Comment Re:Oh, this ought to be awful (Score 1) 401
You took away my status bar, please don't take away my toolbar too.
There is an add-on bar that you can enable.
You took away my status bar, please don't take away my toolbar too.
There is an add-on bar that you can enable.
Sounds like you need Ubuntu One. Just the free package gets you 5GB and access via Android/iOS.
http://one.ubuntu.com/
In my humble opinion, it's not so much "the user is an idiot" as much as "the user doesn't need built-in functionality to change every flippin' thing via a GUI". Note though that I'm talking about Classic Gnome, not Gnome Shell: don't know much about Shell.
Disclaimer: I use Gnome.
that it is NOT always on.
Kind of like a network cable, right? They can be disconnected FYI.
I love SVN, it works great, and the central repository model works great in almost every situation. But, recently, I've began using Git for my own projects because I dual-boot Windows and Linux. Allow me to explain.
With SVN, I have to maintain two different working copy trees: one for Windows, and one for Linux. This is because since they have different file addressing styles, they reference the central repository differently. So I can't just use the same working copy on both.
But Git fixes this problem by not caring where it is or where anything else is (unless you set up an origin, of course).
Another thing I like about git is that's it's practically impossible to break a project tree, as opposed to SVN where it's very easy. Your tree is completely clean except for a
... or think it's detached and fly off with the lander in tow (If they got that on video, I'd laugh for a week)
The hovering system doesn't fly off because it touched down and released, it flies off because it no longer has the extra weight of the rover.
With your bare hands?!?