I've had trouble with Paypal, despite not using them; someone managed to convince them to put my credit card onto their account, thus forcing me to keep charging back via my card company.
So your credit card was stolen, and you didn't want to cancel it, so you screwed the people who were losing money because of it? If, instead of paypal, the person who stole your credit card had gone to Best Buy and bought thousands of dollars in electronics, would you be saying "Best buy tried to steal money from me, even though I've never shopped there"?!
If someone had enough information to add your credit card to paypal (full CC#, expiration date, CVN and billing zip code), they had enough information to do tons more with it. As soon as the first charge showed up on your account, you should have called your credit card company, reversed the charge, and cancelled your card.
After all these reports of complaints why are people still letting their money "sit" in paypal.
Because every business gets people who are unhappy with the service, and those people are *always* the most vocal. A happy customer tells, on average, 4 people about a good experience. An unhappy customer tells, on average, 10. I've gotten nothing but good, reliable service from paypal, and so has everyone I know who uses paypal. I'm not going to run off and register "paypalrocks.com", though.
Now, why do I leave money in my paypal account? Because I earn around 3 times the interest on my paypal account versus my bank account, and paypal gives me 1.5% cash back whenever I take money out of the account. Paypal's web interface is also leaps and bounds ahead of my bank's web interface and it's always more up-to-date.
I like freenet, I think it's a good project, and I'm not too happy with paypal for pulling a stunt like this, but to tell you the truth, my real banks (I've been with 3) have done much worse. My current banks (Fleet, and a local credit union) send me junk postal mail faster than I can dump it in the garbage, and all of it has sensitive information on it that makes me wary of just throwing it away. My previous bank (Citibank) would habitually make "mistakes" and deposit my money into someone else's account.
The Karma works equally well under OS X, Linux, or any other OS that has ethernet and Java support. There's a native windows client, but every feature of the device is available under just about every OS. It plays oggs, flacs, wmas and mp3s. I've had mine for about 6 months, and I've got nothing but good things to say about it.
Yeah, that means if someone steals your shit, the government doesn't care and the thief won't go to jail even if he were delivered on a silver platter.
Never reported a theft to the police in the US, have you? They don't give a crap. They'll hand you a report and tell you to take it up with your insurance company. They don't investigate, they don't follow leads, they'll just go back to guarding the local dount shop. Don't have theft insurance? Too bad, your stuff is gone, and you won't get jack from anyone. If by some miracle the police happen upon your stuff (and I guarantee you they won't go out of their way to look for it), you might not even get it back because they can hold it as evidence for as long as they damn well please.
Police in the US are around for one reason and one reason only; To harass innocent people and generate income for the town/city in which they work.
And I'm trying to get djbdns running but I seem to be missing the part in the docs where it tells you what the "compile this so it runs by itself without requiring everything else djb ever wrote to be installed" flag is.)
# apt-get install ucspi-tcp-src djbdns-installer
then run what it tells you to run to build ucspi-tcp and djbdns (it's one command for each, and it hands you a pair of.debs when it's done). Follow the instructions on http://cr.yp.to/ for creating the appropriate system users and placing entries in/service and you're done.
As soon as Ogg is up to par with what I need (native support in iTunes and iPod, integrated into the CD rippers I use), I'll use it gladly.
iTunes and the iPod will likely never support anything but AAC, since apple wants to lock you to their music store, software and hardware. Any CD Ripper will encode to ogg these days, and the Rio karma (which plays ogg and flac natively) beats the iPod in every single category except advertising budget.
However, I'm not going to choose a codec that's inferior for my specific uses, just because I want to go with a free solution.
You chose inferior, proprietary hardware and software which you knew didn't work with ogg (and never will). that's not ogg's fault, it's yours.
It does if you scale each preview to above 24 pixels. Tell the pager to arrange your desktops in 1 row (or column, if you're one of those vertical panel people) and stretch out the panel a bit.
And I'm pretty sure I recall that enlightenment's pager can show basically a full mini picture of the contents of each app window in a desktop.
Enlightenment's pager was pretty, as long as you didn't make any sudden movements. The screen redraws were noticably very slow whenever new windows opened, probably because it's designed to run on much slower machines and had hard-coded refresh rates. Plus, it didn't have the ability to drag and drop windows between desktops. Besides speed issues, though, enlightenment's window/task managment was identical to the stuff in Apple's OS 10.3, 5 years before apple even "invented" it.
Had enlightenment released a new version in the past 5 years, I'm sure we'd see some wonderful new "innovation" from Cupertino.
Let's see... you obviously own a playstation 1, or you would not have games for that system that you want to play.
I don't own a PS1, just a PS2. The PS1 backward compatability is a huge plus because I can get any of the thousands of PS1 games for like $3 each at gamestop or Electronics Boutique. Beyond that, there are tons of fun games for the PS1 (not available on any other console) that didn't stop being fun when the PS2 came out.
The worm's real goal is to install invisible keystroke monitors in an attempt to gather passwords and bank account numbers of infected users. With all the noise coming from those infected PC's going to SCO, a few packets going elsewhere slip through very easily if you're not looking for it.
Not just that, but the worm (just like every recent worm) installs an open socks proxy on a port between 3127-3198. The spammers are already using them to spew their crap to the world.
And what, exactly, would stop them from calculating a prime and sending the same one to all their spammees? Each recipient would check it, and guess- what- it's valid.
Except that the string that's hashed includes the recipient's address. You need to compute a hash for each recipient still.
and with the AOL scheme the mail servers can cache the public keys- with your method every single email in the whole world involves checking with some central authority.
God, you haven't a goddamn clue how either system works, do you?
AOL's "scheme" doesn't use public keys, they simply use DNS records. Hashcash doesn't use anything even resembling a central authority; it's a standard equation that is calculated quickly by the recipient on each recieved message. It takes ~30 seconds to generate (brute force) each hash collision, which can be verified correct/incorrect nearly instantly.
Granted, you have to pay them for their effort, but it is commonly agreed that OS X is worth paying for.
[...]
If you work on BSD code, you could possibly be a contributor to OS X. Certainly there is a sense of pride in this.
However, as in Microsoft's case, your contributions can also be twisted in dark and selfish ways without your knowledge or control.
Ok, so apple takes community code, uses it, arguably, for the bulk of their operating system, and then charges $130 per client per version for it. They don't release any changes. Microsoft takes community code and integrates it into an add-on product that they're now giving away. They don't release any changes. But since Steve Jobs is a lovable druggie and Bill Gates is a scary nerd, Microsoft is dark and selfish and Apple is warm and fuzzy. That makes perfect sense!
I don't quite understand this feeling that Apple is any better than microsoft. Both use fairly sleazy business practices, and I wouldn't expect either Steve nor Bill to take their foot off your head to keep you from drowning.
Still, what you CAN do is research the candidates on the major 2 platforms and pick out the ones who side with Libertarian beliefs.
Sounds like what you really need is a system like Instant Runoff voting where you don't have to worry that you're "throwing your vote away" on a third party candidate. Then you (and everyone else) could vote for that Libertarian candidate without worrying about the bad guy winning.
Just use a Mac. Their email client pretty much does this already.
Or use mozilla, or evolution, or kmail, or squirrelmail, or mutt, or any of the other email clients that already do this and have gotten the concept right. Apple's mail.app doesn't actually show you a nested discussion, it just groups messages by threads.
Welcome to 1997 email concepts Microsoft, we were all wondering when you'd get there.
I run Linux with 2.6 on my main computer and love it, however there are times when I wish I could just run a wizard and install some hardware and not have to mess around with a command line to install some kernel module.
Sounds like you don't have hotplug or discover installed. They do exactly that. No wizard, though; You just plug the hardware in and it works.
Now I really suspect you're trolling. Adaware, as I'm sure you know, is designed to track down and remove malicious software, not to clean up after faulty uninstallers.
If you uninstall Kazaa or whatever, it doesn't also uninstall gator, even though kazaa installed gator, does it? Call it malicious or call it convienently forgetful, but the results are the same. Under debian, when you uninstall an application, everything you installed with it goes away.
Most new computers come with windows restore disks (which spew all sorts of nasty software into your system), not with driver disks.
You are comparing the available hardware support of the Linux kernel with the hardware that is supported on the Windows CD. Considering Windows still comes on one CD (Debian has 3 binary CDs) it has support for quite a lot of hardware.
Debian comes on 3 CDs only if you want the 14,000 or so packages that come with debian but don't feel like going on the internet to do it. You can get a full debian install disc (with all the drivers and software you need to get online and grab other software packages) in 40 megs. You can get a system like morphix or [g|k]noppix in 300MB or so which will give you more software then you'd get on your typical windows CD, plus drivers for all the hardware supported under linux.
It's almost impossible to have a Linux machine without a compiler setup if you want to use all software available to Linux (no distro has every single piece of GPL software available), or access every single piece of hardware available with a Linux driver (where the driver is outside the kernel).
I have plenty of machines with no compilers, and they all have access to tons of software via apt-get and alien (for RPMs.) Some obscure software won't be available via apt-get or RPM, as will some non-free drivers, but i've never run across any of these.
Windows disk partitioning is automatic, built into the installation.
No, you have to use fdisk to add and remove partitions. Most (if not all) linux distributions set up your partitions automatically.
Most newer versions of Windows detect ALL your hardware. WinXP even detected my Cisco Wireless card.
WinXP wouldn't detect my Prism WiFi card, or my intel etherexpress pro 100. It wouldn't detect my ATI radeon, or the Nvidia geforce 2 in my desktop computer. It wouldn't detect either of my xircom ethernet cards, and I don't believe it detected my Soundblaster Live, either. I had to go hunt around the internet for all those drivers, and it's only because I know what's in my computers that I knew where to look. Debian detected all of those devices and set them all up without a single question.
And as for software upgrades, that's not part of the installation.
It isn't, but it should be. You can't plug a freshly installed windows machine into the internet these days for more than a few minutes without it catching some form of worm. That gives you barely enough time to head over to windowsupdate and grab the latest patches, or (if you know what you're doing) set up the software firewall.
And as far as your INDIVIDUAL software, upgrading Mozilla or Winamp is as simple as going mozilla.org or winamp.com and downloading the latest version. All easy.
Ah, so having a program tell me when I need to update all the software on my system is harder than visiting 100 websites a day to check for new updates. Yea, that makes sense.
Functionality, yes. The option to change the screen resolution, no.
That doesn't make sense; The functionality is the ablility to change the resolution, and both KDE and gnome give you that functionality in their control centers. Beyond that, you can use non-kde and non-gnome software to do the same thing.
Make moronic assumptions much? When you install Windows, it does everything for you.
Except for disk partitioning, and hardware setup, and software upgrades...
When you install Debian or especially Gentoo (the only two distros with good package management) you have to do everything for it.
Last time I installed debian (morphix) I clicked "next" 7 times (since all the default options were correct) and it took 10 minutes and installed everything I needed, all within a nice Gnome desktop that I could use to browse the web while it was installing. I haven't installed debian proper in years, and I haven't installed gentoo ever, so I can't comment on those two.
That's a GNOME screenshot, bud. My complaint was the lack of that ability in KDE.
KDE has an interface to the exact same functionality in it's control center. In addition, gtkxrandr works under KDE too.
This is the second time I've had to mention this. Keyword columned as in horizontal scrolling and not vertical scrolling.
Sorry, didn't see your other comment. Still, those are columns.
Linux does have bigger problems that Windows. Difficult installers
Never installed windows, have you? Far more difficult then the streamlined install that most new linux distros have.
and obscure, overcomplicated package management systems are just the tip of the iceburg.
Apt (with a front end like synaptic, apt-get or aptitude) is far better than the windows way. Hunt around the internet for some installer executable that could be installshield, winzip, nullsoft, microsoft, vise, or hundreds of other types of installers. Uninstallation is a crapshoot, so much so that tons of software has been written to fix this problem (like Adaware.)
Then we get into all the bugs or missing features that KDE/GNOME have. Like no way to change the screen resolution
Having an unsigned driver != not supported by windows. All that means is that IBM didn't want to pay microsoft to test their driver.
No, I didn't even have drivers for either of the network interfaces until i went online and downloaded them. Of course, with no network access, the only way to do that is to boot into linux and burn those drivers to CD.
No drivers available in the default install == not supported by windows.
Linux supports all my hardware right out of the box, why can't windows?
Ok, so what happens when you get for example a wireless card that isn't supported by your distro or pretty much any distro? you download driver code and have to compile it of course.
And what happens when you get a wireless card that isn't supported by windows 2000 or XP. (like the wifi card in my thinkpad isn't supported) You have to download the driver, and force it to install, even through windows says that the driver isn't signed and that it doesn't match the hardware. Oh, except that windows doesn't support the intel eepro in the laptop *either* so I need to boot into linux, download the driver and burn it to CD.
Luckily Debian 3.x supports those wifi and ethernet cards out of the box.
In fact, with the exception of the new centrino wifi cards, all currently shipping wifi cards work out of the box in every linux distro i've come across. Of course, windows doesn't support those centrino cards either.
Linux hardware support is excellent (and almost never requires a compiler) compared to the shit that microsoft is shipping.
What if it were a dime? Is "It's only a dime, which is worth nothing" retarded? Is "It's only a cent, which is worth nothing" retarded?
Yes, it is.
Then consider how many people have 10 or 100 times wealthier than you. Just because people are walking in different shoes to you doesn't make them retarded.
No, but if they feel the need to throw money around just because it only took them a minute or a second to make, that makes them retarded.
Trawling thorough Kaazaa to save a dime or a cent might be considered pathetic though.
itms doesn't carry the music I listen to, and if they did it would likely be overpriced (since it's legal to trade/download it for free.)
I've never actually run kaazaa (I don't even know how to spell it), but there's little need for "trawling" on gnutella.
My rent is damn cheap (roommate) and that alone costs me roughly $13.25 a day.
~$820/month for a 2 bedroom apartment where I live is considered expensive. I live with my girlfriend in a 2 bedroom for under $600. Food, cable and electicity are my only other real expenses, and those aren't even on the chart compared to rent. You save a *ton* of money if you just replace your lights with fluorescent bulbs and know how to cook and shop for food.
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Well, it may be worse than nothing, but its better than Voyager.
and DS9, and TNG and TOS.
I've had trouble with Paypal, despite not using them; someone managed to convince them to put my credit card onto their account, thus forcing me to keep charging back via my card company.
So your credit card was stolen, and you didn't want to cancel it, so you screwed the people who were losing money because of it? If, instead of paypal, the person who stole your credit card had gone to Best Buy and bought thousands of dollars in electronics, would you be saying "Best buy tried to steal money from me, even though I've never shopped there"?!
If someone had enough information to add your credit card to paypal (full CC#, expiration date, CVN and billing zip code), they had enough information to do tons more with it. As soon as the first charge showed up on your account, you should have called your credit card company, reversed the charge, and cancelled your card.
After all these reports of complaints why are people still letting their money "sit" in paypal.
Because every business gets people who are unhappy with the service, and those people are *always* the most vocal. A happy customer tells, on average, 4 people about a good experience. An unhappy customer tells, on average, 10. I've gotten nothing but good, reliable service from paypal, and so has everyone I know who uses paypal. I'm not going to run off and register "paypalrocks.com", though.
Now, why do I leave money in my paypal account? Because I earn around 3 times the interest on my paypal account versus my bank account, and paypal gives me 1.5% cash back whenever I take money out of the account. Paypal's web interface is also leaps and bounds ahead of my bank's web interface and it's always more up-to-date.
I like freenet, I think it's a good project, and I'm not too happy with paypal for pulling a stunt like this, but to tell you the truth, my real banks (I've been with 3) have done much worse. My current banks (Fleet, and a local credit union) send me junk postal mail faster than I can dump it in the garbage, and all of it has sensitive information on it that makes me wary of just throwing it away. My previous bank (Citibank) would habitually make "mistakes" and deposit my money into someone else's account.
PS I sure wish that someone would create a portable Ogg player with OSX support :-/.
Wish no more
The Karma works equally well under OS X, Linux, or any other OS that has ethernet and Java support. There's a native windows client, but every feature of the device is available under just about every OS. It plays oggs, flacs, wmas and mp3s. I've had mine for about 6 months, and I've got nothing but good things to say about it.
If bind is the preferred implementation, is
You can't use bind for this type of application; bind can't handle zones of these sizes.
try either: rbldnsd or rbldns.
there a standardized/automated way to build a configuration file with the data from blackholes.us?
blackholes.us already publishes their data via dns. just set your mta to check against, for example, brazil.blackholes.us or cn-kr.blackholes.us
Yeah, that means if someone steals your shit, the government doesn't care and the thief won't go to jail even if he were delivered on a silver platter.
Never reported a theft to the police in the US, have you? They don't give a crap. They'll hand you a report and tell you to take it up with your insurance company. They don't investigate, they don't follow leads, they'll just go back to guarding the local dount shop. Don't have theft insurance? Too bad, your stuff is gone, and you won't get jack from anyone. If by some miracle the police happen upon your stuff (and I guarantee you they won't go out of their way to look for it), you might not even get it back because they can hold it as evidence for as long as they damn well please.
Police in the US are around for one reason and one reason only; To harass innocent people and generate income for the town/city in which they work.
And I'm trying to get djbdns running but I seem to be missing the part in the docs where it tells you what the "compile this so it runs by itself without requiring everything else djb ever wrote to be installed" flag is.)
.debs when it's done). Follow the instructions on http://cr.yp.to/ for creating the appropriate system users and placing entries in /service and you're done.
# apt-get install ucspi-tcp-src djbdns-installer
then run what it tells you to run to build ucspi-tcp and djbdns (it's one command for each, and it hands you a pair of
As soon as Ogg is up to par with what I need (native support in iTunes and iPod, integrated into the CD rippers I use), I'll use it gladly.
iTunes and the iPod will likely never support anything but AAC, since apple wants to lock you to their music store, software and hardware. Any CD Ripper will encode to ogg these days, and the Rio karma (which plays ogg and flac natively) beats the iPod in every single category except advertising budget.
However, I'm not going to choose a codec that's inferior for my specific uses, just because I want to go with a free solution.
You chose inferior, proprietary hardware and software which you knew didn't work with ogg (and never will). that's not ogg's fault, it's yours.
Gnome's pager no longer shows full preview icons,
It does if you scale each preview to above 24 pixels. Tell the pager to arrange your desktops in 1 row (or column, if you're one of those vertical panel people) and stretch out the panel a bit.
And I'm pretty sure I recall that enlightenment's pager can show basically a full mini picture of the contents of each app window in a desktop.
Enlightenment's pager was pretty, as long as you didn't make any sudden movements. The screen redraws were noticably very slow whenever new windows opened, probably because it's designed to run on much slower machines and had hard-coded refresh rates. Plus, it didn't have the ability to drag and drop windows between desktops. Besides speed issues, though, enlightenment's window/task managment was identical to the stuff in Apple's OS 10.3, 5 years before apple even "invented" it.
Had enlightenment released a new version in the past 5 years, I'm sure we'd see some wonderful new "innovation" from Cupertino.
Let's see ... you obviously own a playstation 1, or you would not have games for that system that you want to play.
I don't own a PS1, just a PS2. The PS1 backward compatability is a huge plus because I can get any of the thousands of PS1 games for like $3 each at gamestop or Electronics Boutique. Beyond that, there are tons of fun games for the PS1 (not available on any other console) that didn't stop being fun when the PS2 came out.
The worm's real goal is to install invisible keystroke monitors in an attempt to gather passwords and bank account numbers of infected users. With all the noise coming from those infected PC's going to SCO, a few packets going elsewhere slip through very easily if you're not looking for it.
Not just that, but the worm (just like every recent worm) installs an open socks proxy on a port between 3127-3198. The spammers are already using them to spew their crap to the world.
And what, exactly, would stop them from calculating a prime and sending the same one to all their spammees? Each recipient would check it, and guess- what- it's valid.
Except that the string that's hashed includes the recipient's address. You need to compute a hash for each recipient still.
and with the AOL scheme the mail servers can cache the public keys- with your method every single email in the whole world involves checking with some central authority.
God, you haven't a goddamn clue how either system works, do you?
AOL's "scheme" doesn't use public keys, they simply use DNS records. Hashcash doesn't use anything even resembling a central authority; it's a standard equation that is calculated quickly by the recipient on each recieved message. It takes ~30 seconds to generate (brute force) each hash collision, which can be verified correct/incorrect nearly instantly.
Granted, you have to pay them for their effort, but it is commonly agreed that OS X is worth paying for.
[...]
If you work on BSD code, you could possibly be a contributor to OS X. Certainly there is a sense of pride in this.
However, as in Microsoft's case, your contributions can also be twisted in dark and selfish ways without your knowledge or control.
Ok, so apple takes community code, uses it, arguably, for the bulk of their operating system, and then charges $130 per client per version for it. They don't release any changes. Microsoft takes community code and integrates it into an add-on product that they're now giving away. They don't release any changes. But since Steve Jobs is a lovable druggie and Bill Gates is a scary nerd, Microsoft is dark and selfish and Apple is warm and fuzzy. That makes perfect sense!
I don't quite understand this feeling that Apple is any better than microsoft. Both use fairly sleazy business practices, and I wouldn't expect either Steve nor Bill to take their foot off your head to keep you from drowning.
Still, what you CAN do is research the candidates on the major 2 platforms and pick out the ones who side with Libertarian beliefs.
Sounds like what you really need is a system like Instant Runoff voting where you don't have to worry that you're "throwing your vote away" on a third party candidate. Then you (and everyone else) could vote for that Libertarian candidate without worrying about the bad guy winning.
Just use a Mac. Their email client pretty much does this already.
Or use mozilla, or evolution, or kmail, or squirrelmail, or mutt, or any of the other email clients that already do this and have gotten the concept right. Apple's mail.app doesn't actually show you a nested discussion, it just groups messages by threads.
Welcome to 1997 email concepts Microsoft, we were all wondering when you'd get there.
I run Linux with 2.6 on my main computer and love it, however there are times when I wish I could just run a wizard and install some hardware and not have to mess around with a command line to install some kernel module.
Sounds like you don't have hotplug or discover installed. They do exactly that. No wizard, though; You just plug the hardware in and it works.
Now I really suspect you're trolling. Adaware, as I'm sure you know, is designed to track down and remove malicious software, not to clean up after faulty uninstallers.
If you uninstall Kazaa or whatever, it doesn't also uninstall gator, even though kazaa installed gator, does it? Call it malicious or call it convienently forgetful, but the results are the same. Under debian, when you uninstall an application, everything you installed with it goes away.
Duuuur use the CD that comes with the card?
Most new computers come with windows restore disks (which spew all sorts of nasty software into your system), not with driver disks.
You are comparing the available hardware support of the Linux kernel with the hardware that is supported on the Windows CD. Considering Windows still comes on one CD (Debian has 3 binary CDs) it has support for quite a lot of hardware.
Debian comes on 3 CDs only if you want the 14,000 or so packages that come with debian but don't feel like going on the internet to do it. You can get a full debian install disc (with all the drivers and software you need to get online and grab other software packages) in 40 megs. You can get a system like morphix or [g|k]noppix in 300MB or so which will give you more software then you'd get on your typical windows CD, plus drivers for all the hardware supported under linux.
It's almost impossible to have a Linux machine without a compiler setup if you want to use all software available to Linux (no distro has every single piece of GPL software available), or access every single piece of hardware available with a Linux driver (where the driver is outside the kernel).
I have plenty of machines with no compilers, and they all have access to tons of software via apt-get and alien (for RPMs.) Some obscure software won't be available via apt-get or RPM, as will some non-free drivers, but i've never run across any of these.
Windows disk partitioning is automatic, built into the installation.
No, you have to use fdisk to add and remove partitions. Most (if not all) linux distributions set up your partitions automatically.
Most newer versions of Windows detect ALL your hardware. WinXP even detected my Cisco Wireless card.
WinXP wouldn't detect my Prism WiFi card, or my intel etherexpress pro 100. It wouldn't detect my ATI radeon, or the Nvidia geforce 2 in my desktop computer. It wouldn't detect either of my xircom ethernet cards, and I don't believe it detected my Soundblaster Live, either. I had to go hunt around the internet for all those drivers, and it's only because I know what's in my computers that I knew where to look. Debian detected all of those devices and set them all up without a single question.
And as for software upgrades, that's not part of the installation.
It isn't, but it should be. You can't plug a freshly installed windows machine into the internet these days for more than a few minutes without it catching some form of worm. That gives you barely enough time to head over to windowsupdate and grab the latest patches, or (if you know what you're doing) set up the software firewall.
And as far as your INDIVIDUAL software, upgrading Mozilla or Winamp is as simple as going mozilla.org or winamp.com and downloading the latest version. All easy.
Ah, so having a program tell me when I need to update all the software on my system is harder than visiting 100 websites a day to check for new updates. Yea, that makes sense.
Functionality, yes. The option to change the screen resolution, no.
That doesn't make sense; The functionality is the ablility to change the resolution, and both KDE and gnome give you that functionality in their control centers. Beyond that, you can use non-kde and non-gnome software to do the same thing.
Make moronic assumptions much? When you install Windows, it does everything for you.
Except for disk partitioning, and hardware setup, and software upgrades...
When you install Debian or especially Gentoo (the only two distros with good package management) you have to do everything for it.
Last time I installed debian (morphix) I clicked "next" 7 times (since all the default options were correct) and it took 10 minutes and installed everything I needed, all within a nice Gnome desktop that I could use to browse the web while it was installing. I haven't installed debian proper in years, and I haven't installed gentoo ever, so I can't comment on those two.
That's a GNOME screenshot, bud. My complaint was the lack of that ability in KDE.
KDE has an interface to the exact same functionality in it's control center. In addition, gtkxrandr works under KDE too.
This is the second time I've had to mention this. Keyword columned as in horizontal scrolling and not vertical scrolling.
Sorry, didn't see your other comment. Still, those are columns.
Linux does have bigger problems that Windows. Difficult installers
Never installed windows, have you? Far more difficult then the streamlined install that most new linux distros have.
and obscure, overcomplicated package management systems are just the tip of the iceburg.
Apt (with a front end like synaptic, apt-get or aptitude) is far better than the windows way. Hunt around the internet for some installer executable that could be installshield, winzip, nullsoft, microsoft, vise, or hundreds of other types of installers. Uninstallation is a crapshoot, so much so that tons of software has been written to fix this problem (like Adaware.)
Then we get into all the bugs or missing features that KDE/GNOME have. Like no way to change the screen resolution
Like this?
without editing xf86config in KDE and no way to get a columned list view of files in Nautilus in GNOME.
Like this?
Having an unsigned driver != not supported by windows. All that means is that IBM didn't want to pay microsoft to test their driver.
No, I didn't even have drivers for either of the network interfaces until i went online and downloaded them. Of course, with no network access, the only way to do that is to boot into linux and burn those drivers to CD.
No drivers available in the default install == not supported by windows.
Linux supports all my hardware right out of the box, why can't windows?
Ok, so what happens when you get for example a wireless card that isn't supported by your distro or pretty much any distro? you download driver code and have to compile it of course.
And what happens when you get a wireless card that isn't supported by windows 2000 or XP. (like the wifi card in my thinkpad isn't supported) You have to download the driver, and force it to install, even through windows says that the driver isn't signed and that it doesn't match the hardware. Oh, except that windows doesn't support the intel eepro in the laptop *either* so I need to boot into linux, download the driver and burn it to CD.
Luckily Debian 3.x supports those wifi and ethernet cards out of the box.
In fact, with the exception of the new centrino wifi cards, all currently shipping wifi cards work out of the box in every linux distro i've come across. Of course, windows doesn't support those centrino cards either.
Linux hardware support is excellent (and almost never requires a compiler) compared to the shit that microsoft is shipping.
What if it were a dime? Is "It's only a dime, which is worth nothing" retarded? Is "It's only a cent, which is worth nothing" retarded?
Yes, it is.
Then consider how many people have 10 or 100 times wealthier than you. Just because people are walking in different shoes to you doesn't make them retarded.
No, but if they feel the need to throw money around just because it only took them a minute or a second to make, that makes them retarded.
Trawling thorough Kaazaa to save a dime or a cent might be considered pathetic though.
itms doesn't carry the music I listen to, and if they did it would likely be overpriced (since it's legal to trade/download it for free.)
I've never actually run kaazaa (I don't even know how to spell it), but there's little need for "trawling" on gnutella.
My rent is damn cheap (roommate) and that alone costs me roughly $13.25 a day.
~$820/month for a 2 bedroom apartment where I live is considered expensive. I live with my girlfriend in a 2 bedroom for under $600. Food, cable and electicity are my only other real expenses, and those aren't even on the chart compared to rent. You save a *ton* of money if you just replace your lights with fluorescent bulbs and know how to cook and shop for food.