Pros: - Free and open source - Web, email, and command line interface - Flexible (I've used for bug tracking, support departments, task and project management, documentation, mailing lists, and more) - Scalable (I've seen it go beyond 100,000 tickets on an average server with no performance hit) - Excellent community (mailing lists, wiki, book, contrib section on the site)
Cons: - Written in Perl, so its a bit tricky to configure and customize
I'm thinking of all those movies that show someone staring at a computer screen which has a picture of an old newspaper on it... That looked so out-of-date every time I saw it. And now it appears that was actually the future. Sci-fi coolness. Oh, well.:)
UltraVNC because their website has a picture of a girl.
Now that was most probably the best software advertising campaign ever. I bet their website got more hits than ever before and probably will ever in the future.
Ok, this is probably as close to social suicide as I can get, but... I saw Gigli, and more than that, I actually liked it. And even more - I liked it in a normal way, not a "This is so bad that it makes it good" way. I've seen worse movies. Honestly. I did.
Get all your software from apt/yum repositories and avoid this problem.:) Everything extra that you need, put into rpm and add it to the local repository.
My current cellphone is I think 3 yrs now and does what it always has been doing, and only what it should. I have no new reason to upgrade, and that's the problem if you make cellphones; once you sold eveyone one (sort of speak) you need to get them to upgrade even though the phones still work.
If you don't see reasons to upgrade, it doesn't mean that they do not exist.:) As an example, if you phone has been made more then 3 years ago, it does not most probably support MP3/OGG or at least a polymorphic rintones. That might not be an issue for you, but peope who work around you do (believe me) get really annoyed at the time your phone rings. I didn't think about it until this phones showed up. Most people at our office have MP3 ringtones now and I don't even notice when their phones ring. It's just a piece of music coming from somewhere. Those people who still use all phones do distruct me from the things I do.
Another reason might the support for all sorts of different ways of communications. I mean nowadays you pretty much expect for a person to have an email address. When someone does not have email it kind of feels limiting. Same goes for modern phones. I do expect people to have SMS and MMS support. When they don't - I feel it, because most people do.
Yet another reason might be totally unknown to you. When I bought my SonyEricsson P800 I was thinking that I have all the functionality in the world plus some more. It was one year and two weeks ago. Now I think that it barely covers what I need. I know few things that I would appreciate in the phone, but I can live without them. For now. What I am saying is that you don't always know what you need until you have it. Sometimes you have to go as far as even lose it after you had it...
That's quiet a statement.:) Are you aware of Motorola A760, which is a Linux powered device? Have you tried all of the interfaces out there? I mean I work for a company that provides services for mobile phones (ringtones, SMS, MMS, etc), but I cannot say that I am familiar with all of them...:)
Everyone seems to be complaining that 35 phone models seem to be far too many. However Nokia has to offer phones for different providers to be able to compete. They've always offered one or two CDMA phones and they continue to do so, an increase here would likely account for the high number of new phones.
The problem I guess is not with the 35 phone models. The problem is with absense of satisfaction from a hell of a lot of people. And I do mean "regular" users too. Have you ever thought about how different is one Nokia phone from another? Of course, there are few models that do look differently, like the NGage-sidetalker or 7650 or their Communicator model. But these are exceptions...
Basically, the problem is that there is a unlimited number of functions that can be added to a mobile phone. Even regular users don't know which one they need at the time they buy their phone. When I was considering buying SE P800 I was not sure that I really needed that phone. It did cover everything I needed and it did offer a lot more. I bought it 1 year and 2 weeks ago. It's not enough for me anymore. But it's the best out there at the moment.
But the real problem is that it was not enough for me for the last 9 month. I have the money to buy pretty much any phone that I want. But there is no better one. And that's the problem. When I hear that Nokia is about to unleash another 35 models for me to go through in the hope of finding the one that I need, I get angry, because I am about 99% sure that they will not make a phone that I need.
Actually, when you have a potential customer base that are not satisfied with your product is not as bad as having a customer base that is unsatisfied in your product AND which knows exactly what is missing. You get people who are REALLY pissed off.
Here is a specific list of things I want from my mobile which I expect in the something-similar-to-SE-P900 body:
Everything that P900 has now, including full MP3/OGG support both for playback, alarm sounds, and ringtones.
Unlimited memory expansion. SE PX00 series use Sony Memory Stick Duo, which is pretty much limited to a 128/256 MBytes (maybe a bit more now). Compact Flash on the other hand is measured in GBytes now. I want to use it instead.
Radio within the phone. There is an external thingy for P800/P900, but it's not exactly what is needed.
Expansion slot. So that I can stick in a GPS card, WiFi or even more memory when I need it. Or anything else they didn't think about when they were making a phone
The annoying part is that all the needed technologies do exist on their own. It's just that for some reason noone cares on working in putting all of them into a single body. And I think I know the reason...:)
imagine of MS was doing what Google is doing. People would be screaming bloody murder and citing the reason I cited above. Sort of sad really....
I don't think that it is sad. When you have Mike Tyson kicking ass in an average school - that is not surprising. But if you will have a second grader kick Mike Tyson's butt you'll have a sensation. At the end of the day, it was just a beating of one man by another. Now, I am too drunk to apply this analogy to Google vs MS doing the same thing, but I hope you can do it.:)
it assumes you have terminals with a black background
Don't you?:) Programs that assume that white background-ed terminals are the biggest annoyence. I myself have only seen white (or other light) backgrounds in GUIs, never in text mode. I know that that is possible, but who does it?:)
Yet another CMS/blogging piece of software that noone mentioned is Nucleus CMS. It's a GPLed piece of PHP software that works with MySQL and provides the usual array of functionality. It has a very flexible template system which is skinnable too. It also has a variety of plugins, which can extend the functionality even further. All usual stuff is supported - RSS, comment control, antispam, weahter, and blah blah blah.
A couple of month ago I've migrated from to it from a homemade halfbaked script that I used and I am a happy man. But I don't need much, so you better check it out for yourself.:)
When I was in college and all my money went down on beer, I had to teach individual computer lessons to survive. Parents of one of my students had a food business (cooking at home, then delivering orders, and selling the rest in the shop). Although there was a fixed monetary charge, they still couldn't let me out of the place before feeding me to death. It was a good bonus and very appropriate. And I was lucky enough, cause they were good cooks.:)
Fixing computers, on the other hand, is mostly a one time job and results in random ways of payment - from nothing, through beer, to paychecks. There are no limits, really.
I am not sure about Atlantis, but this article will sure help a lot of people to find Cyprus.:) I didn't know where it was until the plane that I was on landed here.
P.S.: A story on Slashdot about a place where I live - a middle of nowhere - WOW!:) JFYI, Cyprus will become a part of European Union in just about 2.5 hours.
P.P.S.: My boss's house is called "Atlantis". Are they sure they know what they are talking about?:)
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I'm a big fan of rt3 ( http://bestpractical.com/rt ).
Pros:
- Free and open source
- Web, email, and command line interface
- Flexible (I've used for bug tracking, support departments, task and project management, documentation, mailing lists, and more)
- Scalable (I've seen it go beyond 100,000 tickets on an average server with no performance hit)
- Excellent community (mailing lists, wiki, book, contrib section on the site)
Cons:
- Written in Perl, so its a bit tricky to configure and customize
Give it a try.
Can I please have some of what this guy is smoking?
You need to go to Europe ;)
I'm thinking of all those movies that show someone staring at a computer screen which has a picture of an old newspaper on it... That looked so out-of-date every time I saw it. And now it appears that was actually the future. Sci-fi coolness. Oh, well. :)
The title is a bit hard to understand for non-native English speakers. Does it really say that they found some shit with a piece of ass in it? :)
- What is worse than a thousand dead baby bodies piled up together? :)
- One alive baby boy eating his way up.
What, you mean like for 2 hands? :)
This recent post at Politech seems to be on the subject. It has a few alternatives and explains the pros and cons of some of them.
Now that was most probably the best software advertising campaign ever. I bet their website got more hits than ever before and probably will ever in the future.
Yup. Jenifer's talk is nice though. ;-)
Ok, this is probably as close to social suicide as I can get, but... I saw Gigli, and more than that, I actually liked it. And even more - I liked it in a normal way, not a "This is so bad that it makes it good" way. I've seen worse movies. Honestly. I did.
Driving on the wrong side? :)
Sorry, just couldn't resist.
True.
$ links -dump http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_race | grep first | grep USSR | wc -l
9
$ links -dump http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_race | grep first | grep USA | wc -l
5
USSR:USA - 9:5. Oh, and USSR gets another 3 points which I missed due to "as above" thingy. 12:5.
Get all your software from apt/yum repositories and avoid this problem. :) Everything extra that you need, put into rpm and add it to the local repository.
[me@here dir]$ locate libmonkey1316-3.so
/lib/libmonkey1316-3.so /lib/libmonkey1316-3.so
[me@here dir]$ rpm -qf
libmonkey-1316-3
This and few other useful tricks are described in my Practical RPM blog post.
If you don't see reasons to upgrade, it doesn't mean that they do not exist. :) As an example, if you phone has been made more then 3 years ago, it does not most probably support MP3/OGG or at least a polymorphic rintones. That might not be an issue for you, but peope who work around you do (believe me) get really annoyed at the time your phone rings. I didn't think about it until this phones showed up. Most people at our office have MP3 ringtones now and I don't even notice when their phones ring. It's just a piece of music coming from somewhere. Those people who still use all phones do distruct me from the things I do.
Another reason might the support for all sorts of different ways of communications. I mean nowadays you pretty much expect for a person to have an email address. When someone does not have email it kind of feels limiting. Same goes for modern phones. I do expect people to have SMS and MMS support. When they don't - I feel it, because most people do.
Yet another reason might be totally unknown to you. When I bought my SonyEricsson P800 I was thinking that I have all the functionality in the world plus some more. It was one year and two weeks ago. Now I think that it barely covers what I need. I know few things that I would appreciate in the phone, but I can live without them. For now. What I am saying is that you don't always know what you need until you have it. Sometimes you have to go as far as even lose it after you had it...
That's quiet a statement. :) Are you aware of Motorola A760, which is a Linux powered device? Have you tried all of the interfaces out there? I mean I work for a company that provides services for mobile phones (ringtones, SMS, MMS, etc), but I cannot say that I am familiar with all of them... :)
The problem I guess is not with the 35 phone models. The problem is with absense of satisfaction from a hell of a lot of people. And I do mean "regular" users too. Have you ever thought about how different is one Nokia phone from another? Of course, there are few models that do look differently, like the NGage-sidetalker or 7650 or their Communicator model. But these are exceptions...
Basically, the problem is that there is a unlimited number of functions that can be added to a mobile phone. Even regular users don't know which one they need at the time they buy their phone. When I was considering buying SE P800 I was not sure that I really needed that phone. It did cover everything I needed and it did offer a lot more. I bought it 1 year and 2 weeks ago. It's not enough for me anymore. But it's the best out there at the moment.
But the real problem is that it was not enough for me for the last 9 month. I have the money to buy pretty much any phone that I want. But there is no better one. And that's the problem. When I hear that Nokia is about to unleash another 35 models for me to go through in the hope of finding the one that I need, I get angry, because I am about 99% sure that they will not make a phone that I need.
Actually, when you have a potential customer base that are not satisfied with your product is not as bad as having a customer base that is unsatisfied in your product AND which knows exactly what is missing. You get people who are REALLY pissed off.
Here is a specific list of things I want from my mobile which I expect in the something-similar-to-SE-P900 body:
The annoying part is that all the needed technologies do exist on their own. It's just that for some reason noone cares on working in putting all of them into a single body. And I think I know the reason... :)
I don't think that it is sad. When you have Mike Tyson kicking ass in an average school - that is not surprising. But if you will have a second grader kick Mike Tyson's butt you'll have a sensation. At the end of the day, it was just a beating of one man by another. Now, I am too drunk to apply this analogy to Google vs MS doing the same thing, but I hope you can do it.
Don't you?
Well, they do provide trainig. They just don't give out certificates on those. :)
Yet another CMS/blogging piece of software that noone mentioned is Nucleus CMS. It's a GPLed piece of PHP software that works with MySQL and provides the usual array of functionality. It has a very flexible template system which is skinnable too. It also has a variety of plugins, which can extend the functionality even further. All usual stuff is supported - RSS, comment control, antispam, weahter, and blah blah blah.
:)
A couple of month ago I've migrated from to it from a homemade halfbaked script that I used and I am a happy man. But I don't need much, so you better check it out for yourself.
When I was in college and all my money went down on beer, I had to teach individual computer lessons to survive. Parents of one of my students had a food business (cooking at home, then delivering orders, and selling the rest in the shop). Although there was a fixed monetary charge, they still couldn't let me out of the place before feeding me to death. It was a good bonus and very appropriate. And I was lucky enough, cause they were good cooks. :)
Fixing computers, on the other hand, is mostly a one time job and results in random ways of payment - from nothing, through beer, to paychecks. There are no limits, really.
You might want to contact MIT and ask around, since they were/are doing a lot of what you need. Check out their MIT OpenCourseWare.
:)
Maybe you can also convince your professors to use their notes - than it's just a simple wget job for you.
P.S.: A story on Slashdot about a place where I live - a middle of nowhere - WOW!
P.P.S.: My boss's house is called "Atlantis". Are they sure they know what they are talking about?
...and that is "How Slashdot works". :)