German security authorities suspect that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has 'back door' access to Microsoft source code, and can therefore easily read the Federal Republic's deepest secrets.
And then we're going to help Mulder crack his biggest case!...
German security authorities suspect that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has 'back door' access to Microsoft source code, and can therefore easily read the Federal Republic's deepest secrets.And then we're going to help Mulder crack his biggest case!...
Uh, no. As corny as it is, the whole Comedy Central practice of having comedians do the play-by-play has given the event a certain flavor I don't think NASA scientists will be able to repeat.
I installed KDE a few days ago and while it's nice nautilus it just miles ahead of konqueror.Huh? I've found Konqueror to be a hell of a lot more robust, able to be accessed anywhere from within KDE, strong graphically and surprisingly stable on even complicated web sites.
Now if I can only figure out how to set my damn homepage in Konqueror...
Actually, I'm working on a program that tests various process scheduler for FreeBSD right now. For class, I'm working on a silly little object-oriented Connect Four program. This is being coded with FreeBSD at school, and my Linux box at home.
And lest we be judged: the actual paperclip in Office is crap. But the idea of having a fairly intelligent, natural language help query system is strong. Office got this right first and continues to get it right to today.
And personally, I do my games, internet browsing and papers in Windows 2000. I do all of my coding in Linux or FreeBSD.
In 10 years, at least one of these pieces of software will have itself completely "source" (you can look but don't touch). My bets are on Office, considering the direction they are heading with it as an application "service" and the internet. More.NET = less proprietary garbage. And, 10 years is an eternity in computing time.
By the way, have you seen Hotmail lately? IE is now incorporating a toolbar very similar to Office when you write a message. It's kind of cool to see that we've gone this far with this kind of stuff. A simple word processor that loads over the internet, for free, in a few seconds.
At least it's a step in the right direction. Windows 2000 is the only code I think is worth looking at (didn't they rewrite a majority of the code base for this release?)
I wouldn't touch the Windows 95/95 OSR2/98/ME code. That thing is probably a mess. Old DOS might be fun (back when all a Microsoft OS was a shell). But Windows 2000? Cool.
But how many people routinely encrypt their email?
I don't, but that's because I feel I have absolutely nothing to hide. Porn, unsettling comments about George Bush, comments about professors on the school's mail server, etc: if I can't take responsiblity for what I view and say, why do it in the first place?
I agree that encryption should be around for those want it, and without it the average Joe will automatically lose to the "man". But do I think that encryption is primarily used by people causing trouble? Well... yes. It's hard to argue logistically otherwise (unless you're going to bring up freedom fighters in some third world country, in which case I would agree you have a point). But if average Joe is using encryption, you've got to understand that someone out there is going to ask "Why? What's he sending that's so important?"
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This movie shows how far we can go with violence and "reality television", but Series 7 goes much farther. It's a movie wherein the "reality show" involves not just voting someone off the island, but killing them. The movie opens with a pregnant mother unhearteningly shooting someone in a convenience store and continuing full throttle throughout the rest of the flick. It's gory, a bit underhanded (it's from USA pictures, so you know the content is just asking for trouble) but frighteningly profound.
Not knowing much about SOUP (and still not knowing much, the CNet article wasn't terribly informative) I'm wondering: will SOUP have interoperatibility with.NET? I mean, will SOUP try to understand.NET calls and make some sense out of them (in the limited constructs of not being a Microsoft system, and thus shut out of some proprietary features)?
Or is SOAP a replacement for.NET, much like TeX was touted as a replacement for a majority of the word processors out there? Not that that strategy worked entirely (an overwhelming number of TeX users seemed to jump ship when StarOffice came on board). It would be nice if the two were able to recognize each other, or at least SOAP recognize.NET.
YAMM (Yet Another Microsoft Myth). It is just as difficult to get everything going on Winblows as it is under Linux. "Upgrade this driver", "fiddle with this registry setting", etc etc.
Bullshit. There is something close to 5,000 drivers that come with a default installation. When I installed Windows 2000 on my main box, absolutely everything was recognized. Correctly. And the sound works. And the printer works. Etc.
I don't know what she's on, but the default Mandrake install, which boots into KDE, looks remarkably similar to other *cough*Windows*cough* GUIs.
Wrong again. You argue that the woman doesn't understand the entire point of "Free Software", then you should you no absolutely nothing about Pay Software. KDE is in no way like Windows. The closest thing it has is the K menu, which is a Start Menu rip off. You can't position things on the K menu by clicking and dragging them like you can in Windows. A majority of the control panels aren't functioning fully yet with most cards (hello Sound) And you have to go to a command prompt to get more critical things done.
Contrast that with Windows, which gets everything right on the first try AND is easier to boot. I tried that bullshit with "teaching kids Unix at an earlier age so they would understand it" for a high school project. You know what? They couldn't understand a damn thing. But when they saw a Mac GUI they understood it immediately.
And I would suggest not calling a female journalist "babe", unless you want a wrath of feminists breathing down your neck.
Even though the author says she's been using Linux since 1994, she doesn't seem to be totally educated on the subject. I have heard people argue on Slashdot, quite succinctly I might add, that if people started with the command line when they first started computing, they would grow to accept and love it.
However, a few of her points definitely make sense:
- Installation - Damn straight. I need a distro that installs with a few dialog boxes, and doesn't destroy things at whim. Windows 2000 can be vaulted for the latter (it wipes out the MBR) but I find it unacceptable that a distro like Mandrake 7.2 would do the same thing. Asking for all the available installation options, it then proceeded to kill off my MBR, and I couldn't boot to dual-boot to Windows 2000. Not cool.
Linux distro installs should recognize that a vast majority of new users will want to dual-boot. Even experienced ones, like myself, will still dual-boot.
Adopt the already-made standards - I love KDE. I love Konqueror. Imagine my surprise when, filling out a user name and password form, pressing tab to go to the next field, the password field, instead went to the URL location bar, where I started typing my password for all the world to see. Not cool.
And printing: let's get the printing up the first time, every time after install. Don't make me install Ghostscript drivers, and KDE, don't ask me whether I want to use "BSD" mode for printing. I'm using Linux. Don't confuse me.
Finally, let's get some standards down pat that make sense. If I choose to copy in Netscape 4.72, I should be allow to paste it into the KDE text editor. Simple. Brainless. If I click and drag a program from within the K menu, I should be allowed to reposition, like every OS from Windows 98 on. Sound cards: get them to work from the outset.
This is simple stuff, but it's amazing how few linux developers, and distros, even bother with it.
You forgot my favorite one: the words "Click for More". I remember my second internship, my first with an internet company, and how the CEO of our 3-person startup said the words "Click for more" are psychologically proven to get more click-throughs. "People don't know where to click". Right.
But look at most mass media sites. The majority of banners will say something akin to "Click for More" or "Click Here". Obviously it works if every other site is doing it, right?
I remember the pinacle of annoyance for me was seeing *every* Berst Alert NewsAnchor article at CNet being peppered with "Click for More"s. Up and down the page. Like we didn't notice he was trying to get more site traffic. I was so relieved when other people took over the column a month or two ago.
I just want the damn TellMe service to work. How many times do I have to say "New Jersey Devils" before the sports program on that thing recognizes "Hey, he's talking about a hockey team!"
Beyond that, the TellMe service should also recognize the command "shut up" along with "stop" and "tell me more". I mean, if you're going to have a voice-activated phone portal, why not use "natural language" for commands? ("Shut the hell up you stupid bitch! I said "stock quotes" not "stock racing"!)
For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, dial 1-800-555-TELL. The service is free, for now.
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Right. Let's install RedHat instead...
German security authorities suspect that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has 'back door' access to Microsoft source code, and can therefore easily read the Federal Republic's deepest secrets.
And then we're going to help Mulder crack his biggest case!...
Right. Let's install RedHat instead...
German security authorities suspect that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has 'back door' access to Microsoft source code, and can therefore easily read the Federal Republic's deepest secrets.And then we're going to help Mulder crack his biggest case!...
Uh, no. As corny as it is, the whole Comedy Central practice of having comedians do the play-by-play has given the event a certain flavor I don't think NASA scientists will be able to repeat.
I'll bet against you to dude.
Now if I can only figure out how to set my damn homepage in Konqueror...
Well that settles it. Off to download KDE 2.1 stable.
lol You try telling my college professor otherwise.
And lest we be judged: the actual paperclip in Office is crap. But the idea of having a fairly intelligent, natural language help query system is strong. Office got this right first and continues to get it right to today.
And personally, I do my games, internet browsing and papers in Windows 2000. I do all of my coding in Linux or FreeBSD.
If you don't like the HTML email, turn it off. The toolbar will never download, and you won't be wasting bandwidth for a feature you don't want.
Ha. I should say the same about Linux PCMCIA wireless code.
So does that mean average intelligence = more commercial success?
In 10 years, at least one of these pieces of software will have itself completely "source" (you can look but don't touch). My bets are on Office, considering the direction they are heading with it as an application "service" and the internet. More .NET = less proprietary garbage. And, 10 years is an eternity in computing time.
By the way, have you seen Hotmail lately? IE is now incorporating a toolbar very similar to Office when you write a message. It's kind of cool to see that we've gone this far with this kind of stuff. A simple word processor that loads over the internet, for free, in a few seconds.
I wouldn't touch the Windows 95/95 OSR2/98/ME code. That thing is probably a mess. Old DOS might be fun (back when all a Microsoft OS was a shell). But Windows 2000? Cool.
Nope. Where's the new 3D Pong games by Hasbro that stunk up the house? If you're going to include everything you have to include everything.
I don't, but that's because I feel I have absolutely nothing to hide. Porn, unsettling comments about George Bush, comments about professors on the school's mail server, etc: if I can't take responsiblity for what I view and say, why do it in the first place?
I agree that encryption should be around for those want it, and without it the average Joe will automatically lose to the "man". But do I think that encryption is primarily used by people causing trouble? Well... yes. It's hard to argue logistically otherwise (unless you're going to bring up freedom fighters in some third world country, in which case I would agree you have a point). But if average Joe is using encryption, you've got to understand that someone out there is going to ask "Why? What's he sending that's so important?"
This movie shows how far we can go with violence and "reality television", but Series 7 goes much farther. It's a movie wherein the "reality show" involves not just voting someone off the island, but killing them. The movie opens with a pregnant mother unhearteningly shooting someone in a convenience store and continuing full throttle throughout the rest of the flick. It's gory, a bit underhanded (it's from USA pictures, so you know the content is just asking for trouble) but frighteningly profound.
What's with the games icon on this story?
Do the story posters do this for their own benefit? To show that they made a joke?
Or is SOAP a replacement for .NET, much like TeX was touted as a replacement for a majority of the word processors out there? Not that that strategy worked entirely (an overwhelming number of TeX users seemed to jump ship when StarOffice came on board). It would be nice if the two were able to recognize each other, or at least SOAP recognize .NET.
I administrate my box, and I only touched the registry once to play with some Domain Master values.
Bullshit. There is something close to 5,000 drivers that come with a default installation. When I installed Windows 2000 on my main box, absolutely everything was recognized. Correctly. And the sound works. And the printer works. Etc.
I don't know what she's on, but the default Mandrake install, which boots into KDE, looks remarkably similar to other *cough*Windows*cough* GUIs.
Wrong again. You argue that the woman doesn't understand the entire point of "Free Software", then you should you no absolutely nothing about Pay Software. KDE is in no way like Windows. The closest thing it has is the K menu, which is a Start Menu rip off. You can't position things on the K menu by clicking and dragging them like you can in Windows. A majority of the control panels aren't functioning fully yet with most cards (hello Sound) And you have to go to a command prompt to get more critical things done.
Contrast that with Windows, which gets everything right on the first try AND is easier to boot. I tried that bullshit with "teaching kids Unix at an earlier age so they would understand it" for a high school project. You know what? They couldn't understand a damn thing. But when they saw a Mac GUI they understood it immediately.
And I would suggest not calling a female journalist "babe", unless you want a wrath of feminists breathing down your neck.
However, a few of her points definitely make sense:
- Installation - Damn straight. I need a distro that installs with a few dialog boxes, and doesn't destroy things at whim. Windows 2000 can be vaulted for the latter (it wipes out the MBR) but I find it unacceptable that a distro like Mandrake 7.2 would do the same thing. Asking for all the available installation options, it then proceeded to kill off my MBR, and I couldn't boot to dual-boot to Windows 2000. Not cool.
Linux distro installs should recognize that a vast majority of new users will want to dual-boot. Even experienced ones, like myself, will still dual-boot.
Adopt the already-made standards - I love KDE. I love Konqueror. Imagine my surprise when, filling out a user name and password form, pressing tab to go to the next field, the password field, instead went to the URL location bar, where I started typing my password for all the world to see. Not cool.
And printing: let's get the printing up the first time, every time after install. Don't make me install Ghostscript drivers, and KDE, don't ask me whether I want to use "BSD" mode for printing. I'm using Linux. Don't confuse me.
Finally, let's get some standards down pat that make sense. If I choose to copy in Netscape 4.72, I should be allow to paste it into the KDE text editor. Simple. Brainless. If I click and drag a program from within the K menu, I should be allowed to reposition, like every OS from Windows 98 on. Sound cards: get them to work from the outset.
This is simple stuff, but it's amazing how few linux developers, and distros, even bother with it.
But look at most mass media sites. The majority of banners will say something akin to "Click for More" or "Click Here". Obviously it works if every other site is doing it, right?
I remember the pinacle of annoyance for me was seeing *every* Berst Alert NewsAnchor article at CNet being peppered with "Click for More"s. Up and down the page. Like we didn't notice he was trying to get more site traffic. I was so relieved when other people took over the column a month or two ago.
Uh, Oracle.
Beyond that, the TellMe service should also recognize the command "shut up" along with "stop" and "tell me more". I mean, if you're going to have a voice-activated phone portal, why not use "natural language" for commands? ("Shut the hell up you stupid bitch! I said "stock quotes" not "stock racing"!)
For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, dial 1-800-555-TELL. The service is free, for now.