Yeah, why don't you go set that up? I'm sure that a judge will be just ecstatic to hear about how a bunch of people using a free service are upset at what the people providing the free service want to do with it. I'll sign up just as soon as I can . . .
Closest I could find at CompUSA's site was this one. It seems that, from the (awful, low-quality) image, it doesn't have quite the round "hump" in the middle of the keyboard that the MS ones have. (I found a whole bunch that were like that.) I found those to be very uncomfortable. But if you can find out where to get one that does, I'm all ears.:)
Yeah, I suppose that's one way of solving the problem.:P Of course, stealing the keyboard would only harm the store, as they'd just buy another one from Microsoft to replace the one they didn't have anymore. So in the end, I may as well have just bought the keyboard. Drat.
On the other hand, I've fonud that regular keyboards aren't that much of a problem for me (although when the carpal tunnel bug eventually bites me, I'm sure I'll have something different to say about it).
No, the branch has just been closed; I'm guessing for new features of any sort. They're still going to be testing and doing bugfixes and stuff. Check out the roadmap for more info. It'll be a little while yet before 1.0 is actually out.
There's gotta be something else wrong . . . I use Mozilla on all my machines, and while it does take longer than I'd like to load on some of them, it seems entirely usable once it's up on all of them. My systems:
450MHz P2, 92MB memory, dual-boot linux/windoze
400MHz P2, 64MB, Windoze
833MHz P3, 256MB, Linux (well, of course it's gonna be good on this one)
It also ran acceptably well on my 233MHz Cyrixorwhatever w/ 92MB memory before I swapped the motherboard out (dual-boot linux/windoze). Honestly, I haven't seen speed problems like those in a long time (I've been using it since M18).
When my old Microsoft Natural Keyboard bit the dust awhile ago, I went on a search for a new ergonomic keyboard and was extremely disappointed with what I found. It probably would have been better had I not developed an aversion to buying Microsoft products since I had originally bought the keyboard. There were tons of Microsoft keyboards that looked simply wonderful, but I couldn't bring myself to allow even a dime of mine slip into Microsoft pockets.
Some Logitech keyboards looked okay, but all of them that I found were cordless, which is something I don't want. In the end I settled for some cheap $10 non-ergonomic replacement because nothing fit the bill.
I'm guessing that Microsoft's got some sort of patent on the contour-shape of the Natural keyboard because nobody else seems to have them. Even the Logitech cordless ones weren't quite as good.
I just picked up some CD shelving from Media Play last weekend that stores 532 CDs and cost me twenty dollars. But if you feel like paying that much, feel free to send me the extra money instead . . .
Heh, I hadn't thought about that. It'll certainly be a problem when there's three people left who understand how to recover when the ATC system does go down.:P
And I'd feel safer having some sort of reliable mainframe or embedded system running air traffic control than Linux. Don't get me wrong; I love Linux and all that, but I'm rather glad that ATC systems are largely mainframe-based still. (I could be wrong about that, I suppose.)
I've tried out Wine for a few MS programs a few times, and I often seem to run into problems with the install process. Most of the time, the install program tells me that it's got to do this and that, and then reboot the machine before continuing on.
That's all fine and good, except that there's no Windows to be rebooted. Somehwere in the registry or whatever, that program's put an identifier so the next time Windows boots up, it'll run the rest of the installation program, but I don't know where that is. When I try and run the installation program again, it just gives me the same song-and-dance about needing to reboot, so I can never actually get the things installed! This is mostly the case with the "newer" MS products, like the Office 2k line.
What's nice about the Crossover Office thing (aha! this post is on topic) is that they've evidentally got an install procedure that actually WORKS, so that might be the answer I've wanted. Of course, now I'm in a position where I don't need to worry about running those MS programs, so I probably won't get it, but still.:)
I think the basic problem is that of time. If you're hired by a company to work on a piece of software, it's not a problem to spent 40+ hours a week doing nothing but working away at the software. Whereas if you have just volunteers, they'd probably very willingly spend 40+ hours a week if they could, but eventually they've gotta go to an actual job and get paid so they can eat.
Now just because you're working for a company doesn't mean that you can't be doing OSS development, and I think that OSS development is still a much more "productive" way to develop software, because in addition to the employees you've got working on the software, you'll cultivate a base of external coders who are excited about the project and care about it, too.
For people NOT on a company payroll to develop software, I think OSS is really the only way to go. Would Wine be doing any better if the volunteers decided to close the source and keep it to themselves? I suspect it'd be much further "behind" than it is right now (although I'm sure the Wine developers would object to the word "behind" there; sorry guys).
It's not the development model that's holding the software back; it's the available time to do it in. (How's that for a bold statement? <g>)
Yes, I have a deep and undying hatred of Bubble Sort and feel compelled to mock it openly at every opportunity. I need to do this because otherwise my ego would deflate to the point that I'd be a miserable stain of biologic waste slithering around on the floor.
What happens when your central server has to be sent away for a week to get fixed? Sure, if your terminal breaks down, you can just use another terminal, but if the main server breaks down you're still stuck at the exact same point you are now.
Now, what you could do, if you're willing to restrict yourself to x86 machines bootable from CDrom, is make yourself a little customized BBC (help out with GAR, it rocks!) with all the apps you need, then burn a bunch of copies and carry 'em around, leave 'em at work, etc.
Unfortunately, then you're still stuck with what to do with data. But hey, P2P's the hot pick of the year, right? Get together with a bunch of friends who have constant internet access and set up a little P2P network to share your docs across a number of physically-seperated machines. You'll have to figure out something more cagey for taking care of sensitive data, but I suppose if you trust the people you're P2Ping with and encrypt using keys stored on the BBC (you could even restrict access to the P2P network based on keys), you'd probably be pretty safe.
I suppose if you're using that kind of encryption, you probably don't want to leave the BBCs all over the place like I suggested, but whatever. I digress.
I'm guessing you're looking for something a bit easier, though.:P
. . . wasn't most of the problem just with the major news sites? When all hell broke loose last September, the majority of the "net" seemed to be functioning basically as usual, and it was just the news websites that were being hit.
Were there other problems I just didn't notice? I'm guessing that the government won't need to have priority access to cnn.com if something like that happens again.
Heck, even then, the servers themselves seemed to be the bottleneck. Load levels were pegged beyond comprehension, but I was under the impression that the infrastructure itself held up well. Once again, I could be entirely mistaken about that.
Did anyone here notice the little bit in Jhonen Vasquez' comic Johnny the Homicidal Maniac between the panels in one of the issues that features a little marshmallow peep saying, "I am a marshmallow peep?"
That was a great scene.
Or was it Squee? Whichever. Classic in either case.
I suppose I'm probably just spoiled by having a lot of space; snagged an unbelievable apartment a few years ago that continues to be one of the major factors keeping me from moving out of the area. Having a tower really isn't a space problem, especially when I like keeping computers out of the main living areas (otherwise I've found I spend WAY too much time poking around on the computer when I should really be acknowledging the existance of my girlfriend.:P ).
. . . that's pretty cool, but still, give me a huge freaking tower any day. I don't mind carting aroud a behemoth of a case so long as I've got enough room to live in there if need be.:)
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Yeah, why don't you go set that up? I'm sure that a judge will be just ecstatic to hear about how a bunch of people using a free service are upset at what the people providing the free service want to do with it. I'll sign up just as soon as I can . . .
Absolutely . . . If you're pissed off at the various industries, just make your own art! It's not that difficult, and it's a heck of a lot of fun.
Closest I could find at CompUSA's site was this one. It seems that, from the (awful, low-quality) image, it doesn't have quite the round "hump" in the middle of the keyboard that the MS ones have. (I found a whole bunch that were like that.) I found those to be very uncomfortable. But if you can find out where to get one that does, I'm all ears. :)
Yeah, I suppose that's one way of solving the problem. :P Of course, stealing the keyboard would only harm the store, as they'd just buy another one from Microsoft to replace the one they didn't have anymore. So in the end, I may as well have just bought the keyboard. Drat.
On the other hand, I've fonud that regular keyboards aren't that much of a problem for me (although when the carpal tunnel bug eventually bites me, I'm sure I'll have something different to say about it).
No, the branch has just been closed; I'm guessing for new features of any sort. They're still going to be testing and doing bugfixes and stuff. Check out the roadmap for more info. It'll be a little while yet before 1.0 is actually out.
- 450MHz P2, 92MB memory, dual-boot linux/windoze
- 400MHz P2, 64MB, Windoze
- 833MHz P3, 256MB, Linux (well, of course it's gonna be good on this one)
It also ran acceptably well on my 233MHz Cyrixorwhatever w/ 92MB memory before I swapped the motherboard out (dual-boot linux/windoze). Honestly, I haven't seen speed problems like those in a long time (I've been using it since M18).Some Logitech keyboards looked okay, but all of them that I found were cordless, which is something I don't want. In the end I settled for some cheap $10 non-ergonomic replacement because nothing fit the bill.
I'm guessing that Microsoft's got some sort of patent on the contour-shape of the Natural keyboard because nobody else seems to have them. Even the Logitech cordless ones weren't quite as good.
Anyway, there's a few cents worth . . .
I just picked up some CD shelving from Media Play last weekend that stores 532 CDs and cost me twenty dollars. But if you feel like paying that much, feel free to send me the extra money instead . . .
Heh, I hadn't thought about that. It'll certainly be a problem when there's three people left who understand how to recover when the ATC system does go down. :P
And I'd feel safer having some sort of reliable mainframe or embedded system running air traffic control than Linux. Don't get me wrong; I love Linux and all that, but I'm rather glad that ATC systems are largely mainframe-based still. (I could be wrong about that, I suppose.)
That's all fine and good, except that there's no Windows to be rebooted. Somehwere in the registry or whatever, that program's put an identifier so the next time Windows boots up, it'll run the rest of the installation program, but I don't know where that is. When I try and run the installation program again, it just gives me the same song-and-dance about needing to reboot, so I can never actually get the things installed! This is mostly the case with the "newer" MS products, like the Office 2k line.
What's nice about the Crossover Office thing (aha! this post is on topic) is that they've evidentally got an install procedure that actually WORKS, so that might be the answer I've wanted. Of course, now I'm in a position where I don't need to worry about running those MS programs, so I probably won't get it, but still. :)
Now just because you're working for a company doesn't mean that you can't be doing OSS development, and I think that OSS development is still a much more "productive" way to develop software, because in addition to the employees you've got working on the software, you'll cultivate a base of external coders who are excited about the project and care about it, too.
For people NOT on a company payroll to develop software, I think OSS is really the only way to go. Would Wine be doing any better if the volunteers decided to close the source and keep it to themselves? I suspect it'd be much further "behind" than it is right now (although I'm sure the Wine developers would object to the word "behind" there; sorry guys).
It's not the development model that's holding the software back; it's the available time to do it in. (How's that for a bold statement? <g>)
Yes, I have a deep and undying hatred of Bubble Sort and feel compelled to mock it openly at every opportunity. I need to do this because otherwise my ego would deflate to the point that I'd be a miserable stain of biologic waste slithering around on the floor.
lol. See, its uses go on and on! Soon we'll find it cleaning up the environment and solving all of the world's complicated social problems!
Does the Bubble Sort algorithm count as important?
Now, what you could do, if you're willing to restrict yourself to x86 machines bootable from CDrom, is make yourself a little customized BBC (help out with GAR, it rocks!) with all the apps you need, then burn a bunch of copies and carry 'em around, leave 'em at work, etc.
Unfortunately, then you're still stuck with what to do with data. But hey, P2P's the hot pick of the year, right? Get together with a bunch of friends who have constant internet access and set up a little P2P network to share your docs across a number of physically-seperated machines. You'll have to figure out something more cagey for taking care of sensitive data, but I suppose if you trust the people you're P2Ping with and encrypt using keys stored on the BBC (you could even restrict access to the P2P network based on keys), you'd probably be pretty safe.
I suppose if you're using that kind of encryption, you probably don't want to leave the BBCs all over the place like I suggested, but whatever. I digress.
I'm guessing you're looking for something a bit easier, though. :P
Were there other problems I just didn't notice? I'm guessing that the government won't need to have priority access to cnn.com if something like that happens again.
Heck, even then, the servers themselves seemed to be the bottleneck. Load levels were pegged beyond comprehension, but I was under the impression that the infrastructure itself held up well. Once again, I could be entirely mistaken about that.
And all this time I've been happy and content with my l0s3r case that probably doesn't even make the three-foot mark. Oh, shame on me. :P
This reminds me of our Solar System's Image Upgrade . . .
That was a great scene.
Or was it Squee? Whichever. Classic in either case.
I suppose I'm probably just spoiled by having a lot of space; snagged an unbelievable apartment a few years ago that continues to be one of the major factors keeping me from moving out of the area. Having a tower really isn't a space problem, especially when I like keeping computers out of the main living areas (otherwise I've found I spend WAY too much time poking around on the computer when I should really be acknowledging the existance of my girlfriend. :P ).
. . . that's pretty cool, but still, give me a huge freaking tower any day. I don't mind carting aroud a behemoth of a case so long as I've got enough room to live in there if need be. :)
(okay, so I just wanted to try out my new .sig . . .)
Yeah, yeah, I thought of that a couple of seconds after I hit "Submit." I'm so bad with coming up with titles. :P