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Asus Slaps Linux In the Face 644

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday May 28, 2009 @07:57AM from the et-tu-asus dept.

vigmeister writes "From Techgeist, 'Linux just got a major slap in the face today from Asus. One of the highlights of Linux going mainstream was the wildly popular Asus Eee PC preinstalled with a customized Linux distro geared towards web applications. While I personally never got what the big deal was, I was still happy for all the Linux people out there waiting for this day, but it looks like the cause for celebration won't be lasting much longer. Asus and Microsoft have teamed up and have made a site called 'It's Better With Windows.' The page touts how easy it is to get up and ready with Windows on an Asus Eee PC, while slyly stating that you won't have to deal with an 'unfamiliar environment' and 'major compatibility issues.' While it is silly to state such a thing since Asus built the Linux distribution specifically for the Eee PC, I give Microsoft two points for snarky comments.'"

Comment Re:twnety year old civic gets 57mpg (Score 1) 1186

by wakingrufus on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @08:29AM (#28010057) Attached to: US To Require That New Cars Get 42 MPG By 2016

Those old civic also had worse emissions than current civic, and also lacked many features that people demand today, such as electric locks, windows, the onboard diagnostics computer and such.
and FYI my 2007 civic gets about 42 mpg on the highway, and about 36 in mixed.

Comment Re:Only on some long-discontinued iPod models (Score 1) 313

by wakingrufus on Friday May 08, 2009 @07:58AM (#27874801) Attached to: Theora Ahead of H.264 In Objective PSNR Quality

I agree. I recently got a 16GB iaudio7 from cowon.
plays every format I want, in addition to having great battery life (60 hours of play time. i have verified this.). its flash based, and it was only 120 USD.

Comment Re:Sorry but... (Score 1) 327

by wakingrufus on Thursday May 07, 2009 @04:24PM (#27866211) Attached to: OpenOffice 3.1 Released

to be fair, MS excel has an option in the "window" menu that says "compare side by side" or something similar that will take both windows and put them side by side and link the scrolling between them.
i know this is in excel 2003. not sure of other versions.
I am a big fan of OO but i will not say anything to knock Excel. I think its a great program.

Comment Re:Guesstimates? (Score 1) 409

by wakingrufus on Tuesday May 05, 2009 @07:32PM (#27839699) Attached to: The Problem With Estimating Linux Desktop Market Share

Ubuntu is the "gateway linux" nowadays though.

Comment Re:Just use MPEG4 / H264 (Score 1) 345

by wakingrufus on Monday April 20, 2009 @06:15PM (#27653463) Attached to: Adobe Pushing For Flash TVs

you dont even need a firefox addon a lot of times. go to youtube, load up a video, and then take a look in your /tmp folder (sort by date)

Comment Re:Anything to do with (Score 1) 280

by wakingrufus on Monday April 06, 2009 @06:13PM (#27482037) Attached to: April Fools Sees Fake Extra Millions For Users of Brokerage Site

60 billion double-dollars

Comment Re:A good idea (Score 1) 111

by wakingrufus on Sunday April 05, 2009 @01:37PM (#27466687) Attached to: Data.gov To Launch In May

I did, in fact, efile on the irs website for free this year. Although i understand that it costs money if you make over a certain amount.
But the service exists.

Comment Re:making software more reliable? (Score 1) 187

by wakingrufus on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @04:14PM (#27140057) Attached to: Barbara Liskov Wins Turing Award

well, actually, electrons aren't so reliable:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron#Quantum_mechanics_2

Comment Re:Long time coming (Score 1) 120

by wakingrufus on Saturday March 07, 2009 @01:19PM (#27105507) Attached to: Guitar Hero, On a Real Guitar, To Hit Shelves In 2009

or this:
http://www.gear-vault.com/stratosphere-fender-standard-roland-ready-stratocaster/

Comment Re:Simple fix for that. (Score 1) 93

by wakingrufus on Monday February 23, 2009 @07:44PM (#26963699) Attached to: Last.fm Shoots Down Rumors Over U2 Album Leak

OR play something you have the legal right to play, and change the id3 tag to something yet unreleased! That will show them!

Comment Re:Just say no (Score 1) 1127

by wakingrufus on Monday February 16, 2009 @11:20PM (#26881933) Attached to: Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7

as far as pulse-audio problems are concerned, try this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=776739 you can skip adding that guys PPA. and then when you run windows apps in wine, run them using OSS in winecfg and with the command "padsp" before wine. I do this and i have no sound problems whatsoever

Comment Re:Inaccurate? (Score 1) 354

by wakingrufus on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @09:43AM (#26708299) Attached to: Apps That Officially Support Wine

have you tried Battle.net? last i checked, the interface for that was all but unusable. but yes, the rest of the program works perfectly.

Comment Re:Marketing MIA (Score 1) 625

by wakingrufus on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @06:41PM (#26537915) Attached to: Canonical Close To $30M Critical Mass; Should Microsoft Worry?

doesn't this already exist? try putting apt://lynx in your browser. im using ubuntu btw.

Comment Re:Scientists these days are so lazy (Score 1) 191

by wakingrufus on Saturday January 17, 2009 @10:25AM (#26496649) Attached to: Violence in Games, Once Again, Not That Compelling

so maybe we will start getting decades long studies when a baby's dev time is that long?

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