Non lazy IT admin makes a change... now if only another 50 IT admins do this... DOC would be a rarity within months.
Or you could simply take advantage of all those lazy admins and write a simple macro virus that configures Word in this way automatically. Imagine it, millions of Outlook users blithely opening an email with a subject "Improve Your Sex Life!" that actually does what it promises!
OpenLDAP is Open Source, but no graphical admin tools out of the box. It's really good for getting your feet wet. There's little difficulty starting your project in OpenLDAP and then migrating the data to another Directory server if you grow out of OpenLDAP's capabilities. God bless real standards.
Also, I like iPlanet's directory server. It's free for some quantity of users and has a nice Java GUI admin tool. This is my choice for a grown-up, enterprise directory server.
That would mean high-density living would be a growing phenomenon in the US. Instead we have a seemingly unstoppable spread of the suburban banality my friend.
The Open Source office suite's barriers to import/export perfection (and believe me, export is as important as import) lie solely with the programmers on the projects either not having the motivation or time to get it right/ do more than cursory research.
This is utter uninformed BS. As Alan Cox pointed out, I could write a TCP stack exclusively from the RFC's and it would never be able to make a connection on today's internet. The same goes, moreso, for these file format specifications. I've looked at them, I'm a programmer, and I can tell you with absolute assurance there is no way those documents alone can give anyone enough information to properly decode the format. There are a million mysteries in just how word manipulates the format, much less OLE object formats and other counter-intuitive Windows behavior.
Other posts have it right. Let's kill Office's stranglehold by killing it's file format. This could happend by making an indisputable format standard for documents. I don't care if it's XML based like the StarOffice format and SVG, but that's surely a good idea. Get the UN, ISO, W3C, and the IEEE to rubber stamp it and get on with an era of computing without risk of getting your data trapped in a proprietary format. Make Microsoft use it, and it could happen. That way, people can still use Office to share informaton if they like and the rest of us can communicate back with them in any way we choose.
If there was involvement, don't you think we would have done something to Saudi Arabia?
I would like to think so. I would like to be able to trust my leadership to make decisions based primarily what is best for the American people and for the rest of the "Free World." However, as you correctly observered, the Bush family is deeply involved in the oil industry. How do you know the lessor President Bush hasn't placed the interests of the oil companies that provide him, his parents, his extended family and just about every high ranking official in his administration tremendous wealth over and above any other? For the same reason you don't put the fox in charge of the sheep, you shouldn't trust oil magnates to provide unbiased leadership in middle eastern matters. Even defense contractors are prevented from hiring former government employees under certain circumstances to avoid just this sort of dangerous conflict of interest.
Since I'm doing all the research here, why don't you dig up some evidence Dick Cheney has complied with the standing request from the General Accounting Office's request for a list of people he consulted while forming the administration's energy policy? You know, the GAO may may need to sue the current administration to get access to this information. These are unprecedented times.
I'm sure this information will get frozen using some wartime excuse.
...said they were the nicest guys ever, very respectable and successful in their community.
Televised anecdotes affirming someone's "niceness" have no weight in matters such as these. If you don't realize that, you're in trouble next time you are in the market for a used car.
While we may not be able to blame Manson's parents for his crimes, can we blame George Bush's parents for any possible wrongdoing? Unlike the Mr. and Mrs. Manson, George HW Bush has a healthy history of compromising American policy and American law to the benefit of other, conflicting interests.
First off, the Bin Laden family are actually quite nice people and have had nothing to do with Osama.
Bundy was charming and intelligent as hell all the while he was serial killing. Do you know the Bin Laden family personally? Or did you gather this insight from Fox news? Choose your sources of information carefully on topics as complex and important this one.
If there is a company that is aiding a terrorist organization you shut it down if possible.
That's great news! That means of course we can expect Chevron, British Petroleum and all the other western oil companies that trade with Saudi Arabia to be closed!
After all, it is that trade that creates the wealth of the Saudi Arabian aristocracy. Saudi Arabia's public works projects exclusively fed the businesses of the Bin Laden family for decades, making the entire family, including Osama, among the richest in the world. This same oil trade (and America's oil addiction) continues to make make wealthy many Middle Eastern supporters of Al Qaida.
Does this make sense or do you drive a SUV with a American flag sprouting from every window?
You don't think urban sprawl is bad enough yet? Increasing the average commute distance can only make the problem worse.
That's not urban sprawl, that's SUB-urban sprawl.
You're right. Commuting is an absurdity that is utterly inhuman. That's why I work and live in the same city, bicycling between the two of them. Man has for at least three millennia evolved toward urban living. It's only in the last half century we have chosen to ignore that in favor of the unsupportable and environmentally insane dependence on cars and suburbs.
I'm all for pro-Linux articles like this, but how convincing can this author really be when he feels Linux is the superior Desktop solution but the inferior server solution to Windows?
For the record, some of us Americans don't care that our standard of living is "among the highest." America suffers largely from a "we're the best country in the world" myopia.
Get out of the country and go to anwhere in Scandinavia. Then you may realize America has a long way to go to become one of the highest in "quality of life."
I for one find it very telling that Linux started in Finland.
There was the crosspad which seems to have disappeared. They promise a 2.0 version, but I haven't seen it. I did use one of these once. It was OK, if not overly simplistic and limited in storage capacity.
I personally would like to see the crosspad crossbred with a Palm Pilot!
I've often wanted something like this for general business use as well. Laptops are such over-priced over-kill for most people and how they use PC's.
Furthermore, it has always struck me as insane the amount of document printing required to share ideas in every technology company in which I have worked. Printers should be the nemesis of PC's, not the preferred peripheral. It's 2001 people, time to quit killing trees for your expense (and book) reports.
I would not leave out the handwriting recognition. Instead I would have it be an optional feature to be enabled only when desired. Any dedicated real estate used for that function would be reclaimed when that function is not needed.
Also, don't underestimate some sort of local area communication. Infrared is nice, but not that reliable. Blue tooth will be nice if it ever materializes. Imagine walking into a meeting (or mid-term) and having everyone in attendance simply click a single icon and to hold all the notes/diagrams/pictures that you need to share.
I just went through this issue when building my home office setup for programming. I found the most cost effective thing to do was was buy more screen real estate:
Configure X to use Xinerama. You get more real estate with two 19" monitors than one 21" for the exact same price. In my case, I saved $450 by keeping my older, high-quaity 17" monitor. I keep it to the side of my main monitor for viewing documentation and other miscellaneous tasks. I use my new 19" for the actual coding, since that is what I am looking/staring at most of the time.
Resist the urge to coax the greatest resolution out of your monitor. With the two monitors, 1280x1024 becomes 1280x2048! In my case, that means I have 16 bit color, and 75Hz refresh on my less used monitor and 85Hz refresh on my main monitor.
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"Don't we always complain that biggest problem is a lack of applications?"
That was the biggest "problem" with OS/2 when it was competing with Win 3.x. The limitation of this analogy is that OS/2 in many cases ran Windows applications better in emulation than Win 3.x did natively. WINE may never reach that degree of success.
Linux needs native applications that are notably superior to their Windows analogs to truly win the desktop war. In fact, Linux needs a Killer App, which I believe it already has: source code.
I just wanted to congratulate you on your excellent piece:
"Uncensored Media Considered Harmless"
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/12/1412 254&mode=thread
You can see why republicans in particular work to perpetuate the
poor state of education in the US. If George W., can't understand
statistics and can dimiss it as "fuzzy math," why shouldn't
everyone?
Each worker can do whatever they want in terms
of work setting, dress, etc.
It's cheaper for workers and employers.
It promotes flexible work hours
Workers are happier and in my experience work better and accomplish more
And my favorite point: It's wholly more envrionmentally sound. Getting ride of commuting, even if by public transportation, is better for the environment. Also, people don't print things up constantly as they do in an office since meetings are virtual.
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Now there's the tyop we've been waiting for!
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See this earlier Ask Slashdot article for information on suitable GUI clients for Linux / OpenLDAP.
Also, I like iPlanet's directory server. It's free for some quantity of users and has a nice Java GUI admin tool. This is my choice for a grown-up, enterprise directory server.
I wish there was such a thing as urban sprawl.
That would mean high-density living would be a growing phenomenon in the US. Instead we have a seemingly unstoppable spread of the suburban banality my friend.
Mmm, how about some details? A howto maybe?
This is utter uninformed BS. As Alan Cox pointed out, I could write a TCP stack exclusively from the RFC's and it would never be able to make a connection on today's internet. The same goes, moreso, for these file format specifications. I've looked at them, I'm a programmer, and I can tell you with absolute assurance there is no way those documents alone can give anyone enough information to properly decode the format. There are a million mysteries in just how word manipulates the format, much less OLE object formats and other counter-intuitive Windows behavior.
Other posts have it right. Let's kill Office's stranglehold by killing it's file format. This could happend by making an indisputable format standard for documents. I don't care if it's XML based like the StarOffice format and SVG, but that's surely a good idea. Get the UN, ISO, W3C, and the IEEE to rubber stamp it and get on with an era of computing without risk of getting your data trapped in a proprietary format. Make Microsoft use it, and it could happen. That way, people can still use Office to share informaton if they like and the rest of us can communicate back with them in any way we choose.
I would like to think so. I would like to be able to trust my leadership to make decisions based primarily what is best for the American people and for the rest of the "Free World." However, as you correctly observered, the Bush family is deeply involved in the oil industry. How do you know the lessor President Bush hasn't placed the interests of the oil companies that provide him, his parents, his extended family and just about every high ranking official in his administration tremendous wealth over and above any other? For the same reason you don't put the fox in charge of the sheep, you shouldn't trust oil magnates to provide unbiased leadership in middle eastern matters. Even defense contractors are prevented from hiring former government employees under certain circumstances to avoid just this sort of dangerous conflict of interest.
Since I'm doing all the research here, why don't you dig up some evidence Dick Cheney has complied with the standing request from the General Accounting Office's request for a list of people he consulted while forming the administration's energy policy? You know, the GAO may may need to sue the current administration to get access to this information. These are unprecedented times. I'm sure this information will get frozen using some wartime excuse.
Televised anecdotes affirming someone's "niceness" have no weight in matters such as these. If you don't realize that, you're in trouble next time you are in the market for a used car.While we may not be able to blame Manson's parents for his crimes, can we blame George Bush's parents for any possible wrongdoing? Unlike the Mr. and Mrs. Manson, George HW Bush has a healthy history of compromising American policy and American law to the benefit of other, conflicting interests.
Bundy was charming and intelligent as hell all the while he was serial killing. Do you know the Bin Laden family personally? Or did you gather this insight from Fox news? Choose your sources of information carefully on topics as complex and important this one.
Open your eyes and read:
That's great news! That means of course we can expect Chevron, British Petroleum and all the other western oil companies that trade with Saudi Arabia to be closed!
After all, it is that trade that creates the wealth of the Saudi Arabian aristocracy. Saudi Arabia's public works projects exclusively fed the businesses of the Bin Laden family for decades, making the entire family, including Osama, among the richest in the world. This same oil trade (and America's oil addiction) continues to make make wealthy many Middle Eastern supporters of Al Qaida.
Does this make sense or do you drive a SUV with a American flag sprouting from every window?
That's not urban sprawl, that's SUB-urban sprawl.
You're right. Commuting is an absurdity that is utterly inhuman. That's why I work and live in the same city, bicycling between the two of them. Man has for at least three millennia evolved toward urban living. It's only in the last half century we have chosen to ignore that in favor of the unsupportable and environmentally insane dependence on cars and suburbs.
It claims to be based on Rapidcom Voice for Windows.
While it's no Nautilus plugin, it is a KDE application that is usable now.
I personally think that's two pluses instead of just one.
Can be organized into a hierarchy
Is small in size
Is read much more than it is written consider using a LDAP data store. There are excellent open source and commercial options available for Linux.
Get started by reading this nice series of tutorials from LinuxWorld.
After that, help yourself to some of the free schemas here.
Get out of the country and go to anwhere in Scandinavia. Then you may realize America has a long way to go to become one of the highest in "quality of life."
I for one find it very telling that Linux started in Finland.
Keanu Reeves == remarkable dimwit and huge girl
It appears that what I wanted above has been made by Seiko. Check out the Smartpad.
I personally would like to see the crosspad crossbred with a Palm Pilot!
Furthermore, it has always struck me as insane the amount of document printing required to share ideas in every technology company in which I have worked. Printers should be the nemesis of PC's, not the preferred peripheral. It's 2001 people, time to quit killing trees for your expense (and book) reports.
I would not leave out the handwriting recognition. Instead I would have it be an optional feature to be enabled only when desired. Any dedicated real estate used for that function would be reclaimed when that function is not needed.
Also, don't underestimate some sort of local area communication. Infrared is nice, but not that reliable. Blue tooth will be nice if it ever materializes. Imagine walking into a meeting (or mid-term) and having everyone in attendance simply click a single icon and to hold all the notes/diagrams/pictures that you need to share.
It may be a pipe dream, but I hope it isn't!
I found the most cost effective thing to do was was buy more screen real estate:
Keep your old monitor
Buy a dual-head Matrox g450 (or multiple PCI Matrox video cards)
Buy a high quality 19" flat screen CRT
Configure X to use Xinerama. You get more real estate with two 19" monitors than one 21" for the exact same price. In my case, I saved $450 by keeping my older, high-quaity 17" monitor. I keep it to the side of my main monitor for viewing documentation and other miscellaneous tasks. I use my new 19" for the actual coding, since that is what I am looking/staring at most of the time.
Resist the urge to coax the greatest resolution out of your monitor. With the two monitors, 1280x1024 becomes 1280x2048! In my case, that means I have 16 bit color, and 75Hz refresh on my less used monitor and 85Hz refresh on my main monitor.
Finally, be sure to read the XFree86 Font Duglification Mini HOWTO. Run TrueType fonts at 100DPI.
By the way, no normal people can afford LCD screens.
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That was the biggest "problem" with OS/2 when it was competing with Win 3.x. The limitation of this analogy is that OS/2 in many cases ran Windows applications better in emulation than Win 3.x did natively. WINE may never reach that degree of success.
Linux needs native applications that are notably superior to their Windows analogs to truly win the desktop war. In fact, Linux needs a Killer App, which I believe it already has: source code.
I just wanted to congratulate you on your excellent piece:2 254&mode=thread
"Uncensored Media Considered Harmless"
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/12/141
You can see why republicans in particular work to perpetuate the
poor state of education in the US. If George W., can't understand
statistics and can dimiss it as "fuzzy math," why shouldn't
everyone?
Good job,
//pauly
Think about it:
Each worker can do whatever they want in terms of work setting, dress, etc.
It's cheaper for workers and employers.
It promotes flexible work hours
Workers are happier and in my experience work better and accomplish more
And my favorite point: It's wholly more envrionmentally sound. Getting ride of commuting, even if by public transportation, is better for the environment. Also, people don't print things up constantly as they do in an office since meetings are virtual.
Never heard of Magellan? Blame slashdot. It's the KDE2 Outlook replacement. Evolution ain't got nothing on the most current Magellan snapshot...
By the way, kudos to the author of this program, the 0.17 snapshots have been keeping me productive telecommuting for months now!