Working as a tech requires me to set up customers systems FAR more often than I'd like!! I have never in my 40-50-odd installs of M$ Office have *not* been asked to turn off the damned paperclip!! No one yet *hasn't* been immediately annoyed with the lil guy, and NO ONE has asked for such a feature in... say... openoffice! Good riddance, and I do believe this will be known as the smartest thing M$ has done this year!!
kleedrac
I agree with you whole-heartedly!! Do you guys realize how hard it is to find win2k drivers for my banshee!! I used to go to 3dfx gamers.com but now, Nvidia would probably have me shot if I tried to write them myself!!!
C'mon people, I still like DooM!! I ain't givin' my CCard out so I can waste more $ not only on buying games but from playing them!?!?! Hey why don't we get a T-3 backbone installed and just ping-flood everyone (couldn't do that in DooM or Duke3d)!! Ahhh well, while we're at it put casinos in Ultime Online 3 and put slots into all servers running Q3 and UT to decide the arena, gravity, etc. Oh well, I sit here and play DooM now.
Kleed
I just have one question. I use FreeBSD at home and one of the big reasons I fell in love with it is the ports collection. I am wondering why you don't simply make TrustedBSD one of the ports in FreeBSD? I understand that it wouldn't hit the ports collection until the next version but if I were to use TrustedBSD (which I won't on my system but my FreeBSD server/router/firewall needs it) I would look for it in the ports collection.
Right on Brother, you forgot about Linux's single threaded IDE driver, as well as FreeBSD's ability to install via FTP as opposed to downloading an ISO and having to burn it. But over all I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one using FreeBSD!!
C'mon, Unbreakable was probably one of the best films of 2000! No it's not The Sixth Sense II or anything. But it is a very good Psychological thriller where you really don't know what is going on till the last 5 minutes! Personally I love this in a movie cause the vast mojority of movies being made today are either a> Obvious, b> a show of Special FX and no plot or c> All plot but still fairly obvious. As examples a> Little Nicky (I loved it but it was too obvious) b> The 6th Day (Gawd that movie sucked) c> Meet the parents (The entire film was... how bad can one guy get screwed over by his g/f's family)
Of coarse all opinions are perfectly valid, after all that's how Hollywood makes cash, for every movie, 50% of people are gonna love it, see it, resee it, and buy it. That's all they care about.
is esentially to give a prospective employer your knowledge base at a glance. The certification does not do anything else really. I am an A+ certified tech but my experience with *nix (FreeBSD) at home has taught me a lot more than any exam or course ever could. My experience with my own computer systems prepared me for my A+ exam better than any book could have as well. I also think that some certification systems are simply a joke, for example, I am also Lexmark certified. I can do warranty work on Lexmark printers. The exam was 20 MC questions, on my own puter, with the service manual open in front of me!!
Kleed
I agree with you but not with your reason. You realize that if M$ is split in two, the public gets to pay double. Windows Whistler for example would come out as a base OS, no notepad, no solitaire, no software, cause that's part of the other company. You can probably buy the Whistler Software Pack with the Solitaire, Notepad and the rest for another chunk o change. So you see, M$1 and M$2 work together, and Bill gets richer still. But I spose he'll have more work to do. After all he is probably the one who generates those damned annoying Product-Keys.
What the problem is (or as it appears to me,) is that people are getting too into security. Honestly my roomie says it best when he says, "You want security for your system, don't turn it on, then it's secure. And if you must turn it on, for god's sake don't plug it into anything dumb like the internet!" And to me this is what it boils down to. For months I got paranoid about the net (First virus will do that to a guy.) I was running a two GB HDD with a base Linux install, and that was the me that hit the net. From there it was put through a dumb scan for viruses and if it was clean then it went to a real HDD. But then I realized... WHAT'S THE BLOODY POINT!! If you live your life (or your system lives it's life) doing nothing you will become nothing. You will be no richer for having a safe meaningless existence, you'll have no friends if you refuse to talk to people, and you will not find happiness. I'm not saying you should put out business cards with your IP on them. Just don't sit at home behind your Firewall, cause then you aren't experiencing the net as much as you are experiencing the firewall. And with everything... MODERATION!!
Kleedrac
I think LAN support would be kewl as well. I have a 10 System LAN at home with my roomie's. Having straight support for LAN and a Windows client would be very much appreciated.
Kleedrac
Yeah, but why would he when his first book has been a best-seller for the last two millenia? Besides, Sequels never quite do as well as the original, The Bible II would only start a global fringe cult at best!!
Not quite sure how to feel on this one. I mean I don't think anyone really bothers with proper disposal of system parts anyways. I have to at work (I'm a tech) but at home I don't really care. They aren't really that harmful anyways, are they?
Well of coarse it is. The biggest blaring hole in the Linux Kernel is the single threaded IDE driver. Put a box of anything up against linux and try to copy a file from hd0 to hd1 and see how long it takes. Also the fact that Linus (whom I respect) wrote the Linux kernel based upon what he thought it should be as opposed to FreeBSD simply modifying the original Unix kernel (you know the one that DOS was supposedly based upon!) Besides the idea of having three versions;
a) Current (we're workin' on it)
b) Release (we think we're done)
c) Stable (It's been up and running without a reboot for at least 6 months!!!)
Really works great!! I like Linux... but I love my FreeBSD!
Kleedrac
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Working as a tech requires me to set up customers systems FAR more often than I'd like!! I have never in my 40-50-odd installs of M$ Office have *not* been asked to turn off the damned paperclip!! No one yet *hasn't* been immediately annoyed with the lil guy, and NO ONE has asked for such a feature in ... say ... openoffice! Good riddance, and I do believe this will be known as the smartest thing M$ has done this year!!
kleedrac
Well, just one more reason to install a GPS into your server before this could be *YOU*!!
I agree with you whole-heartedly!! Do you guys realize how hard it is to find win2k drivers for my banshee!! I used to go to 3dfx gamers.com but now, Nvidia would probably have me shot if I tried to write them myself!!!
C'mon people, I still like DooM!! I ain't givin' my CCard out so I can waste more $ not only on buying games but from playing them!?!?! Hey why don't we get a T-3 backbone installed and just ping-flood everyone (couldn't do that in DooM or Duke3d)!! Ahhh well, while we're at it put casinos in Ultime Online 3 and put slots into all servers running Q3 and UT to decide the arena, gravity, etc. Oh well, I sit here and play DooM now. Kleed
I just have one question. I use FreeBSD at home and one of the big reasons I fell in love with it is the ports collection. I am wondering why you don't simply make TrustedBSD one of the ports in FreeBSD? I understand that it wouldn't hit the ports collection until the next version but if I were to use TrustedBSD (which I won't on my system but my FreeBSD server/router/firewall needs it) I would look for it in the ports collection.
Kleedrac
Right on Brother, you forgot about Linux's single threaded IDE driver, as well as FreeBSD's ability to install via FTP as opposed to downloading an ISO and having to burn it. But over all I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one using FreeBSD!!
Daemons are cuter than penguins
Kleed
C'mon, Unbreakable was probably one of the best films of 2000! No it's not The Sixth Sense II or anything. But it is a very good Psychological thriller where you really don't know what is going on till the last 5 minutes! Personally I love this in a movie cause the vast mojority of movies being made today are either a> Obvious, b> a show of Special FX and no plot or c> All plot but still fairly obvious. As examples a> Little Nicky (I loved it but it was too obvious) b> The 6th Day (Gawd that movie sucked) c> Meet the parents (The entire film was ... how bad can one guy get screwed over by his g/f's family)
Of coarse all opinions are perfectly valid, after all that's how Hollywood makes cash, for every movie, 50% of people are gonna love it, see it, resee it, and buy it. That's all they care about.
K
is esentially to give a prospective employer your knowledge base at a glance. The certification does not do anything else really. I am an A+ certified tech but my experience with *nix (FreeBSD) at home has taught me a lot more than any exam or course ever could. My experience with my own computer systems prepared me for my A+ exam better than any book could have as well. I also think that some certification systems are simply a joke, for example, I am also Lexmark certified. I can do warranty work on Lexmark printers. The exam was 20 MC questions, on my own puter, with the service manual open in front of me!! Kleed
I agree with you but not with your reason. You realize that if M$ is split in two, the public gets to pay double. Windows Whistler for example would come out as a base OS, no notepad, no solitaire, no software, cause that's part of the other company. You can probably buy the Whistler Software Pack with the Solitaire, Notepad and the rest for another chunk o change. So you see, M$1 and M$2 work together, and Bill gets richer still. But I spose he'll have more work to do. After all he is probably the one who generates those damned annoying Product-Keys.
Kleedrac
What the problem is (or as it appears to me,) is that people are getting too into security. Honestly my roomie says it best when he says, "You want security for your system, don't turn it on, then it's secure. And if you must turn it on, for god's sake don't plug it into anything dumb like the internet!" And to me this is what it boils down to. For months I got paranoid about the net (First virus will do that to a guy.) I was running a two GB HDD with a base Linux install, and that was the me that hit the net. From there it was put through a dumb scan for viruses and if it was clean then it went to a real HDD. But then I realized ... WHAT'S THE BLOODY POINT!! If you live your life (or your system lives it's life) doing nothing you will become nothing. You will be no richer for having a safe meaningless existence, you'll have no friends if you refuse to talk to people, and you will not find happiness. I'm not saying you should put out business cards with your IP on them. Just don't sit at home behind your Firewall, cause then you aren't experiencing the net as much as you are experiencing the firewall. And with everything ... MODERATION!!
Kleedrac
I think LAN support would be kewl as well. I have a 10 System LAN at home with my roomie's. Having straight support for LAN and a Windows client would be very much appreciated. Kleedrac
Don't worry mate, it's the same up here in Canada. We should start a toilet database of our own, eh? Kleed
Sure you're one of those people who believes religion is only for Windows ... aren't you??
Kleed
Yeah, but why would he when his first book has been a best-seller for the last two millenia? Besides, Sequels never quite do as well as the original, The Bible II would only start a global fringe cult at best!!
Kleedrac
Not quite sure how to feel on this one. I mean I don't think anyone really bothers with proper disposal of system parts anyways. I have to at work (I'm a tech) but at home I don't really care. They aren't really that harmful anyways, are they?
Kleedrac
Well of coarse it is. The biggest blaring hole in the Linux Kernel is the single threaded IDE driver. Put a box of anything up against linux and try to copy a file from hd0 to hd1 and see how long it takes. Also the fact that Linus (whom I respect) wrote the Linux kernel based upon what he thought it should be as opposed to FreeBSD simply modifying the original Unix kernel (you know the one that DOS was supposedly based upon!) Besides the idea of having three versions; a) Current (we're workin' on it) b) Release (we think we're done) c) Stable (It's been up and running without a reboot for at least 6 months!!!) Really works great!! I like Linux ... but I love my FreeBSD!
Kleedrac