Off the bleeding edge

After 10+ years I can't be arsed with this bleeding edge business any more. I'm getting to that point in life where one breakage is one too many. I blame the children.
Problem is I've never used any of the major distros other than Ubuntu (I was at college and needed the money) on a laptop so I'm interested in the opinion of the community when the time comes for a bit more "stability".
I'm considering Debian or Fedora. I guess they're solid choices?

dtw wrote:I'm getting to that point in life where one breakage is one too many.
What kind of breakage are you trying to avoid?
You will ALWAYS experience some form of breakage no matter which operating system you use, the reason being perfectly summed up in this 30 second video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm7JH1FT_yM
dtw wrote:I'm considering Debian or Fedora. I guess they're solid choices?
For what reasons would you consider using Fedora? The Wikipedia describes Fedora as "focusing on innovation, integrating new technologies" and having "a relatively short life cycle". ..."Having no breakage" is not on the list of features for Fedora.
Debian has a great history of very little breakage. ...But that also means you will be using old software. The current stable version of Debian ("wheezy") was released in May 2013. If you were to install it today you would get an incredible and stable operating system with available software packages in the tens of thousands. You would also be using Linux 3.2 (Does it support all the hardware you need?), LibreOffice 3.5 (Does it open the documents you need like the current version 4.3 does?), and Firefox 10 (I've been corrected. ). Of course these are just specific examples, but my point is that "stability" means "feature frozen", so if the operating system you choose does not have software with the features you need when you install it, then you're not getting those features until you install the next version. You COULD chose to install newer software from unofficial repositories, but you will have no guarantee that they won't break something, which is what you're trying to avoid.
The NEXT stable release of Debian is (probably) happening within the next few months. If you were to install and configure Debian today, you would be RE-installing and RE-configuring it in a few months. Is that something you are willing to do every two to three years?
Debian (and Red Hat Enterprise Linux and others, I'm sure) are VERY GOOD operating system, and are used extensively around the world, especially in situations where "no breakage" is a requirement. But they come with a trade off. Make sure you are willing to accept those trade offs before jumping in!
In recent years, there seems to be a trend in some Linux distributions of keeping the "operating system" packages stable and only upgrading the fast-paced "user software" packages. So the latest Firefox might crash but the operating system won't, that sort of thing. So that's another thing to consider.
Also, keep in mind that I've been using Arch Linux for the past five years, so I may be out of touch with the latest developments in Linux distributions.
Last edited by drcouzelis (2014-12-15 14:55:53)

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import javax.swing.*;
import java.util.*;
* This FlatWorld contains random number(between 1 and 10) of disks
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FlatWorldCanvas remains unchanged.
Hope this will help,
Regards.

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Jessica Edington

I would like to see a view option where we can see the Artboards as they would look with the excess artwork in the bleed and pasteboard cut off. This would give us an idea of what it would look like printed.
I know you can do this with clipping masks and other methods, but that seems excessive when you just want a quick preview of the final trim size for print. Especially if you are trying to show the project to a client and they want to change things on the fly. It is hard to do that when you have engaged a clipping mask with your artwork.
Thank you,
Jessica Edington

F/U Ques. to previous post (css/bleeding off the bottom of the screen)

i got the top of the container div bleeding off the way i'd like and, while the bottom bleeds as well, something weird is happening with the footer div. looks fine in ff on a mac but, in safari, it's too high up - not sticking to the 10px off the bottom that it's supposed to.
here's a link:
http://clients.quintandquint.com/dtw/
many thanks.

Honestly, I'd not worry about that difference. However, try changing this -
<td> <div class="footer">
         <table width="800" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
      <tr>
        <td align="center"><a href="#">ABOUT DAVID</a> • <a href="#">THE WORKSHOPS</a> • <a href="#">CONTACT</a> • <a href="http://www.facebook.com/davidturnleyphotography" target="_blank">CONNECT ON FACEBOOK</a> • ALL IMAGES COPYRIGHTED BY THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS.
          </td>
      </tr>
    </table></div>
to this -
<td><div class="footer"><table width="800" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
      <tr>
        <td align="center"><a href="#">ABOUT DAVID</a> • <a href="#">THE WORKSHOPS</a> • <a href="#">CONTACT</a> • <a href="http://www.facebook.com/davidturnleyphotography" target="_blank">CONNECT ON FACEBOOK</a> • ALL IMAGES COPYRIGHTED BY THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS.</td>
      </tr>
    </table></div>
In other words, remove that whitespace from the code, and see what happens.

Why do double-sided copies run off the edge when single-sided do not?

Hi...
I just made a document in Pages that is essentially one big table (or in other words, a spreadsheet without having to purchase Numbers). When I print it as single-sided, it fits perfectly on the page. But if I click double-sided, without changing anything else, the left margin runs off the page. The nature of this is such that I don't really want to significantly reduce the size. Is there some trick to this, or do I just have to remember to print it one-sided?
Thanks!

There should be an arrow, to get more choices to show. Also the checkbox is just showing you the current selected, you change the setting by touch the big icon, not the checkbox. The touch panel is not a high resolution one, so try to touch the checkbox, result in the icon being selected, that's why the setting didn't change. Try find the 1:1 icon and touch that.
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X200t screen flickers when mouse moves off the right screen edge in secondary landscape orientation

I just got my 1st lenovo tablet pc (x200t multi-touch w7 32bit). However, my first experience is not so smooth.
I am having a screen flicker issue in secondary landscape mode (not the default landscape mode) whenever I move my mouse beyond the right edge of the screen. From the symptom, it seems like Windows 7 didn't stop the mouse from moving out of the screen, and hence Windows 7 tries to redraw everything from the top up to the cursor repeatitively (i.e. flickering)
In other orientation, the mouse is actually stopped before moving out of the screen because I can still see the edge of the cursor when I move to far right.
Does anyone know of a solution? If not, I would like to know if anyone else experience this issue. You can reproduce this by
1. rotation the screen orientation until buttons on the screen is at the top of the screen (i.e. the secondary landscape orientation)
2. move your move beyond the right edge of the screen.
3. screen starts to flicker
I have updated all the drivers and software via Windows Update and Lenovo ThinkVantage.
ThinkPad BIOS Update 3.11-1.04
ThinkPad Power Manager 2.05
Lenovo Fingerprint Software for Windows 7 32 bit 3.3.0.58
Lenovo thinkVantage Toolbox (32-bit) 6.0.5449.31
Here is my configuration
Intel Core 2 Duo SL9400 (1.86GHz, 6MB L2, 1066MHz)1
Genuine Windows 7 Professional 3212
12.1" Enhanced Multitouch WXGA LED Panel with Wide viewing Angle
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
2 GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM 1067MHz SODIMM Memory (1 DIMM)8
TrackPoint
160GB Hard Disk Drive, 5400rpm4
Integrated Bluetooth PAN
Intel WiFi Link 5100 (AGN) with My WiFi Technology10
Integrated Mobile Broadband - Upgradable65
ThinkPad X200 Tablet 4 Cell Li-Ion Battery60
7448: 1 Year Depot Warranty - TopSeller7
Thanks

Could you be a little more specific? I took that section out of my CSS file but the problem persists.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Michael Yannetta
Mio Web Designs
530-414-3313
[email protected]

Script to Create Image on the Fore Edge of a Book

Hello,
Here is an example of what I want to do:
http://blog.eyemagazine.com/?p=149
If you bend the pages of book, you can see an image (which is a word) on the fore edge of a book.
I was wondering if there is a script or if I could create a script that would be able to make this in indesign?
I have never made a script before, but I was imagining that it could go something like this:
Duplicate an image
Paste in place on the next page
Select the content inside the frame
Move the image x distance
And repeat all above for the next page.
then there would be an option for how many pages this would be done.
Does this sound at all possible, or am I just making this completely up?
Thanks in advance.

John, it is ssome sort of a bleed, but in this case it's not the part that 'might be cut off' that matters; it's the part that still needs to be on the page. Yes, I meant it to be (virtually) not-noticeable for the casual reader. Of course you can make it part of the page design, that ought to ease up matters.
The amount pages shift horizontally because of binding is called "creep", and this depends on the type of binding and the thickness of the paper. You cannot adjust for creep unless you know exactly how much this is and how your book is going to be printed and bound.
Airkite:
But the book that you printed worked out alright? Was it done with a different method?
This was a simple outlined text, not an image. Through the inaccuracies of printing and binding combined, there were no straight edges *anywhere* but fortunately the lines were thick enough to let you mentally connect them
This was done (I'm sure) with the method you proposed.
There is an alternative way, but it's way more expensive (on the other hand, the result is impressive): after the entire process of printing, binding, and cutting, books are put in a clamp one at a time and fed through a silk screen printer, fore edge on top, and printed with whatever you like.
I know of the existance of this technique but I haven't seen a book done like this in years and have no clue at all of the costs involved (writing that down in one sentence makes me realize those two might be connected).

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