And in the REAL WORLD you need to ensure that your documents are viewable by ALL your customers. No it is not an ideal situation, but a business NEEDS MS Office.
Everyone can read.txt,.pdf and.html -documents. Not Everyone can read MS-Word, Excel or Ppt documents.
You can provide the best services and give away money all you want, but when a competitor comes in and doesn't, and you start losing business, you'll have to cut back and possibly close and/or sell out.
Do you actually mean being a good example for others (be it even competitors) is somehow a bad thing concerning business? Couldn't a shop compete by selling better products instead of suddenly lowering quality because it costs too much? And about `committing to charitable causes', it should only be good for sales, that's why so many even do so in today's world.
While I consider dual booting silly and confusing too, I couldn't help but notice your post scriptum and comment on that.
How many computer users would there be in this world? How many do you think use Linux? And how many do you think post more than one comment on threads like these?
I suppose if there are as many Linux users as li.counter.org suggests or more there would surely be a chance there'd be atleast 1400 Linux users reading slashdot. And while I do not use anything else but Linux on my computers and always keep a bootable Linux live-cd handy if going somewhere else I believe there are others too. If I know a couple of those here in Finland I suppose there are more of us linux-only folks all over the world. Do not forget those 140000 at counter.li.org are just the `registered' amount of users and not the whole bunch. Most of us don't even know such a site exists.
With Microsoft products we can NOT talk about TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) since you can't really own any MS products. You just own the license to use the software and that's not much. Especially when the price of the license is as liquid as it is with Windows. There's no way comparing the cost of `ownership' when the software you use is rented.
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I guess we have America and their capitalistic propaganda to thank for that. Thank you U.S.A. for giving the rest of the world a system where those having money and power end up having even more money and power.
Thank god our government is finally getting rid of these bad socialist services that have not benefitted the rich.
It's really clear hit music != good music, many really good musical articles have been silently tucked away to make room for the hit music.
Hit music is only popular because it is simple, has lot of repetition and fools people into thinking it is `good music'. Brainwashed masses wouldn't know any better since the really good music has been silenced because it doesn't sell.
Ok, I lied, good music does sell, but it doesn't create big revenue in short time, like hit music.
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I think I love Gentoo, but I agree with you that Gentoo probably isn't best for corporations.. Well that could be debated 'till the cows come home.
Actually the only thing about Gentoo I am really disappointed is the fact there are no ebuilds for bibtex. Not one. Zilch.. Zero.. None..
I already did that.. It was only yesterday morning I decided I'll start using `GNU/Linux' term everywhere since it best describes the ideology and freedom of it.
Actually all I needed was to hear RMS say the words `cooking' and `recipes' in his videomessage to Brazil and I became a convert.. I've already been a Linux zealot, now I'll probably become a GPL evangelist too:) I bet the guys at lsx.org will be annoyed now.
heh
Gnu's Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX what a joyous day for hackers!
couple of br-tags should take care of it, I'll cut'n'paste again:
root@gaia linux # insmod mga_vid insmod: mga_vid: no module by that name found root@gaia linux # locate mga_vid /usr/lib/mplayer/vidix/mga_vid.so
root@gaia linux # insmod/usr/lib/mplayer/vidix/mga_vid.so /usr/lib/mplayer/vidix/mga_vid.so: ELF file/usr/lib/mplayer/vidix/mga_vid.so not a relocatable object
--- root@gaia linux # insmod mga_vid insmod: mga_vid: no module by that name found root@gaia linux # locate mga_vid/usr/lib/mplayer/vidix/mga_vid.so root@gaia linux # insmod/usr/lib/mplayer/vidix/mga_vid.so/usr/lib/mplayer/vidix/mga_vid.so: ELF file/usr/lib/mplayer/vidix/mga_vid.so not a relocatable object ---
I would wery much be able to. Neither do the kernel sources have any clue to whether there is a mga_vid.o (?) anywhere.
So where can I find this mysterious mga_vid module?
Damn, I've yet to see anything smooth with Matrox G400 even with the latest XFree releases. 2D is jumpy, 3d works sometimes, and often not. Mplayer doesn't work at all. This on Gentoo.
open: No such file or directory
vo_mga: Couldn't open/dev/mga_vid open: No such file or directory vo_mga: Couldn't open/dev/mga_vid
This happens every time. It doesn't even matter if I recompile mgavideo package and/or xfree86.. And OpenGL, it works, sometimes... glxgears seems to work, trackballs seems to work, but many gl2 stuff seems to either lock down the X or make it smur up the output.
Speaking as a junior high teacher, I can safely say it creates an UPROAR when I sent kids to the Onion and they HAPPENED to have an advertisement with a woman in lingerie. I can't control what advertisements show up, and I'd love to have those filtered out for me, even if they site they show up on is perfectly reasonable to go to.
Lingerie ad? Now where wouldn't kids see lingerie ads? We should probably cover their eyes permanently to protect them from seeing such ads.. What desolate place you must live in to think lingerie ads are so devastating?
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Do you actually mean being a good example for others (be it even competitors) is somehow a bad thing concerning business? Couldn't a shop compete by selling better products instead of suddenly lowering quality because it costs too much? And about `committing to charitable causes', it should only be good for sales, that's why so many even do so in today's world.
While I consider dual booting silly and confusing too, I couldn't help but notice your post scriptum and comment on that.
How many computer users would there be in this world? How many do you think use Linux? And how many do you think post more than one comment on threads like these?
I suppose if there are as many Linux users as li.counter.org suggests or more there would surely be a chance there'd be atleast 1400 Linux users reading slashdot. And while I do not use anything else but Linux on my computers and always keep a bootable Linux live-cd handy if going somewhere else I believe there are others too. If I know a couple of those here in Finland I suppose there are more of us linux-only folks all over the world. Do not forget those 140000 at counter.li.org are just the `registered' amount of users and not the whole bunch. Most of us don't even know such a site exists.
Yes I know I'm being off topic, but hey, I don't see any trolling in this message. I hope it's a mistake.
Ehh, I can not stop laughing:) hehe... too funny!!!
Maybe they'd been better off just using Windows? ..they can play Patience while planes are crashing around the air control tower..
I'd like to sum these couple of messages up:
With Microsoft products we can NOT talk about TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) since you can't really own any MS products. You just own the license to use the software and that's not much. Especially when the price of the license is as liquid as it is with Windows. There's no way comparing the cost of `ownership' when the software you use is rented.
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I'm sorry for being off topic here, but why is this post modded troll? I don't get it.
The way I see it the guy is just a bit paranoid, more or less like me, but I've never been modded a troll.
Couldn't it be possible SCO has planned this in advance? Although I sincerely think they might just have dug their own grave by doing so..
- Voice of Ambience -
Maybe you are just wrong...
After reading this, it seems pretty strange OS/2 didn't make it. Makes me wonder..
Didn't you know?
Vim is now Cif..
The same thing is happening here in Finland too..
I guess we have America and their capitalistic propaganda to thank for that. Thank you U.S.A. for giving the rest of the world a system where those having money and power end up having even more money and power.
Thank god our government is finally getting rid of these bad socialist services that have not benefitted the rich.
To me, the funniest part to that whole article is that the whole ``If MS made cars'' story was started by a BMW executive in the first place :).
It's really clear hit music != good music, many really good musical articles have been silently tucked away to make room for the hit music.
Hit music is only popular because it is simple, has lot of repetition and fools people into thinking it is `good music'.
Brainwashed masses wouldn't know any better since the really good music has been silenced because it doesn't sell.
Ok, I lied, good music does sell, but it doesn't create big revenue in short time, like hit music.
I think I love Gentoo, but I agree with you that Gentoo probably isn't best for corporations.. Well that could be debated 'till the cows come home.
:)..
Actually the only thing about Gentoo I am really disappointed is the fact there are no ebuilds for bibtex. Not one. Zilch.. Zero.. None..
Ok, finally I got that off my heart
Did someone not post the story in the first place?
I already did that.. It was only yesterday morning I decided I'll start using `GNU/Linux' term everywhere since it best describes the ideology and freedom of it.
Actually all I needed was to hear RMS say the words `cooking' and `recipes' in his videomessage to Brazil and I became a convert.. I've already been a Linux zealot, now I'll probably become a GPL evangelist too:) I bet the guys at lsx.org will be annoyed now.
heh
Gnu's Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX
what a joyous day for hackers!
Heh, someone oughta make a collection of these, they might even prove funny if someone made ogg's out of them.. or is it against copyright again...
Damn SCO, those ppl are just fueling the piratism issue to new flames.
Oh yes, thanks for that. I'll be checking it out. :)
Freenet? Entropy? GNUnet?
The whole charade sounds like the usual american claim that the U.S. owns the Internet. Funny.
A newline bug seemed to interveen my post.
/usr/lib/mplayer/vidix/mga_vid.so
/usr/lib/mplayer/vidix/mga_vid.so
/usr/lib/mplayer/vidix/mga_vid.so: ELF file /usr/lib/mplayer/vidix/mga_vid.so not a relocatable object
couple of br-tags should take care of it, I'll cut'n'paste again:
root@gaia linux # insmod mga_vid
insmod: mga_vid: no module by that name found
root@gaia linux # locate mga_vid
root@gaia linux # insmod
Hmm.. insmod mga_vid ?
/usr/lib/mplayer/vidix/mga_vid.so /usr/lib/mplayer/vidix/mga_vid.so /usr/lib/mplayer/vidix/mga_vid.so: ELF file /usr/lib/mplayer/vidix/mga_vid.so not a relocatable object
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root@gaia linux # insmod mga_vid
insmod: mga_vid: no module by that name found
root@gaia linux # locate mga_vid
root@gaia linux # insmod
---
I would wery much be able to. Neither do the kernel sources have any clue to whether there is a mga_vid.o (?) anywhere.
So where can I find this mysterious mga_vid module?
This happens every time. It doesn't even matter if I recompile mgavideo package and/or xfree86.. And OpenGL, it works, sometimes... glxgears seems to work, trackballs seems to work, but many gl2 stuff seems to either lock down the X or make it smur up the output.
Lingerie ad? Now where wouldn't kids see lingerie ads? We should probably cover their eyes permanently to protect them from seeing such ads.. What desolate place you must live in to think lingerie ads are so devastating?
- Voice of Ambience -