"In addition, the keyboard comes with a CD including a special edition of SuSE Linux 9.1 from Novell"...
How long till we get special versions of RedHat or SuSE free with our breakfast cerial.....:-)
Re:Already in use
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Mine does too - yay for us:-)
I use PHP all the time. I know perl/mod-perl too but it doesn't have the install-base that php does - especially selling to people on shared hosting packages..
It's also kind of unusual to find cheapo shared hosting sites (on the adult side of things) who will let you run cron jobs or the like. Understandably:-)
The problem with that is once they have the initial laws in place allowing them to read "normal" email - then it's even easier for them to argue that they nood _more_ laws to deal with "suspicious" people who are trying to avoid having their email read.
It's easy for them to argue that it's criminals/terrorists/paedophiles/this=weeks-bogeym an who must be avoiding the existing laws as no-one else would have anything to hide...
Crap argument - but I'm sure you've heard them making it about other crap laws already....:-/
I think that no-matter what the arguments as to whether we are causing immediate damage to the ozone/antartic/environment - the idea that we should be developing and using sustainable sources of energy stands.
A lot of green/environmental people I know argue along the same lines - we should be developing sustainable resources *because* they are sustainable, not bacause of some immediate apocolypse - but they don't get the press (or even/. attention) because it doesn't make good copy to read reasonable arguments....
I'm the sole admin, postmaster, backup/veritas & webmaster, for a network over 120 UNIX machines, with everything from Linux PC's&Mac's, through Ultra5's, to E6500's, 48-processes IBM pSeries and 30-way SGI boxes. About 350 users worth of "drag" to go with it...
Funding research on bringing back oil/minerals from high-radiation, toxic environments will certainly come in handy if the middle-east goes nuclear....
Yes, I'm feeling cynical today.....:-)
Re:Scientific research is a little different...
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Speaking as a techie inside a college/university - I'd have to dissaggree with you...
The management "works" for researchers on the whole because the management "understands" research. They are very focused on it and wish to see it succeed.
However, from a techie/computing viewpoint it is often disasterous. Way to many professorial staff who believe that having a Phd in molecular biology means they are ideally suited to make mangement desisions about the day-to-day operations of, say, a UNIX fileserver.
The IT management is usaully made up of academecs, sometimes purely put into that position has they were either no good at anything else, or becuse they "own" a big peice of kit. Now, owning a big machine should certainly give them a voice - but direct involvement in the macro and micro management?
So count yourself lucky you are a researcher and not a techie trying to hold their sanity together as another professor _demands_ that you drop what yuo were doing and adjust the colour balance on their screen (yes - I'm afraid I've seen that happen... not to mention renaming their desktop icons for them........)
Do you think we will ever get to a point where I can write a program on FabGroovyOS and happily run it on GroovyFabOS? Java promised this, but there seems to be a lot of friction within the java community which is as dispair-inducing as the vi/emacs, Atari/Amiga, PC/Mac flame-wars...
The holy grail seems to always be _almost_ within our grasp, only to be snatched away by the evil "detail gremlins"...
I would expect that Windows users feel more disorientation than *nix user when switching to another machine, as *nix users _tend_ to quickly click a couple of times to bring up a shell and run thier programs from thier if they are not quickly available on a menu/taskbar.
I would guess that windows users would be less likely to search for a piece of software if it isn't an icon on the desktop or an entry in the start menu.
In the past when I used windows at home, then went to a friends house I would spend more time scrolling around menus to find XYZ package, than it would have taken to to a Find on the package name.
The idea must be appealing, to marketing depts. at least, for branded versions of an OS. Imagine opening your cornflakes and finding your "Kellogs Linux - The Right Way to Start Your Day" in the box... Or a Disney linux, lots of _extra_ cute penguins, straight into KDM with nice cartoon pics of users and big colourful buttons for kids. "Themed" distros if you like.
Personally, I prefer text-file configuration for most things, and having tried LinuxConf I find it more confusing than poking around in/etc. But I'm sure that for new users, something like wharf (or redhat's control panel) with an easy API to add your own dock-config-apps would help quite a bit. It would allow a centralised config centre, but without being tied to a particular distro/desktop/windowmanager. Even if an app author could easily add a button which just opened up a text editor with the config file for thier app, without having to go through a linuxconf/redhat/yast/kde/gnome config tool, I'm sure it would help a lot. /etc/dock-config ... Inetd { "Setup Inetd network services" "/usr/local/icons/inetd.xpm" "xedit/etc/inetd" } Gnome-Control-Centre { "Configure GNOME" "/usr/local/icons/gnomecc.xpm" "gnome-cc" # or whatever it is... } SUSE-Config { "Configure SuSE" "/usr/local/icons/yast.xpm" "xterm -e yast" } ...
To add a button for your app/helper just becomes a matter of appeneding a little text to the file. If only I was better at coding in linux.....::sigh:: Billysara.
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"In addition, the keyboard comes with a CD including a special edition of SuSE Linux 9.1 from Novell"...
How long till we get special versions of RedHat or SuSE free with our breakfast cerial.....
Mine does too - yay for us :-)
:-)
I use PHP all the time. I know perl/mod-perl too but it doesn't have the install-base that php does - especially selling to people on shared hosting packages..
It's also kind of unusual to find cheapo shared hosting sites (on the adult side of things) who will let you run cron jobs or the like. Understandably
They have... Mostly for Adult/Pr0n business forums though. Dare say it'll filter out to the rest of web sooner or later though...
The problem with that is once they have the initial laws in place allowing them to read "normal" email - then it's even easier for them to argue that they nood _more_ laws to deal with "suspicious" people who are trying to avoid having their email read.
m an who must be avoiding the existing laws as no-one else would have anything to hide...
:-/
It's easy for them to argue that it's criminals/terrorists/paedophiles/this=weeks-bogey
Crap argument - but I'm sure you've heard them making it about other crap laws already....
"Yarrrrr!", surely? :-)
I think that no-matter what the arguments as to whether we are causing immediate damage to the ozone/antartic/environment - the idea that we should be developing and using sustainable sources of energy stands.
/. attention) because it doesn't make good copy to read reasonable arguments....
A lot of green/environmental people I know argue along the same lines - we should be developing sustainable resources *because* they are sustainable, not bacause of some immediate apocolypse - but they don't get the press (or even
Try working in Academia....
:-)
I'm the sole admin, postmaster, backup/veritas & webmaster, for a network over 120 UNIX machines, with everything from Linux PC's&Mac's, through Ultra5's, to E6500's, 48-processes IBM pSeries and 30-way SGI boxes.
About 350 users worth of "drag" to go with it...
Salary works out at about 29,000 dollars.
Which is why I code pr0n sites "out of hours"
Funding research on bringing back oil/minerals from high-radiation, toxic environments will certainly come in handy if the middle-east goes nuclear....
:-)
Yes, I'm feeling cynical today.....
Speaking as a techie inside a college/university - I'd have to dissaggree with you...
The management "works" for researchers on the whole because the management "understands" research. They are very focused on it and wish to see it succeed.
However, from a techie/computing viewpoint it is often disasterous. Way to many professorial staff who believe that having a Phd in molecular biology means they are ideally suited to make mangement desisions about the day-to-day operations of, say, a UNIX fileserver.
The IT management is usaully made up of academecs, sometimes purely put into that position has they were either no good at anything else, or becuse they "own" a big peice of kit. Now, owning a big machine should certainly give them a voice - but direct involvement in the macro and micro management?
So count yourself lucky you are a researcher and not a techie trying to hold their sanity together as another professor _demands_ that you drop what yuo were doing and adjust the colour balance on their screen (yes - I'm afraid I've seen that happen... not to mention renaming their desktop icons for them........)
Do you think we will ever get to a point where I can write a program on FabGroovyOS and happily run it on GroovyFabOS? Java promised this, but there seems to be a lot of friction within the java community which is as dispair-inducing as the vi/emacs, Atari/Amiga, PC/Mac flame-wars...
The holy grail seems to always be _almost_ within our grasp, only to be snatched away by the evil "detail gremlins"...
I _really_ hope you arn't being serious....
Have you _any_ concept of what you're saying?
I would expect that Windows users feel more disorientation than *nix user when switching to another machine, as *nix users _tend_ to quickly click a couple of times to bring up a shell and run thier programs from thier if they are not quickly available on a menu/taskbar. I would guess that windows users would be less likely to search for a piece of software if it isn't an icon on the desktop or an entry in the start menu. In the past when I used windows at home, then went to a friends house I would spend more time scrolling around menus to find XYZ package, than it would have taken to to a Find on the package name.
The idea must be appealing, to marketing depts. at least, for branded versions of an OS. Imagine opening your cornflakes and finding your "Kellogs Linux - The Right Way to Start Your Day" in the box...
Or a Disney linux, lots of _extra_ cute penguins, straight into KDM with nice cartoon pics of users and big colourful buttons for kids.
"Themed" distros if you like.
Billy.
Personally, I prefer text-file configuration for most things, and having tried LinuxConf I find it more confusing than poking around in /etc. /etc/inetd"
::sigh::
But I'm sure that for new users, something like wharf (or redhat's control panel) with an easy API to add your own dock-config-apps would help quite a bit.
It would allow a centralised config centre, but without being tied to a particular distro/desktop/windowmanager.
Even if an app author could easily add a button which just opened up a text editor with the config file for thier app, without having to go through a linuxconf/redhat/yast/kde/gnome config tool, I'm sure it would help a lot.
/etc/dock-config
...
Inetd
{
"Setup Inetd network services"
"/usr/local/icons/inetd.xpm"
"xedit
}
Gnome-Control-Centre
{
"Configure GNOME"
"/usr/local/icons/gnomecc.xpm"
"gnome-cc" # or whatever it is...
}
SUSE-Config
{
"Configure SuSE"
"/usr/local/icons/yast.xpm"
"xterm -e yast"
}
...
To add a button for your app/helper just becomes a matter of appeneding a little text to the file.
If only I was better at coding in linux.....
Billysara.