I tried to install Core 2 on my 5 year old Thinkpad 390e (don't laugh - I got it used and it was cheap and all that really matters is the 14" screen), and I had nothing but problems setting up pcmcia devices. I would have thought those problems would be solved by now. Getting wireless to work was impossible using the GUI tools - I had to hack the wireless.opts file instead. I had all kinds of problems with up2date, too. My winmodem wasn't detected (no surprise there), but I would think that installations should be able to support winmodems right out of the box.
While I know how to hack workarounds for these problems, I am old, cranky, and just don't want to. I have better things to do with my time - like use my computer instead of configure it.
Why isn't there a distro that installs correctly, detects hardware (esp. 3+ year old hardware) and doesn't lock up when using the system utilities? Is it really that hard? Hell, if Microsoft can do it, certainly distro developers can.
I agree completely. Whether a developer uses a functional language or an object oriented language doesn't matter. What does matter MORE THAN ANYTHING is understanding the process that the software is supposed to support. If it's hospital management software, you have to know how hospitals are managed. If it's banking software, you have to understand banking.
And testing, testing, testing. Because people aren't perfect. Nor would we want them to be... Too much money to be made in support contracts.:)
...than a campus taking millions from Pepsi to only have Pepsi machines on campus, and not Coke? Or vice-versa? Or if the unix servers here decided to only offer vi instead of emacs? It's a bad idea, regardless.
If the statistics are true, and 90% of those 7000 students are using Micro$oft as their platform of "choice", then they would seem to be alienating a vast majority of your students that are comfortable with a particular computing platform. Whether that preference is right or wrong depends on how much you hate working with Windows software.
I think universities should promote options, not restrictions.
I think that my linguistically challenged AC friend here is trying to say:
Does this Katz drivel get published because someone thinks it's good, or just because he has written something interesting in the past?
What? It's hard to be an individual in the land of sheep and cattle? Yawn... This isn't news for nerds, nor is it stuff that matters. I am getting tired of these crybaby Katz manifests...
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I tried to install Core 2 on my 5 year old Thinkpad 390e (don't laugh - I got it used and it was cheap and all that really matters is the 14" screen), and I had nothing but problems setting up pcmcia devices. I would have thought those problems would be solved by now. Getting wireless to work was impossible using the GUI tools - I had to hack the wireless.opts file instead. I had all kinds of problems with up2date, too. My winmodem wasn't detected (no surprise there), but I would think that installations should be able to support winmodems right out of the box.
While I know how to hack workarounds for these problems, I am old, cranky, and just don't want to. I have better things to do with my time - like use my computer instead of configure it.
Why isn't there a distro that installs correctly, detects hardware (esp. 3+ year old hardware) and doesn't lock up when using the system utilities? Is it really that hard? Hell, if Microsoft can do it, certainly distro developers can.
Yes, the Green Destiny system at Los Alamos is a 'cluster of clusters', as you say...
I agree completely. Whether a developer uses a functional language or an object oriented language doesn't matter. What does matter MORE THAN ANYTHING is understanding the process that the software is supposed to support. If it's hospital management software, you have to know how hospitals are managed. If it's banking software, you have to understand banking.
:)
And testing, testing, testing. Because people aren't perfect. Nor would we want them to be... Too much money to be made in support contracts.
Your voice doesn't matter, and Diebold is going to make sure:
"If voting could really change things, it would be illegal."
-Diebold employee
...than a campus taking millions from Pepsi to only have Pepsi machines on campus, and not Coke? Or vice-versa? Or if the unix servers here decided to only offer vi instead of emacs? It's a bad idea, regardless.
If the statistics are true, and 90% of those 7000 students are using Micro$oft as their platform of "choice", then they would seem to be alienating a vast majority of your students that are comfortable with a particular computing platform. Whether that preference is right or wrong depends on how much you hate working with Windows software.
I think universities should promote options, not restrictions.
My roommate, for one...
I think that my linguistically challenged AC friend here is trying to say:
Does this Katz drivel get published because someone thinks it's good, or just because he has written something interesting in the past?
What? It's hard to be an individual in the land of sheep and cattle? Yawn... This isn't news for nerds, nor is it stuff that matters. I am getting tired of these crybaby Katz manifests...
I think Apple is cheesed off because the eMachine box costs $400 less, and has the added benefit of being a PC-compatible.
If you can't beat them, sue them...
...see the August issue of LINUX Journal.
WHAT?
You think $50K / year for a 23 year old fresh out of college is underpaid?
Get some perspective...