Penguin Tatooes - irony explained
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Quickie Fu
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If it's any consolation, the web pages are uploaded from a Linux box via our household Linux internet server because aforementioned Windows design software can't ftp in passive mode.
If you know of a good GUI Linux website design program, we'd love to hear about it. Web page design programs don't cut it when you've got a site to design with a theme, and we've not found a Linux tool that's up to the job yet since we saw the light and decided to defenestrate.
Vik:v)
Can Banks, Lawyers etc. trust MS now?
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Windows ID
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Given this information, how can any company processing confidential personal or financial information use Microsoft products?
Documents can be traced; Microsoft might know more about your files than you do; Now you can find out who wrote that damning report by comparing it with sample documents.
What Microsoft have done is probably an illegal practice in many countries.
So who is now going to trust MS software unless MS go Open Source and we can check it for ourselves?
I for one am going to be asking my bank to make my downloadable banking files accessable in a non-MS compatible format for security reasons.
I live there, and the MoneyGrabbingDingDongs (TM) are alive and positively squirming.
We've got service cutbacks, privatised this, privatised that, user pays and now some dork has the idea that it'd be good to cut the number of MPs. I suspect they'd like to reduce it to one.
DomaiNZ have the internet fairly well wrapped up as a closed shop, plus we have to pay data charges per megabyte (unless you don't mind having your access limited to a few hours - download Staroffice? Haha).
New Zealand ain't what it used to be and it needs a fair amount of stick from the rest of the world to make the policiticans here realise they can't rest on their laurels any longer. Or rely on the goodwill of the average Kiwi; It's all been sold overseas.
Only if you're in the US. Trying to get hold of Mindstorms outside the US gets you a wall of stony silence from Lego distributors.
In New Zealand we have a law permitting parallel importing, but outside suppliers daren't ship for fear of offending Lego. It's like Microsoft in Toyland.
All these NASA plans for Mars are just one-shot wonders, brought to you by the ones who left footprints in the lunar dust like so much Killroy-was-here political graffiti.
The only way to do it properly is to colonise our Moon first and use the cheaper materials from a shallower gravity well, together with orbital construction, to manufacture large craft, and hit Mars with dozens of people with thousands of tonnes of supplies to estabish a spacefareing colony there.
There is already an organisation which wishes to do this. It is called The Artemis Project and it is pretty much as close as you can get to an Open Source space effort.
I work for a company in NZ called ECONZ (http://econz.co.nz) and we use Samba so the Windoze crowd can access files and use CVS on the real computers while still using cruddy MS tools.
I use it at home too, because I thought it would be cool to use a Linux server and still haven't managed to ditch all my Win95 legacy apps.
I must admit that it grinds a little on a 20MHz 386 with 8Mb RAM...:)
Vik:v)
Linux Diversity encourages portability
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IBM Linux Boxes
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Hooray for variety. If people know they're going to have to expect their code to work on a variety of platforms with a variety of processors, then they take a bit more care with their code - or should.
This makes for less hassle when you upgrade and no doubt improves code robistness.
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If it's any consolation, the web pages are uploaded from a Linux box via our household Linux internet server because aforementioned Windows design software can't ftp in passive mode.
:v)
If you know of a good GUI Linux website design program, we'd love to hear about it. Web page design programs don't cut it when you've got a site to design with a theme, and we've not found a Linux tool that's up to the job yet since we saw the light and decided to defenestrate.
Vik
Given this information, how can any company processing confidential personal or financial information use Microsoft products?
:v)
Documents can be traced; Microsoft might know more about your files than you do; Now you can find out who wrote that damning report by comparing it with sample documents.
What Microsoft have done is probably an illegal practice in many countries.
So who is now going to trust MS software unless MS go Open Source and we can check it for ourselves?
I for one am going to be asking my bank to make my downloadable banking files accessable in a non-MS compatible format for security reasons.
Vik
I live there, and the MoneyGrabbingDingDongs (TM) are alive and positively squirming.
:v)
We've got service cutbacks, privatised this, privatised that, user pays and now some dork has the idea that it'd be good to cut the number of MPs. I suspect they'd like to reduce it to one.
DomaiNZ have the internet fairly well wrapped up as a closed shop, plus we have to pay data charges per megabyte (unless you don't mind having your access limited to a few hours - download Staroffice? Haha).
New Zealand ain't what it used to be and it needs a fair amount of stick from the rest of the world to make the policiticans here realise they can't rest on their laurels any longer. Or rely on the goodwill of the average Kiwi; It's all been sold overseas.
Vik
Only if you're in the US. Trying to get hold of Mindstorms outside the US gets you a wall of stony silence from Lego distributors.
:v)
In New Zealand we have a law permitting parallel importing, but outside suppliers daren't ship for fear of offending Lego. It's like Microsoft in Toyland.
Vik
The only way to do it properly is to colonise our Moon first and use the cheaper materials from a shallower gravity well, together with orbital construction, to manufacture large craft, and hit Mars with dozens of people with thousands of tonnes of supplies to estabish a spacefareing colony there.
There is already an organisation which wishes to do this. It is called The Artemis Project and it is pretty much as close as you can get to an Open Source space effort.
Vik :v)
I use it at home too, because I thought it would be cool to use a Linux server and still haven't managed to ditch all my Win95 legacy apps.
I must admit that it grinds a little on a 20MHz 386 with 8Mb RAM... :)
Vik :v)
Hooray for variety. If people know they're going to have to expect their code to work on a variety of platforms with a variety of processors, then they take a bit more care with their code - or should.
:v)
This makes for less hassle when you upgrade and no doubt improves code robistness.
My 2 New Zealand cents worth anyway.
Vik