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Comment Upgrading from 11-12 was quite underwhelming. (Score 0) 396

First off there is no upgrade path and instead you are forced to do a full reinstall. (slackware 1.0?)
Once I reinstalled on my main desktop where I was quite happy with 11, the gnome-shell kept respawning. (radeon video)
Forcing an upgrade to drivers did not help as images were completely corrupt on restart.
Then on the work laptop where 11 has worked fantastically 12 hangs during the boot.

So, I can't say I'm a big fan of this release.
Seriously guys work out the non-existent upgrade path.

Comment We use to redirect heavensgate.com to Aolsucks.org (Score 0) 443

http://web.archive.org/web/19990429131245/http://www.aolsucks.org/hacked.html
Someone gave total.snafu.org primary dns for this domain.
He set the Admin contact as his own name/location.
Was fun having the ability to slashdot a site before slashdot existed.
The owner of the AOLSucks.org called my isp where I worked asking "what are you doing?!?! redirecting heavensgate.com to us?!?!"
Two weeks of email made for quite a collection of the stuff folks were spamming to postmaster@heavensgate.com.
Finally got internic to put it back.
All with a simple forged email. I think he changed .pinerc to just list his return email as postmaster@heavensgate.com
and they did not have a pgp setup.
Oh well those were the days...
Still have the irc logs of the whole event unfolding on freenode #linpeople/#natter.
 

Comment Economic S Curves make it important (Score 1) 300

Economists have a graph called an economic S curve for technologies that catch on. when it reaches 2% market share or 2% of the market share it will have substansial growth begins. over a few years it groth increases substanially and then levels off. when it reaches 98% market share the growth slows down substanially. This curve has been acuarte for every single technology. Linux might be at or past 2% of the market share it is going to have and therefore may be getting ready for substancial growth. These is a book called the ROARING 2000's that explains economic S curves. This actually may be a story that is more important than most of you think.

Comment Resgisters: The best kept secret of Emacs (Score 0) 412

ant to book mark a spot in a buffer/file?
C-x r C-SPACE a
Will store the current place holder in register a.
Move around the file, and to jump back just run
C-x r j a

Want to keep a cut and paste?
High light an area and
C-x r s a
Will save the contents of what was high lighted to register a.
To paste it just
C-x r i a

My favorite. Saving frame/buffer layout.
Spent a lot of time arranging your frames and buffers in each and want to move back and forth?
C-x r w a
Will save frame layout in register a.
Go full screen on a single buffer and to return just
C-x r j a

Presto you can jump between multiple layouts.

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