At first i wasnt that impressed by mozilla but lately it is getting near perfection. Granted the mozilla suite is a bit bloaty but FireFox makes most other browsers look really stupid. If i use other browsers who lack tabbed browsing i feel disabled. I have become used to it and its features.
I can honestly think of one single thing i lack or despice in Mozilla. Maybe on windows where it runs slow but on linux its a blast even on my 200mhz old IBM. On windows i think part of the problem is that you already have a browser idling in the background refusing to be uninstalled.
Well i think you are wrong on several layers. There are a wast number of pople who dont play games and dont download mp3's and whatnot. They just browse the web, pay some bills and essentially use the computer as a hotted up library. For those people linux/mozilla is good enough today, especially since those poeple NEVER ever is the ones installing or fixing their computer. Ease of use to them is clicking on an icon and be in the right program, the web browser that is.
Second, how many ordinary users of windows manage to install windows, antivirus, firewall and office successfully? They arent the ones installing, the darn thing comes preinstalled from the shop. In the box lies some images bringing the computer to the state it had from the factory. Any problems and support tells you to use the discs and that is how much help you get.
The biggest advancement linux could do is to be preinstalled by Dell, HP or Fujitsu actively. The day people can get linux preconfigured and preinstalled is the day linux will be really appealing to joe the surfer. Not having to deal with viruses and crashes etc is something most poeple would see as a selling point.
PS. There are people who dont like tinkering with their computer, they just want to use it. DS
I think lindows should change their name and give MS the finger. Use the publicity to cry to the world about how MS misused their powers to hijack a common term like windows. They could ofcourse still continue the trial but since lindows has been forbidden in clueless countries like holland, sweden etc i think they should change their name to Lindesk or something.
To be affiliated with the MS Windows name isnt such an advantage in my book. Why would you want to be connected to high prices, bad software, total absence of security and a big contempt for customers needs?
Here i am with loads of money burning in my pocket, what will i do? Why not spend it on a scam portraying to be about fighting spam but really is an attempt to tax email?
Anyone with half a brain will be very reluctant to give the power of email delivery to Microsoft as little as we have been keen to give them the key to the internet (MS Passport). Giving them that kind of power for free is like giving a bankrober a better gun -"here, please rob me again!"
What is there to assure us that MS dosnt sign an agreement with someone for discounts on large quantities of "informational email"?
Another very big reason is that spamming is not going to be solved this way. Lets say i have an account and someone uses the latest hole in Longhorn/whatever and steals my account? What about thousands of accounts? I cant really see any way to remove spam without seriously crippling email as we have learnt to love it.
The only real long term solution is to take away the incentive to send spam, the money pouring in from mindless companies paying for spam. Why not solve the root of the problem instead of creating a new market for MS and Yahoo?
This is just what MS was so afraif of when netscape came out and became popular. A browser and a webserver practically removes the only real advantage MS has over other, the vast numbers of applications made for Windows. The real reason they fought the browser and java war was that a new application delivery system who was platform agnostic would take away MS biggest selling point.
I cant really imagine how MS could win against google. Its a web page and not very well suited to be a normal local application. In this war they cant really use their desktop to deliver their product, people will still use google or some other search engine.
My definition of obvious is based on the fact that it isnt anything novel in this idea. You can most surely find previous art in other areas that touches this patent very close. It shouldnt be enough to just specify a pretty simple idea, trim it and patent it. Ideas and software should not be patentable because they involve to much abstraction from the real world. A patent on how you implement an idea would be fine but today you patent the idea. Because ideas and software is so much different from real world inventions what is really needed is a rewrite of the patent laws to suit abstract inventions to. The current system is just a port of the old one, bugs and holes galore.
I really dont care what the lawmakers thougt, it is still a horrible broken system that do nothing to foster innovation, rather it kills it because only big corps have enough warpatents to be able to walk the patent minefield. Small companies wich are the real innovators is sometimes better off with just not doing anything new because the minute they becomes successful and implements the idea someone throws a bunch of wide mostly unrealated patents on them and they die a horrible death in court.
No you dont need a ton of developers. There are already comercial packages for developing phones and PDA's for linux. The difference is that you pay a one time fee for the develiping tools and then nothing per phone. If you make a successful phone that makes a huge difference in income. Also you can reuse code from your previous phones so it isnt like you have to reinvent the whole phone each time either.
What most companies want is to differentiate themselves from the rest. With "prepackaged" OS that is often very hard and sometimes not even allowed (think windows where you cant even remove certain icons etc). Why should i choose brand X when brand Y looks exactly the same? Its like cars, the underpinnings can be the same but apperances is vastly different.
If MS has anything against them its their history. People will look away because its from MS. People use MS because there havent existed options, not because of its superiotity. Many of the customers will spend their money on ABM because they know MS is delivering crap. If they have a choice many will take it. Probably enough to make a dent in MS efforts.
MS complete absence of moral when it comes to partners is also something speaking against them. They have shown crystal clear that they gladly will stab you in the back whistling all the way to the bank, something most OEM's is afraid of when dealing with MS.
Well try installing Windows2000, service packs, a novell client, sophos, and some other apps without those numbers and get back to me.
I know i can take a wild walk and disregard the windows crying for a reboot but i dont since many alterations to windows doesnt go through until the next reboot. Im not in the mood to fry a long installation just to see if that perticular reboot was essential or not (in linux i know i dont need to reboot, i can install piles of software and not reboot until im done without implicaitons).
In windows i have learnt that you have to reboot or else it just hits the fan.
I never said what directory service i use. To be honest im a netware sucker since i like stability and efficency more than fancy colours and pointless wizards. NDS and linux plays really nice together thanks to the pam ncpfs plugin that now even handles Zenworks and mounting of Netware home dirs etc. Its much better than the windows client even.
If you have many linux computers you dont manage local accounts either. You setup your authentication server of choice, be it SunONE, Netware, Samba, LDAP, NIS or Windows AD and just run authentivation against it.
Well i am administring my networks on samba and Netware. I do not compare to admin a single box. In conjunction with NDS setting up a large NDS/LDAP database is very easy on Netware. OpenLDAP isnt rocket science either and really only lacks a full fledged administration interface.
Active Directory is a bleak xerox of NDS that lacks much of what makes NDS great. The disk size of a multi domain AD is staggering while i can fit my whole NDS tree on a single floppy.
When i compare my administration i do everyday i find linux to be easier to use albeit i have more prior knowledge in MS windows. The biggest difference i see is the lack of strange errors in linux. Because it is very transparent i can always track the error down, something wich can be tremendously hard on windows with intermittent errors only occuring even mondays on a full moon and when a cup of coffee is standing on my desk.
But youre right about the single box. Terminal Servers rock, what heavens made us go with personal computers?
How can you patent something so utterly obvious? It would be ok if it had required an army of bigheads but it isnt really anything that should be patentable.
Is the US patent system really in for the benefit of companies AND buyers or has it evolved into a kind of steel tariff? From a bystander the looseness and lack of rules makes it look as if the purpouse would be to make it as easy as possible for US companies to get patents that they can use abroad.
The downside for the US is that all these nonsense patents have really hit American companies the hardest.
I myself being a highly trained at Microsoft products was what made me realixe just how plain stupid they are sometimes. Having knowledge in linux before i started training Windows 2000 server made me understand that linux does many things easier for an admin. Account management is a breeze in linux as opposed to the nightmare of managing domains, AD and security principles (barf!).
The more he reads about MS stuff the more the kid is going to understand that there are much better and faster ways of doing things.
Pople who tend to stay at the MS camp is often people who dont quite understand what happens behind the bells and whistles.
Typing this away at my 25th reboot installing a frigging client machine Running W2k after having installed a fully fledged Linux Terminal Server with 1 (one) reboot.
Aww, these moments make me appriciate the awkwardness of VI.
The problem lies in Intels inherent desire to eat spare cpu cycles. Why? Because the more cpu cycles wasted on things better handled in hardware the more incentive to upgrade your cpu.
Those spare cycles could do something better than doing the hardwares work. Microsoft wants to have it all in windows if they can. That way they can tie the whole platform to windows cementing the monopoly on desktops. MS and Intel have had their jousts and Intel have always folded under the pressure. Intels project to make hardware more platform agnostic was stopped by MS who saw a threat to their Wintel Symbios.
There is nothing stopping eg. device drivers from being implemented much lower down like in the actual hardware, talking only in pre standardized APIs. Whats stopping that great innovation that would put a stop to driver problems and make it much more easy to develop new products?
Until it is illegal to send someone email i cant really fathom how you could stop spam? If sending email becomes hard or expensive some bozo will reinvent email and people will flock there instead.
A ban against email while regular IRL spam is allowed is also pretty inconsistent. Maybe if we put some pressure on the companies SENDING the spam we could get some results. Just plain boycott any company that sends spam and the problem will stop pretty fast. Why not start a list with the worst offenders (companies, not the spammers).
Without companies giving the spammers money the problem wouldnt exist.
This is serious stuff. We live in a society where the individual is supposed to make their own decisions. I see a trend towards the government taking over more and more of the decision process. The step is not far from limiting speech. It will ofcourse start with "dangerous" talk. The start is not what worries me but the end, oh boy the end.
Taken togheter these erosion of the individual rights is pretty scary and should not be taken lighly. If you wake up and find yourself in a world where your choices as an individual is severly limited, dont complain.
Now is the time.
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Lately the most aggressive country in the world has been USA. Russia and China have been pretty nice and even improving in their relations and efforts towards democracy.
All at the same time the US is removing democracy and implementing kafkaland where you can be detained without knowing why and have no chance at defending yourself.
The US has pretty much gone out of their way to look like complete assholes and thats why most ppl think the current administration is shit because thats what comes out of assholes.
Im drunk when i type this but still, its teh grits!
We use it at our school and as an admin i just have to tend to the old windows lab, the ltsp lab just dont require any work besides upgrading which is a matter of "yum update".
Our windows lab on the other hand, well thats just broken.
Now im off to bowling and some more beer, have fun yall, SCO is going down!
At work i have a linux terminal server for the students and i use it myself. The Fujitsu Futro i use as a terminal client is dead silent. The new computer lab uses diskless old intel P2 200mhz terminal clients and they are silent aswell.
Our old computer lab on the other hand would make a jetfighter green of envy. The noice is abnoxious and disturbing. Since both labs is in opposite sides of a corridor the difference is extreme.
The only really silent computer i have seen elsewhere is one from Fujitsu wich uses the ATX power supply fan to chill the CPU. Cant really remember the model but it sure is silent.
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At first i wasnt that impressed by mozilla but lately it is getting near perfection. Granted the mozilla suite is a bit bloaty but FireFox makes most other browsers look really stupid. If i use other browsers who lack tabbed browsing i feel disabled. I have become used to it and its features.
I can honestly think of one single thing i lack or despice in Mozilla. Maybe on windows where it runs slow but on linux its a blast even on my 200mhz old IBM. On windows i think part of the problem is that you already have a browser idling in the background refusing to be uninstalled.
Mozilla is now Good Enough (tm) for me.
Well i think you are wrong on several layers. There are a wast number of pople who dont play games and dont download mp3's and whatnot. They just browse the web, pay some bills and essentially use the computer as a hotted up library. For those people linux/mozilla is good enough today, especially since those poeple NEVER ever is the ones installing or fixing their computer. Ease of use to them is clicking on an icon and be in the right program, the web browser that is.
Second, how many ordinary users of windows manage to install windows, antivirus, firewall and office successfully? They arent the ones installing, the darn thing comes preinstalled from the shop. In the box lies some images bringing the computer to the state it had from the factory. Any problems and support tells you to use the discs and that is how much help you get.
The biggest advancement linux could do is to be preinstalled by Dell, HP or Fujitsu actively. The day people can get linux preconfigured and preinstalled is the day linux will be really appealing to joe the surfer. Not having to deal with viruses and crashes etc is something most poeple would see as a selling point.
PS. There are people who dont like tinkering with their computer, they just want to use it. DS
Damn if i admit it but i think you are spot on. I retreat and surrender =)
I think lindows should change their name and give MS the finger. Use the publicity to cry to the world about how MS misused their powers to hijack a common term like windows. They could ofcourse still continue the trial but since lindows has been forbidden in clueless countries like holland, sweden etc i think they should change their name to Lindesk or something.
To be affiliated with the MS Windows name isnt such an advantage in my book. Why would you want to be connected to high prices, bad software, total absence of security and a big contempt for customers needs?
That is five years ago just so you know.
Here i am with loads of money burning in my pocket, what will i do? Why not spend it on a scam portraying to be about fighting spam but really is an attempt to tax email?
Anyone with half a brain will be very reluctant to give the power of email delivery to Microsoft as little as we have been keen to give them the key to the internet (MS Passport). Giving them that kind of power for free is like giving a bankrober a better gun -"here, please rob me again!"
What is there to assure us that MS dosnt sign an agreement with someone for discounts on large quantities of "informational email"?
Another very big reason is that spamming is not going to be solved this way. Lets say i have an account and someone uses the latest hole in Longhorn/whatever and steals my account? What about thousands of accounts? I cant really see any way to remove spam without seriously crippling email as we have learnt to love it.
The only real long term solution is to take away the incentive to send spam, the money pouring in from mindless companies paying for spam. Why not solve the root of the problem instead of creating a new market for MS and Yahoo?
This is just what MS was so afraif of when netscape came out and became popular. A browser and a webserver practically removes the only real advantage MS has over other, the vast numbers of applications made for Windows. The real reason they fought the browser and java war was that a new application delivery system who was platform agnostic would take away MS biggest selling point.
I cant really imagine how MS could win against google. Its a web page and not very well suited to be a normal local application. In this war they cant really use their desktop to deliver their product, people will still use google or some other search engine.
My definition of obvious is based on the fact that it isnt anything novel in this idea. You can most surely find previous art in other areas that touches this patent very close. It shouldnt be enough to just specify a pretty simple idea, trim it and patent it. Ideas and software should not be patentable because they involve to much abstraction from the real world. A patent on how you implement an idea would be fine but today you patent the idea. Because ideas and software is so much different from real world inventions what is really needed is a rewrite of the patent laws to suit abstract inventions to. The current system is just a port of the old one, bugs and holes galore.
I really dont care what the lawmakers thougt, it is still a horrible broken system that do nothing to foster innovation, rather it kills it because only big corps have enough warpatents to be able to walk the patent minefield. Small companies wich are the real innovators is sometimes better off with just not doing anything new because the minute they becomes successful and implements the idea someone throws a bunch of wide mostly unrealated patents on them and they die a horrible death in court.
No you dont need a ton of developers. There are already comercial packages for developing phones and PDA's for linux. The difference is that you pay a one time fee for the develiping tools and then nothing per phone. If you make a successful phone that makes a huge difference in income. Also you can reuse code from your previous phones so it isnt like you have to reinvent the whole phone each time either.
What most companies want is to differentiate themselves from the rest. With "prepackaged" OS that is often very hard and sometimes not even allowed (think windows where you cant even remove certain icons etc). Why should i choose brand X when brand Y looks exactly the same? Its like cars, the underpinnings can be the same but apperances is vastly different.
If MS has anything against them its their history. People will look away because its from MS. People use MS because there havent existed options, not because of its superiotity. Many of the customers will spend their money on ABM because they know MS is delivering crap. If they have a choice many will take it. Probably enough to make a dent in MS efforts.
MS complete absence of moral when it comes to partners is also something speaking against them. They have shown crystal clear that they gladly will stab you in the back whistling all the way to the bank, something most OEM's is afraid of when dealing with MS.
Bill Gates must be the first and only person in the world to have gotten laid because of windows.
Well try installing Windows2000, service packs, a novell client, sophos, and some other apps without those numbers and get back to me.
I know i can take a wild walk and disregard the windows crying for a reboot but i dont since many alterations to windows doesnt go through until the next reboot. Im not in the mood to fry a long installation just to see if that perticular reboot was essential or not (in linux i know i dont need to reboot, i can install piles of software and not reboot until im done without implicaitons).
In windows i have learnt that you have to reboot or else it just hits the fan.
Ehr?
I never said what directory service i use. To be honest im a netware sucker since i like stability and efficency more than fancy colours and pointless wizards. NDS and linux plays really nice together thanks to the pam ncpfs plugin that now even handles Zenworks and mounting of Netware home dirs etc. Its much better than the windows client even.
If you have many linux computers you dont manage local accounts either. You setup your authentication server of choice, be it SunONE, Netware, Samba, LDAP, NIS or Windows AD and just run authentivation against it.
Well i am administring my networks on samba and Netware. I do not compare to admin a single box. In conjunction with NDS setting up a large NDS/LDAP database is very easy on Netware. OpenLDAP isnt rocket science either and really only lacks a full fledged administration interface.
Active Directory is a bleak xerox of NDS that lacks much of what makes NDS great. The disk size of a multi domain AD is staggering while i can fit my whole NDS tree on a single floppy.
When i compare my administration i do everyday i find linux to be easier to use albeit i have more prior knowledge in MS windows. The biggest difference i see is the lack of strange errors in linux. Because it is very transparent i can always track the error down, something wich can be tremendously hard on windows with intermittent errors only occuring even mondays on a full moon and when a cup of coffee is standing on my desk.
But youre right about the single box. Terminal Servers rock, what heavens made us go with personal computers?
How can you patent something so utterly obvious? It would be ok if it had required an army of bigheads but it isnt really anything that should be patentable.
Is the US patent system really in for the benefit of companies AND buyers or has it evolved into a kind of steel tariff? From a bystander the looseness and lack of rules makes it look as if the purpouse would be to make it as easy as possible for US companies to get patents that they can use abroad.
The downside for the US is that all these nonsense patents have really hit American companies the hardest.
I myself being a highly trained at Microsoft products was what made me realixe just how plain stupid they are sometimes. Having knowledge in linux before i started training Windows 2000 server made me understand that linux does many things easier for an admin. Account management is a breeze in linux as opposed to the nightmare of managing domains, AD and security principles (barf!).
The more he reads about MS stuff the more the kid is going to understand that there are much better and faster ways of doing things.
Pople who tend to stay at the MS camp is often people who dont quite understand what happens behind the bells and whistles.
Typing this away at my 25th reboot installing a frigging client machine Running W2k after having installed a fully fledged Linux Terminal Server with 1 (one) reboot.
Aww, these moments make me appriciate the awkwardness of VI.
The problem lies in Intels inherent desire to eat spare cpu cycles. Why? Because the more cpu cycles wasted on things better handled in hardware the more incentive to upgrade your cpu.
Those spare cycles could do something better than doing the hardwares work. Microsoft wants to have it all in windows if they can. That way they can tie the whole platform to windows cementing the monopoly on desktops. MS and Intel have had their jousts and Intel have always folded under the pressure. Intels project to make hardware more platform agnostic was stopped by MS who saw a threat to their Wintel Symbios.
There is nothing stopping eg. device drivers from being implemented much lower down like in the actual hardware, talking only in pre standardized APIs. Whats stopping that great innovation that would put a stop to driver problems and make it much more easy to develop new products?
Guess once!
This MUST be something the Monty Python crew put together as a comeback? Its just as bizarre as when BG got his honorary doctors title here in sweden.
Until it is illegal to send someone email i cant really fathom how you could stop spam? If sending email becomes hard or expensive some bozo will reinvent email and people will flock there instead.
A ban against email while regular IRL spam is allowed is also pretty inconsistent. Maybe if we put some pressure on the companies SENDING the spam we could get some results. Just plain boycott any company that sends spam and the problem will stop pretty fast. Why not start a list with the worst offenders (companies, not the spammers).
Without companies giving the spammers money the problem wouldnt exist.
Cure the illness not the symptoms!
This is serious stuff. We live in a society where the individual is supposed to make their own decisions. I see a trend towards the government taking over more and more of the decision process. The step is not far from limiting speech. It will ofcourse start with "dangerous" talk. The start is not what worries me but the end, oh boy the end.
Taken togheter these erosion of the individual rights is pretty scary and should not be taken lighly. If you wake up and find yourself in a world where your choices as an individual is severly limited, dont complain.
Now is the time.
Lately the most aggressive country in the world has been USA. Russia and China have been pretty nice and even improving in their relations and efforts towards democracy.
All at the same time the US is removing democracy and implementing kafkaland where you can be detained without knowing why and have no chance at defending yourself.
The US has pretty much gone out of their way to look like complete assholes and thats why most ppl think the current administration is shit because thats what comes out of assholes.
Ltsp kicks butt =)
Im drunk when i type this but still, its teh grits!
We use it at our school and as an admin i just have to tend to the old windows lab, the ltsp lab just dont require any work besides upgrading which is a matter of "yum update".
Our windows lab on the other hand, well thats just broken.
Now im off to bowling and some more beer, have fun yall, SCO is going down!
At work i have a linux terminal server for the students and i use it myself. The Fujitsu Futro i use as a terminal client is dead silent. The new computer lab uses diskless old intel P2 200mhz terminal clients and they are silent aswell.
Our old computer lab on the other hand would make a jetfighter green of envy. The noice is abnoxious and disturbing. Since both labs is in opposite sides of a corridor the difference is extreme.
The only really silent computer i have seen elsewhere is one from Fujitsu wich uses the ATX power supply fan to chill the CPU. Cant really remember the model but it sure is silent.
McBride is the ring of SCO, he will suffice to make the evil stop.
Now if only someone could write a nice worm targeting everything non linux we would have the world in our hands tomorrow!
Pinky!