I believe the RRP price is £170 which is approximately $350 (using the simple $2 to £1 conversion), I agree you can purchase it for around £140 in most places.
I agree completely with this, Rock Band was released in the USA more than 7 months ago because activision want to make an extra buck (by selling exclusive rights to xbox360) I have to wait an unknown number of months before I get the privilage of buying it on the PS3. Not only that but the cost of the game is greater than twice the american version (its normally double) In America you complain about a $450 console, how do you feel about paying ~$350 (£140) for a game?
Its pretty much for those two reasons, I won't be purchasing Rock Band. I still can't like th Wii (games are far to simple and easy for me) but hopefully this will start a trend where the gaming companies actually start to care for Europe.
No your actually talking nonsense and most probably trolling, Microsoft in part has begun to take security seriously, but as the parent said security comes in layers there is no solve all solution.
Since XP SP2 browsers have the ability to tag recently downloaded executables both firefox and IE7 do this. If I download something and try to run it I'm informed its from an unknown source and asked if I want to run it. This provides anouther layer of security, it means if I go onto my desktop and there are two My Computer icons there and I open one and it asks me if I want to run it I can assume thats an executable and unless I put it there then I probably don't want to run it.
Safri ignores all these layers of security, it downloads files to the desktop without even notifying the user (let alone asking their permission this breaks a layer of security.) It fails to tag these files as being downloaded breaking the user side of security.
You could put a file called My Documents, Itunes, Safri etc.. on the desktop and users have no way of knowing if its the real deal because Safri is refusing to follow Microsoft guidelines. Whats even worse is Apple are refusing to accept this is even a security problem.
I've had a Maxtor 6.4GB hard drive since pre-melenium time, its been in a computer case hats been dropped down a flight of stairs, the MBR record destroyed itself (for OS purposes you couldn't install a OS to it but it would hold data this happened pre 2000) its been hit with a hammer (fustration at said MBR fault), connected to a PC's whose power supply blew spctacularly and finally it was connected (as slave and on the same power spur) to a 200GB Maxtor Diamond Plus when said 200GB drive short circuted itself and caused one of the more impressive electrical arc's I've ever seen (just after that happened I put it in storage around 2004.)
Last week I was going through my old computer bits and discovered it, since I had a open computer case nearby (was building a new PC out of old PC scraps) I plugged it in and downloaded the contents. It was nice to see what random crap I thought was important enough to store while I was still in school.
The morale of that story is during the same time I've owned that drive I've had a 4.2GB Maxtor fail completely, an uncountable number of Fujitsu 40GB hard drives fail, a 40GB Western Digital motor die, a 200GB Maxtor short circuiting, the 240GB replacement Maxtor gave me because of the 200GB failure having a problem holding data, a western digital 120GB breaing and recently a 40GB laptop drive gaining extremely high read/write tims. Sure somethings will last far past their expected life times, most IDE hard drives in my expearence seem to be designed to fail at 13 months.
Re:Writer doesn't know what a real geek is.
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The conept of what a "geek" actually is has been twisted by main stream culture. I've never considered myself a geek (more of a nerd) geeks tend to be people obsessed with one thing, who generally lack socail skills and are heavily indoors type people playing with warhammer or magic cards late into the night.
Modern society tends to view a desire to learn as "geeky", I've helped a number of friends in the past with various subjects and lost track of the time that I've heard them say things like "I'm such a geek actually revising before an exam" or "I can't believe I'm doing this, I'm such a geek". They also seem to view anything to do with computers as geeky. I knew one girl who I was good friends with was actually stunned when I offered to fix her broken laptop. The fact I could fix it meant I was a geek and yet I seemed "so normal".
I'm sure nerds/geeks could argure about what a "geek" actually is for centuries, the mainstream society tat I've met seems to think its the stereo typical image, the desire to learn and any sort of knowledge of computers. The article suggesting that everyone using facebook means the age of the geek has arrived doesn't surprise me.
I agree not everyone can voice act but after working on a podcast project I've discovered ALOT of people can. It was far harder to convinvce those people they couldn't write, or too plan a production than it ever was in getting voice actors. I happen to think £50k for what was probably a few months of real work is a huge amount of money
In the UK a EULA comes under the same heading as a contract, recently some industry watchdog investigated around 20 of them and decided they were unfair and probably not legal (which is now going to cause a larger investigation and get the EU Commisson involved.)
In the UK atleast a contract is an agreement between equals depending on the size of the OS X EULA and where it states you can't install it in the UK it is quite probable a UK court would hold that the EULA is invalid. It wouldn't matter if a company or individual were accused by Apple of breaking it.
Its called System testing and I agree writing Unit tests are never enough.
As for your comment about them "knowing better", I've worked on a multi-million line project. When your lines of code reaches that sort of size the issues faced for someone on ten million are pretty much the same for people on twenty million loc projects. If you RTFA you'll see it was a series of system tests which demonstrated the problem in the first place. Although the fact the kernel doesn't seem to have a standardised set of system/unit tests does concern me. (correct me if I'm wrong)
I can certainly agree with that, in Plymouth in the UK theres an old government building its only two contributions are charity based abseiling and keeping local government penned up. During the massive redevelopment thats going on in Plymouth some small group (not from the area) got the building listed.
It took over a month of the local paper and BBC south west going "WTF?" before an answer was given, aparently the three pools outside of the building and a mosaic inside were designed by some artist who despite googling I couldn't gind any information on. The city now has the displeasure of spending upto three times the amount to restore the building, compared to their original plan of knocking it down making a pedestrian area and moving some non critical services out of the city center which don't need to be there.
Recently I've had the displeasure of moving to Sherborne just outside of Yeovil. There is anouther listed building it was "The Elephant" pub for 200 years (aparently) but the pub closed almost thrity years ago its now a series of flats. To say the place and its surrounding buildings are a major eyesore is an understatement. Nothing important or note worthy happened in this pub the building just happened to have been a pub for a long time.
I can think of dozens of other equally stupid listed buildings. In the UK atleast listed building status seems to be given far to easy for far too little reason. The systems been abused to the point where I would seriouly listen to a politician who talks about scrapping or majorally overhauling listed building laws.
I tried a NTFS partition and also tried a ext3 partition those problems were consistant, I even tried installing from a hastily setup XP parition. Last year I tried to move to Ubuntu 7.04 and had fewer hardware issues, unfortunatly I forgot that I'd replaced the belkin USB stick with a netgear one and upgraded from an Audigy to a XFi. The graphics card is the same one from that expeariment so why 8.04 gave me so much trouble is a mystery to me.
I hate to break this to you but crime in the UK has actually (overall) been steadily declining over the last ten years. The problem is irresponsible reporting by the big media companies. Ironically I decided to have a quick search and came up with with something which isn't poorly reported:
An example of the shoddy journalism we're putting up with: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7364072.stm
If you read the article you'll note that while violence towards children "soared" (why not use the term doubled?) the statistic also counted fights amoungst children. Rather than focus on the sudden increase in violence amoungst young children, or the fact that for the last eight years injuries due to violence have been failing in the cardif, or the fact that the "hoodie teenagers" so much hated by Daily Mail readers are also becoming less violent the news programs concentrate on the shock story and ignore everything else. When that particular story was shown on the 6 O'Clock news they spent all their time talking about gang culture and the soar in "child abuse" rather than talking about the group which had actually increased in its violence (0 - 10 yr olds) and explore just how such a young age category could be so badly hurt.
The Media talking about "rising violence" is just like Labours fixation on the "family", alot of hot air without much substance.
He doesn't have 17 children but 17 possible decendents (with possibly even more) the article states that scientists believe he died somewhere between 1670 and 1850, assuming he had two kids, who in turn had two kids and we have a generation lifecycle of about 30 years (with the latest possible death date), it wouldn't be that out of place to expect 32 decendents assuming the earliest death date there is the possibility of 2643 decendents.
Of course I've pulled those numbers out of thin air and they could be much higher/lower but finding 17 decendents isn't that surprising.
I'd be willing to make a wager on which ones easier if we use Vista Home Premium and drop the "read music files from a linx partition".
My experience with Hardy Heron was a disaster this weekend and I'd like to share it, in part because if people have solutions to any of the problems I would like to hear them.
The Machine:
AMD64 3700+ (socket 939)
2GB Cosair DDR400 ram
NVIDIA 7600 GS OC
Creative XFi Extreme Gamer
Epson Stylus 4400
Creative Vista! Live Webcam
Aver media PCI Hybrid TV Card (AR16R)
Netgear W111 V3 USB wireless adapter Installation
Extremely easy, the installation process is as easy to use as the Windows Vista installer and marginally easier than XP's. I did have one problem in that I couldn't seem to get past the partition manager when I chose to use an existing NTFS volume (doing the guided thing) the installer wouldn't proceed. All the other options worked well enough, and even with it freezing I was able to cancel the option and choose another and go forward.
First Time Use
I found out (after much googling) Ubuntu hadn't been able to detect my monitor's ability and so had gone into safekeeping mode. This meant I was stuck at a resolution of 640x480, this presented a huge problem as none of the menus fitted on the screen the NVIDIA-settings panel was so cut off I wasn't sure if I could select a monitor and Ubuntu didn't seem to give me an option. 3 Hours later after reading edgy, feisty, random x11 how to's I, in frustration decided to deleted my xorg.conf. Ubuntu actually managed to recover graphically (I was impressed) and entered "low graphics mode" amusingly in 800x600 resolution. From here I could choose a generic monitor that matched my monitor's resolution and was finally able to enjoy 1600x1200.
Internet Shock!
What I forgot to mention above was my Netgear W111 v3 doesn't have a 'nix driver. After an hour of googling I locate ndiswrapper find a Marvel chipset driver for the device and start trying to install it. Two hours later learning more about grep, lspci and ndiswrapper than I wanted to know I give up. For some reason several of my USB devices refuse to show up in lspci and without it being listed there ndiswrapper shows an "invalid driver" error. At this point I would like to say had I actually progressed further I would have made a decent GUI and delved into the code so it gave useful error messages, just to improve the user friendliness (and handed that over.) Alas after checking the device and ensuring the port was working by using another USB device I gave in, got a really big Ethernet cable and connected to my router that way.
Enjoying that sound fidelity
Creative make a beta driver for my sound card, after three hours of googling and trying I gave in. I had, had enough for some reason the driver was reporting a make *** [all] error 2 and a make *** [something I can't remember] error 2 message. Googling that gave me no leads into what the potential problem was and I had to admit defeat. I was aware of a open source driver but the posts I read suggested it was limited, wouldn't output sound through the optical socket (which is what I use) and was "buggy". So I didn't even try to locate it.
Putting Vista back on
Around 8PM that night I decided enough was enough, I wasn't going to get things to a level where Quake 4 would run properly so I might as well put Vista back on. Around 9:50 I had my desktop back, I could have placed all my driver disc's in and installed instead I choose to download and install the latest ones, by 10:20 I was online through my Wireless usb stick, posting on Myst Obsession as Office 2003 installed. By 10:40pm I had finished posting on MystObsession and Quake 4 had finished installing.
My Final note
Many years ago I taught my sisters to install XP, place the right drivers on and get their machine setup, both of them can now do it quite happily by themselves. T
That description is highly convoluted I can see two things their trying to do:
1Allowing a user to scroll along a window by moving their finger up and down the screen. This will allow you to scroll up and down even if your far from the windows edge or a scroll bar. This is not new or inovative, my 4/5 year old Orange m500 did this wil Windows Mobile 2003 SE
2As you've suggested the ability to move between different Im conversations by scrolling your finger up and down the screen. I fail to see the innovation in this. Why not patent a method of scrolling through im conversations using a single key. Just because its a touch screen doesn't make it magically innovative or new.
I really hope software patents don't take off in Europe if this sort of thing is the result.
I agree completely with this, at university I was given a random 8 digit password consisting of letters, letters (small and upper) and symbols. Because the systems demanded all of them I kept it.
Unfortunatly where I work most passwords have to conform to the same standard but must be rotated every 3 months and can't repeat for a year. Next month I reach the point where I'm going to have to make something up and most probably I'll have to write it down (ran out of permutations.)
Passwords are a great idea except there doesn't seem and standardisation on them, my bank wants a 12 digit id and min 8 digit number based password, my hotmail/msn won't allow symbols, anouther online email I have requires a max 6 digit symbol/letter combination. In work I have 4 different systems I use each of which has different password requirements and each has a different expire period, various online accounts won't allow numbers (an old forum for example) some dislike symbols, Steam won't accept my university password. I have about twenty passwords I need to remember, change and update.
What we need for security is password standardisation, a choice by as many companies as possible as what they expect a password to be with support for symbols letters and numbers in every application.
Where I work flash is blocked from installing, my morning routine used to be to open Dilbert and have a read while some of the other apps I use slowly load. With no flash on your browser all you get is two coloured bars and two requests to install flash. I'm betting alot of corporate places follow similar practices. I thought the old site was dated but after just glancing at the new one, I definitly want the old back.
No I'm not time wasting, it takes Outlook and Eclipse about a minute+ to load, more than enough time to pop open an IE tab and glance at Dilbert.
The BBC has and hasn't picked up on the story, on TV most of the RIAA, BPI, etc... actions don't get a mention, its not that they don't care its just the media, health, politics and business tend to make up the evening and morning news. On the BBC website in the technology section a guy called Bill Thompson http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7324556.stm does seem to share many of the views Slashdot has. The technology section also has a strong net neutrality and right to privacy viewpoint (phorm stories always concentrate on the negitive, RIAA and BPI mention lawsuits as back reference.)
The Problem is until these sorts of things become significantly political they never get air time. Even the current battle between the iPlayer and ISP's hasn't made the current news.
Women do have just as much right to work, but if the parents are willing to reduce their hours or alter their lifestyle to fit in with the child's, should they really have one?
The bloke can quit his job and raise the kid theres no need to pass of the responsiblity as soon as possible.
When I used to live with my parents, my mum was a child minder and it always used to bug me that I would spend more time with the kids she looked after than both parents combined and I would be activily avoiding them. In pretty much every case the husband was the main bread winner with the wife going back to her job as soon as possible which would pay for child care and a few "extras" oh and the holidays they liked going on (minus kid) three of four times a year.
I'm not saying women shouldn't be allowed to work but I do think a parent should be looking after them they shouldn't be dumped into day care, school care or on the grandparents as soon as possible. When I have kids if I'm not the bigger earner then I'll quit my job, making sure they grow up in a loving enviroment is more important to me than having a few extra's.
Yes there are times when both parents will need to work to support a family, but I have to ask if they can't afford to spend any time with the child they want to bring into this world what is the point?
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Knowing what the media is like I wouldn't be surprised if a Londoner's are all for it because London is Enland an England is the UK.
It really winds me up a report states too much time is spent on London issues and the BBC come out wth they spend too much time on England.
I believe the RRP price is £170 which is approximately $350 (using the simple $2 to £1 conversion), I agree you can purchase it for around £140 in most places.
I agree completely with this, Rock Band was released in the USA more than 7 months ago because activision want to make an extra buck (by selling exclusive rights to xbox360) I have to wait an unknown number of months before I get the privilage of buying it on the PS3. Not only that but the cost of the game is greater than twice the american version (its normally double) In America you complain about a $450 console, how do you feel about paying ~$350 (£140) for a game?
Its pretty much for those two reasons, I won't be purchasing Rock Band. I still can't like th Wii (games are far to simple and easy for me) but hopefully this will start a trend where the gaming companies actually start to care for Europe.
No your actually talking nonsense and most probably trolling, Microsoft in part has begun to take security seriously, but as the parent said security comes in layers there is no solve all solution.
Since XP SP2 browsers have the ability to tag recently downloaded executables both firefox and IE7 do this. If I download something and try to run it I'm informed its from an unknown source and asked if I want to run it. This provides anouther layer of security, it means if I go onto my desktop and there are two My Computer icons there and I open one and it asks me if I want to run it I can assume thats an executable and unless I put it there then I probably don't want to run it.
Safri ignores all these layers of security, it downloads files to the desktop without even notifying the user (let alone asking their permission this breaks a layer of security.) It fails to tag these files as being downloaded breaking the user side of security.
You could put a file called My Documents, Itunes, Safri etc.. on the desktop and users have no way of knowing if its the real deal because Safri is refusing to follow Microsoft guidelines. Whats even worse is Apple are refusing to accept this is even a security problem.
Cool Borders (or one of the sequels) had such an attachment, the controller was widely slated if memory serves
I Don't Know
I've had a Maxtor 6.4GB hard drive since pre-melenium time, its been in a computer case hats been dropped down a flight of stairs, the MBR record destroyed itself (for OS purposes you couldn't install a OS to it but it would hold data this happened pre 2000) its been hit with a hammer (fustration at said MBR fault), connected to a PC's whose power supply blew spctacularly and finally it was connected (as slave and on the same power spur) to a 200GB Maxtor Diamond Plus when said 200GB drive short circuted itself and caused one of the more impressive electrical arc's I've ever seen (just after that happened I put it in storage around 2004.)
Last week I was going through my old computer bits and discovered it, since I had a open computer case nearby (was building a new PC out of old PC scraps) I plugged it in and downloaded the contents. It was nice to see what random crap I thought was important enough to store while I was still in school.
The morale of that story is during the same time I've owned that drive I've had a 4.2GB Maxtor fail completely, an uncountable number of Fujitsu 40GB hard drives fail, a 40GB Western Digital motor die, a 200GB Maxtor short circuiting, the 240GB replacement Maxtor gave me because of the 200GB failure having a problem holding data, a western digital 120GB breaing and recently a 40GB laptop drive gaining extremely high read/write tims. Sure somethings will last far past their expected life times, most IDE hard drives in my expearence seem to be designed to fail at 13 months.
The conept of what a "geek" actually is has been twisted by main stream culture. I've never considered myself a geek (more of a nerd) geeks tend to be people obsessed with one thing, who generally lack socail skills and are heavily indoors type people playing with warhammer or magic cards late into the night.
Modern society tends to view a desire to learn as "geeky", I've helped a number of friends in the past with various subjects and lost track of the time that I've heard them say things like "I'm such a geek actually revising before an exam" or "I can't believe I'm doing this, I'm such a geek". They also seem to view anything to do with computers as geeky. I knew one girl who I was good friends with was actually stunned when I offered to fix her broken laptop. The fact I could fix it meant I was a geek and yet I seemed "so normal".
I'm sure nerds/geeks could argure about what a "geek" actually is for centuries, the mainstream society tat I've met seems to think its the stereo typical image, the desire to learn and any sort of knowledge of computers. The article suggesting that everyone using facebook means the age of the geek has arrived doesn't surprise me.
I agree not everyone can voice act but after working on a podcast project I've discovered ALOT of people can. It was far harder to convinvce those people they couldn't write, or too plan a production than it ever was in getting voice actors. I happen to think £50k for what was probably a few months of real work is a huge amount of money
In the UK a EULA comes under the same heading as a contract, recently some industry watchdog investigated around 20 of them and decided they were unfair and probably not legal (which is now going to cause a larger investigation and get the EU Commisson involved.)
In the UK atleast a contract is an agreement between equals depending on the size of the OS X EULA and where it states you can't install it in the UK it is quite probable a UK court would hold that the EULA is invalid. It wouldn't matter if a company or individual were accused by Apple of breaking it.
Lies! Slashdot ceansors posts! Know the truth
Its called System testing and I agree writing Unit tests are never enough.
As for your comment about them "knowing better", I've worked on a multi-million line project. When your lines of code reaches that sort of size the issues faced for someone on ten million are pretty much the same for people on twenty million loc projects. If you RTFA you'll see it was a series of system tests which demonstrated the problem in the first place. Although the fact the kernel doesn't seem to have a standardised set of system/unit tests does concern me. (correct me if I'm wrong)
Films
Serenity
Stargate: The Ark of Truth
TV Films
Frank Herberts Dune
Farscape the Peacekeeper War
I enjoyed all of these and it can be said all of them were made by producers/director's who really wanted to finish a story rather than make a profit.
I can certainly agree with that, in Plymouth in the UK theres an old government building its only two contributions are charity based abseiling and keeping local government penned up. During the massive redevelopment thats going on in Plymouth some small group (not from the area) got the building listed.
It took over a month of the local paper and BBC south west going "WTF?" before an answer was given, aparently the three pools outside of the building and a mosaic inside were designed by some artist who despite googling I couldn't gind any information on. The city now has the displeasure of spending upto three times the amount to restore the building, compared to their original plan of knocking it down making a pedestrian area and moving some non critical services out of the city center which don't need to be there.
Recently I've had the displeasure of moving to Sherborne just outside of Yeovil. There is anouther listed building it was "The Elephant" pub for 200 years (aparently) but the pub closed almost thrity years ago its now a series of flats. To say the place and its surrounding buildings are a major eyesore is an understatement. Nothing important or note worthy happened in this pub the building just happened to have been a pub for a long time.
I can think of dozens of other equally stupid listed buildings. In the UK atleast listed building status seems to be given far to easy for far too little reason. The systems been abused to the point where I would seriouly listen to a politician who talks about scrapping or majorally overhauling listed building laws.
Mod parent up during my final year of my Electronic's degree this book was my bible
We didn't want to tell you this but Slashdot doesn't like you. We were hoping to melt your machine so we wouldn't have to but you caught us.
I tried a NTFS partition and also tried a ext3 partition those problems were consistant, I even tried installing from a hastily setup XP parition. Last year I tried to move to Ubuntu 7.04 and had fewer hardware issues, unfortunatly I forgot that I'd replaced the belkin USB stick with a netgear one and upgraded from an Audigy to a XFi. The graphics card is the same one from that expeariment so why 8.04 gave me so much trouble is a mystery to me.
I hate to break this to you but crime in the UK has actually (overall) been steadily declining over the last ten years. The problem is irresponsible reporting by the big media companies. Ironically I decided to have a quick search and came up with with something which isn't poorly reported:
Crime decreases by 12% last year (whats actually happening)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7364467.stm
An example of the shoddy journalism we're putting up with:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7364072.stm
If you read the article you'll note that while violence towards children "soared" (why not use the term doubled?) the statistic also counted fights amoungst children. Rather than focus on the sudden increase in violence amoungst young children, or the fact that for the last eight years injuries due to violence have been failing in the cardif, or the fact that the "hoodie teenagers" so much hated by Daily Mail readers are also becoming less violent the news programs concentrate on the shock story and ignore everything else. When that particular story was shown on the 6 O'Clock news they spent all their time talking about gang culture and the soar in "child abuse" rather than talking about the group which had actually increased in its violence (0 - 10 yr olds) and explore just how such a young age category could be so badly hurt.
The Media talking about "rising violence" is just like Labours fixation on the "family", alot of hot air without much substance.
He doesn't have 17 children but 17 possible decendents (with possibly even more) the article states that scientists believe he died somewhere between 1670 and 1850, assuming he had two kids, who in turn had two kids and we have a generation lifecycle of about 30 years (with the latest possible death date), it wouldn't be that out of place to expect 32 decendents assuming the earliest death date there is the possibility of 2643 decendents.
Of course I've pulled those numbers out of thin air and they could be much higher/lower but finding 17 decendents isn't that surprising.
I'd be willing to make a wager on which ones easier if we use Vista Home Premium and drop the "read music files from a linx partition".
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My experience with Hardy Heron was a disaster this weekend and I'd like to share it, in part because if people have solutions to any of the problems I would like to hear them.
The Machine
AMD64 3700+ (socket 939)
2GB Cosair DDR400 ram
NVIDIA 7600 GS OC
Creative XFi Extreme Gamer
Epson Stylus 4400
Creative Vista! Live Webcam
Aver media PCI Hybrid TV Card (AR16R)
Netgear W111 V3 USB wireless adapter
Installation
Extremely easy, the installation process is as easy to use as the Windows Vista installer and marginally easier than XP's. I did have one problem in that I couldn't seem to get past the partition manager when I chose to use an existing NTFS volume (doing the guided thing) the installer wouldn't proceed. All the other options worked well enough, and even with it freezing I was able to cancel the option and choose another and go forward.
First Time Use
I found out (after much googling) Ubuntu hadn't been able to detect my monitor's ability and so had gone into safekeeping mode. This meant I was stuck at a resolution of 640x480, this presented a huge problem as none of the menus fitted on the screen the NVIDIA-settings panel was so cut off I wasn't sure if I could select a monitor and Ubuntu didn't seem to give me an option. 3 Hours later after reading edgy, feisty, random x11 how to's I, in frustration decided to deleted my xorg.conf. Ubuntu actually managed to recover graphically (I was impressed) and entered "low graphics mode" amusingly in 800x600 resolution. From here I could choose a generic monitor that matched my monitor's resolution and was finally able to enjoy 1600x1200.
Internet Shock! What I forgot to mention above was my Netgear W111 v3 doesn't have a 'nix driver. After an hour of googling I locate ndiswrapper find a Marvel chipset driver for the device and start trying to install it. Two hours later learning more about grep, lspci and ndiswrapper than I wanted to know I give up. For some reason several of my USB devices refuse to show up in lspci and without it being listed there ndiswrapper shows an "invalid driver" error. At this point I would like to say had I actually progressed further I would have made a decent GUI and delved into the code so it gave useful error messages, just to improve the user friendliness (and handed that over.) Alas after checking the device and ensuring the port was working by using another USB device I gave in, got a really big Ethernet cable and connected to my router that way.
Enjoying that sound fidelity Creative make a beta driver for my sound card, after three hours of googling and trying I gave in. I had, had enough for some reason the driver was reporting a make *** [all] error 2 and a make *** [something I can't remember] error 2 message. Googling that gave me no leads into what the potential problem was and I had to admit defeat. I was aware of a open source driver but the posts I read suggested it was limited, wouldn't output sound through the optical socket (which is what I use) and was "buggy". So I didn't even try to locate it.
Putting Vista back on
Around 8PM that night I decided enough was enough, I wasn't going to get things to a level where Quake 4 would run properly so I might as well put Vista back on. Around 9:50 I had my desktop back, I could have placed all my driver disc's in and installed instead I choose to download and install the latest ones, by 10:20 I was online through my Wireless usb stick, posting on Myst Obsession as Office 2003 installed. By 10:40pm I had finished posting on MystObsession and Quake 4 had finished installing.
My Final note Many years ago I taught my sisters to install XP, place the right drivers on and get their machine setup, both of them can now do it quite happily by themselves. T
That description is highly convoluted I can see two things their trying to do:
1Allowing a user to scroll along a window by moving their finger up and down the screen. This will allow you to scroll up and down even if your far from the windows edge or a scroll bar. This is not new or inovative, my 4/5 year old Orange m500 did this wil Windows Mobile 2003 SE
2As you've suggested the ability to move between different Im conversations by scrolling your finger up and down the screen. I fail to see the innovation in this. Why not patent a method of scrolling through im conversations using a single key. Just because its a touch screen doesn't make it magically innovative or new.
I really hope software patents don't take off in Europe if this sort of thing is the result.
I agree completely with this, at university I was given a random 8 digit password consisting of letters, letters (small and upper) and symbols. Because the systems demanded all of them I kept it.
Unfortunatly where I work most passwords have to conform to the same standard but must be rotated every 3 months and can't repeat for a year. Next month I reach the point where I'm going to have to make something up and most probably I'll have to write it down (ran out of permutations.)
Passwords are a great idea except there doesn't seem and standardisation on them, my bank wants a 12 digit id and min 8 digit number based password, my hotmail/msn won't allow symbols, anouther online email I have requires a max 6 digit symbol/letter combination. In work I have 4 different systems I use each of which has different password requirements and each has a different expire period, various online accounts won't allow numbers (an old forum for example) some dislike symbols, Steam won't accept my university password. I have about twenty passwords I need to remember, change and update.
What we need for security is password standardisation, a choice by as many companies as possible as what they expect a password to be with support for symbols letters and numbers in every application.
Where I work flash is blocked from installing, my morning routine used to be to open Dilbert and have a read while some of the other apps I use slowly load. With no flash on your browser all you get is two coloured bars and two requests to install flash. I'm betting alot of corporate places follow similar practices.
I thought the old site was dated but after just glancing at the new one, I definitly want the old back.
No I'm not time wasting, it takes Outlook and Eclipse about a minute+ to load, more than enough time to pop open an IE tab and glance at Dilbert.
The BBC has and hasn't picked up on the story, on TV most of the RIAA, BPI, etc... actions don't get a mention, its not that they don't care its just the media, health, politics and business tend to make up the evening and morning news. On the BBC website in the technology section a guy called Bill Thompson http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7324556.stm does seem to share many of the views Slashdot has. The technology section also has a strong net neutrality and right to privacy viewpoint (phorm stories always concentrate on the negitive, RIAA and BPI mention lawsuits as back reference.)
The Problem is until these sorts of things become significantly political they never get air time. Even the current battle between the iPlayer and ISP's hasn't made the current news.
Women do have just as much right to work, but if the parents are willing to reduce their hours or alter their lifestyle to fit in with the child's, should they really have one?
The bloke can quit his job and raise the kid theres no need to pass of the responsiblity as soon as possible.
When I used to live with my parents, my mum was a child minder and it always used to bug me that I would spend more time with the kids she looked after than both parents combined and I would be activily avoiding them. In pretty much every case the husband was the main bread winner with the wife going back to her job as soon as possible which would pay for child care and a few "extras" oh and the holidays they liked going on (minus kid) three of four times a year.
I'm not saying women shouldn't be allowed to work but I do think a parent should be looking after them they shouldn't be dumped into day care, school care or on the grandparents as soon as possible. When I have kids if I'm not the bigger earner then I'll quit my job, making sure they grow up in a loving enviroment is more important to me than having a few extra's.
Yes there are times when both parents will need to work to support a family, but I have to ask if they can't afford to spend any time with the child they want to bring into this world what is the point?