As someone who has been using various versions of Ubuntu since 5.04 (Or maybe 4.10. I Can't really remember), pulse audio is *finally* working on Ubuntu 9.10, as of a couple days ago. Hopefully they don't break it again prior to releasing it in ~10 days.
Actually, if 9.10 is released as it currently stands, it'll be the first version of Ubuntu that just plain works on all my desktop computers. The caveat is that they probably moved to grub2 a little early, but at least they'll get all the kinks out by 10.04.:-)
As an aside, I just moved to ext4 for/home, and it works without a hitch. Can't wait for btrfs and easy drive spanning and mirroring.
The problem seems to be that when you choose "Linux", you keep trying different distributions.
How about always trying Fedora, and just try again a year later (or some such). Or always trying Ubuntu, or some other popular distro?
Also, with the newer distributions, going to the command line to install an application is generally not needed. Just find the graphical application installation method for the distro (google it), and go crazy.
There are tables of equivalent applications around on the internet as well, for all those little applications that you didn't realize had Linux equivalents.
As an added piece of advice: Create a bunch of bookmarks for websites (particularly responses on forums) that give answers to questions you have. That way, next time you have the same question (even if it is a year later), you can look up the answer much faster.
I had a blackberry before it. Never bothered trying to get applications onto it. Certainly never used the browser for more than 30 seconds at a time.
Before that I had a Razr. The contacts list sucked. The people that created the software (or ruined it, I really couldn't care which) obviously never used a phone's contact list.
The idea behind the app store is not at all new (sounds like a software repository, like with Debian Linux), but it made things so easy. You could add apps to the phone without connecting it to the computer.
There were some articles soon after the phone came out about how some people were using it instead of getting a primary computer. It worked that well.
Apple's multitouch trackpads on their current notebook lines have it right. In fact, they are so good that I wish they would sell a stand alone trackpad to add onto a desktop keyboard. Using gestures to scroll around a window and two finger click or hold and drag are often much faster than moving around with a mouse.
Not that I would ever get rid of a mouse, except (potentially) on a media system with a limited physical keyboard.
I am a physician (okay, not a brain surgeon, but I do some complex things at work). To the best of my knowledge, all states in the United States require a certain amount of continuing medical education (CMEs). In my current state, it's 100 hours every two years.
In addition, we are required to sit for the board examinations every 10 years. (So long as you got your degree after the early-to-mid 90s; people who passed the boards before then are good for life.)
I certainly wouldn't want my hospital to decide which conferences are important for me to go to. Because, chances are, some bureaucrat will be the one making that decision. I'd rather decide on my own what conference is important for me to go to.
I have a 54GL, which I put ddwrt on a couple years ago (maybe more, definitely before Christmas 2 years ago). I haven't rebooted it since then. Period.
Hell, I haven't even logged onto the device since then. Every time I consider upgrading to a 'n' wireless system, the reason I don't is because the current one works so well.
After that, no more Sony TVs, cam-corders, digital cameras, or music CDs. They lost about $15K on me alone, probably double that in people I referred to other manufacturers.
If the PSP UMD sticks are rewritable and cost more than a few bucks, why wouldn't most people store all their games, movies, etc. on their hard drives, and just keep a few UMD sticks around for whatever they are going to play?
If they are more than $10 each, I certainly wont waste them on a movie I may watch a couple times and then not be interested in. Same for games. I would probably buy a total of maybe 5-10 sticks total, and rewrite them as needed. I'm sure some people are cheaper than me and maybe buy just one or two sticks and deal with the pain of not having the exact game or movie they want on a trip.
You don't see the health 85-year-olds because they are out doing things. They don't just sit in front of the TV and waste away. Okay, many of them do. But the ones that are physically fit are out there as well. Just saw an 82 year old that still works 6 hours a day (don't know how many days a week) at Walmart. He said he'll quit when he's dead, and I believe him.
Over-population is going to be a problem with no easy solutions, but why put to death the 82 year old contributing member of society (just because of his age), when there are so many younger people that will never contribute to society?
Not exactly an artificial heart, but something pretty close.
They are called left ventricular assist devices (LVADs). The have a screw that is rotated by a magnetic field to continuously propel blood. Since the screw is the only moving part, they are pretty durable. They actually damage less blood than other types of artificial hearts. In fact, there are at least 30 individuals on the east coast of the United States that have these devices and are not on any blood thinners at all. (Blood thinners were given in these people at first but had to be stopped due to gastrointestinal bleeds.)
They've been put in for the last 5 years, with third generation devices out at this time. Thy are now approved (in special cases) as "destination therapy", meaning for people that they would never consider putting on a transplant list for a donor heart.
No one's suggesting we throw them out an air lock. Hell, it's really not worth sending them up to space, even if it is to send a message to other scammers.
Joe Larson, the man behind the game, has made sure to provide numerous mirrors so as to avoid the Slashdot effect that killed his site several months ago.
Yes. Well.... So much for that. Not one +3 comment and the site is sluggish as hell. May as well be slashdotted.
Some of the Vertigo titles (a branch of DC) have it right. The 75 issue runs of Lucifer and Sandman are excellent. The first 75 issues of Fables are equally good.
Unfortunately, these are less marketable titles to the mainstream.
Slashdot Mirror
As someone who has been using various versions of Ubuntu since 5.04 (Or maybe 4.10. I Can't really remember), pulse audio is *finally* working on Ubuntu 9.10, as of a couple days ago. Hopefully they don't break it again prior to releasing it in ~10 days.
Actually, if 9.10 is released as it currently stands, it'll be the first version of Ubuntu that just plain works on all my desktop computers. The caveat is that they probably moved to grub2 a little early, but at least they'll get all the kinks out by 10.04. :-)
As an aside, I just moved to ext4 for /home, and it works without a hitch. Can't wait for btrfs and easy drive spanning and mirroring.
The problem seems to be that when you choose "Linux", you keep trying different distributions.
How about always trying Fedora, and just try again a year later (or some such). Or always trying Ubuntu, or some other popular distro?
Also, with the newer distributions, going to the command line to install an application is generally not needed. Just find the graphical application installation method for the distro (google it), and go crazy.
There are tables of equivalent applications around on the internet as well, for all those little applications that you didn't realize had Linux equivalents.
As an added piece of advice: Create a bunch of bookmarks for websites (particularly responses on forums) that give answers to questions you have. That way, next time you have the same question (even if it is a year later), you can look up the answer much faster.
This is the default method on the latest couple releases of Ubuntu.
I haven't gone to nvidia.com to download a linux driver in well over a year. Can't say I miss it, either. :-)
The iphone just works. That is the difference.
I had a blackberry before it. Never bothered trying to get applications onto it. Certainly never used the browser for more than 30 seconds at a time.
Before that I had a Razr. The contacts list sucked. The people that created the software (or ruined it, I really couldn't care which) obviously never used a phone's contact list.
The idea behind the app store is not at all new (sounds like a software repository, like with Debian Linux), but it made things so easy. You could add apps to the phone without connecting it to the computer.
There were some articles soon after the phone came out about how some people were using it instead of getting a primary computer. It worked that well.
They could have chosen not to ship with zfs support.
Given how little OS X supports zfs, they could have left it out without any big deal.
Most people don't update the information on their phones all that often.
To them, it won't make a difference if data is restored from a point 1 week ago or the structure of the date is recovered.
Apple's multitouch trackpads on their current notebook lines have it right. In fact, they are so good that I wish they would sell a stand alone trackpad to add onto a desktop keyboard. Using gestures to scroll around a window and two finger click or hold and drag are often much faster than moving around with a mouse.
Not that I would ever get rid of a mouse, except (potentially) on a media system with a limited physical keyboard.
Yeah. They gave one for acting in a movie a few years ago. (A Nobel Prize in Science, in fact.)
Errr.....
I am a physician (okay, not a brain surgeon, but I do some complex things at work). To the best of my knowledge, all states in the United States require a certain amount of continuing medical education (CMEs). In my current state, it's 100 hours every two years.
In addition, we are required to sit for the board examinations every 10 years. (So long as you got your degree after the early-to-mid 90s; people who passed the boards before then are good for life.)
I certainly wouldn't want my hospital to decide which conferences are important for me to go to. Because, chances are, some bureaucrat will be the one making that decision. I'd rather decide on my own what conference is important for me to go to.
At least replication doesn't seem to be an issue.
Hear, hear.
I have a 54GL, which I put ddwrt on a couple years ago (maybe more, definitely before Christmas 2 years ago). I haven't rebooted it since then. Period.
Hell, I haven't even logged onto the device since then. Every time I consider upgrading to a 'n' wireless system, the reason I don't is because the current one works so well.
You need to generate some significant hate.
The rootkit issues was what did it for me.
After that, no more Sony TVs, cam-corders, digital cameras, or music CDs. They lost about $15K on me alone, probably double that in people I referred to other manufacturers.
I don't own a PSP, or any similar gaming system.
If the PSP UMD sticks are rewritable and cost more than a few bucks, why wouldn't most people store all their games, movies, etc. on their hard drives, and just keep a few UMD sticks around for whatever they are going to play?
If they are more than $10 each, I certainly wont waste them on a movie I may watch a couple times and then not be interested in. Same for games. I would probably buy a total of maybe 5-10 sticks total, and rewrite them as needed. I'm sure some people are cheaper than me and maybe buy just one or two sticks and deal with the pain of not having the exact game or movie they want on a trip.
You don't see the health 85-year-olds because they are out doing things. They don't just sit in front of the TV and waste away. Okay, many of them do. But the ones that are physically fit are out there as well. Just saw an 82 year old that still works 6 hours a day (don't know how many days a week) at Walmart. He said he'll quit when he's dead, and I believe him.
Over-population is going to be a problem with no easy solutions, but why put to death the 82 year old contributing member of society (just because of his age), when there are so many younger people that will never contribute to society?
You were probably zoning out while reading.
Not exactly an artificial heart, but something pretty close.
They are called left ventricular assist devices (LVADs). The have a screw that is rotated by a magnetic field to continuously propel blood. Since the screw is the only moving part, they are pretty durable. They actually damage less blood than other types of artificial hearts. In fact, there are at least 30 individuals on the east coast of the United States that have these devices and are not on any blood thinners at all. (Blood thinners were given in these people at first but had to be stopped due to gastrointestinal bleeds.)
They've been put in for the last 5 years, with third generation devices out at this time. Thy are now approved (in special cases) as "destination therapy", meaning for people that they would never consider putting on a transplant list for a donor heart.
People have a hard enough time figuring out what Apple is going to release 2 weeks prior to their events.
Now someone says they know what a Mac is going to look like a full year (or more) ahead of time. Please.
Who represented the rights of the user to the court?
Was a public defendant even involved, or was no one assigned because there was no face to the account that was deleted?
b) the baby's increased risk of health and education problems causes him or her to be born in the winter (clearly ridiculous)
You are assuming that the time axis is positive in all cases. Do you have a proof this is the case?
Embrace, Expand, Extinguish... It's not supposed to work against MS products.
No one's suggesting we throw them out an air lock. Hell, it's really not worth sending them up to space, even if it is to send a message to other scammers.
Joe Larson, the man behind the game, has made sure to provide numerous mirrors so as to avoid the Slashdot effect that killed his site several months ago.
Yes.
Well.... So much for that. Not one +3 comment and the site is sluggish as hell. May as well be slashdotted.
Agree.
Some of the Vertigo titles (a branch of DC) have it right. The 75 issue runs of Lucifer and Sandman are excellent. The first 75 issues of Fables are equally good.
Unfortunately, these are less marketable titles to the mainstream.
And how would you access the software in your headphones?
...use some of my spare CPU time to help out. Any easy way?