Kubuntu + Crossover Standard Edition costs $10 less than XandrOS Standard Edition, and supports more. That is because
Xandros Standard includes Crossover 4.1 TRIAL
XFM doesn't fully support all the goodies you can get for Konqueror.
The Xandros Apt repositories don't have half of what Ubuntu/Kubuntu repositories have (and they aren't even FULL debian repositories)
Ease of installation? Gimmie a break Kubuntu is quite easy to install if you know:
What Language you speak
What Country you are in
Your Time Zone
What you want your username to be
What you want your password to be
That is LESS than I needed to know when I installed Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, XP, and MUCH less than I needed to install NT4 (concession: or Debian Sarge)
Since I'm a little more technical than a lot of people, I'm even trying Kubuntu with Wine and the Sidenet Wine Installation Utility to see if I can run the applications I need without buying Crossover.
Why am I saying this? Because I refuse to ever upgrade to Windows Vista. I don't need to buy software from a company that will treat me like a criminal every time I need a patch for their shitty software.
Imagine getting frisked (and not by your dream girl/guy either) every time you went to draw money from your bank account... would you be a member at that bank very long? I think not!
Imagine having to pay fees to run YOUR car (gas doesn't count, cause you pay for similar resources to run a computer...like electricity) and not even be allowed to fix it if something goes wrong.
It's riduculous, degrading, annoying, and just a plain shitty thing to do. I think Ubuntu and Kubuntu finally got it right, and I have tried Lindows, Xandros, Lycoris, Mandrake, and all the other "easy" distros. Someone finally got it right, make it work out of the box!
In other News, the mathematical operations known as division and fractions has been outlawed due to the use of the "/" character. A Spokesperson for one of the corporations wthat pushed for this restriction says "Sure, there are other operators for division, and the forward slash is used in other places, but we don't care, it is infringing upon our desire for revenue."
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There are alot of very depressed people out there that would say...yay, a computer for me and buy the thing.
1. Depress lots of people (there are plenty of things to be depressed about) 2. Market to them (why not, the drug companies and dealers do) 3. ??? 4. Profit! -- Random Signature #1 Generated by SlashdotRndSig via GreaseMonkey
Companies are hiring less Ivy League Graduates for fiscal reasons. Think about this, an Ivy League graduate has a much higher wage expectancy than someone who graduates from a non-Ivy League school. Companies today are in the process of getting rid of employees that eiter don't do enough, or that they feel are overpaid for their job.. So if they have a chouce between the Ivy League guy that wants $50,000 a year, and the State University guy that wants $30,000 a year, most companies will choose the State University guy.
Firefox is great and all, but it's so slow compared to IE...Just look how fast those popup windows open, so fast that I can't even click the close button fast enough to keep another 60 or so from coming up.
If only Firefox could do that....oh wait, what popup windows?
Last time I checked CUPS Has a PDF Writer....try printing the filled version of your PDF to that, and saving it somewhere. I know you can't go back and edit it, but hey....you didn't ask for that.
Personally, I think Google should brand and distribute a 100% compatible version of Mozilla (with a Google Mozilla theme), with an enhanced version of the Googlebar plugin, links to the google tools under bookmarks, and supply a portal site that integrates Google WWW search, Gmail, Groups, and news into a multipane page.
Especially considering that AOL Distributes Netscape with all of it's crap. Mozilla is great, but the way to take the market these days is to have Name recognition. Everyone knows Netscape, but they remember 4.x versions, that the came to call Nustscrape or Netscrap. 7.x is ok, aside from the unwanted AOL ads.
Google would do justice to Mozilla. Everone knows they are the best search engine in the world, a large chunk of IE users have the Google toolbar installed, and Google has become a part of everyday language in the computer-(semi)literate world, and even people who are just learning computers. ("I googled that!") So the Google name would bring up the market share, promote them, and give them an easy way to produce a truly superior product. Imagine this.. links next to your searches to open the site in a new tab. It would be great, since I usually read slashdot tab-by tab. The front page is on one tab, and as delve down through the replies, I open them in tabs, so I can keep my place where I was on the previous page. Very useful, especially for research.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, that's a good idea... VNC on a thumbdrive that automagically connects to a host. I could go for that.
HAHAHAHA, That's funnier than my comment actually working... I commented out a function ans posted it and the damn thing didn't show up.
Ease of installation? Gimmie a break Kubuntu is quite easy to install if you know:
That is LESS than I needed to know when I installed Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, XP, and MUCH less than I needed to install NT4 (concession: or Debian Sarge)
Since I'm a little more technical than a lot of people, I'm even trying Kubuntu with Wine and the Sidenet Wine Installation Utility to see if I can run the applications I need without buying Crossover.
Why am I saying this? Because I refuse to ever upgrade to Windows Vista. I don't need to buy software from a company that will treat me like a criminal every time I need a patch for their shitty software.
Imagine getting frisked (and not by your dream girl/guy either) every time you went to draw money from your bank account... would you be a member at that bank very long? I think not!
Imagine having to pay fees to run YOUR car (gas doesn't count, cause you pay for similar resources to run a computer...like electricity) and not even be allowed to fix it if something goes wrong.
It's riduculous, degrading, annoying, and just a plain shitty thing to do. I think Ubuntu and Kubuntu finally got it right, and I have tried Lindows, Xandros, Lycoris, Mandrake, and all the other "easy" distros. Someone finally got it right, make it work out of the box!
Bye everyone...lunch is over.
Later on. . .
*scratche head* Hmm....why doesn't my Important Information show up?
Actually, that's just me being lazy. It used to go to a Geocities site I made a long time ago as a gag.
Holstein World
That's the company site, I have plenty of my own personal sites all over the place,
We have a small website (85,000 hits a day)
So here's the rundown of what we use...
CGI/Backend: PHP
Client Side: Javascript
Presentation: CSS/HTML 34 (Somewhere between 3.2 and 4)
Then of course there is the PHP and static generated RSS feeds.
Google makes an ass of themselves...
YEAH! FSCK THE SYSTEM!
In other News, the mathematical operations known as division and fractions has been outlawed due to the use of the "/" character. A Spokesperson for one of the corporations wthat pushed for this restriction says "Sure, there are other operators for division, and the forward slash is used in other places, but we don't care, it is infringing upon our desire for revenue."
Casio, Texas Instrument, and a number of other manufacturers of pocket calculation devices are planning to appeal.
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There are alot of very depressed people out there that would say...yay, a computer for me and buy the thing.
1. Depress lots of people (there are plenty of things to be depressed about)
2. Market to them (why not, the drug companies and dealers do)
3. ???
4. Profit!
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I'll stick to getting my books Second Hand (Garage Sales, Friends, p2p, etc.)
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...and After Microsoft Purchases the Sun
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All of Springfield goes dark and Mr. Gates asks. .
"Have you ever seen the sun set at 3:00?"
Later he turns up dead.
Sounds like a good Simpsons Episode to me. . .
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I'm sick of people asking me if a browser could fail to render PHP.
They don't get it, what my PHP app is churning out is something between HTML 3.2 and 4 (I don't claim to be fully 4.0 when I'm not)
This is not JavaShit people...it is taken care of by the server before your browser even gets ahold of it.
*anger*
*anger*
*anger*
Ok, time for a coctail.
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Commence with.....
Monkey Kombat!
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If I was not paying taxes, I surely wouldn't try to find a way around it!
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Nahh, it won't work...I tried to use Liquid Nails to attach my cooler to my Athlon...boy what a show! Who ever knew glue was flammable?
I worked in a Plating shop that was still running one of the original versions of PICK, released ~27 years ago....
I also worked for a Trucking Company running Open Systems Accounting Software.
Pretty old versions of apps that were never upgraded because they just worked.
CowboyNeal!!!?
But I really wanyed to overclock my TI/99....just wondering how fast the Wumpus could run.
Companies are hiring less Ivy League Graduates for fiscal reasons. Think about this, an Ivy League graduate has a much higher wage expectancy than someone who graduates from a non-Ivy League school. Companies today are in the process of getting rid of employees that eiter don't do enough, or that they feel are overpaid for their job.. So if they have a chouce between the Ivy League guy that wants $50,000 a year, and the State University guy that wants $30,000 a year, most companies will choose the State University guy.
Firefox is great and all, but it's so slow compared to IE...Just look how fast those popup windows open, so fast that I can't even click the close button fast enough to keep another 60 or so from coming up.
If only Firefox could do that....oh wait, what popup windows?
Last time I checked CUPS Has a PDF Writer....try printing the filled version of your PDF to that, and saving it somewhere. I know you can't go back and edit it, but hey....you didn't ask for that.
Personally, I think Google should brand and distribute a 100% compatible version of Mozilla (with a Google Mozilla theme), with an enhanced version of the Googlebar plugin, links to the google tools under bookmarks, and supply a portal site that integrates Google WWW search, Gmail, Groups, and news into a multipane page.
Especially considering that AOL Distributes Netscape with all of it's crap. Mozilla is great, but the way to take the market these days is to have Name recognition. Everyone knows Netscape, but they remember 4.x versions, that the came to call Nustscrape or Netscrap. 7.x is ok, aside from the unwanted AOL ads.
Google would do justice to Mozilla. Everone knows they are the best search engine in the world, a large chunk of IE users have the Google toolbar installed, and Google has become a part of everyday language in the computer-(semi)literate world, and even people who are just learning computers. ("I googled that!") So the Google name would bring up the market share, promote them, and give them an easy way to produce a truly superior product. Imagine this.. links next to your searches to open the site in a new tab. It would be great, since I usually read slashdot tab-by tab. The front page is on one tab, and as delve down through the replies, I open them in tabs, so I can keep my place where I was on the previous page. Very useful, especially for research.
Yeah. I guess that makes sense. I was ranting, so the question was really rhetorical. Then again this is