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Re:Microsoft Windows is the problem, not the devic
Sounds like you inserted a live CD once and that's about you linux experience.
1: There's hardly a 'common' application that isn't available under linux, and a lot of commercial windows applications run under wine (XMLSpy, Flash, Director, Photoshop, WinZip etc..)
Sometimes the application are better under linux (e.g. the ones that talk to you palm) and sometimes there better under windows. If your insearch of 'desktop' linux applications you can try going
to Freshmeat, Source forge or for kde apps there's kde apps, I'm sure you'll find anything you look for, well except the odd brand name.
I don't understand this ease-of-use thing either, try mandrake or knopix. You can even have a go at installing and setting up Gentoo if you want, just remember to print out the installation guide before doing a stage 1 from you USB key.
As someone who's been using Windows for 10+ years and linux for 5+ I have found that most problems are easily solved under Linux, but when you've got a problem under Windows you end up banging you head against the table trying to fix it. -
Re:Professional Software in Higher EducationYes, my university uses Chalk, a product by Blackboard. It was deployed last year, and horrified us all. I will grant that, to the best of my knowlege, no open-source alternative exists, but to say that this is supposedly quality software is mind-boggling.
ACK. We use the same crapola, a rose by any other name as it were. Called "*university acronym*Online" where I work.
There are several alternatives, I've stumbled across many whilst freshmeating for other stuff. No names spring to mind and, since I'm on my time right now, you'll have to email me in the morning to get me to search them out for you! (we education/gummint employees, such lazy lazy freaks!). One in particular looked like a very good alternative. Search. There are options that suck far less than Blackboard does.
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I particularly like www.freshmeat.org
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Ever find it hard...
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Re:Cultural Differences& the porn industryOh, yeah, the porn industry is just going to LOVE Dosanj and company for this I mean, just imagine: All these young, undersexed computer geeks being FORCED to root through the underbelly of their neighbourhood sex shop just to buy the latest video games.
We are talking upsell city. Fresh meat for their marketing machines.
Oh, no! I just come here for the video games. -- well, I used to. Disclaimer: I ran for the Green Party in the last BC election.
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Re:Who cares? ICQ is terrible!
I've used ICQ for a couple of years now (not by choice but because it's the most convenient way to stay in touch with a lot of people I know.
The interface was a million times better before AOL took over. It was very intuitive, but after AOL took it they mostly seemed to bulk add space for advertising, a few extra redundant features as well as half-incorporating the web, and they didn't seem to care about code maintenance at all. The result was a buggy, horrible interface.
If you have to use ICQ, try to get either an older version of it (on the early side of 0.9x), or use an ICQ clone. There are lots of clones listed on freshmeat, but I'm not sure if many would compile for a Windows box. Alternatively you could try something like Odigo which talks to ICQ and looks quite cool. Last time I tried it it still crashed a bit and the window wasn't very resizable, but otherwise it was great.
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hmmm
Mal, your sig belies your leanings.
Do unto others what has been done to you
Which quickly leads to death and
Do under others as you would have them do you.a.k.a. the "Golden Rule"
I like cybersquatting, but I think that sometimes it crosses the line. Most of the cases I've seen so far have been pretty fair, IMHO. It's easy to raise a ruckus nowaways. Most of the good ones are taken. Of course the new addition of
try freshmeat.net
Should be interesting...
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Lovely fact checking at news.com.Well... I read the article. Stephen Shankland owes me a new keyboard and a bottle of coke.
Moving to Linux lets the company avoid the fee of about $85 to obtain a license for the Microsoft Windows operating system, the second most expensive component after the hard disk.
Oooh, neat... What's the third most expensive? The monitor? The CPU? Video card?
[...] although the Linux OS in question generally costs much less than retail copies of NT.
www.pricewatch.com lists retail versions of NT Workstation between $120 and $220. If Linux generally costs less, does it sometimes cost more?
The Linux Store will sell only over the Web, Wise said. It will begin marketing with ad campaigns on sites popular with Linux users such as Slashdot or Freshmeat.
Look closely at the links on the original article -- The last one points to www.freshmeat.org, not freshmeat.net.
The Linux Store got its start as a Scottsdale, Arizona, manufacturer of generic "white box" PCs called CPU MicroMart [...]
ObEditorializing: I've dealt with CPU Micromart before. They shipped my order four weeks late to the wrong address, and stuck me with about $200 in COD for a product I had already paid for. YMMV, of course, but be warned.
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dcross@cryogen.com