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Comment: Re:Obligatory comment (Score 1) 133

by wordsnyc (#43760525) Attached to: Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' Release Candidate Is Out

Using Mint 13 LTS with Mate -- I had been using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, but they stopped updating it in any useful way. Mate is like an improved version of Gnome 2: not beautiful, but no drama, and it lets me easily put things in the panels. Most of what I do is writing, so I figure I'm good until 2015 or whatever.

Comment: Rural Ohio: fuhgeddaboudit. (Score 1) 154

by wordsnyc (#43211381) Attached to: ITU Aims At 20Mbps Broadband For All By 2020

We get 360 Kbps on a good day with Frontier DSL, the only choice aside from satellite. Frontier bought Verizon's rural operations a few years ago and they refuse to upgrade. You can pay more (~$60-70/mo.) for a "high-speed" tier, but people report that your speed actually drops. Frontier is scum, the poster child for crap internet service.

Comment: Re:It's been decades. (Score 1) 815

by wordsnyc (#43089967) Attached to: Gnome Founder Miguel de Icaza Moves To Mac

" In Linux or free unix desktop land you're a slave to software dependencies and chasing down half-assed solutions to common desktop application type tasks."

Name a few. Seriously. I've used linux for ten years and never spent time "chasing down half-assed solutions to common desktop application type tasks."

Drivers for obscure novelty items don't count.

Comment: Re:They're already messing with ThinkPad (Score 1) 347

by wordsnyc (#42572259) Attached to: Change the ThinkPad and It Will Die

They've actually been messing with the definition of a ThinkPad. The SL510, a decent consumer-grade machine that looks and feels like a ThinkPad, doesn't have ThinkPad firmware -- it's actually an IdeaPad under the skin. So the Thinkfan fan control utility in Linux doesn't recognize it.

Comment: Re:Still Running T42 (Score 1) 347

by wordsnyc (#42529603) Attached to: Change the ThinkPad and It Will Die

I have two IBM Ultranav standalone PS-2 keyboards I use with desktops. They're essentially T43 keyboards with feet and cables. The lack of a solid base makes the feel considerably different from the real thing, but I like 'em. Lenovo makes a newer USB version without the trackpad, but I've never used one.

Comment: Re:A 10pm internet curfew? (Score 1) 505

by wordsnyc (#42472763) Attached to: Teens Drug Parents To Get Web Access

I'm betting these kids were dosed with behavior mod drugs (Adderall, SSRIs, etc.) as soon as they could walk. Chemically disabling an annoyance/impediment was probably a family tradition.

At least they didn't go all Menendez Brothers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menendez_brothers) with shotguns and stuff.

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