Er is geen diplomatiek incident. De Minister van Buitenlandse zaken Verhagen heeft geen klacht ingediend want hij weet niet bij wie hij een klacht zou moeten indienen, als hij daar al behoefte aan had. De vertaling was gemaakt van Hebreeuws naar Engels en niet naar Nederlands. Niet met Babelfish want dat kent geen Hebreeuws. De journalisten zijn nog steeds welkom maar de minister denkt dat het handiger voor ze is om hun vertaalcomputer mee te nemen. Weet je toevallig niet wat de originele Nederlandse zin was, of een Nederlandstalig artikel over dit incident? Ik heb de indruk dat wat hier gepost werd ook nog eens door Babelfish gesleurd werd...
English-speaking people, use Babelfish to translate this from dutch if you want to understand it.
If you used sbackup, you can install Ubuntu normally, install sbackup, click 'restore', and it'll install all the packages you had, plus it will restore everything you chose to back up (if that's your home directory, this means all your settings). A 'restore function' on the liveCD would make it easier, but I don't see why you'd need to back up anything except your home directory (except perhaps some config files like xorg.conf,/etc/fstab & smb.conf, and/var/www if you were running a website).
Agreed. I wish it was installed by default, so it's more discoverable. They could also make it a bit easier to recover old files, because opening >16GB tar.gz files tends to take a while.
I've never seen a shop store the CC number in a cookie, as that makes no sense at all. The proper way to do it (IF you're doing the credit card handling yourself, the company I work for uses a third party to handle this), is to store the credit card in the database as soon as it's sent, and just keep it there (and delete it when you don't need it any more). You can use a regular session id if you ever need it again. There's no reason to send it back to the client.
what you said:
It should not be Wikipedia's responsibility to host vanity listings for every egomaniac, bedroom band, wannabe artist, aspiring actress, astrologer or any other nobody attention seeker. If they want publicity they should set up their own website. what I said in the grandparent post:
As long as people don't write their own articles and there's no original research... So if some clown writes his own article, by all means, delete it. But I see a lot of articles being deleted because it's somebody thinks it's wasted space. Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia in the classical sense: lack of space isn't an issue, as opposed to encyclopedae that come on DVD's or in paper.
You won't even encounter the less notable articles if you don't look for them, so they don't even cause clutter.
I personally think the whole notability thing is stupid, for a simple reason: I use Wikipedia to answer this simple question: who/what the fuck is x? If people start deleting articles just because they think x isn't important enough, how am I supposed to find out what x is, even if nobody really cares about x?
As long as people don't write their own articles and there's no original research, I don't care whether the article is deserved or not. It's not like those articles take up a lot of room, or that it makes it harder to browse wikipedia...
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock OS X will never be ready for the desktop if you have to change settings using the command line;) .
I have no idea how they got 80 movies from 128GB. DVD ISOs tend to be 7-10GB and divx rips tend to be 700MB in which case you get either 10-15 movies or over 160 movies. Most recent DVD rips are of the 2CD variety, so 1,4 GB total per movie (which gives us about 85 movies). You can see they know exactly what people use them for;).
5 bucks says that china and microsoft will control most of the world in 20 years. wouldn't surprise me a bit to learn that all government machines using vista suddenly shut down when china invades. I'd take you up on it, but i doubt $5 will be worth a damn in 20 years, especially if you're right...
I can manage fine with Thunderbird and an iCal file (shared between Rainlendar and Sunbird). This way I can see what's planned for the day/week just by looking at Rainlendar. I'm not sure how it works where you work, but meetings are usually scheduled over the phone or orally, and not by e-mail. It has the added advantage that i'm not tied to any OS. The way I work can be done on Linux, Windows and OS X (well, rainlendar doesn't work on OS X, but you have iCal there).
For me a calendar has nothing to do with communication and it's a seperate thing entirely, but I guess other people think differently about this.
I personally just don't use that feature, as under Windows I had problems with it too on my previous laptop (it becomes unstable after a while, or it just won't wake up, which is annoying if you had stuff open that you didn't save). I prefer to keep my laptop running normally when I close the lid, and I shut it down if I plan on transporting it.
There are probably laptops that work well with sleep/hibernate in Linux, but I didn't bother with researching that, as it's just not important to me. I just wanted to make sure it had Intel wireless and an nVidia video card.
Maybe sleep will work after upgrading to Gutsy, but I'm not holding my breath;).
I disagree with that. You can use xmlHTTPRequest and stuff without having to ruin it for people without javascript. It's just that people don't bother with that. You need to write your application as a regular website, then add all the web 2.0 crap with an unobtrusive javascript file.
Yep, seconded (or seventhed by now, probably). On windows it's the best. On Ubuntu I use whatever came with it (I have no idea what it's called, but it works, and it isn't bloated).
That sucks, how do you even find out what the shortcuts are? I just press print screen, and Ubuntu asks me where it wants me to save the screenshot. Why complicate things?
I have Vista running in a virtual machine (i think it has about 512MB available to it), and I really noticed a difference after disabling superfetch. It reacted faster than it did before. It's still slower than xp in a vm, but it's better. IMHO the whole caching thing is a bad idea to begin with. Computer programs shouldn't try to guess what the user's going to do next, because they get it wrong half the time anyway.
It happens to me regularely, especially when watching flv video's, especially if you close a tab while the video's still playing. I've installed flashblock which helps a bit as now only video's that I *really want* get loaded.
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English-speaking people, use Babelfish to translate this from dutch if you want to understand it.
If you used sbackup, you can install Ubuntu normally, install sbackup, click 'restore', and it'll install all the packages you had, plus it will restore everything you chose to back up (if that's your home directory, this means all your settings). A 'restore function' on the liveCD would make it easier, but I don't see why you'd need to back up anything except your home directory (except perhaps some config files like xorg.conf, /etc/fstab & smb.conf, and /var/www if you were running a website).
Agreed. I wish it was installed by default, so it's more discoverable. They could also make it a bit easier to recover old files, because opening >16GB tar.gz files tends to take a while.
I've never seen a shop store the CC number in a cookie, as that makes no sense at all. The proper way to do it (IF you're doing the credit card handling yourself, the company I work for uses a third party to handle this), is to store the credit card in the database as soon as it's sent, and just keep it there (and delete it when you don't need it any more). You can use a regular session id if you ever need it again. There's no reason to send it back to the client.
You won't even encounter the less notable articles if you don't look for them, so they don't even cause clutter.
I personally think the whole notability thing is stupid, for a simple reason:
I use Wikipedia to answer this simple question: who/what the fuck is x? If people start deleting articles just because they think x isn't important enough, how am I supposed to find out what x is, even if nobody really cares about x?
As long as people don't write their own articles and there's no original research, I don't care whether the article is deserved or not. It's not like those articles take up a lot of room, or that it makes it harder to browse wikipedia...
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock OS X will never be ready for the desktop if you have to change settings using the command line
/me installs links Perhaps you mean Lynx. (The text-based browser, not the arctic cat.) No, I don't. And elinks would be an even better candidate.I guess we'll all have to go back to the command line then... /me installs links
I can manage fine with Thunderbird and an iCal file (shared between Rainlendar and Sunbird). This way I can see what's planned for the day/week just by looking at Rainlendar. I'm not sure how it works where you work, but meetings are usually scheduled over the phone or orally, and not by e-mail. It has the added advantage that i'm not tied to any OS. The way I work can be done on Linux, Windows and OS X (well, rainlendar doesn't work on OS X, but you have iCal there).
For me a calendar has nothing to do with communication and it's a seperate thing entirely, but I guess other people think differently about this.
Why does an e-mail application need a calendar? Wouldn't it be better to just use a calendar application to handle calendar stuff?
Oh, if only we had some rich South African guy on our side...
I personally just don't use that feature, as under Windows I had problems with it too on my previous laptop (it becomes unstable after a while, or it just won't wake up, which is annoying if you had stuff open that you didn't save). I prefer to keep my laptop running normally when I close the lid, and I shut it down if I plan on transporting it.
;).
There are probably laptops that work well with sleep/hibernate in Linux, but I didn't bother with researching that, as it's just not important to me. I just wanted to make sure it had Intel wireless and an nVidia video card.
Maybe sleep will work after upgrading to Gutsy, but I'm not holding my breath
It's 2007, Linux works better on laptops than Windows nowadays (except if you want to use sleep/hibernate).Really? Most people go the other way around. What laptop/linux combo are you using and how well does it work?
I disagree with that. You can use xmlHTTPRequest and stuff without having to ruin it for people without javascript. It's just that people don't bother with that. You need to write your application as a regular website, then add all the web 2.0 crap with an unobtrusive javascript file.
The Gimp also has a screenshot feature, if you prefer it that way. (File > Acquire > screen Shot).
;).
And since we're talking about Linux, there's got to be a way to do it from the CLI too
Yep, seconded (or seventhed by now, probably). On windows it's the best. On Ubuntu I use whatever came with it (I have no idea what it's called, but it works, and it isn't bloated).
That sucks, how do you even find out what the shortcuts are? I just press print screen, and Ubuntu asks me where it wants me to save the screenshot. Why complicate things?
I'll second that. I used to use WS-FTP, but switched to Filezilla because it's free (and it allows you to throttle your uploads/downloads).
It's certainly illegal in Belgium. You can't buy phones that are locked to one provider here (and this is a good thing).
I have Vista running in a virtual machine (i think it has about 512MB available to it), and I really noticed a difference after disabling superfetch. It reacted faster than it did before. It's still slower than xp in a vm, but it's better. IMHO the whole caching thing is a bad idea to begin with. Computer programs shouldn't try to guess what the user's going to do next, because they get it wrong half the time anyway.
It happens to me regularely, especially when watching flv video's, especially if you close a tab while the video's still playing. I've installed flashblock which helps a bit as now only video's that I *really want* get loaded.