It was a pirated CD. Nothing illegal because downloading for own use is legal here in the Netherlands. And indeed, Slackware was/is a pain to set up, but you do learn about Unix/Linux when using it! And the install process usually went without really big issues.
37. Read the internet. Now that I've got some error message to work with, I find this page: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-481690.html [ubuntuforums.org] where someone is describing a very similar problem to mine (two years ago) and his solution was to make a 2nd install CD and plug in a 2nd CD-ROM and he reports that after the initial boot, the installer would read from the *other* drive. My problem is that I do not have a 2nd cd-rom I can toss a duplicate CD into.
Yeah, Linux is so easy... If I were you I would have quit long ago. In 2009 this sort of problems shouldn't exist anymore with 'supported' software. Why don't you try another distro? I recently installed OpenSuse because Ubuntu 9.04 still didn't let me choose a decent screen resolution. I had to click through some utterly ridiculous MS legal trash to get OpenSuze to install but after that it just worked. YMMV though, I installed it in VirtualBox on OS X.
Yeah but MS has lots more of a history of screwing their consumers than Apple has. Apple is doing its best with the iPhone now, but they still have a long way to go.
Windows 2000. I got it on a CD that wouldn't boot so I needed a Win95 machine to make a boot disk. That was normal according to my roommate at the time. Then it was slow as molasses. "Yeah but you needed to run this and that before installing it," my roommate said. Honestly, installing Win2000 was much worse than installing Slackware at the time.
That's why I quit Linux after ten years. I was sick and tired of fiddling for hours to get simple things done. Great piece of text, it brought back many memories!
Yes, the new Nokias look to be the first iPhone alternatives that are really interesting. Finally here we have a phone that is not tied to a certain provider. Finally a phone that I can just buy without a SIM card and use with whatever provider I want. Here in Europe we have been used to that for years and years, but suddenly Apple itroduced the moronic American system here and all hell broke loose. I hope Nokia can hold its ground against the nagging providers.
It could also be that the stuff I want is not popular enough to share, although I can hardly imagine that, considering what can be found online. Indeed I don't have the patience to find what I'm looking for, but I have also the choice between buying and downloading. Many students don't have that of course. If I had the choice between not having it and downloading it, because of the money thing, I would probably spend more time finding the stuff I wanted.
I hardly use any download 'services' because it's just too much of a hassle for me. First you have to find the files you want. Then you have to click through a whole lot of garbage, and after much downloading and waiting and clicking you find that you have downloaded the Spanish version without subtitles. Or something equally unsatisfying. I'd rather pay for the stuff than go through all that. And I guess more and more people think like that. P2P is a victim of its (not it's!) own success. More and more garbage is put on the web, making it too hard to find the good stuff.
Oh man, they even made my university believe that they needed only one vendor for all their software. Absolutely unbelievable. Nothing but Windows was supported for ten years or so. Now finally we see much more Linux, and, since Vista was released, Macs appear on the desktops in the university. Supported by the IT staff, who have more fun and job satisfaction than ever.
They are not 'blatand liars,' because the contract clearly states that there is a fair use policy, which means they have the right to interfere in case of heavy use of the network. All providers in the Netherlands have that, so it doesn't matter where you go.
There must be more intelligent ways of handling this. For instance, someone who downloads more than so many GB a day can be throttled or capped individually. That shouldn't be too hard, I think.
Strange, the only problem I have with S60 is that it's so slow... I have an E65 which is very satisfactory to me. But if I can get the N900 together with my provider of choice (I live in Europe so hopefully that won't be much of a problem), AND it can sync with the Mac as easily as my E65 does now, I don't need the iPhone anymore. The future looks bright!
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Duh. It's in a vacuum! Of course it's blue.
It was a pirated CD. Nothing illegal because downloading for own use is legal here in the Netherlands. And indeed, Slackware was/is a pain to set up, but you do learn about Unix/Linux when using it! And the install process usually went without really big issues.
37. Read the internet. Now that I've got some error message to work with, I find this page: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-481690.html [ubuntuforums.org] where someone is describing a very similar problem to mine (two years ago) and his solution was to make a 2nd install CD and plug in a 2nd CD-ROM and he reports that after the initial boot, the installer would read from the *other* drive. My problem is that I do not have a 2nd cd-rom I can toss a duplicate CD into.
Yeah, Linux is so easy... If I were you I would have quit long ago. In 2009 this sort of problems shouldn't exist anymore with 'supported' software. Why don't you try another distro? I recently installed OpenSuse because Ubuntu 9.04 still didn't let me choose a decent screen resolution. I had to click through some utterly ridiculous MS legal trash to get OpenSuze to install but after that it just worked. YMMV though, I installed it in VirtualBox on OS X.
Yeah but MS has lots more of a history of screwing their consumers than Apple has. Apple is doing its best with the iPhone now, but they still have a long way to go.
Windows 2000. I got it on a CD that wouldn't boot so I needed a Win95 machine to make a boot disk. That was normal according to my roommate at the time. Then it was slow as molasses. "Yeah but you needed to run this and that before installing it," my roommate said. Honestly, installing Win2000 was much worse than installing Slackware at the time.
That's why I quit Linux after ten years. I was sick and tired of fiddling for hours to get simple things done. Great piece of text, it brought back many memories!
Viruses are not living things. They have no metabolism and need a host to reproduce. They're basically just packets of proteins containing DNA.
Yes I know that, and I live in Europe, thank all deities. But if the N900 isn't a phone then the iPhone isn't either.
That's why I would much rather have a Nokia N900. No annoying provider tied to the phone, runs an open source OS... Beautiful.
Yes, the new Nokias look to be the first iPhone alternatives that are really interesting. Finally here we have a phone that is not tied to a certain provider. Finally a phone that I can just buy without a SIM card and use with whatever provider I want. Here in Europe we have been used to that for years and years, but suddenly Apple itroduced the moronic American system here and all hell broke loose. I hope Nokia can hold its ground against the nagging providers.
Bum and Bummer?
O, I know! I'll patent the dot. I will get rich sleeping with all people of the world buying licenses from me!
It could also be that the stuff I want is not popular enough to share, although I can hardly imagine that, considering what can be found online. Indeed I don't have the patience to find what I'm looking for, but I have also the choice between buying and downloading. Many students don't have that of course. If I had the choice between not having it and downloading it, because of the money thing, I would probably spend more time finding the stuff I wanted.
I hardly use any download 'services' because it's just too much of a hassle for me. First you have to find the files you want. Then you have to click through a whole lot of garbage, and after much downloading and waiting and clicking you find that you have downloaded the Spanish version without subtitles. Or something equally unsatisfying. I'd rather pay for the stuff than go through all that. And I guess more and more people think like that. P2P is a victim of its (not it's!) own success. More and more garbage is put on the web, making it too hard to find the good stuff.
How is babby formed?
This case is looking more and more like the case that drags on in Charles Dickens' Bleak House.
Was he attempting suicide those three times?
My brother gets it for free. He has to pick it up himself in the shop where he bought his laptop though.
Oh man, they even made my university believe that they needed only one vendor for all their software. Absolutely unbelievable. Nothing but Windows was supported for ten years or so. Now finally we see much more Linux, and, since Vista was released, Macs appear on the desktops in the university. Supported by the IT staff, who have more fun and job satisfaction than ever.
I think that holds for me too. And I keep all my data on an external drive so who cares if the big cat screws up? :)
They are not 'blatand liars,' because the contract clearly states that there is a fair use policy, which means they have the right to interfere in case of heavy use of the network. All providers in the Netherlands have that, so it doesn't matter where you go.
There must be more intelligent ways of handling this. For instance, someone who downloads more than so many GB a day can be throttled or capped individually. That shouldn't be too hard, I think.
The only underwear that will not blend!
Strange, the only problem I have with S60 is that it's so slow... I have an E65 which is very satisfactory to me. But if I can get the N900 together with my provider of choice (I live in Europe so hopefully that won't be much of a problem), AND it can sync with the Mac as easily as my E65 does now, I don't need the iPhone anymore. The future looks bright!
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