Lots of individual monoliths and small groups of same, even visits to South-American-analog stone temples but not AFAIR an actual Stonehenge. Perhaps we should suggest it to him? (-:
...in Australia. Not only am I not from BYOND or Litha, I don't even recognise the names. (-:
Think of me as Joe Random Linux Consultant. I've been into computers since just before the IBM PC existed, and into Linux since you had to install Slackware from floppies.
Compare this picture of Titan with this picture of Mars. You might need to spin Titan 120 degrees counterclockwise and then mirror it vertically if you're not spatially adept.
If you still can't see a match, wait until the high-res Titan images arrive with the feature dead-centered instead of offset, and I'll do a side-by-side in The GIMP.
Mandrake Linux warns you that putting services up is a risk, on top of firewalling them all off by default and ALL:ALL in/etc/hosts.deny for anything but the slackest security levels. Oh, yes, and when you switch something off it really does get switched off.
...in Terry Pratchett's Soul Music ! They've gotta be good!
'So what do you call yourselves?'
'Er - dwarfs, Mr Dibbler,' said the lead dwarf.
'"Dwarfs"?'
'Yes, sir.'
'Why?'
'Because we are, Mr Dibbler,' said the lead dwarf patiently.
'No, no, no. That won't do. That won't do at all. You gotta have a name with a bit of-' Dibbler waved his hands in the air, '-with a bit of Music With Rocks In . . . uh . . . in. Not just "Dwarfs". You gotta be . . . oh, I don't know . . . something more interesting.'
'But we're certainly dwarfs,' said one of the dwarfs.
'"We're Certainly Dwarfs",' said Dibbler. 'Yes, that might work. OK. I can book you in at the Bunch of Grapes on Thursday. And into the Free Festival, of course. Since it's free you don't get paid, of course.'
The last line proves that Terry really does know about the music industry. (-:
I think Chris "Jar'anthe" Le Sueur is referring to JCL, which while powerful was also an unending nightmare of arcana (yes Rhonda, all that incantation actually does is copy a file).
Even if I ban the use of IE, how do I get firefox to render html email in Outlook?
Give them KDE, Kontact and Konqueror (or GNOME, Evolution and Mozilla) - all the fruit, few of the issues. If they won't switch their desktops from MS-Windows give them a Linux Terminal Server and NX client to work through (plus Mozilla nd OpenOffice anyway). If they're willing to switch but have pet MS-Windows apps that won't WINE well, given them an MS-Windows Terminal Server and RDesktop on their Linux desktops.
In what language? All of the Latin-based ones I tried rhyme even less than the English (truth is often a derivative of veritas, for example), and Greek doesn't even have a translation for "troll".
Go to a meeting of your local Linux User Group Someone will burn you a distro (or at least a copy of Knoppix, which is enough to get you downloading) for free.
you get malware, spyware, viruses, and trojans for free with your installs!
You're new here, aren't you? (-: G/D/R:-)
Remember the tale from way back, ohh... let me see now... maybe four days? The one of the bloke who reliably couldn't get MS-Windows-XP updates through his DSL link fast enough to avoid being cracked straight off the Internet?
you can't program sh*t on a windows install without buying separate software.
You're wrong. If that isn't a sheeyite programming language, I don't know what is.
On a more serious note, all that you've listed is but a download away, plus trhere are convenientISOs available of some things.
The real advantages for Linux lie in several areas:
TECHNICAL - things that are difficult-to-impossible for MS-Windows without "special equipment". Stuff like Xnest and User Mode Linux, which are boons for testing end-user and kiosk style applications, or the so-called Backstreet Ruby console project, which allows multiple independent users on one piece of hardware (e.g. two users on a multihead Radeon card). Stuff like "Terminal Services" and DAVfs being intrinsic to the system.
POLITICAL - things like the absence of spyware, a licence agreement which says "if you break it you own both pieces" rather than one which says "your computer is now My Computer", being invented everywhere rather than in [insert name of favourite foreign imperialist infidel country here] - if The Boss drives a Citroën, start with "Where does it come from? France, Finland, Australia, [blah blah long list of places blah]. Oh, and did I mention France?" You can update piecemeal, or more or less at your own speed; since you have all of the pieces, a sizeable organisation could easily afford to settle on a distro and maintain it themselves ad infinitum by updating versions or patching at their discretion.
FINANCIAL - Pretty dang obvious. Pay per user, per cpu, per port, or just for the support you need? Hmmm... let me think, this is a toughie...
ANYTHING BUT MICROSOFT - sad but true. Probably 10% of conversions have this as their primary justification.
CUSTOMISABLE - dislike a feature? Don't just disable it (only to have a user figure out a bypass later), get out your handy-dandy software saw and lop that horrid thing right off!
...railway spike hammered down through the case into the CPU and the surface of the desk beneath.
Being MS-Windows, you might need to use hardwood stake instead, in which case I recommend either Wandoo or what the PNG call "Ironwood" (which loosely corresponds with San Martin's Ferran from David Weber's Honorverse).
I'd recommend first off porting the apps in question to Linux (well, to not-MS-Windows) where that can be readily done because it's easy to make the program into the WM (if they exit, they get a new session running... the same program).
If the app is well behaved, you can do this using WINE and no port... [/ME pauses to wonder whether that pun was part of the original rationale for the acronym]... and using NX you can now give other users efficient platform-independent sessions on such a box at no extra charge.
Plus there's the instant-thin-client aspect to think about. Something screwy with the system? Doorbell time. No hard disks to worry about the structure of.
It might also save you some trouble if you're forced to stick with MS-Windows to put all of these apps on a Terminal Services box and lock it down once-for-all rather than locking down n workstations. This also gives you another opportunity to Linuxify (with rdesktopification) and/or thinclientise the workstations themselves (sorry, didn't get much sleep last night and am feeling a bit Dubya now).
...and you'd have got zero out of three for most of the airtime, even if it had been video. There were indeed cute females there, but scantily clad didn't happen anywhere near a mike. (-:
Paintball gives you objectives and urgency without the need to kill or injure your competitors. The opportunity to work out strategy and tactics (and or teach those to others) in a fairly direct manner with minimal risk, and without requiring ill-will.
I'd rather be playing real paintball, but if I can't, a simulation is better than squat.
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...in the images which IMESHO would be fittingly named Salo.
Sadly, the atmospheric readings rule out an anthem sung in the Ganny Quaver.
Lots of individual monoliths and small groups of same, even visits to South-American-analog stone temples but not AFAIR an actual Stonehenge. Perhaps we should suggest it to him? (-:
...in Australia. Not only am I not from BYOND or Litha, I don't even recognise the names. (-:
Think of me as Joe Random Linux Consultant. I've been into computers since just before the IBM PC existed, and into Linux since you had to install Slackware from floppies.
Compare this picture of Titan with this picture of Mars. You might need to spin Titan 120 degrees counterclockwise and then mirror it vertically if you're not spatially adept.
If you still can't see a match, wait until the high-res Titan images arrive with the feature dead-centered instead of offset, and I'll do a side-by-side in The GIMP.
Does anything else arrive so broken?
/etc/hosts.deny for anything but the slackest security levels. Oh, yes, and when you switch something off it really does get switched off.
Mandrake Linux warns you that putting services up is a risk, on top of firewalling them all off by default and ALL:ALL in
Notably Foul Ole Ron. Buggrit. I tole 'em!
Which of us is posting as an AC? And probably from IE, as well? May Mrs Cake join every group or society you're a member of.
The last line proves that Terry really does know about the music industry. (-:
They'd handle it with water cooling.
It could be worse. (-:
I think Chris "Jar'anthe" Le Sueur is referring to JCL, which while powerful was also an unending nightmare of arcana (yes Rhonda, all that incantation actually does is copy a file).
Em português, in case you speaka da lingo or want the scripts etc to actually work.
Your next problem is going to be preventing the theft of either panel or laptop - either in situ or en route. They're both dangerously valuable items.
Have a thousand words. That was Mandrake 9.2 a few months ago, no extra software besides the app.
Go to a meeting of your local Linux User Group Someone will burn you a distro (or at least a copy of Knoppix, which is enough to get you downloading) for free.
You're new here, aren't you? (-: G/D/R
Remember the tale from way back, ohh... let me see now... maybe four days? The one of the bloke who reliably couldn't get MS-Windows-XP updates through his DSL link fast enough to avoid being cracked straight off the Internet?
You're wrong. If that isn't a sheeyite programming language, I don't know what is.
On a more serious note, all that you've listed is but a download away, plus trhere are convenient ISOs available of some things.
The real advantages for Linux lie in several areas:
...I have access to a bigger camera now. (-:
...railway spike hammered down through the case into the CPU and the surface of the desk beneath.
Being MS-Windows, you might need to use hardwood stake instead, in which case I recommend either Wandoo or what the PNG call "Ironwood" (which loosely corresponds with San Martin's Ferran from David Weber's Honorverse).
I'd recommend first off porting the apps in question to Linux (well, to not-MS-Windows) where that can be readily done because it's easy to make the program into the WM (if they exit, they get a new session running... the same program).
If the app is well behaved, you can do this using WINE and no port... [/ME pauses to wonder whether that pun was part of the original rationale for the acronym]... and using NX you can now give other users efficient platform-independent sessions on such a box at no extra charge.
Plus there's the instant-thin-client aspect to think about. Something screwy with the system? Doorbell time. No hard disks to worry about the structure of.
It might also save you some trouble if you're forced to stick with MS-Windows to put all of these apps on a Terminal Services box and lock it down once-for-all rather than locking down n workstations. This also gives you another opportunity to Linuxify (with rdesktopification) and/or thinclientise the workstations themselves (sorry, didn't get much sleep last night and am feeling a bit Dubya now).
...and you'd have got zero out of three for most of the airtime, even if it had been video. There were indeed cute females there, but scantily clad didn't happen anywhere near a mike. (-:
However, if you like nice feminine Indian voices, you can thrill to the sound of ubergeekette Suparna Bhattacharya (picture) talking about DProbes.
Paintball gives you objectives and urgency without the need to kill or injure your competitors. The opportunity to work out strategy and tactics (and or teach those to others) in a fairly direct manner with minimal risk, and without requiring ill-will.
I'd rather be playing real paintball, but if I can't, a simulation is better than squat.
And will it be called "Ogg Real"?