Try Linspire, it setup my wireless without any problems (and they've released a new version since then) You even get codecs and dvd support without breaking the law, and installing apps is a doddle.
I think what were saying is that they shouldn't have entered into the 'greedy' contact in the first place.
I don't know what it's like in the states, but the IPhone contract in the UK is appaling.
1: you have to pay for the phone, no one pays for a phone on contract in the uk they all come free with the contract. 2: You don't get much for your money with the contract compaired to other contracts even if the other contracts didn't come with a free phone. 3: There are other, better, open phones to be had for free on better cheaper contracts that can easily be unlocked.
isn't that only the old jewish bits of the bible. in the Christian parts of the bible god is love leaving some to believe that there are infact two gods in the Christian religion.
Ok, I don't have any legacy stuff only new stuff (less than 2 years old) this is a new pc I'm installing Linux on. NdisWrapper works for 'some' wireless drivers and not if you install 64bit Linux. Bluetooth is great on Linux, but there are more bluetooth apps on Windows where it works fine for the joe sixpack. Printers defiantly work better under XP than Linux, some don't even have linux drivers and don't try one of those new multi-function printers. Cameras: I've never found a camera that I couldn't get to work under Linux, but the auto-detection and bringing up a photo viewer didn't work for my camera in ubuntu and when I change to camera to another mode (don't use the standard this camera looks like an external fat HDD device) I couldn't get the camera to work under Linux.
I think the winner is XP, as I've had very little problems installing drivers (just required a little expert knowledge of how to search the cd for drivers) and didn't require me to download and configure the kernel source, patch it up so that it matched my distro, patch it for the particular driver I had that was only available in source form compile the kernel, find the driver didn't work, hack the driver till it worked, send my patch into the driver developers. etc..... not once did I have to do that.
There not complete idiots, they can quite easly buy a mobile phone or web cam that they want and expect it to work on Windows, how am I supposed to even check if they will work under Linux without buying one first and trying it out?
My greatest problems were the significant lack of gui configuration tools for all but the most simple things, oh, and the kernel update screwed things up. I went back to gentoo since I didn't see any less hacking required under ubuntu.
There's only one reason I don't install Linux on every PC I build for people.
Drivers, or the lack of.
If I could give someone a linux box and know every bit of crap hardware they buy for it would work then I'd gladly install linux on it and they'd be very happy.
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isn't that part of the problem, 'most' people see games as a bit of escapism.
Are the apps really going to be on line or are they going to be something like an active X control that does all the work off line.
I can't see adobe ponying up for all that server power just so that they can stop people ripping off their software.
and high interest rates
although most of his stuff is probably trickery anyone whos watched Darren Brown should know that humans are fairly predictable.
you may even be able to write a plugin for ReiserFS (if anyone actually bother to pick up the briliant piece of work that it was)
you could always try shopping at pirate bay
it's not a super computer but the UI looks ok.
I hate sport, sitcoms, soaps and most of the other crap they insist on showing. Can I pay a lower license fee too please?
About the only things I've enjoyed watching this year were ATOM and that absolute zero programme.
The BBC has been required to make a Linux/Mac version of the IPlayer that allows for downloads.
Try Linspire, it setup my wireless without any problems (and they've released a new version since then)
You even get codecs and dvd support without breaking the law, and installing apps is a doddle.
Computer software doesn't get added to, they just re-write it in .net so that it runs much much slower and looks like they've added something to it.
Ok, you can stick with Ubuntu but from my experiance the previous version of linspire creamed all over the last Ubuntu install I tried.
Linspire is really Linux for the Desktop, try it any you may like paying for it.
He could always switch to TMobile, they have unlimited data for the same price.
Free on £30 a month tariff, that's £5 less than the IPhone tariff.
1: Install a botnet.
2: Modify the hosts file so that the election website of you opponent points to goatse
3: profit.
I use the word 'free' in the sense that the monthly subscription is £5 less than the iphone and you don't have to pay for the phone.
I know nothing's really free.
are you near any cloud access points
are you really going to use more than 200mb a month
Do you prefer 3g performance.
If you answer those questions and decide that the iphone option is better, is it £200 better?
I think what were saying is that they shouldn't have entered into the 'greedy' contact in the first place.
I don't know what it's like in the states, but the IPhone contract in the UK is appaling.
1: you have to pay for the phone, no one pays for a phone on contract in the uk they all come free with the contract.
2: You don't get much for your money with the contract compaired to other contracts even if the other contracts didn't come with a free phone.
3: There are other, better, open phones to be had for free on better cheaper contracts that can easily be unlocked.
since when was copyright infringement stealing?
isn't that only the old jewish bits of the bible. in the Christian parts of the bible god is love leaving some to believe that there are infact two gods in the Christian religion.
Ok, I don't have any legacy stuff only new stuff (less than 2 years old) this is a new pc I'm installing Linux on.
NdisWrapper works for 'some' wireless drivers and not if you install 64bit Linux.
Bluetooth is great on Linux, but there are more bluetooth apps on Windows where it works fine for the joe sixpack.
Printers defiantly work better under XP than Linux, some don't even have linux drivers and don't try one of those new multi-function printers.
Cameras: I've never found a camera that I couldn't get to work under Linux, but the auto-detection and bringing up a photo viewer didn't work for my camera in ubuntu and when I change to camera to another mode (don't use the standard this camera looks like an external fat HDD device) I couldn't get the camera to work under Linux.
I think the winner is XP, as I've had very little problems installing drivers (just required a little expert knowledge of how to search the cd for drivers) and didn't require me to download and configure the kernel source, patch it up so that it matched my distro, patch it for the particular driver I had that was only available in source form compile the kernel, find the driver didn't work, hack the driver till it worked, send my patch into the driver developers. etc..... not once did I have to do that.
and there are many drugs far safer than MJ that are even more illegal.
Something give me the idea that the man doesn't want us thinking outside the box after taking hallucinogenics.
There not complete idiots, they can quite easly buy a mobile phone or web cam that they want and expect it to work on Windows, how am I supposed to even check if they will work under Linux without buying one first and trying it out?
My greatest problems were the significant lack of gui configuration tools for all but the most simple things, oh, and the kernel update screwed things up. I went back to gentoo since I didn't see any less hacking required under ubuntu.
There's only one reason I don't install Linux on every PC I build for people.
Drivers, or the lack of.
If I could give someone a linux box and know every bit of crap hardware they buy for it would work then I'd gladly install linux on it and they'd be very happy.