This is ultimate proof that the Linux devs DO NOT LISTEN to those using the OS. If they're looking for something to do, surely the tens of thousands of posts about the grief that is Wifi on Linux should have provided them with a big enough clue for something to do?
Is the UI still as horrendous and unintuitive? Yes. Despite half a decade of extremely prominent complaining about it, it still sucks.
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What people really want is Photoshop without having to pay for it.
All these Windows/Photoshop users will complain because Gimp is not an exact clone of PS so the user interface sucks.
Err no. I don't care about Photoshop and I have a paid for version of Paintshop Pro yet I still think the GIMP GUI sucks. So instead of promoting GIMP, I tell people to get Paint.NET. Sure, Paint.NET is nowhere near as feature filled but people can easily get to grips with the UI.
Perhaps the GIMP Dev team would've been better spending time on the main thing people have been complaining about for HALF A DECADE.
Let me guess... Broadcom card? Actually, no. I can get the Broadcomm card on my laptop to work with no problems whatsoever. But on the desktop I've tried RA Link chipset, a MIMO chipset one and a Origo one. The Origo one was the one that is supposedly natively supported. All of them PCI and all of them recognised using native or ndiswrapper and all of them showing the ESSID of the wifi LAN with signal strength and all of them falling over when trying to negociate with the router. I've tried both a Netgear DG834GT and an old eTEC Wifi router.
I gave up banging my head against the wall. The plethora of posts about it on the Ubuntu support forums suggest wifi is quite broken still.
So it's Vistas fault you're stupid? And no, don't try to claim you're not when you use a Norton product. I have non of those problems and I have UAE turned on. Nothing wrong with Vista in your case, just the clueless idiot mashing the keyboard.
Vista wins for me for one simple reason - WIFI WORKS. Just wasted two evenings trying to get Wifi working on Ubuntu. Ubuntu correctly identifies the Wifi adapter and lists the ESSID of the router. SO WHY WONT IT CONNECT EVEN THOUGH I HAVE COMPLETELY DISABLED WEP AND WPA? Tried both the native and NDISWRAPPER ways - same problem. So sod Ubuntu, I'll stick with Vista - at least my hardware works.
And if you think I'm alone with this problem, shove "wifi wireless connection problem" into the search box at the Ubuntu forums and see how many threads there are....
TomTom portable Satnav devices have been doing this already for some time. But as usual, being way ahead of the USA, people can also submit map revisions for things they come across as they're driving such as new roads or changes to one-way systems, the changes which are applied across everyone using the service when they do updates. Read more about Tomtom Map Share
Oh, and in addition to that, data is fed to the device via Traffic Updates System so you can avoid delays. Also, there's a Speed Trap Database as well. All available for a device costing a couple of hundred quid (or about $200 with the usual corporate $1=£1 currency conversion).
Not to worry though. Like most things, give the USA another few years and they'll have caught up - by which time we'll have moved on again. Sad that a country that contributed so much innovation is nowadays resigned to always being a few years behind purely due to the greed of the corporates.
before users get a button to press when they see a speed trap? If enough users report a speed trap at a given intersection or off-ramp, the system could issue an alert to other drivers approaching the area. People would love that. TomTom Satnavs already do that, at least in the UK. They also do the journey reporting thing as well as getting traffic delay info from the public broadcasted data service.
Exactly. The idea that 1.2 million people downloaded Radiohead's latest is not believable given historical sales data for the band. 1.2 million times, maybe. But 1.2 million people? Come on, it's like FireFox's numbers: If you say that each of the zillions of FireFox downloads went to a separate person, than everyone on the whole fucking Interweb is using it. We know that's not the case. The difference is that Radiohead site charged a $1 transaction fee even if you entered 0.00 as the amount to pay. Or are you claiming people went back time and time again, paying $1 a time to download the same album?
I was shopping with a female friend and she commented on how cheap much cheaper guy's clothes are.
That's interesting. In the UK it's the complete opposite. You can buy a decent skirt in the UK for £3. The cheapest mens jeans will set you back nearly £5. Also in the UK, go into a unisex clothes store and it's 75% womens, 20% kids and 5% mens.
I didn't have to wait a minute to have a 100 MB file copied, with XP. One would, with Vista. Actually, you would have not been that far off back in 1991 with XP...
Is it 2001 again? I'm pretty certain that exactly the same mutterings were made about XP when it was first released. Oh yeah...they were.
Here's a few choice quotes from a 2001 "Techspot" review of Windows XP. They may sound familiar...
On installation...
Let me start off by saying the installation of Windows XP is long. When I say long, I mean REAL long. It took me over an hour to install on either test system! On speed...
Well now, how does it feel you ask? It feels incredibly slow on the first system. That might just be an understatement. It feels ridiculously slow. If your system specs look anything like my first system, or even a little better, Windows XP is going to depress you.
To me, the speed thing is also a concern. The desktop moves a bit slower than a Win9x GUI, and there are still some worries about gaming performance.
On native drivers...
One quick note, XP did have drivers for the GeForce 2 card, but came up empty handed for the classic Voodoo2.
On whether to upgrade from Windows 98SE...
I really do not see a need to upgrade from Windows 98/ME. If you are building a new system, then by all means, install Windows XP. If you think that Windows XP is going to revolutionize the way you use a computer and surf the web, wake up and save your money.
And as plenty of recent Slashdot posts supporting XP have shown, we all know how short sighted the last quote was.
As I said, we've been here before in 1991 with Windows XP yet Windows XP is now touted as Microsofts greatest OS. I expect the same will happen with Vista and be said about Vista when Microsoft releases it's next OS in a few years time.
Really, what does Apple have to gain for this? They just make the Linux users mad, who could have bought their hardware and when they don't allow Linux, they soon die, if they support Linux, they make profit and free press.
Apple make the real money from iTunes. And as the Linux fanbois have repeated endlessly on/. , they don't pay for music. Also, Linux distros are q fragmented mess with several main standards and it makes it a nightmare to write software for, especially when the desktop OS market share is only a few percent and out of that few percent, not many are going to be buying music off iTunes.
It's up to the newcomers to either choose to be compatible or go it on their own. Please illuminate on how can the newcomers be compatible with a patent covered proprietary piece of software guarded by a compatibility-hostile company. Care to explain this to me for I seem to be too dumb to figure that out. Maybe you're smart enough. I would sure as hell like to build such an operating system and get all the money, fame and why not beautiful women.
Well plenty of companies/FOSS projects seem to have managed it quite well. There's a plethora of MSN compatible IMs at a "widget level" and WINE/ReactOS/OpenOffice at the other end.
Obviously going by the market share, the taking of market share off the competition and the fact people would rather install pirated Windows than a free OS, Microsoft must have got something right and the free OS is still missing the boat.
We've said countless times what the free OS needs to do to make large gains only to be met with the usual standard fanboi responses berating people who've used an OS that's moved on from CLI a decade ago.
BUT ITS NOT JUST MICROSOFT THAT CHANGES DLLS. It could have been an autoupdate of anything installed on the PC that did it. I'm sure everyone remembers the problems with the winaspi.dll that was caused by many CD writing programs sticking in their own.
Hello? It sounds like the patch was applied to computers that had Windows Update set to not update. And? The comment you replied to was on about companies and if the IT department leaves ports open that don't need to be, then the people working in that department should be fired.
Now if only we can get Microsoft to patch up all those virus riden spam bots and clear up the net for once and for all.
Now if we can only get all those Linux users to stop feeling like they need to crack Windows. Interesting to note how a great deal of the tools used to crack Wifi, networks etc all appear to be *nix ones....
Slashdot provides a good eye opener for anyone who wants to see just how much of a freeloader a Linux fanboi seems to think they have the right to be. Just look at any story regarding software and online music/media and you'll see some Linux fanboi crying foul about how companies dare to have the audacity to charge for their product. Take the recent furore about BBC's iPlayer and its DRM. Most of that was from Linux fanbois in countries outside the UK who don't even have the right to access it but seem to think they should do for free even though 66 million people are paying for the content...
Just to add, I put in "fanbois" because there are many sane Linux users out there who do have a grasp of decency.
No, I dislike Microsoft for two major reasons: one is that they promote and maintain a monoculture, and actively try to make that monoculture incompatible with anything else. Windows would be a lot more acceptable, if it played nice and interoperated with other systems based on established standards. I'm more than happy to let everyone choose whatever OS they want, based on their needs and what fits them best, but "the Microsoft way" works directly against that: their use of proprietary, incompatible, or just plain broken 'standards' forces many people who would be best suited with a different OS to use Windows, and that's a net loss for everyone.
Onestat.com reported Microsoft as having a 97% share of the overall global OS market with people migrating off Unix moving to Microsoft over Linux by a margin of roughly 15% - Linux getting just under 44% of the share. In August, according to Netcraft figures, Microsoft increased it's share of the web server market by 1.44%, mainly taking most of that off Apache which lost 1.7%.
So in fact, why should Microsoft have to play nice and be interoperable with everyone else? They have virtually all the IT market and they've been the dominant OS maker pretty much since the inception of the PC. It's up to the newcomers to either choose to be compatible or go it on their own.
Damn you apple! Now I have no more excuse to not buy that 160GB iPod classic... Somehow I feel like they will actually get a net profit from this move.
And the Mac fanboyz have the cheek to say that Microsoft sucks you in?
the new laptop has 2GB of ram..
just sitting there with firefox open and sidebar running it hovers between 30% and 50%
I suppose that is background tasks..
I checked the site systemrequirementlab.com and there is not a game I can't run but I just wonder about this memory thing..
Did you actually bother to read up about Superfetch? Obviously not.
Rubbish law. When you log into a network, so long as you're not hacking it, you politely ask the router "may i use this network and have an IP address?". The router says "yes", on behalf of you, the owner. Therefore it is authorized.
Its NOT the same as leaving your front door open in your house, or your car unlocked. Why not? I push the door handle down and the door opens, thus NOT barring my entry to your house. You FOSS muppets have some weird ideas about property.
Leaching is not stealing, since nothing is LOST. YES IT IS. For most ISPs in the UK, they implement a monthly download limit. By leeching someones wifi without their permission, you are denying them use of a portion of that limit. In the UK, that is theft, the same as dumping your rubbish in a skip someone has hired - aside from the fact that accessing a network you're not allowed to is covered under the Computer Misuse Act.
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This is ultimate proof that the Linux devs DO NOT LISTEN to those using the OS. If they're looking for something to do, surely the tens of thousands of posts about the grief that is Wifi on Linux should have provided them with a big enough clue for something to do?
All these Windows/Photoshop users will complain because Gimp is not an exact clone of PS so the user interface sucks.
Err no. I don't care about Photoshop and I have a paid for version of Paintshop Pro yet I still think the GIMP GUI sucks. So instead of promoting GIMP, I tell people to get Paint.NET. Sure, Paint.NET is nowhere near as feature filled but people can easily get to grips with the UI.
Perhaps the GIMP Dev team would've been better spending time on the main thing people have been complaining about for HALF A DECADE.
I gave up banging my head against the wall. The plethora of posts about it on the Ubuntu support forums suggest wifi is quite broken still.
So it's Vistas fault you're stupid? And no, don't try to claim you're not when you use a Norton product. I have non of those problems and I have UAE turned on. Nothing wrong with Vista in your case, just the clueless idiot mashing the keyboard.
And if you think I'm alone with this problem, shove "wifi wireless connection problem" into the search box at the Ubuntu forums and see how many threads there are....
Oh, and in addition to that, data is fed to the device via Traffic Updates System so you can avoid delays. Also, there's a Speed Trap Database as well. All available for a device costing a couple of hundred quid (or about $200 with the usual corporate $1=£1 currency conversion).
Not to worry though. Like most things, give the USA another few years and they'll have caught up - by which time we'll have moved on again. Sad that a country that contributed so much innovation is nowadays resigned to always being a few years behind purely due to the greed of the corporates.
As usual, the USA is playing catch-up.
That's interesting. In the UK it's the complete opposite. You can buy a decent skirt in the UK for £3. The cheapest mens jeans will set you back nearly £5. Also in the UK, go into a unisex clothes store and it's 75% womens, 20% kids and 5% mens.
Here's a few choice quotes from a 2001 "Techspot" review of Windows XP. They may sound familiar...
On installation...
Let me start off by saying the installation of Windows XP is long. When I say long, I mean REAL long. It took me over an hour to install on either test system! On speed... Well now, how does it feel you ask? It feels incredibly slow on the first system. That might just be an understatement. It feels ridiculously slow. If your system specs look anything like my first system, or even a little better, Windows XP is going to depress you. To me, the speed thing is also a concern. The desktop moves a bit slower than a Win9x GUI, and there are still some worries about gaming performance.On native drivers...
One quick note, XP did have drivers for the GeForce 2 card, but came up empty handed for the classic Voodoo2.On whether to upgrade from Windows 98SE...
I really do not see a need to upgrade from Windows 98/ME. If you are building a new system, then by all means, install Windows XP. If you think that Windows XP is going to revolutionize the way you use a computer and surf the web, wake up and save your money.And as plenty of recent Slashdot posts supporting XP have shown, we all know how short sighted the last quote was.
As I said, we've been here before in 1991 with Windows XP yet Windows XP is now touted as Microsofts greatest OS. I expect the same will happen with Vista and be said about Vista when Microsoft releases it's next OS in a few years time.
Apple make the real money from iTunes. And as the Linux fanbois have repeated endlessly on /. , they don't pay for music. Also, Linux distros are q fragmented mess with several main standards and it makes it a nightmare to write software for, especially when the desktop OS market share is only a few percent and out of that few percent, not many are going to be buying music off iTunes.
Well plenty of companies/FOSS projects seem to have managed it quite well. There's a plethora of MSN compatible IMs at a "widget level" and WINE/ReactOS/OpenOffice at the other end.
Obviously going by the market share, the taking of market share off the competition and the fact people would rather install pirated Windows than a free OS, Microsoft must have got something right and the free OS is still missing the boat.
We've said countless times what the free OS needs to do to make large gains only to be met with the usual standard fanboi responses berating people who've used an OS that's moved on from CLI a decade ago.
BUT ITS NOT JUST MICROSOFT THAT CHANGES DLLS. It could have been an autoupdate of anything installed on the PC that did it. I'm sure everyone remembers the problems with the winaspi.dll that was caused by many CD writing programs sticking in their own.
Now if we can only get all those Linux users to stop feeling like they need to crack Windows. Interesting to note how a great deal of the tools used to crack Wifi, networks etc all appear to be *nix ones....
Slashdot provides a good eye opener for anyone who wants to see just how much of a freeloader a Linux fanboi seems to think they have the right to be. Just look at any story regarding software and online music/media and you'll see some Linux fanboi crying foul about how companies dare to have the audacity to charge for their product. Take the recent furore about BBC's iPlayer and its DRM. Most of that was from Linux fanbois in countries outside the UK who don't even have the right to access it but seem to think they should do for free even though 66 million people are paying for the content...
Just to add, I put in "fanbois" because there are many sane Linux users out there who do have a grasp of decency.
Onestat.com reported Microsoft as having a 97% share of the overall global OS market with people migrating off Unix moving to Microsoft over Linux by a margin of roughly 15% - Linux getting just under 44% of the share. In August, according to Netcraft figures, Microsoft increased it's share of the web server market by 1.44%, mainly taking most of that off Apache which lost 1.7%.
So in fact, why should Microsoft have to play nice and be interoperable with everyone else? They have virtually all the IT market and they've been the dominant OS maker pretty much since the inception of the PC. It's up to the newcomers to either choose to be compatible or go it on their own.
And the Mac fanboyz have the cheek to say that Microsoft sucks you in?
just sitting there with firefox open and sidebar running it hovers between 30% and 50%
I suppose that is background tasks..
I checked the site systemrequirementlab.com and there is not a game I can't run but I just wonder about this memory thing..
Did you actually bother to read up about Superfetch? Obviously not.
Why? Because that's when the SP is being released? If you're going to go by that, I guess Linux will never be fit for market.
It's 2007. I use cutting edge software on Windows, to the point of daily builds. Never needed to compile one yet.
Its NOT the same as leaving your front door open in your house, or your car unlocked.
Why not? I push the door handle down and the door opens, thus NOT barring my entry to your house. You FOSS muppets have some weird ideas about property.
So if you don't lock the door on your house, it's OK for me to come in and take what I want then?