And yet despite the fact low-VHF sucks for digital, my local PBS is going to be on channel 3. Wonderful, as I watch a lot of PBS and cannot receive their channel 3 digital signal, even with a roof antenna pointed directly at it. Every other station from that mountain is fine.
How new is this laptop of hers? If it was like mine and had Santa Rosa guts in it, then I had the exact same problem.
One cannot expect an operating system that came out in April to support hardware that came out in May out of the box.
I bought my laptop expecting this, and you'd better believe that just about everything did not work. (Video, sound, wireless, DVD burner, etc) The only thing that did work, thankfully, was the LAN port. I had to immediately upgrade the kernel, HAL, etc. I had to track down drivers for everything, and my sound finally started working correctly as recently as last week! (Previously, headphones would work, but would not mute the speakers)
While I agree with your overall point, the specific reasoning behind this issue must be taken into account. It's entirely possible that this is one thing that cannot be resolved without a new OS release.
Now let's just hope it doesn't take an additional 6 months for this to make its way into the Linux version. Flash Player 9 for Linux came out some months after Flash Player 9 for Windows/Mac did.
ANSWER SECTION: www.google.com. 604528 IN CNAME www.l.google.com. www.l.google.com. 267 IN A 64.233.167.104 www.l.google.com. 267 IN A 64.233.167.99 www.l.google.com. 267 IN A 64.233.167.147
I still don't see it. I'm seeing direct links back to Google. Are you sure your DNS is okay? Because mine doesn't redirect me to an OpenDNS server at all as far as I can tell.
I removed some semi-colons to get past the lameness filter. I also had to remove some other symbols and spaces. Let's see if it'll post now...
Those sure don't look like 208.69.34.231 to me... That said, perhaps you have some other way of exhibiting this behavior that I'm not familiar with. I'm not that into the DNS system.
I see the first few comments are all very negative about this game.
Yet I am 18 and greatly enjoy the game. It's got a fun storyline, a wider variety of Pokemon (the magic number is now 493), and at long last decent graphics.
And I know I'm not the only one. I moderate the Diamond/Pearl forum over at Bulbagarden, which is home primarily to a number of older fans, many of whom are older than I am. Say what you will, this game is not just for children. Just because there's no graphic violence and language in it, that doesn't mean it's not fun by a long shot.
That said, I don't own a copy of the English version yet (still playing with my Japanese import of Diamond), but I'll be getting it soon enough.
After the DTV transition, TV stations will only have channels 2-51 at their disposal.
Selected channels on 60-69 are to be used for public safety. The rest are being auctioned. For instance, channel 55 across the US is already being used by Qualcomm for their MediaFLO service.
This article doesn't even seem to be about that; it's about using empty channels on the TV band to deliver internet service. So if there's nothing on channel 30, for instance, in your area, then they want to provide internet on that frequency. (That's my understanding of the article, at least)
I've heard that before, but I'd like to see some kind of hybrid solution to come about in the future.
Perhaps have a Slot 1 card with the memory in it, and then have an additional Slot 2 card that has an extra 32MB of RAM in it as well as rumble and a tilt sensor (basically, a combination of three existing products) that can do the reverse of a Passcard 3 and allow the GBA games to be read from the Slot 1 card.
I don't know whether or not it's technically possible, but I can say that I would buy such a product if made available.
It's actually very uncomfortable for me. After a while using it with the M3 sticking out, my fingers begin to hurt whereas they do not with smaller cartridges in it.
Though I do understand where you're coming from with that.
Well, here's hoping Slashdot doesn't take down DCEmu today...
I think it's a good start, though I can't say I like all of the Slot 1 solutions yet. They still don't have a way to play games that need GBA mode, which is a bit of a deal breaker for me. The only way to play GB/GBC games on the DS is through a Slot 2 adapter with the Goomba emulator on it. (It's much easier to do that than to carry around my GBA SP with a ton of cartridges.
I myself have an M3 Adapter with a Passcard 3, which does the same thing that this does except it requires both a Slot 1 and Slot 2 cartridge. It takes standard SD cards but sticks out of my DS Lite a lot, though I'm probably going to get myself an M3 Lite soon which will require Micro SD, just like the one in the story does.
I will say, though, that this is a great way to show people what the DS is capable of doing. I use DS AIM fairly frequently, and DS2Key is great for war driving. MSN users will like BeUP, and there's all sorts of other applications for it, such as text writers, calculators (TI-85 emulator), and so on. Moonshell is an excellent audio player. That's not even mentioning all of the wonderful homebrew games, most of which I haven't played with much. Among my favorite are DSudoku, a clone of Text Twist, A Touch of War, and there's a Civ-like game whose name slips my mind at the moment. All are completely free and run well.
I hope that this particular release further encourages the DS homebrew community.
Your problems sound more like Gnome problems than Ubuntu problems; I should know, I didn't like Ubuntu on my first shot because I'm partial toward KDE (which I had going on Fedora). I made the switch to Kubuntu and haven't looked back.
It combines the wonderful Ubuntu codebase and DEB packaging system with the KDE interface. I certainly recommend you try it.
It merely means that the code and repos have been frozen in order to allow for anything that's broken to be fixed and made ready for a public, stable release.
Development continues anyway, just that the code for this release has been frozen except for bug fixes.
I just reinstalled Kubuntu 6.10 yesterday, and so this morning, seeing this article, I decided to install Democracy.
So far it looks pretty nice, but if I try to view any feeds, I get an error telling me that the PSM is not installed (despite the fact I did install that package) and then it freezes and I have to kill the process.
Looks promising, but I can't really do anything with it til I find out about this problem, and I don't know where to look.
I suppose this is why, in the past, I did fresh installs rather than upgrades. My upgrade of Dapper to Edgy (Kubuntu) was a nightmare, and is still not straightened out in full.
The first thing I did was to download the Alternate CD image, since I figured it would be better to not have to download it later in the day when I got home and my parents would need the bandwidth for their business stuff (Edgy was released on my 18th birthday).
Now, I had to use the apt-get method of updating, which produced more problems than I've ever had with apt. I had it fail out on me three times. First time was overnight, as it decided it wanted to download most of its stuff over the internet instead of using my CD. It failed to download one little 117kb package and thus completely stopped the upgrade. I continued it when I woke up. The anjunta package just killed the upgrade for some reason, and nothing would make it go, so I ended up getting into Adept and removing it. I then installed the packages that had downloaded and continued the update. It failed out again along the way, and I forget how I straightened that out or what was wrong.
So it was starting to get finicky due to the mismatched parts and whatnot, so once the update finished, at long last, I restarted the thing. To which I found a problem.
X server would not start.
It was the craziest thing! I had a problem similar to this with Dapper that turned out to have something to do with not liking the graphical splash screen that hid the bootup, so I tried booting without it. It dropped me at a command line, and I did what any person who knows even a little about Linux would do: I ran 'startx'.
Error: Xinit not found. (Not word for word, but I remember something about X failing)
What the hell? So, I figure, it's cool, it's an update, these things happen, though from the noise I'd heard about (K)Ubuntu, I wasn't expecting it. (I'm a former Fedora user) So I decide to hop onto Lynx to see if I can find any information. I keep getting 404 errors all over the place. Nothing will move. After about 15 minutes of this, I realized that, although my eth1 interface was up, it hadn't been configured properly!
sudo ifdown eth1 sudo ifup eth1
All resolved. I then went to my other computer to try and find a resolution to this problem. I searched some forums and found someone with a similar problem. The thread recommended installing some package that, when I went to apt-get it, I realized what the problem was.
Xorg-server had not installed.
Why did the upgrade even go through if it hadn't installed Xorg!? This made no sense. No sooner did I let Xorg install, then 'startx' worked and I was right into KDE. Which, I might add, had lost most of my preferences, such as appearance of windows and mouse behavior (I prefer double-click to single-click), and it seems to like hanging for a few seconds when I try to go to my auto-hiding menu on the right side of my screen.
Upon restarting it again, my network again failed to be configured for some reason, which is one of the exact problems I switched away from Fedora to get away from. KDE also made all my fonts a ton smaller and screwed with my desktop appearance again, which I have yet to bother trying to troubleshoot, as I think it's a more efficient use of my screen. The fonts also look much different (read--better) now, but for some reason, the numbers on KWifiManager's tray icon are extremely small and the top 1/3 or so is cut off.
I wish I could say I was pleased with Kubuntu Edgy, but all in all, my reaction is more of a "meh." I do like some things, like how XMMS doesn't scroll a whole page at a time when I scroll with my mouse wheel. I also like the newer kernel, which I'd been missing since I left Fedora, since 2.6.17 is the first kernel to have support for my FusionHDTV5-USB. I'm find it to be far easier to use on Kubuntu than it was in Fedora, mainly because Xine will actually install on Kubuntu, and not just complain abo
Then the obvious solution is to use something neutral, like PengCryption. Made by the most intelligent penguins of Antarctica, this form of encryption has a backdoor only penguins can exploit. FEAR THE PENGCRYPTION!
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And yet despite the fact low-VHF sucks for digital, my local PBS is going to be on channel 3. Wonderful, as I watch a lot of PBS and cannot receive their channel 3 digital signal, even with a roof antenna pointed directly at it. Every other station from that mountain is fine.
Companies. You have your personal phone, plus a phone the company pays for so you don't use your own personal minutes for company business.
How new is this laptop of hers? If it was like mine and had Santa Rosa guts in it, then I had the exact same problem.
One cannot expect an operating system that came out in April to support hardware that came out in May out of the box.
I bought my laptop expecting this, and you'd better believe that just about everything did not work. (Video, sound, wireless, DVD burner, etc) The only thing that did work, thankfully, was the LAN port. I had to immediately upgrade the kernel, HAL, etc. I had to track down drivers for everything, and my sound finally started working correctly as recently as last week! (Previously, headphones would work, but would not mute the speakers)
While I agree with your overall point, the specific reasoning behind this issue must be taken into account. It's entirely possible that this is one thing that cannot be resolved without a new OS release.
Now let's just hope it doesn't take an additional 6 months for this to make its way into the Linux version. Flash Player 9 for Linux came out some months after Flash Player 9 for Windows/Mac did.
Ah! There it is. I left out the www as I'm not in the habit of putting it. It slipped by me, sorry.
That is rather disquieting to note. I'll have to keep an eye on this one.
Or, maybe if you read the article you linked me to, you'd find out that I'm not lying.
From the forum post linked:
"We're going to fix this ASAP. This happens if you have shortcuts enabled in your account."
I have that feature disabled. I just checked my settings at OpenDNS.
I tried both. Both went straight to Google's IPs.
DiG 9.3.4 @208.67.222.222 www.google.com
(1 server found)
global options: printcmd
Got answer:
HEADER opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 39034
flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
QUESTION SECTION:
www.google.com. IN A
ANSWER SECTION:
www.google.com. 604528 IN CNAME www.l.google.com.
www.l.google.com. 267 IN A 64.233.167.104
www.l.google.com. 267 IN A 64.233.167.99
www.l.google.com. 267 IN A 64.233.167.147
Query time: 79 msec
SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
WHEN: Thu May 24 14:36:16 2007
MSG SIZE rcvd: 100
---
I still don't see it. I'm seeing direct links back to Google. Are you sure your DNS is okay? Because mine doesn't redirect me to an OpenDNS server at all as far as I can tell.
I removed some semi-colons to get past the lameness filter. I also had to remove some other symbols and spaces. Let's see if it'll post now...
I did an nslookup of Google.com and did not get that address.
The DNS server is of course my router, which passes it on from there to my internal DNS server which is then routed out to OpenDNS.
trip@trip-laptop:~$ nslookup google.com
Server: 192.168.11.1
Address: 192.168.11.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 72.14.207.99
Name: google.com
Address: 64.233.167.99
Name: google.com
Address: 64.233.187.99
Those sure don't look like 208.69.34.231 to me... That said, perhaps you have some other way of exhibiting this behavior that I'm not familiar with. I'm not that into the DNS system.
OpenDNS is intercepting Google queries? Where did you get that from? I'm using OpenDNS and have no such trouble.
I see the first few comments are all very negative about this game.
Yet I am 18 and greatly enjoy the game. It's got a fun storyline, a wider variety of Pokemon (the magic number is now 493), and at long last decent graphics.
And I know I'm not the only one. I moderate the Diamond/Pearl forum over at Bulbagarden, which is home primarily to a number of older fans, many of whom are older than I am. Say what you will, this game is not just for children. Just because there's no graphic violence and language in it, that doesn't mean it's not fun by a long shot.
That said, I don't own a copy of the English version yet (still playing with my Japanese import of Diamond), but I'll be getting it soon enough.
- Trip
After the DTV transition, TV stations will only have channels 2-51 at their disposal.
Selected channels on 60-69 are to be used for public safety. The rest are being auctioned. For instance, channel 55 across the US is already being used by Qualcomm for their MediaFLO service.
This article doesn't even seem to be about that; it's about using empty channels on the TV band to deliver internet service. So if there's nothing on channel 30, for instance, in your area, then they want to provide internet on that frequency. (That's my understanding of the article, at least)
I've heard that before, but I'd like to see some kind of hybrid solution to come about in the future.
Perhaps have a Slot 1 card with the memory in it, and then have an additional Slot 2 card that has an extra 32MB of RAM in it as well as rumble and a tilt sensor (basically, a combination of three existing products) that can do the reverse of a Passcard 3 and allow the GBA games to be read from the Slot 1 card.
I don't know whether or not it's technically possible, but I can say that I would buy such a product if made available.
It's actually very uncomfortable for me. After a while using it with the M3 sticking out, my fingers begin to hurt whereas they do not with smaller cartridges in it.
Though I do understand where you're coming from with that.
Well, here's hoping Slashdot doesn't take down DCEmu today...
I think it's a good start, though I can't say I like all of the Slot 1 solutions yet. They still don't have a way to play games that need GBA mode, which is a bit of a deal breaker for me. The only way to play GB/GBC games on the DS is through a Slot 2 adapter with the Goomba emulator on it. (It's much easier to do that than to carry around my GBA SP with a ton of cartridges.
I myself have an M3 Adapter with a Passcard 3, which does the same thing that this does except it requires both a Slot 1 and Slot 2 cartridge. It takes standard SD cards but sticks out of my DS Lite a lot, though I'm probably going to get myself an M3 Lite soon which will require Micro SD, just like the one in the story does.
I will say, though, that this is a great way to show people what the DS is capable of doing. I use DS AIM fairly frequently, and DS2Key is great for war driving. MSN users will like BeUP, and there's all sorts of other applications for it, such as text writers, calculators (TI-85 emulator), and so on. Moonshell is an excellent audio player. That's not even mentioning all of the wonderful homebrew games, most of which I haven't played with much. Among my favorite are DSudoku, a clone of Text Twist, A Touch of War, and there's a Civ-like game whose name slips my mind at the moment. All are completely free and run well.
I hope that this particular release further encourages the DS homebrew community.
Your problems sound more like Gnome problems than Ubuntu problems; I should know, I didn't like Ubuntu on my first shot because I'm partial toward KDE (which I had going on Fedora). I made the switch to Kubuntu and haven't looked back.
It combines the wonderful Ubuntu codebase and DEB packaging system with the KDE interface. I certainly recommend you try it.
It merely means that the code and repos have been frozen in order to allow for anything that's broken to be fixed and made ready for a public, stable release.
Development continues anyway, just that the code for this release has been frozen except for bug fixes.
At least, that's my understanding of it.
You'll know you're in trouble when you turn on the news...
"...and both rovers are now bricked."
Didn't the instruction manual say never to do updates over the wireless connection?
=P
Mostly correct, but not quite. Such stations do not "power up" at night, they merely do not power down. The atmosphere does the work for them.
KDKA is 50 kW ND Unlimited station, meaning it broadcasts at 50,000 watts, non-directional, 24-hours a day.
I just reinstalled Kubuntu 6.10 yesterday, and so this morning, seeing this article, I decided to install Democracy.
So far it looks pretty nice, but if I try to view any feeds, I get an error telling me that the PSM is not installed (despite the fact I did install that package) and then it freezes and I have to kill the process.
Looks promising, but I can't really do anything with it til I find out about this problem, and I don't know where to look.
Many even regulate against you erecting a TV antenna.
If you're in the US, go to www.fcc.gov and search "OTARD." Homeowners associations cannot ban the erection of TV antennas.
I suppose this is why, in the past, I did fresh installs rather than upgrades. My upgrade of Dapper to Edgy (Kubuntu) was a nightmare, and is still not straightened out in full.
The first thing I did was to download the Alternate CD image, since I figured it would be better to not have to download it later in the day when I got home and my parents would need the bandwidth for their business stuff (Edgy was released on my 18th birthday).
Now, I had to use the apt-get method of updating, which produced more problems than I've ever had with apt. I had it fail out on me three times. First time was overnight, as it decided it wanted to download most of its stuff over the internet instead of using my CD. It failed to download one little 117kb package and thus completely stopped the upgrade. I continued it when I woke up. The anjunta package just killed the upgrade for some reason, and nothing would make it go, so I ended up getting into Adept and removing it. I then installed the packages that had downloaded and continued the update. It failed out again along the way, and I forget how I straightened that out or what was wrong.
So it was starting to get finicky due to the mismatched parts and whatnot, so once the update finished, at long last, I restarted the thing. To which I found a problem.
X server would not start.
It was the craziest thing! I had a problem similar to this with Dapper that turned out to have something to do with not liking the graphical splash screen that hid the bootup, so I tried booting without it. It dropped me at a command line, and I did what any person who knows even a little about Linux would do: I ran 'startx'.
Error: Xinit not found.
(Not word for word, but I remember something about X failing)
What the hell? So, I figure, it's cool, it's an update, these things happen, though from the noise I'd heard about (K)Ubuntu, I wasn't expecting it. (I'm a former Fedora user) So I decide to hop onto Lynx to see if I can find any information. I keep getting 404 errors all over the place. Nothing will move. After about 15 minutes of this, I realized that, although my eth1 interface was up, it hadn't been configured properly!
sudo ifdown eth1
sudo ifup eth1
All resolved. I then went to my other computer to try and find a resolution to this problem. I searched some forums and found someone with a similar problem. The thread recommended installing some package that, when I went to apt-get it, I realized what the problem was.
Xorg-server had not installed.
Why did the upgrade even go through if it hadn't installed Xorg!? This made no sense. No sooner did I let Xorg install, then 'startx' worked and I was right into KDE. Which, I might add, had lost most of my preferences, such as appearance of windows and mouse behavior (I prefer double-click to single-click), and it seems to like hanging for a few seconds when I try to go to my auto-hiding menu on the right side of my screen.
Upon restarting it again, my network again failed to be configured for some reason, which is one of the exact problems I switched away from Fedora to get away from. KDE also made all my fonts a ton smaller and screwed with my desktop appearance again, which I have yet to bother trying to troubleshoot, as I think it's a more efficient use of my screen. The fonts also look much different (read--better) now, but for some reason, the numbers on KWifiManager's tray icon are extremely small and the top 1/3 or so is cut off.
I wish I could say I was pleased with Kubuntu Edgy, but all in all, my reaction is more of a "meh." I do like some things, like how XMMS doesn't scroll a whole page at a time when I scroll with my mouse wheel. I also like the newer kernel, which I'd been missing since I left Fedora, since 2.6.17 is the first kernel to have support for my FusionHDTV5-USB. I'm find it to be far easier to use on Kubuntu than it was in Fedora, mainly because Xine will actually install on Kubuntu, and not just complain abo
Then the obvious solution is to use something neutral, like PengCryption. Made by the most intelligent penguins of Antarctica, this form of encryption has a backdoor only penguins can exploit. FEAR THE PENGCRYPTION!
The summary did not say it was British.
.co.uk.
The site is not at
How was anyone who's not familiar with the site supposed to know?
Note that the digital tuner that's included is for DVB, not American ATSC. I wish this had been specified.