Amen to this. My 3-year-old's online adventures are currently limited to supervised visits to the Flash-based games portion of the pbskids.org website, especially the content for Curious George and Dragon Tales. It's a great way for him to learn keyboard, mouse and browsing skills - plus what he learns from the games et al on the site.
I'm running Edgy at home, and I use Thunderbird in lieu of Evolution (which I hate as much as you do). As for K3b, you can apt-get install GnomeBaker, which, while not quite as good as the superlative k3b, meets my (meager) needs for burning backup data DVD's.
I went in the other direction - my "must-have app" was Pan. I couldn't find a KDE newsreader that handles multi-part MIME messages in any sort of sane way.
I use the NWS website, mostly because I hate all the annoying flash ads on most of the other sites. I was also under the impression that most of these sites get their information from the NWS and pass it along to you (along with a bucket of ads). There was a lot of complaining amongst the popular weather sites when the NWS opened its own web site.
It's already out there. Consumers vote with their dollars - an award far more important to a studio than peer or critical recognition (just ask the developers at Clover).
They give you the mortgage application to read before you've bought the house. With software, if you don't like the terms of the EULA you can decline it, and the software won't install. You won't be able to return it since you've opened the box, so you're SOL. It might be different if the terms of service were on the outside of the box... but they'd need to print it in.0001 point to make it fit.
The company I work for bought an existing office building that used to be the headquarters of the Underwood Company, whose chief product is deviled ham. To this day the red devil insignia on the rooftop is visible on flyovers.
As a developer for the #1 hospital radiology software company in the US, I can tell you with certainty that it is written to run solely on Windows OS's (although some of us radicals are running the client software under WINE with varying levels of success).
...and as a Massachusetts taxpayer, I can't wait to watch my tax dollars reimburse the EFF after they have to spend money to have the law tossed out as unconstitutional, like they have in so many other states...
I have to think this was a misunderstanding on the reporter's part. Yes, I'm sure it's DRM'ed to prevent you from putting the file itself up on The Pirate Bay, but once it's burned to DVD, it looks like you have a standard DVD (they mentioned Sonic working to license CSS for burning software). If it wasn't a standard DVD... well 90% or more of people viewing a DVD are viewing it on a standard DVD player that doesn't know jack about any other form of DRM than CSS.
And why not allow people to burn a DRM'ed file to DVD? It's not like they can't just go buy the DVD if they're going to copy it, rip it, post it on their favorite torrent site, etc. This is just a more convenient way to catch some impulse buys. Like the movie you just downloaded to watch? Pay an extra $9.95 to burn it to DVD and keep it forever.
Amen, brother. I still get a lot of use out of that little white toploading box, both as a game machine. It's a great toy for modders and emulation fans.
It's not surprising given the legal climate of the US. A playmate used to beat me over the head with one of those metal Tonka trucks in the sandbox when I was four years old. Notwithstanding, I'd still buy the metal ones for my son if they were available. He's about four... but we don't have a sandbox...
The Shining was an early King novel, argued by many to be his finest work. I remember reading a chapter from it as part of a high school creative writing class ("The Hedges" - where the boy is out snowshoeing, and the animal-shaped hedges come to life and start chasing him. This scene never made it into the movie, but was one of the scariest parts of the book). It's apples and oranges comparing the book to the movie, but I'd highly recommend both.
I'd (mistakenly) assumed that this was only an option for large companies. As it turns out, this isn't the case. Not only can you a single disc resurfaced for less than $10 US (Google "Disc Resurfacing"), but you can buy inexpensive machines (that at least claim to) resurface discs for less than the cost of a new Xbox 360 game.
Guess I should have dug a little deeper before posting. Thanks Phisbut!
This happened to me as well. I had a rental copy of Oblivion in the drive, and without thinking I moved the unit from the horizontal to vertical position. I didn't move it quickly or jerk it or anything. I heard a loud scraping sound, and the disk was no longer readable. My bad; the instructions tell you never to do this... but... it's annoying that you can destroy a $60 disc this easily. The rental place (Video Thunder) was great, didn't give me a hard time, and just sent the disc out to be resurfaced. I wonder what my options would have been had it been my disc, short of plunking down $60 for a new copy.
Last generation, I finally gave up keeping two separate PC's (one for Linux, one for gaming), and bought an Xbox 360. My Linux PC does everything non-gaming I need/want to do, and I fire up the 360 when I want to game. Problem solved.
BTW, for others who do this: if you want to stream audio from Linux to the 360, Google "x360mediaserve" (or go find it on SourceForge).
I just finished mine. Last night, I opened a terminal box in Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 LTS and typed:
sudo update-manager -c
entered my password, said yes at the "Really update right now?" prompt, and went to bed.
Woke up fifteen minutes ago, rebooted the box, and came up in Edgy Eft/6.10. Even handled daylight savings time along the way.
Everything I typically use (Firefox, Thunderbird, XMMS, Pan, etc) seems to be working fine. I have a pretty typical installation though (i386-class desktop, wired ethernet, nVidia card).
So I opened Firefox, brought up Slashdot, and this was the top story, wouldn't you know...
My third-party wireless bridge cost me US$20. Free shipping if you buy something else to go over the $25 limit. Works great with the XBox, PS2, 360, took me all of two minutes to configure for WEP128.
I've asked for open source hardware drivers from the major vendors (mostly for wireless acrds), with almost no success, so I've found an alternative. The Free Software Foundation keeps a list of hardware with free/open source drivers here. After reading the list, I got a Zonet ZEW-1500 Wireless G card from Amazon (no longer there, try eBay). Ubuntu found it instantly, as did Knoppix (wireless support from a bootable CD! Woo Hoo!). Had no problem getting WPA working with it in Linux, as it was supported in firmware. I recommend you still badger the Big Vendors about releasing free drivers and/or specs, but you can drastically reduce the amount of tinkering you have to do to get your wireless card to work under Linux by getting one that already has free drivers available, and who knows? If enough people support the companies that have free drivers, the Big Vendors might just open their drivers up to remain competitive. But I'm not holding my breath.
Try playing a memory-hungry and/or processor-hungry game like Oblivion on it. You'll see that after the OS loads, there isn't a whole lot of memory left (you'll also see how many memory holes haven't been fixed yet in DirectX 10, but that will hopefully change by the release date).
...in the neighborhood I used to live in. One of our neighbors had a sixteen year old who liked to ride his dirt bike in cricles around their lawn. There's no formal law against this, as the muffler on the bike was at or below "acceptable" noise standards, and he didn't ride after 9 pm. However, the noise, and the large billows of blue smoke wafting through our back yards (all of which were closely situated) drove us crazy. It got so none of us could use our back yards that summer. We asked our neighbor to find his son somewhere else to ride the bike, and he told us to go to hell. We called the cops every time he was out there - not because they'd actually do something about it, but so we could display the call records as evidence in court. We finally ended up filing a formal comaplint and took him to court. I hated to do this. I'm a big believer in individual rights, but he was making our lives miserable. The magistrate concluded that what he was doing could indeed be considered disturbing the peace, and he was forced to find his son another place to ride until the son turned 17, when he bought a street bike.
If I were you, I'd talk to a lawyer. Even if what he's doing is legal, it can still be a public nuisance, and there may be local laws which cover this.
Slashdot Mirror
Amen to this. My 3-year-old's online adventures are currently limited to supervised visits to the Flash-based games portion of the pbskids.org website, especially the content for Curious George and Dragon Tales. It's a great way for him to learn keyboard, mouse and browsing skills - plus what he learns from the games et al on the site.
I'm running Edgy at home, and I use Thunderbird in lieu of Evolution (which I hate as much as you do). As for K3b, you can apt-get install GnomeBaker, which, while not quite as good as the superlative k3b, meets my (meager) needs for burning backup data DVD's.
I went in the other direction - my "must-have app" was Pan. I couldn't find a KDE newsreader that handles multi-part MIME messages in any sort of sane way.
I use the NWS website, mostly because I hate all the annoying flash ads on most of the other sites. I was also under the impression that most of these sites get their information from the NWS and pass it along to you (along with a bucket of ads). There was a lot of complaining amongst the popular weather sites when the NWS opened its own web site.
It's already out there. Consumers vote with their dollars - an award far more important to a studio than peer or critical recognition (just ask the developers at Clover).
They give you the mortgage application to read before you've bought the house. With software, if you don't like the terms of the EULA you can decline it, and the software won't install. You won't be able to return it since you've opened the box, so you're SOL. It might be different if the terms of service were on the outside of the box ... but they'd need to print it in .0001 point to make it fit.
The company I work for bought an existing office building that used to be the headquarters of the Underwood Company, whose chief product is deviled ham. To this day the red devil insignia on the rooftop is visible on flyovers.
As a developer for the #1 hospital radiology software company in the US, I can tell you with certainty that it is written to run solely on Windows OS's (although some of us radicals are running the client software under WINE with varying levels of success).
...and as a Massachusetts taxpayer, I can't wait to watch my tax dollars reimburse the EFF after they have to spend money to have the law tossed out as unconstitutional, like they have in so many other states...
I have to think this was a misunderstanding on the reporter's part. Yes, I'm sure it's DRM'ed to prevent you from putting the file itself up on The Pirate Bay, but once it's burned to DVD, it looks like you have a standard DVD (they mentioned Sonic working to license CSS for burning software). If it wasn't a standard DVD ... well 90% or more of people viewing a DVD are viewing it on a standard DVD player that doesn't know jack about any other form of DRM than CSS.
And why not allow people to burn a DRM'ed file to DVD? It's not like they can't just go buy the DVD if they're going to copy it, rip it, post it on their favorite torrent site, etc. This is just a more convenient way to catch some impulse buys. Like the movie you just downloaded to watch? Pay an extra $9.95 to burn it to DVD and keep it forever.
Amen, brother. I still get a lot of use out of that little white toploading box, both as a game machine. It's a great toy for modders and emulation fans.
It's not surprising given the legal climate of the US. A playmate used to beat me over the head with one of those metal Tonka trucks in the sandbox when I was four years old. Notwithstanding, I'd still buy the metal ones for my son if they were available. He's about four ... but we don't have a sandbox ...
I'd (mistakenly) assumed that this was only an option for large companies. As it turns out, this isn't the case. Not only can you a single disc resurfaced for less than $10 US (Google "Disc Resurfacing"), but you can buy inexpensive machines (that at least claim to) resurface discs for less than the cost of a new Xbox 360 game.
Guess I should have dug a little deeper before posting. Thanks Phisbut!
This happened to me as well. I had a rental copy of Oblivion in the drive, and without thinking I moved the unit from the horizontal to vertical position. I didn't move it quickly or jerk it or anything. I heard a loud scraping sound, and the disk was no longer readable. My bad; the instructions tell you never to do this ... but ... it's annoying that you can destroy a $60 disc this easily. The rental place (Video Thunder) was great, didn't give me a hard time, and just sent the disc out to be resurfaced. I wonder what my options would have been had it been my disc, short of plunking down $60 for a new copy.
No, they're not, but you can get them by adding the line:
/etc/apt/sources.list file (or using Synaptic to add it).
deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt edgy main
to your
This is how I got WoW working under Unbuntu Edgy...
Last generation, I finally gave up keeping two separate PC's (one for Linux, one for gaming), and bought an Xbox 360. My Linux PC does everything non-gaming I need/want to do, and I fire up the 360 when I want to game. Problem solved.
BTW, for others who do this: if you want to stream audio from Linux to the 360, Google "x360mediaserve" (or go find it on SourceForge).
Sure, but you could do all that stuff while listening to great music made freely (and legally!) available to you on the internet. What's not to love?
tne minutes ago ... okay ... next step ... go get coffee ...
I just finished mine. Last night, I opened a terminal box in Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 LTS and typed:
sudo update-manager -c
entered my password, said yes at the "Really update right now?" prompt, and went to bed.
Woke up fifteen minutes ago, rebooted the box, and came up in Edgy Eft/6.10. Even handled daylight savings time along the way.
Everything I typically use (Firefox, Thunderbird, XMMS, Pan, etc) seems to be working fine. I have a pretty typical installation though (i386-class desktop, wired ethernet, nVidia card).
So I opened Firefox, brought up Slashdot, and this was the top story, wouldn't you know...
If you're using Firefox, you'll want this extension to make the obnoxious flash-based ads a voluntary thing.
My third-party wireless bridge cost me US$20. Free shipping if you buy something else to go over the $25 limit. Works great with the XBox, PS2, 360, took me all of two minutes to configure for WEP128.
I've asked for open source hardware drivers from the major vendors (mostly for wireless acrds), with almost no success, so I've found an alternative. The Free Software Foundation keeps a list of hardware with free/open source drivers here. After reading the list, I got a Zonet ZEW-1500 Wireless G card from Amazon (no longer there, try eBay). Ubuntu found it instantly, as did Knoppix (wireless support from a bootable CD! Woo Hoo!). Had no problem getting WPA working with it in Linux, as it was supported in firmware. I recommend you still badger the Big Vendors about releasing free drivers and/or specs, but you can drastically reduce the amount of tinkering you have to do to get your wireless card to work under Linux by getting one that already has free drivers available, and who knows? If enough people support the companies that have free drivers, the Big Vendors might just open their drivers up to remain competitive. But I'm not holding my breath.
Try playing a memory-hungry and/or processor-hungry game like Oblivion on it. You'll see that after the OS loads, there isn't a whole lot of memory left (you'll also see how many memory holes haven't been fixed yet in DirectX 10, but that will hopefully change by the release date).
...in the neighborhood I used to live in. One of our neighbors had a sixteen year old who liked to ride his dirt bike in cricles around their lawn. There's no formal law against this, as the muffler on the bike was at or below "acceptable" noise standards, and he didn't ride after 9 pm. However, the noise, and the large billows of blue smoke wafting through our back yards (all of which were closely situated) drove us crazy. It got so none of us could use our back yards that summer. We asked our neighbor to find his son somewhere else to ride the bike, and he told us to go to hell. We called the cops every time he was out there - not because they'd actually do something about it, but so we could display the call records as evidence in court. We finally ended up filing a formal comaplint and took him to court. I hated to do this. I'm a big believer in individual rights, but he was making our lives miserable. The magistrate concluded that what he was doing could indeed be considered disturbing the peace, and he was forced to find his son another place to ride until the son turned 17, when he bought a street bike.
If I were you, I'd talk to a lawyer. Even if what he's doing is legal, it can still be a public nuisance, and there may be local laws which cover this.
"...journalists may be persecuted by the federal government for publishing classified information".