FIC Neo1973: * 120.7 x 62 x 18.5 (mm) * 2.8" VGA (480x640) TFT Screen * Samsung s3c2410 SoC @ 266 MHz * Global Locate AGPS chip * Ti GPRS (2.5G not EDGE) * Unpowered USB 1.1 * Touchscreen * micro-sd slot * 2.5mm audio jack * 2 additional buttons * 1200 mAh battery (charged over USB) * 128 MB SDRAM * 64 MB NAND Flash * Bluetooth (2.0)... and I for one can't wait to get one...
See, here's the thing. You have qualitative studies, and you have quantitative studies. Qualitative studies can help you discover flaws in a product, basically by systematically collecting anecdotal information. They can tell you a lot about the differences between a couple different products.
But anybody trying to extract judgements about which product is better, based on such a qualitative study, is taking things way too far.
Quantitative studies measure results. To do a quantitative study, you need a representative sample for your study--the more representative the sample compared to the population, the more confidence you have in your results. Six administrators is nowhere near an adequate sample size to have any confidence in the results of this study.
But taken as a qualitative study, we can just learn from the results. Microsoft is counting on all of their customers being dumb enough to think that the experiences of 6 individual administrators in a study can persuade you to believe that Windows is better than Linux. That's a big stretch, a big leap to make in your judgment, but Microsoft is hoping you're too lazy to actually dig into the qualitative results and learn the lessons of the study.
We should actually thank Microsoft for taking Linux seriously, and helping us find its weak spots! We already know that open source is a much more effective way of solving them--just witness the current unresolved IE script vulnerability...
The biggest problem with Domino is that it seems to be an orphan...
I've been supporting a local business that uses Domino and Notes, and absolutely loves it. However, they had a server melt-down (two drives went bad in a RAID array, and something else was making Domino disconnect every day or so), so we needed to move to a new server.
And that's when we found out that Domino won't run on any newer systems--no 2.6 Linux kernel, and the only supported Linux distributions are RHEL and SuSE before version 9.0!
My client loves Domino and Notes, but is feeling quite burned by the whole upgrade experience. Seems like a product that could be greatly improved by open sourcing.
If the RIAA, MPAA, and BSA really want their copyrights, trademarks, and patents treated like other property, making it a crime to "steal," treating it as a coveted asset, why don't we let them?... and then, treat that IP like other property: tax it!
After all, how many countless millions is the government spending, lobbying other countries to crack down on "pirates," all without the entertainment industry paying for it? If they insist on it being their exclusive property, they should get charged a property tax, like the rest of us have to do for our real property.
I would feel much more sympathetic over their claimed lost sales to piracy if they actually applied some of those dollars to our social security problems;-)
Is it good for the programmer job market? No. Tough titties, it's good for everybody else. Yours isn't the first industry to be decimated by progress.
But it is good for the programmer job market. In fact, it's great for the programmer market. It's just not good for the boxed software market.
Most programmers don't work for proprietary software companies--they work for banks, manufacturers, governments, all kinds of non-software companies, companies that need software that you can't buy off the shelf.
With the rise of open source software and a plethora of projects to start with, all it does is bring custom software into the financial reach of the millions of small businesses that otherwise are stuck with boxed software.
1. Laziness 2. Ignorance 3. Word outlining 4. Powerpoint Presentation mode 5. Laziness 6. Never heard of it--no killer marketing campaign ala "Get Firefox" 7. Better the devil you know 8. It's not what people are comfortable with. 9. Envelopes. I still can't get them to print the way I expect. 10. Annoying type-ahead that's always wrong. (Yes, you can turn it off, but see reasons #1 and #5). 11. Data entry in Calc sucks. (can't they get Tab/Return to accept your entry, without autocomplete?) 12. Help sucks.
Why switch?
1. Save $$$ 2. Cross platform 3. Encourages style use 4. Built-in bibliography 5. Save $$$ 6. Bullets and numbering actually work (if you don't save as Word) 7. Great templating ability 8. Built-in vector drawing--can replace Visio for basic diagrams 9. Consistent UI across apps 10. Master documents ACTUALLY WORK, without LOSING DATA. 11. Page, frame, and list styles. 12. Word feels clunky, overengineered, and awkward after you get accustomed to OOo.
Many fine, relevant comments have already been made in this thread. But I didn't see anyone point out the downside of free SSL certificates: free phishing sites!
Yes, it's possible to freely self-sign certificates to get encryption. I run my own certificate authority for encrypting traffic among my clients, if they aren't conducting e-commerce. These self-signed certificates work fine without triggering a browser warning--if you import the certificate authority certificate.
For my public/e-commerce sites, I use FreeSSL, at $35/year. This buys me a blessing from a CA that is pre-installed in over 95% of all browsers in use. What's not covered? Konqueror. Curl. I think Safari, though I haven't checked recently. For my clients who want those to work, I suggest spending the ~$120 or so for a Geotrust cert.
Now, imagine if every spammer in the world could get an SSL certificate for free... Already domains are cheap enough that they can set them up to easily spoof real web sites--banks, etc. Imagine if every one of those had an SSL certificate, and didn't trigger a browser warning? Most people I know look for the lock. If the lock is there, they trust the site. They don't actually look at the certificate, or even the URL much.
For this reason alone, I'm glad certs aren't free. You can do encryption for free, but I'd prefer my browser to at least let me know the site I'm visiting is too cheap to buy a real cert. (that's not meant as a slam, since I'm too cheap to buy one for most of my sites...).
Clean install of MDK 10.1. I use IMAP, too, so no email to import. Started it up, checked it out, used it for a day or two. Then decided I liked it enough to move my contacts/calendar/tasks over from another workstation.
I did "evolution --force-shutdown" from the command line to kill all the backend processes. Then copied the addressbook, calendar, and task files from my old Evo 1.4 ~/evolution/local directories over the new ones in the ~/.evolution directories. They were in different directories, but easy enough to find.
Well, I have successfully synced. I'm just having to go through and manually de-dupe all the contacts, because they get pulled into Evolution without a "display name", and now you've got two of everything. Started with ~450 contacts... next thing you know I'm up to over 900!
Pilot-dedupe got rid of 50 of the duplicates, but the rest I'm having to go through one-by-one...
Word to the wise: sync BEFORE upgrading, and then just do a one way copy the first time you sync. I would've restored a backup, but had some new contacts manually entered in the Palm, and didn't want to lose all the other non-Palm fields from Evolution...
I just got Evo 2.0 set up on my laptop, with the new Mandrake 10.1. While I've been having trouble getting my Palm sync'd correctly, I have to say, the new calendar feature is great.
You can subscribe to the same web calendars used by Apple ICal and Mozilla Sunbird/Calendar. But you can also drag events to a personal calendar, where you can synchronize it with a PDA. You can select any set of calendars to publish for Free/Busy (it looks like it can merge multiple calendars, but haven't tested), and you can then attach the URL for your calendar to your VCard, send to other Evolution recipients AND Outlook users, and they can see when you're available to schedule a meeting.
I've been waiting for these features for months--it promises to be the best of all worlds for calendaring. Now to see if it delivers!
Subversion has two different server options: svn+ssh, which does require a local Unix user account, and mod_dav_svn, which runs behind an Apache server.
mod_dav_svn is really cool. You can use any Apache authentication module to authenticate users. There's a fine-grained authorization module that allows you to create groups, and designate read and write access to individuals and groups for particular directories in the repository. You can access the repository with any web browser, and many WebDAV clients.
Very cool stuff. The main drawback is that you need Apache 2.0.48--doesn't work with anything earlier.
Slashdot Mirror
Uh, reread the specs. Yes, there's Bluetooth...
... and I for one can't wait to get one...
FIC Neo1973:
* 120.7 x 62 x 18.5 (mm)
* 2.8" VGA (480x640) TFT Screen
* Samsung s3c2410 SoC @ 266 MHz
* Global Locate AGPS chip
* Ti GPRS (2.5G not EDGE)
* Unpowered USB 1.1
* Touchscreen
* micro-sd slot
* 2.5mm audio jack
* 2 additional buttons
* 1200 mAh battery (charged over USB)
* 128 MB SDRAM
* 64 MB NAND Flash
* Bluetooth (2.0)
See, here's the thing. You have qualitative studies, and you have quantitative studies. Qualitative studies can help you discover flaws in a product, basically by systematically collecting anecdotal information. They can tell you a lot about the differences between a couple different products.
But anybody trying to extract judgements about which product is better, based on such a qualitative study, is taking things way too far.
Quantitative studies measure results. To do a quantitative study, you need a representative sample for your study--the more representative the sample compared to the population, the more confidence you have in your results. Six administrators is nowhere near an adequate sample size to have any confidence in the results of this study.
But taken as a qualitative study, we can just learn from the results. Microsoft is counting on all of their customers being dumb enough to think that the experiences of 6 individual administrators in a study can persuade you to believe that Windows is better than Linux. That's a big stretch, a big leap to make in your judgment, but Microsoft is hoping you're too lazy to actually dig into the qualitative results and learn the lessons of the study.
We should actually thank Microsoft for taking Linux seriously, and helping us find its weak spots! We already know that open source is a much more effective way of solving them--just witness the current unresolved IE script vulnerability...
The biggest problem with Domino is that it seems to be an orphan...
I've been supporting a local business that uses Domino and Notes, and absolutely loves it. However, they had a server melt-down (two drives went bad in a RAID array, and something else was making Domino disconnect every day or so), so we needed to move to a new server.
And that's when we found out that Domino won't run on any newer systems--no 2.6 Linux kernel, and the only supported Linux distributions are RHEL and SuSE before version 9.0!
My client loves Domino and Notes, but is feeling quite burned by the whole upgrade experience. Seems like a product that could be greatly improved by open sourcing.
Cheers,
John
... anybody else catch this movie, late last night on AMC?
I never knew they named the browser after a fictional Soviet version of the B-1 bomber...
If the RIAA, MPAA, and BSA really want their copyrights, trademarks, and patents treated like other property, making it a crime to "steal," treating it as a coveted asset, why don't we let them? ... and then, treat that IP like other property: tax it!
;-)
After all, how many countless millions is the government spending, lobbying other countries to crack down on "pirates," all without the entertainment industry paying for it? If they insist on it being their exclusive property, they should get charged a property tax, like the rest of us have to do for our real property.
I would feel much more sympathetic over their claimed lost sales to piracy if they actually applied some of those dollars to our social security problems
Is it good for the programmer job market? No. Tough titties, it's good for everybody else. Yours isn't the first industry to be decimated by progress.
But it is good for the programmer job market. In fact, it's great for the programmer market. It's just not good for the boxed software market.
Most programmers don't work for proprietary software companies--they work for banks, manufacturers, governments, all kinds of non-software companies, companies that need software that you can't buy off the shelf.
With the rise of open source software and a plethora of projects to start with, all it does is bring custom software into the financial reach of the millions of small businesses that otherwise are stuck with boxed software.
Do you smell the opportunity?
Why not switch?
1. Laziness
2. Ignorance
3. Word outlining
4. Powerpoint Presentation mode
5. Laziness
6. Never heard of it--no killer marketing campaign ala "Get Firefox"
7. Better the devil you know
8. It's not what people are comfortable with.
9. Envelopes. I still can't get them to print the way I expect.
10. Annoying type-ahead that's always wrong. (Yes, you can turn it off, but see reasons #1 and #5).
11. Data entry in Calc sucks. (can't they get Tab/Return to accept your entry, without autocomplete?)
12. Help sucks.
Why switch?
1. Save $$$
2. Cross platform
3. Encourages style use
4. Built-in bibliography
5. Save $$$
6. Bullets and numbering actually work (if you don't save as Word)
7. Great templating ability
8. Built-in vector drawing--can replace Visio for basic diagrams
9. Consistent UI across apps
10. Master documents ACTUALLY WORK, without LOSING DATA.
11. Page, frame, and list styles.
12. Word feels clunky, overengineered, and awkward after you get accustomed to OOo.
Many fine, relevant comments have already been made in this thread. But I didn't see anyone point out the downside of free SSL certificates: free phishing sites!
Yes, it's possible to freely self-sign certificates to get encryption. I run my own certificate authority for encrypting traffic among my clients, if they aren't conducting e-commerce. These self-signed certificates work fine without triggering a browser warning--if you import the certificate authority certificate.
For my public/e-commerce sites, I use FreeSSL, at $35/year. This buys me a blessing from a CA that is pre-installed in over 95% of all browsers in use. What's not covered? Konqueror. Curl. I think Safari, though I haven't checked recently. For my clients who want those to work, I suggest spending the ~$120 or so for a Geotrust cert.
Now, imagine if every spammer in the world could get an SSL certificate for free... Already domains are cheap enough that they can set them up to easily spoof real web sites--banks, etc. Imagine if every one of those had an SSL certificate, and didn't trigger a browser warning? Most people I know look for the lock. If the lock is there, they trust the site. They don't actually look at the certificate, or even the URL much.
For this reason alone, I'm glad certs aren't free. You can do encryption for free, but I'd prefer my browser to at least let me know the site I'm visiting is too cheap to buy a real cert. (that's not meant as a slam, since I'm too cheap to buy one for most of my sites...).
Cheers,
Freelock Computing
Hmm. I didn't have any trouble here.
Clean install of MDK 10.1. I use IMAP, too, so no email to import. Started it up, checked it out, used it for a day or two. Then decided I liked it enough to move my contacts/calendar/tasks over from another workstation.
I did "evolution --force-shutdown" from the command line to kill all the backend processes. Then copied the addressbook, calendar, and task files from my old Evo 1.4 ~/evolution/local directories over the new ones in the ~/.evolution directories. They were in different directories, but easy enough to find.
Started it up, and everything was there! Perfect!
Until I synced my Palm...
Well, I have successfully synced. I'm just having to go through and manually de-dupe all the contacts, because they get pulled into Evolution without a "display name", and now you've got two of everything. Started with ~450 contacts... next thing you know I'm up to over 900!
Pilot-dedupe got rid of 50 of the duplicates, but the rest I'm having to go through one-by-one...
Word to the wise: sync BEFORE upgrading, and then just do a one way copy the first time you sync. I would've restored a backup, but had some new contacts manually entered in the Palm, and didn't want to lose all the other non-Palm fields from Evolution...
I just got Evo 2.0 set up on my laptop, with the new Mandrake 10.1. While I've been having trouble getting my Palm sync'd correctly, I have to say, the new calendar feature is great.
You can subscribe to the same web calendars used by Apple ICal and Mozilla Sunbird/Calendar. But you can also drag events to a personal calendar, where you can synchronize it with a PDA. You can select any set of calendars to publish for Free/Busy (it looks like it can merge multiple calendars, but haven't tested), and you can then attach the URL for your calendar to your VCard, send to other Evolution recipients AND Outlook users, and they can see when you're available to schedule a meeting.
I've been waiting for these features for months--it promises to be the best of all worlds for calendaring. Now to see if it delivers!
No, it doesn't.
Subversion has two different server options: svn+ssh, which does require a local Unix user account, and mod_dav_svn, which runs behind an Apache server.
mod_dav_svn is really cool. You can use any Apache authentication module to authenticate users. There's a fine-grained authorization module that allows you to create groups, and designate read and write access to individuals and groups for particular directories in the repository. You can access the repository with any web browser, and many WebDAV clients.
Very cool stuff. The main drawback is that you need Apache 2.0.48--doesn't work with anything earlier.