So because the software isn't being designed to handle the leap second we should get rid of it? Kind of like in Windows how when there's enough bugs we just ignore them an make a service pack to buy us time for the next inrush of bugs.
Sorry your right, on the server end it's been taking up and in good numbers. What I'm more so talking about is the lack of Linux in the desktop.
missing significant chunks of functionality that are deemed "required" for the purposes of the evaluations.
From the eyes of executives and for lack of a better term noob computer user Linux doesn't work. At my work we have 2 computers running Ubuntu, one is for a Coop who's computer crashes when ever we install Windows on it and the other is a manufacturing computer used for email. After the coop student used his Ubuntu install for about 1 month he hasn't noticed a difference. We see the same with the manufacturing end also.
Linux has been desktop ready for years, it's just getting better and better, I will say that I actually feel if it went toe to toe against Windows it would take it under the table given enough time. Linux has better application for office work, on the gnome end featuring Evolution and Open Office as the primary Office Suite. The truth is I've never actually seen many executives do alot more then emails and document work.
When I said the main thing stopping it is the lack of knowledge teachers have about it, I was speaking the truth. What if teachers started preaching about Linux being the better platform compared to Windows, what if in class demo's on how to do something on a computer were done on Linux and not Windows and the real shock, what is college / university services worked on Linux (strictly speaking about my University / college).
The academic community has really stopped students from getting to know other platforms, in there mind a student should only know MS Office and a fleet of closed source, over priced software that for the most part can't do anything the open source stuff can. It's really funny to see there face when they try to open an open office file in MS Office and all they see is boxes, Or they attempt to open an octave file in Matlab.
With all the cost to the school in maintaining all there Windows installs and MS fee's for software they could honestly just starting lowering the price on textbooks, school services, oh and maybe tuition. Linux is a free, more capable alternative with enough software to really just take the place of Windows.
Of course for the few Autocad / Solidworks installs you need just setup a remote desktop / VNC system or get crossover. If the schools made the effort to switch and the students were now faced with Linux instead of Windows I think that would go a long way to students seeing that they've really just been enslaved on a platform that as it stands is just as good if not worse then what else is out there.
I'm saying all of this from the perspective of a Linux fan / developer, but I feel that everything I believe is true. I welcome constructive criticism and will consider it.
Linux can never be mainstream until the uneducated professors and teaches that plague our schools learn about computers. I just graduated a full computer engineering program and I found it almost insulting how little we were allowed to use Linux. All of the C code we wrote had to be Windows based, all the other code, Windows based and all the applications we used were Windows based. In OS class we had to learn about Windows and the school didn't even offer us Linux based PC's to do work on.
We weren't allowed to hand in documents in Open Office format and we had to make sure that everything we did worked in Windows. The only Linuxish class we got in OS was so badly taught I actually fought the prof the entire time about it.
The main thing stopping Linux from penetrating deeper and deeper into the mainstream computing circuit is the lack of knowledge teachers have about it. Linux can do almost everything Windows can and alot of things better and more stable. As a hard core Linux fan / user I don't see the point on running Windows on any of my computers. My view point is, if my new profs can use my work they can figure out how to use it on Linux. I just started a telecommunications degree and my new stand point is I'm going to use Linux and any prof who doesn't want deal with can screw themselves. I also only use Open Office. I really don't care if I'm in an elective English class or a computer programming class, it's time Linux made headway and I'm only going to see it gets the respect it needs.
Anyone who graduated grade 2 can work a map and a compass. As for you saying your GPS can break, well yes it can, if you treat it like a football and buy a non waterproof on. They make camping / hiking grade GPS units, buy the right tool for the right job and to me thats a quality GPS and a good Map / compass. It's a simple fact you always pack at least an extra pack of batteries not just like 2 double A's you pack 10 of them or 8 of them because they can fail.
I know how to work a map but bar none I'd rather use a GPS. I don't mind using a map if I have to but I'm smart enough to pack extra batteries and buy a quality GPS that wont just break if it gets wet or drops. I also pack an extra map and compass just in case. To date I've never had to actually use it because my GPS doesn't fail.
I never said directly that the GPS is the single handed replacement for the Map. But if your lost in the middle of no where a map wont exactly help you, pulling out a GPS and telling it to find you will. If your using the GPS in an outdoor setting your not going to have it on all the time, only to check where you are and where you need to end up and the best routes to get there.
Your map is good 6 - 18 hours a day, great. I also assume your paper map self updates to take into account new routes and new paths. More people have been mislead by a map then a GPS. After all if it wasn't for map in 1492 Christopher Columbus wouldn't of discovered america, but that worked out pretty well.
I like how you put that, but then again giving someone a GPS doesn't turn into Les Stroud and part of being intelligent means knowing your limitations.
People who can use a map want to take one and if your smart enough to bring one they your really not going to be relying the GPS to get to point B from point A.
It's not the tech that makes people stupid, it's stupid people using it that causes problems. GPS, SPOT and etc... are all great tools for use by campers, hikers, biker's and more. When you give these tools to people who don't have a clue then you going to have a situation where helicopters and rangers are getting called. There is nothing wrong with grabbing a map and a compass and going out on a hike, but with the advancement in tools to help us navigate more effectivily, who really wants to take an old school map with them. I support GPS and all the other tools fully, I think the problem this post points out is that when stupid people are given simple tools they find away to cause problems for everyone else.
So there making RF Trash cans to track if the person is recycling. Wouldn't it be a better idea to track the garbage generation and fine people who make to much trash.
I'm not going to try and say everyone should have a password thats 64 characters and a mix of 7 languages including native symbols which have never been translated but I do agree short passwords aren't the best idea.
The best idea is to make sure you have the strong passwords blocking access to anything important on the network like servers, firewalls and routers and just have the normal desktop computers protected with a normal 8 - 16 character password.
Even better instead of protecting with a known password have a program generate a password for you and then update all the ssh keys and only allow entry with dynamic ssh keys that also get generated.
It really doesn't matter on the desktop level how strong a password is because you should always store all important information on a server. If your dumb enough to have important information on a desktop then it's about time you get hacked because you earned it.
In short have big passwords on important network equipment that is connected to the edge of the network such as a firewall and routers, then have everything inside protected with normal passwords.
True browser / OS integration is hard to pull off and Microsoft has 100% not pulled this off. To start off you can remove IE and still use Windows. Second if you want to see what a Browser + Desktop integrated setup is like just look at KDE, that is a true Browser + Desktop. What Microsoft has is a craptastic browser that is associated wit the same company as the OS and hence they say they reliant on each other. Personally I think it great the OS and browser aren't linked. Who actually likes IE?
code thats well put together will pass hard performance tests, other wise it wasn't well designed and by that stand point it will be unstable even if it take 100 years to memory fault. So actually
How will the company know which of the three programmers was actually best?
Run there program under hard performance and stability checks. The one to pass all of or most of the test wins. What you should look for in the first code milestone is the ability that the code is clean, well put together and can be moved around for portability.
Simple if you can access a wider range of networks and cell locations then automatically by the power of telecommunications your over all performance increases as a result of better frequency reception.
They need to keep releasing mobile phones so one day they can make a real mobile phone. If they were doing it right they'd have 1 OS and 1 phone but at last it another project Microsoft fails at.
This is a really good idea. The company's wont lose out on any money by unlocking the phone and physically the performance on the cellular network will increase. The only real question is why hasn't this been done already.
It's about time a school makes a decision thats not Microsoft Based. I fully support this, get kids using real up to date technology that's not Microsoft or Windows based. It's about time we teach kids that the world doesn't start with the start menu!
If you can't separate the violence in a video game from real life then maybe you shouldn't be playing the game in the first place and should be looked at by someone. At least that's what I think, then again I'm no doctor but come on how does shooting an alien translate to shooting a school? The problem has never been the video games, it's the kids who are to screwed up in the head to figure out that life and video games are two very separate things.
Are your referring to Me or the people that got hacked. Personally I'm a Linux CLI user but I do agree with what you say. Alot of people in this age only listen to there GUI and if it's not a button to click it doesn't exist and can't be done.
what are you talking about, in order to break in you need to know how to find the hole that lets you in so your going to know what to close / patch.
Even so if he just explain how he gets in that maybe someone at NASA or the Pent gets an idea to check a firewall or a router or a switch and figures out how to secure it. There is nothing that can hurt by finding out how he got in.
Why doesn't NASA and the Pent get him to help them secure there systems rather then prosecute him. Wouldn't the best measure of justice be to make him protect the computers he broke into and hence stop any future break-ins?
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Fair enough, we can only hope that one day Linux can be the desktop OS of choice.
So because the software isn't being designed to handle the leap second we should get rid of it? Kind of like in Windows how when there's enough bugs we just ignore them an make a service pack to buy us time for the next inrush of bugs.
Linux is already plenty mainstream
Sorry your right, on the server end it's been taking up and in good numbers. What I'm more so talking about is the lack of Linux in the desktop.
missing significant chunks of functionality that are deemed "required" for the purposes of the evaluations.
From the eyes of executives and for lack of a better term noob computer user Linux doesn't work. At my work we have 2 computers running Ubuntu, one is for a Coop who's computer crashes when ever we install Windows on it and the other is a manufacturing computer used for email. After the coop student used his Ubuntu install for about 1 month he hasn't noticed a difference. We see the same with the manufacturing end also.
Linux has been desktop ready for years, it's just getting better and better, I will say that I actually feel if it went toe to toe against Windows it would take it under the table given enough time. Linux has better application for office work, on the gnome end featuring Evolution and Open Office as the primary Office Suite. The truth is I've never actually seen many executives do alot more then emails and document work.
When I said the main thing stopping it is the lack of knowledge teachers have about it, I was speaking the truth. What if teachers started preaching about Linux being the better platform compared to Windows, what if in class demo's on how to do something on a computer were done on Linux and not Windows and the real shock, what is college / university services worked on Linux (strictly speaking about my University / college).
The academic community has really stopped students from getting to know other platforms, in there mind a student should only know MS Office and a fleet of closed source, over priced software that for the most part can't do anything the open source stuff can. It's really funny to see there face when they try to open an open office file in MS Office and all they see is boxes, Or they attempt to open an octave file in Matlab.
With all the cost to the school in maintaining all there Windows installs and MS fee's for software they could honestly just starting lowering the price on textbooks, school services, oh and maybe tuition. Linux is a free, more capable alternative with enough software to really just take the place of Windows.
Of course for the few Autocad / Solidworks installs you need just setup a remote desktop / VNC system or get crossover. If the schools made the effort to switch and the students were now faced with Linux instead of Windows I think that would go a long way to students seeing that they've really just been enslaved on a platform that as it stands is just as good if not worse then what else is out there.
I'm saying all of this from the perspective of a Linux fan / developer, but I feel that everything I believe is true. I welcome constructive criticism and will consider it.
Linux can never be mainstream until the uneducated professors and teaches that plague our schools learn about computers. I just graduated a full computer engineering program and I found it almost insulting how little we were allowed to use Linux. All of the C code we wrote had to be Windows based, all the other code, Windows based and all the applications we used were Windows based. In OS class we had to learn about Windows and the school didn't even offer us Linux based PC's to do work on.
We weren't allowed to hand in documents in Open Office format and we had to make sure that everything we did worked in Windows. The only Linuxish class we got in OS was so badly taught I actually fought the prof the entire time about it.
The main thing stopping Linux from penetrating deeper and deeper into the mainstream computing circuit is the lack of knowledge teachers have about it. Linux can do almost everything Windows can and alot of things better and more stable. As a hard core Linux fan / user I don't see the point on running Windows on any of my computers. My view point is, if my new profs can use my work they can figure out how to use it on Linux. I just started a telecommunications degree and my new stand point is I'm going to use Linux and any prof who doesn't want deal with can screw themselves. I also only use Open Office. I really don't care if I'm in an elective English class or a computer programming class, it's time Linux made headway and I'm only going to see it gets the respect it needs.
If Linux is a cancer then Windows is AIDS in full blown assault.
I like this post, your right. Better to bring both and end up safe. But then again I have said that over and over again in different posts here.
Anyone who graduated grade 2 can work a map and a compass. As for you saying your GPS can break, well yes it can, if you treat it like a football and buy a non waterproof on. They make camping / hiking grade GPS units, buy the right tool for the right job and to me thats a quality GPS and a good Map / compass. It's a simple fact you always pack at least an extra pack of batteries not just like 2 double A's you pack 10 of them or 8 of them because they can fail.
I know how to work a map but bar none I'd rather use a GPS. I don't mind using a map if I have to but I'm smart enough to pack extra batteries and buy a quality GPS that wont just break if it gets wet or drops. I also pack an extra map and compass just in case. To date I've never had to actually use it because my GPS doesn't fail.
I never said directly that the GPS is the single handed replacement for the Map. But if your lost in the middle of no where a map wont exactly help you, pulling out a GPS and telling it to find you will. If your using the GPS in an outdoor setting your not going to have it on all the time, only to check where you are and where you need to end up and the best routes to get there.
Your map is good 6 - 18 hours a day, great. I also assume your paper map self updates to take into account new routes and new paths. More people have been mislead by a map then a GPS. After all if it wasn't for map in 1492 Christopher Columbus wouldn't of discovered america, but that worked out pretty well.
I like how you put that, but then again giving someone a GPS doesn't turn into Les Stroud and part of being intelligent means knowing your limitations.
People who can use a map want to take one and if your smart enough to bring one they your really not going to be relying the GPS to get to point B from point A.
It's not the tech that makes people stupid, it's stupid people using it that causes problems. GPS, SPOT and etc... are all great tools for use by campers, hikers, biker's and more. When you give these tools to people who don't have a clue then you going to have a situation where helicopters and rangers are getting called. There is nothing wrong with grabbing a map and a compass and going out on a hike, but with the advancement in tools to help us navigate more effectivily, who really wants to take an old school map with them. I support GPS and all the other tools fully, I think the problem this post points out is that when stupid people are given simple tools they find away to cause problems for everyone else.
So there making RF Trash cans to track if the person is recycling. Wouldn't it be a better idea to track the garbage generation and fine people who make to much trash.
I'm not going to try and say everyone should have a password thats 64 characters and a mix of 7 languages including native symbols which have never been translated but I do agree short passwords aren't the best idea.
The best idea is to make sure you have the strong passwords blocking access to anything important on the network like servers, firewalls and routers and just have the normal desktop computers protected with a normal 8 - 16 character password.
Even better instead of protecting with a known password have a program generate a password for you and then update all the ssh keys and only allow entry with dynamic ssh keys that also get generated.
It really doesn't matter on the desktop level how strong a password is because you should always store all important information on a server. If your dumb enough to have important information on a desktop then it's about time you get hacked because you earned it.
In short have big passwords on important network equipment that is connected to the edge of the network such as a firewall and routers, then have everything inside protected with normal passwords.
True browser / OS integration is hard to pull off and Microsoft has 100% not pulled this off. To start off you can remove IE and still use Windows. Second if you want to see what a Browser + Desktop integrated setup is like just look at KDE, that is a true Browser + Desktop. What Microsoft has is a craptastic browser that is associated wit the same company as the OS and hence they say they reliant on each other. Personally I think it great the OS and browser aren't linked. Who actually likes IE?
..none of which you can test by...
should be
..All of which you can test by...
How will the company know which of the three programmers was actually best?
Run there program under hard performance and stability checks. The one to pass all of or most of the test wins. What you should look for in the first code milestone is the ability that the code is clean, well put together and can be moved around for portability.
Simple if you can access a wider range of networks and cell locations then automatically by the power of telecommunications your over all performance increases as a result of better frequency reception.
They need to keep releasing mobile phones so one day they can make a real mobile phone. If they were doing it right they'd have 1 OS and 1 phone but at last it another project Microsoft fails at.
Okay so we can make more efficient solar cells, the question that I want to know is what kind of over all energy increase will this provide?
This is a really good idea. The company's wont lose out on any money by unlocking the phone and physically the performance on the cellular network will increase. The only real question is why hasn't this been done already.
It's about time a school makes a decision thats not Microsoft Based. I fully support this, get kids using real up to date technology that's not Microsoft or Windows based. It's about time we teach kids that the world doesn't start with the start menu!
If you can't separate the violence in a video game from real life then maybe you shouldn't be playing the game in the first place and should be looked at by someone. At least that's what I think, then again I'm no doctor but come on how does shooting an alien translate to shooting a school? The problem has never been the video games, it's the kids who are to screwed up in the head to figure out that life and video games are two very separate things.
Are your referring to Me or the people that got hacked. Personally I'm a Linux CLI user but I do agree with what you say. Alot of people in this age only listen to there GUI and if it's not a button to click it doesn't exist and can't be done.
what are you talking about, in order to break in you need to know how to find the hole that lets you in so your going to know what to close / patch.
Even so if he just explain how he gets in that maybe someone at NASA or the Pent gets an idea to check a firewall or a router or a switch and figures out how to secure it. There is nothing that can hurt by finding out how he got in.
Why doesn't NASA and the Pent get him to help them secure there systems rather then prosecute him. Wouldn't the best measure of justice be to make him protect the computers he broke into and hence stop any future break-ins?