In other news, Microsoft Lawyers initiated a hostile corporate take-over of the Norwegian government. "I guess we will continue running Windows", was the only comment from the Norwegian Prime Minister. Microsoft declined comment when asked about their "Embrace and Extend" strategies.
That would be ideal for a computer guy like you or me, but Piers really doesn't come accross as a computer geek. He even admits he hasn't updated his word processor since 1995, and he had a lot of trouble with Linux. So I don't see LaTeX and CVS as a good option.
Anyway, I hope he gives a current Linux distro a try.. I just tried out the new Suse 8.0, it's truly amazing!
My point is that a lot of times you really don't have a choice... What kind of business doesn't require you to exchange MS Excel and MS Word documents with other companies and it's customers? And a lot of niche applications which your business may require are often available only on Windows. If Windows only runs on Palladium, then what?
Yeah, but you are deciding what packages to allow and dis-allow, and your doing it with software. What if your hardware was deciding for you and you can't over ride it? That's what everyone is scared of.
There could come a time when Windows will only run on this type of hardware, and you have to run Windows because of the MS monopoly, therefore consumers will have little choice if they want to stay in the mainstream (ie: read websites developed with MS products, download movies and music, exchange Office files)
Don't blame the spam filters for not being perfect. No matter how intelligent these programs get they will never be perfect. Even if you hired someone to go through your mail box every day, that person wouldn't know what you consider spam and what you want to read. For example, if an old friend you hadn't talked to in years sent you a job offer, that would kind of look like spam, but you would still want to read it. Anyway, these spam blocking programs are much better than nothing.
I'm sure most people are aware of this already, but just in case... Molson's flagship beer product is called Molson Canadian, which is why they are going after the Canadian.biz site. I don't agree with what they are doing, but that's the reason.
The tab completion doesn't seem to work well, though. If there is more than 1 match it chooses the first instead of showing you the matching ones like Bash does, which makes it almost useless because the first one isn't usually the one you want.
Yeah, I've got thousands of dollars worth of tapes I bought over the years, which are basically useless now. They sound like crap compared to CD's, and I can't even play them in my car. Is it wrong for me to download these same songs and burn CD's so I can listen while I drive? Or will record companies sell me CD versions for the cost of the media (less the license cost which I already paid)? And now with copy protection, will I be able to buy a CD and play it on my computer while I work?
When the WD-40 hit the part it instantly ignited, and worked back to the spray can nozzle making a nice flaming blowtorch effect and making the mechanic shit his pants.
Well said. You are the exact kind of person that Linux developers and the community as a whole should be embracing, the type of user who is more willing to learn than the average Joe user. Obviously you've spent a lot of time and effort in learning Linux, and I think that's great. Keep it up!
Anyway, I'll tackle one of your questions: The swap partition is set up as a seperate partition for certian efficiencies in the kernel. Other OS's such as Windows and Macs use a file for swap space which resides on the primary partition. This has the advantage of not requiring another partition, but the disadvantage that you can fill up your hard drive with swap (I've seen this happen many times on Win 95 machines). Most computers, even modern ones with 256 MB of RAM will use the swap file in Windows if you have several applications open at once. On my Win2000 machine, if I type dir/ah at the C:\> prompt, I see a file called pagefile.sys, which is over 400MB. This is my swap file, equivelent to Linux's swap parition. (This Win2K machines also has 256 MB of RAM)
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Yeah, sure Timothy, you've been telling that to girls for years!
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Bahahah, and today I have no mod points. Sorry dude!
In fairness, they could be testing competitors browsers. It is funny, though!
In other news, Microsoft Lawyers initiated a hostile corporate take-over of the Norwegian government. "I guess we will continue running Windows", was the only comment from the Norwegian Prime Minister. Microsoft declined comment when asked about their "Embrace and Extend" strategies.
Good one!! Can I use that as my sig?
Anyway, I hope he gives a current Linux distro a try .. I just tried out the new Suse 8.0, it's truly amazing!
My point is that a lot of times you really don't have a choice ... What kind of business doesn't require you to exchange MS Excel and MS Word documents with other companies and it's customers? And a lot of niche applications which your business may require are often available only on Windows. If Windows only runs on Palladium, then what?
There could come a time when Windows will only run on this type of hardware, and you have to run Windows because of the MS monopoly, therefore consumers will have little choice if they want to stay in the mainstream (ie: read websites developed with MS products, download movies and music, exchange Office files)
Don't blame the spam filters for not being perfect. No matter how intelligent these programs get they will never be perfect. Even if you hired someone to go through your mail box every day, that person wouldn't know what you consider spam and what you want to read. For example, if an old friend you hadn't talked to in years sent you a job offer, that would kind of look like spam, but you would still want to read it. Anyway, these spam blocking programs are much better than nothing.
I wonder if Windows will crash before his car does? I hope he posts pictures when it BSOD's!
I'm sure most people are aware of this already, but just in case ... Molson's flagship beer product is called Molson Canadian, which is why they are going after the Canadian.biz site. I don't agree with what they are doing, but that's the reason.
I'm sure any serious fax spammer would be using computers to send their faxes, not old fashioned rolled-paper fax machines.
The tab completion doesn't seem to work well, though. If there is more than 1 match it chooses the first instead of showing you the matching ones like Bash does, which makes it almost useless because the first one isn't usually the one you want.
I thought it was illegal to tape songs off the radio, can anyone confirm or deny this?
Yeah, I've got thousands of dollars worth of tapes I bought over the years, which are basically useless now. They sound like crap compared to CD's, and I can't even play them in my car. Is it wrong for me to download these same songs and burn CD's so I can listen while I drive? Or will record companies sell me CD versions for the cost of the media (less the license cost which I already paid)? And now with copy protection, will I be able to buy a CD and play it on my computer while I work?
Took about 50 feet for it to finally get up before I picked him off with my 12 gauge.
That's much more entertaining and therefore likely to earn you some karma! ;-)
White meat only, please!
Yeah, steroids. Makes for big, fat, tasty chickens!
Cool! How do I get that job?!
Goodbye Slashdot...
What's with all the rubber duckies in those pics, you weirdo! ;-)
Cool! Thanks for telling us on the 4th of July!
Anyway, I'll tackle one of your questions: The swap partition is set up as a seperate partition for certian efficiencies in the kernel. Other OS's such as Windows and Macs use a file for swap space which resides on the primary partition. This has the advantage of not requiring another partition, but the disadvantage that you can fill up your hard drive with swap (I've seen this happen many times on Win 95 machines). Most computers, even modern ones with 256 MB of RAM will use the swap file in Windows if you have several applications open at once. On my Win2000 machine, if I type dir /ah at the C:\> prompt, I see a file called pagefile.sys, which is over 400MB. This is my swap file, equivelent to Linux's swap parition. (This Win2K machines also has 256 MB of RAM)
The beurocracy also leaves in it's wake bitter would-be scientists who have nothing better to do than post on Slashdot.
Sheesh, I saw that movie in the theatres when it first came out... Some days reading /. makes me feel old.