Actually, his three were OpenBSD, Beos, and ReactOS. His apps will target the elite top.01% of the market.
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Well, they did give away thousands of copies of Win98 to the Thai gov't in order to kill the FLOSS movement there. The Thai gov't was happy to sign a contract legitimizing all their pirated copies. Oh, yeah. Then MS EOLed Win98 about six month later and forced an upgrade to WinXP. Hmmm.
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What kind of computer does Michael Dell have? See for yourself. These are the systems and peripherals Michael is using right now. If you want to learn more about these products, or purchase one of your own, visit the links.
At home: Dell Precision M90
Hardware:
* Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 Processor * 4GB DDR2 667Mhz DRAM * 17" WXGA+ Widescreen LCD * 160GB 7200rpm SATA hard drive * 8X DVD +/- RW optical drive * NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 512MB
It's the first computer listed. I suspect that support for Dell Linux laptops will be moving right along with MD's primary computer running Ubuntu 7.04.
I prefer "Not with a bang, nor with a whimper, but with a muffled cry." In my version, PalmOS gets bought by MS, who promises to continue support, then is knifed quietly in the back room when no one is watching.
Automatix and EasyUbuntu are dead or dying (Netcraft confirms it...) and with good reason. Codecs in the latest release of Ubuntu (7.04) are installed as needed when playing unsupported media. Installing plugins has always been easy on x86 32 bit because Firefox will simply download them for you and install them to your home folder. Now, however, you can just use Add/Remove Programs to install Ubuntu Restricted Extras and get MS fonts, the Flash plugin, the Java 6 plugin, and the "ugly" plugins (like mp3 and DVD) system-wide. I desperately tried to find EU and Automatix for Feisty this time, until I realized that I didn't need them.
I'm not trying to say that you should retract your statement about MythTV being hard, because I tried (and failed) a couple of times to set it up before, but I just tried again tonight and was surprised how simple it was on Ubuntu 7.04.
Do a base install of Ubuntu Server 7.04
update
apt-get install mythtv
reboot
answer the questions on the screen
That was it. Everything worked (except the Weather plugin, which is permanently broken, sigh). Wow. Thirty minutes, tops. I didn't even have to read the howto, though I probably should have.
Please stop verbing words which already have verbs. It's repulsive. Plenk is the noun. Plenken is the verb. You should say "Please stop the plenkening." Tongue-in-cheek.
That's why I use Epiphany (the Gnome browser). It's Gecko-based, so it displays the same as Firefox, but the UI is GTK, so it's a lot faster. I don't have huge memory consumption, even when keeping my browser open for weeks. Firefox extensions don't work, but it can handle GreaseMonkey scripts (don't use any, though). The native extensions are:
Actions
Ad Blocker
Auto Reload Tab
Auto-scroll
Certificates
Creative Commons License
Error Viewer
Favicon Fallback
Gestures
GreaseMonkey
JavaConsole
Liv e Headers
News Feed Subscriptions
Page Info
Push Scroll
Python Console
Select Stylesheet
Side Bar
Smart Bookmarks: right click to look up selected text in your searches
Tab Groups: newly opened tabs appear next to the parent tab instead of at the end of the queue
Tab States: Shows an icon if there's new content in the tab
The philosophy is that it doesn't want to do a lot. It passes the job off to the Gnome app that would normally handle the file. Oh, yeah, and it has a sane download manager, instead of the f???ed up thing that FF has. I'm very happy with it, but I only use Gnome, so I don't have to be cross-platform.
YOU have to live with it: I'm living in Korea and later Thailand, the place where the copyright suit over a font was thrown out because "no one can own the Thai alphabet."
free software would infridge on some MS patents
Of course my beer infridges, but I'm not so sure that it was obvious that Free software would. Is that why they call it a "API freeze?"
You can, however, pay a license fee based on a percentage of sales, then give the product away, ultimately killing the license-holding company and freeing yourself from the agreement. ***cough*** IE ***cough***
I'm in Korea, not Japan, and they tend to use the Korean alphabet to indicate emoticons (e.g. _ for sad). I think it's fine, but the emoticon is obviously limited in scope because of the need to type in Korean. People writing to me in English still switch into their Korean input for emoticons.
In Thailand, they use "555" instead of "lol" (I know, not emoticons... still related) because five in Thai is pronounced "Ha!" 555 = Ha ha ha!
Our three employee business used eGroupware. It is actively being developed and has the following capabilities (from the website):
Powerful calendar which also supports scheduling of groups, resources and even contacts
AddressBook / Contact-manager using SQL or LDAP
Userfriendly IMAP mail-client
ToDo, Notes and Phonecalls, CRM customer relationship management
Element based Projectmanager higly integrated with all other eGW apps
Resources managment (inventory) and booking tool integrated into eGW calendar
Managing files stored in the VFS (virtual file system) based on files, sql-db or webdav.
SiteMgr: Userfriendly intuitve web autoringsystem with fine granulated access control lists.
Timesheet application well integrated with projectmanager.
Tracking of bugs or other, integrated with projectmanager.
Wiki
Knowlege base
NewsAdmin enter and view news ( RalfBecker, Nelius )
SiteMgr was not the greatest CMS around a couple of years ago, but it was simple to use and made incorporating information from the knowledge base or bug tracking software as easy as one click. If you don't already have a hosting provider, get a web presence, install eGroupware, use the LDAP features to centralize your address book, and start the company off with a solution that is easy to use but which can grow to just about any size. Once you have a reliable hosting provider, make sure your Internet connection is excellent, then sit back don't worry about maintenance other than doing DB back-ups on a regular basis.
Demo is http://demo.egroupware.org/currentversion/login.ph p>here. A new version (1.4) is alsmot out the door, so you might want to look at that. The Admin interface is just about the only waek part of the suite.
"Cemetaries [sic] could become vast areas of infectious disease for happily dying alongside loved ones instead of the barren (except for manicured grass and big drab squares of stone), desolate, *business-efficient*, unhappy places they are now."
Fixed that for you.;)
I wasn't confused. The mechanisms are strikingly similar, though. The chip is activated at the register and the DVD is now readable. Professional thieves will have access to the method of activation because that's what they do. Thieves have tools related to their trade. Steal a set of DVDs just like you always did, activate them, and sell them (or, more likely steal them and fence them to a man who has the tools). It will stop the theft of DVDs for only about 15 minutes, all the while introducing another level of complexity and failure into the legal purchase process.
This "protection mechanism" will be broken, just like every other one has been. If it only need to be activated, professional criminals will have access to the tools necessary to activate the DVD player. It will be useless and only aggravate the life of the consumer, so it will come and go just like other protection systems.
I understand you, but disagree. If there were no copyright, then I could take back from anyone without asking, much like the GPL. I could decompile and use that source however I wanted. BSD works which have been closed under copyright don't allow that.
See my post from the original story. RMS only created the GPL because there was copyright. If there hadn't been copyright, he wouldn't have needed it.
I understand now, though I'm not familiar with annotating the bible. The comments work pretty well since they appear when you mouse over the note. I think that's a lot more specific than having comments in another pane and unclear about which section they're referring to. This is the same way it works in MS Word, I guess, because my editor didn't know that I was using OO.o. Final copy was submitted as PDF.
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Actually, his three were OpenBSD, Beos, and ReactOS. His apps will target the elite top .01% of the market.
Well, they did give away thousands of copies of Win98 to the Thai gov't in order to kill the FLOSS movement there. The Thai gov't was happy to sign a contract legitimizing all their pirated copies. Oh, yeah. Then MS EOLed Win98 about six month later and forced an upgrade to WinXP. Hmmm.
I prefer "Not with a bang, nor with a whimper, but with a muffled cry." In my version, PalmOS gets bought by MS, who promises to continue support, then is knifed quietly in the back room when no one is watching.
Automatix and EasyUbuntu are dead or dying (Netcraft confirms it ...) and with good reason. Codecs in the latest release of Ubuntu (7.04) are installed as needed when playing unsupported media. Installing plugins has always been easy on x86 32 bit because Firefox will simply download them for you and install them to your home folder. Now, however, you can just use Add/Remove Programs to install Ubuntu Restricted Extras and get MS fonts, the Flash plugin, the Java 6 plugin, and the "ugly" plugins (like mp3 and DVD) system-wide. I desperately tried to find EU and Automatix for Feisty this time, until I realized that I didn't need them.
- Do a base install of Ubuntu Server 7.04
- update
- apt-get install mythtv
- reboot
- answer the questions on the screen
That was it. Everything worked (except the Weather plugin, which is permanently broken, sigh). Wow. Thirty minutes, tops. I didn't even have to read the howto, though I probably should have.Please stop verbing words which already have verbs. It's repulsive. Plenk is the noun. Plenken is the verb. You should say "Please stop the plenkening." Tongue-in-cheek.
- Actions
- Ad Blocker
- Auto Reload Tab
- Auto-scroll
- Certificates
- Creative Commons License
- Error Viewer
- Favicon Fallback
- Gestures
- GreaseMonkey
- JavaConsole
- Li
v e Headers - News Feed Subscriptions
- Page Info
- Push Scroll
- Python Console
- Select Stylesheet
- Side Bar
- Smart Bookmarks: right click to look up selected text in your searches
- Tab Groups: newly opened tabs appear next to the parent tab instead of at the end of the queue
- Tab States: Shows an icon if there's new content in the tab
The philosophy is that it doesn't want to do a lot. It passes the job off to the Gnome app that would normally handle the file. Oh, yeah, and it has a sane download manager, instead of the f???ed up thing that FF has. I'm very happy with it, but I only use Gnome, so I don't have to be cross-platform.Well, Slash ate my UTF8 Korean. Sorry for the uninformative example above.
Dude, and I lost my mod points yesterday. Funny AND insightful. Heck, interesting and informative (OK, maybe not informative), as well. +4 to you.
YOU have to live with it: I'm living in Korea and later Thailand, the place where the copyright suit over a font was thrown out because "no one can own the Thai alphabet."
free software would infridge on some MS patents
Of course my beer infridges, but I'm not so sure that it was obvious that Free software would. Is that why they call it a "API freeze?"
You can, however, pay a license fee based on a percentage of sales, then give the product away, ultimately killing the license-holding company and freeing yourself from the agreement. ***cough*** IE ***cough***
I'm in Korea, not Japan, and they tend to use the Korean alphabet to indicate emoticons (e.g. _ for sad). I think it's fine, but the emoticon is obviously limited in scope because of the need to type in Korean. People writing to me in English still switch into their Korean input for emoticons.
... still related) because five in Thai is pronounced "Ha!" 555 = Ha ha ha!
In Thailand, they use "555" instead of "lol" (I know, not emoticons
- Powerful calendar which also supports scheduling of groups, resources and even contacts
- AddressBook / Contact-manager using SQL or LDAP
- Userfriendly IMAP mail-client
- ToDo, Notes and Phonecalls, CRM customer relationship management
- Element based Projectmanager higly integrated with all other eGW apps
- Resources managment (inventory) and booking tool integrated into eGW calendar
- Managing files stored in the VFS (virtual file system) based on files, sql-db or webdav.
- SiteMgr: Userfriendly intuitve web autoringsystem with fine granulated access control lists.
- Timesheet application well integrated with projectmanager.
- Tracking of bugs or other, integrated with projectmanager.
- Wiki
- Knowlege base
NewsAdmin enter and view news ( RalfBecker, Nelius )
SiteMgr was not the greatest CMS around a couple of years ago, but it was simple to use and made incorporating information from the knowledge base or bug tracking software as easy as one click. If you don't already have a hosting provider, get a web presence, install eGroupware, use the LDAP features to centralize your address book, and start the company off with a solution that is easy to use but which can grow to just about any size. Once you have a reliable hosting provider, make sure your Internet connection is excellent, then sit back don't worry about maintenance other than doing DB back-ups on a regular basis.Demo is http://demo.egroupware.org/currentversion/login.p
Good luck.
Only if you start out with all the money you could ever spend. Just joking.;)
"Cemetaries [sic] could become vast areas of infectious disease for happily dying alongside loved ones instead of the barren (except for manicured grass and big drab squares of stone), desolate, *business-efficient*, unhappy places they are now." ;)
Fixed that for you.
I wasn't confused. The mechanisms are strikingly similar, though. The chip is activated at the register and the DVD is now readable. Professional thieves will have access to the method of activation because that's what they do. Thieves have tools related to their trade. Steal a set of DVDs just like you always did, activate them, and sell them (or, more likely steal them and fence them to a man who has the tools). It will stop the theft of DVDs for only about 15 minutes, all the while introducing another level of complexity and failure into the legal purchase process.
This "protection mechanism" will be broken, just like every other one has been. If it only need to be activated, professional criminals will have access to the tools necessary to activate the DVD player. It will be useless and only aggravate the life of the consumer, so it will come and go just like other protection systems.
You mean "All your base 16 are belong to me," don't you?
I understand you, but disagree. If there were no copyright, then I could take back from anyone without asking, much like the GPL. I could decompile and use that source however I wanted. BSD works which have been closed under copyright don't allow that.
See my post from the original story. RMS only created the GPL because there was copyright. If there hadn't been copyright, he wouldn't have needed it.
I'm thinking that this would be fairly easy to implement either in Latex or html/css.
I understand that, which is why I defined the way that I meant "Free" here. I've seen too many flame wars over it.
I understand now, though I'm not familiar with annotating the bible. The comments work pretty well since they appear when you mouse over the note. I think that's a lot more specific than having comments in another pane and unclear about which section they're referring to. This is the same way it works in MS Word, I guess, because my editor didn't know that I was using OO.o. Final copy was submitted as PDF.
in OO.o 2.2, Edit -> Change -> Record and Insert -> Comment maybe? Am I missing something?