Re:The problem here seems to be hardware support..
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In the past, I've had lots of problems with ATA hard drives, as well as controllers, in Solaris x86. YMMV, but I've only successfully installed it on two controller/drive combos. The five or six that failed were nowhere near top-of-the-line, but they weren't generic cheapo product either. I dunno. Long-standing problem with Sun x86 products, though.
Hmmm... Assuming you have access to the worldwide web, there's always packages.debian.org. Spreadsheet application? Go to http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages. Scroll down to "Search Package Directories," type "spreadsheet" in Keyword, choose to search package descriptions also, and hit Search. And the returned results are everything related, along with descriptions of what they are. Gnumeric, Koffice, Kspread, etc. That site has always been a pretty vital part of my apt-getting.
Flashplayer? Switch type to Any, so that you can include non-free software, and search for flash, and there, in your face, is "Flashplugin-nonfree." Packages.Debian.org is far and away a better online utility than any other distro can offer. For that matter, say you need some strange file you've never heard of to be present as a dependency for some package...you can search package contents to find what package contains that file. Then apt-get install "packagename" and there you go.
Yes, Debian has a bit of a learning curve to figure out how to use all of the tools at your disposal, but once you do, it's hands-down blazing fast to get to where you need to go, and actually, relatively easy once you learn the in's and out's. I'd much rather go through these steps than try to find out which rpm contains a particular file in Fedora through groups.google.com searches.
I just don't understand how incredibly boring your life has to be to FIGURE SHIT LIKE THIS OUT. Maybe if the whole offshore programming push didn't occur, we wouldn't have rogue programmers pursuing world domination and (3.) profit via GameCube TCP/IP hacking.
Yeah. I just don't understand.
It's in AIM direct connect sessions, and has been for quite a while. As it's been in every instant messaging client to some capacity for quite a while.
Possibly, but they have slim to no legal ground to stand on against people who just possess copyrighted material...their only real attack is against people sharing. They don't prosecute people who bought bootlegs from bootleggers, just the bootleggers. So through the system described, you would only be sharing a 15 second clip just like all the people you downloaded from. Until of course they have the laws rewritten.
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In the past, I've had lots of problems with ATA hard drives, as well as controllers, in Solaris x86. YMMV, but I've only successfully installed it on two controller/drive combos. The five or six that failed were nowhere near top-of-the-line, but they weren't generic cheapo product either. I dunno. Long-standing problem with Sun x86 products, though.
Hmmm... Assuming you have access to the worldwide web, there's always packages.debian.org. Spreadsheet application? Go to http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages. Scroll down to "Search Package Directories," type "spreadsheet" in Keyword, choose to search package descriptions also, and hit Search. And the returned results are everything related, along with descriptions of what they are. Gnumeric, Koffice, Kspread, etc. That site has always been a pretty vital part of my apt-getting.
Flashplayer? Switch type to Any, so that you can include non-free software, and search for flash, and there, in your face, is "Flashplugin-nonfree." Packages.Debian.org is far and away a better online utility than any other distro can offer. For that matter, say you need some strange file you've never heard of to be present as a dependency for some package...you can search package contents to find what package contains that file. Then apt-get install "packagename" and there you go.
Yes, Debian has a bit of a learning curve to figure out how to use all of the tools at your disposal, but once you do, it's hands-down blazing fast to get to where you need to go, and actually, relatively easy once you learn the in's and out's. I'd much rather go through these steps than try to find out which rpm contains a particular file in Fedora through groups.google.com searches.
I just don't understand how incredibly boring your life has to be to FIGURE SHIT LIKE THIS OUT. Maybe if the whole offshore programming push didn't occur, we wouldn't have rogue programmers pursuing world domination and (3.) profit via GameCube TCP/IP hacking. Yeah. I just don't understand.
It's in AIM direct connect sessions, and has been for quite a while. As it's been in every instant messaging client to some capacity for quite a while.
Right. For every two hundred of us involved, we could buy a single P4 system. This shouldn't take too long.
Possibly, but they have slim to no legal ground to stand on against people who just possess copyrighted material...their only real attack is against people sharing. They don't prosecute people who bought bootlegs from bootleggers, just the bootleggers. So through the system described, you would only be sharing a 15 second clip just like all the people you downloaded from. Until of course they have the laws rewritten.