Yep - saw "Star Wars" about a billion times the year it came out. Rocked. Saw "The Empire Strikes Back" about a billion times the year it came out. Rocked. Saw "Return of the Jedi" once the year it came out. Yawn. Took my nephew to see "The Phantom Menace", sat through it. Yawn. Rented the one after that (so sh*tty I can't remember the name), made it about 1/2 way through before turning it off. What boring, turgid nonsense. Given the steady, 21-year long decline, I won't even rent this last slab of crap.
I wonder if Lucas is even capable of another THX-1138 or Star Wars right now. If he didn't monkey with the original 3, I would have bought the DVD set this year but, alas,...
Just download a free CD (e.g. Slackware), install and have at it. Apache, db and mail setup on it is well documented. Good luck! If you feel the need to take a class (and have zero unix skills) then maybe an online class can help, otherwise you should be fine. Contrast the cost of them paying for you to take a class with the cost of them paying you to stay home for 2 weeks with a free distro to learn how things tick.
Well, at least this way a nefarious government wouldn't have to worry about showing it's lacking proof for weapons of mass destruction to the pesky public.
Blaming the comsumer for the actions of some poorly designed, incompetently manufactured product instead of blaming the product's creator isn't really all that smart in a capitalist system. However, within that same system, once a monopoly has been allowed to run unchecked and now swamps the planet to 90%+ penetration with the aformentioned engineering abomination, it gets very difficult to do anything about it.
Don't blame me, I don't use it, and neither does my Mom or my niece and nephew.
Anybody know if they'll be shipping the Linux and Mac versions in the same box? If it runs on my PowerBook I won't need to build another tower. It probably won't, though....
Moving to OO and Mozilla on Windows is a great idea all by itself. Kudos to the planners for coming up with a sane, gradual plan for transition. Hmm. Large Christian organizations siding unswervingly with big-business. I guess there are definate political consistencies on both sides of the Atlantic....
A non-hardware type can learn alot about how their hardware works by programming a few short assembly language programs. Jumps, registers, memory layout, etc.. Great exercise.
KDE 3.2.2 rips along just fine on Slackware 9.1 and FreeBSD 4.9 - Red Hat has always been slow IMHO, can't speak for Suse or Mandrake. I have an old beater 500 Mhz box with 128 MB of Ram in it at home running Slack and KDE is fine.
Neglecting all the obvious shortcomings and the hig price of MS products, it is unethical to support the activities of a convicted (and obviously, heinously guilty) monopolist. One cannot say s/he supports capitalism and at the same time uses MS products.That's the main reason I reject them out-of-hand.
Hopefully this will allow those of us who are still beleaguered with SmartSuite docs to work with them. SmartSuite runs like sh*t in Wine... An Apple version is coming out too, as per the article from the NYT whis morning (will be nice to be able to open these accursed SS files on my Slack box *and* my PowerBook...):
Not to take sides, but this is just stupid. That, and it shows a lack of creativity on their side. I guess some people see constant litigation as cheap advertisement....
The missing pieces, such as an easy way to connect to my corporate network remotely -- a relatively trivial task with Windows, the Mac and several other Linux flavors -- still are daunting. The way the Linux community works, I figure these will be filled in soon.
VPN works fine on Linux and there are lots of options. Many (most) IT departments don't check for compatibility with anything but Windows when choosing (read: being sold) a VPN solution so the non-win32 users are boned. This isn't Linux's fault.
There are serveral VPN solutions for Linux but many require VPN-over-Internet right to the LAN's door, whereas most weak-kneed IT chiefs want some leased line to protect them from the big bad Internet. Smart? Possibly. Expensive and unnecessary? Of course, this is IT. Nortel's Contivity runs really well on Linux and OSX (and of course Win32).
Sun could have gotten a lot by helping Linux in the computing space - any Unix is a good Unix relative to Windows in the datacenter (compatibility is a good thing). Sun has chosen to work with Microsoft to quash Linux instead of the other way around.
McNealy has become a liability, like Saruman. There is only one Lord of the Ring. Sun is doomed.
Sun -- used to have great technology, now plagued with dated hardware and poor business choices. Decent opsys, though, too bad it's stalled.
... that winelibs layer made it slower than hell - that's the main reason I went out and bought StarOffice in college. Unless this one is truly native (no wine) nobody will go for it. Too bad they didn't take all this down time they've had (selling very little along the lines of WP I"m sure) and port it to Qt so it could run natively on every platform. If it was truly native I'd consider buying it but it would have to have come a looong way to beat OpenOffice, which just plain rocks.
In fact, scrap that - I'm sticking with OO (Mac and Linux).
Correct - if pgsql or mysql or whatever can be made to buzz out of the gate for somebody it will fit the bill (many of us could design it, none of us have the time) - the ability to even submit sql in a sense is not needed, just a simple form-related interface to organize and store data. There are several interfaces for the free dbs - somebody just needs to bundle it and one of them into a turn-key app.
Good question, I was wondering if anyone would catch it. I watch people around me brawl with Excel and Word version conflicts all day. I hear people cursing both applications all day. Sounds like crap to me. It's crap to me as a non-user because it's (1) expensive, (2) inescapable by the average joe, (3) the product of a monpolist (it is unethical to support the activities of a monopolist) and (4) the cause of a great deal of woe for anybody that refuses to use it yet must interoperate with the rest of the world.
I don't care if it actually is the best set of apps since the Big Bang - for all the reasons above, it's crap. Period. Once I am installed as Supreme Intergalactic Emperor it's use will be punishable by death, and those bastards who've created it will be the first ones up against the wall...;-)
I'd rather gouge my eyes out with a spoon than use that horrible "database" known as access.
Completely agree. I'm a PostgreSQL fan.
There are a bunch of front ends for most of the open source databases out there...
True, absolutely, but in every case in the SMB world they'll need somebody to set it up for them. I wasn't singing the praises of Access except that one can pop in a CD and get busy. There are no turn-key solutions like that available in the OSS world yet. Yet.
Not really. It has a data front-end that can be plugged into a backend database, but nothing as self-contained as Access. This is about the only valid complaint about a "lacking" office app in the OSS world. For the small office there's nothing like Access.
Don't get me wrong, I haven't used M$ Office since college 5 years ago (it was crap then and still is) but there is nothing like Access in the OSS world. Yet. There are some excellent front ends to e.g. pgsql/mysql/etc. but nothing Ma & Pa Kettle's General Store can fire up w/o being a DB admin. Is there?
BTW, that bit about OO users being more susceptible to viruses is really funny - it made my day.
FrameMaker is a really good document processor, I've used it on AIX, Solaris and Mac, but no document processor, not one, is worth $800 per seat. Good riddance to bad rubbish. There are other document processors out there that are equally good, and some are free.
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Yep - saw "Star Wars" about a billion times the year it came out. Rocked. Saw "The Empire Strikes Back" about a billion times the year it came out. Rocked. Saw "Return of the Jedi" once the year it came out. Yawn. Took my nephew to see "The Phantom Menace", sat through it. Yawn. Rented the one after that (so sh*tty I can't remember the name), made it about 1/2 way through before turning it off. What boring, turgid nonsense. Given the steady, 21-year long decline, I won't even rent this last slab of crap.
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I wonder if Lucas is even capable of another THX-1138 or Star Wars right now. If he didn't monkey with the original 3, I would have bought the DVD set this year but, alas,
Just download a free CD (e.g. Slackware), install and have at it. Apache, db and mail setup on it is well documented. Good luck! If you feel the need to take a class (and have zero unix skills) then maybe an online class can help, otherwise you should be fine. Contrast the cost of them paying for you to take a class with the cost of them paying you to stay home for 2 weeks with a free distro to learn how things tick.
Well, at least this way a nefarious government wouldn't have to worry about showing it's lacking proof for weapons of mass destruction to the pesky public.
"Trust us - we saw what we saw."
The laptop also includes InterVideo's popular WinDVD DVD playing software, which is also available for Linux.
Really? Where?
Blaming the comsumer for the actions of some poorly designed, incompetently manufactured product instead of blaming the product's creator isn't really all that smart in a capitalist system. However, within that same system, once a monopoly has been allowed to run unchecked and now swamps the planet to 90%+ penetration with the aformentioned engineering abomination, it gets very difficult to do anything about it.
Don't blame me, I don't use it, and neither does my Mom or my niece and nephew.
From what I've seen Carmack himself said the Mac port is being done in-house. Hopefully that has not changed.
Anybody know if they'll be shipping the Linux and Mac versions in the same box? If it runs on my PowerBook I won't need to build another tower. It probably won't, though....
Moving to OO and Mozilla on Windows is a great idea all by itself. Kudos to the planners for coming up with a sane, gradual plan for transition. Hmm. Large Christian organizations siding unswervingly with big-business. I guess there are definate political consistencies on both sides of the Atlantic....
A non-hardware type can learn alot about how their hardware works by programming a few short assembly language programs. Jumps, registers, memory layout, etc.. Great exercise.
KDE 3.2.2 rips along just fine on Slackware 9.1 and FreeBSD 4.9 - Red Hat has always been slow IMHO, can't speak for Suse or Mandrake. I have an old beater 500 Mhz box with 128 MB of Ram in it at home running Slack and KDE is fine.
Neglecting all the obvious shortcomings and the hig price of MS products, it is unethical to support the activities of a convicted (and obviously, heinously guilty) monopolist. One cannot say s/he supports capitalism and at the same time uses MS products.That's the main reason I reject them out-of-hand.
It's true. I love my PowerBook but sheesh that thing gets hot when playing games. I may have to get me one of these..
Hopefully this will allow those of us who are still beleaguered with SmartSuite docs to work with them. SmartSuite runs like sh*t in Wine... An Apple version is coming out too, as per the article from the NYT whis morning (will be nice to be able to open these accursed SS files on my Slack box *and* my PowerBook...):
i bm .html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/10/technology/10
Personally I think it's great that they recognize talented individuals and reward them well.
Or did they hire him to make him less of a threat?
Not to take sides, but this is just stupid. That, and it shows a lack of creativity on their side. I guess some people see constant litigation as cheap advertisement....
The missing pieces, such as an easy way to connect to my corporate network remotely -- a relatively trivial task with Windows, the Mac and several other Linux flavors -- still are daunting. The way the Linux community works, I figure these will be filled in soon.
VPN works fine on Linux and there are lots of options. Many (most) IT departments don't check for compatibility with anything but Windows when choosing (read: being sold) a VPN solution so the non-win32 users are boned. This isn't Linux's fault.
There are serveral VPN solutions for Linux but many require VPN-over-Internet right to the LAN's door, whereas most weak-kneed IT chiefs want some leased line to protect them from the big bad Internet. Smart? Possibly. Expensive and unnecessary? Of course, this is IT. Nortel's Contivity runs really well on Linux and OSX (and of course Win32).
Sun could have gotten a lot by helping Linux in the computing space - any Unix is a good Unix relative to Windows in the datacenter (compatibility is a good thing). Sun has chosen to work with Microsoft to quash Linux instead of the other way around.
McNealy has become a liability, like Saruman. There is only one Lord of the Ring. Sun is doomed.
Sun -- used to have great technology, now plagued with dated hardware and poor business choices. Decent opsys, though, too bad it's stalled.
... that winelibs layer made it slower than hell - that's the main reason I went out and bought StarOffice in college. Unless this one is truly native (no wine) nobody will go for it. Too bad they didn't take all this down time they've had (selling very little along the lines of WP I"m sure) and port it to Qt so it could run natively on every platform. If it was truly native I'd consider buying it but it would have to have come a looong way to beat OpenOffice, which just plain rocks.
In fact, scrap that - I'm sticking with OO (Mac and Linux).
Actually, it's a lazy man's way of saying:
while (whatever) { drink_guinness(); }
It's not about the programming, it's about the stout.
Correct - if pgsql or mysql or whatever can be made to buzz out of the gate for somebody it will fit the bill (many of us could design it, none of us have the time) - the ability to even submit sql in a sense is not needed, just a simple form-related interface to organize and store data. There are several interfaces for the free dbs - somebody just needs to bundle it and one of them into a turn-key app.
Good question, I was wondering if anyone would catch it. I watch people around me brawl with Excel and Word version conflicts all day. I hear people cursing both applications all day. Sounds like crap to me. It's crap to me as a non-user because it's (1) expensive, (2) inescapable by the average joe, (3) the product of a monpolist (it is unethical to support the activities of a monopolist) and (4) the cause of a great deal of woe for anybody that refuses to use it yet must interoperate with the rest of the world.
I don't care if it actually is the best set of apps since the Big Bang - for all the reasons above, it's crap. Period. Once I am installed as Supreme Intergalactic Emperor it's use will be punishable by death, and those bastards who've created it will be the first ones up against the wall...;-)
I'd rather gouge my eyes out with a spoon than use that horrible "database" known as access.
Completely agree. I'm a PostgreSQL fan.
There are a bunch of front ends for most of the open source databases out there...
True, absolutely, but in every case in the SMB world they'll need somebody to set it up for them. I wasn't singing the praises of Access except that one can pop in a CD and get busy. There are no turn-key solutions like that available in the OSS world yet. Yet.
Not really. It has a data front-end that can be plugged into a backend database, but nothing as self-contained as Access. This is about the only valid complaint about a "lacking" office app in the OSS world. For the small office there's nothing like Access.
Don't get me wrong, I haven't used M$ Office since college 5 years ago (it was crap then and still is) but there is nothing like Access in the OSS world. Yet. There are some excellent front ends to e.g. pgsql/mysql/etc. but nothing Ma & Pa Kettle's General Store can fire up w/o being a DB admin. Is there?
BTW, that bit about OO users being more susceptible to viruses is really funny - it made my day.
FrameMaker is a really good document processor, I've used it on AIX, Solaris and Mac, but no document processor, not one, is worth $800 per seat. Good riddance to bad rubbish. There are other document processors out there that are equally good, and some are free.
any suggestions of how I can get a good laptop in the New York area when I am only there for 4 days?
Sure - overnight shipping on 2 back-to-back business days.