How would you know if it wasn't already in place? They have the hardware in place, the software apparently already available, and the data willingly submitted online.
It likely isn't worth the effort. I really like FOSS myself, but one needs to have some perspective. This isn't getting food to the hungry, or getting some medicine to the poor. If upper management has an irrational hatred of OSS, so be it. Live with it, or resign. Based on what you're saying, the person doesn't seem open to reason -- and there is no point of using open source for non rational reasons.
I find the Windows phenomenon to be quite interesting, almost depressing. There are very few things that Microsoft Windows clearly does better than Mac/Linux. There are a few things it simply does differently, and there are a lot of things it plane sucks at. Yet somehow, it manages to be "the" operating system. One of it's competitors is available both commercially and for free, another is available commercially. It doesn't even seem (in my experiences) to be easier to develop for Windows any more.
The only thing Windows seems to do well is be Windows, and while that's tough to compete with, it's not impossible.
Ruby -- ok, but I dislike the attitudes of many of their loud users
Tcl -- haven't needed
JavaScript -- Jquery makes it nicer, but it makes me which browsers support Python
Java -- nice, only used a bit
.NET. -- well that isn't a language, I'll assume they meant C#, which I like, but I haven't seen how it is extraordinarily better than have aside from the System. namespace it gets from.NET
I like how people answer the question 'how is Silverlight going to do X' with 'Moonlight...'. Maybe I am the only one who sees those as two different things.
If something is promising, can't the process be accelerated (not rushed)? Get a team together to build a better prototype, at the same time have another team build some bio models to test the tool on. That part might take three to five months. While they are doing that, a third team could start lining potentials up for clinical trial. Another eight or so months doing daily trials and refinements. Basically, my ignorance of the field doesn't allow me to understand why it takes more than a year to get something promising into practice (if it ends up actually working).
Which is suprising seeing as these netbook manufactures seem to be putting little to no effort into it. Wifi cards driven by Ndiswrapper? I would have expected a "5s" boot from a netbook manufacture before some hackers.
If the university requires/forces students to use their.edu email account, then I feel that having the hardware and service on-site is a bare minimum. A lot of private information can _sometimes_ be required. So the organization requiring the use of the email account should be directly responsible as much as possible.
On a side note have secure SMTP and IMAP is a big deal for me. I know Microsoft tends not to offer IMAP support for their new, Live (offsite) service. So Microsoft's Live Mail service has two big NO-NOs for me.
Seriously? How are you on Slashdot? You sound like the typical manager. Are you saying that there are no commercial entities which provide support for Centos for a fee? If you want to make the argument that there is no first party support, fine. But don't say that there is no support for Centos for those who want to pay.
From reading the article, I have concluded that the decision maker(s) simply liked Ubuntu, and just came up with some justification after the fact. Especially considering they were uysing RH9 in there as well. They gave no (apperent) consideration to Centos 5.2 -- which is all well and good, but they should not make it seem like it was an RHEL weakness.
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Yah, I meant ath5k, my mistake.
Anyone know what's up with AR5007?
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I was kinda expecting to see news about ath9k and AR5007 found in some HP notebooks, among others. Currently using a very flaky ath_pci module.
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With RedHat's subscription you get support for quite a few applications besides the base OS.
How would you know if it wasn't already in place? They have the hardware in place, the software apparently already available, and the data willingly submitted online.
some of us happen to like the new Awesomebar.
What about XUL?
It likely isn't worth the effort. I really like FOSS myself, but one needs to have some perspective. This isn't getting food to the hungry, or getting some medicine to the poor. If upper management has an irrational hatred of OSS, so be it. Live with it, or resign. Based on what you're saying, the person doesn't seem open to reason -- and there is no point of using open source for non rational reasons.
I find the Windows phenomenon to be quite interesting, almost depressing. There are very few things that Microsoft Windows clearly does better than Mac/Linux. There are a few things it simply does differently, and there are a lot of things it plane sucks at. Yet somehow, it manages to be "the" operating system. One of it's competitors is available both commercially and for free, another is available commercially. It doesn't even seem (in my experiences) to be easier to develop for Windows any more.
The only thing Windows seems to do well is be Windows, and while that's tough to compete with, it's not impossible.
I'd be happy to work in the freezing area for a part pay.
At least on Slashdot, it would be nice if posters specified the OSI approved license as it tends to be import for different types of software.
The FAQ says it uses the 3-clause BSD license.
I personnaly like stuff like this to be BSD, while applications are GPL
Of the others I mentioned, I have no opinion on.
http://www.cybernetman.com/default.cfm?DocId=8001
Maybe the teachers can take some (albeit added) responsibility and take the relatively few steps to teach themselves.
Why are you touching your screen if you don't have a touchscreen?
I like how people answer the question 'how is Silverlight going to do X' with 'Moonlight...'. Maybe I am the only one who sees those as two different things.
If something is promising, can't the process be accelerated (not rushed)? Get a team together to build a better prototype, at the same time have another team build some bio models to test the tool on. That part might take three to five months. While they are doing that, a third team could start lining potentials up for clinical trial. Another eight or so months doing daily trials and refinements. Basically, my ignorance of the field doesn't allow me to understand why it takes more than a year to get something promising into practice (if it ends up actually working).
Dude, there are much better web mail interfaces than Squirelmail these days. The one I use is called Roundcube if I remember correctly.
Some universities do in fact require the use of the provided email accounts for all things school related.
Which is suprising seeing as these netbook manufactures seem to be putting little to no effort into it. Wifi cards driven by Ndiswrapper? I would have expected a "5s" boot from a netbook manufacture before some hackers.
If the university requires/forces students to use their .edu email account, then I feel that having the hardware and service on-site is a bare minimum. A lot of private information can _sometimes_ be required. So the organization requiring the use of the email account should be directly responsible as much as possible.
On a side note have secure SMTP and IMAP is a big deal for me. I know Microsoft tends not to offer IMAP support for their new, Live (offsite) service. So Microsoft's Live Mail service has two big NO-NOs for me.
Seriously? How are you on Slashdot? You sound like the typical manager. Are you saying that there are no commercial entities which provide support for Centos for a fee? If you want to make the argument that there is no first party support, fine. But don't say that there is no support for Centos for those who want to pay.
So the OP talked abou Centos, you rebut by talking about Red Hat?
From reading the article, I have concluded that the decision maker(s) simply liked Ubuntu, and just came up with some justification after the fact. Especially considering they were uysing RH9 in there as well. They gave no (apperent) consideration to Centos 5.2 -- which is all well and good, but they should not make it seem like it was an RHEL weakness.
Yah, I meant ath5k, my mistake.
I was kinda expecting to see news about ath9k and AR5007 found in some HP notebooks, among others. Currently using a very flaky ath_pci module.
Same for Redhat/Fedora stories. A lot of Slashdotters only seem to care about Ubuntu these days. To each their own I guess.
Are citizen arrests no longer allowed?