I do agree with you for the most part. However, plenty of companies use sendmail just fine. You can still use all the features of outlook over sendmail. The only problem id Exchange server's collaboration. We used add-ins to Outlook to do group calendaring, which worked well. But today there are plenty of other plugins for calendaring on web servers. Googe Calendar
but everyoe does need a corporate account and a google account.
Ubuntu does a fantastic job at detecting and loading the right drivers. Just ask iPhone users...
Ubuntu offers better security out of the box. No admin rights assigned per account, rather granted per applicaton. Plus the whole chmod +xxx thing that separates getting a file on a system and actually being able to execute it.
Win7 is more centrally manageable, except that Linux can be booted entirely off a central server. See the City of Largo. SAMBA3 doe have support for domain stuff an I believe group policies, but I have not looked at that recently.
Well that was my first guess - that something had infected me. After running several malware checkers, (and always with a virus scanner) I came to the conclusion that it was a windows update that made the boot time so damn slow. I don't know which one. And the idea of it being a windows update does correlate well with my memory of applying updates and it taking forever to boot after that. I thought at first it might be something like run-once (installing something) after boot up, but the slow boot-up time has remained. Still, I only reboot once every several weeks, so its not too much of a big deal. It is however,very embarrassing.
I've also changed from AVG to Avast (AVG has made some very anti-laptop decisions with their products lately). I shaved a couple minutes off, but it is still slow. I have another drive with just XP and a few essentials on it, and that still takes about 3-4 minutes to boot.
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When XP is no longer getting security updates (and its not that far out) everyone install the latest LTS Ubuntu. Set up an XP theme for users resistant to visual change.
Then, for any business-essential application that requires Windows, use Citrix, RDP or VNC to some secured XP boxes. Or, use VirtualBox or VMware. You can set the VMs to use specfic MAC addrs then set the DHCP server to not assign those an internet gateway, so they can't get on the intERnet, but they can still use the intRAnet. This way your users can still use the internet but not risk infection of XP machines.
OpenOffice is usable, but the.DOC and Access DB base still represents a migration problem.
It may be possible to use CodeWeaver's Crossover office ($40) to get Office to work where you have to. However I expect the reduced support costs to pay dividends, as well as not having to upgrade hardware. It now takes XP 14 minutes to boot on a (3-year-old) dual-core laptop. Ubuntu starts in 60 seconds, and that is to a "usable" desktop.
Other things that Ubtunu beats windows on: - centralized updater. Only one update service runs for the whole system. - no viruses
I've really been amazed at the latest Ubuntus - as easy to use as Windows - no - in fact easier.
I'll always keep a copy of XP around, but it will be a virtual machine that I keep between my linux upgrades and it won't have internet access, so I don't have to worry about viruses.
I guess you don't need street lamps for sidewalks, or illuminated parking lots for sports or malls either. Or lighting up people's front/back yards. There is no recreation after dark. At least not outside...
Also, lets look at the Populatation denistiy stats: NK 199 people per sqkm US 32 people per sqkm SK: 489 people per sqkm
Despite NK having 6 times the population density.... they manage to have only one respecible dot. Mean while, there's SK, with 2.5 times the population of NK. And they have dots everywhere...
I'm not comparing it to the US. I'm comparing it to SOUTH KOREA. They have the same background, up until the war, when SK was left capatialist and NK stayed communist. This is what I am arguing.
If you want a US comparison, for comparison, go here and enter in Valentine, Nebraska. They manage to have a dot. Its the intersection of five roads in the middle of nowhere. then look at it at google earth. Its about 25 blocks in diameter
PHREAK: Yo. Check this out guys, this is insanely great, it's got a 28.8 BPS modem! DADE: Yeah? Display? CEREAL: Active matrix, man. A million psychedelic colors. Man, baby, sweet, ooo! NIKON: I want it. PHREAK: I want it to have my children!... KATE: What the hell are you doing? DADE: It's cool, I'm just looking. KATE: It's too much machine for you. DADE: Yeah? KATE: I hope you don't screw like you type. DADE: It has a killer refresh rate. KATE: P6 chip. Triple the speed of the Pentium. DADE: Yeah. It's not just the chip, it has a PCI bus. But you knew that. KATE: Indeed. RISC architecture is gonna change everything. DADE: Yeah. RISC is good.
Now, imagine all that excitement from the processing power and bandwidth they had even on a 28.8 modem - that we now have multiples of... in our pockets Where is it being leveraged for the goal for the good of man kind? Folding and SETI are good starts, but they haven; taken off. We've got tons of idle cycles... You'd figure there'd be some processing client where you get paid for your cycles, but it only exists as illegal botnets. Where's the open utility computing? Why don't my computers' idle cycles pay for themselves?
They were supposed to make our lives easier, but for as much as they empowered us, the exception processing got dumped on us. The nature of that work is different from the regular rhythmic routine of normal processing. Exceptions are urgent, require more effort and as a result are more stressful. And any news you get is when something is wrong.
I like the idea of being able to chat with people on the other side of the planet, but I haven't figured out what good it is to me. We don't have much in common with each other. I like the idea that I can do my own stock trading, but this usually means I lose money instead of my money manager.;-p
Computers now cause as many problems as they solve (Goldman Sachs, AIG, I'm looking at you!) Is our society any better? Are people happier? Or are we more stressed out?
(And what has my/. commenting gotten me. Not a date or a dollar for sure!)
It amazes me that we find that we have to pay for parking on a public street. Because someone turned off the engine and got out makes you liable to rent the curb time. What if my car moved asymptotically slowly?
Why not just attach a long, weighted tether to it? Use a magnet to hold it on and the change in center of mass will pull put rotation on it, like a bolas. Once it is spinning around the new center of mass, you can disconnect the weight (by radio) and send it on a higher orbit. Then you only have two pieces of trash - one going out (the satallite), one coming in (the weight) and you can control the release time so that it comes in over the pacific. Then you only have one piece of trash headed away from the Earth.
And in those 30 years, the PC has become a commodity, and the US has shifted to a services-based economy. There's only small margin in commodities. IBM did the right thing. Apple now uses commodity hardware on a commodity OS. The only thing they have is an Apple crust.
We don't know how gravity works. LHC is supposed to provide that answer. But you can imagine it as an exchange of energy, in proportion to the ratio of masses involved. Meaning that the net effect is that Earth expends some kind of energy keeping the moon in orbit. This has been theorized as a exchange of graviphoton, gravitophoton, and other such unproven mechanisms. If you could construct and anti-gravity device (one that blocks or reverses this theoretical exchange) you could harvest energy from the difference of the blocked area vs unblocked area. Cold, spinning superconductors to show a small ability to block gravity locally.
If you want to use to moon for energy via its motion, you'd have to have it orbit in a coil and it would induce a magnetic current. It is 13% ferrous material, so it would be weak. The real money is in blocking gravity.
1980ish: Apple releases the Mac, a closed platform. Easy to use, very successful. IBM then releases the PC, with off-the-shelf components. Only the BIOS is closed. Compaq reverse-engineers the BIOS. IBM's (now) open platform goes on to thrive due to its lack of control. Apple enjoys some success with Filemaker Pro and such.
2010ish: Apple Releases the iPhone/Pad with a closed platform. HTC, Samsung, and everyone else, even Nokia operate on open platforms. Open platform gains momentum and eclipses the Apple platform.
30 years taught Jobs nothing.
But the difference is that the BSD OS/tools is actually cross-platform, and Apple can open the iPhone/Pad platform with a stroke of the pen, which would steal Android's thunder. But if Apple waits too long, they will make their platform irrelevant [again] and Apple will have to come up with something else revolutionary in 10 years instead of 30.
As an American, visiting Canada, I was surprised by how many DON'T say 'eh?' It seems to be of French Canadian origin and used by adults, around retirement age. I spoke to a lot of people, and even went to on of the biggest malls in the world (the mall in Edmonton) and never did I hear 'eh?'
Also, the usage seems to be only when they are asking for permission to continue, when they have [pre]supposed a fact and they expect the answer to be in the affirmative. Any time there was a legitimate question, it was never followed with 'eh'. And whenever I actually said 'no', to an 'eh?' it was followed by surprise.
Now the whole thing about 'aboot' is dead on and not exaggerated in the slightest. Also, 'aroond'.
Because of lawsuits, QA, FDA auditing and controls. We are a litigious society who will sue when we get test results messed up. Also, key to predictable results is uniformity.
It is a sad but true thing that 3rd-world lives are not held in as high regard as 1st world lives. Look at Predator drone strikes: over 300 innocents killed. Do this in a 1st or 2nd world country and there would be more far more outage.
The upcoming release will be Qt 4.7 + QtMobility 1.0.0 + QtCreator 2.0
QtMobility is the API for accessing all the bits found on phones but sometimes on desktops. QtMobility has been released, just the other day. You can get it and run it against Qt 4.6 -Messaging (mail/SMS) -Sensors -Multimedia -Services -Bearer Management (Network management when connected via Cell & WIFI)
Qt 4.7 just went Beta status and should be expected soon. This release bring in QML, which has been called "Declarative UI". This is the sexy Flash competitor with CSS-style interfaces, animations, and JavaScripting. That's all it adds.
Qt Creator 2.0 I believe is in Beta and will be released with Qt 4.7 as well. This is the (optional) IDE. But its really good in its own right for Qt development. It features ability to cross-compile and remote debug. You can compile and have it load the app onto your phone and debug that way. It also has QML viewer and WYSIWYG GUI development (Integrated QtDesigner)
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Do this AFTER you release Chrom[ium] OS. Then users have something to defect to...
I do agree with you for the most part. However, plenty of companies use sendmail just fine. You can still use all the features of outlook over sendmail. The only problem id Exchange server's collaboration. We used add-ins to Outlook to do group calendaring, which worked well. But today there are plenty of other plugins for calendaring on web servers.
Googe Calendar
but everyoe does need a corporate account and a google account.
Ubuntu does a fantastic job at detecting and loading the right drivers. Just ask iPhone users...
Ubuntu offers better security out of the box. No admin rights assigned per account, rather granted per applicaton. Plus the whole chmod +xxx thing that separates getting a file on a system and actually being able to execute it.
Win7 is more centrally manageable, except that Linux can be booted entirely off a central server. See the City of Largo. SAMBA3 doe have support for domain stuff an I believe group policies, but I have not looked at that recently.
Well that was my first guess - that something had infected me. After running several malware checkers, (and always with a virus scanner) I came to the conclusion that it was a windows update that made the boot time so damn slow. I don't know which one. And the idea of it being a windows update does correlate well with my memory of applying updates and it taking forever to boot after that. I thought at first it might be something like run-once (installing something) after boot up, but the slow boot-up time has remained. Still, I only reboot once every several weeks, so its not too much of a big deal. It is however,very embarrassing.
I've also changed from AVG to Avast (AVG has made some very anti-laptop decisions with their products lately). I shaved a couple minutes off, but it is still slow. I have another drive with just XP and a few essentials on it, and that still takes about 3-4 minutes to boot.
When XP is no longer getting security updates (and its not that far out) everyone install the latest LTS Ubuntu. Set up an XP theme for users resistant to visual change.
Then, for any business-essential application that requires Windows, use Citrix, RDP or VNC to some secured XP boxes. Or, use VirtualBox or VMware. You can set the VMs to use specfic MAC addrs then set the DHCP server to not assign those an internet gateway, so they can't get on the intERnet, but they can still use the intRAnet. This way your users can still use the internet but not risk infection of XP machines.
OpenOffice is usable, but the .DOC and Access DB base still represents a migration problem.
It may be possible to use CodeWeaver's Crossover office ($40) to get Office to work where you have to. However I expect the reduced support costs to pay dividends, as well as not having to upgrade hardware. It now takes XP 14 minutes to boot on a (3-year-old) dual-core laptop. Ubuntu starts in 60 seconds, and that is to a "usable" desktop.
Other things that Ubtunu beats windows on:
- centralized updater. Only one update service runs for the whole system.
- no viruses
I've really been amazed at the latest Ubuntus - as easy to use as Windows - no - in fact easier.
I'll always keep a copy of XP around, but it will be a virtual machine that I keep between my linux upgrades and it won't have internet access, so I don't have to worry about viruses.
I guess you don't need street lamps for sidewalks, or illuminated parking lots for sports or malls either. Or lighting up people's front/back yards. There is no recreation after dark. At least not outside...
Because GPS doesn't work in the dark....?
Also, lets look at the Populatation denistiy stats:
NK 199 people per sqkm
US 32 people per sqkm
SK: 489 people per sqkm
Despite NK having 6 times the population density.... they manage to have only one respecible dot. Mean while, there's SK, with 2.5 times the population of NK. And they have dots everywhere...
I'm not comparing it to the US. I'm comparing it to SOUTH KOREA. They have the same background, up until the war, when SK was left capatialist and NK stayed communist. This is what I am arguing.
If you want a US comparison, for comparison, go here and enter in Valentine, Nebraska. They manage to have a dot. Its the intersection of five roads in the middle of nowhere. then look at it at google earth. Its about 25 blocks in diameter
Many of you are familiar with he earth-at-night photo.
Well did you ever take a look at North Korea? They don't have electricity, much less health care.
Remember this scene in hackers?
PHREAK: Yo. Check this out guys, this is insanely great, it's got a 28.8 BPS modem! ...
DADE: Yeah? Display?
CEREAL: Active matrix, man. A million psychedelic colors. Man, baby, sweet, ooo!
NIKON: I want it.
PHREAK: I want it to have my children!
KATE: What the hell are you doing?
DADE: It's cool, I'm just looking.
KATE: It's too much machine for you.
DADE: Yeah?
KATE: I hope you don't screw like you type.
DADE: It has a killer refresh rate.
KATE: P6 chip. Triple the speed of the Pentium.
DADE: Yeah. It's not just the chip, it has a PCI bus. But you knew that.
KATE: Indeed. RISC architecture is gonna change everything.
DADE: Yeah. RISC is good.
Now, imagine all that excitement from the processing power and bandwidth they had even on a 28.8 modem - that we now have multiples of... in our pockets Where is it being leveraged for the goal for the good of man kind? Folding and SETI are good starts, but they haven; taken off. We've got tons of idle cycles... You'd figure there'd be some processing client where you get paid for your cycles, but it only exists as illegal botnets. Where's the open utility computing? Why don't my computers' idle cycles pay for themselves?
They were supposed to make our lives easier, but for as much as they empowered us, the exception processing got dumped on us. The nature of that work is different from the regular rhythmic routine of normal processing. Exceptions are urgent, require more effort and as a result are more stressful. And any news you get is when something is wrong.
I like the idea of being able to chat with people on the other side of the planet, but I haven't figured out what good it is to me. We don't have much in common with each other. I like the idea that I can do my own stock trading, but this usually means I lose money instead of my money manager. ;-p
Computers now cause as many problems as they solve (Goldman Sachs, AIG, I'm looking at you!) Is our society any better? Are people happier? Or are we more stressed out?
(And what has my /. commenting gotten me. Not a date or a dollar for sure!)
It amazes me that we find that we have to pay for parking on a public street. Because someone turned off the engine and got out makes you liable to rent the curb time. What if my car moved asymptotically slowly?
Why not just attach a long, weighted tether to it? Use a magnet to hold it on and the change in center of mass will pull put rotation on it, like a bolas. Once it is spinning around the new center of mass, you can disconnect the weight (by radio) and send it on a higher orbit. Then you only have two pieces of trash - one going out (the satallite), one coming in (the weight) and you can control the release time so that it comes in over the pacific. Then you only have one piece of trash headed away from the Earth.
I make the unjustified claim PPT has stepped in and saved the market once again. Seems exactly what they were suited for.
And in those 30 years, the PC has become a commodity, and the US has shifted to a services-based economy. There's only small margin in commodities. IBM did the right thing. Apple now uses commodity hardware on a commodity OS. The only thing they have is an Apple crust.
We don't know how gravity works. LHC is supposed to provide that answer. But you can imagine it as an exchange of energy, in proportion to the ratio of masses involved. Meaning that the net effect is that Earth expends some kind of energy keeping the moon in orbit. This has been theorized as a exchange of graviphoton, gravitophoton, and other such unproven mechanisms. If you could construct and anti-gravity device (one that blocks or reverses this theoretical exchange) you could harvest energy from the difference of the blocked area vs unblocked area. Cold, spinning superconductors to show a small ability to block gravity locally.
If you want to use to moon for energy via its motion, you'd have to have it orbit in a coil and it would induce a magnetic current. It is 13% ferrous material, so it would be weak. The real money is in blocking gravity.
Indeed
1980ish: Apple releases the Mac, a closed platform. Easy to use, very successful. IBM then releases the PC, with off-the-shelf components. Only the BIOS is closed. Compaq reverse-engineers the BIOS. IBM's (now) open platform goes on to thrive due to its lack of control. Apple enjoys some success with Filemaker Pro and such.
2010ish: Apple Releases the iPhone/Pad with a closed platform. HTC, Samsung, and everyone else, even Nokia operate on open platforms. Open platform gains momentum and eclipses the Apple platform.
30 years taught Jobs nothing.
But the difference is that the BSD OS/tools is actually cross-platform, and Apple can open the iPhone/Pad platform with a stroke of the pen, which would steal Android's thunder. But if Apple waits too long, they will make their platform irrelevant [again] and Apple will have to come up with something else revolutionary in 10 years instead of 30.
As an American, visiting Canada, I was surprised by how many DON'T say 'eh?' It seems to be of French Canadian origin and used by adults, around retirement age. I spoke to a lot of people, and even went to on of the biggest malls in the world (the mall in Edmonton) and never did I hear 'eh?'
Also, the usage seems to be only when they are asking for permission to continue, when they have [pre]supposed a fact and they expect the answer to be in the affirmative. Any time there was a legitimate question, it was never followed with 'eh'. And whenever I actually said 'no', to an 'eh?' it was followed by surprise.
Now the whole thing about 'aboot' is dead on and not exaggerated in the slightest. Also, 'aroond'.
Well, lawyers and courts are key. But they are still effectively valued less. And effectiveness is all that matters, in these matters.
But hey, don't blame the messenger. I find it atrocious too.
Aside from the voice control, look a ReDynaMix plugin for Photoshop, and learn about exposure bracketing for true HDR.
Because of lawsuits, QA, FDA auditing and controls. We are a litigious society who will sue when we get test results messed up. Also, key to predictable results is uniformity.
It is a sad but true thing that 3rd-world lives are not held in as high regard as 1st world lives. Look at Predator drone strikes: over 300 innocents killed. Do this in a 1st or 2nd world country and there would be more far more outage.
You can use the NDK to make a C++ application library (your application class) and use a sub Java loader to load it.
Word has it Qt already works thanks to light house.
Mind share sure, market share no way. Nokia has 50% market share. Apple, only 9%
The upcoming release will be Qt 4.7 + QtMobility 1.0.0 + QtCreator 2.0
QtMobility is the API for accessing all the bits found on phones but sometimes on desktops. QtMobility has been released, just the other day. You can get it and run it against Qt 4.6
-Messaging (mail/SMS)
-Sensors
-Multimedia
-Services
-Bearer Management (Network management when connected via Cell & WIFI)
Qt 4.7 just went Beta status and should be expected soon.
This release bring in QML, which has been called "Declarative UI". This is the sexy Flash competitor with CSS-style interfaces, animations, and JavaScripting. That's all it adds.
Qt Creator 2.0 I believe is in Beta and will be released with Qt 4.7 as well.
This is the (optional) IDE. But its really good in its own right for Qt development. It features ability to cross-compile and remote debug. You can compile and have it load the app onto your phone and debug that way. It also has QML viewer and WYSIWYG GUI development (Integrated QtDesigner)