This is huge... I have always been a fan of the Gnome Desktop, as I've been a RedHat user since the early days. KDE Has always felt klunky and thrown together compared to the new(er) versions of Gnome are currently. I'm glad someone is also finally throwing down the line and choosing a single desktop. -H
At least it isn't GM... That would be too cliche!
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Cars that Can't Crash?
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· Score: 1
At a recent computer expo, Bill Gates reportedly compared the
computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had
kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would
all be driving twenty-five-dollar cars that get 1000 miles to the
gallon."
Recently General Motors addressed this comment by responding,
"Yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?"
And . ..
1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have
to buy a new car.
2. Occasionally, your car would die on the freeway for no reason,
and you would just accept this, restart, and drive on.
3. Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to
fail, and you would have to re-install the engine.
For some strange reason, you would accept this too.
4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you
bought "Car95" or "CarNT." But then you would have to buy more
seats.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was
reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive, but would
only run on five percent of the roads.
6. The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades
to their cars, which would make their cars run much slower.
7. The oil, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced by
a single "general car default" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag system would say "are you sure?" before going off.
As long as the publicity shots aren't done with a night vision camera;-)
As an IT Consultant, this is a huge problem.....
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Analysis of Spyware
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· Score: 3, Interesting
For my clients, many of them have spent 1000's in my time repairing these issues. I can't say that it's bad for *my* business, but for them... Many are tired of paying for me to be the network Janitor. And I am with them.... Being the Network Janitor isnt much fun.
On the flipside, a simple solution that I've been implementing, is a simple linux box, setup as a transparent proxy, using Squid, with DansGuardian (a pay-for product) doing content filtration, as well as stopping Active-X controls dead in their tracks.
This has proved to be very cost effective, around $300-400 in my time to setup, and stops the junk dead.
Perhaps some other IT managers can put this software to use.
I have a 2000, and i personally love it's form factor, it has a nice large screen. I use it for about everything you would normally use a PDA for.. Calendaring, contacts, etc etc. I also use it for things such as doing Serial consoles on headless linux servers. The large screen makes the serial term a bit easier to use.
Who needs a color screen anyway, when you have a nice big green one =P not to mention the twin 5v PCMCIA slots for uber-expandability.
Also a good portion of the newton software makers, have long since been giving away their former products, so the software is free as well.
oh I go into extreme effort to do this with my end users. I make a shortcut on the desktop/start menu to firefox, and i then use the "Custom Icon" and set it to the IE one... most don't even notice.
and it keeps me from ending up being the spyware janitor.
Classic MacOS may by default browsed files spatially. But Myself and nearly all of my users, preferred the "list view" of the MacOS.
I mean, we're still viewing things spatially, but without the pop-ups of 1000 windows as we're digging into the filesystem.
Perhaps if nautilus were to provide some alternative to the current form of spatial filesystem browsing, or at least an option to turn said feature off, there wouldn't have been such an uproar.
I have been a MacOS user, and a Linux user since way back when. I don't need to be told how to use my computer.
I agree. KDE has been bothering me ever since it went to 2.0. Back in the day the KDE 1.x stuff won me over compared to Gnome. But at 2.0, I switched. I just couldn't deal.
The reason i think that it bothers me so much currently is, Konqueror. Konqueror as a web browser is ok, and it made nice in the Sarari OSX browser. But... as a File manager.. it is unbearable. Nautilus is very nice, well, was very nice until Gnome 2.6 had to go ruin it, but that's another story.
KDE is a nice desktop, but it is just unusable to me.. that interface.. **CRINGE**
hmm, never tried that... I just use the built-in iTunes recorder to burn to disc as an audio CD. I don't think they give you the option to make an image file.
Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, MSN Messenger, "Microsoft Compressed Folders"
and I'm sure there's more.
But the respective competitors, Netscape/Mozilla, Quicktime, AIM/Yahoo/ICQ, and WinZip suffer directly because of this.
Take Apple for instance, with Aladdinsys's Stuffit Expander. Instead of making their own, they just licensed to include Stuffit with the OS, which has undoubtedly lead to that company with good buisness.
There is a project going on called Advance CD which utilizes the same concept of the bootable linux CD "game console" though it uses mame...
I like the idea of the "Bootable CD game" and could be the next generation of a way to distrubute them?
-Henry
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This is huge...
I have always been a fan of the Gnome Desktop, as I've been a RedHat user since the early days.
KDE Has always felt klunky and thrown together compared to the new(er) versions of Gnome are currently.
I'm glad someone is also finally throwing down the line and choosing a single desktop.
-H
At a recent computer expo, Bill Gates reportedly compared the
.
computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had
kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would
all be driving twenty-five-dollar cars that get 1000 miles to the
gallon."
Recently General Motors addressed this comment by responding,
"Yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?"
And . .
1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have
to buy a new car.
2. Occasionally, your car would die on the freeway for no reason,
and you would just accept this, restart, and drive on.
3. Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to
fail, and you would have to re-install the engine.
For some strange reason, you would accept this too.
4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you
bought "Car95" or "CarNT." But then you would have to buy more
seats.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was
reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive, but would
only run on five percent of the roads.
6. The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades
to their cars, which would make their cars run much slower.
7. The oil, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced by
a single "general car default" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag system would say "are you sure?" before going off.
As long as the publicity shots aren't done with a night vision camera ;-)
For my clients, many of them have spent 1000's in my time repairing these issues. I can't say that it's bad for *my* business, but for them... Many are tired of paying for me to be the network Janitor. And I am with them.... Being the Network Janitor isnt much fun.
On the flipside, a simple solution that I've been implementing, is a simple linux box, setup as a transparent proxy, using Squid, with DansGuardian (a pay-for product) doing content filtration, as well as stopping Active-X controls dead in their tracks.
This has proved to be very cost effective, around $300-400 in my time to setup, and stops the junk dead.
Perhaps some other IT managers can put this software to use.
-H
I have a 2000, and i personally love it's form factor, it has a nice large screen. I use it for about everything you would normally use a PDA for.. Calendaring, contacts, etc etc.
I also use it for things such as doing Serial consoles on headless linux servers. The large screen makes the serial term a bit easier to use.
Who needs a color screen anyway, when you have a nice big green one =P not to mention the twin 5v PCMCIA slots for uber-expandability.
Also a good portion of the newton software makers, have long since been giving away their former products, so the software is free as well.
Long Live the Newton!
-Henry
oh I go into extreme effort to do this with my end users.
I make a shortcut on the desktop/start menu to firefox, and i then use the "Custom Icon" and set it to the IE one...
most don't even notice.
and it keeps me from ending up being the spyware janitor.
-Henry-
This should be filed in the "What will they think of next" category.
;-)
Interesting idea, but I'm not sure of the real-world application besides the coolness/geekness factor
-Henry
I have implemented a Samba PDC Fileserver for one of my clients. It's very fast, and has been 100% stable. So far i've been quite impressed.
-Henry
On my G4, sadly it runs slow under 10.3 compared to Safari.
I do love it on any of my linux b0x3n.
-Henry
Classic MacOS may by default browsed files spatially.
But Myself and nearly all of my users, preferred the "list view" of the MacOS.
I mean, we're still viewing things spatially, but without the pop-ups of 1000 windows as we're digging into the filesystem.
Perhaps if nautilus were to provide some alternative to the current form of spatial filesystem browsing, or at least an option to turn said feature off, there wouldn't have been such an uproar.
I have been a MacOS user, and a Linux user since way back when. I don't need to be told how to use my computer.
-Henry
I agree. KDE has been bothering me ever since it went to 2.0.
Back in the day the KDE 1.x stuff won me over compared to Gnome. But at 2.0, I switched. I just couldn't deal.
The reason i think that it bothers me so much currently is, Konqueror. Konqueror as a web browser is ok, and it made nice in the Sarari OSX browser. But...
as a File manager.. it is unbearable. Nautilus is very nice, well, was very nice until Gnome 2.6 had to go ruin it, but that's another story.
KDE is a nice desktop, but it is just unusable to me.. that interface.. **CRINGE**
-Henry
hmm, never tried that...
I just use the built-in iTunes recorder to burn to disc as an audio CD. I don't think they give you the option to make an image file.
-H
I've purchased a bunch of em.
My previous solution was to burn then to CD, then rip them using something else, like Grip under linux.
my 2
-H
As most geeks I know don't spend much time in the sun.
;-)
Perhaps a Flourescent powered jacket? or CRT powered Jacket?
-Henry
Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, MSN Messenger, "Microsoft Compressed Folders"
and I'm sure there's more.
But the respective competitors, Netscape/Mozilla, Quicktime, AIM/Yahoo/ICQ, and WinZip suffer directly because of this.
Take Apple for instance, with Aladdinsys's Stuffit Expander. Instead of making their own, they just licensed to include Stuffit with the OS, which has undoubtedly lead to that company with good buisness.
*sigh*
-Henry
bleh =/
They used thumbprint scanners to open the doors in the movie.
I'm gonna run over to the cafe 80's.
-H
I swear i just heard about this...
ah yes, here is the link.
Great idea though..
-Henry
The EMP Bombs?
Is this Keyboard real?
The MAN is keeping linux down...
well making a feeble attempt to anyway.
AFAK, I have also heard that microsoft owned a decent portion of SCO *before* the who IP Fiasco started?
could this be a conspiracy?
-H
Striped together for more space for my pr0n!
it was a bad move on their part to do this to begin with...
So good riddance.
I'm also done with them as well, I'll pass my domain registrations to someone else...
-H
What happens when my shirt or pants lock up?
There is a project going on called Advance CD which utilizes the same concept of the bootable linux CD "game console" though it uses mame... I like the idea of the "Bootable CD game" and could be the next generation of a way to distrubute them? -Henry
hopefully this will actually work, allowing us to have uber-quiet-efficient-small pc's.
i do remember how angry i was at ATX when it was 1st introduced, and having to figure that all out....
i'm sure this will be the same.