What we really need, are more systems with ubuntu preinstalled and correctly configured... More education and advertising about the benefits of linux... And within the OS itself, links to online stores selling hardware that is supported out of the box... My HP all in one works perfectly on ubuntu by default, but not osx or windows.
Everything has it's positive and negative points, but people often concentrate on the negatives of linux instead of the significant benefits it offers end users, and the way those perceived negatives can be bypassed...
An often cited example, is that a user cannot go to walmart to buy linux software, but i would argue that the ability to open up the package manager and select software and have it installed automatically and for free is actually better than the hassle of driving down to walmart and handing over money... The package manager works like the apple app store, you can't go down to walmart and buy iphone software either... Users just need to be educated (via advertising) of the advantages.
So what you're saying, is that people will have the same kind of problems with whatever system they use, and will complain about it just the same... So surely on that basis they should just go for the cheapest (linux).
Exactly, and if cost (especially overall cost including apps and future updates) is considered an important factor then linux would be a good choice, if people were aware of the option existing.
Because the OS is newer than the hardware, and is also an extremely similar version so the same drivers would work. The problem comes from old OS's, eg XP, which seriously predate the hardware on which they are being installed...
The system doesn't search through drivers at boot, it reads a list of your PCI and USB devices direct from the controllers, looks up corresponding drivers in a table and then loads them. It's not like the old days of ISA where you couldn't scan for devices and had to try loading each one and probing the expected hardware addresses.
And yes, Linux will do that every boot, unless you compile a kernel with a specific set of hard coded drivers.
Yes, the only time i've had problems transferring a disk or image of one to another system is when i've built a customized kernel specifically for the original machine. If you stick to the distro supplied kernels then it works fine.
I liked that with the Amiga... At the start of the manual, they showed you how to make a copy of your Workbench disks, and then said that no matter what you did with your new copies, worst case you just make new copies and start again.
You could do the same on Linux by creating a nonroot account...
The problem is the lack of machines with Linux pre-installed and PROPERLY CONFIGURED... What few Linux preinstalls do exist are often poorly configured or running second rate distributions with poor availability of applications and dated packages, and often come with little or no instructions so the users can't take advantage of the features they offer.
Only geeks perform an OS install themselves, regardless of what OS they're installing.
I don't have an O2, but i have a couple of Octanes and an Onyx, both of which should run rings around an O2... Is there any way to get acceleration working on these, or is IRIX the best that's available? I seem to remember IRIX having an xrender library available, possibly from sgifreeware or nekochan, or does it just do software rendering? IRIX used to make a very fast X terminal, but modern apps always seemed very sluggish on it and perhaps that's why..
People maintaining old games is now what the companies that produced those games want... They would rather sell you new games, or sell the old ones to you again.. Corporations will always put their own interests first, and those interests will often be detrimental to everyone else.
A few years ago, hackers would try to remain undetected in a system while they tried to infiltrate more systems, with the goal being to see how many they can get into... They wouldn't destroy data because that's a great way to get detected. Even website defacers would move the old site to oldindex.html or similar when they performed a defacement...
Doing something so blatant and aggressive as to delete everything from a compromised server will lose you access to the system, as well as provoke the owners of it to try and hunt you down. Just what is the point?
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I had the same issue with an HP all in one printer/scanner... No support for the scanner part on OSX 10.5 PPC (or OSX on x86 at all) or Vista, where HP use binary only drivers. On the other hand, HP publish open source drivers for Linux, so this device works perfectly out of the box on the latest Ubuntu... It might be possible to port the Linux drivers to OSX...
In which case the demand for inserting media is pretty useless... In other cases, game DRM considers a disk image mounter as being a piracy tool and will refuse to run if such software is installed, even if you aren't using it.
But a DVD player or TV failing is not going to result in anyone being sent to jail... Something that's intended to be used as evidence in a trial where someone losing will face serious penalties should be thoroughly audited and tested... Buggy software is not only unfair to the accused, who may be falsely convicted, but also could result in people who genuinely are guilty being let off.
You should always be *able* to install/play the game so long as you own the media, however you should also be able to play the game without having to insert the media each time you want to play... Some games try to force you to insert the media every time you wish to play.
Speaking of practicality, i'm sure a lot of people don't want to keep track of a dozen pieces of physical media... Being forced by a DRM scheme or a games console to insert the physical media just to play is a huge pain in the ass, especially if you travel or have kids who damage/lose the media.
If everyone dumps IE and switches to another browser, considering that all the other browsers work on non windows platforms, then all websites and applications will be compatible with whatever browsers are being used, which means there is one less reason to use windows.
Not necessarily, they might order a half sized sandwich, or they might order multiple instances of the smaller portion or more side orders to bulk it out, or might just eat again sooner.
We had a school canteen when i was in school, which served various fast foods and "kids foods" etc... One of my classmates was the son of someone who worked in the school canteen, and he was forbidden from eating anything purchased in the canteen...
Give them longer time during quiet periods too, if noone else wants the seats then keeping them full is better than leaving them empty, and someone who's sitting around trolling slashdot is more likely to want a drink or snack.
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Advertising to people that they don't need to buy msword, and that they already get openoffice for free would win a lot of converts.
What we really need, are more systems with ubuntu preinstalled and correctly configured...
More education and advertising about the benefits of linux...
And within the OS itself, links to online stores selling hardware that is supported out of the box... My HP all in one works perfectly on ubuntu by default, but not osx or windows.
Everything has it's positive and negative points, but people often concentrate on the negatives of linux instead of the significant benefits it offers end users, and the way those perceived negatives can be bypassed...
An often cited example, is that a user cannot go to walmart to buy linux software, but i would argue that the ability to open up the package manager and select software and have it installed automatically and for free is actually better than the hassle of driving down to walmart and handing over money...
The package manager works like the apple app store, you can't go down to walmart and buy iphone software either... Users just need to be educated (via advertising) of the advantages.
So what you're saying, is that people will have the same kind of problems with whatever system they use, and will complain about it just the same...
So surely on that basis they should just go for the cheapest (linux).
Exactly, and if cost (especially overall cost including apps and future updates) is considered an important factor then linux would be a good choice, if people were aware of the option existing.
Because the OS is newer than the hardware, and is also an extremely similar version so the same drivers would work.
The problem comes from old OS's, eg XP, which seriously predate the hardware on which they are being installed...
The system doesn't search through drivers at boot, it reads a list of your PCI and USB devices direct from the controllers, looks up corresponding drivers in a table and then loads them. It's not like the old days of ISA where you couldn't scan for devices and had to try loading each one and probing the expected hardware addresses.
And yes, Linux will do that every boot, unless you compile a kernel with a specific set of hard coded drivers.
Yes, the only time i've had problems transferring a disk or image of one to another system is when i've built a customized kernel specifically for the original machine. If you stick to the distro supplied kernels then it works fine.
I liked that with the Amiga...
At the start of the manual, they showed you how to make a copy of your Workbench disks, and then said that no matter what you did with your new copies, worst case you just make new copies and start again.
You could do the same on Linux by creating a nonroot account...
Some people would dedicate spare machines to those programs, or use systems like vmware to run multiple instances of it...
The problem is the lack of machines with Linux pre-installed and PROPERLY CONFIGURED...
What few Linux preinstalls do exist are often poorly configured or running second rate distributions with poor availability of applications and dated packages, and often come with little or no instructions so the users can't take advantage of the features they offer.
Only geeks perform an OS install themselves, regardless of what OS they're installing.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
I don't have an O2, but i have a couple of Octanes and an Onyx, both of which should run rings around an O2... Is there any way to get acceleration working on these, or is IRIX the best that's available?
I seem to remember IRIX having an xrender library available, possibly from sgifreeware or nekochan, or does it just do software rendering? IRIX used to make a very fast X terminal, but modern apps always seemed very sluggish on it and perhaps that's why..
I have a dual head Octane which supported Xinerama under IRIX... It worked quite smoothly and had acceleration on both heads.
People maintaining old games is now what the companies that produced those games want... They would rather sell you new games, or sell the old ones to you again..
Corporations will always put their own interests first, and those interests will often be detrimental to everyone else.
A few years ago, hackers would try to remain undetected in a system while they tried to infiltrate more systems, with the goal being to see how many they can get into... They wouldn't destroy data because that's a great way to get detected.
Even website defacers would move the old site to oldindex.html or similar when they performed a defacement...
Doing something so blatant and aggressive as to delete everything from a compromised server will lose you access to the system, as well as provoke the owners of it to try and hunt you down. Just what is the point?
I had the same issue with an HP all in one printer/scanner...
No support for the scanner part on OSX 10.5 PPC (or OSX on x86 at all) or Vista, where HP use binary only drivers.
On the other hand, HP publish open source drivers for Linux, so this device works perfectly out of the box on the latest Ubuntu... It might be possible to port the Linux drivers to OSX...
In which case the demand for inserting media is pretty useless...
In other cases, game DRM considers a disk image mounter as being a piracy tool and will refuse to run if such software is installed, even if you aren't using it.
But a DVD player or TV failing is not going to result in anyone being sent to jail...
Something that's intended to be used as evidence in a trial where someone losing will face serious penalties should be thoroughly audited and tested...
Buggy software is not only unfair to the accused, who may be falsely convicted, but also could result in people who genuinely are guilty being let off.
You should always be *able* to install/play the game so long as you own the media, however you should also be able to play the game without having to insert the media each time you want to play... Some games try to force you to insert the media every time you wish to play.
Speaking of practicality, i'm sure a lot of people don't want to keep track of a dozen pieces of physical media... Being forced by a DRM scheme or a games console to insert the physical media just to play is a huge pain in the ass, especially if you travel or have kids who damage/lose the media.
If everyone dumps IE and switches to another browser, considering that all the other browsers work on non windows platforms, then all websites and applications will be compatible with whatever browsers are being used, which means there is one less reason to use windows.
Not necessarily, they might order a half sized sandwich, or they might order multiple instances of the smaller portion or more side orders to bulk it out, or might just eat again sooner.
We had a school canteen when i was in school, which served various fast foods and "kids foods" etc...
One of my classmates was the son of someone who worked in the school canteen, and he was forbidden from eating anything purchased in the canteen...
Give them longer time during quiet periods too, if noone else wants the seats then keeping them full is better than leaving them empty, and someone who's sitting around trolling slashdot is more likely to want a drink or snack.
Doesn't matter, it's more hyped and hardware is faster on average now, so people will lap it up even if it doesn't benefit them at all.