From TFA: "The Pentium M and Windows XP are pretty expensive components. It would be hard to hit the Mac mini's $499 price point with that combo," wrote IDC's Kay.
So the knockoff will cost as much, or more than, the real thing?
Seems like not many people around here have experience in writing software for big dynamic websites
XHTML is useful because it's XML. You can manipulate it with standard tools. You can put it in databases and query it down to the individual tag level, You can transform it into WAP or PDF or other formats on the fly. You can validate it without having to write any code. And that's just a few things off the top of my head
So I should write all this stuff for myself? Really? No thanks. Some of the Commons components are annoying, but not as annoying as my done-under-deadline versions. If your stuff is so wonderful, perhaps you might consider contributing some of it? hm?
Jeepers, My slower-than-yours machine, running Mandrake, loads OOo about 3 times as fast, with a ****-load of other stuff running. Maybe FC is not the best distro if you actually want to do stuff?
They took the photo through a yellow-tinted clean-room window. Taking a camera into a clean room is a lot of work and bother (it has to be, well, cleaned). I think the widows are tinted to prevent UV transmission or something.
'Mandrake' always made me think of the R.A.F. officer in 'Dr. Strangelove'. 'Mandriva', of course, is something a feminist shouts while driving. For the regular expression literate, This is being typed on a (Phoenix|Fire(bird|fox)) browser on a Mandr(ake|iva) GNU/Linux system. Heh.
"Many times, a customer calls me out to fix/clean up a system, only to say "Wow... You didn't really do anything I couldn't have just done myself. This stuff isn't so hard.."
Maybe you should obfuscate it a little bit: Bring up a command prompt early in the process, and type in something arcane like "netstat -an | more", and say "ah, aha" while scrolling through the resulting mess of numbers. It surprising how many UNIX commands also work in out-of-the-box Windows setups.:-)
Have you ever watched a biker get hit by a car? I have. At the moment or impact, bike and rider parted company, so the bike's weight had no further influence, safety-wise. The rider was not seriously hurt, BTW. The full leathers and helmet were a big help.
Linux security hasn't improved in years. It's still about where UNIX was in the 1980s.
No it's not
This looks good only because Microsoft is so awful.
Well, OK.
What's needed is to get behind NSA Security-Enhanced Linux and push.
Are you volunteering yourself, or volunteering on behalf of others?
...(mail, web servers, browsers, databases, DNS) all need to be modified to work as multi-process programs with small trusted parts and big untrusted parts.
That worked real well in Windows, didn't it? Anyway, it'a already done for Postfix mail, and all those others don't have any 'trusted' parts in most Linux setups.
If Guantanamo is not under US juristiction, then surely it falls under Cuban juristiction. So perhaps we should accept the Cuban rule of law there.
Also: "Enemy Combatants". There is no such classification in international law.
Not being able to run Windows executables on Linux/PPC is a Good Thing(tm). Wine is Methadone to help Windows addicts to shake their habit. Make a clean break, people.
My guess is you have not been abusing your wrists for long enough. It can take a decade or more. It happened to me, and my employer paid for a professional ergonomicist to set me up. Some of the advice was non-intuitive - it's OK, even good, to have unsupported arms, because it's better to move your arms than your wrists. Mouse with your left hand, because a left-mouse is closer to the keyboard home position than a right one is. Use shortcut keys instead of the mouse as much as practicable. Adjust your chair, etc, frequently since there's no one perfect position, and so on.
I there any way we can find out who the lobbying coprporations are, and parade them for public dissaproval? If it's Microsoft, that should kill it dead for most Europeans
From TFA: "... she promptly dumped the useless hunk of sad landfill and bought herself a beautiful new iBook.
And of course, in a year of solid use, she has yet to have a single problem. "
According to your theory, the simple action of getting a Mac seems to have cured her moronity at a stroke. Or almost. She continued to have problems with MS Word.
Business users are not interested in games. In fact, I read a Linux-on-the-desktop case study recently where the suits listed the shortage of games as a big plus for Linux on the desktop. They think thier employeed spend too much time goofing off with Solitaire, or getting their Windows machines deloused by support staff.
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... Running Debian Sarge, of course.
WHo else noticed that the Knowledge Navigator in the video had an invisible hinge running down the middle of the screen?
From TFA: "The Pentium M and Windows XP are pretty expensive components. It would be hard to hit the Mac mini's $499 price point with that combo," wrote IDC's Kay.
So the knockoff will cost as much, or more than, the real thing?
The Debian repository is interesting. So this Linux is Debian based, perhaps?
Seems like not many people around here have experience in writing software for big dynamic websites
XHTML is useful because it's XML. You can manipulate it with standard tools. You can put it in databases and query it down to the individual tag level, You can transform it into WAP or PDF or other formats on the fly. You can validate it without having to write any code. And that's just a few things off the top of my head
BBC America has ads, a lot of them. Looks strange to this transplanted Brit.
So I should write all this stuff for myself? Really? No thanks. Some of the Commons components are annoying, but not as annoying as my done-under-deadline versions. If your stuff is so wonderful, perhaps you might consider contributing some of it? hm?
Agreed. OOo on the Mac is horrible, and not just for Education. NeoOffice fixes that, IMHO.
Jeepers, My slower-than-yours machine, running Mandrake, loads OOo about 3 times as fast, with a ****-load of other stuff running. Maybe FC is not the best distro if you actually want to do stuff?
Sounds like there's something wrong with your setup, if those times are accurate.
Also, if you use Powerpoint a lot, you've read this, right?
They took the photo through a yellow-tinted clean-room window. Taking a camera into a clean room is a lot of work and bother (it has to be, well, cleaned). I think the widows are tinted to prevent UV transmission or something.
'Mandrake' always made me think of the R.A.F. officer in 'Dr. Strangelove'. 'Mandriva', of course, is something a feminist shouts while driving. For the regular expression literate, This is being typed on a (Phoenix|Fire(bird|fox)) browser on a Mandr(ake|iva) GNU/Linux system. Heh.
"Many times, a customer calls me out to fix/clean up a system, only to say "Wow... You didn't really do anything I couldn't have just done myself. This stuff isn't so hard.." :-)
Maybe you should obfuscate it a little bit: Bring up a command prompt early in the process, and type in something arcane like "netstat -an | more", and say "ah, aha" while scrolling through the resulting mess of numbers. It surprising how many UNIX commands also work in out-of-the-box Windows setups.
Have you ever watched a biker get hit by a car? I have. At the moment or impact, bike and rider parted company, so the bike's weight had no further influence, safety-wise. The rider was not seriously hurt, BTW. The full leathers and helmet were a big help.
what is the likelihood you're actually clean? I'd say damn near zero."
Au contraire. For those if us using up-to-date OSX or Linux, the chances of being clean are damn near 1
Linux security hasn't improved in years. It's still about where UNIX was in the 1980s.
No it's not
This looks good only because Microsoft is so awful.
Well, OK.
What's needed is to get behind NSA Security-Enhanced Linux and push.
Are you volunteering yourself, or volunteering on behalf of others?
That worked real well in Windows, didn't it? Anyway, it'a already done for Postfix mail, and all those others don't have any 'trusted' parts in most Linux setups.
If Guantanamo is not under US juristiction, then surely it falls under Cuban juristiction. So perhaps we should accept the Cuban rule of law there.
Also: "Enemy Combatants". There is no such classification in international law.
What make you think they'll still be selling Office in 5 years?
Not being able to run Windows executables on Linux/PPC is a Good Thing(tm). Wine is Methadone to help Windows addicts to shake their habit. Make a clean break, people.
My guess is you have not been abusing your wrists for long enough. It can take a decade or more. It happened to me, and my employer paid for a professional ergonomicist to set me up. Some of the advice was non-intuitive - it's OK, even good, to have unsupported arms, because it's better to move your arms than your wrists. Mouse with your left hand, because a left-mouse is closer to the keyboard home position than a right one is. Use shortcut keys instead of the mouse as much as practicable. Adjust your chair, etc, frequently since there's no one perfect position, and so on.
"My mail happens to be on Exchange (at home too,so flame me)"
OK, I'll bite. Is your Exchange server properly licenced and paid for?
I there any way we can find out who the lobbying coprporations are, and parade them for public dissaproval? If it's Microsoft, that should kill it dead for most Europeans
Erm, too many items I think. Who wants OpenOffice.org, or any other desktop stuff, on HPUX? Anyone?
From TFA: "... she promptly dumped the useless hunk of sad landfill and bought herself a beautiful new iBook.
And of course, in a year of solid use, she has yet to have a single problem. "
According to your theory, the simple action of getting a Mac seems to have cured her moronity at a stroke. Or almost. She continued to have problems with MS Word.
Business users are not interested in games. In fact, I read a Linux-on-the-desktop case study recently where the suits listed the shortage of games as a big plus for Linux on the desktop. They think thier employeed spend too much time goofing off with Solitaire, or getting their Windows machines deloused by support staff.