It is too hard. Okay, maybe not too hard, but definitely a bit harder than Windows or Mac. After the wu-ftpd warning I decided to update all my RedHat 6.2 servers to the latest version. What do you know, the RPM doesn't work. Why? Because it wants RPM version 4. So I go to install RPM 4, it wants glibc. Surprise surprise, glibc wants RPM 4. And when I got my RedHat user friend of many years, he managed to get glibc installed using force or nodeps, but RPM version 4 and wu-ftpd also wanted xinetd, and for some reason we couldn't get it installed. So we had to resort to getting the latest 7.2 CDs and taking the server down for a while for an upgrade. Windows on the other hand, will tell you when updates are there. It installs them automagically and one reboot is all that's needed. I hear people claim that Windows Update can make it unbootable, I've never seen it happen.
Now, installing something like flash under Mozilla/Linux. I managed to install it fairly easily. But at our crowded computer lab at school, where the only box left was a linux one (we usually use mac), a student couldn't quite figure it out. He downloaded the file, and that was the end of his knowledge. He doesn't know how to use tar. And I'm sure he didn't know what root was or where mozilla was installed. I even had to start X for him. In Windows/IE it's auto install. You click "Yes" on a prompt and it's installed.
When I was first running Debian I wanted to get my sound card running to play some music. I went into modconf and I just couldn't get it installed, even though a pnpdump seemed to find it. So a friend suggested ALSA, which I tried to install. What do ya know, I need to do a kernel upgrade. It still doesn't work. In Windows its found, you put in the driver CD or floppy, don't have to worry about mounting, and a reboot. Maybe it's just my crappy hardware, or I'm just stupid, but with 6 billion people on this planet, I'm sure more than one person has the same problem as I do. The worst part is I got smart people with their degrees to try and help me out, who have been using linux for years. Like the sysadmin for our school district, someone else who just got their CS degree and is a debian package maintainer, someone who is in college learning the kernel. They couldn't get it installed as fast I could, someone who has taken zero (0) college courses in Windows.
Well, I sometimes check the support mail for the ISP I work for, and have recieved this virus at least 5 times. The funny thing is, I haven't been infected once! This is because I am not stupid enough to open it up. And I don't click "Okay" when Outlook pops up and says "This may be a virus! foo.scr". Same thing with Linux. Try going on OPN sometime, a lot of channels have blocked root@*, because so many people run their IRC client with root. Unfortunately, even more people run all their windows programs with Administrator. And you can't expect someone who would do something like run a rm / -rf shell script to su to test user to check every attachment. And even someone like me who wouldn't run it and knows the safety of a test user, would never go through the trouble of su'ing to the test user on every email anyway.
Here in Washington, we had static IPs to start. Then we switched to DHCP, and were still on DHCP when excite@home cut them off. The thing is, they never reset their DHCP server, and I always had the same IP address. Now, I'm on a different dhcp server and likewise have a different IP address.
Bottom line, Windows has an ungodly more amount of software out there. That fact was used against them in their lawsuit. Take a look at download.com's Windows > Audio > Music Creation category, 182 downloads. Then check out the Linux > Multimedia & Design, note the 2 broad categories mixed, 94 downloads. Download.com isn't very open source orientated, but check out freshmeat's Multimedia
> Sound/Audio > Sound Synthesis category, 37 projects. More than half of those 37 are below version 1.
At my school we have 4 computer labs that get checked out by classrooms for research and things. 1 computer classroom for things like web development, school paper, school tv show, etc. Then we have a mobile lab that uses iBooks and Airport that is a bring the lab to the classroom type of thing. I've never had the lab come to me, but the biggest use I've seen is in the library. They have all sorts of books and no room for computers, so there's only about 16 all-in-one's. So you can check out an iBooks and take it to a regular reading table. Good stuff.
Of course they sensor sex and swearing and violence. They recently pushed mtv to switch to a later time. The network (MTV) obviously didn't want to move it, it was one of their highest rated shows. But it's on at 10:00 now. Did they prevent it from getting out to the people? No. What they did is made it so less people can get access to it. And that happens all over the place (explicit lyric labels, nc-17 ratings, etc). So what I really meant was they have a lot of rules and regulations on media. Which fits the definition of censoring like a glove: "to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable."
Wow, that has to easily be the stupidest comment I have ever seen posted. While the US has the most censorship on TV than problably any other nation, they don't do political censorship. Hell, they had a show dedicated to saying the US faked the whole moon landing. And the US often calls itself a democracy, and the biggest problem we have is not enough people speak up about laws. Also, how would the US come off being the country that stopped money going to a charity. Bleh.
If you're posting to a CGI script that checks the custlist.dat, then apache doesn't need to be able to read it. So you problably couldn't change the permissions on it to hide it from the apache user. But you can either put the users list above the document root so apache can't see it. Or put an htaccess to deny all on that file. The CGI will still be able to read it.
Well, the last SQL server I setup (SQL Server 7) it gave me 2 options for the password 1.) Use this username and password (fields here) 2.) Use NT authentication. Which usually isn't set to null. Also, if I'm full of crap and it doesn't ask for a password, I'd be curious if it accepts connections other than localhost by default. MySQL doesn't ever ask for a password. But it remains slightly secure because it doesn't allow connections other than localhost by default.
The US taking away GPS access is perfectly right if terrorists were using it in missile targeting systems. And your foreign policy explanation means jack without any support. Using support from the article you're posting about, you can say that it's US foreign policy to stop companies that finance terrorism, which makes perfect sense to me.
Yeah, I have really reliable service too. Here in Olympia we had our earthquake. You couldn't dial anywhere on a phone, including dial up customers (The customers I have to deal with didn't understand apparantly). But it was nice to still have the cable modem up.
They sell subscriptions to WSJ. They could have just pointed to this article that doesn't require registration. But nooo. Also, here's another article that says SourceForge is proprietary. And had this to say about the VA Linux SourceForge: "The site was an adjunct to its now-abandoned Linux computer sales strategy." So yes, I guess they're stuck with SourceForge, banners, and ThinkGeek.
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Yeah, I agree completely. I run Open Source Web Design, it's made almost completely by the users. Hosting is provided by Trae and our IRC channel is on Open Projects. We'd never ever do a subscription service. We don't provide anything except some programming talent and design moderation. And all we get from it is a warm fuzzy feeling. We're stuck with banner ads or donations. We'd give up before switching to subscription.
Here's a joke: "the British Association for the Advancement of Science has created Laugh Lab, a project designed to find the funniest joke in the world."
Actually, in Demolition Man, I recall the police officer answering the phone and then asking if the person wanting to talk to an automated response. And instead of phones and email, they had phones with video. They still went in groups to taco bell, and the museum. I think any movie that just had people's lives overcome by email wouldn't be very interesting to watch.
But then when you're teaching a class you have to give different instructions. For each mac we have a common system that's secure and very stable, we would have to make one for all types of computers. We would have to have networking staff know all OS's and be able to fix them. It would cost more than the OS in man hours. We're talkin K-12 here.
Because mp3's are often "ripped" (crazy hacker lingo for copyright infringement) from CD's made by the corporations represented by the RIAA. The RIAA has decided to sue the RIAA for not protecting their albums, and letting Joe Schmoe distribute them on "internet" "hacker" "sites" like "Napster". Really, these guys have got to be joking.
At my school we considered using Internet Explorer over Netscape on our macs. But we stuck with Netscape because of it's roaming profiles which allow different cookies/bookmarks for each user on the network. And maybe it's new since we last made that decision, but IE doesn't have that.
Yeah, it's a damn shame that the standard has been macs in school, and not windows anyway. So you can pay for macs and not get a windows education, or not pay and not get a windows education. And that's putting aside any debate on whether you really need a windows education.
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It is too hard. Okay, maybe not too hard, but definitely a bit harder than Windows or Mac. After the wu-ftpd warning I decided to update all my RedHat 6.2 servers to the latest version. What do you know, the RPM doesn't work. Why? Because it wants RPM version 4. So I go to install RPM 4, it wants glibc. Surprise surprise, glibc wants RPM 4. And when I got my RedHat user friend of many years, he managed to get glibc installed using force or nodeps, but RPM version 4 and wu-ftpd also wanted xinetd, and for some reason we couldn't get it installed. So we had to resort to getting the latest 7.2 CDs and taking the server down for a while for an upgrade. Windows on the other hand, will tell you when updates are there. It installs them automagically and one reboot is all that's needed. I hear people claim that Windows Update can make it unbootable, I've never seen it happen.
Now, installing something like flash under Mozilla/Linux. I managed to install it fairly easily. But at our crowded computer lab at school, where the only box left was a linux one (we usually use mac), a student couldn't quite figure it out. He downloaded the file, and that was the end of his knowledge. He doesn't know how to use tar. And I'm sure he didn't know what root was or where mozilla was installed. I even had to start X for him. In Windows/IE it's auto install. You click "Yes" on a prompt and it's installed.
When I was first running Debian I wanted to get my sound card running to play some music. I went into modconf and I just couldn't get it installed, even though a pnpdump seemed to find it. So a friend suggested ALSA, which I tried to install. What do ya know, I need to do a kernel upgrade. It still doesn't work. In Windows its found, you put in the driver CD or floppy, don't have to worry about mounting, and a reboot. Maybe it's just my crappy hardware, or I'm just stupid, but with 6 billion people on this planet, I'm sure more than one person has the same problem as I do. The worst part is I got smart people with their degrees to try and help me out, who have been using linux for years. Like the sysadmin for our school district, someone else who just got their CS degree and is a debian package maintainer, someone who is in college learning the kernel. They couldn't get it installed as fast I could, someone who has taken zero (0) college courses in Windows.
Well, I sometimes check the support mail for the ISP I work for, and have recieved this virus at least 5 times. The funny thing is, I haven't been infected once! This is because I am not stupid enough to open it up. And I don't click "Okay" when Outlook pops up and says "This may be a virus! foo.scr". Same thing with Linux. Try going on OPN sometime, a lot of channels have blocked root@*, because so many people run their IRC client with root. Unfortunately, even more people run all their windows programs with Administrator. And you can't expect someone who would do something like run a rm / -rf shell script to su to test user to check every attachment. And even someone like me who wouldn't run it and knows the safety of a test user, would never go through the trouble of su'ing to the test user on every email anyway.
Here in Washington, we had static IPs to start. Then we switched to DHCP, and were still on DHCP when excite@home cut them off. The thing is, they never reset their DHCP server, and I always had the same IP address. Now, I'm on a different dhcp server and likewise have a different IP address.
Bottom line, Windows has an ungodly more amount of software out there. That fact was used against them in their lawsuit. Take a look at download.com's Windows > Audio > Music Creation category, 182 downloads. Then check out the Linux > Multimedia & Design, note the 2 broad categories mixed, 94 downloads. Download.com isn't very open source orientated, but check out freshmeat's Multimedia
> Sound/Audio > Sound Synthesis category, 37 projects. More than half of those 37 are below version 1.
At my school we have 4 computer labs that get checked out by classrooms for research and things. 1 computer classroom for things like web development, school paper, school tv show, etc. Then we have a mobile lab that uses iBooks and Airport that is a bring the lab to the classroom type of thing. I've never had the lab come to me, but the biggest use I've seen is in the library. They have all sorts of books and no room for computers, so there's only about 16 all-in-one's. So you can check out an iBooks and take it to a regular reading table. Good stuff.
Of course they sensor sex and swearing and violence. They recently pushed mtv to switch to a later time. The network (MTV) obviously didn't want to move it, it was one of their highest rated shows. But it's on at 10:00 now. Did they prevent it from getting out to the people? No. What they did is made it so less people can get access to it. And that happens all over the place (explicit lyric labels, nc-17 ratings, etc). So what I really meant was they have a lot of rules and regulations on media. Which fits the definition of censoring like a glove: "to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable."
Hmmm.. Did the US send it to court and shut them down? Or did a bunch of network execs shut it down? (I really don't know)
I'd like to see how many reports they recieved compared to how large their network is. It doesn't mean much without that.
Wow, that has to easily be the stupidest comment I have ever seen posted. While the US has the most censorship on TV than problably any other nation, they don't do political censorship. Hell, they had a show dedicated to saying the US faked the whole moon landing. And the US often calls itself a democracy, and the biggest problem we have is not enough people speak up about laws. Also, how would the US come off being the country that stopped money going to a charity. Bleh.
If you're posting to a CGI script that checks the custlist.dat, then apache doesn't need to be able to read it. So you problably couldn't change the permissions on it to hide it from the apache user. But you can either put the users list above the document root so apache can't see it. Or put an htaccess to deny all on that file. The CGI will still be able to read it.
Well, the last SQL server I setup (SQL Server 7) it gave me 2 options for the password 1.) Use this username and password (fields here) 2.) Use NT authentication. Which usually isn't set to null. Also, if I'm full of crap and it doesn't ask for a password, I'd be curious if it accepts connections other than localhost by default. MySQL doesn't ever ask for a password. But it remains slightly secure because it doesn't allow connections other than localhost by default.
The US taking away GPS access is perfectly right if terrorists were using it in missile targeting systems. And your foreign policy explanation means jack without any support. Using support from the article you're posting about, you can say that it's US foreign policy to stop companies that finance terrorism, which makes perfect sense to me.
Yeah, I have really reliable service too. Here in Olympia we had our earthquake. You couldn't dial anywhere on a phone, including dial up customers (The customers I have to deal with didn't understand apparantly). But it was nice to still have the cable modem up.
Oh, you're right, on the RIAA site it says "..the speech dealt with her desire to roll around clothed in a pile of money." Get the story right ./!
They sell subscriptions to WSJ. They could have just pointed to this article that doesn't require registration. But nooo. Also, here's another article that says SourceForge is proprietary. And had this to say about the VA Linux SourceForge: "The site was an adjunct to its now-abandoned Linux computer sales strategy." So yes, I guess they're stuck with SourceForge, banners, and ThinkGeek.
Yeah, I agree completely. I run Open Source Web Design, it's made almost completely by the users. Hosting is provided by Trae and our IRC channel is on Open Projects. We'd never ever do a subscription service. We don't provide anything except some programming talent and design moderation. And all we get from it is a warm fuzzy feeling. We're stuck with banner ads or donations. We'd give up before switching to subscription.
If you really wanted to abuse the children, you should have them carry the packets back and forth.
Nice try dick, but you're not the first
Here's a joke: "the British Association for the Advancement of Science has created Laugh Lab, a project designed to find the funniest joke in the world."
Actually, in Demolition Man, I recall the police officer answering the phone and then asking if the person wanting to talk to an automated response. And instead of phones and email, they had phones with video. They still went in groups to taco bell, and the museum. I think any movie that just had people's lives overcome by email wouldn't be very interesting to watch.
Here's a good group with a few good lego movies:
Liquid Plastic Productions
Including the matrix, a milk ad, and a drunk guy.
But then when you're teaching a class you have to give different instructions. For each mac we have a common system that's secure and very stable, we would have to make one for all types of computers. We would have to have networking staff know all OS's and be able to fix them. It would cost more than the OS in man hours. We're talkin K-12 here.
Because mp3's are often "ripped" (crazy hacker lingo for copyright infringement) from CD's made by the corporations represented by the RIAA. The RIAA has decided to sue the RIAA for not protecting their albums, and letting Joe Schmoe distribute them on "internet" "hacker" "sites" like "Napster". Really, these guys have got to be joking.
At my school we considered using Internet Explorer over Netscape on our macs. But we stuck with Netscape because of it's roaming profiles which allow different cookies/bookmarks for each user on the network. And maybe it's new since we last made that decision, but IE doesn't have that.
Yeah, it's a damn shame that the standard has been macs in school, and not windows anyway. So you can pay for macs and not get a windows education, or not pay and not get a windows education. And that's putting aside any debate on whether you really need a windows education.