Where are trolls like you when Bush, et al. want to play our heart strings and force us to believe that we need to spend billions of dollars to help those poor oppressed people halfway across the world?
Don't like the Taliban? Quit whining and do something about it yourself. Don't like Saddam Hussein? Quit whining and do something about it yourself. Don't like Milosovic? Quit whining and do something about it yourself.
Certainly, in those regions, running for office takes a different set of skills. It's possible, though.
Small guys are burdened with legal fees...So with or without a patent, big company will eventually...(2) taking the patent-holding company to court
Any properly naive/. reader will tell you that's what the guaranteed right to an attorney is to protect you against. What? You're calling to question the quality of public defenders and pro bono work?:-)
I'd like to see Windows make proper use of the S-Video port on my GF4Ti4200 so I can watch DVDs on my TV
Funny you should mention that. Lately, when I try to watch DVDs on my TV with Win98SE using the S-video port on the Radeon 7500, the Win98SE desktop shows up fine but the DVD region shows up black on the TV even though it's displayed fine on the monitor. PowerDVD help says it's driver related. ATIs WinDVD makes vague allusions to mis-mapped memory registers. Whatever...
And, of course, the appropriate host/ip information needs to be in/etc/hosts on all client machines. Debian uses ifup to read this information and pass it to ifconfig.
On LFS (and RH, I believe), this information is in/etc/sysconfig/network/some_file. More or less the same.
You're right and I forgot something. To change the IP of one of my LAN machines I must change it in/etc/hosts on each LAN machine (so that they can find each other without me running dhcpd) and (here's the hitch that I forgot) in the config file in/etc/network/something/something (depending upon distro).
If you're using dhcp off of a home LAN router then you don't need/etc/hosts and it's possible to get away without doing anything in/etc/network if you're savvy enough to start dhclient out of/etc/rc3.d and alias in/etc/modules.conf. dhclient will take care of everything in that case.
People at work have no idea why you can't click on the the stuff in the Window, they have no idea that they are running a program off a server 1000 miles away under a completely different OS
That's not a Linux-killer. We have the same problem here, in a 100% Windows shop, with Remote Desktop connection. People don't understand why files they save to the HD in the RDC aren't accessible when they're using Outlook on their local machine.
Eventually I helped them map network drives and told them to use those.
It's not hellish at all. Setting a manual IP takes about 20 seconds and is available from the standard network connection GUI
It's just as easy under Linux. It's in/etc/hosts. You can edit it with your favorite text editor.
The issue was somehow it took 4 hours to get a home LAN configured. I was trying to think of why this would be so. Turns out the user wanted filesharing and a firewall. iptables and samba both have a learning curve.
My biggest issue was that the OP mentioned calling a "networking guru". My point was "not much of a guru, then."
but i'd like to see you try to get an ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon to capture video
I'm not even that picky.
I'd like to see Xf86 make proper use of the S-video port on my Radeon 7500 so that I can watch DVDs on my TV.
I have a K6-3/400. I can send DVDs to the TV under Win98SE but playback is choppy. I can watch smooth DVDs on my monitor under Linux. If I try to use the S-video port with Xf86 it only works with the unaccelerated VESA driver.
I've tried with framebuffer and without. I've tried the FBDEV driver. I've tried the ati driver. I've tried the radeon driver. I've tried the Gatos driver. I've tried the the DRI driver. I've tried the Gatos kmod. I've tried the DRI kmod. I've tried all fathomable combinations of the above with every kernel from 2.4.18 to 2.6.4 (I haven't bothered in several months).
The issue is always timing. There is not a single video mode which gets the correct timing with any driver but VESA. The TV always looks like it's in hell.
I spent 3 hours trying to get my network up, only to finally call my local network guru... who spent FOUR HOURS setting up my LAN
Not much of a guru. Unless you were demanding horrible prerequisites that you would never think to have on Windows./etc/hosts/etc/resolv.conf
Maybe you need to add something to/etc/modules.conf but, for the most part, everything else is "dhclient". If it's any more complicated than that then you don't have dhcp from a LAN router and Windows would've been just as hellish.
I imagine you wanted your own DHCP server, your own internal DNS, and your own httpd off of the Mandrake 10 box. That's not fun on Windows either.
The article was not about Linux on the Home Desktop Myths. It was about Linux on the Desktop Myths.
You must realize that the two are intimately tied together.
When Linux is ready for and assumes the majority share of the Home Desktop then companies will begin to migrate to Linux on the general Desktop. When the general Desktop migration begins then Adobe will happily follow the crowd and write a beautiful front-end and contribute effort to projects like GIMP. Home Desktop is the controlling facet of the general Desktop. No corporation is going to adopt Linux on the Desktop until the users are familiar with it on the Home Desktop. Just like OEM manufacturers Microsoft gives them too big of a break on bulk licensing to make the money issue a converting battle cry.
I pretty much refuse to take any article seriously that offers The Gimp as a resonable alternative or replacement to Photoshop
To point out the obvious: what home user has $650 for Photoshop anyways?
GIMP is a fine replacement for Microsoft Photo Editor. The interface may not be as nice but it's a lot more capable. When a majority of home users begin migrating to Linux and corporations follow suit then Adobe will probably be more than happy to add a sweet front-end to GIMP.
Linux is ready for the desktop. The issue does not lie in the technical merits or the realities. The issue lies in putting together a marketing effort which can convince a population which, by and large, has a computer, has Windows, browses the web, and doesn't need to change.
When Win98 no longer boots people will look at upgrading. When TCPA makes Win98 boxes unable to connect to the network then people will look at upgrading. If Linux has a good presence and well-known software at the time then they will switch. It's going to be difficult to gain widespread adoption of Linux until people are forced to upgrade. Since 99% of the existing home systems meet the needs of 90% of the owners there is no need to upgrade.
As far as the home market goes the only thing _REALLY_ driving upgrades anymore are games. Only gamers need the additional processor cycles or the additional A/V capability. The superiority of Windows support is noted in the gaming world. The business market isn't going to take a widespread office adoption of Linux until a significant portion of the population is comfortable using it. This won't happen until there's widespread home experience.
Linux is in a "beat the clock mode". If it can't get into the mainstream soon the corporate interests will legislate it away. As long as it doesn't get stymied by political shenanigans it still has a chance to make Redmond shiver.
(As far as I'm concerned, having to tell someone that you're going to watch them is as absurd as it gets in the espionage game.)
You know, if governments or other politically powerful people didn't have a 10000 year history misusing and abusing their power to place their personal interest above the interest of those they supposedly represent, I'd agree with you. But since greed is a fact of reality, I think that the PATRIOT Act and 99% of the government should be castrated and left as a historical monument to bad experiment in social engineering.
For the greatest part the only thing that the PATRIOT Act does is ensure that my politicians can raise the % of my paycheck that they spend on their own interests. There is no track record of success for Big Brother style approaches. Murderers, rapists, baby-killers, mother-molesters, and thieves are still caught primarily by good old fashion footwork investigation. Unless you're ultra-fanatical about hunting down weed-smoking hippies there's little or no need for the extraordinarily expensive Big Brother movements. When are government officials going to be subjected to the same blistering performance/goals review system that the rest of American professionals have to deal with?
Ok, I'll hand you an IPSEC encrypted VoIP stream and you tell me what the conversation was about
I'm pretty sure that the goal is to allow wiretapping at the interface between the data network and the residential phone system. Previously such a thing may have required a special warrant.
Now that I write it, however, I'm puzzled. Was there a legal technicality which disallowed them from tapping the residential side of a VoIP involved call? Why is this even news?
Right. Society doesn't help you at all, and you don't see anything from those taxes that you put in, right?
By my financial spreadsheet, 57.6% of last year's gross income was eventually shelled out in taxes or government fees. Our roads aren't _that_ good.
I assume that means you don't eat, or only eat imported food?
People ate long before they paid taxes.
Because the government also subsidizes 67% of gasoline prices
Have you looked at the tax rate on gasonline prices at the pump? They may subsidize the tax but, if you look a scant one step farther, we're subsidizing them. So who's really subsidizing it?
I take this to mean also that you plan on working until the day you die
With the tax/fee rate continuing to go up year after year we probably won't ever be able to save enough to retire.
Millions upon millions of people would kill for that
Completely out of context. It can always be worse. Tell those "millions and millions of people" to quit griping and complaining. At least they're not being sodomized forcefully on a daily basis.
the difference is that on the street, you can see who is listening
Unless they're hiding behind a corner or under the bushes.
Frankly this wire tapping business has gone on long enough
Amendment IV guarantees you the right to be secure against unreasonable search. If everyone is being monitored then it's not unreasonable to monitor. Amendment IV does not guarantee any right to absolute privacy.
I'm not a proponent of these Big Brother efforts, mostly because they're a waste of my tax money and have no proven track record of effectiveness, but the Constitution doesn't do as much for us as we think it does. There's always the hitch in Amendments IX and X but no politician has cared a single hoot about those in 200 years.
Amendment IV gives you a right to be secure against unreasonable search. That's no right to privacy. If everyone is monitored at all times then it's not unreasonable to be monitored.
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Go run for office and fix it already!
Where are trolls like you when Bush, et al. want to play our heart strings and force us to believe that we need to spend billions of dollars to help those poor oppressed people halfway across the world?
Don't like the Taliban? Quit whining and do something about it yourself.
Don't like Saddam Hussein? Quit whining and do something about it yourself.
Don't like Milosovic? Quit whining and do something about it yourself.
Certainly, in those regions, running for office takes a different set of skills. It's possible, though.
Small guys are burdened with legal fees...So with or without a patent, big company will eventually...(2) taking the patent-holding company to court
/. reader will tell you that's what the guaranteed right to an attorney is to protect you against. What? You're calling to question the quality of public defenders and pro bono work? :-)
Any properly naive
I'd like to see Windows make proper use of the S-Video port on my GF4Ti4200 so I can watch DVDs on my TV
Funny you should mention that. Lately, when I try to watch DVDs on my TV with Win98SE using the S-video port on the Radeon 7500, the Win98SE desktop shows up fine but the DVD region shows up black on the TV even though it's displayed fine on the monitor. PowerDVD help says it's driver related. ATIs WinDVD makes vague allusions to mis-mapped memory registers. Whatever...
You're still missing something. The dude you're talking to wants to set up a static IP manually
/etc/network/some_file. The structure is this:
/etc/hosts on all client machines. Debian uses ifup to read this information and pass it to ifconfig.
/etc/sysconfig/network/some_file. More or less the same.
I know that I'm not supposed to feed AC trolls but I enjoy the exercise.
On Debian:
Interface specific settings are stored in
iface eth0 inet static
address so.me.ip.add
netmask x.y.z.a
gateway b.c.d.e
broadcast f.g.h.i
And, of course, the appropriate host/ip information needs to be in
On LFS (and RH, I believe), this information is in
You use /etc/hosts to set up a manual IP?
/etc/hosts on each LAN machine (so that they can find each other without me running dhcpd) and (here's the hitch that I forgot) in the config file in /etc/network/something/something (depending upon distro).
/etc/hosts and it's possible to get away without doing anything in /etc/network if you're savvy enough to start dhclient out of /etc/rc3.d and alias in /etc/modules.conf. dhclient will take care of everything in that case.
You're right and I forgot something. To change the IP of one of my LAN machines I must change it in
If you're using dhcp off of a home LAN router then you don't need
People at work have no idea why you can't click on the the stuff in the Window, they have no idea that they are running a program off a server 1000 miles away under a completely different OS
That's not a Linux-killer. We have the same problem here, in a 100% Windows shop, with Remote Desktop connection. People don't understand why files they save to the HD in the RDC aren't accessible when they're using Outlook on their local machine.
Eventually I helped them map network drives and told them to use those.
That's for the Linuxant drivers.
It's not hellish at all. Setting a manual IP takes about 20 seconds and is available from the standard network connection GUI
/etc/hosts. You can edit it with your favorite text editor.
It's just as easy under Linux. It's in
The issue was somehow it took 4 hours to get a home LAN configured. I was trying to think of why this would be so. Turns out the user wanted filesharing and a firewall. iptables and samba both have a learning curve.
My biggest issue was that the OP mentioned calling a "networking guru". My point was "not much of a guru, then."
a pay-ware program known as ndiswrapper
Since when does ndiswrapper cost money?
but i'd like to see you try to get an ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon to capture video
I'm not even that picky.
I'd like to see Xf86 make proper use of the S-video port on my Radeon 7500 so that I can watch DVDs on my TV.
I have a K6-3/400. I can send DVDs to the TV under Win98SE but playback is choppy. I can watch smooth DVDs on my monitor under Linux. If I try to use the S-video port with Xf86 it only works with the unaccelerated VESA driver.
I've tried with framebuffer and without. I've tried the FBDEV driver. I've tried the ati driver. I've tried the radeon driver. I've tried the Gatos driver. I've tried the the DRI driver. I've tried the Gatos kmod. I've tried the DRI kmod. I've tried all fathomable combinations of the above with every kernel from 2.4.18 to 2.6.4 (I haven't bothered in several months).
The issue is always timing. There is not a single video mode which gets the correct timing with any driver but VESA. The TV always looks like it's in hell.
even if that's the result of Microsoft not properly handling HTML, that's what people are used to
Enough time goes by and Microsoft patents HTML and W3C gets left in the dirt...
I spent 3 hours trying to get my network up, only to finally call my local network guru... who spent FOUR HOURS setting up my LAN
/etc/hosts /etc/resolv.conf
/etc/modules.conf but, for the most part, everything else is "dhclient". If it's any more complicated than that then you don't have dhcp from a LAN router and Windows would've been just as hellish.
Not much of a guru. Unless you were demanding horrible prerequisites that you would never think to have on Windows.
Maybe you need to add something to
I imagine you wanted your own DHCP server, your own internal DNS, and your own httpd off of the Mandrake 10 box. That's not fun on Windows either.
The article was not about Linux on the Home Desktop Myths. It was about Linux on the Desktop Myths.
You must realize that the two are intimately tied together.
When Linux is ready for and assumes the majority share of the Home Desktop then companies will begin to migrate to Linux on the general Desktop. When the general Desktop migration begins then Adobe will happily follow the crowd and write a beautiful front-end and contribute effort to projects like GIMP. Home Desktop is the controlling facet of the general Desktop. No corporation is going to adopt Linux on the Desktop until the users are familiar with it on the Home Desktop. Just like OEM manufacturers Microsoft gives them too big of a break on bulk licensing to make the money issue a converting battle cry.
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I don't understand how people can call windows bloated with features etc and not see Linux is 4 times more bloated with multple EVERTHING
Windows is bloated. Linux is modular. Windows has everything included. Linux lets you choose from a list of everything.
I pretty much refuse to take any article seriously that offers The Gimp as a resonable alternative or replacement to Photoshop
To point out the obvious: what home user has $650 for Photoshop anyways?
GIMP is a fine replacement for Microsoft Photo Editor. The interface may not be as nice but it's a lot more capable. When a majority of home users begin migrating to Linux and corporations follow suit then Adobe will probably be more than happy to add a sweet front-end to GIMP.
Linux is ready for the desktop. The issue does not lie in the technical merits or the realities. The issue lies in putting together a marketing effort which can convince a population which, by and large, has a computer, has Windows, browses the web, and doesn't need to change.
When Win98 no longer boots people will look at upgrading. When TCPA makes Win98 boxes unable to connect to the network then people will look at upgrading. If Linux has a good presence and well-known software at the time then they will switch. It's going to be difficult to gain widespread adoption of Linux until people are forced to upgrade. Since 99% of the existing home systems meet the needs of 90% of the owners there is no need to upgrade.
As far as the home market goes the only thing _REALLY_ driving upgrades anymore are games. Only gamers need the additional processor cycles or the additional A/V capability. The superiority of Windows support is noted in the gaming world. The business market isn't going to take a widespread office adoption of Linux until a significant portion of the population is comfortable using it. This won't happen until there's widespread home experience.
Linux is in a "beat the clock mode". If it can't get into the mainstream soon the corporate interests will legislate it away. As long as it doesn't get stymied by political shenanigans it still has a chance to make Redmond shiver.
(As far as I'm concerned, having to tell someone that you're going to watch them is as absurd as it gets in the espionage game.)
You know, if governments or other politically powerful people didn't have a 10000 year history misusing and abusing their power to place their personal interest above the interest of those they supposedly represent, I'd agree with you. But since greed is a fact of reality, I think that the PATRIOT Act and 99% of the government should be castrated and left as a historical monument to bad experiment in social engineering.
For the greatest part the only thing that the PATRIOT Act does is ensure that my politicians can raise the % of my paycheck that they spend on their own interests. There is no track record of success for Big Brother style approaches. Murderers, rapists, baby-killers, mother-molesters, and thieves are still caught primarily by good old fashion footwork investigation. Unless you're ultra-fanatical about hunting down weed-smoking hippies there's little or no need for the extraordinarily expensive Big Brother movements. When are government officials going to be subjected to the same blistering performance/goals review system that the rest of American professionals have to deal with?
Ok, I'll hand you an IPSEC encrypted VoIP stream and you tell me what the conversation was about
I'm pretty sure that the goal is to allow wiretapping at the interface between the data network and the residential phone system. Previously such a thing may have required a special warrant.
Now that I write it, however, I'm puzzled. Was there a legal technicality which disallowed them from tapping the residential side of a VoIP involved call? Why is this even news?
Deplete my legal fund...I will use public defenders to death do me part
HAHAHAHA! Oh God. That's a good one. That's a _real_ good one.
Is a capitilist driven system superior to a state run system? Most definately
And a capitalist system with entire libraries worth of government rules and regulations (such as the US) is...
a state run system.
Just look at the Federal Budget as a % of the GDP. The US Federal Government is the controlling % holder of the GDP. That is...
a state run system.
Right. Society doesn't help you at all, and you don't see anything from those taxes that you put in, right?
By my financial spreadsheet, 57.6% of last year's gross income was eventually shelled out in taxes or government fees. Our roads aren't _that_ good.
I assume that means you don't eat, or only eat imported food?
People ate long before they paid taxes.
Because the government also subsidizes 67% of gasoline prices
Have you looked at the tax rate on gasonline prices at the pump? They may subsidize the tax but, if you look a scant one step farther, we're subsidizing them. So who's really subsidizing it?
I take this to mean also that you plan on working until the day you die
With the tax/fee rate continuing to go up year after year we probably won't ever be able to save enough to retire.
Millions upon millions of people would kill for that
Completely out of context. It can always be worse. Tell those "millions and millions of people" to quit griping and complaining. At least they're not being sodomized forcefully on a daily basis.
the difference is that on the street, you can see who is listening
Unless they're hiding behind a corner or under the bushes.
Frankly this wire tapping business has gone on long enough
Amendment IV guarantees you the right to be secure against unreasonable search. If everyone is being monitored then it's not unreasonable to monitor. Amendment IV does not guarantee any right to absolute privacy.
I'm not a proponent of these Big Brother efforts, mostly because they're a waste of my tax money and have no proven track record of effectiveness, but the Constitution doesn't do as much for us as we think it does. There's always the hitch in Amendments IX and X but no politician has cared a single hoot about those in 200 years.
I can download the FREE program Skype and make encrypted calls over the same nets that pay calls scrutinized by CALEA go over
Can you call a residential telephone number with Skype?
That's what this is really addressing. VoIP networks that provide interfaces to the residential telephone networks.
Do we have a right to privacy? Sure
Amendment IV gives you a right to be secure against unreasonable search. That's no right to privacy. If everyone is monitored at all times then it's not unreasonable to be monitored.
Velkome to zee United States, Komrade.