Sometimes it was simply faster to walk down to the campus book store grab a boxed set and put it on a purchase order than it was to download and burn the otherwise free ISOs. This applies even to impulse purchases -- "I wonder what ____ distro is like?"
Any of the large distros which wish to gain further market share could benefit by ensuring that at least one boxed set is on the shelf of the university book store. This is especially important in areas with poor connectivity or with out ethernet in the dorms.
110 macs == less work than 15 ms boxes
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I find it hard to believe that there is any speculation. I've seen two technicians take care of 110 macintoshes with less time than they spend repairing the 15 windows machines remaining.
Then there is the Total Cost of Sanity that many have mentioned. The Macs just work, but more importantly they are pre-installed.
At a conference spanning several days, the first day and a half it looked any participant with a note book computer was runing either an iBook or a PowerBook. By the end of the week the ratio of Mac to Windows had droped to about 1:1 -- the Windows users had averaged about 20 minutes each with a technician to get the wireless cards working.
Mac just work, but more importantly they are pre-installed.
The common Linux distros are very easy to install and maintain since about 4 years ago, especially compared to Windows. But having OS X work out of the box beats even Linux and really creams Windows. When you start talking about corrective maintenance, then you couldn't pay me to put up with the garbage that I've had to watch Windows technicians deal with. However, the end user, not the technician is the real benefactor of OS X. They can use the computer for their job rather than having to call twice a week about problems which prevent daily activities.
If it were feasible to raise the fishing quotas without endangering cod supplies...
Quotas are part of the problem. Look what happened to the salmon on the east coast of north America, or the blue pike in the great lakes. Below a certain threshold, the pike just vanished. But quotas are only part of the problem.
The North Atlantic cod are wiped out even in areas where the water once could be so full that it looked like it boild. What's needed are better fishing methods where there is little or no "by catch". The traditional methods come to mind. Reinstating these helped Thailand, why not the EU? Modernization in regards to gear makes this safer and more comfortable.
...if the fishermen are throwing out 1/3rd of their catch...
Actually the smaller operations can and do sort by hand as a matter of line fishing.
The problems come from the large factory trawlers. Because of the way the fish asphyxiate in the trawler nets, there is no advantage to sorting them. In fact, some larger vessels grind the dead fish to chum to avoid having incriminating dead fish floating on the surface. In contrast, smaller operations (say a 2 man boat at the smallest), line fish and pull in many km of hooked line. This means that as they pull the fish in by hand, if it is the wrong sort or size, they let it drop. If it is the right size and sort, they gaff it and pull it in. Salt water fish are quite tough and likely to survive the former. One flatfish made the local papers and earned a retirement in the local aquarium by virtue of surviving about 12 hours out of water.
If the trawling process is allowed to continue and if it is modified so that the fish are brought on board live, then the digital camera sorting would be very useful.
Ague, now called malaria, is native to North America and caused trouble even as far north as Michigan and Ohio. It's also one of the reasons it's been difficult to transplant eagles from Alaska to Florida, the Alaska population is not at all resistant.
Look at U.S. historical records from the 1800's and realize that the effect that mosquito borne illnesses had.
After all, Microsoft wants to ease the minds of consumers and investors.
The wise investors got out a while ago. Among staff, even the top and just over half of the rest have bailed. Though, it is possible that the latter is for the purposes of a tax write-off.
It's just as possible that the leak is part of an intentional PR stunt, just like large government bureaucracies do. There's a lot of ego involved and you can't just close up shop overnight without softening up some of the bigger egos. I can think of several reasons why it would make economic sense to leak.
Free publicity at a time where F/OSS, especially Linux, is gaining lots of positive attention.
MS is failing to force NT and 2000 users into the unfavorable prices and licenses surrounding XP and 2003. Publicity of a leak can help scare those currently on the fence into signing before they finish evaluating Linux, OS X or BSD.
MS just suffered the loss of the trademark lawsuit. Windows is a generic term like post or door or lintel. This prevents coverage
In addition or instead of the extra AC adaptor, I found models with a dock allow me to attach or detach the power, the IR wheelmouse, extra monitor, ethernet and keyboard all at once making it even easier to just go.
Wireless ethernet is essential. I've found that I don't even use CDs or DVDs that much and when I do could just as well transfer the contents / image from another networked computer. It's been a few years since I've used a 3.5" floppy or a modem, but I'd say the modem is good to have.
This Jones fellow is just dusting off the FUD we heard a few years ago, perhaps just to keep attention off the heinous security problems that are affecting Win NT, 2000, XP, and Win2003 despite claims of improvement.
When you rely on proprietary products you often get the shaft, especially if you cannot audit and compile the code yourself. See:
This applies to all areas, especially infrastructure.
For now you have a choice, you can choose Kerberos and OpenLDAP, where you can audit the code. Or, you can experiment your money away with MS-ActiveDirectory and hope that it does what it claims to on the box and hope that none of the currently known remote exploits cause you any trouble.
Where can the documentation and tutorials for the Free Edition be downloaded?
I see the online versions but am looking for the monolithic documentation and tutorials.
The monolithic versions (all chapters in one single document) are easier to download and/or work with offline. The tempting alternative is getting wacky with wget which may frustrate Trolltech's server.
I may be totally out of line, but the idea of single sign-on through tickets/tokens already works rather well with Kerberos. Why not incorporate Kerberos into the Jabber system?
I know nothing of Jabber, but looking at the jabber components they seem like the might be able to use Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) by telling that service to authenticate using Kerberos. Kerberos is not so difficult to implement using PAM and you can even set it up for fail over between different authentication methods.
Even installing Kerberos is not a bit deal anymore. For several years now it's been part of distros as ready-to-use RPMs or.deb packages.
If you combine Kerberos with OpenLDAP, then you get great flexiblity with users and groups in addition to the security, scalability, and platform independence lacking for weaker substitutes like MSAD.
Actually, Stallman is very much pro-copyright. The GPL uses, supports and depends on strong copyright to ensure that rights are not diminished. This goes very strongly in line with the notion of copyright put forth in the U.S. constitution.
I think what you might be trying to say is that a small, but vocal, minority of businesses are trying to prevent the progress of science and useful arts.
Can't fire the people that open attachments, they are usually members of the board or senior staff. I can't remember one 'non exec' who opened a virus in the last 12 months, over 50% of the directors did.
Back in the day, we had file sharing and did not have idiots sending attachments. Do your company a favor and install AFS, Samba or Netware and then have your MTA remove or reject any attachments. AFS and Samba are now part of your garden variety linux distros. Netware is a piece of cake to install, configure and maintain. Novell used to give out 2-user demo CDs so you can try it first.
One wonders if the prevalence of attachments is due to MS-Windows file sharing not working.
Well, it's largely a marketing company. For the three months ending December 2003, it spent $ 2 467 000 000 USD on sales and marketing. Some of the other line items probably include some marketing activities, so that's at least $ 9 868 000 000 000 USD per year.
The gains that Linux, BSD, OS X and others have made despite this warchest is quite a testimonial as to how far behind that company's technology is.
Aren't you forgetting that once upon a time everyone did use Netscape and Winamp. So what happened? MS bundled IE. It was the default browser, so everyone used it. MS bundled Media Player. It was the default player, so everyone used it.
Especially if the tech support uses the MS mantra, "wipe the hard disk and reinstall Windows." What that really means is "erase any competing software". Gathering and installing all the non-MS apps is a real pain and eventually short cuts get taken, time runs out, or people get tired or forget. Third party app management is so much easier on the Linux distros and on OS X.
I learned that outside of point blank range, firing a pistol/smg quickly will do nothing but hit air. 4 years later, and I finally got as good as my dad at pistol shooting at 25 yards. That's how long it takes before you really start learning.
If you get the hang of it, you can shorten the recovery time by using the recoil to aim again, but this is still much longer than if all you had to do was pull the trigger again. Because of the rifling, this can be done many times in a row right handed but tends to work loose from a left hand grip.
Wind would be a form of air resistance, but even on a still day with no wind or gusts, the bullet does slow down as it covers distance, which leads to gravity.
The longer the time the bullet is travelling the more it drops. The further the target, the higher the arc, which may be relevant from time to time.
The escape velocity is also an issue. Supersonic rounds are more likely to give away the position, but spend less time affected by wind and gravity. Subsonic rounds can be made "quieter"
Now how to fit these calculations into the game without it slowing to a crawl is an interesting problem.
Oh, bullshit. It operates nearly in a vacuum. Microsoft's stock price only affects Microsoft's stock price. Nokia, for example, has been steadily rising. Pretty much the same with IBM and so on...
Um, is this just an oversight, or is the poster so US-centered he doesn't realize that one of the major reasons why IPv6 is interesting to us in that weird "foreign" part of the world is that is expands the address space?
Both.
The target audience for that statement is the U.S., where many authors seems to miss any points beyond additional addresses. However, the misunderstanding is not limited to the U.S. and may even be intentional. Common arguments run something like, "my [puny|midsized] country has enough IPv4 addresses, therefore IPv6 is irrelevent to the world."
As stated earlier, scalability is probably the least important issue for most (i.e. non-Asia) countries when compared to IPSEC and routing.
Honestly, HTML is a decent precedent for XML. Sure the structure is less ordered, and not so clearly delineated between logical/structral and layout/presentation halves. But the idea of using containing tags to structure text has been around since at least SGML in 1986.
Actually, SGML was accepted as an international standard in 1986.
SGML has its origins in the 1960s, but then so does object oriented programming.
GML started then and over time was modified to what became SGML which became a standard in 1986. Then concessions were made to simplify it and most importantly, IMHO, make it easier to parse by requiring documents to be "well-formed". So, editors which handle structural markup, including some web editors (e.g. Hotmetal), have actually been around since the 1960's, even if we restrict the scope to SGML/XML.
If you want commercial, yet high quality examples, look at some of the tools from ArborText, Softquad, or even Altova. If you want something from the GNU project, then look at the PSGML mode for Emacs, which I recall using already in 1995. I'm sure I'm missing many examples from the 70's and 80's.
To take other recent examples, the versions of HTML prior to XHTML are in SGML. SGML and XML are the rules for defining sets of rules (aka DTDs) like HTML. You have many choices:
However, seeing as A) "requiring" signed drivers has not affected quality during the last 4 years and B) past and current predatory marketing practices, I'd say it looks a heck a lot more like market control. It does, even at face value, make it very difficult for smaller developers.
But that's neither here nor there, that platform is too far out of date.
The same goes for device drivers. Requiring signed drivers has not improved quality noticable and does raise further questions about potentially anti-competitive behaviour.
Speaking of "only a matter of time", how long until I can hack custom menus? My latest phone is too cluttered with items I don't use or want and the items are all in the wrong order (at least for me). Now that the phones are so complex, it ought to be possible to change the order of menu items or hide/remove unused items.
Don't get me wrong, it's a nice phone. But, really the only item that needs to be un-deletable would be "reset".
It got an "F" before, as well. Par for the course. However, their financial crisis is more interesting.
Of course Ballmer's upset, even late comers like HP are raking in sums like $2.5bn on Linux. That's not even counting the extra productivity from having a more secure design.
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Any of the large distros which wish to gain further market share could benefit by ensuring that at least one boxed set is on the shelf of the university book store. This is especially important in areas with poor connectivity or with out ethernet in the dorms.
Then there is the Total Cost of Sanity that many have mentioned. The Macs just work, but more importantly they are pre-installed. At a conference spanning several days, the first day and a half it looked any participant with a note book computer was runing either an iBook or a PowerBook. By the end of the week the ratio of Mac to Windows had droped to about 1:1 -- the Windows users had averaged about 20 minutes each with a technician to get the wireless cards working.
Mac just work, but more importantly they are pre-installed. The common Linux distros are very easy to install and maintain since about 4 years ago, especially compared to Windows. But having OS X work out of the box beats even Linux and really creams Windows. When you start talking about corrective maintenance, then you couldn't pay me to put up with the garbage that I've had to watch Windows technicians deal with. However, the end user, not the technician is the real benefactor of OS X. They can use the computer for their job rather than having to call twice a week about problems which prevent daily activities.
The North Atlantic cod are wiped out even in areas where the water once could be so full that it looked like it boild. What's needed are better fishing methods where there is little or no "by catch". The traditional methods come to mind. Reinstating these helped Thailand, why not the EU? Modernization in regards to gear makes this safer and more comfortable.
The problems come from the large factory trawlers. Because of the way the fish asphyxiate in the trawler nets, there is no advantage to sorting them. In fact, some larger vessels grind the dead fish to chum to avoid having incriminating dead fish floating on the surface. In contrast, smaller operations (say a 2 man boat at the smallest), line fish and pull in many km of hooked line. This means that as they pull the fish in by hand, if it is the wrong sort or size, they let it drop. If it is the right size and sort, they gaff it and pull it in. Salt water fish are quite tough and likely to survive the former. One flatfish made the local papers and earned a retirement in the local aquarium by virtue of surviving about 12 hours out of water.
If the trawling process is allowed to continue and if it is modified so that the fish are brought on board live, then the digital camera sorting would be very useful.
Look at U.S. historical records from the 1800's and realize that the effect that mosquito borne illnesses had.
It's just as possible that the leak is part of an intentional PR stunt, just like large government bureaucracies do. There's a lot of ego involved and you can't just close up shop overnight without softening up some of the bigger egos. I can think of several reasons why it would make economic sense to leak.
Wireless ethernet is essential. I've found that I don't even use CDs or DVDs that much and when I do could just as well transfer the contents / image from another networked computer. It's been a few years since I've used a 3.5" floppy or a modem, but I'd say the modem is good to have.
When you rely on proprietary products you often get the shaft, especially if you cannot audit and compile the code yourself. See:
- AARD
- NSA key in Lotus
- NSA key in MS-Windows
This applies to all areas, especially infrastructure. For now you have a choice, you can choose Kerberos and OpenLDAP, where you can audit the code. Or, you can experiment your money away with MS-ActiveDirectory and hope that it does what it claims to on the box and hope that none of the currently known remote exploits cause you any trouble.The monolithic versions (all chapters in one single document) are easier to download and/or work with offline. The tempting alternative is getting wacky with wget which may frustrate Trolltech's server.
Even installing Kerberos is not a bit deal anymore. For several years now it's been part of distros as ready-to-use RPMs or .deb packages.
If you combine Kerberos with OpenLDAP, then you get great flexiblity with users and groups in addition to the security, scalability, and platform independence lacking for weaker substitutes like MSAD.
I think what you might be trying to say is that a small, but vocal, minority of businesses are trying to prevent the progress of science and useful arts.
One wonders if the prevalence of attachments is due to MS-Windows file sharing not working.
That should be $ 9 868 000 000 USD instead. Sad day when even powers of ten kick ones butt.
The gains that Linux, BSD, OS X and others have made despite this warchest is quite a testimonial as to how far behind that company's technology is.
If you get the hang of it, you can shorten the recovery time by using the recoil to aim again, but this is still much longer than if all you had to do was pull the trigger again. Because of the rifling, this can be done many times in a row right handed but tends to work loose from a left hand grip.
The longer the time the bullet is travelling the more it drops. The further the target, the higher the arc, which may be relevant from time to time.
The escape velocity is also an issue. Supersonic rounds are more likely to give away the position, but spend less time affected by wind and gravity. Subsonic rounds can be made "quieter"
Now how to fit these calculations into the game without it slowing to a crawl is an interesting problem.
Oh, bullshit. It operates nearly in a vacuum. Microsoft's stock price only affects Microsoft's stock price. Nokia, for example, has been steadily rising. Pretty much the same with IBM and so on...
Enron, Worldcom, Tycho, Parmalat, Microsoft.
The target audience for that statement is the U.S., where many authors seems to miss any points beyond additional addresses. However, the misunderstanding is not limited to the U.S. and may even be intentional. Common arguments run something like, "my [puny|midsized] country has enough IPv4 addresses, therefore IPv6 is irrelevent to the world."
As stated earlier, scalability is probably the least important issue for most (i.e. non-Asia) countries when compared to IPSEC and routing.
If you want commercial, yet high quality examples, look at some of the tools from ArborText, Softquad, or even Altova. If you want something from the GNU project, then look at the PSGML mode for Emacs, which I recall using already in 1995. I'm sure I'm missing many examples from the 70's and 80's.
To take other recent examples, the versions of HTML prior to XHTML are in SGML. SGML and XML are the rules for defining sets of rules (aka DTDs) like HTML. You have many choices:
- HTML 2.0 (sgml)
- HTML 3.2 (sgml)
- HTML 4.01 (sgml)
- XHTML 1.0 (XML)
- Docbook 4.x (sgml + xml)
- TEI (sgml)
- TEI-lite (sgml + xml)
... and so on
I expect that some TeX users could speak up as well.However, seeing as A) "requiring" signed drivers has not affected quality during the last 4 years and B) past and current predatory marketing practices, I'd say it looks a heck a lot more like market control. It does, even at face value, make it very difficult for smaller developers.
But that's neither here nor there, that platform is too far out of date.
The same goes for device drivers. Requiring signed drivers has not improved quality noticable and does raise further questions about potentially anti-competitive behaviour.
Don't get me wrong, it's a nice phone. But, really the only item that needs to be un-deletable would be "reset".
Of course Ballmer's upset, even late comers like HP are raking in sums like $2.5bn on Linux. That's not even counting the extra productivity from having a more secure design.
Even the regular employees know the gig is up and more than half have cashed in their options, even Uncle Fester himself cashed in. I'm sure the fact that the options come out of your U.S. taxes (in the form of a write off) has something to do with the accounting as well.
Parmalat, Enron, Worldcom, Microsoft.