Of course you are right. Windows users are profoundly stupid and could never grasp the complexity of using a computer to anything non trivial. It's for this reason that I always recommend MACs for first time computer buyers and those windows users who always tend to mess things up royally even though windows is so easy and usable.
Believe it or not there are people in this world who get confused by windows and mess it up, cause it to crash or lock up. These nincompoops do stupid things like lose their start menu, destroy desktop settings etc.
There is hope on the horizon though. MacOsX is very promising and may become the one platform for the drooling retards that use windows now and the geeks that like unix. Time will tell.
True the stupid home user ends up subsidizing the schools and the corporations not to mention all the people in the third world.
P.S. For the not too awful stupid people you can get education discounts via internet pretty easily (of course you could just pirate the thing like the rest of the world does and stick the lusers with the bill).
I quit smoking four years ago. it was the hardest thing I ever did. I am so happy now that I did it. Kicking any bad habit weather it's heroin, or windows is hard but it can be done and you'll have more freedom afterwards. Just like a junkie is a slave to the dealer and to heroin you are a slave to Bill Gates and windows. Kick the habit. It will be very hard and you'll be tempted to go back but in the end everything will be much better. Trust me I know.
The problem is that MS will make you give your information to them if you want to use MS products. Having a monopoly they will have personal information on millions of people worldwide which will be very profitable to sell to whoever wants it.
When I buy an RCA Television I do not have to tell RCA who I am but when you buy MS software (I certainly don't) you are going to be forced to tell them who you are, not only that but you will be tagged and additional information about you will be collected and sold as well.
they will get away with it because they sell to the meaty stupid portion of the bell curve or computer users and those lusers who can't change their default homepages will happiliy divulge whatever MS wants to them. We saw it coming when the NY times insisted that they know your name before you read their paper online while the paper version was anonymous. Those of use who are not idiots used false names or partner but the MS users of the world happily typed in their names and adresses. It never occured to them that it was an odd thing to do when they could have picked up the paper in the subway for nothing AND kept their privacy at the same time. It's a stupid tax and MS will happily collect it from their stupid users.
Go to psionic.com and download their free tools logcheck is an official potato package but portsentry is not (it's in woody). Either way you can either download the tar file or the deb from debian and install them.
"That said, the security of your box is your responsibility. It doesn't matter where your box is located or whose pipes it's connected to. "
If there was an understanding that security was to be handled by the ISP then it's NOT your responsibility. You are paying them for a service and it's their responsibility. That's what service contracts are for so you can let someone else handle the problem.
Police have been catching criminals for years without the aid of CCTV. To state that the criminals would not have been caught without the CCTV is simply false. The cameras might have helped catch the guy or convinct him but it would probably would have happened anyway. In the US where there is no widespread use of cameras police routinely catch criminals and DAs routinely convict them.
According to their web site OS/2, OS/400, MPe/ix ports are on the way.
As for the others it's already been ported to 45 platforms I am sure if the there is any demand it will be ported. How hard would it be port it tru64 unix when it already runs on aix, irix, solaris etc.
It's kind of odd that there is no palm support however.
"You know: rip the company off for selling loss-leading hardware, like we have in the past. "
Punishing companies for their own stupidity is an honorable endevour. Companies know that most people are idiots who can not take advantege of offers like this. They also know that a small percentage of clued in people will take advantage and will cause them to lose money. In the end because for every clued in person there are a thousand stupid idiots they will make lots of money.
The stupids pay their stupid tax, the bright people get a bargain, the company makes millions, everybody wins (except the sheep who are being fleeced of course but they don't count).
Go look at rebol.
It too is commercial but it's much much cheaper.
It has a tiny download and very small code which runs faster. It runs on just about any platform you could think of.
Oh yea the obligatory link
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What he means is that it's not windows.
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Not really.
Let's say that a company chooses to use postgres, mysql, interbase, or sapdb instead of SQL server. They can save hundreds of thousands of dollars and still use access through ODBC. No retraining of the desktop users and save a ton of money.
Same goes for things like proxy server, file and print services, ditching exchange, etc. You can fully populate the back end with linux and gain huge savings. You are forced to buy MS licences with every PC anyway so you really can't save money by replacing windows on the client.
Star Office (open office) is actually pretty similar to ms-office especially considering that 90% of users only use 5% of the capability or office. They should pick it up with no retraining at all. If you have custom apps you can port them to kylix or wxwindows to prep for a future migration of your desktop.
You don't have to you could script the whole thing. Many of the tools like cfengine support all different flavors of unix so it's really not that bad of a problem. Certainly much easier then trying to manage a network of win95, win98, nt3.5, nt4.0, ME, w2K machines. I would say it's easier to manage a network of mixed linux, solaris, and freebsd machines is easer then trying to manage a network of mixed windows versions.
Unfortunately I have intimate knowledge of software distribution including the horrendous and expensive monster that is called SMS. Maybe one day MS will produce a version of SMS that works as advertised but they seem to realize that they just can't do it and are moving to terminal services and of course the panacea known as.NET which will magically solve all of your software problems.
Tivoli is actually not godawful but it sure is godawful expensive.
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Of course you are right. Windows users are profoundly stupid and could never grasp the complexity of using a computer to anything non trivial. It's for this reason that I always recommend MACs for first time computer buyers and those windows users who always tend to mess things up royally even though windows is so easy and usable.
Believe it or not there are people in this world who get confused by windows and mess it up, cause it to crash or lock up. These nincompoops do stupid things like lose their start menu, destroy desktop settings etc.
There is hope on the horizon though. MacOsX is very promising and may become the one platform for the drooling retards that use windows now and the geeks that like unix. Time will tell.
And then he woke up...
True the stupid home user ends up subsidizing the schools and the corporations not to mention all the people in the third world.
P.S. For the not too awful stupid people you can get education discounts via internet pretty easily (of course you could just pirate the thing like the rest of the world does and stick the lusers with the bill).
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I quit smoking four years ago. it was the hardest thing I ever did. I am so happy now that I did it. Kicking any bad habit weather it's heroin, or windows is hard but it can be done and you'll have more freedom afterwards. Just like a junkie is a slave to the dealer and to heroin you are a slave to Bill Gates and windows. Kick the habit. It will be very hard and you'll be tempted to go back but in the end everything will be much better. Trust me I know.
but before you could use them you'd have tell MS all about yourself.
The problem is that MS will make you give your information to them if you want to use MS products. Having a monopoly they will have personal information on millions of people worldwide which will be very profitable to sell to whoever wants it.
When I buy an RCA Television I do not have to tell RCA who I am but when you buy MS software (I certainly don't) you are going to be forced to tell them who you are, not only that but you will be tagged and additional information about you will be collected and sold as well.
they will get away with it because they sell to the meaty stupid portion of the bell curve or computer users and those lusers who can't change their default homepages will happiliy divulge whatever MS wants to them. We saw it coming when the NY times insisted that they know your name before you read their paper online while the paper version was anonymous. Those of use who are not idiots used false names or partner but the MS users of the world happily typed in their names and adresses. It never occured to them that it was an odd thing to do when they could have picked up the paper in the subway for nothing AND kept their privacy at the same time. It's a stupid tax and MS will happily collect it from their stupid users.
Debian plus psionic.com.
Go to psionic.com and download their free tools logcheck is an official potato package but portsentry is not (it's in woody). Either way you can either download the tar file or the deb from debian and install them.
Then go to The Trinity document and do some reading.
After that you should be able to defend yourself from most attacks.
"That said, the security of your box is your responsibility. It doesn't matter where your box is located or whose pipes it's connected to. "
If there was an understanding that security was to be handled by the ISP then it's NOT your responsibility. You are paying them for a service and it's their responsibility. That's what service contracts are for so you can let someone else handle the problem.
Too subtle methinks.
Police have been catching criminals for years without the aid of CCTV. To state that the criminals would not have been caught without the CCTV is simply false. The cameras might have helped catch the guy or convinct him but it would probably would have happened anyway. In the US where there is no widespread use of cameras police routinely catch criminals and DAs routinely convict them.
According to their web site OS/2, OS/400, MPe/ix ports are on the way.
As for the others it's already been ported to 45 platforms I am sure if the there is any demand it will be ported. How hard would it be port it tru64 unix when it already runs on aix, irix, solaris etc.
It's kind of odd that there is no palm support however.
You know that's what's going to be said.
I am learning XSLT and I have to say it's so much easier to use perl or php to transform XML pages into HTMl (or anything else for that matter).
XSL tags and function are so verbose and hard to read compared to using xmltree() in php and then using foreach statements.
In all honesty exactly what does xslt do better then php?
"You know: rip the company off for selling loss-leading hardware, like we have in the past. "
Punishing companies for their own stupidity is an honorable endevour. Companies know that most people are idiots who can not take advantege of offers like this. They also know that a small percentage of clued in people will take advantage and will cause them to lose money. In the end because for every clued in person there are a thousand stupid idiots they will make lots of money.
The stupids pay their stupid tax, the bright people get a bargain, the company makes millions, everybody wins (except the sheep who are being fleeced of course but they don't count).
Facts are simple
and facts are straight.
Facts are lazy
and facts are late.
Facts don't come with points of view.
Facts don't do what I want them to.
David Bryne.
Go look at rebol.
It too is commercial but it's much much cheaper.
It has a tiny download and very small code which runs faster. It runs on just about any platform you could think of.
Oh yea the obligatory link
What he means is that it's not windows.
Not really.
Let's say that a company chooses to use postgres, mysql, interbase, or sapdb instead of SQL server. They can save hundreds of thousands of dollars and still use access through ODBC. No retraining of the desktop users and save a ton of money.
Same goes for things like proxy server, file and print services, ditching exchange, etc. You can fully populate the back end with linux and gain huge savings. You are forced to buy MS licences with every PC anyway so you really can't save money by replacing windows on the client.
Star Office (open office) is actually pretty similar to ms-office especially considering that 90% of users only use 5% of the capability or office. They should pick it up with no retraining at all. If you have custom apps you can port them to kylix or wxwindows to prep for a future migration of your desktop.
You are saying what he is. They chose their words carefully because MS reserves the right to sell or use your information any way they want.
You don't have to you could script the whole thing. Many of the tools like cfengine support all different flavors of unix so it's really not that bad of a problem. Certainly much easier then trying to manage a network of win95, win98, nt3.5, nt4.0, ME, w2K machines. I would say it's easier to manage a network of mixed linux, solaris, and freebsd machines is easer then trying to manage a network of mixed windows versions.
Unfortunately I have intimate knowledge of software distribution including the horrendous and expensive monster that is called SMS. Maybe one day MS will produce a version of SMS that works as advertised but they seem to realize that they just can't do it and are moving to terminal services and of course the panacea known as .NET which will magically solve all of your software problems.
Tivoli is actually not godawful but it sure is godawful expensive.
network shell it's a commercial product and an excellent one at that.
Not much of an endorsement.
BE the amiga of the new millenium LOL!.
WOW you never actually tried to get support from MS did you?