Re: [Rosegarden-user] An oddity!
On 06/17/2015 11:30 PM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: On 06/18/2015 02:41 AM, david wrote: UEFI at its worst. I've been informed by Dell, though, that they carry many laptops that boot and run Linux just fine. (Looking at buying one to replace my wife's ailing netbook, since netbooks don't seem to exist anymore.) I bought some random cheapo Dell laptop at Walmart about a year ago, and had none of these problems. Windows 8 on both of them. Good for you! I've looked at some of them (at Walmart and CostCo and Target and Best Buy) and they're pretty much too big (in my wife's opinion). She's looking to replace a netbook, and is disappointed that the smallest laptops around are generally 11. Small laptops are not cheap unless you want to fight with Linux on a Chromebook. Nope. They grow up. People were saying those same things about the 20-somethings I work with now - and they focus and have excellent attention spans. That bunch you have now is the tail end of the transitional generation. My daughter just graduated from high school. My son is one of those 20-somethings. I saw a lot of differences between their respective bunches of friends. I could go on and on about this. And I'm sure your parents went on and on about you at that age, too. ;) BTW, the most distractible, hyperactive, no-attention-span person I know is 63. Has been all his life. They're no more impatient about things than *we* were at that age. I remember my school teachers struggling mightily against the very same no attention span, no patience issues. ;) Nonsense. I first got online with a 300 baud modem, and I had to load and save files from a cassette tape. When I moved my writing platform from a Commodore VIC-20 to the IBM PC platform, I wrote a small BASIC program on the VIC to read my stories from tape, convert them to the IBM character set, then send them over a null serial cable to the PC, where a terminal program received the text, logging it into a plain text file ... Definitely not something that anyone back then had any patience for doing unless they were geeks! -- David W. Jones gn...@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com -- ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
Re: [Rosegarden-user] RG 14.12
On 06/18/2015 11:31 AM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: On 06/18/2015 02:50 PM, Abrolag wrote: finally get to take a train ride, pulled behind a freshly restored steam locomotive. Ha! Something that still, to this day, crosses all age boundaries :) I've been waiting for this for my entire adult life, and I'm very excited. Just under three weeks... Then come out to Hawaii, visit the Hawaii State Railway Museum, take a ride! Why is it ailing? Roses are normally pretty tough. Do you know any horticulture bods that might have a look at it? It would be a great shame to lose it. It's a combination of surrounding growth and two extremely brutal winters in a row. Back when I planned all this, it was safe to bet on the high side of average winter temperatures, and that row of shrubs providing my privacy was only about 5' tall. Now the shrubs are 10' tall, and it's hard to maintain a balance between privacy and light penetration. The rose barely gets enough light, and when the brutal low temperatures hit, it didn't fare well. Bummer. Yours has lived a long time. Every rose we've tried here as died in a year or less. I have pictures of roses, but none with a locomotive. -- David W. Jones gn...@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com -- ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
Re: [Rosegarden-user] RG 14.12
On 06/18/2015 06:36 PM, r...@hydrophones.com wrote: On 06/18/2015 03:13 PM, David Jones wrote: Add some pron AKA erotica and it would be a massive bestseller. Then you could devote your time to music and Rosegarden. To which D. Michael McIntyre replied: I wasn't going to go there, but yeah, if I could somehow combine Harry Potter with 50 Shades of Grey and then have everybody get killed off every few chapters (combine with Marquis de Sade?) I could sell eleventy billion copies for sure. Killing characters off worked for Shakespeare. In reality, I'm never going to write a novel, because I can't turn out a story that goes for more than about 15 pages. Writing is harder than it looks, and it eats vast amounts of time. -- Hey! With a plot like that we could make an OPERA, and use RoseGarden to do it ;-D ram THERE WE GO! -- David W. Jones gn...@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com -- ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
Re: [Rosegarden-user] An oddity!
On 06/17/2015 09:56 PM, r...@hydrophones.com and others wrote: Boot from the DVD? Forget it. Boot from USB? Forget it. BIOS screen to change the boot order? You must be joking! No, you have to boot Windows 8, then dig deep into some obscure menu, then enable something, then reboot Windows 8, then dig into some other obscure menu and blah blah blah for two hours, until you FINALLY figure it out, and get Linux to boot. UEFI at its worst. I've been informed by Dell, though, that they carry many laptops that boot and run Linux just fine. (Looking at buying one to replace my wife's ailing netbook, since netbooks don't seem to exist anymore.) Of course, Linux hardware vendors aren't necessarily any nicer. My wife's netbook came with Ubuntu Linux installed. We don't use Ubuntu, we use Debian. But there are some system settings we can't change under Debian because the vendor's software for changing them runs only under Ubuntu. Shuttle Computer makes Linux compatible boxen - and very nicely built ones too! The Intel NUC boxen work well with Linux also and they are good on power consumption and space. They even have a 5th generation i7 one. Looking for a small laptop, not a box. Apparently they don't make any laptops, although they appear to be trying to get people to make their laptops? If I had faced a challenge like that on the very first day, I never would have gotten anywhere with any of this. My level of dedication and persistence just wasn't nearly high enough. Another thing that's changing is that email is almost irrelevant now, and all the old haunts I grew up with have disappeared, without anything really replacing them. Everybody is on Facebook now, and there's nothing social about Facebook unless you're a pretty girl. Facebook is a display ad platform. Check out what the Adcontrarian has to say about FB. ;) I thought people call it Tracebook for a reason. At least the police and fire brigades call it that ;-) Yup, and very useful for it, too. Burglars like it, too. [snips] Facebook: The most successful Russian Mafia money-laundering operation of all time. I understand it actually has close ties to an American government agency starting with the letter N, ending with A ;-) The main big investor behind Facebook in the beginning was a Russian billionaire, much of whose money came from the Russian Mafia. NSA got into it only after it became big and successful. I'm pretty sure the Russian intelligence agency is plugged into it, too. -- David W. Jones gn...@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com -- ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
