>I for one am cheering for such a major upgrade. > With recent advances with Redhat 6.0, > GNOME 1.0, GTK+ 1.2, and many others (including > the anticipated release of Mozilla), Linux is > finally advancing far enough and fast enough to > be a serious contender in the desktop > market.
a tip: from a recent convert to linux: make it suggest disk partitioning. the first time i installed it it was: "huh, partitioning? make it all one partition, of course."
if the disk isn't partitioned, then *suggest* sensible alternatives. give advice. as a windows nerd of about 15 years, i found it a bit confusing.
> If a stranger climbed over my fence and set up a tent to camp out in my back yard, I'm not going to assume > that they're just going to stay there for a day or two and leave with no harm done. I'm going to call the cops > and have them removed. The purity of their motives does not abbrogate my right to privacy.
a cracker is someone you'll find in your backyard, or your living room. a hacker is the friend who comes over invited and points out that your windows aren't secure and that breaking in here "... would be really easy..." but wouldn't actually do it.
> That quote is funny, because of course it flies > in the face of what the government's lead > economic witness openly admitted on the witness > stand... that any consumer harm caused > by Microsoft is in the future (and thus purely > hypothetical).
so the fact that i lose on average a few productive hours each day because windows keeps crashing or excel is too bloated to function effectively in 32Mb are just hypothetical?
Was their plastic armour a little too flimsy for rocks??
I always thought that the white armour was a sort of reflec armour, designed for protection against beam weapons and spitzensparken during ship battles.
Those joints would be very vulnerable to edged weapons.
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>I for one am cheering for such a major upgrade.
> With recent advances with Redhat 6.0,
> GNOME 1.0, GTK+ 1.2, and many others (including
> the anticipated release of Mozilla), Linux is
> finally advancing far enough and fast enough to
> be a serious contender in the desktop
> market.
a tip: from a recent convert to linux: make it suggest disk partitioning. the first time i installed it it was: "huh, partitioning? make it all one partition, of course."
if the disk isn't partitioned, then *suggest* sensible alternatives. give advice. as a windows nerd of about 15 years, i found it a bit confusing.
just my HKD 1.60
dave
> If a stranger climbed over my fence and set up a tent to camp out in my back yard, I'm not going to assume
> that they're just going to stay there for a day or two and leave with no harm done. I'm going to call the cops
> and have them removed. The purity of their motives does not abbrogate my right to privacy.
a cracker is someone you'll find in your backyard, or your living room. a hacker is the friend who comes over invited and points out that your windows aren't secure and that breaking in here "... would be really easy..." but wouldn't actually do it.
>And, best of all, you can read it on the toliet, and learn yourelf something there. :)
am i alone in thinking that one of the prime uses of a palm pilot is computing whilst on the kludgie?
with a palm vii, you too can be a sysadmin from the throne...
> That quote is funny, because of course it flies
> in the face of what the government's lead
> economic witness openly admitted on the witness
> stand... that any consumer harm caused
> by Microsoft is in the future (and thus purely
> hypothetical).
so the fact that i lose on average a few productive hours each day because windows keeps crashing or excel is too bloated to function effectively in 32Mb are just hypothetical?
i don't think so.
Was their plastic armour a little too flimsy for rocks??
I always thought that the white armour was a sort of reflec armour, designed for protection against beam weapons and spitzensparken during ship battles.
Those joints would be very vulnerable to edged weapons.
dave
> I'd like to know which spoken words can kill
any words can kill provided the PA system is loud enough...
"Excessive punctuation is the sign of a sick mind" - Terry Pratchett
HTH. HAND.
dave
err, that's the top two servers that netcraft was used to determine. what has that got to do with anything precisely?
dave