Uh, what? 3D has almost always worked fine on 945GM. Intel started making 945GMs with a different PCI ID early this year, and those didn't have 3D in Hardy until I think June, maybe July, but a simple one-liner update fixed that.
Uh, Windows install disks don't include Office. He's right on that.
And Ubuntu's version of the partitioner is that it gives a "use whole disk" option and a "drag the slider to show how much of the disk goes to each OS" thing. There is a more advanced partitioner available, but the user doesn't have to see it.
I don't like the 8.10 wallpaper so much, but 8.04 had a beautiful wallpaper around alpah 3. The final one wasn't quite as nice, but I still like it. Feisty and Gutsy's brown wallpapers looked like the brown silk of a lady's dress puddling at the floor. Based on that imagery, I think you can tell I liked those too:)
I like Ubuntu's warm theming. Other distros and OSes are so cold by comparison. I like red and orange as well, though, so right now I'm using the Kin Dust theme created by a member of Ubuntu's art team along with a GNOME wallpaper of a red/orange flower.
Hi,
I just want to thank you for choosing a proprietary format for your website. It's so wonderful of you to exclude me from using your website based on my operating system preferences. Could you tell me, how much has Microsoft paid you to exclude minority operating systems? You truly have shown your commitment to helping the big and powerful majority remain big and powerful. It takes such courage to stand up against the little guy in favor of the big guy with wads of cash. With no TV and your decision to create an inaccessible website, I look forward to having no idea what the hell is going on at the Democratic Convention. Adding in Biden's opposition to net neutrality, privacy, and encryption, along with his support for the RIAA and MPAA, the Democrats are obviously doing a fantastic job of agreeing with whatever Big Business tells them to do while ignoring their constituency. I'm sure that if they are elected, Obama and Biden will continue this trend of ignoring what the people want in favor what those capable of lining their pockets want.
"Very specific crap"
Oh, I know. When you order pizza, you expect it to be properly cooked, whereas when you order Starbucks, you expect burnt coffee (you know, the only kind they serve).
It's the Javascript that makes it slower, not the CSS. CSS speeds things up. The stylesheet can be downloaded once instead of downloading style info on every single page.
Extending--as long as it doesn't break other things--isn't really a problem as much as not implementing part of the standard (or worse implementing it wrongly) is.
LyX is a WYSIWYG LaTeX editor. I think OOo also can use LaTeX source. And yes, the ~ is replaced with a single space. You can turn off the two-spaces-after-period behavior with LaTeX by turning on frenchspacing. Then to get 2 spaces you need to type " \ " (escape the second space).
With LaTeX, it automatically does two spaces after a period when it lays out the document, because it assumes it's the end of the sentence. If you want only one space after the period (for an abbreviation), then put Mr.~Smith, where the ~ means that it is the break in an abbreviation.
Or tries the exact same operation four times, thinking it will work the fourth time! Sometimes when I seem to be doing that, I'm actually retrying so I can observe my steps more carefully to make sure I didn't screw up the steps and fail to notice my own error.
I generally assume I mistyped my (long & complex) password and try it again a couple more times, since that can definitely give you an "permission denied" just as easily as setting the wrong file permissions.
"(why isn't VLC the default?)" Because Totem works fine for pretty much everything. I don't actually know why I install VLC. I've never actually needed to use it. Totem-xine (not gstreamer....gstreamer is crappy for DVDs) always works for me. When I've tried VLC, it failed to play my DVDs.
I'm an Ubuntu user, but I think I'm at least somewhat knowledgeable. I was told to stop answering all the questions in a training session and give the Gentoo user a chance:P
Now the kids will be learning only how to use one platform and its ways of doing things, most likely. I mean, it is certainly possible to teach "how to use a computer" without emphasizing Windows or Linux or Mac terms and specifics and making more reference to logical use of UI, what input/output are, etc., but most computer teachers in elementary schools are just whichever teacher is best at figuring out email, so they don't really know how to teach. Instead, the kids will just learn how Windows works by memorizing series' of clicks which don't translate to other platforms.
The text installer uses apt to install everything, like Debian-Installer does. The GUI installer pretty much just copies an image to the hard drive then modifies the xorg.conf and a couple settings like language and adds the user.
There's the live install cd AND the alternate install cd. The alternate install cd uses the ncurses Debian-Installer and offers more advanced options for more advanced users.
I know you can have two terminals open:p I usually have a few tabs open so I can check what order parameters are supposed to be passed in my constructors and things like that. It's just a habit to:wq
A lot of variables, especially when GUIs are involved, end up having similar names, so knowing which it should complete as just complicates it, IMO. I have no problem with typing setters and getters myself. I did them Smalltalk-style ( thing() for getter and thing(param) for setter, using overloading) on my last assignment and had the TA slightly confused. Also made it a bit tougher to say the code out-loud when I used it as an example to teach my friend that objects are references on the stack to places on the heap and a bunch of other stuff that his professor hasn't gotten around to teaching them that seemed useful. It gave me a chance to explain overloading though:)
I use vim, I like minimalism in my text-editors. I don't use auto-complete except in bash for finishing directory/file names. I don't use debuggers either (System.out.println() or printf() for C are all I need). The fact that you don't have to close the text-editing window to compile is what I liked. Vim, unfortunately, can't do that (yes, I know, EMACS can, but really....kitchen sink).
I must find these plugins! Typing anything without vim keytricks is annoying now, but vim is a bit difficult to navigate with 1000-line files. I still don't understand Eclipse to use it instead of vim though, and I've never used Netbeans. IDEs just remind me too much of Visual Basic class for me to be really enthusiastic about them, and I like the simplicity of vim (the most complex IDE I like is BlueJ:p)
TuxTyping has a rather limited wordlist...at least on the "long word" setting (I haven't tried any of the easy settings). A friend of mine is a high school teacher, though, and he teaches computer science. The "advanced topics" class, where students who've taken a year of programming classes are given the chance to write whatever software they want (basically), has a student who is writing a typing tutor program that is in a game format similar to one the teacher said he remembers. It sounds like it acts like TuxTyping with the falling letters, but you have to type the full word and it won't let you switch until either you get the word wrong or you finish it. TuxTyping, unfortunately, lets you type the letters out of order. Of course, as with all software written in that teacher's classroom, it will be open source for Linux (they use Edubuntu in their school computer lab, so Linux is their natural target OS).
Glad I went with Debian instead of OpenSuSE on my old computer. That thing *definitely* does not have 100MB of memory to spare. It's only got 192MB overall.
Ubuntu had one kernel update about 2 or 3 weeks after Feisty's release to fix a couple broken drivers, and nothing since then (unless there's been one in the 3 weeks that I've been using unstable...heck, there's only been 1 kernel update on the unstable branch in the last 3 weeks).
And I agree, YaST is slow. It doesn't seem to have a config file for repositories either. If it does, please tell me where the equivalent of/etc/apt/sources.list is, because that was a problem for me when I was trying to fix X and there were no repos automatically setup after install.
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Uh, what? 3D has almost always worked fine on 945GM. Intel started making 945GMs with a different PCI ID early this year, and those didn't have 3D in Hardy until I think June, maybe July, but a simple one-liner update fixed that.
Bullshit. Neither Ubiquity (the actual installation application) nor the live cd need the NTFS drive to run.
Uh, Windows install disks don't include Office. He's right on that.
And Ubuntu's version of the partitioner is that it gives a "use whole disk" option and a "drag the slider to show how much of the disk goes to each OS" thing. There is a more advanced partitioner available, but the user doesn't have to see it.
I don't like the 8.10 wallpaper so much, but 8.04 had a beautiful wallpaper around alpah 3. The final one wasn't quite as nice, but I still like it. Feisty and Gutsy's brown wallpapers looked like the brown silk of a lady's dress puddling at the floor. Based on that imagery, I think you can tell I liked those too :)
I like Ubuntu's warm theming. Other distros and OSes are so cold by comparison. I like red and orange as well, though, so right now I'm using the Kin Dust theme created by a member of Ubuntu's art team along with a GNOME wallpaper of a red/orange flower.
I thought it was a splotch at first, but it's the ibex's head and horns
"Very specific crap"
Oh, I know. When you order pizza, you expect it to be properly cooked, whereas when you order Starbucks, you expect burnt coffee (you know, the only kind they serve).
It's the Javascript that makes it slower, not the CSS. CSS speeds things up. The stylesheet can be downloaded once instead of downloading style info on every single page.
Extending--as long as it doesn't break other things--isn't really a problem as much as not implementing part of the standard (or worse implementing it wrongly) is.
What do you mean by corporate browser?
LyX is a WYSIWYG LaTeX editor. I think OOo also can use LaTeX source. And yes, the ~ is replaced with a single space. You can turn off the two-spaces-after-period behavior with LaTeX by turning on frenchspacing. Then to get 2 spaces you need to type " \ " (escape the second space).
For most computer-literate people, "intuitive" means only "what I'm used to using."
With LaTeX, it automatically does two spaces after a period when it lays out the document, because it assumes it's the end of the sentence. If you want only one space after the period (for an abbreviation), then put Mr.~Smith, where the ~ means that it is the break in an abbreviation.
"(why isn't VLC the default?)" Because Totem works fine for pretty much everything. I don't actually know why I install VLC. I've never actually needed to use it. Totem-xine (not gstreamer....gstreamer is crappy for DVDs) always works for me. When I've tried VLC, it failed to play my DVDs.
:P
I'm an Ubuntu user, but I think I'm at least somewhat knowledgeable. I was told to stop answering all the questions in a training session and give the Gentoo user a chance
Now the kids will be learning only how to use one platform and its ways of doing things, most likely. I mean, it is certainly possible to teach "how to use a computer" without emphasizing Windows or Linux or Mac terms and specifics and making more reference to logical use of UI, what input/output are, etc., but most computer teachers in elementary schools are just whichever teacher is best at figuring out email, so they don't really know how to teach. Instead, the kids will just learn how Windows works by memorizing series' of clicks which don't translate to other platforms.
The text installer uses apt to install everything, like Debian-Installer does. The GUI installer pretty much just copies an image to the hard drive then modifies the xorg.conf and a couple settings like language and adds the user.
There's the live install cd AND the alternate install cd. The alternate install cd uses the ncurses Debian-Installer and offers more advanced options for more advanced users.
I know you can have two terminals open :p I usually have a few tabs open so I can check what order parameters are supposed to be passed in my constructors and things like that. It's just a habit to :wq
:)
A lot of variables, especially when GUIs are involved, end up having similar names, so knowing which it should complete as just complicates it, IMO. I have no problem with typing setters and getters myself. I did them Smalltalk-style ( thing() for getter and thing(param) for setter, using overloading) on my last assignment and had the TA slightly confused. Also made it a bit tougher to say the code out-loud when I used it as an example to teach my friend that objects are references on the stack to places on the heap and a bunch of other stuff that his professor hasn't gotten around to teaching them that seemed useful. It gave me a chance to explain overloading though
I use vim, I like minimalism in my text-editors. I don't use auto-complete except in bash for finishing directory/file names. I don't use debuggers either (System.out.println() or printf() for C are all I need). The fact that you don't have to close the text-editing window to compile is what I liked. Vim, unfortunately, can't do that (yes, I know, EMACS can, but really....kitchen sink).
It's not the moving so much as finding what you're looking for in context, but I didn't know about markers. I'll have to try that out.
I must find these plugins! Typing anything without vim keytricks is annoying now, but vim is a bit difficult to navigate with 1000-line files. I still don't understand Eclipse to use it instead of vim though, and I've never used Netbeans. IDEs just remind me too much of Visual Basic class for me to be really enthusiastic about them, and I like the simplicity of vim (the most complex IDE I like is BlueJ :p)
TuxTyping has a rather limited wordlist...at least on the "long word" setting (I haven't tried any of the easy settings). A friend of mine is a high school teacher, though, and he teaches computer science. The "advanced topics" class, where students who've taken a year of programming classes are given the chance to write whatever software they want (basically), has a student who is writing a typing tutor program that is in a game format similar to one the teacher said he remembers. It sounds like it acts like TuxTyping with the falling letters, but you have to type the full word and it won't let you switch until either you get the word wrong or you finish it. TuxTyping, unfortunately, lets you type the letters out of order. Of course, as with all software written in that teacher's classroom, it will be open source for Linux (they use Edubuntu in their school computer lab, so Linux is their natural target OS).
Nice Hitchhikers' reference there.
Glad I went with Debian instead of OpenSuSE on my old computer. That thing *definitely* does not have 100MB of memory to spare. It's only got 192MB overall.
Ubuntu had one kernel update about 2 or 3 weeks after Feisty's release to fix a couple broken drivers, and nothing since then (unless there's been one in the 3 weeks that I've been using unstable...heck, there's only been 1 kernel update on the unstable branch in the last 3 weeks).
/etc/apt/sources.list is, because that was a problem for me when I was trying to fix X and there were no repos automatically setup after install.
And I agree, YaST is slow. It doesn't seem to have a config file for repositories either. If it does, please tell me where the equivalent of