I was switching slowly from windows to linux. The process started 7 years ago. I have removed windows from my personal machine 4 years ago. about 1 year ago I started doing that on computers of people in my family.
It had to kae so long time for me, bease I was dependant on AutoCAD. It is a tool working only under windows. And it is used by people in archotecture/engineering part of the market. Honestly - I have now 15 year expertise in autocad, as I was using this tool to have money for a living. Some people watch me as autocad wizard, since I can write some really crazy macros or lisp scripts.
4 years ago vmware was good enough to start using autocad under linux. So it was the time when I switched totally to linux. Today autocad is not working correctly under wine.
I have clicked some of them, and indded some provide pictures of various random places, like shopping center, bureau, or parking lot. But I've noticed that some of them are asking for a password, or simply refuse to connect. Does it mean that admins had fast response to this issue?:)
And btw - slashdotting thousands of cameras around the world is really funny. Karma prize for a person that finds the most interesting places!
Not exactly. I've viewed this page 10minutes ago, and scrolled through it, rather carefully. Then I refreshed it again, and suddenly a new (very pretty) image was on the top, with 70 votes, while I didn't notice it at all previously (so it surely wasn't in the first 20).
Oh, now this image has 79, too bad it's not my favorite. Voting goes on fast, there:)
it was interesting TFA(*), so to make it short: closed source makes sense only when nobody else solved a certain programming problem (so the guy who solved it - can benefit from that). When other companies solve it - there is no longer sense in keeping the solution closed - it's better when they together concentrate on improving it.
OTOH, IMHO it'd great if clever solutions for programming problems would first appear as opensource, so that nobody can patent that solution (because of prior art).
funnily enough, he proposes to make parks also in two places that are quite good candidates for Mars colonization.
those are Valles Marineris and Hellas Planitia
- first, because canyons provide a very good place for underground houses - you have just a window on the side of a canyon
- second, because Hellas is the lowest place on whole planet, which results in twice the atmospheric pressure (Mars has 6hPa on average): 14 hPa. Pressure has big influence on water phase - in Hellas you would expect water to be in liquid phase, while everywhere on Mars you expect water to constantly dwiddle between gaz and solid phase (tri-point place on phase diagram). Liquid water is a good argument to put human settlements in Hellas.
I know that stuff because my wife makes a PhD about base on Mars.
ah yes. I made a floppy, and told her what to (exactly) type, just after booting a floppy. She has noted this in her calendar. So I don't have to come and revive grub after windows reinstallation.
I'm afraid this is unfortunately untrue. I make presentations of my scientific research every few months, and I have to show videos to people (reinforced concrete breaking under load). I do all my research with linux, though for presenting results I either have to:
-use evil powerpoint inside stolen vmware (afraid to admit, but I have legal win2000)
-make presentation inside OOo, and switch between desktops to run a video with mplayer, which waits aside
I use both of those methods interchangeably, favoring mplayer solution in order to promote linux around.
and I did put effort to make vidoes in presentations working with OOo - it works, but simply is not usable yet.
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No, the best part of this comment is the closing sentence, not the opening one:
It's dangerous to leave such power in the hands of people not protected by insanity.
most clever coclusion I've heard in years. Funny also because of the inside pardox. But very true.
try to consider using: wine, vmware or cedega.
I was switching slowly from windows to linux. The process started 7 years ago. I have removed windows from my personal machine 4 years ago. about 1 year ago I started doing that on computers of people in my family.
It had to kae so long time for me, bease I was dependant on AutoCAD. It is a tool working only under windows. And it is used by people in archotecture/engineering part of the market. Honestly - I have now 15 year expertise in autocad, as I was using this tool to have money for a living. Some people watch me as autocad wizard, since I can write some really crazy macros or lisp scripts.
4 years ago vmware was good enough to start using autocad under linux. So it was the time when I switched totally to linux. Today autocad is not working correctly under wine.
If I ever sign up for a Slashdot account, Oday Juarez is going to be my nick.
time to sign up now, tommorow you'll get higher ID. imagine - in "few" months people will start to respect your low ID!
I love GPL and I write my own PhD program under this license.
...And about two days ago I had modpoints which I didn't had time to spend.
and I don't know why the parent was modded as troll.
or freeciv.org :)
and debian.org and redhat.com, and google.com (really!). oh my...
sourceforge.net is banned! fortunately berlios.de is not.
one two
:)
I have clicked some of them, and indded some provide pictures of various random places, like shopping center, bureau, or parking lot. But I've noticed that some of them are asking for a password, or simply refuse to connect. Does it mean that admins had fast response to this issue?
And btw - slashdotting thousands of cameras around the world is really funny. Karma prize for a person that finds the most interesting places!
how about videos in impress presentations?
first they will have to break into my box. as I don't leave my computer with root logged in, in a terminal.
I don't understand it too, anyone care to explain, for people too lazy[*] to RTFA? :>
[*] average slashdotter
it's very useful when you know that you log only through ssh, for example, and not from web browser.
works in galeon, my favorite web browser :)
Oh, now this image has 79, too bad it's not my favorite. Voting goes on fast, there :)
.. and too bad I still have no time do writa what I've promised
If you are non-english person - how's Abiword working for you?
accidently, no. I have about 4MB/sec to spare on that
I want one, opensource, which runs under linux. I will run it as a daemon on all 5 of my servers.
OTOH, IMHO it'd great if clever solutions for programming problems would first appear as opensource, so that nobody can patent that solution (because of prior art).
(*) fantastic
which licence it uses, GPL?
I pictured a grandma updating debian herself. ROTFL :)))
is there a linux version anywhere?
those are Valles Marineris and Hellas Planitia
- first, because canyons provide a very good place for underground houses - you have just a window on the side of a canyon
- second, because Hellas is the lowest place on whole planet, which results in twice the atmospheric pressure (Mars has 6hPa on average): 14 hPa. Pressure has big influence on water phase - in Hellas you would expect water to be in liquid phase, while everywhere on Mars you expect water to constantly dwiddle between gaz and solid phase (tri-point place on phase diagram). Liquid water is a good argument to put human settlements in Hellas.
I know that stuff because my wife makes a PhD about base on Mars.
ah yes. I made a floppy, and told her what to (exactly) type, just after booting a floppy. She has noted this in her calendar. So I don't have to come and revive grub after windows reinstallation.
-use evil powerpoint inside stolen vmware (afraid to admit, but I have legal win2000)
-make presentation inside OOo, and switch between desktops to run a video with mplayer, which waits aside
I use both of those methods interchangeably, favoring mplayer solution in order to promote linux around.
and I did put effort to make vidoes in presentations working with OOo - it works, but simply is not usable yet.