Before I became a pensioner my work environment was Sun Solaris, but my
workstation was Redhat later Ubuntu linux. I had Windows 7 in a
Virtualbox for some administrative functions which required Windows.
Others in my group (sysops) used other varieties of linux. The grunts
used Windows.
At
My son is a technical illiterate and one time, when I had got tired of
rescuing his scsrewed-up (often virus-infected) Windows box, I gave him
Ubuntu. He only uses his computer to surf to his webmail and to
facebook. Nonetheless, he came to me after a week and asked me to
re-install Windows as
Tim,
agree with you there- Cobol was considered e great modern productivity
improvement. I started in assembly. Getting a system running by inserting the
bootstrapper papertape on the first punched holes, ste the start address
through phisical switches and press the start butten. Only after
On 07/19/2015 07:52 AM, Rob Jasper wrote:
Getting a system running by inserting the bootstrapper papertape on the first
punched holes
On my first computer, I had to use the front toggle several bytes into
memory, before there was anything to run. I also worked on some Data
General Nova
On 07/19/2015 03:25 AM, James E Lang wrote:
The big discussion of Linux over the past 24+ hours has me wondering: What
operating environment(s) do other members of this list use at home and at work?
What factors influence the choice?
To set the tone, here are my answers:
here are mines:
Am 19.07.2015 um 06:33 schrieb Peter Goggin:
For my current needs I have found Libre Base more than adequate.
Indeed, I have no important office document that is not connected to
some type of database -- one way or the other, dBase, HSQL server, csv,
spreadsheet or H2 SQL.
My users are very
While we're waiting for a formal survey to be developed:
My primary machine is a Sony Vaio laptop with Windows 7, used for both
home and work. While I have a UNIX background and would be willing to
experiment with LINUX, there is software I need for work that comes in
Windows or Windows.
I started a new file in Draw where the rulers looked OK - had inch increments
displayed. I later opened it to continue work on it, but the rulers are
empty - no increments displayed, just blank rulers. How do I get the
measurements to display?
Rulers visible in Options is checked
Using
On 07/19/2015 07:52 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
If Win8 started up at the normal desktop (as it can be set to do now)
and then the Metro stuff is used just as the old;
Start button - All Programs
Then it's kinda ok - err after adding in new tiles for Kodi,
LibreOffice, Chrome/Firefox
Hi :)
Both Cinnamon and Mate (pronounced similarly to Latte) are both supposedly
drop in replacements for the Gnome DE that Ubuntu used to use.
They both started with the same code-base that everyone using a Gnome DE on
any distro was familiar with and then just upgraded it. VERY similar to
the
On 07/18/2015 07:51 PM, toki wrote:
On 07/18/2015 10:08 PM, James Knott wrote:
Tell that to all the scientists who use supercomputers. The vast majority
of them, including my cousin, run Linux.
If you want state of the art software, that costs a fortune, you run *Nix.
If you want
Hi :)
Err, i tend to stick with Unity for myself.
Some of my work-colleagues couldn't cope with the simplicity and the way it
doesn't look like Xp or Win7. So i had a quick look at KDE again and was
surprised at how fast it's become. It even out-performed Cinnamon and Mate
and even LXDE on many
On Sun, 19 Jul 2015, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
Err, i tend to stick with Unity for myself.
Some of my work-colleagues couldn't cope with the simplicity and the way it
doesn't look like Xp or Win7. So i had a quick look at KDE again and was
surprised at how fast it's become. It even
Hello everyone,
James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com @ 2015-07-19 03:43 CEST:
On 07/18/2015 09:25 PM, James E Lang wrote:
The big discussion of Linux over the past 24+ hours has me wondering: What
operating environment(s) do other members of this list use at home and at
work? What factors
On 07/19/2015 04:52 AM, Rob Jasper wrote:
Tim,
agree with you there- Cobol was considered e great modern productivity
improvement. I started in assembly. Getting a system running by inserting the
bootstrapper papertape on the first punched holes, ste the start address
through phisical
On 19/07/15 02:43 PM, Tom Williams wrote:
On 07/18/2015 07:51 PM, toki wrote:
On 07/18/2015 10:08 PM, James Knott wrote:
Tell that to all the scientists who use supercomputers. The vast majority of
them, including my cousin, run Linux.
If you want state of the art software, that costs a
At 20:36 19/07/2015 -0700, Al Nuwer wrote:
On 7/19/2015 8:18 PM, Brian Barker [via Document Foundation Mail
Archive] wrote:
At 19:49 19/07/2015 -0700, Al Nuwer wrote:
I started a new file in Draw where the rulers looked OK - had inch
increments displayed. I later opened it to continue work on
I work at home, where I have a 15-year old Mac G4 running OS 10.4, and a
new System76 Gazelle Pro running Ubuntu 15.04. I love the Mac and it
continues to work just fine (knock on wood), but it became increasingly
frustrating or impossible to access the Web 2.0-style mobile-targeted
websites
At 19:49 19/07/2015 -0700, Al Nuwer wrote:
I started a new file in Draw where the rulers looked OK - had inch
increments displayed. I later opened it to continue work on it, but
the rulers are empty - no increments displayed, just blank rulers.
I think this happens naturally if the unit of
Hi,
At work I use Windows 7 for corporate policy reasons.
At home, three computers currently. One has only Linux installed (my
desktop), one laptop is dual boot between W7 and Linux, and the last has
W8.1 and will be set up as a dual boot.
Only my desktop is used for anything more stressful
Thanks Brian, but that's not the problem. I have the Unit of Measure set
to inches - just like it was yesterday when I initiated the file and the
incremental marks displayed. Any other thoughts?
Al
On 7/19/2015 8:18 PM, Brian Barker [via Document Foundation Mail
Archive] wrote:
At 19:49
Hi :)
If Win8 started up at the normal desktop (as it can be set to do now) and
then the Metro stuff is used just as the old;
Start button - All Programs
Then it's kinda ok - err after adding in new tiles for Kodi, LibreOffice,
Chrome/Firefox etc, removing quite a lot of the default useless ones
always a good idea. this should be done about once every 6 mo. to also
track trends. first the questions should be suggested and agreed upon.
then, before the next survey 6 mo. down the road, we discuss
modifications to the list; probably more additions than deletions, maybe
a few wording
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