The softmod was for the vanilla 9500, not the pro model. I know because I tried to soft mod the 9500. It worked, but I got lots of fun graphical artifacts all over, so I quickly went back to the regular drivers. Now that I've said that, though, there could have been a mod for the pro chips, but AFAIK the 9500 Pro already used all eight pipelines.
This could be Nintendo's chance to take the console crown again!:)
No, really, I love Nintendo to death and their kiddie image is mostly unjustified, but no one can deny that it's there and Nintendo can't seem to shake it...
Here's hoping they throw in the UN-type thing (I forget what it was called...maybe it was Planetary Council?) while they're at it, too. I like flooding the world, personally.:D
But XP *does* come with Wordpad, which can render Word documents. You lose the more advanced features (macros, some fancy formatting, etc), but the text is generally perfectly readable and well presented.
Hmm. Is this a new feature of XP? I've never seen Worpad open a Word document before, but I haven't tried it in a long long time, either.
I won't call Ender's Shadow innovative, but it was a good book and it was nice to take the series back to its roots. Besides, I really like the sequels to it, though I still need to read the most recent one...
First of all, Ubuntu's development branch starts off from Unstable, not Experimental. Second of all, by the time that development branch (in this case, Hoary) is released six months later it is quite stable (or should be, anyway--I haven't really had problems personally). I'd say Grumpy would be more like experimental myself, but then again I'm not a troll...
Apple have been waving their "legal penis" is everyones faces and sueing left right and center. Now it comes around to their turn.... well they should lap it up.
Why would you want it to immediately start burning? I'd think it would be simpler to just load everything you want burned into a location in ram or on disk or whatever and burn it all at once rather that starting, stopping, restarting, etc routine. I must be missing something.:)
There's nothing wrong with bundling applications. What we have a problem with is bundling applications and then making it extremely difficult (or impossible) to remove them, especially when doing so will probably void any warranty/support you might've had. With that said, having only used a Mac roughly three times ever, I can't say how easy it is to remove the bundled software...
Whoops. The post above mine wasn't there a minute ago...This is what I get for leaving a discussion open for an hour and not refreshing before posting. At least it's only half-redundant.:)
- I had put a icon to wolf3d on the panel. I accidently double-clicked it, and it ran twice, and locked up the computer. Then what do you do? The Win95 key on the keyboard does nothing. Ctrl-C, shift-ctrl-l, ctrl-alt-del, Esc do nothing. All I could do was reboot, and then wait for the fschk.
Next time, try ctrl+alt+backspace. That should kill the X server and take you back to the login prompt. I think ctrl+alt+F1 (or something like that) will drop you to a text console where you could possibly type killall , but I'm still a bit of a Linux/UNIX n00b so don't quote my on that part.:) Ctrl+alt+backspace should save you, though.
- you have to check off "allow root gui login" and goto User/Groups and checkoff see all users, and then change roots password if you want to login as root. Why would you need that with the Ubuntu suso system? Because, I'll tell you why. My old 29" IBM monitor is too blurry in 1280, but clear in 1024. If I click Applications, Screen Resolution, and set it to 1024, then guess what, it keeps reverting to 1280 everytime I login. UNLESS I LOGIN AS ROOT TO GUI AND SET IT TO 1024. Then other account gets 1024 as default. Bug, yes, but that is why.
I personally solve this problem by editing/etc/X11/xorg.conf and removing every instance of 1280xwhatever, but that is just a bit more prone to error.:) You don't have to go through the mess of enabling root, though. IIRC, you could've done a simple 'sudo passwd root' (you might not need to add root at the end, but just to be safe..) and set the password and then it would be enabled for login, but now that I think of it I still haven't logged in as root so I'm not really sure. It does enable 'su' though.:D
The installer (hoary at least) asks if you want to install a boot loader. Just say no and your first problem is dealt with. I think if you do an "expert" install (type expert at the install disc's boot prompt) it gives you more configuration options for the boot loader, but I didn't pay enough attention the last time I tried it out and I don't really remember.:)
As for your second issue, that's probably a GNOME bug rather than a Ubuntu specific thing. Either way, it's definitely weird. Could you still load those iso files in a cd burning program and write them to disc? What exactly were the ill effects of this mislabeling? From the limited information you give it sound purely cosmetic, though. If that's the case then I'd say you're overreacting just a tad.:)
As for the lack of config utilities...I haven't really noticed anything missing, but then again I'd never used GNOME before trying Ubuntu. What exactly were you looking for?
Is Ubuntu perfect? Certainly not, but (at least in my opinion) it is far superior to the likes of Mandrake/iva, SuSE, Fedora, and even Debian and Gentoo, especially in the realm of "it just works." For me, no other distribution has been so painless to install nor has any other distribution (except Gentoo and maybe Debian) done such a good job of auto-configuring my hardware. The only thing I've had an issue with in Ubuntu has been my capture card, and that's a whole bunch of fun regardless of the distribution. Even Windows has issues with that card some times, although those have more to do with the included PVR software than anything else... On a side note, does anyone know why the simple tuner=2 fix mentioned in that link hasn't been done in the kernel yet? It seems like such a simple change, but then again I'm not a kernel developer (or any other kind of developer, for that matter), so maybe there's a good reason for leaving the default as is.
At any rate, don't give up on Ubuntu too quickly. I suggest trying the new livecd out. It should give you a fair indication of whether you second (and maybe third) issues have been dealt with, at any rate. If you decide to install Hoary, you also might be happier with the expert install, too. It has a few steps that seem kind of pointless, but it does also give you more control over some of the install options.
You make it sound worse than it really is, but evne so I think it'd be nifty to have the update-manager program periodically check if there's a new "stable" release (I've been using Hoary for a month or so and never had trouble) and ask if you'd like to upgrade to it. Then it could do the search/replace on sources.list for you and then apt-get dist-upgrade. That shouldn't be too hard to code, either. Maybe I'll brush up on my meager programming skills and do it myself...
Neither is the Windows installer. Honestly, how many people here have seen their grand parents (or even their parents) install Windows without anyone else's help?
Indeed, nLite is a wonderful program. I've personally used it to remove all kinds of stuff from Windows including IE. Yes, some things will break, but you can generally get away with at least removing the chunk of IE in Program Files\Internet Explorer. If you're like me and generally just use Windows for gaming you'd probably be fine removing all of IE. Here is the official site, but for the moment msfn.org seems to be having trouble. Check back later I guess.:)
BTW, nLite 1.0 should be coming out relatively soon, but feel free to play around with the betas beforehand (and maybe help some with bug reporting;)).
Oh yeah, and it is indeed a free (as in beer) product. My one complaint with it is that it was written with.NET, and that's a fairly minor thing to complain about.
Paradoxically, one reason that MS took so long to deploy a firewall is the Justice Department. Part of the antitrust suits against Microsoft involved charges of illegally tying IE to Windows. Ever since then they have been quite hesitant to include new applications with the OS, for fear of being accused of anti-competitive tactics.
Here's an idea, let's include the firewall (and whatever other applications MS wishes), but allow the user to easily remove it/them if they wish to. Of course, this IS Microsoft we're talking about, so there's about an ice cube's chance in hell of that happening.:)
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AFAIK Open Office can save to PDF, but not open PDFs for editing.
The softmod was for the vanilla 9500, not the pro model. I know because I tried to soft mod the 9500. It worked, but I got lots of fun graphical artifacts all over, so I quickly went back to the regular drivers. Now that I've said that, though, there could have been a mod for the pro chips, but AFAIK the 9500 Pro already used all eight pipelines.
This could be Nintendo's chance to take the console crown again! :)
No, really, I love Nintendo to death and their kiddie image is mostly unjustified, but no one can deny that it's there and Nintendo can't seem to shake it...
Here's hoping they throw in the UN-type thing (I forget what it was called...maybe it was Planetary Council?) while they're at it, too. I like flooding the world, personally. :D
but he will never in a million years say "gosh, that WMP10 GUI sure is one ugly bugger!"
:)
Sure he will...when WMP11 is released.
But XP *does* come with Wordpad, which can render Word documents. You lose the more advanced features (macros, some fancy formatting, etc), but the text is generally perfectly readable and well presented.
Hmm. Is this a new feature of XP? I've never seen Worpad open a Word document before, but I haven't tried it in a long long time, either.
Have you actually done this? If it could be made to record tv, I'd buy an Xbox in a heartbeat. :)
Card fan here. :)
I won't call Ender's Shadow innovative, but it was a good book and it was nice to take the series back to its roots. Besides, I really like the sequels to it, though I still need to read the most recent one...
First of all, Ubuntu's development branch starts off from Unstable, not Experimental. Second of all, by the time that development branch (in this case, Hoary) is released six months later it is quite stable (or should be, anyway--I haven't really had problems personally). I'd say Grumpy would be more like experimental myself, but then again I'm not a troll...
Maybe because SVG is Free? Besides, Opera and Konqueror support it, too, IIRC. :) It would be nice if it was an official standard, though (or is it?).
Apple have been waving their "legal penis" is everyones faces and sueing left right and center. Now it comes around to their turn.... well they should lap it up.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
I've actually seen those last two commercials...I don't know if I should be proud or depressed...
Why would you want it to immediately start burning? I'd think it would be simpler to just load everything you want burned into a location in ram or on disk or whatever and burn it all at once rather that starting, stopping, restarting, etc routine. I must be missing something. :)
There's nothing wrong with bundling applications. What we have a problem with is bundling applications and then making it extremely difficult (or impossible) to remove them, especially when doing so will probably void any warranty/support you might've had. With that said, having only used a Mac roughly three times ever, I can't say how easy it is to remove the bundled software...
4.2.1 is available in Ubuntu's repository (maybe in universe or multiverse, but I'm pretty sure it's in main).
Whoops. The post above mine wasn't there a minute ago...This is what I get for leaving a discussion open for an hour and not refreshing before posting. At least it's only half-redundant. :)
I personally solve this problem by editing
The installer (hoary at least) asks if you want to install a boot loader. Just say no and your first problem is dealt with. I think if you do an "expert" install (type expert at the install disc's boot prompt) it gives you more configuration options for the boot loader, but I didn't pay enough attention the last time I tried it out and I don't really remember. :)
:)
As for your second issue, that's probably a GNOME bug rather than a Ubuntu specific thing. Either way, it's definitely weird. Could you still load those iso files in a cd burning program and write them to disc? What exactly were the ill effects of this mislabeling? From the limited information you give it sound purely cosmetic, though. If that's the case then I'd say you're overreacting just a tad.
As for the lack of config utilities...I haven't really noticed anything missing, but then again I'd never used GNOME before trying Ubuntu. What exactly were you looking for?
Is Ubuntu perfect? Certainly not, but (at least in my opinion) it is far superior to the likes of Mandrake/iva, SuSE, Fedora, and even Debian and Gentoo, especially in the realm of "it just works." For me, no other distribution has been so painless to install nor has any other distribution (except Gentoo and maybe Debian) done such a good job of auto-configuring my hardware. The only thing I've had an issue with in Ubuntu has been my capture card, and that's a whole bunch of fun regardless of the distribution. Even Windows has issues with that card some times, although those have more to do with the included PVR software than anything else... On a side note, does anyone know why the simple tuner=2 fix mentioned in that link hasn't been done in the kernel yet? It seems like such a simple change, but then again I'm not a kernel developer (or any other kind of developer, for that matter), so maybe there's a good reason for leaving the default as is.
At any rate, don't give up on Ubuntu too quickly. I suggest trying the new livecd out. It should give you a fair indication of whether you second (and maybe third) issues have been dealt with, at any rate. If you decide to install Hoary, you also might be happier with the expert install, too. It has a few steps that seem kind of pointless, but it does also give you more control over some of the install options.
You make it sound worse than it really is, but evne so I think it'd be nifty to have the update-manager program periodically check if there's a new "stable" release (I've been using Hoary for a month or so and never had trouble) and ask if you'd like to upgrade to it. Then it could do the search/replace on sources.list for you and then apt-get dist-upgrade. That shouldn't be too hard to code, either. Maybe I'll brush up on my meager programming skills and do it myself...
Anyone been watching 24 this season? :)
Neither is the Windows installer. Honestly, how many people here have seen their grand parents (or even their parents) install Windows without anyone else's help?
Indeed, nLite is a wonderful program. I've personally used it to remove all kinds of stuff from Windows including IE. Yes, some things will break, but you can generally get away with at least removing the chunk of IE in Program Files\Internet Explorer. If you're like me and generally just use Windows for gaming you'd probably be fine removing all of IE. Here is the official site, but for the moment msfn.org seems to be having trouble. Check back later I guess. :)
;)).
.NET, and that's a fairly minor thing to complain about.
BTW, nLite 1.0 should be coming out relatively soon, but feel free to play around with the betas beforehand (and maybe help some with bug reporting
Oh yeah, and it is indeed a free (as in beer) product. My one complaint with it is that it was written with
Paradoxically, one reason that MS took so long to deploy a firewall is the Justice Department. Part of the antitrust suits against Microsoft involved charges of illegally tying IE to Windows. Ever since then they have been quite hesitant to include new applications with the OS, for fear of being accused of anti-competitive tactics.
:)
Here's an idea, let's include the firewall (and whatever other applications MS wishes), but allow the user to easily remove it/them if they wish to. Of course, this IS Microsoft we're talking about, so there's about an ice cube's chance in hell of that happening.
I can't do that, Dave...
Next you are going to tell me that psychics and spoon-benders don't really have extraordinary powers.
:)
But there is no spoon!
Couldn't resist.