>>It's to complex to keep aware of the ins-and-outs of everything
Maybe a general problem with a monolithic platform, used on most computers around the world, maintained by a single company?? Ah... now were seeing the problem...
>> But of course not. This is just another lame FOSSie attempt to force people into using Lunix... which realistically nobody wants
Yeah, of course! why should any child in the world learn on a system which is transparent, and can be explored, when they can be brought up thinking that computers ARE Windows, and that a computer system is something that will ALWAYS be purchased from a single American company and never to be shared, discussed, or cracked open to learn from?
Oh wait, but that will give third world children *more* opportunities than American children! kill the OLPC!
You don't understand. Any organization that treat's their customer's important data like that is not an organization that should be relied on for something as important as email. That's all great if they offer POP, but that doesn't indicate that management has had an epiphany and decided that customer's data is now important, they were just pressured.
A year ago I lost 7 or 8 years worth of email in my Hotmail account because I got married- and was too busy to check my email for 30 days. Microsoft was kind enough to allow me to reactivate my account if I wished - but the email was gone. Note, some of that email predated Microsoft owning Hotmail.
Needless to say, now I use my university's pop email server and download the emails locally - and back them up. I will never trust my personal archives to a company like that again.
There are plenty of old computers being given away, but if you give away used windows (Cd's or on a computer), you are breaking the law.
There is no point in arbitrarily requiring windows when it is not necessary to simply read a file. Universally accessible could mean html or plain text however, and doesn't imply office documents.
Seriously, it sounds like you may have a broadcom wireless card - that's a problem that really needs to be fixed somehow. Hopefully you give it (Linux) another chance some time when you have more time. Many of the "command line fixes" are actually easier than tracking down drivers and installing them in XP - once you're familiar with the platform.
Not that I like feeding trolls, but wake up, no one here think's FLOSS == perfect security, that's why both my Ubuntu and Fedora machine get software updates on a regular basis. The primary difference between FLOSS and proprietary security is transparency: do you know how many ten year old bugs are sitting in Windows or IE which Microsoft refuses to fix? Unless you work for them, you likely don't have a clue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flac
Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) is a file format for audio data compression. Being a lossless compression format, FLAC does not remove information from the audio stream, as lossy compression formats such as MP3, AAC, and Vorbis do.
Like other methods of compression, FLAC's main advantage is the reduction of bandwidth or storage requirements, but without sacrificing the integrity of the audio source. For example, a digital recording (such as a CD) encoded to FLAC can be decompressed into an identical copy of the audio data. Audio sources encoded to FLAC are typically reduced in size 40 to 50 percent. (53% according to their own comparison)
It's like a zip/bzip/gzip file, once uncompressed, it's binary equal.
Bloated is the wrong word. Konqueror has an order of magnitude more features than Firefox, but works much faste. I'm sure Konqueror and it's dependencies are also much much more than 6 Mb. However, something to do with the architecture of Firefox is seriously flawed: not only does it leak memory like a siv, the UI and page rendering has slowed with each release (I know, I use it on a 600 Mhz coppermine processor with 128 Mb ram). Additionally, one page with a lot of (poor) javascript can lock up the whole browser for several minutes - why isn't each tab it's own thread?
I use it for several reasons, but latency is an issue that should be given some thought.
the actual major innovations to happen in the future are beyond our imagination (and much more valuable than flying cars). Do you think anyone would have believed you 50 years ago if you had said that something called the internet would allow uncountable numbers of people to work together from all over the world on projects as massive as the Linux kernel or Wikipedia?
I consider myself fairly well read in science, but I would not feel comfortable making decisions with regard to climate change - because I'm not an expert in that field! Bush thinks he knows science, that's why he doesn't care to take advice from leading researchers.
I added a custom modeline to my X11 config and I'll be damned if you can do that via the GUI Open Konqueror, click up until you are at the root directory. Click etc. Click X11. Right click xorg.conf > select actions, and "edit as root." Enter password. (text editor opens), scroll to line, paste text.
The instructions say to use the terminal because its much *easier* to cut and paste "sudo kedit/etc/X11/xorg.conf" into the terminal. Also, if you say "but I use gnome," then you just proved the other parent's point - a command is much more portable between systems.
If your X11 crashed on startup, well, that's a problem with xorg, not Linux. And you will find that all distros within the year will have a "failsafe" like ubuntu that allows you to use your "gui" to fix the problems.
These guys found that the phishing sites were hosted primarily on Linux machines. These are not "linux botnet" machines.
Yeah, botnets are great for sending out massive spam loads, but imagine trying to host a stable website on a thousand windows machines with DSL connections.
So big surprise: most web servers are Linux, and most phishing web sites are on Linux machines. Yeah Linux is fail-able, but this provides no new information.
All users don't need to compile. If people want it, theres bound to be *someone* somewhere that will make the changes and release a new version. Obviously this does not happen all the time - but just the threat of it is enough to keep most OSS projects listening to the user much more than in the proprietary counterpart.
So Microsoft solved server OS fragmentation by introducing yet another incompatible OS to the market?
Somehow I think NT's successes came from various other reasons.
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>>It's to complex to keep aware of the ins-and-outs of everything
Maybe a general problem with a monolithic platform, used on most computers around the world, maintained by a single company?? Ah... now were seeing the problem...
>> But of course not. This is just another lame FOSSie attempt to force people into using Lunix... which realistically nobody wants
Yeah, of course! why should any child in the world learn on a system which is transparent, and can be explored, when they can be brought up thinking that computers ARE Windows, and that a computer system is something that will ALWAYS be purchased from a single American company and never to be shared, discussed, or cracked open to learn from?
Oh wait, but that will give third world children *more* opportunities than American children! kill the OLPC!
You don't understand. Any organization that treat's their customer's important data like that is not an organization that should be relied on for something as important as email. That's all great if they offer POP, but that doesn't indicate that management has had an epiphany and decided that customer's data is now important, they were just pressured.
A year ago I lost 7 or 8 years worth of email in my Hotmail account because I got married- and was too busy to check my email for 30 days. Microsoft was kind enough to allow me to reactivate my account if I wished - but the email was gone. Note, some of that email predated Microsoft owning Hotmail.
Needless to say, now I use my university's pop email server and download the emails locally - and back them up. I will never trust my personal archives to a company like that again.
There are plenty of old computers being given away, but if you give away used windows (Cd's or on a computer), you are breaking the law.
There is no point in arbitrarily requiring windows when it is not necessary to simply read a file. Universally accessible could mean html or plain text however, and doesn't imply office documents.
Wow, you had wireless working on MS-DOS??
Seriously, it sounds like you may have a broadcom wireless card - that's a problem that really needs to be fixed somehow. Hopefully you give it (Linux) another chance some time when you have more time. Many of the "command line fixes" are actually easier than tracking down drivers and installing them in XP - once you're familiar with the platform.
Someone has to correct such blatant fud.
Not that I like feeding trolls, but wake up, no one here think's FLOSS == perfect security, that's why both my Ubuntu and Fedora machine get software updates on a regular basis. The primary difference between FLOSS and proprietary security is transparency: do you know how many ten year old bugs are sitting in Windows or IE which Microsoft refuses to fix? Unless you work for them, you likely don't have a clue.
It's like a zip/bzip/gzip file, once uncompressed, it's binary equal.
So how long until someone publishes the real information and addresses of these bloggers?
Let's see how they like vigilante "community" justice.
I wouldn't say it's a lost art -- I'm very proficient at disassembling Python, Perl and PHP. I can get at the source in a matter of seconds!
Bloated is the wrong word. Konqueror has an order of magnitude more features than Firefox, but works much faste. I'm sure Konqueror and it's dependencies are also much much more than 6 Mb. However, something to do with the architecture of Firefox is seriously flawed: not only does it leak memory like a siv, the UI and page rendering has slowed with each release (I know, I use it on a 600 Mhz coppermine processor with 128 Mb ram). Additionally, one page with a lot of (poor) javascript can lock up the whole browser for several minutes - why isn't each tab it's own thread?
I use it for several reasons, but latency is an issue that should be given some thought.
"Bloodsucking Daemons"?? let's not start a BSD vs. Linux flamewar here...
the actual major innovations to happen in the future are beyond our imagination (and much more valuable than flying cars). Do you think anyone would have believed you 50 years ago if you had said that something called the internet would allow uncountable numbers of people to work together from all over the world on projects as massive as the Linux kernel or Wikipedia?
You're forgetting that with most technology, R&D is much more expensive than production.Thus, the more you sell, the cheaper the overhead (per unit).
the second you graduate!
Now the OEM's can load crapware directly into the BIOS!
I want one who listens to scientists.
I consider myself fairly well read in science, but I would not feel comfortable making decisions with regard to climate change - because I'm not an expert in that field! Bush thinks he knows science, that's why he doesn't care to take advice from leading researchers.
I won't be happy unless the robot is made to resemble a paper clip, and pops up at the most irritating times!
The instructions say to use the terminal because its much *easier* to cut and paste "sudo kedit
If your X11 crashed on startup, well, that's a problem with xorg, not Linux. And you will find that all distros within the year will have a "failsafe" like ubuntu that allows you to use your "gui" to fix the problems.
I think there's a setting in "options" that limits the ram used for caching.
These guys found that the phishing sites were hosted primarily on Linux machines. These are not "linux botnet" machines. Yeah, botnets are great for sending out massive spam loads, but imagine trying to host a stable website on a thousand windows machines with DSL connections. So big surprise: most web servers are Linux, and most phishing web sites are on Linux machines. Yeah Linux is fail-able, but this provides no new information.
All users don't need to compile. If people want it, theres bound to be *someone* somewhere that will make the changes and release a new version. Obviously this does not happen all the time - but just the threat of it is enough to keep most OSS projects listening to the user much more than in the proprietary counterpart.
In space, lead PROTECTS you!
So Microsoft solved server OS fragmentation by introducing yet another incompatible OS to the market? Somehow I think NT's successes came from various other reasons.