... Well, to be a bit cynical.... A product that for better or worse is probably on 75-90 percent of office workstations. A format that whether it is good or...
... cheap but it does the job. ... Thanks, Roy. Too bad it is wireless...I am running wired...too many problems with wireless on my laptop and linux. Jim...
Likely the case and it cuts two ways. Popularity means more problems when something like this happens and more critics to draw attention to it. The good thing...
I don't know how closely you have followed this story but it has grave implications. ISO as a standards body is being questioned and countries are beginning to...
It is both. I don't actually use the wireless capability as I prefer wired connections for speed and stability. It has one ethernet port and one usb port plus...
"Instead of devloping they just have to muscle control and take over making somethng they had nothing to do with their own. Scary." It's what they have always...
Really I mean what Mac brought to the table as far as technologies go, Windows stole outright and than of course tried to claim it for themselves. Justin...
I agree. I started out as an Apple II user, but gave up on Apple when the Mac came out with its closed architecture and lack of configurability. It was...
... wired connections for speed and stability. It has one ethernet port and one usb port plus the wireless. Usb is for the printer. I have not actually tried...
Did Apple bring so much? They took Darwin, made it their own and have given little or nothing back to open source from which it sprang. Yes, Apple OS is good...
2008/10/4 Linux Canuck <linuxcanuck@...> ... Isn't this the way they started out? - by shafting some guy over DOS? bill -- Young listeners should be...
Hi All, Which ditro would you recommend for a backup server? All the network computers running winxp. Thanks gabci Make the switch to the world's best...
Hi gang, What a great forum--no spam I see! Okay, I am totally new to Linux. However, my brother in 2005 purchased two "DVR" digital video recording systems...
I am not sure where I got it. I buy computer supplies and equipment from only a handful of places: Staples, Future Shop (Canadian company owned by Best Buy),...
... I think what you want is single user mode. There should be a grub or lilo screen just before it boots. Do you know what version of Linux it's running? ...
... from only a handful of places: Staples, Future Shop (Canadian company owned by Best Buy), the Source (Canadian version of Radio Shack but owned by Circuit...
... What part of "Embrace and adapt" don't you remember? This has been Microsoft's basic game plan from day one. If you can't beat something, then adopt it...
I agree with you, but this is a new wrinkle on an old strategy. Previously it was applied to companies, now it is being applied to standards bodies which...
i had been using xine to play my DVD's and one day, it quit. i tried different things and finally decided to do a re-install of the entire linux system. i...
... Seems pretty obvious to me. Microsoft will have as much or more control as they did at the peak of their power 10 or so years ago. I think they have...
Install vlc. It works better anyway. Mandriva and any RPM based distro is prone to breakage. RPMs do not trace dependencies as well as Debs. We can argue that...
hi guys i m new to the linux platform and i want player video files linux platform. i m using fedora 9 , i able to intstall mplayer sucessfully, but failed to...
... thanks roy. i'll give this a try. ... well, this will give me a little more incentive to try ubuntu which i've been interested in trying for some time...
They were both CDs of the same size. I am not sure why Mandriva is so slow. I install lots of distros and this on the slow end and Ubuntu is on the fast...
... I'm intrigued. I have installed both distros on the same PC and partition without any major difference in install time (Did you use the Live Mandriva One...
... You could also try Kaffein, which is another front end for Xine, which I have found to work when the Xine GUI fails. It should be installed by default if ...
