, I hadn't realized this yet at the time of writing. Though I'm not sure that this means that Gbrainy is the only app that depends on Mono because as far as I am aware F-spot is still in the UNE default install.
Anyway, it's all very, very weird and IMO misguided. Ignoring the mono disagreements for the purposes of this argument, Tomboy is a great little note taking app that together with its Ubuntu One syncing is a great tool for netbooks. And having Google Docs as default IMO clashes with the Ubuntu promise that Ubuntu core applications will always be FOSS.
* What about the live cd/usb?
What about it? You can install apps in the Live CD, and IIRC if you have an USB stick attached you can even do so persistently.
just for some virtual post-it notes.
Except that Tomboy is more like a desktop wiki, and it's great at that. Also, Tomboy syncs with Ubuntu One, which is a great thing to have especially on a netbook. Take notes on the road and have them sync automatically to your home machine via the cloud. Pulling it is a weird idea. I still love Ubuntu, but some devs do make weird decisions at times.
Ubuntu 9.10 and later come with UbuntuOne which does more or less the same thing: https://one.ubuntu.com/
So yeah, I agree that this negates at least one of the GD advantages.
I believe Tomboy and F-spot were installed by default in previous UNE releases, so if you install gbrainy it does not pull in mono, it's already there.
OO.o is bloated and slow. Google Docs isn't.
Except that that's not true enough to make much difference. I occasionally support a friend's Samsung NC 10, which has a first-generation Atom, a non-SSD HD, 1 GB RAM, and runs Ubuntu Netbook Edition. It loads OO.org in a breeze and it's totally ok to work with it.
And while safes with locks are great for preventing gun accidents, they also easily make the possession of a gun useless against intruders, at least unless you have one in each room of the house and the keys always with you.
There are certainly judges/juries with less pity for a 20 year old tramp than an 80 year old lady, as wrong as it is. I doubt that rapists think all that much about consequences though.. But who knows, it's possible