The problem is, not every country has a law system that's on the consumer's site. I've had a couple of hassles with companies, all around the EUR. 30 to EUR. 60 range. It's not worth pursuing. They ignore you because there's no such thing as small claims court here. You either: a) call a collecting agency which costs at least EUR. 150 or b) let a lawyer contact the court (can't do it yourself) which costs at least EUR. 200.
The small man is always screwed over. Keep yelling and you'll just get ignored.
I wonder how long Linspire (formerly known as Lindows) is asked by customers to include a spyware removal tool. After all, they included VirusSafe in their Linux distribution. While totally unnecessary, customers just wanted anti-virus protection.
So does it work or not? Here's my translation: . . . bit of false advertising
Have you ever seen a company prize its products as
"it has some serious warts"? Of course you didn't.
You're making a lame-ass, sleazy attack. If there is one thing that I trust CodeWeavers would NEVER do, then it's false advertising. They even have a page about it here. I'm happy to count myself as their customers.
when you're working an eighty hour week, how do you line up another job?
Gee man, make something up. Go to the doctor or dentist, say they're having your freezer fixed, the cable guy comes around, et cetera.
It's all about setting priorities. You want to leave this job, right? Well then, bring up the energy to find another. I've been in this situation, and yes, it sucks to come home tired and then having to write a letter + resume.
Appropriate Klingon-programmer quote: "What is this talk of 'release'? Klingons do not make software 'releases'. Our software 'escapes' leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake."
I have the feeling that the effort is doable, but that other issues get higher priority. For example, there are OOo bugs in the im-/export of Word documents that took more than a year to resolve, and still didn't make it into the main tree...
unless there is a gradual change [...] Unless other alternatives slowly start creeping in, it's going to be next to impossible.
This gradual change could be happening if open source software focused on the im-/exports of proprietary formats.
Unfortunately, I notice that important software is not focusing on that. Firefox has it right, with flawless import of IE favourites. OpenOffice doesn't, there are too many caveats to use it transparently. I find that a shame.
I know a certain proprietary portal/CMS that's often installed along with the rest of the middleware that customers get. I've never encountered an installation where the back end of the portal (where the items reside without any markup) wasn't world readable.
And while that's not so bad, customers often don't understand its security mechanisms so they leave lots of folders writable as well.
In Linux or OS X what's to stop me from writing a similar application?
I have a shell account on a server for students and this is exactly what I do. I have a script which does (among others): find/home -iname *avi > log.txt
to find everyone's anime (Ghost in the Shell YEAH). The administrators know this and are perfectly fine with it. After all, people should set their home dirs closed.
Interesting... so, any experiences yet? I.e. how do their clients react? Did they have to follow some training or did they just get in flawlessly? And were their existing documents converted in one go, or as they work?
The only cost will be to download a copy of OpenOffice on each end
I've successfully convinced other techies to give it a try. But others usually can't be bothered. In my opinion, the success of Firefox and Thunderbird is that they are (almost?) perfect drop-in replacements for their MS counterparts. For OOo, that just isn't the case. I've tried it, but in the end I gave up.
Of course it does. But your client/colleague/manager will accept that. On the other hand, if it gets mangled and you tell them it's because you use OOo, they will be a lot less forgiving. I agree it's ridiculous, but that's what I experienced.
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He specifically asked for suggestions on integration with Active Directory. Just saying 'Samba' is not answering the question.
Please mod parent up. This is informative!
The problem is, not every country has a law system that's on the consumer's site. I've had a couple of hassles with companies, all around the EUR. 30 to EUR. 60 range. It's not worth pursuing. They ignore you because there's no such thing as small claims court here. You either: a) call a collecting agency which costs at least EUR. 150 or b) let a lawyer contact the court (can't do it yourself) which costs at least EUR. 200.
The small man is always screwed over. Keep yelling and you'll just get ignored.
I wonder how long Linspire (formerly known as Lindows) is asked by customers to include a spyware removal tool. After all, they included VirusSafe in their Linux distribution. While totally unnecessary, customers just wanted anti-virus protection.
I guess I'll be talking to those guys at Legacy Reserves, because I heard that Java is the new COBOL...
No, but it takes time to go through files to see what you want to delete. So extra disk space saves me time, which is much more valuable.
You forgot: I'm using Gaim and I didn't notice anything at all.
Customer: I can't log into my database instance
Support: You can't log into your database instance?
Et cetera...
Have you ever seen a company prize its products as "it has some serious warts"? Of course you didn't.
You're making a lame-ass, sleazy attack. If there is one thing that I trust CodeWeavers would NEVER do, then it's false advertising. They even have a page about it here. I'm happy to count myself as their customers.
Well, don't download the DVD in the first place. Download the three CDs with the .torrent file that's provided.
Gee man, make something up. Go to the doctor or dentist, say they're having your freezer fixed, the cable guy comes around, et cetera.
It's all about setting priorities. You want to leave this job, right? Well then, bring up the energy to find another. I've been in this situation, and yes, it sucks to come home tired and then having to write a letter + resume.
Appropriate Klingon-programmer quote: "What is this talk of 'release'? Klingons do not make software 'releases'. Our software 'escapes' leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake."
I have the feeling that the effort is doable, but that other issues get higher priority. For example, there are OOo bugs in the im-/export of Word documents that took more than a year to resolve, and still didn't make it into the main tree...
This gradual change could be happening if open source software focused on the im-/exports of proprietary formats.
Unfortunately, I notice that important software is not focusing on that. Firefox has it right, with flawless import of IE favourites. OpenOffice doesn't, there are too many caveats to use it transparently. I find that a shame.
Pick a project from http://www.elance.com/, http://www.rentacoder.com/, or some other freelance platform to test your coding skills. If you have an account, you could even earn some money.
And while that's not so bad, customers often don't understand its security mechanisms so they leave lots of folders writable as well.
Pretty embarrassing for $25K per CPU...
I'm curious, which ones did you have good experiences with?
That image got a knock when they copied AMD's x86-64 extensions.
I have a shell account on a server for students and this is exactly what I do. I have a script which does (among others): /home -iname *avi > log.txt
find
to find everyone's anime (Ghost in the Shell YEAH). The administrators know this and are perfectly fine with it. After all, people should set their home dirs closed.
Interesting... so, any experiences yet? I.e. how do their clients react? Did they have to follow some training or did they just get in flawlessly? And were their existing documents converted in one go, or as they work?
I've successfully convinced other techies to give it a try. But others usually can't be bothered. In my opinion, the success of Firefox and Thunderbird is that they are (almost?) perfect drop-in replacements for their MS counterparts. For OOo, that just isn't the case. I've tried it, but in the end I gave up.
Of course it does. But your client/colleague/manager will accept that. On the other hand, if it gets mangled and you tell them it's because you use OOo, they will be a lot less forgiving. I agree it's ridiculous, but that's what I experienced.
Try editing an OO.o document in word. I've never had the need to edit an OO.o document. I never receive them.
I agree, but near-perfect would suffice. However, bugs on im/exporting are left open for years, I have the feeling it's not on the priority list.
Well Halivar, before you reply, make sure to check your facts (no I'm not new here): http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1 3886/