Wonderful now that PPC is getting some mainstream support. Hopefully SuSE will have more compatibility then PPCLinux -- but who's to say at this point.
Regardless of what OS you prefer as a consumer/workstation, Linux is unbeatable for remote administration and remote work.
At the school where I go, it's an entirely Mac network, with no way of accessing the network without being connected to their Ethernet LAN.
Hoepfully more support for Linux on Macs will encourage some admins (*cough* I'm looking at you, Mr. Readman *cough*) to give it a try.
I know I'd sure like being able to get work from my home computer to my school account w/o a disk or a hard copy.
Odd, I was just thinking about this. I don't think someone should have ready access to personal information.
They should have to provide a lot of proof of who they are and what they need your information for before the red tape is removed and they're allowed access to the info.
I mean, if they can restrict and sue people for using One-Click sales methods, it's seems far more sensible to restrict how much information you can find out about me with just some curious probing.
(The One-Click sales thing still sucks -- I'm just saying things are out of whack in the universe.)
The broadband internet that Canada is creating for educational systems can take advantage of this and high quality video conferencing, sending videos back and forth between locations, backups to a centralized server, or any other number of things.
Sure, most computers probably can't use it right now -- but could the first spaceship get into space either?
I don't really see there being a solution. Most of the ones mentioned about "breaking the monopoly" are just going to produce several different and incompatible versions of Windows -- which would just be what we have now raised to the third power or so. The only real thing to be done, IMHO? Seperate the browser from Windows, and crack down on FUD that they publish -- on their website, in print ads, TV commercials or any medium. I mean... they've gotten to be the #1 OS somewhat fairly, it's just the browser issue. Fix that, tell them to play fair, and regulate them a helluva lot better and harder.
Today's computer industry needs to pump out programmers at a rate too fast for them to be properly trained. Just because MS is the biggest company, they'll have the most of these ill-trained people.
If you think that open sourcing Windows to allow other people to modify it will fix what Windows is, you're quite wrong. It'll just get even worse, with fewer "standards" implemented even more poorly then before.
In short? Ignore Microsoft, go play with Linux, KDE, GNOME, whichever open source project you want, cuz they already have the infrastructure to support people from around the world joining in on the hacking party.
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Wonderful now that PPC is getting some mainstream support. Hopefully SuSE will have more compatibility then PPCLinux -- but who's to say at this point.
Regardless of what OS you prefer as a consumer/workstation, Linux is unbeatable for remote administration and remote work.
At the school where I go, it's an entirely Mac network, with no way of accessing the network without being connected to their Ethernet LAN.
Hoepfully more support for Linux on Macs will encourage some admins (*cough* I'm looking at you, Mr. Readman *cough*) to give it a try.
I know I'd sure like being able to get work from my home computer to my school account w/o a disk or a hard copy.
Odd, I was just thinking about this. I don't think someone should have ready access to personal information.
They should have to provide a lot of proof of who they are and what they need your information for before the red tape is removed and they're allowed access to the info.
I mean, if they can restrict and sue people for using One-Click sales methods, it's seems far more sensible to restrict how much information you can find out about me with just some curious probing.
(The One-Click sales thing still sucks -- I'm just saying things are out of whack in the universe.)
This is great. Think of the real uses for this?
The broadband internet that Canada is creating for educational systems can take advantage of this and high quality video conferencing, sending videos back and forth between locations, backups to a centralized server, or any other number of things.
Sure, most computers probably can't use it right now -- but could the first spaceship get into space either?
I don't really see there being a solution. Most of the ones mentioned about "breaking the monopoly" are just going to produce several different and incompatible versions of Windows -- which would just be what we have now raised to the third power or so. The only real thing to be done, IMHO? Seperate the browser from Windows, and crack down on FUD that they publish -- on their website, in print ads, TV commercials or any medium. I mean... they've gotten to be the #1 OS somewhat fairly, it's just the browser issue. Fix that, tell them to play fair, and regulate them a helluva lot better and harder.
Don't be a moron.
Today's computer industry needs to pump out programmers at a rate too fast for them to be properly trained. Just because MS is the biggest company, they'll have the most of these ill-trained people.
If you think that open sourcing Windows to allow other people to modify it will fix what Windows is, you're quite wrong. It'll just get even worse, with fewer "standards" implemented even more poorly then before.
In short? Ignore Microsoft, go play with Linux, KDE, GNOME, whichever open source project you want, cuz they already have the infrastructure to support people from around the world joining in on the hacking party.
With clear math like that, they couldn't possibly be lying. *coughs quietly* Not that I would know...