I use Lubuntu 10.04 & PPA repos (testing) on my 5 year old laptop. I like it in general - responsive, clean, simple. However, it does not 'Just Work'. To wit:
1) Lack of meaningful network tools - Pyneighborhood is the worst solution I've ever seen to this. WiCD & network manager like to fight it out over who starts which day. I STILL can't browse my LAN.
2) Plymouth - this one has settled down but it was a pure nightmare when I first installed it. I ended up removing GDM entirely to stop the hanging on startup.
I applaud the Lubuntu team and the complaints above are only my observations - I am looking forward to future releases and the maturing of Lubuntu as a distribution. As a probable future refugee from Kubuntu, I beg to not become part of the system and stay close to LXDE. Gnome is the king, the rest are pawns.
Why IE9 Will Not NATIVELY Support Other Codecs Than H.264.
From the article:
Of course, IE9 will continue to support Flash and other plug-ins. Developers who want to use the same markup today across different browsers rely on plug-ins. Plug-ins are also important for delivering innovation and functionality ahead of the standards process; mainstream video on the web today works primarily because of plug-ins. We’re committed to plug-in support because developer choice and opportunity in authoring web pages are very important; ISVs on a platform are what make it great. We fully expect to support plug-ins (of all types, including video) along with HTML5. There were also some comments asking about our work with Adobe on Flash and this report offers a recent discussion.
I love linux and think MS is rapidly falling behind, but let's not go overboard here.
Beyond the hyperbole and the buzzword dropping, he's right.
People are on the move more, and are more connected, than ever. People picking up and moving across the country numerous times is commonplace. Going halfway around the world for whatever reason even moreso. People want their information at their fingertips. The coming cloud, Android, the iPad insanity, Palm, and all. Mobile is the future. Myself, my current desktop is probably the last one I will ever own, save for use as a server. I picked up a 5 year old Toshiba Satellite and it does just about everything I could ask for (youtube is choppy but when you have 512 MB nowadays it will be). I like the compact form, and the portability. My server will handle the music, movies, and the rest.
What I disagree with is the assessment of Apple. Apple is, and has been for a LONG time, paranoid and closed. This is their culture. It is simply how they view the market, where the market is going and how they will profit from it.
Seriously, I'm in awe of these pictures and how much is out there. Between these and the new hubble images, it really drives home two things:
1) I miss living in the country. The night skies on clear nights were awesome.
2) I regret that I will not live long enough to see faster then light travel. Perhaps my son will see it.
Lexus LFA - Projected production run for 2010: 500 Units, projected base cost:US$375,000
Chevy Corvette - 2009 Production: 16,956 Units, base cost: US$48,565
If you're going to weigh in, let's not use a super car vs a sports car, K?
Actually, I run Ubuntu variants on two of my three computers at home - Lubuntu on my laptop and Kubuntu on my desktop. I have no desire to see Ubuntu torn down - I simply thought this was news
Wait - GETTING popular? Ubuntu has been the most popular distro for ages! Or were you talking about X.org?;)
Yes, but barely, and could easily return to the No side with big money backing it.
That being said, whether it's next week or next year or 20 years from now, software patents will be be pointless. They will be ignored by everyone and their dog because countries like China and Russia completely ignore them and to compete with them, we will do the same thing.
No problem. You weren't implying you knew about Canada's laws either. And you are right that ENDA does not protect kids at school dances, which is a pity.
I'm Canadian and an pretty familiar with the subject of ENDA & civil rights.
I agree with much of what you said, and the overall feeling - I prefer common sense instead of corner case laws.
Gays at the prom? Because there is no equal protection under the law for gays, and too many people in american society still view gay relationships as evil. Allowing gays in the right conservative school district will get you just as sued.
I just wanted to point out many states (as well as Canada) have outlawed discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity entirely and the US recently recently passed ENDA.
Another Canadian political party siphoning off left-leaning voters. Already that vote is split between Liberal, NDP, Green, and (some would argue) the Bloc. This vote split is why the conservatives can continue to hold political power with 38% of the popular vote.
As a Canadian social liberal & fiscal conservative I have a serious issue with this statement.
1) The Bloc was started by former conservatives and it's first leader, Lucien Bouchard, worked with the Conservatives for a number of years before the BQ formed.
2) What is wrong with having 38% of the popular vote? There is NOTHING except a lack of will among the left-leaning parties to bring the government down and form a governing coalition. The conservatives have made MULTIPLE missteps which have very nearly done this very thing - especially in the past 18 months. I believe once a coalition government is formed in Canada which survives longer then six months, the floodgates will open to many new and existing but marginalized parties.
I would like to give you the Bloc Quebecois. They exist solely to make Quebec an independent country from the rest of Canada and because they only run candidates in Quebec they are effectively* unable to gain enough support to win enough seats to rule.
*In theory they could win a minority if and only if the four other major political parties in the country split the election enough and that they won a minimum of 61 seats out of 75 available to them when they have never won more than 54. However, the Greens, NDP, Conservative and/or Liberals would probably create some sort of a coalition to prevent that from happening.
As a proud Manitoban & Canadian, may I say "Yar! Where do I sign?"
And since nobody has seen fit to post the lyrics...
The Last Saskatchewan Pirate - Arrogant Worms/Captain Tractor/Brad Johner
I used to be a farmer, and I made a living fine,
I had a little stretch of land along the CP line
But times were hard and though I tried, the money wasn't there
And the bankers came and took my land and told me "fair is fair"
I looked for every kind of job, the answer always no
"Hire you now?" they'd always laugh, "we just let twenty go!"
The government, the promised me a measly little sum
But I've got too much pride to end up just another bum.
Then I thought, who gives a damn if all the jobs are gone?
I'm gonna be a PIRATE on the river Saskatchewan!
And it's a heave-ho, hi-ho, comin' down the plains
Stealin' wheat and barley and all the other grains
It's a ho-hey, hi-hey farmers bar yer doors
When ya see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores
Well, you'd think the local farmers would know that I'm at large
But just the other day I found an unprotected barge
I snuck up right behind them and they were none the wiser,
I rammed their ship and sank it and I stole their fertilizer!
A bridge outside of Moose Jaw spans a mighty river
Farmers cross in so much fear their stomachs are a'quiver
Cause they know that Captain Tractor's hidin' in the bay
I'll jump the bridge and knock them cold and sail off with their hay!
And it's a heave-ho, hi-ho, comin' down the plains
Stealin' wheat and barley and all the other grains
It's a ho-hey, hi-hey farmers bar yer doors
When ya see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores
Well, Mountie Bob he chased me, he was always at my throat
He followed on the shoreline cause he didn't own a boat
But cutbacks were a'coming and the Mountie lost his job
So now he's sailing with us, and we call him Salty Bob!
A swingin' sword, a skull and bones and pleasant company
I never pay my income tax and screw the GST (SCREW IT!!)
Sailin down to Saskatoon, the terror of the seas
If you wanna reach the co-op, boy, you gotta get by me!
Cause it's a heave-ho, hi-ho, comin' down the plains
Stealin' wheat and barley and all the other grains
It's a ho-hey, hi-hey farmers bar yer doors
When ya see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores
(*spoken* Arrrr! Ya salty dog!)
(*spoken* Arrrr! Ya salty gopher!)
(*spoken* Arr.. ya.. salty bale of hay!)
Well, Pirate life's appealing but you just don't find it here,
I hear in North Alberta there's a band of buccaneers
They roam the Athabaska from Smith to Fort McKay
And you're gonna lose your Stetson if you have to pass their way!
Well, winter is a'comin' and a chill is in the breeze
My Pirate days are over once the river starts to freeze
I'll be back in springtime but now I have to go
I hear there's lots of plunderin' down in New Mexico!
Cause it's a heave-ho, hi-ho, comin' down the plains
Stealin' wheat and barley and all the other grains
It's a ho-hey, hi-hey farmers bar yer doors
When ya see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores...x2
When ya see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores...x2
Re:your first sentence is technically flawed
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Ninite interests me due to it being a repository style system which I love if it works well (it will probably get a test run on my windows partition). Thank you for that.
In conclusion, you can buy a nice P4 which will do all that Joe and Sally average is gonna do with a PC for less than $100 with XP.
I spent $50 one time on a P4 - 1.6 Ghz, 512 MB RAM, 20 GB Hard drive with monitor. There is simply no way I'd use XP on that system with anything less than 1 GB of RAM - Antivirus is a pig on RAM no matter the program and SP3 threw any idea of lightweight right out the window. Depending on the mobo then you're spending $20 on used RAM online. Up to $70. Windows XP on my machine clocks in at a svelte 12 GB, which on 20 GB worth of hard drive is scary. Checking NCIX.com the cheapest hard drive I found was an 80 GB Seagate Barracuda at $44.51 before shipping and taxes, but we'll call it $45. Now at $115 - which breaks the budget and you still have a system that can't hold a candle to a netbook.
I would much rather get the $50 machine and throw something like Lubuntu 10.04 on it. Long Term Support, lightweight, and not a pig on hard drive space.
When I read this I remembered back to the last company I worked for. Their in-house MRP system ran on QNX circa 1993 (The MRP was changed over to Infor in 2008). It was very telling one day when one of the girls told me about the lead (read: only) MRP developer had told her. At a particular point in the MRP he said do NOT Hit Ctrl-S. She asked why. His response: it would erase the hard drive.
Obviously, that's not the norm, but now I'll need a drink when I get home tonite.
Loving Lubuntu here. I recently picked up an old 1.3 Ghz Celeron laptop with 512 MB of RAM and installed Lubuntu on it. After a few bad glitches (Plymouth!) I have it updated to Lubuntu 10.04 Beta with the nightly Lubuntu builds. Runs fabulous and still boots up in less then 30 seconds.
The way Lubuntu is shaping up, KDE will get the punt from my desktop sooner rather then later.
A period of say 20 years or so: imagine if you could go to any bittorrent site and download any movie, music, book, or software from 1990 or before?
I think 20 years is a bit too short nowadays with videos and such easily stretching back that far. I would go 30 years, but that's my opinion. Highway to Hell, Who's Next & IV would all be free of copyright restrictions and I can wait a few more years until Appetite for Destruction is loose.
And that's not even whats important, whats important is derivative works: say a new movie based on Alien with actual alien characters, plot devices, and characters
Fan fiction based in the universes of Star Wars, Star Trek, Harry Porter and the like is great, but obviously the owners of the franchises are not going to go hunting down their own fanbase (leave that to the MAFIAA)because of stories which are generally dicey at best. They do *OWN* the franchise after all and they have the right to make sure the franchise does not fail. Would I WANT to see a movie based on a derivative work of Alien? I have no problem with companies still controlling the franchises and having control over the works released under their banner but their older works released to the public.
We would like to see what the government (any government) tries to do about it. If it turns out that there is some reason that we have to take it down, then we will, but if this happens, it will only validate the document's authenticity.
We will post this to show what you guys are up to.
If you try to get it taken down, it shows everything in the documentis true and real.
That, my friends, is called a checkmate in my book.
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I use Lubuntu 10.04 & PPA repos (testing) on my 5 year old laptop. I like it in general - responsive, clean, simple. However, it does not 'Just Work'. To wit:
1) Lack of meaningful network tools - Pyneighborhood is the worst solution I've ever seen to this. WiCD & network manager like to fight it out over who starts which day. I STILL can't browse my LAN.
2) Plymouth - this one has settled down but it was a pure nightmare when I first installed it. I ended up removing GDM entirely to stop the hanging on startup.
I applaud the Lubuntu team and the complaints above are only my observations - I am looking forward to future releases and the maturing of Lubuntu as a distribution. As a probable future refugee from Kubuntu, I beg to not become part of the system and stay close to LXDE. Gnome is the king, the rest are pawns.
From the article:
Of course, IE9 will continue to support Flash and other plug-ins. Developers who want to use the same markup today across different browsers rely on plug-ins. Plug-ins are also important for delivering innovation and functionality ahead of the standards process; mainstream video on the web today works primarily because of plug-ins. We’re committed to plug-in support because developer choice and opportunity in authoring web pages are very important; ISVs on a platform are what make it great. We fully expect to support plug-ins (of all types, including video) along with HTML5. There were also some comments asking about our work with Adobe on Flash and this report offers a recent discussion.
I love linux and think MS is rapidly falling behind, but let's not go overboard here.
Beyond the hyperbole and the buzzword dropping, he's right.
People are on the move more, and are more connected, than ever. People picking up and moving across the country numerous times is commonplace. Going halfway around the world for whatever reason even moreso. People want their information at their fingertips. The coming cloud, Android, the iPad insanity, Palm, and all. Mobile is the future. Myself, my current desktop is probably the last one I will ever own, save for use as a server. I picked up a 5 year old Toshiba Satellite and it does just about everything I could ask for (youtube is choppy but when you have 512 MB nowadays it will be). I like the compact form, and the portability. My server will handle the music, movies, and the rest.
What I disagree with is the assessment of Apple. Apple is, and has been for a LONG time, paranoid and closed. This is their culture. It is simply how they view the market, where the market is going and how they will profit from it.
it takes Facebook, Apple & Google.
MAYBE. Don't hold your breath.
Seriously, I'm in awe of these pictures and how much is out there. Between these and the new hubble images, it really drives home two things:
1) I miss living in the country. The night skies on clear nights were awesome.
2) I regret that I will not live long enough to see faster then light travel. Perhaps my son will see it.
And I just spent my last mod point. Dammit.
Um... Yeah...
Lexus LFA - Projected production run for 2010: 500 Units, projected base cost:US$375,000
Chevy Corvette - 2009 Production: 16,956 Units, base cost: US$48,565
If you're going to weigh in, let's not use a super car vs a sports car, K?
Actually, I run Ubuntu variants on two of my three computers at home - Lubuntu on my laptop and Kubuntu on my desktop. I have no desire to see Ubuntu torn down - I simply thought this was news
Wait - GETTING popular? Ubuntu has been the most popular distro for ages! Or were you talking about X.org? ;)
You're right - I jumped the gun.
Yes, but barely, and could easily return to the No side with big money backing it.
That being said, whether it's next week or next year or 20 years from now, software patents will be be pointless. They will be ignored by everyone and their dog because countries like China and Russia completely ignore them and to compete with them, we will do the same thing.
Open source is the future, believe it or not.
No problem. You weren't implying you knew about Canada's laws either. And you are right that ENDA does not protect kids at school dances, which is a pity.
I'm Canadian and an pretty familiar with the subject of ENDA & civil rights.
Gays at the prom? Because there is no equal protection under the law for gays, and too many people in american society still view gay relationships as evil. Allowing gays in the right conservative school district will get you just as sued.
I just wanted to point out many states (as well as Canada) have outlawed discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity entirely and the US recently recently passed ENDA.
Civil Rights from Stanford Encyclopedia
Employment Non-Discrimination Act
that I think that dress looks nice? Must be the drag queen in me.
Another Canadian political party siphoning off left-leaning voters. Already that vote is split between Liberal, NDP, Green, and (some would argue) the Bloc. This vote split is why the conservatives can continue to hold political power with 38% of the popular vote.
As a Canadian social liberal & fiscal conservative I have a serious issue with this statement.
1) The Bloc was started by former conservatives and it's first leader, Lucien Bouchard, worked with the Conservatives for a number of years before the BQ formed.
2) What is wrong with having 38% of the popular vote? There is NOTHING except a lack of will among the left-leaning parties to bring the government down and form a governing coalition. The conservatives have made MULTIPLE missteps which have very nearly done this very thing - especially in the past 18 months. I believe once a coalition government is formed in Canada which survives longer then six months, the floodgates will open to many new and existing but marginalized parties.
I would like to give you the Bloc Quebecois. They exist solely to make Quebec an independent country from the rest of Canada and because they only run candidates in Quebec they are effectively* unable to gain enough support to win enough seats to rule.
*In theory they could win a minority if and only if the four other major political parties in the country split the election enough and that they won a minimum of 61 seats out of 75 available to them when they have never won more than 54. However, the Greens, NDP, Conservative and/or Liberals would probably create some sort of a coalition to prevent that from happening.
As a proud Manitoban & Canadian, may I say "Yar! Where do I sign?" And since nobody has seen fit to post the lyrics...
The Last Saskatchewan Pirate - Arrogant Worms/Captain Tractor/Brad Johner
I used to be a farmer, and I made a living fine,
I had a little stretch of land along the CP line
But times were hard and though I tried, the money wasn't there
And the bankers came and took my land and told me "fair is fair"
I looked for every kind of job, the answer always no
"Hire you now?" they'd always laugh, "we just let twenty go!"
The government, the promised me a measly little sum
But I've got too much pride to end up just another bum.
Then I thought, who gives a damn if all the jobs are gone?
I'm gonna be a PIRATE on the river Saskatchewan!
And it's a heave-ho, hi-ho, comin' down the plains
Stealin' wheat and barley and all the other grains
It's a ho-hey, hi-hey farmers bar yer doors
When ya see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores
Well, you'd think the local farmers would know that I'm at large
But just the other day I found an unprotected barge
I snuck up right behind them and they were none the wiser,
I rammed their ship and sank it and I stole their fertilizer!
A bridge outside of Moose Jaw spans a mighty river
Farmers cross in so much fear their stomachs are a'quiver
Cause they know that Captain Tractor's hidin' in the bay
I'll jump the bridge and knock them cold and sail off with their hay!
And it's a heave-ho, hi-ho, comin' down the plains
Stealin' wheat and barley and all the other grains
It's a ho-hey, hi-hey farmers bar yer doors
When ya see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores
Well, Mountie Bob he chased me, he was always at my throat
He followed on the shoreline cause he didn't own a boat
But cutbacks were a'coming and the Mountie lost his job
So now he's sailing with us, and we call him Salty Bob!
A swingin' sword, a skull and bones and pleasant company
I never pay my income tax and screw the GST (SCREW IT!!)
Sailin down to Saskatoon, the terror of the seas
If you wanna reach the co-op, boy, you gotta get by me!
Cause it's a heave-ho, hi-ho, comin' down the plains
Stealin' wheat and barley and all the other grains
It's a ho-hey, hi-hey farmers bar yer doors
When ya see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores
(*spoken* Arrrr! Ya salty dog!)
(*spoken* Arrrr! Ya salty gopher!)
(*spoken* Arr.. ya.. salty bale of hay!)
Well, Pirate life's appealing but you just don't find it here,
I hear in North Alberta there's a band of buccaneers
They roam the Athabaska from Smith to Fort McKay
And you're gonna lose your Stetson if you have to pass their way!
Well, winter is a'comin' and a chill is in the breeze
My Pirate days are over once the river starts to freeze
I'll be back in springtime but now I have to go
I hear there's lots of plunderin' down in New Mexico!
Cause it's a heave-ho, hi-ho, comin' down the plains
Stealin' wheat and barley and all the other grains
It's a ho-hey, hi-hey farmers bar yer doors
When ya see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores...x2
When ya see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores...x2
In conclusion, you can buy a nice P4 which will do all that Joe and Sally average is gonna do with a PC for less than $100 with XP.
I spent $50 one time on a P4 - 1.6 Ghz, 512 MB RAM, 20 GB Hard drive with monitor. There is simply no way I'd use XP on that system with anything less than 1 GB of RAM - Antivirus is a pig on RAM no matter the program and SP3 threw any idea of lightweight right out the window. Depending on the mobo then you're spending $20 on used RAM online. Up to $70. Windows XP on my machine clocks in at a svelte 12 GB, which on 20 GB worth of hard drive is scary. Checking NCIX.com the cheapest hard drive I found was an 80 GB Seagate Barracuda at $44.51 before shipping and taxes, but we'll call it $45. Now at $115 - which breaks the budget and you still have a system that can't hold a candle to a netbook. I would much rather get the $50 machine and throw something like Lubuntu 10.04 on it. Long Term Support, lightweight, and not a pig on hard drive space.
When I read this I remembered back to the last company I worked for. Their in-house MRP system ran on QNX circa 1993 (The MRP was changed over to Infor in 2008). It was very telling one day when one of the girls told me about the lead (read: only) MRP developer had told her. At a particular point in the MRP he said do NOT Hit Ctrl-S. She asked why. His response: it would erase the hard drive.
Obviously, that's not the norm, but now I'll need a drink when I get home tonite.
I was just thinking that. I loved the book, and liked the TV series. Too bad CBC killed it.
Sir, if mod points, I'd hand all five to you.
Loving Lubuntu here. I recently picked up an old 1.3 Ghz Celeron laptop with 512 MB of RAM and installed Lubuntu on it. After a few bad glitches (Plymouth!) I have it updated to Lubuntu 10.04 Beta with the nightly Lubuntu builds. Runs fabulous and still boots up in less then 30 seconds. The way Lubuntu is shaping up, KDE will get the punt from my desktop sooner rather then later.
Try 'sudo apt-get upgrade'
Is it wrong that I prefer this style to XKCD's normal page?
Or that it makes me want to go home to use my Linux box?
A period of say 20 years or so: imagine if you could go to any bittorrent site and download any movie, music, book, or software from 1990 or before?
I think 20 years is a bit too short nowadays with videos and such easily stretching back that far. I would go 30 years, but that's my opinion. Highway to Hell, Who's Next & IV would all be free of copyright restrictions and I can wait a few more years until Appetite for Destruction is loose.
And that's not even whats important, whats important is derivative works: say a new movie based on Alien with actual alien characters, plot devices, and characters
Fan fiction based in the universes of Star Wars, Star Trek, Harry Porter and the like is great, but obviously the owners of the franchises are not going to go hunting down their own fanbase (leave that to the MAFIAA)because of stories which are generally dicey at best. They do *OWN* the franchise after all and they have the right to make sure the franchise does not fail. Would I WANT to see a movie based on a derivative work of Alien? I have no problem with companies still controlling the franchises and having control over the works released under their banner but their older works released to the public.
We would like to see what the government (any government) tries to do about it. If it turns out that there is some reason that we have to take it down, then we will, but if this happens, it will only validate the document's authenticity.
We will post this to show what you guys are up to.
If you try to get it taken down, it shows everything in the documentis true and real.
That, my friends, is called a checkmate in my book.