You can track the phone's current location by subscribing to a positioning service. It's not nearly as efficient as GPS but you will get an estimated position that is still pretty close to the real one.
Pretty much, but it depends on how you set the parameter sequence that drives the oscillators with 1-pole smoothers, what language you use, and how good you are at assigning and poking the frequency to make it drift up and down. You can get all kinds of sounds but your mileage may vary.
IIRC it was in the installer log file (which is not used by the system itself) but the bug is well known and was promptly fixed so today it's not an issue.
I use Linux exclusively at home, on my workstation and on several servers at work and I sure as hell do my work and living IRL...:)
The OS is not as important as the applications to an average user. You can put almost anyone in front of any OS as long as they still have decent access to the applications they're used to. I've tested this myself on several test subjects and some won't even notice there's a different kernel or desktop environment under the hood.
No, vendors have to support their own hardware on multiple platforms and some people need to stop being so afraid of trying something new. Linux itself is already great and has been for several years. What's needed is better marketing, more mainstream apps/games and good quality vendor support.
Did you check compatibility/vendor support before purchasing their crippled hardware?
Did you install the driver for the NVIDIA graphicsboard?
Did you contact Alcatel to see if they fully supported their own hardware?
Did you contact the makers of the Razer to see if they fully supported their own hardware?
Did you contact Nvidia to see if they knew what went wrong with the NF4 board?
Did you ask any Ubuntu representatives if they had a solution?
Did you ask any Mandriva representatives if they had a solution?
Just curious... What do you do if some part of your car breaks or doesn't start? Buy another one or contact a professional for advice?
What do you do if some peripheral, piece of hardware or some application doesn't work in Windows or OSX? Switch operating system? To what?
If you just give up immediately on every tiny obstacle with other things too you're probably a total looser.
I threw my Lexmark in the garbage can years ago and never looked back at their crap. Reminds me of the scene in Office Space where they demolished the printer they hated so much.:)
If Wine emulates anything at all it's probably just a small program loader, a few libraries or even less. That's far from emulating an operating system. The Win32 applications, IMHO, actually executes as native Linux binaries but they're partly using Win32 API-compatible libraries.
It can be compared to Cygwin which is a bunch of GNU-stuff ported/recompiled for Win32 by using a Windows-native POSIX-library to fill in the gaps in Windows own API's. It's just a DLL but I would NEVER EVER call it a Linux emulator.
Isn't it a bit ironic that you're bashing open source when you're also telling us that you're having the hardware related problems with NVIDIA's open source hostile hardware (which they don't release specifications for) and their own CLOSED SOURCE proprietary drivers? Blame NVIDIA for that, not Ubuntu.
Haven't got any of my systems seriously messed up in 8 years (every system, including MacOS X, can be seriously messed up if you make an effort though).
Automatic USB mounts works perfectly.
WLAN, no idea since I don't use that.
Just because one Linux-based desktop is crappy like yours doesn't mean that all of them is. With more than 300 distros, at least 3 major desktop environments and quite a few window managers out there you have some choice... What made you choose something that didn't suit your needs?
Hehe. Same kind of systems here although I later upgraded the A500 and one of the A1200's to kickstart 3.1.
Well, I can assure you that there's no noise at all with my systems and my hearing is perfect. Something must be wrong with your drive, the noclick utility program you use, or... you imagine things.;D
It worked on both my A1200's and my old A500 from 1987 so I guess it wasn't model specific (what model did you have?).
None of my friends with other models had any problem either. And it did stop the noise totally. I never ever heard a single click when NOCLICK was enabled.
PS. My heavily tortured now 18 year old Amiga 500 (never opened it) non-clicking floppydrive still works. That's quality!;)
You're not alone about that. And I even have Linus as a second name. On the third or fourth try I use to get it spelled correctly. I wonder if Linus Torvalds has the same problem...:)
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So far we already have Debian GNU/Linux, Debian GNU/Hurd, Debian GNU/NetBSD, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and maybe the beginning of Debian GNU/w32.
http://www.debian.org/ports/
http://debian-cygwin.sourceforge.net/
You can track the phone's current location by subscribing to a positioning service. It's not nearly as efficient as GPS but you will get an estimated position that is still pretty close to the real one.
Pretty much, but it depends on how you set the parameter sequence that drives the oscillators with 1-pole smoothers, what language you use, and how good you are at assigning and poking the frequency to make it drift up and down. You can get all kinds of sounds but your mileage may vary.
IIRC it was in the installer log file (which is not used by the system itself) but the bug is well known and was promptly fixed so today it's not an issue.
I use Linux exclusively at home, on my workstation and on several servers at work and I sure as hell do my work and living IRL... :)
The OS is not as important as the applications to an average user. You can put almost anyone in front of any OS as long as they still have decent access to the applications they're used to. I've tested this myself on several test subjects and some won't even notice there's a different kernel or desktop environment under the hood.
No, vendors have to support their own hardware on multiple platforms and some people need to stop being so afraid of trying something new. Linux itself is already great and has been for several years. What's needed is better marketing, more mainstream apps/games and good quality vendor support.
Did you check compatibility/vendor support before purchasing their crippled hardware? Did you install the driver for the NVIDIA graphicsboard? Did you contact Alcatel to see if they fully supported their own hardware? Did you contact the makers of the Razer to see if they fully supported their own hardware? Did you contact Nvidia to see if they knew what went wrong with the NF4 board? Did you ask any Ubuntu representatives if they had a solution? Did you ask any Mandriva representatives if they had a solution? Just curious... What do you do if some part of your car breaks or doesn't start? Buy another one or contact a professional for advice? What do you do if some peripheral, piece of hardware or some application doesn't work in Windows or OSX? Switch operating system? To what? If you just give up immediately on every tiny obstacle with other things too you're probably a total looser.
I threw my Lexmark in the garbage can years ago and never looked back at their crap. Reminds me of the scene in Office Space where they demolished the printer they hated so much. :)
If Wine emulates anything at all it's probably just a small program loader, a few libraries or even less. That's far from emulating an operating system. The Win32 applications, IMHO, actually executes as native Linux binaries but they're partly using Win32 API-compatible libraries.
It can be compared to Cygwin which is a bunch of GNU-stuff ported/recompiled for Win32 by using a Windows-native POSIX-library to fill in the gaps in Windows own API's. It's just a DLL but I would NEVER EVER call it a Linux emulator.
Sorry, my mistake... It's not NVIDIA's fault. It's the ignorant users fault.
Isn't it a bit ironic that you're bashing open source when you're also telling us that you're having the hardware related problems with NVIDIA's open source hostile hardware (which they don't release specifications for) and their own CLOSED SOURCE proprietary drivers? Blame NVIDIA for that, not Ubuntu.
My experience is the opposite:
Desktop is very fast.
Haven't got any of my systems seriously messed up in 8 years (every system, including MacOS X, can be seriously messed up if you make an effort though).
Automatic USB mounts works perfectly.
WLAN, no idea since I don't use that.
Just because one Linux-based desktop is crappy like yours doesn't mean that all of them is. With more than 300 distros, at least 3 major desktop environments and quite a few window managers out there you have some choice... What made you choose something that didn't suit your needs?
Agreed. Microsoft hasn't given us anything new.
The Amiga had all this from 1985 when PC's still ran 16-bit singletasking MS-DOS:
32-bit OS
4096 colors
8-bit sound (14-bit interpolated)
Autoconfig (plug'n'play that works perfectly).
Preemptive multitasking.
Long filenames
640x512 resolution
DataTypes (codecs)
Resident binaries
and more...
Hehe. Same kind of systems here although I later upgraded the A500 and one of the A1200's to kickstart 3.1.
;D
Well, I can assure you that there's no noise at all with my systems and my hearing is perfect. Something must be wrong with your drive, the noclick utility program you use, or... you imagine things.
It worked on both my A1200's and my old A500 from 1987 so I guess it wasn't model specific (what model did you have?).
;)
None of my friends with other models had any problem either. And it did stop the noise totally. I never ever heard a single click when NOCLICK was enabled.
PS. My heavily tortured now 18 year old Amiga 500 (never opened it) non-clicking floppydrive still works. That's quality!
Maybe you should have enabled the NOCLICK feature? Guess what it would have done to your floppydrives. ;)
My Amigas were 100% silent until I put harddrives in them, and even then they were not even near a PC's noise level.
Then I assume you can safely switch back to Debian as soon as the problem is solved? ;)
I could always try to get away with telling them I was on RHEL or SuSE. I wouldn't let them near the machine to find out anyway. :)
Yes, that sucks. But I run Oracle on Debian even if it's not certified. Wasn't that hard to install but still a long long way from a simple apt-get.
I agree. I've been using testing and unstable on various mission critical production systems for almost 3.5 years without problems.
I definitely agree that apt is a blessing compared to windows. In my opinion apt should be THE standard on all operating systems. :)
To install single packages you can use "dpkg -i package.deb", at least on Debian.
You're not alone about that. And I even have Linus as a second name. On the third or fourth try I use to get it spelled correctly. I wonder if Linus Torvalds has the same problem... :)
I had the same thought. :)
Load Firefox at the same time Windows loads, just like IE does, and you might think that it loads faster, just like IE makes you think. ;)
:)
Web pages render much faster in Firefox than in IE for me. But I'm using Linux of course and only use IE for testing purposes.
The mingw builds are way faster than the cygwin builds. Which version did you try and what was it built with?