It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds.
Your logic is flawed. Example: There are an infinite number of integers. But not every integer is greater than zero. By your reasoning, there must be a finite number of positive integers.
I don't believe that this is necessarily a valid argument anymore. Abiword will open Word documents, Gnumeric will open excel documents, and openoffice will of course open both. You may lose some formatting and/or images, but many files will open correctly in these free softwares. You can even convert your word documents using wvWare, another free piece of software.
Do you have to edit them, or are they read-only? If they are read-only, you might want to try "wvPDF" and a small script (for f in find / -name \*.doc ; do wvPDF $f $(basename $f.doc).pdf ; done)
Note the script is not tested, but it shouldn't do anything *too* bad to your originals...
Alternatively, if you would like to edit the files later, try wvLatex (then edit using Lyx later), wvDVI, wvAbw (edit using abiword), wvRTF (edit using openoffice), or to just extract the text use wvText. Or you can do a combination of a number of them (generate the pdf and the RTF source, for example). No guarantees, YMMV, IANAL, etc etc etc, but for the 1/2 hour it take to get it all running, it may well be worth your time.
Not really, a couple of kids died recently in a house fire here in Queensland, Australia a few weeks ago, simply because the front door to the house was dead-locked and needed the key to open it.
The security screen door to the front of my house is similar - you can lock it by turning the latch, or with a key. Locking with a key requires the key to unlock it. At night, I make sure I don't use the key to lock it, but lock it just with the latch. Needless to say, in the area I live in, you are more likely to have a house fire than a burglary...
Yes, they do. However, there is an awful lot of "remote low overhead / slow data acquisition stuff" out there. Much of it doesn't even have Ethernet (or code/ram space for TCP/IP stack), so Wi-Fi is pretty much out of the question. Small embedded systems with a serial port are the target market. No, it's not sexy or cool, but industry doesn't want sexy or cool. They want cheap and reliable, with no extra overhead.
It was probably 3-4 months ago. Firefox on Windows had a problem. I also tried it on my home machine using galeon (gecko engine) with the same result - the links on the left were unreadable.
I have the opposite experience. My step father was sick of popups, so I told him about mozilla. He was all happy until he tried to use his internet banking site - the page wouldn't render in any way readably. I emailed the site complaining - I basically got a " - we only support IE. Sorry." Lucky my bank is not that one - mine works with anything I've thrown at it.
I just followed my own link, and found that it renders fine now in firefox. But it didn't used to. Honest.
I disagree. The 3 or 4 windows that the GIMP opens are necessary. The main tool window, the file itself and the current tool window are all necessary. I keep the picture I am editing on one monitor and the tool bars on my second monitor. Two monitors is really necessary to do most graphical editing anyway; it is more efficient to have floating windows in this case than an MDI interface.
I need a web browser, email, word processing and games. (I'm not doing any programming these days.) Windows does the job well. AFAIK, Linux does not.
As Far As You Know. There's the crux. Linux does web, email and word processing as well as, or better than, windows. Games I will grant you aren't as well supported, but if you are like me and aren't into the latest 3D games, then linux will suit you fine. Try it and see. Give Mandrake a go.
Windows is necessary if you want any serious graphics editing without having a degree in GIMP usage. The GIMP has easily the most awkward and confusing design of any graphics editor I have ever seen.
I've found the opposite. The gimp is very easy to use and even *gasp* intuitive. Provided, like me, you have no baggage of expectation from other graphics applications. Gimp 2 is an improvement again.
Your average company is an even worse customer. They may look to Linux for the perceived cost advantages, but rest assured that they do _not_ want to pay a team that looks under the hood and fixes stuff. People are more expensive than Windows licenses. Paying a team to open the hood of all those packages and fix things is far more expensive than just getting a packaged closed solution from Microsoft, Sun, IBM, or whoever.
I beg to differ, at least for a specific example. The organisation I work for spends many hundreds of thousand of dollars every year for Matlab licenses. Then they go and spend more money buying the right libraries to use for their application. However, if just one year they decided to spend the same amount of money improving octave to the point where it was usable for our users, they would save that same amount of money every year in the future. Or, even better, they could retain the programmers they hired to improve octave further, to increase the productivity of all the matlab/octave users. There are many many other large organisations in the same boat, with many different software packages. If they made the switch, sure, it would be hard for the first year or two, but I contend that it would be much much better in the long run.
It's also worth noting that 'kicking the ass' of Windows is not the goal. The goal is freedom. If users have freedom, it doesn't matter whether their system is better or worse. That's not the issue.
Can I steal this to use for my.sig? I have always thought this way, but never been able to put it that succintly.
Yes, I agree that native versions are much better, but I need the rest of what cygwin provides as well for some other things, and I don't see the point in running more than one version of the utils.
Yes, they are all available, but they all run MUCH MUCH slower under windows than under linux, at least, the cygwin versions do on my machine.
Give me a bash shell and the unix utilities over any gui any day of the week for running any repetitive task. I love scripts - they make my life easier, and I hate windows without cygwin.
Some of that equipement is outdated and not worth the minimum bid... I'll go back to pricewatch and ebay...
While not looking too closely at this particular auction, if you choose well at an general auction, you can make money re-selling those items on ebay. I know, I have done it. It is particularly the case with auctions that occur during business hours - if you have a flexible employer (like mine), you can attend these auctions occasionally and pickup some old but still functional gear that can be resold for reasonable profit. And also pick up a whole bunch of machines for home, too...
Bah, amateurs. I installed slackware 10.0 into less than 128MB, less than 90MB if I didn't install SAMBA. It was a pretty minimal install, though - just basically the essentials out of A plus CDRecord, DVD recording, wget, links, samba, and tcpip. It was basically built as a recovery installation for making/restoring windows partitions - beats paying for ghost!.
I was amazed that dvd recording worked out of the box on the USB dvd recorder I plugged in, although there were issues with recording on-the-fly, probably related to the slow USB port.
And I will switch to FreeBSD as soon as there are NO text files to edit. Configuration for most things is much much easier with (well-commented) text files than it is with any GUI.
Yes, but it's still a linear supply. It is NOT a DC-DC supply, which was part (a) of my point, and part (b) of my point is that it is most likely not necessary because the wireless bridge it powers most likely already has a regulator on the input.
The regulator looks like it's there to power the "6V yellow led". Obviously these guys know nothing about electronics - the wireless bridge is powered from a "DC-DC converter" made from an LM317(!) - that's a linear supply, not a DC-DC converter. This supply is probably superfluous anyway - the wireless bridge it powers runs off a 7V supply, telling me it most likely has an internal regulator. They should have checked - might have saved themselves some work...
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Did anyone else read this and think - that's not a POS computer?? What the heck media do you need to serve that requires a PIII with 512MB to do it??
Your logic is flawed. Example: There are an infinite number of integers. But not every integer is greater than zero. By your reasoning, there must be a finite number of positive integers.
I don't believe that this is necessarily a valid argument anymore. Abiword will open Word documents, Gnumeric will open excel documents, and openoffice will of course open both. You may lose some formatting and/or images, but many files will open correctly in these free softwares. You can even convert your word documents using wvWare, another free piece of software.
Do you have to edit them, or are they read-only? If they are read-only, you might want to try "wvPDF" and a small script (for f in find / -name \*.doc ; do wvPDF $f $(basename $f .doc).pdf ; done)
Note the script is not tested, but it shouldn't do anything *too* bad to your originals...
Alternatively, if you would like to edit the files later, try wvLatex (then edit using Lyx later), wvDVI, wvAbw (edit using abiword), wvRTF (edit using openoffice), or to just extract the text use wvText. Or you can do a combination of a number of them (generate the pdf and the RTF source, for example). No guarantees, YMMV, IANAL, etc etc etc, but for the 1/2 hour it take to get it all running, it may well be worth your time.
The security screen door to the front of my house is similar - you can lock it by turning the latch, or with a key. Locking with a key requires the key to unlock it. At night, I make sure I don't use the key to lock it, but lock it just with the latch. Needless to say, in the area I live in, you are more likely to have a house fire than a burglary...
Yes, they do. However, there is an awful lot of "remote low overhead / slow data acquisition stuff" out there. Much of it doesn't even have Ethernet (or code/ram space for TCP/IP stack), so Wi-Fi is pretty much out of the question. Small embedded systems with a serial port are the target market. No, it's not sexy or cool, but industry doesn't want sexy or cool. They want cheap and reliable, with no extra overhead.
Wouldn't he just have to put them in Morse Code?
5. Profit!
It was probably 3-4 months ago. Firefox on Windows had a problem. I also tried it on my home machine using galeon (gecko engine) with the same result - the links on the left were unreadable.
I have the opposite experience. My step father was sick of popups, so I told him about mozilla. He was all happy until he tried to use his internet banking site - the page wouldn't render in any way readably. I emailed the site complaining - I basically got a " - we only support IE. Sorry." Lucky my bank is not that one - mine works with anything I've thrown at it.
I just followed my own link, and found that it renders fine now in firefox. But it didn't used to. Honest.
I disagree. The 3 or 4 windows that the GIMP opens are necessary. The main tool window, the file itself and the current tool window are all necessary. I keep the picture I am editing on one monitor and the tool bars on my second monitor. Two monitors is really necessary to do most graphical editing anyway; it is more efficient to have floating windows in this case than an MDI interface.
As Far As You Know. There's the crux. Linux does web, email and word processing as well as, or better than, windows. Games I will grant you aren't as well supported, but if you are like me and aren't into the latest 3D games, then linux will suit you fine. Try it and see. Give Mandrake a go.
I've found the opposite. The gimp is very easy to use and even *gasp* intuitive. Provided, like me, you have no baggage of expectation from other graphics applications. Gimp 2 is an improvement again.
I beg to differ, at least for a specific example. The organisation I work for spends many hundreds of thousand of dollars every year for Matlab licenses. Then they go and spend more money buying the right libraries to use for their application. However, if just one year they decided to spend the same amount of money improving octave to the point where it was usable for our users, they would save that same amount of money every year in the future. Or, even better, they could retain the programmers they hired to improve octave further, to increase the productivity of all the matlab/octave users. There are many many other large organisations in the same boat, with many different software packages. If they made the switch, sure, it would be hard for the first year or two, but I contend that it would be much much better in the long run.
Can I steal this to use for my .sig? I have always thought this way, but never been able to put it that succintly.
Yes, I agree that native versions are much better, but I need the rest of what cygwin provides as well for some other things, and I don't see the point in running more than one version of the utils.
Yes, they are all available, but they all run MUCH MUCH slower under windows than under linux, at least, the cygwin versions do on my machine.
Give me a bash shell and the unix utilities over any gui any day of the week for running any repetitive task. I love scripts - they make my life easier, and I hate windows without cygwin.
While not looking too closely at this particular auction, if you choose well at an general auction, you can make money re-selling those items on ebay. I know, I have done it. It is particularly the case with auctions that occur during business hours - if you have a flexible employer (like mine), you can attend these auctions occasionally and pickup some old but still functional gear that can be resold for reasonable profit. And also pick up a whole bunch of machines for home, too...
Bah, amateurs. I installed slackware 10.0 into less than 128MB, less than 90MB if I didn't install SAMBA. It was a pretty minimal install, though - just basically the essentials out of A plus CDRecord, DVD recording, wget, links, samba, and tcpip. It was basically built as a recovery installation for making/restoring windows partitions - beats paying for ghost!.
I was amazed that dvd recording worked out of the box on the USB dvd recorder I plugged in, although there were issues with recording on-the-fly, probably related to the slow USB port.
I meant I will switch to FreeBSD when there are no text files to edit in linux.
And I will switch to FreeBSD as soon as there are NO text files to edit. Configuration for most things is much much easier with (well-commented) text files than it is with any GUI.
I did something similar once - but then I figured it was time for an upgrade anyway ;-).
Moral of this story is of course to mount /usr, /, /var and /home on separate partitions, to make said upgrade easier.
Yes, but it's still a linear supply. It is NOT a DC-DC supply, which was part (a) of my point, and part (b) of my point is that it is most likely not necessary because the wireless bridge it powers most likely already has a regulator on the input.
The regulator looks like it's there to power the "6V yellow led". Obviously these guys know nothing about electronics - the wireless bridge is powered from a "DC-DC converter" made from an LM317(!) - that's a linear supply, not a DC-DC converter. This supply is probably superfluous anyway - the wireless bridge it powers runs off a 7V supply, telling me it most likely has an internal regulator. They should have checked - might have saved themselves some work...
Even worse is that triple-click doesn't work in Windows. I guess MS didn't invent it, unlike the double-click (see other /. story).
Yes, but the second type generally gets a second wind, where it winds up being funny for a long time, simply because it's not.