Modern fighters are unstable by design (to give extreme manouverability) and require computer control to make them flyable. No computer = unflyable piece of junk.
It wouldn't take much for Quicken to get Quickbooks running nicely under Wine, at least a 2003 version I have runs almost perfectly under Crossover.
I know it doesn't help our non x86 bretheren but with just a little tweaking here and there Linux desktops could finally have a good small business accounting system.
I don't think that it's too early, I think that it just isn't being presented in the right way, by any distro that I'm aware of. My ideal example of such a distro would take K.I.S.S to the maximum.
In my view, these are the features of the mythical desktop-distro-for-the-masses:
1. It has to be available in stores. Joe Bloggs wants to just go and buy it. A net install would also be necessary of course. The installation must be as automatic as possible, it must ask the minimum number of questions as it can. 2. Remove choices. Yes. REMOVE choices. Have the distro setup so that it has one carefully selected instance of each software type you need, one word processor, one spreadsheet, one database, one graphics package... Everything is installed, there is no asking "do you want", it is there in your "start menu" from the get-go. When Joe decides one Sunday afternoon to make a movie... "Start > Movies > Movie Maker". 3. In the start menu it's not "GIMP" it's "Image Editor". 4. In the software repository (Debian based naturally), again, remove choices. People don't want 20 different examples of a web browser, they want 1 which has been carefully chosen as "the best". And installing software from the repository should be seamless, I'd go so far as to make it as easy as selecting "Start > Games > Tetris" and it installs from the repository if it's not already there. Do away with package management interfaces, Joe Bloggs doesn't understand it. 5. Remove "high tech" stuff. Joe Bloggs doesn't need or want to run a mail server, so do not include one in the repository or distribution anywhere. It just confuses him. 6. Kernel and Drivers - this needs to be completely abstracted away. Upgrading the kernel and it's modules should happen when you do "Start > Upgrade". Hardware should be auto-detected, forget about legacy stuff it complicates matters. 7. Eye candy. Joe Bloggs likes Eye Candy. compiz or beryl is a good start, but they are still a little unstable
People who use Linux distros TODAY and tout it's power, and choice, and configurability, and "have it your way", simply forget that Joe Bloggs down the road doesn't WANT all that stuff. They want to do a job, they want the computer to just get out of the way and let him do the job, they want the computer to help him, not to make him jump through hoops to tell the computer exactly how to do such and such.
If people need more than the above, then there are plenty of existing distributions more suited to the task.
To qualify my comments: I started using Slackware installed from a pile of floppys, many years ago. I now use Debian (unstable) on my workstations. I only resort to Windows in VMWare for using Quickbooks (nothing comparable for Linux), for testing website development in IE, and on my Laptop. In short, I'm no stranger to Linux, I can administer a system just fine, but I can also see that this is NOT what Joe Bloggs wants to do.
Depending on what you want, I'd suggest either Trac ( http://trac.edgewall.org/ ), or OTRS ( http://www.otrs.org/ ). Trac has a pretty basic ticket system, but that's combined with a Wiki and Subversion (don't know if you do coding), while OTRS is a quite powerful ticket system (admittedly, it looks like crap, but it does get the job done) with email piping and all the other things you would expect.
BSA is willing to take, and the apparently difficult rpocess that a company has to go through to prove that their software is legitimate
Here is how you deal with the BSA if they ever come knocking...
BSA Guy: "Hello, I'm with the BSA, we would like to come in and do an audit to ensure that you are not running any pirate software. It's a good thing. Really." You: "No. Please leave this premesis now."
That's it. The BSA is a private organisation. If they want to go snooping through your computers then they can bring a police officer and a search warrant like everybody else.
In New Zealand we dropped the 5c coin last year (1 and 2 were dropped more than a decade ago), we now just have 10c 20c 50c $1 and $2 coins.
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If I could find an affordable Ethernet card, my Amiga 3000 would still be in active use today, mostly as an archive server for all my old stuff. Sadly, the only Ethernet cards I can find are $150 or so, and the TCP/IP stack is (usually) not included.
I have an A3000 out in my garage, amongst other bits and pieces of history. It was pretty trick for it's time, a full complement of memory, soft-kicked running the last official Kickstart of the time, a Picasso card with Pablo expansion (never worked out how to use that), a couple of large IDE hard drives (running on a PC card adapter thing I'm trying to remember the name of) and a couple on the SCSI too (I ran a BBS on it, and purchased it from a guy who closed down his BBS), a "fast" serial port card, few others bits and bobs. It's slightly broken, it needs a new PSU mostly, certainly fixable.
Anyway, every now and then I think for a few seconds, "hey, I should really get that working again, yea, that'd be cool", but quickly afterwards, I realise that when I did get it working I don't actually have any use for it. Sure I could make it a "file server", or even a web server, but that is just, I don't know, beneath it somehow, like a once great scientist reduced to clearing paper jams from a printer.
Somehow, I think it's better for it to just rest in piece in a box in my garage. Death with dignity so to speak.
I ran QB (Pro 2003) under CrossOver for some time, but it's finicky to get it installed there was a certain order to follow and some registry entries to add in manually as I recall. It had a couple of display issues (the buttons at the top of invoices sometimes got partially hidden for example), and sometimes wouldn't start up, you'd have to try several times, but on the whole it worked well-enough to use, and I did so for about 2 years.
But now I run QB under a VMWare virtual machine which I specifically created (and trimmed down) for Quickbooks and Quickbooks alone. And it has a couple of pretty good advantages...
1. Easy to backup your entire accounting environment, just write the VM to a DVD every now and then. That way if something goes bang, grab the last backup DVD, download the last backup QB data from your offsite, and you are literally running again with the exact same environment in seconds.
2. Can be run on multiple machines. Quickbooks as you know needs to be activated over the internet when you install it, which means that you can't realy install on multiple machines (say your desktop and laptop), with this setup that's no issue, copy the VM to the other machine, fire up the free VMWare Player, and away you go, as far as QB knows it's running on the exact same system.
Sure, the main disadvantage is that it takes more space because of the windows install in the VM, but really in this day and age who cares if it takes another 300 meg.
As a web developer, the reason I don't test much in Safari is mostly because it's a PITA to do so, and most of the time, Safari just works anyway.
I have to have a whole different computer setup just to test in Safari. That's all it's used for, testing in Safari, and it's a way across the other side of the desk, and it's not plugged in generally because I need the power socket, and it's quite slow (an old iMac), and it's not even up-to-date because major releases of the browser are tied to major releases of the OS and you have to pay fairly large amounts of money to upgrade the OS.
As opposed to testing in IE, I just switch to one of the various Virtual Machines I have in VMWare to check in different versions.
As opposed to opera, or firefox, which I can run natively on my linux workstation anyway.
I could test in Konq I suppose, but it's of limited use, it's close enough to Saf to give a general idea, but far enough away to not really be sure.
If old Jobbies was to set to and get either a Safari version released for general Linux boxes (or Windows), or even better was to release an OS/X version that can (legally) be run under VMWare with just any commodity x86 hardware underneath (and untied Safari from OS updates so you can keep your browser up to date without shelling out for OS updates), then I would spend a lot more time in Safari.
the boring solution is to get yourself a cheap-as-chips web hosting account with something like cPanel so you can easily manage your mail accounts. Throw all your mail at that server, and access it with IMAP from home or on the go. Use fetchmail to collect your ISP's POP mail and deliver it to your IMAP account if required. Try and find one with SSH access, then you can easily setup some backup process to grab a copy of your mbox's periodically just-in-case.
You do some development, once it's at a point where you want to release, tag it, switch production to the tag (svn switch), if something wasn't quite right (Murphy's Law) svn switch back to the last tag you used.
Not to mention that the idea of bringing a live giant squid that could at least take off your arm aboard your boat, seems like a darwin award in the making.
JavaScript insists for every function to have an exact number of parameters;
Guess you havn't used Javascript in a while.
"Using the arguments object, you can call a function with more arguments than it is formally declared to accept. This is often useful if you don't know in advance how many arguments will be passed to the function. You can use arguments.length to determine the number of arguments actually passed to the function, and then treat each argument using the arguments object."
Hey mate, the world doesn't end at the US borders. In other parts of the world being a sole trader is common and accepted you need do nothing to "get in business", no forms to fill, nothing to apply for, you just wake up one morning and start "in business". It is a legal structure for a business, why treat it any less legitimately than another.
If you call 111 (our emergency number) when, for example, somebody has broken into your house, you'll be told that there aren't any officers available, but somebody will be there to see you as soon as possible.
Please don't mod this trolling right winger up.
The NZ Police Force are actually very good. Like any organisation of size they do have the occasional hiccup, but 99.9% of the time they do an outstanding job, often above and beyond thier call of duty. I would gladly take the NZ Police Force over any other country's in a heart beat, and more often than not that's about how long it takes for the NZ Police to attend a call out.
The same goes for our other emergency, search and rescue, and indeed general health services.
As for the DMCA-like bill, as has already been mentioned, this is only going to select committee, our elected representatives felt that it is important enough to warrant some investigation, debate and public comment before they make up thier minds.
Your flash install is broken, check your plugin paths. I have no problem with Flash in Opera 9, I use Opera 100% of the time on Windows, 95% of the time on Linux, I watch YouTube videos on both all the time.
Hmm. $1,300,000. Put it into a modest interest bearing deposit at say 6% that's $78,000 per annum pre tax. Doesn't sound too bad to me, not even including compounding over the term, and assumes you spend all interest each year.
The list of very prominent people who once opposed Putin and suffered extremely nasty reversals of fortune is growing conspicuously long:
While I certainly wouldn't put it past any leader of a super power to, err, neutralise dissidents, it pays to remember that in any political system there are certain factions removed from the direct process who seek to influence the political climate.
I don't follow Russian politics, so I don't know who stands to advantage from removing those "unfaithful" to Putin, but there surely would be some powerful and ruthless enough to have conducted such assasinations, outside of the government, without thier knowledge, for thier own ultimate advantage.
That's how taxation and earnings in foreign currencies work.
I'm in New Zealand. I do work for some clients in Australian Dollars. When the end of the year rolls around any Australian Dollars I retain (I have not exchanged) need to be declared in an equivalent New Zealand dollar value at an approved exchange rate. When I do get around to exchanging I will either make a gain (income) or loss (expense) because of the fluctuation between what I declared that income to be worth, and what it actually ended up as, which can affect the next tax return appropriately.
A virtual currency is still a foreign currency so treat it the same way if it's intended to be used as real world income in the future.
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Modern fighters are unstable by design (to give extreme manouverability) and require computer control to make them flyable. No computer = unflyable piece of junk.
It wouldn't take much for Quicken to get Quickbooks running nicely under Wine, at least a 2003 version I have runs almost perfectly under Crossover.
I know it doesn't help our non x86 bretheren but with just a little tweaking here and there Linux desktops could finally have a good small business accounting system.
I don't think that it's too early, I think that it just isn't being presented in the right way, by any distro that I'm aware of. My ideal example of such a distro would take K.I.S.S to the maximum.
In my view, these are the features of the mythical desktop-distro-for-the-masses:
1. It has to be available in stores. Joe Bloggs wants to just go and buy it. A net install would also be necessary of course. The installation must be as automatic as possible, it must ask the minimum number of questions as it can.
2. Remove choices. Yes. REMOVE choices. Have the distro setup so that it has one carefully selected instance of each software type you need, one word processor, one spreadsheet, one database, one graphics package... Everything is installed, there is no asking "do you want", it is there in your "start menu" from the get-go. When Joe decides one Sunday afternoon to make a movie... "Start > Movies > Movie Maker".
3. In the start menu it's not "GIMP" it's "Image Editor".
4. In the software repository (Debian based naturally), again, remove choices. People don't want 20 different examples of a web browser, they want 1 which has been carefully chosen as "the best". And installing software from the repository should be seamless, I'd go so far as to make it as easy as selecting "Start > Games > Tetris" and it installs from the repository if it's not already there. Do away with package management interfaces, Joe Bloggs doesn't understand it.
5. Remove "high tech" stuff. Joe Bloggs doesn't need or want to run a mail server, so do not include one in the repository or distribution anywhere. It just confuses him.
6. Kernel and Drivers - this needs to be completely abstracted away. Upgrading the kernel and it's modules should happen when you do "Start > Upgrade". Hardware should be auto-detected, forget about legacy stuff it complicates matters.
7. Eye candy. Joe Bloggs likes Eye Candy. compiz or beryl is a good start, but they are still a little unstable
People who use Linux distros TODAY and tout it's power, and choice, and configurability, and "have it your way", simply forget that Joe Bloggs down the road doesn't WANT all that stuff. They want to do a job, they want the computer to just get out of the way and let him do the job, they want the computer to help him, not to make him jump through hoops to tell the computer exactly how to do such and such.
If people need more than the above, then there are plenty of existing distributions more suited to the task.
To qualify my comments: I started using Slackware installed from a pile of floppys, many years ago. I now use Debian (unstable) on my workstations. I only resort to Windows in VMWare for using Quickbooks (nothing comparable for Linux), for testing website development in IE, and on my Laptop. In short, I'm no stranger to Linux, I can administer a system just fine, but I can also see that this is NOT what Joe Bloggs wants to do.
Depending on what you want, I'd suggest either Trac ( http://trac.edgewall.org/ ), or OTRS ( http://www.otrs.org/ ). Trac has a pretty basic ticket system, but that's combined with a Wiki and Subversion (don't know if you do coding), while OTRS is a quite powerful ticket system (admittedly, it looks like crap, but it does get the job done) with email piping and all the other things you would expect.
"Prove I bought Microsoft software at all, and get the hell off my lawn!" continutes small business owner.
BSA Guy: "Hello, I'm with the BSA, we would like to come in and do an audit to ensure that you are not running any pirate software. It's a good thing. Really."
You: "No. Please leave this premesis now."
That's it. The BSA is a private organisation. If they want to go snooping through your computers then they can bring a police officer and a search warrant like everybody else.
In New Zealand we dropped the 5c coin last year (1 and 2 were dropped more than a decade ago), we now just have 10c 20c 50c $1 and $2 coins.
I have an A3000 out in my garage, amongst other bits and pieces of history. It was pretty trick for it's time, a full complement of memory, soft-kicked running the last official Kickstart of the time, a Picasso card with Pablo expansion (never worked out how to use that), a couple of large IDE hard drives (running on a PC card adapter thing I'm trying to remember the name of) and a couple on the SCSI too (I ran a BBS on it, and purchased it from a guy who closed down his BBS), a "fast" serial port card, few others bits and bobs. It's slightly broken, it needs a new PSU mostly, certainly fixable.
Anyway, every now and then I think for a few seconds, "hey, I should really get that working again, yea, that'd be cool", but quickly afterwards, I realise that when I did get it working I don't actually have any use for it. Sure I could make it a "file server", or even a web server, but that is just, I don't know, beneath it somehow, like a once great scientist reduced to clearing paper jams from a printer.
Somehow, I think it's better for it to just rest in piece in a box in my garage. Death with dignity so to speak.
I ran QB (Pro 2003) under CrossOver for some time, but it's finicky to get it installed there was a certain order to follow and some registry entries to add in manually as I recall. It had a couple of display issues (the buttons at the top of invoices sometimes got partially hidden for example), and sometimes wouldn't start up, you'd have to try several times, but on the whole it worked well-enough to use, and I did so for about 2 years.
But now I run QB under a VMWare virtual machine which I specifically created (and trimmed down) for Quickbooks and Quickbooks alone. And it has a couple of pretty good advantages...
1. Easy to backup your entire accounting environment, just write the VM to a DVD every now and then. That way if something goes bang, grab the last backup DVD, download the last backup QB data from your offsite, and you are literally running again with the exact same environment in seconds.
2. Can be run on multiple machines. Quickbooks as you know needs to be activated over the internet when you install it, which means that you can't realy install on multiple machines (say your desktop and laptop), with this setup that's no issue, copy the VM to the other machine, fire up the free VMWare Player, and away you go, as far as QB knows it's running on the exact same system.
Sure, the main disadvantage is that it takes more space because of the windows install in the VM, but really in this day and age who cares if it takes another 300 meg.
As a web developer, the reason I don't test much in Safari is mostly because it's a PITA to do so, and most of the time, Safari just works anyway.
I have to have a whole different computer setup just to test in Safari. That's all it's used for, testing in Safari, and it's a way across the other side of the desk, and it's not plugged in generally because I need the power socket, and it's quite slow (an old iMac), and it's not even up-to-date because major releases of the browser are tied to major releases of the OS and you have to pay fairly large amounts of money to upgrade the OS.
As opposed to testing in IE, I just switch to one of the various Virtual Machines I have in VMWare to check in different versions.
As opposed to opera, or firefox, which I can run natively on my linux workstation anyway.
I could test in Konq I suppose, but it's of limited use, it's close enough to Saf to give a general idea, but far enough away to not really be sure.
If old Jobbies was to set to and get either a Safari version released for general Linux boxes (or Windows), or even better was to release an OS/X version that can (legally) be run under VMWare with just any commodity x86 hardware underneath (and untied Safari from OS updates so you can keep your browser up to date without shelling out for OS updates), then I would spend a lot more time in Safari.
the boring solution is to get yourself a cheap-as-chips web hosting account with something like cPanel so you can easily manage your mail accounts. Throw all your mail at that server, and access it with IMAP from home or on the go. Use fetchmail to collect your ISP's POP mail and deliver it to your IMAP account if required. Try and find one with SSH access, then you can easily setup some backup process to grab a copy of your mbox's periodically just-in-case.
You do some development, once it's at a point where you want to release, tag it, switch production to the tag (svn switch), if something wasn't quite right (Murphy's Law) svn switch back to the last tag you used.
I was thinking more along the lnes of that ruddy great beak biting you in half, not the tentacles pulling you to bits.
Not to mention that the idea of bringing a live giant squid that could at least take off your arm aboard your boat, seems like a darwin award in the making.
Guess you havn't used Javascript in a while.
"Using the arguments object, you can call a function with more arguments than it is formally declared to accept. This is often useful if you don't know in advance how many arguments will be passed to the function. You can use arguments.length to determine the number of arguments actually passed to the function, and then treat each argument using the arguments object."
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScr
I agree that string concatenation should have a separate operator though.
Hey mate, the world doesn't end at the US borders. In other parts of the world being a sole trader is common and accepted you need do nothing to "get in business", no forms to fill, nothing to apply for, you just wake up one morning and start "in business". It is a legal structure for a business, why treat it any less legitimately than another.
Please don't mod this trolling right winger up.
The NZ Police Force are actually very good. Like any organisation of size they do have the occasional hiccup, but 99.9% of the time they do an outstanding job, often above and beyond thier call of duty. I would gladly take the NZ Police Force over any other country's in a heart beat, and more often than not that's about how long it takes for the NZ Police to attend a call out.
The same goes for our other emergency, search and rescue, and indeed general health services.
As for the DMCA-like bill, as has already been mentioned, this is only going to select committee, our elected representatives felt that it is important enough to warrant some investigation, debate and public comment before they make up thier minds.
I wish I had mod points. You owe me one keyboard.
Your flash install is broken, check your plugin paths. I have no problem with Flash in Opera 9, I use Opera 100% of the time on Windows, 95% of the time on Linux, I watch YouTube videos on both all the time.
But the blind person still has to live with the guilt of having pulled the trigger the rest of thier lives.
Pagefile initialization is my guess.
Hmm. $1,300,000. Put it into a modest interest bearing deposit at say 6% that's $78,000 per annum pre tax. Doesn't sound too bad to me, not even including compounding over the term, and assumes you spend all interest each year.
I could live on that, quite comfortably.
While I certainly wouldn't put it past any leader of a super power to, err, neutralise dissidents, it pays to remember that in any political system there are certain factions removed from the direct process who seek to influence the political climate.
I don't follow Russian politics, so I don't know who stands to advantage from removing those "unfaithful" to Putin, but there surely would be some powerful and ruthless enough to have conducted such assasinations, outside of the government, without thier knowledge, for thier own ultimate advantage.
Yes.
That's how taxation and earnings in foreign currencies work.
I'm in New Zealand. I do work for some clients in Australian Dollars. When the end of the year rolls around any Australian Dollars I retain (I have not exchanged) need to be declared in an equivalent New Zealand dollar value at an approved exchange rate. When I do get around to exchanging I will either make a gain (income) or loss (expense) because of the fluctuation between what I declared that income to be worth, and what it actually ended up as, which can affect the next tax return appropriately.
A virtual currency is still a foreign currency so treat it the same way if it's intended to be used as real world income in the future.
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