I've been trying to get Matrox Dual Head running with dual Acer P191w LCD's for two days straight now and can't even get a single screen to work in anything but vesa low graphics mode @800x600.
Actually, that is not entirely true. I recently discovered that if I turn off framebuffer support I can get it to work at higher resolutions but still only in 4:3 aspect ratio. Unfortunately, without Frame Buffers things like video do not work.
The latest Ubuntu release comes with the newest iteration of xorg which does away with xorg.conf completely in favour of a "everything is automagically configured by the system and you can't change things" approach, which is fine if in fact the system can make things work properly.
In cases like mine however it just plain sucks. Ubuntu fails to configure X and for the life of me I can't find any documentation that describes where the stuff that used to be found in xorg.conf is now kept in an editable text format.
Maybe oneday when this new xorg system matures and everything does indeed "just works" the Linux experience will be improved, but right now I'm actually finding myself wishing that I could still hack about in xorg.conf when i want to.
Yeah, you often hear windows fanbois telling linux fanbois that Windows is just as good as Linux because they use server 2K8 and have none of the problems that linux fanbois are wont to point at and laugh.
What none of the windows fanbois seem to want to acknowledge is that;
a) They have paid at least several hundred dollars for a copy of win2k8 or
b) They are using a pirated copy that they stole from work or dl'ed from TPB
Personally, neither one of those options really appeal to me so I'll stick with Ubuntu I think
I couldn't ask for a better test case really. Those cretins are so goddamn incompetent that they have not a hope in hell of getting it working to an acceptable level.
"Right click My Docs and see if you can't figure out how to do that on Windows."
Been there, done that. Once you reinstall you have to go through (every user) and reinstate those "non-standard" My Documents locations manually, all the while hoping that each NTUSER.DAT file doesn't spit the dummy because something has changed in the god-forsaken clusterfuck that is the registry that it doesn't like.
No thanks.
"if you want the profile you'll have to right click my computer and change some settings in Computer Management."
You have obviously never had to re-instate a Windows box with multiple user accounts. You make this process sound easy, whereas in reality it can be a huge pita, which multiplies by the number of accounts you have to do it for.
By contrast, on Linux, you have to do . . . ummm, nothing
"On a network there is something called group policy and active directory that lets you set this for the entire domain"
Yes, well, when you have a domain at your grandmothers house please get back to us, until then you are nothing but a tosser with an overpriced MS certification looking to justify your ill-advised training investment.
"1.)/tmp is still under/, which he wants to mount read only "
See what the AC said or if you really want it is shit easy to symlink it to another partition.
"2.) And if/home were its own partition, does that necessarily make it immune to hard poweroffs?"
It means the whole system does not get hosed due to "Unnanounced poweroffs", just the latest "Mahjongg" save game or whatever. I'm sure you'll agree that this will lead to a lot less in the way of critical fuckups overall.
"I never realised how much time I spent on fixing friends windows boxen until recently."
I'm probably a bit older than you. Quite a while back I learned to "just say no". It gets easier when you can say "I don't use Windows, you will have to find a windows person to fix that."
Inevitably, they then ask "Don't use Windows? What do you use then?" and I'm sure you can fill in the rest yourself.
As you've obviously realised, life gets sooo much easier after you've done this.
Whereas, on Linux, if you have been sensible enough to place/home on a separate partition, you can re-install the OS and reload all the apps you want with a single console command. Meanwhile the user's profile, desktop and all their data remains totally untouched, including the layout of the 1000 icons they keep strewn across their desktop.
Truly, Windows is a fucking support nightmare in comparison.
Plus, if you do a lot of upgrades you simply install apt-cacher on one of your machines and point apt to that.
Updates from a fresh-install-from-CD to all-the-latest-patches takes, literally, minutes. It takes longer to apply the patches than it does to download them.
Uh, speaking of Captain Obvious, it is an obvious fact that "the only port open to the public network is the one running " applies to every single server on the internet, (unless it was set up by an MCSE of course) so what exactly was the point the OP was making?
There are four types of voters in modern politics.
1) The cheerleaders
These are the wonks that always vote the same way and remain totally oblivious to the shortcomings of their chosen "side"
2) The fanatics
These are the single issue voters that vote solely on the issue that concerns them. Mostly Greenies and Fundies.
3) The Morons
Vote for the best haircut or the best pork-barrel artist without giving much though to much of anything.
4) The Disillusioned.
These are the ones who realise that both parties are corrupt and essentially the same so they either abstain from voting entirely or try and find an independent local candidate who has reasonably sane views.
Yes, well, I am in my forties, and used to be an avid gamer. Not so much now but I still do play games that warrant my attention. Right now that would be Oblivion on the PC.
Anyway, we got ourselves a Wii just yesterday and you will not believe the game that has garnered our attention the most. Sure, Wii Sports Tennis and bowling are fun games, and we have played our fair share of both but the one that has taken the lions share of playtime is a game that is nearly 20 years old, and was purchased via the Wii store. In my opinion it is the best game ever produced, "Toe Jam and Earl" for the Sega MegaDrive from the "virtual console" department, (which is a great idea in itself)
Anyway,I'm not sure what my point is here. I guess it is that a nearly 20 year old game still shines amongst all the glitz and glamour of the modern hi-tech 3D rendered "mega games" that are produced these days.
At least the video game industry has not de-volved to the same depths as Hollywood. Yet. Although they sure are working on it.
I'm glad I got most of the urge to game out of my system in the golden years of gaming. I can't see a bright future from here on in, as corporate suits take over more and more of the positions of influence in the dev studios.
It's rate of growth is literally tied to the sale of apple hardware. That will always be a limiting factor. You have to be careful when looking at growth rates. When you have a very small starting point it is easy to have phenomenal growth rates, as your share gets larger that growth rate becomes harder to sustain.
They are only against using GPL code in their own projects, not against using GPL "products".
Look, it is quite simple. If you want to put vast amounts of resources into developing a codebase that is 100% your own then do it. Nobody has a problem with that.
If you want to take other peoples work for free then you have to return your own additions to the peoples whose work you originally used. It's that simple.
I'll ask this again. What is the alternative licence that you people are suggesting be used?
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Unfortunately, that is true.
I've been trying to get Matrox Dual Head running with dual Acer P191w LCD's for two days straight now and can't even get a single screen to work in anything but vesa low graphics mode @800x600.
Actually, that is not entirely true. I recently discovered that if I turn off framebuffer support I can get it to work at higher resolutions but still only in 4:3 aspect ratio. Unfortunately, without Frame Buffers things like video do not work.
The latest Ubuntu release comes with the newest iteration of xorg which does away with xorg.conf completely in favour of a "everything is automagically configured by the system and you can't change things" approach, which is fine if in fact the system can make things work properly.
In cases like mine however it just plain sucks. Ubuntu fails to configure X and for the life of me I can't find any documentation that describes where the stuff that used to be found in xorg.conf is now kept in an editable text format.
Maybe oneday when this new xorg system matures and everything does indeed "just works" the Linux experience will be improved, but right now I'm actually finding myself wishing that I could still hack about in xorg.conf when i want to.
Yeah, you often hear windows fanbois telling linux fanbois that Windows is just as good as Linux because they use server 2K8 and have none of the problems that linux fanbois are wont to point at and laugh.
What none of the windows fanbois seem to want to acknowledge is that;
a) They have paid at least several hundred dollars for a copy of win2k8 or
b) They are using a pirated copy that they stole from work or dl'ed from TPB
Personally, neither one of those options really appeal to me so I'll stick with Ubuntu I think
So Optarse are volunteering for the trial eh?
I couldn't ask for a better test case really. Those cretins are so goddamn incompetent that they have not a hope in hell of getting it working to an acceptable level.
Roll on the trial I say!
P.S. Yes, I realise the NTUSER.DAT is a problem for moving the profiles rather than My Doc's, I should have proof read my post before hitting submit
"Right click My Docs and see if you can't figure out how to do that on Windows."
Been there, done that. Once you reinstall you have to go through (every user) and reinstate those "non-standard" My Documents locations manually, all the while hoping that each NTUSER.DAT file doesn't spit the dummy because something has changed in the god-forsaken clusterfuck that is the registry that it doesn't like.
No thanks.
"if you want the profile you'll have to right click my computer and change some settings in Computer Management."
You have obviously never had to re-instate a Windows box with multiple user accounts. You make this process sound easy, whereas in reality it can be a huge pita, which multiplies by the number of accounts you have to do it for.
By contrast, on Linux, you have to do . . . ummm, nothing
"On a network there is something called group policy and active directory that lets you set this for the entire domain"
Yes, well, when you have a domain at your grandmothers house please get back to us, until then you are nothing but a tosser with an overpriced MS certification looking to justify your ill-advised training investment.
"your[sic] assuming they update"
Ummm, no, I'm responding to the OP who said;
"Many people are going to shout "UBUNTU!!! They can just do the updates themselves."
and went on to recommend apple products as an alternative.
Please try and read for comprehension before posting in future.
"1.) /tmp is still under /, which he wants to mount read only "
See what the AC said or if you really want it is shit easy to symlink it to another partition.
"2.) And if /home were its own partition, does that necessarily make it immune to hard poweroffs?"
It means the whole system does not get hosed due to "Unnanounced poweroffs", just the latest "Mahjongg" save game or whatever. I'm sure you'll agree that this will lead to a lot less in the way of critical fuckups overall.
Uhuh, because we all know that mac upgrades never introduce problems, right?
Yes, because we all know the name Microsoft invokes such macho imagery . . .
(Yes, I realise you were joking. So am I)
"I never realised how much time I spent on fixing friends windows boxen until recently."
I'm probably a bit older than you. Quite a while back I learned to "just say no". It gets easier when you can say "I don't use Windows, you will have to find a windows person to fix that."
Inevitably, they then ask "Don't use Windows? What do you use then?" and I'm sure you can fill in the rest yourself.
As you've obviously realised, life gets sooo much easier after you've done this.
Whereas, on Linux, if you have been sensible enough to place /home on a separate partition, you can re-install the OS and reload all the apps you want with a single console command. Meanwhile the user's profile, desktop and all their data remains totally untouched, including the layout of the 1000 icons they keep strewn across their desktop.
Truly, Windows is a fucking support nightmare in comparison.
Plus, if you do a lot of upgrades you simply install apt-cacher on one of your machines and point apt to that.
Updates from a fresh-install-from-CD to all-the-latest-patches takes, literally, minutes. It takes longer to apply the patches than it does to download them.
"flash didn't install properly. So, I had to teach a 80 year's old how to untar and copy a library "
Nice attempt at a troll, but that hasn't been the case for several years now.
Now Mozilla simply asks you if you would like to download "flash-Plugin_nonfree" from the multiverse repository.
You click "yes", type in your password and restart firefox.
It's no harder than installing it on Windows.
But don't listen to me. You just sit there happy in your bitter little world and clutch that Windows safety blanket to your wittle chest shill-boy
"what if mahjong or whatever writes or wishes to write data like saves, high scores or something to the hard drive"
In Linux, all user-space apps write to /home/%user (and also /tmp)
If he has any sense (and I assume he does) then he will have /home on a different partition.
Anybody who installs linux without doing that is simply asking for trouble.
Uh, speaking of Captain Obvious, it is an obvious fact that "the only port open to the public network is the one running " applies to every single server on the internet, (unless it was set up by an MCSE of course) so what exactly was the point the OP was making?
Free clue for you.
When there are only two parties and they are both essentially the same then every vote is a wasted vote
It's like, uh, kinda the point.
There are four types of voters in modern politics.
1) The cheerleaders
These are the wonks that always vote the same way and remain totally oblivious to the shortcomings of their chosen "side"
2) The fanatics
These are the single issue voters that vote solely on the issue that concerns them. Mostly Greenies and Fundies.
3) The Morons
Vote for the best haircut or the best pork-barrel artist without giving much though to much of anything.
4) The Disillusioned.
These are the ones who realise that both parties are corrupt and essentially the same so they either abstain from voting entirely or try and find an independent local candidate who has reasonably sane views.
I count myself as #4
"If the only port open to the public network is the one running the proxy software (or whatever it is), then there is very little attack surface."
1) Find buffer overrun hole in proxy URL parsing mechanism.
2) Craft website with appropriate URL
3) Browse your web site via the proxy
4) Profit
Yes, well, I am in my forties, and used to be an avid gamer. Not so much now but I still do play games that warrant my attention. Right now that would be Oblivion on the PC.
Anyway, we got ourselves a Wii just yesterday and you will not believe the game that has garnered our attention the most. Sure, Wii Sports Tennis and bowling are fun games, and we have played our fair share of both but the one that has taken the lions share of playtime is a game that is nearly 20 years old, and was purchased via the Wii store. In my opinion it is the best game ever produced, "Toe Jam and Earl" for the Sega MegaDrive from the "virtual console" department, (which is a great idea in itself)
Anyway,I'm not sure what my point is here. I guess it is that a nearly 20 year old game still shines amongst all the glitz and glamour of the modern hi-tech 3D rendered "mega games" that are produced these days.
At least the video game industry has not de-volved to the same depths as Hollywood. Yet. Although they sure are working on it.
I'm glad I got most of the urge to game out of my system in the golden years of gaming. I can't see a bright future from here on in, as corporate suits take over more and more of the positions of influence in the dev studios.
It's a terrible shame really.
He posted as AC. You fail at the internet
"TCP/IP was only adopted because there was a BSD-licensed implementation"
Bollocks. TCP/IP was around long before the BSD licence.
TCP/IP became popular because;
a) universities had been using it for years using various implementations, both free and closed source.
b) it was a published open standard (this has nothing to do with code licencing)
c) there was no other protocol around that could scale like it could.
It's rate of growth is literally tied to the sale of apple hardware. That will always be a limiting factor. You have to be careful when looking at growth rates. When you have a very small starting point it is easy to have phenomenal growth rates, as your share gets larger that growth rate becomes harder to sustain.
No. It might be the most widely sold commercial unix but that is a different thing altogether.
They are only against using GPL code in their own projects, not against using GPL "products".
Look, it is quite simple. If you want to put vast amounts of resources into developing a codebase that is 100% your own then do it. Nobody has a problem with that.
If you want to take other peoples work for free then you have to return your own additions to the peoples whose work you originally used. It's that simple.
I'll ask this again. What is the alternative licence that you people are suggesting be used?
I'd like to see a reference that shows that the BSD implementation of TCP/IP was the "original" one.
"Original" as in the very first ever.
Don't worry, I won't hold my breath.