NVidia and ATI drivers are good examples of binary installs. I have yet to see these incorporated into any distro though. Do you know of one?
Actually, they can be found in quite many distributions. I recon most non-free (as in beer) desktop-oriented distributions include these, at least Mandrake (or Mandriva) includes them in the sold CDs, not in the download version though. My current distro (Arch Linux) has Nvidia drivers in the extra repo, upon install it shows where the licence is located and asks you to remove the driver if you don't like the licence.
Apart from the ability to split a long audio file into separate tracks (k3b can set start/endpoints, but AFAIK that's it), exactly how is Nero "still much farther ahean than k3b"?
I've burnt CDs, VCDs, DVDs (both data and video) and so on with k3b without a hitch. And personally I find the interface much more intuitive, Nero seems more cluttered nowadays.
Focus on making things better, making phone reception clearer
Everytime Slashdot runs a story about a new cell phone, comments like this come up. I'm not going to argue about whether a phone should be a PDA/music player/whatever (I don't mind those extra features but YMMV), but when it comes to reception, the phones are already there.
I live in a sparsely populated Scandinavian country, and haven't had any coverage issues in years. If you can't get decent reception, complain to your operator. It's not the phones that are lacking.
I've been wondering about this... say you have a Linux box with no servers running (that is, no sshd/httpd/etc) which would (or should, rather) be a typical desktop setup, do you need to still have a firewall running?
I have iptables blocking mostly everything (except one port for Bittorrent), but would it be so bad if I didn't?
I don't do LAN parties, but own a SN41G2v2 myself. The reasons for buying it were fairly simple: my old box sounded like a lawnmover, I had to upgrade the motherboard anyway, and I liked the ability to have my computer on my desk so it'd be easier to change CDs/DVDs/USB devices. Sure you could have a full tower on your desk, but asthetics are important to me as well. So far I've been quite satisfied.
However, despite of the SilentX power supply that comes with the v2 model, it could be quieter. Once the guarantee runs out I'll change the ICE fan to something less noisy. But I've yet to experience any heat issues, the processor temperature on average is 42 C, and it never gets above 45 C.
and the C64 was oh-so-popular, the local radio station used to send freeware C64 programs over radio so you could record them on a tape and use with your Commodore. It was good listening also, if you happened to like industrial/noise.
As a former Mandrake user (I still like it and reccommend it to newcomers) the first thing I do upon a fresh install:
1. point my browser to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/, type in my settings, select sources near me (make sure you select contrib and plf as well), run urpmi.removemedia -a and add the urpmi sources (if a source fails for some reason, pick another mirror).
2. type "urpmi mplayer libdvdcss", which gets you Mplayer with all the codecs you could think, and encrypted DVD support. These can't be included in the distribution for obvious reasons, but PLF isn't technically a part of Mandrake.
FYI there are several DVD players for Linux. Legal, well, yes if you don't play encrypted discs. Legality of DeCSS depends on your geographical location. However, the players are region free (and this is something that Windows could/should learn from Linux).
But do continue, please. I'd like to hear some real arguments.
Just how would you wish the distros would "enhance their drivers"? If you're talking about device support, I find it to be perfectly suitable for grandma to use, especially since it's likely she won't have the latest and greatest hardware.
You watch a TV show only once (or a few times), while you listen to a song many times.
My 10 DVDs of Babylon 5 disagree with you. Hmm wait, so does my Futurama collection. And there are many others. Although tv on average is certainly not worth watching again, there are exceptions.
I haven't tried this myself as I've never been in China, but I've heard that searches via elgooG would effectively bypass "the great firewall". Just a rumour for me though. Could anyone verify this?
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"Arrrr!", not "Aargh!"
You think sending him hello.jpg is "being neighbourly"?
Oohh, that's so great, concidering it already runs Linux.
Because the BSD licence permits quite anything? It's not licenced under the GPL you know.
No cigarette or a helmet, but does this come close?
The DS has built-in WLAN. You could be running ettercap while everyone will assume you're playing Mario.
I've burnt CDs, VCDs, DVDs (both data and video) and so on with k3b without a hitch. And personally I find the interface much more intuitive, Nero seems more cluttered nowadays.
I live in a sparsely populated Scandinavian country, and haven't had any coverage issues in years. If you can't get decent reception, complain to your operator. It's not the phones that are lacking.
I have iptables blocking mostly everything (except one port for Bittorrent), but would it be so bad if I didn't?
However, despite of the SilentX power supply that comes with the v2 model, it could be quieter. Once the guarantee runs out I'll change the ICE fan to something less noisy. But I've yet to experience any heat issues, the processor temperature on average is 42 C, and it never gets above 45 C.
and the C64 was oh-so-popular, the local radio station used to send freeware C64 programs over radio so you could record them on a tape and use with your Commodore. It was good listening also, if you happened to like industrial/noise.
Oh sure we do, it was Linda Lovelace.
1. point my browser to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/, type in my settings, select sources near me (make sure you select contrib and plf as well), run urpmi.removemedia -a and add the urpmi sources (if a source fails for some reason, pick another mirror).
2. type "urpmi mplayer libdvdcss", which gets you Mplayer with all the codecs you could think, and encrypted DVD support. These can't be included in the distribution for obvious reasons, but PLF isn't technically a part of Mandrake.
But do continue, please. I'd like to hear some real arguments.
Just how would you wish the distros would "enhance their drivers"? If you're talking about device support, I find it to be perfectly suitable for grandma to use, especially since it's likely she won't have the latest and greatest hardware.
I haven't tried this myself as I've never been in China, but I've heard that searches via elgooG would effectively bypass "the great firewall". Just a rumour for me though. Could anyone verify this?
Well duh... I guess I should have included a -tag.
...so why was tar not included?
- Resize the font by holding CTRL and pressing + followed by - or turning the mouse wheel up and down
- Use the
SlashFix extension, which does the same thing automatically
- Use a nightly build (the fix should be included in the 1.1 release)
Or you can use a non-gecko-based browser. But you wouldn't really want to do that now would you?Me too! I only need the first two discs, I'm not so into extras ;-)