Um. Don't give them Linux. It's that easy. No one said you couldn't operate a mixed environment.
My personal experience is that Linux works very well for general knowledge workers The people who come in at nine, leave at five, and couldn't give a rats arse what they're running. They call it "the new system" and are just as au fait with it as they were with Windows. Which is pretty much not at all.
There's absolutely no gain to be had to migrating somewhere like accounts on the other hand. Sage Line 50 has no Linux version, has problems with Citrix, and isn't wineable. Same goes for most banking apps.
A 90% Linux, 10% Windows environment is still considerably more supportable than a full Windows office.
Any laser printer that doesn't support a sensible set of printing protocols (postscript, for example) does not belong in an office. It's fairly hard to find one, but if you're looking for something that will be absolutely no use to anyone, look no further than the Epson Acculaser C900. One of our clients bought one of these for their accounts office, where they have a high printload. Once they realise how much it would cost them, they sent it into the MD's office (which does very little) and replaced it with one of these. Since then, the Epson has broken down twice.
Kindly recommend to your boss that any money saved by buying cheap GDI printers is lost very quickly in maintenance and consumables.
I'll miss some of the usability features of XP What usability features? This is an entirely serious question, I personally can't think of anything XP's UI does that KDE doesn't do equally well or better. I'm sure the Gnome guys will say the same thing.
I installed Skype the other day (it's apparently developed by the people who originally developed Kazaa, using "peer to peer" technology, however that works). Anyway, it installed without fuss and works from behind a firewall without me having to open ports. I haven't tried skypeout yet, only skype to skype, but hey, I'm chatting to my friends in the states for free, and the quality is much better than a long distance phone call. Thusfar, I'm impressed.
And if someone feels like adding a completely off topic tangent here. What is up with the IIS websites and those damn "go to # on this page" links or whatever? They are annoying because I don't know what they are doing, and they sometimes break (even in ie) if I open them up in a new window or tab. Grrrrr....
It's an old trick for opening new windows with JavaScript (so you can decide the size and remove the title bar, and so on). Basically they do
<a href="#" onClick="openWindow()">link</a>
the href="#" is there because (IIRC) an anchor without an href is either invalid markup or just doesn't display properly sometimes. The # just means reload this page.
It comes from the days of IE4 where you had to kludge almost everything to get it to work properly.
M$ systems sell very well. M$ peripherals, not so much. No amount of FUD, or lawyer-posturing, will get an M$ audio system into people's pockets over the iPod. It's too late.
Toshiba. Good line of laptops, with support for pretty much everything bar their proprietary SD card readers. Even 3D with Nvidia (proprietary, yes, closed source, yes, working... yes).
Napster was notable only for being the first. Other than that it was a crappy underdeveloped implementation of the technology.
1. It didn't support resumable downloads. You know all those half finished tracks you keep pulling off [insert p2p network of choice]? They probably came from Napster and 2. It didn't group songs and download from multiple sources.
Audigalaxy was close to my idea of perfect. The interface was minimal and the seperate satellite was a genius idea.
I don't doubt that there are various things that need to be brought to light about Intel's employment policies, but WHY if that site has such a VALID MESSAGE to promote and has ALL THE NECESSARY FACTS to back up their case do they need to resort to sensationalism and sub-high-school-newspaper journalism to get their point across? The whole site reads like a propaganda newletter, with links supposedly linking to relevant documentation just pointing at more sensationalist commentary, and their random emphasis and italicising of words reminds me of MAD magazine.
That site is going to hurt their cause more than help it.
GAIM is great, because it keeps pushing the boundaries of IM functionality on Linux, BUT that said, I keep switching back to Kopete, mainly because it integrates with KDE. For an IM client, intergration with the desktop is paramount IMHO.
Um. Please engage brain. I can't be overrated if I haven't been moderated yet. Let me briefly run down the list of options available to you:
Overrated: Post has been moderated up and you don't agree Troll: Poster is either stupid or deliberately acting stupid. Flamebait: Poster is deliberately trying to incite arguement.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't the majority of this New Exciting Technology (TM) be achieved with a small amount of Bash scripting and a copy of wget?
Share and Enjoy! Share and Enjoy! Journey through life with a plastic boy Or girl by your side let your pal be you guide And if it gets slow or starts to annoy
Does it grind when it walks Or squeak when it talks? Has it eaten your hat Or had sex with your cat?
Sprayed oil on your walls Or ripped of your doors And it gets to the point You can't stand anymore
Bring it to us We won't give a fig We'll tell you Go Stick Your Head in a Pig!
The "Listen Again" stream is actually available pretty much as soon as the show has finished airing, but the BBC just don't publish it on their site until the repeat has aired.
It's at rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio4/comedy/tue1830.ra
(Excors found this out and posted it in the previous Hitchhiker thread)
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Um. Don't give them Linux. It's that easy. No one said you couldn't operate a mixed environment.
My personal experience is that Linux works very well for general knowledge workers The people who come in at nine, leave at five, and couldn't give a rats arse what they're running. They call it "the new system" and are just as au fait with it as they were with Windows. Which is pretty much not at all.
There's absolutely no gain to be had to migrating somewhere like accounts on the other hand. Sage Line 50 has no Linux version, has problems with Citrix, and isn't wineable. Same goes for most banking apps.
A 90% Linux, 10% Windows environment is still considerably more supportable than a full Windows office.
Any laser printer that doesn't support a sensible set of printing protocols (postscript, for example) does not belong in an office. It's fairly hard to find one, but if you're looking for something that will be absolutely no use to anyone, look no further than the Epson Acculaser C900. One of our clients bought one of these for their accounts office, where they have a high printload. Once they realise how much it would cost them, they sent it into the MD's office (which does very little) and replaced it with one of these. Since then, the Epson has broken down twice.
Kindly recommend to your boss that any money saved by buying cheap GDI printers is lost very quickly in maintenance and consumables.
Absolutely. Everyone's going to believe SCO's official version. Oh yes.
I'll miss some of the usability features of XP
What usability features? This is an entirely serious question, I personally can't think of anything XP's UI does that KDE doesn't do equally well or better. I'm sure the Gnome guys will say the same thing.
... because few machines ship with firewire, that's why. USB is a default peripheral on any new PC.
What's capital? I never know what you're talking about. Loo, shag, brolly, what the hell is all that?
I installed Skype the other day (it's apparently developed by the people who originally developed Kazaa, using "peer to peer" technology, however that works). Anyway, it installed without fuss and works from behind a firewall without me having to open ports. I haven't tried skypeout yet, only skype to skype, but hey, I'm chatting to my friends in the states for free, and the quality is much better than a long distance phone call. Thusfar, I'm impressed.
It's an old trick for opening new windows with JavaScript (so you can decide the size and remove the title bar, and so on). Basically they do
<a href="#" onClick="openWindow()">link</a>
the href="#" is there because (IIRC) an anchor without an href is either invalid markup or just doesn't display properly sometimes. The # just means reload this page.
It comes from the days of IE4 where you had to kludge almost everything to get it to work properly.
OpenOffice can save to PDF, this is not a Star Office Add-on
Okay, point taken. Microsoft Mice do sell well. On the other hand ...
This vs this. I know which selection I'd rather buy from.
M$ systems sell very well. M$ peripherals, not so much. No amount of FUD, or lawyer-posturing, will get an M$ audio system into people's pockets over the iPod. It's too late.
Toshiba. Good line of laptops, with support for pretty much everything bar their proprietary SD card readers. Even 3D with Nvidia (proprietary, yes, closed source, yes, working ... yes).
The brain behind the excellent Clerks Animated helming Star Wars? Now *that* I'd pay money for!
Outdoor PDAs are truly invaluable
Word of the day toilet paper?
Napster was notable only for being the first. Other than that it was a crappy underdeveloped implementation of the technology.
1. It didn't support resumable downloads. You know all those half finished tracks you keep pulling off [insert p2p network of choice]? They probably came from Napster and
2. It didn't group songs and download from multiple sources.
Audigalaxy was close to my idea of perfect. The interface was minimal and the seperate satellite was a genius idea.
I'm sorry, what's your point? Your post doesn't even seem to follow on from mine ...
I don't doubt that there are various things that need to be brought to light about Intel's employment policies, but WHY if that site has such a VALID MESSAGE to promote and has ALL THE NECESSARY FACTS to back up their case do they need to resort to sensationalism and sub-high-school-newspaper journalism to get their point across? The whole site reads like a propaganda newletter, with links supposedly linking to relevant documentation just pointing at more sensationalist commentary, and their random emphasis and italicising of words reminds me of MAD magazine.
That site is going to hurt their cause more than help it.
GAIM is great, because it keeps pushing the boundaries of IM functionality on Linux, BUT that said, I keep switching back to Kopete, mainly because it integrates with KDE. For an IM client, intergration with the desktop is paramount IMHO.
Um. Please engage brain. I can't be overrated if I haven't been moderated yet. Let me briefly run down the list of options available to you:
Overrated: Post has been moderated up and you don't agree
Troll: Poster is either stupid or deliberately acting stupid.
Flamebait: Poster is deliberately trying to incite arguement.
There is no "I don't agree" option.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't the majority of this New Exciting Technology (TM) be achieved with a small amount of Bash scripting and a copy of wget?
Share and Enjoy!
Share and Enjoy!
Journey through life with a plastic boy
Or girl by your side let your pal be you guide
And if it gets slow or starts to annoy
Does it grind when it walks
Or squeak when it talks?
Has it eaten your hat
Or had sex with your cat?
Sprayed oil on your walls
Or ripped of your doors
And it gets to the point
You can't stand anymore
Bring it to us
We won't give a fig
We'll tell you
Go Stick Your Head in a Pig!
The "Listen Again" stream is actually available pretty much as soon as the show has finished airing, but the BBC just don't publish it on their site until the repeat has aired.
It's at rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio4/comedy/tue1830.ra
(Excors found this out and posted it in the previous Hitchhiker thread)
Sure, just check your copy of the Guide.
Here. The audio effects make up a large part of the experience, so buying the CD is highly recommended.
They were working on broadcasting it on the Sub Ether Waveband but they didn't have the necessary rights.