You know the best way of supporting these people is to go to their store and buy something. Get a developer version if you can spare the extra $10. Show them with your money that you support what they're doing. I just did.
They're definitely worth supporting, because they truly are trying to bring Linux to the masses, and making it easier for people to make the switch from Windows.
Disclaimer: I'm pro-choice in terms of OS -- but I do use Windows XP as my primary OS, I think its great, and that Microsoft has done an outstanding job on it. Anyone who disagrees should at least give it a spin before complaining about it.
Has anyone seen one of these LCDs, or have any comments on their performance?
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And other than Apple and Sony, does anyone else have integrated FireWire on most/all of their systems? No!
Dell already has one. Check out the Inspiron 8200. I just placed an order for one of these earlier this week. I think it'd be a safe bet that all their new lines will have 1394 built in.
I hate to say it, but the GeForce4 Ti series is FASTER THAN MY OWN COMPUTER.
What the hell? Isn't that ridiculous? I'm running a 266MHz P2, and now these graphics cards are running at 300MHz. I know P2 MHz != GF4 MHz but even still.
Now all I need is for Intel to stop dragging their feet about releasing the mobile P4 and I'll be quickly snapping up one of their 1.7GHz mobile P4s with a GF4Go video card.
Then maybe another few years down the line the new graphics cards will be faster than my CPU. Go figure.
Did it occur to anyone that AOL possibly bought NSCP for no reason other than to have the avenue open to do exactly this -- file suit against Microsoft.
NSCP wouldn't have had the time or resources to do it, but AOL basically 'bought' a case for them to dump onto Microsoft. AOL on the other hand has the time and more than enough resources to make this a real PITA for Microsoft.
At the very least, foreign companies will get the chance to sell real antivirus software unlike these American guys who are selling their souls to the FBI.
See, there are two ways to go about fighting terrorism:
You can be patriotic, and support the ideals of what freedom stands for, or;
You can be nationalistic and support whatever dumbfuck policies that GWB and Ashcroft decide to shove down your throats.
It seems that most people in your country choose the latter. So I have no sympathy for you.
Word files sometimes just get really huge for some reason. They're really bad especially at storing images.
I've had Word files in excess of 100MB, and the storage is so inefficient that when zipped/rared the filesize drops to less than 5% of the original size.
But yes - I trust the Word document, because I know that big != bad:)
Wow, your ignorance on this subject really shows through! But this this is Slashdot, you can always expect people to be ignorant about things Microsoft.
Having actually been through this process, I can tell you that it involves placing a call to an 800 number, waiting about 1 to 2 minutes for a rep to answer, reading them a number, them reading you back a number, and you're done. No questions asked. I'm not saying I like the process, I'm just telling it for what it is.
But of course, having *never used* Windows XP you wouldn't know anything about this.
I've put up a PDF version of the document for those who don't like Word or HTML formats for whatever reason. It's much smaller than the Word doc and weighs in at only 480KB.
I like many who read Slashdot am a linux enthusiast. I appriciate having a place where my OS of choice is reported on with the zeal and timeliness that Microsoft gets in the main stream press.
I like using Windows as my primary OS, and yet I read Slashdot on a daily basis, and consider myself very knowledgable about computers and operating systems. I like you would appreciate it if Slashdot had timely reporting about Windows. Most Slashdot editors don't know the first thing about Windows and proudly claim never to touch it. I have yet to understand how people can ever claim to be in touch with the computing world without being in touch with Windows (which is different from liking it). When Windows makes news it hardly ever makes Slashdot (unless of course it's bad news). God forbid that a Windows Service Pack would ever make news on Slashdot. But a Linux kernel released... oh that's so different.
Most of the PPPoE applications cringe with NAT software (mostly because they want to make it as difficult as possible to do NAT).
Just want to clarify what I mean. I mean that most other PPPoE dialers cringe with NAT software. I mean to say that Windows XP works fine with any NAT stuff, in fact its built into Windows - you just have to tick a box in XP and you're good to go, it'll setup DHCP and optionally a firewall for you, and has a very nice interface for port forwarding as well (on XP Professional) - you can just tick boxes for the ports you want to forward, and enter the Netbios name or the internal IP. It's very clean.
Honestly I like Linux, and have nothing against it, but I like the Microsoft feel better, because the interface is so seamless. Things just work like you expect in XP. They've really done a great job. I don't like their business practices, but XP rocks. And yes, I'm what some people would call a geek/nerd or whatever.:)
I can't wait for NAT with IPv6. Then finally P2P stuff won't break over NAT. Port forwarding works, but isn't really such a nice thing to do, hardcoding the ports and all.
By the way, there's an awesome driver called RASPPPOE which allows you to use PPPOE on Win2k/XP/etc. as if it were a regular network interface. No clutter, no dialing manager, nothing. I highly recommend it, and it probably works with rr on XP.
On Windows XP you don't even need this. Windows XP comes with PPPoE support out of the box, and it interfaces properly with your other ethernet cards and doesn't set up one of those annoying virtual ethernet adaptors that break everything.
PPPoE support under Windows XP is quite cool. It's just like dialing up on a modem, only of course much quicker. And it works out of the box with NAT and all. Most of the PPPoE applications cringe with NAT software (mostly because they want to make it as difficult as possible to do NAT).
And I've never actually met anyone who has used both MS office and some other office software who didn't dislike office, even years after they've gotten used to it and switched to it (because of corporate decisions).
You should get out more. A lot of people like MS Office. The whole world is a lot more people than 'everyone you've met'.
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With each release of Star/OpenOffice we're seeing something that more and more resembles MS Windows/Office. Most people here keep on saying that its a bad thing. I think otherwise.
You'll Microsoft and Apple are slowly tending towards very similar UIs, case in point being Aqua and Luna - they're really similar now. This is because both companies are spending millions of R&D dollars to find out what the best user interface is for their users, and, surprise-surprise, this doesn't differ across platforms.
That's why I see this trend in SO/OO as a good thing. It's tending towards a much more usable state now. Though, it still has to play catch-up with MS Office. In Office, even if I don't know how to do something, I can easily find out by clicking as few buttons or even some guesswork based on looking at icons/tooltips. SO/OO still has quite a ways to go before it reaches this kinda ease-of-use.
I just hope that people understand why these office apps are all tending towards a similar UI. It's not Microsoft's UI, or anyone elses for that matter, its just the one that works, and that's what's important.
It's totally wrong for a company to screw over its contributors like Lutris apparently did. If they promised to deliver an open-source version then they should have, especially after people contributed to it.
Having said this, I wonder what can be done. It would really depend on the licensing. It doesn't look like this was ever released under an open source license so it seems that people have no recourse.
Though, it would be an interesting twist if people had GPLed their contributions and Lutris was using them in a closed-source implementation. Things could potentially get messy for them there. Test case for GPL maybe? Though I doubt it would ever get that far.
Though, unfortunately I don't think anything is going to happen here. Having read the page, I don't think Lutris did anything that is legally wrong. Whether they acted in good faith or not is a totally different question, but unfortunately one that is irrelevant when it comes to such things.
I was thinking in more general terms (as I said in my post). Of course some techy conferences are needed, but I was thinking more in terms of having marketing conferences in addition.
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You know the best way of supporting these people is to go to their store and buy something. Get a developer version if you can spare the extra $10. Show them with your money that you support what they're doing. I just did.
They're definitely worth supporting, because they truly are trying to bring Linux to the masses, and making it easier for people to make the switch from Windows.
Disclaimer: I'm pro-choice in terms of OS -- but I do use Windows XP as my primary OS, I think its great, and that Microsoft has done an outstanding job on it. Anyone who disagrees should at least give it a spin before complaining about it.
I just bought a new notebook, a Dell Inspiron 8200, but I'm still waiting for it to arrive (still a month away).
I went for one of the new UltraSharp (aka Enhanced UXGA) LCD.
Has anyone seen one of these LCDs, or have any comments on their performance?
And other than Apple and Sony, does anyone else have integrated FireWire on most/all of their systems? No!
Dell already has one. Check out the Inspiron 8200. I just placed an order for one of these earlier this week. I think it'd be a safe bet that all their new lines will have 1394 built in.
Shouldn't the correct title of the article be something like "Spanish Law coming to US?". This is most definitely not a case of US law going overseas.
Remember, it might be a shock to some people but to whole world does not revolve around the USA.
I hate to say it, but the GeForce4 Ti series is FASTER THAN MY OWN COMPUTER.
What the hell? Isn't that ridiculous? I'm running a 266MHz P2, and now these graphics cards are running at 300MHz. I know P2 MHz != GF4 MHz but even still.
Now all I need is for Intel to stop dragging their feet about releasing the mobile P4 and I'll be quickly snapping up one of their 1.7GHz mobile P4s with a GF4Go video card.
Then maybe another few years down the line the new graphics cards will be faster than my CPU. Go figure.
Did it occur to anyone that AOL possibly bought NSCP for no reason other than to have the avenue open to do exactly this -- file suit against Microsoft.
NSCP wouldn't have had the time or resources to do it, but AOL basically 'bought' a case for them to dump onto Microsoft. AOL on the other hand has the time and more than enough resources to make this a real PITA for Microsoft.
If I could mod this up to +10 Insightful I would.
At the very least, foreign companies will get the chance to sell real antivirus software unlike these American guys who are selling their souls to the FBI.
See, there are two ways to go about fighting terrorism:
You can be patriotic, and support the ideals of what freedom stands for, or;
You can be nationalistic and support whatever dumbfuck policies that GWB and Ashcroft decide to shove down your throats.
It seems that most people in your country choose the latter. So I have no sympathy for you.
Word files sometimes just get really huge for some reason. They're really bad especially at storing images.
:)
I've had Word files in excess of 100MB, and the storage is so inefficient that when zipped/rared the filesize drops to less than 5% of the original size.
But yes - I trust the Word document, because I know that big != bad
Wow, your ignorance on this subject really shows through! But this this is Slashdot, you can always expect people to be ignorant about things Microsoft.
Having actually been through this process, I can tell you that it involves placing a call to an 800 number, waiting about 1 to 2 minutes for a rep to answer, reading them a number, them reading you back a number, and you're done. No questions asked. I'm not saying I like the process, I'm just telling it for what it is.
But of course, having *never used* Windows XP you wouldn't know anything about this.
I've put up a PDF version of the document for those who don't like Word or HTML formats for whatever reason. It's much smaller than the Word doc and weighs in at only 480KB.
I'm sure that you'll notice the irony that increasingly many of these things are now happening here in the USA as well. Go figure.
Just want to clarify what I mean. I mean that most other PPPoE dialers cringe with NAT software. I mean to say that Windows XP works fine with any NAT stuff, in fact its built into Windows - you just have to tick a box in XP and you're good to go, it'll setup DHCP and optionally a firewall for you, and has a very nice interface for port forwarding as well (on XP Professional) - you can just tick boxes for the ports you want to forward, and enter the Netbios name or the internal IP. It's very clean.
Honestly I like Linux, and have nothing against it, but I like the Microsoft feel better, because the interface is so seamless. Things just work like you expect in XP. They've really done a great job. I don't like their business practices, but XP rocks. And yes, I'm what some people would call a geek/nerd or whatever.
I can't wait for NAT with IPv6. Then finally P2P stuff won't break over NAT. Port forwarding works, but isn't really such a nice thing to do, hardcoding the ports and all.
On Windows XP you don't even need this. Windows XP comes with PPPoE support out of the box, and it interfaces properly with your other ethernet cards and doesn't set up one of those annoying virtual ethernet adaptors that break everything.
PPPoE support under Windows XP is quite cool. It's just like dialing up on a modem, only of course much quicker. And it works out of the box with NAT and all. Most of the PPPoE applications cringe with NAT software (mostly because they want to make it as difficult as possible to do NAT).
The 657.zip I downloaded (91KB) is corrupt according to the ZIP utility built into Windows Explorer and won't open.
Might be time to get Winzip. I know the Windows Explorer isn't that great with ZIP files, but haven't had a reason to change until now.'
By the way, I'm using Windows XP and it rocks - you should all try it out sometime.
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It's good to see that someone is getting credit where it is due, especially since he has such a low profile job. Important, but low profile.
Wouldn't it just be a lot easier if, for example, when you hear a telemarketer on the phone just say "get bent" and then hang up on them?
:)
Seems like a much less troublesome and a much more effortless solution to me!
With each release of Star/OpenOffice we're seeing something that more and more resembles MS Windows/Office. Most people here keep on saying that its a bad thing. I think otherwise.
You'll Microsoft and Apple are slowly tending towards very similar UIs, case in point being Aqua and Luna - they're really similar now. This is because both companies are spending millions of R&D dollars to find out what the best user interface is for their users, and, surprise-surprise, this doesn't differ across platforms.
That's why I see this trend in SO/OO as a good thing. It's tending towards a much more usable state now. Though, it still has to play catch-up with MS Office. In Office, even if I don't know how to do something, I can easily find out by clicking as few buttons or even some guesswork based on looking at icons/tooltips. SO/OO still has quite a ways to go before it reaches this kinda ease-of-use.
I just hope that people understand why these office apps are all tending towards a similar UI. It's not Microsoft's UI, or anyone elses for that matter, its just the one that works, and that's what's important.
It's totally wrong for a company to screw over its contributors like Lutris apparently did. If they promised to deliver an open-source version then they should have, especially after people contributed to it.
Having said this, I wonder what can be done. It would really depend on the licensing. It doesn't look like this was ever released under an open source license so it seems that people have no recourse.
Though, it would be an interesting twist if people had GPLed their contributions and Lutris was using them in a closed-source implementation. Things could potentially get messy for them there. Test case for GPL maybe? Though I doubt it would ever get that far.
Though, unfortunately I don't think anything is going to happen here. Having read the page, I don't think Lutris did anything that is legally wrong. Whether they acted in good faith or not is a totally different question, but unfortunately one that is irrelevant when it comes to such things.
I was thinking in more general terms (as I said in my post). Of course some techy conferences are needed, but I was thinking more in terms of having marketing conferences in addition.