Re:Easy of Linux vs Complexity of Windows Updates
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Let me get this straight - you find Windows Updates complex?
Yes. When you must be constantly patching things and find out that your update isn't working because of some spyware...
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Linux outinstalled Windows 40 to 1.
Easy of Linux vs Complexity of Windows Updates
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Once a Linux system is properly configured, there really is not much to keeping it up and going. I would much rather place a computer novice on a Linux system than deal with that user on a Windows machine with all its updates against spyware and viruses.
Seems that a bunch of people are telling you what a disservice you are doing. I think it is a great idea, and one I will be stealing for my own use this Christmas.
About six months ago my wife's uncle was asking me what I do about pop-ups, viruses, and other such things. I told him that I don't have those problems because I do not use Windows. After talking with him at some length, we determined that he could switch to Linux for just about everything. He uses dial-up which was a bit unreliable at connecting from Windows, e-mails, surfs, uses his digital camera, and uses Quickbooks. Okay, I set him up with dual boot, keeping Windows completely off the Internet, which gives him Windows for Quickbooks only. Linux reliably connects to the Internet with seemingly better throughput, giving him email via Evolution and surfing via Firefox. I set him up with some custom stuff to work with his digital camera (his own web space on a local Apache and some hella scripts to dump into eGallery). He never has to worry about viruses and most pop-ups are under control. He is truly thankful. I also gave him three live CDs to give to his kids to try on their machines. They never made it to the kids! He gave them away to people he spoke with the next day having troubles similar to his. Two out of the three are interested in a switch to Linux after messing around with the live CD, and the third will be a shoe-in once he gets a machine better than his Windows 95 current box.
You may bring more people over to the Dark Side, while helping many with their ongoing Windows troubles.
This "develop a logo for my company" thing is well and good, but can you put it in your sig, so that those of us who don't want to be bombarded with ad's/spam can choose not to see it?
I wasted less real estate than your response.
Also this competition you're promoting has a horrible condition - "The remaining entries' designs will remain the property of our company to be used or showcased as we see fit". This condition is rubbish. It is evil. It sounds like you're not thinking of actually paying anyone - and will use whatever logo you want, without compensating it's creator. Given that's your attitude, maybe you won't mind if I pirate your software because I wasn't going to buy it anyway?
You are too cynical. We fully intend on paying, and I paraphased other contests I found on the Internet. I have since rephrased the line to just say that we will not return other submitted items and we have the right to post submissions to our website to feature the contest.
We simply thought that this would be a great way to help us create a logo, while placing a small line at the end of a posting on this high-traffic site. No rip-off agenda. We are nerds, supporters of Slashdot, funders of open source software, and just some guys needing some help in a start-up company.
Audi AG employees have gone from six cards to one, thanks to Legic's smart card system. It merges parking, access control, time and attendance, and cashless payment ability at vending machines or in the cafeteria. In addition, the card has room for future biometric applications.
This is in their Mark of the Beast Watch! World gone mad?!?!
I just cannot stand people like this that fear RFID is a step toward "the mark of the beast". First, religious groups said that Social Security numbers were evil, and now it is RFID targetted.
Can anyone point to technology that religion embraced in its infancy? I really would be interested.
Require, by law, that those ports that support p2p and irc be blocked.
I don't know if you are aware of this or not, but you can run any service over any port, including port 80. Tunneling over the web port takes care of this completely.
Require ISPs to isntall packet-sniffers to determine is it is a known p2p or irc-type protocol.
Tunneling with encryption gets you an un-sniffable virtual private network.
It wouldn't be hard to stop it, if it was a federal law to require them to be stopped..
Sure. If a federal law shut America off the Internet, that would do it. Anything less you can work around entirely.
I remember when "they" won against Napster. I was just sitting there thinking how alike Napster was to IRC DCC, while I was asking in channels what was being offered. I don't see how you can stop someone from using something like GNUtella or IRC or Usenet or Bit Torrent, especially if it is international.
I am glad that my wife finally gets it. It took her years before she learned that when I say I work on computers for a living that it does not mean Windows computers. I work as a software developer for Unix systems. I looked like an idiot trying to fix something on a Windows machine because I do not run one or own one. Now she just says that I work on Unichs, with no mention of computers, which raises an eyebrow sometimes.
think he was inplying that Ted Kennedy is a worthless sack and his salary is a waste of everyone's money.
I would be all for paying them ten times their current salaries if they would just do their job and then go home. These freaks living in D.C. dreaming up stupid ways to waste money irritates me. I think they should ban all air conditioners and heaters from the District.
Is Internet2 just going to become a huge VPN over the Internet or is it a completely segregated network infrastructure? And, can't we actually realize a fall in moviegoing or music listening before we have all these anti-piracy commercials? I remember seeing a rise in anti-piracy advertisements from Microsoft in the past when the company was making money hand over fist.
I agree. I need a phone so I can answer the phone and call out on the phone. I don't need crappy games, crappy web browsing, and crappy music. I need my toaster to do some of these things, though.
I've bought three TiVos in the past four years, but my next PVR will run MythTV -- unless HR2391 passes and makes me a criminal for skipping commercials.
You are joking, right? Please don't tell me that you wouldn't run MythTV because it would violate the law. Do you not ever speed either?
I figure that if I can still watching television hitting pause whenever I am recording to not put commercials on a VHS tape, it should be fair game if you figure a way to automate this. I can see a law being made, but unenforceable.
Reading this post has made me wonder if a map exists of places humans have not recently been. Does anyone know if such a thing is out there, because I sure as heck couldn't find much via Internet searches.
On another note, does anyone know the approximate population of Antartica? Just curious how many people are camping out at those research stations.
I once heard this about big iron mainframes, but seems fitting here too: You cannot replace a bull with 10,000 chickens.
It will always be the right tool for the job. If a company wants many machines and has a service agreement with someone to monitor, replace (or not), etc., then that works for them. If a company wants all that in one power draw in a large box, they get a supercomputer. There are also many processing models that clusters of smaller machines can not provide solutions to.
That having been said, of course Cray is going to say that smaller boxen clusters = bad.
You may be lost without it, but what revenue do they actually generate based on that? Do you click on their ads? That's great, but then where do they go from there?
I know a company that when call volume is low they simply up their cost per click on Google for a couple of hours, spending about $1000, and they have work for the next month. Google ads really work.
For my business, we landed a small contract for some communication line installations from posting an ad on Google. We spent about $60, and received just under $500 in billable services. We are currently working on an ad campaign for Google for some custom software. We will be making Google our only advertisement medium.
Linux jobs won't spread until of more there are more Linux installs. This won't happen until Linux becomes easier to use, and more widespread.
The part that I have trouble with is where you say that Linux must become easier before there will be jobs for it? So, we only find easy work for people? Someone must do the complicated tasks -- and usually they are paid more for it.
additionally, nobody gets your email [address] when you post it on the web
Believe me, that domain's mail is the worst spammed mother out there. But, I have had it posted all over for so long, there is really no way now to curtail the influx of mail. I have other accounts that are far quieter and I make sure those are not really out there.
I personally like the catch-all. It is not too bad after I run it all through spam filters and personal filters. I like it too because it thwarts the spammers' ability to know good from bad addresses. And, I can find out who is giving away my address by using different accounts, like classmates@totallygeek.com, slashdot@totallygeek.com, etc.
Ok, whats the diference between the BASH/TCSH/etc shell on Linux and the same shell on Windows?
The slashes for file directories go the right direction?
I do know where you are coming from. I think it really comes down to two things: preference and usability. If you enjoy using Linux, that is your preference, and you will think of it for a solution first. If you enjoy Windows, you will look there first. I have been enlightened when I say, "my OS (Linux) can do this, and Windows can't," many times by serious Windows users. I have been surprized many times at utilities that I did not know existed for Windows, simply because I do not use it. Usability is the big one, though. I mean, do I really want to jump through hoops to get some Windows-designed program to port and run on Linux, or is it simply more usable within Windows? Conversely, time and time again there are documented problems with Linux-written software compiled under Windows. And, just in the number of people using X utility, support is a nightmare. I mean, it does not do a Window user much good to look at configuration options that continually mention "/proc" and ulimit.
I really do not understand this. A fair percentage of violent criminals have no prior record before they commit their offenses. I am sure the same goes for terrorists. You have a student over here learning and then he is told to do a suicide mission or release some nerve gas. No one is really watching this fine upstanding person under 30, bright, personable.
I mean, none of the 911 terrorists were being investigated and all had current papers to be here legally.
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Yes. When you must be constantly patching things and find out that your update isn't working because of some spyware...
About six months ago my wife's uncle was asking me what I do about pop-ups, viruses, and other such things. I told him that I don't have those problems because I do not use Windows. After talking with him at some length, we determined that he could switch to Linux for just about everything. He uses dial-up which was a bit unreliable at connecting from Windows, e-mails, surfs, uses his digital camera, and uses Quickbooks. Okay, I set him up with dual boot, keeping Windows completely off the Internet, which gives him Windows for Quickbooks only. Linux reliably connects to the Internet with seemingly better throughput, giving him email via Evolution and surfing via Firefox. I set him up with some custom stuff to work with his digital camera (his own web space on a local Apache and some hella scripts to dump into eGallery). He never has to worry about viruses and most pop-ups are under control. He is truly thankful. I also gave him three live CDs to give to his kids to try on their machines. They never made it to the kids! He gave them away to people he spoke with the next day having troubles similar to his. Two out of the three are interested in a switch to Linux after messing around with the live CD, and the third will be a shoe-in once he gets a machine better than his Windows 95 current box.
You may bring more people over to the Dark Side, while helping many with their ongoing Windows troubles.
Back, and to the left.
Back, and to the left.
Ten bucks to do a dance move to a murder scene doesn't sound worth it. Pretty lame.
I wasted less real estate than your response.
You are too cynical. We fully intend on paying, and I paraphased other contests I found on the Internet. I have since rephrased the line to just say that we will not return other submitted items and we have the right to post submissions to our website to feature the contest.
We simply thought that this would be a great way to help us create a logo, while placing a small line at the end of a posting on this high-traffic site. No rip-off agenda. We are nerds, supporters of Slashdot, funders of open source software, and just some guys needing some help in a start-up company.
This is in their Mark of the Beast Watch! World gone mad?!?!
Want to make $ 500.00?
Can anyone point to technology that religion embraced in its infancy? I really would be interested.
Are you a good graphics designer?
I don't know if you are aware of this or not, but you can run any service over any port, including port 80. Tunneling over the web port takes care of this completely.
Tunneling with encryption gets you an un-sniffable virtual private network.
Sure. If a federal law shut America off the Internet, that would do it. Anything less you can work around entirely.
I am glad that my wife finally gets it. It took her years before she learned that when I say I work on computers for a living that it does not mean Windows computers. I work as a software developer for Unix systems. I looked like an idiot trying to fix something on a Windows machine because I do not run one or own one. Now she just says that I work on Unichs, with no mention of computers, which raises an eyebrow sometimes.
I would be all for paying them ten times their current salaries if they would just do their job and then go home. These freaks living in D.C. dreaming up stupid ways to waste money irritates me. I think they should ban all air conditioners and heaters from the District.
Speaking of getting paid: How about a job with Google?
Want a job with Google?
Want a Job With Google?
You are joking, right? Please don't tell me that you wouldn't run MythTV because it would violate the law. Do you not ever speed either?
I figure that if I can still watching television hitting pause whenever I am recording to not put commercials on a VHS tape, it should be fair game if you figure a way to automate this. I can see a law being made, but unenforceable.
On another note, does anyone know the approximate population of Antartica? Just curious how many people are camping out at those research stations.
It will always be the right tool for the job. If a company wants many machines and has a service agreement with someone to monitor, replace (or not), etc., then that works for them. If a company wants all that in one power draw in a large box, they get a supercomputer. There are also many processing models that clusters of smaller machines can not provide solutions to.
That having been said, of course Cray is going to say that smaller boxen clusters = bad.
I know a company that when call volume is low they simply up their cost per click on Google for a couple of hours, spending about $1000, and they have work for the next month. Google ads really work.
For my business, we landed a small contract for some communication line installations from posting an ad on Google. We spent about $60, and received just under $500 in billable services. We are currently working on an ad campaign for Google for some custom software. We will be making Google our only advertisement medium.
The part that I have trouble with is where you say that Linux must become easier before there will be jobs for it? So, we only find easy work for people? Someone must do the complicated tasks -- and usually they are paid more for it.
And that firewall is usually running...ding, ding, ding...Linux.
Believe me, that domain's mail is the worst spammed mother out there. But, I have had it posted all over for so long, there is really no way now to curtail the influx of mail. I have other accounts that are far quieter and I make sure those are not really out there.
I personally like the catch-all. It is not too bad after I run it all through spam filters and personal filters. I like it too because it thwarts the spammers' ability to know good from bad addresses. And, I can find out who is giving away my address by using different accounts, like classmates@totallygeek.com, slashdot@totallygeek.com, etc.
The slashes for file directories go the right direction?
I do know where you are coming from. I think it really comes down to two things: preference and usability. If you enjoy using Linux, that is your preference, and you will think of it for a solution first. If you enjoy Windows, you will look there first. I have been enlightened when I say, "my OS (Linux) can do this, and Windows can't," many times by serious Windows users. I have been surprized many times at utilities that I did not know existed for Windows, simply because I do not use it. Usability is the big one, though. I mean, do I really want to jump through hoops to get some Windows-designed program to port and run on Linux, or is it simply more usable within Windows? Conversely, time and time again there are documented problems with Linux-written software compiled under Windows. And, just in the number of people using X utility, support is a nightmare. I mean, it does not do a Window user much good to look at configuration options that continually mention "/proc" and ulimit.
I really do not understand this. A fair percentage of violent criminals have no prior record before they commit their offenses. I am sure the same goes for terrorists. You have a student over here learning and then he is told to do a suicide mission or release some nerve gas. No one is really watching this fine upstanding person under 30, bright, personable.
I mean, none of the 911 terrorists were being investigated and all had current papers to be here legally.