Microsoft estimates that the software piracy of an international counterfeiting syndicate, over the past six years, cost the company at least $2 billion in lost software revenue.
That's bullshit. The Chinese are pirating software because they can't afford the real thing. If they weren't pirating Windows, they simply wouldn't have it. Therefore, Microsoft has lost no money to software piracy, because there was never potential for them to get any.
However, if Microsoft started selling legit copies of Windows in China for very cheap (I'm talking as cheap as the counterfeits), they'd probably start making more money on the Chinese market.
Sure, it's been easy to swap a few things around in many distributions' installation ISOs for a long time, but it hasn't been very "easy" except for a few distros built specifically for modification by end users. Fedora 7 provides a nice easy GUI for it:)
I've got an HP PSC 1210 (basically the same as the 13xx series, but without the card readers) and I like it as well. It's quite good on ink and the scanner works well.
As far as *NIX support goes (if that even matters in this case): CUPS, hpijs, and hplip (for scanner support). On the plus side, hpijs is now included in hplip;) Everything works.
A neat IDE that is often overlooked is Geany. Uses GTK+2 and is very small and fast (the binary distro for most systems is about 1.1 MB). Other good IDEs for Linux are Code::Blocks (which has great support for compilers besides gcc), and Sun Studio. Vi is a great text editor, but I wouldn't consider it an IDE (coming from a DOS/Windows background) in the sense of an integrated development environment. KDevelop is pretty cool if you're on KDE, but it's quite hefty. Even as a Gnome user, Anjuta just plain displeases me: I find the UI unbearable. Eclipse is good in some respects, but I find it's too big and slow.
Maybe there's something new in there you could try, but it's all really a matter of preference. I can believe Vi is awesome myself, but clearly other people don't like it at all, and everyone is entitled to use what they like. Flames haven't managed to convert anyone to anything, guys. If anything, they manage to put people off and make them less likely to use convert!
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That's bullshit. The Chinese are pirating software because they can't afford the real thing. If they weren't pirating Windows, they simply wouldn't have it. Therefore, Microsoft has lost no money to software piracy, because there was never potential for them to get any. However, if Microsoft started selling legit copies of Windows in China for very cheap (I'm talking as cheap as the counterfeits), they'd probably start making more money on the Chinese market.
This means that Dr. Phil was wrong the whole time. Women really do need men to be complete!
Sure, it's been easy to swap a few things around in many distributions' installation ISOs for a long time, but it hasn't been very "easy" except for a few distros built specifically for modification by end users. Fedora 7 provides a nice easy GUI for it :)
Check out Fedora 7 which has tool to make easy "respins."
I've got an HP PSC 1210 (basically the same as the 13xx series, but without the card readers) and I like it as well. It's quite good on ink and the scanner works well.
;) Everything works.
As far as *NIX support goes (if that even matters in this case): CUPS, hpijs, and hplip (for scanner support). On the plus side, hpijs is now included in hplip
I've got KateOS Live, Kanotix, Puppy, the Ubuntu LTS alternate installer CD, and the gParted bootable CD. Take them with me everywhere.
A neat IDE that is often overlooked is Geany. Uses GTK+2 and is very small and fast (the binary distro for most systems is about 1.1 MB). Other good IDEs for Linux are Code::Blocks (which has great support for compilers besides gcc), and Sun Studio. Vi is a great text editor, but I wouldn't consider it an IDE (coming from a DOS/Windows background) in the sense of an integrated development environment. KDevelop is pretty cool if you're on KDE, but it's quite hefty. Even as a Gnome user, Anjuta just plain displeases me: I find the UI unbearable. Eclipse is good in some respects, but I find it's too big and slow. Maybe there's something new in there you could try, but it's all really a matter of preference. I can believe Vi is awesome myself, but clearly other people don't like it at all, and everyone is entitled to use what they like. Flames haven't managed to convert anyone to anything, guys. If anything, they manage to put people off and make them less likely to use convert!