120 days to give programming codes to rivals in the server market to allow 'full interoperability' with desktops running Windows
What does this mean they'll have to tell people about? I'm not au fait in any way with desktop/server interaction so Samba is the only thing that springs to mind, which I thought was interoperable just fine.
God, I hope something like this replaces PowerPoint. As we all know, PowerPoint makes you stupid. It forces you either to dumb down your presentation to the intellectual complexity (and entertainment value) of an infomercial, or cram so much text onto your slides, most of which you will recite anyway, that you might as well just pass out reports in 3-ring binders.
Powerpoint doesn't do this at all. Your audience does.
Powerpoint is merely a tool to do a presentation. Most presentations i do are high level and snappy.
If I need something more detailed, then I write a document and distribute that instead. If you sit someone in a presentation and try and ram 500 slides at them, then they'll get bored, turn off and you'll have wasted those 2 hours.
Don't blame the software if you aren't using it for the task it's best at.
I'm sorry, this may have linux, qt, a whole bunch of apps starting with K and you can SSH into NASA with it - but was there any reason why they had to make it horrifically butt ugly?
Maybe Linux PDA users aren't fashion conscious, but if i've paid a small fortune for a PDA, it would be nice if it didn't look like something by Fisher Price.
In case you hadn't noticed every single example of countries, cities, companies, schools and government departments moving to Linux have always cited one and only one reason for moving.
Because they're looking to cut costs and Linux is free.
You know Linux has more advantages, I know Linux has more advantages but they don't appear to ever be quoted by these companies.
This would be useful for something like AvantBrowser, CrazyBrowser or MyIE2 which use the IE rendering engine but add other nice features such as pop-up blockers and tabbed browsing.
It would be pretty simple for them to have a local copy of the stylesheet and modify the HTML from the server to include this before rendering.
'Your offer of free software places our employees and soldiers in jeopardy of unknowingly committing a violation of the ethics rules and regulations to which they have taken an oath to uphold.'
Yes, and at the risk of being modded into oblivion, so?
So what if Microsoft sends them free copies of software? Microsoft is more than welcome to send free copies of their software to my company.
The difference being that our IT department has a clear policy about what applications can and cannot be installed on the computer network.
If the Army has an issue with Microsoft then they've actually got a problem with people installing unauthorised software.
Sort that out and Microsoft can bomb them with as many free copies as they want as it won't make any difference.
Here is a mirror of the BBC website, translated from English to German to French and back to English again for your amusement:
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If you're going to have an unbiased review of all the latest versions of applications, then you're going to have to review all the latest versions. Period.
Frankly I think that also reviewing an unstable version of a product is showing favourtism to that product. After all, the chances are is that the unstable version has a lot more features than it's stable sister does.
Virtual folders: Microsoft Outlook does not support this feature.
Well, yes, it doesn't support virtual folders in the way that others implement it.
However there is an option called "Current View" (in "View") which allows you to see your inbox in a number of different ways. For example: by sender, by followup flag, by conversation, past seven days.
In addition, you can create and define your own custom views. So if I want to see all messages with the word "fish" in them, with one or more attachements, where I've been cc'ed and posted in the last week, then I can do so.
Which sounds very similar to virtual folders to me.
I've long thought about a sort of whistle-me-a-Google/name-that-tune search engine, where you know a snippet or melody of a song that has no lyrics or you have no idea what the lyrics are, and it peruses a vast collection of songs...
In the UK there is a service called Shazam. You dial 2580 on your mobile, hold the phone up to the music source and 20 seconds late the call will automatically end.
After about 30 seconds, it'll send you a text message with the name of the track and the artist.
Provided the music source isn't tainted too much (ie. you're near it and there isn't something else loud in the background) and isn't too obscure, then it does pretty well.
It costs about 9p for the call and 50p for the text message. Best to check on their website.
See, with good blocking employed on the network, the Napster network lost all of its value. The users fled, and it was game over.
Reminds me of AudioGalaxy. You could have songs blocked if it was requested. However as soon as the courts ordered them to switch to getting the record labels to agree to the songs inclusion in the database, all the content because unavailable overnight.
I think it took less than a fortnight for the entire service to die, in the last days the forums were full of people asking about alternatives and bitching about how they couldn't download Robbie Williams songs any more.
Other have claimed that we're essentially funding SCOs various lawsuits. This is not true. SCO already has like $60 million on hand and our small fee would not go very far
Oh I don't know. $1m seems like it'll go pretty far however big the size of your company.
Now all we need is some developers to get into gear helping out with Jahshaka so that it can compete on that "entry level" ticket that will allow it to really take off.
Actually all we need is some developers to get into gear working on an Exchange and Outlook replacement.
As soon as you have that, then you'll find that corporates will find it easier to move away from Windows and that the Joe User will pick Linux for his home computer because thats what he uses at work.
And how much labor and time did you put into it, and is that your living?
More time than it would to contribute to my project and no, it's not my living. But so? Your point being? Who said anything about me wanting those kind of people?
I'm looking for people to work with me (in their free time, as mine) to produce something that will benefit everyone else. I am actually doing some of the work myself (I've developed the protocol, the documentation, the eVB interface), not just bossing people around.
My advice, learn to program, or shut up.
Yeah whatever. For someone who can't learn to register, I don't really hold your opinion in high esteem.
We need to keep reminding people that what's at stake here is free speech. We need to keep reminding people that what we're doing is trying to keep the freedom of ideas in the 21st century, in a world where there are guys with little paste-it labels with price tags on it who would stick it on every idea on earth if it would make value for the shareholders.
Hear hear. Now can someone please point this out to the PocketPC developers out there? I got myself this new fangled PDA from Microsoft and the complete lack of GPL code out there for it is truely amazing.
There are plenty of applications, most of them are shockingly written but the developer has stuck it up on Handago with a tag of $15 in the hope that he/she can make a quick buck off it.
I, on the other hand, tried to garner interest in developing a simple framework to allow embedded visual basic programmers to create today plugins really easily. The idea was that the code to produce the today screen (which had to be eVC++) would be GPL and that the code for interfacing to it would be free (for use under any licence). Anyone who improved the protocol had to share it, but you didn't have to share the code for your own application if you really didn't want to.
Unfortunately I can't programme today screens (or evc++ for that matter) for toffee to I advertised for people to help me.
I had interest from 10 people - not one of them was interested in it being GPL. They would only agree to work with me on it if it was going to be sold and licenced to "approved" people. In short, they wanted to make money from something closed and hidden.
So what can I do? Learning eVC++ is not really an option unless people want to see something in 2010. Is there anywhere I can find good people who are willing to spread the GPL word in the PocketPC community?
Self installation kit.... Take the black wire and white wire and stick this meter across the terminals. I wonder how many people will inadventently fry?
Hopefully Jack Valenti, several people in the RIAA, Darl McBride, the entire Outlook and IIS development teams at Microsoft and Eric Raymond.
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What does this mean they'll have to tell people about? I'm not au fait in any way with desktop/server interaction so Samba is the only thing that springs to mind, which I thought was interoperable just fine.
Powerpoint doesn't do this at all. Your audience does.
Powerpoint is merely a tool to do a presentation. Most presentations i do are high level and snappy.
If I need something more detailed, then I write a document and distribute that instead. If you sit someone in a presentation and try and ram 500 slides at them, then they'll get bored, turn off and you'll have wasted those 2 hours.
Don't blame the software if you aren't using it for the task it's best at.
Compare it to say, the h2210.
Maybe Linux PDA users aren't fashion conscious, but if i've paid a small fortune for a PDA, it would be nice if it didn't look like something by Fisher Price.
In case you hadn't noticed every single example of countries, cities, companies, schools and government departments moving to Linux have always cited one and only one reason for moving.
Because they're looking to cut costs and Linux is free.
You know Linux has more advantages, I know Linux has more advantages but they don't appear to ever be quoted by these companies.
It would be pretty simple for them to have a local copy of the stylesheet and modify the HTML from the server to include this before rendering.
Not sure whether passing command line arguments is cheating, but still, good skills :o)
Yes, and at the risk of being modded into oblivion, so?
So what if Microsoft sends them free copies of software? Microsoft is more than welcome to send free copies of their software to my company.
The difference being that our IT department has a clear policy about what applications can and cannot be installed on the computer network.
If the Army has an issue with Microsoft then they've actually got a problem with people installing unauthorised software.
Sort that out and Microsoft can bomb them with as many free copies as they want as it won't make any difference.
Show me a shell script that takes more lines of code to do the same job in Perl
From the grandparent - sort and print only the unique entries in all the contents of some quote files:
Or how about, print all the real usernames from the passwd file ignoring any blanks:If you can do both of these in less lines in Perl (and shoving 5000 characters on the same line doesn't count) then you win.
There are a great deal more "many others" outside of Slashdot that have WMP install than there are "many others" who sit on Slashdot and don't.
Crikey, thats a lot of penis enlargement pills.
I feel quite inadequate now.
If the patch exposes the source code required to fix it, then you're three-quarters of the way towards an exploit.
RTFPP! They reviewed an old version of Outlook.
If you're going to have an unbiased review of all the latest versions of applications, then you're going to have to review all the latest versions. Period.
Frankly I think that also reviewing an unstable version of a product is showing favourtism to that product. After all, the chances are is that the unstable version has a lot more features than it's stable sister does.
Well, yes, it doesn't support virtual folders in the way that others implement it.
However there is an option called "Current View" (in "View") which allows you to see your inbox in a number of different ways. For example: by sender, by followup flag, by conversation, past seven days.
In addition, you can create and define your own custom views. So if I want to see all messages with the word "fish" in them, with one or more attachements, where I've been cc'ed and posted in the last week, then I can do so.
Which sounds very similar to virtual folders to me.
In the UK there is a service called Shazam. You dial 2580 on your mobile, hold the phone up to the music source and 20 seconds late the call will automatically end.
After about 30 seconds, it'll send you a text message with the name of the track and the artist.
Provided the music source isn't tainted too much (ie. you're near it and there isn't something else loud in the background) and isn't too obscure, then it does pretty well.
It costs about 9p for the call and 50p for the text message. Best to check on their website.
Reminds me of AudioGalaxy. You could have songs blocked if it was requested. However as soon as the courts ordered them to switch to getting the record labels to agree to the songs inclusion in the database, all the content because unavailable overnight.
I think it took less than a fortnight for the entire service to die, in the last days the forums were full of people asking about alternatives and bitching about how they couldn't download Robbie Williams songs any more.
Oh I don't know. $1m seems like it'll go pretty far however big the size of your company.
Actually all we need is some developers to get into gear working on an Exchange and Outlook replacement.
As soon as you have that, then you'll find that corporates will find it easier to move away from Windows and that the Joe User will pick Linux for his home computer because thats what he uses at work.
Which, last time I looked, sucks for a multitude of reasons.
Try AvantSlash as see how it should be done properly.
More time than it would to contribute to my project and no, it's not my living. But so? Your point being? Who said anything about me wanting those kind of people?
I'm looking for people to work with me (in their free time, as mine) to produce something that will benefit everyone else. I am actually doing some of the work myself (I've developed the protocol, the documentation, the eVB interface), not just bossing people around.
My advice, learn to program, or shut up.
Yeah whatever. For someone who can't learn to register, I don't really hold your opinion in high esteem.
I should know better than to reply to an AC but yes, you are right, I don't program for a living.
But don't think that I don't release anything under the GNU GPL.
Hear hear. Now can someone please point this out to the PocketPC developers out there? I got myself this new fangled PDA from Microsoft and the complete lack of GPL code out there for it is truely amazing.
There are plenty of applications, most of them are shockingly written but the developer has stuck it up on Handago with a tag of $15 in the hope that he/she can make a quick buck off it.
I, on the other hand, tried to garner interest in developing a simple framework to allow embedded visual basic programmers to create today plugins really easily. The idea was that the code to produce the today screen (which had to be eVC++) would be GPL and that the code for interfacing to it would be free (for use under any licence). Anyone who improved the protocol had to share it, but you didn't have to share the code for your own application if you really didn't want to.
Unfortunately I can't programme today screens (or evc++ for that matter) for toffee to I advertised for people to help me.
I had interest from 10 people - not one of them was interested in it being GPL. They would only agree to work with me on it if it was going to be sold and licenced to "approved" people. In short, they wanted to make money from something closed and hidden.
So what can I do? Learning eVC++ is not really an option unless people want to see something in 2010. Is there anywhere I can find good people who are willing to spread the GPL word in the PocketPC community?
Hopefully we can shift London to where Rome was before and finally get some decent weather.
If you like this sort of thing, check out b3ta which is dedicated to the art.
Hopefully Jack Valenti, several people in the RIAA, Darl McBride, the entire Outlook and IIS development teams at Microsoft and Eric Raymond.
Do I get a cookie?