informationweek.com— FAA chief information officer David Bowen said he's taking a close look at the Premier Edition of Google Apps as he mulls replacements for the agency's Windows XP-based desktop computers and laptops.
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haha gotta love the comparisons between a completely un-administered windows environment where the user has all the rights to do whatever they want to the desktop and some other OS that actually has an administrator that locks things down. Sorry but that's not a comparison of features, that's a comparison of IT management policies.
@CrazyzActually most government departments I've found deal largely with office products and a couple of custom built business programs for filling in form data. It's by far the minority of government employees that will be dealing with advanced programs like autocad, mathcad or sql and a VERY minute amount would have anything to do with audio or video engineering. And yes I have worked in the government, in support actually.
Try IRC, there are a lot of helpful people on ##linux on freenode that can probably help with your printer. In my case, it was a matter of taking the printer out of the box, clicking System->Administration->Printing, clicking new printer, selecting the model, and it just worked, no driver installation or anything. The hardest part of installing the new printer was putting in the ink cartridges :) Chances are yours isn't automatically detected and you just need to install a driver.
Really? It seems to me that windows asks me to reboot about 50% of the time when it updates(rough estimate, sometimes I don't notice when it is updating either).
Some time in the 1960's, computers fill a room, and the practicality of a thin client (terminal) is the only reasonable solution.1981, IBM announces the "PC" and everyone proclaims the death of the thin client.2003, "Web 2.0" (puke) arrives and thin clients are in again.Ever get the feeling you're going in circles?
Fine look at it objectively, the FAAs main concern is compatibility of the applications they currently use, surely they use custom made inhouse software in some areas. Yah like that s**ts going to work out of the box on linux. So far every application I use has worked fine on vista with the exception of games (nvidias fault) only netlimiter required me to disable UAC in order to install it. Troll my ass.
yazilliclickMar 7, 2007
haha gotta love the comparisons between a completely un-administered windows environment where the user has all the rights to do whatever they want to the desktop and some other OS that actually has an administrator that locks things down. Sorry but that's not a comparison of features, that's a comparison of IT management policies.
yazilliclickMar 7, 2007
@CrazyzActually most government departments I've found deal largely with office products and a couple of custom built business programs for filling in form data. It's by far the minority of government employees that will be dealing with advanced programs like autocad, mathcad or sql and a VERY minute amount would have anything to do with audio or video engineering. And yes I have worked in the government, in support actually.
sadatoniMar 7, 2007
Hey, I know, lets go back to the "Green Screen". Anyone have any extra VT100's laying around?q
Closed AccountMar 7, 2007
Try IRC, there are a lot of helpful people on ##linux on freenode that can probably help with your printer. In my case, it was a matter of taking the printer out of the box, clicking System->Administration->Printing, clicking new printer, selecting the model, and it just worked, no driver installation or anything. The hardest part of installing the new printer was putting in the ink cartridges :) Chances are yours isn't automatically detected and you just need to install a driver.
selrahcMar 7, 2007
Really? It seems to me that windows asks me to reboot about 50% of the time when it updates(rough estimate, sometimes I don't notice when it is updating either).
obkenobiMar 7, 2007
Microsoft troll attack detected.
bradleylandMar 7, 2007
Some time in the 1960's, computers fill a room, and the practicality of a thin client (terminal) is the only reasonable solution.1981, IBM announces the "PC" and everyone proclaims the death of the thin client.2003, "Web 2.0" (puke) arrives and thin clients are in again.Ever get the feeling you're going in circles?
diggnationdevonMar 7, 2007
This title is inaccurate. They are still using Windows XP, not Windows Vista.
benitojuarezMar 8, 2007
Fine look at it objectively, the FAAs main concern is compatibility of the applications they currently use, surely they use custom made inhouse software in some areas. Yah like that s**ts going to work out of the box on linux. So far every application I use has worked fine on vista with the exception of games (nvidias fault) only netlimiter required me to disable UAC in order to install it. Troll my ass.