There's a reason Microsoft Office is the industry standard, and not iWork. For all its warts (and they are legion) people can actually use it to get shit done. They (end users) can plug it into other systems and use it to develop in-house applications for menial jobs without needing a proper coder. Any enterprise employee will be able to confirm the legion of shitty little access databases, and ODBC linked spreadheets throughout the typical company that are embedded into the business process.
Until a competitor can do similar things, with some semblance of stability and ease of use, it will not replace MS Office. No matter how free it is.
Whether or not developers use the help or not, this is a symptom of the core problem. There IS no fucking QA in open source as a general rule. "The end users can test it" is all well and good for a hobby project. Maybe they need a separate team of volunteers for QA testing, like a half-decent commercial product will go through. Getting your developer to test shit is a waste of time, as demonstrated.
Like it or not, microsoft's shit works well enough to actually get work done. It is by no means bug free. But it is "good enough" at the things that matter to ordinary people. Ordinary office drones don't give a flying fuck if a program is open source if it can't do what they want it to do.
My confidence in OOo went out the window when i decided to try it out on an Ubuntu box a while ago. I loaded up base, created a new database. Create new table, create my first field, in a clean database. A primary key. CRASH. Enterprise ready bro.
Depends. Having done both open source and closed source (and currently using both) - the problem with open source solutions is often the death by a thousand cuts. You'll get something to mostly work apart from a little problem playing with something else. Inevitably, any support in the form of google, etc. is a case of "well the other closed system is broken". That's all well and good from an idealistic perspective, but people in the real world need to get shit done. A classic case is DHCP based WPAD in both Mozilla and Chrome. Bugs (some with patches) were submitted in 2006 and 2009 respectively.
It still doesn't work. Internet Explorer has been able to autoconfigure via DHCP since at least version 5 from memory, and probably IE4... but because the guys doing Mozilla or Chrome don't personally have to deal with enterprise proxy configuration, they take years to even bother looking at the bug. I've been following the open ticket for it in Chromium since 2009... i'm not holding my breath.
... i'm still on windows 8. before you laugh... this box is purely for steam and 8 was easy to install. yes the UI is a pig. tried upgrading to 8.1, it just caused compatibility problems and random 100% io spikes (for 45+ minutes at a time, only fix = hard power cycle. no virus no hardware failure. have gone back to 8 and it has been fine since).
Passwords you can remember are over. To make them feasible to use with fast hashing for web servers, etc. you need to make them long and properly random. And then protect them with strong encryption in your password manager which can happy run 10s or hundreds of thousands (or more) rounds of encryption so that your pass-phrase to get into THAT is manageable.
Out-perform? Sure. I was using it as a VM test environment. You can talk up your e-peen SSD all you like, but i can do the job for $100 worth of storage with a momentus XT, or i can spend over $400 for the same capacity. The momentus XT is FAST ENOUGH. I never said it was faster. But at 25% of the price, it is most certainly worthy of consideration.
So password protect your phone and if you are using "find my iphone" you have the ability to do remote wipe. If you haven't backed the info up on a regular basis you are an idiot who doesn't give a fuck about their data, because it could just as easily have been lost if you were to damage the phone accidentally.
You can have the biggest, baddest sensor you like on a smart phone, it is NEVER going to compare favorably to a DSLR, or proper video camera simply due to the ability of the lense to capture light and give you proper depth of field.
Apple's PCIe SSD machines are getting 900 MB per second. SSD is already faster than SATA, but for all but niche applications its actually IOPs that you're chasing and the difference between SSD and spinning disk there is absolutely massive.
For a single user doing "stuff" though, a short-stroked hard drive is about 1/4 the price and well fast enough. And yes, i had a work machine (laptop) with SSD that i ditched and went back to a momentus XT hybrid due to lack of capacity.
Pretty much. Unless you are a niche users doing video editing or something, just buy a spinning disk about 4+ times larger than you need and effectively short-stroke it. I'm doing just this on this machine I am currently using with a 2TB disk, using about 300 GB. It is reasonably snappy. It's not SSD fast, but it is plenty fast enough for general use, was about a hundred bucks.
And I don't waste my time shuffling data around constantly due to lack of space on my SSD. SSD caching I can see being a benefit, but unfortunately the intel chipset can only use 30-60GB or something for cache.
I would suggest setting up a tunnel of some sort to a DMZ and only allowing SSH from there. I need to remotely administer my network myself, and I don't expose SSH to the internet. Way too many script kiddies are poking at SSH all day.
If you looked at some of the commits and comments regarding the Windows support, you'd want to kill it with fire too. Not because it's ported to Windows, because of some of the brain damage that was in that port.
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Yeah and I'm sure the traders are running Ubuntu on their desktops too.
There's a reason Microsoft Office is the industry standard, and not iWork. For all its warts (and they are legion) people can actually use it to get shit done. They (end users) can plug it into other systems and use it to develop in-house applications for menial jobs without needing a proper coder. Any enterprise employee will be able to confirm the legion of shitty little access databases, and ODBC linked spreadheets throughout the typical company that are embedded into the business process.
Until a competitor can do similar things, with some semblance of stability and ease of use, it will not replace MS Office. No matter how free it is.
Did the program complain about missing help, or suggest to install it?
Whether or not developers use the help or not, this is a symptom of the core problem. There IS no fucking QA in open source as a general rule. "The end users can test it" is all well and good for a hobby project. Maybe they need a separate team of volunteers for QA testing, like a half-decent commercial product will go through. Getting your developer to test shit is a waste of time, as demonstrated.
Like it or not, microsoft's shit works well enough to actually get work done. It is by no means bug free. But it is "good enough" at the things that matter to ordinary people. Ordinary office drones don't give a flying fuck if a program is open source if it can't do what they want it to do.
My confidence in OOo went out the window when i decided to try it out on an Ubuntu box a while ago. I loaded up base, created a new database. Create new table, create my first field, in a clean database. A primary key. CRASH. Enterprise ready bro.
Depends. Having done both open source and closed source (and currently using both) - the problem with open source solutions is often the death by a thousand cuts. You'll get something to mostly work apart from a little problem playing with something else. Inevitably, any support in the form of google, etc. is a case of "well the other closed system is broken". That's all well and good from an idealistic perspective, but people in the real world need to get shit done. A classic case is DHCP based WPAD in both Mozilla and Chrome. Bugs (some with patches) were submitted in 2006 and 2009 respectively.
It still doesn't work. Internet Explorer has been able to autoconfigure via DHCP since at least version 5 from memory, and probably IE4... but because the guys doing Mozilla or Chrome don't personally have to deal with enterprise proxy configuration, they take years to even bother looking at the bug. I've been following the open ticket for it in Chromium since 2009... i'm not holding my breath.
There will be no further service packs for Windows 7.
8 (vanilla) is still supported as I understand it. I am still getting updates, anyhow.
... i'm still on windows 8. before you laugh... this box is purely for steam and 8 was easy to install. yes the UI is a pig. tried upgrading to 8.1, it just caused compatibility problems and random 100% io spikes (for 45+ minutes at a time, only fix = hard power cycle. no virus no hardware failure. have gone back to 8 and it has been fine since).
Welcome to the world where there is no internet. Or banking. Or commerce.
Passwords you can remember are over. To make them feasible to use with fast hashing for web servers, etc. you need to make them long and properly random. And then protect them with strong encryption in your password manager which can happy run 10s or hundreds of thousands (or more) rounds of encryption so that your pass-phrase to get into THAT is manageable.
Out-perform? Sure. I was using it as a VM test environment. You can talk up your e-peen SSD all you like, but i can do the job for $100 worth of storage with a momentus XT, or i can spend over $400 for the same capacity. The momentus XT is FAST ENOUGH. I never said it was faster. But at 25% of the price, it is most certainly worthy of consideration.
So password protect your phone and if you are using "find my iphone" you have the ability to do remote wipe. If you haven't backed the info up on a regular basis you are an idiot who doesn't give a fuck about their data, because it could just as easily have been lost if you were to damage the phone accidentally.
If you don't have a backup of the information on your phone, you're an idiot who doesn't care about his/her data.
You can have the biggest, baddest sensor you like on a smart phone, it is NEVER going to compare favorably to a DSLR, or proper video camera simply due to the ability of the lense to capture light and give you proper depth of field.
Hiding the URL does not do that. If the full URL is visible people can see where they are going. Safari already highlights the domain too.
For a single user doing "stuff" though, a short-stroked hard drive is about 1/4 the price and well fast enough. And yes, i had a work machine (laptop) with SSD that i ditched and went back to a momentus XT hybrid due to lack of capacity.
Pretty much. Unless you are a niche users doing video editing or something, just buy a spinning disk about 4+ times larger than you need and effectively short-stroke it. I'm doing just this on this machine I am currently using with a 2TB disk, using about 300 GB. It is reasonably snappy. It's not SSD fast, but it is plenty fast enough for general use, was about a hundred bucks.
And I don't waste my time shuffling data around constantly due to lack of space on my SSD. SSD caching I can see being a benefit, but unfortunately the intel chipset can only use 30-60GB or something for cache.
So apple leading the ipv6 charge with working software on all their devices is killing peer to peer? Right.
Apple simplifies things, but does not get rid of relevant info. There is a difference.
I get protecting people from themselves, but what the fuck is a visible URL going to do to them? They can't break anything by SEEING it.
Let me guess, another "death by UI idiot" decision.
I would suggest setting up a tunnel of some sort to a DMZ and only allowing SSH from there. I need to remotely administer my network myself, and I don't expose SSH to the internet. Way too many script kiddies are poking at SSH all day.
If you looked at some of the commits and comments regarding the Windows support, you'd want to kill it with fire too. Not because it's ported to Windows, because of some of the brain damage that was in that port.