No because the oligarchy are busy exporting blue-collar jobs to 'competitive' countries i.e. vicious dictatorships. No, he or she will be on welfare and under constant harassment to take a minimum wage job in McDonalds, because, as you know, all the unemployed are scroungers and welfare-dependent. I'm a Limey, but the same rant applies over here too.
Vote Nader then, instead of complaining. You have a choice, send a message to the monopolists and cartels that you've had enough. OK, so I'm a Brit, but the same shit that goes down in the US oozes across the pond a couple of years later to the 51st state.
It's not just vendors that this happens at. I worked long hours at a bank not long ago, as part of a team trying to meet a ludicrous deadline. Mistakes were made, and the software went into production in a horrible mess. The result of this - all the bosses got fat promotions. There needs to be a whole sea-change in IT management thinking before any change occurs, and judging by client-server, downsizing, Y2K and now the internet, it isn't going to happen anytime soon.
You express them like this: -1
Hard huh? COBOL is still one of the most widely-used and highly-paid skills in computing - your bank statement and electricity bills are probably produced by COBOL programs. Not that I'm defending it totally - after 10 years of badly-written megasystems I need a career change:)
The law is not always the same as justice. But you Americans have the power - vote against the 2 corporate parties in November. Don't sit there bitching - give up half an hour of slashdot to go and vote for someone else - a decent turn out will at least send a message.
Yeah right, so why is it that I pay 12 pounds a month with a free mobile, 12 pounds being around $19. GSM standardisation means that one mobile company builds a mast, all the other phones are compatible with it and so all the companies share the coverage. You yanks are miles behind us in mobile technology, so don't be upset when we rag you about it. After all, I've been hearing the ludicrous remark 'Europeans are less tech-savvy than Americans' for about 2 years now. Nice to know the old world can still beat the new one at some things. Now scuse me while I go and get a chisel to remove this chip from my shoulder.
I can't see anything mentioning a Notes client on developerWorks. Can someone point me to the relevant page, as I can go to the PC team and suggest a Linux desktop trial.
Galeon is great for most sites already, although there's no Java or Javascript which makes it useless for my webmail. But for standard browsing it's just what I need.
Check it out here
Replace idiot with 'did a 2 week MCSE course and was hired by someone who buys into the whole 'MCSE is all you need to admin NT' bull'. I agree, the SQL server exploit is not, strictly speaking, MS's fault, but then again, the piranha issue wasn't either - contrast the media hysteria.
That's what this article is about.
Installation/configuration program errors (or confusing instruction) have a smaller chance of being fixed than similar errors would on Windows/MacOS, because: Someone has to notice the errors, find out who to report them to, and actually report them. Some programmer, somewhere, has to decide that he/she wants to fix this in his/her spare time. And we all know how exciting it is to work on installation/configuration programs.
This is a fallacy, as the installer programs (with the exception of Debian) are written by programmers at companies that give 90 days telephone support, so if they get a lot of phone calls about something, you can almost guarantee it will be sorted out.
Please. You can make it look anyway that you want. The amount of themes available are huge, so why not download some of them and carry on. I prefer KDE, but if GNOME overtakes it on features (not meaningless eye-candy) then I'll consider switching.
This is just a vapourware attack on their competitors, just like.NET, just like the X-Box, just like everything else they've ever done. Don't kid yourselves people, if Office ever natively runs on Linux, it will be using WINE.
As it has been said before, Netscape have not had enough resources to compete effectively with a monopoly aggressively defending it's marketing position.
Konqueror, the KDE web browser, is almost ready now. I've been using it for a few weeks and it is standards-compliant and supports whatever JVM you give it. It's still a bit flaky, but not as much as NS4.7. Mozilla is also starting to look good, but still doesn't support Java on Linux. If you can do without Javascript try galeon which is built using the Mozilla rendering engine, and finally there's nautilus which is still not finished but supports all the things you want.
Why then does IE crash and crash explorer.exe which requiring a reboot. A buggy driver or app should not bring down the system, and perhaps MS would like to address the stability issue before everything else. NT/2000 is loads better than 9x, but that's hardly a good comparison.
It doesn't actually have anything except a lot of vapour at the moment, Microsoft may promise all these amazing features, but watch some of the features disappear as the shipping date gets closer. What on earth would you want to display on 6 monitors anyway?
That is very annoying and it's also not possible to run the spreadsheet, for example, without opening the whole thing. Hopefully SO6.0 will be in smaller pieces so you don't have to do this any more. Let's wait and see.
Well said. The turnout for the US elections keep dropping to the point that loons like Pat Robertson get in. A substantial geek turnout for Nader would, at the very least, send a message to the 'evil of two lessers' that people can't stomach at the moment.
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No because the oligarchy are busy exporting blue-collar jobs to 'competitive' countries i.e. vicious dictatorships. No, he or she will be on welfare and under constant harassment to take a minimum wage job in McDonalds, because, as you know, all the unemployed are scroungers and welfare-dependent. I'm a Limey, but the same rant applies over here too.
Vote Nader then, instead of complaining. You have a choice, send a message to the monopolists and cartels that you've had enough. OK, so I'm a Brit, but the same shit that goes down in the US oozes across the pond a couple of years later to the 51st state.
It's not just vendors that this happens at. I worked long hours at a bank not long ago, as part of a team trying to meet a ludicrous deadline. Mistakes were made, and the software went into production in a horrible mess. The result of this - all the bosses got fat promotions. There needs to be a whole sea-change in IT management thinking before any change occurs, and judging by client-server, downsizing, Y2K and now the internet, it isn't going to happen anytime soon.
You express them like this: -1 :)
Hard huh? COBOL is still one of the most widely-used and highly-paid skills in computing - your bank statement and electricity bills are probably produced by COBOL programs. Not that I'm defending it totally - after 10 years of badly-written megasystems I need a career change
The law is not always the same as justice. But you Americans have the power - vote against the 2 corporate parties in November. Don't sit there bitching - give up half an hour of slashdot to go and vote for someone else - a decent turn out will at least send a message.
Well they'll have to put that on to stand a chance of making any money. If it doesn't run Windows, it's not a computer y'know.
News for American nerds, stuff that only matters to them. OK so I'm jealous OK. DBZ rules ;-)
Yeah right, so why is it that I pay 12 pounds a month with a free mobile, 12 pounds being around $19. GSM standardisation means that one mobile company builds a mast, all the other phones are compatible with it and so all the companies share the coverage. You yanks are miles behind us in mobile technology, so don't be upset when we rag you about it. After all, I've been hearing the ludicrous remark 'Europeans are less tech-savvy than Americans' for about 2 years now. Nice to know the old world can still beat the new one at some things. Now scuse me while I go and get a chisel to remove this chip from my shoulder.
I can't see anything mentioning a Notes client on developerWorks. Can someone point me to the relevant page, as I can go to the PC team and suggest a Linux desktop trial.
With all the vapour floating out of Redmond these days, shouldn't naked flames be banned within a five-mile radius.
Foolish, foolish boy. The correct link is here
Galeon is great for most sites already, although there's no Java or Javascript which makes it useless for my webmail. But for standard browsing it's just what I need.
Check it out here
Replace idiot with 'did a 2 week MCSE course and was hired by someone who buys into the whole 'MCSE is all you need to admin NT' bull'. I agree, the SQL server exploit is not, strictly speaking, MS's fault, but then again, the piranha issue wasn't either - contrast the media hysteria.
That's what this article is about.
Go away troll.
Installation/configuration program errors (or confusing instruction) have a smaller chance of being fixed than similar errors would on Windows/MacOS, because: Someone has to notice the errors, find out who to report them to, and actually report them. Some programmer, somewhere, has to decide that he/she wants to fix this in his/her spare time. And we all know how exciting it is to work on installation/configuration programs.
This is a fallacy, as the installer programs (with the exception of Debian) are written by programmers at companies that give 90 days telephone support, so if they get a lot of phone calls about something, you can almost guarantee it will be sorted out.
Please. You can make it look anyway that you want. The amount of themes available are huge, so why not download some of them and carry on. I prefer KDE, but if GNOME overtakes it on features (not meaningless eye-candy) then I'll consider switching.
This is just a vapourware attack on their competitors, just like .NET, just like the X-Box, just like everything else they've ever done. Don't kid yourselves people, if Office ever natively runs on Linux, it will be using WINE.
As it has been said before, Netscape have not had enough resources to compete effectively with a monopoly aggressively defending it's marketing position.
Konqueror, the KDE web browser, is almost ready now. I've been using it for a few weeks and it is standards-compliant and supports whatever JVM you give it. It's still a bit flaky, but not as much as NS4.7. Mozilla is also starting to look good, but still doesn't support Java on Linux. If you can do without Javascript try galeon which is built using the Mozilla rendering engine, and finally there's nautilus which is still not finished but supports all the things you want.
Why then does IE crash and crash explorer.exe which requiring a reboot. A buggy driver or app should not bring down the system, and perhaps MS would like to address the stability issue before everything else. NT/2000 is loads better than 9x, but that's hardly a good comparison.
First I must say that Unix was not for mainframes (which is a centralized system)
You mean 'was a centralized system 10 years ago, but is now as client/server as any Unix'
It doesn't actually have anything except a lot of vapour at the moment, Microsoft may promise all these amazing features, but watch some of the features disappear as the shipping date gets closer. What on earth would you want to display on 6 monitors anyway?
The RedHat as a standard is good PR work by RedHat and laziness on the part of some software writers. Sign the petition if you don't like it.
That is very annoying and it's also not possible to run the spreadsheet, for example, without opening the whole thing. Hopefully SO6.0 will be in smaller pieces so you don't have to do this any more. Let's wait and see.
Well said. The turnout for the US elections keep dropping to the point that loons like Pat Robertson get in. A substantial geek turnout for Nader would, at the very least, send a message to the 'evil of two lessers' that people can't stomach at the moment.