At least this time they had the decency to include a link to the previous slashdot posting, which contains a link to the previous article, which contains the information in today's posting.
Yanno, cause otherwise it could have been confusing.
While there are plenty of reasons to love OO.o Writer over MS-Word, this article is quite flawed. The reviewer obviously isn't that technical and looks to be comparing apples to Chevrolets.
(I was using Microsoft Works before)... Word takes up more memory total, but Writer uses more in the main process. It is not a big difference.
He bases his conclusion on the fact that soffice.exe uses a bit more RAM than winword.exe (the "main process") but when you include msworks.exe's memory usage, Writer is leaner. msworks.exe isn't even a part of Microsoft Word, it's part of Works which he even states he was using before. He obviously knows they're separate applications.
I thought the numbers seemed a little unusual given my experiences with Word , so I tried launching it on my PC (a little bit faster than his test box, but not by much). First launch took 7 seconds, subsequent close and re-opens of the app took ~1 second. If this were an article on how he got his PC infected with spyware, viruses and poorly-coded MS-Word plugins, all of which led to his Office installation taking 5 times longer than normal to start and function, I'd say kudos. But as a performance comparison between two products under dissimilar conditions, I declare shenanigans.
The installer (at least the Windows one) will only replace your homepage if you leave the "Use Firefox Start as my home page" option checked on the last page of the installer. It's unfortunate that this is checked by default, regardless of whether you've already specified a home page in the instance you're upgrading.
Believe it or not, this is still a requirement. It's just down in the middle of the release notes under "Known Issues -> All Systems" (that is, not just Windows OS):
"Prior to installing Firefox 1.0.3, please ensure that the directory you've chosen to install into is clean and doesn't contain any previous Firefox installations."
If enough people say something, it sometimes does make it correct. That's why (at least in the US) people typically ask for a "Band-Aid" instead of the generic "adhesive bandage". Sure, there will always be the occasional word-nazi who will argue that they only carry Curad-brand adhesive bandages while you bleed all over their carpet, but most people will understand what you mean and help staunch the flow.
"Without iTunes it's half the product!... 'Fake Shuffle' has no LCD either, but you have no software to make it out for you.
How do you know that, do you own one? What you really mean is "Without functionality similar to iTunes it's half the product". What makes you so sure they won't include some sort of similar software? If they're so willing to clone the Shuffle's design, why stop there?
Isn't this exactly what's happening now? Novell, Redhat, SuSE... they certainly aren't devoting resources to OSS out of the kindness of their hearts. In the end, their goal is to make money and the way to do that is by giving your clients what they need.
As for math equation editors, the functionality does not exist yet. However, work has been ongoing to integrate gtkmathview with Abi since Guadec 2004. Look for it in Abi 2.3 or 2.4.
Not having to reboot your Win2K Server for 20 or so days when all the box was doing was providing file sharing and running a small Active Directory domain for a measly 100-200 users is not "stable".
No, it's not "stable" at all, and the person you need to blame is your administrator. An ineffective administrator who can't figure out how to monitor and tune servers shouldn't be maintaining them, no matter what the OS.
The last time our primary Win2k SQL server was rebooted was 4 months ago when we shut it down to re-arrange the server lab. Granted, we're not running Fedex-sized databases here, but we put a decent load on the server with our databases in the 400gig range. We use some simple filtering on ports to make sure that only SQL traffic gets through to them so we don't have to patch/reboot against every threat unless it's SQL related.
First, use isql to run a BACKUP DATABASE command from the batch file. SQL Server has plenty of built-in functions to manage date/time for the filename. So does the NT command shell.
Second, use to zip it up.
Third, use blat to email it, or isql again to xp_sendmail it if you don't want to install any other software.
All in one three-line batch file.
Hell, the database maintenance wizard in SQL Server will do most of this for you, minus the emailing part, which you'd just have to add an extra step manually to the end of the job to accomplish.
The whole point of all of this jabbering is that these things can be done easily *if you have the knowledge and experience to do it*. Just because you're ignorant of how to do something doesn't mean the rest of us are, or that it's difficult to do.
I guess part of it depends on the circumstances of your departure. I left my last company 8 months ago after being there for 6 years. I still get IMs, emails, etc from ex-coworkers about once a month asking how something worked or how to fix a problem they're having. I never thought twice about helping out, but I did leave the company on good terms.
Now if the McDonalds I worked at for a day needed help figuring out how to cook fries, I'll pass.
Alex, as one of the people who used to call you Scorp and later tried just as hard to stop being called Bluey, I wanted to let you know I agree personally. I think, however, it's more of a personal thing. Many people don't mind in the slightest being called by their handle.
Do you think that everyone from the board who knew you as Scorp only knew you for your online persona? There were enough real-life get togethers and friendships developed that everyone got to know each other personally. I had never heard of "Epsy" before this story, but I assume he probably talked enough with others to get to know them well and I feel like the same thing happened with many of us, though we had the advantage of meeting all the time to speed up the process.
I think the reason I began to prefer Mikey over Bluey was that I was enjoying the real-life get togethers more than the online get togethers. In my mind, I felt as you did about being known by my name instead of my handle. I've realized now that people who know of me as "Bluey" (such as Poonuts;) don't necessarily think of me in a different or any less real way than those who know me as "Mikey". I still prefer Mikey though.
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At least this time they had the decency to include a link to the previous slashdot posting, which contains a link to the previous article, which contains the information in today's posting.
Yanno, cause otherwise it could have been confusing.
While there are plenty of reasons to love OO.o Writer over MS-Word, this article is quite flawed. The reviewer obviously isn't that technical and looks to be comparing apples to Chevrolets.
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(I was using Microsoft Works before)
Word takes up more memory total, but Writer uses more in the main process. It is not a big difference.
He bases his conclusion on the fact that soffice.exe uses a bit more RAM than winword.exe (the "main process") but when you include msworks.exe's memory usage, Writer is leaner. msworks.exe isn't even a part of Microsoft Word, it's part of Works which he even states he was using before. He obviously knows they're separate applications.
I thought the numbers seemed a little unusual given my experiences with Word , so I tried launching it on my PC (a little bit faster than his test box, but not by much). First launch took 7 seconds, subsequent close and re-opens of the app took ~1 second. If this were an article on how he got his PC infected with spyware, viruses and poorly-coded MS-Word plugins, all of which led to his Office installation taking 5 times longer than normal to start and function, I'd say kudos. But as a performance comparison between two products under dissimilar conditions, I declare shenanigans.
The installer (at least the Windows one) will only replace your homepage if you leave the "Use Firefox Start as my home page" option checked on the last page of the installer. It's unfortunate that this is checked by default, regardless of whether you've already specified a home page in the instance you're upgrading.
Believe it or not, this is still a requirement. It's just down in the middle of the release notes under "Known Issues -> All Systems" (that is, not just Windows OS):
"Prior to installing Firefox 1.0.3, please ensure that the directory you've chosen to install into is clean and doesn't contain any previous Firefox installations."
If enough people say something, it sometimes does make it correct. That's why (at least in the US) people typically ask for a "Band-Aid" instead of the generic "adhesive bandage". Sure, there will always be the occasional word-nazi who will argue that they only carry Curad-brand adhesive bandages while you bleed all over their carpet, but most people will understand what you mean and help staunch the flow.
"Without iTunes it's half the product! ... 'Fake Shuffle' has no LCD either, but you have no software to make it out for you.
How do you know that, do you own one? What you really mean is "Without functionality similar to iTunes it's half the product". What makes you so sure they won't include some sort of similar software? If they're so willing to clone the Shuffle's design, why stop there?
Isn't this exactly what's happening now? Novell, Redhat, SuSE... they certainly aren't devoting resources to OSS out of the kindness of their hearts. In the end, their goal is to make money and the way to do that is by giving your clients what they need.
Abiword doesn't even have text boxes or math equation editors yet.
No text boxes? That's odd, considering there are at least 7 textbox bugs fixed in 2.1.6.
As for math equation editors, the functionality does not exist yet. However, work has been ongoing to integrate gtkmathview with Abi since Guadec 2004. Look for it in Abi 2.3 or 2.4.
Not having to reboot your Win2K Server for 20 or so days when all the box was doing was providing file sharing and running a small Active Directory domain for a measly 100-200 users is not "stable".
No, it's not "stable" at all, and the person you need to blame is your administrator. An ineffective administrator who can't figure out how to monitor and tune servers shouldn't be maintaining them, no matter what the OS.
The last time our primary Win2k SQL server was rebooted was 4 months ago when we shut it down to re-arrange the server lab. Granted, we're not running Fedex-sized databases here, but we put a decent load on the server with our databases in the 400gig range. We use some simple filtering on ports to make sure that only SQL traffic gets through to them so we don't have to patch/reboot against every threat unless it's SQL related.
sqlmaint can be invoked from the command-line, yes.
cmd /? | more
That's a piece of cake.
First, use isql to run a BACKUP DATABASE command from the batch file. SQL Server has plenty of built-in functions to manage date/time for the filename. So does the NT command shell.
Second, use to zip it up.
Third, use blat to email it, or isql again to xp_sendmail it if you don't want to install any other software.
All in one three-line batch file.
Hell, the database maintenance wizard in SQL Server will do most of this for you, minus the emailing part, which you'd just have to add an extra step manually to the end of the job to accomplish.
The whole point of all of this jabbering is that these things can be done easily *if you have the knowledge and experience to do it*. Just because you're ignorant of how to do something doesn't mean the rest of us are, or that it's difficult to do.
I guess part of it depends on the circumstances of your departure. I left my last company 8 months ago after being there for 6 years. I still get IMs, emails, etc from ex-coworkers about once a month asking how something worked or how to fix a problem they're having. I never thought twice about helping out, but I did leave the company on good terms.
Now if the McDonalds I worked at for a day needed help figuring out how to cook fries, I'll pass.
The awards show was held last Saturday. The winners can be found on any news site. No new news is being given away on the MTV site.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/760552.asp
Alex, as one of the people who used to call you Scorp and later tried just as hard to stop being called Bluey, I wanted to let you know I agree personally. I think, however, it's more of a personal thing. Many people don't mind in the slightest being called by their handle.
;) don't necessarily think of me in a different or any less real way than those who know me as "Mikey". I still prefer Mikey though.
Do you think that everyone from the board who knew you as Scorp only knew you for your online persona? There were enough real-life get togethers and friendships developed that everyone got to know each other personally. I had never heard of "Epsy" before this story, but I assume he probably talked enough with others to get to know them well and I feel like the same thing happened with many of us, though we had the advantage of meeting all the time to speed up the process.
I think the reason I began to prefer Mikey over Bluey was that I was enjoying the real-life get togethers more than the online get togethers. In my mind, I felt as you did about being known by my name instead of my handle. I've realized now that people who know of me as "Bluey" (such as Poonuts
Mikey