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Please Don't Ask Me About Windows On Christmas
Like many Slashdot users I spend a wee bit of my otherwise leisure
time doing gratis tech support for people I may not even know. I usually don't
mind too much but last Christmas I got more than one call from distant
relatives that, along with wanting to spread holiday cheer, had me weigh in on
whatever might be wrong with their new gadget. I was pleased as punch to see this
article in the NYT (F.R.Y.Y.Y) about
where I might be able to send the less techo hip. If you do *Windows* tech
support for grandma after hours this article might also come in handy." Here are a couple of previous articles about the sorry state of conventional support options -- perhaps articles like this will spark some entrepreneurial ideas, too.
suckas
i fucked your grandma
Resembling the needles of acupuncture, some 25 thick pointer-lines penetrate this human ear. Heavier than the linework for the ear itself, the pointers merely link elements in the drawing to letter-codes in a parts list -- a minor task generating much noise and clutter. This poor ear evokes a woodcut published in 1517, "The Wound Man," an image that serves as a walking table of unfortunate contents for combat injuries whose treatment is explained later in Gersdorff's Fieldbook of Wound Surgery. At least these injuries represent the real thing, inflicted in battle rather than by the thick pencils of inept graphic design.
Try going shirtless for a while!
Whoever marked this Troll, I hope I get you in metamod.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
I apologize for this off-topic posting which was submitted earlier to the Slashdot editors, but which was rejected yesterday, due to what I can only assume is slavish adherence by the /. editors to the same politically correct guidelines that are crippling public debate in every corner of the major news media. Now it appears as if the weblogs are headed down the same ruinous route.
I believe that this story is very much in line with the usual Slashdot fare, except that this story deals with hi-tech being used in a politically incorrect fashion.
I also believe that a public debate on the issues and actions discussed in this article is vital to the health of this country and indeed this very weblog, and so therefore I am posting this article here.
If you are an American citizen, of whatever race, who is concerned with the future of America--and with the future of Slashdot--then I ask you to MOD UP THIS POST so that others are more likely to read it.
Thank you.
This Wired News story tells the story of the hi-tech being used by a group of tech-savvy ranchers in Arizona is using military technology to monitor and apprehend illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico into the United States.
Members of the group have spiked their land with thousands of motion sensors. They also use infrared tracking devices, global positioning systems, night vision goggles, radar and other gear to survey movement near the border.
Go to the Wired News story for more...
Yippee, so your systems stay up. I can do the same thing with my linux boxes:
mail/radius/postgres box (authenticates and accounts for all NAS ports across three cities (over 1000 ports)):
colocation box (~48 colocated web/mail hosts):
50-user fileserver (HW RAID5 UW2):
hmm, time's a bit off on that one.
You don't have fancy uptime stats out of the box on Linux, no, but I've never found much use for them except for bragging rights. I get a fuck of a lot of work done under Linux, and I'm sure you get tons of it done under Win2k -- what's your point?
And for the record, I find that I am far more productive with Linux than I ever was with Win32. I am lucky enough to have most of the work I need to do able to be done under Linux, but then again, so does most of the world. The problem I see is that they don't realize that they can be just as productive without paying the Microsoft tax and existing within the upgrade cycle that Wintel places them in.
I get lots of code done on my linux box... perl/tk, my website, java, some C, etc...
and on windows, I get just as much work done....
ut2003, battlefield 1942, neverwinter nights....hey wait a minute....
just a an fyi, not a troll.
my point is, for me, linux is both a tinkering system and a WORKstation... the windows partition is strictly for goofing off:)
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I had a friend burn me a copy of a program once. I'm all excited to try it out when i get home. Put the cd in the drive. Open it up.
YAY!!!!!!!!! an ICON
I know a cd only costs like a penny to buy nowadays, but wasting 700 MB for an icon doesn't seem cool.
Anyone else have this problem?