I wasn't blaming Microsoft, I was just pointing out that it's a problem that from what I've heard usually only happens on Microsoft OSes. Occasionally Debian's apt-get remove will leave a few packages, but that's only if you use apt-get instead of aptitude. Aptitude is newer and does a more complete job than apt-get, in which case if stuff's left it's because you used a sort-of-outdated un/installer.
Do you have any idea how many DLLs and general bits of junk are left after uninstalling? Programs almost never uninstall cleanly in the Microsoft world.
The really weird thing, though, is that all of the really bad ones seem to have one thing in common. It's only one half of the interview that's a nightmare. Either the HR people are sane (and even nice) and the tech people are *ahem* less than plesant, or the tech interviews are cool and HR is psychotic.
Would this be like how Best Buy's little HR computer program always says "no" to me, but the actual employees start asking me to work there when I stump them on a few questions about specs? The [sort of, supposedly] tech people are nice and want to get me to work there, but the stupid HR algorithm is insanely weird.
That's been going on for years. There used to be companies offering $10,000 per exploit, so you spend a month furiously finding them, sell them 10-20 bugs, and you're set for the year. Apparently my boyfriend decided to support himself that way for a while O_o
I think what the GP meant is that after all the years of hacking together drivers, Linux has better hardware support than other minority OS's, but what the user sees is all userland GNU stuff. The underlying kernel could change, but they'd still use FF and OOo and bash. There's a TON of stuff that needs drivers in Linux, but you know what? Those hardware companies could ship binary drivers on the same cd as the Windows drivers they give with the hardware if they don't want to give open source ones. nVidia and ATi have binary drivers available because their OSS ones lack 3D acceleration. If I buy something and it has binary drivers on a cd, that's still better than the Linux drivers not existing at all. Someone can get around to reverse engineering it later.
I hate that. "You already asked that, now go away!" I hate these HR surveys too though. I have yet to go into a Best Buy and be looking for some piece of tech junk and ask "is this Linux compatible?" ("Linux? What's...um, ask Geek Squad..." not that Geek Squad ever does anything but Google it) or correct the sales guy or ask about when a computer with a newly released processor will hit the shelf and not be asked multiple times if I'd like a job. I've taken their survey thing for a job twice, and I failed both times. The computer hates me, but the alive people want to my hire me. Something's wrong there.
I was a bailout. The Linux client gives a blank black screen. They're response "use the Mac one." How do you open a.dmg or whatever Macs use on Linux? There's no WINE-2 that makes Mac stuff playable on Linux. And yeah, I know they're POSIX and both *nix and whatever, but the file format is the issue there.
Ugh, like hell. I hate emo kids just as much as the next kid. Angst? Ugh. FOAD. By the way, check the source. There are no iframes. If I recall correctly, MySpace's parser kills them. The point was to make the page static. Everything is within view at first, no need to scroll down a really long page (which is the icky result of that comments thing). I hate pages that involve scrolling down forever and then back up again just to reach a navbar. Oh, who said plug-ins were bad? It says right on there "go get Ad-block Plus." By the way, I don't play guitar. Guitars are tiny, and comfortable to hold. That's a bass. Or are you too stupid to count to four? LMAO yeah I'm deep...haha good one. I'm deep as a puddle, and perfectly willing to slap any kid who says "woe is me, she doesn't love me." Did you even see the band list? It's mostly ska and reggae! I assure you, you will never catch me listening to shitty music like My Chemical Romance or whatever else kids listen to these days. I'll stick to ska, reggae, jazz, and funk, thanks, with only the rare venture into Minor Threat-style hardcore and a bit of AFI-when-they-were-punk. And red text is to coordinate with the text on the background, duh.
By the way, find me a Safari for Linux if you want me to test for a browser that's about as common as Konquorer.
I don't see anything on there regarding things outside the 5 Kingdoms. Those charts are for types of rDNA (found inside of cells) and for types of bacteria.
Oh, I was recoding it when you looked at it. Your comment's at 12:33, and I cut out chunks of MySpace's code and threw black tarps over them right after I posted at 12:20.
Acid is not a web-standards test. It leaves out a lot of standards and it throws in a lot of non-standard stuff.
There, I changed my myspace so you can't see myspace's BS, and all my stuff is in a higher-z-index div covering the myspace-type content. New layout, yay! I know it works in FF (though the Flash ad covers part, so get out your ad-block plus extension). IE 6 on Linux says it doesn't work. It gets hung up at that Flash ad and the rest of the page doesn't really load. IE7 4 Linux isn't out yet, so no idea on that.
You could set 2 style sheets and have one be for IE and then that will have the IE-only stuff, and one be for standards-browsers and make it look totally different if you want. Using z-indexes, you can show two completely separate sets of content if you want.
Did you ever try putting MySpace's main page through a code validator? Blame their crap code. If they could code properly to begin with (how expected are those "unexpected errors"?), I wouldn't have to try to compensate for their shortcomings. I gave up on trying.
I do use Firefox (except when I have to check for IE6 flaws, in which case I have to pull out IEs4Linux), and the CSS is actually right. I think myspace has some z-indexes messing with it, but I took a CSS form for myspace and filled it out. I haven't gotten around to just writing a new layout for it altogether (nice high z-indexes to cover up their crap). When I write an actual page from scratch (no, no Dreamweaver or Frontpage WUSSIWYG BS), it looks right.
Well, given that the number of the world is determined by your part in the Cold War, Russia cannot be third world. The US and everyone who sided with the US was the First World. Russia and their supporters were the Second World. Everyone the two countries fought over and tried to recruit was the Third World.
Agreed. I grew up in Pittsburgh where Fort Duquesne is just some rocks outlining a diamond now. The fort's gone. There's a house near mine that was part of the Underground Railroad and where Mary Todd Lincoln stayed during the Civil War. Now I live in DC where there are plenty of "old" buildings (200-300 years). But I love Europe. It's nice to see things that are over 500 years old. I went to a Renaissance Festival in a real castle in Scotland. That was so cool! Seeing the Tower of London, London Bridge, stone circles, et al was really cool. Everything there is so much older than stuff here. Just seeing that that stuff has survived so long is amazing.
If you booted from the CD though you wouldn't be booting your installed Ubuntu. You'd be booting Live. GRUB should have a "press ESC to Edit" thing and you can edit/etc/grub/menu.lst from there. My guess is it's similar to what my computer does. For some reason my hard drive names (hd0 and hd1 to GRUB) are reversed between the part where GRUB defines them and the bootloader. Once I changed the names from hd1 to hd0 and vice versa, it worked fine, and that can be done from the GRUB edit menu found by hitting Esc. Unfortunately, kernel updates overwrite my changes to GRUB (well, it makes sense otherwise how do you boot the new kernel?) so after each one of those I have to re-edit GRUB.
That's true. It'd be nice if they were using the word marriage, but unfortunately not. From my understanding, Vermont and New Jersey's civil unions have the same state-rights as marriage (and I know NJ has the same waiting requirements and all as marriage), but not the federal rights. Massachusetts marriages don't give the federal rights either though, because the federal government still refuses to recognize their relationships as being legitimate (boo!)
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He corrected himself. It wasn't someone else being an ass and trying to make GP look stupid.
I wasn't blaming Microsoft, I was just pointing out that it's a problem that from what I've heard usually only happens on Microsoft OSes. Occasionally Debian's apt-get remove will leave a few packages, but that's only if you use apt-get instead of aptitude. Aptitude is newer and does a more complete job than apt-get, in which case if stuff's left it's because you used a sort-of-outdated un/installer.
Do you have any idea how many DLLs and general bits of junk are left after uninstalling? Programs almost never uninstall cleanly in the Microsoft world.
That's been going on for years. There used to be companies offering $10,000 per exploit, so you spend a month furiously finding them, sell them 10-20 bugs, and you're set for the year. Apparently my boyfriend decided to support himself that way for a while O_o
I think what the GP meant is that after all the years of hacking together drivers, Linux has better hardware support than other minority OS's, but what the user sees is all userland GNU stuff. The underlying kernel could change, but they'd still use FF and OOo and bash. There's a TON of stuff that needs drivers in Linux, but you know what? Those hardware companies could ship binary drivers on the same cd as the Windows drivers they give with the hardware if they don't want to give open source ones. nVidia and ATi have binary drivers available because their OSS ones lack 3D acceleration. If I buy something and it has binary drivers on a cd, that's still better than the Linux drivers not existing at all. Someone can get around to reverse engineering it later.
system76.com Rather high-end, so yes, a good desktop.
I hate that. "You already asked that, now go away!" I hate these HR surveys too though. I have yet to go into a Best Buy and be looking for some piece of tech junk and ask "is this Linux compatible?" ("Linux? What's...um, ask Geek Squad..." not that Geek Squad ever does anything but Google it) or correct the sales guy or ask about when a computer with a newly released processor will hit the shelf and not be asked multiple times if I'd like a job. I've taken their survey thing for a job twice, and I failed both times. The computer hates me, but the alive people want to my hire me. Something's wrong there.
I was a bailout. The Linux client gives a blank black screen. They're response "use the Mac one." How do you open a .dmg or whatever Macs use on Linux? There's no WINE-2 that makes Mac stuff playable on Linux. And yeah, I know they're POSIX and both *nix and whatever, but the file format is the issue there.
Ugh, like hell. I hate emo kids just as much as the next kid. Angst? Ugh. FOAD. By the way, check the source. There are no iframes. If I recall correctly, MySpace's parser kills them. The point was to make the page static. Everything is within view at first, no need to scroll down a really long page (which is the icky result of that comments thing). I hate pages that involve scrolling down forever and then back up again just to reach a navbar. Oh, who said plug-ins were bad? It says right on there "go get Ad-block Plus." By the way, I don't play guitar. Guitars are tiny, and comfortable to hold. That's a bass. Or are you too stupid to count to four? LMAO yeah I'm deep...haha good one. I'm deep as a puddle, and perfectly willing to slap any kid who says "woe is me, she doesn't love me." Did you even see the band list? It's mostly ska and reggae! I assure you, you will never catch me listening to shitty music like My Chemical Romance or whatever else kids listen to these days. I'll stick to ska, reggae, jazz, and funk, thanks, with only the rare venture into Minor Threat-style hardcore and a bit of AFI-when-they-were-punk. And red text is to coordinate with the text on the background, duh.
By the way, find me a Safari for Linux if you want me to test for a browser that's about as common as Konquorer.
I don't see anything on there regarding things outside the 5 Kingdoms. Those charts are for types of rDNA (found inside of cells) and for types of bacteria.
Oh, I was recoding it when you looked at it. Your comment's at 12:33, and I cut out chunks of MySpace's code and threw black tarps over them right after I posted at 12:20.
Acid is not a web-standards test. It leaves out a lot of standards and it throws in a lot of non-standard stuff.
There, I changed my myspace so you can't see myspace's BS, and all my stuff is in a higher-z-index div covering the myspace-type content. New layout, yay! I know it works in FF (though the Flash ad covers part, so get out your ad-block plus extension). IE 6 on Linux says it doesn't work. It gets hung up at that Flash ad and the rest of the page doesn't really load. IE7 4 Linux isn't out yet, so no idea on that.
You could set 2 style sheets and have one be for IE and then that will have the IE-only stuff, and one be for standards-browsers and make it look totally different if you want. Using z-indexes, you can show two completely separate sets of content if you want.
Did you ever try putting MySpace's main page through a code validator? Blame their crap code. If they could code properly to begin with (how expected are those "unexpected errors"?), I wouldn't have to try to compensate for their shortcomings. I gave up on trying.
I do use Firefox (except when I have to check for IE6 flaws, in which case I have to pull out IEs4Linux), and the CSS is actually right. I think myspace has some z-indexes messing with it, but I took a CSS form for myspace and filled it out. I haven't gotten around to just writing a new layout for it altogether (nice high z-indexes to cover up their crap). When I write an actual page from scratch (no, no Dreamweaver or Frontpage WUSSIWYG BS), it looks right.
Code without hacks. I never used a hack, yet my sites always turned out how I wanted them.
Well, given that the number of the world is determined by your part in the Cold War, Russia cannot be third world. The US and everyone who sided with the US was the First World. Russia and their supporters were the Second World. Everyone the two countries fought over and tried to recruit was the Third World.
I just type in :s/hd1/hd0/200 and it all gets fixed.
Agreed. I grew up in Pittsburgh where Fort Duquesne is just some rocks outlining a diamond now. The fort's gone. There's a house near mine that was part of the Underground Railroad and where Mary Todd Lincoln stayed during the Civil War. Now I live in DC where there are plenty of "old" buildings (200-300 years). But I love Europe. It's nice to see things that are over 500 years old. I went to a Renaissance Festival in a real castle in Scotland. That was so cool! Seeing the Tower of London, London Bridge, stone circles, et al was really cool. Everything there is so much older than stuff here. Just seeing that that stuff has survived so long is amazing.
The ROC may not think Taiwan is China, but the PRC does.
It sounds like they're turning NICs into WinModems.
If you booted from the CD though you wouldn't be booting your installed Ubuntu. You'd be booting Live. GRUB should have a "press ESC to Edit" thing and you can edit /etc/grub/menu.lst from there. My guess is it's similar to what my computer does. For some reason my hard drive names (hd0 and hd1 to GRUB) are reversed between the part where GRUB defines them and the bootloader. Once I changed the names from hd1 to hd0 and vice versa, it worked fine, and that can be done from the GRUB edit menu found by hitting Esc. Unfortunately, kernel updates overwrite my changes to GRUB (well, it makes sense otherwise how do you boot the new kernel?) so after each one of those I have to re-edit GRUB.
:-O Really? Well that's rather mean of them. Sorry, I didn't know they were being choosy about architectures.
That's true. It'd be nice if they were using the word marriage, but unfortunately not. From my understanding, Vermont and New Jersey's civil unions have the same state-rights as marriage (and I know NJ has the same waiting requirements and all as marriage), but not the federal rights. Massachusetts marriages don't give the federal rights either though, because the federal government still refuses to recognize their relationships as being legitimate (boo!)