"Whenever a programmer thinks, "Hey, skins, what a cool idea", their computer's speakers should create some sort of cock-shaped soundwave and plunge it repeatedly through their skulls." - Makali.
OOo would survive without Sun... just. Note that in both cases, 1.0 was fat but usable and the next stable version is a bit thinner and a LOT more usable. (And Mozilla has that Firebird thing going on.)
When it gets to that level, it's pretty clear that logic is not the issue. They're talking like junkies in danger of being cut off. Treat it as a drug addiction.
From: Martin A. Brooks Reply-To: uknot@uk.com To: uknot@uk.com Subject: [uknot] Cluebyfour verisign HOWTO for the UK Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:32:55 +0100
Call 0800-032-2101 and select option 2 for Support.
Explain to the engineer that you have typed in an non-existant domain name and been directed to their sitefinder service.
Explain that you have read the "Terms of Use" and do not agree to abide by them.
Explain that, as you don't agree to the ToU, you are explicitly forbidden from using their service.
Ask them to exclude your IP block from those that will be given the sitefinder IP rather than NXDOMAIN.
Give them your name, company (if appropriate) and a contact telephone number.
US and Canada: The contact page number is 888-642-9675. Apparently they will also refer you to 866-345-0330 (which isn't listed on that page), but you should of course check the number given on their official contact page and call that first. The postal address is VeriSign, Inc., Attention: Legal Department, 21355 Ridgetop Circle, Dulles, VA 20166, USA.
I administer Solaris for a living, but the same things apply. My old boss actually got upset at me for solving problems from my desk over the phone, rather than going up to the user's desk (one or five floors away) to do it at their workstation. Eegh... my new boss is actually smart.
I don't think it's anything to do with 'usability'. It would be because Microsoft is the safe choice. However, OpenOffice and Mozilla Firebird do pretty much the same as MS Office and IE, for a lower price. Look at Munich for an example.
I still consider the last two critical pieces of the puzzle to be:
1. A drop-in replacement for Outlook, and that includes the calendar/meeting stuff. 2. A drop-in replacement for Exchange, that talks to MS Outlook.
Windows' massive market share is based on corporate adoption. Linux's increasing market share will be based in the same thing, and will be driven by license costs (including BSA annoyance); the users will follow.
KDE or Gnome doesn't matter - it will be all about the money.
As we see in the case of the Web, where Apache on Linux runs something like twice the sites of IIS on Windows, and therefore is the script-kiddie target of choice.
Perhaps they will just use United Linux and leave the technical heavy lifting up to SuSE. Sun eventually got the clue in this regard, after trying and failing with their own gratuitous distro.
The way this was handled back in my day (twenty years ago... my ghod) was to allow only calculators of particular models into the exam in the first place. Scientific calculators only, nothing programmable.
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"Whenever a programmer thinks, "Hey, skins, what a cool idea", their computer's speakers should create some sort of cock-shaped soundwave and plunge it repeatedly through their skulls." - Makali.
Sun's quality of support is excellent, and we're willing to pay for it.
The insanely-expensive and ridiculously badly-written vertical-market software we run on it, on the other hand ...
Diva's Law: The quality of software is inversely proportional to sticker price.
It'd be a major blow, though.
Heh. Basic coffee machine maintenance was part of my sysadmin work at Ericsson. That would be so that we had our own coffee, of course, but still ...
When it gets to that level, it's pretty clear that logic is not the issue. They're talking like junkies in danger of being cut off. Treat it as a drug addiction.
From: Martin A. Brooks
Reply-To: uknot@uk.com
To: uknot@uk.com
Subject: [uknot] Cluebyfour verisign HOWTO for the UK
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:32:55 +0100
Call 0800-032-2101 and select option 2 for Support.
Explain to the engineer that you have typed in an non-existant domain name and
been directed to their sitefinder service.
Explain that you have read the "Terms of Use" and do not agree to abide by
them.
Explain that, as you don't agree to the ToU, you are explicitly forbidden from
using their service.
Ask them to exclude your IP block from those that will be given the sitefinder
IP rather than NXDOMAIN.
Give them your name, company (if appropriate) and a contact telephone number.
US and Canada: The contact page number is 888-642-9675. Apparently they will also refer you to 866-345-0330 (which isn't listed on that page), but you should of course check the number given on their official contact page and call that first. The postal address is VeriSign, Inc., Attention: Legal Department, 21355 Ridgetop Circle, Dulles, VA 20166, USA.
Yes, and we can see the relationship in the field of software: where the quality of software is inversely proportional to the sticker price.
Serious discussion and comparison of SCO and RIAA.
I administer Solaris for a living, but the same things apply. My old boss actually got upset at me for solving problems from my desk over the phone, rather than going up to the user's desk (one or five floors away) to do it at their workstation. Eegh ... my new boss is actually smart.
I still consider the last two critical pieces of the puzzle to be:
1. A drop-in replacement for Outlook, and that includes the calendar/meeting stuff.
2. A drop-in replacement for Exchange, that talks to MS Outlook.
I'd be surprised if no-one was working on a cross-platform Qt, starting from the Unix version. Even one to GTK-Win32 standards.
KDE or Gnome doesn't matter - it will be all about the money.
This is, of course, a matter of personal taste - it's all Unix, you can do the same things on top.
True. I am so enormously glad that Red Hat isn't bothering much with the desktop market any more ...
And we certainly see this on the Web, where Apache on Linux greatly outnumbers Microsoft IIS on Windows. Oh wait, no we don't!
And we certainly see this on the Web, where Apache on Linux greatly outnumbers Microsoft IIS on Windows. Oh wait, no we don't.
Oh, wait ...
Ah, that would be Wales, not England :-)
Perhaps they will just use United Linux and leave the technical heavy lifting up to SuSE. Sun eventually got the clue in this regard, after trying and failing with their own gratuitous distro.
Isn't Exchange Connector just a screenscraper for Outlook Web Access?
The way this was handled back in my day (twenty years ago ... my ghod) was to allow only calculators of particular models into the exam in the first place. Scientific calculators only, nothing programmable.
Ayup. I'm the Unix admin here. There are four NT admins who run around like blue-arsed flies. I spend all day waiting for some work to do.
Relative to a hundred years ago, this is an era of plenty.
Drap-and-drop text. They put this in MS Word for Mac 5.0 and Apple thought it was so good they promptly put it into System 6.0.something.
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