When I did that last, it came back with a message about as descriptive as "oops, something went wrong. you figure it out. check some drivers or something". How wonderfully useful.
I'm a recent switch to Linux, but I have no intention of going back to Windows. I'll probably use it now and then though--when I'm fixing it on friends'/family's computers. I might have to play with other people's Windows computers occasionally just to figure out where everything was hidden.
Who hated that whole "category view" on the Control Panel? I keep it on "classic". Will Vista still allow "classic"? If not, I'm gonna have a hell of a time on "family tech support". That's, in my opinion, definitely a case of hiding things that were easy to find before.
Now, don't attribute that just to girls. There are plenty of stupid men out there who don't know why their computer is full of spyware, adware, and trojans, they just want to play their online poker. Hell, my neighbor's boss complained to him that switching the company to using Firefox instead of IE for security reasons had to be undone so he could play poker at work!
Don't forget those who download a couple songs from an artist that ARE NOT singles (singles can be misleading--one good song on a crappy album) to get a feel for the artist then go buy their cd. That's my use for downloading. MySpace's music player means I've slowed down on this though. I can just listen from their page and see if I want to go buy their cd. Still, if you like it, buy the cd. If you don't, don't download more from them.
Well, there's StudentHive.com which is being released on Sunday. It's currently at replacefacebook.com which was made because, yeah, corporations want more people etc. so they openned to the public, now the students are saying "no way! we do NOT want adults on here, it'll turn into myspace!" so they created a new site where it's students ONLY
I am actually very inclined to agree with this. The new UI is the only real "selling point" I see to Vista. Make the kids go "ooooo" and the parents will buy it. Even the "better security" doesn't hold much meaning. Who really trusts Micro$oft to know anything about security? Well, if you switch to Vista, you'll have to because your McAfee (suggest Norton and die) won't work with it.
Ah, that reminds me--didn't run Avast! yet today.
Does your company sell it's old computers? I know a girl who got about a hundred tablet PC's from Pfizer because they were an outdated model. My dad has gotten used computers from work before. It doesn't HAVE to go in the recycling bin. Some money can still be made off of it.
My boyfriend put Vista on his computer, and it lagged. He put Linux & Compiz (much cooler UI, right?) and it's not slow at all. Go figure.
I doubt all the computers have been there as long as XP has. There's got to be quite a few that are only a year or two old. Those ones should be able to handle Vista. Ones that are even 3 years old should be okay as long as Aero/Glass is turned off. And hey, it's cheaper to just upgrade the RAM in the computers they have (which is probably the main thing that'd need to be upgraded) than to go buy a bunch of brand-spankin'-new computers.
Yep, that's how it was for me in elementary/middle school. In high school I just told my parents I didn't have homework. In truth, I did, but there was enough time during the school day (lunchtime, during boring/stupid/easy other classes) to get it all done in school. I graduated 29/482 with a 3.85 GPA, so it couldn't have hurt that much. I still do procrastinate though. I do all of my Russian homework when I wake up in the morning (it's my first class of the day).
Yeah, those probably are cheap ones, though they do go a bit lower. $150's about normal I guess....right? But you're right, I didn't see "with contract". I don't know if other areas have this, but Cricket gives unlimited calling for $32/month. For $40 you get caller id and voicemail, and like $45 gets unlimited texting too. I think you can also get unlimited web time.
What are you talking about? Cell phones are like $100 in the US. At least, in Pittsburgh they are. And I realise the economy there sucks so a lot of stuff is a bit cheaper than say NYC, but still.
I've had mine open for about 6 hours now. It's at 78 MB. I usually have 5 or 6 tabs open, though I had about a dozen open an hour ago when I started going through/. and looking at all the new stuff.
On top of that, Warner Bros. doesn't require that you have a Warner Bros. DVD player for their DVDs, while you need a Sony one for Sony DVDs, and a Universal one for Universal Studios' DVDs. The DVDs, even with their DRM, will work on any DVD player or DVD computer drive. Songs bought off of iTunes can only be played on an iPod. You would need a separate player for every type of DRM and every source where you bought music. With DVDs, you don't need different hardware for every disc...yet. That "yet" is what DBD is hoping to prevent.
I go under the line of thinking that you download a couple songs to sample that artist (maybe a few non-singles because radio hits can be very misleading....the only good songs on the album), then if you like them, you support them. If you don't like them, you haven't wasted $15-20 on their crappy cd.
hint to anyone wanting cheap music: cds cost the least at the show--no middle man...oh, and avoid Tower Records like the plague (why is it Tower Records anyway? they don't sell any records!)
I can tell you for sure that Unreal Tournament 2007 will run on Linux and it's the same install cd as for Windows. They put both installers on one cd. My boyfriend is loving this because he's a gamer and just switched to Linux. He (and another recent Windows -> Linux switcher I know) said when he tried Linux a few years ago, it was seriously lacking in games and Wine wasn't too great. Things have changed quite a bit. They both switched back to Linux because there's so much better game support now. I know he'd never go back to a Mac. He had one (a laptop I think) a few years ago, but it sucked for games, so he doesn't use it. Mac gamers are pretty darned rare, but given the gamer/geek overlap, I'd guess gamers on Linux are more common. I agree with him that if more companies acted like the guys that make Unreal Tournament (they make it work on anything, even Windows 95), the OS share would be more equalised. Heck, if I'm a gamer and I can either spend $200 on games or on Windows, which would I spend it on? Right now, it's probably going to have to be Windows, but if more games are available for Linux, that frees up more money to spend on the games which would mean more sales for game companies and therefore higher revenues.
I learned about the reproductive system when I was 12 (generation note: I'm only 18 right now) and thought there was no reason to be learning it so young because no one in the class was old enough for marriage and nobody has sex until they are married. It took another year for me to learn (thanks to morality class) that there are people out there (a lot, actually) who have sex because they like it or think it's fun rather than just to make babies. I thought sex was something only adults who are married did and that it served no purpose beyond procreation. I still see no reason for anyone to have sex other than procreation, but apparently most of the world puts sex on some pedastal and considers it the greatest thing ever...for absolutely no reason. Now, guys could get all excited about vaginas if they were this really rare and precious thing, but ya know what? They're not. Half the population has them, so who really cares?
When I was 7, women got pregnant by praying and saying "Dear God, please give me a baby, Amen". When I asked what "virgin" meant in reference to the Virgin Mary, I was told it meant "holy woman", but then in Hocus Pocus they say the guy's a virgin, so it was rephrased as "holy person"--nothing to do with sex.
I think I did know about sex (or at least that babies come out of a uterus) when I was like 11 thanks to that American Girls (remember the dolls?) "Body Book for Girls" that explains how to measure for a bra and what a tampon is and all that annoying crap guys don't have to deal with.
I do think it has to do with your parents and rules though. The rule in my house was no MTV, Jerry Springer, South Park, Simpsons, or Ren & Stimpy. I think it stopped being enforced (by enforced I mean my mom could walk into the room where we watched tv at any given moment) when I started high school. There were never any internet rules though. My parents didn't understand technology enough to think about it, and neither did my younger siblings. I was the only one who could do more than type term papers for a few years. Yeah, I hung out on messageboards like this, but I think it would be common sense (which is something I greatly lack, but I had enough to know what not to say in public) not to say "My name is Jane Doe and I live at 123 5th Ave. Somewhere, PA 15476. Here is a photo of me and my schedule so you know exactly where to find me at any given time of day". It didn't need to be a rule--it's obvious. Once you're told "don't go anywhere with strangers", that's the natural web extension of it. When my brother and sister became comp savvy enough to want freeware stuff not knowing about the viruses that tend to be packaged in there, I had to be a step ahead so I could undo what their viruses did. That's how I ended up being geeky enough to visit this site 5+ times a day.
KDE is the one that has the little menu button in the bottom left like Windows. Gnome looks like Mac. If you're a windows user, KDE might be easier for you to navigate. I'm not 100% sure, but I think KDE apps can be run on Gnome and vice versa. It might require that both are installed for the libraries to be present, but KDE apps can be run on top of Gnome if there's KDE in there somewhere.
As for distros, I think FreeSpire, Mandriva, and Ubuntu (or Kubuntu if you want KDE) are probably the most beginner friendly. FreeSpire, because it is made to look/act like Windows (comfort zone). Mandriva is also supposed to be really easy to use. I have a book (illustrated 100 page thing) on it, and it seems really simple. Ubuntu is what I use. I would say this goes after those two because it doesn't come with the proprietary codecs pre-installed and therefore takes more setup. In any case, there is a GUI installation manager to make installing most things really simple. The terminal really isn't necessary for much of anything (I just like using it).
I only heard about Skype really recently. There was a technology fair at my school where they had Skype people there. They said it doesn't work on Linux and I told them Ekiga Softphone was just fine with me then. I've had Vonage in my house for a bit over a year though. It only took about a month for someone to tell me it's VoIP. That's how I always describe it someone first. Hopefully by saying it's "VoIP" or the full wording "Voice over IP" and then "it's for phone calls through the internet or voice or video chatting" they get the distinction.
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When I did that last, it came back with a message about as descriptive as "oops, something went wrong. you figure it out. check some drivers or something". How wonderfully useful.
I'm a recent switch to Linux, but I have no intention of going back to Windows. I'll probably use it now and then though--when I'm fixing it on friends'/family's computers. I might have to play with other people's Windows computers occasionally just to figure out where everything was hidden. Who hated that whole "category view" on the Control Panel? I keep it on "classic". Will Vista still allow "classic"? If not, I'm gonna have a hell of a time on "family tech support". That's, in my opinion, definitely a case of hiding things that were easy to find before.
Now, don't attribute that just to girls. There are plenty of stupid men out there who don't know why their computer is full of spyware, adware, and trojans, they just want to play their online poker. Hell, my neighbor's boss complained to him that switching the company to using Firefox instead of IE for security reasons had to be undone so he could play poker at work!
Don't forget those who download a couple songs from an artist that ARE NOT singles (singles can be misleading--one good song on a crappy album) to get a feel for the artist then go buy their cd. That's my use for downloading. MySpace's music player means I've slowed down on this though. I can just listen from their page and see if I want to go buy their cd. Still, if you like it, buy the cd. If you don't, don't download more from them.
Well, there's StudentHive.com which is being released on Sunday. It's currently at replacefacebook.com which was made because, yeah, corporations want more people etc. so they openned to the public, now the students are saying "no way! we do NOT want adults on here, it'll turn into myspace!" so they created a new site where it's students ONLY
What ATI is it? There's probably a driver *somewhere* http://ken.bantoft.org/archives/000589.html That site has instructions for a Radeon to a tv
Shouldn't you be the pot talking to the kettle?
I am actually very inclined to agree with this. The new UI is the only real "selling point" I see to Vista. Make the kids go "ooooo" and the parents will buy it. Even the "better security" doesn't hold much meaning. Who really trusts Micro$oft to know anything about security? Well, if you switch to Vista, you'll have to because your McAfee (suggest Norton and die) won't work with it. Ah, that reminds me--didn't run Avast! yet today.
Does your company sell it's old computers? I know a girl who got about a hundred tablet PC's from Pfizer because they were an outdated model. My dad has gotten used computers from work before. It doesn't HAVE to go in the recycling bin. Some money can still be made off of it. My boyfriend put Vista on his computer, and it lagged. He put Linux & Compiz (much cooler UI, right?) and it's not slow at all. Go figure.
You sound like the Weasley twins in Harry Potter. Ton Tongue Toffees and all that..
I doubt all the computers have been there as long as XP has. There's got to be quite a few that are only a year or two old. Those ones should be able to handle Vista. Ones that are even 3 years old should be okay as long as Aero/Glass is turned off. And hey, it's cheaper to just upgrade the RAM in the computers they have (which is probably the main thing that'd need to be upgraded) than to go buy a bunch of brand-spankin'-new computers.
Yep, that's how it was for me in elementary/middle school. In high school I just told my parents I didn't have homework. In truth, I did, but there was enough time during the school day (lunchtime, during boring/stupid/easy other classes) to get it all done in school. I graduated 29/482 with a 3.85 GPA, so it couldn't have hurt that much. I still do procrastinate though. I do all of my Russian homework when I wake up in the morning (it's my first class of the day).
Yeah, those probably are cheap ones, though they do go a bit lower. $150's about normal I guess....right? But you're right, I didn't see "with contract". I don't know if other areas have this, but Cricket gives unlimited calling for $32/month. For $40 you get caller id and voicemail, and like $45 gets unlimited texting too. I think you can also get unlimited web time.
What are you talking about? Cell phones are like $100 in the US. At least, in Pittsburgh they are. And I realise the economy there sucks so a lot of stuff is a bit cheaper than say NYC, but still.
I've had mine open for about 6 hours now. It's at 78 MB. I usually have 5 or 6 tabs open, though I had about a dozen open an hour ago when I started going through /. and looking at all the new stuff.
Well, B is making the program that simulates clicks through C's computer, so B's the one committing fraud.
Okay, I've never TRIED any of these things, but I do agree that grep for books would be awesome.
On top of that, Warner Bros. doesn't require that you have a Warner Bros. DVD player for their DVDs, while you need a Sony one for Sony DVDs, and a Universal one for Universal Studios' DVDs. The DVDs, even with their DRM, will work on any DVD player or DVD computer drive. Songs bought off of iTunes can only be played on an iPod. You would need a separate player for every type of DRM and every source where you bought music. With DVDs, you don't need different hardware for every disc...yet. That "yet" is what DBD is hoping to prevent.
I go under the line of thinking that you download a couple songs to sample that artist (maybe a few non-singles because radio hits can be very misleading....the only good songs on the album), then if you like them, you support them. If you don't like them, you haven't wasted $15-20 on their crappy cd. hint to anyone wanting cheap music: cds cost the least at the show--no middle man...oh, and avoid Tower Records like the plague (why is it Tower Records anyway? they don't sell any records!)
I can tell you for sure that Unreal Tournament 2007 will run on Linux and it's the same install cd as for Windows. They put both installers on one cd. My boyfriend is loving this because he's a gamer and just switched to Linux. He (and another recent Windows -> Linux switcher I know) said when he tried Linux a few years ago, it was seriously lacking in games and Wine wasn't too great. Things have changed quite a bit. They both switched back to Linux because there's so much better game support now. I know he'd never go back to a Mac. He had one (a laptop I think) a few years ago, but it sucked for games, so he doesn't use it. Mac gamers are pretty darned rare, but given the gamer/geek overlap, I'd guess gamers on Linux are more common. I agree with him that if more companies acted like the guys that make Unreal Tournament (they make it work on anything, even Windows 95), the OS share would be more equalised. Heck, if I'm a gamer and I can either spend $200 on games or on Windows, which would I spend it on? Right now, it's probably going to have to be Windows, but if more games are available for Linux, that frees up more money to spend on the games which would mean more sales for game companies and therefore higher revenues.
Wow, that is insane.
I learned about the reproductive system when I was 12 (generation note: I'm only 18 right now) and thought there was no reason to be learning it so young because no one in the class was old enough for marriage and nobody has sex until they are married. It took another year for me to learn (thanks to morality class) that there are people out there (a lot, actually) who have sex because they like it or think it's fun rather than just to make babies. I thought sex was something only adults who are married did and that it served no purpose beyond procreation. I still see no reason for anyone to have sex other than procreation, but apparently most of the world puts sex on some pedastal and considers it the greatest thing ever...for absolutely no reason. Now, guys could get all excited about vaginas if they were this really rare and precious thing, but ya know what? They're not. Half the population has them, so who really cares?
When I was 7, women got pregnant by praying and saying "Dear God, please give me a baby, Amen". When I asked what "virgin" meant in reference to the Virgin Mary, I was told it meant "holy woman", but then in Hocus Pocus they say the guy's a virgin, so it was rephrased as "holy person"--nothing to do with sex.
I think I did know about sex (or at least that babies come out of a uterus) when I was like 11 thanks to that American Girls (remember the dolls?) "Body Book for Girls" that explains how to measure for a bra and what a tampon is and all that annoying crap guys don't have to deal with.
I do think it has to do with your parents and rules though. The rule in my house was no MTV, Jerry Springer, South Park, Simpsons, or Ren & Stimpy. I think it stopped being enforced (by enforced I mean my mom could walk into the room where we watched tv at any given moment) when I started high school. There were never any internet rules though. My parents didn't understand technology enough to think about it, and neither did my younger siblings. I was the only one who could do more than type term papers for a few years. Yeah, I hung out on messageboards like this, but I think it would be common sense (which is something I greatly lack, but I had enough to know what not to say in public) not to say "My name is Jane Doe and I live at 123 5th Ave. Somewhere, PA 15476. Here is a photo of me and my schedule so you know exactly where to find me at any given time of day". It didn't need to be a rule--it's obvious. Once you're told "don't go anywhere with strangers", that's the natural web extension of it. When my brother and sister became comp savvy enough to want freeware stuff not knowing about the viruses that tend to be packaged in there, I had to be a step ahead so I could undo what their viruses did. That's how I ended up being geeky enough to visit this site 5+ times a day.
KDE is the one that has the little menu button in the bottom left like Windows. Gnome looks like Mac. If you're a windows user, KDE might be easier for you to navigate. I'm not 100% sure, but I think KDE apps can be run on Gnome and vice versa. It might require that both are installed for the libraries to be present, but KDE apps can be run on top of Gnome if there's KDE in there somewhere.
As for distros, I think FreeSpire, Mandriva, and Ubuntu (or Kubuntu if you want KDE) are probably the most beginner friendly. FreeSpire, because it is made to look/act like Windows (comfort zone). Mandriva is also supposed to be really easy to use. I have a book (illustrated 100 page thing) on it, and it seems really simple. Ubuntu is what I use. I would say this goes after those two because it doesn't come with the proprietary codecs pre-installed and therefore takes more setup. In any case, there is a GUI installation manager to make installing most things really simple. The terminal really isn't necessary for much of anything (I just like using it).
I only heard about Skype really recently. There was a technology fair at my school where they had Skype people there. They said it doesn't work on Linux and I told them Ekiga Softphone was just fine with me then. I've had Vonage in my house for a bit over a year though. It only took about a month for someone to tell me it's VoIP. That's how I always describe it someone first. Hopefully by saying it's "VoIP" or the full wording "Voice over IP" and then "it's for phone calls through the internet or voice or video chatting" they get the distinction.
I saw people talking about this on the Ubuntu Forums yesterday.
That's weird. I'm using Firefox on Ubuntu and it works just fine for me. Given that Ubuntu is Debian-based, this doesn't make much sense.