I thought we were talking about unwanted *E*mail here. And no I don't receive AOL CDs in the mail anymore because I asked to have my name removed from their list and they did it!
I don't think so. The problem is that AOL sends advertisement to their own subscribers not anyone they can get their hands on. And they do honor the opt-out.
What acceleration is done in user space??? Are the client libraries optimized in some way? The only acceleration that I'm aware of is in the rendering routines, specifically zero-width lines, cursor handling and bltting.
There are two major items that contribute to the slowness of X. The first being a minimal set of standards on how to draw objects. The second being how client requests are handled.
Unless there is an accelerated X server, all wide line stuff is drawn using spans which are dreadfully slow. The good thing is that X will guarantee that lines are drawn consistently with regards to caps and joins. If you want fast, use zero-width lines and an accelerated X server.
The biggest problem is how X handles client requests. Unless utherwise told, X will only handle so many requests from one client before moving on to the next. So you could in effect cause some clients to get starved. There have been a few attempts to correct this behavior but none too successfully implemented.
All this being said, I think that the biggest advantage to X is its' network transparency and its' standards. Most of the discussion here revolves around using the GUI locally only so we're really talking apples & oranges.
That's fine as long as *all* customers have access to the vendor website. The EULA needs to be posted in the packaging some where in type large enought to be easily read.
Move a little into more speculative fiction. These authors are (were in the case of David Lindsay) great.
James Blaylock - The Paper Grail, All the Bells on Earth John Crowley - Little Big, A Great Work of Time David Lindsay - A Voyage to Arcturus James Morrow - Towing Jehovah, Only Begotten Daughter
How much of the stuff that people have stored on their hard drives is *important* enough to keep around? I know that the bulk of my data are letters and email that I don't need to keep around anymore. Like the one guy's response, it's a real relief to get rid of some of the crap that accumulates in ones life. This same principle applies to physical things as well as digital data.
Get rid of the useless crap and make room for the important stuff in life!
I agree. I use Mozilla 1.0 on a W2K box and have had good luck when I email a good description of the problem to the webmaster. One site that seems to be very responsive is www.washingtonpost.com. They don't respond other than to fix the problem.
The first thing that you'll need to do is determine your user's requirements. Until you do this, you're shooting in the dark. If you implement something that you *think* meets the user's requirements but misses the mark then the migration was pointless and you will have possibly angered your users. Conduct a survey of the user tasks at the very minimum.
You'll also need to determine what specialized applications are needed and do some research to see if open source variants exist. There is a lot of good open source products out there. You just have to find them.
Make sure that your printers are well supported. It does you no good to move to OpenOffice if you can't produce decent output as easy as you can with Windows and Office.
You also may be able to stage any migration so as not to cause system shock to your user base. Move them to OpenOffice under Windows and gradually replace the Windows environments with Linux, FreeBSD or whatever OS you choose.
But first and foremeost determine the users' requirements.
1. Don't read your Hotmail mail since it'll be mostly SPAM anyway. 2. Your mailbox will soon reach its' 2Mb limit and get "frozen" 3. Go find another e-mail service with less onerous privacy policy. 4. After a while your Hotmail account will get deleted.
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The product is called StarOffice Base and I believe that it is derived from Adabase. Check this link out:
The darn thing won't recognize Seagate SCSI drives on my dual-proceessor Intel L440GX motherboard. I've removed my extra SCSI card and my fibre channel card but still no go.
I guess my review'll have to wait...
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I thought we were talking about unwanted *E*mail here. And no I don't receive AOL CDs in the mail anymore because I asked to have my name removed from their list and they did it!
I don't think so. The problem is that AOL sends advertisement to their own subscribers not anyone they can get their hands on. And they do honor the opt-out.
What acceleration is done in user space??? Are the client libraries optimized in some way? The only acceleration that I'm aware of is in the rendering routines, specifically zero-width lines, cursor handling and bltting.
There are two major items that contribute to the slowness of X. The first being a minimal set of standards on how to draw objects. The second being how client requests are handled.
Unless there is an accelerated X server, all wide line stuff is drawn using spans which are dreadfully slow. The good thing is that X will guarantee that lines are drawn consistently with regards to caps and joins. If you want fast, use zero-width lines and an accelerated X server.
The biggest problem is how X handles client requests. Unless utherwise told, X will only handle so many requests from one client before moving on to the next. So you could in effect cause some clients to get starved. There have been a few attempts to correct this behavior but none too successfully implemented.
All this being said, I think that the biggest advantage to X is its' network transparency and its' standards. Most of the discussion here revolves around using the GUI locally only so we're really talking apples & oranges.
So if the unix guy doesn't cost twice as much as the two Windows guys you're better off going with unix.
That's fine as long as *all* customers have access to the vendor website. The EULA needs to be posted in the packaging some where in type large enought to be easily read.
Move a little into more speculative fiction. These authors are (were in the case of David Lindsay) great.
James Blaylock - The Paper Grail, All the Bells on Earth
John Crowley - Little Big, A Great Work of Time
David Lindsay - A Voyage to Arcturus
James Morrow - Towing Jehovah, Only Begotten Daughter
How much of the stuff that people have stored on their hard drives is *important* enough to keep around? I know that the bulk of my data are letters and email that I don't need to keep around anymore. Like the one guy's response, it's a real relief to get rid of some of the crap that accumulates in ones life. This same principle applies to physical things as well as digital data. Get rid of the useless crap and make room for the important stuff in life!
I agree. I use Mozilla 1.0 on a W2K box and have had good luck when I email a good description of the problem to the webmaster. One site that seems to be very responsive is www.washingtonpost.com. They don't respond other than to fix the problem.
How is the compatibility issue any different than what happens now when Microsoft comes out with a different version of software?
Flesh Gordon! One of my favorites. Gotta love the rocket ship.
The first thing that you'll need to do is determine your user's requirements. Until you do this, you're shooting in the dark. If you implement something that you *think* meets the user's requirements but misses the mark then the migration was pointless and you will have possibly angered your users. Conduct a survey of the user tasks at the very minimum.
You'll also need to determine what specialized applications are needed and do some research to see if open source variants exist. There is a lot of good open source products out there. You just have to find them.
Make sure that your printers are well supported. It does you no good to move to OpenOffice if you can't produce decent output as easy as you can with Windows and Office.
You also may be able to stage any migration so as not to cause system shock to your user base. Move them to OpenOffice under Windows and gradually replace the Windows environments with Linux, FreeBSD or whatever OS you choose.
But first and foremeost determine the users' requirements.
Good Luck!
by following these simply steps
1. Don't read your Hotmail mail since it'll be mostly SPAM anyway.
2. Your mailbox will soon reach its' 2Mb limit and get "frozen"
3. Go find another e-mail service with less onerous privacy policy.
4. After a while your Hotmail account will get deleted.
The product is called StarOffice Base and I believe that it is derived from Adabase. Check this link out:
http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/mostfaqs.html#7
You've got it backwards. Sun is going to build Linux features into Solaris. This way Sun does not have to make available any source code.
This is a win-win situation. We get added features in Solaris and greater portability in Linux applications.
Now if only Microsoft would think like this...
You already said this once and that was enough!
"Previous users of Windows are not eligible for a rebate." Makes me feel like there is some justice in the world after all.
The darn thing won't recognize Seagate SCSI drives on my dual-proceessor Intel L440GX motherboard. I've removed my extra SCSI card and my fibre channel card but still no go. I guess my review'll have to wait...
Hey, maybe their auditor is Aurthur Anderson.