Oh please keep your high-flying attitudes about what totalitarian society to yourself.
USSR indeed tried to cover up some of its failures, but to claim that someone intentionally send people to orbit to certain death is ridiculous. There was even a joke in the era about this; the story goes that during those early launches, along with some scientific equipment a voice recording with radio transmitter were sent in those probes, and American military who intercepted those broadcasts, claimed that the Russians send cosmonauts on suicide mission, so then next unmanned space mission - one of the Sputniks, I think, carried a Pyatnitsky choir recording.
There, s also a nice novel called Omon Ra, written in early nineties, that satirizes USSR from that perspective, but may I remind you that this is a work of fiction.
Moreover, what's is the point of voting for this non-measure, when there could be government-instituted health protection instead. And if that ever happens this law would become obsolete in that exact moment.
The US government should patent terrorism and then Liberman could sue YouTube for copyright infringement. Google would take down the videos immediately.
I run lexmark 250dn on a network with duplex. Not only it runs well on linux, but it is built on linux ( cd with drivers included a bunch of opensource licenses and source code), and that printer cost me only $150.
If you are so paranoid about the possibility of malware being installed on Ubuntu, just use $sudo -k, or better yet, add an alias to your ~/.bashrc. Something like alias sudo='sudo -k' Problem solved.
I'm a look communications ADSL subscriber, and the last couple of days, whenever I use torrent (encrypted or not) my download/upload speed doesnt go beyond during the evening 30Kbytes/s, while I'm on 5Mbit/800Kbit DSL line. I though look was bought by rogers, but apparently it leases its lines from Bell.
Sounds like a slogan from Kruschev era Soviet Union. Let's hope that "Peaceful coexistence" will end up for Microsoft the same way it ended up for USSR.
Oh yes, I bought 1 Gb Scandisk Sansa a year ago (was it c140?) - and it wasa total crap, cluncky user interface even if it had a colour screen. Really bad battery life, so I had do carry around 3 spare AAA rechargeables, it had all kinds of nasty MS DRM so transfer speed from my linux box to the player was around 250 KBps, that meant if I wanted to fill it up, it took 1 hour just to copy the files. And after 5 moth of use "volume increase" button broke. In fact this player was the final and biggest reason for me to stop bitching about "evil apple with their no-choice interfaces that everyone so ooohing and awhiing about" and actually buy one.
Now I have 2GB ipod nano and I must say it's pretty good. At least it's way better than Sanas or anything Scandisk ever made. And it works with amarok like a charm.
Enough of the ignorant "I didn't RTFA but Linux sucks" drivel NYSE moving some of the frontend tasks to linux, batch processing would be done by IBM z-series.
Selling through retail chain would probably backfire for dell at some point, since the customers, able to examine and touch dell laptops before buying would see for themselves how crappy Dells laptop keyboards are.
It is precisely not the fault of the user. The problem that windows is ridden with malware/spyware/viruses is not the fault of the user, it is fault of Microsoft. And here we have exactly the same problem - why should user has to go out to some third party repositories and fish out packages he couldn't find in "main"? This problem was somewhat better solved in debian by introducing testing/sid/non-free, at least you know when you download a packages from sid, you have only yourself to blame. Ubuntu came up with the real solution by placing those packages into main repository and actually dealing with the problem. So please stop whining about poor-dumb-user-placed-coffee-cup-on-cdrom-tray and now everything broken, this would not help the problem.
I doubt that number of linux distros would make much difference. Any popular distro is based on the same kernel, and the only real problem is to get all the hardware working, especially wireless card. Then Dell would have master image for distro A B C D.... and just select the one customer requested, just like the choice between windows 2000 and winxp some time ago. Technically it's not a big of a deal, plus there doesn't have to be numerous distros just the most popular ones ubuntu, fedora, suse that's three. And the people who'd like to install other distros e.g. Debian would have a lot less hassle because of the availability of the drivers. Dell could also sell Ubuntu with 3 or so month of included support from Canonical.
Also dell doesn't have to provide tech support for linux, just the same it doesn't provide it for windows, and I suppose there will be the usual linux-related community to which would be possible to offload some tech support.
So the question weather preload linux in not technical, but purely political.
Not really. Deb is better. I used fedora and apt-rpm is still many times slower that apt-get under any other distro. Also rpm doesn't have notion of virtual packages, which causes breakage more often.
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Oh please keep your high-flying attitudes about what totalitarian society to yourself. USSR indeed tried to cover up some of its failures, but to claim that someone intentionally send people to orbit to certain death is ridiculous. There was even a joke in the era about this; the story goes that during those early launches, along with some scientific equipment a voice recording with radio transmitter were sent in those probes, and American military who intercepted those broadcasts, claimed that the Russians send cosmonauts on suicide mission, so then next unmanned space mission - one of the Sputniks, I think, carried a Pyatnitsky choir recording. There, s also a nice novel called Omon Ra, written in early nineties, that satirizes USSR from that perspective, but may I remind you that this is a work of fiction.
Moreover, what's is the point of voting for this non-measure, when there could be government-instituted health protection instead. And if that ever happens this law would become obsolete in that exact moment.
The US government should patent terrorism and then Liberman could sue YouTube for copyright infringement. Google would take down the videos immediately.
Well, there are also official repositories from skype ./
deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free
Google
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free
And Canon printer drivers
deb http://mambo.kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~takushi/debian
try Debian + debian-multimedia. That pretty much does the same thing, except you never gonna get into dependency hell. Not even occasionally.
That happened because:
(a) parent is trolling
(b) parent uses ugly font
Link to the test
http://www.andovercg.com/services/cisco-counterfeit-wic-1dsu-t1.shtml
Another 1/2 hour wasted, even though I don't even know what that card is for
There's no point in typing 'echo "SPAM!" twice.
:; do echo "SPAM"; done
while
I run lexmark 250dn on a network with duplex. Not only it runs well on linux, but it is built on linux ( cd with drivers included a bunch of opensource licenses and source code), and that printer cost me only $150.
vpnc works pretty good under linux
If you are so paranoid about the possibility of malware being installed on Ubuntu, just use $sudo -k, or better yet, add an alias to your ~/.bashrc. Something like
alias sudo='sudo -k'
Problem solved.
I'm a look communications ADSL subscriber, and the last couple of days, whenever I use torrent (encrypted or not) my download/upload speed doesnt go beyond during the evening 30Kbytes/s, while I'm on 5Mbit/800Kbit DSL line. I though look was bought by rogers, but apparently it leases its lines from Bell.
I'm pretty sure CTU had Dell servers all over the place. Which by itself explains a lot.
It's just a pity that Oracle doesn't think so.
Sounds like a slogan from Kruschev era Soviet Union. Let's hope that "Peaceful coexistence" will end up for Microsoft the same way it ended up for USSR.
Oh yes, I bought 1 Gb Scandisk Sansa a year ago (was it c140?) - and it wasa total crap, cluncky user interface even if it had a colour screen. Really bad battery life, so I had do carry around 3 spare AAA rechargeables, it had all kinds of nasty MS DRM so transfer speed from my linux box to the player was around 250 KBps, that meant if I wanted to fill it up, it took 1 hour just to copy the files. And after 5 moth of use "volume increase" button broke. In fact this player was the final and biggest reason for me to stop bitching about "evil apple with their no-choice interfaces that everyone so ooohing and awhiing about" and actually buy one.
Now I have 2GB ipod nano and I must say it's pretty good. At least it's way better than Sanas or anything Scandisk ever made. And it works with amarok like a charm.
yum update is not generally headachy, it is only headachy when it breaks
Windows isn't Unix. NT did include a POSIX system but that bit-rotted from lack of use and was removed I believe.
This is called bait and switch, I believe.
Enough of the ignorant "I didn't RTFA but Linux sucks" drivel
NYSE moving some of the frontend tasks to linux, batch processing would be done by IBM z-series.
Selling through retail chain would probably backfire for dell at some point, since the customers, able to examine and touch dell laptops before buying would see for themselves how crappy Dells laptop keyboards are.
Actually QEMU will do POWER as well as ARM and bunch of other stuff. QEMU was designed to emulate other architectures, but it gets quite slow.
It is precisely not the fault of the user. The problem that windows is ridden with malware/spyware/viruses is not the fault of the user, it is fault of Microsoft. And here we have exactly the same problem - why should user has to go out to some third party repositories and fish out packages he couldn't find in "main"? This problem was somewhat better solved in debian by introducing testing/sid/non-free, at least you know when you download a packages from sid, you have only yourself to blame. Ubuntu came up with the real solution by placing those packages into main repository and actually dealing with the problem.
So please stop whining about poor-dumb-user-placed-coffee-cup-on-cdrom-tray and now everything broken, this would not help the problem.
No not at all. Why?
I did couple of linux deployments using installed images, and it's pretty easy.
I doubt that number of linux distros would make much difference. Any popular distro is based on the same kernel, and the only real problem is to get all the hardware working, especially wireless card. Then Dell would have master image for distro A B C D.... and just select the one customer requested, just like the choice between windows 2000 and winxp some time ago. Technically it's not a big of a deal, plus there doesn't have to be numerous distros just the most popular ones ubuntu, fedora, suse that's three. And the people who'd like to install other distros e.g. Debian would have a lot less hassle because of the availability of the drivers. Dell could also sell Ubuntu with 3 or so month of included support from Canonical.
Also dell doesn't have to provide tech support for linux, just the same it doesn't provide it for windows, and I suppose there will be the usual linux-related community to which would be possible to offload some tech support.
So the question weather preload linux in not technical, but purely political.
Not really. Deb is better. I used fedora and apt-rpm is still many times slower that apt-get under any other distro. Also rpm doesn't have notion of virtual packages, which causes breakage more often.