Posts by simon_brooke
8 posts • joined Thursday 26th April 2012 11:26 GMT
Oh, for heaven's sake!
I was at the opticians yesterday, having my eyes tested. I didn't order new frames. Instead, I ordered new lenses to my prescription both for my existing titanium 'frameless' frames and for the Oakley M-Frames I wear when cycling. Next year, if I do the same thing (and I probably will), I'll order new lenses to my prescription for my Google Glass frames.
Nobody (except the sort of mindless, blinkered hack who writes for el Reg) imagines that you will wear Google Glass on top of, or as well as, or interchangeably with your prescription spectacles. Your Google Glass spectacles will be your prescription glasses, and you'll wear them all the time. Anything else would be simply stupid, and whatever Google are, they're not stupid...
... unlike all too many el Reg journalists, these days. Met any climate change deniers lately?
Posted in Ten Linux apps you must install
Re: Normal people don't use Linux
If you can't use it when many other people do, is it Linux that's broken, or you?
Posted in Ten Linux apps you must install
Re: Only 2: GParted and Libre Office
I used emacs for more than twenty years. Now I use kate for preference. No, it doesn't do all the things that emacs can do, but I can remember how to get it to do the things I want it to do better than I ever could with emacs.
Try it. You might like it.
Posted in Ten Linux apps you must install
Re: I've been using Linux since mid-late 1993 (Slackware).
No, it's a popular culture reference - to what I consider the very best dreadful book you will ever read (and one which everyone should read, at least once). But then, as one who looks down on us geeks, I don't imagine you're very up with popular culture.
Posted in Ten Linux apps you must install
Re: I've been using Linux since mid-late 1993 (Slackware).
I've been using Linux more or less as long (started on SLS, so probably slightly longer than you), and there were two on the list I definitely endorse - synaptic and kate - and two I shall try (lucky backup and smplayer). The command line is a key tool and I use it a great deal, but when you're exploring something new a point-and-drool interface really helps.
For example, this morning I needed something to convert HTML to docx from the command line. I started synaptic and typed in 'convert html to docx', and the package I needed - pandoc - was one of four options. Yes, I could have grepped the same information out of something - that is, after all, all synaptic was doing - but it's easier to launch synaptic than to remember which file it is one should grep.
So, 24 hours have clearly elapsed....
Because the old link to the disputed page has vanished from Apple's UK home page. But the new text does not yet appear.
If I were Apple I wouldn't tweak the judges tails so much. They're looking at serious contempt of court here.
That's not an XML bug...
That's a Microsoft bug. Get your headlines right!
Posted in Twelve... classic 1980s 8-bit micros
How sad am I? I own all those...
...except the Spectrum and the two Commodores. But on the other hand I have both a BBC model A and a model B, and also a 6502 second processor; a QL, a Z88, and some earlier Sinclair calculators; bits of LEO Mk2, bits of LEO Mk3, assorted Archimedes, R140 and R260s, a Tadpole RS/6000....
