I can think of that doesn't exist or have a workaround for Mozilla is Macromedia Director.
Which I think exists for Windows mozilla-esq browsers. But I can live without Shockwave. What really irritates me is the lack of a flash 7 plugin. It exists for my Windows Firefox but not my Linux Mozilla. Sites that are using flash video (moveon.org was the one that came to mind) are crippled in Linux.
Yeah, we had a trinitron here that lasted 13 years before we replaced it. This monitor is a trinitron tube.
I've had 2 power supplies go on me in the last 5 years and one deathstar (shh, I'm still using its RMA brother). But some of the first computer equipment I bought (a 1.2 gig WD drive and a 2.5 WD drive) to put in my dad's computer both died on me. Computer stuff is weird; it lasts 90 days or 9 years. Now everyone is ditching their p2's because "they're too slow" and I'm building a nice cluster.
These days, I just try to buy things when they're towards the bottom end of the price spectrum (refurbs, selling because its "too slow", etc) because then if it does die, I'm not upset. I also now have 4 machines - 3 slower, 1 fast so I have a backup.
Your point in valid but the grandparent mentions Windows 2000 - that's a little different than mainframe's running assembly. If I can plan upgrades that leverage the advantages of new technology within an acceptable budget I'm going to take them.
Oh and I have two tube amps from circa 1960s.:). Circa 1990s speakers are attached and my circa 2000 headphones are sitting on next to them. I use whatever fills the need best.
Hmm, interesting. I help run our business on the technologies that do the job best at the time we're buying. We have 802.11b connecting the machines around facility. As they are all Apple, I have not seen a serial or parallel port in some time. USB works quite well for our tasks. I use OSX a a platform. I use an external cable modem through a business class router for all data.
As long as one avoids the bleeding edge, I don't think there is any reason to not take advantage of technologies as they come out. Then again, if it is not broken, don't fix it. I guess it depends on your upgrade schedule - We just finished ours.
Do you mean a serial modem? I haven't seen a parallel port modem in ages...:)
I party blame Netscape and other email proggies that send forwards or replies as attachments rather than as inline quoted text
Yes, but you can turn that off. Evolution did that. Turning it off was one of the first things I did.
Educating the "general user" about virii has come a good way, but some people still need some lessons. Sadly, I think the great majority of users that still spread these viruses are simply negligent (they know better but really don't care). Maybe I'm too techsupport-bitter.
Uh, we've had partial gravity as well. At night, go outside and look at that big white thing. Several trips there had people walking around picking up rocks in roughtly 1/6th Earth gravity. Granted, that wasn't for as long as these mice will be in orbit, but it does seem to go against "These will be the first mammals..."
My dad has the same thing with his inspirion but my last two dell's have been latitudes and there is a big difference. The screen broke off of his 8100 twice while my now 4 year old latitude is still going strong (with a little slackware magic). Latitude's are built for business and, I guess not as "general purpose" I would say (mine doesn't have a 3d video card as its an older one), but they're built respectably.
Gentoo has their own experimental install routine to use SELinux as well. The link is here.
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And I don't question that. The grandparent proposed taking up arms and shooting someone that has a warrant to search your property. Do I like that this person is not a member of law enforcement? No, I don't. (The issue really doesn't apply as the law this rant started about does not yet exist here). But I don't think thats a valid reason to shoot someone. Sue the hell out of them, sure; change the laws, sure; shoot them, no.
Shooting someone for trespassing is different, and _I_ would shoot someone if they pose a threat to my family or kids. But I guess that really comes down to personal opinion.
I think slashdot moderators really seriously have some mood swings. Write something self-righteous and against "the man" (either on the left side or right side of the aisle) and its moderated up. But write something that actually reflects even a hint of reality and it a "troll".
I thought it was funny anyway.:)
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Only here do people who are clearly loons get modded to +5 Insightfull. You're proposing to honor our long tradition of human rights by committing a crime yourself (at least manslaughter but I'd go for a second degree murder conviction). You should also take a look at what the courts have interperated the second amendment to mean. I also refer you to the 4th:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
If you have a court issued warrant, it is clear of the 4th amendment. If you have an issue with this, please consider writing your Senator or running. You can go on and on about a law that doesn't even exist in the US (yet). But if you carry on like you just did, they will probably make the same assumption I just did: you're a nutball and not worth the time.
I've used GnuCash and I guess I would say (IMHO) "It's getting there". Its designed much like quicken and does many things in similar ways. I find, though, that I can still do more things in Quicken that I can in GnuCash. With enough development (and GnuCash hopefully moving someday to GTK2) the two programs will be equal. Also worth noting is that GnuCash will import a.qif file from Quicken so its easy to move over. If you're interested in it, I'd try it out.
Toying around with it, I can actually get Quicken to work in wine but it needs IE for some of its features and IE doesn't want to play along. Oh well.
For the record, I maintain Apple machines at my business (we use them exclusively) and I love them. However:
Mail is better than outlook, Opinion
more polished than mozilla. Opinion
Quicktime works better than WMP9 or Mplayer. Opinion
Address book has no rival. Clearly inacurate
iTunes is better than winamp, Opinion
iPhoto becomes indispensable almost instantaneously.... Still don't use it.
There's this key thing that I think a lot of recent Mac users don't seem to understand: Not everyone likes OS X. I grant you a great majority of people couldn't care less what their computer uses (why Windows is so prevalent) but there are people who simply don't like OS X. My iMac at work is running Yellow Dog and I love it. I've also completed the greatest sacrelige and attached a mouse with more than one button *gasp*.
And as for "inherently more secure" I've applied plenty of patches to those OS X Macs.
People should use what they like and its really just that simple.
To be quiet honest, I find that sort of ridiculous. The business I work for insisted on Macintosh and has been using Quickbooks since before I got there, but if I were using OSS to help a business there are certainly things it can do better than pen and paper.
A simple spreadsheet in gnumeric or OpenOffice is surely faster than calculating by hand. Word Processors are a dime a dozen. I don't believe there is anything like quickbooks (heck, I have one windows machine around just so I can run Quicken) but there are certainly programs available that would make your life easier. Even the "easy to install/use" distros generally include abiword, gnumeric, and OpenOffice.
Of course your post is missing something. I maintain a lab of 10 iMac workstations running OS X. Mine is running Yellow Dog Linux. Then again, I don't ask for tech support; I am the tech support.
Its somewhere between a Geforce 3 and 4 (remember it only has to push out the video at TV resolution). And id has said over and over again Doom will run on a GeForce 3. It'll probably run ok. Won't look as good on a TV screen as a monitor, but thats par for the course.
Well, and Valve I think had reason to push back (the source leak). ID has just been churning on D3 forever (which as the AC mentioned is their perogative). I just want the pretty pictures now (/whine).
Oh, and Quake 4 is supposed to come out the quarter after D3. So don't forget that either:).
Doom has sort of left me bitter. The computer I am currently typing this on I built the Christmas before last so I'd have a system to play Doom 3 on. Yet it is still not here. Ah well (/sour grapes)
That's not acurate at all. There was a good bit of time during the large waves of immigration when language shifted. The area I live in had such a large portion of German speakers, you'd be better off in Deutsch until the first world war. But continue to believe your revisionist history.
I'm not going to call you racist because your remarks dont' reflect that. Ethnocentric, intolerant ass seems to fit better.
Yeah, I just really wish there was a user agent switcher tool for epiphany or galeon. I get irritated about having to close my browser and switch to mozilla in order to browse a site. Oh well.
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Hmm, it "proofs" eh? Maybe we could get it installed on slashdot to proof all stories as they're posted. :)
I can think of that doesn't exist or have a workaround for Mozilla is Macromedia Director.
Which I think exists for Windows mozilla-esq browsers. But I can live without Shockwave. What really irritates me is the lack of a flash 7 plugin. It exists for my Windows Firefox but not my Linux Mozilla. Sites that are using flash video (moveon.org was the one that came to mind) are crippled in Linux.
Hopefully Macromedia will release a new version.
You know what's going to be worse? When people type it into google and it goes: 'Did you mean "litigous bastard"?'
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Ah well
Yeah, we had a trinitron here that lasted 13 years before we replaced it. This monitor is a trinitron tube.
I've had 2 power supplies go on me in the last 5 years and one deathstar (shh, I'm still using its RMA brother). But some of the first computer equipment I bought (a 1.2 gig WD drive and a 2.5 WD drive) to put in my dad's computer both died on me. Computer stuff is weird; it lasts 90 days or 9 years. Now everyone is ditching their p2's because "they're too slow" and I'm building a nice cluster.
These days, I just try to buy things when they're towards the bottom end of the price spectrum (refurbs, selling because its "too slow", etc) because then if it does die, I'm not upset. I also now have 4 machines - 3 slower, 1 fast so I have a backup.
Your point in valid but the grandparent mentions Windows 2000 - that's a little different than mainframe's running assembly. If I can plan upgrades that leverage the advantages of new technology within an acceptable budget I'm going to take them.
:). Circa 1990s speakers are attached and my circa 2000 headphones are sitting on next to them. I use whatever fills the need best.
Oh and I have two tube amps from circa 1960s.
Hmm, interesting. I help run our business on the technologies that do the job best at the time we're buying. We have 802.11b connecting the machines around facility. As they are all Apple, I have not seen a serial or parallel port in some time. USB works quite well for our tasks. I use OSX a a platform. I use an external cable modem through a business class router for all data.
... :)
As long as one avoids the bleeding edge, I don't think there is any reason to not take advantage of technologies as they come out. Then again, if it is not broken, don't fix it. I guess it depends on your upgrade schedule - We just finished ours.
Do you mean a serial modem? I haven't seen a parallel port modem in ages
I party blame Netscape and other email proggies that send forwards or replies as attachments rather than as inline quoted text
Yes, but you can turn that off. Evolution did that. Turning it off was one of the first things I did.
Educating the "general user" about virii has come a good way, but some people still need some lessons. Sadly, I think the great majority of users that still spread these viruses are simply negligent (they know better but really don't care). Maybe I'm too techsupport-bitter.
Yes, I noticed that after posting *cough*. :)
/. editor now?
Maybe I can be a
Uh, we've had partial gravity as well. At night, go outside and look at that big white thing. Several trips there had people walking around picking up rocks in roughtly 1/6th Earth gravity. Granted, that wasn't for as long as these mice will be in orbit, but it does seem to go against "These will be the first mammals ..."
My dad has the same thing with his inspirion but my last two dell's have been latitudes and there is a big difference. The screen broke off of his 8100 twice while my now 4 year old latitude is still going strong (with a little slackware magic). Latitude's are built for business and, I guess not as "general purpose" I would say (mine doesn't have a 3d video card as its an older one), but they're built respectably.
Gentoo has their own experimental install routine to use SELinux as well. The link is here.
And I don't question that. The grandparent proposed taking up arms and shooting someone that has a warrant to search your property. Do I like that this person is not a member of law enforcement? No, I don't. (The issue really doesn't apply as the law this rant started about does not yet exist here). But I don't think thats a valid reason to shoot someone. Sue the hell out of them, sure; change the laws, sure; shoot them, no.
Shooting someone for trespassing is different, and _I_ would shoot someone if they pose a threat to my family or kids. But I guess that really comes down to personal opinion.
I think slashdot moderators really seriously have some mood swings. Write something self-righteous and against "the man" (either on the left side or right side of the aisle) and its moderated up. But write something that actually reflects even a hint of reality and it a "troll".
:)
I thought it was funny anyway.
Only here do people who are clearly loons get modded to +5 Insightfull. You're proposing to honor our long tradition of human rights by committing a crime yourself (at least manslaughter but I'd go for a second degree murder conviction). You should also take a look at what the courts have interperated the second amendment to mean. I also refer you to the 4th:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
If you have a court issued warrant, it is clear of the 4th amendment. If you have an issue with this, please consider writing your Senator or running. You can go on and on about a law that doesn't even exist in the US (yet). But if you carry on like you just did, they will probably make the same assumption I just did: you're a nutball and not worth the time.
I've used GnuCash and I guess I would say (IMHO) "It's getting there". Its designed much like quicken and does many things in similar ways. I find, though, that I can still do more things in Quicken that I can in GnuCash. With enough development (and GnuCash hopefully moving someday to GTK2) the two programs will be equal. Also worth noting is that GnuCash will import a .qif file from Quicken so its easy to move over. If you're interested in it, I'd try it out.
Toying around with it, I can actually get Quicken to work in wine but it needs IE for some of its features and IE doesn't want to play along. Oh well.
For the record, I maintain Apple machines at my business (we use them exclusively) and I love them. However:
Mail is better than outlook,
Opinion
more polished than mozilla.
Opinion
Quicktime works better than WMP9 or Mplayer.
Opinion
Address book has no rival.
Clearly inacurate
iTunes is better than winamp,
Opinion
iPhoto becomes indispensable almost instantaneously....
Still don't use it.
There's this key thing that I think a lot of recent Mac users don't seem to understand: Not everyone likes OS X. I grant you a great majority of people couldn't care less what their computer uses (why Windows is so prevalent) but there are people who simply don't like OS X. My iMac at work is running Yellow Dog and I love it. I've also completed the greatest sacrelige and attached a mouse with more than one button *gasp*.
And as for "inherently more secure" I've applied plenty of patches to those OS X Macs.
People should use what they like and its really just that simple.
To be quiet honest, I find that sort of ridiculous. The business I work for insisted on Macintosh and has been using Quickbooks since before I got there, but if I were using OSS to help a business there are certainly things it can do better than pen and paper.
A simple spreadsheet in gnumeric or OpenOffice is surely faster than calculating by hand. Word Processors are a dime a dozen. I don't believe there is anything like quickbooks (heck, I have one windows machine around just so I can run Quicken) but there are certainly programs available that would make your life easier. Even the "easy to install/use" distros generally include abiword, gnumeric, and OpenOffice.
Of course your post is missing something. I maintain a lab of 10 iMac workstations running OS X. Mine is running Yellow Dog Linux. Then again, I don't ask for tech support; I am the tech support.
Its somewhere between a Geforce 3 and 4 (remember it only has to push out the video at TV resolution). And id has said over and over again Doom will run on a GeForce 3. It'll probably run ok. Won't look as good on a TV screen as a monitor, but thats par for the course.
And it's still got Solitare.
:)
Ooooh, I never thought of that! Anyone have the benchmarks on how much faster solitare is in 64-bit?
Well, and Valve I think had reason to push back (the source leak). ID has just been churning on D3 forever (which as the AC mentioned is their perogative). I just want the pretty pictures now (/whine).
:).
Oh, and Quake 4 is supposed to come out the quarter after D3. So don't forget that either
Doom has sort of left me bitter. The computer I am currently typing this on I built the Christmas before last so I'd have a system to play Doom 3 on. Yet it is still not here. Ah well (/sour grapes)
That's not acurate at all. There was a good bit of time during the large waves of immigration when language shifted. The area I live in had such a large portion of German speakers, you'd be better off in Deutsch until the first world war. But continue to believe your revisionist history.
I'm not going to call you racist because your remarks dont' reflect that. Ethnocentric, intolerant ass seems to fit better.
Thanks.
It's a lovely statistic .
Yeah, I just really wish there was a user agent switcher tool for epiphany or galeon. I get irritated about having to close my browser and switch to mozilla in order to browse a site. Oh well.