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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: No, of course not. They just don't know how to untangle Clippy from the Start Menu code.
Looks like you were trying to press the start button.
Would you like me to:
_ Downgrade to Windows 7
_ Add a start menu to Windows 8
_ Go away.
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Pualee wrote: Downgrade Upgrade to Windows 7
FTFY
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There are over a billion Linux end-users in the world in 2014. Yes, that's right, a billion. Welcome to The Year of Linux (Nth Anniversary Edition)
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Which leads to the question: what do you like about it? The minimalism? No GUI?
TTFN - Kent
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- The minimalism is definitely one of the biggest benefits; a fresh install is nice and snappy but totally functional.
- PACMAN package manager.
- Rolling release - no perpetual betas and RC's.
- Package repository gets a lot of attention...also a separate package repository called 'Arch User Repository' where 3rd parties can share their packages.
- One of the few repos that has a working MONO that you don't have to build from source.
- Works well in Hyper-V with no add ons from Microsoft eg: Linux Integration Services.
- Arch Wiki has lots of walkthroughs on how to install just about everything.
- Arch Linux for ARM processors: http://archlinuxarm.org/[^] ...works on Raspberry Pi!
...stuff just seems to work better on it...I even managed to get a Samba share going where I can map to Windows and create and compile Visual Studio .Net projects...build console apps in Windows and run from command line in Linux
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For me this is the 7th year of Linux - since 2007 I'm on Fedora, running Windows and other Linux (servers) in VM...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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The founder of Stack Overflow is on to change the world of online communication...again. This time with Discourse. Who'd be crazy enough to try running an online community? Oh, sorry Chris.
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I hope he didn't modeled Discourse on SO! IMHO it is one of the worst online communities...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: IMHO it is one of the worst online communities...
Why?
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IMO (and no, this isn't a**-kissing), I think CP's forums are the best designed I've ever seen.
For example (from Discourse):
We've replaced all that with the power of just-in-time loading. Want to read more? Keep scrolling down.
No, I don't want to see everybody's inane post. I often selectively choose the 5's and the one's from members that have "Marc Reputation Points". If a member doesn't have an MRP but is 5'd, then they are added to my mental MRP list if they seem to get have intelligent things to say (using the Marc Intelligence Filtering algorithm.)
Anyways, CP's forums are easy and a joy to use. I've never experienced better a better forum implementation. The world should take note.
[edit]BTW, I just checked out the Discourse test sandbox. Looks like crap. So much wasted space. [/edit]
Marc
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Years ago, Microsoft's CEO described open source as a cancer. Times have changed. Just ask 22-year Redmond veteran and open-source proponent Mark Hill. Time to move on from the hate (or at least find a new reason)
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You all read Ballmer wrong - he has no problem to use open source, after all it's free! However (Ballmer in 2001):Quote: if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source So that's the problem! And what changed? Microsoft learned how to make money from open source!!!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: to use open source, after all it's free
Not necessarily, the code can still be open, but you need to pay a license to use it.
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A report in The New York Times, based on documents from 2011 obtained by the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, reveals that the US security agency’s reliance on facial recognition technology has grown significantly under the Obama administration – coinciding with a rise in popularity of taking and tagging self portraits on online social networks. Can we just admit they're using everything available? It would simplify headlines.
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I have never carried out any special investigation of the material gathered by now. One pattern, however, is showing up so clearly that I decided to investigate it a bit deeper. You see, in my articles I have to write the phrase "note the last line" pretty often. It occurred to me that there had to be some reason behind it. Copy/Paste considered harmful. Copy/Paste considered arm full.
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Google has started accepting requests from Europeans wanting to remove search links to information on them that they find objectionable, following a controversial ruling earlier this month by the Court of Justice of the European Union. "Will you recognize me? Call my name or walk on by"
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Individuals who are introverted are able to take in much more information regarding what is happening around them. They also expend a considerable amount of mental energy analyzing that information. People who score highly on the introversion scale are acutely aware of any changes to their surroundings. This is why social events are so taxing. CAT 6 cable won't help you here
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Security isn't all gloom and doom. Amid the progress today, these four developments in particular have made us safer. Now if we can just get people to stop stickying their password to their monitor
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This morning, I saw this petition for “IT professionals worldwide: Turn off the Legacy IP Protocol (IPv4) for the day of 06th June 2014.” "If turning IPv4 off results in inability to perform our job for our employers, we tell them the reason and take a day off." Yeah, that will work quite well
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"I do believe the word 'teleportation' is a little misleading!" - "I do believe the word 'teleportation' is a little misleading!" </sarcasm>
Edit - oops - link[^]
modified 30-May-14 20:28pm.
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Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Magyk.
Marc
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Assuming human deep space travel turns out to be not just incredibly dangerous, but perhaps “crazy idiotic" and "laughable," as Harvard biologist Gary Ruvkun put it, the tenacious dream of an interstellar civilization forces some out-of-the box thinking. What if, instead of rocketing humans to other planets, we made an exact copy on site? "PC LOAD LETTER"
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2D or 3D printing?!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What if, instead of rocketing humans to other planets, we made an exact copy on site?
Whose to say that didn't happen here?
Marc
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