I've just started a part time job at a UK Computer shop, and I'll be selling computers, cameras, TVs, printers, and so on. I consider myself to know a lot about computers, more then most people. I'm aiming to be a software engineer in a few years time. I enjoy it, and as far as I can tell, I'm good at it.
Yet whenever I walk into one of these stores myself, I assume the women don't know anything about computers, yet they might know a lot.
And I'm scared of people assuming the same of me when I work there, but I really don't want that to happen. I'm scared of being in this situation for the rest of my life, too, just because I'm a woman.
I google "ubuntu nvidia graphics", and this comes up: Unofficial Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) Starter Guide.
It comes down to:
1) Add universal repositories in Synaptic package manager.
2) Type this in in the terminal:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-common
sudo nvidia-glx-config enable...
Actually, it was all the nvidia things that were messing up my accelerated graphics. No 3d games worked at all. I've got a rubbish Intel build in graphics card. I had to fight yet another small war to get mine working, after installing all the nvidia things like you said and messing my computer up more. The intel graphics driver, installed as it was, didn't work either. I had to mess around even more.
After months of playing with it, giving up, and going back to it, I now have Neverwinter Nights linux version running perfectly on Kubuntu 6.10. Hurrah!
My Original reason for not getting an iPod was because they didnt play wmas - my whole library was in wma, this was two years ago when my knowledge of different music file types wasn't that great.
Then after that I refused to get an Ipod because, well, everyone has one, and it's nice to be a bit different, isn't it?
You can also buy single tunes from the store for like, 80p each and then you don't have to pay £15 a month, and you get to keep the songs if you uninstall napster.
It just adds to my point though; It's a bad service in itself.
I use a Creative Micro; I've refused to use an ipod of any kind since i knew what an mp3 player was.
I subscribed to Napster about 7 months ago. It cost me £15 a month for unlimited downloads off the napster service. I didn't even mind that when I unsubscribed, the music would become unplayable.
But, the whole thing was crap.
Problems that were microsoft's fault: The songs took at least 10 seconds to load on my mp3 player. Each. Especially annoying when I was flicking through songs to find one that I wanted to listen to.
Using windows media player with the service was rubbish; Various random errors when transfering the songs, popups asking me wether it could download licences off the internet (which didn't work) when I wanted to play a napster song, slow loading of the songs...
I had to upgrade Windows media player and two other components before it would even recognise my player.
Problems that were napster's fault: The napster program took ages to open, then it flickered around whilst loading new content off the web.
When I plugged in my mp3 player at any time to sync my files, the napster program used to crash. I had to sync through windows media player, and use windows media player, although it wasn't my default player at the time.
Customer service was depressing. There was a customer service forum, but any questions got replies like; 'Phone this number...' which wasn't very helpful.
And to unsubscribe to the service, you had to phone them. There was no online cancellation service.
The whole setup crashed, a lot. It just felt unstable, and unworked on. It felt like Microsoft had made a half assed attempt to work with a half assed service.
So for as long as Napster blame Microsoft, and for as long as Microsoft really don't seem to care, iTunes is going to be the better service.
In the end, I cancelled, reinstalled the previous firmware, switched to Debian, and now i use Gnomad and Nicotine ; )
You don't have to download them. You only have to download the player if you want to listen to their radio, which amongst other things plays what it thinks you will like based on your neighbours, and not just what you say that you liked. It also plays a radio based on what you've already played and similar artists. You can also play by tags, which arn't genres, even though they're mostly used for that purpose.
The other application is just a small plug in for a media player. It takes what you like and submits it. Then it makes charts based on your plays. It's more than just 'what you like and what you don't like'. Its statistics, and every nerd loves statistics.
Last.fm is so much more than just a recommendation service.
There is, you can do that, you just have to make sure that the caches submit correctly.
Otherwise, if a later one submits before an earlier one, the spam protection gets triggered and your earlier ones are lost.
A lot of people do it, use a plug in for one media player in their work them come home and use another plug in with another media player at home.
I've got a plug in for WMP on the windows half of my computer, and amaroK set up on my linux half. No problem. I did, at one point, have the plugins both set up for winamp and WMP simultaneously. No problems there, either.
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I've just started a part time job at a UK Computer shop, and I'll be selling computers, cameras, TVs, printers, and so on. I consider myself to know a lot about computers, more then most people. I'm aiming to be a software engineer in a few years time. I enjoy it, and as far as I can tell, I'm good at it.
Yet whenever I walk into one of these stores myself, I assume the women don't know anything about computers, yet they might know a lot.
And I'm scared of people assuming the same of me when I work there, but I really don't want that to happen. I'm scared of being in this situation for the rest of my life, too, just because I'm a woman.
After months of playing with it, giving up, and going back to it, I now have Neverwinter Nights linux version running perfectly on Kubuntu 6.10. Hurrah!
Then after that I refused to get an Ipod because, well, everyone has one, and it's nice to be a bit different, isn't it?
iPods are more expensive, too.
It just adds to my point though; It's a bad service in itself.
I subscribed to Napster about 7 months ago. It cost me £15 a month for unlimited downloads off the napster service. I didn't even mind that when I unsubscribed, the music would become unplayable.
But, the whole thing was crap.
Problems that were microsoft's fault: The songs took at least 10 seconds to load on my mp3 player. Each. Especially annoying when I was flicking through songs to find one that I wanted to listen to.
Using windows media player with the service was rubbish; Various random errors when transfering the songs, popups asking me wether it could download licences off the internet (which didn't work) when I wanted to play a napster song, slow loading of the songs...
I had to upgrade Windows media player and two other components before it would even recognise my player.
Problems that were napster's fault: The napster program took ages to open, then it flickered around whilst loading new content off the web.
When I plugged in my mp3 player at any time to sync my files, the napster program used to crash. I had to sync through windows media player, and use windows media player, although it wasn't my default player at the time.
Customer service was depressing. There was a customer service forum, but any questions got replies like; 'Phone this number...' which wasn't very helpful.
And to unsubscribe to the service, you had to phone them. There was no online cancellation service.
The whole setup crashed, a lot. It just felt unstable, and unworked on. It felt like Microsoft had made a half assed attempt to work with a half assed service.
So for as long as Napster blame Microsoft, and for as long as Microsoft really don't seem to care, iTunes is going to be the better service.
In the end, I cancelled, reinstalled the previous firmware, switched to Debian, and now i use Gnomad and Nicotine ; )
The other application is just a small plug in for a media player. It takes what you like and submits it. Then it makes charts based on your plays. It's more than just 'what you like and what you don't like'. Its statistics, and every nerd loves statistics.
Last.fm is so much more than just a recommendation service.
There is, you can do that, you just have to make sure that the caches submit correctly.
Otherwise, if a later one submits before an earlier one, the spam protection gets triggered and your earlier ones are lost.
A lot of people do it, use a plug in for one media player in their work them come home and use another plug in with another media player at home.
I've got a plug in for WMP on the windows half of my computer, and amaroK set up on my linux half. No problem. I did, at one point, have the plugins both set up for winamp and WMP simultaneously. No problems there, either.