My guess is upper management at DHS doesn't understand computers too well, so they hire a bunch of nerds who can program, and give them absurd instructions, like "We need to get a handle on this whole internet thing!"
Ack! stop it! I'm getting tortured flashbacks of every job I've ever had. Time to go read some more Dilbert to calm down.
I haven't seen the show, so if you are a fan don't take this personally. But really how wise is it to create a movie based on a series that was cancelled mid-season?
I just did a fresh install of Mandriva 10.1 a month ago on my home PC with 128MB of RAM. My machine does not scream, as a Duron 700 it never did. But it is faster and more stable than Win98 ever was on it. In fact it is as fast as my work computer which had much better specs and is running XP Pro. Most importantly it runs Firefox and Thunderbird beautifully.
I have recently made the jump from Win98 to Mandriva 10.1 and it was a surprisingly pain free experience. I have installed other distros in the past and after a while ended up paving over it with Windows for one reason or another (generally one of the reasons above). This time I don't see any reason why I would go back. My system is far more stable, robust and dare I say easy to maintain that it was as a Windows based system. Granted that my geek quotient is somewhat high, but if you take into account that my wife, my 8 year old and 4 year old are using it as well you cannot say it is incredibly difficult.
I am preaching to the choir on Slashdot and my point is not that Mandriva or any other distro is superior for its ease of use. My point is that traditionally all these were excellent reasons why the average computer user would not use Linux. I think that these are now no longer necessarily valid reasons. In my most recent experience:
Install fast and easy, I went from windows to XWindows in an hour or less, and my computer is a Duron 700 with 128MB of RAM.
Directory structure is not familiar but the majority of what I use was already set up for me in XWindows so I could use it out of the box and dig in deeper later.
Free support is only a Google away.
I have been able to find and install RPMs and archives of what I need. When it is not on the CD I have been mostly successful finding it and installing it. What I have not been successful compiling/installing would not be considered common sofware and I would not expect to get it running under Windows either.
I recently read In the Beginning Was the Command Line by Neil Stephenson. It is now 6 years old but I think that it explains the phenomenon better than I can.
Just make sure you comply with FAA regulations and inform passengers of any dangers that may be involved. Or avoid it all together and launch a satilite above US airspace... With a cannon mounted on it of course.
I tried to search for something that would generate a lot of hits to see how it ranked them. I searched "SQL Server" and after the paid links my first result was (beware of popups) http://sql-server-2000-personal.relationshipdating.info/.. a dating service! LOL
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Ack! stop it! I'm getting tortured flashbacks of every job I've ever had. Time to go read some more Dilbert to calm down.
I've used tiddlywiki and tagglywiki for note taking / personal documentation at work with great success
yea
I hear that RSS abuse may seem insignificant to some but is a serious issue. It will lead to more serious abuses such as illegal file sharing! :)
(All(TM) your(TM) names(TM) are(TM) belong(TM) to(TM) us!(TM))(TM)
I believe that he is an undercover spy from the silly party.
Cop Rock: The Movie
I just did a fresh install of Mandriva 10.1 a month ago on my home PC with 128MB of RAM. My machine does not scream, as a Duron 700 it never did. But it is faster and more stable than Win98 ever was on it. In fact it is as fast as my work computer which had much better specs and is running XP Pro. Most importantly it runs Firefox and Thunderbird beautifully.
I have recently made the jump from Win98 to Mandriva 10.1 and it was a surprisingly pain free experience. I have installed other distros in the past and after a while ended up paving over it with Windows for one reason or another (generally one of the reasons above). This time I don't see any reason why I would go back. My system is far more stable, robust and dare I say easy to maintain that it was as a Windows based system. Granted that my geek quotient is somewhat high, but if you take into account that my wife, my 8 year old and 4 year old are using it as well you cannot say it is incredibly difficult.
I am preaching to the choir on Slashdot and my point is not that Mandriva or any other distro is superior for its ease of use. My point is that traditionally all these were excellent reasons why the average computer user would not use Linux. I think that these are now no longer necessarily valid reasons. In my most recent experience:
- Install fast and easy, I went from windows to XWindows in an hour or less, and my computer is a Duron 700 with 128MB of RAM.
- Directory structure is not familiar but the majority of what I use was already set up for me in XWindows so I could use it out of the box and dig in deeper later.
- Free support is only a Google away.
- I have been able to find and install RPMs and archives of what I need. When it is not on the CD I have been mostly successful finding it and installing it. What I have not been successful compiling/installing would not be considered common sofware and I would not expect to get it running under Windows either.
I recently read In the Beginning Was the Command Line by Neil Stephenson. It is now 6 years old but I think that it explains the phenomenon better than I can.Dilert is definiately a good reality check, if you see yourself creating a Dilbert moment, you are probably messing up.
All Hail Phil Prince of Heck!
Somebody call Dennis Quaid immediately!
Still, pretty cool to run a clone of a Microsoft OS on a Microsoft product.
Sorry, those were two separate comments, and had nothing to do with each other.
Are you sure ab... Oh wait I thouhgt you said Slashdotters didn't have .gifs
My bad.
"I so glad to see you, no wait it's just my laptop"
(Typed from my laptop with my 8 month old on my lap, ironic?)
Just make sure you comply with FAA regulations and inform passengers of any dangers that may be involved. Or avoid it all together and launch a satilite above US airspace... With a cannon mounted on it of course.
Hey! That is my post. We need to remove it from the internet. :)
I remember there was an article in WIRED about that. Wasn't there? They called it DigiScent
n t. html
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.11/digisce
I tried to search for something that would generate a lot of hits to see how it ranked them. I searched "SQL Server" and after the paid links my first result was (beware of popups) http://sql-server-2000-personal.relationshipdating .info/ .. a dating service! LOL