I just weaned(sp?) my wife off of Microsoft Word by installing OOo. I opened all of her Word docs in OOo and saved them to.pdf format and she hasn't missed a thing by me removing Microsoft Office from the PC. Granted, she's part of the 90/10 crowd b/c all she writes is memos, letters etc. Nothing fancy. She barely notices that she's not using MS Word. I've never had any issues working with.pdfs in Windows or Linux.
Now if I could only get her to use her Linux as a desktop, I'd be _very_ happy. Kills me to pay $100 for an upgrade to WinXP when I have subscription service to Slackware.
My favorite reality-twisting part of the license:
You acknowledge and understand that the Service is not a telephone service.
Ah. Their only product is the delivery of voice calls and faxes, using... um... telephones. But they're not a telephone company.
Trust me.....they won't be able to say they're not a telephone provider for much longer. The federal government will not let these VoIP providers be exempt from regulations (read: Universal Service Fund, CALEA). They can become a tremendous source of revenue for the government.
with Cisco Inc. Just finished Cisco Training and the class used the two Cisco Press books, (Intro and ICND) for training. The instructor made it clear that the Cisco Press books have no affiliation with Cisco Inc.
or does it almost seem easier to read the german version, than read the babelfish translation? Babelfish translations make my eyes bleed and my head hurt ( no offense to parent post )
Xorg is a fork of XFree86 due to a change in licensing on XFree86 software. Apparently the XFree license has had a 'marketing/advertising' clause added to it which may make it incompatible with the GPL. That was the straw that broke the camel's back..... From what I've read, their has been a lot of friction for a long time between XFree leadership and development community for various reasons (too many to list here).
You can get the details about Xorg from here.
I'm not trolling, but how can someone tell if their system is a zombie? I keep hearing that most users are clueless (which is probably true) but no one has ever told me how to see if my PC is a zombie. (Hypothetical.....All I run is Slackware but my wife's machine is Win98)
"3. Encourage your employer to use a better management technique (for instance Scrum), which doesn't encourage forced death marches to make up for bad planning. Programming is a demanding field, but if your employer expects you to wreck your health over a deadline, then they're doing something wrong, not you."
I'm sorry this is somewhat offtopic......but I keep hearing coders use the term 'death march'. What is it?
that no one really knows who they are. I only remembered their significance because of a book I read last summer about the origins of the internet. I was truly amazed at how brilliant those scientists and engineers were. I wish I remembered the name of the book, it was an amazing and inspiring read. I think it was "Nerds 2.0". I should have done a review of the book for/.
I was working at BBN when they built the worlds first gigabit router, circa 1990. At the time, they claimed that they could route the entire internet through one of their boxes. It's amazing how far we've come.
As in Bolt, Beranek and Newman? I didn't know they were still around in 1990. Isn't that the same firm that built the first router (Honeywell516)?
I recently finished CCNA training and asked the instructor what OS CiscoIOS was based on and I was told it's based on BSD OS. He didn't tell me which BSD though....
The company that maintains the database of numbers is Telcordia formerly Bellcore. The document that the records are stored in is the LERG (Local Exchange Routing Guide). For now LNP only works (landlines not wireless) within your LATA (Local Access Transport Area). My LATA is 132 which covers NYC, 5 boroughs, Long Island, Westchester County and Greenwich CT. Numbers are reused constantly. Nowadays Telcordia doles out the numbers to carriers in as small as thousand-number blocks in an effort to keep the number pool from exhausting itself. Hope that explains it for you
p.rican
5ESS Maintenance Engineer
No one owns a telephone number except the telco. As a customer of Verizon, you are "leasing/renting" your phone number. The phone number is not yours to sell. Local Number Portability does not transfer ownership between the telco and the customer. LNP transfers ownership between telco providers. Try a google for LERG (Local Exchange Routing Guide). This is the bible for telcos to see which carrier owns which block of numbers AND which blocks of numbers are portable. Verizon was/is well within their rights to stop the auction.
I'm almost at the end of the/. postings and I don't believe anyone has mentioned anything about the NeXT cube pictured in the article. I'm reading a book right now called "How the Web was Born" (I think that's the title), and it's noted that TB-L used a NeXT cube to do his research/paper for the web on that NeXT cube. How much do you think that would fetch on e-bay?
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Now if I could only get her to use her Linux as a desktop, I'd be _very_ happy. Kills me to pay $100 for an upgrade to WinXP when I have subscription service to Slackware.
You are absolutely correct. I long for the days when the only keyboard available was one of these.
And of course I wasted my last mod point yesterday. Well said. All the USA-bashing is getting pretty dull. You should be modded +1 UNDER-RATED
Trust me.....they won't be able to say they're not a telephone provider for much longer. The federal government will not let these VoIP providers be exempt from regulations (read: Universal Service Fund, CALEA). They can become a tremendous source of revenue for the government.
here's the link to the source
It just may make it easier to convince the PHB to give linux on the desktop a try without having to deal with minor document incompatabilities.
with Cisco Inc. Just finished Cisco Training and the class used the two Cisco Press books, (Intro and ICND) for training. The instructor made it clear that the Cisco Press books have no affiliation with Cisco Inc.
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because I thought it was some sort of Babelfish translation. That copy IS horrible
How about sharing the code with us?
Thank you for that explanation. That analogy was priceless. You are a wordsmith!
or does it almost seem easier to read the german version, than read the babelfish translation? Babelfish translations make my eyes bleed and my head hurt ( no offense to parent post )
Xorg is a fork of XFree86 due to a change in licensing on XFree86 software. Apparently the XFree license has had a 'marketing/advertising' clause added to it which may make it incompatible with the GPL. That was the straw that broke the camel's back..... From what I've read, their has been a lot of friction for a long time between XFree leadership and development community for various reasons (too many to list here). You can get the details about Xorg from here.
I'm not trolling, but how can someone tell if their system is a zombie? I keep hearing that most users are clueless (which is probably true) but no one has ever told me how to see if my PC is a zombie. (Hypothetical.....All I run is Slackware but my wife's machine is Win98)
You've just been added to my "friends" list
now I have to find out what 'scrum' is. The only other management style that I'm used to is, crisis management. pretty much the standard in telecom
that no one really knows who they are. I only remembered their significance because of a book I read last summer about the origins of the internet. I was truly amazed at how brilliant those scientists and engineers were. I wish I remembered the name of the book, it was an amazing and inspiring read. I think it was "Nerds 2.0". I should have done a review of the book for /.
As in Bolt, Beranek and Newman? I didn't know they were still around in 1990. Isn't that the same firm that built the first router (Honeywell516)?
I recently finished CCNA training and asked the instructor what OS CiscoIOS was based on and I was told it's based on BSD OS. He didn't tell me which BSD though....
The company that maintains the database of numbers is Telcordia formerly Bellcore. The document that the records are stored in is the LERG (Local Exchange Routing Guide). For now LNP only works (landlines not wireless) within your LATA (Local Access Transport Area). My LATA is 132 which covers NYC, 5 boroughs, Long Island, Westchester County and Greenwich CT. Numbers are reused constantly. Nowadays Telcordia doles out the numbers to carriers in as small as thousand-number blocks in an effort to keep the number pool from exhausting itself. Hope that explains it for you
p.rican
5ESS Maintenance Engineer
No one owns a telephone number except the telco. As a customer of Verizon, you are "leasing/renting" your phone number. The phone number is not yours to sell. Local Number Portability does not transfer ownership between the telco and the customer. LNP transfers ownership between telco providers. Try a google for LERG (Local Exchange Routing Guide). This is the bible for telcos to see which carrier owns which block of numbers AND which blocks of numbers are portable. Verizon was/is well within their rights to stop the auction.
I think this is what you're referring to
I'm almost at the end of the /. postings and I don't believe anyone has mentioned anything about the NeXT cube pictured in the article. I'm reading a book right now called "How the Web was Born" (I think that's the title), and it's noted that TB-L used a NeXT cube to do his research/paper for the web on that NeXT cube. How much do you think that would fetch on e-bay?
my post was meant to be sarcastic/tongue in cheek...you ever hear of those?