We've been using CrossOver Office for almost a year in a corporate environment and I can tell you that the 7 people using it are constantly frustrated by high cpu usage, bugs, incompatibility, crashes of apps running with CrossOver Office. Using it is mostly hit and miss (opening documents usually ok, but actually editing them not so much).
A very neat product with lots of potential but limited applicability in a serious work environment.
The fonts are there, the localization strings are there, the keyboard LAYOUTS are there but the input server to transform romanized input (for example) to the Asian characters is not working. Particularly frustrating because Ubuntu has decided on not making it a core part (as it is in SuSE or RedHat) of the distro...
methink there is a definite concerted effort out there from mainland Chinese to do this. It is also quite easy to do with OpenSource and it's wilfully politically ignorant geeks...
Interesting... I'm having the same problem at work with Debian Sarge. Most of the time, it seems to resolve ok but once in a while a query is sent to the DNS server, times out because of no response and 5 seconds later falls back to the the next DNS server. I've confirmed with Ethereal that the request is sent ok but no packet is received in the other direction.
which at 126$CAN was 23$CAN less expensive then Kingston and 43$CAN less expensive then the OCZ... Anyone know what the heck it is and how well it ranks?
Who goes to the store anyway for computer parts? Just order it on the net and have it delivered by UPS... Better price and often faster then waiting for an out-of-stock (aren't they always)?item at the store!
Bullshit. I'm a Quebecker and the jokes about the French are friendly ribbing, not bashing. Frankly, I'm horrified when I read all the bashing against French in U.S. discussions boards...
But that doesn't matter a damn when the real question is "who else can load it?" and the answer is "only other geeks with OOo".
Funny that you would say that because my colleague has just written a Ruby script to convert automatically all the worksheets to load it to an SQL database... A format that uses XML is what made it possible.
yeah, but if you want to read about the WORLD FASTEST HUMAN POWERED SUBMARINE, you'll have to check out our school sub, Omer;-)
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Hey, me and my wife did the exact same thing! Except we wrote AMOR (love in spanish) in ASCII coded binary. When was that? We got married in 2000.. Maybe I should patent it!;-)
I'd be ready to pay 50$ a year for my 4 years old email adress IF they included sufficient services. I'm talking encrypted IMAP and webmail access, additionnal disk space (currently available at 19.99$), no ads, etc... Frankly, that's not much just so I don't have to change my email. But the current "additional services" are lacking in my opinion... I never understood why they don't offer this kind of package....
I'm a PC head but I was going to buy myself one of those nice G3/500 iBook because of the killer combo of a superb hardware feature set, Unix core and a nice GUI.
Now you're telling me that they have a SUCKY performance? I was at least expecting that the G3/500 would be able compete with a P3/750 and a G4/500 with a P3/1Ghz. Damn it!! Why must you do this to me Slashdot? Why must you cast doubt in my heart?
You DID NOT READ THE ARTICLE. It has nothing to do with the hardware performance, but rather (according to them) how well the software is adapted to that particular hardware/software combo.
One thing we learned through testing was that the open-source tools performed significantly better on a single-processor 700-MHz Pentium III machine running Linux than they did on a quad-processor Sun machine. MySQL is probably optimized for Linux because the open-source community develops it.
You also have to read that the servers were operated by Rackspace and not by them. I'll suppose that they are quite experienced and able...
At that point, we had never heard of managed hosting. We learned about it when searching online for potential Web-hosting services. With managed hosting, customers lease machines that are already racked, instead of renting space in a data center. The managed host guarantees the uptime, handles the server maintenance and monitoring, and sells bandwidth based on actual usage instead of pipe width. Even more importantly, the host has extra machines on hand and can add servers at a moment's notice.
Zeppelins are still what people most associate with hydrogen, and the Hindenburg disaster is probably the most well-known event involving hydrogen. The Hindenburg's association to hydrogen has created a negative public image of the gas, and has perpetuated the myth that hydrogen is extremely dangerous. The Hindenburg was actually designed to use helium as the bouyant. At the time of the ill-fated journey to New Jersey, helium was extremely hard to come by due to U.S. trade embargoes. They used hydrogen, the next best thing, but the ship was not equipped with the necessary safety features required to deal with the flammable gas. The explosion was well covered by the media at the time. Little known is the fact that most of the deaths (there were thirty six casualties) were not attributed to the actual explosion, but occured when many tried to jump to safety and died on landing. It is now established that hydrogen is, in fact, less dangerous than most fuels used today.
Corporations are unable to strip anyone of freedoms... Or are they?
I think they have been quite successful at LOBBYING the U.S. government (and any other internation government) to enable laws that reduce the freedom of all citizens.
All in the name of profit and "global competition" of course.
A serious questions... Once all those countries get to our level (which, I think is the ideal here), who's going to make those cheap tennis shoes? Are we going to automate everything and everyone is going to be designing computers? Doesn't our system NEED countries to exploit?
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We've been using CrossOver Office for almost a year in a corporate environment and I can tell you that the 7 people using it are constantly frustrated by high cpu usage, bugs, incompatibility, crashes of apps running with CrossOver Office. Using it is mostly hit and miss (opening documents usually ok, but actually editing them not so much).
A very neat product with lots of potential but limited applicability in a serious work environment.
Sadly, it is useless for most of Asia because CJK (Chinese Japanese Korean) input is broken:
m /+bug/2565
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+sources/sci
The fonts are there, the localization strings are there, the keyboard LAYOUTS are there but the input server to transform romanized input (for example) to the Asian characters is not working. Particularly frustrating because Ubuntu has decided on not making it a core part (as it is in SuSE or RedHat) of the distro...
Interesting, because I just reported this for Ubuntu as it was also displaying "Taiwan, Province of China":
http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16314
methink there is a definite concerted effort out there from mainland Chinese to do this. It is also quite easy to do with OpenSource and it's wilfully politically ignorant geeks...
Would have been nice to mention that 2nd place was ETS in the post and not MIT, Cornell or Duke...
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Nice work guys! Wished I could have done so well while I was in the team:
http://www.auvsi.org/competitions/2005/05finalsta
Note that the submarine has always been using Linux as the main OS except for the first year where it was just microcontrollers:
http://sonia.etsmtl.ca/en/ETS_jpaper_2005.pdf
In fact, I was inspired to help start a team at ETS after seeing the slashdot.org post in 1999 when MIT won with a Linux-driven AUV.
Interesting... I'm having the same problem at work with Debian Sarge. Most of the time, it seems to resolve ok but once in a while a query is sent to the DNS server, times out because of no response and 5 seconds later falls back to the the next DNS server. I've confirmed with Ethereal that the request is sent ok but no packet is received in the other direction.
Grrr, any Sybase engineer could tell when the HELL they are going to deliver Sybase ASE on Linux 64-bit for Opteron???
We're just waiting for this at work to move to all this cool hardware! Geez... chalk one more for moving to Oracle!
Just wondering if anyone can explain what GB Micro memory is? I just ordered some:
"GB Micro 512MB PC-3200 DDR400 SDRAM Dual Channel Kit"
which at 126$CAN was 23$CAN less expensive then Kingston and 43$CAN less expensive then the OCZ... Anyone know what the heck it is and how well it ranks?
Who goes to the store anyway for computer parts? Just order it on the net and have it delivered by UPS... Better price and often faster then waiting for an out-of-stock (aren't they always)?item at the store!
Bullshit. I'm a Quebecker and the jokes about the French are friendly ribbing, not bashing. Frankly, I'm horrified when I read all the bashing against French in U.S. discussions boards...
You can read my post about my first impressions (and problems found!).
Hmmm, if the LKP works so well, couldn't it be possible they ripped off code from the Linux kernel at some point?? Is anyone verifying this?
Funny that you would say that because my colleague has just written a Ruby script to convert automatically all the worksheets to load it to an SQL database... A format that uses XML is what made it possible.
yeah, but if you want to read about the WORLD FASTEST HUMAN POWERED SUBMARINE, you'll have to check out our school sub, Omer ;-)
Hey, me and my wife did the exact same thing! Except we wrote AMOR (love in spanish) in ASCII coded binary. When was that? We got married in 2000.. Maybe I should patent it! ;-)
I'd be ready to pay 50$ a year for my 4 years old email adress IF they included sufficient services. I'm talking encrypted IMAP and webmail access, additionnal disk space (currently available at 19.99$), no ads, etc... Frankly, that's not much just so I don't have to change my email. But the current "additional services" are lacking in my opinion... I never understood why they don't offer this kind of package....
The exact same thing happenned to me, but with my IBM ThinkPad A22M, so AppleCare might not be "The Best". Perhaps "One of The Best" ;-)
Can you give me a few examples of PC portables that you would compare with the iBook in term of weight, price and hardware features?
Really, I'm between buying an Dell Inspiron 8000 and an iBook 500...
I'm a PC head but I was going to buy myself one of those nice G3/500 iBook because of the killer combo of a superb hardware feature set, Unix core and a nice GUI.
Now you're telling me that they have a SUCKY performance? I was at least expecting that the G3/500 would be able compete with a P3/750 and a G4/500 with a P3/1Ghz. Damn it!! Why must you do this to me Slashdot? Why must you cast doubt in my heart?
You DID NOT READ THE ARTICLE. It has nothing to do with the hardware performance, but rather (according to them) how well the software is adapted to that particular hardware/software combo.
You also have to read that the servers were operated by Rackspace and not by them. I'll suppose that they are quite experienced and able...
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Great idea! Should make portability easier! Too bad we're still far from 1.0. Meanwhile, I'll use GLUI... (Wonder why that one didn't catch on?)
Corporations are unable to strip anyone of freedoms... Or are they?
I think they have been quite successful at LOBBYING the U.S. government (and any other internation government) to enable laws that reduce the freedom of all citizens.
All in the name of profit and "global competition" of course.
A serious questions... Once all those countries get to our level (which, I think is the ideal here), who's going to make those cheap tennis shoes? Are we going to automate everything and everyone is going to be designing computers? Doesn't our system NEED countries to exploit?
Hey, if you need aquatic, you can do it yourself and enter the AUVSI competition next year :
;-):
http://www.auvsi.org/auvcomp.htm
And if you've got money, you can sponsor us
http://www.auvsi.org/auvcomp.htm