Comment Re:Fat Chance (Score 1) 482
That's the problem with FOSS. It seems to slip through most everybody's fingers.....
It's not a problem. It's a feature to keep it available to everyone.
Comment Re:Volcanos: not responsible for warming, sorry (Score 0) 875
"Checking the numbers" only works on those whose minds are open enough to step outside the comforting, narrative-supporting cocoon of Fox News and question the notion that everything that challenges your assumptions is part of the conspiracy. And even well-educated, otherwise mentally-capable people can be imprisoned by that narrative, because it's comforting.
I'm just kinda glad you don't have an agenda or anything.
Comment Or maybe fix the underlying OS... (Score 0) 465
...so it doesn't NEED malware protection.
wait. that's CRAZY talk.
Comment Where's the score on cross-platform support? (Score 0) 524
Funny, didn't see one thing about how well it works on Mac/*nix/mobile devices. Did I miss something?
Comment Re:And you expected something different? (Score 0) 208
So they're going to be taught rote skills, ie how to use MS Word, as opposed to how use a "word processor", so if they're asked by their employer to use something besides Word, they're screwed? ...Awesome
Comment Re:Indeed it is a problem (Score 0) 904
Of course you don't. You don't "need" it in Windows, either. But having it is a lot more convenient for people like the submitter than not having it, and if Linux wants to get more copies in the enterprise, they should figure out some standardized way of emulating it.
What I was getting at is that all the tools are already there. For people who need "point and click and shiny", yes I would agree, but there's so much more flexibility and control with the tools that do exist in *nix, that at least IMO emulating windows technology is just going to be too restrictive. Once one is willing to explore just a little bit, the power in unix is quite breathtaking, esp when compared to what you get with windows. Yeah, there's a learning curve, but it's not too bad.
From a practical perspective, a spreadsheet is a database. Just not a relational one.
okay, technically speaking, that's true. let me put it another way. Like windows, spreadsheets have a shallow learning curve, but do not scale very well. To do anything serious, you will quickly abandon the former for the latter.
Comment Re:Indeed it is a problem (Score 0) 904
If you don't even KNOW what group policy is, why are you posting here? Get a knowledge injection of how NT and AD works, then come back.
No, not everything group policy does can be done in Linux.
In *nix, you don't *need* Group Policy. And there's no smells-of-ass, cluster-fuck registry "technology" to deal with. AD started out life as a stunted, dumbed down LDAP server. A poor copy of Novell's NDS. Granted it's gotten better, but it's still more restrictive than it needs to be. Applying windows technology in this case is like calling a spreadsheet a database.
Comment Time to Fire Up the Barbeque (Score 1, Funny) 183
Tasty pig parts smoked w/pecan and applewood. low and sloooooooow. The plume should be visible from space.
Now will just have to see if anyone from NASA shows up for dinner...
Comment Re:there's plenty of address space (Score 0) 258
NAT also cuts their traffic costs because it keeps customers from running servers.
Aside from TOS issues, running servers (at least web servers) is no big deal. I've run a web server for years on dynamic IP addresses, thanks to dyndns.org.
Comment Re:Can you think of any famous female programmers? (Score 0, Redundant) 347
Admiral Grace Hopper (Invented COBOL)
Submission + - Ulteo OpenOffice Desktop - Beyond Cool
ghbpiper writes: Desktop linux had an article recently about Ulteo openoffice.org desktop. OpenOffice.org goes online with SAAS version.
Seems to me they just blew past both Google and Microsoft, esp in terms of the functionality possible in applications running in the cloud. I wonder how many chairs lost their lives over this in a particular executive's office in Redmond, WA?
