It is entirely possible that they've changed their tune, and I'll even admit that it's possible that Rob Glaser isn't entirely evil. But until they issue a public apology for their past practices, and pledge not to repeat them, they fall into my ever growing list of companies I will not do business with including Sony, SBC (Now AT&T), MBNA (Now Bank of America), I could go on...
This may not be the best place to ask, but since I can't believe anyone on Slashdot would actually install anything by Real Networks, this is likely to be the most use we will get out of this article.
I refuse to install Real Player, and see Helix as just a wolf in sheeps clothing. What alternatives are there for listening to real audio streams in Linux. The only thing I miss about Windows is listening to the BBC with the Real Alternative codecs.
In my experience power management works far better under Kubuntu than it does under Ubuntu.
I had the same problem with the battery reporting itself as dead at bootup with my Toshiba laptop as you did under Edgy Ubuntu. I moved to Feisty Kubuntu, and I haven't had any problems since. Also, suspend and hibernate have been working pretty well with Kubuntu too.
If there is no such item a good BOFH will create such red button. One of the data centers I worked at had just such a red button. It was designed to immediately kill all power to the room. Behind a plastic case, clearly marked "Emergency Shutoff".
The security for the door was malfunctioning earlier this summer, and the alarm was going off. The security guard thought the button was a shutoff switch for the security system...
Luckily we had redundant servers at another location... Of course half of those didn't work...
Luckily also, this was the smaller data center at that site, so it only housed a few hundred servers... including the servers that ran many of our ATMs, and our server inventory and trouble tracking software... which didn't fail over to their backups... of course.
In addition, we had no idea where the server housing our server inventory information was... It turns out it was housed on a server called Skywalker... which we couldn't find... It turned out to be a cluster of Anakin and Amidala...
I can't speak for the original poster, but I'm boycotting DRM as well, and to date have not purchased a single DVD or a single copyright protected CD or game.
Vista's release switched my dual booting laptop (XP and Debian) to a single boot laptop (Kubuntu), since I see it inevitable anyway. My home server has been running Debian exclusively for a while now.
Oh, excellent! That's it, I'm going back to FreeBSD.br
Take that Netcraft! FreeBSD is part of a new catchy accronym, Corporate execs all over the world will be flocking to it!
Everyone I have communicated with who has actually used Vista say that it's great and that they haven't had any problems
Very well then, communicate with me. I installed the 32 bit version of Vista Ultimate Edition shortly after it came out to test it in case I had to support it.
First, it wouldn't recognize my onboard SATA controller. Fine, rather than finding drivers and possibly causing issues, I installed to my ATA drives.
The install went fine (besides ignoring my Debian install, and forcing me to set it up for triple boot manually later), but Vista didn't recognize my Linksys Wireless N either. Fine, I ran a cable and plugged in one of my onboard NIC's, which wasn't recognized either... My second onboard NIC was recognized, so I was able to download and update drivers.
However, as soon as my SATA drivers were loaded, and my drives were seen, Vista locked up hard. Rebooted, and once again, as soon as the drivers initialized my drives, the system locked hard. I've messed with it occasionally since then, but never been able to get it to work successfully with my system. Meh, I may try again in 2012 with the next version.
So, back to Debian, which works perfectly, and XP for occasional gaming, occasional support of an Access database, and too frequent reinstalling.
a) Yup, I'll give you that.
b) Sure, that's correct, however, I wouldn't say that the start bar is still technically superior to Gnome's or KDE's.
c) Ah, but GDI is no longer hardware accelerated, and WMF is resource hungry for general computing use.
d) Can't speak to this, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
e) Ok, that isn't a statement of something Windows does better. Just a statement of popularity.
f) Closed the gap in hardware discovery? You're stating that Windows was superior 12 years ago. That should tell you something. Have you used Ubuntu? It discovers everything perfectly for me. Vista still won't recognize my onboard SATA, onboard NIC, Linksys Wireless card, or Promise Raid Controller without drivers and excessive rebooting. Good thing my network card drivers are available on the internet...
g) Completely incorrect for most purposes. Common software is available in repositories and available instantly with a search and two clicks. No restart, and installed in your menu in a manner that makes sense. Yes, many power users do work off of svn (easier in Linux than windows) or compile their own apps (easier to do on Linux again).
Very expensive for what you get if you're rating the computing power, but amazingly tough.
In 1998, I was in Guyana, riding in the back of a 2 1/2 ton military truck. I was (stupidly) typing with one hand and holding a sat antenna out of the back with the other, sending a message. We hit a bump, and the laptop flew out of my lap, dangled from it's serial port for a second before falling and ending up face down, open, and running, into the wet soft sand of the "road" at probably around 20 miles an hour or so. Picked it up, wiped the mud off the screen, reconnected it, sent the message, and tried to act casually unsurprised. It was still working over a year later when I left the military.
I don't know that that would be repeatable, but it sold me, on Toughbooks.
Jack Thompson's goal isn't to prevent Halo 3 sales.
It's quite clearly to get himself and Microsoft's lawyers in the same room at the same time. That much concentrated evil will surely create a gateway to hell and let through all the imps, pain elementals, and cyberdemons. Then his purpose for preventing people kids from playing Doom will become clear as his armies rampage unhindered and he begins his thousand year reign over all the nations of the earth!
Same carbon effect? No, the carbon effect is quite different. Decaying plants do give off carbon into the air, that is correct. However, a large percentage of it goes into the ground.
The assumption is that fertile soil is already growing plants that you are removing in order to plant your corn, beets, sugar, etc... Now if you were planting in an area not currently growing plants like the desert, that would make sense, but that very rarely happens.
No shit. Ethanol releases carbon dioxide while it burns, too. However, its carbon dioxide was already in the atmosphere, absorbed by the plants, then released again when burnt. That makes it carbon neutral*, even though the emissions are the same. However, those plants are grown in fertile soil that will already be taking carbon dioxide and turning it into oxygen. The only difference is that those plants won't be burned, and thus achieve a net positive effect instead of a neutral effect. Of course, that means that other things (petroleum) is being burned, achieving the same net neutral effect.
The question is whether you want to take the limited oil out of the ground, or nutrients from the topsoil to feed your car. Neither is a good option, but one is currently more efficient...
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This has already been done as early as 10 years ago.
I was working in Eastern Europe on a now unclassified project, working against a low budget illegal foreign intelligence agency. They were selling and distributing porn CD's and DVD's with thousands of pictures, one or more of which would contain an encrypted stenographic message. Their contact would purchase the DVD at one of hundreds of little markets, and decrypt the proper image(s).
It was really quite a good plan. Not only were there many possible valid messages to one or more agents, but there were also an unknown number of false messages, they even may have even been all false messages that could only be put together by inference. However, since they were encrypted with PGP, we never were able to break that particular system before I left the project.
The real genius of the plan was that it brought them in some much needed cash as well.
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It is entirely possible that they've changed their tune, and I'll even admit that it's possible that Rob Glaser isn't entirely evil. But until they issue a public apology for their past practices, and pledge not to repeat them, they fall into my ever growing list of companies I will not do business with including Sony, SBC (Now AT&T), MBNA (Now Bank of America), I could go on...
Good idea, and I will, right after I finish all my pet projects...
This may not be the best place to ask, but since I can't believe anyone on Slashdot would actually install anything by Real Networks, this is likely to be the most use we will get out of this article.
I refuse to install Real Player, and see Helix as just a wolf in sheeps clothing. What alternatives are there for listening to real audio streams in Linux. The only thing I miss about Windows is listening to the BBC with the Real Alternative codecs.
In my experience power management works far better under Kubuntu than it does under Ubuntu.
I had the same problem with the battery reporting itself as dead at bootup with my Toshiba laptop as you did under Edgy Ubuntu. I moved to Feisty Kubuntu, and I haven't had any problems since. Also, suspend and hibernate have been working pretty well with Kubuntu too.
The security for the door was malfunctioning earlier this summer, and the alarm was going off. The security guard thought the button was a shutoff switch for the security system... Luckily we had redundant servers at another location... Of course half of those didn't work...
Luckily also, this was the smaller data center at that site, so it only housed a few hundred servers... including the servers that ran many of our ATMs, and our server inventory and trouble tracking software... which didn't fail over to their backups... of course.
In addition, we had no idea where the server housing our server inventory information was... It turns out it was housed on a server called Skywalker... which we couldn't find... It turned out to be a cluster of Anakin and Amidala...
Fracking geeks.
SuperDuper does do incremental backups, but it's apparently Mac only...
Anyone know of a good equivalent for Linux? (Yes, I know of a couple of ways, but I'm looking for the best.)
Grrr, by copyright protected, I meant DRM protected.
I can't speak for the original poster, but I'm boycotting DRM as well, and to date have not purchased a single DVD or a single copyright protected CD or game.
Vista's release switched my dual booting laptop (XP and Debian) to a single boot laptop (Kubuntu), since I see it inevitable anyway. My home server has been running Debian exclusively for a while now.
There are some of us stubborn bastards out there.
Don't they measure mass by the effect the planet has on the star that it orbits?
Couldn't that be explained by a synchronized orbit of another planet/asteroid mass/collection of lost pens?
As unlikely as it is that they are perfectly synchronized, it seems like it could be close enough over the period of time we were observing the star.
Then again, it could be Magrathea, which is hollow if I recall correctly.
You aren't kidding! Java can run on anything! It can't be stopped!
I just had a popup on my toaster this morning, and it isn't even connected to the internet!
Oh, excellent! That's it, I'm going back to FreeBSD.br
Take that Netcraft! FreeBSD is part of a new catchy accronym, Corporate execs all over the world will be flocking to it!
Help me! Seriously, I need a new technology.
I like LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) as much as the next want-to-be web developer out there.
Started with FAMP (FreeBSD), to LAMP, to LAPP (PostgreSQL)...
But now I'm ridiculously on LLPR! (Linux, Lighttpd, PostgreSQL, Ruby)
Can someone please develop something with a vowel?!?
The polevault?
Just hoping...
$sudo apt-get remove cipav
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package cipav
Whew, safe!
Very well then, communicate with me. I installed the 32 bit version of Vista Ultimate Edition shortly after it came out to test it in case I had to support it.
First, it wouldn't recognize my onboard SATA controller. Fine, rather than finding drivers and possibly causing issues, I installed to my ATA drives.
The install went fine (besides ignoring my Debian install, and forcing me to set it up for triple boot manually later), but Vista didn't recognize my Linksys Wireless N either. Fine, I ran a cable and plugged in one of my onboard NIC's, which wasn't recognized either... My second onboard NIC was recognized, so I was able to download and update drivers.
However, as soon as my SATA drivers were loaded, and my drives were seen, Vista locked up hard. Rebooted, and once again, as soon as the drivers initialized my drives, the system locked hard. I've messed with it occasionally since then, but never been able to get it to work successfully with my system. Meh, I may try again in 2012 with the next version.
So, back to Debian, which works perfectly, and XP for occasional gaming, occasional support of an Access database, and too frequent reinstalling.
a) Yup, I'll give you that.
b) Sure, that's correct, however, I wouldn't say that the start bar is still technically superior to Gnome's or KDE's.
c) Ah, but GDI is no longer hardware accelerated, and WMF is resource hungry for general computing use.
d) Can't speak to this, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
e) Ok, that isn't a statement of something Windows does better. Just a statement of popularity.
f) Closed the gap in hardware discovery? You're stating that Windows was superior 12 years ago. That should tell you something. Have you used Ubuntu? It discovers everything perfectly for me. Vista still won't recognize my onboard SATA, onboard NIC, Linksys Wireless card, or Promise Raid Controller without drivers and excessive rebooting. Good thing my network card drivers are available on the internet...
g) Completely incorrect for most purposes. Common software is available in repositories and available instantly with a search and two clicks. No restart, and installed in your menu in a manner that makes sense. Yes, many power users do work off of svn (easier in Linux than windows) or compile their own apps (easier to do on Linux again).
Email is dead, Netcraft confirms it.
Very expensive for what you get if you're rating the computing power, but amazingly tough.
In 1998, I was in Guyana, riding in the back of a 2 1/2 ton military truck. I was (stupidly) typing with one hand and holding a sat antenna out of the back with the other, sending a message. We hit a bump, and the laptop flew out of my lap, dangled from it's serial port for a second before falling and ending up face down, open, and running, into the wet soft sand of the "road" at probably around 20 miles an hour or so. Picked it up, wiped the mud off the screen, reconnected it, sent the message, and tried to act casually unsurprised. It was still working over a year later when I left the military.
I don't know that that would be repeatable, but it sold me, on Toughbooks.
Jack Thompson's goal isn't to prevent Halo 3 sales.
It's quite clearly to get himself and Microsoft's lawyers in the same room at the same time. That much concentrated evil will surely create a gateway to hell and let through all the imps, pain elementals, and cyberdemons. Then his purpose for preventing people kids from playing Doom will become clear as his armies rampage unhindered and he begins his thousand year reign over all the nations of the earth!
Same carbon effect? No, the carbon effect is quite different. Decaying plants do give off carbon into the air, that is correct. However, a large percentage of it goes into the ground.
The assumption is that fertile soil is already growing plants that you are removing in order to plant your corn, beets, sugar, etc... Now if you were planting in an area not currently growing plants like the desert, that would make sense, but that very rarely happens.
This has already been done as early as 10 years ago.
I was working in Eastern Europe on a now unclassified project, working against a low budget illegal foreign intelligence agency. They were selling and distributing porn CD's and DVD's with thousands of pictures, one or more of which would contain an encrypted stenographic message. Their contact would purchase the DVD at one of hundreds of little markets, and decrypt the proper image(s).
It was really quite a good plan. Not only were there many possible valid messages to one or more agents, but there were also an unknown number of false messages, they even may have even been all false messages that could only be put together by inference. However, since they were encrypted with PGP, we never were able to break that particular system before I left the project.
The real genius of the plan was that it brought them in some much needed cash as well.
Advertising? I haven't seen advertising in years...
Of course it's a cover! Bob Dylan wrote every song in the last 35 years.