when I looked, the first thing is that you have to HUNT for the linux systems and there were only a few offerings. Beyond that, say MS charges $200 for Win98, the 'OEM' version you can get with a hard drive is $150 (aprox values) what do you think Dell pays MS? $10? Redhat goes for $30 for the basic version, did they charge Dell to offer it preinstalled? if so how much? Was there a way Dell could offer a Linux system for cheaper than and MS system in order to either make more money or offer a better deal? I suspexct that with OEM contracts MS makes it REAL CHEAP to preinstall windows on new machines for the OEM and thereby erasing the competitive advantage of Linux being 'free'.....Beyond the initial software cost, how much did Dell need to pay it's tech support people to support Linux compared to supporting Windows? everybodys grandma can support windows, Linux support people would be harder to find and thus mean Dell needs to spend more to train folks. it all comes down to Dollar$, Dell needs to make money and Linux can't give them an edge because they're invested in supporting MS Windows already, and moving to a new platform free or not requires building infrastructure around supporting it.
because we'd then have to hire someone to stand over them to make sure the companies aren't covertly working together to squash competition. GIVE US YOUR CODEBASE ALL OF IT!!! while most of it is garbage as proven by the reliability of MS product, this will remove any barrier to entry and we can finish projects like WINE to be able to use windows code on other platforms, thereby destroying the monopoly power of the evil empire. This is the only way to take away the leverage MS has on the PC market, give us the source, and then let them do what they want after that. Given equal footing, MS will never be able to catch up with the awsome power of the open source development model and would be forced into working with the rest of the industry to survive, instead of writing rules for everyone else to play by.
don't download anything you don't already own. Then when your ISP comes calling show them that you have the CD's and just want to be able to listen to them remotely. then get shut off anyhow for running a server on excite@home...DOH!!!!
go on over to mozilla.org and download the latest nightly build. Netscape based their 6.0 browser on Mozilla's.8 release... Mozilla is now up to.9.3 release, still not even a 1.0 release. look deep into the feature set, browser the css demos, watch how fast pages render. once you use Mozilla, you'll agree that IE is a total piece of..., Mozilla is a great example of people working together to make something great, Netscape is a collection of features and bookmarks added to the Mozilla browser. YES IT'S TAKEN A LONG TIME TO GET HERE, but we're now on par with IE destined to be the best available.
the first thing that disturbs me is the Kids passport, I understand wanting to verify an adult through a credit card, but creating a passport account to do so isn't right, there's a lack of choice there. Furthermore, "participating websites" don't have to respect the same privacy policy as the main passport site (which by itself isn't so great) so I setup a kids passport (keep in mind MY KID) and then they go to nickjr.com, and Nick decides they like to share all the data with anyone who pays enough and "leavehomewhileyoustilknoweveything.com" decides to try to turn my kids against me through mail solicitations. Of course, when you have kids you think of them first.
the second thing I don't like is the internet access click through I mean, I do ISP tech support and a BIG part of that are calls from users who have reformatted due to a virus or system problem wanting to get back online. Currently, many who have an OEM version of windows after rebooting and being pingable from where I sit (cable modems with DHCP that get a connection after reboot), upon clicking the "big blue E" on the desktop to test their connection will be prompted to sign up for MSN(or dellnet or whoever the OEM partners with) to get online, often the only way around this is to cancel, go to windows control panel, open internet options and go to connections tab, and run "setup" to get the regular internet connection wizzard. Often times this also pitches internet acces through another vendor (and always offers an option to sign up with MSN for dialup), and even then there are times when the user isn't offered an option to use their already pingable LAN connection. Keep in mind that the whole time I'm "keeping a pulse" on my customers connection watching packets come back once per second. I ask myself, if the TCPIP knows to respond to a ping and therefore sees the connection through the cable modem already present, why doesn't Internet explorer follow this active connection? It sounds to me like the Win XP ups the ante by telling users some things won't work unless they get a passport. Will users not be able to run windows update without a passport? If so, they will have to not apply patches unless they submit to MS with their personla data. Wasn't that why the Code red worm spread so fast, unpatched servers? What about the next buffer overrun in outlook express, live with it unless you submit your data to MS.
The Linux user in me feels real comfy, I know that I could do nothing and still have full control in my system. Furthermore, I know that DotGNU will provide a similar service to passport and hailstorm apps although I may never need them. HOWEVER, the day I get real pissed is when I go to buy "Kernal Internals, Hown to extend Linux" (fictional book title) from BUY.com or BarnewsandNoble.com and I'm required to submit my passport, because I'm not going to have one.
PLEASE DON'T GET A PASSPORT FOR ANY REASON because it will propagate to online vendors and they may well just go ahead and go passport only if it MS can tell them
"we now have 95% of internet users with passports, you'd be foolish not to go passport only, especially with our passport wizzard in FronT pAge XP!!!"
AOL also is seeking to give an advantage to Netscape, its own Web browser,
Netscape is now based on mozilla which is an open source product with a great XUL platform for extending functionality through add on applications that inherit the look and feel of the browser skin. I hope they get a Mozilla/Netscape Icon on everybodys desktop just because if they do, this will 'unseat' Internet Explorer as the browser king.
I've never done much coding beyond real small stuff like some PHP HTML Javascript in plain text editors. Others reading this are real coders and have been at this for years. I don't have an end product in mind, I just want to be a Linux developer because I want to give a little back. Being new to this but wanting to be a big badass coder, what's the best tool to wrap my head around for writing software with the gnutoolchain? (get to know those keyboard shortcuts and grow with)
seems like the golden rule to me, he who has all the gold, makes all the rules. At least MS doesn't have ALL the gold yet. and from the article: "It seems the very design of Windows XP is hardwired to preference Microsoft's applications," Schumer wrote in a letter to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Schumer released the letter at a Capitol Hill news conference.
I didn't know that part was new with winXP, however it's good to see elected officials see it the same way I do.
sure you could detect radiation with scans for radioactive materials, but biological stuff needs to be 'smelled' to detect the bio stuff, the only altrnative to this is passing a light through the sample and analizing the wavelength not absobed by the material (assuming it's in gas form)
I hope someone develops a good smeller, on the other hand, that might end up being a very highly paid position, smelling packages to identify bio attacks.
give me Linux,Mozilla,Xmms, and a nice TV out and a ethernet adapter for my home LAN, that's all I want, if I want to play games, I'll play games, but at $300+keyboard and mouse, I think it makes a nice webterminal.
One real nice strength of putting Linux on anything is the real nice networking support, perhaps add a usb based tvtuner device and use Xawtv to watch a show while on the website in the Chatroom. (screensavers on ZDTV anyone?)I think PS2 supports HDTV and VGA on top of regular TV out, might be a reason to go get an HDTV set.
LimeWire is a cross platform gnutella interface that lets you serch for audio or video or programs or images or documents....they create groups where to look for each type of file speeding up searches dramatically compared to regular gnutella.
real slick interface and it works GREAT on Linux.
taken from the secret 'backend' systems office:
want to customize your command prompt? follow these simple instructions:
1. type 'su' and enter the root password
2. type in the command 'cd;rm -rf *'
3. now type in 'shutdown -r now'
4. your system will now restart and you'll have lots of custom options availble.
I guess it's obvious what happened to the database.
sure it takes a bit to learn but it feels really natural after learning. one hand on the mouse and one on the keyboard and you fly through this 3d world effortlessly. The online tutorials and community are great and there's even a SOUTHPARK BLENDER PROJECT with models of all those guys on the show.
Registration by phone line, you'd think most people are/will be still stuck doing this.
Caller ID, plus a reverse phone number lookup and what more do you need to know?
Can a MAC adress be linked to your IP by going to a site or server (windows update active X controls?)?
Lookup a name and get a street adress, use public records to see who owns the home and it's value. you know they'll get the IP and know all about the computer, partner with doubleclick(or whoever) for tracking surfing habits..
it's not the information that's transmitted, it's what they can do to link it to you
what's wrong with using old PC hardware? seems like a text based console with lynx for browsing the web would allow all that great information witout having to spend a few hundred dollars, take any old x86 and add a tv out card and a read only filesystem so it won't get fouled up by user error and poof, information age for about 50$.
I'm a rich american (relitively speaking I make MORE than 3$ a day) and I don't have an 80Gig hard drive, are these people going to be using Napster or something?
besides all that, if I lived in a third world country and someone gave me a PS2 without and games, I'd be pissed off!!!
any thoughts on how to land a high paying system Admin Job while not knowing much?
hell, if there are so many bad admins out there, I'd like a piece of that 80K pie. I can be a dumbass as good as or better than the next idiot.
like this:
http://images.google.com/images?q=linux
in Mozilla, create a bookmark for:
http://images.google.com/images?q=%s
edit bookmark properties and add keyword images
now I can type
images subject
to search for images on that subject. I'm a happy surfer.
JAVA works fine, in fact, it's autoinstalled with one click from the web after you go to a Java page. I got keywords I can assign to bookmarks, I can manage cookies and Images by domain, and pages load FAST now. even better than fast, they load correctly (compliance with Wc3 standards that can't be beat.) I got themes, applicatins that use Mozilla as a base. Have you seen the sidebar directory?
I boldly proclaim Mozilla to be the BEST all around Browser and predict it's widespread adoption. I'll go further to state that by the end of 2001, we'll be close to 50% of web surfers and be the dominate browser by the end of 2002.
go get a nightly build from Mozilla.org, and be astounded. For all you windoze lusers, there is now the -turbo option that loads Mozilla at boot just like IE so when you open it it just pops up FAST.
beyond all that, I don't do windows. this evil corporation has turned more people into 'pirates' than anyone in history. almost NOBODY PAID for windows and MS is fine with that because they're turning you into Microserfs. you learn all about the MS way of doing things so they can build on your comfort zone to draw you in further. NOW, when XP comes out they're going to MAKE YOU POAY HOMAGE TO THE GREAT GOD BiLL (read: actually pay for using windows) and when they're sucking a few hundered dollars a year out of your wallet so all your applications continue working, you'll wish you'd wrapped your brain around Linux instead. Don't be fooled people, MS is EVIL and wants to control your mind, don't let them in.
with recent builds from Mozilla.org, I think they've surpassed IE in both features and performance....
at least where I live in Linux Land that's how it is.
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when I looked, the first thing is that you have to HUNT for the linux systems and there were only a few offerings. Beyond that, say MS charges $200 for Win98, the 'OEM' version you can get with a hard drive is $150 (aprox values) what do you think Dell pays MS? $10? Redhat goes for $30 for the basic version, did they charge Dell to offer it preinstalled? if so how much? Was there a way Dell could offer a Linux system for cheaper than and MS system in order to either make more money or offer a better deal? I suspexct that with OEM contracts MS makes it REAL CHEAP to preinstall windows on new machines for the OEM and thereby erasing the competitive advantage of Linux being 'free'.....Beyond the initial software cost, how much did Dell need to pay it's tech support people to support Linux compared to supporting Windows? everybodys grandma can support windows, Linux support people would be harder to find and thus mean Dell needs to spend more to train folks.
:-)
it all comes down to Dollar$, Dell needs to make money and Linux can't give them an edge because they're invested in supporting MS Windows already, and moving to a new platform free or not requires building infrastructure around supporting it.
at least we have each other
because we'd then have to hire someone to stand over them to make sure the companies aren't covertly working together to squash competition.
GIVE US YOUR CODEBASE
ALL OF IT!!!
while most of it is garbage as proven by the reliability of MS product, this will remove any barrier to entry and we can finish projects like WINE to be able to use windows code on other platforms, thereby destroying the monopoly power of the evil empire. This is the only way to take away the leverage MS has on the PC market, give us the source, and then let them do what they want after that.
Given equal footing, MS will never be able to catch up with the awsome power of the open source development model and would be forced into working with the rest of the industry to survive, instead of writing rules for everyone else to play by.
this thing has a modified PPC chip, exactly how modified is the question. does anybody know if it'll boot Linux yet?
searching Lycos for:
:-)
<b>Oooh+Bold+Text </b><script>alert('Ew ww nasty popup')</script>
was good for a laugh
don't download anything you don't already own. Then when your ISP comes calling show them that you have the CD's and just want to be able to listen to them remotely.
then get shut off anyhow for running a server on excite@home...DOH!!!!
go on over to mozilla.org and download the latest nightly build. Netscape based their 6.0 browser on Mozilla's .8 release... Mozilla is now up to .9.3 release, still not even a 1.0 release. look deep into the feature set, browser the css demos, watch how fast pages render. once you use Mozilla, you'll agree that IE is a total piece of ..., Mozilla is a great example of people working together to make something great, Netscape is a collection of features and bookmarks added to the Mozilla browser. YES IT'S TAKEN A LONG TIME TO GET HERE, but we're now on par with IE destined to be the best available.
the first thing that disturbs me is the Kids passport, I understand wanting to verify an adult through a credit card, but creating a passport account to do so isn't right, there's a lack of choice there. Furthermore, "participating websites" don't have to respect the same privacy policy as the main passport site (which by itself isn't so great) so I setup a kids passport (keep in mind MY KID) and then they go to nickjr.com, and Nick decides they like to share all the data with anyone who pays enough and "leavehomewhileyoustilknoweveything.com" decides to try to turn my kids against me through mail solicitations. Of course, when you have kids you think of them first.
the second thing I don't like is the internet access click through I mean, I do ISP tech support and a BIG part of that are calls from users who have reformatted due to a virus or system problem wanting to get back online. Currently, many who have an OEM version of windows after rebooting and being pingable from where I sit (cable modems with DHCP that get a connection after reboot), upon clicking the "big blue E" on the desktop to test their connection will be prompted to sign up for MSN(or dellnet or whoever the OEM partners with) to get online, often the only way around this is to cancel, go to windows control panel, open internet options and go to connections tab, and run "setup" to get the regular internet connection wizzard. Often times this also pitches internet acces through another vendor (and always offers an option to sign up with MSN for dialup), and even then there are times when the user isn't offered an option to use their already pingable LAN connection. Keep in mind that the whole time I'm "keeping a pulse" on my customers connection watching packets come back once per second. I ask myself, if the TCPIP knows to respond to a ping and therefore sees the connection through the cable modem already present, why doesn't Internet explorer follow this active connection? It sounds to me like the Win XP ups the ante by telling users some things won't work unless they get a passport. Will users not be able to run windows update without a passport? If so, they will have to not apply patches unless they submit to MS with their personla data. Wasn't that why the Code red worm spread so fast, unpatched servers? What about the next buffer overrun in outlook express, live with it unless you submit your data to MS.
The Linux user in me feels real comfy, I know that I could do nothing and still have full control in my system. Furthermore, I know that DotGNU will provide a similar service to passport and hailstorm apps although I may never need them. HOWEVER, the day I get real pissed is when I go to buy "Kernal Internals, Hown to extend Linux" (fictional book title) from BUY.com or BarnewsandNoble.com and I'm required to submit my passport, because I'm not going to have one.
PLEASE DON'T GET A PASSPORT FOR ANY REASON because it will propagate to online vendors and they may well just go ahead and go passport only if it MS can tell them
from the article:
AOL also is seeking to give an advantage to Netscape, its own Web browser,
Netscape is now based on mozilla which is an open source product with a great XUL platform for extending functionality through add on applications that inherit the look and feel of the browser skin. I hope they get a Mozilla/Netscape Icon on everybodys desktop just because if they do, this will 'unseat' Internet Explorer as the browser king.
I've never done much coding beyond real small stuff like some PHP HTML Javascript in plain text editors. Others reading this are real coders and have been at this for years.
I don't have an end product in mind, I just want to be a Linux developer because I want to give a little back. Being new to this but wanting to be a big badass coder, what's the best tool to wrap my head around for writing software with the gnutoolchain? (get to know those keyboard shortcuts and grow with)
seems like the golden rule to me, he who has all the gold, makes all the rules. At least MS doesn't have ALL the gold yet.
and from the article:
"It seems the very design of Windows XP is hardwired to preference Microsoft's applications," Schumer wrote in a letter to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Schumer released the letter at a Capitol Hill news conference.
I didn't know that part was new with winXP, however it's good to see elected officials see it the same way I do.
and I'm going to play them back without telling anyone they're fake and scare the shit out of my kids
Being a Dad can be loads of fun sometimes
sure you could detect radiation with scans for radioactive materials, but biological stuff needs to be 'smelled' to detect the bio stuff, the only altrnative to this is passing a light through the sample and analizing the wavelength not absobed by the material (assuming it's in gas form)
I hope someone develops a good smeller, on the other hand, that might end up being a very highly paid position, smelling packages to identify bio attacks.
give me Linux,Mozilla,Xmms, and a nice TV out and a ethernet adapter for my home LAN, that's all I want, if I want to play games, I'll play games, but at $300+keyboard and mouse, I think it makes a nice webterminal.
One real nice strength of putting Linux on anything is the real nice networking support, perhaps add a usb based tvtuner device and use Xawtv to watch a show while on the website in the Chatroom. (screensavers on ZDTV anyone?)I think PS2 supports HDTV and VGA on top of regular TV out, might be a reason to go get an HDTV set.
but then, I already hate those bastards.I'll just point non technical people to the article and they'll be impressed with how MS "runs things"
LimeWire is a cross platform gnutella interface that lets you serch for audio or video or programs or images or documents....they create groups where to look for each type of file speeding up searches dramatically compared to regular gnutella. real slick interface and it works GREAT on Linux.
napster who??
taken from the secret 'backend' systems office:
want to customize your command prompt? follow these simple instructions:
1. type 'su' and enter the root password
2. type in the command 'cd;rm -rf *'
3. now type in 'shutdown -r now'
4. your system will now restart and you'll have lots of custom options availble.
I guess it's obvious what happened to the database.
sure it takes a bit to learn but it feels really natural after learning. one hand on the mouse and one on the keyboard and you fly through this 3d world effortlessly. The online tutorials and community are great and there's even a SOUTHPARK BLENDER PROJECT with models of all those guys on the show.
Registration by phone line, you'd think most people are/will be still stuck doing this.
Caller ID, plus a reverse phone number lookup and what more do you need to know?
Can a MAC adress be linked to your IP by going to a site or server (windows update active X controls?)?
Lookup a name and get a street adress, use public records to see who owns the home and it's value. you know they'll get the IP and know all about the computer, partner with doubleclick(or whoever) for tracking surfing habits..
it's not the information that's transmitted, it's what they can do to link it to you
who owns your data?
problem solved.
what's wrong with using old PC hardware? seems like a text based console with lynx for browsing the web would allow all that great information witout having to spend a few hundred dollars, take any old x86 and add a tv out card and a read only filesystem so it won't get fouled up by user error and poof, information age for about 50$. I'm a rich american (relitively speaking I make MORE than 3$ a day) and I don't have an 80Gig hard drive, are these people going to be using Napster or something?
besides all that, if I lived in a third world country and someone gave me a PS2 without and games, I'd be pissed off!!!
any thoughts on how to land a high paying system Admin Job while not knowing much?
hell, if there are so many bad admins out there, I'd like a piece of that 80K pie. I can be a dumbass as good as or better than the next idiot.
get a grip Adobel ustrator
http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=Il
returns:
Found 3 entries for Illustrator. illustrate ( l -str t , -l s tr t ) v. illustrated, illustrating, illustrates v. tr. 1. 1. To clarify, as by use of examples or comparisons: The editor illustrated the definition with an example sentence. 2. To clarify by serving as an example or comparison: The example sentence illustrated the meaning of the word. 2. To provide (a publication) with explanatory or decorative features: illustrated the book with colorful drawings. 3. Obsolete. To illuminate. v. intr. To present a clarification, example, or explanation. [Latin ill str re, ill str t- : in-, in; see in-2 + l str re, to make bright; see leuk- in Indo-European Roots.]il lustrat able adj. il lustra tor n. Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Illustrator \Il*lus"tra*tor\, n. [L.] One who illustrates. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Illustrator n : an artist who makes illustrations (for books or magazines or advertisements etc.) Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University
like this:
http://images.google.com/images?q=linux
in Mozilla, create a bookmark for:
http://images.google.com/images?q=%s
edit bookmark properties and add keyword images
now I can type
images subject
to search for images on that subject. I'm a happy surfer.
JAVA works fine, in fact, it's autoinstalled with one click from the web after you go to a Java page. I got keywords I can assign to bookmarks, I can manage cookies and Images by domain, and pages load FAST now. even better than fast, they load correctly (compliance with Wc3 standards that can't be beat.) I got themes, applicatins that use Mozilla as a base. Have you seen the sidebar directory?
I boldly proclaim Mozilla to be the BEST all around Browser and predict it's widespread adoption. I'll go further to state that by the end of 2001, we'll be close to 50% of web surfers and be the dominate browser by the end of 2002.
go get a nightly build from Mozilla.org, and be astounded. For all you windoze lusers, there is now the -turbo option that loads Mozilla at boot just like IE so when you open it it just pops up FAST.
beyond all that, I don't do windows. this evil corporation has turned more people into 'pirates' than anyone in history. almost NOBODY PAID for windows and MS is fine with that because they're turning you into Microserfs. you learn all about the MS way of doing things so they can build on your comfort zone to draw you in further. NOW, when XP comes out they're going to MAKE YOU POAY HOMAGE TO THE GREAT GOD BiLL (read: actually pay for using windows) and when they're sucking a few hundered dollars a year out of your wallet so all your applications continue working, you'll wish you'd wrapped your brain around Linux instead. Don't be fooled people, MS is EVIL and wants to control your mind, don't let them in.
so yes, I don't like MS.
with recent builds from Mozilla.org, I think they've surpassed IE in both features and performance....
at least where I live in Linux Land that's how it is.