You're talking about Desktop Environments, like KDE and Gnome. As far as I know, the linux kernel itself does not have CD writing abilities built into it. (I might be wrong.)
You are probably right about not being able to burn ISO's natively in Windows in order to reduce piracy. I can't really think of any reason a Windows user would need to burn ISO's, unless they're trying to burn Linux discs or pirate games. Still, downloading ISO Recorder is not hard.
NOTE: Whether you use Ubuntu or Kubuntu, make SURE you install and run the EasyUbuntu script. It installs things that make life easier: Flash plugin, Windows media codecs, etc. You can find it on the Ubuntu forums.
My opinion: For quasi-smart people like yourself, you might be happier with the KDE interface that Kubuntu uses, rather than the sparten GNOME interface used by the default Ubuntu distrobution. KDE uses less memory, it's graphical user interface is better looking and reacts quicker, the KDE software is more integrated, and KDE exposes more options to the user. GNOME tends to disable anything that might be "too difficult" for stupid people. For instance, Ubuntu's options for dealing with removable devices, such as thumb drives and CDs, is one checkbox: automatically mount them or not. KDE lets you choose what actions you want to take place for what media. Examples: When CD's are inserted automatically (play them? | rip them? | present a popup asking which to do.); When Flash_Drive_A is inserted, automatically (Open a file explorer window. | Run a custom command. | etc.)
I find HTML email useful for sending friends pictures with annotations, and I find numbered and bulleted lists useful visual aids for organizing information.
That said, Javascript should obviously be banned, and I wouldn't care if CSS wasn't supported. (CSS can be used to hide things deceitfully.)
Basically, I'd like to see BBCode used for emails, lol!
I hate to say it, but you're right on the mark there. Linux bring much suffering and pain, especially during those first few weeks - and I was running Ubuntu and Kubuntu, not Gentoo! Luckily, there are TONS of people on the Ubuntu Forums that like to help you. (One of the reasons that distro is so popular, I think.) Lately I haven't had any serious problems with it.
"And if both Apple and MS have done it, Linux can't be far behind..."
Right, right... nice sense of humor there.;-) Remember, we're talking about "Hardware". Microsoft has it easy: hardware is made to work with Windows. Hardware isn't made to work with Linux.
The coolest thing I ever built was an adding machine made out of K'nex that used binary logic gates. It was five feet long, but could only add two bits! (The amount of friction made it impossible to add more complexity.) I would have posted sooner, but I waited until I could upload a video of it to You Tube. K'nex Adding Machine
I've used Media Monkey to mess with audio compression, and found that I couldn't tell the difference between a lossless wave file and an ogg file at 50 bps. (I used the song "409" by the Beach Boys, on Windows XP, with Altec Lansing stereo speakers.) I reckon my hearing is probably about average for teenagers - maybe even better because I don't listen to loud music.
I've concluded that either A) I'm not an audiophile, or B) the media's insistence that you need to encode MP3's at 128 bps is FUD to make copnsumers by larger players. This is actually good news. Theoretically, it means I can fit three times as many songs on my audio player as advertised! Plus, I mostly listen to my music when I'm excercising on in the car, so if artifacts exist, chances are I'm not going to hear them.
Oh, and at low bitrates, ogg vorbis and wmv were comprable, but MP3 did not sound as good at the same low bitrates.
That is really cool! Maybe I can do something like that with my old 8-year old computer - as soon as I quit using it as an HTTP server. It's really slow as a server.
Kudos for brilliance, btw. Here's to another ingenious-yet-simple idea!
Companies should team together to pay developers to make open source products for them, instead of buying proprietary software and paying for it again, and again, and again...
Strategy 1: Pay to develop the software, and get infinate copies, or Strategy 2: Don't pay to develop it, and pay for EACH copy.
At some point, maybe they'll realize Strategy 1 could be a lot cheaper.
Say it is satire upfront! This is FAKE NEWS! That's OK on April 1, but during the rest of the year, it's polite to let us know the article is false. I read through the whole article and was getting quite irate before I read the comments and realized it was a joke. (I'll admit, I was suspicious of the article.)
I thought I'd throw in my two cents, even though it's probably too late for people to read them.
This "war" people keep talking about is about Desktops. Even when Linux completely dominates the desktop computer market, that will be pointless. The next "big thing" is the smaller stuff: cell phones, PDA's, portable media players, etc. To ensure dominance, Linux would need to focus it's energy on the portable device market. It currently possesses a greater percent of that market than it does in the desktop market, but as soon as cell phones become powerful enough to run Microsoft Vista Compact Edition (or whatever), that could change. We need to start thinking about how we can make the best use of the new tinier technology, because that is where it will be at. Mainframes are practically dead; PC's took their place. In another 30 years, PC's could be dead too, and our 30 inch LCD screens replaced by virtual reality glasses.
Prediction: Linux should come to dominate the desktop market eventually, because we're reaching the limit of what desktops can do. Compared to the diversity of portable digital devices like cell phones and PDA's, desktops all look alike. That's because they have reached a stage where there are only incremental improvements. Given time, Linux will be able to catch up to Window's in the desktop market because the desktop race is slowing down. The "Linux vs. Microsoft war" will simply move on to a new medium.
Hand out a little notoriety?? Of SpaceShipTwo fame?? For those just as ignorant as the poster, notoriety is bad and SpaceShipTwo hasn't even taken off yet - it was SpaceShipOne that became famous for winning the X-Prize.
Is it possible to install Ubuntu Server Edition on it?
I'm running an HTTP server on a large 7 yr old computer, but I want a smaller server for college. Can you 1) connect a CD-drive to a KuroBox, and 2) connect a monitor and keyboard or SSH into it so you can see the screen, and 3) run the installer? Or do you have to use special versions of Linux on it?
Ah... but Google does not crash. And it's easy to use. Microsoft fails in both those catagories. Most people don't REALLY care about privacy. They want great, easy to use software/webservices. (Actually, they want money and sex, but that's not part of this topic.)
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You're talking about Desktop Environments, like KDE and Gnome. As far as I know, the linux kernel itself does not have CD writing abilities built into it. (I might be wrong.)
You are probably right about not being able to burn ISO's natively in Windows in order to reduce piracy. I can't really think of any reason a Windows user would need to burn ISO's, unless they're trying to burn Linux discs or pirate games. Still, downloading ISO Recorder is not hard.
"Oh wait... you need to spend $90 on Nero???"
m , freeware), you CAN just right-click on an ISO and burn it! That's how I burned my Kubuntu CD!!!
Nonsense, I just drag and drop files in the Explorer to a blank CD and hit "Write Files to CD".
As for ISO's, with ISO Recorder ( http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.ht
Furthermore, Linux requires "extra software" to burn ISO's; the only difference is that many distros include that software by default.
NOTE: Whether you use Ubuntu or Kubuntu, make SURE you install and run the EasyUbuntu script. It installs things that make life easier: Flash plugin, Windows media codecs, etc. You can find it on the Ubuntu forums.
My opinion: For quasi-smart people like yourself, you might be happier with the KDE interface that Kubuntu uses, rather than the sparten GNOME interface used by the default Ubuntu distrobution. KDE uses less memory, it's graphical user interface is better looking and reacts quicker, the KDE software is more integrated, and KDE exposes more options to the user. GNOME tends to disable anything that might be "too difficult" for stupid people. For instance, Ubuntu's options for dealing with removable devices, such as thumb drives and CDs, is one checkbox: automatically mount them or not. KDE lets you choose what actions you want to take place for what media. Examples: When CD's are inserted automatically (play them? | rip them? | present a popup asking which to do.); When Flash_Drive_A is inserted, automatically (Open a file explorer window. | Run a custom command. | etc.)
I had that happen once, lol. What's worse, he sent it in Office 12 .docx format. I had to unzip the darn thing.
I find HTML email useful for sending friends pictures with annotations, and I find numbered and bulleted lists useful visual aids for organizing information.
That said, Javascript should obviously be banned, and I wouldn't care if CSS wasn't supported. (CSS can be used to hide things deceitfully.)
Basically, I'd like to see BBCode used for emails, lol!
"You're allowed to stand for multiple causes... as long as they're not contradictory. :-)"
So, does that mean I can't stand for sitting?
I hate to say it, but you're right on the mark there. Linux bring much suffering and pain, especially during those first few weeks - and I was running Ubuntu and Kubuntu, not Gentoo! Luckily, there are TONS of people on the Ubuntu Forums that like to help you. (One of the reasons that distro is so popular, I think.) Lately I haven't had any serious problems with it.
"And if both Apple and MS have done it, Linux can't be far behind..."
;-)
Right, right... nice sense of humor there.
Remember, we're talking about "Hardware". Microsoft has it easy: hardware is made to work with Windows. Hardware isn't made to work with Linux.
"on to a better KDE distro"
I use Kubuntu on my desktop and hope to use it when I get a laptop. What is this "better KDE distro" and where can I get it?
The coolest thing I ever built was an adding machine made out of K'nex that used binary logic gates. It was five feet long, but could only add two bits! (The amount of friction made it impossible to add more complexity.) I would have posted sooner, but I waited until I could upload a video of it to You Tube. K'nex Adding Machine
Around the same time, I also built a K'nex Rocket car.
I've used Media Monkey to mess with audio compression, and found that I couldn't tell the difference between a lossless wave file and an ogg file at 50 bps. (I used the song "409" by the Beach Boys, on Windows XP, with Altec Lansing stereo speakers.) I reckon my hearing is probably about average for teenagers - maybe even better because I don't listen to loud music. I've concluded that either A) I'm not an audiophile, or B) the media's insistence that you need to encode MP3's at 128 bps is FUD to make copnsumers by larger players. This is actually good news. Theoretically, it means I can fit three times as many songs on my audio player as advertised! Plus, I mostly listen to my music when I'm excercising on in the car, so if artifacts exist, chances are I'm not going to hear them. Oh, and at low bitrates, ogg vorbis and wmv were comprable, but MP3 did not sound as good at the same low bitrates.
That is really cool! Maybe I can do something like that with my old 8-year old computer - as soon as I quit using it as an HTTP server. It's really slow as a server. Kudos for brilliance, btw. Here's to another ingenious-yet-simple idea!
You nailed it there, brother!
Companies should team together to pay developers to make open source products for them, instead of buying proprietary software and paying for it again, and again, and again...
Strategy 1: Pay to develop the software, and get infinate copies, or
Strategy 2: Don't pay to develop it, and pay for EACH copy.
At some point, maybe they'll realize Strategy 1 could be a lot cheaper.
That's a quote from Terry Pratchet! One of my favorite authors. :-)
Say it is satire upfront! This is FAKE NEWS! That's OK on April 1, but during the rest of the year, it's polite to let us know the article is false. I read through the whole article and was getting quite irate before I read the comments and realized it was a joke. (I'll admit, I was suspicious of the article.)
brilliant comment!
Remember, entropy is trying to kill you!
(I love that quote.)
I thought I'd throw in my two cents, even though it's probably too late for people to read them.
This "war" people keep talking about is about Desktops. Even when Linux completely dominates the desktop computer market, that will be pointless. The next "big thing" is the smaller stuff: cell phones, PDA's, portable media players, etc. To ensure dominance, Linux would need to focus it's energy on the portable device market. It currently possesses a greater percent of that market than it does in the desktop market, but as soon as cell phones become powerful enough to run Microsoft Vista Compact Edition (or whatever), that could change. We need to start thinking about how we can make the best use of the new tinier technology, because that is where it will be at. Mainframes are practically dead; PC's took their place. In another 30 years, PC's could be dead too, and our 30 inch LCD screens replaced by virtual reality glasses.
Prediction: Linux should come to dominate the desktop market eventually, because we're reaching the limit of what desktops can do. Compared to the diversity of portable digital devices like cell phones and PDA's, desktops all look alike. That's because they have reached a stage where there are only incremental improvements. Given time, Linux will be able to catch up to Window's in the desktop market because the desktop race is slowing down. The "Linux vs. Microsoft war" will simply move on to a new medium.
Works find on FF + Kubuntu Linux.
Hand out a little notoriety?? Of SpaceShipTwo fame?? For those just as ignorant as the poster, notoriety is bad and SpaceShipTwo hasn't even taken off yet - it was SpaceShipOne that became famous for winning the X-Prize.
Pleease.
Is it possible to install Ubuntu Server Edition on it?
I'm running an HTTP server on a large 7 yr old computer, but I want a smaller server for college. Can you 1) connect a CD-drive to a KuroBox, and 2) connect a monitor and keyboard or SSH into it so you can see the screen, and 3) run the installer? Or do you have to use special versions of Linux on it?
I can't find the threshhold box at all in Konqueror. And I'm getting a tremendous amount of blank space on the right. FIX IT!
Sounds awesome!
Yes. 194 250 Japanese yen = 1 715.07987 U.S. dollars.
Ah... but Google does not crash. And it's easy to use. Microsoft fails in both those catagories. Most people don't REALLY care about privacy. They want great, easy to use software/webservices. (Actually, they want money and sex, but that's not part of this topic.)