Sounds vaguely familiar.... Back in the early 80's, I had a 300 baud manual carrier modem, where you dialed the phone, waited for the carrier, and then flipped a switch to 'recieve' and hung up the phone. If you wanted to upload a file, you had to coordinate with the person on the other end and flip the switch the other way. (I don't remember the exact proceedure... A few months after that modem, I got a brand new shiny 1200 baud modem... Such blinding speed! 100k files in under two hours!)
Ah... That would explain why I (And others I know) Have been having so many problems with hotmail lately.
(No... I'm not trolling. Seriously. Over the last 3 months, 6 people I know have had problems with their hotmail boxes... misdirected messages, corrupted passwords, whole folders disappearing, explorer crashing every time they try to check their hotmail.... I was wondering what happened to BSD/Apache that would cause that....)
Easy way to fix that. Get rid of M$ and Open Source it. That way, anyone who can read (and understand)code can eyeball it for security holes, buffer overruns, and the like.
...And invite big brother right into our homes, no questions asked, would you like to peek into my closets? No thanks. We're tracked enough as it is. I, for one, don't want any more invasion of my privacy than there already is. And you can bet that most people who actually understand the underlying processes wouldn't want it either.
Actually, My wintendo ME ran quite well on my 233mmx. Funny thing is that I see no real performance improvement in ME now that I'm on a Duron 650.... And MP3s actually skip more. I'll go back to linux on a permanant basis just as soon as I get my AWE64 working again... (It worked under standard Mandrake, but broke immediately upon compiling 2.4 test8, and every step since. *shrug* And yes, I updated modutils... Dunno what the deal is, but in the true Linux spirit, I'll keep plugging along and fiddling with it 'til it works.... )
That'd be nice... Unfortunately, I have no easy way to use ISO images. *shrug* Mebbe I'll try again when/if the final release of 2.4 comes out. Hopefully, it'll like my cable modem.
Well, since you're on a consumer-level OS kick, how many consumer-level types even know what a CERT advisory is, let alone what do do with it?
That's the 'beauty' of windows. Someone else thinks for you. Linux will never be a consumer level OS unless someone finally realizes that consumers don't want to think. They want to *DO*. If they have to think about it, they usually don't want it. With windoze, you click 'click here' and about 70% of the time, it works. if there's a security problem, don't worry. Microsloth will fix it... in a few months. In the mean time, look at the pretty pictures!
I'm ranting.. it's 3am and I just got home from work. I love/hate linux, but face it... it's a thinking person's OS, and your average consumer would rather leave the thinking to someone else.
Oh, and so I'm stuck in Windoze 'til I can get the cable modem talking to linux... Which means somehow figuring out what's up with the pegasus driver... So mandrake *REALLY* sucks. Mebbe I'll just go back to caldera. Besides, there's no sickly purple in caldera.
I dunno... I'm the not-so-proud owner of Mandrake 7.2... Most of the packages are way out of date.... something on the order of 350 rpms that need to be updated out of the box... Lots of security holes... And they jumped the gun with KDE. *AND* the 'update' CD they mailed me doesn't seem to work. (As in, I stick it in the drive, run LiveUpdate, LiveUpdate looks at it, and pretends that it's not there.) Oh, and the USB support leaves something seriously to be desired.. Like actually having the pegasus driver acknowledge that the network adapter is there. *shrug* Mebbe I'm just bitter 'coz it doesn't like my system as well as everyone else's.:)
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Sounds vaguely familiar.... Back in the early 80's, I had a 300 baud manual carrier modem, where you dialed the phone, waited for the carrier, and then flipped a switch to 'recieve' and hung up the phone. If you wanted to upload a file, you had to coordinate with the person on the other end and flip the switch the other way. (I don't remember the exact proceedure... A few months after that modem, I got a brand new shiny 1200 baud modem... Such blinding speed! 100k files in under two hours!)
Caller ID can be spoofed.
Ah... That would explain why I (And others I know) Have been having so many problems with hotmail lately. (No... I'm not trolling. Seriously. Over the last 3 months, 6 people I know have had problems with their hotmail boxes... misdirected messages, corrupted passwords, whole folders disappearing, explorer crashing every time they try to check their hotmail.... I was wondering what happened to BSD/Apache that would cause that....)
Easy way to fix that. Get rid of M$ and Open Source it. That way, anyone who can read (and understand)code can eyeball it for security holes, buffer overruns, and the like.
...And invite big brother right into our homes, no questions asked, would you like to peek into my closets? No thanks. We're tracked enough as it is. I, for one, don't want any more invasion of my privacy than there already is. And you can bet that most people who actually understand the underlying processes wouldn't want it either.
Actually, My wintendo ME ran quite well on my 233mmx. Funny thing is that I see no real performance improvement in ME now that I'm on a Duron 650.... And MP3s actually skip more. I'll go back to linux on a permanant basis just as soon as I get my AWE64 working again... (It worked under standard Mandrake, but broke immediately upon compiling 2.4 test8, and every step since. *shrug* And yes, I updated modutils... Dunno what the deal is, but in the true Linux spirit, I'll keep plugging along and fiddling with it 'til it works.... )
That'd be nice... Unfortunately, I have no easy way to use ISO images. *shrug* Mebbe I'll try again when/if the final release of 2.4 comes out. Hopefully, it'll like my cable modem.
Heh. I never said windoze was actually worked :)
Well, since you're on a consumer-level OS kick, how many consumer-level types even know what a CERT advisory is, let alone what do do with it? That's the 'beauty' of windows. Someone else thinks for you. Linux will never be a consumer level OS unless someone finally realizes that consumers don't want to think. They want to *DO*. If they have to think about it, they usually don't want it. With windoze, you click 'click here' and about 70% of the time, it works. if there's a security problem, don't worry. Microsloth will fix it... in a few months. In the mean time, look at the pretty pictures! I'm ranting.. it's 3am and I just got home from work. I love/hate linux, but face it... it's a thinking person's OS, and your average consumer would rather leave the thinking to someone else.
Oh, and so I'm stuck in Windoze 'til I can get the cable modem talking to linux... Which means somehow figuring out what's up with the pegasus driver... So mandrake *REALLY* sucks. Mebbe I'll just go back to caldera. Besides, there's no sickly purple in caldera.
I dunno... I'm the not-so-proud owner of Mandrake 7.2... Most of the packages are way out of date.... something on the order of 350 rpms that need to be updated out of the box... Lots of security holes... And they jumped the gun with KDE. *AND* the 'update' CD they mailed me doesn't seem to work. (As in, I stick it in the drive, run LiveUpdate, LiveUpdate looks at it, and pretends that it's not there.) Oh, and the USB support leaves something seriously to be desired.. Like actually having the pegasus driver acknowledge that the network adapter is there. *shrug* Mebbe I'm just bitter 'coz it doesn't like my system as well as everyone else's. :)