Of course it would be pretty short sighted of the media industry to help MS without some very long term guarantees. If MS succeeds suddenly the relationship will flip around and the media companies will live or die at MS's whim.
You give the recording industry too much credit. They still don't understand digital content and the Internet. There was a great opportunity to profit from new business models that incorporated digital distribution but now they have this uphill war against "piracy" and end up with crazy laws and DRM.
Call me jaded and cynical, but if MS was aiming for interoperability, where are the OS X and Linux versions?
Bundled with Duke Nukem Forever:-p
This is just the latest Embrace, Extend, Extinguish scheme from Microsoft to keep Windows significant in the "Web 2.0" world.
All of a sudden businesses see that no longer are they ignoring the 30% of their potential customers who don't use IE by making their site depend on.NET. Now only the 10% of non-Windows users are left out so we get a new era of a Windows only web. Hotmail will probably be the first to go.
Let's hope that Mono gets up to scratch, in 3 years time we may all have to depend on them to use banking sites.
That 4 seconds is probably the wineserver starting up.
I notice that when starting a Wine app it takes a while. But if I was to open another app it would start up at an acceptable speed since wineserver is already running.
Winecfg takes about 6 seconds to cold start. If I start winefile in another terminal it starts up way faster.
But it is worth the risk if that laptop contains sensitive data on some big new technology that could be sold or some incriminating pictures that can be used for blackmail.
A 'professional' thief could actually be hired by Evil Corporation A to steal Evil Corporation B's sensitive data. I wouldn't put it past some companies to deal with this kind of thing.
3. The Synaptics touchpad is much more sensitive than when running Windows. Driver adjustment doesn't seem to help. Probably due to old hardware, but sometimes, I would get the effect of a right-button click in Terminal (really weird).
Xorg has a nice feature with touchpads enabled by default. Just like in Windows the right and bottom edge is used for scrolling, however the top right corner acts like a middle click when you tap it and the lower right acts like the right click. (Unfortunately you have to hack the xorg.conf to change the corners around)
Try it out now, tap the lower right corner. It's very handy if you want to be quiet without the loud clicking (meeting/funeral/etc).
I have experienced the same thing. I was playing with Imagemagick (convert command) to convert some scans to pdf. On my 1GB RAM laptop it soon hit swap and made the system unusable. Luckily I could hit Crtl+C on the terminal it was running in before a reboot was needed.
Simply running convert *.png test.pdf for a large enough amount of files killed it. It ran fine on my desktop with 4GB RAM.
Unfortunately 8.04 uses KDE 4.0, which is the one people complained about for being buggy and lacking basic features. I installed it too and the desktop itself is glitched up with the lower 3/4 of the background covering the icons.
Try KDE 4.1 that is on the 8.10 RC. It should be a lot more usable. Better yet try out another distro that is more KDE centric like Mandriva or OpenSUSE who implement many tweaks to better the KDE experience.
Dual screen works mostly fine for me here on my Intel 945GM laptop (though I don't use DS often).
The only problems is the limited virtual desktop size of 2048x2048 for Compiz so I can only have the second screen above/below, and that I have to play with a setting in ccsm to get Compiz to draw windows across both screens correctly.
If it helps your Compiz problem the setting in question is under General>Display settings, untick detect outputs and add outputs for each screen or just one to make windows maximize across both screens (eg: 1280x1024+0+0 1280x800+0+1024).
The 2048x2048 problem requires me to edit the xorg.conf to get Metacity to draw a bigger desktop if I want side by side screens (but no Compiz). I read that it's a hardware limitation and the workaround never worked for me.
In a similar way to how id Software sells their Quake series.
The engine's code is open source but you are still charged for game data like the maps, sound and textures. Though the community will eventually produce their own game data, the game developers will still have a head start with their mature game data.
The down side (for game devs) is that it will be very easy to pirate (unlike today's games) since the data files are easily copied and any DRM in the engine is easily removed. And they will also have to compete with their old games that will probably have been upgraded by someone to run with better effects with more mature mods.
Else they could always license the code with some non-OSI license that enables them to charge for the code.
The 701 EEE could use WPA-PSK, the wireless encryption common to most consumer grade routers.
What it can't do is WPA-EAP that is commonly found in corporate environments and universities. This is probably what the parent was trying to say. You can see it's SSID, but when trying to connect it only gives a box for you to type the password but nowhere for the username.
The workaround for it was to install the wpa_supplicant package from Debian and hope that it worked.
MSY has some of the best prices in Melbourne. One thing to mention is that their store model is not for noobs. It's a little different to most other mainstream stores in that you have to know what you want to buy before you go in. The whole store isn't open up for you to browse the shelves. They have about 4 sales guys at the front bench where you queue up to order your stuff from and they go and grab it from the shelves in the back for you.
I know a couple other stores have a similar setup but do any stores in the US have this setup?
I configured the Ubuntu and the better XP Dell to have the same disk space and RAM. I also added the 1.3MP webcam and Bluetooth to both.
Ubuntu: $494 XP: $534-$55=$479
Just wait for the next generation/wave of netbooks. Better hardware means they will have to slap Vista Business on them and under go the downgrade because of Microsoft's hardware limitation on XP licenses. And they will definitely have more incentive to push the cheaper Linux versions.
Many computer terms tend to be cut and pasted from English into foreign languages, especially if the word is exclusive to computing/technology developed. Something like 'Laptop' would have a foreign equivalent since it's a word made from existing words but something like 'Modem' and all the acronyms we know and love probably won't be any different.
Luckily Microsoft's buggy implementations eventually come back to bite them on the arse when they bring out a new operating system. Vista receives a lot of bad press for being incompatible with older software. IE 7 is still kept out of business systems because the IE 6 lock-in worked too well.
They can't decide to change the way things work right now since all the current software is expecting to use the current broken implementations.
This is why it's always good to program things like ACPI correctly to the specs and then hack them to fit the Windows way. Makes it easier to hack it to work with Windows' next way of breaking things.
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I thought that NTP servers gave you the UTC time and it was up to the OS to determine your relative time from your locale settings.
If your state government decides to change DST then you will find that your clock changes by an hour a week early/late on your unsupported XP system.
I find that disabling the proxy server setting stops it from stalling.
I too wish for this to be fixed. It always will stall for around 5 sec upon opening new tabs when I have to use the proxy server at uni.
Of course it would be pretty short sighted of the media industry to help MS without some very long term guarantees. If MS succeeds suddenly the relationship will flip around and the media companies will live or die at MS's whim.
You give the recording industry too much credit. They still don't understand digital content and the Internet. There was a great opportunity to profit from new business models that incorporated digital distribution but now they have this uphill war against "piracy" and end up with crazy laws and DRM.
Call me jaded and cynical, but if MS was aiming for interoperability, where are the OS X and Linux versions?
Bundled with Duke Nukem Forever :-p
This is just the latest Embrace, Extend, Extinguish scheme from Microsoft to keep Windows significant in the "Web 2.0" world.
All of a sudden businesses see that no longer are they ignoring the 30% of their potential customers who don't use IE by making their site depend on .NET. Now only the 10% of non-Windows users are left out so we get a new era of a Windows only web. Hotmail will probably be the first to go.
Let's hope that Mono gets up to scratch, in 3 years time we may all have to depend on them to use banking sites.
That 4 seconds is probably the wineserver starting up.
I notice that when starting a Wine app it takes a while. But if I was to open another app it would start up at an acceptable speed since wineserver is already running.
Winecfg takes about 6 seconds to cold start. If I start winefile in another terminal it starts up way faster.
But it is worth the risk if that laptop contains sensitive data on some big new technology that could be sold or some incriminating pictures that can be used for blackmail.
A 'professional' thief could actually be hired by Evil Corporation A to steal Evil Corporation B's sensitive data. I wouldn't put it past some companies to deal with this kind of thing.
Those jumper pins do exist in laptops too. They are smaller than conventional jumper pins and difficult to notice.
Consult your service manual for your laptop (not the user guide, you may have to search for a while if it's a non-common laptop).
I have seen one of those massive floppies in real life.
My high school IT teacher had one complete with it's massive drive. According to him 9 inchers were called 'flippies'
Flippy -> floppy -> stiffy
It's before my time, but still very interesting.
That's great and all, but does it run Linux?...
3. The Synaptics touchpad is much more sensitive than when running Windows. Driver adjustment doesn't seem to help. Probably due to old hardware, but sometimes, I would get the effect of a right-button click in Terminal (really weird).
Xorg has a nice feature with touchpads enabled by default. Just like in Windows the right and bottom edge is used for scrolling, however the top right corner acts like a middle click when you tap it and the lower right acts like the right click. (Unfortunately you have to hack the xorg.conf to change the corners around)
Try it out now, tap the lower right corner. It's very handy if you want to be quiet without the loud clicking (meeting/funeral/etc).
I have experienced the same thing. I was playing with Imagemagick (convert command) to convert some scans to pdf. On my 1GB RAM laptop it soon hit swap and made the system unusable. Luckily I could hit Crtl+C on the terminal it was running in before a reboot was needed.
Simply running convert *.png test.pdf for a large enough amount of files killed it. It ran fine on my desktop with 4GB RAM.
I'm running in Kubuntu 8.04
Unfortunately 8.04 uses KDE 4.0, which is the one people complained about for being buggy and lacking basic features. I installed it too and the desktop itself is glitched up with the lower 3/4 of the background covering the icons.
Try KDE 4.1 that is on the 8.10 RC. It should be a lot more usable. Better yet try out another distro that is more KDE centric like Mandriva or OpenSUSE who implement many tweaks to better the KDE experience.
Dual screen works mostly fine for me here on my Intel 945GM laptop (though I don't use DS often).
The only problems is the limited virtual desktop size of 2048x2048 for Compiz so I can only have the second screen above/below, and that I have to play with a setting in ccsm to get Compiz to draw windows across both screens correctly.
If it helps your Compiz problem the setting in question is under General>Display settings, untick detect outputs and add outputs for each screen or just one to make windows maximize across both screens (eg: 1280x1024+0+0 1280x800+0+1024).
The 2048x2048 problem requires me to edit the xorg.conf to get Metacity to draw a bigger desktop if I want side by side screens (but no Compiz). I read that it's a hardware limitation and the workaround never worked for me.
In a similar way to how id Software sells their Quake series.
The engine's code is open source but you are still charged for game data like the maps, sound and textures. Though the community will eventually produce their own game data, the game developers will still have a head start with their mature game data.
The down side (for game devs) is that it will be very easy to pirate (unlike today's games) since the data files are easily copied and any DRM in the engine is easily removed. And they will also have to compete with their old games that will probably have been upgraded by someone to run with better effects with more mature mods.
Else they could always license the code with some non-OSI license that enables them to charge for the code.
The spiny cube is so last version. All bow before the spiny cylinder/sphere B-)
The 701 EEE could use WPA-PSK, the wireless encryption common to most consumer grade routers.
What it can't do is WPA-EAP that is commonly found in corporate environments and universities. This is probably what the parent was trying to say. You can see it's SSID, but when trying to connect it only gives a box for you to type the password but nowhere for the username.
The workaround for it was to install the wpa_supplicant package from Debian and hope that it worked.
But does she blend?
MSY has some of the best prices in Melbourne. One thing to mention is that their store model is not for noobs. It's a little different to most other mainstream stores in that you have to know what you want to buy before you go in.
The whole store isn't open up for you to browse the shelves. They have about 4 sales guys at the front bench where you queue up to order your stuff from and they go and grab it from the shelves in the back for you.
I know a couple other stores have a similar setup but do any stores in the US have this setup?
I configured the Ubuntu and the better XP Dell to have the same disk space and RAM. I also added the 1.3MP webcam and Bluetooth to both.
Ubuntu: $494
XP: $534-$55=$479
Just wait for the next generation/wave of netbooks. Better hardware means they will have to slap Vista Business on them and under go the downgrade because of Microsoft's hardware limitation on XP licenses. And they will definitely have more incentive to push the cheaper Linux versions.
Many computer terms tend to be cut and pasted from English into foreign languages, especially if the word is exclusive to computing/technology developed. Something like 'Laptop' would have a foreign equivalent since it's a word made from existing words but something like 'Modem' and all the acronyms we know and love probably won't be any different.
My Nokia 6300 has a charger rated at DC 5.0V, 350mA
USB is rated at 5V and 500mA, more than enough to charge it. Yet even though this phone has a USB port, it doesn't charge from it.
Why Nokia, why?
Open Source gives the freedom NOT to use pirated material.
That would make a great sig. Do you mind if I use it?
I disagree, a UI that doesn't rely on text will be greatly appreciated by people with dyslexia or other severe reading problems.
Not every illiterate person is lazy/stupid.
Luckily Microsoft's buggy implementations eventually come back to bite them on the arse when they bring out a new operating system. Vista receives a lot of bad press for being incompatible with older software. IE 7 is still kept out of business systems because the IE 6 lock-in worked too well.
They can't decide to change the way things work right now since all the current software is expecting to use the current broken implementations.
This is why it's always good to program things like ACPI correctly to the specs and then hack them to fit the Windows way. Makes it easier to hack it to work with Windows' next way of breaking things.
I wasn't sure either but Wikipedia to the rescue