OK, I am not a journalist, I am a linux expert. I installed the OO1.02 binaries, got the mysql binaries, got unixodbc compiled, got it all setup according to the instructions in the mentioned HOWTO. Then I tried to activate the ODBC connection. It did ask for a password as specified in the connection. Then OpenOffice crashed on me.
So tell me, where couldn't this go wrong. (The UnixODBC DataManager tool does work flawlessly.). Sigh, do I now have to compile my own OpenOffice installation?
Buying copies of VMWare for game playing or to run Office is just rediculous! Talk about wrong tool for the wrong job...
I disagree. There is also the VMWare Express version, which sells for only $79. I actually bought the Workstation version back when they sold it single user for $99. I currently use it on my laptop (192MB RAM) which is dual boot. I use it to run my Windows2000 partion under Linux or my Linux partition under Windows 2000. This works quite well. Performance is acceptable (probably because I use a physical disk instead of a virtual one).
I use it so I can read my Exchange / Outlook E-mail (corporate, because corporate IT doesn't want to allow SMTP/POP/IMAP on Exchange.)
Or (when I run Windows) I use it to stay in touch with a sane OS every now and then.
My company bought these machines about a year and a half to two years ago as power machines (DVD player, 192MB RAM, 11GB HD).
I am forced to run Windows 2000 on it because our IT departement lets us read E-mail either using Outlook (no internet protocols enabled on Exchange server and won't be) or Outlook Web Access (which required IE 5.x with ActiveX support to work properly).
Never the less, I also run Linux on it (SuSE 7.2 disto). And nearly everything works perfectly. The SuSE X setup even recognized and configured for the fact the I have two mice (internal and USB).
I network and dialup using PCMCIA Xircom CreditCard (xirc2ps).
The only thing that I haven't got to work is Infrared (but I haven't tried very hard).
Does anyone know if there are any search engines 'out there' that help implement this 'two step' process?
You know, suppose I am looking for something that requires these two steps, but I don't know anything about the subject (That's why I'm searching in the first place). So I don't know what my first search should be like.
Does anybody have a good contact within PGP (pref. close to Phil Zimmerman) and get them to comment on this?
(Like how can this be detected, other ways to safe guard against this.... etc.).
Hans Voss
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This probably isn't about not showing this in the internet. This is about protecting the rights of the media that invested all those billions of dollars to get 'first coverage' of the events. When using internet, almost anything TV coverage can offer has just become completely worthless.
I mean, why should I want to watch to when I can watch exactly what I want to see right here on the net?
I just check my (netscape) browsers cookie settings.... And found a setting saying "Only accept cookies originating from the same server as the page being viewed".
This just might be the plug to the "GIF cookie" loophole. Hans Voss ---
I don't know if I qualify for bi-lingual, but still I feel free to comment. Whether I use English or Dutch (or for that matter German, which I hardly do at all), I think in that Language. But on the otherhand, I know that in my head/memory I use a more symbolic representation, this is indicated by that I can usually not recall word by word what was said, but I recall the contents (=symbolic?), both intelectual and emotional. But then again, this is just me. Maybe there's a mind-specialist among us who knows how this works in general. Hans Voss ---
Yes, but remember that in WinDoze NT you need to logoff and then logon as Administrator (or whatever the hack you renamed it to).
Whereas in Unix I just open another XTerm and type 'su'.
Way back when I still used NT as my main Office environment, I made my own useraccount member of the Administrators Group, even knowing full well the implications on system security/stability etc.. This was just because - on whatever OS I run - I wanna be (and usually am) a PowerUser. (I didn't choose a career in IT for no reason, I wanna play with power, sheer unadulterated:-). Hans Voss ---
12MB over system memory is not enough? I am running my Linux system with a swap space that is actually 16MB less then the amount of RAM. [I must admit that you need some RAM in the first place. I have 96MB RAM and use 81920 for swap.]. And yes, I use X and Netscape and StarOffice and VMWare (running NT with a simulation of 48MB RAM) at the same time, so I think this qualifies as memory intensive use, at least comparable to what NT goes through with most users.
On my machine having a large pagefile.sys for NT is a good idea actually. I re-use that space as the Linux swap-file. (It's on FAT). But, as I said, I only use a small portion of it.
Whew, this must be about the only reason I still have NT installed. This and the fact that I am just to lazy to do it. Hans Voss ---
I don't know if anyone has looked at some of the articles on the (new) byte.com site. In recent weeks I read a few of them. Each and every one of them was based on readers comments and feedback. If they can do it, why can't we. But then again. If they do it, why don't we join them (or better yet, let them join us). As for structuring such editing. Maybe volunteers could send some kind of "Specialist in Topic X" list. When a suitable article comes along authors/editors can be chosen from these topic lists. Hans Voss --- When you give a man fire he's warm for a day.
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OK, I am not a journalist, I am a linux expert. I installed the OO1.02 binaries, got the mysql binaries, got unixodbc compiled, got it all setup according to the instructions in the mentioned HOWTO.
Then I tried to activate the ODBC connection. It did ask for a password as specified in the connection. Then OpenOffice crashed on me.
So tell me, where couldn't this go wrong. (The UnixODBC DataManager tool does work flawlessly.).
Sigh, do I now have to compile my own OpenOffice installation?
The typical company user doesn't need "All the latest" games. Some games as stress relief (like Freecell or Mines) should be enought.
Large company use requires more howver: Think about converting the old Word/Excel macro-ridden Templates (branding, automatic letters etc.).
Furthermore there is the issue of educating users to the new environment and creating a knowledgable support staff.
I disagree. There is also the VMWare Express version, which sells for only $79. I actually bought the Workstation version back when they sold it single user for $99. I currently use it on my laptop (192MB RAM) which is dual boot. I use it to run my Windows2000 partion under Linux or my Linux partition under Windows 2000. This works quite well. Performance is acceptable (probably because I use a physical disk instead of a virtual one).
I use it so I can read my Exchange / Outlook E-mail (corporate, because corporate IT doesn't want to allow SMTP/POP/IMAP on Exchange.)
Or (when I run Windows) I use it to stay in touch with a sane OS every now and then.
My company bought these machines about a year and a half to two years ago as power machines (DVD player, 192MB RAM, 11GB HD).
I am forced to run Windows 2000 on it because our IT departement lets us read E-mail either using Outlook (no internet protocols enabled on Exchange server and won't be) or Outlook Web Access (which required IE 5.x with ActiveX support to work properly).
Never the less, I also run Linux on it (SuSE 7.2 disto). And nearly everything works perfectly. The SuSE X setup even recognized and configured for the fact the I have two mice (internal and USB).
I network and dialup using PCMCIA Xircom CreditCard (xirc2ps).
The only thing that I haven't got to work is Infrared (but I haven't tried very hard).
Does anyone know if there are any search engines 'out there' that help implement this 'two step' process?
You know, suppose I am looking for something that requires these two steps, but I don't know anything about the subject (That's why I'm searching in the first place). So I don't know what my first search should be like.
Hans Voss
---
Does anybody have a good contact within PGP (pref. close to Phil Zimmerman) and get them to comment on this? (Like how can this be detected, other ways to safe guard against this.... etc.).
Hans Voss
---
This probably isn't about not showing this in the internet. This is about protecting the rights of the media that invested all those billions of dollars to get 'first coverage' of the events. When using internet, almost anything TV coverage can offer has just become completely worthless.
I mean, why should I want to watch to when I can watch exactly what I want to see right here on the net?
Hans Voss
---
I don't rightly know. I send my VMWare boot stats to them so we'll see.
(It was BTW just over an hour (Yawn, definitely Windoze). I just tried this ONCE which was megamuch to much).
Hans Voss
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I just check my (netscape) browsers cookie settings....
And found a setting saying "Only accept cookies originating from the same server as the page being viewed".
This just might be the plug to the "GIF cookie" loophole.
Hans Voss
---
(Seems like the GCC compiler idea to me).
I don't know if I qualify for bi-lingual, but still I feel free to comment.
Whether I use English or Dutch (or for that matter German, which I hardly do at all), I think in that Language.
But on the otherhand, I know that in my head/memory I use a more symbolic representation, this is indicated by that I can usually not recall word by word what was said, but I recall the contents (=symbolic?), both intelectual and emotional.
But then again, this is just me. Maybe there's a mind-specialist among us who knows how this works in general.
Hans Voss
---
Yes, but remember that in WinDoze NT you need to logoff and then logon as Administrator (or whatever the hack you renamed it to).
:-).
Whereas in Unix I just open another XTerm and type 'su'.
Way back when I still used NT as my main Office environment, I made my own useraccount member of the Administrators Group, even knowing full well the implications on system security/stability etc.. This was just because - on whatever OS I run - I wanna be (and usually am) a PowerUser. (I didn't choose a career in IT for no reason, I wanna play with power, sheer unadulterated
Hans Voss
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Scuse me?
12MB over system memory is not enough? I am running my Linux system with a swap space that is actually 16MB less then the amount of RAM.
[I must admit that you need some RAM in the first place. I have 96MB RAM and use 81920 for swap.]. And yes, I use X and Netscape and StarOffice and VMWare (running NT with a simulation of 48MB RAM) at the same time, so I think this qualifies as memory intensive use, at least comparable to what NT goes through with most users.
On my machine having a large pagefile.sys for NT is a good idea actually. I re-use that space as the Linux swap-file. (It's on FAT). But, as I said, I only use a small portion of it.
Whew, this must be about the only reason I still have NT installed. This and the fact that I am just to lazy to do it.Hans Voss
---
Have you seen VMWare (1.1) for Linux yet :-)
Hans Voss
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Ah, but it is unwise to install a SP in the first place. Why replace known bugs with brandnew unknown ones?
Hans Voss
---
I don't know if anyone has looked at some of the articles on the (new) byte.com site. In recent weeks I read a few of them. Each and every one of them was based on readers comments and feedback. If they can do it, why can't we. But then again. If they do it, why don't we join them (or better yet, let them join us). As for structuring such editing. Maybe volunteers could send some kind of "Specialist in Topic X" list. When a suitable article comes along authors/editors can be chosen from these topic lists.
Hans Voss
---
When you give a man fire he's warm for a day.