(NOT A FLAMEBAIT) my Kubuntu experience is not really similar: I put Hoary in the drive, installed away. Kynaptic had a (graphical) way for me to install universe, multiverse, and backports -- explained in the wiki. libdvdcss was pulled from the net and installed. yeah, dvd playback is kind of "jerky" (mplayer gives "my machine is sooo slow messages", and I don't know if it's the ProSavage video fault or not)... audio playing, in any format, is flawless to me. My dataCD/dataDVD/USB/compact flash/etc storages work flawlessly -- differently from Windows, I oughta mount/dismount them, but mounting is automatic when I double-click in the media:/ konqui, and umounting is there in the context menu for the media. Printer setup were all-graphic-KDE-styled. So, I have to say it's -- to me -- exactly as easy as my work win98 machine. Even easier -- my office's win98 machine likes some foreign drivers that I have to go to the Net and fetch before I reinstall it -- which I do once or twice a year.
You bet. Have you tried recent KDEs? I use only KDE programs for at least one year and a half (kubuntu). Apt/kynaptic provides my apps a consistent API for installation/deinstallation, and One Widget Kit Rules All (Qt). It has been a long time since I used a "foreign widget kit" application -- unless you count mozilla, which is perfectly integrated with my desktop (thanks to qt-gtk gtk2 theme). And I am sure many GNOME-using folks will describe experiences like mine.
Depending on whom you ask, Linux is already a major player in the desktop. It au pair with OSX in raw number of desktops installed in a lot of places, and was pushed in a lot of countries to the desktop. Ubuntu Hoary / Fedora Core are every bit as easy to install than W2k/XP, and work equally well. Choose your desktop environment for your users and you're set.
A black African-typed woman was miss Brasil once in the mid-80s and once again in the mid-90s. Miss Brasil are normally the not-really-common-down-here blond-and-or-fair-skinned types. Nothing to see here. You are wrong.
You can always argue "I would not print anything else if I did not refill the cartdrige -- so, I wouldn't buy their cartdrige anyway, so no economic loss to the patent holder." Remember, this is a poor country, and we're talking about your home printer here (your office printer is not "without commercial intent".)
Her S. O. liked to jack off to pr0n movies and she was not as pretty as Silvia Saint, so she felt diminished. Come on, even I feel kind of diminished when I see the size of those guys' dongs. Come on, there is absolutely nothing to see here.
There are pieces of tech that a lot of people think "this will be available by the middle of the next decade", so what is the point of working on it? Result: the whole decade passes and no-one researches further that tech (*), so it isn't available. That is the real reason we don't have working fusion, clean car fuels (**), flying cars, mach-4 airliners: the ones we have are bad, but they work, so we won't spend money researching others unless we absolutely need to.
(*) ok, some stubborn guys do, but they don't get as much money and they fail to come with a commercializable solution for the problem.
(**) one simple example: here in Brasil, we do have ethanol-powered cars since 1980. They were at a time 70% of our fleet, but commercial juggling with the gas vs. ethanol prices dropped their share to 10%... Nowadays flex-fuel (gas/ethanol) cars are the majority of new cars being sold. Why don't other countries follow this example?
we buy *old* computers without TC and make huge Beowulf clusters with them:-) Seriously, In a *lot* of jurisdictions the "can't modify your own hardware" won't fly, so, in the end it will be a moot point or the US will suffer, but not a lot of other countries.
Your quick parsing left out the title? I didn't get it. Anyway, link (in portuguese), and translated:
art. 43: the disposition in the last article
[the right the patent's holder of impeding someone else of using, selling, etc your patented inventions or utility models] does not apply to: I - acts practiced by unauthorized third parties, in private and without commercial finalities, as long as said acts do not imply in economic loss to the patent's holder; [six other cases follow]
Buy a XBOX, that MS sells with a loss, and *not* buy any games, hack linux to run on it, and have a good computer for 1/5 of the street price -- only if you buy the XBOX within 3-6 months of its launch.
The chinese government can be "evil", but it's not AFAIK corrupt (in the takes-bribery sense at least). Makes sense, because the penalty to taking a bribe in China is death (there were some five executions last month IIRC).
It's Yet Another Copyleft GPL-incompatible License. As if we need more of those. Come on, if you're going copyleft, choose GPL. Or LGPL. Please.
It's not intrinsically free. I.E., individual applications of it may be, with a liberal interpretation, or may not be, with a lawyer one. Notably it's capable of failing Debian's Dissident test, and to boot it contains a choice-of-venue provision, which can be a HUGE burden on a licensee. It also has a number of weasel-worded lawyer clauses that could be used in nasty ways (especially around the patent section; probably this license is not adequete to avoid patent-controlled software).
One would have to analyse each license declaration that invokes this thing. Maybe somebody could formulate a sample declaration that always forms a free license, but otherwise...
Not dselect/synaptic. But even synaptic/aptitude can (or will?) search by debtags, which brings us exactly for the type of keyworded-search (webservers, productivity) you want. Let's try an example. Say I want to install some electrical circuit design/simulation in my computer. So, I do "apt-cache search electrical": atlc - Arbitrary Transmission Line Calculator electric - electrical CAD system ksimus - KDE tool for simulating electrical circuits partlibrary - Electrical and processing parts and symbols for QCad 2 transcalc - microwave and RF transmission line calculator vipec - network analyzer for electrical networks x10 - Operate X-10 electrical power control modules. xfig-libs - XFig image libraries and examples
In a cursory examination, I select ksimus and qcad (with partlibrary). Now, I can kynaptic/aptitude away and voilà: I have what I wanted. That's the system I have used for the last five years (four of them in MS-less desktops). If it's not in Debian, I search for it in http://apt-get.org/
If accelerated, the X server would have redrawn moz's window without calling moz at all, except for any damaged part of the screen. This way, any text you were reading in moz will show up; you can then click on the scroll bar and *then* moz would have to be swapped back in.
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my Kubuntu experience is not really similar:
I put Hoary in the drive, installed away.
Kynaptic had a (graphical) way for me to install universe, multiverse, and backports -- explained in the wiki.
libdvdcss was pulled from the net and installed.
yeah, dvd playback is kind of "jerky" (mplayer gives "my machine is sooo slow messages", and I don't know if it's the ProSavage video fault or not)... audio playing, in any format, is flawless to me.
My dataCD/dataDVD/USB/compact flash/etc storages work flawlessly -- differently from Windows, I oughta mount/dismount them, but mounting is automatic when I double-click in the media:/ konqui, and umounting is there in the context menu for the media.
Printer setup were all-graphic-KDE-styled.
So, I have to say it's -- to me -- exactly as easy as my work win98 machine. Even easier -- my office's win98 machine likes some foreign drivers that I have to go to the Net and fetch before I reinstall it -- which I do once or twice a year.
You bet.
Have you tried recent KDEs?
I use only KDE programs for at least one year and a half (kubuntu). Apt/kynaptic provides my apps a consistent API for installation/deinstallation, and One Widget Kit Rules All (Qt). It has been a long time since I used a "foreign widget kit" application -- unless you count mozilla, which is perfectly integrated with my desktop (thanks to qt-gtk gtk2 theme).
And I am sure many GNOME-using folks will describe experiences like mine.
Depending on whom you ask, Linux is already a major player in the desktop.
It au pair with OSX in raw number of desktops installed in a lot of places, and was pushed in a lot of countries to the desktop. Ubuntu Hoary / Fedora Core are every bit as easy to install than W2k/XP, and work equally well. Choose your desktop environment for your users and you're set.
A black African-typed woman was miss Brasil once in the mid-80s and once again in the mid-90s. Miss Brasil are normally the not-really-common-down-here blond-and-or-fair-skinned types. Nothing to see here. You are wrong.
Where did you left your sense of humour today?
The GPP was obviously being sarcastic, but your sarcasm detector seems to be broken.
You can always argue "I would not print anything else if I did not refill the cartdrige -- so, I wouldn't buy their cartdrige anyway, so no economic loss to the patent holder." Remember, this is a poor country, and we're talking about your home printer here (your office printer is not "without commercial intent".)
Her S. O. liked to jack off to pr0n movies and she was not as pretty as Silvia Saint, so she felt diminished. Come on, even I feel kind of diminished when I see the size of those guys' dongs.
Come on, there is absolutely nothing to see here.
Just put .nyud.net:8090 between the .com and the third /!!!
Yeah, specially considering that neutron balloons are awfully heavy... :-)
Maybe when oil hits $200/bbl. :-)
You mean December this year? Nice!
note to the humour-impaired:
There are pieces of tech that a lot of people think "this will be available by the middle of the next decade", so what is the point of working on it? Result: the whole decade passes and no-one researches further that tech (*), so it isn't available. That is the real reason we don't have working fusion, clean car fuels (**), flying cars, mach-4 airliners: the ones we have are bad, but they work, so we won't spend money researching others unless we absolutely need to.
(*) ok, some stubborn guys do, but they don't get as much money and they fail to come with a commercializable solution for the problem.
(**) one simple example: here in Brasil, we do have ethanol-powered cars since 1980. They were at a time 70% of our fleet, but commercial juggling with the gas vs. ethanol prices dropped their share to 10%... Nowadays flex-fuel (gas/ethanol) cars are the majority of new cars being sold. Why don't other countries follow this example?
As someone who had to read tons of books over a palmIIIx 160x160x4 screen, I think this is really interesting.
the name of the company you work for.
we buy *old* computers without TC and make huge Beowulf clusters with them :-) Seriously, In a *lot* of jurisdictions the "can't modify your own hardware" won't fly, so, in the end it will be a moot point or the US will suffer, but not a lot of other countries.
Anyway, link (in portuguese), and translated:Obviously, the []s are mine.
Buy a XBOX, that MS sells with a loss, and *not* buy any games, hack linux to run on it, and have a good computer for 1/5 of the street price -- only if you buy the XBOX within 3-6 months of its launch.
The chinese government can be "evil", but it's not AFAIK corrupt (in the takes-bribery sense at least). Makes sense, because the penalty to taking a bribe in China is death (there were some five executions last month IIRC).
the Industrial Property (*) Act exempts explicitly personal use of *any* patented invention or utility.
(*) == trademarks + patents
but between this, "GPL forbids linking" and the GFDL, I don't agree with him on a lot of things.
It's Yet Another Copyleft GPL-incompatible License. As if we need more of those. Come on, if you're going copyleft, choose GPL. Or LGPL. Please.
It's not intrinsically free. I.E., individual applications of it may be, with a liberal interpretation, or may not be, with a lawyer one. Notably it's capable of failing Debian's Dissident test, and to boot it contains a choice-of-venue provision, which can be a HUGE burden on a licensee. It also has a number of weasel-worded lawyer clauses that could be used in nasty ways (especially around the patent section; probably this license is not adequete to avoid patent-controlled software).
One would have to analyse each license declaration that invokes this thing. Maybe somebody could formulate a sample declaration that always forms a free license, but otherwise...
Spock's Brain (shudder)... but I wouldn't mind the wake-up-and-your-work-is-done thingy.
Not dselect/synaptic. But even synaptic/aptitude can (or will?) search by debtags, which brings us exactly for the type of keyworded-search (webservers, productivity) you want.
Let's try an example. Say I want to install some electrical circuit design/simulation in my computer. So, I do "apt-cache search electrical":
atlc - Arbitrary Transmission Line Calculator
electric - electrical CAD system
ksimus - KDE tool for simulating electrical circuits
partlibrary - Electrical and processing parts and symbols for QCad 2
transcalc - microwave and RF transmission line calculator
vipec - network analyzer for electrical networks
x10 - Operate X-10 electrical power control modules.
xfig-libs - XFig image libraries and examples
In a cursory examination, I select ksimus and qcad (with partlibrary). Now, I can kynaptic/aptitude away and voilà: I have what I wanted. That's the system I have used for the last five years (four of them in MS-less desktops). If it's not in Debian, I search for it in http://apt-get.org/
Real simple.
for every type of software I need, usually there is a Debian package :-)
it does NOT work. Like it does not work in DVDs and iTMS files.
If accelerated, the X server would have redrawn moz's window without calling moz at all, except for any damaged part of the screen. This way, any text you were reading in moz will show up; you can then click on the scroll bar and *then* moz would have to be swapped back in.