meanwhile, I ran across this site: http://www.r1edu.org run out of MIT that organizes what I am looking for.
The best options seem to be this certificate program from the University of Washington (note, the course descriptions actually suggest Linux rather than DOS or windows for your C programs; how far is this place from Redmond?). Or one of these courses from one of my alma maters, Cal Berkeley.
Anyone know anything of these programs. Good schools at least.
Actually, the credit itself is less important than satifying prerequisites. Once I enroll in the masters program, I will be able to take some additional classes in CS such as database design etc. that would really support my study in GIS, but these typically require certain prerequisite courses. I suppose any prereq can be waved if you convince the instructor, but this would be easier if I had completed a course rather than saying "I read the book".
Thanks for everybody's responses.
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Has anyone ever tried this: I was thinking that one could run Windows in a vmware session, have it connect through one of these win-only services, and then route packets through the virtual machine to the linux machine underneath. I don't know if this is possible or not. Doesn't Win98 have "intenet sharing" or something. Win2K should be able to route packets, although i've never tried it. You'd just have to figure out somewhay for it to be the default gateway.
If you could figure this out, then you could launch your vmware session, connect it to the free service, then minimize and go on. Of course, you have to give up all that ram running vmware.
Yeah, what's up with that? That has got to be most annoying non-feature of KDE2. At least you can sort by date, a feature that was sorely missing in KDE1.x. One step forward, one step back.
Uh, when did they start to support their apps under Linux? Oh sure, they released versions that ran on Linux (uh, well on WINE on linux), but they certainly didn't support them. There are tons of bugs, including WINE seg faults and lots of reports that upgrading to KDE2 kills WINE, printing something with a black and white bitmap uses exponentially increasing memory (and doesn't print), the just-die-and-loose-unsaved-edits bug that is a tad irritating. And the list goes on.
Don't get me wrong. I am the guy at work who refuses to switch to Word I love wordperfect the product (when it runs). And if they had given it away, I wouldn't be complaining. But I paid $100 for a product that doesn't work very well at all and Corel has done nothing to fix it.
That means that as something is about to be written to the disk, another item describing what is about to be done is written to the disk first (the journal).
OK, I understand that. But that being the case, how can it possibly by 15% faster than ext2 as people are claiming here. Are there that many inefficiencies in ext2 that are resolved in reiserfs?
I thought I remember reading that NTFS was slower than FAT32 because it used journalling. Is that the case? Is it at all relevant? Will I ever stop asking questions?
Cowboy Neal was one of the folks in with the Grateful Dead way back in the sixties. No, he didn't play with them, but I forget exactly how he related. Of course, he is always known for the line in "The Other One" that goes
"escaping through the lily fields I came out upon an open space"
"the space exploded; left a bus stop in its place"
"a bus came by and I got on"
"It was Cowboy Neal at the wheel of a bus to never-ever land"
I remember hearing an interview with Bob Wier once telling how there was a s usual a huge traffic jam on 101 just south of the San Francisco city Line until htere was some crazy guy cruising through really fast who miraculously could just keep moving without hitting anyone, and it turned out to be Cowboy Neal. That was the inspriration for that line in the song, supposedly.
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I have the RH 6.2 RPMs installed. The docbook help files just won't get converted to HTML. Yes, I went to the i18n.kde.org or whatever pages. Followed the instructions to the letter, and no luck. Others are having problems with this, too.
Anybody need to do anything else beyond what was in the instructions to get documentation to work?
I was a grad student at Berkeley in the mid-eighties (chem eng, was clueless about the whole BSD activity going on around me). My lab was in Lewis Hall (across the street from the Greek Theater).
I remember sometime probably around 1986 when there were piles of Suns being brought in for labs up on the fourth floor of Lewis Hall. I remember thinking "who are these guys Sun?" I thought there were more chemistry-type labs up on the fourth floor. Anybody reading this thread know what was up with all those boxes?
If customers do not renew or install an upgrade
product, they can still open, view and print their
existing documents.
Your data will still be yours
Not that I think this is a good idea. I can't see how some marketdroid wrote "which will provide customers with an exciting new opportunity to subscribe to the world's leading desktop productivity suite for an annual fee" with a straight face. How could forking over big $$ to MS every year possible be construed as exciting?
As a side note, anyone that thinks Open Office currently is feature comparable with MS Office is either kidding themselves or has never used Star Office for non-trivial documents. The same goes for Office compatibility. That said, I do have hope that Open Office will get there, someday.
>> No offense but, why is that so important?
No offense to you either, but it is of utmost importance if you have to exchange documents with clients. We (I work at an engineering consulting company) have to exchange tons of documents with our clients, and although we used to be a Word Perfect shop, we were force to turn to the dark side to provide our clients what they want. Most clients are asking for electronic reports in MS Office format. I've tried (well up through 5.1a, haven't checked the supposedly improved filters with 5.2) and SO just doesn't cut it on any files that get too fancy. The biggest problems is macros in spreadsheets. We have lots of them and they almost never work. And forget about presentations!
Also, although our clients don't require this, when you have multiple people working on writing a document, the "track changes" feature of Word is really helpful; and not available in SO.
So yeah, if you are just talking about you mom using it, it is fine. But I think the issue here is businesses using it.
One thing I never hear people talking about when the issue of on-line distribution of music comes up: Has nobody ever heard of a hard drive crash? What happens when someone's 30-gigger full of bought and paid for MP3s (or whatever format) crashes? Oh sure, you are supposed to back it up, but what percentage of the general public does that do you think? How much doe sit cost to send it off to a data recovery center? How many people know of that route? I predict within a year of two of music going mostly online-distributed you are going to get a lot of "human interest" stories about lost music libraries.
All configuration with my 3com OCLM ISDN router is through a web browser (miss the telnet interface of my old netgear, but that had shitty phone ports). The configuration pages use javascript. It wouldn't work with Konquerer.
OK, the is next thing technically is not as a browser, but using konquerer to try to download later snapshots of KDE 2 from ftp.kde.org, well it crashed it. Repeatedly. I was trying to download all the relative source tarballs by selecting htem all and dragging them to my local/src directory. Worked perfectly with kfm, but crashed with konquerer.
if those of us who have some competence at [coding; writing; art; design; auto repair; you name it] don't take it on, we and all our friends/coworkers will be cursed with incompetent bosses forevermore.
This is all fine and dandy when you are managing things that you have expertise in. I work for a engineering consulting company whose business is always changing. While it is great that the company is always trying to adapt, they don't really need my area of technical expertise as much. So what happens, well I, as a long-time employee, do management. Except, more often than not, I am managing stuff that I couldn't do myself, because of the shift in work areas.
So here I am in on Sunday working on revised project budgets, manpower planning, yuck! It's so distasteful, I have to break down and read Slashdot for relief. Ok I know, quit your bitching and find another job. I've heard that many times before!
Here's a clue: spend the $90 and get yourself a fucking 30GB hard drive
Um, perhaps because it won't fit into the iopener. Besides, what do you think is on the other end of the NFS mount? That's right a $90 hard drive sitting in a throw-away 386. Serves up mp3s just great, sitting out of earshot down in the basement. Meanwhile, I have a small, silent iopener next to my stereo feeding it my whole mp3 collection. You do know what an iopener is, don't you? The point was that you can get a pretty full function linux distro into only 16 MB if you wanted to. I don't think anyone was ever successful fitting any kind of stripped down windows variant into the 16 MB sandisk of the iopener.
I'm running a modified Jailbait distribution on my iopener in the 16 MB sandisk. Has netscape (i.e. runs X ofc ourse, with balckbox window manager), two mp3 players, and lots of other stuff. Runs a 2.4 pre kernel. Have to load the mp3s over NFS, of course;-) I cut out the mail and IRC programs to load the GUI mp3 programs.
Because there's more to life than shrink-wrapped hundred dollar office suites. AbiWord, Gnumeric, KOffice, are all coming. Additionally, StarOffice is being drastically reworked into something that doesn't suck.:)
sigh is right. I am in VMWare right now because of the limitations of all these Linux programs. I've tried them. And when they don't crash (WP and SO crash way more than any windows office suite), they still can't handle most of the files I work with. The files I have to work are not just for my use. They have to be used collaboratively and retain specific formatting features. These are lost when you resave them under a different program. Furthermore, "track changes" of Word is used extensively in these group projects, and this just isn't supported. There are plenty other such examples (especially excel macros that are essential).
The only viable solution is to use WP all the time (make sure you hit ctrl-S every character or so since wine crashes randomly and your backup isn't saved - read the corel newsgroups!). This handles the formating problems. Too bad my company is switching to word (over my complaining), and never did use quattro.
According to a post from Bero or some Redhatter here at Slashdot when the beta (6.9) was announced, it is because the new gcc compliler adds some binary compatibilities.
Anyone know more about this? Will it be the same mess as when we went from 4.2 to 5.0? That was a real mess.
Well, Freedonia (actually Fredonia) is about 40 miles south of here (Buffalo NY). Heck, it's not all that far from Celeron (OK, (Celoron) NY for that matter.
n the DeCSS case, the end goal was to create a Linux software DVD player. Linux, I think we can all agree, qualifies as existing alternative (and a Free one, at that). So, bypassing CSS in order to make a DVD viewable on Linux falls within allowable circumvention of an access control.
My question is whether the judge ignored this fact, or if this just wasn't stressed enough
during the case.
While I admit that I did not read the whole decision, I think that the Judge said that making a Linux DVD player was never the intention of deCSS, and that's why the exception didn't apply. He said that hte whole DVD-on-linux issue was brought up only as an excuse, and the real reason was piracy.
This ignores, of course the fact that deCSS was released via the Livid mail list (DVD-on-Linux). However, (and I may be mistaken somewhat here) the only binaries released were windows DLL's, which suggested use only for copying purposes.
"You know those AOL 6.0 CDs? I'm sure they have plenty of room for a certain browser."
Yes, I can see it now. AOL 6.0 comes out and, low and behld it erases IE after asking you to agree to some innocuous question, replacing it with Netscape 6.0
A huge outroar erupts on/. about the tyranny and arrogance of AOL having the nerve to take over one's system in this way, resulting in a huge show of support for Microsoft. Um... wait... how'd that go again?
(note for the clue-impaired: this is a parody of the AOL 5.0 installation erasing other DUN connectoids during installation)
Um, since when was the goal to remove Microsoft from the market? The goal has always been (as far as I can tell) to write the best damn software and have it stand on its own merits. Sure, wider acceptance will lead to more and better applications, and most will say that Microsoft must not be allowed to co-opt the standards process such that only their apps and OS will work on a network. And we must stop efforts to require uses of microsoft's OS to do basic tasks (e.g. watching DVDs, although Macs can do this too). But if you are mainly focused on destroying microsoft, then your attention and efforts are misdirected and probably not spent as efficiently as possible. As a matter of fact, if you find yourself playing by their rules, which you advocate, I'd say you have already lost.
I don't think they are biased. Excel spreadsheets are often wildly mangled when opened then saved in SO. For example, lines/borders get screwed up, and printing headers/footers get added/changed.
Then there are the many spreadsheets it can't open at all (especially ones with macros). Until it can read spreadsheets such as the one from http://www.epa.gov/ada/ftp/models/bio scrn.exe (this is a self extracting zip file), then I will have to continue to dual boot.
I thought that instead of running on top of WINE, that it was using winelib which allows one to compile sources written for Win32 to a Linux binary.
I love WP9, but two annoing things relaly stick out: (1) the file selection box which is the standard (nonresizable) Win95 dialogue box, and (2) when yousave somthing as text, it is DOS text (CR-LF) not unix/linux text (LF only).
Slashdot Mirror
meanwhile, I ran across this site: http://www.r1edu.org run out of MIT that organizes what I am looking for.
The best options seem to be this certificate program from the University of Washington (note, the course descriptions actually suggest Linux rather than DOS or windows for your C programs; how far is this place from Redmond?). Or one of these courses from one of my alma maters, Cal Berkeley.
Anyone know anything of these programs. Good schools at least.
Thanks for everybody's responses.
If you could figure this out, then you could launch your vmware session, connect it to the free service, then minimize and go on. Of course, you have to give up all that ram running vmware.
Yeah, what's up with that? That has got to be most annoying non-feature of KDE2. At least you can sort by date, a feature that was sorely missing in KDE1.x. One step forward, one step back.
Don't get me wrong. I am the guy at work who refuses to switch to Word I love wordperfect the product (when it runs). And if they had given it away, I wouldn't be complaining. But I paid $100 for a product that doesn't work very well at all and Corel has done nothing to fix it.
Take a look at the newsgroup
How about tax preparation software?
OK, I understand that. But that being the case, how can it possibly by 15% faster than ext2 as people are claiming here. Are there that many inefficiencies in ext2 that are resolved in reiserfs?
I thought I remember reading that NTFS was slower than FAT32 because it used journalling. Is that the case? Is it at all relevant? Will I ever stop asking questions?
"escaping through the lily fields I came out upon an open space"
"the space exploded; left a bus stop in its place"
"a bus came by and I got on"
"It was Cowboy Neal at the wheel of a bus to never-ever land"
I remember hearing an interview with Bob Wier once telling how there was a s usual a huge traffic jam on 101 just south of the San Francisco city Line until htere was some crazy guy cruising through really fast who miraculously could just keep moving without hitting anyone, and it turned out to be Cowboy Neal. That was the inspriration for that line in the song, supposedly.
Anybody need to do anything else beyond what was in the instructions to get documentation to work?
I remember sometime probably around 1986 when there were piles of Suns being brought in for labs up on the fourth floor of Lewis Hall. I remember thinking "who are these guys Sun?" I thought there were more chemistry-type labs up on the fourth floor. Anybody reading this thread know what was up with all those boxes?
If customers do not renew or install an upgrade product, they can still open, view and print their existing documents.
Your data will still be yours
Not that I think this is a good idea. I can't see how some marketdroid wrote "which will provide customers with an exciting new opportunity to subscribe to the world's leading desktop productivity suite for an annual fee" with a straight face. How could forking over big $$ to MS every year possible be construed as exciting?
>> No offense but, why is that so important?
No offense to you either, but it is of utmost importance if you have to exchange documents with clients. We (I work at an engineering consulting company) have to exchange tons of documents with our clients, and although we used to be a Word Perfect shop, we were force to turn to the dark side to provide our clients what they want. Most clients are asking for electronic reports in MS Office format. I've tried (well up through 5.1a, haven't checked the supposedly improved filters with 5.2) and SO just doesn't cut it on any files that get too fancy. The biggest problems is macros in spreadsheets. We have lots of them and they almost never work. And forget about presentations!
Also, although our clients don't require this, when you have multiple people working on writing a document, the "track changes" feature of Word is really helpful; and not available in SO.
So yeah, if you are just talking about you mom using it, it is fine. But I think the issue here is businesses using it.
One thing I never hear people talking about when the issue of on-line distribution of music comes up: Has nobody ever heard of a hard drive crash? What happens when someone's 30-gigger full of bought and paid for MP3s (or whatever format) crashes? Oh sure, you are supposed to back it up, but what percentage of the general public does that do you think? How much doe sit cost to send it off to a data recovery center? How many people know of that route? I predict within a year of two of music going mostly online-distributed you are going to get a lot of "human interest" stories about lost music libraries.
OK, the is next thing technically is not as a browser, but using konquerer to try to download later snapshots of KDE 2 from ftp.kde.org, well it crashed it. Repeatedly. I was trying to download all the relative source tarballs by selecting htem all and dragging them to my local/src directory. Worked perfectly with kfm, but crashed with konquerer.
This is all fine and dandy when you are managing things that you have expertise in. I work for a engineering consulting company whose business is always changing. While it is great that the company is always trying to adapt, they don't really need my area of technical expertise as much. So what happens, well I, as a long-time employee, do management. Except, more often than not, I am managing stuff that I couldn't do myself, because of the shift in work areas.
So here I am in on Sunday working on revised project budgets, manpower planning, yuck! It's so distasteful, I have to break down and read Slashdot for relief. Ok I know, quit your bitching and find another job. I've heard that many times before!
Um, perhaps because it won't fit into the iopener. Besides, what do you think is on the other end of the NFS mount? That's right a $90 hard drive sitting in a throw-away 386. Serves up mp3s just great, sitting out of earshot down in the basement. Meanwhile, I have a small, silent iopener next to my stereo feeding it my whole mp3 collection. You do know what an iopener is, don't you? The point was that you can get a pretty full function linux distro into only 16 MB if you wanted to. I don't think anyone was ever successful fitting any kind of stripped down windows variant into the 16 MB sandisk of the iopener.
I'm running a modified Jailbait distribution on my iopener in the 16 MB sandisk. Has netscape (i.e. runs X ofc ourse, with balckbox window manager), two mp3 players, and lots of other stuff. Runs a 2.4 pre kernel. Have to load the mp3s over NFS, of course ;-) I cut out the mail and IRC programs to load the GUI mp3 programs.
sigh is right. I am in VMWare right now because of the limitations of all these Linux programs. I've tried them. And when they don't crash (WP and SO crash way more than any windows office suite), they still can't handle most of the files I work with. The files I have to work are not just for my use. They have to be used collaboratively and retain specific formatting features. These are lost when you resave them under a different program. Furthermore, "track changes" of Word is used extensively in these group projects, and this just isn't supported. There are plenty other such examples (especially excel macros that are essential).
The only viable solution is to use WP all the time (make sure you hit ctrl-S every character or so since wine crashes randomly and your backup isn't saved - read the corel newsgroups!). This handles the formating problems. Too bad my company is switching to word (over my complaining), and never did use quattro.
Anyone know more about this? Will it be the same mess as when we went from 4.2 to 5.0? That was a real mess.
Well, Freedonia (actually Fredonia) is about 40 miles south of here (Buffalo NY). Heck, it's not all that far from Celeron (OK, (Celoron) NY for that matter.
n the DeCSS case, the end goal was to create a Linux software DVD player. Linux, I think we can all agree, qualifies as existing alternative (and a Free one, at that). So, bypassing CSS in order to make a DVD viewable on Linux falls within allowable circumvention of an access control.
My question is whether the judge ignored this fact, or if this just wasn't stressed enough during the case.
While I admit that I did not read the whole decision, I think that the Judge said that making a Linux DVD player was never the intention of deCSS, and that's why the exception didn't apply. He said that hte whole DVD-on-linux issue was brought up only as an excuse, and the real reason was piracy.
This ignores, of course the fact that deCSS was released via the Livid mail list (DVD-on-Linux). However, (and I may be mistaken somewhat here) the only binaries released were windows DLL's, which suggested use only for copying purposes.
Yes, I can see it now. AOL 6.0 comes out and, low and behld it erases IE after asking you to agree to some innocuous question, replacing it with Netscape 6.0
A huge outroar erupts on /. about the tyranny and arrogance of AOL having the nerve to take over one's system in this way, resulting in a huge show of support for Microsoft. Um... wait... how'd that go again?
(note for the clue-impaired: this is a parody of the AOL 5.0 installation erasing other DUN connectoids during installation)
Jon_S
KDE user, MS hater.
I don't think they are biased. Excel spreadsheets are often wildly mangled when opened then saved in SO. For example, lines/borders get screwed up, and printing headers/footers get added/changed.
Then there are the many spreadsheets it can't open at all (especially ones with macros). Until it can read spreadsheets such as the one from http://www.epa.gov/ada/ftp/models/bio scrn.exe (this is a self extracting zip file), then I will have to continue to dual boot.
I thought that instead of running on top of WINE, that it was using winelib which allows one to compile sources written for Win32 to a Linux binary.
I love WP9, but two annoing things relaly stick out: (1) the file selection box which is the standard (nonresizable) Win95 dialogue box, and (2) when yousave somthing as text, it is DOS text (CR-LF) not unix/linux text (LF only).