'scuse me... I can see why a word processing app and its documents should have a W icon, but why on earth should a spreadsheet program and its documents have an X icon???
the problems come when things like books and materials come from one source of funding like the LEA, and IT stuff like Software and hardware comes from national sources... then the savings don't get passed to the other funding... also managers like to be in charge of large budgets... the size of their budget is a bragging factor... the only way they enjoy cutting their budget is when it results in higher profits and in this case, cutting their budget will not result in profit for their cost centre. What we need is for the bean counters to get involved in it, then they'd force cuts from above. Such as why do you need O2k3 Pro at £450 per seat when you can have OOo for free??? provide a fully justified business case for each seat that must have O2K3...
If it really turns out that they are merely creating documents that have no dependence upon the fancy office automation features of O2K3, then OOo will do the job just as well...
Sadly, Microsoft's Marketing team keep selling this dream of Office automation when in reality, most offices never use it.
yes... the different layouts of certain menus in Office 97 and Office 2003 threw me today... could I find where to turn off view changes on screen??? in 2k3 it's changed from tools:track changes to the view menu and changed name to "markup"... there's lots of bloody annoying changes...
what they're going to release next year that they claim to be Longhorn, will really be a rebadged XP with a shiny Avalon front end... a fancy pager, a reskinned Media player, a hastily bolted on fancy filesystem search feature, some new gewgaws and the next version of IE with simple Tabs...
meanwhile, the real Longhorn recedes even further into the mists of vapourware...
Linux and OSX Tiger must really be hurting them...
let's say instead of downloading a movie, you sneak into another theatre after the movie you paid for, something teenagers have been doing for decades. what have you stolen? well, if you didn't sneak into that theatre, that seat would have still been empty, correct?
bzzztt... wrong... if the ability to sneak into the movie theater wasn't there... you would be faced with the choice of either paying, or staying away and waiting for it to come out on DVD... so there is loss.
Because p2p is easily available, then there is Loss... Loss from those who'd have stumped up to go to the theater rather than miss it...
get enough ram and you won't be swapping... makes the "swap file twice the size of ram" irrelevant for the average desktop user... now servers... that's different.
a formal letter is the first step of many that could result in Microsoft being banned from selling it's products in the EU.
It may seem sissy, but you've got to follow the protocol to the letter to avoid gifting Microsoft an escape hatch.
Every i must be dotted, every t must be crossed... if there is anything the slightest wrong at any step along the way, you can bet your life that Microsoft's lawyers will be hollering for a dismissal with prejudice for failing to follow the correct procedure.
almost right... Think of the thieves as the spyware makers, Microsoft as the builders of your house, and you as the occupant...
Now my insurance policy requires me to have secure locks on the doors and windows from a list of approved types, the builders of my house actually installed good locks and latches which actually were on the list... now it's up to me to actually use the locks and latches... if I do and thieves still break in, then I'm covered by my insurance, if I failed to secure a door or window and they break in, then my insurers laugh in my face...
My builders, however, are not actually responsible for fitting decent locks to the doors and windows, they could just fit some really cheap and nasty ones that just about do the job, but it makes good business sense for them to do so as it is a selling point...
Microsoft currently, acording to the analogy, install the barest minimum in the way of locks, or else set stupid policies like users are admin by default and the default admin password is blank... It's up to me to make my system secure as ultimately, it's my data at risk... however, it would make good business sense for Microsoft to get their act together and start installing decent security and policies by default... just some clueless users are going to get all uppity about having to remember passwords and change to admin mode to install software...
Now I'm a bit confused as to why Congress have stepped in and outlawed spyware, but then, they probably are performing the same function as the lawmakers who've outlawed thievery and set penalties for it...
I've got some news for you... a lot of grandmothers have probably got more experience of computers than you... let's see now... personal computers got into office typing pools back in the middle 80's... plenty of time for them to have popped a sprog and for that sprog to have popped their own... and myself... I was servicing Data General Nova 4x mini-computers as a day job in the late 70's and they served multi-terminal word processing farms back then... plenty of nice young girls beavering away at those... mmmnn memories...
Us grandparents aren't quite as decrepit as you think we are... I'm a sprightly young 48 with a two year old grand-daughter...
it's exactly the same with a "stable" Ubuntu... to upgrade everything requires changing the sources to point to the new version... oh, from what I can recall, your stable Debian will be upgraded automagically to the new stable Debian when it goes officially "stable... as AFAICR, the symlinks get pointed at the new directories and you don't have to do a thing... that's if you're using "stable" as a repository descriptor instead of using "woody" or is it "potato" now... dur...
thin client dylan... Office will be running on the application server... the headless machine with the horsepower... the desktop machine will only be displaying the active window output from Office running on the app server.
in any company facing having to upgrade all it's hardware to run the latest and greatest...
Microsoft's salesmen must be having major problems out there in the market... what with no offering to keep people from switching to Linux with thin client so that they can keep their existing hardware...
so announcing this means that the salesmen can now offer a solution to those companies contemplating switching to Linux which will mean that they can stick with the nice soft fuzzy blanket of the devil they know (Microsoft) rather than the leap into the unknown of Linux...
and that's to deliberately go out of their way to bork any queries sent to google from IE and to mangle the layout of the returned data... and if that doesn't work, to deliberately rewrite the returned pages to use MSN adverts whose keywords match the search terms and dump the google ads.
It will be dirty... but with a tame DOJ, they can hold off Google's lawyers long enough for Google to go under.
If you get a popular enough torrent you can easily kill a tracker just like any other server. Going to a trackerless setup eliminates one of the few bottlenecks in the BT setup.
Correct, currently, a slashdotted tracker isn't very pretty for those already in the swarm...
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bzzt, yes he was... don't forget that in EPII he slaughtered an entire village to avenge his mother's death...
what images??? I don't have to type in a "text" from an image to post
What .gif images???
'scuse me... I can see why a word processing app and its documents should have a W icon, but why on earth should a spreadsheet program and its documents have an X icon???
It would appear that I just got modded redundant for pointing out the illogicality of the original redundant mod!!! wtf...
the problems come when things like books and materials come from one source of funding like the LEA, and IT stuff like Software and hardware comes from national sources... then the savings don't get passed to the other funding... also managers like to be in charge of large budgets... the size of their budget is a bragging factor... the only way they enjoy cutting their budget is when it results in higher profits and in this case, cutting their budget will not result in profit for their cost centre. What we need is for the bean counters to get involved in it, then they'd force cuts from above. Such as why do you need O2k3 Pro at £450 per seat when you can have OOo for free??? provide a fully justified business case for each seat that must have O2K3...
If it really turns out that they are merely creating documents that have no dependence upon the fancy office automation features of O2K3, then OOo will do the job just as well...
Sadly, Microsoft's Marketing team keep selling this dream of Office automation when in reality, most offices never use it.
yes... the different layouts of certain menus in Office 97 and Office 2003 threw me today... could I find where to turn off view changes on screen??? in 2k3 it's changed from tools:track changes to the view menu and changed name to "markup"... there's lots of bloody annoying changes...
it's Friday... time for the weekly flamefest...
htf can the first topic related post get modded redundant???
what they're going to release next year that they claim to be Longhorn, will really be a rebadged XP with a shiny Avalon front end... a fancy pager, a reskinned Media player, a hastily bolted on fancy filesystem search feature, some new gewgaws and the next version of IE with simple Tabs...
meanwhile, the real Longhorn recedes even further into the mists of vapourware...
Linux and OSX Tiger must really be hurting them...
I've got my tin-foil hat on... hip, hip, hip, hooray...
neither... they're both ridiculously old fashioned... I much prefer nano, small footprint and gets the job of editing text files done with no fuss.
bzzztt... wrong... if the ability to sneak into the movie theater wasn't there... you would be faced with the choice of either paying, or staying away and waiting for it to come out on DVD... so there is loss.
Because p2p is easily available, then there is Loss... Loss from those who'd have stumped up to go to the theater rather than miss it...
the domain's apparently up for sale on GoDaddy.com...
get enough ram and you won't be swapping... makes the "swap file twice the size of ram" irrelevant for the average desktop user... now servers... that's different.
Here is a field full of them...
a formal letter is the first step of many that could result in Microsoft being banned from selling it's products in the EU. It may seem sissy, but you've got to follow the protocol to the letter to avoid gifting Microsoft an escape hatch. Every i must be dotted, every t must be crossed... if there is anything the slightest wrong at any step along the way, you can bet your life that Microsoft's lawyers will be hollering for a dismissal with prejudice for failing to follow the correct procedure.
almost right... Think of the thieves as the spyware makers, Microsoft as the builders of your house, and you as the occupant...
Now my insurance policy requires me to have secure locks on the doors and windows from a list of approved types, the builders of my house actually installed good locks and latches which actually were on the list... now it's up to me to actually use the locks and latches... if I do and thieves still break in, then I'm covered by my insurance, if I failed to secure a door or window and they break in, then my insurers laugh in my face...
My builders, however, are not actually responsible for fitting decent locks to the doors and windows, they could just fit some really cheap and nasty ones that just about do the job, but it makes good business sense for them to do so as it is a selling point...
Microsoft currently, acording to the analogy, install the barest minimum in the way of locks, or else set stupid policies like users are admin by default and the default admin password is blank... It's up to me to make my system secure as ultimately, it's my data at risk... however, it would make good business sense for Microsoft to get their act together and start installing decent security and policies by default... just some clueless users are going to get all uppity about having to remember passwords and change to admin mode to install software...
Now I'm a bit confused as to why Congress have stepped in and outlawed spyware, but then, they probably are performing the same function as the lawmakers who've outlawed thievery and set penalties for it...
Us grandparents aren't quite as decrepit as you think we are... I'm a sprightly young 48 with a two year old grand-daughter...
it's exactly the same with a "stable" Ubuntu... to upgrade everything requires changing the sources to point to the new version... oh, from what I can recall, your stable Debian will be upgraded automagically to the new stable Debian when it goes officially "stable... as AFAICR, the symlinks get pointed at the new directories and you don't have to do a thing... that's if you're using "stable" as a repository descriptor instead of using "woody" or is it "potato" now... dur...
thin client dylan... Office will be running on the application server... the headless machine with the horsepower... the desktop machine will only be displaying the active window output from Office running on the app server.
Microsoft's salesmen must be having major problems out there in the market... what with no offering to keep people from switching to Linux with thin client so that they can keep their existing hardware...
so announcing this means that the salesmen can now offer a solution to those companies contemplating switching to Linux which will mean that they can stick with the nice soft fuzzy blanket of the devil they know (Microsoft) rather than the leap into the unknown of Linux...
It will be dirty... but with a tame DOJ, they can hold off Google's lawyers long enough for Google to go under.
Correct, currently, a slashdotted tracker isn't very pretty for those already in the swarm...