it wouldn't be tax evasion to illegally download a winxp iso for example. that would be like going to the store and stealing it (as far as tax is concerned).
so you want to pay by the mb? afaik that is how the internet works, the ISP's pay by the GB and pass the cost on to us with fixed monthly fees on a limited bandwidth
sure. BBC is a public service. Its independant of the government but is funded by a 'tv license' which everybody in the UK who owns a tv (or tv card) or radio must pay.
its about £130 a year as far as i know (although i may be way off).
They provide a good service (loads of tv channels, loads of radio channels) and dont put adverts in or between programs.
not if you have to give your tv license details to create an account. if you dont have a tv license, you dont have an account. or they could check the ip address and see if it belongs in the UK. obviously there are ways round it, but anybody who would go to the effort to do that would just download it off kazaa anyway.
thats not true. almost every major distro comes with a modular kernel, and devfs or udev (hotplug+coldplug). how do you think installer cd's manage to use your network card, and your friends cd, when neither of you had to recompile the kernel to make the installer boot?
there's two ways, one is the same as windows (right click copy, or ^C) or there's the xclipboard. Once your used to the xclipboard you probably wont use ^C anymore.
anyway, copy/paste (^C ^V) between gnome/kde apps has worked fine for ages now
my athlon-xp 2000+ with 1gb of ram, and standard IDE PATA (7200rpm i think) hdd will build gentoo (with xorg, kde, OO.o, etc) just fine in 2 days from a stage 3, including rebuilding (and updating to current the system metapackage.
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you forgot about swap space, incase they ever decide to port winfs to it.
ive been using 'songs' as a translation measurement for non-technical people for years. 4gb ~= 1000 mp3's
nokia 1100 - great phone.
it wouldn't be tax evasion to illegally download a winxp iso for example. that would be like going to the store and stealing it (as far as tax is concerned).
so you want to pay by the mb? afaik that is how the internet works, the ISP's pay by the GB and pass the cost on to us with fixed monthly fees on a limited bandwidth
i may be wrong though.
well i am disorganised, dunno about big picture type though.
im not sure what you mean with 'details oriented'.
my sisters a training accountant, im a student programmer.
It all makes sense now.
alrite, positive integers
do what nvidia do and provide a gpl compatible 'glue' for their propriatry module
its two integers delimited by a fullstop. its not a float
they check if you have a tv license when you buy a tv and they have vans they drive round looking for people using their tv without a license.
your also expected to goto the post office (i think) every year.
yes, read this post here
sure. BBC is a public service. Its independant of the government but is funded by a 'tv license' which everybody in the UK who owns a tv (or tv card) or radio must pay.
its about £130 a year as far as i know (although i may be way off).
They provide a good service (loads of tv channels, loads of radio channels) and dont put adverts in or between programs.
not if you have to give your tv license details to create an account. if you dont have a tv license, you dont have an account. or they could check the ip address and see if it belongs in the UK. obviously there are ways round it, but anybody who would go to the effort to do that would just download it off kazaa anyway.
i personally think the BBC should provide free downloads (by bittorrent or something) to UK residents who have a tv license.
They could probably increase revenue if they created a subscription service for non-UK viewers too.
dont try to upgrade red hat 3 to red fedora core 3
/opt may be different on a different distro.
dont try to upgrade mandrake 7.1 to gentoo 2005.0
Linux distro's are consistant themselves (/opt is still the same for example in slackware 9.1 and 10), but
upgrading on gentoo is easy (you dont upgrade as such, just keep on top of updates), debian is apparently the same.
for a beginner, ubuntu is supposed to be a very good distro (it has apt-get)
i wouldn't be so bad supporting people with a debian based distro, just add a cronjob to update every week or so.
ssh to them whenever they have problems.
thats not true. almost every major distro comes with a modular kernel, and devfs or udev (hotplug+coldplug). how do you think installer cd's manage to use your network card, and your friends cd, when neither of you had to recompile the kernel to make the installer boot?
the kernel development is funded by the OSDL, some are under the direct employ of redhat, and probably other companies (maybe novel, IBM, im not sure)
trolltech is a company that makes QT, and thats duel licensed, one license being GPL.
the firefox lead developer is employed by google.
many large opensource projects have people being paid to develop them fulltime, its a good thing because the source stays open.
there's two ways, one is the same as windows (right click copy, or ^C) or there's the xclipboard. Once your used to the xclipboard you probably wont use ^C anymore.
anyway, copy/paste (^C ^V) between gnome/kde apps has worked fine for ages now
i would like to see this so called list.
it does come with gentoo (its in portage). it comes with vidalinux out of the box too.
It doesn't include a picture of each ebuild because thats not in the ebuild spec.
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or they could grant free licenses to opensource developers. (although this isn't likely for some companies).
Because of the current state of patents it would result in a complete mess for a few years, but after that it wouldn't be so bad.
maybe its not such a good idea after all.
my athlon-xp 2000+ with 1gb of ram, and standard IDE PATA (7200rpm i think) hdd will build gentoo (with xorg, kde, OO.o, etc) just fine in 2 days from a stage 3, including rebuilding (and updating to current the system metapackage.