If you look in the manual (sorry, I don't have it handy, otherwise I'd give you a page number) it explicitly mentions setting the DMA value for disks - that'd be hard disks and CD/DVD devices.
(It's set in/etc/syssconfig/hardware)
True enough, but certain distributions are configured for different purposes, making them either more or less valuable to you.
I was a pretty diehard Redhat user before I switched to SUSE 9. I gotta say, on the desktop side, I'd gladly pay money to SUSE because of the care given to the desktop experience. Java's completely configured, Mpeg files play properly, just to name two big desktop features. Neither come configured (or, in the casee of Mpeg - installed) on Redhat.
Bottom line, you pay the company/organization/individual that provides what you want.
Set up your monitoring system to only send email during the day. Have it send text messages to your cell phone after hours. Pretty simple and non-intrusive.
No argument from me. My point is that most people with home PCs have some software brought from work, acquired from friends, etc. And if they can't run the software (legal or not) it's going to piss them off.
Most modern distros now place an icon right on the desktop when something is plugged in (KDE in particular). True, it doesn't automatically copy the pictures to the "My documents/pictures" folder on the hard drive, but double-clicking on the desktop to open up the camera should be pretty intuitive for her.
Who says that? Do you know how companies handle vacation costs?
It's usually expensed before it's ever used by the employee and then entered on the books as an accrued benefit. Meaning HP could use it as a sort of "reserve".
The employees will get paid for the vacation tine taken.
If you want real, tight MIDI control only, Jazz++ is really your best bet, at least under a stock 2.4.xx kernel. It also allows some rudimentary audio insertion, but it's like Cakewalk Pro 2.0 as far as audio features go. I've tried both Rosegarden and Muse. They're both great programs, but under a 2.4.xx kernel your timing will never be as tight as it is under Jazz++ (unless you patch your kernel).
I've yet to try a 2.6.x kernel, but it'd be interesting to see how Rosegarden and Muse fare under it. Graphically, they're much easier to use than Jazz++.
I'm not flame bating here, but what does Gnome have to do with Linux aside from the fact that its one of many programs that can run on Linux? From the Gnome about [gnome.org] page, it mentions Linux twice with "or UNIX" right beside it.
It was developed initially for Linux, on Linux, perhaps? Same with KDE.
I must hang around with a different crowd. They're all screaming about this or that game that just came out - or is about to, mostly of the Online Multiplayer variety. And it really doesn't matter whether it's on the PC or a console. Multiplayer online games are currently "it".
For one, you've now got a common currency among other EU member states. Which in turn makes it more attractive to move among EU countries easily. If I could move to Turin (my favorite Northern Italian city, believe it or not) I'd do it in a heartbeat. It's in close proximity to other great European cities. What is Mumbai close to?
If a company makes great products, they're going to want to keep their name on it.
Not sure I agree with this. If a company wants to stay in business (particularly a publicly traded company) they will want to sell their product through as many channels as they possibly can. Deals with PC manufacturers provide income that might not be earned otherwise.
I have the same laptop and I really love it. A couple of minor things to set it up with Linux, but I was able to get through them. I also have a fairly recent desktop - also AMD - from them that performs nicely. They really have gotten their aft together in my opinion. I hope that with the acquisition the quality doesn't drop. I can only hope that Gateway is getting better suppliers and better quality control with the purchase.
Hell, if you don't like anything XP does except the stuff 2000 also does, you can configure XP to run identically to 2000 in about 3 minutes worth of checking boxes in preference panels.
If W2K does everything you need, why upgrade? Because MS says so?
And I bet Viacom ended up with everything they wanted. Nicktoons was one of the sticking points, and Dish is now publicly saying that it was included in the settlement.
OK, my post was rightly modded offtopic, but I'll respond regardless. A firearm was indeed invented with a purpose. What do you suppose that purpose is? War. Now it's also used for hunting, among other things, but surely you don't believe its purpose is to remain inanimate.
Computers aren't made to commit fraud and other crimes, although they are certainly used for it. Guns, on the other hand are made to kill or injure. That is their purpose.
...it's operation should be fairly transparent. I DO NOT GIVE A FLYING FUCK about companies bitching with each other
Really? I TOTALLY care about what goes on behind the scenes and how contractual agreements are carried out. I don't want to generalize too much, but I believe part of the problem we have today with corporate greed stems from the very fact that people just aren't interested anymore in the details.
Yeah, the battery is my only complaint for the Zaurus.
Ripping to a smaller format that plays decently on the Zaurus also takes FOREVER (last movie I ripped - Chicago - took almost 10 hours on an athlon 2400+.)
I too, was a dish network subsriber for many years, and I got so tired of their crappy service, that I just went with cable.
I think this is the first time I've actually heard of an unhappy Sat customer, Dish or DirecTV. Really. Me? I'm quite happy with Dish so far (been a customer for 2+ years). In the time I've had them, I've had one outage, which lasted less than 15 minutes. I could NEVER say that about the cable company I was with prior. Their outages were hours long. And often.
My viewer habits might be a bit different than others (2nd dish for european programming), though.
What was crayy with their service? I'm really interested - most of the time I heaar complaints re: the cable companies, not the Sat. companies.
wouldn't that be a great way to get SCO off your back?
Yes, it would.
It would also be an excellent way to send a lot of their current customers fleeing. People aren't familiar with BSD like they are with Linux (particularly RedHat).
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Fedora and Mandrake community are not commercial.
If you look in the manual (sorry, I don't have it handy, otherwise I'd give you a page number) it explicitly mentions setting the DMA value for disks - that'd be hard disks and CD/DVD devices. (It's set in /etc/syssconfig/hardware)
True enough, but certain distributions are configured for different purposes, making them either more or less valuable to you.
I was a pretty diehard Redhat user before I switched to SUSE 9. I gotta say, on the desktop side, I'd gladly pay money to SUSE because of the care given to the desktop experience. Java's completely configured, Mpeg files play properly, just to name two big desktop features. Neither come configured (or, in the casee of Mpeg - installed) on Redhat.
Bottom line, you pay the company/organization/individual that provides what you want.
Set up your monitoring system to only send email during the day. Have it send text messages to your cell phone after hours. Pretty simple and non-intrusive.
Hold the stylus down on the icon you want to run as root. You l get a dialog box with a check saying to "Execute with root privilege".
No argument from me. My point is that most people with home PCs have some software brought from work, acquired from friends, etc. And if they can't run the software (legal or not) it's going to piss them off.
But people will start to care once stories start coming out of people not being able to run their software that they "brought home from work".
You'll then start to see people actively looking for PC's that don't have DRM enabled.
Most modern distros now place an icon right on the desktop when something is plugged in (KDE in particular). True, it doesn't automatically copy the pictures to the "My documents/pictures" folder on the hard drive, but double-clicking on the desktop to open up the camera should be pretty intuitive for her.
Who says that? Do you know how companies handle vacation costs?
It's usually expensed before it's ever used by the employee and then entered on the books as an accrued benefit. Meaning HP could use it as a sort of "reserve".
The employees will get paid for the vacation tine taken.
If you want real, tight MIDI control only, Jazz++ is really your best bet, at least under a stock 2.4.xx kernel. It also allows some rudimentary audio insertion, but it's like Cakewalk Pro 2.0 as far as audio features go. I've tried both Rosegarden and Muse. They're both great programs, but under a 2.4.xx kernel your timing will never be as tight as it is under Jazz++ (unless you patch your kernel). I've yet to try a 2.6.x kernel, but it'd be interesting to see how Rosegarden and Muse fare under it. Graphically, they're much easier to use than Jazz++.
It was developed initially for Linux, on Linux, perhaps? Same with KDE.
I must hang around with a different crowd. They're all screaming about this or that game that just came out - or is about to, mostly of the Online Multiplayer variety. And it really doesn't matter whether it's on the PC or a console. Multiplayer online games are currently "it".
For one, you've now got a common currency among other EU member states. Which in turn makes it more attractive to move among EU countries easily. If I could move to Turin (my favorite Northern Italian city, believe it or not) I'd do it in a heartbeat. It's in close proximity to other great European cities. What is Mumbai close to?
Not sure I agree with this. If a company wants to stay in business (particularly a publicly traded company) they will want to sell their product through as many channels as they possibly can. Deals with PC manufacturers provide income that might not be earned otherwise.
I have the same laptop and I really love it. A couple of minor things to set it up with Linux, but I was able to get through them. I also have a fairly recent desktop - also AMD - from them that performs nicely. They really have gotten their aft together in my opinion. I hope that with the acquisition the quality doesn't drop. I can only hope that Gateway is getting better suppliers and better quality control with the purchase.
If W2K does everything you need, why upgrade? Because MS says so?
Cartoon network never went away.
And I bet Viacom ended up with everything they wanted. Nicktoons was one of the sticking points, and Dish is now publicly saying that it was included in the settlement.
OK, my post was rightly modded offtopic, but I'll respond regardless. A firearm was indeed invented with a purpose. What do you suppose that purpose is? War. Now it's also used for hunting, among other things, but surely you don't believe its purpose is to remain inanimate.
Computers aren't made to commit fraud and other crimes, although they are certainly used for it. Guns, on the other hand are made to kill or injure. That is their purpose.
Really? I TOTALLY care about what goes on behind the scenes and how contractual agreements are carried out. I don't want to generalize too much, but I believe part of the problem we have today with corporate greed stems from the very fact that people just aren't interested anymore in the details.
How do you know that? You don't even seem to know what it's called.
Ah. That would explain it.
Ripping to a smaller format that plays decently on the Zaurus also takes FOREVER (last movie I ripped - Chicago - took almost 10 hours on an athlon 2400+.)
I think this is the first time I've actually heard of an unhappy Sat customer, Dish or DirecTV. Really. Me? I'm quite happy with Dish so far (been a customer for 2+ years). In the time I've had them, I've had one outage, which lasted less than 15 minutes. I could NEVER say that about the cable company I was with prior. Their outages were hours long. And often.
My viewer habits might be a bit different than others (2nd dish for european programming), though.
What was crayy with their service? I'm really interested - most of the time I heaar complaints re: the cable companies, not the Sat. companies.
Yes, it would.
It would also be an excellent way to send a lot of their current customers fleeing. People aren't familiar with BSD like they are with Linux (particularly RedHat).