There will be a photographer in your area who is a) reasonably priced b) will let you have the negatives, photo-CDs etc c) is not hung up on copyright
Be prepared to walk away from a few before you you find the one you want. What you're looking for is someone who will produce the photos as "work for hire" and is prepared to make his money on the day, and no more after that.
> W is for whoami, which tells you your name If you need a program for that, commands aren't going to solve your problems.
Hehe. Actually, if you have several identities on several systems, whoami is useful for checking which uid the shell thinks you are. In any case, I usually have "user@host path $" as my shell prompt, since I ssh and change id with "su another-uid" quite a lot among the boxen on the home LAN.
Every time I go out to buy a piece of hardware, or even to go drool over the latest pieces of hardware, I find myself thinking first, "Can Linux support this yet?"
Valid point. I solve this by bringing the laptop to the hardware store, plugging the device into the laptop and seeing if mandrake will autodetect it. If it doesn't, reboot with knoppix CD and see if that detects it.
Any store that won't let me do this doesn't deserve my business. Also, Dick Smith Electronics (a chain of geek stores in New Zealand), has a little penguin sticker on the box if they've tested it with linux. Expect to see more stores with a geek clientelle doing this.
Most people wouldn't notice the difference between KDE, OOo, Mozilla etc on FreeBSD or the same desktop environment on Linux. I suspect some of the control-panel type apps are a little different - I haven't tried FreeBSD.
Every distro I've ever installed, has had the volume in the mixer set to zero straight after install. Once I discovered this I found it a lot easier to get sound to work. If at first it doesn't work - check the mixer. The second thing I discovered is that the volume for the CD is also set to zero on the mixer. So once I got sound working, CDs wouldn't play - until I turned up the volume slider for the CD. I don't know why this is, and I don't think Joe Sixpack would (or should be expected to) think of that.
I have not met a single person that owns a legal copy of Windows.
Everyone I know who bought their computer at a department store has a legal copy of windows. I have three computers at home, two built myself (1 running mandrake 9.1 and one running ipcop). My wife's laptop also runs Mandrake exclusively, but has an OEM windows license (which we'll gladly give away if legally possible - preferably to recover the unwanted cost).
It's the old The most popular platform gets attacked argument. Does this argument hold for web servers? Which webserver is more common - IIS or Apache? Which webserver gets attacked more - IIS or Apache?
en kado for the french cadeau. While more consistent then english, dutch has inconsistencies. Why are some words spelled with ei and other words with ij?
Even if you insist on running a pointy-clicky GUI, with X10 we used to run dozens of graphics terminals off of one VAX
Yes, but the X server was running on the terminals. The X apps running on the VAX only sent X primitives down the wire to the terminals, and the terminal bore the burdon of rendering stuff on the screen and processing kb/mouse input, turning them into events to send down the wire back to the app running on the VAX. This article is about plugging the monitors/kbs/mices directly into the box with the X primitives processed on that box. Think about the difference for a while before you reply to this.
Linux will auto-attach the PS/2 port to the regular virtual consoles, and then you use the Xserver's input handling to deal with the input from the other 3.
If it's that easy, then why do you need to d/l the ruby patch. From what I've just been reading, I infer that linux unpatched has trouble separating the keyboards, but the patch makes it like you say it should be.
From the article I also guess that Portugese uses the same word for "door" and "port" and also for "plate" and "board". As a student/hobbiest of other languages, I can see the connection.
I think the *best* thing to do would be to replace rm with something that gzips the files you were trying to delete, and stores them somewhere for rollback.
I've seen scripts that do this. The simplest would be a script that moves the specified files to ~/.trashcan although zipping might be a good option.
you do have to take into account the fact that everyone in the world already knows how to use Windows
Everyone who has used a computer in the last decade knows how to use a point-and-click gui interface, but they're really not all that different. I've demo'ed knoppix to people and they're always amazed at how different linux is from the fud they've been fed. I have them sit down at their own computer and they work out kde in no time. So, um, what was it we had to take into account? The time spent familiarising oneself with gnome or kde is a fraction of the accumulative time I've spent this year rebooting windows at work to activate a security update because our IT Helpdesk says we need to update NOW! (workstations at work here update their patches automagicly on reboot).
just about every printer that I've bought, which happened to be a good deal, didn't work with Linux
IHBT, but I'll reply anyway. Every printer I've tried with Linux in the last few years has worked. This includes taking my laptop to friends' places and plugging their printers into the usb port. In one case I had to re-insert one of the Mandrake disks (which I had with me).
Before I switch someone to linux, I always check that knoppix can use their hardware. Winmodems are they only problem I've encountered so far.
For home users Linux really doesn't belong YET My household happily uses a Mandrake 9.1 laptop and a Mandrake 9.1 desktop, both connected to the outside world through an ipcop firewall. No windows partitions on any of the three boxen. KDE, Mozilla, OpenOffice, xmms and bibletime are the only apps we regularly use.
most business do need special software, and they are almost always created to run on Windows
Depends on the business. Many businesses have apps that are custom made for them - this could easily be done on any platform. Many are now using web based apps - any platform. Some employees have a windows workstation on their desk or counter that is mostly running some text-based terminal app - eg 3270. 3270 clients exist for linux.
I don't know what PSpice and Xilinx are. If they're windows-only apps that you need, for which no suitable linux alternative exists, then you are quite right in saying that linux is not ready for you. Just don't extend that to everyone else.
Here's an idea: Don't hook up the phone line to the computer unless you plan on going online.
Do any of these dialer dealers write dialers for linux? I'm sure it's possible, but do they? And is there any way under linux to install these things without the user's permission? Or do they take advantage of some remote exploit or do browsers under windows automatically run.exe files? Do any browsers under linux automatically install.rpm files? Could someone please post a snippet of code as proof-of-concept?
The last thing we need is to have a bug-for-bug compatibility with MS Word, which includes VBA. Unfortunately, we'd bring in the macro viruses nightmare into linux as well.
Not if it's properly sandboxed. Don't give it access to any "addressbook" objects or anything silly like that.
Most pre-packaged home Windows boxen come with MS-Works rather than MS-Office - OOo et al are improvements without the extra $$$
Open cross-platform suites leave one with the option of switching platforms later. Many non-techies are starting to care about that. Cross-platform suites running on the current platform are often part of a future migration plan.
Open document formats are a Good Thing. Some non-techies are starting to get the idea.
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There will be a photographer in your area who is
a) reasonably priced
b) will let you have the negatives, photo-CDs etc
c) is not hung up on copyright
Be prepared to walk away from a few before you you find the one you want. What you're looking for is someone who will produce the photos as "work for hire" and is prepared to make his money on the day, and no more after that.
> W is for whoami, which tells you your name
If you need a program for that, commands aren't going to solve your problems.
Hehe.
Actually, if you have several identities on several systems, whoami is useful for checking which uid the shell thinks you are.
In any case, I usually have "user@host path $" as my shell prompt, since I ssh and change id with "su another-uid" quite a lot among the boxen on the home LAN.
I wonder how many will make their wifes leave the village for a week during "that time of the month"?
:-)
Admit it - you would if you could
Every time I go out to buy a piece of hardware, or even to go drool over the latest pieces of hardware, I find myself thinking first, "Can Linux support this yet?"
Valid point. I solve this by bringing the laptop to the hardware store, plugging the device into the laptop and seeing if mandrake will autodetect it. If it doesn't, reboot with knoppix CD and see if that detects it.
Any store that won't let me do this doesn't deserve my business.
Also, Dick Smith Electronics (a chain of geek stores in New Zealand), has a little penguin sticker on the box if they've tested it with linux. Expect to see more stores with a geek clientelle doing this.
Most people wouldn't notice the difference between KDE, OOo, Mozilla etc on FreeBSD or the same desktop environment on Linux.
I suspect some of the control-panel type apps are a little different - I haven't tried FreeBSD.
Every distro I've ever installed, has had the volume in the mixer set to zero straight after install. Once I discovered this I found it a lot easier to get sound to work.
If at first it doesn't work - check the mixer.
The second thing I discovered is that the volume for the CD is also set to zero on the mixer. So once I got sound working, CDs wouldn't play - until I turned up the volume slider for the CD.
I don't know why this is, and I don't think Joe Sixpack would (or should be expected to) think of that.
I have not met a single person that owns a legal copy of Windows.
Everyone I know who bought their computer at a department store has a legal copy of windows.
I have three computers at home, two built myself (1 running mandrake 9.1 and one running ipcop). My wife's laptop also runs Mandrake exclusively, but has an OEM windows license (which we'll gladly give away if legally possible - preferably to recover the unwanted cost).
It's the old The most popular platform gets attacked argument.
Does this argument hold for web servers?
Which webserver is more common - IIS or Apache?
Which webserver gets attacked more - IIS or Apache?
Eventually she just gave up and said "obviously Microsoft's stuff is better because Bill Gates is rich."
Drug lords are rich. Tell her she should take up herion or cocaine if she thinks that's a valid argument.
I once had a cat called "koshka".
en kado for the french cadeau.
While more consistent then english, dutch has inconsistencies.
Why are some words spelled with ei and other words with ij?
Even if you insist on running a pointy-clicky GUI, with X10 we used to run dozens of graphics terminals off of one VAX
Yes, but the X server was running on the terminals. The X apps running on the VAX only sent X primitives down the wire to the terminals, and the terminal bore the burdon of rendering stuff on the screen and processing kb/mouse input, turning them into events to send down the wire back to the app running on the VAX.
This article is about plugging the monitors/kbs/mices directly into the box with the X primitives processed on that box.
Think about the difference for a while before you reply to this.
The negative comments really bug me. There is a difference between being critical and dumping on someone's work.
My Dad always says:
"There's two kinds of people - those who find solutions for problems, and those who find a problem for every solution."
Linux will auto-attach the PS/2 port to the regular virtual consoles, and then you use the Xserver's input handling to deal with the input from the other 3.
If it's that easy, then why do you need to d/l the ruby patch. From what I've just been reading, I infer that linux unpatched has trouble separating the keyboards, but the patch makes it like you say it should be.
From the article I also guess that Portugese uses the same word for "door" and "port" and also for "plate" and "board". As a student/hobbiest of other languages, I can see the connection.
I think the *best* thing to do would be to replace rm with something that gzips the files you were trying to delete, and stores them somewhere for rollback.
I've seen scripts that do this. The simplest would be a script that moves the specified files to ~/.trashcan although zipping might be a good option.
Maybe it's because I use a "newbie" distro and not a hardcore distro, but the backspace has always worked out of the box for me.
you do have to take into account the fact that everyone in the world already knows how to use Windows
Everyone who has used a computer in the last decade knows how to use a point-and-click gui interface, but they're really not all that different. I've demo'ed knoppix to people and they're always amazed at how different linux is from the fud they've been fed. I have them sit down at their own computer and they work out kde in no time.
So, um, what was it we had to take into account?
The time spent familiarising oneself with gnome or kde is a fraction of the accumulative time I've spent this year rebooting windows at work to activate a security update because our IT Helpdesk says we need to update NOW! (workstations at work here update their patches automagicly on reboot).
just about every printer that I've bought, which happened to be a good deal, didn't work with Linux
IHBT, but I'll reply anyway. Every printer I've tried with Linux in the last few years has worked. This includes taking my laptop to friends' places and plugging their printers into the usb port. In one case I had to re-insert one of the Mandrake disks (which I had with me).
Before I switch someone to linux, I always check that knoppix can use their hardware. Winmodems are they only problem I've encountered so far.
For home users Linux really doesn't belong YET
My household happily uses a Mandrake 9.1 laptop and a Mandrake 9.1 desktop, both connected to the outside world through an ipcop firewall.
No windows partitions on any of the three boxen.
KDE, Mozilla, OpenOffice, xmms and bibletime are the only apps we regularly use.
most business do need special software, and they are almost always created to run on Windows
Depends on the business. Many businesses have apps that are custom made for them - this could easily be done on any platform. Many are now using web based apps - any platform. Some employees have a windows workstation on their desk or counter that is mostly running some text-based terminal app - eg 3270. 3270 clients exist for linux.
Ask any local Restaurant you go to.
There are linux-based restaurant POS systems out there.
I don't know what PSpice and Xilinx are. If they're windows-only apps that you need, for which no suitable linux alternative exists, then you are quite right in saying that linux is not ready for you. Just don't extend that to everyone else.
Here's an idea: Don't hook up the phone line to the computer unless you plan on going online.
.exe files? Do any browsers under linux automatically install .rpm files? Could someone please post a snippet of code as proof-of-concept?
Do any of these dialer dealers write dialers for linux? I'm sure it's possible, but do they? And is there any way under linux to install these things without the user's permission? Or do they take advantage of some remote exploit or do browsers under windows automatically run
The last thing we need is to have a bug-for-bug compatibility with MS Word, which includes VBA. Unfortunately, we'd bring in the macro viruses nightmare into linux as well.
Not if it's properly sandboxed. Don't give it access to any "addressbook" objects or anything silly like that.
Most pre-packaged home Windows boxen come with MS-Works rather than MS-Office - OOo et al are improvements without the extra $$$
Open cross-platform suites leave one with the option of switching platforms later. Many non-techies are starting to care about that. Cross-platform suites running on the current platform are often part of a future migration plan.
Open document formats are a Good Thing. Some non-techies are starting to get the idea.
Shit, if I tried to compile everything myself I'd damn near need a faster box.
:-)
Gentoo should only be installed at an installfest with a few powerful PCs on the same LAN running distcc.
That way your less-than-modern PC can have nicely optimised binaries with the help of gruntier machines doing the compiling for you.
There's the added advantage that there are guru volunteers at an installfest.
Un-assisted installs should use something like Mandrake.
Just MHO