I have to mildly disagree with you. People are developing on Windows because they are developing applications for idiots who specify Visual Basic or Active Server Pages or any number of proprietary things that are only on the Microsoft platform, even though there are open standards that do the same thing only better.
But I will never believe you when you say that Linux will capture the "grandma technophobe" market. Yeah, Linux is way more powerful, but setting up one of these powerful applications is a major pain in the ass on my Linux machine. The equivalent Microsoft application is limited, bloated and slow, but it passes the "gee whiz" test when my family looks at my Linux box running Star Office and my wife's Macintosh running MS Office, and chooses Office every time. They don't even care that Office has a large probability of locking up the entire computer and forcing a hard reboot and losing their unsaved data. I have no idea why they don't care, but it's that level of unthinking that we have to deal with if we're going to win on the desktop.
I used to use Altavista as my main search engine, but after watching their web crawler being totally unable to handle the relative links on my site I've switched to Northern Lights
I'm writing an application where people enter stuff either on the web or through a touch tone phone. The connection is through a database that either application can update.
What I need is something that can put up an audio menu along the lines of "press 1 for foo, 2 for bar, 3 for qux", and call the appropriate C/perl functions or shell scripts and put up another audio menu. Is this what they mean by IVR? I don't need to recognize verbal or non-touch-tone responses, just touch-tone.
Major in the School of Hard Knocks. Get a degree of some sort to prove that you can learn, read the camel and the bat books, get an entry level position at a small startup where you have to do everything for everbody, and you're on your way to understanding an Adminspotting t-shirt.
"cut and paste...were non-existant"???? I've been using cut and paste under X since the X 10 days. Just highlight with the mouse in one application, then hit the paste button (middle mouse button) in any other application. It works a lot more consistently than cut and paste on my Windows machine, and doesn't require the extra headache of pulling down the Edit->Copy and Edit->Paste menus.
I called it the "perens/raymond" organization becuase I couldn't remember the exact name, and I didn't want to get it confused with any of the other organizations with similar names. Sorry if it offended.
Anyway, as to the other matter, I quote some email I got from a friend who is an intellectual property lawyer, who was speaking off the cuff, not giving a professional opinion: Anyway, I'm pretty skeptial of Software in the Public Interest's claim to "Open Source" as a trademark. First, as far as I know, that registration is still pending. So there's no finding that it's a legitimate mark -- just that SPI has applied for registration and is claiming that it's a mark. Hell, I can apply for a registration for "IBM" and claim it's a mark. Doesn't mean I'll get it.
Second, there's a company called Open Source Solutions who has apparently used that name for at least five years before SPI's first use of it (at least, they've been using the OSS.NET name since 1993, and I assume that they only used that name because of their corporate name). I would expect they would have something to say about SPI's attempt to claim the words "open souce" as a trademark.
Personally, I believe that the term "open source" has been used generically long before SPI's first use (February 1998), and that SPI has no trademark in the term, notwithstanding its application for registration.
Not to mention the fact that OSI does not own a trademark on the term "open source". They can make it a service mark if they want, but that means nothing. Please can use it any way they want - they only need to meet the OSI definition of Open Source if they want to call it "Open Source(sm)" instead of "open source".
This is similar to how I can refer to the things open on my screen was "windows", but because they weren't put there by Microsoft software, I can't call them Windows(tm).
Nobody owns a trademark on the term "Open Source". The Perens/Raymond organization has applied for a trademark, but they're never going to get it. There is prior use of the term, such as the "Open Source System Inc" company standing in their way.
I tried that *before* I asked the question, and it doesn't do anything. If you read the option carefully, it appears to be giving you the option to override the choice of font, not the choice of size.
Is there any way to override these in Netscape? I can't read his damn page until I save it as html, and edit out the "size=1" parts of all the font tags. Why do so many people use these damn things - don't they realize that some of us like to have high resolution screens?
Didn't he say a while ago that nobody ever upgrades to fix bugs, but only because they want new features? Man, the arrogance of that guy never ceases to amaze me.
"Doom" at least makes sense - I mean, it has foreboding implications that fit in well with the game. I never heard where the name "Quake" came from, though. It doesn't fit in anyway I can see.
I'm removing the link to UserFriendly from my home page in protest of this badly done and overblown unfunny prank. Illiad, if you're listening, I think you've just blown any credibility you had with the geek community.
Since a word document only has the GUID of the original document author, and all these Word Macro viruses are made by taking somebody else's Word Macro Virus (WMV) document and modifying it, all the GUID does is point back at some guy who wrote the original WMV that was the grandfather of Melissa. See this article for more details.
I am running rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd from the nfs-server-2.2beta37-1 rpm. Doesn't that do the locking? I definitely compiled in locking support in the kernel on the server.
"Way too much time and is proficient with Photoshop"??? Just how long does it take *you* to draw two red lines and two lines of text over top of a graphic that was already on their web page? I think I could to that in 10 minutes, tops, and I've never used anything more complicated than xpaint.
Since I switched to kernel 2.2.x, I've had two problems:
- I can't nfs mount my home and mail directories onto my other machines unless I use "nolock"
- I can't send email using netscape on those other machines (which I suspect might have something to do with the NFS problem). The machine locks up pretty tight, and sometimes has to be rebooted when this happens.
Does anybody know if 2.2.4 fixes those problems? (Hey, give me a break - my server machine is dog-slow and I don't want to spend 5 hours compiling a kernel if it doesn't fix anything).
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I have to mildly disagree with you. People are developing on Windows because they are developing applications for idiots who specify Visual Basic or Active Server Pages or any number of proprietary things that are only on the Microsoft platform, even though there are open standards that do the same thing only better.
But I will never believe you when you say that Linux will capture the "grandma technophobe" market. Yeah, Linux is way more powerful, but setting up one of these powerful applications is a major pain in the ass on my Linux machine. The equivalent Microsoft application is limited, bloated and slow, but it passes the "gee whiz" test when my family looks at my Linux box running Star Office and my wife's Macintosh running MS Office, and chooses Office every time. They don't even care that Office has a large probability of locking up the entire computer and forcing a hard reboot and losing their unsaved data. I have no idea why they don't care, but it's that level of unthinking that we have to deal with if we're going to win on the desktop.
For the dancing paperclip, of course. And the flight simulator easter egg.
I don't expect Linux to be as popular as Windows for one major reason - smart people are, and always will be, a minority.
I used to use Altavista as my main search engine, but after watching their web crawler being totally unable to handle the relative links on my site I've switched to Northern Lights
I'm writing an application where people enter stuff either on the web or through a touch tone phone. The connection is through a database that either application can update.
What I need is something that can put up an audio menu along the lines of "press 1 for foo, 2 for bar, 3 for qux", and call the appropriate C/perl functions or shell scripts and put up another audio menu. Is this what they mean by IVR? I don't need to recognize verbal or non-touch-tone responses, just touch-tone.
http://www.linuxtelephony.org/ and
http://www.opentelecom.org/
Neither of them answer *my* basic question, which is how to add touch tone response to a web based application I'm working on.
"nasty problems that take forever to debug"? I thought debugging NT problems was a two step process:
- reboot. If that doesn't solve it
- reinstall.
But the idea of bringing servers down so that people know that you're on the job is a good one - very BOFHish.
Major in the School of Hard Knocks.
Get a degree of some sort to prove that you can learn, read the camel and the bat books, get an entry level position at a small startup where you have to do everything for everbody, and you're on your way to understanding an Adminspotting t-shirt.
"cut and paste...were non-existant"???? I've been using cut and paste under X since the X 10 days. Just highlight with the mouse in one application, then hit the paste button (middle mouse button) in any other application. It works a lot more consistently than cut and paste on my Windows machine, and doesn't require the extra headache of pulling down the Edit->Copy and Edit->Paste menus.
I called it the "perens/raymond" organization becuase I couldn't remember the exact name, and I didn't want to get it confused with any of the other organizations with similar names. Sorry if it offended.
Anyway, as to the other matter, I quote some email I got from a friend who is an intellectual property lawyer, who was speaking off the cuff, not giving a professional opinion:
Anyway, I'm pretty skeptial of Software in the Public Interest's claim to
"Open Source" as a trademark. First, as far as I know, that registration
is still pending. So there's no finding that it's a legitimate mark --
just that SPI has applied for registration and is claiming that it's a
mark. Hell, I can apply for a registration for "IBM" and claim it's a
mark. Doesn't mean I'll get it.
Second, there's a company called Open Source Solutions who has apparently
used that name for at least five years before SPI's first use of it (at
least, they've been using the OSS.NET name since 1993, and I assume that
they only used that name because of their corporate name). I would expect
they would have something to say about SPI's attempt to claim the words
"open souce" as a trademark.
Personally, I believe that the term "open source" has been used
generically long before SPI's first use (February 1998), and that SPI has
no trademark in the term, notwithstanding its application for
registration.
Not to mention the fact that OSI does not own a trademark on the term "open source". They can make it a service mark if they want, but that means nothing. Please can use it any way they want - they only need to meet the OSI definition of Open Source if they want to call it "Open Source(sm)" instead of "open source".
This is similar to how I can refer to the things open on my screen was "windows", but because they weren't put there by Microsoft software, I can't call them Windows(tm).
Nobody owns a trademark on the term "Open Source". The Perens/Raymond organization has applied for a trademark, but they're never going to get it. There is prior use of the term, such as the "Open Source System Inc" company standing in their way.
I tried that *before* I asked the question, and it doesn't do anything. If you read the option carefully, it appears to be giving you the option to override the choice of font, not the choice of size.
Is there any way to override these in Netscape? I can't read his damn page until I save it as html, and edit out the "size=1" parts of all the font tags. Why do so many people use these damn things - don't they realize that some of us like to have high resolution screens?
Didn't he say a while ago that nobody ever upgrades to fix bugs, but only because they want new features? Man, the arrogance of that guy never ceases to amaze me.
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"Doom" at least makes sense - I mean, it has foreboding implications that fit in well with the game. I never heard where the name "Quake" came from, though. It doesn't fit in anyway I can see.
I'm removing the link to UserFriendly from my home page in protest of this badly done and overblown unfunny prank. Illiad, if you're listening, I think you've just blown any credibility you had with the geek community.
Since a word document only has the GUID of the original document author, and all these Word Macro viruses are made by taking somebody else's Word Macro Virus (WMV) document and modifying it, all the GUID does is point back at some guy who wrote the original WMV that was the grandfather of Melissa. See this article
for more details.
I am running rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd from the nfs-server-2.2beta37-1 rpm. Doesn't that do the locking? I definitely compiled in locking support in the kernel on the server.
"Way too much time and is proficient with Photoshop"??? Just how long does it take *you* to draw two red lines and two lines of text over top of a graphic that was already on their web page? I think I could to that in 10 minutes, tops, and I've never used anything more complicated than xpaint.
Since I switched to kernel 2.2.x, I've had two problems:
- I can't nfs mount my home and mail directories onto my other machines unless I use "nolock"
- I can't send email using netscape on those other machines (which I suspect might have something to do with the NFS problem). The machine locks up pretty tight, and sometimes has to be rebooted when this happens.
Does anybody know if 2.2.4 fixes those problems?
(Hey, give me a break - my server machine is dog-slow and I don't want to spend 5 hours compiling a kernel if it doesn't fix anything).
Signed edition? For that price, I'd expect Bill G to come to my house, tuck me into beddy-byes, and read it to me.
I'm guessing NY, DC, LA, but I'm at a loss to guess the other two.