Explain how bluetooth is a spectacular failure? Bluetooth is the first thing that surprised me. I got my T60 a couple of years ago, went looking for guides to set it up, was simple as apg-get install gnome-bluetooth. I was expecting something much harder back then. Now days it's included by default, actually a lot more is included by default. I am finding every new version involves less work from me to get it just the way I want it. (Happy Ubuntu user)
I ended up giving up with CS3. I can get it to deploy nicely, do it on user machine -> fail! I figured for 2 users, it just wasn't worth my time. The lacky is cheaper!
That's around AU$1000, considering that our dollar has taken quite a beating at the moment, anything we have to import is becoming pricey. So that $1000 is actually around US$670
You know, this scares me about old age. That's why I have taken to writing everything I do in a wiki. I want to make sure I never lose the information in my head!
Windows ME can run well, with the correct hardware. It is quite finicky and finding the correct drivers is a nightmare. Even then it tended to be quite unstable. Personally it was the first OS from M$ I actually bought and it was the last.
You my friend, must have some good luck... Go buy a lotto ticket!
Can't see it being terribly difficult to package, in fact I am investigating as a side project. Every day that passes, the need to rid our dependency on IE grows.
Exactly, I argued quite strongly at one of Conroy's sessions, explaining exactly why FTTN was not going to be good enough to future proof Australia. He pretty much fed back the Policy that had been conjured word for word. Going by his stance on Internet Filtering, it wouldn't be a far stretch that because he promised FTTN, that's what the public are going to get. Even if FTTH as greater long term benefits!
Senator Steven "Liar" Conroy. He has claimed over and over, that the Mandatory system he wishes to implement is of the same variety as what's in Europe. NSW calls Conroy on Euro filter fudge'
Which after a little searching one finds completely untrue. He has been questioned by other members of parliament and skirted around the issue by feeding the "Unwanted Material" line.
Because clicking on the down arrow next to the G doesn't give you enough options?
Hell some of the places I frequent automatically add search options to that list. Two mouse clicks I can be searching the Wiki at work, another two yahoo, another two back to google!
I should also say apart from My remote, capture card, case (Case was to improve WAF) and now video card (Improved HD Playback) the rest of the box was built entirely from parts I had laying around. I have been collecting parts to rebuild it when Knoppmyth R6 comes out, as I think the current box will be nearing the end of it's life (7 years old, the caps are looking bulgy!) and the Half TB of space is running out fast!
+1 for Knoppmyth! It was one of the distributions I cut my teeth on. After hitting many brick walls with Windows based solutions, by hitting brick walls I mean a box that sat there and "Just Worked", I found Knoppmyth. It was a learning curve, but the documentation is very good, the forums are friendly and it is a pretty much set and forget solution which my better half can use.
I'm a WA Resident as well, and I love DST! Being an office worker and young, you do get to enjoy the extra evening light. But then again I'm in Perth and do get the ocean breeze most afternoons. But it's hot inland regardless of the time you get home. Friends of mine work in the mining industry and to make sure there rooms aren't unbearably hot to sleep in they have to run the air con all the time. The invariable DST time warp probably does not affect them as much though.
Well I have lots of stuff lying around, you never know when you might need something. Some things I've just collected, which rarely come with driver discs. Some bought and drivers that come with are useless for "Insert current Windows OS" and none available on the net. Just because something is old, doesn't make it useless.
What kind of slashdot user bothers with the drivers that came with the system? They are quite often outdated and buggy.
Aside from that I have all the drivers for everything I own, but when you get given some rubbish little device that was flaky at best on windows, the urge to be so worried about the whereabouts of said disc diminishes.
Had the same thing with a cheap ass bluetooth dongle someone gave me. Lost the driver disc, so it got shoved in a box of junk. Been a while since I'd checked that box and no longer use windows as my primary desktop. So after doing a clean up one day I figured, well my pc is turned on so no harm in trying it... Plugged it in, the little bluetooth symbol appeared next to the clock and hey presto it worked!! That was compared to the many many hours spent trying to find a working driver for windows!
Yep, me! Girlfriend couldn't wait for our local shop to get Linux models into stock and they only had XP ones on the shelf. Not a battle I was going to win!
I wrote to Senator Conroy, and the reply from Belinda Dennett was less than satisfactory. But that will actually help me, I will be writing letters to all the MPs in Western Australia with my Original Email and the response, plus all the new information, urging them to consider how they feel about the issue.
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Explain how bluetooth is a spectacular failure? Bluetooth is the first thing that surprised me. I got my T60 a couple of years ago, went looking for guides to set it up, was simple as apg-get install gnome-bluetooth. I was expecting something much harder back then. Now days it's included by default, actually a lot more is included by default. I am finding every new version involves less work from me to get it just the way I want it. (Happy Ubuntu user)
Have you even used other Shells?? The MS PowerShell is frustrating and a very poor clone of *nix has been doing for years.
Actually no it doesn't. You really do have to be careful with Wine :P
I ended up giving up with CS3. I can get it to deploy nicely, do it on user machine -> fail! I figured for 2 users, it just wasn't worth my time. The lacky is cheaper!
Maybe if we say it enough times it will become true. Bit like the Global Financial crisis...
That's around AU$1000, considering that our dollar has taken quite a beating at the moment, anything we have to import is becoming pricey. So that $1000 is actually around US$670
You know, this scares me about old age. That's why I have taken to writing everything I do in a wiki. I want to make sure I never lose the information in my head!
Windows ME can run well, with the correct hardware. It is quite finicky and finding the correct drivers is a nightmare. Even then it tended to be quite unstable. Personally it was the first OS from M$ I actually bought and it was the last.
You my friend, must have some good luck... Go buy a lotto ticket!
My boss got tricked by the same thing. Fortunately re-imaging was my job ;)
If you are a big enough shop, you probably already packaging MSI's yourself. We do, with a userbase of 330.
We use a limited version of AdminStudio
Comes with Novell Zenworks
Can't see it being terribly difficult to package, in fact I am investigating as a side project. Every day that passes, the need to rid our dependency on IE grows.
Exactly, I argued quite strongly at one of Conroy's sessions, explaining exactly why FTTN was not going to be good enough to future proof Australia. He pretty much fed back the Policy that had been conjured word for word. Going by his stance on Internet Filtering, it wouldn't be a far stretch that because he promised FTTN, that's what the public are going to get. Even if FTTH as greater long term benefits!
Disturbingly there is probably pictures of that on the net!
Senator Steven "Liar" Conroy. He has claimed over and over, that the Mandatory system he wishes to implement is of the same variety as what's in Europe. NSW calls Conroy on Euro filter fudge'
Which after a little searching one finds completely untrue. He has been questioned by other members of parliament and skirted around the issue by feeding the "Unwanted Material" line.
I'm still sensing sarcasm in your post ;-)
Because clicking on the down arrow next to the G doesn't give you enough options?
Hell some of the places I frequent automatically add search options to that list. Two mouse clicks I can be searching the Wiki at work, another two yahoo, another two back to google!
I should also say apart from My remote, capture card, case (Case was to improve WAF) and now video card (Improved HD Playback) the rest of the box was built entirely from parts I had laying around. I have been collecting parts to rebuild it when Knoppmyth R6 comes out, as I think the current box will be nearing the end of it's life (7 years old, the caps are looking bulgy!) and the Half TB of space is running out fast!
+1 for Knoppmyth! It was one of the distributions I cut my teeth on. After hitting many brick walls with Windows based solutions, by hitting brick walls I mean a box that sat there and "Just Worked", I found Knoppmyth. It was a learning curve, but the documentation is very good, the forums are friendly and it is a pretty much set and forget solution which my better half can use.
I use these a lot for several RSS feeds and Torrentflux ;)
Negative Lookahead -> Match only those that exclude the string
(?!.*?720p)
Positive Lookahead -> Match only those that include the string
(?=.*PDTV)
Eg
(?=.*PDTV)(?!.*720p)^Non.Copyrighted.TV.Show.s01e[\d].*
Can add as many positive/negative look aheads as you want, very handy for weeding out the half dozen copies you'd get of each one!
I'm a WA Resident as well, and I love DST! Being an office worker and young, you do get to enjoy the extra evening light. But then again I'm in Perth and do get the ocean breeze most afternoons. But it's hot inland regardless of the time you get home. Friends of mine work in the mining industry and to make sure there rooms aren't unbearably hot to sleep in they have to run the air con all the time. The invariable DST time warp probably does not affect them as much though.
Well I have lots of stuff lying around, you never know when you might need something. Some things I've just collected, which rarely come with driver discs. Some bought and drivers that come with are useless for "Insert current Windows OS" and none available on the net. Just because something is old, doesn't make it useless.
What kind of slashdot user bothers with the drivers that came with the system? They are quite often outdated and buggy.
Aside from that I have all the drivers for everything I own, but when you get given some rubbish little device that was flaky at best on windows, the urge to be so worried about the whereabouts of said disc diminishes.
Had the same thing with a cheap ass bluetooth dongle someone gave me. Lost the driver disc, so it got shoved in a box of junk. Been a while since I'd checked that box and no longer use windows as my primary desktop. So after doing a clean up one day I figured, well my pc is turned on so no harm in trying it... Plugged it in, the little bluetooth symbol appeared next to the clock and hey presto it worked!! That was compared to the many many hours spent trying to find a working driver for windows!
Hell, even some of the old Muds are still going, small user base now days, but still ticking along! necromium.com
Yep, me! Girlfriend couldn't wait for our local shop to get Linux models into stock and they only had XP ones on the shelf. Not a battle I was going to win!
I wrote to Senator Conroy, and the reply from Belinda Dennett was less than satisfactory. But that will actually help me, I will be writing letters to all the MPs in Western Australia with my Original Email and the response, plus all the new information, urging them to consider how they feel about the issue.