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I did. As I said in my previous post they emailed me a link to their $700 Linux server backup software, and then asked me if their solution had solved my problem and would I like to take part in a customer feedback survey. :unsure:
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 :)
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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
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The first and last download if any will be by Kim himself, notice that even Papua New Guinee were people were living in the stone age not even 50 yrs ago (and many still do) even has downloads....
Not surprised about PNG... there's quite a few Australians there for various reasons as they're our neighbour.
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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.
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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.
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I've reported several bugs to Mandriva and I've been very pleased with their response to them. Some are still open (pending resolution) while others were resolved/fixed.
One or two, I brought to Adam's attention afterwards, he followed up on them. :)
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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Firefox has vastly more plugins available than Opera but has vastly more rubbish plugins too.
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.
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3. For your information, iphitus, bug reports were filed, THREE of them to be exact.
No responses were received from anyone whatsoever at Opera. Therefore, they lost a dedicated user, as up to that point, I had been a user of Opera since version 5 (under Windows).
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
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what I like about opera is that it has the torrent downloader out of the box.
and it's not invasive either, it doesnt go "look at me i do torrents!" -- it just downloads a torrent like any other file.
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I gave up on Opera for Linux a few years ago. Footers would not print at all, yet when the font size was changed to something very large, the tops of the footers would print (first row of dots), nothing more, even with margins set to zero.
I decided it wasn't worth wasting my time over anymore.
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.
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Well, I can't resist taking the cheap shot: if we're talking security, Mandriva didn't have Ubuntu's leeeeetle problem with openssl key generation. For, y'know, two years. ;)
Still not perfect, I know my key was generated on debian and uploaded to a Mandriva server..... :P
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Not quite; 2.6-kernel-based distributions won't install on too-old hardware. For example, on my nomade laptop, Mandrake 9.1 was the last Mdk/Mdv I was able to install (and it ran slow). You can always try and use Live CDs to test.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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who cares whether its new or old, so long as it performs the tasks you require of it adequately
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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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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.
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uname isn't going to change. Take linux for example, it's been "Linux" right from the start.
This ain't web development :)
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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...
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Flash has always been _terrible_ trouble. Not displaying, crashing... it's been doing it forever.
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does anyone remember the film 12 Angry Men ?
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.
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iphitus is right in the sense that tor doesn't change your physical ip, what it does is anonimize your net activities by routing your requests through a series of proxies or nodes. To cut a long story short, when you request to see a page from a website when using tor, it is not your ip that is logged on that site as requesting the page, it is the ip of the exit node that is logged.
But my main point was that you can't use TOR for everything. There are times when you'll need to work without it.
I find it strange how it's accepted that all and sundry is allowed to track your net movements/activities, but if you take exception to it and take steps to prevent it, you are somehow wanting to engage in something illegal. If the latter is true then governments are also doing something illegal because they also use tor.hehe. I never said that he wanted to engage in anything illegal, or even implied it. I just see this as paranoia.
Why do you like/love using GNU/Linux?
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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