If this looks as though it is about to do serious damage to Linux then why should OIN not give MS both barrels? This happening just after some former MS execs join the trolls and Ballmer running his pie hole can't be a coincidence. If MS can't do this directly, they need to be informed that they aren't doing it by proxy either.
I once watched some videos of Douglas Englebart demonstrating a mouse operated hypertext system back in the sixties. If there is prior art in any of that, I would think that blows these trolls out of the water.
Most people's actual problems are with fit and finish around dependencies and upgrades rather than the packages themselves.. I think Debian and it's derivatives would be just as good if they were based on RPMs instead of debs. Debs don't seem inherently superior to RPMs to me. Both are managed packages that come with files, a list of dependencies, and install scripts. The difference is in how package repositories are maintained and standards for creating packages. The Debian based distros inherit Debian's outstanding efforts at this. There is no reason why an RPM based distro wouldn't work as well but I have yet to see one that handles both major upgrades and ordinary day-to-day software installs and removals as well as Debian bases do.
As a matter of fact, I had that BW monitor. I can even say one nice thing about it. It was very very sharp; I'd go so far as to say it was crisp. If I wanted to play games or run color apps, I just used a TV. The machine indeed came up in low-res mode but I could switch up pretty easily using the menus.
BTW, if you don't already know about it, the Atariage.com forums are nice place to geek out about things Atari.
You didn't even need a GEM disk. A blank floppy would suffice to satisfy the on-boot disk check.
Gosh, I haven't thought about doing that in years. It used to be a way of life.........
It isn't a matter of "political correctness". Many of us dislike throwing the actual developers (and others) of the software Linspire is marketing to the pack of MS Legal wolves just so they can have their thirty pieces of silver. Now Linspire may be interested in "building bridges" but MS wants a good hefty club to swing at the entire FOSS development process. I wouldn't have disliked working with MS for their customer's if didn't involve sticking knives in everybody else.
"Firefox 3" refers to an upcoming product release that will use the "Gecko 1.9" html/web renderer. "Mozilla 2" apparently refers to the APIs and release products based on them that will be what developers focus on once current developments (FF3 and Gecko 1.9) are finished.
Don't "copy to KMails folders". Use KMails "Accounts" settings box to add your mbox or Maildirs. If you want everything live in KMail' directories then create folders in KMail and copy the messages from those "accounts" to them. Once that is done, remove the accounts.
Maybe I'm being uncharitable but any engineer who stayed with them more than a year or two after they sued the whole world should never work or have a shred of respect in this industry again. I expect weaselly chiseling behavior out of the like of Darl McBride but would demand a rather higher ethical sense out anyone writing code I'm going to sell or having any sort of administrator access on my systems. What SCO is and what it's doing was obvious to most of us immediately. Even to the thickest among us, there was no denying it after a year. Staying with SCO more than a year or two into their scam is implicit approval or indifference to what they were doing. This is not good for anyone aspiring to a position of trust.
I'm only saying that it isn't wrong to have high standards of proof for extraordinary claims. Randi or no Randi. The "real scientists" work stands up to skeptical scrutiny. You're correct in that pure skepticism doesn't expand knowledge but skepticism is a necessary gauntlet anything that purports to be a fact must run.
People die because they went to faith healers rather than real doctors. Others get scammed out of their money because they are desperate to contact dead loved ones or to know their future. I don't even want to THINK about the kind of money gullible audiophiles spend so there is a place for debunking frauds if they cause real hurt to real people.
Bottom line is that if one claims they can do things like bend spoons and see remotely then they should be able to do it under controlled conditions (read extensive cheating prevention with explicit descriptions of what constitutes success). If you don't like the way Randi goes about it, fine. Nonetheless, flat declarations that these things are so don't cut it.
I've done upgrade installs from 98 to XP, from NT4 to Server 2000, and from Server 2000 to Server 2003. None of them lasted for than year before having extremely serious problems. The usual thing that would happen is that the machines will boot to a desktop but most of the items in the control panels, administrative tools, and half the installed software won't start. Either the registry gets full of crufty timebombs or files from the old OS are left laying around. Either way, I can't EVER recommend an upgrade install of Windows. You'll always be better off backing up the data and reinstalling the new OS from scratch.
The original Artistic license REALLY would have been a problem. You see the endless arguments about even simple licenses like BSD? Imagine the wrangling a kludgy license like the old Artistic license would have caused. It definitely would have been sand in the gears as projects fought each other over the proper interpretation of the license. Even the version of BSD with the "nasty" advertising clause is infinitely superior in this regard. Although, I seriously doubt a purely BSD licensed OS would have had the success distros like Ubuntu and SuSe are having. Just when things start getting good, someone will either take his toys home or fork the entire OS. Sure there is Darwin but you're better off with FreeBSD if OS X isn't your cuppa.
All that said, FreeBSD or DragonFly could bootstrap themselves into a much larger market/mindshare with the doors opened by widespread Linux use if they play their cards right.
Now, with windows, everything may not have been perfect, but the install would have happened with basic drivers like vga. It wouldn't have died before the first screen.
This much at least is getting fixed. The latest versions of X.Org can failsafe to VGA mode if the automatic driver config (also new) doesn't work. If you say some such capability should have been there from the start I'd agree with you.
I've also used juice from hot peppers to clear up persistent sores on my skin. Yeah, it burns like hell going on but damn if it doesn't clear up what is disfiguring you.
Porn is also one of the few jobs that pay women better than men. Lots of guys want to do it but coming up with the ladies is a bit harder:
Ron Jeremy has commented several times on the pay scale: "The average guy gets $300 to $400 a scene, or $100 to $200 if he's new. A woman makes $100,000 to $250,000 at the end of the year."[1] and "Girls can easily make 100K-250K per year, plus stuff on the side like strip shows and appearances. The average guy makes $40,000 a year."[2]
I haven't compiled a kernel in almost three years. There was a time when you had to do it to get things like sound and video and any number of third party drivers working. Debian and Ubuntu's stock kernels have worked perfectly fine for me. Now you really still need to have a kernel-headers package installed for things like NVidia and VMware drivers but good third party driver installers do a good job of papering over just why you need those headers installed. Unless this has changed, I will fault Ubuntu slightly for not making sure matching headers are installed alongside the kernel. I know to do this but I sure wouldn't want to explain it to anybody.
You can't disable this device in the BIOS? I had built-in wireless go cuckoo in a laptop and once I disabled in BIOS and removed the XP drivers, the replacement card started working. Any chance that the true problem may be your Linux drivers for the CardBus?
If you want to make it really easy for her, cut and paste those into a fix_update.cmd file. Tell her to run that and to just keep pressing OK until it is done.
I ran into this a couple of weeks ago. When the attempt to use update.microsoft.com fails, the "troubleshooter" will direct you to a Knowledge Base article that advises you to do the following:
At the command prompt, type the following commands, press ENTER after each command,
and then click OK every time that you receive a verification message:
regsvr32 wuapi.dll
regsvr32 wuaueng1.dll
regsvr32 wuaueng.dll
regsvr32 wucltui.dll
regsvr32 wups2.dll
regsvr32 wups.dll
regsvr32 wuweb.dll
Once that is done, you'll be able to use Microsoft Update again.
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If this looks as though it is about to do serious damage to Linux then why should OIN not give MS both barrels? This happening just after some former MS execs join the trolls and Ballmer running his pie hole can't be a coincidence. If MS can't do this directly, they need to be informed that they aren't doing it by proxy either.
I once watched some videos of Douglas Englebart demonstrating a mouse operated hypertext system back in the sixties. If there is prior art in any of that, I would think that blows these trolls out of the water.
Those can be viewed here: http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html
Most people's actual problems are with fit and finish around dependencies and upgrades rather than the packages themselves.. I think Debian and it's derivatives would be just as good if they were based on RPMs instead of debs. Debs don't seem inherently superior to RPMs to me. Both are managed packages that come with files, a list of dependencies, and install scripts. The difference is in how package repositories are maintained and standards for creating packages. The Debian based distros inherit Debian's outstanding efforts at this. There is no reason why an RPM based distro wouldn't work as well but I have yet to see one that handles both major upgrades and ordinary day-to-day software installs and removals as well as Debian bases do.
As a matter of fact, I had that BW monitor. I can even say one nice thing about it. It was very very sharp; I'd go so far as to say it was crisp. If I wanted to play games or run color apps, I just used a TV. The machine indeed came up in low-res mode but I could switch up pretty easily using the menus.
BTW, if you don't already know about it, the Atariage.com forums are nice place to geek out about things Atari.
You didn't even need a GEM disk. A blank floppy would suffice to satisfy the on-boot disk check. Gosh, I haven't thought about doing that in years. It used to be a way of life.........
It isn't a matter of "political correctness". Many of us dislike throwing the actual developers (and others) of the software Linspire is marketing to the pack of MS Legal wolves just so they can have their thirty pieces of silver. Now Linspire may be interested in "building bridges" but MS wants a good hefty club to swing at the entire FOSS development process. I wouldn't have disliked working with MS for their customer's if didn't involve sticking knives in everybody else.
"Firefox 3" refers to an upcoming product release that will use the "Gecko 1.9" html/web renderer. "Mozilla 2" apparently refers to the APIs and release products based on them that will be what developers focus on once current developments (FF3 and Gecko 1.9) are finished.
Don't "copy to KMails folders". Use KMails "Accounts" settings box to add your mbox or Maildirs. If you want everything live in KMail' directories then create folders in KMail and copy the messages from those "accounts" to them. Once that is done, remove the accounts.
At least they treated their subject with far more respect and subtlety than Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson did theirs.
Maybe I'm being uncharitable but any engineer who stayed with them more than a year or two after they sued the whole world should never work or have a shred of respect in this industry again. I expect weaselly chiseling behavior out of the like of Darl McBride but would demand a rather higher ethical sense out anyone writing code I'm going to sell or having any sort of administrator access on my systems. What SCO is and what it's doing was obvious to most of us immediately. Even to the thickest among us, there was no denying it after a year. Staying with SCO more than a year or two into their scam is implicit approval or indifference to what they were doing. This is not good for anyone aspiring to a position of trust.
I'm only saying that it isn't wrong to have high standards of proof for extraordinary claims. Randi or no Randi. The "real scientists" work stands up to skeptical scrutiny. You're correct in that pure skepticism doesn't expand knowledge but skepticism is a necessary gauntlet anything that purports to be a fact must run. People die because they went to faith healers rather than real doctors. Others get scammed out of their money because they are desperate to contact dead loved ones or to know their future. I don't even want to THINK about the kind of money gullible audiophiles spend so there is a place for debunking frauds if they cause real hurt to real people.
Bottom line is that if one claims they can do things like bend spoons and see remotely then they should be able to do it under controlled conditions (read extensive cheating prevention with explicit descriptions of what constitutes success). If you don't like the way Randi goes about it, fine. Nonetheless, flat declarations that these things are so don't cut it.
I've done upgrade installs from 98 to XP, from NT4 to Server 2000, and from Server 2000 to Server 2003. None of them lasted for than year before having extremely serious problems. The usual thing that would happen is that the machines will boot to a desktop but most of the items in the control panels, administrative tools, and half the installed software won't start. Either the registry gets full of crufty timebombs or files from the old OS are left laying around. Either way, I can't EVER recommend an upgrade install of Windows. You'll always be better off backing up the data and reinstalling the new OS from scratch.
The original Artistic license REALLY would have been a problem. You see the endless arguments about even simple licenses like BSD? Imagine the wrangling a kludgy license like the old Artistic license would have caused. It definitely would have been sand in the gears as projects fought each other over the proper interpretation of the license. Even the version of BSD with the "nasty" advertising clause is infinitely superior in this regard. Although, I seriously doubt a purely BSD licensed OS would have had the success distros like Ubuntu and SuSe are having. Just when things start getting good, someone will either take his toys home or fork the entire OS. Sure there is Darwin but you're better off with FreeBSD if OS X isn't your cuppa.
All that said, FreeBSD or DragonFly could bootstrap themselves into a much larger market/mindshare with the doors opened by widespread Linux use if they play their cards right.
Now, with windows, everything may not have been perfect, but the install would have happened with basic drivers like vga. It wouldn't have died before the first screen.
This much at least is getting fixed. The latest versions of X.Org can failsafe to VGA mode if the automatic driver config (also new) doesn't work. If you say some such capability should have been there from the start I'd agree with you.Otherwise you'll have a Hunka Burnin' Love!
I've also used juice from hot peppers to clear up persistent sores on my skin. Yeah, it burns like hell going on but damn if it doesn't clear up what is disfiguring you.
I think they've only gotten that to work for Shakey's Pizza. There is a team that claims it is very close to getting it working for Denny's though.
Porn is also one of the few jobs that pay women better than men. Lots of guys want to do it but coming up with the ladies is a bit harder:
Ron Jeremy has commented several times on the pay scale: "The average guy gets $300 to $400 a scene, or $100 to $200 if he's new. A woman makes $100,000 to $250,000 at the end of the year."[1] and "Girls can easily make 100K-250K per year, plus stuff on the side like strip shows and appearances. The average guy makes $40,000 a year."[2]
- pornstar.dk (not work/school safe)
Could it be that BuSab is already operating here and we don't know it? (I'm from Ohio as well and welcome my sabotaging non-overlords.)
I haven't compiled a kernel in almost three years. There was a time when you had to do it to get things like sound and video and any number of third party drivers working. Debian and Ubuntu's stock kernels have worked perfectly fine for me. Now you really still need to have a kernel-headers package installed for things like NVidia and VMware drivers but good third party driver installers do a good job of papering over just why you need those headers installed. Unless this has changed, I will fault Ubuntu slightly for not making sure matching headers are installed alongside the kernel. I know to do this but I sure wouldn't want to explain it to anybody.
You can't disable this device in the BIOS? I had built-in wireless go cuckoo in a laptop and once I disabled in BIOS and removed the XP drivers, the replacement card started working. Any chance that the true problem may be your Linux drivers for the CardBus?
It's Cleon's Quantum Beowulf Cluster. It either is or isn't in the server room until someone opens the door and takes a look.
If you want to make it really easy for her, cut and paste those into a fix_update.cmd file. Tell her to run that and to just keep pressing OK until it is done.
I ran into this a couple of weeks ago. When the attempt to use update.microsoft.com fails, the "troubleshooter" will direct you to a Knowledge Base article that advises you to do the following:
At the command prompt, type the following commands, press ENTER after each command, and then click OK every time that you receive a verification message: regsvr32 wuapi.dll
regsvr32 wuaueng1.dll
regsvr32 wuaueng.dll
regsvr32 wucltui.dll
regsvr32 wups2.dll
regsvr32 wups.dll
regsvr32 wuweb.dll
Once that is done, you'll be able to use Microsoft Update again.