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Set the limited time to 20 hours instead of 20 years...
It would be really nice if OpenOffice imitated the UI of Office 2004 for OS X or Abiword for OS X. It's very good. Here's a screen shot.
It would also rock if they dropped the current UI toolkit and switched to wxWidgets or QT. Then it would finally feel responsive and look native. Same for Mozilla.
Whenever you need network access, just run that image. If it gets pWn3d (by hackers or MS genuine advantage or whatever), just overwrite it with your backup image.
Ever hear of snapshots? I love that feature in VMWare. I can do whatever I want to that image, even purposely install viruses or spyware. Then all I have to do is hit "revert" and it's all back to normal. It takes only a few seconds.
You're the one that made choice to lock your data into a platform made by a company that does not care about it's customers. "wgatool" should have been enough of a warning. If something goes wrong, tough shit. It's not like there aren't alternatives. 98, 2000, XP and Vista run very well under VMWare for running apps, btw.
She has an ADSL router modem and since the IP address changes frequently I have put a link on her desktop to a site which will tell her what the IP address of her machine is.
You know that there are services like DynDNS that provide free domains? There are programs available to automatically update the domain when the ip changes. This way you could have something like grannyscomp.dyndns.org and it will always work.
The ntfs-3g driver works very well. The downside, though, it's it's not very fast. Do a rsync (or just a large copy) to an NTFS partition and your processor usage will go up to the 90s. System performance takes a serious hit.
Come back when Microsoft opens up NTFS or Active Directory, okay? Or even when Microsoft has 100% support for ODF, as a default option, out of the box.
It's also pretty obvious when you use one. Besides all the useless videos playing, touch one of the buttons and it takes over a second for it to even acknowledge it. They must be written very badly. The OS2 ones worked instantly.
Kuro5hin is still good, though. It's not as active as before, but it does have original articles added every few days. Plus I like the diaries feature.
My Athlon 64 (running 32 Ubuntu) loads Gnome in about half the time it takes to load KDE. My Core 2 Duo (running 64-bit Fedora Core 6) is the same. Both have 2GB of memory, and both are using SATA drives.
That's much higher than even Visual Studio. wxWidgets is $0 and is under the LGPL. DialogBlocks (gui builder for wxWidgets) is $70/developer and can be used on as many computers as the developer uses.
It's been called wxWidgets for a few years now. Microsoft made them change the name, but they did pay for their new domains.
I do like wxWidgets and have done a good amount of development in it (C++ and Perl). It's really worth learning if you need to support more than one platform.
Well, Novell's behavior has influenced my use of Evolution. It's been my email client for over 3 years now, but now I'm having to adjust to Thunderbird.
Government shouldn't turn a profit. It should, however, take in as much as it spends. It should also be as efficient as possible with the money it has (like that will ever happen...). The current administration can't grasp that simple concept.
There's no equivalent and in Europe and anytime I drive in the US it always strikes me how disciplined and courteous drivers are at 4 way stop signs.
What area's are you talking about? I rarely see people being disciplined and courteous on the road, especially at four way stops. Wherever I drive it seems it seems the majority feel they own the road.
Community Colleges are very affordable. I graduated from one in May. It was usually $150-$200 per class and about $200 for the books (at the bookstore, less than half using the internet). State colleges aren't much more, at least in my state (Florida).
I would recommend trying Ubuntu Edgy over Debian Etch. I moved to Ubuntu Dapper after getting pissed off with FC5 one too many times.
The only issues I have with Ubuntu is they still have wxWidgets linking against GTK1. This is very anoying as I do much of my development with wxWidgets. Right now I'm having to build it myself. If I wanted to do that, I would still be using a source based distro. I did that for five years and got really tired of it.
The other issue is it's 64 bit support. Don't bother trying to run a 32 bit Firefox, 32 bit Mplayer, and VMWare with it. That's what I liked about Fedora, I could just do "yum install mplayer.i386" and I'd get the 32 bit version with the 32 bit dependencies. Ubuntu/Debian lack that.
Both of those issues should also apply to Debian, though. Other than this, though, I've been very happy with Ubuntu.
Satellite is completely useless for downloading. Every satellite provider has an "fair access policy" that will kick your connect to dial up speeds if you go over a certain quota. The quotas are very low, even on the most expensive plans. I was looking into that for a client. After googling for a day, I was unable to find a single review that wasn't negative.
Agreed. The cookie "threat" is overblown by the media. If you're really concerned about it, every modern browser has built in protections.
In Firefox's preferences (2.0) click on the "Privacy" tab and change "Keep until" to "I close Firefox". Then whenever you close the browser, all the cookies are gone. For sites you want to be able to persist (bank, slashdot, etc), put them in the exceptions. I've been doing it this way for years. You can also set it to block cookies for certain sites (I block google, for example).
Slashdot Mirror
But it's not as cool.
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
Set the limited time to 20 hours instead of 20 years...
It would be really nice if OpenOffice imitated the UI of Office 2004 for OS X or Abiword for OS X. It's very good. Here's a screen shot.
It would also rock if they dropped the current UI toolkit and switched to wxWidgets or QT. Then it would finally feel responsive and look native. Same for Mozilla.
Ever hear of snapshots? I love that feature in VMWare. I can do whatever I want to that image, even purposely install viruses or spyware. Then all I have to do is hit "revert" and it's all back to normal. It takes only a few seconds.
You're the one that made choice to lock your data into a platform made by a company that does not care about it's customers. "wgatool" should have been enough of a warning. If something goes wrong, tough shit. It's not like there aren't alternatives. 98, 2000, XP and Vista run very well under VMWare for running apps, btw.
You know that there are services like DynDNS that provide free domains? There are programs available to automatically update the domain when the ip changes. This way you could have something like grannyscomp.dyndns.org and it will always work.
Bank of America and Juniper both work well with Firefox, Opera, Konqueor, and Safari. What banks have broken websites?
The ntfs-3g driver works very well. The downside, though, it's it's not very fast. Do a rsync (or just a large copy) to an NTFS partition and your processor usage will go up to the 90s. System performance takes a serious hit.
They're working on the ODF part.
It's also pretty obvious when you use one. Besides all the useless videos playing, touch one of the buttons and it takes over a second for it to even acknowledge it. They must be written very badly. The OS2 ones worked instantly.
Kuro5hin is still good, though. It's not as active as before, but it does have original articles added every few days. Plus I like the diaries feature.
My Athlon 64 (running 32 Ubuntu) loads Gnome in about half the time it takes to load KDE. My Core 2 Duo (running 64-bit Fedora Core 6) is the same. Both have 2GB of memory, and both are using SATA drives.
That's much higher than even Visual Studio. wxWidgets is $0 and is under the LGPL. DialogBlocks (gui builder for wxWidgets) is $70/developer and can be used on as many computers as the developer uses.
It's been called wxWidgets for a few years now. Microsoft made them change the name, but they did pay for their new domains.
I do like wxWidgets and have done a good amount of development in it (C++ and Perl). It's really worth learning if you need to support more than one platform.
QT4 is opensource under the GPL. The commercial license is a bit rediculous, though.
Well, Novell's behavior has influenced my use of Evolution. It's been my email client for over 3 years now, but now I'm having to adjust to Thunderbird.
Not any more. Gnome 2.14 and 2.16 start up pretty damn fast. About half the time of KDE 3.5.5, at least under Ubuntu.
Government shouldn't turn a profit. It should, however, take in as much as it spends. It should also be as efficient as possible with the money it has (like that will ever happen...). The current administration can't grasp that simple concept.
Or
Colbert/Stewart
Hell, I've met several right-wingers that don't get Colbert's character and would probably even vote for him.
It's a stingray in the heart of freedom.
What area's are you talking about? I rarely see people being disciplined and courteous on the road, especially at four way stops. Wherever I drive it seems it seems the majority feel they own the road.
Community Colleges are very affordable. I graduated from one in May. It was usually $150-$200 per class and about $200 for the books (at the bookstore, less than half using the internet). State colleges aren't much more, at least in my state (Florida).
I would recommend trying Ubuntu Edgy over Debian Etch. I moved to Ubuntu Dapper after getting pissed off with FC5 one too many times.
The only issues I have with Ubuntu is they still have wxWidgets linking against GTK1. This is very anoying as I do much of my development with wxWidgets. Right now I'm having to build it myself. If I wanted to do that, I would still be using a source based distro. I did that for five years and got really tired of it.
The other issue is it's 64 bit support. Don't bother trying to run a 32 bit Firefox, 32 bit Mplayer, and VMWare with it. That's what I liked about Fedora, I could just do "yum install mplayer.i386" and I'd get the 32 bit version with the 32 bit dependencies. Ubuntu/Debian lack that.
Both of those issues should also apply to Debian, though. Other than this, though, I've been very happy with Ubuntu.
Satellite is completely useless for downloading. Every satellite provider has an "fair access policy" that will kick your connect to dial up speeds if you go over a certain quota. The quotas are very low, even on the most expensive plans. I was looking into that for a client. After googling for a day, I was unable to find a single review that wasn't negative.
Agreed. The cookie "threat" is overblown by the media. If you're really concerned about it, every modern browser has built in protections.
In Firefox's preferences (2.0) click on the "Privacy" tab and change "Keep until" to "I close Firefox". Then whenever you close the browser, all the cookies are gone. For sites you want to be able to persist (bank, slashdot, etc), put them in the exceptions. I've been doing it this way for years. You can also set it to block cookies for certain sites (I block google, for example).