I decided to try searching for myself in some of these search engines, and though i might show up eventually on the page, I don't see them as being more accurate than Google... I mean, what about Ninja.com... that actually did turn out to be more accurate than Google... but some of these are linking me to the French musician by a similar name......
Whether they mask it or not, it is usually evident that people have either multiple eBay accounts to be able to bid on their own auctions, or they simply have their friends do it. Hell, once I noticed no one was bidding on an item I posted, so I had my friend bid on it once to see if we could get some action on the damn thing.... unfortunately no one bid on it, my friend won the big, but luckily he didn't make me sell him my computer for $50:D "A+++ Excellent Ebayer!"
I have clients ask me all the time if I do web design... which I truly don't, so I tell them I can set them up with a CMS so they can manage the site once I hand it over to them. They almost look puzzled when I ask them "how do you plan to keep the site up to date once I'm done with it?"
Its pretty strange, but apparently people don't realize that web pages don't updated themselves, and that having a good web-site, especially for a product, idea, or concept, requires some hands on personnel.
Every time I meet with a client, I try to bring up a conversation about Windows vs Open Source technologies so I can explain why Windows Vista is the devils operating system. Often times I have to explain very technical things such as DRM to these people, and many of those times they still do not fully understand what is going on.
I think this article is a great read as it explains everything in detail and why it is important for us to fight this DRM madness. Unfortunately I'm not sure what exactly we could do to stop the DRM machine. I mean, consumers will be consumers and they will buy the latest gadgets and software if they see it says "New and Improved" regardless of its actual functionality and possible improvements.
I'm going to link my site to this article, as well as forward it to all of my clients because this is very important to everyone.
Having read enough about black box to know that it would extremely simple to rig any election in any district at any given time is just so frustrating. It completely nullifies our "democratic" system if anyone can tamper with these machines, and worse, rig an election whether local or presidential. Honestly, is there anything we can do?
The government regulates which companies get to "approve" the legitimacy or the votes themselves as well as the security of these machines, and recently banned a research company from giving their approval on the machines at all.
What kind of methods could we put in order to ensure that our government functions less corrupt. I mean, having these machines with such vulnerabilities and flaws in a political environment is like asking your child not to eat their Halloween candy, no?
Domain parking is a way for large companies to be able to purchase up any name they can think of, and variants of actual domain names in order to spread ads spyware and crap to the consumers. Also, they have much bigger purchasing power than the common consumer who may just want to purchase a domain name for their family web site or something similar. Then they realize they will have to purchase a domain from one of these big companies for hundreds if not thousands of dollars, when they could have originally purchased it for $15 or less. ITs frustrating and ultimately its just a bunch of bells and whistles which don't get the end user who was using "direct navigation" anywhere closer to finding what they were looking for... Just more and more AdSense click thru's.
Unfortunately those who know about linux and alternative operating systems are us geeks who do it because its our passion. The common user doesn't even know there is anything out there besides Windows or Mac. I am really hoping that in 2007 we can really get the Linux desktop on more regular users and show them thats its not all that difficult to operate. But first, we need software. Especially open source business software (not necessarily free) but businesses need software that works day in and day out, and without it, there is no market. I think if you get Linux in the business world first, the consumer or home user will soon follow... I mean, they all have to go home at the end of the day right?
...at least when it is in a good and positive way.
I don't so much like it when its a "Big Brother" is watching your every key-stroke kind of way. (Hi BB!)
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Thanks for the link... I can't read whats on the page, but do you have a link to some screenshots?
I loved BeOS. I thought it was a very intuitive operating system with many cool features. Too bad it didn't last very long, but hey, that sort of thing happens.
I know it was a cool OS back in the day... but now hasn't it been surpassed by just about every other operating system / linux distribution? Also... if you can't buy the hardware for it whats the point? To say "Hey... I got Amiga OS on a CD!"
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I decided to try searching for myself in some of these search engines, and though i might show up eventually on the page, I don't see them as being more accurate than Google... I mean, what about Ninja.com... that actually did turn out to be more accurate than Google... but some of these are linking me to the French musician by a similar name......
Whether they mask it or not, it is usually evident that people have either multiple eBay accounts to be able to bid on their own auctions, or they simply have their friends do it. Hell, once I noticed no one was bidding on an item I posted, so I had my friend bid on it once to see if we could get some action on the damn thing.... unfortunately no one bid on it, my friend won the big, but luckily he didn't make me sell him my computer for $50 :D "A+++ Excellent Ebayer!"
hhahaha.... though their logo is the lil Daemon, its one of my favorite operating systems ever.
:D
I use FreeBSD whenever possible
I have clients ask me all the time if I do web design... which I truly don't, so I tell them I can set them up with a CMS so they can manage the site once I hand it over to them. They almost look puzzled when I ask them "how do you plan to keep the site up to date once I'm done with it?"
Its pretty strange, but apparently people don't realize that web pages don't updated themselves, and that having a good web-site, especially for a product, idea, or concept, requires some hands on personnel.
Every time I meet with a client, I try to bring up a conversation about Windows vs Open Source technologies so I can explain why Windows Vista is the devils operating system. Often times I have to explain very technical things such as DRM to these people, and many of those times they still do not fully understand what is going on.
I think this article is a great read as it explains everything in detail and why it is important for us to fight this DRM madness. Unfortunately I'm not sure what exactly we could do to stop the DRM machine. I mean, consumers will be consumers and they will buy the latest gadgets and software if they see it says "New and Improved" regardless of its actual functionality and possible improvements.
I'm going to link my site to this article, as well as forward it to all of my clients because this is very important to everyone.
Having read enough about black box to know that it would extremely simple to rig any election in any district at any given time is just so frustrating. It completely nullifies our "democratic" system if anyone can tamper with these machines, and worse, rig an election whether local or presidential. Honestly, is there anything we can do?
The government regulates which companies get to "approve" the legitimacy or the votes themselves as well as the security of these machines, and recently banned a research company from giving their approval on the machines at all.
What kind of methods could we put in order to ensure that our government functions less corrupt. I mean, having these machines with such vulnerabilities and flaws in a political environment is like asking your child not to eat their Halloween candy, no?
on a chessboard. I mean, I thought that was the original idea for chess, no?
Domain parking is a way for large companies to be able to purchase up any name they can think of, and variants of actual domain names in order to spread ads spyware and crap to the consumers. Also, they have much bigger purchasing power than the common consumer who may just want to purchase a domain name for their family web site or something similar. Then they realize they will have to purchase a domain from one of these big companies for hundreds if not thousands of dollars, when they could have originally purchased it for $15 or less. ITs frustrating and ultimately its just a bunch of bells and whistles which don't get the end user who was using "direct navigation" anywhere closer to finding what they were looking for... Just more and more AdSense click thru's.
usually wont be installing Linux on there.
Unfortunately those who know about linux and alternative operating systems are us geeks who do it because its our passion. The common user doesn't even know there is anything out there besides Windows or Mac. I am really hoping that in 2007 we can really get the Linux desktop on more regular users and show them thats its not all that difficult to operate. But first, we need software. Especially open source business software (not necessarily free) but businesses need software that works day in and day out, and without it, there is no market. I think if you get Linux in the business world first, the consumer or home user will soon follow... I mean, they all have to go home at the end of the day right?
Agreed... they made a deal with the Devil, I just hope its not at the cost of Linux or the open source community.
touché!
So the point of the deal was that Microsoft is going to start supporting SuSe as it does Windows??
Well if they do as good a job in Linux as they do for their Windows support, than my business should remain unaffected.
Doesn't this also mean that Microsoft has to actually understand the internal workings of a functional operating system before they can "support" it?
...at least when it is in a good and positive way.
I don't so much like it when its a "Big Brother" is watching your every key-stroke kind of way. (Hi BB!)
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Thanks for the link... I can't read whats on the page, but do you have a link to some screenshots?
I loved BeOS. I thought it was a very intuitive operating system with many cool features. Too bad it didn't last very long, but hey, that sort of thing happens.
What kind of capabilities does ZetaOS have?
I know it was a cool OS back in the day... but now hasn't it been surpassed by just about every other operating system / linux distribution? Also... if you can't buy the hardware for it whats the point? To say "Hey... I got Amiga OS on a CD!"
Can it even be run in a VM environment?
I WANT ONE!
Thanks for the link!
I have an old server thats just collecting dust that would love to try out Solaris 10... and the Developer kit!
Thanks again!
Grinin
I could have sworn the same... Gentoo/FreeBSD had some issues due to some piece of code... but if 10 mins = 10 years... than we could be wrong?