Have it listen on the LAN interface instead of loopback, and aim the client at that.
You used to be able to have it listen on 127.0.0.2 and because of a bug in Win2k/XP's networking it would work. WIth XP SP2 and I think the latest Win2k SP, they fixed that bug.
Why they fixed it, I do not know. Too useful, I guess. Perhaps you can set up a pseudo interface (a la lo:0 on Linux) and use that? I don't know enough MS-DOS^WWindows voodoo to say.
The problem is that Microsoft drop the price further iff the dealer ostracises any competitors. This is not a discount for bulk, for performance, for anything positive, this is an extra discount for telling competitors to nick off, for removing them from your advertising, catalogues etc, for shutting competitors out.
The bad effect of this is that soon there no effective competitors, and the price goes up. Those last 5 words are the key and core of monopoly power.
Wile E is particularly apt because he leaves everyone guessing about who is funding his unending stream of Acme contraptions, and because the bird is always too fast for him.
[The Passion] isn't even a political thing. It's religion.
Under Roman Catholic doctrine, there's no difference.
Forex, during WW2 Australia sent their Catholics to fight the Japanese and everyone else to fight the Germans. An odd thing to do? Well, maybe, but it did take the wind out of the sails of the local Catholic clergy's strong incitement of their flocks to not oppose the Reich - which, according to Adolf at least, was structured after the RCC.
"A lamb in adversity, a fox when in equality, and a tiger when in the ascendancy" and has been for millennia. Who do you think is quietly pushing the Religious Right along, even if only to use them as patsies for their own political putsch later?
Mel's film is taken straight out of the doctrinal textbooks of his own Catholic sect, often in contradiction to the historical record. It does indeed have a political agenda wrapped in its religious one, but it's not exactly conservative.
Other than that, your points are all good. Including that one quasi-Conservative film hardly outweighs the scores with their helms turned firmly to follow the Good Ship Liberalism. The big problem is that neither Liberalism nor Conservatism as we know them bear more than a nodding acquaintance with an optimal approach.
Who knows whats causing you the problem. Try Regclean or something. You are on Windows, anything might be causing your problem.
Like, QED? (-:
With Anything But Microsoft software, it's generally possible to say why something odd happens, and fix just that one thing without shotgunning your whole system.
I'm willing to concede the point that as a programmer you were able to get BeOs doing all kinds of crazy stuff.
Not as a programmer. BeOS does crazy stuff out of the box. Any moron can get six simultaneous movies spinning on a cube in BeOS with a few clicks, just like any moron can fly MS-Windows into the ground at speed with a few clicks.
Office '97 still opens my Office 2004 files just fine
MS gives them price breaks if they don't bundle any competitors on any of the machines they sell. MS gives them even more price breaks if they don't even mention any competitors. MS wines and dines politicians, and even invokes US politicians to lean on them [en espanol], to get them to toe the MS party line. It's hard to get any closer to the Ground Zero of anti-competitiveness.
Well, if the customers are being fucked, they should stop buying MS stuff.
Good idea. However, the universal refrain is "I would if I could". And what's stopping them? MS-Lockin tactics and a constant stream of MS-Propaganda, not technical merit or ease-of-use issues.
If by "better", you mean an office suite which doesn't trash your work and does write HTML you're not exquisitely embarrassed about, then I'm afraid the answer to that is "Sun". The answer is still "Sun" if you want the full range of table manipulation or FrameMaker-like publishing features. KOffice is also at the stage of giving MS-Office a run for its money, and accelerating. If IBM pull their fingers out and GPL Lotus Office, within a year or two we'll have three competitors comparable with or clearly better than MS-Office.
If by "better" you mean a media player which doesn't 'phone home, doesn't require you to sign away your first-born on promise of compliance and doesn't require you to waste horsepower and real-estate with visualisations, I'd have to say MPlayer was much, much better. Many other media players are kicking around which will play the same things, and are creaking under the load of their bells and whistles.
As to the OS, the only things stopping most of my clients from switching to KDE on Linux today are things like banking sites wedded to MSIE and niche applications wedded to a poorly defined superset of win32s. They have no trouble with day-to-day activities like burning CDs, scanning, wordprocessing, spreadsheeting, web browsing and email.
The only issues have to do with lock-in and compatibility, not technical virtue or ease of use.
These are things that I've seen MS-Word get wrong too, so no doughnut.
It's true that MS-Word does less of them, but it's also true that it will spontaneously corrupt documents from time to time (which OpenOffice will often fix), that MS-Word's HTML editing requires extensive therapy to come within hailing distance of standard, and that its autosave (in relative terms) sucks for reliability and intrusiveness.
The advantages cut both ways, which for the price - AUD$319 (RRP, basic OEM edition) vs AUD$0 - is wrong.
In fact, if you throw in a copy of XP Pro (AUD$279 RRP OEM) and a basic virus scanner (AUD$60), the cost of the software to do fundamental office work exceeds the cost (AUD$599 for Celeron 2.4, 256M, 40G) of the hardware to run it on. An increasing number of people have a problem with this.
It's also true that OpenOffice is steadily (in relative terms again) becoming more capable, and that the "headline" improvements (like PDF writing) are genuinely useful for mainstream and near-mainstream users. The next major release will also import PDFs.
Finally, MS-Word won't run on my system, at all, even under WINE.
PS, if you want to pick up all of the formatting from a web page, open the thing directly in your word processor. This works better for MS-Word, too, albeit it throws the resulting HTML into the bushes and jumps in after it no matter which way you import it.
...I need to buy two or more licences for MS-Office? Nice.
How about at home? Since if I'm licenced to use it at work, I'm licenced to use it at home, no? So I can legitimately install it at home for free.
Now my teenage daughter sits down and uses my home copy, once, to make a price-list for her lemonade stand (ie a commercial venture) - am I liable for an extra licence?
How about if I install a copy at home for my use on "her" machine, is that OK?
And if I'm licenced to use it at home, does that cover work as well?
How about if a computer at work has twenty people use it for five minutes each, every day, to update a log. Do I now need to buy 20 licences for that copy of Office?
These rules aren't very clear, people generally just double-licence things anyway, and they cease to be a problem if I just use OpenOffice instead.
Set OpenOffice to be your window manager, and set your display manager to auto login.
The sequence of events is: turn on computer, it boots, logs you in and there you are facing an empty word-processor document, full screen. Nothing to minimise, close, or otherwise stuff around with, all you can do is word-process or exit.
Try that with MS-Windows.
If you want your customer to multi-process, rip everything but task-switching and a menu dock out of one of the simpler WMs. No chrome, no bells and whistles, one simple floating menu of applications and running tasks. How much can you rip out of the MS-Windows interface?
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Have it listen on the LAN interface instead of loopback, and aim the client at that.
You used to be able to have it listen on 127.0.0.2 and because of a bug in Win2k/XP's networking it would work. WIth XP SP2 and I think the latest Win2k SP, they fixed that bug.
Why they fixed it, I do not know. Too useful, I guess. Perhaps you can set up a pseudo interface (a la lo:0 on Linux) and use that? I don't know enough MS-DOS^WWindows voodoo to say.
FreeNX is for when it absolutely, positively, has to be double the speed. (-:
The NX protocol is essentially compressed and cached X; it talks to VNC, RDP and whetever else through its own proxy.
Mandrake 10.0 RPMs are here and here. The SRPMs will probably rebuild fine on 10.1 or 9.2 and are here and here.
I'd give this article a "+5, Damn Fine Idea Shoulda Happened Yonks Ago" mod if I could. (-:
So... where does one donate either IP or $$$?
After that, all we need to do is sit back and watch Richard and Eric fight to the pain* over how it should be organised.
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[* Obligatory Princess Bride ref]
It would save so much grief!
...and since Mac people are big on UI, I'd be startled if Safari has no way of achieving the same thing.
I'm not seriously expecting anyone to hack WHOIS.
I'm not complaining about MS dropping the price.
I'm not complaining about MS dropping the price.
I'm not complaining about MS dropping the price.
Are we clear on that now?
The problem is that Microsoft drop the price further iff the dealer ostracises any competitors. This is not a discount for bulk, for performance, for anything positive, this is an extra discount for telling competitors to nick off, for removing them from your advertising, catalogues etc, for shutting competitors out.
The bad effect of this is that soon there no effective competitors, and the price goes up. Those last 5 words are the key and core of monopoly power.
...not just for selling more of their stuff.
Discounts for bulk? No worries. Discounts for declining to deal with anyone else? Big problems.
Simple enough for you?
'T'would be glorious to sneak "http://www.groklaw.net/" into their rego details. (-:
I guess they'll pay twice the price for their gear and get nice Apples instead - then suffer cardiac arrest when their users discover Fink.
Morons.
Every fiendish trick he tries blows up in his face and/or leaves him momentarily levitating over thousands of feet of empty air (followed by an amazing impact at speeds faster than that of sound in the rock he hit).
Wile E is particularly apt because he leaves everyone guessing about who is funding his unending stream of Acme contraptions, and because the bird is always too fast for him.
It's amazing how many motorbike parts and crates of food one can purchase by remote control after using a credit card there.
I liked his post, you insensitive clod! It even had a +1-Informative-worthy link in it.
As to the question you ask, my next such scheduled event is November 20.
Forex, during WW2 Australia sent their Catholics to fight the Japanese and everyone else to fight the Germans. An odd thing to do? Well, maybe, but it did take the wind out of the sails of the local Catholic clergy's strong incitement of their flocks to not oppose the Reich - which, according to Adolf at least, was structured after the RCC.
"A lamb in adversity, a fox when in equality, and a tiger when in the ascendancy" and has been for millennia. Who do you think is quietly pushing the Religious Right along, even if only to use them as patsies for their own political putsch later?
Mel's film is taken straight out of the doctrinal textbooks of his own Catholic sect, often in contradiction to the historical record. It does indeed have a political agenda wrapped in its religious one, but it's not exactly conservative.
Other than that, your points are all good. Including that one quasi-Conservative film hardly outweighs the scores with their helms turned firmly to follow the Good Ship Liberalism. The big problem is that neither Liberalism nor Conservatism as we know them bear more than a nodding acquaintance with an optimal approach.
...and soon OpenOffice Writer as well, and you can easily delete stuff like transparent overlays or blackouts.
I notice nobody else's come up with a response to that worth posting (or otherwise) in the 3.5 hours they've had so far. Well done.
With Anything But Microsoft software, it's generally possible to say why something odd happens, and fix just that one thing without shotgunning your whole system.
Sometimes.
MS gives them price breaks if they don't bundle any competitors on any of the machines they sell. MS gives them even more price breaks if they don't even mention any competitors. MS wines and dines politicians, and even invokes US politicians to lean on them [en espanol], to get them to toe the MS party line. It's hard to get any closer to the Ground Zero of anti-competitiveness.
Have you got the idea now?
If by "better", you mean an office suite which doesn't trash your work and does write HTML you're not exquisitely embarrassed about, then I'm afraid the answer to that is "Sun". The answer is still "Sun" if you want the full range of table manipulation or FrameMaker-like publishing features. KOffice is also at the stage of giving MS-Office a run for its money, and accelerating. If IBM pull their fingers out and GPL Lotus Office, within a year or two we'll have three competitors comparable with or clearly better than MS-Office.
If by "better" you mean a media player which doesn't 'phone home, doesn't require you to sign away your first-born on promise of compliance and doesn't require you to waste horsepower and real-estate with visualisations, I'd have to say MPlayer was much, much better. Many other media players are kicking around which will play the same things, and are creaking under the load of their bells and whistles.
As to the OS, the only things stopping most of my clients from switching to KDE on Linux today are things like banking sites wedded to MSIE and niche applications wedded to a poorly defined superset of win32s. They have no trouble with day-to-day activities like burning CDs, scanning, wordprocessing, spreadsheeting, web browsing and email.
The only issues have to do with lock-in and compatibility, not technical virtue or ease of use.
These are things that I've seen MS-Word get wrong too, so no doughnut.
It's true that MS-Word does less of them, but it's also true that it will spontaneously corrupt documents from time to time (which OpenOffice will often fix), that MS-Word's HTML editing requires extensive therapy to come within hailing distance of standard, and that its autosave (in relative terms) sucks for reliability and intrusiveness.
The advantages cut both ways, which for the price - AUD$319 (RRP, basic OEM edition) vs AUD$0 - is wrong.
In fact, if you throw in a copy of XP Pro (AUD$279 RRP OEM) and a basic virus scanner (AUD$60), the cost of the software to do fundamental office work exceeds the cost (AUD$599 for Celeron 2.4, 256M, 40G) of the hardware to run it on. An increasing number of people have a problem with this.
It's also true that OpenOffice is steadily (in relative terms again) becoming more capable, and that the "headline" improvements (like PDF writing) are genuinely useful for mainstream and near-mainstream users. The next major release will also import PDFs.
Finally, MS-Word won't run on my system, at all, even under WINE.
PS, if you want to pick up all of the formatting from a web page, open the thing directly in your word processor. This works better for MS-Word, too, albeit it throws the resulting HTML into the bushes and jumps in after it no matter which way you import it.
We're looking for terrorists!
:-)
[pause while cybercrime squad relaxes]
D'ya know of any we could join?
<G/D/R> (-: Grin/Drive/Rapidly
...I need to buy two or more licences for MS-Office? Nice.
How about at home? Since if I'm licenced to use it at work, I'm licenced to use it at home, no? So I can legitimately install it at home for free.
Now my teenage daughter sits down and uses my home copy, once, to make a price-list for her lemonade stand (ie a commercial venture) - am I liable for an extra licence?
How about if I install a copy at home for my use on "her" machine, is that OK?
And if I'm licenced to use it at home, does that cover work as well?
How about if a computer at work has twenty people use it for five minutes each, every day, to update a log. Do I now need to buy 20 licences for that copy of Office?
These rules aren't very clear, people generally just double-licence things anyway, and they cease to be a problem if I just use OpenOffice instead.
Set OpenOffice to be your window manager, and set your display manager to auto login.
The sequence of events is: turn on computer, it boots, logs you in and there you are facing an empty word-processor document, full screen. Nothing to minimise, close, or otherwise stuff around with, all you can do is word-process or exit.
Try that with MS-Windows.
If you want your customer to multi-process, rip everything but task-switching and a menu dock out of one of the simpler WMs. No chrome, no bells and whistles, one simple floating menu of applications and running tasks. How much can you rip out of the MS-Windows interface?