Actually the cost of meals at 5-star hotels in China is quite reasonable (at least at the one I stayed at in Dongguan Province, near Hong Kong). About the same cost as a 'standard' upscale restaurant in the US...~30USD for a US steak, ~25 for a US Pork Chop...domestic stuff like chicken was cheaper.
Read the parent post above mine to get it into context...he was trying to defend Linux's need for command-line use by claiming you had to edit the registry in Windows on a regular basis.
Read the parent post above mine to get it into context...he was the idiot trying to defend Linux's need for command-line use by claiming you had to edit the registry in Windows on a regular basis.
Because they keep the idiots in line who don't know how to manage e-mail inboxes, and think they need a fucking email from 7 years ago that's just a damn out of office reply, and end up with 12 gig PST files, and then they bitch at IT when their e-mail runs like shit. In case you couldn't tell, this is the bullshit I deal with on a daily basis. But not for long.
We're switching to Exchange, and are going to have a 1GB limit with a 50MB cap on the named folders (Inbox, Sent, Deleted, etc...because it slows everything down when they get big). We're also getting a document management system that integrates pretty seamlessly with Outlook, for them to send stuff they need. Oh, the most effective restriction when their e-mail hits the cap...don't allow them to send anything:-) That way they don't lose any e-mails, but they get it down to size in one hell of a hurry.
Restricting by dates is pretty annoying. There are some things you will need to reference again, especically in our organization where our products are usually purchased anually (Awards/Trophies/Plaques). But keeping a size limit is very reasonable, especially with an easy-to-use archiving solution.
A GUI is a good way to learn availible options without having to read through pages of documentation. But yes, command line is much faster once you learn it. That's why there are keyboard shortcuts in GUI's...much faster to press a few keys than to move the mouse, aim and click.
Also, there are a suprising number of things you can do with standard desktop versions of Windows with the command prompt...but not everything, not by a longshot. And it is very rudimentary...it's still DOS, more or less.
I've used many Gigabyte boards, some personal, and many for workstations at work (which I should probably be doing right now instead of fighting off all the rabid Linux geeks in a pointless squabble to win an argument on the Internet), and they've all been great. Good features for the price. I'd say I've probably used close to 30 of them now and haven't had a single one go bad. I've put Linux on a few with no issues either.
I heard they use a lot of Asus too, some of their older desktops I know used MSI...but it's not really easy to figure that information out to try and boycott Foxconn. And HP has different standards, I would expect just about any of their servers to work with Linux with little or no pain at all.
I didn't say it was tricky, I said it was *TRICKIER* than installing Firefox. Installing any OS is not exactly a trivial task for an average user. And in most cases, you have to install Linux yourself.
I use the command line on my Linux boxes far more than I edit the registry on my Windows boxes...and I have considerably more Windows boxes to deal with, most of them I've never touched the registry on.
I have full confidence desktop Linux will get where it needs to be for the mainstram. It's made amazing progress in the last five years. It's just not there yet. The netbook 'revolution' is doing/will do a lot to help move it along.
Actually Foxconn does quite a bit of OEMing to several large manufacturers. And 5% is probably generous, but may not be far off. But with their OEM business it's a small portion of their sales. And I doubt all their boards are Linux-unfriendly (quite honestly it's kind of hard to find anything Linux doesn't work on) it's probably just a few models they don't feel are woth investing the development/testing time in....or it's quite likely that the last idea in your post is the case. I see that quite a bit.
Foxconn doesn't make server boards (Or at least hasn't made them under their own brand in a while, they do OEM a lot of stuff), so I was speaking under the presumption of individuals using Linux (generally desktop, but desktop mobos work fine as servers in non-critical applications). Businesses purchasing for Linux most certainly can make a dent (if not a huge, bleeding hole), but they wouldn't be interested in anything Foxconn has to offer anyway.
That's because any idiot can load Firefox onto a Windows computer. Linux is a little bit trickier, especially after the install. Even with more user-friendly distros, at some point the command line gets involved, and you can't expect Grandma Maybel to use it.
It's about both...and some people call it justice, not vengeance, it depends on your point of view, which is your own, and not right or wrong. And there's also the little bit about stiffer penalties preventing the crimes from happening in the first place, so you don't have to rehab them.
And what punishment is appropriate? If you intentionally kill someone, why do you deserve to live? If you rape someone, why should you be let free to do it again? Yet we don't kill every murderer, and rapists go free after some time. Some reform, but a large percentage do it again, despite rehabilitation programs in the prison system.
Sure, some punishments are too harsh, but most are quite appropriate. Minor crimes involve a short amount of jail time, which is often cut even shorter due to lack of space in the jails across the country. There are much worse things to worry about than real criminals getting punished for real crimes. You should be worrying about all the government efforts to turn fairly innocent people into criminals. CC surveilance in the UK, internet snooping in other various contries, etc.
Exactly. Vote for Linux support with your money. The problem is, there aren't nearly enough Linux users to make a dent they will notice. If it makes you feel any better, I bought a (crappy) Foxconn board once and won't be buying one again.
I'm going to have to respectfully disagree and tell you that you're dead wrong. Many rural towns lie along highways that connect the big cities, so they're a stop on they way for any sort of product shipping, or they're close enough to it. You will also end up driving to a larget city (We go to Lima, OH every so often, which is about 40 minutes away). My town in particular has a great growth rate, more people are actually moving out here. Many things about living in rural areas are A LOT cheaper. You end up spending less on fuel, because most people have a 10 minute commute to work or less. No traffic jams to speak of. Property costs are infinitely lower. You commonly find 2 bedroom duplex apartments with a garage and air, heat, etc for $500/mo. A decent 3 bedroom house can be had for under 100k easily. This even makes the commodities cheaper, IANAE(Economist), but I think it's probably because wages are lower because property costs are lower.
And the kicker is you see a lot of SUVs and 4-wheel drive trucks that get horrible mileage...but fuel costs arent much of a concern around here. People bitch about it plenty (there isn't much to talk about...the Wal-Mart Supercenter construction made front page once a week for a month...) but no one really changes their driving habits.
I frequently travel to large cities, and they are two different worlds (it explains a lot of the conservative vs. liberal bickering, too). Commutes are generally short, so fuel costs are a much smaller issue (Unless you're a farmer, but you can at least use farm diesel then). Pollution is another interesting one...city air is absoultey horrid...I was in NYC for 3 days and I was having regular asthma attacks. Here the are is clean aside from the occasional manure smell (we call it fresh farm air).
Hello, welcome to rural and small urban America, which accounts for well over half the US's population. This 'bus' and concept of a thing you call 'public transportation' is foreign to us.
Unfortunatly, for many people, public transportation is not even a possibility. Small towns with fewer than ~30k people generally don't have any sort of public transportation at all (carpooling isn't usually an option either...often your nearest co-workers are more out of your way then actually going to work), and even larger ones can either not have them or they can be pretty inadequate compared to larger cities.
Which is like 1-2% of the users. Our website gets about 10k hits per week, and maybe 1% of them are Win2k/98. We actually see more Mac users now.
Most of it is just people who are using IE6 or 7 and click off the annoying update popup they get. Heck I use Opera and I was a couple versions behind until 9.5 came out (and I haven't upgraded to 9.51). I haven't had any spyware/etc. issues since the IE5 days, so I'm not exactly in a hurry.
I've got a good friend who uses it for about 400 addresses and it works extremely well for them. Maybe he needs to play with his filtering settings?
I can't say I've seen bounceback from gmail (though I've never really looked). I see a substantial number of Russian servers and plenty of Eastern Europe and Eastern Asia. We could probably get away with blocking all.ru email...I don't think we have any Russian customers.
No. Their capability to kill is what allows them to get their real jobs done. Unless it's an assassination, their objective is not to kill. It is to eliminate targets/threats, which unfortunately requires killing in many cases. If they could, they would disarm and capture everyone, but that's not doable in many circumstances.
We'd like to block them, Yahoo, and Hotmail...but too many of our smaller customers use it for their e-mail addresses.
The thing that is really killing us lately is the bounceback spam...when spammers send spoofed e-mail to bad addresses on legitimate mail servers so the bouncebacks come to our addresses. They easily bypasses SpamAssassin...I was thinking of testing out Postini (Gmail's filter) to see if it gets them.
Funny you mention the MS shop...we're actually using CentOS and Qmail right now, but we're planning to switch to Exchange in '09 because it takes too much extra time to make changes or troubleshoot problems...you have to do most real configuration from the command line, GUI solutions are inadequate for it. Not to mention the other benefits, push, Active Directory integration, resource scheduling, OWA, etc. Also pretty much anyone can administer it. When you're in a fairly rural part of the country, finding anyone who even knows what Linux is can be tricky.
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Pfft, don't lie to us, you're not going to read the EULA.
Actually the cost of meals at 5-star hotels in China is quite reasonable (at least at the one I stayed at in Dongguan Province, near Hong Kong). About the same cost as a 'standard' upscale restaurant in the US...~30USD for a US steak, ~25 for a US Pork Chop...domestic stuff like chicken was cheaper.
Read the parent post above mine to get it into context...he was trying to defend Linux's need for command-line use by claiming you had to edit the registry in Windows on a regular basis.
Read the parent post above mine to get it into context...he was the idiot trying to defend Linux's need for command-line use by claiming you had to edit the registry in Windows on a regular basis.
Because they keep the idiots in line who don't know how to manage e-mail inboxes, and think they need a fucking email from 7 years ago that's just a damn out of office reply, and end up with 12 gig PST files, and then they bitch at IT when their e-mail runs like shit. In case you couldn't tell, this is the bullshit I deal with on a daily basis. But not for long.
We're switching to Exchange, and are going to have a 1GB limit with a 50MB cap on the named folders (Inbox, Sent, Deleted, etc...because it slows everything down when they get big). We're also getting a document management system that integrates pretty seamlessly with Outlook, for them to send stuff they need. Oh, the most effective restriction when their e-mail hits the cap...don't allow them to send anything :-) That way they don't lose any e-mails, but they get it down to size in one hell of a hurry.
Restricting by dates is pretty annoying. There are some things you will need to reference again, especically in our organization where our products are usually purchased anually (Awards/Trophies/Plaques). But keeping a size limit is very reasonable, especially with an easy-to-use archiving solution.
A GUI is a good way to learn availible options without having to read through pages of documentation. But yes, command line is much faster once you learn it. That's why there are keyboard shortcuts in GUI's...much faster to press a few keys than to move the mouse, aim and click.
Also, there are a suprising number of things you can do with standard desktop versions of Windows with the command prompt...but not everything, not by a longshot. And it is very rudimentary...it's still DOS, more or less.
I've used many Gigabyte boards, some personal, and many for workstations at work (which I should probably be doing right now instead of fighting off all the rabid Linux geeks in a pointless squabble to win an argument on the Internet), and they've all been great. Good features for the price. I'd say I've probably used close to 30 of them now and haven't had a single one go bad. I've put Linux on a few with no issues either.
I heard they use a lot of Asus too, some of their older desktops I know used MSI...but it's not really easy to figure that information out to try and boycott Foxconn. And HP has different standards, I would expect just about any of their servers to work with Linux with little or no pain at all.
I didn't say it was tricky, I said it was *TRICKIER* than installing Firefox. Installing any OS is not exactly a trivial task for an average user. And in most cases, you have to install Linux yourself.
I use the command line on my Linux boxes far more than I edit the registry on my Windows boxes...and I have considerably more Windows boxes to deal with, most of them I've never touched the registry on.
I have full confidence desktop Linux will get where it needs to be for the mainstram. It's made amazing progress in the last five years. It's just not there yet. The netbook 'revolution' is doing/will do a lot to help move it along.
Actually Foxconn does quite a bit of OEMing to several large manufacturers. And 5% is probably generous, but may not be far off. But with their OEM business it's a small portion of their sales. And I doubt all their boards are Linux-unfriendly (quite honestly it's kind of hard to find anything Linux doesn't work on) it's probably just a few models they don't feel are woth investing the development/testing time in....or it's quite likely that the last idea in your post is the case. I see that quite a bit.
Foxconn doesn't make server boards (Or at least hasn't made them under their own brand in a while, they do OEM a lot of stuff), so I was speaking under the presumption of individuals using Linux (generally desktop, but desktop mobos work fine as servers in non-critical applications). Businesses purchasing for Linux most certainly can make a dent (if not a huge, bleeding hole), but they wouldn't be interested in anything Foxconn has to offer anyway.
That's because any idiot can load Firefox onto a Windows computer. Linux is a little bit trickier, especially after the install. Even with more user-friendly distros, at some point the command line gets involved, and you can't expect Grandma Maybel to use it.
Nah, he's pretty much just as wrong as you are.
It's about both...and some people call it justice, not vengeance, it depends on your point of view, which is your own, and not right or wrong. And there's also the little bit about stiffer penalties preventing the crimes from happening in the first place, so you don't have to rehab them.
And what punishment is appropriate? If you intentionally kill someone, why do you deserve to live? If you rape someone, why should you be let free to do it again? Yet we don't kill every murderer, and rapists go free after some time. Some reform, but a large percentage do it again, despite rehabilitation programs in the prison system.
Sure, some punishments are too harsh, but most are quite appropriate. Minor crimes involve a short amount of jail time, which is often cut even shorter due to lack of space in the jails across the country. There are much worse things to worry about than real criminals getting punished for real crimes. You should be worrying about all the government efforts to turn fairly innocent people into criminals. CC surveilance in the UK, internet snooping in other various contries, etc.
Exactly. Vote for Linux support with your money. The problem is, there aren't nearly enough Linux users to make a dent they will notice. If it makes you feel any better, I bought a (crappy) Foxconn board once and won't be buying one again.
I'm going to have to respectfully disagree and tell you that you're dead wrong. Many rural towns lie along highways that connect the big cities, so they're a stop on they way for any sort of product shipping, or they're close enough to it. You will also end up driving to a larget city (We go to Lima, OH every so often, which is about 40 minutes away). My town in particular has a great growth rate, more people are actually moving out here. Many things about living in rural areas are A LOT cheaper. You end up spending less on fuel, because most people have a 10 minute commute to work or less. No traffic jams to speak of. Property costs are infinitely lower. You commonly find 2 bedroom duplex apartments with a garage and air, heat, etc for $500/mo. A decent 3 bedroom house can be had for under 100k easily. This even makes the commodities cheaper, IANAE(Economist), but I think it's probably because wages are lower because property costs are lower.
And the kicker is you see a lot of SUVs and 4-wheel drive trucks that get horrible mileage...but fuel costs arent much of a concern around here. People bitch about it plenty (there isn't much to talk about...the Wal-Mart Supercenter construction made front page once a week for a month...) but no one really changes their driving habits.
I frequently travel to large cities, and they are two different worlds (it explains a lot of the conservative vs. liberal bickering, too). Commutes are generally short, so fuel costs are a much smaller issue (Unless you're a farmer, but you can at least use farm diesel then). Pollution is another interesting one...city air is absoultey horrid...I was in NYC for 3 days and I was having regular asthma attacks. Here the are is clean aside from the occasional manure smell (we call it fresh farm air).
Hello, welcome to rural and small urban America, which accounts for well over half the US's population. This 'bus' and concept of a thing you call 'public transportation' is foreign to us.
Unfortunatly, for many people, public transportation is not even a possibility. Small towns with fewer than ~30k people generally don't have any sort of public transportation at all (carpooling isn't usually an option either...often your nearest co-workers are more out of your way then actually going to work), and even larger ones can either not have them or they can be pretty inadequate compared to larger cities.
Digg readers aren't old enough to get married in most states and countries.
Which is like 1-2% of the users. Our website gets about 10k hits per week, and maybe 1% of them are Win2k/98. We actually see more Mac users now. Most of it is just people who are using IE6 or 7 and click off the annoying update popup they get. Heck I use Opera and I was a couple versions behind until 9.5 came out (and I haven't upgraded to 9.51). I haven't had any spyware/etc. issues since the IE5 days, so I'm not exactly in a hurry.
Size 1 Infant shoes are indeed bigger than they look.
If you're an ant, that is.
There is a reason a lot of articles used to get tagged 'kdawsonfud'
I've got a good friend who uses it for about 400 addresses and it works extremely well for them. Maybe he needs to play with his filtering settings?
I can't say I've seen bounceback from gmail (though I've never really looked). I see a substantial number of Russian servers and plenty of Eastern Europe and Eastern Asia. We could probably get away with blocking all .ru email...I don't think we have any Russian customers.
No. Their capability to kill is what allows them to get their real jobs done. Unless it's an assassination, their objective is not to kill. It is to eliminate targets/threats, which unfortunately requires killing in many cases. If they could, they would disarm and capture everyone, but that's not doable in many circumstances.
We'd like to block them, Yahoo, and Hotmail...but too many of our smaller customers use it for their e-mail addresses.
The thing that is really killing us lately is the bounceback spam...when spammers send spoofed e-mail to bad addresses on legitimate mail servers so the bouncebacks come to our addresses. They easily bypasses SpamAssassin...I was thinking of testing out Postini (Gmail's filter) to see if it gets them.
Funny you mention the MS shop...we're actually using CentOS and Qmail right now, but we're planning to switch to Exchange in '09 because it takes too much extra time to make changes or troubleshoot problems...you have to do most real configuration from the command line, GUI solutions are inadequate for it. Not to mention the other benefits, push, Active Directory integration, resource scheduling, OWA, etc. Also pretty much anyone can administer it. When you're in a fairly rural part of the country, finding anyone who even knows what Linux is can be tricky.
Yeah, like Guantanamo Bay, duh! Has republican all over it!
(Note that I can't even find Cuba on the map, I just know the guys on CNN told me we do bad things there and it's all the president's fault.)