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Comment Re:Compaq Presario (Score 1) 1231

by Kamineko (#29970572) Attached to: Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala
Something else, the drivers for the PCMCIA wireless ethernet card appear to have been improved: in all previous distros, the 'activity' light on the card would continually blink whether or not the card were in use. With 9.10, the light stays off unless there is communication (I'm assuming this is the correct behaviour, as this is how the card behaves in Windows. I prefer it, at least.)

Comment Compaq Presario (Score 1) 1231

by Kamineko (#29970478) Attached to: Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala

I upgraded my Compaq Presario 1200 (700mhz, 300MiB RAM, 6GB HDD) from 9.04 to 9.10 Xubuntu using Update Manager with no problems whatsoever. My 3com PCMCIA wireless card still works, crappy Medion graphics tablet, sound, Wine, everything.

They introduced a new picture browsing application (Ristretto) which I don't believe was there before, so now there's two 'ready picture browser'-type apps installed (9.04 had its own one, I think it was simply called Image Viewer, which had a near identical interface to Windows XP's image preview). Kinda confused me at first.

The only thing that's really getting my goat is that 9.10 uses a different version of gdm (apparently the one used in 9.04 was 'really old'). This new gdm can't be themed, and as a result I'm stuck with a really, really naff looking login screen that can't readily be customised or themed (it also shows a userlist, which I don't want). I could manually install the old gdm, I suppose, but I'll just wait for the new one to support themes. On a more practical note, the bar that appears at the bottom of the screen (Sessions, International, etc.) doesn't display correctly in my 800x600 screen. It overlaps and jumbles up.

Comment Re:Anecdote... (Score 1) 551

by Kamineko (#29905227) Attached to: Study Says US Needs Fewer Science Students
> we had a very bright individual who held a PhD. in combustion. The company paid for him to continue his education, so he got an MBA from a very prestigious business school. The day after he graduated he left

You could say that that plan kinda blew up in their faces.

Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time Offers New Gameplay Mechanic 106

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the i've-got-two-guns-one-for-each-of-you dept.
Ars Technica has a great look at the latest installment in the Ratchet and Clank series, "A Crack in Time." Along with the great looking graphics and same great gameplay, A Crack in Time offers a brand new game mechanic: "time pads." Time pads allow you to make a copy of yourself and move through a series of action, then shift back to "real time" and interact with your past self. "It's a game mechanic that's hard to describe in words, and wrapping your head around it inside the game isn't much easier when it's first described with an example or two. You have to play with it and bend time to your will before you see just how ingenious the whole thing is. The puzzles begin simply and grow harder as the game moves on. The use of time is done very well and elevates what we've played of the game from another platforming experience to something truly special."
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Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon 1124

Posted by timothy from the what-about-in-gnome? dept.
Barence writes "Mozilla has announced that its plans to bring Office 2007's Ribbon interface to Firefox, as it looks to tidy up its 'dated' browser. 'Starting with Vista, and continuing with Windows 7, the menu bar is going away,' notes Mozilla in its plans for revamping the Firefox user interface. '[It will] be replaced with things like the Windows Explorer contextual strip, or the Office Ribbon, [which is] now in Paint and WordPad, too.' The change will also bring Windows' Aero Glass effects to the browser." Update: 09/24 05:01 GMT by T : It's not quite so simple, says Alexander Limi, who works on the Firefox user experience. "We are not putting the Ribbon UI on Firefox. The article PCpro quotes talks about Windows applications in general, not Firefox." So while the currently proposed direction for Firefox 3.7 involves some substantial visual updates for Windows users (including a menu bar hidden by default, and integration of Aero-styled visual elements), it's not actually a ribbon interface. Limi notes, too, that Linux and Mac versions are unaffected by the change.

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