Why not switch the company to OpenOffice.org? I doubt the company needs StarOffice.
Try to do an unattended install of OpenOffice to 1000 desktops. Oh wait, their installer won't let you. You have to run the wizard - no command line options.
I doubt that the judge (who I suspect will be justly compensated for his ruling) has a clue about what he is unleashing.
The judge gets it. It's pretty simple. This really isn't any different than installing a pop-up blocker. You're doing the same thing - altering the original contents of someone else's website to serve another purpose. Whether it is blocking ads or viewing different ads, it is the same principle.
Had the judge ruled against this alternative adware, it would have been a blow to pop-up blocking software. Surely, many companies would have filed suit the day following judgement
Assuming that a Apple user only downloads songs legally through iTunes MS.
The 40GB ipod would hold $10,000 dollars worth of songs. That's a little too much change to be carrying around in you pocket don't you think. You could get mugged for that kinda dough.
Mugger: hand me you wallet.... no wait, Say, that's one of em new 40GB iPods ain't it, whats that iPod worth. Guy being mugged: I'd say about 5 grand, it's only half full. Mugger: Screw the wallet, hand me that iPod.
I keep my passwords on small post-its, stuck to the edges of the monitor. Even though I must admit that recently I had to upgrade to a larger monitor because I ran out of space..
While it seems good sport for IT folk to make fun of this practice - they are often the cause of it. If you force your users to have a different password for every service and require that they change every month, including forcing uniqueness over their last 12 passwords, this is what you'll get. You should design your network and systems to provide a single source of authentication (LDAP, NIS, NDS, ADS, etc). Make sure this system is secure, and then make all of your other systems work from it. It should be an important factor when writing software and when buying it.
By implementing insane password policies, you are actually making your security worse.
I've been hoping these would come out for a long time. I live in an area that has a large body of water in the middle of it (Tampa Bay). There are three main bridges that cross the water (about 7 miles). In order to get to work, I have to drive south to one of the bridges, then cross it. If I had this, I could enter the water by way of a boat ramp in a park near my house. I could exit the water on the boat ramp on the other side of the bridge. It would save me a ton of time.
Of course, these things are priced right out of my league.
I don't know how intimate you are with the gtk people, but since you're working on gnumeric, I'll assume some association and/or interest.
When you make gnumeric run on Windows (or OSX), please make it simple to install gtk and whatever else is needed in one install wizard. It won't get used if people have to download gnumeric, download gtk, unzip gtk to some directory, and unzip gnumeric. It sounds ridiculous, but installing by unzipping is not obvious to most "regular" users. They want to click Next a few times and then click "Finish". They also want the application to be put on their Start Menu, and optionally on their desktop.
While I'm at it, this is one of the things that Linux apps need to pick up on. It's nice that you have an RPM/deb/whatever. There also needs to be some sort of installer application that developers can start using. This thing should be able to handle an RPM/deb/tarball underneath it. Have the user click Next a few times answering some simple options (definitely NOT asking them about compiler optimizations). Most importantly, please support the major menuing systems (Gnome Panel, KDE) and add your application to it automatically.
The likely reason that it was posted is that/. has typically posted stories related to free content vs regulated content. It has come from the likes of public forums and games alike (EverQuest/Sims bannings).
I fail to see why people still have interest in this. Anytime you create some freedom, a few dicks will come along and ruin it for everyone else. Perhaps this dating service could benefit from the ability for users to 'vote' other users into the abusers category. Get enough votes and you get banned. The Sims has something like this, but then the dicks just team up and pummel the good users.
There are dicks in the world who like to ruin things. There are people who think they can create enough rules to get rid of the dicks. That leads to the ruin of a great many things. That's just the way these things go.
Novell is the king of getting their software to play nicely with Windows. I can see Novell going into Linux, and then being able to replace Active Directory with the click of a button.
You make me laugh. Ever try to migrate NT to NDS or vice versa? What a pain in the ass! NDS for NT was anything but the "click of a button"!
This and the whole article's take on "open source" is helpful to the cause by making people understand in their own terms What It's All About(TM).:o)
Yeah, the impression they are getting from this article is to charge for software. Do you think the average person wants to live an average life or have Bill Gates' money?
The only reason I can see for central storage of emails is for backup, which can just as easily be sorted with a mailbox into which everything is dumped on receipt
Can you imagine an environment in which users travel between multiple computers? Data should never be located on a workstation.
Good grief. Stick to the topic. There may be many bad VB programmers, but that doesn't speak to all VB prgrammers. You're a fool if you don't recognize that.
Email is email - SMTP/POP3 provide a perfectly good delivery service.
The mail and the folders should reside on the server. The status of the email (read/unread) should reside on the server. Using POP3, it ends up on the client. Even if you configure the mail reader to leave mail on the server, you don't have server based folders, nor do you have the server keeping track of which messages have been read.
Equally, a mailserver doesn't typically corrupt its own data or require frequent reboots.
Look, if you want people to believe your arguments about whether Linux is better, quit spewing FUD. You complain when Microsoft spews FUD about Linux, don't do the same. Many, many organizations run Exchange with no corruption of the data store and no need for reboots. Get over it - Exchange is a good product.
VB programmers really, really should keep it to themselves.
Does that make you feel better? Not everyone codes in C/C++/Java. Big whoop. I bet I get a lot more done for the company I work for than a C programmer would. Right tool for the job.
MS Outlook lumps a whole bunch of functions into one program, so if your people get used to using any two of them they tend to be hooked for life. It's not a very good choice, and if you're going to do something like that, it's much cleaner to use a browser as the one big tool you're hooked on
Outlooks lumps them together because they really are intertwined. SMTP/POP3 is not sufficient for corporate email, which is what the poster was referring to, judging by the post. IMAP works better for experience users than it does for the average user. Most clients have non intuitive implementations of this (eg, "Why does the email stay there after I delete it?").
Integrating calendaring and contact management only makes sense. There really aren't alternatives for this, and you're doing your business a disservice by not offering these features to your users.
Sure, follow standards. I'm all for that. Maybe we need a standard for email/contacts/calendaring server-client architecture. Exchange/Outlook is a killer combo. Most businesses use it (or Novell/Oracle's competing products). Open Source desperately needs this. It's needed more than yet another Mozilla branch. It's needed more than yet another editor.
I wish I knew any C so I could contribute code to such a thing. Alas, I'm a VB programmer (keep it to yourself). If you want a tester or some documentation, I'll be happy to help.
How did they get them? Was it an upset employee, did they put some one in the work force to steal the prototypes?
So could Nextel be sued for receiving stolen property?
I believe this product is near its release date, which means that it is probably out in the hands of reps and has been shown to customers. That means that there are a number of the prototypes in a reasonably large number of hands. I'm sure that these phones are demonstrated to customers under NDA. I find it simple to believe that over the course of a number of demonstrations, a few phones can go missing.
Now, if Nextel is aware that this is not a released product, and aware that these are not under any sort of public testing, then they can be found guilty of knowingly possessing stolen property.
Nah it's simple, the prototypes arrived in the Nextel offices by osmosis.
This would be better described as diffusion. A phone is not a solvent, therefore it should not be referred to as osmosis. I always hated the fact that they used that Garfield poster ("I'm learning through osmosis") in schools, when it is generally incorrect.
That's all very well, but for a large chunk of spam, identifying the spammer if difficult, and to it in a way that would hold up in court would be even harder..
One of the Supreme Court Justices (can't remember which) once replied, when asked to define what was obscene, "I don't know, but I know it when I see it". (Those aren't exact words). I feel the same way about spam. If I receive the same message (same pictures, same 5 second HTML job) from 10 different people in one day, that's spam for sure.
Did you see how Installed Server was capitalized? That means that it is referring to a specific thing which would have been previously defined in the agreement. I have not read the agreement, but I am guessing that Installed Server represents a server supported by RedHat, which they can reasonably ask that you pay for.
Honestly, save yourself ~ $50 for an O'Reilly book and go directly to the source of the information:
HTTP 1.0 HTTP 1.1
Well, the organization of the RFCs isn't exactly what I'm looking for, there is useful commentary in the book, there is an index in the book, and I like having things in print. Sure, it's not too expensive to print the RFC, but if you shop around, the book isn't $50.
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Those prices have been proven to influence buyers. They won't go away until people quit acting like idiots.
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Why not switch the company to OpenOffice.org? I doubt the company needs StarOffice.
Try to do an unattended install of OpenOffice to 1000 desktops. Oh wait, their installer won't let you. You have to run the wizard - no command line options.
Not to mention that this kid is living in public housing.. The RIA is not only extorting 2,000.. it's $2000 they probably desperately need.
So, if you get a parking ticket, should you only have to pay it if you make more than $30K? What about fines for other crimes?
I doubt that the judge (who I suspect will be justly compensated for his ruling) has a clue about what he is unleashing.
The judge gets it. It's pretty simple. This really isn't any different than installing a pop-up blocker. You're doing the same thing - altering the original contents of someone else's website to serve another purpose. Whether it is blocking ads or viewing different ads, it is the same principle.
Had the judge ruled against this alternative adware, it would have been a blow to pop-up blocking software. Surely, many companies would have filed suit the day following judgement
Assuming that a Apple user only downloads songs legally through iTunes MS.
The 40GB ipod would hold $10,000 dollars worth of songs. That's a little too much change to be carrying around in you pocket don't you think. You could get mugged for that kinda dough.
Mugger: hand me you wallet.... no wait, Say, that's one of em new 40GB iPods ain't it, whats that iPod worth.
Guy being mugged: I'd say about 5 grand, it's only half full.
Mugger: Screw the wallet, hand me that iPod.
It has no pawn shop value, so you'd be safe.
I keep my passwords on small post-its, stuck to the edges of the monitor. Even though I must admit that recently I had to upgrade to a larger monitor because I ran out of space..
While it seems good sport for IT folk to make fun of this practice - they are often the cause of it. If you force your users to have a different password for every service and require that they change every month, including forcing uniqueness over their last 12 passwords, this is what you'll get. You should design your network and systems to provide a single source of authentication (LDAP, NIS, NDS, ADS, etc). Make sure this system is secure, and then make all of your other systems work from it. It should be an important factor when writing software and when buying it.
By implementing insane password policies, you are actually making your security worse.
I've been hoping these would come out for a long time. I live in an area that has a large body of water in the middle of it (Tampa Bay). There are three main bridges that cross the water (about 7 miles). In order to get to work, I have to drive south to one of the bridges, then cross it. If I had this, I could enter the water by way of a boat ramp in a park near my house. I could exit the water on the boat ramp on the other side of the bridge. It would save me a ton of time.
Of course, these things are priced right out of my league.
I don't know how intimate you are with the gtk people, but since you're working on gnumeric, I'll assume some association and/or interest.
When you make gnumeric run on Windows (or OSX), please make it simple to install gtk and whatever else is needed in one install wizard. It won't get used if people have to download gnumeric, download gtk, unzip gtk to some directory, and unzip gnumeric. It sounds ridiculous, but installing by unzipping is not obvious to most "regular" users. They want to click Next a few times and then click "Finish". They also want the application to be put on their Start Menu, and optionally on their desktop.
While I'm at it, this is one of the things that Linux apps need to pick up on. It's nice that you have an RPM/deb/whatever. There also needs to be some sort of installer application that developers can start using. This thing should be able to handle an RPM/deb/tarball underneath it. Have the user click Next a few times answering some simple options (definitely NOT asking them about compiler optimizations). Most importantly, please support the major menuing systems (Gnome Panel, KDE) and add your application to it automatically.
It's not paranoia. It's a vast blue conspiracy. It's similar to the vast right wing conspiracy that put Bill's cock in Monica's mouth.
The likely reason that it was posted is that /. has typically posted stories related to free content vs regulated content. It has come from the likes of public forums and games alike (EverQuest/Sims bannings).
I fail to see why people still have interest in this. Anytime you create some freedom, a few dicks will come along and ruin it for everyone else. Perhaps this dating service could benefit from the ability for users to 'vote' other users into the abusers category. Get enough votes and you get banned. The Sims has something like this, but then the dicks just team up and pummel the good users.
There are dicks in the world who like to ruin things. There are people who think they can create enough rules to get rid of the dicks. That leads to the ruin of a great many things. That's just the way these things go.
Novell is the king of getting their software to play nicely with Windows. I can see Novell going into Linux, and then being able to replace Active Directory with the click of a button.
You make me laugh. Ever try to migrate NT to NDS or vice versa? What a pain in the ass! NDS for NT was anything but the "click of a button"!
This and the whole article's take on "open source" is helpful to the cause by making people understand in their own terms What It's All About(TM). :o)
Yeah, the impression they are getting from this article is to charge for software. Do you think the average person wants to live an average life or have Bill Gates' money?
Frankly I am surprised that alternative sources of power aren't receiving more interest at present.
Really? Oil is big money. Big money gets things done in this country.
The only reason I can see for central storage of emails is for backup, which can just as easily be sorted with a mailbox into which everything is dumped on receipt
Can you imagine an environment in which users travel between multiple computers? Data should never be located on a workstation.
And don't get me started about VB 'programmers'
Good grief. Stick to the topic. There may be many bad VB programmers, but that doesn't speak to all VB prgrammers. You're a fool if you don't recognize that.
What utter bollocks.
Email is email - SMTP/POP3 provide a perfectly good delivery service.
The mail and the folders should reside on the server. The status of the email (read/unread) should reside on the server. Using POP3, it ends up on the client. Even if you configure the mail reader to leave mail on the server, you don't have server based folders, nor do you have the server keeping track of which messages have been read.
Equally, a mailserver doesn't typically corrupt its own data or require frequent reboots.
Look, if you want people to believe your arguments about whether Linux is better, quit spewing FUD. You complain when Microsoft spews FUD about Linux, don't do the same. Many, many organizations run Exchange with no corruption of the data store and no need for reboots. Get over it - Exchange is a good product.
VB programmers really, really should keep it to themselves.
Does that make you feel better? Not everyone codes in C/C++/Java. Big whoop. I bet I get a lot more done for the company I work for than a C programmer would. Right tool for the job.
MS Outlook lumps a whole bunch of functions into one program, so if your people get used to using any two of them they tend to be hooked for life. It's not a very good choice, and if you're going to do something like that, it's much cleaner to use a browser as the one big tool you're hooked on
Outlooks lumps them together because they really are intertwined. SMTP/POP3 is not sufficient for corporate email, which is what the poster was referring to, judging by the post. IMAP works better for experience users than it does for the average user. Most clients have non intuitive implementations of this (eg, "Why does the email stay there after I delete it?").
Integrating calendaring and contact management only makes sense. There really aren't alternatives for this, and you're doing your business a disservice by not offering these features to your users.
Sure, follow standards. I'm all for that. Maybe we need a standard for email/contacts/calendaring server-client architecture. Exchange/Outlook is a killer combo. Most businesses use it (or Novell/Oracle's competing products). Open Source desperately needs this. It's needed more than yet another Mozilla branch. It's needed more than yet another editor.
I wish I knew any C so I could contribute code to such a thing. Alas, I'm a VB programmer (keep it to yourself). If you want a tester or some documentation, I'll be happy to help.
How did they get them? Was it an upset employee, did they put some one in the work force to steal the prototypes?
So could Nextel be sued for receiving stolen property?
I believe this product is near its release date, which means that it is probably out in the hands of reps and has been shown to customers. That means that there are a number of the prototypes in a reasonably large number of hands. I'm sure that these phones are demonstrated to customers under NDA. I find it simple to believe that over the course of a number of demonstrations, a few phones can go missing.
Now, if Nextel is aware that this is not a released product, and aware that these are not under any sort of public testing, then they can be found guilty of knowingly possessing stolen property.
Nah it's simple, the prototypes arrived in the Nextel offices by osmosis.
This would be better described as diffusion. A phone is not a solvent, therefore it should not be referred to as osmosis. I always hated the fact that they used that Garfield poster ("I'm learning through osmosis") in schools, when it is generally incorrect.
That's all very well, but for a large chunk of spam, identifying the spammer if difficult, and to it in a way that would hold up in court would be even harder..
One of the Supreme Court Justices (can't remember which) once replied, when asked to define what was obscene, "I don't know, but I know it when I see it". (Those aren't exact words). I feel the same way about spam. If I receive the same message (same pictures, same 5 second HTML job) from 10 different people in one day, that's spam for sure.
Did you see how Installed Server was capitalized? That means that it is referring to a specific thing which would have been previously defined in the agreement. I have not read the agreement, but I am guessing that Installed Server represents a server supported by RedHat, which they can reasonably ask that you pay for.
Honestly, save yourself ~ $50 for an O'Reilly book and go directly to the source of the information:
HTTP 1.0
HTTP 1.1
Well, the organization of the RFCs isn't exactly what I'm looking for, there is useful commentary in the book, there is an index in the book, and I like having things in print. Sure, it's not too expensive to print the RFC, but if you shop around, the book isn't $50.
Marketeers consider those prices psychologically important
Those prices have been proven to influence buyers. They won't go away until people quit acting like idiots.
I print to paper first. Then I can photocopy as many times as I want.
I don't want paper copies of anything.
That's why you print to PDF first. Then, you can print as many times as you want.
Macbidoulle.com has its share of rumors floating around. As with all the sites, they are only correct some of the time.