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Feel sorry about people like me who are born in early September.
Daddy's sperm probably had a high alcohol content from the New-Years Champange. Perhaps that explains why my FETAL-ALCOHOL-FETUS-BODY only has FLIPPERS instead of arms and legs. Oh God HELP Me! I'm flipper in a monkey body. It HURTS! arrr... the bright light... make it stop....
Right. . . So did you get the memo about the new cover sheets?
(snicker)
For one of my clients, I made a bogus TPS report and left it for them to discover. I've been told that when one of the middle-managment types found it, he 'bout pissed his pants with glee.
2) How do you work around the lack of group policy controls in SAMBA?
You don't. You get rid of the Windows desktops and replace them with UNIX desktops. You then stop worrying about 'Virus Updates' and Outlook exploits. If you have a legcy app the only runs on MS-DOS, or Windows, then you get Microsoft Terminal Server and Citrix. Or you get a Sun desktops, and plop in one of their Intel-PC-On-A-Pci-Cards and run Windows at native speeds. There are other options.
If you think of outwitting bugs and dodging secutity vunerablilitys as a game, then yes! Microsoft products have sold more copies than any othere game ever made!
For week long hiking trips - it would be nesessary to turn off the FRS feture in order to save battery life. Anybody know if you can?
Kudo's for Garmin for using AA batteries - there are readbly available back country solar chargers out there, and it would be useless if they used YAPBP (Yet Another Propriatary Battery Pack)
But for simple databases, with a nice front end and easy to use query tools then I think that Access is more than adequate, if not, the best tool for the job.
Access was revolutionary in it's 2.0 day - a complete database and development kit that diden't require any extra tools! Unfortnatly it's stood still.
For small jobs - try FileMaker - available from Windows and Mac. Much better than Access. It's a better Access than Access for small jobs.
For medium jobs - try Microsoft Fox, or Borland Deplhi. Both are a bit harder to use, but are vastly more robust.
your solution with mozilla works fine, as long as mozilla is on the system... otherwise you'd be in the same mess....
I should have been more specific - whan you type 'make install' - FreeBSD and OpenBSD go out on the internet and fetch Mozilla for you. They also fetch any and all dependencys.
I recognize it's power and security, but for someone who doesnt want to look for SSH patches, make sure red-hat didn't install bind,
Please don't assume that your experince with the 'install-everything' Red Hat distribution of Linux is indicitive of all *nix distrubutions. Check out OpenBSD if you want security. Red Hat, and Windows both are great behind a secure firewall - and I humbly suguest OpenBSD.
*nix is even worse as far as security than w2k....
A few Linux distributions may have a few security holes now and then - but other *nix's don't. Check out OpenBSD.org if you want true security that MS Windows can only deam of.
good quality programs for windows, which are easier to install
Now that's not true. Most unix and linux distribitions have easy to use programes that will fetch, configure and install software for you automatically.
With FreeBSD to install Mozilla: type 'whereis mozilla' the computer will respond with a directory - change into that directory and type 'make install.' Wait for a few moments and your done.
With Windows to install Mozilla: Use your browser to go to Mizilla.org Find the donwload section and choose. Download and palce the file somewhere. Execute it. Ansewer a bunch of installer questions. Next-Next-Next-Finish.
As you can see. Some (if not most) Unix systems are easier to install software on than Windows. You could do the same for KOffice in FreeBSD - and I won't go into detail on the difficulty of installing MS Office on MS Windows - in Windows you even have to reboot!
I'll admit it. I started from a PC/Microsoft world:
After dinking around with TRS-80's and OS-9 from Microware, I had to choose a new platform. In hindsight, I should have gone with an Amiga or an Atari - but the rivalery between C64/Atari 8-Bit/TRS-80 would not die in my mind.
The PC had a good things going for it: A cheap OS from a funny-named corporation called "MicroSoft" and cheap compilers(with editors) from Borland.
I'd grown up in a worl where an OS cost $400 (at least) and a good compiler was $600. Oh, and that funny-named corporation was selling a passable word-processor for $150. Electric-Pencil still stung in the pocketbook for $400.
Unix was not a option: I had no access to a university, and Xenix was too expensive. Pluss, Unix had a 'difficult' reputation and came with a 'difficult' language cryptically called 'C'. I diden't know abot *BSD and Linux untill 1995.
People on this site seem to forget that Gates is a serious geek - he's not some MBA who got lucky.
No. He's a spoiled brat, born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Do you think he would have gotten the traff-o-data gig, if it wasen't for his mommy pulling strings, or started Microsoft without Daddys seed money.
Daddy Gates is a true rags to riches stroy - Baby Bill just stood on his shoulders.
Keep in mind that VNC server running on Unix/X-Windows is much faster and more efficent than VNC server on Windows. X-Widnows makes is easy for VNC server to figure out what's going on with the desktop - but the Win32 API is a bitch to figure out and VNC Server on Windows sometimes has to bruteforce screen checks by sampeling pixels in the buffer.
A Unix VNC server is very usable over a modem connection, but Windows VNC server isen't.
It's this reason, than all the Citrix/Windows Terminal Server people don't like VNC - they havent seen VNC on Unix.
Setup VNC-server on your Widnows/Unix computer and you can user your desktop from any Java enableled webbrowser. VNC also has efficient direct clients for most popular platforms.
Unix is a better choice, as you can server can server mutiple people with desktops. Windows is limited (unless you buy Windows Terminal Server) to serving only one desktop.
VNC is slighly better than X-Windows, as X-Windows closes your apps when you disconnect. VNC will leave the open, waiting for you to return.
Trivia: A Unix server can server graphical VNC/X-Windows desktops even if the server itself doesen't even have a video card. Unix is that powerfull.
The Kompany manages both, and yet people are getting all hot and bothered about the fact that they have software that you must pay for if you want it.
As long as the Kompany keeps making contributions to Free Software - they are alright by me.
Let's judge the Kompay an their efectivness in giving Free Software. If they happen to make a buck on the side, good! That money helps them make more Free Software.
If Microsoft can present an EULA to me, after I purchase their software, then I can give them an EOLA - End Ownder License Agreement
1. This EOLA supercedes all previous EULAs. 2. This EOLA give all rights to this computer to the owner of this computer. 3. This EOLA gives the owner of this computer the right to do any damn thing he/she wants to with it. 4. This EOLA can be changed at whim by the owner of this computer. 5. By letting your software install on the owners computer, you agree to all the terms of this EOLA.
My experiance with computer aided presentations has spoiled my from them forever. If you use it to display a *few* key ideas - that's ok, but the dancing bears and the cheesy music is a waste of time.
In my capacity as a developer - I have to give bid presentations several time a quarter and standing up and speaking clearly keeps by victem's attentention on me and my ideas, and not the flashy presentation behind me.
I often sit in quietly on my competetor's presentations - and they abolsutly kill their message with powerpoint. They often can't get the hardware working right and they can't tailor their presentation to the vibe that they are getting from the audience.
I don't want to spoil the open source pep rally here but there is ONE MS product that beats the equivalent OSS product, MS Office.
Three years ago, I would have agreed. But thinks are changing.
For small text documents, AbiWord is easier than the singing-paperclip-bloated MS Word. It's heavily used now by my clinets for office memos and two page documents.
For large text documents - LaTeX is pretty hard to beat for productivity, but for the middle ground (40 pages of test) MS Word does a better job, provided it doesen't crash on you.
Excell - the spreadsheet of StarOffice/OpenOffice is just a good.
Access - with it's 'Jet' datastore is a joke. Use a real tool like Postgresql with Access if you like to keep your data, or replace it all toegther with free software in your choice of laguages.
Outlook - Evolution is darn close to being an Outlook killer. Give it six months to work out the *few* bugs left.
Powerpoint - the whole idea of computer aided presentations is a joke. Learn to speak in front of people - it's not that hard.
I would pay at least $10 more per ticket to fly on an airline that didn't have any airport "security" at all.
Me too. Hell, if there were no security - at least there'd be a few hunter-types packing guns on the flight. I'd trust a plane full of armed citizins over a $7 rent-a-cop any day.
The bankrupcy really helped Iridium - phones are now $1200 and cost $1.50 a minuit, from anywhere to anywhere. They just lauched five replacement satelites, and have a huge DOD contract.
Think about it - if the United Stated decided Europe was such a threat that we decided to selectivly turn off the US GPS system - Europe would only have to worry about it for 45 minuits of so. Long enough for ICBMs to arrive.
The US and Europe are, wait for it...... FRIENDS. We may have disagreements but jesus - we've bailed you out so many times, it's almost become reflex.
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Feel sorry about people like me who are born in early September.
Daddy's sperm probably had a high alcohol content from the New-Years Champange. Perhaps that explains why my FETAL-ALCOHOL-FETUS-BODY only has FLIPPERS instead of arms and legs. Oh God HELP Me! I'm flipper in a monkey body. It HURTS! arrr... the bright light... make it stop....
decipher this:
kjashduyqwhasklasj
Underneeth each letter I put the row of the keyboard that the key belongs to.
kjashduyqwhasklasj
222222111122222222
Thus usuing me l33t 5kilz - I have determined that your keyboard is missing its entire thrid row of keys.
Right. . . So did you get the memo about the new cover sheets?
(snicker)
For one of my clients, I made a bogus TPS report and left it for them to discover. I've been told that when one of the middle-managment types found it, he 'bout pissed his pants with glee.
This program is currently in the beta stages, and is intended for developers.
I've deployed it in two offices and it's worked well for light use. Currently, it won't replace Groupwise - but it is less buggy than Exchange. YMMV.
Give it a try. You do have to know what you're doing to install it. (Think database admin)
I'll bite.
1) How do you work around the complete lack of server-side productivity software on Linux servers?
Check out phpGroupware. http://www.phpgroupware.org/ It works. Well.
2) How do you work around the lack of group policy controls in SAMBA?
You don't. You get rid of the Windows desktops and replace them with UNIX desktops. You then stop worrying about 'Virus Updates' and Outlook exploits. If you have a legcy app the only runs on MS-DOS, or Windows, then you get Microsoft Terminal Server and Citrix. Or you get a Sun desktops, and plop in one of their Intel-PC-On-A-Pci-Cards and run Windows at native speeds. There are other options.
If you think of outwitting bugs and dodging secutity vunerablilitys as a game, then yes! Microsoft products have sold more copies than any othere game ever made!
For week long hiking trips - it would be nesessary to turn off the FRS feture in order to save battery life. Anybody know if you can?
Kudo's for Garmin for using AA batteries - there are readbly available back country solar chargers out there, and it would be useless if they used YAPBP (Yet Another Propriatary Battery Pack)
But for simple databases, with a nice front end and easy to use query tools then I think that Access is more than adequate, if not, the best tool for the job.
Access was revolutionary in it's 2.0 day - a complete database and development kit that diden't require any extra tools! Unfortnatly it's stood still.
For small jobs - try FileMaker - available from Windows and Mac. Much better than Access. It's a better Access than Access for small jobs.
For medium jobs - try Microsoft Fox, or Borland Deplhi. Both are a bit harder to use, but are vastly more robust.
your solution with mozilla works fine, as long as mozilla is on the system... otherwise you'd be in the same mess....
I should have been more specific - whan you type 'make install' - FreeBSD and OpenBSD go out on the internet and fetch Mozilla for you. They also fetch any and all dependencys.
I recognize it's power and security, but for someone who doesnt want to look for SSH patches, make sure red-hat didn't install bind,
Please don't assume that your experince with the 'install-everything' Red Hat distribution of Linux is indicitive of all *nix distrubutions. Check out OpenBSD if you want security. Red Hat, and Windows both are great behind a secure firewall - and I humbly suguest OpenBSD.
*nix is even worse as far as security than w2k....
A few Linux distributions may have a few security holes now and then - but other *nix's don't. Check out OpenBSD.org if you want true security that MS Windows can only deam of.
good quality programs for windows, which are easier to install
Now that's not true. Most unix and linux distribitions have easy to use programes that will fetch, configure and install software for you automatically.
With FreeBSD to install Mozilla:
type 'whereis mozilla'
the computer will respond with a directory - change into that directory and type 'make install.' Wait for a few moments and your done.
With Windows to install Mozilla:
Use your browser to go to Mizilla.org
Find the donwload section and choose.
Download and palce the file somewhere.
Execute it.
Ansewer a bunch of installer questions.
Next-Next-Next-Finish.
As you can see. Some (if not most) Unix systems are easier to install software on than Windows. You could do the same for KOffice in FreeBSD - and I won't go into detail on the difficulty of installing MS Office on MS Windows - in Windows you even have to reboot!
Damn, I had thought the native Americans discovered America.
It's increasingly looking like the current crop of native americans bumped off a preceding group of peoples. Here for more info
I'll admit it. I started from a PC/Microsoft world:
After dinking around with TRS-80's and OS-9 from Microware, I had to choose a new platform. In hindsight, I should have gone with an Amiga or an Atari - but the rivalery between C64/Atari 8-Bit/TRS-80 would not die in my mind.
The PC had a good things going for it: A cheap OS from a funny-named corporation called "MicroSoft" and cheap compilers(with editors) from Borland.
I'd grown up in a worl where an OS cost $400 (at least) and a good compiler was $600. Oh, and that funny-named corporation was selling a passable word-processor for $150. Electric-Pencil still stung in the pocketbook for $400.
Unix was not a option: I had no access to a university, and Xenix was too expensive. Pluss, Unix had a 'difficult' reputation and came with a 'difficult' language cryptically called 'C'. I diden't know abot *BSD and Linux untill 1995.
Of course I know better. Now.
My Two Cents:
If you have users that use Word for small memos, letters and two page layout - they can easily use OpenOffice/StarOffice/AbiWord/KWord.
If you have useres that use Excell and stick to one sheet and have a graph or two - they can easily use OpenOffice/StartOffice/KSpread
Access is a joke and should be replaced by somthing, anything, of your choosing.
The trouble is when you have users that use Word for a cappy replacement fror PageMaker, and Excell useres that treat the thing like a database.
They need to be migrated over to LeX, and PostgreSQL - and not a competing 'Office' product.
People on this site seem to forget that Gates is a serious geek - he's not some MBA who got lucky.
No. He's a spoiled brat, born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Do you think he would have gotten the traff-o-data gig, if it wasen't for his mommy pulling strings, or started Microsoft without Daddys seed money.
Daddy Gates is a true rags to riches stroy - Baby Bill just stood on his shoulders.
Keep in mind that VNC server running on Unix/X-Windows is much faster and more efficent than VNC server on Windows. X-Widnows makes is easy for VNC server to figure out what's going on with the desktop - but the Win32 API is a bitch to figure out and VNC Server on Windows sometimes has to bruteforce screen checks by sampeling pixels in the buffer.
A Unix VNC server is very usable over a modem connection, but Windows VNC server isen't.
It's this reason, than all the Citrix/Windows Terminal Server people don't like VNC - they havent seen VNC on Unix.
Setup VNC-server on your Widnows/Unix computer and you can user your desktop from any Java enableled webbrowser. VNC also has efficient direct clients for most popular platforms.
Unix is a better choice, as you can server can server mutiple people with desktops. Windows is limited (unless you buy Windows Terminal Server) to serving only one desktop.
VNC is slighly better than X-Windows, as X-Windows closes your apps when you disconnect. VNC will leave the open, waiting for you to return.
Trivia: A Unix server can server graphical VNC/X-Windows desktops even if the server itself doesen't even have a video card. Unix is that powerfull.
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The Kompany manages both, and yet people are getting all hot and bothered about the fact that they have software that you must pay for if you want it.
As long as the Kompany keeps making contributions to Free Software - they are alright by me.
Let's judge the Kompay an their efectivness in giving Free Software. If they happen to make a buck on the side, good! That money helps them make more Free Software.
If Microsoft can present an EULA to me, after I purchase their software, then I can give them an EOLA - End Ownder License Agreement
1. This EOLA supercedes all previous EULAs.
2. This EOLA give all rights to this computer to the owner of this computer.
3. This EOLA gives the owner of this computer the right to do any damn thing he/she wants to with it.
4. This EOLA can be changed at whim by the owner of this computer.
5. By letting your software install on the owners computer, you agree to all the terms of this EOLA.
My experiance with computer aided presentations has spoiled my from them forever. If you use it to display a *few* key ideas - that's ok, but the dancing bears and the cheesy music is a waste of time.
In my capacity as a developer - I have to give bid presentations several time a quarter and standing up and speaking clearly keeps by victem's attentention on me and my ideas, and not the flashy presentation behind me.
I often sit in quietly on my competetor's presentations - and they abolsutly kill their message with powerpoint. They often can't get the hardware working right and they can't tailor their presentation to the vibe that they are getting from the audience.
I don't want to spoil the open source pep rally here but there is ONE MS product that beats the equivalent OSS product, MS Office.
Three years ago, I would have agreed. But thinks are changing.
For small text documents, AbiWord is easier than the singing-paperclip-bloated MS Word. It's heavily used now by my clinets for office memos and two page documents.
For large text documents - LaTeX is pretty hard to beat for productivity, but for the middle ground (40 pages of test) MS Word does a better job, provided it doesen't crash on you.
Excell - the spreadsheet of StarOffice/OpenOffice is just a good.
Access - with it's 'Jet' datastore is a joke. Use a real tool like Postgresql with Access if you like to keep your data, or replace it all toegther with free software in your choice of laguages.
Outlook - Evolution is darn close to being an Outlook killer. Give it six months to work out the *few* bugs left.
Powerpoint - the whole idea of computer aided presentations is a joke. Learn to speak in front of people - it's not that hard.
I would pay at least $10 more per ticket to fly on an airline that didn't have any airport "security" at all.
Me too. Hell, if there were no security - at least there'd be a few hunter-types packing guns on the flight. I'd trust a plane full of armed citizins over a $7 rent-a-cop any day.
The bankrupcy really helped Iridium - phones are now $1200 and cost $1.50 a minuit, from anywhere to anywhere. They just lauched five replacement satelites, and have a huge DOD contract.
What an absolutly dumb idea.
Think about it - if the United Stated decided Europe was such a threat that we decided to selectivly turn off the US GPS system - Europe would only have to worry about it for 45 minuits of so. Long enough for ICBMs to arrive.
The US and Europe are, wait for it...... FRIENDS. We may have disagreements but jesus - we've bailed you out so many times, it's almost become reflex.
Oh boy, another highschool kid discovers Ayn Rand!
That not civil - to attack the man and not his ideas. How about this for fair play:
Oh boy, another trust fund state school university kid discovers Noam Chomsky.
Fisrt there were Japanese girls with semen on them! Bukake!
Now their are Japanese PDAs with Semens on them!
LOOX!
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