I don't know about pricing... maybe that's for support, as qcad is GPLed.
$ rpm -qi qcad (edited to get around slashdot's lame lameness filter) Name : qcad Version : 2.0.4.0 Build Host: extras64.linux.duke.edu Source RPM: qcad-2.0.4.0-2.src.rpm License: GPL URL : http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html Summary : A simple 2D CAD program Description : QCad is an application for computer aided drafting in two dimensions. With QCad you can create technical drawings such as plans for buildings, interiors or mechanical parts. QCad works under Linux, Unix Systems, Mac OS X and Windows. The source code of QCad is released under the GPL (Open Source).
Of course, but you're completely missing the whole point.
Having someone download something (free) in order to open a document is not something that would shock anyone who's used the web for more than a few weeks. It's very common.
No thanks. Every one of my customers is unwilling to change formats. Massachusetts will likely learn that even the most open format is considerably more proprietary if your customers don't use it.
FWIW, My company has subcontracted for numerous projects that attracted State interest. When the project required changes to our customers' standards, by State Decree, the costs ballooned.
Help me understand your point here... Are you pretending that OpenOffice.org will somehow no longer be free? Are you pretending that MicroSoft is going to make MS-Office available for free? No?
I fail to see how "free" is a cost higher than the 3-digit prices MicroSoft charges for its "Office" product, not to mention the operating system, just so a customer can open a document produced by the government.
Oh by the way... it IS possible to have both installed at the same time - they're not mutually-exclusive.
And don't bother with the "but they'll have to download..." argument, as that's true of Adobe (FKA Acrobat) Reader for PDFs, Macromedia Flash for SWF, etc.
Forcing its people to purchase products from a single company is a horrifically bad idea and is effectively a corporate-sponsored/state-enforced tax. Its bad enough that some government websites require MS-IE to even use them.
Nearly every company I deal with for paying bills, purchasing, etc... all use an outside company for bill-processing. I get emails all of the time from my utilities providers (water, electricity, phone, cable+internet, etc.) for various reasons that happen to have links to outside companies.
Even ebay/paypal do this, although verification with them is easier - a simple "whois ebay-whateverthisnewhostnameiveneverheardof.com" returns the same owners as "whois ebay.com".
Unfortunately, I have to physically call or email the rest of them in order to find out if they are, in fact, using this particular outside company for their transactions.
Heck, even my credit-union recently started doing this! I sent them an email explaining why it is such a horrid idea for a financial provider to get their members used to dealing with outside companies to handle their accounts. Makes phishing sooooo easy.
How can an appliance possibly perform these kinds of tasks to verify speedypay.com is actually accepting payments for viter-water.com?
Not really. I get more dust on my ceiling-fan (mounted to a vaulted ceiling) than anywhere else in the house. Dust is everywhere, the only location moving it will help would be somewhere where humans (source of dust) aren't - like a rarely-used closet. There's no dust on anything in my computer-room closet, and I haven't moved hardly anything in there in 4 years.
APC has a UPS sizing tool on their website... just enter all of the items in it that you plan to connect to the UPS, and it will not only tell you whether or not you are within its abilities, it'll tell you how much room you have to grow, and more importantly - how much run-time you'll have.
The lag is a tad annoying, anywhere from 1/4 second (on a rare great day) to several seconds. It cannot display enough characters for some commands (like w) on some systems (they complain that the terminal is not wide enough) even when using the smallest font.
Also, if you don't type anything for more than 30 seconds or so, it cuts you off and you have to reconnect. The "screen" program is your friend here, trust me.
Other than those - it's awesome! I am considering the Nokia 9300/9500 for the larger screen and more versatililty... such as being able to install your own software (T-Mobile has a very teeny list of software that you are allowed to buy through them for the SK/SK2).
The Sidekick family does have one major advantage over every other one on the market: form factor It is by far the easiest to handle, grip, and type at the same time. The Blackberry is a royal PITA (I have and use both) due to it's topheavy design, awkward user interface, and you have to balance it on your fingertips to type - someone bumps you and it hits the floor! With the SK/SK2 you have a great grip on even while typing.
I used to work at a major corporation (you very likely own something made by them) who had a requirement to keep archives of their older engineering documents. The fire-safe was loaded with various tapes ranging back to many dozens of old open-reel tapes.
Of course, they hadn't had the (monstrous) tape drives to actually read these tapes for many years. I have no idea what they thought they were keeping them for.
If they find someone has a genetic flaw that means they are likely to develop CTS, wouldn't they be protected by the disabilities act? If so, the business would really have to accomodate them with an altered, and likely expensive, work environment.
They released some VERY buggy SMP kernels over the weekend. Both FC3 and FC4 are horribly affected. Friends and I have had to revert back to the older kernels as most (all?) dual-proc or hyperthread systems would panic on boot! There are dozens of complaints and unanswered questions on fedoraforum. They must not have tested them under a dual-proc system at all.
The most amazing part is, they haven't released a new SMP kernel to fix the problem yet! (these came out 6 days ago)
I tried it on several systems long ago (it's been out for many months as others have noted), and again recently (a few weeks ago after the 2nd or 3rd slashdot announcement) hoping that it was a newer version - nope.
Anyways, the reason I ask is, it works fine on the windows machine I'm forced to use at work, but it complains that it can't load images and does absolutely nothing under the several Linux systems I've tried it on (various releases of Fedora).
The _only_ thing I want it for is the portable bookmarks.
I'd like to add to that, the fact that the x86 line is still carrying the design-baggage oe being backward compatible with stone-age designs (8088, et al) vs the PowerPC which was a modification of a processor (POWER) that was originally designed for multitasking operating systems (AIX, etc.). It started "life" as a very modern 32-bit CPU, so there's very little "legacy" to support, hampering the architecture.
A much better strategy for Apple would be (IMHO): Rather than go through the trouble and pain of switching to a more archaic architecture and trying to make it proprietary (which is next to impossible), Apple should have relaxed their model (grip) slightly and allowed competition again - ala CHRP/PReP designs like the old Motorola PowerStack and the late Mac clones (Star?). If they truely want to sell software and keep a rock-solid system underneath, go with the winning design - not a butchered, hobbled together system like what PCs have evolved into.
Keep in mind that the majority of my systems are x86 (the exception are hyperSPARC and UltraSPARC as well as one 604-100 PRep/PPC box). I've had more systems than I could count over the last two decades, and even the best boards from Tyan and Abit (SGI 330) have bizarre interrupt issues, PCI issues, etc. The juggling required to fully load one is insane. This is just the PCI architecture as applied to a PC with all of the backward compatible designs added in that are causing the problems. There is no need to keep these problems - no-one is going to buy a dual-processor gigahertz system to run MS-DOS.
Oh, and I've never even had a Mac (although I've administered RS/6000 and PowerStack systems), but I (obviously) respect their architecture a great deal.
I would have loved to have been able to switch to a better design like the Alpha or PowerPC, but the boards are so rare that the prices are outrageous (for a personal system). If more companies produced them, the cost would be driven down by the competition as well as brought down by the increase in production of the CPUs (which is one of the reasons I've seen listed for the switch - x86 is cheaper).
If you don't believe me - read some discussions between kernel coders, or better yet - assembly-language programmers who have experience with _both_ architectures. I haven't even touched on the instruction-set issues.
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I don't know about pricing... maybe that's for support, as qcad is GPLed.
$ rpm -qi qcad (edited to get around slashdot's lame lameness filter)
Name : qcad
Version : 2.0.4.0
Build Host: extras64.linux.duke.edu
Source RPM: qcad-2.0.4.0-2.src.rpm
License: GPL
URL : http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html
Summary : A simple 2D CAD program
Description :
QCad is an application for computer aided drafting in two
dimensions. With QCad you can create technical drawings such as plans
for buildings, interiors or mechanical parts. QCad works under Linux,
Unix Systems, Mac OS X and Windows. The source code of QCad is
released under the GPL (Open Source).
"Those who fail to learn from Unix are doomed to repeat it" - unknown
Welcome to 1969 MicroSoft!
Conversion factor: 1 KWH = 3412 BTU
Multiplying the average (not peak) wattage by 3.4 will get the BTU's per hour of cooling capacity.
That will give you the average cooling requirement, which will be exceeded when the system load increases, or when the systems are upgraded, etc.
Go with the peak load, or bad things will happen.
A/C units do have thermostats, you don't want to run it at its maximum capacity 100% of the time.
Of course, but you're completely missing the whole point.
Having someone download something (free) in order to open a document is not something that would shock anyone who's used the web for more than a few weeks. It's very common.
Due to licensing restrictions, the free ones don't carry Adobe Reader (or the older Acrobat), only the business-targeted "pay for support" distros do.
The source of the confusion is Neo-Cons referring to themselves as "Conservatives", which they're anything but.
No thanks. Every one of my customers is unwilling to change formats. Massachusetts will likely learn that even the most open format is considerably more proprietary if your customers don't use it.
FWIW, My company has subcontracted for numerous projects that attracted State interest. When the project required changes to our customers' standards, by State Decree, the costs ballooned.
Help me understand your point here...
Are you pretending that OpenOffice.org will somehow no longer be free?
Are you pretending that MicroSoft is going to make MS-Office available for free?
No?
I fail to see how "free" is a cost higher than the 3-digit prices MicroSoft charges for its "Office" product, not to mention the operating system, just so a customer can open a document produced by the government.
Oh by the way... it IS possible to have both installed at the same time - they're not mutually-exclusive.
And don't bother with the "but they'll have to download..." argument, as that's true of Adobe (FKA Acrobat) Reader for PDFs, Macromedia Flash for SWF, etc.
Forcing its people to purchase products from a single company is a horrifically bad idea and is effectively a corporate-sponsored/state-enforced tax. Its bad enough that some government websites require MS-IE to even use them.
Geez, Apple killed off OpenDoc years ago. Give it up Microsoft.
That's a neat trick, seeing as it was only made a standard last May!
Do they rent out their time-machine?
It can't possibly work.
Nearly every company I deal with for paying bills, purchasing, etc... all use an outside company for bill-processing.
I get emails all of the time from my utilities providers (water, electricity, phone, cable+internet, etc.) for various reasons that happen to have links to outside companies.
Even ebay/paypal do this, although verification with them is easier - a simple "whois ebay-whateverthisnewhostnameiveneverheardof.com" returns the same owners as "whois ebay.com".
Unfortunately, I have to physically call or email the rest of them in order to find out if they are, in fact, using this particular outside company for their transactions.
Heck, even my credit-union recently started doing this! I sent them an email explaining why it is such a horrid idea for a financial provider to get their members used to dealing with outside companies to handle their accounts. Makes phishing sooooo easy.
How can an appliance possibly perform these kinds of tasks to verify speedypay.com is actually accepting payments for viter-water.com?
One (hyphenated) word: Snake-Oil
Closed-source penetration testing software?
I sure won't be using that version... and I love nessus!
Not really.
I get more dust on my ceiling-fan (mounted to a vaulted ceiling) than anywhere else in the house. Dust is everywhere, the only location moving it will help would be somewhere where humans (source of dust) aren't - like a rarely-used closet. There's no dust on anything in my computer-room closet, and I haven't moved hardly anything in there in 4 years.
APC has a UPS sizing tool on their website... just enter all of the items in it that you plan to connect to the UPS, and it will not only tell you whether or not you are within its abilities, it'll tell you how much room you have to grow, and more importantly - how much run-time you'll have.
Sweet! I never noticed that!
I guess their government REALLY liked the movie Gattica!
Adelphia Cable has it, although it's limited to what they're currently showing that month (you can't just watch anything you want).
http://adelphia.com/cable_entertainment/inDemand_
Try compiling it under WineLib.
"Compiling apps under Winelib should theoretically involve only makefile changes."
I also use a SideKick II for ssh & telnet.
The lag is a tad annoying, anywhere from 1/4 second (on a rare great day) to several seconds. It cannot display enough characters for some commands (like w) on some systems (they complain that the terminal is not wide enough) even when using the smallest font.
Also, if you don't type anything for more than 30 seconds or so, it cuts you off and you have to reconnect. The "screen" program is your friend here, trust me.
Other than those - it's awesome!
I am considering the Nokia 9300/9500 for the larger screen and more versatililty... such as being able to install your own software (T-Mobile has a very teeny list of software that you are allowed to buy through them for the SK/SK2).
The Sidekick family does have one major advantage over every other one on the market: form factor
It is by far the easiest to handle, grip, and type at the same time. The Blackberry is a royal PITA (I have and use both) due to it's topheavy design, awkward user interface, and you have to balance it on your fingertips to type - someone bumps you and it hits the floor! With the SK/SK2 you have a great grip on even while typing.
I used to work at a major corporation (you very likely own something made by them) who had a requirement to keep archives of their older engineering documents. The fire-safe was loaded with various tapes ranging back to many dozens of old open-reel tapes.
Of course, they hadn't had the (monstrous) tape drives to actually read these tapes for many years. I have no idea what they thought they were keeping them for.
If they find someone has a genetic flaw that means they are likely to develop CTS, wouldn't they be protected by the disabilities act?
If so, the business would really have to accomodate them with an altered, and likely expensive, work environment.
Unfortunately, that would get rid of some of the very few good ones we have left, like John Conyers.
Check out the results of this this search.
They want to eliminate limits on tenure.
Give it to RedHat - they obviously need one.
They released some VERY buggy SMP kernels over the weekend. Both FC3 and FC4 are horribly affected.
Friends and I have had to revert back to the older kernels as most (all?) dual-proc or hyperthread systems would panic on boot!
There are dozens of complaints and unanswered questions on fedoraforum. They must not have tested them under a dual-proc system at all.
The most amazing part is, they haven't released a new SMP kernel to fix the problem yet! (these came out 6 days ago)
I tried it on several systems long ago (it's been out for many months as others have noted), and again recently (a few weeks ago after the 2nd or 3rd slashdot announcement) hoping that it was a newer version - nope.
Anyways, the reason I ask is, it works fine on the windows machine I'm forced to use at work, but it complains that it can't load images and does absolutely nothing under the several Linux systems I've tried it on (various releases of Fedora).
The _only_ thing I want it for is the portable bookmarks.
Has anyone seen this actually work in Linux?
Has anyone seen a fix for this bug?
Very well put.
I'd like to add to that, the fact that the x86 line is still carrying the design-baggage oe being backward compatible with stone-age designs (8088, et al) vs the PowerPC which was a modification of a processor (POWER) that was originally designed for multitasking operating systems (AIX, etc.). It started "life" as a very modern 32-bit CPU, so there's very little "legacy" to support, hampering the architecture.
A much better strategy for Apple would be (IMHO):
Rather than go through the trouble and pain of switching to a more archaic architecture and trying to make it proprietary (which is next to impossible), Apple should have relaxed their model (grip) slightly and allowed competition again - ala CHRP/PReP designs like the old Motorola PowerStack and the late Mac clones (Star?).
If they truely want to sell software and keep a rock-solid system underneath, go with the winning design - not a butchered, hobbled together system like what PCs have evolved into.
Keep in mind that the majority of my systems are x86 (the exception are hyperSPARC and UltraSPARC as well as one 604-100 PRep/PPC box). I've had more systems than I could count over the last two decades, and even the best boards from Tyan and Abit (SGI 330) have bizarre interrupt issues, PCI issues, etc. The juggling required to fully load one is insane. This is just the PCI architecture as applied to a PC with all of the backward compatible designs added in that are causing the problems. There is no need to keep these problems - no-one is going to buy a dual-processor gigahertz system to run MS-DOS.
Oh, and I've never even had a Mac (although I've administered RS/6000 and PowerStack systems), but I (obviously) respect their architecture a great deal.
I would have loved to have been able to switch to a better design like the Alpha or PowerPC, but the boards are so rare that the prices are outrageous (for a personal system). If more companies produced them, the cost would be driven down by the competition as well as brought down by the increase in production of the CPUs (which is one of the reasons I've seen listed for the switch - x86 is cheaper).
If you don't believe me - read some discussions between kernel coders, or better yet - assembly-language programmers who have experience with _both_ architectures. I haven't even touched on the instruction-set issues.
If they bother you, you could always use portsentry or something similar to block the IP once a certain number are received.