You father who is a mathematics lecturer (I assume at least high-school) and has a use for TeX is NOT the typical parent.
Sure he is, just like someone's father who, say, deals with finances and needs special tools to do that job, or a watch repair person has different tools for his job.
A person's profession doesn't make them any more/less typical. In ANY job I'm willing to bet one has to learn at least something that is not "typical" in order to competently do their job.
I guess I then have to ask what is computer "activity"? Is it simply moving the mouse around? I run a variety of OSes and not a single one sits at 100% idle. Ever. Unless the power is off.
I mentioned this in my previous post, but I could not find any meaningful info on Win-Spy's homepage WRT activity.
in addition to Win-Spy's homepage. What exactly does Win-Spy capture? What happens when the PC goes into screensaver mode? Do screencaptures still take place behind the scenes?
I worked in a government office for a few years, and it's quite conceiveable that you could fire up an app (Solitaire in this case), then walk away to a meeting for hours-on-end (taxpayer waste, if I ever saw any).
I wonder if there isn't a whole lot more to the story that we're not getting. Any boss (or sysadmin, for that matter) worth their salt will admit to office "downtime" occasionally. I keep a browser window open all day long, usually with slashdot loaded, but that doesn't mean that's what fills my day.
and it's not bad at all. It was a total impulse buy. But I actually use the weather, calendar and news briefs on it. I don't do much rural travel, so the coverage for me has been pretty good.
I will mention, though, that if you get on an airplane with it you should turn the radio off, although I doubt anyone would know the difference. It just looks like a big watch.
Had I known any better I would have opted for the Suunto model - much nicer looking and water-resistent.
Cubase on the ST was more stable and usable 12 or more years ago than the same software under Windows. I gave up trying to get accurate, fast hihats on my PC, instead using Cakewalk (which is inferior to Cubase in practically every other way).
Couple of things...
Cubase from 12 years ago is nothing like Cubase of today, ST or Windows. They do very different things, although MIDI has always been there. If you want what Cubase offers today, there's no way to get an ST to handle everything it does. You need to go with either a Mac or a PC. Cubase of today is a complete production environment, 12 years ago it was very much not that.
Second, your statement regarding Cakewalk being inferior is out of date, as well as misleading. Cakewalk what? Sonar? Home Studio? Both Cubase and Sonar do eaxctly the same thing, albeit with a different workflow, which makes your statement subjective at best.
What worries me is that acquisitions tend to have lots of problems. I myself was working in a.com that got acquired by a.bomb. It was a terrible experience. It would be a pity if SuSE went that way. We need to watch SuSE for the next year or so, and see what happens.
The good thing is, the best parts of SUSE are now opensourced, which means that if we as a community don't like what Novell's doing with it, we can always take it back.
If you are not paying for codecs, then you are stealing.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what it is I'm buying, but I always thought I was buying content - and I buy quite a lot of it. What I choose to use to play it should have no bearing on the content, should it?
I'm always fascinated with companies who completely miss the boat on a market. I've been able to play encrypted DVDs with menus/navigation for a couple of years now with completely free software (Ogle/Okle/associated libs). And it works well.
These companies can whine all they want to me about libdvdcss and libdvdread not being legit, but I get them from reputable sources, linked many times from Linux distributor's official sites.
Had PowerDVD been available a couple of years ago, I may have taken notice, but now it's too little, too late.
They didn't have VMWare. Looking around, I noticed they didn't even have any distribution of Linux. And no software at all that runs under Linux. (Unless you count games like RTCW where you download the binaries from the website.)
I was at a Best Buy yesterday in Emeryville. They had both RedHat WS and Suse 9.1. They also had Rekall (sorry, don't use it - don't like the company), as well as a couple of BSD app collections on CD. And trythfully, I've never seen VMWare in any store.
I think it really depends on the store's client base whether Linux and apps are stocked or not.
I go to Europe every year - I'm American, and I consistently get excellent service just about wherever I go, be it a hotel, airport, restaurant. But I speak the language where I go (Italy). Of course, I have an accent, but it doesn't sound American. Most people think I'm from either the Netherlands or somewhere in Scandinavia. This last year was a bit different than other years I've gone. I received the same great service I always have... until a situation would arise where I needed to show my identity. As soon as I would show my passport, things would change. The friendliness would subside, casualness of the conversation would turn more formal. Instead of a "Thanks, I hope you enjoy your stay. I recommend the restaurant on the corner", I would get a simple "Thank you".
Our image internationally has been damaged pretty bad as of late. My experience is in a country that is considered a close ally with the US. I can only imagine the treatment from a non-US-friendly country.
Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape do not have this particular problem, both because they don't use a plugin...
Actually, Mozilla most definitely does use a plugin. Type about:plugin or choose Help:About Plugins from the menu and you will see nppdf32.dll as the plugin under Windows and nppdf.so under Linux if you've installed the plugin. Agreed that with these plugins the file is presented as complete, though.
Either this is just a fabrication, or you really don't know what you're doing.
I don't like IE any more than anyone else around here - and I use Mozilla exclusively, but come on...
A server-side error is a server-side error and no matter what browser you use, that won't change. What more likely happened was that during you're panic-time, the admins fixed whatever was causing the server-side error.
I ask you, how can a comment praising Fahrenheit 9/11 without providing any supporting proof be modded +5 informative, while a comment questioning the validity of the movie is modded down into oblivion as Overrated?
Well, for starters, I think most Americans are unhappy with the current government. I can't speak for the midwest, as I live in California, but most people I know hate what Bush&Co. have done with the country, and this movie is just a convenient means to point the finger at him.
I'll be the annoying guy who recommends a different distribution: SUSE. Everything, every single thing you complained about in your post, save for the kernel recompile - which I agree, I have no desire to do either - can be done in one single place: YaST.
Don't know what xmms does? Hover your mouse over the icon for a sec... it'll tell you exactly what it does in both KDE and Gnome. I can't speak for esd, because I don't use Enlightenment, but if you're even mentioning mdadm or hpjs, you're just trolling.
So, please, complain all you want about Fedora, but don't complain that noone's got it covered for easy desktop managememt.
Windows doesn't even include many third party apps they could, they are so cheap. How much does it take to add an extra disk of apps, even all the freeware windows stuff out there?
I think the reason would be they'd then be held responsible for those apps by users. And they can't possibly be held accountable for software they didn't write.
With Linux, you tend to have a higher comfort level amongst users WRT other apps and those users generally know where to look should problems arise. Not to put the technical Windows user down, but certainly average Joe would not know where to begin to look should he find any problems with an app. I think MS knows this and they know that the clueless user will try to bother them with something that they shouldn't need to be involved with.
You know, I've tried really hard to get into some of the american mags, both tech and music, and I gotta say, I prefer the UK mags. American mags have WAY too much advertising and not nearly as much in the was of tutorials as the UK mags do.
Not to mention that a lot of the UK mags have CDs glued to them.
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Sure he is, just like someone's father who, say, deals with finances and needs special tools to do that job, or a watch repair person has different tools for his job.
A person's profession doesn't make them any more/less typical. In ANY job I'm willing to bet one has to learn at least something that is not "typical" in order to competently do their job.
They wound't have to buy anything to get YaST. It's already open-sourced and recently GPL'ed.
Don't know where you get that from. I got a compiler with my version(s) - SUSE 8.0, 9.0 and 9.1.
There are lots, and I mean lots of application install options with SUSE. All you really need to do is take a look on the DVD.
YaST is already open-sourced. Has been for quite some time now.
I mentioned this in my previous post, but I could not find any meaningful info on Win-Spy's homepage WRT activity.
I worked in a government office for a few years, and it's quite conceiveable that you could fire up an app (Solitaire in this case), then walk away to a meeting for hours-on-end (taxpayer waste, if I ever saw any).
I wonder if there isn't a whole lot more to the story that we're not getting. Any boss (or sysadmin, for that matter) worth their salt will admit to office "downtime" occasionally. I keep a browser window open all day long, usually with slashdot loaded, but that doesn't mean that's what fills my day.
That would be the catholic calendar. Each day is Saint (person you were named after)'s day.
I will mention, though, that if you get on an airplane with it you should turn the radio off, although I doubt anyone would know the difference. It just looks like a big watch.
Had I known any better I would have opted for the Suunto model - much nicer looking and water-resistent.
Couple of things...
Cubase from 12 years ago is nothing like Cubase of today, ST or Windows. They do very different things, although MIDI has always been there. If you want what Cubase offers today, there's no way to get an ST to handle everything it does. You need to go with either a Mac or a PC. Cubase of today is a complete production environment, 12 years ago it was very much not that.
Second, your statement regarding Cakewalk being inferior is out of date, as well as misleading. Cakewalk what? Sonar? Home Studio? Both Cubase and Sonar do eaxctly the same thing, albeit with a different workflow, which makes your statement subjective at best.
The good thing is, the best parts of SUSE are now opensourced, which means that if we as a community don't like what Novell's doing with it, we can always take it back.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what it is I'm buying, but I always thought I was buying content - and I buy quite a lot of it. What I choose to use to play it should have no bearing on the content, should it?
These companies can whine all they want to me about libdvdcss and libdvdread not being legit, but I get them from reputable sources, linked many times from Linux distributor's official sites.
Had PowerDVD been available a couple of years ago, I may have taken notice, but now it's too little, too late.
I was at a Best Buy yesterday in Emeryville. They had both RedHat WS and Suse 9.1. They also had Rekall (sorry, don't use it - don't like the company), as well as a couple of BSD app collections on CD. And trythfully, I've never seen VMWare in any store.
I think it really depends on the store's client base whether Linux and apps are stocked or not.
Our image internationally has been damaged pretty bad as of late. My experience is in a country that is considered a close ally with the US. I can only imagine the treatment from a non-US-friendly country.
Actually, Mozilla most definitely does use a plugin. Type about:plugin or choose Help:About Plugins from the menu and you will see nppdf32.dll as the plugin under Windows and nppdf.so under Linux if you've installed the plugin. Agreed that with these plugins the file is presented as complete, though.
I don't like IE any more than anyone else around here - and I use Mozilla exclusively, but come on...
A server-side error is a server-side error and no matter what browser you use, that won't change. What more likely happened was that during you're panic-time, the admins fixed whatever was causing the server-side error.
Well, for starters, I think most Americans are unhappy with the current government. I can't speak for the midwest, as I live in California, but most people I know hate what Bush&Co. have done with the country, and this movie is just a convenient means to point the finger at him.
Don't know what xmms does? Hover your mouse over the icon for a sec... it'll tell you exactly what it does in both KDE and Gnome. I can't speak for esd, because I don't use Enlightenment, but if you're even mentioning mdadm or hpjs, you're just trolling.
So, please, complain all you want about Fedora, but don't complain that noone's got it covered for easy desktop managememt.
You added nothing to the thread.
Other than you're just as much an anit-Linux zealot as any Linux zealot is.
This is an OEM package and does not contain manuals or technical support.
Does Microsoft actually allow the sale of an OEM version without the hardware? That would surprise me if htey did.
I think the reason would be they'd then be held responsible for those apps by users. And they can't possibly be held accountable for software they didn't write.
With Linux, you tend to have a higher comfort level amongst users WRT other apps and those users generally know where to look should problems arise. Not to put the technical Windows user down, but certainly average Joe would not know where to begin to look should he find any problems with an app. I think MS knows this and they know that the clueless user will try to bother them with something that they shouldn't need to be involved with.
Microsoft already has. Try installing Office 2003 under CrossOver. You get a dialog box telling you you're running the wrong OS.
That's an obscure example, but I'm sure I could come up with something more common, say, like printers or scanners.
Bottom line, it's not in thrid party developers' interest to keep supporting older stuff. They want you to buy their new products.
Do you even know how maglev works? Why on earth would you think that maglev would be
a: efficient
b: affordable
or c: even doable in a 4 mile stretch?
"Oooh!. Maglev! Let's do that!" Try to get beyond the buzzwords.
Not to mention that a lot of the UK mags have CDs glued to them.