This past weekend, I decided to try to rehabilitate an old (1996 BIOS) laptop into an externally facing home web server. Hey, guess what? My hardware doesn't support home-burned CDs! I was just starting to look for a distro available in a pressed CD format. I'm glad to find out I can run down to Best Buy on my way home from work and just pick one up.
That's not your BIOS, it's your optical drive. I've seen CD (NOT -R) drives that read burned discs just fine, but will not offer them for boot. Try another optical drive.
I say let the bastard code, it would be his forced labour instead of making license plates or bashing rocks to rubble. He has a gift, in this case, exploit the hell out of it.
I think that policy is implemented in prison for rapists and hookers only.
People who go for this will view MSO as a bill, not as an investment or as part of the 'computer' (that includes all hardware and software purchased at the same time, believe it or not many people don't understand the difference). When MSO is a bill, switching to Open Office will be a financial incentive: stop paying those bills! Switching someone who's already paid for MSO to OOo and claiming that OOo is free sure is a funny argument. It also makes MSO look like it has more value, as the user already paid for it. So the user already paid for the valuable item, why would he use the free one?
Your Linux box's GUI might look different but I doubt much else would change: Linux was inspired by Minix, GNU, and UNIX, not anything from Microsoft.
His hardware would be a lot shittier. Windows, and especially Vista, have really brought the price of hardware down. I still cannot believe that a 2 gHz, dual core processor and 2GB of RAM are considered entry level today. And that's available relatively cheap, too.
The man should be given a Nobel Peace Prize. Windows has done more to make technology available to non-tech experts than anyone else.
The man should be given a Nobel Peace Prize. Windows has done more to make money for techies due to the unnecessary complexities imposed on non-tech experts than anyone else.
There. I corrected it for you. No you dolt. Press control X. Everyone knows that. Pay up.
I credit Windows for bringing the price of consumer hardware down, especially Vista. Just think, if Vista were not so HW-heavy would we have today Dual- and Quad- core processors and _Gigabytes_ of RAM for so cheap? People who use an OS that does not need all that (Ubuntu, for instance) can literally have a system that is four times as powerful as they need, for the same adjusted cost of what a regular system would have cost only three years ago.
Yes, and seeing how slashdot decided to try and slashdot them also helps... Seriously, there are maybe less than five/.ings resulting in downed servers a month now. However, I regularly see websites 'suspended' from being linked on Digg / Reddit. Note that these seem to be websites that have exceeded a bandwidth limitation, not a server failure. I've only seen that maybe once or twice from/..
SSL certificates provide one thing, and one thing only: Encryption between the two ends using the certificate.
For end users, it doesn't even provide that. Users don't know what SSL certs are for, other than the fact that they cause popups and spam (Yes, I've heard users refer to popups for SSL certs as spam. Spam is now a general word for 'annoyance', much as 'virus' is now a general word for 'malware').
Given the opportunity to visit an https enabled site with a popup and an http site without, everyone who does not read/. would choose the latter. For whatever reason, people think that the interwebs are secure and safe and that they can pick their noses and nobody sees them. Pretty colours in the address bar, lock icons, and fucking fireworks won't prevent people from ignoring security. I even had a user remove Firefox3 RC1 from her machine because it would warn her about suspicious websites and not let her continue. Forget that the browser is protecting her, she wants that [background|screensaver|cursor animation] no matter what the cost.
The original creators of that stuff didn't lose anything, its all bits man. In any case, it's obviously just a coincidence. The keys are like right next to each other.
Just having watched the vid, it's quite a cool concept. Though I can well imagine a jealous walker-by accidentally slashing it with his pocket knife. That would ruin it a bit methinks. Don't you know? BMW stands for "Break My Windows" not "slash my fabric".
Can you name a single president (excepting possibly those who died too early to do anything) who didn't violate the Constitution? We've had some really good presidents, but even Washington, John Adams, and Jefferson violated the constitution. And King David broke half of the ten commandments. That's what the greatest leaders do. Should I get started about Alexander or Julius? How about the great leaders of science, who broke the church's laws? Galileo? Kepler? Should I start mentioning philosophers as well?
Two things: 1) Clinton was the one with the historical legacy fixation, and... 2) THIS is a stain upon his legacy?!? Wasn't Monica the one with the stain?
This is why we feel awkward as soon as our favorite store remodels and currently all aisles are changed or placed in new directions. Or when the better half suddenly dyes her hair.
LOL. You do know that dogs are creatures of habit? Of course I know that, but I've never taken it into consideration. The random wanderings do not seem to bother her. That may be because our family likes to hike in unfamiliar places, so the random walks may make her feel that we will somehow get to woodland or something. I don't know.
Tomorrow I will make sure to let her lead, and we will see how that goes. Maybe she does have a particular path that she feels is 'right' and I just don't know it.
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This past weekend, I decided to try to rehabilitate an old (1996 BIOS) laptop into an externally facing home web server. Hey, guess what? My hardware doesn't support home-burned CDs! I was just starting to look for a distro available in a pressed CD format. I'm glad to find out I can run down to Best Buy on my way home from work and just pick one up.
That's not your BIOS, it's your optical drive. I've seen CD (NOT -R) drives that read burned discs just fine, but will not offer them for boot. Try another optical drive.
Dont hate the world, It's the sick asswipes that populate it that are the problem.
That's why we have murderers.
No. How is it even relevant?
Development of Reiser4 will be seriously affected, for one thing.
I'm a pro-slavery nazi, you insensitive clod!
My grandfather was a Nazi slave, you insensitive clod!
Does this whole situation affect your choice of file system?
Personally, I would have to say so. This is a very sad story. There is something very morbid about using the work of a murderer.
Well then, you should take a second look at your enjoyment of Democracy, then. Democracy was not invented by smiling grape-eating hippies, you know.
I say let the bastard code, it would be his forced labour instead of making license plates or bashing rocks to rubble.
He has a gift, in this case, exploit the hell out of it.
I think that policy is implemented in prison for rapists and hookers only.
Hopefully the kids are now in a more stable environment...
You mean like something with a journal?
It won't make any difference though.
You frosty piss or the new MSO pricing scheme?
People who go for this will view MSO as a bill, not as an investment or as part of the 'computer' (that includes all hardware and software purchased at the same time, believe it or not many people don't understand the difference). When MSO is a bill, switching to Open Office will be a financial incentive: stop paying those bills! Switching someone who's already paid for MSO to OOo and claiming that OOo is free sure is a funny argument. It also makes MSO look like it has more value, as the user already paid for it. So the user already paid for the valuable item, why would he use the free one?
Your Linux box's GUI might look different but I doubt much else would change: Linux was inspired by Minix, GNU, and UNIX, not anything from Microsoft.
His hardware would be a lot shittier. Windows, and especially Vista, have really brought the price of hardware down. I still cannot believe that a 2 gHz, dual core processor and 2GB of RAM are considered entry level today. And that's available relatively cheap, too.
The man should be given a Nobel Peace Prize. Windows has done more to make technology available to non-tech experts than anyone else.
The man should be given a Nobel Peace Prize. Windows has done more to make money for techies due to the unnecessary complexities imposed on non-tech experts than anyone else.
There. I corrected it for you. No you dolt. Press control X. Everyone knows that. Pay up.
I credit Windows for bringing the price of consumer hardware down, especially Vista. Just think, if Vista were not so HW-heavy would we have today Dual- and Quad- core processors and _Gigabytes_ of RAM for so cheap? People who use an OS that does not need all that (Ubuntu, for instance) can literally have a system that is four times as powerful as they need, for the same adjusted cost of what a regular system would have cost only three years ago.
For end users, it doesn't even provide that. Users don't know what SSL certs are for, other than the fact that they cause popups and spam (Yes, I've heard users refer to popups for SSL certs as spam. Spam is now a general word for 'annoyance', much as 'virus' is now a general word for 'malware').SSL certificates provide one thing, and one thing only: Encryption between the two ends using the certificate.
Given the opportunity to visit an https enabled site with a popup and an http site without, everyone who does not read /. would choose the latter. For whatever reason, people think that the interwebs are secure and safe and that they can pick their noses and nobody sees them. Pretty colours in the address bar, lock icons, and fucking fireworks won't prevent people from ignoring security. I even had a user remove Firefox3 RC1 from her machine because it would warn her about suspicious websites and not let her continue. Forget that the browser is protecting her, she wants that [background|screensaver|cursor animation] no matter what the cost.
- You compromise the user's PC, patching the web-browser to accept bogus credentials. In this case the user is at fault
No, in that case Fedora is at fault. Wait, that doesn't happen to Fedora machines? Then whatever OS does allow this is at fault.First thing every morning:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/DilbertDailyStrip
I found this one on /. but it hasn't been updated in maybe a year:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/What-Is-What
I go through these two a few times a day:
http://lifehacker.com/software/top/index.xml
http://www.instructables.com/tag/type:id/featured:true/rss.xml
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1) Clinton was the one with the historical legacy fixation, and...
2) THIS is a stain upon his legacy?!? Wasn't Monica the one with the stain?
EU?
Tomorrow I will make sure to let her lead, and we will see how that goes. Maybe she does have a particular path that she feels is 'right' and I just don't know it.
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