Would this include the data from USGS at the Terraserver? If not what satelite pictures are available to us citicens, and where can I get a 72" poster of my home town before it becomes *illegal*. I was just thinking about FOIA a few minutes ago while I was reading comments on the Michael Moore article, I guess I better get what I can before I cant. Now if I could only find a notary(sp?).
Just today I found out how much of a beating a HDD based MP3 player can withstand. I had just recently unplugged my shiney new 4th generation iPod[1] from the stereo and was trying to throw it on my bed before walking into my roommates room. I tossed the little bugger underhand and it ended up hitting a pillow and bouncing off, slamming right into the wall and falling behind the bed.
I freaked out. I quickly pulled out the bed and grabbed the iPod and started inspecting it. The metalic back side had a few more scratches on it, but I've given up on keeping it smooth. The front white side looks like its got minor cracking on either side of the device but you cant tell unless you really look hard under light. The LCD works fine, and it still plays MP3s. It still looks just as beautiful as ever and is still syncing with Winamp just fine.
Of course, the player was paused so its hard to say what would have happened had it been playing, but even then it probably would have been just fine. The iPod, as well as all other players out there, AFAIK, cache the data to flash before playing so the drive isnt spinning all the time. And isnt it neat the the 4G iPod automatically pauses the track when you unplug the headphones? rock.
[1]: You heard it right, PC boy finally got an iPod. I'm hip now, so you slashdotters can start modding me up from now on. Thanks.:)
No, keeping with the "everything is better with an X" fad that we see with Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux we should expect the next direct X version to be dubbed DirectXX.
Then We'll be able to play Final Fantasy XX, X-Men, and TuX Racer Xtreme with photo-realistic graphics at high frame rates.
I, for one, welcome our new DirectX X overlords... Or is that X.org overlords?
Your right, because you could never do this before with $5 in parts from radio shack and the right software (Google: Audacity). Attention: Your tinfoil hat is on too tight.
OMFG this l33t !!1111!1!!11oneeleven!!1! shit has got to stop. For all that his holy on slashdot plz quit the n00b1sh 11oneone crap or I'll have to start hunting each and every one of you down and 0wn j00 with my evil-bit encapsulated ICMP packet canon.
"The Zone" is a wonderful place to be, and you can find yourself there doing anything from reading, to running, to coding, or gaming. However, once you realize your in the zone you are more connected to reality and the zone may suffer, IMO. Its interesting to draw analogies to lucid dreaming, when you realize your dreaming and can do anything you wait in your dream (except read a book, but who wants to do that in a dream?). But its not the case for being in the zone.
When I find myself in the zone I try to quickly forget it and focus on the task at hand, whether it be gaming or coding. There is nothing more upsetting then playing a game and being in the zone only to have someone interupt you, and if you lash out they have no idea what your talking about because to them you were just sitting there playing a game. very annoying. I also find that if I *try* to get into the zone I'm unsuccessful. Its something that must naturally happen.
Moral of the story: Try not to realize you are in the zone when you are, but thats like trying not to picture a penguin drinking lemonaid. (Gotchya!)
I was playing Need for Speed Underground fairly intensly for a couple hours when I realized that I was supposed to pick up my brother from hockey practice. I was heading down the highway when I realized I was going 85 in a 55. I'm really glad I caught myself before the county troopers did. (OT: Also glad I dont have a black box on my ODBII port for Geico)
I agree playing tetris gets me thinking more logically. I usually want to clean or re-organize the furniture after playing tetris for too long.
The best has to be playing consoles with my little brother. He gets the best Nentendo Eyes (TM) look on his face, even leaves his mouth hanging half open, not sure if he's remembering to blink or breathe.
Right, all that you say sounds good. Problem is most everyone looks at me like I've got my tinfoil hat on too tight and all shrug it off saying "Who would attack us?"... My experience with WiFi includes chalk, pda, and gps:), but it looks like I need to grab a good book on wireless security and start having fun with firewalls.
Yes, but I'm looking for something that will replace my PDA, GPS, iPod, and Phone so unless there is a zarus phone I'm not aware of thats not going to cut it for me. Interested though, you said "Done" under Terminal Service. Is there a client for linux I'm not aware of, or are you refering to VNC or the like? I've used both and trust me there is a HUGE difference. In fact, if there were a version of the Microsoft Management Console that supports remote connection for palm, linux, or whatever then I wouldnt actually need TermSvc. On that tangent it would be way cool if there were an exchange / active directory / iis web based administration system, al la sharepoint admin or my php admin then all I would need is a browser but thats another topic all together.
I just setup a wireless access point in the conference room at my company's headquarters. Not my idea but when the CEO wants to use his centrino notebooks wireless its move or be moved. Anyway, they wanted to leave it open and just turn it on when needed but I talked them out of that. Instead I set it up with 64bit WEP. The AP supports 128 bit but getting them to all key in a huge hex pass isnt going to fly. Havent figured out how to get the passphrase to parse on XP SP1. SP2 looks nicer. Anyway all the wifi equipment is new, within the last year or two, and as netstumbler has shown me we're not the only kids on the block to have wifi with WEP in the building. I've read conflicting reports about how easy it is to crack WEP with tools as simple as those included with knoppix std, so I think what I'm asking is, is 64bit enough, and should I be more paranoid, setting up VPNs and the like?
Were talking about light traffic (email, little browsing) from 5 or 6 users about 8 hours a day.
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Treo 650, but with Windows Mobile edition and GPS if thats not pushing it. Yes, I know, this is/., bring on the mods, but seriously this is what I would love.
Pocket outlook would be great for the exchange server my company uses
Terminal Services would be great for administrating my company's exchange server
Pocket Internet explorer is great for those spur of the moment wikipedia lookups, not to mention slashdot and company.
Pocket Streets would be great if the device had GPS, and even better if I can plot a waypoint when GeoCaching
Windows Media player would be great for MP3s on the SD card, however I think there is a winamp port which would be even cooler but to save memory I'm sure WMP would work just fine.
AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, etc...
Oh yeah, and a phone, that would rock.
Pocket word and excel arent that important, if I recieve an attached document I'm probably not going to edit it on a 2" screen but its nice that its there.
Sure, I've got an eTrex for GPS / GeoCaching, and an iPod for music, and a cellphone for calls, and a pocket pc for email, web, and term svc when needed, but put all those in my pockets, including th cables to link ipaq to phone, and gps to ipaq, not to mention the spiffy white earbuds that are always tangled, and I've completely run out of pocket space.
Basically, what I want to do is have all my toys with me but not need a scott-e-vest (OT: Live long and prosper scotty:)
Now if my company was using open-xchange and I needed VNC not terminal services and any imap client would work fine then forget the MS platform and just give me a Treo 650 with GPS.
PS: My next toy is going to be a Treo 650 anyway, I'll live just fine an imap client and cross my fingers using VNC on a 144kbps sprint pcs data connection. Hows the battery life treo users?
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I know I cant be the only one that misses dialing into a local BBS to check FidoNET, play some door games, chat with locals in the message boards. And whenever I had a problem I could actually ring the SysOp and actually break into chat with a real human. Those were the days. I used to pick up the local BBS newsletter for free at the supermarket. The coolest BBSs were multi node and you could "chat" with other users. It was like TTY on unix but with beautiful ANSI art. Some of the ASCII and ANSI art the came out of the BBS scene was truly beautiful. Its amazing what one can do with 255 characters and 16 colors.
Then one day one of the bigger BBSs in town, a 10 node WildCat board got Lynx and things started to change.
I remember getting "online" in '94, hitting lycos to see what the fuss was about and feeling totally alone, like a little kid in a huge subway terminal full of hundreds of people, yet no one talking. And by then USENET was already just a place to get binaries.
Well, at least theres a community on slashdot, where else am I going to get my 1. Nat Portman 2. Hot Gritz 3. in Soviet Russia 4. BSD Dieing 5. Profit fix?
My how its changed, I miss 120 pixel wide, 16 color animated gif DMCAless banners.
Well, not directly, but they sure took the wind out of my sails with their new Picasa Photo Organizer and corresponding photo publisher Hello. I've been working on a photo editor/publisher application for personal use off and on for around 2 years. Lately, I've been think about how a lite weight, easy to use solution would be a big hit among new parents/grandparents like myself. Here they go giving it away for free. Who could do such a thing?
You know what? I will not be daunted. I will rise up from my defeat and create a better application. That'll show 'em. One that publishes your photos to your blog, other users of your application, or via email. Wait, Hello already does that? How about cropping and reformatting your photos and organizing them into an album. What, Picasa has that covered?
But, aha! I'll bet their solution doesn't use the power of Visual Basic.Net and the.Net Framework. With.Net behind me, nothing can stop me! And, maybe I'll publish my source. More on this later...
Emphasis mine. having never read the MSDN blog before and seeing this now, all I can say is "OMFG"...
I dont think your really understanding what they're saying here. I know this is slashdot and its suicide to stick up for "M$" but I'll pitch in my 2 cents.
The Internet integration that the latest versions of Office and SharePoint have are truly wonderful. You have no idea until you try it. SharePoint is an awesome tool, not just for its version control, but its integration with both the office suite and the windows operating system. Yes, this is a good and bad thing.
Good that you can now just open explorer and expand "My Network Places" and a few other trees and find yourself in your team's document workspace, ready to work with files just like you do on your local disk.
Its good that you can recieve alerts via email whenever documents, tasks, announcements, etc, are added to your team's sharepoint workspace.
Good that you can check out a document, see in a pane in word what other files are relevent to the document, see what tasks have been assigned, see a list of other users in the workspace and have the ability to interact with these users simply by clicking their name and selecting "send email", or "instand message", or "call".
Its good that you can be working on a document in word, ppt, etc, and within seconds publish it to a sharepoint site by selecting shared workspace from the tools menu, from where you can selecting which users should have access to the document worksite and at what privledge levels, assign tasks to users, attach relevent documents and in a few clicks have the document workspace created on your intranet and emails alerting team members that they have been invited without ever touching your browser.
I could go on, but I think your getting the idea...
Its BAD* because its something else MS can integrate into the operating system.
Its BAD* because its another lock in, and their sharepoint site bearly works in mozilla, or any other non-ie browser for that matter.
Its BAD* because its easier to use to your Standard Office Drone (TM) than CVS.
Its BAD* because its going to be so shiney that PHBs are going to want it and only windows server are going to support the server app.
Dont knock it until you try it. What MS has done with Office 2003 is truly a step in the right direction from Office 2000. Office 2002 (Office XP) on the other hand was a stupid speed bump which never should have happened).
BTW: * = "for linux on the desktop, solutions like open office, and the foss community in general", but then again thats nothing new coming from MS.
PS: Competition is a good thing. Feel otherwise, respond.
I keep trying to learn blender because my copy of 3DS is, um, educational, and I would rather have something OSS. I've scoured the Internet but have not been able to find any good tutorials on the latest version of blender. My biggest problem is the default view. There has to be a way to get the standard 4 pane view going in blender somehow. Im sure someone will mod me as flaimbait and tell me I need to get with the times and 4 pane views are for wussies but I find them really helpful when modeling. Any advice? URLs welcome.
The guy upstairs from me asked me for computer advice, he was looking to get a new machine for college. He claimed that he wasnt very good with computers and just needed it for research / email / writing papers. I suggested a mac.
I have never owned a mac in my life, I have only worked on them from time to time at school, and I'm probably not going to ever own a mac unless i really start making the big bucks and can afford a disposable system, and even then i could probably only justify it for its graphics and video capabilities.
I suggested that he get a mac because I didnt want to be the guy he called when his PC got the latest crapware. I told him that from what ive read (/.) macs are great for people that want simple computers that just work. he got a ipowermacbookintosh. This morning before I left for work he thanked me and said how wonderful it was. I got in around 9 only to find 3 emails from staff infected with the latest purplemonkeytoolbarweathertellingcrap.
Moral for the story: as a geek I can keep my windows box clean, and even not being a mac fan boy i can say that apple is right on when they say "computers for the rest of us".
PS: When macs get 90% market share I'll suggest he gets windows because nobody writes crapware for it. Oh, yeah, this is slash, um, 2005 is going to be the year of linux on the desktop.
Yes, but if we didnt subscribe to wired our magazine rack wouldnt be full of colorful squares from the side.
Personally I thought the articles in the Yellow / Black issue were really good, but they need to bring back the Jap School Girl Watch thing from Green / White - Red / Silver...
I guess I'm just curious - what is it that the network won't work for?
Most people dont know what this *VPN* thingy is, so office drones love it. I'm sure they could just email their presious document to themselves and pick it up at home but theres something oddly intuitive to the regular user about having a tangable data storage deivce. they can point to it and say "my document is in there". Ask them to point to the email they just sent out, ever hear an office drone say "its in the ether now" as if its somehow cute since they picked up part of ethernet.
anyway, I'm a geek and I too use VPN to get to my files and what not, but I still keep a USB key drive on me just for the fact that I'm always running into helpless windows users who need a quick dose of service packs and spyware removal tools. I've got it setup with an autorun ini that starts the innoculation process on insertion. This way I can walk into an office and say "Its time for your computers booster shot!" with a big smile.
[rant]What, SUS, or WUS, you say? do it over the network, yeah, thats the geek thing to do, stay in the server room pushing updates over the network, never actually coming in contact with staff, that'll help job security a bunch! [/rant]
SP2 and its funky TCP/IP stack BAD
MS Research Cartoon Videos GOOD
Am I on the right slashdot? I just read an article about how SCO is good and everyone loves them. Whats next, slashdotters start Reading TFAs? I'm so confused, all this talk about lana swinging on the monkey bars, wheres the cowboyneal option when I need it.
I'll just pretend that MS bought this from another company and is going to integrate it into longhorn in order to keep the competition out, yeah thats it, back to writing it M$ for me.
XP will burn DVD-+R but good luck mastering a DVD Video disc, or a VCD, SVCD, or how about burning an.iso or.bin file? Yeah, windows XP has burning software just like a Microsoft Car (TM) wouldnt have turn signals because thats too complicated for the users.
I program, I'm a sysadmin, I go to LAN parties, I read/. more than I should, I'm a geek, and I get laid to the point that the word "laid" sounds childish. grow up. geeks are not nerds, some of the coolest people I've met are geeks in something or another, it just means your passionate about something. replace the word geek with expert and i think you'll understand better.
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Thought it was a mixture of both. I stand corrected. Still a nifty site either way, and almost works in mozilla.
Would this include the data from USGS at the Terraserver? If not what satelite pictures are available to us citicens, and where can I get a 72" poster of my home town before it becomes *illegal*. I was just thinking about FOIA a few minutes ago while I was reading comments on the Michael Moore article, I guess I better get what I can before I cant. Now if I could only find a notary(sp?).
Of course this happens now that I dropped $300 on an iPod last week. I'm so uncool now. I'll leave my geek license at the door.
Open Source Initiative - not to be confused with the 7 layer Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model.
At least thats the first thing that came to mind here.
No matter how hard I try, I cant get to Kevin Bacon within 6 links from any random Wikipedia article.
Just today I found out how much of a beating a HDD based MP3 player can withstand. I had just recently unplugged my shiney new 4th generation iPod[1] from the stereo and was trying to throw it on my bed before walking into my roommates room. I tossed the little bugger underhand and it ended up hitting a pillow and bouncing off, slamming right into the wall and falling behind the bed.
:)
I freaked out. I quickly pulled out the bed and grabbed the iPod and started inspecting it. The metalic back side had a few more scratches on it, but I've given up on keeping it smooth. The front white side looks like its got minor cracking on either side of the device but you cant tell unless you really look hard under light. The LCD works fine, and it still plays MP3s. It still looks just as beautiful as ever and is still syncing with Winamp just fine.
Of course, the player was paused so its hard to say what would have happened had it been playing, but even then it probably would have been just fine. The iPod, as well as all other players out there, AFAIK, cache the data to flash before playing so the drive isnt spinning all the time. And isnt it neat the the 4G iPod automatically pauses the track when you unplug the headphones? rock.
[1]: You heard it right, PC boy finally got an iPod. I'm hip now, so you slashdotters can start modding me up from now on. Thanks.
No, keeping with the "everything is better with an X" fad that we see with Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux we should expect the next direct X version to be dubbed DirectX X.
Then We'll be able to play Final Fantasy XX, X-Men, and TuX Racer Xtreme with photo-realistic graphics at high frame rates.
I, for one, welcome our new DirectX X overlords... Or is that X.org overlords?
Your right, because you could never do this before with $5 in parts from radio shack and the right software (Google: Audacity). Attention: Your tinfoil hat is on too tight.
OMFG this l33t !!1111!1!!11oneeleven!!1! shit has got to stop. For all that his holy on slashdot plz quit the n00b1sh 11oneone crap or I'll have to start hunting each and every one of you down and 0wn j00 with my evil-bit encapsulated ICMP packet canon.
uNF
"The Zone" is a wonderful place to be, and you can find yourself there doing anything from reading, to running, to coding, or gaming. However, once you realize your in the zone you are more connected to reality and the zone may suffer, IMO. Its interesting to draw analogies to lucid dreaming, when you realize your dreaming and can do anything you wait in your dream (except read a book, but who wants to do that in a dream?). But its not the case for being in the zone.
When I find myself in the zone I try to quickly forget it and focus on the task at hand, whether it be gaming or coding. There is nothing more upsetting then playing a game and being in the zone only to have someone interupt you, and if you lash out they have no idea what your talking about because to them you were just sitting there playing a game. very annoying. I also find that if I *try* to get into the zone I'm unsuccessful. Its something that must naturally happen.
Moral of the story: Try not to realize you are in the zone when you are, but thats like trying not to picture a penguin drinking lemonaid. (Gotchya!)
I was playing Need for Speed Underground fairly intensly for a couple hours when I realized that I was supposed to pick up my brother from hockey practice. I was heading down the highway when I realized I was going 85 in a 55. I'm really glad I caught myself before the county troopers did. (OT: Also glad I dont have a black box on my ODBII port for Geico)
I agree playing tetris gets me thinking more logically. I usually want to clean or re-organize the furniture after playing tetris for too long.
The best has to be playing consoles with my little brother. He gets the best Nentendo Eyes (TM) look on his face, even leaves his mouth hanging half open, not sure if he's remembering to blink or breathe.
Right, all that you say sounds good. Problem is most everyone looks at me like I've got my tinfoil hat on too tight and all shrug it off saying "Who would attack us?"... My experience with WiFi includes chalk, pda, and gps :), but it looks like I need to grab a good book on wireless security and start having fun with firewalls.
Yes, but I'm looking for something that will replace my PDA, GPS, iPod, and Phone so unless there is a zarus phone I'm not aware of thats not going to cut it for me. Interested though, you said "Done" under Terminal Service. Is there a client for linux I'm not aware of, or are you refering to VNC or the like? I've used both and trust me there is a HUGE difference. In fact, if there were a version of the Microsoft Management Console that supports remote connection for palm, linux, or whatever then I wouldnt actually need TermSvc. On that tangent it would be way cool if there were an exchange / active directory / iis web based administration system, al la sharepoint admin or my php admin then all I would need is a browser but thats another topic all together.
I just setup a wireless access point in the conference room at my company's headquarters. Not my idea but when the CEO wants to use his centrino notebooks wireless its move or be moved. Anyway, they wanted to leave it open and just turn it on when needed but I talked them out of that. Instead I set it up with 64bit WEP. The AP supports 128 bit but getting them to all key in a huge hex pass isnt going to fly. Havent figured out how to get the passphrase to parse on XP SP1. SP2 looks nicer. Anyway all the wifi equipment is new, within the last year or two, and as netstumbler has shown me we're not the only kids on the block to have wifi with WEP in the building. I've read conflicting reports about how easy it is to crack WEP with tools as simple as those included with knoppix std, so I think what I'm asking is, is 64bit enough, and should I be more paranoid, setting up VPNs and the like?
Were talking about light traffic (email, little browsing) from 5 or 6 users about 8 hours a day.
Pocket outlook would be great for the exchange server my company uses
Terminal Services would be great for administrating my company's exchange server
Pocket Internet explorer is great for those spur of the moment wikipedia lookups, not to mention slashdot and company.
Pocket Streets would be great if the device had GPS, and even better if I can plot a waypoint when GeoCaching
Windows Media player would be great for MP3s on the SD card, however I think there is a winamp port which would be even cooler but to save memory I'm sure WMP would work just fine.
AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, etc...
Oh yeah, and a phone, that would rock.
Pocket word and excel arent that important, if I recieve an attached document I'm probably not going to edit it on a 2" screen but its nice that its there.
Sure, I've got an eTrex for GPS / GeoCaching, and an iPod for music, and a cellphone for calls, and a pocket pc for email, web, and term svc when needed, but put all those in my pockets, including th cables to link ipaq to phone, and gps to ipaq, not to mention the spiffy white earbuds that are always tangled, and I've completely run out of pocket space.
Basically, what I want to do is have all my toys with me but not need a scott-e-vest (OT: Live long and prosper scotty:)
Now if my company was using open-xchange and I needed VNC not terminal services and any imap client would work fine then forget the MS platform and just give me a Treo 650 with GPS.
PS: My next toy is going to be a Treo 650 anyway, I'll live just fine an imap client and cross my fingers using VNC on a 144kbps sprint pcs data connection. Hows the battery life treo users?
I know I cant be the only one that misses dialing into a local BBS to check FidoNET, play some door games, chat with locals in the message boards. And whenever I had a problem I could actually ring the SysOp and actually break into chat with a real human. Those were the days. I used to pick up the local BBS newsletter for free at the supermarket. The coolest BBSs were multi node and you could "chat" with other users. It was like TTY on unix but with beautiful ANSI art. Some of the ASCII and ANSI art the came out of the BBS scene was truly beautiful. Its amazing what one can do with 255 characters and 16 colors.
Then one day one of the bigger BBSs in town, a 10 node WildCat board got Lynx and things started to change.
I remember getting "online" in '94, hitting lycos to see what the fuss was about and feeling totally alone, like a little kid in a huge subway terminal full of hundreds of people, yet no one talking. And by then USENET was already just a place to get binaries.
Well, at least theres a community on slashdot, where else am I going to get my 1. Nat Portman 2. Hot Gritz 3. in Soviet Russia 4. BSD Dieing 5. Profit fix?
My how its changed, I miss 120 pixel wide, 16 color animated gif DMCAless banners.
From the MSDN Blog:
.Net Framework. With .Net behind me, nothing can stop me! And, maybe I'll publish my source. More on this later...
Well, not directly, but they sure took the wind out of my sails with their new Picasa Photo Organizer and corresponding photo publisher Hello. I've been working on a photo editor/publisher application for personal use off and on for around 2 years. Lately, I've been think about how a lite weight, easy to use solution would be a big hit among new parents/grandparents like myself. Here they go giving it away for free. Who could do such a thing?
You know what? I will not be daunted. I will rise up from my defeat and create a better application. That'll show 'em. One that publishes your photos to your blog, other users of your application, or via email. Wait, Hello already does that? How about cropping and reformatting your photos and organizing them into an album. What, Picasa has that covered?
But, aha! I'll bet their solution doesn't use the power of Visual Basic.Net and the
Emphasis mine. having never read the MSDN blog before and seeing this now, all I can say is "OMFG"...
I dont think your really understanding what they're saying here. I know this is slashdot and its suicide to stick up for "M$" but I'll pitch in my 2 cents.
The Internet integration that the latest versions of Office and SharePoint have are truly wonderful. You have no idea until you try it. SharePoint is an awesome tool, not just for its version control, but its integration with both the office suite and the windows operating system. Yes, this is a good and bad thing.
Good that you can now just open explorer and expand "My Network Places" and a few other trees and find yourself in your team's document workspace, ready to work with files just like you do on your local disk.
Its good that you can recieve alerts via email whenever documents, tasks, announcements, etc, are added to your team's sharepoint workspace.
Good that you can check out a document, see in a pane in word what other files are relevent to the document, see what tasks have been assigned, see a list of other users in the workspace and have the ability to interact with these users simply by clicking their name and selecting "send email", or "instand message", or "call".
Its good that you can be working on a document in word, ppt, etc, and within seconds publish it to a sharepoint site by selecting shared workspace from the tools menu, from where you can selecting which users should have access to the document worksite and at what privledge levels, assign tasks to users, attach relevent documents and in a few clicks have the document workspace created on your intranet and emails alerting team members that they have been invited without ever touching your browser.
I could go on, but I think your getting the idea...
Its BAD* because its something else MS can integrate into the operating system.
Its BAD* because its another lock in, and their sharepoint site bearly works in mozilla, or any other non-ie browser for that matter.
Its BAD* because its easier to use to your Standard Office Drone (TM) than CVS.
Its BAD* because its going to be so shiney that PHBs are going to want it and only windows server are going to support the server app.
Dont knock it until you try it. What MS has done with Office 2003 is truly a step in the right direction from Office 2000. Office 2002 (Office XP) on the other hand was a stupid speed bump which never should have happened).
BTW: * = "for linux on the desktop, solutions like open office, and the foss community in general", but then again thats nothing new coming from MS.
PS: Competition is a good thing. Feel otherwise, respond.
I keep trying to learn blender because my copy of 3DS is, um, educational, and I would rather have something OSS. I've scoured the Internet but have not been able to find any good tutorials on the latest version of blender. My biggest problem is the default view. There has to be a way to get the standard 4 pane view going in blender somehow. Im sure someone will mod me as flaimbait and tell me I need to get with the times and 4 pane views are for wussies but I find them really helpful when modeling. Any advice? URLs welcome.
The guy upstairs from me asked me for computer advice, he was looking to get a new machine for college. He claimed that he wasnt very good with computers and just needed it for research / email / writing papers. I suggested a mac.
I have never owned a mac in my life, I have only worked on them from time to time at school, and I'm probably not going to ever own a mac unless i really start making the big bucks and can afford a disposable system, and even then i could probably only justify it for its graphics and video capabilities.
I suggested that he get a mac because I didnt want to be the guy he called when his PC got the latest crapware. I told him that from what ive read (/.) macs are great for people that want simple computers that just work. he got a ipowermacbookintosh. This morning before I left for work he thanked me and said how wonderful it was. I got in around 9 only to find 3 emails from staff infected with the latest purplemonkeytoolbarweathertellingcrap.
Moral for the story: as a geek I can keep my windows box clean, and even not being a mac fan boy i can say that apple is right on when they say "computers for the rest of us".
PS: When macs get 90% market share I'll suggest he gets windows because nobody writes crapware for it. Oh, yeah, this is slash, um, 2005 is going to be the year of linux on the desktop.
--Aard
Yes, but can it go Plad!
Yes, but if we didnt subscribe to wired our magazine rack wouldnt be full of colorful squares from the side.
Personally I thought the articles in the Yellow / Black issue were really good, but they need to bring back the Jap School Girl Watch thing from Green / White - Red / Silver...
PS: Where did all the silver go?
I guess I'm just curious - what is it that the network won't work for?
Most people dont know what this *VPN* thingy is, so office drones love it. I'm sure they could just email their presious document to themselves and pick it up at home but theres something oddly intuitive to the regular user about having a tangable data storage deivce. they can point to it and say "my document is in there". Ask them to point to the email they just sent out, ever hear an office drone say "its in the ether now" as if its somehow cute since they picked up part of ethernet.
anyway, I'm a geek and I too use VPN to get to my files and what not, but I still keep a USB key drive on me just for the fact that I'm always running into helpless windows users who need a quick dose of service packs and spyware removal tools. I've got it setup with an autorun ini that starts the innoculation process on insertion. This way I can walk into an office and say "Its time for your computers booster shot!" with a big smile.
[rant]What, SUS, or WUS, you say? do it over the network, yeah, thats the geek thing to do, stay in the server room pushing updates over the network, never actually coming in contact with staff, that'll help job security a bunch! [/rant]
Wait, I dont get it...
SP2 and its funky TCP/IP stack BAD
MS Research Cartoon Videos GOOD
Am I on the right slashdot? I just read an article about how SCO is good and everyone loves them. Whats next, slashdotters start Reading TFAs? I'm so confused, all this talk about lana swinging on the monkey bars, wheres the cowboyneal option when I need it.
I'll just pretend that MS bought this from another company and is going to integrate it into longhorn in order to keep the competition out, yeah thats it, back to writing it M$ for me.
Breathe in... Breathe out...
XP will burn DVD-+R but good luck mastering a DVD Video disc, or a VCD, SVCD, or how about burning an .iso or .bin file? Yeah, windows XP has burning software just like a Microsoft Car (TM) wouldnt have turn signals because thats too complicated for the users.
pfft, whatever, geek != cant get laid.
/. more than I should, I'm a geek, and I get laid to the point that the word "laid" sounds childish. grow up. geeks are not nerds, some of the coolest people I've met are geeks in something or another, it just means your passionate about something. replace the word geek with expert and i think you'll understand better.
I program, I'm a sysadmin, I go to LAN parties, I read
oh, and my g/f is hot.