About 80% of my clients use Windows to run Office, mail and a bit of browsing. The speeds I measured were on the same system:
MS Office (Word) on MS Windoze : 100 Open Office on Windoze : 134 Open Office on Linux : 176 AbiWord on Linux : 27
MS Office (Excel) on MS Windoze: 100 Open Office on Windoze : 110 Open Office on Linux : 140 Gnumeric on Linux : 33
Both AbiWord and Gnumeric support the Windoze MS Office formats quite well. In short, I can't think of any reason to run OpenOffice on Linux systems - except for hyper-sensitive users.
Examples like Munich are very important and already did influence a lot of other organizations.
If said organizations were holding up the roll out of their Linux plans until Munich decided to get 14,000 seats - they didn't get the proper message after all. Adopting Linux takes a little chutzpah, and a different mindset than the dog-eat-dog attitude prevalent in society now.
I'd rather waut for the above orgs to get screwed paying for licenses and Service Packs, yet getting inferior code - and switching to Linux, after getting wiser by their own personal experiences.
Fact is, GNU / Linux has had much success *inspite of* and not because of publicity. When the whole world was watching powerlessly, LinuxTAG got an injunction against SCO in Germany.
I guess that's how Linux and GNU ought to be promoted / evangelised whatever. Just do it silently, no press releases, no fancy million dollar ad campaigns etc. People already know the value of Linux - no need to trivialise it by aping Microsoft and their methods.
My question is on similar lines, so i thought I'd rather reply to this post:
" We hear frequent mention in the press, that most internet crime happens from people outsied the US - Skylarov, the Pakistani who exposed the Passport flaw, open gateways from Asia pumping spam etc.
It is really astonishing to note that the most powerful nation with the best detectives and sleuths can be deterred for so long, by a few novices operating from abroad.
Question: To control piracy, is it enough that the action taken is within the US, or a global consensus needs to be built up? You have mentioned the word IP freuently - does it stand for copyright or patents?
Bride wants to marry IBM and screw Linux. Brother MS willing to pay any dowry."
We hear frequent mention in the press, that most internet crime happens from people outsied the US - Skylarov, the Pakistani who exposed the Passport flaw, open gateways from Asia pumping spam etc.
It is really astonishing to note that the most powerful nation with the best detectives and sleuths can be deterred for so long, by a few novices operating from abroad.
Question: To control piracy, is it enough that the action taken is within the US, or a global consensus needs to be built up? You have mentioned the word IP freuently - does it stand for copyright or patents?
Hopefully enough eyes will be opened, and will see that the future is Firebird.
I'd actually be more comfortable if atleast 3 browsers other than IE had a sizable share. Mozilla currently depends on AOL for funding, and now that MS has settled, AOL might simply drop Mozilla in favor of Netscape. A few articles on these lines also made the rounds.
Opera and Konqueror seem to have a bit of the pie, and that's good news as well. The best thing to happen to browsers would be a few browsers that implement the W3 specs fully, and force the rest to do likewise.
Next to RS232, HTTP is the most abused standard protocol in computing. Time to rein in the violators.
I used Popout Prism on match.com and those chicks looked *awesome*
Use it on Slashdot.org and see what it does to your karma! Use it on Microsoft.com and see Where It Takes You Today? Use it on Hotmail.com and see if your spam is spicy! Use it on Passport.Net and you'll find your password is already hacked!!
All this does is highlight your search terms within the webpage ala Googles Groups
Considering Google sets up numerous cookies now, instead of good ol' NNTP, Prism can only be better.The simpe rule, though: Smarter the browser, Slower the response.
Google News is highly unusual in that it offers a news service compiled solely by computer algorithms without human intervention.
A May article was referenced in Google, but the link pointed to a March 6th article. How can computer algorithms cause this?
While this may lead to some occasionally unusual and contradictory groupings, it is exactly this variety that makes Google News a valuable source of information on the important issues of the day.
Just search for Googlewash using Google. Read story in TheRegister (it's not delisted now). Watch hypocrisy in action. Roll up eyes in disbelief. Adjust tin foil hat.
Gradually, Google's built up a 'good guy' image, and now looks like they're going for the kill. Already Google seems to be the only search site around, and they censor and distort like mad.
Consult the word: Googlewash, and you'll find a lot of info on the referenced article from The Register (it's available now, earlier this was censored). Incidentally, the affected article was a NYT OpEd piece!
Actually, free reg requires a valid email id. It thus filters most bogus registrations. Secondly, news sites are planning to go the 'pay' way in about a couple of years. Getting readers to register would give more accurate estimates of readership.
And lastly, once a site requires registration, even if free, Copyright ptohibits quoting entire articles on the web. This indeed could be the prime reason for this.
IANTrolling here, but I find Google more and more useless by the day. Sometime back, I pointed out how Google seems to have a soft corner for articles and sites that affect big firms such as Microsoft.
In fact, several of Slashdot's own articles on Microsoft aren't available from Google news, although Slashdot is listed as a 'news' source. Couple of MS related Slashdot articles (on the Oregon bill - March 6th and May) have been removed, but much pro-MS content pre-dating March is still referenced.
Google seems to be aping the other Gorilla, despite all the posturing, and Microsoft's so-called attempts to categorise it as a competitor, when in fact, Google appears to be an ally!
At the risk of being modded Flamebait... it does appear that both continents are inevitably compelled to act similarly. Instances - Iraq, NATO, DMCA, MS anti-trust case etc.. Presently the US seems to have the upper hand, in that it can act more independently, and care less about repercussions from pissing off own citizens...
OTOH, Europe adopting this attitude (London traffic monitoring, inaction against Corporations, resistance to Euro, etc..) is sickening, given it's history and respect to tradition. LinuxTAGs moves against SCO is the only bright spot so far.
I keep waiting for something to give, for that final straw where more than just a few of us stand up and say 'No More!' but it hasn't happened.
If you have seen the light, it's enough for your lifetime. Read Alan Cox's answer to the last question in the referenced article. There's many things you could interest yourself in - don't worry over things you don't control.
Three years after the directive is adopted it is justiciable in the European Court of Justice and states which haven't implemented it in domestic law can be taken to court
By the same token, why can't England be forced to adopt the Euro? Looks like such restrictions are only for convenience.
And I thought Europe would be more enlightened than that. Oh well...just goes to show you...no place is safe these days.
If you think long and hard enough, maybe you'd come to the conclusion that Asia is the safest place to be in? Less hypocrisy, more actual freedom, more talent, more fulfilment. Time to move?
Let the falmes begin.
aaaaaaggggghhhhhhhh... how many links????????
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DMCA-Alikes Sweep Europe
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I guess/. must've put up this article and simply rejected posts for about 1 hour. That's about how long it should take to read through these links... Bah.. maybe the editors are resigned to the fact that no one bothers clicking these links before posting??
Apparently,/. rules out the possibility ow world MS domination. Give the HERD mentality in the IT industry, the entire momentum could now switch to Linux.
In which case, the author feels a world of insecure Linux systems could be a kiddie-porn-peddlers dream. But then, that should be a nice problem for the Linux folks:-)
Country / Prospect: We're moving towards Open Source. SCO : But Linux contains our IP! You gotts pay us money.... Prospect: I'll wait till your case against IBM is over.. Exit SCO, enter MS: MS: We'll give you 85% discounts for our secure Windows platform... Prospect: No thanks, I'll call you later.. Exit MS, enter Sun: Sun: We hold all Unix rights, and SCO seems like winning the case. Better switch to Solaris - it's safer than Aix. Prospect: What the hell, GNU/Linux is enuff ro me..... and so on. Only winner : Linux.
Ofcourse Intel, AMD Via and other h/w vendors who do commodity h/w - stand to make some dough.
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How is it slower than MS Office on Linux?
Refer reply to similar query. Thanks.
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You've run MS-Office on Linux? It was faster?
About 80% of my clients use Windows to run Office, mail and a bit of browsing. The speeds I measured were on the same system:
MS Office (Word) on MS Windoze : 100
Open Office on Windoze : 134
Open Office on Linux : 176
AbiWord on Linux : 27
MS Office (Excel) on MS Windoze: 100
Open Office on Windoze : 110
Open Office on Linux : 140
Gnumeric on Linux : 33
Both AbiWord and Gnumeric support the Windoze MS Office formats quite well. In short, I can't think of any reason to run OpenOffice on Linux systems - except for hyper-sensitive users.
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Simplicity, like AbiWord.
Less bloat, like Gnumeric (which yet scores over Excel)
Performance - It's a lot slower than MS Office, specially on Linux.
Examples like Munich are very important and already did influence a lot of other organizations.
If said organizations were holding up the roll out of their Linux plans until Munich decided to get 14,000 seats - they didn't get the proper message after all. Adopting Linux takes a little chutzpah, and a different mindset than the dog-eat-dog attitude prevalent in society now.
I'd rather waut for the above orgs to get screwed paying for licenses and Service Packs, yet getting inferior code - and switching to Linux, after getting wiser by their own personal experiences.
Peace.
Fact is, GNU / Linux has had much success *inspite of* and not because of publicity. When the whole world was watching powerlessly, LinuxTAG got an injunction against SCO in Germany.
I guess that's how Linux and GNU ought to be promoted / evangelised whatever. Just do it silently, no press releases, no fancy million dollar ad campaigns etc. People already know the value of Linux - no need to trivialise it by aping Microsoft and their methods.
Peace.
My question is on similar lines, so i thought I'd rather reply to this post:
" We hear frequent mention in the press, that most internet crime happens from people outsied the US - Skylarov, the Pakistani who exposed the Passport flaw, open gateways from Asia pumping spam etc.
It is really astonishing to note that the most powerful nation with the best detectives and sleuths can be deterred for so long, by a few novices operating from abroad.
Question:
To control piracy, is it enough that the action taken is within the US, or a global consensus needs to be built up?
You have mentioned the word IP freuently - does it stand for copyright or patents?
Bride wants to marry IBM and screw Linux. Brother MS willing to pay any dowry."
We hear frequent mention in the press, that most internet crime happens from people outsied the US - Skylarov, the Pakistani who exposed the Passport flaw, open gateways from Asia pumping spam etc.
It is really astonishing to note that the most powerful nation with the best detectives and sleuths can be deterred for so long, by a few novices operating from abroad.
Question:
To control piracy, is it enough that the action taken is within the US, or a global consensus needs to be built up?
You have mentioned the word IP freuently - does it stand for copyright or patents?
Yahoo! Buys! Overture! for! $1.63! Billion!!
.now it's fine.:-)
There..
Hopefully enough eyes will be opened, and will see that the future is Firebird.
I'd actually be more comfortable if atleast 3 browsers other than IE had a sizable share. Mozilla currently depends on AOL for funding, and now that MS has settled, AOL might simply drop Mozilla in favor of Netscape. A few articles on these lines also made the rounds.
Opera and Konqueror seem to have a bit of the pie, and that's good news as well. The best thing to happen to browsers would be a few browsers that implement the W3 specs fully, and force the rest to do likewise.
Next to RS232, HTTP is the most abused standard protocol in computing. Time to rein in the violators.
Those who produce well-structured and meaningfully-styled Web documents have nothing to fear from it
Most website designers excel in keeping the good info. as far away and as many clicks away as possible. Flash and VRML keep the bosses happy.
News sites earn revenue from as Clicks, and meaningfully-styled Docs would drive them to Chapter 11!
I used Popout Prism on match.com and those chicks looked *awesome*
Use it on Slashdot.org and see what it does to your karma!
Use it on Microsoft.com and see Where It Takes You Today?
Use it on Hotmail.com and see if your spam is spicy!
Use it on Passport.Net and you'll find your password is already hacked!!
Cheers
All this does is highlight your search terms within the webpage ala Googles Groups
Considering Google sets up numerous cookies now, instead of good ol' NNTP, Prism can only be better.The simpe rule, though: Smarter the browser, Slower the response.
Why can't they simply take us there directly :-).. pre-emptive multi-browsiing or some such technology should be great.
The article is here. The word Googlewash was in fact coined by TheRegister.
The article contains a reference to the original article as well. Interesting reading.
Google News is highly unusual in that it offers a news service compiled solely by computer algorithms without human intervention.
A May article was referenced in Google, but the link pointed to a March 6th article. How can computer algorithms cause this?
While this may lead to some occasionally unusual and contradictory groupings, it is exactly this variety that makes Google News a valuable source of information on the important issues of the day.
Just search for Googlewash using Google. Read story in TheRegister (it's not delisted now). Watch hypocrisy in action. Roll up eyes in disbelief. Adjust tin foil hat.
Gradually, Google's built up a 'good guy' image, and now looks like they're going for the kill. Already Google seems to be the only search site around, and they censor and distort like mad.
Consult the word: Googlewash, and you'll find a lot of info on the referenced article from The Register (it's available now, earlier this was censored). Incidentally, the affected article was a NYT OpEd piece!
Actually, free reg requires a valid email id. It thus filters most bogus registrations. Secondly, news sites are planning to go the 'pay' way in about a couple of years. Getting readers to register would give more accurate estimates of readership.
And lastly, once a site requires registration, even if free, Copyright ptohibits quoting entire articles on the web. This indeed could be the prime reason for this.
IANTrolling here, but I find Google more and more useless by the day. Sometime back, I pointed out how Google seems to have a soft corner for articles and sites that affect big firms such as Microsoft.
In fact, several of Slashdot's own articles on Microsoft aren't available from Google news, although Slashdot is listed as a 'news' source. Couple of MS related Slashdot articles (on the Oregon bill - March 6th and May) have been removed, but much pro-MS content pre-dating March is still referenced.
Google seems to be aping the other Gorilla, despite all the posturing, and Microsoft's so-called attempts to categorise it as a competitor, when in fact, Google appears to be an ally!
At the risk of being modded Flamebait... it does appear that both continents are inevitably compelled to act similarly. Instances - Iraq, NATO, DMCA, MS anti-trust case etc.. Presently the US seems to have the upper hand, in that it can act more independently, and care less about repercussions from pissing off own citizens...
OTOH, Europe adopting this attitude (London traffic monitoring, inaction against Corporations, resistance to Euro, etc..) is sickening, given it's history and respect to tradition. LinuxTAGs moves against SCO is the only bright spot so far.
I keep waiting for something to give, for that final straw where more than just a few of us stand up and say 'No More!' but it hasn't happened.
If you have seen the light, it's enough for your lifetime. Read Alan Cox's answer to the last question in the referenced article. There's many things you could interest yourself in - don't worry over things you don't control.
Three years after the directive is adopted it is justiciable in the European Court of Justice and states which haven't implemented it in domestic law can be taken to court
By the same token, why can't England be forced to adopt the Euro? Looks like such restrictions are only for convenience.
And I thought Europe would be more enlightened than that. Oh well...just goes to show you...no place is safe these days.
If you think long and hard enough, maybe you'd come to the conclusion that Asia is the safest place to be in? Less hypocrisy, more actual freedom, more talent, more fulfilment. Time to move?
Let the falmes begin.
I guess /. must've put up this article and simply rejected posts for about 1 hour. That's about how long it should take to read through these links... Bah.. maybe the editors are resigned to the fact that no one bothers clicking these links before posting??
Apparently, /. rules out the possibility ow world MS domination. Give the HERD mentality in the IT industry, the entire momentum could now switch to Linux.
:-)
In which case, the author feels a world of insecure Linux systems could be a kiddie-porn-peddlers dream. But then, that should be a nice problem for the Linux folks
Peace
Country / Prospect: We're moving towards Open Source. /Linux is enuff ro me. .... and so on. Only winner : Linux.
SCO : But Linux contains our IP! You gotts pay us money....
Prospect: I'll wait till your case against IBM is over..
Exit SCO, enter MS:
MS: We'll give you 85% discounts for our secure Windows platform...
Prospect: No thanks, I'll call you later..
Exit MS, enter Sun:
Sun: We hold all Unix rights, and SCO seems like winning the case. Better switch to Solaris - it's safer than Aix.
Prospect: What the hell, GNU
Ofcourse Intel, AMD Via and other h/w vendors who do commodity h/w - stand to make some dough.