I was once at a lan party at and we were playing Joint Operations and specifically the map where you're in a shipping yard by the sea. I was climbing up the ladder of a shipping crane and I kept feeling this breeze on me. I thought wow this is realistic. I was so engrosed in the game I didn't realise there was a fan behind me!
Personally for me what I look for in a good Calendaring solution is something that is in a digital format(allows for easy editing and provision to have data backed up).
However, I also want this to be mobile as often I want to access such information when I'm driving somewhere (where was that place I'm meant to be going to at 1pm again?). Or at other times when I'm going somewhere and don't want to lug a huge laptop.
I guess everyone's different but for my requirements my Palm Zire does pretty well. It's also pretty cheap.
I find the Palm Desktop software to be pretty adequate and there is reasonably good open source palm software around too.
IMHO the ultimate would be storing all contacts, to-do, and calendaring data on a mobile phone style device. However at present the current interfaces to these either make the mobile the size of a PDA anyway or have input methods that take to long to enter data and are frustrating.
I guess in the future it may be possible, perhaps with voice input it might get rid of the frustrating sms-style keyboards.... who knows....
"somehow modified a windows host file so that when you type in the correct url in the address, it redirects you to the phisher site"
I'd say lmhosts file was the somehow.
I did the same thing to redirect my boss to a fake spoof website of our company's with Mr T. on it for April Fools last year.;-)
What's stopping people you know switching to linux?
I think the contributing factors are:
1. There are windows apps they still need to run I know that you can use wine to run lots of these but let's face it some people aren't that technically adept.
2. The change to linux is too large a change for lots of windows users. It means for them changing their O/S and all their applications there can be a lot of re-learning needed.
3. Lots of games are developed for windows not linux. However this is changing which is great to see.
4. Not much auto-detection. It lacks the auto-detect functionality that windows users already get and some can't live without. You plug in a usb scanner to windows and it does exciting things plug it into linux and people think what happens now? PCMCIA support is the worst offender. Yes I do realise this is getting better.
Imagine if all the apps that these kinds of users used were all ones that ran exactly the same on linux. It'd be easier for them to switch to linux once all the apps they needed ran on it. It's really just a staged migration strategy.
Sometimes geeks shoot themselves in the foot saying I'm not going to port my open-source app to windows, let the windows users suffer. They seriously kid themselves and think that a windows user is going to cry just because they can't run openWhatever and go running to linux.
Let's face it the average windows user is just going to find something else to do what they wanted to do and commercial software companies will just write an app and charge $$$ to do it, which will then further delay a linux migration and mean more retraining should they ever move to linux.
There are some silly ideas people have and this is just one of them. To some people linux is fantastic and they can't understand why everyone's not runing it. If you make it simple for people to use and simple for people to migrate to then they'll run away from Bill and towards Tux.
If applications a user wanted were on windows and linux why would someone pay $$$ for windows when linux is free?
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Under linux/unix:
1. mount CIFS share
2. run updatedb
3. run locate/slocate
Under Windows:
1. Do the above with cygwin
Other Options:
Locate32
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Hi,
Firstly if you're looking for opensource app replacements you can always try www.osalt.com.
Personally I'd try:
Photoshop: GIMP or GIMPShop or Krita
Illustrator: Inkscape or XaraXtreme
InDesign: scribus
Dreamweaver: KompoZer or Aptana or seamonkey or Amaya or href="http://net2.com/nvu/">NVU
I also found this website which might help: www.thefreesuite.com
Here are the relevant OSalt links:
photoshop
illustrator
indesign
dreamweaver
I was once at a lan party at and we were playing Joint Operations and specifically the map where you're in a shipping yard by the sea. I was climbing up the ladder of a shipping crane and I kept feeling this breeze on me. I thought wow this is realistic. I was so engrosed in the game I didn't realise there was a fan behind me!
Personally for me what I look for in a good Calendaring solution is something that is in a digital format(allows for easy editing and provision to have data backed up).
However, I also want this to be mobile as often I want to access such information when I'm driving somewhere (where was that place I'm meant to be going to at 1pm again?). Or at other times when I'm going somewhere and don't want to lug a huge laptop.
I guess everyone's different but for my requirements my Palm Zire does pretty well. It's also pretty cheap.
I find the Palm Desktop software to be pretty adequate and there is reasonably good open source palm software around too.
IMHO the ultimate would be storing all contacts, to-do, and calendaring data on a mobile phone style device. However at present the current interfaces to these either make the mobile the size of a PDA anyway or have input methods that take to long to enter data and are frustrating.
I guess in the future it may be possible, perhaps with voice input it might get rid of the frustrating sms-style keyboards.... who knows....
um.. If this was to happen wouldn't pirates just pirate the patches and service packs as well?
"somehow modified a windows host file so that when you type in the correct url in the address, it redirects you to the phisher site" I'd say lmhosts file was the somehow. I did the same thing to redirect my boss to a fake spoof website of our company's with Mr T. on it for April Fools last year. ;-)
What's stopping people you know switching to linux?
I think the contributing factors are:
1. There are windows apps they still need to run
I know that you can use wine to run lots of these but let's face it some people aren't that technically adept.
2. The change to linux is too large a change for lots of windows users. It means for them changing their O/S and all their applications there can be a lot of re-learning needed.
3. Lots of games are developed for windows not linux. However this is changing which is great to see.
4. Not much auto-detection. It lacks the auto-detect functionality that windows users already get and some can't live without. You plug in a usb scanner to windows and it does exciting things plug it into linux and people think what happens now? PCMCIA support is the worst offender.
Yes I do realise this is getting better.
Imagine if all the apps that these kinds of users used were all ones that ran exactly the same on linux. It'd be easier for them to switch to linux once all the apps they needed ran on it. It's really just a staged migration strategy.
Sometimes geeks shoot themselves in the foot saying I'm not going to port my open-source app to windows, let the windows users suffer. They seriously kid themselves and think that a windows user is going to cry just because they can't run openWhatever and go running to linux.
Let's face it the average windows user is just going to find something else to do what they wanted to do and commercial software companies will just write an app and charge $$$ to do it, which will then further delay a linux migration and mean more retraining should they ever move to linux.
There are some silly ideas people have and this is just one of them. To some people linux is fantastic and they can't understand why everyone's not runing it. If you make it simple for people to use and simple for people to migrate to then they'll run away from Bill and towards Tux.
If applications a user wanted were on windows and linux why would someone pay $$$ for windows when linux is free?