I dunno. Call me weird, but I like the xorg.conf file. My setup is complicated (two cards, two screens, Xinerama), and the ability to just backup the config file to ~ before upgrading my computer is incredibly helpful (I recently replaced the 80GB HDD that Linux was on with a 320G one, meaning I needed to reinstall). During the install, I setup/home as the old partition that was mounted to/home, and got all my files and configs automatically. Then I installed X and KDE, copied the xorg.conf file into/etc/X11/, and had my old setup back again. No configuration needed.
Same with the wireless - I'm unfortunate enough to have a Broadcom card, and the native driver requires firmware. So I have that under ~ too:)
Plus perhaps I'm lucky, but Linux mostly Just Works where my hardware is concerned - with the exception of the wireless, all the stuff in my workstation is supported in a standard Debian install.
Windows was another question. God what a nightmare. I had to pull the second nVidia card from the box otherwise I'd get a bluescreen on boot from XP. After pulling the card, I managed to install, only to discover that it was trying to authenticate against a nonexistent domain, so logging in was impossible. In the end, I installed Win2k, installed the nVidia drivers, then upgraded to XP. Then installed the sound card drivers and the wireless drivers. At least now it's working, I suppose. At least until I have to reinstall it. At which point the pain begins again.
WTH? Since when has 1.6GHz been needed for basic tasks like internet, email, and instant messaging?
Give it a lower power processor, and grab some battery life.
Or grab an old ultraportable off ebay. I had a thinkpad 240 for some years. It could hide under a sheet of A4, and had great battery life.
If there's a bug I want to be able to outsource the patch in the form of paying for it.
Um, you can. Pay a programmer to fix it:) There, you've outsourced the patch by paying for it. (Hell, that business model might work quite well for a programmer - how many people would be willing to pay £££ to have bug n fixed?)
A season of CSI (for example), is about 8GB. That means it costs £8 (I'm in the UK) to pirate it. A full season of CSI on DVD is £50 over here. Even paying per GB, it's still cheaper to pirate than buy.
A movie is another good example: often 700MB, this means you pay 70p to get a video without DRM, that you can copy anywhere.
Why should anybody care?:P I don't know how her name is spelled (and I'd be happier if I never heard of her, or indeed heard that inane crap her fans call music ever again.
...Call me dense if you wish, but why would you want to put a DHCP server onto a network that presumably already has DHCP? Best case scenario, your DHCP server is non-authoritative, and everything carries on.
Worst case, your DHCP server IS authoritative, and hands out broken settings to hosts trying to connect. Not pretty (I've seen it happen).
Just stick a NAT over the line, and run DHCP on the internal network.
The problem isn't in the mobile phone - it's in the infrastructure. Your mobile phone, when switched on, tries to make a connection to the strongest base tower it can 'see'. On the ground, in a car, etc this isn't a problem - the car isn't moving too fast, and there's probably buildings, trees, etc blocking signals from lots of towers.
Up in an aircraft, it's a very different situation - your phone can see plenty of different towers, and it'll register with all of them. The plane is moving pretty quickly too, so your phone is going to be registering with plenty of towers as time goes by. This creates a huge strain on the mobile infrastructure, compared to normal useage.
What the microcell in the aircraft will do, is give mobile phones a very local 'tower' to register with, and stay registered with. No strain.
And those standards went through, I'd guess, on the non-fasttrack route? Like the SQL standard? That took years to go through.
The abuse here is trying to push OOXML through on fast track, when it's obvious to anyone following the process that this should take the same route as SQL, for example. But that wouldn't be quick enough for Microsoft to stem the organisations mandidating open standards to look at their options, and choose OpenDocument over OOXML.
1. *.on.nimp.org links have been posted for a while now, shortly by warnings.
2. If you don't have time to be paranoid about your security, I'm hoping you don't use Windows.
2. Actually, a good number of trolls are using this method to link to goatse on this site. Seems they've gotten wise to the [goat.cx] giveaways on the end of their links.
So yeah. You click on a link that redirects to *.nimp.org, you're clueless.
Slashdot Mirror
Citation needed. More than one book, please.
I dunno. Call me weird, but I like the xorg.conf file. My setup is complicated (two cards, two screens, Xinerama), and the ability to just backup the config file to ~ before upgrading my computer is incredibly helpful (I recently replaced the 80GB HDD that Linux was on with a 320G one, meaning I needed to reinstall). During the install, I setup /home as the old partition that was mounted to /home, and got all my files and configs automatically. Then I installed X and KDE, copied the xorg.conf file into /etc/X11/, and had my old setup back again. No configuration needed.
:)
Same with the wireless - I'm unfortunate enough to have a Broadcom card, and the native driver requires firmware. So I have that under ~ too
Plus perhaps I'm lucky, but Linux mostly Just Works where my hardware is concerned - with the exception of the wireless, all the stuff in my workstation is supported in a standard Debian install.
Windows was another question. God what a nightmare. I had to pull the second nVidia card from the box otherwise I'd get a bluescreen on boot from XP. After pulling the card, I managed to install, only to discover that it was trying to authenticate against a nonexistent domain, so logging in was impossible. In the end, I installed Win2k, installed the nVidia drivers, then upgraded to XP. Then installed the sound card drivers and the wireless drivers. At least now it's working, I suppose. At least until I have to reinstall it. At which point the pain begins again.
No more Fosters!
Oh wait, TFA said beer, not mildly alcoholic urine.
WTH? Since when has 1.6GHz been needed for basic tasks like internet, email, and instant messaging? Give it a lower power processor, and grab some battery life. Or grab an old ultraportable off ebay. I had a thinkpad 240 for some years. It could hide under a sheet of A4, and had great battery life.
You contact the developers and ask them to stop coding like retarded crack monkeys. Then perhaps their code will be portable.
Okay, we will :)
Go submit a slashdot story about it.
Um, you can. Pay a programmer to fix it
(Hell, that business model might work quite well for a programmer - how many people would be willing to pay £££ to have bug n fixed?)
Hey, that's accurate!
Goatse is the best thing on myspace!
A season of CSI (for example), is about 8GB. That means it costs £8 (I'm in the UK) to pirate it. A full season of CSI on DVD is £50 over here. Even paying per GB, it's still cheaper to pirate than buy.
A movie is another good example: often 700MB, this means you pay 70p to get a video without DRM, that you can copy anywhere.
Still a bad case for piracy?
I'm not sure where you got your information, but 1TB != 100GB.
Your pirate would be paying $1024 a month for their usage.
Sound profitable yet?
Nah, make a plugin that creates OOXML compliant files. MS Office isn't actually OOXML compliant. Then point at the spec.
If this is pro opensource, I'm guessing free.
No, in that case you'll end up in Hell, or Earth will be invaded, with a silent scientist armed with a crowbar as our only hope.
Sure. Just remember to pack yourself in the box with plenty of padding - the ride may be rough.
Slashdot.
Why should anybody care?
...Call me dense if you wish, but why would you want to put a DHCP server onto a network that presumably already has DHCP? Best case scenario, your DHCP server is non-authoritative, and everything carries on.
Worst case, your DHCP server IS authoritative, and hands out broken settings to hosts trying to connect. Not pretty (I've seen it happen).
Just stick a NAT over the line, and run DHCP on the internal network.
The problem isn't in the mobile phone - it's in the infrastructure. Your mobile phone, when switched on, tries to make a connection to the strongest base tower it can 'see'. On the ground, in a car, etc this isn't a problem - the car isn't moving too fast, and there's probably buildings, trees, etc blocking signals from lots of towers.
Up in an aircraft, it's a very different situation - your phone can see plenty of different towers, and it'll register with all of them. The plane is moving pretty quickly too, so your phone is going to be registering with plenty of towers as time goes by. This creates a huge strain on the mobile infrastructure, compared to normal useage.
What the microcell in the aircraft will do, is give mobile phones a very local 'tower' to register with, and stay registered with. No strain.
Apart from the reason many people (including myself) use dual screens on their desktops - more screen real estate?
And I can see the EU going "Mmmm, money." Not a healthy road for Microsoft to take.
And those standards went through, I'd guess, on the non-fasttrack route? Like the SQL standard? That took years to go through.
The abuse here is trying to push OOXML through on fast track, when it's obvious to anyone following the process that this should take the same route as SQL, for example. But that wouldn't be quick enough for Microsoft to stem the organisations mandidating open standards to look at their options, and choose OpenDocument over OOXML.
I'm a Debian user - it came with the base install :)
1. *.on.nimp.org links have been posted for a while now, shortly by warnings.
2. If you don't have time to be paranoid about your security, I'm hoping you don't use Windows.
2. Actually, a good number of trolls are using this method to link to goatse on this site. Seems they've gotten wise to the [goat.cx] giveaways on the end of their links.
So yeah. You click on a link that redirects to *.nimp.org, you're clueless.
You just saw it!
I'm not sure how clueless I'd have to be to click on a *.on.nimp.org link.