Can you give an example of such a system on another OS? Because I don't quite understand what you're asking for.
From my experience,.deb packages are easier to distribute and install that.msi, and much better than rolling your own installer via InstallShield, NSIS or one of the other dozen install wizards for Windows. I know OSX uses.app folders, but I'm not sure how they handle shared dependencies.
It sounds like your problems all stem from closed-source drivers or closed-spec hardware. Yeah, this is a trouble area for Linux, but unfortunately it requires cooperation and participation from the hardware vendors to fix. As this article shows, progress is being made, but it's still an uphill battle.
Next time use an all-Intel setup. Yeah it won't be as powerful, but you pretty much know it's going to work from the start, and keep working with new kernels.
One thing that I wish Canonical would do is to set up a donation fund where I could donate say $50 per install and know that all the apps that come with Ubuntu would get a reasonably fair share of that money. Is anyone at Canonical listening?
I think Canonical tells people to donate to Debian if you want to support the development of the software.
But nobody specified whether the tea was being made in a pressurized area or not. We've already abandoned reason in this conversation, it's too late to turn back now.
Just put the tea and the hot water into a closed sphere or cylinder, and give it a spin. The rotating walls of the container will gradually cause the liquid inside to rotate, producing a gravitational force within the liquid, and your convection will work just fine.
Getting the latest version of Samba is the easiest way, if all you want to do is replicate the functionality of AD. In the past I have replicated an NT4 domain using Samba and LDAP, back before they had AD functionality, it was remarkably easy and the Windows clients couldn't tell it wasn't an NT server.
I'm not exactly sure what you do with GPOs, so I don't even know if it would make sense in a Linux context. There are a plethora of ways to install software on your Linux workstations. Trying do apply the Windows installation method to Linux will only lead to disappointment, but if you use the Linux methods you will find them quite capable.
It's still like that in 2.4.1 at least, but the accounts.xml is only readable by the owner (and root of course). Still, I wonder why it's not been integrated to use something like Seahorse to decrypt the passwords when needed.
I have seen recommendations and instructions for doing this in Ubuntu, and I have set mine up that way as well. It is nice for exactly the reason you specified, though the same could be accomplished by backing up your home directory and restoring it after a new install.
As you said, anything configured in/etc/ will go back to the default. You'll also lose any installed applications that are not part of the default install, even if you don't lose your configuration for them.
Upgrading lets you keep all your currently installed software and settings. A clean install gives you the default collection of software with their default settings.
We buy linux all the time for our business, because it is illegal for us to use it for free.
It is legal for you to use Linux for free, there are many places where you can obtain a copy of Linux for free.
The particular distribution that you use may be bundled with additional proprietary software or support guarantees, in which case that is what you are paying for. But GNU/Linux itself is rarely sold, because it's widely available for free.
I tried installing redhat a few times back in the 90s and after banging my head a few times to actually get it working I thought to myself "Oh. Sweet. Free Civ and data management I DONT NEED."
I tried installing Windows a few times back in the 90s, and after banging my head around the TCP/IP stack to actually get it working I thought to myself "Oh. Sweet. Viruses and an annoying paperclip I DONT NEED." It may surprise you to learn that computers have advanced over the last two decades.
And then Linux users go out of their way to do things like make World of Warcraft work on their PC. Look buddy. Ya great you got it working but you are very knowledgeable in Linux, which has a steep learning curve. And most users dont want to spend 2 weeks getting their drivers to work just right to play a game.
The thing is, it only took that one guy 2 weeks to get WoW working, and now hundreds of Linux users get it working with far less effort. Open source beats proprietary not because it's easier to make it work, but because only one person has to put in the effort for everyone else to benefit.
After all if your open source was a decent product, youd be able to SELL IT
People don't sell Linux, not because nobody is willing to pay for it (people pay millions for Unix), but because people don't _have_ to pay for it. Would you pay for a car, even a good one, if you could get it for free from a different dealership?
What they need is clean water, learn better agriculture, and to get an education that will allow them to live a better life.
And how do you propose they will get that?
Computers, especially internet enabled ones, provide knowledge and information, which is exactly what you need in order to get clean water, learn better agriculture, and an education. They also let your children learn other means of supporting themselves, which gives them more opportunity to improve their lives than clean water alone can provide.
The computers are a means to an end, not the end itself. They won't give you clean water, but they can teach you about who to sterilize water, how to predict when water will be unclean, how to keep your water source from becoming unclean, and how to treat diseases that arise from drinking unclean water. So stop complaining about people giving computers to other people, just because they don't provide immediate short-term solutions to those people's problems.
Tracker and Beagle can. They can also search your email, IM logs, browser's bookmarks and history, installed applications, dictionary, Tomboy notes, open windows, and God only knows what else.
Tracker and Beagle already do this for Linux. They are very fast too, since they scan new/modified files and build an index of their content and metadata.
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Can you give an example of such a system on another OS? Because I don't quite understand what you're asking for.
From my experience, .deb packages are easier to distribute and install that .msi, and much better than rolling your own installer via InstallShield, NSIS or one of the other dozen install wizards for Windows. I know OSX uses .app folders, but I'm not sure how they handle shared dependencies.
It sounds like your problems all stem from closed-source drivers or closed-spec hardware. Yeah, this is a trouble area for Linux, but unfortunately it requires cooperation and participation from the hardware vendors to fix. As this article shows, progress is being made, but it's still an uphill battle.
Next time use an all-Intel setup. Yeah it won't be as powerful, but you pretty much know it's going to work from the start, and keep working with new kernels.
Seriously, though, my design won't injure anybody or break anything if you let go of it.
A string? Way to add all kinds of complexity to what was a simple, stringless design. You kids and your fancy technology.
One thing that I wish Canonical would do is to set up a donation fund where I could donate say $50 per install and know that all the apps that come with Ubuntu would get a reasonably fair share of that money. Is anyone at Canonical listening?
I think Canonical tells people to donate to Debian if you want to support the development of the software.
http://www.debian.org/donations
And what part of this conversation led you to believe we were thinking right?
But nobody specified whether the tea was being made in a pressurized area or not. We've already abandoned reason in this conversation, it's too late to turn back now.
Well in space, it could boil at just above it's freezing point, so I figured "hot" was a better indicator of temperature.
Well, you still have to accelerate and decelerate the ship, so yeah, mass still matters.
The problem is that you need several feet of a very dense material to "absorb" cosmic rays.
Just put the tea and the hot water into a closed sphere or cylinder, and give it a spin. The rotating walls of the container will gradually cause the liquid inside to rotate, producing a gravitational force within the liquid, and your convection will work just fine.
Getting the latest version of Samba is the easiest way, if all you want to do is replicate the functionality of AD. In the past I have replicated an NT4 domain using Samba and LDAP, back before they had AD functionality, it was remarkably easy and the Windows clients couldn't tell it wasn't an NT server.
I'm not exactly sure what you do with GPOs, so I don't even know if it would make sense in a Linux context. There are a plethora of ways to install software on your Linux workstations. Trying do apply the Windows installation method to Linux will only lead to disappointment, but if you use the Linux methods you will find them quite capable.
It's still like that in 2.4.1 at least, but the accounts.xml is only readable by the owner (and root of course). Still, I wonder why it's not been integrated to use something like Seahorse to decrypt the passwords when needed.
I have seen recommendations and instructions for doing this in Ubuntu, and I have set mine up that way as well. It is nice for exactly the reason you specified, though the same could be accomplished by backing up your home directory and restoring it after a new install.
As you said, anything configured in /etc/ will go back to the default. You'll also lose any installed applications that are not part of the default install, even if you don't lose your configuration for them.
Username: ubuntu
Password: U6aMy0wojraho
Upgrading lets you keep all your currently installed software and settings. A clean install gives you the default collection of software with their default settings.
But AC/DC has a new album out, so you never know.
We buy linux all the time for our business, because it is illegal for us to use it for free.
It is legal for you to use Linux for free, there are many places where you can obtain a copy of Linux for free.
The particular distribution that you use may be bundled with additional proprietary software or support guarantees, in which case that is what you are paying for. But GNU/Linux itself is rarely sold, because it's widely available for free.
I tried installing redhat a few times back in the 90s and after banging my head a few times to actually get it working I thought to myself "Oh. Sweet. Free Civ and data management I DONT NEED."
I tried installing Windows a few times back in the 90s, and after banging my head around the TCP/IP stack to actually get it working I thought to myself "Oh. Sweet. Viruses and an annoying paperclip I DONT NEED." It may surprise you to learn that computers have advanced over the last two decades.
And then Linux users go out of their way to do things like make World of Warcraft work on their PC. Look buddy. Ya great you got it working but you are very knowledgeable in Linux, which has a steep learning curve. And most users dont want to spend 2 weeks getting their drivers to work just right to play a game.
The thing is, it only took that one guy 2 weeks to get WoW working, and now hundreds of Linux users get it working with far less effort. Open source beats proprietary not because it's easier to make it work, but because only one person has to put in the effort for everyone else to benefit.
After all if your open source was a decent product, youd be able to SELL IT
People don't sell Linux, not because nobody is willing to pay for it (people pay millions for Unix), but because people don't _have_ to pay for it. Would you pay for a car, even a good one, if you could get it for free from a different dealership?
What they need is clean water, learn better agriculture, and to get an education that will allow them to live a better life.
And how do you propose they will get that?
Computers, especially internet enabled ones, provide knowledge and information, which is exactly what you need in order to get clean water, learn better agriculture, and an education. They also let your children learn other means of supporting themselves, which gives them more opportunity to improve their lives than clean water alone can provide.
The computers are a means to an end, not the end itself. They won't give you clean water, but they can teach you about who to sterilize water, how to predict when water will be unclean, how to keep your water source from becoming unclean, and how to treat diseases that arise from drinking unclean water. So stop complaining about people giving computers to other people, just because they don't provide immediate short-term solutions to those people's problems.
Tracker and Beagle can. They can also search your email, IM logs, browser's bookmarks and history, installed applications, dictionary, Tomboy notes, open windows, and God only knows what else.
Tracker and Beagle already do this for Linux. They are very fast too, since they scan new/modified files and build an index of their content and metadata.
Thanks for spotting the typo, it's been corrected. That's what happens when you try to put something together from scratch in a day.
How old is your daughter? I have a 3 year old who absolutely loves the computer I setup for her and her 4 year old brother.
http://www.yale.edu/bass/writing/sources/plagiarism/common.html
and, just for the humor of it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:You_don't_need_to_cite_that_the_sky_is_blue
In the analogy, the "hooker" is the user's OS, not the websites they visit.