The Inspiron 6000 hasn't been a problem for distros for awhile - onboard Intel or ATi graphics, ipw2200/3945 for wireless NIC, Broadcom 440x (or whatever the gigabit equivalent is) for wired NIC, Intel chipsets all across the mainboard...the only thing that ever gave Linux pause was the weird way laptop IDE hard drives connect to it, and starting with 2.6.17 the code for that's been shipped without any insane patches - and even when it wasn't, that "just" meant that the hard drive was slower than it could have been.
For what it's worth, my friend makes use of a toaster oven in his soldering experiments, and it's quite easy to do it wrong - he toasted an iPaq at least once doing that.
Just RTFA and decide on your own whether or not you believe him, or wait for dozens of users to flood/. with stories about whether they triggered an exploit on an Intel driver or not.
Either way, stop complaining in ways that are irrelevant to the article.
I just read that entire thread, and it made me really sad to see that level of patient immobility in the mind of one whose tools are/were so well-used.
They were so pissed off that it was randomly airing relatively frequently on cable channels in NY, and when she gave me a summary of the commercial, I thought "This can't be real."
Lo, Slashdot proves that there is no glass ceiling for people with little minds.
The reason it's phrased as Americans is in the context of his having become an uberpatriot after September 11th, because those people really only care about other Americans, for the most part.
Also, it makes a boring piece of prose sound far more dramatic than it needs to.
The distinction that needs to be drawn here is that, while there is an excessive level of lol bewbs in some coders, probably because they don't get out often, a certain amount can be expected - it only differs from the "man, Bob over in graphics must never leave his computer, he probably can't fit out the door" in its prevalence and openness. People will always try to find a reason for another's shortcomings, and if you find a woman who can't tell who's winning in a sporting event, or a man who can't dress well to save his life, what are you going to think first?
Personally, I'd think they had no interest in the respective things, and a tiny little voice in my head would point out how stereotypical that is. Just like my comment earlier about programmers not getting out often - it's a comment even coders make to each other, tongue-in-cheek, but the distinction that is drawn there is that the programmers, by and large, don't care. In this case, people do care, because it's symptomatic of a larger trend for the last however long of women being treated as less than men in a large number of ways.
Our (disclaimer: US citizen, can't speak for a large portion of the world, observing outside my window) culture today objectifies women (and men as well, to a far lesser degree), and with the advances in modern technology, it does it very efficiently. Eight year olds wander around in tight tank tops with messages like SEXY on them, female popular culture stars parade around for a few years in skimpy clothing with the best looks money can buy, and then vanish into drama when they've passed what is laughably called a prime. People in all industries make lol bewbs jokes, because they've been doing it for years and years, and very few of them have been corrected in any significant fashion.
It's fine to complain that, in CS, it's unpleasant to be around socially inadequate (see?) people who don't see women outside of the Internet all day, but the level of unpleasantness generated by that interaction is almost certainly a direct result of the culture that these people have been raised in over the last decade (I'm going to be lenient and leave television alone for now, let's assume the Internet (which is for porn, after all) is the sole cause of the degradation of social niceties in society).
I guess the point of this rambling comment is that it's not just CS that suffers from this problem, it's just that CS has a disproportionate number of socially maladjusted individuals, so trying to fix their inadequacies (after they've entered the FOSS world) while ignoring the fact that they had to grow up believing this was acceptable (I know it's quite possible for someone to hold onto a belief regardless of their education, but I'm being optimistic in this case and assuming that education can thwart ingrained idiocy for the sake of argument) is ludicrous.
In short, just because CS is the largest wart doesn't mean you should pop it and ignore its viral cause.
"Hey guys we know the internet is already full of all of this information but PLEASE don't say anything about these specific topics until these days okay. ^_^"
As a result of this bullshit, I won't be buying a copy of Valkyrie Profile 2.
One may presume then that for some reason either it downloaded the small version and a hash failed or somesuch, or it couldn't find an en-GB incremental patch.
Honestly, how do you tell the difference between good tissue from a legitimate source and good tissue from an illegal source? If they didn't fuck up, conceivably you won't notice...
Bram Cohen was also originally against having an upload limiter in BT clients...but when everyone else had one, lo and behold, the official client gets one.
Why hasn't anyone else linked to this chart which aims to be a complete list of wireless cards and what driver, if any, they're supported by under Linux?
It's incredibly useful.
Personally, I've had bad luck playing with the bcm43xx driver a few weeks ago, and I've loved the new version of the ipw2200 [finally the 1.0.[78] bugs are gone!] and my rt2x00 card is a nice backup.
Also, ndiswrapper works fine, provided you use 1.8 if you're on a 64-bit system.:)
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The Inspiron 6000 hasn't been a problem for distros for awhile - onboard Intel or ATi graphics, ipw2200/3945 for wireless NIC, Broadcom 440x (or whatever the gigabit equivalent is) for wired NIC, Intel chipsets all across the mainboard...the only thing that ever gave Linux pause was the weird way laptop IDE hard drives connect to it, and starting with 2.6.17 the code for that's been shipped without any insane patches - and even when it wasn't, that "just" meant that the hard drive was slower than it could have been.
AutoPatcher to the rescue!
http://rapidshare.de/files/33076083/QTFairUse6-2.4 .zip.html
Sorry, that's the "official" link. It works, though.
You're still transcoding from [codec of your choice] to raw audio data and back again, but you're correct, that does skip the digitalaudio steps.
I use x86 primarily and this still annoys me. I strongly recommend that people start hacking on gnash.
You are correct, sir.
For what it's worth, my friend makes use of a toaster oven in his soldering experiments, and it's quite easy to do it wrong - he toasted an iPaq at least once doing that.
Just RTFA and decide on your own whether or not you believe him, or wait for dozens of users to flood /. with stories about whether they triggered an exploit on an Intel driver or not.
Either way, stop complaining in ways that are irrelevant to the article.
Where the hell are my mod points?
I just read that entire thread, and it made me really sad to see that level of patient immobility in the mind of one whose tools are/were so well-used.
They were so pissed off that it was randomly airing relatively frequently on cable channels in NY, and when she gave me a summary of the commercial, I thought "This can't be real."
Lo, Slashdot proves that there is no glass ceiling for people with little minds.
Where are my mod points? Every time I see something insightful, I never have bloody mod points.
Parent is horrible at spelling and grammar, but otherwise correct.
The reason it's phrased as Americans is in the context of his having become an uberpatriot after September 11th, because those people really only care about other Americans, for the most part.
Also, it makes a boring piece of prose sound far more dramatic than it needs to.
The distinction that needs to be drawn here is that, while there is an excessive level of lol bewbs in some coders, probably because they don't get out often, a certain amount can be expected - it only differs from the "man, Bob over in graphics must never leave his computer, he probably can't fit out the door" in its prevalence and openness. People will always try to find a reason for another's shortcomings, and if you find a woman who can't tell who's winning in a sporting event, or a man who can't dress well to save his life, what are you going to think first?
Personally, I'd think they had no interest in the respective things, and a tiny little voice in my head would point out how stereotypical that is. Just like my comment earlier about programmers not getting out often - it's a comment even coders make to each other, tongue-in-cheek, but the distinction that is drawn there is that the programmers, by and large, don't care. In this case, people do care, because it's symptomatic of a larger trend for the last however long of women being treated as less than men in a large number of ways.
Our (disclaimer: US citizen, can't speak for a large portion of the world, observing outside my window) culture today objectifies women (and men as well, to a far lesser degree), and with the advances in modern technology, it does it very efficiently. Eight year olds wander around in tight tank tops with messages like SEXY on them, female popular culture stars parade around for a few years in skimpy clothing with the best looks money can buy, and then vanish into drama when they've passed what is laughably called a prime. People in all industries make lol bewbs jokes, because they've been doing it for years and years, and very few of them have been corrected in any significant fashion.
It's fine to complain that, in CS, it's unpleasant to be around socially inadequate (see?) people who don't see women outside of the Internet all day, but the level of unpleasantness generated by that interaction is almost certainly a direct result of the culture that these people have been raised in over the last decade (I'm going to be lenient and leave television alone for now, let's assume the Internet (which is for porn, after all) is the sole cause of the degradation of social niceties in society).
I guess the point of this rambling comment is that it's not just CS that suffers from this problem, it's just that CS has a disproportionate number of socially maladjusted individuals, so trying to fix their inadequacies (after they've entered the FOSS world) while ignoring the fact that they had to grow up believing this was acceptable (I know it's quite possible for someone to hold onto a belief regardless of their education, but I'm being optimistic in this case and assuming that education can thwart ingrained idiocy for the sake of argument) is ludicrous.
In short, just because CS is the largest wart doesn't mean you should pop it and ignore its viral cause.
First people complain about how insecure most networks are by default, and now they want to make them more insecure?
I don't care how secure the backdoor is, as long as we have binary firmware dumps, we will find it, and then the backpedaling will begin.
We need to stop electing uneducated people to positions where they can make decisions about the future of things they do not understand.
What the hell can Square-Enix be thinking?
"Hey guys we know the internet is already full of all of this information but PLEASE don't say anything about these specific topics until these days okay. ^_^"
As a result of this bullshit, I won't be buying a copy of Valkyrie Profile 2.
One may presume then that for some reason either it downloaded the small version and a hash failed or somesuch, or it couldn't find an en-GB incremental patch.
Unfortunate.
The article I read implied Google Desktop would be there.
I concur. I purge it whenever I see it.
Pry it off the board, see if the system boots. :)
Honestly, how do you tell the difference between good tissue from a legitimate source and good tissue from an illegal source? If they didn't fuck up, conceivably you won't notice...
He explicitly said he wanted headphones that did NOT block out all ambient noise.
Bram Cohen was also originally against having an upload limiter in BT clients...but when everyone else had one, lo and behold, the official client gets one.
I wonder if this will turn out the same.
What the hell is stopping a counterfitting group from sequencing the DNA and replicating it?
I mean, they're willing to go the distance to make the balls looks authentic, it can be done.
Why hasn't anyone else linked to this chart which aims to be a complete list of wireless cards and what driver, if any, they're supported by under Linux?
:)
It's incredibly useful.
Personally, I've had bad luck playing with the bcm43xx driver a few weeks ago, and I've loved the new version of the ipw2200 [finally the 1.0.[78] bugs are gone!] and my rt2x00 card is a nice backup.
Also, ndiswrapper works fine, provided you use 1.8 if you're on a 64-bit system.