I'm a little concerned also...What happens if you're running something like the SETI client? I have a Linux box running as an MP3 server, and keep the SETI client going as well....This utility pricing could really hurt...
I have three vcrs and a cable splitter.
I've been storing one set of incoming signals to a magnetic media while viewing another set of signals on the screen. User commands are input through the Universal Remote (I got it at Circuit City, IIRC)
How can they patent this?????
My daughter wanted a computer...Instead of buying a new one, I broke out a relic from the parts closet, added some memory and a HDD, and loaded Mandrake 8.0 on it.
She is using Windows9x at school, and I was curious to see what her reaction would be when presented with Linux, KDE, Gnome, etc..
By and large, she didn't really seem to notice much of a difference. She asked a few questions, like "Where's PowerPoint?", but once I gave here alternatives, she was happy. She hasn't been a "user" long enough to have developed any ties to any particular application.
She's actually started to tell her friends about how cool Linux is, and finds it frustrating that the software she has been using at home is not available on the Win9x platform::grin::
I have to believe that Linux on the desktop is still in its infancy. We've noticed at home that when we install everything from a distribution, there's usually 15-20% of the desktop applications/applets that either don't work well, or don't work at all. Admittedly, we can usually get the latest sources, recompile, etc.. and get things running. This is fun for me, but my daughter (as a user) finds these things to be tedious...although she's not a Microsoft bigot, she's still a part of the Nintendo generation that just wants to slap in a CD, and play...
I see application maturity as the barometer of Linux desktop acceptance...As the applications mature, the desktop penetration will follow.
Lastly, I usually create a user account for my daughter, so she can set up a Backstreet Boys theme, and I don't have to look at it. Unfortunately, it seems like if you don't log in as root, you get a whole lot more application errors. Multi User Mode is great, but not at the expense of application stability.
Just my two cents...
Thanks!
...is not to play?
You can't guarantee any type of privacy unless you absolutely refuse to participate.
At some point, your privacy dissolves as more entities participate in the activity.
That's not to say that there aren't some basic measures to take, like not using your SSN as a public identifier...
PGP, SSL, and other "security" implementations still rely on allowing the other side to participate in the activity...hence all the discussions on why your personal info got sold to whatever.com by the last place you shopped online...
There's a whole shitload of young adults who are hopelessly addicted to AOL, brain fried form all the "please wait, while we add new art" crap, and they're all hanging around a lawyers office, filing their class action law suits that will make the tobacco settlements look like chump change....
"I tried to get a real ISP, but everytime I quit AOL, I got the jitters and shakes, and just couldn't help myself....and the reps just keep calling me...I had no choice"
I almost thought there was hope several years ago when I could buy unused AOL disks by the hundreds, reformat them, and use them to pass on pr0n to my friends...
but now, every day when I get home, it seems like there's a "New, Improved" AOL on my doorstep.
I save em, and use them as skeet targets.
Sorry to rant...just felt the need.
...Oxygen Toxicity...kills em before they hit 5K,
although watching the barrels pop out of the water and explode would still be visually entertaining....
Alternative...stake them to the ground, and let rats eat them alive, while every ten seconds playing the AOL "You've got Mail" sounder...
Hard to say, but it would lend credibility to the story we used to tell VP's about the network slowing down on days when there was a traffic jam because the weight of the cars compressed the data signals....
Since it's the size of the stack, I guess that means that if I include fifty pages of card game rules along with my response that my vote holds more "weight" that the poor schmuck that just faxes in "I agree/disagree"?
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I'm a little concerned also...What happens if you're running something like the SETI client? I have a Linux box running as an MP3 server, and keep the SETI client going as well....This utility pricing could really hurt...
Any thoughts on how packets coming from VMware sessions might be treated?
I'm curious how the packets might look form say 4 virtual machines running on the same host hardware.
how 'bout
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among friends?
I have three vcrs and a cable splitter.
I've been storing one set of incoming signals to a magnetic media while viewing another set of signals on the screen. User commands are input through the Universal Remote (I got it at Circuit City, IIRC)
How can they patent this?????
My daughter wanted a computer...Instead of buying a new one, I broke out a relic from the parts closet, added some memory and a HDD, and loaded Mandrake 8.0 on it. She is using Windows9x at school, and I was curious to see what her reaction would be when presented with Linux, KDE, Gnome, etc.. By and large, she didn't really seem to notice much of a difference. She asked a few questions, like "Where's PowerPoint?", but once I gave here alternatives, she was happy. She hasn't been a "user" long enough to have developed any ties to any particular application. She's actually started to tell her friends about how cool Linux is, and finds it frustrating that the software she has been using at home is not available on the Win9x platform ::grin::
I have to believe that Linux on the desktop is still in its infancy. We've noticed at home that when we install everything from a distribution, there's usually 15-20% of the desktop applications/applets that either don't work well, or don't work at all. Admittedly, we can usually get the latest sources, recompile, etc.. and get things running. This is fun for me, but my daughter (as a user) finds these things to be tedious...although she's not a Microsoft bigot, she's still a part of the Nintendo generation that just wants to slap in a CD, and play...
I see application maturity as the barometer of Linux desktop acceptance...As the applications mature, the desktop penetration will follow.
Lastly, I usually create a user account for my daughter, so she can set up a Backstreet Boys theme, and I don't have to look at it. Unfortunately, it seems like if you don't log in as root, you get a whole lot more application errors. Multi User Mode is great, but not at the expense of application stability.
Just my two cents...
Thanks!
...is not to play? You can't guarantee any type of privacy unless you absolutely refuse to participate. At some point, your privacy dissolves as more entities participate in the activity. That's not to say that there aren't some basic measures to take, like not using your SSN as a public identifier... PGP, SSL, and other "security" implementations still rely on allowing the other side to participate in the activity...hence all the discussions on why your personal info got sold to whatever.com by the last place you shopped online...
There's a whole shitload of young adults who are hopelessly addicted to AOL, brain fried form all the "please wait, while we add new art" crap, and they're all hanging around a lawyers office, filing their class action law suits that will make the tobacco settlements look like chump change.... "I tried to get a real ISP, but everytime I quit AOL, I got the jitters and shakes, and just couldn't help myself....and the reps just keep calling me...I had no choice" I almost thought there was hope several years ago when I could buy unused AOL disks by the hundreds, reformat them, and use them to pass on pr0n to my friends... but now, every day when I get home, it seems like there's a "New, Improved" AOL on my doorstep. I save em, and use them as skeet targets. Sorry to rant...just felt the need.
...Oxygen Toxicity...kills em before they hit 5K, although watching the barrels pop out of the water and explode would still be visually entertaining.... Alternative...stake them to the ground, and let rats eat them alive, while every ten seconds playing the AOL "You've got Mail" sounder...
I'm down to 35-40 a week, unless the weather's really nice...Then it's just enough hours to pay the bills...Consulting Rocks!!!!
Hard to say, but it would lend credibility to the story we used to tell VP's about the network slowing down on days when there was a traffic jam because the weight of the cars compressed the data signals....
Since it's the size of the stack, I guess that means that if I include fifty pages of card game rules along with my response that my vote holds more "weight" that the poor schmuck that just faxes in "I agree/disagree"?