MS's format is technically superior, and produces smaller file sizes because of the compression algorithms.
Anybody can zip a file, doorknob. In fact that's what OpenOffice does automatically.
It is also going to be more widely used because despite the best efforts the OSS community Open Office just can't compete with Office 2007 in the work place.
I would bet differently. The good thing about Open Document is that everyone is implementing it: Word, WordPerfect, OpenOffice, Koffice, Abiword, and many others. Once people realize that they can buy a cheaper software tool and still have it interoperate with everyone else, I think you'll see change. That is why M$ is so strenously trying to knock it down in Massachusetts.
That is nothing more than standard precautions that one should take anyway. If you aren't expecting an attachment, don't open it. If you are expecting it, and it is from a trusted source, go ahead.
Really? I get documents that I'm not expecting all the time. I never have any fears opening Latex documents from anybody. You Microsoft folks sure have funny security.
The only differences my son notices between Windows and Linux are: 1. Those internet Shockwave games only run on Windows. 2. He can't play the Shockwave games because Windows keeps crashing.
Since when has a crashing browser been a security problem? Back when mozilla was young, certain sites would make it regularly crash. I just didn't go back to those sites. The browser was still far superior to IE, which drives me nuts if I have to use it.
The best that a giant company like Oracle can do is copy Red Hat's OS. That says a lot for Red Hat. If my job depended on which OS to buy, I'd buy Red Hat.
For shame! Their web site has lots of useful information. And I think you should get it all with wget -r http://www.e360insight.com/ Repeatedly, if necessary.
Statistically speaking, it's likely that a sizable percentage of these students download copyrighted material from the Internet. Do you think any of them are concerned about IP rights then?"
What kind of shit-ass stupid post is this? 1. Of course people download copyrighted material from the internet. Most material on the internet is copyrighted, but by placing on the internet, people are extending to me the right to read it. 2. This company is storing students' papers in their database and using them without permission. This is a completely different situation.
In the end, my wife and I joke every time we set our alarm and lock our door that we hope no one steals our Fabrige Egg or Hope Diamond.
Exactly. To me most people seem very paranoid about crime. The best way not to be robbed is 1. Don't have anything of value to others 2. Keep what is valuable to you well hidden.
Thinking about my place, the only semi-valuable items that could be hauled off would be my LCD monitor and my desktop computer, each having a street value of ~$400 dollars maybe? $200 for a digital camera? How much would security cost to have installed? I don't lock the back door of my house because I consider keys too much of a pain in the butt.
My home directories and media files are all mounted from my server, which is in my very inaccesible crawl space. There's no way thieves will bother crawling through dirt to get it, even if they had any way of knowing it's there.
The placement of the controls isn't the problem. The visibility of the controls isn't the problem. The driver who thinks he can drive the radio and the car at the same time is the problem. Driver distractions in general are the problem.
No, the problem is that cars are driven by human beings who are inherently fallible. This is very old, but poor technology. Even if every distraction/impediment is eliminated, more people still will die from traffic accidents than any other preventable form of death.
It is competing service, and the GPL allows it, but don't claim that they wouldn't be hijacking Red Hat's clients. They will be.
And the other question is: will Oracle work on the product releasing all sorts of products back to the community as Red Hat has done (tux, netscape directory server, kernel improvements too many to list, etc, etc), or will they just tell people which nobs to tweek to get their $$$ commercial product running? I'm guessing the latter, and the original post was right: Ellison is a dick.
And claiming that a certain amount of malware going around helps security measures stay alert is silly. The analogy with living organisms and biological malware is way off. Computer malware doesn't thrive in the wild, mutating randomly. It is powered by misguided humans and by misguided blacklisting approaches to security.
The analogy with living organisms an excellent one. More and more research shows that immune systems or rats and humans (and probably other organisms) are stronger as they exposed to infections. Children and rats who grow up in conditions too clean are more likely to get allergies and asthma as adults.
Whether the malware is human created or mutated randomly in the wild is inconsequential. It makes our systems stronger.
The whole point of Ebay is that you're supposed to bid the maximum for which you would buy it. If someone bids more, you didn't want it that much anyway!
The story is wrong. The best way to get something is not to bid at the last moment, but to bid the most money. It works for me.
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I'll concur with that quote. I have enough Fedora boxes behind NATs at home and at work to make up for several dozen dynamic IPs.
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MS's format is technically superior, and produces smaller file sizes because of the compression algorithms.
Anybody can zip a file, doorknob. In fact that's what OpenOffice does automatically.
It is also going to be more widely used because despite the best efforts the OSS community Open Office just can't compete with Office 2007 in the work place.
I would bet differently. The good thing about Open Document is that everyone is implementing it:
Word, WordPerfect, OpenOffice, Koffice, Abiword, and many others. Once people realize that they can
buy a cheaper software tool and still have it interoperate with everyone else, I think you'll see change.
That is why M$ is so strenously trying to knock it down in Massachusetts.
That is nothing more than standard precautions that one should take anyway. If you aren't expecting an attachment, don't open it. If you are expecting it, and it is from a trusted source, go ahead.
Really? I get documents that I'm not expecting all the time. I never have any fears opening Latex documents from anybody. You Microsoft folks sure have funny security.
The only differences my son notices between Windows and Linux are:
1. Those internet Shockwave games only run on Windows.
2. He can't play the Shockwave games because Windows keeps crashing.
I just bought a cpu/mobo combo with open source support for 2-3D acceleration under Linux out of the box. It has an Intel G965 chipset.
Show your support. Buy one too.
Since when has a crashing browser been a security problem?
Back when mozilla was young, certain sites would make it regularly crash. I just didn't go back to those sites. The browser was still far superior to IE, which drives me nuts if I have to use it.
The best that a giant company like Oracle can do is copy Red Hat's OS. That says a lot for Red Hat. If my job depended on which OS to buy, I'd buy Red Hat.
On my Suse distn:
/usr/src/linux | wc /usr/src/linux | wc
grep -ri oracle
9 72 805
grep -ri redhat
905 6543 84527
Got a hell of a deal on a server with 2TB of disk space. Now if they'd just ship the damned thing.
So you're saying they give you good deals selling you things that they don't have. No wonder they've passed Dell in sales!
For shame!
Their web site has lots of useful information.
And I think you should get it all with
wget -r http://www.e360insight.com/
Repeatedly, if necessary.
Statistically speaking, it's likely that a sizable percentage of these students download copyrighted material from the Internet. Do you think any of them are concerned about IP rights then?"
What kind of shit-ass stupid post is this?
1. Of course people download copyrighted material from the internet. Most material on the internet is copyrighted, but by placing
on the internet, people are extending to me the right to read it.
2. This company is storing students' papers in their database and using them without permission. This is a completely different situation.
In the end, my wife and I joke every time we set our alarm and lock our door that we hope no one steals our Fabrige Egg or Hope Diamond.
Exactly. To me most people seem very paranoid about crime.
The best way not to be robbed is
1. Don't have anything of value to others
2. Keep what is valuable to you well hidden.
Thinking about my place, the only semi-valuable items that could be hauled off would be my LCD monitor and my desktop computer, each having a street value of ~$400 dollars maybe? $200 for a digital camera?
How much would security cost to have installed? I don't lock the back door of my house because I consider keys too much of a pain in the butt.
My home directories and media files are all mounted from my server, which is in my very inaccesible crawl space. There's no way thieves will bother crawling through dirt to get it, even if they had any way of knowing it's there.
Maybe someone should set up a web site where people can submit and borrow random cookies. That would cause higgledy-piggledy.
The two previous replies to this post are correct.
The 9250 did not work well for me, and when it did, it wasn't as fast as my 8500s.
I'm still buying 8500s because they just work well when I install Linux.
But now perhaps I will just go with Intel...
Anyone remember the movie "Sneakers"?
Ahead of its time...
The placement of the controls isn't the problem. The visibility of the controls isn't the problem. The driver who thinks he can drive the radio and the car at the same time is the problem.
Driver distractions in general are the problem.
No, the problem is that cars are driven by human beings who are inherently fallible. This is very old, but poor technology. Even if every distraction/impediment is eliminated, more people still will die from traffic accidents than any other preventable form of death.
It is competing service, and the GPL allows it, but don't claim that they wouldn't be hijacking Red Hat's clients. They will be.
And the other question is: will Oracle work on the product releasing all sorts of products back to the community as Red Hat has done (tux, netscape directory server, kernel improvements too many to list, etc, etc), or will they just tell people which nobs to tweek to get their $$$ commercial product running? I'm guessing the latter, and the original post was right: Ellison is a dick.
The second WGA story in so many days...
and I still don't know what WGA is.
And claiming that a certain amount of malware going around helps security measures stay alert is silly. The analogy with living organisms and biological malware is way off. Computer malware doesn't thrive in the wild, mutating randomly. It is powered by misguided humans and by misguided blacklisting approaches to security.
The analogy with living organisms an excellent one. More and more research shows that immune systems or rats and humans (and probably other organisms) are stronger as they exposed to infections. Children and rats who grow up in conditions too clean are more likely to get allergies and asthma as adults.
Whether the malware is human created or mutated randomly in the wild is inconsequential. It makes our systems stronger.
The whole point of Ebay is that you're supposed to bid the maximum for which you would buy it. If someone bids more, you didn't want it that much anyway!
The story is wrong. The best way to get something is not to bid at the last moment, but to bid the most money. It works for me.
Did they put the "Install Everything" button back in yet?
If not, I'm not interested.
It would be great if someone created a burn of FC with all the stuff you add in later anyway, like java, mp3 support, mplayer, etc.
And put the "install everything" option back in.
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I'm glad he wrote it down.
What happens when he gets hit by a car?
Reading a book is much easier than decyphering code.