I followed your google search link and came across this. Looks like SCO is right - not only does she not exist (no picture, no proof), look at the most recent title. Yarrr! I bet she's pirating Linux too!!1!one!!
Why, when I was a young programmer we had to write the code in the snow with our pee, and a compiler was just a word for the pilot of the hovering dirigible that read the instructions and passed them to the ALU, which was another fellow with an abacus. They would wrap the results around a rock, and drop it on my house when the program would exit. We had to walk uphill...
...from 6 years ago. Still trying to figure out that second step looks like.
Easy (tell me you didn't see this coming):
Step 1: Copy mp3.com's business plan
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!!!
And while I'm at it:
In Soviet Russia, the business plans you.
I, for one, welcome our gif-fanatic-mp3-selling overlords.
And last, but certainly not least, I would just li!#!($%##(%(%Q#$@^NO CARRIER
I keep seeing references to a Mac program that makes an exact, bootable, backup of their drive. Is there something similar that can be done for a Linux box (running Debian)? I've seen references to using "dd", but I've seen opinions on this not being the best idea either. I'm assuming that "cp --recursive --update --preserve/*/(backup drive)" probably wouldn't be the best idea either.
I just bought two 120gb hard drives and would like to put those in my server, one being a backup to the other and be bootable in case of a failure. It's just a standard, older PC I had laying around the house (450mhz AMD, 512mb of RAM, IDE, two USB ports). I'd really like to stick with both drives being in the case rather than a portable drive solution.
Just for clarification, I don't need/want compression, I just want to be able to boot to the other drive if the first one fails. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Oh crap. C'mon, did you all think for more than enough time to jerk your knees before posting the usual "The RIAA is just greedy and wants your money" BS?
Tell that to all of the people that will likely be affected by Kenneth Lay's death therefore insuring they won't get a dime back, but the family he left behind will be living large. Oh wait, I forgot...it's only a one way street isn't it?
"This is like sueing Remington because guns make it easier to kill people."
You do realize this has been done (unsuccessfully) by dozens of city governments against a variety of gun manufacturers and importers?
Yes, I belive the cases were dropped because they fell under the statute "Blaming guns for killing people is like blaming spoons for fat people".
Actually, the reason the gun case was dropped is likely because then people could just say "I didn't kill that man, the gun made me do it!". Then say hello to every murderer in prison appealing their guilty ruling.
I'm addicted to getting 8 hours of sleep every day too. And if I don't get my fix, I end up being really cranky for the rest of the day. I'm sick. I need help.
So would the equivalent of running NOS in a battery-powered car be like a row of 1-farad capacitors that could be connected with a push of a button? I'm no electrician and I'm only sort of joking...sort of...but I am genuinely curious.
Aside from that, Detroit needs to get on the ball with electric cars and quickly. If they would make a Cavalier that ran on battery power like this and priced it at around $25,000 (more than an average Cavalier), I would buy one tomorrow.
IMO, I think the reasons why we keep seeing "hybrids" and not thoroughbred electric cars is because big oil and the big 3 are in bed together *takes off tinfoil hat*. Just keep researching the hell out of making better batteries and get these electric-only cars on the road!
First things, first - if you're looking for programs to perform a certain task (play mp3s, webcam, etc), try using the "search" feature in Synaptic. You can search by program name, program name and description, and a few other criteria. These two are the ones I use most.
Anyway, with that out of the way, let's go down the list:
Of course, I also told him I would install the MP3 support
I've installed all sorts of Linux variants on dozens of machines and Ubuntu was a fair share of those. I never had to "install mp3 support", I just installed xmms. I can't remember if it was installed by default or if I had to apt-get it...either way, that takes care of that. As far as OGG goes, I just don't use it. I know...what kind of geek doesn't use OGG, right?;)
Another thing was Webcam support, yep, I connected a Genius webcam NB and it detected it automagically, unfortunately there is NO program to capture video or at least see it.
I'm assuming you're talking about no program in Windows to capture or see video. I typically use camstream in Linux. I know there are several more options out there (again, search in Synaptic), but this is the one I'm used to.
But, what I wanted to show here is that there ARE those small annoyances that just keep getting across the way, until those are not solved it would be difficult for the "normal" people to migrate.
Yeah, there are small annoyances here or there in Linux, just like there are in Windows. For example, I have a HP PSC-1209 printer/scanner. Windows automagically "found" a new printer attached to the USB port. The drivers that Windows automatically installed didn't work. I then grabbed the HP install CD so I could install the correct drivers after uninstalling the drivers that Windows was nice enough to install...without asking (you know, so the printer would "just work"). In Ubuntu, I just clicked on "Printers" -> "Add Printer" -> selected my printer model from the list -> waited a few seconds for drivers to kick in -> done (no reboots either!). Overall, it took me 25 seconds to install the printer on Ubuntu Linux, and about 5 minutes in Windows.
Overall, one tool that helps Ubuntu users out quite a bit is EasyUbuntu. That'll take care of quite a few of your issues.
Ubuntu really isn't that difficult, even for new users. Heck, my 11 year old daughter uses it on an AMD 450Mhz machine with 256MB of RAM and she used XP for two years prior to Ubuntu 5.04. I don't get calls for "Daaaaaad! Where do I find X" or "Daaaaad! Do I send this error report to Microsoft?" any more either, which is quite nice. The Gnome menus just seem to make more sense than a Windows menu to find the programs you want to use. Anyway, good luck to you and your friend - I hope this post helps out.
I'd hate this practice too, if it affected me, but why is it any more wrong, than any other children-targeted marketing (like advertising action-figures in between cartoons)?
Because the advertising you see on the TV won't embed itself within the TV without your knowledge and pop up ad after ad over the top of the show you're trying to watch (although TV execs would if they could...).
Kim Jong Il: IFPI? Oh no! Oh, herro. Great to see you again, IFPI! IFPI: Mr. Il, I was supposed to be allowed to inspect your palace today, but your guards won't let me enter certain areas. Kim Jong Il: IFPI, IFPI, IFPI! We've been frew this a dozen times. I don't have any pirated music, OK IFPI? IFPI: Then let me look around, so I can ease the IFPI's collective mind. I'm sorry, but the IFPI must be firm with you. Let me in, or else. Kim Jong Il: Or else what? IFPI: Or else we will be very angry with you... and we will write you a letter, telling you how angry we are. Kim Jong Il: OK, IFPI. I'll show you. Stand to your reft. IFPI: *Moves to the left* Kim Jong Il: A rittle more. IFPI: *Moves to the left again* Kim Jong Il: Good. *Opens up trap, IFPI falls in*
"We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties," Justice David H. Souter wrote in court's decision.
So Dell, Gateway, Microsoft, Apple, etc, all need to specifically have a disclaimer stating "don't use our stuff to infringe copyright"? Currently, it looks like Dell, Gateway, Microsoft, Apple, etc are all guilty...after all, their products are all used to "infringe copyright". Same with hard drive manufacturers, cd/dvd burner manufacturers, burning software manufacturers, etc.
That and, of course, we wouldn't want to hold individuals responsible for their own actions. It seems to me that gun manufacturers could now be held responsible for murder wouldn't it? Maybe a bad analogy, but is a gun really manufactured to specifically murder people? I agree with the lower courts decision completely - it just makes logical sense. But the fact that it was overturned 9 to 0 by a higher court tells me that a few people were bought and paid for.
Which makes me wonder if there's a 'bottom 500' list somewhere. I would love to see a list of the slowest computer still in use.
I bet a lot of them will actually run Linux. Kinda funny how the fastest computing environments run Linux...and at the same time some you can run Linux on old crusty, throw-away PCs. From one extreme to the other;)
I got two crusty laptops running Debian 3.1 - a ThinkPad 755C and a Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT (75mhz and 120mhz respectively). Not that they serve much of any purpose - just a backup file server and the other is a backup mail server. Just had to do it because I could;P
I was wondering what the big deal with the 7 layers were. Never once have I seen a technician solve a networking problem by knowing what the 7 layers are and what they do.
They indeed help solve networking problems when you have a hungry netadmin:
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away
After all, you can't expect netadmins to work on an empty stomach now can you?;)
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I followed your google search link and came across this. Looks like SCO is right - not only does she not exist (no picture, no proof), look at the most recent title. Yarrr! I bet she's pirating Linux too!!1!one!!
Sorry...sleep deprivation and all that...
Say what? I have just three words for you.
Windows Genuine Advantage.
And apparently they missed the whole "PlayForSure" thing Microsoft came up with too...
Why, when I was a young programmer we had to write the code in the snow with our pee, and a compiler was just a word for the pilot of the hovering dirigible that read the instructions and passed them to the ALU, which was another fellow with an abacus. They would wrap the results around a rock, and drop it on my house when the program would exit. We had to walk uphill...
Do you really want to know that?
Never seen goatse!? He must be new here.
Easy (tell me you didn't see this coming):
Step 1: Copy mp3.com's business plan
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!!!
And while I'm at it:
In Soviet Russia, the business plans you.
I, for one, welcome our gif-fanatic-mp3-selling overlords.
And last, but certainly not least, I would just li!#!($%##(%(%Q#$@^NO CARRIER
I just bought two 120gb hard drives and would like to put those in my server, one being a backup to the other and be bootable in case of a failure. It's just a standard, older PC I had laying around the house (450mhz AMD, 512mb of RAM, IDE, two USB ports). I'd really like to stick with both drives being in the case rather than a portable drive solution.
Just for clarification, I don't need/want compression, I just want to be able to boot to the other drive if the first one fails. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
You will need a PC running a minimum of Windows 98 Second Edition (SE), with a minimum of Explorer (IE) 5.5.
Is this application dependent on IE? What's that all about?
Tell that to all of the people that will likely be affected by Kenneth Lay's death therefore insuring they won't get a dime back, but the family he left behind will be living large. Oh wait, I forgot...it's only a one way street isn't it?
Yeah, I'd say DVDA does a lot of cramming too...
There goes the karma.
You do realize this has been done (unsuccessfully) by dozens of city governments against a variety of gun manufacturers and importers?
Yes, I belive the cases were dropped because they fell under the statute "Blaming guns for killing people is like blaming spoons for fat people".
Actually, the reason the gun case was dropped is likely because then people could just say "I didn't kill that man, the gun made me do it!". Then say hello to every murderer in prison appealing their guilty ruling.
I'm addicted to getting 8 hours of sleep every day too. And if I don't get my fix, I end up being really cranky for the rest of the day. I'm sick. I need help.
Well that's more retarded than a Wal-Mart greeter!
(I apologize to any retards that were offended by this post)
Aside from that, Detroit needs to get on the ball with electric cars and quickly. If they would make a Cavalier that ran on battery power like this and priced it at around $25,000 (more than an average Cavalier), I would buy one tomorrow.
IMO, I think the reasons why we keep seeing "hybrids" and not thoroughbred electric cars is because big oil and the big 3 are in bed together *takes off tinfoil hat*. Just keep researching the hell out of making better batteries and get these electric-only cars on the road!
Surely you jest.
Don't even get me started on games...
First things, first - if you're looking for programs to perform a certain task (play mp3s, webcam, etc), try using the "search" feature in Synaptic. You can search by program name, program name and description, and a few other criteria. These two are the ones I use most.
Anyway, with that out of the way, let's go down the list:
Of course, I also told him I would install the MP3 support
I've installed all sorts of Linux variants on dozens of machines and Ubuntu was a fair share of those. I never had to "install mp3 support", I just installed xmms. I can't remember if it was installed by default or if I had to apt-get it...either way, that takes care of that. As far as OGG goes, I just don't use it. I know...what kind of geek doesn't use OGG, right? ;)
Another thing was Webcam support, yep, I connected a Genius webcam NB and it detected it automagically, unfortunately there is NO program to capture video or at least see it.
I'm assuming you're talking about no program in Windows to capture or see video. I typically use camstream in Linux. I know there are several more options out there (again, search in Synaptic), but this is the one I'm used to.
But, what I wanted to show here is that there ARE those small annoyances that just keep getting across the way, until those are not solved it would be difficult for the "normal" people to migrate.
Yeah, there are small annoyances here or there in Linux, just like there are in Windows. For example, I have a HP PSC-1209 printer/scanner. Windows automagically "found" a new printer attached to the USB port. The drivers that Windows automatically installed didn't work. I then grabbed the HP install CD so I could install the correct drivers after uninstalling the drivers that Windows was nice enough to install...without asking (you know, so the printer would "just work"). In Ubuntu, I just clicked on "Printers" -> "Add Printer" -> selected my printer model from the list -> waited a few seconds for drivers to kick in -> done (no reboots either!). Overall, it took me 25 seconds to install the printer on Ubuntu Linux, and about 5 minutes in Windows.
Overall, one tool that helps Ubuntu users out quite a bit is EasyUbuntu. That'll take care of quite a few of your issues.
Ubuntu really isn't that difficult, even for new users. Heck, my 11 year old daughter uses it on an AMD 450Mhz machine with 256MB of RAM and she used XP for two years prior to Ubuntu 5.04. I don't get calls for "Daaaaaad! Where do I find X" or "Daaaaad! Do I send this error report to Microsoft?" any more either, which is quite nice. The Gnome menus just seem to make more sense than a Windows menu to find the programs you want to use. Anyway, good luck to you and your friend - I hope this post helps out.
Because the advertising you see on the TV won't embed itself within the TV without your knowledge and pop up ad after ad over the top of the show you're trying to watch (although TV execs would if they could...).
u spelt "plz" rong. kthx!
Ooooh...I was thinking Taco Bell. Glad you stepped in ;)
Kim Jong Il: IFPI? Oh no! Oh, herro. Great to see you again, IFPI!
IFPI: Mr. Il, I was supposed to be allowed to inspect your palace today, but your guards won't let me enter certain areas.
Kim Jong Il: IFPI, IFPI, IFPI! We've been frew this a dozen times. I don't have any pirated music, OK IFPI?
IFPI: Then let me look around, so I can ease the IFPI's collective mind. I'm sorry, but the IFPI must be firm with you. Let me in, or else.
Kim Jong Il: Or else what?
IFPI: Or else we will be very angry with you... and we will write you a letter, telling you how angry we are.
Kim Jong Il: OK, IFPI. I'll show you. Stand to your reft.
IFPI: *Moves to the left*
Kim Jong Il: A rittle more.
IFPI: *Moves to the left again*
Kim Jong Il: Good.
*Opens up trap, IFPI falls in*
"We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties," Justice David H. Souter wrote in court's decision.
So Dell, Gateway, Microsoft, Apple, etc, all need to specifically have a disclaimer stating "don't use our stuff to infringe copyright"? Currently, it looks like Dell, Gateway, Microsoft, Apple, etc are all guilty...after all, their products are all used to "infringe copyright". Same with hard drive manufacturers, cd/dvd burner manufacturers, burning software manufacturers, etc.
That and, of course, we wouldn't want to hold individuals responsible for their own actions. It seems to me that gun manufacturers could now be held responsible for murder wouldn't it? Maybe a bad analogy, but is a gun really manufactured to specifically murder people? I agree with the lower courts decision completely - it just makes logical sense. But the fact that it was overturned 9 to 0 by a higher court tells me that a few people were bought and paid for.
I bet a lot of them will actually run Linux. Kinda funny how the fastest computing environments run Linux...and at the same time some you can run Linux on old crusty, throw-away PCs. From one extreme to the other ;)
I got two crusty laptops running Debian 3.1 - a ThinkPad 755C and a Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT (75mhz and 120mhz respectively). Not that they serve much of any purpose - just a backup file server and the other is a backup mail server. Just had to do it because I could ;P
They indeed help solve networking problems when you have a hungry netadmin:
Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away
After all, you can't expect netadmins to work on an empty stomach now can you? ;)
However, google trends *does* show a direct correlation between your mom and my face. I rest *my* case. ;D
I strongly encourage everyone to go here and start downloading.
Now arrest me.
God forbid a student has an opinion and wants to express it.