Hold on it's a macro virus, so it isn't compiled at all. So it contains the GUID of the machine where the document was first created on. Which of course may not be the writer.
So why should we be worried about just geek sites? Isn't that either a) short sighted or b) looking out for your own ass?
Thats not the most productive of attitudes, surely you (thats you Americans, we Brits don't have any rights to free speech believe it or not) should be worried about *any* type of net censorship, if it's by big business, the $ceintologists or the government. They're all equally unacceptable, but you only raise a fuss when sites you like get canned.
Not good enough folks, it's a case of I only complain when it affects me.
So if you're going to complain about censorship, don't limit yourself like this, it only does the geek reputation harm.
The usual response to this point, I think, is that Linux users (or rather that proportion of them that are also coders) are your testers. They run the program, make it do something it doesn't want to do, then root around in the source to fix it.
Interesting that, yet a lot of Linux heads I know laugh at Microsoft letting external users test beta code. Isn't that the same thing?
Come on thats not just a Microsoft thing, Nitscrape crashes too.
Nothing is ever bug free (well except my code *grin*)
Linux *IS* hard to install for the average user.
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OK I'm going to use the mother standard here.
If something is easy to install, my mother can do it. That kinda rules Linux out.
I'm happy for her to use 98, she can install a USB quickcam and wave at me over the net.
I'd hate to have her try to install Linux, setup a dialup account and login.
For the average user Windows works. You switch your computer on and away you go. It has applications she can use, she never sees a command line, the interface is ok, and I can match her setup exactly here.
*shrug* Face it, Linux is not going to be mass media for the home for a long time, until
a) it comes as an *easy* pre-install option b) The software base increases dramatically c) It starts getting used on desktops at workplaces so you don't have to use 2 different OSes.
We're nerds, we can cope with recompiling the kernel, but I still use 98 for preference just for the software base and the games support.
Well here in the UK you can get dual band phones that can roam on either
a) GSM and PCN (Like my one does) b) GSM and TDMA (Only from Bosh that I could find)
But rumour has it Nokia are doing one that will roam all 3, yummy.
It's nice (for me anyway) to have both GSM and PCN as my home network is PCN, but at my parents I can only get GSM networks. And it's fun to see 6 networks listed if you try a manual select.
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Hold on it's a macro virus, so it isn't compiled at all. So it contains the GUID of the machine where the document was first created on. Which of course may not be the writer.
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So why should we be worried about just geek sites? Isn't that either a) short sighted or b) looking out for your own ass?
Thats not the most productive of attitudes, surely you (thats you Americans, we Brits don't have any rights to free speech believe it or not) should be worried about *any* type of net censorship, if it's by big business, the $ceintologists or the government. They're all equally unacceptable, but you only raise a fuss when sites you like get canned.
Not good enough folks, it's a case of I only complain when it affects me.
So if you're going to complain about censorship, don't limit yourself like this, it only does the geek reputation harm.
The usual response to this point, I think, is that Linux users (or rather that proportion of them that are also coders) are your testers. They run the program, make it do something it doesn't want to do, then root around in the source to fix it.
Interesting that, yet a lot of Linux heads I know laugh at Microsoft letting external users test beta code. Isn't that the same thing?
(God I'm showing my MS junkie status here)
Come on thats not just a Microsoft thing, Nitscrape crashes too.
Nothing is ever bug free (well except my code *grin*)
OK I'm going to use the mother standard here.
If something is easy to install, my mother can do it. That kinda rules Linux out.
I'm happy for her to use 98, she can install a USB quickcam and wave at me over the net.
I'd hate to have her try to install Linux, setup a dialup account and login.
For the average user Windows works. You switch your computer on and away you go. It has applications she can use, she never sees a command line, the interface is ok, and I can match her setup exactly here.
*shrug* Face it, Linux is not going to be mass media for the home for a long time, until
a) it comes as an *easy* pre-install option
b) The software base increases dramatically
c) It starts getting used on desktops at workplaces so you don't have to use 2 different OSes.
We're nerds, we can cope with recompiling the kernel, but I still use 98 for preference just for the software base and the games support.
Now where did I put my flameproof undies
Well here in the UK you can get dual band phones that can roam on either
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a) GSM and PCN (Like my one does)
b) GSM and TDMA (Only from Bosh that I could find)
But rumour has it Nokia are doing one that will roam all 3, yummy.
It's nice (for me anyway) to have both GSM and PCN as my home network is PCN, but at my parents I can only get GSM networks. And it's fun to see 6 networks listed if you try a manual select.
And as for gadgets, I like my cassiopeia