Well, what I'm asking is what's inherently wrong with a GUI? *Should* server administration necessarily be difficult? Beign difficult for the sake of being difficult is just stupid. On top of that, virtually everything in W2K can be automated now with WSH. I use a GUI with MS Terminal Services over dialup and it works great for me.
My home box has Apache, but no ssl I really dont need secure transactions that much, if I did I would keep it up to date just like everything esle I use. Now lets look at Nimda, what % of people on windows use outlook/outlook express, and of these how many would not keep their system up to date.
Let's talk about servers, where security is REALLY important. I've never seen an NT/W2K Server with Outlook or Outlook Express installed. Nimda isn't a problem.
Slapper is a hole designed for SECURE SERVERS. I'd say that Slapper is much more of a security problem than NIMDA ever was.
I just love it when a random person decides to post his own personal autobiography on Slashdot. Nobody really gives a shit unless you're somebody important or interesting or at the very least marginally famous. I mean really, should I post my personal history of footwear?
I think that the original poster was talking about *most* people, not uber-geeks. *Most* people (hell, based on my server logs, I'd say about 99% of 'em) really just don't give a shit. A handful of zealots saying "Hey, we care" doesn't make the broad statement that most people don't care about the OS any less true.
Congratulations. Unfortunately, you're not the target market for these things. Most people don't even know what a "Radeon" is. You try to explain it, and most people will just look at you funny. So yes, for most people, it would be considered rocket science.
Is he saying that computers are heading down the path of glorified televisions and that in the near future all that you will need to operate your computer is a remote control?
EXACTLY! That's what people want! People want *simple*. Leave the real computers to the geeks. Hell, the PS2 is almost an all-in-one box... games, movies, and music all in one little box with a remote control. They add a SIMPLE Net connection to the next gen PS2, and a SIMPLE email and web interface (yes, that you can operate with a remote), and they'll have convergence.
The average person has no fucking clue as to what a "Tivo" is or does. HP, on the other hand, has some great marketing people that can actually educate and market their products. Tivo's barely keeping their head above water due to very poor marketing. It doesn't give a damn if Tivo's product is better and cheaper. If nobody knows what it is or what it does, price and quality are a moot point. I predict that HP will trounce Tivo.
I hate to say it, but your LUG sounds like a bunch of pussies. I went to UNC too, and I protested every left-wing wacko that came to school. I even got in front of some CNN cameras once. Nobody can arrest you for protesting, dumbass.
There is no way that profesional software developers, who who are real grown-ups, with bills to pay have to deal with a LOT more than college kids. There's no way to compete. Grown-ups have responsibilities outside of work, college kids don't. Grown-ups have bills to pay, college kids don't. There's just not enough time in the day for a professional developer to possibly try to keep up with some kid in college coding open source.
One one hand, you've got a guy with a wife and kids at home, which he needs to spend time with daily, a mortgage, a car payment or two, and actual interestes *other* than computers. He can't even code all day at work, he has to go to meetings, socialize, etc. On the other hand, you got a college kid with nothing to do but code, jacked up on caffeine, no family in sight, and with incredible stamina.
That's *not* capitalism, because labor is being provided for free based on some bizarre form of altruism/activism.
Just thinking about this? Free/Open Software is essentially a bunch of college kids doing for free, what professionals get paid to do. Of course people lose their jobs in tech! Hell, can you imagine if you were, say, a plumber, and all of a sudden these people with extra time and money on their hands decided to open a plumbing business that charged $0? That's *exactly* what's happening in tech, and I don't understand why people are putting up with this.
Well, Win 95 is a real piece of shit. Support costs for that thing are astronomical. That's why I say that they're gonna settle into W2K for a relatively long time. The few companies still using older versions of Windows will make the switch, and stay there for a while. I honestly don't think that too many companies aer still using WWG. That thing's ancient.
My guess is that a lot of major companies will settle into Windows 200, and that it'll be permanent. They'll settle on that as a platform, and not move to XP. It's just too expensive to keep moving, and W2K finally really works, and works really well. We'll start to see companies settling there and actually USING a Windows product for years at a time like they do with *nixes now, as opposed to the annual upgrade that we've seen for the past 10 years.
LNUX *will* die in the next year... no question about that, but Linux won't die. It's gonna remain in the background as a sturdy little OS used on various servers.
Unfortunately, George Lucas seems to think that Star Wars is better done with computer generated shit than live actors. What's going on with movies today? The ones that should be live action are all computer generated, and the ones that should be computer generated (or animated) are live action.
development model of the GNU Source system precludes infection by virices. So as these computers' users get fed up with crashes and unexplained data theft, they are sure to migrate to the harder-to-use but eminently-secure Linux platform in droves.
This is the most blatant troll I've read in a long time, and, not to mention, complete and utter bullshit.
Who MUST you give your phone number to? I've rarely HAD to give my phone number to anybody. The only people who MUST have your phone numbers are your friends and family. You give everybody else a bogus number. How hard is that?
Absolutely. I've been using the Net since before the Web, even, and I've tried to make a go of several businesses online. The only one that took (and REALLY took) was porn. I'd love to make my living doing something else online, but there's not the same interest in most other subjects as there is in porn. So, while porn pays my bills, here's to hoping that I can eventually do something else online (and still pay for my servers and bandwidth).
Why are people still even using land lines? Cell phones are cheaper than land lines in most cases now. All I use my home phone for is for dialing out to the Net. I have no telephones connected to it at home, thus, no telemarketers.
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...India already has thousands of talented coders...
Actually, there is nothing special India except maybe that the population really is so well educated in computer science.
You've never worked with any Indian developers, have you...?
Well, what I'm asking is what's inherently wrong with a GUI? *Should* server administration necessarily be difficult? Beign difficult for the sake of being difficult is just stupid. On top of that, virtually everything in W2K can be automated now with WSH. I use a GUI with MS Terminal Services over dialup and it works great for me.
My home box has Apache, but no ssl I really dont need secure transactions that much, if I did I would keep it up to date just like everything esle I use. Now lets look at Nimda, what % of people on windows use outlook/outlook express, and of these how many would not keep their system up to date.
Let's talk about servers, where security is REALLY important. I've never seen an NT/W2K Server with Outlook or Outlook Express installed. Nimda isn't a problem.
Slapper is a hole designed for SECURE SERVERS.
I'd say that Slapper is much more of a security problem than NIMDA ever was.
I just love it when a random person decides to post his own personal autobiography on Slashdot. Nobody really gives a shit unless you're somebody important or interesting or at the very least marginally famous. I mean really, should I post my personal history of footwear?
I think that the original poster was talking about *most* people, not uber-geeks. *Most* people (hell, based on my server logs, I'd say about 99% of 'em) really just don't give a shit. A handful of zealots saying "Hey, we care" doesn't make the broad statement that most people don't care about the OS any less true.
well frankly, then they shouldn't be using computers to begin with!
Typical geek attitude. And anybody who can't gap their own spark plugs, and change their own timing belt shouldn't be using cars either, huh?
Congratulations. Unfortunately, you're not the target market for these things. Most people don't even know what a "Radeon" is. You try to explain it, and most people will just look at you funny. So yes, for most people, it would be considered rocket science.
Is he saying that computers are heading down the path of glorified televisions and that in the near future all that you will need to operate your computer is a remote control?
EXACTLY! That's what people want! People want *simple*. Leave the real computers to the geeks. Hell, the PS2 is almost an all-in-one box... games, movies, and music all in one little box with a remote control. They add a SIMPLE Net connection to the next gen PS2, and a SIMPLE email and web interface (yes, that you can operate with a remote), and they'll have convergence.
The average person has no fucking clue as to what a "Tivo" is or does. HP, on the other hand, has some great marketing people that can actually educate and market their products. Tivo's barely keeping their head above water due to very poor marketing. It doesn't give a damn if Tivo's product is better and cheaper. If nobody knows what it is or what it does, price and quality are a moot point. I predict that HP will trounce Tivo.
I hate to say it, but your LUG sounds like a bunch of pussies. I went to UNC too, and I protested every left-wing wacko that came to school. I even got in front of some CNN cameras once. Nobody can arrest you for protesting, dumbass.
There is no way that profesional software developers, who who are real grown-ups, with bills to pay have to deal with a LOT more than college kids. There's no way to compete. Grown-ups have responsibilities outside of work, college kids don't. Grown-ups have bills to pay, college kids don't. There's just not enough time in the day for a professional developer to possibly try to keep up with some kid in college coding open source.
One one hand, you've got a guy with a wife and kids at home, which he needs to spend time with daily, a mortgage, a car payment or two, and actual interestes *other* than computers. He can't even code all day at work, he has to go to meetings, socialize, etc. On the other hand, you got a college kid with nothing to do but code, jacked up on caffeine, no family in sight, and with incredible stamina.
That's *not* capitalism, because labor is being provided for free based on some bizarre form of altruism/activism.
Just thinking about this? Free/Open Software is essentially a bunch of college kids doing for free, what professionals get paid to do. Of course people lose their jobs in tech! Hell, can you imagine if you were, say, a plumber, and all of a sudden these people with extra time and money on their hands decided to open a plumbing business that charged $0? That's *exactly* what's happening in tech, and I don't understand why people are putting up with this.
Well, Win 95 is a real piece of shit. Support costs for that thing are astronomical. That's why I say that they're gonna settle into W2K for a relatively long time. The few companies still using older versions of Windows will make the switch, and stay there for a while.
I honestly don't think that too many companies aer still using WWG. That thing's ancient.
... except for the Japanese, of course.
My guess is that a lot of major companies will settle into Windows 200, and that it'll be permanent. They'll settle on that as a platform, and not move to XP. It's just too expensive to keep moving, and W2K finally really works, and works really well. We'll start to see companies settling there and actually USING a Windows product for years at a time like they do with *nixes now, as opposed to the annual upgrade that we've seen for the past 10 years.
LNUX *will* die in the next year... no question about that, but Linux won't die. It's gonna remain in the background as a sturdy little OS used on various servers.
Unfortunately, George Lucas seems to think that Star Wars is better done with computer generated shit than live actors. What's going on with movies today? The ones that should be live action are all computer generated, and the ones that should be computer generated (or animated) are live action.
Well, I dunno... the few women I've seen in development/IT were pretty sexually inconclusive.
development model of the GNU Source system precludes infection by virices. So as these computers' users get fed up with crashes and unexplained data theft, they are sure to migrate to the harder-to-use but eminently-secure Linux platform in droves.
This is the most blatant troll I've read in a long time, and, not to mention, complete and utter bullshit.
Mechanic: small guy in a independent service station... doesn't sell number
Doctor's office: give them land line with only voice mail
dentist: give them land line with only voice mail
banks: land line... they never call
Yup, I'm telemarketer free.
Who MUST you give your phone number to? I've rarely HAD to give my phone number to anybody. The only people who MUST have your phone numbers are your friends and family. You give everybody else a bogus number. How hard is that?
That's why you never give out your cell phone number! Duh.
Absolutely. I've been using the Net since before the Web, even, and I've tried to make a go of several businesses online. The only one that took (and REALLY took) was porn. I'd love to make my living doing something else online, but there's not the same interest in most other subjects as there is in porn. So, while porn pays my bills, here's to hoping that I can eventually do something else online (and still pay for my servers and bandwidth).
Why are people still even using land lines? Cell phones are cheaper than land lines in most cases now. All I use my home phone for is for dialing out to the Net. I have no telephones connected to it at home, thus, no telemarketers.
I could serve up a shitload of porn with this. Seriously. No, really. A whole lot of porn.