WebDAV isn't a calendar server (try doing a busy search with it...), it's a general-purpose file protocol that just happens to be used by most iCal software.
iCal is an option but doesn't provide any of the robust features (again, busy search) that a full-blown Exchange server affords. Not to mention that using iCal with Outlook is not exactly seamless.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a big fan of Outlook/Exchange, but I can imagine there are many small businesses that would love the functionality without the headache and expense of running their own Exchange box.
Yes imagine; she could have a CS degree and be like the other two-thirds of/. readers who obtained an impossibly high standard of living only to suddenly become unemployed.
The "better article" would be his book, which I fear would still leave you wanting, since it's not a sequential list of bullet-points on how to do things right.
I hear this argument against Raskin over and over again and I think people who make it are either unimaginative or simply lazy.
I currently use Windows to do digital video editing, however I'm in the process of trying to put together a "build" that is Linux-based and composed of Open Source software.
One of the major snags for me is trying to determine what video/graphics card to go with. Alot of the work I do doesn't really take specific advantage of the graphics processors (I'm currently using an old Matrox card if that gives you any idea), but in choosing a new card it would be very useful if it could offload some of the filter/effects processing (or even MPEG crunching for DVD's) to the card's coprocessor.
Unfortunately finding this out has been difficult. Trying to figure out which cards are supported by Linux, and then on top of that figuring out which ones would actually be useful for my work (as opposed to playing games) has been even more difficult.
If a company came out with a card that said it was 100% Linux compatible, it would at least answer the first question, and open the possibility of answering the second; in other words, I would buy one.
There are so many embedded applications that do just fine with 8-bit controllers that there is no reason they should dissapear just because something more powerful comes along.
Anyone who has done this design knows that there is more cost in what happens on the whiteboard than something like this at the component level.
Not everything in the world has the "upgrade or else" fear that surrounds the personal computer industry.
Alot of machines require the partition table fix described here:
http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2.shtml
I have performed both (this partition fix and the asp.net fix) and I can tell you that the partition fix was both more time consuming and nerve wracking.
Not that either was particularily difficult, but one did take longer than the other (even if you just consider the reboots).
This device is making the assumption that speed==danger (or more appropriately stated, liability).
I don't think this is patently true. Maybe my experience is the exception, but for the drivers I know, their average speed is inversely proportional to the number of accidents they are in.
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hmm...perhaps the time has come for me to mainline that youtube set-top-box project...
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Probably posting this too late for anyone to notice, but you can download a video which contains footage of Elektro from the Prelinger Archive:
l le ction=prelinger&collectionid=38847a
http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?co
Elektro shows up about 15 minutes into the film (in the Westinghouse exhibit); too bad it's silent, but still pretty cool.
Jeff, hurry up and get that space program off the ground so we can get off this rock before there's nothing left!
WebDAV isn't a calendar server (try doing a busy search with it...), it's a general-purpose file protocol that just happens to be used by most iCal software.
iCal is an option but doesn't provide any of the robust features (again, busy search) that a full-blown Exchange server affords. Not to mention that using iCal with Outlook is not exactly seamless.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a big fan of Outlook/Exchange, but I can imagine there are many small businesses that would love the functionality without the headache and expense of running their own Exchange box.
How many ISP's provide centralized calendar servers that work with Outlook?
Yes imagine; she could have a CS degree and be like the other two-thirds of /. readers who obtained an impossibly high standard of living only to suddenly become unemployed.
Very true.
I guess all is not lost however, even without GPS the Nazi's somehow managed to do something simular with little more than gyroscopes...
Take a minute to peruse this (just one example):
DIY Cruise Missile
IMMEDIATELY suspend all shipments of BARRY WHITE MUSIC!!! The planet depends on it!!!
Hey at least you're not flamebait...yet ;)
Sometimes I'm amazed as what passes for news, especially when it comes to Linux "celebrities".
Linux took a shit, then he told someone that his project was better than a competing project, then he ate a sandwich...
Damn, now that is stuff that matters!
The "better article" would be his book, which I fear would still leave you wanting, since it's not a sequential list of bullet-points on how to do things right.
I hear this argument against Raskin over and over again and I think people who make it are either unimaginative or simply lazy.
You guys sure seem to spend alot of time with "grandma"...
I currently use Windows to do digital video editing, however I'm in the process of trying to put together a "build" that is Linux-based and composed of Open Source software.
One of the major snags for me is trying to determine what video/graphics card to go with. Alot of the work I do doesn't really take specific advantage of the graphics processors (I'm currently using an old Matrox card if that gives you any idea), but in choosing a new card it would be very useful if it could offload some of the filter/effects processing (or even MPEG crunching for DVD's) to the card's coprocessor.
Unfortunately finding this out has been difficult. Trying to figure out which cards are supported by Linux, and then on top of that figuring out which ones would actually be useful for my work (as opposed to playing games) has been even more difficult.
If a company came out with a card that said it was 100% Linux compatible, it would at least answer the first question, and open the possibility of answering the second; in other words, I would buy one.
Good thing I'm an German-American programmer!
Man, you nailed it.
This guy (David R. Francis) is from the Christian Science Monitor; shouldn't this be in the "opinion" or "fiction" section?
Fucky fuck you slashdot.
Fair enough, I just hate to see hundreds of yuppies running to Williams-Sonoma to find an upgrade for Mr. Coffee....
There are so many embedded applications that do just fine with 8-bit controllers that there is no reason they should dissapear just because something more powerful comes along.
Anyone who has done this design knows that there is more cost in what happens on the whiteboard than something like this at the component level.
Not everything in the world has the "upgrade or else" fear that surrounds the personal computer industry.
Actually, no.
Alot of machines require the partition table fix described here:
http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2.shtml
I have performed both (this partition fix and the asp.net fix) and I can tell you that the partition fix was both more time consuming and nerve wracking.
Not that either was particularily difficult, but one did take longer than the other (even if you just consider the reboots).
This was much easier to fix than the GRUB/Fedora Core 2 multiboot bug...
For those who are interested, the fix is here:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=887459
For those about to rock, we salute you.
This device is making the assumption that speed==danger (or more appropriately stated, liability).
I don't think this is patently true. Maybe my experience is the exception, but for the drivers I know, their average speed is inversely proportional to the number of accidents they are in.
Fix It Again, Tony!
What an appropriate partnership!