Interesting. I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 that I dual-boot Windows XP and Gentoo on, but I have been unable to get sleep and hiberate to work. Actually, both work, it is waking it back up that I cannot get it to do. Any tips? Perhaps a copy of your ACPI config files? I would much prefer to be using Linux as my main OS, but I cannot use an OS without proper power management support on a laptop.
Use the quickstarter. I just have it open at boot, and Writer opens in about a second. Obviously, that just moves the load time to when your computer boots up, but you probably open Writer a lot more often than you start up your computer.
As I understand it, LCDs with 6-bits-per-channel (18-bit color) simulate 24-bit colour by alternating pixels between values so the user sees the intended colour.
Wait a minute there: as I see it, one of the main advantages of LCDs is they do not flicker like CRTs.
but it also doesn't have 5.9.x's awesome firewall negotiation for sending files between firewalled users - but that's something I can deal with, there are other ways to get files to people.
It is not in a Gaim release yet, but someone added firewall negotiation to Gaim as a Google Summer of Code project. Gaim is currently freezed on releases because they are working on v2.0. Hopefully all the Summer of Code projects including almost always working file transfers will be in v2.0.
As a side note, I used AIM 4.x with AIM+ (buggy logging & no ads hack) for a while after 5.x came out before switching to using Gaim.
That is correct. The "autoplay" for music CDs that is referring to is having it automatically open a media player when you put in a music CD, not the regular autoplay of running a program.
Ummm... if Dell is producing the laptop, they have to provide Windows drivers for that stuff in their Windows laptops. I see no reason why Dell would sell their Linux laptops without sufficient drivers. As a sidenote, I own an Inspiron 6000D that I dual-boot XP/Gentoo. The CPU frequency and fan adjust automatically as expected, although I have yet to get sleep-mode working and hibernating working completely. Those last two are things that I am sure Dell has covered in the laptops mentioned in the article.
Another poster suggests the technology is advanced enough. The question remains as to how good games will be at interpreting the signals from the controller. Maybe Nintendo has it figured out, but I would not place high hopes on first-gen games using the revolution with the precision that it is capable of. (Although, Zelda games are usually rather late in the cycle...:)
Remember that the Revolution has Gamecube controller ports, too. I assume Nintendo would allow retro games to be played with either controller, and the Gamecube controller does have A, B, X, Y, R, and L. I agree it would be nice if you could do it on the Revolution controller, too, though. Actually, if they are going to just do a simple emulator and throw some ROMs online for sale, how will they deal with games where you need all six of those buttons? I figure a and b could be either X and Y or R and L, but using them as both in a single game would be pretty much unusable.
Huh? Notepad is a text editor. It is for editing plain text documents. Wordpad is a word processor. It is for rich text documents and/or documents you intend to print. Arguing that you should have only one is like saying a Linux distro should have either nano or AbiWord, but both is overkill.
BTW, don't bother trying to use the key you can see on the disc on that image. There was an article on Slashdot a while ago saying that it was banned from Windows Update and SP2 (that is, I do not think even a stand-alone install of SP2 will work on that CD-key).
Or you could just use a filesystem that supports hard-linking files (see: man ln), so you do not have to worry about that even when using a filesystem for this purpose. Since such a file is read-only, it could just be linked to all of those people's mail boxes. If you do not know what a hard link is, it is basically the same thing you are describing, except done in the filesystem and handled transparently by the kernel. Basically, every "file" you see in an Ext 2/3 filesystem is really just a pointer to where the file is stored, and any actual file can have as many as these links as you want. When there are no remaining links to a file, it is allowed to be deleted.
Ah, I used to keep up with the no CD patches for Warcraft III, but I gave up once I started having updates come out and the crack be a day or two behind. Not usable when I want to play on BNET, so I am forced to update. Whatever works, I guess. I suppose cracks require a lot less disc space.
Personally, I perfer Deamon Tools, which supports multiple image formats and can emulate copy protection, so it can be used with game discs. (Ex. I do not have to go searching for my Warcraft III disc, I just have to tell Deamon Tools to mount it, even though Warcraft III has copy protection on the disc.)
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Interesting. I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 that I dual-boot Windows XP and Gentoo on, but I have been unable to get sleep and hiberate to work. Actually, both work, it is waking it back up that I cannot get it to do. Any tips? Perhaps a copy of your ACPI config files? I would much prefer to be using Linux as my main OS, but I cannot use an OS without proper power management support on a laptop.
Use the quickstarter. I just have it open at boot, and Writer opens in about a second. Obviously, that just moves the load time to when your computer boots up, but you probably open Writer a lot more often than you start up your computer.
His point was that throwing more money at fusion will probably have a limited effect on the speed of fusion research. Maybe he is right, maybe not.
I am pretty sure Gmail does not support encryption. Web mail with encryption would not make much sense because the server could read your e-mail.
It is not in a Gaim release yet, but someone added firewall negotiation to Gaim as a Google Summer of Code project. Gaim is currently freezed on releases because they are working on v2.0. Hopefully all the Summer of Code projects including almost always working file transfers will be in v2.0.
As a side note, I used AIM 4.x with AIM+ (buggy logging & no ads hack) for a while after 5.x came out before switching to using Gaim.
If only all that information were free. (That is how MythTV gets its listings.)
That is correct. The "autoplay" for music CDs that is referring to is having it automatically open a media player when you put in a music CD, not the regular autoplay of running a program.
Ummm... if Dell is producing the laptop, they have to provide Windows drivers for that stuff in their Windows laptops. I see no reason why Dell would sell their Linux laptops without sufficient drivers. As a sidenote, I own an Inspiron 6000D that I dual-boot XP/Gentoo. The CPU frequency and fan adjust automatically as expected, although I have yet to get sleep-mode working and hibernating working completely. Those last two are things that I am sure Dell has covered in the laptops mentioned in the article.
Another poster suggests the technology is advanced enough. The question remains as to how good games will be at interpreting the signals from the controller. Maybe Nintendo has it figured out, but I would not place high hopes on first-gen games using the revolution with the precision that it is capable of. (Although, Zelda games are usually rather late in the cycle... :)
Remember that the Revolution has Gamecube controller ports, too. I assume Nintendo would allow retro games to be played with either controller, and the Gamecube controller does have A, B, X, Y, R, and L. I agree it would be nice if you could do it on the Revolution controller, too, though. Actually, if they are going to just do a simple emulator and throw some ROMs online for sale, how will they deal with games where you need all six of those buttons? I figure a and b could be either X and Y or R and L, but using them as both in a single game would be pretty much unusable.
Huh? Notepad is a text editor. It is for editing plain text documents. Wordpad is a word processor. It is for rich text documents and/or documents you intend to print. Arguing that you should have only one is like saying a Linux distro should have either nano or AbiWord, but both is overkill.
This may not be physical access to the computer, though. The user could be typing in a password for a network or internet log-in.
Ummm... PDF is open.
Hardly an inconvienience, there's a program that will do it for you: multiproxy (FAQ).
Actually, the key changers were not created by any hackers, they are in a MS knowledge base article.
BTW, don't bother trying to use the key you can see on the disc on that image. There was an article on Slashdot a while ago saying that it was banned from Windows Update and SP2 (that is, I do not think even a stand-alone install of SP2 will work on that CD-key).
Is this his hand?
Another poster mentioned two mail servers which use hard links for this purpose.
Or you could just use a filesystem that supports hard-linking files (see: man ln), so you do not have to worry about that even when using a filesystem for this purpose. Since such a file is read-only, it could just be linked to all of those people's mail boxes. If you do not know what a hard link is, it is basically the same thing you are describing, except done in the filesystem and handled transparently by the kernel. Basically, every "file" you see in an Ext 2/3 filesystem is really just a pointer to where the file is stored, and any actual file can have as many as these links as you want. When there are no remaining links to a file, it is allowed to be deleted.
Ah, I used to keep up with the no CD patches for Warcraft III, but I gave up once I started having updates come out and the crack be a day or two behind. Not usable when I want to play on BNET, so I am forced to update. Whatever works, I guess. I suppose cracks require a lot less disc space.
Personally, I perfer Deamon Tools, which supports multiple image formats and can emulate copy protection, so it can be used with game discs. (Ex. I do not have to go searching for my Warcraft III disc, I just have to tell Deamon Tools to mount it, even though Warcraft III has copy protection on the disc.)