"Apple has achieved something no other computer company has ever really achieved -- the ability to make computers and technology "hip" instead of "nerdy/geeky/dorky"."
No, Apple users are definitely dorks. They just think they're cool because other dorky Apple users say they are.
Ever hear of.NET? Plenty of times I've had to download the.NET framework to get another app to work. Dependency problems exist on Windows as well. I also remember having a tough time installing Foxpro from either Office XP or 2003 because it had dependencies. There was a folder on the CD where some of those dependencies were, but even they didn't all work on my version of Windows (2000).
Linux users who stick with their distro's repositories will have less trouble than Windows users and their software will be easier to keep up to date.
I have heard about DotNetNuke here and there, but not very often. This is surprising since it's supposed to be good, is free, and I often do work implementing content management systems.
OpenOffice.org gets lots of attention partly *because* it supports Windows, so supporting Windows isn't the problem. The main reason why I suspect DDN gets little attention is because it's stuck to a proprietary system: Windows and IIS. If they haven't already, the DDN team should work on getting it working with Mono under the Apache web server in both Windows and Linux. If needed, they should contribute code to Mono to fix incompatibilities. They'd then be able to play in the same ballpark as other content management software that is available cross-platform and they'd certainly get a lot of attention from Linux users.
I've found Calc 2.0 to be pretty much as quick as MS Office for XLS spreadsheets with about 20,000 lines. Calc takes longer to open OpenDocument spreadsheets than it does to open XLS because OD files are compressed, so they have an extra step. IMO, this extra step is made up for by vastly smaller files, which is really noticable for large spreadsheets.
I care what it sniffs because I didn't ask it to sniff anything. Blizzard may think that because I installed their game they have some sort of intrinsic right to run anything on my computer, but I don't think they do. They have the right to run game code. If they want to have a runtime anti-cheat app that's fine, but what they're doing is assuming that any time I'm on my computer I may be looking for cheats, so they're monitoring everything.
Am I not allowed to read a web site that has linked to a cheat? What if my favorite blog linked to a cheat last week and this week I get banned for reading a completely different post on that blog? Blizzard is essentially saying that for as long as we want to be able to play their game, we are not allowed to visit certain web sites or read certain things.
Blizzard should think about actually catching people who are cheating rather than worry that every one of their customers might be looking at something they shouldn't be.
Ya especially for a database with such bad design. MySQL can't even nest tables like HTML can, so I think I'll stick with HTML until MySQL improves a lot. Besides, with CSS you can make HTML look great, but last time I looked at MySQL it was just weird blue with some sailboat in the corner and you couldn't change it.
"why oh why did they not use something descent like *nix/apache with something like postgreSQL, it seems to me like a win win solution."
Or they could just train someone to change the default settings on MySQL. Nearly all MySQL errors such as this one are due to the default number of connections being used. Even if the DBA doesn't know how to tune most of the paramaters, simply doubling the allowed connections would probably have helped a lot.
"Linux sems to be especially vulnerable to breaking when updating components or installing new software. Any Linux install over 12 months old will have serious problems when trying to update or install a huge number of current packages."
This is only true on poorly tested distributions and/or distros with poor package management. Fedora will definitely break, but Red Hat ES will be fine because it's tested so well.
Debian Stable and Ubuntu will also be fine because the package manager is so good.
One of the major problems with having so many Linux distributions is that poor distros can give Linux a bad name. An expert may be able to keep Fedora running well, but somebody who just wants to click a few buttons to upgrade their system is going to have trouble.
When people say Linux works flawlessly, they mean that their current implementation works flawlessly. The more stuff you add the more bugs will be introduced, so a desktop with many apps is not likely to work perfect.
However, a bare bones install without X and just a couple of well-tested apps running such as a database server and sshd will probably run perfectly.
"The only line of Linux advocacy that's less convincing than "It's not worse than Windows any more!" is "You have the source code so you can fix things yourself!" Sane computer users choose the software they want, not the software they don't hate."
This is a marketing problem, not a Linux problem. Linux itself does many things Windows cannot do such as vastly superior scripting (great for sysadmins) and much better support for working with remote servers (from ssh and sftp built into default file managers to X forwarding). The whole GUI can be customized to no end, so a user can set it up specifically for their own needs. For sysadmins concerned about security Linux offers advanced features such as selinux and chroot that have no Windows equivalents. It also offers admins a better way to prevent users from damaging their PC because user-admin separation is excellent, where users aren't ever locked out of doing what they need to do if they're not power users.
I seem to remember the Linux install for UT2003 would prompt you for the wrong disc. That made for lots of complaints when the installer kept asking for "disc 3" even though it was already in the drive:)
1. ODS documents are compressed (gzipped?), so large ones take longer to save and longer to open. I love them because I work with phone book listings and ODS files are small enough to email. Here's an example: 1/3 of the Hamilton, Ontario phone white pages is 51.8MB as CSV, 4.7 as XLS (Office 97) and 1.6MB as ODS. I also removed some unneeded data from the XLS version, so each listing is smaller. OpenOffice.org 2.0 opens the larger file sized XLS version five times quicker than it opens the ODS version, but ODS is still my format of choice due to the file size. Now, don't get me started on annoying 65,000 row limits... they really get in your way when you're dealing with phone books!
2. I use KOffice (KSpread) whenever possible because it's much quicker than OOo or Excel. I recommend it to anyone on Linux. Keep OOo around for some advanced stuff, but use KOffice for quick edits and browsing.
Some people enjoy a long-lasting TV with high quality colors, brightness and contrast. Some other people enjoy showing off a TV that will hang on their wall and die in five years.
I think people who hype LCD and plasma quality are in one of two camps:
1. They have sensitive vision and the brightness of the CRT hurts their eyes (this is why my work computer has an LCD monitor).
2. LCDs are newer and these people keep reading about how great they are.
Side by side in a store it's easy to see that a good CRT provides much better color, brightness and contrast than any LCD or plasma TV. Considering that they are a third the price, I often wonder why there is such a big market for skinny TVs. Can the depth of the TV really make someone spend so much more money?
I also have an issue with plasma vs projection large screen TVs. A good projection TV is indistinguishable from a plasma TV and costs half the price. Why aren't people buying projection instead of plasma?
Google "38,500,000,000.00 JPY in USD" (no quotes) and you'll get "333.42001 million U.S. dollars" as the answer. I'm not sure why the number is different.
I once worked on a Websphere 5 app where the project was in Websphere Studio. Any slight change to the app required using the deploy feature in WAS Studio and on my 900Mhz laptop that took 40-50 minutes.
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That's so they can all secretly use Linux to get real work done.
*runs from Apple fanatics carrying sharpened iPods*
"Apple has achieved something no other computer company has ever really achieved -- the ability to make computers and technology "hip" instead of "nerdy/geeky/dorky"."
No, Apple users are definitely dorks. They just think they're cool because other dorky Apple users say they are.
It's the same way for me with Linux.
"Yeah Nova Scotia is in the east, but go 500km farther east to Newfoundland and Labrador, which is the farthest eastern province in Canada."
One mistake isn't too bad.
"At the end of said movie it is implied that the "end" of the universe is a spatial reference, as opposed to temporal."
The book implies the same thing in the first reference to the restaurant. The whole point of the restaurant's name is to confuse people.
Ever hear of .NET? Plenty of times I've had to download the .NET framework to get another app to work. Dependency problems exist on Windows as well. I also remember having a tough time installing Foxpro from either Office XP or 2003 because it had dependencies. There was a folder on the CD where some of those dependencies were, but even they didn't all work on my version of Windows (2000).
Linux users who stick with their distro's repositories will have less trouble than Windows users and their software will be easier to keep up to date.
I have heard about DotNetNuke here and there, but not very often. This is surprising since it's supposed to be good, is free, and I often do work implementing content management systems.
OpenOffice.org gets lots of attention partly *because* it supports Windows, so supporting Windows isn't the problem. The main reason why I suspect DDN gets little attention is because it's stuck to a proprietary system: Windows and IIS. If they haven't already, the DDN team should work on getting it working with Mono under the Apache web server in both Windows and Linux. If needed, they should contribute code to Mono to fix incompatibilities. They'd then be able to play in the same ballpark as other content management software that is available cross-platform and they'd certainly get a lot of attention from Linux users.
I've found Calc 2.0 to be pretty much as quick as MS Office for XLS spreadsheets with about 20,000 lines. Calc takes longer to open OpenDocument spreadsheets than it does to open XLS because OD files are compressed, so they have an extra step. IMO, this extra step is made up for by vastly smaller files, which is really noticable for large spreadsheets.
I care what it sniffs because I didn't ask it to sniff anything. Blizzard may think that because I installed their game they have some sort of intrinsic right to run anything on my computer, but I don't think they do. They have the right to run game code. If they want to have a runtime anti-cheat app that's fine, but what they're doing is assuming that any time I'm on my computer I may be looking for cheats, so they're monitoring everything.
Am I not allowed to read a web site that has linked to a cheat? What if my favorite blog linked to a cheat last week and this week I get banned for reading a completely different post on that blog? Blizzard is essentially saying that for as long as we want to be able to play their game, we are not allowed to visit certain web sites or read certain things.
Blizzard should think about actually catching people who are cheating rather than worry that every one of their customers might be looking at something they shouldn't be.
I suspect the person who moderated me 'Troll' has not yet organized his brain into 1NF.
Ya especially for a database with such bad design. MySQL can't even nest tables like HTML can, so I think I'll stick with HTML until MySQL improves a lot. Besides, with CSS you can make HTML look great, but last time I looked at MySQL it was just weird blue with some sailboat in the corner and you couldn't change it.
"why oh why did they not use something descent like *nix/apache with something like postgreSQL, it seems to me like a win win solution."
Or they could just train someone to change the default settings on MySQL. Nearly all MySQL errors such as this one are due to the default number of connections being used. Even if the DBA doesn't know how to tune most of the paramaters, simply doubling the allowed connections would probably have helped a lot.
I'm happy with how the Flying Spaghetti Monster made me, thank you very much.
"Linux sems to be especially vulnerable to breaking when updating components or installing new software. Any Linux install over 12 months old will have serious problems when trying to update or install a huge number of current packages."
This is only true on poorly tested distributions and/or distros with poor package management. Fedora will definitely break, but Red Hat ES will be fine because it's tested so well.
Debian Stable and Ubuntu will also be fine because the package manager is so good.
One of the major problems with having so many Linux distributions is that poor distros can give Linux a bad name. An expert may be able to keep Fedora running well, but somebody who just wants to click a few buttons to upgrade their system is going to have trouble.
When people say Linux works flawlessly, they mean that their current implementation works flawlessly. The more stuff you add the more bugs will be introduced, so a desktop with many apps is not likely to work perfect.
However, a bare bones install without X and just a couple of well-tested apps running such as a database server and sshd will probably run perfectly.
"The only line of Linux advocacy that's less convincing than "It's not worse than Windows any more!" is "You have the source code so you can fix things yourself!" Sane computer users choose the software they want, not the software they don't hate."
This is a marketing problem, not a Linux problem. Linux itself does many things Windows cannot do such as vastly superior scripting (great for sysadmins) and much better support for working with remote servers (from ssh and sftp built into default file managers to X forwarding). The whole GUI can be customized to no end, so a user can set it up specifically for their own needs. For sysadmins concerned about security Linux offers advanced features such as selinux and chroot that have no Windows equivalents. It also offers admins a better way to prevent users from damaging their PC because user-admin separation is excellent, where users aren't ever locked out of doing what they need to do if they're not power users.
Some games actually look for this software and won't run if it's enabled. I think Flatout did that.
I seem to remember the Linux install for UT2003 would prompt you for the wrong disc. That made for lots of complaints when the installer kept asking for "disc 3" even though it was already in the drive :)
KOffice. Not as cross-platform as OOo, but very good and very fast.
1. ODS documents are compressed (gzipped?), so large ones take longer to save and longer to open. I love them because I work with phone book listings and ODS files are small enough to email. Here's an example: 1/3 of the Hamilton, Ontario phone white pages is 51.8MB as CSV, 4.7 as XLS (Office 97) and 1.6MB as ODS. I also removed some unneeded data from the XLS version, so each listing is smaller. OpenOffice.org 2.0 opens the larger file sized XLS version five times quicker than it opens the ODS version, but ODS is still my format of choice due to the file size. Now, don't get me started on annoying 65,000 row limits... they really get in your way when you're dealing with phone books!
2. I use KOffice (KSpread) whenever possible because it's much quicker than OOo or Excel. I recommend it to anyone on Linux. Keep OOo around for some advanced stuff, but use KOffice for quick edits and browsing.
Some people enjoy a long-lasting TV with high quality colors, brightness and contrast. Some other people enjoy showing off a TV that will hang on their wall and die in five years.
I think people who hype LCD and plasma quality are in one of two camps:
1. They have sensitive vision and the brightness of the CRT hurts their eyes (this is why my work computer has an LCD monitor).
2. LCDs are newer and these people keep reading about how great they are.
Side by side in a store it's easy to see that a good CRT provides much better color, brightness and contrast than any LCD or plasma TV. Considering that they are a third the price, I often wonder why there is such a big market for skinny TVs. Can the depth of the TV really make someone spend so much more money?
I also have an issue with plasma vs projection large screen TVs. A good projection TV is indistinguishable from a plasma TV and costs half the price. Why aren't people buying projection instead of plasma?
You know you can just use Google for that, right?
Google "38,500,000,000.00 JPY in USD" (no quotes) and you'll get "333.42001 million U.S. dollars" as the answer. I'm not sure why the number is different.
I feel your pain.
I once worked on a Websphere 5 app where the project was in Websphere Studio. Any slight change to the app required using the deploy feature in WAS Studio and on my 900Mhz laptop that took 40-50 minutes.
"Am I the ONLY person in the world that uses pico/nano DAILY?"
Yes you are. You're also a weenie.
Slackware ports have the worst names. Ok, maybe Slackintosh is pretty cool, but Splack sounds like you dropped a slimey thing from a great height.