is this argument about as productive and meaningful as the Mac versus Windows argument? both of them at the end of the day mean so very little to the end users that are slowly becoming the main focus of these distros. Who remembers having to back out and edit a configuration file to change their resolution? Shit, some of us are probably still doing that, but now we can do it from the goddamn window manager. Users are responsible for that. And at the end of the day, a user does *NOT* care how the youtube video plays, or who's firmware is driving his 802.11 card, he cares that he can connect to wireless networks and watch afro ninja.
The whole point of this "100% free" craze (or should I say crap?) is that they want to push onto enthusiasts like us the idea of not having any proprietary software on our machines, however, most of us are not *FUCKING INSANE* like Stallman and are willing to accept the idea of using a driver that wasn't written by someone in his basement, or wasn't graciously provided by a company like Intel that is supportive of open source. Stallman would like you to believe that a fully open source system with no proprietary software is just as easy to use as one with, and hes right, if you want to use the 1999 internet on a computer built in 1999. the last time I even *TRIED* to have a fully open machine, it was on a 1999 laptop and it did a whole hell of a lot of nothing useful in terms of recent web standards or fun things like youtube.
Fuck Stallman and his bullshit I would rather have a working system running Windows than a broken system running Linux, and I do. I ran Linux exclusively in High school when everything was easily transferred over, then I went to college and, oh shit, I needed to concentrate on getting shit done. So I run Windows now. I'll Probably go back to linux when I get the time, quite a few interesting changes have been made to a lot of packages I use, but I don't have the time to be hacking my computer to shreds to get something to work when I can install Windows and just have it work. This is the way the world thinks.
Its expensive, but it works over the crappiest links ever. It makes branch offices easy because they put new computers in, connect them to anything faster than 28.8 dialup, and they connect to the server and do their work remotely. Sure its a productivity kill if the link or server goes down, but it works for who I work for.
It also solves the file system issue. One server in the biggest office holds all the files. And you can print to local printers from it.
Try using a tool like NetStumbler to figure out what the least used channel is. I bet you money its not 6.
I'm also willing to bet you're using 6. Stop using 6. DD-WRT on your linksys will let you use channels 13 and 14. Which aren't usually included on most router's default firmwares. Those channels are bound to be clear.
If there are a lot of Nintendo Wii's in the area, I suggest NOT using channels 1 or 2. As Nintendo has made it very clear that the "best way to connect your Wii to the internet" is to put it on channel 1 or 2.
I use 10, it doesn't interfere with my telephones, my microwave, or my neighbors router. (He still doesn't understand why his connection drops every time I cook a pizza though.)
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is this argument about as productive and meaningful as the Mac versus Windows argument? both of them at the end of the day mean so very little to the end users that are slowly becoming the main focus of these distros. Who remembers having to back out and edit a configuration file to change their resolution? Shit, some of us are probably still doing that, but now we can do it from the goddamn window manager. Users are responsible for that. And at the end of the day, a user does *NOT* care how the youtube video plays, or who's firmware is driving his 802.11 card, he cares that he can connect to wireless networks and watch afro ninja.
The whole point of this "100% free" craze (or should I say crap?) is that they want to push onto enthusiasts like us the idea of not having any proprietary software on our machines, however, most of us are not *FUCKING INSANE* like Stallman and are willing to accept the idea of using a driver that wasn't written by someone in his basement, or wasn't graciously provided by a company like Intel that is supportive of open source. Stallman would like you to believe that a fully open source system with no proprietary software is just as easy to use as one with, and hes right, if you want to use the 1999 internet on a computer built in 1999. the last time I even *TRIED* to have a fully open machine, it was on a 1999 laptop and it did a whole hell of a lot of nothing useful in terms of recent web standards or fun things like youtube.
Fuck Stallman and his bullshit I would rather have a working system running Windows than a broken system running Linux, and I do. I ran Linux exclusively in High school when everything was easily transferred over, then I went to college and, oh shit, I needed to concentrate on getting shit done. So I run Windows now. I'll Probably go back to linux when I get the time, quite a few interesting changes have been made to a lot of packages I use, but I don't have the time to be hacking my computer to shreds to get something to work when I can install Windows and just have it work. This is the way the world thinks.
What happens when you play DDR while wearing it?
Its expensive, but it works over the crappiest links ever. It makes branch offices easy because they put new computers in, connect them to anything faster than 28.8 dialup, and they connect to the server and do their work remotely. Sure its a productivity kill if the link or server goes down, but it works for who I work for.
It also solves the file system issue. One server in the biggest office holds all the files. And you can print to local printers from it.
Try using a tool like NetStumbler to figure out what the least used channel is. I bet you money its not 6.
I'm also willing to bet you're using 6. Stop using 6. DD-WRT on your linksys will let you use channels 13 and 14. Which aren't usually included on most router's default firmwares. Those channels are bound to be clear.
If there are a lot of Nintendo Wii's in the area, I suggest NOT using channels 1 or 2. As Nintendo has made it very clear that the "best way to connect your Wii to the internet" is to put it on channel 1 or 2.
I use 10, it doesn't interfere with my telephones, my microwave, or my neighbors router. (He still doesn't understand why his connection drops every time I cook a pizza though.)