Damn Microsoft for not supporting the pre-installation of drivers for to-be-installed hardware with their installer!
FTFY
And for the record, Ubuntu (and every other Linux distro out there) allows you to install ANY driver you want and doesn't give a fuck if you've physically connected/installed it yet
Have you ever looked at the wiring of a car made in the last 5 years? There are so many wires going to so many places you need a mechanic's manual specific to that model/year of car (usually you can only buy "packages" of manuals, and NOT for cheap!), a box of wire labels and a continuity tester with 10 feet of wire on it. Then you have to start removing all the corrugated wire-wrap, zip-ties, black-box wire management modules and wiring harnesses and that car companies seem to have a fetish for. Good Luck!
Some Linux window managers allow you to create a "widgets layer" that can be toggled with just about any hotkey, button, icon, etc and temporarily shows all the widgets overtop of everything else on the screen.
A) They make some VERY low-power tower systems (atom boards, etc).
B) If you are *already* running a server (ssh, apache, nfs/samba, etc), adding iptables a couple nics is more power-wise than an additional device solely handling routing.
Not in Canada. As of this week, if there is even the slightest trace of a digital lock that protects ANY copyrighted information your phone, it is not illegal to root it. EVEN if you have a full legal right to do access the data (or you plan to remove the data).
I think the reason Firefox (and later Chrome) were able to get market share but not Linux is because of Apple. Microsoft used to enforce their browser by having IE incompatible with the w3c standards, but IE for mac was absolutely loathed (until it was discontinued that is) and ALL the other browsers for the mac were reasonably standards compliant. This meant that as soon as people made their websites able to work in standards compliant browsers, Firefox (also being standards compliant) was able to get a foothold.
Unfortunately, there is not such connection between the Mac and Linux. They may both be *nix at the core, but the sound, video and display interfaces are completly different. My hope is that people will start using cross-platform application frameworks such as qt, gtk, opengl, etc to target both Windows and the Mac and that hopefully we will start seeing popular software "just work" in Linux.
Imagine if AutoDesk or Dassault Systems switched to QT with OpenGL. You'd suddenly (or fairly easily) be able to use Linux for architectural and mechanical work, all because the company wanted to target the Mac (or what-ever other reason).
Just to add to your pointless anecdotal evidence, I dual-booted my old laptop (long since dead). Ubuntu too about 20 minutes to get installed, configured and FULL running (including my network printer). It took me a WEEK to get all the drivers for Windows. It turns out Windows didn't like my sound card, network card.
The REASON I reinstall windows was because I had to enable AHCI in my BIOS to be able to hot-swap my e-sata port. Do you want to hear the REALLY stupid part? It turns out that Windows XP will not boot off of sata if it doesn't have the sata driver (understandable), but that it also will not let you install the sata drivers unless you have sata (which Windows believes is true when AHCI is disabled). The only way to get it to work was to reinstall with an SP3 slipstream version.
Sure, pinpointing your location to a street corner isn't that hard, but consumer level GPS receivers can pinpoint you to within about 3 feet in most conditions. I doubt you can do that with signal strength measurements.
Note the word "typically" in there? Believe it or not, but underweight (or even healthy-weight) type-2 sufferers are VERY rare. You just happen to be one of them.
I can tell you that traffic jams are stochastic and can spontaneously happen. It is still a big problem in queuing theory to model these kinds of things in order to minimize the amount of traffic, but even so large jams can still happen due to the chaotic nature of the stupid drivers.
Nope, they'd still go ahead with it because they won't save much money by cancelling it now, but if just 1 person buys one, they'll probably break even. Even if every tech-savy person in the world knows no ISP's will support them, there will always be some sucker^H^H^H^H^H^Hinvestor to buy a thousand of them.
That war my question. If you are creating a "tunnel" out of a us Navy ship that is currently on patrol in (potentially) hostile waters, the LAST thing you should be doing is ending that tunnel on a cilivial network in the US. Those military networks are designed to filter the outgoing data to prevent data breaches.
What the OP has completely failed to explain is why they can't use the already-implemented internet connection that the rest of the ship uses (with some network separation of course).
I feel like I'm missing a culture reference here. If not, let me know when someone creates a "positive" charged lightning and we'll revisit your whole "lightning loop" idea again...
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Damn Microsoft for not supporting the pre-installation of drivers for to-be-installed hardware with their installer!
FTFY
And for the record, Ubuntu (and every other Linux distro out there) allows you to install ANY driver you want and doesn't give a fuck if you've physically connected/installed it yet
Have you ever looked at the wiring of a car made in the last 5 years? There are so many wires going to so many places you need a mechanic's manual specific to that model/year of car (usually you can only buy "packages" of manuals, and NOT for cheap!), a box of wire labels and a continuity tester with 10 feet of wire on it. Then you have to start removing all the corrugated wire-wrap, zip-ties, black-box wire management modules and wiring harnesses and that car companies seem to have a fetish for. Good Luck!
Some Linux window managers allow you to create a "widgets layer" that can be toggled with just about any hotkey, button, icon, etc and temporarily shows all the widgets overtop of everything else on the screen.
And yet with slashdot's filter, your response (which is +1 simply because of your karma) STILL polutes the page.
A) They make some VERY low-power tower systems (atom boards, etc).
B) If you are *already* running a server (ssh, apache, nfs/samba, etc), adding iptables a couple nics is more power-wise than an additional device solely handling routing.
Don't remember seeing that anywhere in the documentation for my x220.
I've yet to see a machine that had CD boot disabled out of the box.
Ask Sony.
Arm is not restricted to phones. They make ARM netbooks and small server boards as well.
Not in Canada. As of this week, if there is even the slightest trace of a digital lock that protects ANY copyrighted information your phone, it is not illegal to root it. EVEN if you have a full legal right to do access the data (or you plan to remove the data).
Type 1 or Type 2?
Ok, now compare the number of posts (or threads) in those categories and report to us what your "not hard math" tells you.
I think he was refering to gconf.
I think the reason Firefox (and later Chrome) were able to get market share but not Linux is because of Apple. Microsoft used to enforce their browser by having IE incompatible with the w3c standards, but IE for mac was absolutely loathed (until it was discontinued that is) and ALL the other browsers for the mac were reasonably standards compliant. This meant that as soon as people made their websites able to work in standards compliant browsers, Firefox (also being standards compliant) was able to get a foothold.
Unfortunately, there is not such connection between the Mac and Linux. They may both be *nix at the core, but the sound, video and display interfaces are completly different. My hope is that people will start using cross-platform application frameworks such as qt, gtk, opengl, etc to target both Windows and the Mac and that hopefully we will start seeing popular software "just work" in Linux.
Imagine if AutoDesk or Dassault Systems switched to QT with OpenGL. You'd suddenly (or fairly easily) be able to use Linux for architectural and mechanical work, all because the company wanted to target the Mac (or what-ever other reason).
Just to add to your pointless anecdotal evidence, I dual-booted my old laptop (long since dead). Ubuntu too about 20 minutes to get installed, configured and FULL running (including my network printer). It took me a WEEK to get all the drivers for Windows. It turns out Windows didn't like my sound card, network card.
The REASON I reinstall windows was because I had to enable AHCI in my BIOS to be able to hot-swap my e-sata port. Do you want to hear the REALLY stupid part? It turns out that Windows XP will not boot off of sata if it doesn't have the sata driver (understandable), but that it also will not let you install the sata drivers unless you have sata (which Windows believes is true when AHCI is disabled). The only way to get it to work was to reinstall with an SP3 slipstream version.
Sure, pinpointing your location to a street corner isn't that hard, but consumer level GPS receivers can pinpoint you to within about 3 feet in most conditions. I doubt you can do that with signal strength measurements.
Note the word "typically" in there? Believe it or not, but underweight (or even healthy-weight) type-2 sufferers are VERY rare. You just happen to be one of them.
I can tell you that traffic jams are stochastic and can spontaneously happen. It is still a big problem in queuing theory to model these kinds of things in order to minimize the amount of traffic, but even so large jams can still happen due to the chaotic nature of the stupid drivers.
FTFY
Type 2 can typically be cured by weight loss, so scientists tend not to focus on curing the already curable.
Nope, they'd still go ahead with it because they won't save much money by cancelling it now, but if just 1 person buys one, they'll probably break even. Even if every tech-savy person in the world knows no ISP's will support them, there will always be some sucker^H^H^H^H^H^Hinvestor to buy a thousand of them.
When in public waters your vessel is subject to the laws of the country under who's flag you are flying.
That war my question. If you are creating a "tunnel" out of a us Navy ship that is currently on patrol in (potentially) hostile waters, the LAST thing you should be doing is ending that tunnel on a cilivial network in the US. Those military networks are designed to filter the outgoing data to prevent data breaches.
What the OP has completely failed to explain is why they can't use the already-implemented internet connection that the rest of the ship uses (with some network separation of course).
Or build your own national ISP.
Government enforced oligopolies prevent that.
When you said IKEA, I thought you were going to suggest someone distributing a map that shows you how to leave.
I feel like I'm missing a culture reference here. If not, let me know when someone creates a "positive" charged lightning and we'll revisit your whole "lightning loop" idea again...