Such as "people hack IE only because it is popular",
I'll ad another:
The "XP is only crashes becuase of all the different hardware it supports" astroturfer.
the completly miss the fact that FreeBSD, NetBSD and Linux support most of the x86 hardware that XP does --- AND PowerPC AND Sparc AND Aplha AND Mips etc....
*BSD and Linux manage to be stable, why can XP??? Hmmmmm...
Lighter, stronger, and more economical than Hughes could ever have imagined,
Hughes HAD to build the "Spruce Goose" out of wood. He could have easily built it with better materials - but you see, the USA was in the midst of WWII and procuring tons of aircraft grade aluminum was not only hard, but illegal.
Sorry for the shouting, but jumping jesus on a pogo stick - get your facts right before ridiculing someone.
But, I guess, as long as Americans can have their assault rifles for "home protection" they will be happy....
The reason I have an assault rifle is for exactly this reason: When government stops representing me and starts to tyrannize me.
The 2nd amendment isn't about deer-hunting or shooting gang banners. The 2nd amendment if for when the government stops honoring the 1st amendment, the 4th amendment and the 16th amendment.
I happen to think we have a long way to go, but 60% of my hard earned labor is going to support welfare cheats, foreign dictators and Halibuton and the local prison where the criminals live like kings with their color TV and all - maybe I should be getting a bit grumpy.
But, I guess, as long as Americans can have their assault rifles for "home protection" they will be happy....
The reason I have an assault rifle is for exactly this reason: When government stops representing me and starts to tyrannize me.
The 2nd amendment isn't about deer-hunting or shooting gang banners. The 2nd amendment if for when the government stops honoring the 1st amendment, the 4th amendment and the 16th amendment.
I happen to think we have a long way to go, but 60% of my hard earned labor is going to support welfare cheats, foreign dictators and Halibuton and the local prison where the criminals live like kings with their color TV and all - maybe I should be getting a bit grumpy.
As a Neocon overload myself, I can attest to truth of your statement.
In our defense, the whole "Kill 3,000 Americans and Take over the World" plot came out of a focus group held in Delwa, North Dakota.
If you've ever been to Delwa, you'd be thankful that the number of deaths was under 3,000 - some of those people are even too crazy for my taste.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some babies to kill and some trees to cut down. I think I'll make the clowns sad again as well - you know, you got to put in extra effort if you want to get anywhere.
Break the problem down into server groups of users:
The ones that just need to write english reports would be well served by Abiword. The ones that need just a bit more page layout flexability and a good spreadsheet could use OpenOffice. The 'Power Users' that use Excell like a psudo-database, and have gotten used to Word's horrably random page layout should stay with MS Office. L
So...
Kindergarden through 8th Grade -> Abiword 8th through 12th -> OpenOffice Normal Teachers -> OpenOffice Crazy Teachers, Faculty etc with hard to port custom grading scrips, tables and other crap -> MS Office
For those of us with large datacenters and limited resources, Virtual Server is great for throwing something in the mix and seeing what sort of integration we get.
You'd have more resources for your datacenter if you'd stop deploying buggy and overpriced software like Virtual Server and the resulting CAL fees.
Tridge is not in the right. Tridge has demonstrated his immaturity by disregarding the effects of his actions on others
Tridge displayed amazing foresight - he was the problem of Bitkeepers vendor lock-in and was doing something about it before Bitkeeper changed their format again.
Truns out that Tridge was right not to trust the Bitkeeper people with the Linux kernal.
How exactly would selling drugs to willing buyers (a felony in some circumstances) be ignoring the rights of othe
When one of those buyers is a mothers who then gives birth to a malformed crack-baby. When one of those buyers gets so addicted to meth that his teeth fall out. When one of those buyers looses the will to live and dies in a dim corner. alone, in desperation.
Microsoft, with Windows, has to support every reasonable configuration of x86 hardware there is - with all the quirky motherboards, audio, video, serial ports, 250 formats of memory and that old 5.25" floppy drive you insist on using. The problem being, MS doesn't make any of that.
All well and good, but even the *BSD support more hardware than Microsoft Windows and still wind up much more stable than any version of Windows
Damn, that's a good read. Regardless if you think Nuclear Winter is huey - it's takes the wind out of some of the more recent whishfull thinking that's passing itself as hard science.
When you make jam and squish the evidence, and more importantly, rely on 'consencous' to fit your predisposed notions you get amusing things like:
WMD are in Iraq. Socialised Medicine is good medicine. Windows is stable. Java is write one, run anywhere. Apple is belagured. Bill Gates has an email for you.
And, as a website maintainter/creator, that's exactly what I'm afraid of.
It's simple - you either support CSS or you make a hard to maintain franken-site with IE6 hacks in it.
I tell my clients that they can get a CSS site for Y amount, or a bastard ugly code site for Y x 1.75 amount.
Given all of my customers are smart, and their customers are smart - it's a non issue. Only little-old ladies with Packerd Bells and eMachines contiune to use IE6. All the smart people are using Safari, Opera, NetFront, Mozilla - anything but IE6. Hell - you can't even get IE6 for Mac, Palm, Symbian, Solaris.
For you - if you're designing a "Free iPod Mini' website than I'm sure IE6 support is crucial. You need IE6 for the pop-ups and exploits anyway.
It can safely be said that the amount of resources being expended to identify and cure OS X vulnerabilities is at least somewhat smaller than those used for Windows, in rough proportion to OS X's much smaller market share.
MORE effort is being spent to fix OS X than Windows - in proportion to market share.
OS X gets fixes from Apple.....
And FreeBSD. And OpenSSH And Samba And Kerberos. And Mach Developers. And KHTML/KDE Developers. And GCC Developers (stack protection,etc)
Even if I'm using hardware on Windows - I make sure that support is available with Linux and, better yet, FreeBSD.
It keeps you out of driver hell.
You know what I'm talking about - like sound-cards with 24meg drivers because the chips on the card don't have enough ommph to do their job without relying on the CPU. Or shitty WinModems that crap out on any line noise because they don't have a real DSP on them
have not figured out an easy way to use the built-in spell checker with only the keyboard.
Hold down the 'clover' (also known as the command key) key, hold down the shift key, the hit the ":" key.
To find stuff like this out - go to the System Preferences, open up Keyboard / Mouse, open up the Keyboard Shortcut tab and select "turn on full keyboard access'
Now, all you menus should have the keyboard shortcut right next to the items!
it?s the greatest cause of brain damage in computing.
No.. doing you spell checking in MS Word, then cutting and pasting into a text field and the text filed doesn't understand MS Word's 'Smart Quotes' is the greatest cause of brain damage.
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No matter how unspeakable their acts may be, a human is a human and deserves human rights.
The victims are human as well, and they deserve human rights - they deserve the right of justice.
Such as "people hack IE only because it is popular",
I'll ad another:
The "XP is only crashes becuase of all the different hardware it supports" astroturfer.
the completly miss the fact that FreeBSD, NetBSD and Linux support most of the x86 hardware that XP does --- AND PowerPC AND Sparc AND Aplha AND Mips etc....
*BSD and Linux manage to be stable, why can XP??? Hmmmmm...
It seriously is becoming a site for Google and Apple fanboys
I'm tired of it too -- where's the site for fans of MSN and Emachines?
Lighter, stronger, and more economical than Hughes could ever have imagined,
Hughes HAD to build the "Spruce Goose" out of wood. He could have easily built it with better materials - but you see, the USA was in the midst of WWII and procuring tons of aircraft grade aluminum was not only hard, but illegal.
Sorry for the shouting, but jumping jesus on a pogo stick - get your facts right before ridiculing someone.
But, I guess, as long as Americans can have their assault rifles for "home protection" they will be happy....
The reason I have an assault rifle is for exactly this reason: When government stops representing me and starts to tyrannize me.
The 2nd amendment isn't about deer-hunting or shooting gang banners. The 2nd amendment if for when the government stops honoring the 1st amendment, the 4th amendment and the 16th amendment.
I happen to think we have a long way to go, but 60% of my hard earned labor is going to support welfare cheats, foreign dictators and Halibuton and the local prison where the criminals live like kings with their color TV and all - maybe I should be getting a bit grumpy.
[Reposted due to a cowardly 'overrated' mod]
But, I guess, as long as Americans can have their assault rifles for "home protection" they will be happy....
The reason I have an assault rifle is for exactly this reason: When government stops representing me and starts to tyrannize me.
The 2nd amendment isn't about deer-hunting or shooting gang banners. The 2nd amendment if for when the government stops honoring the 1st amendment, the 4th amendment and the 16th amendment.
I happen to think we have a long way to go, but 60% of my hard earned labor is going to support welfare cheats, foreign dictators and Halibuton and the local prison where the criminals live like kings with their color TV and all - maybe I should be getting a bit grumpy.
As a Neocon overload myself, I can attest to truth of your statement.
In our defense, the whole "Kill 3,000 Americans and Take over the World" plot came out of a focus group held in Delwa, North Dakota.
If you've ever been to Delwa, you'd be thankful that the number of deaths was under 3,000 - some of those people are even too crazy for my taste.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some babies to kill and some trees to cut down. I think I'll make the clowns sad again as well - you know, you got to put in extra effort if you want to get anywhere.
Break the problem down into server groups of users:
The ones that just need to write english reports would be well served by Abiword.
The ones that need just a bit more page layout flexability and a good spreadsheet could use OpenOffice.
The 'Power Users' that use Excell like a psudo-database, and have gotten used to Word's horrably random page layout should stay with MS Office. L
So...
Kindergarden through 8th Grade -> Abiword
8th through 12th -> OpenOffice
Normal Teachers -> OpenOffice
Crazy Teachers, Faculty etc with hard to port custom grading scrips, tables and other crap -> MS Office
For those of us with large datacenters and limited resources, Virtual Server is great for throwing something in the mix and seeing what sort of integration we get.
You'd have more resources for your datacenter if you'd stop deploying buggy and overpriced software like Virtual Server and the resulting CAL fees.
...and applies a little KY jelly to their butthole for Linux to slide in easier.
This could get ugly, the BSD daemon is right behind Tux already...
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Tridge is not in the right. Tridge has demonstrated his immaturity by disregarding the effects of his actions on others
Tridge displayed amazing foresight - he was the problem of Bitkeepers vendor lock-in and was doing something about it before Bitkeeper changed their format again.
Truns out that Tridge was right not to trust the Bitkeeper people with the Linux kernal.
How exactly would selling drugs to willing buyers (a felony in some circumstances) be ignoring the rights of othe
When one of those buyers is a mothers who then gives birth to a malformed crack-baby.
When one of those buyers gets so addicted to meth that his teeth fall out.
When one of those buyers looses the will to live and dies in a dim corner. alone, in desperation.
Agreed!
How much you want to bet that the government network won't allow porn - "for the sake of the children."
If the same idiots that run the building department get to run the local internet - I'll will make AOL dial-up seem like a breath of fresh air.
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it will make AOL dial-up seem like a breath of fresh aire.
Microsoft, with Windows, has to support every reasonable configuration of x86 hardware there is - with all the quirky motherboards, audio, video, serial ports, 250 formats of memory and that old 5.25" floppy drive you insist on using. The problem being, MS doesn't make any of that.
All well and good, but even the *BSD support more hardware than Microsoft Windows and still wind up much more stable than any version of Windows
Microsoft has it easy - they target only x86.
Caltech Michelin Lecture [crichton-official.com]
Damn, that's a good read. Regardless if you think Nuclear Winter is huey - it's takes the wind out of some of the more recent whishfull thinking that's passing itself as hard science.
When you make jam and squish the evidence, and more importantly, rely on 'consencous' to fit your predisposed notions you get amusing things like:
WMD are in Iraq.
Socialised Medicine is good medicine.
Windows is stable.
Java is write one, run anywhere.
Apple is belagured.
Bill Gates has an email for you.
Greetings,
To check for malware please click on the link.
Check for SPYWARE
Panda Antivirus Has Scanned This Post.
There are no viruses.
Sure it may test will with the little old ladies in the focus group.
Th color scheme looks good - for a online gay porn shop
And, as a website maintainter/creator, that's exactly what I'm afraid of.
It's simple - you either support CSS or you make a hard to maintain franken-site with IE6 hacks in it.
I tell my clients that they can get a CSS site for Y amount, or a bastard ugly code site for Y x 1.75 amount.
Given all of my customers are smart, and their customers are smart - it's a non issue. Only little-old ladies with Packerd Bells and eMachines contiune to use IE6. All the smart people are using Safari, Opera, NetFront, Mozilla - anything but IE6. Hell - you can't even get IE6 for Mac, Palm, Symbian, Solaris.
For you - if you're designing a "Free iPod Mini' website than I'm sure IE6 support is crucial. You need IE6 for the pop-ups and exploits anyway.
It can safely be said that the amount of resources being expended to identify and cure OS X vulnerabilities is at least somewhat smaller than those used for Windows, in rough proportion to OS X's much smaller market share.
MORE effort is being spent to fix OS X than Windows - in proportion to market share.
OS X gets fixes from Apple.....
And FreeBSD.
And OpenSSH
And Samba
And Kerberos.
And Mach Developers.
And KHTML/KDE Developers.
And GCC Developers (stack protection,etc)
Plus a bunch more that I'm missing
Even if I'm using hardware on Windows - I make sure that support is available with Linux and, better yet, FreeBSD.
It keeps you out of driver hell.
You know what I'm talking about - like sound-cards with 24meg drivers because the chips on the card don't have enough ommph to do their job without relying on the CPU. Or shitty WinModems that crap out on any line noise because they don't have a real DSP on them
have not figured out an easy way to use the built-in spell checker with only the keyboard.
Hold down the 'clover' (also known as the command key) key, hold down the shift key, the hit the ":" key.
To find stuff like this out - go to the System Preferences, open up Keyboard / Mouse, open up the Keyboard Shortcut tab and select "turn on full keyboard access'
Now, all you menus should have the keyboard shortcut right next to the items!
It may take her years to track you down, but I assure you she'll stay alive for that. So, uh, thanks.
Excellent!
it?s the greatest cause of brain damage in computing.
No.. doing you spell checking in MS Word, then cutting and pasting into a text field and the text filed doesn't understand MS Word's 'Smart Quotes' is the greatest cause of brain damage.
A friend of mine really did put off suicide until she knew how Star Wars turned out
... .. a new hope.
You could say it gave her..
How can i possibly advocate for a mars mission when they can't even get this shit right?
How can I possibly listen to you when you cant even used the shift key properly.