RTFA. For $2,500, any school can offer its students as many free versions of the Academic as they'd like, complete with security updates for the lifetime of the product.
I haven't used the SuSE LiveEval, but I don't see how you would need to compile a program like gAIM. gAIM is one of the standard instant messaging programs and all distributions in some way provide a convenient way for installing it. In SuSE's case, that would be through an RPM. It's like with Windows - you wouldn't go try and find the source to AOL's Instant Messanger, you'd go grab the installer for your operating system on the internet. Same thing with SuSE and most "desktop Linux" distributinos. The whole process is much less complicated than you are making it.
The point he's making is that although these have existed, relatively few people use them. Norton AntiVirus is a widely used product. It's not a huge as IE including this feature, but it's a big step there.
If you see a game you like on AIM, you are likely to sign on to AIM to play it, even if it available elsewhere. Perhaps you don't know about the alternative, or perhaps the AIM version is more convenient.
I think this is a smart way to get more people to use AIM. They're adding value to their IM client instead of restricting alternative clients. Isn't that a good thing?
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I just called them, too, and they were really friendly. The guy got my info, heard 'SCO', and immediately transferred me to someone who seemed specailly assigned to handle SCO complaints. And he was a Linux user, too!!! Apparently they've gotten quite a few complaints.
I can't speak for OS X, but there is a piece of software available for Windows that will let you access an ext2 or ext3 drive - Paragon's Ext2FS Anywhere (http://www.ext2fs.com/). I've heard it works quite well, but I've never seen it tried with a removeable drive. Be careful to shut down cleanly, though, or you risk screwing the filesystem up big. It says it has just added support for files of >4GB, although I thought the ext2 limit was 2GB. Something to look into.
Wow, I see three posts already modded as Informative correcting this "mistake." It's there for a reason - when a slashbot sees a link it clicks. By placing a malformed URL in the story, the poster or Taco has just saved kernel.org a lot of bandwidth.
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I'll second this - a lot of great features just seemed to disappear from 1.2x to 1.3x. The GTK2 is awesome, but dropping all those features was killer.
Crossover Office allows Linux to run MS Office. And yes, sadly, MS Office does start up more quickly on the same machine than OpenOffice does, but it's not a huge difference.
Evolution isn't targeting your demographic. Evolution is the complete Outlook replacement. Most corporations will have a server-side spam filtering set up; while an integrated Bayesian filtering mechanism might function better, in practice it's probably not worth the individual user's time to set up and train.
A quick look thorugh the official Q & A shows a simple, local SpamAssassin integration HOWTO.
Really? I had the exact opposite experience. Mine has been really beaten up, slopped on, and generally abused, and it still works fantastically. I was actually thinking of finding a few more of the old gameport models for sports games at LANs.
"Simply use the binaries from your distribution, the ones in the downloads section"
I wouldn't go farther than that - that will "just work" for the supported distributions. With Debian, Mandrake, Redhat, Slackware, and SuSE binaries available, what major distributions are left out?
Well, for python code, you need python. On my system, python is about 21 megs. Heck, portage itself is 600 KB - that's quite a bit just for a measly package manager on an embedded system. So 22 MB just for the package manager on a handheld device? I think not. If it were coded in C, it would be a lot smaller, and you wouldn't need an interpreter like python.
There's always been a resistance by some higher-ups in Gentoo to move away from Python to something like C/C++ for the portage system. Although Zynot will keep portage for now, one of it's stated goals is to reimpliment portage functionality in a lower-level language.
Zach Welch, the founder, has done a lot of work with cross-compiling, so even though it might seem stupid to build something from a handheld, if you connected it up to your beefy desktop things would go quickly. I don't think anyone wants to do that, though, so as another reply has indicated, it's probably disk images.
You make fun of what you don't understand. I have a decent ear, and although I don't know anything about electrons aligning, I can tell the difference between a cheap pair of audio cables and an expensive one. No one I know can't. It's the difference between your standard Walkman headphones and a good set from Bose. You must never have heard the difference - granted, it's not night and day, but it's obvious.
It's well known that improperly shielded cables get interference - that's why you ought not use a cell phone on an old airplane, why you need to put your antenna a bit away from your radio for better reception, and one of the reasons your modem might be a bit slower than it should be. The better your audio cables are, the better they're shielded. Price does not always reflect quality, but it's a general indication. Certainly the cheap cables are not the shielded ones.
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RTFA. For $2,500, any school can offer its students as many free versions of the Academic as they'd like, complete with security updates for the lifetime of the product.
I haven't used the SuSE LiveEval, but I don't see how you would need to compile a program like gAIM. gAIM is one of the standard instant messaging programs and all distributions in some way provide a convenient way for installing it. In SuSE's case, that would be through an RPM. It's like with Windows - you wouldn't go try and find the source to AOL's Instant Messanger, you'd go grab the installer for your operating system on the internet. Same thing with SuSE and most "desktop Linux" distributinos. The whole process is much less complicated than you are making it.
The point he's making is that although these have existed, relatively few people use them. Norton AntiVirus is a widely used product. It's not a huge as IE including this feature, but it's a big step there.
I'll second that - we're using Remedy here, and people seem happy.
If you see a game you like on AIM, you are likely to sign on to AIM to play it, even if it available elsewhere. Perhaps you don't know about the alternative, or perhaps the AIM version is more convenient.
I think this is a smart way to get more people to use AIM. They're adding value to their IM client instead of restricting alternative clients. Isn't that a good thing?
Troll Tech as in QT?
Her guardian assumes responsibility for her actions, as I understand it, so they're actually suing the mom for the girl's actions.
Slashdot reported a few days ago that Microsoft Office 2003 shipped to OEMs. Guess they didn't stay compatible for long!
I just called them, too, and they were really friendly. The guy got my info, heard 'SCO', and immediately transferred me to someone who seemed specailly assigned to handle SCO complaints. And he was a Linux user, too!!! Apparently they've gotten quite a few complaints.
I can't speak for OS X, but there is a piece of software available for Windows that will let you access an ext2 or ext3 drive - Paragon's Ext2FS Anywhere (http://www.ext2fs.com/). I've heard it works quite well, but I've never seen it tried with a removeable drive. Be careful to shut down cleanly, though, or you risk screwing the filesystem up big. It says it has just added support for files of >4GB, although I thought the ext2 limit was 2GB. Something to look into.
Wow, I see three posts already modded as Informative correcting this "mistake." It's there for a reason - when a slashbot sees a link it clicks. By placing a malformed URL in the story, the poster or Taco has just saved kernel.org a lot of bandwidth.
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I'll second this - a lot of great features just seemed to disappear from 1.2x to 1.3x. The GTK2 is awesome, but dropping all those features was killer.
It's a store where you can walk in and have things copied. Kinko's also offers phones, internet time, passport photos, and a bunch of other stuff.
You must be new around here. The Slashdot community has collective flamed SCO each day for the past several months. What do you think? :)
Crossover Office allows Linux to run MS Office. And yes, sadly, MS Office does start up more quickly on the same machine than OpenOffice does, but it's not a huge difference.
I think I'd break my spiffy new tabled after about 5 minutes of XGalaga.
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Evolution isn't targeting your demographic. Evolution is the complete Outlook replacement. Most corporations will have a server-side spam filtering set up; while an integrated Bayesian filtering mechanism might function better, in practice it's probably not worth the individual user's time to set up and train.
A quick look thorugh the official Q & A shows a simple, local SpamAssassin integration HOWTO.
Using VNC - or any other non-MS approved remote desktop control/sharing program - with Windows XP is a breach of your EULA.
Really? I had the exact opposite experience. Mine has been really beaten up, slopped on, and generally abused, and it still works fantastically. I was actually thinking of finding a few more of the old gameport models for sports games at LANs.
"Simply use the binaries from your distribution, the ones in the downloads section"
I wouldn't go farther than that - that will "just work" for the supported distributions. With Debian, Mandrake, Redhat, Slackware, and SuSE binaries available, what major distributions are left out?
Well, for python code, you need python. On my system, python is about 21 megs. Heck, portage itself is 600 KB - that's quite a bit just for a measly package manager on an embedded system. So 22 MB just for the package manager on a handheld device? I think not. If it were coded in C, it would be a lot smaller, and you wouldn't need an interpreter like python.
There's always been a resistance by some higher-ups in Gentoo to move away from Python to something like C/C++ for the portage system. Although Zynot will keep portage for now, one of it's stated goals is to reimpliment portage functionality in a lower-level language.
Zach Welch, the founder, has done a lot of work with cross-compiling, so even though it might seem stupid to build something from a handheld, if you connected it up to your beefy desktop things would go quickly. I don't think anyone wants to do that, though, so as another reply has indicated, it's probably disk images.
You make fun of what you don't understand. I have a decent ear, and although I don't know anything about electrons aligning, I can tell the difference between a cheap pair of audio cables and an expensive one. No one I know can't. It's the difference between your standard Walkman headphones and a good set from Bose. You must never have heard the difference - granted, it's not night and day, but it's obvious.
It's well known that improperly shielded cables get interference - that's why you ought not use a cell phone on an old airplane, why you need to put your antenna a bit away from your radio for better reception, and one of the reasons your modem might be a bit slower than it should be. The better your audio cables are, the better they're shielded. Price does not always reflect quality, but it's a general indication. Certainly the cheap cables are not the shielded ones.