Yeah I found that line amusing, my RH7.1 install picked up my pci USB card as well as autodetected the HP CDwriter I had plugged in at the time. Didn't need to pop in additional software OR search for a dll that I didn't have all over the net like I did for Windows.
I think that this line in context was about installation. However, they're contrating two different things, and upgrade of a Windows box with a new install of Linux. Windows blows away your hard disk contents as well.
1) the measure of usability is not how closely is mimics windows.
2) You're comparing minor shortcuts that you claim don't exist in Linux but do in windows, when in fact they do, it all depends on the window manager you use.
3) In conclusion:
It's the little things in Windows that bug me. For instance I tried to put a process in the backiground so I could do other work in the window, but the ampersand did not work. I needed to find a string in a large number of files but my grep * didn't work. Then I decided I wanted to switch to a smaller faster window manager, but windows wouldn't let me do it. Windows is a decent operating system, but it's the major functionality inconveniences that steer me away from using it.
I don't buy that. Once it's made available to the public tough. You might as well take your argument a step further and say that no one can even DESCRIBE an old ad because they may not promote the interpretation that the company wants.
Usability fucks really piss me off. Usability is a result of choice not of some decree that a particular way is the RIGHT way to do things. If a usability group fells that there is a better way to do things, they need to get off their asses and write the code to do it, instead of telling other people how to design. Let their version compete with others through the only real test for usability... survival of the fittest.
Then your boxes just aren't set up right. Our Linux boxes do not go down at all, and they are under the heaviest load in the company. I'm not slamming you but you're obviously doing SOMETHING wrong.
Maybe you should stop setting up the Linux boxes in your sleep and pay attention to what your doing. You are the only company I have ever heard of that has problems like this.
Yes it's true there are a plethora of books on how to use Microsoft product that follow that same boiler plate title I belive the template goes as follows:
How to Use <low qaulity M$ product that costs a lot of money> in <a smaller amount of time than the smallest amount of time on a book currently published> for $lt;redundant word or phrase desribing a M$ software user>
<grin>
I have an IQ of 6,000 that's the same IQ as 3,000 Windows users.
As a OSS advocate I's tell the business user that he's a moron and link from my page to a description of UCITA without comment. It's almost the same thing, except that software companies under UCITA have made it legal for software you PAY for to not do what you want.
That's most likely a problem with your IT guys or the particular software you are running. You can't throw out a statement like that without qaulification. Odds are your guys are from a Windows support background (you did say that you're using linux now based on Windows expperiences in the past) so they are predisposed to handle Windows problems regularly whereas they don't have the experience with Linux.
Your also neglecting the fact that your running "key services" on the Linux boxes and not the Windows boxes. How much of a load difference between the two boxes? And while we're talking on load differences, whether you believe you're doing things for the cost or not you are. Those linux boxen are performing more efficiently than the Windows boxes can even dream about, unless of course your S&N guys really botched the install.
Wasn't that the beauty of the Internet? To give each and every person a place to express their opinions and ideas, regardless of just how silly it is?
Yeah that's the internet's greatest beauty and it's greates ugliness. But taking the bad with the good is well worth it for the greater freedom of speech the internet provides.
Wow, I guess we should just ask you your opinions on anything we want to know. You'll put sociologists out of work across the word, because your opinion is always right and backed up by such a vast amount of experience, and knowledge.
You don't want your kid to play those things, fine, my kids will, and they also won't be little crybabies because they were completely sheltered. I'm not saying that I'll let my kids do everything and anything they want, but they won't be locked away in a room with only dolls to play with.
And anyone who avoids them entirely ends up being unable to participate in life because of their sheltered upbringing. The argument cuts both ways, desensitized, or overly sensistive are just two sides of the same coin. There is a happy medium.
It does complicate thee code, especially when it's not needed.
Don't get me wrong, qmail has its problems, but it's still of of the best out there, there are just some modifications that need to be made, some minor and some extensive, but it works.
Qmail code is certainly not simple n any respect. He's written his own io library called interestingly enough, substdio, I'm assuming that he means the sub as in "below" the standard io library, but has more meaning when you just look at the sub-standard aspects of it. For small applications qmail is great, it's one of the best out there, but for any significant amount of volume it starts becoming useless very rapidly, not to mention overly taxing a servers resources.
Not to mention it's extensibility, and protability, considering the way the code was written.
He probbly doesn't see the need to gor after Bernstein. Qmail is written pretty poorly. If you look through the code you'll find an amazing number of poor choices that adversely affect performance. Free, poor quality software is useless to the movement.
On the other hand, now that I think of it, if qmail were under GNu anyone could go in and fix those problems for redistribution. I must admit though, I've never read the license for qmail, so I don't know what rights it provides.
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Never hold up in court, we've allready been through this years ago with Nintendo trying to sue some company that was releasing games for their machine with no license,... they lost.
Yeah they can, get your facts straight. Those were only released in Japan and in small quantities of certain types of DC: Hello Kitty and one I can't remember, I have yet to run across a US DC that can't boot a CDR.
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Yeah I found that line amusing, my RH7.1 install picked up my pci USB card as well as autodetected the HP CDwriter I had plugged in at the time. Didn't need to pop in additional software OR search for a dll that I didn't have all over the net like I did for Windows.
I think that this line in context was about installation. However, they're contrating two different things, and upgrade of a Windows box with a new install of Linux. Windows blows away your hard disk contents as well.
1) the measure of usability is not how closely is mimics windows.
2) You're comparing minor shortcuts that you claim don't exist in Linux but do in windows, when in fact they do, it all depends on the window manager you use.
3) In conclusion:
It's the little things in Windows that bug me. For instance I tried to put a process in the backiground so I could do other work in the window, but the ampersand did not work. I needed to find a string in a large number of files but my grep * didn't work. Then I decided I wanted to switch to a smaller faster window manager, but windows wouldn't let me do it. Windows is a decent operating system, but it's the major functionality inconveniences that steer me away from using it.
Don't forget punk.
I don't buy that. Once it's made available to the public tough. You might as well take your argument a step further and say that no one can even DESCRIBE an old ad because they may not promote the interpretation that the company wants.
I think you just wish you made as much money as us.
Furthermore, my productivity INCREASES when my headphones are on, I don't get distracted by the noise of the office.
Usability fucks really piss me off. Usability is a result of choice not of some decree that a particular way is the RIGHT way to do things. If a usability group fells that there is a better way to do things, they need to get off their asses and write the code to do it, instead of telling other people how to design. Let their version compete with others through the only real test for usability... survival of the fittest.
Maybe you should stop setting up the Linux boxes in your sleep and pay attention to what your doing. You are the only company I have ever heard of that has problems like this.
How to Use <low qaulity M$ product that costs a lot of money> in <a smaller amount of time than the smallest amount of time on a book currently published> for $lt;redundant word or phrase desribing a M$ software user>
<grin>
I have an IQ of 6,000 that's the same IQ as 3,000 Windows users.
As a OSS advocate I's tell the business user that he's a moron and link from my page to a description of UCITA without comment. It's almost the same thing, except that software companies under UCITA have made it legal for software you PAY for to not do what you want.
Your also neglecting the fact that your running "key services" on the Linux boxes and not the Windows boxes. How much of a load difference between the two boxes? And while we're talking on load differences, whether you believe you're doing things for the cost or not you are. Those linux boxen are performing more efficiently than the Windows boxes can even dream about, unless of course your S&N guys really botched the install.
Which is what I was saying, there is a happy medium. The post I replied to was going to far in the opposite direction.
Wasn't that the beauty of the Internet? To give each and every person a place to express their opinions and ideas, regardless of just how silly it is?
Yeah that's the internet's greatest beauty and it's greates ugliness. But taking the bad with the good is well worth it for the greater freedom of speech the internet provides.
You don't want your kid to play those things, fine, my kids will, and they also won't be little crybabies because they were completely sheltered. I'm not saying that I'll let my kids do everything and anything they want, but they won't be locked away in a room with only dolls to play with.
And anyone who avoids them entirely ends up being unable to participate in life because of their sheltered upbringing. The argument cuts both ways, desensitized, or overly sensistive are just two sides of the same coin. There is a happy medium.
Simple... because money isn't everything.
Hey... I like listening to Britney... of course I put it in the same category I put porn but still.
...this is an anime plot,... check out Black Jack.
As opposed to which pursuits that aren't pointless. Overall nothing has a point so why crack on athletics?
Don't get me wrong, qmail has its problems, but it's still of of the best out there, there are just some modifications that need to be made, some minor and some extensive, but it works.
That's why their mail is slow as well.
Qmail code is certainly not simple n any respect. He's written his own io library called interestingly enough, substdio, I'm assuming that he means the sub as in "below" the standard io library, but has more meaning when you just look at the sub-standard aspects of it. For small applications qmail is great, it's one of the best out there, but for any significant amount of volume it starts becoming useless very rapidly, not to mention overly taxing a servers resources.
Not to mention it's extensibility, and protability, considering the way the code was written.
On the other hand, now that I think of it, if qmail were under GNu anyone could go in and fix those problems for redistribution. I must admit though, I've never read the license for qmail, so I don't know what rights it provides.
Never hold up in court, we've allready been through this years ago with Nintendo trying to sue some company that was releasing games for their machine with no license,... they lost.
Yeah they can, get your facts straight. Those were only released in Japan and in small quantities of certain types of DC: Hello Kitty and one I can't remember, I have yet to run across a US DC that can't boot a CDR.