I know you're joking, but assuming that a pringles can is 9.25in tall (the best figure I could find), it would take 450,082 end to end to reach that distance.:)
I would definitely say that Ximian desktop would be the way forward. It installs and configures a lot of niceties like Evolution, Open Office, management tools, and a sane desktop configuration.
I do believe the proliferation of window managers/desktop environments is a good thing. However, if business/home oriented distros could co-ordinate around 1 default desktop, things would be much more useable. It wouldn't remove any choice from the end user, the others would still be available, but the default could be "just there" for beginners to use.
Aside from all that, if the more tech-oriented folks want a distribution that caters to them and doesn't lay a default on them, they can still check out Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, LFS, or even *gasp* one of the BSD's.
Ah, but the benefit to the microkernel is that a buggy *driver* is not going to kill your system.
If it's a driver that's essential to the operation of the device, then it's the developer of the device's responsibility to write the driver themselves, OR, choose a reliable third party to provide the driver.
My point is that it wouldn't work anyway. If the work exploits a buffer overflow in the RPC service, that hack isn't going to work. Period. If the program is executed by a program that is allowed to run, it's not going to work.
It's not a good idea, and there are better ways to handle it.
That is a bad idea. Not only does it not account for polymorphism in the name, but is also not foolproof.
For instance, block an image name, then set your Internet Explorer home page to that image. Bam. It executes with no problems. As long as a trusted program executes it, Windows will not complain. The group policy only prevents the user from running it directly.
I've done an embedded system with QNX, and it is quite the nice RTOS.
Under QNX, the devices hang out in the device manager, which is not in the kernel space, and the drivers are handled by the process manager, also not in the kernel. Since the kernel exists just to pass messages, essentially, it is uncrashable.
That's not the point though. Cry all you want about how good GiMP is, but Photoshop users are not willing to switch, and a large part of that is the interface, regardless of whether it is more logical. The fact that Photoshop users are not compelled to switch is particularly telling as GiMP is about $609 cheaper
GiMP may match feature for feature, but it's interface is no good for too many people. It may work for some, but for most, it just doesn't work. I know it doesn't for me.
A bottom line (and I mean BOTTOM. radeon VE, onboard sound, 256 mb ram, 40gb hard drive) Xeon capable Dell, *starts* at $1,048. If you got yours refurb, it's not a fair comparison. Look at the Apple refurbs if you're going to do that.
A truly comparable, new Dell runs $2,509, which is much less reasonable, especially given that the Xeon is a 32-bit processor.
Apple already settled that suit. Apple paid $30 million to use the name Apple in association with sound recordings after they added sound to the Macintosh, AFAIK.
On the site that I had, it covered about 1/8. If I had used skyscrapers, interstitials, and pop-ups, I probably could have knocked about 1/2 the site's cost.
It was still too little, though, especially given how many users that would have driven away.
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I know you're joking, but assuming that a pringles can is 9.25in tall (the best figure I could find), it would take 450,082 end to end to reach that distance. :)
I would definitely say that Ximian desktop would be the way forward. It installs and configures a lot of niceties like Evolution, Open Office, management tools, and a sane desktop configuration.
I do believe the proliferation of window managers/desktop environments is a good thing. However, if business/home oriented distros could co-ordinate around 1 default desktop, things would be much more useable. It wouldn't remove any choice from the end user, the others would still be available, but the default could be "just there" for beginners to use.
Aside from all that, if the more tech-oriented folks want a distribution that caters to them and doesn't lay a default on them, they can still check out Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, LFS, or even *gasp* one of the BSD's.
Windows 98 is vulnerable to the overflow condition that Blaster exploits as well, not just 2K.
Ah, but the benefit to the microkernel is that a buggy *driver* is not going to kill your system.
If it's a driver that's essential to the operation of the device, then it's the developer of the device's responsibility to write the driver themselves, OR, choose a reliable third party to provide the driver.
My point is that it wouldn't work anyway. If the work exploits a buffer overflow in the RPC service, that hack isn't going to work. Period. If the program is executed by a program that is allowed to run, it's not going to work.
It's not a good idea, and there are better ways to handle it.
That is a bad idea. Not only does it not account for polymorphism in the name, but is also not foolproof.
For instance, block an image name, then set your Internet Explorer home page to that image. Bam. It executes with no problems. As long as a trusted program executes it, Windows will not complain. The group policy only prevents the user from running it directly.
Yup.
I've done an embedded system with QNX, and it is quite the nice RTOS.
Under QNX, the devices hang out in the device manager, which is not in the kernel space, and the drivers are handled by the process manager, also not in the kernel. Since the kernel exists just to pass messages, essentially, it is uncrashable.
You are not nice. And an idiot, apparently, as you've called this gentleman. The show aired on the Tracey Ullman show, not Tracy Morgan.
It's like she's staring right into my soul... *shivers*
With your circumvention device, you have cost an estimated Eleventy Billion dollars in sales for my organization. Expect to hear from my lawyers.
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Oh, and mods, buzz off unless you feel like converting the binary.
There are lot of people who shoplift. Why hasn't that been made legal yet, anyway?
This is not insightful. It is, however, funny.
I will never claim that Apple's are cheaper up-front than an equivalent PC, because they aren't. TCO is another issue for another time.
That's not the point though. Cry all you want about how good GiMP is, but Photoshop users are not willing to switch, and a large part of that is the interface, regardless of whether it is more logical. The fact that Photoshop users are not compelled to switch is particularly telling as GiMP is about $609 cheaper
GiMP may match feature for feature, but it's interface is no good for too many people. It may work for some, but for most, it just doesn't work. I know it doesn't for me.
I call shenanigans.
A bottom line (and I mean BOTTOM. radeon VE, onboard sound, 256 mb ram, 40gb hard drive) Xeon capable Dell, *starts* at $1,048. If you got yours refurb, it's not a fair comparison. Look at the Apple refurbs if you're going to do that.
A truly comparable, new Dell runs $2,509, which is much less reasonable, especially given that the Xeon is a 32-bit processor.
I hate to break it to the mod's, but this is not offtopic. In fact, it's quite funny.
See, the micro-engine charges the cellphones. Combustion + ear = ear on fire. That was his joke. Even if you thought it unfunny, it was on-topic.
Posted with a bonus in hopes that someone will see this.
They are the same group, really. Some of the best sci-fi writers I've ever met are salespeople.
"You need this software to prove string theory, walk your dog, kill Schroedinger's cat and be done by next Thursday? Absolutely!"
Sci-fi indeed.
FOTR Plays fine in my Xbox. What kind of problems are you having?
Java *is* an Apple supported language. Just open project builder and see.
I normally hate trolls, but I have to hand it to you, you did a good job with this one.
Apple already settled that suit. Apple paid $30 million to use the name Apple in association with sound recordings after they added sound to the Macintosh, AFAIK.
On the site that I had, it covered about 1/8. If I had used skyscrapers, interstitials, and pop-ups, I probably could have knocked about 1/2 the site's cost.
It was still too little, though, especially given how many users that would have driven away.
Having run an "advertising supported" site, I can safely say that advertising *does not* even come close to paying the bills.
Just ask Taco, and I'm sure he'll tell you that the ads don't even come close to paying the bandwidth costs.