It's time for us geeks to belly up to the bar and pay for something that we want. Everyone claims to hate MS, and to use OpenSource whenever possible (except for games, and well, MS Word, and Flash, and aww heck, just reinstall Win2K). $80 is peanuts, compared to the price of MS Office, and 50% more than the price of a good video game. Nobody will think twice about paying $50 for Half Life 2 (which runs on Windows), but everyone will flame Sun for the gall of charging for StarOffice. OOo is free, yes, but StarOffice or other commercial Office alternatives (Applix on Linux anyone? Yes, I bought it.)
People can't write good, free-as-in-beer software forever. People need to eat, breed and pay their taxes. As romantic as it sounds, you can't have coders working for free for the common good w/o ultimate payment. MS can give away IE because they've already been paid for it due to their enslavement of the desktop.
Not quite a -1, Redundant post. What nobody mentions is that the Zaurus ALSO has a SD/MMC port. Interestingly, the SD driver does NOT honor any kind of DRM on the SD cards. The nice thing about having 2 dissimilar expansion slots is that you can have storage (SD) AND networking (CF), rather than swapping frantically. Add this to the built in IrDA, serial port, Blackberry-style keyboard, and Ultima IV emulator, and the Zaurus spanks it soundly.
All of the virus-laden PCs in our network are now making frantic connections to that IP address on port 135. Did they realize how much _crap_ is on the Internet before they did this?
And they're all flakes. I went to RPI, and the architecture people, the ones who stayed in, delighted in designing buildings that wouldn't stand. The real builders became Building Science majors and or Civil Engineers. 'way more than 50 percent' efficiency sounds typical of the culture there. Spin, FUD, esoteric crap, let the Engineers figure out how to make it work.
If you want to Go Geek, there's nothing like a Greasel Car. Runs for free, lasts longer than a diesel, and smells like popcorn. Plus, the carbon cycle is closed - you're just burning the plants that sucked the CO2 from the air anyway.
Does this count the number of Windows machines that were 'compromised' by BLASTER and its children? If someone gets a binary on my server and controls what my server does ( in this case, replicating the worm ), then I'd call that hacked. Just because a worm did it vs. a human doesn't mean anything. More direct hacks on Linux machines might just mean that there was much more human effort expended.
Also, Squirrelmail plugs right into this architecture (I know, I run it, as do my friends). Throw a little OpenSSL goodness at it, and you have secure webmail on top of a very stable IMAP/SMTP platform. Judicious use of reiserfs will also provide big wins with large Maildirs.
It's interesting that the amount of uranium (in a natural distribution of isotopes) injected in the atmosphere by the burning of coal greatly exceeds the amount put in by nuclear weaponry or nuclear plant crisis. In fact, in the U.S., more people die per year from natural gas (leaks, explosions, housefires) than due to radiation. The real danger to the general population is the mishandling or theft of spent nuclear fuel. Plutonium oxide is very poisonous, in addition to being radioactive. Remember to check scientific fact before arming the FUD Torpedos.
Thanks Guardian, for mentioning a past shady dealing of the US that occurred on Sept 11. It's no secret that the left (and the European left even more so) is anti-US. What better way to increase the antagonism towards the US?
Do you think that a) the electorate is capable of electing anyone based on intelligent principles, b) that there is actually a choice between any major (even Green) candidate, and c) that we even achieve a simple plurality in elections anyway?
The end result is that we have a minority group of undereducated voters picking between Candidate Number 1 and Candidate Number 1. Where's the practical democracy there? The Libertarians will argue that its all good because at least we willingly choose to be run by an elected, and in some cases, hereditary elite. But if you're using the US as a yardstick for the implementation of democracy (or even capitalism, but thats a whole other story), then you're living under a rock.
Doesn't this come easily as a nice, convenient list of verified email addresses? What would Microsoft's Sociologist make of this list? Why raise your visibility to Uncle Sam (U.S.-centric reference, sorry)
The Internet is no longer the simple playground it was in the late 80s! Waah, no fair! I have to learn something new and deal with a giant, heterogeneous mass of losers, hackers, cluebies and porn stars instead of a half-dozen geeks futzing with the rack of 3 dusty 3B2s in the basement running on AUX ethernet taps. Geesh, get over it pal, nothing is static.
Because you can reject mail at the SMTP level. I typically get about 70 emails a day to my own server. About 40-50 get denied by a DNS based filter on qmail (rblsmtpd). Which means on average, only 25 get through to Spamassassin, where another 15-20 are deleted due to high spam thresholds. Then I get about 5-8 real emails, and maybe 1 or 2 spams that make it through (which Mozilla mail promptly eats as spam). If I had to burn CPU to Bayes-classify all mails, it would bog me down more than I am now (running on Linux on an old PC). DNS based BL is useful because it doesn't even let it in the door.
32 mb of 'built in' graphics, i.e. UMA, i.e. comes from your system RAM, i.e. video RAM access has to use the same bandwidth as system RAM access, i.e. 5uXXors! modem... ah, a winmodem. Welcome to driver hell, rebooting your box when you want it to hang up the phone, and sluggish response due to high interrupt overhead needed to keep latencies tolerable. I've used 1000 USD laptops and I've used 3000 USD laptops, there is DEFINITELY a difference in build quality.
Except that of course, nobody makes games for Apple. Wait, I hear that Duke Nukem 3D is going to be released in a special SMP-enhanced, G5-only version!!!
I fill the tank on my car about once every 2 weeks, and I don't remember the last time that I changed a light bulb. How is this a major crisis? Where is LoveOO living?
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It's time for us geeks to belly up to the bar and pay for something that we want. Everyone claims to hate MS, and to use OpenSource whenever possible (except for games, and well, MS Word, and Flash, and aww heck, just reinstall Win2K). $80 is peanuts, compared to the price of MS Office, and 50% more than the price of a good video game. Nobody will think twice about paying $50 for Half Life 2 (which runs on Windows), but everyone will flame Sun for the gall of charging for StarOffice. OOo is free, yes, but StarOffice or other commercial Office alternatives (Applix on Linux anyone? Yes, I bought it.)
People can't write good, free-as-in-beer software forever. People need to eat, breed and pay their taxes. As romantic as it sounds, you can't have coders working for free for the common good w/o ultimate payment. MS can give away IE because they've already been paid for it due to their enslavement of the desktop.
Support Sun, fight MS, and buy the damn product.
And she's not even a hottie. Put away the grits.
Profit!
Not quite a -1, Redundant post. What nobody mentions is that the Zaurus ALSO has a SD/MMC port. Interestingly, the SD driver does NOT honor any kind of DRM on the SD cards. The nice thing about having 2 dissimilar expansion slots is that you can have storage (SD) AND networking (CF), rather than swapping frantically. Add this to the built in IrDA, serial port, Blackberry-style keyboard, and Ultima IV emulator, and the Zaurus spanks it soundly.
All of the virus-laden PCs in our network are now making frantic connections to that IP address on port 135. Did they realize how much _crap_ is on the Internet before they did this?
Except that it was a teenage girl, she grabbed a mouse, and said 'It's a UNIX system!'.
Geesh, get it right.
And they're all flakes. I went to RPI, and the architecture people, the ones who stayed in, delighted in designing buildings that wouldn't stand. The real builders became Building Science majors and or Civil Engineers. 'way more than 50 percent' efficiency sounds typical of the culture there. Spin, FUD, esoteric crap, let the Engineers figure out how to make it work.
If you want to Go Geek, there's nothing like a Greasel Car. Runs for free, lasts longer than a diesel, and smells like popcorn. Plus, the carbon cycle is closed - you're just burning the plants that sucked the CO2 from the air anyway.
Does this count the number of Windows machines that were 'compromised' by BLASTER and its children? If someone gets a binary on my server and controls what my server does ( in this case, replicating the worm ), then I'd call that hacked. Just because a worm did it vs. a human doesn't mean anything. More direct hacks on Linux machines might just mean that there was much more human effort expended.
Also, Squirrelmail plugs right into this architecture (I know, I run it, as do my friends). Throw a little OpenSSL goodness at it, and you have secure webmail on top of a very stable IMAP/SMTP platform. Judicious use of reiserfs will also provide big wins with large Maildirs.
I just read this on Yahoo! News for crying out loud. News for Nerds, Stuff that you can read anywhere.
It's interesting that the amount of uranium (in a natural distribution of isotopes) injected in the atmosphere by the burning of coal greatly exceeds the amount put in by nuclear weaponry or nuclear plant crisis. In fact, in the U.S., more people die per year from natural gas (leaks, explosions, housefires) than due to radiation. The real danger to the general population is the mishandling or theft of spent nuclear fuel. Plutonium oxide is very poisonous, in addition to being radioactive. Remember to check scientific fact before arming the FUD Torpedos.
Thanks Guardian, for mentioning a past shady dealing of the US that occurred on Sept 11. It's no secret that the left (and the European left even more so) is anti-US. What better way to increase the antagonism towards the US?
Do you think that a) the electorate is capable of electing anyone based on intelligent principles, b) that there is actually a choice between any major (even Green) candidate, and c) that we even achieve a simple plurality in elections anyway?
The end result is that we have a minority group of undereducated voters picking between Candidate Number 1 and Candidate Number 1. Where's the practical democracy there? The Libertarians will argue that its all good because at least we willingly choose to be run by an elected, and in some cases, hereditary elite. But if you're using the US as a yardstick for the implementation of democracy (or even capitalism, but thats a whole other story), then you're living under a rock.
Doesn't this come easily as a nice, convenient list of verified email addresses?
What would Microsoft's Sociologist make of this list?
Why raise your visibility to Uncle Sam (U.S.-centric reference, sorry)
The Internet is no longer the simple playground it was in the late 80s! Waah, no fair! I have to learn something new and deal with a giant, heterogeneous mass of losers, hackers, cluebies and porn stars instead of a half-dozen geeks futzing with the rack of 3 dusty 3B2s in the basement running on AUX ethernet taps.
Geesh, get over it pal, nothing is static.
Because you can reject mail at the SMTP level. I typically get about 70 emails a day to my own server. About 40-50 get denied by a DNS based filter on qmail (rblsmtpd). Which means on average, only 25 get through to Spamassassin, where another 15-20 are deleted due to high spam thresholds. Then I get about 5-8 real emails, and maybe 1 or 2 spams that make it through (which Mozilla mail promptly eats as spam).
If I had to burn CPU to Bayes-classify all mails, it would bog me down more than I am now (running on Linux on an old PC).
DNS based BL is useful because it doesn't even let it in the door.
Simple: $/MHz, the x86 architecture spanks the commercially available G-series (Mac).
32 mb of 'built in' graphics, i.e. UMA, i.e. comes from your system RAM, i.e. video RAM access has to use the same bandwidth as system RAM access, i.e. 5uXXors!
modem... ah, a winmodem. Welcome to driver hell, rebooting your box when you want it to hang up the phone, and sluggish response due to high interrupt overhead needed to keep latencies tolerable.
I've used 1000 USD laptops and I've used 3000 USD laptops, there is DEFINITELY a difference in build quality.
But you responded, thus prolonging the troll! Who is worse, the troll, or the reader who feeds him?
Except that of course, nobody makes games for Apple. Wait, I hear that Duke Nukem 3D is going to be released in a special SMP-enhanced, G5-only version!!!
I've had plenty of chicks ready and willing to accept my seed after $10 worth of cheap vodka. All you diamond buyers are suckers.
Because your major population centers were all bombed 60 years ago. In older places, you're stuck with what's in the walls.
I fill the tank on my car about once every 2 weeks, and I don't remember the last time that I changed a light bulb. How is this a major crisis? Where is LoveOO living?
As seen here, Dr. Stephen Hawking, one of the smartest people in the world, has already perfected an exoskeleton for the disabled.