This is not a troll. This is a truth. Some of the reasons why things are the way they are have no meaning to someone who just wants something better then windows. He indicated that he did read the man page. It's not obvious to someone new that man uses vi to display the help. He used man, not vi so he would not have had any idea that he could have used Shift-ZZ or q! or whatever. The problem with the basic stuff is it's not fun for the hacker. Doing the mundane things like making the interface nicer for new users isn't fun....it's tedious. There in lies the issue. If it's good enough for the hacker, it doesn't get work. Good enough for the hacker is not good enough for the user.
No you DON'T need to know this to install Windows. I have never had to do anything specific to the motherboard. Graphics card, sure but not the motherboard. SP2 isn't required for USB 2 either. My machine had SP1 on it when it shipped and we used USB 2 all along.
Man if I had mod points.....zealotry is the issue at hand here. You not going to convince anyone by telling them that Windows sucks. Even if it's true that Windows indeed does suck, the parent is right...for a large amount of people Windows is fine even with the lumps.
That would depend. this may sound like a joke, but here goes.....
What if there was a issue on one part of the screen and that part always had democrats on the left and republicans on the right?? What if the button areas are too big/too small? This is just anecdotal. Touch screens are inaccurate sometimes. I don't think that the software would even need to be hacked to do this. If I were to "rig" an election, I would definitely not make it viewable to the voter!;)
Verizon has already done this with the Migo phone and the new application for finding you kids called VZ Chaperone. The application is free on the parents phone once the service is setup on the LG Migo.
Right on the money. Do not fall into the Slash think!
It's NOT wrong for a organization(governmental or not) to CORRECT the media! The media coverage especially from CNN, MSNBC AND Fox News has all been biased in different directions (Liberal for CNN and MSNBC, Conservative for Fox News). Noone has covered all the good that has been done in Iraq thus far. There has been deaths....The Bush admin doesn't deny it. War is hell. The total truth of the Iraq war won't come out until well after it's done. There may be classified information that will reveal proof of WMD or other justification for the war, but what most liberals do not get is we can't divulge things that may be damaging to the safety of our servicemen. Yes their safety IS threatened already. That is just a fact of life in Iraq....you have insurgents gunning for you. Bush is right.....we cannot leave Iraq without a stable government. Also, I have yet to hear anything out of the military that states they think they should be leaving. Liberals will say that this is becaus ethey have to say what Rummy says but that's not true. Our military leaders have every right we do and can have their own opinion. They may have to DO what Rumsfeld and company say, but they can have and do have their own opinions and have shared them as well.
Ok....Slashdot must be borked.....all of these replies to my comment about stuff only working on windows (by the way, the link works just fine if you have the new Flash 9 Beta) and I didn't even say anything about it except that this whole posts is OLD NEWS!
Yeah it is, but it shouldn't be. I am also pragmatic. I would rather have the binary blob then non-functional 3D on a Linux desktop. In this case, it's really no worse then Windows.....
This brings up a good point....I NEVER used #!/bin/sh for ANY script and expect to get BASH. In shell scripting, you should ALWAYS put the shell you need in the first line. Don't just blindly put in #!/bin/sh and expect your bash specific code to work fine. If your using bash, put the path to bash in there. If your using something else like ksh or pdksh then put the path to that in there. Don't expect #!/bin/sh to always point to bash or any other shell.
Here's what I would do....in the next upgrade, only count on Edgy to Whatever the next name is. Discount the issues with Dapper to the next version after Edgy. Recommend to those users that:
1. They do a fresh install. 2. If on Dapper, upgrade to Edgy then the next version. 3. If worse, do all the upgrades in between.....but recommend fresh install.
I myself did not mind having to do a fresh install, but concur that the apt-method is horribly broken. Needs to be rectified for the next upgrade. EVEN then.....do a backup and download the iso as you will want to have it for future fresh installs or for passing out at LUG meetings.
Wireless was very good on Edgy. Only thing I did have to do was download the intel firmware for my ipw2200 and copy it to/lib/firmware and I probably didn't have to but I rebooted. That said, Ubuntu REALLY needs to work on this in the next release. They need to give options and let us do the upgrade a few ways. We should be able to change the source.list OR use the update manager. Since even update manager uses apt and deb packages, it should be a no brainer but it isn't Granted, you will STILL have issues with non official repos that we HAVE to use to get MP3, Windows Media and DVD working as Ubuntu cannot ship these due to legal reasons.
The real issue is having to have all of these other repos for support like DVD/MP3 and others causing things to muck up. I think this is the real issue. It's not Ubuntu's fault. What I would like to see for the next Ubuntu is for Mark Shuttleworth to pony up the bucks for MP3 support as well as DVD support and possibly Microsoft and Quicktime codec support.
Answer me this....WHY does the damn chip need to hold anything OTHER then the CC#, Expiration Date and your name?? It doesn't. If it does, that's pretty crappy.
Even the hot dog cart outside takes credit cards now.
NOT informative. The issue for Linux vendors is if there is a piece of software they want to use that is GPLv3, they CAN'T use it! If GPLv2 and GPLv3 are incompatible, then you can't have GPLv3 software combined with GPLv2 software.
Care to post references? I don't see any huge mormon influence in any of the councils or troops I have been involved with over the years. In fact, I have seen mostly UMC and Lutheran Churches and even some schools have scouting branches. In our Council, Simon Kenton, I have seen no evidence of any religion coming out at all. In fact, it's probably 70-80 percent secular.
The Church of God near my house has a different form of scouting. I do not remember the exact name of the group, but there is a national presence with this group as well. They don't have a membership the size of the BSA, but they are there. This organization truly is evangelistic in their methods and they definitely are a Christian organization.
Check out the troops when your son is of age and check out the true rules and leadership materials. They don't really focus on any religion. They ask that you profess a religion. They do refer to god in their laws but there's no real reference to the bible anywhere that I can find in my training materials that I have gotten thus far. The national organization is a fine one and they have made sound decisions in my opinion. The life experiences I have gotten in scouts were almost all entirely secular in nature and very valuable.
It still is. If you'd go through the leader fast start training it gives you alot of things you should try snd do during the meeting....in my sons pack they did none of this. Also, important to note, when looking at the BSA materials, no where does it state you MUST be Christian, Jew, Muslim or whatever. It just says that it must be a part of your life and a important part at that. The council we're in seems to have it's head on straight and does not push Christianity at all at any level. If they did, then they would not be a haunted woods thing at our boy scout camp.
RTFA....this is not a award from the BSA. It's only in the LA Council. Now I don't know if this is council driven AND BSA Approved or only council driven. The article says that this is the LA Area Council that is involved.
One thing that was important to me is that this particular badge is only in the LA area council. I thought National had to be the one to do the badge manuals. I did not think A council could have a specific Merit Badge. Oh sure, some councils and packs/troops have a specific award for something done like a special badge for attending a event or a special award for winning the council pinewood derby or something like that, but the main awards....the one where you have to get a book and go work with a merit badge councilor and the ones that go on your sash are usually approved by the BSA.
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This is not a troll. This is a truth. Some of the reasons why things are the way they are have no meaning to someone who just wants something better then windows. He indicated that he did read the man page. It's not obvious to someone new that man uses vi to display the help. He used man, not vi so he would not have had any idea that he could have used Shift-ZZ or q! or whatever. The problem with the basic stuff is it's not fun for the hacker. Doing the mundane things like making the interface nicer for new users isn't fun....it's tedious. There in lies the issue. If it's good enough for the hacker, it doesn't get work. Good enough for the hacker is not good enough for the user.
This is related to hardware support how??
No you DON'T need to know this to install Windows. I have never had to do anything specific to the motherboard. Graphics card, sure but not the motherboard. SP2 isn't required for USB 2 either. My machine had SP1 on it when it shipped and we used USB 2 all along.
Man if I had mod points.....zealotry is the issue at hand here. You not going to convince anyone by telling them that Windows sucks. Even if it's true that Windows indeed does suck, the parent is right...for a large amount of people Windows is fine even with the lumps.
BINGO!
That would depend. this may sound like a joke, but here goes.....
;)
What if there was a issue on one part of the screen and that part always had democrats on the left and republicans on the right?? What if the button areas are too big/too small? This is just anecdotal. Touch screens are inaccurate sometimes. I don't think that the software would even need to be hacked to do this. If I were to "rig" an election, I would definitely not make it viewable to the voter!
Verizon has already done this with the Migo phone and the new application for finding you kids called VZ Chaperone. The application is free on the parents phone once the service is setup on the LG Migo.
Right on the money. Do not fall into the Slash think!
It's NOT wrong for a organization(governmental or not) to CORRECT the media! The media coverage especially from CNN, MSNBC AND Fox News has all been biased in different directions (Liberal for CNN and MSNBC, Conservative for Fox News). Noone has covered all the good that has been done in Iraq thus far. There has been deaths....The Bush admin doesn't deny it. War is hell. The total truth of the Iraq war won't come out until well after it's done. There may be classified information that will reveal proof of WMD or other justification for the war, but what most liberals do not get is we can't divulge things that may be damaging to the safety of our servicemen. Yes their safety IS threatened already. That is just a fact of life in Iraq....you have insurgents gunning for you. Bush is right.....we cannot leave Iraq without a stable government. Also, I have yet to hear anything out of the military that states they think they should be leaving. Liberals will say that this is becaus ethey have to say what Rummy says but that's not true. Our military leaders have every right we do and can have their own opinion. They may have to DO what Rumsfeld and company say, but they can have and do have their own opinions and have shared them as well.
Ok....Slashdot must be borked.....all of these replies to my comment about stuff only working on windows (by the way, the link works just fine if you have the new Flash 9 Beta) and I didn't even say anything about it except that this whole posts is OLD NEWS!
Yeah it is, but it shouldn't be. I am also pragmatic. I would rather have the binary blob then non-functional 3D on a Linux desktop. In this case, it's really no worse then Windows.....
This was shown on CommandN and commented on and blogged to death since FEBRUARY! GOSH!
This brings up a good point....I NEVER used #!/bin/sh for ANY script and expect to get BASH. In shell scripting, you should ALWAYS put the shell you need in the first line. Don't just blindly put in #!/bin/sh and expect your bash specific code to work fine. If your using bash, put the path to bash in there. If your using something else like ksh or pdksh then put the path to that in there. Don't expect #!/bin/sh to always point to bash or any other shell.
Here's what I would do....in the next upgrade, only count on Edgy to Whatever the next name is. Discount the issues with Dapper to the next version after Edgy. Recommend to those users that:
1. They do a fresh install.
2. If on Dapper, upgrade to Edgy then the next version.
3. If worse, do all the upgrades in between.....but recommend fresh install.
I myself did not mind having to do a fresh install, but concur that the apt-method is horribly broken. Needs to be rectified for the next upgrade. EVEN then.....do a backup and download the iso as you will want to have it for future fresh installs or for passing out at LUG meetings.
Wireless was very good on Edgy. Only thing I did have to do was download the intel firmware for my ipw2200 and copy it to /lib/firmware and I probably didn't have to but I rebooted. That said, Ubuntu REALLY needs to work on this in the next release. They need to give options and let us do the upgrade a few ways. We should be able to change the source.list OR use the update manager. Since even update manager uses apt and deb packages, it should be a no brainer but it isn't Granted, you will STILL have issues with non official repos that we HAVE to use to get MP3, Windows Media and DVD working as Ubuntu cannot ship these due to legal reasons.
The real issue is having to have all of these other repos for support like DVD/MP3 and others causing things to muck up. I think this is the real issue. It's not Ubuntu's fault. What I would like to see for the next Ubuntu is for Mark Shuttleworth to pony up the bucks for MP3 support as well as DVD support and possibly Microsoft and Quicktime codec support.
Um.....this bill is dated April 6, 2006. It's bene around a while and doesn't violate any law....even this one proposes by Rockwell.
This bill came out of the house. Bush just signed it. It wasn't a Executive Order.
Realtime support should make things better latency wise with audio. Lots of audio specific distros out there will go away once this is mainstreamed.
Answer me this....WHY does the damn chip need to hold anything OTHER then the CC#, Expiration Date and your name?? It doesn't. If it does, that's pretty crappy.
Even the hot dog cart outside takes credit cards now.
NOT informative. The issue for Linux vendors is if there is a piece of software they want to use that is GPLv3, they CAN'T use it! If GPLv2 and GPLv3 are incompatible, then you can't have GPLv3 software combined with GPLv2 software.
Care to post references? I don't see any huge mormon influence in any of the councils or troops I have been involved with over the years. In fact, I have seen mostly UMC and Lutheran Churches and even some schools have scouting branches. In our Council, Simon Kenton, I have seen no evidence of any religion coming out at all. In fact, it's probably 70-80 percent secular.
The Church of God near my house has a different form of scouting. I do not remember the exact name of the group, but there is a national presence with this group as well. They don't have a membership the size of the BSA, but they are there. This organization truly is evangelistic in their methods and they definitely are a Christian organization.
Check out the troops when your son is of age and check out the true rules and leadership materials. They don't really focus on any religion. They ask that you profess a religion. They do refer to god in their laws but there's no real reference to the bible anywhere that I can find in my training materials that I have gotten thus far. The national organization is a fine one and they have made sound decisions in my opinion. The life experiences I have gotten in scouts were almost all entirely secular in nature and very valuable.
No they don't need it. Remember, Windows is for the idiot who has trouble dealing with multiple windows....ad virtual desktops in there and WHOA!!!!
It still is. If you'd go through the leader fast start training it gives you alot of things you should try snd do during the meeting....in my sons pack they did none of this. Also, important to note, when looking at the BSA materials, no where does it state you MUST be Christian, Jew, Muslim or whatever. It just says that it must be a part of your life and a important part at that. The council we're in seems to have it's head on straight and does not push Christianity at all at any level. If they did, then they would not be a haunted woods thing at our boy scout camp.
RTFA....this is not a award from the BSA. It's only in the LA Council. Now I don't know if this is council driven AND BSA Approved or only council driven. The article says that this is the LA Area Council that is involved.
One thing that was important to me is that this particular badge is only in the LA area council. I thought National had to be the one to do the badge manuals. I did not think A council could have a specific Merit Badge. Oh sure, some councils and packs/troops have a specific award for something done like a special badge for attending a event or a special award for winning the council pinewood derby or something like that, but the main awards....the one where you have to get a book and go work with a merit badge councilor and the ones that go on your sash are usually approved by the BSA.