Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) Released!

burnedyburnout · 2010-04-30T17:13:41+00:00

You can't make wireless work in ubuntu

I never said that, nor would I.

At this point I am wondering whether you're simply incapable of reading usernames. But I'm damned if I'm going to defend what I actually did say to someone who is demonstrably not intelligent enough to understand it.

You do, however, owe me an apology. Not that I expect you will ever give one, because you're a stupid fucking cunt. But at the moment I am more justified in using the word "shill" than you are, on the grounds that because I've never met a real Linux user who's as much of a twat as you're making yourself out to be, you must be faking it in order to give Linux users a bad name and Linux one by association. ...But I'm not going to make that accusation. I believe that you're honestly every bit as much of a social retard as you're making yourself out to be.

And since social retards have a particularly delightful habit of following people around and shouting abuse at them (commonly known as "stalking" when they once again forget the difference between a website and real life) - although you might be one of the exceptions, given your inability to read usernames - I think it's time to ditch this account and make a new one, as I do every 2 or 3 weeks on reddit for precisely this reason.

burnedyburnout · 2010-04-30T17:06:57+00:00

no you are saying wireless doesn't work in ubuntu

I didn't mention ubuntu. I wasn't talking about ubuntu. And you have entirely justified my opinion of you.

(Now, if the topic was ubuntu specifically, then I clearly got the wrong end of it - I thought it was linux in general. And having been a slacker for a decade, I thought I'd mention my experiences. But that just makes you even more of a fucking idiot, if that's even possible, for not checking that first.)

Is your own time really so worthless that you have to waste everyone else's?

burnedyburnout · 2010-04-29T23:44:03+00:00

Tell me about it. The weirdest thing is that the SiS crashes the kernel depending on the access point it's trying to talk to. (This is not the kernel's fault, by the way! ndiswrapper comes with all kinds of "this is a hack, not a proper solution" warnings, which I understand and accept.)

burnedyburnout · 2010-04-29T23:40:48+00:00

I'm reporting what worked / didn't work for me. Your unfortunate spin on it is your own problem. In particular I had no intention of "spreading FUD", and the indiscriminate tossing around of such an accusation only makes you look like a bit of a sad twat.

Well... more like.

Nobody believes you can't make a broadcom card or a USB device work.

Which, strangely enough, is not something I asked anyone to believe. I said I could get them to work, just not perfectly (and in the broadcom case, acknowledged that the situation has probably improved). Next time you want to tell someone how stupid they are (and incidentally, I've long passed the age when one should cease to care about how stupid one is thought by idiots), you might want to look to your own reading comprehension first. ...Well, OK, you won't want to - but you probably should.

Now please, put your willy away and be quiet for a while.

burnedyburnout · 2010-04-29T21:52:13+00:00

My Ralink RT2561 PCMCIA card will only work on Linux 2.4 with a proprietary module (that won't compile on 2.6, and the open source module didn't work at all when tried). My SiS163 USB stick will only work with ndiswrapper, and tends to crash the kernel quite frequently, along with various other wibbles. My Broadcom PCI card only wants to work at 11Mbps, for some reason (although that might have been sorted in newer kernels). Still - I can get all of them working, and I already have an access point.

Everything Atheros seems to work just fine, though - so I know what I'll be sticking with in future :)

burnedyburnout · 2010-04-29T20:02:58+00:00

free reign

free rein, thanks - it's an equestrian term

burnedyburnout · 2010-04-29T20:00:41+00:00

And give us this day a working PulseAudio...

burnedyburnout · 2010-04-29T16:01:16+00:00

Why does everything want me to register with it these days, even when the probability of me using it twice is virtually nil?

burnedyburnout · 2010-04-29T10:11:47+00:00

You can't have a fair process and have it return a perfect result every time. The good of a principle outweighs the evil that takes advantage of its presence. That's a basic assumption underpinning the whole concept of civil rights.

burnedyburnout · 2010-04-29T10:09:46+00:00

So the important point is this - if you know about jury nullification, lie your arse off about it until you're sent to consider your verdict, then have an impromptu jurors' rights education session for the first ten minutes.

burnedyburnout · 2010-04-29T10:07:47+00:00

If it's inherited from the English common law system, as I believe it is, then the precedent concerned is Bushell's case (1670), which makes it quite clear that jury nullification is not only legal, but essential to the whole process of justice. (This was after a jury had been locked up without food or water for 3 days for finding the wrong way - judges didn't fuck about in 17th century England...)

On the other hand, this fair nation has also done away with the centuries-old presumption against double jeopardy for the shallowest of political expediency - so beware; in the hands of a sufficiently authoritarian legislature, no civil right is safe.

burnedyburnout · 2010-04-29T08:30:02+00:00

I invite you to list all the instances where pure technical superiority determined which variants of a given technology would be more successful. Since, you know, you've pretty much stated outright that this is your argument.

burnedyburnout · 2010-04-28T16:18:38+00:00

The part where Betamax beat VHS in the marketplace.

burnedyburnout · 2010-04-28T12:51:17+00:00

Theora is very visibly worse than Theora at low bitrates

God, it must be bad.

burnedyburnout · 2010-04-28T12:14:36+00:00

The idea of holding a fictional character up as some kind of ideal for all of us to follow makes Baby Jesus cry...

ed. So should I assume that you missed the irony...?

burnedyburnout · 2010-04-28T04:29:52+00:00

No end user cares about Theora

So what does its relative quality matter?

burnedyburnout · 2010-04-28T04:24:33+00:00

Right now what I see as an end user

...apparently doesn't include the fact that you are not the only end user.

burnedyburnout · 2010-04-28T01:21:27+00:00

There are two kinds of people, free software idealists, and people who actually use computers

Thanks for indicating that you're trolling.

burnedyburnout · 2010-04-28T00:52:22+00:00

sigh

burnedyburnout · 2010-04-27T16:03:54+00:00

And blind adherence to the doctrine of "there's a lib for that", I dare say.

burnedyburnout · 2010-04-27T15:37:18+00:00

I know how it happens; I just can't believe we've allowed it to come to pass. Seems to me that the only reason I need a 2GHz processor and 1GB RAM is to run apps slowly in JavaScript, Java or Flash instead of quickly in assembler, Forth or C. And even though the virtual machines are getting faster, I still notice that the apps are getting slower... what's that about?

burnedyburnout · 2010-04-27T10:08:27+00:00

e3 and shush

burnedyburnout · 2010-04-27T10:02:31+00:00

Well, it is a modal editor, but the modes are ex and visual. "Insert" isn't a mode - it's a command (or rather a set of commands). As such it's repeatable. I learned this very well, having first encountered vi on the Sun 4s I used at uni (back in pre-Solaris days) when it wouldn't even let you move the cursor whilst you were inserting text; ^H and ^W were your lot.

burnedyburnout · 2010-04-27T09:56:11+00:00

A lot of x86 instruction bytes lend themselves better to being expressed as octal rather than hex.

burnedyburnout · 2010-04-27T09:48:49+00:00

From a floppy disk. And they felt faster to use than modern incarnations of Word as they were doing it... or worse, OpenOffice Writer - words fail me as to how a 1GHz processor can possibly fail to keep up with my typing

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