I heard of this bug, and it *is* a bug, but what the hell is the purpose of closing a program after you copied info from that? It's a sane measure to wait until you pasted, just to check if you copied-and-pasted what you really wanted to paste, for example. Yes, it's formally a bug, and I agree it has to be fixed (it makes sense to have the intact clipboard if the ctrl-c app crashes, for example) but every sane user should almost never have seen it.
I run into this madness a lot when I'm switching browsers. It's an old habit, copy address bar. Close browser "f", open browser "o", click in address bar and [ctrl+v], swear and repeat.
I saw your posts. I don't have the energy to look them up to provide links, they're simply buried farther down since people have been replying to higher level threads.
My drives are always nice and quiet. I know others who run Fedora who have no problems. You, sir, are simply incompetent.
Wow, conspiracy theory, flamebait, and outright lies. Impressive.
I've been running Fedora since version 1, and RH9 before it. I learned Linux on Fedora, so I spent lots of time in the user groups and searching Google, and never heard of anything like what you report.
They replaced one of the two hard drives, the RAM, and something else. Technically, they would have replaced Linux, they informed me that they may image the drives. When I got it, the drive had been imaged, but it had also been logged into and I could see they had used some windows based tools to check the new drive's integrity.
I always assume if I'm sending something in, they will re-image the drive. Armed with this knowledge, I always make an image of my own before sending it.
I sent my notebook in to HP earlier this year because the keyboard was acting up. I reported that the behavior was the same in Windows and Linux. They replaced the keyboard and a couple of other things with no problem. . .
Most of the animal-rights crowd (People Eating Tender Animals) are way off-base. OTOH, If this behavior is allowed to continue by the local government as the video implies, something needs to be done. Fish generally die of suffocation within minutes of being out of the water, but Dolphins breathe air. Most of the dolphins in the video bled out after they were dragged from the dock and into the slaughter house.
The video that circulated a few years ago about the "atrocities" of cattle slaughter was a load of crap and the people involved had long since been shut down. It would require research locally to know whether this is the case with these Japanese fishermen, or if this is a practice that is allowed to continue. They could have at least had the decency to shoot the creatures instead of letting them slowly bleed out in obvious agony.
Does anyone know if there are issues making MythTV work with SDTV Digital cable streams (Comcast)? I'm wanting to build a Myth box, but all the channels I want to record are digital only. . . Looking at what I can find online seems to indicate otherwise, but that doesn't make any sense either.
I don't think it's THAT important that they have any paticular distro.
It's not important to you, but to novice users it's critical.
It's important that they include one, but I don't think it matters WHICH one. Use Ubuntu. If I don't like Ubuntu, I'll put something else on it. If someone who has never used Linux before buys it, they'll use Ubuntu until they decide otherwise.
Inspiron 50,000:
OS: Windows XP Windows Vista (reccomended) #ugh, looks disgusting, but you know they would do it Ubuntu Linux No OS (select here if you are going to use a different distribution of Linux or have a Volume License for Windows)
I would pay a little more for a native Linux system. Note the use of the word little. Right now Linux notebooks are roughly twice the cost of an identical Windows box, and even they don't work 100%, and usually have custom builds of the distribution that they are shipped with.
I've seen this support issue raised several times in these discussions, and I'm curious as to why. You can easily exclude someone from support based on their OS choice. As it is, if I put Linux on my computer, I don't get vendor support. I DO get vendor warranty, as that covers the hardware.
I think the bigger issue here is getting the HARDWARE support for Linux on common hardware. Let the support issues sort themselves out based on market penetration. I would like to see major vendors only distribute hardware with decent Linux driver support. This would work out perfectly, as right now people put Linux on when they want it. If people order hardware they know will run under Linux, and specify "no OS" or whatever that vendor includes as their distribution, then maybe Dell, HP, and Toshiba will start building Linux support into their business model.
I don't think it's THAT important that they have any paticular distro. As long as they have hardware that is certified to run with open-source drivers or fully capable vendor closed-source drivers (like the current nVidia driver), I don't care what distro they put on it. Put SuSe on it, and I'll reformat the drive and put Fedora or Ubuntu on it like I would now with Windows. The major difference will be my confidence that it will work with Linux.
The biggest problem we have now is that you never know if all the hardware in a machine will work with Linux, the distro is pretty much irrelevant until you start using it. My notebook is from HP (dv8000t), and it works great with any distro I've put on it, since 2.6.14. I bought it without knowing this. When I was making my purchase, if there had been a manufacturer that put out a machine in the same price range with a simalar screen size and was certified for Linux, they would have gotten my money instead.
Keep in mind that this experience is only regarding notebooks, I've never purchased a brand-name desktop.
And you were doing so well until that last line. Dumping political flamewarring into the end of an otherwise great post just makes you look less credible.
I would wager that the political breakdown of Desktop Linux users is far more even than Mac users (can't compare to Windows users, since it's got such a large marketshare), so by posting something like this, I am guessing that you just pissed off roughly half of the people who would otherwise agree with your post.
I don't understand why every decent slashdot article has to get involved in political name-calling. Some threads are completely off-topic because of it. Lets try discussing the point sometime. Really, it can be fun. This guy gives us a LOT of ammunition without trying to extrapolate his political views.
My guess is that your solution already exists. I'm sure it would be classified, but the concept of China (or USSR, depending on how old the program is) deploying nukes or some kind of "God's hammer" weapon is far too great a risk to ignore.
My thought is to get junk out of orbit and into a solar free-fall somehow so that it stops the orbital junkyard we've got going on before it reaches critical mass.
I totally agree. I worked at Speakeasy for a while, and they had such a policy. It wasn't that difficult to implament.
1) User 1234 has had 500 smtp connections open in the last hour, trip a flag. 2) If there are x number of flags tripped in y period of time, freeze account until customer calls in. 3) Restore account, include a grace period of z hours. If problem not resolved, freeze account again. 4) Inform use that the service will not be reactivated until they have cleaned the computer. If they claim it has been and the account gets frozen again, service is terminated.
Thats not the exact policy that Speakeasy has, but that's how I would have done it. Step one can be any easily identified trigger, SMTP connections, connections to known botnet systems (not sure how they did that), upload traffic pegged for a certain percentage of the time, etc.
If every ISP in the country started kicking customers on this criteria, spam originating in (insert country of origin here) would stop. Sure, we still have China and Korea to worry about, but it gets far more difficult to get spam out if your country is one of a few that sends spam. If messages come from paticular countries, the spam filter automatically kicks up a few notches.
Wonder if it would be possible to use this kind of 'droid to knock sattelites out of orbit with an extra bit of thrust when they're beyond repair. I don't know the logistics, but it seems to be a way to combat the volume of junk that's building up in orbit. . .
Hey now, that's not very nice to those of us in the Seattle area that don't pray to Lord Gates and Lord Ballmer. . . I find it amusing that about half the billboards I see have Microsoft ads on them. The number has increased since Vista's launch, but even the Zune billboards are everywhere. Even in their home court, Microsoft is playing Defence in this quarter.
Since the modding is definatley pro-MS on/. today, I'll prolly burn in karma hell for this, but oh well. . .
I use that on my notebook (tryboot WinXP, MacOSx86, FC6), and it's pretty unreliable. My system clock is correct at boot, but after a couple of hours it resets. I've started ignoring it (only use Win for casual games and verifying formatting in word documents), because it will correct itself after a while or on next boot.
Microsoft just isn't that easy to strongarm. The EU has been trying for how long now? If MS didn't want DRM at the OS level, they wouln't have done it. They are probably the only corporation in the world with the ability to tell MPAA and RIAA to suck it.
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I run into this madness a lot when I'm switching browsers. It's an old habit, copy address bar. Close browser "f", open browser "o", click in address bar and [ctrl+v], swear and repeat.
I saw your posts. I don't have the energy to look them up to provide links, they're simply buried farther down since people have been replying to higher level threads.
/squelch
My drives are always nice and quiet. I know others who run Fedora who have no problems. You, sir, are simply incompetent.
I'm done feeding trolls.
Wow, conspiracy theory, flamebait, and outright lies. Impressive.
I've been running Fedora since version 1, and RH9 before it. I learned Linux on Fedora, so I spent lots of time in the user groups and searching Google, and never heard of anything like what you report.
Thanks for the FUD, but I'll pass.
They replaced one of the two hard drives, the RAM, and something else. Technically, they would have replaced Linux, they informed me that they may image the drives. When I got it, the drive had been imaged, but it had also been logged into and I could see they had used some windows based tools to check the new drive's integrity.
I always assume if I'm sending something in, they will re-image the drive. Armed with this knowledge, I always make an image of my own before sending it.
I sent my notebook in to HP earlier this year because the keyboard was acting up. I reported that the behavior was the same in Windows and Linux. They replaced the keyboard and a couple of other things with no problem. . .
Most of the animal-rights crowd (People Eating Tender Animals) are way off-base. OTOH, If this behavior is allowed to continue by the local government as the video implies, something needs to be done. Fish generally die of suffocation within minutes of being out of the water, but Dolphins breathe air. Most of the dolphins in the video bled out after they were dragged from the dock and into the slaughter house.
The video that circulated a few years ago about the "atrocities" of cattle slaughter was a load of crap and the people involved had long since been shut down. It would require research locally to know whether this is the case with these Japanese fishermen, or if this is a practice that is allowed to continue. They could have at least had the decency to shoot the creatures instead of letting them slowly bleed out in obvious agony.
Does anyone know if there are issues making MythTV work with SDTV Digital cable streams (Comcast)? I'm wanting to build a Myth box, but all the channels I want to record are digital only. . . Looking at what I can find online seems to indicate otherwise, but that doesn't make any sense either.
Wait, you are saying there is another way to make friends?
You must be new here. . .
Using MythTV is a lot like being a Linux user.
:)
Umm. . . MythTV is not LIKE being a Linux user. You ARE a Linux (or BSD) user.
I don't think it's THAT important that they have any paticular distro.
It's not important to you, but to novice users it's critical.
It's important that they include one, but I don't think it matters WHICH one. Use Ubuntu. If I don't like Ubuntu, I'll put something else on it. If someone who has never used Linux before buys it, they'll use Ubuntu until they decide otherwise.
Inspiron 50,000:
OS:
Windows XP
Windows Vista (reccomended) #ugh, looks disgusting, but you know they would do it
Ubuntu Linux
No OS (select here if you are going to use a different distribution of Linux or have a Volume License for Windows)
I would pay a little more for a native Linux system. Note the use of the word little. Right now Linux notebooks are roughly twice the cost of an identical Windows box, and even they don't work 100%, and usually have custom builds of the distribution that they are shipped with.
I think X was a variable here. He meant X.
I've seen this support issue raised several times in these discussions, and I'm curious as to why. You can easily exclude someone from support based on their OS choice. As it is, if I put Linux on my computer, I don't get vendor support. I DO get vendor warranty, as that covers the hardware.
I think the bigger issue here is getting the HARDWARE support for Linux on common hardware. Let the support issues sort themselves out based on market penetration. I would like to see major vendors only distribute hardware with decent Linux driver support. This would work out perfectly, as right now people put Linux on when they want it. If people order hardware they know will run under Linux, and specify "no OS" or whatever that vendor includes as their distribution, then maybe Dell, HP, and Toshiba will start building Linux support into their business model.
I don't think it's THAT important that they have any paticular distro. As long as they have hardware that is certified to run with open-source drivers or fully capable vendor closed-source drivers (like the current nVidia driver), I don't care what distro they put on it. Put SuSe on it, and I'll reformat the drive and put Fedora or Ubuntu on it like I would now with Windows. The major difference will be my confidence that it will work with Linux.
The biggest problem we have now is that you never know if all the hardware in a machine will work with Linux, the distro is pretty much irrelevant until you start using it. My notebook is from HP (dv8000t), and it works great with any distro I've put on it, since 2.6.14. I bought it without knowing this. When I was making my purchase, if there had been a manufacturer that put out a machine in the same price range with a simalar screen size and was certified for Linux, they would have gotten my money instead.
Keep in mind that this experience is only regarding notebooks, I've never purchased a brand-name desktop.
And you were doing so well until that last line. Dumping political flamewarring into the end of an otherwise great post just makes you look less credible.
I would wager that the political breakdown of Desktop Linux users is far more even than Mac users (can't compare to Windows users, since it's got such a large marketshare), so by posting something like this, I am guessing that you just pissed off roughly half of the people who would otherwise agree with your post.
I don't understand why every decent slashdot article has to get involved in political name-calling. Some threads are completely off-topic because of it. Lets try discussing the point sometime. Really, it can be fun. This guy gives us a LOT of ammunition without trying to extrapolate his political views.
My guess is that your solution already exists. I'm sure it would be classified, but the concept of China (or USSR, depending on how old the program is) deploying nukes or some kind of "God's hammer" weapon is far too great a risk to ignore.
My thought is to get junk out of orbit and into a solar free-fall somehow so that it stops the orbital junkyard we've got going on before it reaches critical mass.
I totally agree. I worked at Speakeasy for a while, and they had such a policy. It wasn't that difficult to implament.
1) User 1234 has had 500 smtp connections open in the last hour, trip a flag.
2) If there are x number of flags tripped in y period of time, freeze account until customer calls in.
3) Restore account, include a grace period of z hours. If problem not resolved, freeze account again.
4) Inform use that the service will not be reactivated until they have cleaned the computer. If they claim it has been and the account gets frozen again, service is terminated.
Thats not the exact policy that Speakeasy has, but that's how I would have done it. Step one can be any easily identified trigger, SMTP connections, connections to known botnet systems (not sure how they did that), upload traffic pegged for a certain percentage of the time, etc.
If every ISP in the country started kicking customers on this criteria, spam originating in (insert country of origin here) would stop. Sure, we still have China and Korea to worry about, but it gets far more difficult to get spam out if your country is one of a few that sends spam. If messages come from paticular countries, the spam filter automatically kicks up a few notches.
"-0.5, Sarchasm"
I'd use the hell out of it when I had points, along with a "-1, idiot"
Wonder if it would be possible to use this kind of 'droid to knock sattelites out of orbit with an extra bit of thrust when they're beyond repair. I don't know the logistics, but it seems to be a way to combat the volume of junk that's building up in orbit. . .
Perhaps this is the first time one of the "huge" players has had proper incentive to stand up to Redmond?
Hey now, that's not very nice to those of us in the Seattle area that don't pray to Lord Gates and Lord Ballmer. . . I find it amusing that about half the billboards I see have Microsoft ads on them. The number has increased since Vista's launch, but even the Zune billboards are everywhere. Even in their home court, Microsoft is playing Defence in this quarter.
/. today, I'll prolly burn in karma hell for this, but oh well. . .
Since the modding is definatley pro-MS on
After they finished telling Novell "We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own"
I use that on my notebook (tryboot WinXP, MacOSx86, FC6), and it's pretty unreliable. My system clock is correct at boot, but after a couple of hours it resets. I've started ignoring it (only use Win for casual games and verifying formatting in word documents), because it will correct itself after a while or on next boot.
Microsoft just isn't that easy to strongarm. The EU has been trying for how long now? If MS didn't want DRM at the OS level, they wouln't have done it. They are probably the only corporation in the world with the ability to tell MPAA and RIAA to suck it.
Perhaps the new bulb GE is developing?