What about used games? There are a lot of games I wouldn't pay $50 for, but might try if I saw in the used bin. I know it doesn't generate any revenue for the studios, but if they're going to claim that they care about their customers, they have to acknowledge that used games are a part of the market.
I'd say it does generate revenue, but indirectly. I discovered the Spyro games (PlayStation) based on buying one in a used games store. I loved it! So I bought the other Spyro games (even the PS2 version, which was crap BTW.)
This also leads me to buy other games by that publisher. I'm not sure I would have been too interested in 'Ratchet and Clank' had I not played Spyro (both by Naughty Dog.)
So buying that used Spyro didn't send $$ back to Naughty Dog for that copy of Spyro, but they did get my money for other games they publish.
Tomb Raider was the same way. Found TR2 (for PlayStation) in a used games store, bought it, and was hooked on the Tomb Raider games. My wife and I play them together. Of course, 'Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness' was an utter waste (there's a trend there... PS1 games don't always translate well to the PS2) but I don't think I would have gotten interested in the Tomb Raider series had it not been for starting out in a used games bin.
Plus, used games are a great, cheap way to have fun. I don't mind buying a lame game if I only spent $7 on it, and can probably turn it back in for $2. You become more willing to try out new games. 'Mort the Chicken' (PS1) was awesome! And it was only $5 (an impulse buy from the used bin.)
'Crash Team Racing' was less cool, but it was only $7 in the used bin, so not a big deal.
I had always thought that a better way do to Enterprise would have been:
Season 1:
The Enterprise and esp. Cpt. Archer spend the entire season exploring all that uncharted space. We aren't so much geared for combat, since we're primarily a scientific/exploration mission. Wherever we meet someone, we're busy "helping out" the friendly aliens. Throw in some familiar aliens from the original series. Archer hands out weapons, helps societies achieve nuclear capability, assist in building warp-capable ships, help put down a war, etc. All in the name of progress. Oh yeah, and Archer nails a lot of hot women.
Season 2:
Oops, maybe "helping out" wasn't such a good idea. That war we helped put down, now the people we put down ("Klingons") hate our guts and have declared war. Those blue guys with the attennae are using their new "phaser" and "warp" technology to raid other solar systems. Some mysterious alien race (who never show themselves, natch) called the "Romulans" are getting pissed off that we've been helping these upstarts gain "illegal" tech, and now they'll declare war on us until we stop, thank you very much. The season winds down with the newly-formed Starfleet Command deciding we should implement some kind of non-interference policy. Archer has to stop banging those chicks, too.
Season 3:
From here, you can bring the show in lots of different, interesting directions. Maybe introduce some more conflict with the Romulans and Klingons.
... But what do I know? I haven't watched the show in years. I tried to watch this show, but the semi-weekly Vulcan boobies were too obviously a grab for attention.
We're finally tossing the last of our original Macs. Some are Mac Plus, or a little newer, but it's remarkable how much use one could get out of those things.
A friend of mine last night said he was finally retiring his Mac LC. The hard drive had died, and figured it was time to let it go. I'm not a huge Mac fan, but I have to admit the longevity of these Macs is impressive.
I'd say Burnout2 is my guilty pleasure. This game has zero plot, almost no point to it. You drive a car a short distance, and try to cause an accident. Your "score" for each round is the $$ racked up in insurance settlements.
Something about that just kind of makes you feel.... good. I've played it all evening after a bad day, and it just makes me feel better. Nothing more satisfying than when you can roll a bus (huge $$ settlement.)
Oh yeah, I'm an IBMer hence the AC post. My work Win2k laptop is coming up to EOL, so I'd be delighted to replace it with a Linux one, but it would make life tricky without MS Project and Visio.
I'm 4+ hrs late replying to your post, so you're unlikely to see this. I use Linux 99% at work, and have for about a year and a half now. The 1% is to boot back into Windows (dual-boot) and change my Novell password (we can't get ncpfs to change it on the server... don't know why) and to access Visio files.
I don't need to share MS Project files with other team members (just the resulting Gantt charts) so I use MrProject. It's great! You can't import or export to MS Project (you can print-to-file using PS or PDF) but it does the task of generating Gantt charts very well! I've used MrProject to plan several projects of mine, and my team doesn't generally is unaware of the difference.
Notes is as critical to all IBM communication now as it has ever been, and even if everyone in IBM switches to Linux tomorrow, it still will be. Noone in my particular IBM lab would be able to function without it, and a number of us already run Linux as our primary desktop OS.
Then you might have missed this little gem of an article, linked from the original on the Inquirer:
WE WERE IN SUCH a rush to file the story about IBM saying Linux was unstoppable that we missed out a piece of Deborah Magid's dialogue.
Not only is Linux unstoppable, but IBM has abandoned using Lotus Notes inside the organisation because it's far too fat, said Deborah.
Okay, there wasn't a hell of a lot of content to the article. I'd like to know more, certainly. But if true, this points to removing a major obstable for IBM to adopt Linux on the desktop. Yes, you lucky IBMers that run Linux can run Notes under Wine, but why bother if IBM is going to stop using Notes internally?
Notes is a fat piece of software, I can say that much. I used to use Notes in two organizations (this, and my last one) and we converted away from it to open standards because the application was too fat. Gotta give this for Notes: if it hadn't been so damn big and slow, we might have continued using it for our bug tracking system, instead of trying out Bugzilla. We love Bugzilla!!:-)
My coolest (also weirdest?) Xmas present was a binary clock. My brother built it for me based on his own design. Quality construction - the hour, minutes, and seconds light up with different color LEDs, and it also has a sweeping-hand clock for noobs that can't read binary.:-) Mounted on a nice wooden back.
The yellow tape covers the battery - it's removed now. The battery stores the last time on the clock, in case of a temporary power outtage, so you don't have to reset the clock.
Very cool.
My coolest (also weirdest?) Xmas present was a binary clock. My brother built it for me based on his own design. Quality construction - the hour, minutes, and seconds light up with different color LEDs, and it also has a sweeping-hand clock for noobs that can't read binary.:-) Mounted on a nice wooden back.
I'm going to bring it to work, and let people ogle it.
Now that the single-CPU edition is free to download for non-commercial use, people will be compelled to write a Solaris CD and try it out.
Single CPU only? What about my almost-year-old PC with hyperthreading enabled? That essentially makes my machine dual-CPU. Looks like I don't get any benefit to using this single-CPU Solaris x86.
Dude, I'll accept that you've been using Linux on your desktop for more than 10yrs now (BTW, so have I) but I'd like to dispel some of the myths you point to here:
- not being able to open that complex word attachment that your coworker mailed you
What kinds of coworkers do you have? I've never had this problem using StarOffice. Back when I used ApplixWare or maybe the old StarOffice 5.2, sure. But I've never had this problem with the recent StarOffice 6 and 7. I'm sure the same applies with OpenOffice 1.x but I'm a believer in supporting Linux software vendors with $$ when they turn out good product.
- not being able to browse every site online (some are definitely IE specific, others require plugins not available on linux)
I've only had this problem on a very limited number of sites. Most of those have been web sites for movies. I can use flash, java, etc. with my Linux browser of choice (Mozilla.)
- figure out how users, accounts, software installations etc. work (click on a link and the program installs automatically? yeah, right), not to mention the joys of the command line
Are you still stuck in the command line?? Yes, the command line is there if you want to use it. I use it on a daily basis because I find some data files are easier to work with that way (for example, parsing log files on my web servers at work.) But you don't need to use the command line, even to do admin things like creating users.
My wife has been a Linux user since Red Hat 7.3, and she's definitely not a technical person. She's pretty much confused by the command line (gotta love her) so she sticks to the GNOME and the GUI apps.
- become confused by some desktop environments where settings are spread around 3 different menus and where sometimes they inexplicably don't stick etc. etc. in general using software developed by developers with sometimes not much thought given to user friendliness and good UI guidelines.
It can come down to the distro that you prefer. I liked RH8 and RH9 because of the end user experience they've built up (common Bluecurve theme, for example.) I'm switching my personal desktop and laptop to Fedora for the same reason.
What settings have been spread throughout 3 menus? Sorry, but I don't think I've seen this in Red Hat 8/9 or Fedora.
- not being able to play commercial games (unless you shell out for winex and even then some things don't work)
This one I'll give you. A friend of mine at work does have several commercial FPS shooter games (I think 'Unreal' is one of them) but I don't prefer to play PC games. I'm a console gamer.
Hey, it looks like the hamster on that hamster sim is actually Hamtaro, the little cartoon rodent that annoys adults everywhere. Feh, why do I recognize such stuff? -jh
The shmucks stole the device but not the software?
Whatever country tries to reverse engineer this thing is going to have a bitch trying to control it.
Not really. Flying a helicopter drone by remote control isn't that hard.:-)
You could have a massive button on IE's toolbar labelled "DISABLE POPUPS," and I would bet half of IE's users would never think to click it. Unless a feature is turned on, by default, and works without thinking about it, most users won't use it.
I hope they don't turn it on by default for all users, all sites. That would cause a serious problem where I work. We have a central auth hub for all our web-based applications. The auth hub pops up a little browser window when you've successfully logged in. That little window contains a message about what it means to be logged in, and a little button to logout.
If IE blocks all popups by default, all those Windows users won't have their button to logout. Which means a security hole - they'll wander away from their desks for lunch, for meetings, etc. and leave themselves logged into the web application. Previously, they knew to click the logout button if they needed to be away from their desk. But with no little window, they'll forget or assume they aren't logged in.
Grrrr... bad Microsoft.
At least with Mozilla, it is possible to disable popups for all sites, then allow popups for specific sites (such as the auth hub.) That's how I use it, and it works great!
How long do they guarantee support for on the Enterprise releases? I would expect at least 5 years or they aren't worth the price. We still have NT4 boxes on servers taht don't need an upgrade.
Red Hat will have to continue releasing any GPL'ed code in the same way they always have. You may not get any proprietary software, but I can't think of anything that was, in base Red Hat.
I'm less concerned with the "no new Red Hat" than with "You've got two months to upgrade". Many vendors only support what RH supports, so vendors may no longer support their products on the free system, and that's a big headache for SA's.
Does no one who uses Red Hat Linux actually follow what's happening at Red Hat?? Sheesh, it's not like you didn't see see this coming. Let's clarify a few things:
No, you don't have to stop using RH7x (or even RH6x) if you don't want to. Just don't expect any software updates beginning 1/1/04. If there's a security vulnerability announced for software that you use (SSH, sendmail,..) then you're on your own. If you make wise use of iptables, or don't have any public-facing RH7x systems, you're probably going to be okay for a while yet.
Yes, you'll have to find something else to run on that production Linux box, if you want to stay current. I suppose you might choose Fedora if you're used to Red Hat Linux, and get it for free. But if you're running production, you probably won't mind spending some $$ to purchase Red Hat Advanced Server (RHAS) or Red Hat Edge Server (RHES.) RHAS is good for back-end systems like database servers. RHES is good for "Edge of network" services like DNS or web.
Yes, you're paying for RHAS or RHES. No, this is not a violation of the GNU GPL. You can re-install that copy of RHES or RHAS on as many servers as you like (they can't stop you there) and give away any GNU GPL'd code that you want. What you're actually paying for, my friend, is a subscription to Red Hat Network (RHN). If you haven't used RHN by now, you're missing out on something. If you have more than 20 RHAS or RHES servers, you'll probably be better off purchasing Red Hat Proxy (provides a proxy system to RHN to speed up local updates.)
Your boss won't really care that much if you (gasp!) actually have to pay to run that copy of Linux. In my experience, bosses like to pay some $$ to run RHES or RHAS, since they feel that they are actually getting something for it. Point out that it puts the server on RHN, which will reduce your time applying patches, and your boss won't mind.
Yes, vendors will still support Red Hat Linux. Support there isn't going away. All of my vendors (PeopleSoft, Oracle,...) have versions of their software that's certified for some version of RHAS or RHES. If it's not certified for RHES/RHAS 3, it's certified for RHAS 2.1 (the previous version... I believe RHAS 2.1 is supported by Red Hat for another year or two.)
If you use Red Hat, and you didn't see this move coming, you probably don't talk to your Red Hat sales rep at all. I have a monthly phone call with my sales rep, just to check in and see what's up, and I found out about the migration away from supporting boxed sets almost a year ago. These "announcements" that keep showing up on Slashdot are getting kind of annoying... seems like no one has been listening to what Red Hat says is coming down the line.
If you're really all that bent out of shape because Red Hat isn't giving away their kick-ass Linux distribution for free anymore, then go download Fedora, or jump to another distribution.
Personally, since I haven't had a complaint with Red Hat, I'm sticking with RHES/RHAS. We start our upgrade to RHES 3 in two weeks, and will be done by 2/28/04. Yes, that's two months after the end of support, so I'm on my own for those two months. We have a lot of servers, so the upgrade will take time.
You need to run Ximian Evolution, and purchase the Ximian Connector for Microsoft Exchange. With Ximian Connector installed, Ximian Evolution functions as an Exchange 2000 client, enabling users to become full participants in company-wide group scheduling and other collaborative tasks, including accessing public folders and Global Address Lists, personal email, calendar, and task lists, and group scheduling information.
It's great!! We experimented with it where I work while evaluating different calendaring/messaging systems. Interestingly, Ximian + Connector worked a lot better than software to do the same on Mac OSX.
Struggling tech giant Sun Microsystems took a hit from Merrill Lynch in the form of an analysts' note that said the company could become "irrelevant" if it continues its current course.
[...] "On its current course, we believe Sun is likely to suffer further shares and financial losses, become irrelevant to most users, and eventually be acquired for its installed base." [...]
I think the ML analyst has it. In an article I read a while back, McNealy said that Dell wasn't a competitor because they didn't sell a complete solution and only sold systems. He said Dell had a terrific parts-distribution business. Unfortunately, he's missed that Dell's distribution is a major driver of their business, and a key reason Dell is successful today (I'd rate Dell hardware at medium-to-high, for example.)
At home: still running a P-200 Gateway desktop with 48MB memory. I upgraded the disk to 20GB long ago, so it's running as the house file server (used for backups). The P-200 would still be doing print services as well, except I purchased a network lp server ($100).
At work: I seem to be the only person still using an IBM PC-300 (192MB memory.) Runs great for web browsing and checking mail, and ssh'ing into my systems at work. Mostly used as an expendable system I can leave on during the night (in case it gets cracked) for remote access. But my _real_ work desktop is 933MHz (256MB memory.)
... I know I can get something like Open Office for word processing, presentation, etc. needs, but is there such a good thing as a good free virus checker? A good free email client? A handy web browser?...
What is everyone's predisposition for zero-cost software?? Sometimes, it doesn't hurt to shell out a little cash for something you appreciate.
That said, here's my list:
StarOffice 7 (or the latest OpenOffice)
Mozilla or Opera or... (browser)
Mozilla Mail or Evolution or... (email)
XMMS or WinAmp (music player)
a personal firewall (or iptables at HIGH security, if you have Linux)
Instant messaging
Anti-virus software (if you run Windows... for Linux, I haven't bothered yet.) Don't be afraid to spend money here. You do need to keep Windows protected.
Okay, it's not a full list of 10, but those are at the top of my recommendations.
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What about used games? There are a lot of games I wouldn't pay $50 for, but might try if I saw in the used bin. I know it doesn't generate any revenue for the studios, but if they're going to claim that they care about their customers, they have to acknowledge that used games are a part of the market.
I'd say it does generate revenue, but indirectly. I discovered the Spyro games (PlayStation) based on buying one in a used games store. I loved it! So I bought the other Spyro games (even the PS2 version, which was crap BTW.)
This also leads me to buy other games by that publisher. I'm not sure I would have been too interested in 'Ratchet and Clank' had I not played Spyro (both by Naughty Dog.) So buying that used Spyro didn't send $$ back to Naughty Dog for that copy of Spyro, but they did get my money for other games they publish.
Tomb Raider was the same way. Found TR2 (for PlayStation) in a used games store, bought it, and was hooked on the Tomb Raider games. My wife and I play them together. Of course, 'Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness' was an utter waste (there's a trend there ... PS1 games don't always translate well to the PS2) but I don't think I would have gotten interested in the Tomb Raider series had it not been for starting out in a used games bin.
Plus, used games are a great, cheap way to have fun. I don't mind buying a lame game if I only spent $7 on it, and can probably turn it back in for $2. You become more willing to try out new games. 'Mort the Chicken' (PS1) was awesome! And it was only $5 (an impulse buy from the used bin.) 'Crash Team Racing' was less cool, but it was only $7 in the used bin, so not a big deal.
I had always thought that a better way do to Enterprise would have been:
Season 1: The Enterprise and esp. Cpt. Archer spend the entire season exploring all that uncharted space. We aren't so much geared for combat, since we're primarily a scientific/exploration mission. Wherever we meet someone, we're busy "helping out" the friendly aliens. Throw in some familiar aliens from the original series. Archer hands out weapons, helps societies achieve nuclear capability, assist in building warp-capable ships, help put down a war, etc. All in the name of progress. Oh yeah, and Archer nails a lot of hot women.
Season 2: Oops, maybe "helping out" wasn't such a good idea. That war we helped put down, now the people we put down ("Klingons") hate our guts and have declared war. Those blue guys with the attennae are using their new "phaser" and "warp" technology to raid other solar systems. Some mysterious alien race (who never show themselves, natch) called the "Romulans" are getting pissed off that we've been helping these upstarts gain "illegal" tech, and now they'll declare war on us until we stop, thank you very much. The season winds down with the newly-formed Starfleet Command deciding we should implement some kind of non-interference policy. Archer has to stop banging those chicks, too.
Season 3: From here, you can bring the show in lots of different, interesting directions. Maybe introduce some more conflict with the Romulans and Klingons.
... But what do I know? I haven't watched the show in years. I tried to watch this show, but the semi-weekly Vulcan boobies were too obviously a grab for attention.
-jh
We're finally tossing the last of our original Macs. Some are Mac Plus, or a little newer, but it's remarkable how much use one could get out of those things.
A friend of mine last night said he was finally retiring his Mac LC. The hard drive had died, and figured it was time to let it go. I'm not a huge Mac fan, but I have to admit the longevity of these Macs is impressive.
I'd say Burnout2 is my guilty pleasure. This game has zero plot, almost no point to it. You drive a car a short distance, and try to cause an accident. Your "score" for each round is the $$ racked up in insurance settlements.
Something about that just kind of makes you feel .... good. I've played it all evening after a bad day, and it just makes me feel better. Nothing more satisfying than when you can roll a bus (huge $$ settlement.)
Oh yeah, I'm an IBMer hence the AC post. My work Win2k laptop is coming up to EOL, so I'd be delighted to replace it with a Linux one, but it would make life tricky without MS Project and Visio.
I'm 4+ hrs late replying to your post, so you're unlikely to see this. I use Linux 99% at work, and have for about a year and a half now. The 1% is to boot back into Windows (dual-boot) and change my Novell password (we can't get ncpfs to change it on the server ... don't know why) and to access Visio files.
I don't need to share MS Project files with other team members (just the resulting Gantt charts) so I use MrProject. It's great! You can't import or export to MS Project (you can print-to-file using PS or PDF) but it does the task of generating Gantt charts very well! I've used MrProject to plan several projects of mine, and my team doesn't generally is unaware of the difference.
Notes is as critical to all IBM communication now as it has ever been, and even if everyone in IBM switches to Linux tomorrow, it still will be. Noone in my particular IBM lab would be able to function without it, and a number of us already run Linux as our primary desktop OS.
Then you might have missed this little gem of an article, linked from the original on the Inquirer:
IBM drops Lotus Notes inside
Okay, there wasn't a hell of a lot of content to the article. I'd like to know more, certainly. But if true, this points to removing a major obstable for IBM to adopt Linux on the desktop. Yes, you lucky IBMers that run Linux can run Notes under Wine, but why bother if IBM is going to stop using Notes internally?
Notes is a fat piece of software, I can say that much. I used to use Notes in two organizations (this, and my last one) and we converted away from it to open standards because the application was too fat. Gotta give this for Notes: if it hadn't been so damn big and slow, we might have continued using it for our bug tracking system, instead of trying out Bugzilla. We love Bugzilla!! :-)
My coolest (also weirdest?) Xmas present was a binary clock. My brother built it for me based on his own design. Quality construction - the hour, minutes, and seconds light up with different color LEDs, and it also has a sweeping-hand clock for noobs that can't read binary. :-) Mounted on a nice wooden back.
Here's a photo: front.jpg
The yellow tape covers the battery - it's removed now. The battery stores the last time on the clock, in case of a temporary power outtage, so you don't have to reset the clock. Very cool.
My coolest (also weirdest?) Xmas present was a binary clock. My brother built it for me based on his own design. Quality construction - the hour, minutes, and seconds light up with different color LEDs, and it also has a sweeping-hand clock for noobs that can't read binary. :-) Mounted on a nice wooden back.
I'm going to bring it to work, and let people ogle it.
Now that the single-CPU edition is free to download for non-commercial use, people will be compelled to write a Solaris CD and try it out.
Single CPU only? What about my almost-year-old PC with hyperthreading enabled? That essentially makes my machine dual-CPU. Looks like I don't get any benefit to using this single-CPU Solaris x86.
Yes, this is a dupe. This "news" was submitted as a comment in the previous SCO item. Do we really need to keep rehashing the SCO thing?
Dude, I'll accept that you've been using Linux on your desktop for more than 10yrs now (BTW, so have I) but I'd like to dispel some of the myths you point to here:
- not being able to open that complex word attachment that your coworker mailed you
What kinds of coworkers do you have? I've never had this problem using StarOffice. Back when I used ApplixWare or maybe the old StarOffice 5.2, sure. But I've never had this problem with the recent StarOffice 6 and 7. I'm sure the same applies with OpenOffice 1.x but I'm a believer in supporting Linux software vendors with $$ when they turn out good product.
- not being able to browse every site online (some are definitely IE specific, others require plugins not available on linux)
I've only had this problem on a very limited number of sites. Most of those have been web sites for movies. I can use flash, java, etc. with my Linux browser of choice (Mozilla.)
- figure out how users, accounts, software installations etc. work (click on a link and the program installs automatically? yeah, right), not to mention the joys of the command line
Are you still stuck in the command line?? Yes, the command line is there if you want to use it. I use it on a daily basis because I find some data files are easier to work with that way (for example, parsing log files on my web servers at work.) But you don't need to use the command line, even to do admin things like creating users.
My wife has been a Linux user since Red Hat 7.3, and she's definitely not a technical person. She's pretty much confused by the command line (gotta love her) so she sticks to the GNOME and the GUI apps.
- become confused by some desktop environments where settings are spread around 3 different menus and where sometimes they inexplicably don't stick etc. etc. in general using software developed by developers with sometimes not much thought given to user friendliness and good UI guidelines.
It can come down to the distro that you prefer. I liked RH8 and RH9 because of the end user experience they've built up (common Bluecurve theme, for example.) I'm switching my personal desktop and laptop to Fedora for the same reason.
What settings have been spread throughout 3 menus? Sorry, but I don't think I've seen this in Red Hat 8/9 or Fedora.
- not being able to play commercial games (unless you shell out for winex and even then some things don't work)
This one I'll give you. A friend of mine at work does have several commercial FPS shooter games (I think 'Unreal' is one of them) but I don't prefer to play PC games. I'm a console gamer.
-jh
Hey, it looks like the hamster on that hamster sim is actually Hamtaro, the little cartoon rodent that annoys adults everywhere. Feh, why do I recognize such stuff? -jh
Re:Useless (Score:4, Interesting)
Wow, how did I score an "Interesting" on something so obviously tongue-in-cheek?? Should have been modded "Funny", if at all. It even had a smiley. :-)
The shmucks stole the device but not the software? Whatever country tries to reverse engineer this thing is going to have a bitch trying to control it.
Not really. Flying a helicopter drone by remote control isn't that hard. :-)
Ever hear of VMS ? It had a filestore with file versioning - about 30 years ago.
Not just VMS. Apollo DOMAIN had something like this, too. -jh
You could have a massive button on IE's toolbar labelled "DISABLE POPUPS," and I would bet half of IE's users would never think to click it. Unless a feature is turned on, by default, and works without thinking about it, most users won't use it.
I hope they don't turn it on by default for all users, all sites. That would cause a serious problem where I work. We have a central auth hub for all our web-based applications. The auth hub pops up a little browser window when you've successfully logged in. That little window contains a message about what it means to be logged in, and a little button to logout.
If IE blocks all popups by default, all those Windows users won't have their button to logout. Which means a security hole - they'll wander away from their desks for lunch, for meetings, etc. and leave themselves logged into the web application. Previously, they knew to click the logout button if they needed to be away from their desk. But with no little window, they'll forget or assume they aren't logged in.
Grrrr... bad Microsoft.
At least with Mozilla, it is possible to disable popups for all sites, then allow popups for specific sites (such as the auth hub.) That's how I use it, and it works great!
Captured! By Robots. This act is comprised of one human and seven fully functioning musical robots ...
Any other Vice City players here immediately think when reading this summary: "In the future, there will be robots"??
Reality, meet fantasy.
:-)
How long do they guarantee support for on the Enterprise releases? I would expect at least 5 years or they aren't worth the price. We still have NT4 boxes on servers taht don't need an upgrade.
It's right there on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux page:
Red Hat will have to continue releasing any GPL'ed code in the same way they always have. You may not get any proprietary software, but I can't think of anything that was, in base Red Hat. I'm less concerned with the "no new Red Hat" than with "You've got two months to upgrade". Many vendors only support what RH supports, so vendors may no longer support their products on the free system, and that's a big headache for SA's.
Does no one who uses Red Hat Linux actually follow what's happening at Red Hat?? Sheesh, it's not like you didn't see see this coming. Let's clarify a few things:
If you're really all that bent out of shape because Red Hat isn't giving away their kick-ass Linux distribution for free anymore, then go download Fedora, or jump to another distribution. Personally, since I haven't had a complaint with Red Hat, I'm sticking with RHES/RHAS. We start our upgrade to RHES 3 in two weeks, and will be done by 2/28/04. Yes, that's two months after the end of support, so I'm on my own for those two months. We have a lot of servers, so the upgrade will take time.
Get over it.
-jh
You need to run Ximian Evolution, and purchase the Ximian Connector for Microsoft Exchange. With Ximian Connector installed, Ximian Evolution functions as an Exchange 2000 client, enabling users to become full participants in company-wide group scheduling and other collaborative tasks, including accessing public folders and Global Address Lists, personal email, calendar, and task lists, and group scheduling information. It's great!! We experimented with it where I work while evaluating different calendaring/messaging systems. Interestingly, Ximian + Connector worked a lot better than software to do the same on Mac OSX.
-jh
I'm sure Sun can turn themselves around (they make _really_ nice hardware, for example) but it will take a return to core competency.
I agree with Merrill Lynch's assessment of Sun:
I think the ML analyst has it. In an article I read a while back, McNealy said that Dell wasn't a competitor because they didn't sell a complete solution and only sold systems. He said Dell had a terrific parts-distribution business. Unfortunately, he's missed that Dell's distribution is a major driver of their business, and a key reason Dell is successful today (I'd rate Dell hardware at medium-to-high, for example.)
At home: still running a P-200 Gateway desktop with 48MB memory. I upgraded the disk to 20GB long ago, so it's running as the house file server (used for backups). The P-200 would still be doing print services as well, except I purchased a network lp server ($100).
At work: I seem to be the only person still using an IBM PC-300 (192MB memory.) Runs great for web browsing and checking mail, and ssh'ing into my systems at work. Mostly used as an expendable system I can leave on during the night (in case it gets cracked) for remote access. But my _real_ work desktop is 933MHz (256MB memory.)
And sadly, Klingon is not one of them. And I have to ask: Would it make a difference to future Martians? :-)
What is everyone's predisposition for zero-cost software?? Sometimes, it doesn't hurt to shell out a little cash for something you appreciate.
That said, here's my list:
Okay, it's not a full list of 10, but those are at the top of my recommendations.
Ananova reports that he reckons Melinda Messenger would make a good assisstant because: [...]
Whoa! Thanks for the cool image link and everything, but needs a "not work friendly" warning. :-)