Full disclosure: I am a Gentoo user, so I'm sure distributions like Kubuntu make remote desktops trivial to set up. So my ease of use comments were written from a Gentoo perspective, and are probably misguided for the great majority of Linux users who use "friendly" distributions; apologies.
I've had the same Windows 2000 install happily running on my laptop since 2002, not a single virus or piece of malware. I think you're doing something wrong...maybe you should consider another hobby.
X does NOT work fine over dialup. Please be realistic. X generates a ton of events, and was designed to work over fast local connections. If you do tunnel X over ssh for security, then you can forget about using it even over dsl for anything but the most trivial work (ie I defy you to run Firefox remotely over dsl).
I regularly use NoMachine's NX product, and it is pretty good over dsl. Similarly, Microsoft's RDP works very well over the same connection. In terms of clickable ease of use and speed, NX is similar to RDP. However, it is obviously not stock X.
As far as starting a remote X app - how does one do it? You drop to the terminal and type, that's how. Sure, maybe you have a clickable script, but that script has to get there somehow. No big deal for you and I, but a very big deal for someone who is used to just clicking on an icon and immediately getting their entire remote desktop. It makes remote work a very simple thing for anyone, which is why it's so successful.
So what you're saying is, if I break into your house and write down the combination for your safe, I haven't stolen the combination? I think the popular use of the word "theft" would cover such a case. I've stolen the secrecy, which is the value in a secret combination.
Wrong, but of course it depends on how much you use a computer. For those of us who sit in front of it day in, day out, doing our jobs, mouse pain is a huge issue (for me it's my elbow and the top of my forearm).
One solution is to master keyboard shortcuts and just avoid the mouse altogether.
In the interests of openness, would you mind publishing these calculations of yours? I'm sure we'd like to see your quantification of the open-source development process, particularly for software as complex as this evidently is. Thanks.
What? There are several vm solutions that run on Windows XP - including Parallels. No one bothers running the Gimp under VMWare or whatever because there is no point, with so many other solutions available that do the job at least as well. Your post is completely clueless.
It wasn't based on nothing. Anyone who says cvs doesn't need to be replaced hasn't worked with it extensively. So I think you are lying, or in management, or both.
My source for his quotes is "The Letters of JRR Tolkien", edited by Humphrey Carpenter and Christopher Tolkien.
The quote you reference was a part of his complaint that the BBC messed up their LoTR broadcast (letter 175). He was never against dramatisation on principle. Tolkien is quite consistent on this point: dramatisation of the LoTR was always something he had in mind, not least because of the financial possibilities, as he was quite broke. Christopher's ambivalence was well-known, but he didn't write the books, so who cares what he thinks.
Yes, it really is Unix. It's just a fucked over version, that's all. And it's fucked over in ways that reduce functionality.
Could you elaborate on this? Please be specific. I write and deploy software to Unix (Linux, BSD, and occasionally Solaris) for a living, and I develop on a MacBook. It has served me very well, and I've found no areas in which it's really "fucked over" to reduce functionality. Well, I guess the lack of Gentoo-style start/stop scripts threw me for a bit, but that's not a global Unix thing.
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Full disclosure: I am a Gentoo user, so I'm sure distributions like Kubuntu make remote desktops trivial to set up. So my ease of use comments were written from a Gentoo perspective, and are probably misguided for the great majority of Linux users who use "friendly" distributions; apologies.
I've had the same Windows 2000 install happily running on my laptop since 2002, not a single virus or piece of malware. I think you're doing something wrong...maybe you should consider another hobby.
Good points. I believe TRON is actually the world's most popular os, last I heard. If you want 100% job security, learn this thing, and learn it well.
I believe Windows NT was introduced in 1993, so your statement is incorrect.
X does NOT work fine over dialup. Please be realistic. X generates a ton of events, and was designed to work over fast local connections. If you do tunnel X over ssh for security, then you can forget about using it even over dsl for anything but the most trivial work (ie I defy you to run Firefox remotely over dsl).
I regularly use NoMachine's NX product, and it is pretty good over dsl. Similarly, Microsoft's RDP works very well over the same connection. In terms of clickable ease of use and speed, NX is similar to RDP. However, it is obviously not stock X.
As far as starting a remote X app - how does one do it? You drop to the terminal and type, that's how. Sure, maybe you have a clickable script, but that script has to get there somehow. No big deal for you and I, but a very big deal for someone who is used to just clicking on an icon and immediately getting their entire remote desktop. It makes remote work a very simple thing for anyone, which is why it's so successful.
Give it a rest, fatso.
MP3 is patented. If you want to write an encoder/decoder, you are supposed to buy a license from Thomson Consumer Electronics and Fraunhofer IIS.
Maybe you should learn about quantum electrodynamics sometime, as you seem to have a lot of time on your hands.
So what you're saying is, if I break into your house and write down the combination for your safe, I haven't stolen the combination? I think the popular use of the word "theft" would cover such a case. I've stolen the secrecy, which is the value in a secret combination.
Actually, Vancouver is in the southwest of Canada. It's not really in the northwest of anything.
Wrong, but of course it depends on how much you use a computer. For those of us who sit in front of it day in, day out, doing our jobs, mouse pain is a huge issue (for me it's my elbow and the top of my forearm).
One solution is to master keyboard shortcuts and just avoid the mouse altogether.
There is no salmon fishery in the far north.
"I do value the Inuit culture"
Well, that's great, but you sure don't know anything about them. Their whale hunting endangers nothing except your stupidity.
ALERT: parent is a kook.
In the interests of openness, would you mind publishing these calculations of yours? I'm sure we'd like to see your quantification of the open-source development process, particularly for software as complex as this evidently is. Thanks.
Haha, so he got it wrong on both counts. What a maroon.
Actually, Windows 2000 is the best OS choice for older hardware. Far snappier than any version of Linux with a comparable gui (ie KDE or Gnome).
What? There are several vm solutions that run on Windows XP - including Parallels. No one bothers running the Gimp under VMWare or whatever because there is no point, with so many other solutions available that do the job at least as well. Your post is completely clueless.
You are correct. The author of the article doesn't know what he's talking about. NeoOffice is a native app, and is a snap to install.
It wasn't based on nothing. Anyone who says cvs doesn't need to be replaced hasn't worked with it extensively. So I think you are lying, or in management, or both.
I can only assume you've never actually worked with it on a large project.
You don't understand genetics or biology.
"I think it is a LOT more likely..." Ahh right, there's your problem.
What? All slocate does is find files. It is not even close to the same thing. Spotlight is a better example.
Hendrix didn't write "All Along the Watchtower".
The season finale was brilliant. Perhaps you would be happier watching Star Trek.
My source for his quotes is "The Letters of JRR Tolkien", edited by Humphrey Carpenter and Christopher Tolkien.
The quote you reference was a part of his complaint that the BBC messed up their LoTR broadcast (letter 175). He was never against dramatisation on principle. Tolkien is quite consistent on this point: dramatisation of the LoTR was always something he had in mind, not least because of the financial possibilities, as he was quite broke. Christopher's ambivalence was well-known, but he didn't write the books, so who cares what he thinks.
Could you elaborate on this? Please be specific. I write and deploy software to Unix (Linux, BSD, and occasionally Solaris) for a living, and I develop on a MacBook. It has served me very well, and I've found no areas in which it's really "fucked over" to reduce functionality. Well, I guess the lack of Gentoo-style start/stop scripts threw me for a bit, but that's not a global Unix thing.