I didn't even know where Mandrake was based lol.
But if Mandrake does fall, (the company) it will still survive, (the OS), because it is an OSS and will be worked on.
Well, its not as bad as it sounds. They're laying off mainly high priced American managers on the reasoning that they can't do a US IPO right now, so get rid of the Americans. Fine, get rid of the Frenchies because their wine sucks..pfft
Mandrake is doing though, what most tech companies are doing, laying off and firing people, although not as high level and drastic as Mandrake has done. I hope this doesn't affect their distro, (yes it will). Mandrake is such a high quality OS. I had RH first and get Mandrake later and stuck with Mandrake.
Well, you can't really file lawsuits on software bugs, (otherwise MS would have been fucked a long time ago). And the SATs, well, I'm in college now, lol, but, yes, those Seniors....
There's the ACT!
Those people who failed and lost their jobs..
If i was a school district, I would refuse to even do business with this company ever again.
Now every place where these tests were taken, anyone that wants to could challenge their grade.
This is an outrageous incident, they knew about the bug for a year. Didn't they have any testing or anything for their software? I guess the leadership's laziness and apathy is reflected with the programmers in the company.
Now...
you shouldn't base your opinion on one breakaway part of the faith which doesnt show any real aspects of Christainity anyway
But..
w/his prediction, you know, its called reeducation, Stalin did it.
As some of you might recall, the UTITA, (or however that is spelled), with the remote backdoors to shut down a programs, are qutie the controversy. Now, with WindowsXP, we're seeing this with MS' feature of letting people go on each other's computer's with the troubleshoot feature, which allows one to access another's computer and troubleshoot it. Firstly, this is quite decivious on MS' part, because: 1. They now will know when someone is online
2. They can shut down any XP system remotely with that backdoor
3. Hacker exploits
Second: The MS messenger service. It already loads up when I open ME, but to install and run it every time, its a pain in the ass. I don't use it, I'm sure most Slashdotters don't either.
MS wants to integrate everything into their system, which, had them taken to court a few years ago over IE. What the hell is wrong with our state governments now? This smacks of monopoly, (as if we didn't know MS was a Monopoly already).
Just reading these articles makes Linux look better and better!
Considering five hundred bucks for every piece of spam...
That is quite crippling to a company if you take the time to think about it.
Companies might send 5,000 spam, multiply that by 500 and you got a 5 million dollar fine. Most of the companies that do spam, that would do major damage to them. For the small company, 50 spam alone would cripple them.
But, spam is quite annoying, can we apply this law to chain letters too.
The court though, might find 500 too extreme and lower it to 50 to 100 bucks...
Who says all mp3s are illegal copies of music? Music groups use them too to get seen online, or for their own personal use. Its not mp3s that are illegal, but the kind of music and copyright that is behind a certain mp3
Quite interesting. They're wondering how to wire up our infrastructure for the 21st century. This is the way. These tubes are probably in some more cities, so expect them to look into using those tubes as well for wiring. If the tubes were widespread, (which they are not), we could consider our 19th century Americans, the builders of our internet networking. Heh
Those who are on shared networks and turn on the "file-sharing" option, will be hacked into. As for the problem of shared bandwidth, its real and its a problem in Buffalo. Adelphia cannot handle all the problems that they are having with shared bandwidth. Slow download speeds and broken connections have caused a massive frustration here and many have sent complaints to the attorney general of the state. Its quite real, your cable company might be a good provider, but come to Buffalo and get Adelphia, you'll see how real this problem is!
Well, 50kbs is nice, but look into what your cable provided as the highest speed. In Buffalo, Adelphia offers up to 3mb/sec, but it reaches up to 200 kb/sec only, (due to the sheer demand the network has on it).
DSL is much better, since most provide about your speed for the same price, but a more dependable connection
Its proof that you actually went to that school and graduated! You hear all the time of people having false degrees, etc...this kind of practice will put a stop to it.
You may be right on the Perl side,
But..surely, Java still has some barriers to overcome, like those people, who post on/. saying java sucks, with good reason, (being slow, too much like C++)
But it is a easy language compared to the others and is as good as C++ or in this case C#
A book like this would be a great help to someone that knows the language but would like to start using it for the Internet. Like myself, I just started learning RMI and this book would be something that I would buy.
You may not realize it, but since C# is basically a sellout to MS, Java and Perl are going to be the basis of most programming languages. Of course, C# will be used, but watch out for Java and Perl
For the technologically clueless, this site is a great help. The coaster question has to be a classic.
But now...what about those who have no clue what they are doing with linux, (like me). If you've been to linuxnewbie, etc, you see that there are all these scripts and commands to do, well what if you dont know all those things? Like me this morning when I tried to put in Win4Lin and it told me to go to/.../../../.../ blah blah, and nothing was there!
Although this is offtopic, I wonder, perhaps a comphrensive Linux page is needed for the clueless Linux user as myself. If you help the clueless, then you've beaten ms.
I don't think I'll be losing any sleep over the fact that MS is giving five of their games away for free for every couple of users it turns in. I don't think a company wants to lose a customer, and potential customers, over the fact they snitched on them for not using Windows, over a couple of video games, besides, those games are nothing compared to what else is out there.
We've all seen The Thruman Show, with the cameras every which way. I guess we've just about reached that point. Big brother has these all over the place, or so he wishes he does. Retailers, well, they can have them in the stores if they want, (except the dressing room), its their store, I don't expect privacy there. But, it would bother me if it was on my street. Imagine if someone could gain access to watching what I do outside my home and sometimes, seeing what I do inside, when i leave and return, who I bring home. This is the truly frightening thing. Include infrared, its all over.
Any bug is worthy of being a severity bug...as long as it can make your system crash, or cause some kind of major malfunction, its bad. MS would be promiement on this kind of program though, hehe
This time she didn't shut the entire thing down, like last time she threatened to...
Napster's safe for now...but I guess its quite a shame when we all know that the law is being broken delibrately that nothing can be done about it, that is, if you think the law is being broken here.
Once more, the RiAA showing, they suck again
Lets, see thinkgeek is trying to sell me cases with black lights, now I got clear cases, it'd be interesting to see, but it would be like the clear telephones, it would end up being a fad.
What's next? Invisible cases?
The SDMI code on a shirt!
But seriously
Its showing off to them if one takes the time to think about it...but guess what, what they do next, well, it'll be cracked anyway and we'll be here posting about it. RiAA can't win
What exactly is it, you'd think they'd leave some kind of detail of it on the page, but only when you read the white pages do you get any real detail. If only companies would be up front and stop leaving blanket statements then they'd see some good interest in their products
Actually, although this is going offtopic, wasn't the MS ruling thrown out in an appeals court a month ago, it wasn't on slashdot, but i read about it time i think
Truly, if one takes the time to think about it, if they're taking Quake's engine's or a similarity to it, don't they owe Quake then? I mean, you just can't go around and take things, modify them a little bit, and slap your name on it, (look at microsoft, they flaunted this and look what happened to them), and copyright it, (im sure Quake engine's isnt a open source project) Whats going on with Quake then?
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I didn't even know where Mandrake was based lol.
But if Mandrake does fall, (the company) it will still survive, (the OS), because it is an OSS and will be worked on.
Well, its not as bad as it sounds. They're laying off mainly high priced American managers on the reasoning that they can't do a US IPO right now, so get rid of the Americans. Fine, get rid of the Frenchies because their wine sucks..pfft
Mandrake is doing though, what most tech companies are doing, laying off and firing people, although not as high level and drastic as Mandrake has done. I hope this doesn't affect their distro, (yes it will). Mandrake is such a high quality OS. I had RH first and get Mandrake later and stuck with Mandrake.
Well, you can't really file lawsuits on software bugs, (otherwise MS would have been fucked a long time ago). And the SATs, well, I'm in college now, lol, but, yes, those Seniors....
There's the ACT!
Those people who failed and lost their jobs..
If i was a school district, I would refuse to even do business with this company ever again.
Now every place where these tests were taken, anyone that wants to could challenge their grade.
This is an outrageous incident, they knew about the bug for a year. Didn't they have any testing or anything for their software? I guess the leadership's laziness and apathy is reflected with the programmers in the company.
Now...
you shouldn't base your opinion on one breakaway part of the faith which doesnt show any real aspects of Christainity anyway
But..
w/his prediction, you know, its called reeducation, Stalin did it.
As some of you might recall, the UTITA, (or however that is spelled), with the remote backdoors to shut down a programs, are qutie the controversy. Now, with WindowsXP, we're seeing this with MS' feature of letting people go on each other's computer's with the troubleshoot feature, which allows one to access another's computer and troubleshoot it. Firstly, this is quite decivious on MS' part, because: 1. They now will know when someone is online
2. They can shut down any XP system remotely with that backdoor
3. Hacker exploits
Second: The MS messenger service. It already loads up when I open ME, but to install and run it every time, its a pain in the ass. I don't use it, I'm sure most Slashdotters don't either.
MS wants to integrate everything into their system, which, had them taken to court a few years ago over IE. What the hell is wrong with our state governments now? This smacks of monopoly, (as if we didn't know MS was a Monopoly already).
Just reading these articles makes Linux look better and better!
Considering five hundred bucks for every piece of spam...
That is quite crippling to a company if you take the time to think about it.
Companies might send 5,000 spam, multiply that by 500 and you got a 5 million dollar fine. Most of the companies that do spam, that would do major damage to them. For the small company, 50 spam alone would cripple them.
But, spam is quite annoying, can we apply this law to chain letters too.
The court though, might find 500 too extreme and lower it to 50 to 100 bucks...
Who says all mp3s are illegal copies of music? Music groups use them too to get seen online, or for their own personal use. Its not mp3s that are illegal, but the kind of music and copyright that is behind a certain mp3
Quite interesting. They're wondering how to wire up our infrastructure for the 21st century. This is the way. These tubes are probably in some more cities, so expect them to look into using those tubes as well for wiring. If the tubes were widespread, (which they are not), we could consider our 19th century Americans, the builders of our internet networking. Heh
Those who are on shared networks and turn on the "file-sharing" option, will be hacked into. As for the problem of shared bandwidth, its real and its a problem in Buffalo. Adelphia cannot handle all the problems that they are having with shared bandwidth. Slow download speeds and broken connections have caused a massive frustration here and many have sent complaints to the attorney general of the state. Its quite real, your cable company might be a good provider, but come to Buffalo and get Adelphia, you'll see how real this problem is!
Well, 50kbs is nice, but look into what your cable provided as the highest speed. In Buffalo, Adelphia offers up to 3mb/sec, but it reaches up to 200 kb/sec only, (due to the sheer demand the network has on it).
DSL is much better, since most provide about your speed for the same price, but a more dependable connection
Its proof that you actually went to that school and graduated! You hear all the time of people having false degrees, etc...this kind of practice will put a stop to it.
You may be right on the Perl side, /. saying java sucks, with good reason, (being slow, too much like C++)
But..surely, Java still has some barriers to overcome, like those people, who post on
But it is a easy language compared to the others and is as good as C++ or in this case C#
A book like this would be a great help to someone that knows the language but would like to start using it for the Internet. Like myself, I just started learning RMI and this book would be something that I would buy.
You may not realize it, but since C# is basically a sellout to MS, Java and Perl are going to be the basis of most programming languages. Of course, C# will be used, but watch out for Java and Perl
Thats what I have lol
still wont work with a master riptide sound card, wanna know why? HP decided to get Rockwell's combined winmodem-sound card
For the technologically clueless, this site is a great help. The coaster question has to be a classic. /.../../../.../ blah blah, and nothing was there!
But now...what about those who have no clue what they are doing with linux, (like me). If you've been to linuxnewbie, etc, you see that there are all these scripts and commands to do, well what if you dont know all those things? Like me this morning when I tried to put in Win4Lin and it told me to go to
Although this is offtopic, I wonder, perhaps a comphrensive Linux page is needed for the clueless Linux user as myself. If you help the clueless, then you've beaten ms.
I don't think I'll be losing any sleep over the fact that MS is giving five of their games away for free for every couple of users it turns in. I don't think a company wants to lose a customer, and potential customers, over the fact they snitched on them for not using Windows, over a couple of video games, besides, those games are nothing compared to what else is out there.
We've all seen The Thruman Show, with the cameras every which way. I guess we've just about reached that point. Big brother has these all over the place, or so he wishes he does. Retailers, well, they can have them in the stores if they want, (except the dressing room), its their store, I don't expect privacy there. But, it would bother me if it was on my street. Imagine if someone could gain access to watching what I do outside my home and sometimes, seeing what I do inside, when i leave and return, who I bring home. This is the truly frightening thing. Include infrared, its all over.
Any bug is worthy of being a severity bug...as long as it can make your system crash, or cause some kind of major malfunction, its bad. MS would be promiement on this kind of program though, hehe
This time she didn't shut the entire thing down, like last time she threatened to...
Napster's safe for now...but I guess its quite a shame when we all know that the law is being broken delibrately that nothing can be done about it, that is, if you think the law is being broken here.
Once more, the RiAA showing, they suck again
Lets, see thinkgeek is trying to sell me cases with black lights, now I got clear cases, it'd be interesting to see, but it would be like the clear telephones, it would end up being a fad.
What's next? Invisible cases?
The SDMI code on a shirt!
But seriously
Its showing off to them if one takes the time to think about it...but guess what, what they do next, well, it'll be cracked anyway and we'll be here posting about it. RiAA can't win
What exactly is it, you'd think they'd leave some kind of detail of it on the page, but only when you read the white pages do you get any real detail. If only companies would be up front and stop leaving blanket statements then they'd see some good interest in their products
Actually, although this is going offtopic, wasn't the MS ruling thrown out in an appeals court a month ago, it wasn't on slashdot, but i read about it time i think
Truly, if one takes the time to think about it, if they're taking Quake's engine's or a similarity to it, don't they owe Quake then? I mean, you just can't go around and take things, modify them a little bit, and slap your name on it, (look at microsoft, they flaunted this and look what happened to them), and copyright it, (im sure Quake engine's isnt a open source project) Whats going on with Quake then?