I like using Bang! for my news/blog stuff. I have tried a number of photo album tools and none of the ones I've looked at is what you'd call noobie friendly.
The most productive office environment I have ever worked in was one where all of us were in one big room with no deviders or walls or cubes. We had 14 people in the room with those big old government desks. It was so much easier to get things done 'cause when we needed info or help from anyone you'd just turn your chair and talk to them. Plus, since there were no percieved walls the conversations were much quieter since we didn't have to yell over the partitions and no one played their music loud. This works best with groups of developers or engineers but can also work for any team.
to be part of the Open Source community. The amount of bitching, whining and moaning about the RH/Fedora move is an embaresment to everyone in it. I have been using RH since 2.1 and Linux, in general, since November of 1991. I'm not some kernel hacker guru, just a techie doing network/sysadmin/development stuff. Personally I think that the direction that RH is going is a good one. It could have been done in a better, more gentle way, though. But the bottom line is this...
There is nothing phylisofically or morraly wrong with the move RH is making. If the change does not fit your needs, for whatever reasons, there are more than enough alternative distros (and even the *BSDs and other OSs) to choose from. Why does everything have to devolve into a holey war? Why do people have to get so personal about a tool? This is like throwing a fit over, for example, a hammer. Comopany A makes hammers. You've been using their hammers for years. They decide to change their hammers size, weight and price and this change makes it unusable for your needs. Do you cry and bitch and act stupid about it? No, you go buy a hammer from company B. End of story.
My suggestion to all the people posting flames and toll bait in here is to get off your high horses, shut the hell up and do something useful.
(Yes, I know this isn't much better than a flame either but I'm really getting tired of all these people going on and on about how bad RH is when they're doing more to further the use of Linux and open source than all of these ranting people combined)
Question: Why are you upset about support being dropped when it's been known for many months that it would happen? Didn't you do any research before getting it? Depending on what your system is doing Fedora will work just fine for you and your boss will be happy with the $0.00 cost.
My brothers and my mother went on opening day. I know their tastes and how their opinions would relate to mine (it gets like that when you know people for 40 years). My mom has been reading & enjoying F&SF for over 60 years, which is likely more than twice the time the average/.'er has been alive. All of this basically says that I know and trust her take on these things. Her comment on the movie was quite different from the theme running through here. Based on her reaction I know that it will be worth my time to go see the movie. I also know that Revolutions, like Reloaded, won't have the same impact as the Matrix. They can't. They will always be derivitave works. But they are supposed to be derivitave... it's the same story. Anyway, I can't wait to see Revolutions (probably on the 12th).
I never used Delphi (though I have some books on it, just in case) but I get every version of Kylix released. Version 3.0 was nice because it had the C++ builder with it so now I could try and use it. It worked fine (at least it seemed so for me) but the one big issue for me was you couldn't easily release something you built. You had to include a bunch of lib files and install them with the app on the users system. This wasn't tremendously difficult to do but it was an extra step that made thing a bit more complecated. And I know that I'd ben hesitent to install some whacky libs on my system just to run something.
I don't think radio should go away. The invention still has plenty of usefulness left in it. The RIAA, however, is another story. There really is no reason for them to exist anymore.
Other than to sue little old ladies and young children.
And always remember... Beer Goooooood! Napster Baaaad!
I've lived with acrophobia all my life. While it might be possible to treat it with video games, I think I'll just keep my phobia, thank you. I've learned to deal with it (I've flown over the Atlantic 13 times) and would probably miss it if it were gone.
There have been many, many articles and opinions on the insanity that is surrounding the Caldera/SCO Group brouhaha. It seems that a day can't go by without some silliness coming from them. Many people are tired of reading about it and I know a number of people have suggested, as you have, that if we ignore them they'll go away. After all, they don't have a leg to stand on now. They are just full of noise and hot air. While this may be true, ignoring them is the last thing we should do.
The bottom line here is the old saying, "Perception is Reality." Yes, the Caldera/SCO Group is blowing nothing but very thick smoke. Yes, indemnification is a joke and a non-issue. Yes, it's all about FUD and trying to kill Linux. However...
The fact of the matter is that the world outside of the Open License community can only go by what it reads and hears. And everything they are hearing, from both sides of the fence, just makes them gun shy. It matters little whether or not Caldera/SCO Group have a real claim on any code. Just the idea that they "might" is enough to do some damage to the Open License community and the actual software produced under said licensing. Ranting about it will not help. Being silent will not help. The only way I can see that will counter this is with calm but firm statements of truth by the community when discussing it with those who are outside of the community or in any published forum. Make sure that you have all the ammunition that is available on the subject when going into a situation where you might be confronted with FUD. Calmly explain to those who aren't as knowledgeable as we are about the facts. Don't get hyped up or excited. Don't make it a big deal. And definitely don't over exaggerate Open Licensed softwares capabilities. Think of it as explaining to your young child that there are no monsters under the bed. Be calm, be reassuring, be honest. This will do far more to take the wind out of the FUD than anything else we could do.
There is a third party utility for OS X that will give you virtual desktops. It's called CodeTek VirtualDesktop and is pretty good. It lets me have autofocus and autoraise as well. The full version costs $30 but the unregistered version is just enough to make things workable. You only get two virtual desktops if you don't register.
As the father of a 1st grader I would love for this to happen in my state. Having the laptops would be quite helpful, especially when the kids get into 4th & 5th grade and up. My eldest niece is in 4th and needs to use their home system more than her parents (well, not counting the many hours a day my brother-in-law plays online virtual poker; for no real money, OC).
I agree with the people stating that the school systems need to be better. As the son of a great highschool teacher I know how the quality of teaching can verry even within a school. Paying teachers resionable salaries and funding schools properly are two much needed changes that are desperatly overdue. Teachers should make more money than doctors and lawyers because their roll in sociaty is much more important. They help build the future.
As for which OS? OS X on iBooks would be the best bet, IMO. I'd wait till highschool to give the kids Linux boxes. WinXX is not an option. At least not until MS fixes it (which we all know will never actually happen).
Mr. Schwartz has now implied that Sun will indimnify it's customers. I think that everyone who runs Solaris call Sun and tell them they want total indimnification from Sun for any and all things related to Solaris and Sparc.
It's funny that the wrestling connection was in the post. In the Six Million Dollar Man episode where he met Bigfoot, the creature part was played by the amazing, wonderful, great & all-around cool guy Andre the Giant.
It took me till I was 39 to actually have anal sex (giving to a woman; two different ones, in fact). It was always a fantasy until the reality crashed in on me. Maybe I need more experience but it just wasn't all I'd thought it would be. I guess in my old age I just want fairly "normal" sex. You know, a good blowjob and/or some mish/doggy/her-on-top stuff. Basically something where I don't have to work to hard at it is best.
I guess it's just me but I never found Futurama or the Simpsons or any of the like to be even slightly entertaining. Same with South Park. It's not just the cartoons, just about everything on TV lately sucks. I know that TV got the nickname "Boob Tube" not for it's intellecual content. But why must the intellegance level go down year after year?
So what does it mean if you start out as a "very lonely, depressed, negative, anti-social, brilliant" person?
Seriouslly if it weren't for my son I would just as well spend my whole life online. I'm tired of interfacing with mundane's. The only people I can stand are other techies.
Rusty has enough trouble keeping his servers from melting down under normal load. Now it's been/.'ed! I can feel the warmth of the melting systems from here.
The place I work runs Win2K desktops and Solaris servers (excpet for the damned Exchange servers). In the summer of 2000 I stood up the first Linux server there. It was intended to be a prototype that would be moved to Solaris for production. Well, that box is still there (and in production) and we've got close to 20 other Linux servers. Now, this isn't earth shattering and not "topical" for this thread. However...
In late 2001 I switched my desktop from Win2K to Linux, with the permission of the team responsible for managing the desktop systems (kept it duel-boot to keep things official but never have booted into it). Now, there are a handfull of others using Linux for their desktop systems with more slowly coming over.
I have infected the organization and there's no going back.
If they want to make some money on the "lab" they'd probably be better off making it into an Internet Cafe. Offer 'Net access for X amount of dollars per hour and provide coffee or juice and you're off. This would probably be a very good thing especially with the majority of people being tourists.
>...and I'm eagerly looking forward to trying out
> the rest of the books in this series to see if
> they keep up the excellent quality of this one.
You had me right up to this point. I just can't deal with bood series anymore. Between work and my son I don't have time to get through many short stories let alone a novel. Having to go and reas a handfull and then waiting for the next one to be released is to much.
>...double agent Mrs. Katrina Leung, need I say more?
Uhm... Yes, actually. Who is Mrs. Katrina Leung? What would be significent about her as a "double agent?" I'm asking because I honestly don't know what you mean (nor do I know who Mrs. Leung is).
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I like using Bang! for my news/blog stuff. I have tried a number of photo album tools and none of the ones I've looked at is what you'd call noobie friendly.
I think I need a TiVo.
I just wish they hadn't pulled Rurouni Kenshin from the afternoon block.
The most productive office environment I have ever worked in was one where all of us were in one big room with no deviders or walls or cubes. We had 14 people in the room with those big old government desks. It was so much easier to get things done 'cause when we needed info or help from anyone you'd just turn your chair and talk to them. Plus, since there were no percieved walls the conversations were much quieter since we didn't have to yell over the partitions and no one played their music loud. This works best with groups of developers or engineers but can also work for any team.
There is nothing phylisofically or morraly wrong with the move RH is making. If the change does not fit your needs, for whatever reasons, there are more than enough alternative distros (and even the *BSDs and other OSs) to choose from. Why does everything have to devolve into a holey war? Why do people have to get so personal about a tool? This is like throwing a fit over, for example, a hammer. Comopany A makes hammers. You've been using their hammers for years. They decide to change their hammers size, weight and price and this change makes it unusable for your needs. Do you cry and bitch and act stupid about it? No, you go buy a hammer from company B. End of story.
My suggestion to all the people posting flames and toll bait in here is to get off your high horses, shut the hell up and do something useful.
(Yes, I know this isn't much better than a flame either but I'm really getting tired of all these people going on and on about how bad RH is when they're doing more to further the use of Linux and open source than all of these ranting people combined)
Actually his name was Twiki.
BTW, there was no version 9.1 of RHL.
My brothers and my mother went on opening day. I know their tastes and how their opinions would relate to mine (it gets like that when you know people for 40 years). My mom has been reading & enjoying F&SF for over 60 years, which is likely more than twice the time the average /.'er has been alive. All of this basically says that I know and trust her take on these things. Her comment on the movie was quite different from the theme running through here. Based on her reaction I know that it will be worth my time to go see the movie. I also know that Revolutions, like Reloaded, won't have the same impact as the Matrix. They can't. They will always be derivitave works. But they are supposed to be derivitave... it's the same story. Anyway, I can't wait to see Revolutions (probably on the 12th).
Well, that's my bit...
Other than to sue little old ladies and young children.
And always remember... Beer Goooooood! Napster Baaaad!
I've lived with acrophobia all my life. While it might be possible to treat it with video games, I think I'll just keep my phobia, thank you. I've learned to deal with it (I've flown over the Atlantic 13 times) and would probably miss it if it were gone.
The bottom line here is the old saying, "Perception is Reality." Yes, the Caldera/SCO Group is blowing nothing but very thick smoke. Yes, indemnification is a joke and a non-issue. Yes, it's all about FUD and trying to kill Linux. However...
The fact of the matter is that the world outside of the Open License community can only go by what it reads and hears. And everything they are hearing, from both sides of the fence, just makes them gun shy. It matters little whether or not Caldera/SCO Group have a real claim on any code. Just the idea that they "might" is enough to do some damage to the Open License community and the actual software produced under said licensing. Ranting about it will not help. Being silent will not help. The only way I can see that will counter this is with calm but firm statements of truth by the community when discussing it with those who are outside of the community or in any published forum. Make sure that you have all the ammunition that is available on the subject when going into a situation where you might be confronted with FUD. Calmly explain to those who aren't as knowledgeable as we are about the facts. Don't get hyped up or excited. Don't make it a big deal. And definitely don't over exaggerate Open Licensed softwares capabilities. Think of it as explaining to your young child that there are no monsters under the bed. Be calm, be reassuring, be honest. This will do far more to take the wind out of the FUD than anything else we could do.
There is a third party utility for OS X that will give you virtual desktops. It's called CodeTek VirtualDesktop and is pretty good. It lets me have autofocus and autoraise as well. The full version costs $30 but the unregistered version is just enough to make things workable. You only get two virtual desktops if you don't register.
I agree with the people stating that the school systems need to be better. As the son of a great highschool teacher I know how the quality of teaching can verry even within a school. Paying teachers resionable salaries and funding schools properly are two much needed changes that are desperatly overdue. Teachers should make more money than doctors and lawyers because their roll in sociaty is much more important. They help build the future.
As for which OS? OS X on iBooks would be the best bet, IMO. I'd wait till highschool to give the kids Linux boxes. WinXX is not an option. At least not until MS fixes it (which we all know will never actually happen).
Sigh... You know, lately, I wish I was livign in a different country. The only problem is I can't find one to go ot.
Mr. Schwartz has now implied that Sun will indimnify it's customers. I think that everyone who runs Solaris call Sun and tell them they want total indimnification from Sun for any and all things related to Solaris and Sparc.
It's funny that the wrestling connection was in the post. In the Six Million Dollar Man episode where he met Bigfoot, the creature part was played by the amazing, wonderful, great & all-around cool guy Andre the Giant.
OC, I need to find a woman first...
I guess it's just me but I never found Futurama or the Simpsons or any of the like to be even slightly entertaining. Same with South Park. It's not just the cartoons, just about everything on TV lately sucks. I know that TV got the nickname "Boob Tube" not for it's intellecual content. But why must the intellegance level go down year after year?
Seriouslly if it weren't for my son I would just as well spend my whole life online. I'm tired of interfacing with mundane's. The only people I can stand are other techies.
Rusty has enough trouble keeping his servers from melting down under normal load. Now it's been /.'ed! I can feel the warmth of the melting systems from here.
In late 2001 I switched my desktop from Win2K to Linux, with the permission of the team responsible for managing the desktop systems (kept it duel-boot to keep things official but never have booted into it). Now, there are a handfull of others using Linux for their desktop systems with more slowly coming over.
I have infected the organization and there's no going back.
Just a thought...
> the rest of the books in this series to see if
> they keep up the excellent quality of this one.
You had me right up to this point. I just can't deal with bood series anymore. Between work and my son I don't have time to get through many short stories let alone a novel. Having to go and reas a handfull and then waiting for the next one to be released is to much.
Uhm... Yes, actually. Who is Mrs. Katrina Leung? What would be significent about her as a "double agent?" I'm asking because I honestly don't know what you mean (nor do I know who Mrs. Leung is).