I've got a number of older C/Dock models that came with Pentium 133Mhz Latitudes. They have a PCI slot and the option in the BIOS to select which is Primary video. I'm not sure, but I think there might even be a list somewhere on Dell of supported video cards. Heck my D800 has the BIOS option, too, and it defaults to "Dock Video Card".
Do gun laws actually make it harder for criminals to get guns? Drug laws haven't made it too hard to get drugs, it just drives up the price. Prohibition didn't make it harder to get alcohol, it just drove up the price.
Gun laws only make it more difficult for a criminal to get a gun if they don't have time to plan. So instead of getting a gun to kill a guy, they beat him with a baseball bat, stab him with a knife, or heck, shoot him with a crossbow.
However, ensuring sale of firearms only to such people, and ensuring that such firearms will never be stolen and misused is impossible.
Which is the exact reason gun laws don't work, only the law-abiding obey them. Do you really think that someone that has decided to rob or murder is concerned about breaking a gun law?
It will be interesting to see if they can support 10 different versions of the distro in 5 years. Not having to support as many different versions is one of the reasons given for Red Hat's split between RHEL and Fedora.
Yes, I do have experience with product activation. Having recently worked on someone's machine that they tried to "repair", I got the joy of having Windows tell me it needs activated, but crashing trying to run the wizard. Just because you haven't had trouble doesn't mean it isn't there.
My biggest issue with product activation is that it implies that I'm a criminal, so I must prove I'm not.
Didn't the move from Win98 to WinXP show you anything? It Broderbund will just ignore their old apps and release new versions (which you can pick up for the low price of $50...).
Microsoft breaking compatablity just gives other companies (hardware and software) a chance to kill off support for older products.
Count me out of everyone. As an administrator, I don't want service packs making large feature changes. That just means the service pack will wait until it gets tested, and all it has to do is break one required app and it will never get installed.
And conveniently a WinNT domain isn't good enough for the firewalls in domain/out of domain configuration. So guess what all of us that still have WinNT domains get to do? Turn off the firewall.
And this works better than the currect blacklisting crap how?
This is just adding one more meaningless hoop to jump through. It's all well and good for the people that want to play by the system, but just a very mild annoyance for the people that don't.
IBM has gone out of it's way to support multiple distros. IIRC just a couple of weeks ago they announced SuSE and RHEL support for some products on the same day.
That was in three public betas before being released?
Again, how is it Red Hat's fault that nVidia's closed source driver doesn't work with their open source kernel. Additionally, how is it Red Hat's fault that nVidia doesn't support Red Hat's beta releases?
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I've got a number of older C/Dock models that came with Pentium 133Mhz Latitudes. They have a PCI slot and the option in the BIOS to select which is Primary video. I'm not sure, but I think there might even be a list somewhere on Dell of supported video cards. Heck my D800 has the BIOS option, too, and it defaults to "Dock Video Card".
Gun laws only make it more difficult for a criminal to get a gun if they don't have time to plan. So instead of getting a gun to kill a guy, they beat him with a baseball bat, stab him with a knife, or heck, shoot him with a crossbow.
Which is the exact reason gun laws don't work, only the law-abiding obey them. Do you really think that someone that has decided to rob or murder is concerned about breaking a gun law?
It will be interesting to see if they can support 10 different versions of the distro in 5 years. Not having to support as many different versions is one of the reasons given for Red Hat's split between RHEL and Fedora.
They already have a history of doing it. For example, read KB834489.
Firewire was re-enabled in the first kernel update.
Sure, just default it to on so everyone will be secure... using the default keys.
Test how many open WAP have the default password for their web administration and you will see my point.
Yes, I do have experience with product activation. Having recently worked on someone's machine that they tried to "repair", I got the joy of having Windows tell me it needs activated, but crashing trying to run the wizard. Just because you haven't had trouble doesn't mean it isn't there.
My biggest issue with product activation is that it implies that I'm a criminal, so I must prove I'm not.
Didn't the move from Win98 to WinXP show you anything? It Broderbund will just ignore their old apps and release new versions (which you can pick up for the low price of $50...).
Microsoft breaking compatablity just gives other companies (hardware and software) a chance to kill off support for older products.
Count me out of everyone. As an administrator, I don't want service packs making large feature changes. That just means the service pack will wait until it gets tested, and all it has to do is break one required app and it will never get installed.
How about:
1) I already own Win2k Pro.
2) I don't want to mess with product activation.
And conveniently a WinNT domain isn't good enough for the firewalls in domain/out of domain configuration. So guess what all of us that still have WinNT domains get to do? Turn off the firewall.
And then there are E-mail providers that don't provide SMTP. Am I supposed to talk to Freeshell and get them to add every ISP I send from?
And this works better than the currect blacklisting crap how?
This is just adding one more meaningless hoop to jump through. It's all well and good for the people that want to play by the system, but just a very mild annoyance for the people that don't.
Hasn't Mozilla already patented that for their Phoenix, er, Firebird, er, Firefox browser?
Red Hat Professional Workstation is a box with RHEL WS CDs in it.
It's not like you can go buy a box set with RHEL WS in it for less than $100 or anything...
How many people whining have even really looked at the options instead of just repeating what they read on Slashdot.
IBM has gone out of it's way to support multiple distros. IIRC just a couple of weeks ago they announced SuSE and RHEL support for some products on the same day.
For example, KMail crashes. Constantly. I unload and reload KDE, it works. One time. Then crashes. Constantly.
Sounds like it might be a prelink issue. Have you checked bugzilla?
Here's another one: yum -y update frequently fails to find dependencies, and I haven't installed a single RPM except via yum.
Irrelevant unless you mention what yum repos you are using.
abrupt license changes
Yeah, announced just over a year in advance...
Upgrading Test releases is never going to be a goal. Might work, might not. Don't be surprised if it doesn't.
To give an example, Evolution's schedule slipped, so Test1 has 1.5.x, but Test2 will have 1.4.x.
No-one is going to be writing a new X-Server...
Three letters... VNC.
Would that be the Apache 1.0 license (which isn't GPL compatible) or the Apache 1.1 license (which isn't GPL compatible)?
WTF are you talking about? Please provide a link to a Red Hat OR Fedora release with a 2.5 kernel.
That was in three public betas before being released?
Again, how is it Red Hat's fault that nVidia's closed source driver doesn't work with their open source kernel. Additionally, how is it Red Hat's fault that nVidia doesn't support Red Hat's beta releases?
Umm.. RTFM. Red Hat (and by extention Fedora) have had HTTP and FTP installs for a while now.