Does it help that Adobe doesn't plan on making your creative suite Vista compatible?. You're gonna have to buy new versions moving to Vista... would it hurt trying to run them under Wine?
The question is, did you just click next to install it, or did you try to configure something, and not understand what you were doing? I've met many "geeks" who break stuff installing Ubuntu because they think they know better than the people who designed the installer, and that things will work just the same as they did in Windows. Tried doing some funny partitioning that just doesn't work, rather than letting the installer determine the best course of action. If you don't respect a loaded gun, it'll go off when you least expect it. Dicking with your OPERATING SYSTEM is the same kind of thing.
They also don't "care" to use their turn indicator, "care" to properly raise their kids, or "care" to be a productive member of society. I'll call them idiots if I feel like it.
You may not know the difference between a shovel head and a pan head, but if someone gave you a car with the headlight switch in a different place, would you instantly lock up and be "unable to operate this piece of shit!"? I've had people do that with computers. They're idiots.
So why not buy supported hardware in the first place? Do you expect a video card for a Mac to work on a Windows machine? Would you even try? Why do you assume Linux is somehow different?
Man... I must have been doing something wrong when I wanted to add another domain to my email server, and just added it to the config file and restarted postfix. A server isn't "simple". That's why Windows gets pwned all the damn time, because they try to make services appear simple. They aren't. Learn a bit about it, do some reading, and you find out that these things really aren't that hard. Text file configs are a hell of a lot easier to deal with than random GUI controls placed seemingly randomly. Go ahead, try to change your computer's name on the network under Windows... it's not under networking configuration where you'd expect it to be, is it?
I also want to ask you... how hard is any of this to understand or get working? And it seems to cover almost anything you'd want to do.
Do you use your manufacturer's disks, or do you use the base XP install? I think you'll find a world of difference, especially in a laptop. But it's just like expecting Windows to run on a PowerPC based Mac. The hardware isn't compatible... do you blame Windows? You don't? Why are you blaming Linux for you trying to install it on bargain-basement Windows-centric crap hardware, then? For another data point, the 64bit version of Feisty installed and works perfectly for me on my laptop, brightness, volume buttons, special email-launching keys, wireless, graphics acceleration. Everything. Don't blame the hammer when you try to use it to pound in a screw and it doesn't work. Get the proper match, a nail, and it'll be fine.
First off, you type "ls -l", rather than "ls -l *". It IS a bash issue, since the * is expanded by the shell, and not the kernel. You don't need to tell ls every single file as an argument when you want to just list them all. You made your life more difficult by not understanding the system you were using.
As for the keyboard, how arcane of an input device is it? Does it not adhere to HID standards? Even my laptop's keyboard works, with all the special function buttons for launching email and everything, right out of the box. I've never heard of a keyboard that needed a driver under Linux, so I am quite curious as to what model you are using, and why it took you 6 hours to compile a kernel module (really, a 10 minute job, and that's only if you don't have the kernel headers installed).
I didn't realize that DVD's were restricted to televisions... oh man, running that relatively small video in a corner of my 1680x1050 screen while I'm chatting and working is just the wrong way to do things! Thank you for bringing that to my attention... I'll cease my aberrant behavior forthwith.
...why? You bought a license to the content, not just a specific encrypted set of bits. Get the "illegal" copy and use it as you're legally entitled to.
All I know is that I've saved files in Excel, just to have Excel unable to read or recover them. Yet I open the document in OpenOffice.org, and it strips out the crap, and gives me a perfectly formatted Excel file back, minus whatever brain damage Excel saved into it when it did anesthetic-free gall bladder removal on the document. Office may look like a flashy product, but fuck if it isn't still a piece of shit underneath the GUI. I still use MS Office at work because we have macros and plugins written for it, but we're moving away from it as soon as we can build a replacement.
How about the excuse of "I have a life and don't want to dedicate it to a video game"? I can stop playing Final Fantasy XII, or StarCraft2, and leave it sitting for a month without losing any money, and then pick it right back up. MMO's require massive time dedication. I have better things to do with my time, thank you very little. I'm looking forward to a new RTS I can play on a LAN with my friends, rather than having a revolving cycle of questing, leveling, questing, ad infinitum.
Yes, getting the original trojan installed is the difficult part. I'm just saying it's an order of magnitude MORE difficult for that initial step to happen on Ubuntu than it is on Windows.
That's what snow shoes are for;) The trails in the winter are actually pretty nice. This is around Denver CO, and not Ontario, but I'd think it'd be at least similar. Just carry a gun with you and watch out for brown and polar bears:P
Install the 32bit Windows libraries, then the 64bit version of nswrapper, and wrap Flash with it. Flash on under 64bit, embedded directly in a 64bit browser, with no warnings or annoyances.
But you'd have to get them to type "sudo" or supply their user password to run it. Windows? You double click on the attachment that says "Parits Hilton Bewbiez!", and click "Ok" on the warning, and you're hosed. Which one do you think is more likely to happen?
That's what I was saying. I never said it was a problem, I said it was a physical limitation. Limitations aren't always bad.
And no, you can't get the same with an mp3. It still depends on the source CD, which is all the tracks already mixed together. The only solution would be to re-mix the source tracks so they weren't all loud as hell simultaneously, and an LP basically forces you to do that.
I dunno about you, but I'd be 'training' them as ineptly as I could legally get away with, without getting fired. Training your replacement when you don't have somewhere else to go sucks ass.
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Does it help that Adobe doesn't plan on making your creative suite Vista compatible?. You're gonna have to buy new versions moving to Vista... would it hurt trying to run them under Wine?
The question is, did you just click next to install it, or did you try to configure something, and not understand what you were doing? I've met many "geeks" who break stuff installing Ubuntu because they think they know better than the people who designed the installer, and that things will work just the same as they did in Windows. Tried doing some funny partitioning that just doesn't work, rather than letting the installer determine the best course of action. If you don't respect a loaded gun, it'll go off when you least expect it. Dicking with your OPERATING SYSTEM is the same kind of thing.
He probably just yanked the drive out rather than safely removing it. It's a common problem with Windows users.
They also don't "care" to use their turn indicator, "care" to properly raise their kids, or "care" to be a productive member of society. I'll call them idiots if I feel like it.
You may not know the difference between a shovel head and a pan head, but if someone gave you a car with the headlight switch in a different place, would you instantly lock up and be "unable to operate this piece of shit!"? I've had people do that with computers. They're idiots.
So why not buy supported hardware in the first place? Do you expect a video card for a Mac to work on a Windows machine? Would you even try? Why do you assume Linux is somehow different?
Man... I must have been doing something wrong when I wanted to add another domain to my email server, and just added it to the config file and restarted postfix. A server isn't "simple". That's why Windows gets pwned all the damn time, because they try to make services appear simple. They aren't. Learn a bit about it, do some reading, and you find out that these things really aren't that hard. Text file configs are a hell of a lot easier to deal with than random GUI controls placed seemingly randomly. Go ahead, try to change your computer's name on the network under Windows... it's not under networking configuration where you'd expect it to be, is it?
I also want to ask you... how hard is any of this to understand or get working? And it seems to cover almost anything you'd want to do.
Do you use your manufacturer's disks, or do you use the base XP install? I think you'll find a world of difference, especially in a laptop. But it's just like expecting Windows to run on a PowerPC based Mac. The hardware isn't compatible... do you blame Windows? You don't? Why are you blaming Linux for you trying to install it on bargain-basement Windows-centric crap hardware, then? For another data point, the 64bit version of Feisty installed and works perfectly for me on my laptop, brightness, volume buttons, special email-launching keys, wireless, graphics acceleration. Everything. Don't blame the hammer when you try to use it to pound in a screw and it doesn't work. Get the proper match, a nail, and it'll be fine.
First off, you type "ls -l", rather than "ls -l *". It IS a bash issue, since the * is expanded by the shell, and not the kernel. You don't need to tell ls every single file as an argument when you want to just list them all. You made your life more difficult by not understanding the system you were using.
As for the keyboard, how arcane of an input device is it? Does it not adhere to HID standards? Even my laptop's keyboard works, with all the special function buttons for launching email and everything, right out of the box. I've never heard of a keyboard that needed a driver under Linux, so I am quite curious as to what model you are using, and why it took you 6 hours to compile a kernel module (really, a 10 minute job, and that's only if you don't have the kernel headers installed).
It also won't cost anything, so there's no reason to worry about long-term support, especially for a desktop system.
Nope. Just saved a document that had a lot of comments in it.
I didn't realize that DVD's were restricted to televisions... oh man, running that relatively small video in a corner of my 1680x1050 screen while I'm chatting and working is just the wrong way to do things! Thank you for bringing that to my attention... I'll cease my aberrant behavior forthwith.
...why? You bought a license to the content, not just a specific encrypted set of bits. Get the "illegal" copy and use it as you're legally entitled to.
All I know is that I've saved files in Excel, just to have Excel unable to read or recover them. Yet I open the document in OpenOffice.org, and it strips out the crap, and gives me a perfectly formatted Excel file back, minus whatever brain damage Excel saved into it when it did anesthetic-free gall bladder removal on the document. Office may look like a flashy product, but fuck if it isn't still a piece of shit underneath the GUI. I still use MS Office at work because we have macros and plugins written for it, but we're moving away from it as soon as we can build a replacement.
How about the excuse of "I have a life and don't want to dedicate it to a video game"? I can stop playing Final Fantasy XII, or StarCraft2, and leave it sitting for a month without losing any money, and then pick it right back up. MMO's require massive time dedication. I have better things to do with my time, thank you very little. I'm looking forward to a new RTS I can play on a LAN with my friends, rather than having a revolving cycle of questing, leveling, questing, ad infinitum.
Yes, getting the original trojan installed is the difficult part. I'm just saying it's an order of magnitude MORE difficult for that initial step to happen on Ubuntu than it is on Windows.
Predominant population and culture, not enforced in any way (as far as I know).
That's what snow shoes are for ;) The trails in the winter are actually pretty nice. This is around Denver CO, and not Ontario, but I'd think it'd be at least similar. Just carry a gun with you and watch out for brown and polar bears :P
Please tell me you're no more than 13 years old...
Install the 32bit Windows libraries, then the 64bit version of nswrapper, and wrap Flash with it. Flash on under 64bit, embedded directly in a 64bit browser, with no warnings or annoyances.
But you'd have to get them to type "sudo" or supply their user password to run it. Windows? You double click on the attachment that says "Parits Hilton Bewbiez!", and click "Ok" on the warning, and you're hosed. Which one do you think is more likely to happen?
That's what I was saying. I never said it was a problem, I said it was a physical limitation. Limitations aren't always bad.
And no, you can't get the same with an mp3. It still depends on the source CD, which is all the tracks already mixed together. The only solution would be to re-mix the source tracks so they weren't all loud as hell simultaneously, and an LP basically forces you to do that.
I dunno about you, but I'd be 'training' them as ineptly as I could legally get away with, without getting fired. Training your replacement when you don't have somewhere else to go sucks ass.
Gotta love lowering costs and showing short-term "profit" by selling off your capital. I love the new business ethos.
Sorry, only nerds play with explosives. You need to go watch MTV for 2 hours in penance.
Whatever the reason, it still happens, and is a problem.