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Fitch has warned that the UK's triple-A credit rating is at risk as the government is failing to control debt.
The UK's inability to meet public debt targets 'weakens the creditability' of its AAA status according to the ratings agency after yesterday's Autumn Statement from chancellor George Osborne.
In the statement Osborne announced that austerity is due to continue until 2018, a year longer than expected, and debt as a proportion of the country's output will not fall until 2016-2017.
Growth forecasts were also cut by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) for the next five years, and expectations for this year were slashed from 0.8% to -0.1%.
The loss of the AAA status would mean that the UK's sovereign debt, or gilts, would be perceived as more risky by investors and could impact the bond market.
However Fitch threatened to downgrade the country's credit rating in March if debt levels weren't under control in the next two years and added that the Autumn Statement confirmed the scale of the problem facing the UK.
Fitch added: 'The government has chosen not to chase the supplementary target by deploying additional consolidation measures over the next two years. In our view, missing the target weakens the credibility of the UK's fiscal framework, which is one of the factors supporting the [AAA] rating.'
Other agencies have also been eyeing the country's credit rating. Moody's threatened to downgrade the UK in February and will review its status early in the New Year, whilst Standard & Poor's affirmed the AAA rating in July based on projected stronger economic growth.
Fitch will formally review the rating in March 2013, after the Budget.


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Earlier this week, Motörhead was forced to cancel a handful of European tour dates due to frontman Lemmy Kilmister's health issues. Now, Kilmister and the group have released a statement to their fans regarding the cancelations and, more importantly, Kilmister's condition.
Here's the statement, taken from Motörhead's official Facebook page:
"Regretfully, Motörhead announces it has had to cancel its remaining six summer festival appearances. The band hate to let their fans down by missing any shows, but they expect to be back in full force this fall.
"As you may have heard, earlier this Spring Lemmy had some medical maintenance for the long-term good, He was, at that time, advised to rest, but once feeling better, he of course resumed his life as usual. He has since been advised that he should immediately take some more time to rest."
Kilmister added: "I'd like to thank everyone who wish me well, it was a tough decision for me as I don't like to disappoint the fans especially in times where economy is bad and people spent their money to see us. But sometimes you can't do anything else than following doctor's orders, but be sure we will be back and kick everybody's ass.
"There you have it! You can now stop worrying, redirect those cards, flowers and chocolates to a loved one (who will appreciate them far more), keep calm and carry on! Lemmy and Motörhead certainly are! Thanks and see you in the fall for their new album in the form of a massive Aftershock…"
Thoughts and prayers to Kilmister for a speedy recovery!

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EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University says junior offensive tackle Skyler Burkland is quitting the Spartans' football program because of multiple injuries and will forgo his final two years of college eligibility.
Coach Mark Dantonio says Burkland applied for a medical disqualification Tuesday. Once the paperwork is approved, Burkland will remain on scholarship but won't count toward the NCAA's 85-man scholarship limit.
The 6-foot-7-inch, 315-pound Burkland saw action in 15 career games, including 14 starts at right tackle.
The Sunbury, Ohio, native missed part of preseason camp and the first game of the 2012 season against Boise State in 2012 with a hand injury. He also broke and dislocated his left ankle against Notre Dame in 2011.


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PORTLAND, Ore. -- Somewhere about 10 weeks down the road, if the Dallas Mavericks don't advance to the playoffs they may look back to Tuesday's game at the Rose Garden as to why they're in the NBA Draft Lottery.
Dominating Portland for most of the game and ahead by as much as 21 points early in the third period, the Mavs got careless with the basketball and wound up losing to the Trail Blazers in stunning fashion, 106-104.
Seagoville native LaMarcus Aldridge nailed an 18-footer at the buzzer over the outstretched arms of Brandan Wright to give the Blazers the dramatic victory.
"We need every game we can get and we've got to circle the wagons and get ready for the next one,'' coach Rick Carlisle said. "Sitting around bellyaching isn't going to get us making the plays that we need to make.
"Little mistakes this [Portland] team capitalizes on because they have very skilled players.''
This certainly was not the way the Mavs (19-26) wanted to start a four-game road trip that resumes Thursday night at 9:30 in Oakland against the Golden State Warriors.
The Mavs led 101-94 with 2:19 left and likely would have gotten out of the Pacific Northwest with a win if they could simply protect the basketball. However, the Mavs committed four turnovers in the final 1:48 - three by O.J. Mayo - and flew to the Bay Area with some rather long faces.
Mayo's fifth and final turnover came with 1.5 seconds left when he was whistled for charging into Ronnie Price on the right baseline near the basket.
From there the Blazers called timeout, got the ball near midcourt and Aldridge proceeded to work the same magic that helped him earn his second straight All-Star berth.
In the meantime, Mayo, who finished with 15 points, seven rebounds and nine assists, was lamenting those costly turnovers he had down the stretch.
"My blow, man,'' Mayo said. "Two [bleeping)] turnovers.
"That one out of bounds play and that dribble on the baseline. You can't do that, but I'll take this one on the chin.''
Dallas was nursing a 101-96 lead when Mayo's inbound pass was stolen by Wesley Matthews with 55.9 seconds remaining. Matthews sprinted down court and made a pair of free throws after he was fouled by Vince Carter as Portland drew within 101-98 with 52.4 seconds to go.
Dirk Nowitzki, who scored a season-high 26 points, then misfired from 20 feet, leading to a 3-pointer by Nicolas Batum that tied the game at 101-101 with 28.9 ticks left.
Nowitzki put the Mavs ahead 104-101 with 11.9 seconds remaining when he nailed a 3-pointer. But Aldridge tied it with a step-back 3-pointer with 4.9 seconds left, and then won it at the buzzer after Mayo's last turnover.
"Down the stretch we weren't very good,'' said Nowitzki, who converted 11 of 21 shots. "You can't give up a three, a three and a two to lose the game.
"Maybe we shouldn't have even been in that position. We were up [21] and had the game under control and basically gave the lead away in just a couple of minutes.''
Dallas had built a 69-48 lead with 8:37 left in the third period following a 15-footer by Mayo. But the Blazers (23-22) kept chipping away and chipping away until they used a 37-13 rally to move ahead 90-88 after a Mavs turnover and fast break dunk by ex-Mavs guard Sasha Pavlovic.
All of that activity got the crowd back into the game and seemed to rattle the Mavs, who, after that, just couldn't get enough separation from the Blazers to salt the game away.
"I guess sometimes the difference between a good team and a bad team is a couple of possessions down the stretch,'' Nowitzki said. "For some reason we haven't been able to win those games consistently.
"Usually in this league you win some, you lose some. But for some reason, more times than not, we've been losing those games, so that's extra tough.''
Its extra tough, because the Mavs appear as though they just don't have that extra push it takes to get them over the hump when the game's on the line.
"We can't let Aldridge basically walk us in to 10 feet and just let him turn around and shoot with one second to go,'' Nowitzki said. "That's a mental mistake.
"If you make mistakes against good teams, especially on the road, you're going to get bit.''
Guarding Aldridge in a clutch situation was challenging for Wright.
"He made two of those - a step-back three and a turn around shot,'' Wright said. "That's how it goes sometimes.
"That's the way our season has been going so far, but we've got to turn it around. We got a little sloppy as a team and we started throwing the ball around a little bit.''
The Mavs got 17 points and nine assists from Darren Collison, 12 points and nine boards from Shawn Marion and 10 points and three boards from rookie Bernard James, who started while Chris Kaman missed the game due to a concussion suffered in Monday's practice.
"We had several situations where we'd have chances to build a lead if we could finish off a play with a rebound, and there were too many times we couldn't do it,'' Carlisle said. "The turnovers cost us, we didn't make plays, we didn't hit enough shots and we didn't get enough stops.
"You have to give them credit, they made some phenomenal plays when they had to. It's just very disappointing.''
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Tallahassee, Florida - November 17, 2012
Tim Sagul, of the Suwannee River Water Management District (District), was honored for 10 years of outstanding service at the District's Governing Board meeting on November 15.
Sagul joined the Suwannee River Water Management District as a water resource engineer. Sagul is a professional engineer and has a B.S. in Agricultural Engineering and M.E. in Civil Engineering from the University of Florida. He is currently the Resource Management Division Director.
He has worked in water resources related engineering in the regulatory departments of three of Florida's Water Management District's. Additionally, he has four years of experience in the private sector. This combination of public and private sector experience has given him a unique perspective on water resources in the State of Florida.
As the Resource Management Division Director, Sagul's responsibilities include agricultural team, engineering projects, as well as compliance and enforcement of water use permitting, water well construction permitting, and environmental resource permitting.
"I greatly appreciate Tim's service to the District," said Governing Board Chair Member Donald Quincey.


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LEWISBURG, Pa. - More than 820 students will receive degrees from Bucknell University on Sunday, May 20, at 10 a.m. on the Academic Quadrangle.
During the University's 157th commencement ceremony, Bucknell will award 25 master's degrees and 820 bachelor's degrees. (Visit the Home Page again Sunday for a Commencement report and links to photo galleries.)
Bucknell graduated its first students in 1851, when it awarded seven undergraduate degrees at what today is known at Taylor Hall. This year's class features students from 36 states and 16 countries. Commencement has been held on the Academic Quadrangle since 1970.
Commencement speaker
Renowned author and journalist Bob Woodward will deliver the commencement address. Woodward is the only contemporary American writer to author or co-author 10 No. 1 best-selling non-fiction books. His most recent book, State of Denial, published in 2006, analyzes the Bush administration's handling of the war in Iraq.
Class President Loren Fishkind of Port Chester, N.Y., an international relations and Spanish major, will deliver the class response. A member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and Colleges Against Cancer, Fishkind is a member of the Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society.
At the Sunday ceremony, the University will present two honorary degrees.
Honorary degrees
Richard Garman, who built a reputation in the construction industry and his extensive civic and philanthropic activities, will receive the honorary Doctor of Literature degree. Alan Leshner, whose distinguished work as a scientist includes teaching, research, administration, and service at the highest levels of government, will receive the honorary Doctor of Science degree. Garman attended Bucknell and Leshner began his career as a professor at Bucknell.
The Class of 2007 processed through the Christy Mathewson Memorial Gateway in August 2003 as new members of the Bucknell community. On Sunday, as the class prepares to graduate, they will again pass through the same gateway – this time marking their transition from students to alumni.
Additional 2007 commencement information.
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Top Ten Reasons Traverse City Makes A Great Winter Getaway Destination
1. You can dine at amazing restaurants and find out why Traverse City was named One of America's Top Five Foodie Towns by Bon AppetitMagazine.
2. You can plan a girls' shopping weekend or a romantic couples' get-away at one of Traverse City's many lodging properties while enjoying low, off-season rates! Choices range from large full-service resorts to cozy family-operated motels. For something new, spend the night at a unique winery chateau, rustic Up North cabin, or an elegant casino hotel.
3. You can check off items on your Christmas shopping list with one-of-a-kind finds from the charming shops and boutiques that line Front Street, Old Town and the Warehouse District. Choose from women's clothing boutiques, toy shops, independent book stores, jewelry shops, art galleries, and more!
4. You can tour the seven Wineries of Old Mission Peninsula and sip wine by a roaring fire while enjoying the breathtaking vistas offered by this 20-mile long peninsula that divides East and West Grand Traverse Bay.
5. You can visit some of Leelanau Peninsula's 20 wineries and distilleries, and then stop off at the Pierce Stocking Drive overlook to discover why Good Morning America's viewers rated the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore as The Most Beautiful Place in America!
6. You can try your luck at black jack, video poker, craps, roulette, and over 2,000 slots at Leelanau Sands Casino or Turtle Creek Casino.
7. You can catch an early flick at the historic State Theatre and cap the night off with a late dinner and live jazz at one of Front Street's fantastic dining establishments.
8. You can enjoy the natural beauty of Up North and hike, bike, run or stroll along the Bay, through the historic Grand Traverse Commons, out at Old Mission Point, on the VASA or TART trails, or along any number of spectacular spots in Northern Michigan.
9. You can follow up your outdoor activities with some serious pamperingat one of our indulgent spas. Enjoy a massage, sauna, manicure, pedicure or facial … or all of the above!
10. The summer crowds have gone home, so you'll have the place to yourselves!


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University of Hawaii Community Colleges receive positive report from accreditation commissionUniversity of Hawaiʻi
External Affairs and University Relations
John Morton, (808) 956-7038
VP for UH Community Colleges
The community colleges of the University of Hawaiʻi system received good news from the Accrediting Commission of Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) after a team visited the colleges last fall for a follow-up review. The resulting ACCJC evaluation report reaffirmed the many advances made in improving the effectiveness of the new community college organization and governance structure.
In summary, the report commended the UH system for its progress in strategic planning in the form of becoming more data driven and being more inclusive of the community colleges. Evaluation team members reported that the environment has never been more open and participatory than it is now, and believe that the new structure is working well.
Vice President for Community Colleges John Morton said, "The positive report of the accreditation commission is the result of the dedicated work of many throughout the community college system."
"We have been and will continue to work to ensure that our 26,000 students receive the best possible education while meeting all requirements of our accreditors," he said.
A Midterm Report is due to the ACCJC by Oct. 15, 2009. The next comprehensive evaluation of University of Hawaiʻi Community Colleges will occur in fall 2012. The ACCJC report and letter may be viewed in its entirety at CC Academic Affairs web page at http://www.hawaii.edu/offices/cc/resources.html.


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Need-Based Grant Assistance
Dean's Tuition Grants are awarded to approximately 1/3 of the full-time J.D. class based on financial need. The Dean's Tuition Grant Program is funded by Georgetown Law's general funds and by generous contributions from alumni, firms, foundations and other friends of Georgetown Law. Only full-time J.D. students are eligible for need-based grant assistance. All applicants must meet the requirements to receive federal financial aid (e.g. valid citizenship, not in default on a prior loan) in addition to fully completing the CSS PROFILE (Code 7306) and an institutional application containing both the student's and the student's parents' data.
To determine financial need, Georgetown Law uses this information to evaluate both student and parental financial strength, relative to others in the class. Federal income tax returns for the applicable year are used to verify the data provided on the CSS PROFILE forms for both the student and the parent(s). Awards are generally renewable at the same level for up to two additional years of full-time study at Georgetown Law (one additional year for transfer students).
Changes significantly affecting the financial situation of the student, student's spouse and/or student's parent(s) may affect the level or availability of grant assistance in future years. In addition, students earning significant pay through summer employment (e.g., through work as law firm summer associates) are expected to use a portion of their earnings for their education and, accordingly, are likely to have their grant assistance reduced for the following year. In order to retain eligibility for grant assistance, recipients must demonstrate their financial need by, in part, annually borrowing their full eligibility for federal Stafford loans, at a minimum.
Dean's Tuition Grants are awarded with the understanding that there is a moral obligation for the student to repay the funds received. By accepting the grant award, the student accepts his/her moral responsibility to contribute to Georgetown Law when financially able to do so. The fulfillment of this moral obligation will help to replenish the grant fund and ensures that Georgetown Law will be able to offer institutional aid to future students.


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Syrian peace talks stuck over Assad's future
- Written by MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press ZEINA KARAM, Associated Press
MONTREUX, Switzerland (AP) — Peace talks intended to carve a path out of Syria's civil war got off to a rocky start Wednesday as a bitter clash over President Bashar Assad's future threatened to collapse the negotiations even before they really begin.
The dispute over Assad cast a pall over an international peace conference that aims to map out a transitional government and ultimately a democratic election for the war-torn Middle East nation.
While diplomats sparred against a pristine Alpine backdrop, Syrian forces and opposition fighters clashed across a wide area from Aleppo and Idlib in the north to Daraa in the south, where the uprising against Assad began three years ago, activists and state media said.
In Switzerland, the U.S. and the Syrian opposition opened the conference by saying the Syrian leader lost his legitimacy when he crushed a once-peaceful protest movement.
In a strong riposte, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem countered that terrorists and foreign meddling had ripped his country apart. He refused to give up the podium despite requests from the U.N. chief.
"You live in New York. I live in Syria," he angrily told U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon. "I have the right to give the Syrian version here in this forum. After three years of suffering, this is my right."
Less than three hours into the peace talks in the Swiss city of Montreux, the two sides seemed impossibly far apart.
"We really need to deal with reality," said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. "There is no way — no way possible in the imagination — that the man who has led the brutal response to his own people could regain the legitimacy to govern. One man and those who have supported him can no longer hold an entire nation and a region hostage."
Both Assad's delegates and the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition opposition group, meanwhile, claimed to speak for the Syrian people.
The Syrian opposition leader — Amhad al-Jarba of the Syrian National Coalition — had wavered up to the last-minute on whether to attend peace talks that have been largely opposed by rebel brigades in Syria. He insisted Wednesday that any discussion of Assad's continued hold on power would effectively end the talks.
A transitional government "is the only topic for us," he said.
Al-Moallem insisted that no one except Syrians could remove Assad. He also accused the West and neighboring countries — notably Saudi Arabia, which he did not name — of funneling money, weapons and foreign fighters to the rebellion.
"The West claims to fight terrorism publically while they feed it secretly," he said. "Syrians here in this hall participated in all that has happened, they implemented, facilitated the bloodshed and all at the expense of the Syrian people they claim to represent."
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki later criticized the Syrian government's rhetoric as "inflammatory" and al-Jarba's chief of staff called it a false distraction.
"All of what they say is lies," Jarba's chief of staff, Monzer Akbik, told The Associated Press. "The Syrian people are fighting al-Qaida in the North. It was the regime that brought al-Qaida in."
At least 130,000 people have been killed in the fighting that began after a peaceful uprising in March 2011 against Assad's rule, according to activists, who are the only ones still keeping count after the U.N. abandoned its efforts. The fighting has forced millions of Syrians to flee their homes.
The question of Assad's future goes to the heart of the peace conference with the stated goal of a transitional government for Syria. Notably absent was Iran, which along with Russia has been Assad's most forceful supporter.
Ban invited, then disinvited Iran at the last minute, after the Syrian opposition threatened to back out of the peace talks less than 48 hours before their scheduled start.
Al-Moallem's comment that only Syrians had the right to decide upon their government was a pointed jab at the number of countries involved in the Syrian conflict. The fighting has become a proxy war between regional powers Iran and Saudi Arabia and taken on post-Cold War overtones with Russia and the United States backing opposite sides. His criticism also hit the opposition coalition, which is based in Turkey and is largely made up of exiles with little sway on events inside Syria.
Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal, whose government has funneled millions to the rebels, said "it goes without saying that Assad has no role in Syria's future." He also called on foreign forces to withdraw from Syria, including the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah militias.
Syrian state television aired al-Moallem's speech in full, but then cut away to archive footage of car bombs and sectarian attacks during speeches by al-Jarba and the Turkish foreign minister — keeping their discourse in the background.
Diplomats have played down expectations for the Swiss peace talks, although they have said repeatedly they are the only hope for ending Syria's civil war. But Assad's forces have gained ground in recent months, and the man whose family has led Syria since 1970 has tried to portray the rebellion as driven by foreign terrorists who are trying to create an al-Qaida-inspired haven.
The president of Iran, which was invited at the last minute then abruptly disinvited after the opposition threatened to back out, said the peace talks were unlikely to succeed. Iran has given Assad billions in aid, including weapons and Shiite fighters.
"Considering all signs, I don't have much hope that this meeting can succeed in fighting terrorism, because some countries sponsoring terrorism are taking part. Also I don't think it will succeed in establishing peace and stability because the countries that created the instability are taking part," said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
Later this week in Geneva, Syria's warring sides will sit down for their first face-to-face meeting since the conflict erupted.
"I pray that the Lord touches everyone's hearts so that they do everything in their power to urgently end the violence, in the interests of the poor Syrian people," said Pope Francis, who also sent a delegation.
Associated Press writers Desmond Butler and Lori Hinnant contributed.


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Chevron's Fuel Your School Program Launch in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties
In-person classroom delivery to kick off $1 million local public school funding
With intense budget cuts and an ever-growing list of needed supplies for teachers, Chevron has created an innovative approach to help local public classrooms through its Fuel Your Schoolprogram. Chevron is collaborating with DonorsChoose.org, an online organization that organizes funding for schools across the country, to supply Alameda and Contra Costa counties with materials – ranging from pencils to live spiders – to help make activities come alive for students this year.
On Wednesday, Chevron and DonorsChoose.org teams will deliver puzzles, counting trays, shopping simulation supplies and various math and science manipulatives to kindergarten students at Ford Elementary School in Richmond.
What: Classroom delivery of needed materials funded through Fuel Your School
· When: Wednesday, Oct. 9 at 9:15 a.m.
· Where: Ford Elementary School [2711 Maricopa Ave., Richmond, CA 94804]
How Fuel Your School Works: Beginning in September, teachers in Alameda and Contra Costa counties submitted projects/materials that need funding at DonorsChoose.org. In the month of October 2013, Chevron will donate $1, up to $1 million, when consumers purchase eight or more gallons of fuel at participating local Chevron and Texaco stations in Alameda and Contra Costa counties to help fund the eligible classroom projects. You can even track the progress of funded projects in participating counties at www.fuelyourschool.com
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"Cicoff the Jester," portrayed by St. Louis resident Christoph Zurcher, will perform at the Newton Foursquare Church during the morning worship service at 9:45 a.m. Sunday at the church, located at 1510 S. Eighth Ave. E. in Newton.
Zurcher uses a unique style of communication to entertain, amuse and illustrate Biblical messages. Like jesters of the Middle Ages, he combines humor with sincerity and wit as well as folly to emphasize points and communicate his messages. While mesmerizing and stunning his audience with his artistry and skill, he uses the tools of physical theater, storytelling, juggling and comedy to support his compelling and powerful messages.
Zurcher was born in Harrisburg, Pa., and raised in Switzerland. He has a bachelor's degree in engineering, an associate'sdegree of arts in Biblical studies and is a license International Church of the Foursquare Gospel minister. He has performedin churches, schools, conferences and other venues for the past 12 years throughout the United States and Europe. The publicis encouraged to attend Cicoff 's performance. For more information, call the church at (641) 792-2482.


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Even better, this one is orders of magnitude faster than a potato [opera.com]
At first I was confused by this article, since I was reading it in Opera 10.11. The new version is called 10.60, not 10.6.
FYI, on my system the opera:about page shows it as version "10.60 internal", but its browser identification is:
"Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.60"
which could be construed as meaning either version 9.80 or version 10.60.
You can thank idiots who do browser sniffing the wrong way for that.
Basically, some people who should have never been allowed to do any development checked for Opera's version by the first digit. When Opera went to 10.00, some scripts suddenly thought it was Opera 1, and things went very bad. Therefore, all future Opera versions will fake-identify as "Opera/9.x" in order to prevent that from happening.
Chrome seems to be the next in line to hit version 10 by the way things are going, so I don't doubt they'll be in the same boat when it happens.
You can thank idiots who do browser sniffing the wrong way for that.
If you're doing browser sniffing you're already doing it the wrong way.
If you're doing browser sniffing you're already doing it the wrong way.
The right way is object detection using client-side JavaScript, but there are a couple cases where object detection fails. One of them is figuring out whether the mouse cursor position includes the scroll value or not [evolt.org].
Why not just feed all browsers the same HTML? If the browser fails to render properly (cough, IE6 and IE7) well that's the browser's problem. They should have followed established web standards.
Why not just feed all browsers the same HTML? If the browser fails to render properly (cough, IE6 and IE7) well that's the browser's problem.
Probably because your website has some purpose that is unrelated to teaching people lessons about which browser they should use.
Perhaps, but who cares? Let those sites break. Sites should display identically on every browser and adhere to all standards, not utilizing any browser qwirks. If they don't they are badly designed pages, plain and simple. It's not the browser's responsibility to compensate for an incompetent web developer.
How would the users know it's that site that is broken, and not the browser?
Ask their geek friends who read Slashdot.
Include an icon that says "This will not render properly on IE6 or IE7. Please upgrade." Basically the same thing Youtube is doing.
Perhaps, but who cares?
Opera, because if their users notice less sites work they will leave.
Let those sites break.
I agree.
Sites should display identically on every browser
Impossible, and imho not necessary, but I'm not into the teh-interwebs-is-an-application-shit.
and adhere to all standards
You can use standards and still break things. Since an old browser don't support the latest standards. Eventually one reason to check the version.
not utilizing any browser qwirks.
If they don't they are badly designed pages
Or the opposite, not designed sources of Information.
plain and simple. It's not the browser's responsibility to compensate for an incompetent web developer.
Perhaps, but who cares? Let those sites break.
It's something that Microsoft or Mozilla can say, but definitely not Opera - not with their single-digit market share worldwide.
(though e.g. in Russia, you'd better make sure your website looks right and proper in Opera, where it tops the list at 32%!)
Opera brags about this, but my experience is that it's generally quirky in comparison to other browsers (not IE) with valid (X)HTML/CSS. For instance, W3 specs say that a blockquote should be rendered with equal whitespace before and after (link here [w3.org]) , yet Opera won't give it any whitespace in a after the closing blockquote tag. This breaks the appearance of many sites, including imageboards.
Why should I care about a non-extensible browser that does some artificial benchmarks a millisecond faster? Not trolling, I'm trying to figure out what practical benefit Opera has for its users.
Can you post some screenshots of this problem? I have never noticed it before. My suspicion is that you're using a proxy or some filtering software that's damaging the HTML that Opera is subsequently displaying.
Should be easy...
This text has the blockquote tag with no space
either side of the tag and none
I'm using 10.60 and I see whitespace before and after the blockquote. You appear to be wrong in this case.
Plus it also has Inspect Element (like Chrome), mouse gestures (like the Firefox addons), and it looks good in Mac OS X and Windows (although not so much in Linux).
I really like Opera on Windows, but I find it dreadful on OS X. I like mouse gestures and use them regularly, but Opera only supports the mouse gestures built into Opera, not the system service ones that work in all my other apps. The same goes for the rest of the system services. No support for the native spellchecker or grammar checker or word statistics. No automatic language translation, dictionary/thesaurus lookup, or text manipulation services. If you give up all the cool OS supplied features of OS X,
"All it says, as far as I can tell, is that it should be indented."
It used to be indented on both sides in earlier versions of Opera.
I like it because of its right click->Validate feature, which sends the cached copy of the current page to the w3 validator.
There's a Firefox add-on called Page Validator [mozilla.org] that does that.
Not trolling, I'm trying to figure out what practical benefit Opera has for its users.
The 80-20 rule, 80% of the benefit of Firefox with 20% of the effort fiddling with all the extensions. Firefox without any extensions at all is a poorer browser than Opera, and I got better things do to than to custom design my browser.
I'm trying to figure out what practical benefit Opera has for its users.
Of all browsers I've tried, it has the most customizable keybindings, and, in general, the single best implementation of keyboard-only browsing.
(Yes, I've tried the Firefox plugins which promised the same. They're not on par.)
On the whole, though, Opera doesn't have a single major killer feature. Rather, it's a combination of little (and obvious, come to think of it) things, each of which makes your life that much easier - and no-one else offers the entire set in one box. For example, Opera is the only browser I know of which lets you submit a form to a new tab, background tab etc (same keyboard modifiers when clicking submit button as for links).
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"Not trolling, I'm trying to figure out what practical benefit Opera has for its users."
I've used only Opera since version 3 or so. What I find when I try to use any other browser now is that just doing my work takes longer because of all the refinements Opera has.
For instance, W3 specs say that a blockquote should be rendered with equal whitespace before and after
Really? I couldn't see that specified in your link. Perhaps if you'd included the text that stated that in a blockquote to accompany your link it would help!
If a specific amount of margin is really desired after an element then the author should specify it.
Opera used to cost money. Then they switched to an ad-supported shareware model (no ads if you paid). Then they went free (as on $0) on the desktop and brought in the revenue by licensing to mobile phones, consoles, etc. That worked when smartphones were neglected and the only other option was IE mobile. But these days, WebKit is used by (or will be used by) pretty much everyone except Microsoft (who are on the verge of irrelevance). And Mozilla might, someday, gain traction with their mobile browser.
Who is going to pay for Opera when they can use WebKit or Fennec for free? They don't have the google ad revenue that Mozilla has. They don't have a sugar daddy like IE or WebKit.
It doesn't matter how good their browser is, their business model is dead and their days are numbered.
If you only took your sig to heart...
They are actually growing (it's all int the financial reports); don't know/don't care much "why?", perhaps device manufacturers and telcos value what Opera offers after all. And with Opera as #1 mobile browser by worldwide usage (despite many of its users surely being rather cautious with number of sites visited / data transferred), the outlook doesn't look so bad - after all, they are doing fine despite being by far the longest without corporate daddy out of all major b
Exactly how many Wiis has Nintendo sold worldwide?
Exactly how many Wiis has Nintendo sold worldwide?
Wii is saddled with old Opera and old Flash.
It's true; their days are numbered, and their attempts to do silly things like add webservers to their browser suggest that they know that very well.
Opera should be:
a) Open-sourcing their browser and making money from extras like T-shirts and manuals and other silly crap like that, which kids with browsers will buy.
b) Working real hard on a totally new, advanced, streamlined, user-friendly browser for the semantic web.
... not sure if serious?
The standards at Opera are way too high for amateurs and lots of code would be rejected for not being tight, not being CPU agnostic, not being platform agnostic, "breaks a feature which our partner needs", "not allowed within idea of Opera"...
Why don't you try to understand the idea behind Opera browser first? A tip for you: No developer who actually codes meaningful stuff for Firefox called Opera to open the source since they seem to have an idea why it is closed source.
It is a browser which has its own wa
It's true; their days are numbered, and their attempts to do silly things like add webservers to their browser suggest that they know that very well.
This is hilarious.
People like you have been predicting Opera's demise for 15 years. And for some reason, Opera is still around, and not only, that, but it's thriving. They just reported having more than 120 million users globally, up from 100 million a few months ago.
They're pulling in major deals with the likes of AT&T, Sony, Nintendo, Verizon, etc. a
They don't have the google ad revenue that Mozilla has.
Actually yes, they do. Can't find a source for it at the moment, but they've had a deal since the early 9.x days if not sooner, it's not something recent.
"They don't have the google ad revenue that Mozilla has. "
Actually, they make the money exactly same way, every default search engine on Opera (which you can add more) makes money for Opera.
So, that is how they don't have to ask for money or display ads on browser. They also figured (a guess), more users mean more test and more compatibility and prestige for the real money making business which are devices.
There is nothing to beat Opera on devices, you can't pack Webkit and claim it is a mobile device brows
It's available for Windows, Mac and Linux."
No, it's available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris [opera.com].
I've switched my default browser from opera to chrome. I'm ready to uninstall opera, it's not worth trying to browse the web with right now. I have to go to FireFox on FreeBSD because chrome is not ported.
I'll be honest, I would rather get the Linux version of boinc to work then chrome. What is in the ports, boinc, does not allow you to run all the projects. Just Seti and a few that I don't participate in. The Linux version, if I could get it to work, would allow me to run all my boinc projects and completely move them off windows.
I would need to post to a Linux
Sounds like local problems, I find myself utterly amazed at how fast pages are loading in 10.60.
Don't know.
and I'm on the verge of changing browsers. I paid for Opera back when the choice was between IE, Netscape, and Opera. Been using Opera as my main browser, and very happy with it, since then... must be quasi 10 years now. I'm very sad to see Opera dropping the ball that bad, and not fixing it:
- basically, 10.x versions are much lower quality than 9.x and before. An occasional hiccup can be understood, but 10.x is kinda old by now, there have been several point releases, and the issues that bother me still are there.
- broken feature 1: mouse gestures. One a large screen, with the mouse set for high velocity and high acceleration, mouse gestures don't register 9 out of 10 times. Chrome does not have that issue. It's probably kinda easy to fix (9.x has the issue, but not as badly).
- broken feature 2: autoscroll. 10.x goes out of autoscroll after a (random) handful of seconds. I've taken to copy-pasting URLs of long documents into Opera 9x, but that's cumbersome.
- broken feature 3: Opera Link keeps overwriting my main PCs bookmarks with stuff from PCs I haven't touched in ages. I'm back to synching bookmarks with backups and restore, and re-doing the rest (custom searches...) by hand.
- broken feature 4: cursor in text boxes. I routinely have issues getting my cursor back into rich-text edit boxes. I actually had the problem right now, and had to click on my comment's title then tab back into my text... this is cumbersome after a while.
- Broken feature 4: some sites that used to work perfectly no longer do. Hotmail is the main one, ZD sites are kinda screwy (the comments section)
I used to recommend Opera, I no longer do, and after enduring 10.x for months, I'm ready to leave, too. Chrome's mouse gestures and autoscroll work fine on my PC, as do Hotmail and text boxes...
How odd. I don't use mouse gestures, so I cannot speak to that one. As for the rest, I've never had autoscroll stop on me before. I've had some lag in it stopping when I wanted it to, though. Opera Link does seem to randomly take the older version, you're right there. Not sure that's part of the browser, and more the secondary service (not that it makes a functional difference, I'll admit).
Opposite problem with text boxes. It'll jump to them when a new page loads, even when there's lots of other content, so
Indeed that's weird, and it would feel better if the issues were the same for everyone. They aren't, but the buggy areas seem to be.
I just checked, I can use Hotmail with my 9.64-usb. WIth 10.x, I go into some refresh loop for a while after each page load, I have to click on random stuff for it to stop, sometimes after stopping it's usable, sometimes it's not and I have to refresh and retry.
I don't know about the flashblocker, since I have flash mostly off, and use a custom HOSTS file on top of that. I see
I think you should completely uninstall your current Opera installation, remove all traces of it, and then install and try again. The Mouse gesture problem was fixed backed in 9.5 or 9.6
I've not had the "cursor in text boxes" problem on Windows, only on Linux, and it appears to be fixed for the most part in 10.60. Hotmail appears to work ok for me, although i have nothing but about 82,000 spams in an email box that i got back in 1998, and have never once used.
I'll try the uninstall reinstall. Never had the issue prior to 10.x though, and my 9.64-usb still works fine.
Autoscroll is: when you have a very long web page to read, middle-click, drag the mouse down a bit, the page starts scrolling down without you having to roll the scrollwhell nor click the verticla slider (very convenient), and should continue scrolling until you middle-click again, or move the mouse back up. Only it doesn't, and stops after 1-5 seconds.
Opera link is not supposed to randomly overwrite
I'll second the issues with Opera from upgrading. I remember having lots of problems with earlier versions of 10.x until I did a clean install (instead of upgrading from a 9.x install).
As for autoscroll, do you have a loose mousewheel perchance? If you move the wheel, it will stop the scrolling so if you have a loose one, it can do the same. Mine is getting a bit worn and has a few spots where it scroll without feeling that noticeable click.
Hotmail hasn't been a problem for a while now but I do remember
...they fucking removed options that I prefer. I want the tab bar to go away if I only have one tab open. GIVE ME MY SCREEN SPACE! Also, let me get rid of the background image of the speed dial.
That said, unlike past upgrades which made changes that can only be characterized as "feeling different", I noticed no negative ones this time around. Feels a bit more stable and a little more spry.
I still want to have the tab bar hide though.
Ah, found out how to get rid of the image. It was under Configure Speed Dial. Imagine that....
Right click Tab Bar, click Customize, select "Only display when needed", same place as it's always been.
Well... I'd do that but I don't have that option and if I go to the customize appearance, the option is grayed out.
http://img443.imageshack.us/f/tabbar1.png/ [imageshack.us]
http://img145.imageshack.us/f/tabbar2.png/ [imageshack.us]
I haven't looked at the developer edition of opera however I think it still has a lot of catching up to do. I just gave it a run by opening it up and loading www.html5test.com and unfortunately for me I won't be using this to develop on.
Lack of drag and drop makes it unusable for my development needs.
As a comparison:
Chrome 5.0.375.99 gives me 197 with 7 bonus points.
Chrome 6.0.453.1 dev which I'm currently using gives me 220 with 10 bonus points
Opera 10.60 gives me 159 with 7 bonus points
Firefox 3.6.6 gives
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What the website has [nasa.gov] is a single sequence. I don't see any cyclic activity. It's also oddly widespread, almost stringy, as though the flow is considerable and the scale of the picture is much bigger than it appears (not unlikely, and given they added no scale information it's almost useless as science).
How about a video?
Still need to research and read all the articles, but would be cool to correlate the temperature and melt events.
As I asked in the earlier post: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2357996&cid=36953978
Does anyone remember if Drake assumed one or two habitable planets per planetary system (like ours)?
I have to think the signs point toward more, not less, life in the universe.
err, I posted the wrong link above: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2364470&cid=36989158
The Drake equation is ultimately [...] about providing a framework for collecting and thinking about what parameters might influence the amount of life in the universe.
Yes, and discovering the liquid state of water in an otherwise extreme environment (such as the surface of Mars) increases our expectations.
This is important for two reasons. The first reason this is important is the obvious issue that the presence of liquid water makes the existence of life a lot more likely. It seems that conditions for life are really surprisingly common. What we still don't know is how likely life is to form in the first place and how easily it travels. There is speculation about panspermia and life on Earth having come from Mars on meteorites but the orbital mechanics make that direction a lot more likely than from Earth to the Mars.
The second reason this is important is that in the long-run colonization and exploration of Mars will be a lot easier if water is easily available. The presence of water will be directly helpful for some plans aside from directly helping humans. For example, the Mars Direct plan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Direct [wikipedia.org] involves exploratory missions to Mars where some of the rocket fuel for the return is methane made on the surface. Current versions of that plan call for bringing the necessary hydrogen to Mars. This isn't too bad since hydrogen is only a small fraction of methane by mass. But if we could split the water using electrolysis and get the hydrogen directly from that that would potentially further reduce the amount of mass needed to be launched from Earth. Unfortunately, the water here seems to be not so common that one could actually rely on this. This is probably non-viable unless one had much better maps of where the water was, how deep it normally was, the exact locations of the water, detailed knowledge of what salts were making the water briny and any other major chemical contaminants which could make electrolysis machinery unhappy. So overall, this is unlikely to impact missions to Mars in that direct a way.
How are they going to get at this water if it's even possible? Drill down? Burrow down? Sample soil from outside these spurts?
Changing dark streaks. Cool. Something is going on down there that fundamentally changes our perception of Mars as a planet that's frozen in time. (Well, except for the dust storms and the seasonal variations in the polar caps.)
The thing is, this doesn't say 'water' to me because it could very well be some other physical phenomena which isn't all that different from Lowell's canals or the face on Mars. They really should do proper science and wait for something more concrete, such as spectroscopic data,
They seem to be hedging their bets, but to my mind, their explanation of a briny mud is probably most likely. The temperatures near the equator should be high enough in the Martian summer to make this work. It's a tentative discovery that will have to wait until we send more probes. At least this gives those designing future missions a better kind of candidate location for looking for flowing water, and maybe even life. Landing a rover near one of these flows, if it can be done, might prove very fruitfu
They really should do proper science and wait for something more concrete, such as spectroscopic data, before making such announcements.
What exactly do you think they did? Re read Kim Stanley Robinson? Yes, their is spectroscopic data that supports the ideas, yes they need to do more it.
Proper science isn't waiting until you know everything. That never happens anyway.
We know there are significant amounts of water ice on Mars, in some places pretty close to the surface. In a way, it only stands to reason that in the warmer areas near the equator that frozen water with a lot of salts and other minerals in suspension would melt, and if it stays liquid for any length of time, it will form mud and flow downhill. This isn't a "wow, never saw that coming" kind of a discovery, it's a more a confirmation of some of the theoretical work that's been going on over the last five o
What exactly do you think they did? Re read Kim Stanley Robinson?
Well said.
I love how half of the Slashdot comments imply that the commenter must know more about Mars and Geophysics than NASA.
"The thing is, this doesn't say 'water' to me because I'm not a specialist on the mission'
There; I fixed it for you.
Real Science!
http://xkcd.com/683/ [xkcd.com]
Observations make it look like there might be some sort of water cycle going on on Mars. Now the question is can existing probes provide further evidence? If not is new probe required? If there was a human presence on Mars they could mount an expedition to investigate.
It's hard to put humans into space but, humans are so much more adaptable to changing mission parameters.
cheap proles, reprogrammable remotely, are the way to go for now
While a typo, it's absolutely brilliant in how Orwellian it sounds!
Contrary to what some have speculated, this is not just science by press conference. There is an actual paper [sciencemag.org] out today in Science magazine (subscription only, but a summary is here [sciencemag.org]). It is speculative, but not of the "arsenic life" or "bacteria in a Mars meteorite" variety.
"If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?" -- Garrison Keillor


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Also in the Women's tournament, IRB Women's Development Manager Susan Carty continues on her refereeing pathway with an assistant refereeing appointment for the Ireland v Scotland game in Ashbourne.
Elsewhere, Sean Gallagher heads an all-Irish team of match officials for the European Nations Cup match between Romania and Portugal in Cluj, with Gary Conway doing likewise for the France v England fixture in Draguignan in the Under-20 Six Nations.
Meanwhile, the IRB match officials gathered in Dubai last week to hone their physical conditioning and game management preparations ahead of a busy year of international rugby.
With the 2015 Rugby World Cup in England fast approaching, the three-day camp in Dubai coincided with the welcome announcement that Emirates would sponsor the IRB match officials through to the 2019 Rugby World Cup, providing a significant boost to the programme.
The camp provided the opportunity for the IRB Match Official Selection Committee to reaffirm the standards and values that officials will need to attain to be selected for rugby's showcase event and benchmark against tough physical and game management criteria.
With ball-in-play time higher than ever before and players in all positions continuing to reach new standards of speed, strength and high-intensity aerobic running, the IRB and its member Unions are committed to achieving optimal levels of physical fitness to assist the world's top referees make correct decisions under what is often intense physical and mental pressure.
During an average Test match, referees cover 7 kilometres and undertake a massive number of accelerations and decelerations. Heart rates can be in the high intensity zone for up to 50% of total match time, which is comparable to officials in other team sports, such as soccer.
Chairman of the IRB Match Official Selection Committee and Chairman of the IRB Rugby Committee, John Jeffrey, said: "Two years ago we set out with the mission of delivering the best-prepared team of match officials ever assembled for a Rugby World Cup in terms of physical conditioning, psychological strength and clear and consistent game management.
"We have a highly motivated and exceptionally professional group of match officials, supported by a superb performance team, and they have all bought into the vision.
"As with players, physical conditioning is key for international refereeing and at the Dubai camp the group was assessed extensively against key performance criteria across a range of aerobic and positional tests and we are pleased with progress."
Performance criteria included a standing 40-metre sprint, repeated sprint, yo-yo intermittent recovery (level one) and body composition assessments.
With GPS data playing an increasing role in elite sports performance, each referee's match and training data is recorded and assessed in order to benchmark performance, identify focus areas and assist the development of bespoke training programmes to enhance game preparation and performance.
Jeffrey added: "As with teams, we are building towards the Rugby World Cup and the main performance objective for the group is to ensure clear and consistent officiating.
"Our selection criteria are based on a strategy of selecting the current high level performers underpinned by a growth philosophy towards having the best match official team available for selection for RWC 2015."
The 11 referees selected to take charge of matches in the 2014 RBS 6 Nations represent a range of experience.
The world's most-capped active referee is IRFU international referee Alain Rolland and he will make his 66th and final appearance when Wales plays France in Cardiff on Friday, February 21.
Steve Walsh of New Zealand and Wales' Nigel Owens have already passed the 50-Test mark, while England's Wayne Barnes will join that exclusive club when he referees Ireland v Wales in Dublin on Saturday week (February 8).
Alain Rolland (IRFU, 65 Tests)
Steve Walsh (ARU, 54 Tests)
Nigel Owens (WRU, 50 Tests)
Wayne Barnes (RFU, 49 Tests)
Craig Joubert (SARU, 47 Tests)
Romain Poite (FFR, 31 Tests)
Chris Pollock (NZRU, 15 Tests)
Jérôme Garces (FFR, 14 Tests)
Jaco Peyper (SARU, 14 Tests)
Pascal Gauzere (FFR, 10 Tests)
John Lacey (IRFU, 6 Tests)
Anyone interested in refereeing in Ireland should contact the IRFU Referee Development officer in their province. Contact details can be found here.
Related Links -
2014 RBS 6 Nations Match Official Appointments


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Jordy Mercer's tie-breaking single highlighted a two-run seventh inning that lifted the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 3-2 decision over the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park.
Mercer had one of four consecutive hits off Homer Bailey in the deciding seventh, spoiling an otherwise stellar performance from the Cincinnati right- hander in his first home start since his July 2 no-hitter against San Francisco.
Bailey (5-9) racked up a career-high 12 strikeouts over 6 1/3 innings, but was charged with all three Pirates' runs on seven hits after tiring late.
Counterpart Jeff Locke (9-2) was impressive as well off a near two-week layoff caused by a sore back, with the All-Star lefty limiting the Reds to just one hit and fanning six while yielding one run over six innings of work.
"I felt great today," said Locke. "The back feels great."
Michael McKenry went 2-for-4 with a double and scored the go-ahead run in the seventh, while Garrett Jones added a solo homer to help Pittsburgh halt a three-game losing streak that included the first two tests of this post All- Star break set.
Cincinnati's Shin-Soo Choo had a pair of singles to extend his hitting streak to 15 games, but the Reds managed just one more and had a stretch of three straight victories snapped.
"Well, I don't really have much of a hand in that," said Bailey about the lack of run support. "Days like today, after a while it may start getting to you a bit, but I just have to keep going out there and trying to make pitches."
Bailey overpowered the Pirates' hitters for most of the afternoon, and had set down 13 batters -- nine via strikeout -- over a 14-man stretch until McKenry drilled a double off the wall in left center with one out in the seventh and the game knotted at 1-1.
Mercer followed with a single up the middle that delivered McKenry from second without a throw, and Clint Barmes reached on an infield hit before pinch hitter Jose Tabata singled on Bailey's 121st and final pitch to plate Mercer for a 3-1 lead that the Pittsburgh bullpen nearly squandered an inning later.
Mark Melancon walked a pair of batters around a Choo single as the Reds loaded the bases with none out in the bottom of the eighth, but got the dangerous Joey Votto to bounce into a double play that brought home a run before retiring Brandon Phillips for the final out of the frame.
Jason Grilli then successfully protected the one-run edge in the ninth to nail down his NL-best 30th save of the season.
Prior to his seventh-inning struggles, Bailey's lone mistake came when he hung a first-pitch curveball that Jones belted into the right-field seats to put Pittsburgh up 1-0 in the second.
Locke, meanwhile, permitted just a pair of walks over a four-inning stretch after Choo greeted him with an infield single to begin the bottom of the first, but briefly lost his command in the fifth to allow the Reds to tie the game.
He issued consecutive one-out walks to Zack Cozart and Corky Miller to put two runners aboard, with Bailey advancing both with a sacrifice bunt. Locke then threw a curveball in the dirt that skipped away from McKenry, with Cozart easily crossing the plate on the wild pitch.
Game Notes
Bailey had struck out 10 in a game five times previously, including his no- hitter against the Pirates at PNC Park last September as well as a start against San Francisco in the 2012 NL Division Series ... Locke lowered his MLB-best ERA in road games to 1.73 and has allowed just two runs over 18 innings in three matchups with the Reds this season ... Melancon had a streak of 15 consecutive scoreless innings, which had been the longest active run in the NL, come to an end ... The Pirates improved to 41-17 on the year when homering at least once in a game.


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VANCOUVER – It's hard to believe that we've reached just June 1 and Bruins head coach Claude Julien sounds like he's all ready to give on his putrid power play.
"As long as we're able to stay on even terms with them when it comes to special teams, we're okay with that," said Julien after his team finished 0-for-6 on the power play and lost 1-0 to Vancouver in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final at Rogers Arena.
You've come too far Claude Julien to begin to talk like that. Resigning oneself to just trying to break even should not be an option. That the Canucks weren't able breakthrough on any of their six power-play opportunities should be a reason to celebrate, unless the Bruins pop one in and get the better of Vancouver.
Now I'm not saying that Julien is taking on a loser's mentality. Knowing him, this is his psychological ploy with his team. Where some coaches might rip his man-advantage jamooks to shreds, Julien's kind of saying: "I have low expectations, now go and prove me wrong."
That might work. But it might not hurt to show a little anger, especially after the Bruins let the Canucks escape with the type of game that could determine an entire best-of-seven series. It's hard to imagine a game any closer than Game 1. And the Bruins had the chance to turn all the momentum in their favor.
They squandered two first-period power plays. Then came the Alex Burrows double-minor – which could've been worse had someone in an authority position seen his bite on Patrice Bergeron – and a Kevin Bieksa high stick on Zdeno Chara for more than a minute and a half of 5-on-3. One Mark Recchi one-timer that didn't get past Roberto Luongo into the net and a bunch of passes later – plus a Ryan Kesler scoring chance 3-on-5 – and the Bruins were on their way to falling to 5-for-67 in the postseason when they have a man-advantage.
Julien's players sounded a little more determined to get the power play going.
"Obviously, we had some good looks. But still, we've got to find a way," said Bergeron. "That 5-on-3 we had some good chances. Rex just missed the net there. But we had some good looks."
Whether the Bruins want to accept it behind closed doors or acknowledge it publicly, they are not a better all-around team than Vancouver. That fact makes it imperative that when they have more players on the ice than the Canucks, they do more than kill the clock or get some "good looks." They have to finally score.
We've said this 1,000,000 times this playoffs season. But if tonight was any indication, it's finally going to come to fruition. No power play equals no chance for victory for the Bruins.
Julien and his staff have tried numerous different things. They've put Chara in front, they've put Milan Lucic on the second unit, tried Bergeron at the point and worked in Andrew Ference and Tyler Seguin at times. Now it's time to get extremely creative. If that means getting Brad Marchand or Gregory Campbell out there, so be it. It could mean asking Tomas Kaberle to take a power play off to see if someone else can work some magic.
And then there's the elephant in the room, which wears a No. 28 jersey in black and gold. When's the last time you saw Recchi make one of his patented tips on goal? When's the last time he really got in a goaltender's grill? Julien doesn't have to bench Recchi. He can just take him off the power play once. Just once could be all it takes to give the Bruins a different look, give someone else a chance and maybe align the planets perfectly for the type of goal the Bruins could build upon in their pursuit of the Cup.
This isn't insulting the individual play of Recchi, Kaberle or anyone that's failed to contribute on the power play. It's about looking for the hot hand and maybe empowering other people to get the job done. Maybe watching from the bench would give someone like Kaberle or Recchi a new perspective on what's going on out on the ice.
When Kaberle watches video of Game 1, he'll see the time he failed to shoot when he was open straight on from the goal with both Chara and Nathan Horton parked in front of the net. If ever there was time to get the puck to the crease, it was then. Instead he made a robotic pass over to Dennis Seidenberg for a shot that went right into a Canucks player's shin pad.
That play wasn't the reason the Bruins lost or even the reason the power play has now become the delinquent you praise for not getting arrested even though he comes home with all F's on his report card. What that play is is a microcosm for everything the power play has gone through since the dawn of the 2010-11 season.
Julien's seemingly endless patience has gotten the Bruins this far. But he shouldn't let his patience lead to resignation about the power play. He has to continue to juggle lines, shift players and try to find that spark that could make this month notable for more than being the first June the Bruins' franchise has ever played in.
It could be the first June the Bruins have won the Cup in, or at least scored a power-play goal in. The way things have gone, playing in June doesn't even seem as rare as scoring on the power play.


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So if I understand correctly, the argument for getting mandriva boils down to: "Use it because it's older than Ubuntu"?
Use it because it is more stable than Ubuntu. Use it because it's not trying to shove junk packages you don't need, like Ubuntu does. Use it because you have the balls to stray from your mundane little group of popular branded products, unlike Ubuntu users. Use it because it has prettier wallpaper.
Or, you know...don't. No one really cares.
Use it because the first thing it does on installation is prompt you to pay for stuff that's free everywhere else. In a world where you get what you pay for, that's proof enough of superior quality and functionality.
Er, wait...
They have good updates, excellent repositories, and a system that is both fairly cutting edge and quite stable. In other words it works and works well. Rarely do you ever need to go hunting beyond the official repos except to get unfree stuff that is ALL well supported in the PLF repos (which have a nice simple web interface that will set them up in URPMI with a couple of clicks). I've used Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, CentOS, etc, and all of them have relatively poor repos compared to Mandriva and I had to hunt around, install stuff from various 3rd party repos, deal with dependency hell, etc. Haven't had to deal with any of that with Mandriva in quite a while now.
OTOH there are some downsides. URPMI isn't quite as slick as some of the APT based package managers, and French people + documentation apparently = disastrous mess. Still, there's plenty of expertise on the net to solve any issues, the documentation exists, it is just badly organized.
Mandriva the company seems to have lost some of its steam in the last few years, but they are still pumping out an excellent distro. After using it as my primary desktop OS, internal server OS, and on numerous laptops for 10 years I really have no major complaints and see no compelling reason to switch. SUSE is the only other distro that supports KDE even half as well, and I'm just not that interested in switching to Gnome. Mandriva does what a distro should do, does it well, and will serve most people's needs quite well. I wouldn't run it on production servers only because it is a pain in the arse to leave off the desktop packages entirely for some reason, though it will WORK fine.
I've used Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, CentOS, etc, and all of them have relatively poor repos compared to Mandriva and I had to hunt around...they are still pumping out an excellent distro.
I have to work with a variety of distros (RHEL, SuSE, Fedora, CentOS, ubunto) on the servers at my office, as well as running Mandriva on desktops and at home, and agree it is far the easiest to deal with in terms of available repos, etc. (Just try building the latest GRASS on SuSE!)
French people + documentation apparently
I'm not sure they're using it as an argument to favor Mandriva over Ubuntu.... but it is true.
It boils down to "Use Mandriva because it's more mature".... well, in that respect, you could say "Use DOS 6.0 or Windows NT, because it's older"
Anyways... if an OS is more mature, and the newcomer doesn't offer a significant advantage, what is the reason to not use the older solution, again?
Especially when Ubuntu has done some, err.... unwanted things with their GUI
What did Torvalds say about Gnom
I was pointing out why it is relevent to some of us.
And yes, maturity can be a great thing in a linux distro. Mandriva has around for years for and can easily be adapted for running servers, desktops, thin clients, clusters, and even embedded systems if you try hard enough. Not to mention having been ported at one point or another to just about desktop/workstation platform.
It grows on you, for those of us that have better things to do than type in sudo all day long, spend time configuring or building a sy
Did they actually manage to get the thin client server/client packages working properly in 2011? All I ever found were cut/pasted Fedora packages which were never tailored for Mandriva, so never worked.
As I use LTSP a modern version would be useful.
As for the rest, I agree with most of the above.
I've mainly used their pxe server for booting eepcs to install mandriva. To be honest with you, I doubt that they've done much work at all in improving it for 2011, especially since thin clients aren't all the buzz anymore. I think most of what your seeing are the leftovers from their cluster projects. I did notice that they have meta packages(tasks) for clustering now, which I've never seen before.
You'll probably have to manually set up an image to boot. From there though, it looks like urpmi could be
So if I understand correctly, the argument for getting mandriva boils down to: "Use it because it's older than Ubuntu"?
No, the argument is "Use Mandriva because it is more stable, easier to use and works better out of the box." I've tried them all, including Ubuntu, even Gentoo. None come close to Mandriva's usability and administrative tools. And I mean none at all.
Ubuntu was the THE desktop Linux before others figured out how to spell desktop. To this day Mandriva is a better desktop Linux than Ubuntu. Mandriva has had a massive head start on the desktop that only now some distributions have nearly closed the gap.
What cost Mandriva user share was the simply fact they had a couple of messed up releases in 2008 and 2009 and they never really recovered the user base. Ubuntu seems to have snatched them up - not because Ubuntu is better, but just because, at the time, it
...it was in fact a useful distro, it was compatible with most computers on the planet, all kinds of exotic hardware, I absolutely loved it.
But then it became Mandriva (aka Mandrivel...), economical support issues, fleeing contributors, and the support for obsolete hardware was coming apart until the distro became completely useless, first to fail was basic SoundCard support, even the soundblaster series...that worked fine under the Mandrake distro name...failed on several basic issues...such as...SOUND! -_-
One of the most wonderful things about Mandrake was that you could almost get 3D out-of-the-box, an Nvidia installer was just a click away *kind of like ubuntu today, but Mandrivel...? Things that worked before...broke, again because of the competent contributors fleeing (something about certain benevolent leaders...)
Ubuntu is going the same ways these days with UNITY, more splitting than unity if you ask me...everything is about tablets & touch screen, everyone wants to be modern...but what is modern? Have we forgotten all about functionality?
I recall one release of Mandriva that had lots of support requests on the forums for not working sound.
The problem: by default the volume control was turned down completely! Just turning up the volume solved it. Silly.
I recall one release of Mandriva that had lots of support requests on the forums for not working sound.
The problem: by default the volume control was turned down completely! Just turning up the volume solved it. Silly.
Whats even sillier - is to release an official distro with such a basic flaw, and call it user friendly.
Many people this particular distro was aimed at - had NO clue how to use the alsamixer command from the terminal.
Well 9 came with SATA drivers, and they were the first major Linux distribution to come with them. I had just built a new PC at the time with SATA and didn't know that Linux SATA drivers were still in beta. I was happy to find a Linux distribution I didn't have to hack to install, and I really enjoyed the distribution, but the move to Mandriva was awkward and I didn't follow it, choosing to move to a different dist (and I went with the difficult to use GenToo source distribution, but not for long - having m
Knoppix seem to use low PCM settings and higher gain to. Increasing the general volume then will decrease sound quality / make it more noticeable.
...it was in fact a useful distro, it was compatible with most computers on the planet, all kinds of exotic hardware
It wouldn't detect the HD on my laptop, and it was nothing exotic.
At that point I moved on to the next CD on the pile - Dead Rat - and it just worked.
I've used it and CentOS since. The only problem I have is that they never seem to like my network cards.
Having used Mandrake and Mandriva, the problem with the sound system can be put down to two events. The introduction of KDE4 which was pushed out into a working distro before KDE4 was really ready (and no way back to KDE3 which p'ed off a LOT of users). Then there's the introduction of PulseAudio (although one of the developers was most helpful in tracking down bugs I had found which he pushed out patches into the main distro).
While not the fault of PulseAudio, there are packages that still do not behave ni
in particular the hopelessly outdated Skype (who still do not have a 64bit version in static / dynamic - and Linux users don't all use Ubuntu).
Skype doesn't have a 64 bit version at all. They have Debian and Ubuntu packages that are labeled as 64 bit, but the binaries contained within are 32 bit, and require 32 bit libraries.
I think they do this so that dpkg won't give a "architecture does not match system" error, which doesn't apply to the raw archives. So you can use the package manager to install the skype binaries, but you're on your own for hunting down and installing the 32 bit libraries.
I didn't know Mandriva is still alive. I've used them for the better part of a decade, first Mandrake, later it became Mandriva. They had so many problems: near bankruptcy, and for a while completely seemed to have lost it completely. Their distro anyway was a bit hit and miss, one great release followed by a mediocre release and then a great one again, but overall I loved it. Some three years ago I made the switch to Ubuntu because of all that - and Ubuntu seemed to have the better future. Also Ubuntu has
Also Ubuntu has an LTS option, saves me having to do a complete upgrade so often.
Mandriva will have an LTS option hopefully by the end of this year. Tour of 2011 [mandriva.com]
Politics in the Mandriva world have played out to start emulating the Ubuntu release cycle sans the two a year release. Instead we will see a normal Mandriva release once a year with regular patches for 1.5 years after release. Starting at the end of this year will be the LTS line. No word on how often a LTS will come out but 2011 LTS will receive patches for 3 years.
Any current experience with Mandriva? Are they still good? Worth trying again?
I would dare say that one of the big things that has held Mandriva back is KDE. Mandriva 2011 supports KDE only, no GNOME mess here. KDE's polish over the several iterations since the 4.0 disaster really shows here in Mandriva. Many things are being addressed and there are plans to make normal GTK+ applications more KDE friendly (like how SuSE has made their firefox integrate into KDE nicely.) The biggest thing I think is that Mandriva understands that a lot of people are getting annoyed with the sudden changes in favorite applications and desktops.
The standard kicker is replaced with a Mandriva specific kicker that I think is a good compromise between modern and classical application menus. Amarok is not present in this release, instead is Clementine, which is loosely based on the Amarok of 1.4 days. KMail (and everything it brings) is not present either, instead is Thunderbird from Mozilla. LibreOffice 3.4 is used, which I think is the best version out there thus far and the most useful for day to day operations. (side note:) A few Windows users at our company were switched off of Office 2007 to LibreOffice 3.4.2 and have had really great results in their day to day operations; so much so, we may be moving them off Windows altogether. The users only need TN5250 emulation, Microsoft Exchange support, modern web support, and an Office suite that can connect to DB2 and do Pivot Tables.
Finally, the package manager is what I would call sane for most Linux heads. Yeah it's not dumbed down like the Ubuntu store but I think most people will enjoy what they see here. Overall Mandriva 2011 offers a desktop that I think will rival Ubuntu. With all the compromises that they have made with KDE between new hotness and what we all enjoyed from the Linux desktop pre-Mac OS X copier era, I think this distro will start to fill a ever-growing niche of old school Linux users that enjoyed DE as they were.
Mandriva 2011 supports KDE only, no GNOME mess here.
I'm a huge Mandriva fan. I've been using it for 8+ years in some way or another. And I'm also a huge Gnome fan.
Will I hate my life if I try to stick with Mandriva + Gnome? Am I better off switching distros?
You can always try Mageia. There are several people working on both the GNOME and KDE side of things and you should be in very familiar territory if you have previously become accustomed to Mandriva.
Will I hate my life if I try to stick with Mandriva + Gnome? Am I better off switching distros?
That's a hard call. The direction of Mandriva proper is not to support GNOME and I don't think they have a big community supported GNOME like Slackware. You may in the end switch distros if no clear direction for GNOME + Mandriva appears.
For now they still have packages for GNOME but there again, Mandriva won't support those packages.
From first-hand experience (been using the 2011 RC2 for a couple of weeks), I can tell you... yes. Switch. Everything outside KDE is half working. What more, they are killing off all the drake tools, so by the next release this distro will be indistinguishable from any other generic distro.
I was going to install it on my parents' computers as soon as it came out, but the effort (and time... the ISO does not contain any GNOME package, so I would have to download the hundreds of MB again and again) is not wor
Mandriva will have an LTS option hopefully by the end of this year.
And who will maintain that? Every now and then Mandriva dramatically cuts its work force. You can't properly maintain a distribution for 3 years and additionally even release non-LTS versions at the same time without any engineers left.
Red Hat and SUSE both employ hundreds of engineers. That's why they are successful. How many engineers does Mandriva have left? 5? It certainly can't be that many if they need to drop anything but KPW as available and supported desktops...
It certainly can't be that many if they need to drop anything but KPW as available and supported desktops...
I wouldn't call dropping everything but KDE as proof that they have very few contributors left. SuSE includes GNOME but officially supports KDE, Slackware dropped GNOME long time ago and doesn't include them at all. GNOME 2 was tricky to build and maintain. GNOME 3 is in, "I don't even know" land. GNOME with all of its dependencies, vast array of configuration options for each dependency, and magic order of build instructions for each dependency; does not tend to be easy to maintain a workable tree from source. A couple of people have built build systems that do nothing but build [gnome.org] GNOME. [gnome.org] Thankfully, most builders have given up on their own build systems and have gone to JHbuild.
KDE on the other hand is a pretty straight forward process to maintain a working tree. You can check it out here. [kde.org] Of course, that's something that the average user isn't going to do but there again we are talking about Mandriva. They have to maintain a working tree of the DE and still include their things. GNOME/KDE aren't targeting a single distro, they are making a DE for whoever. Distro have to take that and add and remove what works for their distro. To do this with GNOME is almost like putting stitches in yourself. KDE is very easy to customize distro-wise.
Red Hat and SUSE are successful because they have stuck to a single and coherent vision for their brand of Linux, because they have a good sales model that pushes support for their brand of Linux, because they have played major roles within the Linux community in general which attracts community contributors to use and support your distro, and because they have had strong word of mouth within the community.
Mandrake had that as well, but as you can tell from some of the comments here on Slashdot, that all changed with when they purchased Conectiva. I don't know if they got inflated head syndrome or what, but the quality of software and the number of upstream contributions began to cool quite a bit. Bug reports were not being followed up by Mandriva engineers and the community wasn't taking up the slack either, so bug reports would go on for months and months with no answer. Hardware support issues abounded as not incredibly smart defaults were chosen, the most famous (infamous) example is the decision to ship the distro with the main volume on mute.
The distro has had its hard core followers and commercial users who have stuck around, but as I noted in my last post, the politics behind the distro have played out into two things: Focusing on KDE alone and better release schedule. Those two things will make it easier for the community and Mandriva to support the distribution.
Finally, you have to remember that we are talking LTS for their free product. If you are a company you can purchase their "enterprise" Linux which has a different support cycle than the community version. Also, Mandriva has forty-five engineers to date, most of them are in Brazil (which by the way is very KDE heavy country.)
If we look at cia.vc and follows the news on who leaved mandriva ( Paulo Zanoni, Xorg maintainer, some months ago, glibc maintainer, some kde team guy ( see http://lwn.net/Articles/441940/ [lwn.net] for the details, quite insightful despites being from one of the Mageia founders ), that doesn't look very good. The last one to leave is Eugeni Donodov, the head of the team after mandriva fired Anne Nicolas, and he left 1 month before the release, which doesn't sound very good. So if there is 45 persons in Brasil, why
Maybe you mean "there is 45 persons in Brasil, and they are all working on something else than the distribution" ?
No I mean that 45 engineers between France, USA, and Brazil. The Brazil comment was made because the majority of the engineers are located in Brazil (not all.) Brazil is a very KDE heavy country, therefore, that may have influenced the decision to go KDE only. Not trying to say anything else beyond that.
I wouldn't just write off Mandriva completely but they do look, at the current moment, pretty shaky as a distro. A lot of core contributors were shooed off by a lot of bad politics and management. Ma
why does all commits look like done by volunteers of RosaLabs
If comments here are to be believed, then Rosa and Mandriva are owned by the same (Russian) investor.
I wouldn't call dropping everything but KDE as proof that they have very few contributors left.
It's a plain fact that Mandriva fired many employees over the last years. The latest round of large-scale layoffs was in 2010 or so which resulted in founding Mageia by the fired employees.
Whether dropping GNOME is a result of that or not doesn't really matter in the end: Fact stays that Mandriva has almost no engineers left.
Red Hat and SUSE are successful because they have stuck to a single and coherent vision for their brand of Linux, because they have a good sales model that pushes support for their brand of Linux, because they have played major roles within the Linux community in general which attracts community contributors to use and support your distro, and because they have had strong word of mouth within the community.
Ubuntu has a way more chatty community than SUSE. Still: SUSE and Red Hat are financially successful while Canonical and Mandriva are not.
When an enterprise customer hits a bug in RHEL
Amarok is not present in this release, instead is Clementine, which is loosely based on the Amarok of 1.4 days. KMail (and everything it brings) is not present either, instead is Thunderbird from Mozilla.
+1. Seriously, why are distros just now figuring out that Kmail and Amarok have sucked long enough to make the switch? I dumped Amarok two years ago now and Kmail is a joke. Sadly, the one thing I wish they still really worked on was Kopete but that's pretty much gone the way of the Dodo for the plasma thingy.
I'm not sure what's going on. But that tour of screens looks completely different from this one: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mandriva-2011-Beta-3-Looks-Awesome-Screenshot-Tour-203668.shtml [softpedia.com]
no it doesn't, it shows 2 themes on the parent link, the dark them is what you see in your link
Mandriva isn't trusted by the community, that is why they forked it and named it Mageia, mainly to keep it from going under and to head for a new direction.
Horse shit. I use Mandriva on a number of critical systems, and I know many others who do the same. Mandriva is the one and only distribution I have ever used over the years that I have installed on dozens of systems without even one failure. Everyone's beloved Ubuntu won't even complete installation on a majority of the hardware I've tried it on, and I've had just as much trouble with Debian and Suse. Mageia has had one release. They're going to have to do way better than that for me to trust it for critic
You had problems with Ubuntu... Debian...SuSE... did you ever try RHEL or CentOS ?
RHEL and CentOS have so utterly out-of-date packages that many pieces of recent software can't even be compiled without updating the kernel or glibc.
What do you mean "out-of-date" packages? They include versions of glibc and kernel that are not the latest major release, but they are not stale or out of date either.
These distributions are stable because they maintain binary compatibility within a major release, therefore updating them is safe; whereas on distros that are constantly making major glibc up
+1 here. I won't look what MSI motherboard I have but it's a VIA K8T800 chipset. An Athlon64 3000+ and now only 1 GB of 333 MHz DDR or whatever. One Nvidia 6800 LE card.
As an OS nerd I've tried lots of OSes but in the end I used to prefer FreeBSD. But then I ran a OS X hack and bought a real mac. The later one failed really early though and I still feel like OS X offer nothing over FreeBSD as far as OS goes. Only advantage is if you need professional music, video or graphics software or want to play the few
Horse shit. I use Mandriva on a number of critical systems, and I know many others who do the same.
I've already downloaded the new Mandriva, will put it on my test system later tonight, and will most likely upgrade a dozen or more servers over the week.
Long-time Mandrake, Mandriva and now Mageia contributor here
These issues seem to not be affecting Mageia much, so now that 2011 is out, and I will be forced to decide between Mandriva and Mageia for my own uses, I will probably be upgrading all my Mandriva 2010.1 machines to Magiea, and will probably move all my effort to Mageia and orphan my Mandriva packages (like many other contributors have done). The current focus of Mandriva is not sufficient for my own uses, so I believe my contributions will be of more value to myself in Mageia than Mandriva.
Note to all users considering Mandriva 2011, note that while an upgrade to Mandriva 2011 should be relatively painless, a later crossgrade to Mageia will not be (due to the RPM5 switch in Mandriva 2011), while a cross-grade from Mandriva 2010.1 to Mageia should also be as painless as upgrading to Mandriva 2011. So, while I won't tell you to ditch Mandriva, you should pause at this stage to decide if you are currently on Mandriva 2010.x.
I myself planning to upgrade my Mandriva gateway & laptop (but not my file server, it's Mandriva 2008 with EVMS...).
I still wonder what to do... My last thought : backup docs and config files of my laptop and make a fresh install of Mageia , check if hardware management is 100% ok and use it a bit before replacing it with a Mandriva 2011 fresh install... check and practice again.
Then I will decide which distro to run. I hope there will be a significa
New Mandriva employees making significant (bad) changes to packages which are officially maintained by a community contributor, without consultation.
Yes, you are correct. That I think has been the biggest slap that Mandriva has made on the community. There's been some arguing about the point but I totally understand where you are coming from and I really don't blame you.
It has come to everyone's attention, painfully, that the release schedule needs something more than its current form which is just one shade shy from pure chaos. There is a lot of talk about that, some tentative plans have been made, but there again in pure Mandriva style things *c
I've installed Ubuntu on everything from a Geode up to a Phenom II without problems. Sometimes I do installs via debootstrap, but only when the media is too inconvenient to handle otherwise (e.g. installing to a CF card going into a Geode LX dev box that has no optical drive.)
The DVD's being produced that I have seen are lke the live install aspect of Ubuntu. The poblem with that is that Mandriva 2010.2 had a dedicated installer that could both preform complete installations of full setups, as well as on the fly upgrades, rebuilding and if you had Mandriva installed already, it would rebuild and upgrade everything. These ISO images are compressed with squashfs, so you can't extract the RPMs from them and push a live upgrade. I hope that in the future a non-live full install DVD
what, you cant mount squashfs, i will give you a hint, its not a zip file
It is 2011!
That's a good start, and a good sign.
Around the turn of the century, I ordered cd sets of all the major distros from Cheapbytes. (This was dialup days, so I couldn't just download them).
I loved Slackware (7), but the package management (or at least dependency management) got to be a bit tedious. I remember one time getting into over 16 levels of dependencies several times just trying to build The GIMP. So I tried Mudrake and it was great, except it 1) the graphics were really corny and 2) it was slow as balls compared to Slackware.
Then I tr
I have similar experiences, but I am downloading it and giving it a spin on the ol VM just to look. I do not want to waste my time rebooting if something strikes me on first impressions
I'm just curious... which VM are you using? I started using VirtualBox this year to run the Windows applications I need and it's worked fairly well, but with a few annoyances (e.g. unable to burn CD/DVD, can't access creative Zen mp3 player).
VIrtual Box, which I have nothing but issues out of whenever I stick a copy of windows on it
I tried Redhat years ago and that dependency hell was something I remember well. I'd download a package and try to install it, which would always fail and demand a few RPMs sacrifice, which I'd download and it would go on like that until I gave up and chucked the install in the bin and went back to FreeBSD.
These days there are plenty of Linux Distros that realize that if they can tell you what the dependencies are, then perhaps they should offer to download them for you.
Ubuntu has never REQUIRED installing from windows
These days there are plenty of Linux Distros that realize that if they can tell you what the dependencies are, then perhaps they should offer to download them for you.
And these days, Redhat is one of those distros. yum is an integral part of the RPM package system on modern Redhat-based distros.
And in general... software publishers that provide proper support for the OS will either provide their own yum repository with their special dependencies, or depend only on software that can be installed from a
I recently checked out the Mandrivel Free edition. It works and all, but there's really nothing that sets it apart. It feels like another Kubuntu.
Or maybe... you should say 'Nothing really sets Kubuntu apart', it's just another Mandrivel ?
Mandrivel is certainly an earlier goer to that particular party; it's not as if Mandrivel was trying to create a clone of Kubuntu, since, uh, they were there first....
seems OK for a desktop and I will agree KDE has cleaned up quite a bit though its still a little awkward at times. The Mandriva default theme is all over the place, the defaults for the windows are light and bright, the panels are dark. The application launcher is fucking huge, as in entire screen huge, with icons the size of a coin. That is not welcome!
I will install it for real, just when I have some time to fart with the umpteen-thousand theme options, which is a tad disappointing for a "easy to use rele
"Fucking 10 minutes and 7 seconds until release. You are IT edging and you know it!
What!? The new version of Firefox is coming out next
"they came long before and had an easy to use (and powerful) desktop back when it was almost unheard of"
I used Madrake up to version 9.0. Unlike other distributions it worked out of the box without hours of fiddling to get a working setup. When I installed 9.2, that experience was gone and the Windows partition I hardly ever used before, suddenly became my default choice for a while. Then Ubuntu came along. Hope it doesn't reinvent itself away from usefulness.
Ubuntu already has
On cursory inspection, Mandriva's new UI uses a GTK+ style, an icon theme based on Elementary, a full-screen launcher similar to Unity's Dash, and a modified version of Dolphin with no menu bar (and no way to enable it). I haven't kept up with why Rosa Labs [rosalab.ru] (page in Russian) has taken over Mandriva UI development [mandriva.com], but they have made their mark.
Is the full-screen icon picker, as in gnome-shell, Unity, and now "Simple Welcome" in Mandriva the wave of the future, or just a passing fad? (Personally, I prefer me
well its there but its off of the disk impression that it left with me is this is something ON TOP of the windowing system, fuck they didnt even bother to try and match the colors, so you in this baby vomit blue enviroment and BAM here is a full screen black window, click on something and its light blue again.
what are they trying to give me a seizure with the contrast flashing or are they really being that shitty on a release?
If anything, this proves how flexible Plasma Workspaces are. A handful of new Plasma widgets and you can end up with a completely different environment.
I hope Mandriva and Rosa upstream their work to KDE that everyone could optionally use it.
* 'lnx4win' [freeos.com] for standard graphic installation using Linux for windows. This will create two files on your Windows partition which will carry the Linux installation and swap. Great if you don't want to get into some messy partitioning.
Back then we didn't have live distros so you couldn't just boot off the CD to try it out, you had to commit to installing i
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