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Re: The PC industry is heading for collapse
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Bill Marcum
Jan 23, 2012, 3:17:38 PM1/23/12
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On 2012-01-23, Charlie Gibbs <cgi...@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
> [cross-posted from alt.folklore.computers to comp.os.linux.setup]
>
>
> Here's an example that ate most of yesterday for me. A week ago
> I had set my wife up with Denemo, a GUI front-end for the Lilypond
> music typesetting package, on a brand-new laptop that came with
> Windows 7. Although I can hold my temper long enough to make
> Windows XP or 2000 work, after about three days with Windows 7
> I was starting to have screaming fits, so I wiped the hard drive
> and installed Ubuntu 10.10. Downloading and installing the Linux
> versions of Denemo and Lilypond was a snap. But the copy of Denemo
> was version 0.8.10, which is too buggy to use - especially since we
> were running version 0.9.1 under Windows. A Linux version 0.9.2 is
> available - but apt-get won't find it. So I tried doing it the hard
Searching in packages.ubuntu.com, I find that denemo 0.9.2 is in "precise",
the upcoming 12.4 release.
--
Why is it that people believe someone who says the world will end in 2012,
but when they see a "wet paint" sign they have to touch it for themselves?
On 2012-01-23, Charlie Gibbs <cgi...@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
> [cross-posted from alt.folklore.computers to comp.os.linux.setup]
>
>
> Here's an example that ate most of yesterday for me. A week ago
> I had set my wife up with Denemo, a GUI front-end for the Lilypond
> music typesetting package, on a brand-new laptop that came with
> Windows 7. Although I can hold my temper long enough to make
> Windows XP or 2000 work, after about three days with Windows 7
> I was starting to have screaming fits, so I wiped the hard drive
> and installed Ubuntu 10.10. Downloading and installing the Linux
> versions of Denemo and Lilypond was a snap. But the copy of Denemo
> was version 0.8.10, which is too buggy to use - especially since we
> were running version 0.9.1 under Windows. A Linux version 0.9.2 is
> available - but apt-get won't find it. So I tried doing it the hard
Searching in packages.ubuntu.com, I find that denemo 0.9.2 is in "precise",
the upcoming 12.4 release.
--
Why is it that people believe someone who says the world will end in 2012,
but when they see a "wet paint" sign they have to touch it for themselves?
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