it spends time making sure your data is safe and that it always gives you the correct bits from your disk.
You forgot to mention that you need to set that up in advanced as it doesn't do that by default and having to come up with settings for any given system is horribly time consuming, compared to just having a regular incremental backup operating every X hours.
Picking on ZFS for being slow when ported to a different OS and running on atypical hardware
How is he picking? He's just measuring the file system performance compared to others on a specific OS.
It's focussing on the wrong thing.
I don't think it is, this person wanted to measure performance on Linux, not compare features and he got what he was testing. I would imagine there are plenty of people who want to know how well it performs - regardless of features - in comparison to other filesystems.
They just need to make sure that the DMCA "safe harbor" provision only applies to common carriers, with the "common" part meaning "non-discriminatory".
Considering that webhosts aren't simply just "common carriers" with all their regulations on kinds of content that can be hosted etc. That would make the safe habour conditions likely useless for everyone. I doubt this would ever happen.
Unix wasn't just used to run the telephone system, it was used by the military to launch Minuteman missiles, do operational control on navy ships and other jobs it wasn't specifically designed for. Doing certain changes would likely break some software somewhere, and occasionally new versions would result in phone calls from (armed) military people who where vivid in their descriptions of what they thought of the new changes, and were not willing to hear the word 'No' when demanding changes to the system.
We must bear in mind that Linus is not Russian and, moreover, is at the end of his life cycle
Wasn't a lot of Windows NT's code was written by Russian programmers in Israel as well as the VMS guys? I could of sworn I saw that on some documentary about Israel's contributions to computing somewhere.
Is there a British politician....anywhere.... who doesn't come off as a total fuck-tard with craptacular ideas when it comes to anything technology or internet?
In the good old days we'd have posted his ip address, phone number, physical address and his mother's maiden name by comment 20. Comment 32 would detail how his PC was cracked and display images of the nong via his webcam. By comment 50, his bank account would have been emptied, citizenship revoked, and 2,500 pizzas would be arriving at his door.
Ever considered that maybe those Slashdotters just don't give a shit about this particular instance?
If somebody wants to get new IPv4 addresses and can't route IPv6 over at least 75% (95%?) of their network, they should be denied unless they can document a really really good reason why implementing IPv6 isn't appropriate.
Here is my reason: Too much abuse from free IPv6 tunnel brokers, letting people circumvent blocks. By using IPv4, those that are legitimately using IPv6 from an ISP have a IPv6-to-IPv4 gateway, while the free tunnel brokers don't provide that.
I tried to switch to Mandrake with a Microtek ScanMaker 4850 scanner that several years later still has no SANE driver.
Unfortunately you drew the short straw on this one. Generally most of my issues to be the opposite, future versions of Windows not having the drivers.
Ubuntu doesn't recognize a spare USB WLAN adapter
Really... Out of curiousity, does this USB WLAN adapater have a broadcom chip?
It's the only instance I am aware of (due to hanging out on the ubuntu support channel on IRC), where Ubuntu recognises the USB WLAN stick but due to licensing issues can't provide the firmware out of the box. This might be of help, hopefully you would only need to do step one, but otherwise, you got a full guide on what to do, so not the end of the world.
Although, it might also just be easier to use one of the graphical ndiswrapper interfaces available from the package manager (just search 'ndiswrapper'), that lets you use Windows drivers directly for the wireless. I find it odd that Ubuntu wouldn't mention it automatically it in the restricted manager/hardware manager though, it should have offered either of these options to you automatically (just as it does with any other propietary drivers).
Neither the paragraph about CrossOver Games nor the corresponding paragraph about CrossOver Standard mentions anything about discounts for renewal, unlike the paragraphs about CrossOver Professional.
They don't, but I always get discount e-mails to renew it at an offer.
Until you try to switch an existing PC to Linux or try using a donated peripheral, and you end up with a paperweight with no Linux driver.
Actually, the last donated perperials I recieved was a scanner (does not work on windows above XP), 3g dongle (does not work on windows above vista) and a printer (does not work on windows above xp), all of which worked fine under the latest version of Kubuntu -- out of the box. I have to disagree with you here.
I gave up Ubuntu (again) about a year - year and a half ago, and I agree with each of his points.
Honestly, the majority of points given seem silly in comparison to windows. The disk manager in windows doesn't support resizing or automatic configuration, the file paths in windows have been changed between windows xp, vista and seven, connected harddrives automatically get their own mount points in most major distributions just like on Windows.
Multimedia for my favorite distributions is dead easy, you just end up trying to play a mp3, dvd or whatever and you get a prompt to install the propietary codecs and such automatically by clicking 'yes' to the pop up, which will download what is needed from the net and play - the codec support superior to Windows' offerings, even Windows 7 doesn't support quicktime, mkv containers etc. out of the box, meanwhile all the other offerings that windows has for codec support is provided in this simple 'yes' button.
As for windows emulation, I'm not really seeing it with desktop environments, I see all the desktop environments borrowing ideas from each other, which really, should be expected for any desktop environment that wants to keep it self modern.
When X crashes, I am aware of four major distributions that have fall backs that if it continues to crash after being restarted to revert to a 'safe' configuration, allowing you to reconfigure X via the GUI tools if need be.
As for too many choices, I don't have that problem, there is less major desktop linux distributions than all the editions of windows seven and windows vista editions combined (see distrowatch).
So honestly, I don't see your problems. Maybe I live in a fantasy world or something?
CrossOver Games alone is $39.95 per year if you want updates. That's as expensive as a Windows partition.
It's cheaper than that to renew and I don't see a problem with the cost personally. I use Linux and it's solutions because I feel it is superior choice for my uses, not because it's cheaper. Partion wise, it takes far less space than a Windows system and doesn't come with Windows driver problems, or having to deal with Windows' inadequecies.
I was in Currys a few days ago, they had an Arm netbook (256MB RAM, 16GB HD) running on Windows CE for £260, mean while most of the x86 netbooks with bigger harddrives (120GB), more RAM (1GB) were closer to £200 while running windows 7 starter / home premium. How is that cheaper?
I have been running fl studio just fine under Crossover. No tweaking involved.
Hah! Gaming?
Steam has been working fine for me under Crossover too. No tweaking involved.
Graphic design type stuff?
What's wrong with Krita? Still no tweaking involved.
Having to hunt for a couple of drivers when you install the OS is a small price to pay for actually being able to do the things you need to do with your computer.
Very few people will run into limitations, and even few know what those typical things like "48-bit-colour" or "cymk" or whatever is quoted as major shortcomings of Gimp really mean. If you really need those functions - then Gimp is indeed not for you, just stay with Photoshop or whatever
Actually, anyone running into those limitations should investigate Krita instead of the GIMP.
However, there is a problem. Myself and a bunch of other people have quite a bit of money and time sunk into windows programs. I've heard all the arguments and have used openoffice myself. It is pretty good! But it doesn't have absolutely 100% compatability with office and I don't have time to play around with that unless it works right with word, excel, etc formats perfectly every single time without a hitch.
So... Why didn't you run Microsoft Office? Microsoft Office 2007 worked out of the box with Ubuntu (Wine is preinstalled on Ubuntu( since 2008, earlier versions of office worked out of the box even earlier with Ubuntu. I fail to understand the problem with office software.
Basically, until there is an easy way to run all windows programs (or nearly all of them) under linux without a lot of hassle and configuration and to where it is a one or two click install people are not going to bother with it.
Have you even investigated Codeweavers? It runs a bit more software (including games) than Wine out of the box, easy to use.
I like Ubuntu 10.04. It is easy to use, well designed (as a consumer grade OS), easy to install programs and many comparable programs to windows. The quality of the software is pretty good. But its gotta run windows programs
The preinstalled wine can run Microsoft office and many other windows applications out of the box, I'm not understanding the problem?
Slashdot Mirror
Really?
You forgot to mention that you need to set that up in advanced as it doesn't do that by default and having to come up with settings for any given system is horribly time consuming, compared to just having a regular incremental backup operating every X hours.
For the curious, it's a single person called Chris Mason who happened to work also on ReiserFS (the killer filesystem).
How is he picking? He's just measuring the file system performance compared to others on a specific OS.
I don't think it is, this person wanted to measure performance on Linux, not compare features and he got what he was testing. I would imagine there are plenty of people who want to know how well it performs - regardless of features - in comparison to other filesystems.
Considering that webhosts aren't simply just "common carriers" with all their regulations on kinds of content that can be hosted etc. That would make the safe habour conditions likely useless for everyone. I doubt this would ever happen.
So, that means Windows is the new UNIX.
What feature is that again?
The death penalty!
Wasn't a lot of Windows NT's code was written by Russian programmers in Israel as well as the VMS guys? I could of sworn I saw that on some documentary about Israel's contributions to computing somewhere.
Nigel Farage.
Ever considered that maybe those Slashdotters just don't give a shit about this particular instance?
Pointless, I don't care about reading spam or want to pirate.
Here is my reason: Too much abuse from free IPv6 tunnel brokers, letting people circumvent blocks. By using IPv4, those that are legitimately using IPv6 from an ISP have a IPv6-to-IPv4 gateway, while the free tunnel brokers don't provide that.
It prevents you from doing so, thus decreasing the risk of your password being sniffed. It's a two for one deal!
According to http://store.steampowered.com/stats/ it's in the 14th place today, so yes.
Unfortunately you drew the short straw on this one. Generally most of my issues to be the opposite, future versions of Windows not having the drivers.
Really... Out of curiousity, does this USB WLAN adapater have a broadcom chip?
It's the only instance I am aware of (due to hanging out on the ubuntu support channel on IRC), where Ubuntu recognises the USB WLAN stick but due to licensing issues can't provide the firmware out of the box. This might be of help, hopefully you would only need to do step one, but otherwise, you got a full guide on what to do, so not the end of the world.
Although, it might also just be easier to use one of the graphical ndiswrapper interfaces available from the package manager (just search 'ndiswrapper'), that lets you use Windows drivers directly for the wireless. I find it odd that Ubuntu wouldn't mention it automatically it in the restricted manager/hardware manager though, it should have offered either of these options to you automatically (just as it does with any other propietary drivers).
They don't, but I always get discount e-mails to renew it at an offer.
Actually, the last donated perperials I recieved was a scanner (does not work on windows above XP), 3g dongle (does not work on windows above vista) and a printer (does not work on windows above xp), all of which worked fine under the latest version of Kubuntu -- out of the box. I have to disagree with you here.
Honestly, the majority of points given seem silly in comparison to windows. The disk manager in windows doesn't support resizing or automatic configuration, the file paths in windows have been changed between windows xp, vista and seven, connected harddrives automatically get their own mount points in most major distributions just like on Windows.
Multimedia for my favorite distributions is dead easy, you just end up trying to play a mp3, dvd or whatever and you get a prompt to install the propietary codecs and such automatically by clicking 'yes' to the pop up, which will download what is needed from the net and play - the codec support superior to Windows' offerings, even Windows 7 doesn't support quicktime, mkv containers etc. out of the box, meanwhile all the other offerings that windows has for codec support is provided in this simple 'yes' button.
As for windows emulation, I'm not really seeing it with desktop environments, I see all the desktop environments borrowing ideas from each other, which really, should be expected for any desktop environment that wants to keep it self modern.
When X crashes, I am aware of four major distributions that have fall backs that if it continues to crash after being restarted to revert to a 'safe' configuration, allowing you to reconfigure X via the GUI tools if need be.
As for too many choices, I don't have that problem, there is less major desktop linux distributions than all the editions of windows seven and windows vista editions combined (see distrowatch).
So honestly, I don't see your problems. Maybe I live in a fantasy world or something?
It's cheaper than that to renew and I don't see a problem with the cost personally. I use Linux and it's solutions because I feel it is superior choice for my uses, not because it's cheaper. Partion wise, it takes far less space than a Windows system and doesn't come with Windows driver problems, or having to deal with Windows' inadequecies.
But the OEM licensing for Windows CE is less than Windows 7 starter. So I don't buy that.
I was in Currys a few days ago, they had an Arm netbook (256MB RAM, 16GB HD) running on Windows CE for £260, mean while most of the x86 netbooks with bigger harddrives (120GB), more RAM (1GB) were closer to £200 while running windows 7 starter / home premium. How is that cheaper?
Sorry, I typoed my steam link, it should be http://steamcommunity.com/id/Ash_Weststar/games?tab=all
Also the hours are not very accurate as I play often when I have no Internet access.
I have been running fl studio just fine under Crossover. No tweaking involved.
Steam has been working fine for me under Crossover too. No tweaking involved.
What's wrong with Krita? Still no tweaking involved.
I don't have your problems.
Actually, anyone running into those limitations should investigate Krita instead of the GIMP.
So... Why didn't you run Microsoft Office? Microsoft Office 2007 worked out of the box with Ubuntu (Wine is preinstalled on Ubuntu( since 2008, earlier versions of office worked out of the box even earlier with Ubuntu. I fail to understand the problem with office software.
Have you even investigated Codeweavers? It runs a bit more software (including games) than Wine out of the box, easy to use.
The preinstalled wine can run Microsoft office and many other windows applications out of the box, I'm not understanding the problem?