I work in a computer repair store. These are computers customers bring in to be serviced, and we're not an official Toshiba (or anything else for that matter) warranty service center (before you ask that one).
I remember my boss saying something the other day to a Toshiba laptop owner with a dead drive....that we replace those often. He's right. I think most of the dead drives I've seen come in have been Toshibas.
Google does have their own brand of Linux: Goobuntu. It's only used inside the company though. I think the argument though, is that GPL is *always* free to redistribute, but for instance, Mac OS X is a BSD. It's not free for end-users to modify and redistribute that.
Wow, you have a pretty messed up idea of humans. You think babies should all be aborted so they don't turn into car thieves? What is WRONG with you? I've got news for you. I dated a guy whose mother got pregnant with him while prostituting. She would have aborted him like the others, but she was too far along before she realised it (how you don't notice "gee, no period in 4 months..." is beyond me). At 18, he moved out of the house and got his own apartment, and now he runs his own business. It's not like you can tell how a person will turn out before they're born. Do you HONESTLY believe that every aborted baby would've become a bad person and that only good people make it to full term? Guess again, honey! And babies are NOT parasites. They are little tiny humans who need their mommy and daddy to protect them from harm and raise them to adulthood. I would hardly call killing your child "protecting them from harm." Do you see dogs going around killing their pups before they're born? Even they are more humane toward their offspring than humans are.
I didn't mean abortion (I'm against that). I meant you can't *get* pregnant without having passed a basic "I'm not an idiot and know how to raise a child" test. Sex is for reproduction. No sex til you know how to be a parent. Same thing I told my boyfriend. I'm too young to risk getting pregnant, so no. After I graduate and know I could support one, then I'll put up with sex and the risks it brings. If you aren't old enough or responsible enough to deal with the consequences of sex (babies), you should not be having it! Unfortunately, it's the idiots who don't use condoms that keep reproducing and the smart people who know how to family plan that don't produce as many offspring. If the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, there's a lot of stupid kids being born, and not enough smart ones. There's actually a movie where for just that reason, the stupid people take over the world (they're stupid enough to keep passing on their stupid genes and stupid "well that's how my stupid mom did it" parenting).
All of Pittsburgh's ghettos are outside the city. Then again, there aren't actually people in the city...just theatres, empty/closed department stores, abandoned "historical" (and therefore not allowed to be gutted or used....just decay) buildings, a few ballparks, some restaurants, and a few offices. People live in suburbs, not in the city.
But if you use Linux, you're still paying for Vista:(
I had Vista RC on my laptop for a few days, and I couldn't get any internet with it. Wireless worked as long as there wasn't any encryption or a VPN. Wired didn't work at all. I couldn't stand it after 4 days and put Linux back on. Vista's not much of an improvement over XP. Instead of blue, it's black. Woohoo. And since being an improvement over XP's security isn't hard (every other OS is already), that's not impressive either.
I've never bought boxed Microsoft software, as far as I can recall. The only Microsoft-in-a-box I own is a wireless keyboard/mouse set, and that's because the rest of the wireless keyboards were too squishy. This one's still too squishy, but it's better than a lot of others (definitely better than Dell keyboards). Someone needs to make a wireless buckling-spring keyboard.
I have to agree. My really-computer-illiterate mom uses Linux. She considers it a lot easier than Windows for exactly what you said about the Start menu. When she clicked that, she had no idea where to go to find Word. Instead she opened an old file and held down backspace. Using Gnome, she can figure out what category of application it is and get to OOo Writer (it says Word Processor) easily. She also likes how much faster the computer is without a virus scan, and the eye candy provided by Beryl isn't hurting either. My brother and sister like Linux too. They intend to take Linux laptops to college with them, and they decided that after playing with my laptop a little bit after I got it, finding out they don't have to worry about viruses, and that installing free applications is as easy as marking a few checkboxes.
I usually have AV on my Linux box so that if I'm going to send a file I got from random-place-online to a Windows user I can be sure it won't hurt them.
At the Congressional Internet Caucus last week there was a group from tux.org (affiliation of LUGs) with a table demonstrating how thanks to open standards like for the web, Linux, Mac, and Windows computers can all communicate just fine. They were there to push for open standards. I hung out with them for a lot of it (though the digitalfreedom.org people were cool too), and there were a lot of people from the Senate asking about why open standards are important (though it WAS in the Hart Building). There were also quite a few people asking about Linux in education, ease of use for students, what to do for commercial support, etc.
I'm using Ubuntu 7.04 alpha, and that's the kernel that happens to be in it. I assume the final 2.6.20 will show up in the repos in the next day or two.
The US government supports that. People from different gov departments have been known to show up at Black Hat and Defcon recruiting hackers to work for them, no degree required. If you've got the skills, who needs the paper?
Agreed. There's no software engineering degree at my school that I'm aware of, and I don't like math, so a pure CS degree wasn't what I wanted. If I knew I was going into CS when I started, I would've stayed home and applied to CMU, but I'm doing International Affairs in DC instead. Since I want programming, not math, I'm doing CS as a second major. That means less (as in, take calc and discrete math and you're done) math, a lot of software and OS stuff, and some elective 100-level CS classes. That's what I like. If you want to be a programmer, there should be a programming or software engineering degree. If you want to design video cards, there should be a computer circuitry line of study. That kind of thing. The same courses don't prepare you for both of those.
Well, there's a list of new drivers with an "and more" tagged on. I'd think every driver for anything currently in use (as in, tape drives don't count) would be a good thing for desktop users. The less "my video/sound/pci card doesn't work" crap to deal with, the easier it is.
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Apt > yum on the basis of yum taking like 3x longer to do the job.
I work in a computer repair store. These are computers customers bring in to be serviced, and we're not an official Toshiba (or anything else for that matter) warranty service center (before you ask that one).
Moore's law: double every 18 months
I remember my boss saying something the other day to a Toshiba laptop owner with a dead drive....that we replace those often. He's right. I think most of the dead drives I've seen come in have been Toshibas.
But it uses BSD code, and the end product (the whole OS) is not free to be modified. If it used GPL'd code, the whole thing would have to be GPL'd.
Google does have their own brand of Linux: Goobuntu. It's only used inside the company though. I think the argument though, is that GPL is *always* free to redistribute, but for instance, Mac OS X is a BSD. It's not free for end-users to modify and redistribute that.
Wow, you have a pretty messed up idea of humans. You think babies should all be aborted so they don't turn into car thieves? What is WRONG with you? I've got news for you. I dated a guy whose mother got pregnant with him while prostituting. She would have aborted him like the others, but she was too far along before she realised it (how you don't notice "gee, no period in 4 months..." is beyond me). At 18, he moved out of the house and got his own apartment, and now he runs his own business. It's not like you can tell how a person will turn out before they're born. Do you HONESTLY believe that every aborted baby would've become a bad person and that only good people make it to full term? Guess again, honey! And babies are NOT parasites. They are little tiny humans who need their mommy and daddy to protect them from harm and raise them to adulthood. I would hardly call killing your child "protecting them from harm." Do you see dogs going around killing their pups before they're born? Even they are more humane toward their offspring than humans are.
I didn't mean abortion (I'm against that). I meant you can't *get* pregnant without having passed a basic "I'm not an idiot and know how to raise a child" test. Sex is for reproduction. No sex til you know how to be a parent. Same thing I told my boyfriend. I'm too young to risk getting pregnant, so no. After I graduate and know I could support one, then I'll put up with sex and the risks it brings. If you aren't old enough or responsible enough to deal with the consequences of sex (babies), you should not be having it! Unfortunately, it's the idiots who don't use condoms that keep reproducing and the smart people who know how to family plan that don't produce as many offspring. If the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, there's a lot of stupid kids being born, and not enough smart ones. There's actually a movie where for just that reason, the stupid people take over the world (they're stupid enough to keep passing on their stupid genes and stupid "well that's how my stupid mom did it" parenting).
Patents expire...though after 20 years, that is quite a while. But you lose it if you don't use it.
All of Pittsburgh's ghettos are outside the city. Then again, there aren't actually people in the city...just theatres, empty/closed department stores, abandoned "historical" (and therefore not allowed to be gutted or used....just decay) buildings, a few ballparks, some restaurants, and a few offices. People live in suburbs, not in the city.
Who gave them kids?Can we take them away? There should be a parenting license before you're allowed to procreate.
But if you use Linux, you're still paying for Vista :(
I had Vista RC on my laptop for a few days, and I couldn't get any internet with it. Wireless worked as long as there wasn't any encryption or a VPN. Wired didn't work at all. I couldn't stand it after 4 days and put Linux back on. Vista's not much of an improvement over XP. Instead of blue, it's black. Woohoo. And since being an improvement over XP's security isn't hard (every other OS is already), that's not impressive either.
I've never bought boxed Microsoft software, as far as I can recall. The only Microsoft-in-a-box I own is a wireless keyboard/mouse set, and that's because the rest of the wireless keyboards were too squishy. This one's still too squishy, but it's better than a lot of others (definitely better than Dell keyboards). Someone needs to make a wireless buckling-spring keyboard.
Linux doesn't come from a large mega company, and it works fine for me and my mom (who sucks with computers).
It has vi. Emacs, GCC, and Sun Java run on it too. What more does one need?
PC v. Mac? That doesn't make sense either. Macs ARE PCs! Any non-server non-mainframe is a PC.
I have to agree. My really-computer-illiterate mom uses Linux. She considers it a lot easier than Windows for exactly what you said about the Start menu. When she clicked that, she had no idea where to go to find Word. Instead she opened an old file and held down backspace. Using Gnome, she can figure out what category of application it is and get to OOo Writer (it says Word Processor) easily. She also likes how much faster the computer is without a virus scan, and the eye candy provided by Beryl isn't hurting either. My brother and sister like Linux too. They intend to take Linux laptops to college with them, and they decided that after playing with my laptop a little bit after I got it, finding out they don't have to worry about viruses, and that installing free applications is as easy as marking a few checkboxes.
I usually have AV on my Linux box so that if I'm going to send a file I got from random-place-online to a Windows user I can be sure it won't hurt them.
At the Congressional Internet Caucus last week there was a group from tux.org (affiliation of LUGs) with a table demonstrating how thanks to open standards like for the web, Linux, Mac, and Windows computers can all communicate just fine. They were there to push for open standards. I hung out with them for a lot of it (though the digitalfreedom.org people were cool too), and there were a lot of people from the Senate asking about why open standards are important (though it WAS in the Hart Building). There were also quite a few people asking about Linux in education, ease of use for students, what to do for commercial support, etc.
Well, with portable apps, it's like having the hard drive at least, since they install on the stick.
I'm using Ubuntu 7.04 alpha, and that's the kernel that happens to be in it. I assume the final 2.6.20 will show up in the repos in the next day or two.
The US government supports that. People from different gov departments have been known to show up at Black Hat and Defcon recruiting hackers to work for them, no degree required. If you've got the skills, who needs the paper?
Agreed. There's no software engineering degree at my school that I'm aware of, and I don't like math, so a pure CS degree wasn't what I wanted. If I knew I was going into CS when I started, I would've stayed home and applied to CMU, but I'm doing International Affairs in DC instead. Since I want programming, not math, I'm doing CS as a second major. That means less (as in, take calc and discrete math and you're done) math, a lot of software and OS stuff, and some elective 100-level CS classes. That's what I like. If you want to be a programmer, there should be a programming or software engineering degree. If you want to design video cards, there should be a computer circuitry line of study. That kind of thing. The same courses don't prepare you for both of those.
Well, there's a list of new drivers with an "and more" tagged on. I'd think every driver for anything currently in use (as in, tape drives don't count) would be a good thing for desktop users. The less "my video/sound/pci card doesn't work" crap to deal with, the easier it is.
And Vista is a spyware BUG