This story was intresting and relatable. Having run and hosted my own site for almost a full year now, I empathize with many of tech users sentiments.
Mr. Malba, you have a knack for story selection.
I want to get my hands on one of these! I've got fairly decent storage as it is but this is such a cool concept, that if the drive away is truly at or under 3 bills, it's a winner with the working tech crowd... and hey it's a Linux device so that puts tux in even more corners of the gadjet guy's (or gals) homes....
Several of my fellow associates in the IS department are intrested in Linux but still do not have enough initiative to do more than install it but many of them do have a Tivo and I figure the same crowd would be intrested in a Mirra....
The Mirra site is slashed pretty bad, I wonder how easy it will be to update the Mirra software, and if they will make a cluster package for people who have a lot of data they want to keep online (aye Matee!)...
Good find prostoalex!
I loved XD1 back in the RHAT 7.3 daze, but since I never seen a supported 8.0 version I gave up on it.
I loved it but I remember that whenever I wanted to update by version of Redhat I had to format seems the rpms used by Ximian were diffrent than Redhats.
I'm going to give XD2 a shot, I'm sure it will be great, I'll just put it on a box I don't care about before I put it on my main Linux machine.
About oo...
I can't speak for the entire suite but oowriter has been great to me until recently.
I attent the University of Phoenix online and was working on a major paper. Of course everyone else in the class uses the ms office suite. I was about to submit my paper when I fired up rdesktop to view it in XP... it came out hacked in symbols (@#![])... I had to retype it in ms word!
I still think it's almost as good as abiword, but abi doesn't seem to get much press so it may even be better...
Damn straight that poster was an AC (anonymous coward)!
PHP is a GREAT web developer language and is growing in popularity thanks to module based applications like php/postnuke.
Learn PHP, it's fun, realitively easy and a great place to get into writing code.
I work in a shop where most of the IS is in their 40's and life is just peachy. I think I understood what the gentleman was trying to convey with his illustration about the company picnic he witnessed but the line about no one speaking english showed a bit of a red neck flavor,which if is so easily identifiable via a post on/. , imagine the possible folies encountered during an interview!
Perhaps it's time to pack it up, move to california and write humor for Larry David?!
There's a few reasons I think they put it on such a platform:
1. XP is a pig; I have a couple of XP boxes in my home lan (2 of my pc's run XP; 3 run Linux), and it does so much unrequested-by-the-user work that it needs the horsepower just to run many times.
2.That's not that much horsepower anymore. a 1.6ghz/256ram pc is middle of the road by retail standards...not that you are I have all of our boxes so powerful.
3. Multitasking multimedia on anything less is often impossible (by multitasking I mean burning a cd, watching a film and downloading content simultaniously).
I would love to have a distro that would do this!
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PC that acts like a TV
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I haven't rolled my own distro yet although my skills are increasing. A multimedia box has been the topic of many of my conversations, but I haven't made one yet simply (kind of silly or a reason) because the only way I knew I could get it to work would be with winwoes.
This type of box would have to be totally easy and with little tweeking as possible.
I know with XP I could make a box (under a grand for the hardware) with at least 100gb, a 1.6g processor, dvd,a wifi card,wireless mouse and keyboard, and a nice video card to connect to my televison so I could watch all the content I want,esp since I fileshare.
But the tivoish functionality, wow...
maybe Red Hat or some other major distro will make such a Linux version.
I'm sure most of the linux community (at least the people I speak with via im, mail and lugs) could care less about multimedia; it's all about the code; but I'm a media junkie and I know I'm not alone.
Your thoughts?
Well now wait a doggone minute...
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KDE Gets The Hat
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· Score: 5, Funny
Who really cares? The desktop wars are always fun, it pushes all products to "Excel" or change thier "Outlook."
Heck I'm not making a "Powerpoint", I'm just stating the facts.
Competition is good for linux, it pushes us to open new "windows" and grow.
This is evident in the way open source coverage has grown "XP"ediately in media coverage lately.
You mark my "Word", it does not matter; KDE or Gnome, which ever product continues to "Project" themselves forward with quality features, smooth intergration and stable ease of use; that will dominate the desktop.
Re:This is the way it should be...
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KDE Gets The Hat
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His flux capacitor is being over run by the ID10t.
back into the game grid,damn user.
end of line.
option 1:
The gnu/linux user base does not include the kde/linux user base.. that figure together, had it been plotted might be a bit higher.
option 2:
The gnu/linux user base the plot is refering to encompasses the total open source user community, including the bsd bodies.
You know your so right. I love the crap out of linux but have the stuff I haven't a clue how to do! I've met some cool people out there who have given me nuggets of knowledge, but ultimately you've got to learn on your own.
The elitest, most would agree, turn many would be users off.
Most of the windows admins out there would be at least dual platform if they hadn't run into some of the "guru's."
When I get to that level I will definately free impart knowledge to whoever is willing to learn and do thier homework.
You've got to be:
a. totally joking
b. trying to earn bragging rights for starting a flame war.
c. not really wanting to do much with your linux box
d. clustering your linux box
e. a total idiot (it's possible to have those browsing/...not likely but possible)
f. a nonlinux user
of course a combination of any of the above is not out of reason.
RUN LINUX ON GOOD HARDWARE!
I agree with you MemeRot. I love the crap out of linux (even though my skillset is not all that yet) and have no intentions of abandoning linux, but ease of use is what the computer was created for.
Why not break out pad and paper when doing your budgets... who needs a calculator when you have a perfectly working brain?
You get the point.
That's why linux rocks on servers and is decent as a desktop. servers usually don't perform the variety of tasks a enduser computer would.
But yeah, I'll reisert that I'm behind the linux/open source movement 100%. I think it's the most innovate environment in computing and it is everybit as comercially viable as windows.... This from a guy who works on a 2000 native mode platform and has some linux clients at home!
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This story was intresting and relatable. Having run and hosted my own site for almost a full year now, I empathize with many of tech users sentiments.
Mr. Malba, you have a knack for story selection.
I want to get my hands on one of these! I've got fairly decent storage as it is but this is such a cool concept, that if the drive away is truly at or under 3 bills, it's a winner with the working tech crowd... and hey it's a Linux device so that puts tux in even more corners of the gadjet guy's (or gals) homes.... Several of my fellow associates in the IS department are intrested in Linux but still do not have enough initiative to do more than install it but many of them do have a Tivo and I figure the same crowd would be intrested in a Mirra.... The Mirra site is slashed pretty bad, I wonder how easy it will be to update the Mirra software, and if they will make a cluster package for people who have a lot of data they want to keep online (aye Matee!)... Good find prostoalex!
and the winner is....
First Post? Are you serious? NT needs to die anyways.
That's about right... anyone want to start an P2P?
Didn't the government want us to be totally metric by now also?
I loved XD1 back in the RHAT 7.3 daze, but since I never seen a supported 8.0 version I gave up on it.
I loved it but I remember that whenever I wanted to update by version of Redhat I had to format seems the rpms used by Ximian were diffrent than Redhats.
I'm going to give XD2 a shot, I'm sure it will be great, I'll just put it on a box I don't care about before I put it on my main Linux machine.
About oo...
I can't speak for the entire suite but oowriter has been great to me until recently.
I attent the University of Phoenix online and was working on a major paper. Of course everyone else in the class uses the ms office suite.
I was about to submit my paper when I fired up rdesktop to view it in XP... it came out hacked in symbols (@#![])... I had to retype it in ms word!
I still think it's almost as good as abiword, but abi doesn't seem to get much press so it may even be better...
We're getting close!
An intelligent response. What a relief. (lol) I agree, and the same thought that we had when napster was fading, get it while you can .
Have a great new year. go outside.
Damn straight that poster was an AC (anonymous coward)!
PHP is a GREAT web developer language and is growing in popularity thanks to module based applications like php/postnuke.
Learn PHP, it's fun, realitively easy and a great place to get into writing code.
I work in a shop where most of the IS is in their 40's and life is just peachy. I think I understood what the gentleman was trying to convey with his illustration about the company picnic he witnessed but the line about no one speaking english showed a bit of a red neck flavor,which if is so easily identifiable via a post on
Perhaps it's time to pack it up, move to california and write humor for Larry David?!
Damn I'm good.
I Always wanted to say that....
There's a few reasons I think they put it on such a platform: 1. XP is a pig; I have a couple of XP boxes in my home lan (2 of my pc's run XP; 3 run Linux), and it does so much unrequested-by-the-user work that it needs the horsepower just to run many times. 2.That's not that much horsepower anymore. a 1.6ghz/256ram pc is middle of the road by retail standards...not that you are I have all of our boxes so powerful. 3. Multitasking multimedia on anything less is often impossible (by multitasking I mean burning a cd, watching a film and downloading content simultaniously).
I haven't rolled my own distro yet although my skills are increasing. A multimedia box has been the topic of many of my conversations, but I haven't made one yet simply (kind of silly or a reason) because the only way I knew I could get it to work would be with winwoes. This type of box would have to be totally easy and with little tweeking as possible. I know with XP I could make a box (under a grand for the hardware) with at least 100gb, a 1.6g processor, dvd,a wifi card,wireless mouse and keyboard, and a nice video card to connect to my televison so I could watch all the content I want,esp since I fileshare. But the tivoish functionality, wow... maybe Red Hat or some other major distro will make such a Linux version. I'm sure most of the linux community (at least the people I speak with via im, mail and lugs) could care less about multimedia; it's all about the code; but I'm a media junkie and I know I'm not alone. Your thoughts?
Who really cares? The desktop wars are always fun, it pushes all products to "Excel" or change thier "Outlook." Heck I'm not making a "Powerpoint", I'm just stating the facts. Competition is good for linux, it pushes us to open new "windows" and grow. This is evident in the way open source coverage has grown "XP"ediately in media coverage lately. You mark my "Word", it does not matter; KDE or Gnome, which ever product continues to "Project" themselves forward with quality features, smooth intergration and stable ease of use; that will dominate the desktop.
His flux capacitor is being over run by the ID10t. back into the game grid,damn user. end of line.
option 1: The gnu/linux user base does not include the kde/linux user base.. that figure together, had it been plotted might be a bit higher. option 2: The gnu/linux user base the plot is refering to encompasses the total open source user community, including the bsd bodies.
You know your so right. I love the crap out of linux but have the stuff I haven't a clue how to do! I've met some cool people out there who have given me nuggets of knowledge, but ultimately you've got to learn on your own. The elitest, most would agree, turn many would be users off. Most of the windows admins out there would be at least dual platform if they hadn't run into some of the "guru's." When I get to that level I will definately free impart knowledge to whoever is willing to learn and do thier homework.
You've got to be: a. totally joking b. trying to earn bragging rights for starting a flame war. c. not really wanting to do much with your linux box d. clustering your linux box e. a total idiot (it's possible to have those browsing /. ..not likely but possible)
f. a nonlinux user
of course a combination of any of the above is not out of reason.
RUN LINUX ON GOOD HARDWARE!
I agree with you MemeRot. I love the crap out of linux (even though my skillset is not all that yet) and have no intentions of abandoning linux, but ease of use is what the computer was created for.
... This from a guy who works on a 2000 native mode platform and has some linux clients at home!
Why not break out pad and paper when doing your budgets... who needs a calculator when you have a perfectly working brain?
You get the point.
That's why linux rocks on servers and is decent as a desktop. servers usually don't perform the variety of tasks a enduser computer would.
But yeah, I'll reisert that I'm behind the linux/open source movement 100%. I think it's the most innovate environment in computing and it is everybit as comercially viable as windows.
Ok, so this was a huge april fool's gag? WTF? I emailed my choice and everything; I thought this was actually serious!
we're all biting our nails in anticipation...