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Comment I Really Tried to like them (Score 1) 1040

I really did try to like Unity and GNOME 3. I gave both of them a chance, and there were certainly some things I liked about them. I could have accepted a lot of the changes they made and both of them, at first, seemed like things I could live with quite happily. But after a while they were just to restrictive and lacked features I'd come to rely on. Now I'm back on Debian with GNOME 2. I don't know what I'll do in the future but I'm considering XFCE, LXDE, and Enlightenment.

Comment Re:Handheld GPS and Linux (Score 2, Informative) 177

I have a Garmin GPSmap 76CSx. Qlandkarte GT is able to talk to it in Linux with no trouble. I can upload maps (Generated from OpenStreetMap and the SRTM topological data) and download tracks and waypoints just fine. Installing proprietary maps requires the Windows software. Anything in the Etrex or GPSmap lines by Garmin are probably safe. Both are widely available and supported by official and third party mounts and accessories including bicycle mounts. Note that the black and white and colour versions have slightly different shapes and need different mounts.

Comment That wouldn't be HTML (Score 1) 338

That's entirely counter to the philosophy of HTML. It's meant to be independent of presentation so it can be presented in different ways. There's good reason for CSS being separate and for this sort of thing being in there. If you want a way to link to the point where a page break occurs in a particular print copy, I'd suggest adding a elements at the locations of the page breaks like this <a id="page1" />
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Journal Journal: DesktopLinux: Vista and Mepis Compared, Mepis Wins.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has a very cool comparison of Mepis and Vista on a year old HP Media PC. He explains dual booting and walks away with a shocker, Mepis has better hardware support and more "wow". The biggest Vista problems, drivers and DRM, conspired to keep him from playing his CDs and getting Aero. Mepis worked everything but a Winmodem and he was able to get fancy 3D graphi

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