Quote 'User demand is not there for [other forms of] Linux'
Totally incorrect. Just you wait, many purchases will scrub both Androis & Windows 7 and install their favourite distro be it Debian, Fedora, SUSE, or the dreaded *buntu (only joking, xbuntu is pretty good)
And the bit about sites needing IE is these days pretty weak. I wonder if this is just a few words to keep their masters in Redmond happy? I do pretty well all my web browsing using Firefox on a Mac or Firefox on an MSI Wind running Fedora 11. In two years, I have not come upon a site (outside of Microsoft. Hmmm strange that...) that wont' work.
Sigh, probably just a few weasley words to satisfy Microsoft. Still a nice idea to ship a device with both.
Well, this Mac has Safari on it. IT has run exactly once. To download firefox.
Sorta like the windows 7 situation.
However Apple is not a MONOPOLY supplier wheras, Microsoft is. Remember how they said IE Couldn't be removed? Yeah Right.
Granted that every Mac comes with software that contains Safari. Making Firefox my default browser works fine. No sudden appearence of Safari just because some app programmer was too lazy and invoked IE directly. No 'Don't you want to use this great search engine called BLING?' etc etc. (install messaenger, Live mail...)
I'm no Mac Fanboi as most of the time, I'm working in Linux (in a VM) but Firefox allws me to move all my settings from Windows to Linux to OSX without compatbility issues. IE Can't do that because it only runs on Windows. When Microsoft make a multi-platform browser I may just take a look at it.
Dumb Aussie Joe Public (no offense to Austrailians but I'm trying to set a scene) may indeed confuse the two especially after a few tinnies.
As has been said, Apple is acting like ANY other trademark owner. You could substitute BMW, Merceded, McDonals etc for Apple. IT is your trademark. If you don't defent it then you set a precedent that means you could lose the rights to in in future.
I live 50miles from Stonehenge but pass it regularly on my way to customers.
Over the past two years ther have been a huge amount of archaeology excavation work in the Stonehenge area.
Last year it was mostly close to the henge itself.
This year the excavations have been off to the North West up the A344 closer to Airmans Corner
Firstly, it is aimed at the Server market unlike the desktop (Ubuntu) It is aimed at stabilty and longevity. Therefore even in the latest version (5.4) some of the versions are somewhat behind that used in Ubuntu.
Give it a try but be prepared to encounter some differences over Ubuntu.
Last Friday/Sat I drove from Bergerac to Calais (both in france) via Reims. Distance covered 1070km on 55litres of Diesel in my 2004 Saab Estate.
I'll leave it to you to do the conversions but 300miles on a tankfull is just silly.
My 1969 Triumph TR6 Motorcycle in touring trim and loaded up with camping gear etc gets easily that distance on a 4 (uk)Gallon tank full. Progress pah.
Lets take an example of the sorta tech used in the internet. Fibre Optic Cables. If you look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_fiber#History you will see that the work to develop the tech was made from contributions from all over the world.
I can attach an extra monitor to my ATI GPU laptop running Fedora 11 and I don't have to fiddle with xorg.conf at all. The only thing I have to do is setup where I want the laptop screen to appear in relation to the larger LCD display.
Just for the sake of Accuracy, supersonic commercial flights didn't start until the 1970's. And for those who complained about the cost, yeah flying over the pond was very costly but many thousands of people flew Concorde on charter flights and experienced flying at twice the speed of sound for far less money than a transatlantic trip. I flew Concorde to JFK had three nights in NYC and sailed on the QE2 back to the UK for £1999.00. A memorable trip to celebrate my 15th wedding anniversary.
Seriously, the modern day Mini is to Real Mini fans a Bavarian Impostor. The firmly beleive that Alec Issigonis (designer of the original) would be turning in his grave at what BMW have done with it. Personally, I think he would appreciate the modern take of his classic. The original car never made any money for BL, Leyland, Rover etc. This one does make money for BMW. And no, I don't own or drive either types.
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I wish my Cancer had been detected earlier (Hairy Cell Leukaemia). Certainly before my immune system had been virtually trashed. Then the Chemo killed it completely but that is the nature of Chemo.
There are many cancers that creep up on you slowly and almost unrecognised until they hit a critical mass. Any early detection of this type of cancer would be most welcomed by the people who have the misfortune to suffer from them.
An awful lot of BBC generated content on the radio is NOT repeat NOT blocked from internet users outside the UK. I listen to Radio 5 a lot. There are many text's & email from listeners all over the world. The main exceptions are where they don't own the worldwide broadcast rights. Eg PRemiership Footie. Even part of that is broadcast worldwide via the BBC World Service.
The recent Cricket Test series between England & Australia was broadcast worldwide. TMS ( Test Match Special) is very proud of its Worldwide audience not just its listeners in the UK and Oz.
SCO (somehow) had the foresight to negociate a fixed price deal with BSF. Besides with the Court Appointed Trustee running the business, they could very well pull the plug on the whole thing IF they felt that the millstone of these proceedings could jeopardise their 'escape' from Chapter 7.
I just wish they would roll over & die but I would expect Darl and his cronies to try to keep this going for as long as possible. (Sigh)
Planet Rock (www.planetrock.com) in the UK certainly plays recent rock. Take 'Chinese Democracy' as an example. It has been well played on an almost daily basis.
Remember that to most Americans, 'The World' is just the 48 States that makeup continental USA. Even Alaska & Hawaii are often perceived as 'foreign' places.
Where are the European, African, Asian & South American teams in the 'World Series'?
Take the UK arm of Walmart.
They are selling an Elonex Netbook with Linux for less than £150.00
However, I'd like to see XP or Vista running on it.
2Gb SSD
128Mb Ram
http://direct.asda.com/Laptops-+-Handhelds/4061,default,sc.html
The Elonex is in plain view.
There is another model available for £190.00
Via CPU
512Mb Ram
80Gb HDD
There you have it, even Walmart is selling Linux Netbooks.
El Gordo is off on his hols and the underlings feel they can let out silly proposals like this. Then the ministers get to keep their TV hours up by spending copious amounts of time saying that this is only a proposal knowing full well that it will never happen. The 'Comics', newspaper like the Daily Wail and Express need to fill their copy and stories like this are exactly the sort of thing to fill the 'silly season'.
Besides if by some legal mangling, the cameras were ever to be installed, they would be:- (within minutes) 1) Stolen and sold down the Pub for Drink,Fags or Drugs. 2) Vandalised 3) The house sublet to a nice family ensuring nothing for the monitors to see.
Anyway, NuLab will get a real tanking in the next election and the Tories will have all their attention on getting the country out of the financial sesspit that Gordon 'prudence' Broone has got us into since 1997.
Finally, as this is in a clear breach of the European Human Rights Directive I think many of the wailers here should get a life.
Yeah but CentOS does not really have its own codebase that would need forking. Ok, I'm ignoring the 'branding' stuff they change from RHEL but otherwise, in the main, they use the SRPM's downloaded from RedHat.
AFAIK, you certainly can't say the same for the Debian/Ubunto codebase.
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'User demand is not there for [other forms of] Linux'
Totally incorrect.
Just you wait, many purchases will scrub both Androis & Windows 7 and install their favourite distro be it Debian, Fedora, SUSE, or the dreaded *buntu (only joking, xbuntu is pretty good)
And the bit about sites needing IE is these days pretty weak. I wonder if this is just a few words to keep their masters in Redmond happy?
I do pretty well all my web browsing using Firefox on a Mac or Firefox on an MSI Wind running Fedora 11.
In two years, I have not come upon a site (outside of Microsoft. Hmmm strange that...) that wont' work.
Sigh, probably just a few weasley words to satisfy Microsoft.
Still a nice idea to ship a device with both.
This is posted from a Mac using Firefox.
Well, this Mac has Safari on it. IT has run exactly once. To download firefox.
Sorta like the windows 7 situation.
However Apple is not a MONOPOLY supplier wheras, Microsoft is. Remember how they said IE Couldn't be removed? Yeah Right.
Granted that every Mac comes with software that contains Safari. Making Firefox my default browser works fine. No sudden appearence of Safari just because some app programmer was too lazy and invoked IE directly. No 'Don't you want to use this great search engine called BLING?' etc etc. (install messaenger, Live mail...)
I'm no Mac Fanboi as most of the time, I'm working in Linux (in a VM) but Firefox allws me to move all my settings from Windows to Linux to OSX without compatbility issues. IE Can't do that because it only runs on Windows. When Microsoft make a multi-platform browser I may just take a look at it.
Dumb Aussie Joe Public (no offense to Austrailians but I'm trying to set a scene) may indeed confuse the two especially after a few tinnies.
As has been said, Apple is acting like ANY other trademark owner. You could substitute BMW, Merceded, McDonals etc for Apple. IT is your trademark. If you don't defent it then you set a precedent that means you could lose the rights to in in future.
Nothing to do with Copyright, Patents or DRM.
Simple Trademark protection.
Over the past two years ther have been a huge amount of archaeology excavation work in the Stonehenge area. Last year it was mostly close to the henge itself.
This year the excavations have been off to the North West up the A344 closer to Airmans Corner
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=412500&Y=142500&A=Y&Z=120
Even this article is published in the "Daily Wail" I suspect there is a lot more details to emerge over the coming months.
RHEL is a very different beast to Ubuntu.
Firstly, it is aimed at the Server market unlike the desktop (Ubuntu)
It is aimed at stabilty and longevity.
Therefore even in the latest version (5.4) some of the versions are somewhat behind that used in Ubuntu.
Give it a try but be prepared to encounter some differences over Ubuntu.
Last Friday/Sat I drove from Bergerac to Calais (both in france) via Reims. Distance covered 1070km on 55litres of Diesel in my 2004 Saab Estate.
I'll leave it to you to do the conversions but 300miles on a tankfull is just silly.
My 1969 Triumph TR6 Motorcycle in touring trim and loaded up with camping gear etc gets easily that distance on a 4 (uk)Gallon tank full.
Progress pah.
Absolutely 100% correct.
Lets take an example of the sorta tech used in the internet. Fibre Optic Cables.
If you look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_fiber#History
you will see that the work to develop the tech was made from contributions from all over the world.
If you were really determined to kick your addiction you would have deleted your account completely.
you know, 'going cold turkey'
With xrandr, xorg.conf is largely redundant.
I can attach an extra monitor to my ATI GPU laptop running Fedora 11 and I don't have to fiddle with xorg.conf at all. The only thing I have to do is setup where I want the laptop screen to appear in relation to the larger LCD display.
Nope, my other half did come alone, strange as it may seem. We BOTH enjoyed the trip.
Just for the sake of Accuracy, supersonic commercial flights didn't start until the 1970's.
And for those who complained about the cost, yeah flying over the pond was very costly but many thousands of people flew Concorde on charter flights and experienced flying at twice the speed of sound for far less money than a transatlantic trip.
I flew Concorde to JFK had three nights in NYC and sailed on the QE2 back to the UK for £1999.00. A memorable trip to celebrate my 15th wedding anniversary.
Mine's a pint of ESB if you please.
Seriously, the modern day Mini is to Real Mini fans a Bavarian Impostor. The firmly beleive that Alec Issigonis (designer of the original) would be turning in his grave at what BMW have done with it.
Personally, I think he would appreciate the modern take of his classic. The original car never made any money for BL, Leyland, Rover etc. This one does make money for BMW.
And no, I don't own or drive either types.
I wish my Cancer had been detected earlier (Hairy Cell Leukaemia). Certainly before my immune system had been virtually trashed. Then the Chemo killed it completely but that is the nature of Chemo.
There are many cancers that creep up on you slowly and almost unrecognised until they hit a critical mass. Any early detection of this type of cancer would be most welcomed by the people who have the misfortune to suffer from them.
Just my $0.02 worth.
An awful lot of BBC generated content on the radio is NOT repeat NOT blocked from internet users outside the UK. I listen to Radio 5 a lot. There are many text's & email from listeners all over the world.
The main exceptions are where they don't own the worldwide broadcast rights. Eg PRemiership Footie. Even part of that is broadcast worldwide via the BBC World Service.
The recent Cricket Test series between England & Australia was broadcast worldwide. TMS ( Test Match Special) is very proud of its Worldwide audience not just its listeners in the UK and Oz.
Perhaps you should check your facts?
SCO (somehow) had the foresight to negociate a fixed price deal with BSF.
Besides with the Court Appointed Trustee running the business, they could very well pull the plug on the whole thing IF they felt that the millstone of these proceedings could jeopardise their 'escape' from Chapter 7.
I just wish they would roll over & die but I would expect Darl and his cronies to try to keep this going for as long as possible. (Sigh)
If you are that accident prone why not buy used phones. You know the ones that people chuck in a drawer when they get their next shiny new toy.
Get them unlocked and you are good to go.
My skinflint cousin does it this way.
He then signs up for sim only contracts.
Planet Rock (www.planetrock.com) in the UK certainly plays recent rock. Take 'Chinese Democracy' as an example. It has been well played on an almost daily basis.
A patent troll company is filing a lawsuit to stop this sudden outburst of common sense by Sony in its tracks.
How long before WinCE gets 'improved' with the inclusion of Windows Genuine Advantage?
Remember that to most Americans, 'The World' is just the 48 States that makeup continental USA. Even Alaska & Hawaii are often perceived as 'foreign' places.
Where are the European, African, Asian & South American teams in the 'World Series'?
Take the UK arm of Walmart. They are selling an Elonex Netbook with Linux for less than £150.00 However, I'd like to see XP or Vista running on it. 2Gb SSD 128Mb Ram http://direct.asda.com/Laptops-+-Handhelds/4061,default,sc.html The Elonex is in plain view. There is another model available for £190.00 Via CPU 512Mb Ram 80Gb HDD There you have it, even Walmart is selling Linux Netbooks.
It will be the Dodo.
Here's hoping that software patents become as dead as the Dodo.
El Gordo is off on his hols and the underlings feel they can let out silly proposals like this. Then the ministers get to keep their TV hours up by spending copious amounts of time saying that this is only a proposal knowing full well that it will never happen.
The 'Comics', newspaper like the Daily Wail and Express need to fill their copy and stories like this are exactly the sort of thing to fill the 'silly season'.
Besides if by some legal mangling, the cameras were ever to be installed, they would be:-
(within minutes)
1) Stolen and sold down the Pub for Drink,Fags or Drugs.
2) Vandalised
3) The house sublet to a nice family ensuring nothing for the monitors to see.
Anyway, NuLab will get a real tanking in the next election and the Tories will have all their attention on getting the country out of the financial sesspit that Gordon 'prudence' Broone has got us into since 1997.
Finally, as this is in a clear breach of the European Human Rights Directive I think many of the wailers here should get a life.
Yeah but CentOS does not really have its own codebase that would need forking. Ok, I'm ignoring the 'branding' stuff they change from RHEL but otherwise, in the main, they use the SRPM's downloaded from RedHat.
AFAIK, you certainly can't say the same for the Debian/Ubunto codebase.