A friend of mine, who uses nothing but Win XP called me one day. She had just purchased a new PC and, because her office PC had MS OFFice installed, she just assumed her new home PC would have it too.
She called in a panic one day, asking if I knew of anything that could generate Avery labels. It told her OO.o could and she could download it.
So, after downloading it, she called again, asking where that particlar menu function was, since it's not at all the same as MS Office. I told her, while I was on the phone with her, she generated her labels, and said "This is cool! And it's really free?"
Bottom line, it did what she wanted it to do, and now it's all she uses at home.
This argument of "only if you value your time" smacks of MS astroturfing. It's no longer valid.
If they were to include some screenshots of Writer, Calc, etc.,and mention compatibility with Office just as every other distribution that includes it does instead of that cheesy yellow crap, they might actually attract attention.
Well, that and actually run the ad in a subscriber-based newsparer, such as the Times, instead of a free rag.
Well, unless you live on a private farm, that is. If you live in the suburbs, most likely you're living in a development area of cookie-cutter houses. And when you lay out big bucks for that cookie-cutter of a box, you most likely have signed away any rights to modify the exterior of the house. And if you purchase new, there's probably not been any landscaping done. Can't afford for put in fresh sod and a couple of trees? There's a fine. So you scrape together enough to put said sod and trees in. Now one of your trees is dying. Oh. Another fine.
Face it, the american dream of suburban home ownership is long dead. You gain nothing by purchasing outside the city that you couldn't otherwise get within the city limits. In my experience, neighborhood and community spirit are a good deal stronger in the city too.
Since you're doing a reverse commute, why not get a bike (well, for spring/summer anyway)? It's an easy bike ride from UIC to Union station, and you could use your bike in Oak Brook. You also get the advantage of daily exercise.
I live in Wrigleyville, and have both a car and a bike. I'll bike wherever I can, if I can't use the El. About the only downside is dealing with drivers. They all drive with blinders on.
Add to the Internet:
1. Your car
2. Your cell phone
3. Your cable television
4. Your DVDs and home theater
5. Your iPod and headphones
My situation may be abnormal, but...
1. I rarely drive, since I live in a big city with good public transportation.
2. Said public transportation is underground for most of my trip, whic prevents me from using my cell phone.
3. That has declined drastically because of the internet.
4. Because people generally don't know how to behave in theaters, yes, definitely, I watch movies at home.
5. Much prefer a book on the train. Many times, someone will see what I'm reading and that will start a conversation.
What you wrote translates into English as "... than the point-and-grunt interface of today's the people".
Actually, no. It means "(the) masses" or "(the) general populace". That's what makes language so interesting: it tends to transmute over time.
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It has to do with Dapper's CUPS install. A well known problem. Google Dapper+CUPS and you'll see many complaints. FWIW, my printer is an HP PSC 2175, which worked beautifully in Breezy. Seems fresh installs don't suffer from this, only upgrades.
Same situation with Dapper+Touchpad. Again, a known problem. And it also worked flawlessly in Breezy.
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I know I'll get modded down for this, but...
I really like Ubuntu, but since I upgraded to Dapper from Breezy, things that used to work flawlessly are now either a pain to get working or still impossible.
three useful hacks off the top of my head: USB scanning - broken in Dapper. Haven' t found a way to fix it yet. USB printing - broken in Dapper, but found an answer in the Ubuntu forums. Touchpad driver - broken in Dapper. Haven't found a way to enable sidebar scrolling.
Any hacks mentioned to get these simple things working again?
All these things worked out of the box with Breezy.
Actually, On demand is much more than just HBO. It also includes films from IFC, Sundance, as well as all the other movie channels. Maybe you don't get the full offering where you're located.
On a side note, Rashomom was on On Demand a couple of months ago. Aside from the couple of HBO and Showtime series, lesser known movies are mainly why I use On Demand - I'm exposed to a lot of movies I would never otherwise watch.
Keep in mind that the majority of the world also doesn't need to run Visual Sudio.Net or SQL Server with a 20 Gig database. It's called "Server" for a reason.
Would you rather borwse movies from the sofa and click download...
Thank's called "On Demand" with Comcast. It's included with the subscription price. Many, many movies are free. The premium ones cost $3.99. And if you have a DVR, you are able to record the movie to that.
... while those with more money to spend on services are opting for cable modems."
I don't know that I agree with that. I definitely spend more on DSL than I would with either Cable or plain DSL from ATT (I get mine from Speakeasy). I'm one their Onelink plan, which means you don need a phone/line/number from your telco. I choose to pay more for my DSL because: 1) I get pretty incredible customer support from Speakeasy and 2) Speakeasy allows me to ANYTHING with my connection. I also have VoIP through them, but for my home business I also have another VoIP account with Broadvoice. My provider has no problem with this.
I've never had cable or internet access, so I can't compare with that, however, I used to have SBC and, while the were lower priced (although not really when you take into account the phone service needed), the service itself was horrible. So was their customer support.
I'm more than willing to pay a little extra to get everything I'm getting.
In fact, the EU functions very much like a unified country when it comes to economics. Just as in the US, trade moves freely between member states. Just as in the US, taxation varies from member state to member state. Just as in the US, citizens of member states are free to live and work in any other member state.
You know, every single item you mentioned has a smaller, local version somewhere in the US. If someone is really intent on following through with the logic, they could do it. It wouldn't be as convenient as using products from the big players, but it can definitely be done.
Proper training is important, particularly if you're going to be working with more than one flavor of Unix. Solaris (especially v10) is vastly different than any flavor of Linux you'll find. Same with HPUX, AIX or any other commercial flavor out there. Their administration tools are quite diferent between the diferent flavors. File locations are different (/usr/sbin/perl on IRIX, anyone?).
There are even some fairly substantial diferences between the two major Enterprise Linuxes (RH and SUSE).
In any case, all these companies offer training for their product line, usually at their headquarters and large cities. They're not cheap, but from what the asker says, that doesn't seem to be an issue.
But you will need a credit card. Purchase your ticket online. I haven't bought a ticket in years at the airport. If you lose your ticket, go to one of the many, many kiosks scattered around the airport and reprint your ticket.
Getting past the initial security line without an ID may be an issue though.
Granted, I won't give Google anything BUT my bookmarks, but I look at bookmarks as really nothing more than preferences.
I do, however, have an issue with giving them my history, cookies, passwords. But bookmarks? That's just a list of places I've visited (perhaps even in the distant past). My bookmark list is long and messy.
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Never used Kazaa, but the original Napster did indeed have a chat client. I used it quite a bit. Made a couple of friends that still keep in touch.
Or do as the Mozilla folk do: detect what you're running and take you to a big green download button for your OS.
She called in a panic one day, asking if I knew of anything that could generate Avery labels. It told her OO.o could and she could download it.
So, after downloading it, she called again, asking where that particlar menu function was, since it's not at all the same as MS Office. I told her, while I was on the phone with her, she generated her labels, and said "This is cool! And it's really free?"
Bottom line, it did what she wanted it to do, and now it's all she uses at home.
This argument of "only if you value your time" smacks of MS astroturfing. It's no longer valid.
Well, that and actually run the ad in a subscriber-based newsparer, such as the Times, instead of a free rag.
Seriously, that ad is going to attract noone.
Face it, the american dream of suburban home ownership is long dead. You gain nothing by purchasing outside the city that you couldn't otherwise get within the city limits. In my experience, neighborhood and community spirit are a good deal stronger in the city too.
Since you're doing a reverse commute, why not get a bike (well, for spring/summer anyway)? It's an easy bike ride from UIC to Union station, and you could use your bike in Oak Brook. You also get the advantage of daily exercise. I live in Wrigleyville, and have both a car and a bike. I'll bike wherever I can, if I can't use the El. About the only downside is dealing with drivers. They all drive with blinders on.
My situation may be abnormal, but...
1. I rarely drive, since I live in a big city with good public transportation.
2. Said public transportation is underground for most of my trip, whic prevents me from using my cell phone.
3. That has declined drastically because of the internet.
4. Because people generally don't know how to behave in theaters, yes, definitely, I watch movies at home.
5. Much prefer a book on the train. Many times, someone will see what I'm reading and that will start a conversation.
Actually, no. It means "(the) masses" or "(the) general populace". That's what makes language so interesting: it tends to transmute over time.
Same situation with Dapper+Touchpad. Again, a known problem. And it also worked flawlessly in Breezy.
I really like Ubuntu, but since I upgraded to Dapper from Breezy, things that used to work flawlessly are now either a pain to get working or still impossible.
three useful hacks off the top of my head: USB scanning - broken in Dapper. Haven' t found a way to fix it yet. USB printing - broken in Dapper, but found an answer in the Ubuntu forums. Touchpad driver - broken in Dapper. Haven't found a way to enable sidebar scrolling.
Any hacks mentioned to get these simple things working again?
All these things worked out of the box with Breezy.
On a side note, Rashomom was on On Demand a couple of months ago. Aside from the couple of HBO and Showtime series, lesser known movies are mainly why I use On Demand - I'm exposed to a lot of movies I would never otherwise watch.
Keep in mind that the majority of the world also doesn't need to run Visual Sudio .Net or SQL Server with a 20 Gig database.
It's called "Server" for a reason.
Thank's called "On Demand" with Comcast. It's included with the subscription price. Many, many movies are free. The premium ones cost $3.99. And if you have a DVR, you are able to record the movie to that.
$9.99 is way to high for what you're getting.
A whois gives SCO as the owner of the domain. And their DNS servers are from calderasystems.com.
I've never had cable or internet access, so I can't compare with that, however, I used to have SBC and, while the were lower priced (although not really when you take into account the phone service needed), the service itself was horrible. So was their customer support.
I'm more than willing to pay a little extra to get everything I'm getting.
Yet both groups manage to come up with advances.
In fact, the EU functions very much like a unified country when it comes to economics. Just as in the US, trade moves freely between member states. Just as in the US, taxation varies from member state to member state. Just as in the US, citizens of member states are free to live and work in any other member state.
That's called academia. It's always been that way in every institution of higher learning.
That's fine that you think things at work and at home. Once you put those thoughts in a PUBLIC place, it's fair game for any and all use.
The web is not anything that any one person can claim as his or her personal domain. It's there for all.
You know, every single item you mentioned has a smaller, local version somewhere in the US. If someone is really intent on following through with the logic, they could do it. It wouldn't be as convenient as using products from the big players, but it can definitely be done.
There are even some fairly substantial diferences between the two major Enterprise Linuxes (RH and SUSE).
In any case, all these companies offer training for their product line, usually at their headquarters and large cities. They're not cheap, but from what the asker says, that doesn't seem to be an issue.
Getting past the initial security line without an ID may be an issue though.
I do, however, have an issue with giving them my history, cookies, passwords. But bookmarks? That's just a list of places I've visited (perhaps even in the distant past). My bookmark list is long and messy.
If that gadget were her only phone number (which is increasingly the case with people it seems), I can definitely understand.
And as has been stated elsewhere here, it's completely unnecessary, yet common on slashdot.