I am not a linux Guru like many of you, but I do use the operating system... and I would tend to explain KDE/Linux to someone that has no idea about Linux/KDE/Gnome..etc
as MS-DOS with Windows 3.11 for Workgroups installed on top of it...
You can use DOS all you want...and if you want GUI, you just load up Win3.11 and there ya go..choose your browser...and enjoy.
KDE would be along the same 'principle'... startx, click on your favorite browsing icon... or bust into a shell and use lynx:)
Integration is lovely...as long as it is an OPTION, not a requirement.
"Even change has changed. It's been 32 years since Alvin and Heidi Toffler published "Future Shock," warning that the pace of change was increasing faster than people could handle it."
If this is NOT true, then why is it that nearly 90% of kids now days know more about computers than their parents?
Merely because the kids have more free-time to play and tinker with the contraption? Thus, change happening faster than people can handle.
Hell...how many of us can keep up with TODAY's technology let alone tomorrows? Albeit,/. has provided a wonderful window into what is hot, and forthcoming so that we may at LEAST have a glimpse of what is going on around us.
Reason being because most educational licenses extend to the 'personal computer' of the educators that MUST use the software to comply with their campus's IT software.
thus even though I work at a private, non-profit high school, I am entitled to a copy of every piece of software used at the school.
This is through the OETC, oregon education technology consortium.
Still...legal council is the only way to go in the issue that is the parent of this topic... While conducting an internal audit of course and showing a pro-active attitude.
Agreed... I beat Original Nintendo games Zelda and Metroid without cheat guides... don't let me count the number of hours spent collecting bombs to find hidden areas in Zelda... or climbing frozen metroids...
Uhh...yeah I would have.. It's amazing how much more respect is given to those who actually speak in complete sentances and use grammar as it was structured
Kind of like programming languages... a little sloppy coding and what do you get? a buffer exploit...something everyone hates (other than the exploiters)
Sloppy speaking and writing is tiresome and a waste of listening/reading respectively.
That was my first year using Linux and it WAS the Slackware Distro! But I did a network install... Doh! Can't believe the coincidence happened and I didn't even get to witness it...(currently searching for pic of slackware '96 cd-set cover)
As long as the beef doesn't come from England I'm sure they'll be okay eating the hamburger. Cuz there are some pissed-off cows over there in the British Isles!
oh...I wanted to ask him... Why the monkey? Why not a Rhino? or Hippo? How come everyone picks little animals for their logos? I wanna see a duck-billed platapus as a logo!
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Jolly good point there chap! And Kudo's for recognizing! Actually I ate the Kudo's this morning for breakfast...sorry.
FORCING registration is a bad thing. No one wants to be told they HAVE to do something. Make the product USABLE immediately upon download, and then self-destruct after 30 days. And don't use that McAffee annoyance routine to harass them until they buy a registration key.
If you want useful marketing information from them gather it AFTER they evaluate it, never before. High-presure sales never made anyone happy except the boss/owner who hired the salesman.
Think of it like this...when you go to buy a car do you want to be forced into providing all of your demographic data and then be told to come back in a few hours to take a test drive of the vehicle you were looking at? HELL NO! You want the idiot salesman to leave you alone...let you browse the lot...find a car you like and then give you the keys and let you tear around town testing the car out... Then if you decide to buy you are more than happy to provide your demographic data... And if you don't like it you have lost nothing more than your time browsing and test-driving.
use the 'KISS' principal..."keep it simple stupid"
these fellows must have taken a different chemistry course that I.
In mine we were taught that when molecules were heated that they tended to move FASTER...
*shrugs*
who am I to argue with science...I merely
regurgitate information fed to me from a
pathetic high school chemistry instructor
who's idea of a good time was spying on Blue-footed Boobies.
yes...addiction to playing Zerg in Starcraft is an illness that can spread rampantly.
It will consume and devour your body, mind, and social life.
Scourge are a zerglings greatest defense against air attack...
*braces for flame*
Perhaps NY should invest in some...
who's this guy? I've never heard of him!
EVERYONE knows that Al Gore invented the WWW!!!
HE said it himself!!!
What, am I not supposed to trust politicians anymore?
I work at a school where the administrators are paranoid about students installing FREE software...IM software and the like as well as making changes to the desktops...
As I am the teacher of the computer literacy classes this directly hampers my ability to teach effectively the inner-workings of the Operating System...can't even teach them how to use a command-line interface(of course I set up some Linux machines to get around that problem).
But if I were to be developing...I would not think it would hamper my ability to do my job because the software I NEED to be using should be pre-installed...(if the admin ppl are doing their job)...some software I might WANT to use is probably not neccesary to me doing the job I was hired to do. Simply put...maybe it's to keep workers on track instead of reading slashdot.org all day long =)
Just some realistic thoughts of situations where it might be applicable.
Oh yes...those top secret pork bellies reports are vital to national security. So much so that they have "Animal Farm" syndrome and are paranoid of potential attacks.
What STUPID POS(not point-of-sale) program are they going to think of next to waste our hard earned money on?
I can't count the number of nights spent trying to get that sexy new E build to work, and what fun it was!
I was just getting into Linux about the same time..but I wasn't spending my evenings with my Linux box...*shudder*
Women can get almost as hot as an overclocked processor, and the fringe benefits of them burning up FAR outweight that of an overclocked CPU! As for 'sexy'...well hrm...new E build or a woman...gosh...I'm think'n Woman on this one...
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Oh Oh!!! Can I be next?!?!
I am not a linux Guru like many of you, but I do use the operating system...
... startx, click on your favorite browsing icon... :)
and I would tend to explain KDE/Linux to someone
that has no idea about Linux/KDE/Gnome..etc
as MS-DOS with Windows 3.11 for Workgroups
installed on top of it...
You can use DOS all you want...and if you want GUI, you just load up Win3.11 and there ya go..choose your browser...and enjoy.
KDE would be along the same 'principle'
or bust into a shell and use lynx
Integration is lovely...as long as it is an OPTION, not a requirement.
The nightmare continues just like
Jason X...
when will it end...when will it end...
I mean DAMN, how many times can a dude die?!?!
"Even change has changed. It's been 32 years since Alvin and Heidi Toffler published "Future Shock," warning that the pace of change was increasing faster than people could handle it."
/. has provided a wonderful window into what is hot, and forthcoming so that we may at LEAST have a glimpse of what is going on around us.
If this is NOT true, then why is it that nearly 90% of kids now days know more about computers than their parents?
Merely because the kids have more free-time to play and tinker with the contraption? Thus, change happening faster than people can handle.
Hell...how many of us can keep up with TODAY's technology let alone tomorrows? Albeit,
Reason being because most educational licenses extend to the 'personal computer' of the educators that MUST use the software to comply with their campus's IT software.
thus even though I work at a private, non-profit high school, I am entitled to a copy of every piece of software used at the school.
This is through the OETC, oregon education technology consortium.
Still...legal council is the only way to go in the issue that is the parent of this topic...
While conducting an internal audit of course and
showing a pro-active attitude.
#1 Have your organization host DefCon.
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#2 Give all participants access to network
#3 Award a prize for the group that finds/creates the most holes.
#4 Go out and hire someone capable of keeping up with security issues and keep them continually trained, informed, and educated.
Agreed...
I beat Original Nintendo games
Zelda and Metroid without cheat guides...
don't let me count the number of hours spent
collecting bombs to find hidden areas in Zelda...
or climbing frozen metroids...
``Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.''
Now that is a quote to live by.
Uhh...yeah I would have..
It's amazing how much more
respect is given to those who
actually speak in complete sentances
and use grammar as it was structured
Kind of like programming languages...
a little sloppy coding and what do you get?
a buffer exploit...something everyone hates
(other than the exploiters)
Sloppy speaking and writing is tiresome and a waste of listening/reading respectively.
Platapus
Woo...google rules
That was my first year using Linux and it WAS the Slackware Distro! But I did a network install...
Doh! Can't believe the coincidence happened and I didn't even get to witness it...(currently searching for pic of slackware '96 cd-set cover)
As long as the beef doesn't come from England
I'm sure they'll be okay eating the hamburger.
Cuz there are some pissed-off cows over there in the British Isles!
oh...I wanted to ask him...
Why the monkey?
Why not a Rhino?
or Hippo?
How come everyone picks little animals for their logos? I wanna see a duck-billed platapus as a logo!
Jolly good point there chap!
And Kudo's for recognizing!
Actually I ate the Kudo's this morning for breakfast...sorry.
FORCING registration is a bad thing.
No one wants to be told they HAVE to
do something.
Make the product USABLE immediately
upon download, and then self-destruct
after 30 days. And don't use that
McAffee annoyance routine to harass
them until they buy a registration key.
If you want useful marketing information
from them gather it AFTER they evaluate it,
never before. High-presure sales never made
anyone happy except the boss/owner who hired
the salesman.
Think of it like this...when you go to buy
a car do you want to be forced into providing
all of your demographic data and then be told
to come back in a few hours to take a
test drive of the vehicle you were looking at?
HELL NO! You want the idiot salesman to leave
you alone...let you browse the lot...find a
car you like and then give you the keys and let
you tear around town testing the car out...
Then if you decide to buy you are more than
happy to provide your demographic data...
And if you don't like it you have lost nothing
more than your time browsing and test-driving.
use the 'KISS' principal..."keep it simple stupid"
--Huck
these fellows must have taken a different chemistry course that I.
In mine we were taught that when molecules were heated that they tended to move FASTER...
*shrugs*
who am I to argue with science...I merely
regurgitate information fed to me from a
pathetic high school chemistry instructor
who's idea of a good time was spying on Blue-footed Boobies.
yes...addiction to playing Zerg in Starcraft is an illness that can spread rampantly.
It will consume and devour your body, mind, and social life.
Scourge are a zerglings greatest defense against air attack...
*braces for flame*
Perhaps NY should invest in some...
nanotech weapons in particular falling into the wrong hands
yeah...right...as if ANY hands would be the right hands...
who's this guy? I've never heard of him!
EVERYONE knows that Al Gore invented the WWW!!!
HE said it himself!!!
What, am I not supposed to trust politicians anymore?
Are you kidding me?
That's like Americans reporting on CULTURE...
how can you report on something you have no clue about?
Oh sure... Q in the James Bond movies is all the techno-guru...but the rest of the country is in an awfully sorry state!
--Huck
I work at a school where the administrators are paranoid about students installing FREE software...IM software and the like as well as making changes to the desktops...
As I am the teacher of the computer literacy classes this directly hampers my ability to teach effectively the inner-workings of the Operating System...can't even teach them how to use a command-line interface(of course I set up some Linux machines to get around that problem).
But if I were to be developing...I would not think it would hamper my ability to do my job because the software I NEED to be using should be pre-installed...(if the admin ppl are doing their job)...some software I might WANT to use is probably not neccesary to me doing the job I was hired to do. Simply put...maybe it's to keep workers on track instead of reading slashdot.org all day long =)
Just some realistic thoughts of situations where it might be applicable.
I don't run Windows because I'm not a completely clueless dumbass, who doesn't want to pay more for his OS and software than he did for his laptop.
Oh yes...those top secret pork bellies reports are vital to national security. So much so that they have "Animal Farm" syndrome and are paranoid of potential attacks.
What STUPID POS(not point-of-sale) program are they going to think of next to waste our hard earned money on?
The least MS could do is at least TRY to limit the damage by putting macros in some sort of sandbox
Yes, and then they should cover up the shit like a cat does in it's sandbox.
I can't count the number of nights spent trying to get that sexy new E build to work, and what fun it was!
I was just getting into Linux about the same time..but I wasn't spending my evenings with my Linux box...*shudder*
Women can get almost as hot as an overclocked processor, and the fringe benefits of them burning up FAR outweight that of an overclocked CPU! As for 'sexy'...well hrm...new E build or a woman...gosh...I'm think'n Woman on this one...