I'm a little ashamed that in the US we immediately turn to litigation without considering other options such as mediation law. In the UK mediation law is the norm, whereas litigation is more of a last resort. But in Soviet Russia, software patents litigate YOU!
Out of curiosity, what is in the grade 9 repertoire? I've always wanted to know these sorts of things, but they're just not documented very well on the internet.:)
This reminds me of when I got my girlfriend to help me install my new mobo (which basically meant re-assembling the whole computer in a new case) for my birthday last year...our relationship was never stronger.:)
Well, just yesterday I was very encouraged to see a clerk at my church using OpenOffice at the church office, even though my church has been caught in Microsoft's monopoly on software--MS Office is the software they buy for the computers, they always buy dells with Windows preloaded. But, for some reason or another, the clerk's office uses it, and from what it sounded like, it was because MS Office wasn't completely meeting their needs. Another clerk piped in at how OpenOffice seemed just the same as MS Word...There, my happy OSS rant for the day.
Well, orginally, when they were Adelphia (before Time Warner bought Adelphia, followed by Comcast buying Time Warner), the setup to register the MAC address of the modem was done completely in the web browser, and if I recall correctly, I performed that setup in Firefox. However, they have recently changed it around so that you have to run a really terrible program to do the setup (it's a 22 MB installer that is unbelievably fault intolerant), and they only offer if for Windows. However, if they goober something (like with your account number--this happened to me), you can call them up and get them to push your system through by giving them the MAC address of the modem along with the S/N so that they can verify that you're actually a customer. But the installer DOES require that you have IE 5 at least installed on your machine or else it won't proceed. They really should revert back to a web-based initialization process.
Am I the only one who read that title and had to stop and make sure that I read it right? It's not so very different from saying that a brand of potato chips uses "100% sunflower and canola oil to cook our chips".
Although you have to really get down and dirty, the slackware installer lets you manually choose whether or not to install each individual package. I used it back on 05 to install a minimalist set of packages for my homemade router. If that isn't minimalist, what is?
Well, the breakdown with Abiword vs. Office, for me, comes down to stability. I have had Linux abiword (this is Linux abiword, not Windows abiword, mind you) crash one too many times, and now I've been using Word on Windows for 6 months now and have not had a single crash. Yet with Abiword I had crashes every now and then...(although my brother, a writer, uses Windows abiword for all of his writing and has never had it crash).
I think that almost all of us on/. like to say that Microsoft's software is just "bad", but many times it's less true than we might like to think. But when M$ software doesn't work, it's almost always a worse thing than if OSS software doesn't work because there's so little you can do.
Easy. Cinelerra sucks.
Now I know lots of people are probably jumping to dispute this, but it is nonetheless a fact that Cinelerra is non-intuitive, unstable, and, from my experience, unsuitable for anything. Adobe Premiere, on the other hand, is exactly what Cinelerra isn't. It's stable, full-featured and gets the job done. I remember when I tried to switch to a completely Linux-based video production solution using Cinelerra and I was sorely disappointed. I kept going back to Cinelerra each time thinking, "Okay, this time I'm gonna figure out this stupid UI and make it work some magic!" And I never did. Until Cinelerra is usable and can do what Premiere does as well as it does it (or better) I'll be using Premiere, thanks very much.
Ever since I met my S.O., my gaming habits have slipped through the cracks in favor of her. I've just lost the desire to play games. I'm not sure what psychological need there was before that she might be filling, but I've wondered for a while if the events are related. Of course, I met her in my first semester of college, so starting college might be responsible, too. But I didn't cease gaming entirely until my second semester...
Not all of their modems suck; I myself have a "56K" non winmodem that worked very nice on Linux. The nicest thing is that it would commonly connec at 115 kbps when it's only supposed to be 56k.
And there is still no viable solution for video-editing on Linux. Sure, there's cinelerra, but its interface is unintuitive and it crashes frequently. Jashahka crashes, too. I haven't even been able to pull off any editing with it because it crashes all of the time. Now, if Novell can suggest a OSS solution for video-editing, that would be something.
Gee, the only thing I learned from having my Estes rocket was in my bedroom--I learned that having the safety key in made it so that the rocket could launch; not that it couldn't, and I learned that the hard way, see, that was after my kid brother pressed the button.
It's been my experience that hearing a "tock" sound with seagate drives is not a bad thing--Every time I start up my 486 (with a Seagate 428 MB drive) it makes that exact sound, and it works fine.
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I'm a little ashamed that in the US we immediately turn to litigation without considering other options such as mediation law. In the UK mediation law is the norm, whereas litigation is more of a last resort. But in Soviet Russia, software patents litigate YOU!
Out of curiosity, what is in the grade 9 repertoire? I've always wanted to know these sorts of things, but they're just not documented very well on the internet. :)
Coincidentally, I thought that the article said "a domain once owned by the International Federation of the Pornographic Industry" at first.
It's sad that so many of us actually use facebook like that..
This reminds me of when I got my girlfriend to help me install my new mobo (which basically meant re-assembling the whole computer in a new case) for my birthday last year...our relationship was never stronger. :)
Well, just yesterday I was very encouraged to see a clerk at my church using OpenOffice at the church office, even though my church has been caught in Microsoft's monopoly on software--MS Office is the software they buy for the computers, they always buy dells with Windows preloaded. But, for some reason or another, the clerk's office uses it, and from what it sounded like, it was because MS Office wasn't completely meeting their needs. Another clerk piped in at how OpenOffice seemed just the same as MS Word...There, my happy OSS rant for the day.
Well, orginally, when they were Adelphia (before Time Warner bought Adelphia, followed by Comcast buying Time Warner), the setup to register the MAC address of the modem was done completely in the web browser, and if I recall correctly, I performed that setup in Firefox. However, they have recently changed it around so that you have to run a really terrible program to do the setup (it's a 22 MB installer that is unbelievably fault intolerant), and they only offer if for Windows. However, if they goober something (like with your account number--this happened to me), you can call them up and get them to push your system through by giving them the MAC address of the modem along with the S/N so that they can verify that you're actually a customer. But the installer DOES require that you have IE 5 at least installed on your machine or else it won't proceed. They really should revert back to a web-based initialization process.
Am I the only one who read that title and had to stop and make sure that I read it right? It's not so very different from saying that a brand of potato chips uses "100% sunflower and canola oil to cook our chips".
Although you have to really get down and dirty, the slackware installer lets you manually choose whether or not to install each individual package. I used it back on 05 to install a minimalist set of packages for my homemade router. If that isn't minimalist, what is?
Well, the breakdown with Abiword vs. Office, for me, comes down to stability. I have had Linux abiword (this is Linux abiword, not Windows abiword, mind you) crash one too many times, and now I've been using Word on Windows for 6 months now and have not had a single crash. Yet with Abiword I had crashes every now and then...(although my brother, a writer, uses Windows abiword for all of his writing and has never had it crash). I think that almost all of us on /. like to say that Microsoft's software is just "bad", but many times it's less true than we might like to think. But when M$ software doesn't work, it's almost always a worse thing than if OSS software doesn't work because there's so little you can do.
Your HP/MP Are restored! But you're still hungry...
Easy. Cinelerra sucks. Now I know lots of people are probably jumping to dispute this, but it is nonetheless a fact that Cinelerra is non-intuitive, unstable, and, from my experience, unsuitable for anything. Adobe Premiere, on the other hand, is exactly what Cinelerra isn't. It's stable, full-featured and gets the job done. I remember when I tried to switch to a completely Linux-based video production solution using Cinelerra and I was sorely disappointed. I kept going back to Cinelerra each time thinking, "Okay, this time I'm gonna figure out this stupid UI and make it work some magic!" And I never did. Until Cinelerra is usable and can do what Premiere does as well as it does it (or better) I'll be using Premiere, thanks very much.
Ever since I met my S.O., my gaming habits have slipped through the cracks in favor of her. I've just lost the desire to play games. I'm not sure what psychological need there was before that she might be filling, but I've wondered for a while if the events are related. Of course, I met her in my first semester of college, so starting college might be responsible, too. But I didn't cease gaming entirely until my second semester...
Let's just hope they're more foolproof than ScumSoft's system in Space Quest 3...good memories.
I re-installed the OS on somebody's box and got them using Mozilla--so, yeah, it works.
Not all of their modems suck; I myself have a "56K" non winmodem that worked very nice on Linux. The nicest thing is that it would commonly connec at 115 kbps when it's only supposed to be 56k.
No, no! You're not putting enough 30" flat panels in there! The price isn't quite maxed out.
since I work there, I would demand a raise! $6.50 an hour just isn't enough....
And there is still no viable solution for video-editing on Linux. Sure, there's cinelerra, but its interface is unintuitive and it crashes frequently. Jashahka crashes, too. I haven't even been able to pull off any editing with it because it crashes all of the time. Now, if Novell can suggest a OSS solution for video-editing, that would be something.
One of the few games I still play. Great replay value, runs on any DOS box with a miniscule amount of RAM.
I'm running a computer with this Linux thing, and I don't know if I'm safe or not...
THe perfect keyboard for you would be the IBM Model M! Durable, terrific feel and......really compact...
Jecht
"I can quit drinkin' whenever I want!"
Tidus
"Then do it now."
Jecht
"What did you say?"
Tidus
"You just said you can!"
Jecht
"Heh. Tomorrow, maybe."
Gee, the only thing I learned from having my Estes rocket was in my bedroom--I learned that having the safety key in made it so that the rocket could launch; not that it couldn't, and I learned that the hard way, see, that was after my kid brother pressed the button.
It's been my experience that hearing a "tock" sound with seagate drives is not a bad thing--Every time I start up my 486 (with a Seagate 428 MB drive) it makes that exact sound, and it works fine.