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As far as open phones go, there is really not much choice on that front. There is Openmoko which doesn't even have Edge/3G support or the T-Mobile G1 Android phone.
The up and coming Maemo from Nokia will have phone functionality along with a Debian based OS! I'm not sure but I think resolution restrictions can easily be dealt with on this phone.
The project is more stable than OpenMoko too... Only one toolkit switch.
I fully agree with the parent - and I think that 4.2 is very usable (still has bugs I admit) as I use it full time and have no desire to change to anything else. I have moved away from Gnome but I think that even the usability of Gnome far outstrips Windows.
I think the majority of the whining seems to come from the minority of users. If you want Mac go get a Mac, and leave the rest of us to peacefully do things the KDE/Gnome/Fluxbox/X way. The vocal minority also can't seem to grasp the concept that KDE 4.0 was a development release. You can't go from 0 to hero in one jump!
I would start with a LUG (assuming you the understand Open Source crowd) though it is very rare to see a female of the species there it will serve as a gentle introduction to interfacing with humans. You might not think that you are out of touch but even I as a teenager who had only been in the dark for about 2 years found it a culture shock.
You will know when you have the basics down when you feel comfortable attending and talking to most people in the LUG.
I think also a job change could put you well on your way. Put yourself in a position where you have to consider tact and professionalism (as a Consultant or even some sort of technician). When dealing with people becomes second nature then you are probably up to where I am.
I cannot offer any guarantee that you will be successful. From experience what I have said has worked well so far - though I can tell you the most difficult part of all of this is bringing yourself to definitively make the decision to grow up, get up, do something and stick to it.
Here's another thought - what about going back to some sort of schooling? University/College is probably a great place to meet people, especially if you intend to do so.
Every looks fine to me... Looks like they stylishly rounded just one corner of the box.
Title headers are perfect.
I'm running Debian Lenny with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.9) Gecko/2009050519 Iceweasel/3.0.9 (Debian-3.0.9-1) and it looks exactly the same in Konqueror in KDE 4.2
Perhaps you are the victim of yet more dodgy Ubuntu packaging?
Make sure you prepare the content on the USB sticks using un-patched Windows XP with no firewall or anti-virus. Perhaps some cracked games would be nice to include. The best cracks come the dodgiest looking crack sites.
I am a full time Linux user and every time I get on an XP machine it always excruciatingly slow. I tried Win 7 and I can confirm that it feels a whole lot faster than Win XP.
The consultancy company I work for uses Novell Teaming and a follows a structure described on the main page as:
"This documentation is based on the Network DNA framework, originally developed by Don Krause. Although this is not longer developed by Don, it provides a good starting foundation for documenting a computer network."
This template has been perfect. If you can find the same template and implement it in [insert your favourite Wiki software here(MoinMoin)] then this should be just fine and cost $0.
The Gentoo guys are quite often excellent and their wiki was great until the unfortunate incident...
You weren't trying to make a joke were you?
I totally agree with "Neither is Microsoft..." but even though it is a PITA to call manufacturers sometimes they really pull through and you wonder why you didn't call earlier.
From my experience as a Linux solutions based consultant I visit a lot of Microsoft based networks and the problems with both the servers and the desktops can almost always be attributed to lazy admins.
To be fair on [most of] the users, if you (the IT guy) tried to work their jobs for a day you would probably fail miserably - if they haven't been trained how are they to really know? They don't read Slashdot and don't know what Conficker is. This is why you can't depend on the majority of Windows admins because at the end of the day, they don't respect the importance of the IT infrastructure, the users of the network, the organization or the customers.
BSD would be too hard and expensive to implement. Why not a commercial distro with SELinux to make sure it is an extremely hard nut to crack? I think that would be the best way to spend tax-payer monies.
There is many consultants and support vendors for Linux and many people to create and run the systems. Linux admins are generally much more aware of how systems work so with good admins, enterprise grade distro and SELinux I think Linux can run "nation-critical" systems just fine... Just as long as you don't install Adobe Flash
9 times out of 10 issues like these usually can be attributed to lazy Windows admins.
The 1% market share figure is bogus. Just ignore it. Forget about it.
You can use statistics to prove anything, 90% of people know that.
The fact is, if you ignore this figure it WILL actually just go away because suddenly it has no effect!
On another note, how hard could it be to get at least get the major distros to have a unified database of both installs and active machines so that when Management asks about how widely used "this new fangled Lynux thing" is you can give them a REAL figure. Or you could just make one up and supplement it with real facts such as "it runs nearly all of the Internet's biggest sites".
Multisteating Windows is crap. But heres an idea of how it could be done with Windows. This idea does not involve Virtual Machines (not suitable for games) or RDP (also NOT SUITABLE FOR GAMES FOR THE LAST BLOODY TIME!).
He could use the BeTwin software which appears to give direct graphics access (good for games) - and then to deal with the fact that a lot of games (Like WoW) don't like to run two different sessions at once (unless you are on Wine) you can also do some Application Virtualization using Sandboxie (or Novell Zenworks Application Virtualization) to keep the two games somewhat separate. To fully separate the games you might need separate NICs, but they are a dime a dozen and you could probably get one for free.
Else you could buy a computer that could handle it for $300.
I have had a few incompetent IT it teachers - one of them even tried to teach me that the whole system was a CPU.
To be fair she was just a computer skills teacher (to teach grade 8's how to type, which she was good at).
I can totally see where the author of TFA is coming from.
I blame pop culture (and Microsoft).
Windows is a huge hassle out of the box. It takes ages to set up and get your programs installed and if something goes wrong it takes ages to diagnose and fix - else the solution is a re-install.
With Linux - drivers are in the OS and software is in the repositories ready to roll. Problems are solved by looking at the useful errors that occur when things go wrong. Simple.
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I As far as open phones go, there is really not much choice on that front. There is Openmoko which doesn't even have Edge/3G support or the T-Mobile G1 Android phone.
The up and coming Maemo from Nokia will have phone functionality along with a Debian based OS! I'm not sure but I think resolution restrictions can easily be dealt with on this phone.
The project is more stable than OpenMoko too... Only one toolkit switch.
I fully agree with the parent - and I think that 4.2 is very usable (still has bugs I admit) as I use it full time and have no desire to change to anything else. I have moved away from Gnome but I think that even the usability of Gnome far outstrips Windows. I think the majority of the whining seems to come from the minority of users. If you want Mac go get a Mac, and leave the rest of us to peacefully do things the KDE/Gnome/Fluxbox/X way. The vocal minority also can't seem to grasp the concept that KDE 4.0 was a development release. You can't go from 0 to hero in one jump!
I would start with a LUG (assuming you the understand Open Source crowd) though it is very rare to see a female of the species there it will serve as a gentle introduction to interfacing with humans. You might not think that you are out of touch but even I as a teenager who had only been in the dark for about 2 years found it a culture shock.
You will know when you have the basics down when you feel comfortable attending and talking to most people in the LUG.
I think also a job change could put you well on your way. Put yourself in a position where you have to consider tact and professionalism (as a Consultant or even some sort of technician). When dealing with people becomes second nature then you are probably up to where I am.
I cannot offer any guarantee that you will be successful. From experience what I have said has worked well so far - though I can tell you the most difficult part of all of this is bringing yourself to definitively make the decision to grow up, get up, do something and stick to it.
Here's another thought - what about going back to some sort of schooling? University/College is probably a great place to meet people, especially if you intend to do so.
Year of the Linux Desktop was last year didn't you hear?
Run along and download a distro. If you are quick enough people won't even notice you are still using Windows
Get with the times boy.
There was an article almost half a year ago about a demonstration of USB 3.0 throughput on Linux?
Look at the pics in TFA. The thing is rusted.
This isn't a 'bot - it's a sculpture at best!
Seriously, this thing would be in a garage or at least under tarp if it was a real working creation!
Video or it's BS!
Every looks fine to me... Looks like they stylishly rounded just one corner of the box.
Title headers are perfect.
I'm running Debian Lenny with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.9) Gecko/2009050519 Iceweasel/3.0.9 (Debian-3.0.9-1) and it looks exactly the same in Konqueror in KDE 4.2
Perhaps you are the victim of yet more dodgy Ubuntu packaging?
USB drives are great for spreading viruses so give them to all your friends and family. You should be proud if they use it because then your gift will spread to millions of people! Free Viagra emails and automatic bank logins for everyone!
Make sure you prepare the content on the USB sticks using un-patched Windows XP with no firewall or anti-virus. Perhaps some cracked games would be nice to include. The best cracks come the dodgiest looking crack sites.
Saves you $100 in a blink of an eye :)
Are you sure it does? My Win 7 RC has notepad.
I am a full time Linux user and every time I get on an XP machine it always excruciatingly slow. I tried Win 7 and I can confirm that it feels a whole lot faster than Win XP.
The consultancy company I work for uses Novell Teaming and a follows a structure described on the main page as:
"This documentation is based on the Network DNA framework, originally developed by Don Krause. Although this is not longer developed by Don, it provides a good starting foundation for documenting a computer network."
This template has been perfect. If you can find the same template and implement it in [insert your favourite Wiki software here(MoinMoin)] then this should be just fine and cost $0.
The Gentoo guys are quite often excellent and their wiki was great until the unfortunate incident...
You weren't trying to make a joke were you?
I totally agree with "Neither is Microsoft..." but even though it is a PITA to call manufacturers sometimes they really pull through and you wonder why you didn't call earlier.
True dat.
From my experience as a Linux solutions based consultant I visit a lot of Microsoft based networks and the problems with both the servers and the desktops can almost always be attributed to lazy admins.
To be fair on [most of] the users, if you (the IT guy) tried to work their jobs for a day you would probably fail miserably - if they haven't been trained how are they to really know? They don't read Slashdot and don't know what Conficker is.
This is why you can't depend on the majority of Windows admins because at the end of the day, they don't respect the importance of the IT infrastructure, the users of the network, the organization or the customers.
BSD would be too hard and expensive to implement. Why not a commercial distro with SELinux to make sure it is an extremely hard nut to crack? I think that would be the best way to spend tax-payer monies.
There is many consultants and support vendors for Linux and many people to create and run the systems. Linux admins are generally much more aware of how systems work so with good admins, enterprise grade distro and SELinux I think Linux can run "nation-critical" systems just fine... Just as long as you don't install Adobe Flash
9 times out of 10 issues like these usually can be attributed to lazy Windows admins.
The 1% market share figure is bogus. Just ignore it. Forget about it.
You can use statistics to prove anything, 90% of people know that.
The fact is, if you ignore this figure it WILL actually just go away because suddenly it has no effect!
On another note, how hard could it be to get at least get the major distros to have a unified database of both installs and active machines so that when Management asks about how widely used "this new fangled Lynux thing" is you can give them a REAL figure. Or you could just make one up and supplement it with real facts such as "it runs nearly all of the Internet's biggest sites".
Multisteating Windows is crap. But heres an idea of how it could be done with Windows. This idea does not involve Virtual Machines (not suitable for games) or RDP (also NOT SUITABLE FOR GAMES FOR THE LAST BLOODY TIME!).
He could use the BeTwin software which appears to give direct graphics access (good for games) - and then to deal with the fact that a lot of games (Like WoW) don't like to run two different sessions at once (unless you are on Wine) you can also do some Application Virtualization using Sandboxie (or Novell Zenworks Application Virtualization) to keep the two games somewhat separate. To fully separate the games you might need separate NICs, but they are a dime a dozen and you could probably get one for free.
Else you could buy a computer that could handle it for $300.
Well that's my two cents.
I have had a few incompetent IT it teachers - one of them even tried to teach me that the whole system was a CPU. To be fair she was just a computer skills teacher (to teach grade 8's how to type, which she was good at). I can totally see where the author of TFA is coming from. I blame pop culture (and Microsoft).
Windows is a huge hassle out of the box. It takes ages to set up and get your programs installed and if something goes wrong it takes ages to diagnose and fix - else the solution is a re-install. With Linux - drivers are in the OS and software is in the repositories ready to roll. Problems are solved by looking at the useful errors that occur when things go wrong. Simple.