"is that it uses root accounts by default. That's pretty much asking for trouble."
How long is this rumor going to live? That hasn't been the case for quite a while now. And version 5 is extremely nice! Much faster and much more stable than ever. It's actually at a point where I'd use it daily at work if I could.
GroupWise is an awesome tool. We are switching all of our staff to it this summer to get away from webmail and (unfortunately) Mozilla because some of our staff are paranoid about their "privacy". The calendar is great too.
Wow, last time I checked public schools computers weren't there to make up for the fact that some people are without home computers. I thought there were there to be educational tools. The addage was "a computer in every classrom," not "surf pr0n at sch00l, hehe rox0r, rofl." If you want to use a computer and you don't have one, go to the library, like people who arent of school age. And unless your doing a report on the specific topic of a/. story, no, I don't think it IS necessary to read it and post replies while you should be doing your damn algebra. I don't pay my damn taxes so some dipshit kid can surf game forums, or myspace, when he should be cracking a book and getting those grades up. BTW, I'm a network administrator for a school district in Kitsap County WA.(HUGE Navy area, and heavily subsidized). I know what these kids are doing with your tax money. And myspace is the least of it."
I am a Tech Dir in a K-12 school too and I also know what the kids are doing. It's a huge waste of time when they're supposed to be learning, not doing crap online. Our firewall blocks most of those types of services and I'm not the least bit concerned about their feelings. I have to spend far too much time policing dumb things like this and stopping po rn access the kids keep finding. Our district won't even consider a white list approach so this is the best I can do and it's frustrating. You are not guaranteed free speech or anything like it in schools, public or not.
"Illegal? Yeah. Disgusting? I don't really see how. I'm being honest when I say that I have no problem with sharing tunes and warez with my friends. I just don't see the big deal."
When WINE was in the early edition of Linspire it *did* allow me to run MS Office 2000 just fine. Thought I'd throw that in there for the ones that don't believe it ever worked. A bunch of other programs worked too. I wish I still had the screen caps of them.
"Given your target audience, it's predictable that the vast majority have no idea what adding users means, is, or does, and won't do it. The very people that need it the most are the ones that won't have a clue to do it."
On the contrary, my wife's cousin and his wife and daughter are real novices when it comes to computers and they added their own user accounts on their XP machine, which is actually more difficult than doing it on Linspire.
"It's not "a bit slow," it takes twice as long to boot as an installation of Windows XP with all the updates installed."
Maybe on your computer, but on a new Gateway E4600 with 512mb of ram that I have in my office, it takes roughly the same amount of time to load as it does XP. They both load fairly quickly and Linspire runs its programs just as fast as the MS programs in XP. Open Office takes a few seconds more to load, but is fine after that.
by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @08:33PM (#15088931)
"In my opinion Carmony is an ass hat. I saw him in action at mp3.com, I've seen him in action at Linspire, I've even traded a couple emails with him. He's just like Michael. A bit on the sleezy salesman side."
Maybe he's the nice guy and you're the "ass hat"? I've dealt with him a few times and he's always been helpful and very nice. Sleezy? Heh... you're the one making claims like that and posting as an A/C. Real classy.
I understand the OS is a bit slow loading, and some OS'es may be a bit quicker in spots, but this doesn't bother me much at all. Linspire is MY choice for linux; YMMV."
I've been a Lin(spire)dows Insider since it came out in late 2001. I heard about it when it was just starting up and purchased my first version,.091 in Nov. '01. Shortly after they started offering the Lifetime membership we purchased that as well. I have been an on/off user for the last year or two because it doesn't handle built-in video memory on my laptops well at all. Or I should say Linux in general doesn't. Ubuntu is the only one that would load in 1024x768 but it didn't function correctly and Intel is no help when it comes to Linux video support.
The latest version of the beta v5 loads extremely fast compared to older versions. It's comparable to XP on my new computers. Everything operates well except the support for some network cards is non-existent. I'm not geeky enough to spend a lot of time compiling, etc. so I live with it for now. It's still the best looking, easiest to use Linux system I've tried out of the dozen or so versions I've looked at over the last few years.
Despite what some people say, they are within their rights to sell the features they do, but they also provide the source for the freely distributable portions like they're supposed to. And CNR works better than any other automated system for loading software. The target audience is spot-on, non-technical people who want a reliable and low cost system.
They're tying our funding to everything else, why not? Our librarian goes through a major speech and explanation about copyright to every class at the beginning of the year. Copyright notices are posted at every printer in the building.
Especially since so many Linux servers are running free versions. Our Linux OD didn't cost us a dime, the support is what we pay for (but rarely need).
"I was hoping that they would release it for research purposes. For example, if I had the money, I would love to finance a study to see how effective relaxation techniques (TM, Yoga, other breathing exercises, exercise...) are in reducing anxiety. With these blood tests, you'd have an objective measure instead of some questionaire to test for anxiety."
As someone who has mild Tourette Syndrome and a severe anxiety disorder I can tell you that relaxation is one of the best techniques for reducing anxiety.
"Also, this would be great for testing the efficacy of anti-anxiety drugs such as Paxil."
I was on Paxil for nine years with very good results. However the side effects are terrible. I switched to Zoloft last spring because the FDA shut down a factory that was making the time release version of Paxil that I was taking and it was one of the best things I've ever done. Almost all of the side effects are gone and my anxiety level is at it's lowest in over twenty years.
People like Tom Cruise make me sick. If you've never dealt with anxiety or any other mental illness and you're not a medical doctor you have no business telling people how they should feel or what they should do. From my experience over the years with psychologists most of them should do something else for a living.
"On the other hand, TFA seems to be saying that you shouldn't write flawed software. That's pretty much impossible when working on a large project."
I don't disagree while the program is in developement, but there comes a time when the code should be bug free. Humans make mistakes, but they also need to correct them. Sloppy code is not acceptable.
True story - we built a new school building to replace old portables and called Verizon to move the cable over to the new building. It took three "technicians" FOUR hours to pull a 25 pair cable through a 2" conduit 50' and terminate both ends. Then they had the balls to charge us $1400!!!!!
"AVG is used on all my school computers. It is almost spyware, it slows the computer down so much. Intel should have invested in something more worthwhile."
Tell your tech to check it out. We use it on all of our school computers and it doesn't slow anything down.
We were there the second week of June when it was stormy/windy/raining/hot sun/ for two days and they didn't run it at all after the first morning because of the weather.
I don't think the transistor was easy to invent, or the microwave, or a laser or a nuclear reactor... they may have been more obvious but I don't necessarily think they were simple in some cases. Think about how much thought it had to take Edison to make a light bulb and he had to have electricity in order to do that. After electricity was "discovered" a lot of things started happening. Once the initial ideas were produced a lot of "inventions" take off from previous theories. The inventions we see now for the most part are obscure scientific things that the normal genius can't make in their garage. Biotech discoveries are very unlikely to happen outside a lab. Things like the George Foreman grill aren't really inventions, they're a take-off from something similar. MP3 players are a take-off from the portable cassette player and so on.
"Well, the plural form is often used with decimals, even if the number is less than 1.
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I hope what you really meant to say was "hundredths". Anything under 1 is a hundredth, thousandth, etc. The "th" is used with a fractional amount, the "s" is used with multiples.
Fire proof safes aren't all heat proof. I was told by our insurance company recently that the FP safes and cabinets are only rated that for durable goods such as paper (which can withstand a lot of heat in some situations), metal, etc. but CD/DVD substrates will melt or distort rather quickly because they're so thin. I'd guess the expensive ones would be ok but I wouldn't count on that for the cheaper ones. I'd sooner put them in a safe deposit box at a bank where the vaults are much safer in most scenarios.
One thing good about paper & film is they withstand decades of storage vs. years of normal magnetic storage. Photos and films from the late 1800's/early 1900's are still around whereas you're really gambling with current storage media.
I was thinking the same thing. We stopped using Symantec products a few years ago because they have become just as bloated as a large software company that will remain nameless and slowed our systems way down.
Once we removed the Symantec products things worked much better. There are better alternatives out there and it's too bad Veritas had to be sucked in like PowerQuest was. Symantec will probably destroy that program just like they did Norton Utilities and ServerMagic.
We get this really cool paper calendar from our local hardware store. It has room for everything we get involved in, requires no electricity, never crashes, is portable, has no annoying alarm that goes off at the most inopportune times, etc. It hangs on the wall where everyone can see it and doesn't require ink - a pencil works very well.
I don't ever want my life to get complicated enough to require a daytimer or a PDA that tells me where to be when...
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How long is this rumor going to live? That hasn't been the case for quite a while now. And version 5 is extremely nice! Much faster and much more stable than ever. It's actually at a point where I'd use it daily at work if I could.
GroupWise is an awesome tool. We are switching all of our staff to it this summer to get away from webmail and (unfortunately) Mozilla because some of our staff are paranoid about their "privacy". The calendar is great too.
I am a Tech Dir in a K-12 school too and I also know what the kids are doing. It's a huge waste of time when they're supposed to be learning, not doing crap online. Our firewall blocks most of those types of services and I'm not the least bit concerned about their feelings. I have to spend far too much time policing dumb things like this and stopping po rn access the kids keep finding. Our district won't even consider a white list approach so this is the best I can do and it's frustrating. You are not guaranteed free speech or anything like it in schools, public or not.
You might if it were taking money away from you.
It is one of the easiest and slickest out there too. I have tried many different versions and keep going back to Linspire.
On the contrary, my wife's cousin and his wife and daughter are real novices when it comes to computers and they added their own user accounts on their XP machine, which is actually more difficult than doing it on Linspire.
Maybe on your computer, but on a new Gateway E4600 with 512mb of ram that I have in my office, it takes roughly the same amount of time to load as it does XP. They both load fairly quickly and Linspire runs its programs just as fast as the MS programs in XP. Open Office takes a few seconds more to load, but is fine after that.
Maybe he's the nice guy and you're the "ass hat"? I've dealt with him a few times and he's always been helpful and very nice. Sleezy? Heh... you're the one making claims like that and posting as an A/C. Real classy.
I've been a Lin(spire)dows Insider since it came out in late 2001. I heard about it when it was just starting up and purchased my first version, .091 in Nov. '01. Shortly after they started offering the Lifetime membership we purchased that as well. I have been an on/off user for the last year or two because it doesn't handle built-in video memory on my laptops well at all. Or I should say Linux in general doesn't. Ubuntu is the only one that would load in 1024x768 but it didn't function correctly and Intel is no help when it comes to Linux video support.
The latest version of the beta v5 loads extremely fast compared to older versions. It's comparable to XP on my new computers. Everything operates well except the support for some network cards is non-existent. I'm not geeky enough to spend a lot of time compiling, etc. so I live with it for now. It's still the best looking, easiest to use Linux system I've tried out of the dozen or so versions I've looked at over the last few years.
Despite what some people say, they are within their rights to sell the features they do, but they also provide the source for the freely distributable portions like they're supposed to. And CNR works better than any other automated system for loading software. The target audience is spot-on, non-technical people who want a reliable and low cost system.
Oh c'mon, you can come up with a better example than that. Rollerblades aren't unique at all, they were an extension of the standard roller skate.
As someone who has mild Tourette Syndrome and a severe anxiety disorder I can tell you that relaxation is one of the best techniques for reducing anxiety.
"Also, this would be great for testing the efficacy of anti-anxiety drugs such as Paxil."
I was on Paxil for nine years with very good results. However the side effects are terrible. I switched to Zoloft last spring because the FDA shut down a factory that was making the time release version of Paxil that I was taking and it was one of the best things I've ever done. Almost all of the side effects are gone and my anxiety level is at it's lowest in over twenty years.
People like Tom Cruise make me sick. If you've never dealt with anxiety or any other mental illness and you're not a medical doctor you have no business telling people how they should feel or what they should do. From my experience over the years with psychologists most of them should do something else for a living.
I don't disagree while the program is in developement, but there comes a time when the code should be bug free. Humans make mistakes, but they also need to correct them. Sloppy code is not acceptable.
Tell your tech to check it out. We use it on all of our school computers and it doesn't slow anything down.
I hope what you really meant to say was "hundredths". Anything under 1 is a hundredth, thousandth, etc. The "th" is used with a fractional amount, the "s" is used with multiples.
One thing good about paper & film is they withstand decades of storage vs. years of normal magnetic storage. Photos and films from the late 1800's/early 1900's are still around whereas you're really gambling with current storage media.
Once we removed the Symantec products things worked much better. There are better alternatives out there and it's too bad Veritas had to be sucked in like PowerQuest was. Symantec will probably destroy that program just like they did Norton Utilities and ServerMagic.
I don't ever want my life to get complicated enough to require a daytimer or a PDA that tells me where to be when...