Please stop with the consipricy theories already. The fact that the AMP part of the stack runs very fast on Windows doesn't seem to matter to you at all, does it?
You were running an RPM-based distribution. That says it all, really. It's my experience that all RPM based distributions are flaky as hell. Best I can say is that they're good for learning how to compile stuff from tarballs. It's Debian all the way for me now.
Even compiling from tarballs could be a frustrating experience, because of similar library issues. But yes, it was Mandrake 10.something.. I think also the first version they called themselves Mandriva.
Do any modern sites still actually require ActiveX? Which ones?
It was only a couple, one was my credit union, and the problem went away when I switched credit unions (not based on their website, however). But there are some out there, or they require flash or some other crap..
I like Konqueror myself. It just fits in better with KDE [quelle surprise].
Sites never seemed to render properlly for me in konq. I did try it, but stuck with Firefox (because I was using it at work already anyway).
Before KDE, all distributions had their own menu editor systems [obsolete today]. The distributor may well have munged KDE to read from their own menu editor system, but not write back to it.
It was a relatively modern distro; I'm certain I found the right places to drop files to create new entries, but they just wouldn't read. Don't know why. In any case, the why doesn't really matter for those that just want to create new shortcuts, does it?
Could be difficult. Microsoft are coercing hardware manufacturers into pretending that their products don't work with Linux. The truth is that a lot of the time, they don't work well with Windows either.
The same devices have been working flawlessly in Windows. XPSP2 really is a VERY stable OS, at least its been for me, at work and at home.
Never, ever compile usb-storage hard into the kernel. Always make it as a module. You can then rmmod and modprobe it if this happens. Those cameras do the same thing to Windows boxes too, by the way.
It was as a module; it didnt' help when the kernel doesn't respond to keyboard events anymore. Usually the problem was KDE itself, as it was much more reliable to copy files using the command line.. but I feel as though I should be able to use KDE to do that. It was some weird interaction with KDE and the kernel, but still would have the occasional freeze when copying via command line as well. I haven't had any problems with windows, unless I yank the camera off the usb without 'safely removing.' But Linux doesn't like that either.
It seems to me that your experience was marred by a version shift [KDE2 to KDE3?] This sometimes happens with Debian Unstable. It'll never happen with Debian Stable -- if there is a big enough shift, migration tools will be supplied as part of the package and run during the postinstall. It won't happen often with Testing either, but you'll have to compile at least one Unstable package if you use Testing for any length of time.
It wasn't a major version change; It was within the 2.x or 3.x. At any rate, Kopete started requiring a new point release of KDE, and all hell broke lose... but even when it didn't, sometimes the upgrades were hard to apply. I always had more joy with GAIM than with Kopete, though the latter is starting to show some promise now.
I didn't care for GAIM for whatever reason; I liked Kopete, but upgrading it was a bitch.
But it would have looked just fine when viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader (PDF creation is almost built-in to Linux).
True, but if an employer says 'please send us a Word.doc format', I'm not going to argue.
Give Kubuntu a try. Just keep your mind open and don't expect it to be exactly like Windows.
I never expected it to work just like windows; but it wasn't as stable as everyone seems to claim it is. I liked Unix alot when I first started using it in college, and Linux was great... I thought. But it didn't s
Because thats what they tell us (or me, if I'm working for the company directly as an employee). For instance, my current job. I was hired specifically to code replacements for an old version of Act!, QuoteWerks and DOS Alpha 4 database. None of these applications are as integrated as they would like, they are 'buggy' (their term) and they also would like to own the software.
Are you suggesting that all the programmers of a decade ago were incompetent?
No, I'm suggesting a decade ago that the transition from paper to computers was just that. Its still manual work, but done on a computer instead of paper and pencil. Now the company wants more; for example, a workflow type application which ALL departments can use to find the information they need. The applications are 'dumb' and unaware of each other (of course this will vary).
Not everyone needs to update their software with new bells and whistles. Sometimes, things just work.
And sometimes they don't; by building a more fully integrated solution, they hope to better utilize their inventory and warehouse space. You assume that the software built decades ago HAS all the capabilities that companies want today, and that's a flawed line of thinking. I'm not talking about the computer playing a nice little sound, I'm talking about putting terminals at all points in the manufactoring process so that realtime job data can be gathered.
I use HTML as well, but it seems employers want to have a Word document to download so they can save it in their application database and / or print it without the URL on the bottom and / or don't need to go to the internet everytime they want to view my resume. So I maintain two versions. I many times am specifically asked if I have a copy in Word format.
Ever heard of the phrase 'If it ain't broken, don't fix it'.
Did you miss the part where I said the software is likely outdated and no longer meets the needs of the organization?
I've been building new, custom applications to replace older custom applications for this reason for pretty much my entire career.
They are not going to invest millions of Euros to update their software just because Microsoft stops support for W98...
No, they'll invest millions of dollars because the software doesn't do everything they'd like. They want to know exactly where their inventory is, EXACTLY which forms have been plated, which plates are currently running on the printer, just by bringing up a window on their computer. Some places have that already; a good number don't. I didn't say they'd spend money just because MS doesn't support 98, but if that custom software that only runs on 98 doesn't meet their needs today they'll spend to upgrade the computers and the software.
Stupid mods. Of course anything that claims Linux isn't there yet is clearly flamebait or trolling.. idiots..
Anyway... I was running it on my home desktop, at the time an AMD 1800+ 512MB ram, etc. etc.
Web browsing was fine, as I used Firefox (and still do), except of course sites that required ActiveX. KMail was my main email program; it was fine, but with 2500 emails, it was sometimes slow. Worse, it would sometimes 'lose' my emails. After some digging, I discovered that somehow KMail's index files got corrupted, and deleting them restored them. GNUCash was ok, but the documentation was terrible. I could never figure out how to mark a transaction as voided. None of the canned reports were useful for an end user (just wanted to see category spending trends). Also, as I discovered when I switched, you can't export the data to any other format. This featuere is 'coming soon.' (And I note it wasn't mentioned in the GNUCash story yesterday, so I guess its still not there).
Sound card support was spotty. It'd work, but die for no reason. Rebooting sometimes fixed it, sometimes not. I couldn't just buy a new USB printer and plug it in to have it work. Not Linux's fault I know, but at the end of the day, I just don't care. I want the printer to work, and I don't want to have to wonder if the next new gadget I buy will work. USB camera would cause the system to lock sometimes; or it would die in the middle of copying files off it, 'unmount' but still be mysterously mounted.. this problem woudl persist across reboots as well.
KDE was unstable; the built in menu editor never worked. I have no idea why, but no matter how I tried (via the config tool or by creating files manually) I could never get new programs added. The desktop was flacky; it'd have random locks, tray programs would just not load the next time. Kopete was a pain in the ass too; I know, being shut out by MS or Yahoo isn't Linux's fault. But Trillian handles updates alot better. To upgrade Kopete, I had to update just about every KDE library on the system. It wasn't easy, and then in the end, it still didn't work. All that effort for an IM program??? The problem was similar for other applications; to even get a program installed I had to either compile from source (requring library upgrades) or RPM (also requiring upgrades). I couldn't get a graphical interface to Postgres; it either wouldn't run because of some wierd library dependancy or wouldn't compile, because I didn't have some other obscure library.
KOffice or OpenOffice doesn't cut it when you're posting your resume online for potential employers. It never looked right when viewed with Word.
Lets not even get into game support. Finally, at my job I program on top of the.Net framework. I would like to try new stuff out at home, and learn more in that regard at home. Dual booting got tiring, and when combined with the other programs I'd been having, I decided it wasn't worth it.
There is a lot of specialized (custom) software around that might never been ported to a later Windows version..
Which is just fine; the specialized custom software is likely outdated, and no longer meets the needs of the organization, so the company is more likely to take the time to build new software which does meet their demands, or purchase OTS software.
Except that they'll still have to pay a portion of their property tax to pay for public eduction, even though they aren't using it. Not exactly fair to pay for something which you aren't using is it?
Each store represents the investment of over a million bucks.
Does it? Where'd you pull this number out of?
Dunkin Donuts isn't growing anymore because, like McDonalds, they are already pretty much everywhere. We have more Dunkin Donuts in our area than Wendy's.
An ounce isn't exactly a lot, is it. I would assume someone that smokes pot regularly would buy more than an ounce at a time, just like you'd buy a case of soda instead of going to the store each and every time you wanted a glass of soda.
I wouldn't bother; I switched from the last 1.8 release earlier this year for MS Money 2006; MS Money beats GC by a longshot. From the summary (since the site is down), none of the features I wanted were added.
No, because this cleaning company is creating a derivitive work, and DOESN'T have the right to collect money for their deads. ONLY the copyright holder may distribute their work, or derivitive works. No one else. If YOU choose to edit your private copy of the movie, that's fine. But when you sell it to someone else, its copyright infringment.
See, its not copyright gone crazy. You're hiring someone to leave 99% of the movie intach. So in effect, you're paying someone for the film, and they are distributing to you a version which is 99% the same. Its pretty clear cut copyright infringment.
The director has a vision on what the film should be; I don't think its right for some third party to not only skew that, but try to make a buck doing so. If you want to fast forward, fine. If you want to recut the film yourself, fine. But you aren't allowed to pay someone else to do that for you (because it crosses the line from private use).
I would have preferred that a few cuss words not be there.
Or you could get over you fear of 'cuss' words and realize they really aren't any different than any other words.
Why not let me buy a version of the movie that already comes like that rather than making me pre-watch the movie with a pen and pencil to jot down timestamps?
Because the owner of the copyright of said film doesn't want to sell a version like that, so you can take it or leave it.
I think the OP's joke rings more true. If you really believe in santa claus, they lock you up, but if you believe in some force sitting in a cloud in judgement over you, well thats religion. Unless its not YOUR religion, in which case its a cult.
By purchasing their groceries at Walmart, these same people are supporting a company which, in the end, will mean the end of our way of life. If Walmart (and other businesses like it) continue, soon we'll be no better off than your average worker in India or China (that is, unresonable working hours and contitions, no health care options, and working at a basic sustiance level).
The irony is that we won't even be able to afford the cheap, crappy electronics Walmart loves to sell.
Since the rating system for movies, music and games if voluntary, its not ILLEGAL to sell R rated, Explicit, or MA rated items to minors at all. Rather, its store policy.
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Personally, I'd like to see Mono kick things up a notch (feature-wise, not performance wise).
To Dell/HP/Etc - You must not sell naked or Linux systems or your the price of OEM Windows gets larger.
To my knowledge, Dell does sell naked or Linux systems.
Please stop with the consipricy theories already. The fact that the AMP part of the stack runs very fast on Windows doesn't seem to matter to you at all, does it?
You were running an RPM-based distribution. That says it all, really. It's my experience that all RPM based distributions are flaky as hell. Best I can say is that they're good for learning how to compile stuff from tarballs. It's Debian all the way for me now.
.doc format', I'm not going to argue.
Even compiling from tarballs could be a frustrating experience, because of similar library issues. But yes, it was Mandrake 10.something.. I think also the first version they called themselves Mandriva.
Do any modern sites still actually require ActiveX? Which ones?
It was only a couple, one was my credit union, and the problem went away when I switched credit unions (not based on their website, however). But there are some out there, or they require flash or some other crap..
I like Konqueror myself. It just fits in better with KDE [quelle surprise].
Sites never seemed to render properlly for me in konq. I did try it, but stuck with Firefox (because I was using it at work already anyway).
Before KDE, all distributions had their own menu editor systems [obsolete today]. The distributor may well have munged KDE to read from their own menu editor system, but not write back to it.
It was a relatively modern distro; I'm certain I found the right places to drop files to create new entries, but they just wouldn't read. Don't know why. In any case, the why doesn't really matter for those that just want to create new shortcuts, does it?
Could be difficult. Microsoft are coercing hardware manufacturers into pretending that their products don't work with Linux. The truth is that a lot of the time, they don't work well with Windows either.
The same devices have been working flawlessly in Windows. XPSP2 really is a VERY stable OS, at least its been for me, at work and at home.
Never, ever compile usb-storage hard into the kernel. Always make it as a module. You can then rmmod and modprobe it if this happens. Those cameras do the same thing to Windows boxes too, by the way.
It was as a module; it didnt' help when the kernel doesn't respond to keyboard events anymore. Usually the problem was KDE itself, as it was much more reliable to copy files using the command line.. but I feel as though I should be able to use KDE to do that. It was some weird interaction with KDE and the kernel, but still would have the occasional freeze when copying via command line as well. I haven't had any problems with windows, unless I yank the camera off the usb without 'safely removing.' But Linux doesn't like that either.
It seems to me that your experience was marred by a version shift [KDE2 to KDE3?] This sometimes happens with Debian Unstable. It'll never happen with Debian Stable -- if there is a big enough shift, migration tools will be supplied as part of the package and run during the postinstall. It won't happen often with Testing either, but you'll have to compile at least one Unstable package if you use Testing for any length of time.
It wasn't a major version change; It was within the 2.x or 3.x. At any rate, Kopete started requiring a new point release of KDE, and all hell broke lose... but even when it didn't, sometimes the upgrades were hard to apply.
I always had more joy with GAIM than with Kopete, though the latter is starting to show some promise now.
I didn't care for GAIM for whatever reason; I liked Kopete, but upgrading it was a bitch.
But it would have looked just fine when viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader (PDF creation is almost built-in to Linux).
True, but if an employer says 'please send us a Word
Give Kubuntu a try. Just keep your mind open and don't expect it to be exactly like Windows.
I never expected it to work just like windows; but it wasn't as stable as everyone seems to claim it is. I liked Unix alot when I first started using it in college, and Linux was great... I thought. But it didn't s
Why do you suppose the software is outdated?
Because thats what they tell us (or me, if I'm working for the company directly as an employee). For instance, my current job. I was hired specifically to code replacements for an old version of Act!, QuoteWerks and DOS Alpha 4 database. None of these applications are as integrated as they would like, they are 'buggy' (their term) and they also would like to own the software.
Are you suggesting that all the programmers of a decade ago were incompetent?
No, I'm suggesting a decade ago that the transition from paper to computers was just that. Its still manual work, but done on a computer instead of paper and pencil. Now the company wants more; for example, a workflow type application which ALL departments can use to find the information they need. The applications are 'dumb' and unaware of each other (of course this will vary).
Not everyone needs to update their software with new bells and whistles. Sometimes, things just work.
And sometimes they don't; by building a more fully integrated solution, they hope to better utilize their inventory and warehouse space. You assume that the software built decades ago HAS all the capabilities that companies want today, and that's a flawed line of thinking. I'm not talking about the computer playing a nice little sound, I'm talking about putting terminals at all points in the manufactoring process so that realtime job data can be gathered.
I use HTML as well, but it seems employers want to have a Word document to download so they can save it in their application database and / or print it without the URL on the bottom and / or don't need to go to the internet everytime they want to view my resume. So I maintain two versions. I many times am specifically asked if I have a copy in Word format.
Ever heard of the phrase 'If it ain't broken, don't fix it'.
Did you miss the part where I said the software is likely outdated and no longer meets the needs of the organization?
I've been building new, custom applications to replace older custom applications for this reason for pretty much my entire career.
They are not going to invest millions of Euros to update their software just because Microsoft stops support for W98...
No, they'll invest millions of dollars because the software doesn't do everything they'd like. They want to know exactly where their inventory is, EXACTLY which forms have been plated, which plates are currently running on the printer, just by bringing up a window on their computer. Some places have that already; a good number don't. I didn't say they'd spend money just because MS doesn't support 98, but if that custom software that only runs on 98 doesn't meet their needs today they'll spend to upgrade the computers and the software.
Stupid mods. Of course anything that claims Linux isn't there yet is clearly flamebait or trolling.. idiots..
.Net framework. I would like to try new stuff out at home, and learn more in that regard at home. Dual booting got tiring, and when combined with the other programs I'd been having, I decided it wasn't worth it.
Anyway... I was running it on my home desktop, at the time an AMD 1800+ 512MB ram, etc. etc.
Web browsing was fine, as I used Firefox (and still do), except of course sites that required ActiveX. KMail was my main email program; it was fine, but with 2500 emails, it was sometimes slow. Worse, it would sometimes 'lose' my emails. After some digging, I discovered that somehow KMail's index files got corrupted, and deleting them restored them. GNUCash was ok, but the documentation was terrible. I could never figure out how to mark a transaction as voided. None of the canned reports were useful for an end user (just wanted to see category spending trends). Also, as I discovered when I switched, you can't export the data to any other format. This featuere is 'coming soon.' (And I note it wasn't mentioned in the GNUCash story yesterday, so I guess its still not there).
Sound card support was spotty. It'd work, but die for no reason. Rebooting sometimes fixed it, sometimes not. I couldn't just buy a new USB printer and plug it in to have it work. Not Linux's fault I know, but at the end of the day, I just don't care. I want the printer to work, and I don't want to have to wonder if the next new gadget I buy will work. USB camera would cause the system to lock sometimes; or it would die in the middle of copying files off it, 'unmount' but still be mysterously mounted.. this problem woudl persist across reboots as well.
KDE was unstable; the built in menu editor never worked. I have no idea why, but no matter how I tried (via the config tool or by creating files manually) I could never get new programs added. The desktop was flacky; it'd have random locks, tray programs would just not load the next time. Kopete was a pain in the ass too; I know, being shut out by MS or Yahoo isn't Linux's fault. But Trillian handles updates alot better. To upgrade Kopete, I had to update just about every KDE library on the system. It wasn't easy, and then in the end, it still didn't work. All that effort for an IM program??? The problem was similar for other applications; to even get a program installed I had to either compile from source (requring library upgrades) or RPM (also requiring upgrades). I couldn't get a graphical interface to Postgres; it either wouldn't run because of some wierd library dependancy or wouldn't compile, because I didn't have some other obscure library.
KOffice or OpenOffice doesn't cut it when you're posting your resume online for potential employers. It never looked right when viewed with Word.
Lets not even get into game support. Finally, at my job I program on top of the
Wouldn't it have been simplier (and more secure) to tell her to buy a firewall?
There is a lot of specialized (custom) software around that might never been ported to a later Windows version..
Which is just fine; the specialized custom software is likely outdated, and no longer meets the needs of the organization, so the company is more likely to take the time to build new software which does meet their demands, or purchase OTS software.
While Linux may be ready for the desktop
Speaking as someone that ran Linux on the desktop from 2002 until this past Feb, I can say Linux is not ready for the desktop.
Except that they'll still have to pay a portion of their property tax to pay for public eduction, even though they aren't using it. Not exactly fair to pay for something which you aren't using is it?
Each store represents the investment of over a million bucks.
Does it? Where'd you pull this number out of?
Dunkin Donuts isn't growing anymore because, like McDonalds, they are already pretty much everywhere. We have more Dunkin Donuts in our area than Wendy's.
An ounce isn't exactly a lot, is it. I would assume someone that smokes pot regularly would buy more than an ounce at a time, just like you'd buy a case of soda instead of going to the store each and every time you wanted a glass of soda.
I wouldn't bother; I switched from the last 1.8 release earlier this year for MS Money 2006; MS Money beats GC by a longshot. From the summary (since the site is down), none of the features I wanted were added.
Not everybody buys Hollywood's version of "morality," and quite frankly don't want to see it.
So then STOP BUYING HOLLYWOODS MOVIES! If you disagree with Hollywood that much, why do you continue to send them money? Stupid.
No, because this cleaning company is creating a derivitive work, and DOESN'T have the right to collect money for their deads. ONLY the copyright holder may distribute their work, or derivitive works. No one else. If YOU choose to edit your private copy of the movie, that's fine. But when you sell it to someone else, its copyright infringment.
See, its not copyright gone crazy. You're hiring someone to leave 99% of the movie intach. So in effect, you're paying someone for the film, and they are distributing to you a version which is 99% the same. Its pretty clear cut copyright infringment.
The director has a vision on what the film should be; I don't think its right for some third party to not only skew that, but try to make a buck doing so. If you want to fast forward, fine. If you want to recut the film yourself, fine. But you aren't allowed to pay someone else to do that for you (because it crosses the line from private use).
I believe the directors do have a say, which is why Saving Private Ryan was never played on network television.
I would have preferred that a few cuss words not be there.
Or you could get over you fear of 'cuss' words and realize they really aren't any different than any other words.
Why not let me buy a version of the movie that already comes like that rather than making me pre-watch the movie with a pen and pencil to jot down timestamps?
Because the owner of the copyright of said film doesn't want to sell a version like that, so you can take it or leave it.
I think the OP's joke rings more true. If you really believe in santa claus, they lock you up, but if you believe in some force sitting in a cloud in judgement over you, well thats religion. Unless its not YOUR religion, in which case its a cult.
Of course, since we don't want terrorists hijacking our planes with guns and crashing them into tall buildings again.
Two weeks? Awwww, but I'm mad now!
By purchasing their groceries at Walmart, these same people are supporting a company which, in the end, will mean the end of our way of life. If Walmart (and other businesses like it) continue, soon we'll be no better off than your average worker in India or China (that is, unresonable working hours and contitions, no health care options, and working at a basic sustiance level).
The irony is that we won't even be able to afford the cheap, crappy electronics Walmart loves to sell.
Since the rating system for movies, music and games if voluntary, its not ILLEGAL to sell R rated, Explicit, or MA rated items to minors at all. Rather, its store policy.