Dells aren't sold in stores, now are they? If you walk into a Best Buy or Circuit City (almost everyone gets computers at those two places), every computer on the shelf has WINDOWS XP blazoned across it. I've even seen an absurd sign in Best Buy saying that their tablet pc's had the "security" of Windows XP, as if that was any at all.
Fine, don't apt-get. Mark 1 checkbox and hit apply. It'll download and install for you. All done.
Legally, Ubuntu can't ship mp3 support. It's a proprietary codec. You have to pay to ship it with your stuff.
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For the rest of you, It's safe to say that most of the nay-saying geeks out there will wash out of the gene pool by virtue of being unable to procreate (you need to sleep with a girl to do so).
That's why there's test tube babies--to counteract all the stupid non-geeks and their disgusting procreative sex crap. The more sex can be avoided, the better.
Yeah, what about games like Unreal Tournament that work on Win 95-Vista, Linux, and Mac OS, and probably even on BSDs, Solaris, and BeOS? There should be more games like that. The more platforms you support, the more potential customers, right?
You're right. If you get paid to fix Windows computer, getting out of practice on XP is bad. I've been using Ubuntu almost exclusively (you know, aside from playing Thief or the Sims on another kid's computer and using QuickBooks at work) for 6 months and I now know it better than 9 years of Windows. Part of that is that I'm forgetting Windows stuff. I work at a computer store. I remember enough to do some tech stuff, but that's not part of my job at the moment, so I don't get much practice at it. I do fix computers for a couple stores in the mall, though, and that brought some stuff back (actually, I figured out how to rollback a driver today after the graphics driver "update" from MS broke). Still, I had to look through my phone going "need a geek who uses Windows..." yesterday when there were web connection troubles and I couldn't think of any other things to try in the Network Connections. It wasn't a computer problem (bad router), but I should've been able to diagnose that it wasn't the computer's fault. I'd like to not use Windows, but I might have to run it in a VM so that when I get calls from family members I can tell them exactly what to click in the Control Panel because I don't remember what all is in there.
I hate Eclipse. It's like turning Java into VB with all the click the dialog boxes blah blah blah. And just setting up to start writing your program is a pain. I still can't figure out how to make it debug. I really like BlueJ, but I don't think there's one for Linux. Vi and GCJ works just fine for me.
These arguments always piss me off. Why is it that everyone in the free software community has this automatic assumption that the rest of the world should go out of their way to support them? So this guy is using Opera.
Opera isn't Free as in speech; it's only free as in beer. It's proprietary freeware. This is nothing to do with the Open Source / Free Software community.
Yeah, because releasing VB.Net so it'd break all your VB6 programs was a great strategy to make developers like them. Well, it's not like VB was a great idea to begin with.
The two BS's my school has for computers are:
Computer Engineering
Computer engineering combines electronic design, computer architecture, programming of computing systems, computer networks, and applied mathematics. Students in the program are prepared in the theory and application of hardware and software design, computer networks, embedded systems, and very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuit design and applications. Students can take electives in advanced topics, such as optical networks, broadband wireless networks, and technologies for the next generation of information systems.
Computer Science
The program combines systems design, computer software development, networks, computer architecture, project design algorithms, and mathematics to provide a broad background in the disciplines that underlie computer science. Students are prepared to design and implement the software needed for Internet operations, computer graphics and animation, and applications and for small, large, and embedded computing systems.
Plus the BA which is like the BS CS, but more overview-ish. They don't go as in-depth because there are only 24 credits of 100-level CS courses required (I'm taking 30 because I found a few other electives that I think look really interesting).
That's what I'm doing as my second major. Why are you confused? BS is mostly math. BA is for students who are double-majoring (my first major is International Affairs), and it's pretty much just got all of the math except for Discrete Math cut out of it.
There's always Linux BIOS. It doesn't go through all the long processes the 2 commercial BIOSes do, so it boots faster. Unfortunately, it's only available for a limited number of mobos, but the list is growing quickly.
In sleep mode, everything acts like it's off, so there's not a crapload of heat coming out of the processor. The amount of heat that thing spews out is killer on hard drives and batteries. Unless you want your computer to start going on the fritz in 3 years, either hibernate or shut down. If you want your stuff to still be there when you get back, hibernate.
Actually, it is still correct. If you downloaded the Vista betas and RCs, you'd know they still use Akamai for some of their servers. And according to that article in The Register, "Following the debacle Microsoft has partially offloaded its DNS servers to Akamai Technologies - which tests suggest is running these servers on Linux." If they're still using Akamai, they're still using Linux.
On Linux you can fudge a multi-clipboard. Right-click>copy or ctrl+c on one thing, highlight another. Then to paste the first, ctrl+v or right-click>paste, and to paste the second, middle button or both buttons (if two-button mouse).
They are more often called people whose generation means they didn't have ready access to computers throughout their childhood and adolescence to learn how to properly use a computer. Almost anyone over the age of 40 is guilty of this sort of technical ignorance. Correspondingly, those under the age of 18 tend to be afflicted with this ignorance as well. This generation is too young to remember anything about how computers work outside the world of Microsoft Windows (command line? DOS? get real!) and OS X. Between the ages of 20 and 40 are the most computer-savvy people you will find. Outside that range, anyone who is really good with a computer is that way for one or both of two reasons. The first is that they love computers and figuring out how they work. The second is that it became necessary for them to learn how computers work, usually to assist someone else who is outside the age-range of people who are the most tech-savvy.
Don't be so quick to judge women. My boyfriend learned to code FORTRAN from his mother almost twenty years ago. I'm the only member of my family who doesn't fear the command line and have been fixing family computers as long as we've had them. My mom's female cousin builds custom computers for fun. I was hanging out with a female kernel hacker last month along with a few other women from the DC LinuxChix chapter. On Sunday I took a Japanese test with a female friend who was wearing a Linux shirt. Friday night my roommate had a friend from her all-girl high school over and we were talking about graphics cards, modding our boxes, and programming. Her grandmother is a programmer; she started back during the punch-card days. A girl in my dorm builds robots. I explain some hardware components to my male boss, and I work at a computer store. One of my dad's best female friends has been programming for over 30 years. For that matter, the first programmer was a woman! Haven't you ever heard of Ada Lovelace, after whom the programming language Ada is named? How odd it is that an occupation pioneered by a woman is now seen as an exclusively male realm in spite of so much evidence to the contrary!
Since when is OOo hard to use for the usual stuff? The only thing I'm wondering right now is "ooooo automatic bibliography stuff? neat! how does THIS work?"
I used to type everything in Notepad and use Courier font and make my teachers think I was using a typewriter. Sometimes I did use a typewriter, but not often. If I needed double space, I'd paste it into Word, but most stuff on my comp was saved as.txt files. I use vi for a lot of my typing and coding now.
bloated shitpiece sold as OD. Do you even realise that.odt produces smaller files than.doc? My resume is 81.5 KB as a.doc and 17.5 KB as.odt. If you have a big file, you can be saving a few megabytes by using.odt.
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Dells aren't sold in stores, now are they? If you walk into a Best Buy or Circuit City (almost everyone gets computers at those two places), every computer on the shelf has WINDOWS XP blazoned across it. I've even seen an absurd sign in Best Buy saying that their tablet pc's had the "security" of Windows XP, as if that was any at all.
Fine, don't apt-get. Mark 1 checkbox and hit apply. It'll download and install for you. All done. Legally, Ubuntu can't ship mp3 support. It's a proprietary codec. You have to pay to ship it with your stuff.
That's why there's test tube babies--to counteract all the stupid non-geeks and their disgusting procreative sex crap. The more sex can be avoided, the better.
What about Alacarte Menu Editor?
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Yeah, what about games like Unreal Tournament that work on Win 95-Vista, Linux, and Mac OS, and probably even on BSDs, Solaris, and BeOS? There should be more games like that. The more platforms you support, the more potential customers, right?
You're right. If you get paid to fix Windows computer, getting out of practice on XP is bad. I've been using Ubuntu almost exclusively (you know, aside from playing Thief or the Sims on another kid's computer and using QuickBooks at work) for 6 months and I now know it better than 9 years of Windows. Part of that is that I'm forgetting Windows stuff. I work at a computer store. I remember enough to do some tech stuff, but that's not part of my job at the moment, so I don't get much practice at it. I do fix computers for a couple stores in the mall, though, and that brought some stuff back (actually, I figured out how to rollback a driver today after the graphics driver "update" from MS broke). Still, I had to look through my phone going "need a geek who uses Windows..." yesterday when there were web connection troubles and I couldn't think of any other things to try in the Network Connections. It wasn't a computer problem (bad router), but I should've been able to diagnose that it wasn't the computer's fault. I'd like to not use Windows, but I might have to run it in a VM so that when I get calls from family members I can tell them exactly what to click in the Control Panel because I don't remember what all is in there.
I hate Eclipse. It's like turning Java into VB with all the click the dialog boxes blah blah blah. And just setting up to start writing your program is a pain. I still can't figure out how to make it debug. I really like BlueJ, but I don't think there's one for Linux. Vi and GCJ works just fine for me.
Opera isn't Free as in speech; it's only free as in beer. It's proprietary freeware. This is nothing to do with the Open Source / Free Software community.
Yeah, because releasing VB.Net so it'd break all your VB6 programs was a great strategy to make developers like them. Well, it's not like VB was a great idea to begin with.
The two BS's my school has for computers are:
Computer Engineering
Computer engineering combines electronic design, computer architecture, programming of computing systems, computer networks, and applied mathematics. Students in the program are prepared in the theory and application of hardware and software design, computer networks, embedded systems, and very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuit design and applications. Students can take electives in advanced topics, such as optical networks, broadband wireless networks, and technologies for the next generation of information systems.
Computer Science
The program combines systems design, computer software development, networks, computer architecture, project design algorithms, and mathematics to provide a broad background in the disciplines that underlie computer science. Students are prepared to design and implement the software needed for Internet operations, computer graphics and animation, and applications and for small, large, and embedded computing systems.
Plus the BA which is like the BS CS, but more overview-ish. They don't go as in-depth because there are only 24 credits of 100-level CS courses required (I'm taking 30 because I found a few other electives that I think look really interesting).
That's what I'm doing as my second major. Why are you confused? BS is mostly math. BA is for students who are double-majoring (my first major is International Affairs), and it's pretty much just got all of the math except for Discrete Math cut out of it.
There's always Linux BIOS. It doesn't go through all the long processes the 2 commercial BIOSes do, so it boots faster. Unfortunately, it's only available for a limited number of mobos, but the list is growing quickly.
Windows Vista Ultimate is $399, so you're right, it's $1 less. Hey, isn't that the same price as their OFFICE SUITE? Wow...
In sleep mode, everything acts like it's off, so there's not a crapload of heat coming out of the processor. The amount of heat that thing spews out is killer on hard drives and batteries. Unless you want your computer to start going on the fritz in 3 years, either hibernate or shut down. If you want your stuff to still be there when you get back, hibernate.
Actually, it is still correct. If you downloaded the Vista betas and RCs, you'd know they still use Akamai for some of their servers. And according to that article in The Register, "Following the debacle Microsoft has partially offloaded its DNS servers to Akamai Technologies - which tests suggest is running these servers on Linux." If they're still using Akamai, they're still using Linux.
One of the professors at my uni was awarded the Ada Lovelace Award by the Association for Women in Computing last year.
On Linux you can fudge a multi-clipboard. Right-click>copy or ctrl+c on one thing, highlight another. Then to paste the first, ctrl+v or right-click>paste, and to paste the second, middle button or both buttons (if two-button mouse).
I just started using it a little bit ago. Then one of my friends showed me :vsplit and I went O.O COOL!
Fuck you.
They are more often called people whose generation means they didn't have ready access to computers throughout their childhood and adolescence to learn how to properly use a computer. Almost anyone over the age of 40 is guilty of this sort of technical ignorance. Correspondingly, those under the age of 18 tend to be afflicted with this ignorance as well. This generation is too young to remember anything about how computers work outside the world of Microsoft Windows (command line? DOS? get real!) and OS X. Between the ages of 20 and 40 are the most computer-savvy people you will find. Outside that range, anyone who is really good with a computer is that way for one or both of two reasons. The first is that they love computers and figuring out how they work. The second is that it became necessary for them to learn how computers work, usually to assist someone else who is outside the age-range of people who are the most tech-savvy.
Don't be so quick to judge women. My boyfriend learned to code FORTRAN from his mother almost twenty years ago. I'm the only member of my family who doesn't fear the command line and have been fixing family computers as long as we've had them. My mom's female cousin builds custom computers for fun. I was hanging out with a female kernel hacker last month along with a few other women from the DC LinuxChix chapter. On Sunday I took a Japanese test with a female friend who was wearing a Linux shirt. Friday night my roommate had a friend from her all-girl high school over and we were talking about graphics cards, modding our boxes, and programming. Her grandmother is a programmer; she started back during the punch-card days. A girl in my dorm builds robots. I explain some hardware components to my male boss, and I work at a computer store. One of my dad's best female friends has been programming for over 30 years. For that matter, the first programmer was a woman! Haven't you ever heard of Ada Lovelace, after whom the programming language Ada is named? How odd it is that an occupation pioneered by a woman is now seen as an exclusively male realm in spite of so much evidence to the contrary!
Since when is OOo hard to use for the usual stuff? The only thing I'm wondering right now is "ooooo automatic bibliography stuff? neat! how does THIS work?"
I used to type everything in Notepad and use Courier font and make my teachers think I was using a typewriter. Sometimes I did use a typewriter, but not often. If I needed double space, I'd paste it into Word, but most stuff on my comp was saved as .txt files. I use vi for a lot of my typing and coding now.
I thought they were 0day til someone exploits them, then they're "oh shit."
bloated shitpiece sold as OD. .odt produces smaller files than .doc? My resume is 81.5 KB as a .doc and 17.5 KB as .odt. If you have a big file, you can be saving a few megabytes by using .odt.
Do you even realise that
because then Linux can use it too if you're using Objective C because GNUStep uses Cocoa too.