Because Windows also makes those choices for the desktop user, and the idea at this stage is to get users away from Windows and on to Linux without them having to think about partitioning disks, one password for them and another for whatever root is, and having to look for a instant messenger app, so they can chat to their sister in Spain. It has to just work as much as possible: to that end the model seems more like OS X, which of course also uses a single user and sudo (and with the rise in popularity of Beryl and Compiz, Ubuntu is starting to look like OS X).
I can see the author's point to an extent, but Ubuntu isn't aimed at him, and he won't be able to approach it from the target user'sperspective.
and the link to goodbye-microsoft.com offers to download... an exe.
(Yes, I am being super paranoid and I know it's a bit of promotion for Debian but I can see someone clicking on that and then wondering where Clippy has gone).
So it's still doing Google stuff. And it's going to have a portable Googleplex built in.
*incredibly loud jet sound* *knock on door* "Hi, I'm Larry, and this is Sergei, we heard that you were having a party. We brought, well, er, the contents of the local Walmart's liquor counter." "Well, that's very nice... say, how did you find out about the party?" *shifty look* "You sent out invites through gmail..."
I'm surprised that no-one's mentioned Gorillas
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MS-DOS 5 must have been the last time that Microsoft included a programming language with an operating system, dear old QBasic. Actually, it was in MS-DOS 6 and 7, and by definition Win95 and was what ran when you typed 'edit' at the command line. Still, how many hours were wasted throwing exploding bananas at gorillas on skyscrapers? I was so much simpler then.
not in my office, or for that matter not in my house. The office might have a wireless network but it's there for breakout areas (terrible phrase) and places where isn't viable to lay cable. Desktops are still cabled for security and speed.
Common, but an incredible pain in the arse. You need to make a licence server available, make sure it can be seen by all instances of the application, or that different instances are kept in sync, that clients are talking to the right servers... I think Sun have more or less given up on it now for Forte, that or everyone has given up on Forte for gcc. It doesn't work too well at an individual machine level either.
The amount of man and computing horsepower required to maintain a list of banned sites at the packet level would be enormous even for China, so an automated filter with a bit of rolling analysis would be logical. It probably even runs on a distributed squid farm, probably based at the ISPs rather than at the national peers, with updates issued from a central authority. The appearance of the cartoon policemen was a bit of a giveaway as they could really only be written into a web page by a proxy, and there are far too many internet cafes to go to force the addition of a bit of code at the cafe's end. In that respect it's not unlike the passive filter in front of my connection in this office. It checks for keywords in URLs as well as a list of banned sites, so anything with 'games' in is banned (I can't see articles posted to games.slashdot.org) and anything that involves 'wine' or 'beer' for some reason. That probably means, as has been mentioned, that it could be circumvented by a proxy or SSH tunnel to outside the.cn IP blocks.
The great thing about Wikipedia is that it can include articles on Palestine and minor characters in Buffy. A print encyclopedia is limited by its resources and has to be relevant. Wikipedia is in a constant state of revision so it is always relevant. Or irrelevant, depending on how you look at it. It's not exactly a huge draw on resources either - the text only amounts to 5gb or so. I probably wouldn't use it as a primary source but it's a good kickoff point.
Well, if they abandoned it, I'm sure all three existing users would notice.
Smartsuite is installed on all corporate IBM PCs but the option to install Office is the first thing in the global software repository, and it generally has to be used to share documents with clients. Sun have similar issues but at least StarOffice can talk.doc.
Not true. Take your client's requirement and interpret it in according to standards and best practise. Your client has hired you for your skills so it's your duty to do it properly and make it easy to update in the future if it's you who has to update it or someone else. Anyone can design a web page and far too often it's obvious that anyone has.
Their 770 and N800 tablets have touch screens, run Debian Linux and have WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity. They don't have a phone module but I suspect that's for the want of Linux drivers. They're a bit big to be a phone but a bit of development could produce a truly open competitor.
Cool, the US Government is floating on the stock market? I'm in... hmm, although looking at it's current performance it's not a good time for IPO. Some Indian company will probably just come in and take it over.
Aren't free newspapers full of coupons common in the US? The last time I visited your quaint little country I picked up magazines at rest stops that had pages of offers for hotels and restaurants, which came in handy as a way of touring on a budget. I assume there was some small print that said 'good for one night's stay only' or similar for each hotel, but there was nothing to stop me taking a bundle of those papers and using coupons wherever I wanted to. I would have doubled in weight and developed an aversion to garden burgers but in the end the retailers have their bit of promotion and the magazine publisher has their money. Printing these coupons online is exactly the same. If there is some requirement for exclusivity then the software provider should have tried to employ better techniques to prevent it. Instead, they are attempting to cover up their shortcomings by employing the DMCA, which is no different from companies employing it to prevent disclosure of bugs or security issues, and it would probably be cheaper to fix the software than to go through a costly legal process. Therefore in part, the suit is designed to save face. It's the CueCat all over again without the hardware, and is yet another weapon for software manufacturers and distributors to use against people who have the temerity to use software in a way that it wasn't supposed to be used, but that the makers and distributors were too lazy or cheap to prevent against.
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Because Windows also makes those choices for the desktop user, and the idea at this stage is to get users away from Windows and on to Linux without them having to think about partitioning disks, one password for them and another for whatever root is, and having to look for a instant messenger app, so they can chat to their sister in Spain. It has to just work as much as possible: to that end the model seems more like OS X, which of course also uses a single user and sudo (and with the rise in popularity of Beryl and Compiz, Ubuntu is starting to look like OS X).
I can see the author's point to an extent, but Ubuntu isn't aimed at him, and he won't be able to approach it from the target user'sperspective.
*points down*
It's almost dead. Hasn't been updated since version 6 about five years ago. That was a shame as it was sometimes well ahead of MS Office.
and the link to goodbye-microsoft.com offers to download... an exe.
(Yes, I am being super paranoid and I know it's a bit of promotion for Debian but I can see someone clicking on that and then wondering where Clippy has gone).
I'd rather take apt-get over rpm/yum these days. Ubuntu has made it almost easy to use.
Yes, I'm British. We have Walmarts here now (well, they're called ASDA), and if they didn't have liquor counters there *would* be riots.
So it's still doing Google stuff. And it's going to have a portable Googleplex built in.
*incredibly loud jet sound*
*knock on door*
"Hi, I'm Larry, and this is Sergei, we heard that you were having a party. We brought, well, er, the contents of the local Walmart's liquor counter."
"Well, that's very nice... say, how did you find out about the party?"
*shifty look*
"You sent out invites through gmail..."
MS-DOS 5 must have been the last time that Microsoft included a programming language with an operating system, dear old QBasic. Actually, it was in MS-DOS 6 and 7, and by definition Win95 and was what ran when you typed 'edit' at the command line. Still, how many hours were wasted throwing exploding bananas at gorillas on skyscrapers? I was so much simpler then.
A friend of mine replaced XP with Ubuntu on her PC because she liked the colours. *shrug*
not in my office, or for that matter not in my house. The office might have a wireless network but it's there for breakout areas (terrible phrase) and places where isn't viable to lay cable. Desktops are still cabled for security and speed.
None of their client testimonials have any attribution. Just sayin', like.
No, that's to make sure that they get the right client government while letting their citizens kill each other in the manner of their choosing ;)
Common, but an incredible pain in the arse. You need to make a licence server available, make sure it can be seen by all instances of the application, or that different instances are kept in sync, that clients are talking to the right servers... I think Sun have more or less given up on it now for Forte, that or everyone has given up on Forte for gcc. It doesn't work too well at an individual machine level either.
Actually, with Australia's history of ill-considered legislation over the Internet, expect forums to be made illegal in the next six months.
Congressional law doesn't apply in Australia. Or anywhere else apart from the USA. Just thought I'd remind you.
The amount of man and computing horsepower required to maintain a list of banned sites at the packet level would be enormous even for China, so an automated filter with a bit of rolling analysis would be logical. It probably even runs on a distributed squid farm, probably based at the ISPs rather than at the national peers, with updates issued from a central authority. The appearance of the cartoon policemen was a bit of a giveaway as they could really only be written into a web page by a proxy, and there are far too many internet cafes to go to force the addition of a bit of code at the cafe's end. .cn IP blocks.
In that respect it's not unlike the passive filter in front of my connection in this office. It checks for keywords in URLs as well as a list of banned sites, so anything with 'games' in is banned (I can't see articles posted to games.slashdot.org) and anything that involves 'wine' or 'beer' for some reason. That probably means, as has been mentioned, that it could be circumvented by a proxy or SSH tunnel to outside the
I hope that you aren't going to be working with that guy, or you're going to have *hours* of fun.
The great thing about Wikipedia is that it can include articles on Palestine and minor characters in Buffy. A print encyclopedia is limited by its resources and has to be relevant. Wikipedia is in a constant state of revision so it is always relevant. Or irrelevant, depending on how you look at it. It's not exactly a huge draw on resources either - the text only amounts to 5gb or so. I probably wouldn't use it as a primary source but it's a good kickoff point.
Well, if they abandoned it, I'm sure all three existing users would notice.
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Smartsuite is installed on all corporate IBM PCs but the option to install Office is the first thing in the global software repository, and it generally has to be used to share documents with clients. Sun have similar issues but at least StarOffice can talk
Not true. Take your client's requirement and interpret it in according to standards and best practise. Your client has hired you for your skills so it's your duty to do it properly and make it easy to update in the future if it's you who has to update it or someone else. Anyone can design a web page and far too often it's obvious that anyone has.
I'm willing to bet that someone somewhere has emulated vi in emacs, just to mess with people's heads.
I'm looking forward to Google suing me for using Adblock Plus with Firefox.
Their 770 and N800 tablets have touch screens, run Debian Linux and have WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity. They don't have a phone module but I suspect that's for the want of Linux drivers. They're a bit big to be a phone but a bit of development could produce a truly open competitor.
In the UK, we got a new speaking clock earlier this year. It's been sponsored for more than twenty years too.
Cool, the US Government is floating on the stock market? I'm in... hmm, although looking at it's current performance it's not a good time for IPO. Some Indian company will probably just come in and take it over.
Aren't free newspapers full of coupons common in the US? The last time I visited your quaint little country I picked up magazines at rest stops that had pages of offers for hotels and restaurants, which came in handy as a way of touring on a budget. I assume there was some small print that said 'good for one night's stay only' or similar for each hotel, but there was nothing to stop me taking a bundle of those papers and using coupons wherever I wanted to. I would have doubled in weight and developed an aversion to garden burgers but in the end the retailers have their bit of promotion and the magazine publisher has their money. Printing these coupons online is exactly the same. If there is some requirement for exclusivity then the software provider should have tried to employ better techniques to prevent it. Instead, they are attempting to cover up their shortcomings by employing the DMCA, which is no different from companies employing it to prevent disclosure of bugs or security issues, and it would probably be cheaper to fix the software than to go through a costly legal process. Therefore in part, the suit is designed to save face. It's the CueCat all over again without the hardware, and is yet another weapon for software manufacturers and distributors to use against people who have the temerity to use software in a way that it wasn't supposed to be used, but that the makers and distributors were too lazy or cheap to prevent against.