I feel for the guy, but if he was genuinley interested in the welfare of his former employers customers, wouldn't it have made more sense to cantact someone (even a friend) at the company and give them a heads up?
I'm nowhere being a linux guru, and I'm sure there will be the usual Debian trolls, but after getting through the initial Debian installation as a new Linux user, it has been one of the most satisfying computing experiences I have had in a long time.
It still boggles my mind that my Thinkpad has been running the same initial installation for the last 2 years, without so much as a hiccup.
Everyday I appreciate all the hard (volunteer no less) that has gone into this hodgepodge of kernels and free software that I can use as I see fit.
My thanks to all the persons that make Debian what it is.
Your dealing directly with Big Blue (you pay by credit card thru IBM's secure site), the laptops are brand new with full warranties, and the models are just a couple of steps behind their top of the line models. I have a Thinkpad X22, and everything works with Debian, even 3d acceleration.
The laptops they auction are heavily discounted, and many have a Buy It Now price for haggle free buying.
Also,check out IBM's Global Financing site for refurbished computers and laptops. Great way to get and older Thinkpad that is sure to work with Linux.
...was "different enough" to set user expectations that the experience would be less like Windows. "
Translation: You don't suffer from the cervical spine injuries and/or severe coup contra-coup brain injuries secondary to banging your head into a blue screen of death.
"Polygraph is more art than science, and unless an admission is obtained, the final determination is frequently what we refer to as a scientific wild-ass guess (SWAG)"
If the GPL goes to court, I'd like to see Detective Lenny Briskow interrogate Linus, and then have one of those hot chick Assistan District Attorneys do the cross examination right before he get's sent to a pound me in the ass penitentiary.:p
Well, IANAMB (I am not a molecular biologist), but..
Well, IANAAA (I Am Not A Acronym Abuser) but what was the point of you using an obscure acronym if you had to spell it out for everybody anyways?;)/me make jokey joke/
There's an organizitaion called the The Innocence Project headed by Barry Scheck which prides itself on freeing prisoners who didn't have the technology of DNA testing avaible to them during their trials.
In light of this article, I wonder how many guilty people have been set free. I'm sure there are guilty parties that proclaim their innocence and see no harm or foul in having the DNA testing done by said non profit organization, in hopes of some fluke in their favor.
Taco:Yes, of course! The Holy Slashdot of OSDL! 'Tis one of the sacred relics Brother Cowboy Neal carries with him. Brother Neal! Bring up the Holy Slashdot!
AC's chanting: Pie Iesu domine, dona eis requiem.
Brother Neal: Armaments, chapter two, verse nine to twenty one.
Brother Neal: And Saint Cowboy Neal raised the Slashdot up high, saying, 'O Lord, bless this Thy Slashdot that, with it, Thou mayest slashdot Thine enemies to tiny bits in Thy mercy'. And the Lord did grin, and the AC's did feast upon first posts, trolls, GNAA posts, and...
Taco: Skip it a bit, Brother.
Brother Neal: And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou click on the holy link called Slashdot. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then, clickest thou holy Slashdot of OSDL towards thy server, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.'
I was looking for a used SOHO series router on eBay, but I think I'm better off building a small Linux router and using something like Freesco instead.
I know I'm small potatoes in context to the article, but I wonder how many other large organizations, after having a experience simimlar to Mr. Tague's, will take a long hard look at a Linux based solution?
Heard this is a smimilar product minus the LCD screen. They make it a point to print "No drivers needed" on the box. Works like a Flash Memory key too.
What "FEAR OF TERRORIST THREATS"? Huh? Do *you* know anyone who was ever killed / maimed / attacked / bruised by a "TERRORIST" (or even *seen* one that wasn't on television?)
I am New York City EMS Paramedic with 8 years of experience. Please click on this link. I knew every single person on that list. They were my co-workers.
I was also at the World Trade Center after both towers collapsed.
I was not speaking idly, like someone who tunes into CNN or Fox News (if you wanna call that news) and say to himself "Jeeze Louise, those people in NYC sure did suffer".
Had I done a double shift that week, like i did every other Tuesday, I hosestly think I would be dead.
"..at home watching TV, snacking on artery-clogging chips while wondering if you'll die through TERROR."
I work anywhere from fifty to seventy hours a week in midtown or the lower east side ever week in Manhattan. My thigh attached gas mask reminds me just how "UNSUBSTANTIATED" my fears are.
And you seriously consider the THREAT OF TERROR to be something worth cowering in fear of.
Read my original post.
I have one question for you sir, how did you manage to write such a passionate post with your head so far up your ass?
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I feel for the guy, but if he was genuinley interested in the welfare of his former employers customers, wouldn't it have made more sense to cantact someone (even a friend) at the company and give them a heads up?
Sounds like you need Niko's Problem Solving Flowsheet.
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I'm nowhere being a linux guru, and I'm sure there will be the usual Debian trolls, but after getting through the initial Debian installation as a new Linux user, it has been one of the most satisfying computing experiences I have had in a long time.
It still boggles my mind that my Thinkpad has been running the same initial installation for the last 2 years, without so much as a hiccup.
Everyday I appreciate all the hard (volunteer no less) that has gone into this hodgepodge of kernels and free software that I can use as I see fit.
My thanks to all the persons that make Debian what it is.
"Son, don't do that, you'll go blind!"
"Dad, I'm over here."
"How do you pronounce it?
Zoo-vehrt.
You big malaka.
Dino:"Hello, pretty lady. Tell me something, what's a beatiful braud like you doing with a malaka like this, huh?"
Gary: "She's into malakas, Dino".
Get yourself a great deal on a new, but overstock, IBM Thinkpad at the IBM Authorized Ebay store.
Your dealing directly with Big Blue (you pay by credit card thru IBM's secure site), the laptops are brand new with full warranties, and the models are just a couple of steps behind their top of the line models. I have a Thinkpad X22, and everything works with Debian, even 3d acceleration.
The laptops they auction are heavily discounted, and many have a Buy It Now price for haggle free buying.
Also,check out IBM's Global Financing site for refurbished computers and laptops. Great way to get and older Thinkpad that is sure to work with Linux.
...was "different enough" to set user expectations that the experience would be less like Windows. "
Translation: You don't suffer from the cervical spine injuries and/or severe coup contra-coup brain injuries secondary to banging your head into a blue screen of death.
> Antipolygraph.org
;)
I love this quote from the above website:
"Polygraph is more art than science, and unless an admission is obtained, the final determination is frequently what we refer to as a scientific wild-ass guess (SWAG)"
retired
CIA polygrapher
John F. Sullivan
Must be a Slashdot card carrying member.
Scaring the poop out of Linux users since 1993.
So your saying a wet T shirt contest in front of the precint in the summer months and a couple of kegs of beer should make my block a whole lot safer?
Sweet.
I would love to see this guy defend the GPL.
It would be memorable for generations of geeks to come.
If the GPL goes to court, I'd like to see Detective Lenny Briskow interrogate Linus, and then have one of those hot chick Assistan District Attorneys do the cross examination right before he get's sent to a pound me in the ass penitentiary. :p
Agent Cowboy Neal: Tell me McBride, what good are your licenses if your servers can't even speak?
Do you understand Dselect? That program scares the poop out me. But I figure if you can handle dselect, you can handle being govenor.
Well, IANAMB (I am not a molecular biologist), but..
;) /me make jokey joke/
Well, IANAAA (I Am Not A Acronym Abuser) but what was the point of you using an obscure acronym if you had to spell it out for everybody anyways?
There's an organizitaion called the The Innocence Project headed by Barry Scheck which prides itself on freeing prisoners who didn't have the technology of DNA testing avaible to them during their trials.
In light of this article, I wonder how many guilty people have been set free. I'm sure there are guilty parties that proclaim their innocence and see no harm or foul in having the DNA testing done by said non profit organization, in hopes of some fluke in their favor.
Taco:Yes, of course! The Holy Slashdot of OSDL! 'Tis one of the sacred relics Brother Cowboy Neal carries with him. Brother Neal! Bring up the Holy Slashdot!
AC's chanting: Pie Iesu domine, dona eis requiem.
Brother Neal: Armaments, chapter two, verse nine to twenty one.
Brother Neal: And Saint Cowboy Neal raised the Slashdot up high, saying, 'O Lord, bless this Thy Slashdot that, with it, Thou mayest slashdot Thine enemies to tiny bits in Thy mercy'. And the Lord did grin, and the AC's did feast upon first posts, trolls, GNAA posts, and...
Taco: Skip it a bit, Brother.
Brother Neal: And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou click on the holy link called Slashdot. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then, clickest thou holy Slashdot of OSDL towards thy server, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.'
Taco: Amen
I was looking for a used SOHO series router on eBay, but I think I'm better off building a small Linux router and using something like Freesco instead.
I know I'm small potatoes in context to the article, but I wonder how many other large organizations, after having a experience simimlar to Mr. Tague's, will take a long hard look at a Linux based solution?
I was ready to post some really witty esoteric apropos joke, but I think I'll just keep it to myself.
Move away from the GPL or I'll..um say Move away again! Ha!
Anybody figure out dselect?
That bad boy scares the poop out of me.
A bit offtopic, but what I wanna know is, whatever happened to those 2 cpu's on one chip people were talking about a while back?
Machinima, machinima machina.
:p /runs
I got my machinima, and you ain't got none, 'cause your father's and alcoholic....
Heard this is a smimilar product minus the LCD screen. They make it a point to print "No drivers needed" on the box. Works like a Flash Memory key too.
Anybody who has this care to comment?
Major troll, but I have to bite.
What "FEAR OF TERRORIST THREATS"? Huh? Do *you* know anyone who was ever killed / maimed / attacked / bruised by a "TERRORIST" (or even *seen* one that wasn't on television?)
I am New York City EMS Paramedic with 8 years of experience. Please click on this link. I knew every single person on that list. They were my co-workers.
I was also at the World Trade Center after both towers collapsed.
I was not speaking idly, like someone who tunes into CNN or Fox News (if you wanna call that news) and say to himself "Jeeze Louise, those people in NYC sure did suffer".
Had I done a double shift that week, like i did every other Tuesday, I hosestly think I would be dead.
"..at home watching TV, snacking on artery-clogging chips while wondering if you'll die through TERROR."
I work anywhere from fifty to seventy hours a week in midtown or the lower east side ever week in Manhattan. My thigh attached gas mask reminds me just how "UNSUBSTANTIATED" my fears are.
And you seriously consider the THREAT OF TERROR to be something worth cowering in fear of.
Read my original post.
I have one question for you sir, how did you manage to write such a passionate post with your head so far up your ass?