Well I don't exactly think you can say that about Lindows yet. I'd say commercially available but not commercially sucessful. If they manage to stay afloat for a few more years and not die off like Corel, Progeny, and Stormix(god I loved that one) did then maybe we can start talking about how a version of Debian has been successful commercially.
The Canon A60 and A70 are great cameras and take excellant photos. Although I keep mine mostly in Auto mode its nice to be able to play around with the manual settings and see how well you can do. Afterall its digital if you blow it just delete it.:)
If Anyone is looking for a highly rated, affordable, and easy to use 2-3MP camera get a Powershot A60 or A70. In the 2-3MP range these are some of the best consumer ones out there.
btw don't take my word for it, feel free to check out all the digital review sites. I've yet to read a bad review of them.
"Without Samba, Linux et al would be in a much less pretty position."
Actually I don't really believe that.
"With the exception of Apache, Samba is the number one reason that Linux (and BSD, too!) has been able to invade the datacenters of companies the world over."
Uh what about Bind and Sendmail? I love Samba as well but it comes at a waay distant 4th (if that) to those apps. Apache, Bind, and Sendmail are what got the free nix's in the door, Samba was just a nice bonus.
I know isn't that just digusting? Corporations can continue to screw around willy nilly with their finances and not suffer. People are largely unaware of the catfight going on where financial companies and their lobbists are trying to eliminate the last few legitimate ways out of debt.
It is sickening that these financial companies are all to eager to give credit cards to fresh 18 year olds who don't know a thing about credit. The credit card companies are like drug dealers making sure that they "hook they young" put inexperienced children in over their head. Its the same as giving a 5 year old a real gun and then being surprised as the results. People of both ages have zero idea of the consequences of their actions.
Sadly in the current political climate your only likely to see more of these types of changes which put consumers at the bottom of the pile.
Excellant point, but as the author smartly pointed out what's better.01 per song for the artist or.00 because they downloaded from Kazaa? You can't expect a consumer to buy their music from some other means say CD's so that the artist makes more.
"MS does rather carefull studies on what 'resonates' with CxO level buyers and attacks on that."
Yea but besides Microsoft press releases and MS's known lacky the Gartner Group where do you even here this crap anymore. I guess you could run your business by those few sources, but my hunch is most people don't anymore. Gartner itself has lost a lot of credibility in the last 5 years. Even most of the pro Microsoft rags I read say to take everything MS says with a grain of salt. They've all been burned by MS promises many times now so while they may not even consider switching to Linux, they sure as hell don't exactly have a warm and fuzzy opinion of MS anymore. MS for some odd reason thinks this is 6 years ago and that everyone still believes everything they say. Poor bastards.
Maybe if they spent as much time fixing their products as they did FUDing opensource there wouldn't be so many "Worms of the Week".
Christ what kind of messages do they think this sends? The more they talk about linux and opensource the more companies become aware as a viable option and realize that Microsoft is seriously shitting its pants. From a PR standpoint this is a disaster. This isn't 1996 when there was no Google and you couldn't do your own research. Anyone with half a brain and five minutes can easily find out that all the FUD is just flat out wrong.
In a way I actually feel bad for Balmer et al. I mean it must not be fun to live in fear which its pretty obvious they are. Kinda sad really. Their entire business is based on the assumption that users and companies don't realize that they have a choice. Now that you can't go a week without having MS bring up Linux even the average Joe knows about it. Sure he may not switch his laptop, but chances are at his business he may realize that Linux is a real alternative on the server.
Poor Microsoft if they don't stop stalking Linux at every turn Tux is going to have to take out a restraining order.
"Corporate, in their infinate stupidity decided that e-mailint EXE files, in any direction through our servers should not be allowed. Ok, so it stops a lot of the Outlook viruses, but it also stops us sending new builds of software between people in house, "
I don't understand. If your truly being stopped from mailing EXE files, why don't you just ZIP up the EXE files and then email them? Are ZIP files blocked as well or for some strange reason(Ie your software can filter through them and see the EXE's inside) or has nobody in the company heard or ZIP files?
I'd really suggest you download the pdf before commenting. It's really quite a piece of work. In fact it looks like it might be the most comprehensive guide yet written on how to migrate to opensource. This is good stuff.
Armed with this and of course google and you'd be way ahead of the curve in planning or evaluating a migration to opensource.
They blow the antitrust thing and let Microsoft off scott-free and then watch Microsoft continue on with its dirty tricks without saying a word. Why even bother with this? Is this some sort of joke? Because I'm not laughing.
Want to do something right and not this petty crap? Force MS to actually open up some of their products so we can interoperate with them and not let MS hide behind the terms of that settlement agreement which does nothing but enforce their monopoly.
Sorry guys you blew it. You had all the dirt you needed to nail MS to the wall for their corporate sins and you folded. I'd honestly rather they not even waste my tax dollars pretending like they are actually enforcing a settlement which as we know only rubber stamped the "Microsoft Way" of doing business.
I'd say something about how dumb you look for trying to defend the King of liars(Bush) by calling others liars, but suffice to say there's not much point in trying to debate such a silly remark.
Required reading for anyone tired of the Right-Washing.
Some people resent the fact that the USA isn't run via a "every man for himself doctrine". They believe that if you can't pull yourself up out of whatever you were born into or what circumstance you've come upon then you should just go fuck yourself and go lie in a gutter and die.
The less selfish and more intelligent Americans see the basic need for National Healthcare for every citizen, and also the need to reign in the massively corrupt private healthcare system which has failed us.
"Also, let me really clear about our Linux strategy. We don't have one. We don't at all. We do not believe that Linux plays a role on the server. Period. If you want to buy it, we will sell it to you, but we believe that Solaris is a better alternative, that is safer, more robust, higher quality and dramatically less expensive in purchase price"
Wow. What a ringing endorsement. Tell me why anyone would buy Linux from people like that when you can deal with IBM.
Salesman rule #1 - Never Ever talk bad about any of the products you sell even if you think they are crap. I'm sure the guys in the Linux marketing and sales department at Sun are oh so happy about that quote.
"What? I see load times of around 1.5 seconds. Again, you're either lying or there's something seriously wrong with your machine. "
Sorry but of the three machines I've tried it on (PIII900,XP1900,Duron 1GHz all w/512MB) ITunes doesn't come close to launching in 1.5 seconds.
Hey I mostly like ITunes, but you're really in denial about slow it can be. Initial startup takes well over 10 seconds and second launches take just about 4 seconds on my fastest PC. Good for you if it starts up so fast, but rest assured a large percentage of its users don't experience that. And contrary to your accusations were all not a bunch of liars.
Make sure you can see which song it stops on, ie put the progress bar at the top of th screen before the Crash message covers it. Then move any file that won't import out of the path. This is waht worked for me.
He could have at least thought of something better to say than that. I mean geez I don't know any Windows diehards who would agree with him about Windows patching. They might argue about which is more secure, but not about who is better at getting patches out quickly. Every admin myself included has real issues with the quality of MS's patching. Beyond the length of time it takes to get patches there is the cross your fingers and hope the patch doesn't blow up your server factor. Then there is the patch for the patch for the patch because MS didn't get it right the first time.
These quotes are just making Bill seem like he is either totally out of touch with what is going on with his company or he is in complete denial. Either way he looks really bad.
Hmm I don't have the high cpu problem, well unless I enable visuals. The whole unable to import music thing really sucks though. ITunes isn't much good to me if I can't navigate my Music Library.
The one thing I will say is ITunes Music store is about as cool as it gets. The long previews and excellant sound quality definitely put it above and music shopping site Ive used.
It crashed on me when importing my music library and I've been reading a few reports of it crashing at Ars as well. Seems like Apples has some fixing to do.
To all the people whining about people "stabbing Mandrake in the back". Get a clue already. Mandrake is free to do what they want with their commercial versions with proprietary addons. They simply legally and ethically can't do the same with the GPL vesion. Don't want to listen to me? Fine. Let's see what Mandrake themselves has to say on their 9.2 features page.
"Mandrake Linux 9.2 is a "100% Free Software" product. This means that everyone is granted the right to access the sources, modify and redistribute the software"
Sounds to me like an open and shut case. It will never be right in a million years for anyone to try and limit the distribution of GPL software. If you don't believe in that then your priorities are screwed up. These companies who pack up and then redistribute thousands of packages of OTHER peoples software simply have no right to ignore the license that goes along with it. Somehow I don't think the authors of Gnome or KDE or even the author of some package rarely used want to see their software being restricted in this way. If they had I'm sure there would be some clause saying "hey if you feel like it, feel free to restrict distribution if its in the interest of some company".
Mandrake knew what they were getting into when they decided to piggy back on the work of others to create their distro. If now they are somehow regretting the terms of the software they have adopted, then maybe they need to rethink the business they are in.
That's the way I am as well. I'd love to get a Tivo and I could scrap together the $199 for the entry level unit, but like you I just flat our refuse to pay a monthy fee. I think $156 a year for the Tv Guide and some possible minor updates is a total joke. In just a few years the Tivo has cost you over $500 and just keeps billing you $156 a year. The only logical thing is to do the lifetime payment up front but even then your stuck with $500 up front *gulp*.
Tivo is definitely a cool toy, buts its just way too expensive for my blood. I think I'll wait till its features come built in with every cable subscription. Hopefully that's only a few years away.
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Well I don't exactly think you can say that about Lindows yet. I'd say commercially available but not commercially sucessful. If they manage to stay afloat for a few more years and not die off like Corel, Progeny, and Stormix(god I loved that one) did then maybe we can start talking about how a version of Debian has been successful commercially.
The Canon A60 and A70 are great cameras and take excellant photos. Although I keep mine mostly in Auto mode its nice to be able to play around with the manual settings and see how well you can do. Afterall its digital if you blow it just delete it. :)
If Anyone is looking for a highly rated, affordable, and easy to use 2-3MP camera get a Powershot A60 or A70. In the 2-3MP range these are some of the best consumer ones out there.
btw don't take my word for it, feel free to check out all the digital review sites. I've yet to read a bad review of them.
"Without Samba, Linux et al would be in a much less pretty position."
Actually I don't really believe that.
"With the exception of Apache, Samba is the number one reason that Linux (and BSD, too!) has been able to invade the datacenters of companies the world over."
Uh what about Bind and Sendmail? I love Samba as well but it comes at a waay distant 4th (if that) to those apps. Apache, Bind, and Sendmail are what got the free nix's in the door, Samba was just a nice bonus.
I know isn't that just digusting? Corporations can continue to screw around willy nilly with their finances and not suffer. People are largely unaware of the catfight going on where financial companies and their lobbists are trying to eliminate the last few legitimate ways out of debt.
It is sickening that these financial companies are all to eager to give credit cards to fresh 18 year olds who don't know a thing about credit. The credit card companies are like drug dealers making sure that they "hook they young" put inexperienced children in over their head. Its the same as giving a 5 year old a real gun and then being surprised as the results. People of both ages have zero idea of the consequences of their actions.
Sadly in the current political climate your only likely to see more of these types of changes which put consumers at the bottom of the pile.
Excellant point, but as the author smartly pointed out what's better .01 per song for the artist or .00 because they downloaded from Kazaa? You can't expect a consumer to buy their music from some other means say CD's so that the artist makes more.
"MS does rather carefull studies on what 'resonates' with CxO level buyers and attacks on that."
Yea but besides Microsoft press releases and MS's known lacky the Gartner Group where do you even here this crap anymore. I guess you could run your business by those few sources, but my hunch is most people don't anymore. Gartner itself has lost a lot of credibility in the last 5 years. Even most of the pro Microsoft rags I read say to take everything MS says with a grain of salt. They've all been burned by MS promises many times now so while they may not even consider switching to Linux, they sure as hell don't exactly have a warm and fuzzy opinion of MS anymore. MS for some odd reason thinks this is 6 years ago and that everyone still believes everything they say. Poor bastards.
Maybe if they spent as much time fixing their products as they did FUDing opensource there wouldn't be so many "Worms of the Week".
Christ what kind of messages do they think this sends? The more they talk about linux and opensource the more companies become aware as a viable option and realize that Microsoft is seriously shitting its pants. From a PR standpoint this is a disaster. This isn't 1996 when there was no Google and you couldn't do your own research. Anyone with half a brain and five minutes can easily find out that all the FUD is just flat out wrong.
In a way I actually feel bad for Balmer et al. I mean it must not be fun to live in fear which its pretty obvious they are. Kinda sad really. Their entire business is based on the assumption that users and companies don't realize that they have a choice. Now that you can't go a week without having MS bring up Linux even the average Joe knows about it. Sure he may not switch his laptop, but chances are at his business he may realize that Linux is a real alternative on the server.
Poor Microsoft if they don't stop stalking Linux at every turn Tux is going to have to take out a restraining order.
"Corporate, in their infinate stupidity decided that e-mailint EXE files, in any direction through our servers should not be allowed. Ok, so it stops a lot of the Outlook viruses, but it also stops us sending new builds of software between people in house, "
I don't understand. If your truly being stopped from mailing EXE files, why don't you just ZIP up the EXE files and then email them? Are ZIP files blocked as well or for some strange reason(Ie your software can filter through them and see the EXE's inside) or has nobody in the company heard or ZIP files?
I'd really suggest you download the pdf before commenting. It's really quite a piece of work. In fact it looks like it might be the most comprehensive guide yet written on how to migrate to opensource. This is good stuff.
Armed with this and of course google and you'd be way ahead of the curve in planning or evaluating a migration to opensource.
Kudos to the authors.
They blow the antitrust thing and let Microsoft off scott-free and then watch Microsoft continue on with its dirty tricks without saying a word. Why even bother with this? Is this some sort of joke? Because I'm not laughing.
Want to do something right and not this petty crap? Force MS to actually open up some of their products so we can interoperate with them and not let MS hide behind the terms of that settlement agreement which does nothing but enforce their monopoly.
Sorry guys you blew it. You had all the dirt you needed to nail MS to the wall for their corporate sins and you folded. I'd honestly rather they not even waste my tax dollars pretending like they are actually enforcing a settlement which as we know only rubber stamped the "Microsoft Way" of doing business.
Blech.
I'd say something about how dumb you look for trying to defend the King of liars(Bush) by calling others liars, but suffice to say there's not much point in trying to debate such a silly remark.
Required reading for anyone tired of the Right-Washing.
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
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Some people resent the fact that the USA isn't run via a "every man for himself doctrine". They believe that if you can't pull yourself up out of whatever you were born into or what circumstance you've come upon then you should just go fuck yourself and go lie in a gutter and die.
The less selfish and more intelligent Americans see the basic need for National Healthcare for every citizen, and also the need to reign in the massively corrupt private healthcare system which has failed us.
"Also, let me really clear about our Linux strategy. We don't have one. We don't at all. We do not believe that Linux plays a role on the server. Period. If you want to buy it, we will sell it to you, but we believe that Solaris is a better alternative, that is safer, more robust, higher quality and dramatically less expensive in purchase price"
Wow. What a ringing endorsement. Tell me why anyone would buy Linux from people like that when you can deal with IBM.
Salesman rule #1 - Never Ever talk bad about any of the products you sell even if you think they are crap. I'm sure the guys in the Linux marketing and sales department at Sun are oh so happy about that quote.
"What? I see load times of around 1.5 seconds. Again, you're either lying or there's something seriously wrong with your machine. "
Sorry but of the three machines I've tried it on (PIII900,XP1900,Duron 1GHz all w/512MB) ITunes doesn't come close to launching in 1.5 seconds.
Hey I mostly like ITunes, but you're really in denial about slow it can be. Initial startup takes well over 10 seconds and second launches take just about 4 seconds on my fastest PC. Good for you if it starts up so fast, but rest assured a large percentage of its users don't experience that. And contrary to your accusations were all not a bunch of liars.
LoL.
Those frisky BSD users, always giving linux a hard time. Maybe they should just remove linux compatibility if the GPL is so evil. :P
funny link
Make sure you can see which song it stops on, ie put the progress bar at the top of th screen before the Crash message covers it. Then move any file that won't import out of the path. This is waht worked for me.
Just FYI in my case that's what I'm doing. No files are being moved and I'm not letting ITunes organize my library. Keeps crashing though.
He could have at least thought of something better to say than that. I mean geez I don't know any Windows diehards who would agree with him about Windows patching. They might argue about which is more secure, but not about who is better at getting patches out quickly. Every admin myself included has real issues with the quality of MS's patching. Beyond the length of time it takes to get patches there is the cross your fingers and hope the patch doesn't blow up your server factor. Then there is the patch for the patch for the patch because MS didn't get it right the first time.
These quotes are just making Bill seem like he is either totally out of touch with what is going on with his company or he is in complete denial. Either way he looks really bad.
Same here. Nobody has any input either.
Hmm I don't have the high cpu problem, well unless I enable visuals. The whole unable to import music thing really sucks though. ITunes isn't much good to me if I can't navigate my Music Library.
The one thing I will say is ITunes Music store is about as cool as it gets. The long previews and excellant sound quality definitely put it above and music shopping site Ive used.
It crashed on me when importing my music library and I've been reading a few reports of it crashing at Ars as well. Seems like Apples has some fixing to do.
LOL. That would be funny wouldn't it.
To all the people whining about people "stabbing Mandrake in the back". Get a clue already. Mandrake is free to do what they want with their commercial versions with proprietary addons. They simply legally and ethically can't do the same with the GPL vesion. Don't want to listen to me? Fine. Let's see what Mandrake themselves has to say on their 9.2 features page.
"Mandrake Linux 9.2 is a "100% Free Software" product. This means that everyone is granted the right to access the sources, modify and redistribute the software"
Sounds to me like an open and shut case. It will never be right in a million years for anyone to try and limit the distribution of GPL software. If you don't believe in that then your priorities are screwed up. These companies who pack up and then redistribute thousands of packages of OTHER peoples software simply have no right to ignore the license that goes along with it. Somehow I don't think the authors of Gnome or KDE or even the author of some package rarely used want to see their software being restricted in this way. If they had I'm sure there would be some clause saying "hey if you feel like it, feel free to restrict distribution if its in the interest of some company".
Mandrake knew what they were getting into when they decided to piggy back on the work of others to create their distro. If now they are somehow regretting the terms of the software they have adopted, then maybe they need to rethink the business they are in.
That's the way I am as well. I'd love to get a Tivo and I could scrap together the $199 for the entry level unit, but like you I just flat our refuse to pay a monthy fee. I think $156 a year for the Tv Guide and some possible minor updates is a total joke. In just a few years the Tivo has cost you over $500 and just keeps billing you $156 a year. The only logical thing is to do the lifetime payment up front but even then your stuck with $500 up front *gulp*.
Tivo is definitely a cool toy, buts its just way too expensive for my blood. I think I'll wait till its features come built in with every cable subscription. Hopefully that's only a few years away.