Well, as of 7.10 I'd still say wifi support in Ubuntu was pretty bad. I had a supposedly supported Ralink PCI card (RT61). The default kernel driver in ubuntu didn't work. Downloading the latest driver from serialmonkey.com and compiling from source (with the required blacklisting of the ubuntu driver, etc. didn't work). Downloading and compiling the driver from ralink - no dice. After a week of struggling, I finally resorted to using ndiswrapper. Windows drivers worked perfectly! The whole process was a total nightmare. There were too many wifi drivers for this card, and most of them didn't actually work.
I have a Kworld ATSC 110 that works great and didn't cost very much. I don't know if it is still available. The ATSC 115 is essentially the same thing.
I always fly wearing earplugs. Specifically Flents' Flitemate pressure-reducing earplugs. Not only do they keep my ears from building up painful pressure upon descent, they have the very beneficial side effect of sending the message "no, I do NOT want to talk to you" to the fat dimwit inevitably siting next to me on the plane.
Umm, maybe the government should just build a dedicated emergency services network themselves. Seems like it would be better to have this done in the public sector.
You do realize that the US and British governments, through the CIA and Secret Intelligence Service, overthrew Mohammad Mossadegh and the most democratic and secular government Iran ever had, to protect British oil interests in 1953. And put the Shah, a brutal and hated dictator in power in his place. Iran was so destabilized by this that the Ayatollahs were able to take the place over. Read "All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror" by Stephen Kinzer for a good history lesson on this subject. Free reign to establish a fair government my ass. When Iran was getting close to having a stable secular government, it was wiped out by the US. And we wonder why they hate us in the Middle East.
Will the non-KDE packages in Kubuntu 8.04 receive long-term support, i.e., the rest of the distro will have long term support, but the KDE packages will only have 18 month support? Or will the whole thing only have 18 month support (no updated kernel packages, etc, after 18 months)?
Was the filter you saw a gravity-feed system similar to this? http://www.bigberkey.com/ I have one of these, and they are great. Filters out almost all contaminates, and the filter elements hardly never need replacing. If you live in California or Iowa you are out of luck however, as they can't be sold in those states (I'm not sure why -- it could have to do with the silver content of the ceramic filters).
Something similar happened to me a few years ago. I had bought a bottle of water after the security checkpoint at London Heathrow, but when changing planes through the Frankfurt airport enroute to the US, I had to go through security again and they confiscated my water. Strange to go through security for a connection. Maybe just a peculiarity of the Frankfurt airport (which is a shitty airport in most respects).
And if the superdelegates do not follow the popular vote, then we have a very undemocratic process at work, with a handful of elites actively going against the will of the voters. If that happens, there is no way in hell I would vote for the Democratic candidate, no matter how much I may prefer that candidate. Superdelegates epitomize insider corruption and crony ism. The democratic party needs to get rid of the concept of superdelegates.
While CRT monitors have two main drawbacks, namely size and power consumption, they are better than LCDs in a couple of ways:
-Less fragile. (if you have young kids this is important).
-Color accuracy. CRT monitors are much better for photo editing or anything where color accuracy is important (as long as you have a good quality monitor).
"I did not understand that point of view at 7, and I do not agree with it a 40-something."
What you are not understanding, and should as a 40-something, is that parents are legally responsible for their children (speaking about the USA here). To not know what your child is doing online could get you as a parent sued or in serious trouble with the law. Parents need to know what their children are doing, for both the kid's sake and their own.
The biggest issue with wireless cards under Linux is that even the cards that should work often don't, because the stupid manufactures often change the chipset of the card without changing the model number. Just because a card should work under Linux doesn't always mean that it is easy to get it set up. I have a RT61 based PCI card that I spent about 3 days getting it to work. The default driver in Ubuntu 7.10 didn't work with the card, the CVS driver that I compiled didn't work with the card. I finally got it to work with ndiswrapper -- something I shouldn't need for a natively supported ralink chipset.
Windows XP disables write caching on USB flash drives. You can remove them without the Safely Disconnect procedure if you are not writing to the drive when you remove it. The downside to this is that it makes the USB drive painfully slow if you are writing lots of small files to it. It took me about 2 hours to write 30 megabytes to a USB flash drive when backing up my Zotero http://www.zotero.org/ data, for example.
No, pak9rabid, number 7 is not "Profit". It's "Go to Jail" for stealing service. It's one thing to piggyback on someone's unsecured wifi router (if they have it open in this day and age, they are obviously intending to share it), and another thing entirely to hack into a commercial and secured pay internet service. Just because you have the technical knowledge to do so doesn't mean that you should...
"Because there are significant compatibility issues that still exist with legacy applications."
This is true on Linux for 64-bit apps too. Adobe Flashplayer tops the list, and is why I'm using a 32-bit version of Kubuntu rather than the 64-bit version. Yes, I know there are workarounds, but they are just that. I tried 64-bit a couple of years ago with Suse, and the performance benefit just wasn't there; of course it often loaded both 32 and 64 bit libraries which used up a lot of memory.
The other issue is that my cheap motherboard is limited to 2GB of memory, even though it is made for Amd Athlon X2 (64 bit) processors. Not much sense in running a 64 bit OS, the whole point of which would be to be able to address large amounts of memory, when Biostar has limited me to a maximum of 2GB of RAM.
I too will boycott the Olympic games in Red China.
China should be given the cold shoulder by western nations until they improve their human rights record. Unfortunately at least in the USA, our corrupt politicians and business leaders seem to want to emulate China rather than prod them to improve the human rights situation.
Oh, and we should take a stand and recognize democratic Taiwan as a completely independent sovereign nation too. Admit them to the UN, etc.
I see your point Constantine XVI; the problem really is the KDE 4 release cycle (and the fact that KDE 4.0 is really beta quality software). Still, I would have liked to see Hardy Heron support KDE 3.5.x with long term support. I moved back to Kubuntu 7.04 after a disastrous attempt at upgrading to 7.10. I'd stay on it for the next several years too, except that it will no longer be supported after October of this year. My migration path was going to be to the Hardy Heron release, but I'm not sure what I'm going to do now since the long term support got pulled out of that. For valid reasons, as you mentioned but still, it looks like it will be a long wait to a LTS supportable version with KDE 4.1 or 4.2.
Well, I wouldn't call it fully supported. The next version of Kubuntu will not be designated a Long Term Support version, while the Gnome based version of Ubuntu will have long term support. Kubuntu seems to always get shortchanged by Canonical. First, no compositing window manager by default (and a rather buggy one if you switch to it) in the Gutsy Gibbon release, now no Long Term Support for KDE in the upcoming Hardy Heron release. Truly sad. See http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1005960 for more details.
No it's not too late. The plan just needs a few tweaks:
1) Release cheap writeable HD-DVD rom drive you can put in your PC
2) Release cheap standalone HD-DVD player that will play various video format files (divx, etc.)
3) Profit!
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Dude, you need to put robots.txt sign on your lawn to keep Google out.
Well, as of 7.10 I'd still say wifi support in Ubuntu was pretty bad. I had a supposedly supported Ralink PCI card (RT61). The default kernel driver in ubuntu didn't work. Downloading the latest driver from serialmonkey.com and compiling from source (with the required blacklisting of the ubuntu driver, etc. didn't work). Downloading and compiling the driver from ralink - no dice. After a week of struggling, I finally resorted to using ndiswrapper. Windows drivers worked perfectly! The whole process was a total nightmare. There were too many wifi drivers for this card, and most of them didn't actually work.
I have a Kworld ATSC 110 that works great and didn't cost very much. I don't know if it is still available. The ATSC 115 is essentially the same thing.
We will all pay $5/gallon for gas. Or more, if needed. Demand for gas is relatively inelastic.
I always fly wearing earplugs. Specifically Flents' Flitemate pressure-reducing earplugs. Not only do they keep my ears from building up painful pressure upon descent, they have the very beneficial side effect of sending the message "no, I do NOT want to talk to you" to the fat dimwit inevitably siting next to me on the plane.
Umm, maybe the government should just build a dedicated emergency services network themselves. Seems like it would be better to have this done in the public sector.
You do realize that the US and British governments, through the CIA and Secret Intelligence Service, overthrew Mohammad Mossadegh and the most democratic and secular government Iran ever had, to protect British oil interests in 1953. And put the Shah, a brutal and hated dictator in power in his place. Iran was so destabilized by this that the Ayatollahs were able to take the place over. Read "All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror" by Stephen Kinzer for a good history lesson on this subject. Free reign to establish a fair government my ass. When Iran was getting close to having a stable secular government, it was wiped out by the US. And we wonder why they hate us in the Middle East.
Will the non-KDE packages in Kubuntu 8.04 receive long-term support, i.e., the rest of the distro will have long term support, but the KDE packages will only have 18 month support? Or will the whole thing only have 18 month support (no updated kernel packages, etc, after 18 months)?
Will there be packages of MythTV .21 for the current Mythbuntu, 7.10?
Was the filter you saw a gravity-feed system similar to this? http://www.bigberkey.com/ I have one of these, and they are great. Filters out almost all contaminates, and the filter elements hardly never need replacing. If you live in California or Iowa you are out of luck however, as they can't be sold in those states (I'm not sure why -- it could have to do with the silver content of the ceramic filters).
Something similar happened to me a few years ago. I had bought a bottle of water after the security checkpoint at London Heathrow, but when changing planes through the Frankfurt airport enroute to the US, I had to go through security again and they confiscated my water. Strange to go through security for a connection. Maybe just a peculiarity of the Frankfurt airport (which is a shitty airport in most respects).
And if the superdelegates do not follow the popular vote, then we have a very undemocratic process at work, with a handful of elites actively going against the will of the voters. If that happens, there is no way in hell I would vote for the Democratic candidate, no matter how much I may prefer that candidate. Superdelegates epitomize insider corruption and crony ism. The democratic party needs to get rid of the concept of superdelegates.
While CRT monitors have two main drawbacks, namely size and power consumption, they are better than LCDs in a couple of ways:
-Less fragile. (if you have young kids this is important).
-Color accuracy. CRT monitors are much better for photo editing or anything where color accuracy is important (as long as you have a good quality monitor).
"I did not understand that point of view at 7, and I do not agree with it a 40-something."
What you are not understanding, and should as a 40-something, is that parents are legally responsible for their children (speaking about the USA here). To not know what your child is doing online could get you as a parent sued or in serious trouble with the law. Parents need to know what their children are doing, for both the kid's sake and their own.
The biggest issue with wireless cards under Linux is that even the cards that should work often don't, because the stupid manufactures often change the chipset of the card without changing the model number. Just because a card should work under Linux doesn't always mean that it is easy to get it set up. I have a RT61 based PCI card that I spent about 3 days getting it to work. The default driver in Ubuntu 7.10 didn't work with the card, the CVS driver that I compiled didn't work with the card. I finally got it to work with ndiswrapper -- something I shouldn't need for a natively supported ralink chipset.
Windows XP disables write caching on USB flash drives. You can remove them without the Safely Disconnect procedure if you are not writing to the drive when you remove it. The downside to this is that it makes the USB drive painfully slow if you are writing lots of small files to it. It took me about 2 hours to write 30 megabytes to a USB flash drive when backing up my Zotero http://www.zotero.org/ data, for example.
Well they do have a history of illegally invading and annexing other countries (Tibet) http://www.tibet.com/WhitePaper/white2.html
Well, couldn't the open source driver be modified to add additional random yellow dots, thereby obfuscating the dot code from the hardware?
No, pak9rabid, number 7 is not "Profit". It's "Go to Jail" for stealing service. It's one thing to piggyback on someone's unsecured wifi router (if they have it open in this day and age, they are obviously intending to share it), and another thing entirely to hack into a commercial and secured pay internet service. Just because you have the technical knowledge to do so doesn't mean that you should...
"Because there are significant compatibility issues that still exist with legacy applications."
This is true on Linux for 64-bit apps too. Adobe Flashplayer tops the list, and is why I'm using a 32-bit version of Kubuntu rather than the 64-bit version. Yes, I know there are workarounds, but they are just that. I tried 64-bit a couple of years ago with Suse, and the performance benefit just wasn't there; of course it often loaded both 32 and 64 bit libraries which used up a lot of memory.
The other issue is that my cheap motherboard is limited to 2GB of memory, even though it is made for Amd Athlon X2 (64 bit) processors. Not much sense in running a 64 bit OS, the whole point of which would be to be able to address large amounts of memory, when Biostar has limited me to a maximum of 2GB of RAM.
I too will boycott the Olympic games in Red China.
China should be given the cold shoulder by western nations until they improve their human rights record. Unfortunately at least in the USA, our corrupt politicians and business leaders seem to want to emulate China rather than prod them to improve the human rights situation.
Oh, and we should take a stand and recognize democratic Taiwan as a completely independent sovereign nation too. Admit them to the UN, etc.
The New York Times is reporting that the C-Block bidding is over at $4.7 billion. We won't know who won for several more weeks though. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/spectrum-auction-the-c-block-bidding-is-over-at-47-billion/?ref=technology
I see your point Constantine XVI; the problem really is the KDE 4 release cycle (and the fact that KDE 4.0 is really beta quality software). Still, I would have liked to see Hardy Heron support KDE 3.5.x with long term support. I moved back to Kubuntu 7.04 after a disastrous attempt at upgrading to 7.10. I'd stay on it for the next several years too, except that it will no longer be supported after October of this year. My migration path was going to be to the Hardy Heron release, but I'm not sure what I'm going to do now since the long term support got pulled out of that. For valid reasons, as you mentioned but still, it looks like it will be a long wait to a LTS supportable version with KDE 4.1 or 4.2.
Well, I wouldn't call it fully supported. The next version of Kubuntu will not be designated a Long Term Support version, while the Gnome based version of Ubuntu will have long term support. Kubuntu seems to always get shortchanged by Canonical. First, no compositing window manager by default (and a rather buggy one if you switch to it) in the Gutsy Gibbon release, now no Long Term Support for KDE in the upcoming Hardy Heron release. Truly sad. See http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1005960 for more details.
No it's not too late. The plan just needs a few tweaks: 1) Release cheap writeable HD-DVD rom drive you can put in your PC 2) Release cheap standalone HD-DVD player that will play various video format files (divx, etc.) 3) Profit!