Ask your friend if he uses AutoDesk's AutoCAD. If he does, I doubt he'll migrate -- AutoCAD is the MS Word of the engineering world, in that you are expected to be able to read and create compatible files. There are no usable alternatives on Linux. There are alternatives for Solaris and HP-UX, but I doubt that your computer-naive friends can even spell "RISC."
Personally, I am holding on to Windows 2000 for as long as possible, which will be about a year, probably. Then, if Redmond has not recanted the WPA/.NET/1984 nonsense, I will migrate to the next-best development+enginering+graphics+business workstation alternative, which appears to be Apple's (shudder) Mac OS X. I never thought that I'd ever touch a Mac, least of all because of Microsoft's evil. These are interesting times in which we live.
The only things that will cause Windows 2000 to do this are bad drivers. Are you using anything from VIA, who despite their sales make some of the lowest-quality drivers available? Are you using a Highpoint ATA/66/100 controller, which will cause your box to bluescreen at the most inopportune times?
Don't blame Microsoft for driver problems. No other operating system is compatible with as wide a range of PC hardware, and you can't expect all PC hardware to have great drivers. And before bitching about your little Cheap Software ToyOS, I've used many such OSs, and none has been able to respond to a bad ATA driver more elegantly than Windows 2000.
Kernel panic is a Linux reality, and people with shitty freeware operating systems shouldn't throw stones.
No, Win2k isn't perfect. But that's why God gave us Real UNIX.
Taco is some sort of mentally-challenged (he writes Perl, for God's sake!) hypocrite. He posts stories about Windows-only games, and then posts stories where he pretends to be "above" Windows. He posts stories about the evil MPAA, and then posts stories about lame new dubbed animé DVDs. It's really sort of pathetic.
But make no mistake: Malda sucks Bill Gates' cock and fucking likes it.
I would've loved to get into PGP a few years ago, but in order for it to work, all of my friends and business associates would have had to use it, too. Some of my associates can't even spell PGP, and trying to convince the average computer user that privacy is important, and the government has no right to read any email no matter how lacking in importance, and that widespread use of email encryption is a good way to fuck over Eschelon is just impossible. And, as you said, there isn't a standard directory service for keys -- we need something like DNS, but that resolves email addresses to public keys (and perhaps even reverse lookups). We'd call it PKS -- public key server. Could be used for more than email.
So PGP doesn't work. But what alternatives do we have? PKI is amazing: it's simple, and it helps verify identity as well as hide cleartext, something that is VERY IMPORTANT because as you know SMTP is easy to spoof. Ideally, all email clients would have integrated PGP, and could automatically warn you if the sender's SMTP-apparent address didn't match the results of the PKS entry. This would be an excellent method for detecting spam.
But we don't live in an ideal world. And after the events in September, your organization is likely to be thought criminal for suggesting that citizens have a right to privacy. And who knows; if Asscroft gets all of his wishes, we may have more things to be scared of than unencrypted email. *shudder*
Anyway, IMHO PKI email is the only system that is simple enough to work on a large scale. Too bad no one knows about it or uses it. Maybe in the next life, I'll live in a country that is truly free, as opposed to one of rhetorical bullshit. If Franklin and other founding fathers could see us today, they would probably want to fly airliners into the Pentagon too.
Your post is great, but you're an idiot -- stop sharing real knowledge on Slashdot! You think the average 14yo Widows w4r3z/mp3 kiddie Slashdot reader cares about business tips? Either save the insight for a forum that deserves it, or sell your services as a business consultant. (Trust me, many companies are very badly in need of restructuring advice these days.:-)
(And, yes, this post was a backhanded compliment.)
Money can be exchanged for goods and services? Wow, you Open-Source guys sure are smart! (S-m-r-t -- no, wait, s-m-A-r-t!) What an amazing and revolutionary idea! "Open-Source: we make old ideas, new!"
"Wow, I never thought UNIX was cool until Linus made this lame SYSV-wannabe kernel! It rocks!"
"Windows is so fucking gay, man. But GNOME? It's awesome, man. It's like Windows, but without the professional polish, thorough integration, and application support that make Windows worth paying for!"
"SAMBA is the best! It allows me to access the files on my NT box! And it works as an NT4 domain controller! Wait a sec -- my NT4 Server does the same thing, so..."
"Holy shit, this brand new game from Loki, Starcraft, rocks!"
"Though it seems obvious, just pay for the product, subscriptions also offer another benefit: Payment in advance. This will ensure a steady stream of cash for production of the magazine."
Remember, kids, Open-Source: because thinking up your own ideas is like, uh, hard and stuff.
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WTF is up with that? Slashdot: where discussions must be 30 comments or less. How gay... yet more proof that Slashdot isn't a real messageboard. Let's go back to USENET, and take our precious pageviews -- the only thing that keeps Taco alive -- with us.
First of all, RAM is not cheaper. I can buy a 20GB IDE disk for $200 -- how much RAM can you buy for that much?
Secondly, STFU with this "most boards won't support more than 2GB" bullshit. Yeah, sure, on your lame little x86 box. You can easily find 4GB x86 server boards, and this is assuming that you want to confine yourself to such a lame architecture. With the release of StarCat, Sun E10Ks will be dropping in price soon, and you can put 64GB of memory in those babies. Of course, with cheap 64GB IDE drives becoming more common and 64GB SCSI drives (i.e. real hardware) can be found for the right amount of money.
This story perfectly exemplifies the shitfucked asscrap that is Slashdot today. I hate you all.
Your name almost sounds like "weiner." As a child, were you teased because of this? Do you think that the incessant teasing is what caused you to become a homosexual and Linux user? How do you think this will impact the Open Source community? Which is better, Windows NT or Linux? Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of these? How many ducks could a woodchuck fuck if a woodchuck could fuck ducks? And for that matter, what will the MPAA think of all this?
I can sense that you sympathize with the pain of trolls everywhere. It's alright if you would like to weep on my shoulder, TRoLLaXoR. There, there. There, there. It'll be all right. No, I'm not touching your ass. You just go on crying, now. There, there. No, I repeat, I am not touching your ass. Perhaps what you feel is the undying pain of trolls everywhere? No? It's definitely a hand? Well, it's not my hand. And I'm not about to stick my finger up your ass, really. There, there...
Someday, I'll post my troll archives on my website. I have years of text files, trolls of days gone by. Everything from "Hemos Got His Groove Back" (which I recently reposted; it's actually years old, but many are now reading it for the first time!) to "GNU Buttsex" and "Tiny Blue Penis". I even have some of my original Slashdot gay porn spam. It will be a boon to the younger trolls to have access to the hours of time that I wasted writing offensive posts.
"A new danger" is a fairly new troll. I usually retire them after a few weeks, and don't recycle for at least four months.
I also have some of my "+1 Funny" trolls, from the days when I was a real Slashdot poster. My signature wit and literary grace made me the most celebrated poster on Slashdot! When Signal 11 came out of the closet, I was the only decent thing on Slashdot.
But I got cocky. I was capped for so long that it became a bore, so I trolled until I was almost without karma, and then, by the miracle that is myself, rose again, like Jesus, the the heights of the karma cap. It was a fun game. I perfected my analysis of the Slashdot community to the point where I could bullshit a troll that would be scored +5, Interesting within an hour of an article post, and then fall to -1, Troll when the mods discovered the error they made in their haste to moderate without thinking. And so I grew even more cocky.
Then I stopped caring. I started writing posts with my true, anti-Slashdot opinions. Highly amused by the censorship which came as response, I began just flaming people and posting gaysex spam. The karma left me quickly, never to return this time, but I had more fun than I had in years -- Slashdot had existed in the land of lamness for two years at this point, and I only visited out of habit.
Now, I visit only a few times each day, occasionally writing new trolls and reposting classics. Slashdot is beyond dead. There's no point in doing anything else. I am -1, the Untouchable. The moderators may have squelched my freedom, but they can never silence my voice, for they forget a simple truth: you can't mod down a -1 post.
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Personally, I am holding on to Windows 2000 for as long as possible, which will be about a year, probably. Then, if Redmond has not recanted the WPA/.NET/1984 nonsense, I will migrate to the next-best development+enginering+graphics+business workstation alternative, which appears to be Apple's (shudder) Mac OS X. I never thought that I'd ever touch a Mac, least of all because of Microsoft's evil. These are interesting times in which we live.
Godspeed.
It took some manly love by William Gates to show Sting the light.
Don't blame Microsoft for driver problems. No other operating system is compatible with as wide a range of PC hardware, and you can't expect all PC hardware to have great drivers. And before bitching about your little Cheap Software ToyOS, I've used many such OSs, and none has been able to respond to a bad ATA driver more elegantly than Windows 2000. Kernel panic is a Linux reality, and people with shitty freeware operating systems shouldn't throw stones.
No, Win2k isn't perfect. But that's why God gave us Real UNIX.
He does is he's a filthy Aussie.
But make no mistake: Malda sucks Bill Gates' cock and fucking likes it.
So PGP doesn't work. But what alternatives do we have? PKI is amazing: it's simple, and it helps verify identity as well as hide cleartext, something that is VERY IMPORTANT because as you know SMTP is easy to spoof. Ideally, all email clients would have integrated PGP, and could automatically warn you if the sender's SMTP-apparent address didn't match the results of the PKS entry. This would be an excellent method for detecting spam.
But we don't live in an ideal world. And after the events in September, your organization is likely to be thought criminal for suggesting that citizens have a right to privacy. And who knows; if Asscroft gets all of his wishes, we may have more things to be scared of than unencrypted email. *shudder*
Anyway, IMHO PKI email is the only system that is simple enough to work on a large scale. Too bad no one knows about it or uses it. Maybe in the next life, I'll live in a country that is truly free, as opposed to one of rhetorical bullshit. If Franklin and other founding fathers could see us today, they would probably want to fly airliners into the Pentagon too.
You meant $300, right? Check their price list lately, bub?
"Java" is not an acronym, fucktard. CAPS IS LIKE YELLING.
It's a good thing, because MySQL is one slow, broken piece of shit! It's like a "junior" database, for the kids!
Come on -- the "editors" can't even master basic English grammar. We should be grateful that they didn't spell it "lgeosz."
Oh? What? Sorry, I meant he'd be living in a smaller box.
You must be gay -- oops, I mean, you must be uropean.
(And, yes, this post was a backhanded compliment.)
Money can be exchanged for goods and services? Wow, you Open-Source guys sure are smart! (S-m-r-t -- no, wait, s-m-A-r-t!) What an amazing and revolutionary idea! "Open-Source: we make old ideas, new!"
- "Wow, I never thought UNIX was cool until Linus made this lame SYSV-wannabe kernel! It rocks!"
- "Windows is so fucking gay, man. But GNOME? It's awesome, man. It's like Windows, but without the professional polish, thorough integration, and application support that make Windows worth paying for!"
- "SAMBA is the best! It allows me to access the files on my NT box! And it works as an NT4 domain controller! Wait a sec -- my NT4 Server does the same thing, so..."
- "Holy shit, this brand new game from Loki, Starcraft, rocks!"
- "Though it seems obvious, just pay for the product, subscriptions also offer another benefit: Payment in advance. This will ensure a steady stream of cash for production of the magazine."
Remember, kids, Open-Source: because thinking up your own ideas is like, uh, hard and stuff.WTF is up with that? Slashdot: where discussions must be 30 comments or less. How gay... yet more proof that Slashdot isn't a real messageboard. Let's go back to USENET, and take our precious pageviews -- the only thing that keeps Taco alive -- with us.
...loser.
Secondly, STFU with this "most boards won't support more than 2GB" bullshit. Yeah, sure, on your lame little x86 box. You can easily find 4GB x86 server boards, and this is assuming that you want to confine yourself to such a lame architecture. With the release of StarCat, Sun E10Ks will be dropping in price soon, and you can put 64GB of memory in those babies. Of course, with cheap 64GB IDE drives becoming more common and 64GB SCSI drives (i.e. real hardware) can be found for the right amount of money.
This story perfectly exemplifies the shitfucked asscrap that is Slashdot today. I hate you all.
I'm sure they'll more than make up for it with soft money, come the next Congressional elections.
(Incidentally, thanks for the warning, fucktard.)
Proving the obvious fact:
Timothy is gay.
Thank you, Weiner!
This "Sura" chick sounds like a bitch.
I can sense that you sympathize with the pain of trolls everywhere. It's alright if you would like to weep on my shoulder, TRoLLaXoR. There, there. There, there. It'll be all right. No, I'm not touching your ass. You just go on crying, now. There, there. No, I repeat, I am not touching your ass. Perhaps what you feel is the undying pain of trolls everywhere? No? It's definitely a hand? Well, it's not my hand. And I'm not about to stick my finger up your ass, really. There, there...
Someday, I'll post my troll archives on my website. I have years of text files, trolls of days gone by. Everything from "Hemos Got His Groove Back" (which I recently reposted; it's actually years old, but many are now reading it for the first time!) to "GNU Buttsex" and "Tiny Blue Penis". I even have some of my original Slashdot gay porn spam. It will be a boon to the younger trolls to have access to the hours of time that I wasted writing offensive posts.
"A new danger" is a fairly new troll. I usually retire them after a few weeks, and don't recycle for at least four months.
I also have some of my "+1 Funny" trolls, from the days when I was a real Slashdot poster. My signature wit and literary grace made me the most celebrated poster on Slashdot! When Signal 11 came out of the closet, I was the only decent thing on Slashdot.
But I got cocky. I was capped for so long that it became a bore, so I trolled until I was almost without karma, and then, by the miracle that is myself, rose again, like Jesus, the the heights of the karma cap. It was a fun game. I perfected my analysis of the Slashdot community to the point where I could bullshit a troll that would be scored +5, Interesting within an hour of an article post, and then fall to -1, Troll when the mods discovered the error they made in their haste to moderate without thinking. And so I grew even more cocky.
Then I stopped caring. I started writing posts with my true, anti-Slashdot opinions. Highly amused by the censorship which came as response, I began just flaming people and posting gaysex spam. The karma left me quickly, never to return this time, but I had more fun than I had in years -- Slashdot had existed in the land of lamness for two years at this point, and I only visited out of habit.
Now, I visit only a few times each day, occasionally writing new trolls and reposting classics. Slashdot is beyond dead. There's no point in doing anything else. I am -1, the Untouchable. The moderators may have squelched my freedom, but they can never silence my voice, for they forget a simple truth: you can't mod down a -1 post.
Fin.