The real weak spots in Linux drivers are for dialup modems
Nope, wrong. ALL modems work under Linux. All of them. Plug in or install a modem, and it *will* work, straight out of the box, no additional software necessary. And before you say it, no, winmodems aren't modems no matter how you cut it.
Soundcard support is pretty decent, until you realize the OS often implicitly locks-out multiple apps from outputting audio...
It's not the OS locking out multiple streams from playing, your card is incapable of playing more than one stream. Get a better sound card and you won't have this problem. My suggestion is the Creative Soundblaster Live! 128. Get the LiveDrive to go with it, and you'll be hard pressed in finding a media cable that doesn't fit, *and* you can play multiple sounds at once.
As I've found, if all else fails, get a wireless bridge (like a Linksys WET54G), and plug it into your ethernet port. Sticking on one extra device is a lot easier than switching to Windows.:)
How do you suggest a mobile installation? Where can I find appropriate magnet-mount antennas? What replacements for Netstumber are available to work with such a setup in Linux?
No, people doing that is why retailers get more and more restrictive return policies and why lots of stuff comes in impossible to reseal packaging. If the box doesn't say it works with Linux, I have no idea why people assume that it will.
Linux supports more hardware than Windows these days, so it's unnecessary in most cases. Most of the time, I can plug a new device in, and it Just Works(tm) on my Debian box. This beats the Windows plug it in, wait for the driver to not be found, spend two hours finding the right driver, discover that the driver doesn't work, wait for the manufacturer to produce a working driver, and try that one only to have it work, but only with one program at a time, and even then with the occasional system lockup (MS Streets and Trips with the GPS).
The other being that save for a few rare manufacturers that go out of their way to either market their products to the Linux community (like Atari or Transgaming), nobody advertises this even if they do know it works.
Finally, if a store has a craptastic return policy, this is a sign they do not sell quality products. Stop shopping with them and find someone else to do business with.
This is done ALL the time in the Government, regardless of which party is in control.
Oh, yeah, I forgot. That makes anything socially acceptable or not worthy of public outrage. We should always be complacent and docile when confronted with new information that the government goes too far. Just smile and be good little Germans...er, Americans...
Not sure it's limited just to IT, but it's fairly common to be denied a job based on being Californian in Oregon. Born out of state? You need not apply.
This is largely the result of Oregon having enough jobs, just too many people.
I guess the lacking features will be added later, but it would have been nice to have that already.
You have them, you just weren't trying hard enough. This should work with any capable Jabber client (Google Talk is not capable, nor is GAIM), but I'm using Psi as a example for lack of better alternative. Psi is also available for Windows, MacOS and Linux.
Go to Psi > Service Discovery and enter, say, ursine.ca or one of the other IM Federation members nearest you. You should see at least a JUD, if not a few transports on any of those IMF member servers.
I just did the homework so you don't have to. Enjoy.
Oh, yeah,.edu is super-strict alright. That's why we have omsi.edu, when the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry isn't a 4-year accredited university (they really should have omsi.museum instead).
Another local example: Portland Community College is pcc.edu. PCC isn't a 4-year school, so it properly should be cc.portland.or.us
You know when you've stumbled into linux-super-nerd-land when your media player cannot do MP3 out-of-the-box, but OGG plays just dandy!
It's 2006 and you still don't know MP3 is patented, and therefor of questionable legality when it comes to distributing unlicensed MP3 players and encoders? Christ, get your head out of the sand...
Everybody's seen that video on KATU by now, it's been featured on several specials and reruns on Maximum Exposure and other similar shows worldwide. Down-the-street mudslides are about a biannual experience in Portland.
Anybody who has spent any amount of time on a rainy day in Portland's west hills knows to not park on the street, because the trees travel in packs, always downhill, and usually in a group as wide as the street once the silt ground gets saturated and no longer sticks to the bedrock at higher elevations around the city.
Saying decaf coffee isn't evil if you're told it's decaf is like saying having all your blood removed won't be harmful if you're told you're about to have all your blood removed. Caffiene is coffee's blood, dammit!
Well, here's a fun surprise for you: Pre Hyundai (1997 and older) Kia vehicles. I don't care if you got a Kia bicycle, bus, dumptruck, Sephia or Sportage, if it's 10 years out, you're waiting on Hyundai to find the old designs and make the damn parts. And if it's aftermarket, you're stuck shopping in Australia where the older Kias (particularly if you have one of their trucks like the Sportage, or a model that didn't make it to NA) are still fairly popular. (I know this because I've been looking for a lift kit for my 1995½ Sportage).
Also a hint for anybody else who gets stuck trying to figure out Hyundai's horrible tracking of real Kia (ie, Kia-made Kias, not rebadged Hyundais after Kia got forced into a takeover) parts based on my experience replacing a back bumper some jackass from California (thus who never had to take a test to get his driver's license) fucked over pretty seriously by using my truck as a brake instead of his brakes as a brake: Parts with a direction-specific orientation are marked backwards. The left rear bumper bracket is marked as a front right bracket. The rear bumper is marked as a front bumper. You get the idea.
In a perfect world, Kia wouldn't have gone bankrupt and been handed over to Hyundai by the South Korean government. Or at least Korea could have done a better job enforcing the intent of the order and had Hyundai manage Kia as an independent manufacturer until they got back on their feet...
All this being said, I like Kia. Just too bad it's been impossible to find a new Kia since 1998.
FedEx has built their reputation on promptness and reliability, not becasue it's easy or common, but rather because it's difficult and rare.
Thats really strange, because when I was a shipping manager two years ago, FedEx was the bane of my existence. They were as unreliable and slow as the postal service and cost four times as much. Meanwhile, if the UPS guy accepted my same-day shipment without saying anything, I could reliably gaurantee that package was going to be where I shipped it to by the time, if not before, I climbed into my truck to go home for the night. Sometimes, even stuff I sent next-day would arrive the same day.
FedEx has built their reputation on being extremely profitable. The hire a bunch of minimum wage folks that plain don't know what they're doing and pocket the difference. It's like Billy Bob's Discount Courier and Dry Cleaning went national and changed it's name to Federal Express.
UPS is a union shop, and they attract a higher caliber of employee because of it, it seems. Always on time for pickups, usually early on the delivery. They make a walking joke out of FedEx and that spam conduit we claim is a national postal system...
Wait, I'm sorry, what? Huh? No, rewind that. Blogazine? Seriously, WTF? This single invention makes me think of all the credability of Vanity Fair with the writing and editorial staff replaced by the collective force of AOL's cat ladys.
There are some people that try way too hard to get one step ahead of the crowd, but then fail to realize that everyone sees through their attempt...
Instead of reducing it to probation, Marquette should be apologizing to the blogger, and pay his living expenses for the next year for the trouble. Christ, I can't believe they think it's a reasonable compromise given they're subject to the First Amendment just like everyone else in the US...
Until nVidia figures out whatever patent fuckup they got themselves into with SGI and resolves it so we can have open source accelerated drivers, the product in this article is just another expensive, shiny piece of unusable shit.
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Besides the immorality of nonfree software, that's like claiming a WinModem is really a modem...
Nope, wrong. ALL modems work under Linux. All of them. Plug in or install a modem, and it *will* work, straight out of the box, no additional software necessary. And before you say it, no, winmodems aren't modems no matter how you cut it.
Soundcard support is pretty decent, until you realize the OS often implicitly locks-out multiple apps from outputting audio...
It's not the OS locking out multiple streams from playing, your card is incapable of playing more than one stream. Get a better sound card and you won't have this problem. My suggestion is the Creative Soundblaster Live! 128. Get the LiveDrive to go with it, and you'll be hard pressed in finding a media cable that doesn't fit, *and* you can play multiple sounds at once.
How do you suggest a mobile installation? Where can I find appropriate magnet-mount antennas? What replacements for Netstumber are available to work with such a setup in Linux?
Linux supports more hardware than Windows these days, so it's unnecessary in most cases. Most of the time, I can plug a new device in, and it Just Works(tm) on my Debian box. This beats the Windows plug it in, wait for the driver to not be found, spend two hours finding the right driver, discover that the driver doesn't work, wait for the manufacturer to produce a working driver, and try that one only to have it work, but only with one program at a time, and even then with the occasional system lockup (MS Streets and Trips with the GPS).
The other being that save for a few rare manufacturers that go out of their way to either market their products to the Linux community (like Atari or Transgaming), nobody advertises this even if they do know it works.
Finally, if a store has a craptastic return policy, this is a sign they do not sell quality products. Stop shopping with them and find someone else to do business with.
What if I put a bluetooth GPS receiver on the security officer?
Oh, yeah, I forgot. That makes anything socially acceptable or not worthy of public outrage. We should always be complacent and docile when confronted with new information that the government goes too far. Just smile and be good little Germans...er, Americans...
This is largely the result of Oregon having enough jobs, just too many people.
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Whale removal project. Expect delays.
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You have them, you just weren't trying hard enough. This should work with any capable Jabber client (Google Talk is not capable, nor is GAIM), but I'm using Psi as a example for lack of better alternative. Psi is also available for Windows, MacOS and Linux.
I just did the homework so you don't have to. Enjoy.
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Another local example: Portland Community College is pcc.edu. PCC isn't a 4-year school, so it properly should be cc.portland.or.us
Pinkerton was sacked by the Swedes years ago. Pinkerton stuff is a collector's item now.
Even though Verizon is 18-25 times the price of a Comcast connection of the same speed, and take 12-18 weeks for installation or repair?
Disclaimer: I'm a former Verizon customer
Go ahead, screw with an owl nest or eagle nest. I'd make sure your insurance is up to date before you do.
It's 2006 and you still don't know MP3 is patented, and therefor of questionable legality when it comes to distributing unlicensed MP3 players and encoders? Christ, get your head out of the sand...
Everybody's seen that video on KATU by now, it's been featured on several specials and reruns on Maximum Exposure and other similar shows worldwide. Down-the-street mudslides are about a biannual experience in Portland.
Anybody who has spent any amount of time on a rainy day in Portland's west hills knows to not park on the street, because the trees travel in packs, always downhill, and usually in a group as wide as the street once the silt ground gets saturated and no longer sticks to the bedrock at higher elevations around the city.
Bah. Everybody knows 640k trees is all the world really needs...
Saying decaf coffee isn't evil if you're told it's decaf is like saying having all your blood removed won't be harmful if you're told you're about to have all your blood removed. Caffiene is coffee's blood, dammit!
Well, here's a fun surprise for you: Pre Hyundai (1997 and older) Kia vehicles. I don't care if you got a Kia bicycle, bus, dumptruck, Sephia or Sportage, if it's 10 years out, you're waiting on Hyundai to find the old designs and make the damn parts. And if it's aftermarket, you're stuck shopping in Australia where the older Kias (particularly if you have one of their trucks like the Sportage, or a model that didn't make it to NA) are still fairly popular. (I know this because I've been looking for a lift kit for my 1995½ Sportage).
Also a hint for anybody else who gets stuck trying to figure out Hyundai's horrible tracking of real Kia (ie, Kia-made Kias, not rebadged Hyundais after Kia got forced into a takeover) parts based on my experience replacing a back bumper some jackass from California (thus who never had to take a test to get his driver's license) fucked over pretty seriously by using my truck as a brake instead of his brakes as a brake: Parts with a direction-specific orientation are marked backwards. The left rear bumper bracket is marked as a front right bracket. The rear bumper is marked as a front bumper. You get the idea.
In a perfect world, Kia wouldn't have gone bankrupt and been handed over to Hyundai by the South Korean government. Or at least Korea could have done a better job enforcing the intent of the order and had Hyundai manage Kia as an independent manufacturer until they got back on their feet...
All this being said, I like Kia. Just too bad it's been impossible to find a new Kia since 1998.
Thats really strange, because when I was a shipping manager two years ago, FedEx was the bane of my existence. They were as unreliable and slow as the postal service and cost four times as much. Meanwhile, if the UPS guy accepted my same-day shipment without saying anything, I could reliably gaurantee that package was going to be where I shipped it to by the time, if not before, I climbed into my truck to go home for the night. Sometimes, even stuff I sent next-day would arrive the same day.
FedEx has built their reputation on being extremely profitable. The hire a bunch of minimum wage folks that plain don't know what they're doing and pocket the difference. It's like Billy Bob's Discount Courier and Dry Cleaning went national and changed it's name to Federal Express.
UPS is a union shop, and they attract a higher caliber of employee because of it, it seems. Always on time for pickups, usually early on the delivery. They make a walking joke out of FedEx and that spam conduit we claim is a national postal system...
Wait, I'm sorry, what? Huh? No, rewind that. Blogazine? Seriously, WTF? This single invention makes me think of all the credability of Vanity Fair with the writing and editorial staff replaced by the collective force of AOL's cat ladys.
There are some people that try way too hard to get one step ahead of the crowd, but then fail to realize that everyone sees through their attempt...
Thank you, conteXXt, that was the joke.
Instead of reducing it to probation, Marquette should be apologizing to the blogger, and pay his living expenses for the next year for the trouble. Christ, I can't believe they think it's a reasonable compromise given they're subject to the First Amendment just like everyone else in the US...
Until nVidia figures out whatever patent fuckup they got themselves into with SGI and resolves it so we can have open source accelerated drivers, the product in this article is just another expensive, shiny piece of unusable shit.