I used to use FreeBSD and I tried Ubuntu (gnome version) and decided not to keep it. Its a hassle to upgrade to Openoffice 2.0 and Java5. Sure I could probably do it if I had time on my hands but its a pain to redo the apt.sources and download unstable software from god knows where. I am afraid it would make my system buggy with the nasty dependancies that are beta or RC level.
I got the Gentoo cd and I am going to try again with that but still its not for average Joes.
Windows is nice because it just works. With school and a shift from pc support to programming at work I dont care about some of the things linux has to offer from a server level. I just want to point and click and work.
During spring break I will put unix back on my system but for now I am sticking with windows. I am at least knoweldge to know better than to install most software that comes with malware.
If someone did lots of damage and or created a big theft then Walmart most certainly would add to the charges and hire an investigator and install equipment like camera's etc.
The company seemed to have critical and audited systems and had to hire a security expert. If its an ecommerce site with credit card numbers then of course its going to be expensive to audit and well deserved to charge the criminal with the cost.
Thats $20k is half a year of someones salary in the IT budget so its a very big deal. especially if money is tight and someone's job is on the line if there is not enough money to pay the salary.
Just write a macosx install program to copy the essential files off the windows cd and then write a bootloader to run the rest of the installation program. Windows wont even know the difference and after the first reboot the rest of the windows setup program will continue. Its just the DOS based loader that wont run.
Then use something like grub or the alternative bootloader to load the MBR image and your set.
For those who live in the states you know what kind of biased garbage they produce. Murdock is an ultraconservative and Foxnews is owned by one of bush's cousins.
I personally credit Murdock and Fox news for putting Bush into office twice due to the brainwashing. Whats scary is more viewers watch Fox then CNN and MSNBC combined and I could not believe the misinformation that is spewed out. Fox heavily went after Clinton as the most corrupt leader in American history but called Delay's indicement criminalizing politics.
The only method I have seen with almost perfect reliability is where the inputs and outputs are overloaded to handle any datatype and can be proven mathamatically not to crash. I guess a CS degree is still usefull.
The problem is to obtain it you need to write your own libraries and not use ansi or microsoft or any other products as you can not see or trust the source code.
If you can prove through solid design and input and output types that the program wont lose control then your set. Its buffer overflows and flawed design that has not been tested with every concievable input/output that causes most serious bugs in medical and aerospace applications.
However in practice this challenge is a little unpractical when deadlines and interopability with closed source software get in the way.
It seems many businesses a few years ago switched to NT4 and W2k from mainframes only to be burned. W2k3 is for small to medium sized servers and many former large systems are going back to unix or linux running in a farm.
But MS has the advantage that the marketshare for department servers is alot bigger than a few datacenter mammoths.
Unless of course they are talking their java development websphere competing agaisnt.NET I can not really think of anything. Db2 has no where near the marketshare of SQL Server.
Is Microsoft trying to be a consulting company? Are they selling hardware like advanced racks and switches like IBM?
Google is a threat because they are innovating. Microsoft wants to set the whole pc industry and time innovation happens so they can retain control and price leveredge. Its screwed up but that is how they became who they are. They set the pace and standards and we must follow, etc.
Google is a threat and so is FOSS. Apple is surely a threat as well but their marketshare is about to erode with cheaper mp3 players hitting the market.
Why does Bill like to make war with his imaginary enemies and get all paranoid. Its like no can ever be as good as him and he cripples his own products and screws the rest of us so can declare war.
Bill is setting his sights on the wrong thing. Maybe it has to do with pure jealousy?
I agree. I really like their laptops. I am hoping the prices for their intel laptops will be reasonable compared to wintel counterparts. I pray I can run windows on them as well since that is important.
If they are only a few hundred more I would buy them simple because linux no longer just works and its a mess. I am a former BSD biggot so I am biased. I like macosx because it just works and is tied to the hardware. AN escape from rpm hell and apt-get hell is nice too. Why is it so hard to upgrade to openoffice 2.0 with ubuntu without installing things from unstable? With macosx I just point and click to upgrade or install packages. Not to mention some nice commercial software exists for the macs. I dont think they will break compatibility. but I do picture them using different sized agp and pci cards. I think Apple wants more hardware for their platform so we will wait and see.
The early powerpc clones almost killed apple. Another quarter and Jobs would not need to save the company since it would already would have been dead.
Sometimes whats best for consumers is not best for the companies who make the products. Software is used to create lockin and artificial high barriers to entry to jerk up prices. Bill Gates discovered this and Apple does the same with tying its hardware and software together.
How do you tell the marketing department to read documentations created during the engineering department but not delete them? Or how do you give different departments different roles for sets of resources?
You can't just cripple everyone and give a few root with full access. Unix has no group oriented model and file attributes are simple hacks. They have no concept of group rights. Only permissions.
Sure you can abuse anything. But people need control over their own documents and some limited rights without being ok.
ACL's are quite nice and so are different levels of security.
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There is always openVMS. I assume a Vax port still exists??
Alot of opensource software has been ported and a recent defcom showed Apache running on VMS on an alpha proved to be the most secure platform. Perl, X, and many other programs run on it.
have you seen java6 mustang? The improvements to swing are enough to make it cool. About time someone fixed the threading where teh whole gui can become unresponsive giving an illusion that java is slow.
I tried java back in 98 for a school project. I hated it and it was awkward and slow. Swing still sucks but with swt in eclipse its better and java 5 is alot better with many new Object oriented features and basics like enumerators.
Thank god for C#.net. It made Sun improve java and I feel the language has been maturing and its easy to write code. It can do mostly everything c# can do as of right now... until c# 2.0 comes out.
However I could get FIOS fiber as well which is 3-15megs a second from anywhere from twice as much to $100 a month on the fastest speed and no upload caps. Also my cell phone bill was outrageously high from an exgf calling me during a bad breakup that equaled $200. I am tempted to hand her the bill for christmas. But I can do that charge easily.
Many spend hundreds a month on Itunes as well purchasing music.
Dont even start with the loans for things like computers and powerbooks. Damn I want the new intel ones next year with a LUST!
Go check monster.com to look at jobs in your local area?
Mono doesn't work that well and nothing beyond hello world programs have ever been portable between win32 and linux. Its controlled by patents and microsoft can yank the right to use it at anytime. Its a no win solution if your using anything besides windows. It will always be behind windows and its a way to create Microsoft lockin.
Java is improving and no longer sucks compared to c# which is what fueled Mono.
I think it would be cool to lug that thing in the airport hidden in a bag to fly down to the latest quakecon or doomcon convention! Wouldn't you agree?
Powerbooks are very $$$$. If I am going to pay that much money I want something to really smoke. Powerpc's were faster per mhz for a long time but motorolla screwed apple royally while Intel and AMD went into a price/performance war leavingt Apple in the dust.
I am talking about the G4 but even the G5 is slightly slower than a top of the line pentiumIV. I wonder what the performance is for a similiarly priced Dell vs a powermac? For $2500 I can get an athlon64-3200 dual core with 1 gig of ram. How fast of a mac would that be? A 2500ghz G5?? I have to look it up.
The may get a rebate at the end of the year. Their landlords and car dealerships dont care and want their money now before teh refund comes.
Also what is the poverty rate? Last time I checked it was $14,000/year. It may have changed but its not livable.
Last it would discourage those who live at home with mommy/daddy to earn more or get a second job since they would be taxed more. This in turn would hurt our nation's productivity and economy as people would own less money.
flat tax is regressive and heavily favors the rich who will be taxed less.
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Still its no windows.
I used to use FreeBSD and I tried Ubuntu (gnome version) and decided not to keep it. Its a hassle to upgrade to Openoffice 2.0 and Java5. Sure I could probably do it if I had time on my hands but its a pain to redo the apt.sources and download unstable software from god knows where. I am afraid it would make my system buggy with the nasty dependancies that are beta or RC level.
I got the Gentoo cd and I am going to try again with that but still its not for average Joes.
Windows is nice because it just works. With school and a shift from pc support to programming at work I dont care about some of the things linux has to offer from a server level. I just want to point and click and work.
During spring break I will put unix back on my system but for now I am sticking with windows. I am at least knoweldge to know better than to install most software that comes with malware.
If someone did lots of damage and or created a big theft then Walmart most certainly would add to the charges and hire an investigator and install equipment like camera's etc.
The company seemed to have critical and audited systems and had to hire a security expert. If its an ecommerce site with credit card numbers then of course its going to be expensive to audit and well deserved to charge the criminal with the cost.
Thats $20k is half a year of someones salary in the IT budget so its a very big deal. especially if money is tight and someone's job is on the line if there is not enough money to pay the salary.
Just write a macosx install program to copy the essential files off the windows cd and then write a bootloader to run the rest of the installation program. Windows wont even know the difference and after the first reboot the rest of the windows setup program will continue. Its just the DOS based loader that wont run.
Then use something like grub or the alternative bootloader to load the MBR image and your set.
There is always the reliable uncylopedia for real reputable research.
Uncyclopida is so politically correct that I am sure the chinesse government would approve.
For those who live in the states you know what kind of biased garbage they produce. Murdock is an ultraconservative and Foxnews is owned by one of bush's cousins.
I personally credit Murdock and Fox news for putting Bush into office twice due to the brainwashing. Whats scary is more viewers watch Fox then CNN and MSNBC combined and I could not believe the misinformation that is spewed out. Fox heavily went after Clinton as the most corrupt leader in American history but called Delay's indicement criminalizing politics.
Do you work for Apple?
Where are you getting these figures from?
The only method I have seen with almost perfect reliability is where the inputs and outputs are overloaded to handle any datatype and can be proven mathamatically not to crash. I guess a CS degree is still usefull.
The problem is to obtain it you need to write your own libraries and not use ansi or microsoft or any other products as you can not see or trust the source code.
If you can prove through solid design and input and output types that the program wont lose control then your set. Its buffer overflows and flawed design that has not been tested with every concievable input/output that causes most serious bugs in medical and aerospace applications.
However in practice this challenge is a little unpractical when deadlines and interopability with closed source software get in the way.
It seems many businesses a few years ago switched to NT4 and W2k from mainframes only to be burned. W2k3 is for small to medium sized servers and many former large systems are going back to unix or linux running in a farm.
But MS has the advantage that the marketshare for department servers is alot bigger than a few datacenter mammoths.
THey left the pc business and sold it?
.NET I can not really think of anything. Db2 has no where near the marketshare of SQL Server.
Unless of course they are talking their java development websphere competing agaisnt
Is Microsoft trying to be a consulting company? Are they selling hardware like advanced racks and switches like IBM?
Google is a threat because they are innovating. Microsoft wants to set the whole pc industry and time innovation happens so they can retain control and price leveredge. Its screwed up but that is how they became who they are. They set the pace and standards and we must follow, etc.
Google is a threat and so is FOSS. Apple is surely a threat as well but their marketshare is about to erode with cheaper mp3 players hitting the market.
Why does Bill like to make war with his imaginary enemies and get all paranoid. Its like no can ever be as good as him and he cripples his own products and screws the rest of us so can declare war.
Bill is setting his sights on the wrong thing. Maybe it has to do with pure jealousy?
I agree. I really like their laptops. I am hoping the prices for their intel laptops will be reasonable compared to wintel counterparts. I pray I can run windows on them as well since that is important.
If they are only a few hundred more I would buy them simple because linux no longer just works and its a mess. I am a former BSD biggot so I am biased. I like macosx because it just works and is tied to the hardware. AN escape from rpm hell and apt-get hell is nice too. Why is it so hard to upgrade to openoffice 2.0 with ubuntu without installing things from unstable? With macosx I just point and click to upgrade or install packages. Not to mention some nice commercial software exists for the macs. I dont think they will break compatibility. but I do picture them using different sized agp and pci cards. I think Apple wants more hardware for their platform so we will wait and see.
The early powerpc clones almost killed apple. Another quarter and Jobs would not need to save the company since it would already would have been dead.
Sometimes whats best for consumers is not best for the companies who make the products. Software is used to create lockin and artificial high barriers to entry to jerk up prices. Bill Gates discovered this and Apple does the same with tying its hardware and software together.
I was writing notes down and being ready to write my own widget dashboard for kde. Someone beat me to it.
I know about gdesklets but it seems a little unstable at the moment.
How do you tell the marketing department to read documentations created during the engineering department but not delete them? Or how do you give different departments different roles for sets of resources?
You can't just cripple everyone and give a few root with full access. Unix has no group oriented model and file attributes are simple hacks. They have no concept of group rights. Only permissions.
Sure you can abuse anything. But people need control over their own documents and some limited rights without being ok.
ACL's are quite nice and so are different levels of security.
There is always openVMS. I assume a Vax port still exists??
Alot of opensource software has been ported and a recent defcom showed Apache running on VMS on an alpha proved to be the most secure platform. Perl, X, and many other programs run on it.
1.5 is out now and 1.0.7 was out before that.
I know 1.5 crashes on me while 1.0.7 does not but its more standards compliant and more secure. They could use a more recent version.
have you seen java6 mustang? The improvements to swing are enough to make it cool. About time someone fixed the threading where teh whole gui can become unresponsive giving an illusion that java is slow.
I tried java back in 98 for a school project. I hated it and it was awkward and slow. Swing still sucks but with swt in eclipse its better and java 5 is alot better with many new Object oriented features and basics like enumerators.
Thank god for C#.net. It made Sun improve java and I feel the language has been maturing and its easy to write code. It can do mostly everything c# can do as of right now... until c# 2.0 comes out.
Its the same here.
However I could get FIOS fiber as well which is 3-15megs a second from anywhere from twice as much to $100 a month on the fastest speed and no upload caps. Also my cell phone bill was outrageously high from an exgf calling me during a bad breakup that equaled $200. I am tempted to hand her the bill for christmas. But I can do that charge easily.
Many spend hundreds a month on Itunes as well purchasing music.
Dont even start with the loans for things like computers and powerbooks. Damn I want the new intel ones next year with a LUST!
Go check monster.com to look at jobs in your local area?
Mono doesn't work that well and nothing beyond hello world programs have ever been portable between win32 and linux. Its controlled by patents and microsoft can yank the right to use it at anytime. Its a no win solution if your using anything besides windows. It will always be behind windows and its a way to create Microsoft lockin.
Java is improving and no longer sucks compared to c# which is what fueled Mono.
Nah
I think it would be cool to lug that thing in the airport hidden in a bag to fly down to the latest quakecon or doomcon convention! Wouldn't you agree?
I just fire up Emacs silly. Just have to remember the modes and huge meta key combo's.
Its getting better and a second release of MacOSX for intel has been released.
I wonder if Java is supported yet? I need it for school but I could use Windows on my ibook instead if needed.
Is that dollar/mips for the CPU or system?
Powerbooks are very $$$$. If I am going to pay that much money I want something to really smoke. Powerpc's were faster per mhz for a long time but motorolla screwed apple royally while Intel and AMD went into a price/performance war leavingt Apple in the dust.
I am talking about the G4 but even the G5 is slightly slower than a top of the line pentiumIV. I wonder what the performance is for a similiarly priced Dell vs a powermac? For $2500 I can get an athlon64-3200 dual core with 1 gig of ram. How fast of a mac would that be? A 2500ghz G5?? I have to look it up.
The may get a rebate at the end of the year. Their landlords and car dealerships dont care and want their money now before teh refund comes.
Also what is the poverty rate? Last time I checked it was $14,000/year. It may have changed but its not livable.
Last it would discourage those who live at home with mommy/daddy to earn more or get a second job since they would be taxed more. This in turn would hurt our nation's productivity and economy as people would own less money.
flat tax is regressive and heavily favors the rich who will be taxed less.