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I tried the disable Java checkbox and it seems to maybe take a second off of the load. Writer 2.0 loads on my 2.2 GHz P4-M machine in about 5 seconds now and so does the rest of the suite. It is much quicker than 1.1.4, which took about 15 seconds to load. MS Office under Windows takes about two to three seconds.
A difference of a second or two is not all that big of a deal, at least to me. Sure, OOo might be a couple of seconds slower, but it's not that big of a deal. I save time using OOo on Linux because I don't have to restart Office or the whole computer when Office or Windows borks up something.
Outside of the U.S., Canada, and Western Europe, copyrights are ignored. Iran has a 99% piracy rate- one person buys one copy and then copies it 1,000,000 times. China's is 94%. There is no vested interest (home-grown industry) into preventing piracy, so the governments don't waste their time and money protecting somebody else's assets.
Until the rest of the world produces a lot of copyrighted works, piracy will run rampant there.
I drive an '02 Escape, which I believe is sold in Europe, too. Mine is a V6 with a four-speed auto- no manual with the V6 because the engine is a tight fit as is and an extra gear wouldn't help. It sits a little higher than a car but weighs no more than a midsize car (~3300 lbs.) and gets about 23 mpg highway, 18-19 or so stop-and-go. The V6 has a decent low-end and a good top-end. I wish it was a stick, though:(
I can and do haul a bunch of stuff around in the back. It isn't that big of a vehicle, but with the seats flat, it holds a dorm room's worth of stuff. I have had to make numerous runs back and forth with it full to not only move me, but people who can't fit more than a laptop and a laundry basket in their Civics. Sure, they get a little over 30 mpg, but a handful of bucks a tank isn't all that much when the insurance on ANY car costs thousands a year (if you're a male under 25, perfect record notwithstanding!)
It's about right for what I need, although a Miata would be a lot of fun. But it's kind of hard to stick too much in one of those...
It's more about torque and acceleration than top speed. Yes, you can go very fast with the right transmission and aero work with a small engine. But it has no "grunt." Small engines are more efficient but to acheive power numbers of larger engines, they must really wind up their engines. You have to make the tradeoff in cam profile and cylinder bore and stroke for low-end torque or high-end power. And you'll NEVER make up the torque difference if you have a naturally-aspirated engine.
Sure, variable valve timing systems that vary cam profile and timing can help to widen the powerband. But, the physics still remain- more air and more fuel make more power. Why do you think so many small engines blown, either with a supercharger or turbo(s)? That's just a way to get more air and fuel into the cylinders. Having a larger displacement does that too.
American cars tend to be a bunch larger than European ones. A Ford Focus in the U.S. is the same one as in Europe. Here, it is considered a compact and weak with a 2.0L 130-hp engine. In Europe, it is considered a regular-sized sedan with okay power. A normal-sized car here would be a 240-hp Accord or a 300-hp Mustang GT. Certainly a difference! And the midsize American cars weigh about 500-700 pounds more than the Focus. This requires more engine- cylinders and horsepower- just to get the same performance. But the Focus doesn't get the nickname "Slow-cus" here for no good reason- that Accord will eat its pants and the Mustang will eat BOTH for lunch. More mass + faster = much more engine needed.
BTW, the speed limits on regular 2-lane highways is 55 mph, which is 88 kph. 90 miles an hour in a 55 zone is about a $400 ticket, exc. in Illinois, where it is a grand. The interstates are 70 mph here (112 kph) in MO and 65-75 mph (about 105-120 kph) elsewhere.
I'd probably agree to that. Most people who run Linux, Macs, or other non-MS OSes just do so quietly and if they have to use Windows for some reason somewhere, they just do it.
It's only the fundamentalist wackos that crap and gripe about it all of the time. I run Linux personally but still have XP on/dev/hda1. Why? Because once in a very long while there will be something that I need to run that requires IE6 or has a funky Excel macro in it that gives OpenOffice trouble.
Windows is like a toolbox. Linux is also. The tools are a little different in both and there are some in one box that don't exist in the other and vice-versa. And you personally will find one easier and better for your uses. I found Linux's tool set to be more suited for my uses but some of my friends did not. I run Ubuntu and they run XP. We are all productive and get what we need to get done finished.
It's all in the source code that we all got about a year ago from W2K when it- gaah!
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I was thinking that if they did a Web-based interface, they could charge people a subscription to access the program, such as you get a subscription to access Slashdot earlier than others, or watch baseball online at MLB.TV. Subscriptions are constant revenue streams.
It would bring a constant revenue stream to Google for the use of the Web-based suite. It's what MS always wanted to do- have subscriptions for their programs that you *must* pay to use the programs.
My aging 2.2 GHz P4-M laptop (albeit stuffed with 1GB RAM and a modern 5400 rpm hard drive) certainly runs most any Linux faster than the XP that originally shipped with the laptop. I currently run Ubuntu and it boots faster, runs equivalent apps faster- I have OO, Firefox, etc. on Windows too- and shuts down quicker than XP SP2. However, RAM usage is about the same as I have certainly disabled a whole bunch of memory-resident, automatic startup at boot junk like the Acrobat Reader pre-loader, etc. in Windows.
But perhaps the biggest advantage is that in Windows, your apps run at full speed when you have only one or two open and then when there is a little load on the system, it takes about a minute to even close a window. Linux is much more responsive under load. Your programs get a little slower as you increase load, not just up and basically seize after a certain point has been reached under Windows. That enables me to have more than three or so apps open like happens in Windows and still be productive.
Basically, it enables me to stretch a computer's daily-useful life out an extra year or year and a half.
I believe that making calls to GPL code does not mean that you *include* GPL code in your program. Your program itself does not contain the GPL code- the user's system does. You're fine as long as you just make calls and not actually include the modules you make calls to in your code.
I find it kind of funny that somebody who buys a small economy car like a Civic (wants to save $$$ over buying a larger car) and is worried about gas (wants to save $$$ by buying less gas) would pay $1000+ for a DVD navigation system.
Yeah, you're right. I DO hope that the high profile cases involving illegal peer-to-peer downloading DON'T kill off peer-to-peer downloading completely. I use BitTorrent to get Linux CD ISO files, which are 600-700MB each and an average distro will have between one and twelve. Downloading directly from the vendor's FTP servers is very poky and costs them a lot of money. Downloading from other users only costs what the users already pay in Net access and is much faster.
My latest download was of the Ubuntu 5.10 CD. I did not see a BitTorrent link at first and tried to get the ISO file from Ubuntu. The tx rate was about 10KB/sec. I am on a 5Mbit cable connection- that is horridly poky. I quit it after about 20 minutes when it estimated it would take >24 hours to complete. I did find a BitTorrent.torrent for the CD and in 25 minutes, I had the file. 100% legal and a wonderful idea. I just hope it does not go the way of the dodo because of people who illegally use the networks. I don't care if they even screen ALL files going onto the networks but they need to keep them going!
Lowe's uses a KDE-based Linux distribution for the help desk/inventory computers. I know Jiffy Jube uses W2K. Most retailers I see use some embedded OS that does not give you any hints as to what it is. Or they use really old terminals running monochrome 7" monitors.
I worked at a fast food place and the terminals used some sort of embedded OS. I was able to ascertain much about the machines other than they had 100MHz embedded processors, used a 10/100 LAN to access the main computer (POS Dell PII running NT 3.51 that ALWAYS crashed) and the monitors in the back and serial ports to talk to the cash drawer and receipt printer. We had the terminals go down exactly once, and that was when the menu was being updated and it borked. I don't think it was Linux or UNIX as these registers were made in about 1995 and they talk to a Windows machine of about the same vintage. My bet is some custom, proprietary embedded OS.
But I know our university bookstore uses Windows NT4 on most of the registers and XP on the rest. The Lowe's store in my town uses a KDE-based Linux distribution. I saw their monitor when they showed me they were out of the part I needed- sure 'nuff it was KDE 3.0 or 3.1 or something like that. I mentioned that they had a Linux computer and the guy bent down and looked at the front of the case and said, "Nope, I think it's an IBM..."
I think I have you all beaten.
To get the latest Firefox version in Ubuntu:
-- See little GUI pop-up saying "New updates available." This happens automatically.
-- Click on "Show Updates"
-- Type in user password.
-- Hit "Accept."
No CLI, no typing in commands. It doesn't get any easier than this and you can upgrade the WHOLE OS this way. Try doing that through Windows Update...
Evolution is way better of a program to use in Linux *if you're using Gnome.* Under KDE, Evolution looks absolutely crappy. Thunderbird still looks okay, especially since it can be reskinned. When I used KDE, thunderbird + Kontact handled my PIM/E-mail as KMail bites.
Now I use Gnome and have a much better time with Evolution. It is what MS Outlook should have been.
I did not know that the water pump in the Prius was electric. The water pump stopping when the engine shuts off (like a regular mechanically-driven pump) would stop the flow of coolant and thus the heater would blow cold. But since the Prius has an electric pump, it would continue to heat.
In fact, it does not surprise me that the Prius would have an electric water pump and some sort of insulated reservoir for engine coolant to keep it at operating temperature. Electric water pumps are more efficient (and more expensive) than regular ones and keeping the engine at operating temp even when it shuts off boosts efficiency. This car seems to me like Toyota's attempt to see how much mileage they can wring out of a car and still have it sell reasonably well. Honda's Insight was a little too small and did not sell really well. I bet if gas were still $1.25 a gallon like is was when the Prius first debuted, the Prius and hybrids in general would have had a little harder time selling.
Unless the heater in the Prius is somehow different from about every other vehicle's on the road, it cannot run on electricity. A car heater is run by blowing air over basically a small radiator (heater core) that the 190F engine coolant cycles through. If the Prius's engine shuts off, the water pump will probably stop and so will the heater.
If you wanted the Prius's heater to keep going when it is on battery power, get an electric water pump. Racing engines and a few others have electric water pumps versus the ordinary ones that are driven off the engine's accessory drive belt or serpentine belt. But this would only work if the engine was warmed up, otherwise you'd just be circulating cold coolant that is not warming up.
If I was both worried about heating up in the winter and also fuel economy, I'd just get a small car like a Focus, a Civic, or a Corolla. The little four-banger will get okay mileage, especially with a stick, it will heat up faster than a Prius, and that $5K you save in the purchase price will buy a LOT of gas.
If I wanted a mini-ITX board, I'd use a Socket 479 Pentium M or even a Socket 478 board. The EPIA chip is definitely not very powerful- my old 2.2-M Northwood benchmarks well above it and it gets its tail handed to it by modern CPUs.
But for a HTPC or something, it would suffice. The whole SFF computer thing is pretty neat as I don't really *need* a huge full-tower setup with six 5.25" bays, three floppy bays, and 4-6 HDD bays when I would have one floppy, one or two HDDs, and one or two opticals.
The real point of this parent:
Always, ALWAYS, ALWAYS!!!! encrypt your wireless APs and routers! WEP is not perfect, but it is a whole heck of a lot better than no WEP.
Plus, if somebody tries to use Airsnort to crack it, you a.) might be able to catch them in the act and b.) if you do catch them, they can be charged with tampering with a computer (since you DID take steps to prevent unauthorized entry.)
Yeah, and the IT guys at my school say the same thing. But the truth is that both they and I use Linux and nobody has any problems at all with it- they just won't *support* it if you have trouble like they will support OSX and 2K/XP.
Linux only needs to get big enough to have better driver support. I do not care if only one percent of users use Linux as I use it and that is all I care about. But driver support requires a little more than that. It's not about winning vs. Microsoft, it's about having a very good OS.
If your system tools do not detect the printer, a GUI to do so is found at http://localhost631./
But first you need to open up a command line and type in lppasswd -a root and then type in the root password twice. Then all of your printer config is GUI.
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I tried the disable Java checkbox and it seems to maybe take a second off of the load. Writer 2.0 loads on my 2.2 GHz P4-M machine in about 5 seconds now and so does the rest of the suite. It is much quicker than 1.1.4, which took about 15 seconds to load. MS Office under Windows takes about two to three seconds. A difference of a second or two is not all that big of a deal, at least to me. Sure, OOo might be a couple of seconds slower, but it's not that big of a deal. I save time using OOo on Linux because I don't have to restart Office or the whole computer when Office or Windows borks up something.
Outside of the U.S., Canada, and Western Europe, copyrights are ignored. Iran has a 99% piracy rate- one person buys one copy and then copies it 1,000,000 times. China's is 94%. There is no vested interest (home-grown industry) into preventing piracy, so the governments don't waste their time and money protecting somebody else's assets.
Until the rest of the world produces a lot of copyrighted works, piracy will run rampant there.
I drive an '02 Escape, which I believe is sold in Europe, too. Mine is a V6 with a four-speed auto- no manual with the V6 because the engine is a tight fit as is and an extra gear wouldn't help. It sits a little higher than a car but weighs no more than a midsize car (~3300 lbs.) and gets about 23 mpg highway, 18-19 or so stop-and-go. The V6 has a decent low-end and a good top-end. I wish it was a stick, though :(
I can and do haul a bunch of stuff around in the back. It isn't that big of a vehicle, but with the seats flat, it holds a dorm room's worth of stuff. I have had to make numerous runs back and forth with it full to not only move me, but people who can't fit more than a laptop and a laundry basket in their Civics. Sure, they get a little over 30 mpg, but a handful of bucks a tank isn't all that much when the insurance on ANY car costs thousands a year (if you're a male under 25, perfect record notwithstanding!)
It's about right for what I need, although a Miata would be a lot of fun. But it's kind of hard to stick too much in one of those...
It's more about torque and acceleration than top speed. Yes, you can go very fast with the right transmission and aero work with a small engine. But it has no "grunt." Small engines are more efficient but to acheive power numbers of larger engines, they must really wind up their engines. You have to make the tradeoff in cam profile and cylinder bore and stroke for low-end torque or high-end power. And you'll NEVER make up the torque difference if you have a naturally-aspirated engine.
Sure, variable valve timing systems that vary cam profile and timing can help to widen the powerband. But, the physics still remain- more air and more fuel make more power. Why do you think so many small engines blown, either with a supercharger or turbo(s)? That's just a way to get more air and fuel into the cylinders. Having a larger displacement does that too.
American cars tend to be a bunch larger than European ones. A Ford Focus in the U.S. is the same one as in Europe. Here, it is considered a compact and weak with a 2.0L 130-hp engine. In Europe, it is considered a regular-sized sedan with okay power. A normal-sized car here would be a 240-hp Accord or a 300-hp Mustang GT. Certainly a difference! And the midsize American cars weigh about 500-700 pounds more than the Focus. This requires more engine- cylinders and horsepower- just to get the same performance. But the Focus doesn't get the nickname "Slow-cus" here for no good reason- that Accord will eat its pants and the Mustang will eat BOTH for lunch. More mass + faster = much more engine needed.
BTW, the speed limits on regular 2-lane highways is 55 mph, which is 88 kph. 90 miles an hour in a 55 zone is about a $400 ticket, exc. in Illinois, where it is a grand. The interstates are 70 mph here (112 kph) in MO and 65-75 mph (about 105-120 kph) elsewhere.
I'd probably agree to that. Most people who run Linux, Macs, or other non-MS OSes just do so quietly and if they have to use Windows for some reason somewhere, they just do it.
/dev/hda1. Why? Because once in a very long while there will be something that I need to run that requires IE6 or has a funky Excel macro in it that gives OpenOffice trouble.
It's only the fundamentalist wackos that crap and gripe about it all of the time. I run Linux personally but still have XP on
Windows is like a toolbox. Linux is also. The tools are a little different in both and there are some in one box that don't exist in the other and vice-versa. And you personally will find one easier and better for your uses. I found Linux's tool set to be more suited for my uses but some of my friends did not. I run Ubuntu and they run XP. We are all productive and get what we need to get done finished.
It's all in the source code that we all got about a year ago from W2K when it- gaah!
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I was thinking that if they did a Web-based interface, they could charge people a subscription to access the program, such as you get a subscription to access Slashdot earlier than others, or watch baseball online at MLB.TV. Subscriptions are constant revenue streams.
It would bring a constant revenue stream to Google for the use of the Web-based suite. It's what MS always wanted to do- have subscriptions for their programs that you *must* pay to use the programs.
My aging 2.2 GHz P4-M laptop (albeit stuffed with 1GB RAM and a modern 5400 rpm hard drive) certainly runs most any Linux faster than the XP that originally shipped with the laptop. I currently run Ubuntu and it boots faster, runs equivalent apps faster- I have OO, Firefox, etc. on Windows too- and shuts down quicker than XP SP2. However, RAM usage is about the same as I have certainly disabled a whole bunch of memory-resident, automatic startup at boot junk like the Acrobat Reader pre-loader, etc. in Windows.
But perhaps the biggest advantage is that in Windows, your apps run at full speed when you have only one or two open and then when there is a little load on the system, it takes about a minute to even close a window. Linux is much more responsive under load. Your programs get a little slower as you increase load, not just up and basically seize after a certain point has been reached under Windows. That enables me to have more than three or so apps open like happens in Windows and still be productive.
Basically, it enables me to stretch a computer's daily-useful life out an extra year or year and a half.
I believe that making calls to GPL code does not mean that you *include* GPL code in your program. Your program itself does not contain the GPL code- the user's system does. You're fine as long as you just make calls and not actually include the modules you make calls to in your code.
Why not install Mozilla Firefox? Oh, I see- it's just more bundled AOL junk that HP gets a little money from AOL to put on there.
I find it kind of funny that somebody who buys a small economy car like a Civic (wants to save $$$ over buying a larger car) and is worried about gas (wants to save $$$ by buying less gas) would pay $1000+ for a DVD navigation system.
Yeah, you're right. I DO hope that the high profile cases involving illegal peer-to-peer downloading DON'T kill off peer-to-peer downloading completely. I use BitTorrent to get Linux CD ISO files, which are 600-700MB each and an average distro will have between one and twelve. Downloading directly from the vendor's FTP servers is very poky and costs them a lot of money. Downloading from other users only costs what the users already pay in Net access and is much faster. My latest download was of the Ubuntu 5.10 CD. I did not see a BitTorrent link at first and tried to get the ISO file from Ubuntu. The tx rate was about 10KB/sec. I am on a 5Mbit cable connection- that is horridly poky. I quit it after about 20 minutes when it estimated it would take >24 hours to complete. I did find a BitTorrent .torrent for the CD and in 25 minutes, I had the file. 100% legal and a wonderful idea. I just hope it does not go the way of the dodo because of people who illegally use the networks. I don't care if they even screen ALL files going onto the networks but they need to keep them going!
Lowe's uses a KDE-based Linux distribution for the help desk/inventory computers. I know Jiffy Jube uses W2K. Most retailers I see use some embedded OS that does not give you any hints as to what it is. Or they use really old terminals running monochrome 7" monitors.
I worked at a fast food place and the terminals used some sort of embedded OS. I was able to ascertain much about the machines other than they had 100MHz embedded processors, used a 10/100 LAN to access the main computer (POS Dell PII running NT 3.51 that ALWAYS crashed) and the monitors in the back and serial ports to talk to the cash drawer and receipt printer. We had the terminals go down exactly once, and that was when the menu was being updated and it borked. I don't think it was Linux or UNIX as these registers were made in about 1995 and they talk to a Windows machine of about the same vintage. My bet is some custom, proprietary embedded OS. But I know our university bookstore uses Windows NT4 on most of the registers and XP on the rest. The Lowe's store in my town uses a KDE-based Linux distribution. I saw their monitor when they showed me they were out of the part I needed- sure 'nuff it was KDE 3.0 or 3.1 or something like that. I mentioned that they had a Linux computer and the guy bent down and looked at the front of the case and said, "Nope, I think it's an IBM..."
I think I have you all beaten. To get the latest Firefox version in Ubuntu: -- See little GUI pop-up saying "New updates available." This happens automatically. -- Click on "Show Updates" -- Type in user password. -- Hit "Accept." No CLI, no typing in commands. It doesn't get any easier than this and you can upgrade the WHOLE OS this way. Try doing that through Windows Update...
Evolution is way better of a program to use in Linux *if you're using Gnome.* Under KDE, Evolution looks absolutely crappy. Thunderbird still looks okay, especially since it can be reskinned. When I used KDE, thunderbird + Kontact handled my PIM/E-mail as KMail bites. Now I use Gnome and have a much better time with Evolution. It is what MS Outlook should have been.
I did not know that the water pump in the Prius was electric. The water pump stopping when the engine shuts off (like a regular mechanically-driven pump) would stop the flow of coolant and thus the heater would blow cold. But since the Prius has an electric pump, it would continue to heat. In fact, it does not surprise me that the Prius would have an electric water pump and some sort of insulated reservoir for engine coolant to keep it at operating temperature. Electric water pumps are more efficient (and more expensive) than regular ones and keeping the engine at operating temp even when it shuts off boosts efficiency. This car seems to me like Toyota's attempt to see how much mileage they can wring out of a car and still have it sell reasonably well. Honda's Insight was a little too small and did not sell really well. I bet if gas were still $1.25 a gallon like is was when the Prius first debuted, the Prius and hybrids in general would have had a little harder time selling.
Unless the heater in the Prius is somehow different from about every other vehicle's on the road, it cannot run on electricity. A car heater is run by blowing air over basically a small radiator (heater core) that the 190F engine coolant cycles through. If the Prius's engine shuts off, the water pump will probably stop and so will the heater.
If you wanted the Prius's heater to keep going when it is on battery power, get an electric water pump. Racing engines and a few others have electric water pumps versus the ordinary ones that are driven off the engine's accessory drive belt or serpentine belt. But this would only work if the engine was warmed up, otherwise you'd just be circulating cold coolant that is not warming up.
If I was both worried about heating up in the winter and also fuel economy, I'd just get a small car like a Focus, a Civic, or a Corolla. The little four-banger will get okay mileage, especially with a stick, it will heat up faster than a Prius, and that $5K you save in the purchase price will buy a LOT of gas.
If I wanted a mini-ITX board, I'd use a Socket 479 Pentium M or even a Socket 478 board. The EPIA chip is definitely not very powerful- my old 2.2-M Northwood benchmarks well above it and it gets its tail handed to it by modern CPUs. But for a HTPC or something, it would suffice. The whole SFF computer thing is pretty neat as I don't really *need* a huge full-tower setup with six 5.25" bays, three floppy bays, and 4-6 HDD bays when I would have one floppy, one or two HDDs, and one or two opticals.
The real point of this parent: Always, ALWAYS, ALWAYS!!!! encrypt your wireless APs and routers! WEP is not perfect, but it is a whole heck of a lot better than no WEP. Plus, if somebody tries to use Airsnort to crack it, you a.) might be able to catch them in the act and b.) if you do catch them, they can be charged with tampering with a computer (since you DID take steps to prevent unauthorized entry.)
Yeah, and the IT guys at my school say the same thing. But the truth is that both they and I use Linux and nobody has any problems at all with it- they just won't *support* it if you have trouble like they will support OSX and 2K/XP.
Linux only needs to get big enough to have better driver support. I do not care if only one percent of users use Linux as I use it and that is all I care about. But driver support requires a little more than that. It's not about winning vs. Microsoft, it's about having a very good OS.
If your system tools do not detect the printer, a GUI to do so is found at http://localhost631./ But first you need to open up a command line and type in lppasswd -a root and then type in the root password twice. Then all of your printer config is GUI.