I have worked for a firm of stock-brokers with an AS400; using Rhumba on NT for terminal access and Front Office Automation (which is accessed though a web browser) to make transactions. I thought at the time, all they need is a terminal app for Linux, and they could use Linux instead. It would save them loads... the only other apps I used were Excel to work out sale to realise figures on a rights issue, and Word for letters to clients, nothing StarOffice couldn't handle.
When you have a solid machine with a solid OS set up right, it seems that it can even do without routine maintenance. If humans didn't keep fiddling with the darned thing perhaps it would stay up longer!
All servers should go undercover! 'Servers in disguise...'
I agree Church and State should be kept apart. I didn't
realise what it was like in the US... here in the UK it doesn't
seem to be so much of an issue.
But a coziness between church and state is good for the state and
bad for the church (GK Chesterton). The church can never acheive
its aims through politics anyway, Jesus certainly didn't do it
that way, and I certainly can't imagine any government enacting
the set of laws that Jesus sets out in the Sermon on the Mount!:-) (Matthew 5-7. The Bible)
Hey, maybe some of those screaming protestant
fundamentalists should try reading some of it;-)
But seriously though, in a democracy of course everybody
should have a voice, so every religious group has a right to
speak out. Though I think Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil
rights movement is a good example of how the church should be
involved in politics ie. tackling real issues
with grace, humility, love and coutesy.
Bravo, well said. I code in Java exclusively on Linux (using just nedit and IBM JDK 1.3). While I recognise that there is a difference in culture between Sun & the Linux crowd doesn't mean I would reject Java. I think Linux is great and Java is great, I certainly don't use Linux simply because of it's philosophical underpinnings.
> there isn't a Word equivalent editor, or a
presentation tool like PowerPoint...
I'm not sure what you mean by 'equivalent'... my office suite
of choice is Sun StarOffice 5.2 on both Windows and Linux and
that has both tools mentioned above and alot more besides.
Other industry standard software that I need
to run my business such as the likes of Quark XPress and
Macromedia Freehand, aren't available for Linux. But I can get my
admin. work done fine on Linux.
I am somewhat taken aback by the venom in some of the above posts.
If the online book in question was the Torah or the Koran would they have provoked such vitriolic comment?
Just a thought.
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This is redundant, but I would like to know too.
I have worked for a firm of stock-brokers with an AS400; using Rhumba on NT for terminal access and Front Office Automation (which is accessed though a web browser) to make transactions. I thought at the time, all they need is a terminal app for Linux, and they could use Linux instead. It would save them loads... the only other apps I used were Excel to work out sale to realise figures on a rights issue, and Word for letters to clients, nothing StarOffice couldn't handle.
Which UK force?
I work for one of the forces and they only have NT and win98.
When you have a solid machine with a solid OS set up right, it seems that it can even do without routine maintenance. If humans didn't keep fiddling with the darned thing perhaps it would stay up longer!
All servers should go undercover! 'Servers in disguise...'
Enough wierdness already.
Using a laser to drill for flammable liquids and gases, seems a bit too much like using a match to find the gas leak.
I agree Church and State should be kept apart. I didn't realise what it was like in the US... here in the UK it doesn't seem to be so much of an issue. :-) (Matthew 5-7. The Bible)
But a coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church (GK Chesterton). The church can never acheive its aims through politics anyway, Jesus certainly didn't do it that way, and I certainly can't imagine any government enacting the set of laws that Jesus sets out in the Sermon on the Mount!
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth... etc etc
Hey, maybe some of those screaming protestant fundamentalists should try reading some of it ;-)
But seriously though, in a democracy of course everybody should have a voice, so every religious group has a right to speak out. Though I think Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement is a good example of how the church should be involved in politics ie. tackling real issues with grace, humility, love and coutesy.
Bravo, well said. I code in Java exclusively on Linux (using just nedit and IBM JDK 1.3). While I recognise that there is a difference in culture between Sun & the Linux crowd doesn't mean I would reject Java. I think Linux is great and Java is great, I certainly don't use Linux simply because of it's philosophical underpinnings.
Good point, but I would dispute that:
> there isn't a Word equivalent editor, or a presentation tool like PowerPoint...
I'm not sure what you mean by 'equivalent'... my office suite of choice is Sun StarOffice 5.2 on both Windows and Linux and that has both tools mentioned above and alot more besides.
Other industry standard software that I need to run my business such as the likes of Quark XPress and Macromedia Freehand, aren't available for Linux. But I can get my admin. work done fine on Linux.
I am somewhat taken aback by the venom in some of the above posts. If the online book in question was the Torah or the Koran would they have provoked such vitriolic comment? Just a thought.