Kernel updates happen how often? If it's just one module, that, AFAIK, can go through without a reboot and just be modprobe'd. If I stay stable, I get a kernel update maybe once or twice between dist-upgrades. When running unstable, I get plenty, of course, but stable releases don't tend to have them more than once every 4 or 5 months.
That's why I never updated Windows (once every 6 months maybe?). I like that Linux doesn't bug me to reboot after every single update. I actually stay up to date this way.
Linux drivers handle hardware failure more gracefully than Windows ones, I've found. On Windows, a bad video card will kill your video drivers and give you 4-bit color at 640x480, and you have to reboot to fix it. That same failing video card just makes the screen "squish" a bit (get narrower by about 20px then back to normal, rapidly for around 2 or 3 seconds) once in a while.
An example of this would be me talking to a kid in my class the other day about our previous homework assignment. I wrote a complicated loop that did all kinds of checks while randomly generating numbers to shuffle but use only once each item in an array (and ignore it but mark it used if it had certain properties while counting how many items got used to make sure they all got done). He used an array list and Collections.shuffle(). Now I know better for next time.
That's been do-able for a while. I mean, it still has the IE6 UI, but you're able to test for IE7's rendering bugs (which are thankfully fewer than IE6's). I'm actually very glad they're forcing IE6 users to upgrade to IE7. It means there are a *lot* less people with buggy rendering engines to account for.
See, the thing is, when people say 'I don't use anti-virus on Windows and I"ve never gotten a virus," the reason a common a response is "you probably just don't know it" is because there are very few ways to detect a virus. The most common way is to use a virus scan to look for them and make sure they're not there. If you don't have AV on your computer saying "yes, it's clean," how do you know it's clean? The only other way would be to manually go through the system directories and look for the names of files that get installed by each virus in existence. In that case, you're manually scanning for the virus's files instead of letting a program do it, and the program can do it much faster. So, unless you can verify that every single file on your computer is a good file, you can't verify that you lack malware. The downside of manually looking for bad files, as well, is that rootkits can hide them (in which case, depending on the AV, it still might not be found).
I used it knowing very little Javascript and got it working in a couple hours, a good chunk of which was "how do I find out what the lat/long of this place is?"
That bit about "where you are guaranteed to have a writing implement" is an issue for me. My laptop leaves my side only at mealtime and when traveling to work (where I also have a computer), and even at those times it is often with me. Finding a pen or pencil is a problem though. Today the teacher handed out a quiz, and I didn't have a pen or pencil because I do not expect to *ever* need a pen or pencil except for midterms and finals. Analog writing implements are not something I use on a regular basis, so I never carry them with me. My laptop is in constant use, though.
Go for the scanner/printer combos. They work great. Their tech support is royally shitty, but I don't expect/.'ers to need to call tech support too often, and I *do* expect them to be willing to argue with the "tech" who says formatting won't delete anything.
I'd say kernel + basic system utilities, but not he GUI. GUIs are largely unnecessary (outside the context of photo or video editing, there's little that can't be done from the command line).
No logs, so no way to tell, but during the break-in they ssh'd into another box as the ftp user, so if this server had an ftp user set up, it's possible they did the same thing, trolling for open ftps.
I used to gain weight about 15lb/year (though it was in the years between ages 12 and 15 so I was mid-growth-spurt too) because my dad owned an ice cream store. The final amount came out to "I probably didn't get any taller during that last year" because I was 15lb more than I like to be (still not overweight though). I happened to become lactose intolerant right then too, though, so no more ice cream or milk (processed cheese has low levels of lactose though because lactase is produced when it's being processed, so I still ate a lot of fried cheese and pizza). I lost 15lb that year. That's a LOT of ice cream. I ate like 3 cones and had a shake daily.
Being a vegetarian might have helped, but seriously, vegetarian was really not a change for me when it became official. It meant I went from 2 grudging bites of beef and a few bites of fish a week to none. Every bite of meat I've ever had was my mom saying "you can't get up from the dinner table until you eat x bites of [steak|chicken|lamb chops|ham|sausage|salmon]." But, as compared to most people's diets, that comes out a lot healthier (usually...not when I'm being a "junk food vegetarian"...you know, "m&m's don't have meat in them!" and then eat a whole bag). I don't have nasty nasty McDonalds cooked-for-30-seconds-then-tossed-into-a-vat-of-ol d-black-oil (my cousin worked there and refuses to ever eat there again) burgers. I think it's silly that so many people think being a vegetarian means eating nothing but salad (I don't like salad very much, especially with iceberg lettuce...spinach + mushrooms + cherry/grape tomatoes + raspberry vinaigrette is awesome though). A lot think it means just eating side-dishes like plain boiled corn or peas. That's ridiculous. Side dishes are done that way because attention is aimed at the main course, and since most people think it has to be meat, they only spend enough time to boil the veggies and never learn to dress them up properly. Vegetarian cookbooks always have really awesome stuff. Even my pork-company-owning step-dad rarely eats meat because we've pulled so many good vegetarian recipes out of them.
Anyway, though, just doing "Vegetarian Tuesdays" or something (maybe 2 or 3 days a week), would probably help a LOT for overweight and obese people. Instead of fried chicken for dinner, why not have baked eggplant stuffed with mushroom-based stuffing? It tastes great, and it's likely to have less than 1/2 the calories and fat.
Oh, I don't mean to prevent editing. I just mean if it doesn't *need* to be edited, PDF is fine (because anyone can view it). Most people can't edit them (I assume you need Adobe's software for it). If it needs to be edited, I'd probably do it as a plain-text file.
Windows assumes you are a toddler with an IQ of 4. Linux assumes you have a working brain. The only one of his questions that really made sense was "can I resize without data loss?" and the answer would be "as long as you don't try to take a full partition and shrink it or try to turn 20GB of data into a 15GB space." Some partitioners behave differently and just delete the whole partition and recreate it instead of properly resizing. His problem is that the program assumed he knew what a partition is and how they work--something that is a bit of a prerequisite for even knowing a dual-boot is possible, I thought. Still, I really hate the new partitioner. It's got a craptastic UI.
If you don't delete the partition first, just shrink it, your stuff will still be there. 1GB is the minimum for Ubuntu, but you may want to end up installing programs at some point or saving files, so 5-10GB is what I suggest. Why wouldn't partitions be sharable? That's silly. It's not like Ubuntu can say "f off Windows, MINE!" I'd set it up something like this (it's how my Debian & Ubuntu dual boot is set up):
10GB Windows system files, C:\ (NTFS), I think the new partitioner requires that you make up a mount point for it, so/media/windows
10GB Ubuntu (ext3), mount point is/
your RAM * 2, use as linux-swap (that's page files)
the rest is, if you're using XP, ext3 (then install the driver on Windows from fs-driver.org), or on Vista since there's no driver, make it NTFS. Mount point is/home
Each OS has its system files in one section. Swap is the pagefile for Linux. The/home partition will likely show as E:\ or F:\ on Windows, and it will hold all your stuff.
Personally, I don't like the new partition manager in the installer (Partman). GParted (in System > Administration > GNOME Partitioner) has a much nicer UI, in my opinion. It's what was in previous versions of Ubuntu. I'd partition it in GParted first, then start the installer and just use Partman for setting the mount points.
I use PDF for files that are just being passed on and not modified.
For the rest of that, there's XPDE to make it look and feel like Windows, but then I guess you wouldn't want to be using it. You could screenshot Windows and then clip out a chunk of the taskbar and set it as the background on the panel. If you don't mind using a different window manager, I know there are Vista themes for Beryl. There may be an XP one too. Or just say you added a new theme in Windows if your company allows that. I'm not sure about the yoke, do you mean the way it shows your OS when you use something like nmap? Don't know how to get around that, but if they're just looking at the hostname you set during install and you left it default, you could just change it from "Xubuntu" to "Windows" or your name.
I proposed a solution to the "too fat to fit between cars in the parking lot" problem a few days ago. Last month I encountered a lady who couldn't get into the passenger side of her truck because I didn't park ON the right-side line for my parking spot...I actually centered the car. See, one of my uncles said "handicapped spots...they're extra wide," but fat people aren't handicapped. What I proposed is that there be extra wide spots in parking lots, but they should be all the way at the end, far from the doors. If the only place you can park and be sure you'll be able to open the door wide enough to get in and out requires burning a hundred calories to walk to and from the car, I don't see that as a bad thing. I mean, when that lady was staring at the space between vehicles in disbelief that she was expected to fit between 2 parked cars, I was thinking "jog around the block 20 times, then maybe you'll fit," so if we just make it rather necessary for obese people to walk far and thereby burn calories, we're really doing them a favor.
I hate when people say "some people can't help it." Bull shit! Drop the Twinkie!
Slightly changing the topic, where does the Freshman 15 come from? I didn't gain a single pound in my first year. I didn't lose any either, but my waist is 4" smaller. The fat converted to muscle (well, some of it...I think I'm down to that amount that requires situps to get rid of because at this point it's just "toning"). How do you gain weight in college? You're going from having classes that are 20 feet apart to classes that are about a quarter of a mile apart. Honestly, with the 20 minute walks from class to class, I don't see how anyone could gain weight.
Eh, that was on the stove, not in the oven where airflow and "hot spots" matter. That's why convection ovens exist. They keep the heated air moving to get rid of the hot spots. Of course, sometimes you get the silly people who can't figure out why "the new toaster oven" takes 15 minutes to heat a bagel.
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Kernel updates happen how often? If it's just one module, that, AFAIK, can go through without a reboot and just be modprobe'd. If I stay stable, I get a kernel update maybe once or twice between dist-upgrades. When running unstable, I get plenty, of course, but stable releases don't tend to have them more than once every 4 or 5 months.
That's why I never updated Windows (once every 6 months maybe?). I like that Linux doesn't bug me to reboot after every single update. I actually stay up to date this way.
Linux drivers handle hardware failure more gracefully than Windows ones, I've found. On Windows, a bad video card will kill your video drivers and give you 4-bit color at 640x480, and you have to reboot to fix it. That same failing video card just makes the screen "squish" a bit (get narrower by about 20px then back to normal, rapidly for around 2 or 3 seconds) once in a while.
Wouldn't they be Windows emigrants?
An example of this would be me talking to a kid in my class the other day about our previous homework assignment. I wrote a complicated loop that did all kinds of checks while randomly generating numbers to shuffle but use only once each item in an array (and ignore it but mark it used if it had certain properties while counting how many items got used to make sure they all got done). He used an array list and Collections.shuffle(). Now I know better for next time.
That's been do-able for a while. I mean, it still has the IE6 UI, but you're able to test for IE7's rendering bugs (which are thankfully fewer than IE6's). I'm actually very glad they're forcing IE6 users to upgrade to IE7. It means there are a *lot* less people with buggy rendering engines to account for.
See, the thing is, when people say 'I don't use anti-virus on Windows and I"ve never gotten a virus," the reason a common a response is "you probably just don't know it" is because there are very few ways to detect a virus. The most common way is to use a virus scan to look for them and make sure they're not there. If you don't have AV on your computer saying "yes, it's clean," how do you know it's clean? The only other way would be to manually go through the system directories and look for the names of files that get installed by each virus in existence. In that case, you're manually scanning for the virus's files instead of letting a program do it, and the program can do it much faster. So, unless you can verify that every single file on your computer is a good file, you can't verify that you lack malware. The downside of manually looking for bad files, as well, is that rootkits can hide them (in which case, depending on the AV, it still might not be found).
I used it knowing very little Javascript and got it working in a couple hours, a good chunk of which was "how do I find out what the lat/long of this place is?"
That bit about "where you are guaranteed to have a writing implement" is an issue for me. My laptop leaves my side only at mealtime and when traveling to work (where I also have a computer), and even at those times it is often with me. Finding a pen or pencil is a problem though. Today the teacher handed out a quiz, and I didn't have a pen or pencil because I do not expect to *ever* need a pen or pencil except for midterms and finals. Analog writing implements are not something I use on a regular basis, so I never carry them with me. My laptop is in constant use, though.
Go for the scanner/printer combos. They work great. Their tech support is royally shitty, but I don't expect /.'ers to need to call tech support too often, and I *do* expect them to be willing to argue with the "tech" who says formatting won't delete anything.
I'd say kernel + basic system utilities, but not he GUI. GUIs are largely unnecessary (outside the context of photo or video editing, there's little that can't be done from the command line).
No logs, so no way to tell, but during the break-in they ssh'd into another box as the ftp user, so if this server had an ftp user set up, it's possible they did the same thing, trolling for open ftps.
I used to gain weight about 15lb/year (though it was in the years between ages 12 and 15 so I was mid-growth-spurt too) because my dad owned an ice cream store. The final amount came out to "I probably didn't get any taller during that last year" because I was 15lb more than I like to be (still not overweight though). I happened to become lactose intolerant right then too, though, so no more ice cream or milk (processed cheese has low levels of lactose though because lactase is produced when it's being processed, so I still ate a lot of fried cheese and pizza). I lost 15lb that year. That's a LOT of ice cream. I ate like 3 cones and had a shake daily.
l d-black-oil (my cousin worked there and refuses to ever eat there again) burgers. I think it's silly that so many people think being a vegetarian means eating nothing but salad (I don't like salad very much, especially with iceberg lettuce...spinach + mushrooms + cherry/grape tomatoes + raspberry vinaigrette is awesome though). A lot think it means just eating side-dishes like plain boiled corn or peas. That's ridiculous. Side dishes are done that way because attention is aimed at the main course, and since most people think it has to be meat, they only spend enough time to boil the veggies and never learn to dress them up properly. Vegetarian cookbooks always have really awesome stuff. Even my pork-company-owning step-dad rarely eats meat because we've pulled so many good vegetarian recipes out of them.
Being a vegetarian might have helped, but seriously, vegetarian was really not a change for me when it became official. It meant I went from 2 grudging bites of beef and a few bites of fish a week to none. Every bite of meat I've ever had was my mom saying "you can't get up from the dinner table until you eat x bites of [steak|chicken|lamb chops|ham|sausage|salmon]." But, as compared to most people's diets, that comes out a lot healthier (usually...not when I'm being a "junk food vegetarian"...you know, "m&m's don't have meat in them!" and then eat a whole bag). I don't have nasty nasty McDonalds cooked-for-30-seconds-then-tossed-into-a-vat-of-o
Anyway, though, just doing "Vegetarian Tuesdays" or something (maybe 2 or 3 days a week), would probably help a LOT for overweight and obese people. Instead of fried chicken for dinner, why not have baked eggplant stuffed with mushroom-based stuffing? It tastes great, and it's likely to have less than 1/2 the calories and fat.
Oh, I don't mean to prevent editing. I just mean if it doesn't *need* to be edited, PDF is fine (because anyone can view it). Most people can't edit them (I assume you need Adobe's software for it). If it needs to be edited, I'd probably do it as a plain-text file.
That option DOES exist. It says "use largest continual free space."
That would be Medibuntu.
Windows assumes you are a toddler with an IQ of 4. Linux assumes you have a working brain. The only one of his questions that really made sense was "can I resize without data loss?" and the answer would be "as long as you don't try to take a full partition and shrink it or try to turn 20GB of data into a 15GB space." Some partitioners behave differently and just delete the whole partition and recreate it instead of properly resizing. His problem is that the program assumed he knew what a partition is and how they work--something that is a bit of a prerequisite for even knowing a dual-boot is possible, I thought. Still, I really hate the new partitioner. It's got a craptastic UI.
- 10GB Windows system files, C:\ (NTFS), I think the new partitioner requires that you make up a mount point for it, so
/media/windows
- 10GB Ubuntu (ext3), mount point is
/
- your RAM * 2, use as linux-swap (that's page files)
- the rest is, if you're using XP, ext3 (then install the driver on Windows from fs-driver.org), or on Vista since there's no driver, make it NTFS. Mount point is
/home
Each OS has its system files in one section. Swap is the pagefile for Linux. ThePersonally, I don't like the new partition manager in the installer (Partman). GParted (in System > Administration > GNOME Partitioner) has a much nicer UI, in my opinion. It's what was in previous versions of Ubuntu. I'd partition it in GParted first, then start the installer and just use Partman for setting the mount points.
mozilla-plugin-vlc should handle your in-browser media needs.
I use PDF for files that are just being passed on and not modified.
For the rest of that, there's XPDE to make it look and feel like Windows, but then I guess you wouldn't want to be using it. You could screenshot Windows and then clip out a chunk of the taskbar and set it as the background on the panel. If you don't mind using a different window manager, I know there are Vista themes for Beryl. There may be an XP one too. Or just say you added a new theme in Windows if your company allows that. I'm not sure about the yoke, do you mean the way it shows your OS when you use something like nmap? Don't know how to get around that, but if they're just looking at the hostname you set during install and you left it default, you could just change it from "Xubuntu" to "Windows" or your name.
I proposed a solution to the "too fat to fit between cars in the parking lot" problem a few days ago. Last month I encountered a lady who couldn't get into the passenger side of her truck because I didn't park ON the right-side line for my parking spot...I actually centered the car. See, one of my uncles said "handicapped spots...they're extra wide," but fat people aren't handicapped. What I proposed is that there be extra wide spots in parking lots, but they should be all the way at the end, far from the doors. If the only place you can park and be sure you'll be able to open the door wide enough to get in and out requires burning a hundred calories to walk to and from the car, I don't see that as a bad thing. I mean, when that lady was staring at the space between vehicles in disbelief that she was expected to fit between 2 parked cars, I was thinking "jog around the block 20 times, then maybe you'll fit," so if we just make it rather necessary for obese people to walk far and thereby burn calories, we're really doing them a favor.
I hate when people say "some people can't help it." Bull shit! Drop the Twinkie!
Slightly changing the topic, where does the Freshman 15 come from? I didn't gain a single pound in my first year. I didn't lose any either, but my waist is 4" smaller. The fat converted to muscle (well, some of it...I think I'm down to that amount that requires situps to get rid of because at this point it's just "toning"). How do you gain weight in college? You're going from having classes that are 20 feet apart to classes that are about a quarter of a mile apart. Honestly, with the 20 minute walks from class to class, I don't see how anyone could gain weight.
Eh, that was on the stove, not in the oven where airflow and "hot spots" matter. That's why convection ovens exist. They keep the heated air moving to get rid of the hot spots. Of course, sometimes you get the silly people who can't figure out why "the new toaster oven" takes 15 minutes to heat a bagel.
Well said!
Yeah, that seems to be the most appropriate filling....
One of my friends was running a Debian Hurd (instead of Debian Linux) system for a while, so the Hurd is obviously usable these days.