Showing posts with label computers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label computers. Show all posts
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Now they can put him on a tenner? From Polari Magazine. Click the image to go to the original article.[/caption]
On Christmas Eve Queen Elizabeth II granted a posthumous royal pardon to British computer pioneer Alan Turing -- big deal!
The pardon comes 61 years after Turing was convicted for homosexual activity in 1952, and 59 years after he killed himself as a result. And it comes 68 years after the end of the Second World War.
Turing not only helped win that war for Britain and the Allied powers, his contribution as a codebreaker was so great, that it is agreed he personally shortened that war by at least two years.
In the process he helped invent modern computer science, and is acknowledged as one of the principal inventors of the computer as we know it, and thus the world we live in today.
Now they can put him on a tenner? From Polari Magazine. Click the image to go to the original article.[/caption]On Christmas Eve Queen Elizabeth II granted a posthumous royal pardon to British computer pioneer Alan Turing -- big deal!
The pardon comes 61 years after Turing was convicted for homosexual activity in 1952, and 59 years after he killed himself as a result. And it comes 68 years after the end of the Second World War.
Turing not only helped win that war for Britain and the Allied powers, his contribution as a codebreaker was so great, that it is agreed he personally shortened that war by at least two years.
In the process he helped invent modern computer science, and is acknowledged as one of the principal inventors of the computer as we know it, and thus the world we live in today.
If you are using Firefox, version 23, I would recommend you update to the current version 25. You can check your version by choosing About Firefox under Tools in the main menu. This will show you what version you are using and allow you to check for updates, if you want.
Firefox 23 wasn't properly rendering some of the images in my posts. Basically, any image I drag-scaled in WordPress. It was fine with images at 100%. Posts with scaled images, which looked exactly as I intended in earlier versions of Firefox, were -- as of version 23 -- decorated with horizontal slivers in place of the properly-sized images, as if they were rolled-up window shades. Sucked to be my blog, let me tell you. The other problem was that I set Firefox to completely manual update a while ago, but had forgotten to check for updates.
The problem seems to have been that Firefox 23 lost proper support for "responsive images," as this post explains. But, when I first saw what was happening, I didn't immediately think it was Firefox; WordPress has had it's own problems with the image scaling feature from time-to-time. First I came up with a workaround fix. I found that applying a preset scaling percentage before drag-scaling fixed the problem. Fine for new posts, but this meant I had hundreds of posts inexplicably decorated with multi-coloured toothpicks instead of interesting images.
Chrome never had a problem. I know older versions of Internet Explorer had a problem like this, whereas older versions of Firefox didn't. Updating to Firefox 25 fixed the problem.
Firefox 23 wasn't properly rendering some of the images in my posts. Basically, any image I drag-scaled in WordPress. It was fine with images at 100%. Posts with scaled images, which looked exactly as I intended in earlier versions of Firefox, were -- as of version 23 -- decorated with horizontal slivers in place of the properly-sized images, as if they were rolled-up window shades. Sucked to be my blog, let me tell you. The other problem was that I set Firefox to completely manual update a while ago, but had forgotten to check for updates.
The problem seems to have been that Firefox 23 lost proper support for "responsive images," as this post explains. But, when I first saw what was happening, I didn't immediately think it was Firefox; WordPress has had it's own problems with the image scaling feature from time-to-time. First I came up with a workaround fix. I found that applying a preset scaling percentage before drag-scaling fixed the problem. Fine for new posts, but this meant I had hundreds of posts inexplicably decorated with multi-coloured toothpicks instead of interesting images.
Chrome never had a problem. I know older versions of Internet Explorer had a problem like this, whereas older versions of Firefox didn't. Updating to Firefox 25 fixed the problem.
I'm one of the many homeless folk who seriously use computers. At this moment I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on an old HP Pavilion dv6000 - not so much a laptop as a tank-top.
I've been an Apple Mac user since 1990. In 2012 I turned to Linux, only because my MacBook Pro had been stolen. My older PPC G3 iBook couldn't cut it. I'd read how Ubuntu could revitalize an old computer; I tried it on a junker PC laptop; the results were impressive.
Ubuntu was not the daunting Linux I remembered from 2000. The live CD was a great idea. Ubuntu seemed to blend best practices from a number of operating systems.
My first serious install was Ubuntu 12.04. I played with all the Unity bells and whistles, but eventually settled on the Gnome Classic environment. Unity was a hog and not so flexible. I found a semantic launcher like Synapse was so much faster than the Dash or the H.U.D.
I've tried a variety of other desktop environment and Linux distros. But whether Linux Mint with Mate and Caja, or the cool Puppy Linux, or Fuduntu with it's lovely Gnome 2 DE, I have always come back to Ubuntu.
One reason is software availability and compatibility - Ubuntu gives me more freedom to install more software that works than any other distro I've tried. The other reason, it turns out, is the file manager.
Turns out the reason I Liked Linux in the first place was first-and-foremost because of Nautilus, the Gnome file manager used by Ubuntu. As a long-time Macintosh user, I was impressed to see Ubuntu mounted volumes on the desktop and used an expand/collapse folder toggle in directory windows, just like Apple's so-called "disclosure triangles." I was more impressed by Nautilus' Mac-like touches, when I saw how Windowsy the rest of the Ubuntu interface was.
Imagine my surprise to discover that Nautilus was originally created by Eazel, a company full of former Apple employees. The original Nautilus icons were designed by Susan Kare, the legendary designer of the core Macintosh icons. No wonder I like Nautilus!
Thanks to Nautilus, I actually kind of prefer file management in Ubuntu over Mac OS X. I love the F3 split-screen view in Nautilus. Boos and hisses to Gnome for doing away with that feature in Nautilus 3.6, and cheers to Canonical for sticking with the older 3.4.2 version of Nautilus for Ubuntu 12.10.
I've been an Apple Mac user since 1990. In 2012 I turned to Linux, only because my MacBook Pro had been stolen. My older PPC G3 iBook couldn't cut it. I'd read how Ubuntu could revitalize an old computer; I tried it on a junker PC laptop; the results were impressive.
Ubuntu was not the daunting Linux I remembered from 2000. The live CD was a great idea. Ubuntu seemed to blend best practices from a number of operating systems.
My first serious install was Ubuntu 12.04. I played with all the Unity bells and whistles, but eventually settled on the Gnome Classic environment. Unity was a hog and not so flexible. I found a semantic launcher like Synapse was so much faster than the Dash or the H.U.D.
I've tried a variety of other desktop environment and Linux distros. But whether Linux Mint with Mate and Caja, or the cool Puppy Linux, or Fuduntu with it's lovely Gnome 2 DE, I have always come back to Ubuntu.
One reason is software availability and compatibility - Ubuntu gives me more freedom to install more software that works than any other distro I've tried. The other reason, it turns out, is the file manager.
How Nautilus tricked me into liking Linux
Turns out the reason I Liked Linux in the first place was first-and-foremost because of Nautilus, the Gnome file manager used by Ubuntu. As a long-time Macintosh user, I was impressed to see Ubuntu mounted volumes on the desktop and used an expand/collapse folder toggle in directory windows, just like Apple's so-called "disclosure triangles." I was more impressed by Nautilus' Mac-like touches, when I saw how Windowsy the rest of the Ubuntu interface was.
Imagine my surprise to discover that Nautilus was originally created by Eazel, a company full of former Apple employees. The original Nautilus icons were designed by Susan Kare, the legendary designer of the core Macintosh icons. No wonder I like Nautilus!
Thanks to Nautilus, I actually kind of prefer file management in Ubuntu over Mac OS X. I love the F3 split-screen view in Nautilus. Boos and hisses to Gnome for doing away with that feature in Nautilus 3.6, and cheers to Canonical for sticking with the older 3.4.2 version of Nautilus for Ubuntu 12.10.
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