Not to be rude, but it's also annoying when people reply to a short parent and quote part of that parent. That messes up the experimental discussion system, where the first line of each message is shown as a preview.
its never usefull for anything, except when you are having trouble setting up the machine
Good point -- I rarely reboot my machine, and when I do, it's because of a problem. So I would find that output useful, while Joe User who shuts down for the night might find it intimidating (although I don't really see why; in my experience users ignore error/info messages rather than being worried about some text).
I am happy that they got rid of all the boot up messages on start-up, which was just distracting crud.
I always found it annoying that Windows by default shows nothing but a little green/blue thingy scrolling around -- that doesn't even show boot progress.
Before Edgy, Ubuntu has always showed nonverbose messages about which services it's starting, etc. I couldn't understand these messages when I first started using Linux (I started with Ubuntu Breezy) but after 6 months they were informative and useful to me -- it's always nice to know what service is taking a long time and things like that.
That's why I was dismayed when Edgy replaced the old boot screen with one that mimics Windows's boot screen. It's only marginally more helpful by showing boot progress (not that that's very accurate).
Now I have to resort to remove the "quiet splash" option in the Grub menu. The disadvantage to this is it's too verbose -- it shows all sort of output, causing messages to scroll by faster than I can read them.
I never thought that it was overly confusing/distracting to have the messages...I wonder what percentage of Ubuntu users share your opinion.
There is no proper usage of the itsatrap tag. Just as there is no proper usage of the yes, no, fud, and !fud tags. They don't describe the story content, but rather serve as a summary of the all the Slashdot comments -- a waste of the advantages of the tagging system.
Switchboard.com does the same thing...it's not very hard to find someone's address/phone number given their name and city.
Besides, what would MS do with your address? Snail-mail-spam you?
I usually have 10-15 windows open, distributed over 2 workspaces (in GNOME). An instance of Firefox for each workspace, bluefish, OO Writer, emacs, the file manager (Nautilus in my case), a plain text editor (gedit), and 3-5 terminals.
The Windows read/write drivers for ext3 are great...NTFS had such a hard time getting supported properly in Linux because it's closed, while ext3 is open. Here's the driver: http://www.fs-driver.org/
In my experience, most computer labs are used primarily for students to type up essays and do other school assignments. Only occasionally are they used to teach computer skills classes. If this is the case with this computer lab, the students only need a web browser (Firefox or Opera), a word processor (Abiword), and possibly a spreadsheet program (OO.o Spreadsheet). Since all of these general needs are covered by Linux, and the students shouldn't need to use detailed features of the OS, Linux should be fine. And as to why Linux and not Windows? Generally it's easier to lock down Linux for free than it is to lock Windows for free. Also, they probably won't know how to change wallpaper, play songs, etc. on a Linux computer (trust me about this one...I'm a student, and when showing Ubuntu to my classmates, they just say Linux is "old-school" and proceed to be befuddled by even the simplest tasks).
In Firefox 2.0 on Linux, the Backspace button doesn't take you back a page anymore; instead, it scrolls the page up. The new Back key shortcut is Alt+LeftArrow. This annoys me no end, since I don't like having to use two small keys versus one big one to do a common function. (There may be a way to re-enable the Backspace key, but Googling hasn't helped me.)
The laundry room is in the basement to mask out the horrible noise that comes from it when it's working, and the bathroom is in the upper floors to be more easily accessible from the bedrooms (which also tend to be on the upper floor because it's nice to have some separation from guests downstairs).
I have to agree with you that Beryl provides a lot of the "bling" -- features and effects -- that Vista does, and more (virtual desktops on a cube and wobbly windows being my two favorites).
However, having used both Vista and Beryl, it seems like Vista's interface is more consistent, garishness aside. Beryl uses effects like the "lamp" minimize and maximize (think of OS X's minimize, but fit along a wave) that are technologically more impressive than Vista's "glass" and live thumbnails, but that don't really fit with the rest of the UI.
One point I would like to give to Beryl is its customizability. Multiple skins is nice, and the incredible number of options in the "Beryl Settings Manager" lets you tweak everything...although some options could be cut.
Personally, I think a simple, clean, consistent interface that uses a minimum of effects -- maybe a little animation here and there; please no transparency -- makes for the most productivity. But that's just me.
I find a completely black, very rectangular box to be very good-looking. Completely black, meaning no lights on the outside (except maybe a small, dim power light), no windows, no silver fan grills, etc. Two black buttons, located at the top of the front of the case: Power and Reset. So that the final thing looks solid, stable, and powerful, but still doesn't attract any attention.
Perhaps I'm sounding like a luddite, but I fail to understand how having interactive whiteboards & plasma TV screens all over the building are going to make kids learn calculus or a foreign language.
You're right. I'm a freshman at a high school (Interlake High in Washington State) where most of the teachers (not the foreign language or the math teachers) have interactive whiteboards (called smartboards here). So far, the only teacher I've seen actually use the smartboard is my chemistry teacher. And even then, he only used it to circle some text in a presentation. The district spent thousands of dollars on smartboards that have no use.
How about PHP? It's an interpreted language, so no mess of compiling, and it runs (usually) on a Web server, so kids can make programs and upload them to the school server, letting them easily show other kids. The typing is pretty loose, so you don't have to worry about messy variable details. You can start the kids out with simple programs that take GET vars and process them, and introduce them to objects later. And the syntax is like C/C++, getting them nice and used to those more powerful languages if they want to learn them. The only problem is they have to know something about HTML first, but HTML is pretty simple; I learned it in 3rd grade.
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Not to be rude, but it's also annoying when people reply to a short parent and quote part of that parent. That messes up the experimental discussion system, where the first line of each message is shown as a preview.
Good point -- I rarely reboot my machine, and when I do, it's because of a problem. So I would find that output useful, while Joe User who shuts down for the night might find it intimidating (although I don't really see why; in my experience users ignore error/info messages rather than being worried about some text).
I always found it annoying that Windows by default shows nothing but a little green/blue thingy scrolling around -- that doesn't even show boot progress.
Before Edgy, Ubuntu has always showed nonverbose messages about which services it's starting, etc. I couldn't understand these messages when I first started using Linux (I started with Ubuntu Breezy) but after 6 months they were informative and useful to me -- it's always nice to know what service is taking a long time and things like that.
That's why I was dismayed when Edgy replaced the old boot screen with one that mimics Windows's boot screen. It's only marginally more helpful by showing boot progress (not that that's very accurate).
Now I have to resort to remove the "quiet splash" option in the Grub menu. The disadvantage to this is it's too verbose -- it shows all sort of output, causing messages to scroll by faster than I can read them.
I never thought that it was overly confusing/distracting to have the messages...I wonder what percentage of Ubuntu users share your opinion.
Why, though? MySQL or PgSQL are fine -- feel free to explain why others are better.
There is no proper usage of the itsatrap tag. Just as there is no proper usage of the yes, no, fud, and !fud tags. They don't describe the story content, but rather serve as a summary of the all the Slashdot comments -- a waste of the advantages of the tagging system.
Is this at all related to what Energy Innovations has been doing?
Switchboard.com does the same thing...it's not very hard to find someone's address/phone number given their name and city.
Besides, what would MS do with your address? Snail-mail-spam you?
I usually have 10-15 windows open, distributed over 2 workspaces (in GNOME). An instance of Firefox for each workspace, bluefish, OO Writer, emacs, the file manager (Nautilus in my case), a plain text editor (gedit), and 3-5 terminals.
The Windows read/write drivers for ext3 are great...NTFS had such a hard time getting supported properly in Linux because it's closed, while ext3 is open.
Here's the driver: http://www.fs-driver.org/
NTFS write: NTFS 3G. I don't know the package name/installation procedure on SuSE, but in apt the package name is ntfs-3g.
Here's a picture of what it might look like: http://guides.macrumors.com/Image:Ipodvideo.jpg
How much RAM do you have? I have FF2.0, 1.5GB, and loading all 3 Omg images simultaneously in different tabs left Firefox just fine.
In my experience, most computer labs are used primarily for students to type up essays and do other school assignments. Only occasionally are they used to teach computer skills classes.
If this is the case with this computer lab, the students only need a web browser (Firefox or Opera), a word processor (Abiword), and possibly a spreadsheet program (OO.o Spreadsheet). Since all of these general needs are covered by Linux, and the students shouldn't need to use detailed features of the OS, Linux should be fine.
And as to why Linux and not Windows? Generally it's easier to lock down Linux for free than it is to lock Windows for free. Also, they probably won't know how to change wallpaper, play songs, etc. on a Linux computer (trust me about this one...I'm a student, and when showing Ubuntu to my classmates, they just say Linux is "old-school" and proceed to be befuddled by even the simplest tasks).
In Firefox 2.0 on Linux, the Backspace button doesn't take you back a page anymore; instead, it scrolls the page up. The new Back key shortcut is Alt+LeftArrow. This annoys me no end, since I don't like having to use two small keys versus one big one to do a common function.
(There may be a way to re-enable the Backspace key, but Googling hasn't helped me.)
The laundry room is in the basement to mask out the horrible noise that comes from it when it's working, and the bathroom is in the upper floors to be more easily accessible from the bedrooms (which also tend to be on the upper floor because it's nice to have some separation from guests downstairs).
I have to agree with you that Beryl provides a lot of the "bling" -- features and effects -- that Vista does, and more (virtual desktops on a cube and wobbly windows being my two favorites).
However, having used both Vista and Beryl, it seems like Vista's interface is more consistent, garishness aside. Beryl uses effects like the "lamp" minimize and maximize (think of OS X's minimize, but fit along a wave) that are technologically more impressive than Vista's "glass" and live thumbnails, but that don't really fit with the rest of the UI.
One point I would like to give to Beryl is its customizability. Multiple skins is nice, and the incredible number of options in the "Beryl Settings Manager" lets you tweak everything...although some options could be cut.
Personally, I think a simple, clean, consistent interface that uses a minimum of effects -- maybe a little animation here and there; please no transparency -- makes for the most productivity. But that's just me.
Seems like it's a problem with Java on Windows, because I'm running FF 1.5.0.7 on Ubuntu Linux with Sun Java 1.5.0 and it loaded fine.
Mirrordot mirror for the lazy.
I find a completely black, very rectangular box to be very good-looking. Completely black, meaning no lights on the outside (except maybe a small, dim power light), no windows, no silver fan grills, etc. Two black buttons, located at the top of the front of the case: Power and Reset.
So that the final thing looks solid, stable, and powerful, but still doesn't attract any attention.
You're right. I'm a freshman at a high school (Interlake High in Washington State) where most of the teachers (not the foreign language or the math teachers) have interactive whiteboards (called smartboards here). So far, the only teacher I've seen actually use the smartboard is my chemistry teacher. And even then, he only used it to circle some text in a presentation. The district spent thousands of dollars on smartboards that have no use.
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Google for it and you get the Code of Conduct. "Don't be evil" is in the first sentence.
How about PHP? It's an interpreted language, so no mess of compiling, and it runs (usually) on a Web server, so kids can make programs and upload them to the school server, letting them easily show other kids. The typing is pretty loose, so you don't have to worry about messy variable details. You can start the kids out with simple programs that take GET vars and process them, and introduce them to objects later. And the syntax is like C/C++, getting them nice and used to those more powerful languages if they want to learn them.
The only problem is they have to know something about HTML first, but HTML is pretty simple; I learned it in 3rd grade.
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