South Korea has already passed a law similar to this in response to the defamation and suicide of a famous actress last year. While I don't speak the language, I understand that all website registrations now require the national ID number so that there are no anonymous users.
OK, I'm undoing five moderation points to comment on this. Thai is a language without spaces or punctuation. I'm relatively fluent. Reading is a PITA. It requires special word-parsing libraries (libthai on your Linux setup -- Thanks, Mr. Choke) to get line wrap to work correctly. There is great opportunity for misunderstanding.
Want a non-technical way to do it? Sign everyone up for Google Docs and work collaboratively, even in real time. If I were you, I would wait till the end of your collab to format stuff. Just download the final document as plain text and compile to PDF.
But, OO doesn't come with Outlook. That's the only problem I've seen for some places so far.
I know I'm in the minority on Slashdot for this one, but if I were setting up a new small business right now, I'd be using Google Apps or Zoho... probably Google. Pay for the required Internet service and $50/user/year.
I couldn't disagree more. That DMG will probably be there until a reboot. On the other hand, in Ubuntu (the most popular distro):
Go to the Applications menu and find that the application you need isn't there;
Locate "Add/Remove" at the bottom of the same menu;
Click on the categories and browse or use the "Search" function;
Click on the application you think meets your needs;
Check the box if it truly does; and
Click "Apply Changes."
Almost nothing could be easier than that. There's nothing to discover -- no need to Google or visit a website or figure out what to do with your DMG. The only way the process would be more comprehensible is to label the "Apply Changes" button with "Add/Remove Programs" instead. Changes are underway to make the app descriptions more informative and to show a screenshot.
This Add/Remove process doesn't work with things not in the database, but it should be the first stop for anyone starting to use the system. The fact that Windows users can't get past the desire to download something from a website doesn't make the Add/Remove process harder: we're just fighting programming.
You have to look at it this way: Unix started in the enterprise so it obviously has all the tools necessary. My snotty answer is that Puppet was created for the crowd you see howling "Wah! SSH doesn't count!" on this story.
Want a more broad-minded answer? The tools were there, but people wanted a simpler system.
"How long to...." WTF? You write a friggin' script using ssh. It takes you three minutes to write it. You execute it, and it takes a couple of minutes or an hour. For copying. For updating. For pushing out the kernel you compiled on your test machine.
I realize you didn't make the assertion that Google is in eternal beta, but I'd like to use your post to refute that statement, anyway. Google Apps aren't beta when you pay for them (i.e. Premium Edition).
And then you get modded "Redundant" to a discussion that happened three hours after your post. Sigh. Happens all the time. There's only one real thread in most people's minds. Then there's the stuff at the bottom of the page.
I paid $1000+ for a 1.77 MHz Z80 processor with 4KB (yes, KB) of RAM, a repurposed TV, and a cassette player. The upgrade to two 5" floppies and 48KB RAM was another $1000+, bringing the machine to $2500 in late-70s dollars.
Now that I've won the geek pissing contest for most overpriced hardware... what was the topic of conversation again?
I personally prefer using update-alternatives for system-wide application choices and "Open with..." for user-level preferences. There's no need to disable GCJ just because I also have Sun's Java6 installed. The users get to override the OS default if they want to. They can open four competing apps if they choose.
Of course, that's on a sensible system like Debian-GNOME.
Is that "half" memory requirement versus XP, Vista, or 7? The reviews I've read of both Vista and OS X claimed that 2GB was the sweet spot for both, and that you shouldn't consider running either on less than 1GB. XP and 7, however, will run well on considerably less.
If you can get OS X to run well in 256MB, I'll buy you a cookie. In short, I think you've swallowed too many blue pills.
If you want the small form factor (SFF), it's a good product at a reasonable price. If you don't need the SFF or need the SFF but not the processing power, there are much better and cheaper alternatives (sans OS X).
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Fair Play for Creators was established after Internet-giant, Google, made the decision to remove some music content from YouTube.
Google's decision was made because it didn't want to pay the going rate for music, to the creators of that music, when it's used on YouTube.
If Google doesn't want to pay the rate, so doesn't broadcast the music, I don't see the issue. Lower the rate and maybe Google will pay.
"Your men are already dead."
South Korea has already passed a law similar to this in response to the defamation and suicide of a famous actress last year. While I don't speak the language, I understand that all website registrations now require the national ID number so that there are no anonymous users.
Companies don't have principles. Banks have your principle, buts that's different.
OK, I'm undoing five moderation points to comment on this. Thai is a language without spaces or punctuation. I'm relatively fluent. Reading is a PITA. It requires special word-parsing libraries (libthai on your Linux setup -- Thanks, Mr. Choke) to get line wrap to work correctly. There is great opportunity for misunderstanding.
It's not a great way to go.
The fine article also states that Thailand's blocklist has been leaked. I thought you'd want to read it for yourself in addition to the Denmark one.
Want a non-technical way to do it? Sign everyone up for Google Docs and work collaboratively, even in real time. If I were you, I would wait till the end of your collab to format stuff. Just download the final document as plain text and compile to PDF.
But, OO doesn't come with Outlook. That's the only problem I've seen for some places so far.
I know I'm in the minority on Slashdot for this one, but if I were setting up a new small business right now, I'd be using Google Apps or Zoho ... probably Google. Pay for the required Internet service and $50/user/year.
Attempting to run a .deb manually will still incur plenty of dependancy errors that require you to hunt down the individual packages.
This is what GDebi is for.
I couldn't disagree more. That DMG will probably be there until a reboot. On the other hand, in Ubuntu (the most popular distro):
Almost nothing could be easier than that. There's nothing to discover -- no need to Google or visit a website or figure out what to do with your DMG. The only way the process would be more comprehensible is to label the "Apply Changes" button with "Add/Remove Programs" instead. Changes are underway to make the app descriptions more informative and to show a screenshot.
This Add/Remove process doesn't work with things not in the database, but it should be the first stop for anyone starting to use the system. The fact that Windows users can't get past the desire to download something from a website doesn't make the Add/Remove process harder: we're just fighting programming.
Actually, I meant /bin/false. Oops.
How do you start vim without a shell?
You have to look at it this way: Unix started in the enterprise so it obviously has all the tools necessary. My snotty answer is that Puppet was created for the crowd you see howling "Wah! SSH doesn't count!" on this story.
Want a more broad-minded answer? The tools were there, but people wanted a simpler system.
# touch .mozilla/plugins && chown root:root .mozilla/plugins
If you're using NFS /home and GNOME, changing configuration for all users simply becomes a matter of using gconftool, eh?
"How long to...." WTF? You write a friggin' script using ssh. It takes you three minutes to write it. You execute it, and it takes a couple of minutes or an hour. For copying. For updating. For pushing out the kernel you compiled on your test machine.
Jesus. It's how admin is done on *nix.
Set their shell to /bin/null?
I realize you didn't make the assertion that Google is in eternal beta, but I'd like to use your post to refute that statement, anyway. Google Apps aren't beta when you pay for them (i.e. Premium Edition).
Insightful? More like troll.
Google is beta for the Standard Version and supported (i.e. 1.0) for the Premium Version. Stop FUDding.
And then you get modded "Redundant" to a discussion that happened three hours after your post. Sigh. Happens all the time. There's only one real thread in most people's minds. Then there's the stuff at the bottom of the page.
I paid $1000+ for a 1.77 MHz Z80 processor with 4KB (yes, KB) of RAM, a repurposed TV, and a cassette player. The upgrade to two 5" floppies and 48KB RAM was another $1000+, bringing the machine to $2500 in late-70s dollars.
Now that I've won the geek pissing contest for most overpriced hardware ... what was the topic of conversation again?
I personally prefer using update-alternatives for system-wide application choices and "Open with..." for user-level preferences. There's no need to disable GCJ just because I also have Sun's Java6 installed. The users get to override the OS default if they want to. They can open four competing apps if they choose.
Of course, that's on a sensible system like Debian-GNOME.
Well reasoned, anti-OS posts, though (especially those directed at OS X), generally get sent to troll hell.
Is that "half" memory requirement versus XP, Vista, or 7? The reviews I've read of both Vista and OS X claimed that 2GB was the sweet spot for both, and that you shouldn't consider running either on less than 1GB. XP and 7, however, will run well on considerably less.
If you can get OS X to run well in 256MB, I'll buy you a cookie. In short, I think you've swallowed too many blue pills.
If you want the small form factor (SFF), it's a good product at a reasonable price. If you don't need the SFF or need the SFF but not the processing power, there are much better and cheaper alternatives (sans OS X).
Well, the stuff available on The Pirate Bay proves that removing copy protection/DRM isn't that hard. It only takes one guy to do it.