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| ogvh5150 |
| Just tried VMWare Workstation 5 for the first time. Damn good app. Now that I know how to use it (no big learning curve, sheesh none at all really) I can go ahead and try all those OS isos that keep popping up on differing torrent sites. |
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| ogvh5150 |
Hey Micro$oft: so much for that "WOW" campaign. Maybe you people ought to release a Service Pack 5 for Windows 2000 while you're at it.
| quote: | Dell gives customers what they want: Windows XP, not Vista
Jessica Mintz
Canadian Press
Saturday, April 21, 2007
SEATTLE (AP) - Back by popular demand: Windows XP.
PC maker Dell Inc. said on its Web site Thursday it will once again let home PC buyers choose between Microsoft Corp.'s older operating system and Windows Vista when they purchase certain new machines.
Dell, like many computer makers, stopped offering XP on most home desktops and laptops soon after Vista launched at the end of January. By late March, the company said only two models aimed at home users could be configured with XP (the option still existed on many models for business users).
But on Dell's IdeaStorm Web site, where visitors can post suggestions for the company and vote on the ones they think are important, a plea titled "Don't eliminate XP just yet" racked up more than 10,700 votes.
"We heard you loud and clear on bringing the Windows XP option back to our Dell consumer PC offerings," Dell responded in a Web posting Thursday.
The company said it will immediately offer XP again an option for four models of its Inspiron notebooks and two models of its Dimension desktop PCs.
This comes just weeks after Dell said it is also planning to offer PCs with Linux, a free operating system that competes with Windows.
"This is really odd," said Michael Silver, research vice president at Gartner. "On new PCs, consumers usually do want the latest and greatest."
Microsoft countered that Dell's move was in response to a "small minority of customers" with a "specific request." Michael Burk, a product manager for Microsoft's Windows Client group, said in an e-mailed statement, "The vast majority of consumers want the latest and greatest technology, and that includes Windows Vista."
Michael Gartenberg, vice president and research director of JupiterResearch, said many consumers continue to buy XP because it's familiar, it works with their existing hardware and programs, and is overall "good enough," even though Vista boasts a prettier user interface and stronger security.
"Microsoft is going to have to work hard to make sure that even if companies like Dell are offering XP, their customers don't want it," Gartenberg said. Now is time for the company to crank up Vista marketing, but that may be harder than it sounds.
"Operating systems inherently by nature are kind of boring," he said. |
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| ogvh5150 |
Slashdotted:
| quote: | Tuesday 11th September 2007
Today I took my laptop to pc world because a crack has developed near the left hinge,
this develops because the joint inside is failing and spreading to the casing.
Laptop is only 4 or 5 months old and otherwise in good condition.
It was agreed that infact there is indeed an issue with the hinge and that it
will spread much further untill the display can no longer stay attached to the
rest of the unit.
Then I was told because I have Linux installed, I am not covered by my warranty.
I was told that they do not have to help me and thats it.
So now I have a new laptop, its failing fast and I feel they are messing around
with my statutory rights. I have contacted CAB and waiting to hear what my options
are, I am really hoping this is against the law because software has nothing to
do with hardware failure. One could argue, this is infact a design fault too since
this is not the first time an Acer laptop has gone this way.
My email address is:
a DAWT turntablist HAT gmail - yes .com
Email me at the adress above if you like.
UPDATE!
PC World released a public statement saying that it was simply a misunderstanding yet
when I went back to the store I was refused help again! See here for more information.
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| shaolin_Z |
| ing Ubuntu Gusty Kernel! St. Andrew, I need your help :/. I already posted on the Ubuntu forums here, see if you know what the hell went wrong. I rebooted in Winblows for now :(. , great, now I can't access the Ubuntu forums for some reason :mad:. |
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| St_Andrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by shaolin_Z
ing Ubuntu Gusty Kernel! St. Andrew, I need your help :/. I already posted on the Ubuntu forums here, see if you know what the hell went wrong. I rebooted in Winblows for now :(. , great, now I can't access the Ubuntu forums for some reason :mad:. |
What happend? |
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| shaolin_Z |
I tried loggin on to the wireless network here at the co-op (aka student owned and run dorm) after the ethernet connection for the entire network spazzed out. Now I can't get past the login screen and have the yellow screen of Ubuntu death (first time I've seen it too btw). The default menu for the wireless icon in the main panel didn't have WPA as an option so I attempted to manually set it up. All I accomplished upon attempting to connect with the manual config was crashing the network manager, so I restarted and what I just described above was the result. I took this screen shot with my digi if it helps... I've googled for hours but with no luck:
As you noticed, I pasted the status of the process there.
EDIT: Here's the thread btw. Weird, I can access it now. WTF?!?! :conf:
EDIT: I'm using Gusty (Ubuntu 7.10) btw. |
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| St_Andrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by shaolin_Z
I tried loggin on to the wireless network here at the co-op (aka student owned and run dorm) after the ethernet connection for the entire network spazzed out. Now I can't get past the login screen and have the yellow screen of Ubuntu death (first time I've seen it too btw). The default menu for the wireless icon in the main panel didn't have WPA as an option so I attempted to manually set it up. All I accomplished upon attempting to connect with the manual config was crashing the network manager, so I restarted and what I just described above was the result. I took this screen shot with my digi if it helps... I've googled for hours but with no luck:
As you noticed, I pasted the status of the process there.
EDIT: Here's the thread btw. Weird, I can access it now. WTF?!?! :conf:
EDIT: I'm using Gusty (Ubuntu 7.10) btw. |
Wow, never seen anything like it :S Have you tried to disable the avahi-deamon from the boot process? |
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| shaolin_Z |
| quote: | Originally posted by St_Andrew
Wow, never seen anything like it :S Have you tried to disable the avahi-deamon from the boot process? |
Nope, cuz I'm really not sure how to actually. Ubuntu doesn't start up in command line it goes straight to Xsession and uh... how do you do it once you're in commands line? I should be able to get to command line via recovery mode.
EDIT: Apparenlt daemon starts up a punch of the processes required for Ubuntu to run properly. Do you think this link help? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=199456 |
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| St_Andrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by shaolin_Z
Nope, cuz I'm really not sure how to actually. Ubuntu doesn't start up in command line it goes straight to Xsession and uh... how do you do it once you're in commands line? I should be able to get to command line via recovery mode.
EDIT: Apparenlt daemon starts up a punch of the processes required for Ubuntu to run properly. Do you think this link help? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=199456 |
Hmm, I was trying to find where the config file is for the boot up. But the script for this process is in "/etc/init.d/avahi-daemon", I guess you could just delete the info in that file. Otherwise i guess it would be better if you could delete all the symbolic links in /etc/rc*.d/ refering to this process.
What file system are you running anyway? Most common ones are no problem to read/write to from windows :) |
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| shaolin_Z |
St. Andrew, hey man, check this out:
| quote: | DESCRIPTION
The Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon implementing Apple's ZeroConf architecture (also known as "Rendezvous" or "Bonjour"). The daemon registers local IP addresses and static services using mDNS/DNS-SD and provides two IPC APIs for local programs to make use of the mDNS record cache the avahi-daemon maintains. First there is the so called "simple protocol" which is used exclusively by avahi-dnsconfd (a daemon which configures unicast DNS servers using server info published via mDNS) and nss-mdns (a libc NSS plugin, providing name resolution via mDNS). Finally there is the DBUS interface which provides a rich object oriented interface to DBUS enabled applications.
Upon startup avahi-daemon interprets its configuration file /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf and reads XML fragments from /etc/avahi/services/*.service which may define static DNS-SD services. If you enable publish-resolv-conf-dns-servers in avahi-daemon.conf the file /etc/resolv.conf will be read, too.
OPTIONS
-f | --file= FILE
Specify the configuration file to read. (default: /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf)
-D | --daemonize
Daemonize after startup. Implies --syslog
-s | --syslog
Log to syslog instead of STDERR. Implied by --daemonize
--debug
Increase verbosity to debug level
--no-rlimits
Don't enforce resource limits as specified in the configuration file. (See setrlimit(2) for more information)
--no-drop-root
Don't drop root priviliges after startup and don't require daemon to be started as root. We recommend not to use this option.
-k | --kill
Kill an already running avahi-daemon. (equivalent to sending a SIGTERM)
-r | --reload
Tell an already running avahi-daemon to reread /etc/resolv.conf (in case you enabled publish-resolv-conf-dns-servers in avahi-daemon.conf) the files from /etc/avahi/services/. Please note that this will not reload the /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf(equivalent to sending a SIGHUP)
-c | --check
Return 0 as return code when avahi-daemon is already running.
-h | --help
Show help
-v | --version
Show version information |
I'm not sure where the '-j' option is, obviously not in avblalblah-daemon, but I'm assuming I should be able to edit that file in command line? |
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| shaolin_Z |
| quote: | Originally posted by St_Andrew
Hmm, I was trying to find where the config file is for the boot up. But the script for this process is in "/etc/init.d/avahi-daemon", I guess you could just delete the info in that file. Otherwise i guess it would be better if you could delete all the symbolic links in /etc/rc*.d/ refering to this process.
What file system are you running anyway? Most common ones are no problem to read/write to from windows :) |
Hmm, lemme check that file... I'll post the contents here so you can take a look at it too. |
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