I work for the Ontario government. Several years ago, we consolidated several email systems (about 60,000 people) into one: ontario.ca. We use real names (first.last@ontario.ca). Numbers are added by default by Exchange if an address is taken (first.last2@ontario.ca), but we let people pick whatever they want if they don't like that: middle initial, even the city they work in if the middle initial isn't enough. It doesn't really matter what their email address is, as long as it's appropriate and has their name in it.
GNU/Linux might be a good way of assigning credit where credit is due. But the people aren't going to say it because it's a pain in the ass.
I agree completely. This is also why any distribution with any hope of spreading beyond the ultra-techy scene doesn't include GNU in their name (i.e. Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu Linux, SuSe Linux, Gentoo Linux, etc.).
It's marketing suicide to use a name that's a pain in the ass to pronounce.
Their goal from the beginning was to give relevant results; relevant because the person doing the search would truely be interested in that result, not relevant because some company made it relevant. They don't want anyone dictating what comes where in the results.
When you have to insult your competition, you insinuate that you are losing to them.
Exactly. When you have to spend a lot of time trying to convince people why you're better than someone else, you need to start asking yourself why it's not obvious.
I had Windows as a desktop machine at work for a year and a half
Oh on a desktop Windows 2k+ is just fine for the most part, as long as you don't strain it too much. However I've seen even 2003 servers just stop working properly for no explainable reason and require it's regular reboot, which of course fixes everything. It's pretty rediculous.
From what I understand, the confusion between Lindows and Windows was hypothetical. Microsoft took them to court over the possibility that it would confuse the user.
In this case, it was actually confusing users. If you read the old Freespire site, the author explains the confusions that were going on and why he decided to change the name. There was no force from Linspire to change the name.
You sir, are a crack head. Your licence plate is publicly visible. The entire point of licence plates is to be publicly visible to everyone to uniquely identify your car. Your licence plate isn't private.
There are a lot of things wrong with traffic cameras, but privacy isn't one of them.
Well, the Admins cannot be blamed entirely in the Cisco case. Cisco was blamed for not pushing the importance of that patch.
While, in a perfect world, admins should immediately be on top of every new patch, if I noticed a patch that I thought was just a couple of minor bug fixes, it would go on the end of the "whenever I have time" list.
At the risk of sounding like a bandwagonner, try out Ubuntu. I had the same past experiences with Linux, then just installed Ubuntu over the weekend. This is what I can say:
Will my graphics card work? Chances are, yes. All I had to configure were the refresh rates my monitor could handle.
Will I have sound? Unless your card is uber-obscure, yes, and out of the box.
Will it take 2 weeks and constant forum trolling to find solutions to my problems? For more complicated in depth stuff, probably. But that comes with learning anything new and different from the norm. But so much is already configured that there isn't much left.
Will I have a consitant interface that doesn't change from one area of the OS to another? This depends on the window manager and the widgets prgrams use, so it isn't going to be much different between distributions, but I haven't found a problem with it.
Will I have all of the creature-features I'm used to in Windows? Depends what you're looking for. You can always get themes to mimic Windows if you really want. Keep in mind that it's not Windows though. Some things are always going to be different.
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I work for the Ontario government. Several years ago, we consolidated several email systems (about 60,000 people) into one: ontario.ca. We use real names (first.last@ontario.ca). Numbers are added by default by Exchange if an address is taken (first.last2@ontario.ca), but we let people pick whatever they want if they don't like that: middle initial, even the city they work in if the middle initial isn't enough. It doesn't really matter what their email address is, as long as it's appropriate and has their name in it.
Yeah, from what I saw on Wikipedia and the Microsoft Flight web page (linked from Wikipedia), it looks like a complete rewrite.
According to Wikipedia, the team was just laid off. But it's coming back as Microsoft Flight.
GNU/Linux might be a good way of assigning credit where credit is due. But the people aren't going to say it because it's a pain in the ass.
I agree completely. This is also why any distribution with any hope of spreading beyond the ultra-techy scene doesn't include GNU in their name (i.e. Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu Linux, SuSe Linux, Gentoo Linux, etc.).
It's marketing suicide to use a name that's a pain in the ass to pronounce.
Don't take this to mean I'm anti-Linux or pro-Windows, but Google uses Linux and their stock price is plummeting. No corrolation.
Well with their stock price what it is, it has nowhere to go but down.
I thought Will Smith was in show business. ;)
Let me guess: "rapper", "actor", "singers", and "tennis players".
Their goal from the beginning was to give relevant results; relevant because the person doing the search would truely be interested in that result, not relevant because some company made it relevant. They don't want anyone dictating what comes where in the results.
When you have to insult your competition, you insinuate that you are losing to them.
Exactly. When you have to spend a lot of time trying to convince people why you're better than someone else, you need to start asking yourself why it's not obvious.
"Fuck of moron" is also effective ;)
Thank goodness you don't have to spell over the phone!
I had Windows as a desktop machine at work for a year and a half
Oh on a desktop Windows 2k+ is just fine for the most part, as long as you don't strain it too much. However I've seen even 2003 servers just stop working properly for no explainable reason and require it's regular reboot, which of course fixes everything. It's pretty rediculous.
Thank goodness everyone's customers use standards compliant browsers. Whew! Your theory would be totally ridiculous if they didn't.
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From what I understand, the confusion between Lindows and Windows was hypothetical. Microsoft took them to court over the possibility that it would confuse the user.
In this case, it was actually confusing users. If you read the old Freespire site, the author explains the confusions that were going on and why he decided to change the name. There was no force from Linspire to change the name.
Jesus Christ how old are you?
He was about 33 when he died.
Yeah, I got it, conveniently after I posted that message.
... it's GNU/Linux Torvalds!
No it's not. We're talking about the kernel.
What are you talking about? Buffalo's in New York.
It's an invasion of my privacy.
You sir, are a crack head. Your licence plate is publicly visible. The entire point of licence plates is to be publicly visible to everyone to uniquely identify your car. Your licence plate isn't private.
There are a lot of things wrong with traffic cameras, but privacy isn't one of them.
but also have some areas to catch up on
Like how to park?
Is this because people's needs are growing faster than industry's ability to provide them?
It's probably that often, the industry doesn't know what people's needs are.
Well, the Admins cannot be blamed entirely in the Cisco case. Cisco was blamed for not pushing the importance of that patch.
While, in a perfect world, admins should immediately be on top of every new patch, if I noticed a patch that I thought was just a couple of minor bug fixes, it would go on the end of the "whenever I have time" list.
They seemed to have captured Goatse just fine.
Under processes:
Right-click taskmgr.exe, select Priority.
Task Manager has a priority of 'High' by default, which is two steps above normal.
I wasn't quite convinced that this guy is in fact an idiot, but, well... that sealed it.
At the risk of sounding like a bandwagonner, try out Ubuntu. I had the same past experiences with Linux, then just installed Ubuntu over the weekend. This is what I can say:
Will my graphics card work?
Chances are, yes. All I had to configure were the refresh rates my monitor could handle.
Will I have sound?
Unless your card is uber-obscure, yes, and out of the box.
Will it take 2 weeks and constant forum trolling to find solutions to my problems?
For more complicated in depth stuff, probably. But that comes with learning anything new and different from the norm. But so much is already configured that there isn't much left.
Will I have a consitant interface that doesn't change from one area of the OS to another?
This depends on the window manager and the widgets prgrams use, so it isn't going to be much different between distributions, but I haven't found a problem with it.
Will I have all of the creature-features I'm used to in Windows?
Depends what you're looking for. You can always get themes to mimic Windows if you really want. Keep in mind that it's not Windows though. Some things are always going to be different.
Just try it out. I was impressed.