I bought this issue in July 1997, I guess? Put Slackware from a magazine on 26 floppies or similar that month, found the command-line too difficult, bought Red Hat Linux 5.1 or 5.2 a couple of months after that about the same time I discovered Slashdot. Been a member ever since.
Where you located? If in Ontario, check out teksavvy or start.ca. Also check out your provider, a lot of them recently have been offering unlimited for an extra $10-30 a month depending if you have stuff bundled with them or not.
Actually, TekSavvy should be available throughout Canada at this point. Definitely recommended, they know their poop and have built a solid reputation on great customer service.
Also South Surrey/White Rock - just last week got to challenge and decline Telus Mobility's $1.50 US roaming charge ('Welcome to the USA!') while on the way to my GF's place.
Not at all. Disagreements happen, it's just that they're (the disagreements, that is, not the users) usually not permitted to cross the line into meaningless vitriol for the sake of it.
That's interesting. The case could be made that MetaFilter is to liberal/progressive politics what Slashdot is to tech -- it fosters lively, informed discussions on any number of topics. I tend to lurk on both sites these days, but I will say that the active moderation over there has generally made a _much_ more civilised site than anything Slashdot could claim nowadays.
Note: I am specifically not really talking about MeTa's cash cow, the Ask MeFi section, but rather the main site itself.
This sounds to my [admittedly uneducated] ears just like the yellow light of death issues affecting the PS3, particularly the launch models. Same issue, more or less; the PS3 gets cooked when the lead-free solder cracks and allows the GPU to physically separate from the board.
[I am sad, I have a launch model that's been taken in twice for reflowing; it's now failed a third time, so no more]
I did have a 2011 mbp as well, but a 13" without the discrete graphics that I've since passed to my girlfriend. I reckon the next revision of the retina MBP will likely remove discrete cards altogether. =(
I second this, I have one myself for the 15" from last year. Tremendous product, and if you're careful about washing and drying it as needed, you will have no regrets that the matte option no longer exists, as the protector is just that good.
- Apple reset the number of views in that thread about 6 months ago. Plenty of discussion about this in the thread itself. So 367k views really only means, '367k views since whenever it was reset'
- The atrocious customer service many of the complainants on the thread received coincided with the arrival and brief stay of John Browett, a British national and former head of Dixons, a particularly terrible UK computer / consumer electronics chain. Browett on arrival at Apple immediately started implementing a number of changes that reduced morale and positively fucked the chain's plummeting reputation for customer service. He sucked so badly, that he was summarily fired at the end of October along with Scott Forstall: http://www.cultofmac.com/198726/why-scott-forstall-and-john-browett-got-fired-from-apple-today/
- Apple quietly took out the LG screen (part number 661-6529) from their supplies of replacement displays sometime in late summer / early fall. The only replacements you can get from Apple now are Samsung parts (661-7171). I confirmed this myself with an Apple authorised 3rd-party supplier as I did not trust Apple to be honest about their supply situation after they fobbed me off initially with a 2nd LG display that developed IR.
- However, their plants in Shanghai are still assembling retinas with the LG screen (see thread for confirmation of this) - why, I don't know; maybe they have supplies to use up.
I have one as well, and the original screen was an LG (purchased a week after they launched the computer, but not delivered for another month). I heard about this defect in the above-mentioned thread about two weeks after launch, but didn't notice anything for about 6 weeks after receiving it. Then the trouble started.
Exchanged for another screen - except it was another LG. Which promptly developed image retention after two weeks. This time, Apple Store 'geniuses' made out with a bullshit test that it was 'normal' and 'expected' - to which I pointed out that the Samsung equivalents had no such 'normal' ghosting at all.
Fought with the fuckers for 3 weeks. Finally, I had to threaten to return it for a full refund off my credit card when they finally gave in. I kept pointing out that a laptop costing over $3k Cdn has no business exhibiting such behaviour, and that otherwise I actually was very happy with the computer besides this one issue. They finally replaced it with a Samsung-manufactured screen - and this was back in September; totally flawless screen since the final replacement.
The clincher? You just have to ask them if they would be happy with an expensive machine that showed this shitty display themselves.
The computer itself is really a dream to use now. And yes, it's the best purchase I've ever made as well. Despite all the bullshit to get there.
Walking a parent through steps over the phone can be a frustrating experience. Even after moving my father to a Mac I still found myself having to deal with his issues for the first couple of months on a near-daily basis. Using TeamViewer helped this immeasurably. Free for personal use.
It's not the being commercially successful - pretty sure more people would grant Ubuntu leeway if they were - but their aspirations to commercial success are taking them down ultimately the wrong path.
OK, us retina MacBook Pro buyers have been struggling for a couple of months now with the fact that Apple used two suppliers, LG and Samsung, to provide the screens for the rMBP. Unfortunately, the LG screens develop image retention or ghosting fairly quickly after purchase, and Apple has been all over the map in either replacing or refusing to replace these defective screens.
Us being niche in comparison, I suspect we won't see anything like that letter ourselves.
My first computer was a Mac LC 22 years ago. In the intervening time, I went to Windows as work required it, then I discovered Linux in 1997. Went to Red Hat 5.1, then Mandrake a couple of years later, then finally in 2000 I went to Debian and stayed there 'til last year, when I gave up and bought a 13" MBP.
When Gnome 3 came out, I relegated the old Debian server to just file/media serving, switched the window manager to XFCE, and promptly ignored it. Where it remains, switched off.
After a while I just realised that I was just more productive on OS X without thinking I needed to become a developer on Linux / [your favourite distro here] first.
It's great that all the technically savvy and ideologically committed people have a place to go to and an OS to use, but any hopes of expanding beyond that died with OS X's second release.
I found Unity netbook from 10.10 to be acceptable after a bit of use, but the upgrade to Natty beta was enough for me to drop it in favour of just going back to Gnome 2. I'm also trying out Gnome 3, and both these 2 as well as KDE all feel like suboptimal blind stabs at some holy grail rather than fast and practical.
Might have to try out Enlightenment again, or xfce. i dunno.
I am cancelling my Bell dryloop DSL tonight, and moving to TekSavvy for the same, as a vote of confidence in your firm. I have had nothing but fantastic service from your staff, and I am looking forward to the change.
If you would like permission to reproduce this letter for your use, please consider this granted.
Kind regards Massimo Savino
This is an unreasonable request on Bell's part, and I am saying this as a Bell Sympatico customer.
This request is an effective call for the CRTC to limit competition and the free flow of market capital, because reducing the terms of third-party providers to equal status of Bell itself will effectively mean no real difference in objective Internet service between Bell and other providers using Bell's lines -- which are at last count, paid for by those 3rd-party ISPs. Surely Bell should have no ability to dictate these unreasonable terms to those 3rd-party providers when they are paying for the service, no?
These pricing plans of Bell's were implemented on its own customers, previously on 'Unlimited' lines, about 18 months ago, with a correspondingly-high overage rates. In my case, they did this without informing me of the change, and billing my account.
This action is the last straw for me. I am going to move from Bell right now, actually.
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"The Greatest OS That (N)ever Was"
I bought this issue in July 1997, I guess? Put Slackware from a magazine on 26 floppies or similar that month, found the command-line too difficult, bought Red Hat Linux 5.1 or 5.2 a couple of months after that about the same time I discovered Slashdot. Been a member ever since.
Where you located? If in Ontario, check out teksavvy or start.ca. Also check out your provider, a lot of them recently have been offering unlimited for an extra $10-30 a month depending if you have stuff bundled with them or not.
Actually, TekSavvy should be available throughout Canada at this point. Definitely recommended, they know their poop and have built a solid reputation on great customer service.
Also South Surrey/White Rock - just last week got to challenge and decline Telus Mobility's $1.50 US roaming charge ('Welcome to the USA!') while on the way to my GF's place.
Not at all. Disagreements happen, it's just that they're (the disagreements, that is, not the users) usually not permitted to cross the line into meaningless vitriol for the sake of it.
That's interesting. The case could be made that MetaFilter is to liberal/progressive politics what Slashdot is to tech -- it fosters lively, informed discussions on any number of topics. I tend to lurk on both sites these days, but I will say that the active moderation over there has generally made a _much_ more civilised site than anything Slashdot could claim nowadays.
Note: I am specifically not really talking about MeTa's cash cow, the Ask MeFi section, but rather the main site itself.
This sounds to my [admittedly uneducated] ears just like the yellow light of death issues affecting the PS3, particularly the launch models. Same issue, more or less; the PS3 gets cooked when the lead-free solder cracks and allows the GPU to physically separate from the board.
[I am sad, I have a launch model that's been taken in twice for reflowing; it's now failed a third time, so no more]
I did have a 2011 mbp as well, but a 13" without the discrete graphics that I've since passed to my girlfriend. I reckon the next revision of the retina MBP will likely remove discrete cards altogether. =(
I second this, I have one myself for the 15" from last year. Tremendous product, and if you're careful about washing and drying it as needed, you will have no regrets that the matte option no longer exists, as the protector is just that good.
Sorry, I forgot to sign in.
I'm sitting in a free entrepreneurship lecture in Toronto, Ontario offered by MaRS Discovery District.
Available here: http://marsdd.com/
I agree with others here: do it, you'll need it.
The course's lectures are free and archived, so there's no cost involved, just the time needed to watch and learn.
=)
Thanks, cunt.
Couple of observations:
- Apple reset the number of views in that thread about 6 months ago. Plenty of discussion about this in the thread itself. So 367k views really only means, '367k views since whenever it was reset'
- The atrocious customer service many of the complainants on the thread received coincided with the arrival and brief stay of John Browett, a British national and former head of Dixons, a particularly terrible UK computer / consumer electronics chain. Browett on arrival at Apple immediately started implementing a number of changes that reduced morale and positively fucked the chain's plummeting reputation for customer service. He sucked so badly, that he was summarily fired at the end of October along with Scott Forstall: http://www.cultofmac.com/198726/why-scott-forstall-and-john-browett-got-fired-from-apple-today/
- Apple quietly took out the LG screen (part number 661-6529) from their supplies of replacement displays sometime in late summer / early fall. The only replacements you can get from Apple now are Samsung parts (661-7171). I confirmed this myself with an Apple authorised 3rd-party supplier as I did not trust Apple to be honest about their supply situation after they fobbed me off initially with a 2nd LG display that developed IR.
- However, their plants in Shanghai are still assembling retinas with the LG screen (see thread for confirmation of this) - why, I don't know; maybe they have supplies to use up.
I have one as well, and the original screen was an LG (purchased a week after they launched the computer, but not delivered for another month). I heard about this defect in the above-mentioned thread about two weeks after launch, but didn't notice anything for about 6 weeks after receiving it. Then the trouble started.
Exchanged for another screen - except it was another LG. Which promptly developed image retention after two weeks. This time, Apple Store 'geniuses' made out with a bullshit test that it was 'normal' and 'expected' - to which I pointed out that the Samsung equivalents had no such 'normal' ghosting at all.
Fought with the fuckers for 3 weeks. Finally, I had to threaten to return it for a full refund off my credit card when they finally gave in. I kept pointing out that a laptop costing over $3k Cdn has no business exhibiting such behaviour, and that otherwise I actually was very happy with the computer besides this one issue. They finally replaced it with a Samsung-manufactured screen - and this was back in September; totally flawless screen since the final replacement.
The clincher? You just have to ask them if they would be happy with an expensive machine that showed this shitty display themselves.
The computer itself is really a dream to use now. And yes, it's the best purchase I've ever made as well. Despite all the bullshit to get there.
Which bankers? They're not on Wall Street.
PBS disagrees.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/untouchables/
You must suck with reading comprehension. Honestly, some people...
Walking a parent through steps over the phone can be a frustrating experience. Even after moving my father to a Mac I still found myself having to deal with his issues for the first couple of months on a near-daily basis. Using TeamViewer helped this immeasurably. Free for personal use.
It's not the being commercially successful - pretty sure more people would grant Ubuntu leeway if they were - but their aspirations to commercial success are taking them down ultimately the wrong path.
OK, us retina MacBook Pro buyers have been struggling for a couple of months now with the fact that Apple used two suppliers, LG and Samsung, to provide the screens for the rMBP. Unfortunately, the LG screens develop image retention or ghosting fairly quickly after purchase, and Apple has been all over the map in either replacing or refusing to replace these defective screens.
Us being niche in comparison, I suspect we won't see anything like that letter ourselves.
Apple discussions thread (you will need an Apple ID to access this, I think):
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4034848
MacRumors
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1424416
Apple Insider (post launch day)
http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/06/25/retina_display_image_retention_reported_by_new_macbook_pro_owners.html
My first computer was a Mac LC 22 years ago. In the intervening time, I went to Windows as work required it, then I discovered Linux in 1997. Went to Red Hat 5.1, then Mandrake a couple of years later, then finally in 2000 I went to Debian and stayed there 'til last year, when I gave up and bought a 13" MBP.
When Gnome 3 came out, I relegated the old Debian server to just file/media serving, switched the window manager to XFCE, and promptly ignored it. Where it remains, switched off.
After a while I just realised that I was just more productive on OS X without thinking I needed to become a developer on Linux / [your favourite distro here] first.
It's great that all the technically savvy and ideologically committed people have a place to go to and an OS to use, but any hopes of expanding beyond that died with OS X's second release.
Never stopped from the sounds of it.
... might be the price. Good luck, I guess.
The prez just won his second term
my thoughts exactly
I found Unity netbook from 10.10 to be acceptable after a bit of use, but the upgrade to Natty beta was enough for me to drop it in favour of just going back to Gnome 2. I'm also trying out Gnome 3, and both these 2 as well as KDE all feel like suboptimal blind stabs at some holy grail rather than fast and practical.
Might have to try out Enlightenment again, or xfce. i dunno.
Dear Mr Gaudrault,
Below is the text of my response to the CRTC.
I am cancelling my Bell dryloop DSL tonight, and moving to TekSavvy for the same, as a vote of confidence in your firm. I have had nothing but fantastic service from your staff, and I am looking forward to the change.
If you would like permission to reproduce this letter for your use, please consider this granted.
Kind regards
Massimo Savino
This is an unreasonable request on Bell's part, and I am saying this as a Bell Sympatico customer.
This request is an effective call for the CRTC to limit competition and the free flow of market capital, because reducing the terms of third-party providers to equal status of Bell itself will effectively mean no real difference in objective Internet service between Bell and other providers using Bell's lines -- which are at last count, paid for by those 3rd-party ISPs. Surely Bell should have no ability to dictate these unreasonable terms to those 3rd-party providers when they are paying for the service, no?
These pricing plans of Bell's were implemented on its own customers, previously on 'Unlimited' lines, about 18 months ago, with a correspondingly-high overage rates. In my case, they did this without informing me of the change, and billing my account.
This action is the last straw for me. I am going to move from Bell right now, actually.
I urge the CRTC not to accept this request.
Respectfully submitted,
Massimo Savino
[address redacted]
Hi everyone,
Ever since 2.6.27.x came out I have not been able to compile from source and have the internet connection work correctly at all.
Basically I try to take old source configs and run them in the new kernels, but I get the same result.
Even binary Ubuntu kernel builds fail to run internet connections correctly...
Apparently this item may be related to it:
http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fd6149d332973bafa50f03ddb0ea9513e67f4517
(regarding the reordering of TCP options... how do I fix it?)
Any advice very gratefully appreciated ...
M
People in legal cases.