Comment Smirnoff says... (Score 1) 91
In America, you claim your electrical grid was hacked. Because from Soviet China, grid hacks you!
Comment Re:All Wow No Fuctionality (Score 1) 342
"Used to the old interface".
As in: Windows XP has menubars. Mac OS X has a menubar. Linux distros has menubars. Windows 3.1 had menubars. Mac OS 9 had a menubar. BeOS HAD FRAKKING MENUBARS. In fact, every Gods-damned GUI OS since the Lisa and the Xerox Parc have had menubars!
But then some idiot at Microsoft comes along and shits on 25 years of user interface wisdom by saying: "Hey, you know what? People don't need a menubar. Sure, it only takes up a fraction of screen real-estate, but let's just take it away and not even give them the OPTION of putting it back. Let's replace it with something bulky and clunky where the system of command organization is cryptic and foreign."
So call me a whiner if you like, but when someone takes the steering wheel off the dashboard of your new Taurus because they're "trying something different with the user interface", don't expect any sympathy because its difficult to use.
Comment Re:Common Problem (Score 1) 958
Yup.
Comment Re:All Wow No Fuctionality (Score 1) 342
And for Office 2007?
Ohh.... you can't.
Comment Re:Turn them in. (Score 1) 958
Not to mention the fact that you'll never work in IT again.
Comment Common Problem (Score 3, Insightful) 958
This is a totally unsurprising situation to find at many small businesses. When a business consists of just a handful of people, it is cost prohibitive to actually BUY software.
There is a point, however, that a business has to bite the bullet and "go legit". At certain sizes, businesses show up on Microsoft's anti-piracy radar, and your business can find itself on the receiving end of a software audit. At that point, the business will be liable for not only the costs of any software installed but also fines.
This is a good way to present the situation to your bosses: It's a matter of cost-benefit analysis.
TomTom Sues Microsoft For Patent Infringement 166
CWmike writes "GPS device maker TomTom has shot back at Microsoft with a claim of patent infringement, after the software giant raised concerns in the Linux community with a recent lawsuit against TomTom. In a suit filed earlier this week, TomTom alleges that Microsoft infringes on four patents in mapping software Microsoft Streets and Trips. TomTom is asking for triple damages for willful infringement, since it says it had notified Microsoft about its alleged infringement. Microsoft said it was reviewing TomTom's filing and that it remains committed to a licensing solution and has been for more than a year."
March 14th Officially Becomes National Pi Day 321
whitefox writes "The scoop from CNet is that 'The US House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a resolution introduced two days earlier that designates March 14, 2009 (3/14, get it?) as National Pi Day. It urges schools to take the opportunity to teach their students about Pi and "engage them about the study of mathematics."' The resolution is available online. I doubt it'll ever become a national holiday, but the Pi string in the article is pretty cool in a nerdy sort of way."
Comment Menubar? (Score -1, Flamebait) 483
Are they ditching the ribbon and bringing back the god-damned menu bar? If not, I could care less.
Comment Re:Which country? (Score 1) 243
In the West, you make jokes about Canada.
In Soviet space, no one can hear you scream!
ISS To Become Second Brightest-Object In the Sky 243
Matt_dk writes "Move over, Morning Star. Once Canadarm2 helps install the fourth and final set of solar array wings to the International Space Station later this month, the Station will surpass Venus as the brightest object in the night sky, second only to the Moon. The Space Shuttle Discovery is set to deliver the power-generating solar panels and Starboard 6 (S6) truss segment to the ISS on the 125th mission in the Shuttle program, known as STS-119/15A (slated for launch on March 11)."
Submission + - Has Microsoft's Patent War Against Linux Begun? (blogspot.com)
Glyn Moody writes: "Microsoft has filed a suit against TomTom, "alleging that the in-car navigation company's devices violate eight of its patents — including three that relate to TomTom's implementation of the Linux kernel." What's interesting is that the intellectual property lawyer behind the move, Horacio Gutierrez, has just been promoted to the rank of corporate vice president at Microsoft. Is this his way of announcing that he intends going on the attack against Linux?"
Comment Re:Super bad for Servers (Score 1) 264
I'm very fond of the Server Admin and Workgroup Manager apps that enable clean, easy, GUI-based, remote admin. Also, it's an operating system I'm very familiar with, mostly in terms of directory structure (where everything is) and the way users work.
In theory, I was also hoping that Software Update would streamline the update process, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Strike one.
Comment Re: OS X and package management (Score 1) 264
Hear, hear.
Sometimes it's a pain to get the
If the build-savvy Apple community wanted to help distribute ports, they should just build a whole bunch of
Comment Re:Super bad for Servers (Score 1, Insightful) 264
I use OS X server because I am a Mac-booster and because my associates and I are familiar with *nix conventions and the open-source services that generally run on them. I'd much rather deal with this than run a Windows Server platform.
And for the love of the Gods, don't try to sell me on fink and darwinports. Some people seem to think that dports putting everything it installs in a separate directory is a good thing. It's just confusing and messy.
I've tried fink and dports several times and they've never worked correctly for various reasons. If I can download and gcc compile a project's source in a reasonable amount of time, why would I bother wrestling with fink and dports?
