There was corn syrup in it before the New Coke thing. New Coke was an attempt to taste like Pepsi because Pepsi was winning taste tests. Check out the Urban Legends Reference Page's entry: http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/newcoke.asp
Some things have infinite numbers of sig-figs, such as counting whole things or using conversion numbers (like 1.54 when going between inches and centimeters). Regardless, sig-figs are based on the *least* accurate measurement involved, so if you do 50 people * 1.54976 * 2.4 and with the last two numbers those decimals are as closely as you can round based on your measuring device, you can only have 1 significant digit because 1.4 only has one significant digit.
That's true. XGL is recommended ONLY for people who have really really annoying ATi cards. Intel and nVidia can both use AIGLX perfectly fine, though nVidia has their own separate thing if you want to use it. Either way, XGL is to be avoided for its poor performance.
I don't have to fiddle around for 10-15 minutes setting up NetworkManager
I don't need to edit/etc/modules to make my sound card work properly
TI SD card readers never were well-supported. Dapper was a no-go. Edgy was "edit/etc/modules and add tifm_core, tifm_sd, and tifm_7xx1" (and finding that trick took a bit of hunting). For a bit during beta, dbus was having issues and TI SD readers didn't work. They fixed that, and it did. Then they updated the drivers, and it stopped again. There has since been another driver release for the card reader, and in the bug it seems to have worked for everyone else if they compiled the new driver, so hopefully one of the updates (soon?) will include that driver being updated.
You didn't by any chance try using the System > Admin > Networking since then, did you? Doing that will break NM.
I still want to know what the guy who wrote TFA (seriously, it's so short, it's practically a blurb itself) was doing. There's nothing in-depth at ALL. He didn't even review any of Beryl's features. My blog post of Beryl tricks is much more informative. I did that based on Beryl 0.2. I don't like that they got rid of snow between 0.1.9999 (or whatever it was) and 0.2 though. I liked the snow. I also call BS on the OOo Writer thing. On Edgy and Feisty with Beryl, OOo has never failed for me.
Exactly. What GP is calling "beta" is what a release candidate is. Can nobody get their testing vocabulary straight? Google calls RCs "beta." Microsoft calls betas "RC."
Alpha = barely works
Beta = kinda works, but bad
Release candidate = we think it works 100%, now let's hope
Final = done
Sometimes you'll go beta -> RC -> beta -> RC -> final if it turns out that what you thought was finished isn't really and maybe one bug turns up, looks minor, and then...oh crap, that's a big bug.
How did you set it up? Did you comment out everything but lo in/etc/network/interfaces (I believe it's required for WPA)? Was this before or after the Edgy 2.6.17-11 update that broke wireless insanely?
I would say it's best with Intel. nVidia users seem to run into issues a lot, like the black window bug that's caused by nVidia making craptastic drivers. Intel graphics *never* fail.
A lot of people complain about NM, but I've never had an issue with it. It's worked perfectly for me, even with WPA, since Dapper (IPW3945). The ones who complain are the ones who have hardware not found on this list: http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManagerHardware If yours is working fine, it's because your network card is supported.
Well if you consider the stupid people who go "condom? oh uh....oops" or don't realize they're pregnant until 5 months into the thing or don't get plan B if the condom breaks and all that stuff....uh, yeah, I'd say people who don't have kids probably are a bit smarter than those who do, because they were at least smart enough to all understand family planning / contraception, which is something only a segment of parents can claim.
If it were that simple, they'd pick up perfectly-legal people at bars like every other horny jerk. Pedophiles often lack adult sexual attractions and go just for kids. It could be an innocence thing or a youth thing or...I don't know, but there's something "special" about kids that turns pedos on.
Women don't make less than men because they have different career paths. Two people (one male, one female) with the same position in a company will not be paid the same. The man will make more.
hahaha i just figure it would mean that either the REAL jerks get extra-misogynistic and the more decent guys will STFU when they're about to say "girls can't use computers." I was told before I came here that/.ers are mean to women.
Do corporate versions of Norton actually get rid of viruses? Consumer ones go "you have a virus. You should go fix that or something" instead of just doing it. For that case, I like McAfee better because it just gets rid of the thing instead of just pointing at it going "ooo that's bad"
They mostly don't know the difference between the hardware and OS. I've been asked a bunch of times "what's an operating system?" And generally, it's believed that Macs have MacOS and everything else has Windows, and you can't have a computer without one of them (and no MacOS on a regular computer). They're just "part" of the computer.
Younger/more-computer-literate people are getting smarter about it and at least know that if it's slow it could be a virus. If a virus scan shows them clear, though, they blame the hardware without thinking of botnets or a clogged registry because they don't know about that stuff. Therefore, it must be the hardware. A lot of people ditch computers that are only a few years old and could work fine for another 5-10 years if they reinstalled Windows, and longer if they get a lighter-weight OS.
Does Windows ever tell you why it's slow? I've never seen that happen if it does. The closest I can think of is that their Norton Antivirus showed a bunch of viruses, and they made the connection. Then again, if they have Norton, that's slow shouldn't be surprising to anyone (probably is to them though because as an "enlightened computer user" they never use a computer without a good, expensive (because if it's expensive it must be good quality) AV).
It's not on Dell if you have spyware, adware, and viruses running freely along with being a zombie on a botnet. However, a good chunk of the population thinks that if their computer is slow after a year, it's because "Dells get slow in only a year" or something like that. They think it's the OEM's fault, and that they need to buy a new computer. They don't get that it's a software thing. I think quite a lot of computers that get thrown out are probably perfectly fine, they just need to have the OS reinstalled or a nice thorough cleaning (registry, viruses, adware, rootkits...)
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Finding a supported printer is generally as easy as walking into a store and saying "I'd like an HP printer." HPs are almost universally supported.
Same sorta thing for me. I use:
dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1
My typing is being el-sucko, huh? 2.54
er...right....sorry, Chem's been a while
There was corn syrup in it before the New Coke thing. New Coke was an attempt to taste like Pepsi because Pepsi was winning taste tests. Check out the Urban Legends Reference Page's entry: http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/newcoke.asp
Some things have infinite numbers of sig-figs, such as counting whole things or using conversion numbers (like 1.54 when going between inches and centimeters). Regardless, sig-figs are based on the *least* accurate measurement involved, so if you do 50 people * 1.54976 * 2.4 and with the last two numbers those decimals are as closely as you can round based on your measuring device, you can only have 1 significant digit because 1.4 only has one significant digit.
It freaks out if you do that? Since when do the internets get stupid about a trailing slash?
/ beryl-tricks.html
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com/2007/02
br Okay, there, no slash.
That's true. XGL is recommended ONLY for people who have really really annoying ATi cards. Intel and nVidia can both use AIGLX perfectly fine, though nVidia has their own separate thing if you want to use it. Either way, XGL is to be avoided for its poor performance.
- Hibernate now works
- I don't have to fiddle around for 10-15 minutes setting up NetworkManager
- I don't need to edit
/etc/modules to make my sound card work properly
TI SD card readers never were well-supported. Dapper was a no-go. Edgy was "editYou didn't by any chance try using the System > Admin > Networking since then, did you? Doing that will break NM.
I still want to know what the guy who wrote TFA (seriously, it's so short, it's practically a blurb itself) was doing. There's nothing in-depth at ALL. He didn't even review any of Beryl's features. My blog post of Beryl tricks is much more informative. I did that based on Beryl 0.2. I don't like that they got rid of snow between 0.1.9999 (or whatever it was) and 0.2 though. I liked the snow. I also call BS on the OOo Writer thing. On Edgy and Feisty with Beryl, OOo has never failed for me.
Exactly. What GP is calling "beta" is what a release candidate is. Can nobody get their testing vocabulary straight? Google calls RCs "beta." Microsoft calls betas "RC."
Alpha = barely works
Beta = kinda works, but bad
Release candidate = we think it works 100%, now let's hope
Final = done
Sometimes you'll go beta -> RC -> beta -> RC -> final if it turns out that what you thought was finished isn't really and maybe one bug turns up, looks minor, and then...oh crap, that's a big bug.
How did you set it up? Did you comment out everything but lo in /etc/network/interfaces (I believe it's required for WPA)? Was this before or after the Edgy 2.6.17-11 update that broke wireless insanely?
I would say it's best with Intel. nVidia users seem to run into issues a lot, like the black window bug that's caused by nVidia making craptastic drivers. Intel graphics *never* fail.
A lot of people complain about NM, but I've never had an issue with it. It's worked perfectly for me, even with WPA, since Dapper (IPW3945). The ones who complain are the ones who have hardware not found on this list: http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManagerHardware If yours is working fine, it's because your network card is supported.
No wait, maybe he should be informative and the idiot to whom he responded is funny for correcting a misspelling with a misspelling.
To the last question:
None! They use laser!
Please
Uh, count again. SSN's definitely have 9 digits. xxx-xx-xxxx I'll agree on the CC though
Well if you consider the stupid people who go "condom? oh uh....oops" or don't realize they're pregnant until 5 months into the thing or don't get plan B if the condom breaks and all that stuff....uh, yeah, I'd say people who don't have kids probably are a bit smarter than those who do, because they were at least smart enough to all understand family planning / contraception, which is something only a segment of parents can claim.
If it were that simple, they'd pick up perfectly-legal people at bars like every other horny jerk. Pedophiles often lack adult sexual attractions and go just for kids. It could be an innocence thing or a youth thing or...I don't know, but there's something "special" about kids that turns pedos on.
Women don't make less than men because they have different career paths. Two people (one male, one female) with the same position in a company will not be paid the same. The man will make more.
hahaha i just figure it would mean that either the REAL jerks get extra-misogynistic and the more decent guys will STFU when they're about to say "girls can't use computers." I was told before I came here that /.ers are mean to women.
Do corporate versions of Norton actually get rid of viruses? Consumer ones go "you have a virus. You should go fix that or something" instead of just doing it. For that case, I like McAfee better because it just gets rid of the thing instead of just pointing at it going "ooo that's bad"
They mostly don't know the difference between the hardware and OS. I've been asked a bunch of times "what's an operating system?" And generally, it's believed that Macs have MacOS and everything else has Windows, and you can't have a computer without one of them (and no MacOS on a regular computer). They're just "part" of the computer.
Younger/more-computer-literate people are getting smarter about it and at least know that if it's slow it could be a virus. If a virus scan shows them clear, though, they blame the hardware without thinking of botnets or a clogged registry because they don't know about that stuff. Therefore, it must be the hardware. A lot of people ditch computers that are only a few years old and could work fine for another 5-10 years if they reinstalled Windows, and longer if they get a lighter-weight OS.
Does Windows ever tell you why it's slow? I've never seen that happen if it does. The closest I can think of is that their Norton Antivirus showed a bunch of viruses, and they made the connection. Then again, if they have Norton, that's slow shouldn't be surprising to anyone (probably is to them though because as an "enlightened computer user" they never use a computer without a good, expensive (because if it's expensive it must be good quality) AV).
It's not on Dell if you have spyware, adware, and viruses running freely along with being a zombie on a botnet. However, a good chunk of the population thinks that if their computer is slow after a year, it's because "Dells get slow in only a year" or something like that. They think it's the OEM's fault, and that they need to buy a new computer. They don't get that it's a software thing. I think quite a lot of computers that get thrown out are probably perfectly fine, they just need to have the OS reinstalled or a nice thorough cleaning (registry, viruses, adware, rootkits...)