Sounds like you were perfectly happy with LibreOffice until you had to convert files made by other people in other software, then blamed LibreOffice for not being magically accommodating in ways that probably aren't even legal. But sure, blame an open source project for not stealing assets and secrets from other corporations to make their own software more compatible with the competition. If that's what you need from your software developers, leave that up to Microsoft. They've had that covered since the DOS days.
Open/Libre Office boast about file compatibility. It was not me who put that in the spec sheet and in their website:
LibreOffice is compatible with a wide range of document formats such as Microsoft® Word (.doc,.docx), Excel (.xls,.xlsx), PowerPoint (.ppt,.pptx) and Publisher."
If a feature LibreOffice boasts about in their website, and is repeated on and on in/. and many other places, is broken, is not my fault.
Either Open/Libre Office make it work right, remove it, or make it clear that the feature is not completely working and never will be.
If they decide to keep advertising it, and it does not work right, criticism shall be expected. And users (like me) will have to revert to plain old MS-Office.
It does not matter if it is because Microsoft is hiding their older file formats (the new ones are abundantly documented, so, a file done in pptx from scratch (not converted) should render fine in LibreOffice).
Or if it because the LibreOffice project has not enough budget for programmers (being free and all).
If they can not make the feature work, not our fault.
[...] You chose a proprietary format and are complaining that that it doesn't work well with others.
If you would have started with an unencumbered file format you would not have an issue going from system to system [...]
I did not chose a propietary format. As a matter of fact, in 2009 I started with an open format.
Having said that, I am quite happy with MS-Office as it is today. The sins of MS-Office of yesteryear (when Bill Gates was still CEO) are of no relevance to me today.
Would I go Back to LibreOffice if I got a chance? Perhaps. Probably. Would I recomend Libre/Open Office to others? Sure, depending on their situation.
Is MS-Office the better product? Yes (by a minimum UI wise, and leaps and bounds dictionary-wise in spanish). Is the cost justified by these advantages? For me, not as a stand alone product, but yes in the 365 package/bundle/combo.
Well, when I was teaching in the University in 2009, I was Happy with OpenOffice for Mac for my needs. I even had to live through the Great Fork (eventually, went LibreOffice in 2013). Did the class materials in Impress, exams in Writer, used Calc for the calification Sheets (had to use Yed for network diagrams because there was no equivalent to Visio)...
But then, I started to do Technical training for Huawei and Nokia... And guess what?
The class materials were done in PowerPoint, and if you opened them with Impress the formating would go to hell, even if the presentations were done in Office 2003 or 2007! And no one paid me to fix the formating of every!single!slide! *
The report forms were done in Excel, good luck getting the formating and the (very simple) macros to work in Calc. And good luck getting the guys in china/finland to be able to get it back completely right and trasparently in their copy of excel.
The daily assistance templates and example exams were done in word, good luck getting the formating right in writer upon opening, without wasting (unpaid) time wrestling with the formating.
And if you wanted to send some extra material to the trainees that you wanted them to be able to edit, guess what would happen if they tried to open your libreoffice docs in their company supplied copy of office? It was a coin toss if the document would display correctly or not.
So. I went office. But not standalone office for mac. I went office 365 for mac, and also got 1TB of onedrive that I do not use, and a lot of minutes for Skype calling to international phones that comes in handy from time to time, all for a very reasonable bundle price...
Oh, and on top of that, the SW is always on the latest version, pretty good when you get to an audience of very saavy telco trainees, instead of sporting your old copy of office 2007. If there is a problem with formating, the trainees can lay the blame were it belongs: in the guys who did the presentations, not on an old as hell unsupported copy of the SW (or on some very good but not compatible FOSS software).
I still have LibreOffice on my SSD, but I am thinking very seriously to remove it to save space (256GB SSD, with a 100GB Bootcamp/WinVM, had to move my steam library to an SD card**). I'll say that office is slightly better interface wise than LOffice, and MUCH better dictionary wise (specially in spanish). I realy found Open/LibreOffice good enough, but in the end, the circumstances decided against it.
JM2C YMMV
* Actually, that's the reason I declined the work of translating slides from chinglish to Spanish, the translating would break the formating, and you ended up wasting more time redoing the formating, than you got paid for the translaiton (you got paid per word, and very low at that, quite frustrating).
** When I get my next mac, I'll try to move steam to an iSCSI target drive. Moving it to a SMB 3.1 share on my NAS did not work out very well
I do not live in china, and none of my customers do (my customers are the telcos in LatAm). I do not live in the USoA, and none of my customers do. I do not live in a 5 eyes state, and none of my customers do.
I (and I am almost certain that my customers as well) will be considering the combination of Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia and ZTE which gives (me/them/us) the best optimizationin terms of technical features, security, support and financing.
And if the equipment needs antivirus, karpesky will be considered along with all the other antivirus vendors, with the same parameters stated above. After all, why not let the FSB join the fun as well?
The part that made cellphones was the more visible to everyday non nerd people. That was digested and excreted by microsoft, but, in a true circle of life fashion, turned into a blosoming flower called HMD global, owned in part by FoxCon, and in part by laid-off nokia employees (most of them from the mobile division).
The telecom arm is alive and well, as they undesrtood quite well the need to consolidate to survive. They are still based in Finland and doing Quite OK. Gearing up for the upward cycle of 5G.
So since I am unable to control the Chinese by voting, I pick the five eyes.
If , and only if, you are a citizen of one of the Five eyes countries, you can control them by voting. Lucky you!
But, by definition, most everyone living in LatAm, Asia, Africa or the Middle East is not a citizen in a five eyes country, and therefore, can not control the five eyes as much as they can not control the chinese...
It will be VERY, and I mean VERY hard to avoid the chinese in 5G rollouts.
For telecom gear, worldwide, there are only four big guys. All the other are very small players (in telco space).
Those are: Ericsson (sweeden) Nokia* (Finland, germany,france,US, and a little more US to boot). Huawei (China) ZTE (China).
Of all the 4, Huaweis is the one that has the most complete portfolio for 5G things.
Al the other players are rather small, say samsung with some basestations and optical telecom gear, NEC with some switches.
Having said that, mobile operators would be dumb to depend on one provider alone, and rarely do.
Mobile Operators have certain strategies in place since the dawn of time to mitigate this type of risk.
For example, in RF you divide the country, say 70-30, 60-40 or 50-25-25 (depending of the size of the country) and assign each region to a different basestation provider. If one of those providers drops the ball (say, by spying on you), you eject them with prejudice. This can also be done in other access technologies, like the DSLAMs in de case of ADSL/VDSL/G.fast. Telefonica/Movistar is one of the operators that does this.
Other Example, Some operators have what they call provider uniformity in different layers, so, for example, British Telecom uses Huawei gear in the optical transport layer (DWDM). As soon as they bought EE, they ripped all Huawei Switches from the mobile network (of course, they also ripped also all optical equipment that was not Huawei, and replaced it with Huawei equipment). Since all the data is encripted end-to-end, good luck with the optical equipment doing much spying.
Other techniques exist. So, if an operator (or a country) are concerned about "Chinese Spying", they may as well use chinese gear only in the areas less succeptible to spying. That way you get all the advantages of chinese providers (low cost, easy mass deployment), and lessen the impact on security.
I have to say that, in general, the more sucess Huawei and ZTE had in the international scene, the less spying they do. Anecdoticaly, the last case I heard about was in the late 00's or early 10's (can remember exactly), when some guys with some operator in LatAm caught a mobile switch beaconing china. A big hoopla ensued, Huawei profusely appologized, swore, crossed their hearts and hope to die never to do it again. Those switches were put under close observation for years, as well as other Huawei gear in other countries (this operator operates in multiples countries), and so far more or less a decade later, no other incidents to report... (If the non Anon Coward comentators can tell us more, jump right in. My NDA was over a few years ago, I you still are under NDA, do not post, anon or not).
As many have said, thanks to Edward Snowden, we know that the NSA and the five eyes were tampering with western gear to spy. So for many countries, in particular countries in LatAm, Asia, Africa and the middle east, you will either be spied by the 5 eyes or by the chinese, since we do not care one way or the other, let the most cost effective gear win and spay us all.
* Nokia (from finland, not japan) is the voltron of telecom, having borged Siemens telecoms arm (Germany), Alcatel(france)-Lucent(US), and the Mobile gear arm of motorola(US) (the cellphone arm went to google, and from there to lenovo, and the motorola that remain today is the goverment and emergency services comunications arm)
If the blockage was done to CANTV, it extended to Movilnet, a cellphone carrier also owned by the state, with close to 40% of cellphone lines in the country.
Also the blockage extended to CANTV-Sat ISP, which is the only means of comunication of remote/rural areas. While this affects a small number of users, is worrysome because these users are less sophisticated and this is their only means of communication.
There are other areas were the blockage may extand, but those are the main ones.
...from house/white brands that you find in supermarkets and stores around the world?
Say, Kirkland cashews and batteries, Win-Dixie bread and cleaning wipes, Kennmore appliances. And many more brands in europe, from retailers as diverse as Carrefour, aldi and "El corte ingles"
All big retail chains have white/house brands that compete with all the other brands. And all retailers use their retail/POS data to know what items move and which one would benefit them most if they decided to enter with a white brand...
She is a Non-Techie. And she is in another country. That says it all.
She is a non-techie, she will not be able to choose the best laptop. And she is a non-techie, she will not be able to administer and mantain the laptop (whanna bet on the "toolbars upon toolbars in the browser" Scenario?). And she is another country, so going to you (the boss) for help with the machine is out of the question.
Buy her a nice looking laptop, good build quality, decent specs. Which supports *virtualization*.
Put on the bare metal whatever Windows or Linux you feel confortable administering and lock it down as hell. Set up remote access. Choose a VM solution with good 3D acceleration. Then set up two windows VMs.
One is her "WorkVM" with the web browser, WhatevurOffice, and any other program/app/whatevur she needs for work purposes. Lock it down as hell. Set this machine up to save all work related stuff to a folder shared with the host OS. Set up a decent backup solution for this guest.
The other VM will be her "do whatever you like with it" "personal" VM. Do not lock it down that much.
Keep two golden masters (one for each machine) if push comes to shove.
Enjoy.
Unlike dual-booting, this solution eases your administrative burden, trust me.
Yup. For all those 5 of us still using firefox post-52 Quantum, the old NPAPI plug-in architecture/plumbing is still inthere, alive and well. It is used to support certain "strategic" plug-ins. Only by "invite".
Flash is the one which garnered the most publicity, but a few others still exist, and Google's SandVine is among them. In my install, the other one is Cisco's H264 decoder Plug in. Others may exist. Please notice that this has nothing to do with your previous install. If your plug-in is in the white list, it will be installed. If not, firefox will refuse to run it, even if all the plumbing is still there because "Quantum" and "Reasons"...
Now handling cash is also not for free but at least with bigger shops it is not 2-5%. Anyone has an idea how much does the cash handling and transfers cost?
The article is only one page long, but the skinny is: Around 3% por small businesses and businesses which deal with little cash, and between 0,5 to 1% for big businesses which can better amortize the costs.
If you were a good nerd in a "News for nerds and stuff that matters" site, you would be a member of IEEE, and would already know this.;-)
Plug: For all our fellow nerds and geeks: This is a great time in the year to become an IEEE member. Either if you are in EE like me, or a computer scientist. There are plenty or societies to chose from, among them the computer society, the communications society and many other. This unlocks a wealth of info and networking opportunities, and many other benefits.
"The digital replica edition of the Union-Tribune was also affected. The company is working to restore that version this morning."
Granted, you could use the web to get your information and news somewhere else...
But, if for whatever reason you were a subscriber of the SD union tribune, and/or wanted to see the SD union tribune, the web was not there to save the day.
Use firefox, for the next few weeks the interface will be very similar to the old chrome's interface. But be warned that, in two releases, they will copy the new chrome's interface, and then you will be back to square one...
Create your VMs with the FOSS VirtualBox with no propiertary stuff, export them as OVF (not OVA, you want access to the manifest), then use any free (beer/speech) software to play them and access the missing functionality.
If you need to tweak the machine a little, the manifest is relatively easy to understand edit, or you can get a FOSS player that can edit the machine a little.
Most Mac AV software is an aftertought, after the moneymaking server AV/security suites for Windows Servers and Linux servers (redundancy intended) and the Windows Corporate Desktop AV. All management focus and resources are on the money makers, and the Mac AV gets the scraps. Is there just for "portfolio completness" sake.
So in the mac antivirus front is more crappy versus less crappy AV, not good versus bad.
Nope, after my proposal, you could still buy a Lenovo (NEC-Fujitsu), Toshiba, Vaio (not sony but still), Asus-Acer, system76, clevo, etc. Actually, in super saturated markes (like PCs), where economies of scale play a *very* important role (like PCs), while in the short term consolidation leads to less options, in the long term, leads to _more_ options than would have been posible without such consolidation, because, once a player goes throug capter 7, chaper 11, or administration, is gone man. two small players fused have more chance of survival in such markets, than both of them going at it alone. and notice I said both of them, not either. The probability of *both* small players going out if unmerged is higher than the porbabily of the merger entity continuing.
Of course, mergers are not a panacea, and carry their own headaches. But in this kind of markets, is the right way to go.
I see one fail and I call yours also! Google is not your friend, pal. It ain't your pal, chum. It ain't even your chum, buddy. Calm down. No you calm down. I am calm. Then everybody's calm. REAL calm. The calmest.
Now I sell all your private information, and you watch an ad. Pow, right in the kisser, friend.
If I could, I'd mod you funny.
then I guess Duck-Duck-Go is your friend. Or perhaps Yandex (wink).
Failing that, please sugest a search engine which is also "our friend"
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Sounds like you were perfectly happy with LibreOffice until you had to convert files made by other people in other software, then blamed LibreOffice for not being magically accommodating in ways that probably aren't even legal. But sure, blame an open source project for not stealing assets and secrets from other corporations to make their own software more compatible with the competition. If that's what you need from your software developers, leave that up to Microsoft. They've had that covered since the DOS days.
Open/Libre Office boast about file compatibility. It was not me who put that in the spec sheet and in their website:
https://www.libreoffice.org/di...
And I quote:
"Use documents of all kinds
LibreOffice is compatible with a wide range of document formats such as Microsoft® Word (.doc, .docx), Excel (.xls, .xlsx), PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx) and Publisher."
If a feature LibreOffice boasts about in their website, and is repeated on and on in /. and many other places, is broken, is not my fault.
Either Open/Libre Office make it work right, remove it, or make it clear that the feature is not completely working and never will be.
If they decide to keep advertising it, and it does not work right, criticism shall be expected. And users (like me) will have to revert to plain old MS-Office.
It does not matter if it is because Microsoft is hiding their older file formats (the new ones are abundantly documented, so, a file done in pptx from scratch (not converted) should render fine in LibreOffice).
Or if it because the LibreOffice project has not enough budget for programmers (being free and all).
If they can not make the feature work, not our fault.
I can see the big picture, and I can focus on the details. My probblem is the in-between range.
[...] You chose a proprietary format and are complaining that that it doesn't work well with others.
If you would have started with an unencumbered file format you would not have an issue going from system to system [...]
I did not chose a propietary format. As a matter of fact, in 2009 I started with an open format.
Having said that, I am quite happy with MS-Office as it is today. The sins of MS-Office of yesteryear (when Bill Gates was still CEO) are of no relevance to me today.
Would I go Back to LibreOffice if I got a chance? Perhaps. Probably. Would I recomend Libre/Open Office to others? Sure, depending on their situation.
Is MS-Office the better product? Yes (by a minimum UI wise, and leaps and bounds dictionary-wise in spanish). Is the cost justified by these advantages? For me, not as a stand alone product, but yes in the 365 package/bundle/combo.
Why, you may ask?
Well, when I was teaching in the University in 2009, I was Happy with OpenOffice for Mac for my needs. I even had to live through the Great Fork (eventually, went LibreOffice in 2013). Did the class materials in Impress, exams in Writer, used Calc for the calification Sheets (had to use Yed for network diagrams because there was no equivalent to Visio)...
But then, I started to do Technical training for Huawei and Nokia... And guess what?
The class materials were done in PowerPoint, and if you opened them with Impress the formating would go to hell, even if the presentations were done in Office 2003 or 2007! And no one paid me to fix the formating of every!single!slide! *
The report forms were done in Excel, good luck getting the formating and the (very simple) macros to work in Calc. And good luck getting the guys in china/finland to be able to get it back completely right and trasparently in their copy of excel.
The daily assistance templates and example exams were done in word, good luck getting the formating right in writer upon opening, without wasting (unpaid) time wrestling with the formating.
And if you wanted to send some extra material to the trainees that you wanted them to be able to edit, guess what would happen if they tried to open your libreoffice docs in their company supplied copy of office? It was a coin toss if the document would display correctly or not.
So. I went office. But not standalone office for mac. I went office 365 for mac, and also got 1TB of onedrive that I do not use, and a lot of minutes for Skype calling to international phones that comes in handy from time to time, all for a very reasonable bundle price...
Oh, and on top of that, the SW is always on the latest version, pretty good when you get to an audience of very saavy telco trainees, instead of sporting your old copy of office 2007. If there is a problem with formating, the trainees can lay the blame were it belongs: in the guys who did the presentations, not on an old as hell unsupported copy of the SW (or on some very good but not compatible FOSS software).
I still have LibreOffice on my SSD, but I am thinking very seriously to remove it to save space (256GB SSD, with a 100GB Bootcamp/WinVM, had to move my steam library to an SD card**). I'll say that office is slightly better interface wise than LOffice, and MUCH better dictionary wise (specially in spanish). I realy found Open/LibreOffice good enough, but in the end, the circumstances decided against it.
JM2C YMMV
* Actually, that's the reason I declined the work of translating slides from chinglish to Spanish, the translating would break the formating, and you ended up wasting more time redoing the formating, than you got paid for the translaiton (you got paid per word, and very low at that, quite frustrating).
** When I get my next mac, I'll try to move steam to an iSCSI target drive. Moving it to a SMB 3.1 share on my NAS did not work out very well
I do not live in china, and none of my customers do (my customers are the telcos in LatAm). I do not live in the USoA, and none of my customers do. I do not live in a 5 eyes state, and none of my customers do.
I (and I am almost certain that my customers as well) will be considering the combination of Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia and ZTE which gives (me/them/us) the best optimizationin terms of technical features, security, support and financing.
And if the equipment needs antivirus, karpesky will be considered along with all the other antivirus vendors, with the same parameters stated above. After all, why not let the FSB join the fun as well?
Nokia had two parts.
The part that made cellphones was the more visible to everyday non nerd people. That was digested and excreted by microsoft, but, in a true circle of life fashion, turned into a blosoming flower called HMD global, owned in part by FoxCon, and in part by laid-off nokia employees (most of them from the mobile division).
The telecom arm is alive and well, as they undesrtood quite well the need to consolidate to survive. They are still based in Finland and doing Quite OK. Gearing up for the upward cycle of 5G.
So since I am unable to control the Chinese by voting, I pick the five eyes.
If , and only if, you are a citizen of one of the Five eyes countries, you can control them by voting. Lucky you!
But, by definition, most everyone living in LatAm, Asia, Africa or the Middle East is not a citizen in a five eyes country, and therefore, can not control the five eyes as much as they can not control the chinese...
So, my example stands.
It will be VERY, and I mean VERY hard to avoid the chinese in 5G rollouts.
For telecom gear, worldwide, there are only four big guys. All the other are very small players (in telco space).
Those are:
Ericsson (sweeden)
Nokia* (Finland, germany,france,US, and a little more US to boot).
Huawei (China)
ZTE (China).
Of all the 4, Huaweis is the one that has the most complete portfolio for 5G things.
Al the other players are rather small, say samsung with some basestations and optical telecom gear, NEC with some switches.
Having said that, mobile operators would be dumb to depend on one provider alone, and rarely do.
Mobile Operators have certain strategies in place since the dawn of time to mitigate this type of risk.
For example, in RF you divide the country, say 70-30, 60-40 or 50-25-25 (depending of the size of the country) and assign each region to a different basestation provider. If one of those providers drops the ball (say, by spying on you), you eject them with prejudice. This can also be done in other access technologies, like the DSLAMs in de case of ADSL/VDSL/G.fast. Telefonica/Movistar is one of the operators that does this.
Other Example, Some operators have what they call provider uniformity in different layers, so, for example, British Telecom uses Huawei gear in the optical transport layer (DWDM). As soon as they bought EE, they ripped all Huawei Switches from the mobile network (of course, they also ripped also all optical equipment that was not Huawei, and replaced it with Huawei equipment). Since all the data is encripted end-to-end, good luck with the optical equipment doing much spying.
Other techniques exist. So, if an operator (or a country) are concerned about "Chinese Spying", they may as well use chinese gear only in the areas less succeptible to spying. That way you get all the advantages of chinese providers (low cost, easy mass deployment), and lessen the impact on security.
I have to say that, in general, the more sucess Huawei and ZTE had in the international scene, the less spying they do. Anecdoticaly, the last case I heard about was in the late 00's or early 10's (can remember exactly), when some guys with some operator in LatAm caught a mobile switch beaconing china. A big hoopla ensued, Huawei profusely appologized, swore, crossed their hearts and hope to die never to do it again. Those switches were put under close observation for years, as well as other Huawei gear in other countries (this operator operates in multiples countries), and so far more or less a decade later, no other incidents to report... (If the non Anon Coward comentators can tell us more, jump right in. My NDA was over a few years ago, I you still are under NDA, do not post, anon or not).
As many have said, thanks to Edward Snowden, we know that the NSA and the five eyes were tampering with western gear to spy. So for many countries, in particular countries in LatAm, Asia, Africa and the middle east, you will either be spied by the 5 eyes or by the chinese, since we do not care one way or the other, let the most cost effective gear win and spay us all.
* Nokia (from finland, not japan) is the voltron of telecom, having borged Siemens telecoms arm (Germany), Alcatel(france)-Lucent(US), and the Mobile gear arm of motorola(US) (the cellphone arm went to google, and from there to lenovo, and the motorola that remain today is the goverment and emergency services comunications arm)
Back when AT&T was called Cingular, they and apple were in bed.
So, why are you all acting so surprised?
Just to clarify:
If the blockage was done to CANTV, it extended to Movilnet, a cellphone carrier also owned by the state, with close to 40% of cellphone lines in the country.
Also the blockage extended to CANTV-Sat ISP, which is the only means of comunication of remote/rural areas. While this affects a small number of users, is worrysome because these users are less sophisticated and this is their only means of communication.
There are other areas were the blockage may extand, but those are the main ones.
And is a practice that first Google, then amazon and latter Cloudflare prohibited in their clouds.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.c...
Azure still permits a variant of this technique. Who knows for how long...
https://techlector.com/tor-pro...
But yes, we are hard at work to detect these censorship instances, devise workarounds, and educate the people on how to use them.
...from house/white brands that you find in supermarkets and stores around the world?
Say, Kirkland cashews and batteries, Win-Dixie bread and cleaning wipes, Kennmore appliances. And many more brands in europe, from retailers as diverse as Carrefour, aldi and "El corte ingles"
All big retail chains have white/house brands that compete with all the other brands. And all retailers use their retail/POS data to know what items move and which one would benefit them most if they decided to enter with a white brand...
So? what's different in this case?
She is a Non-Techie. And she is in another country. That says it all.
She is a non-techie, she will not be able to choose the best laptop. And she is a non-techie, she will not be able to administer and mantain the laptop (whanna bet on the "toolbars upon toolbars in the browser" Scenario?). And she is another country, so going to you (the boss) for help with the machine is out of the question.
Buy her a nice looking laptop, good build quality, decent specs. Which supports *virtualization*.
Put on the bare metal whatever Windows or Linux you feel confortable administering and lock it down as hell. Set up remote access. Choose a VM solution with good 3D acceleration. Then set up two windows VMs.
One is her "WorkVM" with the web browser, WhatevurOffice, and any other program/app/whatevur she needs for work purposes. Lock it down as hell. Set this machine up to save all work related stuff to a folder shared with the host OS. Set up a decent backup solution for this guest.
The other VM will be her "do whatever you like with it" "personal" VM. Do not lock it down that much.
Keep two golden masters (one for each machine) if push comes to shove.
Enjoy.
Unlike dual-booting, this solution eases your administrative burden, trust me.
Yup. For all those 5 of us still using firefox post-52 Quantum, the old NPAPI plug-in architecture/plumbing is still inthere, alive and well. It is used to support certain "strategic" plug-ins. Only by "invite".
Flash is the one which garnered the most publicity, but a few others still exist, and Google's SandVine is among them. In my install, the other one is Cisco's H264 decoder Plug in. Others may exist. Please notice that this has nothing to do with your previous install. If your plug-in is in the white list, it will be installed. If not, firefox will refuse to run it, even if all the plumbing is still there because "Quantum" and "Reasons"...
Now handling cash is also not for free but at least with bigger shops it is not 2-5%. Anyone has an idea how much does the cash handling and transfers cost?
Here is the relevant link:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek...
The article is only one page long, but the skinny is:
Around 3% por small businesses and businesses which deal with little cash, and between 0,5 to 1% for big businesses which can better amortize the costs.
If you were a good nerd in a "News for nerds and stuff that matters" site, you would be a member of IEEE, and would already know this. ;-)
Plug: For all our fellow nerds and geeks: This is a great time in the year to become an IEEE member. Either if you are in EE like me, or a computer scientist. There are plenty or societies to chose from, among them the computer society, the communications society and many other. This unlocks a wealth of info and networking opportunities, and many other benefits.
Specificaly:
"The digital replica edition of the Union-Tribune was also affected. The company is working to restore that version this morning."
Granted, you could use the web to get your information and news somewhere else...
But, if for whatever reason you were a subscriber of the SD union tribune, and/or wanted to see the SD union tribune, the web was not there to save the day.
Source:
https://www.sandiegouniontribu...
Use firefox, for the next few weeks the interface will be very similar to the old chrome's interface. But be warned that, in two releases, they will copy the new chrome's interface, and then you will be back to square one...
At least, as Mass Storage Devices is concerned.
If you insert a mass storage device in a mac while locked, it will not be recognized or mounted.
So, welcome ChromeOS
Create your VMs with the FOSS VirtualBox with no propiertary stuff, export them as OVF (not OVA, you want access to the manifest), then use any free (beer/speech) software to play them and access the missing functionality.
If you need to tweak the machine a little, the manifest is relatively easy to understand edit, or you can get a FOSS player that can edit the machine a little.
Most Mac AV software is an aftertought, after the moneymaking server AV/security suites for Windows Servers and Linux servers (redundancy intended) and the Windows Corporate Desktop AV. All management focus and resources are on the money makers, and the Mac AV gets the scraps. Is there just for "portfolio completness" sake.
So in the mac antivirus front is more crappy versus less crappy AV, not good versus bad.
mark my words
Nope, after my proposal, you could still buy a Lenovo (NEC-Fujitsu), Toshiba, Vaio (not sony but still), Asus-Acer, system76, clevo, etc. Actually, in super saturated markes (like PCs), where economies of scale play a *very* important role (like PCs), while in the short term consolidation leads to less options, in the long term, leads to _more_ options than would have been posible without such consolidation, because, once a player goes throug capter 7, chaper 11, or administration, is gone man. two small players fused have more chance of survival in such markets, than both of them going at it alone. and notice I said both of them, not either. The probability of *both* small players going out if unmerged is higher than the porbabily of the merger entity continuing.
Of course, mergers are not a panacea, and carry their own headaches. But in this kind of markets, is the right way to go.
I checked, Qwant Closed down in 2013 or thereabouts
I see one fail and I call yours also! Google is not your friend, pal. It ain't your pal, chum. It ain't even your chum, buddy. Calm down. No you calm down. I am calm. Then everybody's calm. REAL calm. The calmest.
Now I sell all your private information, and you watch an ad. Pow, right in the kisser, friend.
If I could, I'd mod you funny.
then I guess Duck-Duck-Go is your friend. Or perhaps Yandex (wink).
Failing that, please sugest a search engine which is also "our friend"
Nope, pegatron (a spinoff of asus, but completely separated company) assembles half the no name laptos around.
An user by the name solandry explained it very well on this same thread. Failing that, google is your friend.