It has become very popular to hide the real info that would have fit nicely on a single page in 3 or 5 pages of littered ad space. The artical in question does not even get 25% of the page. I know that they are just trying to get you to see more adds, but this is ridiculous.
I just read an artical on XMLSockets that was done the same way. I cut and pasted the real artical into a seperate new webpage and printed it out so that I could actually read what the author had intended to be read.
We need to be able to edit Flash files, edit Movies, make better websites.
Microsoft Office has been done, done to death, and the resounding tone is that there is precious little inovation left to do. Macromedia, Adobe and Apple are making the software that needs to run on Linux box.
Honestly with OpenOffice, gnumeric and kspread what else do you need for a spreadsheet?
Wordart in Excel BFD. Garageband, Premeire, Flash MX, Dreamweaver, FinalCut.....
OK this sasser worm can install istelf open a few ports, serve files as an FTP daemon, place itself where it pleases, and gobble up your network.
Other virus's do all sorts of nasty things, but they all seem to stop short of REALLY bad things. Search for files they can delete, look for a network drive and have their way, find interesting files and mail to random people, rename this or that to render the machine useless.....
To me this seems very strange. Is ther some kind of virus writers code that has some small bit of ethic? Is there some undergound society that meets the 3rd wednesday to discuss safe virus exploits? Does Microsoft create these things to get people to upgrade? Maybe McAfee and Norton are funding them and they just want a profitable year?
Now I am not asking for this kind of damage, but as my boss points out he has no reason to switch to anything more secure because nothing really bad happens.
I think that they goofed. 1/3 of it is virus infected, another 1/3 is spam, and the remaining 1/3 are jokes from people that you barely know that are not that funny.
The average user needs to be able to create the docs and the tools need to do the colaboration. It has to happen way before the the save-as menu option. It also needs to happen with out the users even knowing it is happening.
I also think that the whole "document as a file" scheme needs to go away. The printed copy needs to have watermarked inside it the version and date it was created / printed. But the document is an ever changing entity that should be accessable and modified but not saved as a file. As soon as someone has a portable, editable file, the whole system is broken. Just like the floppy breaks the network.
CVS et al. needs to be done at some level so that the user never even knows it is happening. I believe that the whole co-laboration methods that we have currently are great for programers and techies but the average user is still shaking their heads in confusion. Just like what the average user is thinking about public key encryption.
Sooner or later someone has to come to the conclusion that the Office app has been done. It has been done to death. OpenOffice is great and well beyond what the average user needs. Then there is Koffice and gnumeric and AbiWord. All of which are also well worth the time to use and enjoy. The "improvements" that come woth the MS Office each release are for most people minute ie: clippie is now a cat....
So if Corel want's to make some software that runs on the Linux platform, they should make something that we don't have. Maybe some compitition to Macromedia, Adobe or Apple. Then maybe there would a product that they could sell.
Also several years ago there was a market of people that were longing for WordPerfect. But now those people have either retired or learned to use the the current offerings and have forgotten their WordPerfect ways.
We made the coice to be in IT because we love the technology and found ourselves better than others at making them work.
Now several years into it we are still helping the one's who don't get it do the simple things (cut and paste, attachemnets, and stop double clicking on everyhting!) However, we still _LOVE_ the technology. We are adicted. We go home and program for the OpenSource, build lans so we can play games, make digital wonders that our co-workers can't even understand.
Then we go back to work the next morning and do it all again. Why? because we make more beating our heads on tubes and hating the decisions that the boss makes than we could ever dream of at anything else. Which adds to the frustration.
I personaly would love to be surounded by people that can already use the equipment as well as the most competant user on my network, but the fact is that less than 5% of my users can do 5% of what the best can do. The 95% drives me to drink. However it that same 95% that gives me a job that pays well, is clean, out of harsh weather, and not physically difficult.
People won't switch, for a few reasons. First it is slightly difficult to migrate you mail and addresses. I just did a convert for a guy that had his addresses in WAB and that was a pain in the ass to get into Outlook (as a PAB) then into Netscape as an ldif.
They actually have to download something to make the switch. Most are too lazy. The same morons who gladly download Kazaa and totally infect their system refuse to download a mail client that would save them from problems.
Some (like my boss) is just too stuborn to change.
I sware it seems just like when you are talking to some salesman who tells you " I will call you back {insert duration here} from now to see how you are doing" and sure as shit that long from now to the minute you get a call from them.
Microsoft must have the timer on 1 year and they set it for any emerging product that looks trendy. If that product is doing well when the tickler goes off then low and behold here is the Microsoft product.
I was amazed that eMachines had become #3 maker and they had done it with out going public. I was also amazed when they made the 1st 64 bit notebook.
Sure they make el-cheapo computers, sure there are going to be quality issues at the bottom of the barrel. But these guys did get very far since 1998 and then to get bought out by Gateway.... That is depressing. Why couldn't some one cool like penguin computing buy them?
Maybe one of those 64 bit notebooks will become a collectors item?
A few years ago we were bitching about all the clueless people that were using Java for trivial things and taking the experience to the toilet.
Now we are bitching about clueless people using Flash for everything including the kitchen sink.
The problem with everything techy is that is seldom left to techy-types and is ultimatly handed down to the complete clueless who will use whatever tool they can to whatever task they need to do.
Microsoft should be able to create much better software. Take IE for example. Netscape demonstrated in 1996 how to make a safe browser. Then it released the source for all to see, surly someone in Redmond bothered to check it out. Now here we are 7 years later and there is a weekly patch to IE for this or that security hole.
IIS, Office, Outlook, the OS itself, have the same problems. There are several products that came before the Microsoft version without the holes and yet the Microsoft version is problematic. Usually in drastic ways.
It is easy to jump to several conclusions. The one that I think that he could explore well would be are they leaving these holes in on purpose? And why?
Macromedia and Adobe need to port their apps to Linux and make them for sale before any serious desktop war can be waged.
It is not that the current soup of Linux apps are not present, it is just that they are not really up to date with the current offerings of the heavy hitters. This is not to take away for their development work. It is just reality.
I am using a good deal of the X-10 stuff in my house and from what I have seen it is true that you get what you pay for. If you want to have some fun and not spend a lot the Powerhouse line is cheap and the quality tolerable. If you want quality check out the Leviton Power-Line carrier line.
However I have found nothing "Completely unreliable"
I spent about $125 on eBay amd got a heap of switches, outles fobs remotes and transeivers. All of which are the low quality and all of which WOW the neighbors. X-10 has been ready for prime time since the 70's when it was developed.
Currently I get pounds of snail mail SPAM every week and I dutifully recycle that material. I don't care for any of it and it comes from a wide variety of sources; extra content from the bills that I recieve and sold mailing lists, are the biggest sources I believe.
I also get a great deal of SPAM now mostly because I have in the past posted to news groups. If we as a society are going to limit and attempt to control one we have to do the same for the other.
In Wisconsin we now have a list that says that we do not wish to recieve telemarketers calls and they are supposed to abide by our wishes. Can't we impose 2 more lists to keep unsolicetee (s|e)mail from getting to us as well?
I suspect that all three are about as equally difficult to police.
I am turning my home into a low budget high tech house (sic) and I have thought about running wires and mounting a pc (or 2) in there. One would be for reading the news while on the throne. Which would allow for the removal of the magazine stack / rack.
The other would be water proof and play music in the shower. I would use shorten instead of mp3, but that is me.
I wish that people who need money would do something creative with their trademark(s) instead of spending all of their time trying to do something as uncreative as sueing someone who is both doing no harm to them and doing something creative.
As far as the Mozilla part goes, what cave was Godzilla sleeping in that he just became aware of it?
I wonder if BOC is next, or is that how they fell of the face of the earth?
Doing just a quickie calculation the switches alone would be 1.6 M (100 / port) and I bet it will be way more than that since I based the 100 / port on an 8 port linksys.
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I went to read the review and this format blows!!
It has become very popular to hide the real info that would have fit nicely on a single page in 3 or 5 pages of littered ad space. The artical in question does not even get 25% of the page. I know that they are just trying to get you to see more adds, but this is ridiculous.
I just read an artical on XMLSockets that was done the same way. I cut and pasted the real artical into a seperate new webpage and printed it out so that I could actually read what the author had intended to be read.
Boycott these places!!
We need to be able to edit Flash files, edit Movies, make better websites.
Microsoft Office has been done, done to death, and the resounding tone is that there is precious little inovation left to do. Macromedia, Adobe and Apple are making the software that needs to run on Linux box.
Honestly with OpenOffice, gnumeric and kspread what else do you need for a spreadsheet?
Wordart in Excel BFD. Garageband, Premeire, Flash MX, Dreamweaver, FinalCut.....
OK this sasser worm can install istelf open a few ports, serve files as an FTP daemon, place itself where it pleases, and gobble up your network.
Other virus's do all sorts of nasty things, but they all seem to stop short of REALLY bad things. Search for files they can delete, look for a network drive and have their way, find interesting files and mail to random people, rename this or that to render the machine useless.....
To me this seems very strange. Is ther some kind of virus writers code that has some small bit of ethic? Is there some undergound society that meets the 3rd wednesday to discuss safe virus exploits? Does Microsoft create these things to get people to upgrade? Maybe McAfee and Norton are funding them and they just want a profitable year?
Now I am not asking for this kind of damage, but as my boss points out he has no reason to switch to anything more secure because nothing really bad happens.
I think that they goofed. 1/3 of it is virus infected, another 1/3 is spam, and the remaining 1/3 are jokes from people that you barely know that are not that funny.
The average user needs to be able to create the docs and the tools need to do the colaboration. It has to happen way before the the save-as menu option. It also needs to happen with out the users even knowing it is happening.
I also think that the whole "document as a file" scheme needs to go away. The printed copy needs to have watermarked inside it the version and date it was created / printed. But the document is an ever changing entity that should be accessable and modified but not saved as a file. As soon as someone has a portable, editable file, the whole system is broken. Just like the floppy breaks the network.
CVS et al. needs to be done at some level so that the user never even knows it is happening. I believe that the whole co-laboration methods that we have currently are great for programers and techies but the average user is still shaking their heads in confusion. Just like what the average user is thinking about public key encryption.
Sooner or later someone has to come to the conclusion that the Office app has been done. It has been done to death. OpenOffice is great and well beyond what the average user needs. Then there is Koffice and gnumeric and AbiWord. All of which are also well worth the time to use and enjoy. The "improvements" that come woth the MS Office each release are for most people minute ie: clippie is now a cat....
So if Corel want's to make some software that runs on the Linux platform, they should make something that we don't have. Maybe some compitition to Macromedia, Adobe or Apple. Then maybe there would a product that they could sell.
Also several years ago there was a market of people that were longing for WordPerfect. But now those people have either retired or learned to use the the current offerings and have forgotten their WordPerfect ways.
No matter what they do to the file sharing people they will be able to do very about people that copy each others CD's.
AFAIK there is no paper trail on a sneakernet.
We made the coice to be in IT because we love the technology and found ourselves better than others at making them work.
Now several years into it we are still helping the one's who don't get it do the simple things (cut and paste, attachemnets, and stop double clicking on everyhting!) However, we still _LOVE_ the technology. We are adicted. We go home and program for the OpenSource, build lans so we can play games, make digital wonders that our co-workers can't even understand.
Then we go back to work the next morning and do it all again. Why? because we make more beating our heads on tubes and hating the decisions that the boss makes than we could ever dream of at anything else. Which adds to the frustration.
I personaly would love to be surounded by people that can already use the equipment as well as the most competant user on my network, but the fact is that less than 5% of my users can do 5% of what the best can do. The 95% drives me to drink. However it that same 95% that gives me a job that pays well, is clean, out of harsh weather, and not physically difficult.
People won't switch, for a few reasons.
First it is slightly difficult to migrate you mail and addresses. I just did a convert for a guy that had his addresses in WAB and that was a pain in the ass to get into Outlook (as a PAB) then into Netscape as an ldif.
They actually have to download something to make the switch. Most are too lazy. The same morons who gladly download Kazaa and totally infect their system refuse to download a mail client that would save them from problems.
Some (like my boss) is just too stuborn to change.
I sware it seems just like when you are talking to some salesman who tells you " I will call you back {insert duration here} from now to see how you are doing" and sure as shit that long from now to the minute you get a call from them.
Microsoft must have the timer on 1 year and they set it for any emerging product that looks trendy. If that product is doing well when the tickler goes off then low and behold here is the Microsoft product.
I was amazed that eMachines had become #3 maker and they had done it with out going public. I was also amazed when they made the 1st 64 bit notebook.
Sure they make el-cheapo computers, sure there are going to be quality issues at the bottom of the barrel. But these guys did get very far since 1998 and then to get bought out by Gateway.... That is depressing. Why couldn't some one cool like penguin computing buy them?
Maybe one of those 64 bit notebooks will become a collectors item?
A few years ago we were bitching about all the clueless people that were using Java for trivial things and taking the experience to the toilet.
Now we are bitching about clueless people using Flash for everything including the kitchen sink.
The problem with everything techy is that is seldom left to techy-types and is ultimatly handed down to the complete clueless who will use whatever tool they can to whatever task they need to do.
5.6 million Janet Jackson CD's for sex education???
Ah the day of the Toaster and Pizza Box
Purple Desksides and giant blue towers
The BeBox, Next Cube,
Many colors only some beige
Each would be quite different
Inside and out
From companies that made hardware and software
Now we have only a different case
The guts are the same
Microsoft should be able to create much better software. Take IE for example. Netscape demonstrated in 1996 how to make a safe browser. Then it released the source for all to see, surly someone in Redmond bothered to check it out. Now here we are 7 years later and there is a weekly patch to IE for this or that security hole.
IIS, Office, Outlook, the OS itself, have the same problems. There are several products that came before the Microsoft version without the holes and yet the Microsoft version is problematic. Usually in drastic ways.
It is easy to jump to several conclusions. The one that I think that he could explore well would be are they leaving these holes in on purpose? And why?
Macromedia and Adobe need to port their apps to Linux and make them for sale before any serious desktop war can be waged.
It is not that the current soup of Linux apps are not present, it is just that they are not really up to date with the current offerings of the heavy hitters. This is not to take away for their development work. It is just reality.
What ever happened to PostgresFS. I seem to remember sonething about it in like 1997.
It does not suprise me that Microsoft now is going to make a Windows on Unix as they love copying Apple.
What does suprise me is they waited so long.
I am using a good deal of the X-10 stuff in my house and from what I have seen it is true that you get what you pay for. If you want to have some fun and not spend a lot the Powerhouse line is cheap and the quality tolerable. If you want quality check out the Leviton Power-Line carrier line.
However I have found nothing "Completely unreliable"
I spent about $125 on eBay amd got a heap of switches, outles fobs remotes and transeivers. All of which are the low quality and all of which WOW the neighbors.
X-10 has been ready for prime time since the 70's when it was developed.
Currently I get pounds of snail mail SPAM every week and I dutifully recycle that material. I don't care for any of it and it comes from a wide variety of sources; extra content from the bills that I recieve and sold mailing lists, are the biggest sources I believe.
I also get a great deal of SPAM now mostly because I have in the past posted to news groups. If we as a society are going to limit and attempt to control one we have to do the same for the other.
In Wisconsin we now have a list that says that we do not wish to recieve telemarketers calls and they are supposed to abide by our wishes. Can't we impose 2 more lists to keep unsolicetee (s|e)mail from getting to us as well?
I suspect that all three are about as equally difficult to police.
So how does this really compare?
If you concider the kernel, GNU and KDE | Gnome (either one w/o apps) I would think that there is as much to them.
I would also wonder about the big iron OS dev teams.
Also as with any huge corporate project you have to assume 1/2 of the 10,000 people are dead weight PHB types.
I am turning my home into a low budget high tech house (sic) and I have thought about running wires and mounting a pc (or 2) in there. One would be for reading the news while on the throne. Which would allow for the removal of the magazine stack / rack.
The other would be water proof and play music in the shower. I would use shorten instead of mp3, but that is me.
As far as buying any computer I would STRONGLY sugjest a Mac.
My reasons are quite simple
I bought a used iMac for US$600 a year ago
It is still worth 400 -> 500 on eBay
This is three year old computer
What three year old Wintel box is fetching >$300?
Mac hold their value better than any PC name brand or no-name
And IMHO have better software/OS's
I wish that people who need money would do something creative with their trademark(s) instead of spending all of their time trying to do something as uncreative as sueing someone who is both doing no harm to them and doing something creative.
As far as the Mozilla part goes, what cave was Godzilla sleeping in that he just became aware of it?
I wonder if BOC is next, or is that how they fell of the face of the earth?
Doing just a quickie calculation the switches alone would be 1.6 M (100 / port) and I bet it will be way more than that since I based the 100 / port on an 8 port linksys.
Seems like a very expensive experiment.