No you wouldn't. You might buy the car if you liked it... But would you write Ford a check because you thought they were coming out with a neat car? Let's be realistic here.
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Um, Mandrake isn't a "not for profit" company. Why don't you donate some money to Ford, GE, or Microsoft while you're at it... That's the dumbest thing I've seen all day (although it is 2am)
that's the point. If you could use *stock* mozilla they wouldn't need any new developers. Have yo used Phoenix? Maybe they should have said "we'd like to get gecho on the iPaq"
At the company I work for, IDE RAID has become somewhat standard because we're basically cheap... At least it's standard on the servers that are fast enough to support it. The rest use dd to copy partitions between backup drives. My boss calls it "RAID point five" We lovingly refer to it as the ghetto network.
Exactly what I was thinking. I'd much rather have my Vaio r505. It's light, slim, cheaper and runs linux pretty damn well.
As far as taking notes - I'll stick to pencil and paper, thank you very much. I don't like writing with pens, let alone a stylus on a computer screen. Despite the fact that you have to keep your notes in a binder (heaven forbid) they're easier to manage, review, and use when they're on paper.
That's a pretty optimistic view. You've obviously never worked IT for a company with over 5 employees. Maybe you should drop your firewall... After all, if you treat the rest of the people on the internet like responsible people, they'll generally act that way.
I don't even know where to begin listing the multitude of reasons that you are so incredibly wrong.
If such a high percentage of users weren't "accidentally" turning their resolutions up to 3200x2000 or "accidentally" deleting dlls or "accidentally" installing Kazaa, companies probably won't have to do that stuff.
Well, I still reboot to run photoshop sometimes, but crossover office runs just about whatever I throw at it. You may want to look at it, it's pretty impressive.
Give us a list and put it in a poll... Here's some, everyone pick one. Place your bets now, send me the money, I'll be sure to get it to the right people when they're right.
Lycoris
Xandros
United Linux
Red Hat
Gentoo
Mandrake
Lindows
Suse
Cowboy (Neal) Linux
I'm talking the here and now, not the geek fantasy future. Do I honestly sound like I'm praising microsoft? I generally avoid MS products like the plague. [insert distro here] ships with plenty of bugs. It's all OS software though. They aren't raping me on price and backing me into a ms-only corner like the great Microsoft.
Windows users use IE. Mom and pop down the street? They use IE. It's integrated into the damn OS. They're not going to download anything else. Have you seen IE's marketshare? Let's be realistic. Mom and pop down the street aren't running SSH. We aren't the ones who are going to get bitten by this even if we were running IE, it's the people who don't know any better.
Well, with the IE bug, I'm be pissed at microsoft because they sold me a product (Yes, I know IE is "free," but I consider IE part of windows) and it's totally screwed up (again)
With ssh, I'd disable the service until it's fixed and be disappointed, but not as pissed because
a.) it's easy to just disable
b.) I'm using ssh for free and don't really have a right to complain
I doubt they could make a profit by doing what they do for 50 cents... Not that I'm defending their prices, I don't know enough about it. I somehow doubt you do, either.
I don't understand those who *HATE* X. Is it because you people are running pentium 100's? X always ran fine on my PentiumII 366, and now with the recent enhancements added to (what will be) XFree 4.3, I'm not complaining about anything. I'm currently running a CVS snapshot and it's sweet. If you *HATE* Xfree, don't run it. Run something else. Run Windows or OSX... or maybe do something constructive like emailing the developers and asking how you can help since you think it sucks so much.
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You seem to forget that they are a BUSINESS. Donate to debian, purchase services from Mandrake.
I'm actually a member of a mandrake club... Oh the irony.
A better question might be "who would want to run XP for free when you could run linux for 30 bucks?" Not me, but flame away.
Wait, what am I talking about, I run linux for free...
No you wouldn't. You might buy the car if you liked it... But would you write Ford a check because you thought they were coming out with a neat car? Let's be realistic here.
Um, Mandrake isn't a "not for profit" company. Why don't you donate some money to Ford, GE, or Microsoft while you're at it... That's the dumbest thing I've seen all day (although it is 2am)
that's the point. If you could use *stock* mozilla they wouldn't need any new developers. Have yo used Phoenix? Maybe they should have said "we'd like to get gecho on the iPaq"
At the company I work for, IDE RAID has become somewhat standard because we're basically cheap... At least it's standard on the servers that are fast enough to support it. The rest use dd to copy partitions between backup drives. My boss calls it "RAID point five" We lovingly refer to it as the ghetto network.
I'm so depressed that I read slashdot enough to actually know what you're talking about.
Exactly what I was thinking. I'd much rather have my Vaio r505. It's light, slim, cheaper and runs linux pretty damn well. As far as taking notes - I'll stick to pencil and paper, thank you very much. I don't like writing with pens, let alone a stylus on a computer screen. Despite the fact that you have to keep your notes in a binder (heaven forbid) they're easier to manage, review, and use when they're on paper.
Personally, I like the motorola HC11.
Yea, I'm sure that having to play with bash because xfree won't run on his 386 will make a positive impression on little billy.
That's a pretty optimistic view. You've obviously never worked IT for a company with over 5 employees. Maybe you should drop your firewall... After all, if you treat the rest of the people on the internet like responsible people, they'll generally act that way.
I don't even know where to begin listing the multitude of reasons that you are so incredibly wrong.
You obviously have never worked in IT.
If such a high percentage of users weren't "accidentally" turning their resolutions up to 3200x2000 or "accidentally" deleting dlls or "accidentally" installing Kazaa, companies probably won't have to do that stuff.
Well, I still reboot to run photoshop sometimes, but crossover office runs just about whatever I throw at it. You may want to look at it, it's pretty impressive.
I've never had driver problems on a modern system. What are you trying to run it on? Some laptop from 1995?
Remember Prodgeny? (sp?)
Give us a list and put it in a poll... Here's some, everyone pick one. Place your bets now, send me the money, I'll be sure to get it to the right people when they're right.
Lycoris
Xandros
United Linux
Red Hat
Gentoo
Mandrake
Lindows
Suse
Cowboy (Neal) Linux
I'm talking the here and now, not the geek fantasy future. Do I honestly sound like I'm praising microsoft? I generally avoid MS products like the plague. [insert distro here] ships with plenty of bugs. It's all OS software though. They aren't raping me on price and backing me into a ms-only corner like the great Microsoft.
News flash:
Windows users use IE. Mom and pop down the street? They use IE. It's integrated into the damn OS. They're not going to download anything else. Have you seen IE's marketshare? Let's be realistic. Mom and pop down the street aren't running SSH. We aren't the ones who are going to get bitten by this even if we were running IE, it's the people who don't know any better.
Well, with the IE bug, I'm be pissed at microsoft because they sold me a product (Yes, I know IE is "free," but I consider IE part of windows) and it's totally screwed up (again) With ssh, I'd disable the service until it's fixed and be disappointed, but not as pissed because a.) it's easy to just disable b.) I'm using ssh for free and don't really have a right to complain
I wasn't aware that there are 100 men for every woman in our society.
I didn't know "work for Red Hat " was a synonym for "sit in my parent's basement and troll slashdot anonymously because I have no life." Good for you.
I doubt they could make a profit by doing what they do for 50 cents... Not that I'm defending their prices, I don't know enough about it. I somehow doubt you do, either.
I don't understand those who *HATE* X. Is it because you people are running pentium 100's? X always ran fine on my PentiumII 366, and now with the recent enhancements added to (what will be) XFree 4.3, I'm not complaining about anything. I'm currently running a CVS snapshot and it's sweet. If you *HATE* Xfree, don't run it. Run something else. Run Windows or OSX... or maybe do something constructive like emailing the developers and asking how you can help since you think it sucks so much.
Their mission seems to be to write a very lightweight window manager. If you don't like the theme, why don't you contribute to the project?
sure!
It's one thing to send out an email. It's another to have the guy come into the place and rebuild a server or something.