Well yeah, but if the OS is already installed as an OEM before the customer sees it you can't really set up user accounts during the install.
Besides that, the first "desktop session" that Lindows runs isn't a standard one, because it takes you through a wizard to set root password, user accounts, etc.
That's not too clear at all, maybe AMD better clarify that.
How on earth can you claim legacy support for, say, a 486, and not claim legacy support for 8086? The 486 supports legacy 8086, so neccesarily anything that supports it would have to support 8086.
Thinking about that from an assembler language programmer, how would that even work? I mean, obviously you've got all the registers of an 8086, right? I'd really be interested in knowing what exactly happens if you try to bootstrap the machine off a non-protected mode kernel.
I'm not sure how you can trim off something as intimate to the x86 as Real Mode and still call it compatibility. And why on earth did they bother to support 16-bit protected mode if they're not supporting real mode? Are there still a lot of people using Phar Lap?
While I haven't used all of those, Redhat and SuSE both most certainly log you in as root after the install and then give you the option to set up user accounts.
To be honest I can't see how it could be done any other way.
I can't speak for the older versions, but 3.0.5 OEM runs as root the first time it boots up, to take you through a configuration wizard.
It lets you set a root password, set up user accounts, and all that good stuff. IIRC it even points out that you shouldn't run as root unless you're using Click N' Run to install some software or if you're changing a setting.
But seriously, your link to the Gore quote includes word for word exactly what I said, doesn't it? Yeah, egg on my face... huh?
Bush is evil as hell, but so was Clinton. Don't pretend that the umpteen wars he got us involved in were any more legitimate than the Bush ones. Granted, they were smaller, but are the thousands of people he killed any less dead?
Why did Lindows choose to just tack.lindows and.cnr on the end of standard libraries names instead of just coming up with a whole seperate library for cnr and lindows and giving us legitimate versions of the libraries in question?
As a developer who doesn't want to pay for CNR it makes getting a -dev package really inconvenient.
Also, why did Lindows choose not to ship gcc as a standard component of the OS? Its the first Linux distro I've ever seen that didn't.
Hell I've been using it for two weeks now and the only time I was logged on as root was before I'd set up any user accounts and when I'm apt-getting stuff.
Is there any Linux distro that DOESN'T make you root the first time you use it? Lindows tells you specifically to set up user accounts the first time you run it...
My city has two pages of unemployment section and only 3 or 4 actual jobs, with the rest being those pyramid schemes where you pay them $75 for the job and then you can sell other people jobs for $75 each.
My unemployment ran out this morning, so unless I can get an extension I'm going to be amongst the hundreds of applicants for a $6 / hr job at a fast food place.
Sure glad I got those two BS degrees while the economy was so good instead of working.
"If the law passes, citizens could be eligible for rewards of thousands of dollars or more if they're the first to provide the government with proof and the identity of offending spammers."
Proof? What year do they think this is?!
Hasn't it already been established that the act of accusing them is proof enough? Send them to Guantanamo Bay, they'll confess in due course.
One would expect that the cost would be more than a normal laptop of comparable specs. While its got some compelling features this thing in the end looks like it can't decide if it wants to be a PDA or a laptop. At 800x480 resolution its probably not going to cut it as a replacement for a proper laptop, but at the same time, I wonder how usable an XP system would be as a PDA.
Its neat as a "gee whiz" thing, but what sort of people need a PDA with more power than the present ones enough to shell out laptop prices and likewise what sort of people need a laptop that small but are willing to give up screen resolution?
There is a legal definition of blind that stops short of being "totally blind". It varies from state to state, but basically if you're vision isn't correctable to an acceptable level you are legally blind.
Maybe he should just try larger fonts and better glasses?
Hey that's a nice loophole around letting people ever do parody. Just arbitrarily define what's being parodied to something else and call your copyrights "tools".
But this isn't "people" doing it, its the government.
I mean, theoretically the government is supposed to be impartial about free speech issues. I hope you can at least see the potential danger of letting the governmen fund its own viewpoint and punish conflicting ones when its viewpoint is supposed to be "determined by the majority".
What's next? Double taxation for people who vote for the losing candidate?
I mean, there are some very bright women in CS, and they have considerable success in the field.
Just because there's not even 50/50 parity in the genders in a field isn't proof that there's some insidious conspiracy going on under the surface.
The greater crime here is forcing women who aren't interested or qualified into CS and chasing some perfectly capable men out just in the name of making the statistics look better.
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hmm... he might not have forgotten about that, but I still don't see where Linux fits into all this...
Yeah, and ink pen companies don't adequately protect against people using their product to forge signatures either...
Well I for one bought a Lindows/Microtel box, kept Lindows on it, and have not signed up for Click n' Run.
If not using Click N' Run is proof of piracy they'd better stop letting people use apt-get.
I have an even better idea, how about the user just install the OS on their hard drive and just run the game off the CD?
Well yeah, but if the OS is already installed as an OEM before the customer sees it you can't really set up user accounts during the install.
Besides that, the first "desktop session" that Lindows runs isn't a standard one, because it takes you through a wizard to set root password, user accounts, etc.
If Debian's support of NetBSD is because it can run on platforms Linux can't, when will we see
Debian GNU/NetBSD for Sega Dreamcast?
That's not too clear at all, maybe AMD better clarify that.
How on earth can you claim legacy support for, say, a 486, and not claim legacy support for 8086? The 486 supports legacy 8086, so neccesarily anything that supports it would have to support 8086.
Thinking about that from an assembler language programmer, how would that even work? I mean, obviously you've got all the registers of an 8086, right? I'd really be interested in knowing what exactly happens if you try to bootstrap the machine off a non-protected mode kernel.
I'm not sure how you can trim off something as intimate to the x86 as Real Mode and still call it compatibility. And why on earth did they bother to support 16-bit protected mode if they're not supporting real mode? Are there still a lot of people using Phar Lap?
nonsense.
While I haven't used all of those, Redhat and SuSE both most certainly log you in as root after the install and then give you the option to set up user accounts.
To be honest I can't see how it could be done any other way.
I can't speak for the older versions, but 3.0.5 OEM runs as root the first time it boots up, to take you through a configuration wizard. It lets you set a root password, set up user accounts, and all that good stuff. IIRC it even points out that you shouldn't run as root unless you're using Click N' Run to install some software or if you're changing a setting.
nice flame pal.
But seriously, your link to the Gore quote includes word for word exactly what I said, doesn't it? Yeah, egg on my face... huh?
Bush is evil as hell, but so was Clinton. Don't pretend that the umpteen wars he got us involved in were any more legitimate than the Bush ones. Granted, they were smaller, but are the thousands of people he killed any less dead?
Why did Lindows choose to just tack .lindows and .cnr on the end of standard libraries names instead of just coming up with a whole seperate library for cnr and lindows and giving us legitimate versions of the libraries in question?
As a developer who doesn't want to pay for CNR it makes getting a -dev package really inconvenient.
Also, why did Lindows choose not to ship gcc as a standard component of the OS? Its the first Linux distro I've ever seen that didn't.
There aren't too many websites that I've seen, short of a couple MSN sites I sort of miss.
Seriously, most of those "check for browser" sites will at least let Netscape 7 in... even if they cut out some content.
It does?
Hell I've been using it for two weeks now and the only time I was logged on as root was before I'd set up any user accounts and when I'm apt-getting stuff.
Is there any Linux distro that DOESN'T make you root the first time you use it? Lindows tells you specifically to set up user accounts the first time you run it...
As do
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman!"
and
"I took the initiative in creating the Internet"
Politicians lie, its what they do.
79 channels and the most compelling thing on is Futbal Mehicanos (or something like that).
Yeah, no doubt.
My city has two pages of unemployment section and only 3 or 4 actual jobs, with the rest being those pyramid schemes where you pay them $75 for the job and then you can sell other people jobs for $75 each.
My unemployment ran out this morning, so unless I can get an extension I'm going to be amongst the hundreds of applicants for a $6 / hr job at a fast food place.
Sure glad I got those two BS degrees while the economy was so good instead of working.
is it really democracy if you conquer a country and only allow candidates you approve of to run in the election?
Proof? What year do they think this is?!
Hasn't it already been established that the act of accusing them is proof enough? Send them to Guantanamo Bay, they'll confess in due course.
I don't see any mention of price.
One would expect that the cost would be more than a normal laptop of comparable specs. While its got some compelling features this thing in the end looks like it can't decide if it wants to be a PDA or a laptop. At 800x480 resolution its probably not going to cut it as a replacement for a proper laptop, but at the same time, I wonder how usable an XP system would be as a PDA.
Its neat as a "gee whiz" thing, but what sort of people need a PDA with more power than the present ones enough to shell out laptop prices and likewise what sort of people need a laptop that small but are willing to give up screen resolution?
No... its been my experience that every human being thinks and acts exactly the same.
"Government isn't the solution to our problems, government IS the problem"
:)
- Reagan.
Now I know he didn't exactly live up to that promise, but you've got to admit, it sounds good
There is a legal definition of blind that stops short of being "totally blind". It varies from state to state, but basically if you're vision isn't correctable to an acceptable level you are legally blind.
Maybe he should just try larger fonts and better glasses?
Hey that's a nice loophole around letting people ever do parody. Just arbitrarily define what's being parodied to something else and call your copyrights "tools".
But this isn't "people" doing it, its the government.
I mean, theoretically the government is supposed to be impartial about free speech issues. I hope you can at least see the potential danger of letting the governmen fund its own viewpoint and punish conflicting ones when its viewpoint is supposed to be "determined by the majority".
What's next? Double taxation for people who vote for the losing candidate?
I mean, there are some very bright women in CS, and they have considerable success in the field.
Just because there's not even 50/50 parity in the genders in a field isn't proof that there's some insidious conspiracy going on under the surface.
The greater crime here is forcing women who aren't interested or qualified into CS and chasing some perfectly capable men out just in the name of making the statistics look better.