In this regard anyway. I remember I avoided PC classes all through school. Why waste elective credits on stuff I already knew and listen to a teacher, who can't progam their own VCR, try to tell me how a PC Functions or tell me the way I type is wrong?
Nothing agianst the treachers but in most cases they barely grasp what they themselves are teaching and its going to be a generation or two before this changes because the technology is new and still in a very rapid state of change.
I remember I didn't take a computer class until high school when they started offering A+ and CCNA and such as elective credits. I took keyboarding because it was a prerequesit, they wouln't waive it. The teacher knew nothing about what he was doing and was infurated with me because he gave me what he was sure was a whole periods worth of work to anybody, and I finished it in 5 minutes. I finaly got kicked out of his class when he sent me to the principals office because I would not respond when he called me "BOY!" It was one of those southren types where everyone in his class was either "BOY!" or "Sugar" He wrote me up for being disrespectful because I pointed out I had no idea he was talking to me because there were about 12 other boys in his class.
Luckily the principal realised how stupid it was and waived the requirement since I obviously could already type faster than I could talk.
The problem is that the FOX News through its commentators ends up creating news.
Glenn Beck, Shaun Hannity go on the the program and says "President Obama, Liberals Etc Etc, Should do X" Then the "NEWS" portion of Fox comes on and says "Some critics suggest that President Obama, Liberals Etc Etc, Should do X."
A news company should REPORT the news and not create it through their commentators.
Linux is ready and in fact Ubuntu tries to use IPv6 by default which is a major pain in the ass because if your network/isp isn't IPv6 compatible it's not yet all that smart about figuring it out and it causes a very noticeable time lag between the time it tries IPv6, Times out, then tries IPv4 resulting in a successful connection.
It used to be easy to switch IPv6 off until they started building it into the kernel and then for a while you could not switch it off.
I think though they realized it and the newest kernel has a flag you can set at boot time to disable IPv6 and just use straight IPv4
I've been hearing for years about how by this time in X years we'll have no IPv4 addresses left. I wish people would knock off the doomsday predictions or just freaking adopt already. While I don't see a lack of being able to connect because of lack of an IPv4 address yet but I do see some device makers trying to force users to use IPv6 by default and making it a pain in the ass to switch back to IPv4 easily. Which frankly pisses me off because most ISP's don't support it yet. (Hey Canonical, I'm looking at YOUUUUUUUUU Ubuntu Devs!)
That being said I would like to see some routers and devices being made that can sign an IPv6 address out on the LAN side and accept either IPv4 or IPv6 addresses on the WAN side that way users can start transitioning over and will be ready when the ISP's finally start upgrading their infrastructure.
Right Click the network manager icon in the top tool bar. Select EDIT Connections Select DSL (assuming that's the type of connection your using PPPOE for, but it should work regardless) Click Add Enter username and password and any other settings required. Connect ??? Profit!
Seriously dude I just bridged my DSL Modem and connected using the native PPPOE client in Ubuntu. No command line needed.
It asks you for your root password or for SUDO access. If your not smart enough to know or take the time to find out why this program should or should not be needing those permissions then you frankly do not qualify as a "tech savy" user and your just as dumb as the people who install malware infested crap on their PC. But this then brings us back to the real cause for a lot of malware and virus problems in general. It all comes back to the ID10T error.
Oh no. So inconvenient! God forbid that, upon leaving a bar, a cop should ask you a few questions before allowing you to get behind the wheel. OHNOES!
Making me talk to any law enforcement officer for any reason without probable cause that I was doing anything illegal is a violation of my fourth amendment rights. Coming out of a bar is NOT probable cause. FUCK YOU and your high horse!!
Wow, It must be nice to pull your self up to your esteemed position and then yank the ladder up so that the people behind you know who their betters are! Do you feel good knowing you can fire anybody who threatens you or your position? Does it make you feel warm and fuzzy and manly?
I wonder if you would have felt the same if it was the guy ahead of you who kicked the rung out and fired you for being "uppity" or a threat to him. PLEASE tell me who you work for or what company you own so I can make sure yo boycott the shit out of you.
You sir and your idea's are exactly what is wrong with the US today.
It's even worse than that. Even though -HAVING- a copy for personal back up is legal the act of breaking the DRM to -OBTAIN- that copy isn't, effectively making it illegal anyway.
The fact that you call and harass me without my consent with no valid business reason. Because you harrass me at work when I am trying to do my job, because you waste my money for calling me and making me use up cell phone minutes waiting for your stupid rep to put me on your do not call list that I'd say a good 50% of your industry ignore or try to circumvent anyway.
I don't NEED you to tell me what I want or need. If I need or want your product I will seek YOU out not the other way around if I have not contacted you before then leave me the frack alone!
In reference to my previous post if you don't understand this and choose to work in that industry then you deserve what you get.
People like you call me and annoy the hell out of me all the time. You know what you do is skuzzy and unwanted and that 90% of the people you call isn't interested in the snake oil your selling.
If your choose to be a sales moron then its your own damn fault.
Your not my customer. You didn't pay me anything. Your not Ubuntu's customer either unless you bought some kind of support package from Canonical.
It's not my fault you can't be bothered to read what's out there. The solution I, and others, have given you would allow you to move the window further up the screen, just because it's off the screen doesn't mean you can't move it up, to click the OK button. Which you stated was the desired result. So it's also not my fault that you would rather argue with me than simply accept the information and try it out.
I am so sorry we disappointed you sir. I'll be more than happy to refund you the complete cost of the software and support received so far. Here is your 0$.
Have a nice day. BTW I do work in customer service. Technical support as a matter of fact. Customers like you make my head ache. Thankfully you are few and far in between.
But now this thing will start running kiddie porn and illegal software, viruses and Malware though my connection as well so that I don't get classified as any.
I'd love to see what defence you use when your door gets bashed in in the middle of the night.
My snark has less to do with the fact that he is asking for help but more in the manner in which he states his problem. Which for the most part boils down to "Linux sucks because it doesn't do X, Windows is better"
I'm simply pointing out that for firstly, yes it does, and secondly so does Windows. And thirdly if he had a bad or buggy driver in Windows XP he might get the exact same situation.
I also want to point out that while windows doesn't have as many of these types of video problems; it's because the device manufacturers don't provide drivers in a lot of cases. Do you honestly think Microsoft wrote every driver for every device that ever installs on its system? No! The people who make the device do. While it is true that Microsoft provides a lot more generic drivers, in a lot of cases it's because they have signed an agreement including NDA's and such with the device manufacturers to provide some basic specs to allow them to do so. Why that much hastle? Because while the companies making the product want to have their stuff work they also don't want to let everyone else see how they do things.
Linux has it's flaws, I'm not trying to pretend it dosen't. But a lot of the problems with Linux have very little to do with Linux and more do do with the way software and devices currently interface with each other and the corporate policies and bureaucracies that go around it.
Lucky some are starting to get a clue. More companies are looking and supporting Linux in a meaningful way. However the fact remains that Linux as it stands to day is a labor of LOVE by thousands of people who give their free time sweat and money to build it. Forgive us if we get a little pissy when someone asks a question like this when a simple Google search would come up with the answer.
In reference to the guy from above.
Search Google for "Ubuntu Move Windows" THE FIRST HIT IS "Move a Window Without Clicking the Titlebar in Ubuntu." READ IT, LEARN, APPLY.
We help those who are willing to help themselves. That is the cost of using free open source software. If you expect instant fixes to all your issues and someone to hand hold you through everything. By all means pay Microsoft for the privilege or pay one of the big Linux boys for the support.
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I don't think it's wrong to expect that anyone regardless of their position over you at least do you the courtesy to learn and use your name.
One of the rules of getting respect is giving it as well.
In this regard anyway. I remember I avoided PC classes all through school. Why waste elective credits on stuff I already knew and listen to a teacher, who can't progam their own VCR, try to tell me how a PC Functions or tell me the way I type is wrong?
Nothing agianst the treachers but in most cases they barely grasp what they themselves are teaching and its going to be a generation or two before this changes because the technology is new and still in a very rapid state of change.
I remember I didn't take a computer class until high school when they started offering A+ and CCNA and such as elective credits. I took keyboarding because it was a prerequesit, they wouln't waive it. The teacher knew nothing about what he was doing and was infurated with me because he gave me what he was sure was a whole periods worth of work to anybody, and I finished it in 5 minutes. I finaly got kicked out of his class when he sent me to the principals office because I would not respond when he called me "BOY!" It was one of those southren types where everyone in his class was either "BOY!" or "Sugar" He wrote me up for being disrespectful because I pointed out I had no idea he was talking to me because there were about 12 other boys in his class.
Luckily the principal realised how stupid it was and waived the requirement since I obviously could already type faster than I could talk.
I advise all of my customers to immediately set the drive on the ground and nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...
Sorry it was easy, I had to say it. ;-)
The problem is that the FOX News through its commentators ends up creating news.
Glenn Beck, Shaun Hannity go on the the program and says "President Obama, Liberals Etc Etc, Should do X" Then the "NEWS" portion of Fox comes on and says "Some critics suggest that President Obama, Liberals Etc Etc, Should do X."
A news company should REPORT the news and not create it through their commentators.
Linux is ready and in fact Ubuntu tries to use IPv6 by default which is a major pain in the ass because if your network/isp isn't IPv6 compatible it's not yet all that smart about figuring it out and it causes a very noticeable time lag between the time it tries IPv6, Times out, then tries IPv4 resulting in a successful connection.
It used to be easy to switch IPv6 off until they started building it into the kernel and then for a while you could not switch it off.
I think though they realized it and the newest kernel has a flag you can set at boot time to disable IPv6 and just use straight IPv4
I've been hearing for years about how by this time in X years we'll have no IPv4 addresses left. I wish people would knock off the doomsday predictions or just freaking adopt already. While I don't see a lack of being able to connect because of lack of an IPv4 address yet but I do see some device makers trying to force users to use IPv6 by default and making it a pain in the ass to switch back to IPv4 easily. Which frankly pisses me off because most ISP's don't support it yet. (Hey Canonical, I'm looking at YOUUUUUUUUU Ubuntu Devs!)
That being said I would like to see some routers and devices being made that can sign an IPv6 address out on the LAN side and accept either IPv4 or IPv6 addresses on the WAN side that way users can start transitioning over and will be ready when the ISP's finally start upgrading their infrastructure.
Why in god's name did some @$$hat mod this troll?! Common guys!
Right Click the network manager icon in the top tool bar.
Select EDIT Connections
Select DSL (assuming that's the type of connection your using PPPOE for, but it should work regardless)
Click Add
Enter username and password and any other settings required.
Connect
???
Profit!
Seriously dude I just bridged my DSL Modem and connected using the native PPPOE client in Ubuntu. No command line needed.
Yea, I had that exact argument with them on that once. I finally told them to stick their overpriced bug ridden software where the sun don't shine.
It asks you for your root password or for SUDO access. If your not smart enough to know or take the time to find out why this program should or should not be needing those permissions then you frankly do not qualify as a "tech savy" user and your just as dumb as the people who install malware infested crap on their PC. But this then brings us back to the real cause for a lot of malware and virus problems in general. It all comes back to the ID10T error.
Anything that kills news corp faster is a good thing.
Oh no. So inconvenient! God forbid that, upon leaving a bar, a cop should ask you a few questions before allowing you to get behind the wheel. OHNOES!
Making me talk to any law enforcement officer for any reason without probable cause that I was doing anything illegal is a violation of my fourth amendment rights. Coming out of a bar is NOT probable cause. FUCK YOU and your high horse!!
Wow, It must be nice to pull your self up to your esteemed position and then yank the ladder up so that the people behind you know who their betters are! Do you feel good knowing you can fire anybody who threatens you or your position? Does it make you feel warm and fuzzy and manly?
I wonder if you would have felt the same if it was the guy ahead of you who kicked the rung out and fired you for being "uppity" or a threat to him. PLEASE tell me who you work for or what company you own so I can make sure yo boycott the shit out of you.
You sir and your idea's are exactly what is wrong with the US today.
It's even worse than that. Even though -HAVING- a copy for personal back up is legal the act of breaking the DRM to -OBTAIN- that copy isn't, effectively making it illegal anyway.
What is Popfly? O_o .......... No, I'm serious.
Am I the only one who knows what a hidden encrypted partition in TrueCrypt is?!
Except that "in theory" Television advertising pays for free over the air programming and helps lower the cost of cable programming
Bugging me over my telephone does not lower the cost of my phone bill.
I do think Door to Door sales is just as skuzzy. They respect my "No Solicitations" sign as much as the telemarketers respect the DNC list.
The fact that you call and harass me without my consent with no valid business reason. Because you harrass me at work when I am trying to do my job, because you waste my money for calling me and making me use up cell phone minutes waiting for your stupid rep to put me on your do not call list that I'd say a good 50% of your industry ignore or try to circumvent anyway.
I don't NEED you to tell me what I want or need. If I need or want your product I will seek YOU out not the other way around if I have not contacted you before then leave me the frack alone!
In reference to my previous post if you don't understand this and choose to work in that industry then you deserve what you get.
Forgive me if I don't give a s***.
People like you call me and annoy the hell out of me all the time. You know what you do is skuzzy and unwanted and that 90% of the people you call isn't interested in the snake oil your selling.
If your choose to be a sales moron then its your own damn fault.
Your not my customer. You didn't pay me anything.
Your not Ubuntu's customer either unless you bought some kind of support package from Canonical.
It's not my fault you can't be bothered to read what's out there. The solution I, and others, have given you would allow you to move the window further up the screen, just because it's off the screen doesn't mean you can't move it up, to click the OK button. Which you stated was the desired result. So it's also not my fault that you would rather argue with me than simply accept the information and try it out.
I am so sorry we disappointed you sir. I'll be more than happy to refund you the complete cost of the software and support received so far. Here is your 0$.
Have a nice day. BTW I do work in customer service. Technical support as a matter of fact. Customers like you make my head ache. Thankfully you are few and far in between.
But now this thing will start running kiddie porn and illegal software, viruses and Malware though my connection as well so that I don't get classified as any.
I'd love to see what defence you use when your door gets bashed in in the middle of the night.
Necessity may be the mother of invention but laziness is the father.
Nothing better will come along until they find a way that's easier "for them". Inevitably however that system will be hard "for us".
This is how we get crap like DRM and such.
My snark has less to do with the fact that he is asking for help but more in the manner in which he states his problem. Which for the most part boils down to "Linux sucks because it doesn't do X, Windows is better"
I'm simply pointing out that for firstly, yes it does, and secondly so does Windows. And thirdly if he had a bad or buggy driver in Windows XP he might get the exact same situation.
I also want to point out that while windows doesn't have as many of these types of video problems; it's because the device manufacturers don't provide drivers in a lot of cases. Do you honestly think Microsoft wrote every driver for every device that ever installs on its system? No! The people who make the device do. While it is true that Microsoft provides a lot more generic drivers, in a lot of cases it's because they have signed an agreement including NDA's and such with the device manufacturers to provide some basic specs to allow them to do so. Why that much hastle? Because while the companies making the product want to have their stuff work they also don't want to let everyone else see how they do things.
Linux has it's flaws, I'm not trying to pretend it dosen't. But a lot of the problems with Linux have very little to do with Linux and more do do with the way software and devices currently interface with each other and the corporate policies and bureaucracies that go around it.
Lucky some are starting to get a clue. More companies are looking and supporting Linux in a meaningful way. However the fact remains that Linux as it stands to day is a labor of LOVE by thousands of people who give their free time sweat and money to build it. Forgive us if we get a little pissy when someone asks a question like this when a simple Google search would come up with the answer.
In reference to the guy from above.
Search Google for "Ubuntu Move Windows"
THE FIRST HIT IS
"Move a Window Without Clicking the Titlebar in Ubuntu." READ IT, LEARN, APPLY.
We help those who are willing to help themselves. That is the cost of using free open source software. If you expect instant fixes to all your issues and someone to hand hold you through everything. By all means pay Microsoft for the privilege or pay one of the big Linux boys for the support.
Note I said "OR Taskbar button."
Uhh, Right click the title bar of the screen or the task bar button and select "Move".
Two clicks that most OS's (even windows IIRC) is hardly an obscure command.