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  1. Things are improving there... there's drivers for nearly every bit of wireless hardware out there now. The last remaining step, is getting those drivers included in distros, stabilised in many cases, and getting some decent tools to work with them (and that really depends on stabilised drivers...). James
  2. That's crap support. I don't know what to say more than that. You bought their product, you reported a big bug (which would probably only need trivial changes to fix), and they're refusing to fix it. I wouldn't buy from them again... or ever :)
  3. Go to Mandriva Control Center, and look for "Install Software/Packages" (excuse me if the names aren't quite right, been a while since I've used it) You'll need to install wxpython, it may also be called wxgtk. James
  4. Not surprised about PNG... there's quite a few Australians there for various reasons as they're our neighbour.
  5. There was no old record, this is setting the record. Have a look at that map though, it tells a very interesting story about technology adoption around the world. Notice how blank africa is. And just for curiosity, North Korea had 0 when I last checked an hour ago.
  6. My download day starts at 3am on the 18th. It'd be better if they ran it at a full day internationally... I'll download it to my PDA in the morning over wifi.
  7. Shouldn't have to need to bring it to Adam's attention to get it fixed. Last bug I filed was there for over 9 months (IIRC) without resolution despite needing only a trivial fix, it was a regression, and it made it impossible for anyone with this hardware to install Mandriva.
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    Opera 9.5

    Odd comment seeing as Opera doesnt actually have extensions (assuming you mean extensions like firefox, rather than plugins like flash/java). To be honest, it's generally not worth trying to persuade people to use a piece of software, particularly when they take the attitude that's been shown here. Evangelism usually pisses people off (See: Mac Users) or just results in posts like Arctic's. If people would rather write a long post rebutting and misunderstanding the features someone's advertised, then chances are they wouldn't have given the application a fair test run anyway - they're comfortable with what they have and don't want to consider moving. In the end, it's just a matter of briefly mentioning it to people and letting them find their own time to try it and investigate, rather than pushing it and trying to do the investigation for them.
  9. Then I take back what I said about being a developers enemy. Chances are they received them, but given you would have been a paying customer back then you definitely did deserve a response and have every right to leave them because of that. You nagged them too "3 reports" which is great, as some devs need a bit of nagging. So yeah, you did your best, kudos for reporting. That said... time changes things, so if it's still an issue, it might be worth reporting one more time. Sorry about the tone, I get sick of people complaining "i tried this a year ago and it didnt work thus it sucks" yet they made no attempt to have the issue solved. More often than not, developers (open source particularly) will happily follow an issue up to a resolution if reported by the appropriate channels. It's not fair on the developer, and it gives other people the wrong impression about what could be a brilliant piece of software. Dexter: Google adblocking hosts file, it's a browser independent adblock method. Keep googling opera and adblock too, I'm fairly sure there's an opera specific method too. Opera's in an odd position. They can't include adblocking software as they'll get sued, and they don't have extension support, so it cant be written by others. Cheers! James
  10. and it's not invasive either, it doesnt go "look at me i do torrents!" -- it just downloads a torrent like any other file.
  11. That makes you a developer's biggest enemy. What state the product was in 6 months ago is no reflection whatsoever, of the present state of the product. So you're potentially slandering it. Or it might have been a user issue too and Opera was never at fault. Instead of whining to everyone you could do something prouctive and submit bug report. That way the issue would be sorted out. http://www.opera.com/support/bugs/ The bug report is quicker than complaining on forums, and it's more productive too. Opera's sorta my second browser. I tend to flick between it and firefox. I'll probably go back to Opera once Opera Mobile 9 is released. With that my desktop and pocket pc will be in sync.
  12. Still not perfect, I know my key was generated on debian and uploaded to a Mandriva server..... :P
  13. Though that's nothing to do with the 2.6 kernel itself, it's just the way the distro is configured and the way the distro configures the kernel. Large initrd/initramfs, kernel compilation options, extra services, don't help. If the processor is i686 or greater, (So Pentium II or Pentium Pro), you could run Arch Linux on it easily.
  14. You're getting a lot mixed up here. Many of the things you list are usable from a range of programming languages. And chances are, most of those programming lanuages have support for all of the things you want. Linux is slightly different... generally tools do one thing and do it well, so there aren't many big all in one "RAD" solutions -- they don't make sense. For example, I use: Editor: Gvim Language: Python UI Toolkit: pyGTK Databases: sqlite, but mysql and all the others are available UI designer: Anything GTK can use Glade Rapid development? Extremely! I can write simple but useful applications in an afternoon easily. In the above, you could easily substitude any of those. You could use nano, emacs, kdevelop, gedit, kate or any other editor. For language, there's C, Ruby, Perl, etc. Toolkit, slighly less option, but still GTK and wxWidgets. So there's an incredible range answers to what you're looking for. You just need to evaluate what you really need in terms of a programming environment depending on your skill level and the actual task at hand.
  15. There's a million solutions. Just pick whatever programming language you like and combine it with GTK or wx. I prefer python+pygtk, but that's purely personal preference.
  16. Perfectly normal. As daniewicz says, the system uses it for cache. Most systems keep recently accessed files in "unused" ram. That way, if that file is requested, it's accessible immediately without spinning the hard drive up. If the ram is needed, then the ram is simply used. There's no cost in this, it's effectively a "free" boost.
  17. who cares whether its new or old, so long as it performs the tasks you require of it adequately
  18. dont know why you'd waste any money on it. ntfs-3g works beautifully, and if it doesnt, go file bugs with your distro.
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    Doom 4

    I wonder though how much extra work it is to have the engine offer both DirectX/OpenGL. There's a lot of games that have done that in the past. Remember that there's no DirectX on OSX, so if it's on OSX, it's got the OpenGL support.
  20. Yeah, can't complain, rute was pretty awesome last time I saw it. The command line isn't really something you can learn easily by sitting down and reading a book. It just happens with time. You learn how to do the basics first... and end up looking up how to do other things as you need to from there.
  21. uname isn't going to change. Take linux for example, it's been "Linux" right from the start. This ain't web development :)
  22. Opera user... Brilliant browser, I've always found it far more responsive than firefox -- though Firefox 3 is definitely a significant improvement. But more than opera 9, I want the mobile version! It'll be awesome, and should resolve all the problems I have with mobile browsing now...
  23. Flash has always been _terrible_ trouble. Not displaying, crashing... it's been doing it forever.
  24. Yup, I studied it at school, was one of the few texts I actually enjoyed. Before anyone makes comments dooming reiserfs, remember Reiser4 is developed by many more people than Hans.
  25. But my main point was that you can't use TOR for everything. There are times when you'll need to work without it. hehe. I never said that he wanted to engage in anything illegal, or even implied it. I just see this as paranoia.
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