Am I the only one who, nearly every week, recovers a client's "valuable data" using Knoppix when something has eaten Windows alive? (And sometimes Windows eats itself alive, unfortunately.)
Peer reviews only work when you, the one who authored the code, explains it to a group of peers (even one will do). And a "peer" can be the night janitor. You'll be shocked when you see your own mistakes -- only when you're explaining it to someone new to it.
For a free solution:
* Open up already purchased laptop
* Place in strategic location on desk and turn power on
* Wait for boot and login to computer desktop
* Open Kwickshow and point it at graphics file collection
Funny. I have a really hard time explaining Outlook or Outlook Express to clients (especially over the phone). When I sense they're about to give up on the problem, I suggest Thunderbird.
Actually happened again, 20 minutes ago (over the phone). But this time, just for the heck of it, I also recommended Eudora -- choice is good.
When they try Thunderbird out for a day or so, they never go back. If their Outlook problem mysteriously fixes itself, within a day, they go back.
Next week MS will put another easter egg in their search engine to keep Slashdotters busy for hours while MS programmers hammer out Longhorn and Sheephorn and Horned-owl and take over the WORLD!!!
For the 4.4 release, only:
* Anti-aliased font installation is supported through a graphical user interface
* nVidia and ATI video drivers have been poured in, native
* All Microsoft code found in the wild has been incorporated (must accept MS EULA during each boot process)
Tell him you'll print out, address and mail his resume for him, every day, until he finally gets that illusive job back that he lost, two, three years ago.
I'm sorry, all credibility goes out the window with "award winning". It seems to me there's a whole lotta KDE astroturfing goin' on.
I see. Seems to me there's a whole lotta Microsoft shills that got modpoints, today (parent was modded '5 Insightful' at time of reading).
As a matter of fact, KDE has won numerous awards, year after year. And I wouldn't call it "astroturfing" to express celebration over a release of a new KDE version in an article announcing the release of a new KDE version.
Hmmmm... I've had the toughest time with the following hardware on Windows:
* Several NIC cards (had to buy new ones just to get the driver off the floppy disk in the boxes)
* RocketRAID (horrific story, actually)
* SCSI cards (best high-speed scanner interface, but very tough to get working)
* Sound cards (yes, even certain sound cards)
* Some video cards (but rarely)
All of the above just worked with Linux. Why did I even try Linux? Best hardware diagnostic tool ever invented:
* Load Knoppix
* Reboot
* See if hardware works... It does?
* Conclude it's Windows -- not a hardare problem
* Keep digging for a Windows solution (e.g. download drivers)
Often I have to download drivers using my laptop (which runs Linux) because a hardware upgrade has rendered the client's PC inoperable until I do so.
The truth is, Windows generally supports newer hardware better, as long as you have access to the drivers. Linux generally supports established hardware better than Windows, right out of the box -- YMMV.
Also (speaking of YMMV), MP3s just work on Linux, for me. You need to get a distro! (Try Xandros, Mandrake, SuSE or Lindows.)
As far as security goes... Yes, you can make Windows secure, but you have to:
* Spend much more time at it
* Know more about absolutely non-standard processes (e.g. kerberos & active directory vs LDAP)
* Live with inflexible admin tools (e.g. silly-poor routing capability; horrible CLI support)
* Stuck in front of a GUI (mouse clicks take time!!!)
* When it doesn't work there is no answering "Why?" -- much of the time
For every reason to use Windows there's a reason to use Linux. Can't we all just get along?
We started out with no customers or contacts:-/ We nearly shipwrecked our future, too.
If you do start without customer, though, do pick up the phone and start calling like mad (google for the term "cold calling" and learn about good vs bad cold calling).
Now we have plenty of clients and are beginning to grow through referrals.
That was lesson # 1. Lesson # 2 (recent) occured when I spoke with a business-mentor/friend about how our business was doing and he said, about referrals: You have to ask for a referral (from your existing clients). A big "duh!" in retrospect. But who ever takes "Sales 101" in Geek School???
Slashdot Mirror
...but it's not an explicit kind of think...
Dmitri? Is that you?
Was he from Italy? What were his sons' names? Did he drive a taxi? Or a cart?
Ok, it's much to early to be posting on Slashdot. Sorry folks. The article does number them top-to-bottom.
I'm going to grab more coffee.....
Is that #5 from bottom up (like the article numbers them)? Or from the top down? Hello? Grandpa?
#5 - Anti-american: Mexico? Guetemala? Canada?
Yeah! Let's blame Canada!
#5 - Runs on Intel: Uh... How about, runs on everything!
Yeah. Knoppix to the rescue! (Again)
Wow. How is this 'offtopic'?
Am I the only one who, nearly every week, recovers a client's "valuable data" using Knoppix when something has eaten Windows alive? (And sometimes Windows eats itself alive, unfortunately.)
Peer reviews only work when you, the one who authored the code, explains it to a group of peers (even one will do). And a "peer" can be the night janitor. You'll be shocked when you see your own mistakes -- only when you're explaining it to someone new to it.
Yeah. Knoppix to the rescue! (Again)
For a free solution:
* Open up already purchased laptop
* Place in strategic location on desk and turn power on
* Wait for boot and login to computer desktop
* Open Kwickshow and point it at graphics file collection
Done.
Funny. I have a really hard time explaining Outlook or Outlook Express to clients (especially over the phone). When I sense they're about to give up on the problem, I suggest Thunderbird.
Actually happened again, 20 minutes ago (over the phone). But this time, just for the heck of it, I also recommended Eudora -- choice is good.
When they try Thunderbird out for a day or so, they never go back. If their Outlook problem mysteriously fixes itself, within a day, they go back.
No. No. No! As I recall, RPM was available for 1.0, right from the get go. And it was available on both cdrom AND floppy versions of redhat.
Wow! I'm staring at my copy of "GNU Emacs Manual, Sixth Edition, Version 18, March 1987" (Yellow cover)
:-/
Thos were the days. Thanks for the memories... I miss my old Sun Sparkstation
Automate the whole money making/money management/business workflow procedure so that we are managed by machines rather than people.
Bill already did that.
Well, all but the ethical part...
Next week MS will put another easter egg in their search engine to keep Slashdotters busy for hours while MS programmers hammer out Longhorn and Sheephorn and Horned-owl and take over the WORLD!!!
An all-seeing eye, wreathed in flame...
Ah. But if you search for XFree86 MS idiots!!! you bypass their pr0n warning and get a slew of links to Slashdot.
How not-so-strange...
For the 4.4 release, only:
* Anti-aliased font installation is supported through a graphical user interface
* nVidia and ATI video drivers have been poured in, native
* All Microsoft code found in the wild has been incorporated (must accept MS EULA during each boot process)
Did I leave anything out?
Not before... You've got to ask yourself: Am I a WHG zealot?
(WHG III, KBE)
It's *not* dead. It's sleeping... Taking a nap.
Tell him you'll print out, address and mail his resume for him, every day, until he finally gets that illusive job back that he lost, two, three years ago.
I'm sorry, all credibility goes out the window with "award winning". It seems to me there's a whole lotta KDE astroturfing goin' on.
I see. Seems to me there's a whole lotta Microsoft shills that got modpoints, today (parent was modded '5 Insightful' at time of reading).
As a matter of fact, KDE has won numerous awards, year after year. And I wouldn't call it "astroturfing" to express celebration over a release of a new KDE version in an article announcing the release of a new KDE version.
Thanks. Now I don't have to feel so bad about living here.
Hey! While you're extolling the virtues of this place, why not enjoy a nice, cold refreshing Polygamy Porter?
I predict that they will open the Linux BU 2 years after Linux has made Microsoft totally irrelevent.
Wow! So it's been around for about four or five years, then. Cool...
Hmmmm... I've had the toughest time with the following hardware on Windows:
* Several NIC cards (had to buy new ones just to get the driver off the floppy disk in the boxes)
* RocketRAID (horrific story, actually)
* SCSI cards (best high-speed scanner interface, but very tough to get working)
* Sound cards (yes, even certain sound cards)
* Some video cards (but rarely)
All of the above just worked with Linux. Why did I even try Linux? Best hardware diagnostic tool ever invented:
* Load Knoppix
* Reboot
* See if hardware works... It does?
* Conclude it's Windows -- not a hardare problem
* Keep digging for a Windows solution (e.g. download drivers)
Often I have to download drivers using my laptop (which runs Linux) because a hardware upgrade has rendered the client's PC inoperable until I do so.
The truth is, Windows generally supports newer hardware better, as long as you have access to the drivers. Linux generally supports established hardware better than Windows, right out of the box -- YMMV.
Also (speaking of YMMV), MP3s just work on Linux, for me. You need to get a distro! (Try Xandros, Mandrake, SuSE or Lindows.)
As far as security goes... Yes, you can make Windows secure, but you have to:
* Spend much more time at it
* Know more about absolutely non-standard processes (e.g. kerberos & active directory vs LDAP)
* Live with inflexible admin tools (e.g. silly-poor routing capability; horrible CLI support)
* Stuck in front of a GUI (mouse clicks take time!!!)
* When it doesn't work there is no answering "Why?" -- much of the time
For every reason to use Windows there's a reason to use Linux. Can't we all just get along?
We started out with no customers or contacts :-/ We nearly shipwrecked our future, too.
If you do start without customer, though, do pick up the phone and start calling like mad (google for the term "cold calling" and learn about good vs bad cold calling).
Now we have plenty of clients and are beginning to grow through referrals.
That was lesson # 1. Lesson # 2 (recent) occured when I spoke with a business-mentor/friend about how our business was doing and he said, about referrals: You have to ask for a referral (from your existing clients). A big "duh!" in retrospect. But who ever takes "Sales 101" in Geek School???
Sink's company produced AbiWord. -- A/C
You are correct! (I read Slashdot, too.) A venture which he has since disavowed...