Please stop. Non free software simply can not be trusted. Debian + whole drive encryption works just fine even with older hardware like a PIII. If the answer is non free software, you have asked the wrong question.
What FUD. We will see these kinds of stories until M$ finishes building it's "cloud" and then Web apps will be the rage. M$ won't get there anytime soon, but Google and others have been reliable for years. Expect M$ to recycle their "thin client" and Network Computing FUD for another decade.
Where I put my keys is not important, that's why I have one place to put them. There are many other cribs like this because I did not want to make the same mistake I did when I was 18.
Cell phone in the fridge? I suppose the fridge might keep you from hearing it scream or something. Young or old, that's all you Mr. LSD.
True, M$ keeps it's "one night stands" in a cage so they can't run away. M$ indeed broke and destroyed Novell, now what's left has been turned against the free software community a-la SCO. Instead of going the free software route, M$ executives took $350 million of M$'s money to line their pockets. Management has gone as far as to favor M$ Windows in their advertising and on their web site, yes they have pages that don't work outside of IE. Novell managment betrayed the free software community, Suse and every Novell employee that did not get a large enough piece of the blood money. The bad publicity and even worse choice of technology is going to run Novell into the ground the same way SCO was run into the ground. They are now a M$ shell and will soon be nothing but a litigation machine.
Stickers that changed from "Vista Capable" to "Designed for XP" on the day Vista shipped are sleazy, but the larger issue is worse: M$ KILLED INTEL'S GRAPHICS MARKET. What the hell was wrong with Vista that it could not do translucency on Intel chip sets? E16 has been doing translucency in 2D land for a decade, so Vista should have gracefully dealt with the few missing pieces in Intel's chip sets. I know that 3D gaming works well enough on the previous generation of Intel under GNU/Linux, and suspect that's the rub. M$ killed Intel's ambitious drive to produce graphics chipsets because Intel had released the drivers as free software. HP moved away before Vista shipped, but that was not enough to keep Vista from sucking on HP anyway. For daring once to do for free software what they routinely do for M$, Intel has been driven out of the graphics market. The "favor" of letting Intel sell a bunch of hardware for an OS that would never use it should be judged in this light.
You know this is somehow going to depend on mono and silverlight, M$'s patent encumbered and second rate come ons. M$ never lets anyone do as well as themselves with "their" tech.
This is an all around loser for Asus because it introduces risk. The preload policy is GNU/Linux unfriendly. Can you trust a company like that to not load the next version with crap hardware you can't use?
The quote, by the way, was for preinstalls not sales. You might also notice that sales and revenue are down for them. Pitty, M$ wrecked them.
That guy used to work for Slate/MSN. You have to wonder how involved M$ was then and now with this his blatant manipulation. M$ has been unable to float their own stock price (or Novell's, but that's a different story) despite anouncing a $40 billion dollar buy back plan, their biggest ever. M$ is trying to blame their failure on the credit crunch and would love it if other tech companies also failed. So far, only companies in the M$ family are sick. Then we see these stories and lawsuits against Apple and Google - how very fucking convenient.
Please don't parrot old media bullshit about this. The problem is not citizen journalism, the problem is that so many people trust the frauds who people old media itself.
Your PhD in bullshit sounds technical but Vista still stinks. Can you tell me how to make Uncle Fester look sexy while he's talking about "squirting" adverts to your Zune? The fact that 95% of the world does not know what a Zune is, while "iPod" == "portable music player" is a good indicator of how you can advertise the hell out of shit that no one will buy.
Making Microsoft sexy is certain to be Crispin's biggest challenge yet, as its creative types are surely aware--since they, in line with the rest of their industry, overwhelmingly own and use Macs.
Now you know why all of M$ advertising is doomed to be clueless. Then again, anyone who actually used Windows would refuse to endorse it. This is more than a money issue, it's a polished turd issue. You can polish a turd by freezing it, but it will always melt and stink in the user's hand.
If you have one of these boards, you need DOS to fix the BIOS.
You can unzip the file, just run flash.bat on DOS mode to flash BIOS.
It's nice of them to be more aware of the issue but we are a long way from free BIOS. Dependence on licensed M$ software for a fix just goes to show how bad non free bios and ACPI are in the first place. People who have DOS sitting around may never have noticed the problem to begin with. The rest of us will have to watch out until the problem boards have all sold out. That translates into avoidance.
That's a pretty pathetic attempt at a smear. Next time, why don't you say something on topic instead of flaming someone you think is posting AC. After all, you can write whatever you want as an AC and attribute it to whoever you like.
The term "malware" is not specific enough. These are not computer problems, they are M$ Windows problems. Users of other OS have no part of this and should not be alarmed without reason.
I like your cute little bunny ASCI art but think you can improve it too. Let's give it better eyes, nice looking feet and put it in the sun shine instead of the rain.
Unchecked state power is a danger to everyone. The FBI's court filings to prevent DNA statistical studies are transparently self serving. Imagine if they got their wish and had everyone in their database. Million of innocent people would be subjected to unreasonable suspicions. Such plans should be abandoned and all efforts made to release people who were wrongly convicted, something that DNA testing seems to be good for. Great injustice has been done because the state granted itself the power to punish based on what it considered reasonable extrapolation instead of truth backed up by real data. It reminds me of witch trials.
Prison violence proves that surrendering your rights to the state does not make you safe. All kinds of state wards have suffered all kinds of abuse in direct proportion to the control and trust guardians are given. It is nearly impossible to administer justice in a place where no one is trusted but abuse must always be checked for and discouraged. This is one of the reasons state supported torture is so horrible. A cruel state that is more interested in punishment and revenge than it is in justice and protection will abuse guilty and innocent people alike. The ultimate abuse, however, remains the loss of life.
Encouraged, Barlow subpoenaed a new search of the Arizona database. Among about 65,000 felons, there were 122 pairs that matched at nine of 13 loci. Twenty pairs matched at 10 loci. One matched at 11 and one at 12, though both later proved to belong to relatives.
That's about a 1/500 chance of a random match, good evidence but not the 1/1E12 claimed. The FBI needs to get off it's extrapolation and study the data.
What's really threatened is Big Brother's DNA database. If the evidence is not conclusive, there's little reason to spend billions collecting it from school children. A lot of equipment makers will cry about that.
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Please stop. Non free software simply can not be trusted. Debian + whole drive encryption works just fine even with older hardware like a PIII. If the answer is non free software, you have asked the wrong question.
What FUD. We will see these kinds of stories until M$ finishes building it's "cloud" and then Web apps will be the rage. M$ won't get there anytime soon, but Google and others have been reliable for years. Expect M$ to recycle their "thin client" and Network Computing FUD for another decade.
because they could. tag: Windows.
More than one analyst group thinks 10% layoffs at M$ are good idea.
Where I put my keys is not important, that's why I have one place to put them. There are many other cribs like this because I did not want to make the same mistake I did when I was 18.
Cell phone in the fridge? I suppose the fridge might keep you from hearing it scream or something. Young or old, that's all you Mr. LSD.
The truely wise learn Unix at a young age. When they are older, they can replace their younger peers with small shell scripts.
Application - do not tempt older, apparently slower, peers to show you their crib sheets. Just watch and learn as the job gets done.
Really, read this. Now ponder the Bill and M'Lady Gates scam. GWB is owned by M$.
Novell certainly isn't "in bed with Microsoft"
True, M$ keeps it's "one night stands" in a cage so they can't run away. M$ indeed broke and destroyed Novell, now what's left has been turned against the free software community a-la SCO. Instead of going the free software route, M$ executives took $350 million of M$'s money to line their pockets. Management has gone as far as to favor M$ Windows in their advertising and on their web site, yes they have pages that don't work outside of IE. Novell managment betrayed the free software community, Suse and every Novell employee that did not get a large enough piece of the blood money. The bad publicity and even worse choice of technology is going to run Novell into the ground the same way SCO was run into the ground. They are now a M$ shell and will soon be nothing but a litigation machine.
Stickers that changed from "Vista Capable" to "Designed for XP" on the day Vista shipped are sleazy, but the larger issue is worse: M$ KILLED INTEL'S GRAPHICS MARKET. What the hell was wrong with Vista that it could not do translucency on Intel chip sets? E16 has been doing translucency in 2D land for a decade, so Vista should have gracefully dealt with the few missing pieces in Intel's chip sets. I know that 3D gaming works well enough on the previous generation of Intel under GNU/Linux, and suspect that's the rub. M$ killed Intel's ambitious drive to produce graphics chipsets because Intel had released the drivers as free software. HP moved away before Vista shipped, but that was not enough to keep Vista from sucking on HP anyway. For daring once to do for free software what they routinely do for M$, Intel has been driven out of the graphics market. The "favor" of letting Intel sell a bunch of hardware for an OS that would never use it should be judged in this light.
You know this is somehow going to depend on mono and silverlight, M$'s patent encumbered and second rate come ons. M$ never lets anyone do as well as themselves with "their" tech.
This is an all around loser for Asus because it introduces risk. The preload policy is GNU/Linux unfriendly. Can you trust a company like that to not load the next version with crap hardware you can't use?
The quote, by the way, was for preinstalls not sales. You might also notice that sales and revenue are down for them. Pitty, M$ wrecked them.
He was not talking about sales, he was talking about preloads. Digitimes has the actual quote:
This contradicts common sense but not the fact that XP EEEPCs don't fly off shelves.
That guy used to work for Slate/MSN. You have to wonder how involved M$ was then and now with this his blatant manipulation. M$ has been unable to float their own stock price (or Novell's, but that's a different story) despite anouncing a $40 billion dollar buy back plan, their biggest ever. M$ is trying to blame their failure on the credit crunch and would love it if other tech companies also failed. So far, only companies in the M$ family are sick. Then we see these stories and lawsuits against Apple and Google - how very fucking convenient.
The person who did this is an old journalist and someone who's had problems with stock market advice/manipulation before.
Please don't parrot old media bullshit about this. The problem is not citizen journalism, the problem is that so many people trust the frauds who people old media itself.
He could just stop using windows. That solves the backup problem for most people.
I think you have nailed this one. Read up on the Slog to learn how M$ themselves express this kind of effort. It's not pretty.
Your PhD in bullshit sounds technical but Vista still stinks. Can you tell me how to make Uncle Fester look sexy while he's talking about "squirting" adverts to your Zune? The fact that 95% of the world does not know what a Zune is, while "iPod" == "portable music player" is a good indicator of how you can advertise the hell out of shit that no one will buy.
Now you know why all of M$ advertising is doomed to be clueless. Then again, anyone who actually used Windows would refuse to endorse it. This is more than a money issue, it's a polished turd issue. You can polish a turd by freezing it, but it will always melt and stink in the user's hand.
If you have one of these boards, you need DOS to fix the BIOS.
It's nice of them to be more aware of the issue but we are a long way from free BIOS. Dependence on licensed M$ software for a fix just goes to show how bad non free bios and ACPI are in the first place. People who have DOS sitting around may never have noticed the problem to begin with. The rest of us will have to watch out until the problem boards have all sold out. That translates into avoidance.
What did the DA want the passwords for? Is Childs really a priavacy protection hero?
That's a pretty pathetic attempt at a smear. Next time, why don't you say something on topic instead of flaming someone you think is posting AC. After all, you can write whatever you want as an AC and attribute it to whoever you like.
The term "malware" is not specific enough. These are not computer problems, they are M$ Windows problems. Users of other OS have no part of this and should not be alarmed without reason.
I like your cute little bunny ASCI art but think you can improve it too. Let's give it better eyes, nice looking feet and put it in the sun shine instead of the rain.
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Ah, there, that's better. A happy rabbit.
Oh, yes it is, never mind.
Unchecked state power is a danger to everyone. The FBI's court filings to prevent DNA statistical studies are transparently self serving. Imagine if they got their wish and had everyone in their database. Million of innocent people would be subjected to unreasonable suspicions. Such plans should be abandoned and all efforts made to release people who were wrongly convicted, something that DNA testing seems to be good for. Great injustice has been done because the state granted itself the power to punish based on what it considered reasonable extrapolation instead of truth backed up by real data. It reminds me of witch trials.
Prison violence proves that surrendering your rights to the state does not make you safe. All kinds of state wards have suffered all kinds of abuse in direct proportion to the control and trust guardians are given. It is nearly impossible to administer justice in a place where no one is trusted but abuse must always be checked for and discouraged. This is one of the reasons state supported torture is so horrible. A cruel state that is more interested in punishment and revenge than it is in justice and protection will abuse guilty and innocent people alike. The ultimate abuse, however, remains the loss of life.
That's about a 1/500 chance of a random match, good evidence but not the 1/1E12 claimed. The FBI needs to get off it's extrapolation and study the data.
What's really threatened is Big Brother's DNA database. If the evidence is not conclusive, there's little reason to spend billions collecting it from school children. A lot of equipment makers will cry about that.