...more people should put their money where their mouth is with the big vendors and make it clear that they aren't going to use Windows on their boxes.
That's one of the reasons why I bought an Acer laptop. Don't know if they do this anywhere, but in Thailand, it was no problem to get one without Windows. (And yes, they deducted the price of the OS.)
I also had no problems getting in-warranty repairs on it here in Brisbane from Acer Australia.
Planet Source Code is not that hot. There's heaps of trivial examples that just aren't done very well - like a "new" PHP4-style class for connecting to MySQL which hard-codes "localhost" for the server name. I guess the guy hasn't heard of mysqli?
The quality of the writing itself is pretty bad, too. People who are purporting to teach you something ought to be a bit more... well... literate.
Neither am I inclined to be overly impressed when a site throws 175+ JavaScript and CSS errors in Firefox in just the first 2-3 pages. (I didn't bother counting the errors after that point.)
Can anone point out what 'FUSE' is?---I know i am lazy, no need to state the obvious.
Try http://fuse.sourceforge.net/ - basically, when I hear of an Open Source project I've not heard of before, I just go to "nameofprojectgoeshere.sourceforge.net", and (more often than not) there it is. And there it was.:)
OTOH, HTML emails allow: - bold, italic and so on. These are being used in books, newspapers, and any other readable medium for a reason. The simple facts that people came up with dodgy hacks such as _ and * proves that there is a need for these.
All this proves is that you've an unnatural attachment to slanted or thick text.
- tables. Fixed-width fonts are a leftover of technical limitations from a bygone era. If they were more readable, books would use them! (Ab)using these to make tables is another hack I can do without.
So you don't think fixed-width fonts are pretty enough. Boo-fucking-hoo.
- i18n. HTML allows emails to be sent easily in a way that can decoded by the receiver. Which seems to be the point of sending it in the first place.
In other words, you'd rather use ISO-8859-1 + character entities than Unicode? Talk about hacks...
And yet you use "-" to fake bullets because you can't be arsed to mark up your bulleted list with UL and LI tags.
There was a local computer store in town that was selling them, and apparantly Acer shipped them to the store with Linux preinstalled. Some strange Chinese distro I'd never heard of...
Wouldn't have been Linpus, would it? That's what was on the Aspire 5051 I bought in Thailand last month.
It was a bare-bones installation, though, so I've no idea what the distro is really like.
I've known NineNine for ten years, met him him through a different board long before he ever showed up on/. - I'm pretty sure he doesn't work for Microsoft, and I think he honestly believes most of the crap he posts.
Shit, i cant even get XP 64 bit drivers for most hardware, and you want people to go linux?
Why should I wait around when there are already 64-bit Linux drivers for my sound and wifi cards, neither of which is usable under 64-bit Windows?
I'm praying Vista 64bit gets full mandatory driver support. I hope MS makes it mandatory.
You keep right on seeking divine intervention. In the meantime, I'll continue to use my 64-bit computer running a 64-bit Linux OS with 64-bit drivers and 64-bit apps.
Why should I care what Microsoft support, or when? And what have Adobe to do with the availability of 64-bit drivers for anything?
I just bought a Turion AMD64 laptop a couple of weeks ago. I'm dual-booting 64-bit OpenSuSE 10.2 and Windows XP Pro 64. Only problem has been with wireless. (Thank you, Acer, for including a wireless card for which there are apparently no 64-bit drivers.)
Wireless with Win64 was solved with a Gigabyte GN-WB01GS USB dongle. The 64-bit driver's on the CD, which won't autorun and complains that "this CD is for a different format than what your computer uses" or some such garbage. Open it in Windows Explorer, navigate to the Utility folder, and run setup.exe, however, and it offers to install the 64-bit driver.
Wireless for the Linux side I'm still working on. I use ndiswrapper to run the Broadcom card that came with my 32-bit Acer laptop, and it works a treat there, but doesn't seem to do so for the card in the 64-bit machine. It also doesn't work for anything USB (silly me).
The GN-WB01GS (supposedly) uses an RT2570 chipset, for which a Linux driver is available courtesy of the rt2x00 Project. Their source built fine once I remembered to put a symlink in my/lib/modules/2.6.18-2.34-default/build directory. The driver loads (at least modprobe says it does), but nothing shows up in iwconfig.
I may just wind up buying another WiFi card. Otherwise, no complaints here.
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(ow. There goes my karma.)
I'd mod you up, but obviously that's not possible. ;)
That's one of the reasons why I bought an Acer laptop. Don't know if they do this anywhere, but in Thailand, it was no problem to get one without Windows. (And yes, they deducted the price of the OS.)
I also had no problems getting in-warranty repairs on it here in Brisbane from Acer Australia.
Microsoft already is its own standards committee. Thanks for playing, though.
Planet Source Code is not that hot. There's heaps of trivial examples that just aren't done very well - like a "new" PHP4-style class for connecting to MySQL which hard-codes "localhost" for the server name. I guess the guy hasn't heard of mysqli?
The quality of the writing itself is pretty bad, too. People who are purporting to teach you something ought to be a bit more... well... literate.
Neither am I inclined to be overly impressed when a site throws 175+ JavaScript and CSS errors in Firefox in just the first 2-3 pages. (I didn't bother counting the errors after that point.)
Yeah, I always thought that was a fairly useless attempt at reverse FUD that OO.org could well do without.
Try http://fuse.sourceforge.net/ - basically, when I hear of an Open Source project I've not heard of before, I just go to "nameofprojectgoeshere.sourceforge.net", and (more often than not) there it is. And there it was.
All this proves is that you've an unnatural attachment to slanted or thick text.
So you don't think fixed-width fonts are pretty enough. Boo-fucking-hoo.
In other words, you'd rather use ISO-8859-1 + character entities than Unicode? Talk about hacks...
The tab key is generally located centre left, the space bar bottom centre.
These seems to work quite well for producing tabular layouts in RFCs.
I seem to recall downloading some of the OpenCourseWare stuff a year or two ago.
Wouldn't have been Linpus, would it? That's what was on the Aspire 5051 I bought in Thailand last month.
It was a bare-bones installation, though, so I've no idea what the distro is really like.
I watched the whole lot of yas sneak in here and thought, "There goes the neighbourhood". :P
You haven't been working with JavaScript for very long, have you?
The MSIE equivalent of textContent is innerText, and it's been around since before Firefox was even thought of.
I've known NineNine for ten years, met him him through a different board long before he ever showed up on /. - I'm pretty sure he doesn't work for Microsoft, and I think he honestly believes most of the crap he posts.
Mine's already in Queensland, thanks. :)
MySQL *have* done so with Falcon. MySQL *do* own Falcon.
[Jim has worked on other RDBMS in the past] != [MySQL do not own the one he's currently working on]
"Vista ain't done till Notes won't run"? ;)
Who uses a KVM anymore, when there's VNC?
GP is an ancient troll, slightly reworded. Don't waste your time responding.
Why should I wait around when there are already 64-bit Linux drivers for my sound and wifi cards, neither of which is usable under 64-bit Windows?
You keep right on seeking divine intervention. In the meantime, I'll continue to use my 64-bit computer running a 64-bit Linux OS with 64-bit drivers and 64-bit apps.
Why should I care what Microsoft support, or when? And what have Adobe to do with the availability of 64-bit drivers for anything?
I assumed the WiFi card was a Broadcomm, but it's an Atheros. I may be in luck, after all.
I just bought a Turion AMD64 laptop a couple of weeks ago. I'm dual-booting 64-bit OpenSuSE 10.2 and Windows XP Pro 64. Only problem has been with wireless. (Thank you, Acer, for including a wireless card for which there are apparently no 64-bit drivers.)
/lib/modules/2.6.18-2.34-default/build directory. The driver loads (at least modprobe says it does), but nothing shows up in iwconfig.
Wireless with Win64 was solved with a Gigabyte GN-WB01GS USB dongle. The 64-bit driver's on the CD, which won't autorun and complains that "this CD is for a different format than what your computer uses" or some such garbage. Open it in Windows Explorer, navigate to the Utility folder, and run setup.exe, however, and it offers to install the 64-bit driver.
Wireless for the Linux side I'm still working on. I use ndiswrapper to run the Broadcom card that came with my 32-bit Acer laptop, and it works a treat there, but doesn't seem to do so for the card in the 64-bit machine. It also doesn't work for anything USB (silly me).
The GN-WB01GS (supposedly) uses an RT2570 chipset, for which a Linux driver is available courtesy of the rt2x00 Project. Their source built fine once I remembered to put a symlink in my
I may just wind up buying another WiFi card. Otherwise, no complaints here.
Welcome to the days of SuSE 10.1 and WindowMaker, then.
Or not - up to you.
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