I know must people hate the company, but I really dig SuSE.
Their manuals are good, their configuration tool is pretty noob friendly, and if you figure out their weird directory structure, their setup makes a lot of sense.
AFAIK, SuSE is still issuing security updates for 7.1, which came out in 2001. (9.1 is the latest SuSE).
Feel free to use apt4rpm to keep your system up to date, as well, or use YaST (the SuSE configuration tool/package manager).
SuSE has a free FTP edition install (I think they may have isos as well), but with the recent license changes, I think the ~$70 for the boxed set DVD professional edition is well worth it.
You get ~400 pages in manuals, 2 DVD, and 7 CD-Roms, and are permitted to install it on as many computers as you like.
Actually, no problem simulating one in a computer.
We could probably even convince ourselves that there would be no risk, assuming no system failures.
The problem would be: a)What happens if the magnetic fields collapse? (oops, no more planet?) b)What if we are wrong? What if we forgot something in the simulation?
We know alot about the mathematical construct of a singularity.
We have never encountered one, and indeed, most of our mathematics suggests we would have great difficulty interacting with it.
Not that this matters, mind you---it's pretty unlikely we'll be able to make one.
I agree with the war in Iraq, however, for entire different reasons.
Get your shit straight, and then it will make more sense.
U.S. has maintained a virtual occupation (containment) of Iraq since Desert Storm 1. We had no exit strategy.
We could have either a) left the area, pulled out our planes, and let Saddam did as he wanted, b) invaded, and force regime change, or c) maintain the SQ, shooting SAM sites, and occasionally have a plane shot down by Saddam's troops.
My opinion, B) was the best idea.
Unfortunately, we didn't consult the international community, we decided to pin it on WMD, we didn't bother to try and force Saddam out of power, and we still maintain that regime change was a fiction necessitated by WMD.
Saddam was a complete asshole, but our diplomatic efforts surrounding his removal were beyond terrible.
Anyways, these people (Iraqs) did not declare war on us. Infact, they never declared war on anyways.
Their autocratic fascist dictator declared war on Kuwait, and we only just now decided to end his rule.
Other than the whole nothing able to leave the event horizon thing, it's just an object, with momentum, mass, etc . ..
If you have a 1000Gg singularity (yes, thats absolutely tiny, but it might be what we would create in a laboratory), you could 'hit' it with objects, and they would 'push' it.
That's assuming it's not so small as to simply pass through anything.
The idea of a teeny-weeny laboratory singularity is not, actually, totally crazy.
Just mostly crazy. Extremely high desity != high mass.
Remember, density = mass/volume. You get a blackhole when you smash something hard enough to overcome the positive neutron pressure.
Which is pretty high, high enough that I'm not certain we'll get there anytime soon, but definetely within the realm of possiblity.
After all, if we made a blackhole (singularity), it's not probable we'll manufacture it with a mountain's worth of material, or a planet's worth.
More likely, it would just be a few errant particles we smashed together.
This is not a move by MS to make Windows avaliable to those from countries with a lower purchasing power parity.
This is a move by MS to say, "Well, we CAN blame them for pirating our XP Pro, because we did make XP (cheapo version) avaliable, and THEY, the bastards, decided to pirate XP Pro anyways."
Good cop, Bad cop. Now they can send in the jackbooted thugs with a clean conscious, or, at least, a slightly less dismal public relations 'spin'.
3 Apps? Please. Absurd. Ridiculous.
MS spent far more time making sure that no one would be interested in running XcheaP, so us, in the rest of the world, wouldn't get a lightweight XP.
Think about it--- XP, with all the cruft stripped out? And cheaper, to boot?
Just a pedal to the medal operating system capable of running the apps I want, instead of the apps MS thinks I should be running?
Hah. Right. Need to lay off the crack.
Glad none of the 8 computers in my home, or the computers I maintain in the office, run windows anymore.
Screw this nonsense. I laugh at your outrage. Between Linux/Mac OS X, I can do anything I need to do.
Absolutely shocked, that Battlefield Earth is not lower no the list.
Come on, 24th place?
Should be bottom 5, at least.
Everything about that movie is beyond the worst abyss of terrible any human creation has ever reached.
Probably was created by Hubbard's Space Aliens(TM).
Hmm.... In fact, I suspect the Scientologists try to drive the rating up, so perhaps it is artificially inflated.
Nothing in that movie was done right.
In fact, the degree to which it is bad makes it quite fun.
The camera is broken (or, at least, almost always at either a -30 or 30 degree angle). The lighting is totally fucked up. Unpleasant earth tones or greens.
Acting. Dispicable.
Script? Obnoxious, at the best of times. Big fat aliens tromping around speaking about how they are better than the 'man animals'.
Plot? Har Har. Stupid capitalism aliens are trying to rape the universe.
Ending? Even better. 'man animals', wearing loin clothes, no less, and running around in the wilderness, find old man-tech (F16s), and fly them around, still wearing their loinclothes.
These F16s, which proved useless the last time the aliens invaded, whoop ass this time---ostensibly because they are wearing loin clothes instead of flight suits.
Then, one nuclear bomb blows up the aliens homeworld, and the 'man animals' win.
Sweeeeeeeeeeet.
Totally Sweeeeeeeeeet.
In fact, I find it's 'badness' an alluring 'replusion'.
Must hate myself.
I think I nearly pissed myself laughing when I watched that movie.
I understand that they spend a lot of money on their labs-- They are MS, after all, they have plenty to spend.
I understand they hire many extremely qualified and bright individuals. Once again, plenty of $$.
But, pray tell, what kinda of neato next-generation stuff is MS coming up with? I didn't see a single thing on their 'All Research Projects' page that blew my mind.
The sensea-cam? Low cost wall displays? (yeah, right) New cryptography algorithms?
Very little on their projects page looks terribly sophisticated to me.
In fact, I'd argue that their development machine is excellent, while their research is sub-par.
Yes, yes, their software is buggy. But there sure is a hell of a lot of it. And there is a lot of functionality there.
But cutting edge GUI design? Apple has them beat. (And some would say Gnome/KDE do too).
Hardware design? Give me a break, they have NOTHING on companies like HP, and their 'designs' are a joke compared with the sort of research that IBM, Intel, and TI do.
Next-gen OS design? Har-Har.
Search and database technology? That's laughable too.
Microsoft researches a bit of everything, but only enough to determine which of their competitors is on to something big.
Then they follow their competitors lead, and do the same thing, cheaper. Or force their competitors out of the market using monopolistic tactics.
You'll basically never convince me that anything MS ever does holds a candle to IBM's or Intel's materials science divisions.
MS research is, at best, stuff that looks 3-5 years to the future. IBM researchs all of that stuff, plus stuff that is 25-50 years in the future.
Just compare the patents that IBM is granted each year to the patents that MS is granted each year.
Perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps they have something crazy down at area 51.
Microsoft 'research & innovation' (if you are willing to call it that), has NOTHING on IBM. IBM is on the bleeding edge of MANY advanced engineering techniques, with really fantastic stuff in such fields like quantum computing and advanced materials (semiconducter).
MS is working on MS Bob. And reinventing Win32 as Avalon.
It's not just some research. IBM, every year for the last 10 years, has filed more patents then the next 10 companies/organizations put together. Sure, some of these are BS patents on rather silly things, but many are serious patents on products really worthy of patent protection.
IBM labs lets people loose to research whatever they want, really long-term stuff---Stuff that won't pay off for 20 years.
MS is worried about tomorrow. MS missing the boat means they are done for---they need to survive every generation.
IBM missing the boat means that they get to play again in round 2, round 3, and round 100.
I have a great deal more respect for IBM's research--- It is brilliant stuff, it is way ahead of its time, and it will change the world.
Not that I'm looking forward to that day, as it means that I'll spend a WHOLE lot of time fixing other people's computers:(:(:(:(:(
But all the 'I Told You Sos' might be worth it.
Given that these worms are getting to be pretty sophisticated in how they spread (IIS server exploit ->IE activeX exploit), and given that although MS does a 90% good job in patching them, the poor rate of patch (what? patch my computer? but it works fine), and total reluctance to switch to non-MS products (The VP of our company refused to switch from MS, even after the CERT warning. "Why would I want Mozilla or something? MS just released a patch for that problem you are talking about"), I'm STUNNED that someone hasn't gone nuts, and torched the Windows World(TM).
No terrorist group, no crazy psychotic hackers, no insane foreign governments.
No Russian organized crime group holding a corporation hostage.
Nothing. Nada. Zilch.
Strange.
I still think its coming. Perhaps I'm just a pessismist, but I think that 'cyberwar' may still be on our horizon, and even if you, Ms. Super-Smart-Geek is able to protect your system, 90% of the windows world will not be able to.
And instead of spam, we'll see permanent bios corruption, or something else, that will simply f*ck their computers.
I'm scared of it, anyways. I only hope that it happens far enough in the future that I can earnestly say, "I can't fix that, I using Windows back in the 2000-era, I don't know anything about your XP-SE, your Longhorn, etc. . . "
I spend too much of my time on service calls as it is, for my parents, for my officemates, for my relatives, and for my friends.
I try to 'train' them on how to manage a system properly, but its honestly hopeless.
I'm pretty savy, but back in the day when I ran them, my Windows systems STILL got screwed up sometimes (not often, but occasionally).
I can totally understand (but not sympathize) when my sister comes back to me and her laptop has got a bazillion pop-up-ware things installed.
I'll feel bad for her when/if her laptop gets trashed by a virus, but.... I told her to get a mac.....
Oh well, ce la vie.
I'll live through the storm, anyways, and so will my backups of the company data.
I'd like to take this opportunity to emphasize the negatives of an unhealthy competitive market.
When monopolists crush the competition, and you have one company with 95% marketshare, that company gets lazy.
It produces shitty products, slows development (compare development now with when they were trying to crush netscape), all the while making monopoly profits.
Thankfully, the GPL seriously reduces the barriers to entry, because it would be DAMN hard to get either Gecko/Mozilla or KHTML/Konqueror/Safari relicensed and 'shut-down', or integrated into the MS lineup.
Mark my words, if there was no one else but Opera, MS would think long and hard about crushing it.
No MS Office here, folks. (Actually, I think the one guy who has a laptop, who does his own maintenance, might be running Office 97 or something).
The rest of us I dragged to OpenOffice.org, and we haven't looked bad.
PowerPoint docs? Check. Word docs? Check. Excel? Check.
It works pretty well for us, thank you.
One or twice (but no more) I have encountered a problem where someone in the company received a document whose formatting got all screwed up on import.
They forwarded it to me, I fixed it, and sent it back.
Out of hundred of documents. The $299 (or whatever) licenses fee we had to pay per-seat is worth the couple hours of my time it too to fix those two documents.
Plus, (perhaps Office 2003 does it), I've sold EVERYONE on the export to.pdf. Of course, the people getting transitioned to Mac's already have them, and the linux people have it too, but the Windows crew get it as well, now.
In terms of document exchange, I find the.pdf have several advantages to sending someone a.doc.
I wish I could send out.sxw, but we just aren't in that day/age yet.
Just hours of configuration changes, and admins that are coders?
Seriously, that isn't that much of a requirement. Anyone doing enterprise level roll-outs is going to be spending THAT much time, and that many SKILLED manhours doing the rollouts anyways.
For companies running custom apps, that they have the source to, or they desgined themselves, or that they have a good relationship with the supplier for, Mono represents a great way to move back and forth between.NET and *ix.
Yes, it some cases, it will take some elbow grease. Hopefully (and the goal is), it will not take an insane amount of work.
Paralell source trees are not the devil.
And eventually, it will offer the claimed portability, either through practice or technically.
Through practice: Enough people are using Mono to know not to use.NET features that Mono can't handle.
Technically: Mono gets enough funding to just whoop.NET's ass.
Personally, I think the first is more likely, and not even that difficult depending upon the context.
If you get the SuSE Wine Rack, ($39.99) You get, Codeweavers Wine, Codeweavers WinePlugin (doesn't exist anymore, integrated into Codeweavers Wine) Transgaming WineX,
Integrated into SuSE, and with updates through YaST.
Pretty cool, and cheaper to boot.
I don't mind the $5 month plan, either, and I was subscribed to it for some time.
Its hard to make money with few customers, and they, for the most part, produce a product that works pretty damn well.
If transgaming could get several major distributors to license WineX for inclusing into their distribution, or get several major gaming houses to fund WineX development, I'm sure they would GPL it.
They really are good guys, but if they want to have a team working full-time to produce software, someone has to feed them.
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$160 will buy you a 20 gig USB2 RCA Lyra personal jukebox.
It is terrible for playing MP3s (locks up every 20-30 minutes while playing), but is fine for portable storage.
Sam's club, baby.
All you gotta do is remeber to charge it. Not the fastest device in the world, either, but it has a nice hard rubber foam case.
Unless you plan on booting from it or something, I'd recommend it for portable storage.
I know must people hate the company, but I really dig SuSE.
Their manuals are good, their configuration tool is pretty noob friendly, and if you figure out their weird directory structure, their setup makes a lot of sense.
AFAIK, SuSE is still issuing security updates for 7.1, which came out in 2001. (9.1 is the latest SuSE).
Feel free to use apt4rpm to keep your system up to date, as well, or use YaST (the SuSE configuration tool/package manager).
SuSE has a free FTP edition install (I think they may have isos as well), but with the recent license changes, I think the ~$70 for the boxed set DVD professional edition is well worth it.
You get ~400 pages in manuals, 2 DVD, and 7 CD-Roms, and are permitted to install it on as many computers as you like.
Just my 2 cents.
I don't run it anymore, but afaik, SuSE is still releasing security updates for 7.0, which was released in 2000.
So perhaps not 5-years, but 4.
Beyond that, kernel 2.2 is relatively stable.
Add a decent firewall, don't run many servers (we are talking about home), and your 5 year old linux is gonna run just fine.
Actually, no problem simulating one in a computer.
We could probably even convince ourselves that there would be no risk, assuming no system failures.
The problem would be:
a)What happens if the magnetic fields collapse? (oops, no more planet?)
b)What if we are wrong? What if we forgot something in the simulation?
We know alot about the mathematical construct of a singularity.
We have never encountered one, and indeed, most of our mathematics suggests we would have great difficulty interacting with it.
Not that this matters, mind you---it's pretty unlikely we'll be able to make one.
Well, I'm presuming if we had the capabilities to create one, we could manipulate it with extremely intense magnetic fields, or something.
Not that it wouldn't be dangerous, and I certainly wouldn't want one in my backyard (planet).
My point was more general---If a singularity 'ate' the moon, weird things would certainly happen.
But the mass would remain in orbit around the earth.
Science Pr0n.
Coming soon on a monitor near you.
Don't be so dense.
Iraq != Taliban, or Al-Qaeda.
I agree with the war in Iraq, however, for entire different reasons.
Get your shit straight, and then it will make more sense.
U.S. has maintained a virtual occupation (containment) of Iraq since Desert Storm 1. We had no exit strategy.
We could have either a) left the area, pulled out our planes, and let Saddam did as he wanted, b) invaded, and force regime change, or c) maintain the SQ, shooting SAM sites, and occasionally have a plane shot down by Saddam's troops.
My opinion, B) was the best idea.
Unfortunately, we didn't consult the international community, we decided to pin it on WMD, we didn't bother to try and force Saddam out of power, and we still maintain that regime change was a fiction necessitated by WMD.
Saddam was a complete asshole, but our diplomatic efforts surrounding his removal were beyond terrible.
Anyways, these people (Iraqs) did not declare war on us. Infact, they never declared war on anyways.
Their autocratic fascist dictator declared war on Kuwait, and we only just now decided to end his rule.
A Comedy of Errors.
It's not that hard.
.
You throw things at it.
Other than the whole nothing able to leave the event horizon thing, it's just an object, with momentum, mass, etc . .
If you have a 1000Gg singularity (yes, thats absolutely tiny, but it might be what we would create in a laboratory), you could 'hit' it with objects, and they would 'push' it.
That's assuming it's not so small as to simply pass through anything.
The idea of a teeny-weeny laboratory singularity is not, actually, totally crazy.
Just mostly crazy. Extremely high desity != high mass.
Remember, density = mass/volume. You get a blackhole when you smash something hard enough to overcome the positive neutron pressure.
Which is pretty high, high enough that I'm not certain we'll get there anytime soon, but definetely within the realm of possiblity.
After all, if we made a blackhole (singularity), it's not probable we'll manufacture it with a mountain's worth of material, or a planet's worth.
More likely, it would just be a few errant particles we smashed together.
Kind of a neat thought, eh?
You misunderstand.
Jane Boxwine wishes to continue using her computer the way she has always used it.
She doesn't want to put new apps on it. We aren't saying that she needs a Windows XP upgrade in order to install Windows XP apps.
We are saying that she needs a Windows XP upgrade in order to be able to use her computer.
It's a fundamentally different question.
If you want to use the latest apps, yeah, perhaps you have to upgrade your OS.
There is no reason that your 5 year old OS, though, should go 'stale'
To see the forest through the trees.
This is not a move by MS to make Windows avaliable to those from countries with a lower purchasing power parity.
This is a move by MS to say, "Well, we CAN blame them for pirating our XP Pro, because we did make XP (cheapo version) avaliable, and THEY, the bastards, decided to pirate XP Pro anyways."
Good cop, Bad cop. Now they can send in the jackbooted thugs with a clean conscious, or, at least, a slightly less dismal public relations 'spin'.
3 Apps? Please. Absurd. Ridiculous.
MS spent far more time making sure that no one would be interested in running XcheaP, so us, in the rest of the world, wouldn't get a lightweight XP.
Think about it--- XP, with all the cruft stripped out? And cheaper, to boot?
Just a pedal to the medal operating system capable of running the apps I want, instead of the apps MS thinks I should be running?
Hah. Right. Need to lay off the crack.
Glad none of the 8 computers in my home, or the computers I maintain in the office, run windows anymore.
Screw this nonsense. I laugh at your outrage. Between Linux/Mac OS X, I can do anything I need to do.
Cheers,
WhiteWolf
Absolutely shocked, that Battlefield Earth is not lower no the list.
Come on, 24th place?
Should be bottom 5, at least.
Everything about that movie is beyond the worst abyss of terrible any human creation has ever reached.
Probably was created by Hubbard's Space Aliens(TM).
Hmm.... In fact, I suspect the Scientologists try to drive the rating up, so perhaps it is artificially inflated.
Nothing in that movie was done right.
In fact, the degree to which it is bad makes it quite fun.
The camera is broken (or, at least, almost always at either a -30 or 30 degree angle). The lighting is totally fucked up. Unpleasant earth tones or greens.
Acting. Dispicable.
Script? Obnoxious, at the best of times. Big fat aliens tromping around speaking about how they are better than the 'man animals'.
Plot? Har Har. Stupid capitalism aliens are trying to rape the universe.
Ending? Even better. 'man animals', wearing loin clothes, no less, and running around in the wilderness, find old man-tech (F16s), and fly them around, still wearing their loinclothes.
These F16s, which proved useless the last time the aliens invaded, whoop ass this time---ostensibly because they are wearing loin clothes instead of flight suits.
Then, one nuclear bomb blows up the aliens homeworld, and the 'man animals' win.
Sweeeeeeeeeeet.
Totally Sweeeeeeeeeet.
In fact, I find it's 'badness' an alluring 'replusion'.
Must hate myself.
I think I nearly pissed myself laughing when I watched that movie.
It's already been said several times, but I'll say it again, in a top-level thread.
Why the hell did they compare an Athlon 64 to a Xeon?
Either compare an Opteron, or an Athlon FX.
This is not a straight comparison.
The Athlon FX is significantly faster than its cheaper Athlon 64 brethren.
Either compare chips on a fair 'cost' basis, or compare chips on a fair 'market-segment' basis.
Might as well have compared the celeron to an opteron.
Look! The Opteron TROUNCES the Celeron!!
WoW!
Note: I'm not saying this Xeon won't beat the Opteron, or the Athlon FX.
Just that the comparison between the Athlon 64 and the Xeon is stupid.
I wonder....
:)
Perhaps a Mozilla extension, doing stuff with cache files?
Everyone set a big cache, while your at it?
Hmmm...
Dream on
Sorry, I don't really buy it.
I understand that they spend a lot of money on their labs-- They are MS, after all, they have plenty to spend.
I understand they hire many extremely qualified and bright individuals. Once again, plenty of $$.
But, pray tell, what kinda of neato next-generation stuff is MS coming up with? I didn't see a single thing on their 'All Research Projects' page that blew my mind.
The sensea-cam? Low cost wall displays? (yeah, right) New cryptography algorithms?
Very little on their projects page looks terribly sophisticated to me.
In fact, I'd argue that their development machine is excellent, while their research is sub-par.
Yes, yes, their software is buggy. But there sure is a hell of a lot of it. And there is a lot of functionality there.
But cutting edge GUI design? Apple has them beat. (And some would say Gnome/KDE do too).
Hardware design? Give me a break, they have NOTHING on companies like HP, and their 'designs' are a joke compared with the sort of research that IBM, Intel, and TI do.
Next-gen OS design? Har-Har.
Search and database technology? That's laughable too.
Microsoft researches a bit of everything, but only enough to determine which of their competitors is on to something big.
Then they follow their competitors lead, and do the same thing, cheaper. Or force their competitors out of the market using monopolistic tactics.
You'll basically never convince me that anything MS ever does holds a candle to IBM's or Intel's materials science divisions.
MS research is, at best, stuff that looks 3-5 years to the future. IBM researchs all of that stuff, plus stuff that is 25-50 years in the future.
Just compare the patents that IBM is granted each year to the patents that MS is granted each year.
Perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps they have something crazy down at area 51.
But I'll believe it when I see it. . . .
Ummm.. I agree with a lot in your post,
but you are WAY off about IBM.
Microsoft 'research & innovation' (if you are willing to call it that), has NOTHING on IBM. IBM is on the bleeding edge of MANY advanced engineering techniques, with really fantastic stuff in such fields like quantum computing and advanced materials (semiconducter).
MS is working on MS Bob. And reinventing Win32 as Avalon.
It's not just some research. IBM, every year for the last 10 years, has filed more patents then the next 10 companies/organizations put together. Sure, some of these are BS patents on rather silly things, but many are serious patents on products really worthy of patent protection.
IBM labs lets people loose to research whatever they want, really long-term stuff---Stuff that won't pay off for 20 years.
MS is worried about tomorrow. MS missing the boat means they are done for---they need to survive every generation.
IBM missing the boat means that they get to play again in round 2, round 3, and round 100.
I have a great deal more respect for IBM's research--- It is brilliant stuff, it is way ahead of its time, and it will change the world.
that the killer worm hasn't come yet.
:( :( :( :( :(
Seriously.
Not that I'm looking forward to that day, as it means that I'll spend a WHOLE lot of time fixing other people's computers
But all the 'I Told You Sos' might be worth it.
Given that these worms are getting to be pretty sophisticated in how they spread (IIS server exploit ->IE activeX exploit), and given that although MS does a 90% good job in patching them, the poor rate of patch (what? patch my computer? but it works fine), and total reluctance to switch to non-MS products (The VP of our company refused to switch from MS, even after the CERT warning. "Why would I want Mozilla or something? MS just released a patch for that problem you are talking about"), I'm STUNNED that someone hasn't gone nuts, and torched the Windows World(TM).
No terrorist group, no crazy psychotic hackers, no insane foreign governments.
No Russian organized crime group holding a corporation hostage.
Nothing. Nada. Zilch.
Strange.
I still think its coming. Perhaps I'm just a pessismist, but I think that 'cyberwar' may still be on our horizon, and even if you, Ms. Super-Smart-Geek is able to protect your system, 90% of the windows world will not be able to.
And instead of spam, we'll see permanent bios corruption, or something else, that will simply f*ck their computers.
I'm scared of it, anyways. I only hope that it happens far enough in the future that I can earnestly say, "I can't fix that, I using Windows back in the 2000-era, I don't know anything about your XP-SE, your Longhorn, etc. . . "
I spend too much of my time on service calls as it is, for my parents, for my officemates, for my relatives, and for my friends.
I try to 'train' them on how to manage a system properly, but its honestly hopeless.
I'm pretty savy, but back in the day when I ran them, my Windows systems STILL got screwed up sometimes (not often, but occasionally).
I can totally understand (but not sympathize) when my sister comes back to me and her laptop has got a bazillion pop-up-ware things installed.
I'll feel bad for her when/if her laptop gets trashed by a virus, but.... I told her to get a mac.....
Oh well, ce la vie.
I'll live through the storm, anyways, and so will my backups of the company data.
My cars have those keyless entry things.
None of you will believe me, anyways.
One day, I parked near a friends house, around Southport/Addison (chicago). I was (at the time) driving a 1998 Black Sebring.
When I came back to pickup my car, there was a white saturn in front of it.
Push unlock. The headlights, and the horn on both cars flash/beep.
Weird.
Push lock. The headlights, and the horn on both flash/beep twice.
Weird.
Repeat.
Wow... It kept working.....
What are the chances against that? 80 billion to 1?
Craziness..
Why can't I win the lotto, instead?
I'd like to take this opportunity to emphasize the negatives of an unhealthy competitive market.
When monopolists crush the competition, and you have one company with 95% marketshare, that company gets lazy.
It produces shitty products, slows development (compare development now with when they were trying to crush netscape), all the while making monopoly profits.
Thankfully, the GPL seriously reduces the barriers to entry, because it would be DAMN hard to get either Gecko/Mozilla or KHTML/Konqueror/Safari relicensed and 'shut-down', or integrated into the MS lineup.
Mark my words, if there was no one else but Opera, MS would think long and hard about crushing it.
Monpoly bad, folks, m-kay?
You might be right in some situations, but.
.pdf. Of course, the people getting transitioned to Mac's already have them, and the linux people have it too, but the Windows crew get it as well, now.
.pdf have several advantages to sending someone a .doc.
.sxw, but we just aren't in that day/age yet.
Our office ONLY runs OpenOffice.org.
No MS Office here, folks. (Actually, I think the one guy who has a laptop, who does his own maintenance, might be running Office 97 or something).
The rest of us I dragged to OpenOffice.org, and we haven't looked bad.
PowerPoint docs? Check. Word docs? Check. Excel? Check.
It works pretty well for us, thank you.
One or twice (but no more) I have encountered a problem where someone in the company received a document whose formatting got all screwed up on import.
They forwarded it to me, I fixed it, and sent it back.
Out of hundred of documents. The $299 (or whatever) licenses fee we had to pay per-seat is worth the couple hours of my time it too to fix those two documents.
Plus, (perhaps Office 2003 does it), I've sold EVERYONE on the export to
In terms of document exchange, I find the
I wish I could send out
Don't need to switch from WinForms to GTK.
Hopefully, just tweak your app so that it will work WITH WinForms under Wine.
Wine's support will never be 100%, but perhaps you can structure it so that 90% will be good enough.....
Really?
.NET and *ix.
.NET features that Mono can't handle.
.NET's ass.
Just hours of configuration changes, and admins that are coders?
Seriously, that isn't that much of a requirement. Anyone doing enterprise level roll-outs is going to be spending THAT much time, and that many SKILLED manhours doing the rollouts anyways.
For companies running custom apps, that they have the source to, or they desgined themselves, or that they have a good relationship with the supplier for, Mono represents a great way to move back and forth between
Yes, it some cases, it will take some elbow grease. Hopefully (and the goal is), it will not take an insane amount of work.
Paralell source trees are not the devil.
And eventually, it will offer the claimed portability, either through practice or technically.
Through practice: Enough people are using Mono to know not to use
Technically: Mono gets enough funding to just whoop
Personally, I think the first is more likely, and not even that difficult depending upon the context.
depending on the $:bling ratio, the ride can get more pussy than a toilet seat
Bwahahah!
I dunno why, but that strikes me as so friggin' funny.
Spoken as a reformed geek working on 'bling-ing' my life up.
*grin*
Not to be an advocate.... But... I do love SuSE
If you get the SuSE Wine Rack, ($39.99)
You get,
Codeweavers Wine,
Codeweavers WinePlugin (doesn't exist anymore, integrated into Codeweavers Wine)
Transgaming WineX,
Integrated into SuSE, and with updates through YaST.
Pretty cool, and cheaper to boot.
I don't mind the $5 month plan, either, and I was subscribed to it for some time.
Its hard to make money with few customers, and they, for the most part, produce a product that works pretty damn well.
If transgaming could get several major distributors to license WineX for inclusing into their distribution, or get several major gaming houses to fund WineX development, I'm sure they would GPL it.
They really are good guys, but if they want to have a team working full-time to produce software, someone has to feed them.
How about running Win 95 or Win 3.11 in Bochs?
Bochs is the opensource x86 emulator/virtulizer.
There are performance problems on modern (XP era) applications, but older stuff will run just fine.
It's a sick twisted thing.
Malicious and cruel, it seeks to devour the web, and just cause mayhem.
In my minds eye, it looks something like a gremlin.
To Firebird's mogwai
*grin*