Right, but MS *HAD* announced it was reaching EOL much earlier at one point, so I was using that fact to make the assumption that they must never have planned for Office 2003 to support Win98
Okay, cubes and projectors are all well and good, and probably cheaper, but "Just as portable" ? What are you smoking?
The displacement of a projector (even a mini) and a cube is like 5x that of Laptop. Plus you have to lug around a keyboard and several cables. And for the projector, you need a white wall or screen.
With a laptop, you only need a mouse+pad. Plus you can set it up anywhere easily in mere seconds.
I would buy if it was an A64. I am looking for something to run 64bit Gentoo... no good options right now, other than Voodoo, and they take like 2 months to ship.
High ghz P4s just aren't interesting anymore (I have a 2.6 P4 OCed to 3.2 and it is quite boring actually)
At $40+, you are paying for support, brand, and peace of mind. That is 'support' as in technical support for yourself, and financial support for the developer.
At $3, all you are paying for is media costs and s&h.
I agree with your last point, Windows has little use for environmental variables. Its mostly just for compatability with older programs that do not use the registry.
There is a seperate utility called setx.exe that you can get from Microsoft's site that changes env. variables permanently.
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Perhaps we could send them postcards? ;)
I distinctly remember reading awhile back that the WINE feature set encompassed much of win98 but _NONE_ of 2K or XP.
So I'm curious, when did this change and how much of 2K and XP does it actually support nowdays?
Right, but MS *HAD* announced it was reaching EOL much earlier at one point, so I was using that fact to make the assumption that they must never have planned for Office 2003 to support Win98
This is because Codeweaver's Crossover Office is based on WINE which is a compatibility layer for Windows 98 programs.
And I assume MS Office 2003 does not support Win98 since its reaching EOL.
I believe there is a python scripting extension that you can enable in OOo at install time.
I haven't tried it out myself, but python is the ideal scripting language so its definately a step in the right direction.
Which raises the question, does MS Office for OS X use Cocoa or whatever Apple's proprietary gui lib is called?
If so they'd have a lot of widget work to do to get it to run on a free *nix...
Which I realized immediately after posting, but the point is the same.
I doubt there is a 666 area code, people would freak out.
I'm thinking car, plane, coffee shop, class, work, and maybe bicycle if I can figure out some way to mount it ;)
I've owned heavy laptops in the past. It is not a big deal. Just get a good backpack or carrying strap.
Shuttle has bundled Mandrake with it's barebones and motherboards for a long time now.
Yeah, I've kept tabs on the M6807.
It's largest flaw is only 64megs of video ram. That was the problem with the original Voodoo Envy M855 as well, though they fixed that quick.
Who the hell wants the latest in greatest in processors if the video ram size was standard four years ago?
Well, Emachines was the first to market. Hopefully other brands will follow suit in the near future.
Okay, cubes and projectors are all well and good, and probably cheaper, but "Just as portable" ? What are you smoking?
The displacement of a projector (even a mini) and a cube is like 5x that of Laptop. Plus you have to lug around a keyboard and several cables. And for the projector, you need a white wall or screen.
With a laptop, you only need a mouse+pad. Plus you can set it up anywhere easily in mere seconds.
I would buy if it was an A64. I am looking for something to run 64bit Gentoo... no good options right now, other than Voodoo, and they take like 2 months to ship.
High ghz P4s just aren't interesting anymore (I have a 2.6 P4 OCed to 3.2 and it is quite boring actually)
Its a joke... some old cultures (notably the Hebrews aka Jews/Israelites/Yahwehites/etc) used to regard uncircumcised people as savages.
What does rfc1149 have to do with Interplanetary Ethernet, pray tell?
Who said anything about the FSF? We were discussing the BBC article which meantions "zealots", and the GPL license itself.
The FSF's position on what should be done with "ALL software published" has _NOTHING_ to do with the issues at hand.
I've often thought /. should automagically mirror the text of articles as a "courtesy" to sites with low bandwidth.
After all, Google stores text cache so it must be legal, right?
[I] [wonder], [did] [Business Week] [paraphrase] [Linus's] [responses] [enough] ?
I'd sure like to see an unedited version of the interview... as published it is damn near unreadable.
At $40+, you are paying for support, brand, and peace of mind. That is 'support' as in technical support for yourself, and financial support for the developer.
At $3, all you are paying for is media costs and s&h.
Get a grip, man!
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x86 Solaris, anyone?
That is very funny, thanks for the info.
Here is an interesting FAQ about the new Mobile Athlon 64 processor.
Personally, I am waiting for some vendors other than emachines to release a notebook with this chip.
I am hoping for a configuration like this:
Athlon 64 3000 or 3200
Mobility Radeon 9600 128 MB
60-80 GB 7200 RPM HD
512 MB ram single stick or a full 1024 MB
1280x???? display
I agree with your last point, Windows has little use for environmental variables. Its mostly just for compatability with older programs that do not use the registry.
There is a seperate utility called setx.exe that you can get from Microsoft's site that changes env. variables permanently.
Of course it is not suprising. In fact, I thought it was common knowledge. But appartently a few people didn't know it...