As someone who travels a lot between countries, I find SMSes fairly unreliable. Often foreign numbers won't get my message or vice versa. When abroad, messages don't get delivered or get delivered very late and I get charged for doing long distance communications. Meanwhile, e-mail works. I don't know anyone who doesn't check their e-mail at least once a day, if not immediately notified by their phone.
It's possible that In some countries, alternative 'currency' systems like Bitcoin could be illegal and therefore using them within their borders would be criminal. Perhaps our friend lives in one of these countries?
What I find interesting is claiming Linux is mainstream. I remember ten years ago people talking about "the year of the Linux desktop", except it never really happened. So, I figure what he's trying to say is that Bitcoin will never quite make it.
To be sure, ubuntu was horrible for actually finding
I don't really use Ubuntu, I spend more time in Kubuntu, hence why my posts have been more Kubuntu centric.
also what's with everything having firefox to start?
It's not included with Kubuntu by default, but starting it from the menu should bring the installer up?
Which pretty much just uses the system package manager to automatically download and install it. The initial start was relatively instant too.
but all the instructions for normal ways to do things which I could find were mostly for older versions and couldn't be followed or assumed that I could find things that weren't plainly on the screen such as they should have been if they were important.
I don't know how putting the drivers manager in the system menu, at the top, really could be any more on screen importance when looking for it. Really. On Windows, it's buried in:
Start -> Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager
The work flow is practically the same for accessing the system's driver management.
And I should have just changed the bootflags to turn off KMS?
It's harder on Windows, try disabling the signature verification on the bootloader so you can use unsigned drivers on a 64bit Windows Vista+ system. No GUI to do so like on Kubuntu and on top of that.
And your "the open source drivers are good enoguh" argument is crap.
Sir, you are putting words into my mouth. You stated that you had no 3D acceleration, in which case, I determined that you verified there was NO 3D ACCELERATION ON YOUR SYSTEM. Considering that the opensource drivers OFFER 3D ACCELERATION, perhaps not great, but still SUPPORT does not equal NO 3D ACCELERATION. I didn't say it was good enough, I called you essentially a liar in regards to using the opensource drivers, no where did I state "the open source drivers are good enoguh".
Lost nights for a week trying to get it working, the only support I could get for ATI was the open-source drivers which are not capable of any 3d intensive applications.
Considering that the basic open-source ATi drivers provide limited 3D acceleration (but still 3d acceleration), I'm just not believing you. I really don't.
Each one failed with the closed source ATI driver, which I presumed due to what I read of the ATI driver requiring the kernel to have DRI/KMS turned off so I recompiled kernels in all of those distributions with the DRI/KMS off and each one had the same result, upon boot it couldn't even render frame buffer.
What the fuck man, why didn't you just untick the 'DRI' option or KMS option in the configuration GUIs?
I wouldn't expect Windows to work any better if I was replacing random Windows system files from other versions of Windows in hope I could get some driver working.
And, in the worst case scenario where you can't even get x.org up (which I don't think is even possible not to happen these days because of VGA fallback?), could have modified the xorg.conf to disable DRI or told the bootloader not to start with KMS support. No recompiling, ever.
So as I said earlier, it's a problem of robustness and consistency.
I think the problem is that you're just going against any normal way of doing things.
I sincerely doubt you even used the driver manager in Ubuntu/Kubuntu etc. at this point and instead manually installed drivers from the ATi website.
I have ever habitted to keep ~100gb of unpartitioned space on every system I install in case I want to pop another OS on. I'll give kubuntu a try tonight when I get home.
It's a file server (NFS - for the home directories, and handling backups), Kerberos authenticaion, e-mail/SMTP, LDAP, etc.
It might sound absurd, but I find e-mail to be one of the more intensive tasks my servers perform and this is mostly due to anti-virus, anti-spam, archiving etc.
Once every couple of days Skype doesn't manage to send text messages on my 4Mb/1Mb ADSL, the small circle just keeps spinning while every other application manages just fine.
I've had that happen on rare occasions (when the Internet connection didn't appear to be having problems and the other party didn't either), but the messages always made it through shortly after. I'm currently using Skype 6.0.0.120.
Sometimes initiating a voice call makes the text go through, but it's so frustrating it's one of the reasons I abandoned it.
Because they don't control it. They can't force you to use their client and bombard you with ads. With Skype, the client is a lot more locked-down, and there are no third party (guaranteed-ad-free) options:(
Unchecking 'promotions' is so hard in skype options, isn't it?
What are you talking about? How can text communications present a "connectivity" issue on any network?
When you're on an unreliable connection, such as a cable connection that is constantly futzing out, or have an extremely poor wireless signal and so on - Where it only works for a few seconds every few minutes. Skype is one of those mediums that will get the messages through, both ways. Other messengers won't. A lot of them won't even let you try to send messages while they're 'not connected'.
The IM chat client either connects to the server/peer or it doesn't which has nothing to do with how shitty Skype's protocol is implemented (see above complaints from the AC).
It does and manages to send messages when others don't.
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Yes there is, a 32bit plugin-container.exe with 64bit firefox.exe.
That version of Ubuntu is no longer supported by Canonical. I'm not really sure it's worth time debugging an issue on an unsupported operating system.
How do I reproduce your issue?
Anti-social personality disorder is something else entirely.
IQ does not measure intelligence.
As someone who travels a lot between countries, I find SMSes fairly unreliable. Often foreign numbers won't get my message or vice versa. When abroad, messages don't get delivered or get delivered very late and I get charged for doing long distance communications. Meanwhile, e-mail works. I don't know anyone who doesn't check their e-mail at least once a day, if not immediately notified by their phone.
Indeed, so Bitcoin will not become the number one currency, but the number one cryptographic decentralized digital currency.
Note: I am not the GP.
It's possible that In some countries, alternative 'currency' systems like Bitcoin could be illegal and therefore using them within their borders would be criminal. Perhaps our friend lives in one of these countries?
What I find interesting is claiming Linux is mainstream. I remember ten years ago people talking about "the year of the Linux desktop", except it never really happened. So, I figure what he's trying to say is that Bitcoin will never quite make it.
It already did X by then.
"Game" is already trademarked in the UK.
Would this help?
http://support.google.com/groups/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1191206
I messed up my images:
Manual by hand:
step 1: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/58565/Web/Kubuntu%2012.10-2012-11-09-18-22-34.PNG
step 2: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/58565/Web/Kubuntu%2012.10-2012-11-09-18-22-44.PNG
Search:
Step 1: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/58565/Web/Kubuntu%2012.10-2012-11-09-18-23-36.PNG
Much like a Windows user, I don't use tutorials.
So, I did a fresh install of Kubuntu.
On Kubuntu by hand:
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Searching 'driver' in Kubuntu:
Step 1
I don't really use Ubuntu, I spend more time in Kubuntu, hence why my posts have been more Kubuntu centric.
It's not included with Kubuntu by default, but starting it from the menu should bring the installer up?
Which pretty much just uses the system package manager to automatically download and install it. The initial start was relatively instant too.
I don't know how putting the drivers manager in the system menu, at the top, really could be any more on screen importance when looking for it. Really. On Windows, it's buried in:
Start -> Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager
The work flow is practically the same for accessing the system's driver management.
It's harder on Windows, try disabling the signature verification on the bootloader so you can use unsigned drivers on a 64bit Windows Vista+ system. No GUI to do so like on Kubuntu and on top of that.
Sir, you are putting words into my mouth. You stated that you had no 3D acceleration, in which case, I determined that you verified there was NO 3D ACCELERATION ON YOUR SYSTEM. Considering that the opensource drivers OFFER 3D ACCELERATION, perhaps not great, but still SUPPORT does not equal NO 3D ACCELERATION. I didn't say it was good enough, I called you essentially a liar in regards to using the opensource drivers, no where did I state "the open source drivers are good enoguh".
Considering that the basic open-source ATi drivers provide limited 3D acceleration (but still 3d acceleration), I'm just not believing you. I really don't.
What the fuck man, why didn't you just untick the 'DRI' option or KMS option in the configuration GUIs?
I wouldn't expect Windows to work any better if I was replacing random Windows system files from other versions of Windows in hope I could get some driver working.
And, in the worst case scenario where you can't even get x.org up (which I don't think is even possible not to happen these days because of VGA fallback?), could have modified the xorg.conf to disable DRI or told the bootloader not to start with KMS support. No recompiling, ever.
I think the problem is that you're just going against any normal way of doing things.
I sincerely doubt you even used the driver manager in Ubuntu/Kubuntu etc. at this point and instead manually installed drivers from the ATi website.
How did it go?
It might sound absurd, but I find e-mail to be one of the more intensive tasks my servers perform and this is mostly due to anti-virus, anti-spam, archiving etc.
I've had that happen on rare occasions (when the Internet connection didn't appear to be having problems and the other party didn't either), but the messages always made it through shortly after. I'm currently using Skype 6.0.0.120.
I've not experienced that.
Sounds like you've got a business plan there, Mr. Jeffries.
You could just uncheck 'promotions' Skype options you know...
Also, you can use a SIP client just fine with http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/business/skype-connect/
So yes, there are 3rd party alternatives.
Unchecking 'promotions' is so hard in skype options, isn't it?
But if you don't like using the Skype client, use a SIP client with http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/business/skype-connect/
You have options.
MSN's protocol was completely unencrypted. Skype's on the other is encrypted. I wouldn't say "spying on people" is any "easier".
I don't really know how you can say that when Skype has been providing a SIP interface for years:
http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/business/skype-connect/
How do you deal with the lack of logging?
When you're on an unreliable connection, such as a cable connection that is constantly futzing out, or have an extremely poor wireless signal and so on - Where it only works for a few seconds every few minutes. Skype is one of those mediums that will get the messages through, both ways. Other messengers won't. A lot of them won't even let you try to send messages while they're 'not connected'.
It does and manages to send messages when others don't.