I second the motion. I recently visited England and coming from Seattle I was was expecting to look down on any of England's coffee offerings. But much to my surprise the coffee from Cafedirect was damn good.
So better beer, better coffee, at least we still have better wine... okay, I actually was too busy drinking the beer to taste any wine...
I just bought a cheap, er, inexpensive Lexmark laser printer. It touted Linux support and even had a Penguin on the box and linux drivers on the installation CD. Unfortunately it still took a bit of fiddling to get the printer to work but work it does. Can't say to what extent they actively contributed versus used other peoples work however.
They make these wonderful contraptions known as KVMs...
I don't think that was what the poster had in mind. Your KVM switch doesn't provide any value other than saving desk space. The article talked about the benefits of redundancy, increases processing power and increased bandwidth.
I imagine what the poster was talking about was having one operating system that would use both computers if they were available but having a complete working system if one was unavilable. So for instance you could power up the second computer with an additional 56K modem and get dual PPP connection without any effort.
There was a related article [nytimes.com] in the NY times this week about electronics manufacturers who inflate their list prices so that retailers can easily offer their goods at a "bargain".
I had the unfortunate experience the other day of shopping in an Old Navy clothing store. They sell really cheap clothes, some of it cheap. They had a sign by the cashiers which I'm sure was required by some law that stated --I'm paraphrasing-- "Some items may never have been sold at their original price."
I was always suspicious, but frankly probably swayed, by those price stickers that said, "$1.99 Compare at $2,565." Now retails are force to admit that they make some of those prices up.
Here are some personal suggestions that may or may-not work.
1) Put a donate button on the website. Suggest a small fee - say $5.00. Make it secure and give the users the option of saving the credit card numbers so they can re-donate frequently and easily.
Amazon has a service that will collect donations for a fee taken off the top. Its called the honor system and it meets all your suggested requirements.
Programmer: Hey, this is really cool. I rewrote all our server side validation in Javascript. So now no more round trips to the server just to return bad input errors!
Client: Great. Now prove to me that your server side logic is the same as the client side.
Programmer: Uh...
Client: Now maintain both for the same price.
Programmer: Uh...
Its probably possible to do this with a little thought but I bet almost none do.
Redhat is nice for Newbies but every relase after 5.0 has been buggy as all hell.
What is it about RedHat that makes it nice for newbies? What about it is buggy? I've heard similar opinions, but little detiails. Perhaps people are confusing preferences with bugs. Anyway, I've used RedHat as a workaday system for years and I've had to tweak stuff, but I've never cursed RedHat its always worked and upgrades have always been smooth.
Linux-Mandrake is simply put the Redhat that works. Plus its got a tun of other cool stuff.
Hmm, in my experience, RedHat has simply worked too. Cool stuff, now that I can't comment on, its all pretty cool to me.
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Hmm, $45 for the linux version or $15 for the windows version... Maybe back in Soviet Russia but it ain't gonna fly today.
I second the motion. I recently visited England and coming from Seattle I was was expecting to look down on any of England's coffee offerings. But much to my surprise the coffee from Cafedirect was damn good.
So better beer, better coffee, at least we still have better wine... okay, I actually was too busy drinking the beer to taste any wine...
I just bought a cheap, er, inexpensive Lexmark laser printer. It touted Linux support and even had a Penguin on the box and linux drivers on the installation CD. Unfortunately it still took a bit of fiddling to get the printer to work but work it does. Can't say to what extent they actively contributed versus used other peoples work however.
I don't think that was what the poster had in mind. Your KVM switch doesn't provide any value other than saving desk space. The article talked about the benefits of redundancy, increases processing power and increased bandwidth.
I imagine what the poster was talking about was having one operating system that would use both computers if they were available but having a complete working system if one was unavilable. So for instance you could power up the second computer with an additional 56K modem and get dual PPP connection without any effort.
I had the unfortunate experience the other day of shopping in an Old Navy clothing store. They sell really cheap clothes, some of it cheap. They had a sign by the cashiers which I'm sure was required by some law that stated --I'm paraphrasing-- "Some items may never have been sold at their original price."
I was always suspicious, but frankly probably swayed, by those price stickers that said, "$1.99 Compare at $2,565." Now retails are force to admit that they make some of those prices up.
Amazon has a service that will collect donations for a fee taken off the top. Its called the honor system and it meets all your suggested requirements.
Client: Great. Now prove to me that your server side logic is the same as the client side.
Programmer: Uh...
Client: Now maintain both for the same price.
Programmer: Uh...
Its probably possible to do this with a little thought but I bet almost none do.
For what its worth, you can turn off this "feature."