You say "hell I've been name brand free my whole life"
and then you say "the only time I have ever bought clothing that is name brand is when it was on clearance or was cheaper then the non name brand"
There is reason to be skeptical that it will perform just as good as XP, on exactly the same hardware, but he said that this was one of Microsoft's priorities.
Like "security" is supposed to be M$ priority, and we all know what came out of this
Add another bug to this list : v5 doesn't understand GRE encapsulation so you can't connect to a PPTP server if you're behind it. I spent hours with Linksys support and they finally gave me an RMA number. Couple days later I got it back but, to my surprise, it was a v4 !
Plugged it in and it worked right away.
So, if you're too cheap to spend the $10-$20 more for the Linux version, you could just spend hours on the phone with their support and end up with a v4 anyway
Someone asks why he doesn't play many games anymore. He answers simply: "Because there are no fun ones."
Same reason for me. I liked better the games I was playing on my COCO2. I'm still amazed that they could make a funnier game in 64k with an 8 bits CPU than they do with a 32 bits CPU with 1 gig of RAM.
5. The students do their homework on home PCs which are almost always Windows. If the school has Linux or BSD machines, then the work and the files needs to be perfectly portable between M$ and OSS. That simply isn't the case (yet) and no amount of OSS evangelism chances that fact. In fact, schools are a good metric for when OSS and M$ become _really_ interchangeable.
What's preventing them from installing the same program they use at school on these home PCs ?
You know, OpenOffice run on windows also. And it's really the same interface, and since the total cost is $0, what could be the reason to NOT install them ?
I've been using OO, Mozilla/Firefox and GAIM on windows for years, this has made my conversion to Linux a lot easier. I didn't had to learn new ways to work, just had to get used to the fact of not crashing every now and then.
Make yourself a favor, use all the OpenSource software you can on windows, it will make your transition to Linux a lot easier. My emails aren't jailed in M$ land, I just copied them from Mozilla-mail on Windows to Mozilla-mail on Linux. My documents are free to go to any platform that OO runs on. My bookmarks followed me on Linux, I just had to copy a single HTML file. etc...
http://iaxclient.sourceforge.net/iaxcomm/index.htm l
It uses the IAX protocol (Inter Asterisk eXchange) and use only one UDP port (4569) to pass thru any NAT. You can talk directly phone to phone without asterisk in the middle. There's a Windows, Linux and OSX port.
Recently, I've installed 4 Asterisk PBX, and I'm configuring the 5th one, with multiple call queues, conferences rooms, remote agents (at home, with a soft-phone), call parking, voicemail (optionnally delivered to your email), etc.
Maybe you will not get any certificate from this, but what you will learn is invaluable.
That's the power of OSS : I can install Linux on a cheap computer (Duron 1ghz, 512meg), install Asterisk, and get myself a working VoIP PBX, and play with it as I wish without any cost (except the "cheap" computer).
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You say "hell I've been name brand free my whole life"
and then you say "the only time I have ever bought clothing that is name brand is when it was on clearance or was cheaper then the non name brand"
Which is it ?
There is reason to be skeptical that it will perform just as good as XP, on exactly the same hardware, but he said that this was one of Microsoft's priorities.
Like "security" is supposed to be M$ priority, and we all know what came out of this
Let me be skeptical
Add another bug to this list : v5 doesn't understand GRE encapsulation so you can't connect to a PPTP server if you're behind it. I spent hours with Linksys support and they finally gave me an RMA number. Couple days later I got it back but, to my surprise, it was a v4 !
Plugged it in and it worked right away.
So, if you're too cheap to spend the $10-$20 more for the Linux version, you could just spend hours on the phone with their support and end up with a v4 anyway
Maybe they're using something else than windows as their OS
Not to be picky, but you can't compare VB to Delphi
In Delphi you can use pointers.
Delphi is object-oriented with inheritence, etc
VB is not.
Basic was shitty when I started coding in 1982 and is still is today. Period.
More likely "Dites juste Wii" would translate "just say yes"
Let's boycott them forever. That should teach them (and others) a lesson
I know I use Linksys and will not stop unless they do something wrong
The only D-Link product I bought was a wireless PCI card. Looks like this is gonna be the first and last product I bought from them
My signature says it all
Someone asks why he doesn't play many games anymore. He answers simply: "Because there are no fun ones."
Same reason for me. I liked better the games I was playing on my COCO2. I'm still amazed that they could make a funnier game in 64k with an 8 bits CPU than they do with a 32 bits CPU with 1 gig of RAM.
Time to get my COCO out of the closet !
In some ways, it's because a lot more things are connected today than they were when we architected some of the things we built into Windows.
Back then, Bill didn't care about the internet. He used to refer it as "and that thing called the internet"
So maybe that's true for Windows, but Linux was born ON the internet.
This fact may explain why Linux is A LOT more secure than Windows : because it was build from the start to be connected to the big-bad-internet
Maybe because IE would still be the most insecure browser
I figure, you need to change bank, I've been using Mozilla for my banking since v.0.9.something
If my bank would request me to be running the most insecure browser to access their services, I would stay away from it
You just have the wrong definition of Free Trade. Take the one from the US government : It's ok to give a little if you receive a lot.
What's preventing them from installing the same program they use at school on these home PCs ?
You know, OpenOffice run on windows also. And it's really the same interface, and since the total cost is $0, what could be the reason to NOT install them ?
I've been using OO, Mozilla/Firefox and GAIM on windows for years, this has made my conversion to Linux a lot easier. I didn't had to learn new ways to work, just had to get used to the fact of not crashing every now and then.
Make yourself a favor, use all the OpenSource software you can on windows, it will make your transition to Linux a lot easier. My emails aren't jailed in M$ land, I just copied them from Mozilla-mail on Windows to Mozilla-mail on Linux. My documents are free to go to any platform that OO runs on. My bookmarks followed me on Linux, I just had to copy a single HTML file. etc...
Linux : because penguin don't freeze
I don't what any M$ software controlling my car, Thank you.
In fact, it cost M$ more to sell them the crippled version because they had to pay someone to cripple it.
as can be seen in the CentOS FAQ : http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faq id=21
Can somebody explain the link he did from VB 3 to Delphi ?
What does link VB to Delphi ?
I've used both, and they have nothing in common.
Delphi comes from Turbo Pascal, nothing to do with VB
http://iaxclient.sourceforge.net/iaxcomm/index.htm l
It uses the IAX protocol (Inter Asterisk eXchange) and use only one UDP port (4569) to pass thru any NAT. You can talk directly phone to phone without asterisk in the middle. There's a Windows, Linux and OSX port.
none
My Firs one :)
That's exactly what I did about 5 months ago.
Recently, I've installed 4 Asterisk PBX, and I'm configuring the 5th one, with multiple call queues, conferences rooms, remote agents (at home, with a soft-phone), call parking, voicemail (optionnally delivered to your email), etc.
Maybe you will not get any certificate from this, but what you will learn is invaluable.
That's the power of OSS : I can install Linux on a cheap computer (Duron 1ghz, 512meg), install Asterisk, and get myself a working VoIP PBX, and play with it as I wish without any cost (except the "cheap" computer).
That's the best possible way I can learn.
Some even run software PBX on it : http://www.artisoft.com/ And if your MSDE crash, you've just lost your dialtone.
Well, I'd rather use Mozilla/Firefox/Opera/Konqueror (in fact, any decent browser) and have only one browser with multiple tabs in it
In fact, this will happen when Duke Nukem Forever comes out ;)