In newer Ubuntu distributions (presumably what is pre-installed on the Dell is pretty new) compiling ANYTHING is unnecessary and using Wine is automatic. An average user should never even need to touch the terminal. A stock first-time install of Ubuntu provided her with everything she actually needed.
As many-many others have pointed out- this is a case of a person not willing to take responsibility for themselves and actually LEARN something, who instead has decided to blame others for her problems.
I agree. This is ridiculous. It would be a huge burden on everyone involved, and would essentially penalize people with economy cars who drive more.
(Extreme example...) Someone who drives a Hummer 20 miles a day SHOULD have to pay more in taxes than someone who drives a Prius the same distance. The Hummer causes more wear and tear on the highway, and the environment.
I suspect that none of the proponents of this drive economy cars.
It will definitely be more difficult, but it certainly isn't impossible. I've been an IT manager for over a decade, and only have about a year of college under my belt. I started in database management, and did my time as a mainframe operator (tape ape) and help desk person before making it to sysadmin.
Frankly- I dropped out of a Computer Science program at a local college because it was a joke. They were at least five years behind on technology, and it was a complete waste of time and money. I looked at another program just a few years ago from a nation-wide "University" (chain). When they insisted I take (and pay for) a class on basic keyboard skills, along with another titled "Introduction to Computers"- I said "No thanks!"
One thing I will suggest to make things easier- get one or more certifications. It is unfortunate- but since a company really can't judge you by your experience until you've worked for them- any paper you can get that shows you are qualified for a job will help. Cisco's certifications seem to carry the most weight in my experience, but there are also Microsoft and various Linux ones. Any and all will help potential employers look past the lack of a degree.
So- they essentially patented WAP? I think Apple can come up with enough "prior artwork" for this one. It's unfortunate though that companies like this (EMG) are allowed to even exist. When will it end?
Definitely a NEW experience with X.org and Ubuntu. After years of tweaking xorg.conf to get things to work right, I was actually able to DELETE IT (xorg.conf) after upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10 on both my laptop and desktop. They both booted right into my desktop like nothing happened. I thought it was a dream the first time.
As far as I'm concerned- Cononical should continue to support the fantastic work the X.org folks are doing. It has been improving by leaps and bounds ever since it forked. I still vividly (and not fondly) remember the "dark ages" of getting Xfree86 to even work, and that wasn't all that long ago.
I had a long post about the advantages of a National Sales Tax, but it got eaten by Slashdot or my browser...
In short though- a consumption-based tax system would be much fairer overall to everyone than our current system. People of lower incomes who are already conservative shoppers and don't throw money away will pay much less in taxes than those with money to burn. Everyone will be able to choose how much they actually pay into the tax system by their spending habits.
It would also eliminate the huge current expenditures in paperwork, processing, legal fees, etc. of our current tax system, and would make things almost infinitely less complicated. Everyone pays a percentage- that's easy to figure out and deal with. People freak-out when they hear of things like a 15% sales tax increase (or more) but they don't take into account that under the current system- the government is already taking 20-30% (or more) of your pay, which they wouldn't need to under a consumption-based system.
I (almost) don't care who wins at this point. I am so, SO, sick of the commercials. Do people really base their votes on the crap that is being flung on TV? I'm not just talking the Presidential race- the commercials for local races and ballot issues at least in my state are completely ridiculous. Most of them have almost no truth or backing.
I wish my PVR had time-travel capabilities, so I could jump past "live" political commercials.
It amazes me how many people get personally offended and go on flaming rampages every time Bush is labeled a scapegoat. Yet at the same time- these very same people likely (and rabidly) supported Bush's government while we were going to war against other scapegoats for other countries. How very hypocritical.
That said- Codeweavers is an excellent company that has done a lot to push Linux into the mainstream. Unfortunately it seems this marketing move of theirs has backfired- and their server isn't just slow, but completely down.
Having worked in a few data centers over the course of my life... They are continuing the long-standing tradition of nondescript concrete/cinder block buildings that have hosted data centers for decades.
Nobody, including Google, wants to advertise their data centers- they want them to look like ordinary warehouses or industrial buildings.
It's pretty much required from a security standpoint, and is why Google is very secretive of its data center locations. You might even have a Google data center in the airport industrial park right down the street.
Would you really expect a big steel and glass architectural wonder with "Google" emblazoned all over it? I would expect nothing more or less from a Google data center than a big ugly concrete box in an industrial park. They (big ugly concrete boxes) are easy to guard and air condition, and don't require a receptionist or PR staff.
This is really easy to do with Asterisk, however- implementing an Asterisk setup at home is a bit challenging. It's nice to see something like this made into an appliance. This is especially true since you don't have to pay extra for a carrier's "privacy" features to get it.
I can't wait if they get it... Within a couple of years we will all have to start paying for DNS queries. Of course- they will offer to allow your query for free if they can insert ads into every site you go to.
No- it got killed because of reliability over any kind of a distance issues. You also had to always make sure the ports were clear of obstacles, which isn't very practical in an office or mobile environment. You could "kill" a network device (like a printer) with a post-it note.
I still remember (not-so-fondly) printing from my Palm device to an HP printer with IRDA. That was almost as agonizing as waiting for a 2400-baud modem to connect, and about as fast too. I also remember creating "ad-hoc" IRDA networks with laptops. Once again- the 2400-baud modem analogy kicks in.
It's certainly possible they can ramp-up the speed, and it may be slightly more reliable using visible light- but it's still light. It's a fantastic transmission medium when contained (as in fiber optics) but sucks in the open air. A shadow or well-placed mirror could completely frell your network. Beyond that, a well-placed mirror or two could relay your network traffic almost anywhere- so much for security.
While I don't know of their entire network structure, I've been trying to get an IPv6 block from Qwest in the USA for over a year now. The last thing I heard from them is they "might" be "beta testing something" next year.
I'll admit I haven't actively looked in about a year, but I don't believe there are any broadband ISPs in the USA actively working on IPv6.
Considering the figures for IPv6 that have been paraded around- everyone should be able to get their own block, and every device can have it's own IPv6 address. We don't seem to be any closer to that than we were five years ago. Hasn't it been over ten years since IPv6 was first RFC-ed?
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Thank you! Didn't know we needed a special page.
This works beautifully!
Ditto. Glad they at least TRIED to get it to work.
My company blocks all streaming video anyway, so I'm just going to have to resort to watching it on TV in the conference room...
In newer Ubuntu distributions (presumably what is pre-installed on the Dell is pretty new) compiling ANYTHING is unnecessary and using Wine is automatic. An average user should never even need to touch the terminal. A stock first-time install of Ubuntu provided her with everything she actually needed.
As many-many others have pointed out- this is a case of a person not willing to take responsibility for themselves and actually LEARN something, who instead has decided to blame others for her problems.
I don't think Codeweavers officially supports BSD, which is what this is about.
I am kind of tired of what amounts to blatant advertising as Slashdot posts though.
I agree. This is ridiculous. It would be a huge burden on everyone involved, and would essentially penalize people with economy cars who drive more.
(Extreme example...)
Someone who drives a Hummer 20 miles a day SHOULD have to pay more in taxes than someone who drives a Prius the same distance. The Hummer causes more wear and tear on the highway, and the environment.
I suspect that none of the proponents of this drive economy cars.
I agree with evilbessie:
It will definitely be more difficult, but it certainly isn't impossible. I've been an IT manager for over a decade, and only have about a year of college under my belt. I started in database management, and did my time as a mainframe operator (tape ape) and help desk person before making it to sysadmin.
Frankly- I dropped out of a Computer Science program at a local college because it was a joke. They were at least five years behind on technology, and it was a complete waste of time and money. I looked at another program just a few years ago from a nation-wide "University" (chain). When they insisted I take (and pay for) a class on basic keyboard skills, along with another titled "Introduction to Computers"- I said "No thanks!"
One thing I will suggest to make things easier- get one or more certifications. It is unfortunate- but since a company really can't judge you by your experience until you've worked for them- any paper you can get that shows you are qualified for a job will help. Cisco's certifications seem to carry the most weight in my experience, but there are also Microsoft and various Linux ones. Any and all will help potential employers look past the lack of a degree.
So- they essentially patented WAP? I think Apple can come up with enough "prior artwork" for this one. It's unfortunate though that companies like this (EMG) are allowed to even exist. When will it end?
After 2+ years of asking Adobe to finally acknowledge that people actually use 64-bit machines- they finally got it!
Something not clear from the download site or the article- the install instructions are here:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/releasenotes_64bit.html
I was giddy with excitement just to be able to wipe npviewer/nspluginwrapper from my system, hopefully forever.
And- I think it says a lot (despite what others seem to feel) that Adobe chose to do this for Linux first!
Check out the gallery if you haven't.
I've always wanted to get some custom graphics like that on my server racks. Maybe a penguin, a butterfly, and a can of Raid. :)
Supercomputers definitely don't look as exciting as they did in the "old days".
Agreed. Non-story. This is just stupid.
Excuse me sir... I would like to hack into your phone. Could you please type this in for me...
Definitely a NEW experience with X.org and Ubuntu. After years of tweaking xorg.conf to get things to work right, I was actually able to DELETE IT (xorg.conf) after upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10 on both my laptop and desktop. They both booted right into my desktop like nothing happened. I thought it was a dream the first time.
As far as I'm concerned- Cononical should continue to support the fantastic work the X.org folks are doing. It has been improving by leaps and bounds ever since it forked. I still vividly (and not fondly) remember the "dark ages" of getting Xfree86 to even work, and that wasn't all that long ago.
I had a long post about the advantages of a National Sales Tax, but it got eaten by Slashdot or my browser...
In short though- a consumption-based tax system would be much fairer overall to everyone than our current system. People of lower incomes who are already conservative shoppers and don't throw money away will pay much less in taxes than those with money to burn. Everyone will be able to choose how much they actually pay into the tax system by their spending habits.
It would also eliminate the huge current expenditures in paperwork, processing, legal fees, etc. of our current tax system, and would make things almost infinitely less complicated. Everyone pays a percentage- that's easy to figure out and deal with. People freak-out when they hear of things like a 15% sales tax increase (or more) but they don't take into account that under the current system- the government is already taking 20-30% (or more) of your pay, which they wouldn't need to under a consumption-based system.
I (almost) don't care who wins at this point. I am so, SO, sick of the commercials. Do people really base their votes on the crap that is being flung on TV? I'm not just talking the Presidential race- the commercials for local races and ballot issues at least in my state are completely ridiculous. Most of them have almost no truth or backing.
I wish my PVR had time-travel capabilities, so I could jump past "live" political commercials.
This will probably kill my Karma, but...
It amazes me how many people get personally offended and go on flaming rampages every time Bush is labeled a scapegoat. Yet at the same time- these very same people likely (and rabidly) supported Bush's government while we were going to war against other scapegoats for other countries. How very hypocritical.
That said- Codeweavers is an excellent company that has done a lot to push Linux into the mainstream. Unfortunately it seems this marketing move of theirs has backfired- and their server isn't just slow, but completely down.
Having worked in a few data centers over the course of my life... They are continuing the long-standing tradition of nondescript concrete/cinder block buildings that have hosted data centers for decades.
Nobody, including Google, wants to advertise their data centers- they want them to look like ordinary warehouses or industrial buildings.
It's pretty much required from a security standpoint, and is why Google is very secretive of its data center locations. You might even have a Google data center in the airport industrial park right down the street.
Would you really expect a big steel and glass architectural wonder with "Google" emblazoned all over it? I would expect nothing more or less from a Google data center than a big ugly concrete box in an industrial park. They (big ugly concrete boxes) are easy to guard and air condition, and don't require a receptionist or PR staff.
Interesting edit job on the building itself too. Looks ethereal.
This is really easy to do with Asterisk, however- implementing an Asterisk setup at home is a bit challenging. It's nice to see something like this made into an appliance. This is especially true since you don't have to pay extra for a carrier's "privacy" features to get it.
Yep. I've been doing this for about two years with a simple Asterisk setup.
...that I will not pirate Vista. Ever.
I can't wait if they get it... Within a couple of years we will all have to start paying for DNS queries. Of course- they will offer to allow your query for free if they can insert ads into every site you go to.
No- it got killed because of reliability over any kind of a distance issues. You also had to always make sure the ports were clear of obstacles, which isn't very practical in an office or mobile environment. You could "kill" a network device (like a printer) with a post-it note.
I still remember (not-so-fondly) printing from my Palm device to an HP printer with IRDA. That was almost as agonizing as waiting for a 2400-baud modem to connect, and about as fast too. I also remember creating "ad-hoc" IRDA networks with laptops. Once again- the 2400-baud modem analogy kicks in.
It's certainly possible they can ramp-up the speed, and it may be slightly more reliable using visible light- but it's still light. It's a fantastic transmission medium when contained (as in fiber optics) but sucks in the open air. A shadow or well-placed mirror could completely frell your network. Beyond that, a well-placed mirror or two could relay your network traffic almost anywhere- so much for security.
Wasn't there just a story about this on Slashdot two days ago?
Anyone else remember the exciting world of IRDA? How is this really going to be that much different (or better)?
I meant to clarify too- this is for a DS3 line for the business I work for, not just something like DSL at home.
While I don't know of their entire network structure, I've been trying to get an IPv6 block from Qwest in the USA for over a year now. The last thing I heard from them is they "might" be "beta testing something" next year.
I'll admit I haven't actively looked in about a year, but I don't believe there are any broadband ISPs in the USA actively working on IPv6.
Considering the figures for IPv6 that have been paraded around- everyone should be able to get their own block, and every device can have it's own IPv6 address. We don't seem to be any closer to that than we were five years ago. Hasn't it been over ten years since IPv6 was first RFC-ed?
ROFLMAO! I wish I had mod points!