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by steevdave 15y ago
Part of this has to do with the cost of Ubuntu. I'm not talking paying developers to make sure it works on the machine, but the actual cost that Canonical charges for the ability to use the Ubuntu logo and becoming "certified"; It's not a
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by steevdave 15y ago
Kinda reminds me of the Amazon outage. Except that they aren't apologizing. And they are looking to blame anyone but themselves.
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by steevdave 15y ago
Evolution runs on Windows too. SUSE build system builds it almost daily. Just google for evolution win32 Email and you should find it
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by steevdave 15y ago
When Paypal updates their EULA and various other policies I get an email about it and I can't remember if it's the link or in the email itself but it has a summary of what has changed since the last one.
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by steevdave 15y ago
I logged in to make the same comment. If you want someone to use your product, the best way to do that isn't to call them sheep
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by steevdave 15y ago
It won't let me respond to your comment, and you're right, I shouldn't have made that comment. I do apologize, and apparently misread the comment. Hopefully people can look past both things and realize that there is more to ARM than just
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by steevdave 15y ago
I have a Trimslice Dev-Kit (I'm a Gentoo developer) and I have one of the 32GB on order. There are probably other things incorrect in your comment but the main point I want to address is the "equivalent to a pentium 3"; this is definitely n
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by steevdave 15y ago
Most expire the mapping within a few days although AT&T Uverse routers default to ~30 days. Personally due to the fact that I tend to set up a lot of machines and want them available by hostname I set mine to ~30 minutes.
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by steevdave 15y ago
I agree with the author that the stigma is that you only work at McDonalds if you are a loser. At least in major cities. I grew up in the country as well and perhaps the teachings are a tad different there. I was taught that any income is b
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by steevdave 15y ago
Glad I got mine recently. I was freaked out by the fact that when I handed them my birth certificate, they didn't hand it back. "It will be returned to you by mail" they said; I'm not sure why they needed to keep the birth certificate,
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by steevdave 15y ago
This isn't unity specific, the only reason they did it was to see if the user could then find the document. The failing in this specific case is more on the side of Libre/OpenOffice.
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by steevdave 15y ago
I use a Logitech G15, and it has a little switch on it to switch between "computer" and "gaming" mode. Since I rarely use(d) the super/windows key, I tend to just leave it in "gaming" mode. Without running into a post like this, I would hav
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by steevdave 15y ago
Where is P6? Was there one and their comments were so bad that they didn't add it to the list? Numbers missing in a list like that really bug me. It also causes me to wonder why it never comes up. I haven't read the thread since a lot ear
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by steevdave 15y ago
I work with Ubuntu for work ( we make ARM devices ) so every so often I have to run Natty to test if it is usable yet. If you have a "decent" OpenGL graphics card, then depending on when you install it may or may not work. I currently hav
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by steevdave 15y ago
And to address who does it, it doesn't matter. Someone in the company should be in charge of doing the backups. If no one else will, then take it upon yourself to do so. If you have a medium sized company, someone in your IT department sho
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by steevdave 15y ago
You should always have at least 2 different backups, one on site and one off site (disaster recovery) these are completely separate from "it's in the cloud so I don't have to worry about it." And this is why I personally dislike "the cloud"
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by steevdave 15y ago
In house or external doesn't matter. You always backup. Because it seems to be a foreign concept in this day and age, I will repeat it again. You always backup.
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by steevdave 15y ago
Why don't people make backups anymore? I know that using Google Apps is much easier than running your own stuff in-house. It requires much less time and resources, but at the same time there are still best practices and disaster recovery pl
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by steevdave 16y ago
That was kind of the point. He wasn't supposed to settle unless they did something they obviously never would. AKA never settle
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by steevdave 16y ago
Fwiw, Freescale has a 64bit ppc processor now... Either way though, until you're able to just drop an ARM processor into a "commodity" motherboard, it won't really see widespread use, aside from cell phones, and other mobile devices. There
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by steevdave 16y ago
No they haven't. The closest you would come would be a tegra2 which is dual core and I believe the omap4 is dual core as well. Though iirc, you can't currently use both cores in Linux. Freescale have announced the imx6 which should have qua
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by steevdave 16y ago
How is this pertinent to HN but the Israel attacks on Gaza not?
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by steevdave 16y ago
You are bitching about gif not being open while advocating flash... And telling him that he looks foolish?
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by steevdave 16y ago
It isn't only the iPhone that doesn't have flash. Many people work on different architectures than x86 or x86_64. Some of us even want to watch these cool little bits. I realize that in your world there is only the PC, the Mac, and the iPho
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by steevdave 16y ago
The only issue with that is if you don't have a spiffy OpenGL video card. Mutter and Clutter have come a very long way since the decision not to use them.
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by steevdave 16y ago
More helpful tip. If you're going to make a snarky comment, use the app so you know what the fuck you're talking about. Too many comments on hacker news are from people who are completely uninformed or just haven't taken any time with whate
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by steevdave 16y ago
Entirely possible. Currently I am a dropbox customer and see no benefit in switching to Amazon. The only thing that would make me switch is if they came out with a Linux ARM client. It's the only hardware I have that doesn't have a native