They probably just layed off the Vista People :-)
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Subject: Re: OT: Microsoft layo
[1] book review by Edward J. Valauskas, of James Boyle's recent book, The
public domain: Enclosing the commons of the mind:
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2350/2080
((quote from the above book review: "Anyone with even the slightest interest
in intellectual
If you plan to become proficient in production RedHat systems (Dell, HP, IBM
xSeries on blades or vSeries zOs) administration, getting a user license is
just the first step toward full understanding of patch management, RHN build
tricks and how licensing works to save money for server farms via
Am 22. Jan, 2009 schwätzte JD Austin so:
Do you happen to have a contact for the instructor?
I tried emailing the dept chair to get an override code never got an answer.
Call in during the day and talk to Jessica.
480 461 6100
I will pass your email address on and ask them to contact you.
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Do you happen to have a contact for the instructor?
I tried emailing the dept chair to get an override code never got an answer.
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Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC
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moin moin,
BII has a VoIP class starting Saturday.
http://bii.mc.maricopa.edu/
Call to find out more information.
It runs Saturday mornings. I believe it started as a Cisco-specific class,
but the instructor now also covers Asterisk and other Free Software VoIP
tools.
ciao,
der.hans
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On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 09:10 -0800, keith smith wrote:
>
> I think we tend to look at Microsoft and a $150 license fee for XP or
> Vista as a lot of money. There are other costs to consider. What is
> your time worth?
>
http://www.crn.com/software/212902058
quotes the following prices in
I gotta say, I think you put too much weight on
piracy. As has been mentioned around here before, most people are very
happy with their older machines and see no need to upgrade either
hardware or software. For most people, a P4 running XP is all they will
need for the rest of their life in all
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 09:10 -0800, keith smith wrote:
> I think we tend to look at Microsoft and a $150 license fee for XP or
> Vista as a lot of money. There are other costs to consider. What is
> your time worth?
Neither XP nor Vista gets $150 for Microsoft if OEM. Only the retail
versio
Yes :) Apple figured that trick out a long time ago (grin)
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JD Austin
Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC
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http://www.twingeckos.com
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Jerry Davis wro
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:41:16 -0700
JD Austin wrote:
> If I were Microsoft I'd use OSS as a jump off point, slap a pretty user
> interface on it and sell it with support.
OS X
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Happy Trails!
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Registered Linux User: 275424
This email's random fortu
Nathan England wrote:
> All,
>
> Possibly a dumb question, so I apologize ahead of time!
>
> I Know admittedly little about Red Hat or Fedora.
> If I decided I want to learn as much about Red Hat as possible, should I
> get an official Red Hat release or is Fedora similar enough that I could
>
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 10:54 -0700, Matt Graham wrote:
> From: Nathan England
> > If I decided I want to learn as much about Red Hat as possible, should I
> > get an official Red Hat release or is Fedora similar enough that I could
> > learn how Red Hat does things?
>
> I believe what you want i
Eric Shubert wrote:
> Nathan England wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> Possibly a dumb question, so I apologize ahead of time!
>>
>> I Know admittedly little about Red Hat or Fedora.
>> If I decided I want to learn as much about Red Hat as possible, should I
>> get an official Red Hat release or is Fedora simi
Suggestions: EXPECT to BUILD and configure and investigation RH (Fedora
"core") systems a few times to learn well! Come to installfests and PLUG
presentations; make some personal friends amoung the exceptional expertise in
the group; ask questions including all documentation, logs and steps
From: Nathan England
> If I decided I want to learn as much about Red Hat as possible, should I
> get an official Red Hat release or is Fedora similar enough that I could
> learn how Red Hat does things?
I believe what you want is CentOS. That's essentially the same packages
as RHEL without th
Nathan England wrote:
> All,
>
> Possibly a dumb question, so I apologize ahead of time!
>
> I Know admittedly little about Red Hat or Fedora.
> If I decided I want to learn as much about Red Hat as possible, should I
> get an official Red Hat release or is Fedora similar enough that I could
>
All,
Possibly a dumb question, so I apologize ahead of time!
I Know admittedly little about Red Hat or Fedora.
If I decided I want to learn as much about Red Hat as possible, should I
get an official Red Hat release or is Fedora similar enough that I could
learn how Red Hat does things? Is the
Most people would still buy their software provided that it was priced
reasonably.
Microsoft Office ***upgrade*** version is over $300.
If I were Microsoft I'd use OSS as a jump off point, slap a pretty user
interface on it and sell it with support.
--
JD Austin
Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC
I would also add that with people wanting to stay with XP and Office being so
feature rich, M$ seems to be at a turning point of becoming an IBM. Still big
but not the market leader it once was.
Keith Smith
--- On Thu, 1/22/09, Craig White wrote:
From: Craig White
I think we tend to look at Microsoft and a $150 license fee for XP or Vista as
a lot of money. There are other costs to consider. What is your time worth?
Most people do not have the need nor the desire to learn Linux.
I personally like the Windows operating system for my desk top. I run Li
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 09:26 -0700, James Finstrom wrote:
> http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/microsoft-layoffs-live-msft
>
> I lived a short while in Washington and knew many Microsoft employees
> so in a general sense Microsoft laying off 5000 people sucks but in
> another sense I would like to
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/microsoft-layoffs-live-msft
I lived a short while in Washington and knew many Microsoft employees so in
a general sense Microsoft laying off 5000 people sucks but in another sense
I would like to think that this is partially our (the Linux world's) doing.
Having
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