It seems that you were just rather unlucky. Linux driver support these days is more rich than ever and a NIC should be a simple thing to have a driver for.
Maybe it's just the old tradition of Microsoft being the evil behemoth and open source being the tool of little man to fight the giants, thus seen as a holy thing.
Well, the parent said it already - it's a problem across Word versions too. However I think it's a bit unfair to expect something like Word 2010 -> Word 97 to even work, as the latter is ancient software.
I moved on from Ubuntu to mint KDE thanks solely to unity. There's absolutely no way I'd replace the perfectly function, sane Android interface with that crap.
Yeah? You could have just installed the KDE packages (or Kubuntu)...
(On the other hand, openSUSE and Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop have always been the golden standard for a KDE distribution.)
'the only' - Maybe you should come out of your Mom's basement more often and try a different version of Linux once in a while. Fedora, Suse, Mageia and PCLOS are all way better than Ubuntu. To be fair, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Lubuntu are also better. It is only Ubuntu that is rotten.
The parent was talking about a serious desktop contender. Right now Ubuntu has the most muscle to really break it big.
Do sites still get slashdotted? I thought these days this place doesn't drive enough traffic for that. Could be mistaken.
These days sites seem to get slashdotted very rarely. However I mostly figure it's just due to servers and their bandwidth getting strong enough to alleviate that. Slashdot itself seems to have a solid user base and traffic, at least looking at the amount of comments that stories get.
If you are not an Android developer yet and would be interested in trying it out, here could be your chance to develop something simple to the platform and possibly even share your work to fill the gap in the app store.
Can we cut the taco-left-slashdot-waah talk behind already? After he left, the site has not seen any kind of significant change in terms of comments or stories. The things that sucked are still here, the things that kicked ass are still here.
Even if TPB proxies and mirrors can be sprung like mushrooms, there could be major problems if the master site is closed. Sure, you can make a mirror of the torrent files and send around the magnet links and it will work. But after that, how can you add new torrents, and do other kind of administration? Who and how will then moderate everything?
I think that might ultimately just move the piracy scene back to these more underground warez spots. These easy-to-use, well known sites might eventually die. When you are already talking about transmitting magnet links via mail or IRC, it becomes much more impractical and the torrents won't get that much seeders anymore.
Slashdot Mirror
And a link to Channel 9 if folks here are not familiar with it.
And where did that "/hour" come from? The power that flows through a 5 watt lamp is 5 watt even if you run it for an hour or a microsecond.
Try using a 10.x version from Adobe's Flash Player Archive.
Have you tried Windows 7?
It seems that you were just rather unlucky. Linux driver support these days is more rich than ever and a NIC should be a simple thing to have a driver for.
Maybe it's just the old tradition of Microsoft being the evil behemoth and open source being the tool of little man to fight the giants, thus seen as a holy thing.
Well, the parent said it already - it's a problem across Word versions too. However I think it's a bit unfair to expect something like Word 2010 -> Word 97 to even work, as the latter is ancient software.
Seems to compile just fine.
1>------ Build started: Project: silly, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
1> silly.c
1>silly.c(8): warning C4244: 'function' : conversion from 'time_t' to 'unsigned int', possible loss of data
1> silly.vcxproj -> silly.exe
========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========
Exactly. There could appear an "Undo" link next to the moderation pull-down list after moderation, which would be valid for, say, 5 minutes.
Well played!
Fingerpori is very popular in Finland. ;)
Translation of the 27th Dec strip would be "I bought eye shadow that really brings your eyes out" ... "I put too much".
I moved on from Ubuntu to mint KDE thanks solely to unity. There's absolutely no way I'd replace the perfectly function, sane Android interface with that crap.
Yeah? You could have just installed the KDE packages (or Kubuntu)...
(On the other hand, openSUSE and Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop have always been the golden standard for a KDE distribution.)
'the only' - Maybe you should come out of your Mom's basement more often and try a different version of Linux once in a while. Fedora, Suse, Mageia and PCLOS are all way better than Ubuntu. To be fair, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Lubuntu are also better. It is only Ubuntu that is rotten.
The parent was talking about a serious desktop contender. Right now Ubuntu has the most muscle to really break it big.
Do sites still get slashdotted? I thought these days this place doesn't drive enough traffic for that. Could be mistaken.
These days sites seem to get slashdotted very rarely. However I mostly figure it's just due to servers and their bandwidth getting strong enough to alleviate that. Slashdot itself seems to have a solid user base and traffic, at least looking at the amount of comments that stories get.
If you are not an Android developer yet and would be interested in trying it out, here could be your chance to develop something simple to the platform and possibly even share your work to fill the gap in the app store.
You have to cut some corners in build quality to get it down to the price point.
However you are right, especially Acer and Asus can make real junk if you let them to.
Visual Studio 2012 will...
Even older than that. I'd weigh that the Raspberry Pi probably equals a high-end PC from 10 years ago, in terms of performance and specs.
Can we cut the taco-left-slashdot-waah talk behind already? After he left, the site has not seen any kind of significant change in terms of comments or stories. The things that sucked are still here, the things that kicked ass are still here.
There seems to be a Microsoft shill conspiracy theory behind every corner these days.
Maybe evolution will fix this problem and future bees will have a stringer (or stronger guts) that does not jam the inside the mammal skin.
To be fair, women do have much higher pressures to be good-looking. A man can have some rough edges.
Even if TPB proxies and mirrors can be sprung like mushrooms, there could be major problems if the master site is closed. Sure, you can make a mirror of the torrent files and send around the magnet links and it will work. But after that, how can you add new torrents, and do other kind of administration? Who and how will then moderate everything?
I think that might ultimately just move the piracy scene back to these more underground warez spots. These easy-to-use, well known sites might eventually die. When you are already talking about transmitting magnet links via mail or IRC, it becomes much more impractical and the torrents won't get that much seeders anymore.
I also have the natural right to take their output, watch it, and give nothing back.
No, you don't. Well, at least it would still be copyright infringement.