The census comes around every 5 years. The questions are so bland, and demographic as to really make this census, not useless, but a wasted opportunity. It would have been so easy to include some extra questions (not political ones, because no government would agree in mid-term), but rather social questions. Like some national survey instead of a selective one (like a poll of a 1000 people). I can think of one question that would be highly applicable to all Australians: Would you support recycled sewerage being pumped back to the potable water supply? Or Rate your preference for a solution to the water shortage problems: 1) Desalination, 2) recycling, 3) more dams, 4) long distance canals, 5) relocate the towns/cities, etc...
But, all the questions are related to how do you get to work, how much do you earn and where do you study... Sad. Same questions as last census. Hopefully in the future this will change.
Actually this is not the entire truth. I was holidaying with a group of friends in the Hunter Valley area (in NSW). On our way back to Sydney, we saw a couple of cops packing their speed camera gear (or maybe their breathalisers?) Anyway, one of the cars in our convoy had to stop for some reason, so while I was talking to one of the guys in our group, I dared them to approach the cops and see if I can get them to pretend to arrest one of our guys so I can take a funny photo of the "incident". I thought there would be no harm in this. The cops could say no, or they could play along. Well, no one in the group dared to do that except one guy. He got out of his car, put his hands on the side of the car and spread his legs (as in a body search position). When one the cops saw this, he came over smiling, took his baton out of the holster, and posed for me (pretending to be hitting my friend). I'm thning to myself, this is much better that what I originally had in mind. Needless to say, that was a great shot. We ended up spending about 15 minutes chatting to these cops and talking about where we came from, where they came from, and general chit chat. Everyone was very relaxed. They didn't seem to mind me taking the photos. I took heaps. Anyway, after I got home, I had in mind printing the photos and sending them to these cops at their station. Then I realised I am dealing with dangerous stuff: The photos are quite incriminating (if one can manage to get rid of the laughing and smiling group in the background). I was actually too scared to do that so I don't get them in trouble. I've still got the photos, and one of them actually shows the nametag of one of the policemen. Now I don't even want to use them where I originally intended (on a slideshow for our youth group).
Google Pack includes the following pieces of Software:
Google Earth - 3D Earth browser
Google Desktop - Desktop companion
Picasa - Photo organizer
Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer
Google Pack Screensaver - Photo screensaver
Google Talk - Voice and IM application
Google Video Player - Video player Additional Software
Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar - Web browser
Ad-Aware SE Personal - Antispyware utility
Norton Antivirus 2005 Special Edition - Antivirus utility
Adobe Reader 7 - PDF reader
RealPlayer - Media player
GalleryPlayer HD Images - Images
One wonders what Dell is pre-instaling. Would they install firefox and get on MS' bad side?
Of the whole list, I personally use Picasa (on Windows, my primary app is iPhoto on my G4), Firefox, and Acrobat. Some of the apps, I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole: Norton's, Real Player.
now i'm really interested to see what they're bundling, or are they just including a link to the google pack?
KLS: Now you are something of a rock star in tech circles...
LT: I don't notice that in normal life. I don't actually go to that many conferences. I do that a couple of times a year. Normally I am not recognized, people don't throw their panties at me. I'm a perfectly normal person sitting in my den just doing my job.
Do I sense a bit of disappointment here, a Freudian slip perhaps? All in all, not a bad interview. Good insight into why he does what he does.
I agree. I have the same problem with Safari. The close button is on every tab. If you're trying to switch tabs, and accidentally land your mouse over the close button, that's it. All is lost, you'll have to start all over again. It is a much worse problem if you have a form being filled in, and you're switching tabs to get info. I agree, the close button should as in the current incarnation of Firefox: far away, that you have to be deliberately aiming for it to close a tab. Please FF Developers, make it an option not requiring an extention.
Guantanamo Bay was called into being to exploit a juridical loophole in order to hold people without accusation, without legal representation, and without trial for as long as the authorities need to either build a case against them or to clear them. The reason this was done was to get at people considered to be the equivalent of enemy combatants but without a state that you could hold responsible, without a "home front" which would moderate their actions, and which on balance were considered potentially far too dangerous to let walk around free. In other words: for real terrorists who threaten real lives. Not for teens who make a hobby of breaking into poorly protected computers.
The "loophole" you refer to was created to justify Guantanamo bay rather than the other way around. The problem with this prison is the lack of justice; and comparing it to a gulag is very appropriate.
Unfortunately, most people who support Guantanamo Bay or think it is inappropriate to "victimise" the inmates, do not understand that just because people are criminals or enemies/prisoners of war, does not mean you hold them without charge, access to family or laywers. This whole mess screams INJUSTICE very loudly, it's unfortunately being drowned by a lot of other voices including that of apathy.
I think you've missed the point. The government is not targeting insurgents, it is targeting people outside of Iraq, people who have access to the internet. Especially people in the US, so they can "see how bad the previous regime was".
I think many people project their status onto other, so if everyone you know has a computer and is connected to the internet, and just because you see insurgents advertising on the internet, does not mean that everyone has access to the internet. I've been to the Middle East (not Iraq), where the majority of people do not have computers let alone internet access. However, you are correct, I call BS as well that they need the "public's" help to translate documents.
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A while back, I was at Sydney airport, and lo-and-behold, the arrivals screens were BSODed. It ws funny to see that these systems were running Windows (2000 IIRC).
I also saw that a few times on the Sydney trains information displays. It might explain why the trains are late at times...
I agree, that there is really no incentive for people to "use less". However, the biggest culprits in big cities are office workers and their employers. Many times when I leave work, I notice people who have left for the day with their computers still on, the monitor also on with the screensaver running. Then there are the building lights, escalators running in shopping centres when the centre is closed, and the list goes on and on and on. (one of my pet peeves is the superflous neon light advertising) I have however seen in at least two office buildings I've been to where the meeting rooms have sensor lights that turn off when there's no movement for a certain time.
I have been reading this thread at higher mods because of the number of comments, so I may have missed someone else mentioning this:
Anyone remember the first time Apple offered.mac accounts? It was free email, and free storage for a while. It was cool to have a joebloke@mac.com email address for a while. The free storage was fantastic. You just connect to your.mac account, and the drive mounts on your desktop. Simple and brilliant. Then Apple did what every self respecting, money making corporation will eventually do (including Google), they started charging for the service. Those who benefit from the service pay up, those who don't (like me) just stop using it.
Calling people who barely got out of the Earth's atmosphere "Astronauts" and "Cosmonauts" is a bit like calling a dinghy sailor "Admiral".
Actually, Astronaut means "star sailor" and Cosmonaut means "planet sailor" (these are not exact translations, but they were the intended meanings. I think the Russians got their naming more accurate than the Americans. It's a long way to the stars, the planets we achieved a few decades ago.
I Agree with the parent. Mantisbt is one of the best out there. Very easy to configure (at least when I used it last about 18 months ago). It is also quite easy to customise and reprogram. This is what I did. I did a major edit of the ssource code and the database in order to customise it for our own internal mini-helpdesk. It worked brilliant (I think it was version 17 or 18). The reporting is also fantastic. The reason why I had to customise it was because it was geared towards "bug reporting" but I wanted to make it into a "problem/ticket" reporting system.
I too have a lot of books on bookshelves. This is one of the features in my living room. I love it when I visit someone's house and they have a bookshelf with books on them. Very few people have that these days. It's more like a large collection of DVDs/CDs (and the odd Videos). I love being able to stare at a bookshelf to see what others read, or to randomly pick up a book that hasn't been read for a while. these are things that won't be realisable with digitised books (ebooks in any form). I tried ebooks when I had an iPaq. It's not the same. Myself, I doubt that ebooks will overtake paper books for a very long time. It's got nothing to do with the technology advances. It's the usage.
Another thing I want to point out.. that the word "Muslim" is about as descriptive as "Christian". There are as many kinds of muslim as there are kinds of christian. Baptist, Born Again, protestant, presbeterian, orthodox, catholic, etc. There are many differences between each of them.. Most of the terrorism, and a lot of the rioting is being caused by a particularly extremist sect that is deeply entrenched in Saudia Arabia, and was the backbone of the Taliban. Wahabism. It was founded by an Islamic scholar Abdul Wahab. I am not a wahabi.:)
This doesn't appear to be true. You're saying that most of the rioting is a result of Wahabism? I thought wahabism was mainly in Saudi Arabia and some other Persian Gulf countries only. The rioting has been happening in virtually every muslim country, including Iran (a Shia country not highly regarded by Wahabis). It is not very clear why the rioting has been so widespread, and also why it's taken so long (after all, the cartoons appeared in september alst year!). My gut feeling is that it is organised by people who will benefit from such widespread animosity to the West at this particular time. I mean, this is certainly not the first time that the prophet has been "denigrated" or "insulted" or Islam insulted in the West. The question everyone needs to ask is why now? who benefits from all this?
Sometimes I've even had the thought of WWIII beginning because of something like this. Specially after a) Iran enriching uranium, and b) Hamas getting elected.
A) Iran enriching Uranium does not correspond to them building a bomb, or even wanting to use it. However, just like the first wave of nuclear armamant race, everyone wants it. Afterall, india, pakistan, and Israel have it, why not Iran? What's to protect Iran in, say 10-20 years, when OIL is even more scarce than it is now, and some western coutry with an oil-starved economy to upkeep decides to invade Iran in order to "free the local citizens" and "promote democracy"? I must add though, that I do not approve of them having a nuclear bomb, and I hope they never do, but my point is that an issue needs to be looked at from more than one point of view.
B) Hamas startig WWIII? Hmmm. Not that I like their tactics, but their only aim is Palestian's rights. As far as I can understand from their propaganda, their enemy is Israel and those who support her (usually the USA). They do not have an army, tanks, planes or anything except home-made rockets and guns. Somehow, I don't think they're capable of even defeating Israel, let alone start WWIII. Their biggest weapon is propaganda, and they seem to use it effectively: they managed to get Israel to withdraw from Gaza. That took them about 10 years. Maybe in 20-30 years, the Israelis will decide to give up the rest of the land they invaded and occupied in 1967.
FileMaker is a BAD IDEA for the same reason Quickbooks is. Look at the other comments. It does work in Wine, though, and has a Linux server.
What, may I ask is wrong with FileMaker? Is it it's ease of setup? GUI? Or is it a bad idea to graphically design forms to suit pretty much any need? Perhaps it's the ease with which you can setup a relationship within filemaker, or maybe access to SQL databases using ODBC? Sorry, I just don't understand what's wrong with FileMaker. I've never used Quickbooks, so have no idea what the similarities are.
DreamWeaver? Hire a web designer. There are web development tools for Linux, and there are web-based development tools for anything with a decent browser, but honestly, if what you're doing requires something as complex as DreamWeaver, it really requires a professional web developer comfortable with Linux and Vim.
Maybe I am a web designer who actually will find DreamWeaver useful and a productive tool. Besides, how do you know I don't already use a Linux box for web development? I assure you that most of the websites I've developed useing Bluefish as my prefered tool. Again, you reject something without giving valid reasons for it.
Timbuktu -- did you TRY to Google? SSH has been around for years, and it'll do X11 forwarding. There's also VNC, which has plenty of decent Windows clients. And there's rdesktop, for connecting to Windows remote desktops. It would take a lot of trickery to show only part of your screen, but is that a big issue for you? Or anyone? I would hide things on another workspace if I didn't want to show the whole desktop.
OK, I'll try to explain what I think TB2 or similar tools can do. I must admit that I haven't used rdesktop, but I have used (and still use) VNC. TB2 and similar products are used to duplicate the remote desktop (as the currently logged on user) to another machine. It is primarly used to remotely assist users to fix problems etc and saving on a visit to their desk. TB2 is for both Macs and Windows. It is similar in principle to Windows remote assistant. The availability of such a tool for Linux would speed up the deployment of Linux in the helpdesk for multi platform corporations.
Netmeeting -- again, are you serious? Ok, there is GnomeMeeting to connect to actual Netmeeting, but there are so many replacements it's ludicrous. Normal IM has webcam support, and there's a program that does this. And let's not forget Skype.
Never used skype, so wasn't aware it can share desktops across multiple PCs. Netmeeting is not just to chat to people. IM clients are for that. Netmeeting is for sharing desktops (or just applications) across multiple users so everyone can see the same screen. I don't know about GnomeMeeting, from it's title, it does sound that it is a similar app.
Outlook -- Thunderbird and Sunbird. Yes, you can make this work easily enough in Sunbird, if you know how to run a webserver. Is it stable yet? I've only had one bug, and that's been fixed already... No crashes...
When someone mentions Outlook, it is not as a "mail client". There are many clients out there, with similar or better interface. A better reference is to mention "Exchange Solution" which is the client and the server. In outlook you can view multiple mailboxes (provided you have permissions) you can even impersonate another user (again with permissions). Also the shared calendaring solution in Exchange is pretty much the single most important reason why corporations use it. Lotus notes could be similar, but I've never used it, so can't say. Again, you seem to jump the gun when you've replied to my post.
In short, ask Google before you ask Slashdot. Google won't insult you for not knowing something.
How am I supposed to answer this obviously misinformed, and totally irrelevant statement? The fact that I
Here is a list of apps I'd like to see ported to Linux. not in any order, just the way I think of them (They're apps that I use): 1- FileMaker Pro 2- DreamWeaver 3- InDesign 4- Timbuktu or equivalent (remote control tool) 5- Netmeeting (I saw someone mentioned it) 6- I would say Outlook, but it's not actually outlook that's needed but a group calendarening system
In Australia (in NSW at least), I've ever been asked for ID when voting. All i had to do is tell them my name and the address. Sometime I just look it up on the index and show it to the election monitor. (A couple of my friends, two brothers, when one of them happens to be working on an election saturday, the other brother used to vote for him: he's just drive to another polling station and tick his brother's name off as his. This is because voting is compulsory, and you get fined for not voting, which i think is a good idea). Otherwise, the voting process is exactly like the grandparent post mentions. We prettymuch find outt eh results within a few hours of West Australia's closing time.
A great use for wiki technology is to maintain Man Pages updated. Most of us know that some man pages are spartan at best, and few get updated regularly. The Waikato Linux Group have published most of the linux man pages on their wiki site. This way anyone can edit/modufy/update these manpages. Great idea.
I'd have to agree with the above statement. There is something seriously wrong with the iMac G5. My G4 400 boots faster than that on 10.4 I can imaging the Intel iMac to be faster, but not by a minute.
Having dealt with both of them (or been exposed to some of their projects), I can say the "negative conclusions" are spot on. IBM tends to provide very complex solutions that take years to develop, that by the time they're being testes they are so far from the original specs that it's not funny. HP is good at confusing themselves. The comment in there about them being too big is quite true. They're selling themselves as a "global" company, but they can't operate like that. It's an uphill battle to get the same service for the same customer in different cuntries.
Why was the parent modded "Funny". This is actually insightful. "auto formatting" and such should be OFF by default. Remember people, just because "you can do it" doesn't mean you should.
In Australia, we have a TFN (Tax File Number) and this number is only required by people who charge you tax. In otherwords, your employer will need this number to credit your taxes to the right person. This number, by the way, is only needed if you're employed and paying taxes. Otherwise, it is not required. No financial institution needs (or even requests this number). I just can't imagine why it is so convoluted overseas!
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The census comes around every 5 years. The questions are so bland, and demographic as to really make this census, not useless, but a wasted opportunity.
It would have been so easy to include some extra questions (not political ones, because no government would agree in mid-term), but rather social questions. Like some national survey instead of a selective one (like a poll of a 1000 people).
I can think of one question that would be highly applicable to all Australians:
Would you support recycled sewerage being pumped back to the potable water supply?
Or
Rate your preference for a solution to the water shortage problems: 1) Desalination, 2) recycling, 3) more dams, 4) long distance canals, 5) relocate the towns/cities, etc...
But, all the questions are related to how do you get to work, how much do you earn and where do you study...
Sad. Same questions as last census.
Hopefully in the future this will change.
Actually this is not the entire truth.
I was holidaying with a group of friends in the Hunter Valley area (in NSW). On our way back to Sydney, we saw a couple of cops packing their speed camera gear (or maybe their breathalisers?) Anyway, one of the cars in our convoy had to stop for some reason, so while I was talking to one of the guys in our group, I dared them to approach the cops and see if I can get them to pretend to arrest one of our guys so I can take a funny photo of the "incident". I thought there would be no harm in this. The cops could say no, or they could play along.
Well, no one in the group dared to do that except one guy. He got out of his car, put his hands on the side of the car and spread his legs (as in a body search position). When one the cops saw this, he came over smiling, took his baton out of the holster, and posed for me (pretending to be hitting my friend). I'm thning to myself, this is much better that what I originally had in mind.
Needless to say, that was a great shot. We ended up spending about 15 minutes chatting to these cops and talking about where we came from, where they came from, and general chit chat. Everyone was very relaxed. They didn't seem to mind me taking the photos. I took heaps.
Anyway, after I got home, I had in mind printing the photos and sending them to these cops at their station. Then I realised I am dealing with dangerous stuff: The photos are quite incriminating (if one can manage to get rid of the laughing and smiling group in the background). I was actually too scared to do that so I don't get them in trouble. I've still got the photos, and one of them actually shows the nametag of one of the policemen. Now I don't even want to use them where I originally intended (on a slideshow for our youth group).
I scoured their pages, and it looks like VPC 2004 is the only "free" one made available.
VPC 7 for Mac does not appear to be free.
Any one know otherwise?
Google Pack includes the following pieces of Software:
Google Earth - 3D Earth browser
Google Desktop - Desktop companion
Picasa - Photo organizer
Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer
Google Pack Screensaver - Photo screensaver
Google Talk - Voice and IM application
Google Video Player - Video player
Additional Software
Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar - Web browser
Ad-Aware SE Personal - Antispyware utility
Norton Antivirus 2005 Special Edition - Antivirus utility
Adobe Reader 7 - PDF reader
RealPlayer - Media player
GalleryPlayer HD Images - Images
One wonders what Dell is pre-instaling. Would they install firefox and get on MS' bad side?
Of the whole list, I personally use Picasa (on Windows, my primary app is iPhoto on my G4), Firefox, and Acrobat. Some of the apps, I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole: Norton's, Real Player.
now i'm really interested to see what they're bundling, or are they just including a link to the google pack?
Do I sense a bit of disappointment here, a Freudian slip perhaps?
All in all, not a bad interview. Good insight into why he does what he does.
I agree. I have the same problem with Safari. The close button is on every tab. If you're trying to switch tabs, and accidentally land your mouse over the close button, that's it. All is lost, you'll have to start all over again. It is a much worse problem if you have a form being filled in, and you're switching tabs to get info.
I agree, the close button should as in the current incarnation of Firefox: far away, that you have to be deliberately aiming for it to close a tab.
Please FF Developers, make it an option not requiring an extention.
The "loophole" you refer to was created to justify Guantanamo bay rather than the other way around. The problem with this prison is the lack of justice; and comparing it to a gulag is very appropriate.
Unfortunately, most people who support Guantanamo Bay or think it is inappropriate to "victimise" the inmates, do not understand that just because people are criminals or enemies/prisoners of war, does not mean you hold them without charge, access to family or laywers. This whole mess screams INJUSTICE very loudly, it's unfortunately being drowned by a lot of other voices including that of apathy.
I think you've missed the point. The government is not targeting insurgents, it is targeting people outside of Iraq, people who have access to the internet. Especially people in the US, so they can "see how bad the previous regime was".
I think many people project their status onto other, so if everyone you know has a computer and is connected to the internet, and just because you see insurgents advertising on the internet, does not mean that everyone has access to the internet. I've been to the Middle East (not Iraq), where the majority of people do not have computers let alone internet access.
However, you are correct, I call BS as well that they need the "public's" help to translate documents.
A while back, I was at Sydney airport, and lo-and-behold, the arrivals screens were BSODed. It ws funny to see that these systems were running Windows (2000 IIRC).
I also saw that a few times on the Sydney trains information displays. It might explain why the trains are late at times...
In NSW, we have cardboard boxes (taped shut), so there is no padlock either.
I agree, that there is really no incentive for people to "use less". However, the biggest culprits in big cities are office workers and their employers.
Many times when I leave work, I notice people who have left for the day with their computers still on, the monitor also on with the screensaver running. Then there are the building lights, escalators running in shopping centres when the centre is closed, and the list goes on and on and on. (one of my pet peeves is the superflous neon light advertising)
I have however seen in at least two office buildings I've been to where the meeting rooms have sensor lights that turn off when there's no movement for a certain time.
I have been reading this thread at higher mods because of the number of comments, so I may have missed someone else mentioning this:
.mac accounts? It was free email, and free storage for a while. It was cool to have a joebloke@mac.com email address for a while. The free storage was fantastic. You just connect to your .mac account, and the drive mounts on your desktop. Simple and brilliant.
Anyone remember the first time Apple offered
Then Apple did what every self respecting, money making corporation will eventually do (including Google), they started charging for the service.
Those who benefit from the service pay up, those who don't (like me) just stop using it.
Calling people who barely got out of the Earth's atmosphere "Astronauts" and "Cosmonauts" is a bit like calling a dinghy sailor "Admiral".
Actually, Astronaut means "star sailor" and Cosmonaut means "planet sailor" (these are not exact translations, but they were the intended meanings. I think the Russians got their naming more accurate than the Americans. It's a long way to the stars, the planets we achieved a few decades ago.
I Agree with the parent. Mantisbt is one of the best out there. Very easy to configure (at least when I used it last about 18 months ago). It is also quite easy to customise and reprogram. This is what I did. I did a major edit of the ssource code and the database in order to customise it for our own internal mini-helpdesk. It worked brilliant (I think it was version 17 or 18). The reporting is also fantastic. The reason why I had to customise it was because it was geared towards "bug reporting" but I wanted to make it into a "problem/ticket" reporting system.
Anyway, you can find it here: http://www.mantisbt.org/
I too have a lot of books on bookshelves. This is one of the features in my living room.
I love it when I visit someone's house and they have a bookshelf with books on them. Very few people have that these days. It's more like a large collection of DVDs/CDs (and the odd Videos). I love being able to stare at a bookshelf to see what others read, or to randomly pick up a book that hasn't been read for a while.
these are things that won't be realisable with digitised books (ebooks in any form).
I tried ebooks when I had an iPaq. It's not the same.
Myself, I doubt that ebooks will overtake paper books for a very long time. It's got nothing to do with the technology advances. It's the usage.
Another thing I want to point out.. that the word "Muslim" is about as descriptive as "Christian". There are as many kinds of muslim as there are kinds of christian. Baptist, Born Again, protestant, presbeterian, orthodox, catholic, etc. There are many differences between each of them.. Most of the terrorism, and a lot of the rioting is being caused by a particularly extremist sect that is deeply entrenched in Saudia Arabia, and was the backbone of the Taliban. Wahabism. It was founded by an Islamic scholar Abdul Wahab. I am not a wahabi. :)
This doesn't appear to be true. You're saying that most of the rioting is a result of Wahabism? I thought wahabism was mainly in Saudi Arabia and some other Persian Gulf countries only. The rioting has been happening in virtually every muslim country, including Iran (a Shia country not highly regarded by Wahabis).
It is not very clear why the rioting has been so widespread, and also why it's taken so long (after all, the cartoons appeared in september alst year!).
My gut feeling is that it is organised by people who will benefit from such widespread animosity to the West at this particular time.
I mean, this is certainly not the first time that the prophet has been "denigrated" or "insulted" or Islam insulted in the West. The question everyone needs to ask is why now? who benefits from all this?
Sometimes I've even had the thought of WWIII beginning because of something like this. Specially after a) Iran enriching uranium, and b) Hamas getting elected.
A) Iran enriching Uranium does not correspond to them building a bomb, or even wanting to use it. However, just like the first wave of nuclear armamant race, everyone wants it. Afterall, india, pakistan, and Israel have it, why not Iran? What's to protect Iran in, say 10-20 years, when OIL is even more scarce than it is now, and some western coutry with an oil-starved economy to upkeep decides to invade Iran in order to "free the local citizens" and "promote democracy"?
I must add though, that I do not approve of them having a nuclear bomb, and I hope they never do, but my point is that an issue needs to be looked at from more than one point of view.
B) Hamas startig WWIII? Hmmm. Not that I like their tactics, but their only aim is Palestian's rights. As far as I can understand from their propaganda, their enemy is Israel and those who support her (usually the USA). They do not have an army, tanks, planes or anything except home-made rockets and guns. Somehow, I don't think they're capable of even defeating Israel, let alone start WWIII. Their biggest weapon is propaganda, and they seem to use it effectively: they managed to get Israel to withdraw from Gaza. That took them about 10 years. Maybe in 20-30 years, the Israelis will decide to give up the rest of the land they invaded and occupied in 1967.
What, may I ask is wrong with FileMaker? Is it it's ease of setup? GUI? Or is it a bad idea to graphically design forms to suit pretty much any need? Perhaps it's the ease with which you can setup a relationship within filemaker, or maybe access to SQL databases using ODBC?
Sorry, I just don't understand what's wrong with FileMaker. I've never used Quickbooks, so have no idea what the similarities are.
Maybe I am a web designer who actually will find DreamWeaver useful and a productive tool. Besides, how do you know I don't already use a Linux box for web development? I assure you that most of the websites I've developed useing Bluefish as my prefered tool.
Again, you reject something without giving valid reasons for it.
OK, I'll try to explain what I think TB2 or similar tools can do. I must admit that I haven't used rdesktop, but I have used (and still use) VNC. TB2 and similar products are used to duplicate the remote desktop (as the currently logged on user) to another machine. It is primarly used to remotely assist users to fix problems etc and saving on a visit to their desk. TB2 is for both Macs and Windows. It is similar in principle to Windows remote assistant. The availability of such a tool for Linux would speed up the deployment of Linux in the helpdesk for multi platform corporations.
Never used skype, so wasn't aware it can share desktops across multiple PCs. Netmeeting is not just to chat to people. IM clients are for that. Netmeeting is for sharing desktops (or just applications) across multiple users so everyone can see the same screen. I don't know about GnomeMeeting, from it's title, it does sound that it is a similar app.
When someone mentions Outlook, it is not as a "mail client". There are many clients out there, with similar or better interface. A better reference is to mention "Exchange Solution" which is the client and the server. In outlook you can view multiple mailboxes (provided you have permissions) you can even impersonate another user (again with permissions). Also the shared calendaring solution in Exchange is pretty much the single most important reason why corporations use it. Lotus notes could be similar, but I've never used it, so can't say.
Again, you seem to jump the gun when you've replied to my post.
How am I supposed to answer this obviously misinformed, and totally irrelevant statement?
The fact that I
Here is a list of apps I'd like to see ported to Linux. not in any order, just the way I think of them (They're apps that I use):
1- FileMaker Pro
2- DreamWeaver
3- InDesign
4- Timbuktu or equivalent (remote control tool)
5- Netmeeting (I saw someone mentioned it)
6- I would say Outlook, but it's not actually outlook that's needed but a group calendarening system
In Australia (in NSW at least), I've ever been asked for ID when voting. All i had to do is tell them my name and the address. Sometime I just look it up on the index and show it to the election monitor. (A couple of my friends, two brothers, when one of them happens to be working on an election saturday, the other brother used to vote for him: he's just drive to another polling station and tick his brother's name off as his. This is because voting is compulsory, and you get fined for not voting, which i think is a good idea).
Otherwise, the voting process is exactly like the grandparent post mentions. We prettymuch find outt eh results within a few hours of West Australia's closing time.
A great use for wiki technology is to maintain Man Pages updated. Most of us know that some man pages are spartan at best, and few get updated regularly.
The Waikato Linux Group have published most of the linux man pages on their wiki site. This way anyone can edit/modufy/update these manpages.
Great idea.
I'd have to agree with the above statement. There is something seriously wrong with the iMac G5. My G4 400 boots faster than that on 10.4
I can imaging the Intel iMac to be faster, but not by a minute.
Having dealt with both of them (or been exposed to some of their projects), I can say the "negative conclusions" are spot on.
IBM tends to provide very complex solutions that take years to develop, that by the time they're being testes they are so far from the original specs that it's not funny.
HP is good at confusing themselves. The comment in there about them being too big is quite true. They're selling themselves as a "global" company, but they can't operate like that. It's an uphill battle to get the same service for the same customer in different cuntries.
Why was the parent modded "Funny". This is actually insightful. "auto formatting" and such should be OFF by default.
Remember people, just because "you can do it" doesn't mean you should.
In Australia, we have a TFN (Tax File Number) and this number is only required by people who charge you tax. In otherwords, your employer will need this number to credit your taxes to the right person. This number, by the way, is only needed if you're employed and paying taxes. Otherwise, it is not required. No financial institution needs (or even requests this number). I just can't imagine why it is so convoluted overseas!