The hard disk is the exact same model that comes in 60 gig MacBooks. MacBook owners who have upgraded their hard drives and still have the original should buy the model with the small disk and pop in the old MacBook drive.
Some games HAVE done away with the HUD. In Hostile Intent, a mod for HL1, it's not used to add to the realism. You have to keep count of how many rounds you have left, and you have to aim down the sight of your weapon (no crosshair to speak of).
Slightly harder than Ubuntu. Try having a newbie sit at the keyboard for the partitioning and disklabeling and see what I mean. (Better hope you don't have any important data, first!) Apart from that, the install is very quick and painless.
Of course you can make an insecure Linux box. Your average Linux distro is nearly as insecure out-of-the box as Windows. (Let the flames commence, but it gets old doing a fresh install and seeing more than a few ports open by default, with no good reason for any to be open.)
There are plenty of reasons not to use JavaScript to one's heart's content. (Remember, not all users are browsing on a desktop PC.) However, for a web-based email client, it's certainly reasonable to expect users to only try to access it via a JavaScript-enabled browser.
She has some nice OSS designes under her belt. A Google search shows she designed the pgsql site, for one. Her designes are attractive, but not as accessible as I would like. For example, most of her fonts are below 1em (1em being the size you tell your browser that you want). It is fine to go less than 1em for things such as copyright notices and advisory feeds and whatnot, but the majority of the text on the site should always be 1em: the user should have his say on what the font size is. I would also prefer more of my monitor real estate be used. I'm not a fan of squashed designes. Overall, everything is an improvement on the eyesore that was the status quo.
It may work if you put the device near one corner and you have your conversation at the other corner. However, you're thinking inside the box...or cubicle, in this case. This has numerous applications, from the mundane to the Mission Impossible.
"Babble" is about the size of a paperback book and plugs into the phone with two external speakers that you place on the top of your cube. While holding a normal conversation on the phone Babble plays back random meaningless snipits of your own voice which makes your conversation practically unintelligible to people as close as 4 feet away.
Really? That's good news. Any chance you can get me a working xorgconfig for a Tekvisions 12.1" SlimAge LCD touchscreen? I've been Googling to no avail, and I need working modelines and input driver info if I am to get one running X so I can prototype a pyGTK POS.
While I certainly agree that the BSD license is better than the GPL (especially in the business world), I am not quite sure on what facts you're basing your assessment of Linux on the desktop.
There hasn't been a desktop release of Windows since 2001. In the over four years since XP's release, not only has Linux caught up to Windows as far as desktop usability, it has surpassed it in my opinion. You need look no farther than Ubuntu for evidence. The install requires very little computer knowledge and user input. The default package selection gives you more than most people need from a desktop OS. How many non-geeks do you know who do anything more than chat on AIM, browse the web, check email, play Solitaire, listen to music, write documents, make spreadsheets, and manage photos with their computers? Ubuntu and most desktop-oriented Linux distros come with the ability to do all these by default. With Windows, you have to pay extra and/or go to third parties to get the software needed. Want something you don't need? Synaptic to the rescue. The user searches for a keyword and finds what you're looking for. It couldn't be simpler. It's certainly much simpler than what newbies usually do on Windows: Google for photo album software or whatnot, and use the first spyware-laden clusterfuck they find.
The only thing lacking in many Linux distros, Ubuntu chief among them, are proprietary media codecs such as MP3. Well, they are non-free. Windows users pay for them when they buy their $300 XP license. (And, by the way, getting MP3 support is quite easy in Ubuntu via Synaptic.)
Windows is actually playing catchup to Linux (and Mac OSX, of course) with their upcoming release. Features such as desktop searching (provided in Linux via Beagle) are something Microsoft has been working on but Linux and OSX already have.
I am a manager for a movie theatre company which uses Windows 2000 box office and concessions POS terminals. The software running on those terminals connects with an Access database served on a Windows 2000 Server box. The machines themselves are reliable, with uptimes measured in weeks or months. (Of course, such uptimes mean the machines aren't being patched regularly, but they don't give me the admin password;) ). If I weren't such a Unix junkie, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend such a setup as a point of sale solution for a company that was unwilling to train Unix personnel to support the setup.
However, the software running on the terminals is HORRIBLE. I have never encountered such sub-par coding and attention to detail in my life. For example, on our box office stations, if a customer decides to purchase tickets on a credit card and swipes the card through the reader before the cashier has a chance to push the Pay -> Credit button sequence, the application rings the sale up as a cash sale, then promptly crashes. Huh? The average student in an intro CS course can write better VB than these clowns.
At any rate, because of the sheer shoddiness of the software, we have enormous support costs. Managers who know their way around computers (me) are forever restarting the POS application or troubleshooting some issue or another. When we tech-savvy managers aren't around, the mere mortals are forced to ring up transactions for the rest of the evening using calculators and paper records until one of us or an IT guy can come in. (The IT guys, by the way, are based over a hundred miles away.)
Because of the poor quality of the software, our current Windows solution is not cost-effective. However, if these clowns wrote a Unix-based POS application, our TCO would still be high simply because we are always having people support the application as opposed to the platform. That isn't to say I wouldn't be thrilled if we ditched the software and moved to Linux...or even better, OpenBSD (cue the Netcraft spam).
By the way, if you are in the IT department of a large movie theatre corporation and you are considering a POS solution, don't touch Splyce with a ten-foot pole.:)
Gates said Microsoft will offer software to detect malicious applications and that the company will keep it up-to-date on an ongoing basis.
Now the only question is what Microsoft feels to be a good update schedule for their anti-malware software. Are we going to see once a month release cycles that detect spyware that has been out for six months the way they wait six months to release patches for known vulnerabilites on Windows Update?
On the lyrics page, the OpenBSD crew dedicates the song to developers who went from free to not-so-free, then bids them farewell. One such project is Apache.
Slashdot Mirror
the iPod runs Apple's own Mach/BSD kernel
No. OSX uses a Mach kernel and a BSD userland. Why do so many articles get this wrong?
The hard disk is the exact same model that comes in 60 gig MacBooks. MacBook owners who have upgraded their hard drives and still have the original should buy the model with the small disk and pop in the old MacBook drive.
Some games HAVE done away with the HUD. In Hostile Intent, a mod for HL1, it's not used to add to the realism. You have to keep count of how many rounds you have left, and you have to aim down the sight of your weapon (no crosshair to speak of).
Slightly harder than Ubuntu. Try having a newbie sit at the keyboard for the partitioning and disklabeling and see what I mean. (Better hope you don't have any important data, first!) Apart from that, the install is very quick and painless.
Of course you can make an insecure Linux box. Your average Linux distro is nearly as insecure out-of-the box as Windows. (Let the flames commence, but it gets old doing a fresh install and seeing more than a few ports open by default, with no good reason for any to be open.)
If Slashdot takes down a government website so quickly, is it a threat to our national security?
There are plenty of reasons not to use JavaScript to one's heart's content. (Remember, not all users are browsing on a desktop PC.) However, for a web-based email client, it's certainly reasonable to expect users to only try to access it via a JavaScript-enabled browser.
...And if you stare at a CRT all day, you'll curse the fools who apply the same scheme to websites.
She has some nice OSS designes under her belt. A Google search shows she designed the pgsql site, for one. Her designes are attractive, but not as accessible as I would like. For example, most of her fonts are below 1em (1em being the size you tell your browser that you want). It is fine to go less than 1em for things such as copyright notices and advisory feeds and whatnot, but the majority of the text on the site should always be 1em: the user should have his say on what the font size is. I would also prefer more of my monitor real estate be used. I'm not a fan of squashed designes. Overall, everything is an improvement on the eyesore that was the status quo.
Dear God, why wait so long? I want Serenity now.
That's the answer. What's the question?
It may work if you put the device near one corner and you have your conversation at the other corner. However, you're thinking inside the box...or cubicle, in this case. This has numerous applications, from the mundane to the Mission Impossible.
Really? That's good news. Any chance you can get me a working xorgconfig for a Tekvisions 12.1" SlimAge LCD touchscreen? I've been Googling to no avail, and I need working modelines and input driver info if I am to get one running X so I can prototype a pyGTK POS.
While I certainly agree that the BSD license is better than the GPL (especially in the business world), I am not quite sure on what facts you're basing your assessment of Linux on the desktop.
There hasn't been a desktop release of Windows since 2001. In the over four years since XP's release, not only has Linux caught up to Windows as far as desktop usability, it has surpassed it in my opinion. You need look no farther than Ubuntu for evidence. The install requires very little computer knowledge and user input. The default package selection gives you more than most people need from a desktop OS. How many non-geeks do you know who do anything more than chat on AIM, browse the web, check email, play Solitaire, listen to music, write documents, make spreadsheets, and manage photos with their computers? Ubuntu and most desktop-oriented Linux distros come with the ability to do all these by default. With Windows, you have to pay extra and/or go to third parties to get the software needed. Want something you don't need? Synaptic to the rescue. The user searches for a keyword and finds what you're looking for. It couldn't be simpler. It's certainly much simpler than what newbies usually do on Windows: Google for photo album software or whatnot, and use the first spyware-laden clusterfuck they find.
The only thing lacking in many Linux distros, Ubuntu chief among them, are proprietary media codecs such as MP3. Well, they are non-free. Windows users pay for them when they buy their $300 XP license. (And, by the way, getting MP3 support is quite easy in Ubuntu via Synaptic.)
Windows is actually playing catchup to Linux (and Mac OSX, of course) with their upcoming release. Features such as desktop searching (provided in Linux via Beagle) are something Microsoft has been working on but Linux and OSX already have.
Kerasotes Theatres
POS OS: Windows 2000
POS Software: Splyce
Backend OS: Windows 2000 Server
Backend Software: Splyce with an Access database
Would I recommend the OS? Believe it or not, yes, and I'm a Unix fanboy.
Splyce? Not in a million years.
I am a manager for a movie theatre company which uses Windows 2000 box office and concessions POS terminals. The software running on those terminals connects with an Access database served on a Windows 2000 Server box. The machines themselves are reliable, with uptimes measured in weeks or months. (Of course, such uptimes mean the machines aren't being patched regularly, but they don't give me the admin password ;) ). If I weren't such a Unix junkie, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend such a setup as a point of sale solution for a company that was unwilling to train Unix personnel to support the setup.
:)
However, the software running on the terminals is HORRIBLE. I have never encountered such sub-par coding and attention to detail in my life. For example, on our box office stations, if a customer decides to purchase tickets on a credit card and swipes the card through the reader before the cashier has a chance to push the Pay -> Credit button sequence, the application rings the sale up as a cash sale, then promptly crashes. Huh? The average student in an intro CS course can write better VB than these clowns.
At any rate, because of the sheer shoddiness of the software, we have enormous support costs. Managers who know their way around computers (me) are forever restarting the POS application or troubleshooting some issue or another. When we tech-savvy managers aren't around, the mere mortals are forced to ring up transactions for the rest of the evening using calculators and paper records until one of us or an IT guy can come in. (The IT guys, by the way, are based over a hundred miles away.)
Because of the poor quality of the software, our current Windows solution is not cost-effective. However, if these clowns wrote a Unix-based POS application, our TCO would still be high simply because we are always having people support the application as opposed to the platform. That isn't to say I wouldn't be thrilled if we ditched the software and moved to Linux...or even better, OpenBSD (cue the Netcraft spam).
By the way, if you are in the IT department of a large movie theatre corporation and you are considering a POS solution, don't touch Splyce with a ten-foot pole.
Because I hate watching movies in a browser window.
Save dis shiz
The beer hasn't been opened!
Yeah, his site has some tacky design. So does Slashdot, but I can still appreciate the decent content that crops up here once in awhile.
Best of all: Jeff is fighting back against Diebold and their paperless voting machines -- and they're based in his district!
He's doomed.
Don't you mean flexibility?
Maybe not, but it was damn quick and there's no Google cache to be found.
Gates said Microsoft will offer software to detect malicious applications and that the company will keep it up-to-date on an ongoing basis.
Now the only question is what Microsoft feels to be a good update schedule for their anti-malware software. Are we going to see once a month release cycles that detect spyware that has been out for six months the way they wait six months to release patches for known vulnerabilites on Windows Update?
On the lyrics page, the OpenBSD crew dedicates the song to developers who went from free to not-so-free, then bids them farewell. One such project is Apache.
But OpenBSD.org uses it to serve pages.