For me, it's not about MSOffice. OOO is fine. Its about a mail client that works with Exchange, and Evolution isn't there yet.
I can't change my mail server, or its settings. I have no control over the mail server, or its gateways for that matter.
With the evolution-exchange package I can only connect via OWA, and thats horrible. Let's face it, even with IEx on a native Windows system, the Exchange OWA is horrible.
I don't think the wine tricks is the answer to my problem, but mail is really the last piece I need to fully convert (I run 2 desktops, 1 XP for mail, and 1 F10 for work.) to linux. Let me tell you when I have to capture text on one, and mail it... I really hate life. Same for the other way around.
I have access to a site licensed CD of MSO2K7, and although I wont be using it aside from testing to see how it works, it's not a long term solution for me (and many others I'd assume). Evolution needs to get better. I'll wait.
Yes and no. It's definitely not the holy grail of computing. However, the web has become SO central to the internet (and in fact, computing in general) that it is actually more important than an IM client (or an FTP client, or...).
We have different priorities. All the fancy 'cloud' apps provide exposure and risk that I (as a SysEng) cannot assume. As long my data will not be under my direct control in the cloud, there is no chance of the web ever replacing my dmz'd 3-tier app environment. it is merely a connection path to a Java/PHP webserver. YMMV.
WRT news, knowledge, and reference, the web is clearly the best option out there, but again, just a connection method to resources.
I only meant to imply that I understood (and expected) the tender feelings of FF users^H^H^H^H^Hfanatics would cause my main point to be lost under a negative moderation.
I wasn't trolling specifically about Chrome, I was asking (in the subject) why ppl still use FF. There are other UNIX/LINUX choices available, netscape/mozilla come to mind.
Although my opinion and subsequent sidebar about how much I think FF is crashware (which it is) may have been off-topic... I felt like pushing some buttons.
P.S. this time I'm posting from Opera.:P
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Adding the video aspect of this work actually makes it MORE likely that the source material will be identifiable. You probably wouldn't be able to tell from 2-second audio-only snippet that a drum pattern was originally performed by Bernard Purdie, but when the audio is accompanied by the video footage of him actually playing it in one of his instructional videos, it gets a lot more identifiable.
That makes crystal clear sense in my mind, explained as such.
1. Speed: Slowest browser on the planet. 2. Reliability: 1 tab crashes, they all crash -- and they will crash, guaranteed. 3. Coolness: FF is like a fat girl or a moped... fun to ride until your friends see you on one.
I do like the massive plugin support, themes and such, but eye candy doesn't make up for the reasons I don't use FF anymore. I'm using Chrome right now, and on my work PC I am stuck with Windows, but I was able to get IE8, which seems (very subjectively) more robust to me.
Its a web browser, not the holy grail of computing. Its no more important, in the big picture, than an IM client.
Yep, I fully expect to be modded down for stating my sure to be very unpopular opinion here.
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He says 'if your reaction to this crate of magic is "Hm. I wonder how we'd go about suing someone who 'did this' with our IP?"
Disclaimer: I watched the video. I also RTFA. Sorry.
I thought if one is using 10secs (I'm unsure if there is a real number or duration) of any video, song, or literature it is not 'reproducing' or distributing IP or copyright, but Fair Use, and therefore not against a civil or criminal law.
I don't buy the 'this is your future Elvis' bit for a second. While entertaining, and technically/artistically well done, its not appealing enough to make me watch the other videos.
If we, as a society give you a gun, a badge, and powers of arrest, I think we can fairly hold you to a reasonably high standard of behavior.
Sorry to report that the criteria for obtaining the gun, badge, and powers of arrest in the first place has NOTHING to do with exhibiting a high standard of behavior or character.
If that was actually a measured requirement, beyond a subjective (and easily subverted) background check, we wouldn't have very many qualified candidates for the job.
The point I believe he was making was that cops who enforce with overzealousness the black letter of the law to the point where adherence is impossible are being unfair
I took away the clear fact that cops are certainly 'above' the small infractions in the eyes of their brethren. Why shouldn't the general public be afforded the same extension?
I'll answer that question; because the general public doesn't belong to the biggest, most malicious, law breaking gang in America: the thin blue line.
Furthermore Dell also has a 4-hour onsite 24/7 support package if I'm not mistaken.
You're not mistaken.
However, the retards on the phone (who will only bitch about firmware versions) and the morons that walk through your door to fix your precious website will not inspire much confidence in keeping them as your preferred hw vendor.
DELL's shipping/courier (the 4 hour onsite part) is the best. If you can fix it yourself, then its a deal -- everything else DELL is a headache.
In nearly all the political debate threads spawned in the last few months, and especially just prior to election day, the majority of the posters here (from my recollections and observations) were in favor of Obama, and the ousting of Bush/Republicans.
So now you got these big spending, bleeding heart, liberals deciding your future as a majority in all branches.
They mess with the economy, they mess with socialism, they sign away trillions of dollars in debt to China -- all stuff we knew was going to happen (they were saying it!), and we all knew that was exact opposite of what needed to happen.
So then they mess with your precious interwebs, once upfront, but buried in a provision, and now behind closed doors in a stimulus package pork feel-em-up and its a "grab the torches and pitchforks" crisis?
Hit the cap and pay double/month for the 60mb service without caps instead of the capped 25mb service. I agree the OP is inferring that Allen may just stay if that happens.
I have charter's 16/2 and was considering moving to fios for the 20mb+ packages offered. I also wanted to dump Charter copper phone, and go voip over fios to help defray total package costs (tv, phone, internet) with a better down/up speed.
I haven't purchased a CD for myself in over a year. I didn't make a big deal of it with the family, but I did say over the recent holiday season, that I prefer not to and gave standard/. reasoning as to why. My 16 year old daughter, the CD junkie for the last 5 years, asked me not to buy her CDs anymore. [jaw-hit-floor]
She is not using.torrent, nor iTMS; she is happy enough to school sneakernet (whatever, I don't care), or...get this... just listen to the radio.
Holy incident report, batman! And then, according to many corporate policy, you are covered. The OP mentioned that it was a 'small' company, so that level of audit, compliance, and the beloved documentation may not have reached them yet.
Either way, if the dude in Beijing won't get licenses, and I was an IT manager responsible, I'd look to the insecurity of cracked software on the network, and fix the problem that way.
I've read a few posts which indicate "thats just the way it is in China". I think the issue isn't changing a culture as much as protecting assets, company business, etc... and removing the suspect software via security issues seems easier than fighting the culture war, as it were. I might even just order up the licenses and keep them handy so I could deflect any copyright claims.
If you can't win a security vulnerability issue battle in your environment as an IT manager, maybe that environment isn't worth working for (for very long).
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I peeked at the website. Very interesting... it seems to be a very cool workaround.
Thanks.
And use an entire Wintel install? No thanks. ;)
The end-game solution is not to collaborate with with Windows OS and apps, its to REPLACE Windows OS and apps.
In reality, VMs are a viable solution. Thats partly why I jumped on the wine solution. I don't need all of MSOffice, just a coherent Outlook.
Not configured. I tried. They said they'd open a POP, I said um no, that'd be dumb.
For me, it's not about MSOffice. OOO is fine. Its about a mail client that works with Exchange, and Evolution isn't there yet.
I can't change my mail server, or its settings. I have no control over the mail server, or its gateways for that matter.
With the evolution-exchange package I can only connect via OWA, and thats horrible. Let's face it, even with IEx on a native Windows system, the Exchange OWA is horrible.
I don't think the wine tricks is the answer to my problem, but mail is really the last piece I need to fully convert (I run 2 desktops, 1 XP for mail, and 1 F10 for work.) to linux. Let me tell you when I have to capture text on one, and mail it ... I really hate life. Same for the other way around.
I have access to a site licensed CD of MSO2K7, and although I wont be using it aside from testing to see how it works, it's not a long term solution for me (and many others I'd assume). Evolution needs to get better. I'll wait.
Yes and no. It's definitely not the holy grail of computing. However, the web has become SO central to the internet (and in fact, computing in general) that it is actually more important than an IM client (or an FTP client, or...).
We have different priorities. All the fancy 'cloud' apps provide exposure and risk that I (as a SysEng) cannot assume. As long my data will not be under my direct control in the cloud, there is no chance of the web ever replacing my dmz'd 3-tier app environment. it is merely a connection path to a Java/PHP webserver. YMMV.
WRT news, knowledge, and reference, the web is clearly the best option out there, but again, just a connection method to resources.
I only meant to imply that I understood (and expected) the tender feelings of FF users^H^H^H^H^Hfanatics would cause my main point to be lost under a negative moderation.
I wasn't trolling specifically about Chrome, I was asking (in the subject) why ppl still use FF. There are other UNIX/LINUX choices available, netscape/mozilla come to mind.
Although my opinion and subsequent sidebar about how much I think FF is crashware (which it is) may have been off-topic ... I felt like pushing some buttons.
P.S. this time I'm posting from Opera. :P
Adding the video aspect of this work actually makes it MORE likely that the source material will be identifiable. You probably wouldn't be able to tell from 2-second audio-only snippet that a drum pattern was originally performed by Bernard Purdie, but when the audio is accompanied by the video footage of him actually playing it in one of his instructional videos, it gets a lot more identifiable.
That makes crystal clear sense in my mind, explained as such.
1. Speed: Slowest browser on the planet. ... fun to ride until your friends see you on one.
2. Reliability: 1 tab crashes, they all crash -- and they will crash, guaranteed.
3. Coolness: FF is like a fat girl or a moped
I do like the massive plugin support, themes and such, but eye candy doesn't make up for the reasons I don't use FF anymore. I'm using Chrome right now, and on my work PC I am stuck with Windows, but I was able to get IE8, which seems (very subjectively) more robust to me.
Its a web browser, not the holy grail of computing. Its no more important, in the big picture, than an IM client.
Yep, I fully expect to be modded down for stating my sure to be very unpopular opinion here.
He says 'if your reaction to this crate of magic is "Hm. I wonder how we'd go about suing someone who 'did this' with our IP?"
Disclaimer: I watched the video. I also RTFA. Sorry.
I thought if one is using 10secs (I'm unsure if there is a real number or duration) of any video, song, or literature it is not 'reproducing' or distributing IP or copyright, but Fair Use, and therefore not against a civil or criminal law.
I don't buy the 'this is your future Elvis' bit for a second. While entertaining, and technically/artistically well done, its not appealing enough to make me watch the other videos.
Sarah Conner, is that you? :D
If we, as a society give you a gun, a badge, and powers of arrest, I think we can fairly hold you to a reasonably high standard of behavior.
Sorry to report that the criteria for obtaining the gun, badge, and powers of arrest in the first place has NOTHING to do with exhibiting a high standard of behavior or character.
If that was actually a measured requirement, beyond a subjective (and easily subverted) background check, we wouldn't have very many qualified candidates for the job.
The point I believe he was making was that cops who enforce with overzealousness the black letter of the law to the point where adherence is impossible are being unfair
I took away the clear fact that cops are certainly 'above' the small infractions in the eyes of their brethren. Why shouldn't the general public be afforded the same extension?
I'll answer that question; because the general public doesn't belong to the biggest, most malicious, law breaking gang in America: the thin blue line.
Callback number field = "911" or "$googled_local_police_number" or "$googled_local_crisis_hotline" or etc...
Now the problem is white/blacklisting the callback system.
This community doesn't do well with 'outsiders'. Change your plans.
Furthermore Dell also has a 4-hour onsite 24/7 support package if I'm not mistaken.
You're not mistaken.
However, the retards on the phone (who will only bitch about firmware versions) and the morons that walk through your door to fix your precious website will not inspire much confidence in keeping them as your preferred hw vendor.
DELL's shipping/courier (the 4 hour onsite part) is the best. If you can fix it yourself, then its a deal -- everything else DELL is a headache.
Oops. The hard drive with all my logs is broken, here are the pieces. [hands over a bag of shrapnel].
I guess it was a bad idea to remove it from the PC with a chainsaw.
Sorry.
... unless it's meant as an insult.
In nearly all the political debate threads spawned in the last few months, and especially just prior to election day, the majority of the posters here (from my recollections and observations) were in favor of Obama, and the ousting of Bush/Republicans.
So now you got these big spending, bleeding heart, liberals deciding your future as a majority in all branches.
They mess with the economy, they mess with socialism, they sign away trillions of dollars in debt to China -- all stuff we knew was going to happen (they were saying it!), and we all knew that was exact opposite of what needed to happen.
So then they mess with your precious interwebs, once upfront, but buried in a provision, and now behind closed doors in a stimulus package pork feel-em-up and its a "grab the torches and pitchforks" crisis?
Hypocrites.
Hit the cap and pay double/month for the 60mb service without caps instead of the capped 25mb service. I agree the OP is inferring that Allen may just stay if that happens.
I have charter's 16/2 and was considering moving to fios for the 20mb+ packages offered. I also wanted to dump Charter copper phone, and go voip over fios to help defray total package costs (tv, phone, internet) with a better down/up speed.
That is a wonderful post.
I haven't purchased a CD for myself in over a year. I didn't make a big deal of it with the family, but I did say over the recent holiday season, that I prefer not to and gave standard /. reasoning as to why. My 16 year old daughter, the CD junkie for the last 5 years, asked me not to buy her CDs anymore. [jaw-hit-floor]
She is not using .torrent, nor iTMS; she is happy enough to school sneakernet (whatever, I don't care), or ...get this ... just listen to the radio.
Progress.
You can add that people are also paying attention to the excuses that the new head of the IRS gave about his inability to pay taxes.
Add Daschel to the list.
Seems to me, we should let Obama keep choosing his cabinet ... we'll have that nasty debt paid off in no time.
But Mom! I was pushed! *honest*
Yeah... APAC does seem to be a newer buzzword. Why can't they just say, um, you know ... China, when they mean China?
recently microsoft complained to a big company here and guess what they switched completely to ubuntu.
If a chair flys out of Windows in India, and no one hears it, does it make a sound?
Holy incident report, batman! And then, according to many corporate policy, you are covered. The OP mentioned that it was a 'small' company, so that level of audit, compliance, and the beloved documentation may not have reached them yet.
Either way, if the dude in Beijing won't get licenses, and I was an IT manager responsible, I'd look to the insecurity of cracked software on the network, and fix the problem that way.
I've read a few posts which indicate "thats just the way it is in China". I think the issue isn't changing a culture as much as protecting assets, company business, etc... and removing the suspect software via security issues seems easier than fighting the culture war, as it were. I might even just order up the licenses and keep them handy so I could deflect any copyright claims.
If you can't win a security vulnerability issue battle in your environment as an IT manager, maybe that environment isn't worth working for (for very long).