Some of them even moved to Ottawa, where they loosely roam around the city to this day.
I heard through the grapevine that a specimen of a late evolution of the Manningodactyle will someday be exposed at the Canadian Museum of Nature rather than at the Museum of Civilization, on the other side of the Ottawa river, in order to avoid controversy.
I'll bet most of the Firefox 3 users are Windows or Mac users. Not because Linux users don't love Firefox, but because the distros' repositories haven't made FF3 available.
Uhhhhhh? I've been running FF 3 on my Ubuntu and Fedora boxes since "Download Day". Both distros pushed the new release within hours.
Actually, I was going to print and send in letters to my MP (John Godfrey, Liberal), the PM, the Minister of Industry (Jim Prentice), Minister of Canadian Heritage (Josee Verner), and get >25 people from my school to sign a petition to send to my MP on Monday, but I probably won't now. I could take the time to actually do something, but it's easier to wait until a weekday, where you have more contact with other people. Actually, the bill hasn't been withdrawn, it has been delayed, according to prof. Geist (be wary of/. headlines and read TFA anyway). I think your petition drive and the letter writing campaign is still in order because it could come back in 2008.
'TFF article'? The fucking (flying|furry|funny|filler|funky|frilly|foofy|fucking) article? ... the featured article. After all, this is a family-friendly site! Or is it?:)
54.1 + 50.2 + 35.2 = 100 ?
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Of course, I have NOT RTFA... This is/. after all... I filled the survey and I selected the Fedora AND Ubuntu checkboxes. So I'm counted twice (in the Debian and RedHat groups).
. . . Or maybe you're paying more in Canada to pay the GST everyone is so fond of . ..
Quoted prices in Canada do not include taxes (GST + Provincial Sales Tax). So the product sold for $60 CAN would end up costing something like $68, with taxes.
Perhaps an previous version of the file may have said the license is "Free" and "No limitations", but I'm not finding any evidence of it now. Even Groklaw is saying that "The part Microsoft got wrong is it says the license is "Free" and "No limitations"."
My home and office have been Microsoft-free since 1995 so I'm certainly no Microsoft fanboy, but I think I'm smelling a bit of "knee-jerk" here.
It's not in Ubuntu's litterature. It's in the Microsoft Marketplace page. Click the "Detailed Product Specification" thingy and it's all there
Licence: free
Limitations: No limitations
Both statements are absolutely correct. Ubuntu (and other Linux distros) do not impose limitations on what you do with your computer. No WGA checks, no DRM, no viruses, no spyware...;)
I just checked canoe.ca. They get their listings from zap2it as well! Dang! Yes and no. The French-language Canoe site (http://horairetele.canoe.com/html/) site has a different set of listings for channels available on Videotron (Canoe is a subsidiary of Quebecor, who owns this cable operator). Descriptions are different than those provided by Zap2It, as far as I can see.
Why is it the editors never seem to notice what they're posting. I mean... just put in the summary that this is Jeremy Allison of the Samba team... not just Joe Blow Google Employee #3248 writing the article... sheesh. Wikipedia article
I'm sure plenty of linux admins promote the use of both rsync as a backup/restore mechanism and the use of the root login over the internet! They all happen to be 13, but still...
I've noticed this one too. This guy a Linux sysadmin?
Anyhow, TFA has a point about the time it takes to reinstall XP. Last weekend, tt took me six hours to reformat and reinstall my teenage boy PC with the OEM XP (starting at SP1a). I had then to find and download the drivers for the LAN, audio and ATI graphic card (I misplaced the darned cd), download and install SP2, update to the latest patches, install.Net 1, 2 and 3, download and install Firefox, Java, Flash, OpenOffice.org, Avast, VMware, Adobe Reader and install a few extra commercial packages (I do have licences for them). Three days later, my son still reinstalls his games...
On the other hand, installing Ubuntu Feisty on another desktop took only two hours, including downloading and burning the ISO, installing the OS, running the update manager and getting Automatix to install the non-free bits, including the ATI proprietary driver, Google Earth, the multimedia codecs and the dvdcss library. A couple Google searches showed me the way. No command line here. It just worked.
Your experience is a lot similar to mine. I started with Knoppmyth, but Debian's way was way over my head at the time - my shell expertise was limited to ls, mv rm and cp when I started. So, I switched to Fedora, using Jarod's authoritative howto and FC3 (and Axel Thimm repository... his hard work is seldom acknowledged but essential) and never looked back. In my book, the fact that Jarod is behind MythDora is quite an endorsement, because he literally wrote the book on MythTV (and he did so before joining RH, BTW).
I'm now managing two Myth systems (mine and my dad's, who lives 250 kilometers away) with 3 backends and 5 frontends, 7 capture cards and 2 TB of storage. In the process, I learned everything I know about Linux. Fedora is a rock solid platform for MythTV and everything I want to do -- web, nfs, samba, mysql, imap, smtp, dns and general desktop use. Does it need some tweaking at time? Well, yes, but the same would apply to any distro.
As the parent said, the secret with MythTV is to select good hardware beforehand. Hauppauge capture cards are perfect, NVidia chipsets and GPUs are good, VIA and ATI... not that good.
Anyone here planning on picking up one of the linux pre-installed machines when they go on sale? I'm legitimately curious.
Yes. My sister-in-law will need a laptop in the next few weeks and I'm seriously considering a E1505 with Ubuntu if Dell makes these available in Canada in the right time frame.
What do you guys have "at home"? I'm on 20mbit down / 512kbps up.
7000mbit down / 800kbps up. My local cable company delivers on speed (I'm a cheapstake, so I only subscribe to the "regular" tier), but d/l and u/l (20GiB/10GiB a month) quotas will have to be reviewed at one point. Last month, I busted my u/l quota just by downloading the torrents for openSuSE 10.2, CenOS 5.0, Ubuntu Feisty and Fedora 7test4...
When my Grandma sat down at a computer for the first time a few years ago, she tried waving the mouse in the air to make the pointer move. That is a computer newbie!
Maybe they don't have an internet connection. It has been known.
You haven't shopped at Dell recently, haven't you? Most desktop/notebooks sold by Dell in the Home/SOHO boutique come with an offer for 3 months of free broadband access (ADSL or cable), at least in the U.S. and Canada. So, it's not an issue at all here.
Capture card: Hauppauge PVR series (150, 250, 350, 500) are the gold standard for SD.
TV out: nVidia FX5200 with the proprietary driver works fine. It's dirt cheap too.
The amount of difficulty involved depends on the distro you use. I've had good luck with Fedora Core (3, 4 and 5), using binary rpms from atrpms and the nice howto written and updated by Jarod Wilson (http://www.wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php). Setting up a backend should not take more than a day, even for someone with limited Linux experience like me. And the setup of a frontend workstation is a matter of yum'ing the rpms and install the various packages.
Knoppmyth is a good distro for the Debian fans out there.
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Some of them even moved to Ottawa, where they loosely roam around the city to this day.
I heard through the grapevine that a specimen of a late evolution of the Manningodactyle will someday be exposed at the Canadian Museum of Nature rather than at the Museum of Civilization, on the other side of the Ottawa river, in order to avoid controversy.
I'll bet most of the Firefox 3 users are Windows or Mac users. Not because Linux users don't love Firefox, but because the distros' repositories haven't made FF3 available.
Uhhhhhh? I've been running FF 3 on my Ubuntu and Fedora boxes since "Download Day". Both distros pushed the new release within hours.
For one thing, the top poster won't be able to watch videos from Comedy Central. They are using some GeoIP scheme to block views from Canada.
If you have F9, it's the following:
[root@fedora ~]# yum update firefox
The stuff produced at Chalk River Laboratories is Technetium-99m. Its half-life for gamma emission is 6.01 hours. Pray tell, how do you stockpile?
[...] Of course, I have NOT RTFA... This is
Quoted prices in Canada do not include taxes (GST + Provincial Sales Tax). So the product sold for $60 CAN would end up costing something like $68, with taxes.
They will, according to this story
My home and office have been Microsoft-free since 1995 so I'm certainly no Microsoft fanboy, but I think I'm smelling a bit of "knee-jerk" here.
It's not in Ubuntu's litterature. It's in the Microsoft Marketplace page. Click the "Detailed Product Specification" thingy and it's all there Licence: free Limitations: No limitations Both statements are absolutely correct. Ubuntu (and other Linux distros) do not impose limitations on what you do with your computer. No WGA checks, no DRM, no viruses, no spyware...
Wikipedia article
I've noticed this one too. This guy a Linux sysadmin?
Anyhow, TFA has a point about the time it takes to reinstall XP. Last weekend, tt took me six hours to reformat and reinstall my teenage boy PC with the OEM XP (starting at SP1a). I had then to find and download the drivers for the LAN, audio and ATI graphic card (I misplaced the darned cd), download and install SP2, update to the latest patches, install .Net 1, 2 and 3, download and install Firefox, Java, Flash, OpenOffice.org, Avast, VMware, Adobe Reader and install a few extra commercial packages (I do have licences for them). Three days later, my son still reinstalls his games...
On the other hand, installing Ubuntu Feisty on another desktop took only two hours, including downloading and burning the ISO, installing the OS, running the update manager and getting Automatix to install the non-free bits, including the ATI proprietary driver, Google Earth, the multimedia codecs and the dvdcss library. A couple Google searches showed me the way. No command line here. It just worked.
Your experience is a lot similar to mine. I started with Knoppmyth, but Debian's way was way over my head at the time - my shell expertise was limited to ls, mv rm and cp when I started. So, I switched to Fedora, using Jarod's authoritative howto and FC3 (and Axel Thimm repository... his hard work is seldom acknowledged but essential) and never looked back. In my book, the fact that Jarod is behind MythDora is quite an endorsement, because he literally wrote the book on MythTV (and he did so before joining RH, BTW).
I'm now managing two Myth systems (mine and my dad's, who lives 250 kilometers away) with 3 backends and 5 frontends, 7 capture cards and 2 TB of storage. In the process, I learned everything I know about Linux. Fedora is a rock solid platform for MythTV and everything I want to do -- web, nfs, samba, mysql, imap, smtp, dns and general desktop use. Does it need some tweaking at time? Well, yes, but the same would apply to any distro.
As the parent said, the secret with MythTV is to select good hardware beforehand. Hauppauge capture cards are perfect, NVidia chipsets and GPUs are good, VIA and ATI... not that good.
Capture card: Hauppauge PVR series (150, 250, 350, 500) are the gold standard for SD. TV out: nVidia FX5200 with the proprietary driver works fine. It's dirt cheap too.
The amount of difficulty involved depends on the distro you use. I've had good luck with Fedora Core (3, 4 and 5), using binary rpms from atrpms and the nice howto written and updated by Jarod Wilson (http://www.wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php). Setting up a backend should not take more than a day, even for someone with limited Linux experience like me. And the setup of a frontend workstation is a matter of yum'ing the rpms and install the various packages. Knoppmyth is a good distro for the Debian fans out there.