I own a Creative Zen Touch:) Works extremely well with Amarok, and being built like a brick, with 24h battery life doesn't exactly put me off it either:D
Well, technically cpufreq isn't underclocking - the processor is designed to run at x set of frequencies., and can switch between them dynamically - for example, when on battery I select the cpufreq governor 'powersave' that keeps the CPU in the lowest available frequency, whereas on AC I use 'ondemand', so it uses the lowest frequency, but if the situation demands it (demanding app, etc), it'll automatically scale back up to maximum.
The reason I use it is to save power - using a lower frequency means my cpu uses less power, and also generates less heat, so the fans don't need to come on, saving even more power.
Or take that 2GHz, 1GB RAM desktop you're using, and use that as a personal terminal server? Most modern hardware is hopelessly overpowered for the desktop task.
For example, I'm typing this on my 1.13 GHz laptop, scaled back to 733 MHz on cpufreq, and I'm still only using ~8% CPU for Aero AIO on superkaramba, Konqueror with 7 tabs open, and Amarok playing. This is on KDE too. Using 162MB RAM out of 256 though. But still, I could probably run a terminal server for a couple of desktops on this, and this isn't exactly high end hardware.
They (Yes, Red Hat (American), SuSE (German), Canonical (English) are all going bankrupt, aren't they?) are not household words are they now? They are in my household, but I'll admit that my household is hardly the norm. In more normal households, true, these names are not mentioned. On the other hand, neither is Microsoft.
How much wealth has been created between them? More than I'll ever spend in my lifetime. Enough to give a living to their employees. Above and beyond that, I find wealth meaningless.
Open Source as appllied to Red Hat or Suse is simply a repackaging of Unix, spare me. Nice SCO line there. Linux is Unix-like, but not Unix. So return me the favour and spare me the FUD.
Do I think the Microsoft family of OS is the be all to end all, no but is it a Unix derivative, no. Wait, what are you actually trying to say here? Windows isn't the ultimate OS, but it isn't Unix-like? Are you trying to infer that a Unix-like OS is the ultimate one?
Open Source is simply the Davids trying to beat Goliath but producing more hype than heat...yawn. Oh yes, plenty of hype/marketing/etc, but just because there is more of that than heat, doesn't mean the heat isn't there in spades.. and it's the feet of closed source that's being held to it.
Yes your correct my open source not making money argument is weaker than I may have infered but bears some truth and the most obvious ideologicaly flawed drivel that in the world of Open Source, I must share my source code, translation, reveal trade secrets that I have labored to render Oh my, I'll cry you a river. Yes, all business models should continue on forever, no matter what comes along. Damn, we should never have abolished slavery - look at how much it costs when you have to pay people to work. And trade secrets? So what? The damn things are worthless - all it takes is one slip anyway, and bam, there goes your so-called secret. Try going the IBM route - give away the product, SELL the support that goes with it. You wrote the code for it, so you're in the best position to support it. That's what IBM is doing, and it's hardly hurting them, is it?
In time innovation will ultimately stagnate as the best ideas are left to die on the vine as no one profits and all thought becomes public property, the peoples property. Care to reveal what ideas in open source have been left to die? Go on, tell me one. And let me give you a little tip: Most open source licences do not forbid you to sell your product. Ohmygod. What a shocking idea. The GPL even encourages you! All the GPL requires is you make your source code freely available. You don't have to give away the binaries compiled from that code, but you do the code itself - that's what Red Hat does.
I dont know about you but anything labeled as "the peoples property" has historically been limited to long term failure of all aspects... economics, intellectual and technological. While you have a point here, where did you get the opinion that open source is the peoples property? The Linux kernel belongs to Linux. The GNU utilities belong to the GNU Foundation. Every bit of open source code belongs to somebody. But that somebody has decided to make the source available under a copyleft licence. And trust me, they get something back for that opening up: free development. If their product is a good idea, it will attract developers and get better. Bad ideas loose developers to good ideas, and the world of open source improves in general.
Yes, Red Hat (American), SuSE (German), Canonical (English) are all going bankrupt, aren't they? Just like SCO is going strong, selling closed source apps to power tills. Oh wait.
Where on earth did you get the idea that open source stops you making money?
If you use Apple products so much, why can't you spell the name properly?
Actually, having seen your other posts, where you misspell every OS other than Windows, I'm not surprised overmuch. Which is it? You're either a troll, or you feel compelled to respond to trolls by sinking to their level.
Or, you know, it refers to the loyal peons of Microsoft.
Wait, loyal? My mistake:)
Also, I notice that virtually every post I'm replying to is under the AC umbrella. How about stepping out into the light so everyone can see who you are? I'm evidently not afraid to.
Possibly. What would be better still is to show, provably that those he was calling morons/idiots, were indeed morons/idiots. As it is, he just insulted all slashdotters (including me, obviously), many of whom are not either.
No, he means stole: He no longer has the item in question. If the thief had copied, the thief would not be a thief, because the originals would still be in his possesion.
That's the difference between taking and copying: After copying, the owner still has whatever was copied, nothing was taken.
So, thank you for your trollish attempt to label people who copy music as thieves.
Speaking as someone working in the US IT industry, I'm really... REALLY... happy Nigeria isn't teaching their students to use Windows.
This guarantees that nobody from Nigeria will have any job skills required to enter a shitty minimum wage office job and actually do anything more than type out their resumes before their department downsizes. They are going to have to work their way down to Microsoft Office, and while they spend years doing that, Americans can just get another few years of kissing their bosses ass experience.
It seems like a complete win for the US. Not so good for Nigeria, who's Linux Kids will only learn how to use Linuxs Sendmail/Postfix/Exim for their bulk email scams. But hey, maybe years of cranking up their OLPC's will give them strong skills for becoming competent linux sysadmins.
There, you made some mistakes. I fixed some of them.
Well, I'm using KDE in Debian right now, my linksys PCMCIA card is working fine, plugging in a USB device will give me a dialog asking me what I want to do with the device, though GNOME will use HAL to pick up if the device is LUKS encrypted and prompt me for a passphrase first. But KDE is getting that functionality too - it's had it in SuSE for a while.
My wired network card worked from the box, I'm not sure if my sound card is totally supported, but all I ask from the thing is that it plays my music:P
Ditto for bluetooth - I use a no-name (lsusb gives me Integrated System Solution Corp. KY-BT100 Bluetooth Adapter) bluetooth adaptor, which Just Works, with kdebluetooth installed to give me a shiny GUI frontend.
IrDA took a little work to get working, though I'm slightly disappointed at the lack of support for it on the GUI end - there's nothing of the sophistication of the KDE bluetooth framework for it.
Cellular modem? Just like a regular modem, you just send some slightly different strings. I was connecting using GPRS over bluetooth for a while before I got home broadband installed.
Me. I'm running a LAMP box from my home network. It also has IMAP and SMTP, with fetchmail grabbing mail from my external accounts, forwarding to procmail, which does a bunch of sorting, with the end result all my email is available to any client I connect to the server, with mailing lists presorted. Very useful, IMO.
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Because no screen is better than little screen ;)
I own a Creative Zen Touch :) Works extremely well with Amarok, and being built like a brick, with 24h battery life doesn't exactly put me off it either :D
So is the Zune supported by Microsoft on non-Windows operating systems?
If not, what OS does Microsoft reccomend you use to get music onto the Zune?
There's your tie-in to a monopoly product.
Though you do have to give credit for the attempt to convince us that part of the link is to mit.edu :P
Well, technically cpufreq isn't underclocking - the processor is designed to run at x set of frequencies., and can switch between them dynamically - for example, when on battery I select the cpufreq governor 'powersave' that keeps the CPU in the lowest available frequency, whereas on AC I use 'ondemand', so it uses the lowest frequency, but if the situation demands it (demanding app, etc), it'll automatically scale back up to maximum.
The reason I use it is to save power - using a lower frequency means my cpu uses less power, and also generates less heat, so the fans don't need to come on, saving even more power.
Or take that 2GHz, 1GB RAM desktop you're using, and use that as a personal terminal server? Most modern hardware is hopelessly overpowered for the desktop task.
For example, I'm typing this on my 1.13 GHz laptop, scaled back to 733 MHz on cpufreq, and I'm still only using ~8% CPU for Aero AIO on superkaramba, Konqueror with 7 tabs open, and Amarok playing. This is on KDE too. Using 162MB RAM out of 256 though. But still, I could probably run a terminal server for a couple of desktops on this, and this isn't exactly high end hardware.
They (Yes, Red Hat (American), SuSE (German), Canonical (English) are all going bankrupt, aren't they?) are not household words are they now?
They are in my household, but I'll admit that my household is hardly the norm. In more normal households, true, these names are not mentioned. On the other hand, neither is Microsoft.
How much wealth has been created between them?
More than I'll ever spend in my lifetime. Enough to give a living to their employees. Above and beyond that, I find wealth meaningless.
Open Source as appllied to Red Hat or Suse is simply a repackaging of Unix, spare me.
Nice SCO line there. Linux is Unix-like, but not Unix. So return me the favour and spare me the FUD.
Do I think the Microsoft family of OS is the be all to end all, no but is it a Unix derivative, no.
Wait, what are you actually trying to say here? Windows isn't the ultimate OS, but it isn't Unix-like? Are you trying to infer that a Unix-like OS is the ultimate one?
Open Source is simply the Davids trying to beat Goliath but producing more hype than heat...yawn.
Oh yes, plenty of hype/marketing/etc, but just because there is more of that than heat, doesn't mean the heat isn't there in spades.. and it's the feet of closed source that's being held to it.
Yes your correct my open source not making money argument is weaker than I may have infered but bears some truth and the most obvious ideologicaly flawed drivel that in the world of Open Source, I must share my source code, translation, reveal trade secrets that I have labored to render
Oh my, I'll cry you a river. Yes, all business models should continue on forever, no matter what comes along. Damn, we should never have abolished slavery - look at how much it costs when you have to pay people to work. And trade secrets? So what? The damn things are worthless - all it takes is one slip anyway, and bam, there goes your so-called secret. Try going the IBM route - give away the product, SELL the support that goes with it. You wrote the code for it, so you're in the best position to support it. That's what IBM is doing, and it's hardly hurting them, is it?
In time innovation will ultimately stagnate as the best ideas are left to die on the vine as no one profits and all thought becomes public property, the peoples property.
Care to reveal what ideas in open source have been left to die? Go on, tell me one. And let me give you a little tip: Most open source licences do not forbid you to sell your product. Ohmygod. What a shocking idea. The GPL even encourages you! All the GPL requires is you make your source code freely available. You don't have to give away the binaries compiled from that code, but you do the code itself - that's what Red Hat does.
I dont know about you but anything labeled as "the peoples property" has historically been limited to long term failure of all aspects... economics, intellectual and technological.
While you have a point here, where did you get the opinion that open source is the peoples property? The Linux kernel belongs to Linux. The GNU utilities belong to the GNU Foundation. Every bit of open source code belongs to somebody. But that somebody has decided to make the source available under a copyleft licence. And trust me, they get something back for that opening up: free development. If their product is a good idea, it will attract developers and get better. Bad ideas loose developers to good ideas, and the world of open source improves in general.
Ah yes, not make a dime.
Yes, Red Hat (American), SuSE (German), Canonical (English) are all going bankrupt, aren't they? Just like SCO is going strong, selling closed source apps to power tills. Oh wait.
Where on earth did you get the idea that open source stops you making money?
Yes, just completely ignore all the ways posted above you that the BSA could label you a pirate while still having purchased software.
I find it interesting that nobody in your camp has posted a reply yet to counter these arguments.
I would mod you up, but I have no points!
(And I can't decide if you're Funny or Insightful)
If you use Apple products so much, why can't you spell the name properly?
Actually, having seen your other posts, where you misspell every OS other than Windows, I'm not surprised overmuch. Which is it? You're either a troll, or you feel compelled to respond to trolls by sinking to their level.
Damn, not even one post, and this article has been Godwined!
From the tags: nazis. Sorry people, this discussion is now invalid, move along.
Or, you know, it refers to the loyal peons of Microsoft.
:)
Wait, loyal? My mistake
Also, I notice that virtually every post I'm replying to is under the AC umbrella. How about stepping out into the light so everyone can see who you are? I'm evidently not afraid to.
Hah. Insulted, no.
:) That would be stupid!
But the fact that I'm not insulted by it doesn't mean I should just take it
Hell no, but the onus of proof is not on me :) I'm not the one accusing.
Possibly. What would be better still is to show, provably that those he was calling morons/idiots, were indeed morons/idiots. As it is, he just insulted all slashdotters (including me, obviously), many of whom are not either.
And if they were being paid money directly from fans, rather than the record company, where do you think Metallica would be sleeping on tour?
Hint: It'd be a damn sight better than where they're sleeping now.
No, he means stole: He no longer has the item in question. If the thief had copied, the thief would not be a thief, because the originals would still be in his possesion.
That's the difference between taking and copying: After copying, the owner still has whatever was copied, nothing was taken.
So, thank you for your trollish attempt to label people who copy music as thieves.
It's flamebait because the GP didn't have to call people retarded, in order to get his or her point across.
They also could have worded this a lot more diplomatically than they did. So yes, the GP is flamebait.
Okay (KMail isn't the equiv of Evolution anyhow). Kontact!
Yeah, but what'll you do when she says her taser is too, and offers to link?
Well, they have it half right: Linux is a neat bit of software.
Speaking as someone working in the US IT industry, I'm really... REALLY... happy Nigeria isn't teaching their students to use Windows.
This guarantees that nobody from Nigeria will have any job skills required to enter a shitty minimum wage office job and actually do anything more than type out their resumes before their department downsizes. They are going to have to work their way down to Microsoft Office, and while they spend years doing that, Americans can just get another few years of kissing their bosses ass experience.
It seems like a complete win for the US. Not so good for Nigeria, who's Linux Kids will only learn how to use Linuxs Sendmail/Postfix/Exim for their bulk email scams. But hey, maybe years of cranking up their OLPC's will give them strong skills for becoming competent linux sysadmins.
There, you made some mistakes. I fixed some of them.
Well, I'm using KDE in Debian right now, my linksys PCMCIA card is working fine, plugging in a USB device will give me a dialog asking me what I want to do with the device, though GNOME will use HAL to pick up if the device is LUKS encrypted and prompt me for a passphrase first. But KDE is getting that functionality too - it's had it in SuSE for a while.
:P
My wired network card worked from the box, I'm not sure if my sound card is totally supported, but all I ask from the thing is that it plays my music
Ditto for bluetooth - I use a no-name (lsusb gives me Integrated System Solution Corp. KY-BT100 Bluetooth Adapter) bluetooth adaptor, which Just Works, with kdebluetooth installed to give me a shiny GUI frontend.
IrDA took a little work to get working, though I'm slightly disappointed at the lack of support for it on the GUI end - there's nothing of the sophistication of the KDE bluetooth framework for it.
Cellular modem? Just like a regular modem, you just send some slightly different strings. I was connecting using GPRS over bluetooth for a while before I got home broadband installed.
Me. I'm running a LAMP box from my home network. It also has IMAP and SMTP, with fetchmail grabbing mail from my external accounts, forwarding to procmail, which does a bunch of sorting, with the end result all my email is available to any client I connect to the server, with mailing lists presorted. Very useful, IMO.