"This is, in a nutshell, anthropic global warming."
Not to be a completely pedantic dickhead, but "anthropic" global warming would be global warming that exists because we wouldn't be here to observe it otherwise. Global warming that plays a part in our existence. Anthropogenic global warming on the other hand, is global warming that exists because of our activities. This is, I think, what you meant to say.
"B) AAC is open (patented only in the USA, but even there free for non-commercial use)"
This is not Open. Open is when anyone can use the format, for free, with the only limitation being that they must not impede someone else's use of the content they encode.
Open formats are FOR businesses stupid. They are so a business can be assured that they will be able to produce a viewer for a file no matter what hardware platform they're on no matter how far in the future no matter what happens to the company or group that originally produced it.
Free for non-commercial use is great if you want a bunch of fanboi geeks to use it in their basement and build "geek" cred (fanboi geeks aren't geeks). But FREE as in anyone can use it unencumbered, is great if you want governments, corporations, academia, and the sciences as a whole to adopt it./rant
I think Gentoo makes a good case for itself on the server side, especially with larger deployments (being able to set up your own portage mirror, compile on one server you your own make flags (for size) and deploy rather seamlessly. The tools in the distro lend themselves toward that. Its just not what I'm doing, and Ubuntu lends itself very easily toward a desktop environment with small server deployments to manage (what I am doing).
When you compare package versions of the branches of Gentoo to the repos of ubuntu, you tend to land in the Unstable branch. When the unstable branch broke wget (thus breaking Portage's ability to get the packages) in a system update, I moved on.
I agree on the hardware targets Gentoo can go on, though, I've still been looking for that little project that will make it worthwhile to pick gentoo back up. (Digital Picture Frame?)
And Ubuntu can do all of those things while giving you a usable computer in 15 minutes instead of 2 days. I used Gentoo before coming to Ubuntu, the only thing Gentoo gives is headaches from the devs breaking crap in Portage when you rebuild a system that's only a few weeks old to get an updated package.
You can configure ANYTHING you want in Ubuntu, you just have the CHOICE not to.
In my line of thinking Ubuntu gives you far MORE choice and flexibility than Gentoo, since I have the choice to NOT touch things I don't feel the need to.
You're also stuck in a hardware monoculture, complete vendor lock in for your basic software needs. No control over the security or development direction of your OS. Not to mention the prices.
And you have a more annoying gui that gnome. Its hard to imagine how the Mac OS gui folks could take gnome and make it worse (mind you I DO use gnome as my gui, I just understand its rough edges), but they did.
I look at Mac's in stores now and again, then I go home to my dual core laptop that smokes any Mac-Book out there that's far more than twice the price.
Install a microsoft mouse on a microsoft operating system sometime and tell me what's absurd. Why does Linux have to be something that Windows is not to be acceptable?
Run WiFi on a pre SP2 XP system.
Install a video driver for a decent video card, I dare ya.
FIND the control panel to do any of the various adjustments that need to be done on an XP or Vista system as a fresh user.
The fact that touchpad sensitivity, which is a readily adjustable thing if you just fucking google it, is the best the reviewer can do is proof that Linux IS in fact ready for the average user.
Maybe Dell can adjust their default installed package list (one line in a text file or just doing it in their image, whichever way they choose) to cater to the lughead's out there, but it doesn't change the fact that there's software there, that you don't have to "browse the giant list of packages" for (just fucking google it, remember).
And you can't have it both ways. Either get off the "there's no apps for Linux" bandwagon, or stop complaining about the "giant list of packages".
Theres a synaptic touchpad (the driver all touchpads use) driver gui to adjust the sensitivity of the mouse. Its availabe in the repos, and at that point is system-preferences-touchpad.
For the google impaired:
gsynaptics is the name of the package.
Here's the search that turned it up.. some people can't be helped I guess:
That's great, I use gnome, and when my cpu is clocked up because of a compile, or a intense mysql query, the window rendering (using no effects in 2d) glitches because the CPU has near zero availablilty. Offloading it to my GPU makes the desktop gui snappier and I can still run whatever I want in the background.
I turn some of the bells and whistles on, but not many, usually the water "ding", the desktop cube, and the genie up and down windows. That and I like true transparency when I'm navigating a crowded desktop.
I didn't get a recovery disk, but also didn't care, because I never booted the damned thing into Vista anyway. Ubuntu provides iso's of my "recovery disk" free of charge:)
''The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al-Qaeda'', U.S. President George W Bush told reporters Thursday, is ''because there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda''.
"THE PRESIDENT: We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th. What the Vice President said was, is that he has been involved with al Qaeda. And al Zarqawi, al Qaeda operative, was in Baghdad. He's the guy that ordered the killing of a U.S. diplomat. He's a man who is still running loose, involved with the poisons network, involved with Ansar al-Islam. There's no question that Saddam Hussein had al Qaeda ties."
"We know that Iraq and the al Qaeda terrorist network share a common enemy -- the United States of America. We know that Iraq and al Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade. Some al Qaeda leaders who fled Afghanistan went to Iraq. These include one very senior al Qaeda leader who received medical treatment in Baghdad this year, and who has been associated with planning for chemical and biological attacks. We've learned that Iraq has trained al Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases. And we know that after September the 11th, Saddam Hussein's regime gleefully celebrated the terrorist attacks on America."
"...other than what was there from the beginning, namely backward compatibility with older iterations of the PC platform. It's there, and it's enough to boot at least the graphical installer. Unless, of course, you _do_ have something exotic, like EFI firmware that isn't backwards compatible."
beep, wrong. There are multiple broken APIC implementations out there that are completely nonstandard. This is how a non plug and play (read everything but windows) OS brings up hardware and assigns irq's. That's not "good enough to bring up the installer" its bad enough to hang the boot. If someone wants to put out a BIOS and include APIC, they should implement it correctly so you don't have to disable it to boot. We can boot without it, which we will if its A) not there, or B) disabled.
And I've got Ubuntu running on mine with a bootline tweak, but Fedora 7 wouldn't boot. Go figure, just like I was saying, things aren't standard on 64 bit platforms, broken apic's is the biggest problem I've come across.
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Ditto.
"This is, in a nutshell, anthropic global warming."
Not to be a completely pedantic dickhead, but "anthropic" global warming would be global warming that exists because we wouldn't be here to observe it otherwise. Global warming that plays a part in our existence. Anthropogenic global warming on the other hand, is global warming that exists because of our activities. This is, I think, what you meant to say.
Actually, they have a perfect excuse: They've gotten that market position and revenue while producing a bad OS, so why change now?
"B) AAC is open (patented only in the USA, but even there free for non-commercial use)"
/rant
This is not Open. Open is when anyone can use the format, for free, with the only limitation being that they must not impede someone else's use of the content they encode.
Open formats are FOR businesses stupid. They are so a business can be assured that they will be able to produce a viewer for a file no matter what hardware platform they're on no matter how far in the future no matter what happens to the company or group that originally produced it.
Free for non-commercial use is great if you want a bunch of fanboi geeks to use it in their basement and build "geek" cred (fanboi geeks aren't geeks). But FREE as in anyone can use it unencumbered, is great if you want governments, corporations, academia, and the sciences as a whole to adopt it.
I think Gentoo makes a good case for itself on the server side, especially with larger deployments (being able to set up your own portage mirror, compile on one server you your own make flags (for size) and deploy rather seamlessly. The tools in the distro lend themselves toward that. Its just not what I'm doing, and Ubuntu lends itself very easily toward a desktop environment with small server deployments to manage (what I am doing).
When you compare package versions of the branches of Gentoo to the repos of ubuntu, you tend to land in the Unstable branch. When the unstable branch broke wget (thus breaking Portage's ability to get the packages) in a system update, I moved on.
I agree on the hardware targets Gentoo can go on, though, I've still been looking for that little project that will make it worthwhile to pick gentoo back up. (Digital Picture Frame?)
And Ubuntu can do all of those things while giving you a usable computer in 15 minutes instead of 2 days. I used Gentoo before coming to Ubuntu, the only thing Gentoo gives is headaches from the devs breaking crap in Portage when you rebuild a system that's only a few weeks old to get an updated package.
You can configure ANYTHING you want in Ubuntu, you just have the CHOICE not to.
In my line of thinking Ubuntu gives you far MORE choice and flexibility than Gentoo, since I have the choice to NOT touch things I don't feel the need to.
Yes,
You're also stuck in a hardware monoculture, complete vendor lock in for your basic software needs. No control over the security or development direction of your OS. Not to mention the prices.
And you have a more annoying gui that gnome. Its hard to imagine how the Mac OS gui folks could take gnome and make it worse (mind you I DO use gnome as my gui, I just understand its rough edges), but they did.
I look at Mac's in stores now and again, then I go home to my dual core laptop that smokes any Mac-Book out there that's far more than twice the price.
Install a microsoft mouse on a microsoft operating system sometime and tell me what's absurd. Why does Linux have to be something that Windows is not to be acceptable?
Run WiFi on a pre SP2 XP system.
Install a video driver for a decent video card, I dare ya.
FIND the control panel to do any of the various adjustments that need to be done on an XP or Vista system as a fresh user.
The fact that touchpad sensitivity, which is a readily adjustable thing if you just fucking google it, is the best the reviewer can do is proof that Linux IS in fact ready for the average user.
Maybe Dell can adjust their default installed package list (one line in a text file or just doing it in their image, whichever way they choose) to cater to the lughead's out there, but it doesn't change the fact that there's software there, that you don't have to "browse the giant list of packages" for (just fucking google it, remember).
And you can't have it both ways. Either get off the "there's no apps for Linux" bandwagon, or stop complaining about the "giant list of packages".
Why would you build in a GUI to the base OS for a component that not every computer has?
Remember wifi on windows XP pre SP2 before you get too uppity.
Theres a synaptic touchpad (the driver all touchpads use) driver gui to adjust the sensitivity of the mouse. Its availabe in the repos, and at that point is system-preferences-touchpad.
For the google impaired:
gsynaptics is the name of the package.
Here's the search that turned it up.. some people can't be helped I guess:
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=synaptic+touchpad+sensitivity+adjustment+ubuntu
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty/Hardware#Touchpad
That's great, I use gnome, and when my cpu is clocked up because of a compile, or a intense mysql query, the window rendering (using no effects in 2d) glitches because the CPU has near zero availablilty. Offloading it to my GPU makes the desktop gui snappier and I can still run whatever I want in the background.
I turn some of the bells and whistles on, but not many, usually the water "ding", the desktop cube, and the genie up and down windows. That and I like true transparency when I'm navigating a crowded desktop.
Compiz Fusion == Beryl + Compiz. There's a stable release out now. Google it.
Maybe this'll help, with a decent 3d graphics chipset, it makes the desktop more responsive by offloading the desktop rendering to the GPU completely.
Dude, he said fASS...
Dell didn't sell Ubuntu systems in March when I bought it.
I didn't get a recovery disk, but also didn't care, because I never booted the damned thing into Vista anyway. Ubuntu provides iso's of my "recovery disk" free of charge :)
''The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al-Qaeda'', U.S. President George W Bush told reporters Thursday, is ''because there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda''.
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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0619-04.h
"THE PRESIDENT: We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th. What the Vice President said was, is that he has been involved with al Qaeda. And al Zarqawi, al Qaeda operative, was in Baghdad. He's the guy that ordered the killing of a U.S. diplomat. He's a man who is still running loose, involved with the poisons network, involved with Ansar al-Islam. There's no question that Saddam Hussein had al Qaeda ties."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/09/2
"We know that Iraq and the al Qaeda terrorist network share a common enemy -- the United States of America. We know that Iraq and al Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade. Some al Qaeda leaders who fled Afghanistan went to Iraq. These include one very senior al Qaeda leader who received medical treatment in Baghdad this year, and who has been associated with planning for chemical and biological attacks. We've learned that Iraq has trained al Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases. And we know that after September the 11th, Saddam Hussein's regime gleefully celebrated the terrorist attacks on America."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/2
So, there are many many quotes insisting there was a link to Al-Qaeda. Which there wasn't. Thank you for playing, though.
http://subversion.tigris.org/links.html
There's a good selection halfway down the page.
"...other than what was there from the beginning, namely backward compatibility with older iterations of the PC platform. It's there, and it's enough to boot at least the graphical installer. Unless, of course, you _do_ have something exotic, like EFI firmware that isn't backwards compatible."
beep, wrong. There are multiple broken APIC implementations out there that are completely nonstandard. This is how a non plug and play (read everything but windows) OS brings up hardware and assigns irq's. That's not "good enough to bring up the installer" its bad enough to hang the boot. If someone wants to put out a BIOS and include APIC, they should implement it correctly so you don't have to disable it to boot. We can boot without it, which we will if its A) not there, or B) disabled.
subject isn't a link, text bar comes up when you mouse over them.
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#How_to_i nstall_DVD_playback_capability
sudo apt-get install subversion
And I've got Ubuntu running on mine with a bootline tweak, but Fedora 7 wouldn't boot. Go figure, just like I was saying, things aren't standard on 64 bit platforms, broken apic's is the biggest problem I've come across.
6.06 is already a LTS release. Same terms.