I am actually going to be doing a presentation on how you can use linux as a workstation/desktop in a work environment. I am choosing OOffice as the office suite. I am glad to see it integrates with both environments.
How does it support things like ppt, doc and xls files? I really wanna impress who I am showing this to.
Consider also, that these soldiers who went home may very well make up some of the insurgency. Had the US mowed them down during the 'shock and awe', we might not have had to deal with them later - as in now.
What would be really cool, is to create these 'robots' and hook them up to a game, with an interface like UT2 or something cool like that. Then let all of the gamers in the world unite and take out apartment and sewer empires one at a time. Seeing as how they kick my ass everytime I spawn, this should be a no brainer for them.
I have used Unix, Linux and Windows for years. I recently switched to Mac at home.
I find it uncomfortable for obvious reasons (new way of doing things). Yet, while I only do file movement, touches, etc via the command line in unix/linux, and I only do GUI file touches, movement, etc on Windows, I find myself using an unwieldy GUI (Finder) to do the same thing on Mac. I can fire up an xterm and do it that way, but I don't 'want' to.
That is odd for me. Can't quite explain it. Mac is (even as a unix variant) its own creature. It leaves me feeling like I have the power of the universe in a little pretty living space.
This does not change the fact that Britney Spears sucks. At least the rebellious goth teens and college students got one thing right.
I kept hoping the market would drop. I wanted those that didn't give a damn about technology to get out. But I never expected it to drop me on my ass the way it did.
I blame that shitty half-assed no talen garage band.
I spent years saying the same thing. Now, at work, I have linux on my laptop. Guess what? I use about 5 or 6 apps. Those are not dependent on the window manager. What do I do? I use each one. I have used KDE, Window Maker, Blackbox, XFCE and even tooled around with FVWM (bleh).
Those that want a plain jane UI have KDE. Others, well, can have it all.
Some of us have for years now. But realize the more we don't buy anything from them, the more they claim that piracy is stealing money from their pockets. This in turn will get them to lean heavily on Congress to push more laws that force people to pay more for less.
This isn't simply capitalism anymore. This is extortion. What's the next step? Fascism?
I think this is the draw for me, with regards to the franchise.
I loved the evil evil person that darth vader was. He scared me. His empire scared me. And there was this small group of people fighting this monolith of evil.
The prequels have been about 'nobility' as it slowly falls to this rise of this evil. But it hasn't done anything to make me feel like the 'evil' side of things did in the first 3.
And I just watched them 2 weeks ago. I saw them as a kid, and Vader still is 'the man' when it comes to bad guys. No amount of R2D2, or Boba Fett or Yoda will change that.
I work in an environment where doing anything requires close to an act of god.
With our unix systems, this can be tedious. We have to pass in a lot of paperwork in order to get things through.
But the Windows guys, they hope the systems lock up. That way they can reboot, install a patch or 2, reboot and off they go. No extra paperwork, meetings or nothing.
At first, I didn't know if they were serious or not. Now I am convinced they might be onto something.../off to write bluescreen.ksh for my *nix boxen
I think that was his point. A recurring event that.... causes issues.
I would, at times, slightly pull a manager's line from the hub, so he would have to come get me to fix his workstation. This allowed me to take a peek at hardware, software and other add-ons, that he was famous for. This was in the old NT4/Win95 days, when you couldn't monitor apps and hardware as easily. I know it sounds underhanded, but otherwise I never saw the other side of his locked office door- you know, the one with the only lock in the office that required a different master key?
So, I've been out of rehab for a week, right? And, I have been, like, gaming and such, right? And so, this morning, I am at the magical number 7, right? I get online, check a few sites, and get to/., right? And I see this games./..org, right? And, I'm like, cool, and so, like, I click on it, right? And, woaaaah. Oh man, relapse!
I hear you loud and clear on the job search. I lost my high paying job in Nov of 2001. I spent a few months looking for work, I even lowered my expectations of pay by 50%. My father suggested I take any job I could find- that is what he did when he was unemployed. So I did. I took a job that made less than I was getting on unemployment AND was treated like crap for it. I worked a helpdesk job that was taking advantage of the surpluss of IT guys in the market.
I left that to find a data entry job that paid slightly better, but was only temporary. I then moved closer to family, (2 states away) and spent 3 months looking for work before I found this job. Think I'm going anywhere? I am making 40% of pay that I made at the job I lost in 2001. I am buried in debt, and don't know how I get by. I have no idea on earth how people can survive without a job in this current situation. Not without unemployment.
And it is hard to swallow, going from 70+ a year to 8 an hour. I feel for everyone out there going through this.
Excellent points. No, they are not. And this software is the only pirated software that I own. My goal was always to migrate back to linux and use something like GNUCash. And trust me, you go through what I've gone through, with the IT economy, divorce and such, and yes, I have not been able to save anything for a few years. The games are older, and yes, I do enjoy using something that has helped me eat when I had no income. To assume that I am simply pirating to pirate is to assume incorrectly. Your assumption has made an Ass of U and Me.
Once upon a time, I did pirate. Now? The OSS movement has made this become an almost non-issue, and thank Whom-Ever-You-Want it has.
I have been using a copy of Quicken Trial for a few years now (had to hack it to make it not expire) on my windows system. It works well enough. But I would love to obtain an open source solution that is free both as beer and speech. GNUCash does not appear to have a windows port, that I can see. So, no, it doesn't run on all platforms listed.
I am not big on running hacked software, but I cannot afford anything any other way. The last time I purchased software, BeOS and Gobe Pro 2, the company folded and I was left with abandon-ware. Since I won't go back to that or to the sluggish GUI experience of Linux for my home box (I use RH here at work), I use windows- and would love Open Source solutions for the OS- and please don't hammer me for using windows. My kids have games, and I have games, and frankly, when at home, I don't want to f*ck with media formats, wine or all the other software headaches that I've had to fight through in the past. At work, fine. Home... I just want it to work- and yes if I had the $$, I'd have that Mac I dream of.
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The Velvatine Rabbit? I think that was what it was called.
You are right. And I do. And I am getting started on it.
I've used it in the past, and found file support spotty. It is powerful in its own right.
But thanks for the 'wake up'. Nice to know the community cares enough to ensure the very best. And I mean that.
I am actually going to be doing a presentation on how you can use linux as a workstation/desktop in a work environment. I am choosing OOffice as the office suite. I am glad to see it integrates with both environments.
How does it support things like ppt, doc and xls files? I really wanna impress who I am showing this to.
Consider also, that these soldiers who went home may very well make up some of the insurgency. Had the US mowed them down during the 'shock and awe', we might not have had to deal with them later - as in now.
Leaves more bandwidth for those of use playing Halo 2 Live.
What would be really cool, is to create these 'robots' and hook them up to a game, with an interface like UT2 or something cool like that. Then let all of the gamers in the world unite and take out apartment and sewer empires one at a time. Seeing as how they kick my ass everytime I spawn, this should be a no brainer for them.
Actually, I swiped the line from that movie.
Love that flick.
I use it at work. With 'X', ssh, and so on.
It 'works' for the most part. I get issues with 'X' and things like WebSphere installers and Admin GUI clients.
But for straight command line that is pretty seemless with Windows, I agree, it works very well.
MS's SFU is a hunk of junk by comparison.
I have used Unix, Linux and Windows for years. I recently switched to Mac at home.
I find it uncomfortable for obvious reasons (new way of doing things). Yet, while I only do file movement, touches, etc via the command line in unix/linux, and I only do GUI file touches, movement, etc on Windows, I find myself using an unwieldy GUI (Finder) to do the same thing on Mac. I can fire up an xterm and do it that way, but I don't 'want' to.
That is odd for me. Can't quite explain it. Mac is (even as a unix variant) its own creature. It leaves me feeling like I have the power of the universe in a little pretty living space.
Maybe cause I am new to it still.
Anyone else catch the house they lived in? Brady house from Brady Bunch. I was looking for the astroturf in the back- sadly missing.
Great movie. It gets 2 snaps in z formation.
This does not change the fact that Britney Spears sucks. At least the rebellious goth teens and college students got one thing right.
I kept hoping the market would drop. I wanted those that didn't give a damn about technology to get out. But I never expected it to drop me on my ass the way it did.
I blame that shitty half-assed no talen garage band.
Well, Knoppix is on one, and Suse 9.1 has a 'desktop' version that fits on one disk.
You can add packages to both after install, if you need something. No lockdown.
Give it a try!
Why do they have to make it look so windows-y? First, thanks for the screenies (mods, help him out, here).
Why do they cram all the buttons to the top right corner? Why not spread them out? Ah! Frustrating.
I spent years saying the same thing. Now, at work, I have linux on my laptop. Guess what? I use about 5 or 6 apps. Those are not dependent on the window manager. What do I do? I use each one. I have used KDE, Window Maker, Blackbox, XFCE and even tooled around with FVWM (bleh).
Those that want a plain jane UI have KDE. Others, well, can have it all.
"All your beowulf clusters are belong to us!"
- Brought to you by hot grits, Natalie Portman and that coffee machine that might run linux.
My last job was a SCO shop. They were migrating to Red Hat when I left.
My current job is using linux on a lot of lower end servers.
This is a far cry from 2000-2001, when no one would even touch the OS.
Now, it is my desktop, and that of others.
Vote with your wallet?
Some of us have for years now. But realize the more we don't buy anything from them, the more they claim that piracy is stealing money from their pockets. This in turn will get them to lean heavily on Congress to push more laws that force people to pay more for less.
This isn't simply capitalism anymore. This is extortion. What's the next step? Fascism?
I think this is the draw for me, with regards to the franchise.
I loved the evil evil person that darth vader was. He scared me. His empire scared me. And there was this small group of people fighting this monolith of evil.
The prequels have been about 'nobility' as it slowly falls to this rise of this evil. But it hasn't done anything to make me feel like the 'evil' side of things did in the first 3.
And I just watched them 2 weeks ago. I saw them as a kid, and Vader still is 'the man' when it comes to bad guys. No amount of R2D2, or Boba Fett or Yoda will change that.
I work in an environment where doing anything requires close to an act of god.
/off to write bluescreen.ksh for my *nix boxen
With our unix systems, this can be tedious. We have to pass in a lot of paperwork in order to get things through.
But the Windows guys, they hope the systems lock up. That way they can reboot, install a patch or 2, reboot and off they go. No extra paperwork, meetings or nothing.
At first, I didn't know if they were serious or not. Now I am convinced they might be onto something...
I think that was his point. A recurring event that.... causes issues.
I would, at times, slightly pull a manager's line from the hub, so he would have to come get me to fix his workstation. This allowed me to take a peek at hardware, software and other add-ons, that he was famous for. This was in the old NT4/Win95 days, when you couldn't monitor apps and hardware as easily. I know it sounds underhanded, but otherwise I never saw the other side of his locked office door- you know, the one with the only lock in the office that required a different master key?
Cowboy Neal, with you, everything is gas. -Timon
Come on, I had to do it.
It is interesting, however. I get the feeling, though, that the US won't be leading space exploration any time in the next decade or so.
So, I've been out of rehab for a week, right? And, I have been, like, gaming and such, right? And so, this morning, I am at the magical number 7, right? I get online, check a few sites, and get to /., right? And I see this games./..org, right? And, I'm like, cool, and so, like, I click on it, right? And, woaaaah. Oh man, relapse!
I hear you loud and clear on the job search. I lost my high paying job in Nov of 2001. I spent a few months looking for work, I even lowered my expectations of pay by 50%. My father suggested I take any job I could find- that is what he did when he was unemployed. So I did. I took a job that made less than I was getting on unemployment AND was treated like crap for it. I worked a helpdesk job that was taking advantage of the surpluss of IT guys in the market.
I left that to find a data entry job that paid slightly better, but was only temporary. I then moved closer to family, (2 states away) and spent 3 months looking for work before I found this job. Think I'm going anywhere? I am making 40% of pay that I made at the job I lost in 2001. I am buried in debt, and don't know how I get by. I have no idea on earth how people can survive without a job in this current situation. Not without unemployment.
And it is hard to swallow, going from 70+ a year to 8 an hour. I feel for everyone out there going through this.
Excellent points. No, they are not. And this software is the only pirated software that I own. My goal was always to migrate back to linux and use something like GNUCash. And trust me, you go through what I've gone through, with the IT economy, divorce and such, and yes, I have not been able to save anything for a few years. The games are older, and yes, I do enjoy using something that has helped me eat when I had no income. To assume that I am simply pirating to pirate is to assume incorrectly. Your assumption has made an Ass of U and Me.
Once upon a time, I did pirate. Now? The OSS movement has made this become an almost non-issue, and thank Whom-Ever-You-Want it has.
I have been using a copy of Quicken Trial for a few years now (had to hack it to make it not expire) on my windows system. It works well enough. But I would love to obtain an open source solution that is free both as beer and speech. GNUCash does not appear to have a windows port, that I can see. So, no, it doesn't run on all platforms listed.
I am not big on running hacked software, but I cannot afford anything any other way. The last time I purchased software, BeOS and Gobe Pro 2, the company folded and I was left with abandon-ware. Since I won't go back to that or to the sluggish GUI experience of Linux for my home box (I use RH here at work), I use windows- and would love Open Source solutions for the OS- and please don't hammer me for using windows. My kids have games, and I have games, and frankly, when at home, I don't want to f*ck with media formats, wine or all the other software headaches that I've had to fight through in the past. At work, fine. Home... I just want it to work- and yes if I had the $$, I'd have that Mac I dream of.