Yeah, try having a name like Wolf. People insist on putting extra "o"s and "e"s in there, even when I introduce myself as "Wolf, as in creature that howls at the moon"... and that's without getting to my surname.
A device used for dispatching cats and small rodents for sale to the local Indian restaurant. For some animals the price garnered is not worth expending ammunition.
(please forgive the misquote, that was from memory)
The salient fact that makes this funny being that all definitions in the Meaning of Liff (sic) are real place names. Yes. There is a place somewhere called Curry Mallet.
Seriously. Very similar to the Treo in functionality (I know, I have the Z3, a colleague has the Treo). Runs PalmOS and has chinese character support natively, without needing to install anything. The handwriting recognition is also an advantage in inputting the characters.
a. you aren't recommended to leave the lamps on for more than ten hours at a time and b. that there is sufficient time for you to correct the error before the "lava" starts flowing. If you're a good little coder and are paying attention.
SuSE is a very good system for a Linux newbie (I know, I was one, and fully made the switch when SuSE released 8.2 which was the first distro to fully support my antiquated Dell laptop). They also support (and provide updates) for their products for three years, although unofficial updates are available from their site for significantly longer.
But if you are a beginner, and have an Nvidia graphics card, Mandrake might be best. SuSE's Nvidia support is based on a mis-understanding of Nvidia's licensing terms, they could bundle the driver with the distro if they wanted to.
Exactly. They don't want to. The NVidia driver is proprietary, closed source and, most importantly, buggy! So SuSE made the quite logical choice to include the Open Source NV drivers as default, and then add a package in YaST Online Update that will install the closed source driver when you know that you want it enough to find out how to install it.
Although you can download SuSE over the net, the version they offer has a cut down package selection and doesn't offer many of the nice features of the SuSE Linux Desktop or the Standard / Enterprise Server editions. For example, you can't just *download* Crossover Office, since this is a licensed product.
This is the same for all commercial linux distributions. Some are offered for free download, but why should they give away their USPs (Unique Selling Points)?
Why would anyone need *both* StarOffice and Crossover ?
... because Crossover Office, despite what the name imlies, does far more than allow you to run MS Office on Linux. It's a fully commercially supported "fork" of the Wine project, and as well as Office allows you to run Notes, IE (although why anyone would want to is beyond me) and any other app supported by Wine.
Well, I don't know what to tell you. Apparently the BBC stopped Short wave broadcasts to North America in 2001.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-06-22-bbc-s hortwave.htm
I'm with you entirely, but unfortunatley these things just keep encroaching and encroaching on our lives. Last night I went (as usual) to stick the BBC World Service on RealPlayer so that I could listen to it while going off to sleep (lets not get into why I was sleeping in the office). What I actually got, however, was a continuous loop of "Because of licensing restrictions, we cannot bring you this service". Apparently this is all because the Olympics can't be covered by the BBC in the States. This is ridiculous.
Better reception? The phone manufacturers have little to do with that. More towers need to be placed.
If this is the case please explain to me why my Zircon Z3 (with external antenna) holds calls significantly better than the Nokia 6310i that I use for dialup over bluetooth... which beats the crap out of my old Ericsson T68, which had possibly the worst reception of any phone I've ever used?
Could you not just disable the built in firewall and use a (reasonably) more intelligent and more intuitice product like Zonealarm instead? You know, something written by people who have a clue what security means?
Basically, buying shrink wrapped Linux costs more than Windows.
Wrong. Very very wrong. Buying shink wrapped Redhat costs more than Windows (possibly) but there ARE alternatives that some would say are better. Redhat is not the be-all and end-all of Linux. Did you research properly or did you just get one Redhat house in to quote you?
Windows may appear cheaper on the surface, but maintainging a secure, stable Windows platform takes a lot more work than maintaining a secure and stable Linux platform - which is inherently both those things right out of the "box".
Please also bear in mind that while Linux technical skills can appear more expensive that those for Windows (and I would also argue that point) it is because usually the people who implement and maintain Open Source systems are better at making those systems do exactly what your business wants them to do, rather than what Microsoft tells you you should be doing.
TCO involves initial outlay, maintenance and value for money factors. It's not just limited to the cost of the shiney box.
Apple has, however, conquered the one major problem that Linux still has - for it to be commonplace on desktop PCs, Linux needs to be able to be installed, configured, and maintained without EVER seeing a command line interface or editing config files by hand. I know unix-types want their CLI and I'm all for having it, buried some some folder of the operating system that normal users never need to look at.
Take a mature desktop package of Linux and you can install it without ever needing to look at a CLI. In fact, if you're doing a vanilla installation, or you don't care about losing the OS on your machine, you can do it without even knowing about things like disk partitioning.
I'll use SuSE as an example (although there are other distributions that are equally comptetent in this area). You can walk into a shop, or go to Amazon and buy a boxed copy of SuSE Personal Edition 9.1, with nice friendly manuals, then go home, stick the DVD (or CD, both are supplied) in your drive, and be up and running with a nice, friendly desktop, in a little over an hour. You can install software off the CD, or via RPM, without ever seeing a command line. You can do pretty much any normal day to day function without ever seeing a command line. If I took the shell icon away from any of the fifty or so people I've installed a linux desktop for they wouldn't even notice.
However, the reason you'll see most *nix gee - er users regularly gazing at a command line is because we like it, and quite frequently it can accomplish things much quicker than using a GUI.
Oh, remind me how I quickly find the IP address of a Windows XP machine again? Oh, never mind, I remember, [Windows Key]+R, cmd [enter], ipconfig [enter]. Command lines will always have a place in any decent OS, because they are useful. If they weren't, they'd have disappeared with the advent of the GUI.
Those machines looked nothing like today's curvy/shiny/artsy Macs; they look like any other PCs
No, they bloody didn't. Macs have always been distinctive, and you've always been able to tell them from a mile off (anyone else remember Mac spotting in Jurassic Park?) although admittedly not *as* distinctive as the Macs of the New School. The only similarity they shared with PCs of the time was the colour. Old macs looked like PCs look *today*.
This is all assuming that instead of buying Windows Server 2003 you slap on a copy of Slackware linux. This is not what any open source advocate with half a brain would suggest to any company. No, you replace Windows Server 2003 with a copy of SuSE Linux Open Exchange, or Novell Groupwise or any of the other fine products in this area that are well documented and do exactly what you've just said they don't do, and all that without having to dick around with a single configuration file.
Or, you know what? You buy a few days of ME, or one of my esteemed colleagues in the field, and we deal with all those pesky config files instead.
Either of those options will still generally work out less that the Microsoft option, and even if they don't, you end up with more control than what you would have over a Microsoft solution.
Active Directory does nothing that NIS doesn't do, and NIS ships as standard with any good linux server offering and has (I believe) been around longer than AD.
That's just stupid. Do YOU know anyone who services PCs for free or configures massive enterprise wide software deployements for free? No, of course not, because that sort of service costs money, and always will.
Stop trying to analogise the world of IT with the world of cars, just because you know about cars and know shit about IT. The two worlds are not the same.
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You can do exactly what you describe with this, this and this.
Yeah, try having a name like Wolf. People insist on putting extra "o"s and "e"s in there, even when I introduce myself as "Wolf, as in creature that howls at the moon"... and that's without getting to my surname.
My favourite is Curry Mallet (n):
A device used for dispatching cats and small rodents for sale to the local Indian restaurant. For some animals the price garnered is not worth expending ammunition.
(please forgive the misquote, that was from memory)
The salient fact that makes this funny being that all definitions in the Meaning of Liff (sic) are real place names. Yes. There is a place somewhere called Curry Mallet.
Oh yes, Someone put it on the web
http://www.gst.com.sg/
Seriously. Very similar to the Treo in functionality (I know, I have the Z3, a colleague has the Treo). Runs PalmOS and has chinese character support natively, without needing to install anything. The handwriting recognition is also an advantage in inputting the characters.
Very nice, VERY small, very capable phone.
ie. blogs are only ok for interesting people. That makes a certain sense but it sort of goes against the idea of a free and open internet.
If you had RTFA you would know that
a. you aren't recommended to leave the lamps on for more than ten hours at a time and
b. that there is sufficient time for you to correct the error before the "lava" starts flowing. If you're a good little coder and are paying attention.
SuSE is a very good system for a Linux newbie (I know, I was one, and fully made the switch when SuSE released 8.2 which was the first distro to fully support my antiquated Dell laptop). They also support (and provide updates) for their products for three years, although unofficial updates are available from their site for significantly longer.
Exactly. They don't want to. The NVidia driver is proprietary, closed source and, most importantly, buggy! So SuSE made the quite logical choice to include the Open Source NV drivers as default, and then add a package in YaST Online Update that will install the closed source driver when you know that you want it enough to find out how to install it.
Surely better to implant it in a part of the body that can't be removed by a half qualified dental assistant?
Although you can download SuSE over the net, the version they offer has a cut down package selection and doesn't offer many of the nice features of the SuSE Linux Desktop or the Standard / Enterprise Server editions. For example, you can't just *download* Crossover Office, since this is a licensed product.
This is the same for all commercial linux distributions. Some are offered for free download, but why should they give away their USPs (Unique Selling Points)?
Well, I don't know what to tell you. Apparently the BBC stopped Short wave broadcasts to North America in 2001. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-06-22-bbc-s hortwave.htm
I think they have already suspended short wave service in the US
I'm with you entirely, but unfortunatley these things just keep encroaching and encroaching on our lives. Last night I went (as usual) to stick the BBC World Service on RealPlayer so that I could listen to it while going off to sleep (lets not get into why I was sleeping in the office). What I actually got, however, was a continuous loop of "Because of licensing restrictions, we cannot bring you this service". Apparently this is all because the Olympics can't be covered by the BBC in the States. This is ridiculous.
Better reception? The phone manufacturers have little to do with that. More towers need to be placed.
... which beats the crap out of my old Ericsson T68, which had possibly the worst reception of any phone I've ever used?
If this is the case please explain to me why my Zircon Z3 (with external antenna) holds calls significantly better than the Nokia 6310i that I use for dialup over bluetooth
OK, what the hell?? The Register reviewed this phone THREE MONTHS AGO and that was an actual review. You can read it here.
So why is this being posted now? Hmm?
Could you not just disable the built in firewall and use a (reasonably) more intelligent and more intuitice product like Zonealarm instead? You know, something written by people who have a clue what security means?
Absolutely. Let's all just revert back to telnet. Or perhaps for maximum security we should all administrate our boxes with VNC ...
Basically, buying shrink wrapped Linux costs more than Windows.
Wrong. Very very wrong. Buying shink wrapped Redhat costs more than Windows (possibly) but there ARE alternatives that some would say are better. Redhat is not the be-all and end-all of Linux. Did you research properly or did you just get one Redhat house in to quote you?
Windows may appear cheaper on the surface, but maintainging a secure, stable Windows platform takes a lot more work than maintaining a secure and stable Linux platform - which is inherently both those things right out of the "box".
Please also bear in mind that while Linux technical skills can appear more expensive that those for Windows (and I would also argue that point) it is because usually the people who implement and maintain Open Source systems are better at making those systems do exactly what your business wants them to do, rather than what Microsoft tells you you should be doing.
TCO involves initial outlay, maintenance and value for money factors. It's not just limited to the cost of the shiney box.
Dude, Tamils is Sri Lanka, and Pakistan wasn't Gandhi's fault, you can blame Mohammed Ali Jinnah for that one.
Take a mature desktop package of Linux and you can install it without ever needing to look at a CLI. In fact, if you're doing a vanilla installation, or you don't care about losing the OS on your machine, you can do it without even knowing about things like disk partitioning.
I'll use SuSE as an example (although there are other distributions that are equally comptetent in this area). You can walk into a shop, or go to Amazon and buy a boxed copy of SuSE Personal Edition 9.1, with nice friendly manuals, then go home, stick the DVD (or CD, both are supplied) in your drive, and be up and running with a nice, friendly desktop, in a little over an hour. You can install software off the CD, or via RPM, without ever seeing a command line. You can do pretty much any normal day to day function without ever seeing a command line. If I took the shell icon away from any of the fifty or so people I've installed a linux desktop for they wouldn't even notice.
However, the reason you'll see most *nix gee - er users regularly gazing at a command line is because we like it, and quite frequently it can accomplish things much quicker than using a GUI.
Oh, remind me how I quickly find the IP address of a Windows XP machine again? Oh, never mind, I remember, [Windows Key]+R, cmd [enter], ipconfig [enter]. Command lines will always have a place in any decent OS, because they are useful. If they weren't, they'd have disappeared with the advent of the GUI.
No, they bloody didn't. Macs have always been distinctive, and you've always been able to tell them from a mile off (anyone else remember Mac spotting in Jurassic Park?) although admittedly not *as* distinctive as the Macs of the New School. The only similarity they shared with PCs of the time was the colour. Old macs looked like PCs look *today*.
This is all assuming that instead of buying Windows Server 2003 you slap on a copy of Slackware linux. This is not what any open source advocate with half a brain would suggest to any company. No, you replace Windows Server 2003 with a copy of SuSE Linux Open Exchange, or Novell Groupwise or any of the other fine products in this area that are well documented and do exactly what you've just said they don't do, and all that without having to dick around with a single configuration file.
Or, you know what? You buy a few days of ME, or one of my esteemed colleagues in the field, and we deal with all those pesky config files instead.
Either of those options will still generally work out less that the Microsoft option, and even if they don't, you end up with more control than what you would have over a Microsoft solution.
Active Directory does nothing that NIS doesn't do, and NIS ships as standard with any good linux server offering and has (I believe) been around longer than AD.
That's just stupid. Do YOU know anyone who services PCs for free or configures massive enterprise wide software deployements for free? No, of course not, because that sort of service costs money, and always will.
Stop trying to analogise the world of IT with the world of cars, just because you know about cars and know shit about IT. The two worlds are not the same.