seems to be tending toward Ubuntu. Simple to install, no command line needed for the casual non-geek user, intuitive GUI for the convert from Windows. I'm using it right now on my Dell desktop that came pre-installed with it. I already had it running on another machine, but I wanted to vote with my wallet for linux to be available Joe Public as already installed on a commodity computer.
Additional software is easy to install. I'm using Opera to post this and, even though it's not available through the Ubuntu add/remove, getting it downloaded and installed required no CLI use.
I've got another machine with Fedora 7 and have played with a lot of other distros including SuSE, Knoppix, Mepis, and some of the Ubuntu forks like Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Mint.
We have a guest room in our house that is complete with a guest computer.. It runs Ubuntu Feisty and our guests have not had a problem using it. I just tell them that it's not Windows, it's Linux. Here's the browser and feel free to use any of the networked printers if you need to print something.
is that they tend to dry and irritate the skin more than plain old soap. This makes the skin actually more vulnerable to pathogens. I, too, have been advising folks to just use plain old soap and water and avoid antibacterial soaps. My grandmother used to make her own lye and lard soap. Maybe not such a bad idea. Being a germophobe isn't necessarily a good idea.
I sent them money for one of their lovely Desktops with pre-installed Ubuntu. I already had an older P-III running Ubuntu nicely, but wanted to vote with my wallet. That core2 Duo with 3 Gigs of RAM runs Ubuntu extra nicely.:D
in the accounting department. 5 new Dells with XP-Pro and Office 2007 installed. The IT guy who set them up made sure the default was set to save files in Office 97-2003 mode. It's just the old forced upgrade trick from MS, as usual. I'm in Engineering where we're still using Office 2000. No business case for "upgrading" that I can see.
If they've done this before with other trial software, why give them another opportunity to pull their tricks again. "Once burned, twice shy" is not an entirely bad philosophy. I wouldn't expect Snow White to readily eat another apple.
Between my wife and myself we print a LOT. We're using the Pixma 5000, the model before they "chipped" the separate ink cartridges. Our first Pixma 5000 died of exhaustion so I shopped for NIB ones on Ebay and bought 2 of them. One is still sealed in the box in our storage room off the office.
After reading a lot of reviews, it seemed to me that the people who used third party ink had a lot of complaints so I've resisted using anything other than Canon ink. For those who are not familiar with these fine printers, they use separate ink cartridges for each color and have a separate larger black cartridge for printing monochrome documents. The other black cartridge matches the photo quality ink for the color cartridges. The print head is not part of the ink tank assemblies so it's separately replaceable, although I've not had to replace one. Consumer Reports did an analysis of inkjet printers a while back while this one was still in production and found it to be a lot more efficient on a cents per page basis.
Some other advantages of the Pixma printers, including the newer models, too, so far as I know, are that they are FAST, produce great quality photo prints and even do automatic duplexing and have multiple paper paths. Yup, I'm a fan. OH! And they are supported it recent Linux distros's, too. I use Ubuntu and it works just fine.
This was the question that was asked on a locally hosted talk radio show yesterday. I called in and explained that if it was an American computer, it would probably be running Windows. I asked if they had heard of the "Blue Screen of Death", which they had. I explained that deploying Windows in a life-support function would give new meaning to the term. Then the host, intelligent guy that he is, said, "But they could use a Mac". I said, "Or, better yet Linux".
The http://wunderground.com/ site has multiple functions that cause a MS error message, which I don't allow to send information to MS, and then it closes the browser. I used the bug report feature in the browser when I restarted it.
I got the E520N less the monitor for $409 plus tax and shipping. Estimated ship date is 6/1. That looks like a $140 saving to me, albeit the Vista version has a different video card.
The next step is to get Dell to put the Ubuntu option more prominently displayed. It's tough to find if you don't know where to go to find it. Come on Michael, get the word out and you'll sell a ton of them.
I've always advocated that our customers, most of whom I know personally, use ISP independent email services for the obvious reasons. I tell them that, at some point, they may want to move to a different ISP as we only offered dialup. Some took my advice and some didn't. Since we're small, I've allowed some folks to retain their email addresses with us even though they've moved on. That doesn't work with the big boys, though.
Come on MS. Put up (With specificity) or shut up. You gonna hire Darl to be your mouthpiece when his SCO gig is over? I suspect he'll be available very soon unless he's wearing that orange jumpsuit.
I've been doing this for years, going clear back to toting a Zip disk around with me that had Eudora on it, executing the program from the disk along with carrying the files I'm working with at the time.
I'm doing this now with my sandisk titanium Cruzer 2 Gig. I've got my email client, Eudora, that runs just fine executing from the flash drive. My FTP client, leapftp is similar. Effectively, my "My Documents" resides on the flash drive, too. Then there's the suite of portable applications from http://portableapps.com/ I use portable Firefox, OO and Putty and have lots of room left over on the 2 Gig drive.
Since all that good stuff is on that little flash drive, I back it up automatically every night so if I lose it, it's no biggie. Encryption is a good idea..
I'm with the other comments about being nervous if MS is running the show. It's going to be more about restrictions than enabling.
for 3 years full-time and 3 more years part-time after that. It was a fall-back after I got laid off and It was a good gig that I enjoyed. It left me with some flex time to do consulting so I made ends meet. Then one of my consulting customers made me an offer I couldn't refuse and here I am, 22 years later still at that job and enjoying it. I'd do the teaching again, if this job folded up and I wasn't ready to retire. Might do it again anyway if I got bored with retirement.
Oh, I'm not in IT, though. I'm an Electrical Engineer, but I do write a lot of embedded software for controllers.
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seems to be tending toward Ubuntu. Simple to install, no command line needed for the casual non-geek user, intuitive GUI for the convert from Windows. I'm using it right now on my Dell desktop that came pre-installed with it. I already had it running on another machine, but I wanted to vote with my wallet for linux to be available Joe Public as already installed on a commodity computer.
Additional software is easy to install. I'm using Opera to post this and, even though it's not available through the Ubuntu add/remove, getting it downloaded and installed required no CLI use.
I've got another machine with Fedora 7 and have played with a lot of other distros including SuSE, Knoppix, Mepis, and some of the Ubuntu forks like Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Mint.
We have a guest room in our house that is complete with a guest computer.. It runs Ubuntu Feisty and our guests have not had a problem using it. I just tell them that it's not Windows, it's Linux. Here's the browser and feel free to use any of the networked printers if you need to print something.
is that they tend to dry and irritate the skin more than plain old soap. This makes the skin actually more vulnerable to pathogens. I, too, have been advising folks to just use plain old soap and water and avoid antibacterial soaps. My grandmother used to make her own lye and lard soap. Maybe not such a bad idea. Being a germophobe isn't necessarily a good idea.
I sent them money for one of their lovely Desktops with pre-installed Ubuntu. I already had an older P-III running Ubuntu nicely, but wanted to vote with my wallet. That core2 Duo with 3 Gigs of RAM runs Ubuntu extra nicely. :D
It's not the use of this system, it's the potential for misuse that is the problem here.
And you know it's gonna happen!
on my Ubuntu machine or my Mac, you insensitive clod!
Actually, I don't have it on my XP-Pro SP2 machine I use to run Quickbooks, either.
in the accounting department. 5 new Dells with XP-Pro and Office 2007 installed. The IT guy who set them up made sure the default was set to save files in Office 97-2003 mode. It's just the old forced upgrade trick from MS, as usual. I'm in Engineering where we're still using Office 2000. No business case for "upgrading" that I can see.
If they've done this before with other trial software, why give them another opportunity to pull their tricks again. "Once burned, twice shy" is not an entirely bad philosophy. I wouldn't expect Snow White to readily eat another apple.
until I learned that they didn't actually have to land it to the Moon to win the prize. Durn.
Still, it's obviously not an easy task and is an important step.
Between my wife and myself we print a LOT. We're using the Pixma 5000, the model before they "chipped" the separate ink cartridges. Our first Pixma 5000 died of exhaustion so I shopped for NIB ones on Ebay and bought 2 of them. One is still sealed in the box in our storage room off the office.
After reading a lot of reviews, it seemed to me that the people who used third party ink had a lot of complaints so I've resisted using anything other than Canon ink. For those who are not familiar with these fine printers, they use separate ink cartridges for each color and have a separate larger black cartridge for printing monochrome documents. The other black cartridge matches the photo quality ink for the color cartridges. The print head is not part of the ink tank assemblies so it's separately replaceable, although I've not had to replace one. Consumer Reports did an analysis of inkjet printers a while back while this one was still in production and found it to be a lot more efficient on a cents per page basis.
Some other advantages of the Pixma printers, including the newer models, too, so far as I know, are that they are FAST, produce great quality photo prints and even do automatic duplexing and have multiple paper paths. Yup, I'm a fan. OH! And they are supported it recent Linux distros's, too. I use Ubuntu and it works just fine.
"Just the facts, mam."
Which is also what journalists/reporters should be concerned with.
This was the question that was asked on a locally hosted talk radio show yesterday. I called in and explained that if it was an American computer, it would probably be running Windows. I asked if they had heard of the "Blue Screen of Death", which they had. I explained that deploying Windows in a life-support function would give new meaning to the term. Then the host, intelligent guy that he is, said, "But they could use a Mac". I said, "Or, better yet Linux".
The http://wunderground.com/ site has multiple functions that cause a MS error message, which I don't allow to send information to MS, and then it closes the browser. I used the bug report feature in the browser when I restarted it.
Like this is a big surprise. Historically, religious fundamentalism is behind more violent behavior than any other single cause.
But in this case, probably rightly so. When I bought my E520N on opening day, it said I had a warranty, so I'd expect them to honor it.
After all, we have the best legislators in the US that money can buy.
I got the E520N less the monitor for $409 plus tax and shipping. Estimated ship date is 6/1. That looks like a $140 saving to me, albeit the Vista version has a different video card.
The next step is to get Dell to put the Ubuntu option more prominently displayed. It's tough to find if you don't know where to go to find it. Come on Michael, get the word out and you'll sell a ton of them.
I suspect the answer will be no, but a geek can always hope.
"MS-FUDed Study Atacks GPL3 Draft Process" ?
I'm so glad it was an independent and unbiased study.
I've always advocated that our customers, most of whom I know personally, use ISP independent email services for the obvious reasons. I tell them that, at some point, they may want to move to a different ISP as we only offered dialup. Some took my advice and some didn't. Since we're small, I've allowed some folks to retain their email addresses with us even though they've moved on. That doesn't work with the big boys, though.
Sewa Linux.
Just what I want.... NOT!
"Sorry, Dave, I can't let you take that call from a non-Microsoft phone. Accept or Deny?"
until we get patent numbers and exactly what it is that is infringing on it. Put up or shut up.
Too bad if something was to happen to it". - MS
Come on MS. Put up (With specificity) or shut up. You gonna hire Darl to be your mouthpiece when his SCO gig is over? I suspect he'll be available very soon unless he's wearing that orange jumpsuit.
I've been doing this for years, going clear back to toting a Zip disk around with me that had Eudora on it, executing the program from the disk along with carrying the files I'm working with at the time.
I'm doing this now with my sandisk titanium Cruzer 2 Gig. I've got my email client, Eudora, that runs just fine executing from the flash drive. My FTP client, leapftp is similar. Effectively, my "My Documents" resides on the flash drive, too. Then there's the suite of portable applications from http://portableapps.com/ I use portable Firefox, OO and Putty and have lots of room left over on the 2 Gig drive.
Since all that good stuff is on that little flash drive, I back it up automatically every night so if I lose it, it's no biggie. Encryption is a good idea..
I'm with the other comments about being nervous if MS is running the show. It's going to be more about restrictions than enabling.
for 3 years full-time and 3 more years part-time after that. It was a fall-back after I got laid off and It was a good gig that I enjoyed. It left me with some flex time to do consulting so I made ends meet. Then one of my consulting customers made me an offer I couldn't refuse and here I am, 22 years later still at that job and enjoying it. I'd do the teaching again, if this job folded up and I wasn't ready to retire. Might do it again anyway if I got bored with retirement.
Oh, I'm not in IT, though. I'm an Electrical Engineer, but I do write a lot of embedded software for controllers.