Requires conceptual processing which no one has solved yet.
Fergeddaboutit.
Until conceptual processing is able to be performed, ANY form of human language translation will be inadequate. It might be usable in some respects, but not adequate for most real purposes.
Iran HAS NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM. There is not one single scrap of evidence that they do, according to the IAEA - merely some "concerns" - and there is an explicit religious fatwa from the Iranian Supreme Leader rejecting the possession of nuclear weapons by Iran.
Get it through your head.
Secondly, even if they HAD one (and it would be rational for them to do so), they would have NO ABILITY to threaten ANYONE in the Middle East, let alone Europe, with any kind of first-strike scenario.
Israel has an estimated 100-400 nuclear weapons, including nuclear-tipped cruise missiles on submarines, giving them a second-strike capability, as well as a first-strike capability.
Iran couldn't match that in thirty years...
Get a clue.
THERE IS NO IRAN "NUCLEAR CRISIS".
The sole effect of Iran having one or more nuclear weapons would be to remove the "regime change" program of Israel and the neocons off the table. Because even if Israel has a second-strike capability, Israel has no ability to survive a (properly targeted) first strike on it. Therefore regime change in iran would no longer be an option for the US and Israel.
THIS is why Bush and the neocons are going to attack Iran at any time before Bush leaves office.
The result will be a catastrophic regional war in the Middle East that will doom the US economy, result in scores of thousands of US soldiers dead, hundreds of thousands or millions of Iranian and Iraqi civilians dead, massive terrorism directed at the US and complete chaos in the Middle East.
All for the benefit of some fucking Zionists (who are little more than Nazis themselves) and some fucking empire-building fascists and dick-sucking/drug-using evangelists in this country.
Anybody who believes otherwise is a complete and total moron.
What are you going to do ANYWAY? Stop using SUSE? Who cares (other than Novell)? Sue Microsoft (gimme a break)?
For now, just go right on using your distro and relax.
When Microsoft starts trying to shut down Linux (fifty million users or whatever, not to mention fucking CHINA!), we can all have a big laugh. The WORST that can happen is that Novell, Red Hat, and the rest legally relocate to some offshore country that doesn't obey US patent laws...and go right on selling the stuff to companies around the world who don't give a shit about Microsoft.
Oh, sure, the big boy companies in the US may never be able to switch to Linux now that Microsoft is suing everybody - who cares? The US is doomed, anyway, courtesy of Bush, the politicians, and the homo/drug-using evangelicals...
Move to China. Watch the United States collapse. Laugh hysterically.
And keep using Linux.
Does ANYBODY here really believe Linux use can be stopped by LEGAL means? It's more available than DRUGS, for Christs on a stick sakes! Have they stopped DRUGS?
Get a grip. This is just Microsoft throwing its weight around again - in the end, to no avail.
That's merely a reflection of the underlying problem: distro managers.
Which is the same problem afflicting the IT industry for the last thirty years: product managers.
It's the same in Windows, UNIX, Linux, or custom development. You have managers deciding crap instead of DESIGNERS (especially user interaction designers).
ALL distros have problems - just like all versions of Windows have problems (see the complexity in Windows server editions lately?)
The issue is as I suggested: stick with the distros that either have dedicated community members working to make it "just work" (like PCLinuxOS) or with companies big enough to do the job right [without being SO big they do it wrong...:-)]
And always remember: ALL software is CRAP! Windows is CRAP! Linux is ALSO CRAP! BUT - Linux is FREE CRAP!
It's obviously a rehash of the "same old, same old" arguments about "problems with Linux." You just as easily write a "same old, same old" article about "problems with Windows" (security, reliability, cost, etc. ad nauseum.)
I decided this past week to upgrade my Mandriva 2006 to Mandriva 2007.
It didn't work. Mandriva 2007 failed to even detect my standard Microsoft mouse correctly and failed to handle the X Window settings correctly, resulting in a boot to the command line. Two hours of work to try to fix the problem failed. I considered the possibility that the Linux Format DVD I used was actually a pre-release version of Mandriva instead of a final release, so I spent five hours downloading the four CD ISO images.
A clean install worked okay - except for numerous minor issues which no Windows user would have been able to resolve - in particular, a ridiculously badly designed KDE utility that handles the insertion and automatic playing of media - which doesn't work at all with either KMPlayer or Totem, the two video players for Mandriva. Those glitches are either resolved now or ignored by me with workarounds, and I'm using Mandriva 2007 now.
Does this mean Linux is not ready for the desktop?
No.
It means Mandriva is too small a company to produce a distro of the ever more complex Linux that has been adequately tested and has all the glitches out that may impact the ordinary end user.
Now I've warned about this before here - that Linux is getting so big and complicated that it will eventually be as bug ridden and unreliable and insecure as Windows.
That hasn't happened - yet. But it will unless Linus and the distro companies and the community realize it can happen and take steps to avoid this unhappy result.
In the meantime, people who want Linux to "just work" had better choose distros that are either maintained by companies with the assets to perform competent tweaking and adequate testing (such as Novell), or by communities that have the members to do so.
This is an issue only for home users. For companies, this is not an issue - you hire a Linux expert as an employee or consultant to make sure it "just works" - the same way you do with Windows.
Once you get Linux ON your system, it works perfectly fine as a desktop. It's getting it there that is the problem for many people - even experts.
And that's an issue with the design of the DISTRO - NOT the Linux kernel itself or even most of the end user applications.
I just spent several minutes - three times - waiting for the front page to load because the browser was sitting there waiting on "runner.splunk.com" to get off its ass and do something.
Guys, splunk does not apparently have the server power or bandwidth to service Slashdot. Get a clue and dump their ads or tell them to buy another server box.
Ninety percent of the time when I'm waiting on a page to load, it's because some ad server is overloaded. The rest of the time it's because the site server itself is overloaded (or "Slashdotted").
That's what I get for typing the first name instead of cutting and pasting...
However, two wrongs don't make a right - unless you're George Bush, in which case wrongs to the nth power are permitted by Congress and the question of right never enters the discussion.
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Noam Chomsky just recently was talking about the differences between the Venezuelan elections and the US elections - it's like night and day - with Venezuela being by far more honest and fair and involving a truly interested electorate.
The US hasn't had a fair election in six years and won't have one next week either - even assuming Bush doesn't try bombing the vote fraud off the front page with an attack on Iran.
As I mention elsewhere, the Firefox 2.0 Download Manager is totally broken. Numerous sites will not recognize file download requests - this includes Rapidshare, www.corrsmisc.com fan site, and numerous ebook sites.
Try to download a file from any of these using Firefox 2.0's default Download Manager and you get a zero byte file downloaded or spurious error messages from the site.
Some of these sites DO work with DownThemAll and might work with other download managers.
This is a dealbreaker for me - back to Firefox 2.5.0.7.
And, yes, memory leaks - if you download many images from sites such as SuperiorPics.com, eventually Firefox will slow down drastically and the file save dialog will start behaving strangely (if you browse for files, the browse window will not open to the usual size but to s smaller size for no known reason) - this has been true for the last half dozen Firefox releases.
In other words, as usual in the industry, testing is something that simply takes a back seat to getting something out the door with more "features"...
I downloaded IE7 the other day, too - don't get me started on that POS...
Rapidshare for one is completely useless now: it won't accept download requests even using DownThemAll or anything else - returns completely spurious error messages about incorrect captcha entries and the like.
I can't download images from the www.corrsmisc.com (Corrs fan) site using their download buttons, although the image save function in Firefox 2.0 still works.
And as I reported yesterday in another topic, many of the ebook download sites I've been using also don't recognize Firefox 2.0 downloads. Many of them, however, ARE usable with DownThemAll. And I can use DownThemAll with the Corrs fan site, too.
It seems like the Firefox 2.0 Download Manager is simply and totally broken. Why this wasn't detected during testing is a mystery to me - assuming the Firefox people actually DO any testing before making a major release like this...
Otherwise, I've not had any crashes or other problems. Speed of site access and page rendering seems about the same or slightly faster than the 1.5 versions.
But since MUCH of my browser work involves file downloading, I'll probably have to revert back to 1.5.0.7 as the current problems are simply unacceptable.
Most of the half dozen or so (illegal) ebook sites I download from have stopped working with Firefox 2.0.
When the hell are Web sites going to start following standards? I don't care if they don't obey copyright law - I just want them to work with my preferred browser.
Fortunately I just discovered at least one of them works with Kongueror - so at least I don't have to boot into Windows to use the site. OTOH, if I just click the links, they open in Firefox - so I have to tell Kongueror to "Open in a new tab"...you'd think if Konqueror is being used as a Web browser, it would be smart enough to open links itself...sigh...morons everywhere...
A few months back we were told on a Microsoft blog about numerous quality assurance tests that were COMPLETELY FLUNKED being marked "APPROVED" by the QA managers.
Any company who uses Vista as anything but a testbed until Service Pack 1 has to be completely out of their mind.
This thing will be THE biggest, buggiest and least secure OS Microsoft has ever turned out.
This thing has eighty million lines of code - TWICE that of Windows XP.
Does ANYBODY see where that extra forty million lines of code WENT? Do you SEE forty million lines of extra functionality in Vista over Windows XP?
I'll tell you where those forty million lines of code went - into bugs, security vulnerabilities, and bloat...
"Most of the people there were captured on the battle field or under suspicious circumstances."
According to recent articles, a certain percentage - perhaps a significant percentage - were "captured" by foreign national "bounty hunters" paid by the US military/CIA - in other words, scooped up en mass and dumped into US custody for money.
Yeah, I trust those "suspicious circumstances."
"I do believe most of them would slit my throat if I tried to help them and they would happily burn my daughter to death or behead her."
In other words, you're a provincial American clueless about the rest of the world. Some others like you raped and murdered a fourteen year old Iraqi girl for kicks. And you wonder why some people don't like Americans.
"Well, that is quite possible. I wouldn't know that."
I think that sums up your knowledge of the issues of relational design and the relative merits of MySQL vs. Postgres.
And "MySQL does everything a database should do".
Not even.
I don't need to spend time rehashing all the MySQL vs Postgres articles available on the Net. Do your own Google and you'll see why I made the statements I did.
The facts remain that MySQL is used more for Web page serving than anything else.
And the fact that large companies use it - perhaps even successfully - does not change the fact that it is a poor database from the standpoint of support of relational database theory. And large companies have just as manyu poor database designers as smaller ones.
And MYSQL's level of capability is far less than Postgres - another known fact.
It does have its uses and its advantages. But for serious database work, Postgres is to be preferred.
And that remains a fact. The only reason it might not be common knowledge is the lack of knowledge of much of the IT industry - which should come as no surprise.
I'm sure the rest of/. will treat this nonsense with the contempt it deserves.
However:
1) Blame non-open source licensing issues. That said, it takes five minutes to install said media support. Get a fucking clue. I can play videos of virtually every stripe on Linux - try that with the stupid Windows Media Player. And while you're at it, make sure you plug the security holes in WMP before you get "pwned".
2) Why did you have to install a kernel? I never have - and probably ninety percent of Linux users never have either. You install kernels only when you need to build in some new hardware support, usually.
3) Get your NVidia drivers where you're supposed to and shut up. While you're there, complain about them not keeping up with the kernels. Linux is not Windows - a new version released every five or ten years - IF Microsoft can figure out how to rewrite the thing in the first place without crashing it (read: Vista).
4) You don't have to tell X the refresh rates unless it isn't detected automatically, which most monitors are. As for what Windows "knows" vs what Linux knows, look again at the asshole manufacturers who refuse to support fifty million Linux users including most of the world's major corporations using Linux as servers. They write the drivers for Windows, not Linux.
5) File browser. Konqueror is quite adequate and provides context sensitive menus.
In other words, fuck off, Microsoft shill. You think we haven't seen enough of your kind here and at every other Linux site, pretending to "like Linux" while trashing it at every opportunity?
Buzz off, clown.
By the way, if you really want a Linux that "just works", Fedora Core is not the distro to be using. Try Mandriva, Xandros, or even SUSE - especially Xandros, which is specifically designed for Windows idiots like yourself.
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Requires conceptual processing which no one has solved yet.
Fergeddaboutit.
Until conceptual processing is able to be performed, ANY form of human language translation will be inadequate. It might be usable in some respects, but not adequate for most real purposes.
Gimme a break.
Iran HAS NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM. There is not one single scrap of evidence that they do, according to the IAEA - merely some "concerns" - and there is an explicit religious fatwa from the Iranian Supreme Leader rejecting the possession of nuclear weapons by Iran.
Get it through your head.
Secondly, even if they HAD one (and it would be rational for them to do so), they would have NO ABILITY to threaten ANYONE in the Middle East, let alone Europe, with any kind of first-strike scenario.
Israel has an estimated 100-400 nuclear weapons, including nuclear-tipped cruise missiles on submarines, giving them a second-strike capability, as well as a first-strike capability.
Iran couldn't match that in thirty years...
Get a clue.
THERE IS NO IRAN "NUCLEAR CRISIS".
The sole effect of Iran having one or more nuclear weapons would be to remove the "regime change" program of Israel and the neocons off the table. Because even if Israel has a second-strike capability, Israel has no ability to survive a (properly targeted) first strike on it. Therefore regime change in iran would no longer be an option for the US and Israel.
THIS is why Bush and the neocons are going to attack Iran at any time before Bush leaves office.
The result will be a catastrophic regional war in the Middle East that will doom the US economy, result in scores of thousands of US soldiers dead, hundreds of thousands or millions of Iranian and Iraqi civilians dead, massive terrorism directed at the US and complete chaos in the Middle East.
All for the benefit of some fucking Zionists (who are little more than Nazis themselves) and some fucking empire-building fascists and dick-sucking/drug-using evangelists in this country.
Anybody who believes otherwise is a complete and total moron.
See what happens.
What are you going to do ANYWAY? Stop using SUSE? Who cares (other than Novell)? Sue Microsoft (gimme a break)?
For now, just go right on using your distro and relax.
When Microsoft starts trying to shut down Linux (fifty million users or whatever, not to mention fucking CHINA!), we can all have a big laugh. The WORST that can happen is that Novell, Red Hat, and the rest legally relocate to some offshore country that doesn't obey US patent laws...and go right on selling the stuff to companies around the world who don't give a shit about Microsoft.
Oh, sure, the big boy companies in the US may never be able to switch to Linux now that Microsoft is suing everybody - who cares? The US is doomed, anyway, courtesy of Bush, the politicians, and the homo/drug-using evangelicals...
Move to China. Watch the United States collapse. Laugh hysterically.
And keep using Linux.
Does ANYBODY here really believe Linux use can be stopped by LEGAL means? It's more available than DRUGS, for Christs on a stick sakes! Have they stopped DRUGS?
Get a grip. This is just Microsoft throwing its weight around again - in the end, to no avail.
That's merely a reflection of the underlying problem: distro managers.
Which is the same problem afflicting the IT industry for the last thirty years: product managers.
It's the same in Windows, UNIX, Linux, or custom development. You have managers deciding crap instead of DESIGNERS (especially user interaction designers).
ALL distros have problems - just like all versions of Windows have problems (see the complexity in Windows server editions lately?)
The issue is as I suggested: stick with the distros that either have dedicated community members working to make it "just work" (like PCLinuxOS) or with companies big enough to do the job right [without being SO big they do it wrong...:-)]
And always remember: ALL software is CRAP! Windows is CRAP! Linux is ALSO CRAP! BUT - Linux is FREE CRAP!
It's obviously a rehash of the "same old, same old" arguments about "problems with Linux." You just as easily write a "same old, same old" article about "problems with Windows" (security, reliability, cost, etc. ad nauseum.)
I decided this past week to upgrade my Mandriva 2006 to Mandriva 2007.
It didn't work. Mandriva 2007 failed to even detect my standard Microsoft mouse correctly and failed to handle the X Window settings correctly, resulting in a boot to the command line. Two hours of work to try to fix the problem failed. I considered the possibility that the Linux Format DVD I used was actually a pre-release version of Mandriva instead of a final release, so I spent five hours downloading the four CD ISO images.
A clean install worked okay - except for numerous minor issues which no Windows user would have been able to resolve - in particular, a ridiculously badly designed KDE utility that handles the insertion and automatic playing of media - which doesn't work at all with either KMPlayer or Totem, the two video players for Mandriva. Those glitches are either resolved now or ignored by me with workarounds, and I'm using Mandriva 2007 now.
Does this mean Linux is not ready for the desktop?
No.
It means Mandriva is too small a company to produce a distro of the ever more complex Linux that has been adequately tested and has all the glitches out that may impact the ordinary end user.
Now I've warned about this before here - that Linux is getting so big and complicated that it will eventually be as bug ridden and unreliable and insecure as Windows.
That hasn't happened - yet. But it will unless Linus and the distro companies and the community realize it can happen and take steps to avoid this unhappy result.
In the meantime, people who want Linux to "just work" had better choose distros that are either maintained by companies with the assets to perform competent tweaking and adequate testing (such as Novell), or by communities that have the members to do so.
This is an issue only for home users. For companies, this is not an issue - you hire a Linux expert as an employee or consultant to make sure it "just works" - the same way you do with Windows.
Once you get Linux ON your system, it works perfectly fine as a desktop. It's getting it there that is the problem for many people - even experts.
And that's an issue with the design of the DISTRO - NOT the Linux kernel itself or even most of the end user applications.
I just spent several minutes - three times - waiting for the front page to load because the browser was sitting there waiting on "runner.splunk.com" to get off its ass and do something.
Guys, splunk does not apparently have the server power or bandwidth to service Slashdot. Get a clue and dump their ads or tell them to buy another server box.
Ninety percent of the time when I'm waiting on a page to load, it's because some ad server is overloaded. The rest of the time it's because the site server itself is overloaded (or "Slashdotted").
Use Firefox - then use Adblock generously.
That's what I get for typing the first name instead of cutting and pasting...
However, two wrongs don't make a right - unless you're George Bush, in which case wrongs to the nth power are permitted by Congress and the question of right never enters the discussion.
Whereas we have a President who is getting his ass handed to him and who hears voices telling him to "smite Saddam".
Educate yourself how fast Wikipedia pulls crap:
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Noam Chomsky just recently was talking about the differences between the Venezuelan elections and the US elections - it's like night and day - with Venezuela being by far more honest and fair and involving a truly interested electorate.
The US hasn't had a fair election in six years and won't have one next week either - even assuming Bush doesn't try bombing the vote fraud off the front page with an attack on Iran.
As I always say, government is defined by incompetence AND malice.
So is Microsoft.
Since her name is Scarlet Johansson, whoever you were looking at probably wasn't her.
"Did I just say that out loud?" (Andrea Corr)
Anonymous Cowards are a nationality now?
This is more serious than I thought.
Nah - I just need /. to allow editing of posts...
Equally likely, of course...
As I mention elsewhere, the Firefox 2.0 Download Manager is totally broken. Numerous sites will not recognize file download requests - this includes Rapidshare, www.corrsmisc.com fan site, and numerous ebook sites.
Try to download a file from any of these using Firefox 2.0's default Download Manager and you get a zero byte file downloaded or spurious error messages from the site.
Some of these sites DO work with DownThemAll and might work with other download managers.
This is a dealbreaker for me - back to Firefox 2.5.0.7.
And, yes, memory leaks - if you download many images from sites such as SuperiorPics.com, eventually Firefox will slow down drastically and the file save dialog will start behaving strangely (if you browse for files, the browse window will not open to the usual size but to s smaller size for no known reason) - this has been true for the last half dozen Firefox releases.
In other words, as usual in the industry, testing is something that simply takes a back seat to getting something out the door with more "features"...
I downloaded IE7 the other day, too - don't get me started on that POS...
Rapidshare for one is completely useless now: it won't accept download requests even using DownThemAll or anything else - returns completely spurious error messages about incorrect captcha entries and the like.
I can't download images from the www.corrsmisc.com (Corrs fan) site using their download buttons, although the image save function in Firefox 2.0 still works.
And as I reported yesterday in another topic, many of the ebook download sites I've been using also don't recognize Firefox 2.0 downloads. Many of them, however, ARE usable with DownThemAll. And I can use DownThemAll with the Corrs fan site, too.
It seems like the Firefox 2.0 Download Manager is simply and totally broken. Why this wasn't detected during testing is a mystery to me - assuming the Firefox people actually DO any testing before making a major release like this...
Otherwise, I've not had any crashes or other problems. Speed of site access and page rendering seems about the same or slightly faster than the 1.5 versions.
But since MUCH of my browser work involves file downloading, I'll probably have to revert back to 1.5.0.7 as the current problems are simply unacceptable.
Most of the half dozen or so (illegal) ebook sites I download from have stopped working with Firefox 2.0.
When the hell are Web sites going to start following standards? I don't care if they don't obey copyright law - I just want them to work with my preferred browser.
Fortunately I just discovered at least one of them works with Kongueror - so at least I don't have to boot into Windows to use the site. OTOH, if I just click the links, they open in Firefox - so I have to tell Kongueror to "Open in a new tab"...you'd think if Konqueror is being used as a Web browser, it would be smart enough to open links itself...sigh...morons everywhere...
Microsoft knows what Internet Hell really is - and they intend to sell it to you.
A few months back we were told on a Microsoft blog about numerous quality assurance tests that were COMPLETELY FLUNKED being marked "APPROVED" by the QA managers.
Any company who uses Vista as anything but a testbed until Service Pack 1 has to be completely out of their mind.
This thing will be THE biggest, buggiest and least secure OS Microsoft has ever turned out.
This thing has eighty million lines of code - TWICE that of Windows XP.
Does ANYBODY see where that extra forty million lines of code WENT? Do you SEE forty million lines of extra functionality in Vista over Windows XP?
I'll tell you where those forty million lines of code went - into bugs, security vulnerabilities, and bloat...
'The humbling -- and perversely comforting -- reality is that the Earth will forget us remarkably quickly.'
We Transhumans will forget you fast, too - unless of course we decide to maintain full memory for "completeness" reasons...
"Most of the people there were captured on the battle field or under suspicious circumstances."
According to recent articles, a certain percentage - perhaps a significant percentage - were "captured" by foreign national "bounty hunters" paid by the US military/CIA - in other words, scooped up en mass and dumped into US custody for money.
Yeah, I trust those "suspicious circumstances."
"I do believe most of them would slit my throat if I tried to help them and they would happily burn my daughter to death or behead her."
In other words, you're a provincial American clueless about the rest of the world. Some others like you raped and murdered a fourteen year old Iraqi girl for kicks. And you wonder why some people don't like Americans.
Moron.
...until they make one that looks like the Corrs...
"Well, that is quite possible. I wouldn't know that."
I think that sums up your knowledge of the issues of relational design and the relative merits of MySQL vs. Postgres.
And "MySQL does everything a database should do".
Not even.
I don't need to spend time rehashing all the MySQL vs Postgres articles available on the Net. Do your own Google and you'll see why I made the statements I did.
The facts remain that MySQL is used more for Web page serving than anything else.
And the fact that large companies use it - perhaps even successfully - does not change the fact that it is a poor database from the standpoint of support of relational database theory. And large companies have just as manyu poor database designers as smaller ones.
And MYSQL's level of capability is far less than Postgres - another known fact.
It does have its uses and its advantages. But for serious database work, Postgres is to be preferred.
And that remains a fact. The only reason it might not be common knowledge is the lack of knowledge of much of the IT industry - which should come as no surprise.
I'm sure the rest of
However:
1) Blame non-open source licensing issues. That said, it takes five minutes to install said media support. Get a fucking clue. I can play videos of virtually every stripe on Linux - try that with the stupid Windows Media Player. And while you're at it, make sure you plug the security holes in WMP before you get "pwned".
2) Why did you have to install a kernel? I never have - and probably ninety percent of Linux users never have either. You install kernels only when you need to build in some new hardware support, usually.
3) Get your NVidia drivers where you're supposed to and shut up. While you're there, complain about them not keeping up with the kernels. Linux is not Windows - a new version released every five or ten years - IF Microsoft can figure out how to rewrite the thing in the first place without crashing it (read: Vista).
4) You don't have to tell X the refresh rates unless it isn't detected automatically, which most monitors are. As for what Windows "knows" vs what Linux knows, look again at the asshole manufacturers who refuse to support fifty million Linux users including most of the world's major corporations using Linux as servers. They write the drivers for Windows, not Linux.
5) File browser. Konqueror is quite adequate and provides context sensitive menus.
In other words, fuck off, Microsoft shill. You think we haven't seen enough of your kind here and at every other Linux site, pretending to "like Linux" while trashing it at every opportunity?
Buzz off, clown.
By the way, if you really want a Linux that "just works", Fedora Core is not the distro to be using. Try Mandriva, Xandros, or even SUSE - especially Xandros, which is specifically designed for Windows idiots like yourself.