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Do me a favor? LA Times related
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I was thinking Los Angeles but it could be Louisiana.
Without even clicking on the link I'd say the price was to high. Why newspapers worry about a digital edition at all i really can't understand.
Without even clicking on the link I'd say the price was to high. Why newspapers worry about a digital edition at all i really can't understand.
Ah, that makes sense.
Oh, I disagree. I'm continually, throughout the day, checking the LA Times online. They're very often first with breaking news--something you can't get with a once-daily print edition.
Ironically, I prefer magazines to be physical, not digital. I actually canceled my long-time Linux Journal subscription when they went 100% digital. I just prefer flipping through actual pages, stopping on things that interest me, and taking it along when I have a doctor's appointment...since you never know about the waiting time!
Me too.
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I used to subscribe to Linux Format magazine. But it got to the stage where 95% of their articles was either stuff I already knew, like repeated tutorials on how to write a shell script, or some aspect of system config. There was sometimes a good cover disk, with stuff like the latest Ubuntu, or system repair software. But it turns out that things in the Linux world move surprisingly slowly. I mean up until recently they were still using X11, which dates back to 1984! Has Wayland been generally adopted yet?
Uh, do you have something to tell us Moody? A coincidence? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@APWestRegion: Computer virus hit newspaper printing plants in Los Angeles and at Tribune Publishing newspapers across the country. The newspapers' distribution was affected, and some papers published slim versions. https://t.co/F2sPq4UqjC
https://twitter.com/APWestRegion/status/1079368461141397505
@APWestRegion: Computer virus hit newspaper printing plants in Los Angeles and at Tribune Publishing newspapers across the country. The newspapers' distribution was affected, and some papers published slim versions. https://t.co/F2sPq4UqjC
https://twitter.com/APWestRegion/status/1079368461141397505
Oh my effing goodness, I KNEW this would come up!
When I got an alert about it yesterday from the LA Times I thought, damn!, maybe someone read this thread and got even more pissed off than I am!
For the record, no, I most definitely did not cause this. It originated outside the US; my family can verify I was happily visiting with my grandchildren here in 'my office' (as we now call my bed-oriented life). But, damn!
I never took that magazine. I'd certainly get frustrated with that kind of repetition.
Oh, I disagree, in general. With constant enhancements to Linux proper and its offspring, Android, I think it moves along quite nicely.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
I'm quite out of the loop but, no, I don't think so. Maybe someone whose knowledge is more up to date can chime in.
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Well discounting the Android world, which was spawned by Google, and they're always re-inventing stuff. I mean the guts of Unix, probably remains much as it was when Mr Ritchie et al were tinkering around on their PDP11, and thought about inventing a useful multi-user operating system. Yes Torvalds is definitely an innovator, but I would think a lot of their O/S work is focused around adding drivers for various devices these days. Like you say, if it ain't broke..
And we've also got lots of distros, which keeps things interesting, but really only amounts to a different look and feel on top of the base O/S.