This is true if you are only using "simple" Word files. By "simple", I mean Word docs with text, graphics, tables, and the likes. If, however, you want to embed Excel spreadsheets or graphs into your Word docs, Office 97 fails miserably, often. It gets worse if you want to dynamically link those graphs back to their original data source. I spent two Summers doing battle with this as an intern. To me, the value of upgrading is not derived from more features, but rather the polishing of existing features. This is why businesses continue to upgrade. Interestingly, I was working at a very conservative Fortune 100 company in the year 2000, and we were using NT4 and Office 97.
In my experience, Gentoo "feels" a whole lot faster on my laptop (P3 600Mhz, 160Mb) than RedHat 9 does. Gentoo, however, will clobber your system while doing updates. I much prefer apt-get update over emerge sync, simply because the rsync that powers Portage takes a very long time to update your portage tree on semi-old hardware. People have told me to "just run the updates at night", but doesn't that take all the fun out of it? For having the most up to date packages, all the time, Gentoo is great. It comes at a price, though. One thing is for sure: Your machine will never work as hard with any other distribution but Gentoo.
Does it seem strange to anyone else that in the linked photo gallery, the only picture with a female has been viewed 3 times more than any of the other pictures?
Sheesh.
I guess there's just not much scenery to show off at distro day.
I wrote and now maintain a little GPLed project. Been doing it for about a year. We've got a mailing list with about two dozen subscribers and it's been great fun. One day, a fellow wrote in with a support question. He mentioned in the bottom of the mail that he could "get compensation sent" from his company if he got good support. "Money for GPL'ed code!? Wow!", I thought. With heart pounding, I provided that support and got him all squared away. To my surprise, he even wrote me a personal email requesting my mailing address so he could send money. I gave him my Paypal address. Well, it's been several months and I haven't heard anything.
The point of this lame story is that people just won't volunteer money, even if your project rocks (not that mine does). Even when they volunteer money, it still probably won't come. You will have to go out and make a job of procuring sponsorship for your project. I recommend finding someone with some business sense and a little smarts to do the job for you. It'll take at least as much time as does your coding to get good funding.
One final rule of thumb: It is very rare for smaller projects (like mine) to procure funding. My project is the kind that a software company could put out in a matter of weeks, but it has taken me a matter of months. Unless you find yourself working 20+ hours per week to manage patches, attend to bug reports, and write new code, I doubt that the project would get outside funding (not to say that it doesn't deserve it).
My network got hit hard this morning. The article claims 10 packets per minute. We were getting 10 packets in about 1 nano second. It sent our firewall to a load average of 10+ and brought our entire network (inbound and outbound traffic) to a halt. We found a single Windows host causing all the problems _behind_ our firewall. After disconnecting it all was well again.
Thank you MS.
My local Unix Users Group has been using this encoder to stream our meetings over the web (in asf format) for months. It works really well, but the only stream we've gotten to work is asf. Mpeg and others don't work on the client side.
Finally! The technology is available to embed the Palladium chip right into their customers' bodies. This will save M$ millions by not having to produce all that proprietary hardware. Think of all the benefits: I can get updates for my brain at WindowsUpdate.com, I can let M$ run scans on me to upload my lifestyle preferences to make my computing experience more legal and enjoyable.
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Must be those hoser bureaucrats, eh?
Sorry, couldn't resist.
I want to see the median pay increase, not the average. I bet NBA players account for 99% of the pay difference.
I guess Linux really is ready for the ... Oh wait, this isn't a Star Trek article??
This is true if you are only using "simple" Word files. By "simple", I mean Word docs with text, graphics, tables, and the likes. If, however, you want to embed Excel spreadsheets or graphs into your Word docs, Office 97 fails miserably, often. It gets worse if you want to dynamically link those graphs back to their original data source. I spent two Summers doing battle with this as an intern. To me, the value of upgrading is not derived from more features, but rather the polishing of existing features. This is why businesses continue to upgrade. Interestingly, I was working at a very conservative Fortune 100 company in the year 2000, and we were using NT4 and Office 97.
In my experience, Gentoo "feels" a whole lot faster on my laptop (P3 600Mhz, 160Mb) than RedHat 9 does. Gentoo, however, will clobber your system while doing updates. I much prefer apt-get update over emerge sync, simply because the rsync that powers Portage takes a very long time to update your portage tree on semi-old hardware. People have told me to "just run the updates at night", but doesn't that take all the fun out of it? For having the most up to date packages, all the time, Gentoo is great. It comes at a price, though. One thing is for sure: Your machine will never work as hard with any other distribution but Gentoo.
Does it seem strange to anyone else that in the linked photo gallery, the only picture with a female has been viewed 3 times more than any of the other pictures?
Sheesh.
I guess there's just not much scenery to show off at distro day.
Just pick up a prism-based pcmcia card and download airfart.
I wrote and now maintain a little GPLed project. Been doing it for about a year. We've got a mailing list with about two dozen subscribers and it's been great fun. One day, a fellow wrote in with a support question. He mentioned in the bottom of the mail that he could "get compensation sent" from his company if he got good support. "Money for GPL'ed code!? Wow!", I thought. With heart pounding, I provided that support and got him all squared away. To my surprise, he even wrote me a personal email requesting my mailing address so he could send money. I gave him my Paypal address. Well, it's been several months and I haven't heard anything.
The point of this lame story is that people just won't volunteer money, even if your project rocks (not that mine does). Even when they volunteer money, it still probably won't come. You will have to go out and make a job of procuring sponsorship for your project. I recommend finding someone with some business sense and a little smarts to do the job for you. It'll take at least as much time as does your coding to get good funding.
One final rule of thumb: It is very rare for smaller projects (like mine) to procure funding. My project is the kind that a software company could put out in a matter of weeks, but it has taken me a matter of months. Unless you find yourself working 20+ hours per week to manage patches, attend to bug reports, and write new code, I doubt that the project would get outside funding (not to say that it doesn't deserve it).
My network got hit hard this morning. The article claims 10 packets per minute. We were getting 10 packets in about 1 nano second. It sent our firewall to a load average of 10+ and brought our entire network (inbound and outbound traffic) to a halt. We found a single Windows host causing all the problems _behind_ our firewall. After disconnecting it all was well again. Thank you MS.
My local Unix Users Group has been using this encoder to stream our meetings over the web (in asf format) for months. It works really well, but the only stream we've gotten to work is asf. Mpeg and others don't work on the client side.
Finally! The technology is available to embed the Palladium chip right into their customers' bodies. This will save M$ millions by not having to produce all that proprietary hardware. Think of all the benefits: I can get updates for my brain at WindowsUpdate.com, I can let M$ run scans on me to upload my lifestyle preferences to make my computing experience more legal and enjoyable.
And that thing is: Groove Salad.