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Lost is definitelly a classic, even though it got terrible somewhere in the middle (golf episode, anyone?). It did get way better towards the end

Also, a +1 for sherlock: great actors (I love the moriarty character), good directing and an awesome story.
If you're a fan of science fiction with a pinch of humour, I recommend the last Dr.Who season, I had a blast wathching it

Right, that makes sense. Then you need the expression to match the first character in the way you were doing before.
One way to solve the problem is to use:
regex: ^([a-Z])
replace: _$$1
This means: match the first character, replace with "_" concatenated with the character that was matched.
Depending on the regex engine, the "(" can also be "\(", and the "$$1" can be "$1" or "\1". (yep, it's annoying that not everybody follows the same syntaxes).

If you try to replace "^[a-zA-Z]" with an underscore, it'll always match the first character, it's supposed to. Have you tried using only "^" (which denotes only the start of the line)?

Here's my opinion as a phd student in the systems area:
I believe it has absolutely no relation with ease of use of the operating system. As 40hz mentioned, at this level everyone could learn any of the OSs with ease.
For the guys around me, it seems to be a combination of several factors:
1 - there's a significant larger body of work for unix/linux (more people are using it, which makes others change too). example: my experience is that the software available from recent years of the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (the top conference in the Systems area) is mostly prepared to be ran in linux (despite much of it being cross-platform).
2 - we do much stuff that builds on industrial work (I'm thinking of Apache Cassandra^w or red hat infinispan) for which it is easier to find support for the linux platform.
3 - we build some stuff for the industry, which prefer to receive stuff for their platform, typically linux.
4 - our processing grids are in linux (using Condor High-Throughput Computing System^w). I don't even know if there's anything comparable in windows.
5 - I have this notion that for those who work lower on the stack (kernel level?), it's either harder or impossible to do it in Windows due to being a closed platform (I have no experience in this and may be wrong, though).
6 - much of our experience during the university is directed at linux/unix.
7 - the availability of the tools we use (gnuplot^w and graphviz^w are the only ones that occur, but there are many others): almost everything is an apt-get away from being installed, and if necessary we can install them in the servers to run with larger datasets. In windows, they are either harder or even impossible to install.

For the reasons above, frequently people use either linux or mac for their desktops, and linux for the servers. It is also frequent to go to meetings with other universities and find the whole room filed with macs. Last year's SOSP was here in Lisbon and I attended it, and my experience was that in general mostly only the people working at MS research use Windows and the percentage of people using mac is much larger than in the general population.

Having some kind of unix on the desktop simplifies the interactions with the servers (in our case, we have about 28linux and 1dual-boot (linux+windows), without taking into account the computing grids which are all linux). I have in the past used windows with cygwin to achieve a similar result, but felt that I was trying to "patch" windows making it look more like linux instead of using the real thing, and eventually had to change.

There's a notable exception to everything I said above: there are a few guys in our research group who had a few microsoft scholarships some years ago. Those guys have built stuff for windows for those projects and are still using it today as their main desktop.
Also, this applies only to the Systems area. There are other areas which I suppose are not as tied-in to linux since their tools are more windows-centric. (I'm thinking of the people-machine interface guys or information management. But I may be wrong )

Immersive Explorer is designed to be an alternative to the default file explorer included in Windows (known as Windows Explorer).
It aims to provide an "immersive" experience to the user by focusing on the content rather than hiding it behind useless icons and large window chrome and borders. It will also avoid the user from having to open different applications and navigate between multiple windows when doing things as simple as viewing a picture.
For example, when the user want to see a photo, instead of opening Windows Photo Viewer in a new window, the photo will be displayed directly in the Immersive Explorer window.

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I actually think it looks pretty good, I'd give it a try if I had windows.

If you don't like it, just put up a mirror facing the camera and let Google reflect on that!

You. are. awesome.

What's the catch?

Yes, especially for the "free" version!

• Connection speed is capped at "regular internet speeds" ("up to" 5mbs down/1Mbs up - but no indication of the lowest speed) on free version.
• $300 up front & non-refundable if you upgrade to the faster speed later on
• Lifetime guarantee = 7 year service commitment if Google decides to bail out
• Privacy. Everything you do online will be data mined by Google. Count on it.
• Bug Brother is watching you! As was alluded to earlier, don't even think of doing anything that may be illegal on Google's network. So bye-bye to "sharing" copyrighted media, ferquenting the warez torrents, hacker darknets, and many other things you may currently enjoy, depending on your personal tastes. And expect full behind the scenes "voluntary cooperation" with any government snooping requests regardless of any public hand wringing over it by Google.

But the single biggest catch I can see is simply waiting for it to be available in your locale.

300USD is pretty steep, but still it's 3USD/month for 7 years, which is what, 10 times better than the alternatives there?
Privacy: I agree, but I'm not sure if the others aren't doing the same.
What do you mean with "bug brother"? You think they'd be more strict than regular ISPs? Why?

I'm starting to agree with wraith808: looks like it's a market push, and they'll bail out if it doesn't work out well for them. At least the consumer is the only one who comes out winning, this time

Maybe I missed something - is there a real need to change what works so well?

Carol, I believe that's a discussion for this thread: A more radical transition idea for DC CMS

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Understood, but it fit nicely with my dim view of corporate attitudes.

OK, carry on, then

My browsing experience on DC is dominated by the Unread Posts page, so that's vital for me. I love how clicking the "new" icon brings me to the last post I haven't read in the thread (which may be older than the last post).
I also like how I can mark threads as unread, so they'll come up on that page again. I use this frequently to answer stuff later.
Also, I like how the "new" icon works also when browsing the boards (and not only on the unread posts page).
The fact that the "unread posts" page shows those icons with "you replied to this thread", "this thread has lots of posts" and stuff like that is also useful. (And I also use a lot the "Show new replies to your posts" page, which is a subset of the "unread posts" page).
I also like the "quick reply" box, not sure if it's available everywhere. And the attachments mod.

As a moderator, I like how it's easy to ban users (3 clicks) and it deletes the spammer's when banning, I like how posts can be reported to moderators, and I like the email notifications with suspicious stuff and mod activity.

Oh, and donationcredits. Everybody loves donationcredits

[edit](after reading the post bellow mine )
+1 for search! [/edit]

So the contestants are given trinkets for theirown "safety" ...

Well, that's my conjecture, don't know if there's any truth behind it
Personally, if I got an olympics medal, I would never sell it regardless of its value, so I'd actually prefer getting a cheaper medal and some money, since the medal is just sentimental.

Even though I do agree that DC will eventually have to be migrated to smf 2.x, it seems to me that the effort to do that would be far smaller than migrating everything to invision, no?

@jgpaiva but aren't the medals more valuable as collectibles than for melting down?  Stolen Superbowl rings likely go for more as-is on the black market rather then melted down for the metal.

I agree, but now imagine how much they'd be worth if they were in fact true gold!

Well, if I was an athlete and someone asked me if I'd prefer a 100% gold medal which I would never sell + no money; or a 1%gold medal + a large sum in money, I'd go for the latter every day of the week. Medals are symbolic, it's a good thing they are not gold: I don't think they are the kind of thing that should be ever sold.

Also, Phelp's house would be robbed day-in-day-out if his 17 medals were 100% gold (the alternative would be that he wouldn't be able to look at them every day unless he went to the bank ).

What's the catch?

Yes, especially for the "free" version!

I wish that when companies like this decide to discontinue products, they at least made it open source. It could be so useful for someone who's making their own flight simulator.

Triple points if every occupant answers the knock.

Too easy, you just have to yell "fire! fire!" as loud as you can

Congrats, Carol!

Now that I think of this, would it be that hard (from a technical point of view) to encrypt voip calls in a similar way to how gtalk can be encrypted?
Also, can other clients access skype's network or does it only work with skype's client (and facebook's?) ?

Actually I found #1 (Desenrascanco) rather interesting considering I'm half Portuguese ... and tend to function best in chaos. One of my favorite sayings is: The only thing you can plan on is that nothing will go according to plan.

I'm Portuguese and I can tell you 100%: improvisation is NOT one of the most valued skills here, especially when it's tied to lack of organization! Also, this lack of method and organization is probably one of the causes for our country to be in financial difficulties right now, in fact

[edit] I'm taking this too seriously, though. Hoping for cracked to provide some real facts is idiotic [/edit]

Given that altdrag is written in C, yes. It would be a considerable amount of work to understand how the program is implemented, and then I'd have to learn how to create the hooks for the middle button in C (which I have zero previous experience). I'm sorry, but if that's what you need, I really can't help anymore

Perhaps I'll have to explore these methods in the next video.  I want to learn how to install ANY Linux-comaptible program I come across into whatever distro I'm using.  I'm sure that means a fair amount of compiling and other stuff in the terminal, so that's the goal. 

I'm not sure if that's the right way to go about it. Honestly, the "app store" (or whatever it is) method works pretty well for 90% of the cases. The "install from binary" method works for 9.9% of the cases. And then from the remaining 0.1%, 90% works after some "./configure && make install" voodoo. However, I imagine there are hundreds of different and specific ways to install stuff in the 0.01% remaining, which realistically you'll never need unless you require some very specific tool.
What I'm saying is: start with the basics and learn lazily, have fun using linux instead of trying to learn every single manual page because that'll kill your experience for no reason.

So, next time you try to install something in linux from a web site, search for the binaries (if you really want to not use the "app store" ). Since you're using something based on debian, you should be able to find the binaries for pretty much anything. For Krusader, the instructions were here: http://www.krusader.org/get-krusader/

DISCLAIMER: all statistics in this post were made up on the spot, based on my own experience. YMMV

^^Thanks 40, good stuff there.  I'll have to go through those eventually.  Maybe I'll do more videos like that showing me struggling through all this in real time!

+1!
I'd really like to see more, it's always fun to understand where people have problems with anything on the first time they use it. Even if I'm not developing a OS, it's a learning experience since it allows to predict what kind of stuff works badly.

It follows me automatically.  It's the new Logitech 920 webcam, I've really been digging it lately.

Awesome And it works perfectly!

Also, since I have some more time now, here's the two largest problems I believe stomped you:
1 - directories in unix are case sensitive ("Downloads" and not "downloads" )
2 - you were missing some dependencies. In particular, your distribution runs the Gnome^w window manager, and the program you tried to install needs KDE^w. This is a common problem, but had you used some package manager instead of installing from source and you wouldn't have this problem.

Also, there's a third way to install stuff (which is mostly painless) that you haven't tried (which is the one that is equivalent to installing stuff in Windows): downloading compiled binaries and installing them using a package manager ("apt-get" or "aptitude", for example). An example of this is Opera.

Warner is being sued for "dramatizing violence".

So, he was watching the movie (I suppose not against his will but because he liked it) and now he's suing warner? Isn't that a bit hypocritical of him?
Also, I don't want TSA to be at the door of every single room with more than 20 people I enter. This can only end badly.

You can watch the screencast here:
http://minus.com/lbaph37Mp5JOcB

You can download it also.  It's about 29 minutes, 80 MB.  I go through attempting a command line installation on Linux Mint.  It's all done in real time, and it's my actual first time trying to do it.

That made me smile so many times Thanks a lot!
Also, I really wasn't expecting the bonus ending. Nice!

I really think that the comparison you made,"this is harder than double-clicking the exe and pressing next-next-next", isn't exactly fair since you tried installing from source, so you would have to compare with installing from source in windows also (which would be a pretty similar experience, I guess).
Now, let's try to keep this discussion civilized, guys

PS: did you have anyone operating the camera or is it smart enough to follow you?