I just wanted to point out (what I think in my opinion are) flaws in your argument.
1.) It's a whole lot easier....
Yes, it is a whole lot easier to buy a computer and use it than it is to reformat a system, install Win98 again (or use partition magic) and then install linux on another partition, get dual booting going, and configure all your hardware for linux.
But if you try to say INSTALL Win98 vs. Install Linux, Linux is more often much easier to install. Having set up probably 100 systems in my life, the later RH Linux versions typically get configuration settings right on the first shot. Win98 gets all confused and can't seem to stop wanting to add devices no matter how many times you tell it not to. (I just loved the day Win98 spontaneously added a Tv-Card to my system, automatically and without reason... I'm still looking for the card, I never bought or installed one, but it found one somewhere, so it must be in there hiding!:))
2.) Opinions of office vary greatly. Newbies like it. People who have learned to use it well like it. People like me who use it occasionally to write technical documents and are constantly interrupted by its "features" getting in the way and then having to hunt down ways to turn them off are quite ANNOYED by it.
I do agree with your point that Microsoft hasn't gotten to where it is just by being using dirty business practices. But thats not enough to get them off the hook. They did something illegal and they are going to pay for it. I don't think anyone can say they could be anywhere near where they are today if they had played nice.
- Useful Java applets are few and far between on the Internet, but when you build Intranet/Extranet applications, this is not the case.
- Yes, Java under Linux Netscape sucks. It's slow and contributes heavily to Netscape crashing (among about 5000 other factors). Everyone knows this. I'm not certain on this, but I believe a componentized architecture if properly implemented would be beneficial to solving this, as the JVM would not have to be an integral part of the browser. You could pick which JVM you wanted to use, and it would be easier for browser-makers to swap-in/out better JVMs as they become available. Of course, a browser that isn't a giant turd would also solve the problem.
- And then of course, there's Java's real niche which is not applets in web page, but multi-tiered enterprise applications (j2ee and all that good stuff). Not trying to start a flamewar or anything I just find it frustrating to see the sentence "Java is completely USELESS as things stand today"
I had a laptop stoling a couple years ago and was just wondering what typically happens to them? Do the thieves sell them as is or do they wipe the HD, install a fresh Win9x (or maybe the latest OpenBSD:)) and then take them to the swap meet? My laptop was a WinNT 4 Server used for demoing web apps, and I doubt the average thug would know what to do when he couldn't just hit ESC to bypass the password prompt. Maybe such systems just wind up in the trash? Are there actually big time laptop-thieving operations or do people just steal them because they can't afford to buy one capable of running Win2K? My apologies for the lack of facts and plethora of questions.
I know, its wrong and I'm a bad person for wanting them. Maybe the chemicals in the fabric of this fuzzy red foam sombrero I'm wearing are affecting my judgement, but I want my RPMs! I **NEED** RPMS! I cannot imagine another way that might allow the installation of software on Linux other than RPMs and that is why I need them SO BADLY!!!:)
A WEB BROWSER THAT CANT EVEN WORK WITH HOTMAIL YET
Hotmail tries to set an illegal cookie that is necessary for it to function. I heard somewhere that it tries to set a cookie for.passport.com, which is not legal because the site can only set cookies for ????.????.hotmail.passport.com or whatever the hostname of the hotmail box you're connected to is. I believe all most other browsers out there allow this cookie to be set, and that maybe Mozilla does not. I could be wrong on this being the reason that Mozilla does not function with Hotmail, but I am certain that Hotmail uses cookies illegally, and if every browser followed spec, hotmail wouldn't work AT ALL.
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I just wanted to point out (what I think in my opinion are) flaws in your argument.
1.) It's a whole lot easier....
Yes, it is a whole lot easier to buy a computer and use it than it is to reformat a system, install Win98 again (or use partition magic) and then install linux on another partition, get dual booting going, and configure all your hardware for linux.
But if you try to say INSTALL Win98 vs. Install Linux, Linux is more often much easier to install. Having set up probably 100 systems in my life, the later RH Linux versions typically get configuration settings right on the first shot. Win98 gets all confused and can't seem to stop wanting to add devices no matter how many times you tell it not to. (I just loved the day Win98 spontaneously added a Tv-Card to my system, automatically and without reason... I'm still looking for the card, I never bought or installed one, but it found one somewhere, so it must be in there hiding!:))
2.) Opinions of office vary greatly. Newbies like it. People who have learned to use it well like it. People like me who use it occasionally to write technical documents and are constantly interrupted by its "features" getting in the way and then having to hunt down ways to turn them off are quite ANNOYED by it.
I do agree with your point that Microsoft hasn't gotten to where it is just by being using dirty business practices. But thats not enough to get them off the hook. They did something illegal and they are going to pay for it. I don't think anyone can say they could be anywhere near where they are today if they had played nice.
- Useful Java applets are few and far between on the Internet, but when you build Intranet/Extranet applications, this is not the case.
- Yes, Java under Linux Netscape sucks. It's slow and contributes heavily to Netscape crashing (among about 5000 other factors). Everyone knows this. I'm not certain on this, but I believe a componentized architecture if properly implemented would be beneficial to solving this, as the JVM would not have to be an integral part of the browser. You could pick which JVM you wanted to use, and it would be easier for browser-makers to swap-in/out better JVMs as they become available. Of course, a browser that isn't a giant turd would also solve the problem.
- And then of course, there's Java's real niche which is not applets in web page, but multi-tiered enterprise applications (j2ee and all that good stuff). Not trying to start a flamewar or anything I just find it frustrating to see the sentence "Java is completely USELESS as things stand today"
I had a laptop stoling a couple years ago and was just wondering what typically happens to them? Do the thieves sell them as is or do they wipe the HD, install a fresh Win9x (or maybe the latest OpenBSD :)) and then take them to the swap meet? My laptop was a WinNT 4 Server used for demoing web apps, and I doubt the average thug would know what to do when he couldn't just hit ESC to bypass the password prompt. Maybe such systems just wind up in the trash? Are there actually big time laptop-thieving operations or do people just steal them because they can't afford to buy one capable of running Win2K? My apologies for the lack of facts and plethora of questions.
Where can I get some RPMs for RH6.1?
:)
I know, its wrong and I'm a bad person for wanting them. Maybe the chemicals in the fabric of this fuzzy red foam sombrero I'm wearing are affecting my judgement, but I want my RPMs! I **NEED** RPMS! I cannot imagine another way that might allow the installation of software on Linux other than RPMs and that is why I need them SO BADLY!!!
Thank you
As an added benefit, it would help everyone to maintain clean hard drives free of all junk files... deleting would just be too much fun!
Isn't Eazel just making the new GNOME 2.0 file manager "Nautlius?" More information would be appreciated!
A WEB BROWSER THAT CANT EVEN WORK WITH HOTMAIL YET
.passport.com, which is not legal because the site can only set cookies for ????.????.hotmail.passport.com or whatever the hostname of the hotmail box you're connected to is. I believe all most other browsers out there allow this cookie to be set, and that maybe Mozilla does not. I could be wrong on this being the reason that Mozilla does not function with Hotmail, but I am certain that Hotmail uses cookies illegally, and if every browser followed spec, hotmail wouldn't work AT ALL.
Hotmail tries to set an illegal cookie that is necessary for it to function. I heard somewhere that it tries to set a cookie for