As the first thing I (and every single competant computer user I know, without exception, N>40) do when setting up an XP box, I disable the themes service. Poof, no more craptastic prettified round window edges taking up valuable screen real-estate.
is it possible to replace the window manager on a windows box? i recently held my nose and tried litestep on a win2k machine, and though it was kind of nice, i still had to put up with the windows window manager.
This doesn't work on XP. Explorer.exe is automatically restored when you mess with it. Of course, it'll be assumed that this is because Microsoft is enforcing a monopoly instead of it simply being a security feature.
of course, i could just log in as administrator and do it and it would stick, right?
i mean, the operating system wouldn't prevent me, as machine owner and admin, from doing something i wanted to do, would it?
it depends on the situation. and the ability to fork is a good thing. it means that one cranky bitch (*cough*(xfree86)*cough*) can't threaten to take the ball and go home. step out of line and the world will move on without you.
MS probably wants a specific kind of patent reform: the kind that would prevent IBM from hammering MS in retaliation for MS crushing open source with its patents.
So what's wrong with that?! If you need a screw or a bolt, you don't buy a lathe & milling machine and whatever else to make your own, but just go to the hardware store.
the hardware store doesn't control or unduly influence every fucking object that their bolts touch. the bolts are also easily interchanged with bolts from other hardware stores (see 'standards'), and the hardware store can't sue me into oblivion if i *do* choose to mill my own bolts (see 'patents').
and, finally, the hardware store owner doesn't have throngs of idiot aspiring business school students looking up at him, mistakenly awed by the bolt technology he created. i swear to fucking christ it makes the vomit rise in the back of my throat when Gates Groupies publicly jerk him off for being a "tech genius". it's like those little kids holding flowers and singing with adulation when stalin comes out on the balcony.
perhaps the encyclopedia britannica should be more humble, considering that it is itself a perfect example of the dangers of centralized control of information.
Now straighten out the wires and you're done! To make the chime cooler, you can add more rings to it.
that's right, because there's nothing cooler than having a lot of rings on the wind-chime that you made out of a hard drive. except maybe your gold-plated babylon five pocket protector.
Today its Microsoft. But how many people love them for it? How many people would switch to a different OS because they believe monopolies are bad? Calling these corporations Evil Empires does nothing to help the ignorant consumer.
it does *some* good. there are people who wouldn't even think to consider MS as evil unless they hear someone say it, and they start thinking "hmmm, now why does he say that?"
Where we work the exchange admins (yes we have multiple admins to make sure the email server is working) have turned off IMAP. It's a security problem they say, MAPI and DAV is much safer they claim. I asked one them about IMAP over SSL and he just shrugged.
cock-blocking maneuver against alternative mail clients. they're afraid non-MS software will threaten their turf.
When words like "groupware" and "enterprise" start getting tossed around, you're doing the latter. You start adding features to satisfy line-items on some checklist that was constructed by interminable committee meetings among bureaucrats, and you're coding toward an externally-dictated product specification that maybe some company will want to buy a hundred "seats" of, but that nobody will ever love. With that kind of motivation, nobody will ever find it sexy. It won't make anyone happy.
you know what would make me happy? you know what i would find sexy? if there were a viable F/OSS alternative to microsoft exchange with native cross-platform clients. that would make me so happy/sexy i'd probably drop trou and start stroking in my cube immediately.
nice rant from JWZ, committee-driven requirements are all ha-ha-funny, and management are brainless dicks who will never use the features anyway etc. etc. etc. but the fact remains that the outlook/exchange combo is the gnarly root of the rotting impacted tooth that is the microsoft software stack in businesses. a viable alternative must exist before we can yank that sucker out.
that said, there were a lot of useful suggestions in JWZ's article. i agree the place to start is to get calendaring and meeting invites down cold. but at some point you do need to add some straightforward project management / workflow crap.
outlook / exchange presents these functions interoperably through a single integrated interface that business-types are comfortable with, and that should be the goal of a groupware app. this need not contravene "the unix way is to do one thing well" philosophy - the "one thing" that such a client should do well is provide a unified interface to these groupware functions, which should work together.
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microsoft continues to ass-fuck the computing community without lube, and congress is looking at iTunes? at *ITUNES*?!! WHAT THE FUCK?
it seems firingsquad has been executed.
webware has its quirks but i'll never write another java servlet app again if i can help it.
Fuck you, Houlin Zhao.
oh yeah, and all the douchebags hiding behind you, too.
in the last answer, colm mentions collaboration features in 3.0 - anyone know where there might be more details on 3.0 features?
to not be a douchebag?
is it possible to replace the window manager on a windows box? i recently held my nose and tried litestep on a win2k machine, and though it was kind of nice, i still had to put up with the windows window manager.
of course, i could just log in as administrator and do it and it would stick, right?
i mean, the operating system wouldn't prevent me, as machine owner and admin, from doing something i wanted to do, would it?
it depends on the situation. and the ability to fork is a good thing. it means that one cranky bitch (*cough*(xfree86)*cough*) can't threaten to take the ball and go home. step out of line and the world will move on without you.
MS probably wants a specific kind of patent reform: the kind that would prevent IBM from hammering MS in retaliation for MS crushing open source with its patents.
this is hardly as done a deal as non-software patents, for obvious reasons. i don't think it's sensible to give up them yet.
the hardware store doesn't control or unduly influence every fucking object that their bolts touch. the bolts are also easily interchanged with bolts from other hardware stores (see 'standards'), and the hardware store can't sue me into oblivion if i *do* choose to mill my own bolts (see 'patents').
and, finally, the hardware store owner doesn't have throngs of idiot aspiring business school students looking up at him, mistakenly awed by the bolt technology he created. i swear to fucking christ it makes the vomit rise in the back of my throat when Gates Groupies publicly jerk him off for being a "tech genius". it's like those little kids holding flowers and singing with adulation when stalin comes out on the balcony.
inside the tar.gz there are RPM's.
there is a source package, of course, but i don't want to compile the beast.
why not provide a version we can just unpack and run, instead of RPM-only?
same difference.
for example, the church has had rather an undue influence on E.B. content.
that's right, because there's nothing cooler than having a lot of rings on the wind-chime that you made out of a hard drive. except maybe your gold-plated babylon five pocket protector.
the goatse guy should be able to help you with that.
does anyone remember the good old days, when this thread was about microsoft product activation? ahhh, those were the days, weren't they?
it does *some* good. there are people who wouldn't even think to consider MS as evil unless they hear someone say it, and they start thinking "hmmm, now why does he say that?"
So, uh, who ya gonna call Evil next? :)
whoever's evil :-)
well, i'm about to listen to it while taking a shower and getting ready for work.
my apologies to anyone who just pictured me in the shower.
my underoos are a bit tight but they're hanging in there. which is a real disturbing graphic if you interpret it properly.
hey, wait a minute - problem solved! thanks google!
cock-blocking maneuver against alternative mail clients. they're afraid non-MS software will threaten their turf.
you know what would make me happy? you know what i would find sexy? if there were a viable F/OSS alternative to microsoft exchange with native cross-platform clients. that would make me so happy/sexy i'd probably drop trou and start stroking in my cube immediately.
nice rant from JWZ, committee-driven requirements are all ha-ha-funny, and management are brainless dicks who will never use the features anyway etc. etc. etc. but the fact remains that the outlook/exchange combo is the gnarly root of the rotting impacted tooth that is the microsoft software stack in businesses. a viable alternative must exist before we can yank that sucker out.
that said, there were a lot of useful suggestions in JWZ's article. i agree the place to start is to get calendaring and meeting invites down cold. but at some point you do need to add some straightforward project management / workflow crap.
outlook / exchange presents these functions interoperably through a single integrated interface that business-types are comfortable with, and that should be the goal of a groupware app. this need not contravene "the unix way is to do one thing well" philosophy - the "one thing" that such a client should do well is provide a unified interface to these groupware functions, which should work together.
...if it didn't take six fucking minutes for their web page to load, they wouldn't be staring death in the face.