Well, at least I just found the fix: right-click the volume control in the task bar, select "open volume control", switches tab, then select the "headphone jack sense" option. Should be the default to have that selected...
I really like Hardy; I've had it installed on my HP TC4200 tablet pc for the past 2 weeks or so. The work that has been done is tremendous; it is the first time that I really thought I could finally ditch windows for Linux.
But, I just ran into a problem just an hour ago that's annoying me; when I plug in my headphones, the speaker isn't muted so the sound comes out of the speaker and the headphones. I quick Google search shows that this has been a problem since at least 2005! And it's still a problem. Shouldn't it have been fixed by now? I still haven't figured out how to fix it...
Reminds me of the best example of Political-Correctness run amok that I've ever seen. On Good Morning America several years ago, Al Roker mentioned that a women in Denmark gave birth to twins; one baby was "white," the other was "African-American." Besides the obvious inconsistency in nomenclature, note that the woman was _Danish_, not _American_. (The point of the story was that she conceived via artificial insemination and that the "samples" were mixed up, or something like that.)
FWIW, I met Ralph Yarrow a few months back and asked him about this whole lawsuit deal. Basically, I tried to get him to admit it was a mistake. His view of it is that IBM ingeniously turned public opinion against SCO, and he has the proof that SCO should have won the lawsuit--but he couldn't tell me what the proof was because of the lawsuit. (What's up with that?)
Oh well. Just for the record (and I know I'm committing slashdot suicide for saying this), I think Ralph Yarro is a pretty decent guy, just from the few minutes I talked with him. I agree with him on a number of issues, but certainly not this lawsuit...
All the Vista defenders I'm seeing in this thread, are you running it by choice? what is it doing for you that Win2k or XP or Debian couldn't do better?
I've got Vista running on my HP TC4200 Tablet PC (1.73 GHz Pentium M, 2GB RAM) for one reason only: better Tablet PC support. The better handwriting recognition and better all-around pen-friendly design makes it better than XP Tablet PC Edition.
Having said that, I found Vista to be unbearably slow unless I disabled SuperFetch, Prefetch and Windows Defender. My graphics chipset doesn't support Aero, so that's irrelevant. I've had a few issues with slow network access, but it seems that a tweak has helped. Application support (VPN client, and having to upgrade software just os it's compatible) is my biggest complaint now.
I would love to run Linux fulltime on this machine, and I've tried it several times (Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSuse, etc). Unfortunately, I've grown to love OneNote and PDFAnnotator (and other Tablet PC software); there is no substitute for Linux.
BTW, the only thing that got me to upgrade from Win2K and XP was Cleartype. It was quite annoying that I couldn't add that one feature of XP to 2K. But, when I got a new machine, XP ran very well and I never looked back to 2K.
Then perhaps they shouldn't be using the internet without your supervision? Forget about porn. Hate speech, predators trolling MySpace, etc, etc are all reasons why I wouldn't want my kids using the internet without supervision. Are your kids old enough to stay home alone? If the answer is no, then they probably aren't old enough to use the internet without supervision. Did you even read/comprehend my comment, or did you just have a knee-jerk reaction to my saying that I don't like porn? I most definitely do not allow my kids access to the internet unsupervised. I'd feel safer about leaving my kids home alone (although we don't do that, yet) than letting them browse online without my constant, direct supervision. There's a lot more trouble they find online than they can in our neighborhood. Even when kids get older, say 13-14, they are old enough to be left home alone, but I wouldn't want them accessing a lot of the stuff online.
Sure you do. It's called supervising your kids while they use the internet. Or are you one of those people that thinks the TV and/or PC should be a babysitter for you?
Oh, please. I hardly let the TV and/or PC babysit them. My wife and I are very conscious about that. What does "supervised" internet use mean, anyway? Am I constantly looking over their shoulder while they play their games or do their homework? With the amount of porn available on the internet today, I pretty much have to do any google searches for them, and cannot allow them to even type in the internet address lest they make a common mispelling and come across a porn site.
Ever hear of using a non privileged account for your kids so they can't do stuff like switch networks or remove your filtering software?
Says who? We use them at my agency and they seem to work very well. The only complaint is that they are overly aggressive.
Right. And online proxies so they can get around network/filter restrictions don't exist, huh?
So, I'm forced to be either a luddite, or I'm forced to be a control freak just so I can keep trash out of my own house because porn is so accessible.
Younger kids should be supervised by their parents. Someone else said "if you don't want your kids looking at it then try something called parenting". I couldn't agree more.
Unfortunately, the amount of porn available today on the internet makes it extremely difficult for parents to keep them from looking at objectionable content (accidentally or otherwise). When I was a kid, it was necessary to go to an adult bookstore, or a convenience store, where this type of material was kept behind a counter. It was practically impossible for young kids to get it (unless they had a friend who got it for them). Today, a kid can get access to porn just by using a computer, or a laptop, or a cell phone, or a PSP, or an XBox, or any number of other devices. It's sent by spammers to my e-mail box. Today, it's like getting a bunch of porn magazines shoved through the mailslot into your house. It's like going to the public library and finding porn hidden in the card catalog, and throughout the books on the shelves. How can we avoid it? How can our kids avoid it? A neighbors wireless router without encryption would provide unwanted access. Software filters do not work. Do I have to be a luddite to keep this trash out of my house?
I don't want my young kids to have to make decisions at age 9 or 10 about whether or not they should be looking at a certain image that pops up on their screen. They aren't mature enough to make such decisions. An adult, yes. But not children. I teach them what I think is right and wrong, and hope they make correct decisions, but I want to wait until they are mature enough before they are confronted with a lot of these types of decisions. So what is a parent to do? The only thing we can do: try to cut down on the amount and availability of porn. You say we should parent; so we are in the only way we can, by trying to get rid of the amount of porn available to our kids.
I'll be very upfront about this. I think porn is wrong, and I don't want my kids to be exposed to it before they are mature enough to deal with it. The only way I can do that as a parent is to fight for legislation limiting its access into my home. I don't have any other way to do it. That _IS_ parenting.
Last time I tried OpenSUSE (10.2), I quickly dropped it once I found out that it is the only distro on which Intel's debugger (idb) doesn't work. I simply get errors saying that it can't load the symbols. idb works with Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu, etc. I need to use idb for debugging Fortran programs with data in shared modules; gdb doesn't work for that case.
It really boggles my mind the level of self-assured ignorance that so many "geeks" have. They think a mastery of software and/or hardware somehow gives them insight into every area of human endeavor. They share that horrible disease with engineers, who also tend to pontificate on things quite beyond their experience.
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Well, at least I just found the fix: right-click the volume control in the task bar, select "open volume control", switches tab, then select the "headphone jack sense" option. Should be the default to have that selected...
I really like Hardy; I've had it installed on my HP TC4200 tablet pc for the past 2 weeks or so. The work that has been done is tremendous; it is the first time that I really thought I could finally ditch windows for Linux.
But, I just ran into a problem just an hour ago that's annoying me; when I plug in my headphones, the speaker isn't muted so the sound comes out of the speaker and the headphones. I quick Google search shows that this has been a problem since at least 2005! And it's still a problem. Shouldn't it have been fixed by now? I still haven't figured out how to fix it...
Just because I was still at work (I'm still active-duty). I'm more of a drive-by poster, anyway...
Reminds me of the best example of Political-Correctness run amok that I've ever seen. On Good Morning America several years ago, Al Roker mentioned that a women in Denmark gave birth to twins; one baby was "white," the other was "African-American." Besides the obvious inconsistency in nomenclature, note that the woman was _Danish_, not _American_. (The point of the story was that she conceived via artificial insemination and that the "samples" were mixed up, or something like that.)
FWIW, I met Ralph Yarrow a few months back and asked him about this whole lawsuit deal. Basically, I tried to get him to admit it was a mistake. His view of it is that IBM ingeniously turned public opinion against SCO, and he has the proof that SCO should have won the lawsuit--but he couldn't tell me what the proof was because of the lawsuit. (What's up with that?) Oh well. Just for the record (and I know I'm committing slashdot suicide for saying this), I think Ralph Yarro is a pretty decent guy, just from the few minutes I talked with him. I agree with him on a number of issues, but certainly not this lawsuit...
I've got Vista running on my HP TC4200 Tablet PC (1.73 GHz Pentium M, 2GB RAM) for one reason only: better Tablet PC support. The better handwriting recognition and better all-around pen-friendly design makes it better than XP Tablet PC Edition.
Having said that, I found Vista to be unbearably slow unless I disabled SuperFetch, Prefetch and Windows Defender. My graphics chipset doesn't support Aero, so that's irrelevant. I've had a few issues with slow network access, but it seems that a tweak has helped. Application support (VPN client, and having to upgrade software just os it's compatible) is my biggest complaint now.
I would love to run Linux fulltime on this machine, and I've tried it several times (Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSuse, etc). Unfortunately, I've grown to love OneNote and PDFAnnotator (and other Tablet PC software); there is no substitute for Linux.
BTW, the only thing that got me to upgrade from Win2K and XP was Cleartype. It was quite annoying that I couldn't add that one feature of XP to 2K. But, when I got a new machine, XP ran very well and I never looked back to 2K.
Oh, please. I hardly let the TV and/or PC babysit them. My wife and I are very conscious about that. What does "supervised" internet use mean, anyway? Am I constantly looking over their shoulder while they play their games or do their homework? With the amount of porn available on the internet today, I pretty much have to do any google searches for them, and cannot allow them to even type in the internet address lest they make a common mispelling and come across a porn site.
Ever hear of using a non privileged account for your kids so they can't do stuff like switch networks or remove your filtering software? Says who? We use them at my agency and they seem to work very well. The only complaint is that they are overly aggressive.Right. And online proxies so they can get around network/filter restrictions don't exist, huh?
So, I'm forced to be either a luddite, or I'm forced to be a control freak just so I can keep trash out of my own house because porn is so accessible.
Younger kids should be supervised by their parents. Someone else said "if you don't want your kids looking at it then try something called parenting". I couldn't agree more.
Unfortunately, the amount of porn available today on the internet makes it extremely difficult for parents to keep them from looking at objectionable content (accidentally or otherwise). When I was a kid, it was necessary to go to an adult bookstore, or a convenience store, where this type of material was kept behind a counter. It was practically impossible for young kids to get it (unless they had a friend who got it for them). Today, a kid can get access to porn just by using a computer, or a laptop, or a cell phone, or a PSP, or an XBox, or any number of other devices. It's sent by spammers to my e-mail box. Today, it's like getting a bunch of porn magazines shoved through the mailslot into your house. It's like going to the public library and finding porn hidden in the card catalog, and throughout the books on the shelves. How can we avoid it? How can our kids avoid it? A neighbors wireless router without encryption would provide unwanted access. Software filters do not work. Do I have to be a luddite to keep this trash out of my house?
I don't want my young kids to have to make decisions at age 9 or 10 about whether or not they should be looking at a certain image that pops up on their screen. They aren't mature enough to make such decisions. An adult, yes. But not children. I teach them what I think is right and wrong, and hope they make correct decisions, but I want to wait until they are mature enough before they are confronted with a lot of these types of decisions. So what is a parent to do? The only thing we can do: try to cut down on the amount and availability of porn. You say we should parent; so we are in the only way we can, by trying to get rid of the amount of porn available to our kids.
I'll be very upfront about this. I think porn is wrong, and I don't want my kids to be exposed to it before they are mature enough to deal with it. The only way I can do that as a parent is to fight for legislation limiting its access into my home. I don't have any other way to do it. That _IS_ parenting.
Last time I tried OpenSUSE (10.2), I quickly dropped it once I found out that it is the only distro on which Intel's debugger (idb) doesn't work. I simply get errors saying that it can't load the symbols. idb works with Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu, etc. I need to use idb for debugging Fortran programs with data in shared modules; gdb doesn't work for that case.
It really boggles my mind the level of self-assured ignorance that so many "geeks" have. They think a mastery of software and/or hardware somehow gives them insight into every area of human endeavor. They share that horrible disease with engineers, who also tend to pontificate on things quite beyond their experience.
Kind of reminds me of Hollywood types.
Could it be, just possibly, that the sitting president is too busy to visit Google?