Currently, I have an old laptop that I have been using for java development no less. I don't have X installed... just vim, j2sdk, and ant. Does everything I want. I have found that I am more productive. I tend to be one of those who tinkers with settings, etc, and becomes distracted. Not the case while developing in console mode. It may not be pretty, but I am productive. Also, being that the laptop is an IBM thinkpad with one of those wretched pointing devices in the center of the keyboard, it is defintely better than trying to use any windowed environment with that horrible mouse pointer beast.
And just how do they think that this will be regulated? The only conceivable way would be ALL who control a mail server to consent to audits of their servers. NOT going to happen. What a STUPID idea!
Yeah, that will work, BUT, that type of work-around would be bashed in these type of articles if they had to do that when installing Linux as the 2nd OS.
I think all of these articles miss the point anyway. Each OS has issues. Windows does NOT recognize all hardware out of the box. You can just start using everything when you plug it in.
Oh well, I guess we can expect 10-12 more of these articles each week.
WP is not without it's flaws, either. I don't like WP or WORD. The installer for WP has removed Data source names repeatedly on me before. The dsn's are there... then install WP, and poof! They're gone!
Actually, there is a nice tcl/tk MSN messenger clone for Linux. ccMSN or something I think. Works for me.
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The problem is that the packages will have dependencies that aren't needed at all. Some cases they are valid, if you wanted option x, but not in other cases. The best way is to compile from source. I run slackware, but i don't like package management. too many problems. I install only the basics with slack, and compile the rest from source. takes a little longer, but is less trouble in the long run. And that way, I know what is on my system, and why.
Linux hackers from Germany and elsewhere are working on a Windows-like graphical interface for Linux PCs called KDE (for K Desktop Environment). They expect to release it this spring--free of charge
And all this time I have been using vaporware I guess...:)
is that even patched systems are not clean. Sure, you can patch it, but that doesn't stop the virus. This one is nasty, and patches alone do not fix it. The files on the computer must be cleaned, or infection happens again, and again, and again. I know... We have a box here (and I had all the patches, or at least I thought that I did), and it got infected.... 3 days later, i *think* that it is clean, and patched. So I think shutting down the users is fine.
>How did MS become a monopoly? Because their >product was designed for anyone (including the >millions of morons, or those less computer->literate) to learn quickly and easily.
I would argue that it is not easy-to-use. The only reason that it is perceived to be easy-to-use is that everyone uses it and has become accustomed to the way it works. I remember quite clearly many who had no idea how to use windows when it first came out and users learned of it's existence (version 3.0 to version 3.1).
Yeah, I have been slammed before, and by none other than AT&T. After they did this to me, and I got charged for their long distance instead of my long distance, I made a call to AT&T. Well, after getting nowhere with the support person, I asked for the supervisor. When I finally got her on the line, I laid into her with ruthless abandon. After about 30 minutes or more of us going back and forth, she relented, knocked off the calls down to MCI's rate, and told me they would would never offer me service over the phone. guess what? They haven't! It has been a wonderful 1 1/2 to 2 years now since that day, and I have not been hassled by them, or anyone else for that matter.
Not for me... works fine. I use M17 all the time, and it has not done this. I have multiple windows open all the time as I use http://www.blink.com to keep my bookmarks, and I have it set to open a new window for each bookmark I click on. Overall, not a bad product. In fact, I use it over IE at work, at least until I get a page that won't work under it because of bad html. I wish it has a setting for allowing bad html to be processed in a better fashion. Not everyone will go to the trouble of fixing web pages, and some of those pages have good content that I want. For instance, http://www.linuxapps.com
Just my 2 cents...
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Currently, I have an old laptop that I have been using for java development no less. I don't have X installed... just vim, j2sdk, and ant. Does everything I want. I have found that I am more productive. I tend to be one of those who tinkers with settings, etc, and becomes distracted. Not the case while developing in console mode. It may not be pretty, but I am productive. Also, being that the laptop is an IBM thinkpad with one of those wretched pointing devices in the center of the keyboard, it is defintely better than trying to use any windowed environment with that horrible mouse pointer beast.
And just how do they think that this will be regulated? The only conceivable way would be ALL who control a mail server to consent to audits of their servers. NOT going to happen. What a STUPID idea!
Yeah, that will work, BUT, that type of work-around would be bashed in these type of articles if they had to do that when installing Linux as the 2nd OS.
I think all of these articles miss the point anyway. Each OS has issues. Windows does NOT recognize all hardware out of the box. You can just start using everything when you plug it in.
Oh well, I guess we can expect 10-12 more of these articles each week.
Darn, I only got 958,000... unless this is like golf, and lowest score wins! WooHoo!
22 hours????? I use a 56k modem, and it usually gets it in under an hour??? Are you downloading the source or binary distro?
WP is not without it's flaws, either. I don't like WP or WORD. The installer for WP has removed Data source names repeatedly on me before. The dsn's are there... then install WP, and poof! They're gone!
Actually, there is a nice tcl/tk MSN messenger clone for Linux. ccMSN or something I think. Works for me.
The problem is that the packages will have dependencies that aren't needed at all. Some cases they are valid, if you wanted option x, but not in other cases. The best way is to compile from source. I run slackware, but i don't like package management. too many problems. I install only the basics with slack, and compile the rest from source. takes a little longer, but is less trouble in the long run. And that way, I know what is on my system, and why.
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Linux hackers from Germany and elsewhere are working on a Windows-like graphical interface for Linux PCs called KDE (for K Desktop Environment). They expect to release it this spring--free of charge
And all this time I have been using vaporware I guess...
is that even patched systems are not clean. Sure, you can patch it, but that doesn't stop the virus. This one is nasty, and patches alone do not fix it. The files on the computer must be cleaned, or infection happens again, and again, and again. I know... We have a box here (and I had all the patches, or at least I thought that I did), and it got infected.... 3 days later, i *think* that it is clean, and patched. So I think shutting down the users is fine.
>How did MS become a monopoly? Because their >product was designed for anyone (including the >millions of morons, or those less computer->literate) to learn quickly and easily.
I would argue that it is not easy-to-use. The only reason that it is perceived to be easy-to-use is that everyone uses it and has become accustomed to the way it works. I remember quite clearly many who had no idea how to use windows when it first came out and users learned of it's existence (version 3.0 to version 3.1).
Yeah, I have been slammed before, and by none other than AT&T. After they did this to me, and I got charged for their long distance instead of my long distance, I made a call to AT&T. Well, after getting nowhere with the support person, I asked for the supervisor. When I finally got her on the line, I laid into her with ruthless abandon. After about 30 minutes or more of us going back and forth, she relented, knocked off the calls down to MCI's rate, and told me they would would never offer me service over the phone. guess what? They haven't! It has been a wonderful 1 1/2 to 2 years now since that day, and I have not been hassled by them, or anyone else for that matter.
Not for me... works fine. I use M17 all the time, and it has not done this. I have multiple windows open all the time as I use http://www.blink.com to keep my bookmarks, and I have it set to open a new window for each bookmark I click on. Overall, not a bad product. In fact, I use it over IE at work, at least until I get a page that won't work under it because of bad html. I wish it has a setting for allowing bad html to be processed in a better fashion. Not everyone will go to the trouble of fixing web pages, and some of those pages have good content that I want. For instance, http://www.linuxapps.com Just my 2 cents...