Why would he need to customize it? It already comes with a Citrix ICA client, VNC, ssh, xterm, telnet, and runs X. If he needs an RDP client, that can probably be added. They do have the CD iso's available on their website. They also have a list of all the packages that they use and any of their patches on the site too.
The only requirement that it doesn't meet is 'no moving parts'. Upgrading would be as simple as dropping in a freshly burned CD, which is better than most desktops now, but not as good if could be performed over the network.
I just tried downloading it, and the link that was on the download page is bad. There is a README and a zip file in their downloads directory, but I couldn't download them due to their permissions. Hopefully, this will be fixed soon.
Since you mentioned real sugar, I'm assuming that you mean Dr. Pepper that's made in the Dublin TX plant. Correct? Did you do the test with just Dublin Dr Pepper, or did you throw in some 'normal' DP that is found in stores?
That's not surprising given that most farms are basically small to medium sized businesses. A lot of farmers in the area I grew up in the mid 80s used computers to help manage expenses, keep track of livestock performance/medication/etc, and generate reports to show the banker next years business plan in order to get a loan. [Besides, 100 miles isn't that far...it's only 1.5 hrs drive time =)].
$40 may be a lot of cash to some people, but they also need to examine the costs of dialup. In most areas a decent ISP is going to run about $20. If you don't want people griping that your phone is busy while you are on the internet, a 2nd phone line is needed. In my locality, this is about $12, but once all the taxes and other fees are tacked on, it runs about $20 or more. So we have about $40 for broadband and about the same for dialup. Other than being potentially less reliabile, if broadband costs the person about the same as dialup but is much faster, why wouldn't they choose it?
Personally, I don't care about entertainment content via the web. I just like not having to wait for sites with a lot of html and/or images per page (like slashdot). It makes downloading email and software nice too.
I spec'ed out a Dell Dimension 2100 to be as close as possible to the two low end models, and it was only $100-150 cheaper and a Dimension 4400 w/ a DVD-RW/CD-RW was $50 more than the top end iMac. The Gateway 300x was about $200 cheaper than the mid priced iMac while the Sony desktop was only $70 cheaper and the equivalent IBM model was $50 more. I couldn't find the price of an HP or Compaq since their websites were uncooperative.
Sure, you can build a much cheaper x86 system, but most people don't do that. They walk into a store and pick out a name brand machine. If one ignores the megahertz gap, and focuses on what the machines can do (which is what Apple will be pitching to customers), then they don't seem to be all that far out of line based on the 10-20 minutes I spent browsing around the different big name OEM web sites.
According to the story, Sony is going to be writing the OS. IBM and Toshiba are going to be making the chips. I believe IBM makes the cpus for the GameCube, so it would be somewhat funny to have the guts of competing game consoles come from the same factory. IBM probably doesn't care what OS Sony runs on it as long as it helps keeps their chip plants running at capacity.
I hardly ever watch TV anymore too. I'm not interested in the programs being aired and I'm busy doing other things. However, for many other people, the home entertainment center is the focal point of life inside their home. It's practically all they do after they get home from work. I have a brother and sister (both 30 or over) that you can't even talk to if they are watching TV. The TV has 100% of their attention and to have a conversation with them, you have to turn it off or physically block the view of the screen. It's like when they watch TV, they go into a trance. Adults and kids like these are the ones that Sony & Co are gunning the latest and greatest TV equipment for.
According to the sources, the firms intend to make the source code of the finished OS available to other companies in an attempt to make it the global standard of the anticipated high-speed Internet age.
If they are going to do that, why not just spend the $400 million on adding the needed features to linux? They would already start out with a good system that many people already are familiar with and the GPL would insure that the source would be available. This would satisfy their goals unless they wanted to sell the licenses to the source code and be able to restrict it to those who paid for it. If they wanted to do that, they could just take one of the BSD systems and do the same thing. Why create a whole new system from scratch when systems already exist that do most of what they want but may be a litte rough around the edges? Leverage the work that others have already done and is freely available and spend your money polishing it up. IMHO, that's basically what Apple did with OS X.
The US and the Ukraine reached an agreement in June 2000 for the Ukraine to take steps to end the production of unauthorized CDs. In a year and a half, the Ukraine govt hasn't done anything, so in retaliation for not abiding by the agreement, the US slaps a tarrif that makes certain Ukrainian goods. This will directly hurt those in the US that were importing Ukrainian products. They will have to find new suppliers or eat a big price increase. Unless there's a glut of the product they are selling and/or another producer steps up their supply to replace what US buyers aren't getting from Ukraine, I would think the Ukraine would find other markets for their goods (ie Germany). Other countries do this sort of thing all the time, so why the uproar? Because the RIAA is involved?
Isn't _this_ the sort of piracy that the RIAA & compatriots should be gunning for instead of restricting normal citizens' fair use rights? Money lost by individuals copying CDs is probably a drop in the bucket compared to the mass commercial duplicating outfits that may or may not be backed by organized crime. I want to be able to create duplicates or archives of the stuff that I've paid for. However, I don't think it's in the same ethical ballpark as an outfit that's creating thousands of duplicates and selling them as the real product. Actually, I'd like the pirating of music and commercial software to be curtailed if it would make individuals and companies look at the price that they are paying for the 'real thing' and support Free Software and/or locally developed software and music to avoid the high costs. Microsoft got the market it does in several areas of the world by ignoring piracy until they had the lion's share wrapped up in legal and illegal installations. Piracy helped wipe out or limit the acceptance of local/free offerings (ie why bother with free linux if Win* is available on the corner for practically nothing?).
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Besides, when does a corporation really care how much its employees have to pay? How much it has to pay is all they ever really take into account. The top guys making the decision already have found ways to weasel out of paying as much as they can, so they don't care.
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When I checked into it, the income tax hit that I would take wasn't much more than what I'm hit with here in the US (including FICA). I'm not sure if Dublin included their own special set of taxes or not (wasn't interested in that area anyway). The Brits that I talked to in Ireland said they paid less in taxes. According to this Ireland tax page and this UK income tax page, it could be a toss up depending on how much you make. I do know that the petrol taxes are much lower, while the VAT is a bit higher.
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The Republic of Ireland has been a soverign country since 1921. Maybe your are thinking of its withdrawl from the British Commonwealth in 1948.
Products in Ireland have had prices in euros and punts on them since at least 2000. Ireland is also a country that several US companies have chosen to be the location of their European subsidaries/offices since the population speaks English, is a part of the EU, and has realtively low taxes compared to the UK. I wouldn't mind living there.
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Call your bank and ask them when they will have Euro notes available. If all else fails, go to an airport (and pay rotten exchange rates).
If you are in a major metro area, there will probably be at least one bank that will have some foreign currency on hand. I did this when I went on vacation a couple years ago so I would have some local currency when I stepped off the airplane.
You can get the same 'shop manual' plus service bulletins, maintenance schedules, and other things via the web from AllData. It's a subscription service, so depending on how long you keep your vehicle, it may cost more than the one time cost of the manual from the dealer (if they will sell it to you), but it will be updated when the manufacturer releases new information.
Installing it is easy. Configuring it correctly is what is usually a bitch. However, with the latest distributions, I haven't had much of a problem with that either. I run X on everything from a P166 to a Celeron 950. They all work fine for me. But maybe it's because I was used to running X11R3 on a Sun3. If I ever want to recall what X on an M68K processor is like, I just boot my SE/30 into Linux and run X on it. Now that is slow as a tank. It's not going to be slow in a 400MHz+ machine unless he's got the configuration royally screwed up.
That almost sounds like Redmond Linux. I've tried it out and it appears to be a very newbie friendly distro. Installing it was very simple. You had to do some configuration (network, user info, modem, printer, video resolution & color depth, etc. - stuff that the Windows installer asks for), but it didn't ask for what packages were to be installed. They were being installed while the user was filling out the configuration screens. After that information was entered, the user could play solitaire until the install finished. All the development tools are on a separate CD, so it's targetted at regular desktop users who want to surf, read/send email, watch DVDs, listen to mp3s, etc.
Netscape and fonts - I don't see the problem. Apparently they work quite well for my pop, as well as myself.
Actually, when I was at my parent's house last year, my mom commented that my laptop (Debian w/ Ximian) looked nicer and was easier to read than my sister's Win98 laptop even though the Win98 machine had a much bigger screen. My nieces fought over it because they liked the games that came with Ximian.
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Are there any other Un*x versions of find and xargs that allow the user to change the separator? I actually learned something useful today on Slashdot. Thanks.
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Why even do that? The following reduces the number of times a grep process has to be spawned.
find/usr/src/linux -type f | xargs grep -i "a.*l.*q.*a.*e.*d.*a"
Isn't the current version of Ximain Gnome at 1.4? Does this mean that they had problems with Nautilus on HP-UX and just decided to use GMC and call it 1.2? Maybe this helps explain the CDE compatible mode that you can select when running the Ximian setup program for the first time.
That's funny. Didn't the FSF boycott Apple because of their look and feel lawsuits? It always seemed that the Mac ports of emacs were renegade programs. Now Apple ships it. gotta love it.
Nope. The base in question was Ellsworth. The reason that was given at the time was that they didn't have the mounting hardware. Maybe those at Grand Forks did. Now that you mention it, I do seem to remember a B-1 from Texas having some sort of engine failure which caused them to do a fleet inspection. They still kept the ones on the flight line ready to go, though. The only major problem that I can remember happening during college was a plane crashing because the pilot hit the utility poles behind a Taco Johns next to the base.
The reason the B-1Bs weren't used in the Persian Gulf war is that they did not have the attachments to carry conventional ordinance. The only way they would have been involved in the Gulf was if Bush ordered the use of nuclear weapons. They were still on nuclear strike standby.
The college I went to was only about 10 miles from a SAC base that had B-52s and then B-1Bs. During my college years, 1/3 of the planes were always on the flightline fully fueled, loaded with nukes, ready to go at a moments notice. The USAF invited several engineering majors out to the base to tour the B-1Bs and the Minuteman silos. The article is correct in that the B-1 is very crampt (I got to sit in one). The crews are very proud of their planes and have won USAF precision bombing competitions several times. They are currently in use dropping laser guided 2000 lb bombs over Afghanistan. Most of the problems with the B-1 were political in nature or were the result of politics.
That's why they have rotary launchers that will fit in the bomb bay that will hold something like 12 cruise missles as well as some slung on under wing mount points.
I can't recall if the H models still have the computer controlled 20mm rotary cannon in the tail or not.
The B-52 and B-1 are more economical to fly for these types of missions. Even if they have to fly from Diego Garcia, they can carry much more ordinance so they can hit several targets and/or loiter around an area so when the special operations guys on the ground want an air strike.
In VietNam, B-52s flew in 3 plane cells. They would fly in close formation and drop their bombs at the same time. They would measure the destoyed area in square miles. =)
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Why would he need to customize it? It already comes with a Citrix ICA client, VNC, ssh, xterm, telnet, and runs X. If he needs an RDP client, that can probably be added. They do have the CD iso's available on their website. They also have a list of all the packages that they use and any of their patches on the site too.
The only requirement that it doesn't meet is 'no moving parts'. Upgrading would be as simple as dropping in a freshly burned CD, which is better than most desktops now, but not as good if could be performed over the network.
I just tried downloading it, and the link that was on the download page is bad. There is a README and a zip file in their downloads directory, but I couldn't download them due to their permissions. Hopefully, this will be fixed soon.
Since you mentioned real sugar, I'm assuming that you mean Dr. Pepper that's made in the Dublin TX plant. Correct? Did you do the test with just Dublin Dr Pepper, or did you throw in some 'normal' DP that is found in stores?
Rural areas are havens of computer users.
That's not surprising given that most farms are basically small to medium sized businesses. A lot of farmers in the area I grew up in the mid 80s used computers to help manage expenses, keep track of livestock performance/medication/etc, and generate reports to show the banker next years business plan in order to get a loan. [Besides, 100 miles isn't that far...it's only 1.5 hrs drive time =)].
$40 may be a lot of cash to some people, but they also need to examine the costs of dialup. In most areas a decent ISP is going to run about $20. If you don't want people griping that your phone is busy while you are on the internet, a 2nd phone line is needed. In my locality, this is about $12, but once all the taxes and other fees are tacked on, it runs about $20 or more. So we have about $40 for broadband and about the same for dialup. Other than being potentially less reliabile, if broadband costs the person about the same as dialup but is much faster, why wouldn't they choose it?
Personally, I don't care about entertainment content via the web. I just like not having to wait for sites with a lot of html and/or images per page (like slashdot). It makes downloading email and software nice too.
I spec'ed out a Dell Dimension 2100 to be as close as possible to the two low end models, and it was only $100-150 cheaper and a Dimension 4400 w/ a DVD-RW/CD-RW was $50 more than the top end iMac. The Gateway 300x was about $200 cheaper than the mid priced iMac while the Sony desktop was only $70 cheaper and the equivalent IBM model was $50 more. I couldn't find the price of an HP or Compaq since their websites were uncooperative.
Sure, you can build a much cheaper x86 system, but most people don't do that. They walk into a store and pick out a name brand machine. If one ignores the megahertz gap, and focuses on what the machines can do (which is what Apple will be pitching to customers), then they don't seem to be all that far out of line based on the 10-20 minutes I spent browsing around the different big name OEM web sites.
According to the story, Sony is going to be writing the OS. IBM and Toshiba are going to be making the chips. I believe IBM makes the cpus for the GameCube, so it would be somewhat funny to have the guts of competing game consoles come from the same factory. IBM probably doesn't care what OS Sony runs on it as long as it helps keeps their chip plants running at capacity.
I hardly ever watch TV anymore too. I'm not interested in the programs being aired and I'm busy doing other things. However, for many other people, the home entertainment center is the focal point of life inside their home. It's practically all they do after they get home from work. I have a brother and sister (both 30 or over) that you can't even talk to if they are watching TV. The TV has 100% of their attention and to have a conversation with them, you have to turn it off or physically block the view of the screen. It's like when they watch TV, they go into a trance. Adults and kids like these are the ones that Sony & Co are gunning the latest and greatest TV equipment for.
According to the sources, the firms intend to make the source code of the finished OS available to other companies in an attempt to make it the global standard of the anticipated high-speed Internet age.
If they are going to do that, why not just spend the $400 million on adding the needed features to linux? They would already start out with a good system that many people already are familiar with and the GPL would insure that the source would be available. This would satisfy their goals unless they wanted to sell the licenses to the source code and be able to restrict it to those who paid for it. If they wanted to do that, they could just take one of the BSD systems and do the same thing. Why create a whole new system from scratch when systems already exist that do most of what they want but may be a litte rough around the edges? Leverage the work that others have already done and is freely available and spend your money polishing it up. IMHO, that's basically what Apple did with OS X.
The US and the Ukraine reached an agreement in June 2000 for the Ukraine to take steps to end the production of unauthorized CDs. In a year and a half, the Ukraine govt hasn't done anything, so in retaliation for not abiding by the agreement, the US slaps a tarrif that makes certain Ukrainian goods. This will directly hurt those in the US that were importing Ukrainian products. They will have to find new suppliers or eat a big price increase. Unless there's a glut of the product they are selling and/or another producer steps up their supply to replace what US buyers aren't getting from Ukraine, I would think the Ukraine would find other markets for their goods (ie Germany). Other countries do this sort of thing all the time, so why the uproar? Because the RIAA is involved?
Isn't _this_ the sort of piracy that the RIAA & compatriots should be gunning for instead of restricting normal citizens' fair use rights? Money lost by individuals copying CDs is probably a drop in the bucket compared to the mass commercial duplicating outfits that may or may not be backed by organized crime. I want to be able to create duplicates or archives of the stuff that I've paid for. However, I don't think it's in the same ethical ballpark as an outfit that's creating thousands of duplicates and selling them as the real product. Actually, I'd like the pirating of music and commercial software to be curtailed if it would make individuals and companies look at the price that they are paying for the 'real thing' and support Free Software and/or locally developed software and music to avoid the high costs. Microsoft got the market it does in several areas of the world by ignoring piracy until they had the lion's share wrapped up in legal and illegal installations. Piracy helped wipe out or limit the acceptance of local/free offerings (ie why bother with free linux if Win* is available on the corner for practically nothing?).
Besides, when does a corporation really care how much its employees have to pay? How much it has to pay is all they ever really take into account. The top guys making the decision already have found ways to weasel out of paying as much as they can, so they don't care.
When I checked into it, the income tax hit that I would take wasn't much more than what I'm hit with here in the US (including FICA). I'm not sure if Dublin included their own special set of taxes or not (wasn't interested in that area anyway). The Brits that I talked to in Ireland said they paid less in taxes. According to this Ireland tax page and this UK income tax page, it could be a toss up depending on how much you make. I do know that the petrol taxes are much lower, while the VAT is a bit higher.
The Republic of Ireland has been a soverign country since 1921. Maybe your are thinking of its withdrawl from the British Commonwealth in 1948.
Products in Ireland have had prices in euros and punts on them since at least 2000. Ireland is also a country that several US companies have chosen to be the location of their European subsidaries/offices since the population speaks English, is a part of the EU, and has realtively low taxes compared to the UK. I wouldn't mind living there.
Call your bank and ask them when they will have Euro notes available. If all else fails, go to an airport (and pay rotten exchange rates).
If you are in a major metro area, there will probably be at least one bank that will have some foreign currency on hand. I did this when I went on vacation a couple years ago so I would have some local currency when I stepped off the airplane.
You can get the same 'shop manual' plus service bulletins, maintenance schedules, and other things via the web from AllData. It's a subscription service, so depending on how long you keep your vehicle, it may cost more than the one time cost of the manual from the dealer (if they will sell it to you), but it will be updated when the manufacturer releases new information.
Installing it is easy. Configuring it correctly is what is usually a bitch. However, with the latest distributions, I haven't had much of a problem with that either. I run X on everything from a P166 to a Celeron 950. They all work fine for me. But maybe it's because I was used to running X11R3 on a Sun3. If I ever want to recall what X on an M68K processor is like, I just boot my SE/30 into Linux and run X on it. Now that is slow as a tank. It's not going to be slow in a 400MHz+ machine unless he's got the configuration royally screwed up.
That almost sounds like Redmond Linux. I've tried it out and it appears to be a very newbie friendly distro. Installing it was very simple. You had to do some configuration (network, user info, modem, printer, video resolution & color depth, etc. - stuff that the Windows installer asks for), but it didn't ask for what packages were to be installed. They were being installed while the user was filling out the configuration screens. After that information was entered, the user could play solitaire until the install finished. All the development tools are on a separate CD, so it's targetted at regular desktop users who want to surf, read/send email, watch DVDs, listen to mp3s, etc.
Netscape and fonts - I don't see the problem. Apparently they work quite well for my pop, as well as myself.
Actually, when I was at my parent's house last year, my mom commented that my laptop (Debian w/ Ximian) looked nicer and was easier to read than my sister's Win98 laptop even though the Win98 machine had a much bigger screen. My nieces fought over it because they liked the games that came with Ximian.
Are there any other Un*x versions of find and xargs that allow the user to change the separator? I actually learned something useful today on Slashdot. Thanks.
Why even do that? The following reduces the number of times a grep process has to be spawned.
find /usr/src/linux -type f | xargs grep -i "a.*l.*q.*a.*e.*d.*a"
Isn't the current version of Ximain Gnome at 1.4? Does this mean that they had problems with Nautilus on HP-UX and just decided to use GMC and call it 1.2? Maybe this helps explain the CDE compatible mode that you can select when running the Ximian setup program for the first time.
That's funny. Didn't the FSF boycott Apple because of their look and feel lawsuits? It always seemed that the Mac ports of emacs were renegade programs. Now Apple ships it. gotta love it.
Nope. The base in question was Ellsworth. The reason that was given at the time was that they didn't have the mounting hardware. Maybe those at Grand Forks did. Now that you mention it, I do seem to remember a B-1 from Texas having some sort of engine failure which caused them to do a fleet inspection. They still kept the ones on the flight line ready to go, though. The only major problem that I can remember happening during college was a plane crashing because the pilot hit the utility poles behind a Taco Johns next to the base.
The reason the B-1Bs weren't used in the Persian Gulf war is that they did not have the attachments to carry conventional ordinance. The only way they would have been involved in the Gulf was if Bush ordered the use of nuclear weapons. They were still on nuclear strike standby.
The college I went to was only about 10 miles from a SAC base that had B-52s and then B-1Bs. During my college years, 1/3 of the planes were always on the flightline fully fueled, loaded with nukes, ready to go at a moments notice. The USAF invited several engineering majors out to the base to tour the B-1Bs and the Minuteman silos. The article is correct in that the B-1 is very crampt (I got to sit in one). The crews are very proud of their planes and have won USAF precision bombing competitions several times. They are currently in use dropping laser guided 2000 lb bombs over Afghanistan. Most of the problems with the B-1 were political in nature or were the result of politics.
That's why they have rotary launchers that will fit in the bomb bay that will hold something like 12 cruise missles as well as some slung on under wing mount points.
I can't recall if the H models still have the computer controlled 20mm rotary cannon in the tail or not.
The B-52 and B-1 are more economical to fly for these types of missions. Even if they have to fly from Diego Garcia, they can carry much more ordinance so they can hit several targets and/or loiter around an area so when the special operations guys on the ground want an air strike.
In VietNam, B-52s flew in 3 plane cells. They would fly in close formation and drop their bombs at the same time. They would measure the destoyed area in square miles. =)