The data plan is, in fact, unlimited. I go over 5 GB a month on my current Verizon phone regularly. This is no different. Tethering specifically has a 5 GB limit which is stated in the contract for it. There are also readily available hacks to make tethering work on an Android phone.

Yep, the nicely shrinkwrapped license that you have no recourse to do anything but agree to since its not interactive that informs you that "This copy is licensed for private non-commercial exhibition only"... right, I remember that being printed on my rece.. nope.. must have been mentioned by the salesma.. nope.. I guess I must have signed a contract.... nope.. hmm how did they license this to me exactly?

Yet I still get 5 Mbps down no matter the time of day or night, can Cable Modem subscribers say that about their "20 Mbps" lines?

So I shouldn't be happy to be giving them $50 a month instead of $140?

Nope, AT&T doesn't throttle, since I have my own dedicated bandwidth. This is why cable modems are for suckers. DSL == my own bandwidth.

That would be AT&T ladies and gentlemen. I could also go with MTCO a local competitor if I was interested in having a home phone line, but I'm not, so AT&T is the only option for dry-loop DSL.

Might I be the first to give a gigantic "Whoosh!" in Comcast's general direction. I cut that cord a few years ago and with the help of MythTV, Boxee, Hauppage, Turtle Beach, Netflix, and Xbox Live have never looked back for a second.

Well, then why are there so many threads like this:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1130384

if the sound setup is done so well? There are four or five different conflicting threads for how to make stuff work... seems pretty clear. Also seems pretty clear cut that they rolled out a half baked sound setup in a LTS release. That's the main issue that did it for me.

And on the server side, FYI, the first thing you DO see after login is a pitch for landscape as a service.

Hmm... Let's see:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/410343

My whole point is them monetizing through SPYWARE. I understand you don't enter a cc #, that doesn't mean they aren't tracking and selling user info.

Your sound system response is prototypical of the exact problem. "Works for me".. do you have every possible configuration of sound card? Do you use Ubuntu to output a optical spdif signal to your home theater? The devs having exactly that attitude is why Ubuntu as a distro has moved into the crap pile in my house.

Yeah, great, except you're wrong. The "LTS" version of Ubuntu was the worst version I used (was a user since 7.04) and drove me to seek out another distro. I landed on Fedora, which has great development environment support (Eclipse packages), working sound (sorry, until I hacked and hacked the sound setup on Mythbuntu 8.04 didn't work right, nor did stock Ubuntu 8.04), and a general overall polish and QA that Ubuntu lacks. Everything worked well out of the box with no tweaking, no howto's, no saying "well its almost right", it was refreshing.

Ubuntu has shown its true colors as wanting to monetize with BS add-ons that shove crapware down users throats. From Multisearch in Firefox to their built in "monitoring" software to use their third party pay for play site. Thanks Canonical, but it leaves a bad taste. I'll deal with RedHat who is upfront about a paid version and a community version. I'm well aware where the money to run the company comes from at least.

And this is the major problem with the series really, idiot fans who will read whatever pages he wiped his ass with regardless of their content or quality... listen to yourself, its horribly edited, rambling, but I'll DEFINITELY read it. They know they can put out crap and you somehow feel you've put too much into it to turn back. Sounds like a great reason to write 30 more books to me.

Yes, but the world doesn't really need pompous, caviar swilling, judgmental assholes to much, now does it?

Sorry, but the root partition must be formatted even when doing it manually. Please try again and layout your partitions with a separate /home to begin with. This is the reason partitions exist.

So why do you think this means you can't use Gnome as a DE? KDE apps work just fine installed with their dependencies and run under Gnome.