But the flipside of that is you can take as many duff shots as you want, and you'll never waste any paper. Digital photos are also easier to store than those in paper form.
As a rule of thumb, (La)TeX is the system of choice if you want to write a paper or a novel, but for banging out a quick agenda or memo with no rigid form, Word (or a Word clone) is far more convenient.
> Some of the gripes listed here really resonate with me, having just moved to an early version of Ubuntu 9.10 on my main testing-stuff laptop; it's frustrating especially that while many seemingly more esoteric things work perfectly, sound now works only in part, and even that partial success took some fiddling.
This isn't a big corporation's site. It was run by a few guys in their spare time. True, they could have backed up more, and putting the backup server online was incredibly stupid...
but the person who is to blame is the bastard who took both sites out. If you forget to lock your door, and someone uses that opportunity to burgle your house, you were partly responsible, but the police still go after the guy with your money, your valuables, your data, etc.
Either way, I do hope there is some way of rescuing that data—from what I gleam, the partitions had simply disappeared, and if mke2fs (or equivalent) hadn't been run, the data would still, in theory, be intact. It sucks. And the cretin who did this was a complete and utter twatflap.
It does. People are pissed off with Office 2007, because it means they have to spend time on a learning curve. Vista is a pain in the arse, and while Windows 7 is a bit closer to 'traditional' Windows, I still can't see people bothering to re-learn. This is why your old Auntie Enid's machine still runs virus- and malware-infested Windows 98.
There are no words strong enough to describe him. 'Cunt' doesn't even come close to describing this odious cretin. The words 'odious cretin' don't, either.
They've consistently reported anti-BBC headlines in the past and were largely responsible in bringing up the Sachsgate scandal from a mere bad-taste joke to an issue that led to the resignation of two senior members of the BBC and a suspension of the third.
The problems go deeper than that, however. I point you to Mail Watch, a website which does well to expose the figure massaging, lazy journalism and (at times) utter lies of the Mail's journalists and editors. For example, they recently ran a story about how a 'hacker had infiltrated a Home Office' web site when, in reality, an external site linked to from the Home Office's web site had had its domain registration expire and bought up by speculators, who hosted some dodgy images on there. It also overstates immigration figures, and employs Richard Littlejohn, who is a cunt.
I concur: The argument 'it's not Free' is rather rubbish, because the public doesn't give a shit.
A far better argument is this one: you have no control over your data if the company goes under and you aren't paying them. I refer you to these excellent two web posts by Jason Scott: Fuck the Cloud and Dancing on Magnolia's Grave: Fuck the Cloud II.
Seriously, if you don't use Flickr Pro, don't keep anything on there where you don't have a backup. Et cetera.
Technically, though, they're just a printer and bookseller, aren't they? A traditional publisher is also meant to publicise them and make sure they sell reasonably well (even though the cut for the author is far smaller.)
Tried to start Corel Linux on an old machine. It didn't work. Mothballed it.
Installed Ubuntu Breezy (5.10) in dual-boot with Windows XP. Worked fine, apart from the fact the wireless card wouldn't work. It was wiped with the next install of Windows.
Installed Ubuntu 7.10 on my netbook to replace the awful Xandros. It's since found its way on to my main desktop machine (triple-booting with Fedora 10 and Windows 7) and dual-booting with Vista on my (very non-techie) parents' machine.
Things have improved since the old days... although I did recently dig out a mid-90s laptop and install Debian 1.1 on it. It took less than two hours with a stack of floppies and some perseverance with dd on the host machine. I was pleasantly surprised: the TUI was incredibly easy to use for its time.
Yep, but Gnome-Do's dock is currently awful. In fact, I've yet to come across a good implementation of the Dock for GNU/Linux systems, apart from Window Maker's and GNUStep's docks, which are closer to NeXTSTEP's dock than OS X's.
I'm still confused as to why Ubuntu is using Bitstream Vera as its default font. It looks AWFUL at 9pt! The first thing I do when setting up an Ubuntu system is to switch it to FreeSans or Droid Sans.
Well, I can think the requirements for entering the Continuum, including omnipotence, a flagrant disregard for all other races and a fondness for haunting starships would be rather difficult to find...
Players could compete to claim the most on expenses (homes, fridges, televisions, diamond rings, porn, et cetera) on expenses without being caught by the News of the World.
...and that, kids, is what happens when you let FrontPage loose on some HTML. Honestly, what happened to using tables for data and CSS for positioning?
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But the flipside of that is you can take as many duff shots as you want, and you'll never waste any paper. Digital photos are also easier to store than those in paper form.
Yep.
As a rule of thumb, (La)TeX is the system of choice if you want to write a paper or a novel, but for banging out a quick agenda or memo with no rigid form, Word (or a Word clone) is far more convenient.
> Some of the gripes listed here really resonate with me, having just moved to an early version of Ubuntu 9.10 on my main testing-stuff laptop; it's frustrating especially that while many seemingly more esoteric things work perfectly, sound now works only in part, and even that partial success took some fiddling.
It's an alpha. What do you expect?
1. Alt
2. SysRQ
3. R E I S U B
4. (optional) cross fingers
You insensitive clod!
FINALLY, a degree of common sense.
This isn't a big corporation's site. It was run by a few guys in their spare time. True, they could have backed up more, and putting the backup server online was incredibly stupid...
but the person who is to blame is the bastard who took both sites out. If you forget to lock your door, and someone uses that opportunity to burgle your house, you were partly responsible, but the police still go after the guy with your money, your valuables, your data, etc.
Either way, I do hope there is some way of rescuing that data—from what I gleam, the partitions had simply disappeared, and if mke2fs (or equivalent) hadn't been run, the data would still, in theory, be intact. It sucks. And the cretin who did this was a complete and utter twatflap.
Leonovo: We sell a twelve-point-one-inch lump of computer, and stuff shit in it. It's what we do.
Aren't Dell's OEM installs of Ubuntu mostly vanilla? If so, all they need to do is publicise the FLOSS option more.
It does. People are pissed off with Office 2007, because it means they have to spend time on a learning curve. Vista is a pain in the arse, and while Windows 7 is a bit closer to 'traditional' Windows, I still can't see people bothering to re-learn. This is why your old Auntie Enid's machine still runs virus- and malware-infested Windows 98.
A lot of people do put the date in the filename. That doesn't stop the concept of metadata in the filename being any more silly, though.
There are no words strong enough to describe him. 'Cunt' doesn't even come close to describing this odious cretin. The words 'odious cretin' don't, either.
Well, let's take a look.
They've consistently reported anti-BBC headlines in the past and were largely responsible in bringing up the Sachsgate scandal from a mere bad-taste joke to an issue that led to the resignation of two senior members of the BBC and a suspension of the third.
The problems go deeper than that, however. I point you to Mail Watch, a website which does well to expose the figure massaging, lazy journalism and (at times) utter lies of the Mail's journalists and editors. For example, they recently ran a story about how a 'hacker had infiltrated a Home Office' web site when, in reality, an external site linked to from the Home Office's web site had had its domain registration expire and bought up by speculators, who hosted some dodgy images on there. It also overstates immigration figures, and employs Richard Littlejohn, who is a cunt.
They also pander to their audiences regularly: for example, they have been caught campaigning both for AND against the HPV (cervical cancer) vaccine in different nations.
In short, even though the idea of a 'search engine tax' is laughable, the Daily Mail is in no way deserving of your trust. Q.E.D.
I concur: The argument 'it's not Free' is rather rubbish, because the public doesn't give a shit.
A far better argument is this one: you have no control over your data if the company goes under and you aren't paying them. I refer you to these excellent two web posts by Jason Scott: Fuck the Cloud and Dancing on Magnolia's Grave: Fuck the Cloud II.
Seriously, if you don't use Flickr Pro, don't keep anything on there where you don't have a backup. Et cetera.
Technically, though, they're just a printer and bookseller, aren't they? A traditional publisher is also meant to publicise them and make sure they sell reasonably well (even though the cut for the author is far smaller.)
But MS Virtual PC uses software virtualisation.
Things have improved since the old days... although I did recently dig out a mid-90s laptop and install Debian 1.1 on it. It took less than two hours with a stack of floppies and some perseverance with dd on the host machine. I was pleasantly surprised: the TUI was incredibly easy to use for its time.
Yep, but Gnome-Do's dock is currently awful. In fact, I've yet to come across a good implementation of the Dock for GNU/Linux systems, apart from Window Maker's and GNUStep's docks, which are closer to NeXTSTEP's dock than OS X's.
I'm still confused as to why Ubuntu is using Bitstream Vera as its default font. It looks AWFUL at 9pt! The first thing I do when setting up an Ubuntu system is to switch it to FreeSans or Droid Sans.
Istanbul is quite a good one.
You have xournal for tablets, but multi-touch is a mess, I'll give you that.
They're delivered ad-hoc to the phones. There's an option to distribute them ad-hoc.
Well, I can think the requirements for entering the Continuum, including omnipotence, a flagrant disregard for all other races and a fondness for haunting starships would be rather difficult to find...
oh, right.
Jacqui Smith: Expenses Raider?
Players could compete to claim the most on expenses (homes, fridges, televisions, diamond rings, porn, et cetera) on expenses without being caught by the News of the World.
Well, at least it now comes with some nice themes installed (but not activated) by default, and the new usplash and GDM are much better than before.
...and that, kids, is what happens when you let FrontPage loose on some HTML. Honestly, what happened to using tables for data and CSS for positioning?
Think something running on a PIC or other machine-on-a-chip, with all the unused I/O ports lopped off.