Probably they don't want to fix what isn't broken. Many enterprises have existed before SMB was even created.
They tend implement IT as technology has progressed. Migrating to newer infrastructures takes a lot of time, especially when you want to make sure the enterprise can continue working uninterrupted during the migration.
Yes, you would probably want a Mac for any graphic design, art, what have you.
I don't really get why you would want to get a Mac to run a PPC applications like Photoshop badly. You're better off getting a Windows PC to run Photoshop.
And it's great that they have access to outlook, word etc so they can stay in the company loop.
Yeah.. PPC Microsoft Office doesn't really perform that great either, the new Microsoft Office comming out won't support macros used in the Windows office -- The only other office suite I know of that is capable of using said macros is Novell's fork of OpenOffice (free) which is only available for Windows and Linux.
not a machine they can make home movies on.
I generally don't see much of a difference in the quality of movie production when it's made in iMovie or Windows Movie Maker...
I find modern Macs with OS X quite irrelevant for corporate business office work or just normal graphics work right now.
Until Apple has enterprise class support for hardware, they won't be truly ready for the enterprise.
They have corporate support options, but it's only for hardware younger than three years old. I can't imagine any real corporation not having hardware under three years old (I've seen decade old hardware still supported by the vendor) -- they most certainly would want the hardware supported too.
A good front-end to MySQL that's actually easy to use.
I have seen so many of those over the years...
Or an admin tool for Apache that makes sense.
Seen quite a few of those too...
"We don't want VB in Linux"
Yes, you're right, people should work on a language that was abandoned years ago that people barely use, instead of useful things like Mono that brings a opensource.NET to all platforms.
it will continue to perpetuate the idea that Windows is the only "easy" platform to write software in, with Microsoft tools.
"Behind this mask is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas can't be killed with bullets."
For example, I am building a 3D game. I explored Ogre, and I found it difficult to use, with far too many independent side-projects that required me to update from 5 or 6 different websites every time the core engine was updated.
Oh nos, work!
building a commercial app kinda sucks when you have to rely on hobbyists for timely updates. What happens if the core engine updates, and one of the key add-on makers is on vacation for a month? Or just decides they don't want to do it? What if their whole project gets abandoned?
I don't see how the situation improves when that happens with closed source software. At least with opensource software, it can be continued by anyone.
These kinds of questions have to be asked when you're making something you want to bring to market. "Just program it yourself" was something I heard often... but that's really not the point, is it?
I do believe bounties were created for this reason. So that you could pay someone to code what you need.
Personally, I've found that PAYING for my software brings with it a lot of perks: For one thing, you can hold over them the "I'm your customer" card... money talks!
Uh.. I'm a customer of a few companies that sell opensource software and support like Novell, Sun, Mandriva...
I could pretty much threaten them the same way when I'm not getting the support I paid for, for my opensource software (whether or not that'll work is another story -- I'm not too sure Microsoft would). I'm also pretty sure you can pay someone todo the sort of work you want anyway.
To be blunt, and to really abuse a common saying... "You get what you pay for." If you don't pay jack squat... guess what you usually get.
I don't really find these sayings accurate. I've got Kubuntu Linux and it's repositories for free. I find it a lot better than Windows in many cases -- However, when it comes to office suites, OpenOffice.org doesn't please me completely so I bought a copy of StarOffice (based on OpenOffice.org and vice versa) which gives me the added functionality I wanted.
I really think it depends on the situation more than a mere saying.
Why did they suddenly decide to go after Apple now when Mozilla has been in, urm, flagrant violation of this supposed patent for much longer than Apple?
I disagree with using 'Automatix'. If you just installed the package ubuntu-restricted-extras you would of achieved the same result (flash, mp3, sun java6, dvd etc support).
Can you specify which version of FF you use and on which OS? Is it a beta, because I have run the latest FF on Windows, Linux and Mac and the download window works just fine.
Already stated what OS and WM I use in my previous post, here it is again with other related information:
Citibank is the issuing bank for many popular retail credit cards. Their account access site (with the name of "Account Online" https://www.accountonline.com/) is not tested for any browsers other than IE
I have a account in Poland with Citibank, the access site is www.online.citibank.pl. I tend to use the English site (because I prefer English language) and I can tell you it is fully compatible with Firefox, Safari, IE etc.
Seems this is a issue limited to the American Citibank.
I use KDE3.5.6 on my main desktop (Kubuntu edgy). I would use Konqueror, however there are a few issues:
Konqueror does tend to crash on me after I've been browsing the web a lot.
It has weird DNS resolving issues due to ipv6 'support' -- The only way to stop those issues is to disable ipv6 in the Linux Kernel, which I can't as I need it sometimes for unrelated things
The lack of something like Google Browser sync -- I want my cookies and passwords synchronized, not only bookmarks.
I currently use Firefox, however I am not too happy with it since:
The save dialog is a standard GTK thing, that it doesn't let me use kioslaves, so I can't save things directly to a ftp server, samba share, fish etc.
The download window doesn't really work.. I click "Open containing folder" (context menu), doesn't do anything. When I try to 'open' anything I downloaded, doesn't work at all either.
So far, when it comes to webbrowsers, I'm not too satisfied with them.
I need it, I can't remember all these passwords we're supposed to have that's unique and it asks me for my master password to view them anyway.. So I don't have a security issue. Perhaps you are the irresponsible one by not using decent security measures like perhaps, not storing the passwords at all, or requiring everyone have a master password.
It is so easy to look at someones password with that option, I really have no idea what they were thinking!
They were thinking of the home user who has problems remembering their passwords. You are the one deploying this software, you didn't evaluate the software properly and take the proper precautions and because of that you brought a new security risk.
I recently had to stop deploying firefox because my director saw how easy it is for someone to walk up to the computer and show password.
It takes me less than a few seconds to get saved passwords off IE, so what? If you're really concerned about security, you should probably know about these registry keys that IE uses. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\IntelliForms\SPW - contains usernames and passwords HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ Protected Storage System Provider\Data - contains the encryption keys
There is nothing stopping a logged in user from accessing these and anyone with malicious intent can easily export these registry keys and all their data, e-mailing them somewhere, just like e-mailng the signons.txt of Firefox's (which won't have much use if there is a master password set -- requiring bruteforce attacks to get those passwords).
If you don't want the passwords there in the first place, disable the auto saving function of passwords. This is your own fault not Mozilla's.
In order to win this market, Linux needs two things, it must support the latest and greatest in graphics cards out of the box
Windows doesn't even do that...
Now, the second of those two requirements can be mitigated by using things like Cedega to run non-ported games, but in that case graphics cards need to be fully supported in order for the games to play on par with the windows counterparts.
Personal experience: I actually find my games run better under Linux+Wine than under native XP SP2:)
Complete bullshit - I went and bought Casino Royal, popped it in my computer, didn't run. A stupid flash thing popped up, 'Click to play movie!' and clicking did nothing. Fuck you, Sony.
Hold down the shift key when you insert the DVD. You should be able to play it with your DVD player software then.
And back to "being ready for prime-time" let me ask this (and it's an honest question, as for me, this is pretty much the only thing left, beyond some minor annoyances, that is, in my opinion, keepipng Linux off the USER's desktop), can I go, and buy a random piece of electronic equipment (phone, camera, video recorder, video card, sound card, webcam, microphone, etc.), bring it home, unpackage it, plug it in, and it just, work?
This is actually one of the reasons why I really like using Linux. You plug a device in, it's immediately operational. No fuss.
Windows? Well, the device has a huge warning label, telling you to insert the driver CD first (because apparently it won't work by just plugging it in). But!!! You shouldn't even bother with the driver CD, because the drivers are probably broken with the latest windows updates, you need to goto the manufacturer's website, download the driver updates if there are any and hope they won't install a new tray-icon application that does absolutely nothing but waste memory.
I can't stand how many drivers for things like printers, bluetooth devices want you to register with a company (filling out a stupid form at install, after install)...
I've had plenty of bluetooth, wireless cards, scanners etc. that are 'designed for windows xp' and the drivers provided on the CD simply didn't work under sp2 -- I haven't able to get drivers that worked for all the hardware under XP SP2.
That said, I have heard of people having issues where they needed to manually compile kernel modules etc. -- But I have not experienced the need to first-hand.
Unfortunately, playing decent games on it is kinda tough. Oh well, back to Windows I go.
My games actually perform better under Linux =). Some being native ports, others running under Wine.
Most ISPs put a line in the fine print telling that you are responsible for your internet connection and must not share it with anyone.
That's the agreement with the ISP, not really related in my opinion.
However, how the music industry tends to file these lawsuits, is against the bill payer, claiming THEY were the ones that downloaded the content. Not somebody else. If they were fishing around saying it was someone on that Internet connection, they couldn't really claim they have 'forensic quality' evidence, as it doesn't lead to a specific person.
You are not getting it. "Mac OS X" is just a marketing name, just as "Microsoft Windows" or "Microsoft Windows Vista" is.
I understand that.
So, assuming that we can make a similar argument for Windows NT 5.1 (aka "XP"), since the year 2000 Microsoft has released
I count the service packs and I will explain my reasoning below.
If you want to count all the service packs, MS made around 12 major+minor releases, Apple almost 40. But that's not very significant, since Microsoft packs more into each service pack than Apple does, and that's OK. Only major releases matter.
I'm counting service packs due to the fact that new APIs are introduced to windows through them, some internals rearchitectured internals and sometimes even new user features are introduced. I don't count Apple's point releases because they're really just mere fixes, not providing new APIs (that they provide in every major OS X release) etc.
The fact that the other poster claimed service packs don't count meant to me, that new versions of software, added software, new APIs, new UI changes etc. don't count. In which case if we apply that as whole, we find by that logic windows hasn't really changed since the Winnt, OS X hasn't versioned since 10.0 etc.
I really don't agree with that logic.
I honestly don't really care too much about how often OSes are released, but telling me that Microsoft stopped development all development since XP's release is certainly not true.
That happens on pure Windows networks ever since Windows for Workgroups. Out of all Windows networks I've seen so far the minority actually had a working Network Neighbourhood...
I have a dedicated WINS server (which is setup in DHCP). There should be no reason why it messes up on something so simple. It's not a Samba issue, because my Linux systems work with the setup just fine.
It's been one of the following in the past years (since 2001):
Samba poorly configured by Apple.
Apple shipped with a broken Samba with the OS
Finder was on her period during this minor release
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They tend implement IT as technology has progressed. Migrating to newer infrastructures takes a lot of time, especially when you want to make sure the enterprise can continue working uninterrupted during the migration.
I find modern Macs with OS X quite irrelevant for corporate business office work or just normal graphics work right now.
I could pretty much threaten them the same way when I'm not getting the support I paid for, for my opensource software (whether or not that'll work is another story -- I'm not too sure Microsoft would). I'm also pretty sure you can pay someone todo the sort of work you want anyway.I don't really find these sayings accurate. I've got Kubuntu Linux and it's repositories for free. I find it a lot better than Windows in many cases -- However, when it comes to office suites, OpenOffice.org doesn't please me completely so I bought a copy of StarOffice (based on OpenOffice.org and vice versa) which gives me the added functionality I wanted.
I really think it depends on the situation more than a mere saying.
I disagree with using 'Automatix'. If you just installed the package ubuntu-restricted-extras you would of achieved the same result (flash, mp3, sun java6, dvd etc support).
Seems this is a issue limited to the American Citibank.
I currently use Firefox, however I am not too happy with it since:
So far, when it comes to webbrowsers, I'm not too satisfied with them.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\IntelliForms\SPW - contains usernames and passwords
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ Protected Storage System Provider\Data - contains the encryption keys
There is nothing stopping a logged in user from accessing these and anyone with malicious intent can easily export these registry keys and all their data, e-mailing them somewhere, just like e-mailng the signons.txt of Firefox's (which won't have much use if there is a master password set -- requiring bruteforce attacks to get those passwords).
If you don't want the passwords there in the first place, disable the auto saving function of passwords. This is your own fault not Mozilla's.
Printers were still a issue in 2001? What?
Uh, that's just the /free/ (as in completely opensource) version.
/free/ (as in cost) version that comes with proprietary stuff that is easier for the user.
You will still be able to get the
You could always just use Kubuntu instead (uses KDE, Konqueror and Ark by default).
Windows? Well, the device has a huge warning label, telling you to insert the driver CD first (because apparently it won't work by just plugging it in). But!!! You shouldn't even bother with the driver CD, because the drivers are probably broken with the latest windows updates, you need to goto the manufacturer's website, download the driver updates if there are any and hope they won't install a new tray-icon application that does absolutely nothing but waste memory.
I can't stand how many drivers for things like printers, bluetooth devices want you to register with a company (filling out a stupid form at install, after install)...
I've had plenty of bluetooth, wireless cards, scanners etc. that are 'designed for windows xp' and the drivers provided on the CD simply didn't work under sp2 -- I haven't able to get drivers that worked for all the hardware under XP SP2.
That said, I have heard of people having issues where they needed to manually compile kernel modules etc. -- But I have not experienced the need to first-hand.My games actually perform better under Linux =). Some being native ports, others running under Wine.
However, how the music industry tends to file these lawsuits, is against the bill payer, claiming THEY were the ones that downloaded the content. Not somebody else. If they were fishing around saying it was someone on that Internet connection, they couldn't really claim they have 'forensic quality' evidence, as it doesn't lead to a specific person.
The fact that the other poster claimed service packs don't count meant to me, that new versions of software, added software, new APIs, new UI changes etc. don't count. In which case if we apply that as whole, we find by that logic windows hasn't really changed since the Winnt, OS X hasn't versioned since 10.0 etc.
I really don't agree with that logic.
I honestly don't really care too much about how often OSes are released, but telling me that Microsoft stopped development all development since XP's release is certainly not true.
It's been one of the following in the past years (since 2001):