the cost I would pay to buy one, plus the installation cost would I consider this. I have found 3.5 floppies invaluable but to get only a $10 discount is BS!
is a way kewl idea. Now about that Russian's anti-gravity bit that Boeing just picked up on, maybe we could just float around on the platform while we wait for the next train:)
The Fortune 1K companines have to learn that with a minimal donation vs the M$ tax they can support and benefit from OSS. Some have, but more need to step up to the plate. If this idea gains a foothold it's all over and OSS will be in the toilet.
THIS IDEA IS VIRAL, AND NEEDS A DOCTOR TO CURE IT!
buy a prebuilt. I am preparing to build a machine now myself, but it has so many special requirements I just can't find a prebuilt to match my specs, so I'll build it and take on the problems others have mentioned in order to get exactly what I want. I also expect it will cost more not less to do this.
Almost any machine for the home can be purchased cheaper prebuilt, I find the real cost savings of building your own is in the server area.
Not for dominance of being "THE" browser, but now it's for being "THE" OS. The article spoke about the many reasons corps. are moving to web based apps. As this infiltrates more and more, the need for a windows pc becomes less and less. This is the bus. I'm in and I can report from the front lines that over the past 3 years demand for VB C/S has dropped significantly and has been taken over by database web apps. Sorry for the rambling, but one last item...when is MS releasing IE for gnu/Linux or BSD?
I can't live without my Favorites in the side bar i.e. IE. So how can I do this in N7? I don't care if I have to recreate them, I just can't seem to find a way to do this. HELP! (not flamebait I assure you).
License mgt costs Admin time sure but, getting notice of an audit could cost untold sums in legal and additional admin (checking to make sure, real sure) time in preparation.
I hope every school board across the nation is at least taking a look at this!
I installed it today on Win98Se
on
StarOffice 6.0
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
I will use it as much as possible to see when/where it fails to meet my neads. I have Star Office 6 on my GNU/Linux machine via my mandrake support. That will be another nice comparison.
If it meets only 90% of my needs then MS Office is dead in My Office!
So far looking good opening my old Word docs. But I use Word mostly for creating documentation so actually I expect OO to do just fine. I'll be putting a note in my doc's that if anyone has problems reading them that I will provide a PDF.....
2 spicey dudes were tasked to figure out if these computer things could help a NYC Utility with thier billing.
One was focused on Unisys the other on IBM
Both came back and said "Sure it will work"
Well to hedge their bets they bought one of each.
Well the Unisys machine came and my dad had to rip a wall out of the building in lower Manhatten, and using a crane got the computer installed.
The IBM machine arrived and was brought up on the freight elevator.
Well the Unisys never worked and the IBM iron did. The Unisys iron was hacked up and tossed into a dumpster.
When my dad retired 30 years later the guy tasked with Unisys still had the same job position as he did when he said "Yea Sure", the guy tasked with IBM was a senior VP
The only moral I extracted from this story from my dad was "If you totally FK UP then you better quit rather then hang around and hope for another chance".
If your client is needing something generic such as file sharing between Unix/Windows (SAMBA comes to mind) then making it GPL might be a good idea. You get it working, or almost working and others imporve upon it. Others benefit from your work, you benefit from theirs and all is well.
But if you are contracted to produce something extremely proprietary such as how to simulate/produce white light diodes for.00000001 dollar/lumme (example only) then maybe going OSS is not such a bight idea:)
Look at all the items currently needing cooling: CPU, Graphic cards (gpu) power supplies Soon RAM
So when are these high heat items going to be put into a package that will accept "super cooling". Either water with a heat exchanger or a more sophisticated cooler.
Damn, I can buy a college fridge for $89, if that would allow doubling or quadrupling the clock speed I'm all for it! Also a good place to put all that beer as in "free"
I proposed this to John Dvorak 3 or 4 years ago after a plane trip from S.F. to N.Y. with a bunch of IBM Think Heads (which this was a main topic of conversation) and all I got back was that "condensation would be a bitch" (something like that)...geeze if that's a tech problem how did we ever get to 2 ghz cpu's running at ambient with nothing more then cpu fans (which for me by the way, cumulatively cost more than a college beer fridge! I actually heat my home office with my pc's...summers are so sweaty)
I think that if producing mobo's was more like producing software this would already be available and GPL'd to boot:) (to boot...damn funny)
Folks are proclaiming that notebooks are taking over the desktop...I say "super cooling" will win back the desktop for mid-sized cased computers. Bring on my 10 ghz CPU
For those that believe $89 more for a 10 ghz cpu is not necessary I simply point out that it would take only 1 hour of productivity improvement over the course of 1 year for break even.
to reach places like high up in my vaulted ceilings. Also one in my shower since I always cut my fingers on the inside mount. $20 ea would be fine with me for not having to change these bulbs ever again.
First off, I am just getting around to trying this myself so I'm only posting this as a try it yourself
Check out SapDB.org. Dell has a benchmark test posted. Note that this was v6.2 of SapDb and it is now v7.3.
The documentation is exhaustive. Oh GPL'd also. It has something called the Oracle 7 compatibility mode whatever that is, personally I don't care about that.
I have scoured google and can't find much about if from other users. I even have tried Ask Slashdot but they won't put up my post for some reason. I really wish they would.
Slashdot Mirror
sapdb.org.
I have played with it a little and it seems very powerful, free, and supports multi processors.
I would be interested in any real world experiences.
the cost I would pay to buy one, plus the installation cost would I consider this. I have found 3.5 floppies invaluable but to get only a $10 discount is BS!
is a way kewl idea. Now about that Russian's anti-gravity bit that Boeing just picked up on, maybe we could just float around on the platform while we wait for the next train :)
The Fortune 1K companines have to learn that with a minimal donation vs the M$ tax they can support and benefit from OSS. Some have, but more need to step up to the plate. If this idea gains a foothold it's all over and OSS will be in the toilet.
THIS IDEA IS VIRAL, AND NEEDS A DOCTOR TO CURE IT!
buy a prebuilt. I am preparing to build a machine now myself, but it has so many special requirements I just can't find a prebuilt to match my specs, so I'll build it and take on the problems others have mentioned in order to get exactly what I want. I also expect it will cost more not less to do this.
Almost any machine for the home can be purchased cheaper prebuilt, I find the real cost savings of building your own is in the server area.
Step 2: Write a book, sell for $79.95
and see what gets the hits.
Not for dominance of being "THE" browser, but now it's for being "THE" OS. The article spoke about the many reasons corps. are moving to web based apps. As this infiltrates more and more, the need for a windows pc becomes less and less. This is the bus. I'm in and I can report from the front lines that over the past 3 years demand for VB C/S has dropped significantly and has been taken over by database web apps. Sorry for the rambling, but one last item...when is MS releasing IE for gnu/Linux or BSD?
Take away all the science mumbo-jumbo and look at the working prototypes!
...Can I build a steam generator out of it and produce electricity cheaper!
All I want to know is
Maybe their science is good, maybe bad. I don't care, I just want cheap clean electricity without frying my gonads.
but copyright everything. Give away the series and sell the stuffed animals.
Damn, you couldn't imagine how much I spent on Blues Clue's, Arthur and muppets stuff!
And if you could sell them to Micky D. or B.King you would be styling.
We could ruin another planet.
I can't live without my Favorites in the side bar i.e. IE. So how can I do this in N7? I don't care if I have to recreate them, I just can't seem to find a way to do this. HELP! (not flamebait I assure you).
of complying to EULA's.
License mgt costs Admin time sure but, getting notice of an audit could cost untold sums in legal and additional admin (checking to make sure, real sure) time in preparation.
I hope every school board across the nation is at least taking a look at this!
I will use it as much as possible to see when/where it fails to meet my neads. I have Star Office 6 on my GNU/Linux machine via my mandrake support. That will be another nice comparison.
.....
If it meets only 90% of my needs then MS Office is dead in My Office!
So far looking good opening my old Word docs. But I use Word mostly for creating documentation so actually I expect OO to do just fine. I'll be putting a note in my doc's that if anyone has problems reading them that I will provide a PDF
ouch! I hear a Squeal! Is thata pig?
2 spicey dudes were tasked to figure out if
these computer things could help a NYC
Utility with thier billing.
One was focused on Unisys the other on IBM
Both came back and said "Sure it will work"
Well to hedge their bets they bought one of each.
Well the Unisys machine came and my dad had to
rip a wall out of the building in lower Manhatten, and using a crane got the computer installed.
The IBM machine arrived and was brought up on the freight elevator.
Well the Unisys never worked and the IBM iron did. The Unisys iron was hacked up and tossed into a dumpster.
When my dad retired 30 years later the guy tasked with Unisys still had the same job position as he did when he said "Yea Sure", the guy tasked with IBM was a senior VP
The only moral I extracted from this story from my dad was "If you totally FK UP then you better quit rather then hang around and hope for another chance".
I bet your girlie friend doesn't like the output of this idea....[shiek] get that tiny thing away from me [shiek]
...ditch the laptop!
:)
BTW if you don't have a girlie next to you in bed
If your client is needing something generic such as file sharing between Unix/Windows (SAMBA comes to mind) then making it GPL might be a good idea. You get it working, or almost working and others imporve upon it. Others benefit from your work, you benefit from theirs and all is well.
.00000001 dollar/lumme (example only) then maybe going OSS is not such a bight idea :)
But if you are contracted to produce something extremely proprietary such as how to simulate/produce white light diodes for
Look at all the items currently needing cooling:
:) (to boot...damn funny)
CPU,
Graphic cards (gpu)
power supplies
Soon RAM
So when are these high heat items going to be put into a package that will accept "super cooling". Either water with a heat exchanger or a more sophisticated cooler.
Damn, I can buy a college fridge for $89, if that would allow doubling or quadrupling the clock speed I'm all for it! Also a good place to put all that beer as in "free"
I proposed this to John Dvorak 3 or 4 years ago after a plane trip from S.F. to N.Y. with a bunch of IBM Think Heads (which this was a main topic of conversation) and all I got back was that "condensation would be a bitch" (something like that)...geeze if that's a tech problem how did we ever get to 2 ghz cpu's running at ambient with nothing more then cpu fans (which for me by the way, cumulatively cost more than a college beer fridge! I actually heat my home office with my pc's...summers are so sweaty) I think that if producing mobo's was more like producing software this would already be available and GPL'd to boot
Folks are proclaiming that notebooks are taking over the desktop...I say "super cooling" will win back the desktop for mid-sized cased computers. Bring on my 10 ghz CPU
For those that believe $89 more for a 10 ghz cpu is not necessary I simply point out that it would take only 1 hour of productivity improvement over the course of 1 year for break even.
But WTFDIK?
A stunning achievement!
That's about as geek as you get. 14 yrs ago.....Kewl
to reach places like high up in my vaulted ceilings. Also one in my shower since I always cut my fingers on the inside mount. $20 ea would be fine with me for not having to change these bulbs ever again.
or not
I'd buy some setup to look good on my desk.
First off, I am just getting around to trying this myself so I'm only posting this as a try it yourself
Check out SapDB.org. Dell has a benchmark test posted. Note that this was v6.2 of SapDb and it is now v7.3.
The documentation is exhaustive. Oh GPL'd also. It has something called the Oracle 7 compatibility mode whatever that is, personally I don't care about that.
I have scoured google and can't find much about if from other users. I even have tried Ask Slashdot but they won't put up my post for some reason. I really wish they would.
Cancel your cable subscription for 2 months and tell them it is because of the sonic blue trial.
That'll wake them up!