Redmonds products are so simple to use that even people with Down's syndrome uses Win9X and surfs the web. A brother to one of my coworkers does suffer from Down's syndrome and he is capable of using Windows, connecting to internet and surf the web with the Explorer. This guy really has great fun with the web and loves to peek into the adult sites. This is such a great achievement by Redmond that it really deserves world wide recognition.
It's great that Bill & Co has made such an effort into making Windows usable even for mentally retarded users. Please don't do this to Linux.
I had a presentation just a month ago for my own company and a few other companys we cooperate with in the aerospace business, regarding the use of Linux in some projects.
I'm proud to have educated them properly about non-free commercial licenses and most of all the different SSH licenses. There were a few UNIX gurus attending this seminar completely unaware of the SSH2 commercial license. I guess they have fixed their 'legal-bug' by now an obtained the necessary licenses.
An interesting discussion came out when we discussed the use of 'telnet'. Windows NT do have a telnet client in their distribution but it's to crappy so we have to use 'Reflection for Windows' instead. With Linux/UNIX, telnet is just taken for granted and kind of 'for free' when using this OS:s.
The license cost for the commercial 'Reflection for Windows' is so horrible expensive that we could buy server and client licenses for SSH2 for less money to ALL workstations. That means a server license on each workstation. This made a real difference to the bean counters.
Since Microsoft had to earn their money from just software and needed to lure people into buying updates/newer versions of their OS. Their ideal situation is to create something from the clothes industry with spring and fall fashion. They are heavily promoting this fashion thinking as their livelihood depends on it.
The concept of having a year number into a product name helps them in hammering in this sort of fashion thinking into peoples minds. 'Upgrading' file formats with newer releases is also a proven recepie to force people into upgrading their outdated software.
This idea of new/old technology/year model, is just Microsofts PR machinery doing an excellent job.
Linux/UNIX doesn't have this fashion thinking. It's just about version numbers with backwards compatibility and contionously refining the OS.
'Technology with a tradition of excellence' is my suggestion.
Sorry that you feel this about HP's effort in educating their customers.
This just shows that they are very serious in their Linux commitment and not just doing lipservice to the Linux gosphel.
The fact that HP delivers Linux workstations with full support is in my eyes one of most significant milestones in Linux getting accepted in enterprises.
I have seen discussions about the 'benefits' of fractal antennas many years ago. The consensus then was that the 'fractal antenna' concept was a troll.
Fractal antennas can't break any fundamental rules regarding antenna design. The fractal designs just looks more modern and gives a high tech impression to the layman.
Fractal antennas do in fact work but you can get the same performance or slightly better by other design methods. The 25% performance increase is just marketing hype.
Antenna physical area is setting the performance limits. With a small given area there is no way to build a high performance antenna, fractals or no fractals.
When dating, you don't speak ill of your former girlfriends. The new prospective girlfriend would otherwise get very suspicious.
I's the same with employers. Try to use a positive terms as much as possible.
Anyhow after a few years you will forget the anger and remember the fun part and it's nice to be able to pay them a visit and talk about the good old times.
The attention is now mostly focused on Linux and the recently released RedHat 6.0 which is a real Windows killer.
Journalists are writing warm articles about Linux and these articles will be even warmer when they have runned their RedHat 6.0 for a while.
Redmond is now doing everything in their power to get the attention back on Microsoft. Even if they have to admit that a competing product is better in some way. It also gives Mr Ballmer and Microsoft some increased credibility.
Well we have just been giving them some attention.
Some might also have got the impression that Microsoft isn't just delivering a pack of lies. That's increased credibility.
The simple and cruel fact about life is that about 10% of all people is in some way mentally defect.
Some of them becomes dangerous to other people, others dangerous to themselves and the rest isn't dangerous at all. What cathegory these people end up in is mostly based on pure luck/unluck. Anyhow their life is just a living hell to the very end. (Most people do find the High School period in life a living hell but that has nothing to do with any mental disturbance. This has more to do with still being treated like a small kid)
Even disturbed people do engage themselves in different kind of activities, some of them very normal and others somewhat odd. It's among these activities that the so called experts finds the 'profile' when something real bad has happend.
These people are mentally disturbed (nutcases) from the beginning and when some of them goes over the edge society tries to find a "simple reason" for this, ignoring the 10% human reproduction error rate.
This 10% thing is a hard fact of life and we have big difficulties to accept that some of our relatives or dear ones is the victim of lifes own cruel random number games. We try desperatly to find a logical reason for these mental problems and this escalates in situations like mass murders that gets lots of attention.
But even more cruel seems this witchhount now performed in the schools on youngsters that fits into some kind of 'profile' for a possible mass murderer. This is just horrible.
Slashdot Mirror
Ahhh what a relife.
Filtering out websites with unsuitable content will now become a piece of cake.
//Pingo
Redmonds products are so simple to use that even people with Down's syndrome uses Win9X and surfs the web. A brother to one of my coworkers does suffer from Down's syndrome and he is capable of using Windows, connecting to internet and surf the web with the Explorer. This guy really has great fun with the web and loves to peek into the adult sites. This is such a great achievement by Redmond that it really deserves world wide recognition.
It's great that Bill & Co has made such an effort into making Windows usable even for mentally retarded users. Please don't do this to Linux.
//Pingo
Thanks for the tip.
We tried TeraTerm a moment ago with SSH and it does have what's required. Feels stable and solid.
//Pingo
I had a presentation just a month ago for my own company and a few other companys we cooperate with in the aerospace business, regarding the use of Linux in some projects.
I'm proud to have educated them properly about non-free commercial licenses and most of all the different SSH licenses. There were a few UNIX gurus attending this seminar completely unaware of the SSH2 commercial license. I guess they have fixed their 'legal-bug' by now an obtained the necessary licenses.
An interesting discussion came out when we discussed the use of 'telnet'. Windows NT do have a telnet client in their distribution but it's to crappy so we have to use 'Reflection for Windows' instead. With Linux/UNIX, telnet is just taken for granted and kind of 'for free' when using this OS:s.
The license cost for the commercial 'Reflection for Windows' is so horrible expensive that we could buy server and client licenses for SSH2 for less money to ALL workstations. That means a server license on each workstation. This made a real difference to the bean counters.
//Pingo
This looks like a pretty even race.
No winner, no loser in this configuration
I think my old tagline summarises it pretty well.
//Gunnar
Could it be a WinLose server?
The sad thing is that when Mr Scumbag obeys this new law, he becomes a lawabiding citizen and can also demand the protection of the society.
This new law is a tragedy since Mr Scumbag moves from being a social lowlife to into a 'respected' businessman.
Since he now is legal and a 'respected' businessman even banks might lend him money to expand his 'business'.
//Pingo
Since Microsoft had to earn their money from just software and needed to lure people into buying updates/newer versions of their OS. Their ideal situation is to create something from the clothes industry with spring and fall fashion. They are heavily promoting this fashion thinking as their livelihood depends on it.
The concept of having a year number into a product name helps them in hammering in this sort of fashion thinking into peoples minds. 'Upgrading' file formats with newer releases is also a proven recepie to force people into upgrading their outdated software.
This idea of new/old technology/year model, is just Microsofts PR machinery doing an excellent job.
Linux/UNIX doesn't have this fashion thinking. It's just about version numbers with backwards compatibility and contionously refining the OS.
'Technology with a tradition of excellence' is my suggestion.
//Pingo
Sorry that you feel this about HP's effort in educating their customers.
This just shows that they are very serious in their Linux commitment and not just doing lipservice to the Linux gosphel.
The fact that HP delivers Linux workstations with full support is in my eyes one of most significant milestones in Linux getting accepted in enterprises.
//Pingo
The guy is perhaps just tired of life. Maybe a very costly divorce and an urge to leave his miserable world. I can just guess.
//Pingo
I have seen discussions about the 'benefits' of fractal antennas many years ago. The consensus then was that the 'fractal antenna' concept was a troll.
Fractal antennas can't break any fundamental rules regarding antenna design. The fractal designs just looks more modern and gives a high tech impression to the layman.
Fractal antennas do in fact work but you can get the same performance or slightly better by other design methods. The 25% performance increase is just marketing hype.
Antenna physical area is setting the performance limits. With a small given area there is no way to build a high performance antenna, fractals or no fractals.
//Gunnar
I have been running Winslow on a few different PC:s and it has allways been a great performance hit to upgrade them to Linux.
No benchmark can change my first hand personal experiences about how Linux performs.
//Gunnar
I have earlier used the OSS/Lite drivers for my 3 Linux PC:s at home. The sound quality improved very much when switching to ALSA drivers.
The script for aoutoconfiguration of ALSA is a very impressive piece of art. It looks pretty small but does all the magic for you.
This project really deserves attention and support.
//Pingo
Well as a responsible parent I'll have to ban my
/usr/src might do the trick
14-year old son from reading the Linux source code. He could pick up this kind of language.
chmod o-r
When dating, you don't speak ill of your former girlfriends. The new prospective girlfriend would otherwise get very suspicious.
I's the same with employers. Try to use a positive terms as much as possible.
Anyhow after a few years you will forget the anger and remember the fun part and it's nice to be able to pay them a visit and talk about the good old times.
It's all about attention and credibility.
The attention is now mostly focused on Linux and the recently released RedHat 6.0 which is a real Windows killer.
Journalists are writing warm articles about Linux and these articles will be even warmer when they have runned their RedHat 6.0 for a while.
Redmond is now doing everything in their power to get the attention back on Microsoft. Even if they have to admit that a competing product is better in some way. It also gives Mr Ballmer and Microsoft some increased credibility.
Well we have just been giving them some attention.
Some might also have got the impression that Microsoft isn't just delivering a pack of lies. That's increased credibility.
I think they kind of succeded with their scam.
//Pingo
The simple and cruel fact about life is that about 10% of all people is in some way mentally defect.
Some of them becomes dangerous to other people, others dangerous to themselves and the rest isn't dangerous at all. What cathegory these people end up in is mostly based on pure luck/unluck. Anyhow their life is just a living hell to the very end.
(Most people do find the High School period in life a living hell but that has nothing to do with any mental disturbance. This has more to do with still being treated like a small kid)
Even disturbed people do engage themselves in different kind of activities, some of them very normal and others somewhat odd. It's among these activities that the so called experts finds the 'profile' when something real bad has happend.
These people are mentally disturbed (nutcases) from the beginning and when some of them goes over the edge society tries to find a "simple reason" for this, ignoring the 10% human reproduction error rate.
This 10% thing is a hard fact of life and we have big difficulties to accept that some of our relatives or dear ones is the victim of lifes own cruel random number games. We try desperatly to find a logical reason for these mental problems and this escalates in situations like mass murders that gets lots of attention.
But even more cruel seems this witchhount now performed in the schools on youngsters that fits into some kind of 'profile' for a possible mass murderer. This is just horrible.