All I want is tell the automakers that I'm not changing my phone for my car to work correctly. That should be the case for anyone, especially for those in the tech community. All features/interactions between phone and car computer need to work regardless of the vendor. If not, I don't want your car.
Apple is notoriously poor at this. Just look at the Apple Watch, or unreleased APIs of iOS working with OSX for chat and phone calls.
Google is only marginally better. They're usually late with iOS support and it can be incomplete. It took how long to release iOS support for android wear? Plus, if I don't have a google account, I want to still get maps and services.
I don't want vendor lock-in is the point here. Amazing though that we don't have some sort of standards body out there that could help with these sorts of things.
Still missing the point. It's not a yes/no, good/evil thing. It is all gray. The criminal who caused this is most definately close to the black, but the point is the Adware company is a little gray. I don't think you could totally say they are without any culpability. Adware in general is intrusive. It is usually installed without users knowledge, or attached to some "freeware" so naive users install those really cool windows cursors get an extra surprise. By rewarding individuals for encouraging this type of distrubution I think they are somewhat.
The hospital on the other hand, is responsible for securing it's data and networks. HIPAA implements strict regulations for managing health and insurance data. If there was a comprimise, I hope there will be an investigation. They may, or may not be in the grey. We'll have to see.
Why is Microsoft considered evil when they introduce an anti-virus, anti-spyware, and firewall for a fee. This is purely a business decision to protect Microsoft from lawsuits.
A similar reason you don't let baseball players bet on baseball. They can minipulate the outcome. You have to trust them not to taint the product to sell additional services. The only thing you can trust in business, is that business will do whatever they can to satisfy their shareholders(make money). If this goes through anti-trust, and people buy this service, this would probable replace Office and it's OS licensing as MS's single source of income revenue. But, on the lighter side, think of how much bigger a loss MS could take to sell XBOX360's!!! Sony could never compete then.
FYI...Openoffice.org 2.0 has an Access style database called Base that is very user friendly. Give it a try, hopefully it will be one less excuse for using MS Office apps. I'm still waiting on a program like Dia will replace MS Visio and read visio stencils. Dia is okay, but still not there. Need it for rapid drawings of rack elevations etc.
Same here. Isn't this story a dupe? Anyhow, the best thing about the toolbar is direct link into yahoo's MyWeb. Web based an managed bookmarks with an RSS feed. I absolutely love it.
I don't find this a all funny. There is no way in hell that this is a coincident. NONE. Yes, I know linux's biggest inroads are in the solaris market, but still. They were an all out supporter of linux, offering servers to desktops. This is very disturbing.
They could be a better format, the point is the industry that decides, wants control, and control will never happen when things are 100% open. Not that it is at all good for the consumer, because it is not. I believe that it is not good for the industry as well. As soon as they start to embrace open standards, and provide content the consumers want at resonable prices, the better.
Yes, I totally agree on open standards, however there is more to it then that. MP3 ( MPEG 1 Layer III ) is a standard, MPEG4, and now WMV9 are standards ( WMV9 goes by the name VC-1 and is will be used for HD-DVD content ). You can read all about their structure, but you cannot implement them without a license. That is the real issue.
MS will be using XML to replace proprietary file formats in MS Office. So the Norwegian's will still be able to use Office.
It still all goes back to patents. MPEG and SMPTE need to release MPEG4 (AVC) and SMTPE (VC-1) to the world, but that will never happen. And no Open-Source product will be able to compete effectively in these markets in the near future. The reason I say this is that it has been 10 years since MPEG-2, and we are finally seeing a MPEG-4 (http://www.mpegla.com/avc/) and VC-1 (http://smpte.org/smpte_store/standards/). These will be used for future High Def. Video and Broadcast. MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 are on the way, but that's another story, and still patent encumbered.
True, but the point is still that you don't have a good set of stencils, and CTO's love stencils.
If you are presenting or documenting networks, or racks of equipment. It is 100% better to have a set of stencils that actually looks like the vendors piece of equipment, then a square box labeled CISCO 6509. Before my company started using Visio, we did all of our rack elavation drawings in powerpoint. It made a huge difference in reducing the amount of time it takes to do drawing and just plain looks better.
The thing about visio, is it is way overpriced for what you get, Kivio and Dia both could do what Visio does, if they could read the stencils. Plus, there are so many keystroke combinations for visio it is rediculous. Once you get it down it if fine, but there is a learning curve.
A free tool is called dia. It's ok, but the biggest issue for me is the stencils. You can download accurate stencils for visio directly from some vendors. It really does make the the drawing look professional. Now if you could use visio stencils, and export to dwg or vsd, I'd even buy something. But for now I'll run visio 2000 in Codeweavers Crossover Office.
Note: I've offered to donate money to get Visio 2k3 for cxoffice as I still have to go to Windows to convert to the 2k3 format ( a requirement for my job ).
4. The lack of a standard base of installed libraries is application (and thus user) unfriendly.
This is the big one really. If you want a fixed mandated core set of libraries that the user is forced to install... well, grab yourself a nice mandated controlled system like OS X, because Linux probably isn't what you're looking for. In theory you could just set up a distribution that has such a guaranteed base set of libraries, and in a sense some already exist - try Linspire, or Xandros. The catch is that people write applications for "Linux" not "Debian, stable" or "Linspire 3.1" or whatever. Given a random open source application it will make whatever assumptions about libraries it cares to - it's up to the packages to make sure those dependencies are met. FOSS applications tend to be coded against "whatever system the developer cared to use" rather than specific distributions and versions. Commercial developers maybe? Well they do have requirements - Oracle requires particular versions of Redhat in standard installs. Other commercial developers can do that if they like. Alternatively they could accept that the Linux world is a diverse world and restricting yourself to the one distribution that is guaranteed to have everything you want where you want it is a little limiting. You can always use Autopackage and handle the dependency issue elegantly in a way that's effectively invisible to the user.
In response to that is LSB. Linux Standard Base sets a set of libraries so if an app is released under LSB, it should work on any distro that supports LSB. Mandrake/Mandriva support LSB, and is LSB compliant. There is an optional package on installation for LSB system stuff. See picture for picture.
While Nero is further ahead on windows, it lags well behind in Linux. I just downloaded the rpm and installed it ( it does allow for a demo mode until 5/31/2005 ). Installs and works out fine. However, it only has the basic functions to burn a data cd and an audio cd. No VCD/DVD, nothing else. K3b has almost the same interface, but with more functionality. That being said, I'm always glad to see apps that work for linux from the commercial sector. It shows that some Win32 software vendors are aware of linux.
Actually, I had to find and download a driver for Windows 2k, but with an Mandrake 9.0 it already had it. Just needed to dial #777. -- I use sprintPCS
All it needs is the ACM driver.
My co-worker is using his a bluetooth usb dongle to connect on his Motorola 6600 on the GPRS network.
My sprint is faster, but the bluetooth is way cool.
Don't bash what you don't know!!!
Hey, this even works in windows. I've been using it for for a while now in linux, and didn't want to purchase some software, so I found a driver on the web to work with win2k and just use the dial up connector.
Oh, by the way, mandrake 9.0 and up have never needed a driver. Kinda funny.
I found this incredible useful just recently while house hunting in VA. My wife was on the laptop looking up houses, mapquesting driving directions, and checking email. My only complaint is the battery loses charge in about an hour. You would think the usb would charge as you go.
Sony VIAO PCG-Z505 P2-366 384M-Ram Mandrake-9.0
SprintPCS
Sanyo SCP-8100 with usb cable purchased at Radio Shack
I find their mail services better then gmail. They also have a full calender suite, and it will even send you notifications. They have games, chat, notes, picture manager, news, shopping, etc. The only thing missing is a integrated office suite (bet they are working on it).
They are some problems, like too many adds, but its free.
They probable do. Isn't this really the way MS got it's foothold on the PC market. How many people back in the 90's got a copy or gave a copy to someone else, not that it still doesn't got on.
This really isn't that big of a mod.
1. Remove antenna
2. Add bigger antenna
3. Hack friends bluetooth phone/computer
Cool would be adding a high gain amp to the antenna mounted on a roof, and get line-of-sight distances.
I think that it is all in where you get your packages from. When I messed up fedora with apt-get, I had added in an unreliable source to try and get the packages I needed. I've been pretty lucky with mandrake. I found some really good source sites and have not had dependency issues. Also found most of what I need. Still waiting on an update for freevo however. xmltv is out of date.
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All I want is tell the automakers that I'm not changing my phone for my car to work correctly. That should be the case for anyone, especially for those in the tech community. All features/interactions between phone and car computer need to work regardless of the vendor. If not, I don't want your car.
Apple is notoriously poor at this. Just look at the Apple Watch, or unreleased APIs of iOS working with OSX for chat and phone calls.
Google is only marginally better. They're usually late with iOS support and it can be incomplete. It took how long to release iOS support for android wear? Plus, if I don't have a google account, I want to still get maps and services.
I don't want vendor lock-in is the point here. Amazing though that we don't have some sort of standards body out there that could help with these sorts of things.
I've not used it, but Ubuntu 11.10 software center now has a sync option to sync software between computers. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#Comparing_and_syncing_installed_software_between_computers
There is a plugin for OO that will take tex and convert it to images for insertion.
http://ooolatex.sourceforge.net/
Someone needed to move the two gentlemen out of the way of the camera. It's freaking annoying.
Bush already has one http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/12/bush.i pod/, but is having a little trouble figuring it out.
The hospital on the other hand, is responsible for securing it's data and networks. HIPAA implements strict regulations for managing health and insurance data. If there was a comprimise, I hope there will be an investigation. They may, or may not be in the grey. We'll have to see.
A similar reason you don't let baseball players bet on baseball. They can minipulate the outcome. You have to trust them not to taint the product to sell additional services. The only thing you can trust in business, is that business will do whatever they can to satisfy their shareholders(make money). If this goes through anti-trust, and people buy this service, this would probable replace Office and it's OS licensing as MS's single source of income revenue. But, on the lighter side, think of how much bigger a loss MS could take to sell XBOX360's!!! Sony could never compete then.
It already has one. httpd for the palm.
FYI...Openoffice.org 2.0 has an Access style database called Base that is very user friendly. Give it a try, hopefully it will be one less excuse for using MS Office apps. I'm still waiting on a program like Dia will replace MS Visio and read visio stencils. Dia is okay, but still not there. Need it for rapid drawings of rack elevations etc.
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Same here. Isn't this story a dupe? Anyhow, the best thing about the toolbar is direct link into yahoo's MyWeb. Web based an managed bookmarks with an RSS feed. I absolutely love it.
I don't find this a all funny. There is no way in hell that this is a coincident. NONE. Yes, I know linux's biggest inroads are in the solaris market, but still. They were an all out supporter of linux, offering servers to desktops. This is very disturbing.
They could be a better format, the point is the industry that decides, wants control, and control will never happen when things are 100% open. Not that it is at all good for the consumer, because it is not. I believe that it is not good for the industry as well. As soon as they start to embrace open standards, and provide content the consumers want at resonable prices, the better.
MS will be using XML to replace proprietary file formats in MS Office. So the Norwegian's will still be able to use Office.
It still all goes back to patents. MPEG and SMPTE need to release MPEG4 (AVC) and SMTPE (VC-1) to the world, but that will never happen. And no Open-Source product will be able to compete effectively in these markets in the near future. The reason I say this is that it has been 10 years since MPEG-2, and we are finally seeing a MPEG-4 (http://www.mpegla.com/avc/) and VC-1 (http://smpte.org/smpte_store/standards/). These will be used for future High Def. Video and Broadcast. MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 are on the way, but that's another story, and still patent encumbered.
Forget Linspire and go with another distro:
Mandriva or Fedora Core = $0 ( Free download )
Cedega Membership = $15 ( $5 a month with 3 month minimum)
GameX = $40-60
Total = $55-75
If you are presenting or documenting networks, or racks of equipment. It is 100% better to have a set of stencils that actually looks like the vendors piece of equipment, then a square box labeled CISCO 6509. Before my company started using Visio, we did all of our rack elavation drawings in powerpoint. It made a huge difference in reducing the amount of time it takes to do drawing and just plain looks better.
The thing about visio, is it is way overpriced for what you get, Kivio and Dia both could do what Visio does, if they could read the stencils. Plus, there are so many keystroke combinations for visio it is rediculous. Once you get it down it if fine, but there is a learning curve.
A free tool is called dia. It's ok, but the biggest issue for me is the stencils. You can download accurate stencils for visio directly from some vendors. It really does make the the drawing look professional. Now if you could use visio stencils, and export to dwg or vsd, I'd even buy something. But for now I'll run visio 2000 in Codeweavers Crossover Office. Note: I've offered to donate money to get Visio 2k3 for cxoffice as I still have to go to Windows to convert to the 2k3 format ( a requirement for my job ).
This is the big one really. If you want a fixed mandated core set of libraries that the user is forced to install... well, grab yourself a nice mandated controlled system like OS X, because Linux probably isn't what you're looking for. In theory you could just set up a distribution that has such a guaranteed base set of libraries, and in a sense some already exist - try Linspire, or Xandros. The catch is that people write applications for "Linux" not "Debian, stable" or "Linspire 3.1" or whatever. Given a random open source application it will make whatever assumptions about libraries it cares to - it's up to the packages to make sure those dependencies are met. FOSS applications tend to be coded against "whatever system the developer cared to use" rather than specific distributions and versions. Commercial developers maybe? Well they do have requirements - Oracle requires particular versions of Redhat in standard installs. Other commercial developers can do that if they like. Alternatively they could accept that the Linux world is a diverse world and restricting yourself to the one distribution that is guaranteed to have everything you want where you want it is a little limiting. You can always use Autopackage and handle the dependency issue elegantly in a way that's effectively invisible to the user.
In response to that is LSB. Linux Standard Base sets a set of libraries so if an app is released under LSB, it should work on any distro that supports LSB. Mandrake/Mandriva support LSB, and is LSB compliant. There is an optional package on installation for LSB system stuff. See picture for picture.
drakconf
drakrpm
drakfloppy
drakwizard
You get the point. I would have liked to see drake somewhere in the name. Anywhere.
While Nero is further ahead on windows, it lags well behind in Linux. I just downloaded the rpm and installed it ( it does allow for a demo mode until 5/31/2005 ). Installs and works out fine. However, it only has the basic functions to burn a data cd and an audio cd. No VCD/DVD, nothing else. K3b has almost the same interface, but with more functionality. That being said, I'm always glad to see apps that work for linux from the commercial sector. It shows that some Win32 software vendors are aware of linux.
All it needs is the ACM driver.
My co-worker is using his a bluetooth usb dongle to connect on his Motorola 6600 on the GPRS network. My sprint is faster, but the bluetooth is way cool. Don't bash what you don't know!!!
Hey, this even works in windows. I've been using it for for a while now in linux, and didn't want to purchase some software, so I found a driver on the web to work with win2k and just use the dial up connector. Oh, by the way, mandrake 9.0 and up have never needed a driver. Kinda funny. I found this incredible useful just recently while house hunting in VA. My wife was on the laptop looking up houses, mapquesting driving directions, and checking email. My only complaint is the battery loses charge in about an hour. You would think the usb would charge as you go. Sony VIAO PCG-Z505 P2-366 384M-Ram Mandrake-9.0 SprintPCS Sanyo SCP-8100 with usb cable purchased at Radio Shack
I find their mail services better then gmail. They also have a full calender suite, and it will even send you notifications. They have games, chat, notes, picture manager, news, shopping, etc. The only thing missing is a integrated office suite (bet they are working on it). They are some problems, like too many adds, but its free.
They probable do. Isn't this really the way MS got it's foothold on the PC market. How many people back in the 90's got a copy or gave a copy to someone else, not that it still doesn't got on.
This really isn't that big of a mod. 1. Remove antenna 2. Add bigger antenna 3. Hack friends bluetooth phone/computer Cool would be adding a high gain amp to the antenna mounted on a roof, and get line-of-sight distances.
I think that it is all in where you get your packages from. When I messed up fedora with apt-get, I had added in an unreliable source to try and get the packages I needed. I've been pretty lucky with mandrake. I found some really good source sites and have not had dependency issues. Also found most of what I need. Still waiting on an update for freevo however. xmltv is out of date.