After a letter written from the Spanish Observatorio de Neutralidad Tecnológica about the actual reasons why they believe supporting Linux is illegal, the EU responds stating "it was a mistake" and was fixed right away.
Now that they understand there is no legal reasons to prevent so, I hope they fix their website which is currently discriminating Linux users.
I don't know what is everyone talking about. I registered months ago and ever since all I've got when I go to www.orkut.com is:
"Bad, bad server. No donut for you"
Is there another URL to log in ? What is the matter ?
The open source driver maintained by Intel did not work for me: http://ipw2100.sf.net/
But NDISWrapper did (http://ndiswrapper.sf.net) , using the windows drivers. All you have to do is to download the source and compile with make && make install.
Then you have to download the windows drivers from Intel and execute the installation with wine. Just click next next as all you care about is about obtaining the following files:
w70n501.inf w70n51.sys w70n5msg.dll
With those files in the current directory, execute:
ndiswrapper -i w70n501.inf modprobe ndiswrapper
Your wireless interface should be enabled as wlan0.
I don't know what you mean. I think there is a distance between defending free software and being a comunist. What I'm tying to remark here is the fact that they are using fear to prevent people from using free software, which is disgusting.
Keep in mind that he is targeting US audience where a "communist" is something you should be afraid of.
He simply tries to scare people as part of his "use linux and you will be sued" campaign. No doubt fear rules in the US
Are you saying a Tablet PC is only a tablet PC if it runs XP ? It sounds funny.
This tablet PC comes with a stylus and a pen, which I couldn't get to work under linux. In addition to that, it comes with an infrared port, which is how I was able to use a keyboard to get everything installed.
His argument is worthless, don't bother getting upset. Linux does make a lot of sense pretty much everywhere you can run it;)
Is it totally worthless ? I don't think so.
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The problem with tablet PCs is that there are tons of manufacturers out there (mostly in Asia) and it is very hard to find hardware support.
A good example is my BluePAD Tablet PC. It totally lacks linux support and I was unable to find any info whatsoever about the touchpad interface.
After playing with it for a while, I finally managed to do something useful with it and posted a small tarball on my site that would get it to boot into X:
Someone said it is stupid to install linux on a Tablet PC that already comes with an OS preinstalled. Well, I strongly disagree here.
My Tablet PC came with CE.NET preinstalled. Everything worked, yes, but I couldn't install any software on it unless I wanted to write it myself which required me to sign up to M$ and get a demo copy of their CE.NET compiler (or whatever they call it). Therefore, the Tablet PC as it was as USELESS for me.
Now I can boot into X and do what I wanted to do with it;)
Well, I have actually written about it a few weeks ago. Tablet PCs might be expensive but in my case I've had an old one stuck in a drawer for ages. It has now turned into something useful.
Here is the article:
http://julian.coccia.com/article-71.html
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After a letter written from the Spanish Observatorio de Neutralidad Tecnológica about the actual reasons why they believe supporting Linux is illegal, the EU responds stating "it was a mistake" and was fixed right away.
Now that they understand there is no legal reasons to prevent so, I hope they fix their website which is currently discriminating Linux users.
To the famous quote:
"Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day"
We should add:
"Human beings were not meant to have an electromagnetic emitting device shaking their braincells at high frequencies all day"
I don't know what is everyone talking about. I registered months ago and ever since all I've got when I go to www.orkut.com is: "Bad, bad server. No donut for you" Is there another URL to log in ? What is the matter ?
The open source driver maintained by Intel did not work for me: http://ipw2100.sf.net/
But NDISWrapper did (http://ndiswrapper.sf.net) , using the windows drivers. All you have to do is to download the source and compile with make && make install.
Then you have to download the windows drivers from Intel and execute the installation with wine. Just click next next as all you care about is about obtaining the following files:
w70n501.inf
w70n51.sys
w70n5msg.dll
With those files in the current directory, execute:
ndiswrapper -i w70n501.inf
modprobe ndiswrapper
Your wireless interface should be enabled as wlan0.
Simply to inform there is a typo in the original posting: "disclsoure" should read "disclosure"
You are absolutely correct. You can only understand this if you understand recursivity :)
This is funny. I wounder what would it say about a linux partition xDDDD
I don't know what you mean. I think there is a distance between defending free software and being a comunist. What I'm tying to remark here is the fact that they are using fear to prevent people from using free software, which is disgusting.
What would happen if it tries to prevent itself from spying your machine ? a blue screen ?
Keep in mind that he is targeting US audience where a "communist" is something you should be afraid of. He simply tries to scare people as part of his "use linux and you will be sued" campaign. No doubt fear rules in the US
Are you saying a Tablet PC is only a tablet PC if it runs XP ? It sounds funny.
This tablet PC comes with a stylus and a pen, which I couldn't get to work under linux. In addition to that, it comes with an infrared port, which is how I was able to use a keyboard to get everything installed.
His argument is worthless, don't bother getting upset. Linux does make a lot of sense pretty much everywhere you can run it ;)
The problem with tablet PCs is that there are tons of manufacturers out there (mostly in Asia) and it is very hard to find hardware support.
;)
A good example is my BluePAD Tablet PC. It totally lacks linux support and I was unable to find any info whatsoever about the touchpad interface.
After playing with it for a while, I finally managed to do something useful with it and posted a small tarball on my site that would get it to boot into X:
http://julian.coccia.com/article-71.html
Someone said it is stupid to install linux on a Tablet PC that already comes with an OS preinstalled. Well, I strongly disagree here.
My Tablet PC came with CE.NET preinstalled. Everything worked, yes, but I couldn't install any software on it unless I wanted to write it myself which required me to sign up to M$ and get a demo copy of their CE.NET compiler (or whatever they call it). Therefore, the Tablet PC as it was as USELESS for me.
Now I can boot into X and do what I wanted to do with it
More info on how I installed linux on it: http://julian.coccia.com/article-40.html
Well, I have actually written about it a few weeks ago. Tablet PCs might be expensive but in my case I've had an old one stuck in a drawer for ages. It has now turned into something useful. Here is the article: http://julian.coccia.com/article-71.html