I have DSL Linux installed on a flash drive (50mb!) and I haven't had any problems booting on different hardware. In addition - the DSL live cd I have boots orders of magnitude faster than Ubuntu's live cd.
So what you're saying is that all we need to do is draw power from our forward shields and reverse the polarity of the plasma ducts on teh hyperdrive? Silly
$10/hr isn't very much (~20k a year). Why risk sending old (possibly valuable) books overseas to be scanned by unskilled cheap foreign labor when you can have it done under your supervision locally while employing local people. Not spending $10/hr on scanning is just dumb.
1) Make people believe Apple produces the best MP3 products around. 2) Make sure "iTunes on a cell phone" sucks 3) Buy stock in white plastic (see: 1 above) 4) Make people think cell phones suck as MP3 players (if Apple can't get it any better than this...) 5) Sell more ipods!
MOD had nothing to do with it -- yes, the system went down while MOD was under investigation but the problem itself was tracked to a bug in a software update that was applied *three weeks* before the crash. None of the MOD boys were ever charged with anything related to the AT&T incident.
For a good account check out Masters of Deception by Michele Slatalla (theres a used copy on amazon right now for like 83 cents -- snatch it up, its a good read)
I know what you mean -- "cleaning" an XP box used to be a 30-45 minute job. Now I spend anywhere from 1 to 4 hours fixing the seemingly never-ending stream of problems that those machines are subjected to.
At the lab I admin we have 12 Windows ME machines, 1 XP machine, and 1 Linux box. The linux box is seldom used (no one seems to like it but me) the XP machine gets used preaty heavily, but not too much more than the average ME machine. I've noticed that we have fewer [ad|spy|mal]ware problems on the ME machines now than we did last year. I've also noticed a significant drop in the number of problems with the XP machine after installing a firewall. On an interesting note, for the past several months I've encountered few to no problems on any given machine in the lab. (Keeping in mind that I've noticed many more problems on machines that are brought to me for repair.)
I've concluded that the problems people are experiencing with Windows boxes are due to a lack of basic computer skills and not necessarily problems with windows itself. At the lab, I have have both Firefox and Internet explorer installed but I encourage (strongly) the use of Firefox. I have a hosts file that I maintain that blocks a good number of ad servers and "bad" websites installed on every machine. Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, and MSN Messenger are not installed -- gaim is used instead. Outlook is not made avaliable to our users. Every machine in the lab also has an up-to-date virus scanner installed.
When I repair a machine, I make sure that they have an up-to-date virus scanner (avast is installed if they can't/won't afford one themselves). I install ad-aware and spybot and give them a printed set of instructions on their proper use. I also install Firefox and explain to them why they should use it instead of internet explorer. (I do them the favor of unchecking "allow websites to install software" -- just in case.) I also give them a modified version of my hosts file (without the "sites that annoy me" section). I tell them not to download screensavers (thanks a lot screensavers.com!), cursors, anti-spy programs that I don't explicity recommend, and other such material from the web and explain to them why. This has all but eliminated repeat machines (machines that come back a month or two after I fix them).
I fear, however, that I cannot recommend MACs to most of my users. I can't justify the additional costs to my lower-income users and I can't offer support to new MAC users (I'm too busy fixing windows machines!).
I'm glad we're starting to see more diversity in the PC market (PC as in Personal Computer, not as in Intel Box.) and I hope this will lead to better cross-platform development tools and better operating system quality. Keep on recommending MACs, friend, I have yet to see one come in for repair!
AbiWord, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox, etc. are all good products avaliable for MS Windows, Linux, etc. This is good as it allows a windows user (once they've moved to OSS) to easily migrate to other operating systems.
As one of those folks forced to use "Windows For Work 8.5" (and often for work-at-home) I'm thankful for fantastic products like AbiWord and Firefox being avaliable to me.
AbiWord is a personal favorite of mine, it's super-fast, lightweight, and easy to use. As for ODF support... well, they have an import/export filter for it (separate download) but I have yet to successfully export a ODT file. They do have great support for LaTeX, one of my favorite formats.
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Any particular reason you used the term "website" to describe a BBS? You DO remember the BBS days don't you?
I fear Sony has but one way to avoid dishonor: hara-kiris
You're right! They could sneak a bomb into the states *hidden in an oil drum* -- Any kind of bomb, mind you, probably be a *dirty bomb*.
How's that again? It takes more energy to *produce* a hybrid? You're insane.
I have DSL Linux installed on a flash drive (50mb!) and I haven't had any problems booting on different hardware. In addition - the DSL live cd I have boots orders of magnitude faster than Ubuntu's live cd.
Check it out: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
So what you're saying is that all we need to do is draw power from our forward shields and reverse the polarity of the plasma ducts on teh hyperdrive? Silly
$10/hr isn't very much (~20k a year). Why risk sending old (possibly valuable) books overseas to be scanned by unskilled cheap foreign labor when you can have it done under your supervision locally while employing local people. Not spending $10/hr on scanning is just dumb.
Archimedes said, "Give me a place to stand and a lever long enough and I can move
the world."
Damn ACs don't even know what a fulcrum is.
That's the real genius behind their evil plan!
1) Make people believe Apple produces the best MP3 products around.
2) Make sure "iTunes on a cell phone" sucks
3) Buy stock in white plastic (see: 1 above)
4) Make people think cell phones suck as MP3 players (if Apple can't get it any better than this...)
5) Sell more ipods!
Genius, I say!
MOD had nothing to do with it -- yes, the system went down while MOD was under investigation but the problem itself was tracked to a bug in a software update that was applied *three weeks* before the crash. None of the MOD boys were ever charged with anything related to the AT&T incident.
For a good account check out Masters of Deception by Michele Slatalla (theres a used copy on amazon right now for like 83 cents -- snatch it up, its a good read)
I know what you mean -- "cleaning" an XP box used to be a 30-45 minute job. Now I spend anywhere from 1 to 4 hours fixing the seemingly never-ending stream of problems that those machines are subjected to.
At the lab I admin we have 12 Windows ME machines, 1 XP machine, and 1 Linux box. The linux box is seldom used (no one seems to like it but me) the XP machine gets used preaty heavily, but not too much more than the average ME machine. I've noticed that we have fewer [ad|spy|mal]ware problems on the ME machines now than we did last year. I've also noticed a significant drop in the number of problems with the XP machine after installing a firewall. On an interesting note, for the past several months I've encountered few to no problems on any given machine in the lab. (Keeping in mind that I've noticed many more problems on machines that are brought to me for repair.)
I've concluded that the problems people are experiencing with Windows boxes are due to a lack of basic computer skills and not necessarily problems with windows itself. At the lab, I have have both Firefox and Internet explorer installed but I encourage (strongly) the use of Firefox. I have a hosts file that I maintain that blocks a good number of ad servers and "bad" websites installed on every machine. Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, and MSN Messenger are not installed -- gaim is used instead. Outlook is not made avaliable to our users. Every machine in the lab also has an up-to-date virus scanner installed.
When I repair a machine, I make sure that they have an up-to-date virus scanner (avast is installed if they can't/won't afford one themselves). I install ad-aware and spybot and give them a printed set of instructions on their proper use. I also install Firefox and explain to them why they should use it instead of internet explorer. (I do them the favor of unchecking "allow websites to install software" -- just in case.) I also give them a modified version of my hosts file (without the "sites that annoy me" section). I tell them not to download screensavers (thanks a lot screensavers.com!), cursors, anti-spy programs that I don't explicity recommend, and other such material from the web and explain to them why. This has all but eliminated repeat machines (machines that come back a month or two after I fix them).
I fear, however, that I cannot recommend MACs to most of my users. I can't justify the additional costs to my lower-income users and I can't offer support to new MAC users (I'm too busy fixing windows machines!).
I'm glad we're starting to see more diversity in the PC market (PC as in Personal Computer, not as in Intel Box.) and I hope this will lead to better cross-platform development tools and better operating system quality. Keep on recommending MACs, friend, I have yet to see one come in for repair!
Correlation doesn't imply causation ... anecdotes do not a science make ...
huhu 'plug anal log hole' huhu
photon -- not proton...
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
aside from a few obvious practical usability difficulties ... I'm with you (the web needs simplified badly)
[new]SCO ... So why isn't Tarentella called 'SCO Classic'?
[new]SCO .. So then why isn't Tarentella called SCO Classic ?
AbiWord, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox, etc. are all good products avaliable for MS Windows, Linux, etc. This is good as it allows a windows user (once they've moved to OSS) to easily migrate to other operating systems.
As one of those folks forced to use "Windows For Work 8.5" (and often for work-at-home) I'm thankful for fantastic products like AbiWord and Firefox being avaliable to me.
AbiWord is a personal favorite of mine, it's super-fast, lightweight, and easy to use. As for ODF support ... well, they have an import/export filter for it (separate download) but I have yet to successfully export a ODT file. They do have great support for LaTeX, one of my favorite formats.
I don't know about MA specifically, but I've seen numerous companies and state gov't agencies that require either plain text or MS Word formats.
How does word viewer help if I need to both view and modify or send a word doc?
Your links are broken ... is that intentional?
Not quite what he ment...
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