If the OS now offers botnet operators an easy way to bypass that rerouting of malware traffic, this could have serious detrimental affects upon the internet as a whole
Windows has been having a detrimental effect on the internet for years.
Why spend an hour or two attempting to get WoW set up under linux when you can spend 5 minutes installing it under windows?
Whoah. You obviously haven't installed WoW under Windows. It's 5 CDs for WoW, 4 more if you have Burning Crusade. Then there are the patches. When I installed on my notebook, there were at least 3 of those. The first was in the neighbourhood of 500MB. In reality, you're looking at a couple of hours.
My point is that the actual copying of the files from CD is the big hassle with installing WoW, regardless of the OS. At least configuration is better than watching a mind-numbingly slow install, waiting to be prompted for the next disc.
Interestingly enough, sex and porn are not as big a deal here in Canada as in the US. We have religious people of course, but nothing remotely close to the nutjobs you guys have (no offense). The censors up here are more concerned with violence.
Fine by me.... I'd rather have sex than have a fight.... and I'll expect the "slashdot users don't have sex" jokes pretty much immediately.:p
Also, the socket where the power adapter connects to the laptop broke. I eventually figured out how to open the laptop, get everything out of the way to get to the socket, and put everything back together. However, I never really succeeded in fixing the socket.
Wild guess: Pavilion ZV5000? They're known for it.
As a Canadian, I find that everyone I know says, "August 2nd, 2006." When I was in school, (I'm 35) I was taught mm/dd/yy. Now the government seems bent on dd/mm/yy, which personally I can't stand. Businesses seem to use either format, depending on the preference of whoever makes policy. Quebec will use dd/mm/yy since that's the way the francophones speak.
Personally I think everyone should use yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm - makes the most sense to me. It needs to be standardized in order to avoid confusion.
In case you're interested, Dapper runs quite nicely on that line. I have it installed on a DV8299xx at work, which is similar to yours except with 512 Nvidia. Runs Compiz/XGL quite well too.
I don't think you sound like a fanboi at all. Run what's best for you.
I completely agree that competition is a Good Thing, not just for pricing but as long as neither company gets too far ahead of the other, they're also both working like mad to design better products for you and me to use.
As for myself, I've historically been known to purchase Intel for my desktop machines, mostly because I prefer to have my chipset designed by the same company as my CPU. I recently bought this notebook, and I had the choice between something from the Pentium M line or AMD Turion. In the end I bought the Turion. This wasn't so much because of the CPU, but that I chose ATI graphics over Intel. I personally feel the difference between Intel and AMD's mobile chips to be negligible, but Intel's "Extreme Graphics" or whatever they call it these days leaves something to be desired.
Sure it's a notebook, but these days that's no reason not to have decent graphics.
In the end, let BOTH companies make enough money to spend on the R&D to develop better products for us all to use, for a price we can all live with.
Don't get me started on airbags. My girlfriend was in a low speed (5mph) collision where the airbag deployed and smashed her arm and her jaw. She'll never get back the same range of motion out of either. Airbags are some clown's bright idea that I'll happily do without, thanks.
The spell checker essentially receives a D+. After I'm done writing a few dozen page paper, I have to paste it into MS office for because Open Office misses too much.
Firfox, for example, is receiving great press because it is a great product.
No offense, but that's what we Canadians have long thought of the American practise of constantly suing the pants off of one another. Our courts will not allow whiners and crybabys to waste the court's time like this.
Kindly read my entire post before replying and ranting, specifically the last sentence. Furthermore, if you'd care to notice, I'm not the one who brought up punching you in the throat. ...and finally...
I may be a short harmless-looking girl
You may be, but since this is slashdot and you're claiming to be female it's far more likely that you're a fat hairy 45 year old man who showers infrequently.
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Funny, i've yet to see someone who actually admits to liking giving head.
Girl I dated not quite 2 years ago... just loved it. I sure miss her... present gf doesn't care for it.... and to keep this on topic, I enjoy smoking, tyvm.
HP Pavilion notebooks (which the ZX6000 series are) do not come with a recovery partition. None of the consumer notebooks do. They come with an OEM CD for Windows XP Home, and one or two driver/application recovery CDs or DVD. The software will come preinstalled, but you're certainly free to wipe the hard disk and install whatever you'd like however you'd like. Just don't expect HP to support it, of course.
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If the OS now offers botnet operators an easy way to bypass that rerouting of malware traffic, this could have serious detrimental affects upon the internet as a whole
Windows has been having a detrimental effect on the internet for years.
Why spend an hour or two attempting to get WoW set up under linux when you can spend 5 minutes installing it under windows?
Whoah. You obviously haven't installed WoW under Windows. It's 5 CDs for WoW, 4 more if you have Burning Crusade.
Then there are the patches. When I installed on my notebook, there were at least 3 of those. The first was in the neighbourhood of 500MB.
In reality, you're looking at a couple of hours.
My point is that the actual copying of the files from CD is the big hassle with installing WoW, regardless of the OS. At least configuration is better than watching a mind-numbingly slow install, waiting to be prompted for the next disc.
After the way SOE butchered SWG, I'll pass.
Interestingly enough, sex and porn are not as big a deal here in Canada as in the US. We have religious people of course, but nothing remotely close to the nutjobs you guys have (no offense).
:p
The censors up here are more concerned with violence.
Fine by me.... I'd rather have sex than have a fight.... and I'll expect the "slashdot users don't have sex" jokes pretty much immediately.
Also, the socket where the power adapter connects to the laptop broke. I eventually figured out how to open the laptop, get everything out of the way to get to the socket, and put everything back together. However, I never really succeeded in fixing the socket.
Wild guess: Pavilion ZV5000?
They're known for it.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument ?cc=us&docname=c00517832&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_US EN
Also, the manufacturer's name is at the far right of the printed side of the battery (mine seems to be LG).
a DIVX copy of the original Transformers movie, and photos from my vacation last week.
in english, when you speak the date, you say, "It's August the 2nd, 2006."
I sure don't. I only speak English, and I say, "August 2nd, 2006"
As a Canadian, I find that everyone I know says, "August 2nd, 2006." When I was in school, (I'm 35) I was taught mm/dd/yy. Now the government seems bent on dd/mm/yy, which personally I can't stand.
Businesses seem to use either format, depending on the preference of whoever makes policy.
Quebec will use dd/mm/yy since that's the way the francophones speak.
Personally I think everyone should use yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm - makes the most sense to me. It needs to be standardized in order to avoid confusion.
in trucker parlance (a few relatives of mine are truckers), flat front trucks are referred to as pug-nose trucks.
Around here it's called cab-over.
In case you're interested, Dapper runs quite nicely on that line. I have it installed on a DV8299xx at work, which is similar to yours except with 512 Nvidia.
Runs Compiz/XGL quite well too.
I don't think you sound like a fanboi at all.
Run what's best for you.
I completely agree that competition is a Good Thing, not just for pricing but as long as neither company gets too far ahead of the other, they're also both working like mad to design better products for you and me to use.
As for myself, I've historically been known to purchase Intel for my desktop machines, mostly because I prefer to have my chipset designed by the same company as my CPU.
I recently bought this notebook, and I had the choice between something from the Pentium M line or AMD Turion. In the end I bought the Turion. This wasn't so much because of the CPU, but that I chose ATI graphics over Intel.
I personally feel the difference between Intel and AMD's mobile chips to be negligible, but Intel's "Extreme Graphics" or whatever they call it these days leaves something to be desired.
Sure it's a notebook, but these days that's no reason not to have decent graphics.
In the end, let BOTH companies make enough money to spend on the R&D to develop better products for us all to use, for a price we can all live with.
Eliza: What makes you think I'm trying to take over the world?
Don't get me started on airbags. My girlfriend was in a low speed (5mph) collision where the airbag deployed and smashed her arm and her jaw. She'll never get back the same range of motion out of either.
Airbags are some clown's bright idea that I'll happily do without, thanks.
Ontario here - this is from the bottle I'm drinking right now:
Carbonated water, Sugar/Glucose-Fructose, Caramel Colour, Phosphoric Acid, Natural Flavours, Caffeine.
The spell checker essentially receives a D+. After I'm done writing a few dozen page paper, I have to paste it into MS office for because Open Office misses too much.
Firfox, for example, is receiving great press because it is a great product.
I see what you mean.
This is absolutely insane.
No offense, but that's what we Canadians have long thought of the American practise of constantly suing the pants off of one another.
Our courts will not allow whiners and crybabys to waste the court's time like this.
Canada has much looser women
That comes from having sex with us Canadian men.
Kindly read my entire post before replying and ranting, specifically the last sentence.
Furthermore, if you'd care to notice, I'm not the one who brought up punching you in the throat.
...and finally...
I may be a short harmless-looking girl
You may be, but since this is slashdot and you're claiming to be female it's far more likely that you're a fat hairy 45 year old man who showers infrequently.
of course.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/684328.stm
Nicotine is far more harmful than marijuana
Please stop perpetuating this myth. People only say this to try to defend their choice to smoke pot, and it's complete bullshit.
It'd be pretty hard to say those things after being punched in the throat.
I'm just sayin'
Funny, i've yet to see someone who actually admits to liking giving head.
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Girl I dated not quite 2 years ago... just loved it.
I sure miss her... present gf doesn't care for it.
and to keep this on topic, I enjoy smoking, tyvm.
HP Pavilion notebooks (which the ZX6000 series are) do not come with a recovery partition. None of the consumer notebooks do. They come with an OEM CD for Windows XP Home, and one or two driver/application recovery CDs or DVD.
The software will come preinstalled, but you're certainly free to wipe the hard disk and install whatever you'd like however you'd like.
Just don't expect HP to support it, of course.
The GPL is the reason I have http://www.hyperwrt.org/ on my router.
Thank you, GPL.