FYI: "Elmetto", with two T's, is indeed the Italian translation of "helmet". That's exactly the sort of words that you need to communicate with the locals, isn't it?
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RE: "Hello" in Italian is … elmeto?
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RE: Ubuntu and TRWTF... this time...
@Someone You Know said:
As someone who knows next to nothing about hardware, I'd be really curious to know why there's such a problem with this feature not working on new machines without "software fixes". In Windows it pretty much always works out of the box, regardless of hardware, regardless of what software fixes are applied. It usually works in Windows on the same hardware that it fails on in Ubuntu. If there's a legitimate reason why that isn't a massive fail on Ubuntu's part, I'd love to know what it is.
These "software fixes" are written directly by hardware vendors for Windows. They usually come preinstalled with your new laptop, and are often disguised as "drivers".
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Ubuntu and TRWTF... this time...
My shiny new computer is just arrived in my office
I install the new shiny Ubuntu version - released last Thursday
First thing I do after installing it, I try to remove one of those large square Fisher-Price-looking icons from the panel
Right click, nothing happens
Curse the Ubuntu developers because they changed the interface
I Try shift-click, ctrl-right-click, look in the configuration menus, whatever, nothing works
Try googling for help, no results. Am I the only one in the world who noticed that you can't remove apps from the panel anymore?
Give up, go home for the night and keep cursing the Ubuntu developers - why do they keep making these pointless changes to the GUI in every new version?
Next day, some more tests... it turn out it's the right button of my new mouse that does not work :-/
Well this time it's not your fault Ubuntu... this time... but I keep an eye on you.
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RE: Web 0.1 journal website
@SEMI-HYBRID code said:
I think it's reasonable to think that the way they done their "abstracts" page is plentifully woodentably.
Have you seen the textbooks? Each page is a .gif, which Firefox displays with black text on a dark grey background (this one might be Firefox's problem, though).
(incidentally, all the "well, at least there isn't a... OH CRAP THERE IS!" posts are hilarious).
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Web 0.1 journal website
Hi, long time lurker, but I had to share this one.
I work in the academia, and I just got an e-mail from the Antarctica Journal of Mathematics (WTF #1), offering me to publish a paper with them for only $3 a page.
But the best part is their homepage. Makes me want to put my eyes out...