When I've read this headline, I thought: "Free hamburgers? I'd order a couple, but they'll be not fresh because of delivery time... I want such service in my neighborhood!".
Then I thought: "Oh, maybe that's not about that. Maybe this is like online Coca-Cola and coffe machines - now you can go to McDonalds and track preparation of your Le BigMac from your laptop online!"
Never heard that linuxconf ever required me not to touch config files. I touch them all the time and linuxconf seems to cope with it nicely.
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Because you don't know to use/find right themes. Go and self-educate. BTW, I don't really like that theme - too artistic for everyday work. And bringing Mac theme to GNOME is work of few days or even hours. How much it would take to bring GNOME theme on Mac?
In fact, I'd not care if my {insert-non-educated-relative-definition} could use Linux. There's always some windows/AOL for it. What I care for if *I* can use it and if it's convenient for me. GUI firewall configuration is more convenient that ipchains -L/ipchains -A repeated, so I take it. GUI email clients aren't good with me, so I still use pine. That's what I want from Linux - to be me-oriented, not some imaginary super-dumb user-oriented.
Note that the naked women appeared immediately after hitting search button, as reported by CNN. Not only no search engine except Google's "Feeling lucky" will take you directly to the search result page, no page of your examples is really shows any naked women on the first page. Unless you have imagination so wild and so familiary acquainted with porn sites that "Enter!" already looks like naked women for you.
Also, I'd think showing nude women to girls is not too bad - she can always use a mirror anyway. Or mirrors probably should be filtered too (or have black spots in you-know-what places).
If they just going to give it to OEMs so that they will pre-install it - why not? Especially that it's just pre-configured RedHat and they call it "distribution" just for ego-inflating and PR-waving reasons.
This is religious. You don't ask religious jew why he won't eat meat from the dish that had contact with milk... So don't ask vegan - it's religion, and can have no good rational explanation, it's the point in religions.
Well, the upgrade step doesn't seem so easy. You should use one utility to update ports, second one to check if update for package exists, third one to remove old package, and only then install a new one (and God help you if new one didn't install cleanly - you are now in the cold, because old one is erased). BTW - what with config files? RPM has pretty sophysticated algorithm to manage them, that works in 90% of cases and doesn't make a mess (i.e., doesn't prevent package from working) in 95-95% of cases. How ports system handles this?
But this also allows you favorite S/W maker to write on their license terms "With use of this package you agree to erase all Linux and derived OSes installations from all computers of your pocession or be subject of a fine of $100K daily, paid to the maker of the software". And now imagine someone tricks your boss in using this software, without reading that fine print...
Forget about MAIL-FROM. I have a letter with confirmation from Netsol, that has another letter, from another person (with CRYPT-PW scheme), chained to my letter by Netsol. They just sent me a confirmation "this is the letter you've sent us" and got another person's letter in along with mine. With password, name, ID, everything. If I wanted, I just could go and take over this innocent person's handle and wreak havoc. I wonder how many letters of others *my* information got chained to...
And you have nothing to do - Netsol still controls the process, and the cost of moving is too high. And nobody there seems to care.
In fact, even 99% uptime is not so good. It means, every 4-5 days you are down for an hour? A hour down every week? Customers will be just plain *MAD* with such setup. Especially if that hour would be when they check their site:)
As if... It didn't install neither on 4G, nor on 2G, neither with own NTFS, nor with pre-formatted FAT16 partition. And this seems to be well-known problem - I asked people, and they said they had similiar trouble and recomended me to byte-copy existing NT partition. And this was the only way to make it working.
Well, I agree that Linux desktop is not for everyone. But I, as a programmer, have almost no problem at setup of Linux desktop nowdays. Put in YourFavoriteDistro, select GNOME/KDE and in an hour you have working desktop system.
As for NT - just spent 3 days 3 hours each trying to install NT on 10G disk. Still no success.
Correction: typical user nowdays doesn't know what the heck "netscape" is. You should ask "what icon do you see in the top left" to say what browser he's using.
There's a Darwin theory, and there's a neo-darvisim, which we now see as Darwin theory. The pure Darwin theory didn't even settle with genetics (that was a basic for Lysenko's witch hunt on genetics in USSR). So there's many darwinisms and will be yet more, theory just gets modified and new one is called "Darwin theory" again:)
That's what passes nowdays for a new hole? I, far from being security expert, wrote patches for guestbooks on this subject about 3 years ago. It's just obvious you should think about this. Isn't this why I see "allowed HTML" here below?
Now just what we lack is somebody patenting idea of fixing this "new hole"...
but this has not much to do with configuration, but with installation and package management. There are lots of package managers for various unices, at least one for each commercial distribution and one for each Linux distribution that doesn't use RPM. But configuration is entirely different beast.
'Hmmm, I guess it'd be legal for someone to prove they were at a workstation with M$ word on it, therefore MP3.com can legally distribute it to any computer they use now'.
Sure. Moreover, many companies do it this way - install Office applications from one disk (probably even of uncertain origin) and then buy a bunch of licenses from MS. MS never was seen to object it. And it's natural - they just get rid of burden of distributing those CDs and can make money selling just pure air and holograms in those licenses - everyone's dream, not?:)
Could it be that someone in Microsoft really Sees The Light (TM) and understands that I'm not going to switch OS because of a video clip player? So that if they want me as their market share, they'd make player for my favorite OS. Not a big lot of concept, but somehow it's too obscure for most managers.
What the heck is "ethical squatter"? Next one to "ethical thief" or what? He makes money of what does not belong to him, and I really didn't hear his name among those who promoted Linux and made it what it is today. He just pulled a trick to get rich, all hails to him - but don't say he did it for "ethical reasons". He did it because he was greedy and saw the target to get some cash. No freaking ethics was ever close. And the only case why he didn't sell it to MSFT (while I'm not sure why MSFT would need linux.com and what on Earth would they put there and how would they deal with all really bad publicity they'd get for it) is because he knew he would be flamed to ashes for this, so he just was scared.
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When I've read this headline, I thought: "Free hamburgers? I'd order a couple, but they'll be not fresh because of delivery time... I want such service in my neighborhood!".
Then I thought: "Oh, maybe that's not about that. Maybe this is like online Coca-Cola and coffe machines - now you can go to McDonalds and track preparation of your Le BigMac from your laptop online!"
Never heard that linuxconf ever required me not to touch config files. I touch them all the time and linuxconf seems to cope with it nicely.
Because you don't know to use/find right themes. Go and self-educate. BTW, I don't really like that theme - too artistic for everyday work.
And bringing Mac theme to GNOME is work of few days or even hours. How much it would take to bring GNOME theme on Mac?
In fact, I'd not care if my {insert-non-educated-relative-definition} could use Linux. There's always some windows/AOL for it. What I care for if *I* can use it and if it's convenient for me. GUI firewall configuration is more convenient that ipchains -L/ipchains -A repeated, so I take it. GUI email clients aren't good with me, so I still use pine. That's what I want from Linux - to be me-oriented, not some imaginary super-dumb user-oriented.
Note that the naked women appeared immediately after hitting search button, as reported by CNN. Not only no search engine except Google's "Feeling lucky" will take you directly to the search result page, no page of your examples is really shows any naked women on the first page. Unless you have imagination so wild and so familiary acquainted with porn sites that "Enter!" already looks like naked women for you.
Also, I'd think showing nude women to girls is not too bad - she can always use a mirror anyway. Or mirrors probably should be filtered too (or have black spots in you-know-what places).
If they just going to give it to OEMs so that they will pre-install it - why not? Especially that it's just pre-configured RedHat and they call it "distribution" just for ego-inflating and PR-waving reasons.
This is religious. You don't ask religious jew why he won't eat meat from the dish that had contact with milk... So don't ask vegan - it's religion, and can have no good rational explanation, it's the point in religions.
And what the heck is 265 pounds? You merkins should really get into 20th century at last and use units that rest of the world does :)
It is meant to be that way. So when they'll write Kalium Cyanide (sp?) among those, and you'll eat it, your ancestors cannot sue - you were warned.
dolphins eat fish
And do you know *what* those damn fishes do in the water that you drink?
On the other hand, dolphins do the same, so they both should be punished.
The question, obviously, is - who wants to advertise to people that have no money to buy? It'd be just waste of advertising budget...
Well, the upgrade step doesn't seem so easy. You should use one utility to update ports, second one to check if update for package exists, third one to remove old package, and only then install a new one (and God help you if new one didn't install cleanly - you are now in the cold, because old one is erased). BTW - what with config files? RPM has pretty sophysticated algorithm to manage them, that works in 90% of cases and doesn't make a mess (i.e., doesn't prevent package from working) in 95-95% of cases. How ports system handles this?
But this also allows you favorite S/W maker to write on their license terms "With use of this package you agree to erase all Linux and derived OSes installations from all computers of your pocession or be subject of a fine of $100K daily, paid to the maker of the software". And now imagine someone tricks your boss in using this software, without reading that fine print...
Forget about MAIL-FROM. I have a letter with confirmation from Netsol, that has another letter, from another person (with CRYPT-PW scheme), chained to my letter by Netsol. They just sent me a confirmation "this is the letter you've sent us" and got another person's letter in along with mine. With password, name, ID, everything. If I wanted, I just could go and take over this innocent person's handle and wreak havoc. I wonder how many letters of others *my* information got chained to...
And you have nothing to do - Netsol still controls the process, and the cost of moving is too high. And nobody there seems to care.
In fact, even 99% uptime is not so good. It means, every 4-5 days you are down for an hour? A hour down every week? Customers will be just plain *MAD* with such setup. Especially if that hour would be when they check their site :)
As if... It didn't install neither on 4G, nor on 2G, neither with own NTFS, nor with pre-formatted FAT16 partition. And this seems to be well-known problem - I asked people, and they said they had similiar trouble and recomended me to byte-copy existing NT partition. And this was the only way to make it working.
Well, I agree that Linux desktop is not for everyone. But I, as a programmer, have almost no problem at setup of Linux desktop nowdays. Put in YourFavoriteDistro, select GNOME/KDE and in an hour you have working desktop system.
As for NT - just spent 3 days 3 hours each trying to install NT on 10G disk. Still no success.
Correction: typical user nowdays doesn't know what the heck "netscape" is. You should ask "what icon do you see in the top left" to say what browser he's using.
There's a Darwin theory, and there's a neo-darvisim, which we now see as Darwin theory. The pure Darwin theory didn't even settle with genetics (that was a basic for Lysenko's witch hunt on genetics in USSR). So there's many darwinisms and will be yet more, theory just gets modified and new one is called "Darwin theory" again :)
That's what passes nowdays for a new hole? I, far from being security expert, wrote patches for guestbooks on this subject about 3 years ago. It's just obvious you should think about this. Isn't this why I see "allowed HTML" here below?
Now just what we lack is somebody patenting idea of fixing this "new hole"...
When Mozilla becomes a usable browser, this argument becomes valid. Not that I expect this to happen next N years, N>=1.
but this has not much to do with configuration, but with installation and package management. There are lots of package managers for various unices, at least one for each commercial distribution and one for each Linux distribution that doesn't use RPM. But configuration is entirely different beast.
'Hmmm, I guess it'd be legal for someone to prove they were at a workstation with M$ word on it, therefore MP3.com can legally distribute it to any computer they use now'.
:)
Sure. Moreover, many companies do it this way - install Office applications from one disk (probably even of uncertain origin) and then buy a bunch of licenses from MS. MS never was seen to object it. And it's natural - they just get rid of burden of distributing those CDs and can make money selling just pure air and holograms in those licenses - everyone's dream, not?
Could it be that someone in Microsoft really Sees The Light (TM) and understands that I'm not going to switch OS because of a video clip player? So that if they want me as their market share, they'd make player for my favorite OS. Not a big lot of concept, but somehow it's too obscure for most managers.
What the heck is "ethical squatter"? Next one to "ethical thief" or what? He makes money of what does not belong to him, and I really didn't hear his name among those who promoted Linux and made it what it is today. He just pulled a trick to get rich, all hails to him - but don't say he did it for "ethical reasons". He did it because he was greedy and saw the target to get some cash. No freaking ethics was ever close. And the only case why he didn't sell it to MSFT (while I'm not sure why MSFT would need linux.com and what on Earth would they put there and how would they deal with all really bad publicity they'd get for it) is because he knew he would be flamed to ashes for this, so he just was scared.