I hear Ubuntu researchers are hard at work trying find the most depressing shades of brown to use in the default themes for their Gnome 2.16 based release.
You are missing my point. The Acronis Rescue Disk - which uses Linux as it's OS - would not boot on my system. Acronis failed repeatedly to supply me with a boot disk which would work.
Linux could be made to work on my system as I had installed a couple of distros and had all my hardware supported just fine. If I could do this why were Acronis having so much difficulty in supplying me with a working Rescue Disk?
I have also used Acronis True Image with some success. Most of the trouble I have had with it is down to the recovery disk being Linux based. Acronis seem to have difficulty in building Linux boot disks that work on systems I have running sweetly on SUSE or Ubuntu.
Make sure you try their boot disk on your system before handing over any money...
In Islam we learn to respect all religions can't you do the same?
So when an Arab who is born a Muslim chooses to convert to, say, Christianity you respect his choice? I understood that under Sharia law the punishment for apostasy was death not respect.
Arrgghh! I introduced my my daughter (6) and wife (much older) to SuperTux and they took to it like whores to crack. Its background music has been the soundtrack of my life for months now.
I worked it out for myself without seeing any written solutions. I didn't have a vocabulary to express what I did but I could consistantly repeat it and solve in about than four minutes.
I am actually quite interested in getting hold of another one and seeing if I can remember what I did and solve it again. A part of me is worried that my brain is now too old and burnt-out to do it...
Skill, the programming language that drives Cadence's DF2 IC Design CAD suite combines LISP and C like syntaxes in a mind boggling way. I infuriate my colleages by converting all the code I find into LISP style before performing any maintenance.
As far as I am aware Vim is the only editor which provides out-of-box syntax highlighting support for both styles of Skill syntax.
It was a pretty nice IMAP client. I did find problems using the Solaris version where the windows all turned into empty grey boxes which never got resolved.
Every release seemed to bring bugfixes, a bunch of new features and a load of new bugs. It seemed like they never released a feature complete, stable and bug free version.
The Unix/Linux clients were built with a custom toolkit which looked out of place on every desktop. You couldn't even change the default grey colour of the UI to match whatever theme you were using.
I have tried the Linux and Solaris versions and they are simply not as compatible with the range of web sites and plug-ins I wish to use as Firefox is.
Also it is missing essentials like adblock and does not integrate as tidily into my GNOME desktop as Firefox.
The Solaris version is particularly dire with long standing problems with the Java plugin.
They were quite happy to sell a license for Opera on Solaris while one of its developers was making statements like this on their support newsgroup:
"I haven't got java installed here, so I can't test your example link.
Neither have I got any sun hardware..."
Does anyone give a toss about the BCS? What's the betting that the goons behind all those well publicised UK Government IT failures are members of professional bodies like the BCS?
My desire for a unified user interface is one of the reasons I use Linux. The vast majority of the X apps I use are GNOME or GTK+ based.
Do you think Microsoft will ever release a new version of Office which has the same UI as the current version of Windows? Microsft couldn't care less about consistant user interfaces.
Trolltech have released a few betas of their new ROM. They have still to release one which is free of critical suspend/resume issues. It does look cool, though...
I have been using the Sharp ROM which is okay except for syncing with a Linux desktop. I quite like the Sharp PIM applications.
I think it is cool that I can connect to my company's Cisco VPN concentrator using vpnc or jack into the LAN with a CF NIC when sat in a meeting room.
I have been using this combo happily for some months. The supplied software syncs well with Outlook and the entries seem to map well onto the Sharp PIM apps.
The main drawback for me is that I can no longer sync with anything on my Solaris desktop at work (when I used a Handspring Visor I could sync with J-Pilot). Oh, and Sharp seem determined to reserve the Zaurus line for Japan only these days.
The choice is simple for me. I can sync the calendar, todos, addressbook and notes on my Sharp Zaurus with Outlook but not with Kontact or Evolution.
If my Zaurus is lost or stolen I can purchase just about any PDA or smartphone on the market and you can be sure it will sync with Outlook and I will be back in action with minimal hassle.
FastMail also run proxy servers that you allow to make secure IMAP or SMTP connections on any port you like. Port blocking is not an issue for FM users...
We know that even popular high-profile web sites are at risk so we cannot add any sites to the trusted zone.
Step 3: Read E-Mail Messages in Plain Text
Marvellous.
Step 4: Block Pop-Up Windows in Your Browser
Add third party product to correct IE flaws.
This is the Internet Experience as supplied by Microsoft: web pages with all fancy features turned off and plain text email. Might as well run mutt and lynx on a Unix based OS.
That is what I did. I am something of a Linux veteran having installed my first Slack back in '94. Dabbled with Caldera, Corel, RH (various including the quite nice RH 9), Debian, Slackware again (9.1 - nice but not many packages) I decided it was time to dip my toes for the first time into one of those KDE-based everything-is-done-for-you distros.
Result? I love it. I take back all my past suspicion and reluctance to use KDE. It just makes life so easy. Yast is cool too. I am getting old and lazy - point and click configuration is fine by me.
For me, Suse 9.1 (+KDE) is the best desktop OS I have used. Not everyone is going to find it easy to use and not everyone will find all their needs satisfied by it the but I it does all I need.
Supports my printer, scanner, camera, wireless LAN card, 3D graphics card and sound card with minimal effort - and God, how much time have I spent wrestling those into submission with other distros in times past.
From now on I choose the easy path - Free Software wherever possible but no more hair shirts.
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I hear Ubuntu researchers are hard at work trying find the most depressing shades of brown to use in the default themes for their Gnome 2.16 based release.
You are missing my point. The Acronis Rescue Disk - which uses Linux as it's OS - would not boot on my system. Acronis failed repeatedly to supply me with a boot disk which would work.
Linux could be made to work on my system as I had installed a couple of distros and had all my hardware supported just fine. If I could do this why were Acronis having so much difficulty in supplying me with a working Rescue Disk?
I have also used Acronis True Image with some success. Most of the trouble I have had with it is down to the recovery disk being Linux based. Acronis seem to have difficulty in building Linux boot disks that work on systems I have running sweetly on SUSE or Ubuntu.
Make sure you try their boot disk on your system before handing over any money...
This survey was, frankly, one of the dumbest things I have ever seen on the Internet. And there is a lot of very stiff competition...
Yes, video shot in "soft focus" looks so much better in HD.
In Islam we learn to respect all religions can't you do the same?
So when an Arab who is born a Muslim chooses to convert to, say, Christianity you respect his choice? I understood that under Sharia law the punishment for apostasy was death not respect.
Arrgghh! I introduced my my daughter (6) and wife (much older) to SuperTux and they took to it like whores to crack. Its background music has been the soundtrack of my life for months now.
I worked it out for myself without seeing any written solutions. I didn't have a vocabulary to express what I did but I could consistantly repeat it and solve in about than four minutes.
I am actually quite interested in getting hold of another one and seeing if I can remember what I did and solve it again. A part of me is worried that my brain is now too old and burnt-out to do it...
No one would care if it had homosexuals dancing on the cover burning American flags on it...
I would pay extra for that version. Seriously.
I don't know, does anyone still program in LISP
Skill, the programming language that drives Cadence's DF2 IC Design CAD suite combines LISP and C like syntaxes in a mind boggling way. I infuriate my colleages by converting all the code I find into LISP style before performing any maintenance.
As far as I am aware Vim is the only editor which provides out-of-box syntax highlighting support for both styles of Skill syntax.
It was a pretty nice IMAP client. I did find problems using the Solaris version where the windows all turned into empty grey boxes which never got resolved.
Every release seemed to bring bugfixes, a bunch of new features and a load of new bugs. It seemed like they never released a feature complete, stable and bug free version.
The Unix/Linux clients were built with a custom toolkit which looked out of place on every desktop. You couldn't even change the default grey colour of the UI to match whatever theme you were using.
I have tried the Linux and Solaris versions and they are simply not as compatible with the range of web sites and plug-ins I wish to use as Firefox is.
Also it is missing essentials like adblock and does not integrate as tidily into my GNOME desktop as Firefox.
The Solaris version is particularly dire with long standing problems with the Java plugin.
They were quite happy to sell a license for Opera on Solaris while one of its developers was making statements like this on their support newsgroup:
Does anyone give a toss about the BCS? What's the betting that the goons behind all those well publicised UK Government IT failures are members of professional bodies like the BCS?
My desire for a unified user interface is one of the reasons I use Linux. The vast majority of the X apps I use are GNOME or GTK+ based.
Do you think Microsoft will ever release a new version of Office which has the same UI as the current version of Windows? Microsft couldn't care less about consistant user interfaces.
Are Slashdot's glory days now over? Is drivel like the referenced "article" really worthy subject matter for discussion? I don't think so.
You don't need to have strong feelings either way about Microsoft to appreciate that the article is mindless crap written by a moron.
Why do the editors waste our time with this rubbish?
Trolltech have released a few betas of their new ROM. They have still to release one which is free of critical suspend/resume issues. It does look cool, though...
I have been using the Sharp ROM which is okay except for syncing with a Linux desktop. I quite like the Sharp PIM applications.
I think it is cool that I can connect to my company's Cisco VPN concentrator using vpnc or jack into the LAN with a CF NIC when sat in a meeting room.
I have been using this combo happily for some months. The supplied software syncs well with Outlook and the entries seem to map well onto the Sharp PIM apps.
The main drawback for me is that I can no longer sync with anything on my Solaris desktop at work (when I used a Handspring Visor I could sync with J-Pilot). Oh, and Sharp seem determined to reserve the Zaurus line for Japan only these days.
The choice is simple for me. I can sync the calendar, todos, addressbook and notes on my Sharp Zaurus with Outlook but not with Kontact or Evolution.
If my Zaurus is lost or stolen I can purchase just about any PDA or smartphone on the market and you can be sure it will sync with Outlook and I will be back in action with minimal hassle.
Outlook wins.
So, the PDA is dead and is to be replaced by the smartphone - and now Nokia are producing a handheld which isn't a phone. Weird...
FastMail also run proxy servers that you allow to make secure IMAP or SMTP connections on any port you like. Port blocking is not an issue for FM users...
I have heard they are planning to add menus to scrollbars with entries like "Scroll Right" and "Scroll Left".
Your browser configuration must be broken. I have used their English site many times.
You Are Not Alone. I just prefer the look and feel of Gnome. Slackware is my distro of choice - it runs happily without libqt installed at all.
Step 1: Set Your Browser Security to High
Yes, this will break a lot of web sites.
Step 2: Add Safe Web Sites to Trusted Sites
We know that even popular high-profile web sites are at risk so we cannot add any sites to the trusted zone.
Step 3: Read E-Mail Messages in Plain Text
Marvellous.
Step 4: Block Pop-Up Windows in Your Browser
Add third party product to correct IE flaws.
This is the Internet Experience as supplied by Microsoft: web pages with all fancy features turned off and plain text email. Might as well run mutt and lynx on a Unix based OS.
That is what I did. I am something of a Linux veteran having installed my first Slack back in '94. Dabbled with Caldera, Corel, RH (various including the quite nice RH 9), Debian, Slackware again (9.1 - nice but not many packages) I decided it was time to dip my toes for the first time into one of those KDE-based everything-is-done-for-you distros.
Result? I love it. I take back all my past suspicion and reluctance to use KDE. It just makes life so easy. Yast is cool too. I am getting old and lazy - point and click configuration is fine by me.
For me, Suse 9.1 (+KDE) is the best desktop OS I have used. Not everyone is going to find it easy to use and not everyone will find all their needs satisfied by it the but I it does all I need.
Supports my printer, scanner, camera, wireless LAN card, 3D graphics card and sound card with minimal effort - and God, how much time have I spent wrestling those into submission with other distros in times past.
From now on I choose the easy path - Free Software wherever possible but no more hair shirts.