Cross referencing is present in openoffice, i've used it myself as is index marking and watermarking, also used them (or seen them in use on documents i've opened)
If by object insertion you mean ole objects, then yes openoffice also supports that but it will result in proprietary binary blobs existing inside your document which is far from ideal.
There is no clippy, but openoffice does sport an almost-as-annoying lightbulb.
And as to VBA scripting, openoffice supports macros written in openoffice basic, java, javascript and python. Personally if i had to write office automation macros i'd rather learn a usefull language like the latter 3, so i have a skill i can reapply elsewhere. Oh, and there is work underway to implement vba support into openoffice, but its still a proprietary language and a pretty awful one from what i've seen of it.
And infact a significant proportion of msoffice customers are still using versions as old as 97, which also don't support many of the feature they're talking about.
Firefox included google long before google paid them to do so... Firefox included google because it was the search engine most of the users wanted to use. Google paying them for searches performed using firefox came quite a bit later.
But in those days, microsoft and netscape were on a level playing field. Users had to download a browser, whichever they downloaded the process and time spent was the same, so users chose a browser based on merit.
Set the default yes, but you can't remove the microsoft apps, resulting in wasted space, and a discouragement against installing a replacement (why have redundant programs?)
But microsoft do not include google, or anything other than msn, in the default list... Firefox on the other hand, offers several by default and gives you an option to add more (and msn is offered here as an option). MSN isnt in the default firefox list because it isn't widely enough used, it's a relatively new search engine and until recently was just a frontend to another search engine.
Microsoft should do the same as firefox, and include the most popular search engines in the default options, and provide an easy method to download more.
It is absent because when it was created, msn search didn't even exist... Firefox has had a search box for ages, while msn search only came out of beta quite recently. Aside from that, i doubt many firefox developers have ever even considered using msn search. If microsoft requested mozilla to include msn search in the list, they would most likely include it.
I still have an E450 running at home, 4x 480mhz cpus and 4gig ram... It's far cheaper than a modern system capable of handling the same kind of load. It may not be the best system for brute force processing, but it's very stable and will handle a high load easily.
Intel had a very similar problem with some of their Itanium chips recently too, however i don't recall them offering free replacements, i believe they just told customers to clock down affected processors!
However, very few people cared because very few people use itanium chips, and those who do are used to them not performing as advertised.
However, IBM produce an AIX as a standalone OS, Oracle would be providing an OS for the sole purpose of hosting their database and appservers etc, therefore it's likely to be designed around and supported by the same group of people.
The MIPS boxes are more balanced... A typical P4 will take a significant performance hit when it stalls the pipeline or has a cache miss, whereas the Octane is less likely to have a cache miss (bigger caches) and the penalty of going to main memory is lower...
The Octane also has a better multiprocessing architecture, the entire system is based on a crossbar switch architecture (very similar to AMD hypertransport but came much earlier) so all the processors (the octane can theoretically take 4 cpus, but sgi never made cards for them supporting more than 2) the memory, and the IO slots. This is why MIPS systems have been scaled to thousands of processors, while x86 can only be clustered.
And also don't forget, that modern Intel/AMD processors are effectively RISC processors with extra (power consuming performance sapping) silicon to convert x86 CISC instructions into blocks of internal RISC equivalents. By removing this extra overhead, you can potentially decrease power usage, improve performance (with a good compiler) and generate less heat making it easier to create higher clocked processors.
An actual 600mhz MIPS processor (R14000) is actually pretty speedy, especially at floating point.. Not sure about the chinese mips clone tho. But once you consider performance per watt the mips should do quite well in any case, the later SGI machines using mips processors at around 600mhz used passive cooling on the processors, and the sgi processor modules for their highend kit could fit 16 MIPS processors in 4U while they could only fit 4 itanium chips in the same space.
I would avoid safenet stuff like the plague... Looking at their own safenet branded vpns - The windows client crashes when you send certain ipv6 traffic to it's mac address (it locks up solid, you have to power cycle) The linux client requires redhat 9 with it's default (no patches for the local kernel vulns discovered in 2003) kernel and a particular version of sun's jre (which is no longer available from sun's site due to being so old), and even then still doesn't work properly. The solaris client only works on Solaris 8/ultrasparc and probably has similar java version requirements to the linux version
They also claim that the whole steaming pile of crap is ipsec compliant and will work with third party ipsec implemenations, which it's not, and it doesn't respectively.
Some of their vpn devices when linked together, have been known to forward ARP traffic wether you want it to or not (they were meant to do layer 3 routing only), which can cause absoloute mayhem on the network.
Finally, their support department is worse than useless, we spent many hours trying to get them to show us how to configure their products to perform as advertised (support ipsec etc) and got nowhere.
Not quite... 2000 was supposed to be the replacement for 98, but compatibility and performance with old programs was too poor, people missed pure dos mode etc... ME was intended to take away pure DOS mode (it was still there but actively tried to prevent you from accessing it) and was otherwise supposed to be unstable and irritating so that people were more likely to upgrade, as opposed to 98 which many people were satisfied enough with to not upgrade to 2000.
I've had DVDs play fine under FreeBSD, but you'l need to install the libs (libcss, libdvdread etc) and player programs (mplayer) yourself, they won't be included by default for legal reasons...
As for encrypted mail from outlook, does outlook use some kind of proprietary encryption? I've never encountered such mail, most people use pgp which most certainly can be used under BSD.
If you want to install software quickly, then gentoo is an unsuitable distribution, although you could have used binary packages with it anyway. Debian is a better choice in situations like you describe.
I use a large number of gentoo machines for production purposes (the flexibility of use flags is great) i don't just go installing new apps on a whim, indeed doing so has no place in an enterprise environment. If i want to install any new apps on a server, they have to be thoroughly tested on test systems first (we take a disk image of the server, and test the new app on there)... Only if it works correctly on the test system without interfering with other tasks, do we install it on the actual system.
In a business where IT isn't a core part of the business, what you really need, are skilled consultants going in to set up the initial system, and talking with management and staff about their requirements, providing limited management (add/remove users and little else) to management staff via a web based interface, and then coming back periodically to check on things. In situations where this has been done, it has worked well, and typically unix based systems have been chosen because there is little need for maintenence. The problem here comes from greedy consultants, who intentionally set up a flakey system because they then charge by the hour for maintenence (flakey system == more maintenence time == $$)
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In which case the app you use is at fault, not the format.
And you'd be foolish to edit something in an app that doesn't support it!
Cross referencing is present in openoffice, i've used it myself
as is index marking and watermarking, also used them (or seen them in use on documents i've opened)
If by object insertion you mean ole objects, then yes openoffice also supports that but it will result in proprietary binary blobs existing inside your document which is far from ideal.
There is no clippy, but openoffice does sport an almost-as-annoying lightbulb.
And as to VBA scripting, openoffice supports macros written in openoffice basic, java, javascript and python. Personally if i had to write office automation macros i'd rather learn a usefull language like the latter 3, so i have a skill i can reapply elsewhere.
Oh, and there is work underway to implement vba support into openoffice, but its still a proprietary language and a pretty awful one from what i've seen of it.
And infact a significant proportion of msoffice customers are still using versions as old as 97, which also don't support many of the feature they're talking about.
And somehow fedora is to blame for the fact your cd's didnt get burned correctly?
Firefox included google long before google paid them to do so...
Firefox included google because it was the search engine most of the users wanted to use. Google paying them for searches performed using firefox came quite a bit later.
Koffice already runs on windows, but older versions of qt on windows require a commercial license so you need to buy the windows version of koffice...
Openoffice already has a batch convert option by default.
But in those days, microsoft and netscape were on a level playing field.
Users had to download a browser, whichever they downloaded the process and time spent was the same, so users chose a browser based on merit.
Actually any distro that defaults to KDE will default to konqueror too.
Set the default yes, but you can't remove the microsoft apps, resulting in wasted space, and a discouragement against installing a replacement (why have redundant programs?)
But microsoft do not include google, or anything other than msn, in the default list...
Firefox on the other hand, offers several by default and gives you an option to add more (and msn is offered here as an option).
MSN isnt in the default firefox list because it isn't widely enough used, it's a relatively new search engine and until recently was just a frontend to another search engine.
Microsoft should do the same as firefox, and include the most popular search engines in the default options, and provide an easy method to download more.
It is absent because when it was created, msn search didn't even exist... Firefox has had a search box for ages, while msn search only came out of beta quite recently.
Aside from that, i doubt many firefox developers have ever even considered using msn search.
If microsoft requested mozilla to include msn search in the list, they would most likely include it.
And where might i find a system with 4GB of ram for $600?
I still have an E450 running at home, 4x 480mhz cpus and 4gig ram... It's far cheaper than a modern system capable of handling the same kind of load. It may not be the best system for brute force processing, but it's very stable and will handle a high load easily.
Intel had a very similar problem with some of their Itanium chips recently too, however i don't recall them offering free replacements, i believe they just told customers to clock down affected processors!
However, very few people cared because very few people use itanium chips, and those who do are used to them not performing as advertised.
However, IBM produce an AIX as a standalone OS, Oracle would be providing an OS for the sole purpose of hosting their database and appservers etc, therefore it's likely to be designed around and supported by the same group of people.
The MIPS boxes are more balanced...
A typical P4 will take a significant performance hit when it stalls the pipeline or has a cache miss, whereas the Octane is less likely to have a cache miss (bigger caches) and the penalty of going to main memory is lower...
The Octane also has a better multiprocessing architecture, the entire system is based on a crossbar switch architecture (very similar to AMD hypertransport but came much earlier) so all the processors (the octane can theoretically take 4 cpus, but sgi never made cards for them supporting more than 2) the memory, and the IO slots.
This is why MIPS systems have been scaled to thousands of processors, while x86 can only be clustered.
Not hard to implement, but fighting a patent infringement case in court because you implemented patented instructions is a lot harder.
And also don't forget, that modern Intel/AMD processors are effectively RISC processors with extra (power consuming performance sapping) silicon to convert x86 CISC instructions into blocks of internal RISC equivalents.
By removing this extra overhead, you can potentially decrease power usage, improve performance (with a good compiler) and generate less heat making it easier to create higher clocked processors.
An actual 600mhz MIPS processor (R14000) is actually pretty speedy, especially at floating point.. Not sure about the chinese mips clone tho. But once you consider performance per watt the mips should do quite well in any case, the later SGI machines using mips processors at around 600mhz used passive cooling on the processors, and the sgi processor modules for their highend kit could fit 16 MIPS processors in 4U while they could only fit 4 itanium chips in the same space.
I would avoid safenet stuff like the plague...
Looking at their own safenet branded vpns -
The windows client crashes when you send certain ipv6 traffic to it's mac address (it locks up solid, you have to power cycle)
The linux client requires redhat 9 with it's default (no patches for the local kernel vulns discovered in 2003) kernel and a particular version of sun's jre (which is no longer available from sun's site due to being so old), and even then still doesn't work properly.
The solaris client only works on Solaris 8/ultrasparc and probably has similar java version requirements to the linux version
They also claim that the whole steaming pile of crap is ipsec compliant and will work with third party ipsec implemenations, which it's not, and it doesn't respectively.
Some of their vpn devices when linked together, have been known to forward ARP traffic wether you want it to or not (they were meant to do layer 3 routing only), which can cause absoloute mayhem on the network.
Finally, their support department is worse than useless, we spent many hours trying to get them to show us how to configure their products to perform as advertised (support ipsec etc) and got nowhere.
Not quite...
2000 was supposed to be the replacement for 98, but compatibility and performance with old programs was too poor, people missed pure dos mode etc...
ME was intended to take away pure DOS mode (it was still there but actively tried to prevent you from accessing it) and was otherwise supposed to be unstable and irritating so that people were more likely to upgrade, as opposed to 98 which many people were satisfied enough with to not upgrade to 2000.
I've had DVDs play fine under FreeBSD, but you'l need to install the libs (libcss, libdvdread etc) and player programs (mplayer) yourself, they won't be included by default for legal reasons...
As for encrypted mail from outlook, does outlook use some kind of proprietary encryption? I've never encountered such mail, most people use pgp which most certainly can be used under BSD.
If you want to install software quickly, then gentoo is an unsuitable distribution, although you could have used binary packages with it anyway.
Debian is a better choice in situations like you describe.
I use a large number of gentoo machines for production purposes (the flexibility of use flags is great) i don't just go installing new apps on a whim, indeed doing so has no place in an enterprise environment. If i want to install any new apps on a server, they have to be thoroughly tested on test systems first (we take a disk image of the server, and test the new app on there)... Only if it works correctly on the test system without interfering with other tasks, do we install it on the actual system.
In a business where IT isn't a core part of the business, what you really need, are skilled consultants going in to set up the initial system, and talking with management and staff about their requirements, providing limited management (add/remove users and little else) to management staff via a web based interface, and then coming back periodically to check on things.
In situations where this has been done, it has worked well, and typically unix based systems have been chosen because there is little need for maintenence.
The problem here comes from greedy consultants, who intentionally set up a flakey system because they then charge by the hour for maintenence (flakey system == more maintenence time == $$)