And where this is ON TOPIC the article very clearly states that they could not connect to the network without logging on as ROOT. My experience with the same frustration of connecting to the network is entirely on topic.
Useful information. And something that the notice would never figure out.
I have fairly good knowledge of Linux and might figure this out eventually. I want to see Linux be as easy to use as the other two operating systems. Install. Boot. Login. Use.
I'm not saying Linux is a poor operating system. I'm saying it needs to be possible to be used by novice users without them having to even know there are startup scripts or runlevels. It's great to know that stuff when you are a computer hacker. It's not so great for the masses to have to learn this.
The point is that jumping through some hoops that it does work on the Toshiba. With some limitations. And with some advanced knowledge on my part. With a little bit of work Ubuntu could be made smart enough to tell me that the only way my machine will work completely is to possibly install the restricted drivers. Not a difficult thing to add. And certainly makes for a better experience for the novice.
You can be as defensive as you want about Linux and going about finding just the right hardware for the operating system. When I solve problems with hardware I try to solve my problem, by hardware that works for me, that is right for me. My computer choice should be based on my needs not the operating systems limitations.
I run Ubuntu Linux on my Toshiba laptop. I had to install two proprietary drivers to get accelerated video and support for the wifi. Ubuntu does not install these by default. If I were a complete novice I'd have no idea that this would solve my problem nor would I know how to do it.
The next thing that I consider a shortcoming to using Wifi on Linux is that if I don't have the Wifi radio switched on when I boot the machine Linux does not detect this and allow me to network automatically. I still don't know the solution but whatever it is on Windows and Mac OS X this is a simple no brainer operation. It should be completely automatic and transparent.
I have been trying Linux off and on for many years and still see areas where if it were "just a little better" I could replace my Windows with it. I'm looking forward to that day.
Why anybody in their right mind would add code to their product to allow a third party to make it less valuable to the consumer I'll never understand.
Microsoft has allowed the broadcasters to degrade the value of Windows Media Center. And for what? Do they receive a royalty each time a user is denied the ability to watch or record a show on their PC?
I think allowing the broadcasters and other content providers that kind of power is foolish. They have shown no ability to foresee new markets. They are stuck living in their old ways and will only work to stifle and eliminate any new future revenue streams with their new found powers.
More importantly they are expediting the jump to digital tv and not forcing the cost onto those who can least afford it. People with the money already have digital set top boxes or other means to get HD. While we all squat on the current analog because we don't want to have to pay to move to digital or because we can't or because we don't see the value in digital the frequency range is being wasted. Going all digital benefits us in that the frequency range can be repurposed. The license fees for that frequency range are surely going to exceed $990 million.
I have no use for Vista or any of it's follow ups.
I have no interest in an operating system designed to protect content owners, protect microsoft with horrible activation functionality and little to no benefit to myself.
If I didn't require Windows for work I'd have nothing to do with it. I've been a long time Windows user since Windows 3.1 and each release seemed to be such a major improvement over the previous. Until Vista. Vista is not a users operating system. It's more of a prison.
What it boils down to is that most Linux applications follow their own styles. If they were all consistent with their look, feel and operation I could care less what that style was. But there is no standard. That's the problem. Most KDE apps behave the same. That's great but run a mix of apps meant for Gnome and KDE and you have programs that do not feel the same.
I run Windows. I use Gmail. I also use Thunderbird. I don't use outlook, outlook express, Eudora. I am very pleased with gmail in the browser and Thunderbird for downloading and storing that e-mail. All this works the same on Mac, Linux and Windows.
I think Linux is suffering more from difficult configuration, not supporting fully the latest hardware and inconsistent user interface between applications.
A user interface guideline that was followed closely would go a long way towards helping Linux gain acceptance.
Until the OS and the applications are more user friendly to use and administer there is no reason to ditch Microsoft to save a few bucks. The time trying to get your printer working optimally and your video display working well make up for the money savings.
Linux while a great hacker environment is still a long way away from a great user environment. If you have a support staff around to help out and you have totally compatible hardware you are good to go. If however you have a new piece of hardware that the linux drivers aren't out for good luck.
I have tried Linux starting back in the 0.9 days of Slackware and I have not yet considered it to be a suitable replacement for Windows or Mac OS. Everything is almost good enough.
So you are saying that it's bad that a method that does not harm anybody but only helps is bad because it's closely related to something that is? Your concern is only an issue if people don't RTFA!
Having my computer used as a SPAM relay wouldn't cause me the harm that my credit card number being divulged would. And protecting the ports won't stop that. The browser has access to the right ports to post my credit card number outside of my system.
Apple doesn't suffer the same fate as Microsoft due to their relatively new OS. Not as many legacy apps to keep working and also they release more incremental builds. If Microsoft put out a new version of Windows every 12-18 months for $129 most people wouldn't upgrade anyway.
Microsoft can't put every single one of there thousands of programmers on a single task like working on Windows.
And it's not like they are understaffed on the OS team. Adding more programmers to a project does not ensure success and may actually make the process take longer.
Open Source means open SOURCE CODE... come up with a different term for Open Ideas. Perhaps Open Ideas... Open Source when used for anything other than source code is a poor bastardization of the term.
I'm glad when the airplane was invented the term air didn't become so popular that cars, boats, televisions all had to have the word air in them.
If you can manage to move forward more than one minute for each minute in the day I'll be impressed. I'll be even more impressed if you can find a way to prove it.;)
Go Daddy makes it hard for you to transfer the domain between members of the same family. I know someone who had a domain that her father bought for her and after a year he said she had to take over the payments. She tried to get them to start billing her for it instead of her father and they refused. So I can see that you are safe with your domain not being transfered since they won't transfer it under any circumstances.
and taking your book would be stealing. Taking your database that you could easily (and should have done anyway) copy to make a backup. This should be a wake up call to those who lost their blog. If it's important to you back it up. If it's really important perhaps you should pay for a commercial host so you aren't leeching off of somebody.
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If you are pressed for time spend that 6 minutes watching something other than the crap they mentioned!
And where this is ON TOPIC the article very clearly states that they could not connect to the network without logging on as ROOT. My experience with the same frustration of connecting to the network is entirely on topic.
Useful information. And something that the notice would never figure out.
I have fairly good knowledge of Linux and might figure this out eventually. I want to see Linux be as easy to use as the other two operating systems. Install. Boot. Login. Use.
I'm not saying Linux is a poor operating system. I'm saying it needs to be possible to be used by novice users without them having to even know there are startup scripts or runlevels. It's great to know that stuff when you are a computer hacker. It's not so great for the masses to have to learn this.
The point is that jumping through some hoops that it does work on the Toshiba. With some limitations. And with some advanced knowledge on my part. With a little bit of work Ubuntu could be made smart enough to tell me that the only way my machine will work completely is to possibly install the restricted drivers. Not a difficult thing to add. And certainly makes for a better experience for the novice.
You can be as defensive as you want about Linux and going about finding just the right hardware for the operating system. When I solve problems with hardware I try to solve my problem, by hardware that works for me, that is right for me. My computer choice should be based on my needs not the operating systems limitations.
I run Ubuntu Linux on my Toshiba laptop. I had to install two proprietary drivers to get accelerated video and support for the wifi. Ubuntu does not install these by default. If I were a complete novice I'd have no idea that this would solve my problem nor would I know how to do it.
The next thing that I consider a shortcoming to using Wifi on Linux is that if I don't have the Wifi radio switched on when I boot the machine Linux does not detect this and allow me to network automatically. I still don't know the solution but whatever it is on Windows and Mac OS X this is a simple no brainer operation. It should be completely automatic and transparent.
I have been trying Linux off and on for many years and still see areas where if it were "just a little better" I could replace my Windows with it. I'm looking forward to that day.
Why anybody in their right mind would add code to their product to allow a third party to make it less valuable to the consumer I'll never understand.
Microsoft has allowed the broadcasters to degrade the value of Windows Media Center. And for what? Do they receive a royalty each time a user is denied the ability to watch or record a show on their PC?
I think allowing the broadcasters and other content providers that kind of power is foolish. They have shown no ability to foresee new markets. They are stuck living in their old ways and will only work to stifle and eliminate any new future revenue streams with their new found powers.
More importantly they are expediting the jump to digital tv and not forcing the cost onto those who can least afford it. People with the money already have digital set top boxes or other means to get HD. While we all squat on the current analog because we don't want to have to pay to move to digital or because we can't or because we don't see the value in digital the frequency range is being wasted. Going all digital benefits us in that the frequency range can be repurposed. The license fees for that frequency range are surely going to exceed $990 million.
I have no use for Vista or any of it's follow ups.
I have no interest in an operating system designed to protect content owners, protect microsoft with horrible activation functionality and little to no benefit to myself.
If I didn't require Windows for work I'd have nothing to do with it. I've been a long time Windows user since Windows 3.1 and each release seemed to be such a major improvement over the previous. Until Vista. Vista is not a users operating system. It's more of a prison.
What it boils down to is that most Linux applications follow their own styles. If they were all consistent with their look, feel and operation I could care less what that style was. But there is no standard. That's the problem. Most KDE apps behave the same. That's great but run a mix of apps meant for Gnome and KDE and you have programs that do not feel the same.
I run Windows. I use Gmail. I also use Thunderbird. I don't use outlook, outlook express, Eudora. I am very pleased with gmail in the browser and Thunderbird for downloading and storing that e-mail. All this works the same on Mac, Linux and Windows.
I think Linux is suffering more from difficult configuration, not supporting fully the latest hardware and inconsistent user interface between applications.
A user interface guideline that was followed closely would go a long way towards helping Linux gain acceptance.
Until the OS and the applications are more user friendly to use and administer there is no reason to ditch Microsoft to save a few bucks. The time trying to get your printer working optimally and your video display working well make up for the money savings.
Linux while a great hacker environment is still a long way away from a great user environment. If you have a support staff around to help out and you have totally compatible hardware you are good to go. If however you have a new piece of hardware that the linux drivers aren't out for good luck.
I have tried Linux starting back in the 0.9 days of Slackware and I have not yet considered it to be a suitable replacement for Windows or Mac OS. Everything is almost good enough.
So you are saying that it's bad that a method that does not harm anybody but only helps is bad because it's closely related to something that is? Your concern is only an issue if people don't RTFA!
Having my computer used as a SPAM relay wouldn't cause me the harm that my credit card number being divulged would. And protecting the ports won't stop that. The browser has access to the right ports to post my credit card number outside of my system.
Unless the source for beer (hops, other incredients) become free.
When are we going to come up with a term to replace "Source"? Open source only works if there is "Source" involved. As in "Source Code".
How about just saying "Open" leave "Source" off.
risk having your Miranda rights read to you!
Apple doesn't suffer the same fate as Microsoft due to their relatively new OS. Not as many legacy apps to keep working and also they release more incremental builds. If Microsoft put out a new version of Windows every 12-18 months for $129 most people wouldn't upgrade anyway.
Try this place instead:
http://www.mpix.com/
Microsoft can't put every single one of there thousands of programmers on a single task like working on Windows.
And it's not like they are understaffed on the OS team. Adding more programmers to a project does not ensure success and may actually make the process take longer.
Open Source means open SOURCE CODE... come up with a different term for Open Ideas. Perhaps Open Ideas... Open Source when used for anything other than source code is a poor bastardization of the term.
I'm glad when the airplane was invented the term air didn't become so popular that cars, boats, televisions all had to have the word air in them.
Same here I have the AMD FX-51 and SP2 since SP2 was released and Photoshop CS has not been a problem for me at all.
If you can manage to move forward more than one minute for each minute in the day I'll be impressed. I'll be even more impressed if you can find a way to prove it. ;)
I haven't seen so many cold solder joints since I was a kid. ;)
Go Daddy makes it hard for you to transfer the domain between members of the same family. I know someone who had a domain that her father bought for her and after a year he said she had to take over the payments. She tried to get them to start billing her for it instead of her father and they refused. So I can see that you are safe with your domain not being transfered since they won't transfer it under any circumstances.
and taking your book would be stealing. Taking your database that you could easily (and should have done anyway) copy to make a backup. This should be a wake up call to those who lost their blog. If it's important to you back it up. If it's really important perhaps you should pay for a commercial host so you aren't leeching off of somebody.