The whole reply letter is a good read. I hope all of it is true. (You can never be too sure).
It seems the teachers in my part of the country are still preaching the Gospel According to Steve Jobs. While the school districts are suffering, they gladly pay a premium for the latest and greatest Apple hardware and software.
I did a bit of consulting with the area schools this past summer. The admins would gladly switch to Linux (ideal) or Windows (less ideal but less of a headache administratively speaking compared to Apple). The only problem is the teachers. They have been bowing at the altar of Jobs for too long. And with the economy the way it is and the mass exodus from this part of the country, it would behoove them to switch to F/OSS.
$20K? That's cheap! I did post-secondary for two years (tuition gratis) and paid for two semesters out of pocket and still ended-up with $17K in debt. That $17K might not seem like much; but when the job market is as bad as it is right now, that can be a rather dark cloud looming.
Along the same lines, set the root of everyone's home directory to/dev/null. I hear you get excellent results when using this method to reduce space on the file server.
Me: Did you shut down the server?
Other Tech: Nope. I thought you did it. Now I can't get to the internet.
Me: Son of a bitch... Automatic Updates again... it needs a power-off and then cold start to work.
*15 minutes later*
Me: Where the hell are the backup tapes?
Other Tech: I have no fucking clue. What the hell did you do?
Me: I learned to never trust automatic updates. That said, I have a resume` to refresh.
Other Tech: But nothing is working still.
Me: Your problem now.
*2 minutes later*
Me: I can't even log on! The fucking AD server is down!
Could all of this be a fake? I mean, the desktop interface looks as if someone modified kdock and added a few icons from Windows. The icons near the clock look as if they were pulled out of Gnome. It's not like this would be the first time someone faked a Windows environment for page hits.
Amen to all of the above. I grew disillusioned with the fact that Open Office along with all the JRE crap took about 5 hours to compile (conservative estimate) on my laptop with limited specs. For a set-and-forget setup (server) it is a great OS. But for regular everyday use, it's just plain tedious.
"Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "I'm sick of fucking with Linux in order to get it to do what I want but I really don't like the alternatives."
Yeah, I rocked Gentoo for a couple of years. I just want something that is fast, easy to use and gives me as little of a headache as possible. Linux is Linux and most of the knowledge learned in one distro will carry-over to another.
Don't tell me Ubuntu is getting slower. On my eee PC with a stock hardware configuration, I go from a cold boot to the desktop in around 40 seconds whereas with XP it was taking about 3 minutes on average. Granted the sub-distro (if you would call it that) that I am using is optimized for my setup.
eeebuntu Standard Edition seems to be working out great on my eee. Everything just works right out of the box. Installation was a bit of a bitch though.
Smivs notes a BBC report on a British team planning a 1000-mph record-breaking car. The previous land-speed record broke the sound barrier. The proposed vehicle will get from 0 to 1,050 mph in 40 seconds.
I'm sorry. Could you repeat that? I think I got some crazy in my ear.
Not trolling here, but doesn't it seem like every time Microsoft is onto an idea for a feature that's useful it gets tossed aside when the release version comes around? At least that's what I've seen in Windows. They really should take a page from Steve Job's book from NeXTSTEP and have seamless interoperability with all different kinds of networks and operating systems. But that user-friendliness would be time-consuming and not profitable.
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The whole reply letter is a good read. I hope all of it is true. (You can never be too sure).
It seems the teachers in my part of the country are still preaching the Gospel According to Steve Jobs. While the school districts are suffering, they gladly pay a premium for the latest and greatest Apple hardware and software.
I did a bit of consulting with the area schools this past summer. The admins would gladly switch to Linux (ideal) or Windows (less ideal but less of a headache administratively speaking compared to Apple). The only problem is the teachers. They have been bowing at the altar of Jobs for too long. And with the economy the way it is and the mass exodus from this part of the country, it would behoove them to switch to F/OSS.
You are sentenced to death by snoo snoo for that comment.
Military Intelligence is truly an oxymoronic concept.
There! Fixed it for you!
Are they only counting OEMs or something? I think perhaps those numbers are a bit misleading. Statistics of this sort are rarely accurate.
I am the center of the universe! Look in all directions around me. How much universe is there? Infinite. Yes?
$20K? That's cheap! I did post-secondary for two years (tuition gratis) and paid for two semesters out of pocket and still ended-up with $17K in debt. That $17K might not seem like much; but when the job market is as bad as it is right now, that can be a rather dark cloud looming.
Along the same lines, set the root of everyone's home directory to /dev/null. I hear you get excellent results when using this method to reduce space on the file server.
I want star cruisers and Earth 2.0.
You already got Earth 2 back in 1994. Too bad it kinda sucked.
I agree. My first impression was "If this were true, why hasn't the atmosphere boiled-off yet?"
ROGR... is that any relation to the WOPR
Wouldn't matter if the DNS cluster is stuck trying to restart.
My sig is reason enough to not talk politics on Slashdot.
The new encoding isn't junk. It's MP4. Try changing the extension.
Look at your handle...
My time machine worked! It's the 1990's again!
Me: Did you shut down the server?
Other Tech: Nope. I thought you did it. Now I can't get to the internet.
Me: Son of a bitch... Automatic Updates again... it needs a power-off and then cold start to work.
*15 minutes later*
Me: Where the hell are the backup tapes?
Other Tech: I have no fucking clue. What the hell did you do?
Me: I learned to never trust automatic updates. That said, I have a resume` to refresh.
Other Tech: But nothing is working still.
Me: Your problem now.
*2 minutes later*
Me: I can't even log on! The fucking AD server is down!
Could all of this be a fake? I mean, the desktop interface looks as if someone modified kdock and added a few icons from Windows. The icons near the clock look as if they were pulled out of Gnome. It's not like this would be the first time someone faked a Windows environment for page hits.
"Set and forget" != "Leave bone stock install in place and pray there are no vulnerabilities"
Amen to all of the above. I grew disillusioned with the fact that Open Office along with all the JRE crap took about 5 hours to compile (conservative estimate) on my laptop with limited specs. For a set-and-forget setup (server) it is a great OS. But for regular everyday use, it's just plain tedious.
You could probably attach an external hard drive and get some ad-hoc swap space that way. Just an idea...
"Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "I'm sick of fucking with Linux in order to get it to do what I want but I really don't like the alternatives."
Yeah, I rocked Gentoo for a couple of years. I just want something that is fast, easy to use and gives me as little of a headache as possible. Linux is Linux and most of the knowledge learned in one distro will carry-over to another.
Don't tell me Ubuntu is getting slower. On my eee PC with a stock hardware configuration, I go from a cold boot to the desktop in around 40 seconds whereas with XP it was taking about 3 minutes on average. Granted the sub-distro (if you would call it that) that I am using is optimized for my setup.
eeebuntu Standard Edition seems to be working out great on my eee. Everything just works right out of the box. Installation was a bit of a bitch though.
Isn't that what the asteroid drilling rig/lander was called in Armageddon?
Smivs notes a BBC report on a British team planning a 1000-mph record-breaking car. The previous land-speed record broke the sound barrier. The proposed vehicle will get from 0 to 1,050 mph in 40 seconds.
I'm sorry. Could you repeat that? I think I got some crazy in my ear.
Not trolling here, but doesn't it seem like every time Microsoft is onto an idea for a feature that's useful it gets tossed aside when the release version comes around? At least that's what I've seen in Windows. They really should take a page from Steve Job's book from NeXTSTEP and have seamless interoperability with all different kinds of networks and operating systems. But that user-friendliness would be time-consuming and not profitable.