I can't decide whether I am pissed off (I was waiting for the LHC results like a little child who waits for his birthday present) or if I should burst out in laughing...
"SRWare Iron: The browser of the future - based on the free Sourcecode "Chromium" - without any problems at privacy and security
Google's Web browser Chrome thrilled with an extremely fast site rendering, a sleek design and innovative features. But it also gets critic from data protection specialists , for reasons such as creating a unique user ID or the submission of entries to Google to generate suggestions. SRWare Iron is a real alternative. The browser is based on the Chromium-source and offers the same features as Chrome - but without the critical points that the privacy concern.
We could therefore create a browser with which you can now use the innovative features without worrying about your privacy.
We want our users to participate in our work and make the browser free to download under the name "SRWare Iron" into the net."
People have problems with any OS on the planet. Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, ReactOS, BeOS, Haiku, *BSD and everything else...
>This doesn't seem to differ much from the Ubuntu release model (at least in this case).
Ubuntu releases every 6 months and it's development model is according... Windows and Mac OS X are not bound by planned testing schedules and Windows of all OS's doesn't get a lot of testing time. It just ships whenever it is installable and runnable. Read about the days of Windows 9.x from employees who resigned and wrote books about it. It's not like "Windows 7 is released! Shit! Ship Ubuntu Karma NOW!"
It's Dutch but the dropdown lists speak for themselves. Anything but green results are suckage. Red = doesn't work. Gray = unknown. Yellow = partialy working.
>I'm not trolling, because I just spent two weeks trying to Ubuntu to install on my modern PC that ran great on Windows 7.
Any idea how much people were spending a shitload of time Windows 7 to get everything working? Let's start with printers...
>I'm also not trolling because of the nightmare that is WiFi support in Linux.
What?! It's kinda the other way around since I have never encountered WiFi cards that did not work (except for a brandless chinese laptop expansion card with a 2 year old Linux distro). It's actually easyer or Ubuntu Linux... However if you try to log into a Microsoft network that uses mschapv2 you need a different backend (forgot the name) that you can get with a single sudo apt-get install command...
>But you are doing a disservice to Linux and the Linux community when you make posts like you are making.
I am sorry but I do not understand you. Maybe I am a little dumb, but it' s actually true what I said. I pointed out facts... I think it's for the better not to lie and point at the problems...
>But if I walk into BestBuy after work *today* and I grab any piece of hardware, off the shelf, it will come with a disk that provides drivers for Windows. How many will include drivers for Linux?
None because they are included with distro's, so what's the problem?
>Maybe a default install of Linux supports more hardware than a default install of Windows. Maybe. The difference is, every piece of hardware you or I have purchased almost certainly came with Windows drivers on a disk and almost certainly has drivers available for download on the internet.
Sadly many stopped working between service packs and newer versions of Windows...
>The opposite is not true of Linux.
Linux doesn't binary blobs because it already has drivers build-in...
>And, if you really want, I can dig up my multi-page post on the Ubunutu Forums where I was eventually told, 'Umm, barrow or buy a new DVD drive'. Yes please give it to me. If a DVD drive doesn' t work than it must be either: A) dead, or: B) a technological and standards uncomplient horror
But I do want you to give it to me. How old was it, what manufacturor made it? It might also be possible that you fscked it's firmware by installing copy protection firmware from a commercial game.
Upgrades to Kubuntu 9.10 crashes KDE. Clean installs do not. I am perfectly happy. But maybe I am one of those lucky bastards that do not experience these bugs. I got my system running for 9 hours now and so far so good.
Canonical is interested in rushing out bleeding edge versions of Ubuntu twice a year. Canonical is also interrested in stable, long term release versions, called LTS. Mod parent Troll.
>This again comes from the fact that both Windows and Mac OS X releases are properly tested and maintained and tend to be in more professional quality. That has got me thinking... How can the London stock Exchange crash twice with Windows Server in one year, but didn' t crash at all in all previous years it was running Linux? Professional quality must mean that the quality sucks...
>But why don't the Linux distros go to same lenghts? They go beyond, mister. It' s called FLOSS and if you want to know what that is all about then you should read (about) the Cathedral and the Bazaar.
>It shouldn't be impossible, unless of course, commercial projects are maintained more professionally. It is perfectly possible and already exceeding commercial projects. Commercial projects, you see, are "more money is more important than higher quality so RUSH IT OUT OF THE DOOR YESTERDAY!"
You are trolling because more hardware (amount of devices and architectures) work with Linux out of the box, but less brand new hardware works with Linux straight away.
More brand-new hardware works with the latest version of Windows and launch date, but less older hardware is able to even run the latest version of Windows, or the other way around.
So Linux can actually run more hardware, but some exotic crap, and do note crap (I don' t care how much you paid: still technically crap!) doesn' t work with Linux. But ehm... how much hardware still worked with Vista/Windows7? Yup...
>Production Ready video editing tools What do you mean by 'Production Ready' ? Hollywood stuff? How many people actually use that outside of Hollywood!? For Sony Vegas users there is Kdenlive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kdenlive
>But don't make the beginner's error of thinking that the "general public" had any control! Because they can only choose which of the groups of straw-men that are offered to them they will take.
It's not like the 'general public' can' t form political parties. So the 'general public' get the government they deserve...
The level of education in Europe is much higher than the rest of the world. For example, here in the Netherlands, hbo (freely translated into "higher job education"), which is below university in our country, counts as a university degree in the USA. 'Nuff said...
Slashdot Mirror
I can't decide whether I am pissed off (I was waiting for the LHC results like a little child who waits for his birthday present) or if I should burst out in laughing...
I guess I am both at the same time.
Isn't Slashdot the internet? Huh? What?
I don't know, but why can't you run 32bit apps in your 64bit OS? :S Is this another strange Windows thing or... ?
Kind of like a rhetorical question. Must be the Dutch culture. It all means that it fully works.
"It's snappy but the lack of plugins like [...], Adblock Plus, [...] is what kills it for me"
"As our way of thanking you for your positive contributions to Slashdot, you are eligible to disable advertising."
Lolz...
"SRWare Iron: The browser of the future - based on the free Sourcecode "Chromium" - without any problems at privacy and security
Google's Web browser Chrome thrilled with an extremely fast site rendering, a sleek design and innovative features. But it also gets critic from data protection specialists , for reasons such as creating a unique user ID or the submission of entries to Google to generate suggestions. SRWare Iron is a real alternative. The browser is based on the Chromium-source and offers the same features as Chrome - but without the critical points that the privacy concern.
We could therefore create a browser with which you can now use the innovative features without worrying about your privacy.
We want our users to participate in our work and make the browser free to download under the name "SRWare Iron" into the net."
http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php
No they ran Linux, or at least before the switch to Windows was made. Microsoft made a major add compain about it: http://tipotheday.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/reliabletimes.jpg
>Then why are people having these problems?
People have problems with any OS on the planet. Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, ReactOS, BeOS, Haiku, *BSD and everything else...
>This doesn't seem to differ much from the Ubuntu release model (at least in this case).
Ubuntu releases every 6 months and it's development model is according... Windows and Mac OS X are not bound by planned testing schedules and Windows of all OS's doesn't get a lot of testing time. It just ships whenever it is installable and runnable. Read about the days of Windows 9.x from employees who resigned and wrote books about it. It's not like "Windows 7 is released! Shit! Ship Ubuntu Karma NOW!"
Well, if you press the download button on www.ubuntu.com you get the choice between LTS and a normal release, with an explenation?
Lol? You never even tried the LiveCD and you are already complaining about what you do not even know...
Here's a website: http://linux-wless.passys.nl/
It's Dutch but the dropdown lists speak for themselves. Anything but green results are suckage. Red = doesn't work. Gray = unknown. Yellow = partialy working.
It could also be a problem with your disc burner. Did you burn it at lower speeds. Did you check md5?
I had the same problem with Fedora when using a crappy burner.
Try a 1GB or higher USB stick with unetbootin if you have one.
>(Still running on RC code right now actually, havn't had time to reinstall).
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
>Can I see a show of hands? How many of us want. to use old hardware?
All netbook users in existence, for starters... ?
> If I had to use old hardware, I'd pick linux every time. Thank god I don't have to.
Old hardware can also mean 3 months to 1 year old hardware, like my AMD Phenom 9950 X4, 8GB ram and my ATI HDRadeon 4870 x2...
>try and transfer a 100+ meg file across the network.
Works?
>also put your laptop into standby and then wake it up.
Actually works?
>also try and play a video (with pretty much any player) for longer than 2 minutes without issues arising.
Works...
>shall I go on?
Yes.
>I'm not trolling, because I just spent two weeks trying to Ubuntu to install on my modern PC that ran great on Windows 7.
Any idea how much people were spending a shitload of time Windows 7 to get everything working? Let's start with printers...
>I'm also not trolling because of the nightmare that is WiFi support in Linux.
What?! It's kinda the other way around since I have never encountered WiFi cards that did not work (except for a brandless chinese laptop expansion card with a 2 year old Linux distro). It's actually easyer or Ubuntu Linux... However if you try to log into a Microsoft network that uses mschapv2 you need a different backend (forgot the name) that you can get with a single sudo apt-get install command...
>But you are doing a disservice to Linux and the Linux community when you make posts like you are making.
I am sorry but I do not understand you. Maybe I am a little dumb, but it' s actually true what I said. I pointed out facts... I think it's for the better not to lie and point at the problems...
>But if I walk into BestBuy after work *today* and I grab any piece of hardware, off the shelf, it will come with a disk that provides drivers for Windows. How many will include drivers for Linux?
None because they are included with distro's, so what's the problem?
>Maybe a default install of Linux supports more hardware than a default install of Windows. Maybe. The difference is, every piece of hardware you or I have purchased almost certainly came with Windows drivers on a disk and almost certainly has drivers available for download on the internet.
Sadly many stopped working between service packs and newer versions of Windows...
>The opposite is not true of Linux.
Linux doesn't binary blobs because it already has drivers build-in...
>And, if you really want, I can dig up my multi-page post on the Ubunutu Forums where I was eventually told, 'Umm, barrow or buy a new DVD drive'.
Yes please give it to me. If a DVD drive doesn' t work than it must be either:
A) dead, or:
B) a technological and standards uncomplient horror
But I do want you to give it to me. How old was it, what manufacturor made it? It might also be possible that you fscked it's firmware by installing copy protection firmware from a commercial game.
Upgrades to Kubuntu 9.10 crashes KDE. Clean installs do not. I am perfectly happy. But maybe I am one of those lucky bastards that do not experience these bugs. I got my system running for 9 hours now and so far so good.
Canonical is interested in rushing out bleeding edge versions of Ubuntu twice a year. Canonical is also interrested in stable, long term release versions, called LTS. Mod parent Troll.
>This again comes from the fact that both Windows and Mac OS X releases are properly tested and maintained and tend to be in more professional quality.
That has got me thinking... How can the London stock Exchange crash twice with Windows Server in one year, but didn' t crash at all in all previous years it was running Linux? Professional quality must mean that the quality sucks...
>But why don't the Linux distros go to same lenghts?
They go beyond, mister. It' s called FLOSS and if you want to know what that is all about then you should read (about) the Cathedral and the Bazaar.
>It shouldn't be impossible, unless of course, commercial projects are maintained more professionally.
It is perfectly possible and already exceeding commercial projects. Commercial projects, you see, are "more money is more important than higher quality so RUSH IT OUT OF THE DOOR YESTERDAY!"
You are trolling because more hardware (amount of devices and architectures) work with Linux out of the box, but less brand new hardware works with Linux straight away.
More brand-new hardware works with the latest version of Windows and launch date, but less older hardware is able to even run the latest version of Windows, or the other way around.
So Linux can actually run more hardware, but some exotic crap, and do note crap (I don' t care how much you paid: still technically crap!) doesn' t work with Linux. But ehm... how much hardware still worked with Vista/Windows7? Yup...
Pov-ray, etc
>How about project management software
One out of an endless list of FLOSS project management: http://www.openworkbench.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=37
>3d rendering tools
Puh-lease: Blender...
>Production Ready video editing tools
What do you mean by 'Production Ready' ? Hollywood stuff? How many people actually use that outside of Hollywood!? For Sony Vegas users there is Kdenlive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kdenlive
>and automated translation middlewear?
Babelfish?
C'mon man...
>But don't make the beginner's error of thinking that the "general public" had any control! Because they can only choose which of the groups of straw-men that are offered to them they will take.
It's not like the 'general public' can' t form political parties. So the 'general public' get the government they deserve...
>ven now, there really is nothing to complete with the feature level in Adobe Acrobat.
Koffice2 series features I think all Acrobat features, with the exception of 3D (seriously, who cares?) and exports to PDF at least when it prints...
The level of education in Europe is much higher than the rest of the world. For example, here in the Netherlands, hbo (freely translated into "higher job education"), which is below university in our country, counts as a university degree in the USA. 'Nuff said...
Well... the EU is slowly starting to become like an actual country USA style... Where each country is a state and the EU gets a president... Hmmmmm...
As a citizen from a country in the EU I was fearing that this might happen someday and sadly the corruption is already starting to develop :(