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This article seems to skip on one of the most important aspects of Ubuntu One for me: syncing my /Home folder.

I've been keeping my photos/documents synced across platforms for years with Dropbox. Ubuntu Ones service is significantly slower at this procedure... BUT, Dropbox doesn't give me the flexibility to sync my config files (or if it does, I have no idea how.)

Keeping my config files synced is immeasurably more valuable for me across my Ubuntu machines and makes a re-install much more pleasurable. I no longer need to spend the hour or so I used to setting up my software the way I like it... it just works.

Well, to be fair, I'm 6'4" with a 36" inseam and my pants have big pockets... so I don't think that would be an issue for me (I have 2 as well). Part of my usage case, however, is that when I am home, the phone is rarely in my pocket. I tend to keep my phones on the island in the kitchen unless I'm using them.

At work, I do a fair amount of bending/squatting as a computer tech and I haven't had to shift it around at all. It's thin enough that it doesn't seem to get in the way.

I just got my Note 2 a few days ago. I upgraded from an S2 and can't be happier.

I find that ~95% of my phone use is for texting/email/consumption and very little actual talking. Now I also have the ability to draw on my phone, which means I can actually be somewhat productive with it... and taking personal notes in shorthand is way faster than typing. For me, this is a tablet that fits comfortably in my pocket that happens to make/receive phone calls. It's the PDA we all wish we had back in the 90's.

Yes, that's fine and all, but Xubuntu no longer (for me) has the lightweight advantage that it once had over Ubuntu and I have seen (again, personally) significant performance gains from Ubuntu OVER Xubuntu. Once you have to start installing GTK and KDE toolkits just to be productive on Xubuntu, it becomes quite heavy.

Wow. That should be default. I obviously never even tried to google the issue. THANKS!

I'm the opposite. I' used XFCE for a decade and stuck by it because it felt familiar... it felt like home. With the release of 12.04, I switched to vanilla Ubuntu because I feel that will be what I see the most in the tech industry and I wanted to get use to it.

It took about 2 days to get used to it, but now I find myself super+(search term) for everything instead of trying to find stuff in an applications list and that spilled over to my Win7 use also.

I still miss a few functionalities, mainly right-click->open terminal here, but I find myself reaching for my mouse MUCH less and I'm not wasting time trying to find something buried in a list or folder somewhere. Search is FAST (on both platforms).

You stated in another response that your app was targeted at 2-8 year olds. I'm not sure that target audience is a good base of comparison between Android and iOS.

My 7 year old daughter has an iPod and she get's iTunes points for gifts. I am NOT however, going to give her an Android Phone. Until there is an Android version of the iPod and a way to buy gift cards for market purchases, I don't see the under ~15 market being lucrative in the Android space.

EDIT: I would also bet that 100% of your sales on the Amazon market are from Kindle Fire users. THOSE are the only small form factor Android devices that are cheap enough to give to children, thus your success there.

Are you really trying to argue that the Amazon app store offers a comparison to the iOS app store? Do you have numbers for the performance on Google Play?

Exactly this. I just tackled this question in a podcast interview about my freshly released board/card game. As gamers, we can all have ideas. Video gamers in particular like to dream up their holy grail of gaming... but making a video game takes FOREVER and is mostly NOT fun.

Making a board/card game, however, is accessible to EVERYONE. If you can manipulate a pen and a pair of scissors, you can have a functional game in a matter of minutes. Then you get to spend 90% of your time working on the game design and not figuring out how to fix bugs in the physical medium.

I'm a procrastinator, yet I get a lot of stuff done. So much stuff, that people ask me how I get so much stuff done. Remember, I'm a procrastinator.

How? I take on too many things. Invariably, I procrastinate doing whatever by doing something else. As long as I constantly have a revolving list of "something elses" that need done, stuff keeps getting done. Sure, some things will never get done, but I find that when I have a big list, I am able to prioritize the level of procrastination I apply to each item. Thus, the things that never get done are things that I don't really need to do anyways. I try to force myself to work on those things... then I start procrastinating and I get all sorts of other stuff on the list done.

Maybe this doesn't work for everyone. That's fine. But not having enough projects is a terrible fate for me... because then nothing gets done.

That's really interesting. I like the concept, but would most users only click once because that's what they are used to? The interface doesn't seem to be that obvious for a non-technical person.

Yep! The question is whether to give it away or try to find a way to monetize it. I'd buy it, but I'm not sure how much I'd pay for it.

I don't give a crud about the analytics of AddThis, and their menu is full of options that most will never use. The key point is sharing for the lazy. The vast majority of Internet users are never going to open their Facebook, write a wall post about something and copy/paste my link in their post. That same person, however, may be really interested in it and be willing to hit a little button that does all that stuff for them. That's all I want. I don't want to jeopardize people's privacy.

Are there better alternatives? (I ask this question honestly)

As a web master of a very small, personal site, I find that running AddThis or something similar to be vital in generating traffic. Giving users a one click option to share my pages makes it much more likely that they will. Without that option, I have to resort to spamming message boards, Twitter, Facebook, etc manually, in order to drive traffic. I am not opposed to that option, as my site has no way of generating revenue and likely never will... I'm just looking for engagement from readers and ways to generate more readers.

I live on less than $40k a year.

I have a wife and 2 little girls. We have a house, 2 cars, and a motorcycle. All of our vehicles are paid for and we have no revolving credit.

I am HAPPY. Poor, yet HAPPY.

The secret is that I stopped thinking: "Why can't I have a car like him?" Instead, I started thinking, "It must suck to work as much as he does," or "I'm glad I don't have debt like him!"

I have everything I need and quite a few things that I want. I have money in the bank to buy just about anything I'd like to own, within reason. I did not achieve financial freedom on what is considered poverty level salary by desiring new fancy things.

It took me 4 years of credit counseling and BARELY making it buy each month to realize all of this. It was not an easy lesson. But now, I have friends making over $200k that are envious of me.

I'm not right or wrong. My method isn't better than acquiring awesome stuff with tons of money. I have found that time with my family is more valuable than money.

Most of the larger schools (Middle/High) already have campus wide wifi. Some of the larger elementary schools do as well. The big push right now is for VM Ware. Some of the counties are going to a district-wide WAN for serving up VMs from a central NOC.

I roasted my Xubuntu desktop today doing this. Wiped my Windows partition as well. I'm not sure why it hung, I left work before I could test things and research.

I ran 11.04 on a Dell Mini 9 for a while. Worked great. I just had to adjust icon and panel sizes to make up for the small screen.

That's really what I expect from implementing Ubuntu in our current classrooms.

West Virginia is making a BIG push on the school districts to have a 1:1 student/computer ratio. Most districts going forward with it are purchasing netbooks to cut costs. Their technology budgets are already thin and they are desperately looking for ways of trimming even more to make room for more machines.

I'm conflicted really. I am used to the old GNOME desktop, so XFCE just feels like home to me... I'll miss right-clicking my desktop for instance... but I feel that in order to better support customers going forward I need to get used to the UI's that they will be using.

I do very little Linux support currently, but there are talks of deploying Linux in our schools very soon and I can't see them using anything other than Ubuntu. It will do me well to have familiarity with the product. I'm upgrading my desktop to Xubuntu 12.04 now, but I think I'm going to switch my secondary laptop to Ubuntu and start getting used to it.

I switched to Xubuntu as well when Unity hit for all of my machines. I think I'm going to give Unity a shot this time on at least one of my laptops and see what happens.

It has occurred to me that most things I want to use require GDK anyways, so XFCE isn't all that light weight any more.

Heh.

I was going to suggest a percentage of Hiroshima explosion, but I realize this is a sensitive subject. It bothers me, however, when articles describe an explosion as "X kilos of TNT" and follow that up with "approximately X atom bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima." The Hiroshima part is likely what most readers will relate with.

I'm not a fan of using kilotons of TNT as a scale. The average reader has no frame of reference for this measurement.

That doesn't seem to be the only conditional check. If you look at aestetix's response, they confronted him for using a "not common" name. They seem to dig for names that are not plausible instead of an actual systematic process. What I'm questioning, is how they define not plausible by whatever name checking program they are using.

WOW. Thank you SO much.

This is exactly what I needed to read to get headed in the right direction. I was so lost in the idea of frameworks and whatnot that I got turned around quickly.

I have never done regex. I am baffled by it actually and didn't know if I wanted to attempt that. I have a few ideas in the works for how to make this work. I just need to learn how to parse and substitute based on a set of rules. I love learning more than doing, so this might turn out to be an awesome project for me.

My name is Chevee.

Google that. I'm pretty sure I'm the only one. I've not been targeted. I don't know how my name could be any less "common" and yet I am ignored?

This begs the question on how arbitrary this process is. Do you have to have a certain level of "popularity" before they decide to investigate? Is it just a bot crawling their DB looking for "uncommon" names?

Yeah, being so new to these technologies, I wasn't sure what to call things. No, I don't want to write a web server. I don't want to code a complete CMS that serves up dynamic pages.

I just want to auto generate static HTML pages from a selection of page templates and a file of text. I want to be able to add links to my navigation menus and have my solution iterate through all the pages and change things accordingly. I don't want to have to copy/paste my text from my writing software, into my editor and enclose it in tags and do all that menial stuff. That's the stuff that I want to automate. I just have to learn how to parse...

That's actually really close to what I want to do... I just need to learn how to parse correctly and replace.

I have 4 basic page layouts, but only 2 that I regularly generate content for. The header, footer, nav bar, sidebars, and major layout DIV's on these pages are all constant. I'd like to be able to take a text document of paragraphs and run it through the parser that would apply <p>'s to the paragraphs and format the image links properly based on some sort of predefined replacement markup.

This is where I fall down. I need to figure out how to parse and I'm not finding any links to learn. I can read lines and stick open and close <p>'s on newlines, but the parsing of stuff inline is where I'm stuck.

That was an awesome video. Thanks!

I'll be pitching new board games this year at shows and I'm certainly going to use this.

Is everything cached to the device? What are my limitations in "airplane mode"?

I don't mind the concept of making cross-platform apps. My limited knowledge of HTML/CSS has shown me that while it is extemely difficult to make robust content look good across multiple browsers/platforms, it IS possible... but will developers really have the access to multiple platforms to test their UI on?

I completely agree with you. I also think that "most people" never truly understand and instead chase the almighty dollar believing it to be the measure of their success.

Money doesn't motivate me at all. It is a means of surviving without self-sustaining. I cut my pay in half to become an automotive mechanic and it was the greatest move I ever made. I was no longer working for the dollar, I was working for the joy of fixing things. Literally overnight I became poor and happy simultaneously.