30 years ago the cost of such a trip would have been incredibly high, making the trip only accessible to the fairly wealthy. Air travel is cheap now, but it used to be very expensive. Because it's so cheap now, planes have alot more seats than they used to. The old DC9s used to have bigger seats in coach as well. It really wasn't until around the DC10s came out that you saw seat crowding.
As another poster pointed out, there's more to it that just leg room. People pay more for lots of things - better service, food, etc.
Not to come off as a bigot (not racial - it has to do with behaviour and etiquette), but have you seen how people dress and act on flights? Yes, I realize we all need to be comfortable on long flights, yet we somehow were able to 1) dress decently and 2) act civilized 20 years ago on flights.
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If you're old enough to remember when the first little Honda Civics came out in the US...
I got one the second year they were available. Anytime you came upon another Civic owner in the street, you'd exchange honks. It only lasted the first couple of years. Then the novelty wore off.
It was the same with the old beetles.
I suspect it's the same mentality with the iPod.
While I suppose I understand why you think getting a virus and being hacked are synonymous, they're not.
The article you linked is about getting a virus, not getting hacked.
I haven't worked recently with mainframes, but when I was (a little over 5 years ago), I can tell you that IBM was stellar in sending out PTF tapes. As long as we applied the relevant fixes, we were good to go. I guess the other thing to keep in mind re: mainframe security is that security administration on these machines is usually done with third party packages, like ACF2 (and IBM's RACF). These packages run circles around anything Windows/Unix/Macs for locking down a system.
1) Latest version does not run under Wine.
2) IBM seems to disagree with you.
3) I will consider that your opinion, since you've not backed it up with any data.
That said, and in the spirit of the original post, I really do prefer Web-based email/calendaring apps.
It just really gets old seeing rant-posts that do nothing to back up the rant.
If you were used to using another large relational database, you'd be saying you wished MySQL were easier to use. MySQL's SQL implemetation goes against a lot of standard practices.
Not sure why you were modded insightful, but...
Care to share why Notes shouldn't be ported? Fact is, the server already runs on Linux. All that would be needed is the client, which is a fair bit better than Outlook. But if you can get away from big clients, I agree that web-based is the way to go.
Not so sure about that. They also make Rekall for the Zaurus (something that I've never been able to get running, BTW). If it's just a front end, what do you suppose runs behind it? According to their docs, the "databases" can be read both on Linux and on Zaurus.
Oracle's consulting business will never go away. Companies can hire all the Oracle DBAs they want, but come implementation time of a specific Oracle product, their own consultants are almost always involved.
I have. Not a big problem, although I should point out that I never really created a presentation in PowerPoint. I've used OO since version 3 (it was actually just StarOffice then), though, so I guess it's a matter of just being more exposed to it than anything else.
That's Notes 5. Release 6 has been out for over a year now. Codeweavers' Crossover Office (commercial Wine) doesn't run it either, with no definitive time period for it to be supported. Too bad, too, considering Release 7 is due out early next year.
I like Crossover Office a lot and I support it by buying each new version (sole reason being to run Notes at work). I would LOVE to see IBM port Notes (and the Admin and Designer clients) to Linux. I think they're missing an opportunity by not doing so - there are a lot of shops out there that use Notes instead of Exchange.
If Marketing is what you really would like to study, then by all means do it. But if you really like CIS, then continue on with that. You're in college to learn what you WANT to do with your career, not what you think the market dictates you should do.
about Redhat. It's currently a great a desktop with Bluecurve. I don't disagree that Mandrake is also a great desktop, you I don't think you can honestly say that Redhat (and now Fedora) are bad desktops.
/. must generate more SCO publicity than any other entity out there right now
I used to think so too. My daily Yahoo finance read usually includes a blurb or two about SCO as well.
Come to think of it, you can pretty much read a story/report on one major news site, then see it everywhere shortly thereafter.
Please note, Mr. Szulik, I know very well your comments on how people should use Windows on the desktop, but I'm thinking of people who want to learn Linux.
There are a sizeable number of us who do use Linux in our jobs. Whether or not we're very visible to RH or not is probably debatable, though. Most Linux desktop or (in particular) laptop users tend to do a fair amount of tweaking, and as such, probably don't go to RH for any trype of support.
There are better resources out there than phone/email support.
But it's not "Edge". Sure, they have a recent 2.4.xx kernel. Unfortunately, that recent kernel doesn't have things turned on that other distros take for granted. ACPI is a big gripe with me. Why can't they include an install kernel with it turned on? It's not rocket science. Yes, I know ACPI is a badly implemented moving target for some manufacturers, but it's what laptop manufacturers are moving towards. I tried Fedora thinking I' d finally get it without a recompile. No dice. Went out and got SuSE 9, which handled it beautifully. A shame, really. I liked everything else about Fedora, including the familiar Bluecurve interface we all love to hate.
Don't ask me why, but I've never been one to use a PC to play games. Consoles, yes definitely. So for those of us that don't use the PC for games, it's plenty ready. Now, if I wanted to use the PC for specialized applications, such as audio production, Linux is nowhere near ready. But then I don't really think Windows does all that great a job at it either. Macs have that one pretty much owned.
If Sun's past is any indication, they wouldn't buy Novell/SuSE to integrate, but to kill off the technology. Sun has always shown themselves to be at odds with anything not developed by them.
And the fools who bought SCO stock thinking they were going to get rich, but didn't quite dump the stock before the inevitable crash when the case collapses. I can't say I'm feeling sympathetic though.
I'm not sympathetic to them either, frankly. The stock market, instead of being a place to back your belief in a company and its products, has become a place to gamble and get rich quick.
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She never really recreated instruments, but she did some interesting things with alternate tunings, which created an entirely different timbre.
30 years ago the cost of such a trip would have been incredibly high, making the trip only accessible to the fairly wealthy. Air travel is cheap now, but it used to be very expensive. Because it's so cheap now, planes have alot more seats than they used to. The old DC9s used to have bigger seats in coach as well. It really wasn't until around the DC10s came out that you saw seat crowding.
Not to come off as a bigot (not racial - it has to do with behaviour and etiquette), but have you seen how people dress and act on flights? Yes, I realize we all need to be comfortable on long flights, yet we somehow were able to 1) dress decently and 2) act civilized 20 years ago on flights.
If you're old enough to remember when the first little Honda Civics came out in the US... I got one the second year they were available. Anytime you came upon another Civic owner in the street, you'd exchange honks. It only lasted the first couple of years. Then the novelty wore off. It was the same with the old beetles. I suspect it's the same mentality with the iPod.
While I suppose I understand why you think getting a virus and being hacked are synonymous, they're not. The article you linked is about getting a virus, not getting hacked.
I haven't worked recently with mainframes, but when I was (a little over 5 years ago), I can tell you that IBM was stellar in sending out PTF tapes. As long as we applied the relevant fixes, we were good to go. I guess the other thing to keep in mind re: mainframe security is that security administration on these machines is usually done with third party packages, like ACF2 (and IBM's RACF). These packages run circles around anything Windows/Unix/Macs for locking down a system.
2) IBM seems to disagree with you.
3) I will consider that your opinion, since you've not backed it up with any data.
That said, and in the spirit of the original post, I really do prefer Web-based email/calendaring apps. It just really gets old seeing rant-posts that do nothing to back up the rant.
If you were used to using another large relational database, you'd be saying you wished MySQL were easier to use. MySQL's SQL implemetation goes against a lot of standard practices.
Not sure why you were modded insightful, but... Care to share why Notes shouldn't be ported? Fact is, the server already runs on Linux. All that would be needed is the client, which is a fair bit better than Outlook. But if you can get away from big clients, I agree that web-based is the way to go.
Not so sure about that. They also make Rekall for the Zaurus (something that I've never been able to get running, BTW). If it's just a front end, what do you suppose runs behind it? According to their docs, the "databases" can be read both on Linux and on Zaurus.
Oracle's consulting business will never go away. Companies can hire all the Oracle DBAs they want, but come implementation time of a specific Oracle product, their own consultants are almost always involved.
Well, you certainly have that opportunity now with RedHat :-)
Microsoft has proven that it can not play nice with the other children, and as such has been given a few years timeout
You can bet that any other company would act no diffently, particularly Sun or Apple. That's the nature of (capitalist) business.
I have. Not a big problem, although I should point out that I never really created a presentation in PowerPoint. I've used OO since version 3 (it was actually just StarOffice then), though, so I guess it's a matter of just being more exposed to it than anything else.
That's Notes 5. Release 6 has been out for over a year now. Codeweavers' Crossover Office (commercial Wine) doesn't run it either, with no definitive time period for it to be supported. Too bad, too, considering Release 7 is due out early next year. I like Crossover Office a lot and I support it by buying each new version (sole reason being to run Notes at work). I would LOVE to see IBM port Notes (and the Admin and Designer clients) to Linux. I think they're missing an opportunity by not doing so - there are a lot of shops out there that use Notes instead of Exchange.
If Marketing is what you really would like to study, then by all means do it. But if you really like CIS, then continue on with that. You're in college to learn what you WANT to do with your career, not what you think the market dictates you should do.
about Redhat. It's currently a great a desktop with Bluecurve. I don't disagree that Mandrake is also a great desktop, you I don't think you can honestly say that Redhat (and now Fedora) are bad desktops.
Don't ask me why, but I've never been one to use a PC to play games. Consoles, yes definitely. So for those of us that don't use the PC for games, it's plenty ready. Now, if I wanted to use the PC for specialized applications, such as audio production, Linux is nowhere near ready. But then I don't really think Windows does all that great a job at it either. Macs have that one pretty much owned.
If Sun's past is any indication, they wouldn't buy Novell/SuSE to integrate, but to kill off the technology. Sun has always shown themselves to be at odds with anything not developed by them.
I'm not sympathetic to them either, frankly. The stock market, instead of being a place to back your belief in a company and its products, has become a place to gamble and get rich quick.