This actually seems somewhat reasonable. While I would love for BBC for post these shows advertisement-free, at least they're going to post them in a format that can be viewed in any major browser on varying OSs.
Is there software to download and store videos from youtube for Linux?
Heck, the best thing they could do is: Sell Dell boxes without an OS, give a copy of SUSE in the box, and place a sticker on the machine saying "SUSE Linux 2007 Certified by Novell".
If people want the machine preloaded, they can be charged an extra $, with the machine being diverted from Dell to Novell to do the installation. That extra $ will include setup and 3 months support from Novell.
Maybe having the user install ssh and then have the dell person root into the computer and start fixing things? Not the best answer (I can see social engineering nightmares), but it may be the only way to solve some of the linux nightmares in any sort of reasonable time period.
Speaking of forums, why not a/. forum, the way Intel apparently has now? Dell gets exposure to a large tech community, while/. gets to help choose some of the hardware specs for upcoming Dell systems.
Actually, it doesn't force anyone. To the best of my knowledge, in the United States any adult can refuse a vaccination, and any adult can refuse a vaccination for their child. There may be laws for children to refuse vaccinations as well.
When a law like this passes, what it means is that insurance companies are the ones that are forced to pay for the vaccinations, whereas before they could refuse, saying that the vaccination is "optional".
You don't have to be a young girl. You can be over 21 and have sex and get HPV as well. Let's stop thinking about the children and starting thinking about the females (both adult and future adults).
Are there clients that integrate (ie: extensions) for Firefox, IE, Safari, and Opera? If there is proper integration with these clients (meaning seamless downloading without opening third party download managers), this might actually go well.
It's bad enough when I tell my dad to download a torrent and he complains that a torrent manager client pops up; especially when he doesn't realize that closing the window may not stop the torrent.
From what I understand, it's not a threat of Linux stealing code from Microsoft OSs. It's Linux using ideas that are directly patented by Microsoft. Even if it's a cleanroom implementation, it can still violate patent law.
The problem is U.S. patent law and the fact that sometimes there really is only one way to design a solution, and the one to patent the design (not implementation details) wins.
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Absolutely. The first time through, it's nice seeing coming attractions for movies that will come out in a couple months or so. 5 years later, it's freaking annoying.
As for children's movies: I buy movies for my daughter so that she doesn't watch network TV commercials. Why the heck should she have to watch commercials on a DVD.
Now, if she watches a movie more than twice, I rip it and remove all the commercials. Eventually I'll get my home network set up and just have a movie server that wil rip our entire collection.
Interestingly enough, when I went to high school (mid-to-late 80s), our ID number in school was a 9 digit number that was not our social security number. At that time I thought it was strange, now I think they were ahead of their time.
The hacker did something that is considered illegal in most countries (unlicensed entry into someone's computer with the intent of eavesdropping). This is the sort of thing that gets people placed in prison.
I was under the impression that to join a police force you have to have a generally clean record.
The great thing is that other propriatery OSs (Think Mac OS X.*) use open source code (such as CUPS). They will have to defend those parts of the Linux desktop. As for kernel issues, I wouldn't doubt that the Windows guys are using IP developed by linux hackers. It's impossible these days to develop any complex project without threading on someone's IP.
Heh. I didn't even think about that. With the strong piracy control methods in Vista, lackluster sales mean a lot more than on previous Microsoft operating systems.
It should be interesting if data could be obtained about true number of installations (vs. actual sales) for Vista in 1 year vs. WinXP at one year.
Why not let Dell choose a single distribution, with an offer to sell third-party support for the distribution (selling Ubuntu with Canonical support comes to mind, or Fedora with Red Hat support).
Given the thousands of different distributions, they've got to make a choice and make some people unhappy. They might as well partner up with someone relatively big that already offers Linux support.
In comic books, where violence is pretty much a given, there was an issue of Incredible Hulk in which they showed the prison execution of a felon (Crazy Eight; I think the execution was via lethal injection) and didn't dumb it down.
Apparently the author (Peter David) took a lot of heat about it and got a lot of hate mail from parents, saying it was too violent. This is in a comic in which the main character throws tanks into populated buildings on a regular basis.
Case in point: The severely limited screen server package that replaced xscreensaver.
I'm not saying xscreensaver shouldn't be replaced. But having a screensaver system that didn't allow previewing in a box (fixed) and didn't allow options (god forbid I wanted to pick a photo that showed up when a screensaver was active.) is braindead.
Windows 3.11 was the early 90s. At the dawn of the WWW. Now we're ~15 years later with a home computer boom between then and now.
I'd wager most home users know nothing about Windows before '95.
Regardless, it should be relatively simple for a end user to install a driver without resorting to the CLI. Just as it was almost revolutionary for Ubuntu to not install gcc by default, I think some distribution should not install a CLI interface by default. Not to hobble the end user, but to have the community rethink how to distribute software in a system where CLI is not available.
Who doles out karma? It's fine here on/.. Over on wikipedia, just because you happen to know more about a subject that anyone else that is contributing, doesn't make you an expert. In fact, there are certain subjects (think: medical field) in which someone who believes that they know what they are talking about are causing more damage than they are really helping. Since no one else in wikipedia is more qualified in the subject, it's possible for wrong information to remain in the article for prolonged periods.
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This actually seems somewhat reasonable. While I would love for BBC for post these shows advertisement-free, at least they're going to post them in a format that can be viewed in any major browser on varying OSs.
Is there software to download and store videos from youtube for Linux?
Heck, the best thing they could do is: Sell Dell boxes without an OS, give a copy of SUSE in the box, and place a sticker on the machine saying "SUSE Linux 2007 Certified by Novell".
If people want the machine preloaded, they can be charged an extra $, with the machine being diverted from Dell to Novell to do the installation. That extra $ will include setup and 3 months support from Novell.
Maybe having the user install ssh and then have the dell person root into the computer and start fixing things? Not the best answer (I can see social engineering nightmares), but it may be the only way to solve some of the linux nightmares in any sort of reasonable time period.
Speaking of forums, why not a /. forum, the way Intel apparently has now? Dell gets exposure to a large tech community, while /. gets to help choose some of the hardware specs for upcoming Dell systems.
It's a no-lose situation.
It leaves them to restrict a OS license to a single virtual machine.
Actually, it doesn't force anyone. To the best of my knowledge, in the United States any adult can refuse a vaccination, and any adult can refuse a vaccination for their child. There may be laws for children to refuse vaccinations as well.
When a law like this passes, what it means is that insurance companies are the ones that are forced to pay for the vaccinations, whereas before they could refuse, saying that the vaccination is "optional".
You don't have to be a young girl. You can be over 21 and have sex and get HPV as well. Let's stop thinking about the children and starting thinking about the females (both adult and future adults).
Are there clients that integrate (ie: extensions) for Firefox, IE, Safari, and Opera? If there is proper integration with these clients (meaning seamless downloading without opening third party download managers), this might actually go well.
It's bad enough when I tell my dad to download a torrent and he complains that a torrent manager client pops up; especially when he doesn't realize that closing the window may not stop the torrent.
From what I understand, it's not a threat of Linux stealing code from Microsoft OSs. It's Linux using ideas that are directly patented by Microsoft. Even if it's a cleanroom implementation, it can still violate patent law.
The problem is U.S. patent law and the fact that sometimes there really is only one way to design a solution, and the one to patent the design (not implementation details) wins.
Absolutely. The first time through, it's nice seeing coming attractions for movies that will come out in a couple months or so. 5 years later, it's freaking annoying.
As for children's movies: I buy movies for my daughter so that she doesn't watch network TV commercials. Why the heck should she have to watch commercials on a DVD.
Now, if she watches a movie more than twice, I rip it and remove all the commercials. Eventually I'll get my home network set up and just have a movie server that wil rip our entire collection.
Interestingly enough, when I went to high school (mid-to-late 80s), our ID number in school was a 9 digit number that was not our social security number. At that time I thought it was strange, now I think they were ahead of their time.
The hacker did something that is considered illegal in most countries (unlicensed entry into someone's computer with the intent of eavesdropping). This is the sort of thing that gets people placed in prison.
I was under the impression that to join a police force you have to have a generally clean record.
Or just install DynDNS on the laptop.
The problem lies when there is only one efficient way to solve a problem. The first one to solve it gets a patent, and the rest are in trouble.
The great thing is that other propriatery OSs (Think Mac OS X.*) use open source code (such as CUPS). They will have to defend those parts of the Linux desktop. As for kernel issues, I wouldn't doubt that the Windows guys are using IP developed by linux hackers. It's impossible these days to develop any complex project without threading on someone's IP.
Heh. I didn't even think about that. With the strong piracy control methods in Vista, lackluster sales mean a lot more than on previous Microsoft operating systems.
It should be interesting if data could be obtained about true number of installations (vs. actual sales) for Vista in 1 year vs. WinXP at one year.
Why not let Dell choose a single distribution, with an offer to sell third-party support for the distribution (selling Ubuntu with Canonical support comes to mind, or Fedora with Red Hat support).
Given the thousands of different distributions, they've got to make a choice and make some people unhappy. They might as well partner up with someone relatively big that already offers Linux support.
In comic books, where violence is pretty much a given, there was an issue of Incredible Hulk in which they showed the prison execution of a felon (Crazy Eight; I think the execution was via lethal injection) and didn't dumb it down.
Apparently the author (Peter David) took a lot of heat about it and got a lot of hate mail from parents, saying it was too violent. This is in a comic in which the main character throws tanks into populated buildings on a regular basis.
Case in point: The severely limited screen server package that replaced xscreensaver.
I'm not saying xscreensaver shouldn't be replaced. But having a screensaver system that didn't allow previewing in a box (fixed) and didn't allow options (god forbid I wanted to pick a photo that showed up when a screensaver was active.) is braindead.
I've got a pretty nice library near me. Selection is not as nice as Blockbuster, but the prices are somewhat better.
Give to your local library. Either media (originals, of course) or via donations. Your entire community will benefit.
You may want to upgrade. Mac OS-X.3 has some stability improvements over version X. In fact, isn't the upgrade to X.1 free?
Well, for a laptop containing potentially classified information, maybe any IP address not on a white list.
Frankly, the list should be indexed by the per capita income in the country. In which case, the U.S. would be at the top of the list.
Windows 3.11 was the early 90s. At the dawn of the WWW. Now we're ~15 years later with a home computer boom between then and now.
I'd wager most home users know nothing about Windows before '95.
Regardless, it should be relatively simple for a end user to install a driver without resorting to the CLI. Just as it was almost revolutionary for Ubuntu to not install gcc by default, I think some distribution should not install a CLI interface by default. Not to hobble the end user, but to have the community rethink how to distribute software in a system where CLI is not available.
Who doles out karma? It's fine here on /.. Over on wikipedia, just because you happen to know more about a subject that anyone else that is contributing, doesn't make you an expert. In fact, there are certain subjects (think: medical field) in which someone who believes that they know what they are talking about are causing more damage than they are really helping. Since no one else in wikipedia is more qualified in the subject, it's possible for wrong information to remain in the article for prolonged periods.