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I left Ubuntu a few weeks ago and switched to Fedora 13 beta. Ubuntu was just too buggy on my laptop and flakey.
Make sure you install this first if you love Sudo and multimedia codecs . This tool was a life saver as ubuntu did make it convient to use their copyright restricted mirrors.
I also backed up my Ubuntu themes so I can use them with Fedora as I hate the blue colors. They are in/usr/share/themes.
Packagekit is similiar to synaptic for most Ubuntu users.
RPM has a bad wrap from those who had nightmares with rpm hell with dialup modems cursing the days it took to download conflicting packages. I wasted 4 days trying to install gnome only to have RPMs force me to wipe my whole RH installation and start over. Its a personal issue for many who do not want to deal with RPM issues again whether YUM is out now or not.
Yum maybe superior if you prefer it, but the gui tools are not. Packagekit is slow and is missing many features of synaptic. With synaptic and Ubuntu's update manager you can do things like uncheck all items and select only the ones you want installed. You can't do this with FC13. You have to manually go through all 533 updates (no lie) and deselect each item individually. I hope it was a bug that is fixed as I still have the beta but that sucked.
I am a fedora users and I like it a lot. I would still use Ubuntu if it were not so flakely on my laptop. Packagekit and the speed of installing rpms is not its strengths however.
If he was a good father he would not have to to do the tour to pay his debts. It seems he picked the lesser of 2 evils to try to prevent his kids from starving, but he had to abandon his family to keep the banks off his ass from decisions he made prior.
You could enable virtual memory by system 7 but it would screw up half the apps on it so no one used it. It was a big problem as in, since no one used virtual memory then why code your apps for it?
I was a powerpc fanboi and wanted a mac bad in those days but the ridiculous prices for macs with decent ram made it not worth it. I am glad Windows 3.x/9x and MacOS are gone. I will miss neither. Windows 7 as much as people hate it is by leaps and bounds an improvement over the old Windows/DOS.
That is the first.NETapp in 7 years that I have seen that actually compiles and runs on Linux.... with the exception of the crappy Zenworks which shows me to trust Java for server cross platform development.
The issue ( Icould be full of it so feel free to correct me) is that the glibc libraries that link the code are becoming more and more bloated as the developers have more ram. The same application compiled today would take many times more ram than it would be with old libc gcc 2.95. This is why the tiny nanox is very bloated when the binary is compiled with gcc 4.x.
Isn't a lite version of glibc for the XO laptop available? Maybe some netbook distros should be compiled agaisnt those libraries instead to reduce bloat.
I tried that on my laptop with an ati-x1200 video chipset. Bad results and 3d acceleration became disabled. Also my ttys terminals failed too with getty. This could be also because of a bad version of Xorg as I ran an update. I switched to fedora as a result. Ubuntu does not like my video acceleration.
... and buy gold with what? That junk paper money? If a currency changes so does the Gold as its not currency and you need to use that worthless currency to buy and trade it and that is the flaw. Gold isn't an asset but a liability as it costs money and brings no value. Assets I think would be a much better investment and the extremely volatility is proof. Gold before has crashed hard and was higher than today adjusted for inflation in the late 1970s. Its monopoly money like mortgage backed securities and take my word it will go back down to $350 an ounce like the housing market did. Until I can buy things at the store with it then its no good and just a gamble.
SBLive was crippled by Vista and Windows7. I do not believe they even work. This is because sound is software only now. I hate that and want to shoot Microsoft as the business user does not represent the whole market. Creative Labs was pretty angry as all their apis became incompatible. So even if there is a driver today only a small fraction of the card would function.
This is why you can not adjust bass and tremble anymore on Vista or Windows 7 computers. Even that is software now.
Women seem too not mind the value of the gift rather than the thought. Women are into having the man love them by showing effort. Its in a woman's evolutionary nature to find a guy to take care of her and her children and not sleep around to survive so this is why they value that emotion. So if its something that did not have thought and it went in *his* computer then its a gaming toy and yes it can be construed that he does not love her and that would make her mad.
If I were him I would include it with a music book and cables to a keyboard or a custom pc for her(if she didn't have one). This way it would appear to fullfil her musical dreams. If you can not afford it then do not buy something for *your own* computer because that means you do not love her *in her eyes*. I tend to avoid things I would enjoy too.
My wife would be pissed too if it I buy anything for my own pc and she is a gamer. I have bought upgrades for her but made sure they were only for her laptop so I do not look selfish and are usually for World of Warcraft.
One thing about women I do not like is that they do not listen if they are really upset. I bet this poor sap tried to explain and had great intentions but she shut it out and refused to listen because she was angry. Ugh You can't argue with a woman. There is no point and you can't win.
"IRQs, DMAs, and win.ini/system.ini can rot in hell."
OMG I become a microsoft hater because of that. How stupid to design such a bizarre system and people paid money for this! Hell Dos didn't even accept standard keyboard input and used the bios instead because it was so braindead. Windows 3.1 just made the problem much worse as it used a ton of resources built on the horrible patched undesigned limited framework of DOS. Hence my name I chose (immature back in early/. of 1998) because of my great distaste for DOS and Windows 9.x. Some of the Unix guys loved Dos because it had no gui and direct access to hardware, but I hated it and didn't care about the less bloat of the gui because it was not a real operating system with real framworks for app development. SGI and macs were many lightyears ahead. Ever try gui programming with Windows 3.1 with C++? Shudder
I tried becoming a fan of the mac back in this time frame but mac people were made fun of as idiots and lusers with underpowered hardware by the pc guys and students at my school. I never could afford an apple machine anyway.
I became a fan of NT and then discovered Unix with FreeBSD and Linux. Yes things required a lot of work in those days but its at least designed and not filled with a bunch of hacks. It was designed and had power because it was made as a real O/S. It absolutely shocked me as a child playing such games and writing custom autoexec.bat files how such a horrible system would become a standard and monopoly. Different drivers used expanded vs extended ram and memmaker in DOS 6 helped greatly but why should I have to use that?? As an adult I figured it was because IBM wanted pcs to suck badly so businesses would buy mainframes and dumb terminals instead. Too bad we got screwed for 2 decades instead while the mainframe died. This is what happens when 1 player owns the market for supply and demand for the libertarian folks reading this. If IBM were not so in love with mainframes and there thick profit margins we would had to suffer the horrors of DOS and would have used an OS/2 like system instead.
Sorry for the rant, but this post gives me great and really bad memories at the same time. I loved Monkey Island when it came out.
How can you backport minor updates? Backporting minor revisions and bug fixes is the same as patching... which is the same as upgrading your kernel.
I can see backporting makes sense when you had kernel 2.4 and 2.6 had neat incompatible features that you wanted to use. I would guess you are making something less stable than just downloading the kernel itself if you have your own custom patches that have limited tested. Why not use what everyone else is... just a few revisions behind?
The issue is not the speed of gaining data. Its the fact that these very very big players can alter the price of a stock itself. HTC flash trading is what brought down the market 1,000 points in just minutes and bankrupted Greece as these programs were shorting stocks when people were selling.
All of these investments are not really assets that are tangible (real). If you put down $100,000 worth of stocks I would see it with HTC and raise the price before you can make any transaction and diminish your return and then resell when the price goes back down and double dip. I suppose if you see things coming you can skim pennies only per transaction when something is falling (you short) or gaining (buy before your transaction is done) then its the free market. But when a sell starts it can crash a whole market unchecked as the machines will try to short each others trades and crash a price.
.. but why is the trading so frenetic in the first place? Why this absolute pressure to trade nownowNOW?
The stock market is a theoretical long term investment. It was before glass-seagul was appealed.
Here is how flash trading works. Basically a super computer sits below the trading floor watching incoming and outgoing transactions. Lets say you have $300,000 in savings and want to put $100,000 in company A as its stock price looks reasonable. It lists for $16 a share and you put down your $100,000 in shares. The super computer sees this HUGE grab and your transaction. It quickly buys all your shares before your transaction is complete and raises the price to $18 a share before your transaction is complete. Goldman Sachs or the other firm takes $2 from you in the process as you end up with less shares due to it becoming $18 a share within a few hundred milliseconds. Here is an illustration. The same firms do the same when selling so if you decide to dump a stock at $18 you end getting only $16 a share and Megabank makes another $2 a share.
Its used like this and here are some more details on how it works. SHorting is quite popular and caused Greece some turmoil. The same is true with investors shorting bank stocks and mortgage backed securities in 2007. Flash trading was likely the culprit as it could do this in ways you and I could not imagine.
The original crooks of the 1929 stock market crash complained after Glass-Seagull that they could not run the stock market with games like they used too and it was no fun anymore. It looks like its returned to just that today.
I think the answer is obvious. We are going to get into a full on depression soon with another economic crises within 2 to 3 years with derivatives, gold, and bonds if someone doesn't stop these guys soon. Crashes were quite common before regulation and our system is turning very 19th century with the new barrons and billionaires. These crashes happened in 1908 and 1873. In 1908 all the bankers forgave each others loans and the problem went away. The 1873 depression was almost as bad as the one in 1929 and we have a veyr large inflated value of derivatives of hundreds of trillions in non existence value that is more than the World's GDP.
I do not mean to make the fellow slashdotters mad or anything but guess where our tax money went for our bailout? It went to Rand Paul and others to make sure they can screw you over with no reforms and a free pass to play with your money you deposit in your bank.
Time to join a coffee or tea party. I do not have faith with so much money going to both parties that a solution will be developed before another diasaster appears. Obama looks pretty powerless at this point too to do anything about it.
If you are serious I would say its not capitalism as you and I do not have access to these systems with impossible barriers of entry. Fixed oligopolies and monopolists like Goldman Sachs have access to placing the super computers right under the trading floor at Wallstreet. Therefore its no different than communism where only 1 player exists to set supply and demand.
I do not have that kind of access to get rich off of other investors. The big boys should not be any different.
I am sick and tired of these guys playing with my own money as well as, pensioners, my grandmas, and my employers money. A single mistake effects me and everyone reading this while the traders get bonuses. Where do you think your money goes when you deposit it? It does not sit in the bank or go to loans to help small businesses anymore. It goes to risky trading where you lose and the CEO of your bank gets rich if they gamble it right.
As we saw with Decss it doesn't matter if other countries support the law. Us law is international law due to corrupt treaties paid by lobbyists. They can have the president issue an order like they did to poor Jon Johnsen for daring to have people watch their own dvds that they own on their own computers with Linux.
'It says a lot about Microsoft's approach to customer lock-in that the company touts its proprietary document formats, which only Microsoft software can render with true fidelity, as the reason to avoid using other products,' says a Google spokesperson"
Which is why I am sticking with Office. Its frustrating and I wish the internet with opendoc was available 15 years ago before MS could lock everyone in but its too late now. If a customer can not read your data in a professional format he/she will think you are incompetent and go with a competitor. If my resume looks unformated it says alot about my professionalism.
Google just stated their own case not to use their product.
You can argue that... well just have everyone on their Google doc cloud. At the end of the day in business if its a hassle then do not bother doing business where time is limited and everything has to be done yesterday.
Grub failed on me during an upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04.
My guess is the grand parent had the same fate and blamed it on the file system. Grub went from 1.94 to 2.0 then back down to 1.94 after 10.04 came out due to the bug.
I installed Fedore Core after that. A little bleeding edge and not ready for prime time if you ask me.
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I left Ubuntu a few weeks ago and switched to Fedora 13 beta. Ubuntu was just too buggy on my laptop and flakey.
Make sure you install this first if you love Sudo and multimedia codecs . This tool was a life saver as ubuntu did make it convient to use their copyright restricted mirrors.
I also backed up my Ubuntu themes so I can use them with Fedora as I hate the blue colors. They are in /usr/share/themes.
Packagekit is similiar to synaptic for most Ubuntu users.
RPM has a bad wrap from those who had nightmares with rpm hell with dialup modems cursing the days it took to download conflicting packages. I wasted 4 days trying to install gnome only to have RPMs force me to wipe my whole RH installation and start over. Its a personal issue for many who do not want to deal with RPM issues again whether YUM is out now or not.
Yum maybe superior if you prefer it, but the gui tools are not. Packagekit is slow and is missing many features of synaptic. With synaptic and Ubuntu's update manager you can do things like uncheck all items and select only the ones you want installed. You can't do this with FC13. You have to manually go through all 533 updates (no lie) and deselect each item individually. I hope it was a bug that is fixed as I still have the beta but that sucked.
I am a fedora users and I like it a lot. I would still use Ubuntu if it were not so flakely on my laptop. Packagekit and the speed of installing rpms is not its strengths however.
If he was a good father he would not have to to do the tour to pay his debts. It seems he picked the lesser of 2 evils to try to prevent his kids from starving, but he had to abandon his family to keep the banks off his ass from decisions he made prior.
"Your life is your own damn fault" - Larry Winget
You could enable virtual memory by system 7 but it would screw up half the apps on it so no one used it. It was a big problem as in, since no one used virtual memory then why code your apps for it?
I was a powerpc fanboi and wanted a mac bad in those days but the ridiculous prices for macs with decent ram made it not worth it. I am glad Windows 3.x/9x and MacOS are gone. I will miss neither. Windows 7 as much as people hate it is by leaps and bounds an improvement over the old Windows/DOS.
That is the first .NETapp in 7 years that I have seen that actually compiles and runs on Linux. ... with the exception of the crappy Zenworks which shows me to trust Java for server cross platform development.
The issue ( Icould be full of it so feel free to correct me) is that the glibc libraries that link the code are becoming more and more bloated as the developers have more ram. The same application compiled today would take many times more ram than it would be with old libc gcc 2.95. This is why the tiny nanox is very bloated when the binary is compiled with gcc 4.x.
Isn't a lite version of glibc for the XO laptop available? Maybe some netbook distros should be compiled agaisnt those libraries instead to reduce bloat.
I tried that on my laptop with an ati-x1200 video chipset. Bad results and 3d acceleration became disabled. Also my ttys terminals failed too with getty. This could be also because of a bad version of Xorg as I ran an update. I switched to fedora as a result. Ubuntu does not like my video acceleration.
... and buy gold with what? That junk paper money? If a currency changes so does the Gold as its not currency and you need to use that worthless currency to buy and trade it and that is the flaw. Gold isn't an asset but a liability as it costs money and brings no value. Assets I think would be a much better investment and the extremely volatility is proof. Gold before has crashed hard and was higher than today adjusted for inflation in the late 1970s. Its monopoly money like mortgage backed securities and take my word it will go back down to $350 an ounce like the housing market did. Until I can buy things at the store with it then its no good and just a gamble.
SBLive was crippled by Vista and Windows7. I do not believe they even work. This is because sound is software only now. I hate that and want to shoot Microsoft as the business user does not represent the whole market. Creative Labs was pretty angry as all their apis became incompatible. So even if there is a driver today only a small fraction of the card would function.
This is why you can not adjust bass and tremble anymore on Vista or Windows 7 computers. Even that is software now.
Women seem too not mind the value of the gift rather than the thought. Women are into having the man love them by showing effort. Its in a woman's evolutionary nature to find a guy to take care of her and her children and not sleep around to survive so this is why they value that emotion. So if its something that did not have thought and it went in *his* computer then its a gaming toy and yes it can be construed that he does not love her and that would make her mad.
If I were him I would include it with a music book and cables to a keyboard or a custom pc for her(if she didn't have one). This way it would appear to fullfil her musical dreams. If you can not afford it then do not buy something for *your own* computer because that means you do not love her *in her eyes*. I tend to avoid things I would enjoy too.
My wife would be pissed too if it I buy anything for my own pc and she is a gamer. I have bought upgrades for her but made sure they were only for her laptop so I do not look selfish and are usually for World of Warcraft.
One thing about women I do not like is that they do not listen if they are really upset. I bet this poor sap tried to explain and had great intentions but she shut it out and refused to listen because she was angry. Ugh You can't argue with a woman. There is no point and you can't win.
"IRQs, DMAs, and win.ini/system.ini can rot in hell."
OMG I become a microsoft hater because of that. How stupid to design such a bizarre system and people paid money for this! Hell Dos didn't even accept standard keyboard input and used the bios instead because it was so braindead. Windows 3.1 just made the problem much worse as it used a ton of resources built on the horrible patched undesigned limited framework of DOS. Hence my name I chose (immature back in early /. of 1998) because of my great distaste for DOS and Windows 9.x. Some of the Unix guys loved Dos because it had no gui and direct access to hardware, but I hated it and didn't care about the less bloat of the gui because it was not a real operating system with real framworks for app development. SGI and macs were many lightyears ahead. Ever try gui programming with Windows 3.1 with C++? Shudder
I tried becoming a fan of the mac back in this time frame but mac people were made fun of as idiots and lusers with underpowered hardware by the pc guys and students at my school. I never could afford an apple machine anyway.
I became a fan of NT and then discovered Unix with FreeBSD and Linux. Yes things required a lot of work in those days but its at least designed and not filled with a bunch of hacks. It was designed and had power because it was made as a real O/S. It absolutely shocked me as a child playing such games and writing custom autoexec.bat files how such a horrible system would become a standard and monopoly. Different drivers used expanded vs extended ram and memmaker in DOS 6 helped greatly but why should I have to use that?? As an adult I figured it was because IBM wanted pcs to suck badly so businesses would buy mainframes and dumb terminals instead. Too bad we got screwed for 2 decades instead while the mainframe died. This is what happens when 1 player owns the market for supply and demand for the libertarian folks reading this. If IBM were not so in love with mainframes and there thick profit margins we would had to suffer the horrors of DOS and would have used an OS/2 like system instead.
Sorry for the rant, but this post gives me great and really bad memories at the same time. I loved Monkey Island when it came out.
How can you backport minor updates? Backporting minor revisions and bug fixes is the same as patching ... which is the same as upgrading your kernel.
I can see backporting makes sense when you had kernel 2.4 and 2.6 had neat incompatible features that you wanted to use. I would guess you are making something less stable than just downloading the kernel itself if you have your own custom patches that have limited tested. Why not use what everyone else is ... just a few revisions behind?
How is that different from Windows Server service packs?
The issue is not the speed of gaining data. Its the fact that these very very big players can alter the price of a stock itself. HTC flash trading is what brought down the market 1,000 points in just minutes and bankrupted Greece as these programs were shorting stocks when people were selling.
All of these investments are not really assets that are tangible (real). If you put down $100,000 worth of stocks I would see it with HTC and raise the price before you can make any transaction and diminish your return and then resell when the price goes back down and double dip. I suppose if you see things coming you can skim pennies only per transaction when something is falling (you short) or gaining (buy before your transaction is done) then its the free market. But when a sell starts it can crash a whole market unchecked as the machines will try to short each others trades and crash a price.
According to my link above he was financed by the big banks. Therefore he will fight for their interests and not ours. Why else would they lobby?
.. but why is the trading so frenetic in the first place? Why this absolute pressure to trade nownowNOW?
The stock market is a theoretical long term investment. It was before glass-seagul was appealed.
Here is how flash trading works. Basically a super computer sits below the trading floor watching incoming and outgoing transactions. Lets say you have $300,000 in savings and want to put $100,000 in company A as its stock price looks reasonable. It lists for $16 a share and you put down your $100,000 in shares. The super computer sees this HUGE grab and your transaction. It quickly buys all your shares before your transaction is complete and raises the price to $18 a share before your transaction is complete. Goldman Sachs or the other firm takes $2 from you in the process as you end up with less shares due to it becoming $18 a share within a few hundred milliseconds. Here is an illustration. The same firms do the same when selling so if you decide to dump a stock at $18 you end getting only $16 a share and Megabank makes another $2 a share.
Its used like this and here are some more details on how it works. SHorting is quite popular and caused Greece some turmoil. The same is true with investors shorting bank stocks and mortgage backed securities in 2007. Flash trading was likely the culprit as it could do this in ways you and I could not imagine.
The original crooks of the 1929 stock market crash complained after Glass-Seagull that they could not run the stock market with games like they used too and it was no fun anymore. It looks like its returned to just that today.
Well your original post was modded up so unfortunately someone agreed with your sarcastic post.
"Why is it allowed?"
I think the answer is obvious. We are going to get into a full on depression soon with another economic crises within 2 to 3 years with derivatives, gold, and bonds if someone doesn't stop these guys soon. Crashes were quite common before regulation and our system is turning very 19th century with the new barrons and billionaires. These crashes happened in 1908 and 1873. In 1908 all the bankers forgave each others loans and the problem went away. The 1873 depression was almost as bad as the one in 1929 and we have a veyr large inflated value of derivatives of hundreds of trillions in non existence value that is more than the World's GDP.
I do not mean to make the fellow slashdotters mad or anything but guess where our tax money went for our bailout? It went to Rand Paul and others to make sure they can screw you over with no reforms and a free pass to play with your money you deposit in your bank.
Time to join a coffee or tea party. I do not have faith with so much money going to both parties that a solution will be developed before another diasaster appears. Obama looks pretty powerless at this point too to do anything about it.
I do not know if sarcasm is intended or not.
If you are serious I would say its not capitalism as you and I do not have access to these systems with impossible barriers of entry. Fixed oligopolies and monopolists like Goldman Sachs have access to placing the super computers right under the trading floor at Wallstreet. Therefore its no different than communism where only 1 player exists to set supply and demand.
Problem solved!
I do not have that kind of access to get rich off of other investors. The big boys should not be any different.
I am sick and tired of these guys playing with my own money as well as, pensioners, my grandmas, and my employers money. A single mistake effects me and everyone reading this while the traders get bonuses. Where do you think your money goes when you deposit it? It does not sit in the bank or go to loans to help small businesses anymore. It goes to risky trading where you lose and the CEO of your bank gets rich if they gamble it right.
As we saw with Decss it doesn't matter if other countries support the law. Us law is international law due to corrupt treaties paid by lobbyists. They can have the president issue an order like they did to poor Jon Johnsen for daring to have people watch their own dvds that they own on their own computers with Linux.
Unfortunately, this is not going away anytime soon.
Wrong
H.264 is not html5. They are not related and this myth has to die. Firefox is the only browser that supports html5 that I am aware of right now
All this is doing is making H.264 standard and this is going to kill Linux and Firefox once the lawyers come out when it monopolizes the market.
This patent bs has got to stop. If enough users (firefox users) do not support it then we have a fighting chance to fight it.
'It says a lot about Microsoft's approach to customer lock-in that the company touts its proprietary document formats, which only Microsoft software can render with true fidelity, as the reason to avoid using other products,' says a Google spokesperson"
Which is why I am sticking with Office. Its frustrating and I wish the internet with opendoc was available 15 years ago before MS could lock everyone in but its too late now. If a customer can not read your data in a professional format he/she will think you are incompetent and go with a competitor. If my resume looks unformated it says alot about my professionalism.
Google just stated their own case not to use their product.
You can argue that ... well just have everyone on their Google doc cloud. At the end of the day in business if its a hassle then do not bother doing business where time is limited and everything has to be done yesterday.
Grub failed on me during an upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04.
My guess is the grand parent had the same fate and blamed it on the file system. Grub went from 1.94 to 2.0 then back down to 1.94 after 10.04 came out due to the bug.
I installed Fedore Core after that. A little bleeding edge and not ready for prime time if you ask me.