34%, that's approx a third (APPROX, I *know* it's not exact, don't flame me). So all that's required is three viruses (viri?:))
I'm sure it wouldn't be too much more of a headache for the people who write them one in the first place, and anyway, one third of the computers going down would still be a bit of a bitch.
The impact - equivalent to smashing a heavy car into a wall at a speed of more than 1,100 mph - is an attempt to confirm the presence of ice at the lunar poles.
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Those tools are not all great. Esp. VB which I suffer at the moment. It sucks monumentously, but this company love M$ (which is why I'm leaving in a month or so:-) )
THAT is truly fantastic. A seriously winning Good Thing. Wow!!!! Guess who's created a Favorite (it would be a bookmark, but I'm in work so it's a f*king favorite), but I am most happy. It'll probably be blocked sometime soon, anyone who can please mirror this site.
They may be writing the browser, but will it be open-source? Even if it is, would it be GPL or a more restrictuve license (my money's on the second, or not at all)
I've configured Minicom, and it can dial out, no problems. I dialed my ISP, connected, but could not login, the username/password was denied. Is this a problem with my ISP, or do I need to configure more things? I've heard a meniton of PPP (but I know nothing about it).
Thanks, and: If they're just suites, is one able to install and run both (run at the same time), or is each a "fundamental" type thang that can only be on the system once?
I know that Gnome is not an OS. I know KDE is not an OS, I know the X Window System is not an OS, but am a little confused about what GNOME and KDE are.
They are desktop environments. OK, does that mean they are Windows Managers (like FVWM)? Or are they something else?
I haven't yet gotten into the GUI side yet, I'm still delighting at being back at the command-prompt after suffering Bindows 95 for so long (and yes,I know the prompt is accessible under 95)
Maybe I should have been clearer, I did not mean 100*100 = 1000. I meant that when one gets to 999 where does one go? "One thousand", not "one hundred hundreds"
9999 goes to one million, not one thousand thousands. So surely 999,999,999 should next go to "one thousand millions", not a new number, called a billion.
And, to the post: Why is it so hard to comprehend that the Americans assign a new designator for each set of three zeroes behind a number... 1 - One 10 - Ten 100 - One Hundred 1,000 - One Thousand ...
he/she's wrong by definition, 1 - One, then 10 - Ten, where are the three zeros after the first "1", eh?
And to "more nukes...", yes,;) but the Chinese know where they all are now: Story
Only thing is, Americans define a billion as one thousand million, whereas a British billion is one million million.
Surely the British billion makes sense, as ten tens is one hundred. One hundred hundreds is one thousand. One thousand thousands is one million. One million millions should be one billion. Why have the USA broken the trend and gone to one thousand millions for one (US) billion? It doesn't make sense.
Linux is open-source. You can build your own kernel and apps from the source. There must be at least one person at Micro$haft/Mindcraft (may as well be the same thing for these tests) capable of doing this;-) So, what is to stop them putting some loops into their code and rebuilding, just to slow things down?
M$ are devious and malicious enough to do this, and there's no way a Micro$haft-funded test is going to proclaim Linux the victor, it's just not going to happen.
Perhaps if they actually let Linux gurus in to configure things, then they wouldn't be able to fix things, but they won't. They will only accept advice, why won't they let them in if all is to be fair???
Social outcast, nerd, geek, freak - yep, I was (am?) all those things in school. However, I didn't *want* to be involved with most the other people. They didn't like me, I didn't like them, so why should I subject myself to their company, just because it's perceived as 'normal'?
You shouldn't have negative feelings, just because the 'popular' people don't like you - most of them are too stupid to be individual, and have to hang with the crowd because they're too scared to even try and think for themselves, and mindlessly follow other people.
"It's disgusting what these kids did.... how can such things happen in our society"
Then
"It's every American's right to own a gun!"
Am I the only one who sees some incompatibility in these two statements? Yet this seems to be the attitude of so many Americans. They condemn such actions (rightly so), but then insist that laws to control guns are impinging on their freedom. Duh!
OK, maybe I've missed something here, but what is so difficult about pronouncing "Slashdot". Surely it's just "slash" (hmm, nothing difficult so far), then "dot" (hey, that was easy).
Powerpoint is like Windows. It tries to create things for the lowest common denominator: stupid people.
People actually like Powerpoint apps, because they're generally very simple (to create and understand), with very little information in them, with nice and bright colours.
I'm not sure if this is a problem with the app. or the people who use it...probably both.
Microshaft products are not just bad because they run on a flaky OS; they're also unreliable and bloated in themselves. If we see Microshaft Orifice for Linux, then the downright shoddiness of such a package will reflect badly on Linux.
Do we really need anything from M$?
Personally I'd like to avoid any of their products being ported, as Microshaft getting involved can only be a bad thing. They won't support the open-source, free software approach, they will seek to control Linux, just as they control the current standards. It may be more difficult, but given time I'm confident Bill could corrupt anything.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm sure it wouldn't be too much more of a headache for the people who write them one in the first place, and anyway, one third of the computers going down would still be a bit of a bitch.
Fortune:
"Profanity is the one language all programmers know best"
BTInternet are allowing free calls for subscription paying customers, but only on the weekends, so I'm still boycotting this Sunday
Goto BTInternet for more info....
I've got this from the BBC News site:
The impact - equivalent to smashing a heavy car into a wall at a speed of more than 1,100 mph - is an attempt to confirm the presence of ice at the lunar poles.
Those tools are not all great. Esp. VB which I suffer at the moment. It sucks monumentously, but this company love M$ (which is why I'm leaving in a month or so
Extended gratitude
Dave
I don't suppose it's mirrored anywhere or anything? My company has websense which is blokcing me from going there. Innocuous looking URLS are good.
Hang on, moderate this response down as offtopic, but my original one wasn't. It's about MSIE4Linux, how the hell is that off-topic????
They may be writing the browser, but will it be open-source? Even if it is, would it be GPL or a more restrictuve license (my money's on the second, or not at all)
How would I connect to my ISP from Linux?
I've configured Minicom, and it can dial out, no problems. I dialed my ISP, connected, but could not login, the username/password was denied. Is this a problem with my ISP, or do I need to configure more things? I've heard a meniton of PPP (but I know nothing about it).
Thanks, and:
If they're just suites, is one able to install and run both (run at the same time), or is each a "fundamental" type thang that can only be on the system once?
I know that Gnome is not an OS. I know KDE is not an OS, I know the X Window System is not an OS, but am a little confused about what GNOME and KDE are.
They are desktop environments. OK, does that mean they are Windows Managers (like FVWM)? Or are they something else?
I haven't yet gotten into the GUI side yet, I'm still delighting at being back at the command-prompt after suffering Bindows 95 for so long (and yes,I know the prompt is accessible under 95)
Maybe I should have been clearer, I did not mean 100*100 = 1000. I meant that when one gets to 999 where does one go? "One thousand", not "one hundred hundreds"
9999 goes to one million, not one thousand thousands.
So surely 999,999,999 should next go to "one thousand millions", not a new number, called a billion.
And, to the post:
...
Why is it so hard to comprehend that the Americans assign a new designator for each set of three zeroes behind a number...
1 - One
10 - Ten
100 - One Hundred
1,000 - One Thousand
he/she's wrong by definition, 1 - One, then 10 - Ten, where are the three zeros after the first "1", eh?
And to "more nukes...", yes, ;) but the Chinese know where they all are now: Story
No, the eye needs to be attached, and the person alive. The scan also checks for the small amounts of movement in a working (living,attached) eye.
So, we're safe! Well, someone can simply jump you and just hold you up to the scanner - doh! Surely there needs to be some way to prevent this?!?!?
Only thing is, Americans define a billion as one thousand million, whereas a British billion is one million million.
Surely the British billion makes sense, as ten tens is one hundred. One hundred hundreds is one thousand. One thousand thousands is one million. One million millions should be one billion. Why have the USA broken the trend and gone to one thousand millions for one (US) billion? It doesn't make sense.
Then don't read it. Obviously.
I hope we don't see *any* Micro$haft products for unix/linux
M$ are devious and malicious enough to do this, and there's no way a Micro$haft-funded test is going to proclaim Linux the victor, it's just not going to happen.
Perhaps if they actually let Linux gurus in to configure things, then they wouldn't be able to fix things, but they won't. They will only accept advice, why won't they let them in if all is to be fair???
Bugs come in through open Windows
Social outcast, nerd, geek, freak - yep, I was (am?) all those things in school. However, I didn't *want* to be involved with most the other people. They didn't like me, I didn't like them, so why should I subject myself to their company, just because it's perceived as 'normal'?
You shouldn't have negative feelings, just because the 'popular' people don't like you - most of them are too stupid to be individual, and have to hang with the crowd because they're too scared to even try and think for themselves, and mindlessly follow other people.
Then
"It's every American's right to own a gun!"
Am I the only one who sees some incompatibility in these two statements? Yet this seems to be the attitude of so many Americans. They condemn such actions (rightly so), but then insist that laws to control guns are impinging on their freedom. Duh!
OK, maybe I've missed something here, but what is so difficult about pronouncing "Slashdot". Surely it's just "slash" (hmm, nothing difficult so far), then "dot" (hey, that was easy).
/. Where's the problem?
Slashdot. Slash-dot.
Powerpoint is like Windows. It tries to create things for the lowest common denominator: stupid people.
People actually like Powerpoint apps, because they're generally very simple (to create and understand), with very little information in them, with nice and bright colours.
I'm not sure if this is a problem with the app. or the people who use it...probably both.
Seconded.
I am forced to suffer the inadequacies of Redmond at work by using M$ Office, so cannot set the install options.
I tell you, if that stupid fucking paper-clip waggles his eyebrows at me just one more time, I'm gonna find his files and delete the little fucker!
Microshaft products are not just bad because they run on a flaky OS; they're also unreliable and bloated in themselves. If we see Microshaft Orifice for Linux, then the downright shoddiness of such a package will reflect badly on Linux.
Do we really need anything from M$?
Personally I'd like to avoid any of their products being ported, as Microshaft getting involved can only be a bad thing. They won't support the open-source, free software approach, they will seek to control Linux, just as they control the current standards. It may be more difficult, but given time I'm confident Bill could corrupt anything.