I installed a box with ubuntu and prommised myself that I would use the GUI and only the GUI. I had no need to use the CLI. Grandma would have no problems either.
I find Linux easier to operate and manage. If it would come preinstalled like windows most people would not care about the diffrences unless they were gamers.
Here is a first I'm about to post a positive comment about windows.
Fist and foremost any system can be secured. I had an Win2K running for over 5 years and no intrusions. The point is not that it can't be done. It's this stupid marketing that insinuates that the issues have been resolved. All you have to do is purchase the latetest and greatest which today is XP SP2. NOT
First let me start by saying if you are expecting your accountant to support the app, it's like asking the decorator to install the plumbing.
I managed several companies with sales over $15 million over the years, first and foremost I hire accountants who keep up with tax law not applications. Quicken, GNUCash and the like are too expensive for any business with that size of revenue. Their cost stems from the time wasted filling out the forms and in most business the cost is in salaries. You need to hire people who know the job not the software. I can take any qualified AP / AR clerk and sit them behind any real accounting software and they will be productive by the end of the day.
Wintel is fairly new in the accounting feild (yes I'm an old fart). I am not here to consult so I will only list one FOSS posibility, http://www.enterprisegroupwaresystem.org/ has most features for this size business. If you do some research you will see that you can get just the accounting in another package. There are serious stable solutions out there which may not necessarily be FOSS. I ran one company on Silk on Linux (not FOSS) about 7 years ago. I moved on but they are still using it.
Software which meets my accountants needs does not meet my business needs. I find today, that the mouse on most computers kills the productivity on most modern accounting systems.
I see this all the time... boo hoo hoo I can't run my windows software on such and such OS. I'm not here to consult but man, there are other options. The choice is yours and yours alone. There are other platforms which can do the same work. Yes, Autodesk does not make software other than for windows, but then again they are not the only game in town. Will others meet your needs? No idea. Im not offering consulting services.
I have company records and data, accessible and useable, which date back over 10 years. I have one of the original IBM 8088 and DOS 1.1 and a few files that date back till then. Text, old programs that have value only to me. You know I no longer need DOS 1.1 to access my files. The programs don't all work, but there are newer ones which can. The same goes for all the files I have today. They are based on solutions where more than one company has software that supports the format. My business is not dependant on any one other business for its success.
By your own comments you are so locked in to more than 1 company and you fail to see that you have options. There are many companies who don't use windows, some older than me (and I'm an old fart). Windows is a tool not your business, it's Gates business. Maybe you need to grow up and enter the real world because even today there are business which operate with pen and pencil.
I would advise you to run if you work at a company like you described. First and foremost, this shows complete incompetent people are managing the business administration side. If they can blame one individual for all the security problems at the company, could you imagine how their financials are?
People need to work as a team and be evaluated as a team. If upper management accepts the scapegoat, then they probably created the problem in the first place. Otherwise they need to resolve the issues as a group. If one persone was that incompetent then you would not need an audit.
Other systems can absorbe and truly surpass the work your compnay has done on excel. The choice was yours to limit, to tie your company into a closed system. Now your hoping someone will get you out. The limits are imposed by your software and your choices.
My company's work is not tied into one vendor, it was more expensive at the start but today our work belongs to us. Now it costs us less.
You should be asking why Excel limits you so, and not how someone will save you the bundle that it costs you to keep up to the latest and greatest.
Wow! I have a system that triple boots, (need to run IE for testing purposes), and every time I try XP or 2000 reminds me why I like Linux and FreeBSD. It seems to take forever to start up, switching users is just not done. When the second user logs in, it seems that the system just lost half it's speed. Windows seems to have a mind of it's own, system settins reset themselves after updates, but that is another discussion of it's own...
I prefer using the older FreeBSD system with half the processing power. It's always more responsive and I do not always need to tweek the damn thing. It runs for months even when 3 or 4 people are loged in. Switching users takes seconds.
I also read the patent. It can be all that we both described. It only talks about CGI in prior art. If you use exec in SSI its what the patent describes. If you ask for the date in SSI, It's what the patent describes. A Web server with SSI and an Operating systems falls under the description of this patent.
This describes SSI. I believe I've been building sites for over 10 years with this. Does anyone know when it was first introduced. I have a reference back to 1995
I have moderator points but I have to reply to this.
No hotel ever says no to cash. What they say is "if we let youe stay in our $$$$$ room we would need a valid ID and enough money as a garantee that we will not have to run after you." If you don't believe me try checking in with a card that does not have enough credit to cover your stay.
If you do not intend to pay with your card, provide it to them on check in and upon check out settle with cash. Just remind them to cancel the pre-auth on your card on C/O. They never say no to cash. Never.
No need to say sorry you can't do business. All they would have to do is; pass a law that states ALL IP and Patents in regards to the technology not in compliance are null and void and such technology is to be turned over to the public domain.
Drastic but it would send a message play fair or we seize your assets.
This is the FUD I like the best. Just as an example the Linux distro mentioned, supports more file formats out of the box than a Windows XP OEM/Retail box. The cost to the user, to view ALL the formats you mentioned (and many more) can be maintained to nil on ubuntu while respecting the terms of the authors copyright with verry little hassel. The same cannot be said about Windows or the Mac. This is not intended to put down windows or mac. I own both. While you may find Apps that companies refuse to release under Linux it is hard to find an open or popular format that cannot be opened or maintained on Linux.
Don't reply to this by stating something stupid like " Well Linux doesn't run such and such app ". That is the developers fault, go see the developer and ask them why. If they have no interest of porting their app, look around and you will be surprised at what you find
So if they do not wish to learn new software, why do they not just buy Windows? There is not one item listed above that the average Joe can't do in Linux... If they don't want you to use their software and you do not wish to purchase it, why the hell would you want to use it? If you can't afford to purchase it then...Just grow up...They don't want your business, how much clearer can they make it. They do NOT want your business because they think you are too cheap. I have a very hard time understanding people. I see it clear. They do NOT want your business.
Over 10 years ago I found FOSS and never had to look back, not because I don't know anything about Windows but because I do. I run my business on FOSS but I make most of my money cleaning Windows because people insist on running Windows.
1) Kill wgatray.exe in process in Task Manger 2) Restart in safe mode 3) Delete WgaTray.exe from Windows\System32 and Windows\System32\dllcache 4) Lauch RegEdit and Delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\WgaLogon 5) Reboot
Either I'm dense or... I have yet to see one box, other than Windows, which will install software off the Internet with a mere click of OK.
The other issue you bring up in regards to users, Windows claims to be easy. Linux has yet to make this claim that is why it still takes at least 2 steps to execute/install a script. Yes all systems are vulnerable but if MS would take the same effort on security as it does with EULA's, we would have a lot less issues such as the one described in this article.
On Mac/Linux/etc you are not administrator!!!!...It is not AUTOMATIC. You have at least one more step in order to hose your system. If it's a stupid user who hoses' their account, you hose their account. If you are the USER who enters the root password on Mac/Linux/etc in such a case then you deserve whatever happens.
It's statements like yours which keep us in this mess. There is a better way. Just add that step. There is no need to AUTOMATICALLY execute anything from the Internet. Remove these AUTOMATIC featurs and limit users as users and this problem even goes away in Windows. This problem is allready solved it's just that some pople don't get it. From your comments I beleive you are one of them
I just bought a windows Compaq with Windows XP. I need it to run IE to test web sites. After almost 8 hours I finally got it to a patched and desired secure working state. Stop this Linux bashing. Thank god I have a firewall because this would never have been safe. I could just imagine how long the whole thing would be if I would have had to install from the CD's (Which by the way I had to burn, which wasted another 2 hours).
I do not see where this "Windows is easy" attitude comes from. Mac yes, it's easy. Windows hell no! It takes longer to make it secure enough to surf the net as it takes to setup Linux. But I love Windows it sure pays the bills because everyone thinks it's easy and then wham.. bang... spyware virus or trojan.
P.S. For a system which has twice the power of my 6 year old FreeBSD, it sure as hell runs slow.
What is funny about your comment is that we have come to take it for granted. After all if your money had defects in it you would be taken straight to prison. No?
Does it not cost you to return the defective product? Why do we come to expect from certain industries garantees and others not? Why should we even be compensated for an overbooked flight or hotel room? Why are some industries more responsible than others?
with every copy of a CD you purchase regardless if you store copyright material or just plain pictures of your kids. If you can copy it for under a dollar then they can sell it for $5. Who would waste the time to copy?
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I installed a box with ubuntu and prommised myself that I would use the GUI and only the GUI. I had no need to use the CLI. Grandma would have no problems either.
I find Linux easier to operate and manage. If it would come preinstalled like windows most people would not care about the diffrences unless they were gamers.
Yes this is flame bait, but so what?
Window free as in, not locked in, not dependant on.
There is a saying, When you assume you make an ASS out of U and ME.
Here is a first I'm about to post a positive comment about windows.
Fist and foremost any system can be secured. I had an Win2K running for over 5 years and no intrusions. The point is not that it can't be done. It's this stupid marketing that insinuates that the issues have been resolved. All you have to do is purchase the latetest and greatest which today is XP SP2. NOT
The first thing we need is a change of attitude.
First let me start by saying if you are expecting your accountant to support the app, it's like asking the decorator to install the plumbing.
I managed several companies with sales over $15 million over the years, first and foremost I hire accountants who keep up with tax law not applications. Quicken, GNUCash and the like are too expensive for any business with that size of revenue. Their cost stems from the time wasted filling out the forms and in most business the cost is in salaries. You need to hire people who know the job not the software. I can take any qualified AP / AR clerk and sit them behind any real accounting software and they will be productive by the end of the day.
Wintel is fairly new in the accounting feild (yes I'm an old fart). I am not here to consult so I will only list one FOSS posibility, http://www.enterprisegroupwaresystem.org/ has most features for this size business. If you do some research you will see that you can get just the accounting in another package. There are serious stable solutions out there which may not necessarily be FOSS. I ran one company on Silk on Linux (not FOSS) about 7 years ago. I moved on but they are still using it.
Software which meets my accountants needs does not meet my business needs. I find today, that the mouse on most computers kills the productivity on most modern accounting systems.
I would love to see a Linux versin. Anyone know if one is planned?
I see this all the time... boo hoo hoo I can't run my windows software on such and such OS. I'm not here to consult but man, there are other options. The choice is yours and yours alone. There are other platforms which can do the same work. Yes, Autodesk does not make software other than for windows, but then again they are not the only game in town. Will others meet your needs? No idea. Im not offering consulting services.
I have company records and data, accessible and useable, which date back over 10 years. I have one of the original IBM 8088 and DOS 1.1 and a few files that date back till then. Text, old programs that have value only to me. You know I no longer need DOS 1.1 to access my files. The programs don't all work, but there are newer ones which can. The same goes for all the files I have today. They are based on solutions where more than one company has software that supports the format. My business is not dependant on any one other business for its success.
By your own comments you are so locked in to more than 1 company and you fail to see that you have options. There are many companies who don't use windows, some older than me (and I'm an old fart). Windows is a tool not your business, it's Gates business. Maybe you need to grow up and enter the real world because even today there are business which operate with pen and pencil.
I would advise you to run if you work at a company like you described. First and foremost, this shows complete incompetent people are managing the business administration side. If they can blame one individual for all the security problems at the company, could you imagine how their financials are?
People need to work as a team and be evaluated as a team. If upper management accepts the scapegoat, then they probably created the problem in the first place. Otherwise they need to resolve the issues as a group. If one persone was that incompetent then you would not need an audit.
Other systems can absorbe and truly surpass the work your compnay has done on excel. The choice was yours to limit, to tie your company into a closed system. Now your hoping someone will get you out. The limits are imposed by your software and your choices.
My company's work is not tied into one vendor, it was more expensive at the start but today our work belongs to us. Now it costs us less.
You should be asking why Excel limits you so, and not how someone will save you the bundle that it costs you to keep up to the latest and greatest.
Wow! I have a system that triple boots, (need to run IE for testing purposes), and every time I try XP or 2000 reminds me why I like Linux and FreeBSD. It seems to take forever to start up, switching users is just not done. When the second user logs in, it seems that the system just lost half it's speed. Windows seems to have a mind of it's own, system settins reset themselves after updates, but that is another discussion of it's own...
I prefer using the older FreeBSD system with half the processing power. It's always more responsive and I do not always need to tweek the damn thing. It runs for months even when 3 or 4 people are loged in. Switching users takes seconds.
But like you said maby it's me...
I also read the patent. It can be all that we both described. It only talks about CGI in prior art. If you use exec in SSI its what the patent describes. If you ask for the date in SSI, It's what the patent describes. A Web server with SSI and an Operating systems falls under the description of this patent.
This describes SSI. I believe I've been building sites for over 10 years with this. Does anyone know when it was first introduced. I have a reference back to 1995
I have moderator points but I have to reply to this.
No hotel ever says no to cash. What they say is "if we let youe stay in our $$$$$ room we would need a valid ID and enough money as a garantee that we will not have to run after you." If you don't believe me try checking in with a card that does not have enough credit to cover your stay.
If you do not intend to pay with your card, provide it to them on check in and upon check out settle with cash. Just remind them to cancel the pre-auth on your card on C/O. They never say no to cash. Never.
Seize the asset. That is what it should do. Make all IP and Patents unenforceable regarding such technology.
No need to say sorry you can't do business. All they would have to do is; pass a law that states ALL IP and Patents in regards to the technology not in compliance are null and void and such technology is to be turned over to the public domain.
Drastic but it would send a message play fair or we seize your assets.
This is the FUD I like the best. Just as an example the Linux distro mentioned, supports more file formats out of the box than a Windows XP OEM/Retail box. The cost to the user, to view ALL the formats you mentioned (and many more) can be maintained to nil on ubuntu while respecting the terms of the authors copyright with verry little hassel. The same cannot be said about Windows or the Mac. This is not intended to put down windows or mac. I own both. While you may find Apps that companies refuse to release under Linux it is hard to find an open or popular format that cannot be opened or maintained on Linux.
Don't reply to this by stating something stupid like " Well Linux doesn't run such and such app ". That is the developers fault, go see the developer and ask them why. If they have no interest of porting their app, look around and you will be surprised at what you find
So if they do not wish to learn new software, why do they not just buy Windows? There is not one item listed above that the average Joe can't do in Linux... If they don't want you to use their software and you do not wish to purchase it, why the hell would you want to use it? If you can't afford to purchase it then...Just grow up...They don't want your business, how much clearer can they make it. They do NOT want your business because they think you are too cheap. I have a very hard time understanding people. I see it clear. They do NOT want your business.
Over 10 years ago I found FOSS and never had to look back, not because I don't know anything about Windows but because I do. I run my business on FOSS but I make most of my money cleaning Windows because people insist on running Windows.
You need no utility;
1) Kill wgatray.exe in process in Task Manger
2) Restart in safe mode
3) Delete WgaTray.exe from Windows\System32 and Windows\System32\dllcache
4) Lauch RegEdit and Delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\WgaLogon
5) Reboot
The other issue you bring up in regards to users, Windows claims to be easy. Linux has yet to make this claim that is why it still takes at least 2 steps to execute/install a script. Yes all systems are vulnerable but if MS would take the same effort on security as it does with EULA's, we would have a lot less issues such as the one described in this article.
It's statements like yours which keep us in this mess. There is a better way. Just add that step. There is no need to AUTOMATICALLY execute anything from the Internet. Remove these AUTOMATIC featurs and limit users as users and this problem even goes away in Windows. This problem is allready solved it's just that some pople don't get it. From your comments I beleive you are one of them
I just bought a windows Compaq with Windows XP. I need it to run IE to test web sites. After almost 8 hours I finally got it to a patched and desired secure working state. Stop this Linux bashing. Thank god I have a firewall because this would never have been safe. I could just imagine how long the whole thing would be if I would have had to install from the CD's (Which by the way I had to burn, which wasted another 2 hours).
I do not see where this "Windows is easy" attitude comes from. Mac yes, it's easy. Windows hell no! It takes longer to make it secure enough to surf the net as it takes to setup Linux. But I love Windows it sure pays the bills because everyone thinks it's easy and then wham.. bang... spyware virus or trojan.
P.S. For a system which has twice the power of my 6 year old FreeBSD, it sure as hell runs slow.
Does it not cost you to return the defective product? Why do we come to expect from certain industries garantees and others not? Why should we even be compensated for an overbooked flight or hotel room? Why are some industries more responsible than others?
You think HI is any better with security? I hope you din't leave your CC...