Of course, we could always suggest that non-Mac consumer machines really ought to come with the default install of Ubuntu, which has OO.o installed.../ducks
Actualy it is a pretty good suggestion. After dealing with a machine loaded with crippleware and nagware and expired trialware, having a box that works is great.
Primary applications include; 1 Internet Firefox! 2 Email Evolution 3 Office suite Open Office 4 Photo editing Gimp! 5 CD burning including iso files work out of the box.
Now look at the offerings on a typical Windows box 1 IE 2 Outlook Express 3 Notepad or Wordpad No spread sheet, or presentation software 4 Maybe some 30 day trial software heavly hinting at online printing services 5 Limited function trial version of something or other. usualy won't burn an iso or create a bootable CD.
Out of the box, a Ubuntu install is basicly ready to go to work with the exception of the need to install some non-Open Source codecs for media formats and flash.
Just because something is non-linear and chaotic does not necessarily mean that you cannot restore it to state A once it's moved from state A to state B.
True, it is possible to remove floating iceburgs in the ocean with a hammer and chip them into little pieces. Sometimes the scale of the forces are not taken into proper perspective. In the spring, warm water will work with you in removing large chunks of floating ice. However in the fall, you risk being locked in a frozen ocean regardles of how fast you are at chipping ice of the iceburg.
Solar cycles change the temprature. Temprature changes melt and freeze ice. Temprature changes control how much CO2 is in the water and how much is released and absorbed. Attempts at reducing CO2 emissions may be totaly swamped by solar induced temprature changes which affect the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
The current global warming trend is caused by human activity, primarily the use of fossil fuels. That is an absolute fact.
Stating a theory as a fact is bad science. Our global warming is the same as Mars global warming. Just maybe there is a factor bigger than human activity at work here.
View this and get back to me. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9005566792 811497638&hl=en Then do a google search on Mars Polar Ice Global Care to elaborate on how it is all human activity caused? Who is screwing up Mars? The rovers are not burning carbon fuel.
From what I have been following recently, I think you are right on the money.
It is like noticing 2 tire tracks on a path and noticing they are never more than 1 foot apart and concluding that what ever made the tracks had small wheels that are no more than 1 foot apart. Then assumptions are made regarding what direction they tarveled and such.
When you look at the SAME data with the knowledge of a bicycle, you know the rear tire always points directly at the front tire. You also know the front tire is a fixed distance from the rear tire. Using that data, you can prove the distance is more that a foot apart between the tires by finding the distance the track of the rear wheel directly points to part of the path of the front wheel. Then you can with high accuracy tell which way the bicycle went as only one direction has the rear wheel pointing at the front wheel track at a fixed distance.
The Inconvienent truth film pointed out quite well the track of the CO2 and the temprature is related, but the film ignored the fact temprature led the CO2 level, not followed it.
A rise in temprature causes less CO2 to remain dissolved in the ocean. A drop in temprature causes more CO2 to be dissolved in the ocean.
Another thing the film does is totaly ignore other indicators. Take a look at the history of the Mars polar ice cap. Hmm our polar ice cap follows the exact same pattern. Who on Mars is screwing up their weather? Maybe there is another factor and the political machine simply chooses to ignore the facts.
I directed him to the HP laptop drivers page (that is something quite neat about HP).
Many manufactures provide DRIVERS for their hardware just in case someone wants to upgrade the OS and needs the drivers again. What there is total lack of is the bundled applications. The only way to reinstall the bundled Easy CD Creator from Dell is wipe the drive and start over.
My HP L600 also came with Easy CD Creator. Want to bet on the chances I can get a copy from HP to install from without wipeing the hard drive?
If you reinstall then you get a guaranteed result in a predictable time, at minimum cost.
Minimum cost? With Windows moving from an install CD to a manufacture supplied disk image CD, the cost of downtime and rebuilding is high. Take an early XP install for example. How long does it take to reinstall, install all the patches, install all the drivers for the newer printers, PDAs, Cameras, AV, restore system prefrences including e-mail accounts, bookmarks, calandars, and settings for aftermarket software packages?
My Wife's computer had the software for burning CD's corrupted. (Adeptec Easy CD Creator) It should be a simple fix. Remove the damaged program and re-install. I got the remove OK, but there is no media for the reinstall from without re-imaging the drive. Would you be willing to reinstall everything from ground zero to fix a software application?
I borrowed a copy of the CD burner from a friend and pirated a copy because there was no way to reinstall my legal copy without the cost of flushing the entire drive. This is bad software management in the worst way. These kind of expensive problems is one of the main reasons I have been looking at alternatives. I like applications that are maintainable without wipeing the entire OS installation.
The cost of manpower for downtime for a recovery on a Windows system is too great.
Now tell my Dad how to fix the hard-coded DST in his $50 "atomic" wall clock.
If he has one of the older Oregon Scientific clocks, this is from their website.
" 3/9/2007
Daylight Saving Time Because of the change to Daylight Saving Time, our RM323 and RM932 clocks will not update to Daylight Saving Time until the traditional April 1 date (first Sunday in April). To ensure that your clock keeps the proper time automatically, please disable the radio-controlled clock function and set the clock time manually."
I think their advice is way off. I think it is better to simply turn off DST and change time zones one to the East. That work around does not work if you are in the Eastern time zone as you can't select the next time zone to the East.
If he has another model, check the manufacture website.
Now tell my Dad how to fix the hard-coded DST in his $50 "atomic" wall clock.
If it's a SkyScan, Set it in a window overnight so it picks up the update. If that doesn't work, Switch off DST and change the time zone one zone to the East like I did.
The last 2 words of that sentence just drove off 2/3 of Dell's customers. If you need to go to the command line or directly edit ANYTHING in order to fix anything but the most exotic problems, then the software in question is not ready for the mass market.
So how do you explain all the pre-GUI stuff such as DOS? That seemed to do quite will in the mass market.
More important is trying to find proper documentation on the beast called the Windows Registery. I would rather fix a hosts file than try to fix the above problem with my scanner by editing the registery. This brings the question, just how many Windows have random glitches, blue screens, random crashes and such that users can't fix?
There is a diferance between being able to find and use a fix and simply leaving it broken until the next hard drive reformat.
Re-formating should not have to be the single most common Windows fix.
He brings up a good point with the difficulties of providing tech support.
He ignores the issue that Linux has been much more stable and problem free than Windows. I have been able as a novice to fix a couple items myself on linux such as losing the administrator privilages in Ubuntu. Fixed it with a Hosts file edit. The answer was found on Google. All my hardware works "out of the box" except a couple Windows only items such as the Dell all in one printer and a HP flatbed scanner.
On the other hand things are broken beyond my ability in the Dell desktop of my wife. A prime example is we had a software photocopier installed. It would use the flatbed scanner and print to the default printer. One day I needed to shrink a photo for posting online (100K size limit). I fired up the included photo editor for the very first time and found it was not a full program but a limited function 30 day trial which already expired. This trialware hijacked my flatbed scanner. Opening the photocopier now launches the photo editor preventing the photocopier from getting the scan. It also killed the fax for the same reason. It has been broken over a year now and I still have no idea how to fix it. I have removed the offending program. Now a scan simply brings up a nag screen that Windows can't find the photo editor. Would you like help finding the exe file? Other than needing to re-image the hard drive and losing all my settings, I have not found a fix in a year.
As a fix, I moved the scanner to the Ubuntu box. The photo editor just works. (yea gimp!) So does the photocopier. (Yea sane!)
As a novice Linux user, I have had far fewer unresolved problems on Linux. All my hardware worked out of the box without needing the manufacture's driver disk. This includes my HP printers attached to my LAN on Hawking printservers, my flatbed scanner (Cannon.. The HP didn't work) and my internal flash card reader.
I had a meeting where the guest speaker brought a Power Point presentation. My Windows machine with Office 2000 did not display the presentation properly. The text box appeared all at once instead of bullet by bullet. Switched to the Linux partition and Open Office presented it properly. Later I found the free Power Point viewer from the MS site.
In a nutshell, it takes a lot of money to keep up to date with MS products. (XP or Vista and the new version of Office + updated memory to run it cost about the same as a nice laptop.) Ubuntu makes a nice alternative that works better than older MS products.
As a novice Linux user I have found Ubuntu easier to maintain than Windows. I have used Windows since Version 3.1. I have used Ubuntu since 9 months ago. I have added Flash 7 then 9, added MP3 support, am able to burn ISO CD's without buying an upgrade or searching for an alternative.. The list goes on..
My atomic clocked changed just fine. Also, I was always under the impression that the DST function wasn't built into the clock itself, but into the data stream coming from WWV or WWVH (depending on your location.)
The clock manufactures have the option of either reading the DST bit, or using an internal table. Many manufactures have opted for the internal table, especialy those marketing to non-USA markets such as South America. My SkyScan clock did not update. I even forced a reset to see if it didn't catch the update. It still has no idea it's daylight savings time. I switched DST off so it does not become wrong in April and moved timezones one to the East. My clock uses an internal table and does not use the DST bit. It is not mentioned in any of the clock specifications.
Thus, you're actually better off storing everything in UTC, because then you know what time everything really took place / will take place, in any timezone you care to know it in.
Whether it's done in UTC or local time zones, having local decisions made based on the local time can be problematic when hardware, firmware, and software manufactures don't provide updates.
The DST has changed. I am now taking inventory of hardware that didn't properly make the change. I don't count things like the digital clock in my car, because it doesn't support DST in any way.
Items that have failed and support DST and still failed include my wall Atomic Clocks, and my Linksys Router with the latest (Feb 2007) firmware updated. The manufactures website on both of these items makes absolutely no mention of the DST change as if nothing happened.
I have work-arounds for both failures. It involves turning off the broken DST and changing the time zone one zone to the East. The Linksys router is a non-issue for most folks, but I use the clock for access restrictions, otherwise the school age kid requires lots of prodding to get offline and go to bed. Having his access shutdown eliminates lots of nagging.
Why can't Linksys even admit the issue and state on the website the latest firmware update did not address the issue? I should not have to check to see if the software is working properly. I think I will submit a bug report and see what happens.
Probably SCO should have thought about this before suing IBM for billions of dollars
When the whole thing started, I was wondering if anyone at SCO had any clue they lived in this big glass house. They must have been blinded by the bright shiny money MS offered. Were they thinking they were immune from returned stones?
The RIAA is running into the same problem with customer relations but the sales drop off isn't that great yet.
Until the practice was outlawed in 1993, movie theaters used to insert single-frame ads for concessions during the course of films to try to subliminally influence viewers to buy popcorn.
A doctorate in math or science is not good enough to qualify one to teach unless you can first endure a couple of semesters of mind numbing 'teaching' courses designed to both indoctrinate politically correct views and raise an artifical barrier to entry into the profession.
Well that is just a small barrier to entry.
a higher percentage of unqualified teachers than any other subject.
The biggest barrier to entry is the teachers union requiring Social Studies teachers to be paid the same as science and math teachers. In short, you can't offer market wages to qualified math and science majors.
I work in R & D and make about double what the average teacher makes. It's easer to work with other professionals than to work with a bunch of unruly kids. In short, I have a less demanding job for more pay. Since a school needs X number of teachers for y number of students, they take what they can get. The can't recruit the more educated. They can't compete. This is especialy true in California with the draw of high tech jobs.
It is one reason I didn't stay in the military. I got in for the school. I got out for the employment.
I wonder how bad Microsoft is punishing Dell for lack of exclusitivity.
I would hazzard a guess at somewhere around a few hundred thousand units the savings from not buying MS licenses is equal to the offset in price from the loss of the exclusitivity discount. They may have noticed demand was great enough to get over the barrier to entry.
It must be a bear to MS when HP crossed the line and no longer bought the $60 copies but bought the $200 copies instead. To do that it would be obvious to MS that HP is planning on selling a lot of something else. Ouch!
Too bad in the 2 HP machines I've owned, I've had to use the warranty at least once on each machine. I hope that is not an indication of their overall reliability. I will admit warranty service was excellent, but I would rather have a machine not needing warranty repairs. To be fair, one computer's problems could be blaimed on their supplier. I had a failure twice of the IBM deskstar drive in the same machine.
Yup and you can also set it so that it only gets software or updates from the CD. So you can keep your system up to date without any kind of network at all.
I was in that boat for a very long time until I moved. I have a very fast connection at work and had a super slow dial-up account at home. Brunt CD's carried home was the primary way to download software and install it. Most modern MS things are very difficult to even attempt in this fashion. At least Ubuntu loads and ran fine without a connection. Breezy Badger gave you a fairly long wait as it tried to set it's clock to a network time server, but even that's not a problem in Dapper Drake. Been there, done that.
You can click on inline images in Evolution and see the image
Sorry I was a little obtuse on that one. I was referring to a Windows exploit that was popular a few years ago. The one where an attachment of my naked wife.jpg was realy a naked wife.jpg.exe where Windows hid the extension of known file types. The picture loaded, but after delivering the payload. On Linux, it simply wanted to know where you wanted to save the file.
If you think it is a bad idea to not be able to run an executable app attached to an email, well you have some issues.
I think it is a bad idea to run an executable app by being fooled into thinking it's a viewable picture.
Huh? What the heck does this even mean? Are you saying you do not know how to unlock a locked desktop in Linux? Man, you must be dumb. How about just entering your password?
You don't share a computer.. If you did, then you would know the problem of trying to use a Windows computer while some other user left for lunch and left the screen locked. In windows without the other user's password, it's a power switch reset which can be nasty on open files, network shares left open, etc.
In Ubuntu, it's just click on the switch user option on the screen's locked screen session. You log in and never boot the other user off of kill what he was doing. When done, just log off and the original user's locked screen is back ready for his return. I work the nightshift. I've lost count of the number of times I had to power cycle the Windows machine to login for the night. I have no idea what unsaved work I killed doing it.
Maybe I'm just a quick learner, but I can't see how Google Apps would require all that much training. Like everything of Google's that I've tried (with the exception of Google Ads, whose pricing structure remains mysterious), I found it had almost no learning curve whatsoever.
That does not need training. Google Apps on Windows is the same as on on Linux.
The training would include how to log in using all lower case How to log in without power down rebooting if someone left the screen locked. Where is the start button? Where is Internet Explorer? How is Evolution not the same as Outlook? Where is the My Documents folder? Why does this email attachment want to know where I want to save it? Why can't I run it?
Other than those topics, there should not be too much training needed.
What's interesting though is that the FAA seems to think that the costs associated with training will in the end be cheaper than an upgrade to Vista.
They are probably right. They are using web applications. Linux training would be pretty much; 1 how to log in 2 how to open firefox 3 how to use the local filesystem eg; My_Documents or \Home 4 how to switch users withou logging off the first user or rebooting if the screen is locked 5 how to logoff
Running most applications in this case is not needed. That is google webapps training. It's the same in Windows in IE as it is in Linux in Firefox.
6 Maybe how to run evolution
This has got to be simpler than training the Vista users how to flip the cube of desktops upside down and re-stack the applications on each desktop.
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Of course, we could always suggest that non-Mac consumer machines really ought to come with the default install of Ubuntu, which has OO.o installed... /ducks
Actualy it is a pretty good suggestion. After dealing with a machine loaded with crippleware and nagware and expired trialware, having a box that works is great.
Primary applications include;
1 Internet Firefox!
2 Email Evolution
3 Office suite Open Office
4 Photo editing Gimp!
5 CD burning including iso files work out of the box.
Now look at the offerings on a typical Windows box
1 IE
2 Outlook Express
3 Notepad or Wordpad No spread sheet, or presentation software
4 Maybe some 30 day trial software heavly hinting at online printing services
5 Limited function trial version of something or other. usualy won't burn an iso or create a bootable CD.
Out of the box, a Ubuntu install is basicly ready to go to work with the exception of the need to install some non-Open Source codecs for media formats and flash.
Just because something is non-linear and chaotic does not necessarily mean that you cannot restore it to state A once it's moved from state A to state B.
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True, it is possible to remove floating iceburgs in the ocean with a hammer and chip them into little pieces. Sometimes the scale of the forces are not taken into proper perspective. In the spring, warm water will work with you in removing large chunks of floating ice. However in the fall, you risk being locked in a frozen ocean regardles of how fast you are at chipping ice of the iceburg.
Solar cycles change the temprature. Temprature changes melt and freeze ice. Temprature changes control how much CO2 is in the water and how much is released and absorbed. Attempts at reducing CO2 emissions may be totaly swamped by solar induced temprature changes which affect the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
More info here;
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=900556679
Blowing against the wind has some effect, but I'm not going to spend my time and money trying to prevent a hurricane by blowing at the wind.
The current global warming trend is caused by human activity, primarily the use of fossil fuels. That is an absolute fact.
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Stating a theory as a fact is bad science. Our global warming is the same as Mars global warming. Just maybe there is a factor bigger than human activity at work here.
View this and get back to me.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=900556679
Then do a google search on Mars Polar Ice Global
Care to elaborate on how it is all human activity caused? Who is screwing up Mars?
The rovers are not burning carbon fuel.
And what iof nothing needs to be done about it?
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From what I have been following recently, I think you are right on the money.
It is like noticing 2 tire tracks on a path and noticing they are never more than 1 foot apart and concluding that what ever made the tracks had small wheels that are no more than 1 foot apart. Then assumptions are made regarding what direction they tarveled and such.
When you look at the SAME data with the knowledge of a bicycle, you know the rear tire always points directly at the front tire. You also know the front tire is a fixed distance from the rear tire. Using that data, you can prove the distance is more that a foot apart between the tires by finding the distance the track of the rear wheel directly points to part of the path of the front wheel. Then you can with high accuracy tell which way the bicycle went as only one direction has the rear wheel pointing at the front wheel track at a fixed distance.
The Inconvienent truth film pointed out quite well the track of the CO2 and the temprature is related, but the film ignored the fact temprature led the CO2 level, not followed it.
A rise in temprature causes less CO2 to remain dissolved in the ocean. A drop in temprature causes more CO2 to be dissolved in the ocean.
Another thing the film does is totaly ignore other indicators. Take a look at the history of the Mars polar ice cap. Hmm our polar ice cap follows the exact same pattern. Who on Mars is screwing up their weather? Maybe there is another factor and the political machine simply chooses to ignore the facts.
Oh, Am I blowing smoke or is there data?
It is here;
For CO2 and temprature records;
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=900556679
For Polar Ice and Mars;
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/0
A google search will bring up solar cycles in relation to Earth and Mars cycles for those who want the facts instead of the politics of the day.
I directed him to the HP laptop drivers page (that is something quite neat about HP).
Many manufactures provide DRIVERS for their hardware just in case someone wants to upgrade the OS and needs the drivers again. What there is total lack of is the bundled applications. The only way to reinstall the bundled Easy CD Creator from Dell is wipe the drive and start over.
My HP L600 also came with Easy CD Creator. Want to bet on the chances I can get a copy from HP to install from without wipeing the hard drive?
If you reinstall then you get a guaranteed result in a predictable time, at minimum cost.
Minimum cost? With Windows moving from an install CD to a manufacture supplied disk image CD, the cost of downtime and rebuilding is high. Take an early XP install for example. How long does it take to reinstall, install all the patches, install all the drivers for the newer printers, PDAs, Cameras, AV, restore system prefrences including e-mail accounts, bookmarks, calandars, and settings for aftermarket software packages?
My Wife's computer had the software for burning CD's corrupted. (Adeptec Easy CD Creator) It should be a simple fix. Remove the damaged program and re-install. I got the remove OK, but there is no media for the reinstall from without re-imaging the drive. Would you be willing to reinstall everything from ground zero to fix a software application?
I borrowed a copy of the CD burner from a friend and pirated a copy because there was no way to reinstall my legal copy without the cost of flushing the entire drive. This is bad software management in the worst way. These kind of expensive problems is one of the main reasons I have been looking at alternatives. I like applications that are maintainable without wipeing the entire OS installation.
The cost of manpower for downtime for a recovery on a Windows system is too great.
Now tell my Dad how to fix the hard-coded DST in his $50 "atomic" wall clock.
If he has one of the older Oregon Scientific clocks, this is from their website.
" 3/9/2007
Daylight Saving Time
Because of the change to Daylight Saving Time, our RM323 and RM932 clocks will not update to Daylight Saving Time until the traditional April 1 date (first Sunday in April). To ensure that your clock keeps the proper time automatically, please disable the radio-controlled clock function and set the clock time manually."
I think their advice is way off. I think it is better to simply turn off DST and change time zones one to the East. That work around does not work if you are in the Eastern time zone as you can't select the next time zone to the East.
If he has another model, check the manufacture website.
Many MS users don't know what a driver is or where to find one, what do they do when their new printer doesn't come with linux-compatible drivers?
a spx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&sku=222-5573&redirect=1
You mean like this one?
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.
Compatible Operating Systems
Compatible with Microsoft® Windows VistaTM , Windows® 2000, Windows XP and Windows XP 64 Bit
Now tell my Dad how to fix the hard-coded DST in his $50 "atomic" wall clock.
If it's a SkyScan, Set it in a window overnight so it picks up the update. If that doesn't work, Switch off DST and change the time zone one zone to the East like I did.
The last 2 words of that sentence just drove off 2/3 of Dell's customers. If you need to go to the command line or directly edit ANYTHING in order to fix anything but the most exotic problems, then the software in question is not ready for the mass market.
So how do you explain all the pre-GUI stuff such as DOS? That seemed to do quite will in the mass market.
More important is trying to find proper documentation on the beast called the Windows Registery. I would rather fix a hosts file than try to fix the above problem with my scanner by editing the registery. This brings the question, just how many Windows have random glitches, blue screens, random crashes and such that users can't fix?
There is a diferance between being able to find and use a fix and simply leaving it broken until the next hard drive reformat.
Re-formating should not have to be the single most common Windows fix.
It's all about hardware that works.
;-)
That is the whole problem. The ink sales department hasn't gotten the all in one printer they give away with their system to work on Linux yet.
He brings up a good point with the difficulties of providing tech support.
He ignores the issue that Linux has been much more stable and problem free than Windows. I have been able as a novice to fix a couple items myself on linux such as losing the administrator privilages in Ubuntu. Fixed it with a Hosts file edit. The answer was found on Google. All my hardware works "out of the box" except a couple Windows only items such as the Dell all in one printer and a HP flatbed scanner.
On the other hand things are broken beyond my ability in the Dell desktop of my wife. A prime example is we had a software photocopier installed. It would use the flatbed scanner and print to the default printer. One day I needed to shrink a photo for posting online (100K size limit). I fired up the included photo editor for the very first time and found it was not a full program but a limited function 30 day trial which already expired. This trialware hijacked my flatbed scanner. Opening the photocopier now launches the photo editor preventing the photocopier from getting the scan. It also killed the fax for the same reason. It has been broken over a year now and I still have no idea how to fix it. I have removed the offending program. Now a scan simply brings up a nag screen that Windows can't find the photo editor. Would you like help finding the exe file? Other than needing to re-image the hard drive and losing all my settings, I have not found a fix in a year.
As a fix, I moved the scanner to the Ubuntu box. The photo editor just works. (yea gimp!) So does the photocopier. (Yea sane!)
As a novice Linux user, I have had far fewer unresolved problems on Linux. All my hardware worked out of the box without needing the manufacture's driver disk. This includes my HP printers attached to my LAN on Hawking printservers, my flatbed scanner (Cannon.. The HP didn't work) and my internal flash card reader.
I had a meeting where the guest speaker brought a Power Point presentation. My Windows machine with Office 2000 did not display the presentation properly. The text box appeared all at once instead of bullet by bullet. Switched to the Linux partition and Open Office presented it properly. Later I found the free Power Point viewer from the MS site.
In a nutshell, it takes a lot of money to keep up to date with MS products. (XP or Vista and the new version of Office + updated memory to run it cost about the same as a nice laptop.) Ubuntu makes a nice alternative that works better than older MS products.
As a novice Linux user I have found Ubuntu easier to maintain than Windows. I have used Windows since Version 3.1. I have used Ubuntu since 9 months ago. I have added Flash 7 then 9, added MP3 support, am able to burn ISO CD's without buying an upgrade or searching for an alternative.. The list goes on..
My atomic clocked changed just fine. Also, I was always under the impression that the DST function wasn't built into the clock itself, but into the data stream coming from WWV or WWVH (depending on your location.)
The clock manufactures have the option of either reading the DST bit, or using an internal table. Many manufactures have opted for the internal table, especialy those marketing to non-USA markets such as South America. My SkyScan clock did not update. I even forced a reset to see if it didn't catch the update. It still has no idea it's daylight savings time. I switched DST off so it does not become wrong in April and moved timezones one to the East. My clock uses an internal table and does not use the DST bit. It is not mentioned in any of the clock specifications.
Thus, you're actually better off storing everything in UTC, because then you know what time everything really took place / will take place, in any timezone you care to know it in.
Whether it's done in UTC or local time zones, having local decisions made based on the local time can be problematic when hardware, firmware, and software manufactures don't provide updates.
The DST has changed. I am now taking inventory of hardware that didn't properly make the change. I don't count things like the digital clock in my car, because it doesn't support DST in any way.
Items that have failed and support DST and still failed include my wall Atomic Clocks, and my Linksys Router with the latest (Feb 2007) firmware updated. The manufactures website on both of these items makes absolutely no mention of the DST change as if nothing happened.
I have work-arounds for both failures. It involves turning off the broken DST and changing the time zone one zone to the East. The Linksys router is a non-issue for most folks, but I use the clock for access restrictions, otherwise the school age kid requires lots of prodding to get offline and go to bed. Having his access shutdown eliminates lots of nagging.
Why can't Linksys even admit the issue and state on the website the latest firmware update did not address the issue? I should not have to check to see if the software is working properly. I think I will submit a bug report and see what happens.
It, like Groklaw, must all be part of a Scientology-level conspiracy by IBM to discredit them and make them look bad.
Has anybody gotten any updates on Paula Jones? The conspiracy theory has not been laid to rest yet.
I have been listening for an update.
Probably SCO should have thought about this before suing IBM for billions of dollars
When the whole thing started, I was wondering if anyone at SCO had any clue they lived in this big glass house. They must have been blinded by the bright shiny money MS offered. Were they thinking they were immune from returned stones?
The RIAA is running into the same problem with customer relations but the sales drop off isn't that great yet.
http://www.blufr.com/?t=subliminal
Until the practice was outlawed in 1993, movie theaters used to insert single-frame ads for concessions during the course of films to try to subliminally influence viewers to buy popcorn.
A doctorate in math or science is not good enough to qualify one to teach unless you can first endure a couple of semesters of mind numbing 'teaching' courses designed to both indoctrinate politically correct views and raise an artifical barrier to entry into the profession.
Well that is just a small barrier to entry.
a higher percentage of unqualified teachers than any other subject.
The biggest barrier to entry is the teachers union requiring Social Studies teachers to be paid the same as science and math teachers. In short, you can't offer market wages to qualified math and science majors.
I work in R & D and make about double what the average teacher makes. It's easer to work with other professionals than to work with a bunch of unruly kids. In short, I have a less demanding job for more pay. Since a school needs X number of teachers for y number of students, they take what they can get. The can't recruit the more educated. They can't compete. This is especialy true in California with the draw of high tech jobs.
It is one reason I didn't stay in the military. I got in for the school. I got out for the employment.
I wonder how bad Microsoft is punishing Dell for lack of exclusitivity.
I would hazzard a guess at somewhere around a few hundred thousand units the savings from not buying MS licenses is equal to the offset in price from the loss of the exclusitivity discount. They may have noticed demand was great enough to get over the barrier to entry.
It must be a bear to MS when HP crossed the line and no longer bought the $60 copies but bought the $200 copies instead. To do that it would be obvious to MS that HP is planning on selling a lot of something else. Ouch!
Too bad in the 2 HP machines I've owned, I've had to use the warranty at least once on each machine. I hope that is not an indication of their overall reliability. I will admit warranty service was excellent, but I would rather have a machine not needing warranty repairs.
To be fair, one computer's problems could be blaimed on their supplier. I had a failure twice of the IBM deskstar drive in the same machine.
I just need to walk over a few desks and kick the chair of one of our admins and ask them to unlock the computer.
I work nights. The admin works days.
Yeah, I know what you mean about a locked MS Windows computer. It sucks.
The extra time it takes to power cycle reboot instead of login really sucks.
Ubuntu is so much better. Just login and go to work.
Yup and you can also set it so that it only gets software or updates from the CD. So you can keep your system up to date without any kind of network at all.
I was in that boat for a very long time until I moved. I have a very fast connection at work and had a super slow dial-up account at home. Brunt CD's carried home was the primary way to download software and install it. Most modern MS things are very difficult to even attempt in this fashion. At least Ubuntu loads and ran fine without a connection. Breezy Badger gave you a fairly long wait as it tried to set it's clock to a network time server, but even that's not a problem in Dapper Drake. Been there, done that.
You can click on inline images in Evolution and see the image
Sorry I was a little obtuse on that one. I was referring to a Windows exploit that was popular a few years ago. The one where an attachment of my naked wife.jpg was realy a naked wife.jpg.exe where Windows hid the extension of known file types. The picture loaded, but after delivering the payload. On Linux, it simply wanted to know where you wanted to save the file.
If you think it is a bad idea to not be able to run an executable app attached to an email, well you have some issues.
I think it is a bad idea to run an executable app by being fooled into thinking it's a viewable picture.
Huh? What the heck does this even mean? Are you saying you do not know how to unlock a locked desktop in Linux? Man, you must be dumb. How about just entering your password?
You don't share a computer.. If you did, then you would know the problem of trying to use a Windows computer while some other user left for lunch and left the screen locked. In windows without the other user's password, it's a power switch reset which can be nasty on open files, network shares left open, etc.
In Ubuntu, it's just click on the switch user option on the screen's locked screen session. You log in and never boot the other user off of kill what he was doing. When done, just log off and the original user's locked screen is back ready for his return. I work the nightshift. I've lost count of the number of times I had to power cycle the Windows machine to login for the night. I have no idea what unsaved work I killed doing it.
Maybe I'm just a quick learner, but I can't see how Google Apps would require all that much training. Like everything of Google's that I've tried (with the exception of Google Ads, whose pricing structure remains mysterious), I found it had almost no learning curve whatsoever.
That does not need training. Google Apps on Windows is the same as on on Linux.
The training would include
how to log in using all lower case
How to log in without power down rebooting if someone left the screen locked.
Where is the start button?
Where is Internet Explorer?
How is Evolution not the same as Outlook?
Where is the My Documents folder?
Why does this email attachment want to know where I want to save it? Why can't I run it?
Other than those topics, there should not be too much training needed.
What's interesting though is that the FAA seems to think that the costs associated with training will in the end be cheaper than an upgrade to Vista.
They are probably right. They are using web applications. Linux training would be pretty much;
1 how to log in
2 how to open firefox
3 how to use the local filesystem eg; My_Documents or \Home
4 how to switch users withou logging off the first user or rebooting if the screen is locked
5 how to logoff
Running most applications in this case is not needed. That is google webapps training. It's the same in Windows in IE as it is in Linux in Firefox.
6 Maybe how to run evolution
This has got to be simpler than training the Vista users how to flip the cube of desktops upside down and re-stack the applications on each desktop.