I couldn't agree more, I'm also in the UK, and on ethis day last year, it was like the world stood still. The only source of information we had has Slashdot, until we found the right point in the office to get a semi-crackly version of Five Live on the radio. The coverage here was measured and responsible, compare and contrast with the sensationalist-tabloid nature of some of the mainstream press coverage at the time. I don't know if it's because it was mostly the usual/. crowd, or if it's because you've got some seriously serious hardware, but you withstood the pressure of all them clicks when CNN et al just collapsed. At the end of my working day, thanks to Slashdot and the BBC, I was pretty well up to speed with what was going on, and was able to fill in a friend we had round for dinner that evening with accurate information. We're Christians, but we normally would just eat and chat when we have a guest. That night we prayed and prayed and prayed for you guys in the States, and for peace. We ill do the same tonight with our cell group.
Just about the only game I play is Asylum MUD. I wonder if this AI would be able to determine what quests I want to do, and remember to snaffle a potion at appropriate times.
I head up the Word Projecttion team at Soul Survivor, and we use Presenter from Discovery Systems in Australia to display the song words. (I'm assuming this is for song display in worship). It's a much better tool than PowerPoint for this job for a few reasons:
It's cheaper;-)
It's designed with this purpose in mind - you have 'random' access within songs, and quick access to other songs should your Worship Leader deviate from his/her songlist.
It allows different displays for control, front of house and foldback
As for the remote control on your Zaurus, go for VNC, you can get it from Zaurus Zone and, of course, it's free.
We have a few Linux users (and more, all being well) on the desktop,with Exchange 5.5 as the company's internal mail server. This actually recludes us using Connector, as it's only available for 2000.
We have no problems, we use IMAP & SMTP for mail, we can access the directry using LDAP, the only thing we can't access is shared calendaring, but we don't care about that;-) (Will be nice when someone writes a free backend calendar server for Evo though - will make it easier for us to propse a wholesale movement away from Exchange)
When we schedule meetings, Outlook users can happily see & use the appointment dobries sent to them in iCal format, although when they do the same to use, Outlook doesn't send them in the right format, so the information just appears as the body of the mail, it's readable though,and trivial to copy/paste into an appointment in your own calendar.
It even handles mails sent in that annoying TNEF format of Outlook's, provided you have an up-to-date version of WINE or gtnef (See bug #232)
There's a very good reason there are 365 [1/4] days in a year...
Assuming you accept that 1 day is the time (however many hours, minutes etc you decide to divide it into) it takes for the earth to make one full revolution on it's axis, then it takes 365 1/4 days for the earth to do one full orbit around the sun.
Hence of course we get three years at 365 then all the quarter days get lumped together to give us a leap year every fourth.
I heard about this a few weeks ago from a friend within one of these companies, who also asked me not to post it until it was announced (ahem!)
Apparently, the initiative has come from IBM here, they're going to call in Universal Business Linux (UBL - quite unfortunate) Word is that SuSE will produce the distro for the other three companies, although at the time, Connectiva weren't in on it.
Basically, what's in it for IBM is this: It reduces the number of distros they have to support to two: Red Hat and UBL
According to discussions on the Galeon development list, a 1.2.3 might appear pretty soon:)
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RC3 still has zero support for anti-aliased fonts.
Not true - the packages for Red Hat that are linked to by mozilla.org don't have it enabled by default. It's easy to enable it by editing the unix.js file in the defaults/pref directory of the Mozilla install tree, and setting these prefs: pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true); pref(font.freetype2.shared-library", "libfreetype.so.6"); // or whatever your freetype library is
Other packages, such as those built for SuSE (get them from ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla) have these enabled by default.
The latest version of Galeon (1.2.2) is not source compatible with Mozilla 1.0rc3 - if you're a Galeon user, wait until 1.2.3 before you upgrade your Mozilla version, otherwise you'll break Galeon.
For any Linux users looking at these cards, remember you can get 3D hardware acceleration on the Radeon with the Open Source drivers, you need to download the closed drivers for the NVidia card...
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You can read SuSE's announcement about this here, along with details of how to get updated SuSE packages.
When I was a first year Comp Sci undergrad (at 20) I decided that the software engineering side of the course wasn't for me, but I knew I was passionate about running boxen. I had connections with a project at another local college and when they asked me to fill in as the tech manager for a month, I threw myself into it.
The amount of time I spent working with that project, and later on the network team at my uni meant I actually ended up failing my degree, but I'd got so much experience that I landed a job as a Senior Techy at another college. Stayed there 6 months before joining SuSE's UK office. When I'd been there about four or five months I was made the Network Manager (read Sys Admin). Stayed in that role for nearly a year before moving on to my current job (title: UNIX System Administrator) with a major insurance company.
There were two key aspects to my becoming an SA:
I decided that that was what I wanted to do, and realised that I needed to get some tech on-job experience
Hubris;) Seriously, I'm capable, which is perhaps the most important thing. Make sure you know how to do the job. Most importantly, do it, treat your systems at home as if they were corporate systems.
I have a lot of respect for RMS on the whole, but he's getting a little over the top on non-free stuff being mentioned in the GNOME summary. Simple fact is there is non-free software out there, we'd prefer that that was not the case, but it is. Some of it is of interest to GNOME users, and deserves to be mentioned.
Not to mention the fact that RMS's definition of Free is far too rigid.
Also, he doesn't half sound full of himself in his submission for election (I did this, and Idecided that...)
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I couldn't agree more, I'm also in the UK, and on ethis day last year, it was like the world stood still. The only source of information we had has Slashdot, until we found the right point in the office to get a semi-crackly version of Five Live on the radio. /. crowd, or if it's because you've got some seriously serious hardware, but you withstood the pressure of all them clicks when CNN et al just collapsed.
The coverage here was measured and responsible, compare and contrast with the sensationalist-tabloid nature of some of the mainstream press coverage at the time.
I don't know if it's because it was mostly the usual
At the end of my working day, thanks to Slashdot and the BBC, I was pretty well up to speed with what was going on, and was able to fill in a friend we had round for dinner that evening with accurate information. We're Christians, but we normally would just eat and chat when we have a guest. That night we prayed and prayed and prayed for you guys in the States, and for peace. We ill do the same tonight with our cell group.
Just about the only game I play is Asylum MUD. I wonder if this AI would be able to determine what quests I want to do, and remember to snaffle a potion at appropriate times.
;-)
If so, it's a better MUDder than I
As for the remote control on your Zaurus, go for VNC, you can get it from Zaurus Zone and, of course, it's free.
OpenFirmware
It's sort of the Mac equivilent of a BIOS if you like
...espcially as most Squids I've seen are about 1U in size! ;-)
We have a few Linux users (and more, all being well) on the desktop ,with Exchange 5.5 as the company's internal mail server. This actually recludes us using Connector, as it's only available for 2000.
;-) (Will be nice when someone writes a free backend calendar server for Evo though - will make it easier for us to propse a wholesale movement away from Exchange)
,and trivial to copy/paste into an appointment in your own calendar.
We have no problems, we use IMAP & SMTP for mail, we can access the directry using LDAP, the only thing we can't access is shared calendaring, but we don't care about that
When we schedule meetings, Outlook users can happily see & use the appointment dobries sent to them in iCal format, although when they do the same to use, Outlook doesn't send them in the right format, so the information just appears as the body of the mail, it's readable though
It even handles mails sent in that annoying TNEF format of Outlook's, provided you have an up-to-date version of WINE or gtnef (See bug #232)
There's a very good reason there are 365 [1/4] days in a year...
Assuming you accept that 1 day is the time (however many hours, minutes etc you decide to divide it into) it takes for the earth to make one full revolution on it's axis, then it takes 365 1/4 days for the earth to do one full orbit around the sun.
Hence of course we get three years at 365 then all the quarter days get lumped together to give us a leap year every fourth.
I heard about this a few weeks ago from a friend within one of these companies, who also asked me not to post it until it was announced (ahem!)
Apparently, the initiative has come from IBM here, they're going to call in Universal Business Linux (UBL - quite unfortunate) Word is that SuSE will produce the distro for the other three companies, although at the time, Connectiva weren't in on it.
Basically, what's in it for IBM is this: It reduces the number of distros they have to support to two: Red Hat and UBL
According to discussions on the Galeon development list, a 1.2.3 might appear pretty soon :)
RC3 still has zero support for anti-aliased fonts.
Not true - the packages for Red Hat that are linked to by mozilla.org don't have it enabled by default. It's easy to enable it by editing the unix.js file in the defaults/pref directory of the Mozilla install tree, and setting these prefs:
pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true);
pref(font.freetype2.shared-library", "libfreetype.so.6");
// or whatever your freetype library is
Other packages, such as those built for SuSE (get them from ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla) have these enabled by default.
The latest version of Galeon (1.2.2) is not source compatible with Mozilla 1.0rc3 - if you're a Galeon user, wait until 1.2.3 before you upgrade your Mozilla version, otherwise you'll break Galeon.
The feeling of BBC Radio Five Live this morning was that acceptable probably meant "edible, but flavourless".
Also, the likelihood is that these will eventually become consumer items too (freeze dried coffee started as a military solution)
No, because 'cp' is a contraction of 'copy', I know a lot of *NIX geeks who pronounce 'cp' 'copy', 'rm' 'remove' and 'mv' 'move'
I'm using it (well, testing it - you never know, the company might go for it)
I have to say it works really well, even Access seemed to work for me (although CodeWeavers say on their site it doesn't)
It was a bit wierd having access to the company's shared calendar after using Evolution for the year that I've worked here.
I don't think I'll use it full-time, but it will be useful occasionally, and I'm sure other people who have to have M$ Office will find it invaluable.
Not, it doesn't mean 34 million new OSS users, the point was that most AOL users don't upgrade to the latest version!
This is nothing to do with the commercial software SuSE includes, Krayon is free software, part of koffice (info on it here)
...a beowulf cluster of these ;)
(Sorry, someone had to say it!)
Last year, a friend of mine used a SuSE 7.0 box to control about 20 sets of Christmas lights all over his house - it was truely schweet!
For any Linux users looking at these cards, remember you can get 3D hardware acceleration on the Radeon with the Open Source drivers, you need to download the closed drivers for the NVidia card...
You can read SuSE's announcement about this here, along with details of how to get updated SuSE packages.
This is apparently due to a bug in gnome-libs, and will be fixed with GNOME 2.0
Specifically the RapidFire 20, 30 bucks from thinkgeek.com
The amount of time I spent working with that project, and later on the network team at my uni meant I actually ended up failing my degree, but I'd got so much experience that I landed a job as a Senior Techy at another college. Stayed there 6 months before joining SuSE's UK office. When I'd been there about four or five months I was made the Network Manager (read Sys Admin). Stayed in that role for nearly a year before moving on to my current job (title: UNIX System Administrator) with a major insurance company.
There were two key aspects to my becoming an SA:
Hope that helps some.
I have a lot of respect for RMS on the whole, but he's getting a little over the top on non-free stuff being mentioned in the GNOME summary. Simple fact is there is non-free software out there, we'd prefer that that was not the case, but it is. Some of it is of interest to GNOME users, and deserves to be mentioned.
Not to mention the fact that RMS's definition of Free is far too rigid.
Also, he doesn't half sound full of himself in his submission for election (I did this, and Idecided that...)
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