Seemed to open fine (After a while!) in OpenOffice Writer 1.1.2. Haven't opened in actual Word to compare formatting, but looks reasonable to me. No complaints here.
It actually looks pretty good. Windows only, which is not so good, but par for the course right now. Can't seem to manage a Clie device, which is somewhat disappointing. Easy to make CD's and rip CD's. Also as ATRAC3plus format with a 256k bitrate option. Might that help the sound quality that's supposed to be so lacking? Sony Connect seems about as easy to use as the Apple music store.
Will be scoping for one of their HD players, if nothing else just to look at. I don't really have the music to justify it.
One thing iTunes has all over the Sony software is the internet radio!! I would miss that dearly.
Not sure how well tuned you had your antispam setup. What they don't tell you is a good whitelist is an integral part of it, too. SpamAssassin combined with AMAVIS has given some excellent results. When in doubt, crank the sensitivity down a little and let a few spams come in. I never check my blocked messages--never had to.
I think e-mail will be here for a long time, as finally literally just about everyone on the planet has e-mail access, even if at a coffeeshop. You got phones, you got e-mail, what's next? IM? Possibly. Gotta go kick a few back and ponder that.........
I agree with everyone else--you shouldn't have changed from PDF to PS. I can't imagine PS is supported (appears not from your results).
Internet-based faxing solution are really good things(tm). I don't want a paper fax machine hanging around and I don't want to dink with faxmodem sharing and all that. I really like having everything show up in my Inbox, as I can receive faxes while not at my office.
I would read up on the capabilities of their service and beg them to let you come back.
Been using 1.6 for a long time on Windows and I must say 1.7 is quite a bit faster in rendering pages. Have dual booted into SUSE 9.1 and installed 1.7 yet, but I'm hoping for the best. Kudos to the Mozilla team, and kudos again!
I don't think the Itanium is going to be crushing anything in it's short lifetime. However, the PowerPC/Opteron chips are putting the smack down quite nicely about now. We need them to bring back that Open spec for PPC hardware so we can get some serious speed and off of Intel..... !
Yes, that's a very good description of what it's like. Probably ultimately more horses then one of those hybrids, though. I guess I'm not a very aggressive driver--I don't need to pass people if they pass me first. I normally drive with the traffic, sometimes faster if less traffic. Pulling out into traffic can be interesting with all the turbo lag, but, as my friend says, it's all part of the fun. It's TONS faster then the 1980 300D non-turbo Mercedes I had a few cars ago. You have to drive it to appreciate it, I guess....:)
Clearly stay on eDirectory. You will eventually have Linux servers in the house, and that's a great way to integrate everything you are running.
You probably want to upgrade your NT boxes, if for no other reason then updates/security issues. If you can't bring them to NetWare or Linux, I'd consolidate as many as possible on Windows 2003 and plan your migration to other platforms.
I would also recommend calling your local Novell office for a personalized look at your situation and some better price offerings.
I don't think it's realistic to assume you will get your machine back.
1. Perform regular backups. You'll have all your data, so you don't care about getting that back.
2. Use filsystem encryption software. Built-in, aftermarket, whatever. Ensures they can't put your hard drive in another machine. If you're that worried about it, use VNC or remote desktop to control a system at your office/house and never store any information on your local machine.
3. Have insurance on it. Homeowners, business, whatever, just so you don't have to pay to buy another one.
Otherwise, I say they can keep it and I'll just get another one. I wouldn't mind having a faster laptop anyway.:)
One question for everyone out there, do you know the serial number of your laptop? I can't imagine anyone has that written down somewhere safe. How can the police prove the laptop is yours if you only know it's your because it has a SuSE sticker on the lid?
It doesn't hurt to have BIOS and power-on passwords either. The casual theif will not be able to get past them and will probably dump the unit somewhere or possibly try to return it saying "they found it" somewhere. Never use auto-login and use good passwords on your account.
IBM has some good laptop security features out there now. I believe part of it is some sort of hardware encryption for your hard drive. Not sure what Apple has, but IBM has definately stepped up to the plate.
Yes, but I qualified it with "non-changing", not "non-crashing"--I'm smarter then that...:)
I don't think either company's strategy is bad, I just think they're going about it too different ways and people out there are reacting to it differently.
You say, "When you NEED to upgrade, then spend the money." I say, my single app I use all day and night is not available for my 10.x version of OS X because they are supporting a newer release only, BECAUSE Apple changed the underlying API and whatnot. I don't *need* to upgrade--I view that as Apple broke support for my one program, and they are charging me $129 to fix it when it should still be working.
Maybe I flew off the handle there, but this can be tricky... I appreciate your response!
Apple is releasing OS X really while they are developing it. They add new base features and discontinue support for the old ones, hence apps that work in 10.2 don't in 10.3, etc.
Microsoft wants to get it all in at once, and then sit on it for a while. That's quite advantageous from a developers point of view, a stable (as in non-changing) development environment.
I don't think what Apple is doing is a bad thing, but it sure hasn't been as smooth as it could have been. They needed a new "real" OS very quickly or they were going to fall off the map completely. They bought up NeXT, ported NEXTSTEP over, slapped an Apple logo on it, and started selling it ASAP. Now, years later, it's optimized for the hardware, the additional "i" apps have come out, the mail client doesn't suck anymore, etc. Lots of that stuff should have been done upfront, but Apple didn't have time and possibly didn't have the money. They can offset their development costs by charging everyone for a point upgrade.
And no, you don't have to upgrade, but there will be a point in time where you will have to to run anything well. As we all know, it's not good to stay too static or get too far behind in upgrades....
I want to see the new CPU's they're cooking up before anything else happens. I'm tired of the clock-speed game and want some hard, real improvements in the way things are done. No one else is doing it (or successfully anyway, Itanium, for example).
Should they put linux on their new processors? To have any sort of wide acceptance, probably yes.
I also found the squidGuard add-on which sounds like it can do some stuff like this. It's not really setup for spyware, mainly blocking porn sites, etc, etc, from their blacklist. Could also be useful in constructing a full solution. Check it out sometime.
Thanks again for sharing! That's what it's all about...... Give me a hollar if you whip that thing into shape...:)
Is there a firewall-level IDS type system that could monitor for these things trying to come in? I could see some serious cash in it for someone who can do it. I know many companies that would love to buy something like this.
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Either way, two racks of the new Cray thing is just as fast as all those racks of G5's. Cray's (or anyone elses) custom interconnect is always going to be faster then a traditional cluster configuration. And it acts as more of a unified computer then a bunch of seperate nodes AND you don't have to buy things like video cards, sound hardware, etc, etc, that are just wasting money and OS resources in your cluster.
If you are going to go cheap, get a cluster and a hundred people to manage it. If you're going to do it right, get the right equipment and 1-2 people to manage it. Sorry, I'm with Cray on this one!
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PS: Why do you think all the hardcode UNIX servers are operated through a serial port? Virtually no overhead!
IBM invests $50 million into Novell and spreads the word in a major way about linux. IBM only has Linux on the server. WTF?
I'm a big Compaqer from way back, but since the whole HP/Compaq things, I've really come to like IBM--and that their prices have come down to compete with Dell. But I'm a bit miffed by this half-assed Linux powerplay IBM has made.....
I suggest anyone who hasn't seen SUSE 9.0 Pro to go out and try it. YaST is so simple and SUSE has done an excellent job in integrating things on the desktop with lots of standard drivers.
I can't wait for 9.1! I'm really excited to get on an integrated 2.6 and KDE 3.2 distro.
Actually, I have quite a bit of experience with international long distance. Have you ever made a international call to Africa? There's about a 5-10 second lag from when you talk to when they actually hear it. Interrupting someone is impossible. Calls to France and England are usually lag-free, however. I know this stuff goes over the internet. It's downright awful.
So I still bring it back to the original question, if we added a couple million VOIP phones I can't believe the current internet would be able to handle it properly.
Who's to assure if I got a VOIP phone for my business that I can reliably call all the places I need to when I need to? Do we need SLA's for our telephones?
..is the internet ready for the mass migration from PSTN?
With all the lag and overloading on the internet, is it really ready to handle a jillion voice streams running over it with the expectation of quality and reliability of PSTN?
As a geek type, I'd love to see it come together to widescale use. But as a business type, it seems to unreliable for official use yet. Most businesses can tolerate their internet connection being down for a period of time, but I don't know any business who can tolerate a phone outage short of sending everyone home.
Handheld devices are just not quite there yet, unless if she's extremely minimal use. She could also find a local coffeeshop that offers free internet access via their PC or you're wireless notebook if she doesn't want to pay for access regularly. Or go in with her neighbor and split a cable connection via wireless....
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I'm sorry, our blimp is down right now--can I have someone call you back when it's up again?
Doh.
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Seemed to open fine (After a while!) in OpenOffice Writer 1.1.2. Haven't opened in actual Word to compare formatting, but looks reasonable to me. No complaints here.
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It actually looks pretty good. Windows only, which is not so good, but par for the course right now. Can't seem to manage a Clie device, which is somewhat disappointing. Easy to make CD's and rip CD's. Also as ATRAC3plus format with a 256k bitrate option. Might that help the sound quality that's supposed to be so lacking? Sony Connect seems about as easy to use as the Apple music store.
Will be scoping for one of their HD players, if nothing else just to look at. I don't really have the music to justify it.
One thing iTunes has all over the Sony software is the internet radio!! I would miss that dearly.
-m
Not sure how well tuned you had your antispam setup. What they don't tell you is a good whitelist is an integral part of it, too. SpamAssassin combined with AMAVIS has given some excellent results. When in doubt, crank the sensitivity down a little and let a few spams come in. I never check my blocked messages--never had to.
I think e-mail will be here for a long time, as finally literally just about everyone on the planet has e-mail access, even if at a coffeeshop. You got phones, you got e-mail, what's next? IM? Possibly. Gotta go kick a few back and ponder that.........
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I agree with everyone else--you shouldn't have changed from PDF to PS. I can't imagine PS is supported (appears not from your results).
Internet-based faxing solution are really good things(tm). I don't want a paper fax machine hanging around and I don't want to dink with faxmodem sharing and all that. I really like having everything show up in my Inbox, as I can receive faxes while not at my office.
I would read up on the capabilities of their service and beg them to let you come back.
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Hey all,
Been using 1.6 for a long time on Windows and I must say 1.7 is quite a bit faster in rendering pages. Have dual booted into SUSE 9.1 and installed 1.7 yet, but I'm hoping for the best. Kudos to the Mozilla team, and kudos again!
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I don't think the Itanium is going to be crushing anything in it's short lifetime. However, the PowerPC/Opteron chips are putting the smack down quite nicely about now. We need them to bring back that Open spec for PPC hardware so we can get some serious speed and off of Intel..... !
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I e-mail Daddypants about the duplicate status of this story and they still ran it. Does anyone ever check that email address?
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Yes, that's a very good description of what it's like. Probably ultimately more horses then one of those hybrids, though. I guess I'm not a very aggressive driver--I don't need to pass people if they pass me first. I normally drive with the traffic, sometimes faster if less traffic. Pulling out into traffic can be interesting with all the turbo lag, but, as my friend says, it's all part of the fun. It's TONS faster then the 1980 300D non-turbo Mercedes I had a few cars ago. You have to drive it to appreciate it, I guess.... :)
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I just keep rockin' my 1992 Mercedes 300D 2.5 turbodiesel. Consistent 30mpg on a low cost, and nicer car!
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Clearly stay on eDirectory. You will eventually have Linux servers in the house, and that's a great way to integrate everything you are running.
You probably want to upgrade your NT boxes, if for no other reason then updates/security issues. If you can't bring them to NetWare or Linux, I'd consolidate as many as possible on Windows 2003 and plan your migration to other platforms.
I would also recommend calling your local Novell office for a personalized look at your situation and some better price offerings.
Good luck! Should be fun, if nothing else...!
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I don't think it's realistic to assume you will get your machine back.
:)
1. Perform regular backups. You'll have all your data, so you don't care about getting that back.
2. Use filsystem encryption software. Built-in, aftermarket, whatever. Ensures they can't put your hard drive in another machine. If you're that worried about it, use VNC or remote desktop to control a system at your office/house and never store any information on your local machine.
3. Have insurance on it. Homeowners, business, whatever, just so you don't have to pay to buy another one.
Otherwise, I say they can keep it and I'll just get another one. I wouldn't mind having a faster laptop anyway.
One question for everyone out there, do you know the serial number of your laptop? I can't imagine anyone has that written down somewhere safe. How can the police prove the laptop is yours if you only know it's your because it has a SuSE sticker on the lid?
It doesn't hurt to have BIOS and power-on passwords either. The casual theif will not be able to get past them and will probably dump the unit somewhere or possibly try to return it saying "they found it" somewhere. Never use auto-login and use good passwords on your account.
IBM has some good laptop security features out there now. I believe part of it is some sort of hardware encryption for your hard drive. Not sure what Apple has, but IBM has definately stepped up to the plate.
Good luck.
-m
Yes, but I qualified it with "non-changing", not "non-crashing"--I'm smarter then that... :)
I don't think either company's strategy is bad, I just think they're going about it too different ways and people out there are reacting to it differently.
You say, "When you NEED to upgrade, then spend the money." I say, my single app I use all day and night is not available for my 10.x version of OS X because they are supporting a newer release only, BECAUSE Apple changed the underlying API and whatnot. I don't *need* to upgrade--I view that as Apple broke support for my one program, and they are charging me $129 to fix it when it should still be working.
Maybe I flew off the handle there, but this can be tricky... I appreciate your response!
-m
Apple is releasing OS X really while they are developing it. They add new base features and discontinue support for the old ones, hence apps that work in 10.2 don't in 10.3, etc.
Microsoft wants to get it all in at once, and then sit on it for a while. That's quite advantageous from a developers point of view, a stable (as in non-changing) development environment.
I don't think what Apple is doing is a bad thing, but it sure hasn't been as smooth as it could have been. They needed a new "real" OS very quickly or they were going to fall off the map completely. They bought up NeXT, ported NEXTSTEP over, slapped an Apple logo on it, and started selling it ASAP. Now, years later, it's optimized for the hardware, the additional "i" apps have come out, the mail client doesn't suck anymore, etc. Lots of that stuff should have been done upfront, but Apple didn't have time and possibly didn't have the money. They can offset their development costs by charging everyone for a point upgrade.
And no, you don't have to upgrade, but there will be a point in time where you will have to to run anything well. As we all know, it's not good to stay too static or get too far behind in upgrades....
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Hey,
I want to see the new CPU's they're cooking up before anything else happens. I'm tired of the clock-speed game and want some hard, real improvements in the way things are done. No one else is doing it (or successfully anyway, Itanium, for example).
Should they put linux on their new processors? To have any sort of wide acceptance, probably yes.
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That's great. Thanks much.
:)
I also found the squidGuard add-on which sounds like it can do some stuff like this. It's not really setup for spyware, mainly blocking porn sites, etc, etc, from their blacklist. Could also be useful in constructing a full solution. Check it out sometime.
Thanks again for sharing! That's what it's all about...... Give me a hollar if you whip that thing into shape...
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Hmm, that would be interesting. If you decide to share your info, let me know!
I really see this as the next new appliance market.
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Is there a firewall-level IDS type system that could monitor for these things trying to come in? I could see some serious cash in it for someone who can do it. I know many companies that would love to buy something like this.
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Can't imagine their site is long for this world!
Go for it.
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Either way, two racks of the new Cray thing is just as fast as all those racks of G5's. Cray's (or anyone elses) custom interconnect is always going to be faster then a traditional cluster configuration. And it acts as more of a unified computer then a bunch of seperate nodes AND you don't have to buy things like video cards, sound hardware, etc, etc, that are just wasting money and OS resources in your cluster.
If you are going to go cheap, get a cluster and a hundred people to manage it. If you're going to do it right, get the right equipment and 1-2 people to manage it. Sorry, I'm with Cray on this one!
-m
PS: Why do you think all the hardcode UNIX servers are operated through a serial port? Virtually no overhead!
IBM invests $50 million into Novell and spreads the word in a major way about linux. IBM only has Linux on the server. WTF?
I'm a big Compaqer from way back, but since the whole HP/Compaq things, I've really come to like IBM--and that their prices have come down to compete with Dell. But I'm a bit miffed by this half-assed Linux powerplay IBM has made.....
What is up?!
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I suggest anyone who hasn't seen SUSE 9.0 Pro to go out and try it. YaST is so simple and SUSE has done an excellent job in integrating things on the desktop with lots of standard drivers.
I can't wait for 9.1! I'm really excited to get on an integrated 2.6 and KDE 3.2 distro.
-m
Actually, I have quite a bit of experience with international long distance. Have you ever made a international call to Africa? There's about a 5-10 second lag from when you talk to when they actually hear it. Interrupting someone is impossible. Calls to France and England are usually lag-free, however. I know this stuff goes over the internet. It's downright awful.
So I still bring it back to the original question, if we added a couple million VOIP phones I can't believe the current internet would be able to handle it properly.
Who's to assure if I got a VOIP phone for my business that I can reliably call all the places I need to when I need to? Do we need SLA's for our telephones?
-m
..is the internet ready for the mass migration from PSTN?
With all the lag and overloading on the internet, is it really ready to handle a jillion voice streams running over it with the expectation of quality and reliability of PSTN?
As a geek type, I'd love to see it come together to widescale use. But as a business type, it seems to unreliable for official use yet. Most businesses can tolerate their internet connection being down for a period of time, but I don't know any business who can tolerate a phone outage short of sending everyone home.
-m
Handheld devices are just not quite there yet, unless if she's extremely minimal use. She could also find a local coffeeshop that offers free internet access via their PC or you're wireless notebook if she doesn't want to pay for access regularly. Or go in with her neighbor and split a cable connection via wireless....
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