I completely agree. Some people are just not going to convert, no matter what. They like a safe zone where things break predictably and they're comfortable with that. For them, it's like quitting their job and going out to find another one. It's terrifying.
If the majority of these fence-sitters would just install something and dual boot, they could gain experience so when Linux is 'ready' for them, they wipe the Windows partition and give Linux that space.
Sorry gang, but Linux isn't ready for me posts are bullshit. You're not ready for linux.
Gee, this sounds alot like what Amiga was doing over a decade ago. The Fat/Fatter Agnus handled coppers & blitters, Denise handled video, Paula was the sound chip, Gary handled I/O, etc.
See guys, multiprocessor machines are the past AND the future. This time around we're going the route of generic chips (cpu's) rather than special purpose chips. Overall this is a good idea. The other route is one the PC market has taken for years..you have a special video chip here, a sound chip here, etc. It has it's plusses and is an effective method particularly when cost is an issue. However, as CPU power climbs and power consumption and price fall, quad or octa CPU machines become more feasible.
Well, both of those articles were in line with my original assertion. Farther (as the author of the Forbes article has used it) is incorrect, as he is referring to an 'addition or an extent', not as a physical distance. You can drive farther, but stealing passwords is taking cracking further.
Sorry to offend you, oh great Forbes author.:) You're right, alliteration is the word I was looking for, but syncopation refers to offbeat rhythm and the author was definitely syncopating.
They bag on the sites for using poor grammar and yet, first paragraph in, we get this little gem:
"But while your average disgruntled consumer simply vents their bile by bellowing at a bewildered service rep, a few go farther. Much farther."
Farther? Much farther? In my native language, we'd use further. Oh, and I speak English. You do have to appreciate the writer's use of syncopation though, bile bellowing and bewildered are nearly poetic in that sequence.
Find is hella slow. Slocate depends on a database which is updated via a nightly cron job, and database lookups are magnitudes faster than crawling all mounts in your filesystem. Slocate is also more secure, showing you only those files which you as a user have access to (read access). This behavior can be modified to your liking but that may defeat it's original purpose.
Yeah, take a look at Linus Torvalds. He was the beginning kernel dev, but he sought help from individuals while the kernel was growing. Now he's pretty much a yay/nay guy that makes a few decisions now and then.
Basically, if you document what you're doing, it's fairly easy to turn your project over to more people. If you don't document, then you're cementing your position as 'the coder' and making it that much harder for others to join in.
Dunno about misconception or perceptions of bloat, but Firefox has done a good job keeping itself both 'usable for the masses' and lightweight. I like the extensions that FF uses, particularly the small size and easy installation and live updating of them. Having extras a click away in a menu is very nice.
Microsoft has alot to Embrace and Extend^^^^^^^^^^^learn from Firefox.
The Vonage Linksys router provides FXO ports (I believe, Asterisk docs screwed my head up on fxs/fxo). Those ports are pstn, and handsets plug into them. Any old analog phone can jack in, including cordless phones. FXO cards can make you look cool if you have some cordless phones plugged into your Asterisk box or even the unbranded Linksys router Vonage uses along with wireless and a cordless phone.
Yeeeaahhh, umm, I need those TPS reports on monday mmkay?
That's what I was trying to say originally. Asterisk handles the trunk to your provider, you do sip on the inside to the phone. That's the way we did it on my job.
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Vonage is good for people that don't feel like dedicating a computer to this task and spending any more money than they have to. The little router they give you handles QoS well enough to keep your 0wned spyware-infested, upstream-consuming computer from ruining the quality of your voice calls. Asterisk is for those of us who want to make changes to our services, play with stuff, do it ourselves, maybe save a few bucks as well. I just finished rolling out an Asterisk install for a company and they love it and the Polycom SoundPoint IP500 phones I dropped in. Right now it's still PSTN but once I'm convinced our IAX provider is reliable, we'll leverage our bonded t1 towards telephony and drop our 5 pstn lines.
That's no problem at all. You first setup a working Asterisk box which your phone connects to and registers with. Next you setup an IAX2 trunk between your Asterisk box and voipjet. Done.
That's right, a decent mail client from the geniuses at Mozilla that filters spam. It's pretty damn accurate once it learns a little...and it includes white and blacklisting.
" The problem is, there is no such thing as a bootable Windows CD"
Uhm, I have one sitting right here that I made myself. It's called a PE disk - primer environment - which boots and runs windows from the cd. You can make permanent changes to the filesystem as well as run a variety of tools (filemanager, ad-aware, antivirus) and there is also limited network support.
My personal favorite at the moment is BartPE. Google and be enlightened.
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I completely agree. Some people are just not going to convert, no matter what. They like a safe zone where things break predictably and they're comfortable with that. For them, it's like quitting their job and going out to find another one. It's terrifying.
If the majority of these fence-sitters would just install something and dual boot, they could gain experience so when Linux is 'ready' for them, they wipe the Windows partition and give Linux that space.
Sorry gang, but Linux isn't ready for me posts are bullshit. You're not ready for linux.
Gee, this sounds alot like what Amiga was doing over a decade ago. The Fat/Fatter Agnus handled coppers & blitters, Denise handled video, Paula was the sound chip, Gary handled I/O, etc.
See guys, multiprocessor machines are the past AND the future. This time around we're going the route of generic chips (cpu's) rather than special purpose chips. Overall this is a good idea. The other route is one the PC market has taken for years..you have a special video chip here, a sound chip here, etc. It has it's plusses and is an effective method particularly when cost is an issue. However, as CPU power climbs and power consumption and price fall, quad or octa CPU machines become more feasible.
No shit. I had this happen the other day, buying something at an electronics store.
Cashier, while checking out: "Your email address?"
Me: "No."
Cashier: "No?"
Me: "Ok, put 'no at no dot com"
Cashier, smirking: "Done."
Well, both of those articles were in line with my original assertion. Farther (as the author of the Forbes article has used it) is incorrect, as he is referring to an 'addition or an extent', not as a physical distance. You can drive farther, but stealing passwords is taking cracking further.
Sorry to offend you, oh great Forbes author. :) You're right, alliteration is the word I was looking for, but syncopation refers to offbeat rhythm and the author was definitely syncopating.
They bag on the sites for using poor grammar and yet, first paragraph in, we get this little gem:
"But while your average disgruntled consumer simply vents their bile by bellowing at a bewildered service rep, a few go farther. Much farther."
Farther? Much farther? In my native language, we'd use further. Oh, and I speak English. You do have to appreciate the writer's use of syncopation though, bile bellowing and bewildered are nearly poetic in that sequence.
Find is hella slow. Slocate depends on a database which is updated via a nightly cron job, and database lookups are magnitudes faster than crawling all mounts in your filesystem. Slocate is also more secure, showing you only those files which you as a user have access to (read access). This behavior can be modified to your liking but that may defeat it's original purpose.
My head just exploded at the irony of a Mac user complaining about lack of choice in the Wintel world, hardware-wise.
It hurts, make it stop!
No. Discuss.
Sounds alot like that 'other' OS that 'everyone else' uses.
tps reports
Yeah, take a look at Linus Torvalds. He was the beginning kernel dev, but he sought help from individuals while the kernel was growing. Now he's pretty much a yay/nay guy that makes a few decisions now and then.
Basically, if you document what you're doing, it's fairly easy to turn your project over to more people. If you don't document, then you're cementing your position as 'the coder' and making it that much harder for others to join in.
Dunno about misconception or perceptions of bloat, but Firefox has done a good job keeping itself both 'usable for the masses' and lightweight. I like the extensions that FF uses, particularly the small size and easy installation and live updating of them. Having extras a click away in a menu is very nice.
Microsoft has alot to Embrace and Extend^^^^^^^^^^^learn from Firefox.
The Vonage Linksys router provides FXO ports (I believe, Asterisk docs screwed my head up on fxs/fxo). Those ports are pstn, and handsets plug into them. Any old analog phone can jack in, including cordless phones. FXO cards can make you look cool if you have some cordless phones plugged into your Asterisk box or even the unbranded Linksys router Vonage uses along with wireless and a cordless phone.
Yeeeaahhh, umm, I need those TPS reports on monday mmkay?
That's what I was trying to say originally. Asterisk handles the trunk to your provider, you do sip on the inside to the phone. That's the way we did it on my job.
Vonage is good for people that don't feel like dedicating a computer to this task and spending any more money than they have to. The little router they give you handles QoS well enough to keep your 0wned spyware-infested, upstream-consuming computer from ruining the quality of your voice calls. Asterisk is for those of us who want to make changes to our services, play with stuff, do it ourselves, maybe save a few bucks as well. I just finished rolling out an Asterisk install for a company and they love it and the Polycom SoundPoint IP500 phones I dropped in. Right now it's still PSTN but once I'm convinced our IAX provider is reliable, we'll leverage our bonded t1 towards telephony and drop our 5 pstn lines.
That's no problem at all. You first setup a working Asterisk box which your phone connects to and registers with. Next you setup an IAX2 trunk between your Asterisk box and voipjet. Done.
Oh, you're married huh? At the end of my wife and I's counterstrike marathons, all I hear is Terrorists Win. Is that supposed to happen?
The new Lotus? You must be talking about TVR.
Come on, say it with me:
T-H-U-N-D-E-R-B-I-R-D
That's right, a decent mail client from the geniuses at Mozilla that filters spam. It's pretty damn accurate once it learns a little...and it includes white and blacklisting.
"Hey, you got Google in my Yahoo"
I bet in certain parts of the world, that refers to a certain sex act, or at least, the immediately post-coital part.
" The problem is, there is no such thing as a bootable Windows CD"
Uhm, I have one sitting right here that I made myself. It's called a PE disk - primer environment - which boots and runs windows from the cd. You can make permanent changes to the filesystem as well as run a variety of tools (filemanager, ad-aware, antivirus) and there is also limited network support.
My personal favorite at the moment is BartPE. Google and be enlightened.
Sweet. I usually charge around $50 per hour to fix problems like this. Time to start stacking up the gold bricks! Bring it on and hail to Microsoft!
A quick glance over their site shows they're just as Intel-centric as Dell is! What gives?
The only AMD stuff they offer is _workstations_. Weak.
Don't tell this to Subaru with their new japan-only WRX 302 model.
Yeah, all except the intravenous drug-using variety of lesbians..or the bisexual part-time lesbians. They're both at risk.