To be honest, the XBOX 360 was better then the Wii in every aspect except social gaming, and although my girlfriend would play sometimes, in the month I had the Wii, after the first week, I hardly ever turned it on.
Hell yeah. I've been running Slackware since 1999 and the amount of personal satisfaction i get out of using it just keeps me wanting to work, play, and learn more with my computer. It's like a lifetime or computing love and fun crammed in a CD. I really love the feeling of finding stuff out as i go along doing different things on my computer. Compiling and running a new kernel, getting a nifty program to work, upgrading glibc and inadvertently b0rking the system but managing to fix it in the end, and countless other things -- now that's what i call a fun computing experience.
I hope they open up their IM infrastructure. It's really annoying when they change (read: break) stuff in the protocol and pidgin has to play catch up. Pidgin usually does catch up after 1 or 2 days but i still see lingering issues with logging into YM after the last major change yahoo made. Also it would be nice to finally have YM voice and video support in linux and BSD. Better yet, they could release an up-to-date, GPL'ed yahoo messenger for linux and i wouldn't mind switching to that. I hate to admit it but pidgin's bugs piss me off a good deal sometimes.
What do you mean by "killed"? The machine stops working forever?
Now this isn't the same scenario, but i have a Westell DSL modem + router combo that gets disconnected from the network and resets itself when i do a portscan of my ISP's network. I RTFM'd and tried the --scan-delay option, which fixed the disconnection and reset issue i was having. My theory is that the next hop had a threshold-based security feature, or the ISP had flaky hardware that couldn't handle the storm of packets.
It's about time MS released an AV product! All those i've tried (Clamwin, AVG, Symantec, etc.) can't detect my viruses. I know for a fact they're called "kernel32", "UAC", "svchost", and the dreaded "taskman." Who knows, there might be more of them gallivanting around my computer!
I love Asus motherboards and hardware. That said, the site looks very fishy to me. It doesn't look "professional" at all. The Asus and Micro$hit websites look really polished and complex. Itsbetterwithwindoze looks like an attempt to start a new flamewar between the M$ and OSS camps while putting Asus in the middle of the crossfire.
I'm a long-time Nvidia user because of good driver support on Windoze and Linux. I would love to give ATI a try but i've read a lot of negative things about driver quality in Linux. Granted, that was some time ago and things may have changed today. I'd be interested to hear about other slashdotters' experiences using today's ATI hardware + drivers under Linux/X.
If less clutter was the design goal, MS could have started somewhere else. Like the explorer toolbar (just leave the up, back, and forward buttons thank you), the "Go" button beside the address bar, the big explorer sidebar with the many superfluous items, the cluttered search side bar, the pointless icon view, i could go on. They could probably even drop the whole Start menu paradigm and move to right-click on desktop to display the start menu contents, leaving the whole taskbar for application tabs.
Only thing Joe has to make sure if he wants his old PC to work right out of the box is to have someone check his wireless chipset if he even has one. That's about the only piece of commodity hardware that's sometimes a problem with modern linux distro's.
Don't forget on-board Intel HD audio chipsets. In my experience, those are a pain to get working right.
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To be honest, the XBOX 360 was better then the Wii in every aspect except social gaming, and although my girlfriend would play sometimes, in the month I had the Wii, after the first week, I hardly ever turned it on.
Which one, your girlfriend, the Xbox, or the Wii?
Correct. In fact the X man page states the following:
The X.Org Foundation requests that the following names be used when referring to this software:
X
X Window System
X Version 11
X Window System, Version 11
X11
Personally i call it X11.
Missing, old, or obsolete functionality are not bugs.
Workaround: Move for legislation that will outlaw pliers.
Mozillawnd! w00t!
How do i disable that fucking live twitter feed on the right? I clicked on the link to read a Wired article, not listen to random dumbasses whining!
Hell yeah. I've been running Slackware since 1999 and the amount of personal satisfaction i get out of using it just keeps me wanting to work, play, and learn more with my computer. It's like a lifetime or computing love and fun crammed in a CD. I really love the feeling of finding stuff out as i go along doing different things on my computer. Compiling and running a new kernel, getting a nifty program to work, upgrading glibc and inadvertently b0rking the system but managing to fix it in the end, and countless other things -- now that's what i call a fun computing experience.
I hope they open up their IM infrastructure. It's really annoying when they change (read: break) stuff in the protocol and pidgin has to play catch up. Pidgin usually does catch up after 1 or 2 days but i still see lingering issues with logging into YM after the last major change yahoo made. Also it would be nice to finally have YM voice and video support in linux and BSD. Better yet, they could release an up-to-date, GPL'ed yahoo messenger for linux and i wouldn't mind switching to that. I hate to admit it but pidgin's bugs piss me off a good deal sometimes.
Yes. Stable as a brick. Oh wait...
Now i know where that missing iphone prototype went. http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/07/21/1814212
Not in my family, thank goodness.
Yours,
John Yellowliver
Or until we nuke it from orbit. After all, that's the only way to be sure.
It's a trap!
What do you mean by "killed"? The machine stops working forever?
Now this isn't the same scenario, but i have a Westell DSL modem + router combo that gets disconnected from the network and resets itself when i do a portscan of my ISP's network. I RTFM'd and tried the --scan-delay option, which fixed the disconnection and reset issue i was having. My theory is that the next hop had a threshold-based security feature, or the ISP had flaky hardware that couldn't handle the storm of packets.
That sounds absolutely kinky.
No problem. Just make another copy of the 32nd disk.
It's about time MS released an AV product! All those i've tried (Clamwin, AVG, Symantec, etc.) can't detect my viruses. I know for a fact they're called "kernel32", "UAC", "svchost", and the dreaded "taskman." Who knows, there might be more of them gallivanting around my computer!
+1. Slashdot has been trolled again.
I love Asus motherboards and hardware. That said, the site looks very fishy to me. It doesn't look "professional" at all. The Asus and Micro$hit websites look really polished and complex. Itsbetterwithwindoze looks like an attempt to start a new flamewar between the M$ and OSS camps while putting Asus in the middle of the crossfire.
I'm a long-time Nvidia user because of good driver support on Windoze and Linux. I would love to give ATI a try but i've read a lot of negative things about driver quality in Linux. Granted, that was some time ago and things may have changed today. I'd be interested to hear about other slashdotters' experiences using today's ATI hardware + drivers under Linux/X.
I thought this was the first Netbook:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_netBook
Failing that, she'd probably be in a DOSbox 6 feet under soon.
If less clutter was the design goal, MS could have started somewhere else. Like the explorer toolbar (just leave the up, back, and forward buttons thank you), the "Go" button beside the address bar, the big explorer sidebar with the many superfluous items, the cluttered search side bar, the pointless icon view, i could go on. They could probably even drop the whole Start menu paradigm and move to right-click on desktop to display the start menu contents, leaving the whole taskbar for application tabs.
Only thing Joe has to make sure if he wants his old PC to work right out of the box is to have someone check his wireless chipset if he even has one. That's about the only piece of commodity hardware that's sometimes a problem with modern linux distro's.
Don't forget on-board Intel HD audio chipsets. In my experience, those are a pain to get working right.
I've been disabling autorun on XP and 2k for many many years now. gpedit.msc, the group policy editor, is your friend.