Paypal is a decent service for the price. You're gonna have to cough up some personal info when you do such a business transaction (I mean there is money involved they want to know who they're dealing with in case you try and screw them).
The biggest problem limiting paypal in my opinion is the lack of integration tools with websites. You either have a manual process or trust a URL send back that the user can readily see. They need to have some kind of b2b hook up that you can read transactions off of or something. (just stuff like bob2@domain.com went through for X dollars...no cc#s necessary on that side).
I've not been running it for too long but so far Ext3 is goodness. I more often have problems with my laptop needing a good hard reset (it was one of the toshiba lawsuit ones...not linux's fault) and let me tell you its nice when the filesystem is fixed on reboot in under a second rather then minutes.
I'm not sure if its real or imagined but eet also seems faster.
ext3=goodness. BTW I converted an ext2 partition on one of my machines so its safe (or rather RH72 did it)
Thats just wrong. Two articles above this someone makes the exact same kind of post basing gnome for KDE..he gets a 2??? This guy makes the exact same post in the other direction and he's a troll? A little more evenhandedness is in order!
It would be a mistake to force an IDE
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Java IDEs?
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· Score: 1
Control what version control system is used (I recommend CVS or PVCS depending on what type of control you want--locking or non-locking as these have the widest support among IDES). Some of your developers may not even use an IDE and thats fine. Do you care? No. All that being said try netbeans (www.netbeans.org)...the price is right and it fully supports at least CVS (and I'm sure there's a plugin for PVCS). JBuilder is also good (www.borland.com). I dislike Visual Age as it uses a very bad version control system and has poor support for version control in general. Those are the major ones. Let your developer's choose what they want to use, just enforce that they use version control with code promotion standards by module maintainers.
Let me just second that one! One must ask that if RMS spent half the time he spends ranting about some pedantic linguistic intricacy that few care about and more time coding we'd all be using a far better kernel by now.
So what if this were Pakistan. It most likely has local laws governing women's garments. Or perhaps sex-ed information. Should yaho be expected to block that in searches? This is only mild because the nazi are reprehensible to everyone and hardly anyone cares about the historical value of those items. But with that in mind think about all the things that should be banned everywhere if we use this standard you suggest. If the sever sits in that country by all means it must abide by the local laws.. If not then then its owner has the first amendment right to post whatever he wants on there.
I'd say the "parts of gnome are currently either horribly broken or simply unimplemented" is a mischaracterization. I use gnome everyday and rarely have problems provided I use the ximian distribution.
I think a score 4 for the above post is probably due to moderator bias. It made an unqualified criticism for a very successful project. I don't know a single opensource project that doesn't have this political infighting going on.
In my opinion RMS is merely a political type these days. If he wants to contribute to the project he should do so at the keyboard with vi onscreen.
Please also keep in mind that your beloved KDE started before Gnome, and the QT liscense is still not universally "free"; however, the gtk IS.
Please reconsider the rating on the above posting, its obvious that the poster has not used a distribution of gnome in some time and didn't even have the courage to post under his own identity.
The point was Gore wouldn't have thumbed his nose up at the Kyoto treaty. My biggest problem with Bush in this and the Anti-ballistic missile treaty is that it does damage to our credibilty as a nation. Who'll sign treaties with us if we don't keep them? Its scary.
Yes I beleive properly alloted regulations would help. Tax gas guzzlers and pay a (bigger) refund to hybrid owners. Squash the environmental exceptions for SUVs and consumer-trucks and the car companies will stop marketing them so aggresively.
"More government" ha. The government applies regulations that encourage people to buy houses and I don't see anyone bitching and moanign about that (tax refunds for mortgages but not rent). Gore would have invested more in alternative fuels. Its silly to rely on fossile fuels forever, its bad for the economy and security of this country. Its ignoring the simple fact that eventually these are non-renewable resources we're expending.
Funny how "more government" to consumers only applies to non-regulating of the wealthy. We'll pass a nice super expensive to enforce law for telling you to get rid of your VCR because it doesn't have enough copy protection measures because we're good conservatives, but NOOO don't discourage people from buying SUV's...thats too much government... You better say your prayers in school and pray to our god...but DONT YOU DARE tell people about how crappy DRM is.. HA. (BTW I'm neither a conservative or a liberal and think both sides are hypocritical unrelistic slants).
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/consumer0614 00.asp
http://www.abqjournal.com/wheels/review03-23-00. ht m
http://www.alaskanautos.com/toyotasequoia2001.ht ml
http://www.epinions.com/content_11800710788
I used to have a subscription to consumer reports and at least for the 2000 model expedition they listed the MPG as 8.
Anyhow the point was not just SUVs but that we've all bought ridiculously large vehicles that guzzle fuel.
For perspective, out of my Miata I get > 30mpg. My next car will probably be a hybrid.
You know those fine men in Washington are going to use this as evidence that there is no need for tougher environmental laws. Not that they'll understand the difference between global warming or the ozone hole or what have you.
Can someone find this study and maybe post a link? Have there been any reports of corrolation between the reduction in the use of CFCs in many countries and the leveling off of the hole or was it a natural phenomenom after all.
To the guy in NZ who talked about the anamosity toward the US for backing out of the Kyoto treaty. We're all feeling very patriotic, but you please remember a majority of the folks in this country did NOT vote for Bush and co. We voted for a guy who thought (according to his book) Florida would be under water in a few years if we didn't do something about the environment! Didn't like either of them, but I vote a bit on the enviromental side with a strong streak of anti-relgious fundementalism. I think pulling out of the Kyoto treaty even if you DIDN'T agree with its premise was a mistake because it dishonored our country. We played a big part in setting the thing up then canceled at the last minute. For that I am truely sorry.
Unfortunately, due to recent events it will be a number of years before we'll pay a great deal of attention to the environmental problem. It may be a number of year before we link the gas prices with all of us buying SUV's that get 8 miles a gallon (not me!), but we will..hopefully before we melt the place.
So IBM has decided to take a page from Sun and release its inferior IDE opensource and get otehr people to help them develop it. It still won't change how BAD their IDE is. I've not yet tried WSS but Visual Age (which it's taken from) is a smalltalk IDE ported to work with java and it probably was really great when it was written. Now adays its just annoying and lacks real version control system support and forces you to use a shared (meaning as in SMB windows share) repository that is simply no way to manage source. No real merge capability, no locking (if you're into locking instead of merging) no idea who's got it....its a mess. I don't see how this is news and all the great things that have happened with NetBeans isn't. Slashdot seems to have a very pro-IBM slant these days. (watch that Karma roll back to zero, but its TRUE). NB 3.3 is in beta 2 and is VM independant. Not only that it doesn't try to force you into Sun's tools in some sort of vertical scheme unlike everything IBM has release for java to date.
What would be really funny is if you had had a slashdot is dying link that linked to a story on slashdot. Someone who is listened to should try and get slashdot to post a story predicting its own demise as a joke. Maybe on april fools just take the site down entirely and redirect everyone to microsoft.com (hows that for slashdot effect).
On that note I find it a bit goofy the idea that Unix is bad because its old. Unix is still the OS that all others steal from. Unix is still the standard setter. The biggest problem with unix is that its not Hurd.
Adams is forever the funniest and most timeless. (except for the digital watch bit).. I'll forever be wishing I could aim a Somebody Elses problem field over things so that I wouldn't have to look at them!
Speaking of Orson Scott Card. Anyone know what happened to the "trilogy" around Lovelock. The book was written early 90s and promised sequals but left us with a monkey that was mostly a wanker. (don't karma me off for that I'm being serious, you'd have to read it to understand).
All that being said, I think Card needs a new theme. He's exhausted the very relevent multicultural thing.
Oops I guess we're doomed slashdotted at ~8:34est.
I figured out how to save slashdot. Instead of the banners and the upcomming popups how about "Get the b*stards that layed you off...for $100 we'll post an article pointing to their server... In minutes they'll be offline!"
Humm...maybe they're already doing this... We'll know for sure if the next article is "Cisco's load balancing doesn't cut it"
You obviously have some strong opinions. Without getting off topic I think I'll dare address them (though I rarely waste my time on cowards) while still skillfully bringing the discussion back ontopic (which your post most decidedly was not --aside from deserving a flamebait rating nevermind the irony of your calling me an idiot with your fatalistic cattle-like attitude that has been historically proven time and time again to be wrong... By your thinking: hey if we all just rolled over and became muslim fundimentalists maybe the whole terrorism situation would go away??).
So to address your "points":
If it weren't for the fact that there are not quality enough educational software written for Linux I'd have no good reason to run W2k on my wife's box at all.
Usage
1. The internet (via our cable modem shared by a wireless network and ip masquaraded by an old p-200 w/32mb running linux). Windows is not well suited for this because it's very insecure (if you need evidence you've been living in a desert or don't yet realize you're infected) -- fortunately she's not been infected in part due to the firewall and in part the fact taht in another life I was quite a capable brainless minion of BG. (cattle for the slaughter....sheep to be fleeced)
2. Writing Documents/correspondence. Windows is not well suited for this as the primary word processors are bloated. Linux has its shortcomings in the printer support but I have an HP LJ so no big deal.
3. Email - via yahoo mail. See #1
4. Educational games - this one is the reason we've had to leave windows on there. Once VMWare supports direct X then this will be mitigated. Perhaps when WINE matures, this will be solved.
5. general operation - My wife's hardware is not that up to date and hasn't been a priority (fencing in the house is). Windows 2k is a hog. Windows XP sounds like a dog.
6. Privacy - (tying this back to the topic at hand Windows XP) - We have caller ID to prevent talking to marketeers, Mozilla blocks doubleclick and friends and we lie on any info form (such as yahoos) that asks for personal info. Windows XP would be a serious privacy invasion.
7. Stability - I've got better things to do than babysit the box. Linux is FAR more stable. Windows XP sounds like they've added alot of whizzbangs on top of W2k (which WAS an improvement over NT and the 9x/ME series).
8. UI. In the old days I'd have said they'd have to stick with windows. However, my wife and kids are perfectly comfortable with KDE or GNOME, (I can't stand KDE though). So no big deal there.
Is windows ever the best solution? Probably Not today. A couple years ago I'd say endusers were stuck. The pure inferiority of this operating system and the invasive practices of its manufacturer make it a growingly worse fit for every situation. Add to that the security problems and WOW.
Is Linux always the best solution? NO. Sometimes you need Solaris or a Mac.
-Andy
I must have missed that post (the post questions to that guy opportunity). . What I'd like to know is roughly what precentage of proposals they are thinking will be non RF. Is it 100-0 now becomes 0-100, are we talking a little sideshow for bill & co to post their passport thing as a (whatever you call a non-RF RFC) standard?
I know what my money would be betting. I'm feeling betrayed and kinda like standing up with a virutal banner saying "Down with the W3C"....
You're chitting me? That's pathetic. They did still add the raw socket support right?
I dunno as someone who formerly had to help support that monstrosity (9x) I guess its good if it gets users off of the 9x/ME series. Even if it is slower.
First of all I'm a linux bigot and there is absolutely no way I'll buy the piece of @#$@! Second of all as embarrasing as it is my wife's box is a W2k box because Jumpstart Kindergarten and other such programs for the kids won't run on linux (its a conspiracy I tell you!).
All that being said, I'd expect Windows 9x/ME users to experience slowdown. XP is supposed to be NT 6.0 right? So that being said, is the professional version slower than W2k with double the amount of RAM and maybe 25% more processor power (that's a given with all microsoft releases, those of us who know better run linux on 512MB and experience a near instantaneous responsiveness.. I give you a new law to replace moores. Every 2-4 years microsoft with come up with a new release of [name your M$ product] and the ram requirements will double)?
Despite the way I phrase this, I'm genuinely interested.
correction: now its *Not UNIX*. ( (G)nu is (N)ot (U)NIX ).
I still have to think... If you're replacing everything with GNU stuff, why not just install som distro of Linux-PPC and be done with it? But thats just me.. (this is not anything against the Mac, just my confusion with this, I'd welcome anyone who had a good explanation)
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Paypal is a decent service for the price. You're gonna have to cough up some personal info when you do such a business transaction (I mean there is money involved they want to know who they're dealing with in case you try and screw them).
The biggest problem limiting paypal in my opinion is the lack of integration tools with websites. You either have a manual process or trust a URL send back that the user can readily see. They need to have some kind of b2b hook up that you can read transactions off of or something. (just stuff like bob2@domain.com went through for X dollars...no cc#s necessary on that side).
-Andy
I've not been running it for too long but so far Ext3 is goodness. I more often have problems with my laptop needing a good hard reset (it was one of the toshiba lawsuit ones...not linux's fault) and let me tell you its nice when the filesystem is fixed on reboot in under a second rather then minutes.
I'm not sure if its real or imagined but eet also seems faster.
ext3=goodness. BTW I converted an ext2 partition on one of my machines so its safe (or rather RH72 did it)
Thats just wrong. Two articles above this someone makes the exact same kind of post basing gnome for KDE..he gets a 2??? This guy makes the exact same post in the other direction and he's a troll? A little more evenhandedness is in order!
Control what version control system is used (I recommend CVS or PVCS depending on what type of control you want--locking or non-locking as these have the widest support among IDES). Some of your developers may not even use an IDE and thats fine. Do you care? No. All that being said try netbeans (www.netbeans.org)...the price is right and it fully supports at least CVS (and I'm sure there's a plugin for PVCS). JBuilder is also good (www.borland.com). I dislike Visual Age as it uses a very bad version control system and has poor support for version control in general. Those are the major ones. Let your developer's choose what they want to use, just enforce that they use version control with code promotion standards by module maintainers.
Let me just second that one! One must ask that if RMS spent half the time he spends ranting about some pedantic linguistic intricacy that few care about and more time coding we'd all be using a far better kernel by now.
So what if this were Pakistan. It most likely has local laws governing women's garments. Or perhaps sex-ed information. Should yaho be expected to block that in searches? This is only mild because the nazi are reprehensible to everyone and hardly anyone cares about the historical value of those items. But with that in mind think about all the things that should be banned everywhere if we use this standard you suggest. If the sever sits in that country by all means it must abide by the local laws.. If not then then its owner has the first amendment right to post whatever he wants on there.
-Andy
I'd say the "parts of gnome are currently either horribly broken or simply unimplemented" is a mischaracterization. I use gnome everyday and rarely have problems provided I use the ximian distribution.
I think a score 4 for the above post is probably due to moderator bias. It made an unqualified criticism for a very successful project. I don't know a single opensource project that doesn't have this political infighting going on.
In my opinion RMS is merely a political type these days. If he wants to contribute to the project he should do so at the keyboard with vi onscreen.
Please also keep in mind that your beloved KDE started before Gnome, and the QT liscense is still not universally "free"; however, the gtk IS.
Please reconsider the rating on the above posting, its obvious that the poster has not used a distribution of gnome in some time and didn't even have the courage to post under his own identity.
I thought Tom Ridge was homeland defense chief?
What the heck are you talking about? There is no subidy for renters. (at least not in the states which is where we were talking about).
The slumlord gets a break but not as big as a homeowner (commercial property).
-Andy (a homeowner and former renter)
A few days ago I thought there was an article about Alan NOT being the maintainer anymore to focus more on "red hat customer issues" and other things?
Has this changed?
The point was Gore wouldn't have thumbed his nose up at the Kyoto treaty. My biggest problem with Bush in this and the Anti-ballistic missile treaty is that it does damage to our credibilty as a nation. Who'll sign treaties with us if we don't keep them? Its scary.
Yes I beleive properly alloted regulations would help. Tax gas guzzlers and pay a (bigger) refund to hybrid owners. Squash the environmental exceptions for SUVs and consumer-trucks and the car companies will stop marketing them so aggresively.
"More government" ha. The government applies regulations that encourage people to buy houses and I don't see anyone bitching and moanign about that (tax refunds for mortgages but not rent). Gore would have invested more in alternative fuels. Its silly to rely on fossile fuels forever, its bad for the economy and security of this country. Its ignoring the simple fact that eventually these are non-renewable resources we're expending.
Funny how "more government" to consumers only applies to non-regulating of the wealthy. We'll pass a nice super expensive to enforce law for telling you to get rid of your VCR because it doesn't have enough copy protection measures because we're good conservatives, but NOOO don't discourage people from buying SUV's...thats too much government... You better say your prayers in school and pray to our god...but DONT YOU DARE tell people about how crappy DRM is.. HA. (BTW I'm neither a conservative or a liberal and think both sides are hypocritical unrelistic slants).
-Andy
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/consumer0614 00.asp
. ht m
t ml
http://www.abqjournal.com/wheels/review03-23-00
http://www.alaskanautos.com/toyotasequoia2001.h
http://www.epinions.com/content_11800710788
I used to have a subscription to consumer reports and at least for the 2000 model expedition they listed the MPG as 8.
Anyhow the point was not just SUVs but that we've all bought ridiculously large vehicles that guzzle fuel.
For perspective, out of my Miata I get > 30mpg. My next car will probably be a hybrid.
HA and a nice big nuclear winter from all the car wrecks...
You know those fine men in Washington are going to use this as evidence that there is no need for tougher environmental laws. Not that they'll understand the difference between global warming or the ozone hole or what have you.
Can someone find this study and maybe post a link? Have there been any reports of corrolation between the reduction in the use of CFCs in many countries and the leveling off of the hole or was it a natural phenomenom after all.
To the guy in NZ who talked about the anamosity toward the US for backing out of the Kyoto treaty. We're all feeling very patriotic, but you please remember a majority of the folks in this country did NOT vote for Bush and co. We voted for a guy who thought (according to his book) Florida would be under water in a few years if we didn't do something about the environment! Didn't like either of them, but I vote a bit on the enviromental side with a strong streak of anti-relgious fundementalism. I think pulling out of the Kyoto treaty even if you DIDN'T agree with its premise was a mistake because it dishonored our country. We played a big part in setting the thing up then canceled at the last minute. For that I am truely sorry.
Unfortunately, due to recent events it will be a number of years before we'll pay a great deal of attention to the environmental problem. It may be a number of year before we link the gas prices with all of us buying SUV's that get 8 miles a gallon (not me!), but we will..hopefully before we melt the place.
-Andy
Does it still have VA's 1993 crappy user interface where 900,000 windows pop up all over untabbed?
Post something the IBMers disagree with and its flamebait proving my point! (watch that karma roll back again but I don't care)
-Andy
So IBM has decided to take a page from Sun and release its inferior IDE opensource and get otehr people to help them develop it. It still won't change how BAD their IDE is. I've not yet tried WSS but Visual Age (which it's taken from) is a smalltalk IDE ported to work with java and it probably was really great when it was written. Now adays its just annoying and lacks real version control system support and forces you to use a shared (meaning as in SMB windows share) repository that is simply no way to manage source. No real merge capability, no locking (if you're into locking instead of merging) no idea who's got it....its a mess. I don't see how this is news and all the great things that have happened with NetBeans isn't. Slashdot seems to have a very pro-IBM slant these days. (watch that Karma roll back to zero, but its TRUE). NB 3.3 is in beta 2 and is VM independant. Not only that it doesn't try to force you into Sun's tools in some sort of vertical scheme unlike everything IBM has release for java to date.
-Andy
What would be really funny is if you had had a slashdot is dying link that linked to a story on slashdot. Someone who is listened to should try and get slashdot to post a story predicting its own demise as a joke. Maybe on april fools just take the site down entirely and redirect everyone to microsoft.com (hows that for slashdot effect).
On that note I find it a bit goofy the idea that Unix is bad because its old. Unix is still the OS that all others steal from. Unix is still the standard setter. The biggest problem with unix is that its not Hurd.
-Andy
would be my two top picks.
Adams is forever the funniest and most timeless. (except for the digital watch bit).. I'll forever be wishing I could aim a Somebody Elses problem field over things so that I wouldn't have to look at them!
Speaking of Orson Scott Card. Anyone know what happened to the "trilogy" around Lovelock. The book was written early 90s and promised sequals but left us with a monkey that was mostly a wanker. (don't karma me off for that I'm being serious, you'd have to read it to understand).
All that being said, I think Card needs a new theme. He's exhausted the very relevent multicultural thing.
Oops I guess we're doomed slashdotted at ~8:34est.
I figured out how to save slashdot. Instead of the banners and the upcomming popups how about "Get the b*stards that layed you off...for $100 we'll post an article pointing to their server... In minutes they'll be offline!"
Humm...maybe they're already doing this... We'll know for sure if the next article is "Cisco's load balancing doesn't cut it"
-Andy
You obviously have some strong opinions. Without getting off topic I think I'll dare address them (though I rarely waste my time on cowards) while still skillfully bringing the discussion back ontopic (which your post most decidedly was not --aside from deserving a flamebait rating nevermind the irony of your calling me an idiot with your fatalistic cattle-like attitude that has been historically proven time and time again to be wrong... By your thinking: hey if we all just rolled over and became muslim fundimentalists maybe the whole terrorism situation would go away??).
So to address your "points":
If it weren't for the fact that there are not quality enough educational software written for Linux I'd have no good reason to run W2k on my wife's box at all.
Usage
1. The internet (via our cable modem shared by a wireless network and ip masquaraded by an old p-200 w/32mb running linux). Windows is not well suited for this because it's very insecure (if you need evidence you've been living in a desert or don't yet realize you're infected) -- fortunately she's not been infected in part due to the firewall and in part the fact taht in another life I was quite a capable brainless minion of BG. (cattle for the slaughter....sheep to be fleeced)
2. Writing Documents/correspondence. Windows is not well suited for this as the primary word processors are bloated. Linux has its shortcomings in the printer support but I have an HP LJ so no big deal.
3. Email - via yahoo mail. See #1
4. Educational games - this one is the reason we've had to leave windows on there. Once VMWare supports direct X then this will be mitigated. Perhaps when WINE matures, this will be solved.
5. general operation - My wife's hardware is not that up to date and hasn't been a priority (fencing in the house is). Windows 2k is a hog. Windows XP sounds like a dog.
6. Privacy - (tying this back to the topic at hand Windows XP) - We have caller ID to prevent talking to marketeers, Mozilla blocks doubleclick and friends and we lie on any info form (such as yahoos) that asks for personal info. Windows XP would be a serious privacy invasion.
7. Stability - I've got better things to do than babysit the box. Linux is FAR more stable. Windows XP sounds like they've added alot of whizzbangs on top of W2k (which WAS an improvement over NT and the 9x/ME series).
8. UI. In the old days I'd have said they'd have to stick with windows. However, my wife and kids are perfectly comfortable with KDE or GNOME, (I can't stand KDE though). So no big deal there.
Is windows ever the best solution? Probably Not today. A couple years ago I'd say endusers were stuck. The pure inferiority of this operating system and the invasive practices of its manufacturer make it a growingly worse fit for every situation. Add to that the security problems and WOW.
Is Linux always the best solution? NO. Sometimes you need Solaris or a Mac.
-Andy
I must have missed that post (the post questions to that guy opportunity). . What I'd like to know is roughly what precentage of proposals they are thinking will be non RF. Is it 100-0 now becomes 0-100, are we talking a little sideshow for bill & co to post their passport thing as a (whatever you call a non-RF RFC) standard?
I know what my money would be betting. I'm feeling betrayed and kinda like standing up with a virutal banner saying "Down with the W3C"....
You're chitting me? That's pathetic. They did still add the raw socket support right?
I dunno as someone who formerly had to help support that monstrosity (9x) I guess its good if it gets users off of the 9x/ME series. Even if it is slower.
First of all I'm a linux bigot and there is absolutely no way I'll buy the piece of @#$@! Second of all as embarrasing as it is my wife's box is a W2k box because Jumpstart Kindergarten and other such programs for the kids won't run on linux (its a conspiracy I tell you!).
All that being said, I'd expect Windows 9x/ME users to experience slowdown. XP is supposed to be NT 6.0 right? So that being said, is the professional version slower than W2k with double the amount of RAM and maybe 25% more processor power (that's a given with all microsoft releases, those of us who know better run linux on 512MB and experience a near instantaneous responsiveness.. I give you a new law to replace moores. Every 2-4 years microsoft with come up with a new release of [name your M$ product] and the ram requirements will double)?
Despite the way I phrase this, I'm genuinely interested.
-Andy
correction: now its *Not UNIX*. ( (G)nu is (N)ot (U)NIX ).
I still have to think... If you're replacing everything with GNU stuff, why not just install som distro of Linux-PPC and be done with it? But thats just me.. (this is not anything against the Mac, just my confusion with this, I'd welcome anyone who had a good explanation)