Maybe I'll give bcm43xx another try. It "worked" at the initial release of feisty, but I got horrible packet loss and the speed was unusable. Network-manager has a problem or two with the ndiswrapper, like I said in my OP, I have to both soft and hard disable and reenable the wireless on the initial boot and coming back from hibernate to connect to a WPA network (it'll default to any unencrypted network it can find before I do that, but won't finish a connection to my home network).
At the very least, some of the initial impressions from gutsy sound like bcm43xx improvements.
Linux isn't UNIX for cost reasons. UNIX is a copyrighted compatibility certification. It costs a lot of money to get that moniker, and it really doesn't mean anything in these days of Linux and BSD.
Is that amd64? I have a dv9200 series with broadcom and an amd64, and even with the ndiswrapper it has to be both soft and hard disabled/reenabled before it will connect to WPA encrypted (read encryption that can't be broken in 30 seconds by a script kiddie) networks.
Not a programmer, just a tech geek. I'm actually a mechanical engineer, but I get into IT stuff because of my background. I can hack a little in C and Fortran, but, like most other languages, I'm not that great at them. I'm looking to pick up a bit of Python and give it a go (hacking some Ubuntu stuff) but we'll see.
When your content is in English (which I speak) and your controls are in Spanish (which my puerto rican wife speaks, but I don't, I'm not good with other languages) it doesn't make much sense. Pick one or the other, or you're going to alienate a general audience from your blog.
And the snap to "xenophobia" for not speaking a language, which IS the only thing I said, is pretty pathetic.
Your blog (which this is not a promo for) has all its post comments crap in spanish, which I don't speak.
I'm just wondering why you had to install wpa-supplicant under feisty when its in the base install. Maybe its the alternate install cd?
Anyway, make your blog readable (ie get rid of the crap background and put the comments stuff in English when your content is in English) and maybe someone WILL comment. But it won't be me.
FYI, I'm also using the most Linux un-friendly wifi card (broadcom that doesn't work with the reverse engineered driver, so ndiswrapper). If you installed network-manager instead of piecing it together and I'm betting using network-manager-gnome off of an old edgy faq you wouldn't have had to touch anything.
This does show the downside of all the old forum faq's lying around, but also shows what people will put themselves through without first asking if an FAQ still applies after a new release.
Umm.. I'm confused, is the dell install of ubuntu non standard? Otherwise Network Manager has wpa-supplicant already installed on the backend and has wpa support out of the box (I'm writing this from my HP lappy with Feisty running on it. I've been running Feisty since the beta and did a clean install for fun when it launched. Network Manager is part of the base install.
Well, while I'll agree Exchange is dominant. There is Notes. We use it for a 3000+ person office for shared calendaring and reservation of resources. While (also like Exchange) its not perfect, it does have a linux client (which we don't use, we just switched to XP from 2000 6 months ago).
If you didn't read the license (I hope to God you're not distributing under it) and you use the software.. well that's at your own risk. You need to know your own obligations.
Yes, the GPL says specifically that you must include a copy of the GPL to make sure the user knows his rights.
Section 1: "You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you.... and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program."
Unless you're using iTunes Music Store, use Rhythmbox. Install the iPod support in Ubuntu (pretty easy, JFGI) and Rhytmbox allows syncing and all that rot. In fact, under rhythmbox, you're not limited to hooking your iPod up to just one computer or any of that other shit. It also won't wipe your Pod when you sync to a library that has other songs that aren't on there.
The interface is also pretty similar, so the learning curve shouldn't be too bad.:)
Sorry, but I have to take issue with this. My fiance, who I switched to Gentoo (my mistake) then ubuntu (fixing my mistake) was sick and tired of Quicken borking its own files. We had transactions in one register that were undeletable that it inserted and weren't in other registers.
We constantly had to guess at budgeting (in our BUDGETING software) because it couldn't keep its own DB staight.
As for checking email, browsing the web, etc. The apps on Linux are on par or better (firefox runs better in linux imho) than Windows.
So no, for an average use case that you specifically mentioned, linux with Gnucash, Firefox, and Evolution fills MY needs MUCH better. (as in it actually works the way it advertises, doesn't fuck things up just for fun, and I don't have to "upgrade", or at least pay to upgrade, every year to get a yet worse version of the same crappy buggy shit).
"You are using someone ELSES system, at no cost to you. You have aggreed to their terms of service in order to do so. That you didn't read the TOS, to see if there WAS a possibility of missing emails because a company you wish to receive emails from is being blocked for not paying a fee to the provider, is not relevant to this issue. It's your fault, not the company you are getting FREE service from. It is their network, their computers, and their software. They can damn-well do whatever they want with it. If enough people leave the service because of the actions OF the service, the service will either change or go away. It really is that simple."
Well, my point was your original comment was completely inapplicable to the situation you were commenting on. He has accepted no TOS. He is not using "someone ELSE's system". Microsoft has agreed to provide email service in exchange for showing and selling lots of advertising. As such the customer (who is making them money) has some reasonable level of service to be expected from a service provider (ad supported or otherwise).
You can block whoever you like on your domain as long as you don't have a customer who has a reasonable expectation of deliver of services.
Thank you for playing though, your straw man was crunchy.
He's talking about someone who DOESN'T use Hotmail who is trying to send out a newsletter that Hotmail then blocks (without that person ever having signed/clicked an ToS to send an email TO an email service) that newsletter and comes back with the fact that you need to pay for play to get it delivered.
Hotmail acct that gets (in a 30 day period) 1800 messages delivered to the inbox (all spam, the only reason the account is still around is because of being registered at a specific company's external career site that won't change email addy's) and 8 Spam messages filtered....
Seems it doesn't work no matter how you slice it. Also, of those 8 spam messages, one of them is a newsletter I subscribed to that gets through to the inbox ~50% of the time.
Compare that to my double buffered gmail (one acct to give out, one I actually use with the given out accts inbox forwarded to it). I get all the messages I'm looking for, and for the life of the account I have 2 spam messages (life = 6 months so far).
Answer, hotmail/filtering sucks, esp pay to play. Gmail can somehow magically figure out I'm not interested in p3n1s p!llz
"* We trust all hand tools like wrenches and sockets to be exactly the size on the label"
Well, technically we trust our hand tools to conform to the nominal size specifications that go along with the size on the label and thus interface correctly with any connector that also conforms to that nominal size specification.
A 3/8" wrench is not 3/8" EXACTLY, it is some close approximation of 3/8" toleranced such that a correctly toleranced bolt that is a close approximation of 3/8" is guaranteed to be smaller (in the case of a hex head bolt).
Just your friendly neighborhood mechanical engineer.:)
Yes and that "dimensionless derived unit" that is the ratio between an arc and the radius of the arc is a radian. Another commonly used expression of angle is the degree.
In most proper mathematical contexts, angles SHOULD be expressed in radians, but in a standard where there are multiple ways of expressing a value, the assumed units need to be specified. (See NASA misses mars because of cm vs inches)
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That's nice and all. I agree we should have standards, I was pointing out that its something IE (in many cases the default behavior expected) does differently than firefox that causes code to screw up. I use Firefox on Linux. I just understand that people don't expect me to.
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I actually figured out the issue on a intranet site at work. When IE (which has become the default expected behavior) passes a field into a url, if its blank it inserts a null character, when firefox does it, it omits the field. This borks code that doesn't expect the field to be omitted.
The developers version comes with a debugger (hardware based) which you can't compare to the iPhone. So it's a ratio of 1/2 ($300) at this point. I'm not sure what the upcoming WiFi version costs, but you've already got a feature (GPS) the iPhone doesn't so it might be parity already.
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Maybe I'll give bcm43xx another try. It "worked" at the initial release of feisty, but I got horrible packet loss and the speed was unusable. Network-manager has a problem or two with the ndiswrapper, like I said in my OP, I have to both soft and hard disable and reenable the wireless on the initial boot and coming back from hibernate to connect to a WPA network (it'll default to any unencrypted network it can find before I do that, but won't finish a connection to my home network).
At the very least, some of the initial impressions from gutsy sound like bcm43xx improvements.
We'll see.
Linux isn't UNIX for cost reasons. UNIX is a copyrighted compatibility certification. It costs a lot of money to get that moniker, and it really doesn't mean anything in these days of Linux and BSD.
Linux is Linux, it doesn't NEED to be UNIX.
Is that amd64? I have a dv9200 series with broadcom and an amd64, and even with the ndiswrapper it has to be both soft and hard disabled/reenabled before it will connect to WPA encrypted (read encryption that can't be broken in 30 seconds by a script kiddie) networks.
Not a programmer, just a tech geek. I'm actually a mechanical engineer, but I get into IT stuff because of my background. I can hack a little in C and Fortran, but, like most other languages, I'm not that great at them. I'm looking to pick up a bit of Python and give it a go (hacking some Ubuntu stuff) but we'll see.
When your content is in English (which I speak) and your controls are in Spanish (which my puerto rican wife speaks, but I don't, I'm not good with other languages) it doesn't make much sense. Pick one or the other, or you're going to alienate a general audience from your blog.
And the snap to "xenophobia" for not speaking a language, which IS the only thing I said, is pretty pathetic.
So fuck off.
Your blog (which this is not a promo for) has all its post comments crap in spanish, which I don't speak.
I'm just wondering why you had to install wpa-supplicant under feisty when its in the base install. Maybe its the alternate install cd?
Anyway, make your blog readable (ie get rid of the crap background and put the comments stuff in English when your content is in English) and maybe someone WILL comment. But it won't be me.
FYI, I'm also using the most Linux un-friendly wifi card (broadcom that doesn't work with the reverse engineered driver, so ndiswrapper). If you installed network-manager instead of piecing it together and I'm betting using network-manager-gnome off of an old edgy faq you wouldn't have had to touch anything.
This does show the downside of all the old forum faq's lying around, but also shows what people will put themselves through without first asking if an FAQ still applies after a new release.
Umm.. I'm confused, is the dell install of ubuntu non standard? Otherwise Network Manager has wpa-supplicant already installed on the backend and has wpa support out of the box (I'm writing this from my HP lappy with Feisty running on it. I've been running Feisty since the beta and did a clean install for fun when it launched. Network Manager is part of the base install.
Please elaborate.
Well, while I'll agree Exchange is dominant. There is Notes. We use it for a 3000+ person office for shared calendaring and reservation of resources. While (also like Exchange) its not perfect, it does have a linux client (which we don't use, we just switched to XP from 2000 6 months ago).
If you didn't read the license (I hope to God you're not distributing under it) and you use the software.. well that's at your own risk. You need to know your own obligations.
Yes, the GPL says specifically that you must include a copy of the GPL to make sure the user knows his rights.
.... and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program."
Section 1:
"You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
Unless you're using iTunes Music Store, use Rhythmbox. Install the iPod support in Ubuntu (pretty easy, JFGI) and Rhytmbox allows syncing and all that rot. In fact, under rhythmbox, you're not limited to hooking your iPod up to just one computer or any of that other shit. It also won't wipe your Pod when you sync to a library that has other songs that aren't on there.
:)
The interface is also pretty similar, so the learning curve shouldn't be too bad.
Sorry, but I have to take issue with this. My fiance, who I switched to Gentoo (my mistake) then ubuntu (fixing my mistake) was sick and tired of Quicken borking its own files. We had transactions in one register that were undeletable that it inserted and weren't in other registers.
We constantly had to guess at budgeting (in our BUDGETING software) because it couldn't keep its own DB staight.
As for checking email, browsing the web, etc. The apps on Linux are on par or better (firefox runs better in linux imho) than Windows.
So no, for an average use case that you specifically mentioned, linux with Gnucash, Firefox, and Evolution fills MY needs MUCH better. (as in it actually works the way it advertises, doesn't fuck things up just for fun, and I don't have to "upgrade", or at least pay to upgrade, every year to get a yet worse version of the same crappy buggy shit).
https://shop.fluendo.com/
There is, and it was already mentioned (although only the free mp3 one was mentioned).
"Numbered lists"
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"Tables of Content"
Insert -> Table of Contents
"custom paragraph styles"
Format -> Paragraph
"mail merges"
Tools -> Letters and Mailings -> Mail Merge
What the hell are you smoking?
"You are using someone ELSES system, at no cost to you. You have aggreed to their terms of service in order to do so. That you didn't read the TOS, to see if there WAS a possibility of missing emails because a company you wish to receive emails from is being blocked for not paying a fee to the provider, is not relevant to this issue. It's your fault, not the company you are getting FREE service from. It is their network, their computers, and their software. They can damn-well do whatever they want with it. If enough people leave the service because of the actions OF the service, the service will either change or go away. It really is that simple."
Well, my point was your original comment was completely inapplicable to the situation you were commenting on. He has accepted no TOS. He is not using "someone ELSE's system". Microsoft has agreed to provide email service in exchange for showing and selling lots of advertising. As such the customer (who is making them money) has some reasonable level of service to be expected from a service provider (ad supported or otherwise).
You can block whoever you like on your domain as long as you don't have a customer who has a reasonable expectation of deliver of services.
Thank you for playing though, your straw man was crunchy.
My secondary acct gets a good deal of spam (I give out the addy frequently to forms, etc) but the filter seems to work a LOT better was my main point.
Hey jackass,
He's talking about someone who DOESN'T use Hotmail who is trying to send out a newsletter that Hotmail then blocks (without that person ever having signed/clicked an ToS to send an email TO an email service) that newsletter and comes back with the fact that you need to pay for play to get it delivered.
So YES, you did miss the point.
Hotmail acct that gets (in a 30 day period) 1800 messages delivered to the inbox (all spam, the only reason the account is still around is because of being registered at a specific company's external career site that won't change email addy's) and 8 Spam messages filtered....
Seems it doesn't work no matter how you slice it. Also, of those 8 spam messages, one of them is a newsletter I subscribed to that gets through to the inbox ~50% of the time.
Compare that to my double buffered gmail (one acct to give out, one I actually use with the given out accts inbox forwarded to it). I get all the messages I'm looking for, and for the life of the account I have 2 spam messages (life = 6 months so far).
Answer, hotmail/filtering sucks, esp pay to play. Gmail can somehow magically figure out I'm not interested in p3n1s p!llz
hmm.. just my 2 cents.
"* We trust all hand tools like wrenches and sockets to be exactly the size on the label"
:)
Well, technically we trust our hand tools to conform to the nominal size specifications that go along with the size on the label and thus interface correctly with any connector that also conforms to that nominal size specification.
A 3/8" wrench is not 3/8" EXACTLY, it is some close approximation of 3/8" toleranced such that a correctly toleranced bolt that is a close approximation of 3/8" is guaranteed to be smaller (in the case of a hex head bolt).
Just your friendly neighborhood mechanical engineer.
Yes and that "dimensionless derived unit" that is the ratio between an arc and the radius of the arc is a radian. Another commonly used expression of angle is the degree.
In most proper mathematical contexts, angles SHOULD be expressed in radians, but in a standard where there are multiple ways of expressing a value, the assumed units need to be specified. (See NASA misses mars because of cm vs inches)
That's nice and all. I agree we should have standards, I was pointing out that its something IE (in many cases the default behavior expected) does differently than firefox that causes code to screw up. I use Firefox on Linux. I just understand that people don't expect me to.
I actually figured out the issue on a intranet site at work. When IE (which has become the default expected behavior) passes a field into a url, if its blank it inserts a null character, when firefox does it, it omits the field. This borks code that doesn't expect the field to be omitted.
welcome our new Wikipedia reading overlords.
The developers version comes with a debugger (hardware based) which you can't compare to the iPhone. So it's a ratio of 1/2 ($300) at this point. I'm not sure what the upcoming WiFi version costs, but you've already got a feature (GPS) the iPhone doesn't so it might be parity already.
I believe you would be complaining about those that can't get a job in the PRIVATE sector. The public sector IS the government dimwit.