Re: I've been using Linux since mid-late 1993 (Slackware).
At least Jake lives as he wants to ( as maybe we all should )
I suspect he's a lot happier than most of the people that criticize him.
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A video editor - I mostly use kdenlive which supports 1080p/50
Thunderbird
Skype
UFRAW plugin for GIMP
Hugin for panorama creation
+2 I couldn't do without vncviewer for remote access and sshd/ssh/fish but they are likely built-in.
mplayer from the command line plays videos esp. 1080p/50 with the lowest cpu usage(~10% on my rather old dual-core AMD) although many other players support acceleration.
I'm rather confused - the table of features claims capacitive touchscreen but the text mentions optical sensors - which is it ?
(The optical sensor often picks up your finger proximity without you actually having to touch the screen)
Well I number crunch a lot in spite of being retired but in fact my main need for power is editing 1080p/50 video which eats enormous amounts of processor time and memory. In addition processing a few RAW DSLR images eats lots of processor and memory and although nothing like video it needs to much more responsive as it's more interactive - rendering video can run in the background or overnight. So I'm looking for ~10X increase in performance over my rather aging dual-core AMD and maybe 8G of memory.
"I also have hydrochloric acid in my innards"
And it's quite strong too. It can even drop below pH 1
( Incidently one of the reasons that you don't suffer damage is that your stomach is coated with a layer of goo that has sodium bicarbonate secreted into it to provide a neutralizing barrier)
""with the power-hungry, large and inadequate""
The one you highlight is 10cm*16cm*4cm and weighs 250g
Quotes from reviewers "Need to buy battery pack or use on mains all time." , "Lack of opportunity to use 'normal' batteries may be a drawback for some people", "Cost of battery pack if wantind a portable radio (costs more than the radio itself!)", "The only failing is the price of the battery if you want it portable"
The damn thing is £30 and then you need to buy a mains adaptor
It''ll be no substitute for the Roberts' FM radio I use walking in the hills which lasts 8 hours+ on ONE AAA rechargeable and is the size of a box of matches.
"https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/1vyfmNCYpi5"
I've read it before -- it makes no difference to me , I'm writing THIS on a laptop that doesn't need a root password for WiFi - I don't know what Linus was doing but I do know that root is not needed - Network Manager runs as root automatically from startup - for that matter it handles my 3G dongles the same way.
"Before commenting on something you know nothing about" - that's just a stupid comment - I obviously know something about this to have so many machines using it that I've set up.
..that regardless of what is said on the subject ( and given I don't know what Linus had configured on his daughter's laptop ) that you DON'T need to use root password to access a WiFi point with OpenSUSE
The usual install for networking on OpenSUSE defaults to the 'old' network system but can be changed to use Network Manager which is what is needed for easy access to WiFi roaming. The only time the root password is needed is to make this switch - from then on all WiFi networks only require their usual authorizations.
I have set up 7 or 8 in the last few years of which 4 are current. I travel extensively with laptop or netbook and never have a problem with WiFi
"high-quality, focused, blur-free, still film..."
Oddly enough there was a news report recently ( sorry, can't just remember where ) about UFO societies being disbanded due to lack of evidence - one spokesman being quoted as saying something like "with everyone having cameras these days and yet no clear images..."
"KDE is a fine piece of work."
I agree entirely - I've been using it since it first came out and indeed SUSE since v5.0 and never really had a problem, somethings I don't really like but I switch them off generally. Most people that seem to have a problem with desktops or indeed distros seem to chop and change and never actually become familiar with any one.
Just to add :-
I can assure you that minimizing animal use is VERY important in the life sciences - 2 reasons
1) Ethical
2) Money - using animals is VERY expensive.
I could go into the many reasons why it is necessary to use animals for certain purposes but the people who 'believe' that animal use is 'unnecessary' or 'misleading' or just ethically unjustifiable in any circumstance would never be swayed by argument.
"a slide rule, , though portable and deserving its place in every engineers' desk or briefcase, wasn't really pocketable.
Circular ones were , at about the size of a drink mat
The rather more accurate helical ones were about the size of a mid-sized torch
I was using slide-rules well into the 70s
"I'd prefer my pilots to be able to see things in the last few miles"
Me too. We were standing on the beach in the south of France a few weeks ago - very dark, beautiful starry night, far from any serious light pollution and then suddenly a brilliant green beam started up from inland pointing up and out into the med. sky. It flashed all over the place for about a minute, no obvious pattern like a laser light show, and then stopped. What it might have done to a pilot or even a sailor doesn't bear thinking about.
I think 1% of users choosing to build there own machines ( as I do ) or installing LInux over Windows or as a dual boot is an extremely good percentage as probably 90+% of users never think about it all as their machines are either provided by the company or already have Windows installed when they buy them.
(no I don't build my own laptops but I've netbook that has never seen Windows and a laptop that was recycled from a relative that gave up on it after a Windows update trashed the hard drive)
"USA law does apply globally."
This is nonsense - IF someone commits an offense in the US either in person or remotely then the law will apply. If someone commits the same act in another country then that is a different matter unless there is some treaty in place to cover this.
Not seen any since the days of having to compile the kernel - so late 90's ? - ghost processes, or rather zombies - sometimes but that's generally other software not the OS and indeed they get reaped anyway.
You really should keep up-to-date or better still silent !
"Don't open ports for any services. Use OpenVPN or some other VPN instead."
Not an area I've done anything with other than setting up remote access via a vpn to my wife's school's computer but surely I'd need to have an open port to access my server via OpenVPN.
Well I salute your solutions. I leave it open for a number of reasons but mostly recently proxying from our holiday home in Switzerland to watch iplayer. I did toy with setting a flag file on my web-site (on my ISPs server) and having (my) server scripts check that for a variety of reasons ( I have a PIC microcontroller that's controlled from my server that can do remote measurements like the house temp and remote switch on/off of kit) but so far non-standard port/username and really horrible password + up-to-date SSHD seems fine.
Me: "I want a set of brake pads for a 2004 Astra please"
I had a related experience many years ago
"can I have a steering wheel bearing for a 1972 Viva" - " Sorry we don't stock them there's no demand, you'll need to order it, I said the same thing this morning to a guy that wanted one "