This made me laugh after the three hours I spent trying to coax a friend's HP software to find her HP printer. I gave up in the end, uninstalled all the crap software that was also preventing Windows from accessing the printer and now it works quite happily.
Double click on a document. Word sits there for what seems like hours saying something like "Connecting to default printer. Press ESC to stop" so you give up and press ESC and start editing the document. Word promptly crashes. The workaround - set the default printer to Microsoft XPS and select the printer manually when you need it and wait the eternity it takes to communicate with the network printer. And sometimes it crashes again. WTF?
Most of the Windows software out there is not pre-packaged from major software houses but written by businesses in-house or a niche app that will never see a Linux version. What should we tell them? "Switch to Linux - all you have to do is rewrite all your applications"? Why is it that Linux advocates repeatedly forget that the majority of Windows desktops are in the workplace and that interoperability with their business systems is essential if Linux is to make any inroads. The barrier to entry is not Photoshop, it's not Office, it's something like Winscribe or some internal stock tracking system that the business depends on and will not be spending millions to rewrite. Why is it that openness and interoperability is so important to the community until it comes to the huge amount of Win32 apps? Then loads of people start frothing at the mouth about how WINE will prevent developers from creating native Linux apps. Here's a clue. While virtually no-one uses Linux desktops there will be virtually no native Linux apps from the major houses. You want a market for the Linux desktop you give businesses the opportunity to move as seamlessly as possible to it - not place insurmountable obstacles in their way.
I think they mean things like fitting windows, plumbing or car repair, where the job cannot be outsourced at all. Not factory work which was the first to disappear to the Far East.
My mum once gave me a book called "Cooking for Blokes" as a joke but it's probably one of the best presents I've ever had. It takes you through the basics from boiling an egg upwards to making various types of cuisine such as chilli, curry, Italian and Thai. I don't know how available it is in the US but I'm sure there's a "Cooking for Dudes" or somesuch available there. Learn how - it's very therapeutic, not to mention healthier.
No IE was on Windows long ago to prevent any threat that Netscape Navigator presented to their monopoly. They were subsequently found guilty of illegal monopoly maintenance due to this in the US courts.
That's unfortunate for the 50 million people who live in South Korea, however that still makes a Linux Live CD the ideal option for the majority of internet users whose banks aren't forced to use a government-mandated piece of software and/or have the sense not to tie an important part of their business to just the one piece of outdated software.
And then they'd have to pay shit tons to VMWare or Citrix so that they'd have some way of running all the Win32-only stuff they depend on and still end up paying for Windows licences. Ubuntu is not a drop in replacement for Windows just because Open Office can read and write.DOC and.XLS files.
Linux can be run from a CD/DVD where malware has a far far harder time getting the chance to do anything. Windows cannot. So therefore doing your internet banking that way is far far more secure than using any version of Windows, no matter how invulnerable you might pretend that it is.
No the OEMs installing Windows would put their own choice of browser on the PC without having Microsoft force their own choice on the user without any giving any means to remove it.
What would have happened if he'd have stolen it from the University DVD shop? Presumably he used the university's network to download it in violation of the contract he signed with them.
To be fair who gives a shit about them. They can mime to their crappy cover versions while the world moves on and renders them and their masters obsolete.
Yeh I cut out my 1.5-2l a day coca cola habit after my dentist told me that my latest filling was required due to acid erosion from that. And now I'm sleeping better and feel happier as a handy and free side effect:-)
They're only garbage to smelly 20 somethings. The members of the human race that have had sex with other people however enjoy simpler games that don't take hours at a time and require usage of non-words like "pwned".
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This made me laugh after the three hours I spent trying to coax a friend's HP software to find her HP printer. I gave up in the end, uninstalled all the crap software that was also preventing Windows from accessing the printer and now it works quite happily.
Yes that is indeed the most annoying bug/feature/moronic idea in Word and I have had to use it repeatedly at times.
Double click on a document. Word sits there for what seems like hours saying something like "Connecting to default printer. Press ESC to stop" so you give up and press ESC and start editing the document. Word promptly crashes. The workaround - set the default printer to Microsoft XPS and select the printer manually when you need it and wait the eternity it takes to communicate with the network printer. And sometimes it crashes again. WTF?
Most of the Windows software out there is not pre-packaged from major software houses but written by businesses in-house or a niche app that will never see a Linux version.
What should we tell them? "Switch to Linux - all you have to do is rewrite all your applications"? Why is it that Linux advocates repeatedly forget that the majority of Windows desktops are in the workplace and that interoperability with their business systems is essential if Linux is to make any inroads.
The barrier to entry is not Photoshop, it's not Office, it's something like Winscribe or some internal stock tracking system that the business depends on and will not be spending millions to rewrite.
Why is it that openness and interoperability is so important to the community until it comes to the huge amount of Win32 apps? Then loads of people start frothing at the mouth about how WINE will prevent developers from creating native Linux apps. Here's a clue. While virtually no-one uses Linux desktops there will be virtually no native Linux apps from the major houses. You want a market for the Linux desktop you give businesses the opportunity to move as seamlessly as possible to it - not place insurmountable obstacles in their way.
I think they mean things like fitting windows, plumbing or car repair, where the job cannot be outsourced at all. Not factory work which was the first to disappear to the Far East.
My mum once gave me a book called "Cooking for Blokes" as a joke but it's probably one of the best presents I've ever had. It takes you through the basics from boiling an egg upwards to making various types of cuisine such as chilli, curry, Italian and Thai. I don't know how available it is in the US but I'm sure there's a "Cooking for Dudes" or somesuch available there. Learn how - it's very therapeutic, not to mention healthier.
Shut up fartknocker uhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh.
No IE was on Windows long ago to prevent any threat that Netscape Navigator presented to their monopoly. They were subsequently found guilty of illegal monopoly maintenance due to this in the US courts.
That's unfortunate for the 50 million people who live in South Korea, however that still makes a Linux Live CD the ideal option for the majority of internet users whose banks aren't forced to use a government-mandated piece of software and/or have the sense not to tie an important part of their business to just the one piece of outdated software.
You doubt there are that many? What planet do you live on? And they can run through WINE without any trouble? Again what planet do you live on?
And why do Microsoft have the right to tell a customer what they can and can't do with their (the customer's) property?
Of course we do. Because the other x86 OSes have drivers for all the hardware on the market and can run Win32-only software without any problems.
And then they'd have to pay shit tons to VMWare or Citrix so that they'd have some way of running all the Win32-only stuff they depend on and still end up paying for Windows licences. Ubuntu is not a drop in replacement for Windows just because Open Office can read and write .DOC and .XLS files.
Linux can be run from a CD/DVD where malware has a far far harder time getting the chance to do anything. Windows cannot. So therefore doing your internet banking that way is far far more secure than using any version of Windows, no matter how invulnerable you might pretend that it is.
The safest way to access your bank account is to use a Linux live CD rather than any version of a malware-prone installation of Windows.
No the OEMs installing Windows would put their own choice of browser on the PC without having Microsoft force their own choice on the user without any giving any means to remove it.
What would have happened if he'd have stolen it from the University DVD shop? Presumably he used the university's network to download it in violation of the contract he signed with them.
You chose to break the law and were punished for it.
To be fair who gives a shit about them. They can mime to their crappy cover versions while the world moves on and renders them and their masters obsolete.
Yeh I cut out my 1.5-2l a day coca cola habit after my dentist told me that my latest filling was required due to acid erosion from that. And now I'm sleeping better and feel happier as a handy and free side effect :-)
Probably already part of the FUD machine.
They're only garbage to smelly 20 somethings. The members of the human race that have had sex with other people however enjoy simpler games that don't take hours at a time and require usage of non-words like "pwned".
Which the law would REQUIRE them to disconnect without due process.
Billy Bragg and the neo-Thatcherites who usurped the Labour name have very little in common.
Amateurs such as IBM, Sun, Oracle and even Microsoft you mean?