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Last week she brought home an HP Pavillion a1000 equipped with 1 GB of RAM, an Athon 64 3800+ processor and Windows Vista Home Premium preloaded. She had trouble almost immediately and .... Make no mistake, MS is pushing the DRM malware as hard as it can so it can rake in money hand over fist with no competition.

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceeding 08-01-07
And magazines don't hire fact | checkers any more, and if a magazine pays a columnist less, doesn't | edit his work, and calls it a "blog" they can hold it to a lower | standard of quality anyway. ..... No touch pad -- uses a pointer like a Thinkpad. | # It runs Linux. | # All solid-state, of course, no hard disk.

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 08-07-07
By default are the ATI/AMD and NVIDIA drivers, and from there you can literally install the drivers almost instantly. ..... No, two gigs of memory would be great." | | This echoes with my own experience with Vista RC2. With only 1G of | RAM, there are many disk activities indicating heavy disk swap, a | symptom of

Apple issues warning on Vista
This is a very common mistake, and quite hard to spot. 3.12 Why do I get the compiler error message T.java:96: Can't access protected method clone in class ..... 0xFFFFFFFF This promotes the signed int to long and chops off the sign-extension, leaving it as an unsigned 32-bit quantity held in a 64 bit type.

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 21-04-07
"Solaris is hard to set up. It doesn't have good hardware support," said Ladislav Bodnar, founder of Distrowatch.com, a Web site that reviews open-source software. ..... I noticed that one that I looked at listed a video card that had DirectX 8.1 optimised drivers, where 'Vista Capable' requires at least DirectX 9.

Unanswered problem reports by maintainer and package
64 has too many subfolders" xfmail 18081 xfmail has segmentation fault xfmail 23500 xfmail segv when getting mail from spool Rob Browning ..... but no xjove binary jove 23019 jove: jove can't write it's tempdata mailx 13756 mailx should not send empty messages mailx 22937 mailx bug & patch mailx 23115 mailx breaks

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 21-08-07
This can also occur if you have upgraded your hard drive format from FAT32 to NTFS. For this case there a workaround is available (this will not work on accounts with ..... Intel 810/815 with .3198 driver and Windows XP-SP2-RC2 running OpenGL crashes. Don't install XP-SP2 on a machine with this graphics card.

4Beta bug fix list?
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6181842.html Xbox 360 is limiting GTA IV, says Rockstar ,----[ Quote ] The Xbox 360's lack of a guaranteed hard disk is creating ...... So instead of publishing | issues calling for a worldwide boycott of Vista because it focuses | more on what you can't do than what you can do,

the long awaited hackers dictionary
The Kororaa Project (XGL-Enabled Live CD) Opens Up on GPL * Vista to take hard stand against piracy * AmaroK Reached Mac OS, Yet to Reach Windows, ...... I haven't looked through the registration process but it appears you can get a free Beta download from http://www.vmware.com/products/beta/converter/ From that

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceeding 13-01-07
Debian should be compressed ckermit 17172 Suspected bug on kermit ckermit 17954 ckermit doesn't compile with libc6 ckermit 19288 ckermit: ...... Debian 2.0 won't boot of a hard disk after install bootdisk 20843 Bug in Debian Linux bootdisk 22140 stale link in debian 2.0 install.html bootdisk 22157 bootdisk: Three

freebsd-current Digest, Vol 217, Issue 40
That's | with properly-signed drivers and no buggy software on | multiple PCs... `---- http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/299 TI won't rush into Microsoft WTF are you talking about Vista. First | let's check that I have enough disk space: | | Ok, now by my calculations 413 MBs < 22.8 GBs. I can normally | figure

Unanswered problem reports by maintainer and package
Erik Andersen <ander...@debian.org> (3 bugs): cdda2wav 24053 cdda2wav shouldn't include /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/scsi cdda2wav 24272 cdda2wav: seems much ...... exist so dhcpd can't start dhcp-clien 18322 dhclient-script problem with "EXPIRE" dhcp-clien 19767 dhcp-client-beta has no /usr/doc directory dhcp-clien

Unanswered problem reports by maintainer and package
Make no mistake, MS is pushing the DRM malware as hard as | it can so it can rake in money hand over fist with no | competition. It is really good at lock-in, in fact, But that doesn't mean Vista users in particular - and | the computer community at large - won't end up paying for Microsoft's | DRM folly.

Unanswered problem reports by maintainer and package
IE Market Share Quickly Sank to 64% While Firefox Crossed 400 Million Downloads Barrier * Darl McBride Thinks He Can be the Next Steve Jobs * The ...... After all, if folks in China or | Thailand or Ethiopia have to pay for Vista, they won't be able to run | it because they won't be able to afford the licence fee.

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 09-05-07
I don't know enough about the inner workings of any of these to know where to find any possible logging and no error messages are given to stdout and/or in dialogs... how ...... 8-Current (AND64) is the only installed OS at this point... was planning to install Vista on one of the PATA's once everything is stable.

freebsd-stable Digest, Vol 216, Issue 2
Under VMware Fusion Beta on my MacBook Pro and on my Athlon 64 x2 system with GeForce 7800GT the installation was flawless. ..... (I can't even buy the | upgrade because Vista will not allow me to install my Acrobat 7.0 Pro.) `---- http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130259/article.html Some more: 24Online Client

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 15-07-07
CACHE:is a tempory folder on a hard disk which stroes websites etc so that a user can acces them quicker. CAIN:is a password cracker program which cracks ..... The problem with High-Level Programming Languages is that they lack slightly in speed compared to the lower languages, the reason for this is that the

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 14-04-07
The old farmer scratched his head and said, "You boys ain't gonna get no butter from buttercups but your more than welcome to try." About an hour later, ...... 156. hard disk drive? 157. light-pen? 158. computer with a touch sensitive monitor? 159. track-ball? 160. ...for something other than a video game? 161.

freebsd-stable Digest, Vol 187, Issue 8
When I bought Dell's in the past I'd basically strip the entire hard drive and do a fresh Windows install so I wouldn't have all those extra programmes on my .... But a product like AIR, which is still in beta, allows people to do their work offline. They can drag and drop graphics or text between Web and desktop

Unanswered problem reports by maintainer and package
This is due to the BSD boot loader overwriting a UUID in the MBR the Vista OS uses to boot for some reason as it was not in the Beta or the RC. ..... FreeBSD MBR it decided it hadn't seen the disk before and assigned it 'C' and so the swapfile location was invalid which means you can't login (even in safe mode).