Well, imagine that...
As per some recommendations, I gave a try to KDE.
As usual, I installed it on VirtualBox, transferred the system to my real
box, fixed up the MBR and booted my shinny new Kubuntu.
And (save some pretty minor annoyances, grounded mostly on differences on
how some programs
The most common thing I see done to save money with Linux is build a
router or firewall with an old computer. The problem I have with that
is the computer's power costs will exceed the cost of a band new router
within just a month or two. Even if you specifically want to run a full
copy of Li
It is amazing - the transformation of computers since my first exposure
in 1983. My first experience was intro to computers - Fortran
programming using punch cards. It was 1985 before I saw a full screen
editor. In 1986 I bought a Commodore 64 that had 64kb of RAM. It was
plenty powerful to
On 06/21/2014 02:45 PM, techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote:
Since my two large screens are connected to my Linux box I am unable
to enjoy NetFlix until I get a vmachine set up with Windows.
You can watch netflix with linux. Here's instructions on how to get it
to work. I've been watching it thi
On 06/21/2014 02:02 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote:
I do *despise* everything about nepomuk and akonadi and never seem to
have been able to totally eliminate it from my systems.
I know you hate upgrades, but it sounds like you need to get to the
latest version of KDE. They killed off nepomuk i
On 06/21/2014 12:39 PM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote:
Maybe I learn something after all...
I did learn to hate KDE years ago when there were so many things running
under the hood that it killed all performance.
Unity I just can't digest it...
I'll install a KDE virtual and give it a try, I may c
To me bloat would be a bunch of daemons eating resources to the point of
exhaustion.
I installed KDE (had not done it in years) and seems to hug less resources
now.
Still testing...
ET
Dennis Kibbe writes:
techli...@phpcoderusa.com writes:
What a great rant!! I was on my way to look
techli...@phpcoderusa.com writes:
> What a great rant!! I was on my way to look for a video on HULU I
> enjoyed this much more.
LOL
I've enjoyed it as well. "Bloat" is one of those words that get thrown
around without really knowing what it means. (no offense to OP) If I
see the word in an
Thank you!!
On 2014-06-21 16:51, Phil Waclawski wrote:
http://www.compholio.com/netflix-desktop/ [2]
It works fairly well if you want netflix on Linux. Even if it does
install silverlight :P
Phil Waclawski
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 2:45 PM, wrote:
What a great rant!! I was on my way to look
xbmc is all well and good, but for some folks Netflix can be a "show
stopper" if it won't run on linux. Had I known about this solution soon
enough, I would have helped one of my students stay converted over to linux
for their home entertainment set up ;)
Phil W.
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 3:00 PM,
I take it you are using XBMC to watch NetFlix?
On 2014-06-21 17:00, Michael Havens wrote:
hwy are you using netflix? Use xbmc!
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Phil Waclawski
wrote:
http://www.compholio.com/netflix-desktop/ [1]
It works fairly well if you want netflix on Linu
hwy are you using netflix? Use xbmc!
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Phil Waclawski
wrote:
> http://www.compholio.com/netflix-desktop/
>
> It works fairly well if you want netflix on Linux. Even if it does install
> silverlight :P
> Phil Waclawski
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 2
http://www.compholio.com/netflix-desktop/
It works fairly well if you want netflix on Linux. Even if it does install
silverlight :P
Phil Waclawski
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 2:45 PM, wrote:
> What a great rant!! I was on my way to look for a video on HULU I
> enjoyed this much more.
>
> I th
What a great rant!! I was on my way to look for a video on HULU I
enjoyed this much more.
I think Win7 is one of the best OS's ever made. I started with DOS 2.11
and stayed with DOS until 95 when I was forced to use it.
In 2000 I used Linux for 8 months and then went back to Windows. I
Brian last wrote (in very small part ;)
> Re: KDE ... these days it's quite small.
Brian, your comments (and advice and guidance) are always especially
helpful and very, very much appreciated.
I, too, much prefer KDE and Mint to the many other distros that I have
tried. Sometimes, I get very fr
+1 Brian regarding the "more efficient distros" Been there done that and
spent months hunting for things and tweaking, and finally just gave up and
went back to Ubuntu. I recently changed from Unity to KDE. While I didn't
really hate Unity, I have come to appreciate the additional options and
leve
HA!
Maybe I learn something after all...
I did learn to hate KDE years ago when there were so many things running
under the hood that it killed all performance.
Unity I just can't digest it...
I'll install a KDE virtual and give it a try, I may change my mind!
Rant away! 8-)
ET
Brian Cluf
On 06/21/2014 11:05 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote:
And/or the M$-like bloated KDE.
Since your ranting, I will too...
I really hate seeing people continue to spread that KDE is bloated. It
might have been true in the KDE 3.5 days, but these days it's quite
small. As far as ram usage it i
the only thing that comes with mx14 you've heard of is libre office. The
file manager and browser I've never heard of before. The windowmanager is
xfce.
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
> try mX14.
> it is small (cd sized) and it is fast!
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
kitepi...@kitepilot.com writes:
> I hate Unity too...
> And/or the M$-like bloated KDE.
>
> Because my long hated (and mostly reliable) Linux Mint went out of
> support, I decided to go with what I hate the least: Xubuntu.
>
> After fiddling with it for a day I decided: screw it, I'll go Debian
There are these things called rewritable cd/dvd's when you really need
one, you just write over your least useful disc.
That's pretty much all I buy
On Jun 21, 2014 11:34 AM, wrote:
> Sounds like you should hate DVD drives instead.
>>
> Nawh, that wasn't the problem.
> I didn't have blank DVDs
try mX14.
it is small (cd sized) and it is fast!
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 11:23 AM, sean wrote:
> Sounds like you should hate DVD drives instead.
> On Jun 21, 2014 11:10 AM, wrote:
>
>> I hate Unity too...
>> And/or the M$-like bloated KDE.
>> Because my long hated (and mostly rel
Sounds like you should hate DVD drives instead.
Nawh, that wasn't the problem.
I didn't have blank DVDs.
I live in the middle of the boondocks and it is an hour-and-a-half
round-trip journey to go get them.
Of course that if I had known then what I know now...
ET
On Jun 21, 2014 11:10 AM,
Sounds like you should hate DVD drives instead.
On Jun 21, 2014 11:10 AM, wrote:
> I hate Unity too...
> And/or the M$-like bloated KDE.
> Because my long hated (and mostly reliable) Linux Mint went out of
> support, I decided to go with what I hate the least: Xubuntu.
> But I could not burn the
I hate Unity too...
And/or the M$-like bloated KDE.
Because my long hated (and mostly reliable) Linux Mint went out of support,
I decided to go with what I hate the least: Xubuntu.
But I could not burn the DVD, so I installed it on VirtualBox, transferred
the system to my real box, fixed up
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