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with rather primative computers
"The primative computer lacked a spelling checker."
while the U.S. is not opposed to the development of Open Source software, it prefers to support a free market where the quality of the product can determine the issue.
The overall "quality" of the product can only be measured in terms of how well it suits the user's needs. Villanueva outlined several needs which can only be addressed by Open Source software.
Hamilton should encourage MS to participate in the free market and offer the customer the particular quality they are asking for, namely openness. MS is free to ask whatever they feel is a fair price. Peru is free to tell them to...
I think some of the confusion in over Java in this discussion is due to plans Sun had announced a few years ago where there would be a Java client for "Staroffice Server".
The server would be a compiled executable running on either Solaris or NT, and the client would run on Sun's Javastations and other Java VMs.
I think i know what Apple's missing in the "Switch" campaign. Switches. They need to include an ethernet switch and kvm switch.
Most people don't want to deal with 2*(kb+mouse+screen) while they are making the switch. Give them an a-b switch.
The ethernet switch/hub should be a no brainer. In most cases it would be easy enough to configure the existing PC to share its files to the Mac. Heck, hook up the cat-5 and boot a cd or floppy based samba server on the PC.
When the user decides the PC is obsolete for them, they unplug it and pass it down.
How about the negligence of the airlines who should have known to (try to) keep the cockpit secure. Instead of holding them responsible, congress gives them a bunch of money.
And why do they want to protect copies that you're not even allowed to make? And what's the connection with pirates? Do these things get used on ships?
It used to be that if you got VD, you went to the doctor and got a shot. Nobody wanted to copy it. Now with this Digital VD people are trying to copy it 48x faster than yesterday and pirates can't wait to steal it. Haven't they got enough enough problems already with their hook hands, wooden legs and eye patches?
The Linux distros I've seen do a decent job of organizing things in a way that makes sense to people who are familiar with other flavors of *nix. I would hate to see it all get messed around at this point.
Your point about the mere mortal not knowing what to do with a/bin or/sbin doesn't mean the system shouldn't be layed out that way. He doesn't understand how his alarm clock works either.
A single home directory is much more important than a single apps folder./home/you is "All Your stuff". If two people share a Windows box who is the "My" in "My Documents"? Why is multi-user capability still an add-on to Windows?
I'm not claiming that Windows isn't easier for the layman, but their model isn't right for *nix. Instead, I think a few relatively simple filemanager features could make it much easier for both newbies and experts to find their ways around.
* Make a "pkginfo" command available in the context menu for files. It would bring up a tabbed dialog showing a pkg description, filelist, and de-install/upgrade options. The package could be shown in a treeview with its siblings being apps of the same type. How difficult would it be to hook the package manager into the file manager?
* Add a "package" column to the filemanager's list view.
* Bring some sanity to mimetypes/mailcap. Linux desperately needs a universal way for applications to register the services they provide and the objecttypes they use. Filemanagers/browsers should consult the system registry for any information not found in the user's personal registry. IMO, the registry should be implemented as a directory structure rather than a binary file.
* Add a.description file to interesting directories and display it in the filemanager if the user goes there.
* Add some shortcut buttons (My whatever) to the file open/save dialogs.
* Keep the open/save dialog improvements coming. KDE is pretty nice already. Adding mimetype info to the slocate system and integrating it into the file dialogs would be fabulous.
Right. They discuss metal hydride storage, and they discuss onboard gasoline->h2 conversion. I agree, they are relatively safe. I understand that the Hindenburg was not hugely explosive (helium still would have been desirable ). Furthermore, I realize that none of this has anything to do with atomic bombs;-)
Read about the "two 200 l LH2 storage vessels rooftop mounted" (on a city bus) in this article and you'll see why I think the public's safety concerns are valid.
Are you telling me that the catastrophic failure/explosion of a compressed hydrogen cylinder in a tunnel or other confined area is no more violent than an exploding tank of diesel fuel?
I was talking about a bus's fuel tank being detonated by a terrorist bomb. I'm no scientist, but it seems to me that hydrogen might make a bigger bang than diesel fuel.
There's a reason that gasoline vehicles are allowed thru tunnels but campers carrying a propane bottle are prohibited.
The fuel tank holds gasoline which is converted on-the-fly to hydrogen.
The safety questions surrounding hydrogen tanks are valid. Imagine the terrorists delight at a city bus carrying a huge bottle of the stuff. Passenger cars wouldn't be allowed thru many tunnels because they would be carrying hazmats.
MS would not allow... In this corner... hailing from the Pacific Northwest... wearing blue shorts and weighing in at a healthy $40B... MIIII-CROOOO-SOOOOFT
(The crowd hisses and boos)
And in the opposite corner... from the midwest... also wearing blue shorts and accompanied by a penguin, WAALLL-MAAART
When my friend told me he was ready to get his first computer (he's 50), I set him up with Windows. I'm heavily biased towards *nix, but at the time, we were interested in an online racing game that was Windows only. Vnc for windows came in real handy for showing him how to navigate usenet, manage email, etc.
After about 10 months, his computer was infected with spyware, broken media players, fubar registry entries and the like.
I reinstalled his Windows, added Mandrake 8.2 and showed him the ropes via x0rfbserver the same way i had done with Windows. No big deal. He had Windows. Now he's got both. He uses Linux.
Without the remote desktop function it would have been a nightmare to give good instructions for either OS.
IMO, this is the x86 combo most likely to please someone looking for an alternative to the Windows desktop. What do the rest of you *nix folks recommend to your Windows-using friends?
True, but the story was not limited to open-source systems. Closed-source systems might be hard enough to reverse-engineer that legal action would be easier.
Anyway, these are just the prelims. The main event will be the fight over Freenet type systems.
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Steve Austin, a fly barely alive...thump-thump...
We have the technology...beep-beep...
We can make him stronger...crunch-crunch...
We can make him faster...whoosh-whoosh
Don't miss The $6 1/2 Dollar Fly
with rather primative computers
"The primative computer lacked a spelling checker."
Ambassador Hamilton says
...
while the U.S. is not opposed to the development of Open Source software, it prefers to support a free market where the quality of the product can determine the issue.
The overall "quality" of the product can only be measured in terms of how well it suits the user's needs. Villanueva outlined several needs which can only be addressed by Open Source software.
Hamilton should encourage MS to participate in the free market and offer the customer the particular quality they are asking for, namely openness. MS is free to ask whatever they feel is a fair price. Peru is free to tell them to
I think some of the confusion in over Java in this discussion is due to plans Sun had announced a few years ago where there would be a Java client for "Staroffice Server".
The server would be a compiled executable running on either Solaris or NT, and the client would run on Sun's Javastations and other Java VMs.
Take a look at this usenet post.
I think i know what Apple's missing in the "Switch" campaign. Switches. They need to include an ethernet switch and kvm switch.
Most people don't want to deal with 2*(kb+mouse+screen) while they are making the switch. Give them an a-b switch.
The ethernet switch/hub should be a no brainer. In most cases it would be easy enough to configure the existing PC to share its files to the Mac. Heck, hook up the cat-5 and boot a cd or floppy based samba server on the PC.
When the user decides the PC is obsolete for them, they unplug it and pass it down.
in many cases the archived information on the site disappears.
Like Al Gore.
And what's another word for "impact"?
How about the negligence of the airlines who should have known to (try to) keep the cockpit secure. Instead of holding them responsible, congress gives them a bunch of money.
What a country.
And why do they want to protect copies that you're not even allowed to make? And what's the connection with pirates? Do these things get used on ships?
It used to be that if you got VD, you went to the doctor and got a shot. Nobody wanted to copy it. Now with this Digital VD people are trying to copy it 48x faster than yesterday and pirates can't wait to steal it. Haven't they got enough enough problems already with their hook hands, wooden legs and eye patches?
That's nothing compared to the 42 billion/second i drew in ascii art on the top line of this post.
The Linux distros I've seen do a decent job of organizing things in a way that makes sense to people who are familiar with other flavors of *nix. I would hate to see it all get messed around at this point.
/bin or /sbin doesn't mean the system shouldn't be layed out that way. He doesn't understand how his alarm clock works either.
/home/you is "All Your stuff". If two people share a Windows box who is the "My" in "My Documents"? Why is multi-user capability still an add-on to Windows?
.description file to interesting directories and display it in the filemanager if the user goes there.
Your point about the mere mortal not knowing what to do with a
A single home directory is much more important than a single apps folder.
I'm not claiming that Windows isn't easier for the layman, but their model isn't right for *nix. Instead, I think a few relatively simple filemanager features could make it much easier for both newbies and experts to find their ways around.
* Make a "pkginfo" command available in the context menu for files. It would bring up a tabbed dialog showing a pkg description, filelist, and de-install/upgrade options. The package could be shown in a treeview with its siblings being apps of the same type. How difficult would it be to hook the package manager into the file manager?
* Add a "package" column to the filemanager's list view.
* Bring some sanity to mimetypes/mailcap. Linux desperately needs a universal way for applications to register the services they provide and the objecttypes they use. Filemanagers/browsers should consult the system registry for any information not found in the user's personal registry. IMO, the registry should be implemented as a directory structure rather than a binary file.
* Add a
* Add some shortcut buttons (My whatever) to the file open/save dialogs.
* Keep the open/save dialog improvements coming. KDE is pretty nice already. Adding mimetype info to the slocate system and integrating it into the file dialogs would be fabulous.
Right. They discuss metal hydride storage, and they discuss onboard gasoline->h2 conversion. I agree, they are relatively safe. I understand that the Hindenburg was not hugely explosive (helium still would have been desirable ). Furthermore, I realize that none of this has anything to do with atomic bombs ;-)
Read about the "two 200 l LH2 storage vessels rooftop mounted" (on a city bus) in this article and you'll see why I think the public's safety concerns are valid.
Are you telling me that the catastrophic failure/explosion of a compressed hydrogen cylinder in a tunnel or other confined area is no more violent than an exploding tank of diesel fuel?
tankers of gasoline rolling through our tunnels
I don't know about all tunnels, but i know of at least some where they are not allowed to go.
Hydrogen, when ignited, tends to burn upwards,
That's fine as there's nothing up there. In a tunnel, there ain't much up. Under a city bus...
I was talking about a bus's fuel tank being detonated by a terrorist bomb. I'm no scientist, but it seems to me that hydrogen might make a bigger bang than diesel fuel.
There's a reason that gasoline vehicles are allowed thru tunnels but campers carrying a propane bottle are prohibited.
Read the article.
The fuel tank holds gasoline which is converted on-the-fly to hydrogen.
The safety questions surrounding hydrogen tanks are valid. Imagine the terrorists delight at a city bus carrying a huge bottle of the stuff. Passenger cars wouldn't be allowed thru many tunnels because they would be carrying hazmats.
MS would not allow ...
In this corner... hailing from the Pacific Northwest... wearing blue shorts and weighing in at a healthy $40B... MIIII-CROOOO-SOOOOFT
(The crowd hisses and boos)
And in the opposite corner... from the midwest... also wearing blue shorts and accompanied by a penguin, WAALLL-MAAART
People would be more willing to try Linux if they had nothing more to lose than the time it takes to reboot into Windows.
Some people will conclude that Windows was a waste of their hard-earned money and they will save their $$ next time around.
Others will be unimpressed by Linux and ignore it.
In any case, Mandrake is a much better choice than Lindows, IMO.
Don't let their drawl fool you. Some of them rednecks are more clever than a squirrel at the bird feeder.
And because it's GPL no company can ever end-of-life it.
When my friend told me he was ready to get his first computer (he's 50), I set him up with Windows. I'm heavily biased towards *nix, but at the time, we were interested in an online racing game that was Windows only. Vnc for windows came in real handy for showing him how to navigate usenet, manage email, etc.
After about 10 months, his computer was infected with spyware, broken media players, fubar registry entries and the like.
I reinstalled his Windows, added Mandrake 8.2 and showed him the ropes via x0rfbserver the same way i had done with Windows. No big deal. He had Windows. Now he's got both. He uses Linux.
Without the remote desktop function it would have been a nightmare to give good instructions for either OS.
IMO, this is the x86 combo most likely to please someone looking for an alternative to the Windows desktop. What do the rest of you *nix folks recommend to your Windows-using friends?
Take a lesson from /. itself and set up an "overload mode".
True, but the story was not limited to open-source systems. Closed-source systems might be hard enough to reverse-engineer that legal action would be easier.
Anyway, these are just the prelims. The main event will be the fight over Freenet type systems.