If he was paying them $3K a year, he wasn't buying vanilla Red Hat (or, if he was, he was being tremendously stupid about it). He was buying support for one of their server products. Guess what? Red Hat still produces all the same server products, and still supports them just the same as they always have.
So, you're going to completely end your relationship with a company because one employee was honest enough to point out that a product that the company no longer even produces might not always be the best solution?
First of all, Openoffice files aren't proprietary. They're a documented XML format inside a standard ZIP file. It'd be trivial for MS to implement an import filter if they wanted to.
Second of all, Openoffice does write Excel files. Why you'd think it doesn't, I don't know.
You could burn to CD-RW and rerip as FLAC. The files would be bigger, but you wouldn't lose quality and disk space is cheap. Alternately, you could buy an iPod or some speakers. Or, you could just wait for someone to crack Apple's DRM.
I don't think anyone I know has 8MB of video RAM. Generally, either people have a shitty onboard video solution that lives off of system RAM (these people generally don't care about display quality/effects), or they have a reasonably new video card (GeForce3 or later) with 64MB or 128MB of RAM.
It'd be much simpler just to use a loopback audio driver, and record the sound into Sound Forge or something as you play it back in Napster. Or, if your sound card has optical in/out, you can run a cable from the in to the out and record that way, with no data loss.
Make sure you have security.debian.org in your/etc/apt/sources.list file. If you don't, you won't get security updates until they hit the main repository in a minor release, which can be a while.
Debian stable will never update their Apache packages, although they will backport bugfixes. If you want the latest and greatest, use testing or unstable, which has had Apache 2 since the week it was released.
Older versions of Galeon supported the man: protocol, where you could type man:programname into the address bar and see the appropriate manpage dynamically converted to HTML. I don't know if current Galeon still does this, but it's a pretty cool feature.
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If he was paying them $3K a year, he wasn't buying vanilla Red Hat (or, if he was, he was being tremendously stupid about it). He was buying support for one of their server products. Guess what? Red Hat still produces all the same server products, and still supports them just the same as they always have.
So, you're going to completely end your relationship with a company because one employee was honest enough to point out that a product that the company no longer even produces might not always be the best solution?
Second of all, Openoffice does write Excel files. Why you'd think it doesn't, I don't know.
You could burn to CD-RW and rerip as FLAC. The files would be bigger, but you wouldn't lose quality and disk space is cheap. Alternately, you could buy an iPod or some speakers. Or, you could just wait for someone to crack Apple's DRM.
So instead of CDs you put yourself under the yoke of a terabyte RAID. If that doesn't qualify as some major physical media, I don't know what does.
You could download Openoffice. It's free, and it does come in handy occasionally (for reading corrupted documents, etc.).
You can do it now. gnuboy runs under Windows CE and under ARM Linux.
I think it'd take a lot more than a hardware upgrade to make Halo playable.
Yes it can, if you install PS2 Linux.
Great idea. Why don't you do it?
Try the Winamp 5 beta. Looks awesome, quite stable, and less CPU/mem usage than Winamp 2.x.
I don't think anyone I know has 8MB of video RAM. Generally, either people have a shitty onboard video solution that lives off of system RAM (these people generally don't care about display quality/effects), or they have a reasonably new video card (GeForce3 or later) with 64MB or 128MB of RAM.
gstreamer is basically a media pipe-based framework.
Microsoft owns Virtual PC now. I'm sure that, if they wanted to, they could get a 3Ghz PPC proc to emulate a 700mhz x86 proc pretty well.
It'd be much simpler just to use a loopback audio driver, and record the sound into Sound Forge or something as you play it back in Napster. Or, if your sound card has optical in/out, you can run a cable from the in to the out and record that way, with no data loss.
Li (short 'i' as in "lips") - nux (rhymes with "tux")
Approximately 44 million, so long as you don't leave any room for the driver to sit.
Make sure you have security.debian.org in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. If you don't, you won't get security updates until they hit the main repository in a minor release, which can be a while.
An Apache point release on the front page? Can you say "slow news day"?
Debian stable will never update their Apache packages, although they will backport bugfixes. If you want the latest and greatest, use testing or unstable, which has had Apache 2 since the week it was released.
Older versions of Galeon supported the man: protocol, where you could type man:programname into the address bar and see the appropriate manpage dynamically converted to HTML. I don't know if current Galeon still does this, but it's a pretty cool feature.
I seem to recall reading somewhere that Google could possibly buy Microsoft if they really wanted to and their IPO worked out well.
He probably ordered them in multiple shipments.
If this symbol ever takes off, I suspect people will refer to ESR's page as the origin, not the /. article that merely linked to it.
Yes.