I use the intel 3945 chipset. Works fine, including packet injection, which is not supported under windows.
Driver is not entirely open source, but the firmware is available for free and the Linux side of things now comes in the kernel with the iwl3945 driver. If you need any help, message me:)
True, setting up Debian isn't entirely smooth sailing, but once you're there, even unstable seems pretty damn stable to me. I've more or less stuck with unstable for the last seven year, apart from a short period of pain on Redhat (mainly due to not being able to find my precious config files, damnit) and another brief while on Gentoo (more pain).
But yeah, Ubuntu is nice too. Most of the Debian goodness, with autoconfig for those who can't configure, or don't want to configure it for themselves.
Out of curiosity, I googled the Dell E1505s and can see many people explaining how their's works with Linux. So, what are you talking about?
I've set Linux up on many machines in the past and I've never had a machine that I haven't had most things up and running. Newer hardware is the bigger problem, where the manufacturers haven't put out Linux drivers or supported their development at all, but your core stuff is almost always supported.
Hmm... I took almost two years off to travel. I've been working full time for about three weeks again, and all I really want to do is go and travel again:)
So, yes, my perspective changed. It hasn't exactly helped me with work though!
Crazy talk. Why would you do this? So your kid can do the same, live a crap life, so that his kid can have a crap life, so that his kid etc? What exactly is the point of that?
No, you have to enjoy your life. And if swapping jobs achieves that, then do it.
Do you really have such a problem with hardware support?
I only buy hardware with Linux support. The companies I have worked for, when they have decided on Linux, ensure that the hardware they buy will work with the OS they have selected.
Hardware support has not been a large problem for me. Drivers are not a huge problem.
On the other hand, if it was sponsored by the Chinese leadership (..)
Yes, that would be interesting to know. But one of the more insightful views I've heard recently in the China vs. Tibet matter, is that "after so many years of communist rule, it is hard for Chinese people to make a distinction between government, communist party, policy and country". As a result, criticism of Chinese actions concerning Tibet may be felt not as attacks on policy, but attacks on the Chinese people and country. Don't know if that is true, but I'd welcome readers from China to comment on that.
It seems to me that the Confucian value of service to the state may be a contributing factor here. Certainly the posts by supporters of the goverment that I see out there conflate any criticism with the Chinese government, or of any individual action, with an at attack on all of China and Chinese culture.
Perhaps that's it, although I think it's more an issue of different cultural values. Supporting the motherland seems to be of great importance, possibly related to the Confucianist values (searching for confucianism and motherland brings up things like this).
Given that the government is often considered to be the motherland, the reasoning seems to be
I protest against the British exactly the same amount that I protest against the Chinese: not at all. I don't even abstain from visiting their countries, having been to both.
I've found the people in both places to be largely pleasant. I have English relatives and Chinese friends.
However, both governments are pretty much crap. And, in my opinion, the Chinese one is the worse of the two.
Reading the posts in the linked blogs, the other strong trend I see is the intense nationalism of the Chinese posters. They feel that they _have_ to back up the Chinese government; they draw no distinction, an attack on anything that happens to be Chinese is an attack on all Chinese.
This nationalism is really hard for me to grasp. I don't feel anything like it for my own country, even though I consider it one of the best places on earth; it's still got a whole pile of problems as well and I'm happy enough to hear them.
Possibly it comes back to the misinformation again. We've spent our whole lives hearing both the good and bad about our countries (unless you listen to Fox News, of course) and are used to it; those stuck in China are fed on drivel. I've been through China and the TV did remind me of Fox news, in a strange way.
True. The first time I saw Fox News, I thought it was like a television version of The Onion. You know, a really subtle piss take. I thought it was great.
Moderately more believable; large as China is, non-Chinese still out number them. Lumping 1/6 of the world into one group is slightly more believable than lumping 5/6ths. Only slightly though:)
Sounds about right, except, of course, that far fewer people have been killed in Northern Ireland. Fundamentally, though, you're right - the English should get out of Northern Ireland, just as the Chinese should get out of Tibet.
I disagree. The first three areas you mention are of interest to a relatively small number of users. The final is one area that Open Source software is completely cleaning up on, with MPlayer and VLC easily being more useful players than anything else I've come across (and both running under Windows as well, if you want a decent player there...).
As has been mentioned many times, the biggest problems are
Windows comes preinstalled
The current generation of users have grown up using windows; they know it already, why shift?
Is this with POP or something? I've used evolution for about eight years now and I've never had my data destroyed in any way, but I've always used IMAP and kept a cached local copy for when I'm working offline...
I travelled for 20 months with an el cheapo Acer in my backpack. It's still going (although not in great condition), but I figured that if it was stolen then the loss wasn't too huge and if it broke, then likewise.
Carry one of those laptop locks, as well as a few other padlocks, and lock everything up any time you go anywhere and you'll be fine.
Oh, and install TOR before you go. Lots of those countries have daft internet filtering, but I didn't come across a country where TOR didn't work for me.
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I use the intel 3945 chipset. Works fine, including packet injection, which is not supported under windows.
Driver is not entirely open source, but the firmware is available for free and the Linux side of things now comes in the kernel with the iwl3945 driver. If you need any help, message me :)
True, setting up Debian isn't entirely smooth sailing, but once you're there, even unstable seems pretty damn stable to me. I've more or less stuck with unstable for the last seven year, apart from a short period of pain on Redhat (mainly due to not being able to find my precious config files, damnit) and another brief while on Gentoo (more pain).
But yeah, Ubuntu is nice too. Most of the Debian goodness, with autoconfig for those who can't configure, or don't want to configure it for themselves.
Out of curiosity, I googled the Dell E1505s and can see many people explaining how their's works with Linux. So, what are you talking about?
I've set Linux up on many machines in the past and I've never had a machine that I haven't had most things up and running. Newer hardware is the bigger problem, where the manufacturers haven't put out Linux drivers or supported their development at all, but your core stuff is almost always supported.
Hmm... I took almost two years off to travel. I've been working full time for about three weeks again, and all I really want to do is go and travel again :)
So, yes, my perspective changed. It hasn't exactly helped me with work though!
Crazy talk. Why would you do this? So your kid can do the same, live a crap life, so that his kid can have a crap life, so that his kid etc? What exactly is the point of that?
No, you have to enjoy your life. And if swapping jobs achieves that, then do it.
I only buy hardware with Linux support. The companies I have worked for, when they have decided on Linux, ensure that the hardware they buy will work with the OS they have selected.
Hardware support has not been a large problem for me. Drivers are not a huge problem.
Yes, but it doesn't surprise us there, rightly or wrongly.
I suspect most of us expect less corruption in first world counties.
Somehow I have my doubts that any "anonymous" tips would really be all that anonymous...
Yes, that would be interesting to know. But one of the more insightful views I've heard recently in the China vs. Tibet matter, is that "after so many years of communist rule, it is hard for Chinese people to make a distinction between government, communist party, policy and country". As a result, criticism of Chinese actions concerning Tibet may be felt not as attacks on policy, but attacks on the Chinese people and country. Don't know if that is true, but I'd welcome readers from China to comment on that.
It seems to me that the Confucian value of service to the state may be a contributing factor here. Certainly the posts by supporters of the goverment that I see out there conflate any criticism with the Chinese government, or of any individual action, with an at attack on all of China and Chinese culture.
Perhaps that's it, although I think it's more an issue of different cultural values. Supporting the motherland seems to be of great importance, possibly related to the Confucianist values (searching for confucianism and motherland brings up things like this) .
Given that the government is often considered to be the motherland, the reasoning seems to be
I protest against the British exactly the same amount that I protest against the Chinese: not at all. I don't even abstain from visiting their countries, having been to both.
I've found the people in both places to be largely pleasant. I have English relatives and Chinese friends.
However, both governments are pretty much crap. And, in my opinion, the Chinese one is the worse of the two.
Reading the posts in the linked blogs, the other strong trend I see is the intense nationalism of the Chinese posters. They feel that they _have_ to back up the Chinese government; they draw no distinction, an attack on anything that happens to be Chinese is an attack on all Chinese.
This nationalism is really hard for me to grasp. I don't feel anything like it for my own country, even though I consider it one of the best places on earth; it's still got a whole pile of problems as well and I'm happy enough to hear them.
Possibly it comes back to the misinformation again. We've spent our whole lives hearing both the good and bad about our countries (unless you listen to Fox News, of course) and are used to it; those stuck in China are fed on drivel. I've been through China and the TV did remind me of Fox news, in a strange way.
True. The first time I saw Fox News, I thought it was like a television version of The Onion. You know, a really subtle piss take. I thought it was great.
Then I found out they weren't joking.
Then I was just afraid.
Moderately more believable; large as China is, non-Chinese still out number them. Lumping 1/6 of the world into one group is slightly more believable than lumping 5/6ths. Only slightly though :)
Sounds about right, except, of course, that far fewer people have been killed in Northern Ireland. Fundamentally, though, you're right - the English should get out of Northern Ireland, just as the Chinese should get out of Tibet.
Well, if you want my post to be as accurate as yours (which is to say, wildly inaccurate), about 700 years.
So colour me surprised...
So our past injustices excuse their modern day oppression?
This word "past", I don't think it means what you think it means...
Hmmm... I'm tempted towards the old "never ascribe to malice, what can be explained by incompetence".
Having recently resumed working for government and rediscovering the joys of bureaucracy it seems more likely to me!
Yeah, it's really incredible how people will believe in their government, no matter how batshit crazy they act...
Luckily, that would never happen in the West.
I disagree. The first three areas you mention are of interest to a relatively small number of users. The final is one area that Open Source software is completely cleaning up on, with MPlayer and VLC easily being more useful players than anything else I've come across (and both running under Windows as well, if you want a decent player there...).
As has been mentioned many times, the biggest problems are
Why did I move to Australia again? I'd better head back to New Zealand, the price of beer here in Aus is already far higher than it is back home...
Is this with POP or something? I've used evolution for about eight years now and I've never had my data destroyed in any way, but I've always used IMAP and kept a cached local copy for when I'm working offline...
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We develop some gym management software which has POS software integrated. Unfortunately, it's not open source.
However, the tools we use to do it are.
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I travelled for 20 months with an el cheapo Acer in my backpack. It's still going (although not in great condition), but I figured that if it was stolen then the loss wasn't too huge and if it broke, then likewise.
Carry one of those laptop locks, as well as a few other padlocks, and lock everything up any time you go anywhere and you'll be fine.
Oh, and install TOR before you go. Lots of those countries have daft internet filtering, but I didn't come across a country where TOR didn't work for me.