" I'm certainly not giving my credit
card details out online."
I was surprised that someone who wants to use an ultra-geeky os like freebsd could have such a view of online shopping- a view one associates not only more with Joe Average, but with the Joe Average of a few years back.
Giving out your cc details to an SSL-enabled web server is an order of magnitude more secure than ANY OTHER method of paying by card.
And anyway, why don't you download the ISO ? When I had a modem I regularly downloaded whole CDs- it only takes about 24 hours, so even if you're living in the dark ages ISP-wise and pay by the minute rather than a nice 15 pounds a month flat-fee for 24hour free calls then it will still work out cheaper.
And if you don't have a CD burner you could just download the boot floppies and install via FTP. Since you only then download what you need it will be even faster.
If you don't want to tie up your phone then download while you are in bed.
You see? Anything's possible if you get creative. Focus on the positive I say!
"Why does this matter, anyway? Is there anyone who uses web server software "because it was there?" Organizations don't run web servers on workstations, either. XP home and pro are both workstation operating systems."
Well if you want to run Visual Studio.NET it forces you to install and enable IIS even if you only want to develop stand-alone applications.
This is the way that MS is going- everyone and their dog with port 80 open and *receptive*.
So science thought it was being short-changed in the mass dept. so they invented "dark matter" (whohohoho *ominous sounding!*); how long will it be before they give a name to this light they think the universe is holding-back ?
And when they do give it a name, will it do something even better than "break damage limit" when I put it on my sword ?
"I have been charged with writing lots of documents"
...In the trial of the/. submitter vs the hacker community the defendant was found guilty of writing documentation. He also asked for several charges of using meaningful variable names be taken into consideration.
GoATSTEPx: a wide-open public-domain environment supporting hot-plugging of peripherals soon to be cleaned up and released by Microsoft. (It's easy to tell where the first patch will be applied!)
"Linux is trying to emulate Windows, and it never will."
Quite apart from the obvious comment about WINE itself or Lindows *actually* emulating Windows, I think you are under the mistaken impression that KDE is Linux, which may be because gnome is the default WM under freebsd, while KDE was for your Linux distros.
As far as the OSs themselves, it takes quite a lot of technical knowledge to say whether they are attempting to be like Windows or not. In my opinion it is more the other way around- especially with MS using the bsd tcp/ip stack and kerberos.
For myself, I find freebsd the os of choice for my servers, but as far as a desktop is concerned it pisses me off enormously that despite running on only one architecture and having only one distro, freebsd (4.4 stable) can't even set AA fonts up properly, key bindings in vim are fucked up etc.
Also, very very petty and extremely easy to change, but you have to wonder why bash is not the default shell.
"Other than Cid the Airship mechanic, only the concept stays relatively the same between games"
...apart of course from Wedge and Biggs, and moogles and chocobos and Shiva and Ifreet and bombs and Ultima and Holy and the female character who always looks the same and...
graspee
Christmas is really about Final Fantasy X.
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The sound of Xmas is magical for all to hear-
"dada da da daa da dada daaaa!"
(That was the result of my mp3 -> ascii conversion on the Final Fantasy "battle won" music..)
Hey, everyone knows you can't get more festive than a phat chocobo...
Here in the uk I just hope my import copy comes on time!
My brother and I always get the latest FF game on import and play it together- it helps us like, bond and stuff.
It's not a turkey- it's the arse-end of a dog, and if you can't tell the difference then I'm not coming to your house for xmas dinner.
graspee
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Hmm. What about submitting a trojaned build of some popular software not included in say, the redhat main distro.... I mean does anyone really check redhat contrib ? Is it actually possible to submit a binary with no source, or submit it with undoctored source since a lot of people will be just "leechin' down them phat binaries". ???
"Put in more abstract terms, and put very simply, user interface design is about minimizing the investment in first learning the software, tooling the learning curve for maximum slope, and - here's the part you missed - letting the computer be as useful as possible"
Now you see, here's where I disagree, because I think UI design is something that's more important for people who already know the software- not exactly power users, but people who use the software regularly and can properly participate in a discussion of the flaws in its interface. These people could know for example that the way of achieving a certain task is too long-winded.
New users of the software face a pretty standard "cost of entry" learning period, a period which, ironically, can be made more torturous if a good and novel UI design is employed, since it probably differs markedly from the standard OS way of doing things. Also, users who have never used a computer at all before have a lot to learn, and despite what people think, user-interfaces cannot be "intuitive". What- you hatched out of the egg knowing the difference between right and left click?;)
P.S. "voudoun" ?
P.P.S. Sorry, forget I asked for clarification on that word- it turned out that because my head was up my ass my hearing was a little off.
What you don't seem to realize is that HCI studies are all a complete load of bollocks; HCI is the "social policy" of Computer Science. (Thinking in degree terms).
I nearly murdered the lecturers who tried to teach me on the HCI part of my degree course. While it's true that programmers usually design bad GUIs, the same is true of HCI researchers, except the other way round:
While a programmer will implement a bad gui because he just makes it so it can access the functions he wants, and figures that because he knows how to operate it- that's good enough, the HCI researchers will draw little diagrams, write up "task lists" and waffle on about the importance of various colours and auditary cues, being careful to cite some vaguelly relevant psychology papers and spend far too long being politically correct and work out how e.g. dead people will be able to use the menu on the mobile phone.
Finally they will "play test" their proposed user-interface on a random group of people who will swear blind in exchange for money that they have either a) never used a computer before or b) it was a mac. The play test might even consist of a paper-based simulation- leading to hilarious role-playing games:
luser: So next I think I would click on this here
HCI scum: With the left or the right mouse button?
luser: the middle one
HCI scum: ohhhh. interesting. roll a d20. Oh, the orc takes you by surprise.
luser: WTF?
HCI: exactly
luser: I kick the orc!
HCI: with the left or the right leg?
luser: the middle one.
The "play tests" of the gui (ignoring, as you should the above surreality) never yield interesting data because the researchers pay far too much attention to how individual users expected things to behave, even when they had no computer experience. The point is that computers that allow you to do more than a few simple things will always be semi-complicated by nature unless you dumb them down to the level of mobile phone/pvr menus- and then, as we all know it becomes frustrating to use them when you want to do something quickly, and impossible to do something complex or not envisioned by the manufacturer.
I mean, take for example that whole generation of people who refused to learn/couldn't set their vcrs to record one simple program. True- vcrs didn't need to be that complex- we now have electronic on-screen guides to programmes that make recording a doddle, but at that time the complexity was needed to keep the costs of the machine down and also technology was not as advanced.
However, there will always be some piece of kit that requires that same level of expertise that setting a vcr did, perhaps more, especially given that computers tend to be able to be used in a non-linear manner when compared to the simplistic menus of consumer multimedia devices.
People who can't accept the idiosynchrasies of the computer interface and learn to phase it out (exactly such things as a hard drive icon) will never be any good. Such people tend to learn a set way of doing things on the computer, so if you fuck with their desktop and move the icons about for example they end up madly clicking on an empty piece of desktop and sobbing uncontrolably when they realize nothing is happening.
The point is that if the hard drive icon needs to be changed because it's a confusing representation of how things are, then the users for whom this would be a problem have already lost.
I *DO* agree that we could do with another layer of abstraction though. For example, a user might have some mp3s he downloaded in the My Documents folder where IE defaulted to saving them- other mp3s in My Downloads, where X random download manager put them- and yet more in another directory from when he ripped a cd with some other app. It would of course be nice to be able to easilf list all mp3s on the computer, no matter where they are, as in this case, and indeed many others it is not relevant to the user where the files are- only to the programs and the os. (If you would normally create a "bad rips" directory to put certain mp3s in you now instead tag them with the meta data that they are bad rips...) Now, I know you can just use a file search to find all mp3s on the hard drive, but say you want to find all the mp3s longer than 5 minutes, or ones of just hip hop- some meta-data is needed to help you fine-tune your search criteria.
While it is true that some programs now, like Windows Media Player can "catalog" your files for you it is nowhere near as good as having a meta-filesystem built into the os.
The same meta-tags would be in all the files on the whole internet (tm) too- would make finding stuff a lot easier. I think TBL was going on about having more meta-tags for web pages and some clever system for stopping the obvious abuse of the system by vendors of unscrupulous pr0n.
Sorry for rambling on like some insane karma slut, and for the spelling, which is well below my normally fantastic level, but I am sitting here really tired, waiting for FFX to be released...
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I think you're over-reacting a bit...
I live in the uk and recencly bought a us ps2 so I could play imported mgs2, so I would like to address your points.
Price of console: ok, so the ps2 cost me close to double what a uk one costs, but you are getting the ability to play region 1 dvds as well as us ps2 titles and us ps1 titles.
Power differences: there was no power problem- a converter was supplied with it- it's unobtrusive and works.
TV Signal diffs: there's no ntsc problem- show me a uk tv that doesn't handle ntsc as well as pal and I'll show you a very old tv...
Price of games: As for the mark-up on games, if you are willing to wait 2 weeks for them you can get them from dvdboxoffice.com (canada) at the same price they would be in the uk, (or cheaper) with free airmail delivery. Plis- duh! you still have to buy the games if you use a modchip!
Translation: ia non-issue as the main reason for uk players is to play us titles
I think one of the major advantages to owning a us ps2 in the uk as opposed to using a chip is that you know that no matter what sony does, you will still be able to play the games. Imagine importing a nice copy of some game you have been dying to get (like FFX) and then finding out that it has some new improved check in it and it doesn't work with your modchip...
"(It does seem that extensive playing of CD-R games does tend to shorten the life of the GD-drive significantly, however)."
I'm not so sure about this. I remember the initial excitement on various web forums when the DC was "cracked wide open" with the release of various boot disks, and there started appearing all these messages about how it would shorten the life of your drive, with various people saying it had happened to them, and other people saying it was to do with original disks being written in an optimized way for sequential reading (all very bogus sounding).
At the time I put it down to sega trying to discourage people with their evil spies, and to this day have no reason to think otherwise.
"Lindows uses Wine code, but Lindows wrote alot of its own code. "
Cool! The OS writes its own code! Maybe it will make itself GPL and someone will tell it to go closed-source and it will say that it's sorry but it can't do that (Dave).
I knew we should have destroyed the terminator arm left in between those 2 gears...
"So the best system would really be two systems. One for idiots, which progresses on to the second system, which is for experienced (or "hardened," if you prefer) users, developers, and admins"
Hey, dude, like we could call the one for experienced users: Windows XP, which could stand for, you know, eXPerienced...
So here I am sitting at one of my computers, reading slashdot, trying to fix a bug in some rebol code and listening to losslessly-compressed Destiny's Child, and I suddenly think to myself: "What fucking operating system am I running at the moment ?"
It turns out that it's RH 7.2, but the important point is that it could have been freebsd 4.4, win2k, winxp or some flav. of linux. I have all these systems on various computers at home and they all have a decent web-browser with AA fonts (konqueror or ie6), the gui programming whatsit REBOLView and a media player that supports FLAC (xmms or winamp).
The only thing that would require using a specific os (at least for me at the moment) would be games, for which I would need a flav. of Windows, but then I have WinXP installed on one certain computer anyway and the reason is that it's the fastest processor, best gfx card etc.
I find it interesting now that I think about it; It seems that if you fall into the/. "target group", i.e. some sort of cross between a programmer and a "consumer computer-user" (music, video, web-browsing, email etc.) then you can do everything you want to do with any OS.
Lots of unix things are available for Win32: vi, emacs, the gimp, bash, plus you have all the things that are available for multiple platforms e.g. REBOL, java, clisp and lots of my other fave. programming languages, plus all the great programming libs: readline, gc, regexp etc.
Then you have the other things like the fact that KDE is constantly trying to become Windows in look and feel, ssh and telnet work in both Windows and unix and both VNC and X-clients work anywhere...
Honestly, is it any wonder that I find it hard to tell which operating system I am in any more ?
The upshot of this is that for a large group of people the os is irrelevant and they can either pay for Windows or have a flav. of unix for free if they are willing to spend a little more time setting it up. (Don't bother flaming me for that- it's just my experience- your distribution may vary).
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" I'm certainly not giving my credit
card details out online."
I was surprised that someone who wants to use an ultra-geeky os like freebsd could have such a view of online shopping- a view one associates not only more with Joe Average, but with the Joe Average of a few years back.
Giving out your cc details to an SSL-enabled web server is an order of magnitude more secure than ANY OTHER method of paying by card.
And anyway, why don't you download the ISO ? When I had a modem I regularly downloaded whole CDs- it only takes about 24 hours, so even if you're living in the dark ages ISP-wise and pay by the minute rather than a nice 15 pounds a month flat-fee for 24hour free calls then it will still work out cheaper.
And if you don't have a CD burner you could just download the boot floppies and install via FTP. Since you only then download what you need it will be even faster.
If you don't want to tie up your phone then download while you are in bed.
You see? Anything's possible if you get creative. Focus on the positive I say!
graspee
"Why does this matter, anyway? Is there anyone who uses web server software "because it was there?" Organizations don't run web servers on workstations, either. XP home and pro are both workstation operating systems."
Well if you want to run Visual Studio.NET it forces you to install and enable IIS even if you only want to develop stand-alone applications.
This is the way that MS is going- everyone and their dog with port 80 open and *receptive*.
graspee
So science thought it was being short-changed in the mass dept. so they invented "dark matter" (whohohoho *ominous sounding!*); how long will it be before they give a name to this light they think the universe is holding-back ?
And when they do give it a name, will it do something even better than "break damage limit" when I put it on my sword ?
graspee
"Hey, combine the ease of interpreted language programming (VB)..."
VB compiled to native code from version 5. I could almost be prepared to forgive you if your post wasn't critical of others' lack of knowledge.
graspee
Heheh, Mr. Troll, for someone who doesn't like Word you sure got your value-for-money out of its thesaurus features...
graspee
"I have been charged with writing lots of documents"
/. submitter vs the hacker community the defendant was found guilty of writing documentation. He also asked for several charges of using meaningful variable names be taken into consideration.
...In the trial of the
graspee
You forgot:
GoATSTEPx: a wide-open public-domain environment supporting hot-plugging of peripherals soon to be cleaned up and released by Microsoft. (It's easy to tell where the first patch will be applied!)
graspee
"Linux is trying to emulate Windows, and it never will."
Quite apart from the obvious comment about WINE itself or Lindows *actually* emulating Windows, I think you are under the mistaken impression that KDE is Linux, which may be because gnome is the default WM under freebsd, while KDE was for your Linux distros.
As far as the OSs themselves, it takes quite a lot of technical knowledge to say whether they are attempting to be like Windows or not. In my opinion it is more the other way around- especially with MS using the bsd tcp/ip stack and kerberos.
For myself, I find freebsd the os of choice for my servers, but as far as a desktop is concerned it pisses me off enormously that despite running on only one architecture and having only one distro, freebsd (4.4 stable) can't even set AA fonts up properly, key bindings in vim are fucked up etc.
Also, very very petty and extremely easy to change, but you have to wonder why bash is not the default shell.
graspee
Heheh, I always wanted to write a "gainy compression" routine. It would probably have a special marker in there like the ascii string:
"The next three bytes are compressed!"
graspee
"Other than Cid the Airship mechanic, only the concept stays relatively the same between games"
...
...apart of course from Wedge and Biggs, and moogles and chocobos and Shiva and Ifreet and bombs and Ultima and Holy and the female character who always looks the same and
graspee
The sound of Xmas is magical for all to hear-
"dada da da daa da dada daaaa!"
(That was the result of my mp3 -> ascii conversion on the Final Fantasy "battle won" music..)
Hey, everyone knows you can't get more festive than a phat chocobo...
Here in the uk I just hope my import copy comes on time!
My brother and I always get the latest FF game on import and play it together- it helps us like, bond and stuff.
graspee
It's not a turkey- it's the arse-end of a dog, and if you can't tell the difference then I'm not coming to your house for xmas dinner.
graspee
Hmm. What about submitting a trojaned build of some popular software not included in say, the redhat main distro.... I mean does anyone really check redhat contrib ? Is it actually possible to submit a binary with no source, or submit it with undoctored source since a lot of people will be just "leechin' down them phat binaries". ???
graspee
"You must be joking. Everyone knows that microsoft code never has comments."
Sure it does- they all start with "FIX ME"
graspee
"Put in more abstract terms, and put very simply, user interface design is about minimizing the investment in first learning the software, tooling the learning curve for maximum slope, and - here's the part you missed - letting the computer be as useful as possible"
;)
Now you see, here's where I disagree, because I think UI design is something that's more important for people who already know the software- not exactly power users, but people who use the software regularly and can properly participate in a discussion of the flaws in its interface. These people could know for example that the way of achieving a certain task is too long-winded.
New users of the software face a pretty standard "cost of entry" learning period, a period which, ironically, can be made more torturous if a good and novel UI design is employed, since it probably differs markedly from the standard OS way of doing things. Also, users who have never used a computer at all before have a lot to learn, and despite what people think, user-interfaces cannot be "intuitive". What- you hatched out of the egg knowing the difference between right and left click?
P.S. "voudoun" ?
P.P.S. Sorry, forget I asked for clarification on that word- it turned out that because my head was up my ass my hearing was a little off.
graspee
What you don't seem to realize is that HCI studies are all a complete load of bollocks; HCI is the "social policy" of Computer Science. (Thinking in degree terms).
I nearly murdered the lecturers who tried to teach me on the HCI part of my degree course. While it's true that programmers usually design bad GUIs, the same is true of HCI researchers, except the other way round:
While a programmer will implement a bad gui because he just makes it so it can access the functions he wants, and figures that because he knows how to operate it- that's good enough, the HCI researchers will draw little diagrams, write up "task lists" and waffle on about the importance of various colours and auditary cues, being careful to cite some vaguelly relevant psychology papers and spend far too long being politically correct and work out how e.g. dead people will be able to use the menu on the mobile phone.
Finally they will "play test" their proposed user-interface on a random group of people who will swear blind in exchange for money that they have either a) never used a computer before or b) it was a mac. The play test might even consist of a paper-based simulation- leading to hilarious role-playing games:
luser: So next I think I would click on this here
HCI scum: With the left or the right mouse button?
luser: the middle one
HCI scum: ohhhh. interesting. roll a d20. Oh, the orc takes you by surprise.
luser: WTF?
HCI: exactly
luser: I kick the orc!
HCI: with the left or the right leg?
luser: the middle one.
The "play tests" of the gui (ignoring, as you should the above surreality) never yield interesting data because the researchers pay far too much attention to how individual users expected things to behave, even when they had no computer experience. The point is that computers that allow you to do more than a few simple things will always be semi-complicated by nature unless you dumb them down to the level of mobile phone/pvr menus- and then, as we all know it becomes frustrating to use them when you want to do something quickly, and impossible to do something complex or not envisioned by the manufacturer.
I mean, take for example that whole generation of people who refused to learn/couldn't set their vcrs to record one simple program. True- vcrs didn't need to be that complex- we now have electronic on-screen guides to programmes that make recording a doddle, but at that time the complexity was needed to keep the costs of the machine down and also technology was not as advanced.
However, there will always be some piece of kit that requires that same level of expertise that setting a vcr did, perhaps more, especially given that computers tend to be able to be used in a non-linear manner when compared to the simplistic menus of consumer multimedia devices.
People who can't accept the idiosynchrasies of the computer interface and learn to phase it out (exactly such things as a hard drive icon) will never be any good. Such people tend to learn a set way of doing things on the computer, so if you fuck with their desktop and move the icons about for example they end up madly clicking on an empty piece of desktop and sobbing uncontrolably when they realize nothing is happening.
The point is that if the hard drive icon needs to be changed because it's a confusing representation of how things are, then the users for whom this would be a problem have already lost.
I *DO* agree that we could do with another layer of abstraction though. For example, a user might have some mp3s he downloaded in the My Documents folder where IE defaulted to saving them- other mp3s in My Downloads, where X random download manager put them- and yet more in another directory from when he ripped a cd with some other app. It would of course be nice to be able to easilf list all mp3s on the computer, no matter where they are, as in this case, and indeed many others it is not relevant to the user where the files are- only to the programs and the os. (If you would normally create a "bad rips" directory to put certain mp3s in you now instead tag them with the meta data that they are bad rips...) Now, I know you can just use a file search to find all mp3s on the hard drive, but say you want to find all the mp3s longer than 5 minutes, or ones of just hip hop- some meta-data is needed to help you fine-tune your search criteria.
While it is true that some programs now, like Windows Media Player can "catalog" your files for you it is nowhere near as good as having a meta-filesystem built into the os.
The same meta-tags would be in all the files on the whole internet (tm) too- would make finding stuff a lot easier. I think TBL was going on about having more meta-tags for web pages and some clever system for stopping the obvious abuse of the system by vendors of unscrupulous pr0n.
Sorry for rambling on like some insane karma slut, and for the spelling, which is well below my normally fantastic level, but I am sitting here really tired, waiting for FFX to be released...
graspee
"They should have called it alpha2 like KDE does"
Super Gnome 2 Alpha Turbo Championship-Edition.
Foot vs Letter K......Fight!
graspee
I think you're over-reacting a bit...
I live in the uk and recencly bought a us ps2 so I could play imported mgs2, so I would like to address your points.
Price of console: ok, so the ps2 cost me close to double what a uk one costs, but you are getting the ability to play region 1 dvds as well as us ps2 titles and us ps1 titles.
Power differences: there was no power problem- a converter was supplied with it- it's unobtrusive and works.
TV Signal diffs: there's no ntsc problem- show me a uk tv that doesn't handle ntsc as well as pal and I'll show you a very old tv...
Price of games: As for the mark-up on games, if you are willing to wait 2 weeks for them you can get them from dvdboxoffice.com (canada) at the same price they would be in the uk, (or cheaper) with free airmail delivery. Plis- duh! you still have to buy the games if you use a modchip!
Translation: ia non-issue as the main reason for uk players is to play us titles
I think one of the major advantages to owning a us ps2 in the uk as opposed to using a chip is that you know that no matter what sony does, you will still be able to play the games. Imagine importing a nice copy of some game you have been dying to get (like FFX) and then finding out that it has some new improved check in it and it doesn't work with your modchip...
graspee
"(It does seem that extensive playing of CD-R games does tend to shorten the life of the GD-drive significantly, however)."
I'm not so sure about this. I remember the initial excitement on various web forums when the DC was "cracked wide open" with the release of various boot disks, and there started appearing all these messages about how it would shorten the life of your drive, with various people saying it had happened to them, and other people saying it was to do with original disks being written in an optimized way for sequential reading (all very bogus sounding).
At the time I put it down to sega trying to discourage people with their evil spies, and to this day have no reason to think otherwise.
graspee
Don't know if you realized it, but freedows has gone and there is a crappy pr0n gateway there now.
graspee
"Lindows uses Wine code, but Lindows wrote alot of its own code. "
Cool! The OS writes its own code! Maybe it will make itself GPL and someone will tell it to go closed-source and it will say that it's sorry but it can't do that (Dave).
I knew we should have destroyed the terminator arm left in between those 2 gears...
graspee
"So the best system would really be two systems. One for idiots, which progresses on to the second system, which is for experienced (or "hardened," if you prefer) users, developers, and admins"
Hey, dude, like we could call the one for experienced users: Windows XP, which could stand for, you know, eXPerienced...
cool man...
graspee
So here I am sitting at one of my computers, reading slashdot, trying to fix a bug in some rebol code and listening to losslessly-compressed Destiny's Child, and I suddenly think to myself: "What fucking operating system am I running at the moment ?"
/. "target group", i.e. some sort of cross between a programmer and a "consumer computer-user" (music, video, web-browsing, email etc.) then you can do everything you want to do with any OS.
...
It turns out that it's RH 7.2, but the important point is that it could have been freebsd 4.4, win2k, winxp or some flav. of linux. I have all these systems on various computers at home and they all have a decent web-browser with AA fonts (konqueror or ie6), the gui programming whatsit REBOLView and a media player that supports FLAC (xmms or winamp).
The only thing that would require using a specific os (at least for me at the moment) would be games, for which I would need a flav. of Windows, but then I have WinXP installed on one certain computer anyway and the reason is that it's the fastest processor, best gfx card etc.
I find it interesting now that I think about it; It seems that if you fall into the
Lots of unix things are available for Win32: vi, emacs, the gimp, bash, plus you have all the things that are available for multiple platforms e.g. REBOL, java, clisp and lots of my other fave. programming languages, plus all the great programming libs: readline, gc, regexp etc.
Then you have the other things like the fact that KDE is constantly trying to become Windows in look and feel, ssh and telnet work in both Windows and unix and both VNC and X-clients work anywhere
Honestly, is it any wonder that I find it hard to tell which operating system I am in any more ?
The upshot of this is that for a large group of people the os is irrelevant and they can either pay for Windows or have a flav. of unix for free if they are willing to spend a little more time setting it up. (Don't bother flaming me for that- it's just my experience- your distribution may vary).
graspee
in redhat 7.2
(apparently)
Us Metal Gear Solid fans of course have an urge to slide along the wall underneath the camera.
graspee
While I was reading this article I found someone had sent a message to my hotmail account with the following in it:
.exe file.
Content-Type: audio/x-wav; name="New_Napster_Site.MP3.pif"
I opened it in notepad and it's an
Kind of makes a mockery of hotmail's claims to scan all email for viruses with mcafee...
graspee