No. Although I don't remember a time when it acted like you're describing.

A brief look at the link showed 'Multiple LDAP authentication support'. So the answer to your question is yes, Redmine can leverage Active Directory services.

I'd list out tons of rebutals to your claim, but I'm way too lazy. A few though... bought the Orange Box when it was new, for $45. 6 games in there. Bought UT3 on sale for $12. Normally $20. Buy a pack of great indie games for $20.. Braid for $10, entire ID collection (some 10 or more games?) for $75. I love just clicking to get a new game, but that's the way I am with everything. Similar case, if it's not on Hulu, I usually don't bother. I'm a sucker for easily accessible media. Wave of the future dude, 100% electronic.

Yes, same here. This article surprised me; I'm running Kubuntu 9.04 on a Dell Latitude D630. It was old and abused before I got it, and I still get ~4 hrs battery life doing research and coding projects. Default install of Kubuntu, no tweaks, default power options that it came installed with. I've been very pleased with it, especially in regards to suspend/resume - I never shut this thing down completely. Always using a wireless connection as well. I can't say much about the disk drive power usage though, as I never use it.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1275379&cid=28397147&art_pos=5

A post of mine from a similar story a short time ago:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1275379&cid=28397147&art_pos=4

M-Audio, Ardour, Jack, etc in production, with some examples of end results.

Why is this modded interesting. Google docs exports to ODF by default, as well as PDF and DOC. How is that lock-in? Standards based formats? And 'held hostage'?? I can get my docs off Google's servers at any time by clicking File > Download. God forbid I'd want an easy free service to store my documents in a location I can access securely anywhere in the world. If it really scares you, don't use it, or use it, download the documents to a flash drive and delete them off Google Docs. Thankfully they're not in a locked-in format such as docx that can only be read in ONE application suite with any degree of certainty.

And I didn't even start talking about how much easier collaboration is in these suites.

Sheesh.

The Dell mini 10v is $299. Get solid state drive for an extra $30. Same price for Ubuntu or WinXP. Looks like they just got rid of the mini 9, too bad. It was also $299.

Can't see prices getting too much lower than that!

That's how the Web started out - free of commercials. People got greedy though.

:-)

I'm with you. I've been using Ardour and Hydrogen for years. Also use Rosegarden for keyboard synth. My keyboard is a M-Audio 49-key USB interface, just plug it in and go. I've set up a few audio production systems for friends as well. Shane Bertrand has been recording and mixing his own music on one for 5 years now. A 10 input M-Audio Delta 1010LT sound card, Ardour, and Hydrogen are his main tools. They recorded and produced both CWO albums on this setup. They used 5 mics to record the drummer; Shane's modest system had no problems handling it all, even at more than 40 tracks in a song. He had a Sempron 2500+ and 512MB RAM w/ Kubuntu, just upgraded to a X2 3800, 2GB RAM a few months ago.

Wouldn't they be able to license included libraries under different agreements to compensate for this? Or does a patent agreement not work the same as copyright agreements in that respect?

I use OpenOffice Draw as an alternative to Visio. I'm able to make good looking flowcharts and network diagrams and save them to PDF. Works great for what I need it for. Colleagues have never had a negative comment regarding the diagrams etc.

It's odd how little need I have for spreadsheet software. I don't know where I'm going wrong that I don't get to use one more often :) As a network engineer and administrator, I still find the only value for me in a spreadsheet is doing my monthly finances (very simple) at home. Once in a while I'll use Calc to format some cvs file before importing to a database. I guess I've also built up some service quotes in a spreadsheet, but Calc was good enough for that as well, and the resulting PDF looked great, rather professional even.

Patience, young Padawan. They're coming; Motorola's been all abuzz about it for a few months now, they're hoping it will save their skin. Samsung and Sony are among others that have announced phones arriving in 2009.

Besides, there's only one Android phone in the US market now, and it just came out 6 months ago.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/smartphones/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212501692

Yes but makers of netbooks aren't targeting Linux users, they're targeting users. So the above question is valid, although I do think vendors are already picking up and polishing Linux to go on their devices. If you want a Dell Mini 9, it's clear that Ubuntu is available on it, and it's clear that it's cheaper. It's the only OS option for the $299 starter price, and on the higher price points w/ camera and bluetooth, Windows and Linux purchase buttons are right beside each other. If they're that forward with offering Linux on the device, they're (hopefully) providing a well tested and polished version, especially since they've been putting Linux on machines for a few years now.

In my office, a few techs have had to help a realtor that bought a Samsung netbook w/ Linux. He's enjoying it, a frustration here and there (his company's office printer would need extra licensing to print postscript, and Linux doesn't have a non-postscript driver for a Sharp AR-M355N). From what I've overheard, it sounds like a modified Gnome desktop, but I don't know what package manager/distro.

Scratch that, it has gOS.

We, the Linux users, will probably install whatever distro we want anyways. The vendors don't care what happens once it's purchased, and you'll wipe it clean if it needs warranty repair. The upside is a better chance that all the hardware in the device works immediately.

Isn't it good that Google Docs saves documents to your desktop as ODF by default, can export PDF easily, and can read/export iCal format? Using open formats ensures that we can move to another platform if necessary.