Seems to be a lot of it on the top portion of the window. I've noticed this same thing in Ubuntu - i.e. Rhythmbox. Seems like better use could be made of the title and menu bar space. IMHO.
Does the ticket contain the concert? No, it lets you in the door. When you go to a concert, what media actually holds the concert - where's the container? Keys are not the car. I'm with mh1997.
My Vaio laptop has 3 OSes - Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, and a fsck'd OS X install. I regularly switch between Ubuntu and OpenSUSE - KDE 4 is still a bit wonky for me, but I've followed it and I'm hopeful. Ubuntu gives me grief with regards to my wireless, but other than that I like it, and would recommend it on the desktop.
Wed, June 23 2010 Is grateful to Slashdot for finally noticing that LGP exists, after militantly ignoring any game release we have made for the last 5 years, as soon as reports of our death come through, we get a front page story. Slashdot - Your support of Linux is inspirational. For others who wonder, we are very much alive. We have had a couple of staffing issues on the admin side of things, which explains most of our silence, but work is progressing on more than one unannounced title. We will offer further updates as and when there is news to update you with.
So saying "Well in Linux you have to blah blah, the average user can't do that," might be true in some cases, but it's not like the average user is more adept at handling Windows problems either. And I will still argue that cases where the user encounters a major problem are far less frequent in Ubuntu than XP or Vista.
Absolutely true. But I would argue it's far, far easier to get help for Windows than it is for Linux. Unfortunately, the greatest strength of Linux is also is greatest weakness - too many options, too many variations, too easy for 'Joe Everyuser' to get confused. I know, Vista has a bunch of different variations, but they are all developed and maintained by the same company.
But are you implying that Joe Everyuser is doing this? Most people dont' even know what ICS is or why they'd ever want it. They plug into the router or connect to the wireless and away they go.
True. I think it'd be a good thing to fix, though, as I've had my wife call me when I'm on the road and tell me the wireless router is broken. All I had to do was tell her to unplug the white cord from the router, plug it into the iMac, go to System Preferences->Sharing->Internet, and click 'Turn On'. I unearthed the directions for Ubuntu last year at Christmas when we were staying at a Marriot that only offered wired connections. I hooked my laptop up, and then shared the connection so my wife could use hers. This is a real-world situation. Even though most hotels offer wireless, not all do.
By the way, almost all of my installs have been on laptops as well. I use Vista on my desktop for gaming, and Ubuntu or Debian on all my other machines, which are laptops.
What brands? I'm using a Toshiba, and I'm wondering if I wouldn't be better off with something better supported.
I have honestly never tried the sleep/suspend stuff
This actually is a big problem for me. I have to run a Windows environment (2KPro on VMWare) because of certain software that I have to use that won't run under Wine. I don't like having to reboot my computer, then reboot/resume the vm, just to do what I need done, so I suspend. Only this kills the sound completely. I've looked into it, and tried the recommended fixes, to no avail.
considering that every single XP install I've ever done has failed to load drivers for critical hardware, pointing the finger at Linux and saying XP is easier is silly.
I've never had XP fail to load a critical driver on install, while I've tried and rejected different Linux distros due to hardware incompatibilities and such. The only Linux distro that ever installed clean out of the gate for me was SuSE 6 on a hand-built machine; Mandriva, Fedora, Ubuntu, later SuSE releases - all have been problematic for me. I would say it's silly to project your experiences on others; I'm glad you've had such ease, but I don't think it's typical.
The truth is, "Your mom" has no idea what to do if her wireless driver isn't installed in Windows, so it's not like Windows is easier for her than Linux. She's going to call you either way.
No, my mom is going to call whatever store from which she bought the computer; I don't do Vista. As for any Macs, I've found OS X to require little if any effort to maintain, and I'm comfortable with both it's GUI and CLI. Don't presume to know what anybody's mom other than your own is going to do; it looks, well, presumptuous;-)
Personally, I ended up installing Kubuntu, as I found Gnome to be deficient (something about the network manager, as I recall, it's been a several months), but I'm also going to take a look at the latest Kalyway and Leo4All images, and see if I can install OS X.
In Windows, everything is always installing and connecting and updating and out-of-date and scanning and it has to tell you all of this RIGHT NOW. Linux leaves you the hell alone.
Adept Updater has appeared in my taskbar 3 or 4 times in the last couple of weeks. In fact, I've found Kubuntu to have far more updates, far more often, then either Windows or OS X. This is not necessarily a bad thing; don't get me wrong. But you seem to imply that it's bad to update often, and that Linux distros, specifically Ubuntu, doesn't. Ubuntu not only updates often, it upgrades every 6 months. This seems neither good nor bad, just different when compared to the policies and life cycles of other OSes.
Have you ever tried to enable internet connection sharing? Not that easy. Maybe it's easier in Intrepid (read: GUI), I honestly don't know, but a quick google doesn't bring up anything to suggest it has.
Anyways, it sounds as though you've had better luck in general than I when installing a Linux distro. That's great, and it's certainly promising for the platform as a whole. However, I've run into quite a few problems. Maybe it's just the hardware; I'm not installing on desktops, only laptops. But laptops are a crucial segment; if you want to get onto business desktops, you're going to have to be able to install on laptops as well.
Just my $.0225 (dollar's on the rise again, doncha know:-)
Glad you've had such luck. Myself, it was a PITA to install 7.10 on my laptop. The Restricted Drivers manager did nothing for me; I had to download and compile ndis-wrapper so I could use Atheros binary drivers, my video card didn't work (can't recall what I did, but it's ATi), and I can't adjust the monitor brightness. Since then, I've updated to 8.04; I still can't adjust the brightness, and compiz-fusion is a complete no-go.
So I disagree. I think most people would gladly say 'Keep Windows and give me the $$$, I'll install something free that's just as good' if it was as easy as you claim. Quite simply, it's not. That's why I'm the only one in my family with a Linux desktop; everyone else uses Windows and OS X.
So I've been using Ubuntu 7.x on my Toshiba laptop for the last several months, and found it pretty easy, albeit with certain caveats (getting wireless to work was a pain, as was graphics - ATI chipset) I'd tried KDE quite some time ago, and was interested in trying it again. So I downloaded and installed the KDE4 Remix for AMD64 machines. Looked fine at first, but then came those damn wireless issues again. I downloaded, built and installed ndiswrapper, grabbed the latest XP drivers (Atheros AR5007EG chipset), and thus began my long struggle. I finally got it to see the card, but it wouldn't connect; it would stall when trying to obtain an IP address. Ok, screw this, time to download the latest 32-bit version and try again - I'd been using a 32-bit version of Ubuntu, so I felt confident I could get it to go. Only, the torrent for the supposed KDE4 Remix CD isn't; it's the 3.x install disc. Ok, open a terminal, sudo apt-get install build-essential, launch Adept, and do a full upgrade. At this point I went to bed, because the servers were SLOW. When I awoke, I had to re-download some items, apparently the servers timed-out. Ok, now time to install kubuntu-desktop-kde4. Looks good. Looks can be deceiving. Cleaned out all(?) vestiges of ndiswrapper, rebuilt, reinstalled, and added the driver. However, when it came time to load it with modprobe, my computer would hang. Ok, reboot, remove, and let's try that older version (1.47) that I still have. Make distclean clean ; make uninstall ; make ; make install. Only, make fails with an error about 'CFLAG's being changed. To Hell with this, I'm going to make 1.52 work if it kills me. What I finally ended up doing was leaving it alone after it built and installed, and just added it to the modules load list. After rebooting, it worked like a charm. So, now that it's installed and wireless is working, I can start messing around with it. A couple of things jumped out at me right away -
1) Dolphin throws up an error message every time I close an app that was launched via it.
2) You can't drag-n-drop from the desktop to a Dolphin window. WTF?
3) How does one add an app to the launcher? I installed xtightvnc, and have to launch it via a terminal window.
4) When I resize the 'Task Manager', the bottom couple-three rows of pixels of the clock gets cut off. Not so much that you can't tell the time, but it's obvious enough.
Anyways, I'm going to give it a whirl, and see what else. I do like the general look better than 3.x and GNOME, but frankly it's about usability.
I recently received a laptop as a gift with Vista installed. Maybe it's just me and my machine, but it seems I'm constantly having to give UAC permission to do this or that. In addition, browsing is SLOW. Don't know what it is, but web page load times sometimes run into minutes. I created a new partion, and loaded Ubuntu. It was a pain to get the proper vid card and wireless drivers installed, but now I'm quite satisfied. I've even toyed with Compiz-Fusion.
Anyways, I'm going to see if I can exchange the Vista disks for XP.
And when it crashes every time on startup, how does it accomplish any of that?
I have the same problem; crashes every time I try to launch it. It gets only as far as displaying the menu and address bars. I've uninstalled/reinstalled it, to no avail. It crashes sometimes on my iMac as well. Safari definately has some issues that Apple should address.
"to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;" I doubt you could sell that to a jury...notice that all of these include a monatery exchange.
No, they don't all include monetary exchange. I can transfer ownership of an item to another without money ever being involved, and it could be argued that this is exactly what is being done by file sharing. When I allow you to download a file from my computer, I am in effect transfering ownership of the data in that file to you. Something to think about.
...an OS that isn't even officially released yet...
RTFA. Vista Corporate Edition went on sale in November; it's the Home editions that haven't hit the streets. Since SQL is targeted at corporations, not home users, one might reasonably expect SQL to work with the corporate edition of Vista.
What neither company can do is simply open source their product with the idea that this way it will win the OS war. If they do so, undermine their own profitability.
This is true. I misunderstood; my bad. However, I do believe it possible for Apple to offer OS X on non-Apple hardware and make a profit. If they were to support only certain chipsets, from certain manufacturers, a lot of support issues could be prevented from ever occurring.
And a transition to a different structure would take years.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. The business model? True, but it could be argued that neither MS nor Apple are afraid to take such steps, if they deem it in their best interest. The XBox and the iPod/iTMS both present different business models for MS and Apple than their traditional ones. Not that I think either company is going to open-source their OSes.
We all go round to the drummer's house to have a jam, we all have our ipods with us. Now - we should be able to pool all our music together. But try doing it using iTunes - its on the verge of impossible
Yeah, it is. Luckily, I keep a copy of Senuti on my iPod, for just such an emergency.
in fact most ipod owners are afraid to plug their ipod in to someone's computer in case all the files are delete
Since iPod prefs are stored on the iPod itself, if you are worried about this, simply change the autoupdate pref. I'd wager most people have this disabled anyways, since the shuffle and nano - the two most popular models - couldn't hold all of most peoples' music collection.
My primary machine is a Pismo 500 powerbook w/ 640 megs and an external optical wheel mouse. I have an iMac DV 400 that needs RAM, but otherwise is fine and will soon be put back to use. I have a Wallstreet 300 powerbook that runs great, too. 10.4 on the Pismo, 10.3 on the other two. Probably gonna downgrade the Pismo 'cause Tiger doesn't offer me anything.
Actually, I was completely unaware of this before you mentioned it; I don't use Windows much. However, I do have a 2k machine, and its keyboard has just such a key. Thanks.
If an app that allows you to map mouse buttons to keyboard combinations doesn't yet exist, I'd bet one is being developed even as we speak. For example, on OS X ctrl-click == right-click. How hard can it be to match that functionality on XP?
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Vancouver is a city on the north bank of the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver,_Washington
So far. You talk as if no more arrests could be forthcoming.
Seems to be a lot of it on the top portion of the window. I've noticed this same thing in Ubuntu - i.e. Rhythmbox. Seems like better use could be made of the title and menu bar space. IMHO.
-Peter
Does the ticket contain the concert? No, it lets you in the door. When you go to a concert, what media actually holds the concert - where's the container? Keys are not the car. I'm with mh1997.
-Peter
My Vaio laptop has 3 OSes - Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, and a fsck'd OS X install. I regularly switch between Ubuntu and OpenSUSE - KDE 4 is still a bit wonky for me, but I've followed it and I'm hopeful. Ubuntu gives me grief with regards to my wireless, but other than that I like it, and would recommend it on the desktop.
+1, Tasteless
No.
Longer answer:
LGP News
Wed, June 23 2010
Is grateful to Slashdot for finally noticing that LGP exists, after militantly ignoring any game release we have made for the last 5 years, as soon as reports of our death come through, we get a front page story. Slashdot - Your support of Linux is inspirational.
For others who wonder, we are very much alive. We have had a couple of staffing issues on the admin side of things, which explains most of our silence, but work is progressing on more than one unannounced title. We will offer further updates as and when there is news to update you with.
It's a hell of a lot more relevant than yours - at least it expresses an actual experience with the software.
-Peter
So saying "Well in Linux you have to blah blah, the average user can't do that," might be true in some cases, but it's not like the average user is more adept at handling Windows problems either. And I will still argue that cases where the user encounters a major problem are far less frequent in Ubuntu than XP or Vista.
Absolutely true. But I would argue it's far, far easier to get help for Windows than it is for Linux. Unfortunately, the greatest strength of Linux is also is greatest weakness - too many options, too many variations, too easy for 'Joe Everyuser' to get confused. I know, Vista has a bunch of different variations, but they are all developed and maintained by the same company.
But are you implying that Joe Everyuser is doing this? Most people dont' even know what ICS is or why they'd ever want it. They plug into the router or connect to the wireless and away they go.
True. I think it'd be a good thing to fix, though, as I've had my wife call me when I'm on the road and tell me the wireless router is broken. All I had to do was tell her to unplug the white cord from the router, plug it into the iMac, go to System Preferences->Sharing->Internet, and click 'Turn On'. I unearthed the directions for Ubuntu last year at Christmas when we were staying at a Marriot that only offered wired connections. I hooked my laptop up, and then shared the connection so my wife could use hers. This is a real-world situation. Even though most hotels offer wireless, not all do.
By the way, almost all of my installs have been on laptops as well. I use Vista on my desktop for gaming, and Ubuntu or Debian on all my other machines, which are laptops.
What brands? I'm using a Toshiba, and I'm wondering if I wouldn't be better off with something better supported.
I have honestly never tried the sleep/suspend stuff
This actually is a big problem for me. I have to run a Windows environment (2KPro on VMWare) because of certain software that I have to use that won't run under Wine. I don't like having to reboot my computer, then reboot/resume the vm, just to do what I need done, so I suspend. Only this kills the sound completely. I've looked into it, and tried the recommended fixes, to no avail.
considering that every single XP install I've ever done has failed to load drivers for critical hardware, pointing the finger at Linux and saying XP is easier is silly.
I've never had XP fail to load a critical driver on install, while I've tried and rejected different Linux distros due to hardware incompatibilities and such. The only Linux distro that ever installed clean out of the gate for me was SuSE 6 on a hand-built machine; Mandriva, Fedora, Ubuntu, later SuSE releases - all have been problematic for me. I would say it's silly to project your experiences on others; I'm glad you've had such ease, but I don't think it's typical.
-Peter
The truth is, "Your mom" has no idea what to do if her wireless driver isn't installed in Windows, so it's not like Windows is easier for her than Linux. She's going to call you either way.
No, my mom is going to call whatever store from which she bought the computer; I don't do Vista. As for any Macs, I've found OS X to require little if any effort to maintain, and I'm comfortable with both it's GUI and CLI. Don't presume to know what anybody's mom other than your own is going to do; it looks, well, presumptuous ;-)
Personally, I ended up installing Kubuntu, as I found Gnome to be deficient (something about the network manager, as I recall, it's been a several months), but I'm also going to take a look at the latest Kalyway and Leo4All images, and see if I can install OS X.
In Windows, everything is always installing and connecting and updating and out-of-date and scanning and it has to tell you all of this RIGHT NOW. Linux leaves you the hell alone.
Adept Updater has appeared in my taskbar 3 or 4 times in the last couple of weeks. In fact, I've found Kubuntu to have far more updates, far more often, then either Windows or OS X. This is not necessarily a bad thing; don't get me wrong. But you seem to imply that it's bad to update often, and that Linux distros, specifically Ubuntu, doesn't. Ubuntu not only updates often, it upgrades every 6 months. This seems neither good nor bad, just different when compared to the policies and life cycles of other OSes.
Have you ever tried to enable internet connection sharing? Not that easy. Maybe it's easier in Intrepid (read: GUI), I honestly don't know, but a quick google doesn't bring up anything to suggest it has.
Anyways, it sounds as though you've had better luck in general than I when installing a Linux distro. That's great, and it's certainly promising for the platform as a whole. However, I've run into quite a few problems. Maybe it's just the hardware; I'm not installing on desktops, only laptops. But laptops are a crucial segment; if you want to get onto business desktops, you're going to have to be able to install on laptops as well.
Just my $.0225 (dollar's on the rise again, doncha know :-)
-Peter
Glad you've had such luck. Myself, it was a PITA to install 7.10 on my laptop. The Restricted Drivers manager did nothing for me; I had to download and compile ndis-wrapper so I could use Atheros binary drivers, my video card didn't work (can't recall what I did, but it's ATi), and I can't adjust the monitor brightness. Since then, I've updated to 8.04; I still can't adjust the brightness, and compiz-fusion is a complete no-go.
So I disagree. I think most people would gladly say 'Keep Windows and give me the $$$, I'll install something free that's just as good' if it was as easy as you claim. Quite simply, it's not. That's why I'm the only one in my family with a Linux desktop; everyone else uses Windows and OS X.
-Peter
So I've been using Ubuntu 7.x on my Toshiba laptop for the last several months, and found it pretty easy, albeit with certain caveats (getting wireless to work was a pain, as was graphics - ATI chipset) I'd tried KDE quite some time ago, and was interested in trying it again. So I downloaded and installed the KDE4 Remix for AMD64 machines. Looked fine at first, but then came those damn wireless issues again. I downloaded, built and installed ndiswrapper, grabbed the latest XP drivers (Atheros AR5007EG chipset), and thus began my long struggle. I finally got it to see the card, but it wouldn't connect; it would stall when trying to obtain an IP address. Ok, screw this, time to download the latest 32-bit version and try again - I'd been using a 32-bit version of Ubuntu, so I felt confident I could get it to go. Only, the torrent for the supposed KDE4 Remix CD isn't; it's the 3.x install disc. Ok, open a terminal, sudo apt-get install build-essential, launch Adept, and do a full upgrade. At this point I went to bed, because the servers were SLOW. When I awoke, I had to re-download some items, apparently the servers timed-out. Ok, now time to install kubuntu-desktop-kde4. Looks good. Looks can be deceiving. Cleaned out all(?) vestiges of ndiswrapper, rebuilt, reinstalled, and added the driver. However, when it came time to load it with modprobe, my computer would hang. Ok, reboot, remove, and let's try that older version (1.47) that I still have. Make distclean clean ; make uninstall ; make ; make install. Only, make fails with an error about 'CFLAG's being changed. To Hell with this, I'm going to make 1.52 work if it kills me. What I finally ended up doing was leaving it alone after it built and installed, and just added it to the modules load list. After rebooting, it worked like a charm.
So, now that it's installed and wireless is working, I can start messing around with it. A couple of things jumped out at me right away -
1) Dolphin throws up an error message every time I close an app that was launched via it.
2) You can't drag-n-drop from the desktop to a Dolphin window. WTF?
3) How does one add an app to the launcher? I installed xtightvnc, and have to launch it via a terminal window.
4) When I resize the 'Task Manager', the bottom couple-three rows of pixels of the clock gets cut off. Not so much that you can't tell the time, but it's obvious enough.
Anyways, I'm going to give it a whirl, and see what else. I do like the general look better than 3.x and GNOME, but frankly it's about usability.
-peter
I recently received a laptop as a gift with Vista installed. Maybe it's just me and my machine, but it seems I'm constantly having to give UAC permission to do this or that. In addition, browsing is SLOW. Don't know what it is, but web page load times sometimes run into minutes. I created a new partion, and loaded Ubuntu. It was a pain to get the proper vid card and wireless drivers installed, but now I'm quite satisfied. I've even toyed with Compiz-Fusion.
Anyways, I'm going to see if I can exchange the Vista disks for XP.
(tig)
I don't expect absolute stability. I do expect it to launch (and maybe see this 'twice as fast' that Steve Jobs touted) before it crashes.
-psc
I have the same problem; crashes every time I try to launch it. It gets only as far as displaying the menu and address bars. I've uninstalled/reinstalled it, to no avail. It crashes sometimes on my iMac as well. Safari definately has some issues that Apple should address.
-psc
No, they don't all include monetary exchange. I can transfer ownership of an item to another without money ever being involved, and it could be argued that this is exactly what is being done by file sharing. When I allow you to download a file from my computer, I am in effect transfering ownership of the data in that file to you. Something to think about.
-Peter
RTFA. Vista Corporate Edition went on sale in November; it's the Home editions that haven't hit the streets. Since SQL is targeted at corporations, not home users, one might reasonably expect SQL to work with the corporate edition of Vista.
-Peter
The key statement in the gp post is that a memory card is needed to play the original XBox games, not save them. This is a significant difference.
(tig)
In other words, the 360 base system isn't fully functional without the addition of at least one item, that being a memory card.
(tig)
This is true. I misunderstood; my bad. However, I do believe it possible for Apple to offer OS X on non-Apple hardware and make a profit. If they were to support only certain chipsets, from certain manufacturers, a lot of support issues could be prevented from ever occurring.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. The business model? True, but it could be argued that neither MS nor Apple are afraid to take such steps, if they deem it in their best interest. The XBox and the iPod/iTMS both present different business models for MS and Apple than their traditional ones. Not that I think either company is going to open-source their OSes.
(tig)
A company that sells an OS for commodity hardware and direct to OEMs couldn't profit from it?
Forget what Dvorak's smoking, I want what this guy's hittin' on.
(tig)
Yeah, it is. Luckily, I keep a copy of Senuti on my iPod, for just such an emergency.
Since iPod prefs are stored on the iPod itself, if you are worried about this, simply change the autoupdate pref. I'd wager most people have this disabled anyways, since the shuffle and nano - the two most popular models - couldn't hold all of most peoples' music collection.
(tig)
My primary machine is a Pismo 500 powerbook w/ 640 megs and an external optical wheel mouse. I have an iMac DV 400 that needs RAM, but otherwise is fine and will soon be put back to use. I have a Wallstreet 300 powerbook that runs great, too. 10.4 on the Pismo, 10.3 on the other two. Probably gonna downgrade the Pismo 'cause Tiger doesn't offer me anything.
(tig)
Actually, I was completely unaware of this before you mentioned it; I don't use Windows much. However, I do have a 2k machine, and its keyboard has just such a key. Thanks.
(tig)
If an app that allows you to map mouse buttons to keyboard combinations doesn't yet exist, I'd bet one is being developed even as we speak. For example, on OS X ctrl-click == right-click. How hard can it be to match that functionality on XP?
(tig)