I hear this online quite a bit, but talking to people in real life who actually own them, they're pretty happy with them. The last two desktops I've bought have been emachines w/athlons. They still perform well to this day (well, opne's less than a year old). I also recently bought an emachine widescreen laptop (m5310) that I really, really love. Redhat had some problems wiht it, but SuSE performs like a champ on it, ACPI included.
I won't comment on all of them (because I can't comment on something I'm not familiar with), but I will comment on 1) the OS. IT can be and has been made to look and act like Windows. You need look no further than Lindows; 2) I don't know what version of StarOffice/OpenOffice you'e using, but in my version (OO1.1) Ctrl-Space is what is used to insert a nnon-breaking space - that's out of the box, not something you have to configure. But let's say you want a function to perform differently: All you need to do is go to "Tools"... "Configure..." and configure it to your liking.
The examples you give most certainly do will not take "six months cursing all the little things that are different".
I've had the pleasure (for the most part) to see more than just a few people - some family, some friends, some co-workers - shift away from MS (both OS and Office) and the things you mention are not the problem. The problems come about when they wanted to take things like their macros from Office to OpenOffice, use their Access DB on Linux, etc. Of course those situations will cause problems. Until you see MS port their office suite to Linux (or shell out the bucks for Crossover Office), those will always be problems. And those problems aren't trivial to begin with. It took a long time for users to learn their macros and DBs.
I really wonder how many actually respond these days. I think earlier on there were more people that responded, but now, with all the subject mangling, I suspect far fewer respond.
I have no data to back this up, however.
What if (as is usually the case) the spammer has forged the From address?
This is definitely the norm. The only way to get to the bottom of any spam is to follow the link that's included in the spam and complain there. Unfortunately, that takes a fair amount of time so not many people are willing to do so.
The question I face now, do I want to stuff envelopes with cheap jewelry and let my wife do the marketing, or do I want to continue doing what I love, but get myself covered in marketing filth.
No reason you have to get yourelf covered in marketing filth. But it is important to be able to sell both yourself and your services. At the risk of being marked a troll, that means not being a BOFH (not that you personally are) and being friendly with your customers. Networking is King in this business as well. I carry my business cards with me everywhere I go. My business card just has a simple logo on it with my contact information and three words describing my services. Believe it or not, people keep business cards. I've gotten calls requesting my services from people a good year after I've given them my business card.
Why not? Because then they have to have root privs to start/stop the app.
Or you could have done something secure and trackable like sudo. It's not rocket science to properly set up. Call me crazy, but I always thought sysadmins were supposed to help the developer do their job by properly tuning/administering the systems (for development/test boxes) and keep the production machines running smoothly.
Phone numbers change all the time. People move, other things happen. I don't see why it is so important to be able to keep your phone number while moving between carriers.
I have no proof of this, but I believe that when the idea of portable numbers came about, many more people were switching services every 6-12 months, depending on whatever the latest deal/contract was. People don't do that with the local land line monopoly, since you don't get "deals" or contracts, so to speak. Now that pricing has pretty much stabilized in the cell phone world, I don't think people are jumping providers nearly as often.
You notice the.biz thing because there are a lot fewer of them.
Actually, no, I get a lot from.biz. Just as many, if not more than.com. Certainly more than.net.
RE: your comment about looking after.com, net,.org domains - the majority of my filters are content, not from-based (OK, I also do alot of relay-based filtering). When I set up filters, I take a look at what's inside and block based on href links, which, as I mentioned before, many, if not most are.biz.
I get so much spam with.biz domains that I've seriously considered blocking anything.biz. The only thing that's stopping me from doing it is that I could conceivably get a prospective customer with a.biz domain via email (I do translations). Has anyone actually received anything legitimate from a.biz domain?
I'm curious.
Furthermore, it is completely impossible to blend open/proprietary software schemes in a business model. Can't be done. Give it up.
Sure it can. I've seen more than one company running Coldfusion MX on a Linux box w/Apache.
I've also seen a company running JounryX (Timesheet management SW) on top of Postgres/Apache on Linux.
To say that it can't be done is nonsense. Whether your company should combine the two is another matter.
that in his yearly performance review, somewhere there is mention of contributions made to the kernel. Hell, I look back at some of my performance reviews and there is all sorts of "extra-curricular" stuff. If he had a half way decent boss, he would have included this stuff in his review to show initiative.
Consider that x86 technology is cheaper to begin with. And it only gets cheaper, not more expensive. People naturally go for the cheaper price, as long as it does what they want. It's too bad that Mac users can't benefit from hardware competition like x86 users do.
Fair enough. You can, however get all the GNU tools for Solaris (and many other *nix), which then makes your script runnable. It's all in the planning.
I buy a lot of boxed sets (I can't wait for Alias season two to be released). For what ever reason, I tend to buy more boxed sets of TV shows than I do movies on DVD. Those I tend to rent. A couple of years ago I got a second dish to handle international programming (TV5 and RAI Intl) and I find that I watch a lot of those live. First off, they never follow the schedule that's listed in the guide, and second, they tend to show a lot of "Variety Show" type programming - a format I've always liked. A much more "live" feeling format.
So, you can either get the fixes, which come out fairly quick, or, switch to something else that is freely availble, such as Postfix, Exim or Qmail. OSS provides plenty of choices.
I had been (still am on other machines) a long time RedHat user, but was asked by my boss to check out other distros, due to RedHat's licensing changes. So I chose to try both Mandrake and SuSE. I should also mention that I too am a Gnome user. For all intents and purposes I've gone completely SuSE on my desktop and laptop (with no plans to switch). Gnome is quite polished in this distro. Quite happy with it. Fedora's nice in that it continues RH's Bluecurve, but the whole licensing thing has left a sour taste for all of us.
I recently installed SuSE 9 on my laptop and had no trouble choosing Gnome as the default desktop.
I can't speak for previous versions of SuSE, but both KDE and Gnome are quite prominent in the current install options.
Yes, RedHat 9 is considered old by the OSS community, but not by the general public. There are still many people running RH9 out there. Hell, there are still a lot of people running RH7.x (particularly on servers).
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I hear this online quite a bit, but talking to people in real life who actually own them, they're pretty happy with them. The last two desktops I've bought have been emachines w/athlons. They still perform well to this day (well, opne's less than a year old). I also recently bought an emachine widescreen laptop (m5310) that I really, really love. Redhat had some problems wiht it, but SuSE performs like a champ on it, ACPI included.
I won't comment on all of them (because I can't comment on something I'm not familiar with), but I will comment on 1) the OS. IT can be and has been made to look and act like Windows. You need look no further than Lindows; 2) I don't know what version of StarOffice/OpenOffice you'e using, but in my version (OO1.1) Ctrl-Space is what is used to insert a nnon-breaking space - that's out of the box, not something you have to configure. But let's say you want a function to perform differently: All you need to do is go to "Tools"... "Configure..." and configure it to your liking.
The examples you give most certainly do will not take "six months cursing all the little things that are different".
I've had the pleasure (for the most part) to see more than just a few people - some family, some friends, some co-workers - shift away from MS (both OS and Office) and the things you mention are not the problem. The problems come about when they wanted to take things like their macros from Office to OpenOffice, use their Access DB on Linux, etc. Of course those situations will cause problems. Until you see MS port their office suite to Linux (or shell out the bucks for Crossover Office), those will always be problems. And those problems aren't trivial to begin with. It took a long time for users to learn their macros and DBs.
I would say that if it's modded as "insightful" that the modder is, in fact, in agreement. A more appropriate mod would be "interesting".
I really wonder how many actually respond these days. I think earlier on there were more people that responded, but now, with all the subject mangling, I suspect far fewer respond. I have no data to back this up, however.
This is definitely the norm. The only way to get to the bottom of any spam is to follow the link that's included in the spam and complain there. Unfortunately, that takes a fair amount of time so not many people are willing to do so.
No reason you have to get yourelf covered in marketing filth. But it is important to be able to sell both yourself and your services. At the risk of being marked a troll, that means not being a BOFH (not that you personally are) and being friendly with your customers. Networking is King in this business as well. I carry my business cards with me everywhere I go. My business card just has a simple logo on it with my contact information and three words describing my services. Believe it or not, people keep business cards. I've gotten calls requesting my services from people a good year after I've given them my business card.
*Ducks and runs*
Don't worry. It will find them eventually :-)
Well, my short answer/quip would be -
Redhat 9, Linux kernel 2.4.18
SuSE 9, Linux kernel 2.4.21
or Fedora Core, Linux kernel 2.4.22.
Or whatever distro/kernel.
Push the kernel version, not the distribution. I think it's a lot easier to show changes/updates by using kernel numbers.
I have no proof of this, but I believe that when the idea of portable numbers came about, many more people were switching services every 6-12 months, depending on whatever the latest deal/contract was. People don't do that with the local land line monopoly, since you don't get "deals" or contracts, so to speak. Now that pricing has pretty much stabilized in the cell phone world, I don't think people are jumping providers nearly as often.
Actually, no, I get a lot from
RE: your comment about looking after
I get so much spam with .biz domains that I've seriously considered blocking anything .biz. The only thing that's stopping me from doing it is that I could conceivably get a prospective customer with a .biz domain via email (I do translations). Has anyone actually received anything legitimate from a .biz domain?
I'm curious.
Sure it can. I've seen more than one company running Coldfusion MX on a Linux box w/Apache. I've also seen a company running JounryX (Timesheet management SW) on top of Postgres/Apache on Linux. To say that it can't be done is nonsense. Whether your company should combine the two is another matter.
That's a visual I just didn't need.
that in his yearly performance review, somewhere there is mention of contributions made to the kernel. Hell, I look back at some of my performance reviews and there is all sorts of "extra-curricular" stuff. If he had a half way decent boss, he would have included this stuff in his review to show initiative.
Consider that x86 technology is cheaper to begin with. And it only gets cheaper, not more expensive. People naturally go for the cheaper price, as long as it does what they want. It's too bad that Mac users can't benefit from hardware competition like x86 users do.
Fair enough. You can, however get all the GNU tools for Solaris (and many other *nix), which then makes your script runnable. It's all in the planning.
I buy a lot of boxed sets (I can't wait for Alias season two to be released). For what ever reason, I tend to buy more boxed sets of TV shows than I do movies on DVD. Those I tend to rent. A couple of years ago I got a second dish to handle international programming (TV5 and RAI Intl) and I find that I watch a lot of those live. First off, they never follow the schedule that's listed in the guide, and second, they tend to show a lot of "Variety Show" type programming - a format I've always liked. A much more "live" feeling format.
So, you can either get the fixes, which come out fairly quick, or, switch to something else that is freely availble, such as Postfix, Exim or Qmail. OSS provides plenty of choices.
I mean white salamanders.
I had been (still am on other machines) a long time RedHat user, but was asked by my boss to check out other distros, due to RedHat's licensing changes. So I chose to try both Mandrake and SuSE. I should also mention that I too am a Gnome user. For all intents and purposes I've gone completely SuSE on my desktop and laptop (with no plans to switch). Gnome is quite polished in this distro. Quite happy with it. Fedora's nice in that it continues RH's Bluecurve, but the whole licensing thing has left a sour taste for all of us.
I recently installed SuSE 9 on my laptop and had no trouble choosing Gnome as the default desktop. I can't speak for previous versions of SuSE, but both KDE and Gnome are quite prominent in the current install options.
About, oh, 80-100 characters to the right of the Subject line is a very clear label - "afdgkbj gfda hnrabs sf bgfb sfgfda nhmflwje" :-)
Yes, RedHat 9 is considered old by the OSS community, but not by the general public. There are still many people running RH9 out there. Hell, there are still a lot of people running RH7.x (particularly on servers).