If I remember correctly, Star Office was NOT Open Source (just free) until Sun made it Open Source? Or Star (the Company) had internal employees making the software(who are now working for Sun)
Umm....I've built it from source for about a year now..every release...what are you TALKING about?
Re:Why is military stuff always on Slashdot??!?!
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I joined the Army because I couldnt afford college anymore. (Fuck getting a loan..I didnt feel like paying off college the next 30 years. I did it all out of pocket. 2 years, military, 2 years.....I paid NOBODY back...it was great
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FREE food? We worked more before 9 AM than most Civvies did all day!
hat's what we used to call it. Back in 1991. Kind of like the military training eye glasses-- BCG's (Birth Control Glasses)...thick black rims that can handle being run over by a tank
Get somethign called Kconfigure. It makes the./configure, make make instal mantra into an instalshield like app. Open Kconfigure, point it to the direcotry where all the source is, his Install, and everything is automated. Only bad things is you have to do./configure make make install for kconfigure!
The BlackBox Window Manager? For a new user? True, it's a light weight window manager, but wouldnt mom prefer KDE? I prefer Window Maker or XFCE personaly;)
Great Idea! I've done smething similar. I've given people Knoppix. It's a live file system (run-on-cd) that works better than SUSE. Autodetects everything and is pretty quick to boot. There is no root access. Pop in the cd, turn on the pc, and everything is detected. Runs using the VFB. Choice of KDE2 and Gnome. I've burned at least 5 copies of the 700 MB ISO cd in the past 2 weeks. 3 of the people asked me how to make it NOT run off the CD-ROM. Thats when I tell em to go to linux.org or to www.linux-mandrake.com or www.redmondlinux.com.
I guess you've never used mplayer? Mplayer is superb (reads avery file format, except quicktime), it reads Divx, VOD, etc. What sucks is they have noo binaries. It has to be compiled for each individual machine. Maybe I'll write a front end installer for mplayer. The compilation is a real bitch. You need GCC 2.95 and not GCC 2.96. But once I did get it compiled, It was joy!
I know people who's ONLY PC is a laptop. I'd go ape shit if that was my only PC. I mean, If I MUST only use a laptop, I need an external mouse and an external keyboard. I hate the "pad". I end up selecting my entire desktop or start moving icons all over the place, or opening a million xterms because I pressed on the pad a little too hard. Then again, I miss my numeric keypad! On a laptop I have to use the TOP row to type in IP addresses!
Think about it for a minute. Why is Billy Boy so pissed off about Linux? Really? Because Linux survives with out ONE product by Microsoft! Can Apple say that? We Linux users can get by fine without ONE thing on our system made by Microsoft! The last thing we need is Office made by Microsoft! I want Open Office to do so well, that no one will WANT to work of the port of Office to Linux! As of right now, I wouldnt care if Ope Office crashed every 5 minutes, as long as it started to support all the Office quirks that people miss (like footnotes and what not). If Open Office was able to import an office doc w/o a hitch, even though it crashed, we will know we are on our way. Because after that, it's just fixing the bugs.I woud like to tell Open Office to not worry about adding other features just yet. Get the MS import feature working first 100%. SUre, Office XP 2004 will most likely break it, but then the team can work on THAT! Open Office shouldnt worry abotu improving office just yet. Abiword can do that. Most users won't care if an office package can make you coffee if it doesnt import cherished MS Office docs. The only thing I think Linux needs after that, is a good desktop publish tool. Not for me per se. But the $10 CD you can buy in Staples that can make cards for you is something my mother buys. If they can port those apps to Linux, so much the better! Common Adobe! Common Macromedia! Help us to help YOU!
Actually, Mao's name menas hat. It uses the fourth tone (which also means hair). But, in Modern Chinese, 2 characters generally make words. (I was an Applied Linguistics major in College)
Ever here of the Khmer Rouge? It makes Hitler look like a saint. How come we are STILL hearing about Hitler, yet not a peep about the Cambodians, Thais and Laotians?
Only 20% right click? WOW. I always right click, just to see if there are any options. If only 20% right click, how many use the MIDDLE button (a la UNIX/Linux)? (Both buttons if you have a 2-button mouse)
I love that in Linux I have a choice. For CD-Burning, I can use a bloated GUI app (I like Gtoaster), or I can use the command line. I can copy a cd the same way: cat/dev/cdrom > win2k.iso
and then burn it just as easily cdrecord -speed=12 win2k.iso
How easy is that???
I also found a new favorite way to play cds or MP3s, I can use mpg123 --random *.mp3
to play every MP3 I have in that directory or I use cdcd to play a cd.
At a laboratory near me, they have a 60 node Linux cluster for DNA research. Plus a cluster of SGI's thrown in for good measure:) They would laugh their ass off if I brought up a Windows Clustering solution. This is real life DNA and cloning research! They need REAL solutions! (I know they've tried. They had a 5-node windows cluster to try out just for simple genetics computation. It was there as proof that MS won't work for their needs. They DO use MS products. But for things like print servers and for their intranet that could be updated with FrontPage. For REAL scientific stuff, they use Linux.
I get a LOT of Spam from.CN and.KR. I use Evolution to block them. You can block sender. I only use Hotmail as a spam trap. No one realy uses hotmail as a legit account, right? I mean, come on! The day I opened the account I had over 50 spams in my inbox!
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If I remember correctly, Star Office was NOT Open Source (just free) until Sun made it Open Source? Or Star (the Company) had internal employees making the software(who are now working for Sun)
Umm....I've built it from source for about a year now..every release...what are you TALKING about?
I joined the Army because I couldnt afford college anymore. (Fuck getting a loan..I didnt feel like paying off college the next 30 years. I did it all out of pocket. 2 years, military, 2 years.....I paid NOBODY back...it was great
FREE food? We worked more before 9 AM than most Civvies did all day!
hat's what we used to call it. Back in 1991. Kind of like the military training eye glasses-- BCG's (Birth Control Glasses)...thick black rims that can handle being run over by a tank
I thought we were talking about fixing Linux installs for Grandma?
I laughed so hard just now! Imagine my mom worrying about Emacs mail integration! HAHA!
Get somethign called Kconfigure. It makes the ./configure, make make instal mantra into ./configure make make install for kconfigure!
an instalshield like app. Open Kconfigure, point it to the direcotry where all the source is, his Install, and everything is automated. Only bad things is you have to do
My mom uses Redmond Linux. She loves it (She thinks it's a Windows "upgrade". With KDE, she clicks on a tar.gz file, and it unzips EASIER than Winzip!
The BlackBox Window Manager? For a new user? True, it's a light weight window manager, but wouldnt mom prefer KDE? I prefer Window Maker or XFCE personaly ;)
Well, I installed Linux for my mom, and if she's having problems, I say screw VNC! I ssh to her box and do a remote Xwindow! Ever easier than VNC!
Great Idea! I've done smething similar. I've given people Knoppix. It's a live file system (run-on-cd) that works better than SUSE. Autodetects everything and is pretty quick to boot. There is no root access. Pop in the cd, turn on the pc, and everything is detected. Runs using the VFB. Choice of KDE2 and Gnome. I've burned at least 5 copies of the 700 MB ISO cd in the past 2 weeks. 3 of the people asked me how to make it NOT run off the CD-ROM. Thats when I tell em to go to linux.org or to www.linux-mandrake.com or www.redmondlinux.com.
I guess you've never used mplayer? Mplayer is superb (reads avery file format, except quicktime), it reads Divx, VOD, etc. What sucks is they have noo binaries. It has to be compiled for each individual machine. Maybe I'll write a front end installer for mplayer. The compilation is a real bitch. You need GCC 2.95 and not GCC 2.96. But once I did get it compiled, It was joy!
I know people who's ONLY PC is a laptop. I'd go ape shit if that was my only PC. I mean, If I MUST only use a laptop, I need an external mouse and an external keyboard. I hate the "pad". I end up selecting my entire desktop or start moving icons all over the place, or opening a million xterms because I pressed on the pad a little too hard. Then again, I miss my numeric keypad! On a laptop I have to use the TOP row to type in IP addresses!
Think about it for a minute. Why is Billy Boy so pissed off about Linux? Really? Because Linux survives with out ONE product by Microsoft! Can Apple say that? We Linux users can get by fine without ONE thing on our system made by Microsoft! The last thing we need is Office made by Microsoft! I want Open Office to do so well, that no one will WANT to work of the port of Office to Linux! As of right now, I wouldnt care if Ope Office crashed every 5 minutes, as long as it started to support all the Office quirks that people miss (like footnotes and what not). If Open Office was able to import an office doc w/o a hitch, even though it crashed, we will know we are on our way. Because after that, it's just fixing the bugs.I woud like to tell Open Office to not worry about adding other features just yet. Get the MS import feature working first 100%. SUre, Office XP 2004 will most likely break it, but then the team can work on THAT! Open Office shouldnt worry abotu improving office just yet. Abiword can do that. Most users won't care if an office package can make you coffee if it doesnt import cherished MS Office docs. The only thing I think Linux needs after that, is a good desktop publish tool. Not for me per se. But the $10 CD you can buy in Staples that can make cards for you is something my mother buys. If they can port those apps to Linux, so much the better! Common Adobe! Common Macromedia! Help us to help YOU!
Ya ponimayu po-ruski, moy droog!
I know another meaning for the word mat, isnt it the four letter word that begins with F?
Like "Mat tvoya mat?"
I live in NYC. I can find over 1 million people who can do a review of redFlag Linux in Chinese!
Actually, Mao's name menas hat. It uses the fourth tone (which also means hair). But, in Modern Chinese, 2 characters generally make words.
(I was an Applied Linguistics major in College)
Ever here of the Khmer Rouge? It makes Hitler look like a saint. How come we are STILL hearing about Hitler, yet not a peep about the Cambodians, Thais and Laotians?
Only 20% right click? WOW. I always right click, just to see if there are any options. If only 20% right click, how many use the MIDDLE button (a la UNIX/Linux)? (Both buttons if you have a 2-button mouse)
Yes...KDE2 apps do this. In the KDE control panel, you can change keystroke bindings USER wide, or per application.
I love that in Linux I have a choice. For CD-Burning, I can use a bloated GUI app (I like Gtoaster), or I can use the command line. I can copy a cd the same way: /dev/cdrom > win2k.iso
cat
and then burn it just as easily
cdrecord -speed=12 win2k.iso
How easy is that???
I also found a new favorite way to play cds or MP3s,
I can use
mpg123 --random *.mp3
to play every MP3 I have in that directory
or I use
cdcd to play a cd.
I have a CHOICE in using a Command Line OR a GUI.
At a laboratory near me, they have a 60 node Linux cluster for DNA research. Plus a cluster of SGI's thrown in for good measure :) They would laugh their ass off if I brought up a Windows Clustering solution. This is real life DNA and cloning research! They need REAL solutions! (I know they've tried. They had a 5-node windows cluster to try out just for simple genetics computation. It was there as proof that MS won't work for their needs. They DO use MS products. But for things like print servers and for their intranet that could be updated with FrontPage.
For REAL scientific stuff, they use Linux.
I get a LOT of Spam from .CN and .KR. I use Evolution to block them. You can block sender. I only use Hotmail as a spam trap. No one realy uses hotmail as a legit account, right? I mean, come on! The day I opened the account I had over 50 spams in my inbox!