I thought for a minute that this would cause flames to erupt from the top of the device! This way you could gather friends with large forks and charge together toward foe?
This is where Linux is good. If your printer is supported, chances are it will work out of the box. My printer is working fine (samsung clp300) although the ibook prints better in colour, Ubuntu drivers are easier to install.
How can an OS called 'Linpus' inspire confidence in scared ignorant consumers! At least Ubuntu doesn't sound like the glowing yellow stuff leaking out of giant servers at Linus' house.
I really like the sound of the 10" 40g SSD linux eee 1000, but it is nowhere to be found on Australian computer selling websites. There are a few for sale on ebay from the US but they come to ~$800 AUD at the current exchange rate.
I would buy one with Linux installed if given the choice, but would immediately install ubuntu's netbook edition or eeebuntu or whatever seems to be the going version of the moment.
i too am Australian, and I too think it will be easily circumvented. I also think this is really just a piece of policy to appease the christian 'family first' party, and if implemented is their first real big mistake!
Of course the web should be open free and unhindered, it should be equal and available. As soon as they start filtering out one thing, they can filter out more... stupid. If parents are concerned then they should install personal filtering software, keep the computer in a public part of the house or just let the kid learn on their own!
For posterity, I am in Australia where 49.95 USD is around $77 Australian dollars today, more yesterday and a lot less two months ago... Sorry I did guess the conversion rate, it shouldn't make me a liar though I guess I did exaggerate a bit!
To be quite honest, I think about spending $80 - $100 on far cry 2 for Pc (through steam, very easy) and hesitate. Should be a great game but its a lot of money.
Then I head over to TPB and see a discussion alongside an ISO for said game, its playable but multiplayer doesn't work. This option is also very easy, inexpensive and only limited by the no multiplayer factor.
So I am sorry to say I am tempted by the latter option, which means sadly that I give the developers no money. Perhaps they should make singleplayer free and charge a small monthly fee for multiplayer?
In conclusion, what he says is very sensible, they make money by selling games, not by having them used for free.
I have been waiting for some affordable plasmonic lithography to go with my endocronic defribulation machine. mwa ha ha. Finally my plans of world domination by picoscale subliminal messaging is becoming reality!
you ever heard of.pdf? I'm sure this would also happen (formatting changing) if you used a different word version than your potential employer. Don't be so quick to judge.
In fact at Uni recently I saw a friend get disappointed with word screwing up his formatting, I said "give it here and I will fix it with open office portable" opened it, printed it perfectly! So there are two sides to your argument.
I would like to add my 0.02. I installed Ubuntu 8.10 about a month ago due to getting a new pc with an intel ich - 10 (or whatever) chipset where hardy (the great stable one) wouldn't recognise my hard drive (pain in the arse). So I installed intrepid and in the beginning there were constant application crashes, nvidia issues, then my wireless card stopped working and I couldn't even compile serialmonkey's drivers! But now I am siting pretty, new vlc, new gnome, new gimp, open office 3.0 (from a ppa repo), new deluge... its all great. Nvidia drivers work flawlessly and I even got 2 screens working (a 22 inch samsung and a CRT TV) without manually editting xorg.conf!! (amazing!). Virtualbox runs in seamless mode so I can use the few windows apps I can't live without (mostly for Uni) and... its really great!
So in conclusion, if you want the latest and greatest free software then I highly recommend that you try Ubuntu 8.10, it works fabulously for me. If you want a super stable free software OS then use 8.04.1.
I should mention that I have played it recently, and it seems to be far less popular these days. In Australia at least rooms are rarely full, and often they use ridiculous mods like 'warcraft' or 'deathmatch'... mods of a mod.
Maybe I could mod these mods of mods to make a mod of a mod of a mod which is back to the old original counter strike mod?
I played the original (not source) counter strike for countless hours! The source version was faithful to the original, almost exactly the same but with a couple of new guns and physics like ragdoll bodies and barrels moving with explosions! Fast frantic team based strategy shooter. Great.
i have noticed is moving more towards open source, I don't know if it is just because we are poor, or that someone can see this light!
I happen to use many OSS portable apps, like firefox winscp and open office (even thought word is there) but I used to install gimp portable, and no longer have to as someone requested our computer tech guy to install gimp on all the computers!
So now I can introduce my colleagues to open source software for their simple/mid level image editing and they don't have to stuff around in paint anymore!
There are folks though that will not even try gimp 'cause its not photoshop, and are perfectly happy to use paint instead!!!
You sure this was Qantas? and if it was it was after Virgin Blue came over with a sense of humour... and unstufyfied the hairy plane industry of Australia, clearly influencing Qantas to do t he same.
The strange thing is that Qantas has had at least one minor accident each week the last month or two. First it was exploding oxygen cylinders then a few emergency landings and now passengers stuck to the roof!!!!
I was going to say this, i am currently 'acquiring' a version of osx from tpb. Unfortunately I can't recmmend the OS as I have forgotten the name of it, its downloading at home. But I will try it out soon, triple booting Ubuntu XP and OSX sounds great fun!
I can't decide whether OSX is better than Ubuntu though... Apple should implement apt-get, then it would be definite!
Since there is already a great effort to make one linux distro 'easy' why would HP want to reproduce all the same efforts? They should at least take Ubuntu and build upon it, but really... Why bother? They may as well just work on developing hardware drivers for all their hardware and support Ubuntu as an install option (like Dell does).
I think Linux is bloody good! The only holding it back now is aplications, wine is a good start, ensuring many existing windows apps will work on Linux, but a beautiful movie maker, photo manipulation, music maker et.al like Apple's iDVD, iPhoto and Garageband are something that Linux could do with. Maybe HP could sponsor one of these?
I request that you use this form in the future. If I ever see it again, i will get your address and send you a free copy of ubuntu. (thats a good thing)
Yeah its pretty amazing really, nobody likes getting vista 'free' with their new computer but will pay out the nose for a mac with OSX (essentially just for the OS, although hardware is nice too) I personally buy without OS and stick old XPpro on a small partition for games... which don't get played much these days!
I have just purchased and set up a via epia 12000 board computer (its 1.2ghz) with 512 ram and whatever it is quite nice. It plays movies, records and watches live tv, time shift live tv, record tv while watching movies etc. Also Mthtv has a great webUI so I can set it to record shows from my laptop on the comfort of the couch without messing around with remote controls. THis system is fine for SD tv, but it would choke on HDtv.
Apparently though a mac mini (or even those new little Dell things) would work very will for hd stuff, get a usb dual tuner card, download mythbuntu and you're off! Mythbuntu was really easy to set up by the way. cheers to them and the mythtv team.
All we need now is an option of a very pretty UI, open GL frontend? and a better music player in there...
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I thought for a minute that this would cause flames to erupt from the top of the device! This way you could gather friends with large forks and charge together toward foe?
This is where Linux is good. If your printer is supported, chances are it will work out of the box. My printer is working fine (samsung clp300) although the ibook prints better in colour, Ubuntu drivers are easier to install.
How can an OS called 'Linpus' inspire confidence in scared ignorant consumers! At least Ubuntu doesn't sound like the glowing yellow stuff leaking out of giant servers at Linus' house.
I would buy one with Linux installed if given the choice, but would immediately install ubuntu's netbook edition or eeebuntu or whatever seems to be the going version of the moment.
Of course the web should be open free and unhindered, it should be equal and available. As soon as they start filtering out one thing, they can filter out more... stupid. If parents are concerned then they should install personal filtering software, keep the computer in a public part of the house or just let the kid learn on their own!
For posterity, I am in Australia where 49.95 USD is around $77 Australian dollars today, more yesterday and a lot less two months ago ... Sorry I did guess the conversion rate, it shouldn't make me a liar though I guess I did exaggerate a bit!
And that partition should have a sub partition
with specs on how to read it
Binary blobs of binary blobs
And so ad infinitum
Then I head over to TPB and see a discussion alongside an ISO for said game, its playable but multiplayer doesn't work. This option is also very easy, inexpensive and only limited by the no multiplayer factor.
So I am sorry to say I am tempted by the latter option, which means sadly that I give the developers no money. Perhaps they should make singleplayer free and charge a small monthly fee for multiplayer?
In conclusion, what he says is very sensible, they make money by selling games, not by having them used for free.
I have been waiting for some affordable plasmonic lithography to go with my endocronic defribulation machine. mwa ha ha. Finally my plans of world domination by picoscale subliminal messaging is becoming reality!
In fact at Uni recently I saw a friend get disappointed with word screwing up his formatting, I said "give it here and I will fix it with open office portable" opened it, printed it perfectly! So there are two sides to your argument.
So I installed intrepid and in the beginning there were constant application crashes, nvidia issues, then my wireless card stopped working and I couldn't even compile serialmonkey's drivers!
But now I am siting pretty, new vlc, new gnome, new gimp, open office 3.0 (from a ppa repo), new deluge
So in conclusion, if you want the latest and greatest free software then I highly recommend that you try Ubuntu 8.10, it works fabulously for me. If you want a super stable free software OS then use 8.04.1.
The problem is all you youngsters who don't realize how much we know that you don't.
Are you sure you didn't mean '... who don't realise how much we know we that you don't know that we know that we don't know'
Maybe I could mod these mods of mods to make a mod of a mod of a mod which is back to the old original counter strike mod?
I played the original (not source) counter strike for countless hours! The source version was faithful to the original, almost exactly the same but with a couple of new guns and physics like ragdoll bodies and barrels moving with explosions! Fast frantic team based strategy shooter. Great.
what is wrong with your existing pc? what with between open office and mpd on Ubuntu ... I can read most formats!!
I happen to use many OSS portable apps, like firefox winscp and open office (even thought word is there) but I used to install gimp portable, and no longer have to as someone requested our computer tech guy to install gimp on all the computers!
So now I can introduce my colleagues to open source software for their simple/mid level image editing and they don't have to stuff around in paint anymore!
There are folks though that will not even try gimp 'cause its not photoshop, and are perfectly happy to use paint instead!!!
The strange thing is that Qantas has had at least one minor accident each week the last month or two. First it was exploding oxygen cylinders then a few emergency landings and now passengers stuck to the roof!!!!
What ever happened to wearing seat belts!!!
I was going to say this, i am currently 'acquiring' a version of osx from tpb. Unfortunately I can't recmmend the OS as I have forgotten the name of it, its downloading at home. But I will try it out soon, triple booting Ubuntu XP and OSX sounds great fun! I can't decide whether OSX is better than Ubuntu though... Apple should implement apt-get, then it would be definite!
Since there is already a great effort to make one linux distro 'easy' why would HP want to reproduce all the same efforts? They should at least take Ubuntu and build upon it, but really... Why bother? They may as well just work on developing hardware drivers for all their hardware and support Ubuntu as an install option (like Dell does). I think Linux is bloody good! The only holding it back now is aplications, wine is a good start, ensuring many existing windows apps will work on Linux, but a beautiful movie maker, photo manipulation, music maker et.al like Apple's iDVD, iPhoto and Garageband are something that Linux could do with. Maybe HP could sponsor one of these?
I request that you use this form in the future. If I ever see it again, i will get your address and send you a free copy of ubuntu. (thats a good thing)
Yeah its pretty amazing really, nobody likes getting vista 'free' with their new computer but will pay out the nose for a mac with OSX (essentially just for the OS, although hardware is nice too) I personally buy without OS and stick old XPpro on a small partition for games... which don't get played much these days!
my via board has a s-video out, which worked ootb with muthbuntu, it plays movies and tv on my normal old massive CRT television!
All we need now is an option of a very pretty UI, open GL frontend? and a better music player in there...
user discovers chmod ... blogs about it ... boooooring.
finally after 20 odd years of development in four years time it will definitively be the year of Linux on the desktop.