Did you pay a licence fee to listen to that kids rap music playing on the bus? Technically you are supposed to for any public performance. By your standards, you are a thief.
Perhaps if you had advaced beyond kindergarten, you would realize there are shades of grey. Also that legal acts are not necessarily moral acts and vice versa. Ever hear of civil disobediance? One commits an illegal act, to demonstrate that the law is wrong.
Sorry, but I just have no sympathy. I find the only thing more difficult than a Nordic language to pronounce is a Slavic one. I mean really, how many consonants can one string together in one word.
What, you never had different versions of Word fubar a.doc?
Besides I have a problem with your statement. As an Illegal monopoly in multiple countries, it is incumbent on Microsoft to provide interoperability with thier current biggest competitor.
Still on behalf the RIAA which is explicitly denied permission to use.
It would only involve sharing any copyrighted work, say a Hiaku written in notepad or MS Sound Recording of you singing "La, la, la, RIAA sucks, la, la, la."
You pretty much never have to turn on a notebook anymore. They use a chemical sniffer as that is much more reliable. It would be trivially easy to wire up a PDA to the notebook screen and a few leds. That would leave a lot of space for a bomb in a notebook shell. Fully functioning 386's fit in a matchobx.
Fry's is West Coast through Texas. The rest are in New York though. Another big one is J&R Music world.
I would advise checking with Tech support for the brand notebook being considered in the home country first. What it takes for a notebook to be handled under warranty is a pain for residents in a country different the the one of purchase. Basically, do you think you are going to be one of those 5% that have a hardware failure?
$110 US for shipping from the UK to US or vice versa. Probably some customs fees as well. Long distance phone toll charges will start to add up. How much is the time you are without the notebook worth? How much is the aggravation of dealing with various warranty issues worth? Especially considering that you will be billed a long sidtance charge to the US to speak to some Indian guy that never had touched a computer 4 weeks ago, nor has he ever even seen your model, but you need to troubleshoot with him for half an hour to be told that a senior level tech needs to evaluate for service.
A similiar thing happens with Sony computers. Generally speaking they will only service the computer in the country of purchase, even when the foreign country has the exact same model, like say bring it over to Canada. However, one can buy an over-seas warranty that will cover most anywhere for parts and labor. Phone support is still covered by the country of origin though.
So you are one of the unlucky 15% thhat can not read DVD+R/W. Fortunately, you are not one of the unlucky 7% that can not read DVD-R/W.
Depending on your sources the numbers will be slightly different and the older a DVD drive the more likely it will not read a given media. Still, the grandparent is not contradictory with the the parent post.
I would also advise Sandman to try different media. Different brands use differnt dyes and reflective layers. This results in different compatibility matrices. I have seen where one brand would not play on a JVC deck but a diferent brand would mostly play. Sometimes the menu would lock but once the movie started, it would play fine.
The spontaneous abrupt reboot is a BSOD. MS just got smart and setup XP to restart automatically instead of sit there with a Blues screen filled with arcane garbage.
Typically any more, check the contrib section of your favorite distron and most likely the package you are looking for will be there.
I have also found that rpm --rebuild *.src.rpm to wrok really well on most things. Come back in a bit and it just works. If it needs some obscure Libraries, then try apt-rpm or urpmi and then build the src rpm.
Mandrake, Fedora, or SuSE would all be good choices.
I know the commercial (or club version) of Mandrake includes the binary drivers for your video card and will auto set it up for you during the install.
USB devices are pretty much plug and play. I have keyboard, mouse, MP3 player (Rio 300 and 600), printer, scanner, Flash card reader, PDA (Zaurus SL5500), external hard drive, usb flash drive, tried a friend's cdwriter, and a joystick. Most were easier to setup in Linux than Windows.
Have you not seen any of the screenshots for Linux Desktops? Customization is what Linux is all about. Most software has something equivalent on Linux. Depending on your needs, The Gimp may or may not be good enough. Same with Blender, OpenOfficeand many others.
For a full hdd, you have two choices: Delete a bunch of stuff, or install on a new hdd.
From my experience, OpenGL on Windows usually is more stable, faster and looks better than D3D. Any other platform and OpenGL is the only choice. It doesn't matter whether it is PS2, GameCube, Mac OSX, *BSD, someother Unix or Linux.
Old DOS games usually run great in DOSEMU. If there is no port for newer games it may or may not work with some variant of Wine. MAME is great for all your old console classics though.
Stick on Windows and and you will be garunteed to continue pay through the nose for everything (if you stay Legal).
Loki went bankrupt because of bad (probably better to call it corrupt) management. Read up on the history of Scott Draeker(SP?). The website was taken over by some one (Icculus maybe?) so as to provide easy access to let people download updates for all the titles they purchased.
Q3A was not released at the same time, but almost a year later for more money than Q3A was originally released at ($60 instead of $50) at a time when Q3A was starting to turn up in the bargain bins. Combine that iwith it was trivilaly easy to install the Linux binaries from the Windows CD and who in thier right minds would buy it?
I am probably one of the few people who ever did buy the Linux version.
Most other titles were also much later than the Windows release. About the only title that came out at the same time as the Windows version was Tribes 2. And then Sierra canned the original developers.
They handle Trademarks by restricting the use of Abiword(TM) to thier own use, but allow Abiword Personal(TM) to be used on any builds built by third parties. They even make this easy on others by putting this in the sources directly.
So call it Firefox Personal or Firefox Public to designate that it is a Firefox(TM) unofficial build.
You probably had 3 or more weeks a year if it is like most Corps. That means in four months you would earn enough vacation time to take off the week. Yeah it takes a little bit of preplanning but...
He subtly attacks Linux. He recommends some Windows software, then says Mac is better. The question was about Linux and if necessary Windows software, there was nothing about computers in general or Macs specifically.
There is nothing overly complex about authoring DVDs. The filesystem is well documented. It is quite possible to do it all manually. Of course you need to spend some time learning to use Linux. Any software package significantly more complex than notepad you will need to learn how to use. As far as wasteing time- either you are doing it once in blue moon and hence it doesn't matter if you spend a bit of time futz around with it or you do it often and learn the steps. If you can't remember the steps you took before then you must be a complete idiot or mentally retarded.
And Linux is not about free (implying gratis), but about Free (implying Freedom). Now that I have finished ranting about trolls, I will added something usefull.
If you want to test it before burning, simple- mount the iso image as a loopback file and fire up Ogle or Xine or Mplayer or VideoLAN or...you get the picture.
Others have already mentioned various authoring packages for Linux- DVDauthor seems to be the highest quality. I haven't had a chance to use these yet as I do not have a dvd burner.
I have used some of the Video editing apps for Linux, and they seem more than sufficent for most people.
If you really insist on Windows software then try Sonic MyDVD. It is very configurable, but I personally hate the interface. It was relatively inexpensive, if I remember right. A bit more limited package, but a nicer interface and much easier to use is Sony's Click to DVD. CTD handles menus only as themes, but comes with a couple dozen themes. It does currently only come bundled with Sony Vaio's. CTD does handle capturing analog video as well if the Vaio has an analgo capture board (Either XP Media Center or GigaPocket).
And how do they fake that flush? No upper chest flush and no big O.
What!? You didn't realize about that flush or did your girlfriend never flush during sex? How far the flush extends depends on the girl and the intensity of her orgasm. I remember one girl in college that would turn pink all the way down to her toes.
First imagine the trouble shooting required just to figure that these might be the solution then imagine trying to walk someone through typing it in over the phone. Now think of the potential damage that can be done in the registry as opposed to creating a symlink. Which would you rather walk your mother through?
I do it every day with customers. Linux is easier.
I had a similiar experience with an HP printer. Linux- a few clicks and new driver loaded. Windows- missed section that said connect printer half way through driver installation. After much time screwing around in Safe Mode deleting crap out of Device mangler and deleting various registry keys, I was able to get then damn printer installed under Windows.
Linux is way easier to install supported hardware.
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Did you pay a licence fee to listen to that kids rap music playing on the bus? Technically you are supposed to for any public performance. By your standards, you are a thief.
Perhaps if you had advaced beyond kindergarten, you would realize there are shades of grey. Also that legal acts are not necessarily moral acts and vice versa. Ever hear of civil disobediance? One commits an illegal act, to demonstrate that the law is wrong.
Sorry, but I just have no sympathy. I find the only thing more difficult than a Nordic language to pronounce is a Slavic one. I mean really, how many consonants can one string together in one word.
What, you never had different versions of Word fubar a .doc?
Besides I have a problem with your statement. As an Illegal monopoly in multiple countries, it is incumbent on Microsoft to provide interoperability with thier current biggest competitor.
One has them because otherwise you end up paying $60 for $50 worth of groceries.
Still on behalf the RIAA which is explicitly denied permission to use.
It would only involve sharing any copyrighted work, say a Hiaku written in notepad or MS Sound Recording of you singing "La, la, la, RIAA sucks, la, la, la."
You girlfriend is too kind hearted. :-P
You pretty much never have to turn on a notebook anymore. They use a chemical sniffer as that is much more reliable. It would be trivially easy to wire up a PDA to the notebook screen and a few leds. That would leave a lot of space for a bomb in a notebook shell. Fully functioning 386's fit in a matchobx.
Fry's is West Coast through Texas. The rest are in New York though. Another big one is J&R Music world.
I would advise checking with Tech support for the brand notebook being considered in the home country first. What it takes for a notebook to be handled under warranty is a pain for residents in a country different the the one of purchase. Basically, do you think you are going to be one of those 5% that have a hardware failure?
$110 US for shipping from the UK to US or vice versa. Probably some customs fees as well. Long distance phone toll charges will start to add up. How much is the time you are without the notebook worth? How much is the aggravation of dealing with various warranty issues worth? Especially considering that you will be billed a long sidtance charge to the US to speak to some Indian guy that never had touched a computer 4 weeks ago, nor has he ever even seen your model, but you need to troubleshoot with him for half an hour to be told that a senior level tech needs to evaluate for service.
A similiar thing happens with Sony computers. Generally speaking they will only service the computer in the country of purchase, even when the foreign country has the exact same model, like say bring it over to Canada. However, one can buy an over-seas warranty that will cover most anywhere for parts and labor. Phone support is still covered by the country of origin though.
That is of course presuming that you are not exploited by one of te many security holes in IE.
Here is one example is if you do not have IE patched:
http://zcat.wired.net.nz/upgrade/
It will auto download and install Mozilla. Imagine the possiblities of someone with malicious intent. One doesn't need to be clueless to be hit.
So you are one of the unlucky 15% thhat can not read DVD+R/W. Fortunately, you are not one of the unlucky 7% that can not read DVD-R/W.
Depending on your sources the numbers will be slightly different and the older a DVD drive the more likely it will not read a given media. Still, the grandparent is not contradictory with the the parent post.
I would also advise Sandman to try different media. Different brands use differnt dyes and reflective layers. This results in different compatibility matrices. I have seen where one brand would not play on a JVC deck but a diferent brand would mostly play. Sometimes the menu would lock but once the movie started, it would play fine.
The spontaneous abrupt reboot is a BSOD. MS just got smart and setup XP to restart automatically instead of sit there with a Blues screen filled with arcane garbage.
Typically any more, check the contrib section of your favorite distron and most likely the package you are looking for will be there.
I have also found that rpm --rebuild *.src.rpm to wrok really well on most things. Come back in a bit and it just works. If it needs some obscure Libraries, then try apt-rpm or urpmi and then build the src rpm.
Mandrake, Fedora, or SuSE would all be good choices.
I know the commercial (or club version) of Mandrake includes the binary drivers for your video card and will auto set it up for you during the install.
USB devices are pretty much plug and play. I have keyboard, mouse, MP3 player (Rio 300 and 600), printer, scanner, Flash card reader, PDA (Zaurus SL5500), external hard drive, usb flash drive, tried a friend's cdwriter, and a joystick. Most were easier to setup in Linux than Windows.
Have you not seen any of the screenshots for Linux Desktops? Customization is what Linux is all about. Most software has something equivalent on Linux. Depending on your needs, The Gimp may or may not be good enough. Same with Blender, OpenOfficeand many others.
For a full hdd, you have two choices: Delete a bunch of stuff, or install on a new hdd.
From my experience, OpenGL on Windows usually is more stable, faster and looks better than D3D. Any other platform and OpenGL is the only choice. It doesn't matter whether it is PS2, GameCube, Mac OSX, *BSD, someother Unix or Linux.
Old DOS games usually run great in DOSEMU. If there is no port for newer games it may or may not work with some variant of Wine. MAME is great for all your old console classics though.
Stick on Windows and and you will be garunteed to continue pay through the nose for everything (if you stay Legal).
If the sound driver supports, then it does.
Loki went bankrupt because of bad (probably better to call it corrupt) management. Read up on the history of Scott Draeker(SP?). The website was taken over by some one (Icculus maybe?) so as to provide easy access to let people download updates for all the titles they purchased.
Q3A was not released at the same time, but almost a year later for more money than Q3A was originally released at ($60 instead of $50) at a time when Q3A was starting to turn up in the bargain bins. Combine that iwith it was trivilaly easy to install the Linux binaries from the Windows CD and who in thier right minds would buy it?
I am probably one of the few people who ever did buy the Linux version.
Most other titles were also much later than the Windows release. About the only title that came out at the same time as the Windows version was Tribes 2. And then Sierra canned the original developers.
Well the trademark links did not come up properly so: http://www.abiword.com/information/license/tm_guid e.phtml
Why not do something similiar to Abiword?
They handle Trademarks by restricting the use of Abiword(TM) to thier own use, but allow Abiword Personal(TM) to be used on any builds built by third parties. They even make this easy on others by putting this in the sources directly.
So call it Firefox Personal or Firefox Public to designate that it is a Firefox(TM) unofficial build.
The temporary basis is probably a belt with some electrodes they stick in your back.
If things were delivered in a method that was easy to obtain, then people would buy it.
You probably had 3 or more weeks a year if it is like most Corps. That means in four months you would earn enough vacation time to take off the week. Yeah it takes a little bit of preplanning but...
How is this troll labeled insightful?
He subtly attacks Linux. He recommends some Windows software, then says Mac is better. The question was about Linux and if necessary Windows software, there was nothing about computers in general or Macs specifically.
There is nothing overly complex about authoring DVDs. The filesystem is well documented. It is quite possible to do it all manually. Of course you need to spend some time learning to use Linux. Any software package significantly more complex than notepad you will need to learn how to use. As far as wasteing time- either you are doing it once in blue moon and hence it doesn't matter if you spend a bit of time futz around with it or you do it often and learn the steps. If you can't remember the steps you took before then you must be a complete idiot or mentally retarded.
And Linux is not about free (implying gratis), but about Free (implying Freedom). Now that I have finished ranting about trolls, I will added something usefull.
If you want to test it before burning, simple- mount the iso image as a loopback file and fire up Ogle or Xine or Mplayer or VideoLAN or...you get the picture.
Others have already mentioned various authoring packages for Linux- DVDauthor seems to be the highest quality. I haven't had a chance to use these yet as I do not have a dvd burner.
I have used some of the Video editing apps for Linux, and they seem more than sufficent for most people.
If you really insist on Windows software then try Sonic MyDVD. It is very configurable, but I personally hate the interface. It was relatively inexpensive, if I remember right. A bit more limited package, but a nicer interface and much easier to use is Sony's Click to DVD. CTD handles menus only as themes, but comes with a couple dozen themes. It does currently only come bundled with Sony Vaio's. CTD does handle capturing analog video as well if the Vaio has an analgo capture board (Either XP Media Center or GigaPocket).
And how do they fake that flush? No upper chest flush and no big O.
What!? You didn't realize about that flush or did your girlfriend never flush during sex? How far the flush extends depends on the girl and the intensity of her orgasm. I remember one girl in college that would turn pink all the way down to her toes.
And some similiar issue in Windows are equally arcane if not more so: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb; en-us;817571&Product=winxp
k b; en-us;833766&Product=winxp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=
First imagine the trouble shooting required just to figure that these might be the solution then imagine trying to walk someone through typing it in over the phone. Now think of the potential damage that can be done in the registry as opposed to creating a symlink. Which would you rather walk your mother through?
I do it every day with customers. Linux is easier.
I had a similiar experience with an HP printer. Linux- a few clicks and new driver loaded. Windows- missed section that said connect printer half way through driver installation. After much time screwing around in Safe Mode deleting crap out of Device mangler and deleting various registry keys, I was able to get then damn printer installed under Windows.
Linux is way easier to install supported hardware.