2. OpenOffice fully supports Microsoft Office file formats.
for recent values of "fully". OOo 1.1.2 does not open Excel v.4, or Word 5.1 for Mac. We have a substantial amount of those files here, admin and teaching staff. Yes, Excel4 and Word 5 still run fine under Classic mode in OS-X, and save us the tyranny of Norton's AntiVirus.
OK, you could quibble about the color scheme or typeface, but,
the real problem is the admin schema wasn't built for use with a GUI. Real Men just
man lpadmin
and tap away at the terminal. In the case of MacOS-X which I use, and a lot of posters here have claimed is so easy, the root account is not enabled by default. Much CUPS admin requires su privileges. The web interface at 127.0.0.1:631 seems to operate with current user privileges. It is necessary to sudo edit cupsd.conf to comment out 2 lines to enable any user at the local keyboard to add/modify their own printers.
Cups comes with a good list of printer drivers, but to connect to the various printers I have used in the past 3 years I have needed also: foomatic, hpijs, and ppds downloaded from the maker's site. Once you've located the driver/ppd you then need to know the correct syntax to manually enter the address of your printer, depending on how it connects, IP-lpr, USB, appletalk, etc.
Sure, this is mostly pretty well covered in the on-line help. There's a total of 13 docs installed on my machine in both.html and.pdf, and it's easy(?) to decide that what I want will be in one of 3, Users', Admin, or Programmers' Manual, each on average 100 pages. Don't get me wrong, I've made it work, that's my day job;-) The gui's not bad, the system works well when it works. I have an ancient Appletalk printer on an OS9 Mac shared to several OS-X Macs, I doubt could have been done without CUPS.
But the underlying engine is Open Source *nix, it's visible thru the GUI, and somebody else said above, it's not Aunt Tillie's cup of tea.
I've always just tweaked the cupsd.conf file and added the printer (s)in the web interface. No major biggy there.
Now isn't that just the smugness of your typical *nix user;-)
If we're talking about the CUPS GUI here, why should there be any need to
sudo [vi | emacs | pico]/etc/cups/cupsd.conf
then scroll right down the bottom to comment out 2 lines before the web interface will let you do anything to add or modify printers? Oh, sorry, you're on one of those Linux where you always log in as root and everything Just Works (TM)
It's Java driven, resizes it too small so scroll bars appear, hides their own site copyright notice;-) & hides a hideous pustular blood colored background. Just plain sick page design...
Whose EULA? I have yet to see someone attempting to use EULAs on a DVD player (or DVD movie for that matter).
WARNING: This digital video disc is sold on the condition that it is not
blah blah blah
Now the MPAA may find shooting p2p fish in a barrel easier than chasing folks who rip a DVD in the privacy of their home and hand it to a neighbour on a Sunday morning, but it's still the same EULA violation.
IANAL, YMMV, HAND,...
If I read this right (which is not guaranteed this early in the morning), only hacked devices would be revoked.
It seems to better and worse than that. Your player may not be stopped at all. But a new DVD can contain a list of old disks which are to be no longer playable because some kid stole a key off one. see Advanced Access Content System: Pre-recorded Video Book, Chapter 2
see Figure 1-1 page 2 (12) of the Advanced Access Content System: Pre-recorded Video Book.
It's your job as user to figure out if your player is still licenced.
Now that's not to deny enterprising souls the right to devise methods to play it on unlicensed players, but there may be some fine print about such methods violating your EULA with the content provider...
Quality digital content is a key driver that makes consumers embrace new services. You invest billions in your pipes and cables and satellites but without content you have empty pipes and boxes.... and Tony Soprano couldn't have put it better. "Nice content-carrying pipes you've got here. What a shame if anything were to happen to them... "
Excuse me Mr **AA, where's your content? The kids want product and they're gonna download it from wherever. I2 pipes, or even I2 styled pipes outside of the academic network, are ideal for this. I'll hazard a guess that most of the p2p downloaders would pay for a guaranteed quality file, over the distinctly spotty quality of some of the crap out there. Your duty, Mr **AA, to the consumers of the world is to provide quality content at affordable prices. Otherwise you'll just end up chasing fire engines...
Welcome to the club;-) I suspect you're not a US citizen because an admission like that would get you locked away.
But after reading TFA I wonder what happens to people like us when Nielsen stumbles across us. Are we really such a small number we are statistically insignificant? Maybe people without TV are a prime target market for some merchandiser. Or do Nielsen lie, and pretend we don't exist?
There is no such thing as a "good upstream DNS server".
True, but some are more "reliable" than others.
If you want to resolve queries you need to run a DNS cache, use your ISP's,...
First part, yes. Second part, don't rely on your ISP alone, specially if he's giving you a DNS address via DHCP. At the first sign of shit, hardwire a more reliable one.
The "politic worms" that Polonius supped with, or rather who supped on him (Hamlet, IV:iii) seemed to be maggots. Perhaps a more apropriate but less photogenic icon?
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The "Sad Mac Chimes" varied with models.
You youngsters disappoint me, gloating over 12 yr old Eggs when you should be diggin' a whole crop of new ones out of OS-X
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The earliest Mac easter egg that I remember was one that got the dog-cow to say Moof on the Page Setup dialogs circa early system 7 and a hidden break-out game that also dates from the early system 7 era.
The earliest that really impressed me was the IIci rom colour photo of the development team. But a cow-orker deflated me by pointing out the mountain-valley that had been in Finder since day one.
Probably any video clip. It's not just Word, it's the whole Windows-IE-whatever tie up.
We installed QuickTime Player in all our XP boxes, because I have a QuickTime Streaming Server. I just know someone's gonna fork the thread on what a crock that is, but it came free with the X-Serve, a doddle to configure, and it just works outta the box. All the Macs round here link directly via.qtl,.smil, or even href=rtsp://
On the Win-XP boxen QT Player's preferences were being overwritten by the system, IE, WMP, Real Player, and any patch or update. There's a check box in QT Prefs: "Warn me if any application atttempts to overwrite QuickTime Preferences". We have that checked, it's easier to deal with a few confused lusers than be forever force feeding the correct Prefs...
Do you need anti-virus for OS-X? Short answer, no. Longer answer, the current version of Symantec's product for OS-X is a p.i.t.a. but you will probably need it if you are in a production environment with Windows machines, sharing MS Office files, or forced to use IE for access to servers. NAV won't protect your Mac-OS from anything, will cause a heap of annoyance, but it may save you from the accusation of spreading social diseases.
And it's not just Windows developers. I've just had the misfortune to install some upgrades to sound editing apps on MacOS-10.3 machines. Some would install as any user, making their app available for all users, and any user can write to/Library/ApplicationSupport/foo. Some, as expected, required an admin authorisation before the installer would run. And one ornery critter could only be installed by root.
Looks like the same old story, the black hats are always a step or two ahead of the whitehats...
Sounds a bit like ours. Relatively dumb HVAC controllers, each building has local fall-back, network failure != building failure. All on their own VLAN on the common fibre. It is coupled to the room booking system, if a room is booked HVAC looks after it. Lighting for lecture theatres, etc, has occupancy sensors and the dreaded 30 minute cutoff, but this does not apply to toilets, stairs or faculty staff offices.
Security? You can hack anything if you want to... Switch/routers and a solid campus firewall mean nothing (almost;-) gets in or out of that VLAN. The reason it's not linked to Finance for billing is that the accounts run on PeopleSoft, & we have a small army constantly battling to get that to interface to any normal system...
OK I read TFA, in French, before I noticed the translation, somewhat Babelfishian. One comment from TFA adverse to Google is that the adverts down the side will direct readers to purchase AngloSaxon/WestAtlantic goods & services. The original author is not IMHO a frequent Googler. It has been my pleasant experience to observe a high proportion of adverts for SouthWestPacific products on my page, targeted by a simple reverse lookup on my IPnr.
Of course it could be a) Google is anti-European and not targeting that market with its own products, or
b) French advertisers are anti-Google and not seizing the opportunity.
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PC Pro who interestingly claim the best business model for a download site is allofmp3.com, and their choice of player is the Rio Carbon.
2. OpenOffice fully supports Microsoft Office file formats.
for recent values of "fully". OOo 1.1.2 does not open Excel v.4, or Word 5.1 for Mac. We have a substantial amount of those files here, admin and teaching staff. Yes, Excel4 and Word 5 still run fine under Classic mode in OS-X, and save us the tyranny of Norton's AntiVirus.
the real problem is the admin schema wasn't built for use with a GUI. Real Men just and tap away at the terminal. In the case of MacOS-X which I use, and a lot of posters here have claimed is so easy, the root account is not enabled by default. Much CUPS admin requires su privileges. The web interface at 127.0.0.1:631 seems to operate with current user privileges. It is necessary to sudo edit cupsd.conf to comment out 2 lines to enable any user at the local keyboard to add/modify their own printers.
Cups comes with a good list of printer drivers, but to connect to the various printers I have used in the past 3 years I have needed also: foomatic, hpijs, and ppds downloaded from the maker's site. Once you've located the driver/ppd you then need to know the correct syntax to manually enter the address of your printer, depending on how it connects, IP-lpr, USB, appletalk, etc.
Sure, this is mostly pretty well covered in the on-line help. There's a total of 13 docs installed on my machine in both
But the underlying engine is Open Source *nix, it's visible thru the GUI, and somebody else said above, it's not Aunt Tillie's cup of tea.
Now isn't that just the smugness of your typical *nix user
If we're talking about the CUPS GUI here, why should there be any need to
then scroll right down the bottom to comment out 2 lines before the web interface will let you do anything to add or modify printers? Oh, sorry, you're on one of those Linux where you always log in as root and everything Just Works (TM)
It's Java driven, resizes it too small so scroll bars appear, hides their own site copyright notice ;-) & hides a hideous pustular blood colored background. Just plain sick page design...
Check coverage from the link above, click on [Find Businesses around this HotSpot]
Yeah, right
Now the MPAA may find shooting p2p fish in a barrel easier than chasing folks who rip a DVD in the privacy of their home and hand it to a neighbour on a Sunday morning, but it's still the same EULA violation.
IANAL, YMMV, HAND,
If I read this right (which is not guaranteed this early in the morning), only hacked devices would be revoked.
It seems to better and worse than that. Your player may not be stopped at all. But a new DVD can contain a list of old disks which are to be no longer playable because some kid stole a key off one. see Advanced Access Content System: Pre-recorded Video Book, Chapter 2
see Figure 1-1 page 2 (12) of the Advanced Access Content System: Pre-recorded Video Book.
It's your job as user to figure out if your player is still licenced.
Now that's not to deny enterprising souls the right to devise methods to play it on unlicensed players, but there may be some fine print about such methods violating your EULA with the content provider...
extending the story below. I liked the bit about
...
Quality digital content is a key driver that makes consumers embrace new services. You invest billions in your pipes and cables and satellites but without content you have empty pipes and boxes.... and Tony Soprano couldn't have put it better. "Nice content-carrying pipes you've got here. What a shame if anything were to happen to them... "
Excuse me Mr **AA, where's your content? The kids want product and they're gonna download it from wherever. I2 pipes, or even I2 styled pipes outside of the academic network, are ideal for this. I'll hazard a guess that most of the p2p downloaders would pay for a guaranteed quality file, over the distinctly spotty quality of some of the crap out there. Your duty, Mr **AA, to the consumers of the world is to provide quality content at affordable prices. Otherwise you'll just end up chasing fire engines
From the article:
Can everything with sound be coded, I asked? ''Yes,'' Morris said. Will everything with sound be coded? ''Yes,'' he said.
Welcome to the club ;-) I suspect you're not a US citizen because an admission like that would get you locked away.
But after reading TFA I wonder what happens to people like us when Nielsen stumbles across us. Are we really such a small number we are statistically insignificant? Maybe people without TV are a prime target market for some merchandiser. Or do Nielsen lie, and pretend we don't exist?
My guess is it'll be virus ridden, and crash often.
The Mon Calamari speak Basic...
There is no such thing as a "good upstream DNS server".
...
True, but some are more "reliable" than others.
If you want to resolve queries you need to run a DNS cache, use your ISP's,
First part, yes. Second part, don't rely on your ISP alone, specially if he's giving you a DNS address via DHCP. At the first sign of shit, hardwire a more reliable one.
The "politic worms" that Polonius supped with, or rather who supped on him (Hamlet, IV:iii) seemed to be maggots. Perhaps a more apropriate but less photogenic icon?
The "Sad Mac Chimes" varied with models.
You youngsters disappoint me, gloating over 12 yr old Eggs when you should be diggin' a whole crop of new ones out of OS-X
The earliest that really impressed me was the IIci rom colour photo of the development team. But a cow-orker deflated me by pointing out the mountain-valley that had been in Finder since day one.
Good list at Eggs Uncovered
Probably any video clip. It's not just Word, it's the whole Windows-IE-whatever tie up.
.qtl, .smil, or even href=rtsp://
We installed QuickTime Player in all our XP boxes, because I have a QuickTime Streaming Server. I just know someone's gonna fork the thread on what a crock that is, but it came free with the X-Serve, a doddle to configure, and it just works outta the box. All the Macs round here link directly via
On the Win-XP boxen QT Player's preferences were being overwritten by the system, IE, WMP, Real Player, and any patch or update. There's a check box in QT Prefs: "Warn me if any application atttempts to overwrite QuickTime Preferences". We have that checked, it's easier to deal with a few confused lusers than be forever force feeding the correct Prefs...
hehe, check your own TOS dude, before posting like that...
Do you need anti-virus for OS-X? Short answer, no.
Longer answer, the current version of Symantec's product for OS-X is a p.i.t.a. but you will probably need it if you are in a production environment with Windows machines, sharing MS Office files, or forced to use IE for access to servers. NAV won't protect your Mac-OS from anything, will cause a heap of annoyance, but it may save you from the accusation of spreading social diseases.
And it's not just Windows developers. I've just had the misfortune to install some upgrades to sound editing apps on MacOS-10.3 machines. Some would install as any user, making their app available for all users, and any user can write to /Library/ApplicationSupport/foo.
Some, as expected, required an admin authorisation before the installer would run. And one ornery critter could only be installed by root.
Looks like the same old story, the black hats are always a step or two ahead of the whitehats...
when 11 hours after the post they're still /.ed from folks just doing a page lookup??
Sounds a bit like ours. Relatively dumb HVAC controllers, each building has local fall-back, network failure != building failure. All on their own VLAN on the common fibre. It is coupled to the room booking system, if a room is booked HVAC looks after it. Lighting for lecture theatres, etc, has occupancy sensors and the dreaded 30 minute cutoff, but this does not apply to toilets, stairs or faculty staff offices.
;-) gets in or out of that VLAN. The reason it's not linked to Finance for billing is that the accounts run on PeopleSoft, & we have a small army constantly battling to get that to interface to any normal system...
Security? You can hack anything if you want to... Switch/routers and a solid campus firewall mean nothing (almost
Nah mate, 'swritten in Strine. Groklaw it ain't, and while I was gigglin' I wondered what would happen when it hit the eastern shore of the Pacific...
OK I read TFA, in French, before I noticed the translation, somewhat Babelfishian. One comment from TFA adverse to Google is that the adverts down the side will direct readers to purchase AngloSaxon/WestAtlantic goods & services. The original author is not IMHO a frequent Googler. It has been my pleasant experience to observe a high proportion of adverts for SouthWestPacific products on my page, targeted by a simple reverse lookup on my IPnr.
Of course it could be a) Google is anti-European and not targeting that market with its own products, or
b) French advertisers are anti-Google and not seizing the opportunity.