DVB uses the same band as analogue TV so there is a concern about interfering with analogue stations on the same channel some distance away. However DAB uses a completely different band to broadcast FM at just over 200MHz so there is not the same concern there. Of course, there may be other users of that band in other countries that have to be taken into account.
I'd say DAB coverage seems to be quite good in the areas where it is rolled out. It's just a shame the sound quality is so poor. They should use OGG/Vorbis instead;-)
Not to mention all the Ebay items that come up instead of reputable vendors. Sometimes Ebay is what I want but mostly when I use Froogle I'm looking to retail vendors. I believe Ebay has its own search engine if I really wanted that.
Also, whatever it is Google are up to it sounds confusing. Is it really going to make it easier to find products?
the GPL specifically allows redistribution so long as it's done without financial gain
Sorry to be pedantic but, as I understand it, you can charge for GPL code if you want, as long as the source isn't witheld for an additional fee. It's just not an amazing business model because someone can buy your GPL product and then start re-distibuting it for free.
I've even seen shareware, complete with nag screen and feature limitation, released under the GPL since it probably won't occur to anyone to recompile it and redistribute it themselves and if they did they wouldn't have the brand recognition. In fact, come to think of it, that's exactly what Redhat do.
When a person is at a store and a salesperson tells them "this computer has a solid state hard drive which is really fast but will randomly start losing data and dying later in life" do you think many people are going to be interested?
The operating system most people buy does this but it doesn't stop them!
Mandriva's control centre is what sets it apart. Most other distros have a similar looking desktop (if they're KDE based), a bunch of apps etc but if the auto-hardware-detect of these distros can't tell what monitor you have then you only get 1024x768 and there is nothing short of editing your xorg.conf file to fix it. And what do you do to get your WLAN card and DVB tuner working?
This is why I settled on PCLinuxOS which is Mandriva based but seems to be more polished and uses Synaptic instead of urpmi.
BTW, what is it with (K)Ubuntu that makes other distros obsolete? I tried it and couldn't really see what it really had going for it compared to PCLinuxOS. Like their website though.
Dunno. But you an always build a time energy pump and find out. Perhaps someone would be kind enough to include power supply decoupling caps in the circuit so it doesn't freak out the V and I meters so much!
Is that a bad thing? This is how it works now. Anyone who uses bandwidth just pays according to how much they use (peak or on average). In this sense both home users, colo users and providers contribute to the network equipment and running costs further up-stream.
Where things would go wrong is if large corps were able to buy bandwidth on a large scale on behalf of their end users from end to end at the loss of service to other users.
Yes, and not to mention that their mysterious website probably produces mysterious HTML to slow down anything that isn't IE since their website is a apsx dot-Net monster.
I have a simple script that uses rdiff-backup to backup a whole bunch of on-line servers.
For disk backup rdiff-backup is the best solution I have found since it has the binary-diff advantage of rsync combined with roll-back (also implemented with diffs).
For backing up from a colo over the internet sending the whole file system every night will result in ridiculous bandwidth usage. Some sort of binary diff system is the only option IMHO.
"this new system provides more that 100 total mirrors for updates and picks geographically close and non-stale mirrors based on our master server's content"
SuSe, Mandriva, are you paying attention to this???
Stale mirrors = loads of faffing about searching the web for a URL to copy, pasting it into software manager, then trying to work out how much of the path to paste in and what magic words like "base", "unstable", "updates" need to be added at the end. Also, some mirrors are slower than others so I then have to repeat the process until a geographically close mirror provides enough download speed. For anything less than an intermediate user that means the software installer/updater is effectivly dead.
"the only problem i had was in getting better than 640x480 resolution." You will get these kind of problems using something like Ubuntu;-)
Try PCLinuxOS instead. It's what I use. The control panels really do control everything like being able to set your monitor parameters if it isn't auto-detected (cough*stuck on 640x480*cough).
Ubuntu seems to be the "default" desktop distro to the point people just install it because they've heard that it is the pinical of desktop Linux technology. If it fails to live up to expectations, then so, it seems does desktop Linux. I'm not sure if this meme that Ubuntu is "it" isn't actually doing a diservice to Linux by giving it a bad name.
"I still don't understand what makes apt-get years ahead of something like urpmi."
Well, the package lists take too long to load in urpmi unless you remember to download the compressed version, which is an extra non-obvious step for a newbie. Then you don't get much info on each package. A better solution would be to download more detailed package info for an individual if and when you click for it rather than all n-thousand of them at once.
Also the Mandrake mirrors aren't stable. The paths on the mirrors keep playing musical chairs and the next time you use Urpmi it can't find the repositories. That means another trip to that "easy urpmi" site to try and fix it. All this nonsense should be transparent to the user. Urpmi should get a repository mirror list from _one_ place and choose the repository based on load and locality automatically. No one has to choose repositories and have them break all the time using Windows Update (although they have other problems!).
The community support is great, most often posts get responded to by the big "Tex" himself.
Also, what is the fuss about Ubuntu. It doesn't even have the config panels such as diskdrake, etc. Nothing else I have tried touches diskdrake, especialy not Qparted which opften greys out half the menu options for no readily explained reason. In fact, no other distro has anything close to this. Shame on them! I am just installing RR64 now and it still relies on KDE and Gnomes half-baked config panels. I can't even set up a monitor manually. I guess I will have to edit xorg.conf to do that.
I don't know why more distros don't import the Mandriva panels. To me, that is what makes it much easier to use than any other type of disto I have tried.
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Doesn't the "+" mean that they only sample at 24KHz and try to reconstruct the last octave?
All the "+" formats I've heard sound kind of phoney, at least the ones that do this trickery.
DVB uses the same band as analogue TV so there is a concern about interfering with analogue stations on the same channel some distance away. However DAB uses a completely different band to broadcast FM at just over 200MHz so there is not the same concern there. Of course, there may be other users of that band in other countries that have to be taken into account.
;-)
I'd say DAB coverage seems to be quite good in the areas where it is rolled out. It's just a shame the sound quality is so poor. They should use OGG/Vorbis instead
I believe his predecessor was actually a Californian lady.
Not to mention all the Ebay items that come up instead of reputable vendors. Sometimes Ebay is what I want but mostly when I use Froogle I'm looking to retail vendors. I believe Ebay has its own search engine if I really wanted that.
Also, whatever it is Google are up to it sounds confusing. Is it really going to make it easier to find products?
the GPL specifically allows redistribution so long as it's done without financial gain
Sorry to be pedantic but, as I understand it, you can charge for GPL code if you want, as long as the source isn't witheld for an additional fee. It's just not an amazing business model because someone can buy your GPL product and then start re-distibuting it for free.
I've even seen shareware, complete with nag screen and feature limitation, released under the GPL since it probably won't occur to anyone to recompile it and redistribute it themselves and if they did they wouldn't have the brand recognition. In fact, come to think of it, that's exactly what Redhat do.
When a person is at a store and a salesperson tells them "this computer has a solid state hard drive which is really fast but will randomly start losing data and dying later in life" do you think many people are going to be interested?
The operating system most people buy does this but it doesn't stop them!
Agree with all that!
Mandriva's control centre is what sets it apart. Most other distros have a similar looking desktop (if they're KDE based), a bunch of apps etc but if the auto-hardware-detect of these distros can't tell what monitor you have then you only get 1024x768 and there is nothing short of editing your xorg.conf file to fix it. And what do you do to get your WLAN card and DVB tuner working?
This is why I settled on PCLinuxOS which is Mandriva based but seems to be more polished and uses Synaptic instead of urpmi.
BTW, what is it with (K)Ubuntu that makes other distros obsolete? I tried it and couldn't really see what it really had going for it compared to PCLinuxOS. Like their website though.
Music died when folks stopped singing and playing musical instruments and left music to the "experts".
Or, indeed, the babbling of the bloated database?
That's cool, an AI application that does it's own marketing hype!
Plan B. You like Hendrix, right? With breakfast. Early. Turn it up to eleven.
Except most old folks these days also like Hendrix! With breakfast even. They don't even hear it unless it is up to eleven!
Of course you could always try... Standing up next to a mozzie-repeller, and chopping it down with the edge of your hand!!!
You take a speaker, dump it in a vat of (heavy) water, and fire it up
Usually, this only happens if the speaker is delivering a particularly boring lecture. The result is immediate releif for the audience.
Dunno. But you an always build a time energy pump and find out. Perhaps someone would be kind enough to include power supply decoupling caps in the circuit so it doesn't freak out the V and I meters so much!
I have a PC posture. Kinda like this.
Then when I want to use a laptop I tend to adopt a more erganomic posture such as this one.
they'll start charging the users
Is that a bad thing? This is how it works now. Anyone who uses bandwidth just pays according to how much they use (peak or on average). In this sense both home users, colo users and providers contribute to the network equipment and running costs further up-stream.
Where things would go wrong is if large corps were able to buy bandwidth on a large scale on behalf of their end users from end to end at the loss of service to other users.
I actually don't know of any competing formats to jpeg other than this new microsoft one
http://www.djvuzone.org/
You do now!!! Although it is meant as a scanned document format it has available a compression similar to JPEG2000.
Yes, and not to mention that their mysterious website probably produces mysterious HTML to slow down anything that isn't IE since their website is a apsx dot-Net monster.
Bummer!
In that case I'd use PCLinuxOS for the corporate stuff too.
Well, half a KDE anyway!
What Redhat do to KDE gives KDE a bad name.
For corporate stuff then Suse is a better place to see KDE if I wanted to show someone what it could do and for desktop use PCLinux.
I think it is very US-centric that these appliances only work at 115V.
115V is for wimps. 100V is for even deeper wimps, and 100V 50Hz and 100V 60Hz in one country is for confused wimps.
What would _really_ be cool is one of this gizmos you can hook up directly to 400KV hyper-grid power lines. With bamboo poles.
Maybe it can already but so far no one has lived long enough to say so.
Why is rdiff-backup only suitable for one server?
I have a simple script that uses rdiff-backup to backup a whole bunch of on-line servers.
For disk backup rdiff-backup is the best solution I have found since it has the binary-diff advantage of rsync combined with roll-back (also implemented with diffs).
For backing up from a colo over the internet sending the whole file system every night will result in ridiculous bandwidth usage. Some sort of binary diff system is the only option IMHO.
"this new system provides more that 100 total mirrors for updates and picks geographically close and non-stale mirrors based on our master server's content"
SuSe, Mandriva, are you paying attention to this???
Stale mirrors = loads of faffing about searching the web for a URL to copy, pasting it into software manager, then trying to work out how much of the path to paste in and what magic words like "base", "unstable", "updates" need to be added at the end. Also, some mirrors are slower than others so I then have to repeat the process until a geographically close mirror provides enough download speed. For anything less than an intermediate user that means the software installer/updater is effectivly dead.
"the only problem i had was in getting better than 640x480 resolution." ;-)
You will get these kind of problems using something like Ubuntu
Try PCLinuxOS instead. It's what I use. The control panels really do control everything like being able to set your monitor parameters if it isn't auto-detected (cough*stuck on 640x480*cough).
Ubuntu seems to be the "default" desktop distro to the point people just install it because they've heard that it is the pinical of desktop Linux technology. If it fails to live up to expectations, then so, it seems does desktop Linux. I'm not sure if this meme that Ubuntu is "it" isn't actually doing a diservice to Linux by giving it a bad name.
"I still don't understand what makes apt-get years ahead of something like urpmi."
Well, the package lists take too long to load in urpmi unless you remember to download the compressed version, which is an extra non-obvious step for a newbie. Then you don't get much info on each package. A better solution would be to download more detailed package info for an individual if and when you click for it rather than all n-thousand of them at once.
Also the Mandrake mirrors aren't stable. The paths on the mirrors keep playing musical chairs and the next time you use Urpmi it can't find the repositories. That means another trip to that "easy urpmi" site to try and fix it. All this nonsense should be transparent to the user. Urpmi should get a repository mirror list from _one_ place and choose the repository based on load and locality automatically. No one has to choose repositories and have them break all the time using Windows Update (although they have other problems!).
Definitely my main distro.
The community support is great, most often posts get responded to by the big "Tex" himself.
Also, what is the fuss about Ubuntu. It doesn't even have the config panels such as diskdrake, etc. Nothing else I have tried touches diskdrake, especialy not Qparted which opften greys out half the menu options for no readily explained reason. In fact, no other distro has anything close to this. Shame on them! I am just installing RR64 now and it still relies on KDE and Gnomes half-baked config panels. I can't even set up a monitor manually. I guess I will have to edit xorg.conf to do that.
I don't know why more distros don't import the Mandriva panels. To me, that is what makes it much easier to use than any other type of disto I have tried.
This definitely adds weight to the "more eyes make bugs shallow" principle of open source.
How many closed-source applications would get this sort of helping hand?