Yeah, I'm sure we'll se ASSLOADS of innovation from IE7. Like "a send a DRM report to Microsoft" button added, along with a few other "enhancements" 99% of the population would find useless and annoying like the pop up image toolbar. Well I'm half joking, but MS isn't going to innovate until they see some sort of serious threat, and as it stands now, I doubt they'll make any significant improvements.
I think the "browser wars" are probably over. It's not really about browsers anymore as they're practically considered essential OS components. Mozilla probably will play a key role in spearheading the Linux movement, along with providing a good open source cross platform browser across many different venues.
If that album is "Judas Priest: best of" then Judas Priest themselves do not want you to buy it. I also noticed this album came up on e-music.com recently. It's actually just a rehash of the first two albums (released under Gull records who is trying to milk the name Judas Priest for all it's worth) and has some garbage "interviews".
Man fuck that! I don't have a sound card, I just use those visualization plugins in winamp and look at the animations. I don't even know what my mp3s sound like. What's with all these crazy requirements?
And you know, Britney Spears' albums are pretty decent when you don't have to listen to them.
But in the end the only real satisfaction I would have is if the people in charge of SCO and their laywers all end up with a big fat $0.00 on their paycheck and no parachute as they get their asses booted out the door.
Unfortunatly FUD can hang around. It actually surprises even me that most people don't even remember that the term FUD came from the practices of IBM, and in some respects the tech industry doesn't have a very long memory. But with a corperation like Microsoft watching in the backdrop... well it might be better to play this one low key.
Actuall I would think it would be best for Linus to just stay out of it. It would just add ammuntion to FUD against Linux in general. "See? If that guy Linus doesn't like you he'll say you can't use his kernel".
Linux got to where it is by being free and open. If you start to play favorites (even if justified) you're probably just going to detract from that point.
I think you're close but not totally on the mark. Evil looking command prompt messages (that I like) should definatly be optional (probably off by default as well) but there needs to be some sort of feedback. The worst thing I can say about the first couple cars I drove was the lack of status. All I had was "idiot lights". You know, the light comes on saying "Hey dude, you're out of oil" right around the time your engine screaches to a halt. The car I have now (an integra) has simple status gages. I couldn't tell you what the oil temp is, but I can tell you if it's really weird that the car is running hot (Honda's tend to be pretty solid temperature wise).
One of the worst things that can happen to computing started with Windows 95. A dumb ass screen where you have an animation at the bottom to tell you if your computer is frozen. That tells you nothing! Apple got it right with a friendly looking status screen coupled with some messages that say what's going on. A person may not know what sendmail is, but if it stops there you have something to go on.
Well it's easy for a slashdot reader to say that, but for people who aren't technically inclined seeing something exactly like a windows message box is easy to fool many of these people.
One day at work.
Me : [picks up phone] Boss: I got this warning message that says my computer has an IP address that is being broadcasted. Is that true? Me : Um...... no [click]
I think most of us have gotten to the point where we don't even care what's cheaper. Everyone just needs to pick one! I know at least 6 people (not including myself) who want to get a DVD burner, yet refuse to since they're unsure of compatability. The industry is just shooting itself in the foot if you ask me. By the time something gets sorted out everyone will have chosen the NEXT big thing (DVD-X++).
Personally I'm drowning in CD-Rs. Being able to cut down on my pile into 1/6th would be a big gain for me.
I wonder how long it's going to take Microsoft to figure out that it's not Linux that's the threat, it's open source. Linux is fine, but what do you DO with Linux? Linux is just a platform (like BSD), the other things you do like run a webserver, file server, database all require some sort of software (Apache, Samba, PostgreSQL). Most of the really good software packages aren't specific to Linux.
I live in Scranton and I still cant get DSL. I don't know where these guys are wiring but most people in this area still can't get DSL either.
What is sort of funny about all this is that for a business that gets high speed access (ISDN or T1) the last mile is ALWAYS Verizon. It's weird because it's like they're everywhere but you still can't get DSL from them. Everyone I know (including myself) has cable modems now and if you're happy with your serverce I doubt many people will be changing.
Not that the latter's bad, but retirees don't make for a good economy. Eh.. just to add to this, they also add to an overwhelmed health care system. Getting a doctor appointment is almost commical around here.
A small business CANNOT afford to employ a full time UNIX administrator.
A small buisness probably doesn't need a full time unix administrator in my opinion. From what I see small businesses are in a bind. They get a solution (linux, windows or whatever) then end up really gouged with support costs. Thus enter me (hello, I'm sort of a Linux admin). I was hired mainly because I was pretty familiar with Linux. I seriously don't have all that much stuff to do with the Linux box either as it never really breaks. I also spend my time asemmbling computers, adding features to the company intranet, or just fixing general computer problems. Small businesses don't need one particular thing, they need someone who has a fair ammount of skills in a lot of areas (but probably isn't uber in any of them either). In the end it's a lot cheaper to hire me (especially considering I don't get paid a whole lot compaired to a Unix or NT Admin) then pay continually for external support.
It's also a nice feeling that my job wont be going to Inda either =)
"Once upon a time, folks finished out their evening singing around a piano or playing parolor games instead of stearing mindlessly into the hypnotizing blue light of the boob tube telling them what to think about and how to think about it.
I think it's sort of disturbing myself. I used to watch a lot of TV, but in the last 2 years, I couldn't even tell you the last TV show I watched (which was at least 1.5 years ago). And it's not like I feel I'm really missing anything, and I wonder "why did I watch so mutch TV?" Yet much of the time when you hear people talking, they always bring up what they saw on TV. And it seems that more and more people just discuss TV or a movie and LESS about actually doing something with their life (as in freetime, not general direction).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought neuros only works with windows. I'm sure that's fine for most people, but if I'm going to buy one, I'd need to drag files from OSX, Win2k and Linux.
Sometimes? It's actually sort of pathetic how people seem skewed against republicans due to the fact that the media (ie people who do reporting) are in with the Democrats.
Simply put the two party system is broken the way it is now, where either side is payed off, just by opposing forces.
hehe... this reminds me of where I work where I told another admin that the backup should be niced to around 15 since I have to do one backup a week while people are still using the system, and I didn't want to drag people down. So the guy sets the nice level to -15. Next week I start the backup and man did I catch hell from irate users...
The moral of the story is to read the man page. Or if in doubt, just use nice with no argument and accept the default of 10 =P
-- to say "This strategy is sound and you have my support."
While I've never really been a "supporter" of AOL, I've found that the good in the projects they had sort of evened out the bad. Lately that's been changing. ICQ has become a pile of crap, Miranda ICQ has been my choice for a long time - the way ICQ should have ended up. Netscape is now gone from AOL, they have nothing to do with each other anymore. Winamp 3? Eh.... right. I wonder if anyone else such as me now views nothing good in AOL at all (if there were people like me in the first place =P )
Without a world-class browser, the Linux desktop simply cannot exist
Linux has more than enough of these already (of which Mozilla is one). I think more important is how the Mozilla framework will be leveraged by the open source community. The ammount of groupware type clients you can make with Mozilla are almost endless. Open Office I think is going to be one of the first.
I agree. I have a laptop (p120 16Mb of ram) with Windows 98 (lite) on it. Phoenix loads in around 2 minutes or so, after that it's difficult to tell if windows is frozen or Phoenix is trying to do something. Opera actually is much faster on this machine than Netscape 3 ever was on my P133 with 48 Megs of RAM.
I think each will end up filling a nitch as computers get faster, you wont see much of a difference between Opera and Moz on the desktop, but getting moz to work on something like a phone would almost be a joke.
Well there's the question of is it more expensive when you upgrade? It might be cheaper now to go with MS, but will it 5 years from now when you're locked into a solution with proprietary solutions? Linux tools tend to be built off of some sort of standards. And this means that you're usually not locked in at any point and can swap out different parts of the equation, even Linux itself. When you have this sort of versitility, competition can actually thrive - and usually in the price arena as well.
Unfortunatly there are issues with the PDF export. A while ago I was trying one of the developer builds of 1.1 and the PDF support just had problems and the PDFs were messed up. I downloaded a newer build last week and tried it. The results from a plain OO text document (with 2 lines as dividers).
Adobe PDF writer (4): 9.8k Adobe Distiller (4): 9.4k Open Office 1.1: 95k
Obviously it had major issues. I mean the open office document it self is only around 8k (but zipped obviously). Aside from that I've been pretty happy with the improvments... once I figure out how to turn off some of the 'auto indent' type harassment. It seems like unfortunatly OO is trying to emulate MS Office with how they're starting to push their help down your throat. =/
If you live near the right college station there's a good chance you can listen to something interesting. Around here there is one college station that has actual variety (from death metal to regge). Of course that's usually only during the summer as the regular college terms bring forth the same crap as the rest of the stations tend to play.
Again that depends on the college, because I know for a fact that where I went to college (NDSU) the college station was really freaking boring.
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Besides, IE7 comes with longhorn
Yeah, I'm sure we'll se ASSLOADS of innovation from IE7. Like "a send a DRM report to Microsoft" button added, along with a few other "enhancements" 99% of the population would find useless and annoying like the pop up image toolbar. Well I'm half joking, but MS isn't going to innovate until they see some sort of serious threat, and as it stands now, I doubt they'll make any significant improvements.
I think the "browser wars" are probably over. It's not really about browsers anymore as they're practically considered essential OS components. Mozilla probably will play a key role in spearheading the Linux movement, along with providing a good open source cross platform browser across many different venues.
If that album is "Judas Priest: best of" then Judas Priest themselves do not want you to buy it. I also noticed this album came up on e-music.com recently. It's actually just a rehash of the first two albums (released under Gull records who is trying to milk the name Judas Priest for all it's worth) and has some garbage "interviews".
Details are at the bottom of this page
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Man fuck that! I don't have a sound card, I just use those visualization plugins in winamp and look at the animations. I don't even know what my mp3s sound like. What's with all these crazy requirements?
And you know, Britney Spears' albums are pretty decent when you don't have to listen to them.
Yeah, I admit it =)
But in the end the only real satisfaction I would have is if the people in charge of SCO and their laywers all end up with a big fat $0.00 on their paycheck and no parachute as they get their asses booted out the door.
Unfortunatly FUD can hang around. It actually surprises even me that most people don't even remember that the term FUD came from the practices of IBM, and in some respects the tech industry doesn't have a very long memory. But with a corperation like Microsoft watching in the backdrop... well it might be better to play this one low key.
Actuall I would think it would be best for Linus to just stay out of it. It would just add ammuntion to FUD against Linux in general. "See? If that guy Linus doesn't like you he'll say you can't use his kernel".
Linux got to where it is by being free and open. If you start to play favorites (even if justified) you're probably just going to detract from that point.
I think you're close but not totally on the mark. Evil looking command prompt messages (that I like) should definatly be optional (probably off by default as well) but there needs to be some sort of feedback. The worst thing I can say about the first couple cars I drove was the lack of status. All I had was "idiot lights". You know, the light comes on saying "Hey dude, you're out of oil" right around the time your engine screaches to a halt. The car I have now (an integra) has simple status gages. I couldn't tell you what the oil temp is, but I can tell you if it's really weird that the car is running hot (Honda's tend to be pretty solid temperature wise).
One of the worst things that can happen to computing started with Windows 95. A dumb ass screen where you have an animation at the bottom to tell you if your computer is frozen. That tells you nothing! Apple got it right with a friendly looking status screen coupled with some messages that say what's going on. A person may not know what sendmail is, but if it stops there you have something to go on.
displaying therapeutic pictures of clouds
As much as 95 needed to be (re)booted people could use as much therapy as they could get.
Well it's easy for a slashdot reader to say that, but for people who aren't technically inclined seeing something exactly like a windows message box is easy to fool many of these people.
... no [click]
One day at work.
Me : [picks up phone]
Boss: I got this warning message that says my computer has an IP address that is being broadcasted. Is that true?
Me : Um...
I think most of us have gotten to the point where we don't even care what's cheaper. Everyone just needs to pick one! I know at least 6 people (not including myself) who want to get a DVD burner, yet refuse to since they're unsure of compatability. The industry is just shooting itself in the foot if you ask me. By the time something gets sorted out everyone will have chosen the NEXT big thing (DVD-X++).
Personally I'm drowning in CD-Rs. Being able to cut down on my pile into 1/6th would be a big gain for me.
non commercial doesn't mean open source. open source doesn't mean non commercial.
I wonder how long it's going to take Microsoft to figure out that it's not Linux that's the threat, it's open source. Linux is fine, but what do you DO with Linux? Linux is just a platform (like BSD), the other things you do like run a webserver, file server, database all require some sort of software (Apache, Samba, PostgreSQL). Most of the really good software packages aren't specific to Linux.
I live in Scranton and I still cant get DSL. I don't know where these guys are wiring but most people in this area still can't get DSL either.
What is sort of funny about all this is that for a business that gets high speed access (ISDN or T1) the last mile is ALWAYS Verizon. It's weird because it's like they're everywhere but you still can't get DSL from them. Everyone I know (including myself) has cable modems now and if you're happy with your serverce I doubt many people will be changing.
Not that the latter's bad, but retirees don't make for a good economy.
Eh.. just to add to this, they also add to an overwhelmed health care system. Getting a doctor appointment is almost commical around here.
A small business CANNOT afford to employ a full time UNIX administrator.
A small buisness probably doesn't need a full time unix administrator in my opinion. From what I see small businesses are in a bind. They get a solution (linux, windows or whatever) then end up really gouged with support costs. Thus enter me (hello, I'm sort of a Linux admin). I was hired mainly because I was pretty familiar with Linux. I seriously don't have all that much stuff to do with the Linux box either as it never really breaks. I also spend my time asemmbling computers, adding features to the company intranet, or just fixing general computer problems. Small businesses don't need one particular thing, they need someone who has a fair ammount of skills in a lot of areas (but probably isn't uber in any of them either). In the end it's a lot cheaper to hire me (especially considering I don't get paid a whole lot compaired to a Unix or NT Admin) then pay continually for external support.
It's also a nice feeling that my job wont be going to Inda either =)
"Once upon a time, folks finished out their evening singing around a piano or playing parolor games instead of stearing mindlessly into the hypnotizing blue light of the boob tube telling them what to think about and how to think about it.
I think it's sort of disturbing myself. I used to watch a lot of TV, but in the last 2 years, I couldn't even tell you the last TV show I watched (which was at least 1.5 years ago). And it's not like I feel I'm really missing anything, and I wonder "why did I watch so mutch TV?" Yet much of the time when you hear people talking, they always bring up what they saw on TV. And it seems that more and more people just discuss TV or a movie and LESS about actually doing something with their life (as in freetime, not general direction).
You know all this license stuff is way to much for a simple coder like me. I can now see where the BSD license is coming from:
"Here, just take the god damn code. If it breaks I don't care!"
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought neuros only works with windows. I'm sure that's fine for most people, but if I'm going to buy one, I'd need to drag files from OSX, Win2k and Linux.
Sometimes? It's actually sort of pathetic how people seem skewed against republicans due to the fact that the media (ie people who do reporting) are in with the Democrats.
Simply put the two party system is broken the way it is now, where either side is payed off, just by opposing forces.
I guess... I mean the bugs are circling now =P
hehe... this reminds me of where I work where I told another admin that the backup should be niced to around 15 since I have to do one backup a week while people are still using the system, and I didn't want to drag people down. So the guy sets the nice level to -15. Next week I start the backup and man did I catch hell from irate users...
The moral of the story is to read the man page. Or if in doubt, just use nice with no argument and accept the default of 10 =P
-- to say "This strategy is sound and you have my support."
While I've never really been a "supporter" of AOL, I've found that the good in the projects they had sort of evened out the bad. Lately that's been changing. ICQ has become a pile of crap, Miranda ICQ has been my choice for a long time - the way ICQ should have ended up. Netscape is now gone from AOL, they have nothing to do with each other anymore. Winamp 3? Eh.... right. I wonder if anyone else such as me now views nothing good in AOL at all (if there were people like me in the first place =P )
Without a world-class browser, the Linux desktop simply cannot exist
Linux has more than enough of these already (of which Mozilla is one). I think more important is how the Mozilla framework will be leveraged by the open source community. The ammount of groupware type clients you can make with Mozilla are almost endless. Open Office I think is going to be one of the first.
I agree. I have a laptop (p120 16Mb of ram) with Windows 98 (lite) on it. Phoenix loads in around 2 minutes or so, after that it's difficult to tell if windows is frozen or Phoenix is trying to do something. Opera actually is much faster on this machine than Netscape 3 ever was on my P133 with 48 Megs of RAM.
I think each will end up filling a nitch as computers get faster, you wont see much of a difference between Opera and Moz on the desktop, but getting moz to work on something like a phone would almost be a joke.
Well there's the question of is it more expensive when you upgrade? It might be cheaper now to go with MS, but will it 5 years from now when you're locked into a solution with proprietary solutions? Linux tools tend to be built off of some sort of standards. And this means that you're usually not locked in at any point and can swap out different parts of the equation, even Linux itself. When you have this sort of versitility, competition can actually thrive - and usually in the price arena as well.
Unfortunatly there are issues with the PDF export. A while ago I was trying one of the developer builds of 1.1 and the PDF support just had problems and the PDFs were messed up. I downloaded a newer build last week and tried it. The results from a plain OO text document (with 2 lines as dividers).
Adobe PDF writer (4): 9.8k
Adobe Distiller (4): 9.4k
Open Office 1.1: 95k
Obviously it had major issues. I mean the open office document it self is only around 8k (but zipped obviously). Aside from that I've been pretty happy with the improvments... once I figure out how to turn off some of the 'auto indent' type harassment. It seems like unfortunatly OO is trying to emulate MS Office with how they're starting to push their help down your throat. =/
And I thought the expanding menus thing was bad...
If you live near the right college station there's a good chance you can listen to something interesting. Around here there is one college station that has actual variety (from death metal to regge). Of course that's usually only during the summer as the regular college terms bring forth the same crap as the rest of the stations tend to play.
Again that depends on the college, because I know for a fact that where I went to college (NDSU) the college station was really freaking boring.