I think this blog comes from higher ups @ Microsoft. Microsoft sees that Mozilla (FireFox) is viable competition for IE. In 5 years **if** IE looses the browser war (and mozilla were built using M$ APIs ) at least Microsoft can claim that Mozilla was built using their technology. It would be a HUGE marketing factor for Microsoft.
Or worse, M$ could start using the Mozilla code base in IE. Having someone else invest the time, and money to build them a browser.
A nice case of "KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE AND YOUR ENEMIES CLOSER."
"Each second, a sensor in the heel can take up to 20,000 readings and the embedded electronic brain can make 10,000 calculations, directing a tiny electric motor to change the shoe."
Forget that! I need a shoe that will sense the stink coming from my feet, and deodorize as needed!
I don't know anything about graphic work/photo editing, but a friend of mine works for a graphic company that has produced many images (for packaging) for Kraft. According to him THE GIMP is being used by approx. 10% of their shop. Considering KRAFT is the #2 food retailer, I find it hard to beLIEve that THE GIMP is as bad as people say!
Honestly, I have not read the gimp site since version 2 became available, but approx. 6 months ago I recall reading on the gimp webpage that gimp was by no means the Adobe Photoshop killer. I don't know if this applies to version 2, but if it does it would be the user fault for not doing a little better research.
Hopefully sound will work better. It worked fine for 2 1/2 weeks on Fedora Core 2 Test 2, then suddenly it stopped working. Now everytime I log into KDE or Gnome I get an error regarding the sound daemon (well that's what test builds are for). I think the only thing I did differently was I docked the arts meter tool in the system tray.
I reinstall Win2k approx. every 3 to 4 months. I just find that the thing starts to slow down after a while of using -- which is odd because I install all the software I need within two days, and it seems faster for for awhile.
What do I install after a fresh Windows 2k install.
i. Service Packs ii. IE 6 SP1 iii. Patches, Patches, Patches, more patches iv. Disable Windows Services (at boot up my system uses 40.3MB of RAM). v. WinAmp 2.9 - version 5 stinks vi. Mozilla Latest Build vii. OpenOffice viii. SecureCRT ix. YahooPops! So that I can use Mozilla Mail to check My Yahoo Mail x. WS-FTP LE to transfer files between my primary Linux Machine.
The only other appz I use are Kazaa Lite, Acdsee4, Nero 6
"Have you, and IT person, ever called the MS helpline? If so, were you able to get an answer...?"
Called once about a bug with sync. delays with Outlook 2000 and IMAP servers causing Outlook to hang. Problem finally fixed in Office2k - SP3. By this time I had already converted 90% of my office to Mozilla!
Thanks Microsoft for not fixing compatibility issues in your software. Can you guess what finger I'm holding up?
I secretly converted my mom (age 59) to OO.o during Christmas... She has not noticed yet!
Only thing I did was point her Office Icons to the corresponding OO.o app. (Microsft Word icon opens OO.o Writer), and have Writer save to *.doc, and Calc save to *.xls formats by default.
I would like to see a picture of an OSS Mascott (*cough* TUX *cough*) with a pretty little butterfly (*cough* Microsoft *cough*) hanging half way out of their mouth/beak.....
I work for a company of 87 employees as a desktop technician. For awhile we were solely an IBM shop until I showed management our failing hardware records with IBM (59 of our 62 workstations had hardware failures, and we would receive refurbed parts as replacements). A few months ago we started doing business with Dell. Since then we have replaced many of our IBM stations with DELL. To date we have 43 Dell workstations/laptops and our record for failing Dell hardware is:
Workstaiton -- Failed right of the box
Monitor -- suddenly went blurry.
Hard Drive Failure - It was a Maxtor.... didn't see that happening!
Over all I like IBM - our servers work great, and the support has been incredible -- on par with Sun support, but IBM desktops SUCK!
From the department of "let's squeeze that much more work from our employees."
Heaven forbid if you take a minute to get a drink form the vending maching at work.
I must say it's a lot cooler than the mini fridge I have beside my couch. Can you tell I'm a bachalor?
Three items about this article that makes me think the writer is all about BS!
i. Windows 3.1 - that he said he installed on this system. Windows 3.1 can't read drives larger than 8 GB. hmmm... sounds fishy. Where can you buy a modern pc with only a 8gb hard drive?
ii. The author of this dribble did not specify his hardware platform. He wrote this article based on tests with a 'new' PC. Considering it's becoming harder, and harder to find a 2.2Ghz system I would beLIEve he's full of it. Why you ask? Try it yourself - Windows 98 will crash boom ( yes even more than before) when installed on a 2ghz system.
iii. Hey WinNT 4 was released about the same time as Win95. Knowing that WinNT 4 (no service packs) could only recognize disks 8GB or smaller(yes I know WinNT 4 SP1 could) one could assume win95 had this same limitation (I don't recall the limitations (if any) on disk size for Win95) -- therefore he probably ran into this same issue installing Win95. So the question becomes where did he buy the system with only a 8GB hard drive in it?
I was disapointed when I found a link to the same article on www.osnews.com -- now it's really sad to find it on/.
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Is Halo the only successfull XBox Game? It seems like it sometimes! I'm kind of sick from hearing about it.
PS: It wasn't even that good of a game!
I've been reading that another browser war may be brewing, but I could be talking out of my *beep.
I think this blog comes from higher ups @ Microsoft. Microsoft sees that Mozilla (FireFox) is viable competition for IE. In 5 years **if** IE looses the browser war (and mozilla were built using M$ APIs ) at least Microsoft can claim that Mozilla was built using their technology. It would be a HUGE marketing factor for Microsoft.
Or worse, M$ could start using the Mozilla code base in IE. Having someone else invest the time, and money to build them a browser.
A nice case of "KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE AND YOUR ENEMIES CLOSER."
"Each second, a sensor in the heel can take up to 20,000 readings and the embedded electronic brain can make 10,000 calculations, directing a tiny electric motor to change the shoe."
Forget that! I need a shoe that will sense the stink coming from my feet, and deodorize as needed!
I don't know anything about graphic work/photo editing, but a friend of mine works for a graphic company that has produced many images (for packaging) for Kraft. According to him THE GIMP is being used by approx. 10% of their shop. Considering KRAFT is the #2 food retailer, I find it hard to beLIEve that THE GIMP is as bad as people say!
Honestly, I have not read the gimp site since version 2 became available, but approx. 6 months ago I recall reading on the gimp webpage that gimp was by no means the Adobe Photoshop killer. I don't know if this applies to version 2, but if it does it would be the user fault for not doing a little better research.
Hopefully sound will work better. It worked fine for 2 1/2 weeks on Fedora Core 2 Test 2, then suddenly it stopped working. Now everytime I log into KDE or Gnome I get an error regarding the sound daemon (well that's what test builds are for). I think the only thing I did differently was I docked the arts meter tool in the system tray.
I reinstall Win2k approx. every 3 to 4 months. I just find that the thing starts to slow down after a while of using -- which is odd because I install all the software I need within two days, and it seems faster for for awhile.
What do I install after a fresh Windows 2k install.
i. Service Packs
ii. IE 6 SP1
iii. Patches, Patches, Patches, more patches
iv. Disable Windows Services (at boot up my system uses 40.3MB of RAM).
v. WinAmp 2.9 - version 5 stinks
vi. Mozilla Latest Build
vii. OpenOffice
viii. SecureCRT
ix. YahooPops! So that I can use Mozilla Mail to check My Yahoo Mail
x. WS-FTP LE to transfer files between my primary Linux Machine.
The only other appz I use are Kazaa Lite, Acdsee4, Nero 6
"Have you, and IT person, ever called the MS helpline? If so, were you able to get an answer...?" Called once about a bug with sync. delays with Outlook 2000 and IMAP servers causing Outlook to hang. Problem finally fixed in Office2k - SP3. By this time I had already converted 90% of my office to Mozilla! Thanks Microsoft for not fixing compatibility issues in your software. Can you guess what finger I'm holding up?
I secretly converted my mom (age 59) to OO.o during Christmas... She has not noticed yet!
Only thing I did was point her Office Icons to the corresponding OO.o app. (Microsft Word icon opens OO.o Writer), and have Writer save to *.doc, and Calc save to *.xls formats by default.
I'm thinking of telling her, but I might not!
From their website they expect "Engineering and
Development" to take 4 to 6 weeks. Good luck to you!
I would like to see a picture of an OSS Mascott (*cough* TUX *cough*) with a pretty little butterfly (*cough* Microsoft *cough*) hanging half way out of their mouth/beak.....
Now this would be the ultimate background image
I work for a company of 87 employees as a desktop technician. For awhile we were solely an IBM shop until I showed management our failing hardware records with IBM (59 of our 62 workstations had hardware failures, and we would receive refurbed parts as replacements). A few months ago we started doing business with Dell. Since then we have replaced many of our IBM stations with DELL. To date we have 43 Dell workstations/laptops and our record for failing Dell hardware is: Workstaiton -- Failed right of the box Monitor -- suddenly went blurry. Hard Drive Failure - It was a Maxtor.... didn't see that happening! Over all I like IBM - our servers work great, and the support has been incredible -- on par with Sun support, but IBM desktops SUCK!
When executed I get the following: error code 4256: Not now - I have a headacke! Any OSS for WOMAN bot ADVIL?
Hey, I have one of those WOMAN bots -- You can find it in the kitchen cooking or doing my laundry! LOL
From the department of "let's squeeze that much more work from our employees." Heaven forbid if you take a minute to get a drink form the vending maching at work. I must say it's a lot cooler than the mini fridge I have beside my couch. Can you tell I'm a bachalor?
Three items about this article that makes me think the writer is all about BS! i. Windows 3.1 - that he said he installed on this system. Windows 3.1 can't read drives larger than 8 GB. hmmm... sounds fishy. Where can you buy a modern pc with only a 8gb hard drive? ii. The author of this dribble did not specify his hardware platform. He wrote this article based on tests with a 'new' PC. Considering it's becoming harder, and harder to find a 2.2Ghz system I would beLIEve he's full of it. Why you ask? Try it yourself - Windows 98 will crash boom ( yes even more than before) when installed on a 2ghz system. iii. Hey WinNT 4 was released about the same time as Win95. Knowing that WinNT 4 (no service packs) could only recognize disks 8GB or smaller(yes I know WinNT 4 SP1 could) one could assume win95 had this same limitation (I don't recall the limitations (if any) on disk size for Win95) -- therefore he probably ran into this same issue installing Win95. So the question becomes where did he buy the system with only a 8GB hard drive in it? I was disapointed when I found a link to the same article on www.osnews.com -- now it's really sad to find it on /.