On 11/25/2011 07:53 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
You ask if it's really necessary to upgrade every 6 months, and it's a wise
question, but only one-sided. As a consumer, you'll have less stability and
more experimental new features with a rapid release cycle, but as a
programmer or producer, you
On 11/23/2011 07:57 PM, Robert La Ferla wrote:
Thanks. BTW - I can't create a rule for iPhone's mediocre mail app.;-)
Switch to Android :-)
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>> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
>> bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of David Kramer
>>
>> On 11/25/2011 07:46 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> But, I learned years ago when I started using slackware and I customized
> my
> desktop using some arcane wi
> From: ma...@mohawksoft.com [mailto:ma...@mohawksoft.com]
>
> Changing existing paradigms is usually a bad
> practice unless there is sufficient evidence a new paradigm is better.
The same is true of everything that is being developed by anyone anywhere.
Even if you invented a car that consumes
On 11/27/2011 11:05 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> It's impossible to get everyone to agree that any new change is positive.
> So those decisions are left to the people who have localized control over
> whatever it is. Those people are driven by something - usually monetary -
> and they're designi
>> From: ma...@mohawksoft.com [mailto:ma...@mohawksoft.com]
>>
>> Changing existing paradigms is usually a bad
>> practice unless there is sufficient evidence a new paradigm is better.
>
> The same is true of everything that is being developed by anyone anywhere.
> Even if you invented a car that c
On Nov 27, 2011, at 11:28 AM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
>
> Vista is an example of how a Monopoly even has to listen.
It's interesting that you bring this up. I picked up a little netbook a few
months ago and I tried several Linux distributions on it. Linux has offered me
a choice of deskto
On 11/27/2011 11:28 AM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
From: ma...@mohawksoft.com [mailto:ma...@mohawksoft.com]
Changing existing paradigms is usually a bad
practice unless there is sufficient evidence a new paradigm is better.
The same is true of everything that is being developed by anyone anyw
Just to show that every argument is more complicated than you think:
The primary studies that showed that the Dvorak layout was better were done by
the Office of Naval Research when it was under the direction of one John
Dvorak. How do you spell conflict of interest?
Another lesson to be learn
> On 11/27/2011 11:28 AM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
From: ma...@mohawksoft.com [mailto:ma...@mohawksoft.com]
>> Think about the QWERTY keyboard. The Dvorák proponents made their case
>> and
>> lost. QWERTY is no better or worse than Dvorák and thus, the prevailing
>> paradigm won. Rightly s
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:26:16AM -0500, David Kramer wrote:
> For instance, the ability to display the names of apps by the icons
> (turned off by default) wouldn't have any negative effect, other than
> more quickly pointing out how insufficient "trying to shove every app
> onto one launcher and
If you have experience getting the Intel i685 video chipset to work with
Ubuntu, please contact me. TIA.
Bill
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On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 09:00:18AM -0500, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> In any OS, it's best not to get deeply entrenched into what you're
> calling "advanced" features of the UI. I'm going to call them
> details. Whether it's linux, mac, windows, solaris or anything, all
> this stuff is prone to ch
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> [] even if you were abolishing slavery,
> or promoting voting rights for women or african americans in the U.S. a few
> decades ago, people who are entrenched in the existing paradigm will oppose
> your invention, and you might end
A couple guys and I are working on a project. One component of it is an
LVM backup program. It seems to be able to use LVM COW volumes without
corrupting them.
I am planning Ubuntu, centos, and suse versions. Any interest out there?
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