My notebook an amd turion based acer spends more time in Mepis then windows now.
If not for a few games windows would be removed and mepis given the entire HD.
All my hardware except for the internal card reader works perfectly fine though sound took some editing of a file in/etc/rc and the video required ATI's binary drivers for 3d support.
I'll make the switch fully once MS pulls support for XP as I will not run Vista as it runs like crap even on dual core systems making a P2 running win 98 look fast.
Seems you work for a real Dilbert type operation they still use IE they must be really asking for a serious security breach if the network isn't locked down and behind a bunch of *nix or VMS servers or disconnected from the internet altogether.
Kinda makes me wonder how do these places stay in business as the first one that gets smart would have a huge advantage over the other companies in reduced IT costs and serious security breaches.
If you are talking about photoshop pros then you are not talking about windows you are talking about mac OS and OSX as nearly all graphics professionals use macs.
I wouldn't call the windows version of photoshop a professional tool by any standard as adobe for some reason can't write stable code on windows maybe the VM memory allocation in windows is just too broken and as screwed up and DRM happy as vista is don't expect it to be fixed anytime soon.
Most graphics people use macs not windows as the windows version of photoshop is a crashing pile of crap.
The windows side apps gimp has to compete against would be microsoft's god awful paint and draw apps which it happens to beat.
Openoffice is more compatible with MS office then the home version MS works is with it or older versions of office.
Heck even KDE office works better then MS works.
Remember Microsoft loves to break things just to force you to buy new software.
I have been able to open most windows actually nearly all documents with no trouble with Mepis which is an unbuntu based distro with several improvements such as KDE as the default WM.
I find it's better to do a clean install over the old one vs upgrade as drivers always get broken and all my comps have newer ATI and nvidia cards so I must use the binary driver or they run like shit.
Good news now they don't consider the madwifi atheros drivers taboo anymore they auto install every time now so more having to connect the laptop via ethernet and trying to find a driver while risking dependency hell or having to make do with ndis wrapper which is kinda kludge.
Also for the codecs simple enable universe and multiverse in synaptic you don't even have to see a console for that part.
Install gstreamer mpeg libs w32 codecs mplayer and BMP.
Next install gcc and dev packages get and compile decss or wget libdvdcss from one of the sites listed in the wiki.
As for for acroreader I find Xpdf works a lot better then that piece of bloatware heck I even avoid it under windows opting for foxit instead.
Lastly you could just install mepis which makes the codec and closed driver part easier and has has a better KDE support then Kubuntu .
um libdvdcss is not a violation of DMCA the MPAA can go to hell this was decided in court it's legal.
Besides DMCA should be challenged on all fronts it's a violation of the first amendment.
The 1976 copyright law was sufficient.
It would work if it's only a warning system and if the warning was very non invasive.
If it was a lockout or annoying the system would quickly find itself bypassed or the car would quickly be traded in on a model with out it.
The next news we'll hear about nissan is they have gone out of business because the pop up hood causes more accidents then it solves and sales have dropped off because no one will buy a car that has it's own priorities outside those of the driver.
I mean really this crap will not sale they just wasted a lot of R&D that could have went elsewhere.
No one would want to work for a supervisor who does constant monitoring so no logging shit or warn the driver first the company that chose to use such a system with out these two features would very very quickly go out of business as no one skilled would work for said company and they would only be able to hire unskilled greenhorns and illegals who would soon leave as soon as they are skilled enough to work elsewhere with no big brother.
One problem wouldn't the owner defeat the system just like I removed the speed governor from my car?
Also that car is so damn ugly I just want to use it for target practice I mean isn't that the ugliest car you have ever seen I would never driver anything so ugly.
Someone should beat the idiot who designed that eyesore with an idiot stick.
I think a compact alcohol fuel cell can come pretty close to a Mr Fusion as far as laptops and cell phones are concerned also you wouldn't have to find a room with induction coils in the floor to recharge just stick some more methanol or ethanol into the tank.
Maybe futurama wasn't too far off on it's humorous depiction of alcohol chugging robots like Bender.
A real life Data or Chii if robotics ever gets that far along likely would be powered in this manner if some compact nuclear battery isn't used.
BTW they have nuclear batteries they are call RTGs and they are used on space probes but they are way too expensive to be a consumer item and use toxic plutonium .
Though there has recently been invented a safe tritium battery that lasts ten years but it's low power only a few watts at the most.
Lastly the fuel cell is not going to give you cancer while this inductive power solution I'm not to sure about.
Yah thats also why I'm a little put off by the idea of having UAVs operating in the same airspace as general aviation.
Bird strikes can be bad cracked wind screens busted cowlings etc but could you imagine the damage a good sized UAV hitting a plane would cause.
Also on the remark about a light weight high density power sources that exists now and has for many years in the form of chemical fuels such as common ethanol or propane and an engine or fuel cell.
Big deal Tesla did something far more impressive then that over 100 years ago he lite 100 light bulbs I think during the 1890s from over 20 miles away and again during the 1920s he powered an electric car to 80mph likely via induction coils in the track. Nothing to see here move along.
Yes you could trick an OCS/ECS amiga into representing more then 4096 colors or an apple II or C64 more then 16 if you used dithering but they didn't advertised it could display more because dithering is not the same as truly have x number of shades and doesn't look as good.
Heck they were even truthful in the AGA chipset having only 256,000 colors since that was the number of pixels available in the high color depth.
I can only see their advertisement of the 6bit per channel display being 24bit because of dithering as truthful only when displaying a resolution lower then the LCD's native resolution such as 800x600 or 640x480.
The dithering will tend to make things look blocky and banded this is esp bad in production work.
The numbers I seen were 350,000 to over 16,000,000 likely varies with their test sample some people have better vision then others such as fighter pilots and sharp shooters tend to be selected for good vision and the lighting conditions.
In the case of the crappy display it can be an issue when trying to make something look right for print also yes it is false advertising because dithered colors do not count.
In the case of 16000 colors even a bi chromic animal such as a lemur or cat can see more distinct colors then that yes most mammals including dogs can see color the being completely color blind is a myth they only see red and blue but no green.
Also it's common knowledge in graphic design 6bit LCDs don't display many shades of blue or green correctly.
One issue about the 1mph over the speed limit speedometers and radar guns are not accurate within 1mph a ticket like that should be fought in court .
But yes the cop was being a raging asshole as even an idiot would know it's not a real crime it wasn't like the guy broke into a bank mainframe and inserted a script that skimmed $2 or so off ever transaction thus stealing millions of dollars or tricked some senior citizen into forking over 4 grand in some prize scam.
I'm just sick of laws and law enforcement that basically rapes people's civil rights over little petty stuff like this or being in possession of a single joint while real criminals run free.
Yes the very fact he now has a mark on his record for such a trivial transgression is a failure of the US justice system stuff like this just makes me sick.
He will not able able to own a firearm even though it was a non violent offense and the owner didn't even press charges,may have trouble finding employment in the future and may not be able to vote "which is something I find wrong even if you committed a serious crime and served your time since being able to vote is a basic human right."
The system has become a joke and the laws need to be changed punishment should fit the crime this is not the dark ages.
If there is any justice in the system he should be able to get a lawyer and change this stupid and brain dead law and get that mark removed from his record.
I agree with you 100% on this should be a civil case at worse he should be made to pay a good sized fine maybe $300 and told not to do it again.
He shouldn't have to risk prison time comparable to a serious drug offense or rape charge.
Overly punishing someone for a minor infraction is in it's self a crime and morally wrong and is supposed to only be the domain of dictatorships such as the Soviet Union under Stalin Or the Nazis
Too many little piss ant crimes have been trumped up into felonies but micro brained legislators who forgot who they really work for.
This zero tolerance crap has gone too far and has only served to destroy lives and over crowd prisons forcing them to release real criminals to make room.
To anyone who eats up this get tough on crime stuff remember when someone goes to prison for something trivial often another prisoner must be released to make room for the new prisoner and often that ends up being person with a history of violent crime who really should remain in prison for public safety.
If even if you are a heartless bastard who doesn't care about justice or public safety the very fact it costs $30,000 a year to house someone in prison should make you think twice about what good overly trumped up charges are.
Actually it should be like breaking the speed limit pay a fine move on thats it.
Charging someone a felony for something that really doesn't harm anyone is just stupid and callus.
By harm I mean real harm such as in armed robbery, tricking seniors out of their life savings or rape ie real crimes that hurt people vs simply inconvenience someone.
I don't think anyone should serve time in prison for stealing wifi bandwidth.
Overly punishing someone for such a trivial infraction goes against everything modern civilization is based on and is just inhuman.
That being a felony is a throw back to the dark ages.
The law is broken and needs replaced.
A felony for stealing bandwidth thats more then a little too harsh the worst punishment that should ever be handed out for it is a fine of a reasonable and sane amount such as $200 for the stolen bandwidth and maybe community service for a repeat offender.
It's not armed robbery or rape since nobody really gets harmed or even traumatized by that I mean injured or even killed as in armed robbery.
And don't go ranting about it costs them money as that is nothing compared to the physiological and physical harm getting robbed or rape does to people.
This is a failure of the justice system and the law is wrong this time the punishment must fit the crime and overly punishing someone for a minor infraction is in it's self a serious crime against humanity in my book.
A crime like this is the digital equivalent to jaywalking or peeing in the ally and must be treated as such.
There are no digital equivalents to rape or assault but maybe robbery in the case of Identity theft.
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My notebook an amd turion based acer spends more time in Mepis then windows now. If not for a few games windows would be removed and mepis given the entire HD. All my hardware except for the internal card reader works perfectly fine though sound took some editing of a file in /etc/rc and the video required ATI's binary drivers for 3d support.
I'll make the switch fully once MS pulls support for XP as I will not run Vista as it runs like crap even on dual core systems making a P2 running win 98 look fast.
Talk about a huge step backwards I'd never choose windows over OSX only reason I still keep windows around is games.
Seems you work for a real Dilbert type operation they still use IE they must be really asking for a serious security breach if the network isn't locked down and behind a bunch of *nix or VMS servers or disconnected from the internet altogether. Kinda makes me wonder how do these places stay in business as the first one that gets smart would have a huge advantage over the other companies in reduced IT costs and serious security breaches.
If you are talking about photoshop pros then you are not talking about windows you are talking about mac OS and OSX as nearly all graphics professionals use macs. I wouldn't call the windows version of photoshop a professional tool by any standard as adobe for some reason can't write stable code on windows maybe the VM memory allocation in windows is just too broken and as screwed up and DRM happy as vista is don't expect it to be fixed anytime soon.
Most graphics people use macs not windows as the windows version of photoshop is a crashing pile of crap. The windows side apps gimp has to compete against would be microsoft's god awful paint and draw apps which it happens to beat.
Openoffice is more compatible with MS office then the home version MS works is with it or older versions of office. Heck even KDE office works better then MS works. Remember Microsoft loves to break things just to force you to buy new software. I have been able to open most windows actually nearly all documents with no trouble with Mepis which is an unbuntu based distro with several improvements such as KDE as the default WM.
I find it's better to do a clean install over the old one vs upgrade as drivers always get broken and all my comps have newer ATI and nvidia cards so I must use the binary driver or they run like shit. Good news now they don't consider the madwifi atheros drivers taboo anymore they auto install every time now so more having to connect the laptop via ethernet and trying to find a driver while risking dependency hell or having to make do with ndis wrapper which is kinda kludge. Also for the codecs simple enable universe and multiverse in synaptic you don't even have to see a console for that part. Install gstreamer mpeg libs w32 codecs mplayer and BMP. Next install gcc and dev packages get and compile decss or wget libdvdcss from one of the sites listed in the wiki. As for for acroreader I find Xpdf works a lot better then that piece of bloatware heck I even avoid it under windows opting for foxit instead. Lastly you could just install mepis which makes the codec and closed driver part easier and has has a better KDE support then Kubuntu .
um libdvdcss is not a violation of DMCA the MPAA can go to hell this was decided in court it's legal. Besides DMCA should be challenged on all fronts it's a violation of the first amendment. The 1976 copyright law was sufficient.
It would work if it's only a warning system and if the warning was very non invasive. If it was a lockout or annoying the system would quickly find itself bypassed or the car would quickly be traded in on a model with out it.
The next news we'll hear about nissan is they have gone out of business because the pop up hood causes more accidents then it solves and sales have dropped off because no one will buy a car that has it's own priorities outside those of the driver. I mean really this crap will not sale they just wasted a lot of R&D that could have went elsewhere.
No one would want to work for a supervisor who does constant monitoring so no logging shit or warn the driver first the company that chose to use such a system with out these two features would very very quickly go out of business as no one skilled would work for said company and they would only be able to hire unskilled greenhorns and illegals who would soon leave as soon as they are skilled enough to work elsewhere with no big brother.
One problem wouldn't the owner defeat the system just like I removed the speed governor from my car? Also that car is so damn ugly I just want to use it for target practice I mean isn't that the ugliest car you have ever seen I would never driver anything so ugly. Someone should beat the idiot who designed that eyesore with an idiot stick.
I think a compact alcohol fuel cell can come pretty close to a Mr Fusion as far as laptops and cell phones are concerned also you wouldn't have to find a room with induction coils in the floor to recharge just stick some more methanol or ethanol into the tank. Maybe futurama wasn't too far off on it's humorous depiction of alcohol chugging robots like Bender. A real life Data or Chii if robotics ever gets that far along likely would be powered in this manner if some compact nuclear battery isn't used. BTW they have nuclear batteries they are call RTGs and they are used on space probes but they are way too expensive to be a consumer item and use toxic plutonium . Though there has recently been invented a safe tritium battery that lasts ten years but it's low power only a few watts at the most. Lastly the fuel cell is not going to give you cancer while this inductive power solution I'm not to sure about.
Yah thats also why I'm a little put off by the idea of having UAVs operating in the same airspace as general aviation. Bird strikes can be bad cracked wind screens busted cowlings etc but could you imagine the damage a good sized UAV hitting a plane would cause. Also on the remark about a light weight high density power sources that exists now and has for many years in the form of chemical fuels such as common ethanol or propane and an engine or fuel cell.
Big deal Tesla did something far more impressive then that over 100 years ago he lite 100 light bulbs I think during the 1890s from over 20 miles away and again during the 1920s he powered an electric car to 80mph likely via induction coils in the track.
Nothing to see here move along.
Yes you could trick an OCS/ECS amiga into representing more then 4096 colors or an apple II or C64 more then 16 if you used dithering but they didn't advertised it could display more because dithering is not the same as truly have x number of shades and doesn't look as good. Heck they were even truthful in the AGA chipset having only 256,000 colors since that was the number of pixels available in the high color depth. I can only see their advertisement of the 6bit per channel display being 24bit because of dithering as truthful only when displaying a resolution lower then the LCD's native resolution such as 800x600 or 640x480. The dithering will tend to make things look blocky and banded this is esp bad in production work.
The numbers I seen were 350,000 to over 16,000,000 likely varies with their test sample some people have better vision then others such as fighter pilots and sharp shooters tend to be selected for good vision and the lighting conditions. In the case of the crappy display it can be an issue when trying to make something look right for print also yes it is false advertising because dithered colors do not count. In the case of 16000 colors even a bi chromic animal such as a lemur or cat can see more distinct colors then that yes most mammals including dogs can see color the being completely color blind is a myth they only see red and blue but no green. Also it's common knowledge in graphic design 6bit LCDs don't display many shades of blue or green correctly.
yah I can easily tell a 15 bit 32,000 color display from a 24bit one when viewing some pictures.
Umm you are wrong the average human eye can detect about 16 million different shades.
Yah the very concept of the mandatory minimum was bad idea from the start it needs to go just take a look at the insanity of the war on drugs.
One issue about the 1mph over the speed limit speedometers and radar guns are not accurate within 1mph a ticket like that should be fought in court . But yes the cop was being a raging asshole as even an idiot would know it's not a real crime it wasn't like the guy broke into a bank mainframe and inserted a script that skimmed $2 or so off ever transaction thus stealing millions of dollars or tricked some senior citizen into forking over 4 grand in some prize scam. I'm just sick of laws and law enforcement that basically rapes people's civil rights over little petty stuff like this or being in possession of a single joint while real criminals run free.
Yes the very fact he now has a mark on his record for such a trivial transgression is a failure of the US justice system stuff like this just makes me sick. He will not able able to own a firearm even though it was a non violent offense and the owner didn't even press charges ,may have trouble finding employment in the future and may not be able to vote "which is something I find wrong even if you committed a serious crime and served your time since being able to vote is a basic human right."
The system has become a joke and the laws need to be changed punishment should fit the crime this is not the dark ages.
If there is any justice in the system he should be able to get a lawyer and change this stupid and brain dead law and get that mark removed from his record.
I agree with you 100% on this should be a civil case at worse he should be made to pay a good sized fine maybe $300 and told not to do it again. He shouldn't have to risk prison time comparable to a serious drug offense or rape charge. Overly punishing someone for a minor infraction is in it's self a crime and morally wrong and is supposed to only be the domain of dictatorships such as the Soviet Union under Stalin Or the Nazis Too many little piss ant crimes have been trumped up into felonies but micro brained legislators who forgot who they really work for. This zero tolerance crap has gone too far and has only served to destroy lives and over crowd prisons forcing them to release real criminals to make room. To anyone who eats up this get tough on crime stuff remember when someone goes to prison for something trivial often another prisoner must be released to make room for the new prisoner and often that ends up being person with a history of violent crime who really should remain in prison for public safety. If even if you are a heartless bastard who doesn't care about justice or public safety the very fact it costs $30,000 a year to house someone in prison should make you think twice about what good overly trumped up charges are.
Actually it should be like breaking the speed limit pay a fine move on thats it. Charging someone a felony for something that really doesn't harm anyone is just stupid and callus. By harm I mean real harm such as in armed robbery, tricking seniors out of their life savings or rape ie real crimes that hurt people vs simply inconvenience someone. I don't think anyone should serve time in prison for stealing wifi bandwidth. Overly punishing someone for such a trivial infraction goes against everything modern civilization is based on and is just inhuman. That being a felony is a throw back to the dark ages. The law is broken and needs replaced.
A felony for stealing bandwidth thats more then a little too harsh the worst punishment that should ever be handed out for it is a fine of a reasonable and sane amount such as $200 for the stolen bandwidth and maybe community service for a repeat offender. It's not armed robbery or rape since nobody really gets harmed or even traumatized by that I mean injured or even killed as in armed robbery. And don't go ranting about it costs them money as that is nothing compared to the physiological and physical harm getting robbed or rape does to people. This is a failure of the justice system and the law is wrong this time the punishment must fit the crime and overly punishing someone for a minor infraction is in it's self a serious crime against humanity in my book. A crime like this is the digital equivalent to jaywalking or peeing in the ally and must be treated as such. There are no digital equivalents to rape or assault but maybe robbery in the case of Identity theft.