The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons. (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=terroris m)
OK, fair enough. I will contain my arguments to defending the Windows XP SP2 OS (which, while not my favorite, and while not the best, gets much worse treatment on Slashdot than it should).
The original parent was talking about it taking HIS time to administer Windows. He is posting on slashdot and has used multiple OSes. He is not a regular end user. I was responding to his individual situation.
He should know how to: - Hook his computer to a hardware firewall. - Enable regular update installs. - Manage his installed programs and running services.
These are not complicated tasks for anyone that knows even a little bit of what they are doing. These should be common practices for even somewhat experienced admins/power users (such as the parent, who I was adressing) on any OS.
I do not expect every regular end user to learn how to properly administer their machine. That is why we have tech support. Do I expect my mom to know how to do these things? No. That is why I did them for her one time, and she is good to go.
why else all these reports about trojans/viruses when they hit? Windows is the most widely-used end user operating system. It could be 50% more secure, or 50% less secure, but the fact that it is the most widely used would still drive the viruses towards Windows.
Hell, I know Linux better than I know Windows, and I have never read a Windows XP book, or taken a Windows XP class. It just isn't necessary.
Wow...I sure am getting tired of hearing these complaints about Windows.
Sure, if you are a regular "end user" who doesn't want to learn how to responsibly use their computer, you should have all these things installed on your system. If you actually know what you're doing with Windows, you don't need any of these things.
And talking about moms, my mom doesn't know how to do anything past email, browsing the web, using Word, and making pretty cards, but my brother and I have no problems with her computer. None. It was set up correctly to begin with.
What annoys the hell out of me is the amount of Dell machines I have used that: 1) Don't have native support for their network/video/USB devices in the default install of Windows and 2) Can't find that information on Windows Update.
Largest home PC manufacturer in the world, and you have to search through their website to get your new install of Windows working.
There is still x Mb/sec bandwidth available on each local segment, with y subscribers and z advertised bandwidth per subscriber. x y*z. So if each subscriber starts using more of their individual bandwidth on average, you're actually going to hit n, and no one will be able to get close to z.
The key is to keep looking until you've found a place that values you for the job you do and who you are, not for the politics you play.
I currently work full-time tech support assisting IT departments with my company's software. So if you are good at tech support, you can get a good job in it.
Having a blog is not a direct correlation with not doing anything. I do more than you know. Although you would know, if you read my blog. But you won't read my blog, because evidently I am just whining.
Hell, if they were to fabricate things like that, why would they even bother with planting fake evidence in the first place? It's just a database...your freedom ist something a little INSERT statement can easily take way.
I'm no kernel hacker, but I would imagine that to "convert" Linux to a microkernel would entail rewriting Linux...ie, there would be no "Linux" when you were done "converting" it.
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I thought that the word "nerd" should appear somewhere in this article. Now it does.
OK, fair enough. I will contain my arguments to defending the Windows XP SP2 OS (which, while not my favorite, and while not the best, gets much worse treatment on Slashdot than it should).
The original parent was talking about it taking HIS time to administer Windows. He is posting on slashdot and has used multiple OSes. He is not a regular end user. I was responding to his individual situation.
He should know how to:
- Hook his computer to a hardware firewall.
- Enable regular update installs.
- Manage his installed programs and running services.
These are not complicated tasks for anyone that knows even a little bit of what they are doing. These should be common practices for even somewhat experienced admins/power users (such as the parent, who I was adressing) on any OS.
I do not expect every regular end user to learn how to properly administer their machine. That is why we have tech support. Do I expect my mom to know how to do these things? No. That is why I did them for her one time, and she is good to go.
SP2 was largely a security update. What he said makes sense.
why else all these reports about trojans/viruses when they hit?
Windows is the most widely-used end user operating system. It could be 50% more secure, or 50% less secure, but the fact that it is the most widely used would still drive the viruses towards Windows.
Hell, I know Linux better than I know Windows, and I have never read a Windows XP book, or taken a Windows XP class. It just isn't necessary.
Wow...I sure am getting tired of hearing these complaints about Windows.
Sure, if you are a regular "end user" who doesn't want to learn how to responsibly use their computer, you should have all these things installed on your system. If you actually know what you're doing with Windows, you don't need any of these things.
And talking about moms, my mom doesn't know how to do anything past email, browsing the web, using Word, and making pretty cards, but my brother and I have no problems with her computer. None. It was set up correctly to begin with.
What annoys the hell out of me is the amount of Dell machines I have used that:
1) Don't have native support for their network/video/USB devices in the default install of Windows and
2) Can't find that information on Windows Update.
Largest home PC manufacturer in the world, and you have to search through their website to get your new install of Windows working.
That was supposed to be "x (much much less than) y*z".
There is still x Mb/sec bandwidth available on each local segment, with y subscribers and z advertised bandwidth per subscriber. x y*z. So if each subscriber starts using more of their individual bandwidth on average, you're actually going to hit n, and no one will be able to get close to z.
The key is to keep looking until you've found a place that values you for the job you do and who you are, not for the politics you play.
I currently work full-time tech support assisting IT departments with my company's software. So if you are good at tech support, you can get a good job in it.
Hi. GuardianEdge support guy here :-)
Having a blog is not a direct correlation with not doing anything. I do more than you know. Although you would know, if you read my blog. But you won't read my blog, because evidently I am just whining.
Hell, if they were to fabricate things like that, why would they even bother with planting fake evidence in the first place? It's just a database...your freedom ist something a little INSERT statement can easily take way.
Talking about the color-coded system, I haven't heard anything about that recently. Is that still in use?
Who the hell are you talking to? Have you seen any of the comments in this thread?
The Americans that you are talking to aren't on this forum.
I love that I haven't read one person yet in this thread that is in support of this program.
That sounds sarcastic. It's not.
Permission to use that line verbatim in my own voice mail message and/or email signature?
If only they'd introduce legislation backed by folks like the folks.
GNU/Hurd is downloadable and somewhat usable. Of course, not meant for production.
I'm no kernel hacker, but I would imagine that to "convert" Linux to a microkernel would entail rewriting Linux...ie, there would be no "Linux" when you were done "converting" it.
Hah, pwned. I blame the early hour...
They're too cheap to buy a mac.
Kind of like being too "cheap" to buy a Lexus?
It actually is that Apple hardware is insanely expensive, per se. Have you seen the price of a high-end Apple gaming machine?
Do you know how to read?
if only i could justify the cost of a mac...