By definition web sites solicit visitors to visit them, people come and look at information that has been made available for that purpose, i.e. a web site is supposed to be visited by people.
This is true, and I've gone with Ubuntu on my desktop in lieu of WinXP, however for someone like my mum, I can't imagine linux being ready for the desktop yet. Last night, I reinstalled Ubuntu (going from the 64-bit version to the 32-bit), and ran into a pretty glaring bug in the out-of-desktop configuration: X crashed every couple of minutes. So, I boot into single-user mode and run apt-get, and I'm back on my feet after 200M worth of updates.
Would my mum be able to handle that? No, the computer just "wouldn't work". I like OSX for its BSD underpinnings, but its stability and UI make it a good starter drug for non-technical users.
Believe it or not, all those wonderful little smart phones with WindowsCE on them have Pocket Outlook which is incapable of connecting on port 587 for outgoing connections.
Now, this might not be the case with CE 5.0 and onwards, but the versions I've worked with have just baffled me with that one.
Aye, the distinction between Linux/Unix and commercial OSes was a bit odd. Honestly, it should be the three commercial offerings (Apple, Sun, MS) versus BSD/Linux. Totally different beasts, as I'd imagine there's more in common between OpenBSD and Linux, than say, OpenBSD and Solaris, or OSX
What? I'm a professional web designer, and we get hired out to do these things all the time. Not all of Microsoft's PR is going to be internal, these things do get outsourced, you know.
Believe it. I just gave Fedora a shot this weekend, and couldn't last more than a day or two. RPM and Yum are a pretty weak combination compared to.deb and Apt. It took me four hours to install the base system because the installer kept throwing up dependancy errors, and there was no autocleaning mechanism to tidy up after itself once I bludgeoned it into working.
I'm a web designer/developer in a mostly print design shop, and we actually ran into a situation where one of our designers quit to work in-house with one of our clients. The effect being that she left, and having no more need of us, the client did too.
So what happens? Nothing really. We chose not to pursue the legal route because the client wasn't worth what we would've had to pay in legal fees, and secondly because no legal ruling would repair the situation. Sure, maybe we could bilk a little extra cash out of the client on the way out, but we couldn't seek an injunction against our designer working for them.
Ultimately, after asking a couple of HR people I know, I found out that these things are pretty much only valid if you're getting something in return. ie: If I ask this of a designer, then right there, in the contract there has to be spelled out some level of compensation for the direct act of denying them this revenue source should they leave. Otherwise you'd get laughed out of court for trying to enforce this, at least to my understanding (and ovbiously, IANAL).
I'd highly recommend you have a look at Crossover which is a nice wrapper to Wine that makes running and installing Windows prorgams much easier, however you're still bound by Wine's compatability.
Outside of that, maybe you should check out Ubuntu. I've tried both, and I can easily attest to the fact that Samba under Ubuntu is a breeze (just select the folders you want to share, and you're good to go!).
CSS is mature as a standard, though it's lacking a good implementation of many of its features. Web browsers really haven't had much reason to properly implement CSS print standards and layouts, so most browsers are optimized for printing table-based layouts.
I have no doubt that you could print a book with CSS/HTML or manage a Word style document, but you'd need a platform that holds the spec much tighter than the current crop (and yes, that includes Firefox).
Actually one of the highlights of the CSS spec is support for non-standard display types, such as screen readers, projectors, PDA, and yes, print. CSS is a rather brilliant standard, but since W3C hasn't really seen fit to publish a reference platform for it, there's no real compliance checking in the major browers.
It's not too difficult, if you think about it. Your IP address (whether dynamic or static) is assigned to you by your ISP. Most IP addresses are dynamic, so they're assigned when you log in, or otherwise connect to the internet. At this point, the ISP has logs of the MAC address of the network interface adaptor that's knocking on its door asking to get online.
Furthermore, most ISPs have a number of sub-stations to distribute load, and so if you knew which IP address you wanted to track and knew the day and time that the IP addresse was in use, you could simply ask the ISP who would be able to report back to you what kind of computer logged in and from which region they logged in from.
Well, and while this obviously doens't apply to you, I'm sure we've all had the converse happen where we geeks get to deal with IT departments that know far less than us.
Yes, I'm look at you, Mr. University IT Department.
If you're just going to redirect the nameservers to your webhost, I'd highly recommend Yahoo Small Business. Seriously, $10 a year, and the service has been pretty top notch compared to the other registrars I've dealt with.
If you do any web design/development, I'd also recommend Dreamhost. They're a reluctant registrar, as they mostly provide it as a service to bolster their website hosting business, but their support is very good.
Now, I wouldn't say that it's just as easy as "Use web standards" as IE6 does a good job of buggering that up. Honestly, it requires a bit of time and dedication, and depending on the complexity of your layouts, a near encyclopedic knowledge of IE6 specific bugs and accoutrement workarounds, but it's sure as hell worth the effort when you're re-laying content and adding new pages daily.
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Based on the incorrect assumption that the UNIX way is the "right" way to handle this? Yes.
By definition Windows boxes solicit Trojans. ;)
It's cool, dude, I don't think they're on to you yet.
Oh man, I can use GMail without a network connection now?
SWEET!
Oh, you mean, this worm? Absolutely bloody fascinating, mind you.
Well, if the price raise ($0.42) is lower than the inflationary adjustment of $6 over 8 years, then, technically it did go down.
This is true, and I've gone with Ubuntu on my desktop in lieu of WinXP, however for someone like my mum, I can't imagine linux being ready for the desktop yet. Last night, I reinstalled Ubuntu (going from the 64-bit version to the 32-bit), and ran into a pretty glaring bug in the out-of-desktop configuration: X crashed every couple of minutes. So, I boot into single-user mode and run apt-get, and I'm back on my feet after 200M worth of updates.
Would my mum be able to handle that? No, the computer just "wouldn't work". I like OSX for its BSD underpinnings, but its stability and UI make it a good starter drug for non-technical users.
Believe it or not, all those wonderful little smart phones with WindowsCE on them have Pocket Outlook which is incapable of connecting on port 587 for outgoing connections.
Now, this might not be the case with CE 5.0 and onwards, but the versions I've worked with have just baffled me with that one.
Aye, the distinction between Linux/Unix and commercial OSes was a bit odd. Honestly, it should be the three commercial offerings (Apple, Sun, MS) versus BSD/Linux. Totally different beasts, as I'd imagine there's more in common between OpenBSD and Linux, than say, OpenBSD and Solaris, or OSX
RTFA, mate. The article covers (from install to final use) Windows XP, WindowsXP SP2, Windows Vista Ultimate. Yes, he does cover Service Pack 2.
So uh... You really don't know why it's called Bluetooth, eh?
What? I'm a professional web designer, and we get hired out to do these things all the time. Not all of Microsoft's PR is going to be internal, these things do get outsourced, you know.
Believe it. I just gave Fedora a shot this weekend, and couldn't last more than a day or two. RPM and Yum are a pretty weak combination compared to .deb and Apt. It took me four hours to install the base system because the installer kept throwing up dependancy errors, and there was no autocleaning mechanism to tidy up after itself once I bludgeoned it into working.
I'm a web designer/developer in a mostly print design shop, and we actually ran into a situation where one of our designers quit to work in-house with one of our clients. The effect being that she left, and having no more need of us, the client did too.
So what happens? Nothing really. We chose not to pursue the legal route because the client wasn't worth what we would've had to pay in legal fees, and secondly because no legal ruling would repair the situation. Sure, maybe we could bilk a little extra cash out of the client on the way out, but we couldn't seek an injunction against our designer working for them.
Ultimately, after asking a couple of HR people I know, I found out that these things are pretty much only valid if you're getting something in return. ie: If I ask this of a designer, then right there, in the contract there has to be spelled out some level of compensation for the direct act of denying them this revenue source should they leave. Otherwise you'd get laughed out of court for trying to enforce this, at least to my understanding (and ovbiously, IANAL).
I'd highly recommend you have a look at Crossover which is a nice wrapper to Wine that makes running and installing Windows prorgams much easier, however you're still bound by Wine's compatability.
Outside of that, maybe you should check out Ubuntu. I've tried both, and I can easily attest to the fact that Samba under Ubuntu is a breeze (just select the folders you want to share, and you're good to go!).
And didn't they cut email service to an entire segment of the internet last year?
CSS is mature as a standard, though it's lacking a good implementation of many of its features. Web browsers really haven't had much reason to properly implement CSS print standards and layouts, so most browsers are optimized for printing table-based layouts.
I have no doubt that you could print a book with CSS/HTML or manage a Word style document, but you'd need a platform that holds the spec much tighter than the current crop (and yes, that includes Firefox).
Actually one of the highlights of the CSS spec is support for non-standard display types, such as screen readers, projectors, PDA, and yes, print. CSS is a rather brilliant standard, but since W3C hasn't really seen fit to publish a reference platform for it, there's no real compliance checking in the major browers.
Hmm... both of these standards suck. I know what, we need another choice!
Somehow I don't think that's going to fix the problem. Oh, and pointing out that the Microsoft letter doesn't validate. Isn't that a little petty?
It's not too difficult, if you think about it. Your IP address (whether dynamic or static) is assigned to you by your ISP. Most IP addresses are dynamic, so they're assigned when you log in, or otherwise connect to the internet. At this point, the ISP has logs of the MAC address of the network interface adaptor that's knocking on its door asking to get online.
Furthermore, most ISPs have a number of sub-stations to distribute load, and so if you knew which IP address you wanted to track and knew the day and time that the IP addresse was in use, you could simply ask the ISP who would be able to report back to you what kind of computer logged in and from which region they logged in from.
Well, and while this obviously doens't apply to you, I'm sure we've all had the converse happen where we geeks get to deal with IT departments that know far less than us.
Yes, I'm look at you, Mr. University IT Department.
If you're just going to redirect the nameservers to your webhost, I'd highly recommend Yahoo Small Business. Seriously, $10 a year, and the service has been pretty top notch compared to the other registrars I've dealt with.
If you do any web design/development, I'd also recommend Dreamhost. They're a reluctant registrar, as they mostly provide it as a service to bolster their website hosting business, but their support is very good.
Man, thank god that's not a Tom Cruise missile. I hear those things are deadly.
Perhaps you should read this: http://www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000148.
SUDO and SU are very different.
Now, I wouldn't say that it's just as easy as "Use web standards" as IE6 does a good job of buggering that up. Honestly, it requires a bit of time and dedication, and depending on the complexity of your layouts, a near encyclopedic knowledge of IE6 specific bugs and accoutrement workarounds, but it's sure as hell worth the effort when you're re-laying content and adding new pages daily.