Microsoft is donating millions of dollars to the relief funds, and they're matching employee donations as well.
Why don't you take your head out of your ass, and get real for a moment. This is not a time to be a Linux zealot and force Linux on people. That is what they ***need*** to do their job. If they wanted Linux or a free office suite they would have asked for it.
I'd also like to see Linus or perhaps a larger Linux company pony up some $$ for the relief fund. That would bring Linux some good press, think it will happen...no.
I can't remember who made it, but I distinctly remember owning a mouse like this.
It was mostly likely one of those really cheaply made jobbies, but if I recall it was awful experience. I never got the pinpoint accuracy I could with a regular mouse.
That's right, I said it. I work for a rather large VOD developer, and we're having difficulty creating tens of thousands of 300kbps video over fiber in-band broadcasting and broadband out-of-band.
What I find impossible is that based on even the most high quality QAMs, DVB boards, and network capabilities, this doesn't even seem plausible for any more than maybe 1 stream total and even that's a strech.
Maybe I don't understand the GPL well enough, but why can't someone retract GPL'ed code? If this lisence protects the authors, why can't they just say "Hey, I don't want this out there anymore".
That's pretty lame if that's the case. That's akin to being in a street gang "4 life" until death.
I find that logic flawed, could someone explain that to me without:
1. Flaming me because of my name.
2. Getting upset...I'd just like an honest reason.
What I don't get is, athough it seems as though it might be a good idea to publish under GPL(GO OPEN SOURCE), but if you desire to close up the source, get a huge offer and sell it, you have to keep stuff out there that you've GPL'ed hence reducing any monetary value your software had to nothing. Someone explain this please...
At my school(in Massachusetts, in the Keroac City), if you were on the normal CS track, outside of including header file statements, not a single program that had to be created per assignment had dependencies.
Compiling DLL's, accessing etc. none of that is covered in the CS track.
You MUST realize that 80% of the CS students do all their programming at the school on the Unix network because about 40% of that 80% don't own a PC. Not only that but the ones that do have a PC use it only to browse the Net, email, and play games.
Very good points, but I'm saying that any sort of development from a non-*nix environment, at my school, was majorly shunned.
I feel that I would have been better served if in my Operating Systems I and II class we covered both *nix AND Windows. The "design" work might be the same across the board, but implementation is different so is the thought process required to code the project.
Maybe I'm just pissed that my school chruns out only 20% competent programmers (and caters heavily to them *honor's program weenies especially*), and 80% people who don't know what the right mouse button is used for in Windows and that there is a development environment outside of the command line.
Related Story: in my OpenGL class, when it came time for at least 6 people to do their presentations, they were double-clicking on icons with the right mouse button, and not understanding why the programs didn't launch!
"Most colleges use a UNIX environment (especially for CS and engineering). Putting a UNIX environment in high/elementary schools is the next step. And you know how school boards love to save money."
Yeah and while my school was churning out UNIX developers by the boatload, the only jobs that were plentiful were Windows Dev. positions. Try to get some thick-headed CS major to realize that there is more to the world than:
1.Type Name in Login prompt
2.Type password
3.wait for CDE to load
4.Open Terminal
5.Open Vi/emacs/pico
6.gcc/g++ then repeat
College environments really need to be re-evaluated. Not only are they completely oblivious to the fact that not everyone is going to be a Unix developer. For my Senior OpenGL class we used Windows/GL 1.2/Visual Studio, I had to teach a class of 50 "programmers" how to use the Visual Studio environment. Since not all of them were(put bluntly) intelligent:
"where's gcc/g++"
"You can develop programs IN windows?"
"what are dependencies?"
Now I'm all for integration of *nix to our nation's schools, but I feel that people need to learn both. Schools should have the following system setup:
1. 1/3 of the machines run Windows 98/2000
2. 1/3 of the machines run *nix
3. 1/3 of the machines are MACs
That is the most reasonable setup for our school systems. That way they have maximum exposure to most of the computing world...
That's what is important right? Maximum exposure? If you think otherwise...I feel for you.
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I really don't understand how people can say things like that, I've never had a problem with Win2k. For me it's been stable and quite fast. Much faster than the RedHat/Gnome setup I had before. What are people doing that cause Win2k to be unstable or not reliable? I play games, develop, edit high-res photos, do 3D modeling, etc. and Windows never seems to die.
The only thing that I despise about Win2k is how it seems to just explode when companies release bad drivers that don't uninstall properly and cause the registry to blow up.
If anyone really hates the Win2k Explorer UI...don't use it! For the first few months I was running win2k I used LiteStep, and it proved to be *much* faster than the standard Win2k GUI. Hell on some installs I've install so many Win-Linux utilities, it's hard for a buddy of mine to tell the difference on the surface between Linux and Windows)
Simple. You can't. Unless your machine has a mod chip or something of that sort, you can't use CDR games which I assume would have to have the PSX/PS2 bootloader on it.
This MAY sound like a radical concept, but not everyone *wants* to work on Free Software or on OSS projects.
Btw, Stephen Hawking turned down a better speech synthsesis program. Besides how could he explain the new voice to all his fans of his gangsta rap!?!? www.mchawking.com for more info
I hate reading lengthy documentation or books on my computer screen. When I need to read 150 pages of documentation or a spec., I print it out. I've actually tried reading e-books on my Palm, my PC monitor, a borrowed e-book device, etc. and I just don't like it. I have an awesome monitor, so eyestrain isn't really an issue when reading on a PC, but I just don't like it.
I wish people would just get it through their heads that everything that isn't digital or that seems antiquated(the paperback or hardcover novel for example)...doesn't have to be updated/transformed to digital media!
While I wholeheartedly agree that this technology is incredibly useful for archiving, I fail to see how the general public would ever accept or even want this advance(as shown in the article). I personally enjoy being able to turn the page of a book, as well as having the attractive dust cover or paper back cover.
I believe that the commerical push e-book should take some time off and resurface in say...10 years when the technology has matured more and become more affordable.
Hey buddy, why aren't you crying out that you can't use PAL DVDs in all DVD players? or why can't you watch PAL VHS tapes in NTSC VHS players?
Isn't that a form of region coding in and of itself? PAL is a "standard" that was introduced by "the man" to prevent this kind of stuff. So instead of really bitching about region coding try making PAL go away first...
Come to think of it, when did anyone become "sneaky" introducing region coding? Frankly, I'm not sure why anyone would want to own a German language only DVD of "Dude, Where's my Car?", but if you hate region coding so much, get a region free player, or just purchase region "0" DVD off the NET.
I have no problem with people using DeCSS for playing on Linux, but if a company come up with a commerical solution so you can pay a nominal fee to play them on a computer(WinDVD, etc.) the DeCSS case wouldn't exist. Oh, that's right...Linux users wouldn't pony up $$ for it because it's not free(as in Milwalkee's Best) and they would want the source so they could dick around with it, so what company would do that?
I was involved in one of those blind taste tests of Pepsi's. I know what Coke tastes like and it tastes nothing like Pepsi(which tastes like medicine to me). When I chose the Coke instead of the Pepsi, the guy was like "ummm...well Pepsi isn't for everyone, you must really love Coke!" Then I said I don't drink Coke that often. Subsequently, I got hurried off the stage and given a coupon for a free Pepsi. I think I was the only person there (I was there for 15minutes) who chose the Coke.
Although this still is/. , I find it odd that there isn't more harsh criticism for this apparent black eye for Linux journalism.
If this was say "Windows Today" magazine, we'd have a 1,000 post article of how magazine's based on closed-source stuff is evil. Rah! Rah! Linux journalism isn't like this, we don't have to be...we're superior! Yet no one seems to care about this and is willing to sweep it under the proverbial rug.
People flaunt their ethics("I would never use a M$ OS or work for a company that does) and morals(I refuse to write anything but open-source code), but I wonder, what was wrong with this guy that he just didn't leave. Doing something unethical as this should qualify as a comprimization of ethics. If things were as bad as he said they were, then to me it's time to cash out my options and jump ship.
"...just to get a damn FOX affiliate over my dish so I could use my DirecTivo for The Family Guy and That 70s Show. Is that to much to ask? There's definitely going to be a lot more cracking down on pirated dish stuff: they are getting crazy with the protective measures."
That's the stupidest thing I've ever read here on/. You are saying "I only want to pirate this for 2 shows, so then it must be ok" Amazing.
Also "they are getting crazy with the protective measures". What would you expect them to do? They are losing revenue to people pirating the signal. Being easier to pirate than cable TV, they have to come up with some pretty ingenious measures to prevent the rampant piracy that exists. Of the 15 people I know with DirectTV/Dish service, only 1 of them actually pays for the service!
Honestly, what do you expect? I'm sure if you were the president of the company you'd be singing a different tune.
If I remember properly, in the movie "The Saint" with Val Kilmer, he had a cool cell phone that had a qwerty keyboard built into it.
He was able to open the phone and use the keyboard to type and recieve email. I even remember seeing one at the local cellphone/computer store.
I would personally love to have that phone make a comeback in a new iteration running a color display. If I remeber correctly the screen was rather large and the phone was a little larger than then they are today!
That's the feature I'd like built into PDAs, a cell phone. Or Vice versa. I've seen those crappy ones with the PalmOS built in, but I want a keyboard like that phone had(maybe a sylus too).
I think it would also be nice to have a new hybrid OS running the device. If they could take bits of PalmOS and bits of WindowsCE and bits of Linux, then you'd have a killer all-in-one device.
Fear not, pretty soon(2-3 years maybe less) directed advertising will be a reality thanks in part to seachange international.
www.seachangeinternational.com (plain text link for the goatse fearing.
If their targeted advertising shapes up like they hope I won't be fast forwarding through commercials.
The way it works(although most will scoff at this) is by using the MAC address built into cable boxes, it will keep a generic profile of your viewing habits, and then direct ads to you. say I watch farscape on SCI-FI and ED on NBC, I'll get more SCI-Fi related ads, and ads relating to comedy shows, lawyer shows, and bowling shows, etc. I saw a glimpse of it at a recent trade show.
If people can get over the relatively anonymous and generic profiling(even though I see that could never happen, esp. on/. ) this would be a very welcome revolution in TV.
First off I never called Linux "useless", so re-read comments before making a retort based on misread info. I also love the antiquated notion that "users" are unimportant that seems to run rampant in "the community".
I'm just putting on the cap of an average user making my comments. I'm certainly not an average user by any means, and I actually have a beowulf cluster in my basement churning out my Maya Animations as we speak. I enjoy using many operating systems, but everyone seems to be gung-ho in pushing Linux to the desktop. In writing my comment, I based my comment as a desktop user. But still, I get flamed...and if this is how people react to any negative comment, God help us.
I got plenty of people where I work presently who can't stand Linux. They call it "the great bastard OS". It's simply borrowed concepts from other Unices and made them it's own. The old VMS grognards say "If it weren't for punk college kids...that OS would be nothing". But I digress...
If "Desktops aren't the entire world" why is Linux being actively developed to be forced into the market to people to take windows off the "Desktop" market? I read everyday on/. strides being made to make Linux THE desktop OS and death to Microsoft! We will rule the desktop, so until/. finishes publishing stories as such, most people just casually reading this site would assume it to be true.
btw, what kind of custom hardware are you talking about? I used to write drivers for heat probes, chemical test equipment, and all sorts of other wacky stuff. I did my senior thesis on "simulating external forces on objects", a fantastic number-crunching graphical experiment. Just because it's windows doesn't mean you can't write drivers and do interesting things. So why am I better of using Linux? Are the APIs for "wacky" devices built into Linux? No. Can I compile in "Wacky device support"?:) Is there native support for "wacky" devices? No. So what's the difference?
btw...Sell the strat and buy a real guitar. I'll take my Les Paul, and Parker Nitefly over that thing any day.
Anonymous coward thank you for proving a point. The stuck up, snobby attitude that *most* Linux fanatics have(at least the ones running rampant at UMASS Lowell when I was there). You read my comment and pick the one thing that I particularly left out because it's a non-issue to the user. you had no where to turn, but to grasp at straws to be funny.
Why would I need to recompile my Windows Kernel?(I have btw, a developers kit and friends at Microsoft works wonders in doing so)
But tell me the average grandma is going to be capable of doing such things as you suggest(particularly the coding), and I'll just pitch my copies of windows in my microwave and nuke em.
It's nearly guaranteed to be denounced as encouraging violence and lust. Ergo, we need drivers for PCs running Free operating systems.
I would think that driver creation for Windows would/should be completed first, since there are tons of games that would/could utilize this. I'm not sure how many games in Linux currently would even have a use for this product?
I'm sure it would make Tux Racer more immersive:) , but that's about it. Any other games that could use this or warrant the effort of driver creation at the moment?
Ok, my thought wasn't complete enough. Maybe I'm being a bit naive about this situation, but someone who doesn't know enough to look for patches in the Microsoft Software Download area, or even to bother to configure things properly, they deserve to get infected.
These home users probably just ran the setup program and never checked things again! My mom has IIS running as her web server, and she *IS* on DSL, she know next to nothing about computers, but she knows enough to keep up with updates and patches. She also knows enough to attempt to figure out the documentation on how to use a product she has installed.
The moral of the story is not to hire dumbass admin's who don't do their job.
A patch for this was realeased *1 month* before this virus hit the streets! Frankly any admin who bothers to actually check for patches/updates are going to find them. Hell, after a 2 minute search I found the patch.
Frankly, if someone wants to use IIS that's fine, I'd rather use Apache than IIS. But this virus got around because of Admin incompetence.
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Microsoft is donating millions of dollars to the relief funds, and they're matching employee donations as well.
Why don't you take your head out of your ass, and get real for a moment. This is not a time to be a Linux zealot and force Linux on people. That is what they ***need*** to do their job. If they wanted Linux or a free office suite they would have asked for it.
I'd also like to see Linus or perhaps a larger Linux company pony up some $$ for the relief fund. That would bring Linux some good press, think it will happen...no.
I can't remember who made it, but I distinctly remember owning a mouse like this.
It was mostly likely one of those really cheaply made jobbies, but if I recall it was awful experience. I never got the pinpoint accuracy I could with a regular mouse.
That's right, I said it. I work for a rather large VOD developer, and we're having difficulty creating tens of thousands of 300kbps video over fiber in-band broadcasting and broadband out-of-band.
What I find impossible is that based on even the most high quality QAMs, DVB boards, and network capabilities, this doesn't even seem plausible for any more than maybe 1 stream total and even that's a strech.
Hahaha
I love this ascii art trend. I wish i could moderate you up, but I have no points.
So...I guess you'll be moderated waaaaay down, because people here don't care for this type of humor.
Maybe I don't understand the GPL well enough, but why can't someone retract GPL'ed code? If this lisence protects the authors, why can't they just say "Hey, I don't want this out there anymore".
That's pretty lame if that's the case. That's akin to being in a street gang "4 life" until death.
I find that logic flawed, could someone explain that to me without:
1. Flaming me because of my name.
2. Getting upset...I'd just like an honest reason.
What I don't get is, athough it seems as though it might be a good idea to publish under GPL(GO OPEN SOURCE), but if you desire to close up the source, get a huge offer and sell it, you have to keep stuff out there that you've GPL'ed hence reducing any monetary value your software had to nothing. Someone explain this please...
All this stuff is about 1 month old and used(never overclocked):
DFI Ak-76SN motherboard
1.33ghz T-bird 266fsb
256mb PC2100 DDR ram
Full tower case with 350w power supply & 3 case fans
Total - $290(shipping not included)
Anyone want it? I prefer my SMP p2 system so I'm selling this stuff off.
At my school(in Massachusetts, in the Keroac City), if you were on the normal CS track, outside of including header file statements, not a single program that had to be created per assignment had dependencies.
Compiling DLL's, accessing etc. none of that is covered in the CS track.
You MUST realize that 80% of the CS students do all their programming at the school on the Unix network because about 40% of that 80% don't own a PC. Not only that but the ones that do have a PC use it only to browse the Net, email, and play games.
Very good points, but I'm saying that any sort of development from a non-*nix environment, at my school, was majorly shunned.
I feel that I would have been better served if in my Operating Systems I and II class we covered both *nix AND Windows. The "design" work might be the same across the board, but implementation is different so is the thought process required to code the project.
Maybe I'm just pissed that my school chruns out only 20% competent programmers (and caters heavily to them *honor's program weenies especially*), and 80% people who don't know what the right mouse button is used for in Windows and that there is a development environment outside of the command line.
Related Story: in my OpenGL class, when it came time for at least 6 people to do their presentations, they were double-clicking on icons with the right mouse button, and not understanding why the programs didn't launch!
"Most colleges use a UNIX environment (especially for CS and engineering). Putting a UNIX environment in high/elementary schools is the next step. And you know how school boards love to save money."
Yeah and while my school was churning out UNIX developers by the boatload, the only jobs that were plentiful were Windows Dev. positions. Try to get some thick-headed CS major to realize that there is more to the world than:
1.Type Name in Login prompt
2.Type password
3.wait for CDE to load
4.Open Terminal
5.Open Vi/emacs/pico
6.gcc/g++ then repeat
College environments really need to be re-evaluated. Not only are they completely oblivious to the fact that not everyone is going to be a Unix developer. For my Senior OpenGL class we used Windows/GL 1.2/Visual Studio, I had to teach a class of 50 "programmers" how to use the Visual Studio environment. Since not all of them were(put bluntly) intelligent:
"where's gcc/g++"
"You can develop programs IN windows?"
"what are dependencies?"
Now I'm all for integration of *nix to our nation's schools, but I feel that people need to learn both. Schools should have the following system setup:
1. 1/3 of the machines run Windows 98/2000
2. 1/3 of the machines run *nix
3. 1/3 of the machines are MACs
That is the most reasonable setup for our school systems. That way they have maximum exposure to most of the computing world...
That's what is important right? Maximum exposure? If you think otherwise...I feel for you.
I really don't understand how people can say things like that, I've never had a problem with Win2k. For me it's been stable and quite fast. Much faster than the RedHat/Gnome setup I had before. What are people doing that cause Win2k to be unstable or not reliable? I play games, develop, edit high-res photos, do 3D modeling, etc. and Windows never seems to die.
The only thing that I despise about Win2k is how it seems to just explode when companies release bad drivers that don't uninstall properly and cause the registry to blow up.
If anyone really hates the Win2k Explorer UI...don't use it! For the first few months I was running win2k I used LiteStep, and it proved to be *much* faster than the standard Win2k GUI. Hell on some installs I've install so many Win-Linux utilities, it's hard for a buddy of mine to tell the difference on the surface between Linux and Windows)
Simple. You can't. Unless your machine has a mod chip or something of that sort, you can't use CDR games which I assume would have to have the PSX/PS2 bootloader on it.
This MAY sound like a radical concept, but not everyone *wants* to work on Free Software or on OSS projects.
Btw, Stephen Hawking turned down a better speech synthsesis program. Besides how could he explain the new voice to all his fans of his gangsta rap!?!? www.mchawking.com for more info
I hate reading lengthy documentation or books on my computer screen. When I need to read 150 pages of documentation or a spec., I print it out. I've actually tried reading e-books on my Palm, my PC monitor, a borrowed e-book device, etc. and I just don't like it. I have an awesome monitor, so eyestrain isn't really an issue when reading on a PC, but I just don't like it.
I wish people would just get it through their heads that everything that isn't digital or that seems antiquated(the paperback or hardcover novel for example)...doesn't have to be updated/transformed to digital media!
While I wholeheartedly agree that this technology is incredibly useful for archiving, I fail to see how the general public would ever accept or even want this advance(as shown in the article). I personally enjoy being able to turn the page of a book, as well as having the attractive dust cover or paper back cover.
I believe that the commerical push e-book should take some time off and resurface in say...10 years when the technology has matured more and become more affordable.
Hey buddy, why aren't you crying out that you can't use PAL DVDs in all DVD players? or why can't you watch PAL VHS tapes in NTSC VHS players?
Isn't that a form of region coding in and of itself? PAL is a "standard" that was introduced by "the man" to prevent this kind of stuff. So instead of really bitching about region coding try making PAL go away first...
Come to think of it, when did anyone become "sneaky" introducing region coding? Frankly, I'm not sure why anyone would want to own a German language only DVD of "Dude, Where's my Car?", but if you hate region coding so much, get a region free player, or just purchase region "0" DVD off the NET.
I have no problem with people using DeCSS for playing on Linux, but if a company come up with a commerical solution so you can pay a nominal fee to play them on a computer(WinDVD, etc.) the DeCSS case wouldn't exist. Oh, that's right...Linux users wouldn't pony up $$ for it because it's not free(as in Milwalkee's Best) and they would want the source so they could dick around with it, so what company would do that?
Go ahead. I'd like to see you play a PAL VHS tape in your NTSC VHS player or a PAL DVD in your NTSC DVD player.
Yes, I'm aware that some DVD players have the ability to play both, but not all.
I was involved in one of those blind taste tests of Pepsi's. I know what Coke tastes like and it tastes nothing like Pepsi(which tastes like medicine to me). When I chose the Coke instead of the Pepsi, the guy was like "ummm...well Pepsi isn't for everyone, you must really love Coke!" Then I said I don't drink Coke that often. Subsequently, I got hurried off the stage and given a coupon for a free Pepsi. I think I was the only person there (I was there for 15minutes) who chose the Coke.
Although this still is /. , I find it odd that there isn't more harsh criticism for this apparent black eye for Linux journalism.
If this was say "Windows Today" magazine, we'd have a 1,000 post article of how magazine's based on closed-source stuff is evil. Rah! Rah! Linux journalism isn't like this, we don't have to be...we're superior! Yet no one seems to care about this and is willing to sweep it under the proverbial rug.
People flaunt their ethics("I would never use a M$ OS or work for a company that does) and morals(I refuse to write anything but open-source code), but I wonder, what was wrong with this guy that he just didn't leave. Doing something unethical as this should qualify as a comprimization of ethics. If things were as bad as he said they were, then to me it's time to cash out my options and jump ship.
"...just to get a damn FOX affiliate over my dish so I could use my DirecTivo for The Family Guy and That 70s Show. Is that to much to ask? There's definitely going to be a lot more cracking down on pirated dish stuff: they are getting crazy with the protective measures."
/. You are saying "I only want to pirate this for 2 shows, so then it must be ok" Amazing.
That's the stupidest thing I've ever read here on
Also "they are getting crazy with the protective measures". What would you expect them to do? They are losing revenue to people pirating the signal. Being easier to pirate than cable TV, they have to come up with some pretty ingenious measures to prevent the rampant piracy that exists. Of the 15 people I know with DirectTV/Dish service, only 1 of them actually pays for the service!
Honestly, what do you expect? I'm sure if you were the president of the company you'd be singing a different tune.
If I remember properly, in the movie "The Saint" with Val Kilmer, he had a cool cell phone that had a qwerty keyboard built into it.
He was able to open the phone and use the keyboard to type and recieve email. I even remember seeing one at the local cellphone/computer store.
I would personally love to have that phone make a comeback in a new iteration running a color display. If I remeber correctly the screen was rather large and the phone was a little larger than then they are today!
That's the feature I'd like built into PDAs, a cell phone. Or Vice versa. I've seen those crappy ones with the PalmOS built in, but I want a keyboard like that phone had(maybe a sylus too).
I think it would also be nice to have a new hybrid OS running the device. If they could take bits of PalmOS and bits of WindowsCE and bits of Linux, then you'd have a killer all-in-one device.
Fear not, pretty soon(2-3 years maybe less) directed advertising will be a reality thanks in part to seachange international.
/. ) this would be a very welcome revolution in TV.
www.seachangeinternational.com (plain text link for the goatse fearing.
If their targeted advertising shapes up like they hope I won't be fast forwarding through commercials.
The way it works(although most will scoff at this) is by using the MAC address built into cable boxes, it will keep a generic profile of your viewing habits, and then direct ads to you. say I watch farscape on SCI-FI and ED on NBC, I'll get more SCI-Fi related ads, and ads relating to comedy shows, lawyer shows, and bowling shows, etc. I saw a glimpse of it at a recent trade show.
If people can get over the relatively anonymous and generic profiling(even though I see that could never happen, esp. on
First off I never called Linux "useless", so re-read comments before making a retort based on misread info. I also love the antiquated notion that "users" are unimportant that seems to run rampant in "the community".
/. strides being made to make Linux THE desktop OS and death to Microsoft! We will rule the desktop, so until /. finishes publishing stories as such, most people just casually reading this site would assume it to be true.
:) Is there native support for "wacky" devices? No. So what's the difference?
I'm just putting on the cap of an average user making my comments. I'm certainly not an average user by any means, and I actually have a beowulf cluster in my basement churning out my Maya Animations as we speak. I enjoy using many operating systems, but everyone seems to be gung-ho in pushing Linux to the desktop. In writing my comment, I based my comment as a desktop user. But still, I get flamed...and if this is how people react to any negative comment, God help us.
I got plenty of people where I work presently who can't stand Linux. They call it "the great bastard OS". It's simply borrowed concepts from other Unices and made them it's own. The old VMS grognards say "If it weren't for punk college kids...that OS would be nothing". But I digress...
If "Desktops aren't the entire world" why is Linux being actively developed to be forced into the market to people to take windows off the "Desktop" market? I read everyday on
btw, what kind of custom hardware are you talking about? I used to write drivers for heat probes, chemical test equipment, and all sorts of other wacky stuff. I did my senior thesis on "simulating external forces on objects", a fantastic number-crunching graphical experiment. Just because it's windows doesn't mean you can't write drivers and do interesting things. So why am I better of using Linux? Are the APIs for "wacky" devices built into Linux? No. Can I compile in "Wacky device support"?
btw...Sell the strat and buy a real guitar. I'll take my Les Paul, and Parker Nitefly over that thing any day.
Anonymous coward thank you for proving a point. The stuck up, snobby attitude that *most* Linux fanatics have(at least the ones running rampant at UMASS Lowell when I was there). You read my comment and pick the one thing that I particularly left out because it's a non-issue to the user. you had no where to turn, but to grasp at straws to be funny.
Why would I need to recompile my Windows Kernel?(I have btw, a developers kit and friends at Microsoft works wonders in doing so)
But tell me the average grandma is going to be capable of doing such things as you suggest(particularly the coding), and I'll just pitch my copies of windows in my microwave and nuke em.
It's nearly guaranteed to be denounced as encouraging violence and lust. Ergo, we need drivers for PCs running Free operating systems.
:) , but that's about it. Any other games that could use this or warrant the effort of driver creation at the moment?
I would think that driver creation for Windows would/should be completed first, since there are tons of games that would/could utilize this. I'm not sure how many games in Linux currently would even have a use for this product?
I'm sure it would make Tux Racer more immersive
Ok, my thought wasn't complete enough. Maybe I'm being a bit naive about this situation, but someone who doesn't know enough to look for patches in the Microsoft Software Download area, or even to bother to configure things properly, they deserve to get infected.
:)
These home users probably just ran the setup program and never checked things again! My mom has IIS running as her web server, and she *IS* on DSL, she know next to nothing about computers, but she knows enough to keep up with updates and patches. She also knows enough to attempt to figure out the documentation on how to use a product she has installed.
Btw...it's "cause" or "because" not "couse".
The moral of the story is not to hire dumbass admin's who don't do their job.
A patch for this was realeased *1 month* before this virus hit the streets! Frankly any admin who bothers to actually check for patches/updates are going to find them. Hell, after a 2 minute search I found the patch.
Frankly, if someone wants to use IIS that's fine, I'd rather use Apache than IIS. But this virus got around because of Admin incompetence.