I have 7 Internet-connected personal machines at the house (7 Linux boxes, 1 Wintendo), and one Linux laptop is connected to a 5.1 surround system in the office.
Every machine on the network (with the exception of the Wintendo) can play audio over the network through the 5.1 surround system via Pulseaudio, with no appreciable loss of sound quality.
I can sit on the couch with a wireless-enabled laptop and play music from the headless file storage machine through the 5.1 surround system remotely.
AAC blows. My Sony Walkman NW-E0005x uses it and it royally blows. The encoding has more bugs than a 2.0 Microsoft product and doesn't work well even with hardware designed specifically for it.
Some company should design a keyboard which can slide out sideways to offer more space. It would be really cool to have a full-sized keyboard on a netbook. Bonus if they can also make an extendable LCD screen.
A full sized keyboard and a wide screen which, when closed, measures 6 x 8 inches and maybe 1.5 inches thick? Sign me up.
Linux fonts and the Linux interface in general (I use Gnome) have really improved. In fact, many cross-platform apps like Firefox and OpenOffice don't show any appreciable difference between the Linux version and the Windows version.
Example:
I gave my mother-in-law a used laptop early last year, Gateway Solo 5300 700mhz with half a gig of RAM and Ubuntu 7.10
It was the first computer she ever actually owned. She had only used Windows machines up to that point.
She teaches at her hometown high school and uses her computer for email, browsing the web, editing Word documents and playing Mahjong.
I never once had her call for help, and she was able to do everything that she needed.
About 3 months ago the machine went dead, most likely a motherboard problem.
She had me find her a decent laptop on eBay, gave me a budget of $250. I roped in a 1 ghz Thinkpad for around 190 bucks and she requested that I set it up with Ubuntu. So I graduated her up to Ubuntu 8.04, handed her the machine, and haven't had a support call yet.
Unless you are an avid gamer, or your job/hobby requires esoteric software that only runs on Windows, Linux is ready for the desktop. Your 60 year old mother-in-law could even use it.
In the meantime, pirate radio stations are adapting to the FCC's warrantless search power by dividing up a station's operations. For instance, Boulder Free Radio consists of an online radio station operated by DJs from a remote studio. Miles away, a small computer streams the online station and feeds it to the transmitter. Once the FCC comes and leaves a notice on the door, the transmitter is moved to another location before the agent returns.
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My wife's laptop runs Ubuntu 7.10 and setting up Pulseaudio took a bit of work.
The recipe at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio was a big help.
Debian works fine with Pulseaudio using the i82801onboard sound on our fileserver here.
If you email larryish---near---gmail---dot---com with your specs I can maybe help you get the ball rolling on a Debian box.
What distro and version are you using?
Pulseaudio rocks IMO.
I have 7 Internet-connected personal machines at the house (7 Linux boxes, 1 Wintendo), and one Linux laptop is connected to a 5.1 surround system in the office.
Every machine on the network (with the exception of the Wintendo) can play audio over the network through the 5.1 surround system via Pulseaudio, with no appreciable loss of sound quality.
I can sit on the couch with a wireless-enabled laptop and play music from the headless file storage machine through the 5.1 surround system remotely.
We've come a long way, baby.
AAC blows. My Sony Walkman NW-E0005x uses it and it royally blows. The encoding has more bugs than a 2.0 Microsoft product and doesn't work well even with hardware designed specifically for it.
Open source shares everything with everyone.
It is sort of like Ghandi, only it is written as 010001110110100001100001011011100110010001101001.
... the story about the Catholic child molestation/priest shuffling coverup... and tons of staff that went into it...
Dude. That is wrong on SO many levels.
I once heard a black college professor refer to Nelson Mandela as an "African-American".
Perhaps he should use the DIVORCE libraries.
Of course he will have to be cautious while calling from a library created by lawyers.
Can anyone recommend a good Alfresco tutorial?
Got an ebook collection here that has gotten out of hand, and the Alfresco free version sounds juicy.
I await the people trying to figure out which political stripe they can flame me as.
You are a damned LIBRUL!!!1 O.k., I'll go back to my Oolite game. Sorry.
In Soviet Russia, the choir sings to YOU!
Some company should design a keyboard which can slide out sideways to offer more space. It would be really cool to have a full-sized keyboard on a netbook. Bonus if they can also make an extendable LCD screen.
A full sized keyboard and a wide screen which, when closed, measures 6 x 8 inches and maybe 1.5 inches thick? Sign me up.
Linux fonts and the Linux interface in general (I use Gnome) have really improved. In fact, many cross-platform apps like Firefox and OpenOffice don't show any appreciable difference between the Linux version and the Windows version.
Example:
I gave my mother-in-law a used laptop early last year, Gateway Solo 5300 700mhz with half a gig of RAM and Ubuntu 7.10
It was the first computer she ever actually owned. She had only used Windows machines up to that point.
She teaches at her hometown high school and uses her computer for email, browsing the web, editing Word documents and playing Mahjong.
I never once had her call for help, and she was able to do everything that she needed.
About 3 months ago the machine went dead, most likely a motherboard problem.
She had me find her a decent laptop on eBay, gave me a budget of $250. I roped in a 1 ghz Thinkpad for around 190 bucks and she requested that I set it up with Ubuntu. So I graduated her up to Ubuntu 8.04, handed her the machine, and haven't had a support call yet.
Unless you are an avid gamer, or your job/hobby requires esoteric software that only runs on Windows, Linux is ready for the desktop. Your 60 year old mother-in-law could even use it.
the installation of that firewall resulted in about a 60% reduction in our network resources
Wow. That is the most inefficient firewall EVER.
Girls in schools don't give the niki-wiki to the pushovers and "nice-guy" types. They give it up to the assertive assholes.
If you want use your laptop to make headway with the girls, refuse (mostly politely) to let them use it.
Then you (and your laptop) will become the forbidden fruit and every one of those heifers will want a nibble.
No, it tells you how many kisses he has had in his life.
I am betting it is an integer somewhere between -1 and 1
Turn off those American Idol re-runs.
I got something for you to watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX7lkFpacS4
It is from Fox News, too. That's how you know it is Fair and Balanced!
and steal Sandra Bullocks identity.
Can they steal her panties?
Why do they remove their fingerprints when YOU join? Are you really THAT important?
You're not making any sense, mate!
And those people are incredibly naive.
That depends on what your definition of the word "is" is.
What experimental drivers are you using?
I have 9.04 installed on a desktop machine with onboard Intel graphics and the performance is abysmal.
If your laptop uses an onboard Intel graphics chip, you may need to stick with 8.04 to get the best performance.
http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359578
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1132722.html
In the meantime, pirate radio stations are adapting to the FCC's warrantless search power by dividing up a station's operations. For instance, Boulder Free Radio consists of an online radio station operated by DJs from a remote studio. Miles away, a small computer streams the online station and feeds it to the transmitter. Once the FCC comes and leaves a notice on the door, the transmitter is moved to another location before the agent returns.
Fscking awesome. Absolutely fscking awesome.
Guess it's time to change the frequency on my 5 watt FM transmitter to something other than the local Christian station.
But I just KNOW they like listening to 24/7 Slayer. I just KNOW it.