So a European company should put their sensitive commercial data in a US hosted cloud, so the American government can pass it on to US corporations? You gotta be joking!
Every time you log in to Fedora, you have a choice of all the Desktop Environments loaded.
My first Linux distribution was Debian, set up by a friend. I now use Fedora, but I have considered going back to Debian, though for now I will stay with Fedora.
Yum, Fedora's package manager, has improved dramatically over the years - so may be better than you think. However, I don't know enough about the modern apt-get (name?) that Debian uses, to compare the two.
Used to use GNOME 2, now use the Mate Desktop Environment, with a 30" monitor..
I have multiple virtual Desktops. The ones in use vary from about 1 window occupying the whole screen (Eclipse with 4 columns), to having about 5 windows. My default Desktop has a bland background with no icons, I like to keep things simple, as what I do is complicated enough without visual distractions.
I have 2 highly customised panels with useful applets(like the System Monitor), that auto hide.
I make full use of multiple tabs, not only in browsers, but also for terminals and directory windows.
I find Desktop Environment's like GNOME 3, simply get in the way and complicate things too much, and lack a decent amount of configurability.
Nah! Too hard, their compilers throw too many errors...
Now JavaScript, I don't need no stinking discipline! Good lets go for it...
I'm having to master JavaScript/AngularJS as part of a JEE7 App. JavaScript is great in some ways, but the lack of rigorous static type and error reporting is a massive handicap for serious development. But then, I understand the value of coding discipline from experience - as I have programmed in all the languages of the first line - mostly COBOL (in the distant past) & Java (since 1997).
Since 2004, I have done 4 extensive searches on the Internet to look for valid comparisons between MySQL & PostgreSQL.
Each, and every time, PostgreSQL (http://www.postgresql.org) came out ahead, in all areas that concern me - such as: (1) Performance (2) Reliability (3) Scalability in terms of the database size (4) Ease of installation & configuration (5) Ease of developing SQL queries
And of course, it runs well on Linux!
I have a client that uses MySQL, and I did some DBA work & development on a major Java project that used MySQL.
So I would recommend PostgreSQL as being suitable for many projects. However, you should always check what a particular project needs, rather than assume one particular DB is best for it!
(1) allows documents written now to be read correctly in 30+ years time
(2) anybody can legally implement without have to pay any kind of licence fee, or other form of fee
(3) will allow documents to be read & edited by any software that adheres faithfully to the standard
(4) can represent what people need to do in a document without having to pay a large fee for the privilege and without restricting people to charge a hefty fee should they so desire
So a lot of the value of the OpenDocument format is to the organisation itself, and other organisations it interacts with. In fact it is of value to individuals as well. Also of prime importance, no company can hold peoples documents to ransom by locking them into a proprietary format - like Microsoft attempts to do.
Note that Microsoft is entitled to fully implement the OpenDocument format and to charge whatever it wants for its software, so it cannot validly complain it is being locked out of markets - if it refuses to properly implement the OpenDocument format!
The fact that most people only use a very small subset, and that this subset is within the OpenDocument specification is important, as this means that people should not need extensive training to create and distribute documents that can be used by other people with different software.
LibreOffice is just one of many pieces of software (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument) that is committed to the OpenDocument format.
Note that LibreOffice 4.2 (currently at RC4) has had a lot of work done on Calc & Impress as well as Writer - you might find a lot of your issues may have been resolved.
I know that about 8 years ago I was meant to use Microsoft Office at work, but it was too difficult to use as their method of font selection was atrocious - so I used OpenOffice, and no one complained. Though now I use LibreOffice (http://www.libreoffice.org) of course, as it has more features and much more development momentum behind it.
Well using 0C and 100C seems more logical than 32F and 212F.
Also, it would be good for the Americans to join the rest of the world in properly adopting Celsius.
It is ironic, that it was an American text book (on Physics) in year 12 at school, that did most to convince me of the superiority of the metric system. Mind you, I was not liking the convoluted ways required to work with the Imperial system for some years prior.
Even if I know off by heart what the temperatures in Fahrenheit are for the freezing and boiling points for water, it is no reason to inflect that on future generations. Besides, the values (32 & 212) always seemed somewhat strange.
In colloquial use the size of the unit is no big deal, and if I need to express the temperature in any finer granularity I have no problems with using a decimal point.
Also the extensive use of Fahrenheit makes it harder or people to understand energy and related concepts in Science. It is also far simpler to have one common system for both science and ordinary use.
The Americans seems to be moving backwards on Science, looking at the problems in some states pushing Creationism and other superstitions as facts in text books.
I was brought up using the Fahrenheit scale, but I but I now think that in both colloquial & scientific use, Fahrenheit is also daft!
http://www.straightdope.com/co... [...] Everybody knows 0 degrees on the Celsius scale is the freezing point of water and 100 degrees is the boiling point. On the Fahrenheit scale, however, freezing is 32 degrees and boiling 212. How on earth were these numbers arrived at? Do 0 and 100 degrees Fahrenheit mean anything? [...]
Yeah, I found GNOME 3 to be a Triumph of Fashion over Functionality!
I was using GNOME 2, but fled first to xfce, though now I'm using the Mate Desktop Environment (which started off as a fork of GNOME 2 with the good bits that the GNOME developers had already dropped added back in).
As far as I can tell Unity is as bad as GNOME 3, but Microsoft's Metro Desktop Environment is far worse than either of GNOME 3 or unity!
"People were happy using a traditional desktop on the desktop (Windows was the clear #1 here)"
People who had to have Microsoft were forced into having it, and yes it is better than their Metro interface, but the xfce and Mate Desktop Environments on Linux are far more powerful and customisable than any Desktop Environment Microsoft has presented to general users.
I am used to both terminals and directory windows having multiple tabs. I also have 35 Virtual Desktops, without having to download special software. Plus I have 2 panels which auto hide. As far as I know, none of that is generally available to people using a Microsoft O/S!
So Microsoft did not ever have a Desktop Environment that rated #1 in terms of usability.
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I agree, the beta looks worse than current, and why are there so many new sites I have to allow (I use noscript, to control JavaScript)?
Chuckles!
NSA: Not Secret Anymore
Why bother with a huge spy network, when you only need one well placed mole in the NSA???
Hmm...
A customised Mate Desktop Environment (http://mate-desktop.org) on Linux beats anything I've ever seen from Microsoft in turns of usability!
So a European company should put their sensitive commercial data in a US hosted cloud, so the American government can pass it on to US corporations? You gotta be joking!
Which is which??? :-)
Every time you log in to Fedora, you have a choice of all the Desktop Environments loaded.
My first Linux distribution was Debian, set up by a friend. I now use Fedora, but I have considered going back to Debian, though for now I will stay with Fedora.
Yum, Fedora's package manager, has improved dramatically over the years - so may be better than you think. However, I don't know enough about the modern apt-get (name?) that Debian uses, to compare the two.
Yes, I remember Mandrake, but never used it.
Mandrake merged with the Brazilian distribution Conectiva Linux, and became Mandriva Linux (which apparently no longer exists).
Mageia (http://www.mageia.org/en) is a fork of Mandriva, and is planning to release a version in February.
Fedora allows the choice of several different desktop Environments on the DVD during installation , and others can be downloaded.
Used to use GNOME 2, now use the Mate Desktop Environment, with a 30" monitor..
I have multiple virtual Desktops. The ones in use vary from about 1 window occupying the whole screen (Eclipse with 4 columns), to having about 5 windows. My default Desktop has a bland background with no icons, I like to keep things simple, as what I do is complicated enough without visual distractions.
I have 2 highly customised panels with useful applets(like the System Monitor), that auto hide.
I make full use of multiple tabs, not only in browsers, but also for terminals and directory windows.
I find Desktop Environment's like GNOME 3, simply get in the way and complicate things too much, and lack a decent amount of configurability.
GNOME 2 was a classic desktop, but unfortunately GNOME 3 is a triumph of Functionality over Function.
Mate, started as a fork of GNOME 2, with the good bits that the GNOME developers had dropped added back in.
I used to use GNOME 2, and I fled to xfce (http://www.xfce.org/) when GNOME 3 came out, now I use Mate (http://mate-desktop.org/).
When you install Fedora, you can chose to use Mate, rather than simply accept the default of GNOME 3 for your Desktop Environment.
ALGOL, COBOL, FORTRAN, Java, C, C++?
Nah! Too hard, their compilers throw too many errors...
Now JavaScript, I don't need no stinking discipline! Good lets go for it...
I'm having to master JavaScript/AngularJS as part of a JEE7 App. JavaScript is great in some ways, but the lack of rigorous static type and error reporting is a massive handicap for serious development. But then, I understand the value of coding discipline from experience - as I have programmed in all the languages of the first line - mostly COBOL (in the distant past) & Java (since 1997).
From memory: Pascal was a language meant for training, not for production use!
How about putting the following line at the start?
'using strict';
Since 2004, I have done 4 extensive searches on the Internet to look for valid comparisons between MySQL & PostgreSQL.
Each, and every time, PostgreSQL (http://www.postgresql.org) came out ahead, in all areas that concern me - such as:
(1) Performance
(2) Reliability
(3) Scalability in terms of the database size
(4) Ease of installation & configuration
(5) Ease of developing SQL queries
And of course, it runs well on Linux!
I have a client that uses MySQL, and I did some DBA work & development on a major Java project that used MySQL.
So I would recommend PostgreSQL as being suitable for many projects. However, you should always check what a particular project needs, rather than assume one particular DB is best for it!
More to the point: if he did, did he take any notice of the suggestions!
I agree with most of what you have written.
I think the key thing for organisations is to have a format (such as the OpenDocument format, otherwise known as ISO 26300 see: http://iso26300.info/ and https://www.oasis-open.org/com...) that is a standard that:
(1) allows documents written now to be read correctly in 30+ years time
(2) anybody can legally implement without have to pay any kind of licence fee, or other form of fee
(3) will allow documents to be read & edited by any software that adheres faithfully to the standard
(4) can represent what people need to do in a document without having to pay a large fee for the privilege and without restricting people to charge a hefty fee should they so desire
So a lot of the value of the OpenDocument format is to the organisation itself, and other organisations it interacts with. In fact it is of value to individuals as well. Also of prime importance, no company can hold peoples documents to ransom by locking them into a proprietary format - like Microsoft attempts to do.
Note that Microsoft is entitled to fully implement the OpenDocument format and to charge whatever it wants for its software, so it cannot validly complain it is being locked out of markets - if it refuses to properly implement the OpenDocument format!
The fact that most people only use a very small subset, and that this subset is within the OpenDocument specification is important, as this means that people should not need extensive training to create and distribute documents that can be used by other people with different software.
LibreOffice is just one of many pieces of software (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument) that is committed to the OpenDocument format.
Note that LibreOffice 4.2 (currently at RC4) has had a lot of work done on Calc & Impress as well as Writer - you might find a lot of your issues may have been resolved.
I know that about 8 years ago I was meant to use Microsoft Office at work, but it was too difficult to use as their method of font selection was atrocious - so I used OpenOffice, and no one complained. Though now I use LibreOffice (http://www.libreoffice.org) of course, as it has more features and much more development momentum behind it.
Have a look at LibreOffice, 4.2 RC4 is out, a lot of work had gone into their spreadsheet. LO 4.2 FINAL is due out Real Soon Now.
http://www.libreoffice.org/dow...
or
http://www.libreoffice.org/dow...
Well Debian is a fairly good baseline (Ubuntu was initially based on Debian), though I myself use Fedora.
Well using 0C and 100C seems more logical than 32F and 212F.
Also, it would be good for the Americans to join the rest of the world in properly adopting Celsius.
It is ironic, that it was an American text book (on Physics) in year 12 at school, that did most to convince me of the superiority of the metric system. Mind you, I was not liking the convoluted ways required to work with the Imperial system for some years prior.
Even if I know off by heart what the temperatures in Fahrenheit are for the freezing and boiling points for water, it is no reason to inflect that on future generations. Besides, the values (32 & 212) always seemed somewhat strange.
In colloquial use the size of the unit is no big deal, and if I need to express the temperature in any finer granularity I have no problems with using a decimal point.
Also the extensive use of Fahrenheit makes it harder or people to understand energy and related concepts in Science. It is also far simpler to have one common system for both science and ordinary use.
The Americans seems to be moving backwards on Science, looking at the problems in some states pushing Creationism and other superstitions as facts in text books.
Metric calendar would be daft!
I was brought up using the Fahrenheit scale, but I but I now think that in both colloquial & scientific use, Fahrenheit is also daft!
http://www.straightdope.com/co...
[...]
Everybody knows 0 degrees on the Celsius scale is the freezing point of water and 100 degrees is the boiling point. On the Fahrenheit scale, however, freezing is 32 degrees and boiling 212. How on earth were these numbers arrived at? Do 0 and 100 degrees Fahrenheit mean anything?
[...]
hmm...
C = 5 * (F - 32) / 9
(-13 - 32) = -45
-45 / 9 = -5
-5 * 5 = -25
so -13F = -25 Celsius
I wish these Americans would start using standard units, rather than the archaic Imperial Units!
Yeah, I found GNOME 3 to be a Triumph of Fashion over Functionality!
I was using GNOME 2, but fled first to xfce, though now I'm using the Mate Desktop Environment (which started off as a fork of GNOME 2 with the good bits that the GNOME developers had already dropped added back in).
As far as I can tell Unity is as bad as GNOME 3, but Microsoft's Metro Desktop Environment is far worse than either of GNOME 3 or unity!
"People were happy using a traditional desktop on the desktop (Windows was the clear #1 here)"
People who had to have Microsoft were forced into having it, and yes it is better than their Metro interface, but the xfce and Mate Desktop Environments on Linux are far more powerful and customisable than any Desktop Environment Microsoft has presented to general users.
I am used to both terminals and directory windows having multiple tabs. I also have 35 Virtual Desktops, without having to download special software. Plus I have 2 panels which auto hide. As far as I know, none of that is generally available to people using a Microsoft O/S!
So Microsoft did not ever have a Desktop Environment that rated #1 in terms of usability.