What do we do about Powerpoint, Xcel, Visio, and the other MS utilities? Please don't act like OO is a feasible alternative for these programs. Other than that I would be a huge fan of this.
Install the alternative application of your choice. I work with and collaborate with a Microsoft world 100% from linux and/or BSD. The only thing that's ever hung me up was creating Visio diagrams. Reading them is no problem. I read/create Powerpoint presentations, read/create/share Excel spreadsheets, Word, you name it. Oops, I forgot Access... I just never have to deal with it (I make it clear that I won't have anything to do with Access).
Also, sealert is showing 19MB of _resident_ memory in top. It is often one of the real piggies on my Gnome desktop, and that's saying something. Question is: WHY?
bah... just do an "echo 0 >/selinux/enforce" and that will take care of that
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My daughter who is almost 3 has been really interested in electronics as well. I picked up an old used laptop (I think it's a Pentium III 800 or something) that someone was giving away. I loaded it up with Debian and installed GCompris. She absolutely loves it - and GCompris is great. Problem is (like most kids her age) she picks it up to move it and drops it, tries to forcefully "integrate" her other toys with it, occasionally spills something on the keyboard... you know - normal 2 year old stuff.
Unless you've got the cash to not care about your kid wrecking and mucking the thing up in 6 months of use - I say load linux on an old used beater. The kid doesn't know the difference.
Seriously, two stories stacked together on the front page today - one going on about the hardships of free software developer/vendors and the dollar value of their products "racing to zero". Then, the other story which skipped over an entire interview with Max Spevack about all sorts of interesting things related to Fedora and RedHat - and cherry-picked one comment about how RedHat would die without the community as the point of focus.
I need breakfast now because this is making me cranky.
Did anyone else here have their eardrums destroyed after turning the volume up to 11 to hear Linus mumble and that music starts blasting at the end? I think I'm bleeding now.
My #1 beef with Microsoft is that they market it so that every small to medium business owner thinks that everything will all run together happily on one box all "plug-n-play" and snuggly whirring away on the floor of their office closet.
I have the hardest time convincing users that they cannot run their 20-user network on one SBS 2003 server, with Exchange (running OWA and OMA), running their heavily-accessed SQL database, sharepoint, anti-virus server software, backup software, and company file and printer sharing to 5 multi-function copiers and expect 5 9's of freaking uptime.
This is how it is marketed. This is what the end user expects when shopping for a Microsoft solution. You tell them that they'll need at least 3 separate boxes, Server, Exchange, SQL, etc all separate, RAID and ideally a failover system and an excellent firewall for the remote access they look at you like you're nuts. So they buy it and have it set up their way, it works like hell for a year, then they end up paying in the end to have it done again the right way (and more this time, because they have to now migrate off of their old system).
Hmm... seems pretty useful to me. In fact, it has more of what I need than what Windows can provide me at work - so it is a "must have" for me on my workstation there. I don't have a single Microsoft box at home and I get by just fine with all of my Internet activites, chatting and social networking, playing WoW and Call of Duty 4, doing research, you name it. I use a computer an average of 10-12 hours per day and have not had to use Microsoft applications or operating systems for well over 5 years. I could be rid of the word "Microsoft" from my life completely and entirely if I didn't have to support Microsoft networks for some of my clients.
Yeah I've got my family converted over too. My wife's been a linux user now for 3 years.
One of the most entertaining events for me recently was watching my wife have to use her mother's computer (Windows XP) the other day to print out some directions and register for something online. After 2 or 3 minutes she was about ready to put her fist through the monitor and start kicking the living hell out of the chassis. "I can't believe I was actually used to using this trash before you put me on linux!". You know, after she walked upstairs to get on the computer, wiggled the mouse to wake it up, waited 30 seconds for the thing to wake up, waited another 15 or 20 seconds for the desktop icons to redraw, had to cancel the system virus scan that started itself up when she got on, waited for Internet Exploder to come up with all of the MyWebSearch and Yahoo toolbars that her mom installed because she has no clue about bundled crapware, and on and on and on...
After you get used to using a "decent" operating system (*nix, MacOS) - having to use a Windows machine is EXTREMELY aggravating. I feel my blood pressure rise the moment I sit down in front of a Billy Box.
"Canonical would be better served by just supporting Debian."
This is an excellent idea. I have clients that would line up for a Debian server / Ubuntu client support contract. We already know the combination is rock solid. The only thing that occasionally keeps me from putting Debian on the back end is the lack of a decent support contract system.
I have a 15mbit connection at home - my torrent downloaded at around 3.5mb/s... I think it took a total of 4 minutes to download. To take 2 minutes he would have been downloading at around 5-5.5mb/s which is not uncommon.
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What do we do about Powerpoint, Xcel, Visio, and the other MS utilities? Please don't act like OO is a feasible alternative for these programs. Other than that I would be a huge fan of this.
Install the alternative application of your choice. I work with and collaborate with a Microsoft world 100% from linux and/or BSD. The only thing that's ever hung me up was creating Visio diagrams. Reading them is no problem. I read/create Powerpoint presentations, read/create/share Excel spreadsheets, Word, you name it. Oops, I forgot Access... I just never have to deal with it (I make it clear that I won't have anything to do with Access).
Actually - I just want to seed my pirated movie collection, download midget porn, and read my boss's email and be the only person to know about it.
Also, sealert is showing 19MB of _resident_ memory in top. It is often one of the real piggies on my Gnome desktop, and that's saying something. Question is: WHY?
bah... just do an "echo 0 >/selinux/enforce" and that will take care of that
My ISP, Comcast, is already on top of this new bittorrent over UDP idea and has summarily blocked all UDP traffic.
So, I wonder if I'll be experNO CARRIER
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I agree. Get off the Internet. It's too dangerous. Everyone from AOL on - get the hell off.
Again! Another place that linux fits the bill.
My daughter who is almost 3 has been really interested in electronics as well. I picked up an old used laptop (I think it's a Pentium III 800 or something) that someone was giving away. I loaded it up with Debian and installed GCompris. She absolutely loves it - and GCompris is great. Problem is (like most kids her age) she picks it up to move it and drops it, tries to forcefully "integrate" her other toys with it, occasionally spills something on the keyboard... you know - normal 2 year old stuff.
Unless you've got the cash to not care about your kid wrecking and mucking the thing up in 6 months of use - I say load linux on an old used beater. The kid doesn't know the difference.
I know it will work on OpenBSD - I don't see why it wouldn't work on NetBSD as well.
SSD = 220MB/s transfer rate
DDR2 800 RAM = 6400MB/s transfer rate (peak theoretical)
Nope.
With your host, Soulskill.
Seriously, two stories stacked together on the front page today - one going on about the hardships of free software developer/vendors and the dollar value of their products "racing to zero". Then, the other story which skipped over an entire interview with Max Spevack about all sorts of interesting things related to Fedora and RedHat - and cherry-picked one comment about how RedHat would die without the community as the point of focus.
I need breakfast now because this is making me cranky.
Did anyone else here have their eardrums destroyed after turning the volume up to 11 to hear Linus mumble and that music starts blasting at the end? I think I'm bleeding now.
My #1 beef with Microsoft is that they market it so that every small to medium business owner thinks that everything will all run together happily on one box all "plug-n-play" and snuggly whirring away on the floor of their office closet.
I have the hardest time convincing users that they cannot run their 20-user network on one SBS 2003 server, with Exchange (running OWA and OMA), running their heavily-accessed SQL database, sharepoint, anti-virus server software, backup software, and company file and printer sharing to 5 multi-function copiers and expect 5 9's of freaking uptime.
This is how it is marketed. This is what the end user expects when shopping for a Microsoft solution. You tell them that they'll need at least 3 separate boxes, Server, Exchange, SQL, etc all separate, RAID and ideally a failover system and an excellent firewall for the remote access they look at you like you're nuts. So they buy it and have it set up their way, it works like hell for a year, then they end up paying in the end to have it done again the right way (and more this time, because they have to now migrate off of their old system).
And the Microsoft money machine chugs on.
My favorite part was when he called anwyn an invalid.
*I'll put the whoosh on this one.*
WHOOOSH!
Whatyoutalkinbout? Everyone knows that every idea is stolen from Microsoft.
Whatever. We all know that x forwarding was an idea stolen from Microsoft's Terminal Server technology.
"But absolutely no useful software runs on it..."
Hmm... seems pretty useful to me. In fact, it has more of what I need than what Windows can provide me at work - so it is a "must have" for me on my workstation there. I don't have a single Microsoft box at home and I get by just fine with all of my Internet activites, chatting and social networking, playing WoW and Call of Duty 4, doing research, you name it. I use a computer an average of 10-12 hours per day and have not had to use Microsoft applications or operating systems for well over 5 years. I could be rid of the word "Microsoft" from my life completely and entirely if I didn't have to support Microsoft networks for some of my clients.
Ain't nothing better than freedom.
Yeah I've got my family converted over too. My wife's been a linux user now for 3 years.
One of the most entertaining events for me recently was watching my wife have to use her mother's computer (Windows XP) the other day to print out some directions and register for something online. After 2 or 3 minutes she was about ready to put her fist through the monitor and start kicking the living hell out of the chassis. "I can't believe I was actually used to using this trash before you put me on linux!". You know, after she walked upstairs to get on the computer, wiggled the mouse to wake it up, waited 30 seconds for the thing to wake up, waited another 15 or 20 seconds for the desktop icons to redraw, had to cancel the system virus scan that started itself up when she got on, waited for Internet Exploder to come up with all of the MyWebSearch and Yahoo toolbars that her mom installed because she has no clue about bundled crapware, and on and on and on...
After you get used to using a "decent" operating system (*nix, MacOS) - having to use a Windows machine is EXTREMELY aggravating. I feel my blood pressure rise the moment I sit down in front of a Billy Box.
"When Ubuntu outperforms XP, then I'll complete my transition to an all-Linux house."
I guess you've got some transitioning to do then, since it always has.
Outperforms, outmaneuvers, outshines, outstables, and outkicksass.
"Canonical would be better served by just supporting Debian."
This is an excellent idea. I have clients that would line up for a Debian server / Ubuntu client support contract. We already know the combination is rock solid. The only thing that occasionally keeps me from putting Debian on the back end is the lack of a decent support contract system.
Allright dammit, you got me. Who the hell uses PURE and ELEMENTAL anyways?
I have a 15mbit connection at home - my torrent downloaded at around 3.5mb/s... I think it took a total of 4 minutes to download. To take 2 minutes he would have been downloading at around 5-5.5mb/s which is not uncommon.
Well up until today I haven't had a decent compiler for 95 - so what was I to do? Use FTN95? That's even more grosserest.
I've been stuck on gcc 3.4.3 for a few years now. Fortran 95 here I come!!
My wife's always telling me I need to have surgery to get my tongue out of my cheek.