Driver compatibility problems are the very first new users are slammed with when switching to Linux. Then the gui isn't going to help them a lot, and they have to get dirty and mess with the console since the very beginning, and if the problem is with the network card it can get especially annoying.
The moment people realise they have to go through "that crap" is usually the moment they just nevermind about this Linux thing and roll back everything (except they have to use the XP/Vista CD to take GRUB off, but that's another topic).
No. You open your Synaptic/Aptitude and remove and possibly purge all the old kernel packages (they start with "Linux"). This magically removes the GRUB entry and frees up space.
Installing Kubuntu is easy (but I had some trouble in completely getting rid of it when I decided I didn't like it). I'm not sure it's the correct way to go, but you can install the Kubuntu task (Sys > Admin > Synaptic > Edit > Mark packages by task).
You will be asked if you want to use GNOME or KDE as default, and you will be asked if you want to have the GNOME Ubuntu login screen or the KDE Kubuntu login screen.
Whichever you choose, you can pick what to run before performing your log in (use the Options button.)
Of COURSE the US laws and points of view prevail IN THE US over anything else. We are a soverign nation.
If I wanted to live under the laws of Germany, I'd move there. If I wanted Sharia (sp?) law, I'd move to a country that has that. I'm still waiting for a good explaination for why the US Court's decision to force US based company to block wikileak's DNS entry affected the Sovereign Nation of Italy. And if using a specific country as an example confuses things, simply replace Germany with any other country. England, Germany, China, Japan, Sweden, whatever.
Please note that just moving to another country is not a solution here.
If we listen to the WTO and AGREE, well, that's one thing, but agreement isn't automatic. We can also listen and disagree, and if we disagree, we don't have to act. FTFA:
This sort of behavior makes it that much harder to assert some kind of moral high ground when China, Russia, and others pick and choose which of their WTO obligations they are going to comply with.
It so happens that Windows Vista isn't fully compatible with the game --.net SP3 borks the authentication system. Its dev promptly looked for the problem, and of course the problem was found in the third-party obfuscation tool. He submitted a ticket and the community is waiting for a fix.
It's been 40+ days since this issue has been found, targeted and reported, but Nothing Happens(TM). We're still waiting for the fix. The admins do not obviously want to release a non-obfuscated version of the.net authentication tool, nor they want to switch over another obfuscation company (and pay for another license). So people using Vista are currently forced to work around the problem by blocking updates and using.net uninstallers.
Even Microsoft Research has contacted us with details regarding the trouble, but again there is nothing we can do to address it.
Our community is having a 40+ days [partial] downtime, and there's nothing we can do, but wait and publish workarounds for a problem we didn't create.
Not the kind of stuff that makes you all warm and fuzzy on relying on third parties, huh?
Sigh. I guess next time I will have to put a big freaking IT IS A JOKE warning on the post.
I guess it's not just enough to link "new features" to an article about WGA and "speed performance" to an article about people placing for(i=0;i100000;i++); loops in random places so that obtaining speed performance becomes as easy as taking a zero off.
I must be new here.
What if [Microsoft] created [...] some sort of "Disk Operating System" They could turn Windows into a Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System while they are at it.
Another problem with MathType is the way it handles equation vertical position. I mean, it handles it correctly, until you for some reason change the style of the paragraph or use the format copier (the "brush" icon) and pop, there floats the equation.
You then have to manually doubleclick each equation affected, then Shift-End, Ctrl-X, Alt-F4, Backspace and Ctrl-V -- that's probably as fast as it can get.
But to give credit where it's due, Ctrl-K,LeftArrow is quicker than typing/leftarrow and Ctrl-G,e is faster than/epsilon. Now that the new version of MT can import/export TeX formulas, that makes an interesting solution.
Will Windows Vista content protection features increase CPU resource consumption?
[...] Windows Vista's content protection features were developed to carefully balance the need to provide robust protection from commercial content [...]
It's about time someone develops a pure data phone for GSM, and not sell it through one of the carriers. But instead sell it independently, and have the users get their own SIM through a carrier and sign up for a data only plan. Then have VoIP, or whatever, I'm not a techie, but someone could figure it out.
Why phones remain tethered to carriers is beyond me. They give away the phones so they can ream you with the monthly charge. I got pay-as-you-go via t-mobile & I pay much less, and without a contract, than a monthly plan. USA != World.
In Europe you can buy mobiles without having them locked to any carrier. Then you can also buy phones from carriers for cheaper prices. Here in Italy, you actually want to, because only one carrier effectively apply the vendor lock-in to phones.
OOo users work faster than MSO ones. In Figure 10, the productivity of OOo is somewhat twice as high as theproductivity of MSO. I'm using both Word and OOWriter and the only two tasks OOWriter is faster is:
- Word does not always replace ' - ' or ' -- ' with the better looking m-dash - OOWriter has automatic completion for long word (8 chars or more by default, pretty useless in Italian anyway)
OOo users work faster than MSO ones. In Figure 10, the productivity of OOo is somewhat twice as high as theproductivity of MSO. I'm using both Word and OOWriter and the only two tasks OOWriter is faster is:
- Word does not always replace ' - ' or ' -- ' with the better looking ' - '
- OOWriter has automatic completion for long word (8 chars or more by default, pretty useless in Italian anyway)
Please enlighten me:D
It has to be here by 2038... Consider the IPv6 switch, and you'll see it has to be here much before 2038.
Calculating 5 years for mass technology production, 10 years for broad 64x processor usage, 5 extra years to port all the 32-bit code to 64-bit, considering normal people are unlikely to care about this before December 31st, 2037 (approx. when this may hit the media) -- well, I'm afraid we'll solve this thing in a rush as usual.
Because they wrote specific hacks, just to be able to pass the test. Because most browsers need specific hacks, just to be able to render regular web pages.
Whats interesting, and quite damming in its own way, is that the test systems had to have extra memory included because of the requirements of a certain other browser. From the article:
Keep in mind that the additional RAM that now has been added mainly to allow the bundled browser to run, will be removed again. Unless I'm mistaken, that refers to the Mozilla-based browser.
A virus or any malware that disguises itself as an antivirus would not be detected by anti virus programs.
Good antivirus programs scans whatever you tell it to. If you tell them to ignore executables or use some sort of whitelisting, then we have a "User error. Replace the user and press any key to continue."
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Driver compatibility problems are the very first new users are slammed with when switching to Linux. Then the gui isn't going to help them a lot, and they have to get dirty and mess with the console since the very beginning, and if the problem is with the network card it can get especially annoying. The moment people realise they have to go through "that crap" is usually the moment they just nevermind about this Linux thing and roll back everything (except they have to use the XP/Vista CD to take GRUB off, but that's another topic).
All the novices that read my post. Where in the Windows Vista manual do you learn about Ctrl-Alt-Canc?
No. You open your Synaptic/Aptitude and remove and possibly purge all the old kernel packages (they start with "Linux"). This magically removes the GRUB entry and frees up space.
You will be asked if you want to use GNOME or KDE as default, and you will be asked if you want to have the GNOME Ubuntu login screen or the KDE Kubuntu login screen.
Whichever you choose, you can pick what to run before performing your log in (use the Options button.)
Please note that just moving to another country is not a solution here
It so happens that Windows Vista isn't fully compatible with the game -- .net SP3 borks the authentication system. Its dev promptly looked for the problem, and of course the problem was found in the third-party obfuscation tool. He submitted a ticket and the community is waiting for a fix.
It's been 40+ days since this issue has been found, targeted and reported, but Nothing Happens(TM). We're still waiting for the fix. The admins do not obviously want to release a non-obfuscated version of the .net authentication tool, nor they want to switch over another obfuscation company (and pay for another license). So people using Vista are currently forced to work around the problem by blocking updates and using .net uninstallers.
Even Microsoft Research has contacted us with details regarding the trouble, but again there is nothing we can do to address it.
Our community is having a 40+ days [partial] downtime, and there's nothing we can do, but wait and publish workarounds for a problem we didn't create.
Not the kind of stuff that makes you all warm and fuzzy on relying on third parties, huh?
Sigh. I guess next time I will have to put a big freaking IT IS A JOKE warning on the post. I guess it's not just enough to link "new features" to an article about WGA and "speed performance" to an article about people placing for(i=0;i100000;i++); loops in random places so that obtaining speed performance becomes as easy as taking a zero off. I must be new here.
Read the links ;)
Six months? My bad. I've been using Ubuntu for like fourty days so I still don't know really.
The difference is that Ubuntu makes new releases once a year, whereas...
Hey! Adding features and improving performance are non trivial tasks, mind you!
But to give credit where it's due, Ctrl-K,LeftArrow is quicker than typing /leftarrow and Ctrl-G,e is faster than /epsilon. Now that the new version of MT can import/export TeX formulas, that makes an interesting solution.
[...] Windows Vista's content protection features were developed to carefully balance the need to provide robust protection from commercial content [...]
Protecting me from DRM with DRM?I have 3115 MBs and the next reply will have more. Now shush :P
Why phones remain tethered to carriers is beyond me. They give away the phones so they can ream you with the monthly charge. I got pay-as-you-go via t-mobile & I pay much less, and without a contract, than a monthly plan. USA != World. In Europe you can buy mobiles without having them locked to any carrier. Then you can also buy phones from carriers for cheaper prices. Here in Italy, you actually want to, because only one carrier effectively apply the vendor lock-in to phones.
- Word does not always replace ' - ' or ' -- ' with the better looking m-dash
- OOWriter has automatic completion for long word (8 chars or more by default, pretty useless in Italian anyway)
Please enlighten me :D
Calculating 5 years for mass technology production, 10 years for broad 64x processor usage, 5 extra years to port all the 32-bit code to 64-bit, considering normal people are unlikely to care about this before December 31st, 2037 (approx. when this may hit the media) -- well, I'm afraid we'll solve this thing in a rush as usual.
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