Right, but if you look at some of the modern heating, cooling and water systems in houses, you'll find they're way more complicated than just fixing a burst pipe or changing a tap washer. The installation manuals tend to be quite thick and full of fairly baffling technical information. You'd need way more than the reading skills to get through a children's book to do it.
I'm not sure what the OP's job is, but you probably don't need to be able to read much more than children's books to do it either. For mine, you'd need at least high-school level reading and writing skills (UK, rather higher than in the US) but you *do* need a very good understanding of maths.
Well, I've only really used Windows a couple of times, but that doesn't matter since I can't use it to do what I want. Roughly half the software I use on a day-to-day basis only exists on Linux, much of it highly specialised custom stuff that just cannot be ported across.
Windows has failed on the desktop, and Linux is a complete success on the desktop.
It lets me do what I want to do with the minimum of fiddling around trying to get the computer working. This is (at least by my standards) a complete success. Windows, on the other hand, always seems to want me to reboot a driver or update a virus or something. Look at the difference between installing stuff - on Linux you type "sudo apt-get install ", enter your password, and wait a minute or two. In Windows you have to find and download an "exe" file, wait ten minutes or so while it gets scanned for "viruses", double-click it, wait while it shows you an animation and makes some silly noises, then click "next" on a dozen or so identical grey screens. Be careful not to click anything else, otherwise it'll ask you things like "Install to 'C:\Program Files\BozoSoft\SomeThing\Wtf\d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf\'?" and you're supposed to guess if that's the right answer or not. If you guess wrong, you need to reinstall everything from scratch.
Windows has failed on the desktop, and Linux won a long time ago.
Just don't do the "legally required" destruction, then. It's never actually "required", and HIPPA is the most retarded thing I've ever seen. It seems to be designed to guarantee that confidential data will leak out.
In the UK, all you really need is a lockable steel box that's somewhat resistant to being forced open - a padlock will do for locking it. It's got to be bolted down, or welded to something structural, though.
Basically all you need is something that cannot easily be carried away and cannot easily be broken open.
I was going to say "myth", too. Have you noticed how the only people that insist that a "DoD wipe" is essential for getting rid of old data on drives are the people selling expensive drive-wiping software?
I found it a bit slow until I stuck 1G of RAM in my laptop. Now it runs just fine. It's not a good desktop environment for low-spec machines, but with 1G and something like a 1.8GHz Pentium M it rocks.
We don't get "dry seasons" here. And while it's nice that the fish have somewhere to live, I'm sure the land-dwelling creatures that were there first are less than thrilled.
With hydroelectric, the ecological disaster begins as soon as you break first ground on the project. It's one of the most damaging ways to generate power possible.
... that there are companies in the UK and EU who have been doing satellite broadband for over a decade now, with both flat-rate and pay-as-you-go billing.
This is *one* company that has started to provide it, nothing particularly new here.
Most of the patent trolls are in the US, too far for the really capable Islamist fundies to travel for one job.
Why not just create inflammatory content saying that the patent trolls support same-sex marriage, abortion, evolution and the rights of women to do basically anything other than stay in the house with their heads covered extruding babies like a gumball machine, and let the Christians do the work?
I'm politically somewhat to the left of Karl Marx, and I can honestly say the weather's been pretty much the same as it's always been. It's been a pretty wet summer, but last year was pretty dry so I guess it all averages out.
Simple, just use electricity we currently waste on drilling, refining and transportation of oil.
Where is the plastic used to make the bits for the cars going to come from?
What a lot of people don't realise that the petrol their cars run on that they'd so like to get rid of is really just an inconvenient waste product that happens to have found a use.
And what if Apple had sold any of these display units? Then you'd have hidden spy equipment inside people's homes, snapping photos and emailing this guy.
I suppose the lesson there is that if you buy an ex-demo laptop - or anything else with user-modifiable software - then flatten it and reinstall as soon as you get it home.
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Right, but if you look at some of the modern heating, cooling and water systems in houses, you'll find they're way more complicated than just fixing a burst pipe or changing a tap washer. The installation manuals tend to be quite thick and full of fairly baffling technical information. You'd need way more than the reading skills to get through a children's book to do it.
I'm not sure what the OP's job is, but you probably don't need to be able to read much more than children's books to do it either. For mine, you'd need at least high-school level reading and writing skills (UK, rather higher than in the US) but you *do* need a very good understanding of maths.
Well, I've only really used Windows a couple of times, but that doesn't matter since I can't use it to do what I want. Roughly half the software I use on a day-to-day basis only exists on Linux, much of it highly specialised custom stuff that just cannot be ported across.
No one really "needs" to learn how to read anything more advanced than a children's book, especially if they're a carpenter or plumber.
If that's the case, and you're so clever, then why do you still need to hire a plumber and why does your plumber have a better car than you?
Windows has failed on the desktop, and Linux is a complete success on the desktop.
It lets me do what I want to do with the minimum of fiddling around trying to get the computer working. This is (at least by my standards) a complete success. Windows, on the other hand, always seems to want me to reboot a driver or update a virus or something. Look at the difference between installing stuff - on Linux you type "sudo apt-get install ", enter your password, and wait a minute or two. In Windows you have to find and download an "exe" file, wait ten minutes or so while it gets scanned for "viruses", double-click it, wait while it shows you an animation and makes some silly noises, then click "next" on a dozen or so identical grey screens. Be careful not to click anything else, otherwise it'll ask you things like "Install to 'C:\Program Files\BozoSoft\SomeThing\Wtf\d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf\'?" and you're supposed to guess if that's the right answer or not. If you guess wrong, you need to reinstall everything from scratch.
Windows has failed on the desktop, and Linux won a long time ago.
... because samzenpus cannot wrote good English proper.
Just don't do the "legally required" destruction, then. It's never actually "required", and HIPPA is the most retarded thing I've ever seen. It seems to be designed to guarantee that confidential data will leak out.
Again, there's a pointless waste of effort. Zero out the drive, and *nothing* is coming back.
In the UK, all you really need is a lockable steel box that's somewhat resistant to being forced open - a padlock will do for locking it. It's got to be bolted down, or welded to something structural, though.
Basically all you need is something that cannot easily be carried away and cannot easily be broken open.
I was going to say "myth", too. Have you noticed how the only people that insist that a "DoD wipe" is essential for getting rid of old data on drives are the people selling expensive drive-wiping software?
The whole "DoD Wipe" thing is overkill.
One single pass of dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ will destroy all the data on the disk, beyond any hope of recovery.
I found it a bit slow until I stuck 1G of RAM in my laptop. Now it runs just fine. It's not a good desktop environment for low-spec machines, but with 1G and something like a 1.8GHz Pentium M it rocks.
Oh, the poor wee flower, how awful for him!
Didn't he think to say something at the time? No? Well maybe he needs to take a long hard look at himself. The world isn't run for his benefit.
We don't get "dry seasons" here. And while it's nice that the fish have somewhere to live, I'm sure the land-dwelling creatures that were there first are less than thrilled.
Yay, a reply and a mod from the magic carbon pixie brigade!
So, are you saying that destroying tens of thousands of acres of land is somehow ecologically a benefit?
With hydroelectric, the ecological disaster begins as soon as you break first ground on the project. It's one of the most damaging ways to generate power possible.
Install Linux. Better yet, install Arch Linux, because all the packaged libraries will be way too new for it to have a hope in hell of ever working.
"wah wah this isn't making me money so it's rubbish and no-one should use it"?
Do I look like I care if app developers (myself included) make money off it? Sod 'em, if they want to make money they should get a job.
Most likely because I've been using this nick for about 15 years or more - certainly since before I was on the Internet, back in the dialup BBS days.
... that there are companies in the UK and EU who have been doing satellite broadband for over a decade now, with both flat-rate and pay-as-you-go billing.
This is *one* company that has started to provide it, nothing particularly new here.
Most of the patent trolls are in the US, too far for the really capable Islamist fundies to travel for one job.
Why not just create inflammatory content saying that the patent trolls support same-sex marriage, abortion, evolution and the rights of women to do basically anything other than stay in the house with their heads covered extruding babies like a gumball machine, and let the Christians do the work?
There's nothing wrong with your English, there.
It's funny how so many people say "sorry for my bad English" when they speak better English than most Americans - or even English people.
I'm politically somewhat to the left of Karl Marx, and I can honestly say the weather's been pretty much the same as it's always been. It's been a pretty wet summer, but last year was pretty dry so I guess it all averages out.
Same as it ever was...
FWIW I've sacked people for saying "the f-bomb". Not "fuck" - it's perfectly okay to say "fuck" but literally "the f-bomb".
Simple, just use electricity we currently waste on drilling, refining and transportation of oil.
Where is the plastic used to make the bits for the cars going to come from?
What a lot of people don't realise that the petrol their cars run on that they'd so like to get rid of is really just an inconvenient waste product that happens to have found a use.
And what if Apple had sold any of these display units? Then you'd have hidden spy equipment inside people's homes, snapping photos and emailing this guy.
I suppose the lesson there is that if you buy an ex-demo laptop - or anything else with user-modifiable software - then flatten it and reinstall as soon as you get it home.
And do that with your clothes on.