I had problems installing Ubuntu on my laptop when I first got it. I've written a little FAQ for it so if you're having problems you might want to check this out:
I think so, I was going to do (on the command line)
sudo sed -e 's/\sdapper/ edgy/g' -i/etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
* Go to bed / work *
Which will update my sources list, update the repository and then upgrade. At least, that's what I think it'll do. If anyone has any corrections then let us know.
People are just buying less music in general, probably because of the lack of original material
People have realised that downloading the album doesn't give them the nice packaging, which is sometimes interesting to read. Sure, it costs less, but you're then stuck with a 128kbs WMA with DRM
not because of any of this, mind you....just cause of the lack of decent PPC ATI drivers.
not because of any of this, mind you.... just cause of the lack of decent drivers.
There, fixed it for you.
Seriously though, somedays I really wonder what possessed me to buy a laptop with an ATI card in it. I really can't remember why I decided that ATI would have better Linux drivers over nVidia. Does anyone know how well the open source drivers compare to ATI's ones?
The parent makes a good point. I'm assuming that if I don't bother downloading it, Firefox will auto update it for me (on Windows at least). Am I right to assume this or will I need to manually download it?
Yesterday's false start and the Firefox team's request to calm down reminds me of the Stoning scene from Life of Brian. I'm sure someone can paraphrase this to relate it with downloading:
Jewish Official: I'm warning you. If you say 'Jehovah' once more-- [Mrs. A. throws a rock at the Jewish Official] Jewish Official: Right. Who threw that? Come on. Who threw that? Crowd: She did! It was her! [suddenly speaking as men] He! He. Him. Him. Him. Him. Him. Him. Jewish Official: Was it you? Mrs. A.: Yes. Jewish Official: Right... Mrs. A.: Well, you did say 'Jehovah.' Crowd: Ah! Ooh!... [Crowd throws rocks at Mrs. A.] Jewish Official: Stop! Stop, will you?! Stop that! Stop it! Now, look! No one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle! Do you understand?! Even, and I want to make this absolutely clear, even if they do say 'Jehovah.' Crowd: Ooh...! [Jewish Official gets stoned to death]
The Apple Store on Regent Street in London. People use it as a glorified internet cafe. No one in there is actually trying out a Mac, they're checking their Hotmail, bidding on something on eBay, advertising a room in the classifieds... The staff don't care what people are doing just as long as they're fiddling with the Macs. The funny thing is that if they catch you looking at their screen, they give you a look along the lines of "excuse me, I'm doing something private"
YOU'RE IN A F CKING SHOP!
The only thing that went through my mind when I first saw people taking advantage of Apple's generosity was
I wonder how many people here are actually just using these computers to do something sinister?
is because a lot of authorities weren't aware of YouTube, but when Google bought them and it was front page news, suddenly everyone's logging on the (wrong) website, realising that (they're on the wrong site) there's copyrighted material on there and requesting it to be removed.
Slipped a nice little joke in there for everyone to enjoy too.
I would find this story funny, but this kind of hysteria is happening all the time in the UK. One school made children wear protective helmets when playing conkers and only yesterday a referee was criticised for telling parents that they couldn't take photos of children playing football (soccer) because it was against the child protection act.
Will someone please think of the children?
We can't wrap our kids up in cotton wool, part of being a kid is falling over in the playground and scraping your knees, isn't it?
He travelled 70 miles to Mr Jones' home in Clacton, Essex, and beat him up with a pickaxe handle in December 2005.
You've got to hand to the guy for travelling 70 miles just to beat someone up.
I can't wait for news about someone travelling to the other side of the globe just to beat someone up because they kept fragging them / stealing their gold / beat them double perfect in Street Fighter...
Oracle should stick to databases
on
Oracle Linux?
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· Score: 2, Insightful
I use Oracle 10g everyday at work. It's a good database and does the job nicely. Unfortunately I have to use another solution made by them: XSQL. I can honestly say that it's probably the worst framework I've ever used in my life. Sure, some parts of it make for rapid development and deployment, but other parts of it are a complete nightmare and sometimes I wonder why they bothered.
Basically I'm wondering why Oracle want to pinch consumers away from Fedora and Ubuntu instead of just working with them to help intergrate their databases more seamlessly into these distros?
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I had problems installing Ubuntu on my laptop when I first got it. I've written a little FAQ for it so if you're having problems you might want to check this out:
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http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=712f
Can I now dist-upgrade my Ubuntu Dapper to Edgy?
/etc/apt/sources.list
I think so, I was going to do (on the command line)
sudo sed -e 's/\sdapper/ edgy/g' -i
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
* Go to bed / work *
Which will update my sources list, update the repository and then upgrade. At least, that's what I think it'll do. If anyone has any corrections then let us know.
I think I know what your problem is:
:P
you listen to crap music
not because of any of this, mind you....just cause of the lack of decent PPC ATI drivers.
not because of any of this, mind you.... just cause of the lack of decent drivers.
There, fixed it for you.
Seriously though, somedays I really wonder what possessed me to buy a laptop with an ATI card in it. I really can't remember why I decided that ATI would have better Linux drivers over nVidia. Does anyone know how well the open source drivers compare to ATI's ones?
The parent makes a good point. I'm assuming that if I don't bother downloading it, Firefox will auto update it for me (on Windows at least). Am I right to assume this or will I need to manually download it?
Yesterday's false start and the Firefox team's request to calm down reminds me of the Stoning scene from Life of Brian. I'm sure someone can paraphrase this to relate it with downloading:
Jewish Official: I'm warning you. If you say 'Jehovah' once more--
[Mrs. A. throws a rock at the Jewish Official]
Jewish Official: Right. Who threw that? Come on. Who threw that?
Crowd: She did! It was her! [suddenly speaking as men] He! He. Him. Him. Him. Him. Him. Him.
Jewish Official: Was it you?
Mrs. A.: Yes.
Jewish Official: Right...
Mrs. A.: Well, you did say 'Jehovah.'
Crowd: Ah! Ooh!...
[Crowd throws rocks at Mrs. A.]
Jewish Official: Stop! Stop, will you?! Stop that! Stop it! Now, look! No one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle! Do you understand?! Even, and I want to make this absolutely clear, even if they do say 'Jehovah.'
Crowd: Ooh...!
[Jewish Official gets stoned to death]
Or else you'll end up doing your neighbour a favour by changing his tyre
To a different colour?
Hopefully this will be ready and waiting for me in Ubuntu Edgy when I upgrade in (hopefully) a few days.
FTA: We also extended our existing implementations to comply with W3C specifications:
Left arm starts tingling
The Apple Store on Regent Street in London. People use it as a glorified internet cafe. No one in there is actually trying out a Mac, they're checking their Hotmail, bidding on something on eBay, advertising a room in the classifieds... The staff don't care what people are doing just as long as they're fiddling with the Macs. The funny thing is that if they catch you looking at their screen, they give you a look along the lines of "excuse me, I'm doing something private"
YOU'RE IN A F CKING SHOP!
The only thing that went through my mind when I first saw people taking advantage of Apple's generosity was
I wonder how many people here are actually just using these computers to do something sinister?
is because a lot of authorities weren't aware of YouTube, but when Google bought them and it was front page news, suddenly everyone's logging on the (wrong) website, realising that (they're on the wrong site) there's copyrighted material on there and requesting it to be removed.
Slipped a nice little joke in there for everyone to enjoy too.
You mean like Street Fighter: The Movie?
The game based upon the movie based upon the game?
At .2 billion, I can't blame them.
.0002 trillion, I can't blame them.
I can do better than that:
At
That film's going to be the most bloated Microsoft product yet!
This'll be great, I can analyse Slashdot and post the results in the comments section along with some helpful suggestions, +5 Funny here I come!
*Clicks link*
*Clicks Sign up*
*Starts filling in form*
*Notices that signing up to Ad Words is required*
*Notices that adding a phone number is required*
*Gives up and decides to just post the results of W3C's HTML Validation Service instead*
In a very motherly voice:
Oh Microsoft, what are we going to do with you, eh?
*sigh*
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted
Sound of P2P application starting up
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I can't play flash animations on my Turion laptop with Debian AMD64 installed.
Since it's a 32bit binary, won't installing it twice do the trick?
was checked that FlashBlock still worked.
I'm not joking. I was more concerned about that than the sound being in sync. Does anyone think I'm weird?
I would find this story funny, but this kind of hysteria is happening all the time in the UK. One school made children wear protective helmets when playing conkers and only yesterday a referee was criticised for telling parents that they couldn't take photos of children playing football (soccer) because it was against the child protection act.
Will someone please think of the children?
We can't wrap our kids up in cotton wool, part of being a kid is falling over in the playground and scraping your knees, isn't it?
He travelled 70 miles to Mr Jones' home in Clacton, Essex, and beat him up with a pickaxe handle in December 2005.
You've got to hand to the guy for travelling 70 miles just to beat someone up.
I can't wait for news about someone travelling to the other side of the globe just to beat someone up because they kept fragging them / stealing their gold / beat them double perfect in Street Fighter...
I use Oracle 10g everyday at work. It's a good database and does the job nicely. Unfortunately I have to use another solution made by them: XSQL. I can honestly say that it's probably the worst framework I've ever used in my life. Sure, some parts of it make for rapid development and deployment, but other parts of it are a complete nightmare and sometimes I wonder why they bothered.
Basically I'm wondering why Oracle want to pinch consumers away from Fedora and Ubuntu instead of just working with them to help intergrate their databases more seamlessly into these distros?
I guess this will be what will eventually become IceWeasel 2?