Of course windows on a whole is still far more user friendly when one considers program instillation, learning curve, and generally things working. However if one were to consider the desktop environment of windows compared to KDE I do find KDE to be superior.
ok. gotta comment here.
I'm installing a new win2k server at work (have to 'cause of our MrP system, dammit), but I am already at 17 reboots. How the hell is that easier!?
Windows required several (the install, SP2, etc). MSoffice required one. MS-sql required a couple. Then had to run M$update: 4 more reboots there. Then MRP has required 3 so far. There was some COM conflict when I started the install, so had to reboot (something like that).
they already know you dont like the place, and will have no problem getting rid of you as soon as your current project is done.
they'll keep you around until you (or they) can tie up a few loose ends, then they'll drop you before you can get in the middle of another big project and start looking for a new job again.
THIS is a good thing. It's very good to see one of the leading 3D modelling/design companies make their product available for Linux.
From first hand experience, i know many of the pitfalls associated with using complex, resource intensive software on a windows platform. Memory leaks. Memory _limits_ (ugh!). Crash to desktops several times a day. Have to reboot after every crash. Have to restart the program every now and then to clear up memory you've been using. Having HUGE files because of the way M$ saves things.
The above refers to Solidworks, which i unfortunately have to use. Hopefully, with PTC going back to Unix (linux now), solidworks will start in that direction. Tho they're so entrenched with M$, i don't know if they have the talent or ability to actually write stable software. I guess it depends on how tightly M$ is holding their leash.
this is a damn good thing for the solid modelers and designers out there!!
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Hold on....The Democrats are opposed to ODF.....supporting a big business....thought....only.....Republicans....did that....
Damn. This must be Bush's fault somehow....
-john
Sun plans to use Tarantella technology to provide customers with a higher level of secure mobile access to data and applications.
Man...when I first read that I thought it said "Sun plans to sue Tarantella....
Must have SCO-on-the-brain.
-john
I remember being there. It's seared in my memory. I was delivering weapons to the KhmerRouge.
Grounded in Reality,
John K.
this is hardly flamebait.
Unless slashdot is becoming a purely bush-bashing site.
-john
The truth is that Bush _was_ AWOL. Did not meet his committments.
He didn't? He put his required annual hours in.
Also, if you'd look at the "memos", he was "ordered" to report for a physical on Mother's Day. When the entire base would have been closed.
The closed mindedness of the left continues to astound me.
-john
p.s. Could you kindy show me Sen. Kerry's discharge papers? He has released all his military records, hasn't he?
but wait a minute....as an end user of linux, aren't I liable? whether i'm using it on a computer or a Tivo, I'm still using it.
So which is it, SCO?
make up your mind.
MikeFM,
If that's prior art, let ebay know.
that pretty much kills the patent.
-john
ok. gotta comment here.
I'm installing a new win2k server at work (have to 'cause of our MrP system, dammit), but I am already at 17 reboots. How the hell is that easier!?
Windows required several (the install, SP2, etc). MSoffice required one. MS-sql required a couple. Then had to run M$update: 4 more reboots there. Then MRP has required 3 so far. There was some COM conflict when I started the install, so had to reboot (something like that).
windos is hardly easier at installing software.
-john
>Myth #1 - KDE is more integrated than GNOME
oh my god.
Flamebait, yes.
But sheesh!
That is probably the most rational _sounding_ flamebait I've ever read!
Not to mention the most long winded.
Somebody has WAY to much free time.
-john
Have you guys seen Slicker?
http://slicker.sourceforge.net/
-john
no, not quite.
I believe that it would be illegal for her to give her copy to you because she has NO right to redistribute it AT ALL.
after all, the paper still lost a sale. and we can't have that.
and you're making a HUGE assumption that fair use is still legal...
--john
check out www.livephish.com. You get phish shows pretty darn quickly after the show ends.
:)
I'll pick a live phish show over a "live" brittney spears show any day.
-john
She was just fine with that.
--john
they already know you dont like the place, and will have no problem getting rid of you as soon as your current project is done.
they'll keep you around until you (or they) can tie up a few loose ends, then they'll drop you before you can get in the middle of another big project and start looking for a new job again.
good luck at the new job.
--john
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heh. i was laughed at when *I* asked.
Those SW people can be real pricks sometimes.
-john
From first hand experience, i know many of the pitfalls associated with using complex, resource intensive software on a windows platform. Memory leaks. Memory _limits_ (ugh!). Crash to desktops several times a day. Have to reboot after every crash. Have to restart the program every now and then to clear up memory you've been using. Having HUGE files because of the way M$ saves things.
The above refers to Solidworks, which i unfortunately have to use. Hopefully, with PTC going back to Unix (linux now), solidworks will start in that direction. Tho they're so entrenched with M$, i don't know if they have the talent or ability to actually write stable software. I guess it depends on how tightly M$ is holding their leash.
this is a damn good thing for the solid modelers and designers out there!!
--john
a good reply to this mught be:
which part of KDE does linux need to function properly?
why would an OS *NEED* a web browser to function?
-john
What are you really supposed to do with it?
Give it to the teeny-bopper checking you out at Best buy?
Give it to the manager?
Or the software manufacturer?
either way, how do you get your money back?
--john
if you dont want to take the chance that ANY money will go to commerical entity, don't join the club.
and on priciple, you shouldn't even be using mandrake.
some of you people really need to wake up and join the real world.
--john
dont forget that the short notice was due to SUN's announcement. you can't blame mandrakesoft for what sun did.
-john
would there be a market for a thing like this?
somebody could probably package this thing a make a decent buck selling these.
keep the instructions on line, but market it for your typical joe.
--john