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Ubuntu Brainstorm Launched
thorwil writes "Brainstorm is a new site where everyone can submit and vote on ideas for Ubuntu. It's inspired by Dell's Ideastorm. By default, you see the ideas submitted by the community sorted by popularity. Each idea is accompanied by arrows so you can vote it up or down (you have to log in first). You can only click once per idea. So this is an easy way to submit ideas and see what people are really wanting."
"4. Implement WPA support."
Ubuntu does have WPA support. The only times I fail to see WPA show up in the wireless options is if my wireless card doesn't support it.
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Well, we reached slashdot, digg and wired frontpages almost at the same time so indeed the web server is having a bad time :)
The sysadmins are working on it and we hope to have something faster (we don't say fast) soon.
Wow!
In order to compile you need to install the dependencies which is very easy. I've been a power user of Linux since -95 and have checked out something like 100 distributions and O/S's.
Sometimes you get stomped because you have no idea of what you are doing. Things are so different that it simply does not make sense.
However, what saves the day just about every single time. Including your problem is Google!
In fact I ran into needing to compile something under Kubuntu a few days ago, on a remote server without X.
A quick google showed exactly the line to execute which installed the needed files. Ubuntu/Kubuntu has an extensive library of how to do things and when that fails someone has either put up instruction on a web page or in a forum. Being new to Linux and all it can be a total barrier to accomplish things. Spending a little time to get familiar with your new environment would have saved you a lot of headache, never mind 200GB.
They pushed back the release of the new theme to 8.10. People on the Ubuntu-Art list are pretty much against changing the orange/brown color scheme.
Actually, build-essentials is on the installer cd--it's just not installed by default. You can install it while running the LiveCD to compile whatever. I used it to compile the kernel module for my winmodem before installation of the OS proper.
ATLAS (the maths package) is in need of an update, as is HDF5. OPeNDAP seems to be very popular in the scientific world and would likely be big in the corporate world if they knew it existed. OpenIMPACT could reasonably be taken as important to software developers. VSIPL++ maybe less so, but I'd bet it would be used by a fair few if part of the distro.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
The funniest part of this troll is that you've been using Linux for 10 years, yet fail to notice that there's a pre-built Synergy package available in Universe.
apt-get install synergy was all you had to do and it would've simply worked. Instead, you found out the hard way that Ubuntu doesn't install -dev packages that contain the header files/libs needed to compile programs and instead of looking to see if there was a package that installed all the needed packages in 1 apt-get command, you installed every -dev package 1 by 1.
I don't believe you actually scrapped a drive or that this happened though, just a bad troll.
"Not to mention all the idiots who use words like boxen."
Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04, @06:49PM
The website has been moved to faster servers. :)
If you created an account before the move or during, please use the "Request new feature" of the login page as the mail queue has been lost.
The website seems dreaming fast now, try not to break it again guys
As a matter of fact, now that AMD bought ATI and released the specs, there has been a very rough open source driver released. But guess what - this had everything to do with AMD/ATI. It's completely and utterly their fault that support has sucked so hard so far.
I will never buy another video card again. I find that very hard to believe.
In any case, if AMD is true to their promises, I will only buy ATI cards that are supported by the OSS driver.
That site is redundant in many ways - all Ubuntu users need to do is check the Fedora features list for upcoming releases. Good stuff is developed there and Ubuntu later takes credit for including it, once Fedora developers iron out most of the bugs.
Granted, blame for undue credit is for a large part on Fedora community itself. We are yet to find a better way to announce/market ourselves. Some progress has recently been made but I'm not holding my breath. Not just yet.
It is planned for the LTS version in beta now, Hardy Heron. So your wish should get granted :).
You can't get better (or worse) than native resolution on an LCD, it is physically impossible. Lower resolutions can be approximated in a number of ways, but the actual number pixels lit by the LCD does not change.
LCDs display a fixed set of pixels regardless of the image being fed to them. When a non-native image is fed to the LCD, it's up to the LCD to map the virtual pixels in the image to the real pixels on the screen itself. In the case of an image in native resolution, this is trivial, as it is simply a 1-1 mapping. In the case where the resolution of the fed image is less than the native resolution, (assuming the entire screen is to be filled,) each virtual pixel will be mapped to more than one actual pixel (typically some fractional amount, except for a few special cases, like an 800x600 image on a 1600x1200 LCD). As far as displaying a larger resolution than the native resolution on an LCD, it's theoretically possible, but you'd basically just be making everything smaller and less detailed (say goodbye to readable text!).
Game! - Where the stick is mightier than the sword!
yeah I'm so dumb I never have any trouble compiling executables in Ubuntu. I'm also so dumb that I can find synergy precompiled in the repos. I like being dumb because stuff works and I don't have to throw good hardware in the trash during temper tantrums (I'm also too dumb to have temper tantrums).