That's what keeps linux off my laptop fulltime. I simply got tired of monkeying with patches and scripts in order to get all my hardware working the way its supposed to. When ACPI become pretty much defacto a few years ago I was pretty worried because the entire world was going ACPI and linux didn't even have anything going yet. Flash forward to now and this widely used feature is overall still MIA for linux. Basically its totally hit or miss if your machine will work with ACPI and that's a huge problem.
The problem from what I understand is there are so many iterations of it that the devs simply can't get the kernel to work with all of them. I can't fault them for that, but ACPI is as common as TCPIP now and this is one area where Linux has fallen way behind the curve. Having only some hardware work and only certain functions available just isn't good enough.
Of course they update the version number. What are you basing this on? Feel free to look at your 8.0 and 9.0 cds then compare them to some of the packages on the Red Hat errata page.
If product xxx2.3.2-4.i686.rpm is flawed, RedHat will update that product with xxx2.3.2-8.i686.rpm. You almost will never see a "2.3.3" because Red Hat backports fixes to the current product. They correctly won't ship new untested code by just shipping whatever new version is available without the flaw. Major Package numbers are only updated to signify new code, the numbers on the end are the only ones which go up in their security fixes. They are the version numbers.
Well if MS does indeed out-Google Google, then good for them. But they obviously have long way to go if that's what they really are planning.
As far as resources go, MS may have 40B in the bank, but Google has the ENTIRE internet behind it and that's not something to take lightly. Outside of OS's, web browsers, and office suites, Microsoft hasn't exactly done well with every venture they've tried. Look at Smartphones,TVboxes,Consoles, etc. Beyond its desktop monopoly its not as successful a company as one would think. I guess we will see if they are able to leverage their OS to force users into making MS their default search engine. Up till now setting MSN to the homepage has ensured they can claim the page hit crown from Yahoo, but we all know when it comes to actually finding things on the Internet everyone goes elsewhere.
Err, that's a pretty lame comparison. Why would a coin collecter spend some rare penny on a piece of one cent candy?
Anyway with things like coins and stamps you can't really "use" them, but with autos and especially games you certainly can use them.
Owning a recently made toy(ie form the last 20 years) and then not playing with it is fairly retarded. Things from this time period simply aren't worth enough to worry about. I could see not wanting to risk really rare games that are worth hundreds of dollars, but most gaming equipment and software is easily replaceable and under $100 dollars on ebay.
Well as others pointed out that doesn't nearly apply to their enterprise offerings. I'd also like to say Red Hat 8.0 also pretty much crushed that myth. Maybe for workstation use 6.0 wasn't that great, but for basic server use I've found Red Hat has serverd me well regardless of the version. So I'd say its basically time to put the Red Hat.0 myth to bed now.
No flaming, just too bad you feel that way. Most people including parents, kids, techies, nerds, jocks, etc consider this one of the greatest films of all time, let alone greatest fantasy film of all time. It's also IMO the best gateway to Middle Earth ever created. Besides LOTR there really are no decent full length movies about gnomes, elves, and wizards which aren't totally campy and unrealistic.(H.P. excluded) They all look very fake and have equally horrible writing.
I guess its all what you take out of it. I agree the 2nd Matrix was totally hollow, but at the same time I don't see how you could possibly compare the two. Not to say your opinion is wrong, it's just that most people would argue with your theory that the LOTR series is hollow. The one comment where I will disagree completely is when you say it's "boring". It certainly was anything but boring. I guess if you've read the book 10 times and have a carved in granite view of how the movie "should" be you could say its boring. Beyond that if many of the scenes didn't excite you, better get that pulse checked.;)
If you are waiting for a better adaptation of the book you're going to be waiting for a long long time.
I know is that shameless or what? I honestly have zero problem with designers copying from each other. Afterall at this point XP, OSX, Gnome, and KDE all are becoming very similiar. To point out that Gnome acts and looks like Windows etc is really a pointless activity, but at the same time you'd think a company with 40 billion in the bank could afford to design their own wallpaper.
Honectly that's probably the worst product review I've ever seen. Perhaps there is most footage then from 12:42 to ~13.42? Because I've seen better product info on QVC. Basically they just how great the product is and all you hear about from a security standpoint(These are wireless experts right?) is that it has 128bit WEP, MAC filtering and VPN. They also mention in passing that its cpu is powerful enough for antivirus. Yawn. And this is different from a $60 Dlink WAP how?
So if you haven't watched the review but were planning on it, don't because its a waste of time. There is way more information on the companies first page for the product.
Sorry to be so negative, but really if your going to bill yourself as an authority on "Community, Corporate, and Home Wireless applications, hardware, security," then leave the fluff PR pieces to the companies marketing divisions.
My father has represented a few small companies that have been fucked by the BSA. So you have the "too small to fight back" part right, but popularity has nothing to do with it. These companies were hardly well known. Once a pissed off employee decides to try to rat you out, your screwed. The BSA has a ton of power and unless you A)are an all opensource shop or B) keep perfect records of every pc on a weekly basis you better pay up.
Yet another reason to use free software an avoid the hassle of keeping up with MS's bewildering licensing schemes. Look at the CNet article, the simple act of handing down an old machine to another employee screwed him. Like its been pointed out you rarely if ever will see a company in perfect compliance. There is always at a minimum the one shareware app on a PC past 30 days etc.
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Nope, on the PC front Wizardry I came out well before either. It sure wasn't as colorful as UU or Wolf3D and the fighting was turned based, but when you moved it 3D interface and IMO is the first true FPS.
Mindless MS bashing usually gets modded down and laughed at here. Legitimate MS bashing where we complain about things MS still does like embrace and extend, and spread FUD about Linux are certainly worth pointing out. MS hasn't cleaned up its act at all since it was found guilty of acting as an aggressive predatory monopolist so don't expect them to get a free pass here when they continue to make decisions that directly effect the entire IT industry on a regular basis. Many of these decisions have a negative impact that either costs us more money or makes interoperating with their software that much more difficult. We won't suffer that anymore so get used to that.
"It long since ceased to be Redmond that was made to look stupid by these comments,"
Your right Redmond does a fine job of looking stupid all by itself.
If you don't like here feel free to leave. Nobody is forcing you to read anything.
"I know there's sweet little old ladies out there that need our help. I just don't think the government should play a role and force others to help"
Sorry, but that's the price you pay for living in America. We as a nation have decided that helping those in need is a worthy goal. If you don't like it you'll have to find someplace to live. It's not just "little old ladies" who help help either.
"Give that money back to the people it belongs to, they'll spend it on something besides alchohol, drugs, crap foods, and such."
Sad that you actually believe that.
"If adults acted more like adults, we wouldn't be in this situation. Invest in your future now, don't leech on society later."
Hmm. Hope you never become disabled in a car accident from someone with no insurance. I guess maybe you've made enough money to be able to afford medical expenses and basic things like housing and food for the rest of your life? How about your childern? They set for life as well? Must be nice to be you and be so rich.
"but I'd suggest that we begin sterilizing anyone that applies."
Why not tatoo their forehead as well so we know who to shun?
Life is not a black and white as you think it is and the people who recieve assitance aren't all just "lazy". Also forcing an "Every man for himself" doctrine upon our Nation would be a disaster of epic proportions. Thank God most people don't think like you do.
No wonder they picked them over MS. It's an exact MS Office Clone made from the ground up for Chinese by Chinese. If you literally can't tell the difference between the two and one is made locally why bother getting entangled with some foreign company with a trackrecord for breaking the law and abusing its customers? Smart move if you ask me.
Yea but who needs 10,000 packaages? Really all distros comes with the few hundred packages you need for just about anything. For those extra nice additions you can go to places like freshrpms etc. The one big difference is apt for rpm is so new. Give it some time. Apt4rpm isn't the "red Herring" your describing.
Your right when you say Red Hat may never reach the same number of packages that Debain has, but at the same time I honestly don't think that's an important goal. In this day and age having 400 text editors isn't a positive. Plus there's the fact that Debian's huge package archive slows down Debian development. There is a price to pay for carrying along all the baggage. Plus like you mentioned out-of-box Red Hat is indeed light-ahead.
More importantly when will MS abid by their settlement and allow alternative browsers to be used with WindowsUpdate?(In my eyes that should be implied)
Doesn't seem right that they are allowed to throw up a button for "Program Access and Defaults" while at the same time making sure you actually can't live without the products your trying not to use.
btw, waiting and hoping that the automatics updates works is NOT an alternative. Except for those who never use non-critical updates(IE WMovMaker, WMP9 etc) or love being alpha testers for a company known to CONSTANTLY screw up their patches.
Well since MS doesn't play nice with others I guess its likely Nintendo would be locked out from ATI.
There is absolutely no way MS will put itself in the position where its supplier is supplying superior GPU's to a direct competitor. Think of what a PR nightmare that would be? No way, not gonna happen.
Meh all OS's need lots of patches at least with Red Hat its moron proof to upkeep. Red Hat also has releases which are supported for a lot longer than any OpenBSD release.
Your post reminds me of when Windows users try to compare patches and say how linux is inferior to windows. Luckily most people realize how weak of an arguement that is.
"go with Linux; when you require security, go with OpenBSD."
Not that easy. Sorry but when you need security hire a decent admin. Be it linux,windows, or bsd they all can be secure if you have a proactive admin at the helm.
Personally I'll take the widespread industry support and ease of use of Red Hat anyday over OpenBSD. Buts that's just me.
Then you'll feel real pain. While the devs continue to add gee-wiz stuff, basic things like its speed continue to take a back seat. Other file managers can display files on a smb mounted share 3 to 5 times faster. Sorry but on a 100MBit network it simply shouldn't take so long.
This is without things like thumbnail preview and file counting on.
What good is it for Transmeta to advertise like Intel does when unlike Intel you probably can't go to your local store and buy a machine with a Transmeta cpu in it?
"I think if any competitor really wants to break into the chip industry and compete with the big boys they are going to have to get their name out, the real differences between one chip versus another are not very obvious to the consumer, brand recognition is what drives sales."
No not really, the people who buy from big boys already know about Trasmeta and choose not to use them. There is not a single largescale oem who doesn't know that they have around 4 to 5 cpu's to choose from when building systems, be it set top boxes or mainstream PC's.
What Transmeta needs to do as our friend AMD knows so well, it to lock up more oem deals. Not being an industry insider when it comes to cpu sales I have no idea how aggresive they are, but seeing that Transmeta cpu's aren't inside anything I'm considering buying I'd say they aren't doing a very good job.
So in short yes they need to do more advertising, but not outside the tech industry like your advocating. Transmeta needs more big vendors deals then the rest will take care of itself.
"Microsoft is now going to spends billions to kill the current patent system."
What in the world makes you think that? MS has a lot more to gain from patents then they do from them going away.
Sure MS isn't as big a patent player as some of the other companies, but if some of their recent patents hold up the Computer and Electronics world will be paying MS royalties for the next 20 years.
No MS isn't killing anything, especially the golden goose which is going to ensure they get paid.
"When people say to go download an MP3, they really mean download some music in miscellanious format."
Actually I'd disagree. If they are in fact going online to download some music chances are its going to be MP3 and not some other format.
From a consumer perspective(not that most people have even heard of ogg) Ogg is still a solution in short of a problem.
From an IP point of view I agree and think that Ogg is great. It's also cool to see so many game designers switching to Ogg for their games. At the same time personally I have absolutely no use for Ogg.
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That's what keeps linux off my laptop fulltime. I simply got tired of monkeying with patches and scripts in order to get all my hardware working the way its supposed to. When ACPI become pretty much defacto a few years ago I was pretty worried because the entire world was going ACPI and linux didn't even have anything going yet. Flash forward to now and this widely used feature is overall still MIA for linux. Basically its totally hit or miss if your machine will work with ACPI and that's a huge problem.
The problem from what I understand is there are so many iterations of it that the devs simply can't get the kernel to work with all of them. I can't fault them for that, but ACPI is as common as TCPIP now and this is one area where Linux has fallen way behind the curve. Having only some hardware work and only certain functions available just isn't good enough.
Of course they update the version number. What are you basing this on? Feel free to look at your 8.0 and 9.0 cds then compare them to some of the packages on the Red Hat errata page.
If product xxx2.3.2-4.i686.rpm is flawed, RedHat will update that product with xxx2.3.2-8.i686.rpm. You almost will never see a "2.3.3" because Red Hat backports fixes to the current product. They correctly won't ship new untested code by just shipping whatever new version is available without the flaw. Major Package numbers are only updated to signify new code, the numbers on the end are the only ones which go up in their security fixes. They are the version numbers.
Well if MS does indeed out-Google Google, then good for them. But they obviously have long way to go if that's what they really are planning.
As far as resources go, MS may have 40B in the bank, but Google has the ENTIRE internet behind it and that's not something to take lightly. Outside of OS's, web browsers, and office suites, Microsoft hasn't exactly done well with every venture they've tried. Look at Smartphones,TVboxes,Consoles, etc. Beyond its desktop monopoly its not as successful a company as one would think. I guess we will see if they are able to leverage their OS to force users into making MS their default search engine. Up till now setting MSN to the homepage has ensured they can claim the page hit crown from Yahoo, but we all know when it comes to actually finding things on the Internet everyone goes elsewhere.
Err, that's a pretty lame comparison. Why would a coin collecter spend some rare penny on a piece of one cent candy?
Anyway with things like coins and stamps you can't really "use" them, but with autos and especially games you certainly can use them.
Owning a recently made toy(ie form the last 20 years) and then not playing with it is fairly retarded. Things from this time period simply aren't worth enough to worry about. I could see not wanting to risk really rare games that are worth hundreds of dollars, but most gaming equipment and software is easily replaceable and under $100 dollars on ebay.
I say play on.
Well as others pointed out that doesn't nearly apply to their enterprise offerings. I'd also like to say Red Hat 8.0 also pretty much crushed that myth. Maybe for workstation use 6.0 wasn't that great, but for basic server use I've found Red Hat has serverd me well regardless of the version. So I'd say its basically time to put the Red Hat .0 myth to bed now.
No flaming, just too bad you feel that way. Most people including parents, kids, techies, nerds, jocks, etc consider this one of the greatest films of all time, let alone greatest fantasy film of all time. It's also IMO the best gateway to Middle Earth ever created. Besides LOTR there really are no decent full length movies about gnomes, elves, and wizards which aren't totally campy and unrealistic.(H.P. excluded) They all look very fake and have equally horrible writing.
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I guess its all what you take out of it. I agree the 2nd Matrix was totally hollow, but at the same time I don't see how you could possibly compare the two. Not to say your opinion is wrong, it's just that most people would argue with your theory that the LOTR series is hollow. The one comment where I will disagree completely is when you say it's "boring". It certainly was anything but boring. I guess if you've read the book 10 times and have a carved in granite view of how the movie "should" be you could say its boring. Beyond that if many of the scenes didn't excite you, better get that pulse checked.
If you are waiting for a better adaptation of the book you're going to be waiting for a long long time.
I know is that shameless or what? I honestly have zero problem with designers copying from each other. Afterall at this point XP, OSX, Gnome, and KDE all are becoming very similiar. To point out that Gnome acts and looks like Windows etc is really a pointless activity, but at the same time you'd think a company with 40 billion in the bank could afford to design their own wallpaper.
Honectly that's probably the worst product review I've ever seen. Perhaps there is most footage then from 12:42 to ~13.42? Because I've seen better product info on QVC. Basically they just how great the product is and all you hear about from a security standpoint(These are wireless experts right?) is that it has 128bit WEP, MAC filtering and VPN. They also mention in passing that its cpu is powerful enough for antivirus. Yawn. And this is different from a $60 Dlink WAP how?
So if you haven't watched the review but were planning on it, don't because its a waste of time.
There is way more information on the companies first page for the product.
Sorry to be so negative, but really if your going to bill yourself as an authority on "Community, Corporate, and Home Wireless applications, hardware, security," then leave the fluff PR pieces to the companies marketing divisions.
My father has represented a few small companies that have been fucked by the BSA. So you have the "too small to fight back" part right, but popularity has nothing to do with it. These companies were hardly well known. Once a pissed off employee decides to try to rat you out, your screwed. The BSA has a ton of power and unless you A)are an all opensource shop or B) keep perfect records of every pc on a weekly basis you better pay up.
Yet another reason to use free software an avoid the hassle of keeping up with MS's bewildering licensing schemes. Look at the CNet article, the simple act of handing down an old machine to another employee screwed him. Like its been pointed out you rarely if ever will see a company in perfect compliance. There is always at a minimum the one shareware app on a PC past 30 days etc.
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"but when you moved it had a 3D interface and IMO is the first true FPS."
Nope, on the PC front Wizardry I came out well before either. It sure wasn't as colorful as UU or Wolf3D and the fighting was turned based, but when you moved it 3D interface and IMO is the first true FPS.
Mindless MS bashing usually gets modded down and laughed at here. Legitimate MS bashing where we complain about things MS still does like embrace and extend, and spread FUD about Linux are certainly worth pointing out. MS hasn't cleaned up its act at all since it was found guilty of acting as an aggressive predatory monopolist so don't expect them to get a free pass here when they continue to make decisions that directly effect the entire IT industry on a regular basis. Many of these decisions have a negative impact that either costs us more money or makes interoperating with their software that much more difficult. We won't suffer that anymore so get used to that.
"It long since ceased to be Redmond that was made to look stupid by these comments,"
Your right Redmond does a fine job of looking stupid all by itself.
If you don't like here feel free to leave. Nobody is forcing you to read anything.
"I know there's sweet little old ladies out there that need our help. I just don't think the government should play a role and force others to help"
Sorry, but that's the price you pay for living in America. We as a nation have decided that helping those in need is a worthy goal. If you don't like it you'll have to find someplace to live. It's not just "little old ladies" who help help either.
"Give that money back to the people it belongs to, they'll spend it on something besides alchohol, drugs, crap foods, and such."
Sad that you actually believe that.
"If adults acted more like adults, we wouldn't be in this situation. Invest in your future now, don't leech on society later."
Hmm. Hope you never become disabled in a car accident from someone with no insurance. I guess maybe you've made enough money to be able to afford medical expenses and basic things like housing and food for the rest of your life? How about your childern? They set for life as well? Must be nice to be you and be so rich.
"but I'd suggest that we begin sterilizing anyone that applies."
Why not tatoo their forehead as well so we know who to shun?
Life is not a black and white as you think it is and the people who recieve assitance aren't all just "lazy". Also forcing an "Every man for himself" doctrine upon our Nation would be a disaster of epic proportions. Thank God most people don't think like you do.
Gee and this is from and AC with no proof or benchmarks. Well that settles it, Samba RC3 is officially "broken and horribly slow."
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Glad this was modded up to +5 Informative so we all know to never use Samba 3.x.
Are future submissions always going to have some sort of character assasination buzzwords attached to them as well?
For example. "Bill Gates noted closed source zealot and pro-monopolist met with shareholders today."
Hmm, doesn't seem right does it? Leave the defamation to commenters, we do a plently well on our own thanks.
Umm maybe linux gamers will care? How about people who still play MOH and use linux but now have one less reason to boot into Windows.
"and i personally haven't heard of any friends playing it lately. insert your diatribe below..."
No diatribe, just a link to a page showing what a dumb AC you are. http://www.gamespy.com/stats/
Gamespy shows 2084 servers and 2873 players currently(2:50amEST), of course its late so earlier there are probably more players online.
So yea there are just a few people playing this one year old game.
No wonder they picked them over MS. It's an exact MS Office Clone made from the ground up for Chinese by Chinese. If you literally can't tell the difference between the two and one is made locally why bother getting entangled with some foreign company with a trackrecord for breaking the law and abusing its customers? Smart move if you ask me.
Yea but who needs 10,000 packaages? Really all distros comes with the few hundred packages you need for just about anything. For those extra nice additions you can go to places like freshrpms etc. The one big difference is apt for rpm is so new. Give it some time. Apt4rpm isn't the "red Herring" your describing.
Your right when you say Red Hat may never reach the same number of packages that Debain has, but at the same time I honestly don't think that's an important goal. In this day and age having 400 text editors isn't a positive. Plus there's the fact that Debian's huge package archive slows down Debian development. There is a price to pay for carrying along all the baggage. Plus like you mentioned out-of-box Red Hat is indeed light-ahead.
More importantly when will MS abid by their settlement and allow alternative browsers to be used with WindowsUpdate?(In my eyes that should be implied)
Doesn't seem right that they are allowed to throw up a button for "Program Access and Defaults" while at the same time making sure you actually can't live without the products your trying not to use.
btw, waiting and hoping that the automatics updates works is NOT an alternative. Except for those who never use non-critical updates(IE WMovMaker, WMP9 etc) or love being alpha testers for a company known to CONSTANTLY screw up their patches.
Well since MS doesn't play nice with others I guess its likely Nintendo would be locked out from ATI.
There is absolutely no way MS will put itself in the position where its supplier is supplying superior GPU's to a direct competitor. Think of what a PR nightmare that would be? No way, not gonna happen.
Meh all OS's need lots of patches at least with Red Hat its moron proof to upkeep. Red Hat also has releases which are supported for a lot longer than any OpenBSD release.
Your post reminds me of when Windows users try to compare patches and say how linux is inferior to windows. Luckily most people realize how weak of an arguement that is.
"go with Linux; when you require security, go with OpenBSD."
Not that easy. Sorry but when you need security hire a decent admin. Be it linux,windows, or bsd they all can be secure if you have a proactive admin at the helm.
Personally I'll take the widespread industry support and ease of use of Red Hat anyday over OpenBSD. Buts that's just me.
Then you'll feel real pain. While the devs continue to add gee-wiz stuff, basic things like its speed continue to take a back seat. Other file managers can display files on a smb mounted share 3 to 5 times faster. Sorry but on a 100MBit network it simply shouldn't take so long.
This is without things like thumbnail preview and file counting on.
What good is it for Transmeta to advertise like Intel does when unlike Intel you probably can't go to your local store and buy a machine with a Transmeta cpu in it?
"I think if any competitor really wants to break into the chip industry and compete with the big boys they are going to have to get their name out, the real differences between one chip versus another are not very obvious to the consumer, brand recognition is what drives sales."
No not really, the people who buy from big boys already know about Trasmeta and choose not to use them. There is not a single largescale oem who doesn't know that they have around 4 to 5 cpu's to choose from when building systems, be it set top boxes or mainstream PC's.
What Transmeta needs to do as our friend AMD knows so well, it to lock up more oem deals. Not being an industry insider when it comes to cpu sales I have no idea how aggresive they are, but seeing that Transmeta cpu's aren't inside anything I'm considering buying I'd say they aren't doing a very good job.
So in short yes they need to do more advertising, but not outside the tech industry like your advocating. Transmeta needs more big vendors deals then the rest will take care of itself.
"Microsoft is now going to spends billions to kill the current patent system."
What in the world makes you think that? MS has a lot more to gain from patents then they do from them going away.
Sure MS isn't as big a patent player as some of the other companies, but if some of their recent patents hold up the Computer and Electronics world will be paying MS royalties for the next 20 years.
No MS isn't killing anything, especially the golden goose which is going to ensure they get paid.
"When people say to go download an MP3, they really mean download some music in miscellanious format."
Actually I'd disagree. If they are in fact going online to download some music chances are its going to be MP3 and not some other format.
From a consumer perspective(not that most people have even heard of ogg) Ogg is still a solution in short of a problem.
From an IP point of view I agree and think that Ogg is great. It's also cool to see so many game designers switching to Ogg for their games. At the same time personally I have absolutely no use for Ogg.