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by pawadu 10y ago
Did you read the article? > I've been a super hardcore Lightroom user and lover, but eventually found Darktable and am perfectly happy with it now. Its ergonomics take a little while to get used to though. I know one pro photographe
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by pawadu 10y ago
The only time ubuntu has crapped on me was due to a failing hard drive. Check your hardware. Note: sometimes a bad drive works fine under windows but dies under linux simply because windows doesn't happen to use the fault sectors.
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by pawadu 10y ago
But Dell has a pretty nice web site despite having a huge range of products.
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by pawadu 10y ago
I believe Ubuntu allows you to choose between closed source drivers from the vendor and open source ones. It even asks you during install. I think it's on the very first page they show you.
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by pawadu 10y ago
or any other Arabic words for that matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43RgvVY_wvQ
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by pawadu 10y ago
The IEEE standard for floating point numbers has certain mathematical requirements that makes it a bit more "correct" but possibly also a bit slower. What Linus is saying [1] is that you don't need that in most applications [
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by pawadu 10y ago
Well, F-droid is a pretty huge organization in terms of user count and repo activity: https://gitlab.com/fdroid Otherwise, you can see the most star-ed repos here: https://gitlab.com/explore/projects&#x
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by pawadu 10y ago
Incidentally, the Amiga Workbench Utility disk (or whatever they called it) included a very nice microemacs implementation: http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/amigaos204 Suffice to say, I have been a very happ
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by pawadu 10y ago
1. Google can at any time close your account for "suspicious activity". Good luck finding a support person to talk to then. 2. They have in past changed the free quotas so drastically that datastore operations have failed resultin
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by pawadu 10y ago
Yeah, but what does "CommercialFeatures" mean? How much do each use of each function costs you? If you are already paying for standard Java support, wouldn't you assume it includes these features? Also, one particular company
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by pawadu 10y ago
In case you don't know what this is all about: Oracles Java contains a number of "commercial" stuff that costs money. So in theory, you could download the standard Java SE and run certain tools or the standard tools with cert
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by pawadu 10y ago
Yeah, thats RMS in a nutshell for you: Avoids saying “Linux” without “GNU” when referring to GNU/Linux. (A8) Specially now that GNU/Linux is in a minority (if you count installations and include Android and ChromeOS), I
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by pawadu 10y ago
From the GNU website: --- Things that prevent GitLab from moving up to the next grade, B: All JavaScript code served to the client is free, but does not work with LibreJS enabled. (B0) Encourages bad licensing practice, including
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by pawadu 10y ago
yeah, their complaints against gitlab seems like nitpicking. If the gitlab people could fix these minor issues and receive the blessing of RMS I think they could get some exposure outside their usual market. (whether that gets them more pay
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by pawadu 10y ago
I am talking about short term effects, and not claiming this is a very sane argument. But you should understand that Apple was given a competitive edge against other companies that did pay their EU taxes. If Apple decided to leave the EU ma
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by pawadu 10y ago
Although this week I learned that github won because some VC had just too much money to throw around :) Jokes aside, github won because - unlike sourceforge and gitorious - their web interface did not suck.
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by pawadu 10y ago
The "lower sovereign court" has absolutely no meaning when the whole operation was set up to make use of the EU joint market. Do you claim EU should shut up and accept one of its members is stealing everyones tax income? Does that
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by pawadu 10y ago
A tool like git could make operations such as branching and merging easier, and allowing developers to collaborate more. It also has a global revision identifier (instead of file based revisions) and signed commits which may increase securi
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by pawadu 10y ago
This release is available from the FTP servers listed at: I wish GNU people could clean up Savannah and use it as their main distribution point. Well, at least they are not OpenBSD with their ancient CVS system.
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by pawadu 10y ago
> If the EU found Irish tax code to be illegal then the word "illegal" becomes ambiguous as it involved Sovereignty of a National tax code vs EU guidelines. translation: I choose to accept the court that agrees with me and blun
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by pawadu 10y ago
> Why would it be fine with this? Why not? Apple doesn't produce any tax income for them, Apple has zero R&D in EU, and Apple not selling to EU consumers would only benefit the local companies like BQ, Sony and Alcatel.
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by pawadu 10y ago
> TL;DR Apple pays taxes they are suppose to pay per Irish tax code small addition: the Irish tax code was found to be illegal.
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by pawadu 10y ago
I agree with you on all accounts ;) The point I was half-jokingly making was that people don't understand what an extremely powerful tool they have been given and instead complain about shallow stuff that for them is simple to grasp ed
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by pawadu 10y ago
> I consider this to be a failure of Git. The set of different options (normal merge, rebase, filter-branch, etc) is complex and not cleanly orthogonal which makes for a very messy "mental model". Allow me to disagree... Does
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by pawadu 10y ago
close everything, restart the browser, go to thinigiverse, open some random design pages and browse a few of the design files (the blue ones). now watch your memory and CPU usage :)
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by pawadu 10y ago
https://github.com/pcbje/gransk
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by pawadu 10y ago
and silently drops connections. you keep talking for 10 minutes before you realize the other end was kicked out of the meeting...
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by pawadu 10y ago
> 3) Good quality voice calls, video calls and group voice calls In my experience, voice quality issues is almost always due to the people and not the technology.
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by pawadu 10y ago
The support guy sure sounds like an ass... With that said, is your Skype account linked to a Microsoft live account? In that case thats were your contacts should be now.
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by pawadu 10y ago
> Why are you not allowed to feed the animals in national parks? 1. because your food can make them sick 2. because they may eat too much would either apply to people?

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