give them a foundation to understand why we use an operating system, and what type of resources the computer makes available. What kind of of ports (usb firewire, ps2...) and how they fit together (instal a PCI card in a machine as a class or even build a system as a class.
Don't teach word processing, or spread sheets. that should be in a business class.
once you've built a system, install Linux as a class, and then try teaching them HTML. HTML is great because if you know the rules for how things should be formated, you can surf the web viewing source and learning more on your own.
when I was in school, we did programming in BASIC on apple II pc's. simple programs that add two numbers or find an average of a few numbers. That was years ago, and I think HTML would be a better choice today.
at where I work, a fortune 500 company, the outsourcing of support for closed source applications has resulted in a real INFORMATION GRIDLOCK. Closed source locks you into relying on that vendor and limits your company in ways that can't be measured in dollars.
There end up being numerous versions of the 'truth' because one version gets updated before another. someone does a 'quick reference guide' for procedures that in no way hooks into the main corporate database, but is considered a reference by hundreds of employees.
they cannot upgrade this without breaking that and you can bet your bottom dollar that vendor number 1 doesn't care about what happens to vendor number 2's product when they update. Now instead of hiring programmers to fix this problem, those third party vendors need to fix stuff and they may not (will not) have the same environment available to them because of license restrictions of all the other applications.
The big bad fortune 500 company knows that it's broken, but will never know why, they can only wait for a fix which may never come (to reverse engineer and modify code themselves is illegal right?). Now they're off to shop for more outsourced and closed source crap, and then seeing if that crap braeaks all the other crap. (I can't help but call it crap they make me use it all day)
Guess what else, we're all on windows 95 still.
In the Internet tech support department, the client software (from one vendor) that is supported cannot be run on the corporate network because it breaks access to corporate websites (outsourced to another vendor) Neither vendor gives a rats ass about the issue and I support a customized browser that I've only ever used once in training for an hour or so (about 2 years ago). This is only one of the issues out of many, and this is just from where I sit.
Fortune 500 companies are HUGE, and in general, there is a feeling of anarchy and chaos with several different versions of "the truth" as it applies to procedures and policies (at least where I work).
If you ever wonder why you sometimes get a real moron on the phone when you call a big company, realize that they may just have their own version of the truth, and it's a product of a "closed and outsourced" environment.
overall I like how IBM puts it: Who OWNS your DATA?
What's wrong with Mandrake? I'll tell you
on
Mandrake Shakeup
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· Score: 2
first off, the software is great, very little to complain about. Mandrake has done a nice job of providing forums and such as well as making it easy to work on developing via the 'cooker' version.
MANDRAKE EXPERT, that's what's wrong. when you have an issue, you go to some 'expert' forum and they are pay schemes to get people to answer questions. this shifted focus away from some other community areas and created a 'FORK' in the community. now you don't just go to mandrake forum to discuss the OS and ask questions, those posts go to mandrakeexpert.com and to 'be an expert' is to register and ask to get questions sent your way.
let's just help each other, and be a community like we always have and scrap this mandrake expert concept, in Linux, we're all experts, that's what makes this a special place to be, there are no end users in an open world, and no-one should be thought of as an end user vs an expert.
that's just my twisted view on things, no-body will listen anyhow.
you guys were real high up on my list, and I looked for tiktok men when I lost your tunes (they just disapear from my station)....
now I'm learning the secrets of streaming lost data once again...hooRAY.
so how come you guys aren't on MP3.com anymore?
according to th article: In Japan, Sony and other Japanese-based companies have been selling desktops with TV-tuner cards as a standard feature for as much as two years now.
I have a Sony PCV220 (PII266) and I wish it was only 2 years old.
the TV Tuner works great under Linux including desktop wallpaper mode (video background)
I could schedule video capture via cron, but not automatically Like Tivo service does.
TVGUIDE.com are you listening? give me a page that generates scripts to tell my Tuner when to kick in and record. A page could let me setup my script prefernces (how to load my video capture) and save it in my account or a cookie even. then when I go to the guide, I select shows I want to see and hit the 'submit' button, then download a script that could set my cron job accordingly.
hell if someone doesn't perhaps I will. anyone, anyone? should this idea go to priorart.org? has it been done already?
and try not to hit any PENGUINS:-)
we could go solar on the ground, but too much land would be covered by solar pannels. I lookied into getting solar this year as the bill for my house has been as high as 400$/month. around 1500-2000kwhs/month.
turns out I'd need about 60-80 solar pannels, each about 2 by 4 feet. so figure it out, not let me do that...
2x4=8 square feet X80=640 square feet. it's a big array for someone in an apartment building. I have 1 acre I could've done it but here's the kicker, installed system would be about $40,000-$60,000 US Dollars, and that's after the energy rebates offered by California. overall, I'd switch to making payments on the loan rather than a utility bill, for about 20 years before I started really saving.(don't forget that interest rate that means it's twice that amount once it's all done.)All in all, I didn't do it because it would only be cheaper if we never get out of this crisis, and that I can heat water and my home using solar gain (fans to distibute heat for the home and tanks for water heating) for less money because of the loss of going from solar, to electricity, to heat energy.
think of all the heat energy we now use to get electricity, coal FIREd plants release lots of heat, Nuclear plants release even more heat. even if we didn't have to dig for coal or there was no radiation from nuclear power, there's still this tremedous amount of heat. What about all the heat released from our CARS? drive awhile and go stand by the radiator, and then imagine all this heat from your car and multiply it by however many millions of cars cruise around your city, then think globally. Greenhouse gasses are an issue, but we have a serious problem with BTU (heat)emmisions. add to that all the body heat from us people and the exploding population.
.see why this makes great sense? we tap the light energy before it gets here(removing some heat in the process by virture of shade) and then beam down the juice to be used on the ground. I think all our countries should colaborate, put something up high over a area like the south pole or in the middle of the pacific. Can you imagine if we all had as much electricity as we could use and there were no polution side effects? what about the ecconomy of electricity being like the roads you drive on, meaning, you don't pay per play, it's just there for everyone who wants to use it?
or would it be cheaper to do a Moon base to grab solar energy and beam it from there?
at least that's how I saw it when I was in school.
My school did send me to jail for a weekend...for truancy.(not like they didn't give me about a million warnings before it came to that) My cell mate was a crack smoking car thief.
after doing time, later that year when I was of age I dropped out and went to college instead of high school. I think many of our gifted young folks would do good to get out of High school and go straight to college that applies to their area of interest to be in an environment of people who are trying to further themselves.
stupid office crapola.... I get so many emails that have 'Word' attachments for really short messages, like one sentence. Forcing me to turn on Word as my email editor to be sure I don't miss half of the message. they still got us using Win95 and are going straight to win 2000 this year.
I hate word docs, why can't the world use HTML? there's this big corporate intranet information resource, and as you browse through the web pages and click on a link for info, all of a sudden you're looking at an excel spreadsheet in your browser, god it makes me sick. How do I copy info from a spreadsheet to share with someone else and have be readable in plain text email? I get this constant flow of Virus warnings, don't open emails that say this or that, someone always does and I get all this crap in my inbox from viruses reading the corporate email directory. Here's another big one: OUTLOOK WON"T LET ME BLOCK BCC MESSAGES. you know what that means, no junk filtering, what a load of crap for a supposedly great email app. I begged IT to let me use a different client for my mail and it's juast too much for them to comprehend/ and or think about. all this bullshit and all kinds of other problems with this upgrade breaking that application ansd so on and so forth. I work at an ISP as tech support and we cannot have the "Branded client browser" on our desks because it breaks some features in IE used for the company intranet (this is why we're still on Win95) I'm supposed to be an expert in using this branded browser but I've never used it except once in training.
I feel sorry for those misguided IT folks who are now lost in a world of MS framework that just pulls them deeper and deeper every day into this "framework" FMS!!!
anyone want to start work on an informational kit "IT recovery package" to dig these companies out of the hole they're in?
we could package 10-20 different distributions (a few copies of each) along with highlights and reviews on each one, a guide to migration and a heading that reads: "you can be the hero that dug your corporation out from the MS trap....read on"
you know there would be a big award ceremony..."IT Joe has saved the company 10 million dollars this year, and every year from now on, by moving to Linux!!!" here's your plastic budget busters trophy!!!.
we are the world, we are the children, we can lead the way for all the Lusers!!!
God I hate Ms!!!
add it up. take all the money ever spent by anyone on software, ever.
how much would that be?
billions?
trillions?
Now take the world and slap the greedy rich bastards around until they all realize that if we work together, we ALL benifit.
put that pile of trillions of dollars to good use for the GLOBAL comunity, for things like housing, healthcare, art, music, cleaner energy....(add your item here).
this goes way beyond bits and bytes, open source thinking is about securing your efforts so that they can be used by anyone as long as they provide the same benifit back to the world. What will we do if the humane gene mapping becomes intellectual property? Hope M$ doesn't buy that company out.
I refuse to give my employer over my required 40HOURS, I just feel like it's not healthy. I have no problem giving extra hours to my own personal ventures, but will not 'hourly' myself to someone elses business more than 40 hours a week.
is there a lawyer in the house?
isn't there some law about lying to the public?
if Ford says "best of class" the had better also include the source of that "rating" If Ford went further and said that General Motors cars are unsafe, they'd better have definitive proof before making those claims, or prepare to be sued. MS seems above the law in this respect, as these claims that you are "risking your intellectual propoerty" as a company by using GPL'd software is total BS. If I put my data into MySQL, there is nothing that says I need to share that data with the community. Furthermore, say I hack MySQL to talk to some weird server in the back office, GPL doesn't require me to make those changes public unless I intend to redistribute my new MySQL version to the world, and only then would I be required to post my modifications to the community.Even then, those lines of code will likely reveal nothing about my company unless I'm stupid enough to hard code passwords or something just plain dumb like that.
we as the public ought to have the right to sue MS for false advertising, for obvious attempts at bashing the hard work that so many good poeple have decided to share with the world for the benifit of all of us.
isn't it SLANDER? I'm not a lawyer, if you are, please elaborate on this class action thought.
amusing note:
they make me use win95 on my work computer, I went to the site to see the video, it was a zip file that I don't have an 'unzipper' for and I'm not permitted to install one on my work PC. so... I rolled on over to my Linux PC and downloaded the zip. Mandrake Linux knew what to do when I double clicked the file:-). here I am all ready to watch a video and it turns out that episode1 is a '.exe' file type.
but once it got too far from the sun it would not be getting enough photons of light to accelerate any more.
The farther it gets from the sun the less impacted it is from solar gravity, even though the light energy gets weaker, thus acelleration is expected to remain constant.
this PDA includes a"consumer IR port" for use with TV's and other IR controlled home devices (stereo's, vcr's you get the idea)in addition to the IR port for syncing with other Palms, or PC's.
the 'Agenda' makes as sweet universal remote, with PDA functions included. although this port is built in, I don't believe any software takes advantage of it yet. anyone know of a Linux app for programming universal remote controls?
now I need to work on my stupid shell tricks to start my work on converting Palm users to soldiers of the revolution.
really though, given some kind of connectivity, Having Linux on the run just OPENS up a whole world of potential.
my personal prediction is that we will own the PDA's by the end of this year, by the end of 2002, the desktop is also going to be ours.
server side authentication is used on many corporate networks which requires that users use MS IE or they won't be allowed to view content on the companies intranet.(IIS Server anyone?)
It's MORONIC of people to provide a web based information resource, tied into being viewed by one brand of browser only. BUT, because of the special MSF Microsoft Framework that's sold to many corporations, FEATURES exclude the use of Netscape.because it doesn't support the same type of security verification needed by the MS server used to turn Word Docs into Web Sites.
a few months back I saw an ad in a computer magazine touting the way to make your business run smooth using Microsofts Digital Nervous System.....
well it must be working because it makes me nervous.
what are these 'unusual MIME types' anyhow?
All I need to do is edit the MIME type of a malicious file and I have an exploit?
You may not find a place for yourself in society, but you can make one. to each his own, and you have every right to your own views and ways.
DON'T PANIC
DON'T DO ANYTHING DRASTIC
you will find or make a place for yourself in life, but it might not happen in the next 5 days, 5 weeks or even 5 years. Self discovery and finding a "place" for your found self takes time, and to some extent, will never end. Life moves faster and faster all the time, and it may seem hopeless now, but with time things will get better for you.
TAKE YOUR TIME.
if you stand back and look at your life as a whole, you'll see that a bad day, or even a bad year, is really only a very small piece of the big picture. Even if the first 18 years of your life seem like utter crap, you still have another 50-80 years to make your way through the world and taste life. Life can be sour, and it can be sweet, but as a whole in the end it tastes pretty good overall.
Don't remove the option for yourself, or others around you, to grow to enjoy life, even if you're not having a swell time right now.
Don't compromise your views and opinions to gain acceptance, there are many who will accept your views as their own, and even those who will see it differently and respect you no less.
to quote from the Beatles:
"Please Don't Be Long"
diversity is "the spice of life" and it's those who shut you out that really have a dull existence.
Considering your position within Microsoft, will you be able to give your own personal honest answers to these questions, or will your answers need to be 'approved' by management?
I think we (/.) already know the answer to this one, but it'd be good to hear the official response up front so we know where these answers really come from.
#!/bin/sh
#save this as 'thisiscool.sh' and email to everyone
rm -rf/home/*/*.jpg
echo thanks for running my first Virus
it removes all your jpegs, and spreads by mean people convincing stupid people to run this shell script. this viruis mostly hurts people you don't like.
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give them a foundation to understand why we use an operating system, and what type of resources the computer makes available. What kind of of ports (usb firewire, ps2...) and how they fit together (instal a PCI card in a machine as a class or even build a system as a class.
Don't teach word processing, or spread sheets. that should be in a business class.
once you've built a system, install Linux as a class, and then try teaching them HTML. HTML is great because if you know the rules for how things should be formated, you can surf the web viewing source and learning more on your own.
when I was in school, we did programming in BASIC on apple II pc's. simple programs that add two numbers or find an average of a few numbers. That was years ago, and I think HTML would be a better choice today.
at where I work, a fortune 500 company, the outsourcing of support for closed source applications has resulted in a real INFORMATION GRIDLOCK. Closed source locks you into relying on that vendor and limits your company in ways that can't be measured in dollars.
There end up being numerous versions of the 'truth' because one version gets updated before another. someone does a 'quick reference guide' for procedures that in no way hooks into the main corporate database, but is considered a reference by hundreds of employees.
they cannot upgrade this without breaking that and you can bet your bottom dollar that vendor number 1 doesn't care about what happens to vendor number 2's product when they update. Now instead of hiring programmers to fix this problem, those third party vendors need to fix stuff and they may not (will not) have the same environment available to them because of license restrictions of all the other applications.
The big bad fortune 500 company knows that it's broken, but will never know why, they can only wait for a fix which may never come (to reverse engineer and modify code themselves is illegal right?). Now they're off to shop for more outsourced and closed source crap, and then seeing if that crap braeaks all the other crap. (I can't help but call it crap they make me use it all day) Guess what else, we're all on windows 95 still. In the Internet tech support department, the client software (from one vendor) that is supported cannot be run on the corporate network because it breaks access to corporate websites (outsourced to another vendor) Neither vendor gives a rats ass about the issue and I support a customized browser that I've only ever used once in training for an hour or so (about 2 years ago). This is only one of the issues out of many, and this is just from where I sit.
Fortune 500 companies are HUGE, and in general, there is a feeling of anarchy and chaos with several different versions of "the truth" as it applies to procedures and policies (at least where I work).
If you ever wonder why you sometimes get a real moron on the phone when you call a big company, realize that they may just have their own version of the truth, and it's a product of a "closed and outsourced" environment.
overall I like how IBM puts it:
Who OWNS your DATA?
first off, the software is great, very little to complain about. Mandrake has done a nice job of providing forums and such as well as making it easy to work on developing via the 'cooker' version.
MANDRAKE EXPERT, that's what's wrong. when you have an issue, you go to some 'expert' forum and they are pay schemes to get people to answer questions. this shifted focus away from some other community areas and created a 'FORK' in the community. now you don't just go to mandrake forum to discuss the OS and ask questions, those posts go to mandrakeexpert.com and to 'be an expert' is to register and ask to get questions sent your way.
let's just help each other, and be a community like we always have and scrap this mandrake expert concept, in Linux, we're all experts, that's what makes this a special place to be, there are no end users in an open world, and no-one should be thought of as an end user vs an expert.
that's just my twisted view on things, no-body will listen anyhow.
GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO POST ON SLASHDOT
you guys were real high up on my list, and I looked for tiktok men when I lost your tunes (they just disapear from my station)....
now I'm learning the secrets of streaming lost data once again...hooRAY.
so how come you guys aren't on MP3.com anymore?
NOT!!!!
I'm happy with streaming music, being cable modemed as I am, I just hope they don't mess with my radio station DATATECH
Don't use Microsoft products.
it's been working out great for me.
according to th article:
In Japan, Sony and other Japanese-based companies have been selling desktops with TV-tuner cards as a standard feature for as much as two years now.
I have a Sony PCV220 (PII266) and I wish it was only 2 years old.
the TV Tuner works great under Linux including desktop wallpaper mode (video background) I could schedule video capture via cron, but not automatically Like Tivo service does.
TVGUIDE.com are you listening? give me a page that generates scripts to tell my Tuner when to kick in and record. A page could let me setup my script prefernces (how to load my video capture) and save it in my account or a cookie even. then when I go to the guide, I select shows I want to see and hit the 'submit' button, then download a script that could set my cron job accordingly.
hell if someone doesn't perhaps I will. anyone, anyone? should this idea go to priorart.org? has it been done already?
and try not to hit any PENGUINS :-)
we could go solar on the ground, but too much land would be covered by solar pannels. I lookied into getting solar this year as the bill for my house has been as high as 400$/month. around 1500-2000kwhs/month.
turns out I'd need about 60-80 solar pannels, each about 2 by 4 feet. so figure it out, not let me do that...
2x4=8 square feet X80=640 square feet. it's a big array for someone in an apartment building. I have 1 acre I could've done it but here's the kicker, installed system would be about $40,000-$60,000 US Dollars, and that's after the energy rebates offered by California. overall, I'd switch to making payments on the loan rather than a utility bill, for about 20 years before I started really saving.(don't forget that interest rate that means it's twice that amount once it's all done.)All in all, I didn't do it because it would only be cheaper if we never get out of this crisis, and that I can heat water and my home using solar gain (fans to distibute heat for the home and tanks for water heating) for less money because of the loss of going from solar, to electricity, to heat energy.
think of all the heat energy we now use to get electricity, coal FIREd plants release lots of heat, Nuclear plants release even more heat. even if we didn't have to dig for coal or there was no radiation from nuclear power, there's still this tremedous amount of heat. What about all the heat released from our CARS? drive awhile and go stand by the radiator, and then imagine all this heat from your car and multiply it by however many millions of cars cruise around your city, then think globally. Greenhouse gasses are an issue, but we have a serious problem with BTU (heat)emmisions. add to that all the body heat from us people and the exploding population.
.see why this makes great sense? we tap the light energy before it gets here(removing some heat in the process by virture of shade) and then beam down the juice to be used on the ground. I think all our countries should colaborate, put something up high over a area like the south pole or in the middle of the pacific. Can you imagine if we all had as much electricity as we could use and there were no polution side effects? what about the ecconomy of electricity being like the roads you drive on, meaning, you don't pay per play, it's just there for everyone who wants to use it?
or would it be cheaper to do a Moon base to grab solar energy and beam it from there?
this "share and share alike"
:-)
and inviting the enemy to join ranks... is the open source community at it's best.
it feels good to be good.
AOL/TIVO/Mozilla/.... It's all going to be LINUX
at least that's how I saw it when I was in school.
My school did send me to jail for a weekend...for truancy.(not like they didn't give me about a million warnings before it came to that)
My cell mate was a crack smoking car thief.
after doing time, later that year when I was of age I dropped out and went to college instead of high school. I think many of our gifted young folks would do good to get out of High school and go straight to college that applies to their area of interest to be in an environment of people who are trying to further themselves.
stupid office crapola.... I get so many emails that have 'Word' attachments for really short messages, like one sentence. Forcing me to turn on Word as my email editor to be sure I don't miss half of the message.
they still got us using Win95 and are going straight to win 2000 this year.
I hate word docs, why can't the world use HTML? there's this big corporate intranet information resource, and as you browse through the web pages and click on a link for info, all of a sudden you're looking at an excel spreadsheet in your browser, god it makes me sick. How do I copy info from a spreadsheet to share with someone else and have be readable in plain text email? I get this constant flow of Virus warnings, don't open emails that say this or that, someone always does and I get all this crap in my inbox from viruses reading the corporate email directory. Here's another big one: OUTLOOK WON"T LET ME BLOCK BCC MESSAGES. you know what that means, no junk filtering, what a load of crap for a supposedly great email app. I begged IT to let me use a different client for my mail and it's juast too much for them to comprehend/ and or think about. all this bullshit and all kinds of other problems with this upgrade breaking that application ansd so on and so forth. I work at an ISP as tech support and we cannot have the "Branded client browser" on our desks because it breaks some features in IE used for the company intranet (this is why we're still on Win95) I'm supposed to be an expert in using this branded browser but I've never used it except once in training.
I feel sorry for those misguided IT folks who are now lost in a world of MS framework that just pulls them deeper and deeper every day into this "framework" FMS!!!
anyone want to start work on an informational kit "IT recovery package" to dig these companies out of the hole they're in?
we could package 10-20 different distributions (a few copies of each) along with highlights and reviews on each one, a guide to migration and a heading that reads: "you can be the hero that dug your corporation out from the MS trap....read on"
you know there would be a big award ceremony..."IT Joe has saved the company 10 million dollars this year, and every year from now on, by moving to Linux!!!" here's your plastic budget busters trophy!!!.
we are the world, we are the children, we can lead the way for all the Lusers!!! God I hate Ms!!!
add it up. take all the money ever spent by anyone on software, ever.
how much would that be?
billions?
trillions?
Now take the world and slap the greedy rich bastards around until they all realize that if we work together, we ALL benifit.
put that pile of trillions of dollars to good use for the GLOBAL comunity, for things like housing, healthcare, art, music, cleaner energy....(add your item here). this goes way beyond bits and bytes, open source thinking is about securing your efforts so that they can be used by anyone as long as they provide the same benifit back to the world. What will we do if the humane gene mapping becomes intellectual property? Hope M$ doesn't buy that company out.
I refuse to give my employer over my required 40HOURS, I just feel like it's not healthy. I have no problem giving extra hours to my own personal ventures, but will not 'hourly' myself to someone elses business more than 40 hours a week.
life is too short for overtime
is there a lawyer in the house?
isn't there some law about lying to the public?
if Ford says "best of class" the had better also include the source of that "rating"
If Ford went further and said that General Motors cars are unsafe, they'd better have definitive proof before making those claims, or prepare to be sued.
MS seems above the law in this respect, as these claims that you are "risking your intellectual propoerty" as a company by using GPL'd software is total BS. If I put my data into MySQL, there is nothing that says I need to share that data with the community. Furthermore, say I hack MySQL to talk to some weird server in the back office, GPL doesn't require me to make those changes public unless I intend to redistribute my new MySQL version to the world, and only then would I be required to post my modifications to the community.Even then, those lines of code will likely reveal nothing about my company unless I'm stupid enough to hard code passwords or something just plain dumb like that.
we as the public ought to have the right to sue MS for false advertising, for obvious attempts at bashing the hard work that so many good poeple have decided to share with the world for the benifit of all of us.
isn't it SLANDER? I'm not a lawyer, if you are, please elaborate on this class action thought.
that's www.officeclippy.com
:-). here I am all ready to watch a video and it turns out that episode1 is a '.exe' file type.
amusing note:
they make me use win95 on my work computer, I went to the site to see the video, it was a zip file that I don't have an 'unzipper' for and I'm not permitted to install one on my work PC. so... I rolled on over to my Linux PC and downloaded the zip. Mandrake Linux knew what to do when I double clicked the file
what a bunch of assholes.
but once it got too far from the sun it would not be getting enough photons of light to accelerate any more.
The farther it gets from the sun the less impacted it is from solar gravity, even though the light energy gets weaker, thus acelleration is expected to remain constant.
this PDA includes a"consumer IR port" for use with TV's and other IR controlled home devices (stereo's, vcr's you get the idea)in addition to the IR port for syncing with other Palms, or PC's.
the 'Agenda' makes as sweet universal remote, with PDA functions included. although this port is built in, I don't believe any software takes advantage of it yet. anyone know of a Linux app for programming universal remote controls?
now I need to work on my stupid shell tricks to start my work on converting Palm users to soldiers of the revolution.
really though, given some kind of connectivity, Having Linux on the run just OPENS up a whole world of potential.
my personal prediction is that we will own the PDA's by the end of this year, by the end of 2002, the desktop is also going to be ours.
all your platforms are belong to us!!!!
if services are available, and anyone can impliment them, seems like most services in one way or another will end up being free.
I like free.
server side authentication is used on many corporate networks which requires that users use MS IE or they won't be allowed to view content on the companies intranet.(IIS Server anyone?)
It's MORONIC of people to provide a web based information resource, tied into being viewed by one brand of browser only. BUT, because of the special MSF Microsoft Framework that's sold to many corporations, FEATURES exclude the use of Netscape.because it doesn't support the same type of security verification needed by the MS server used to turn Word Docs into Web Sites.
a few months back I saw an ad in a computer magazine touting the way to make your business run smooth using Microsofts Digital Nervous System.....
well it must be working because it makes me nervous.
what are these 'unusual MIME types' anyhow?
All I need to do is edit the MIME type of a malicious file and I have an exploit?
You may not find a place for yourself in society, but you can make one. to each his own, and you have every right to your own views and ways.
DON'T PANIC
DON'T DO ANYTHING DRASTIC
you will find or make a place for yourself in life, but it might not happen in the next 5 days, 5 weeks or even 5 years. Self discovery and finding a "place" for your found self takes time, and to some extent, will never end. Life moves faster and faster all the time, and it may seem hopeless now, but with time things will get better for you.
TAKE YOUR TIME.
if you stand back and look at your life as a whole, you'll see that a bad day, or even a bad year, is really only a very small piece of the big picture. Even if the first 18 years of your life seem like utter crap, you still have another 50-80 years to make your way through the world and taste life. Life can be sour, and it can be sweet, but as a whole in the end it tastes pretty good overall.
Don't remove the option for yourself, or others around you, to grow to enjoy life, even if you're not having a swell time right now.
Don't compromise your views and opinions to gain acceptance, there are many who will accept your views as their own, and even those who will see it differently and respect you no less.
to quote from the Beatles:
"Please Don't Be Long"
diversity is "the spice of life" and it's those who shut you out that really have a dull existence.
Considering your position within Microsoft, will you be able to give your own personal honest answers to these questions, or will your answers need to be 'approved' by management?
I think we (/.) already know the answer to this one, but it'd be good to hear the official response up front so we know where these answers really come from.
#!/bin/sh /home/*/*.jpg
#save this as 'thisiscool.sh' and email to everyone
rm -rf
echo thanks for running my first Virus
it removes all your jpegs, and spreads by mean people convincing stupid people to run this shell script. this viruis mostly hurts people you don't like.