It isn't a matter of defaults. I customize my desktop anyway, so I don't care that much about defaults. I'm talking features. openSUSE backports features, includes patches that don't make to upstream, and then develops features of their own.
Kubuntu's packages aren't just vanilla, they are often packaged poorly, and are extremely buggy.
What about hardware support? I keep hearing that the openSolaris kernel just frankly doesn't have many drivers. If I can't install it on my hardware, it isn't doing me any good.
Also, I'd really like to see some basic benchmarks between the kernels. People benchmark the BSD kernel against the Linux kernel on IO, networking, etc.
Someone likely could easily issue ZFS as patch directly for the kernel as opposed to in FUSE. The problem is that it would be illegal to use it a such because of the license. Sun has talked about making it all GPLv3 if Linux takes their kernel GPLv3 as well. Linux would gain native ZFS in their kernel, but Sun would gain every device driver from Linux.
The problem is that too many individuals that you can't even contact own individual copyrights in the Linux kernel. It isn't just going to up and change to GPLv3.
Someone asked me this question recently. And for the sixth time I answered with a laundry list of things I didn't like about it. Agian, I was modded Troll for stating I don't like Ubuntu/Kubuntu, and then people got all in a huff.
Like I always say, it is marketed at a certain target audience, and it isn't me.
I suggest that you try out a really good KDE desktop (Arch's KDEMod, Sabayon, openSUSE 11, etc) and the differences should be immediately apparent to you.
As far as whether or not the KDE packages are available in Nexenta, I'm not sure actually.
You still seem to miss the point. I suggested you shouldn't print out a textbook. You state that you need to draw reactions.
How do these two statements relate?
Either you're insisting you need to draw them directly on the textbook, or you're missing the point.
There is no need to print a 500 page textbook on paper (wasting ink and paper) just because you want to take notes on paper.
You can draw reactions in a notebook, while you keep an e-book on your computer just fine.
Conversely, many colleges and science programs ISSUE notebooks to their students. My wife just finished her biology degree (she took o-chem as well) and is trying to get into a PhD program at Creighton. My best friend is off to get his third science Masters (Atmospheric Science).
I don't believe my wife, or anyone in her class used a computer for o-chem, but she said it was pretty standard fair for most of her classes for people to take notes on the computer.
I can type much faster on PC that I can write on paper. I can revise on the PC, search on the PC, etc.
Apparently you've never used a full-fledged PDF editor. You can draw anything in a PDF. Aside from that, I'm confused by your statement.
You classes expect you to draw on the textbook and turn the textbook in? Given that many people want to resell their textbook, or buy a textbook, this in insipid. Furthermore, turning in a textbook is even more insipid. I highly doubt your teachers you demand you draw on the textbook, as opposed to note paper.
And given the huge bevy of scientific software out there, I would be shocked if you couldn't do chemistry annotations on the computer.
I thought Microsoft released a patent promise not to sue on any protocols they've released and/or opened up. Suing over the items they're opening up would basically violate the EU agreement. Microsoft wouldn't get anything out of the suit, and they'd end up paying massive (half a billion dollars last time) fines.
Microsoft isn't going to sue on these specific patents.
Why print an e-book? What a monumental waste of paper and ink.
Are you aware that you can read it just fine on the computer, and with the right software you can even annotate the PDF and take notes, right on your computer. Oh, and you can search within the PDF.
Try firing up the search engine on your printed pages.
No different that Windows mounting the drive again without doing chkdsk first. If you want to check for any data loss, you boot into Windows and run the chkdsk, and then shut Windows down cleanly. Then you don't need the --force command.
However, chkdsk isn't likely to help you much. NTFS isn't journaled and such. If there was data that didn't get written properly due to a dirty shutdown, at best then chkdsk will create lost files that likely won't help you much.
And the only lost potential data would be files being written when you shut down your box improperly. As a rule of thumb, I try not to hit the power button when saving crucial files.
Yes. I could have filed in small claims court. I'm not sure if I would have to go after State Farm or the agent individually. Honestly, I wasn't as concerned with the money (I bought a new car) as the principle. 15% of the claim didn't bankrupt me, but I didn't want to see this practice continue and affect others.
That depends. A normal ext4 partition can be mounted as an ext2 partition and read in Windows, like ext3 and ext2 partitions with the right software. However, if you mount an ext4 partition with extents support, then it can no longer be mounted as an ext2 partition, and then can't be read in Windows.
NTFS-3G volumes won't mount automatically if they were not unmounted cleanly before, however you can force the mount regardless. I believe you just need to use the --force switch.
What resolution is the video that you're playing back? Due to the memory restrictions on the XBox (unless you soldered on some more memory) it sometimes has issues with HD video playback, especially streamed over a network source. I usually just streamed SD content through XBMC. I stream all my HD stuff through my PS3.
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It isn't a matter of defaults. I customize my desktop anyway, so I don't care that much about defaults. I'm talking features. openSUSE backports features, includes patches that don't make to upstream, and then develops features of their own.
Kubuntu's packages aren't just vanilla, they are often packaged poorly, and are extremely buggy.
http://www.microsoft.com/interop/osp/default.mspx .NET is covered, so no, Microsoft has pledged publicly not to sue on those patents.
Drawing directly on the textbook, and then taking the time to erase it all is still pretty silly when you can just draw on a notepad.
What about hardware support? I keep hearing that the openSolaris kernel just frankly doesn't have many drivers. If I can't install it on my hardware, it isn't doing me any good.
Also, I'd really like to see some basic benchmarks between the kernels. People benchmark the BSD kernel against the Linux kernel on IO, networking, etc.
Show me some quantifiable numbers on openSolaris.
Someone likely could easily issue ZFS as patch directly for the kernel as opposed to in FUSE. The problem is that it would be illegal to use it a such because of the license. Sun has talked about making it all GPLv3 if Linux takes their kernel GPLv3 as well. Linux would gain native ZFS in their kernel, but Sun would gain every device driver from Linux.
The problem is that too many individuals that you can't even contact own individual copyrights in the Linux kernel. It isn't just going to up and change to GPLv3.
Someone asked me this question recently. And for the sixth time I answered with a laundry list of things I didn't like about it. Agian, I was modded Troll for stating I don't like Ubuntu/Kubuntu, and then people got all in a huff.
Like I always say, it is marketed at a certain target audience, and it isn't me.
I suggest that you try out a really good KDE desktop (Arch's KDEMod, Sabayon, openSUSE 11, etc) and the differences should be immediately apparent to you.
As far as whether or not the KDE packages are available in Nexenta, I'm not sure actually.
You still seem to miss the point. I suggested you shouldn't print out a textbook. You state that you need to draw reactions.
How do these two statements relate?
Either you're insisting you need to draw them directly on the textbook, or you're missing the point.
There is no need to print a 500 page textbook on paper (wasting ink and paper) just because you want to take notes on paper.
You can draw reactions in a notebook, while you keep an e-book on your computer just fine.
Conversely, many colleges and science programs ISSUE notebooks to their students. My wife just finished her biology degree (she took o-chem as well) and is trying to get into a PhD program at Creighton. My best friend is off to get his third science Masters (Atmospheric Science).
I don't believe my wife, or anyone in her class used a computer for o-chem, but she said it was pretty standard fair for most of her classes for people to take notes on the computer.
I can type much faster on PC that I can write on paper. I can revise on the PC, search on the PC, etc.
I'd try Nexenta, except I don't really want to use the Ubuntu repositories for my Linux packages. I'd prefer something with a good KDE desktop.
I'd consider it for a web-server box to test how the kernel handles I/O.
Apparently you've never used a full-fledged PDF editor. You can draw anything in a PDF. Aside from that, I'm confused by your statement.
You classes expect you to draw on the textbook and turn the textbook in? Given that many people want to resell their textbook, or buy a textbook, this in insipid. Furthermore, turning in a textbook is even more insipid. I highly doubt your teachers you demand you draw on the textbook, as opposed to note paper.
And given the huge bevy of scientific software out there, I would be shocked if you couldn't do chemistry annotations on the computer.
Where does Google's Lively fit into this?
I thought Microsoft released a patent promise not to sue on any protocols they've released and/or opened up. Suing over the items they're opening up would basically violate the EU agreement. Microsoft wouldn't get anything out of the suit, and they'd end up paying massive (half a billion dollars last time) fines.
Microsoft isn't going to sue on these specific patents.
I have so much respect for ISO standards these days.
Why print an e-book? What a monumental waste of paper and ink.
Are you aware that you can read it just fine on the computer, and with the right software you can even annotate the PDF and take notes, right on your computer. Oh, and you can search within the PDF.
Try firing up the search engine on your printed pages.
Actually most of the time I find the OSS software products I use are actually better than the commercial equivalents.
Notepad++ may be the best text editor I've ever used.
K3b is the single best burning app I've ever used.
Amarok is the single best media app I've ever used.
Etc, etc, etc.
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http://funroll-loops.info/
Paint flames on it, install Gentoo, and use --omg-optimized
I can't solder for crap.
I got a solderless modchip kit.
No different that Windows mounting the drive again without doing chkdsk first. If you want to check for any data loss, you boot into Windows and run the chkdsk, and then shut Windows down cleanly. Then you don't need the --force command.
However, chkdsk isn't likely to help you much. NTFS isn't journaled and such. If there was data that didn't get written properly due to a dirty shutdown, at best then chkdsk will create lost files that likely won't help you much.
And the only lost potential data would be files being written when you shut down your box improperly. As a rule of thumb, I try not to hit the power button when saving crucial files.
Yes. I could have filed in small claims court. I'm not sure if I would have to go after State Farm or the agent individually. Honestly, I wasn't as concerned with the money (I bought a new car) as the principle. 15% of the claim didn't bankrupt me, but I didn't want to see this practice continue and affect others.
http://www.unicam.state.ne.us/web/public/senators/bios/synowiecki
That depends. A normal ext4 partition can be mounted as an ext2 partition and read in Windows, like ext3 and ext2 partitions with the right software. However, if you mount an ext4 partition with extents support, then it can no longer be mounted as an ext2 partition, and then can't be read in Windows.
NTFS-3G volumes won't mount automatically if they were not unmounted cleanly before, however you can force the mount regardless. I believe you just need to use the --force switch.
What resolution is the video that you're playing back? Due to the memory restrictions on the XBox (unless you soldered on some more memory) it sometimes has issues with HD video playback, especially streamed over a network source. I usually just streamed SD content through XBMC. I stream all my HD stuff through my PS3.
It wasn't my insurance company. The company insured the guy who hit me, and they were State Farm.