If you're running Notes5 you could try using its webmail feature. It's pretty cool, but lacks some fo the features of the full client. I have gotten it to work from a browser in Linux.
How bout instead of suing your fans, who will then promptly never buy anything from you again, you find a new way to make money off of music. As bandwith increases they'll not just face you downloading music for free, but requesting music from a site and having it instantly played for you (hmmm wonder if I could patent that idea;-) ). You won't actually take the music, and the site playing it for you could well be a legal owner. Its the future of radio and the record industry better figure out a way to make money on it.
The concept of micropayments has been thrown around alot concerning e-mail, maybe music is what really needs a good micropayment sort of structure to be built for the internet. Then my afore mentioned "instant request internet radio" could lawfully pay the people who gave them the content to provide to their users. It has to happen, the only other options for getting music are theft, and being gouged for it.
Bullshit, the other comments are dead on. If you want only one desktop use windows.
I want a choice. Hell I want lots of choices.
Just wait, if development of KDE and Gnome continue at the current pace, windows will have to start competing with them.
Oh, and Mac OSX has some cool interface stuff itself.
How are we to know what kind of cool interface things are out there if only one company(group,etc.'s) view is the one put forward. Remember Microsoft doesn't actually "innovate" very much.
> The simple fact is that Linux/doesn't/ encourage environment stability that is/required/ in a large scale business computing environment, much as we techies refuse to believe it.
And Windows does? The NT Server upgrades I've done have been far more painful and screwed up than any Unix/Linux upgrades.
Why can't there be more than one. It seems most people on/. is sayihg "Microsoft doesn't offer any choice, they suck" and "there should be only one GUI for Linux."
The reason I like Linux and Unix is the choices offered. Sure multiple GIU's is duplicated development, its also a race to put out better and better software.
Ummmm, we've got electricity alomst everywhere. I'm in South Dakota and electricity is cheap and readily available (thanks to the hydroelectric dams in the state).
Now as far as cellular coverage, thats another story in some parts of the state. Theres way more area to cover in the US for full coverage. Makes me wish the satellite stuff didn't have to burn up.
I've actually heard alot of good things about the way your company treats its workers.
I also like the way they had free pop available at their training centers, it was a small thing (espically considering what the course cost), but I was impressed.
Good point. Also, Beware of interviewers who ramble on about how much overtime they work, how tough a schedule they have for their project, etc. You really don't want to work for someone like that.
Of course the interview I'm drawing this example from was over the minute I asked. "You're looking for a lot of new programmers for this project, what happens when its over." I didn't hear back from them -- although there was the story on the news a few months later about how their much of their IT group was laid off.
He must be too insecure to give his e-mail address. Looking at his past colums they're all the same kind of drivel as well.
He must not have the guts to get feed back from people who don't agree with him. Even ZDnet lets you provide feedback to their poorly researched Linux stories;-)
I agree completely. I use OpenLinux 2.3 at work and at home. The only real problems I've ever experienced is having the right lib files, but I've been able to download new libs and get them to work.
Oh and the reason they put things in/opt is because that's where things are supposed to go!
Ok, I follow what you're saying and agree. One question, where are the record company sites that will sell me mp3? Its time for the record companies to get in gear and create web sites that give you access to their entire collection of music and allow you to download it -- for a price. I get mp3's (and rip stuff of CD's I own) because I think its a better way to get music, listen to music, and create your own CD's with only the songs you want on them.
If the record companies would sell me mp3's, I would buy them.
Yes, but I find this discussion informative even though I'm not setting up a Linux VPN at the moment. It's nice to see issues like this show up on/. and watch the discussion. I generally get some pretty good insight on what people are using and even more importantly that some people are getting it to work for them.
As far as Linux in the midwest, I work for a big company that has locations all over the world and the plant I wolk at (in the midwest) is one of the only ones in the company doing anything at all with Linux. Guess things must be really backwards out here eh?
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If you're running Notes5 you could try using its webmail feature. It's pretty cool, but lacks some fo the features of the full client. I have gotten it to work from a browser in Linux.
You mean AOL, the creator of Gnutella. ;-)
I was going to take a serious look at Sony's new Palm based PDA when it came out. Guess I won't now.
I hope you're not running NT, cause it won't boot next time.
How bout instead of suing your fans, who will then promptly never buy anything from you again, you find a new way to make money off of music. As bandwith increases they'll not just face you downloading music for free, but requesting music from a site and having it instantly played for you (hmmm wonder if I could patent that idea ;-) ). You won't actually take the music, and the site playing it for you could well be a legal owner. Its the future of radio and the record industry better figure out a way to make money on it.
The concept of micropayments has been thrown around alot concerning e-mail, maybe music is what really needs a good micropayment sort of structure to be built for the internet. Then my afore mentioned "instant request internet radio" could lawfully pay the people who gave them the content to provide to their users. It has to happen, the only other options for getting music are theft, and being gouged for it.
Bullshit, the other comments are dead on. If you want only one desktop use windows.
I want a choice. Hell I want lots of choices.
Just wait, if development of KDE and Gnome continue at the current pace, windows will have to start competing with them.
Oh, and Mac OSX has some cool interface stuff itself.
How are we to know what kind of cool interface things are out there if only one company(group,etc.'s) view is the one put forward. Remember Microsoft doesn't actually "innovate" very much.
> The simple fact is that Linux /doesn't/ encourage environment stability that is /required/ in a large scale business computing environment, much as we techies refuse to believe it.
And Windows does? The NT Server upgrades I've done have been far more painful and screwed up than any Unix/Linux upgrades.
Umm... s/GIU/GUI/ sorry.
Why can't there be more than one. It seems most people on /. is sayihg "Microsoft doesn't offer any choice, they suck" and "there should be only one GUI for Linux."
The reason I like Linux and Unix is the choices offered. Sure multiple GIU's is duplicated development, its also a race to put out better and better software.
Last 50? People have been questioning research (academic even) for more than 50 years.
Frankenstein anyone?
Ummmm, we've got electricity alomst everywhere. I'm in South Dakota and electricity is cheap and readily available (thanks to the hydroelectric dams in the state).
Now as far as cellular coverage, thats another story in some parts of the state. Theres way more area to cover in the US for full coverage. Makes me wish the satellite stuff didn't have to burn up.
I've actually heard alot of good things about the way your company treats its workers.
I also like the way they had free pop available at their training centers, it was a small thing (espically considering what the course cost), but I was impressed.
Good point. Also, Beware of interviewers who ramble on about how much overtime they work, how tough a schedule they have for their project, etc. You really don't want to work for someone like that.
Of course the interview I'm drawing this example from was over the minute I asked. "You're looking for a lot of new programmers for this project, what happens when its over." I didn't hear back from them -- although there was the story on the news a few months later about how their much of their IT group was laid off.
Serious: Yes.
There are far less judgmental things than your beverage of choice that could cost you the job.
Bad table manners for instance.
All in all there are some very subtle things that go into choosing who to hire, everything counts.
He must be too insecure to give his e-mail address. Looking at his past colums they're all the same kind of drivel as well.
;-)
He must not have the guts to get feed back from people who don't agree with him. Even ZDnet lets you provide feedback to their poorly researched Linux stories
Same goes for HP-UX.
I agree completely. I use OpenLinux 2.3 at work and at home. The only real problems I've ever experienced is having the right lib files, but I've been able to download new libs and get them to work.
/opt is because that's where things are supposed to go!
Oh and the reason they put things in
Ok, I follow what you're saying and agree. One question, where are the record company sites that will sell me mp3? Its time for the record companies to get in gear and create web sites that give you access to their entire collection of music and allow you to download it -- for a price. I get mp3's (and rip stuff of CD's I own) because I think its a better way to get music, listen to music, and create your own CD's with only the songs you want on them.
If the record companies would sell me mp3's, I would buy them.
Excuse me, but how the hell did this get moderated to a 2?
Some of us geeks have no regular floppy drive and just have a superdisk drive instead. This sounds really cool.
Yeah, and I really hate it when I type ls and it lists both the directories and the files together ;-)
What makes it better is that is can be embedded. Embedded NT and WinCE don't include IE as an embedded browser.
Yes, but I find this discussion informative even though I'm not setting up a Linux VPN at the moment. It's nice to see issues like this show up on /. and watch the discussion. I generally get some pretty good insight on what people are using and even more importantly that some people are getting it to work for them.
Terminal server is only copying things X has aready done. ;-)
Where exactly do you live?
and...
As far as Linux in the midwest, I work for a big company that has locations all over the world and the plant I wolk at (in the midwest) is one of the only ones in the company doing anything at all with Linux. Guess things must be really backwards out here eh?