well you need to remeber its still linux -
and while the debian based installer might not be as bullet proof as redhat's or suse's, I have had decent luck with it durning installs on dual boot machines.
I think the reasons Ubuntu has gained some much popularity are:
focus on making a small subset of packages work(gnome,core gnome apps,hal,xorg)
I was on a Northwest flight from det->fra and was trying to watch a movie using the in-flight video on demand system, when to my surpised the client rebooted and what did i see but a lill' penguin in the corner! -- my guess is that the 'server' on the plane that serves the menus and movies gets overloaded when the flight staff activates the video system -- and there must be some timeout that occurs and the client reboots. Unfortunatly i was not able to see what kind of hardware was driving the LCD displays.
whoops- that one is wireless -- but it looks like they have changed the layout -- my ibm point-stick keyboard has the pointing device in the middle of the keyboard
you're a mean one, Mr. Slashdot, You really are a heel, You're as cuddly as a cactus, You're as charming as an eel, Mr. Slashdot. You're a bad banana with a greasy black peel!
You're a monster, Mr. Slashdot, Your heart's an empty hole, Your brain is full of spiders, You've got garlic in your soul, Mr. Slashdot. I wouldn't touch you with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole!
You're a foul one, Mr. Slashdot, You have termites in your smile. You have all the tender sweetness Of a seasick crocodile, Mr. Slashdot. Given the choice between the two of you I'd take the seasick crocodile!
You're a rotter, Mr. Slashdot, You're the king of sinful sots, Your heart's a dead tomato splotched With moldy purple spots, Mr. Slashdot. You're a three decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce!
You nauseate me, Mr. Slashdot, With a nauseous super "naus", You're a crooked dirty jockey And you drive a crooked hoss, Mr. Slashdot. Your soul is an appalling dump heap Overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of rubbish imaginable Mangled up in tangled up knots!
You're a foul one, Mr. Slashdot, You're a nasty wasty skunk, Your heart is full of unwashed socks, Your soul is full of gunk, Mr. Slashdot. The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote, "Stink, stank, stunk!" ~
I was suprised to hear were I work they are dropping NFS in favor of SMB. The reason I was given was that SMB has better permissions/access rights across all platforms.
-greg
i think i would pay for google , if they cached and googleized my previous searches.. one example of this would be... if i searched for 'java api string' it would only show me url's that i had selected in a previous query.. most of times i can not be bothered to add another bookmark , and google is so fast and accurate that i feel it it faster then looking through my bookmarks .. I do feel guilty about wasting their and my employers bandwidth because im to lazy to boorkmark a site...
-greg
your thumb prints are on the paintwork -- mark e. smith
this is for you boss really, send him a fake cv of the perfect employee and then in the "other activities" section put weird stuff like collecting vintage donkey pornography and a member of the rat watcher association of America.
-greg
my loves is bigger then your love.. we take more drugs then a touring funk band.. sing it! - mclusky
if you have i would like to know about the following:
-linux support
- can i control the volume though the spdif device - and then attach the DAC directly to a power amp
-best
-greg
Slashdot Mirror
Was 80GBP has cheap consumables and works fine with CUPS.
A lot of the Brother lasers get good reviews.
I second echo2 , a nice simple servlet based ajax solution...
-best
-gwak
Have you seen this
http://www.google.com/search?q=kazaa
-best
-greg
(and where's my IMDB terminal?),
hell yea - i have been asking this for years and for record stores where is my pitchfork terminal???
while playing Counter Strike ??!?!
I have had decent luck with it durning installs on dual boot machines.
I think the reasons Ubuntu has gained some much popularity are:
focus on making a small subset of packages work(gnome,core gnome apps,hal,xorg)
the ease of installing new packages
the ease of upgrading the distbution
-greg
Did anyone notice any april 1 pranks on NPR's Morning Edition this morning??
-greg
you could try ubuntu --
the package integration is quite integrated to the desktop.
-best
-greg
woh , you better make sure you coffee isnt to hot!
-best
-greg
i have a musical fidelity a3cr that is using a Hammerfall 'light' with the HDSP 9652 a/d conventer as the pre-amp.
its expensive stuff but sounds great! and there are linux drivers.
best
greg
I was on a Northwest flight from det->fra and was trying to watch a movie using the in-flight video on
demand system, when to my surpised the client rebooted and what did i see but a lill' penguin in the corner! -- my guess is that the 'server' on the plane that serves the menus and movies gets overloaded when the flight staff activates the video system -- and there must be some timeout that occurs and the client reboots. Unfortunatly i was not able to see what kind of hardware was driving the LCD displays.
-best
-greg
RMS's thinkpad t22 with linuxbios installed.
-greg
i just spent 2 days trying to get nxproxy/nxagent
running with only limited success. The nomachine docs are outdated and imo obfuscated.
go knoppix people.
-greg
they now have a leatherman knock off and IMO the build quality is better then a leatherman
sig - out -greg
Be sure to set your theme to default --
i lost my scrollbars and some buttons when i used
the "Orbit Green" theme.
otherwise the aa'ed fonts look great under linux and copy/paste seems is improved.
-greg
whoops- that one is wireless -- but it looks like they have changed the layout -- my ibm point-stick keyboard has the pointing device in the middle of the keyboard
-greg
I recomend that keyboard. ,i just wish they would make a wireless/bluetooth version of it.
-greg
it just needed to be said!
you're a mean one, Mr. Slashdot,
You really are a heel,
You're as cuddly as a cactus,
You're as charming as an eel, Mr. Slashdot.
You're a bad banana with a greasy black peel!
You're a monster, Mr. Slashdot,
Your heart's an empty hole,
Your brain is full of spiders,
You've got garlic in your soul, Mr. Slashdot.
I wouldn't touch you with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole!
You're a foul one, Mr. Slashdot,
You have termites in your smile.
You have all the tender sweetness
Of a seasick crocodile, Mr. Slashdot.
Given the choice between the two of you
I'd take the seasick crocodile!
You're a rotter, Mr. Slashdot,
You're the king of sinful sots,
Your heart's a dead tomato splotched
With moldy purple spots, Mr. Slashdot.
You're a three decker sauerkraut
and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce!
You nauseate me, Mr. Slashdot,
With a nauseous super "naus",
You're a crooked dirty jockey
And you drive a crooked hoss, Mr. Slashdot.
Your soul is an appalling dump heap
Overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of rubbish imaginable
Mangled up in tangled up knots!
You're a foul one, Mr. Slashdot,
You're a nasty wasty skunk,
Your heart is full of unwashed socks,
Your soul is full of gunk, Mr. Slashdot.
The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote,
"Stink, stank, stunk!"
~
I was suprised to hear were I work they are dropping NFS in favor of SMB.
The reason I was given was that SMB has better permissions/access rights across all platforms.
-greg
looks like adobe has not updated there client to support the 'stable' version of mozilla
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html
i think i would pay for google , if they cached and googleized my previous searches ..
one example of this would be... if i searched for 'java api string' it would only show me url's that i had selected in a previous query..
most of times i can not be bothered to add another bookmark , and google is so fast and accurate that i feel it it faster then looking through my bookmarks
.. I do feel guilty about wasting their and my employers bandwidth because im to lazy to boorkmark a site...
-greg
your thumb prints are on the paintwork -- mark e. smith
this is for you boss really, send him a fake cv .. we take more drugs then a touring funk band .. sing it! - mclusky
of the perfect employee and then in the "other
activities" section put weird stuff like
collecting vintage donkey pornography and a
member of the rat watcher association of America.
-greg
my loves is bigger then your love
Do you have any exp using the m-audio audiophile usb or m-audio Sonica using the optial out with a dac such as Link DAC III 24/96
if you have i would like to know about the following:
-linux support
- can i control the volume though the spdif device - and then attach the DAC directly to a power amp
-best
-greg
Anybody know if anything exists..
-greg
I feel cygwin is
one of the best products in the RH stable.
the purchase of cygnus was a great move.
-greg