I only have one thing to say to you, and that is Thanks. I've been using it. I love it.
I just want you to know that I'd rather saw my hands off with a wooden comb and use the bloody stumps to control tora than ever consider using this shitpile of bloated, oracle developed Java. If any of you have ever used Oracle's Java apps, I'm sure you won't find this much different. I can use tora freely, no bullshit java breakage, no insanely slow X windows forwarding, no god awful shitbox ugly interface, and most importantly:
Oracle builds this pile of crap so they can show their potentential customers "Look, we have a gui too!", whereas people like the tora developers build it so they can use it.
I have a feeling you're gonna like the new NetworkManager. I had the same gripes as you, and the newest ubuntu solved them. The newest NetworkManager, 0.60, is the one that natively supports WPA - though it doesn't appear likely that it's going to end up in the new ubuntu.
Remind me again how security updates are done with FreeBSD? I seem to remember it needing a buttload of downloading and a whole lotta compiling - Not exactly convenient when you're running several hundred servers. I could be wrong, of course.
I have ubuntu on 4 computers, and only on the one with Xinerama/dual monitors did I have to do any editing. Nvidia, intel810 and intel855 is the hardware I run. I'd be genuinely interested in hearing an anecdote about how the recent ubuntus didn't properly setup Xorg. I'm sure there are some out there - OEM hardware, piss poor ATI crap, etc, but it's obvious they're leaps and bounds better than they were.
Oh yeah....and other operating systems are just so intuitive that you can do anything on them without reading a manual/faq/howto - oh wait, no they're not!
I'd suggest using paper and pen for your primary means of "computing" - oh wait, you'd have to learn to read and write.
Chalk and rock? Damn, need to know how to draw.
Sit on your ass and bitch on how 70 years of developing one of the greatest technologies man kind has been working on to date doesn't have you in a virtual reality with neural interfaces and feeding tubes? You seem to have enough energy to do that.
Are you trolling, or is there some sarcasm I missed? Seriously, though, if you really feel that way, I dare you to point to even one operating system that you think is more stable package wise. One that doesn't change configuration files/behaviour of programs with updates, one that's been updating their security packages regularly, and one that contributes to the software community more than debian and it's respected branches. One that only requires reboots infrequently for kernel updates. One that has standard(s) and has stuck to those standard(s) as steadfast and reliably as debian.
Why can't we blame Bush & Co? Sure the congressmen passed it, but so did Bush. In truth, it's our fault for not sufficiently decoupling politics and money. In any case, you voted for him, I didn't.
I guess I'd be stuck in Africa, which may not be too bad for me, but a whole lot better for my great great great great great grandparents.
Yes, because in 1750, life in africa was so much better than life in America - and 1850 and 1950... Chances are, if your family would have stayed there, it would be dead by now. It's pretty safe to say that more lineages in Africa have died in the past 500 years than have lived. The problem is, however, your family would not only probably be one of those lineages that died, but also that you wouldn't be alive today if exactly what happened didn't happen. We don't owe you anything.
But the military is making the world a better world right here right now.
Oh yes. Wait - they are? I haven't seen it, have you? I give you a 20 year time frame - you give me one, just one, that's right one (1) example of a foreign country where a large problem, like a threat to us, has been solved. Until then, STFU.
But after that you start losing a significant portion of the population of people - and what's the government supposed to be for - wait - let me look it up real quick...
OH! It's for the people! Imagine that! Some people on earth have vices! You're perfect though - you don't cost the taxpayer anything. The world owes you! It's all those people that smoke and drink and don't run every morning before work and play rugby after work on Thursdays! They're taking all of your money! Good work, detective. You just go ahead and eliminate them, we'll see how well your system works after you eliminate everyone in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th sigma.
Maybe the pioneer anomolies? How about cosmic ray research (See newest Scientific America)? How about maybe some research into living somewhere besides earth? I mean, we really are some unimaginable fraction of the universe (or even galaxy!) right now - it'd be nice to see something more. They are, after all, a SPACE agency. Space is a lot friggen more than just mars. Space is absurdely huge. Absurdely. It's difficult for you and I to imagine Pluto's distance, much less the Oort cloud's.
The New Horizons probe is hitting an astonishing 21m/s now - 25 or so when it's past jupiter. Maybe they could stive for a bit more than a 4m/s gain? Maybe they could spend some money to show how safe nuclear power is instead of dealing with the bullshit anti-rng protesters? How about spending a little less money with Lockheed Martin, and a little more with creative engineers at @ Scaled Composites? Maybe, just maybe, they could quit bitching about their mediocere 3% budget expansion, and hire engineers with 5% more intelligence/ingenuity - instead of the average people they have now - or - get this - hire more people and make the average performers at nasa *gasp* take a pay cut.
I like the idea that they're farming out advanced research with prizes to the best ideas, but that's only the beginning. There are a lot of people that don't have PHDs that know a lot more than some of their current employees*. Once our current plutacray erodes, maybe they'll actually give a piss about what's out there instead of how much money they give LM, or Boeing.
Oh, and if you ask me, and I know you didn't, I would recommend that the next generation's newest democracy fully decouple politicians and money if they expect it to work.
a. Nope, that went corrupt sometime in the 1800s (maybe even earlier).
b. If by stable you mean plutocratical, then you're right.
c. If by stable you mean spending exorbinant amounts of money we make out of thin air as well as borrow from increasingly hostile countries that we'll never pay back and our grandchildren will hate us for, I'll give you that too.
In other words, we had all three, we don't anymore.
P.S. You talk about democracy like it's the the cure for everything. I'm sure you know the Churchhill quote:
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been." - Winston Churchill
It'll be interesting to see if the game is any better than Morrowind.
Morrowing loaded so horrendously slow, I could decode complex cryptographical messages from zee Germans in between screens. And I don't even know ROT13! Also, the very fact that you could _often_ get stuck in the game was friggen terrible. Not only did you lose your last hours+ of gaming, you had to wait for it to load again after a reboot! By stuck, I mean accidently falling off a mountain and in between a rock and a cottage only to find I couldn't free myself.
Additionally, the AI was terrible and and the game didn't have much diversity - nothing like FF7 or other massive games.
I had to give up about halfway through the game because of these things - it had so much potential too.
While you do pose good questions, good questions that have puzzled the scientific community for years, I think that you do not understand just how rare fossils are.
Only under exceedingly rare conditions does the potential for a creature to become a fossil exist. Even then, it's exceptionally rare for all of the right things and non of the wrong to happen to a fossil. This of course, still doesn't account for us finding them. Sure, we may have done a significant amount of scanning on the surface of the earth (the present surface, that is), we haven't done significant amount 1 foot, 2 feet, 3 feet, etc, below that.
It would be a good time to pull out the Sagan and say: "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence".
All in all, Fossils can probably never be as the sole source for evolutionary theory, but just as one cornerstone of it.
To call the theory bunk because we don't have hard proof of things is exact, gradual steps for every single attribute is absurd, especially in light of the rarity of fossils. If we can lay out logical steps of evolution between, say, Homo erectus and homo sapians, with _rational_ steps and logical conclusions, I think it'd be hard for anyone, maybe 90IQ+, to argue.
Proud of the fact that we can make up lies that last many thousands of years and fool most of our civilization because it fills the the gap of intelligence/logic with some incessant babbling? Proud of the fact that a huge majority of recorded murders/wars can be attributed to religion and beliefs?
I suspect you have a truemobile with the BCM4301 chipset? Bad news, sorry you got screwed with that:) Anyway, it appears ndiswrapper works with this assuming two things:
Where are Flash / Java / mp3 support? Is there a Free and working DVD player or video player?
There are a number of commonly used formats and tools that we are unable to support because they have restrictive distribution rights, require special licenses, or are patent encumbered. We may be able to provide support for some of these in restricted, but in general, we would prefer to support Free software and Free formats. If you add the debian-marillat repository to your Ubuntu sources.list (use testing/main), you can use Synaptic or apt-get to install MPlayer, lame, and other tools to deal with non-free formats like DVD and MP3. A relatively clean way of getting Totem to work with all the proprietary file formats is to install totem-xine rather than totem-gstreamer. Then you can download the win32 codecs from elsewhere and install them in ~/.gnome2/totem-addons/ and everything works fine. Of course, this isn't as cool and integrated as using GStreamer for handling all the media, but it works well. If you wish to use the Java SDK/RE, see Java on Debian for an installation guide (it's also valid for Ubuntu). As an alternative to the above mentioned Java on Debian tutorial, you may wish to install some pre-packaged packages. The website http://z42.de/debian/ lists an apt source that lets you install for example Sun Java2 v1.5 with a single command:apt-get install sun-j2sdk1.5 sun-j2sdk1.5debian
I didn't say buy a new printer, I said "Don't use that piece of shit".
Hell, even if lexmark did release a linux driver, I still wouldn't use it. If there's one thing worse at lexmark than their hardware - it's their software.
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If you don't need the extra features of triggers, stored procedures, replicated, clustering, etc. etc. then MySQL Is a nice little database server.
Doesn't mysql do all of those? Did mysql have replication, even native, well before postgres?
I only have one thing to say to you, and that is Thanks. I've been using it. I love it.
I just want you to know that I'd rather saw my hands off with a wooden comb and use the bloody stumps to control tora than ever consider using this shitpile of bloated, oracle developed Java. If any of you have ever used Oracle's Java apps, I'm sure you won't find this much different. I can use tora freely, no bullshit java breakage, no insanely slow X windows forwarding, no god awful shitbox ugly interface, and most importantly:
Oracle builds this pile of crap so they can show their potentential customers "Look, we have a gui too!", whereas people like the tora developers build it so they can use it.
'sudo passwd' doesn't change root's password - the sudo does nothing in this case. It will still change yours.
If you wish to change root's pass, you need to 'sudo passwd root' or 'sudo su -;passwd'
I have a feeling you're gonna like the new NetworkManager. I had the same gripes as you, and the newest ubuntu solved them. The newest NetworkManager, 0.60, is the one that natively supports WPA - though it doesn't appear likely that it's going to end up in the new ubuntu.
Remind me again how security updates are done with FreeBSD? I seem to remember it needing a buttload of downloading and a whole lotta compiling - Not exactly convenient when you're running several hundred servers. I could be wrong, of course.
I have ubuntu on 4 computers, and only on the one with Xinerama/dual monitors did I have to do any editing. Nvidia, intel810 and intel855 is the hardware I run. I'd be genuinely interested in hearing an anecdote about how the recent ubuntus didn't properly setup Xorg. I'm sure there are some out there - OEM hardware, piss poor ATI crap, etc, but it's obvious they're leaps and bounds better than they were.
Oh yeah....and other operating systems are just so intuitive that you can do anything on them without reading a manual/faq/howto - oh wait, no they're not!
I'd suggest using paper and pen for your primary means of "computing" - oh wait, you'd have to learn to read and write.
Chalk and rock? Damn, need to know how to draw.
Sit on your ass and bitch on how 70 years of developing one of the greatest technologies man kind has been working on to date doesn't have you in a virtual reality with neural interfaces and feeding tubes? You seem to have enough energy to do that.
Are you trolling, or is there some sarcasm I missed? Seriously, though, if you really feel that way, I dare you to point to even one operating system that you think is more stable package wise. One that doesn't change configuration files/behaviour of programs with updates, one that's been updating their security packages regularly, and one that contributes to the software community more than debian and it's respected branches. One that only requires reboots infrequently for kernel updates. One that has standard(s) and has stuck to those standard(s) as steadfast and reliably as debian.
We might choose to refer to this as an unknown energy source.
RAmen!
Whoops, sorry, guess I replied to the wrong poster:)
Why can't we blame Bush & Co? Sure the congressmen passed it, but so did Bush. In truth, it's our fault for not sufficiently decoupling politics and money. In any case, you voted for him, I didn't.
I guess I'd be stuck in Africa, which may not be too bad for me, but a whole lot better for my great great great great great grandparents.
Yes, because in 1750, life in africa was so much better than life in America - and 1850 and 1950... Chances are, if your family would have stayed there, it would be dead by now. It's pretty safe to say that more lineages in Africa have died in the past 500 years than have lived. The problem is, however, your family would not only probably be one of those lineages that died, but also that you wouldn't be alive today if exactly what happened didn't happen. We don't owe you anything.
But the military is making the world a better world right here right now.
Oh yes. Wait - they are? I haven't seen it, have you? I give you a 20 year time frame - you give me one, just one, that's right one (1) example of a foreign country where a large problem, like a threat to us, has been solved. Until then, STFU.
But after that you start losing a significant portion of the population of people - and what's the government supposed to be for - wait - let me look it up real quick...
OH! It's for the people! Imagine that! Some people on earth have vices! You're perfect though - you don't cost the taxpayer anything. The world owes you! It's all those people that smoke and drink and don't run every morning before work and play rugby after work on Thursdays! They're taking all of your money! Good work, detective. You just go ahead and eliminate them, we'll see how well your system works after you eliminate everyone in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th sigma.
Maybe the pioneer anomolies? How about cosmic ray research (See newest Scientific America)? How about maybe some research into living somewhere besides earth? I mean, we really are some unimaginable fraction of the universe (or even galaxy!) right now - it'd be nice to see something more. They are, after all, a SPACE agency. Space is a lot friggen more than just mars. Space is absurdely huge. Absurdely. It's difficult for you and I to imagine Pluto's distance, much less the Oort cloud's.
The New Horizons probe is hitting an astonishing 21m/s now - 25 or so when it's past jupiter. Maybe they could stive for a bit more than a 4m/s gain? Maybe they could spend some money to show how safe nuclear power is instead of dealing with the bullshit anti-rng protesters? How about spending a little less money with Lockheed Martin, and a little more with creative engineers at @ Scaled Composites? Maybe, just maybe, they could quit bitching about their mediocere 3% budget expansion, and hire engineers with 5% more intelligence/ingenuity - instead of the average people they have now - or - get this - hire more people and make the average performers at nasa *gasp* take a pay cut.
I like the idea that they're farming out advanced research with prizes to the best ideas, but that's only the beginning. There are a lot of people that don't have PHDs that know a lot more than some of their current employees*. Once our current plutacray erodes, maybe they'll actually give a piss about what's out there instead of how much money they give LM, or Boeing.
*Note: I just said some.
Oh, and if you ask me, and I know you didn't, I would recommend that the next generation's newest democracy fully decouple politicians and money if they expect it to work.
Pulling the checklist out:
Let's see:
a. Nope, that went corrupt sometime in the 1800s (maybe even earlier).
b. If by stable you mean plutocratical, then you're right.
c. If by stable you mean spending exorbinant amounts of money we make out of thin air as well as borrow from increasingly hostile countries that we'll never pay back and our grandchildren will hate us for, I'll give you that too.
In other words, we had all three, we don't anymore.
P.S. You talk about democracy like it's the the cure for everything. I'm sure you know the Churchhill quote:
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been." - Winston Churchill
Dammit! Don't reason with him like that, I had a tiger repelling rock to sell him!
Sixes turn upside down, down there too? Ssshhh! Don't talk, I'm busy moving my bank accounts.
Wait wait wait! That also means 69s turn to 99s! Heaven, here I come.
It'll be interesting to see if the game is any better than Morrowind.
Morrowing loaded so horrendously slow, I could decode complex cryptographical messages from zee Germans in between screens. And I don't even know ROT13! Also, the very fact that you could _often_ get stuck in the game was friggen terrible. Not only did you lose your last hours+ of gaming, you had to wait for it to load again after a reboot! By stuck, I mean accidently falling off a mountain and in between a rock and a cottage only to find I couldn't free myself.
Additionally, the AI was terrible and and the game didn't have much diversity - nothing like FF7 or other massive games.
I had to give up about halfway through the game because of these things - it had so much potential too.
While you do pose good questions, good questions that have puzzled the scientific community for years, I think that you do not understand just how rare fossils are.
Only under exceedingly rare conditions does the potential for a creature to become a fossil exist. Even then, it's exceptionally rare for all of the right things and non of the wrong to happen to a fossil. This of course, still doesn't account for us finding them. Sure, we may have done a significant amount of scanning on the surface of the earth (the present surface, that is), we haven't done significant amount 1 foot, 2 feet, 3 feet, etc, below that.
It would be a good time to pull out the Sagan and say: "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence".
All in all, Fossils can probably never be as the sole source for evolutionary theory, but just as one cornerstone of it.
To call the theory bunk because we don't have hard proof of things is exact, gradual steps for every single attribute is absurd, especially in light of the rarity of fossils. If we can lay out logical steps of evolution between, say, Homo erectus and homo sapians, with _rational_ steps and logical conclusions, I think it'd be hard for anyone, maybe 90IQ+, to argue.
p.s. Man didn't just kind of show up. Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution Pay close attention to the Miocene period.
Proud of the fact that we can make up lies that last many thousands of years and fool most of our civilization because it fills the the gap of intelligence/logic with some incessant babbling?
Proud of the fact that a huge majority of recorded murders/wars can be attributed to religion and beliefs?
Hah. Proud - that'll be the day.
I suspect you have a truemobile with the BCM4301 chipset? Bad news, sorry you got screwed with that:) Anyway, it appears ndiswrapper works with this assuming two things:
- 17787-3/SP23107.exe
x .php/Ubuntu
#1. You set post mode to thorough in the bios, otherwise modprobing the ndiswrapper causes freezes.
#2. Not using the dell supplied bcmwl5a.inf. Use the one from ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/software3/COL3601/hb
If anything, I'd suggest the ndiswrapper wiki:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/inde
Other than that, I don't have much advice, sorry.
It's interesting you asked that - I went to find the answer and it is actually documented in the faq:)
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http://www.ubuntu.com/support/faq?action=show&red
How can I do Flash, Java or mp3 ?
Where are Flash / Java / mp3 support? Is there a Free and working DVD player or video player?
There are a number of commonly used formats and tools that we are unable to support because they have restrictive distribution rights, require special licenses, or are patent encumbered. We may be able to provide support for some of these in restricted, but in general, we would prefer to support Free software and Free formats. If you add the debian-marillat repository to your Ubuntu sources.list (use testing/main), you can use Synaptic or apt-get to install MPlayer, lame, and other tools to deal with non-free formats like DVD and MP3. A relatively clean way of getting Totem to work with all the proprietary file formats is to install totem-xine rather than totem-gstreamer. Then you can download the win32 codecs from elsewhere and install them in ~/.gnome2/totem-addons/ and everything works fine. Of course, this isn't as cool and integrated as using GStreamer for handling all the media, but it works well. If you wish to use the Java SDK/RE, see Java on Debian for an installation guide (it's also valid for Ubuntu). As an alternative to the above mentioned Java on Debian tutorial, you may wish to install some pre-packaged packages. The website http://z42.de/debian/ lists an apt source that lets you install for example Sun Java2 v1.5 with a single command:apt-get install sun-j2sdk1.5 sun-j2sdk1.5debian
It also links to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats, which is much more in depth.
I didn't say buy a new printer, I said "Don't use that piece of shit".
Hell, even if lexmark did release a linux driver, I still wouldn't use it. If there's one thing worse at lexmark than their hardware - it's their software.