Have you tried a spreadsheet? I find personal finance software kludgy and inconvienient. It seems like a pain in the ass to enter in your transactions into your software. Spreadsheets can view different file formats, so it doesn't matter if you use gnumeric, Excel, OpenOffice, or whatever. Simple and efficient!
Dr. Madnick is a prolific writer and is the author or co-author of over 250 books, articles, or reports including the classic textbook, Operating Systems (McGraw-Hill)
Maybe someone who writes a textbook on Operating System should understand the difference between an Operating System and a desktop environment?
I always thought it was peculiar that Microsoft was investigating selling a service rather than a product since they have traditionally been a product based company. Well they are trying it with MSN but I don't think that is such a great idea either. It's not like you get technical support from Microsoft for their products, you get a MCSE from a third party. Personally I would have expected them to offer some type of product that would allow customers to provide this type of functionality by themselves. Maybe Microsoft should stick with their strong point: developing software.
It seems logical to be researching alternative password methods for future HCI methods. With devices from Microsoft like PocketPC and TabletPC text passwords are not the ideal method. Keyboards won't die for some time, and text passwords won't go away either, but as Microsoft includes handwriting support in OfficeXP and on PocketPC they seem to be on the move toward "Pen Computing". They never pulled it of Windows 3.1 for Pen Computing but it probably will in the future. Biometrics aren't necessarily the only alternative; this is research after all.
There is software on Cisco's site called Cisco ConfigMaker. It won't give you the Cisco CLI, but you can create maps between devices and see how it creates the IOS config.
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Doesn't this picture make it seem to large for casual use?
http://www.infosync.no/show.php?id=2449&page=2
Although, maybe it can also be used for self-defense...
For someone "baffled" by the rivalry you seem to have a good understanding of it.
Have you tried a spreadsheet? I find personal finance software kludgy and inconvienient. It seems like a pain in the ass to enter in your transactions into your software. Spreadsheets can view different file formats, so it doesn't matter if you use gnumeric, Excel, OpenOffice, or whatever. Simple and efficient!
Incredible! From his bio
Dr. Madnick is a prolific writer and is the author or co-author of over 250 books, articles, or reports including the classic textbook, Operating Systems (McGraw-Hill)
Maybe someone who writes a textbook on Operating System should understand the difference between an Operating System and a desktop environment?
I always thought it was peculiar that Microsoft was investigating selling a service rather than a product since they have traditionally been a product based company. Well they are trying it with MSN but I don't think that is such a great idea either. It's not like you get technical support from Microsoft for their products, you get a MCSE from a third party. Personally I would have expected them to offer some type of product that would allow customers to provide this type of functionality by themselves. Maybe Microsoft should stick with their strong point: developing software.
It seems logical to be researching alternative password methods for future HCI methods. With devices from Microsoft like PocketPC and TabletPC text passwords are not the ideal method. Keyboards won't die for some time, and text passwords won't go away either, but as Microsoft includes handwriting support in OfficeXP and on PocketPC they seem to be on the move toward "Pen Computing". They never pulled it of Windows 3.1 for Pen Computing but it probably will in the future. Biometrics aren't necessarily the only alternative; this is research after all.
There is software on Cisco's site called Cisco ConfigMaker. It won't give you the Cisco CLI, but you can create maps between devices and see how it creates the IOS config.