Yes.. it does seem that Dell is at least paying lip service to Ubuntu/Linux, but just *try* to find the few systems that Dell has deemed to have Ubuntu installed on.. Not easy at all.. And when you do stumble upon the page, they try to scare you off by insinuating that you won't be getting Windows if you buy a system from the following pages.. Oh yeah, they're *really* supporting Linux.. I wanted a nice Core2Duo laptop with Ubuntu on it.. The only ones they preinstall Ubuntu on are the Inspiron/XPS systems.. I wanted a corporate system, ie: Latitude or Vostro system with it... Solly Cholly, only these few systems will we offend the great M$ on.. So I checked out the Dell Outlet, found a VERY nice Vostro 1400 with most everything I wanted, for $519, and proceeded to wipe Microsoft Yawn (also known as Vista) off it, and installed Ubuntu, which was a piece of cake.. But, since it came with Windows, MS gets to claim it as one of the hundreds of thousands of copies of Vista they've shipped.. Thanks Dell.. Great machines, but you don't seem to have the balls to stand up to M$...
I bought a new car in May, it came with built-in XM, am just about to the end of the 3 mon free trial.. I gotta STRONG feeling the XM capability is going to be unused in the near future.. I've gotten pestered by XM starting about two weeks after I bought the car, at the time I told them I'd wait till closer to the end of the free trial... Now, the last one I told him to STFU and get off my phone.. I'll be damned if I'm gonna pay $15/mo to listen more of the "male enhancement" ads that terrestrial radio seems to love... Thank God that the radio has MP3/CD capability..
The way I read this, is that its not that they "don't support Linux", but they seem to be actively sabataging it.. Hope Reddit/Digg/Slashdot chews them up and spits them out....
The wife and I bought two new Hyundai Accents which came with XM and an Mp3/CD player.. Since we're still on the 3 mo freebie intro period, I've been listening to XM, and frankly, I'm not impressed.. XM called us a month into the 3 mo intro, and tried to sell us on signing up.. I told them I *might* after I do the 3 mo eval.. That 3 mo time is coming right up, and I'm gonna stick to the over 10 hrs of *MY* music on an MP3 cd.. XM can go bankrupt for all I care...
Given this hypothetical person who has no clue on how to download and burn something... Do you really think he's magically gonna have a clue on how to install Ubuntu?????
So.. One thing that is NOT clear at all.. Is this fix going to be rolled out to ALL AVG users, or just the NZ/Australians who brought this up? If it was a stupid design flaw by AVG, in Australia, its STUPID here in the US too... I read pretty much of the threads in the article, and this tiny bit of info never was made clear...
>>> The and Update system in AVG 8.0 is vastly improved.
Excuse me.. Did you just say that update system is vastly improved??? I'd sure like some of what you're smoking.. As far as I'm concerned, the update system in 7.x was nice, quiet, worked fine on both permanently connected desktops AND periodically connected laptops.. This new system, on a laptop used only with wifi, and connected to a access point requiring a login, the updater immediately tries to update, then fails, and when the laptop is finally on the net, it appears to require a manual retry for the update. Have looked thru the programs config and see no way to avoid this. The old version would quietly retry and the only thing you saw was a little non-modal dialog box that had an OK button, but would timeout if you didnt click it.. THAT was a good update system IMO!!
Naggy isn't the word!!.. I used to love the quiet unobtrusive daily updates that the 7-series version had... No more.. This blasted 8-series version is a real pest on its daily update.. It pops up several dialog boxes each requiring an ok before it finally updates.. Plus if you run it on a laptop thats only used for wifi and you're on an access point that requires a login before you're connected (think ATT/Starbucks), the stupid updater *tries* to connect for the update, then "fails", as far as I can see, to get that daily update, I have to manually re-run the update, apparently because this bloated pig can't figure out that the internet wasn't there a min ago, but IS now, and automatically retry.. Which 7.X did quite nicely, thank you..
Back in my early naive days, I signed up with GoDaddy for several domains. When I began hearing all the hoopla about GoDaddy, I yanked my domains from them (was a bit of work.. They don't want to make it easy for you to leave...), and moved them to 1and1.com. Only $6/yr and MUCH better ethics on their part...
yep... DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke) FTW!!!
I just DOD-wiped about 75 old 10-20-40GB drives that we're gonna be excessing. It took me a bit over two weeks.. You bet your bippy I didnt sit there and watch them wipe...
Thats why I use Windiz instead.. You just turn off automatic updates, and set yourself a reminder in Thunderbird to remind you every month to login as admin (you DO run as a limited user, I hope!) and visit Windiz update, and get ONLY the updates you approve.. Though, I gotta funny feeling MS will eventually pull the same b.s. on Windiz they pulled on Autopatcher..
Reading this made me check my eBay sales records.. I just sold one video card in the last week, sort of testing the eBay waters so to speak, having sold nada since all the new idiocy was announced by feebay.. On a 15.88 final sale price, I was charged a Final value fee by feebay of $1.39, and a previous transaction which sold for $15.50, in 2006, had an FVF of $0.81, for a nearly 60% increase... That's not including the PayPal fee, listing fee... I'm so through with feeBay... Hope they choke to death...
I used to sell refurbed computers/laptops on ebay. I described them endlessly, and in the end, I only accepted Postal MO and cashier checks, no PayPal on those transactions, as the units were As-Is. I did give a 14-day DOA/money back warantee on them, and only had to refund one system that appeared to have gotten jiggled in shipping, and just wouldnt boot..
The buyer shipped the system back and I refunded his $$.. No sweat.. But PayPal doesnt care what YOUR terms of service are, they refund, often without you even communicating with the buyer on the problem.. I used PP for small stuff and it is truely convienient, until you get zinged by them... Fortuantly, in my time with eBay/PP I never got zinged...
The best thing Google could do right now, is start up an auction venue, like eBay *used* to be, and I'd bet it would take off like a scalded rabbit. With all the idiotic things ePal/PayBay are doing, which are royally pissing off their long time sellers, who by the way ARE eBay's customers, NOT the buyers eBay seems to be courting, I expect ANY alternative to feeBay started by Google would be flocked to by all the angry sellers leaving eBay looking for alternatives.. I've been a small eBay seller since 1998, and I've given up eBay due to the fact that I will now be REQUIRED to accept PayPal on everything I sell in used computer equipment,despite the fact I have 100% feedback.. Just AINT gonna happen... I for one, would sign up with a Google auctions in a heartbeat, were they to do it.. And of course, where the sellers go, the buyers will follow... hopefully leaving feeBay talking to themselves....
nope.. you got it backwards.. Inspirons are the consumer class laptops and Latitudes are the business class... Take my word for it, I support over 200 Dell Optiplex and Latitude systems at work....
I guess what this means is if Phoenix noticed a spinning cube a few hundred meters away that said "Eat At Joe's", NASA would frantically get a rover mission ready to launch to check that out....
(hehehe)
Where might this area be? Since I actually live in Las Vegas (yes.. people actually DO *live* in Las Vegas...), I'd love to check it out as its built.. yes, I know, colos are pretty drab looking buildings usually.. I see what seems to be one over on Sahara between Nellis and Lamb, or at least it has a big "Level 3" sign on the side...
Doctorow's daughter with Alice Taylor, Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow, was born on 3 February 2008. Yikes!! He should be taken out and shot at sunrise for naming his offspring a moniker like that.....
But see, here's the beauty of them doing all these changes all at one time: They completely and utterly piss off a LARGE percentage of their customers, who will like me (eBay since 1998) cancel our accounts and start looking for an alternate venue (YES! eBay IS a venue.. as they keep telling us!).. Shouldnt take too long for one of the other venues to start picking up the refugees from eBay, and who knows, eBay may get their teeth kicked in.. couldnt happen to a nicer bunch of suits...
not that they'll care one little bit about my protest/boycott - there are way too many stupid sheep in the world who'll just accept ebay/paypal's "rules" without question and without even thinking about it. I wouldnt count on that.. The changes that are in the works at eBay/PayPal are so onerous, that I'll bet a vast majority of small sellers will pack up and leave.. I've been on eBay since about a year or so after it started, and I have amassed a whole 189 feedbacks during that time, ie: I'm a VERY small seller, and I sell 99% in the catagories that will require PayPal and the 21 day hold on my $$$.. This is despite the fact that I have 100% feedback on all my sales.. I sell used electronic equipment, and have never had a problem.. I have four friends who also sell in the same catagory, and we're all out of there... Multiply us 4 by whatever number you want, and hopefully, enough of us will give the morons who manage eBay a kick in the shins.. I for one, miss the old eBay...
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Now... if we can just get Broadcomm to do the same.....
Yes.. it does seem that Dell is at least paying lip service to Ubuntu/Linux, but just *try* to find the few systems that Dell has deemed to have Ubuntu installed on.. Not easy at all.. And when you do stumble upon the page, they try to scare you off by insinuating that you won't be getting Windows if you buy a system from the following pages.. Oh yeah, they're *really* supporting Linux.. I wanted a nice Core2Duo laptop with Ubuntu on it.. The only ones they preinstall Ubuntu on are the Inspiron/XPS systems.. I wanted a corporate system, ie: Latitude or Vostro system with it... Solly Cholly, only these few systems will we offend the great M$ on.. So I checked out the Dell Outlet, found a VERY nice Vostro 1400 with most everything I wanted, for $519, and proceeded to wipe Microsoft Yawn (also known as Vista) off it, and installed Ubuntu, which was a piece of cake.. But, since it came with Windows, MS gets to claim it as one of the hundreds of thousands of copies of Vista they've shipped..
Thanks Dell.. Great machines, but you don't seem to have the balls to stand up to M$...
I bought a new car in May, it came with built-in XM, am just about to the end of the 3 mon free trial.. I gotta STRONG feeling the XM capability is going to be unused in the near future.. I've gotten pestered by XM starting about two weeks after I bought the car, at the time I told them I'd wait till closer to the end of the free trial... Now, the last one I told him to STFU and get off my phone.. I'll be damned if I'm gonna pay $15/mo to listen more of the "male enhancement" ads that terrestrial radio seems to love... Thank God that the radio has MP3/CD capability..
The way I read this, is that its not that they "don't support Linux", but they seem to be actively sabataging it.. Hope Reddit/Digg/Slashdot chews them up and spits them out....
The wife and I bought two new Hyundai Accents which came with XM and an Mp3/CD player.. Since we're still on the 3 mo freebie intro period, I've been listening to XM, and frankly, I'm not impressed.. XM called us a month into the 3 mo intro, and tried to sell us on signing up.. I told them I *might* after I do the 3 mo eval.. That 3 mo time is coming right up, and I'm gonna stick to the over 10 hrs of *MY* music on an MP3 cd.. XM can go bankrupt for all I care...
Given this hypothetical person who has no clue on how to download and burn something... Do you really think he's magically gonna have a clue on how to install Ubuntu?????
So.. One thing that is NOT clear at all.. Is this fix going to be rolled out to ALL AVG users, or just the NZ/Australians who brought this up? If it was a stupid design flaw by AVG, in Australia, its STUPID here in the US too... I read pretty much of the threads in the article, and this tiny bit of info never was made clear...
>>> The and Update system in AVG 8.0 is vastly improved.
Excuse me.. Did you just say that update system is
vastly improved??? I'd sure like some of what you're smoking.. As far as I'm concerned, the update system in 7.x was nice, quiet, worked fine on both permanently connected desktops AND periodically connected laptops.. This new system, on a laptop used only with wifi, and connected to a access point requiring a login, the updater immediately tries to update, then fails, and when the laptop is finally on the net, it appears to require a manual retry for the update. Have looked thru the programs config and see no way to avoid this. The old version would quietly retry and the only thing you saw was a little non-modal dialog box that had an OK button, but would timeout if you didnt click it.. THAT was a good update system IMO!!
Naggy isn't the word!!.. I used to love the quiet unobtrusive daily updates that the 7-series version had... No more.. This blasted 8-series version is a real pest on its daily update.. It pops up several dialog boxes each requiring an ok before it finally updates.. Plus if you run it on a laptop thats only used for wifi and you're on an access point that requires a login before you're connected (think ATT/Starbucks), the stupid updater *tries* to connect for the update, then "fails", as far as I can see, to get that daily update, I have to manually re-run the update, apparently because this bloated pig can't figure out that the internet wasn't there a min ago, but IS now, and automatically retry.. Which 7.X did quite nicely, thank you..
1and1.com FTW!!
Back in my early naive days, I signed up with GoDaddy for several domains. When I began hearing all the hoopla about GoDaddy, I yanked my domains from them (was a bit of work.. They don't want to make it easy for you to leave...), and moved them to 1and1.com. Only $6/yr and MUCH better ethics on their part...
Never even knew there WAS such a thing.. I've always used Foxmarks with FF.. its really a great add-in...
yep... DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke) FTW!!! I just DOD-wiped about 75 old 10-20-40GB drives that we're gonna be excessing. It took me a bit over two weeks.. You bet your bippy I didnt sit there and watch them wipe...
Thats why I use Windiz instead.. You just turn off automatic updates, and set yourself a reminder in Thunderbird to remind you every month to login as admin (you DO run as a limited user, I hope!) and visit Windiz update, and get ONLY the updates you approve.. Though, I gotta funny feeling MS will eventually pull the same b.s. on Windiz they pulled on Autopatcher..
Reading this made me check my eBay sales records.. I just sold one video card in the last week, sort of testing the eBay waters so to speak, having sold nada since all the new idiocy was announced by feebay.. On a 15.88 final sale price, I was charged a Final value fee by feebay of $1.39, and a previous transaction which sold for $15.50, in 2006, had an FVF of $0.81, for a nearly 60% increase... That's not including the PayPal fee, listing fee... I'm so through with feeBay... Hope they choke to death...
I used to sell refurbed computers/laptops on ebay. I described them endlessly, and in the end, I only accepted Postal MO and cashier checks, no PayPal on those transactions, as the units were As-Is. I did give a 14-day DOA/money back warantee on them, and only had to refund one system that appeared to have gotten jiggled in shipping, and just wouldnt boot.. The buyer shipped the system back and I refunded his $$.. No sweat.. But PayPal doesnt care what YOUR terms of service are, they refund, often without you even communicating with the buyer on the problem.. I used PP for small stuff and it is truely convienient, until you get zinged by them... Fortuantly, in my time with eBay/PP I never got zinged...
The best thing Google could do right now, is start up an auction venue, like eBay *used* to be, and I'd bet it would take off like a scalded rabbit. With all the idiotic things ePal/PayBay are doing, which are royally pissing off their long time sellers, who by the way ARE eBay's customers, NOT the buyers eBay seems to be courting, I expect ANY alternative to feeBay started by Google would be flocked to by all the angry sellers leaving eBay looking for alternatives.. I've been a small eBay seller since 1998, and I've given up eBay due to the fact that I will now be REQUIRED to accept PayPal on everything I sell in used computer equipment,despite the fact I have 100% feedback.. Just AINT gonna happen... I for one, would sign up with a Google auctions in a heartbeat, were they to do it.. And of course, where the sellers go, the buyers will follow... hopefully leaving feeBay talking to themselves....
nope.. you got it backwards.. Inspirons are the consumer class laptops and Latitudes are the business class... Take my word for it, I support over 200 Dell Optiplex and Latitude systems at work....
I guess what this means is if Phoenix noticed a spinning cube a few hundred meters away that said "Eat At Joe's", NASA would frantically get a rover mission ready to launch to check that out.... (hehehe)
Cool!! thanks!
Where might this area be? Since I actually live in Las Vegas (yes.. people actually DO *live* in Las Vegas...), I'd love to check it out as its built.. yes, I know, colos are pretty drab looking buildings usually.. I see what seems to be one over on Sahara between Nellis and Lamb, or at least it has a big "Level 3" sign on the side...
Don't forget the UbuntuStudio derivative.. Been doing a RT kernel option since 7.04, to my knowledge..
But see, here's the beauty of them doing all these changes all at one time: They completely and utterly piss off a LARGE percentage of their customers, who will like me (eBay since 1998) cancel our accounts and start looking for an alternate venue (YES! eBay IS a venue.. as they keep telling us!).. Shouldnt take too long for one of the other venues to start picking up the refugees from eBay, and who knows, eBay may get their teeth kicked in.. couldnt happen to a nicer bunch of suits...