I'd much rather get drivers at all, as long as they're cleanly written and don't involve shitty supplemental programs, like most Windows "drivers" do. Look at Nvidia. When you install the driver, all you get is the driver. That's it. So you get decent video. If you want all the mess-around crap, then you have to install it on your own. That's how drivers should be, I don't want all this nview crap and whatever I get with my Forceware, nice as it might seem to be for them to add it. Usually in Linux when we need a driver, we know exactly what it's going to be used for, exactly the program that needs it. We're not mom-and-pop users who install everything blindly, and figure out which program works out our digital cameras, sound cards, etc. Give me my drivers. Open them? Sure, if you'd like, that'd be great. But I could honestly care less as long as it gets the job done right.
That excuse no longer applies nowadays, especially now that Macs are basically on Intel boards. While not all vendors support Mac, it'd cause a small war if every one didn't, so there's still a huge slew of hardware that would work fine for OS X. I can't imagine terribly old hardware working at all, but as long as a board supported EFI, I don't see why an off the shelf copy of OS X wouldn't be installable (in a perfect world).
But ever since Google started expanding things well beyond search, I literally had forgotten that there are other search engines out there. Only when I see a headline concerning Google's competition or see someone using Yahoo or the like, am I reminded there are alternatives. I don't know if that's good or bad, and I'm well aware Google isn't perfect, but if they can affect people as profoundly as they have me, then Jeeves and competitors will just be putting work in for nothing. But this is probably just me being ignorant.
I'm not particularly defending Apple here, but that comment about them was a little uncalled for. They might not have the highest quality stuff, or sure, it might be rashly overpriced, but it's quality enough that the smarter-than-average-consumer will give it a chance. Just like this guy's mower. And beside, everything nowadays is mass produced, so do you expect fleeting quality abound?
I had read millions, but I wasn't sure, so, I tried to make it clear. I knew the writes were high. And, the cache is there for, example, prefetch, or, keeping.. maybe.. the kernel in a secondary ram?
You fail to see that the point of CACHE is to CACHE. So a 40 gig drive with a 256 mb cache is still a 40 gb drive. Also, solid state devices are -supposed- to survive "millions" of write cycles, or at least, hundreds of thousands, before dying. ymmv.
FYI, if you don't delete the "Quick search" section of your bookmarks, you can search right from the url bar by typing "google (search string)". It also does "define (word)", and "wiki (term)".
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That's one of the biggest problems IMO for GNOME, in terms of interaction, not mechanical underpinnings. Maybe they think that the method they instilled with us on organizing menus is convenient or easy, but it's not. It's horrible, and slow to the point that it drives me insane. I don't want a whole damn dialog window with all this crap to organize my programs or add something, I want to simply drag, or delete, or whatever straight from a context menu or something of that sort.
Dual booting is impractical, yes. But there is hope. I believe there is some kind of HFS driver for windows? Or am I wrong? And I don't see how if someone went so far to create a whole bootloader just to get XP on the mac, someone else can say, "Hey, let's port captive-ntfs over to OS X" if it doesn't install fine right out of the box. Provided that's probably only a little better for interop, but it's a start. Who knows, maybe someone will find this profitable and make a 2-way driver for OS X and XP to write on each others' FS in a user-friendly manner.
I'm 17, and the internet really does cut into alot of time I could be using for better things. I mean, I hate shit like myspace and I do have a blog, but rarely do I post to it. Honestly, it's trying to just keep up with all the news I read, and a few forums I'm addicted to, and the occasional IM. But all of those things add up when you're a student, no matter if it's college or not. I personally get wrapped up too much in the headlines for science, or what's coming in the new (X desktop environment of any sort). So I care less about what's important.
I remember when Mozilla guys would be so prompt when exploits were found in Firefox. Now it's really just every few releases they patch things. Now I don't keep up on it, but either that's good, or it's their security guys getting lax. I dunno. But I hope it doesn't come to that for Ubuntu.
That's a little different. Sure, the most basic Vista will probably be for emerging markets, but a few of those versions of XP are designed the way they are because of EU or something. AFAIC there's just two in the US: Home and Pro.
To be honest with you, I overlooked that. Also I kind of meant the general mis-spellings one might usually see, such as "There always doing the same thing every day" (as opposed to "they're" in context).
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When Microsoft opens up NTFS in any way shape or form, or if anyone reverse engineers it efficiently enough, then you can receive your phone call.
I'd much rather get drivers at all, as long as they're cleanly written and don't involve shitty supplemental programs, like most Windows "drivers" do. Look at Nvidia. When you install the driver, all you get is the driver. That's it. So you get decent video. If you want all the mess-around crap, then you have to install it on your own. That's how drivers should be, I don't want all this nview crap and whatever I get with my Forceware, nice as it might seem to be for them to add it. Usually in Linux when we need a driver, we know exactly what it's going to be used for, exactly the program that needs it. We're not mom-and-pop users who install everything blindly, and figure out which program works out our digital cameras, sound cards, etc. Give me my drivers. Open them? Sure, if you'd like, that'd be great. But I could honestly care less as long as it gets the job done right.
Opteron has a built in MMU, does it not? If so, this article is just underhanded FUD.
Then you should get to a doctor, before it gets any worse.
That excuse no longer applies nowadays, especially now that Macs are basically on Intel boards. While not all vendors support Mac, it'd cause a small war if every one didn't, so there's still a huge slew of hardware that would work fine for OS X. I can't imagine terribly old hardware working at all, but as long as a board supported EFI, I don't see why an off the shelf copy of OS X wouldn't be installable (in a perfect world).
As far as I remember, monad has rm. msh Actually carries alot of traditional headless commands from Linux.
How are monitors "ergonomic"? Is that a measure of how shapely it feels when I lose touch with reality, and caress it up while I watch porn?
But ever since Google started expanding things well beyond search, I literally had forgotten that there are other search engines out there. Only when I see a headline concerning Google's competition or see someone using Yahoo or the like, am I reminded there are alternatives. I don't know if that's good or bad, and I'm well aware Google isn't perfect, but if they can affect people as profoundly as they have me, then Jeeves and competitors will just be putting work in for nothing. But this is probably just me being ignorant.
I'm not particularly defending Apple here, but that comment about them was a little uncalled for. They might not have the highest quality stuff, or sure, it might be rashly overpriced, but it's quality enough that the smarter-than-average-consumer will give it a chance. Just like this guy's mower. And beside, everything nowadays is mass produced, so do you expect fleeting quality abound?
I had read millions, but I wasn't sure, so, I tried to make it clear. I knew the writes were high. And, the cache is there for, example, prefetch, or, keeping.. maybe.. the kernel in a secondary ram?
You fail to see that the point of CACHE is to CACHE. So a 40 gig drive with a 256 mb cache is still a 40 gb drive. Also, solid state devices are -supposed- to survive "millions" of write cycles, or at least, hundreds of thousands, before dying. ymmv.
FYI, if you don't delete the "Quick search" section of your bookmarks, you can search right from the url bar by typing "google (search string)". It also does "define (word)", and "wiki (term)".
That's one of the biggest problems IMO for GNOME, in terms of interaction, not mechanical underpinnings. Maybe they think that the method they instilled with us on organizing menus is convenient or easy, but it's not. It's horrible, and slow to the point that it drives me insane. I don't want a whole damn dialog window with all this crap to organize my programs or add something, I want to simply drag, or delete, or whatever straight from a context menu or something of that sort.
Dual booting is impractical, yes. But there is hope. I believe there is some kind of HFS driver for windows? Or am I wrong? And I don't see how if someone went so far to create a whole bootloader just to get XP on the mac, someone else can say, "Hey, let's port captive-ntfs over to OS X" if it doesn't install fine right out of the box. Provided that's probably only a little better for interop, but it's a start. Who knows, maybe someone will find this profitable and make a 2-way driver for OS X and XP to write on each others' FS in a user-friendly manner.
I'm 17, and the internet really does cut into alot of time I could be using for better things. I mean, I hate shit like myspace and I do have a blog, but rarely do I post to it. Honestly, it's trying to just keep up with all the news I read, and a few forums I'm addicted to, and the occasional IM. But all of those things add up when you're a student, no matter if it's college or not. I personally get wrapped up too much in the headlines for science, or what's coming in the new (X desktop environment of any sort). So I care less about what's important.
I remember when Mozilla guys would be so prompt when exploits were found in Firefox. Now it's really just every few releases they patch things. Now I don't keep up on it, but either that's good, or it's their security guys getting lax. I dunno. But I hope it doesn't come to that for Ubuntu.
You can do it from synaptic as well.
make sure you have (in 5.10 at least) the restricted and multiverse repositories enabled, then
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.8-plugins gstreamer0.8-plugins-multiverse gstreamer0.8-faad
Then try to play an mp3.
I tried to fit some more, but the sig cut off.
>Next door, the guys in Alan Turing's department were having to stick together infinite paper tapes for some machine he made in the 30s.
And it was uphill, both ways!
What do you mean, legally? Maybe protected ones, but all my itunes ripped tracks play just fine with libfaad or faac.
In that case... what a cute bum.
That's a little different. Sure, the most basic Vista will probably be for emerging markets, but a few of those versions of XP are designed the way they are because of EU or something. AFAIC there's just two in the US: Home and Pro.
>Well look at what we have here, a...
Failure to communicate?
To be honest with you, I overlooked that. Also I kind of meant the general mis-spellings one might usually see, such as "There always doing the same thing every day" (as opposed to "they're" in context).