1. I'm assuming you found Livna(http://rpm.livna.org), it's the single greatest add-on repository for fedora, it covers just about everything not in core and extras. You may or may not know this, but MP3, AVI and DVD codecs are all legally encumbered in some way, and as such the fedora project avoids it officially.
2. have you ever run windows update? have you ever updated your device drivers in windows? if so, then odds are you have updated the kernel and you don't know it. In windows, each vendor provides their own device drivers, and so you have to manage them separately. In linux however, most device drivers are provide with the kernel, and there is a great deal of community maintenance. I'm not saying one is right or one is wrong, just that it is.
3. Go to http://rpm.livna.org/ they have the NVIDIA and ATi drivers precompiled for fedora.
4. I can't speak to why you had to muck with the monitor at that level, the worst I've had to do in about five years was tell the installer what model of monitor I was using(usually silkscreened on the front). I've had similar experience with my mouse, though I usually have a three button wheel mouse. As for X being slower then windows... well, *feels* slower is pretty subjective, and without knowing specifics, I can't help you resolve it. I would guess it's RAM related, when an OS *feels* slow, that's usually the first place to look.
5. The file browser is part of GNOME. GNOME is done up to be easy to use and tends to resemble Mac OS more than windows. You might try looking into KDE which resembles windows more.
You might try coming to irc.freenode.net #fedora, we hang out there frequently and are willing to help.
As has been pointed out, those ideas include lying, stealing, throwing temper tantrums, and generally being immature. Personally, I have written software to let teachers share bookmarks with students, and a web based typing tutor, as well as saving the school money by making use of no-cost alternatives to expensive proprietary software where applicable, helping push the school towards 30Mbps of bandwidth, and actively working towards getting more computers available so that teachers and students can make use of technology and not have to fight and snipe over it. Having said that, what have *YOU* done?
guess again. The state is giving out *VERY* large grants to provide five labs of thirty machines each to schools. In addition to that, we have schools which are working towards this on their own.
Murder victims don't care. Friends and families do. I never said there wasn't anything worse then rape, I said rape was in a lot of ways worse then being murdered. And I didn't ridicule the parent either. I made the observation he was likely male, and likely didn't know anyone who had been raped. Given that this is/. the percentage of users that are men who don't know many women is pretty high.
Uhm, seriously, rape is in a lot of ways worse then being murdered. Rape victims are often left with psychological trauma that they won't be able to get past for a long, long time, if ever. The fear and uncertainty of it happening again, as well as the knowledge that you were unable to defend yourself top that list. I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're probably male, and most likely never encountered a rape victim, possibly never known anybody who has known a rape victim.
or rather, as long as the child is under legal age. In the US, 18 is that magic number where you become an "adult" and at that point you become your own legal guardian as far as the school is concerned.
I'll give you that it's noisy, but the motorized car chute actually adds playability. You can start the track up at the fridge, come down for a couple of loops, then through the chute and go up to the kitchen table, spin around once or twice, down the table, to another chute upstairs to almost make it, then back down the stairs to build up some speed and launch itself into your little brother.
This will act like any other evolutionary influence. The stupid ones will be weeded out, while the smart ones will avoid it. I know, lets install rootkits on people's computers and send 5 minute screen capture to a central database so we can catch those pesky pedophiles!
I don't think he did. Windows doesn't ship with Ogg, Real or Quicktime Codecs. Ogg is even released under the BSD license, so there's no reason *NOT* to include it. Windows doesn't ship with SWF or Java support either.
Guess what, Windows doesn't ship a JVM by default either. By taking a hardline only OSS stance at the distro level, Users will have to install software they want to use. The horror!! They have to do that anyway. Now you might take issue with the way non-OSS software is distributed for linux, but that's a problem for the software companies, not for distributions.
I gotta go with you on the binary compatibility though. At the very least a driver for 2.6.y should work on 2.6.x.
You could also look at using LTSP as a way to bootstrap thin clients to talk to a Windows server. you still have to deal with half of the MS licensing stupidity. Though you might consider using LTSP to hook up to a linux server. The project has seen moderate success in a variety of situations.
UF is a great comic, but I'm not sure if illiad knows that Gimp has a CMYK plugin. the site claims its only rudimentary support, but it is a start. http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/separate.shtml
WTF? it was changed from sometimes matching to always matching? I really doubt the validity of your claim *AND* think the mods that gave you a +5 were idiots
Bush never claimed the government developed the iPod. Slashdot boned this one, engadget boned this one. From TFA: "the government funded research in microdrive storage, electrochemistry and signal compression. They did so for one reason: It turned out that those were the key ingredients for the development of the iPod." Turns out the government decided to spend our money researching some technologies that happened to be useful in portable mp3 players. no more, no less.
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1. I'm assuming you found Livna(http://rpm.livna.org), it's the single greatest add-on repository for fedora, it covers just about everything not in core and extras. You may or may not know this, but MP3, AVI and DVD codecs are all legally encumbered in some way, and as such the fedora project avoids it officially.
2. have you ever run windows update? have you ever updated your device drivers in windows? if so, then odds are you have updated the kernel and you don't know it. In windows, each vendor provides their own device drivers, and so you have to manage them separately. In linux however, most device drivers are provide with the kernel, and there is a great deal of community maintenance. I'm not saying one is right or one is wrong, just that it is.
3. Go to http://rpm.livna.org/ they have the NVIDIA and ATi drivers precompiled for fedora.
4. I can't speak to why you had to muck with the monitor at that level, the worst I've had to do in about five years was tell the installer what model of monitor I was using(usually silkscreened on the front). I've had similar experience with my mouse, though I usually have a three button wheel mouse. As for X being slower then windows... well, *feels* slower is pretty subjective, and without knowing specifics, I can't help you resolve it. I would guess it's RAM related, when an OS *feels* slow, that's usually the first place to look.
5. The file browser is part of GNOME. GNOME is done up to be easy to use and tends to resemble Mac OS more than windows. You might try looking into KDE which resembles windows more.
You might try coming to irc.freenode.net #fedora, we hang out there frequently and are willing to help.
As has been pointed out, those ideas include lying, stealing, throwing temper tantrums, and generally being immature.
Personally, I have written software to let teachers share bookmarks with students, and a web based typing tutor, as well as saving the school money by making use of no-cost alternatives to expensive proprietary software where applicable, helping push the school towards 30Mbps of bandwidth, and actively working towards getting more computers available so that teachers and students can make use of technology and not have to fight and snipe over it.
Having said that, what have *YOU* done?
guess again.
The state is giving out *VERY* large grants to provide five labs of thirty machines each to schools. In addition to that, we have schools which are working towards this on their own.
They're using two distributions, Linspire and SLED. And if you want them to standardize on one distro, best get used to the thought of it being SLED.
Murder victims don't care. Friends and families do. /. the percentage of users that are men who don't know many women is pretty high.
I never said there wasn't anything worse then rape, I said rape was in a lot of ways worse then being murdered.
And I didn't ridicule the parent either. I made the observation he was likely male, and likely didn't know anyone who had been raped. Given that this is
Uhm, seriously, rape is in a lot of ways worse then being murdered. Rape victims are often left with psychological trauma that they won't be able to get past for a long, long time, if ever. The fear and uncertainty of it happening again, as well as the knowledge that you were unable to defend yourself top that list. I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're probably male, and most likely never encountered a rape victim, possibly never known anybody who has known a rape victim.
or rather, as long as the child is under legal age. In the US, 18 is that magic number where you become an "adult" and at that point you become your own legal guardian as far as the school is concerned.
I'll give you that it's noisy, but the motorized car chute actually adds playability.
You can start the track up at the fridge, come down for a couple of loops, then through the chute and go up to the kitchen table, spin around once or twice, down the table, to another chute upstairs to almost make it, then back down the stairs to build up some speed and launch itself into your little brother.
And don't forget getting a buddy and a bag of rubber bands to shoot each other's army men. Last man standing!
It's called natural selection, if you remove those people from the gene pool, everybody else is better off.
This will act like any other evolutionary influence. The stupid ones will be weeded out, while the smart ones will avoid it. I know, lets install rootkits on people's computers and send 5 minute screen capture to a central database so we can catch those pesky pedophiles!
Referance of the regulations in question would be nice to see.
I don't think he did. Windows doesn't ship with Ogg, Real or Quicktime Codecs. Ogg is even released under the BSD license, so there's no reason *NOT* to include it. Windows doesn't ship with SWF or Java support either.
OH. MY. GOD. PWNIES!!
Guess what, Windows doesn't ship a JVM by default either. By taking a hardline only OSS stance at the distro level, Users will have to install software they want to use. The horror!! They have to do that anyway. Now you might take issue with the way non-OSS software is distributed for linux, but that's a problem for the software companies, not for distributions.
I gotta go with you on the binary compatibility though. At the very least a driver for 2.6.y should work on 2.6.x.
Thank you. We appreciate the kind words.
You could also look at using LTSP as a way to bootstrap thin clients to talk to a Windows server. you still have to deal with half of the MS licensing stupidity. Though you might consider using LTSP to hook up to a linux server. The project has seen moderate success in a variety of situations.
UF is a great comic, but I'm not sure if illiad knows that Gimp has a CMYK plugin. the site claims its only rudimentary support, but it is a start.
http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/separate.shtml
Doh! I missed the euid. please mod the above post to oblivion
WTF? it was changed from sometimes matching to always matching?
I really doubt the validity of your claim *AND* think the mods that gave you a +5 were idiots
But are you hiring?
Bush never claimed the government developed the iPod. Slashdot boned this one, engadget boned this one. From TFA:
"the government funded research in microdrive storage, electrochemistry and signal compression. They did so for one reason: It turned out that those were the key ingredients for the development of the iPod."
Turns out the government decided to spend our money researching some technologies that happened to be useful in portable mp3 players. no more, no less.
you look at Kontact
Don't tell me what I meant. I meant *FUCK* *NO*.
Purdue University, Lafeyette has been doing this for over ten years. I would suspect far longer.
Fuck no.