The only two times I ever have lost data due to data corruption in Linux is on system and disks that used EXT3. Since then I have used ReiserFS and never had any problems. My trust in ext3 is so low that it can't be reestablished. That two of my friends have had the same problem with ext3 and never with reiserfs doesn't help me getting more confidence in ext3.
Since most of Europe is straight democracies and I haven't heard of this mob rule that you have.
Please note that the only European country during the last 70 years that I know of who have turned into a murdering dictatorship was the federal republic called Germany. Great protection for minorities there...
99 cent for DRM free music? That would be an interesting deal.
99 cent for DRM:ed iTunes files? Bad deal.
I think many of you who dislike allofmp3's don't realiase how much more a non DRM:ed file is worth than an DRM:ed file! Actually, I don't care if an iTunes file would cost 9 cent - I still can't play it!
What music bussines is trying to do is selling an inferior product (DRM:ed files) to a higher price than regular CDs. They should look at allofmp3 and realise that the files lacks DRM is a selling point!
There is a EU directive that is simular to the DMCA but the region coding predates both DMCA and this directive. The region coding is enforced with the help of patents - if you don't agree to the DVD specifications for region coding your company will not be allowed to use the patents and you can't make a DVD compatible player.
Also note that many EU countries have a provision that makes it legal to bypass the region coding of DVD discs in their implementation of the EU DMCA directive.
I don't belive that North America has any less potential for mass transportation systems than countries like Sweden and Finland that also has a low population density. And still both Finland and Sweden has quite good mass transportation systems. How does we achive this? Public funding. It is the only answer and you will soon be forced to do the same thing in USA.
The problem for EU to integrate as well as US is of course that we don't speak the same language. I really don't see much use of this "freedom of movment" for me as a citizen since I really can't work outside Sweden since I only speak Swedish and English. As long as EU don't have one language we will not become one state - and we will never get one language.
Canada is the only country in the world??
Almost all of Europe has a system that provides universial health care!
Even Great Britain, which is the most US like country in Europe.
I manage a server that has over 600 000 files in directories more than 3 levels deep. Since it is a newspaper image archive, it has a high trouhgput - several gigabyte each day.
We have no problem at all with slowdown of this computer. The only problem is the Mac filesystem support that take ages to presents the files after reboot (which happens sometimes, mostly because of MS patches that forces you to reboot).
I have a feeling that many Gnome users are blind in there hatred and really wants to eliminate Kde of the face of earth. However, I have never really seen the same hate from Kde users towards Gnome - more a dislike of the DE.
Of some reason, many posts here from Gnome users seams to take this personally, they really love that Novell dropped Kde. This even when most of them don't seam to use Suse!
What does it really matters for anyone who use Feodora what Suse defaults to? I don't care that Redhat choose to default to Gnome. I don't use RedHat so they might default to whatever they like. Hovewer, now the Gnomes seams to cheer that Novell decides to default to Gnome instead of Kde - but I am quite sure that you still won't run the distro.
So why are so many gnome users so damn happy about this? If you are a Gnome user you probaly not use Suse since thier Gnome support have never been good. My only guess is that Gnome users are fanaticly wanting to destroy KDE, erase it from this planet.
Oh, please. Come on - F-Spot isn't coming close to Digikam. One example - Digikam comes with Canon Raw format built-in in Suse. Can F-spot even be made to display RAW files? I haven't managed to make it do that - hence it is worthless to me.
I feel the same. I have used Suse since 8.0 and if they do this, then I will drop them. The great KDE integration is the sole purpose of loving Suse, and without it I see no reason to use it.
I think many people agree to - of the people I know and who runs Linux, only one runs Gnome. Rest of them hate it.
Are you serious? You obviously don't know how WTO works - the big company always win over the nation. WTO is for the corporations, not the nations. South Korea wouldn't stand a chance.
Where I live, there is totaly impossible to find work in the IT field. And even if you get a work, you will earn less than people in the construction business. So construction workers can and do earn more than college educated workers.
One of the few more or less equal things in todays society is that even the rich grows old and die. As a regular person I feel that this is comforting - not even an absurd amount of money buys eternal life.
However, if this research continues we will perhaps have end up in a situation where enough money can buy eternal life. I find that very distrubing - then the rich can't only suppress me, the same rich persons will continue to supress my children and grand children when I am dead.
I always find your type of argument even more amusing.
In your exemple, if Compaq suddently started to make totaly useless hardware, you could simply change to perhaps Dell. What hardware vendor do you switch to when you think Apple hardware sucks? Apple means hardware and software lock in. This is one more lock in than you get with MS software on x86.
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The only two times I ever have lost data due to data corruption in Linux is on system and disks that used EXT3. Since then I have used ReiserFS and never had any problems.
My trust in ext3 is so low that it can't be reestablished. That two of my friends have had the same problem with ext3 and never with reiserfs doesn't help me getting more confidence in ext3.
You are kidding, right?
Since most of Europe is straight democracies and I haven't heard of this mob rule that you have.
Please note that the only European country during the last 70 years that I know of who have turned into a murdering dictatorship was the federal republic called Germany.
Great protection for minorities there...
I find it easier to simply using a keyboard with swedish layout... ;-)
Are you sure that this applies to civil cases?
I only think that applies to cases where the one making a case against you is the state.
If not, I wounder why I my insurance also cower my legal fees.
Then we will all smile. ;-)
99 cent for DRM free music?
That would be an interesting deal.
99 cent for DRM:ed iTunes files? Bad deal.
I think many of you who dislike allofmp3's don't realiase how much more a non DRM:ed file is worth than an DRM:ed file!
Actually, I don't care if an iTunes file would cost 9 cent - I still can't play it!
What music bussines is trying to do is selling an inferior product (DRM:ed files) to a higher price than regular CDs. They should look at allofmp3 and realise that the files lacks DRM is a selling point!
I would say that this applies to almost all companies.
How is this odd?
Do you know how bad the state of the Swedish army is?
The Swedish army openly admits that it can't longer defend Sweden!
There is a EU directive that is simular to the DMCA but the region coding predates both DMCA and this directive.
The region coding is enforced with the help of patents - if you don't agree to the DVD specifications for region coding your company will not be allowed to use the patents and you can't make a DVD compatible player.
Also note that many EU countries have a provision that makes it legal to bypass the region coding of DVD discs in their implementation of the EU DMCA directive.
I don't belive that North America has any less potential for mass transportation systems than countries like Sweden and Finland that also has a low population density.
And still both Finland and Sweden has quite good mass transportation systems. How does we achive this? Public funding. It is the only answer and you will soon be forced to do the same thing in USA.
"create an EU-wide patent system can take account of stakeholders needs."
Why do I have a strong suspicion that the biggest stakeholder, the public, won't matter when it comes to decision?
The problem for EU to integrate as well as US is of course that we don't speak the same language.
I really don't see much use of this "freedom of movment" for me as a citizen since I really can't work outside Sweden since I only speak Swedish and English. As long as EU don't have one language we will not become one state - and we will never get one language.
Canada is the only country in the world?? Almost all of Europe has a system that provides universial health care! Even Great Britain, which is the most US like country in Europe.
Strange.
I manage a server that has over 600 000 files in directories more than 3 levels deep. Since it is a newspaper image archive, it has a high trouhgput - several gigabyte each day.
We have no problem at all with slowdown of this computer. The only problem is the Mac filesystem support that take ages to presents the files after reboot (which happens sometimes, mostly because of MS patches that forces you to reboot).
Well, all people should speak Swedish anyway... ;-)
Are you also worried about this?
I have a feeling that many Gnome users are blind in there hatred and really wants to eliminate Kde of the face of earth.
However, I have never really seen the same hate from Kde users towards Gnome - more a dislike of the DE.
Of some reason, many posts here from Gnome users seams to take this personally, they really love that Novell dropped Kde. This even when most of them don't seam to use Suse!
What does it really matters for anyone who use Feodora what Suse defaults to? I don't care that Redhat choose to default to Gnome. I don't use RedHat so they might default to whatever they like.
Hovewer, now the Gnomes seams to cheer that Novell decides to default to Gnome instead of Kde - but I am quite sure that you still won't run the distro.
So why are so many gnome users so damn happy about this? If you are a Gnome user you probaly not use Suse since thier Gnome support have never been good. My only guess is that Gnome users are fanaticly wanting to destroy KDE, erase it from this planet.
Oh, please. Come on - F-Spot isn't coming close to Digikam.
One example - Digikam comes with Canon Raw format built-in in Suse.
Can F-spot even be made to display RAW files?
I haven't managed to make it do that - hence it is worthless to me.
I feel the same. I have used Suse since 8.0 and if they do this, then I will drop them.
The great KDE integration is the sole purpose of loving Suse, and without it I see no reason to use it.
I think many people agree to - of the people I know and who runs Linux, only one runs Gnome. Rest of them hate it.
Well, bury KDE and count me out of Linux. I will rather use MS than Gnome.
Are you serious?
You obviously don't know how WTO works - the big company always win over the nation.
WTO is for the corporations, not the nations. South Korea wouldn't stand a chance.
Where I live, there is totaly impossible to find work in the IT field.
And even if you get a work, you will earn less than people in the construction business.
So construction workers can and do earn more than college educated workers.
How can an information that the unemployment in France is 10% and not 20% be modded "troll"??
Are the moderators on crack?
Bah.
;-)
;-)
Finnish paper is only good for wiping ones ass.
Real documents are written on Swedish paper!
(Let the paper flamewar begin!)
One of the few more or less equal things in todays society is that even the rich grows old and die.
As a regular person I feel that this is comforting - not even an absurd amount of money buys eternal life.
However, if this research continues we will perhaps have end up in a situation where enough money can buy eternal life. I find that very distrubing - then the rich can't only suppress me, the same rich persons will continue to supress my children and grand children when I am dead.
I always find your type of argument even more amusing.
In your exemple, if Compaq suddently started to make totaly useless hardware, you could simply change to perhaps Dell. What hardware vendor do you switch to when you think Apple hardware sucks?
Apple means hardware and software lock in. This is one more lock in than you get with MS software on x86.