abrowne

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1. 751.▲
   by abrowne 10y ago

   I've been looking at the HP Elitebook 1030. Since it's a "business" model, you can even custom order it without Windows (they install FreeDOS) and a matte screen. But since it's a "business" model I can&#x
2. 752.▲
   by abrowne 10y ago

   I've recently switched from MacOS to Linux. After trying lots of distros and desktops, I went with Ubuntu MATE. Other than needing to plug into ethernet to get the (Broadcom) wifi driver, it was an 100% automatic install, and I configu
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   by abrowne 10y ago

   Because title case https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Case_styles
4. 754.▲
   by abrowne 10y ago

   Even better, weather.gov/ZIP e.g. http://weather.gov/55455
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   by abrowne 10y ago

   I can confirm that it does correctly give me Minneapolis, MN, not Minneapolis, KS, which is what the MacOS Dashboard weather widget would display around 10.5 or so if you entered "Minneapolis".
6. 756.▲
   by abrowne 10y ago

   Many BBC videos, if you don't use an iPad useragent.
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   by abrowne 10y ago

   Do any of these support North American GSM bands? I remember looking through them last year some time, and every one I looked at only had 900/1800.
8. 758.▲
   by abrowne 10y ago

   He was an Apple exec, but never CEO.
9. 759.▲
   by abrowne 10y ago

   Please Mozilla never implement that!
10. 760.▲
    by abrowne 10y ago

    They are updating it, but keeping the original style as much as possible. The forked apps, like the file manager (caja), archive manager (engrampa), text editor (pluma) etc. still have menubars and so on, but, for example, it is using dconf
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    by abrowne 10y ago

    Have you tried MATE, such as with Ubuntu MATE? I prefer Xfce, but MATE is a great fork and update of GNOME 2.
12. 762.▲
    by abrowne 10y ago

    I'm (slowly) switching from Mac to Linux, and in the process I tried a lot of options. I settled on Ubuntu as my preferred distro for several reasons (although I liked a lot about Fedora too), but I think the choice of desktop is most
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    by abrowne 10y ago

    FYI I also get the blurry images in Firefox's reader mode. (I had to go back to the original to see if that was intentional when I saw the first screenshot ;-)
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    by abrowne 10y ago

    > Bluetooth is kind of a mess, on Xubuntu at least. (Speaking as someone who likes Xfce, and is currently switching from MacOS to Linux and is mostly settled on Xubuntu), I think that's mostly an Xfce thing. GNOME (and therefore Uni
15. 765.▲
    by abrowne 10y ago

    Apple and MS have a patent cross-licensing agreement, or so I've heard.
16. 766.▲
    by abrowne 10y ago

    I love Evergreen's three cup tofu and eggplant enough that I figured out how to make it at home now that I don't live three blocks away :-P
17. 767.▲
    by abrowne 10y ago

    I'd guess Little Szechuan[1]. Note that the original University Ave location in St Paul is now hot pot only. 1: http://littleszechuan.com
18. 768.▲
    by abrowne 10y ago

    I think they are implying that now people won't think of ITT when they say they're an alum of IIT.
19. 769.▲
    by abrowne 10y ago

    I came here to suggest the same album. Here's the artist's page for it: http://www.johannjohannsson.com/discography/fordlandia/ And this is nitpicking, but you did include the accents ;-) — it's Jóh
20. 770.▲
    by abrowne 10y ago

    Whereas Peru's is one my favorites largely because it's one of the relative few that's not all centered. (I also noticed Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland. Ira
21. 771.▲
    by abrowne 11y ago

    You can always do `sudo do-release-upgrade -d` (for development version), but it should work in the next 24 hours.
22. 772.▲
    by abrowne 11y ago

    Are you on 15.10 or 14.04 LTS? For the latter, I think not until 16.04.1 is released. Otherwise, probably soon.
23. 773.▲
    by abrowne 11y ago

    One thing I've noticed is that xdg-app seems to be only for desktop GUI apps, while snappy works for server software and command-line apps too. To me, that makes it more interesting.
24. 774.▲
    by abrowne 11y ago

    The mosaics give it an oddly (ancient) Roman feel, which led me to wonder what a metro system built by the Romans would look like . . .
25. 775.▲
    by abrowne 11y ago

    Or people names Isis?
26. 776.▲
    by abrowne 11y ago

    Great explanation.
27. 777.▲
    by abrowne 11y ago

    I agree, even as a major iOS detractor, that recent iPhones are amazingly repairable, while there's an opposite trend for many (most?) high-end Android phones these days. But is it really "disgusting" that a phone is cheaper
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    by abrowne 11y ago

    I've not read the book, only a summary a article[1]. The article includes short descriptions of his groupings. Here is Yankeedom: Founded by Puritans, residents in Northeastern states and the industrial Midwest tend to be more comfort
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    by abrowne 11y ago

    OK, not unique in the world, and I know some people think "unique" should be an absolute like "pregnant" – you can't be "fairly pregnant" – but it is much less common compared to vertical or horizontal str
30. 780.▲
    by abrowne 11y ago

    I disagree. It's simple, but the triangle is fairly unique.