Well, my D-Link Wireless-G adapter works flawlessly with ndiswrapper, but I have no idea about wireless-N adapters. As far as being autodetected and configured -- sadly, no with Xubuntu 6.10 (which is what I run on my laptop, currently). It did autodetect, and it did install a native driver that partially works (it can scan and sometimes connect to a wireless network, but the connection always drops out and the scan stop working after that). That being said, the ndiswrapper installation wasn't that hard to figure out, though I will admit that my wife would have been unable to complete it.
One of these days I will either finish the ndiswrapper/iwxxx front-end I started writing in Python/PyGTK or contribute to one of the other projects, as soon as I get off my duff.;)
Heh. Well, I am a sys admin as well and work with Linux daily. Here's the deal: While I don't use Ubuntu at work, I've never had any trouble plugging in anything like daisy chain of SCSI hard drives, etc., into a Redhat or SuSE box.
And, FWIW, the following worked flawlessly on my wife's computer with Ubuntu, without modifying any configurations:
Canon LiDE 60 scanner
Epson Stylus C88 printer
Fuji Finepix digital camera
several models of USB pen drives
several models of USB external HDDs
additional el-cheapo no-name digital camera (not USB storage compliant!)
But will it work well enough ? I can't always get my external devices to work with Ubuntu, and I am a sys admin.
My wife doesn't have any problems get any of her external peripherals working with Ubuntu, and she's an utter n00b. I wonder if what level of experience you have sys admining Linux.
Mod parent up! I've actually watched Dell's price for particular system change twice in a given day! Maybe they were just updating their deals or whatever, but still, if you don't Dell's price, wait a minute, it'll probably change!
- No one will ever figure out what Tim Berners-Lee is rambling on about with the semantic Web thingie. - The Net will continue to feature more video, become even more interactive, and the difference between local apps and the Internet will continue to be blurred little-by-little. - Blogs will continue in various fashions, from vlogs (video blogs) to audlogs (audio logs) to iBlogs (blogs with highly-interactive content, including even 3D simulated environments). Apple will sue the first person that uses the term 'iBlog'. - Devices will continue to converge. Specialized devices will exist, and regular desktop and laptop computers will continue to exist, but the differences between them will blur as it becomes apparent that the only difference from a practical standpoint will be form factor and user interface. - The telcos will become less relevant as Net connectivity becomes all that matters. - THe mafiaa becomes irrelevant as people become increasingly connected to artists. - Spam will become ever increasingly more annoying as advertising will even start popping up on your roll of toilet 'paper'.
As an abstract, TFA and the study it describes may as well be stating that the "high" in Heroin is partially good for you... While entirely foregoing mention of the notion that the needle is bad. In addict speak, that's called enablement..
It is. And many prescription pain killers (Vicodin, Oxycodone) do not differ significantly from heroin in their effects. Most drugs used to treat ADHD do not differ significantly in their effects from crystal meth. Drugs used to treat depression (SSRIs) aren't significantly different than XTC in their effects. And?
AT&T also informed its customers that it would be unable to protect the children from evil monster internet pedophiles and that neutral net was found to be causing cancer in third world countries where protection against the silent killer is non-existent.
In related news, AT&T and Verizon have joined forces to form the Fight Neutral Net Coalition. Pwn Joornet, president of the Coalition said today that he feels this fight is important. "The Neutral Net causes AIDS, it causes global warming, it contributes to heart disease, and worst of all, it eats small children for breakfast. Will someone please think of the children?", said Joornet in a press conference earlier this week.
President George W. Bush, who was last seen laughing while holding up checks from AT&T and Verizon at the National Bank of Texas, was unable to be reached for comment.
Even then, let's suppose you were willing to accept a tiered Internet. How you tier makes a difference in whether it is maximally efficient for a given application. The reason we used managed networks in a corporate environment is because of corporate priorities -- financial transactions are more important than e-mail, so we segment off financial transactions and then give those transactions that must run over the same network as e-mail a higher priority over the e-mail, for instance.
The question is: How do we decide what traffic is more important on the Internet? Who pays? Who pays more? That's stupid. The benefits of a a free and open Internet far outweigh the inefficiencies of working with a basically unmanaged network. (Not that the Internet actually is completely unmanaged -- that's just not true. ISPs shape traffic on their own networks to improve customer connectivity to mail or webservers within the ISP's own network). The point of the Internet is to have a network where anything is possible. Tier it off and you'll make it about as useful as the television networks.
In most countries, searching for child porn isn't illegal. Downloading child porn is. After all, how would all those vigilantes out there trying to shut down all the child porn sites do so if they couldn't find them?
This certainly sounds too good to be true. Makes me wonder who's funding the research.
Actually, according to TFA (you did RTFA, right? Nevermind, "I must be new here";), the company doing the research was founded by a guy who used to work for RJ Reynolds. RJR retains a 4% stake in the company.
Still, why poo poo the research just because its linked to RJR? It's not like they're trying to use it to sell cigarettes here... they're developing drugs based on a modified nicotine. Sounds good to me.
*shrugs*
Now excuse my while I go outside to light another Marlboro.
DB2? It's only useable on large mainframes (big iron, so to speak) from what I understand.
Um, no. DB2 these days runs on most major UNIX variants (HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, IRIX, etc.), Linux and Windows. It's used quite often, in fact. Most Enovia/VPM installations use DB2 backends, for instance. Modern versions use XML along with regular relational database stores and are very, very up-to-date technology-wise. Very scalable.
Renting a truck is trackable back to the person who's voided check / credit card was used to rent it. (No, you can't rent a truck these days without A) showing ID, 2) a) a voided check or b) a credit card).
Yeah, good going. Stolen plate reported, different make/model
1) There's a lag in the time between when someone steals your plate and you discover that it's stolen. This lag time can be hours.
2) What kind of car do you drive? A 2005 Nissan Pathfinder? Gee, I wonder how many of those could possibly be running around the streets of New York City?
The terrorists will NEVER figure out a way around THIS!!! After all, they'd have to STEAL someone else's plate and put it on their vehicle! Or make up their own plate. Why, either way, it's next to impossible!
I just answer their questions and am polite and friendly about it.
What kind of evangelism is that? You should browbeat them into submission and threaten them with eternal damnation in the pits of Redmond if they don't convert!
Nah. I just round all the Windows-using heretics up and burn them at the stake every so often.
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I don't know about you, but my last ballot said:
Supreme Overload (check only ONE):
[ ] The Dark One
[ ] One Ring to Rule Them All...
[ ] The Lord of Mordor
[ ] Sauron, The Dark Lord
And I was really confused. So I just filled one in at random.
It's perhaps worth nothing that I live in Florida.
An N card with native Linux drivers developed/supported by the manufacturer.
Well, my D-Link Wireless-G adapter works flawlessly with ndiswrapper, but I have no idea about wireless-N adapters. As far as being autodetected and configured -- sadly, no with Xubuntu 6.10 (which is what I run on my laptop, currently). It did autodetect, and it did install a native driver that partially works (it can scan and sometimes connect to a wireless network, but the connection always drops out and the scan stop working after that). That being said, the ndiswrapper installation wasn't that hard to figure out, though I will admit that my wife would have been unable to complete it.
;)
One of these days I will either finish the ndiswrapper/iwxxx front-end I started writing in Python/PyGTK or contribute to one of the other projects, as soon as I get off my duff.
And, FWIW, the following worked flawlessly on my wife's computer with Ubuntu, without modifying any configurations:
My wife doesn't have any problems get any of her external peripherals working with Ubuntu, and she's an utter n00b. I wonder if what level of experience you have sys admining Linux.
Mod parent up! I've actually watched Dell's price for particular system change twice in a given day! Maybe they were just updating their deals or whatever, but still, if you don't Dell's price, wait a minute, it'll probably change!
In time...just wait until the entire industry is turned upside down by real competition.
Now that I think about it, the icon/mascot doesn't even look like a 'gimp' to me, it looks a bit like a fox. ;)
Or, maybe the component contains code that's only available under a license that's not GPL 3.0 compatible.
- No one will ever figure out what Tim Berners-Lee is rambling on about with the semantic Web thingie.
- The Net will continue to feature more video, become even more interactive, and the difference between local apps and the Internet will continue to be blurred little-by-little.
- Blogs will continue in various fashions, from vlogs (video blogs) to audlogs (audio logs) to iBlogs (blogs with highly-interactive content, including even 3D simulated environments). Apple will sue the first person that uses the term 'iBlog'.
- Devices will continue to converge. Specialized devices will exist, and regular desktop and laptop computers will continue to exist, but the differences between them will blur as it becomes apparent that the only difference from a practical standpoint will be form factor and user interface.
- The telcos will become less relevant as Net connectivity becomes all that matters.
- THe mafiaa becomes irrelevant as people become increasingly connected to artists.
- Spam will become ever increasingly more annoying as advertising will even start popping up on your roll of toilet 'paper'.
There, fixed it for you.
It is. And many prescription pain killers (Vicodin, Oxycodone) do not differ significantly from heroin in their effects. Most drugs used to treat ADHD do not differ significantly in their effects from crystal meth. Drugs used to treat depression (SSRIs) aren't significantly different than XTC in their effects. And?
It's not the drug, it's how its used that counts.
In related news, AT&T and Verizon have joined forces to form the Fight Neutral Net Coalition. Pwn Joornet, president of the Coalition said today that he feels this fight is important. "The Neutral Net causes AIDS, it causes global warming, it contributes to heart disease, and worst of all, it eats small children for breakfast. Will someone please think of the children?", said Joornet in a press conference earlier this week.
President George W. Bush, who was last seen laughing while holding up checks from AT&T and Verizon at the National Bank of Texas, was unable to be reached for comment.
Even then, let's suppose you were willing to accept a tiered Internet. How you tier makes a difference in whether it is maximally efficient for a given application. The reason we used managed networks in a corporate environment is because of corporate priorities -- financial transactions are more important than e-mail, so we segment off financial transactions and then give those transactions that must run over the same network as e-mail a higher priority over the e-mail, for instance.
The question is: How do we decide what traffic is more important on the Internet? Who pays? Who pays more? That's stupid. The benefits of a a free and open Internet far outweigh the inefficiencies of working with a basically unmanaged network. (Not that the Internet actually is completely unmanaged -- that's just not true. ISPs shape traffic on their own networks to improve customer connectivity to mail or webservers within the ISP's own network). The point of the Internet is to have a network where anything is possible. Tier it off and you'll make it about as useful as the television networks.
In most countries, searching for child porn isn't illegal. Downloading child porn is. After all, how would all those vigilantes out there trying to shut down all the child porn sites do so if they couldn't find them?
Actually, according to TFA (you did RTFA, right? Nevermind, "I must be new here"
Still, why poo poo the research just because its linked to RJR? It's not like they're trying to use it to sell cigarettes here
*shrugs*
Now excuse my while I go outside to light another Marlboro.
nope. It's h4rdw4r3z!
Um, no. DB2 these days runs on most major UNIX variants (HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, IRIX, etc.), Linux and Windows. It's used quite often, in fact. Most Enovia/VPM installations use DB2 backends, for instance. Modern versions use XML along with regular relational database stores and are very, very up-to-date technology-wise. Very scalable.
wussy bedwetter MSFT fanbois?
Slashdotter: "In Soviet Russia, robots get through to you!
Robot: "ARGGGGGHHHH!!!!!!" *explodes*
Slashdotter: "In Soviet Russia, robots explode YOU!" *explodes*
Renting a truck is trackable back to the person who's voided check / credit card was used to rent it. (No, you can't rent a truck these days without A) showing ID, 2) a) a voided check or b) a credit card).
And nobody EVER gets their car repainted a different color.
1) There's a lag in the time between when someone steals your plate and you discover that it's stolen. This lag time can be hours.
2) What kind of car do you drive? A 2005 Nissan Pathfinder? Gee, I wonder how many of those could possibly be running around the streets of New York City?
The terrorists will NEVER figure out a way around THIS!!! After all, they'd have to STEAL someone else's plate and put it on their vehicle! Or make up their own plate. Why, either way, it's next to impossible!
Boy, we're SOOO much smarter than the terrorists!
Nah. I just round all the Windows-using heretics up and burn them at the stake every so often.