I am what most people would consider a highly trained technical professional. People have similer delusions of me as well. "Oh my goddess your so smart" (After giggling the mouse after the screen saver has turnned the screen off)
Unlike most people who spout off at this site, I have the certificates to prove this, and furthermore they're issued by the biggest software company in existence.
I also have certificates and unlike yours mine is issued by someone who is actually conserned about my ability to preform the job and not intrested in pumping me full of hype. (This is as much an issue with Red Hat and Sun as it is with Microsoft.)
I've found the installation time of Linux and Windows depends entirely on the trainning and skill of the person doing the installation.
I remember back when Slashdot sponsored a Linux installation race. You had to install Linux on a laptop get online and view Slashdot. (See Geeks in Space for more info)
Who do you think we professionals trust more? I'm sure you'd think the answer is "Windows" but a lot of Slashdotters would say Linux.
Actually it's nither... Who do professionsl trust? Ab-so-freaking-nobody.
MS Office Specialist Your joking... That makes you a gloifyed secretary not a technology expert.
I mean with all your ranting of being a profesional I expected a System admin or maybe a programmer at the very least someone in tech support or maybe a technology consultent.
Me I'm a certifed Linux admin... Actually my cert expired and I'm retrainning to get multipul certifications this time.
Something everyone should pay specal note not only to the qualification level of myself and this guy but to something far far more important...
I am a LINUX Admin... he is a Microsoft cert. What dose that mean exactly? Every time someone installs Open Office he loses a potental employer. Every time someone installs Windows Server eddition I lose a potental employer.
I think you'll find this runs pritty much for any given cert.. The ones who have multicerts in multiplatforms (not multi-certs in one platform) are the ones you can trust to tell you the real deal..
non-compatible e-mail systems, incompatible HTML/XML markup, integrated browsers, etc. etc Ahh so that is what Microsoft is up to... Cutting the United States off from the rest of the world...
There once was a really good book store that could get you nearly any book at a resonable price near by the local collage. They tended to keep the latest books the students needed in stock. Made life easy for me. I would buy all the books I needed there and at the local used book store.
A few years ago the closed there doors. It was no longer proffitable.
Eather the students could get the books at a better price at the collage book store or the recomended text books weren't available to the local book store.
Microsoft gets in trubble a lot. Mostly due to a total lack of commen sense but also due to Microsofts ability to buy off problems. BUT.. Remember the "Look and feel" patent issue? Microsoft, IBM and the free software community was unable to convence the corts that the patent wasn't valid.
Microsoft is probably the last company we want on this case. They are almost faited to lose.
I use IE, Netscape, the KDE browser and Lynx. Haven't had that problem. (However admitedly doing anything with the mouse on lynx is useless but that shouldn't come as any sort of supprise)
The book Unsafe at any speed talks about dangerous cars however some doupt the assertions made by the then young Ralph Nader.
A quick look at the debate resulting from this book leads me to believe if Microsoft made cars today they'd be like the Chevrolet Corvair. Actually Windows 2 is very much like the first run of the Corvair. The problems in Windows 2 were minnor at best but needed to be addressed in any case. While Chevrolet took the problem sereously and fixed it Microsoft would first blame the writers of Windows apps then clame the problem was in all operating systems. The famous problem is the memory leak. At first a minnor nussence but the leak got worse with each new version of Windows. Microsoft finnally addressed the problem when they made Windows 95 and declaired it fixed. But it wasn't and the memory leak was bigger than ever. Other problems were found in 95 as well making it the most buggy version of Windows at the time of its release this in spite of the hype of a bug free Windows 95. The first bug found was more of a feature left on by default.. letting anyone hijack any given Win 95 box. The first security bug in Windows and for the time the only security bug in any "desk top" operating system.
By the way I found this to be quite intresting. As always you can find more information with Google.
Intresting how when ever anyone recalls the rise of Microsoft they only tell part of the story.
The first half of Microsofts rise to a monopoly was lagit. Dos was a product people wanted and possitioned properly in the marketplace.
But that is how Microsoft gainned a near monopoly with Ms Dos. Apple broke that monopoly.
Companys were switching to Mac becouse it was easier. In many cases companys actually stuck with the old way of doing things untill the Mac came around becouse Dos was just to complicatied.
Microsoft created Windows expecting to recover the marketplace but there wasn't any apps or users. Most companys chouse to stick with Dos becouse of the cost and the available software. However Apple was resolving the cost issues and the Mac was dropping in price at the same time Apple was getting more and more software made exclusivly for the Mac.
The market pressures were going against Microsoft. What they had left for Dos was the stand alone box. The servers. The GUI on a server was more of a hinderence than an advantage so Dos had the edge over Mac. However this was also the time when Unix was available to desktops. More powerful RISC based Unix servers could do the job far better than Dos counterparts. Microsoft was between a rock (Unix) and a hard place (Apple).
Microsoft abused it's dying Dos monopoly to push Windows into the market. Quite illegally I might add.
It was so bad that when Commdore died some people actually blamed Microsoft... And this would be the first time Microsoft was blamed for something they didn't do.
I think the movie industry would be down on Disney if they did so much as a C&D to Pixar over the movie names.
The whole point of a trademark is that an image, symbol or phrase appears on products produced by said company as an identification. For that reason a trademark is that companys blessing.
But talking about the trademark is a diffrent deal all together.
Directors and producers often include preveous acomplishments in ads for new films they've done.
I remember saying when the X Box came out if the game console sucked Microsoft wouldn't make any sales. It's an entertainment device.
Microsoft has a (ever growing) reputation (deserved or not) for shotty software (outside/.)
Disney has a reputation for liccensing poor games.
Disney Adventures for the X Box... People will just avoid it. Not even visit the booth at the E3. They'll be lucky to get anything on the store shelfs.
Nither Disney nore Microsoft need to waist time or money in such an obveous failure. It won't matter how good the game as the majority won't get past the combind reputations of Microsoft and Disney.
The "joke" has all the humor of an IRS audit. It might have actually been funny IF that was a lagit screen shot and not edited graphics.
This is cheap shot at Google for the C&D. It's sour grapes not humor. Sort of like when a bully beats a kid up. "It's funny" at least as far as the bully is conserned.
They don't want to take the situation sereously and have opted to rely on cheap shots and simple minded arguments.
But the "parody" is nothing more than an adult search engen. It like the "Google has no sense of hummor" cheap shot is funny like a tax auditors expression when you say your puppys are dependents.
(I was a 3B2/300 user before using Linux... Instead of an on-off switch it has an on-shutdown switch... shutdown sends a software signal to run shutdown and the computer turns itself off when it's done.)
This way I hit cntr+alt+del when I'm done and walk away.
Control + reset (I forget... just poped in my head)
The idea is that with one key you could accadentally hit this reset key and be roially screwed... But a complex keyboard combo spaced out works wonders...
Note it's not just Control Alt Del.. you gotta use the control and alt on the opposate side of the keyboard from del.
Run/Stop and reset on the Commodore 8 bits was the same way.. Reset on one side of the keyboard Run/Stop on the other.
The Commodore 128 had a hard reset button sunk into the case to be difficult (but not impossable) to hit by accadent.
Woe be it to those of us with a home made reset button on the back of an XT with a kid brother or sister who thought it was funny to sneak up and reboot.
All a girl has to be is an inch off and the search fails. Also if she says "I'm into brainy guys", "I'm into nerdy guys" or "Geeks make me hot" the search fails... Not that I'd expect anyone to say "geeks make me hot" just giving an example...
As for the "Into geek guys" forget it she's gone by now... Every Slashdot geek had sent her a preposal.... well ok I'm more a tweek thow.. (Diffrence between me and a geek? I've got less brains and I'm insain...).
Ok let's try remaking this to be a more realistic search ok?
+blonde This is fine.. Every "yellow" haired woman calls herself blonde.
+thirtysomething Changes are you'll get her exact age why should she even bother with the term "thirtysomething" strike it..
+"blue eyes" ok... A bit exssesive but the search would work...
-kids This is vage enough it will block all "with kids" it will also knock out "Not ready for kids" or "can't stand kids"... But it's a reasonable filter we can knock it out later.. if needed.
"36 24 36" Are we searching for a date or giving specs for a fembot? Human beings aren't going to fit an exact mold. Strike it...
-smoker Like kids this filters "I am a smoker" and "I am not a smoker"... This is probably not the kind of thing you want to filter... Leave it in for first search.
+5'11" Ahem.. So if she's 5'10" or 6'" your not intrested? +5' This will give you everyone who is 5 foot...
+model Ahem.. are we searching for dates or phone sex? If she says she's a model she is eather lying or to busy to actually date. Strike it...
+"into geeky guys" Way to detailed... She'd have to actually use that exact phrase.
Try just +geek.. This will scoop up "I'm a geek girl looking for a geek guy"
Now we have: +blonde +"blue eyes" -kids +5' +geek
1,630 results.... Exelent... Now I can screen them by hand for... dear god no Huston we have a problem.
+woman
1,060 results... Good.
Let's trim this down a tad +female. The search results still had to many guys "looking for a woman"... Just need to imprint on the search the importance of finding a FEMALE date..
Ok to many unrelated results... Oh sure I like "Buffy the vampire slayer" but reading about how much fans like Spike dose not get me anywhere.
+dating
Well.. I'll ferther refine this but that will be to my personal tasts... Damn it thow.. I find a post on Japanise intrested in western and it's Japanise MEN looking for western wemen. Oh the +blond thing kinda makes that not happen anyway.
I'm srapping "blue eyes" becouse I don't care about eye color.. Then add +California becouse that is where I live.
424 results... I'll be refining this all freaking night...
Well I found this nifty link and I can finish my search that way.
And that is how you ue google to find a date. Oh dear god I'm pathetic... Finding dates by computer... I'm affrade I need to bash my self senseless now.
He may have $93,000 but he has to streach that out to last him the rest of his life.
This way he never has to give out his drivers liccens, socal security or real name.. or any other identifying information someone could find on google alert the athoritys and throw him in jail.
For example the people that use Internet Explorer do so not because "other browsers don't work with ActiveX" but because they are not even aware of the existence of Opera or Mozilla.
Actually Linux has quite a bit of advertsing. Some from news some from advocacy and some from IBM.
However you'll be supprised how many people know anything about Windows. Snipped from Computer stupiditys Tech Support: "May I ask what operating system you are running today?" Customer: "A computer."
I had a similare conversation with my sister. I asked her what web browser she was using and she said she didn't know. She is tech savy enough to know she dosen't know. Most people think the web browser they use is "Pentium 4" or "Gateway" some might even say "Windows" only a tiny handful will actually say "Internet Explorer"... and even then they won't know what version.
On that... Believe it or not somebody is using a beta version of Internet Exploror (or a very poor bot) eather way I plan on blocking it's access. At the very least somebody needs a browser update.
Web professionals often have multipul versions of IE installed (there is a hack to make this possable) to insure compatability. Not only do users use IE but they only update it when they update the operating system and usually that happends when they update the whole computer.
Microsofts success is due to the ultimate advertsing.. The only product available in most cases.
The downfall of Linux is much less like the downfall of Rome and more like the downfall of socity. Often discussed never manifest.
In the server market Linux is an unqualified success. Linux has more share of the desktop market than it rightfully deserves. Nearly all of it users looking for a cheap alternitive to Windows. Linux owes any success it obtains it the desktop market to Microsofts sloppy work and successfully crushing all closed source compeditors.
To add to the picture Linux is pushing aside compeditors left and right in the imbeded market including Microsoft.
Linux is a failure in the desktop market becouse it simply isn't ready for the desktop market. Yet it is making headway.
If a clunky cryptic CLUE operating system can get as far as Linux has in the desktop what's going to happen when KDE or Gnome is ready for the avrage user?
Only in the technology industry. This is called "false advertising" and it's not legal but tech companys get away with it becouse few people know better.
Consummer advocates who usually dogpile companys who pull this stunt don't know enough to build a reasonable case against Microsoft. However make no mistake they DO know what is going on they just haven't the time to learn all they'd need to learn before a case could be formulated.
To the general public (and more importantly the managers who deside what technology to use) this is news. They don't realise technology companys have gotten away with false advertising for decades. They don't know it is commen practace today.
If more of this enters the news companys will give Linux a fair shake. That dosen't mean they'll adopt Linux but it dose mean they'll make the choice based on research they do themselfs rather than on data Microsoft force feeds them.
It also means you'll see more hybred networks with Linux, Solarus, BSD and Macintosh deploied along with Windows where needed (if needed).
No thanks. If I were the worm writer, I'd hope to God that the virus can't be traced back to me. If I were a worm writer I wouldn't care if a virus was traced back to me except for the possability that while investigating the virus they might find evedence of the worms creation on my system.
I'm normally not so stressed out about the diffrence in terminology but we have gotten carried away with calling stuff "viruses". For example: that blaster worm was a peace of garbage and it did a huge amount of damage before a virus signature could be created to detect it.
Also FreeDos is easier to install. (Easier than Windows as well) No drivers... not much of anything.
I once asked a tech at a local VAR why they were preinstalling Windows on every machine (this was when Microsoft first started doing the whole 'Install Windows and Dos on every box' liccens deal) and he answered simply it makes it easier to test the machine before they ship it.
Now Dell preinstalls a totally free and simple operating system runs a comprehensive test (A Dos app of course) and if it's all good then ships it. The end user is expected to flush it and install something else and that is fine.
Actually viruses do go away.. and Code Red (FYI) is a worm.. Worms also go away. But when a company encurrages users to be lazy... Well then even trojens gain immortality.. (I think I saw one of the first Dos trojens on an FTP site a few years back.... The "American flag" one that makes a BBSes user file downloadable by any would-be hacker.
When will the Linux-worship end??? Make a good product and people will pay you what ever you ask. Make a great product and people worship you.
How dose an operating system reach cult status unless the alternitive is a horror of biblical preportions in comparison.
Actually people don't worship Linux. People will be just as fanatical about any good product or tool.
When the product is extreamly populare you may even have salesmen who actually refuse to sell to you if your not "good enough" for the product. Trust be a Linux "zellot" is down right polite compaired to some dealerships.
When you donate $26 freakin' billion dollars for charitable causes, like Mr. Gates has, you may complain.
People make this kind of argument when they can't justify how they made the money to begin with. It's called "buying forgiveness".
This reminds me of the (now dead) argument "When you make an operating system then talk about Windows problems." I found it a remarkably stupid argument personally. I say this becouse the closest similare to the Microsoft develupment team would be the Linux community and we all know how much the Linux community loves Microsoft. Also those who have created operating systems on there own tend to think very poorly of the operating systems they didn't create. You really don't want to turn to them for approval of your favoret operating system no matter what it is.
Finnaly giving away $26 billion dollares shouldn't buy you anything but a warm feeling knowing you've helpped people. Certanly not a knighthood.
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I am what most people would consider a highly trained technical professional.
People have similer delusions of me as well.
"Oh my goddess your so smart" (After giggling the mouse after the screen saver has turnned the screen off)
Unlike most people who spout off at this site, I have the certificates to prove this, and furthermore they're issued by the biggest software company in existence.
I also have certificates and unlike yours mine is issued by someone who is actually conserned about my ability to preform the job and not intrested in pumping me full of hype.
(This is as much an issue with Red Hat and Sun as it is with Microsoft.)
I've found the installation time of Linux and Windows depends entirely on the trainning and skill of the person doing the installation.
I remember back when Slashdot sponsored a Linux installation race. You had to install Linux on a laptop get online and view Slashdot.
(See Geeks in Space for more info)
Who do you think we professionals trust more?
I'm sure you'd think the answer is "Windows" but a lot of Slashdotters would say Linux.
Actually it's nither...
Who do professionsl trust?
Ab-so-freaking-nobody.
MS Office Specialist
Your joking... That makes you a gloifyed secretary not a technology expert.
I mean with all your ranting of being a profesional I expected a System admin or maybe a programmer at the very least someone in tech support or maybe a technology consultent.
Me I'm a certifed Linux admin...
Actually my cert expired and I'm retrainning to get multipul certifications this time.
Something everyone should pay specal note not only to the qualification level of myself and this guy but to something far far more important...
I am a LINUX Admin... he is a Microsoft cert.
What dose that mean exactly?
Every time someone installs Open Office he loses a potental employer.
Every time someone installs Windows Server eddition I lose a potental employer.
I think you'll find this runs pritty much for any given cert.. The ones who have multicerts in multiplatforms (not multi-certs in one platform) are the ones you can trust to tell you the real deal..
Me I'm "my wallet" bies and so is everyone else.
non-compatible e-mail systems, incompatible HTML/XML markup, integrated browsers, etc. etc
Ahh so that is what Microsoft is up to...
Cutting the United States off from the rest of the world...
There once was a really good book store that could get you nearly any book at a resonable price near by the local collage. They tended to keep the latest books the students needed in stock.
Made life easy for me. I would buy all the books I needed there and at the local used book store.
A few years ago the closed there doors. It was no longer proffitable.
Eather the students could get the books at a better price at the collage book store or the recomended text books weren't available to the local book store.
Microsoft gets in trubble a lot. Mostly due to a total lack of commen sense but also due to Microsofts ability to buy off problems.
BUT..
Remember the "Look and feel" patent issue?
Microsoft, IBM and the free software community was unable to convence the corts that the patent wasn't valid.
Microsoft is probably the last company we want on this case. They are almost faited to lose.
I use IE, Netscape, the KDE browser and Lynx.
Haven't had that problem.
(However admitedly doing anything with the mouse on lynx is useless but that shouldn't come as any sort of supprise)
I managed to uninstall Outlook express on this box as a direct result mailto links give me errors.
However it's really not a problem.
I mean, as long as your brain doesn't run Windows... you should be fine :)
Comming soon: "Windows vs Human brain facts"
Includes such facts as "Humans are not Sentient beings" and "Evolution dosen't work".
(I was tempted to give a 'LINK' but we've had just about enough Goats links thank you very much)
The book Unsafe at any speed talks about dangerous cars however some doupt the assertions made by the then young Ralph Nader.
A quick look at the debate resulting from this book leads me to believe if Microsoft made cars today they'd be like the Chevrolet Corvair.
Actually Windows 2 is very much like the first run of the Corvair. The problems in Windows 2 were minnor at best but needed to be addressed in any case. While Chevrolet took the problem sereously and fixed it Microsoft would first blame the writers of Windows apps then clame the problem was in all operating systems. The famous problem is the memory leak.
At first a minnor nussence but the leak got worse with each new version of Windows.
Microsoft finnally addressed the problem when they made Windows 95 and declaired it fixed. But it wasn't and the memory leak was bigger than ever. Other problems were found in 95 as well making it the most buggy version of Windows at the time of its release this in spite of the hype of a bug free Windows 95. The first bug found was more of a feature left on by default.. letting anyone hijack any given Win 95 box. The first security bug in Windows and for the time the only security bug in any "desk top" operating system.
By the way I found this to be quite intresting.
As always you can find more information with Google.
Intresting how when ever anyone recalls the rise of Microsoft they only tell part of the story.
The first half of Microsofts rise to a monopoly was lagit. Dos was a product people wanted and possitioned properly in the marketplace.
But that is how Microsoft gainned a near monopoly with Ms Dos. Apple broke that monopoly.
Companys were switching to Mac becouse it was easier. In many cases companys actually stuck with the old way of doing things untill the Mac came around becouse Dos was just to complicatied.
Microsoft created Windows expecting to recover the marketplace but there wasn't any apps or users. Most companys chouse to stick with Dos becouse of the cost and the available software.
However Apple was resolving the cost issues and the Mac was dropping in price at the same time Apple was getting more and more software made exclusivly for the Mac.
The market pressures were going against Microsoft.
What they had left for Dos was the stand alone box. The servers. The GUI on a server was more of a hinderence than an advantage so Dos had the edge over Mac.
However this was also the time when Unix was available to desktops. More powerful RISC based Unix servers could do the job far better than Dos counterparts.
Microsoft was between a rock (Unix) and a hard place (Apple).
Microsoft abused it's dying Dos monopoly to push Windows into the market. Quite illegally I might add.
It was so bad that when Commdore died some people actually blamed Microsoft... And this would be the first time Microsoft was blamed for something they didn't do.
I think the movie industry would be down on Disney if they did so much as a C&D to Pixar over the movie names.
The whole point of a trademark is that an image, symbol or phrase appears on products produced by said company as an identification. For that reason a trademark is that companys blessing.
But talking about the trademark is a diffrent deal all together.
Directors and producers often include preveous acomplishments in ads for new films they've done.
I remember saying when the X Box came out if the game console sucked Microsoft wouldn't make any sales.
/.)
It's an entertainment device.
Microsoft has a (ever growing) reputation (deserved or not) for shotty software (outside
Disney has a reputation for liccensing poor games.
Disney Adventures for the X Box...
People will just avoid it. Not even visit the booth at the E3. They'll be lucky to get anything on the store shelfs.
Nither Disney nore Microsoft need to waist time or money in such an obveous failure.
It won't matter how good the game as the majority won't get past the combind reputations of Microsoft and Disney.
The "joke" has all the humor of an IRS audit.
It might have actually been funny IF that was a lagit screen shot and not edited graphics.
This is cheap shot at Google for the C&D. It's sour grapes not humor.
Sort of like when a bully beats a kid up. "It's funny" at least as far as the bully is conserned.
They don't want to take the situation sereously and have opted to rely on cheap shots and simple minded arguments.
But the "parody" is nothing more than an adult search engen. It like the "Google has no sense of hummor" cheap shot is funny like a tax auditors expression when you say your puppys are dependents.
I changed it to turn the computer off...
(I was a 3B2/300 user before using Linux... Instead of an on-off switch it has an on-shutdown switch... shutdown sends a software signal to run shutdown and the computer turns itself off when it's done.)
This way I hit cntr+alt+del when I'm done and walk away.
Reset + Run/Stop (Commodore Vic20, 64 and C128)
Control + reset (I forget... just poped in my head)
The idea is that with one key you could accadentally hit this reset key and be roially screwed... But a complex keyboard combo spaced out works wonders...
Note it's not just Control Alt Del.. you gotta use the control and alt on the opposate side of the keyboard from del.
Run/Stop and reset on the Commodore 8 bits was the same way.. Reset on one side of the keyboard Run/Stop on the other.
The Commodore 128 had a hard reset button sunk into the case to be difficult (but not impossable) to hit by accadent.
Woe be it to those of us with a home made reset button on the back of an XT with a kid brother or sister who thought it was funny to sneak up and reboot.
The problem with the search is it's way too spec.
All a girl has to be is an inch off and the search fails.
Also if she says "I'm into brainy guys", "I'm into nerdy guys" or "Geeks make me hot" the search fails... Not that I'd expect anyone to say "geeks make me hot" just giving an example...
As for the "Into geek guys" forget it she's gone by now... Every Slashdot geek had sent her a preposal.... well ok I'm more a tweek thow.. (Diffrence between me and a geek? I've got less brains and I'm insain...).
+blonde +thirtysomething +"blue eyes" -kids +"36 24 36" -smoker +5'11" +model +"into geeky guys"
Ok let's try remaking this to be a more realistic search ok?
+blonde This is fine.. Every "yellow" haired woman calls herself blonde.
+thirtysomething Changes are you'll get her exact age why should she even bother with the term "thirtysomething" strike it..
+"blue eyes" ok... A bit exssesive but the search would work...
-kids This is vage enough it will block all "with kids" it will also knock out "Not ready for kids" or "can't stand kids"... But it's a reasonable filter we can knock it out later.. if needed.
"36 24 36" Are we searching for a date or giving specs for a fembot? Human beings aren't going to fit an exact mold. Strike it...
-smoker Like kids this filters "I am a smoker" and "I am not a smoker"... This is probably not the kind of thing you want to filter... Leave it in for first search.
+5'11" Ahem.. So if she's 5'10" or 6'" your not intrested?
+5' This will give you everyone who is 5 foot...
+model Ahem.. are we searching for dates or phone sex? If she says she's a model she is eather lying or to busy to actually date.
Strike it...
+"into geeky guys" Way to detailed... She'd have to actually use that exact phrase.
Try just +geek.. This will scoop up "I'm a geek girl looking for a geek guy"
Now we have: +blonde +"blue eyes" -kids +5' +geek
1,630 results.... Exelent...
Now I can screen them by hand for... dear god no Huston we have a problem.
+woman
1,060 results... Good.
Let's trim this down a tad +female. The search results still had to many guys "looking for a woman"... Just need to imprint on the search the importance of finding a FEMALE date..
Ok to many unrelated results... Oh sure I like "Buffy the vampire slayer" but reading about how much fans like Spike dose not get me anywhere.
+dating
Well.. I'll ferther refine this but that will be to my personal tasts...
Damn it thow.. I find a post on Japanise intrested in western and it's Japanise MEN looking for western wemen.
Oh the +blond thing kinda makes that not happen anyway.
I'm srapping "blue eyes" becouse I don't care about eye color.. Then add +California becouse that is where I live.
424 results... I'll be refining this all freaking night...
Well I found this nifty link and I can finish my search that way.
And that is how you ue google to find a date.
Oh dear god I'm pathetic... Finding dates by computer... I'm affrade I need to bash my self senseless now.
He may have $93,000 but he has to streach that out to last him the rest of his life.
This way he never has to give out his drivers liccens, socal security or real name.. or any other identifying information someone could find on google alert the athoritys and throw him in jail.
For example the people that use Internet Explorer do so not because "other browsers don't work with ActiveX" but because they are not even aware of the existence of Opera or Mozilla.
Actually Linux has quite a bit of advertsing. Some from news some from advocacy and some from IBM.
However you'll be supprised how many people know anything about Windows.
Snipped from Computer stupiditys
Tech Support: "May I ask what operating system you are running today?"
Customer: "A computer."
I had a similare conversation with my sister. I asked her what web browser she was using and she said she didn't know. She is tech savy enough to know she dosen't know. Most people think the web browser they use is "Pentium 4" or "Gateway" some might even say "Windows" only a tiny handful will actually say "Internet Explorer"... and even then they won't know what version.
On that... Believe it or not somebody is using a beta version of Internet Exploror (or a very poor bot) eather way I plan on blocking it's access. At the very least somebody needs a browser update.
Web professionals often have multipul versions of IE installed (there is a hack to make this possable) to insure compatability. Not only do users use IE but they only update it when they update the operating system and usually that happends when they update the whole computer.
Microsofts success is due to the ultimate advertsing.. The only product available in most cases.
The downfall of Linux is much less like the downfall of Rome and more like the downfall of socity. Often discussed never manifest.
In the server market Linux is an unqualified success. Linux has more share of the desktop market than it rightfully deserves. Nearly all of it users looking for a cheap alternitive to Windows. Linux owes any success it obtains it the desktop market to Microsofts sloppy work and successfully crushing all closed source compeditors.
To add to the picture Linux is pushing aside compeditors left and right in the imbeded market including Microsoft.
Linux is a failure in the desktop market becouse it simply isn't ready for the desktop market.
Yet it is making headway.
If a clunky cryptic CLUE operating system can get as far as Linux has in the desktop what's going to happen when KDE or Gnome is ready for the avrage user?
This is just business as usual
Only in the technology industry.
This is called "false advertising" and it's not legal but tech companys get away with it becouse few people know better.
Consummer advocates who usually dogpile companys who pull this stunt don't know enough to build a reasonable case against Microsoft. However make no mistake they DO know what is going on they just haven't the time to learn all they'd need to learn before a case could be formulated.
To the general public (and more importantly the managers who deside what technology to use) this is news. They don't realise technology companys have gotten away with false advertising for decades. They don't know it is commen practace today.
If more of this enters the news companys will give Linux a fair shake. That dosen't mean they'll adopt Linux but it dose mean they'll make the choice based on research they do themselfs rather than on data Microsoft force feeds them.
It also means you'll see more hybred networks with Linux, Solarus, BSD and Macintosh deploied along with Windows where needed (if needed).
No thanks. If I were the worm writer, I'd hope to God that the virus can't be traced back to me.
If I were a worm writer I wouldn't care if a virus was traced back to me except for the possability that while investigating the virus they might find evedence of the worms creation on my system.
I'm normally not so stressed out about the diffrence in terminology but we have gotten carried away with calling stuff "viruses".
For example: that blaster worm was a peace of garbage and it did a huge amount of damage before a virus signature could be created to detect it.
Also FreeDos is easier to install.
(Easier than Windows as well)
No drivers... not much of anything.
I once asked a tech at a local VAR why they were preinstalling Windows on every machine (this was when Microsoft first started doing the whole 'Install Windows and Dos on every box' liccens deal) and he answered simply it makes it easier to test the machine before they ship it.
Now Dell preinstalls a totally free and simple operating system runs a comprehensive test (A Dos app of course) and if it's all good then ships it.
The end user is expected to flush it and install something else and that is fine.
Well I've always wanted to try out Wine...
Actually viruses do go away.. and Code Red (FYI) is a worm.. Worms also go away.
But when a company encurrages users to be lazy... Well then even trojens gain immortality..
(I think I saw one of the first Dos trojens on an FTP site a few years back....
The "American flag" one that makes a BBSes user file downloadable by any would-be hacker.
Ohh we like you SOO much you get a part in Star Trek...
Don't forget to wear a red shirt.
When will the Linux-worship end???
Make a good product and people will pay you what ever you ask.
Make a great product and people worship you.
How dose an operating system reach cult status unless the alternitive is a horror of biblical preportions in comparison.
Actually people don't worship Linux. People will be just as fanatical about any good product or tool.
When the product is extreamly populare you may even have salesmen who actually refuse to sell to you if your not "good enough" for the product.
Trust be a Linux "zellot" is down right polite compaired to some dealerships.
When you donate $26 freakin' billion dollars for charitable causes, like Mr. Gates has, you may complain.
People make this kind of argument when they can't justify how they made the money to begin with.
It's called "buying forgiveness".
This reminds me of the (now dead) argument "When you make an operating system then talk about Windows problems."
I found it a remarkably stupid argument personally.
I say this becouse the closest similare to the Microsoft develupment team would be the Linux community and we all know how much the Linux community loves Microsoft.
Also those who have created operating systems on there own tend to think very poorly of the operating systems they didn't create. You really don't want to turn to them for approval of your favoret operating system no matter what it is.
Finnaly giving away $26 billion dollares shouldn't buy you anything but a warm feeling knowing you've helpped people. Certanly not a knighthood.