Visio kills me as well. Crossover says they run it, but it doesn't run well and unfortunetly there is no suitable replacement for it that can also read Visio files.
Or:
djimenez@bender djimenez $ emerge -s dos
Searching...
[ Results for search key : dos ]
[ Applications found : 7 ]
* app-emulation/dosemu
Latest version available: 1.1.99.1-r1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 3,146 kB
Homepage: http://www.dosemu.org/
Description: DOS Emulator
* app-misc/fixdos
Latest version available: 1.3.1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 14 kB
Homepage: http://e.co.za/marius/
Description: Set of utilities such as crlf which converts files between UNIX and DOS newlines.
* app-text/dos2unix
Latest version available: 3.1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 13 kB
Homepage:
Description: Dos2unix converts DOS or MAC text files to UNIX format
* app-text/unix2dos
Latest version available: 2.2
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 5 kB
Homepage:
Description: unix2dos - UNIX to DOS text file format converter
* games-emulation/dosbox
Latest version available: 0.60
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 528 kB
Homepage: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/
Description: DOS emulator
* games-emulation/dosbox-cvs
Latest version available: 20030809
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 0 kB
Homepage: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/
Description: DOS Emulator
* sys-fs/dosfstools
Latest version available: 2.8-r3
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 64 kB
Homepage: ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Linux/LOCAL/dosfstoo ls/
Description: dos filesystem tools
What about sites like mail.com, where I get to use an email alias but the email actually comes from my ISPs SMTP server? There is no way they could do an SPF record for those.
Hmm. Nice in theory but after deep thought doesn't seem to fix everything.
Yes. It works with all digital cable, satellite, standard cable and even just local channels. It uses XMLTV to interface with I believe TVGUIDE (In the states).
My experience with webDAV is that it's slow, unreliable and prone to losing files.
I lost two important spreadsheets before I finally gave up on webdav. They simply disappeared.
Speaking of which, where can I find a good powerful antenna for my WiFi card (or a card with an antenna). For that matter where can I find an over powered WAP.
Really? How did you get Xinerama working? I'd kill for it. Are you still able to use GL for game playing? Every message board on the face of the planet says it's impossible. ATI has even acknowledged it as an issue.
Even on the cards you do get working you cannot get DRI to work correctly, nor XV, nor Xinerama, nor more than one Xsession. I've put serious consideration into dropping ATI and going with NVIDIA. At least twin view works.
Besides, having a 9700 PRO and getting only around 50 fps is pretty disapointing.
Yes, but when you are providing information to managment it goes over alot easier when saying 'Here are the results of our public survey' as opposed to 'Here is the random information we gathered from reading various articles on a website, which may or may not be from all points of view'.
Re:Oh, for God's sake. Stop the elitism.
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I don't think mass usage will destroy Gentoo, but I don't believe Gentoo will ever really hit the main stream. As a Gentoo users myself I would never want to install it on any user machine. It takes far too long and isn't convenient. I'd rather stick to a binary distro. End users will not notice the speed difference.
No reverse dependency check is not in yet. Portage will be a god to me when that feature becomes available.
Daniel
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So 9 gig DVD's out near March. Any idea of a cost?
I wonder how much I can get from my DRU-510A
Let's say Company A is suing Company B. What is to stop Company A from purchasing a $2000/hour lawyer just to scare the shit out of Company B? Company B may have a good case, but at $2000/hour it may not be worth ANY risk. Especially if it could cause Company B to go bankrupt.
I agree. Privoxy is great. I've been using it for so long I don't remember what ads look like.
It stops popups (Firebird handles that for me though), stops those nasty 1x1 images, stops 99% of all ads including the google syndication ones, can disable flash and animated gifs (for nasty sites like news.com or some other unmentionables who use these), it can also remove quicktime video's from their kiosk and allow you to save them! Great stuff.
It's obvious you are not involved in any sort of real buisness situation.
"Just write a driver", why the hell should my customer pay me to write a driver? Why should my company pay me to write a driver? Why should my company pay to support hardware they purchased from another vendor?
Just use VNC? Hah, AutoCAD with VNC. That's counter effective, not to mention SLOW. With both VNC & VMWARE I still need a Windows license, so why not just run it on the users desktop? Why would I want to use VNC or VMWARE to virtualize or remote control something the user is going to spend 90% of his working day on?
Sorry, but these are FAR from solutions for Linux on the desktop. Come on, your best solution involved having an XP license AND a license for virtualization software. The other solution involved having two PCs!
When a BUISNESS needs to get things done, a learning curve isn't the way to do it. Users are already having to learn the custom applications. If the users have to learn to work the basics of their OS/office applications that is more time lost. It then becomes cheaper to use a 'non-free' operating system.
Having MIS/IS/IT lock down the desktop with group policy, and manage the patches then pays off.
Questions about linux on the desktop for you (Try and actually answer these instead of responding with "Why do that?" "Don't use this", etc):
1. What do you if the user requires some special equipment to do their job? This equipment has no linux modules/drivers, you then have to move the user back to Windows/OS X to get this device working. (IE: Blackberry, Digitizer, Special scanner designed to catalog bills of laden, etc).
2. What about users who need applications such as AutoCAD, or their custom accounting software that only runs on Windows? Then you have some users on one OS and some on another. If you have a user transfer they then have a learning curve again.
3. The headache of managing two operating systems. Sorry, but Linux doesn't yet have any sort of centralized managing solution like MS does Active Directory. AD lets me do practically anything to any workstation so I don't have to walk to each PC to make a policy change, or so I don't have to copy a file to each PC to make a policy change. This is where I REALLY hope Novell shines in regards to the SuSE purchase.
Believe me. I've tried linux on the desktop on my much smaller customers. (~150 users). The few users I put on it had to be converted back when then needed access to some other applications. I use Linux on my workstation, and on some of my servers (the ones I can), but it's not ready for the end user.
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Visio kills me as well. Crossover says they run it, but it doesn't run well and unfortunetly there is no suitable replacement for it that can also read Visio files.
Oh well...
Daniel
Or: djimenez@bender djimenez $ emerge -s dos Searching... [ Results for search key : dos ] [ Applications found : 7 ] * app-emulation/dosemu Latest version available: 1.1.99.1-r1 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 3,146 kB Homepage: http://www.dosemu.org/ Description: DOS Emulator * app-misc/fixdos Latest version available: 1.3.1 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 14 kB Homepage: http://e.co.za/marius/ Description: Set of utilities such as crlf which converts files between UNIX and DOS newlines. * app-text/dos2unix Latest version available: 3.1 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 13 kB Homepage: Description: Dos2unix converts DOS or MAC text files to UNIX format * app-text/unix2dos Latest version available: 2.2 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 5 kB Homepage: Description: unix2dos - UNIX to DOS text file format converter * games-emulation/dosbox Latest version available: 0.60 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 528 kB Homepage: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/ Description: DOS emulator * games-emulation/dosbox-cvs Latest version available: 20030809 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 0 kB Homepage: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/ Description: DOS Emulator * sys-fs/dosfstools Latest version available: 2.8-r3 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 64 kB Homepage: ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Linux/LOCAL/dosfstoo ls/
Description: dos filesystem tools
What about sites like mail.com, where I get to use an email alias but the email actually comes from my ISPs SMTP server? There is no way they could do an SPF record for those. Hmm. Nice in theory but after deep thought doesn't seem to fix everything.
Yes. It works with all digital cable, satellite, standard cable and even just local channels. It uses XMLTV to interface with I believe TVGUIDE (In the states).
10 bits per second is what I recall seeing on the live update site that was up when the thing was landing. That's what they get for using DirecPC.
My experience with webDAV is that it's slow, unreliable and prone to losing files. I lost two important spreadsheets before I finally gave up on webdav. They simply disappeared.
A while back I received the SirCam virus via text message to my cellphone.
Hi! How are you?
I send you this file in order to have your advice
See you later. Thanks
Daniel
I can't imagine it matters what brand of phone you have. Bluetooth should still be compatable.
Speaking of which, where can I find a good powerful antenna for my WiFi card (or a card with an antenna). For that matter where can I find an over powered WAP.
Really? How did you get Xinerama working? I'd kill for it. Are you still able to use GL for game playing? Every message board on the face of the planet says it's impossible. ATI has even acknowledged it as an issue.
Even on the cards you do get working you cannot get DRI to work correctly, nor XV, nor Xinerama, nor more than one Xsession. I've put serious consideration into dropping ATI and going with NVIDIA. At least twin view works.
Besides, having a 9700 PRO and getting only around 50 fps is pretty disapointing.
Daniel
The computer itself!
Yes, but when you are providing information to managment it goes over alot easier when saying 'Here are the results of our public survey' as opposed to 'Here is the random information we gathered from reading various articles on a website, which may or may not be from all points of view'.
Daniel
My rights and privacy are worth more than $1300.
I don't think mass usage will destroy Gentoo, but I don't believe Gentoo will ever really hit the main stream. As a Gentoo users myself I would never want to install it on any user machine. It takes far too long and isn't convenient. I'd rather stick to a binary distro. End users will not notice the speed difference.
No reverse dependency check is not in yet. Portage will be a god to me when that feature becomes available.
Daniel
So 9 gig DVD's out near March. Any idea of a cost? I wonder how much I can get from my DRU-510A
Manufacturers should turn off SSID broadcast by default. That with a random SSID would prevent alot of easy connects to wireless networks. Daniel
Let's say Company A is suing Company B. What is to stop Company A from purchasing a $2000/hour lawyer just to scare the shit out of Company B? Company B may have a good case, but at $2000/hour it may not be worth ANY risk. Especially if it could cause Company B to go bankrupt.
-- Daniel
It's a Maxtor hard drive. I'd rather pay twice that much for a respectable brand.
Daniel
I agree. Privoxy is great. I've been using it for so long I don't remember what ads look like.
It stops popups (Firebird handles that for me though), stops those nasty 1x1 images, stops 99% of all ads including the google syndication ones, can disable flash and animated gifs (for nasty sites like news.com or some other unmentionables who use these), it can also remove quicktime video's from their kiosk and allow you to save them! Great stuff.
Daniel
It's obvious you are not involved in any sort of real buisness situation.
"Just write a driver", why the hell should my customer pay me to write a driver? Why should my company pay me to write a driver? Why should my company pay to support hardware they purchased from another vendor?
Just use VNC? Hah, AutoCAD with VNC. That's counter effective, not to mention SLOW. With both VNC & VMWARE I still need a Windows license, so why not just run it on the users desktop? Why would I want to use VNC or VMWARE to virtualize or remote control something the user is going to spend 90% of his working day on?
Sorry, but these are FAR from solutions for Linux on the desktop. Come on, your best solution involved having an XP license AND a license for virtualization software. The other solution involved having two PCs!
When a BUISNESS needs to get things done, a learning curve isn't the way to do it. Users are already having to learn the custom applications. If the users have to learn to work the basics of their OS/office applications that is more time lost. It then becomes cheaper to use a 'non-free' operating system.
Having MIS/IS/IT lock down the desktop with group policy, and manage the patches then pays off.
Questions about linux on the desktop for you (Try and actually answer these instead of responding with "Why do that?" "Don't use this", etc):
1. What do you if the user requires some special equipment to do their job? This equipment has no linux modules/drivers, you then have to move the user back to Windows/OS X to get this device working. (IE: Blackberry, Digitizer, Special scanner designed to catalog bills of laden, etc).
2. What about users who need applications such as AutoCAD, or their custom accounting software that only runs on Windows? Then you have some users on one OS and some on another. If you have a user transfer they then have a learning curve again.
3. The headache of managing two operating systems. Sorry, but Linux doesn't yet have any sort of centralized managing solution like MS does Active Directory. AD lets me do practically anything to any workstation so I don't have to walk to each PC to make a policy change, or so I don't have to copy a file to each PC to make a policy change. This is where I REALLY hope Novell shines in regards to the SuSE purchase.
Believe me. I've tried linux on the desktop on my much smaller customers. (~150 users). The few users I put on it had to be converted back when then needed access to some other applications. I use Linux on my workstation, and on some of my servers (the ones I can), but it's not ready for the end user.
Daniel
I bet it's like monolith burger. MMM MMM that place is good.
Man I wish I could find that game for download, hell even for purchase. Hours of entertainment.
Pardon my ignorance... I thought there was no sound in space?
Daniel