So, have a hard drive ready. Or, do as I do and keep your media on a separate hard drive because that one you store your OS on isn't nearly big enough to hold all the por^W Linux distros you have.
Hmm, I just got that game (still only have an Xbox), and that's nice to know. I know that I'll be keeping my Xbox for Xbox games for quite some time since Microsoft can't get the ball rolling and support most of the Xbox game library. Hell, I expect that the Xbox emulator projects (I know of two) will surpass Microsoft in compatibility in no time at all, and they don't even get access to the SDK documentation!
I'm sure there are some heavy metal songs that cover those incidents considering every other incident ever is already covered by at least one metal song.
Konqueror is GPL'd free software, the exact kind of software RMS encourages. Hell, even the graphical toolkit (Qt) it's based on is GPL'd, and RMS encourages that for most libraries nowadays (and has for several years).
At least those other patents you mention are physical objects. Why in the world mathematical algorithms and business methods can be patented (besides greed) is beyond me.
Of course QuickTime is defective by design; it even enables DRM. However, QT isn't tied to the system the same way WMP, IE, et al. are in Windows, so you can easily replace QT with something like VLC.
Hmm, my DVD drives went from/dev/hdc and/dev/hdd to/dev/scd0 and/dev/scd1 for some reason with the Feisty upgrade. I just updated/etc/fstab with the new drives and now I'm set. If you know enough to be doing a dist-upgrade, then you probably know how to muck around with/etc/fstab.
xrandr is a frontend to the RandR (Resize and Rotate) X11 extension. There are plenty of applets for it (I know KDE has one called krandr included in kdebase), although I know that it would be nearly impossible for anyone not familiar with X to know the name of the tool. A simple search for "resize rotate screen linux" gives a top result for xrandr's man page on Google, so I'd hope that most people know how to use search engines to see if anything solves their problem.
Just to let you know: if you're used to using Bash 3.x (I use 3.2 for example), Mac OS X uses bash 2.05. Tab completion, colours, and other goodies don't work so well in Bash 2. Therefore, if you want to experience the full Bash, uh, experience, then make sure to download it (along with Xcode in order to compile it).
If you don't mind the differences between the two versions, then you probably shouldn't waste your time with an updated Bash. Since I already had Xcode installed, and I already know how to compile programs from source, it was a snap.
How many ways are there to partition the universe of users into sets, such that the members of each set have more in common with each other than they have with users outside the set? I don't know how many, but I do know that the result is a subset of all the Linux distros out there.;)
What year are you living in? Most video streams out there are Flash (either H.263+ or that other proprietary codec from On2), and most audio streams are MP3 (ever heard of internet radio?) and Ogg Vorbis (more internet radio).
In my experience, the people who can't figure out BitTorrent or DVRs are the ones who use YouTube for TV shows. You know, the less technically literate. Joe Sixpack if you will (since Joe Sixpack can't figure out how to set up his dozen DVRs he owns, he just goes to YouTube for TV shows).
Well, mod the above post +1 Mods on crack. He's totally right; far too many of my fellow Americans are apathetic towards pretty much everything. Sure, we've probably got more sympathetic Americans than there are citizens in several European countries, but the majority of us here in the US are depressingly apathetic.
Privoxy works well, although you should know that you have to point your web browser to it via proxy settings. I believe it comes with a large list of predefined filters that help clean up the web whilst using it.
Why does anyone need 30 fucking seconds to advertise something? I'd say that 5-15 seconds is enough time to get your name out there, and only have a couple commercials per break and people will remember the product rather than the nice piss they had during the break.
If you think 30 seconds isn't a long time (and neither is the five minute break for a shitload of said 30 second commercials), try holding a piece of hot coal for 30 seconds. Yeah, 30 seconds can be a long time when it comes to painful things.
I hope you pointed out the difference between analogue and digital signals to him. The days of Monster Cables being overpriced but pretty good analogue cables are over; you can just use cheap Taiwanese digital cables and get the same quality.:)
Radio frequency ranges could be enforced in free software just as well as in non-free software. In either case, the user can hack around the driver's limitations and use different frequencies/powers anyway, so there's no point in obfuscating it with firmware or driver blobs.
Why do we have to deal with shit like this? I call BS on the wireless NIC manufacturers for blaming the FCC for their inability to provide adequate documentation regarding their hardware.
Well, I use dvdbackup which works very well. You can combine that with dvd+rw-tools to burn the rip back to DVD. There are also many tools available that shrink DVD9's to DVD5's so that you don't need to waste money on overpriced dual-layer DVDs such as k9copy (KDE), vamps (command line), and dvd95 (GNOME).
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So, have a hard drive ready. Or, do as I do and keep your media on a separate hard drive because that one you store your OS on isn't nearly big enough to hold all the por^W Linux distros you have.
Hmm, I just got that game (still only have an Xbox), and that's nice to know. I know that I'll be keeping my Xbox for Xbox games for quite some time since Microsoft can't get the ball rolling and support most of the Xbox game library. Hell, I expect that the Xbox emulator projects (I know of two) will surpass Microsoft in compatibility in no time at all, and they don't even get access to the SDK documentation!
IBM? Sun? Via? Microsoft? NVIDIA? Google!?
I'm sure there are some heavy metal songs that cover those incidents considering every other incident ever is already covered by at least one metal song.
Konqueror is GPL'd free software, the exact kind of software RMS encourages. Hell, even the graphical toolkit (Qt) it's based on is GPL'd, and RMS encourages that for most libraries nowadays (and has for several years).
What about movies shot using a 70mm lens? Hmm?
At least those other patents you mention are physical objects. Why in the world mathematical algorithms and business methods can be patented (besides greed) is beyond me.
Of course QuickTime is defective by design; it even enables DRM. However, QT isn't tied to the system the same way WMP, IE, et al. are in Windows, so you can easily replace QT with something like VLC.
Alt+Left and Alt+Right go back and forward in most web browsers, so that helps.
Hmm, my DVD drives went from /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd to /dev/scd0 and /dev/scd1 for some reason with the Feisty upgrade. I just updated /etc/fstab with the new drives and now I'm set. If you know enough to be doing a dist-upgrade, then you probably know how to muck around with /etc/fstab.
xrandr is a frontend to the RandR (Resize and Rotate) X11 extension. There are plenty of applets for it (I know KDE has one called krandr included in kdebase), although I know that it would be nearly impossible for anyone not familiar with X to know the name of the tool. A simple search for "resize rotate screen linux" gives a top result for xrandr's man page on Google, so I'd hope that most people know how to use search engines to see if anything solves their problem.
Just to let you know: if you're used to using Bash 3.x (I use 3.2 for example), Mac OS X uses bash 2.05. Tab completion, colours, and other goodies don't work so well in Bash 2. Therefore, if you want to experience the full Bash, uh, experience, then make sure to download it (along with Xcode in order to compile it).
If you don't mind the differences between the two versions, then you probably shouldn't waste your time with an updated Bash. Since I already had Xcode installed, and I already know how to compile programs from source, it was a snap.
What year are you living in? Most video streams out there are Flash (either H.263+ or that other proprietary codec from On2), and most audio streams are MP3 (ever heard of internet radio?) and Ogg Vorbis (more internet radio).
In my experience, the people who can't figure out BitTorrent or DVRs are the ones who use YouTube for TV shows. You know, the less technically literate. Joe Sixpack if you will (since Joe Sixpack can't figure out how to set up his dozen DVRs he owns, he just goes to YouTube for TV shows).
I don't believe that MTA's accept email sent on ports outside the root range for spam reasons, but I could be wrong.
Or they could continue do what they're already doing and not even mention what the drug does. Those kinds of commercials only need a few seconds.
Well, mod the above post +1 Mods on crack. He's totally right; far too many of my fellow Americans are apathetic towards pretty much everything. Sure, we've probably got more sympathetic Americans than there are citizens in several European countries, but the majority of us here in the US are depressingly apathetic.
Don't look at the title bar much? :)
Privoxy works well, although you should know that you have to point your web browser to it via proxy settings. I believe it comes with a large list of predefined filters that help clean up the web whilst using it.
Why does anyone need 30 fucking seconds to advertise something? I'd say that 5-15 seconds is enough time to get your name out there, and only have a couple commercials per break and people will remember the product rather than the nice piss they had during the break.
If you think 30 seconds isn't a long time (and neither is the five minute break for a shitload of said 30 second commercials), try holding a piece of hot coal for 30 seconds. Yeah, 30 seconds can be a long time when it comes to painful things.
I hope you pointed out the difference between analogue and digital signals to him. The days of Monster Cables being overpriced but pretty good analogue cables are over; you can just use cheap Taiwanese digital cables and get the same quality. :)
Radio frequency ranges could be enforced in free software just as well as in non-free software. In either case, the user can hack around the driver's limitations and use different frequencies/powers anyway, so there's no point in obfuscating it with firmware or driver blobs.
Why do we have to deal with shit like this? I call BS on the wireless NIC manufacturers for blaming the FCC for their inability to provide adequate documentation regarding their hardware.
Well, I use dvdbackup which works very well. You can combine that with dvd+rw-tools to burn the rip back to DVD. There are also many tools available that shrink DVD9's to DVD5's so that you don't need to waste money on overpriced dual-layer DVDs such as k9copy (KDE), vamps (command line), and dvd95 (GNOME).
Just to be completely pedantic, VLC includes libdvdcss, a much better replacement for DeCSS developed by VideoLAN themselves.