An as a pensioner, something that will kill you from the shockwaves alone should the damn thing ever fall off said mantle piece..
Re:Get rid of the Shell, VI, etc for a month...
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uhuh.. pointless insult..
The shell has its uses as does vi.
If I want to bulk select files for a move with differing names then the GUI is brilliant and easier to use. However it's also much slower for certain tasks, "mv */tmp" is quicker on the commandline than any GUI could ever be.
What is wrong with VI? It's a hell of a lot better than notepad. No do you need to use VI if you don't want to you could use "mouse" (comes as default text editor with xubuntu). Or one of the many other text editors freely available for you to download and use.
I hate being drawn into this sort of debate but How is windows more productive? You have 1 desktop, I have 6 (or more if I want).
There is no difference between Open office on linux and open office on windows so I would have to assume that the productivity levels there would be equal.
Linux & windows by themselves without applications are as useful as a hole in the head. Neither is "productive". It is the appliactions on the platform and how they interact that makes a person on a system productive.
On the point of shells again, I don't think any sane person would say that windows has a better shell than linux. In terms of productivity I am easily 10fold more productive on an linux shell than a windows one. IIRC the only use I've found the windows shell to be was in the early days with people locked down the desktop, you could easily bypass all the "security" using the shell, as it wasn't/couldn't be locked down.
As a non Linux guy, I've been interested in installing Linux several times but the community has turned me off. If you go on a forum or something similar and suggest a feature you're often told that you're doing it wrong. That's probably true, but it's poor attitude for growing a client base.
Me: I'd like mirrors on my car to assist in backing up.
Linux community: The best way to back up is to turn around and look out your rear window.
While technically correct, how many people back up using their mirrors?
Lol, sorry had to laugh.. I use linux and always look out the rear.. I never use the mirrors to reverse..:D
Re:Here, have some criticism
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Commercial apps for linux are few and far between.
Games on linux (that are available for Windows and OSX) basically suck and are usually bad clones of games that are awesome on other OSes.
I feel I have to step in. While this is true to a degree it's not the fault of linux. Unless game's developers port their code to linux or better yet use APIs like openGL over DX then games on linux will never happen in a meaningful way.
My main rig runs windows vista, why? Because vista has DX10 and all my games run under it without installing extra applications or APIs.
The day and hour the games I play come out in a linux version then I will wipe that vista partition so quick your head will spin.
It's a massive catch 22, Publishers won't publish linux games due to the lack of market. There is a lack of market as Gamers *MUST* use windows to play their games.
My Ideal install on my main rig is a small kernel that when booted takes me to a commandline menu:
Choose Action:
1) Play a Game
--1) Company of Heroes
--2) Battlefield 2
--3) Back to main Menu
2) Install a Game
--1) From CD/DVD ROM
--2) From ISO
--3) Back to main Menu
3) Uninstall a Game
--1) Company of Heroes
--2) Battlefield 2
--3) Back to main Menu
and that's it. We are talking a 500Mb install tops (to allow for gfx APIs and libraries), with a 20Mb memory footprint.
I don't want anymore than that on my machine, my rig is only for playing games, my laptop is for working on, so a heavier install with GUI and more apps is on it.
Today WWIII became a reality when the US stood proudly over their bog and stated "No Russian arse will again threaten to dirty our brilliant white potty."
I am glad to see the politicians earning their pay. Shame they're still a waste of money (and oxygen in general) no matter how you look at it.
right up until:
a) your internet connection drops in the middle of that critical project that must be done in the next hour.
b) You hit your ISPs up/down cap.
c) Your bandwith gets deprioritised due to you not paying as much money to your ISP as company XXX.
d) The internet crashes due to being overloaded with everyone that has a computer connecting and streaming load of data at once..
Anyone else think that "cloud computing" is a UK government IT project?
(For those outside the UK, our government has a track record of failing IT projects (massively over budget and delivered X years overdue), due to exceptionally bad planning and not thinking the whole process through)
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Hence I am not worried about the comms database, I am still waiitng on a national health database, an ID card & a biometric passport.</offtopic>
On a Side note.. In the UK iirc you can contact F.A.C.T. and they will come in and audit for you (for free?). From what I have heard they won't go after you for being out of compliance but will try and help you become compliant. Unless you refused to become compliant. I haven't done this but it could be worth calling them to findout what you can do?
That is how I look at it. If I cannot prove that I have bought it then as far as I am concerned it is illegal. I remove it and tell the department in question to justify they still need it, if they do I get them to raise an purchase request and a copy is then bought for them out of their budget.
The Key though is not to get on a high horse about it, just explain they don't have a licence and to use the software they need one. If the software is critical then I will leave it installed in the interm while the licence is purchased, (I inisist the PR be raised that day within a few hours, if not they I warn them it WILL be removed).
Auditing software is worth its weight in gold providing the solution you get is good. Run reports to tell you how many copies you have running and then compare that to the list of licences you have (that you can PROVE you have).
Be firm but don't antagonise.
I will admit that perhaps I shouldn't have included texting (I included it as it is a feature I seldom use. I get a text 9/10 times I'll call the person back.)
The only feature I have on my mobile that I really use is the contacts, imo it's invaluable being able to have the numbers stored on the phone.
Aside from that I stand by what I said. If I want to take pictures I have a bloody expensive SLR, If I want to play music I have an ipod (not my choice, it was a gift).
My phone has gps... I used it once (novelty factor).
It has a camera used once to see the quality.
It has other features I have no idea what, I don't use them and I don't want to.
For those that care I have a Nokia 6220 Classic. The reason behind my choice, was simply it was the most expensive one that I could get free with my contract.
we looked at this a while back however it ldap authentication + automount requires that the ldap directory be setup for anonymous access. Due to our mixed environment we have had to stick with NIS & autofs.
It has been a long time since we look though so it is possible that this has been resolved.
By default when I install ubuntu on to a vista laptop Ubuntu is the default OS to boot to.
I didn't say it couldn't be changed nor did I say it wouldn't. I simply stated that assuming the user was to be prompted at boot time which OS. Then windows would need to be the factory default or users (by users i mean the non-technical users) will get annoyed.
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An as a pensioner, something that will kill you from the shockwaves alone should the damn thing ever fall off said mantle piece..
uhuh.. pointless insult.. /tmp" is quicker on the commandline than any GUI could ever be.
The shell has its uses as does vi.
If I want to bulk select files for a move with differing names then the GUI is brilliant and easier to use. However it's also much slower for certain tasks, "mv *
What is wrong with VI? It's a hell of a lot better than notepad. No do you need to use VI if you don't want to you could use "mouse" (comes as default text editor with xubuntu). Or one of the many other text editors freely available for you to download and use.
I hate being drawn into this sort of debate but How is windows more productive? You have 1 desktop, I have 6 (or more if I want).
There is no difference between Open office on linux and open office on windows so I would have to assume that the productivity levels there would be equal.
Linux & windows by themselves without applications are as useful as a hole in the head. Neither is "productive". It is the appliactions on the platform and how they interact that makes a person on a system productive.
On the point of shells again, I don't think any sane person would say that windows has a better shell than linux. In terms of productivity I am easily 10fold more productive on an linux shell than a windows one.
IIRC the only use I've found the windows shell to be was in the early days with people locked down the desktop, you could easily bypass all the "security" using the shell, as it wasn't/couldn't be locked down.
As a non Linux guy, I've been interested in installing Linux several times but the community has turned me off. If you go on a forum or something similar and suggest a feature you're often told that you're doing it wrong. That's probably true, but it's poor attitude for growing a client base. Me: I'd like mirrors on my car to assist in backing up. Linux community: The best way to back up is to turn around and look out your rear window. While technically correct, how many people back up using their mirrors?
Lol, sorry had to laugh.. I use linux and always look out the rear.. I never use the mirrors to reverse.. :D
Commercial apps for linux are few and far between.
Games on linux (that are available for Windows and OSX) basically suck and are usually bad clones of games that are awesome on other OSes.
I feel I have to step in. While this is true to a degree it's not the fault of linux. Unless game's developers port their code to linux or better yet use APIs like openGL over DX then games on linux will never happen in a meaningful way.
My main rig runs windows vista, why? Because vista has DX10 and all my games run under it without installing extra applications or APIs.
The day and hour the games I play come out in a linux version then I will wipe that vista partition so quick your head will spin.
It's a massive catch 22, Publishers won't publish linux games due to the lack of market. There is a lack of market as Gamers *MUST* use windows to play their games.
My Ideal install on my main rig is a small kernel that when booted takes me to a commandline menu:
Choose Action:
1) Play a Game
--1) Company of Heroes
--2) Battlefield 2
--3) Back to main Menu
2) Install a Game
--1) From CD/DVD ROM
--2) From ISO
--3) Back to main Menu
3) Uninstall a Game
--1) Company of Heroes
--2) Battlefield 2
--3) Back to main Menu
and that's it. We are talking a 500Mb install tops (to allow for gfx APIs and libraries), with a 20Mb memory footprint.
I don't want anymore than that on my machine, my rig is only for playing games, my laptop is for working on, so a heavier install with GUI and more apps is on it.
LOL.. We still run 3 SGI servers and serveral Ocatanes & O2s.
Installing/Upgrading Irix is a rather labourous task requiring saint like patience.
In saying that once running they are rock solid.
Google could just remove them from the search results and we'll see what happens then.. Somehow I think google will suffer less.
or the guardian could just use robots.txt
Yes.. Why?
Today WWIII became a reality when the US stood proudly over their bog and stated "No Russian arse will again threaten to dirty our brilliant white potty."
I am glad to see the politicians earning their pay. Shame they're still a waste of money (and oxygen in general) no matter how you look at it.
You mean you're not.. Shit sorry, I just assumed....
And they kindly provide the code in plain text for you to read!
They won't know it, because they'll also have no Security Center Service.
So what you are saying is that these virii actually improve windows?
I just passed gas and that WAS an act of terrorism..
I use Antivirus360 on my network, my last scanner was shit, the Antivirus360 free trial found loads of infections my other scanner missed..
go to hackmii.com
right up until:
a) your internet connection drops in the middle of that critical project that must be done in the next hour.
b) You hit your ISPs up/down cap.
c) Your bandwith gets deprioritised due to you not paying as much money to your ISP as company XXX.
d) The internet crashes due to being overloaded with everyone that has a computer connecting and streaming load of data at once..
Anyone else think that "cloud computing" is a UK government IT project?
(For those outside the UK, our government has a track record of failing IT projects (massively over budget and delivered X years overdue), due to exceptionally bad planning and not thinking the whole process through)
<offtopic> Hence I am not worried about the comms database, I am still waiitng on a national health database, an ID card & a biometric passport.</offtopic>
You have to admit web sight does sound pretty cool..
On a Side note.. In the UK iirc you can contact F.A.C.T. and they will come in and audit for you (for free?). From what I have heard they won't go after you for being out of compliance but will try and help you become compliant. Unless you refused to become compliant.
I haven't done this but it could be worth calling them to findout what you can do?
That is how I look at it. If I cannot prove that I have bought it then as far as I am concerned it is illegal. I remove it and tell the department in question to justify they still need it, if they do I get them to raise an purchase request and a copy is then bought for them out of their budget.
The Key though is not to get on a high horse about it, just explain they don't have a licence and to use the software they need one. If the software is critical then I will leave it installed in the interm while the licence is purchased, (I inisist the PR be raised that day within a few hours, if not they I warn them it WILL be removed).
Auditing software is worth its weight in gold providing the solution you get is good. Run reports to tell you how many copies you have running and then compare that to the list of licences you have (that you can PROVE you have).
Be firm but don't antagonise.
I will admit that perhaps I shouldn't have included texting (I included it as it is a feature I seldom use. I get a text 9/10 times I'll call the person back.)
The only feature I have on my mobile that I really use is the contacts, imo it's invaluable being able to have the numbers stored on the phone.
Aside from that I stand by what I said. If I want to take pictures I have a bloody expensive SLR, If I want to play music I have an ipod (not my choice, it was a gift).
My phone has gps... I used it once (novelty factor).
It has a camera used once to see the quality.
It has other features I have no idea what, I don't use them and I don't want to.
For those that care I have a Nokia 6220 Classic. The reason behind my choice, was simply it was the most expensive one that I could get free with my contract.
Phones are for PHONING!!!!! not texting, not taking pictures, nor playing mp3s, nor controlling radio controlled cars or anything else..
I hate having to learn to use my new nokias as it is, without piling in more crap.
Whatever happened to "Do one job and do it well".. Seems nowadays it's lets cram as much crap into something that half works.
Noone told him it was a thumb drive....
we looked at this a while back however it ldap authentication + automount requires that the ldap directory be setup for anonymous access. Due to our mixed environment we have had to stick with NIS & autofs.
It has been a long time since we look though so it is possible that this has been resolved.
I locked my linux box down last night with a chain & padlock.. I would say for a corporate environment you may need a bigger chain & padlock..
my router crashed and I lost them all.. oopps
By default when I install ubuntu on to a vista laptop Ubuntu is the default OS to boot to.
I didn't say it couldn't be changed nor did I say it wouldn't. I simply stated that assuming the user was to be prompted at boot time which OS. Then windows would need to be the factory default or users (by users i mean the non-technical users) will get annoyed.