My impression is that they are trying to prevent VPN connections. Although how that impacts their Services, I dont know. I think this is seperate from, say, running a router at home and splitting the signal to the rest of your PC's. Again, something that should not impact their service at all, yet my DSL service wants to charge me more meerly to have a router in my house!
I think the idea of the project was to allow disavantaged people to access the internet. The type of system you sujest seems far more restrictive an anoying than the inefective filtering systems in place now. How could the users sujest sites if they are not allowed to freely browse in the first place? Many sites also work as a portal, a page apears within a page. could these be handled? If anyone has seen my ten foot pole, I have something I don't want to touch.
Face it.. Your going to get roasted one way or another by the radical groups at the end of the spectrum. The best option is to make a list and take exceptions on a case by case basis. You will never find a way to make the whole world happy, the best you can do is the best you can do.
It's a wierd contrast..
sometimes the can do something so well, and be feared for it... Yet other time be a bunch of bumbling idiots. (Waco.. Ruby ridge....)
Main Entry: obfuscate
Pronunciation: 'äb-f&-"skAt; äb-'f&s-"kAt, &b-
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -cated; -cating
Etymology: Late Latin obfuscatus, past participle of obfuscare, from Latin ob- in the way + fuscus dark brown -- more at OB-, DUSK
Date: 1577
1 a : DARKEN b : to make obscure
2 : CONFUSE
- obfuscation/"äb-(")f&s-'kA-sh&n/ noun
- obfuscatory/äb-'f&s-k&-"tOr-E, &b-, -"tor-/ adjective
Thus my above coment was a witty comentary upon the popular conception of the word obfuscate. I am dismayed you did not get it.
"trolling, karma-whoring crap"
Have you considered a nice hot bubble bath and maybee a little time off in the country to rest?? Take your mind off things and remember how much we should all just love each other on this big ball of granite?? other than that, I agree.
Ya, but..
Most windows issues can be resolved in a graphical interface. Linux, you usualy dump to a shell and fix it there. this tends to make Windows a little freindlier to newbies. even the REGEDIT is graphical. this also makes it easier to fix over the phone, and talking people through it is no problem.
As a realitive Newbie to Linux/UNIX myself, I find the whole system clunky and dificult to configure. I do have high hopes and am glad to see another OS finaly worth the trouble, but it's a pain in the ass. I'm making my way through it, but it's not something I would put in front of my parents/friends and tell them to use yet. I'ts too easy to sit on a high horse and tell people it's not that hard, Windows and Mac users have been bitching at each other for years about this, and the short point of it all is: you know what you know and are scared of anything else. Most people are just not "tinkerers". they want something that works out of the box. I can't see UNIX ever getting that easy to use, but I think Linux is almost there.
I like what I see in Linux now and I think it's going the right direction, but it's certainly not a mom and pop OS yet. the installs are to dificult and the troubleshooting a nightmare unless you have some UNIX background. The front end and configuration needs to be a little slicker and more game development started before I see this realy taking off. Otherwise most people will pay the $150 or whatever for windows just to avoid the hassles. NOT saying Windows has no problems, just easier to figure out.
Gotcha. Understandable. The only time I have found w2k to crash is when you start to play with the video/sound settings and then, only on the more exotic hardware. so far so good..........
Flashing a BIOS:
Step 1.
take DOS bootable floppy, load BIOS flash onto floppy.
Step 2.
Insert floppy and boot machine.
IT WILL NOT MATTER WHAT OS YOU ARE RUNNING ON THE HARDDRIVE
If you are trying to flash a BIOS by booting to a command prompt from the harddrive you are as stupid as you are uninformed.
Windows ME is developed as a mom and pop os for people who DON'T want to have to deal with DOS and driver compatability issues. People have been complaining about the complexity of PC's for years now and this has lead to the development of Terminal devices (IOpener, ect...) My beef with everyone who is complaining about it is this:
If your all such hot shot hackers, why are you wasting your time on WindowsME at all? OR Quit your bitching about something that should have happened a long time ago, and figure out how to crack it. MS has finaly started to deliver on the promise of removing legacy support and I for one am happy.
Lets try this,
a murder is commited, the police can't find the killer, but they know he used a.22 pistol. unable to find any recent purchases through gun stores, they supena information from WEBTRACK1 (fictional) about everyone in a geographical area that has been looking at websites on murder guns, police,....ect... armed with this information they issue a search warant for your home. Scary? I think so.
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Why, yes it is far below the standard, and yes it runs a little slugish, but the idea was to stress test the OS in a network enviorment. This thing takes a pounding every day and has not failed yet. It's not my PRIMARY machine, but I do use it as a backup and it's not as slow as you would imagine.
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My impression is that they are trying to prevent VPN connections. Although how that impacts their Services, I dont know. I think this is seperate from, say, running a router at home and splitting the signal to the rest of your PC's. Again, something that should not impact their service at all, yet my DSL service wants to charge me more meerly to have a router in my house!
I think the idea of the project was to allow disavantaged people to access the internet. The type of system you sujest seems far more restrictive an anoying than the inefective filtering systems in place now. How could the users sujest sites if they are not allowed to freely browse in the first place? Many sites also work as a portal, a page apears within a page. could these be handled? If anyone has seen my ten foot pole, I have something I don't want to touch.
"i can't imagine a teen going to a laundro-mat for entertainment
Hmmmm.... Maytag...laundry soap....dryer sheets....change machine....Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Face it.. Your going to get roasted one way or another by the radical groups at the end of the spectrum. The best option is to make a list and take exceptions on a case by case basis. You will never find a way to make the whole world happy, the best you can do is the best you can do.
It's a wierd contrast.. sometimes the can do something so well, and be feared for it... Yet other time be a bunch of bumbling idiots. (Waco.. Ruby ridge....)
thank you, I'll just shut up now........
Main Entry: obfuscate Pronunciation: 'äb-f&-"skAt; äb-'f&s-"kAt, &b- Function: transitive verb Inflected Form(s): -cated; -cating Etymology: Late Latin obfuscatus, past participle of obfuscare, from Latin ob- in the way + fuscus dark brown -- more at OB-, DUSK Date: 1577 1 a : DARKEN b : to make obscure 2 : CONFUSE - obfuscation /"äb-(")f&s-'kA-sh&n/ noun
- obfuscatory /äb-'f&s-k&-"tOr-E, &b-, -"tor-/ adjective
Thus my above coment was a witty comentary upon the popular conception of the word obfuscate. I am dismayed you did not get it.
"trolling, karma-whoring crap" Have you considered a nice hot bubble bath and maybee a little time off in the country to rest?? Take your mind off things and remember how much we should all just love each other on this big ball of granite?? other than that, I agree.
Un-Obfuscated Perl is blue
Obfuscated Perl is red
Duh....
They would have to get in line behind Congress, the white house, the CIA, the FBI..............
In the Windows world, you can (almost) always embed any document in any application
Ya,..
and monkeys might fly outa my butt
Ya, but..
Most windows issues can be resolved in a graphical interface. Linux, you usualy dump to a shell and fix it there. this tends to make Windows a little freindlier to newbies. even the REGEDIT is graphical. this also makes it easier to fix over the phone, and talking people through it is no problem.
you could just avoid the whole issue by NOT being a jackass and embeding excell sheets in Word documents
I HATE that
As a realitive Newbie to Linux/UNIX myself, I find the whole system clunky and dificult to configure. I do have high hopes and am glad to see another OS finaly worth the trouble, but it's a pain in the ass. I'm making my way through it, but it's not something I would put in front of my parents/friends and tell them to use yet. I'ts too easy to sit on a high horse and tell people it's not that hard, Windows and Mac users have been bitching at each other for years about this, and the short point of it all is: you know what you know and are scared of anything else. Most people are just not "tinkerers". they want something that works out of the box. I can't see UNIX ever getting that easy to use, but I think Linux is almost there.
I like what I see in Linux now and I think it's going the right direction, but it's certainly not a mom and pop OS yet. the installs are to dificult and the troubleshooting a nightmare unless you have some UNIX background. The front end and configuration needs to be a little slicker and more game development started before I see this realy taking off. Otherwise most people will pay the $150 or whatever for windows just to avoid the hassles. NOT saying Windows has no problems, just easier to figure out.
ya.. but if the BIOS update includes IDE or bus updates...ZAP bye bye BIOS. Thats why they tell you to ALWAYS boot from a floppy.
Excelent page, worthy of a webby. Love all the gratuitous crotch shots.
Gotcha.
Understandable.
The only time I have found w2k to crash is when you start to play with the video/sound settings and then, only on the more exotic hardware. so far so good..........
Flashing a BIOS:
Step 1.
take DOS bootable floppy, load BIOS flash onto floppy.
Step 2.
Insert floppy and boot machine.
IT WILL NOT MATTER WHAT OS YOU ARE RUNNING ON THE HARDDRIVE
If you are trying to flash a BIOS by booting to a command prompt from the harddrive you are as stupid as you are uninformed.
Windows ME is developed as a mom and pop os for people who DON'T want to have to deal with DOS and driver compatability issues. People have been complaining about the complexity of PC's for years now and this has lead to the development of Terminal devices (IOpener, ect...) My beef with everyone who is complaining about it is this:
If your all such hot shot hackers, why are you wasting your time on WindowsME at all?
OR
Quit your bitching about something that should have happened a long time ago, and figure out how to crack it.
MS has finaly started to deliver on the promise of removing legacy support and I for one am happy.
Lets try this, a murder is commited, the police can't find the killer, but they know he used a .22 pistol. unable to find any recent purchases through gun stores, they supena information from WEBTRACK1 (fictional) about everyone in a geographical area that has been looking at websites on murder guns, police,....ect... armed with this information they issue a search warant for your home. Scary? I think so.
ah.. Yes, well that makes it much clearer....
Why, yes it is far below the standard, and yes it runs a little slugish, but the idea was to stress test the OS in a network enviorment. This thing takes a pounding every day and has not failed yet. It's not my PRIMARY machine, but I do use it as a backup and it's not as slow as you would imagine.
can you Cogently explain what "Cogently" means?
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