For me mouse on the left but I don't swap the buttons. QWERTY keyboards are inherently biased favouring lefties when using a mouse on the left as the page up/down and arrow keys all fall to the unoccupied hand. At home I also use an apple mighty mouse and this is great left handed. Left click with all fingers on the front of the mouse, rightclick with careful press of left index finger only.
I find Firefox is fine, but you do have to watchout for crappy plugins and extensions. I run Foxmarks on all my FF installs, but under linux sometimes FF will not exit properly once I install Foxmarks. Not all the time, but enought to be a pain when you have to go in and "ps -A | grep firefox" then kill the listed threads before FF will start up again.
It's also whay the old XBOX was a pretty good games paltform even thought its GPU was pretty weak, only had a 4GB HDD, and a slow celeron CPU. It has a basic ROM based OS and a subset of DirectX for the game developers to use.
If you are again trying to connect to your exchange server directly over the internet then you are using your netbook wrong, and your exchange server will be owned real soon now 8)
Netbooks are for light weight apps, a 13" laptop might be better for heavy lifting apps like MS Office 2007 and Outlook.
Now for me, I have an SSH port open on my router, and use certificate authentication for my client, then run KMail on my "server" from my netbook by tunneling X11 over the SSH port. Just like Citrix, only free 8) I also occasionally configure switches and routers at work, sometimes these require a local vist, attach a comms cable and use terminal software for trouble shooting. Acer netbook with Ubuntu, boot in 30 seconds, open terminal and I get 7 hrs out of the battery. This replaced a much more powerfull laptop that only lasted 2 hrs on better and took over 2 minutes to boot and login, with XP! let alone Vista. mu linux netbook is used almost daily, but I would expect to run photoshop/GIMP on the little sucker. I've got a quadcore desktop with a 24" screen for that!
The problem is winprint. Another tie in brought to you by microsoft. BTW, my Lexmark T522n works perfect in linux, and OS X and Vista and XP because I picked it because of it's good postscript support and built in network card. It actually came with some management software for linux but it was much easier to set it up with CUPS and it's Postscript Descripter file from lexmarks website. I hate with a passion all those printers that install a whole crapload of software just to drive the printer.
Most of the local shops bundle printer with their desktop and laptop sales, so a good setup would I assume pick a suitable printer for the bundle.
How long to install - Relevant to those deploying system regularly, especially for scripted or automated installs rather than imaged setups. IN our virtual lab, we may be asked by departments to setup several machines a day - it makes a big difference in enigneering time if it is 10 minutes as oppsed to 20.
Disk space used - may not be important to a home user with a terrabyte local drive, but we run hundreds of virtual servers. For Windows 2003 images we allocate 30GB system volumes. For the linux servers we allocate 5GB for root and 5GB for/var/log and 5GB for/home (this one may vary depending on application). Not much of a difference until you have 100 servers to manage on a SAN.
Just to comment though my Vista home peremium install and Office 2007, Trend Micro takes nearly 20GB. My OpenSuse 11.3 with KDE4 only takes 8GB with every app I need on it (including Open Office 3) - Vista took much longer to install as there were many drivers to setup and install on my tablet, however All I needed for SuSE was information from the net on what settings to use for the wacom tablet. (Linux handwriting input REALLY needs to get with the times though)
Now this is where my linux system rocks over Windows and OS X (I use all three dayly BTW) Once a week, my linux systems updaters run (YOU on Suse, and update on ubuntu) and let me know there are some updates to ALL of the installed system that require them, the browsers, flash, Open Office, OS modules etc, all in one place with one list to review and accept, as all of the vendors software I have installed has come from the repositories I have subscribed to.
Compared to the daily grind with Windows and OS X, Apple updates for OS X, safari, iTunes, iPhone, i[everything else], Then Firefox chimes in sometimes when launched, then MS Office needs patching, then BootCamp says it has updates, so I have to apply these in Windows too, then While I am in Windows (I don't use it that much) MS Offce again says it needs updates, and a new version of flash, then Java says new version ready, then the AV patterns update, and I have to wait while it scans the HDD (it's only a mac mini, so this isn't quick, but it's only just enough space for Vista, 30GB or so, so not a real worry 8)). All these prompts come from different apps, and I can see how some users would suffer from overload and just click yes to everything without reading the dialog.
Oh, and only a very few times in the past year has my linux system told me I must reboot after patching. It usually just suggest it though, it doesn't force you to like OS X updates do.
Lazst time I tried Evolution plugin it worked, briefly, then a recurring appointment cause Evolution to eat all the memory in the machine. Second try, would not talk to Exchange 2003, and nothing for 2007 8) To me, the best bet for an Exchange competitor is with Groupwise, as there is an outlook plugin to get it to talk to a groupwsie server, and there is the client for Windows, Linux and OS X. You can get aftermail, groupwise fax solutions and Blackberry gateways. There is nothing else I know of like this ou there, free or commercial.
What would be more likely to fly would be a feature complete client to exchange. Email - no problems but it is still a headache to get calendar and contact information. Where Exchange and Outlook rule is integrating this all into one place, and now Comms server brings in voice and chat/IM, yet more systems MS has tied into a Windows client by extending a set of open protocols so that noone else is compatible 100%
Thats the problem, you have to trust your Engineers to do their job. Sometimes that trust is breached. To me a dirty engineer is almost as bad as a dirty cop.
I use OpenOffice3.0 on my Mac OS X 10.5 and it has better native integration with Aqua than MS Office does (I haven't tried 2008 though, I'm happy enough with OO.o.) People complain about load times for OO.o on Windows etc, but interestingly, MS Office on OS X is just as bad. MS Office might open quickly on Windows, but only because it is loading most of itself into memory on startup. If I do the same With OO.o on my Mac, it opens instantly from the Dock, and take sup much less memory than Office when running.
Now imagine if these systems had been designed for the outset to use a central server which does the number crunching and use web interfaces or some open document format to supply data. But no, these systems are often designed by Office Admins who use the tools they know to do the job now, not designing something still to be used 10 years from now.Sad but true.
Use the right tool for the job. Those that absolutely have to open complex documetn, use business systems that are locked into the propriatary format, you will have to deploy Office until those systems are changed over. Everyone else can use OO.o just fine. However, if you have any of MS's tie in systems like Sharepoint, you are screwed and are now locked in. I have worked for a couple of non profits, and for myself using only open standards and "free" products as lots of the non profit volunteers have lots of different machines with various OS's. For myself, my wife and I produce a monthly magazine which we receive material as Office97/2K/2K3 and OfficeOpen, and OpenDocument. Graphics cause more headaches than the documents. Thank gods PostScript is a kind of Lingua Franca for vector graphics editors 8)
Our production systems run Vista, OS X, and OpenSuse Linux, the servers are OpenSuse, and we make sure all of our printers have good prostscript support.As long as we stick with TTF fonts, there are no problems between these platforms. OpenOffice 3.0 is used as the primary document editor, Scribus 1.3.3 is used for layout. Works fine for us with 10 volunteer staff 8)
Hmm a development workstation. I guess I can run windows, OS X and linux on my mac so that makes it a better desktop than most off the shelf of for def work.
Getting An intel mac is not that expensive. A mac mi I second had would only be a couple of hundred bucks. I got my 2ghz with 2gb RAM for $900 nz and that was only 6 months old. I only have to get a couple of hundred people to buy my app to recoup the cost. Any opensource projects for iphone? Nothing wrong with charging for libre software is there 8)
AD licences are the best double dipping ssheme around. 1: You need Windows server licence, and user Client Access Licence (CAL) for each user. Then as most client will be Windows machines, you pay for XP or Vista, then for Exchange, you again buy CALS, then client CALs for Office to get Outlook, (Outlook 2007 no longer free with Exchange and AFAIK cant be bought on it's own)
Our network is mostly an MS shop, apart from all our switches, which are Cisco, our firewalls, which are Checkpoint on SPLAT, and a couple of applicaiton servers. Guess which systems have the highest uptime, and 0 unplanned outages due to urgent patches or unexplained crashes? Not the MS ones.
quote: Sony kinda gets it, you can download some games with a PS3 that are fun, esp. for little kids, without needing to go get something. Pretty soon all the consoles will realize the revenue stream in controlling the distribution channel for all software via broadband./quote:
Wow, Apple have managed to do this with the AppStore. no physical media, many games and services for $1, It's also the Microsoft way. Work out how to get everyone in the world to send you 1$ and you can make billions.
Exactly. DRM is not stopping the pirates at all. The same for games and movies. I have two kids so I find it hard to get time to get to the movies for a new release unless it's from Disney or Pixar 8) As the DVD release wont make it out here to NZ for months after the cinema release, and this might be months after the US cinema release, I just go grab the torrent when I want to watch it. If it was available as a $7 overnight new release earlier, I'd rent the DVD, or get it through a rental service like Fatso (similar to Netflix)
The usual story, the prated version is available in my region, I can play it on any device, and watch it when I want to. To me this makes it a better product than the real official one.
Use a virtualisation prooduct, and on two of your hosts run 2 VMs with Windows 2008 Core, Active Direcotry and DHCP serivces. This takes very little RAM, the VMs are very easy to maintain, imige and recover if they go tits up and AD is probably one of most reliable products MS sell. It is worth the money for that 8( However I believe eDIrectory is better if you want to be able to supports integration with other directory systems and the OpenEnterprise server suite does have some good stuff right out of the box. and you can run it on Linux hosts (also in VM). Not FOSS yet though.
On My Mac Mini 2Ghz I have the following: OS X 10.5 Vista Home Premium
On my 1.8GHz HP TC4000 I have XP and Sse Linux 11.1
Over all OS X on the mini boots faster than any of the other systems I have, less than 20 seconds from Apple logo to login. Login however seems to take an age as it starts all my user processes, maps drives etc. Probably another 40 seconds until you can actally do anything. But from sleep - I tap a key, screen wakes up and I enter my password - viola!
Vista - 45 seconds from Apple to Login prompt when set as default boot option. Then 30 seconds to login and load desktop environment. Similar times for my TC4400 with XP, but I use less on the desktop so this comes p pretty quick. SuSE11.1 - takes about 40 seonds to get login prompt, but KDE 4.1 desktop loads in 15 seconds as most of the environment is preloaded prior to login, hence the longer boot time. Sleep for XP does not work for me. On Vista, 10 - 15 seconds to wake up, and I still sometimes have to reconnect my network connection on wake up. ABout the same for waking SuSE 11.1 up too.
Over all the Mac Mini boots faster, but has long desktop load time, but sleep is the best. I almost never have to reboot unless I need to get into Vista on it, but thanks to Fusion, it can run a VM using the bootcamp partition, so I haven't booted Vista on it for a couple of months. I'm not an OS X fanboi, I just use the OS that does the job the fastest, and with least fuss, the most. Note: XP, and Ubuntu boot as VM Guests on the mini in under 30 seconds, so I'm pretty sure most of the delays in boot time is the hardware getting itself sorted out.
The company from California has no problems applying US laws and deals to every country inthe world. If they didn't, The US would be the only ones unble to teather their iPhonesfor use as modems.
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For me mouse on the left but I don't swap the buttons. QWERTY keyboards are inherently biased favouring lefties when using a mouse on the left as the page up/down and arrow keys all fall to the unoccupied hand.
At home I also use an apple mighty mouse and this is great left handed. Left click with all fingers on the front of the mouse, rightclick with careful press of left index finger only.
I find Firefox is fine, but you do have to watchout for crappy plugins and extensions. I run Foxmarks on all my FF installs, but under linux sometimes FF will not exit properly once I install Foxmarks. Not all the time, but enought to be a pain when you have to go in and "ps -A | grep firefox" then kill the listed threads before FF will start up again.
It's also whay the old XBOX was a pretty good games paltform even thought its GPU was pretty weak, only had a 4GB HDD, and a slow celeron CPU. It has a basic ROM based OS and a subset of DirectX for the game developers to use.
If you are again trying to connect to your exchange server directly over the internet then you are using your netbook wrong, and your exchange server will be owned real soon now 8)
Netbooks are for light weight apps, a 13" laptop might be better for heavy lifting apps like MS Office 2007 and Outlook.
Now for me, I have an SSH port open on my router, and use certificate authentication for my client, then run KMail on my "server" from my netbook by tunneling X11 over the SSH port. Just like Citrix, only free 8)
I also occasionally configure switches and routers at work, sometimes these require a local vist, attach a comms cable and use terminal software for trouble shooting. Acer netbook with Ubuntu, boot in 30 seconds, open terminal and I get 7 hrs out of the battery. This replaced a much more powerfull laptop that only lasted 2 hrs on better and took over 2 minutes to boot and login, with XP! let alone Vista. mu linux netbook is used almost daily, but I would expect to run photoshop/GIMP on the little sucker. I've got a quadcore desktop with a 24" screen for that!
The problem is winprint. Another tie in brought to you by microsoft.
BTW, my Lexmark T522n works perfect in linux, and OS X and Vista and XP because I picked it because of it's good postscript support and built in network card. It actually came with some management software for linux but it was much easier to set it up with CUPS and it's Postscript Descripter file from lexmarks website.
I hate with a passion all those printers that install a whole crapload of software just to drive the printer.
Most of the local shops bundle printer with their desktop and laptop sales, so a good setup would I assume pick a suitable printer for the bundle.
I also keep hearing that Win7 works fine on netbook.
Yeah, only if they have 120GB HDDs and 1GB+ RAM. To me that makes it small laptop, not a netbook.
How long to install - Relevant to those deploying system regularly, especially for scripted or automated installs rather than imaged setups.
IN our virtual lab, we may be asked by departments to setup several machines a day - it makes a big difference in enigneering time if it is 10 minutes as oppsed to 20.
Disk space used - may not be important to a home user with a terrabyte local drive, but we run hundreds of virtual servers. For Windows 2003 images we allocate 30GB system volumes. For the linux servers we allocate 5GB for root and 5GB for /var/log and 5GB for /home (this one may vary depending on application). Not much of a difference until you have 100 servers to manage on a SAN.
Just to comment though my Vista home peremium install and Office 2007, Trend Micro takes nearly 20GB. My OpenSuse 11.3 with KDE4 only takes 8GB with every app I need on it (including Open Office 3) - Vista took much longer to install as there were many drivers to setup and install on my tablet, however All I needed for SuSE was information from the net on what settings to use for the wacom tablet. (Linux handwriting input REALLY needs to get with the times though)
Now this is where my linux system rocks over Windows and OS X (I use all three dayly BTW)
Once a week, my linux systems updaters run (YOU on Suse, and update on ubuntu) and let me know there are some updates to ALL of the installed system that require them, the browsers, flash, Open Office, OS modules etc, all in one place with one list to review and accept, as all of the vendors software I have installed has come from the repositories I have subscribed to.
Compared to the daily grind with Windows and OS X, Apple updates for OS X, safari, iTunes, iPhone, i[everything else], Then Firefox chimes in sometimes when launched, then MS Office needs patching, then BootCamp says it has updates, so I have to apply these in Windows too, then While I am in Windows (I don't use it that much) MS Offce again says it needs updates, and a new version of flash, then Java says new version ready, then the AV patterns update, and I have to wait while it scans the HDD (it's only a mac mini, so this isn't quick, but it's only just enough space for Vista, 30GB or so, so not a real worry 8)). All these prompts come from different apps, and I can see how some users would suffer from overload and just click yes to everything without reading the dialog.
Oh, and only a very few times in the past year has my linux system told me I must reboot after patching. It usually just suggest it though, it doesn't force you to like OS X updates do.
Lazst time I tried Evolution plugin it worked, briefly, then a recurring appointment cause Evolution to eat all the memory in the machine.
Second try, would not talk to Exchange 2003, and nothing for 2007 8)
To me, the best bet for an Exchange competitor is with Groupwise, as there is an outlook plugin to get it to talk to a groupwsie server, and there is the client for Windows, Linux and OS X. You can get aftermail, groupwise fax solutions and Blackberry gateways. There is nothing else I know of like this ou there, free or commercial.
What would be more likely to fly would be a feature complete client to exchange. Email - no problems but it is still a headache to get calendar and contact information. Where Exchange and Outlook rule is integrating this all into one place, and now Comms server brings in voice and chat/IM, yet more systems MS has tied into a Windows client by extending a set of open protocols so that noone else is compatible 100%
Now the thing with Battlestar 80 is that as an 8 year old, I loved it, but as an adult I dont like it anywhere near as much as the orginal 2 series.
The bikes were pretty cool though 8)
Thats the problem, you have to trust your Engineers to do their job. Sometimes that trust is breached. To me a dirty engineer is almost as bad as a dirty cop.
I use OpenOffice3.0 on my Mac OS X 10.5 and it has better native integration with Aqua than MS Office does (I haven't tried 2008 though, I'm happy enough with OO.o.)
People complain about load times for OO.o on Windows etc, but interestingly, MS Office on OS X is just as bad. MS Office might open quickly on Windows, but only because it is loading most of itself into memory on startup. If I do the same With OO.o on my Mac, it opens instantly from the Dock, and take sup much less memory than Office when running.
Now imagine if these systems had been designed for the outset to use a central server which does the number crunching and use web interfaces or some open document format to supply data.
But no, these systems are often designed by Office Admins who use the tools they know to do the job now, not designing something still to be used 10 years from now.Sad but true.
Use the right tool for the job. Those that absolutely have to open complex documetn, use business systems that are locked into the propriatary format, you will have to deploy Office until those systems are changed over.
Everyone else can use OO.o just fine.
However, if you have any of MS's tie in systems like Sharepoint, you are screwed and are now locked in.
I have worked for a couple of non profits, and for myself using only open standards and "free" products as lots of the non profit volunteers have lots of different machines with various OS's. For myself, my wife and I produce a monthly magazine which we receive material as Office97/2K/2K3 and OfficeOpen, and OpenDocument. Graphics cause more headaches than the documents. Thank gods PostScript is a kind of Lingua Franca for vector graphics editors 8)
Our production systems run Vista, OS X, and OpenSuse Linux, the servers are OpenSuse, and we make sure all of our printers have good prostscript support.As long as we stick with TTF fonts, there are no problems between these platforms.
OpenOffice 3.0 is used as the primary document editor, Scribus 1.3.3 is used for layout. Works fine for us with 10 volunteer staff 8)
Hmm a development workstation. I guess I can run windows, OS X and linux on my mac so that makes it a better desktop than most off the shelf of for def work.
Getting An intel mac is not that expensive. A mac mi I second had would only be a couple of hundred bucks.
I got my 2ghz with 2gb RAM for $900 nz and that was only 6 months old. I only have to get a couple of hundred people to buy my app to recoup the cost.
Any opensource projects for iphone? Nothing wrong with charging for libre software is there 8)
AD licences are the best double dipping ssheme around.
1: You need Windows server licence, and user Client Access Licence (CAL) for each user. Then as most client will be Windows machines, you pay for XP or Vista, then for Exchange, you again buy CALS, then client CALs for Office to get Outlook, (Outlook 2007 no longer free with Exchange and AFAIK cant be bought on it's own)
Our network is mostly an MS shop, apart from all our switches, which are Cisco, our firewalls, which are Checkpoint on SPLAT, and a couple of applicaiton servers. Guess which systems have the highest uptime, and 0 unplanned outages due to urgent patches or unexplained crashes? Not the MS ones.
Thats why you have two of them, and images of the guests 8)
Easy recovery of the AD server as long as one of the DCs survives. 8)
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Sony kinda gets it, you can download some games with a PS3 that are fun, esp. for little kids, without needing to go get something. Pretty soon all the consoles will realize the revenue stream in controlling the distribution channel for all software via broadband.
Wow, Apple have managed to do this with the AppStore. no physical media, many games and services for $1,
It's also the Microsoft way. Work out how to get everyone in the world to send you 1$ and you can make billions.
Exactly. DRM is not stopping the pirates at all.
The same for games and movies.
I have two kids so I find it hard to get time to get to the movies for a new release unless it's from Disney or Pixar 8)
As the DVD release wont make it out here to NZ for months after the cinema release, and this might be months after the US cinema release, I just go grab the torrent when I want to watch it. If it was available as a $7 overnight new release earlier, I'd rent the DVD, or get it through a rental service like Fatso (similar to Netflix)
The usual story, the prated version is available in my region, I can play it on any device, and watch it when I want to. To me this makes it a better product than the real official one.
Use a virtualisation prooduct, and on two of your hosts run 2 VMs with Windows 2008 Core, Active Direcotry and DHCP serivces.
This takes very little RAM, the VMs are very easy to maintain, imige and recover if they go tits up and AD is probably one of most reliable products MS sell. It is worth the money for that 8(
However I believe eDIrectory is better if you want to be able to supports integration with other directory systems and the OpenEnterprise server suite does have some good stuff right out of the box. and you can run it on Linux hosts (also in VM). Not FOSS yet though.
On My Mac Mini 2Ghz I have the following:
OS X 10.5
Vista Home Premium
On my 1.8GHz HP TC4000 I have XP and Sse Linux 11.1
Over all OS X on the mini boots faster than any of the other systems I have, less than 20 seconds from Apple logo to login. Login however seems to take an age as it starts all my user processes, maps drives etc. Probably another 40 seconds until you can actally do anything. But from sleep - I tap a key, screen wakes up and I enter my password - viola!
Vista - 45 seconds from Apple to Login prompt when set as default boot option. Then 30 seconds to login and load desktop environment.
Similar times for my TC4400 with XP, but I use less on the desktop so this comes p pretty quick.
SuSE11.1 - takes about 40 seonds to get login prompt, but KDE 4.1 desktop loads in 15 seconds as most of the environment is preloaded prior to login, hence the longer boot time.
Sleep for XP does not work for me. On Vista, 10 - 15 seconds to wake up, and I still sometimes have to reconnect my network connection on wake up. ABout the same for waking SuSE 11.1 up too.
Over all the Mac Mini boots faster, but has long desktop load time, but sleep is the best. I almost never have to reboot unless I need to get into Vista on it, but thanks to Fusion, it can run a VM using the bootcamp partition, so I haven't booted Vista on it for a couple of months.
I'm not an OS X fanboi, I just use the OS that does the job the fastest, and with least fuss, the most.
Note: XP, and Ubuntu boot as VM Guests on the mini in under 30 seconds, so I'm pretty sure most of the delays in boot time is the hardware getting itself sorted out.
The company from California has no problems applying US laws and deals to every country inthe world. If they didn't, The US would be the only ones unble to teather their iPhonesfor use as modems.