Being an avid AAO Player, and an avid linux user, I'm glad to hear that someone has gotten the client running under Linux. As exciting as that is, I'm more disappointed that the linux server software hasn't been released to the public yet....*sigh
Over the years, much parody has been made of your apparent "overacting" on the original Star Trek series. How do you feel about this, does it bother you?
"Shatner, I'd fight William Shatner." --Fight Club
I'm sorry, for not brushing, up on my elementary, grammar... I didn't know, you had to proofread your, quotes before posting, them to/.(because everyone, does, of course). I MUST be in the wrong, if three people, go out of their way, to correct my grammar. My sincerest apoligies sir.
You are so right!!! Unfortunately, my firm deals with a lot of U.S. Government agencies. Anyone who knows the government would concede the fact that they are extremely slow in catching up, for the most part. Some of our DoJ clients us Lotus 1-2-3 Release 5!!! Alas, I am stuck in support hell forever:). Thanks for the thought, though.
...which is exactly why some problems can crop up with printer or video drivers. If you're not familiar with WordPerfect (which you clearly are not), you won't know how to troubleshoot problems.
I am not, nor do I profess to be, and expert on any office suite, I leave that to our production department, so I apoligize if my complaining came off as if I think I know it all:). However, I do expect the stuff to work out of the box for the PhD's who can barely turn on the computer let alone figure out why thier WP8 document won't print right unless you have the right PCL or PostScript driver. I don't think you should have to be an expert to be able to troubleshoot a piece of software. I've been able to find fixed to all of my MS Office problems fairly quickly and without too many headaches, seems to be the opposite with WP. Then again, maybe it's just me:).
For most people, open source alternatives are okay. But for advanced document production (i.e., legal use), StarOffice and OpenOffice are inadequate.
I imagine it would be a difficult thing to implement open source as an office suite in a document oriented production environment, but the possibility cannot be overlooked. Besides, why not throw in some more formats just for the fun of it.
***Begin Help Desk Rant***
No offense, but a single user who uses an Office Suite to write papers has no room to throw accusations at someone who deals with hundreds of users dealing with this product and all of it's functions every day. I'm sure some people have no problems with it, just the same as some people have no problems with office when they use it 3 or 4 times a week, but when you have thousands of uses a day in an enterprise business environment, you get to know a product pretty well. ***End help desk rant***:)
I work a help desk for a consulting firm which uses Wordperfect 8 and 9 for many projects(due to client needs). I hate it, and I hate dealing with it. It has many problems including formatting issues, compatibility with other office suites (Office, Lotus, ect.) and applications, printer driver issues and is really slow on fairly speedy desktops. I know MS Office has it's problems as well, but at least you only need to know one set of problems if we all use the same suite.
P.S. I know about open source solutions, but I don't make those kind of decisions:(.
We use Tomcat/Apache/J2EE in a production environment here with Autonomy's Portal in a Box. We've found that it performs much better than a Win32 install with the same hardware and specs. Tomcat, however, is much harder to configure and get working with proprietary software than say New Atlanta's ServletExec, which I found is much easier to configure and install. But once it get's going, I think Tomcat is as rock solid a server engine as any other.
Due to the nature of this matter and RIAA's previous history, we feel the RIAA will abuse software vulerabilities in a client's browser after the browser accesses its site, potentially allowing the RIAA to access and/or tamper with your data.
I'm all for sticking it to the man, but has the RIAA actively attacked end users before? I know it has used legal means to shut down sites, but is there really any precedence to base this decision on, or is it a marketing ploy to try to get more anti-RIAA folk to join up....
IMHO, IE is by far the best browser out there. I'll admit, this may be so because sites taylor to the IE crowd, but I've found for speed, user friendliness, and ease of use, IE takes the cake. I use galeon on my Linux workstations, but I feel its more unstable and less reliable than IE. I know competition is healthy, but when I is the best then they need to come up with something to compete.
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I don't read enough books to place them in a category of "best of" or "worst of" 2003. Just thought I'd share a couple that are worth reading IMO.
Positively Fifth Street was an excellent piece of non-fiction.
Dude where's my country?
OMG linux got pwned.
Slashdotted on a Saturday night? Nahhhh... ;)
Being an avid AAO Player, and an avid linux user, I'm glad to hear that someone has gotten the client running under Linux. As exciting as that is, I'm more disappointed that the linux server software hasn't been released to the public yet....*sigh
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Over the years, much parody has been made of your apparent "overacting" on the original Star Trek series. How do you feel about this, does it bother you?
"Shatner, I'd fight William Shatner." --Fight Club
All, growed, up.
I'm sorry, for not brushing, up on my elementary, grammar... I didn't know, you had to proofread your, quotes before posting, them to /.(because everyone, does, of course). I MUST be in the wrong, if three people, go out of their way, to correct my grammar. My sincerest apoligies sir.
P.S. Get a friggin life.
Actually... there is a pause between those statements, please don't flame about something that is beyond your knowledge.
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You are so right!!! Unfortunately, my firm deals with a lot of U.S. Government agencies. Anyone who knows the government would concede the fact that they are extremely slow in catching up, for the most part. Some of our DoJ clients us Lotus 1-2-3 Release 5!!! Alas, I am stuck in support hell forever :). Thanks for the thought, though.
...which is exactly why some problems can crop up with printer or video drivers. If you're not familiar with WordPerfect (which you clearly are not), you won't know how to troubleshoot problems.
:). However, I do expect the stuff to work out of the box for the PhD's who can barely turn on the computer let alone figure out why thier WP8 document won't print right unless you have the right PCL or PostScript driver. I don't think you should have to be an expert to be able to troubleshoot a piece of software. I've been able to find fixed to all of my MS Office problems fairly quickly and without too many headaches, seems to be the opposite with WP. Then again, maybe it's just me :).
I am not, nor do I profess to be, and expert on any office suite, I leave that to our production department, so I apoligize if my complaining came off as if I think I know it all
For most people, open source alternatives are okay. But for advanced document production (i.e., legal use), StarOffice and OpenOffice are inadequate.
I imagine it would be a difficult thing to implement open source as an office suite in a document oriented production environment, but the possibility cannot be overlooked. Besides, why not throw in some more formats just for the fun of it.
***Begin Help Desk Rant*** :)
No offense, but a single user who uses an Office Suite to write papers has no room to throw accusations at someone who deals with hundreds of users dealing with this product and all of it's functions every day. I'm sure some people have no problems with it, just the same as some people have no problems with office when they use it 3 or 4 times a week, but when you have thousands of uses a day in an enterprise business environment, you get to know a product pretty well.
***End help desk rant***
To quote the article:
...just as ridiculous as the idea that the US authorities are going to start flying non-US citizens to Cuba to shoot them...
Isn't this almost what we are doing to supposed Taliban and Al Qaeda "war prisoners". Not so far off...
I work a help desk for a consulting firm which uses Wordperfect 8 and 9 for many projects(due to client needs). I hate it, and I hate dealing with it. It has many problems including formatting issues, compatibility with other office suites (Office, Lotus, ect.) and applications, printer driver issues and is really slow on fairly speedy desktops. I know MS Office has it's problems as well, but at least you only need to know one set of problems if we all use the same suite.
:(.
P.S. I know about open source solutions, but I don't make those kind of decisions
"Yes" - A request by the RIAA to be able to attack.
"there" - as I said earlier, and I quote "I know it has used legal means to shut down sites", webcasting sites are NOT "end users".
"is" - mere speculation that the RIAA is the culprit of the worm, no proof given.
Don't read much, eh?
We use Tomcat/Apache/J2EE in a production environment here with Autonomy's Portal in a Box. We've found that it performs much better than a Win32 install with the same hardware and specs. Tomcat, however, is much harder to configure and get working with proprietary software than say New Atlanta's ServletExec, which I found is much easier to configure and install. But once it get's going, I think Tomcat is as rock solid a server engine as any other.
Due to the nature of this matter and RIAA's previous history, we feel the RIAA will abuse software vulerabilities in a client's browser after the browser accesses its site, potentially allowing the RIAA to access and/or tamper with your data.
I'm all for sticking it to the man, but has the RIAA actively attacked end users before? I know it has used legal means to shut down sites, but is there really any precedence to base this decision on, or is it a marketing ploy to try to get more anti-RIAA folk to join up....
You can't blame a windows guy for not knowing the difference. :)
IMHO, IE is by far the best browser out there. I'll admit, this may be so because sites taylor to the IE crowd, but I've found for speed, user friendliness, and ease of use, IE takes the cake. I use galeon on my Linux workstations, but I feel its more unstable and less reliable than IE. I know competition is healthy, but when I is the best then they need to come up with something to compete.
to learn more read some Kaku - one of the foremost scientist on hyperspace....(fixed link from previous post.
Hyperspace