Lack of vigilance on the users' part? They got ALL the passwords and they're posting a SAMPLE of them. Unless you think everyone in Australia is too stupid to pick an unguessable password.
MacOS is a non-entity in the PC world. An also-ran. Maybe in 1984 you might've been able to make a case against my point, but not now. Not even in 1995.
Windows XP is familiar enough to seasoned 9x users that there will be little to no learning curve, and, if it turns out that people don't buy it anyway, Microsoft will just release another Win9x clone.
...there's the fact that most people don't want or need to learn a new operating system AND a new windowing system (AND a new way of doing things) SIMPLY for the sake of doing something different.
A lot of people have been "raised" on DOS and Windows 9x. Why would they ever want to change to Linux? They're used to 9x, and whether or not they really like it is another matter entirely.
Linux will remain a niche OS because, for most people, there's really no reason to use it.
Idono what kinda crack these people are smoking, or where the hell they live that their podunk cable providers are that congested, but I've *NEVER* had a complaint about either my DSL line *or* my cable modem. The cable connection consistently averages over 100KBytes/second, and oftentimes *well* over 600KBytes/second. The DSL connection is slightly less speedy, at a "meager" 150K/second.
Where do you all live where the internet connections are that bad for DSL/cable? Geographic locations, please. I'll know never to move there.
In an era in which any rich man can be shot into space by the Russians (who we don't hate anymore, despite George W.'s protestations to the contrary), is space travel really all that important or special anymore? Hell, in 50 years, it'll be like airplane travel is now. "I took the shuttle the other day; had a blast." "That's nice." It won't even be news when you or I do it.
"Then why did it have them long before my channel came to the net? Perhaps it's because others there share my opinion about their necessity?"
Not really. Mostly it was because I'd found a perl OperServ script and decided to run that for the hell of it, then discovered Andy Church's services clone and decided to hack around on it. Most people at the time were ambivalent to the concept of services on WTnet and we made do with channel bots like we did on EFnet. (The bots worked well, for what it's worth.)
The only thing services offers, in my opinion, is the convenience of not having to type "/msg __Ralph op #watertower blah". The other niceties are largely unused (for instance, nobody bothers to/msg nickserv SET URL, or SET EMAIL, trust me. Hell, even our MemoServ database is only 124k) and go unnoticed by most users. Hell, when it was down last year for 3 or 4 days after a lightning strike, nobody even noticed save a handful of whiners who still snarl about netsplits after 6 years on IRC.
The only thing services is really used for on our network is keeping people out of certain channels, just like any other network. Only I keep having to re-code the AKICK handling routines.
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Then I would feel much less nervous, as a sysadmin.
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How the fuck can it not be Telstra's fault?
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Oh right, it's microsoft. They like to do this.
Nothing to see here, move along.
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MacOS is a non-entity in the PC world. An also-ran. Maybe in 1984 you might've been able to make a case against my point, but not now. Not even in 1995.
Windows XP is familiar enough to seasoned 9x users that there will be little to no learning curve, and, if it turns out that people don't buy it anyway, Microsoft will just release another Win9x clone.
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A lot of people have been "raised" on DOS and Windows 9x. Why would they ever want to change to Linux? They're used to 9x, and whether or not they really like it is another matter entirely.
Linux will remain a niche OS because, for most people, there's really no reason to use it.
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How does slashdot differentiate between good patents and evil, bad patents? Is the litmus test "Jesus Christ, I could have thought of that!"?
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Do the math. It isn't too tough.
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Where do you all live where the internet connections are that bad for DSL/cable? Geographic locations, please. I'll know never to move there.
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Is the date string for "by USER on Monday July 16 @03:27PM EST" really just the output of
date +"%A %B %d, @%H:%m%p %Z"
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it's sorta like saying "okay, you can LOOK AT this bag of dog shit, but you CAN NOT make more bags of dog shit and give them to your friends."
oh darn.
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What's this got to do with Linux anyway?
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Not really. Mostly it was because I'd found a perl OperServ script and decided to run that for the hell of it, then discovered Andy Church's services clone and decided to hack around on it. Most people at the time were ambivalent to the concept of services on WTnet and we made do with channel bots like we did on EFnet. (The bots worked well, for what it's worth.)
The only thing services offers, in my opinion, is the convenience of not having to type "/msg __Ralph op #watertower blah". The other niceties are largely unused (for instance, nobody bothers to
The only thing services is really used for on our network is keeping people out of certain channels, just like any other network. Only I keep having to re-code the AKICK handling routines.
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And with a lot fewer features...
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