Remove your account from admin group, but keep it in wheel group. That way Finder* will ask you for admin/root passwd when you drag a new app bundle to Applications folder, so you can no longer put just anything there. This is what I'm doing.
However, it still seems that the folders created there are owned by you, so this is rather imperfect solution.
Fast user switching is theoretically a better one, but not on my 12" PBook with 1024x768 resolution due to an almost Dock-class UI design failure.
*) A Panther feature. In Jaguar you're forced to use a terminal in this case.
...I reverse red the title. I did read that it said: "Why You Should Choose OO.org Over MS Office". And now the title of my post (parent) really sucks.
First: My primary office suite is currently OOo 1.0.3, which is what I'm running on top of Apple's X11 on Mac OS X.
That said, the only full featured native office suite for my platform seems to be MS Office, but (my anti-MS ideological questions aside) I've been reluctant to purchase a license, as it does not have Finnish language tools (spell check and hyphenation), even though using native apps - even MS ones - is a pleasure comparing to any X11 equivalents. But suddenly, MS has announced that the upcoming Office 2004 for Mac will fix that problem, which has made me consider purchasing a license. (OOo for Mac/X11 does not have Finnish support either, but at least I don't have to pay for the lack of it.)
And yes, I do need proper MS Office file formats support. Textedit.app's doc support is far from adequate, but that of OOo's is good. And I really need that Excel support too. PPT, OTOH, does not matter.
Well, even if we wouldn't want to use se same systems as majority does, we do want to interact with them - and that would be hell a lot of easier, if majority would run a system based on open standards instead of some propriertary crap from Redmond.
You could still run Openstep/GNU/Hurd, if you would think that "GnoKDE/Linux is crap as everybody's using it", and it would probably still make your life easier that it is nowadays.
So they included that stupid rock called Pluto, too? Luckily not that Sedna, next step would probably had been including every known asteroid that happens to be circulating sun.
I mean, you wouldn't want someone like Bush (who has the mental age of a 3 year old) in charge of any nukes...oh..wait...never mind.
I wouldn't want anyone to be in charge of any nukes... I wouldn't want any nukes be existing at all. I don't like any lesser weapons either. But alas, this is the earth and we are only humans, so nukes still exist and someone has to be in charge.
However, what comes to the mental age of GWB, I do agree...
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So when is Bill Gates getting his reserved seat on the UN Security Council?
Bill Gates? On Security Council? We're doomed!
You know, I always get nervous when I hear Bill's name mentioned in connection with word "Security".
What you suggest implies that the account mom should run would not be an admin account. All well, except that the automatic update feature of Mac OS X does not function unless you are logged in as admin, which ruins everything if you did not plan to be doing the check personally every other day. I know, as I am normally running my own OS X box with an account which belongs to wheel group and sudoers list, but not to admin group. Everything works well, except that the only thing the automatically triggered system update does is a message it puts to syslog, which goes like "user not admin, won't check anything".
Can't check that now though, as I am currently at work typing this on W2k machine.
Yes, you are. If you would really be one of us liberal left-wing socialist radicals who have got our english training in order to become terrorists, you would know that although both Finnish and Swedish are mandatory in Finnish schools only 10 % or so of those 90 % of population who have Finnish as their mother tongue actually are fluent with it. English, on the other hand, is not mandatory for anyone, but practically everyone in schools are actually reading it as their major foreign language.
The stereotype of a typical Swedish teacher in a Finnish school for Finnish-speakers is near-sixties mouse-sized woman, who desperately tries to teach when teenage boys are mainly shooting each other with erasers at the back side of the class... and yes, I do have some practical experience of that, and I am also currently an undergraduate CS student, who have no idea how to pass that mandatory Swedish exam, which all students are required to take before they can graduate...
And it would probably also be supported by Macromedia. Now, if your MS Office installation suddenly stops working under WINE (after patching it, for example), your only hope is to consult WINE developers. But in this case, you could also go to Macromedia and complain: Hey, WTF? I installed Flash upgrade x, and now all I'll get is a WINE error message. What should I do?
Now that is a significant difference - at least if your ability to run your business depends about the functionality of that software.
I'm often wondering why is this? I mean, they already have the code working on Linux, and it runs all in userspace, right? I would be surprised if it would even had any significant assembly optimisations. So, shouldn't this be mostly a simple matter of recompiling the stuff for PPC Linux and offering it for download?
You sure fill those PDF forms with xpdf too? Quite commonly used by government agencies in Finland.
OTOH, you're still right that reades sucks on Linux - you can only fill the forms with ascii characters, which is not so funny when your alphabet uses 3 extra characters in addition to English ones...
I don't really think this would happen so easily. Normal people have no glue how to read source code and recompile software, and Windows boxes normally don't even have any devtools installed. Now, if some form of DRM or tracking would be mandated by law and redistributing modified versions would be prohibited, one would have to go to crack sites to search for cracked (==recompiled) binaries. Yes, script kiddies are capable to do this, but there are still huge masses who will buy Win XP because of product activation, as they've no idea how to work around it.
I've often thought about this, when I've heard that DVD CCA probably wouldn't grant CSS license for Linux player implementation that would use XF86 drivers to do Macrovision, as recompiling X server from modified sources would remove it. But what if there are no packages made from modified sources easily available for any distros? I, for one, probably would not have the skill to crack that X server, unless there would be a configure option for Macrovision...
If I've understood right, those are one year support prices. So if it is patches you want, then you should multiply the prices with the amount of years (5-7) you can get MS patches by purchasing a Windows license to compare RH's prices to MS.
OTOH, for MS products it is completely impossible to get patches at all after MS has EOL'd particular Windows version. And RH cannot sit over their holes, either...
I was playing with options to mod you down or your parent back up, but I decided to reply instead.
Kyoto protocol was voted against 95 to 0 in the senate, and therefore had no chance of being legally binding in the US. We don't live in a dictatorship a president signing a treaty is mostly symbolic.
Great. So the US Citizens are not interested at all about global warming issues - just their own gasoline prices - and the US is already the largest single emitter of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, as states in the CIA World Factbook. Maybe we should hope that Florida will drown soon and Midwest tornados will permanently become more common and more powerful than ever.
I'm sick with Americans defending the moral failures of Bush administration based on technical facts. Applies to this case extremely well.
2. The provisions of the ICC would have been unconstitutional in the US. Therefore any such treaty would be null and void, and a crime against the american people.
This especially makes me sick. Fix that fscking constitution! I don't know about details of the US legislation, but I live in EU/Finland and here the constitution can be changed immediately if 5/6 of representatives are for it, or little slower with single majority if the changes still accepted during the next electoral period. Actually, our original constitution (written during 1920s) was rewritten during late nineties and former five different constitutional acts were merged into one during the process.
It seems to me that the constitution is viewed like some sort of holy paper in the US, which cannot be altered at all. This is ridiculous, as in this case where your statement actually means that US constitution sets US citizens above international law - for me this has as much logic as in a state law that attempts to override a federal law. In other words; if your constitution would be in conflict with such an international law/treaty, then your constitution should be null and void for that part, however excellent piece of legislation it might otherwise be.
Well, but it's 7.00 AM and I'm still up, so may be I'll just leave it here this time, an your 3rd point was a bit more valid anyway - besides, some US moderator will probably mod me down nevertheless... always the same when you try to suggest some real changes, but not that people would protest about changes any less in Europe...
Who the hell there modded me flamebait?!! Isn't it a generally know joke that "Apple is dying", what?
Hell, I'm writing this on my own 12" Powerbook. And you can be damn sure I would not have purchased that if I'd really believe that Apple would die anytime soon.
If I truly deserved downmodding, then I think I was redundant but definitely not flaming. But actually, I think you should go and read those moderator guidelines, and then concentrate using your points in promoting instead of demoting, as I'm currently doing with mine.
Instead of picking Napster, which is doomed to failure, they instead went with a company who has a solid, proven track record of being THE industry leader in online music distribution and top-of-the-line MP3/AAC players.
But hey. We all know Apple is dying too, don't we?
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Remove your account from admin group, but keep it in wheel group. That way Finder* will ask you for admin/root passwd when you drag a new app bundle to Applications folder, so you can no longer put just anything there. This is what I'm doing.
However, it still seems that the folders created there are owned by you, so this is rather imperfect solution.
Fast user switching is theoretically a better one, but not on my 12" PBook with 1024x768 resolution due to an almost Dock-class UI design failure.
*) A Panther feature. In Jaguar you're forced to use a terminal in this case.
I'm really annoyed by the sun shaped clippy ripoff though. Haven't figured out how to disable it yet.
1. Open "Help" menu
2. Uncheck "Help Agent"
This was from OOo 1.0.3/English/Apple X11
...I reverse red the title. I did read that it said: "Why You Should Choose OO.org Over MS Office". And now the title of my post (parent) really sucks.
Note to self: Never post when drunk...
First: My primary office suite is currently OOo 1.0.3, which is what I'm running on top of Apple's X11 on Mac OS X.
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That said, the only full featured native office suite for my platform seems to be MS Office, but (my anti-MS ideological questions aside) I've been reluctant to purchase a license, as it does not have Finnish language tools (spell check and hyphenation), even though using native apps - even MS ones - is a pleasure comparing to any X11 equivalents. But suddenly, MS has announced that the upcoming Office 2004 for Mac will fix that problem, which has made me consider purchasing a license. (OOo for Mac/X11 does not have Finnish support either, but at least I don't have to pay for the lack of it.)
And yes, I do need proper MS Office file formats support. Textedit.app's doc support is far from adequate, but that of OOo's is good. And I really need that Excel support too. PPT, OTOH, does not matter.
Any non-MS solution suggestions for me,
And now that the link is on slashdot, the admins at the NY Times will wonder why AlQuaida suddenly is their biggest partner!
/. is bigger than Google now?
So according to your logic,
And I naturally mean GNUstep, not Openstep... damn all these different steps!
Well, even if we wouldn't want to use se same systems as majority does, we do want to interact with them - and that would be hell a lot of easier, if majority would run a system based on open standards instead of some propriertary crap from Redmond.
You could still run Openstep/GNU/Hurd, if you would think that "GnoKDE/Linux is crap as everybody's using it", and it would probably still make your life easier that it is nowadays.
So slowly? I always thougt it would be a NP class problem if the features from both KDE and GNOME apps are added to one app...
;-)
Or was that a combination of OOo and Mozilla? Well, nevermind.
competition needs to wittle it down slowly to the point where it's size and market power reflect the quality and value of its offerings
You mean when it's forced to file chapter 11?
So they included that stupid rock called Pluto, too? Luckily not that Sedna, next step would probably had been including every known asteroid that happens to be circulating sun.
I mean, you wouldn't want someone like Bush (who has the mental age of a 3 year old) in charge of any nukes...oh..wait...never mind.
I wouldn't want anyone to be in charge of any nukes... I wouldn't want any nukes be existing at all. I don't like any lesser weapons either. But alas, this is the earth and we are only humans, so nukes still exist and someone has to be in charge.
However, what comes to the mental age of GWB, I do agree...
So when is Bill Gates getting his reserved seat on the UN Security Council?
Bill Gates? On Security Council? We're doomed!
You know, I always get nervous when I hear Bill's name mentioned in connection with word "Security".
What you suggest implies that the account mom should run would not be an admin account. All well, except that the automatic update feature of Mac OS X does not function unless you are logged in as admin, which ruins everything if you did not plan to be doing the check personally every other day. I know, as I am normally running my own OS X box with an account which belongs to wheel group and sudoers list, but not to admin group. Everything works well, except that the only thing the automatically triggered system update does is a message it puts to syslog, which goes like "user not admin, won't check anything".
Can't check that now though, as I am currently at work typing this on W2k machine.
Yes, you are. If you would really be one of us liberal left-wing socialist radicals who have got our english training in order to become terrorists, you would know that although both Finnish and Swedish are mandatory in Finnish schools only 10 % or so of those 90 % of population who have Finnish as their mother tongue actually are fluent with it. English, on the other hand, is not mandatory for anyone, but practically everyone in schools are actually reading it as their major foreign language.
The stereotype of a typical Swedish teacher in a Finnish school for Finnish-speakers is near-sixties mouse-sized woman, who desperately tries to teach when teenage boys are mainly shooting each other with erasers at the back side of the class... and yes, I do have some practical experience of that, and I am also currently an undergraduate CS student, who have no idea how to pass that mandatory Swedish exam, which all students are required to take before they can graduate...
But hey, read the release notes of Linux kernel v. 0.01; there was a hard-coded Finnish keyboard!
Unfortunately, at the same time it probably lacked proper support for other charsets than ASCII...
Gloin, Gimli's father, was on both books too - on LotR he appeared during Elrond's council.
He was even shown in the FotR movie, although he remained silent there.
And it would probably also be supported by Macromedia. Now, if your MS Office installation suddenly stops working under WINE (after patching it, for example), your only hope is to consult WINE developers. But in this case, you could also go to Macromedia and complain: Hey, WTF? I installed Flash upgrade x, and now all I'll get is a WINE error message. What should I do?
Now that is a significant difference - at least if your ability to run your business depends about the functionality of that software.
I'm often wondering why is this? I mean, they already have the code working on Linux, and it runs all in userspace, right? I would be surprised if it would even had any significant assembly optimisations. So, shouldn't this be mostly a simple matter of recompiling the stuff for PPC Linux and offering it for download?
You sure fill those PDF forms with xpdf too? Quite commonly used by government agencies in Finland.
OTOH, you're still right that reades sucks on Linux - you can only fill the forms with ascii characters, which is not so funny when your alphabet uses 3 extra characters in addition to English ones...
I don't really think this would happen so easily. Normal people have no glue how to read source code and recompile software, and Windows boxes normally don't even have any devtools installed. Now, if some form of DRM or tracking would be mandated by law and redistributing modified versions would be prohibited, one would have to go to crack sites to search for cracked (==recompiled) binaries. Yes, script kiddies are capable to do this, but there are still huge masses who will buy Win XP because of product activation, as they've no idea how to work around it.
I've often thought about this, when I've heard that DVD CCA probably wouldn't grant CSS license for Linux player implementation that would use XF86 drivers to do Macrovision, as recompiling X server from modified sources would remove it. But what if there are no packages made from modified sources easily available for any distros? I, for one, probably would not have the skill to crack that X server, unless there would be a configure option for Macrovision...
If I've understood right, those are one year support prices. So if it is patches you want, then you should multiply the prices with the amount of years (5-7) you can get MS patches by purchasing a Windows license to compare RH's prices to MS.
OTOH, for MS products it is completely impossible to get patches at all after MS has EOL'd particular Windows version. And RH cannot sit over their holes, either...
I was playing with options to mod you down or your parent back up, but I decided to reply instead.
Kyoto protocol was voted against 95 to 0 in the senate, and therefore had no chance of being legally binding in the US. We don't live in a dictatorship a president signing a treaty is mostly symbolic.
Great. So the US Citizens are not interested at all about global warming issues - just their own gasoline prices - and the US is already the largest single emitter of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, as states in the CIA World Factbook. Maybe we should hope that Florida will drown soon and Midwest tornados will permanently become more common and more powerful than ever.
I'm sick with Americans defending the moral failures of Bush administration based on technical facts. Applies to this case extremely well.
2. The provisions of the ICC would have been unconstitutional in the US. Therefore any such treaty would be null and void, and a crime against the american people.
This especially makes me sick. Fix that fscking constitution! I don't know about details of the US legislation, but I live in EU/Finland and here the constitution can be changed immediately if 5/6 of representatives are for it, or little slower with single majority if the changes still accepted during the next electoral period. Actually, our original constitution (written during 1920s) was rewritten during late nineties and former five different constitutional acts were merged into one during the process.
It seems to me that the constitution is viewed like some sort of holy paper in the US, which cannot be altered at all. This is ridiculous, as in this case where your statement actually means that US constitution sets US citizens above international law - for me this has as much logic as in a state law that attempts to override a federal law. In other words; if your constitution would be in conflict with such an international law/treaty, then your constitution should be null and void for that part, however excellent piece of legislation it might otherwise be.
Well, but it's 7.00 AM and I'm still up, so may be I'll just leave it here this time, an your 3rd point was a bit more valid anyway - besides, some US moderator will probably mod me down nevertheless... always the same when you try to suggest some real changes, but not that people would protest about changes any less in Europe...
Who the hell there modded me flamebait?!! Isn't it a generally know joke that "Apple is dying", what?
Hell, I'm writing this on my own 12" Powerbook. And you can be damn sure I would not have purchased that if I'd really believe that Apple would die anytime soon.
If I truly deserved downmodding, then I think I was redundant but definitely not flaming. But actually, I think you should go and read those moderator guidelines, and then concentrate using your points in promoting instead of demoting, as I'm currently doing with mine.
Instead of picking Napster, which is doomed to failure, they instead went with a company who has a solid, proven track record of being THE industry leader in online music distribution and top-of-the-line MP3/AAC players.
But hey. We all know Apple is dying too, don't we?
"Welcome to Kalifornia"
Two options: Either
a) You're native in Finnish (California is Kalifornia in Finnish), or
b) You've used too much KDE