I'm surprised he was hired in the first place. He might be talented and an asset to any organization but he's also proven himself to be a liability. He will likely never be hired anywhere anybody has something to hide ever again.
Because desktop linux is a suitable replacement for a 10+ year old OS, nothing more.
Yes, it will run fine on a ten year old computer. It also, unlike Windows, runs on supercomputers.
While Linux fans and critics obsess about Linux's failure to sweep Windows off the desktop, they're ignoring that Linux is winning everywhere else, and that when it comes to the highest of high-end computing, Linux rules.
Driving the point home, the top 10 fastest supercomputers all run Linux of one sort or the other. You have to go the way to the 44th fastest computer, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts box, which runs IBM's AIX Unix variant, to find one that doesn't run Linux.
Except for running Windows-only software, there isn't a single thing Windows can do that Linux can't. It isn't just a fine replacement for XP, it's also a fine replacement for Windows 7; Windows has slowed my laptop down so much in 3 years (slower every patch Tuesday) I'm putting kubuntu on it this weekend. It has functionality Windows lacks and the only thing Windows has that Linux doesn't is the ease of which it pisses me off, especially on Patch Tuesday. The fucking computer is tied up for forty five minutes or more for the download (can't do anything while it's doing that because that damned "I'm doing something! Look at me!!" balloon keeps popping up until you have to close all your programs, reboot, wait for it to not tell you DO NOT TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER!, restart Windows, again wait five minutes while it says DO NOT TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER!, then log on, then you have to reopen all your apps and files.
Linux tells you you have updates, you click "install" and keep on working. Rather than slowing the computer down, Linux updates usually make it run FASTER.
Windows is a toy OS.
Wait, they run desktop linux on supercomputers? Since when?
Also, you can easily set the updater in winxp/vista/7/8 to only download updates, and allows you to choose when you want to install/reboot your system. I'd google that for you, but I'm too busy being productive on my computer.
$20 is high paying if you're low-level IT, helpdesk, etc. One of my first jobs out of high-school was helpdesk for a DSL company, making $20/hr. You're lucky if you get that much now for the same job.
I've since moved onto programming/development - and make substantially more money (ironically, with less stress).
you guys act like this covert stuff is new. no longer do we have to recruit, train, and select from a pool of beautiful, intelligent women to extract corporate and government secrets from the higher echelons of our enemies cultural and societal ladder.
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Side note: My wife ordered me a new watch on Dec. 4, shipped via UPS.
The current arrival date is sometime after Jan. 4.
Something tells me this has something to do with the fulfillment and not the shipper. You don't want to/can't wait for a package? Go to the store.
I rarely say this, because it's so often overused... but... "1st world problems..."
I'm surprised he was hired in the first place. He might be talented and an asset to any organization but he's also proven himself to be a liability. He will likely never be hired anywhere anybody has something to hide ever again.
by virtue of leaving out the human impact on earths climate you would be including it. amirite?
i mine as well tell them that I raise unicorns.
I learned to program at a very young age, writing basic at 7 or 8 years old.
... I also don't know any foreign languages (I somehow got out of that requirement in HS), and I don't play any instruments.
Because desktop linux is a suitable replacement for a 10+ year old OS, nothing more.
Yes, it will run fine on a ten year old computer. It also, unlike Windows, runs on supercomputers.
Except for running Windows-only software, there isn't a single thing Windows can do that Linux can't. It isn't just a fine replacement for XP, it's also a fine replacement for Windows 7; Windows has slowed my laptop down so much in 3 years (slower every patch Tuesday) I'm putting kubuntu on it this weekend. It has functionality Windows lacks and the only thing Windows has that Linux doesn't is the ease of which it pisses me off, especially on Patch Tuesday. The fucking computer is tied up for forty five minutes or more for the download (can't do anything while it's doing that because that damned "I'm doing something! Look at me!!" balloon keeps popping up until you have to close all your programs, reboot, wait for it to not tell you DO NOT TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER!, restart Windows, again wait five minutes while it says DO NOT TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER!, then log on, then you have to reopen all your apps and files.
Linux tells you you have updates, you click "install" and keep on working. Rather than slowing the computer down, Linux updates usually make it run FASTER.
Windows is a toy OS.
Wait, they run desktop linux on supercomputers? Since when?
Also, you can easily set the updater in winxp/vista/7/8 to only download updates, and allows you to choose when you want to install/reboot your system. I'd google that for you, but I'm too busy being productive on my computer.
Because desktop linux is a suitable replacement for a 10+ year old OS, nothing more.
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this is the opposite of a fire sale, right?
i rooted my nook color and installed the kindle app on it.
$20 is high paying if you're low-level IT, helpdesk, etc. One of my first jobs out of high-school was helpdesk for a DSL company, making $20/hr. You're lucky if you get that much now for the same job.
I've since moved onto programming/development - and make substantially more money (ironically, with less stress).
it's must be the fact that i'm over 30 and no longer take LSD.
i have 1 semester of college under my belt, I thought it was a joke - so I dropped out.
I currently make considerably more than the median average salary in the US - as a programmer.
My wife however, wants to be a school teacher - and in pursuing that dream will accumulate roughly 2 years worth of income in debt.
the scales will tip... right? won't they?
I won't be alive when they do, but my kids will and God help them.
I don't drink beer, watch tv, or fancy myself a revolutionary.
I also don't participate in the farce they call voting. Let my own lack of a voice be heard.
oh shit!
so after reading your condemning diatribe, i found the only redeeming value in your rant (which happens to serve as an irony as well).
you're on slashdot, complaining.
You mean Skynet... and we won't have much to worry about at that point.
surely if "tagging" things on the internet was popular they would of figured out something...
wait...
Hyperlinks
what? like the fanny-pack?
you guys act like this covert stuff is new. no longer do we have to recruit, train, and select from a pool of beautiful, intelligent women to extract corporate and government secrets from the higher echelons of our enemies cultural and societal ladder.
instead, just hire a neckbeard.
I'm sure glad I have a locally hosted gitlab repo so I can get some work done this morning.
Pretty good article though.
The molten iron core gives earth a strong magnetic core. How do you figure a collision created this?
actually there is... White rural Americans does not reproduce the way they used to.
You can thank abortion laws for that.