It will be interesting to see how many people actually pony up to buy those protocol specs - in part, that would be a measure of how valid the EU's judgement was.
3 years is a little late. In that time competitors have entered the marketplace. You can pay lots to use the Microsoft Portocols or use the Linux Protocols for free. Open Office works fine on Ubuntu.
They just say "do it, or else" to the telco, and I bet the telco doesn't get to add a line item on the accounting ledger.
Without pay, I would bet the lag time would be long.. As a private company with a task to perform, the unpaid task would be bottom priority like most of their coustomer service requests.
voip telephony. Looks like the $400 a year cell phone bill is here to stay... DAMN IT I DON'T EVEN LIVE IN THE U.S.!
Download and read the book. This applies to just the VOIP that Comcast provides in it's triple play package. If you use a third party VOIP solution, it is outside the scope of the offer. If you think you are protected by using a cell phone... It is time to look at what the government contractors are selling to your government. http://www.antennasystems.com/trapandtrace.html This device works without even notifying the cell company, unlike a wired trap and trace. No court order needed unless you want to either be legal or use the evidence in court.
Cell phones are less secure than wired connections. Get used to it. It's a sniffable radio signal. You don't have to get permission to connect to the airwaves... (legaly maybe, but not technicaly)
a) watch a DVD that I purchased legally on my television via the TV-Out port on my video card, using my computer's DVD drive to read this legal DVD? Macrovision prevents that. There are ways around it, but they are illegal due to the DMCA.
They don't mention it is illegal in some countries in the about page. On my video card, it does not enable Macrovision as that would require a royalty.
How many of those downloads are the same as a lost sale? I doubt the quality is the same as the retail DVD and could fetch the same price. Was it a lost sale, or a lost rental? At full retail price, would the lack of a download make a retail purchase? The prices given are as always, shown as the MAX possible loss for the most impact. Many people who would never pay full retail would buy if the price was reasonable. I for one don't spend over $15 on DVD's. Most of the time, I spend under $10. Calling DVD's at twice that price a lost sale at $19.99 because it can be downloaded is a pipe dream. It's a lost sale because it is $19.99.
Hence, you put a slim, shielded tube over the distance you want to transfer. At each end of the tube is a transmitter/receiver. With further research it might even be possible to bend these tubes, so they go around corners etc. This would solve all the problems identified.
You were modded funny, but you are not far off. As the frequency increases, the antenna size goes down to have the same beam angle and range. WiFi is near the frequency of C band satelite TV. This typicaly used an 8 to 12 foot dish. These used dishes are what are used for the long range WiFi. Instead of a pringles can, a Dish Network disk should have great gain at 60 Ghz as long as the surface is reasonably perfect to a 1/4 wavelength.
If you want to try an alternative DVD player, you can download one here; http://geexbox.org/en/downloads.html It installs nothing on your computer. Just boot the CD. After booting, it gives you the CD back. Now put in a DVD.. Enjoy. It has no tools for copying a DVD. Why is this player illegal? It breaks encryption to play the movie that you physicaly have, just like a legal player.
In their about page, they don't bother to mention that this player is illegal to use in the USA due to the inclusion of software to decode the Content Scrambling System CSS used on commercial DVD's. They also don't mention the legal problmes with the software as it skips playing the mandatory FBI warning as required by all licensed leagal players. http://geexbox.org/en/start.html In rebellion against the control, try an alternative player. You may like it.
... because before the Internet, folks just sat around thinking "I wish I could go steal some money, but I just can't figure out how."
Crime doesn't always equal theft, assault, or other harm. How about copyright violation? It's true you don't end up with a pile of cash taken from someone else, but you could easly collect several gigs of MP3's and copyrighted porn photos in a very short time on a P-P network. The gain from crime isn't always money.
For everything that benefits society, along comes those who seek to use said benefits for personal, illicit gain.
As a prime example is the MP3 format. There are more users of P-P trading MP3's than voted for the President. Those who use the technology for personal gain is many.
Well, what bugs me about Stallman's professionalism is his insistance on other people using his terms (ie. using the terms "free software" instead of "open-source software" and not using the term "intellectual property"), while he insists DRM stands for "digital restrictions management."
What also bugged me is he stopped short of telling what can be better in DVD players. He was correct in stating all legal DVD players are limited and limit the consumer. He should have elaborated. The big reason I like Linux with the right codecs, is the player just plays the movie. No legal player can make that claim. Instead of playing the movie, you are required to sit through the FBI warning every time, maybe some previews, and the DON'T STEAL THIS FILM short. Pardon me, I just want to put in the movie and watch the movie. If I want to watch that other stuff, I can always find it in the menu.
I would buy a DVD player that would start the movie first or could be configured to play the movie first, but due to the consipiracy, it is illegal to own one. The restrictions are preventing the manufactures from making and selling a better player.
Atmospheric with thick string parts and distant vocals in places. I heard it in a cafe and I'm pretty sure they don't pay ASCAP - though ASCAP does come around asking sometimes ('I am the ghost of business models past')
I worked as a projectionist many years ago. I got tired of the dead silence between films and noticed the aux input for intermission music and jacked in a tape deck (Pre-mp3 and CD). The owner came unglued and let me know the liability caused by my action. The fees would have been very high and the penalties for getting caught would have been much worse. I looked into both the fees and penalties. We removed the jack to prevent any future projectionists from making the same mistake.
Nowdays it's not a problem. They just play commercials instead. The soundtrack on the commercials is paid for by the advertiser.
The general perception people get from the Linux communtiy and how Linux actually is, are two different things. I know myself, and others, who went in expecting everyting we were told about Linux to be true; only to be completely disappointed by what it was.
In general, there are a few out there who have problems. For me, the general impression is absolutely everything worked without needing to download a single driver. Not everyone has had that experiance. Having put Ubuntu on 5 machines, I have had problmes with only one.
Linux is free, Linux gives you choice, Linux can be very secure, Linux can be very stable, Linux can be difficult to configure, Linux can be a breeze to maintain once correctly configured, Linux supports a lot of hardware...but it DOESN'T support a lot of hardware too, Linux has a lot of great software available to it, but it probably doesn't support a lot of what you currently use, if you play games Linux will cause you headaches, you can probably get anything you want to work, eventually, but it probably won't work as well or as fast as it did in Windows, Linux is easy to use, but it's not windows and there is a learning curve, Linux installs are working better and better out of the box, but you will need to do more to get things how you want it that you had to do in Windows.
Why can't we just say that?
In most cases I found Linux worked better than Linux. In Windows, I needed a third party application to burn an ISO CD when I decided to try Ubuntu. The starter version of the application installed on the XP machine sadly would not burn an ISO. It required a $$$ upgrade. Online I found a free ISO burner instead.
you can probably get anything you want to work, eventually, but it probably won't work as well or as fast as it did in Windows
In most cases of what I do, I found Linux worked better than Windows.
Burning an ISO in Ubuntu is much better than in Windows. After you install the illegal in the US DVD CSS Library, watching movies is much better. Since it isn't blessed by the DVD consortium and isn't following their manditory rules, the DVD player does what I always wanted a DVD player to do. Play the movie. If I want to watch the previews, extras, and FBI warning, I can always bring up a menu and watch them later. What a nice feeling. I put in the movie and it plays.. No wait.
In Windows, installing flash is a global event forcing it on all users. Some sites I visit I would prefer flash to be not even installed due to the nature of the advertising. Having to respond to a bunch of prompts using a flash block or script block can be a pain. In Ubuntu the flash install is per user and can be installed by each user. Nice.
In Windows trying to fix some things is terrible. People make remarks about the command prompt. The command prompt is much easier to deal with than trying to figure out a hosed scanner install in the Windows registry. Uninstall and reinstallation of software rarely fixes a bad software install in Windows as the registry often keeps the bad configuration for you.
Here is a prime example... I downloaded a software photocopier on the wife's XP machine and installed a flatbed scanner. Everything worked fine. Later we needed to edit a photo. We fired up the included photo editing program.. Instead of running, it installed a 30 day demo. Alas, it was a 30 day demo that expired 6 months ago. It seemed to be tied to the XP start date so you couldn't simply reinstall every 30 days. This software install broke the photocopier. The photocopier starts just fine. The flatbed scanner scans just fine. The photo editor hijacked the output of the scanner. The operation of the scanner loads the expired photo editor. I uninstalled the photo editor. Now the scanner runs and Windows tells me it can't find the photo editor and offers to help me find the missing.exe. XP has been broken for 2 years now as I am unable to find the problem. Configuration files in Ubu
My gutsy install is stuck at 82% with it says it's "scanning the mirror". Networking should be functional, the machine was running Dapper previously. Any ideas?
Wait for the smoldering heap that is left of the server to be rebuilt.
It really sucked to go from Ubuntu 6.x where it sort of worked (it was a real pain to set up WPA, and the connection died every hour), to Ubuntu 7.04 where it didn't work at all. I don't want to bother downloading Gutsy if it's not going to work.
It is not so elegent for a laptop, the the solution for a desktop is to simply use a wireless access point which supports client mode. It opens a bunch of possibilities for alternative hardware. In my antique collection I even have a Windows 95 laptip that I still use. It has no USB (95 never supported it.) I don't use it online, but I do use it for my GPS stuff as that is all 2D graphics at slow update speeds (1 frame per second updates from the GPS) I use that because it has a real RS-232 port. I didn't upgrade the OS because the ancient laptop is maxed out at 72 meg of EDO memory. It is nice to have a wireless connection to print and transfer files with a fileserver. Instead of running a long network cable cross the house, it is a simple matter of plugging into an access point configured as a client. It takes care of all the WPA encryption and everything. Plugging in is the same as plugging in a wired network jack. The same is true for desktop Linux. It's just a matter of plugging it in and it works, encryption and all.
If you are cheap, find an old Linksys router which will run DD-WRT. It supports client mode. Other options include using many of the D-Link access points such as the DWL-2100AP. Once configured it can be used with your Playstation and X-Box as well.
The benefit often not mentioned is if your desktop is in a louse location for wireless reception, the external AP can be located somewhere else within reach of the network cable and power cord. Instead of an antenna buried under the desk, now it can easly be located in the clear on top of the desk or hutch. The included high gain antenna is a plus. Using a PCMCIA self contained card in my laptop in my bedroom nets me 3 wireless SSIDs. With the wireless AP on the dresser, I now see 8 SSIDs. Because of that I often travel with the AP and a router so I can put it in the hotel room window for good reception. I link the router to the AP so my wife and I can use the connection wirelessly in the room with the router doing NAT for us providing a firewall and sharing the connection.
Not all hardware is supported by all operating systems. Get used to it. I recently retired a Windows 2000 Pro installation. The biggest reason was ****Hardware Support****. I travel and do Power Point presentations and support others that do the same. As such often a presenter will have his presentation on a USB flash drive. Just for fun, take any modern collection of USB flash drives and plug them into a Windows 2000 laptop.. The endless search for an internet connection on the road to download drivers finally got to me. I Installed Dapper Drake and have been very happy since.
Many adaptors bought at Best Buy does work on Ubuntu just fine. Check your chipset first. The only way to get support for the Linux holdouts is make it a support, return and market share issue for them. If you have an incompatible card, call the company and ask for drivers. If they don't have drivers, ask for a refund. They will get the picture if it becomes a big enough issue for them.
By the way, I have an older Thinkpad T21 which doesn't have built in wireless. I use a D-link Air-Express PCMCIA card with a supported chipset. It works fine.
Think about what you are saying... I would rather use a $200 OS instead of buying a $40 card to use a free OS. I fail to see the logic unless you just happened to already have a $200 OS just sitting unused someplace.
In the case of my laptop, it was buy something to replace Windows 2000, or buy a compatible card. Since the laptop didn't come with a card, I would need to buy one regardless. I just made sure it was Linux compatible when I bought it.
Could you please supply a reference for this statement? TIA
The top entry is responses to questions from Slashdot.. Nice!
Rep. Boucher:
I am in the process of drafting comprehensive legislation which will reaffirm the fair use rights of the users of information and create a better balance between the copyright owners, who currently dominate the Congressional debates on intellectual property measures, and the users of copyrighted information.
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It will be interesting to see how many people actually pony up to buy those protocol specs - in part, that would be a measure of how valid the EU's judgement was.
3 years is a little late. In that time competitors have entered the marketplace. You can pay lots to use the Microsoft Portocols or use the Linux Protocols for free. Open Office works fine on Ubuntu.
If I get pulled over by an officer for speeding, can I send his department a bill for the time of mine he used up while writing me a ticket?
No, but you get to pay for the database they keep on your driving record and real time plate look-ups. (auto registration fees)
They just say "do it, or else" to the telco, and I bet the telco doesn't get to add a line item on the accounting ledger.
Without pay, I would bet the lag time would be long.. As a private company with a task to perform, the unpaid task would be bottom priority like most of their coustomer service requests.
voip telephony. Looks like the $400 a year cell phone bill is here to stay... DAMN IT I DON'T EVEN LIVE IN THE U.S.!
Download and read the book. This applies to just the VOIP that Comcast provides in it's triple play package. If you use a third party VOIP solution, it is outside the scope of the offer. If you think you are protected by using a cell phone...
It is time to look at what the government contractors are selling to your government.
http://www.antennasystems.com/trapandtrace.html
This device works without even notifying the cell company, unlike a wired trap and trace. No court order needed unless you want to either be legal or use the evidence in court.
Cell phones are less secure than wired connections. Get used to it. It's a sniffable radio signal. You don't have to get permission to connect to the airwaves... (legaly maybe, but not technicaly)
a) watch a DVD that I purchased legally on my television via the TV-Out port on my video card, using my computer's DVD drive to read this legal DVD? Macrovision prevents that. There are ways around it, but they are illegal due to the DMCA.
Have you tried it with GeeXbox?
http://geexbox.org/en/index.html
They don't mention it is illegal in some countries in the about page.
On my video card, it does not enable Macrovision as that would require a royalty.
How many of those downloads are the same as a lost sale? I doubt the quality is the same as the retail DVD and could fetch the same price. Was it a lost sale, or a lost rental? At full retail price, would the lack of a download make a retail purchase? The prices given are as always, shown as the MAX possible loss for the most impact. Many people who would never pay full retail would buy if the price was reasonable. I for one don't spend over $15 on DVD's. Most of the time, I spend under $10. Calling DVD's at twice that price a lost sale at $19.99 because it can be downloaded is a pipe dream. It's a lost sale because it is $19.99.
Hmmm I wonder what can also go around corners and has a tubelike appearance....? A cable?
Makes sense. Here is some cable good to 65 GHZ.
http://www.gore.com/en_xx/products/cables/microwave/defense/high_frequency_microwave_interconnect_solutions.html
Hence, you put a slim, shielded tube over the distance you want to transfer. At each end of the tube is a transmitter/receiver. With further research it might even be possible to bend these tubes, so they go around corners etc. This would solve all the problems identified.
This tube has a name and has been in existance for many years. It's called a waveguide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waveguide
http://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedia/waveguide.cfm
Drawings of some waveguides are here;
http://www.uniquesys.com/products/passive/waveguides/s111_2.html?gclid=COyF1u6coo8CFSI4YAod20h_aQ
You can buy eliptical waveguide here for frequencies up to about 22 GHZ.
http://antennasystems.com/ewassy.html
and rectangular waveguide up to 40 GHZ here.
http://www.antennasystems.com/waveguide.html
Or 82 miles with a pringles can.
You were modded funny, but you are not far off. As the frequency increases, the antenna size goes down to have the same beam angle and range. WiFi is near the frequency of C band satelite TV. This typicaly used an 8 to 12 foot dish. These used dishes are what are used for the long range WiFi. Instead of a pringles can, a Dish Network disk should have great gain at 60 Ghz as long as the surface is reasonably perfect to a 1/4 wavelength.
And it shouldn't, any more than walking on the grass should be. Only real crime should be counted.
So what was the crime? Sharing copyrighted files? Getting caught lying in court? or the award of $222,000?
In my opinion, it was the award which is so far out in left field to even be close to legal.
If you want to try an alternative DVD player, you can download one here;
http://geexbox.org/en/downloads.html
It installs nothing on your computer. Just boot the CD. After booting, it gives you the CD back. Now put in a DVD.. Enjoy. It has no tools for copying a DVD. Why is this player illegal? It breaks encryption to play the movie that you physicaly have, just like a legal player.
In their about page, they don't bother to mention that this player is illegal to use in the USA due to the inclusion of software to decode the Content Scrambling System CSS used on commercial DVD's. They also don't mention the legal problmes with the software as it skips playing the mandatory FBI warning as required by all licensed leagal players.
http://geexbox.org/en/start.html
In rebellion against the control, try an alternative player. You may like it.
...have it so easy! I remember when I was a young criminal, we had to walk uphill to the bank to rob it! Both ways!
Technology is a two way street. In those days, his actions were not recorded on the cameras.
... because before the Internet, folks just sat around thinking "I wish I could go steal some money, but I just can't figure out how."
Crime doesn't always equal theft, assault, or other harm. How about copyright violation? It's true you don't end up with a pile of cash taken from someone else, but you could easly collect several gigs of MP3's and copyrighted porn photos in a very short time on a P-P network. The gain from crime isn't always money.
In fact, their crime rate is dropping as technology advances - and that includes white collar crime.
Reported crime may be down. Unreported crime such as P-P trading in copyrighted material is often not counted.
For everything that benefits society, along comes those who seek to use said benefits for personal, illicit gain.
As a prime example is the MP3 format. There are more users of P-P trading MP3's than voted for the President. Those who use the technology for personal gain is many.
And by your logic, wouldn't that make Linux "an illegal player"?
Linux does not ship with illegal code. Just like DECSS and copyrighted MP3's for Windows, this illegal software is downloaded later.
Well, what bugs me about Stallman's professionalism is his insistance on other people using his terms (ie. using the terms "free software" instead of "open-source software" and not using the term "intellectual property"), while he insists DRM stands for "digital restrictions management."
What also bugged me is he stopped short of telling what can be better in DVD players. He was correct in stating all legal DVD players are limited and limit the consumer. He should have elaborated. The big reason I like Linux with the right codecs, is the player just plays the movie. No legal player can make that claim. Instead of playing the movie, you are required to sit through the FBI warning every time, maybe some previews, and the DON'T STEAL THIS FILM short. Pardon me, I just want to put in the movie and watch the movie. If I want to watch that other stuff, I can always find it in the menu.
I would buy a DVD player that would start the movie first or could be configured to play the movie first, but due to the consipiracy, it is illegal to own one. The restrictions are preventing the manufactures from making and selling a better player.
Once I'm dead.
The day the music died is many. Some die sooner, some die later. Any day the music dies is a sad day.
Atmospheric with thick string parts and distant vocals in places. I heard it in a cafe and I'm pretty sure they don't pay ASCAP - though ASCAP does come around asking sometimes ('I am the ghost of business models past')
I worked as a projectionist many years ago. I got tired of the dead silence between films and noticed the aux input for intermission music and jacked in a tape deck (Pre-mp3 and CD). The owner came unglued and let me know the liability caused by my action. The fees would have been very high and the penalties for getting caught would have been much worse. I looked into both the fees and penalties. We removed the jack to prevent any future projectionists from making the same mistake.
Nowdays it's not a problem. They just play commercials instead. The soundtrack on the commercials is paid for by the advertiser.
The general perception people get from the Linux communtiy and how Linux actually is, are two different things. I know myself, and others, who went in expecting everyting we were told about Linux to be true; only to be completely disappointed by what it was.
.exe. XP has been broken for 2 years now as I am unable to find the problem. Configuration files in Ubu
In general, there are a few out there who have problems. For me, the general impression is absolutely everything worked without needing to download a single driver. Not everyone has had that experiance. Having put Ubuntu on 5 machines, I have had problmes with only one.
Linux is free, Linux gives you choice, Linux can be very secure, Linux can be very stable, Linux can be difficult to configure, Linux can be a breeze to maintain once correctly configured, Linux supports a lot of hardware...but it DOESN'T support a lot of hardware too, Linux has a lot of great software available to it, but it probably doesn't support a lot of what you currently use, if you play games Linux will cause you headaches, you can probably get anything you want to work, eventually, but it probably won't work as well or as fast as it did in Windows, Linux is easy to use, but it's not windows and there is a learning curve, Linux installs are working better and better out of the box, but you will need to do more to get things how you want it that you had to do in Windows.
Why can't we just say that?
In most cases I found Linux worked better than Linux. In Windows, I needed a third party application to burn an ISO CD when I decided to try Ubuntu. The starter version of the application installed on the XP machine sadly would not burn an ISO. It required a $$$ upgrade. Online I found a free ISO burner instead.
you can probably get anything you want to work, eventually, but it probably won't work as well or as fast as it did in Windows
In most cases of what I do, I found Linux worked better than Windows.
Burning an ISO in Ubuntu is much better than in Windows. After you install the illegal in the US DVD CSS Library, watching movies is much better. Since it isn't blessed by the DVD consortium and isn't following their manditory rules, the DVD player does what I always wanted a DVD player to do. Play the movie. If I want to watch the previews, extras, and FBI warning, I can always bring up a menu and watch them later. What a nice feeling. I put in the movie and it plays.. No wait.
In Windows, installing flash is a global event forcing it on all users. Some sites I visit I would prefer flash to be not even installed due to the nature of the advertising. Having to respond to a bunch of prompts using a flash block or script block can be a pain. In Ubuntu the flash install is per user and can be installed by each user. Nice.
In Windows trying to fix some things is terrible. People make remarks about the command prompt. The command prompt is much easier to deal with than trying to figure out a hosed scanner install in the Windows registry. Uninstall and reinstallation of software rarely fixes a bad software install in Windows as the registry often keeps the bad configuration for you.
Here is a prime example... I downloaded a software photocopier on the wife's XP machine and installed a flatbed scanner. Everything worked fine. Later we needed to edit a photo. We fired up the included photo editing program.. Instead of running, it installed a 30 day demo. Alas, it was a 30 day demo that expired 6 months ago. It seemed to be tied to the XP start date so you couldn't simply reinstall every 30 days. This software install broke the photocopier. The photocopier starts just fine. The flatbed scanner scans just fine. The photo editor hijacked the output of the scanner. The operation of the scanner loads the expired photo editor. I uninstalled the photo editor. Now the scanner runs and Windows tells me it can't find the photo editor and offers to help me find the missing
My gutsy install is stuck at 82% with it says it's "scanning the mirror". Networking should be functional, the machine was running Dapper previously. Any ideas?
Wait for the smoldering heap that is left of the server to be rebuilt.
It really sucked to go from Ubuntu 6.x where it sort of worked (it was a real pain to set up WPA, and the connection died every hour), to Ubuntu 7.04 where it didn't work at all. I don't want to bother downloading Gutsy if it's not going to work.
It is not so elegent for a laptop, the the solution for a desktop is to simply use a wireless access point which supports client mode. It opens a bunch of possibilities for alternative hardware. In my antique collection I even have a Windows 95 laptip that I still use. It has no USB (95 never supported it.) I don't use it online, but I do use it for my GPS stuff as that is all 2D graphics at slow update speeds (1 frame per second updates from the GPS) I use that because it has a real RS-232 port. I didn't upgrade the OS because the ancient laptop is maxed out at 72 meg of EDO memory. It is nice to have a wireless connection to print and transfer files with a fileserver. Instead of running a long network cable cross the house, it is a simple matter of plugging into an access point configured as a client. It takes care of all the WPA encryption and everything. Plugging in is the same as plugging in a wired network jack. The same is true for desktop Linux. It's just a matter of plugging it in and it works, encryption and all.
If you are cheap, find an old Linksys router which will run DD-WRT. It supports client mode. Other options include using many of the D-Link access points such as the DWL-2100AP. Once configured it can be used with your Playstation and X-Box as well.
The benefit often not mentioned is if your desktop is in a louse location for wireless reception, the external AP can be located somewhere else within reach of the network cable and power cord. Instead of an antenna buried under the desk, now it can easly be located in the clear on top of the desk or hutch. The included high gain antenna is a plus. Using a PCMCIA self contained card in my laptop in my bedroom nets me 3 wireless SSIDs. With the wireless AP on the dresser, I now see 8 SSIDs. Because of that I often travel with the AP and a router so I can put it in the hotel room window for good reception. I link the router to the AP so my wife and I can use the connection wirelessly in the room with the router doing NAT for us providing a firewall and sharing the connection.
Not all hardware is supported by all operating systems. Get used to it. I recently retired a Windows 2000 Pro installation. The biggest reason was ****Hardware Support****. I travel and do Power Point presentations and support others that do the same. As such often a presenter will have his presentation on a USB flash drive. Just for fun, take any modern collection of USB flash drives and plug them into a Windows 2000 laptop.. The endless search for an internet connection on the road to download drivers finally got to me. I Installed Dapper Drake and have been very happy since.
Do a little research and find a supported WiFi card. Most Intel cards are supported out of the box now so your Centrino Laptop should just work.
http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/CS-022095.htm
Many adaptors bought at Best Buy does work on Ubuntu just fine. Check your chipset first. The only way to get support for the Linux holdouts is make it a support, return and market share issue for them. If you have an incompatible card, call the company and ask for drivers. If they don't have drivers, ask for a refund. They will get the picture if it becomes a big enough issue for them.
By the way, I have an older Thinkpad T21 which doesn't have built in wireless. I use a D-link Air-Express PCMCIA card with a supported chipset. It works fine.
http://www.atheros.com/news/linux.html
Think about what you are saying... I would rather use a $200 OS instead of buying a $40 card to use a free OS. I fail to see the logic unless you just happened to already have a $200 OS just sitting unused someplace.
In the case of my laptop, it was buy something to replace Windows 2000, or buy a compatible card. Since the laptop didn't come with a card, I would need to buy one regardless. I just made sure it was Linux compatible when I bought it.
http://www.etheros.com/news/DLink2.html
http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility
THINK OF THE CHAIRS!
I work for a furniture company. Do download Ubuntu... Think of the 4th quarter profits!
Could you please supply a reference for this statement? TIA
The top entry is responses to questions from Slashdot.. Nice!
Rep. Boucher:
I am in the process of drafting comprehensive legislation which will
reaffirm the fair use rights of the users of information and create a
better balance between the copyright owners, who currently dominate the
Congressional debates on intellectual property measures, and the users
of copyrighted information.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/bparchive?year=2001&post=2001-03-28$7
http://www.boycott-riaa.com/editorials/boucher
http://www.jambase.com/Articles/Story.aspx?StoryID=10943
http://www.house.gov/berman/newsroom/p2p_analysis.html