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Linus Torvalds decides to stir the Linux GUI pot a little... [link]
I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
Please, just tell people to use KDE.
I have sort of warmed up to KDE now that I've used it a bit and found that pretty much everything can be customized.
There's one out there that lets you control some of the iPod functions with the deck controls (FF, RW, I think).
FYI - I bought this the other day because I stupidly slammed my Monster adapter in the car door. I am not pleased with it. I think it'll end up with FM transmitters in the glove compartment.
What are the cons of it?
I need some regular expression help. My brain is a sieve when it comes to them?
How do I make part of a pattern an optional match? I'm dealing with something like this:
"%(^|\\s)mandatory textoptional text%me"
It's probably
"(^|\\s)mandatory text(optional text)?"
Let me give that a shot. And that reminds me, should do something about the disappearing slashes.
What are the cons of it?
The FF/REW function is sketchy at best. The sound quality is kinda weird in my car. It starts to sounds all crackle-y so I have to yank on the cord a bunch of times to get it to work correctly. A few minutes later, crackling again.
Plus I really need to be able to charge and play, which I wasn't thinking of when I bought it.
Excellent. That's a start. Now I have to work out how to deal with the disappearance of one of the parameters of the function called in the preg_replace section.
I really need to be able to charge and play, which I wasn't thinking of when I bought it.
I have a separate charger (sometimes I charge one, play the other, all the time admiring my diamond shoes) so that never occurred to me.
My current deck (forget the brand) gives an error in my tape deck intermittently. More than half the time it tries to play side B, side A, side B again and then ejects it. The one I have before that just gave up the ghost in terms of playing sound never had that mechanical problem.