Yes they are doing fairly well for themselves. On the desktop, Opera may lag far behind Firefox and IE, but on mobile systems its the leader. I use a Nokia E62, and out-of-the-box applications for browsing and communications are just about ok, not top class. So for the Symbian phones, especially the business class ones, installing a 3rd party browser becomes essential - which means the Opera Mini. And speaking from my personal experience, its pretty ok.
Now when you launch the Opera Mini, you'd notice a couple of things, firstly that it seems to be tilted towards Yahoo services. Your default homepage has a direct Yahoo link, a Yahoo search option and a couple of other standard news sites links. I'll be damn surprised if Yahoo is not paying Opera some sort of revenue for this. The Wikipedia page on the company - Opera Software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Software shows that their revenue in 2005 was around 154 million NOK. Which is decent considering, they made their browser a freeware after its initial launch as a paid product.
So you are trying to tell me, NetBackup users, and I mean real huge organisations, make underground, nuclear-safe vaults, trust their 500+ terabytes of data (not to mention the amount of green they spend in installing and configuring it), trust a product which is not really only an extension of a mediocre product? SAN's are valuable commodities. Nobody purchases Netapp filers, if all they want to do is backup stupid email forwards using mediocre backup software.
If Symantec is doing well in this field with competition like Tivoli, Commvault and all, they must be doing something right.
A lot of people only look at Symantec's home user security products, but a lot of cash from R & D would flow towards some of its enterprise class products like NetBackup, which because of its sheer complexity of development would require a lot of dough.
I was talking about the victim here. In case of some privacy intruding software, some people may find it annoying and some may see it as a useful addition. Like a cookie knowing your search history. However, take the case of rape, I doubt you'll find many victims who think of it as a useful convenience.
So right, I hate spyware, adware, and the likes. But sending people to jail may be a little on the heavy side. Reason being, who'll decide quantitatively about the severity of the malicious code? And will there be a difference of punishment between individuals and corporations who make spyware? If a corp makes it, they'll be dragged to court resulting in a lengthy legal battle ultimately only resulting in financial loss of the corp, not necessarily prison.
There cannot be a very fair system of deciding this since its a very grey area with no clear black and white lines. What some people think of as invasion of privacy could be regarded as a useful convenience by another. The best protection you could have is your common sense.
Lead Acid Batteries must always be stored in a charged state. If the battery is left in a discharged state, a condition known as Sulfation occurs which makes charging the battery again difficult.
I wouldn't dream of using Fedora in such a situation seeing the stablity issues Fedora Core 5 had out of the box. If I had to run for something free, I'd choose CentOS 4.4. Rock solid stablity and still top notch for usability.
If the Ultimate Edition is being given away so cheap to students, why the hell did they ever came up with the Student Edition minus the frills? Which notably, costs more than the discounted Ultimate Edition for students.
This is a a bad generalization. I admit I'm not a fan of their Norton line of security products, but some products they make are a real boon to enterprises. Let's step aside from Personal Computing for a moment and look at NetBackup or BackupExec (which were formerly from Veritas). Anyone who's backing up more than 250GB of data in a huge organization would swear by these products.
I think Red Hat will survive, as in keep alive. They'll not be raking in huge profits but if they put their head down and keep it steady they may just have a chance to share the market with Oracle. I agree to the fact that Red Hat overpriced their support, but now they have some serious thinking to do. Oracle is a very aggressive player and it'll want to squeeze every inch possible out of this venture. Red Hat will survive, because many people would still consider them as a de-facto standard, especially in countries like India where the only Linux distro which is seriously considered is RHEL. But there is no doubt that tough days lie ahead of Red Hat.
But to me, this race is needed. Competition will drive quality. If only a single vendor rules the market, it does whatever it wants to. Now that a company like Oracle is competing, it may just mean good news to the consumers.
Exactly. A lot of people bash up Yahoo, but they seem to be doing a fair job maintaining their status as the highest traffic website. Granted that their user base is not exactly the most elite on the web, but the company as a whole is giving pretty good (if not excellent) services to its users.
And the highlight of this has been its acquisitions. Like flickr and del.icio.us (which they intelligently kept separate from Yahoo MyWeb 2.0). Google is going great guns, but for me Yahoo is the player to beat to be no.1 in the web race.
There's a useful list of Yahoo acquisitions here.
Well, most people think there are better ones out there, but most of the educational institutions in India are using (or planning to use) the Fedora Core series, with a close second being Ubuntu. I've seen this first hand, since I'm an Indian. There are a lot of institutions (including my former university) who prefer the Fedora Core series for reasons of familiarity.
You could achieve the same level of motivation by a Karma system, works here doesn't it.:-), but seriously, people would be happy just to see some credit given even if its in terms of silly awards or fun titles.
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Yes they are doing fairly well for themselves. On the desktop, Opera may lag far behind Firefox and IE, but on mobile systems its the leader. I use a Nokia E62, and out-of-the-box applications for browsing and communications are just about ok, not top class. So for the Symbian phones, especially the business class ones, installing a 3rd party browser becomes essential - which means the Opera Mini. And speaking from my personal experience, its pretty ok. Now when you launch the Opera Mini, you'd notice a couple of things, firstly that it seems to be tilted towards Yahoo services. Your default homepage has a direct Yahoo link, a Yahoo search option and a couple of other standard news sites links. I'll be damn surprised if Yahoo is not paying Opera some sort of revenue for this. The Wikipedia page on the company - Opera Software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Software shows that their revenue in 2005 was around 154 million NOK. Which is decent considering, they made their browser a freeware after its initial launch as a paid product.
You can try IxQuick. Its a metasearch, and you can read about their privacy protection policy here.
So you are trying to tell me, NetBackup users, and I mean real huge organisations, make underground, nuclear-safe vaults, trust their 500+ terabytes of data (not to mention the amount of green they spend in installing and configuring it), trust a product which is not really only an extension of a mediocre product? SAN's are valuable commodities. Nobody purchases Netapp filers, if all they want to do is backup stupid email forwards using mediocre backup software. If Symantec is doing well in this field with competition like Tivoli, Commvault and all, they must be doing something right.
A lot of people only look at Symantec's home user security products, but a lot of cash from R & D would flow towards some of its enterprise class products like NetBackup, which because of its sheer complexity of development would require a lot of dough.
Interestingly Google is tagged under 'Software' rather than 'Internet Services' like Yahoo. Probably a sneak peek at what's to expect.
I was talking about the victim here. In case of some privacy intruding software, some people may find it annoying and some may see it as a useful addition. Like a cookie knowing your search history. However, take the case of rape, I doubt you'll find many victims who think of it as a useful convenience.
So right, I hate spyware, adware, and the likes. But sending people to jail may be a little on the heavy side. Reason being, who'll decide quantitatively about the severity of the malicious code? And will there be a difference of punishment between individuals and corporations who make spyware? If a corp makes it, they'll be dragged to court resulting in a lengthy legal battle ultimately only resulting in financial loss of the corp, not necessarily prison. There cannot be a very fair system of deciding this since its a very grey area with no clear black and white lines. What some people think of as invasion of privacy could be regarded as a useful convenience by another. The best protection you could have is your common sense.
Lead Acid Batteries must always be stored in a charged state. If the battery is left in a discharged state, a condition known as Sulfation occurs which makes charging the battery again difficult.
I wouldn't dream of using Fedora in such a situation seeing the stablity issues Fedora Core 5 had out of the box. If I had to run for something free, I'd choose CentOS 4.4. Rock solid stablity and still top notch for usability.
...paperless office. Neat concept eh!
If the Ultimate Edition is being given away so cheap to students, why the hell did they ever came up with the Student Edition minus the frills? Which notably, costs more than the discounted Ultimate Edition for students.
This is a a bad generalization. I admit I'm not a fan of their Norton line of security products, but some products they make are a real boon to enterprises. Let's step aside from Personal Computing for a moment and look at NetBackup or BackupExec (which were formerly from Veritas). Anyone who's backing up more than 250GB of data in a huge organization would swear by these products.
1600 traces of W32.CIH from a Win98SE PC, god the amount of time I spent bringing that piece of crap back up again.
I think Red Hat will survive, as in keep alive. They'll not be raking in huge profits but if they put their head down and keep it steady they may just have a chance to share the market with Oracle. I agree to the fact that Red Hat overpriced their support, but now they have some serious thinking to do. Oracle is a very aggressive player and it'll want to squeeze every inch possible out of this venture. Red Hat will survive, because many people would still consider them as a de-facto standard, especially in countries like India where the only Linux distro which is seriously considered is RHEL. But there is no doubt that tough days lie ahead of Red Hat. But to me, this race is needed. Competition will drive quality. If only a single vendor rules the market, it does whatever it wants to. Now that a company like Oracle is competing, it may just mean good news to the consumers.
Exactly. A lot of people bash up Yahoo, but they seem to be doing a fair job maintaining their status as the highest traffic website. Granted that their user base is not exactly the most elite on the web, but the company as a whole is giving pretty good (if not excellent) services to its users. And the highlight of this has been its acquisitions. Like flickr and del.icio.us (which they intelligently kept separate from Yahoo MyWeb 2.0). Google is going great guns, but for me Yahoo is the player to beat to be no.1 in the web race. There's a useful list of Yahoo acquisitions here.
Well, most people think there are better ones out there, but most of the educational institutions in India are using (or planning to use) the Fedora Core series, with a close second being Ubuntu. I've seen this first hand, since I'm an Indian. There are a lot of institutions (including my former university) who prefer the Fedora Core series for reasons of familiarity.
You could achieve the same level of motivation by a Karma system, works here doesn't it. :-), but seriously, people would be happy just to see some credit given even if its in terms of silly awards or fun titles.