Owncloud is really great. I'd put it on a webhoster so you can reach it from everywhere.
For my home I use a NAS, an old one actually (Siemens AMS150). If you have already decent hardware (lots of drives and a PC) you could try FreeNAS, it does everything a dedicated NAS does and more but of course you won't get the great powersavings of the custom built ones. Setup is trivial and it comes with a HTML-based GUI.
Hi everybody, I am using the elementary beta right now and it's what I think the best environment on Linux as of now. What do you think of it? Wondered why nobody brought it up? http://elementaryos.org/
Just noting that gummy worms are made out of gelatin wich is according to wikipedia.org: "...a mixture of peptides and proteins produced by partial hydrolysis of collagen extracted from the skin, boiled crushed horn, hoof and bones, connective tissues, organs and some intestines of animals such as domesticated cattle, chicken, horses, and pigs." So basically we're feeding them cows/meat by products, and this was, iirc one of the reasons for mad cow disease back in the day....
I swear to god, I read "Dressed people surf the web differently." and I thought: Doh!!!
So I was a bit disappointed when the whole thing became a polarized mess, rather than a good start into proper scientific research. Almost any scientist who investigated cold-fusion was considered a quack immediately.
Isnt any other Battery a "polarized mess" from the very beginning?
That would have been a headline.
Interesting. I was under the impression that this is common sense. Maybe I should have spoken it out aloud in order to get all the praise.
It's really easy to undock a tab in Gedit. Just drag it out of the original window onto a free spot on your desktop. Voila!
Oh, and I also really liked the WebOS UI.
Quick rundown on my opinions on various UIs:
- Atari/Amiga: Straight, honest frontends with some fun and personal touches that made you smile even if something went bad (guru meditation, busybee, bombs etc.)
- NT4/Win2k: Industrial like interface, really efficient, has a few gaping issues such as lots of messy tabs and checkboxes.
- Win7: Ok to use but feels quite pale.
- OSX: Great looks, great apps but it somehow feels disconnected. Maybe I didn't have enough screentime but it always felt like somebody elses desktop to me.
- Gnome2: I used and liked this one. Nautlius was a work in progress and was never quite there but it was a sane approach on flexibility, HIG and nice looks. I think that's why the initial Ubuntu was successful.
- KDE3: I never really liked it, it felt like windows with strings attached.
- KDE4: Never used it. The reviews turned me off and I was solid in the GTK app camp.
- Gnome Shell: Unusable mess. Insanity. No shutdown button? Seriously? Broken taskswitching? Ugly spacing and default colors without an obvious way to change it? I'm outta here.
- Unity: Same as Gnomeshell except that the colorscheme is even worse and I can't even turn of or move the dock. It's supposed to be docky code but no effects and options. Great! A combined menubar? On Linux? That doesn't even work? File searching with strange suggestions? I could go on. No, sorry Mark, I'll try something different.
Right now I am running the PPA from the elementary OS guys and I must say I like what I see so far. A plain working toppanel, a neat dock and of course modularity as a integral part of the development. Something I appreciate a lot on a Linux system. (Don't like plesk? Use docky. Don't like the WM? Change it. Don't like the filemanager? Use something else. Want a systemwide searchengine? Install Synapse. etc.) Slingshot is a fashionable Applauncher but also gets the job done. Most decisions seem solid and reasonable to me. I am really hoping this project gets traction and continues. Otherwise I don't really know where to go. XFCE actually works, but it's 2011 and I want a working and a pretty desktop. I am staring at it all day!
Your view on the world is criminally simplistic. The great pacific garbage patch is several thousands of miles away from the west coast of the US. Furthermore this stuff is highly fragmented into tiny pieces. Processing this would be really painful. Even if youd set up your plant right there floating in the ocean transportation would hardly justify the cost of harvesting. I really wish you would have a point but I dont see this happening for a long time. If you compare this to the gulf of mexcio where you can easily drill for oil in your backyard there is no way this would work. Its sad put this probably isnt a solution. The big benefit for this technology could be that we just stop dumping our trash into the ocean in the first place. But for whats there already we might have to come up with something else. Like somebody said in this thread: Just dont buy bottled water and try to avoid plastics if you can find a reasonable alternative. Its actually pretty hard, I have been trying to do this for the last year and often theres just no option: e.g. keyboards, toothbrushes, tupperware and so on...
I just donated 100€. The reason was this newsbit. I guess this backifred....
That would have been awesome, Futurama blu-Ray with playable Game Demo...but NO!
Given Totems ability to show Youtube videos this wouldn't even have to take up harddrive space and could be updated in case some steps change in the future. It would all still feel really native since it's running in totems friendly player interface.
What is research but a blind date with knowledge? -- Will Harvey
