Look at PC Anywhere. This program has been around since the DOS days, and is now at version 10. It's still buggy as hell. You would think that by the time you get into double digit version numbers that you would pretty much have most of the bugs worked out.
It's kind of amusing that you can do the same thing in UNIX with X without all the hassle. Who says UNIX is harder to use than Windows??
When somebody downloads Dr. Dre music from Napster it's stealing. But when Dr. Dre steals others music, it's called sampling?
Would the real song stealer please stand up, please stand up...
Sure hope this doesn't catch on in North America. The great thing about the net is the vast amount of free information, and just surfing from one page to the next. If we have to pay for each site, that would be the death of the term "surfing".
In my years as a "tech support bozo," as you like to put it, I've run into plenty of "professional programmers" who couldn't find the Network control panel until after I'd led them through half the alphabet.
Takes all kinds.
I think your example is a bit of an exageration (well, at least in most cases), but the IT field is so large and complex these days, that nobody knows everything, you have to specialize. I know certain languages very well (C, Java, Perl), but if you asked me to write a VB script I would be lost....But then, there are the types who just came out of a 6 month crash course on programming who are barely computer literate, but let's not go there.
Printing the book on your home printer is not an option, it would be cheaper to buy the book.. the real advantage is using some kind of a PDA like device to read the book and be portable. I believe something like this is avaliable, but it will have to be affordable to be popular.
No need to spread the word, when Joe User's 30 day grace period is up and their computer won't boot, many of them will be pissed off enough to look for Windows alternaitives. All in all, I think this XP stuff is good news for Linux.
RedHat costs about 3 hours of downloading if you have good bandwidth... Course you need to save it on a seperate partition to install it from your harddrive instead of a cd.
You could always use lsmod for a list of loaded modules, and also, if the machine in question has a non-standard kernel compile, you could run make config to see what was originally done.
Just out of curiosity, what OS are you running since you gave up on Linux? (Please don't tell me Win2K!)
Yes, I can relate. Who knew that being a geek would be so hard on the body? I've had lower back problems since I was a teenager. I finally figured out that my problem is related to my hamstring's being too tight. They are attached to your hips, and when they are tight, they pull your hips forward all the time which stretches the muscles in your lower back. I found that by stretching my legs every day it really helped my back.
Still, you always have to be carefull.. Just yesterday I was hunched over the keyboard for 5 hours without a break, which causes all your muscles to stiffen up, then I had to move an IBM InfoPrint 21 which must weigh about 60 pounds.... That hurt.
Send them an anonymous email from a hotmail account, that will really scare the bejesus out of them since they'll think it's comming from a real hacker (cracker).
Then maybe they'll want to hire a different development firm.
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It's kind of amusing that you can do the same thing in UNIX with X without all the hassle. Who says UNIX is harder to use than Windows??
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I think your example is a bit of an exageration (well, at least in most cases), but the IT field is so large and complex these days, that nobody knows everything, you have to specialize. I know certain languages very well (C, Java, Perl), but if you asked me to write a VB script I would be lost. ...But then, there are the types who just came out of a 6 month crash course on programming who are barely computer literate, but let's not go there.
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Just out of curiosity, what OS are you running since you gave up on Linux? (Please don't tell me Win2K!)
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Still, you always have to be carefull.. Just yesterday I was hunched over the keyboard for 5 hours without a break, which causes all your muscles to stiffen up, then I had to move an IBM InfoPrint 21 which must weigh about 60 pounds. ... That hurt.
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Then maybe they'll want to hire a different development firm.
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