Re: You spell it sulphur, I spell it ...
"sulphur" ..... "polysulfide" .... hmmm.
Posts by frank ly
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Boffins develop 'practically free' sulphur-powered batteries
Mind control hat makes quadcopter do what brain says
Leaks point to new mystery Macs 'with Jony Ive's fingerprints on'
Boffins build gesture recognition using WiFi
Steelie Neelie: Crack down on wicked ISPs so we can Skype
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Film crew plans dig to find lost burial ground of Atari's E.T.
Minty fresh Linux: Olivia hits the virtual shelves
Friday 31st May 2013 16:16 GMT
Re: mint is really doing things no linux has done before
In the past two months, I've installed Linux Mint 13 (Maya - MATE) on my very old laptop, my new laptop, my Eee netbook and my old Desktop (with old twin head Nvidia Quadro graphics card). Until then, I was a total Linux virgin but it went well ....... except for the things that didn't.
The pop-out side panels were great, just like the XP pop-out menu bars, except that after you logoff and restart, the icons (and the separator bars especially) decide to migrate to a different positon, sometimes. If you use the non-expanded option on the right hand panel, it decides to get into bed with and overlay the left hand panel on next start-up.
The updates, which every sensible person accepts, kill the Nidia Quadro twin head card. The forums have lots of amazingly complicated advice about how to get the card working, but I finally figured out that the best way is to do a fresh install and block any update called 'nouvaux' or 'Nvidia'.
The Caja file manager locks up, falls over and eats CPU time and memory if you ask it to copy too many files, especially over a network. This is mentioned on the official forum, and gets the response, "Caja works fine on my computer". I solved this by finding out about Nautilus and installing then using it. (Caja is an 'improved' version of Nautilus but I fail to see how it could be.)
If you try to set VLC as the preferred application for video files, where VLC is offered as an option, it still uses Banshee to play video. The way round this is to select Custom and then specify VLC as the Custom command. This applies to other user preference settings as well.
You can't copy a file from a network location onto the desktop. You have to copy to a local drive first then copy from local drive to the desktop.
Thunderbird does not work properly on Mint 13, I won't go into details. It might be Thunderbird's fault, it might be Mint's fault. These problems are common across all my four installations (except the twin head video one).
I'm very impressed by the structure and principles of Linux, because I'm the sort of person who has the time and ability to find out about it and do 'experiments'. I'm impressed by the way the Linux devotees spend time and effort to improve the arcane and occult aspects of file systems and all sorts of esoteric stuff.
I'm not impressed by the way the 'small' but obvious problems seem to be ignored in favour of doing lots of 'cool and cutting edge' things.
'Normal people', who are used to Windows 7, etc, will not be impressed and will think it is clunky and amateurish and definitely not ready for the desktop.
Edit: I nearly forgot:- The amazing adventures of getting drivers for printers, etc. It's a challenge but I got my Dell laser printer and my old Epson scanner working fine, eventually. I am bloody minded enough to slog through that but not many people would be.
Fedora's Schrödinger's Cat Linux gives coders claws for thought
A Bluetooth door lock that puts the kettle on? NOW we're in the future
Hey, O2 punters: Kiss goodbye to 4 MEELLION* Openzone hotspots
Never mind your little brother - happy 10th birthday, H.264
Fancy some mobile filth? New logo tells you when not to bother
Russians draw liquid blood from frozen woolly mammoth
Google whips the sheet off new Gmail interface
Now beaming live from Pyongyang: NORKSCASTS!
Wednesday 29th May 2013 08:54 GMT
Re: Here's an idea..
'Eastern' capitalism seems to have done well in Japan (and other places) and now China, in terms of letting technology flourish. I'm not sure if it's a form of imported 'western' capitalism or just letting people do what they want to do.
Can you give examples of where technology development (not copying) has done at least fairly well away from capitalist systems?
Wonder substance pulses QUADRILLION lasers per second
First 'adult' app for Google Glass planned 'within days'
Boffins' brilliant plan: CONCRETE COMPUTERS
Tuesday 28th May 2013 17:02 GMT
An Idea
If a set of identical, general purpose computing elements/blocks could be made from cement (with a filler material to give strength), then some form of interconnect studs on the top, with matching receptacles on the base could be formed into each block to give a structural and data/power interconnect. Using these, a larger unit could be simply assembled from smaller units. Just an idea......
Forget the word 'cyberwar' says Marcus Ranum
Google releases Glass' roots, warns it may turn specs to bricks
Herschel Space Observatory spots galaxies merging
The bunker at the end of the world - in Essex
James Bond inspires US bill to require smart guns for all
Soylent Corporation prepares to DEFEAT FOOD
Computer use irrelevant to education outcomes, says US study
Massive EXPLOSION visible to naked eye SEEN ON MOON
Congress asks Google to explain Glass privacy policies
Dark blue side of the Force used to quell Star Wars nerd clash
Rolls-Royce climbs aboard Bloodhound SUPERSONIC car
Google pools cloud storage
China: Online predator or hapless host?
The great $45m bank cyber-heist: Seven New Yorkers cuffed
Friday 10th May 2013 20:32 GMT
Re: "shot dead at his house while playing dominoes"
Many retail outlets now have small portable card readers that have a wireless link to the shop's server, especially if the staff have to walk around to customers. ( My dentist's reception desk also has one of these, maybe because it's more convenient that a cabled reader or a fixed one.)
In a restaurant, the staff would present you with the bill and the reader, put your card in the reader for you and ask you to enter the amount on the reader keyboard, press Enter, then your PIN and press Enter; hinting that a tip added to the amount would be most welcome. The card never leaves your sight.
If they have a payment desk, it's the same process but the card reader is fixed to an adjustable stand of some kind. Many people, especially in large groups dining out, prefer to leave cash on the table as a tip, knowing that that staff are more likely to get it if it lands in their hands directly.
Boffins' invisible magnetic ring pieces: Next-gen mobe emitters
Yes! It's the NFC phone-bonk doorbell app AT LAST
TARDIS materialises in Sydney
Don't bake your Raspberry Pi - now you can WATER COOL it
Movie review: Star Trek Into Darkness
NORKS powers down whole towns to find pirates
Plans for fully 3D-printed gun go online next week
10-day stubble: Men's 'socio-sexual attributes' at their best
Dunkin' Donuts temps S Korea with ultrasonic tags
Japan's XP migration solution: Remove network cable
Friday 3rd May 2013 06:48 GMT
Fixes and stuff ....
"This will mean an end to free security patches and fixes for knackered code – exposing organisations to a host of potential info-security risks."
The end to fixes, in itself, will not expose organisations to security risks, because they are already exposed and have been exposed for the past ten years. Fixes are used to, er .....fix things.
There is lots of office/admin work that does not need internet connectivity so why don't they organise their internal structure so that all the XP machines are on a network devoted to internal work? I used to work for a company that had two networks - one was totally internal and was used for product develoment, documentation, internal e-mail, no possibility of connection to the outside world ..............
I'll stop there - you all know this. Somebody needs to tell the Japanese prefecture about all this.
Would you trust crowd-sourced maps? Skobbler releases satnav app
Is it me or did cloud marketing suddenly get really weird?
'Facebook, Twitter, Google: Ad companies masquerading as tech ones'
Samsung to block mobile app store in Iran as sanctions bite
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