First of all, why would whe have to go through all those things if Ubuntu was preinstalled, and why would a laptop with Ubuntu preinstalled use hardware that required the use of ndiswrapper and running with those boot options? And why would she use a 64-bit Ubuntu install any more than she would use a 64-bit windows install, where flash also isn't available for 64-bit browsers?
No they don't send suicide bombers, they do however send missiles and bomber planes with little regard for the palestinian civilian population, tell me how that's any better. Face it, Israel is as much to blame as Palestine in the conflict. I think this conflict is an excellent example of why religion should be completely abolished worldwide, it's the most idiotic concept the human mind has ever invented and only serves to create conflict and restrict peoples rights.
Why not free tuition for everyone, regardless of their field of study?
Why would any sane person want to restrict education (or health care for that matter) to those wealthy enough to afford it?
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He's referring to the unbuilt Lower Manhattan Expressway. The plan was to build an elevated expressway across Manhattan on Canal Street, but it was (thankfully) defeated by community activists in the 60's.
But consumers as well as companies already pay for the bandwidth they use. If the ISP's feel they are not adequately compensated, they can charge their customers more.
isn't the act of failing to install what is supposed to be the most user-friendly linux distro proof that it isn't user-friendly enough for the mass market?
No. Is the fact that 90% of computer users can't install Windows proof enough that Windows isn't friendly enough for the mass market?
This is a guy who thinks himself a computer wizard, yet he doesn't understand basic partitioning. If he had put aside all his 1337 skillz in computers and selected the option of letting the installation program handle the resizing of his windows partition and partitioning of his Ubuntu partitions, he would be up and running by now.
Here in Stockholm, there is a city owned company called Stokab, they build and own fibers to city owned apartment buildings as well as coop/condo buildings that sign a contract with the company. This company only owns and maintains the fibers, another company, called OpenNet, operates the fiber network.
The actual services are provided by private companies, who are allowed equal access to the network. I have a choice between about 8 ISP's (with speeds between 10 and 100 Mbps both downstream and upstream, costing about 300 SEK (32/$45)/month for 100/100 Mbps), 4 VoIP providers, and (only) 2 TV providers, all operating over the fiber.
The limit to games on Linux is market share. Its not (much) easier to develop a good 3D game for linux as it is Windows, so why code for 2% of the market when you can code for 92% of the market?
Why code for 92% of the market when you can code for 100% of the market?
While I don't agree with the EU's data retention directive, there is a clear difference between the regulated retention of logs by ISP's and the unregulated retention of log by search engines. The logs of ISP's can only be released under court order, and the period of retention is regulated. The logs of the search engines however can be accessed by the companies owning the search engine as well as anyone the company decides to sell them to, and they can retain the logs for as long as they want, all without any kind of oversight.
Yeah I read about that, the iPhone doesn't have UMTS/HSPA support, only GSM/GPRS.
How could they overlook such an important feature? Is UMTS coverage that low in the US?
I don't think they'll have much success in Europe until they get out of the stone age and offer support for modern 3G networks.
In Ubuntu 7.04 Totem will automatically download the appropriate codec when trying to play an unsupported file. And even before that, you could install an mp3 codec for instace simply by searching for 'mp3' in Applications->add/remove and install the codec from the list of matching packages. Windows is actually far worse than this, try playing a divx or xvid file in windows media player without having installed a codec pack, wmp will try to find the codec, but it won't succeed, and you have to find and download a codec pack from some random location, hoping that it won't contain a virus, trojan or spyware.
Agreed! I won't buy a Win version, but I will most definetly buy a Linux version. It really shouldn't be that hard, they're already developing it for OSX, so they're probably using OpenGL. If they do all their development with something like SDL, and don't use OSX specific API's for sound, etc, then all they'd have to do is to recompile it for Linux.
We have the same requirement in Sweden if there's no terminal for entering your pin code, although for smaller sums they rarely ask for identification.
I'm also at a loss as to how they estimated the number of Linux desktop users. According to TFA, Vista sales eclipse the number of Linux desktop users in three days, at (supposedly, number fudging abound with pre-launch upgrade coupons etc) 400,000 licenses / day, that would be about 1.2 million people using Linux on the desktop. A few months ago, Mark Shuttleworth claimed Ubuntu alone had over 8 million users, and seeing as Ubuntu is primarily geared toward the destkop, most of those are probably desktop users. And that's just one distro.
I'm not saying those figures are correct of course. There's no way of really knowing how many Linux users there are, and many of Microsofts claimed users are actually Linux users. There's no way of really knowing how many users any operating system or other piece of software has, save for asking every single computer user in the world, or at least asking a large sample of computer users all over the world what they use.
I had a similar problem with a Dlink USB dongle which was also RT73, the problem was that that the driver simply didn't know about this particular dongle, so I had to define it in a header file (fairly simple).
Download this and add your dongle in rtmp_def.h (at the bottom of the file) and compile. You can find the identifier for your dongle with lsusb.
The time it takes between writing the article and the article printing is what really dooms gaming magazines IMO. By the time the story is printed, its old news, and has been for about a month.
Gaming, and technology in general, is something really more suited to the Internet, were articles can be published as soon as they're ready.
Indeed, vendors openly sell pirated movies on the streets of Hong Kong -- right in front of the police, who do nothing. That's hardly something unique to China, when I lived in Washington Heights in NYC a couple of years ago, vendors selling pirated movies on the sidewalk was a pretty common sight, sometimes with the cops just a few meters away, doing nothing.
New York is in fact the safest large city in the US according to statistics. Chicago has a murder rate about twice that of NYC.
Of course, if one were to compare on an international level, they're both dangerous compared to the rest of the "developed" world.
eg. setting VLC as the default video player for all video files Just right-click a file of the type you want to open in VLC, click properties, select the "open with" tab, and select VLC as the default player. (if it's not there, click add and select VLC from the list)
Obviously it wouldn't be used to connect peoples homes (at least not in the foreseeable future), but ISP's and backbone providers could probably have some need for this, especially considering that bandwidth to customers is increasing. I have a 100 Mbps fiber connection in my apartment, it would "only" take a residential area of 1600 such apartments downloading/uploading at full capacity to max out this chipset. Now imagine this on a bigger scale, hundreds of thousands of households, a medium sized city. This could probably come in pretty handy for operations like that.
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First of all, why would whe have to go through all those things if Ubuntu was preinstalled, and why would a laptop with Ubuntu preinstalled use hardware that required the use of ndiswrapper and running with those boot options? And why would she use a 64-bit Ubuntu install any more than she would use a 64-bit windows install, where flash also isn't available for 64-bit browsers?
Flashblock blocks all flash by default and only allows the flash you click on. (the flash is replaced by an empty space with play button inside)
Seeing as Google is apparently using Ubuntu and other Linux dists for desktops, I would assume they're not using MS Office.
No they don't send suicide bombers, they do however send missiles and bomber planes with little regard for the palestinian civilian population, tell me how that's any better. Face it, Israel is as much to blame as Palestine in the conflict.
I think this conflict is an excellent example of why religion should be completely abolished worldwide, it's the most idiotic concept the human mind has ever invented and only serves to create conflict and restrict peoples rights.
Why not free tuition for everyone, regardless of their field of study?
Why would any sane person want to restrict education (or health care for that matter) to those wealthy enough to afford it?
He's referring to the unbuilt Lower Manhattan Expressway. The plan was to build an elevated expressway across Manhattan on Canal Street, but it was (thankfully) defeated by community activists in the 60's.
But consumers as well as companies already pay for the bandwidth they use. If the ISP's feel they are not adequately compensated, they can charge their customers more.
I checked both the UK and German dell websites and even if I specifically search for Ubuntu, the only thing I can find is the US Dell Ubuntu site.
isn't the act of failing to install what is supposed to be the most user-friendly linux distro proof that it isn't user-friendly enough for the mass market?
No. Is the fact that 90% of computer users can't install Windows proof enough that Windows isn't friendly enough for the mass market?
This is a guy who thinks himself a computer wizard, yet he doesn't understand basic partitioning. If he had put aside all his 1337 skillz in computers and selected the option of letting the installation program handle the resizing of his windows partition and partitioning of his Ubuntu partitions, he would be up and running by now.
Here in Stockholm, there is a city owned company called Stokab, they build and own fibers to city owned apartment buildings as well as coop/condo buildings that sign a contract with the company. This company only owns and maintains the fibers, another company, called OpenNet, operates the fiber network. The actual services are provided by private companies, who are allowed equal access to the network. I have a choice between about 8 ISP's (with speeds between 10 and 100 Mbps both downstream and upstream, costing about 300 SEK (32/$45)/month for 100/100 Mbps), 4 VoIP providers, and (only) 2 TV providers, all operating over the fiber.
Ever heard of adblock plus? I didn't see a single ad!
The limit to games on Linux is market share. Its not (much) easier to develop a good 3D game for linux as it is Windows, so why code for 2% of the market when you can code for 92% of the market?
Why code for 92% of the market when you can code for 100% of the market?
While I don't agree with the EU's data retention directive, there is a clear difference between the regulated retention of logs by ISP's and the unregulated retention of log by search engines.
The logs of ISP's can only be released under court order, and the period of retention is regulated.
The logs of the search engines however can be accessed by the companies owning the search engine as well as anyone the company decides to sell them to, and they can retain the logs for as long as they want, all without any kind of oversight.
Yeah I read about that, the iPhone doesn't have UMTS/HSPA support, only GSM/GPRS. How could they overlook such an important feature? Is UMTS coverage that low in the US? I don't think they'll have much success in Europe until they get out of the stone age and offer support for modern 3G networks.
This article says very little about the OLPC, and it would appear that the author has never used it, so the title of this post is incorrect.
In Ubuntu 7.04 Totem will automatically download the appropriate codec when trying to play an unsupported file. And even before that, you could install an mp3 codec for instace simply by searching for 'mp3' in Applications->add/remove and install the codec from the list of matching packages.
Windows is actually far worse than this, try playing a divx or xvid file in windows media player without having installed a codec pack, wmp will try to find the codec, but it won't succeed, and you have to find and download a codec pack from some random location, hoping that it won't contain a virus, trojan or spyware.
Agreed! I won't buy a Win version, but I will most definetly buy a Linux version.
It really shouldn't be that hard, they're already developing it for OSX, so they're probably using OpenGL.
If they do all their development with something like SDL, and don't use OSX specific API's for sound, etc, then all they'd have to do is to recompile it for Linux.
We have the same requirement in Sweden if there's no terminal for entering your pin code, although for smaller sums they rarely ask for identification.
I'm also at a loss as to how they estimated the number of Linux desktop users. According to TFA, Vista sales eclipse the number of Linux desktop users in three days, at (supposedly, number fudging abound with pre-launch upgrade coupons etc) 400,000 licenses / day, that would be about 1.2 million people using Linux on the desktop. A few months ago, Mark Shuttleworth claimed Ubuntu alone had over 8 million users, and seeing as Ubuntu is primarily geared toward the destkop, most of those are probably desktop users. And that's just one distro.
I'm not saying those figures are correct of course. There's no way of really knowing how many Linux users there are, and many of Microsofts claimed users are actually Linux users. There's no way of really knowing how many users any operating system or other piece of software has, save for asking every single computer user in the world, or at least asking a large sample of computer users all over the world what they use.
I had a similar problem with a Dlink USB dongle which was also RT73, the problem was that that the driver simply didn't know about this particular dongle, so I had to define it in a header file (fairly simple).
Download this and add your dongle in rtmp_def.h (at the bottom of the file) and compile. You can find the identifier for your dongle with lsusb.
The time it takes between writing the article and the article printing is what really dooms gaming magazines IMO. By the time the story is printed, its old news, and has been for about a month.
Gaming, and technology in general, is something really more suited to the Internet, were articles can be published as soon as they're ready.
New York is in fact the safest large city in the US according to statistics. Chicago has a murder rate about twice that of NYC. Of course, if one were to compare on an international level, they're both dangerous compared to the rest of the "developed" world.
Obviously it wouldn't be used to connect peoples homes (at least not in the foreseeable future), but ISP's and backbone providers could probably have some need for this, especially considering that bandwidth to customers is increasing. I have a 100 Mbps fiber connection in my apartment, it would "only" take a residential area of 1600 such apartments downloading/uploading at full capacity to max out this chipset. Now imagine this on a bigger scale, hundreds of thousands of households, a medium sized city. This could probably come in pretty handy for operations like that.