Your spelling errors and 10 page run-on sentence are an entire matter of their own.
It's also not Canonical's place to make the drivers. It's the hardware manufacturer's place. If the maker of your soundcard didn't make a linux driver, then they need to get with the times. Not only that, but Ubuntu now works out of the box with open alternative drivers with almost everything. The only thing seriously lacking anymore is wireless, and even that has made great strides. Not only that, but I find that printers are EASIER than in Windows, and moreso I find that I don't need to install _any_ drivers except my video. Right out of the box, I have HD audio, full support for all the goodies on my motherboard, LAN, and everything else. I can even run video, but if I want 3d acceleration I need to do "sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-new".
Your mileage may vary, get over it. There have been many many cases where I've had a huge problem getting windows boxes to work out of the box. I once had to resort to using some driver found on some website that I had never heard of, attached in a.zip to a forum post made by some person. The driver didn't exist anywhere else. And this was an ATI video driver. Don't act like Windows always works either.
Don't give people crap about turning things into a bashing ground for OSes and then bash an OS.
Device support has nothing to do with a media library / management application. It's a nice feature, sure, but it's hardly a requirement or something that you can discount the application for.
Not at all. I'm a modern user (in fact, I haven't even touched a shell before May this year) and I much prefer grep and awk and all the other command line goodies that GNU presents to me.
Set up a reverse SSH tunnel. Write a script to maintain the reverse SSH tunnel.
ssh -C -f -N -R 2233:localhost:22 remote@designated-machine.com
In the example above, I've copied the destination machine's id_dsa.pub into designated-machine.com's authorized_hosts for user "remote".
I run it, and assuming both my work PC and home PC are on, there will be a tunnel. I put the above snippet in an infinite while loop, so if the ssh connection breaks it'll retry it every minute.
This way, you have a reverse tunnel going to a designated immovable machine. SSH to that machine, then through the tunnel.
If you want a remote desktop, use FreeNX. That'll go through the tunnel as well.
Finally, somebody who isn't blindly following the herd, spouting off the same crap I get to hear over and over again because idiots are too simple to actually think things through before they put things down.
I just use linux. My PC boots, from the moment I hit power until the time I have a usable desktop (excluding the login screen, because that's waiting on me for password), in about 30-40 seconds, except the one day a month where I have it fsck all my drives. Not quite that "20 seconds" that's "optimal", but I'd say it's a great number.
I can tell by your username that you regularly have seizures when filling out user profile forms, but that doesn't say anything about the quality of your post or anything like that.
This is exactly why I, Bob Taylor, would never associate my online handle with my real name. Because then I, Bob Taylor, would be susceptible to this sort of profiling.
My Nokia N800 is running 24/7, with a sketchpad just like 3 seconds away. I can either draw my notes, or flip open my bluetooth keyboard and type up some notes.
How is it any of the government's business how google ranks it's results? If google decided tomorrow to start ranking results from site:slashdot.org for no reason at all, is it not their place to do so?
That definition fits me perfectly. I purchased my computer with the expectation of profit. I've more than covered the cost of the machine with work, and therefore am now in the profit stage. Not just work done on my computer, but the ability to research current technologies and stay ahead of the game makes you more valuable to a company. If that's not an expectation of profit I don't know what is.
I am able to talk to people just fine via IM. I joke with coworkers, ask them questions, and they ask me questions, just as it would normally be if I were at work. I also hang out, outside of work, with the coworkers that I actually like.
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You forgot to add "and you really really don't like money".
Your spelling errors and 10 page run-on sentence are an entire matter of their own.
It's also not Canonical's place to make the drivers. It's the hardware manufacturer's place. If the maker of your soundcard didn't make a linux driver, then they need to get with the times. Not only that, but Ubuntu now works out of the box with open alternative drivers with almost everything. The only thing seriously lacking anymore is wireless, and even that has made great strides. Not only that, but I find that printers are EASIER than in Windows, and moreso I find that I don't need to install _any_ drivers except my video. Right out of the box, I have HD audio, full support for all the goodies on my motherboard, LAN, and everything else. I can even run video, but if I want 3d acceleration I need to do "sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-new".
Your mileage may vary, get over it. There have been many many cases where I've had a huge problem getting windows boxes to work out of the box. I once had to resort to using some driver found on some website that I had never heard of, attached in a .zip to a forum post made by some person. The driver didn't exist anywhere else. And this was an ATI video driver. Don't act like Windows always works either.
Don't give people crap about turning things into a bashing ground for OSes and then bash an OS.
Tequila is better than gold!
Device support has nothing to do with a media library / management application. It's a nice feature, sure, but it's hardly a requirement or something that you can discount the application for.
Not at all. I'm a modern user (in fact, I haven't even touched a shell before May this year) and I much prefer grep and awk and all the other command line goodies that GNU presents to me.
Set up a reverse SSH tunnel. Write a script to maintain the reverse SSH tunnel. ssh -C -f -N -R 2233:localhost:22 remote@designated-machine.com In the example above, I've copied the destination machine's id_dsa.pub into designated-machine.com's authorized_hosts for user "remote". I run it, and assuming both my work PC and home PC are on, there will be a tunnel. I put the above snippet in an infinite while loop, so if the ssh connection breaks it'll retry it every minute. This way, you have a reverse tunnel going to a designated immovable machine. SSH to that machine, then through the tunnel. If you want a remote desktop, use FreeNX. That'll go through the tunnel as well.
Oh, then let me introduce you to Ubuntu. It's great, easy, and outperforms XP. Give it a try some day!
So, how long until we can get this going on linux? I'm tired of using a virtual machine to watch my movies.
Finally, somebody who isn't blindly following the herd, spouting off the same crap I get to hear over and over again because idiots are too simple to actually think things through before they put things down.
Will you marry me?
I just use linux. My PC boots, from the moment I hit power until the time I have a usable desktop (excluding the login screen, because that's waiting on me for password), in about 30-40 seconds, except the one day a month where I have it fsck all my drives. Not quite that "20 seconds" that's "optimal", but I'd say it's a great number.
Don't lie. We know you only said that, then immediately googled it and looked at it.
It's not like it works anyway.
I can tell by your username that you regularly have seizures when filling out user profile forms, but that doesn't say anything about the quality of your post or anything like that.
You, sir, win at least 38 internets. Great find, I actually haven't laughed so hard in some time as just now.
This is exactly why I, Bob Taylor, would never associate my online handle with my real name. Because then I, Bob Taylor, would be susceptible to this sort of profiling.
My Nokia N800 is running 24/7, with a sketchpad just like 3 seconds away. I can either draw my notes, or flip open my bluetooth keyboard and type up some notes.
Doesn't JavaScript have to suck to be looking forward to a revision that's been out for years?
How is it any of the government's business how google ranks it's results? If google decided tomorrow to start ranking results from site:slashdot.org for no reason at all, is it not their place to do so?
Am I the only one who read that as "prisons" and immediately wondered why we started locking up animals?
Pics or it didn't happen.
No, but seriously I'd like to be able to see a video or something of this.
IE8 was reported to use more than Windows XP, not Windows Vista. The /. article and the article it points to both even say so.
In the year 2057?
Those are in beta, there's a difference.
That definition fits me perfectly. I purchased my computer with the expectation of profit. I've more than covered the cost of the machine with work, and therefore am now in the profit stage. Not just work done on my computer, but the ability to research current technologies and stay ahead of the game makes you more valuable to a company. If that's not an expectation of profit I don't know what is.
I am able to talk to people just fine via IM. I joke with coworkers, ask them questions, and they ask me questions, just as it would normally be if I were at work. I also hang out, outside of work, with the coworkers that I actually like.