I would bet that everyone that this broke for, tried instaling grub to the MBR and not to a seperate boot partition. i have had no problems dual booting with any of the lest 2 test releases when i did not install grub to the MBR
My school Northern Michigan University already does. I was provided with a not quite stock IBM R40... At acost of something around $300USD a semester. I get the laptop for 4 semesters and 1 summer, and free repair(as long as it looks like normal use) and "tech support"(usually just being told that you have to back everything up and reimage). At the end of my lease I may purchase the laptop. Everything is works under Suse 9 pro. Not sure if the modem is supported elsewhere. I have no use for the modem.
I attend Northern Michigan University. We have a campus resnet that has live IP's and DNS names My_Tower_for_example
and if you go look port 80 is open, 8080, and 22, but port 21 and the samba port and the nfs port are closed. that and they have blocked ping packets on campus, so i would ping google for you but i can't but it probably would be in the neiborhood of 500ms+ which is jsut a little bit higher than one would expect for a collage campus. some of the biuldings on campus are behind NAT as well. so i guess over all it's not the worse system but there are some odd things that happen.
We also have very few if any computer labs on campus because the school "provides" us with laptops to use, running a cripled(as in rdesktop does not work) version of Winblows XP.
p.s. please be nice to that server it's a 100mhz pentium.....:-)
I have a fujitsu P2110 and it cam with a 1.5 gig partition that had all of the backup on it... as I remember windows showed the drive(haven't booted winblows on the box for a very long time).... I used dd and bzip to back it up to 2 cd's and then reformated it..... that and I don't use windows on this laptop;)
There is a difference between operating system, and apps that run on it. Every OS should be able to talk to the printer, but a different app(cups+ghostscript) should be needed to "render" files so the printer can print to them and deal with telling the OS to send something to the device. All the OS needs to know is that device A(printer) exists at/dev/usb/usblp0 and how to send data to it. Not how to interprert that data.
there is also nothing like
"# find . -type d *foo* -print"
in windows or any of the other types the find supports
-type c
File is of type c:
b block (buffered) special
c character (unbuffered) special
d directory
p named pipe (FIFO)
f regular file
l symbolic link
s socket
D door (Solaris)
i have a P series as well, love the thing except, have a colum of stuck pixels that will cost me $700USD to fix and a 10/100MB network card that will only connect at 10MB or it drops 2/3's of the packets.... other than that i love it....
p.s. the hard drive transfer rate is way too low.....
funny the internet must not be working for me.....but then how did i post this...
$ ping 66.35.250.151
PING 66.35.250.151 (66.35.250.151) 56(84) bytes of data.
--- 66.35.250.151 ping statistics ---
27 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 26081ms
(really my collage is blocking all ping packets)
and who's to say that the people printing don't know postscript and are willing to adjust the back side to match the front around the flaw. i know from first hand experance that you can make adjustments for printing cd labels on the little sticky label kit labels
$2000...!!! thats my laptop(a fujitsu p2110) and IPod.... total they would both fit on a sheet of 8.5x11" paper and be no taller than 1.5" so $2000 in gear isn't very much. the laptop was $1800 new and the IPod was like around $300(however much a 15 gig one was a year ago)
From what i understand there is very little that The GIMP can't do that photoshop can. I know of a few things that are a heck of a lot eaiser in The GIMP than photoshop.
I hate to be the one to point this out but if anyone starts doing that the first client will be windows, then a mac one one. There probably will never be a linux/BSD/SunOS/etc because of the fact the about the only way it would ever work on every linux box would be provide the source, which would document the protocal, and i'm sure it would be a short amount of time before a hacked version would allow you to get movies for free.
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I would bet that everyone that this broke for, tried instaling grub to the MBR and not to a seperate boot partition. i have had no problems dual booting with any of the lest 2 test releases when i did not install grub to the MBR
My school Northern Michigan University already does. I was provided with a not quite stock IBM R40... At acost of something around $300USD a semester. I get the laptop for 4 semesters and 1 summer, and free repair(as long as it looks like normal use) and "tech support"(usually just being told that you have to back everything up and reimage). At the end of my lease I may purchase the laptop. Everything is works under Suse 9 pro. Not sure if the modem is supported elsewhere. I have no use for the modem.
I attend Northern Michigan University. We have a campus resnet that has live IP's and DNS names My_Tower_for_example and if you go look port 80 is open, 8080, and 22, but port 21 and the samba port and the nfs port are closed. that and they have blocked ping packets on campus, so i would ping google for you but i can't but it probably would be in the neiborhood of 500ms+ which is jsut a little bit higher than one would expect for a collage campus. some of the biuldings on campus are behind NAT as well. so i guess over all it's not the worse system but there are some odd things that happen.
:-)
We also have very few if any computer labs on campus because the school "provides" us with laptops to use, running a cripled(as in rdesktop does not work) version of Winblows XP.
p.s. please be nice to that server it's a 100mhz pentium.....
I have a fujitsu P2110 and it cam with a 1.5 gig partition that had all of the backup on it... as I remember windows showed the drive(haven't booted winblows on the box for a very long time).... I used dd and bzip to back it up to 2 cd's and then reformated it..... that and I don't use windows on this laptop ;)
There is a difference between operating system, and apps that run on it. Every OS should be able to talk to the printer, but a different app(cups+ghostscript) should be needed to "render" files so the printer can print to them and deal with telling the OS to send something to the device. All the OS needs to know is that device A(printer) exists at /dev/usb/usblp0 and how to send data to it. Not how to interprert that data.
and like it has been said this is not a lawsuit!!
there is also nothing like
"# find . -type d *foo* -print"
in windows or any of the other types the find supports
-type c
File is of type c:
b block (buffered) special
c character (unbuffered) special
d directory
p named pipe (FIFO)
f regular file
l symbolic link
s socket
D door (Solaris)
i think the better question on slashdot is "how much of that is supported by linux and XFree and the like, as well as how does one install to it?"
and who really needs a 1ghz prosseser... i would settle for a ten fold performance boost in disk access and my 867mhz transmeta chip
sry thought i should also say that it is a P2110
i have a P series as well, love the thing except, have a colum of stuck pixels that will cost me $700USD to fix and a 10/100MB network card that will only connect at 10MB or it drops 2/3's of the packets.... other than that i love it.... p.s. the hard drive transfer rate is way too low.....
funny the internet must not be working for me.....but then how did i post this... $ ping 66.35.250.151 PING 66.35.250.151 (66.35.250.151) 56(84) bytes of data. --- 66.35.250.151 ping statistics --- 27 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 26081ms (really my collage is blocking all ping packets)
and who's to say that the people printing don't know postscript and are willing to adjust the back side to match the front around the flaw. i know from first hand experance that you can make adjustments for printing cd labels on the little sticky label kit labels
yes i know i'm trolling.... but... that $400 box from walmart probably will not play quake any better :-)
just my $.02
$2000...!!! thats my laptop(a fujitsu p2110) and IPod.... total they would both fit on a sheet of 8.5x11" paper and be no taller than 1.5" so $2000 in gear isn't very much. the laptop was $1800 new and the IPod was like around $300(however much a 15 gig one was a year ago)
sorry thought you might want to know what kind, this is a fujutsu p2110
not to respond to your non-troll but, this is being posted on a laptop using a transmeta TM5800 at 876mhz.....
i hope that these new chips fit in the old slots. it would be a nice upgrade for my laptop......
From what i understand there is very little that The GIMP can't do that photoshop can. I know of a few things that are a heck of a lot eaiser in The GIMP than photoshop.
I hate to be the one to point this out but if anyone starts doing that the first client will be windows, then a mac one one. There probably will never be a linux/BSD/SunOS/etc because of the fact the about the only way it would ever work on every linux box would be provide the source, which would document the protocal, and i'm sure it would be a short amount of time before a hacked version would allow you to get movies for free.