With VMware Server (which is free) you can run as many OS' as you like, together. I typically have one Windows (for IE6), one OS X (for Safari), and 2 Ubuntu's (one Feisty, and another is a 'server' running Dapper). That works ok if you have a recent computer with enough ram.
The passwords are hashed so if the database is exposed (because of a hack, or a bug), a malicious person can't figure out what the password is for everyone.
Hell, I'm wondering if it'll even work with boot camp. Last time i tried, it didn't work. (the liveCD wouldn't go into the right video mode, and the windows installer didn't work).
aha, thanks for that answer. I've been wondering about that for a while now, and it seems like the answer wasn't easy to find online. When Feisty comes out, I'll try to see if it works on an iMac.
I actually meant to say "some small devices (most MP3 players and such)". I know the iPod is an exception (when formatted by a mac). Most mp3 players by other manufacturers use FAT, and the iPod when you formatted it for Windows.
As for Linux being able to read HFS+: I'm not so sure about that. Wikipedia claims there's 'some Linux' support, but I don't know if that means that only some distro's support it, or if it's supported in a limited fashion (like NTFS was until recently). Have you actually tried reading/writing a HFS+ filesystem with Linux?
Besides, FAT's simplicity, for all its limitations, makes it a good candidate if you make an embedded device. It's well documented, has a relatively low overhead compared to other filesystems, and you don't need stuff like file permissions and support for files over 2GB anyway on most embedded things.
FAT is still used today in some small devices (MP3 players and such) and is useful if you want to share files between different operating systems (Windows, OS X and Linux). Read/Write support for FAT is included by default in all 3 operating systems. AFAIK, there's no other filesystem that is commonly supported like that.
FUSE/ntfs-3g is changing this, though, so now at least Linux and Windows can read/write to a common file system now, and FUSE works on Mac OS X too (but it's not easy to install yet. Maybe Apple will include a fork in a future update and claim it's an innovation, but that's a whole other story).
I had the same issue (b0rked Xorg), but i just reinstalled Ubuntu and started over.
When you (re)install, make sure your/home folder is on a different partition, this way you can basically reinstall without losing any settings when you screw up.
For some reason the Ubuntu installer doesn't tell you that it's a good idea to have/home on a different partition, which is a shame. Ubuntu itself only takes about 5-10gigs, depending on what packages you install. use 15GB to make sure you have enough room. The rest of your disk can be used as/home and for other OS'es.
Dragdropupload . If you have to upload files regularly, you'll enjoy this extension, as you just need to drag a file from your desktop/explorer/nautilus into the upload box, you you don't have to type the path manually, or navigate through one of those sucky 'open file' dialogs.
Ubuntu has an add/remove software entry in the menu, which does a pretty good job of hiding the packages a normal user wouldn't want to install (ie., just the most popular metapackages). Ofcourse, the problem with that is that in order to keep the list short enough, a lot of packages are hidden, so you have to go look for them in synaptic anyway;).
My Siemens A50 also survived a trip in the washing machine. It died a few months later though (the display would randomly go blank, even though the phone was functional).
I'll never spend a lot on a phone. I only need Voice and SMS, the rest is unnecessary crap. I don't even need a color display.
You are aware that you don't even have to install php to be able to work on php file? They're just text files which you can open in notepad, and it sucks that there's no way of adding file types to the search function. I've just concluded that Windows search is broken (it's horribly slow anyway), and I use Copernic Desktop Search, which gets most things right (it's not perfect, though).
I already switched to Ubuntu at home, and will soon switch at work too, so I don't have to deal with crap like this any more.
Wouldn't it be better to just make it impossible to turn on the machine while you're inside it? In fact, I don't think any machine I've seen would allow that.
They could get a friend to turn on the machine for them, of course, but the friend would hopefully be able to turn it off on time too...
Perhaps you meant 'text-align'? There's no 'align' in css (and browsers don't even support it, I've tested it). Now, it basically says "align doesn't exist, you dummy. Use something else", which should give you clue. It's not like it 's easy for the validator to guess what you meant each time you use the wrong attribute.
select.mini {
width:10em;
size:1;
}
Selectboxes default to a size of 1 by themselves (I'm assuming you mean the number of rows shown). I tested with size:2, and nothing changed. This is obvious, as there's no 'size' in css. If you want selectboxes to show more options at once, you have to define that inline (<select size="x">, which is perfectly valid, even when using xhtml strict).
Maybe you should use some sort of reference when writing css, instead of inventing attributes.
Not that css is perfect and easy, but your examples kind of failed to show what's wrong with css or the validator.
I didn't know IE had a built-in function called popup (I use Firefox for everything). popup(element) in my example would be a custom function that uses window.open to open the href attribute of the anchor.
I just used that example for clarity, and to make a point that it pisses me off too that some web developers don't want to go through the trouble of providing a real link to images while there's no technical reason to not do that.
Besides, I wouldn't even write the thing inline, but use something like <a href="bleh" class="popup" (or rel="popup")>, and let an external script deal with it (and something like Lightbox is even better than a popup if you just want to show images).
Other things they do is prohibit tabbed browsing by using javascript to open an image from a thumbnail to a new window.
I can't believe how common that still mistake still is. It's not like it's hard to use the following instead: <a href="image.jpg" onclick="popup(this.href);return false;">link</a>...
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With VMware Server (which is free) you can run as many OS' as you like, together. I typically have one Windows (for IE6), one OS X (for Safari), and 2 Ubuntu's (one Feisty, and another is a 'server' running Dapper). That works ok if you have a recent computer with enough ram.
The passwords are hashed so if the database is exposed (because of a hack, or a bug), a malicious person can't figure out what the password is for everyone.
and is it served as application/xhtml+xml by default too? Because there's a certain browser by Microsoft that can't handle that...
Hell, I'm wondering if it'll even work with boot camp. Last time i tried, it didn't work. (the liveCD wouldn't go into the right video mode, and the windows installer didn't work).
WMA is popular? Since when?
aha, thanks for that answer. I've been wondering about that for a while now, and it seems like the answer wasn't easy to find online. When Feisty comes out, I'll try to see if it works on an iMac.
I actually meant to say "some small devices (most MP3 players and such)". I know the iPod is an exception (when formatted by a mac). Most mp3 players by other manufacturers use FAT, and the iPod when you formatted it for Windows.
As for Linux being able to read HFS+: I'm not so sure about that. Wikipedia claims there's 'some Linux' support, but I don't know if that means that only some distro's support it, or if it's supported in a limited fashion (like NTFS was until recently). Have you actually tried reading/writing a HFS+ filesystem with Linux?
Besides, FAT's simplicity, for all its limitations, makes it a good candidate if you make an embedded device. It's well documented, has a relatively low overhead compared to other filesystems, and you don't need stuff like file permissions and support for files over 2GB anyway on most embedded things.
FAT is still used today in some small devices (MP3 players and such) and is useful if you want to share files between different operating systems (Windows, OS X and Linux). Read/Write support for FAT is included by default in all 3 operating systems. AFAIK, there's no other filesystem that is commonly supported like that.
FUSE/ntfs-3g is changing this, though, so now at least Linux and Windows can read/write to a common file system now, and FUSE works on Mac OS X too (but it's not easy to install yet. Maybe Apple will include a fork in a future update and claim it's an innovation, but that's a whole other story).
my /home is about 70GB right now, so burning that to cd is not an option ;). I do back up to an external USB disk though.
I had the same issue (b0rked Xorg), but i just reinstalled Ubuntu and started over.
/home folder is on a different partition, this way you can basically reinstall without losing any settings when you screw up.
/home on a different partition, which is a shame. Ubuntu itself only takes about 5-10gigs, depending on what packages you install. use 15GB to make sure you have enough room. The rest of your disk can be used as /home and for other OS'es.
When you (re)install, make sure your
For some reason the Ubuntu installer doesn't tell you that it's a good idea to have
Measuring margins, padding, etc.
Besides if you're going to use images, you're pretty much forced to at least take pixel sizes into consideration.
Dragdropupload . If you have to upload files regularly, you'll enjoy this extension, as you just need to drag a file from your desktop/explorer/nautilus into the upload box, you you don't have to type the path manually, or navigate through one of those sucky 'open file' dialogs.
If you're a web developer, 'measure it' is essential (so is Firebug, and 'colourzilla').
i don't see why anyone else would need those extensions, though.
You can't uninstall it. You need to find a third-party program to remove it (I don't remember the name of it, but the tool works).
Ubuntu has an add/remove software entry in the menu, which does a pretty good job of hiding the packages a normal user wouldn't want to install (ie., just the most popular metapackages). Ofcourse, the problem with that is that in order to keep the list short enough, a lot of packages are hidden, so you have to go look for them in synaptic anyway ;).
I guess there's just too much choice available...
In fact, you can lose a case even if you've got as much money and fame as Madonna:r ism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_(song)#Plagia
My Siemens A50 also survived a trip in the washing machine. It died a few months later though (the display would randomly go blank, even though the phone was functional).
I'll never spend a lot on a phone. I only need Voice and SMS, the rest is unnecessary crap. I don't even need a color display.
You are aware that you don't even have to install php to be able to work on php file? They're just text files which you can open in notepad, and it sucks that there's no way of adding file types to the search function. I've just concluded that Windows search is broken (it's horribly slow anyway), and I use Copernic Desktop Search, which gets most things right (it's not perfect, though).
I already switched to Ubuntu at home, and will soon switch at work too, so I don't have to deal with crap like this any more.
It *is* flagged as a little more. When you update to IE7, you have to run through a complete wizard, complete with genuine advantage check (IIRC).
Wouldn't it be better to just make it impossible to turn on the machine while you're inside it? In fact, I don't think any machine I've seen would allow that.
They could get a friend to turn on the machine for them, of course, but the friend would hopefully be able to turn it off on time too...
Since nobody really knows what the hell Web 2.0 is supposed to mean, it's no surprise people keep looking up.
;-).
Besides, not unlike Wikipedia, the definition of web 2.0 changes constantly anyway
Perhaps you meant 'text-align'? There's no 'align' in css (and browsers don't even support it, I've tested it). Now, it basically says "align doesn't exist, you dummy. Use something else", which should give you clue. It's not like it 's easy for the validator to guess what you meant each time you use the wrong attribute.
Selectboxes default to a size of 1 by themselves (I'm assuming you mean the number of rows shown). I tested with size:2, and nothing changed. This is obvious, as there's no 'size' in css. If you want selectboxes to show more options at once, you have to define that inline (<select size="x">, which is perfectly valid, even when using xhtml strict).
Maybe you should use some sort of reference when writing css, instead of inventing attributes.
Not that css is perfect and easy, but your examples kind of failed to show what's wrong with css or the validator.
I didn't know IE had a built-in function called popup (I use Firefox for everything). popup(element) in my example would be a custom function that uses window.open to open the href attribute of the anchor.
I just used that example for clarity, and to make a point that it pisses me off too that some web developers don't want to go through the trouble of providing a real link to images while there's no technical reason to not do that.
Besides, I wouldn't even write the thing inline, but use something like <a href="bleh" class="popup" (or rel="popup")>, and let an external script deal with it (and something like Lightbox is even better than a popup if you just want to show images).
I can't believe how common that still mistake still is.
It's not like it's hard to use the following instead:
<a href="image.jpg" onclick="popup(this.href);return false;">link</a>...
If you still have to order them, you'll never get them in time. Ship-it is way too slow.
;).
I guess you'll have to burn them yourself. You probably won't need a lot anyway, you'll be kicked out soon enough