Hey, somehow you just gave me a great idea. What we need is for Edubuntu to send subliminal anti-microsoft messages, so when these youts grow up, they spread the Linux love:p
Hmm, maybe you made me think it, but also made me think you gave me the idea. Clever.
... This is what you get for using a closed, proprietory technology. Use SIP (or H.323) and you're not going to get any of this "10 user max" limit crap.
So you suggest we all stick to our 28.8kbps modems, on our 486s with 8MB of RAM, because "the cost of anything higher is prohibitive". Just because it *is* {unusable, unsupportable, too expensive, uneconomic to produce,...}, doesn't mean it wont be (in the near future)
This isn't the answer. There's still floppy disks (ugh!), CD drives (lots of PCs come with CD writers nowadays), printing of documents and {screendumping, emailing} of documents.
The real solution is to restrict documents on a permissions level. This makes restriction of USB drives irrelevant.
The problem is, if they create a whole new system, they create a whole new set of bugs and security vulnerabilities. It's probably a better idea to stick with what they've got and re-engineer/re-audit.
...one of our developers; he didn't understand why it was bad that his application generates an error message that writes the administrator password to the Event Viewer logs
And this is why Windows is 'still' grappling with security issues.
This is going to call for a change in the current architecture of systems. It's basically rendering RAM useless. It'd be cool if laptops with these RAM drives would basically scrap the RAM and increase the faster cache somewhat. Scrapping the main RAM should offset some of the price of these RAM drives, at the very least.
But, the main change is going to have to be with the software. Would there be any need for a swap file? Any need for memory scheduling? Wouldn't all programs be runnable from their location on the RAM disk, with no (or minimal) performance hit?
Your operating system wouldn't need to be "loaded", as such, as all the runtime information would be saved "in-place", as it were. We'd finally get "instant-on" systems, and hibernation would be a thing of the past.
I do kindof partially agree with you, I just wanted to get things into perspective...
Win2000 is installable on a PII 350MHz with 64MB of ram. Now I'm almost a die-hard Linux fan, but I must admit that it runs better than pretty much every Linux distro I've tried on the same box, with Gnome or KDE. WinXP is a totally different kettle of fish, however:-)
As with most UK broadband users, I get 2mbit down and 256kbit up. (For the moment, ) 2mbit is perfectly fine. What I'd like to see is ISPs working on faster upload speeds.
I can't help but wonder whether cloning is a bad idea. I mean, they became extinct for a reason. Who are we to meddle with nature? (But then who am I to say cloning is wrong?).
Slashdot Mirror
What a bunch of crap!
Kindof off-topic, but tagging. It's a new /. feature. We (well, subscribers) can finally tag a topic as a DUPE. Joy.
Hey, somehow you just gave me a great idea. What we need is for Edubuntu to send subliminal anti-microsoft messages, so when these youts grow up, they spread the Linux love :p
Hmm, maybe you made me think it, but also made me think you gave me the idea. Clever.
"...first ever Gentoo Linux LiveCD."
The joke writes itself!
Wow, some real news! Beats Dvorak's verbal shitting, anyway ;)
... This is what you get for using a closed, proprietory technology. Use SIP (or H.323) and you're not going to get any of this "10 user max" limit crap.
So you suggest we all stick to our 28.8kbps modems, on our 486s with 8MB of RAM, because "the cost of anything higher is prohibitive". Just because it *is* {unusable, unsupportable, too expensive, uneconomic to produce, ...}, doesn't mean it wont be (in the near future)
In all fairness though, you may not notice a critical document has been lost until a few days down the line...
Hot Coffee Makes List of Dumbest Business Moments
It wasn't a business decision (read: not their choice, they probably were oblivious to it)
I'm willing to bet I wasn't the only one that clicked through just to see the pictures.
Hey, I must be new here!
This isn't the answer. There's still floppy disks (ugh!), CD drives (lots of PCs come with CD writers nowadays), printing of documents and {screendumping, emailing} of documents.
The real solution is to restrict documents on a permissions level. This makes restriction of USB drives irrelevant.
...am I crap at Pool?
Unfortunately, it uses MONO, which as we all know is a Bad Thing(tm).
Wouldn't red be better? ;)
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The problem is, if they create a whole new system, they create a whole new set of bugs and security vulnerabilities. It's probably a better idea to stick with what they've got and re-engineer/re-audit.
...one of our developers; he didn't understand why it was bad that his application generates an error message that writes the administrator password to the Event Viewer logs
And this is why Windows is 'still' grappling with security issues.
This is going to call for a change in the current architecture of systems. It's basically rendering RAM useless. It'd be cool if laptops with these RAM drives would basically scrap the RAM and increase the faster cache somewhat. Scrapping the main RAM should offset some of the price of these RAM drives, at the very least.
But, the main change is going to have to be with the software. Would there be any need for a swap file? Any need for memory scheduling? Wouldn't all programs be runnable from their location on the RAM disk, with no (or minimal) performance hit?
Your operating system wouldn't need to be "loaded", as such, as all the runtime information would be saved "in-place", as it were. We'd finally get "instant-on" systems, and hibernation would be a thing of the past.
I do kindof partially agree with you, I just wanted to get things into perspective...
:-)
Win2000 is installable on a PII 350MHz with 64MB of ram. Now I'm almost a die-hard Linux fan, but I must admit that it runs better than pretty much every Linux distro I've tried on the same box, with Gnome or KDE. WinXP is a totally different kettle of fish, however
Have you ever thought to check your BALANCE CONTROL on your equipment?
Or you could find an employer that doesn't have conflicting ideas. Probably a better thing to do in the long run.
Support them... by slashdotting their site! Awesome :-p
As with most UK broadband users, I get 2mbit down and 256kbit up. (For the moment, ) 2mbit is perfectly fine. What I'd like to see is ISPs working on faster upload speeds.
I can't help but wonder whether cloning is a bad idea. I mean, they became extinct for a reason. Who are we to meddle with nature? (But then who am I to say cloning is wrong?).