The difference between me and you? You spent your time on your ass, whining on about people who are better off than you. I got off my ass, and made myself better off than the whiners.
Eh, no. I just don't like being told that because I understand the value of a dollar, I must be living in a cardboard box eating out of a dumpster. I'm not whining that I can't be so fortunate that I use $10 bills for toilet paper. Hell, i wouldn't want to touch any part of my body with a $10 bill. Do you have any clue what kind of drugs and diseases are in your average $10 bill?
The whole "It's only a buck, which is worth nothing" mindset of itms users is retarded.
just don't have time to hunt around kazaa for all 15 songs off this album for an hour and half, only to find out that half of them were ripped by a 14 year old, so there's glitches in the file, and it ends 8 seconds too short. I'd rather spend $9.99 than an hour and a half of my time.
Goddamn apple morons, you're just like a bunch of parrots. Just because steve said it, doesn't make it true. I've been grabbing legal to download music off gnutella for years. You can find all the tracks to an entire album/show in a little under 4 minutes, and download them in under 10. Most of the stuff on those networks is 256kbit or higher quality mp3. You can do the same with illegal to download music, too. I grab plenty of CD quality (not that lossy AAC shit) albums off http://bt.etree.org/ in a matter of minutes per disc.
Are you so poor you just can't afford $10? Does your cardboard box need a new roof? By the way, Rufus says there's good eats in the dumpster behind Mickey D's tonight.
And that's just retarded. $10 is quite a bit of money. I live in a nice comfortable apartment, drive a nice car, eat well, and don't even spend $10 a day to do it. You're telling me that some crappy music in a crappy locked down format is worth my entire cost of living for a day? Bullshit. Get a goddamn clue you elitist apple retard.
Except only the newest version of flash can play the video.
Hadn't noticed. Apt keeps flashplayer up to date with whatever is the latest so it just worked for me.
OK, flash isn't exactly known for fuctionality, but I'm pretty sure the ability to navigate within a clip is pretty fucking fundamental to this whole video player idea. Maybe a simple seek bar is to useful to be trendy enough, but Jesus, how hard is a rewind button?
There was a fairly usable seek bar on the player I got.
I bet this is mostly done to prevent copying. When will people realise that this just stops your advert from being seen by the most people.
Or maybe to make it work on more platforms? Macromedia's plugin is installed on all windows machines by default, and is easy to install under linux as well. Quicktime and WMP don't have nearly the same default install base. I wish they'd do more movie trailers using flash, as neither quicktime nor WMP work as a plugin on my system, usually resulting in me screwing around with wget looking for source urls to get anything useful out of apple.com's crap traliers.
Quote the AC: "Here's a solution: use Windows. Works out of the box"
Sorry, wrong answer. Win2000 Pro and IE 6 here. Its just that the Flash player install doesn't play well with proxies.
Better answer: use linux. the trailer worked perfectly fine for me on my debian laptop. Apt also works fine behind proxies. More than I can say for the crappy Quicktime trailers that apple pushes.
take a look here for a screenshot of mozilla (epiphany) being very confused. You're correct, the URL in the location field isn't fooled, but the URL in the status bar, when you mouse over the link, just shows "http://www.microsoft.com[]".
The only time I get a PGP'ed email that I can read is ONLY if it was sent by another evolution client,
Or mutt, or Mozilla/Thunderbird, or any other client that supports PGP s/mime. That's what Evolution, mutt or mozilla support, not that inline pgp crap that kmail does.
I don't pretend to know more than the developers, and I'm sure there may be reasons why they've chosen to leave this feature broken, but if every other OSS Email project can nail it, why can't they?
I'm not sure why evolution doesn't understand both methods, like kmail does, but it's kmail and pine that need to get with the program. Agypten (sp?) is supposed to fix kmail's s/mime support, but I have yet to get it to build on my system.
I said "bundled driver disc." Windows XP does come up to full support once the user has installed the drivers from the included CD.
Haven't bought a computer in a while, have you? They don't normally come with any CDs anymore. All the software is already installed, with a hidden "restore" partition somewhere in the beginning of the disk. Upgrade the disk or feel the need to format and reinstall windows and you don't get any of your software or drivers.
On the other hand, I haven't been able to find GNU/Linux compatible drivers on any of the CDs that I have received bundled with devices.
That's because all the free drivers are already bundled with distro install disk. If linux supports it at all, it'll probably work out of the box.
Debian, out of the box, supports just about any video card
Probably painfully unaccelerated for many of the chipsets.
Unaccelerated, but not painful. I've been running my radeon based thinkpad with the drivers that debian shipped with for a bit over a year. Xinerama works well, i get full 24 bit color and the maximum resolution of the LCD and CRT it's plugged into. That's more than I can say for the radeon windows drivers (which give the aforementioned 640x480 256 color display until you can get to ATI's website to update.)
But will it run within Windows, such as on Cygwin?
It would, if the rest of gnome was in cygwin. It's not, but I'm sure you can build it easily enough. Cygwin really isn't easy enough for your average desktop user, though.
Most users do not want to have to reboot to Knoppix just to get their e-mail. And does XFree86 support all the video cards that come with a bundled Windows driver disc?
I'll ask you the reverse question, when will windows support half the stuff debian does out of the box? Windows XP can't find most ethernet cards or video cards and fall back to no network, 640x480 256 color VGA. Windows XP couldn't even find my intel etherexpress pro, and I was forced to burn the drivers to CD from the intel website on my linux machine. Debian, out of the box, supports just about any video card and ethernet card out there.
Updating the kernel is *Important*. That is one thing that up2date (Redhat) did well and as near as I can tell apt-get -upgrade doesn't.
kernel-image-2.4-386 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4 on 386.
kernel-image-2.4-586tsc - Linux kernel image for version 2.4 on Pentium-Classic.
kernel-image-2.4-686 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV.
kernel-image-2.4-686-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.4 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV SMP.
kernel-image-2.4-k6 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4 on AMD K6/K6-II/K6-III.
kernel-image-2.4-k7 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4 on AMD K7.
kernel-image-2.4-k7-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.4 on AMD K7 SMP.
apt-get install the kernel image for your arch and it will stay up to date with the rest of your system automatically. Unfortunately, it doesn't do this out of the box.
Sprint odesn't advertise it, but you don't need a contract with them. They just charge you $10 a month extra without it. I know this first hand after calling to complain about the $10 charge when I had, in fact, signed an agreement.
That must have been a recent thing. When I got my account with sprint, the prices were the same with or without a contract, but they had certain incentives to sign up for a contract. They gave me 2 free ($150) phones to sign a 2 year contract. Of course, that contract is almost up and I'm dying to move away from sprint.
In other words, there's no extra convenience in recording notes digitally if you're going to do a computationally difficult/impossible transform on them before it matters whether they're digital.
There's plenty of convenience in it. When I was in college (a whole 6 months ago), I would take 10+ pages of notes per class per day, 2 or 3 classes a day. Add in hand-outs, back tests, and print-outs of presentations and a few weeks into the semester I'm carrying a huge pile of paper around. It's nearly impossible to keep it all with you, so you leave much of it at home and you thumb through the stuff you have with you for a few minutes every time you go to find something. I tried taking notes directly on my laptop, but the inability to insert diagrams and formulas made it only good for a few of my CS classes. I don't have a scanner at home, and re-typing the notes would take way too much time.
Even if you take notes with a tablet in pure bitmap form, it's more accessable than pen(cil) and paper.
Is anyone thinking that it would just be cheaper to go to block buster every time you want to watch a moive, instead of buying DVDs?
Except that renting a (new) movie from blockbuster costs about $5, plus, if you're even a few minutes late returning it, they charge you as if you had rented it again. You can buy a DVD from their "previously viewed" section for as low as $10. There are usually tons of new movies in the previously viewed section of the store because they need to buy 40 copies of it when it first comes out to cope with demand, but once a movie is a few weeks old, they get rid of most of those to gain back the shelf space.
So, no, it's (often) cheaper to buy the movie, even if you only watch it once or twice.
Sorta, but isn't that just the normal GNOME pager?
Yes.
The problem with those is that they don't work like tabs. I want to be able to CTRL-T and add a new desktop and I want to be able to close a desktop and make it go completely away.
You could very easily bind ctrl-t (or some other keypress) to a "new desktop" function in metacity; clearing empty desktops, on the other hand, would be more difficult.
Like this? (look in the top right corner of the screen, between the black boxes and the clock. Eight virtual desktops are displayed, with icons to show which application each window belongs to.
Yesterday I grabbed a file from the Finder, dragged it into the corner of the screen that activates Expose on my Mac, and then dragged it into an e-mail that I was working on. By using Expose I was able to quickly attach a file to my e-mail w/out the hassle of overlapping windows or separate desktops.
Wow! such features! why, just 4 years ago, I was able to drag a file to the left corner of my screen and it automatically flipped to the next desktop. Or I could drag an object to the window dock (a small screenshot of each app) and the window would pop up on my screen.
A lot of mac OS X is a copy of enlightenment v16, especially expose, the dock and the genie effect (e16 also had a flip-up effect, which was very very cool.) Unfortunately, enlightenment has gone out of use since they haven't released a new version in years. We've been promised e17 'real soon now' for several years, but it seems that gnome and kde will have implemented all the usability and eye candy features that enlightenment was known for before that ever happens.
I don't understand why the software have to be old to be stable. Wine usualy gets better when aging, but I don't understand why this should apply to software, since the bug fixing usually is done by the developers, and they do it in the latest (or development) version.
You're talking about a different meaning of the word "stable". In the debian world, "stable" means "software won't change out from under you" not "software won't crash". If you run a business that depends on some application, which depends on some version of a library you don't want that library being upgraded as part of your daily updates/security patches. It can break your application, which will cause your business to lose money. Libraries or applications in stable are patched for bug fixes only, making them more "stable" in the traditional sense, that they don't crash as often. No new features can be introduced to a distribution once it has been marked "stable."
As an extention to this, "Unstable" doesn't mean that your system will crash every day, it just means that your software may change out from under you. You may be running Gnome 2.2 one day, and Gnome 2.4 the next. Gnome 2.4 is arguably feature equivalent to 2.2, but some things in it changed, and that may upset users or delicate applications.
What are you talking about? I use WinXP at work, and when I needed to add a printer, I just went to the Add Printer wizard, and typed in the path to the printer. Done.
Ok, great, I can do the same thing under linux. In fact, gnome will automatically detect every printer on my network and set them up without me having to search for, or install, anything. Network printers are, and always have been, insanely simple to set up on the desktop. But we're not talking about network printers, we're talking about USB or parallel inkjet printers hooked to a single stand-alone machine. That's a pain in the ass no matter what the OS.
Companies like Lexmark, HP, or Cannon love to make obnoxious drivers that never work and screw up all sorts of things, because then they can charge you for tech support. Under linux, you may get stuck with a printer with no drivers, but if they exist, they're built well.
A weekend of trying to make a color printer work properly is "nowhere near as bad as it's made out to be"? Your comments are right in line with my expectations of RedHat (which is why my company doesn't use it).
And I suppose your company just doesn't use printers or something? Getting printing working in any OS requires tons of time and effort. I have a lexmark 3 in 1 printer/scanner/fax hooked to my Mac OS 10.3 machine that came with a macOS icon right on the damn box. It took me the better part of a day to get that thing working properly. Install drivers, Uninstall drivers, reinstall drivers, tweak OS X system settings, drop to a shell and clear out the print queue, uninstall again and reinstall, keeping in mind that you just *can't* print while you've got two users logged in at once. My parents have an HP officejet hooked to their Windows XP machine that took way longer to get working. Install the stock drivers and it prints, but the machine reboots itself every 10 minutes. It turned out that the standard HP drivers would use 100% cpu under windows XP for no apparent reason. I had to hunt around on google for a while before I found "reduced" drivers that did only printing for the officejet, and didn't destroy the machine in the process.
Printing is a nightmare no matter what OS you're under.
Nope. I've been playing with the developers previews of 10.3, and this was one of the first things I looked at. Message threading support in the new mail.app is very badly implemented. It simply groups messages by subject. It doesn't construct threads so you can't see what messages mean in context. Mozilla/thunderbird is still the closest thing to a real mail client on OS X, but it doesn't come anywhere close to Evolution.
On the first run, you let it know that you'll be connecting via a LAN and using DHCP and bingo -internet connectivity-.
MacOS 10.2 has quite a few networking issues that cause it to occasionally refuse to speak to some DHCP servers. Rebooting is the only way to get a stoned mac back on a network. The 10.3 developer previews don't seem to have this issue.
If you consider "Hit 'command-k' while in the Finder to bring up a list of any computer reachable on the network and the protocol used to connect to it (afp, smb, etc.)" to be "a lot of reading" then sure.
Which doesn't work with either windows XP or some many samba shares.
4) Doesn't have a full featured e-mail client. Full featured meaning...? Mail.app seems to have all the features I need, however Microsoft offers Entourage, you can run Outlook 2001 in Classic mode, Mozilla Mail, hell, get crazy and compile Pine on that sucker if you want.
Neither Mail.app, entourage, or Outlook can be considered full featured mail clients by an stretch of the imagination. No real GPG support (mail.app has a plugin available that does rudimetary GPG verification, but not GPG signing), no message thread tracking and poor support for IMAP, SSL IMAP, and authenticated SSL SMTP.
and 'command-k' brings up the servers/network drives.
Which you then need to manually re-mount every time you log in.
Apple's desktop may be an improvement over things like windows XP, but it still doesn't even come close to a real UNIX based desktop.
Yea, but iTunes for PC launches next Thursday. Thus ends the MP3 "war". After that anyone who wants to pay can, and anyone who doesn't can go elsewhere.
One of the big reasons many people use peer to peer services is that there is quite a lot of content that you just can't get at your local music store, or from some of the large online music stores. iTunes music store is a great example of this. The itms selection is pitiful. I signed up for an itms account and looked up a handful of not-so-mainstream artists (classic rock, jam bands, etc.) iTunes maybe had one album from each band, or only one or two tracks from an album, if any at all. If you're looking for top-40 crap, then itms is great, but for anything else you have a *much* better chance of getting higher quality copies on gnutella.
Also, if you want a good vector graphics editor for free, try SodiPodi. It's good. Especially for a 0.3 level program.
I just installed this program and I've been playing with it for like 30 seconds. Wow. I've been looking for something like this for linux for quite a while.
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The difference between me and you? You spent your time on your ass, whining on about people who are better off than you. I got off my ass, and made myself better off than the whiners.
Eh, no. I just don't like being told that because I understand the value of a dollar, I must be living in a cardboard box eating out of a dumpster. I'm not whining that I can't be so fortunate that I use $10 bills for toilet paper. Hell, i wouldn't want to touch any part of my body with a $10 bill. Do you have any clue what kind of drugs and diseases are in your average $10 bill?
The whole "It's only a buck, which is worth nothing" mindset of itms users is retarded.
just don't have time to hunt around kazaa for all 15 songs off this album for an hour and half, only to find out that half of them were ripped by a 14 year old, so there's glitches in the file, and it ends 8 seconds too short. I'd rather spend $9.99 than an hour and a half of my time.
Goddamn apple morons, you're just like a bunch of parrots. Just because steve said it, doesn't make it true. I've been grabbing legal to download music off gnutella for years. You can find all the tracks to an entire album/show in a little under 4 minutes, and download them in under 10. Most of the stuff on those networks is 256kbit or higher quality mp3. You can do the same with illegal to download music, too. I grab plenty of CD quality (not that lossy AAC shit) albums off http://bt.etree.org/ in a matter of minutes per disc.
Are you so poor you just can't afford $10? Does your cardboard box need a new roof? By the way, Rufus says there's good eats in the dumpster behind Mickey D's tonight.
And that's just retarded. $10 is quite a bit of money. I live in a nice comfortable apartment, drive a nice car, eat well, and don't even spend $10 a day to do it. You're telling me that some crappy music in a crappy locked down format is worth my entire cost of living for a day? Bullshit. Get a goddamn clue you elitist apple retard.
Except only the newest version of flash can play the video.
Hadn't noticed. Apt keeps flashplayer up to date with whatever is the latest so it just worked for me.
OK, flash isn't exactly known for fuctionality, but I'm pretty sure the ability to navigate within a clip is pretty fucking fundamental to this whole video player idea. Maybe a simple seek bar is to useful to be trendy enough, but Jesus, how hard is a rewind button?
There was a fairly usable seek bar on the player I got.
I bet this is mostly done to prevent copying. When will people realise that this just stops your advert from being seen by the most people.
Or maybe to make it work on more platforms? Macromedia's plugin is installed on all windows machines by default, and is easy to install under linux as well. Quicktime and WMP don't have nearly the same default install base. I wish they'd do more movie trailers using flash, as neither quicktime nor WMP work as a plugin on my system, usually resulting in me screwing around with wget looking for source urls to get anything useful out of apple.com's crap traliers.
Quote the AC: "Here's a solution: use Windows. Works out of the box"
Sorry, wrong answer. Win2000 Pro and IE 6 here. Its just that the Flash player install doesn't play well with proxies.
Better answer: use linux. the trailer worked perfectly fine for me on my debian laptop. Apt also works fine behind proxies. More than I can say for the crappy Quicktime trailers that apple pushes.
Actually, it isn't fooling Mozilla.
Actually, it is.
take a look here for a screenshot of mozilla (epiphany) being very confused. You're correct, the URL in the location field isn't fooled, but the URL in the status bar, when you mouse over the link, just shows "http://www.microsoft.com[]".
An easy way to check for this it so make sure that IE has its status bar turned on (View > Status Bar).
If you start seeing that all of the links say http://www.yahoo.com @www.0wnz0red.com/0wn-j00.html you should probably not click on them.
No, it also fools the status bar in IE. It fools it in mozilla too, but you see a nice little unprintable ascii char block after the URL.
The only time I get a PGP'ed email that I can read is ONLY if it was sent by another evolution client,
Or mutt, or Mozilla/Thunderbird, or any other client that supports PGP s/mime. That's what Evolution, mutt or mozilla support, not that inline pgp crap that kmail does.
I don't pretend to know more than the developers, and I'm sure there may be reasons why they've chosen to leave this feature broken, but if every other OSS Email project can nail it, why can't they?
I'm not sure why evolution doesn't understand both methods, like kmail does, but it's kmail and pine that need to get with the program. Agypten (sp?) is supposed to fix kmail's s/mime support, but I have yet to get it to build on my system.
I said "bundled driver disc." Windows XP does come up to full support once the user has installed the drivers from the included CD.
Haven't bought a computer in a while, have you? They don't normally come with any CDs anymore. All the software is already installed, with a hidden "restore" partition somewhere in the beginning of the disk. Upgrade the disk or feel the need to format and reinstall windows and you don't get any of your software or drivers.
On the other hand, I haven't been able to find GNU/Linux compatible drivers on any of the CDs that I have received bundled with devices.
That's because all the free drivers are already bundled with distro install disk. If linux supports it at all, it'll probably work out of the box.
Debian, out of the box, supports just about any video card
Probably painfully unaccelerated for many of the chipsets.
Unaccelerated, but not painful. I've been running my radeon based thinkpad with the drivers that debian shipped with for a bit over a year. Xinerama works well, i get full 24 bit color and the maximum resolution of the LCD and CRT it's plugged into. That's more than I can say for the radeon windows drivers (which give the aforementioned 640x480 256 color display until you can get to ATI's website to update.)
But will it run within Windows, such as on Cygwin?
It would, if the rest of gnome was in cygwin. It's not, but I'm sure you can build it easily enough. Cygwin really isn't easy enough for your average desktop user, though.
Most users do not want to have to reboot to Knoppix just to get their e-mail. And does XFree86 support all the video cards that come with a bundled Windows driver disc?
I'll ask you the reverse question, when will windows support half the stuff debian does out of the box? Windows XP can't find most ethernet cards or video cards and fall back to no network, 640x480 256 color VGA. Windows XP couldn't even find my intel etherexpress pro, and I was forced to burn the drivers to CD from the intel website on my linux machine. Debian, out of the box, supports just about any video card and ethernet card out there.
apt-get install the kernel image for your arch and it will stay up to date with the rest of your system automatically. Unfortunately, it doesn't do this out of the box.
Sprint odesn't advertise it, but you don't need a contract with them. They just charge you $10 a month extra without it. I know this first hand after calling to complain about the $10 charge when I had, in fact, signed an agreement.
That must have been a recent thing. When I got my account with sprint, the prices were the same with or without a contract, but they had certain incentives to sign up for a contract. They gave me 2 free ($150) phones to sign a 2 year contract. Of course, that contract is almost up and I'm dying to move away from sprint.
In other words, there's no extra convenience in recording notes digitally if you're going to do a computationally difficult/impossible transform on them before it matters whether they're digital.
There's plenty of convenience in it. When I was in college (a whole 6 months ago), I would take 10+ pages of notes per class per day, 2 or 3 classes a day. Add in hand-outs, back tests, and print-outs of presentations and a few weeks into the semester I'm carrying a huge pile of paper around. It's nearly impossible to keep it all with you, so you leave much of it at home and you thumb through the stuff you have with you for a few minutes every time you go to find something. I tried taking notes directly on my laptop, but the inability to insert diagrams and formulas made it only good for a few of my CS classes. I don't have a scanner at home, and re-typing the notes would take way too much time.
Even if you take notes with a tablet in pure bitmap form, it's more accessable than pen(cil) and paper.
Is anyone thinking that it would just be cheaper to go to block buster every time you want to watch a moive, instead of buying DVDs?
Except that renting a (new) movie from blockbuster costs about $5, plus, if you're even a few minutes late returning it, they charge you as if you had rented it again. You can buy a DVD from their "previously viewed" section for as low as $10. There are usually tons of new movies in the previously viewed section of the store because they need to buy 40 copies of it when it first comes out to cope with demand, but once a movie is a few weeks old, they get rid of most of those to gain back the shelf space.
So, no, it's (often) cheaper to buy the movie, even if you only watch it once or twice.
Lets swap knowledge and educate eachother:
/some/file/somewhere
/some/file/somewhere
rpm -qf
tells me which package an installed file belongs to, very useful.
dpkg -S
Very basic simple functionality.
Sorta, but isn't that just the normal GNOME pager?
Yes.
The problem with those is that they don't work like tabs. I want to be able to CTRL-T and add a new desktop and I want to be able to close a desktop and make it go completely away.
You could very easily bind ctrl-t (or some other keypress) to a "new desktop" function in metacity; clearing empty desktops, on the other hand, would be more difficult.
Like this? (look in the top right corner of the screen, between the black boxes and the clock. Eight virtual desktops are displayed, with icons to show which application each window belongs to.
Yesterday I grabbed a file from the Finder, dragged it into the corner of the screen that activates Expose on my Mac, and then dragged it into an e-mail that I was working on. By using Expose I was able to quickly attach a file to my e-mail w/out the hassle of overlapping windows or separate desktops.
Wow! such features! why, just 4 years ago, I was able to drag a file to the left corner of my screen and it automatically flipped to the next desktop. Or I could drag an object to the window dock (a small screenshot of each app) and the window would pop up on my screen.
A lot of mac OS X is a copy of enlightenment v16, especially expose, the dock and the genie effect (e16 also had a flip-up effect, which was very very cool.) Unfortunately, enlightenment has gone out of use since they haven't released a new version in years. We've been promised e17 'real soon now' for several years, but it seems that gnome and kde will have implemented all the usability and eye candy features that enlightenment was known for before that ever happens.
I don't understand why the software have to be old to be stable. Wine usualy gets better when aging, but I don't understand why this should apply to software, since the bug fixing usually is done by the developers, and they do it in the latest (or development) version.
You're talking about a different meaning of the word "stable". In the debian world, "stable" means "software won't change out from under you" not "software won't crash". If you run a business that depends on some application, which depends on some version of a library you don't want that library being upgraded as part of your daily updates/security patches. It can break your application, which will cause your business to lose money. Libraries or applications in stable are patched for bug fixes only, making them more "stable" in the traditional sense, that they don't crash as often. No new features can be introduced to a distribution once it has been marked "stable."
As an extention to this, "Unstable" doesn't mean that your system will crash every day, it just means that your software may change out from under you. You may be running Gnome 2.2 one day, and Gnome 2.4 the next. Gnome 2.4 is arguably feature equivalent to 2.2, but some things in it changed, and that may upset users or delicate applications.
What are you talking about? I use WinXP at work, and when I needed to add a printer, I just went to the Add Printer wizard, and typed in the path to the printer. Done.
Ok, great, I can do the same thing under linux. In fact, gnome will automatically detect every printer on my network and set them up without me having to search for, or install, anything. Network printers are, and always have been, insanely simple to set up on the desktop. But we're not talking about network printers, we're talking about USB or parallel inkjet printers hooked to a single stand-alone machine. That's a pain in the ass no matter what the OS.
Companies like Lexmark, HP, or Cannon love to make obnoxious drivers that never work and screw up all sorts of things, because then they can charge you for tech support. Under linux, you may get stuck with a printer with no drivers, but if they exist, they're built well.
A weekend of trying to make a color printer work properly is "nowhere near as bad as it's made out to be"? Your comments are right in line with my expectations of RedHat (which is why my company doesn't use it).
And I suppose your company just doesn't use printers or something? Getting printing working in any OS requires tons of time and effort. I have a lexmark 3 in 1 printer/scanner/fax hooked to my Mac OS 10.3 machine that came with a macOS icon right on the damn box. It took me the better part of a day to get that thing working properly. Install drivers, Uninstall drivers, reinstall drivers, tweak OS X system settings, drop to a shell and clear out the print queue, uninstall again and reinstall, keeping in mind that you just *can't* print while you've got two users logged in at once. My parents have an HP officejet hooked to their Windows XP machine that took way longer to get working. Install the stock drivers and it prints, but the machine reboots itself every 10 minutes. It turned out that the standard HP drivers would use 100% cpu under windows XP for no apparent reason. I had to hunt around on google for a while before I found "reduced" drivers that did only printing for the officejet, and didn't destroy the machine in the process.
Printing is a nightmare no matter what OS you're under.
no message thread tracking
Which will be fixed in 11 days...
Nope. I've been playing with the developers previews of 10.3, and this was one of the first things I looked at. Message threading support in the new mail.app is very badly implemented. It simply groups messages by subject. It doesn't construct threads so you can't see what messages mean in context. Mozilla/thunderbird is still the closest thing to a real mail client on OS X, but it doesn't come anywhere close to Evolution.
On the first run, you let it know that you'll be connecting via a LAN and using DHCP and bingo -internet connectivity-.
MacOS 10.2 has quite a few networking issues that cause it to occasionally refuse to speak to some DHCP servers. Rebooting is the only way to get a stoned mac back on a network. The 10.3 developer previews don't seem to have this issue.
If you consider "Hit 'command-k' while in the Finder to bring up a list of any computer reachable on the network and the protocol used to connect to it (afp, smb, etc.)" to be "a lot of reading" then sure.
Which doesn't work with either windows XP or some many samba shares.
4) Doesn't have a full featured e-mail client.
Full featured meaning...? Mail.app seems to have all the features I need, however Microsoft offers Entourage, you can run Outlook 2001 in Classic mode, Mozilla Mail, hell, get crazy and compile Pine on that sucker if you want.
Neither Mail.app, entourage, or Outlook can be considered full featured mail clients by an stretch of the imagination. No real GPG support (mail.app has a plugin available that does rudimetary GPG verification, but not GPG signing), no message thread tracking and poor support for IMAP, SSL IMAP, and authenticated SSL SMTP.
and 'command-k' brings up the servers/network drives.
Which you then need to manually re-mount every time you log in.
Apple's desktop may be an improvement over things like windows XP, but it still doesn't even come close to a real UNIX based desktop.
Yea, but iTunes for PC launches next Thursday. Thus ends the MP3 "war". After that anyone who wants to pay can, and anyone who doesn't can go elsewhere.
One of the big reasons many people use peer to peer services is that there is quite a lot of content that you just can't get at your local music store, or from some of the large online music stores. iTunes music store is a great example of this. The itms selection is pitiful. I signed up for an itms account and looked up a handful of not-so-mainstream artists (classic rock, jam bands, etc.) iTunes maybe had one album from each band, or only one or two tracks from an album, if any at all. If you're looking for top-40 crap, then itms is great, but for anything else you have a *much* better chance of getting higher quality copies on gnutella.
Also, if you want a good vector graphics editor for free, try SodiPodi. It's good. Especially for a 0.3 level program.
I just installed this program and I've been playing with it for like 30 seconds. Wow. I've been looking for something like this for linux for quite a while.
Thanks!