I've had just the opposite experience. With Windows, I always have to use driver CDs (Windows XP was nicer in this regard, but drivers still needed to be installed). This is weird. Things are just supposed to work. On the other hand, my Linux distro (just happens to be Ubuntu) doesn't need all that crap, I don't even need to set up anything. I can just pop in a CD, boot from there, and I have a fully usable computer. Things like this make me go Wow! On the other hand, I do recognise that other people may have it different, my friend's computer gets locked up if you use stuff like Fire in Compiz (onboard graphics). Ah well.
Actually, there was a/. article a while ago that said that the boxes controlling some botnet (probably Storm, I don't recall) were mostly rooted Linux boxes. So the linux servers were used to control the rest of the compromised machines. I would think Linux servers are a very attractive target, they're usually on for long periods of time and always have internet access as opposed to the home computer which is switched off every night and/or has to login to the internet every time. Linux machines aren't invincible, really.
I actually noticed this in high school physics class and was pretty thrilled about it. I remember applying that on 2*pi*sqrt(l/g) as a quick way of approximating an answer on a multiple choice question. It's a lovely feeling:)
pirating the music so that the evil RIAA gets nothing whatsoever and the songwriters get a percentage of that. Indeed, pirate the music, push the MPAA and RIAA out of business! ~
Aww, you made me proud of Gnome. Nautilus asks me "Empty all of the items in Trash?" in bold followed by a short description about items being permanently lost. The button choices are, "Empty Trash" and "Cancel", completely unambiguous. I agree about that thing about most people not reading the text on dialog boxes, I never used to.
I didn't know that about keyboard shortcuts, that's very interesting stuff there.
I think it unlikely that such a story (with BSD) would make it to/. unless, of course, there's an equivalent to LinuxDevices.com which has news on as many new gadgets that use Linux as possible. Is there a website that promotes devices that use either of those systems? It's likely that whoever submitted the story just took the headline off the article. The article naturally had Linux in its name because that's why it's listed on LinuxDevices.com, it's the fact that it runs Linux that's interesting to them.
I think we disagree on the meaning of explicit:) but atleast I got a laugh out of that last line of yours. Detergents ha ha.
"We made a conscious decision to move to Linux because TinyOS was not as easy to work with," says Madden. "With Linux, there are also a huge number of people developing device drivers, and our graduate students already know how to develop with it."
The article explicitly mentions that there was an advantage to the switch, that's why the mention. I disagree that the/. headline should have had it, because the headline just sounds funny this way. Like it's some epic battle that MIT researchers are waging against Gridlock with Linux as their weapon, no wait, I changed my mind - I like it this way.
Is this true? I would like to believe it but I can't find any references. In fact, most references are to the contrary - the MPs endorsing the death sentence.
You know what, dude? Enough of your religious bullshit. If I had to choose between Christianity or Islam I would think that the world I live in is fucked up beyond all imagination. Two violent movements, each claiming peace, each irrational, each opposing human progress. My god, man, it's like having to choose between Beelzebub and Lucifer.
People like you only serve to make matters worse. While the rest of us who are either passively religious or not religious make some attempt to peace, you pull this childish "My religion is better than yours".
I understand what you're saying quite perfectly. However, I disagree that apparent harm even matters. Just the fact that they did bundle IE with Windows andand bullied companies out of replacing IE with another browser is enough for it to be an antitrust violation. There needn't be any harm, IE could be at 3% market share and it would still be an antitrust violation simply because they did attempt to leverage their OS monopoly to increase browser share - the final impact is irrelevant so long as there is proof that they attempted this.
Of course IANAL, so if you are one, then I won't argue any further.
I had a funny experience. Unreal Tournament wouldn't run in Windows 98 unless it was in UT's "Safe Mode" and that didn't have sounds and stuff. Under Red Hat 8, the linux port ran beautifully on the same computer. I had good experiences with wine too, then, but you had to do lots of fiddling. However, to be frank, I haven't been able to play too many windows games with wine (Warcraft III on a Unichrome chipset, you can give up with wine, but it runs fine in Windows) but I think that's more a driver issue. I suspect Linux drivers are rarely as good as Windows drivers (even Intel's).
Wine plays bad with Via stuff. It could lock up my old Pentium IV box with a Via on-board graphics chipset. The Unichrome chipset is hell for wine, just trust me and leave it alone, via's graphics drivers are awful (the ones they've released on the site are useless and even harmful). One thing I noticed is that wine does something funny with the graphics, it doesn't load like just any other program, and when I had bad OpenGL rendering it would work bad, and when I had good rendering it worked better. Just my experience though, things may be different elsewhere.
A large number of people use Photoshop, but nearly all copies are pirated. It's pretty obvious, go to any Photoshop tutorials site and you'll see people reading tutorials on how to make a 'cool forum sig' in Photoshop. I find it very hard to believe that people pay $649 to do that and even if people do make such decisions I find it hard to believe that anyone pays $649 for software which they don't know how to use (If it's a tutorial posted on a forum the replies are indicative of this, people will say stuff like, "But Ctrl-Shift-U doesn't work for desaturate!" and then the guy who wrote the tutorial will mention that the shortcut key changed in the newest version)
Opera's case is that there is some harm, you agree there is some harm. That's all there is. I'm pretty sure the anti-trust allegations could still be made if Opera, Firefox and IE were at 33% each. The point is that the Windows monopoly is being leveraged (by making IE so well integrated into the OS and hard to remove) to get into the browser market.
Essentially using your monopoly in one market (Windows in the OS market) to force another product in another market (IE in the browser market) is what caused the anti-trust allegations. That's all there is to it, IIRC, the second product (IE) doesn't even have to become a monopoly in the other market (browsers).
Well, that's actually the point. They're using the Windows monopoly to promote IE by bundling IE with Windows. The monopoly is Windows, they're trying to corner the browser market by using their OS monopoly.
That and they'll probably block all of google the second it comes to light someone searched for "bomb prime minister". The last time, they blocked all of blogspot because they claimed some blogs were being used by terrorists. It was funny and sad simultaneously.
I had a torrent on the whole night and it didn't break. I, atleast, didn't lose connectivity. I suspect this affects only certain providers because I'm pretty sure mine (Airtel) has its own line going East to Singapore and two other providers have their own cables (BSNL, Tata inherited from VSNL, it's probably one of these that broke).
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Fascinating, where do you live? Mine is 5 USD / month + 0.12 cents / SMS. I get 1.1 USD worth of credit for that much, after which I need to buy more. Calls are 2 cents a minute and if I pay an extra dollar, I can make calls at half a cent to numbers on my provider and 1.2 cents to numbers on another provider and I get 100 free SMS per day with 0.24 cents / SMS above that. I'm in India. Actually, I thought it was pretty bad the way it was, but converting makes it look so much better.
The warning about diving is reasonable. There are people who will try diving into everything. A while ago there was this article in the news here about a kid who killed himself diving (head first) into a shallow swimming pool for kids. One guy from my college died two years ago when he dived into a natural pond nearby, the pond itself is usually deep enough, but there'd been rains recently and part of the side had caved in when the rainwater flowed in, so the floor was raised a bit.
As for the battery charger, there are people who have accidentally microwaved their laptop and in the litigation-friendly world that America is, it's only safe to have that warning (even though these people who microwaved their laptop did not, in fact, try to sue). There is also the "Do not throw in fire" warning, and people do have a tendency to do stuff like that. And while we're talking about litigation, someone was expressing contempt at "Coffee is hot.": Does no one remember Liebeck vs. McDonald's? Get rid of that ridiculous let's-sue-everyone crap and such warning labels will sort themselves out, but complaining about the warning labels without bothering to address this issue is ignorance at best and incredible stupidity at worst.
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I've had just the opposite experience. With Windows, I always have to use driver CDs (Windows XP was nicer in this regard, but drivers still needed to be installed). This is weird. Things are just supposed to work. On the other hand, my Linux distro (just happens to be Ubuntu) doesn't need all that crap, I don't even need to set up anything. I can just pop in a CD, boot from there, and I have a fully usable computer. Things like this make me go Wow! On the other hand, I do recognise that other people may have it different, my friend's computer gets locked up if you use stuff like Fire in Compiz (onboard graphics). Ah well.
I hate you, you spoil so many potential disaster movies.
Actually, there was a /. article a while ago that said that the boxes controlling some botnet (probably Storm, I don't recall) were mostly rooted Linux boxes. So the linux servers were used to control the rest of the compromised machines. I would think Linux servers are a very attractive target, they're usually on for long periods of time and always have internet access as opposed to the home computer which is switched off every night and/or has to login to the internet every time. Linux machines aren't invincible, really.
I actually noticed this in high school physics class and was pretty thrilled about it. I remember applying that on 2*pi*sqrt(l/g) as a quick way of approximating an answer on a multiple choice question. It's a lovely feeling :)
pirating the music so that the evil RIAA gets nothing whatsoever and the songwriters get a percentage of that. Indeed, pirate the music, push the MPAA and RIAA out of business! ~
Aww, you made me proud of Gnome. Nautilus asks me "Empty all of the items in Trash?" in bold followed by a short description about items being permanently lost. The button choices are, "Empty Trash" and "Cancel", completely unambiguous. I agree about that thing about most people not reading the text on dialog boxes, I never used to.
I didn't know that about keyboard shortcuts, that's very interesting stuff there.
I think it unlikely that such a story (with BSD) would make it to /. unless, of course, there's an equivalent to LinuxDevices.com which has news on as many new gadgets that use Linux as possible. Is there a website that promotes devices that use either of those systems? It's likely that whoever submitted the story just took the headline off the article. The article naturally had Linux in its name because that's why it's listed on LinuxDevices.com, it's the fact that it runs Linux that's interesting to them.
I think we disagree on the meaning of explicit :) but atleast I got a laugh out of that last line of yours. Detergents ha ha.
Is this true? I would like to believe it but I can't find any references. In fact, most references are to the contrary - the MPs endorsing the death sentence.
You know what, dude? Enough of your religious bullshit. If I had to choose between Christianity or Islam I would think that the world I live in is fucked up beyond all imagination. Two violent movements, each claiming peace, each irrational, each opposing human progress. My god, man, it's like having to choose between Beelzebub and Lucifer.
People like you only serve to make matters worse. While the rest of us who are either passively religious or not religious make some attempt to peace, you pull this childish "My religion is better than yours".
I understand what you're saying quite perfectly. However, I disagree that apparent harm even matters. Just the fact that they did bundle IE with Windows andand bullied companies out of replacing IE with another browser is enough for it to be an antitrust violation. There needn't be any harm, IE could be at 3% market share and it would still be an antitrust violation simply because they did attempt to leverage their OS monopoly to increase browser share - the final impact is irrelevant so long as there is proof that they attempted this.
Of course IANAL, so if you are one, then I won't argue any further.
I had a funny experience. Unreal Tournament wouldn't run in Windows 98 unless it was in UT's "Safe Mode" and that didn't have sounds and stuff. Under Red Hat 8, the linux port ran beautifully on the same computer. I had good experiences with wine too, then, but you had to do lots of fiddling. However, to be frank, I haven't been able to play too many windows games with wine (Warcraft III on a Unichrome chipset, you can give up with wine, but it runs fine in Windows) but I think that's more a driver issue. I suspect Linux drivers are rarely as good as Windows drivers (even Intel's).
Wine plays bad with Via stuff. It could lock up my old Pentium IV box with a Via on-board graphics chipset. The Unichrome chipset is hell for wine, just trust me and leave it alone, via's graphics drivers are awful (the ones they've released on the site are useless and even harmful). One thing I noticed is that wine does something funny with the graphics, it doesn't load like just any other program, and when I had bad OpenGL rendering it would work bad, and when I had good rendering it worked better. Just my experience though, things may be different elsewhere.
My penis is blocked, you insensitive clod.
A large number of people use Photoshop, but nearly all copies are pirated. It's pretty obvious, go to any Photoshop tutorials site and you'll see people reading tutorials on how to make a 'cool forum sig' in Photoshop. I find it very hard to believe that people pay $649 to do that and even if people do make such decisions I find it hard to believe that anyone pays $649 for software which they don't know how to use (If it's a tutorial posted on a forum the replies are indicative of this, people will say stuff like, "But Ctrl-Shift-U doesn't work for desaturate!" and then the guy who wrote the tutorial will mention that the shortcut key changed in the newest version)
Opera's case is that there is some harm, you agree there is some harm. That's all there is. I'm pretty sure the anti-trust allegations could still be made if Opera, Firefox and IE were at 33% each. The point is that the Windows monopoly is being leveraged (by making IE so well integrated into the OS and hard to remove) to get into the browser market.
Essentially using your monopoly in one market (Windows in the OS market) to force another product in another market (IE in the browser market) is what caused the anti-trust allegations. That's all there is to it, IIRC, the second product (IE) doesn't even have to become a monopoly in the other market (browsers).
Well, that's actually the point. They're using the Windows monopoly to promote IE by bundling IE with Windows. The monopoly is Windows, they're trying to corner the browser market by using their OS monopoly.
Gecko is the one used in Firefox, Konqueror uses KHTML (or maybe WebKit now)
That and they'll probably block all of google the second it comes to light someone searched for "bomb prime minister". The last time, they blocked all of blogspot because they claimed some blogs were being used by terrorists. It was funny and sad simultaneously.
I had a torrent on the whole night and it didn't break. I, atleast, didn't lose connectivity. I suspect this affects only certain providers because I'm pretty sure mine (Airtel) has its own line going East to Singapore and two other providers have their own cables (BSNL, Tata inherited from VSNL, it's probably one of these that broke).
Fascinating, where do you live? Mine is 5 USD / month + 0.12 cents / SMS. I get 1.1 USD worth of credit for that much, after which I need to buy more. Calls are 2 cents a minute and if I pay an extra dollar, I can make calls at half a cent to numbers on my provider and 1.2 cents to numbers on another provider and I get 100 free SMS per day with 0.24 cents / SMS above that. I'm in India. Actually, I thought it was pretty bad the way it was, but converting makes it look so much better.
Indeed, I suppose you're right, not having to rely on those cues may have made me unable to recognise them when needed. Thanks :)
The warning about diving is reasonable. There are people who will try diving into everything. A while ago there was this article in the news here about a kid who killed himself diving (head first) into a shallow swimming pool for kids. One guy from my college died two years ago when he dived into a natural pond nearby, the pond itself is usually deep enough, but there'd been rains recently and part of the side had caved in when the rainwater flowed in, so the floor was raised a bit.
As for the battery charger, there are people who have accidentally microwaved their laptop and in the litigation-friendly world that America is, it's only safe to have that warning (even though these people who microwaved their laptop did not, in fact, try to sue). There is also the "Do not throw in fire" warning, and people do have a tendency to do stuff like that. And while we're talking about litigation, someone was expressing contempt at "Coffee is hot.": Does no one remember Liebeck vs. McDonald's? Get rid of that ridiculous let's-sue-everyone crap and such warning labels will sort themselves out, but complaining about the warning labels without bothering to address this issue is ignorance at best and incredible stupidity at worst.
Humour about the inner workings of anti-virus companies may not be your forte, but placing accents on random letters certainly is ;)