Well I'm not sure about how much you've got invested in PC's already, but I think OSX is more of an investment. Microsoft and Linux require faster and faster hardware every year, while OSX gets faster and faster on the same hardware. Assuming this trend continues, this could reduce your upgrade cycle quite a bit.
Although I agree with you to a point, I think that giving FF an improved interface to the system would be a good thing. I use whatever KDE uses to browse the filesystem, BUT I do all my web development in Firefox. I have the main folder for my page (no webserver running on my machine) on my hard drive. A nicer interface could certainly help me out there. Maybe make some sort of integrated preview pane for graphics and such. One nice trick is that you can add directories to the bookmarks toolbar and it turns it into a dropdown list automatically - adding some sort of icons on the list would be a nice improvement.
Anyone that wants to use FF in place of their native window manager is probably crazy, but there are reasons for making FF a better local browser as well.
if you don't have content (and purpose), any amount of eyecandy fluff isn't going to save you.
Yeah, that's what I would say is the big hang up. I say to people, what is you're website supposed to do? Usually I get responses back like "It's supposed to do something?" If you sit down and evaluate the purpose of a website and what it is supposed to do for your business/customer/whoever then content flows naturally from that. If your website is there to take up space, then that's exactly what it will do.
It's almost funny how companies will spend so much time on effort brocures and literature, then not know what to do with a website. *hint* it's usually almost the same.
I think either way, if I was one of those 800, I'd be looking for an alternative place of employment. I mean I certainly wouldn't want my job depending upon the whims of Bill Gates and his disapproval of some laws.
So as a Kerberos guru, would you recommend any books over this one? I'm the IT Manager at a company and we're having authentication problems comming out of our ears. I've tried to figure out a solution and right now it looks like Kerberos is our best hope for a number of systems, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around it (yeah it intimidates me).
*RANT* Of course half of our problems are that each new (usually Windows based) systems that cook up their own custom based authentication. Seriously, you'd think IIS had no authentication capabilities by itself - and it's not like these things work in any browser other than IE any damn way. Err., anyway, Kerberos can't fix all of our problems, but just merging 3 of our Unix based systems into Kerberos would make things more manageable.
You have two types of people who use Photoshop. The types that pirate it because it's supposed to be a good graphics application, and the people who are very much into its functionallity and rely upon it. Jasc will never make money off of group one anyway even if PSP were beter than PS tomorrow. Group 2 are the sorts of people who really require the functionality of Photoshop. Either they will pirate it or buy it, but they need photoshop for a reason.
I think Jasc has done a pretty good job with PSP. PSP9 costs $100 just like PSP5 did back in 97 when I bought it. The fairness of it's price and the very good functionality are the reasons it didn't fall into oblivion like so many other paint programs. If you go toe to toe with Photoshop, you better be prepared to match what Photoshop can do, and as much as I love PSP - it will sorely lose in that arena. And yeah, one of the biggest reasons I use Paint Shop Pro is because I can afford it, and the upgrade price is really good. Because I can afford it, I actually PAY for it.
You'd be surprised. Our company bought a product from UPS logistics that uses the Sun Java runtime but doesn't work in Firefox. (yes I'm serious). Turns out they have a bunch of IE only javascript that sends parameters to the applet, whithout the parameters it doesn't initalize. I dug around the system for like an hour trying to figure out what it was doing, but in the end just gave up. Lazy programmers will always bone you, no matter how portible something is supposed to be.
Only Win9x (and before) did that. NT4 does NTLMv1 which allows for a full 14 character password. NTLMv2 used in Win2k and above support "lots" of characters - or at least 24 which is the longest password I use (127 I'm thinking). And Lanman auth can't use more than 14 characters anyway BTW. And yes XP will use the old Lanman auth 7+7 character passwords by default across a network.
The thing that really blows my mind is that MS doesn't use a salt in their passwords, so chances are you can store a pretty big table with the most common passwords anyway.
Not to troll, but this is an incramental upgrade - you're not going to see a night and day difference. Although I'm always quite happy with the usability changes and added features, they aren't the sort of things you see from screenshots of someones desktop with a different wallpaper (usually). Seems sort of silly to slashdot KDE.org for each beta over screens that are more or less the same
It's a good idea, but it's easily snuffed out. Where I work it's really obscene the ammount of redundant, tasks which could be automated... My first and primary block is always management - and they seem to enjoy inventing more work for everyone. Also the users often need to be on board. Right now I'm fighting tooth and nail to get important user feedback, and they just don't care. I think it's important to get user feed back to make sure that you are really automating something and making work easier, not just making the same ammount of work in a different way. When you might as well be talking to a brick wall, progress isn't made.
Last but not least, it takes time and he stated that they were understaffed/overworked. It takes planning and time. I'm getting the feeling that managment there would SAY "automation is good" but then not give you the resources to follow through. Typical I guess. They say they want to cut costs, but will probably just cut jobs no matter what anyway.
As the IT guy where I work, and the BSD advicate; I think a new logo would be a good thing. I get all nastalgic when considering the daemon as well, but all in all - there are professional issues. A daemon with sneakers is cute, but it's hard to get your foot in the door with a logo like that. The vast majority of Linux distros don't use the penguin, even though tux is the mascot of Linux. Having a more sleek logo I think would be a step forward.
I agree about the netBSD logo however. Make it a flaming skull with two pistols crossed in the background or whatever - but DON'T make it a lame ass flag!
You know, it just occurred to me what the problem is here. The GIMP interface sucks? Well no argument from me. I've picked up Photo Paint, Paint Shop Pro, and Photoshop in muliple versions of all and found myself quite productive in hours. The GIMP - it still fustrates me.
But that's not the core of the problem, the GIMP folks won't change the interface because they like it. Well fine, it's their codebase. But when you get down to the REAL core problem here, it's that the GIMP has no competition (on Linux). Almost all really good application software in Linux emerged better only when there was competition within it's field. Gnome/KDE for example. If everyone had an alternative and dropped GIMP like a hot potato, I'd bet we'd see some interface changing then!
Personally I'm holding my breath for Krite. I don't care if I have to install all of KOffice to get it, I'll be giggling like a schoolgirl the entire time it's compiling when it's finally released.
The story seems odd in other ways. I mean the rep calling your boss? How did the rep get the information on who to call?
Heh, where I work Dell has the number for the owner, general manager, accountant, and sales manager. Every time we call(ed) Dell we got a different sales person who couldn't find our account and just made a new one. Sometimes they'd use the name on the credit card (which varies) sometimes they'd use our corperate account - or set up a new corperate account if they couldn't find the previous one.
I say called because our account(s) with dell are past tense. They over charge, and the support sucks. Personally I tell my boss what to do, and he tells me what to do. The difference is that I have to actually do what he tells me to. But we get along so that's why that works =)
No, windows 98 can't even use more than 512Mb, Win95 64Mb. Win3.1 can go up to either 32 or 64, although I'm thinking 32. Of course you'd be running fat16 on that machine so a 2gig hard drive is going to be the limit. Getting drivers must be fun. I guess 16 colors at 640x480 should be enough for anyone using notepad =P
Like BSD mall? Although BSD mall activly contributes to projects for the community, the key here is that ALL profits go to the NetBSD project. The store seems a bit lame if you ask me. A bunch of stuff with the NetBSD flag on it. whee. I'm much more apt to get cute stuff like a more interesting T-shirt
Sure, we could sit down and watch whatever's on, but that (by definition) is less appealing than our favourite shows.
Actually that's a good point. The broadcast flag could farther limit casual TV watching. You see an add for new program that looks interesting, but you're not sure if it's worth watching. Maybe it'll be your new favorite show, maybe you'll never want to see it again. So record it and watch it later right? Well if they now MAKE you sit and watch this new show which MIGHT be okay, then many people will probably just not watch it at all. Too bad for them I guess. Maybe people will just have to pick up hobbies other than watching TV.
Actually I find that comment surprising. HURD will be a microkernel, and obviously it will be nothing like the monolitic Linux kernel. Are you going to tell Linux to toss his kernel and make it a microkernel? If you believe that a microkernel is a good idea and you want to see that concept come to fruition, then it is obvious that you WOULDN'T work on Linux, and you would work on Hurd instead. They're both GPL, so if Linux finds something it can use (ego issues aside), I'm sure they'll use it.
I use Linux at home, OSX all day, and Windows in between at various times during the day. I switched from Windows to Linux so I'm well aquanted with the Windows version as well. I use Firefox on them all and I have to say Firefox on OSX is by FAR the most dissappointing.
The windows version seems to behave itself the most, but it seems like windows is just prone to apps hanging the system when it gets "busy". I can't say I've had any problem with the Linux version aside from the generic problems everyone else has.
OSX is another story. For instance many form fields will NOT gain focus using the tab key (select, radio and checkboxes) - [insert fun comments about web apps here]. Occasionally (like about once every 3 days) Firefox will simply decide it doesn't want to take any keyboard input anymore => restart. About once a week Firefox will go into space and I have to force kill it. Firefox uses memory on pretty much all systems, so as long as it doesn't spike cpu usage (and yes you can keep the processor pegged at 99% with Firefox) I just turn a blind eye.
Considering what people really want to see, I'd think you'd have to go a bit farther than that. So how about this.
Instead of a federation ship, we have a Klingong ship. They start out the show with some mysterious music and space stuff. And the voice over says "Our goal, to pilage the universe, accumulate as many women as possible and drink the blood of our enemies!". From there you have klingons just running around blowing shit up. Maybe have some hot vulcan chick as the science officer who pulls kung-fu on anyone who looks at her wrong. Every time they have a tough moral delema, they say "fuck it, blow it up!" Maybe have Wesly be a federation starship captin who is the snobby enemy of the klingon state, as a regular.
modern fansubbing scene is nothing more than the next warez scene.
Yeah, I have to agree there. My girlfriend a few years a go was into Fushigi Yugi and fan subbers were fighting over who was going to do it - when the translation was imminent anyway. Then there was the race to sub the Ah My Goddess movie - seriously, how would that NOT be picked up?
I think the biggest problem is the anime fan/fansubber has changed. There's tons of obscure pretty cool anime out there that has yet to be translated, but no fansubbers are picking them up. It's like they only go after commercially viable anime. Which is a shame really, because fansubs were always special to me - like I was watching something that was too oddball for Americans. Seems to me fan subbers also used to have a more fun attitude when doing their projects too, that shows through in the differences between older and more modern subs as well.
Anyway I wouldn't say the market no longer needs fansubbing, it needs what fansubbing USED to be, not what it is today.
Is that with or without the accelorator it sneaks in the start menu. Mozilla starts almost instantaniously too when it's already open =)
Actually I've disabled that and found it to be about as fast as acrobat 5 (maybe a bit faster). It's also got some usability improvments which are also nice. It still has a ways to go before it's as nice as whatever KDE opens pdfs with.
I think perhaps that MS is simply changing their strategy. MS competes with oldever versions of office more than any other software. They want you to upgrade, but you don't. Why is that? Because your current software runs just fine, and you can open stuff just fine. So now MS comes up with a new format and everyone bitches and complains. BUT here's the catch, all the open source people just LOVE the new format and everyone is pushing this new format. So what to do? UPGRADE OFFICE.
Microsoft knows that people have a lot invested in their current formats, and if there is going to be any transition, they're going to have to stick with MS Office to access them. More or less they just secured their own upgrade cycle. I'm thinking MS probably saw this comming down the line with the EU antitrust settlement so opening their formats using XML (which MS just loves now), makes perfect sense. Overall it's still a good thing for competition, even if no one plans on moving away from MS Office
I'm surprised about the reporting that SP2 has been "foiled". SP2 is supposed to be a step to make xp more secure, not invincible. There's a lot more to SP2 than the heap protection.
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Well I'm not sure about how much you've got invested in PC's already, but I think OSX is more of an investment. Microsoft and Linux require faster and faster hardware every year, while OSX gets faster and faster on the same hardware. Assuming this trend continues, this could reduce your upgrade cycle quite a bit.
or pull down your pants and stick your ass in front of a camera so that people stop paying attention to what's on it.
Although I agree with you to a point, I think that giving FF an improved interface to the system would be a good thing. I use whatever KDE uses to browse the filesystem, BUT I do all my web development in Firefox. I have the main folder for my page (no webserver running on my machine) on my hard drive. A nicer interface could certainly help me out there. Maybe make some sort of integrated preview pane for graphics and such. One nice trick is that you can add directories to the bookmarks toolbar and it turns it into a dropdown list automatically - adding some sort of icons on the list would be a nice improvement.
Anyone that wants to use FF in place of their native window manager is probably crazy, but there are reasons for making FF a better local browser as well.
if you don't have content (and purpose), any amount of eyecandy fluff isn't going to save you.
Yeah, that's what I would say is the big hang up. I say to people, what is you're website supposed to do? Usually I get responses back like "It's supposed to do something?" If you sit down and evaluate the purpose of a website and what it is supposed to do for your business/customer/whoever then content flows naturally from that. If your website is there to take up space, then that's exactly what it will do.
It's almost funny how companies will spend so much time on effort brocures and literature, then not know what to do with a website. *hint* it's usually almost the same.
I think either way, if I was one of those 800, I'd be looking for an alternative place of employment. I mean I certainly wouldn't want my job depending upon the whims of Bill Gates and his disapproval of some laws.
So as a Kerberos guru, would you recommend any books over this one? I'm the IT Manager at a company and we're having authentication problems comming out of our ears. I've tried to figure out a solution and right now it looks like Kerberos is our best hope for a number of systems, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around it (yeah it intimidates me).
*RANT* Of course half of our problems are that each new (usually Windows based) systems that cook up their own custom based authentication. Seriously, you'd think IIS had no authentication capabilities by itself - and it's not like these things work in any browser other than IE any damn way. Err., anyway, Kerberos can't fix all of our problems, but just merging 3 of our Unix based systems into Kerberos would make things more manageable.
You have two types of people who use Photoshop. The types that pirate it because it's supposed to be a good graphics application, and the people who are very much into its functionallity and rely upon it. Jasc will never make money off of group one anyway even if PSP were beter than PS tomorrow. Group 2 are the sorts of people who really require the functionality of Photoshop. Either they will pirate it or buy it, but they need photoshop for a reason.
I think Jasc has done a pretty good job with PSP. PSP9 costs $100 just like PSP5 did back in 97 when I bought it. The fairness of it's price and the very good functionality are the reasons it didn't fall into oblivion like so many other paint programs. If you go toe to toe with Photoshop, you better be prepared to match what Photoshop can do, and as much as I love PSP - it will sorely lose in that arena. And yeah, one of the biggest reasons I use Paint Shop Pro is because I can afford it, and the upgrade price is really good. Because I can afford it, I actually PAY for it.
You'd be surprised. Our company bought a product from UPS logistics that uses the Sun Java runtime but doesn't work in Firefox. (yes I'm serious). Turns out they have a bunch of IE only javascript that sends parameters to the applet, whithout the parameters it doesn't initalize. I dug around the system for like an hour trying to figure out what it was doing, but in the end just gave up. Lazy programmers will always bone you, no matter how portible something is supposed to be.
but I know this is true for "older" (non-XP) ones
Only Win9x (and before) did that. NT4 does NTLMv1 which allows for a full 14 character password. NTLMv2 used in Win2k and above support "lots" of characters - or at least 24 which is the longest password I use (127 I'm thinking). And Lanman auth can't use more than 14 characters anyway BTW. And yes XP will use the old Lanman auth 7+7 character passwords by default across a network.
The thing that really blows my mind is that MS doesn't use a salt in their passwords, so chances are you can store a pretty big table with the most common passwords anyway.
Look at the 3.3 screenshots and ad .1
Not to troll, but this is an incramental upgrade - you're not going to see a night and day difference. Although I'm always quite happy with the usability changes and added features, they aren't the sort of things you see from screenshots of someones desktop with a different wallpaper (usually). Seems sort of silly to slashdot KDE.org for each beta over screens that are more or less the same
Let's automate more.
It's a good idea, but it's easily snuffed out. Where I work it's really obscene the ammount of redundant, tasks which could be automated... My first and primary block is always management - and they seem to enjoy inventing more work for everyone. Also the users often need to be on board. Right now I'm fighting tooth and nail to get important user feedback, and they just don't care. I think it's important to get user feed back to make sure that you are really automating something and making work easier, not just making the same ammount of work in a different way. When you might as well be talking to a brick wall, progress isn't made.
Last but not least, it takes time and he stated that they were understaffed/overworked. It takes planning and time. I'm getting the feeling that managment there would SAY "automation is good" but then not give you the resources to follow through. Typical I guess. They say they want to cut costs, but will probably just cut jobs no matter what anyway.
As the IT guy where I work, and the BSD advicate; I think a new logo would be a good thing. I get all nastalgic when considering the daemon as well, but all in all - there are professional issues. A daemon with sneakers is cute, but it's hard to get your foot in the door with a logo like that. The vast majority of Linux distros don't use the penguin, even though tux is the mascot of Linux. Having a more sleek logo I think would be a step forward.
I agree about the netBSD logo however. Make it a flaming skull with two pistols crossed in the background or whatever - but DON'T make it a lame ass flag!
That mess is inexescusable,
You know, it just occurred to me what the problem is here. The GIMP interface sucks? Well no argument from me. I've picked up Photo Paint, Paint Shop Pro, and Photoshop in muliple versions of all and found myself quite productive in hours. The GIMP - it still fustrates me.
But that's not the core of the problem, the GIMP folks won't change the interface because they like it. Well fine, it's their codebase. But when you get down to the REAL core problem here, it's that the GIMP has no competition (on Linux). Almost all really good application software in Linux emerged better only when there was competition within it's field. Gnome/KDE for example. If everyone had an alternative and dropped GIMP like a hot potato, I'd bet we'd see some interface changing then!
Personally I'm holding my breath for Krite. I don't care if I have to install all of KOffice to get it, I'll be giggling like a schoolgirl the entire time it's compiling when it's finally released.
The story seems odd in other ways. I mean the rep calling your boss? How did the rep get the information on who to call?
Heh, where I work Dell has the number for the owner, general manager, accountant, and sales manager. Every time we call(ed) Dell we got a different sales person who couldn't find our account and just made a new one. Sometimes they'd use the name on the credit card (which varies) sometimes they'd use our corperate account - or set up a new corperate account if they couldn't find the previous one.
I say called because our account(s) with dell are past tense. They over charge, and the support sucks. Personally I tell my boss what to do, and he tells me what to do. The difference is that I have to actually do what he tells me to. But we get along so that's why that works =)
No, windows 98 can't even use more than 512Mb, Win95 64Mb. Win3.1 can go up to either 32 or 64, although I'm thinking 32. Of course you'd be running fat16 on that machine so a 2gig hard drive is going to be the limit. Getting drivers must be fun. I guess 16 colors at 640x480 should be enough for anyone using notepad =P
Like BSD mall? Although BSD mall activly contributes to projects for the community, the key here is that ALL profits go to the NetBSD project. The store seems a bit lame if you ask me. A bunch of stuff with the NetBSD flag on it. whee. I'm much more apt to get cute stuff like a more interesting T-shirt
Sure, we could sit down and watch whatever's on, but that (by definition) is less appealing than our favourite shows.
Actually that's a good point. The broadcast flag could farther limit casual TV watching. You see an add for new program that looks interesting, but you're not sure if it's worth watching. Maybe it'll be your new favorite show, maybe you'll never want to see it again. So record it and watch it later right? Well if they now MAKE you sit and watch this new show which MIGHT be okay, then many people will probably just not watch it at all. Too bad for them I guess. Maybe people will just have to pick up hobbies other than watching TV.
work on improving Linux
Actually I find that comment surprising. HURD will be a microkernel, and obviously it will be nothing like the monolitic Linux kernel. Are you going to tell Linux to toss his kernel and make it a microkernel? If you believe that a microkernel is a good idea and you want to see that concept come to fruition, then it is obvious that you WOULDN'T work on Linux, and you would work on Hurd instead. They're both GPL, so if Linux finds something it can use (ego issues aside), I'm sure they'll use it.
I use Linux at home, OSX all day, and Windows in between at various times during the day. I switched from Windows to Linux so I'm well aquanted with the Windows version as well. I use Firefox on them all and I have to say Firefox on OSX is by FAR the most dissappointing.
The windows version seems to behave itself the most, but it seems like windows is just prone to apps hanging the system when it gets "busy". I can't say I've had any problem with the Linux version aside from the generic problems everyone else has.
OSX is another story. For instance many form fields will NOT gain focus using the tab key (select, radio and checkboxes) - [insert fun comments about web apps here]. Occasionally (like about once every 3 days) Firefox will simply decide it doesn't want to take any keyboard input anymore => restart. About once a week Firefox will go into space and I have to force kill it. Firefox uses memory on pretty much all systems, so as long as it doesn't spike cpu usage (and yes you can keep the processor pegged at 99% with Firefox) I just turn a blind eye.
Considering what people really want to see, I'd think you'd have to go a bit farther than that. So how about this.
Instead of a federation ship, we have a Klingong ship. They start out the show with some mysterious music and space stuff. And the voice over says "Our goal, to pilage the universe, accumulate as many women as possible and drink the blood of our enemies!". From there you have klingons just running around blowing shit up. Maybe have some hot vulcan chick as the science officer who pulls kung-fu on anyone who looks at her wrong. Every time they have a tough moral delema, they say "fuck it, blow it up!" Maybe have Wesly be a federation starship captin who is the snobby enemy of the klingon state, as a regular.
Hmm... I think I'd actually watch that.
Ughh... I wasn't feeling very geeky until I saw your post thanks -_-;
but on the other hand if you can build up your daughter enough to kill the god of war, go for it.
modern fansubbing scene is nothing more than the next warez scene.
Yeah, I have to agree there. My girlfriend a few years a go was into Fushigi Yugi and fan subbers were fighting over who was going to do it - when the translation was imminent anyway. Then there was the race to sub the Ah My Goddess movie - seriously, how would that NOT be picked up?
I think the biggest problem is the anime fan/fansubber has changed. There's tons of obscure pretty cool anime out there that has yet to be translated, but no fansubbers are picking them up. It's like they only go after commercially viable anime. Which is a shame really, because fansubs were always special to me - like I was watching something that was too oddball for Americans. Seems to me fan subbers also used to have a more fun attitude when doing their projects too, that shows through in the differences between older and more modern subs as well.
Anyway I wouldn't say the market no longer needs fansubbing, it needs what fansubbing USED to be, not what it is today.
Is that with or without the accelorator it sneaks in the start menu. Mozilla starts almost instantaniously too when it's already open =)
Actually I've disabled that and found it to be about as fast as acrobat 5 (maybe a bit faster). It's also got some usability improvments which are also nice. It still has a ways to go before it's as nice as whatever KDE opens pdfs with.
I think perhaps that MS is simply changing their strategy. MS competes with oldever versions of office more than any other software. They want you to upgrade, but you don't. Why is that? Because your current software runs just fine, and you can open stuff just fine. So now MS comes up with a new format and everyone bitches and complains. BUT here's the catch, all the open source people just LOVE the new format and everyone is pushing this new format. So what to do? UPGRADE OFFICE.
Microsoft knows that people have a lot invested in their current formats, and if there is going to be any transition, they're going to have to stick with MS Office to access them. More or less they just secured their own upgrade cycle. I'm thinking MS probably saw this comming down the line with the EU antitrust settlement so opening their formats using XML (which MS just loves now), makes perfect sense. Overall it's still a good thing for competition, even if no one plans on moving away from MS Office
I'm surprised about the reporting that SP2 has been "foiled". SP2 is supposed to be a step to make xp more secure, not invincible. There's a lot more to SP2 than the heap protection.