Rubbish, not insightful. Nokia were a world leader and I loved their gear until Elop threw away their technology and embraced Windows phone crap. Look at Nokia most successful products, not based on Windows phone. He deserved to be sacked, quoted as being the worst CEO ever.
>Time to train wife how to boot into the right shell?
My 3 Year old, has one, seriously.
He doesnt need to boot into the right shell gdm has a autologon capacity.xsession starts freevo for me automatically 3yo chooses movies using arrow keys
wife loves it
3yo watches waayyyy too much tv now.
cost, second hand computer - 800 celeron??? install fedora 1/2 hour install freevo 1/2 hour
Why bother doing a "clean room implementation." When you _are_ the government and can make any danm rules you like, remember china != usa, china does not have to obey usa law
He migrated "25,000 tax records into their new PC network". I know its an assumption, but I'm guessing windows. Now as a professional admin you have a choice, do your job properly or go. It not like there is a shortge of jobs for sysadmins.
So this guy could have said "This is bad thing to do and if you do it, I'm outer here!"
As a city Admin in Australia, I can't believe that a) this guy still has a job and b) that you could be that irresponsible. I vote that he gets _death_ by slashdot.
I guess that he had better get his msce cleaned up and nice and shiny to flaunt around and show how _good_ he is with computers. Maybe this could be one of those migration success stories that microsoft peddle about:)
This is where linux can excell.
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This is exactly what I want to do at home, have a home entertainment PC hooked up to my home theatre. Great work guys and gals, bring it on
I wish I had moderator points so I could moderate this "oh windows is reliable" crap down.Why if NT is so reliable does it take a full ten places before you can find a NT machine on this page?
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/hosted?netname=TEL ST RAINTERNET3-AU,203.48.0.0,203.51.255.255
Face the facts, Microsoft Windows *is* unreliable (Including 2000/XP).
As a purchasing officer at the government office where I work I have final authority over what is purchased in terms of computer equipment. It is now a requirement for our organisation that all computer equipment (x86)be capable of running both Linux and Windows. This is because we can then provide a single hardware platform and support all of our end users.
If your company does not provide the information to the xfree86 developers then you will in all liklehood lose more than just the 5% of linux desktops, but also a significant number of windows desktop sales as well.
Cheers
It turns out that I am not just making this up. I do have final purchase authority and I _do_ require linux compatible hardware.
I once used Microsoft Money and quite liked it. Without whipping Microsoft I didn't like the most recent versions as they had, in my opinion, way too much eye candy and it made tasks to slow to do. But that was on a 486 a couple of years ago:~)
My question is can a fuctional, but lacking in eye candy product, compete effectivily against its commercial opposition? This question could equally be posed against, say, RedHat 7.1 Vs Windows XP. The thing is these company's have so much money they can lavish all sorts of cute (and sometime usefull) features that the free software movement would be hard pressed to match. I would guess that the best example of this is outlook. This is _very_ popular amoungst many of my users and the lack of a calandering client/server with equivilant features is a major obstacle is my quest to be NT free.
It's a pity the money they save (or a portion of it) is not reinvested in linux development. They would get the benefit of a development community, localised software, and all the other benefits that go with having a vibrant development community.
While I support the concept of looking after the poor, I would prefere to see the poor become rich by having a job.
There is a history of government doing stuff in Australia, that is they are interventionist. The richest people in Australia are those who manipulate the government of the day in their favour.
So given that Microsoft Australia is almost certainly predominately staffed by Australians, this would be business as normal.
I use Mozilla all day, every day. And it ROCKS!
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Count me out of the "bash mozilla" crowd, cross platform, standards compliant, stable, fast, accurate and has been for a long time. I like it, in fact I like it a lot.
I have used ie and without doubt mozilla kicks butt. On a standard compusa consumer ms machine (64meg ram) using ie feels like your drowning in mud and while I understand that it may run better with a gig of ram it really doesn't matter to me as it doesn't run on my preferred platform.
I could pull out some trite shit here about IBM or open source software not needing financial success, but hey, we already know that dont we? I think free software is a lot like the internet a few years ago, some people knew it was going to be a success but how, what is the revenue model that will work?
Honestly, I don't know the answer but can't you feel it. I sure as hell know that I can, I can..... _smell_ the money, don't know when, don't know where (If I could - thats where you would find me)
BTW has anyone else forgotten about the _fun_ of open source. Shit, I didn't get into this stuff for money, I'm still having fun!!
AMD would have got a flogging if the released this
chip. The Cyrix & AMD socket 7 series were written off because of the lack of fpu performance. Now Intel releases a processer that is of poor quality and people are recompilling applications in a vain appempt to get some benefit from these $1000 dogs. Like you can recomplile all your windows applications, not. We linux people at least have the option but for all those people still stuck with windows these processer are going to suck chunks.
BTW Does it amuse anyone else that all these benchmarks are being done with Windows 98. What sort or retarted moron would buy one of these puppies, then run Lose 98? Their performance must _realy_ suck under Lose 2000!
I can't understand why people care so much about DELL. Personally I take a whole lot more notice of Compaq and IBM (IBM especially). DELL are just rideing a wave and that wave will crash on the shores as it has done for a whole lot of wannabe pceee manufactures (gateway, packard bell). Maybe its different in the USA but for me DELL is still looking very last century to me!
You know I have tried 6 times to get os2 to work and I cant. I cant get a ne2k card to do the network stuff and without that I cant download drivers, programs etc.
Now I have genuinely tried and given it my best effort with the best possible will and I just have to conclude that it is hard to use (install). Not only does it seem to be hard to use but there is no sense of community that there seems to be with linux. So I would have to say that this is the reason that os2 didn't take off, not IBMs marketing (who BTW seem to be doing a fine job of marketing linux right now)
I am keen to see how small they can make this sucker. I have noticed over the last couple of builds that the memory footprint is decreasing fast but the filesize is creeping up past 8meg. But, it is one thing to get it to navigator size and another thing to get into a embedded system like one of those cooll transmetta webpads (which i *realy* want).
I will seriously consider buying a XboX, _especially_ if I can get it to run linux (Now _that would be the ***BEST*** game on the XboX).
Anyhow, on topic, we are far more likely to get a decent outcome with this sort of equipment if we work with them (if they allow it)! Face the facts, we have been working with hardware manufacturers for years. The microsoft mice are well supported so should the XboX. John has moved Microsoft before on the openGL issue, lets hope he can help them bring out a great games machine.
BTW I am not all that keen on what I perceive as monolopies, be it MS with OSes or Sony with Playstations. Bring on the competition and make that competition fierce!
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Rubbish, not insightful. Nokia were a world leader and I loved their gear until Elop threw away their technology and embraced Windows phone crap. Look at Nokia most successful products, not based on Windows phone. He deserved to be sacked, quoted as being the worst CEO ever.
He is like Mr 4%, honestly, Steve is a huge improvement on him!
>Time to train wife how to boot into the right shell?
.xsession starts freevo for me automatically
My 3 Year old, has one, seriously.
He doesnt need to boot into the right shell gdm has a autologon capacity
3yo chooses movies using arrow keys
wife loves it
3yo watches waayyyy too much tv now.
cost, second hand computer - 800 celeron???
install fedora 1/2 hour
install freevo 1/2 hour
Wife gets fancy new 2200 athlon for $AUD300
now tell me again how hard it is.
It's ok sir, it's just my latest copy of aol
Is there any chance that USB2 (or firewire) drives will catch on.
480 MBS transfer rate, hot plugable, raidable I would presume. These could be a poor man's NAS (or some other marketing buzzword).
Why bother doing a "clean room implementation." When you _are_ the government and can make any danm rules you like, remember china != usa, china does not have to obey usa law
He migrated "25,000 tax records into their new PC network". I know its an assumption, but I'm guessing windows. Now as a professional admin you have a choice, do your job properly or go. It not like there is a shortge of jobs for sysadmins.
So this guy could have said "This is bad thing to do and if you do it, I'm outer here!"
As a city Admin in Australia, I can't believe that a) this guy still has a job and b) that you could be that irresponsible. I vote that he gets _death_ by slashdot.
:)
I guess that he had better get his msce cleaned up and nice and shiny to flaunt around and show how _good_ he is with computers. Maybe this could be one of those migration success stories that microsoft peddle about
This is exactly what I want to do at home, have a home entertainment PC hooked up to my home theatre. Great work guys and gals, bring it on
Cheers
I heartily concur! Looking forward to using a .3 redhat version (RedHat user since 4.1)
You just have to laugh don't you, especially as I was just reading that 2.4 is faster than 2.2. You just HAVE to thank them for this don't you.
Thank You Microsoft, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You,
I wish I had moderator points so I could moderate this "oh windows is reliable" crap down.Why if NT is so reliable does it take a full ten places before you can find a NT machine on this page?
L ST RAINTERNET3-AU,203.48.0.0,203.51.255.255
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/hosted?netname=TE
Face the facts, Microsoft Windows *is* unreliable (Including 2000/XP).
As a purchasing officer at the government office where I work I have final authority over what is purchased in terms of computer equipment. It is now a requirement for our organisation that all computer equipment (x86)be capable of running both Linux and Windows. This is because we can then provide a single hardware platform and support all of our end users.
If your company does not provide the information to the xfree86 developers then you will in all liklehood lose more than just the 5% of linux desktops, but also a significant number of windows desktop sales as well.
Cheers
It turns out that I am not just making this up. I do have final purchase authority and I _do_ require linux compatible hardware.
I have noticed this also, it is especially markered in mail/news for me. It started with NS6.01 preview
I once used Microsoft Money and quite liked it. Without whipping Microsoft I didn't like the most recent versions as they had, in my opinion, way too much eye candy and it made tasks to slow to do. But that was on a 486 a couple of years ago :~)
:- Great work
My question is can a fuctional, but lacking in eye candy product, compete effectivily against its commercial opposition? This question could equally be posed against, say, RedHat 7.1 Vs Windows XP. The thing is these company's have so much money they can lavish all sorts of cute (and sometime usefull) features that the free software movement would be hard pressed to match. I would guess that the best example of this is outlook. This is _very_ popular amoungst many of my users and the lack of a calandering client/server with equivilant features is a major obstacle is my quest to be NT free.
BTW
It's a pity the money they save (or a portion of it) is not reinvested in linux development. They would get the benefit of a development community, localised software, and all the other benefits that go with having a vibrant development community.
While I support the concept of looking after the poor, I would prefere to see the poor become rich by having a job.
I _never_ turn them off, why would you?
There is a history of government doing stuff in Australia, that is they are interventionist. The richest people in Australia are those who manipulate the government of the day in their favour.
So given that Microsoft Australia is almost certainly predominately staffed by Australians, this would be business as normal.
Count me out of the "bash mozilla" crowd, cross platform, standards compliant, stable, fast, accurate and has been for a long time. I like it, in fact I like it a lot.
I have used ie and without doubt mozilla kicks butt. On a standard compusa consumer ms machine (64meg ram) using ie feels like your drowning in mud and while I understand that it may run better with a gig of ram it really doesn't matter to me as it doesn't run on my preferred platform.
Cheers to the Mozilla team.
I could pull out some trite shit here about IBM or open source software not needing financial success, but hey, we already know that dont we? I think free software is a lot like the internet a few years ago, some people knew it was going to be a success but how, what is the revenue model that will work?
..... _smell_ the money, don't know when, don't know where (If I could - thats where you would find me)
Honestly, I don't know the answer but can't you feel it. I sure as hell know that I can, I can
BTW has anyone else forgotten about the _fun_ of open source. Shit, I didn't get into this stuff for money, I'm still having fun!!
AMD would have got a flogging if the released this chip. The Cyrix & AMD socket 7 series were written off because of the lack of fpu performance. Now Intel releases a processer that is of poor quality and people are recompilling applications in a vain appempt to get some benefit from these $1000 dogs. Like you can recomplile all your windows applications, not. We linux people at least have the option but for all those people still stuck with windows these processer are going to suck chunks.
BTW Does it amuse anyone else that all these benchmarks are being done with Windows 98. What sort or retarted moron would buy one of these puppies, then run Lose 98? Their performance must _realy_ suck under Lose 2000!
I can't understand why people care so much about DELL. Personally I take a whole lot more notice of Compaq and IBM (IBM especially). DELL are just rideing a wave and that wave will crash on the shores as it has done for a whole lot of wannabe pceee manufactures (gateway, packard bell). Maybe its different in the USA but for me DELL is still looking very last century to me!
You know I have tried 6 times to get os2 to work and I cant. I cant get a ne2k card to do the network stuff and without that I cant download drivers, programs etc.
Now I have genuinely tried and given it my best effort with the best possible will and I just have to conclude that it is hard to use (install). Not only does it seem to be hard to use but there is no sense of community that there seems to be with linux. So I would have to say that this is the reason that os2 didn't take off, not IBMs marketing (who BTW seem to be doing a fine job of marketing linux right now)
I am keen to see how small they can make this sucker. I have noticed over the last couple of builds that the memory footprint is decreasing fast but the filesize is creeping up past 8meg. But, it is one thing to get it to navigator size and another thing to get into a embedded system like one of those cooll transmetta webpads (which i *realy* want).
Cheers
I will seriously consider buying a XboX, _especially_ if I can get it to run linux (Now _that would be the ***BEST*** game on the XboX).
Anyhow, on topic, we are far more likely to get a decent outcome with this sort of equipment if we work with them (if they allow it)! Face the facts, we have been working with hardware manufacturers for years. The microsoft mice are well supported so should the XboX. John has moved Microsoft before on the openGL issue, lets hope he can help them bring out a great games machine.
BTW I am not all that keen on what I perceive as monolopies, be it MS with OSes or Sony with Playstations. Bring on the competition and make that competition fierce!
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