Not only that, when the company switches to Linux, the Windows-only IT staff gets laid off. The members of IT staff that know how to work with Linux without expensive 'retraining' get to stay. It's a good way to clean house -- to keep the smart, self-motivated professionally-minded people.
Sure, there cash reserves are huge, but having so much cash when interest rates are so low? Should they stop making computers and become an investment banking house instead?
Everything has to be skinnable, just like the fins on late 50s cars. They do nothing, people might think they look good, but I guarantee that they will look stupid in a couple of years and only have had the function of gratuitous pleasure -- for the person that used them.
Really, today's design trend in computer UI and the web is utter gaudiness. I recently compiled the KDE 3.2 series alpha and loading it's default look is kinda shocking. Same with that Windows XP and OS X. Give it a rest, people! Stop with the fussing already!
How well does CSS Zen Garden stand up to scrutiny when you actually have to read the text. . . er, filler? I had a shocking design revelation (once again) a few weeks ago when I got religion looking at Craigslist, and that is that simplicity is chic (ampersand iacute;).
Astronomers have been using this parallax method to measure the distance to stars by taking one image in the Springtime, and the other in the Fall, when the earth is on the other side of the sun 180 or so million miles side-to-side!
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Licensing 6.0.... Microsoft already has their money, why should they have to work for it!
Don't forget that not so long ago is you suggested using MS software in an office you would have been kicked out by both IT AND management.
True enough. Now the MS adopters are the corporate greybeards that are stuck in their old ways -- MS on the desktop and autonomous yet somehow supposed to fit in a kludgy, insecure network PCs.
Multiuser? Terminals? Nah, too slow and expensive. Desktop PCs running MS are better, cheaper, faster they say.
'Automatically updated' is a fundamentally flawed security hole in itself. What is also flawed is how the MS operating system will execute any file if the name ends with.exe,.bat, or.com.
Of course, with Windows, at least you have alternatives......
I wonder... does Windows still have the vulnerablity to execute any file if its name ends with.exe,.com, or.bat? Surely this is fundamentally insecure. What wonders would crash upon the world if any UNIX system would automatically assign execute bits to a file just because its name ended with.sh or.bin!
...is what plumbers in your area are charging! Seriously, don't forget those nasty taxes and social security payments that come out of your pocket when you assess what you're worth. At least you can begin deducting expenses for mousepads and dry cleaning.
The legal doctrine of due dilligence means a court will likely see it the same way.
That's right. The fact that SCO did nothing to mitigate their supposed 'damages' from supposed infringing code puts them at the back of the bus.
In another world, SCO would be undergoing wiretaps, subpoenas, and other assorted FTC-SEC investigation activities for criminal fraud. McBride et. al belong in jail.
Details, details. Those details don't really matter -- do they? Seriously, not many voters seem to notice that the state is required to spend 49% of it's budget on schools. The state is required to provide medical support to some by federal mandate. Welfare, too. Today, there isn't enough discretionary spending left in the entire state budget to eliminate this year's fiscal debt.
People seem to like the idea that they get services and don't have to pay for them. Neocon ARNOLD gets a free ride over his Big Lie from Big Media because that's the industry he serves.
McClintock is honest, but the reality is that nobody except a millionaire wants to give up all those services in exchange for lower taxes.
California is very, very weird. It takes a simple majority to approve spending money, but it takes a two-third's majority to approve raising revenue.
If Longhorn (or whatever they call it) deems any file as being executable just because of its name --.exe,.com,.bat, then it will continue to be a source of insecurity and will continue to lose out.
I sometimes wonder that if a distro like Slackware cost $1,000 the way that silly Red Hat Enterprise (or whatever they call it) does, then the suits at Oracle would be falling over themselves to 'certify' their stuff to run on it.
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That's 3746-987467-2634?
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Thank you. Now, what is the issue here with Congressman Cornhole's office?
There's been some suggestion that your compliance with the Department of Justice agreement is in question.
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Oh sure. All those stupid latency measurements. Next time he should chart framerates in Quake, right?
Really, today's design trend in computer UI and the web is utter gaudiness. I recently compiled the KDE 3.2 series alpha and loading it's default look is kinda shocking. Same with that Windows XP and OS X. Give it a rest, people! Stop with the fussing already!
How well does CSS Zen Garden stand up to scrutiny when you actually have to read the text. . . er, filler? I had a shocking design revelation (once again) a few weeks ago when I got religion looking at Craigslist, and that is that simplicity is chic (ampersand iacute;).
Will I end up either in jail or in another country?
Licensing 6.0.... Microsoft already has their money, why should they have to work for it!
True enough. Now the MS adopters are the corporate greybeards that are stuck in their old ways -- MS on the desktop and autonomous yet somehow supposed to fit in a kludgy, insecure network PCs.
Multiuser? Terminals? Nah, too slow and expensive. Desktop PCs running MS are better, cheaper, faster they say.
Is that how worms are spread in the MS Windows world? By getting the user to manually chmod +x MyWorm?
Naming a file worm.sh does not make it executable. Doesn't naming any file ???.bat make it executable?
'Automatically updated' is a fundamentally flawed security hole in itself. What is also flawed is how the MS operating system will execute any file if the name ends with .exe, .bat, or .com.
I wonder... does Windows still have the vulnerablity to execute any file if its name ends with .exe, .com, or .bat? Surely this is fundamentally insecure. What wonders would crash upon the world if any UNIX system would automatically assign execute bits to a file just because its name ended with .sh or .bin!
$ ldd /bin/bash /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x4001a000) /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4005f000) /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40062000)
/usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/lib/libpython2.3.so.1.0 (0x4001a000) /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x4011f000) /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4016f000) /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x40172000) /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x40175000) /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40228000) /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x4024b000) /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40254000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
libncurses.so.5 =>
libdl.so.2 =>
libc.so.6 =>
$ ldd
libpython2.3.so.1.0 =>
libpthread.so.0 =>
libdl.so.2 =>
libutil.so.1 =>
libstdc++.so.5 =>
libm.so.6 =>
libgcc_s.so.1 =>
libc.so.6 =>
That's right. The fact that SCO did nothing to mitigate their supposed 'damages' from supposed infringing code puts them at the back of the bus.
In another world, SCO would be undergoing wiretaps, subpoenas, and other assorted FTC-SEC investigation activities for criminal fraud. McBride et. al belong in jail.
People seem to like the idea that they get services and don't have to pay for them. Neocon ARNOLD gets a free ride over his Big Lie from Big Media because that's the industry he serves.
McClintock is honest, but the reality is that nobody except a millionaire wants to give up all those services in exchange for lower taxes.
California is very, very weird. It takes a simple majority to approve spending money, but it takes a two-third's majority to approve raising revenue.
If Longhorn (or whatever they call it) deems any file as being executable just because of its name -- .exe, .com, .bat, then it will continue to be a source of insecurity and will continue to lose out.