Microsoft's web browser dominates the market. Linux does not have a very modern or stable web browser at the moment. Pages are written to work better with MSIE and have MSIE specific tags. Most plugins are only avalable for Windows (and quite a few for MacOS). And I find that in order to get the most out of the web, one must be equiped with MSIE running on Windows or a Macintosh.
If you can't call that controlling the web, I don't know what to call it.
I agree. Isn't Linus a programmer? Not an engineer.
Some guy at work told me for his computer science major he had to design an OS kernel. Linus didn't do anything miraculous. He was just lucky. It was everyone else who made Linux what it is today. All this Linus worship is completly uncalled for.
The coolest thing about Linux on CD is that the CD's are bootable. I don't have a DVD-ROM drive so I was kind of wondering: Are DVD-ROM drives bootable?
I guess DVD's really are catching on now. I thought it was one of those fad technologies like LaserDiscs or DAT audio tapes. This is a step in the right direction for the whole software industry.
The coolest thing about Linux on CD is that the CD's are bootable. I don't have a DVD-ROM drive so I was kind of wondering: Are DVD-ROM drives bootable? I guess DVD's really are catching on now. I thought it was one of those fad technologies like LaserDiscs or DAT audio tapes. This is a step in the right direction for the whole software industry.
Does this mean certain reigons will have to pay more for Coke, due to their climate? I mean in Arizona it gets up to 110+ degrees durring the summer, whereas cooler San Fransisco gets only into the 80s. So simply because you live in a hotter area you must pay more for a drink? And what if you are in Minnesota durring the dead of winter? Do the machines give you money for taking one? I wouldn't want a cold drink when its -50 degrees outside. It's an interesting idea, but there are too many variables. Plus no one is going to go along with a company that tries and exploit their customers like this.
I would have to say that WindowsCE is like the Mac of the palmtop world. They have great hardware, an OS that does a lot more stuff, but by being so propietory, they have screwed themselves because now they have no software developers.
Open source would be very helpful in getting more applications developed for WindowsCE, as right now there is basically nothing available for WindowsCE. Some of those WinCE machines are very nice little computers. They have PCMCIA, 256 colors, the whole nine yards. But because of Microsoft being such a proprietary, greedy company, no one will (or can) develop software for CE.
PalmOS, being as open as it is, has 100s of applications with all kinds of bizzare functionality. It's like the Linux of the palmtop world. 3Com did a great job
Microsoft needs to adopt the open mentality if they want to have any future in the world of palmtop computing. Like that will ever happen.
Actually I think Internet Exploiter is a cooler nickname than Internet Destroyer. It doesn't really destroy the internet... I was always fond of Internet Exploder too.
Whatever you do, do NOT use Lotus cc:Mail for large scale email! Our company started using cc:Mail in 1989 (Long before I worked here). Apparently it worked like a dream back then. 10 years later, cc:Mail is a nightmare.
I get calls daily from people who can't get their cc:Mail and are desperate for help. These users simply cannot get through to their mail at all for all sorts of stupid reasons. Lately the main reason being that the automatic directory updates somehow change cc:Mail's settings so much that it no longer works.
And forget about cc:Mail over Wide Area Networks. It takes 5, 10 minutes to connect and download messages in "Mobile" mode. If you are trying to use it in LAN mode over a wide area network with 1000's of users, forget it! It simply will not work.
Dialup is miserably slow. Forget about your 28.8 modem downloading at 28,800 bps. Hell, you'll be lucky if you can get dialup cc:Mail to work at all. I get at least 3 calls a day from people who can't get their dialup cc:Mail to work (I'm not even supposed to take support calls). Half the time I don't have an answer for them. It simply does not work.
A few weeks ago some bigshot from the company was completely blocked out of his cc:Mail. He could not get in at all. Couldn't even view his messages (and apparently he had some "urgently important" messages). After trying for hours, and the cc:Mail admin trying for hours, we finally called lotus and paid them $350 for them to fix it. They couldn't fix it either. Miserable!
Please people! I am begging you! Stay the hell away from cc:Mail. The problems which I described do not begin to scrach the surface.:P While I was writing this, the phone rang. It was someone wanting cc:Mail support! God save us all!
What if they do need new software? Have to open the cryptic Bash shell (DOS' shell is already too much for most people), untar the file (First time I tried to uncompress something in Linux, I had to look it up in a book. I couldn't figure it out), configure (including any necessary parameters), make, and then make install, and then maybe, if they are lucky, 30 minutes later it will finish making without problems. Then they will have to create a shortcut icon in GNOME. All that is 100x more than any of the users where I word could even begin to comprehend.
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If you can't call that controlling the web, I don't know what to call it.
I think when I start my company I'll just randomly spill some ink on blotter papper and use that as my logo.
Some guy at work told me for his computer science major he had to design an OS kernel. Linus didn't do anything miraculous. He was just lucky. It was everyone else who made Linux what it is today. All this Linus worship is completly uncalled for.
I guess DVD's really are catching on now. I thought it was one of those fad technologies like LaserDiscs or DAT audio tapes. This is a step in the right direction for the whole software industry.
The coolest thing about Linux on CD is that the CD's are bootable. I don't have a DVD-ROM drive so I was kind of wondering: Are DVD-ROM drives bootable? I guess DVD's really are catching on now. I thought it was one of those fad technologies like LaserDiscs or DAT audio tapes. This is a step in the right direction for the whole software industry.
Does this mean certain reigons will have to pay more for Coke, due to their climate? I mean in Arizona it gets up to 110+ degrees durring the summer, whereas cooler San Fransisco gets only into the 80s. So simply because you live in a hotter area you must pay more for a drink? And what if you are in Minnesota durring the dead of winter? Do the machines give you money for taking one? I wouldn't want a cold drink when its -50 degrees outside. It's an interesting idea, but there are too many variables. Plus no one is going to go along with a company that tries and exploit their customers like this.
Open source would be very helpful in getting more applications developed for WindowsCE, as right now there is basically nothing available for WindowsCE. Some of those WinCE machines are very nice little computers. They have PCMCIA, 256 colors, the whole nine yards. But because of Microsoft being such a proprietary, greedy company, no one will (or can) develop software for CE.
PalmOS, being as open as it is, has 100s of applications with all kinds of bizzare functionality. It's like the Linux of the palmtop world. 3Com did a great job
Microsoft needs to adopt the open mentality if they want to have any future in the world of palmtop computing. Like that will ever happen.
Actually I think Internet Exploiter is a cooler nickname than Internet Destroyer. It doesn't really destroy the internet... I was always fond of Internet Exploder too.
Whatever you do, do NOT use Lotus cc:Mail for large scale email! Our company started using cc:Mail in 1989 (Long before I worked here). Apparently it worked like a dream back then. 10 years later, cc:Mail is a nightmare.
:P While I was writing this, the phone rang. It was someone wanting cc:Mail support! God save us all!
I get calls daily from people who can't get their cc:Mail and are desperate for help. These users simply cannot get through to their mail at all for all sorts of stupid reasons. Lately the main reason being that the automatic directory updates somehow change cc:Mail's settings so much that it no longer works.
And forget about cc:Mail over Wide Area Networks. It takes 5, 10 minutes to connect and download messages in "Mobile" mode. If you are trying to use it in LAN mode over a wide area network with 1000's of users, forget it! It simply will not work.
Dialup is miserably slow. Forget about your 28.8 modem downloading at 28,800 bps. Hell, you'll be lucky if you can get dialup cc:Mail to work at all. I get at least 3 calls a day from people who can't get their dialup cc:Mail to work (I'm not even supposed to take support calls). Half the time I don't have an answer for them. It simply does not work.
A few weeks ago some bigshot from the company was completely blocked out of his cc:Mail. He could not get in at all. Couldn't even view his messages (and apparently he had some "urgently important" messages). After trying for hours, and the cc:Mail admin trying for hours, we finally called lotus and paid them $350 for them to fix it. They couldn't fix it either. Miserable!
Please people! I am begging you! Stay the hell away from cc:Mail. The problems which I described do not begin to scrach the surface.
What if they do need new software? Have to open the cryptic Bash shell (DOS' shell is already too much for most people), untar the file (First time I tried to uncompress something in Linux, I had to look it up in a book. I couldn't figure it out), configure (including any necessary parameters), make, and then make install, and then maybe, if they are lucky, 30 minutes later it will finish making without problems. Then they will have to create a shortcut icon in GNOME. All that is 100x more than any of the users where I word could even begin to comprehend.