Alas, most of you don't have the benefit of a union and now no longer have pensions, paid vacations, and have to work more than 40 hours a week without overtime pay. It's sad.
Huh? I've been sharing files over bluetooth for a couple of years, in both KDE and Windows. In fact, because of MS's wanting you to not be able to connect to a network without a copy of Win 7 Pro on the network, bluetooth is faster than Samba over wifi! Of course, the Windows machine needs a third-party app to run the bluetooth dongle (kubuntu does not).
I guess I won't be trying this distro out...
Would someone please explain to me why they think that comment is a troll? 100% on-topic, 100% factual, didn't bash anyone. The two of you who downmodded that should never EVER have mod points.
You have been able to use Bluetooth file-sharing in GNOME2 for years now, but that functionality was never actually a part of GNOME2, it was provided by an outside package.
Ah, like Windows then.
If you really are getting higher speeds with Bluetooth than with Wifi then your wireless settings are screwed up or you're having some serious interference.
Well, video streams are fine so it isn't the wifi. My guess is still roadblocks MS put in the OS to require W7pro that Samba hasn't quite gotten past.
You must have some strange off-standard dongle.
That's possible, but it's also possible that it would have worked in Windows without the installation programs.
That's why you live in a ghetto and live in a slum.
Actually it's not IN the ghetto, just close. It's a mixed-race neighborhood of mostly working and retired people. Tha bar's about fifteen blocks or so away. I'd go to the one down the street, but I don't like the attitude of the people who work or drink there; the folks in the redneck bar in the ghetto are far friendlier and far more diverse -- everybody from homeless crackheads to businessmen driving new MBWs and Ford F-150s to bikers with Harleys that cost more than my car.
As to my income, I'm right at median for the nation and above median for Illinois. I'm not hurting for money, but the less I pay a landlord, the more I have to do other things with.
email is not designed to be delivered within any specific timeframe (something all the "click the link in the email we just sent you to activate your account" services would do very good to remember) - if you want instant communication than use a proper IM.
Maybe email was never designed to be instant, but I've never seen any email message take more than two or three minutes to get to the recipient.
While you can use it to change your password, you should be doing it through the OS through either Ctrl-Alt-Delete or old school (like me) through the command line.
The way they have it (obviously mis-)configured you not only can't change the email password anywhere but webmail, it doesn't even have the same parameters as the network password.
Who trained the administrators? My guess is they're MSCEs.
I never did like that outfit's cartoons; they always seemed cheezy and poorly done somehow. None of the images in it were anything like the images Tolkein drew.
As to length, I was pleased when I first heard they were shooting The Hobbit in two parts; it's a fairly long book and would have either been an exceedingly long movie, or had way too much cut out.
That's another thing I didn't like about the cartoon, in a half hour they could only cover the highlights. None of the original book's flavor was kept. It just seemed like a cheap, cheezy, artless money grab.
I'm hoping the new movies will be about 90 minutes each, and contain stuff not in the Hobbit itself, but in some of Tolkien's other tied-in work.
You see if you don't do something like that first you may just be covering up a hardware error that will bite you in the ass down the road.
Yes, I've run into that. Several years ago when I was running XP and Mandriva dual-boot, Windows started crashing, bluescreening, and hanging. I thought there was some sort of registry corruption, but it turned out that the power supply was going bad. The Linux side was fine until the supply went out completely; apparently, it's more tolerant of hardware faults than Windows.
I saw the same thing with a notebook a couple of years ago. It had a bug where if you had it set to hibernate when closing the lid on battery but do nothing when closing the lid under AC, it would hang if you closed the lid and plug it in before all the lights went out. It had this problem in both Win 7 and kubuntu. After this happened two or three times (in either OS the only way to get it back was remove and reinstall the battery), Windows crapped out completely. It didn't have Windows after that. I wonder what the theief who stole it thought when it booted into kubuntu?
OTOH, someone had an XP PC they thought was infected, but it turned out all it was infected with was toolbars and other useless crapware; there was so much stuff running TSR that its memory was maxed out before it was finished booting. All I had to do was go into control panel and uninstall the useless crapware (after resetting the admin password and removing admin rights from one of her kids' accounts, thanks to a tool a slashdotter pointed me to). It ran like brand new after that.
One reason my wife and I no longer go to church is because of the pastor making political comments in the sermons.
So find a different church. About ten years ago I attended a church down the street (close, no driving) but when the preacher prayed for Bush to have "continued wisdom" I stopped going, and walked another 5 blocks to a different one. Praying for Bush to have continued wisdom was like praying for the ocean to have continued dryness.
The problem with 99% of sequels/prequels is that they screw around with the original style and end up making a completely different type of movie than the original.
Die Hard IV. What idiot decided to cut it so it was a PG-13 movie? The theatrical version sucked, the unrated DVD version was as good as the first three.
That only works works if the original movie sucked.
That depends on what you mean by "sucked". If the first movie is a flop, there won't be a sequel.
Um, yes. Why is there something wrong with that? Just because people believe that God occasionally did miracles doesn't mean that they're science haters or something. It's only the God-haters saying that.
And one of them has mod points and modded you "troll". Let them waste another point on me, because your comment was insightful and my karma is as high as you can go.
However, it's not "god haters", you can't hate something you don't believe in. Thay're antitheists and hate, fear, and loathe religion.
Pity them. And to the moderator who modded the parent "troll", just bvecause you disagree with someone doesn't make them a troll. Whoever moddded the parent down should never get mod points! Read the damned FAQ before you moderate.
Prior to Carter, the mentally ill were basically tucked away out of sight in asylums. Then they invented effective anti-psychotic medication, and so it became possible to treat the mentally ill. Of course, a treated mentally ill person does not need to be tucked away in an asylum anymore, so they were released... and a significant portion stopped taking their medication.
Either your history is faulty, or my memory is. Reagan is the one who freed the nutballs, and it was before many of the modern tretments came about, but long after Haldol (invented in 1958), a treatment for schitzophrenia and psychosis.
When they let the crazies out, they weren't treating them! I knew one such fellow with schitzophrenia, crazy as a loon, unable to hold a job or have any kind of normal life, on drugs, and lived on the government dole. He finally got treatment (Haldol), and the last time I saw him he had a job, a girlfriend, had given up the drugs (many mentally ill people are on illegal drugs because if their illnesses, and the medical community insists that the drugs cause the illness) and was an election judge!
Note that Haldol is injected once a month, the patient does not medicate himself.
We treat the mentally ill badly in this country. Very badly. I know one woman who had an incredibly bad childhood, had clinical depression since her teen years, started on drugs as a young adult, and her "treatment" always consisted of putting her in a drug treatment facility, again on the stupid assumption that the drugs caused her illness, rather than the other way around, despite the fact that the illness came first! She finally got some good help, is now on Paxil and off the illegal drugs. But those two are the exceptions to the rule, most mentally ill people get no help whatever.
Thise homeless bugging you for spare change? Most of them have mental problems and could be useful members of society if they had access to treatment.
See your admin. File a complaint and get it in the resolution queue.
I'm too close to retiring to worry about it. There are more than one network admin (thousands of employees) and they have one guy from each shop take care of stuff like password resets and the like.
But God, I'll be glad when I'm out of this place! I'd retire today if I could live on just the pension, but I only have 2 years before I'm eligible for SS.
This shows me that Romney is indeed a buzzworder, who doesn't understand tech but knows how to throw around buzzwords. Announcing it on a phone app is retarded; what's wrong with text, email, or a web page -- not everyone has a smart phone, but everyone can access the internet.
I don't want someone that stupid to be President. We had enough stupidity with Bush, I do not want to see that repeated.
Huh? I've been sharing files over bluetooth for a couple of years, in both KDE and Windows. In fact, because of MS's wanting you to not be able to connect to a network without a copy of Win 7 Pro on the network, bluetooth is faster than Samba over wifi! Of course, the Windows machine needs a third-party app to run the bluetooth dongle (kubuntu does not).
They actually did that in a town in Arizona. My dad's red-green color blind got a ticket for running it. It was incredibly stupid of that town, something like 5% of the male population is red-green color blind, which could make that town deadly, and not just to the color blind. They're putting people's lives at risk for money!
He was PISSED when they changed stop signs from yellow to red, they were invisible to him if they were in front of foliage. Happily, they now have a white outline to them so they're no longer invisible.
You know, I kind of like the idea of deciding for myself what medication I take and when.
If you're talking about heroin or crack, sure, go ahead. But if you underdose on antibiotics, that affects ME, because you're breeding antibiotic-resistant bacteria. If you're not taking your Haldol or antidepressant, you might wind up walking into the path of my car.
I quickly looked over the new Outlook.com service and I must say I'm quite impressed.
I just looked in the litter box today, and I must say, I'm quite impressed.
Everything is clear
That would be a first for MS! We have Outlook at work (the dedicated email program) and it's the worst email client I've ever used. You have to log into the webmail component to change your email password, the password criteria are different than the mainframe and network password criteria, there are limits to mailbox and message sizes (we never had that BS with Novell's client), and they just, as Microsoft always does, completely changed the webmail interface; they moved "change password" from "Options" to the uper right hand corner, with white on yellow text. What kind of moron designs that sort of idiocy?
it works fast and the UI looks great.
I simply don't believe you. Sometimes it takes hours for an email to get to me from down the damned hall, we never had that problem with Novell and I never saw that problem with any other email system, either.
By the way, which division of Microsoft do you work for? Marketing? Because since they switched to Outlook, I hear nothing but complaints at work.
Outlook.com is also an great domain name and easy to remember.
What is so easy to remember about "outlook" unless you've been using outlook and outlook express for years? Hotmail at least had the name "mail" in in. This change from hotmail to outlook seems utterly retarded to me.
If you're not going to talk the tiny effort to press the shift key, how valuable can your contribution be? I'm lazy, but gees, too lazy to press one damned key is absurd.
I have to agree with the other respondent to your comment. You're disrespectful of those reading your comments.
As to "smelling mistaks", everyone makes mistakes, but not capitalizing is a deliberate act of willful negligence and shows an awful lot of immaturity. Grow the fuck up, boy.
I have an eye implant powered by my eye's focusing muscles. I'm 60 and have better than 20/20 vision at all distances! Science (and technology) do indeed march on. BTW, my implant is the favorite of all devices I own; I used to be 20/400 before the implant.
And the tricorders are coming closer and closer as welll. Now if they'd invent a matter replicator...
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it seems like open sores guys
Someone please moderate that comment as the flamebait it is.
Alas, most of you don't have the benefit of a union and now no longer have pensions, paid vacations, and have to work more than 40 hours a week without overtime pay. It's sad.
Huh? I've been sharing files over bluetooth for a couple of years, in both KDE and Windows. In fact, because of MS's wanting you to not be able to connect to a network without a copy of Win 7 Pro on the network, bluetooth is faster than Samba over wifi! Of course, the Windows machine needs a third-party app to run the bluetooth dongle (kubuntu does not).
I guess I won't be trying this distro out...
Would someone please explain to me why they think that comment is a troll? 100% on-topic, 100% factual, didn't bash anyone. The two of you who downmodded that should never EVER have mod points.
You have been able to use Bluetooth file-sharing in GNOME2 for years now, but that functionality was never actually a part of GNOME2, it was provided by an outside package.
Ah, like Windows then.
If you really are getting higher speeds with Bluetooth than with Wifi then your wireless settings are screwed up or you're having some serious interference.
Well, video streams are fine so it isn't the wifi. My guess is still roadblocks MS put in the OS to require W7pro that Samba hasn't quite gotten past.
You must have some strange off-standard dongle.
That's possible, but it's also possible that it would have worked in Windows without the installation programs.
That's why you live in a ghetto and live in a slum.
Actually it's not IN the ghetto, just close. It's a mixed-race neighborhood of mostly working and retired people. Tha bar's about fifteen blocks or so away. I'd go to the one down the street, but I don't like the attitude of the people who work or drink there; the folks in the redneck bar in the ghetto are far friendlier and far more diverse -- everybody from homeless crackheads to businessmen driving new MBWs and Ford F-150s to bikers with Harleys that cost more than my car.
As to my income, I'm right at median for the nation and above median for Illinois. I'm not hurting for money, but the less I pay a landlord, the more I have to do other things with.
email is not designed to be delivered within any specific timeframe (something all the "click the link in the email we just sent you to activate your account" services would do very good to remember) - if you want instant communication than use a proper IM.
Maybe email was never designed to be instant, but I've never seen any email message take more than two or three minutes to get to the recipient.
I am sure you are able to come up with a scenario which makes murder best option available.
I can't.
Says your holy book?
If it says that I must have missed that part.
Decent thing is to let him decide what he wants to do with *his* life. His, not yours or anybody else.
The DECENT thing to do is to try to talk him, not force him, into doing the right thing.
Your religious ranting is not even worth responding to.
Yet you responded anyway.
While you can use it to change your password, you should be doing it through the OS through either Ctrl-Alt-Delete or old school (like me) through the command line.
The way they have it (obviously mis-)configured you not only can't change the email password anywhere but webmail, it doesn't even have the same parameters as the network password.
Who trained the administrators? My guess is they're MSCEs.
Howso?
I never did like that outfit's cartoons; they always seemed cheezy and poorly done somehow. None of the images in it were anything like the images Tolkein drew.
As to length, I was pleased when I first heard they were shooting The Hobbit in two parts; it's a fairly long book and would have either been an exceedingly long movie, or had way too much cut out.
That's another thing I didn't like about the cartoon, in a half hour they could only cover the highlights. None of the original book's flavor was kept. It just seemed like a cheap, cheezy, artless money grab.
I'm hoping the new movies will be about 90 minutes each, and contain stuff not in the Hobbit itself, but in some of Tolkien's other tied-in work.
You see if you don't do something like that first you may just be covering up a hardware error that will bite you in the ass down the road.
Yes, I've run into that. Several years ago when I was running XP and Mandriva dual-boot, Windows started crashing, bluescreening, and hanging. I thought there was some sort of registry corruption, but it turned out that the power supply was going bad. The Linux side was fine until the supply went out completely; apparently, it's more tolerant of hardware faults than Windows.
I saw the same thing with a notebook a couple of years ago. It had a bug where if you had it set to hibernate when closing the lid on battery but do nothing when closing the lid under AC, it would hang if you closed the lid and plug it in before all the lights went out. It had this problem in both Win 7 and kubuntu. After this happened two or three times (in either OS the only way to get it back was remove and reinstall the battery), Windows crapped out completely. It didn't have Windows after that. I wonder what the theief who stole it thought when it booted into kubuntu?
OTOH, someone had an XP PC they thought was infected, but it turned out all it was infected with was toolbars and other useless crapware; there was so much stuff running TSR that its memory was maxed out before it was finished booting. All I had to do was go into control panel and uninstall the useless crapware (after resetting the admin password and removing admin rights from one of her kids' accounts, thanks to a tool a slashdotter pointed me to). It ran like brand new after that.
One reason my wife and I no longer go to church is because of the pastor making political comments in the sermons.
So find a different church. About ten years ago I attended a church down the street (close, no driving) but when the preacher prayed for Bush to have "continued wisdom" I stopped going, and walked another 5 blocks to a different one. Praying for Bush to have continued wisdom was like praying for the ocean to have continued dryness.
The problem with 99% of sequels/prequels is that they screw around with the original style and end up making a completely different type of movie than the original.
Die Hard IV. What idiot decided to cut it so it was a PG-13 movie? The theatrical version sucked, the unrated DVD version was as good as the first three.
That only works works if the original movie sucked.
That depends on what you mean by "sucked". If the first movie is a flop, there won't be a sequel.
Um, yes. Why is there something wrong with that? Just because people believe that God occasionally did miracles doesn't mean that they're science haters or something. It's only the God-haters saying that.
And one of them has mod points and modded you "troll". Let them waste another point on me, because your comment was insightful and my karma is as high as you can go.
However, it's not "god haters", you can't hate something you don't believe in. Thay're antitheists and hate, fear, and loathe religion.
Pity them. And to the moderator who modded the parent "troll", just bvecause you disagree with someone doesn't make them a troll. Whoever moddded the parent down should never get mod points! Read the damned FAQ before you moderate.
Me too. I wish I still had my copy, haven't read it in 40 years (you are referring to the Harvard Lampoon book, right?)
I didn't install it, I do database programming. Used to use NOMAD on the mainframe and loved it, now I'm stuck with (UGH!) Access on a PC.
Prior to Carter, the mentally ill were basically tucked away out of sight in asylums. Then they invented effective anti-psychotic medication, and so it became possible to treat the mentally ill. Of course, a treated mentally ill person does not need to be tucked away in an asylum anymore, so they were released... and a significant portion stopped taking their medication.
Either your history is faulty, or my memory is. Reagan is the one who freed the nutballs, and it was before many of the modern tretments came about, but long after Haldol (invented in 1958), a treatment for schitzophrenia and psychosis.
When they let the crazies out, they weren't treating them! I knew one such fellow with schitzophrenia, crazy as a loon, unable to hold a job or have any kind of normal life, on drugs, and lived on the government dole. He finally got treatment (Haldol), and the last time I saw him he had a job, a girlfriend, had given up the drugs (many mentally ill people are on illegal drugs because if their illnesses, and the medical community insists that the drugs cause the illness) and was an election judge!
Note that Haldol is injected once a month, the patient does not medicate himself.
We treat the mentally ill badly in this country. Very badly. I know one woman who had an incredibly bad childhood, had clinical depression since her teen years, started on drugs as a young adult, and her "treatment" always consisted of putting her in a drug treatment facility, again on the stupid assumption that the drugs caused her illness, rather than the other way around, despite the fact that the illness came first! She finally got some good help, is now on Paxil and off the illegal drugs. But those two are the exceptions to the rule, most mentally ill people get no help whatever.
Thise homeless bugging you for spare change? Most of them have mental problems and could be useful members of society if they had access to treatment.
What kind of network admins do you have?
Not good ones, obviously.
See your admin. File a complaint and get it in the resolution queue.
I'm too close to retiring to worry about it. There are more than one network admin (thousands of employees) and they have one guy from each shop take care of stuff like password resets and the like.
But God, I'll be glad when I'm out of this place! I'd retire today if I could live on just the pension, but I only have 2 years before I'm eligible for SS.
This shows me that Romney is indeed a buzzworder, who doesn't understand tech but knows how to throw around buzzwords. Announcing it on a phone app is retarded; what's wrong with text, email, or a web page -- not everyone has a smart phone, but everyone can access the internet.
I don't want someone that stupid to be President. We had enough stupidity with Bush, I do not want to see that repeated.
Huh? I've been sharing files over bluetooth for a couple of years, in both KDE and Windows. In fact, because of MS's wanting you to not be able to connect to a network without a copy of Win 7 Pro on the network, bluetooth is faster than Samba over wifi! Of course, the Windows machine needs a third-party app to run the bluetooth dongle (kubuntu does not).
I guess I won't be trying this distro out...
Lets put the Traffic Lights upside down
They actually did that in a town in Arizona. My dad's red-green color blind got a ticket for running it. It was incredibly stupid of that town, something like 5% of the male population is red-green color blind, which could make that town deadly, and not just to the color blind. They're putting people's lives at risk for money!
He was PISSED when they changed stop signs from yellow to red, they were invisible to him if they were in front of foliage. Happily, they now have a white outline to them so they're no longer invisible.
think about how you're gonna explain yourself to God when you're asked why you ended your life before it was meant to be.
There are a lot of athiests here, he may not believe in God (boy, is he going to be surprised when he finds out!)
You know, I kind of like the idea of deciding for myself what medication I take and when.
If you're talking about heroin or crack, sure, go ahead. But if you underdose on antibiotics, that affects ME, because you're breeding antibiotic-resistant bacteria. If you're not taking your Haldol or antidepressant, you might wind up walking into the path of my car.
I don't think you've thought this out very well.
I quickly looked over the new Outlook.com service and I must say I'm quite impressed.
I just looked in the litter box today, and I must say, I'm quite impressed.
Everything is clear
That would be a first for MS! We have Outlook at work (the dedicated email program) and it's the worst email client I've ever used. You have to log into the webmail component to change your email password, the password criteria are different than the mainframe and network password criteria, there are limits to mailbox and message sizes (we never had that BS with Novell's client), and they just, as Microsoft always does, completely changed the webmail interface; they moved "change password" from "Options" to the uper right hand corner, with white on yellow text. What kind of moron designs that sort of idiocy?
it works fast and the UI looks great.
I simply don't believe you. Sometimes it takes hours for an email to get to me from down the damned hall, we never had that problem with Novell and I never saw that problem with any other email system, either.
By the way, which division of Microsoft do you work for? Marketing? Because since they switched to Outlook, I hear nothing but complaints at work.
Outlook.com is also an great domain name and easy to remember.
What is so easy to remember about "outlook" unless you've been using outlook and outlook express for years? Hotmail at least had the name "mail" in in. This change from hotmail to outlook seems utterly retarded to me.
I can't but recommend you to try it!
No fucking way.
If you're not going to talk the tiny effort to press the shift key, how valuable can your contribution be? I'm lazy, but gees, too lazy to press one damned key is absurd.
I have to agree with the other respondent to your comment. You're disrespectful of those reading your comments.
As to "smelling mistaks", everyone makes mistakes, but not capitalizing is a deliberate act of willful negligence and shows an awful lot of immaturity. Grow the fuck up, boy.
I have an eye implant powered by my eye's focusing muscles. I'm 60 and have better than 20/20 vision at all distances! Science (and technology) do indeed march on. BTW, my implant is the favorite of all devices I own; I used to be 20/400 before the implant.
And the tricorders are coming closer and closer as welll. Now if they'd invent a matter replicator...