When Firefox locks-up in Linux, which process do you kill? Should be fun to issue the kill command to who knows how many Firefox entries just to kill it completely and avoid the "An instance of Firefox is still running" problem.
BT will wait until Phorm renames itself then BT will roll out the system. They will not pass up the opportunity to earn money for nothing after racking up idiotic amounts of losses because they "invested" in foreign (non-UK) businesses, and could not be bothered to update the UK network, choosing to flog that dead horse copper cable for all it's worth for another 20+ years.
People are not bothered about Phorm and BT, hell, they aren't even bothered by BT's cr@ppy quality Internet and comparatively bad deal internet subscription.... they are still the biggest ISP in the UK. People are suckers for punishment instead of taking their money elsewhere.
The UK has the BEST cyber security known, in the weekend when people MOST have time to do any work to fill in or request this that or other form on a UK government website, they find the website is taken down "for maintenence", every weekend, week in week out. So much for a 24/7 365 information economy the government keep on BS'ing about.
People I know went out and bought "HD ready" televisions, whilst having no HD content to put on them. They liked the bigger and flatter screens, not necessarily giving a damn about image quality (you don't miss what you've never had). Later on the HD format discs came out, and were / are seen as too restrictive, and most importantly, too expensive.... they cannot compete with DVD.
However, I have got a HD camcorder without a HD television to play it on (I don't count my HD pc monitor as a HD-tv). Looking at the price of HD camcorders compared to similar standard def. / DV camcorders, people would buy HD cameras. If down-sampled the image looks like broadcast SD, better than even DV video can manage.
So in some areas of technology HD is popular, some not. The camcorder makers want to continue their revenue so video cameras are selling and being innovated with features*. The film companies however want to lock people into a flawed HD technology system, the consumers are telling the film companies to get stuffed, they will stick with DVD.
The film companies STILL don't get it with how to generate sales, so they continue their own created death of a 1000 cuts. Maybe we should make a movie out of it. "How the film industry killed itself and blamed downloaders and bribed [insert country government] to change laws to protect their failing cartel".
* Killing off the MiniDV tape / high bitrate video for highly compressed HDV video to fit a low amount of video on a hard drive.
Interesting, In this one, unlike the Mississippi case, apparently the person sued by the RIAA "said she didn't have a computer in the house at the time."
Ah ha, so she had a radio and not a computer? The RIAA will sue anyone for listening to music "for free"!
We have a constitutions per state, but you are right, EU as a whole doesn't have one, because Irish and Czechs are still effectively blocking it.
And thank goodness they are blocking the Lisbon CONstitution / Treaty, they are the only countries stopping the EU becoming the EUSSR in every way except name, Brussels becoming the new Moscow. Once enacted, that is it for European countries, a treaty that can amend itself - no further votes from the pesky electorate! It's bad enough the REAL decision makes in the EU are completely unelected by the people, and that national governments are just rubber stamps for Brussles edicts and laws. Now we'll have dictators that will never have to ask the people about anything.
I actually like the concept of PulseAudio. For the first time different applications that use the sound system can have their output levels adjusted individually, and most importantly for anyone new to Linux - easily. So there are no more surprises between a quiet application and a loud one.
As for stability, PulseAudio has been pretty rock solid, it hasn't crashed, but on boot VERY occasionally it decides to re-route all the outputs from the speakers to the USB headset, then you have to spend an age finding all the applications that play audio and set them back to the sound card.
The one major irritation is not a fault of PulseAudio as such, but with Skype. Being 32bit you have to have some 32bit parts of PulseAudio installed to hear the sounds of events like someone calling you. I un-installed the 32bit PulseAudio stuff, and can no longer hear these Skype events. So it's more of a critique on Skype totally ignoring Linux and 64bit (2 years and counting from the last Skype update for Linux).
So really, for me PulseAudio is very good, so long as the applications are compiled to use the 64bit sound system, and not just the 32bit like Skype is. For me, 32bit who cares!
No, they want control back of your wallet. So stop spending money on computer games, mobile phones, or something else, help out those poor people in the RIAA and film industry.
If they want to win the hearts of people the solution is ALL with the RIAA / Film industry.
1) Stop producing cr@p that nobody is interested in. How many remakes of classic films can you do, do you think people don't realise a rip-off? How many formulaic "artists" are in the music charts when there's other stuff out there which does not get a look in because of the rigged radio market.
2) Stop selling the DVD's and CD's at such high prices. The market has moved on and there's competition for the money, people have more things they can buy, as I mentioned already, computer games, mobile phones etc.. It's not the 1960's where for teenagers there was music, film, and that's it.
3) Stop loading DVD's with unskippable cr@p (Disney the worst offender), stop putting idiotic unskippable trailers on copyrights - we just bought your legit DVD damn it! At least with VHS you could rewind to a spot where the actual content starts!
4) Stop putting crapware on CD's, we want Red Book Standard CD's, and we also want the cases and CD's to have the logo on it to prove they are REAL audio CD's, not the fake crap put out today.
5) Stop putting DRM on legit downloads. It p1sses me off that such and such file is restricted to what file format a device will play (with DRM built in to the player). I don't want to pay extra for a MP3 player to make some DRM licensee richer.
6) Improve the audio quality of Audio CD's, and digital downloads. Audio CD's are chasing the loudness battle - I recently bought a compilation CD and had to give it away because I had ear ache after 5 minutes of this unlistenable compressed music. Digital downloads are also not much better, where are the file formats like FLAC on ALL download sites, not just highly specialised sites. Hell, you can buy a CD then rip it to make a FLAC and it will outclass and MP3.
7) Get rid of the copy restrictions on DVD's, HD discs, camcorders, and the other formats.
MAYBE after all that, downloaders MIGHT think about buying more music and films.
What happens when you pull that much energy out of the jetstream? Does it change global air circulation? Do you get climate changes throughout the world?
You'd then have to re-write "The Chaos Theory", and give some mathematicians and physicists a headache coming up with a new formula:).
Maybe the EU should bother to look in the widespread FRAUD within it's own institution which means the EU's own auditors have not signed-off the EU's accounts for the past 14 years in a row.
The politicians only want laws to have the hoi-polloi under their thumbs and make sure they stay there, while the politicians continue to rape the population via taxes, and use technology to hide their frauds. How often you hear of "computer errors" for "overpayments" and other such BS.
The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon's love of comics make him look like a child, even if the character is super intelligent. Surely at the characters age (past university age), you'd grow out of reading comics!?
I bought myself a Asus netbook with the Linux pre-install. It didn't last long and installed a different Linux distro which was not as childish and crippled as the pre-installed Linux version (not any Ubuntu flavour). Maybe there should be an option when buying machines for NO OS installed by default. It wouldn't prevent the manufacturer adding crapware for their Windows install CD's.
It would be interesting to know which OS would be more frustrating to the average user to install. Every Linux install I've done, it installed everything a typical install does in one go and needed one reboot (setting up SuperUser and user accounts). The last time I installed WinXP on my desktop I lost the will to live after 35 reboots to install the OS and countless other drivers which insisted on full reboots.
> The point of automated face scanning and license plate scanning technologies is not to reduce crime, the point is to track innocent people.
There, fixed that line for you.
Based on the UK example, the current Commie government has thought up an extra 3000+ "crimes" which aren't crimes at all. Is it a crime to accidentally drop a tissue from a jacket pocket? It is in this governments eyes. These systems are to track what you are doing, raise money and CONTROL you. If you think these systems are there for catching criminals - the sort that people worry about, then you are mistaken.
Is it? After a typical month I am near my download limit for the month, and all it is is web browsing, email, and some file transfers. What is a web based solution going to do to bandwidth usage?
I've used Google docs for a quick project, and it has vastly cut and inflexible features compared to a spreadsheet installed on your machine.
Web based is too inflexible. Just my opinion of course.
For most users, Linux IS ready for the desktop. There's more people that use their computers casually then for installing the latest games or other such applications.
I've had Linux installed on and off for 7 years, but about 2 years ago I saw that the OS was good enough for everyday use (I don't use Ubuntu). It has now got to the point where before I had 100% use of Windows XP and 0% Linux, I have 2% Windows and 98% Linux usage.
A majority of applications that I had to buy software for in Windows I now have in Linux versions, maybe not as 100% polished, but they are usable, like Kdenlive for editing HD video or Avidemux. It's not a question of being free for me, but they are more stable than in Windows equivalents.
The only thing that people should be p1ssed off at is the lack of updates for applications like Skype, who after well over 2 years have given no updates to users of Linux, and no 64 bit version. Would be nice for Google to get their finger out and have a 64 bit version of GoogleEarth.
The other annoying thing is that still manufacturers refuse to get their stuff to work on Linux.
This database is disgusting, I shudder what covert paedophile in the public sector will have access to this data. It has nothing to do with protecting children, it has everything to do with fishing for information to make the ID database the government have been having a 12 year wet dream about, along with the European Union who are creating a unified European ID database. Europe is attempting to force countries without ID cards to have them, so the HONEST population can be tracked.
Ever wonder why companies like IBM are involved in the UK ID database, they do have extensive experience in 1939-45 of tracking "undesirable people" for the then Nazi government.
On the bright side, if there is one, private sector schools are refusing to co-operate with building this clandestine ID database. Daily Mail article. Only problem is, you have to have your children in private schools for the school to show two fingers at the government.
Private schools are refusing to provide information on their pupils for use in a controversial Government database.
The £224million system, called ContactPoint, aims to hold the details of every school-aged child in England, including GP and parents' mobile-phone numbers, as well as a log of what services they use, such as a school nurse.
It is estimated that this information could be used by more than one million people, from police officers to school administrators.
Now, in the latest blow to the widely criticised database, the Independent Schools Council, which represents the private education sector, has joined critics who fear that data will not be secure and could be used improperly.
ISC chief executive David Lyscom said: 'The only effective way to safeguard our children's data is to scrap the whole ContactPoint system.'
Maybe there should be an extension that blocks extensions from being automatically updated just because it's listed with others to be updated. That should solve the updated with new "features" problem.
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When Firefox locks-up in Linux, which process do you kill? Should be fun to issue the kill command to who knows how many Firefox entries just to kill it completely and avoid the "An instance of Firefox is still running" problem.
BT will wait until Phorm renames itself then BT will roll out the system. They will not pass up the opportunity to earn money for nothing after racking up idiotic amounts of losses because they "invested" in foreign (non-UK) businesses, and could not be bothered to update the UK network, choosing to flog that dead horse copper cable for all it's worth for another 20+ years.
People are not bothered about Phorm and BT, hell, they aren't even bothered by BT's cr@ppy quality Internet and comparatively bad deal internet subscription.... they are still the biggest ISP in the UK. People are suckers for punishment instead of taking their money elsewhere.
Phorm will be back!
Luckily Microsoft reports there is a fix for this, Windows 7 is nearly here.
For goodness sake, think of what you're saying, think of the children having this ghettoblaster!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v2CC3nzJHo (sorry, can't find an English language version)
I thought Ulysses ended a long time go already.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_31
I guess that means no more updates for BZflag and Tux Racer.
The UK has the BEST cyber security known, in the weekend when people MOST have time to do any work to fill in or request this that or other form on a UK government website, they find the website is taken down "for maintenence", every weekend, week in week out. So much for a 24/7 365 information economy the government keep on BS'ing about.
People I know went out and bought "HD ready" televisions, whilst having no HD content to put on them. They liked the bigger and flatter screens, not necessarily giving a damn about image quality (you don't miss what you've never had). Later on the HD format discs came out, and were / are seen as too restrictive, and most importantly, too expensive.... they cannot compete with DVD.
However, I have got a HD camcorder without a HD television to play it on (I don't count my HD pc monitor as a HD-tv). Looking at the price of HD camcorders compared to similar standard def. / DV camcorders, people would buy HD cameras. If down-sampled the image looks like broadcast SD, better than even DV video can manage.
So in some areas of technology HD is popular, some not. The camcorder makers want to continue their revenue so video cameras are selling and being innovated with features*. The film companies however want to lock people into a flawed HD technology system, the consumers are telling the film companies to get stuffed, they will stick with DVD.
The film companies STILL don't get it with how to generate sales, so they continue their own created death of a 1000 cuts. Maybe we should make a movie out of it. "How the film industry killed itself and blamed downloaders and bribed [insert country government] to change laws to protect their failing cartel".
* Killing off the MiniDV tape / high bitrate video for highly compressed HDV video to fit a low amount of video on a hard drive.
Interesting, In this one, unlike the Mississippi case, apparently the person sued by the RIAA "said she didn't have a computer in the house at the time."
Ah ha, so she had a radio and not a computer? The RIAA will sue anyone for listening to music "for free"!
I'm sure Steve will get better faster, so long as he follows that old saying about having an apple a day :) .
We have a constitutions per state, but you are right, EU as a whole doesn't have one, because Irish and Czechs are still effectively blocking it.
And thank goodness they are blocking the Lisbon CONstitution / Treaty, they are the only countries stopping the EU becoming the EUSSR in every way except name, Brussels becoming the new Moscow. Once enacted, that is it for European countries, a treaty that can amend itself - no further votes from the pesky electorate! It's bad enough the REAL decision makes in the EU are completely unelected by the people, and that national governments are just rubber stamps for Brussles edicts and laws. Now we'll have dictators that will never have to ask the people about anything.
I actually like the concept of PulseAudio. For the first time different applications that use the sound system can have their output levels adjusted individually, and most importantly for anyone new to Linux - easily. So there are no more surprises between a quiet application and a loud one.
As for stability, PulseAudio has been pretty rock solid, it hasn't crashed, but on boot VERY occasionally it decides to re-route all the outputs from the speakers to the USB headset, then you have to spend an age finding all the applications that play audio and set them back to the sound card.
The one major irritation is not a fault of PulseAudio as such, but with Skype. Being 32bit you have to have some 32bit parts of PulseAudio installed to hear the sounds of events like someone calling you. I un-installed the 32bit PulseAudio stuff, and can no longer hear these Skype events. So it's more of a critique on Skype totally ignoring Linux and 64bit (2 years and counting from the last Skype update for Linux).
So really, for me PulseAudio is very good, so long as the applications are compiled to use the 64bit sound system, and not just the 32bit like Skype is. For me, 32bit who cares!
Oh well, I guess now we'll NEVER get to see that update release of Wolfenstein.
"Think of the children" - you Liberal / Commie morons!
No, they want control back of your wallet. So stop spending money on computer games, mobile phones, or something else, help out those poor people in the RIAA and film industry.
If they want to win the hearts of people the solution is ALL with the RIAA / Film industry.
1) Stop producing cr@p that nobody is interested in. How many remakes of classic films can you do, do you think people don't realise a rip-off? How many formulaic "artists" are in the music charts when there's other stuff out there which does not get a look in because of the rigged radio market.
2) Stop selling the DVD's and CD's at such high prices. The market has moved on and there's competition for the money, people have more things they can buy, as I mentioned already, computer games, mobile phones etc.. It's not the 1960's where for teenagers there was music, film, and that's it.
3) Stop loading DVD's with unskippable cr@p (Disney the worst offender), stop putting idiotic unskippable trailers on copyrights - we just bought your legit DVD damn it! At least with VHS you could rewind to a spot where the actual content starts!
4) Stop putting crapware on CD's, we want Red Book Standard CD's, and we also want the cases and CD's to have the logo on it to prove they are REAL audio CD's, not the fake crap put out today.
5) Stop putting DRM on legit downloads. It p1sses me off that such and such file is restricted to what file format a device will play (with DRM built in to the player). I don't want to pay extra for a MP3 player to make some DRM licensee richer.
6) Improve the audio quality of Audio CD's, and digital downloads. Audio CD's are chasing the loudness battle - I recently bought a compilation CD and had to give it away because I had ear ache after 5 minutes of this unlistenable compressed music. Digital downloads are also not much better, where are the file formats like FLAC on ALL download sites, not just highly specialised sites. Hell, you can buy a CD then rip it to make a FLAC and it will outclass and MP3.
7) Get rid of the copy restrictions on DVD's, HD discs, camcorders, and the other formats.
MAYBE after all that, downloaders MIGHT think about buying more music and films.
What happens when you pull that much energy out of the jetstream? Does it change global air circulation? Do you get climate changes throughout the world?
You'd then have to re-write "The Chaos Theory", and give some mathematicians and physicists a headache coming up with a new formula :).
Now how will anyone go to Microsoft WindowsUpdate for updates, it barely works with Firefox but has no problem with IE.
Maybe the EU should bother to look in the widespread FRAUD within it's own institution which means the EU's own auditors have not signed-off the EU's accounts for the past 14 years in a row.
The politicians only want laws to have the hoi-polloi under their thumbs and make sure they stay there, while the politicians continue to rape the population via taxes, and use technology to hide their frauds. How often you hear of "computer errors" for "overpayments" and other such BS.
Chris Heaton-Harris MEP on the 2009 budget frauds.
The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon's love of comics make him look like a child, even if the character is super intelligent. Surely at the characters age (past university age), you'd grow out of reading comics!?
Original post > ..... to become the world's second largest offshore junk yard.
There, fixed the original posting.
I bought myself a Asus netbook with the Linux pre-install. It didn't last long and installed a different Linux distro which was not as childish and crippled as the pre-installed Linux version (not any Ubuntu flavour). Maybe there should be an option when buying machines for NO OS installed by default. It wouldn't prevent the manufacturer adding crapware for their Windows install CD's.
It would be interesting to know which OS would be more frustrating to the average user to install. Every Linux install I've done, it installed everything a typical install does in one go and needed one reboot (setting up SuperUser and user accounts). The last time I installed WinXP on my desktop I lost the will to live after 35 reboots to install the OS and countless other drivers which insisted on full reboots.
> The point of automated face scanning and license plate scanning technologies is not to reduce crime, the point is to track innocent people.
There, fixed that line for you.
Based on the UK example, the current Commie government has thought up an extra 3000+ "crimes" which aren't crimes at all. Is it a crime to accidentally drop a tissue from a jacket pocket? It is in this governments eyes. These systems are to track what you are doing, raise money and CONTROL you. If you think these systems are there for catching criminals - the sort that people worry about, then you are mistaken.
The future is web based.
Is it? After a typical month I am near my download limit for the month, and all it is is web browsing, email, and some file transfers. What is a web based solution going to do to bandwidth usage?
I've used Google docs for a quick project, and it has vastly cut and inflexible features compared to a spreadsheet installed on your machine.
Web based is too inflexible. Just my opinion of course.
For most users, Linux IS ready for the desktop. There's more people that use their computers casually then for installing the latest games or other such applications.
I've had Linux installed on and off for 7 years, but about 2 years ago I saw that the OS was good enough for everyday use (I don't use Ubuntu). It has now got to the point where before I had 100% use of Windows XP and 0% Linux, I have 2% Windows and 98% Linux usage.
A majority of applications that I had to buy software for in Windows I now have in Linux versions, maybe not as 100% polished, but they are usable, like Kdenlive for editing HD video or Avidemux. It's not a question of being free for me, but they are more stable than in Windows equivalents.
The only thing that people should be p1ssed off at is the lack of updates for applications like Skype, who after well over 2 years have given no updates to users of Linux, and no 64 bit version. Would be nice for Google to get their finger out and have a 64 bit version of GoogleEarth.
The other annoying thing is that still manufacturers refuse to get their stuff to work on Linux.
Ever wonder why companies like IBM are involved in the UK ID database, they do have extensive experience in 1939-45 of tracking "undesirable people" for the then Nazi government.
On the bright side, if there is one, private sector schools are refusing to co-operate with building this clandestine ID database. Daily Mail article. Only problem is, you have to have your children in private schools for the school to show two fingers at the government.
Private schools are refusing to provide information on their pupils for use in a controversial Government database.
The £224million system, called ContactPoint, aims to hold the details of every school-aged child in England, including GP and parents' mobile-phone numbers, as well as a log of what services they use, such as a school nurse.
It is estimated that this information could be used by more than one million people, from police officers to school administrators.
Now, in the latest blow to the widely criticised database, the Independent Schools Council, which represents the private education sector, has joined critics who fear that data will not be secure and could be used improperly.
ISC chief executive David Lyscom said: 'The only effective way to safeguard our children's data is to scrap the whole ContactPoint system.'
Maybe there should be an extension that blocks extensions from being automatically updated just because it's listed with others to be updated. That should solve the updated with new "features" problem.