My finilization of this "update" is installing Mozilla Firefox, and replacing the Firefox icon with the IE icon. He will never notice, but it will save me the hell of "fixing" his computer in a couple of months.
I've said this before here, and I'll say it again: You're not doing any great service by tricking someone into thinking that IE is now somehow safe. A much better option would be to be honest and say "I had to clean up way too many things on you PC because of IE. I've installed Firefox - it's much safer than IE and you'd be better off using it". Not to mention that fact that you'd be giving credit where it was actually due.
For that reason I've switched to maps24.com. It seems to give more accurate results, for me at least. I don't know if they get their info from other sources - they must, since the results are different.
Most of your Win apps-only stuff can be handled through Crossover Office. Does wmv videos, IExplorer, Notes/Sametime. Yes, it's basically Wine, but Crossover is optimized for precisely these things.
That means course materials, enrollment, billing, grades, everything. Seriously, the more they can do self-service via a web portal, the easier it will be on you.
And you'll be able to do it all with OSS, if you like - PHP and Postgres or MySQL will get you most of what you need right there. Serve your study documents in someting everybody can read - PDFs of you don't want people changing things.
Hmmm. Personally, I like to hang actual "art" in my home. You know, the kind that the artist painstakingly created by hand in mediums such as oil, acrylic, watercolor, charcoal, etc., requiring no electronic equipment at all.
You make it sound as if digital art is less of an art form. Personally, I don't see that way. An artist can be just as painstaking in the digital realm as in the physical realm.
Add to that the 3D printers coming out and you could have some pretty wonderful and intersting sculptures.
I recently saw a demo of Sony's Qrio dream robot. I haven't seen Honda's demo, other than the videos on their web page, but Sony's seems to be a bit more intuitive with movements and interaction, particularly head movement. And it jumps and throws too.
I actually didn't have a problem with either movie's "ads", particularly I am Sam. He worked in a coffee place. Starbucks just happens to be the most recognizable in the US. If Peet's or Caribou coffee were bigger than Starbucks I wouldn't have had a problem with them either.
Have you used CUPS? It's quite easy ot set up a printer - local or network via CUPS. And it has support for literally hundreds of different printers. It's no more difficult to set up printing under Linux than any other platform, provided the drivers are there - and that can be a problem on any platform as well.
You're an idiot. Have you actually ever talked civilly with a spammer? The average spammer uses real, though automated, addresses and cares very much about bounces.
Why talk to a spammer "civilly" when my mail logs CLEARLY show the opposite of what you say.
My logs tell me that spammer blaast out as many addresses as possible, valid or not. Their goal is numbers sent, not numbers seen.
I guess I'm missing something. I'm using Firefox 0.10.1 and did not have any problems. I'll have to try 1.0 later on both Windows and Linux, but 0.10.1 seems fine. No hijacking.
The prices are a little bit on the high side, but you are buying support not the software for the most part and they are certainly not higher that Windows Server 2003 which they are setup to compete with.
A better comparison would be with something like SUSE Enterprise server - their direct competition.
The price difference, as well as the number of options available is an eye-opener.
I still don't think it would work in a major metropolitan area. I live in the SF bay area. Standing on a BART (or Muni) platform is a nightmare as it is. Can you imagine the backup at the station - the video show that stations are still needed - during rush hour? It'd take twice as long to get home I would think. People are much more inclined to crunch onto a big car knowing that it'll only be a few stops til they have to get off.
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I've said this before here, and I'll say it again: You're not doing any great service by tricking someone into thinking that IE is now somehow safe. A much better option would be to be honest and say "I had to clean up way too many things on you PC because of IE. I've installed Firefox - it's much safer than IE and you'd be better off using it". Not to mention that fact that you'd be giving credit where it was actually due.
For that reason I've switched to maps24.com. It seems to give more accurate results, for me at least. I don't know if they get their info from other sources - they must, since the results are different.
You know, Firefox has a plugin for that.
Most of your Win apps-only stuff can be handled through Crossover Office. Does wmv videos, IExplorer, Notes/Sametime. Yes, it's basically Wine, but Crossover is optimized for precisely these things.
And you'll be able to do it all with OSS, if you like - PHP and Postgres or MySQL will get you most of what you need right there. Serve your study documents in someting everybody can read - PDFs of you don't want people changing things.
Quick! Somebody get the computer to mod this guy up. Or down. Or... well, it'll do something eventually.
Follow the thread back to its start. We're talking about a browser, not a server.
No, but it might help to compare similar applications, not a server app with a desktop app.
You make it sound as if digital art is less of an art form. Personally, I don't see that way. An artist can be just as painstaking in the digital realm as in the physical realm.
Add to that the 3D printers coming out and you could have some pretty wonderful and intersting sculptures.
Overall, it just seems a bit smoother.
Obviously with phones you're only hearing half the conversation - unless of course you're using an annoying Nextel model.
You just go with what everyone knows.
Have you used CUPS? It's quite easy ot set up a printer - local or network via CUPS. And it has support for literally hundreds of different printers. It's no more difficult to set up printing under Linux than any other platform, provided the drivers are there - and that can be a problem on any platform as well.
You think so? Or was it a case of the UNIX workstation companies not evolving quickly enough to mach price/performance?
And had a snazzy start-up horn riff too.
http://www.memorystick.com/en/support/info.html lists a size of 2 gigs. Plenty big for a few movies.
Why talk to a spammer "civilly" when my mail logs CLEARLY show the opposite of what you say.
My logs tell me that spammer blaast out as many addresses as possible, valid or not. Their goal is numbers sent, not numbers seen.
I guess I'm missing something. I'm using Firefox 0.10.1 and did not have any problems. I'll have to try 1.0 later on both Windows and Linux, but 0.10.1 seems fine. No hijacking.
Sounds like fanboi ranting to me.
You could do what most people do when they order for a large company: Purchase your license through your hardware vendor.
That's what I've done for my SUSE cluster from IBM and my RHEL workstations from HP. And they both provide support at the OS level as well.
It's not rocket science.
A better comparison would be with something like SUSE Enterprise server - their direct competition.
The price difference, as well as the number of options available is an eye-opener.
I see this stated a lot, yet noone provides any meaningful figures. Notice I said meaningful. Anybody can and does pump up the numbers.
I'd give you a pat on the back, but your hand is in the way :-)
The sourceforge site says that no games are actually included. Just the MAME framework.
I still don't think it would work in a major metropolitan area. I live in the SF bay area. Standing on a BART (or Muni) platform is a nightmare as it is. Can you imagine the backup at the station - the video show that stations are still needed - during rush hour? It'd take twice as long to get home I would think. People are much more inclined to crunch onto a big car knowing that it'll only be a few stops til they have to get off.