REGARDLESS of how shady their buisness practices are, why is it OK for companies to infringe upon Microsoft patents but NOT ok for Microsoft to infringe upon other companies patents?
Microsoft infringes on mp3 patents and doesn't pay licensing fees.
I run Ubuntu Linux on my Toshiba laptop. I had to install two proprietary drivers to get accelerated video and support for the wifi. Ubuntu does not install these by default.
In Feisty, restricted-manager should however popup and offer to install it all for you.
The next thing that I consider a shortcoming to using Wifi on Linux is that if I don't have the Wifi radio switched on when I boot the machine Linux does not detect this and allow me to network automatically.
Because owning a Mac makes it easier to identify who you are, since there are much less Mac users to determine whos who using their browsing information.
Maybe you installed libdvdcss a long time ago, from source or RPM, but to the best of my knowledge, playing encrypted DVDs does not work without libdvdcss, and said library isn't included in the Ubuntu repositories for obvious reasons.
I did not install libdvdcss. I have no use for DVDs - I only own a few DVDs because I hate this region encoding crap. The only alternative repositories I use is WineHQ's. I never used automatix or any of those other scripts that some how make 'ubuntu easier'.
I ran a 'locate libdvdcss', cannot find any files.
But, I remembered something about setting regions on the DVD drive. So I quickly looked it up and apparently if regions are set on the DVD drive, you can play DVDs without requiring libdvdcss...
regionset version 0.1 -- reads/sets region code on DVD drives Current Region Code settings: RPC Phase: II type: SET vendor resets available: 4 user controlled changes resets available: 4 drive plays discs from region(s): 2, mask=0xFD
Apparently, not region 1.
However, with the region setting, this does mean people can legally play content from one region anyway, no matter what the OS (is it illegal to play content from other regions in the States?).
Now I have to go find libdvdcss again, since I uninstalled it to rebut your accusation and, as I said, it's not in the standard repositories...
I am using Kubuntu feisty 7.10 and I have ubuntu-restricted-extras installed and it's working for me. I would suggest you try installing ubuntu-restricted-extras and seeing if it works then.
Actually yeah, it is. Maybe not for us. But I see needing to explain what a repository is, what a codec is, why some codecs are restricted, why others aren't, and how to use the repository to put codecs onto the system to my 12 year old niece, or 55 year old mother.
Having had experience with teenagers, they really don't care for explanations, they just want to know what to click/install to get it working.
Both of which would then as "But why is it when I have Windows it just works without all this?"
I never got codec support for anything but windows media and mp3 and some very basic things that Linux supports too. No, I didn't get the ability to play DVDs either out of the box.
On Linux I get the basics at least, things like Divx, Xvid, flac, ogm, mkv etc. supported out of the box too. With one more tick I can get everything else supported. Thankfully I don't live in a country that has software patents, much like the majority of other nations.
I decided to check your claims that DVDs do not play, even after installing ubuntu-restricted-extras. So I inserted a DVD that I have problems playing under Windows on another computer (I bought it from the States, it's a region 1 encoded DVD, I am in region 2) -- worked perfectly (Cannot take snapshots of overlays, hence the black screen in the picture - just like on windows) for me. libdvdcss or libdvdcss2 isn't even installed as you can see.
I know that, doesn't mean that just because CNR might be coming to Ubuntu that the same store, or even the same packages be available - there is no guarantee it will.
If you pay for MP3 codecs through CNR, then that is legal.
It's legal to play-back mp3s for personal usage without paying any licensing fees according to mp3licensing.com.
Seems reasonable, but it's too bad that Click2Run isn't in Ubuntu 7.04 for the sake of those wanting to (legally) play DVDs, use AVI files, etc."
Because start menu -> Add/remove programs -> Ticking 'ubuntu restricted extras' to get proprietary codecs, flash, java etc. is so much harder than 'Click2Run'.
Correct me if I'm wrong, and I certainly mean no impoliteness, but don't those all boil down to "I don't like to be distracted by seeing more than one window on the screen at once"?
Some things I do want to see, which is why I set those windows "always ontop", minimizing windows unfortunately has weird side-effects such as taking other dialogs with them, pausing processing (really annoying) etc.
Perhaps I'm biased towards zoom because it seems more applicable in general.
I was brought up on the Amiga originally that didn't have a concept of maximization, but rather of window layering, such as keeping a window ontop of another, the one below another etc. I have to say after so many years, I'm somewhat still biased to that sort of interface, except it's now mixed in with the concepts of minimizing, maximizing and virtual desktops...
Fullscreen is a broken concept on widescreen displays; nobody wants to read lines of text hundreds of columns wide.
When it comes wide screen displays, my reasons are a bit different and include:
spreadsheets, yes, I really do want to read the data columns wide. Often I get a lot data and it can really help having as much of it displayed on the screen as possible.
When it comes to chat windows. I tend to use programs that use MDI type windows, so while the program is maximized, the various private queries, chatrooms/conference rooms aren't at that width, so a widescreen lets me maximize my space usage.
I have had the liberty of reading pdfs on widescreen displays, I do quite like the dual page layout on a maximized window
I admit, it becomes somewhat less relevant to have maximization on widescreen displays since often the entire width isn't filled properly with information, however zoom is not something I particularly miss. It's easy for me to resize a window to a good proportion for the content inside it, but it's a real pain to get a window in a maximized form nicely and quickly.
If said month was 30 days, she didn't sleep at all during those 30 days, she would be sending on average a message every six minutes. Does that sound right to you?
In what situations do you find yourself needing to maximize, rather than zoom?
Uh, from the top of my head on some of my daily activies...
File dialogs (works on KDE) - Every now and then I may want to look a large amount of thumbnails on screen, double clicking the window bar maximizes the window on my system (also helpful when I'm working with someone and don't want them to get distracted with something else on the screen).
chat sessions when I wish to see the most text as possible while additionally preventing other windows from distracting me (fullscreen isn't useful as it prevents me from multitasking) -- putting it on another virtual desktop isn't very useful for me because I tend to be a drag&drop maniac and I am really using a few different applications together.
websites - I shouldn't have to resize the window for the content each time and it shouldn't be full screen to obscure the taskbar/dock
e-mails/im dialogs in general as other windows can be quite distracting if you see them - taskbar flashing informs you if there is truly something important
Art software like the gimp - I can work with the art windows maximized while tools windows are set to be always on-top allowing me to maximize my space usage, (last time I tried The Gimp on OS X, it didn't zoom at all to the content size).
When working with things like spreadsheets, the program does not know how large the content is going to be, having to manually resize the window until it's like maximize with the border bars around it can be quite annoying.
I can come up with more instances but they're more or less repeating the same 'philosophy' of what I've written already above.
I don't miss zoom on other desktop environments, but I do find I miss maximize.
AFAIK that's sort-of true. Books needed for University students are awfully expensive, and possibly hard to find (IIRC it was something around 300PLN/$100 for one?).
I was disagreeing with the "most" statement.
A lot do, but the majority do it for all textbooks and never owned a 'real' one? No.
Well, if your decision to switch is based upon some vague bug that was introduced in an OS update at some point for some undefined "hardware" you were trying to use at the time, I don't think we can draw any broad conclusions from your personal experience.
If I were to write up *all* my issues with OS X, Apple support and Macintosh hardware it would take a few pages. Sorry, I'm not willing to write it up today.
So what the fuck are you telling me about it for?
It's the reasoning why I use Linux over OS X, which is also shared by some others too. I shouldn't need to describe the events that lead upto this reasoning in complete utter detail, it's getting way off topic and you only need to know the reason for the sake of this discussion in the first place.
You are the one who is making assumptions about people and claiming those assumptions are the majority of something without any reasonable evidence -- I am not and until you actually provide reasonable evidence I am not going to believe otherwise and nor should anyone else.
My personal experiences contradict a lot of your majority assumptions too, to the point, where it really doesn't support your arguments at all -- I'm willing to accept there can be error, but so far you haven't really provided anything to believe otherwise.
So far, all I have heard in particular from your posts is stereotypical 'evidence' that I have rarely ever experienced -- Forgive me if I don't find that convincing.
Upon further investigation, you are technically correct that Apache gets restarted.
However, in my init.d script, it basically launches 'apache2 graceful', which starts a new apache process to handle connections with the new settings while existing connections remain on the old child processes which die when the previous connections have finished processing. The disadvantage?
I don't really see any, there certainly isn't any conflicts with the old/new settings that may effect the entire environment since the processes are completely separated. No connections are lost in the process -- that is a pretty graceful way of handling things.
How does IIS get a advantage over this? I don't know.
Slashdot Mirror
So, apparently it is okay.
I thought you couldn't post on Slashdot using TOR?
Because owning a Mac makes it easier to identify who you are, since there are much less Mac users to determine whos who using their browsing information.
I ran a 'locate libdvdcss', cannot find any files.
But, I remembered something about setting regions on the DVD drive. So I quickly looked it up and apparently if regions are set on the DVD drive, you can play DVDs without requiring libdvdcss... Apparently, not region 1.
However, with the region setting, this does mean people can legally play content from one region anyway, no matter what the OS (is it illegal to play content from other regions in the States?).I am using Kubuntu feisty 7.10 and I have ubuntu-restricted-extras installed and it's working for me. I would suggest you try installing ubuntu-restricted-extras and seeing if it works then.
On Linux I get the basics at least, things like Divx, Xvid, flac, ogm, mkv etc. supported out of the box too. With one more tick I can get everything else supported. Thankfully I don't live in a country that has software patents, much like the majority of other nations.
I decided to check your claims that DVDs do not play, even after installing ubuntu-restricted-extras. So I inserted a DVD that I have problems playing under Windows on another computer (I bought it from the States, it's a region 1 encoded DVD, I am in region 2) -- worked perfectly (Cannot take snapshots of overlays, hence the black screen in the picture - just like on windows) for me. libdvdcss or libdvdcss2 isn't even installed as you can see.
Why are you trying to spread false information?
How long till we get 'man hacks' from half life two?
- spreadsheets, yes, I really do want to read the data columns wide. Often I get a lot data and it can really help having as much of it displayed on the screen as possible.
- When it comes to chat windows. I tend to use programs that use MDI type windows, so while the program is maximized, the various private queries, chatrooms/conference rooms aren't at that width, so a widescreen lets me maximize my space usage.
- I have had the liberty of reading pdfs on widescreen displays, I do quite like the dual page layout on a maximized window
I admit, it becomes somewhat less relevant to have maximization on widescreen displays since often the entire width isn't filled properly with information, however zoom is not something I particularly miss. It's easy for me to resize a window to a good proportion for the content inside it, but it's a real pain to get a window in a maximized form nicely and quickly.I can come up with more instances but they're more or less repeating the same 'philosophy' of what I've written already above.
I don't miss zoom on other desktop environments, but I do find I miss maximize.
A lot do, but the majority do it for all textbooks and never owned a 'real' one? No.
You are the one who is making assumptions about people and claiming those assumptions are the majority of something without any reasonable evidence -- I am not and until you actually provide reasonable evidence I am not going to believe otherwise and nor should anyone else.
My personal experiences contradict a lot of your majority assumptions too, to the point, where it really doesn't support your arguments at all -- I'm willing to accept there can be error, but so far you haven't really provided anything to believe otherwise.
So far, all I have heard in particular from your posts is stereotypical 'evidence' that I have rarely ever experienced -- Forgive me if I don't find that convincing.
Upon further investigation, you are technically correct that Apache gets restarted.
However, in my init.d script, it basically launches 'apache2 graceful', which starts a new apache process to handle connections with the new settings while existing connections remain on the old child processes which die when the previous connections have finished processing. The disadvantage?
I don't really see any, there certainly isn't any conflicts with the old/new settings that may effect the entire environment since the processes are completely separated. No connections are lost in the process -- that is a pretty graceful way of handling things.
How does IIS get a advantage over this? I don't know.
??? Came with the phone.
I've lived in Poland for the past twelve years -- Poland is very different from the rest of Europe.