I'm sorry, but my experience with linux would say otherwise.
I recently did a FTP install of SuSE 9.0, and here is my experience. The first thing that I had difficulty with was the pre installation setup. SuSE didn't detect my network card (a rather plain Linksys). After booting back into windows, I discovered that the module titled "tulip" was the correct module to use (if "tulip" is an intuitive title for a network module, I'd like to hear the explanation.
After selecting the correct network card, I was prompted for the FTP site that I would be installing from. Rather than the logical ftp.foo.com, I needed to know the numeric IP address. Of course this meant, booting into windows (again) and pinging the site to get the IP address.
The next step after the preinstall fiasco was to pick the bits I wanted to install, which YaST handled extremely well. After a while, the SaX2 utility was run to set up Xfree86. It did not detect my monitor correctly (no biggie, it was in the list) and promptly put me at the biggest thorn in my side, mouse configuratiom. I use a Microsoft Intellimouse Optical explorer, a 5 button (plus wheel) mouse that has both back and forwards buttons on the side. I was not, nor am I able today to get my mouse fully functioning in Linux. I followed instructions at 3 different sites that involved editing XF86Config, xinitrc, and imwheelrc (Still think linux is desktop ready?) After following the rather vague instructions, I was left with a system that would not boot into KDE, and I ended up having to edit the files from a command prompt.
Driver installation was a pain in linux because installing the Nvidia drivers requires a root shell with X not running. In SuSE (and fedora, maybe others) there isn't an option to boot without X, because the failsafe (command line) still has X running. Eventually, I googled and found that "init 3" was the command used to stop X. Silly me, I never would have guessed.
The next thing I did was to attempt to install the Evolution mail client. I performed the install instructions, and found that executing Evolution did nothing. I fired up YaST and it found evolution and completed the install steps I must have missed. On a side note, clicking links in the Summary pane does nothing (it is supposed to open the link in my web browser.)
The final thing I attempted with Linux was to get firebird up and running. Of course, my side mouse buttons didn't work (and still don't), but I had given up on that and wanted to move on to something that would be rewarding. Firebird in it's default form uses some dog-ugly fonts. I had installed my lovely truetype fonts in Linux (KDE looks great) and wanted Firebird to play along. After googling again I was given instructions that again required the editing of obscure text files, this time "unix.js"... After following the instructions, the font menu almost worked correctly. Firebird can find my truetype fonts, but clicking the OK button does nothing, zilch, nada. Infuriating to say the least. In the windows version of firebird, my side buttons work correctly, AND my fonts also work.
Other things that still don't work correctly are any program that requires root access (YaST, SaX2, Superuser Filebrowser, etc.) all have a checkbox to "Keep password"; none of them do.
Linux fans often loudly proclaim that linux is ready for the desktop, and for two subsets of users, they may be correct. People that have a guru to help them, and the gurus themselves. I am in neither of those categories and I find linux sorely lacking (the font and mouse button things drive me crazy).
Having built an Nforce based PC (and supported it) I can safely say that nforce pcs are a joy to work with.
You get good drivers and you only need to install one driver (that covers network, sound, chipset, and graphics). The audio is pretty good quality, and the integrated graphics aren't bad.
I would definately go with an Nforce (for an AMD platform) even if I didn't use any of the integrated components. Nvidia makes excellent chipsets and I don't have to deal with VIA.
It depends on how nice intel is feeling. Royalty free doesn't mean that intel doesn't control it. Royalty free only implies free as in beer, not free as in speech.
Thanks for the links, I too was a little disappointed that the mouse config in SuSE didn't set it up correctly, but SuSE was free so I'm not that miffed.
I'm not referring to domain guessing. Here's how IE works. If I type in "foo" and hit enter, I get search results for foo from my default search engine (in default IE it's MSN search).
Now, if I type "foo" and hit Ctrl+Enter, I get http://www.foo.com/ I find that feature pretty useful; it is fast (two keystrokes) and it is nice when the page won't work without the www. (http://foo.com won't work, but http://www.foo.com will).
The other thing I sorely miss in mozilla is the Google toolbar. I love it. It has a google search bar (which is handy), but it also has a button to translate the page to english, as well as highlighting (and the ability to go to instances of search terms in a web page). On top of all that, it blocks popups. The Google toolbar alone is what keeps me faithful to IE. If google ever ports it to the other browsers, I'll drop IE in a heartbeat.
Which is why the apple-designed hinge is responsible for the iBook's screen failure.
FUD? Yeah I guess pointing out the truth (that apple's are mass produced by the same companies that make everyone else's notebooks) would induce fear, uncertainty, and doubt in someone who believes they are getting "better quality components and design"
This is only slightly related, but maybe someone here can answer. Does anyone know why the back and forward buttons on my mouse don't function correctly in linux?
Mozilla, Opera, and IE in windows; both buttons work correctly.
Mozilla, Konqueror, et al. My extra buttons don't work. The buttons are recognized (back button goes up one level) but they don't work correctly. Pretty damn annoying. This is a problem in every linux distro I've tested. (Knoppix 3.3, Suse 9.0, and Fedora Core 1).
It probably cuts my productivity on the web in half. (I use SuSE 9.0).
Also, if I could suggest one feature, I wish mozilla supported url finishing like IE. In IE, I can type a word (foo) and hit ctrl+enter and IE adds the http://www. to the front and the.com to the rear. It also will just add the.com to the end if the beginning (http://www.foo) is already there (it doesn't duplicate the http://www. part).
Also, if there are any IE coders out there(and I highly doubt it), it'd be nice if we could have key combos for.org,.net, and.edu
Apple hardware has never been subject to any higher manufacturing standards than dell or any other OEM. Apple gets their laptops made by AlphaTop, the same company that makes IBM and compaq
I won't argue that the color choices and being the cheapest ipod won't help sales, but apple really has boxed itself in.
Just about every person that is willing to spend $250 dollars on a mp3 player is not going to lose a lot of sleep over spending $300. Apple has this market covered with the regular ipod. It certainly is apple's choice if they only wish to sell to this market (the profit margins are pretty decent), but don't be surprised when the numbers are small.
Making the player a miniature model appeals to primarily active users (joggers, bikers, etc.). The smaller hard-drive space would be perfectly at home in this market since most do not need millions of songs for a device they will likely use for an hour or two a day.
Also hinted at by most rumors was an expected lower price. A lower price would open the ipod up to a very large market (think millions of units). Apple would be competing a little on price, but the Apple name and iTunes support would have easily helped boost sales to cover for slightly lower profit margins.
Now a smart thinker at apple would have said, "Hey, we can do this miniature thing and pick up the jogging crowd, and we can ship the unit at a low price and get a bunch of the casual/impulse buy crowd interested in it."
Rather than do that, Apple probably did the least intelligent thing. They released a mini player that is high in price. This kills the impulse buy market entirely, and results in the only new market for the ipod is active users that are looking to buy a higher end mp3 player.
That's a TINY market compared to the potential sales they would have had had the minipod been 100-200 dollars.
Apple seems to have an aversion to market share when it comes to product design. When they break from the "Ours is better, must cost more" thinking they have great success (iMac, iTunes for Windows, the iBook).
There are several things that drove adoption of the original ipod. It was a large capacity (for the time) player that looked nice, had a good interface, and was squarely aimed at the high-end buyer.
This new ipod is a low capacity, item that has another apple product already poaching sales (the 15gb $299 ipod). And on top of that it is still $250!!
Someone at apple is getting fired for this and rightfully so. The average consumer (and there are millions of them) doesn't want a smaller ipod with colors, they wanted a cheaper ipod.
Consumers said everything was great about an ipod except its price, and the rumor sites reflected that. Consumers strongly said they wanted an Apple mp3 player with a small amount of storage (2 gb was what many people were hoping to buy) and a low price tag (somewhere between $100 and 150).
Perhaps Apple could not have realistically met the magic $99 pricepoint, but to set the low end price at $250 is just laughable for what is marketed as a ipod for the masses.
Hell, apple would have been better just to drop the 10gb price $50 and skip desiging a new product all together.
I recently did a hard-drive install of knoppix 3,3
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and had some mixed success. The install was pretty painless (other than figuring out the formatting utility) and the OS itself isn't bad.
I ran into a couple of problems though. Sndconfig refuses to work with my sound card. I have an audigy and the emu10k1 (or whatever the hell name it was) installs by default. Running the sndconfig command (after struggling to find a way to close x windows without shutting down) I was greeted by a "module is not in the specified search path"... No information was given as to which path was the search path nor any information as to how to change the search path.
Knoppix also installs by default close to every program ever written for linux including both KOffice and OO.o perhaps a little bit of an overkill.
The other problem I have with knoppix is changing the refresh rate and screen resolution. When using the live CD, the refresh rate and the screen resolution are some of the "cheat codes" you can enter. In the hard-disk install, no oppurtunity is offered for the entering of such codes. I'll probably end up having to edit some.conf file:'-(
The final minor annoyance (and it is minor) is that the CD version boots using both color and a nice resolution (1024x768) for the streams of console text that appear during booting. The hard-disk install does not. It's pretty minor, but the colored text and resolution was really nice and made reading the text much easier.
Knoppix is a really good live CD, but the harddrive install leaves a little to be desired. Hopefully that changes with new versions.
The real irony is that the money the plaintiffs spent on a mac (at least part of it) will be going towards funding the legal defense that will make sure consumers get the least out of the law suit.
1.) Package format becomes a hot topic. Discussion regarding a standard takes center stage. Work begins on a standard package format, a stable version is expected in 2005. Adoption of linux on the desktop continues to be slow.
2.) Resolution and refresh rate changing on the fly (ala Windows since 9x) will finally appear in desktop distros.
3.) NTFS read/write support will be sorted out using the NTFS driver from windows. Microsoft will not issue a patch that breaks compatibility, suprising more zealous MS haters.
4.) Gnome or perhaps Mozilla will have servers compromised. The compromise will be found quickly and dealt with quickly as well. Many will use the compromise to point out that UserLinux should have indeed used KDE.
5.) Not linux, but still a prediction. Apple releases some much hyped product with relatively large mind-share. Product is recalled due to design/manufacturing error. Apple faithful blame someone else; Apple stock and market share dip.
6.) Microsoft releases DirectX 10. Doom 3 is the only major linux-native game released in 2004.
7.) Adobe or Autodesk release linux versions of Photoshop or AutoCAD respectively. The released program is quite successful. Many businesses stop using Wine or switch over to linux for their workstations.
You got most of the slashdot karma-generating buzzwords in that post, but you missed "RIAA", "M$", and "SCO".... Add those and I'm sure your post would have made +5. Keep up the hard work.
I call bullshit on this theory. Linux users posess both patience and endurance (from tweaking and tinkering with their OS) that is key to being a successful in the MMORPG. The same person that spends hours dicking around with.conf files or compiling Gentoo isn't going to complain about having to kill hordes of rats to gain XP. That's my theory anyway.
Dlink 614ap+, which is equipped with the infamous acx100 wireless chipset.
I have this router (and I have been nothing but pleased with it), and would like to know why the acx100 chipset is considered infamous. It seems to function correctly and the 22Mbps is a nice bonus when used with the compliant cards. Where (or rather what)'s the beef?
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I'm not sure about the multiple drives at the same time, but iTunes is really good when it comes to cataloguing material. (also, wtf is sawtooth?)
I'm sorry, but my experience with linux would say otherwise.
I recently did a FTP install of SuSE 9.0, and here is my experience. The first thing that I had difficulty with was the pre installation setup. SuSE didn't detect my network card (a rather plain Linksys). After booting back into windows, I discovered that the module titled "tulip" was the correct module to use (if "tulip" is an intuitive title for a network module, I'd like to hear the explanation.
After selecting the correct network card, I was prompted for the FTP site that I would be installing from. Rather than the logical ftp.foo.com, I needed to know the numeric IP address. Of course this meant, booting into windows (again) and pinging the site to get the IP address.
The next step after the preinstall fiasco was to pick the bits I wanted to install, which YaST handled extremely well. After a while, the SaX2 utility was run to set up Xfree86. It did not detect my monitor correctly (no biggie, it was in the list) and promptly put me at the biggest thorn in my side, mouse configuratiom. I use a Microsoft Intellimouse Optical explorer, a 5 button (plus wheel) mouse that has both back and forwards buttons on the side. I was not, nor am I able today to get my mouse fully functioning in Linux. I followed instructions at 3 different sites that involved editing XF86Config, xinitrc, and imwheelrc (Still think linux is desktop ready?) After following the rather vague instructions, I was left with a system that would not boot into KDE, and I ended up having to edit the files from a command prompt.
Driver installation was a pain in linux because installing the Nvidia drivers requires a root shell with X not running. In SuSE (and fedora, maybe others) there isn't an option to boot without X, because the failsafe (command line) still has X running. Eventually, I googled and found that "init 3" was the command used to stop X. Silly me, I never would have guessed.
The next thing I did was to attempt to install the Evolution mail client. I performed the install instructions, and found that executing Evolution did nothing. I fired up YaST and it found evolution and completed the install steps I must have missed. On a side note, clicking links in the Summary pane does nothing (it is supposed to open the link in my web browser.)
The final thing I attempted with Linux was to get firebird up and running. Of course, my side mouse buttons didn't work (and still don't), but I had given up on that and wanted to move on to something that would be rewarding. Firebird in it's default form uses some dog-ugly fonts. I had installed my lovely truetype fonts in Linux (KDE looks great) and wanted Firebird to play along. After googling again I was given instructions that again required the editing of obscure text files, this time "unix.js"... After following the instructions, the font menu almost worked correctly. Firebird can find my truetype fonts, but clicking the OK button does nothing, zilch, nada. Infuriating to say the least. In the windows version of firebird, my side buttons work correctly, AND my fonts also work.
Other things that still don't work correctly are any program that requires root access (YaST, SaX2, Superuser Filebrowser, etc.) all have a checkbox to "Keep password"; none of them do.
Linux fans often loudly proclaim that linux is ready for the desktop, and for two subsets of users, they may be correct. People that have a guru to help them, and the gurus themselves. I am in neither of those categories and I find linux sorely lacking (the font and mouse button things drive me crazy).
Having built an Nforce based PC (and supported it) I can safely say that nforce pcs are a joy to work with.
You get good drivers and you only need to install one driver (that covers network, sound, chipset, and graphics). The audio is pretty good quality, and the integrated graphics aren't bad.
I would definately go with an Nforce (for an AMD platform) even if I didn't use any of the integrated components. Nvidia makes excellent chipsets and I don't have to deal with VIA.
It depends on how nice intel is feeling. Royalty free doesn't mean that intel doesn't control it. Royalty free only implies free as in beer, not free as in speech.
Looks like it's time to fire up the old "Set Program Access and Defaults" and do some switching in the default browser department.
Thanks for the links, I too was a little disappointed that the mouse config in SuSE didn't set it up correctly, but SuSE was free so I'm not that miffed.
I'm not referring to domain guessing. Here's how IE works. If I type in "foo" and hit enter, I get search results for foo from my default search engine (in default IE it's MSN search).
Now, if I type "foo" and hit Ctrl+Enter, I get http://www.foo.com/ I find that feature pretty useful; it is fast (two keystrokes) and it is nice when the page won't work without the www. (http://foo.com won't work, but http://www.foo.com will).
The other thing I sorely miss in mozilla is the Google toolbar. I love it. It has a google search bar (which is handy), but it also has a button to translate the page to english, as well as highlighting (and the ability to go to instances of search terms in a web page). On top of all that, it blocks popups. The Google toolbar alone is what keeps me faithful to IE. If google ever ports it to the other browsers, I'll drop IE in a heartbeat.
Which is why the apple-designed hinge is responsible for the iBook's screen failure.
FUD? Yeah I guess pointing out the truth (that apple's are mass produced by the same companies that make everyone else's notebooks) would induce fear, uncertainty, and doubt in someone who believes they are getting "better quality components and design"
This is only slightly related, but maybe someone here can answer. Does anyone know why the back and forward buttons on my mouse don't function correctly in linux?
.com to the rear. It also will just add the .com to the end if the beginning (http://www.foo) is already there (it doesn't duplicate the http://www. part).
.org, .net, and .edu
Mozilla, Opera, and IE in windows; both buttons work correctly.
Mozilla, Konqueror, et al. My extra buttons don't work. The buttons are recognized (back button goes up one level) but they don't work correctly. Pretty damn annoying. This is a problem in every linux distro I've tested. (Knoppix 3.3, Suse 9.0, and Fedora Core 1).
It probably cuts my productivity on the web in half. (I use SuSE 9.0).
Also, if I could suggest one feature, I wish mozilla supported url finishing like IE. In IE, I can type a word (foo) and hit ctrl+enter and IE adds the http://www. to the front and the
Also, if there are any IE coders out there(and I highly doubt it), it'd be nice if we could have key combos for
Apple hardware has never been subject to any higher manufacturing standards than dell or any other OEM. Apple gets their laptops made by AlphaTop, the same company that makes IBM and compaq
I won't argue that the color choices and being the cheapest ipod won't help sales, but apple really has boxed itself in.
Just about every person that is willing to spend $250 dollars on a mp3 player is not going to lose a lot of sleep over spending $300. Apple has this market covered with the regular ipod. It certainly is apple's choice if they only wish to sell to this market (the profit margins are pretty decent), but don't be surprised when the numbers are small.
Making the player a miniature model appeals to primarily active users (joggers, bikers, etc.).
The smaller hard-drive space would be perfectly at home in this market since most do not need millions of songs for a device they will likely use for an hour or two a day.
Also hinted at by most rumors was an expected lower price. A lower price would open the ipod up to a very large market (think millions of units). Apple would be competing a little on price, but the Apple name and iTunes support would have easily helped boost sales to cover for slightly lower profit margins.
Now a smart thinker at apple would have said, "Hey, we can do this miniature thing and pick up the jogging crowd, and we can ship the unit at a low price and get a bunch of the casual/impulse buy crowd interested in it."
Rather than do that, Apple probably did the least intelligent thing. They released a mini player that is high in price. This kills the impulse buy market entirely, and results in the only new market for the ipod is active users that are looking to buy a higher end mp3 player.
That's a TINY market compared to the potential sales they would have had had the minipod been 100-200 dollars.
Apple seems to have an aversion to market share when it comes to product design. When they break from the "Ours is better, must cost more" thinking they have great success (iMac, iTunes for Windows, the iBook).
There are several things that drove adoption of the original ipod. It was a large capacity (for the time) player that looked nice, had a good interface, and was squarely aimed at the high-end buyer.
This new ipod is a low capacity, item that has another apple product already poaching sales (the 15gb $299 ipod). And on top of that it is still $250!!
Someone at apple is getting fired for this and rightfully so. The average consumer (and there are millions of them) doesn't want a smaller ipod with colors, they wanted a cheaper ipod.
Consumers said everything was great about an ipod except its price, and the rumor sites reflected that. Consumers strongly said they wanted an Apple mp3 player with a small amount of storage (2 gb was what many people were hoping to buy) and a low price tag (somewhere between $100 and 150).
Perhaps Apple could not have realistically met the magic $99 pricepoint, but to set the low end price at $250 is just laughable for what is marketed as a ipod for the masses.
Hell, apple would have been better just to drop the 10gb price $50 and skip desiging a new product all together.
and had some mixed success. The install was pretty painless (other than figuring out the formatting utility) and the OS itself isn't bad.
.conf file :'-(
I ran into a couple of problems though. Sndconfig refuses to work with my sound card. I have an audigy and the emu10k1 (or whatever the hell name it was) installs by default. Running the sndconfig command (after struggling to find a way to close x windows without shutting down) I was greeted by a "module is not in the specified search path"... No information was given as to which path was the search path nor any information as to how to change the search path.
Knoppix also installs by default close to every program ever written for linux including both KOffice and OO.o perhaps a little bit of an overkill.
The other problem I have with knoppix is changing the refresh rate and screen resolution. When using the live CD, the refresh rate and the screen resolution are some of the "cheat codes" you can enter. In the hard-disk install, no oppurtunity is offered for the entering of such codes. I'll probably end up having to edit some
The final minor annoyance (and it is minor) is that the CD version boots using both color and a nice resolution (1024x768) for the streams of console text that appear during booting. The hard-disk install does not. It's pretty minor, but the colored text and resolution was really nice and made reading the text much easier.
Knoppix is a really good live CD, but the harddrive install leaves a little to be desired. Hopefully that changes with new versions.
The real irony is that the money the plaintiffs spent on a mac (at least part of it) will be going towards funding the legal defense that will make sure consumers get the least out of the law suit.
I figure I'll throw in my two cents:
1.) Package format becomes a hot topic. Discussion regarding a standard takes center stage. Work begins on a standard package format, a stable version is expected in 2005. Adoption of linux on the desktop continues to be slow.
2.) Resolution and refresh rate changing on the fly (ala Windows since 9x) will finally appear in desktop distros.
3.) NTFS read/write support will be sorted out using the NTFS driver from windows. Microsoft will not issue a patch that breaks compatibility, suprising more zealous MS haters.
4.) Gnome or perhaps Mozilla will have servers compromised. The compromise will be found quickly and dealt with quickly as well. Many will use the compromise to point out that UserLinux should have indeed used KDE.
5.) Not linux, but still a prediction. Apple releases some much hyped product with relatively large mind-share. Product is recalled due to design/manufacturing error. Apple faithful blame someone else; Apple stock and market share dip.
6.) Microsoft releases DirectX 10. Doom 3 is the only major linux-native game released in 2004.
7.) Adobe or Autodesk release linux versions of Photoshop or AutoCAD respectively. The released program is quite successful. Many businesses stop using Wine or switch over to linux for their workstations.
WORKS FINE WITH COUNTER-STRIKE AND QUAKE III,
I almost bit on this, but when you posted the bit about Counter-Strike running under Linux ( it only runs in Windows), I knew you were trolling.
HTH. HAND.
Or at least in Sweden and Finland?
"Windows" is not a word in Swedish or in Finnish, hence the trademark.
have creative potential either, whereas people like Linus certainly do.
Yeah, a free unix clone is a true show of creativity.
I find your ideas intriguing and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
LOLOLOLOL!!!11!!!!!111
Why don't you go fuck yourself cocksucker.
You got most of the slashdot karma-generating buzzwords in that post, but you missed "RIAA", "M$", and "SCO".... Add those and I'm sure your post would have made +5. Keep up the hard work.
I call bullshit on this theory. Linux users posess both patience and endurance (from tweaking and tinkering with their OS) that is key to being a successful in the MMORPG. The same person that spends hours dicking around with .conf files or compiling Gentoo isn't going to complain about having to kill hordes of rats to gain XP. That's my theory anyway.
Dlink 614ap+, which is equipped with the infamous acx100 wireless chipset.
I have this router (and I have been nothing but pleased with it), and would like to know why the acx100 chipset is considered infamous. It seems to function correctly and the 22Mbps is a nice bonus when used with the compliant cards. Where (or rather what)'s the beef?
Aren't ROMs illegal?