Flashy computer.. so many strings attached.
It comes with a whole 90 day trial for office so students can try out excel and word?
Wow thats helpful for $1800+;)
You have a good point here, something most people don't quite catch on to is that open source inside of windows is almost stronger then open source in linux
FireFox has had 2 million downloads.. how many of those do you think are running on linux?;)
Im not bashing linux - but open source is all over - windows haters need to open up - some of those firefox users might learn about open source through closed source:>
Why doesn't someone make a plugin for FF that allows windows to be opened up in ie if not displayed properly... like a button next to the "go" button that opens the link externally.
I often see people complaining.. I for one would love this feature.
No time limits on calls and harly any limits on support;)
But aol is probably one of those we can't help you please contact the manufaccture companies.
I don't think it matters how many downloads in actuality.. once it passes 1 millon for them.. they get the media attention.
Also.. If your downloading it 20 times.. and its going to 20 systems... or even 20 potential users seing it on just one of those systems.. firefox has been taken up a step.
I for one have been donating all my gmail invites to the firefox gmail givaway marketing thing..
I've gotten overtime in my position as System admin and Dialer Anaylst.. they hate giving it but I did get 1/2 hour over time last time i actually did go over 44 hours.
That being said.. anyone in Toronto care to post an example of a common IT job that doesn't pay enough? I'm kind of curious how Ottawa compares.
Your confusing XP SP2 as a seperate os...
Fedora updates are relitavly small compared to XP updates...
Compare apples to apples;)
Thats like saying its a pain to upgrade from windows 95 to windows 98.... Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2... I can guarauntee you which one is easier to install and patch...
You wouldnt happen to be one of those ms marketers comparing 1000 xp computers to a linux mainframe eh?
There will always be a need for traditional teleco Until cell phone companies lower their prices to land line levels.. and the majrity of cell phone companies also operate land lines.. so they arn't losing money in all areas.
One advantage to webmail companys is a app to retrieve email.. or notify..
I recently downloaded a program called "bol" form rediffmail.com just for quick access to my 1gb account there.. i could imagine a offical chat client.. with access to checking mail fast on gmail.. in combination with gmail coming out of beta would be pretty good
I'm sure ZDNet itself has links to other news sources in many places... maybe they should set a standard and pay some royalties to those sites also..;)
I was taking a college network administration course... and was working on my A+..
I had removed the power supply and put it back in but the place for the turbo wire was capped so I put the wire on the next pin over...
Started up the computer and it imemdiatly started smoking up the computer room with dark smoke..... I just stood there amazed windows was still booting up....
So I killed the power.. and took a look inside the case - all the power suplly wires were fried together. I just removed the turbo wire and restarted the computer.. EVERYTHING was fine except the A: drive.. poor thing.. but with that abuse im surprised the rest of the computer was fine.
Turns out i had put the turbo wire into the reset one and the reset button was depressed causing the circuit to keep shorting out..
House Speaker: I understand the report on violence on tv is ready to be disclosed, may the house hear of its findings.
House Representative: The house committee has determined after months of stuides into violence on tv - that we do have the power and means to remove violece from tv, the web, video games, and books. We predict that the cost and overhead of such censorship will amount to a few billion dollers and the department that oversees this process should be merged with the department of homeland security. After much debate amongst us, we also believe that educating americans on how to use their remote contols - or just how to prolong usage of such remotes by replacing their batteries, would all but stop the viewing of innappropriate material. Apparently Tv's have been shipped with parental tool for some time, and americans just need to be informed.
House Speaker: Do I understand correctly? The house committee sugests we have a 'how to use your tv remote control' campaign?
Representative: Thats correct, the proposed bill allowing tax money to be spent on educating americans on how to use their remote controls is in the process. We are still working on a cost estimate, but costs are believed to be in the millions.
----- IANAL.. Just a geek... -----
This is pure fiction, but... How much tax money is wasted because some americans just don't have a clue?;)
Yea they have done a distro and a pc clone? with their linux if I remember corectly. But their strong point is their prouctivity suite, and they are holding onto it like a captin on a sinking ship
In windows you would just change the run as permission after creating a special user for this purpose, or maybe run it as Guest? I don't know what that problems would cause thou so be nice!:)
To try out open source browsers like Firefox and Mozilla....
Maybe its about time for some people to concider some alternate producivity suites - not just openoffice - even some suites like Corel have some intriguing software that lacks the user base of microsoft.
Rant>./rant
On a sidenote.. Corel lost a big share of its market to MS Office around the same time Netscape was crushed by IE. I remember my highschool used Corel at the time. Netscape was very smart to start the Mozilla Foundation insead of trying to beat MS, they are letting their supporters promote for them, gaining them some brand awareness if nothing else. Perhaps It wouldn't be so strange if Corel was to support a open source initiative, or merge with OpenOffice. The next best thing since frozen coffee for the computer geeks would be firefox and corel. Corel could sure use some geek to geek praising around now;)
For those of you not very firmiliar with Corel, at one point they were doing fairly well, then they kinda fell thru - had to lay off alot of people and are now trying to get back into the market.. but I personally think they face the same fate as Netscape.
In the real world, If you loose a customer, it takes twice as long to get that customer to come back to your business, and that customer is a big factor keeping other possible business from you, as they will tell at least 10 people of their experiance. Based on this, even old Corel users would be hesitant or unwilling to switch back to Corel -so Corel needs a new movement. Open source anyone;)
Dying Proprietary Software + Open Source = Improved Code + Brand Awareness + "PROFIT" (Donations, Memberships? Support? and Smart Usage Of Your Brand Recognition)
With so many software companies expected to bust with news of the markets this week, I wouldn't be surprised to see a few new related open source projects pop up.
If you read the artice or visited the webpage you would know there was a selection of virtual keyboards, and the device interfaces with cell phones using bluetooth, providing internet accessl. You would also know you can purchase additional software, enhancing the features of the device.;)
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Flashy computer.. so many strings attached. It comes with a whole 90 day trial for office so students can try out excel and word? Wow thats helpful for $1800+ ;)
Wouldn't Intel like the extra competition?
I work for tech support for one of the mentioned companies.. and I can tell you now.. tomorrows prolly gonna suck :)
*thinks about taking a day off*
You have a good point here, something most people don't quite catch on to is that open source inside of windows is almost stronger then open source in linux
;)
:>
FireFox has had 2 million downloads.. how many of those do you think are running on linux?
Im not bashing linux - but open source is all over - windows haters need to open up - some of those firefox users might learn about open source through closed source
What do you do when your playing a game with someone on yahoo games and they get disconected? ;)
:D
;>
U go look at porn
Nintendo has researched this ! (the ds2 will have a porn browser)
Why doesn't someone make a plugin for FF that allows windows to be opened up in ie if not displayed properly...
like a button next to the "go" button that opens the link externally.
I often see people complaining.. I for one would love this feature.
Thats why I like my new call center job...
;)
No time limits on calls and harly any limits on support
But aol is probably one of those we can't help you please contact the manufaccture companies.
Can I have a $2 discount???!??!
;)
^^ Average american reply if this gets implemented.
Have fun at the aol sales desk
I don't think it matters how many downloads in actuality.. once it passes 1 millon for them.. they get the media attention.
Also.. If your downloading it 20 times.. and its going to 20 systems... or even 20 potential users seing it on just one of those systems.. firefox has been taken up a step.
I for one have been donating all my gmail invites to the firefox gmail givaway marketing thing..
I just upgraded from 0.9 to 1.0 and had no problems at all - seemed a little slower to load at first but maybe its just me.
Really odd, I never knew this.
Most of my previous employeers were just really keen on not approving overtime.
Would this apply to technical support agents ?
I'm in Ottawa, I had no idea about this..
I've gotten overtime in my position as System admin and Dialer Anaylst.. they hate giving it but I did get 1/2 hour over time last time i actually did go over 44 hours.
That being said.. anyone in Toronto care to post an example of a common IT job that doesn't pay enough? I'm kind of curious how Ottawa compares.
Your confusing XP SP2 as a seperate os...
;)
Fedora updates are relitavly small compared to XP updates...
Compare apples to apples
Thats like saying its a pain to upgrade from windows 95 to windows 98.... Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2... I can guarauntee you which one is easier to install and patch...
You wouldnt happen to be one of those ms marketers comparing 1000 xp computers to a linux mainframe eh?
There will always be a need for traditional teleco Until cell phone companies lower their prices to land line levels.. and the majrity of cell phone companies also operate land lines.. so they arn't losing money in all areas.
One thing you guys seem to be missing...
;)
One advantage to webmail companys is a app to retrieve email.. or notify..
I recently downloaded a program called "bol" form rediffmail.com just for quick access to my 1gb account there.. i could imagine a offical chat client.. with access to checking mail fast on gmail.. in combination with gmail coming out of beta would be pretty good
I'm sure ZDNet itself has links to other news sources in many places... maybe they should set a standard and pay some royalties to those sites also .. ;)
I was taking a college network administration course... and was working on my A+..
;)
I had removed the power supply and put it back in but the place for the turbo wire was capped so I put the wire on the next pin over...
Started up the computer and it imemdiatly started smoking up the computer room with dark smoke..... I just stood there amazed windows was still booting up....
So I killed the power.. and took a look inside the case - all the power suplly wires were fried together. I just removed the turbo wire and restarted the computer.. EVERYTHING was fine except the A: drive.. poor thing.. but with that abuse im surprised the rest of the computer was fine.
Turns out i had put the turbo wire into the reset one and the reset button was depressed causing the circuit to keep shorting out..
I won't be doing that again
House Speaker: I understand the report on violence on tv is ready to be disclosed, may the house hear of its findings.
;)
House Representative: The house committee has determined after months of stuides into violence on tv - that we do have the power and means to remove violece from tv, the web, video games, and books. We predict that the cost and overhead of such censorship will amount to a few billion dollers and the department that oversees this process should be merged with the department of homeland security. After much debate amongst us, we also believe that educating americans on how to use their remote contols - or just how to prolong usage of such remotes by replacing their batteries, would all but stop the viewing of innappropriate material. Apparently Tv's have been shipped with parental tool for some time, and americans just need to be informed.
House Speaker: Do I understand correctly? The house committee sugests we have a 'how to use your tv remote control' campaign?
Representative: Thats correct, the proposed bill allowing tax money to be spent on educating americans on how to use their remote controls is in the process. We are still working on a cost estimate, but costs are believed to be in the millions.
----- IANAL.. Just a geek... -----
This is pure fiction, but... How much tax money is wasted because some americans just don't have a clue?
YES! I bet microsoft marketers own this email "ladybee777@hotmail.com" but i cannot be sure.... !!
I was actually thinking the same thing....
:/
"I wonder if my samsung would get detected by this...I always knew it was a piece of crap"
Then I actually read the article.. huge dissapointment on my part
Yea they have done a distro and a pc clone? with their linux if I remember corectly. But their strong point is their prouctivity suite, and they are holding onto it like a captin on a sinking ship
In windows you would just change the run as permission after creating a special user for this purpose, or maybe run it as Guest? I don't know what that problems would cause thou so be nice! :)
To try out open source browsers like Firefox and Mozilla....
;)
;)
Maybe its about time for some people to concider some alternate producivity suites - not just openoffice - even some suites like Corel have some intriguing software that lacks the user base of microsoft.
Rant>./rant
On a sidenote.. Corel lost a big share of its market to MS Office around the same time Netscape was crushed by IE. I remember my highschool used Corel at the time. Netscape was very smart to start the Mozilla Foundation insead of trying to beat MS, they are letting their supporters promote for them, gaining them some brand awareness if nothing else. Perhaps It wouldn't be so strange if Corel was to support a open source initiative, or merge with OpenOffice. The next best thing since frozen coffee for the computer geeks would be firefox and corel. Corel could sure use some geek to geek praising around now
For those of you not very firmiliar with Corel, at one point they were doing fairly well, then they kinda fell thru - had to lay off alot of people and are now trying to get back into the market.. but I personally think they face the same fate as Netscape.
In the real world, If you loose a customer, it takes twice as long to get that customer to come back to your business, and that customer is a big factor keeping other possible business from you, as they will tell at least 10 people of their experiance.
Based on this, even old Corel users would be hesitant or unwilling to switch back to Corel -so Corel needs a new movement. Open source anyone
Dying Proprietary Software + Open Source = Improved Code + Brand Awareness + "PROFIT" (Donations, Memberships? Support? and Smart Usage Of Your Brand Recognition)
With so many software companies expected to bust with news of the markets this week, I wouldn't be surprised to see a few new related open source projects pop up.
Rant> logout
If you read the artice or visited the webpage you would know there was a selection of virtual keyboards, and the device interfaces with cell phones using bluetooth, providing internet accessl. You would also know you can purchase additional software, enhancing the features of the device. ;)
Win4Lin = SCO Affilaited software.... Id rather take my chances with windows then sco ;)