Comment Re:Level up Vimmers. :-) (Score 1) 130
Well since you are fine with it as-is, therefore it is is fine for everyone as-is. Or perhaps, if you use emacs as-is for 25+ years, you have 25+ years of ingrained bad habits.
Comment Re:Wow (Score 2) 130
It really is a great piece of work.
Comment Re:Level up Vimmers. :-) (Score 2) 130
I'm sick and tired of the mentality that criticizes stuff while being completely ignorant (and wrong) about what it is.
Comment Re:Level up Vimmers. :-) (Score 2) 130
If you read more of the documentation, you could have answered your own question. Spacemacs is a akin to Emacs Prelude, Emacs Live, or Emacs Starter Kit... its a *very well* polished, well tuned, and even user-friendly, evil-mode/helm-mode based emacs setup, along with a lot of other goodies baked - including lots of great work making other packages in the emacs ecosystem work more smoothly with evil. If you use either emacs or vim, its worth your while to check it out.
Comment Re:In Other News: People Hate Change (Score 1) 293
You ought to reboot your system every time there's a security update to the kernel or some other core package like glibc, at the very least, whether thats 1-2x per year, 20x per year.
Comment Re: In Other News: People Hate Change (Score 1) 293
Hmm, you must not have experienced unicode hell before.
Submission + - Technology Heats Up the Adultery Arms Race
HughPickens.com writes: Michelle Cottle reports in The Atlantic that in an earlier era, a suspicious husband might have rifled through his wife's pockets or hired a private investigator but today spouses have easy access to an array of sophisticated spy software that that record every keystroke; compile detailed logs of calls, texts, and video chats; that track a phone’s location in real time; recover deleted messages from all manner of devices (without having to touch said devices); and that turn phones into wiretapping equipment. One might assume that the proliferation of such spyware would have a chilling effect on extramarital activities. But according to Cottle, aspiring cheaters, need not despair: software developers are also rolling out ever stealthier technology to help people conceal their affairs. Right or wrong, cheating apps tap into a potentially lucrative market and researchers regard the Internet as fertile ground for female infidelity in particular. “Men tend to cheat for physical reasons and women for emotional reasons,” says Katherine Hertlein. “The Internet facilitates a lot of emotional disclosure and connections with someone else.”
But virtual surveillance has its risks. Stumbling across an incriminating email your partner left open is one thing; premeditated spying can land you in court. A Minnesota man named Danny Lee Hormann, suspecting his wife of infidelity, installed a GPS tracker on her car and allegedly downloaded spyware onto her phone and the family computer. In March 2010, Hormann's wife had a mechanic search her car and found the tracker. She called the police, and Hormann spent a month in jail on stalking charges. “I always tell people two things: (1) do it legally, and (2) do it right,” says John Paul Lucich, a computer-forensics expert and the author of Cyber Lies, a do-it-yourself guide for spouses looking to become virtual sleuths. Lucich has worked his share of ugly divorces, and he stresses that even the most damning digital evidence of infidelity will prove worthless in court—and potentially land you in trouble—if improperly gathered. His blanket advice: Get a really good lawyer.
But virtual surveillance has its risks. Stumbling across an incriminating email your partner left open is one thing; premeditated spying can land you in court. A Minnesota man named Danny Lee Hormann, suspecting his wife of infidelity, installed a GPS tracker on her car and allegedly downloaded spyware onto her phone and the family computer. In March 2010, Hormann's wife had a mechanic search her car and found the tracker. She called the police, and Hormann spent a month in jail on stalking charges. “I always tell people two things: (1) do it legally, and (2) do it right,” says John Paul Lucich, a computer-forensics expert and the author of Cyber Lies, a do-it-yourself guide for spouses looking to become virtual sleuths. Lucich has worked his share of ugly divorces, and he stresses that even the most damning digital evidence of infidelity will prove worthless in court—and potentially land you in trouble—if improperly gathered. His blanket advice: Get a really good lawyer.
Submission + - KDE Releases Plasma 5.1 (kde.org) 1
jrepin writes: KDE Plasma 5.1 sports a wide variety of improvements, leading to greater stability, better performance and new and improved features. Thanks to the feedback of the community, KDE developers were able to package a large number of fixes and enhancements into this release, among which more complete and higher quality artwork following the new-in-5.0 Breeze style, re-addition of popular features such as the Icon Tasks taskswitcher and improved stability and performance.
Those travelling regularly will enjoy better support for time zones in the panel's clock, while those staying at home a revamped clipboard manager, allowing you to easily get at your past clipboard's content. The Breeze widget style is now also available for Qt4-based applications, leading to greater consistency across applications. The work to support Wayland as display server for Plasma is still ongoing, with improved, but not complete support in 5.1. Changes throughout many default components improve accessibility for visually impaired users by adding support for screenreaders and improved keyboard navigation.
Aside from the visual improvements and the work on features, the focus of this release lies also on stability and performance improvements, with over 180 bugs resolved since 5.0 in the shell alone.
Those travelling regularly will enjoy better support for time zones in the panel's clock, while those staying at home a revamped clipboard manager, allowing you to easily get at your past clipboard's content. The Breeze widget style is now also available for Qt4-based applications, leading to greater consistency across applications. The work to support Wayland as display server for Plasma is still ongoing, with improved, but not complete support in 5.1. Changes throughout many default components improve accessibility for visually impaired users by adding support for screenreaders and improved keyboard navigation.
Aside from the visual improvements and the work on features, the focus of this release lies also on stability and performance improvements, with over 180 bugs resolved since 5.0 in the shell alone.
Comment Re:Debian has ALWAYS been the top distro. (Score 1) 211
Those are all pretty dubious claims... but one thing is for sure... install vanilla debian... and it sure feels like 1994.
Submission + - Perl programming language turns 25 today (networkworld.com)
netbuzz writes: "Whether you prefer to call it “the duct tape of the Internet,” “the Swiss Army chainsaw,” or just its given name, the Perl programming language turns 25 today. Perl 1.0 was released by its creator Larry Wall on Dec. 18, 1987."
Comment Re:Death March (Score 1) 230
I wouldnt really call gnome tweak tool a "3rd party application" - its made by gnome guys, its git repo lives on gnome.org. And every setting it touches can be discovered, enabled or disabled through the command line. It's just not installed by default in distributions (though I can't speak for them all) - that doesnt make it "3rd party".
Comment Re:The good thing about Linux distros (Score 1) 432
FYI, you might find yum grouplist | less useful
Comment Re:Staying with gnome2 (Score 1) 432
The next version of gnome 3 will have the ability to keep extensions automatically updated, or so it is planned.
Comment Re:Gnome 3 is not the only thing that is sux (Score 1) 432
"Ruling out" ubuntu, fedora, {or insert other distro here} because of Gnome is just idiotic. You can use any window manager or DE you wish on any of em (with the exception of unity, at the moment). That makes the windowing environment is pretty much downright irrelevant when it comes to distro choice.
Comment Re:Better than Arch? (Score 1) 172
alias yum="yum -y"
Anyhow, I wouldn't call that "fit and finish" - I'd call it a poor design decision, if indeed that's how apt-get actually works - but if memory serves it does not though, and it prompts you before actually installing packages.
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