How stupid are you in the first place? Your primary "site".. your primary online presence.. should be YOUR OWN WEBSITE.
This has been a marketing no-brainer since the mid 1990's. DUH.
Ultrix (Yeah, I know, not Linux, but some things carried over!);)
OS/2 (Yeah, I know, not Linux, but a lot of free software was ported from *NIX systems into OS/2, so some of that carried over as well.)
AmigaDOS (Yeah, I know, not Linux, but it was *NIX-y)
Slackware
Mandrake (later Mandriva)
Red Hat 7.1
TurboLinux
SuSE
VALinux
VectorLinux
Knoppix
Morphix
Gentoo
Sabayon
RR64
Debian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (much newer version, very different, worth mentioning again.)
rPath
CentOS
Fedora
Ubuntu
Overall, I think I learned the most about Linux from Gentoo, with CentOS being the number two.
(Other *NIX systems: Solaris, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and perhaps one might think about counting Mac OSX and BeOS)
As someone who was mutilated by a surgeon when I was about a day or two old, who is now an adult, I can whole-heartedly say that I DO NOT approve of the procedure.
I have problems with getting stimulated, staying stimulated, and reaching orgasm, due to the relatively small number of nerve-endings left to me on my penis.
If I put a condom on for "safer-sex" purposes, that's the end of it. Not nearly enough stimulation gets through the condom for me to feel pretty much anything, so I am incapable of having "safer sex".. it's logistically impossible without something like Viagra.
Perchance the companies that make Viagra, Cialias and Levitra are the ones behind this study that came to conclusions that contradict common sense? It is *NEVER* OK to mutilate a child.
It is mutilation, plain and simple, and it interferes with the sex lives of those of us who have been mutilated for a lifetime.
This is indeed a sad day as we have lost one of the world's great explorers.
Correction, we've lost one of the greatest explorers of our **planetary system**, (the Solar system, named after our star, Sol), he cannot be called simply one of the world's greatest explorers, it doesn't say enough about him or his comrades. How many people in the history of the world have been where he went? A dozen or so? He was the elite of the elite of the elite, and hopefully there will be others that get the opportunity to follow in his rocket-trail! (They wouldn't get far enough by following in his footsteps!)
Unfortunately, younger generations don't seem to be inspired by him quite the same way, or at least not in the same numbers, as kids in the 1960's & 1970's did.
I wholeheartedly agree with the need for tough decisions. Choosing not to explore space, and learn how to "get there" dooms the human race to die with this planet in a few billion years. (if we don't die off sooner for reasons other than the sun expanding into a red giant.) Explorers of his calibre will be needed to get humankind to places where we can continue expanding our knowledge of the universe, and more importantly, simply continue being.
R.I.P. Neil Armstrong!
I ended up ordering it from bookunlimited.ie. Several other companies didn't have it, or didn't even have online stores, just a brochure site. I thought that was rather strange in this day & age.
I'm in Ireland trying to get it from Amazon.co.uk. (They don't have a.IE one.. the gobshites):/
The U.S. Dept of Commerce would have sweet F.A. to do with it.
You should be balancing your books at least once a month, so you should make downloading your history part of that.
I'd also be wary of any third-party sites grabbing your info on your behalf... but I'm slightly paranoid about my data... I believe only I, and my bank, should have access to it.
The two most important points of having a "guard dog" are that it is:
1.> Heard
2.> Seen
Without those.. it is not a deterrent.
The training bit is not flawed... if a dog thinks IT is the alpha male.. it will try to subjugate you by any and all means. Dog owners always need to be seen as alpha.. if they aren't.. their dog WILL, without question, have behavioural issues.
It's been said several times already.. but a big, noisy dog. (preferably one who likes you, but is SLIGHTLY territorial.)
but.. if you get a Dog.. you need to learn about pack mentality, and learn how to control the dog.. establish that you're the alpha male, and then make sure the dog is happy enough that he doesn't need to challenge alpha male's status.;)
I know I will absolutely NOT tolerate having to view ads on a device that I have bought & paid for.
To view content that someone has spent money developing..sure.. but if I've paid for the device, and I've paid for the O/S, ads will *NOT* be welcomed.. and it is something that would cause me to put Linux on my Macbook over.
If they are not insured & bonded (or are unwilling to show you proof that you can verify with their insurers) then you shouldn't be working with them.
If they are willing to put up the cash for insurance and sureties that will PAY you if your IP or physical property for that matter, is compromised, devalued etc.. then you've got little to lose.
If your IP is so important to your company that the amount of their maximum insurance payout would NOT cover your losses, then you should be doing these items in-house instead of outsourcing them.
The French are actually very accommodating to English-speakers providing that the English-speakers TRY to speak French before resorting to English. The "if'n yoo mooves to umayrikuh yoo'z shud lerns da fuckin' lang-guij" crowd could certainly take some lessons from the French.
I was there on holidays last year (That's vacation to a yank) I had no problems at all getting by with my high-school level French, aided by a good phrase-book application on my PDA, and the phrase, "Pardon, est-ce que tu parlez Anglais?"
I can attest to this, having migrated from the U.S. to the Republic of Ireland. The percentage of my vocabulary I have had to re-learn is definitely significant. Doing crossword puzzles from local newspapers in tandem with my native co-workers at lunch remains a huge help towards this end. After three years, there is still plenty of new/amended vocabulary for me to discover.
Wireless networks are amazingly, insanely easy to crack into with scripts widely available.
It takes no more than a few minutes to gain access to ANY current wireless (802.11x) network whether it's using WEP,WPA, WPA2 etc.. etc.. etc..
If you want someone to be able to park outside your building & track every single thing that happens on your network, or you just don't care about your data, then fine.. switch to 100% wireless.
BUT.. if your company, or you personally, have ANY data that you want to remain private (a cracker could get your user/password combos easily and rainbow-table the crap out of them in minutes if they have ANY access to your network.. including cracked wifi) then you should not be using WiFi AT ALL.
Keep the wires.. keep your data! (not to mention networking performance.)
"Give a man a fish, feed him once; teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime."
comes to mind.
Mr. Dvorak's comments are certainly short sighted, and as you pointed out it needn't be OR choice, it can be an AND.
I paid for two of the laptops.. one is going to my Sister's two youngest children, the other will hopefully help some village somewhere end up with irrigated fields, a well for clean water, and others things I am fortunate enough to be able to take for granted.
Giving them nothing but food just leaves them sitting in the same squalor with no real chance of improving their situation.
I know a man who has started a charity dedicated to a single town somewhere in Africa. Money & volunteers head down there twice a year. This year they have drilled a well and built a school. These were projects undertaken WITH the people of the village, so they can become self-supporting, and understand how they were done.
If John Dvorak really wants to make a difference in Africa.. maybe he can go help teach kids at the school for a month or two!
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How stupid are you in the first place? Your primary "site".. your primary online presence.. should be YOUR OWN WEBSITE. This has been a marketing no-brainer since the mid 1990's. DUH.
Ultrix (Yeah, I know, not Linux, but some things carried over!) ;)
OS/2 (Yeah, I know, not Linux, but a lot of free software was ported from *NIX systems into OS/2, so some of that carried over as well.)
AmigaDOS (Yeah, I know, not Linux, but it was *NIX-y)
Slackware
Mandrake (later Mandriva)
Red Hat 7.1
TurboLinux
SuSE
VALinux
VectorLinux
Knoppix
Morphix
Gentoo
Sabayon
RR64
Debian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (much newer version, very different, worth mentioning again.)
rPath
CentOS
Fedora
Ubuntu
Overall, I think I learned the most about Linux from Gentoo, with CentOS being the number two.
(Other *NIX systems: Solaris, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and perhaps one might think about counting Mac OSX and BeOS)
I'll be back to Gentoo or off to Fedora unless the ad nonsense is easily disabled.
As someone who was mutilated by a surgeon when I was about a day or two old, who is now an adult, I can whole-heartedly say that I DO NOT approve of the procedure. I have problems with getting stimulated, staying stimulated, and reaching orgasm, due to the relatively small number of nerve-endings left to me on my penis. If I put a condom on for "safer-sex" purposes, that's the end of it. Not nearly enough stimulation gets through the condom for me to feel pretty much anything, so I am incapable of having "safer sex".. it's logistically impossible without something like Viagra. Perchance the companies that make Viagra, Cialias and Levitra are the ones behind this study that came to conclusions that contradict common sense? It is *NEVER* OK to mutilate a child. It is mutilation, plain and simple, and it interferes with the sex lives of those of us who have been mutilated for a lifetime.
This is indeed a sad day as we have lost one of the world's great explorers.
Correction, we've lost one of the greatest explorers of our **planetary system**, (the Solar system, named after our star, Sol), he cannot be called simply one of the world's greatest explorers, it doesn't say enough about him or his comrades. How many people in the history of the world have been where he went? A dozen or so? He was the elite of the elite of the elite, and hopefully there will be others that get the opportunity to follow in his rocket-trail! (They wouldn't get far enough by following in his footsteps!) Unfortunately, younger generations don't seem to be inspired by him quite the same way, or at least not in the same numbers, as kids in the 1960's & 1970's did. I wholeheartedly agree with the need for tough decisions. Choosing not to explore space, and learn how to "get there" dooms the human race to die with this planet in a few billion years. (if we don't die off sooner for reasons other than the sun expanding into a red giant.) Explorers of his calibre will be needed to get humankind to places where we can continue expanding our knowledge of the universe, and more importantly, simply continue being. R.I.P. Neil Armstrong!
I ended up ordering it from bookunlimited.ie. Several other companies didn't have it, or didn't even have online stores, just a brochure site. I thought that was rather strange in this day & age.
I'm in Ireland trying to get it from Amazon.co.uk. (They don't have a .IE one.. the gobshites) :/
The U.S. Dept of Commerce would have sweet F.A. to do with it.
Amazon has it, and won't ship it to Ireland for some reason. It's not like I never buy stuff from them. :/
It sounds like a good read.
Doesn't that mean you are trusting a third party with all your passwords? Not something I'd want to be doing. :/
Microsoft orifice should be eliminated from existence, especially the "365" nonsense. Google docs too. LibreOffice!!!!
Hopefully more countries will follow Mexico's lead!
You should be balancing your books at least once a month, so you should make downloading your history part of that. I'd also be wary of any third-party sites grabbing your info on your behalf... but I'm slightly paranoid about my data... I believe only I, and my bank, should have access to it.
The two most important points of having a "guard dog" are that it is:
1.> Heard
2.> Seen
Without those.. it is not a deterrent.
The training bit is not flawed... if a dog thinks IT is the alpha male.. it will try to subjugate you by any and all means. Dog owners always need to be seen as alpha.. if they aren't.. their dog WILL, without question, have behavioural issues.
It's been said several times already.. but a big, noisy dog. (preferably one who likes you, but is SLIGHTLY territorial.) but.. if you get a Dog.. you need to learn about pack mentality, and learn how to control the dog.. establish that you're the alpha male, and then make sure the dog is happy enough that he doesn't need to challenge alpha male's status. ;)
I know I will absolutely NOT tolerate having to view ads on a device that I have bought & paid for. To view content that someone has spent money developing..sure.. but if I've paid for the device, and I've paid for the O/S, ads will *NOT* be welcomed.. and it is something that would cause me to put Linux on my Macbook over.
If they are not insured & bonded (or are unwilling to show you proof that you can verify with their insurers) then you shouldn't be working with them. If they are willing to put up the cash for insurance and sureties that will PAY you if your IP or physical property for that matter, is compromised, devalued etc.. then you've got little to lose.
If your IP is so important to your company that the amount of their maximum insurance payout would NOT cover your losses, then you should be doing these items in-house instead of outsourcing them.
The French are actually very accommodating to English-speakers providing that the English-speakers TRY to speak French before resorting to English. The "if'n yoo mooves to umayrikuh yoo'z shud lerns da fuckin' lang-guij" crowd could certainly take some lessons from the French. I was there on holidays last year (That's vacation to a yank) I had no problems at all getting by with my high-school level French, aided by a good phrase-book application on my PDA, and the phrase, "Pardon, est-ce que tu parlez Anglais?"
I can attest to this, having migrated from the U.S. to the Republic of Ireland. The percentage of my vocabulary I have had to re-learn is definitely significant. Doing crossword puzzles from local newspapers in tandem with my native co-workers at lunch remains a huge help towards this end. After three years, there is still plenty of new/amended vocabulary for me to discover.
Wireless networks are amazingly, insanely easy to crack into with scripts widely available. It takes no more than a few minutes to gain access to ANY current wireless (802.11x) network whether it's using WEP,WPA, WPA2 etc.. etc.. etc.. If you want someone to be able to park outside your building & track every single thing that happens on your network, or you just don't care about your data, then fine.. switch to 100% wireless. BUT.. if your company, or you personally, have ANY data that you want to remain private (a cracker could get your user/password combos easily and rainbow-table the crap out of them in minutes if they have ANY access to your network.. including cracked wifi) then you should not be using WiFi AT ALL. Keep the wires.. keep your data! (not to mention networking performance.)
comes to mind.
Mr. Dvorak's comments are certainly short sighted, and as you pointed out it needn't be OR choice, it can be an AND.
I paid for two of the laptops.. one is going to my Sister's two youngest children, the other will hopefully help some village somewhere end up with irrigated fields, a well for clean water, and others things I am fortunate enough to be able to take for granted.
Giving them nothing but food just leaves them sitting in the same squalor with no real chance of improving their situation.
I know a man who has started a charity dedicated to a single town somewhere in Africa. Money & volunteers head down there twice a year. This year they have drilled a well and built a school. These were projects undertaken WITH the people of the village, so they can become self-supporting, and understand how they were done.
If John Dvorak really wants to make a difference in Africa.. maybe he can go help teach kids at the school for a month or two!