And, given their history, it would be low cost as well. Not to mention that your every online move will be tracked and logged forever.
Don't get me wrong, Google does some cool stuff (gmail, google maps (I really like the hybrid setting), picasa, etc), but at the massive ammount of information they log on everyone is very scary.
You're aware, I hope, that AAA has been doing this for about 30 years....manually. Yeah. I'm aware of that. In fact, when I do travel I do both the website and go down to the local AAA (so I can get the maps and books). I just brought this up because AAA's website does much more than any other online map service.
It has some sort of funny name, maybe a "TripTix"? TripTik.
Well, if you're a AAA member you can get this now. For example, I just did a 1,300 mile drive and used AAA's website to get the directions. You set the starting location and the destination and then you can add things like construction information, restaurants, hotels, gas stations, etc. You can add multiple stops, force it to take certain routes, etc. It ends up with an overview similar to what MapQuest and Google Maps do, but then it also gives around 30 pages with detailed maps of every intersection and major area, alternatives, etc. It's really nice.
This is why I don't bother with Google Maps or Mapquest any more. They're very primitive by comparison. Though, I do use Google Maps when I'm familiar with an area and am just not sure exactly where something is.
Nope, tried it at mine. Lightning (a must if you are going to be using Thunderbird in the work place) missing decent native shared calendaring support. This is big stopper. But if you have users that do not require it, go for it. I've rolled it out for our laptop users, i.e users not connected to the exchange server.. Lightning/Sunbird do support shared calendaring. Use either WebDAV or FTP to host it and install it on the client as a remote calendar (whatever it's called). Writing is supported.
If you want to dump exchange, though, go with Scalix. The Community Edition is free for 25 users, though when you get above that it's not cheap. Still, it does everything Exchange does, runs on Linux, provides an excellent web client, full integration with Outlook via a plug-in, and full integration with Evolution via a plug-in.
There are two ways to install it. With an easy to use graphical installer that even a Windows admin can handle, or manually.
I guess I'm preaching to the choir here, but I had issues too. My Lenovo 3000 N100 shipped with Vista, and the networking tools were utterly useless... so I tried to format/install XP, but Lenovo support for their own drivers was abyssimal. DriverPacks. This is just a great tool. Basically, you can integrate a huge amount of drivers directly to the cd (if you add in all you'll have to burn it to a DVD or do it over a network). This has made my life so much easier. No more hunting down drivers, dealing with awful manufacturer websites, etc.
Basically, everything released after Steamboat Willie is under copyright and will be forever. You can be certain that no matter how much it costs, Disney will never allow anything under their copyright to enter the public domain.
Come on; it's shocking as a Mac user to see all you Windows guys suddenly defending Safari now that it's available on your PC's. A lot of Mac users hate Safari. Many of us use Firefox. I am not a Windows user. My primary OS has been Linux since '96. My home computers run a mix of Ubuntu and Fedora. My PowerBook duals with OS X Tiger and Ubuntu Feisty. I don't like Safari much and use Firefox.
Safari on Mac doesn't follow Mac conventions either. It just received its first update in like a year, and it doesn't seem to have helped much. Safari:Mac = IE:Windows. We feel pretty much the same way about it. It does feel more Mac-like than Firefox, though. Still, I prefer Firefox.
btw, I did try Safari on Windows. The first time I opened more than 10 tabs simultaneously, it froze. Yes, it's a beta, but a pretty unusable one if it fails at its basic core function. I haven't tried Safari for Windows yet since I don't have any Windows installations.
No, that's not what he said. He said that Safari ignores most Windows conventions. That's bad. If the Windows conventions were good, I'd agree with you. However, anything is an improvement over Windows conventions.
Hell, do any Microsoft applications follow them? It seems every Microsoft product has a very different ui. IE7, WMP10, WMP11, VS.NET 2003/2005, Microsoft Office, etc, are all very different.
So what if the jump the GPLv3 line. Be glad. The Linux community is going to need all the backing you can get if it wants to have a thorough defense against the Novell-MS Trojan. If Sun goes GPLv3 along with the GNU tools, then Nexenta will be much more attractive. Basically, Nexenta is Ubuntu with OpenSolaris as the kernel instead of Linux.
Maybe it means that Windows will get EXT2/EXT3 file system support in order to read Linux partitions. That support is already there. Though it would be better if it was in Windows by default.
Maybe it means that Linux will get a Microsoft approved NTFS file system support for Linux so it can finally write to NTFS partitions. That also is possible, and it works quite well.
Well, it is possible to block traffic based on it's type.
For example, with Linux through iptables and IPP2P it's possible to block eDonkey, FaskTrack (KaZaA), Gnutella, Direct Connect, BitTorrent, AppleJuice (?), WinMX, SoulSeek, and Ares. I have not used this, so I don't know how well it works.
Well, when I went to college (graduated one year ago) I could basically get anything by Microsoft for free. Most of my classes had "Microsoft" in the title. I got XP Pro, Project 2003, Visio 2003, FrontPage 2003, Visual Studio 2003, Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server (don't remember the version), etc. You'd have to give them a blank cd, and then go to a Microsoft website to get the key. None of it was crippled.
The book store sells most of that stuff under $100. I don't know if an ID is required, though, as I didn't have to buy any of it.
Or how about GCompris (educational game)? The Windows version displays this message on startup:
Gcompris is free software released under the GPL License. In order to support its development, the Windows version provides only 20 of the 100 activities. You can get the full version for a small fee at <http://gcompris.net>
The Linux version does not have this restriction. Note that GCompris is being developed to free schools from monopolistic software vendors. If you also believe that we should teach freedom to children, please consider using GNU/Linux. Get more information at FSF: <http://www.fsf.org/philosophy>
Autopackage doesn't truly work because it cannot ensure that vital components will be present at install time. And since the subject was compile-during-install, I'll also add that autopackage doesn't address the availability of source code for external components referenced by the application. Before switching to Ubuntu, I used a few Autopackages. Didn't have any issued with them. It's a binary installer, compilation only is done by the package maintainer.
As for using CDs, no one should have to open a properties window, then cut-and-paste just to start their "simple" make; make install process. Why would they have to do that? It could be made easy. Put a "install.sh", make it executable on the cd, and have the user click on it to run it. Nautilus will prompt the user ask if you want to run it or view it. I've dealt with one Java-based app at work that does this. Click on "install.sh" on the CD, and the graphical installer opens. It runs it's own version of Java off of the CD.
A user should never have to compile from source. In the past I rolled my own distro, but after getting tired of dealing with many issues I went back to Red Hat (shortly after FC1 was released). Then I got fed up with still having to compile too many things, I moved to Ubuntu. No more compiling. No more dependency issues.
Same thing on OS X, Fink just had too many issues. That's why I just dual boot my PowerBook with Ubuntu. A non programmer would be completely lost at compile issues, and that's certain to happen unless the app shipped with it's own compiler and every single dependency.
I wouldn't have a problem with CG if there was a single example of CG that didn't have awful motion. The best CG I've seen was Gollum in LOTR, but that's because they had an actor do the motion. Still, the way thing were rendered like hair movement, water dripping, etc looked really fake and was very distracting.
Personally, I'd rather see South Park, Terrance & Phillip, Clerks, etc style animation instead of CG. Something similar to Batman Beyond would be pretty cool for this.
I like animation, hell, most of what I watch is animated (South Park, Family Guy, Simpsons, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, etc). CG just really annoys me.
Ask why there is no graphical install for the flash player. The answer probably has something to do with having no modern, standard GUI available in "Linux" to implement such a thing. Not only that, but there is no standard way to handle executable binaries and scripts from the GUI, so vendors like Adobe would have no idea how to provide concise yet accurate directions that would work across different desktops and distros. This is even more true for package files: double-or-maybe-single click on them and what will happen is... who knows? Yeah. It's not like anyone has implemented a distribution independent package installer...
Want to distribute your application on CD? Well, forget it... CDs and DVDs get mounted in umpteen different places these days depending on the distro; most of those places are considered LSB-compliant, but a normal user or even techie would be very confused trying to access the path to a CD from the shell. Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE, etc all will automount the cd and show it to you on the desktop. Just click the picture of a CD that has the name of the CD on it. The user doesn't even have to know the path the CD is mounted at.
If you need to know the location of a CD, just right click on the icon and select properties. Click on the "Volume" tab and there it is under "Mount Point".
Same with USB devices, network mounts, etc. In Gnome applications, the user has a nice entry on the left that has the name of the volume. The user doesn't have the know what the mount point is. This is something I was really impressed with when I switched to Gnome from KDE.
I have the Belkin one as well. I got extremely frustrated with it as I couldn't drive more than two miles without something overpowering the signal. Eventually what I did is went to Best Buy and spent $100 on a new stereo for the car. Now, like your friends Prius, I have a line in jack. Very clear, no static, and much higher quality sound. I now just use the Belkin as a charger.
If anyone is considering buying a transmitter, consider doing as I did. Just replace the stereo, Besides the higher quality sound and zero interference, you get the benefit of being able to use it with any device, not just an iPod.
Talk about spyware, this redirector happens who knows where - Time Warner,RR,Earthlink, etc. - so clearly someone is spying on me:) although it only works on structural URL typos. if I put the examples used in articles (digg.xom and http://microsoft/ I get earthlink redirect and IE error page, respectively. This page source has to come from somewhere. Heck the/microsoft/ example is even better the Doogle way - at least it shows MS as top links.. Earthlink does it at their DNS servers. I'm currently using Earthlink and find this rather irritating. However, they do provide a way around it. It's documented here: DNS Opt Out Servers.
If you don't want to bother reading the article, here's the important part:
In rare circumstances DNS error page routing may cause problems for some EarthLink customers running various specialty programs or services. As a work around, EarthLink provides two DNS addresses that do not route to our EarthLink/Yahoo! error page. These DNS addresses can be used as a means of opting out of the error re-routing service.
207.69.188.172 (East Coast) 207.69.188.171 (West Coast)
Is a "squatter filter". Basically, it should work like the phishing filter in Firefox, but detect squatters. If you go to a domain that a squatter took, for example, bluemicro.net*, it would give a (built in) page warning that the domain was taken by a squatter.
I would love this as I've noticed many of my users actually click links or use the search box on those "search sites" when they mistype a domain (I read the logs, it happens several times a day). Anything to help prevent these assholes from making money off of that would be awesome.
* Does anyone know of a mirror? Their host file was pretty good.
Slashdot Mirror
I'll be waiting until there is an AT&T-free version of the iPhone. Until then I really don't care about the iPhone.
Don't get me wrong, Google does some cool stuff (gmail, google maps (I really like the hybrid setting), picasa, etc), but at the massive ammount of information they log on everyone is very scary.
Well, if you're a AAA member you can get this now. For example, I just did a 1,300 mile drive and used AAA's website to get the directions. You set the starting location and the destination and then you can add things like construction information, restaurants, hotels, gas stations, etc. You can add multiple stops, force it to take certain routes, etc. It ends up with an overview similar to what MapQuest and Google Maps do, but then it also gives around 30 pages with detailed maps of every intersection and major area, alternatives, etc. It's really nice.
This is why I don't bother with Google Maps or Mapquest any more. They're very primitive by comparison. Though, I do use Google Maps when I'm familiar with an area and am just not sure exactly where something is.
If you want to dump exchange, though, go with Scalix. The Community Edition is free for 25 users, though when you get above that it's not cheap. Still, it does everything Exchange does, runs on Linux, provides an excellent web client, full integration with Outlook via a plug-in, and full integration with Evolution via a plug-in.
There are two ways to install it. With an easy to use graphical installer that even a Windows admin can handle, or manually.
Everybody Loves Eric Raymond covers this in a funny comic.
Basically, everything released after Steamboat Willie is under copyright and will be forever. You can be certain that no matter how much it costs, Disney will never allow anything under their copyright to enter the public domain.
Yeah? And what would people switch to? Dialup?
For example, where I live the only broadband I can get is Comcast. If they fucked over the customers like AT&T I'd have no other choice.
Hell, do any Microsoft applications follow them? It seems every Microsoft product has a very different ui. IE7, WMP10, WMP11, VS.NET 2003/2005, Microsoft Office, etc, are all very different.
Sponsored by AT&T
You mean "the new at&t" don't you? It's lowercase now so it's less threatening!
Your world. Delivered....to the NSA
Well, it is possible to block traffic based on it's type.
For example, with Linux through iptables and IPP2P it's possible to block eDonkey, FaskTrack (KaZaA), Gnutella, Direct Connect, BitTorrent, AppleJuice (?), WinMX, SoulSeek, and Ares. I have not used this, so I don't know how well it works.
Well, when I went to college (graduated one year ago) I could basically get anything by Microsoft for free. Most of my classes had "Microsoft" in the title. I got XP Pro, Project 2003, Visio 2003, FrontPage 2003, Visual Studio 2003, Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server (don't remember the version), etc. You'd have to give them a blank cd, and then go to a Microsoft website to get the key. None of it was crippled.
The book store sells most of that stuff under $100. I don't know if an ID is required, though, as I didn't have to buy any of it.
The Linux version does not have this restriction. Note that GCompris is being developed to free schools from monopolistic software vendors. If you also believe that we should teach freedom to children, please consider using GNU/Linux. Get more information at FSF: <http://www.fsf.org/philosophy>
A user should never have to compile from source. In the past I rolled my own distro, but after getting tired of dealing with many issues I went back to Red Hat (shortly after FC1 was released). Then I got fed up with still having to compile too many things, I moved to Ubuntu. No more compiling. No more dependency issues.
Same thing on OS X, Fink just had too many issues. That's why I just dual boot my PowerBook with Ubuntu. A non programmer would be completely lost at compile issues, and that's certain to happen unless the app shipped with it's own compiler and every single dependency.
I wouldn't have a problem with CG if there was a single example of CG that didn't have awful motion. The best CG I've seen was Gollum in LOTR, but that's because they had an actor do the motion. Still, the way thing were rendered like hair movement, water dripping, etc looked really fake and was very distracting.
Personally, I'd rather see South Park, Terrance & Phillip, Clerks, etc style animation instead of CG. Something similar to Batman Beyond would be pretty cool for this.
I like animation, hell, most of what I watch is animated (South Park, Family Guy, Simpsons, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, etc). CG just really annoys me.
By comparing Budweiser to flat horse piss you're insulting flat horse piss.
If you need to know the location of a CD, just right click on the icon and select properties. Click on the "Volume" tab and there it is under "Mount Point".
Same with USB devices, network mounts, etc. In Gnome applications, the user has a nice entry on the left that has the name of the volume. The user doesn't have the know what the mount point is. This is something I was really impressed with when I switched to Gnome from KDE.
I have the Belkin one as well. I got extremely frustrated with it as I couldn't drive more than two miles without something overpowering the signal. Eventually what I did is went to Best Buy and spent $100 on a new stereo for the car. Now, like your friends Prius, I have a line in jack. Very clear, no static, and much higher quality sound. I now just use the Belkin as a charger.
If anyone is considering buying a transmitter, consider doing as I did. Just replace the stereo, Besides the higher quality sound and zero interference, you get the benefit of being able to use it with any device, not just an iPod.
If you don't want to bother reading the article, here's the important part: In rare circumstances DNS error page routing may cause problems for some EarthLink customers running various specialty programs or services. As a work around, EarthLink provides two DNS addresses that do not route to our EarthLink/Yahoo! error page. These DNS addresses can be used as a means of opting out of the error re-routing service.
207.69.188.172 (East Coast)
207.69.188.171 (West Coast)
Is a "squatter filter". Basically, it should work like the phishing filter in Firefox, but detect squatters. If you go to a domain that a squatter took, for example, bluemicro.net*, it would give a (built in) page warning that the domain was taken by a squatter.
I would love this as I've noticed many of my users actually click links or use the search box on those "search sites" when they mistype a domain (I read the logs, it happens several times a day). Anything to help prevent these assholes from making money off of that would be awesome.
* Does anyone know of a mirror? Their host file was pretty good.