is the itunes store that much of a biggie? iPods and iTunes are really popular in europe even though europeans can't use the itunes store. i have all my cds ripped to my computer and i'd never think of buying music from the itunes store. it'd be the same price for me to buy a cd in a shop and rip it onto my computer and then i can choose the bite rate and format of the music.
drm sucks ass. it severely constrains how you can listen to the music that you bought!
i've been using linux for nearly 2 years now. i've tried xandros, mandrake, libranet, suse and debian. linux is nowhere near being ready for the desktop, or "joe average".
ignoring the fact that hardware support is nowhere near as good as windows. (i know you'll say that it only takes 15 minutes of googling to find supported hardware but joe won't want to do that), the distros themselves aren't ready for "ease of use". xandros is quite sluggish, mandrake is quite buggy and unstable (maybe even more than windows), suse is unbearably slow, libranet and debian are really difficult to set up and install over a windows installation.
i recommend Macs to as many people as i can.
I'm living in Ireland and I'd love to get a mini iPod which, if I get it from apple.com, it'd only cost me 200. Are there any problems in doing so? e.g. voltage differences, having to pay lots of tax etc
the reason why apple has manufacturer support is not because of its market share but because it is closed source and therefore has complete control over Mac OS X.
the problem with linux is, ironically, because it's open source. there's too much freedom and therefore too many distributions, too many variations within those distributions. if a manufacturer wants to provide support for linux while staying closed source it's faced with so many hurdles. why would a manufacturer spend so much time and trouble extending its support to linux even if linux had a 10% market share?
that was kinda my point. people think that just because they use something like linux, that their moral judgement is somehow better than someone that uses windows.
people usually don't have much say in what their elected leaders do, that's even if their leaders were elected in the first place
When people who were found guilty of thought crimes against big brother were paraded on tv and they said that they were wrong and they really did love Big Brother.
god i wish i had a 4 year old like that! then i could send him out to vote for me and he may aswell stop off at the off license on the way home and pick up a few beers and cigs:)
has anyone got it working on debian stable? i've tried a few times by copying over my 2.4.24 config into 2.6 and then using make-kpkg (or something), but the kernel build usually quits with an error 2, something to do with a module dependency?
Going through menuconfig, there seems to be alot less modules, is this just because there's a new neater layout or have alot of the 2.4 modules not been put into 2.6?
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is the itunes store that much of a biggie? iPods and iTunes are really popular in europe even though europeans can't use the itunes store. i have all my cds ripped to my computer and i'd never think of buying music from the itunes store. it'd be the same price for me to buy a cd in a shop and rip it onto my computer and then i can choose the bite rate and format of the music.
drm sucks ass. it severely constrains how you can listen to the music that you bought!
i've been using linux for nearly 2 years now. i've tried xandros, mandrake, libranet, suse and debian. linux is nowhere near being ready for the desktop, or "joe average". ignoring the fact that hardware support is nowhere near as good as windows. (i know you'll say that it only takes 15 minutes of googling to find supported hardware but joe won't want to do that), the distros themselves aren't ready for "ease of use". xandros is quite sluggish, mandrake is quite buggy and unstable (maybe even more than windows), suse is unbearably slow, libranet and debian are really difficult to set up and install over a windows installation. i recommend Macs to as many people as i can.
I'm living in Ireland and I'd love to get a mini iPod which, if I get it from apple.com, it'd only cost me 200. Are there any problems in doing so? e.g. voltage differences, having to pay lots of tax etc
the reason why apple has manufacturer support is not because of its market share but because it is closed source and therefore has complete control over Mac OS X. the problem with linux is, ironically, because it's open source. there's too much freedom and therefore too many distributions, too many variations within those distributions. if a manufacturer wants to provide support for linux while staying closed source it's faced with so many hurdles. why would a manufacturer spend so much time and trouble extending its support to linux even if linux had a 10% market share?
i don't know if it would be possible but it'd be really cool to have the java virtual machine built into the kernel.
that was kinda my point. people think that just because they use something like linux, that their moral judgement is somehow better than someone that uses windows. people usually don't have much say in what their elected leaders do, that's even if their leaders were elected in the first place
so an OS has nothing to do with morality.
what do you mean by, "If you think liberation is bad"? Who are you talking to? just curious...
When people who were found guilty of thought crimes against big brother were paraded on tv and they said that they were wrong and they really did love Big Brother.
no, he's released stuff under AFX with warp, check out bleep.com, you can get stuff by AFX. at least we can both agree on the fact that he rocks 8)
and don't forget AFX! of his aliases, Aphex Twin is his most well known.
plaid and squarepusher are also on this label. i hope they'll put some rephlex stuff on there soon.
god i wish i had a 4 year old like that! then i could send him out to vote for me and he may aswell stop off at the off license on the way home and pick up a few beers and cigs :)
is that all? what version do i need? the one in testing or unstable?
has anyone got it working on debian stable? i've tried a few times by copying over my 2.4.24 config into 2.6 and then using make-kpkg (or something), but the kernel build usually quits with an error 2, something to do with a module dependency? Going through menuconfig, there seems to be alot less modules, is this just because there's a new neater layout or have alot of the 2.4 modules not been put into 2.6?
In Ireland we all get really low caps. I'm with IOL and I'm 'lucky" 'cause my cap is 8GB per month. ireland offline