Anyone care to enlighten me/us why the Linux cost of use is categorised as 'high'?
I can't see training as an issue, Linux can be easily configured to make the transfer quick and painless. Unless there is a horde of applications already developed to run under Windows, where is the issue?
Disclaimer: I don't have any experience administering corporate/governamental networks
Well, no RedHat packages, which is not surprising considering the 'treatment' that KDE was subjected to by RH.
Also, I never managed to get the Win key mapped to anything in KDE 3.0.x. I wonder if the situation changed. As I recall, KDE wanted a 'Win' modifier and xmodmap did not have any knowledge of a modifier called 'Win'. Rather unfortunate.
Does anybody else think that CivIII sounds waaay to similar to Call to Power 2? I bought CTP2 a good while ago and I am still playing it very happily. I really can't see anything (except maybe the new resource system - needing horses for building chariots, etc) which would make me buy it.
Many of the things added to this release of Civ (trading routes anyone) are already in CTP2.
I wonder why they Sid didn't push for something more radical - the previous post about the hex grid would be just right;-).
But anyway, I'll wait for some reviews and coparisons before rushing out to buy it.
The main attraction about voting using computers is that it provides a very quick way to count votes. So why don't they just use custom made computers with custom made software which are only network locally in the voting stations? This way each voting station knows the total number of votes at any point in time and can send it up the line by whatever means seems necessary.
And since electronics can be so unreliable, just print a voting slip which can be processed later in the same way as they are these days in the eventuallity in which there are doubts about the validity of the vote.
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Anyone care to enlighten me/us why the Linux cost of use is categorised as 'high'?
I can't see training as an issue, Linux can be easily configured to make the transfer quick and painless. Unless there is a horde of applications already developed to run under Windows, where is the issue?
Disclaimer: I don't have any experience administering corporate/governamental networks
Look up similar articles dated 1-2-3 years back.
Well, no RedHat packages, which is not surprising considering the 'treatment' that KDE was subjected to by RH.
Also, I never managed to get the Win key mapped to anything in KDE 3.0.x. I wonder if the situation changed. As I recall, KDE wanted a 'Win' modifier and xmodmap did not have any knowledge of a modifier called 'Win'. Rather unfortunate.
Are available from the Mozilla FTP site
Yep, just make it available on the net and post the address on /.
;-)
I'm sure you'll manage to get some very thorough load testing done
Yep, now that was a brilliant game.
;-)
And Planescape Torment had a rather good plot aswell
You forgot to mention that it looks amazingly cool as well ;-)
Does anybody else think that CivIII sounds waaay to similar to Call to Power 2? I bought CTP2 a good while ago and I am still playing it very happily. I really can't see anything (except maybe the new resource system - needing horses for building chariots, etc) which would make me buy it.
;-).
Many of the things added to this release of Civ (trading routes anyone) are already in CTP2.
I wonder why they Sid didn't push for something more radical - the previous post about the hex grid would be just right
But anyway, I'll wait for some reviews and coparisons before rushing out to buy it.
The main attraction about voting using computers is that it provides a very quick way to count votes. So why don't they just use custom made computers with custom made software which are only network locally in the voting stations? This way each voting station knows the total number of votes at any point in time and can send it up the line by whatever means seems necessary.
And since electronics can be so unreliable, just print a voting slip which can be processed later in the same way as they are these days in the eventuallity in which there are doubts about the validity of the vote.