I've been using various versions of SUSE on my Dell Laptop for the last eighteen months (and many other distros also).
After wrestling with Red Hat, Mandrake, Slack and Gentoo, my laptop finally found a home with SUSE Professional.
It "just works"; therefore, I spend more time working and less time messing around trying to force things to work?
Whilst I do enjoy messing around with various distros, the time does come when I need to get work done, and SUSE lets me do this, including (almost) seamless co-operation with my company Windows-LAN?
....and as a bit of A Jazz fan, found the selections available quite good.
After a few clicks, I located some old Nina Simone stuff, that I've only seen on more expensive compilations.
One strange thing is that some of the albums are shown as "partial" on the UK Site, but "Full" on the US one? I have the ability to selct the US site, but haven't tried ordering from there?
Anyone know if that would work? It used to be that the iTunes Store Page wouldn't display at all,, but now it does, and I can select UK, France, Germany or the US sites - as has been noted previously, the prices are different, but 79 pence is less than originally mooted?
Personally, I don't think its too much per track - in the UK, everyone is used to "Rip-Off Britain" so 79 pence is cheap to us!
I particularly like the bit "What we're finding now is that through a combination of the availability of broadband...." and the lovely "...not just by downloading the patches for them but installing them as well."
What about us poor saps who can't get Broadband? In the "rural" part of England where I currently live (13 miles from the centre of the sixth largest City in the UK) I can't get Broadband, and BT tell me my telephone exchange will probably *never* be upgraded! Also, the Cable Companies are all broke, so no luck there...
So, how would this help me if I had a Win box, and required 30+MB of patches every month? My internet connectivity is a dial-up connection, with a two-hour cut-off (quite normal for UK ISP's) so no help there.
Hang on - phew! just remembered - my Red Hat boxes, although needing occasional patching, give me the option to download the patches from elsewhere via FTP (like using a leased line at work!) and then burn them on to CD to run on my RH machines at home! I'm saved!
If only MS were so willing for us dumb-old home users - who, I believe, where hardest hit by Mr. Blaster and friends. Kinda reminds me why I don't use Windows on my home machines now....
Hmm, this kind of reminds me of the potentially ruinous case UK-Telco Monster British Telecom tried to bring by claiming they had a valid patent for the hyperlink, thus, every single web site covered by that patent would have to pay them a royalty.
Yep, that claim was soon chucked out of court, to the embarressed relief of BT's management.
SCO it seems, are either doing one of two things - either making a somewhat misguided attempt to enforce a perhaps long forgotten patent (and, as has been said, patent on what, exactly?) Or two, just making a real dumb grab for money (kinda like "If it's sitting still, you can hit it - if you can hit it you can kill it!")
I just hope they fail miserably. This kind of blatent money-grabbing the open source community can *well* do without!
Of course, not all "ISP's" (especially those in the UK) are actual businesses.
Those in the academic community have their own networks, in addition to connections to commercial providers, and, as they are educational institutions, don't necessarily have to show a profit....
This can kind of distort your thinking if you try and see per-MB usage as a pure business function - not all those whose networks are used are for-profit organisations.
Well, I might be showing my age here, but didn't our old pals MS produce a desktop version of UNIX way back when? (wasn't it XENIX or somthing?? 'pologies if I'm wrong...)
So really they're not *that* new to this, but, depending on your point of view, then either MS are trying to do a passable cover-the-bases routine, or they have some other plan in mind.
Let's be honest here - and I think we all know this - if Bill & The Boys did go down the linux route, then it would change linux completely; can you see MS open-sourcing all their code for this project?
I have a dinky-little SonyEricsson headset for my Nokia 6310, and even after being fully charged, the battery in the thing only lasts around four-to-five hours in its 'standby' mode.
If actually used to make/receive a call, the battery life is even worse!
So, in all, a nice gimmick, looks lovely, but almost completely useless as it won't last the duration of a working day.
(And, of course, there's no 'in-car' charger available!!)
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The problem they have in Wales (and indeed, most of the UK outside the 'big' cities) is that the major Telecoms provider, British Telecom, who basically own all the local telephone exchanges, will not upgrade them for broadband until there is a certain "target level of demand" (i.e. until it will pay them hansomely to do so).
Of course, the rub is, for rural exchanges (like where *I* live) they won't tell you what the target is.....
Therefore, they can alter the 'majic' target at will, so that rural communities will almost certainly never get wired-broadband, hence the move to wireless networks - not only in Wales, but elsewhere in the UK, as it is seen as the only economic way to get better than a POTS dial-up (and don't even ask me about Satellite access in rural UK - uk£1,200 setup and uk£99/month? No thanks!!!)
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I've been using various versions of SUSE on my Dell Laptop for the last eighteen months (and many other distros also).
After wrestling with Red Hat, Mandrake, Slack and Gentoo, my laptop finally found a home with SUSE Professional.
It "just works"; therefore, I spend more time working and less time messing around trying to force things to work?
Whilst I do enjoy messing around with various distros, the time does come when I need to get work done, and SUSE lets me do this, including (almost) seamless co-operation with my company Windows-LAN?
Just my 0.02 Euros worth.....
....and as a bit of A Jazz fan, found the selections available quite good.
After a few clicks, I located some old Nina Simone stuff, that I've only seen on more expensive compilations.
One strange thing is that some of the albums are shown as "partial" on the UK Site, but "Full" on the US one? I have the ability to selct the US site, but haven't tried ordering from there?
Anyone know if that would work? It used to be that the iTunes Store Page wouldn't display at all,, but now it does, and I can select UK, France, Germany or the US sites - as has been noted previously, the prices are different, but 79 pence is less than originally mooted?
Personally, I don't think its too much per track - in the UK, everyone is used to "Rip-Off Britain" so 79 pence is cheap to us!
I particularly like the bit "What we're finding now is that through a combination of the availability of broadband...." and the lovely "...not just by downloading the patches for them but installing them as well."
What about us poor saps who can't get Broadband? In the "rural" part of England where I currently live (13 miles from the centre of the sixth largest City in the UK) I can't get Broadband, and BT tell me my telephone exchange will probably *never* be upgraded! Also, the Cable Companies are all broke, so no luck there...
So, how would this help me if I had a Win box, and required 30+MB of patches every month? My internet connectivity is a dial-up connection, with a two-hour cut-off (quite normal for UK ISP's) so no help there.
Hang on - phew! just remembered - my Red Hat boxes, although needing occasional patching, give me the option to download the patches from elsewhere via FTP (like using a leased line at work!) and then burn them on to CD to run on my RH machines at home! I'm saved!
If only MS were so willing for us dumb-old home users - who, I believe, where hardest hit by Mr. Blaster and friends. Kinda reminds me why I don't use Windows on my home machines now....
Hmm, this kind of reminds me of the potentially ruinous case UK-Telco Monster British Telecom tried to bring by claiming they had a valid patent for the hyperlink, thus, every single web site covered by that patent would have to pay them a royalty.
Yep, that claim was soon chucked out of court, to the embarressed relief of BT's management.
SCO it seems, are either doing one of two things - either making a somewhat misguided attempt to enforce a perhaps long forgotten patent (and, as has been said, patent on what, exactly?) Or two, just making a real dumb grab for money (kinda like "If it's sitting still, you can hit it - if you can hit it you can kill it!")
I just hope they fail miserably. This kind of blatent money-grabbing the open source community can *well* do without!
Of course, not all "ISP's" (especially those in the UK) are actual businesses.
Those in the academic community have their own networks, in addition to connections to commercial providers, and, as they are educational institutions, don't necessarily have to show a profit....
This can kind of distort your thinking if you try and see per-MB usage as a pure business function - not all those whose networks are used are for-profit organisations.
Just a thought!
Well, I might be showing my age here, but didn't our old pals MS produce a desktop version of UNIX way back when? (wasn't it XENIX or somthing?? 'pologies if I'm wrong...)
So really they're not *that* new to this, but, depending on your point of view, then either MS are trying to do a passable cover-the-bases routine, or they have some other plan in mind.
Let's be honest here - and I think we all know this - if Bill & The Boys did go down the linux route, then it would change linux completely; can you see MS open-sourcing all their code for this project?
No, me neither!
I have a dinky-little SonyEricsson headset for my Nokia 6310, and even after being fully charged, the battery in the thing only lasts around four-to-five hours in its 'standby' mode.
If actually used to make/receive a call, the battery life is even worse!
So, in all, a nice gimmick, looks lovely, but almost completely useless as it won't last the duration of a working day.
(And, of course, there's no 'in-car' charger available!!)
The problem they have in Wales (and indeed, most of the UK outside the 'big' cities) is that the major Telecoms provider, British Telecom, who basically own all the local telephone exchanges, will not upgrade them for broadband until there is a certain "target level of demand" (i.e. until it will pay them hansomely to do so).
Of course, the rub is, for rural exchanges (like where *I* live) they won't tell you what the target is.....
Therefore, they can alter the 'majic' target at will, so that rural communities will almost certainly never get wired-broadband, hence the move to wireless networks - not only in Wales, but elsewhere in the UK, as it is seen as the only economic way to get better than a POTS dial-up (and don't even ask me about Satellite access in rural UK - uk£1,200 setup and uk£99/month? No thanks!!!)