Actually there is a new sewage plant near where I live that is supposed to be based off of some newer european design which in fact gives off waste water cleaner than the water it takes in. Unfortunatly as dirty and polluted as rivers often tend to be nowdays, I'm not sure this is a very big feat.
that would assume that these things would produce a lot of oxygen. Seems to me that if there is life on Mars; it's pretty sparce at best. Besides which Mars has a fairly eliptical orbit - making for a very long and cold winter, which I would guess means that life would probably hybernate for the majority of the martian year. It's possible that the small ammount of oxygen life would make during it's breif season could wind up being absorbed or dissappated the rest of the year.
Think I'd add that their "Development Studio Help" sucks ass. First of all, I'm not a great programmer, but I have to do VB every now and then. So I need a function to do something, but I can't recall what it's called or what parameters I'd need to give it (we all know how consistant VB is, so guessing isn't going to work well either). Call up the MSDN (CD 1 of 341) and try to do a search. You might get something relavent, you might not - but it's like a big roulette wheel with MS "help". I'm programming in VB, I have the VB development studio open, so why is the "help" giving me information on everything from FoxPro to visual Fortran? Small wonder I prefer Perl.
Yeah, I read "could be as bad as Code Red" and I thought, Hmm.. this could be interesting. But I mean a trojan like this for Linux isn't much of a threat if you ask me. And I mean it has to be run as root, I'll use a conservative figure (which I grab out of thin air) and say that at least 80% of Linux users aren't that stupid, and the ones that are probably couldn't get the trojan to work right anyway.
Simply put, even novice users of Linux tend to be the people who wouldn't just run some attachment that someone e-mailed to them. Most windows trojans perpetuate themselves via the nil security on windows, along with people who don't know anything about the computer and just point and click anything. Like it or not, in order just to set up Linux, you have to know about the computer. I imagine that some Linux distros make running linux very easy, but these people I would say, are in the minority. Totally incompatant Linux users (with root access) are simply too sparce for this to be any real problem. "Worse than Code Red" my ass.
moving over from Windows to Linux is a step which involves learning, and expecting something better. I think switching from Linux to something like AIX will probably be much harder once you notice the AIX price tag. One of the big things with Linux is that you have tons of FREE software, and once you get used to that - its hard to pull away. Noteably commercial unix versions have their place at high end jobs, but most buisnesses could deal with Linux and FreeBSD just fine.
personally I think it's a pretty good time to go to college. Me? I did it the wrong way. I went through college all throughout the boom, and just recently graduated. And a college graduate has a tough time, in a market where a lot of people with good experience are roaming in droves looking for work. I guess I got lucky and got a decent job, but I know more than a couple of my friends whom I graduated with aren't so lucky. Then again I'm not exactly doing what I went to college for either...
Make the money while it's good, then go back to college when you probably wouldn't be able to get a job anyway? Sounds like a plan. And what is the big deal with the money anyhow? I mean sure making a decent money is important, but this article basically stressed that THAT is what the tech industry is all about (okay, and yeah it is to some extent). Thinking of my college experience, I saw more than a couple people who were CS type students who didn't even like programming much: they just wanted a high salary. To me, if you're really into tech stuff, the quality of your work will show through. If you're just in it for the money, then chances are you'll probably get the job done and nothing else (if that much), and that's what I think was wrong with the "dot com's" in the first place.
fresh in they're subjects? Hell, I tend to forget half of it over Christmas break. Over summer vacation most of it was totally lost. It's sort of sad, but really true how you tend to only retain about 10% of what you learned in college. Of course then again most of what you learn in college tends to be either garbage, or not even relavent to what you're going to do.
For any developers out there that want to see what this is really capable of you've got to check out http://www.square1.nl, these guys have put together a really nice gallery.
I grabbed a GoLive license as soon as I saw this stuff!
"But the corporate desktop is a very small piece of the pie."
Maybe, but the corporate office is where most people learn to become dependent on Microsoft. I know of more than a few people that don't even realize that something other than M$ office exists. But, I think your right about people needing to find a new office suite. M$ is trying to squeeze more money out of their software, and stomp out all those not so legal copies of Office. But then a home user buying office is pretty unrealistic. I mean over $200 bucks for software that most people tend just to use for spellchecking and writing fairly simple reports? Most people I know wouldn't fork over $200 for ANY program. I used to think that M$ was going to be on top (seemingly) forever, but I'm starting to doubt that since they're basically corn-holeing themselves with all this "XP" crap.
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perhaps it might be the right time, but not from that article, where they suggested you buy a Pentium 4 to put in a board which only supports AMD, along with SDRAM...
well I think this is something we can thank microsoft for (not expecting more). Most people are used to computers crashing and not working. Weither it's a hardware failure or just another windows blue screen of death: most people just generalize it as "computer problems" and don't know much about what's going on underneath. Either that, or when ANYTHING goes wrong they blame it on a virus.
tinkering is one thing, but dealing with things you shouldn't even have to tinker with is another. At work I was experimenting with converting a few older computers over to Linux terminals. So I installed Redhat 7.1 - everything goes smoothly and it's all set up until I log in and type "startx". X crashes, because there's a mouse problem. It's an MS intellimouse so it's not an uncommon mouse. Mouseconfig doesn't work so I download some patches and it still doesn't work. I select the "no mouse" option and X still doesn't work. Not to bitch about my problems (er... guess I just did), but all this just to get the MOUSE to work? I like to tinker with stuff too, but I don't want to screw with a computer for an hour just trying to get the freaking mouse to work - I mean that to me is something fundamental that should work right out of the box. And people ask me what I'm doing (as I use Vim to go though the xconfig file), and I tell them I'm trying to get the mouse to work - and they look at me like I'm completely insane.
I guess I'll also add that I've never had this problem installing Linux with any other computer.
Well I'll agree that windows 95 CAN be stable, but crashing only once a year? That I find hard to believe. I have an older computer (Pentium 133Mhz) with 95b and it crashes probably once every 2 boots although generally I don't use it that much - and I mean I watch that machine very carefully with a minimum of software installed. If I do anything semi serious (like heavy graphic editing) then it doesn't take long at all to go down for the count. If you have a computer that's above 250Mhz, then I think its probably best to use Windows 98 Lite, using the windows 98SE core with the windows 95 shell grafted in.
NT using an obscene ammount of resources is considered a feature - that way it can't allocate the resources to run viruses because NT is busy.. um... running.
This whole situation strikes me as very bad, and I am very disappointed in comedy central. Truthfully, I don't really care if this guy has "battlebots.org" or not, what pisses me off is that comedy central ALREADY has "battlebots.com". What gives them the write to take every domain name?.com is supposed to be reserved for commercial use, and if this guy had battlebots.com I could almost see the point. But not only does this guy have the.org extention, but commedy central already has the commercial one and therefore in my opinion have no right! I mean this is seriously wrong when regular people with.net and.org have to get trademarks to protect their domains from companies that already have the.com extention.
So now basically if any business wants to take my domain name, they just use my domain name for a product of some sort and take it away from me... It is certainly sad when some corperations are above the law, and can simply step on people as they please because they have a lot of money.
I think by this point viruses are just considered part of the cost of using Windows... Much like how you tend to pay the price in re-boots and program crashes for M$ user-friendly-ness.
I somehow doubt this would be true. Sure there would be a lot more worms for Unix, but just Unix permissions alone would block a lot of virus destruction.
hell, if they just get a consistent windowing system that doesn't have screwed up focus I'll be impressed. In X when a dialog pops up, where's the focus? Does it default to "okay" or "cancel"... generally, there isn't any focus at all. It's always sort of puzzled me how UNIX hackers can prefer VI and Emacs as text editors, yet end up with a windowing system / desktop which always requires the mouse. I hate to admit this but one of the things I really like about M$ Windows is that I can easily interact with almost every aspect of windows through the keyboard. Take for instance, a simple "ok" dialog. This is something pretty fundamental, and focus should be given to the only button on the widget. I should be able to press the enter key, or the space bar (preferably both) to dismiss it. Can I in X? As far as I've ever seen, no - and certainly not with any consistency. Unfortunately this is something which I don't think Gnome or KDE can really do on their own, it has to come at the base level with X, and as it hasn't been fixed in how many years, I doubt it ever will. In my opinion if Berlin can do this much, they've already got a big selling point (so to speak) with me.
that's too bad. I know that Free BSD 5 is actually going to be able to grow the filesystem on the fly (like AIX) and I really wanted to see how it works. Just recently I switched from Linux to Free BSD and I'm quite happy with what I already have, so I suppose waiting a year won't kill me...
hmm.... I might be blowing smoke out my ass, but I think you can do a headless install of free bsd which requires no VGA output. Okay, realistically no one would do this, but I mean it's possible.
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Actually there is a new sewage plant near where I live that is supposed to be based off of some newer european design which in fact gives off waste water cleaner than the water it takes in. Unfortunatly as dirty and polluted as rivers often tend to be nowdays, I'm not sure this is a very big feat.
did this guy write the template for the SirCam virus e-mail?
that would assume that these things would produce a lot of oxygen. Seems to me that if there is life on Mars; it's pretty sparce at best. Besides which Mars has a fairly eliptical orbit - making for a very long and cold winter, which I would guess means that life would probably hybernate for the majority of the martian year. It's possible that the small ammount of oxygen life would make during it's breif season could wind up being absorbed or dissappated the rest of the year.
Think I'd add that their "Development Studio Help" sucks ass. First of all, I'm not a great programmer, but I have to do VB every now and then. So I need a function to do something, but I can't recall what it's called or what parameters I'd need to give it (we all know how consistant VB is, so guessing isn't going to work well either). Call up the MSDN (CD 1 of 341) and try to do a search. You might get something relavent, you might not - but it's like a big roulette wheel with MS "help". I'm programming in VB, I have the VB development studio open, so why is the "help" giving me information on everything from FoxPro to visual Fortran? Small wonder I prefer Perl.
Yeah, I read "could be as bad as Code Red" and I thought, Hmm.. this could be interesting. But I mean a trojan like this for Linux isn't much of a threat if you ask me. And I mean it has to be run as root, I'll use a conservative figure (which I grab out of thin air) and say that at least 80% of Linux users aren't that stupid, and the ones that are probably couldn't get the trojan to work right anyway.
Simply put, even novice users of Linux tend to be the people who wouldn't just run some attachment that someone e-mailed to them. Most windows trojans perpetuate themselves via the nil security on windows, along with people who don't know anything about the computer and just point and click anything. Like it or not, in order just to set up Linux, you have to know about the computer. I imagine that some Linux distros make running linux very easy, but these people I would say, are in the minority. Totally incompatant Linux users (with root access) are simply too sparce for this to be any real problem. "Worse than Code Red" my ass.
"The only thing that comes immediately to mind is printers, but that's not going to support such a massive company."
Put some hundred dollar bills on that HP scanner, turn the printer resolution all the way up, hit the copy button, and start cranking out the support.
moving over from Windows to Linux is a step which involves learning, and expecting something better. I think switching from Linux to something like AIX will probably be much harder once you notice the AIX price tag. One of the big things with Linux is that you have tons of FREE software, and once you get used to that - its hard to pull away. Noteably commercial unix versions have their place at high end jobs, but most buisnesses could deal with Linux and FreeBSD just fine.
personally I think it's a pretty good time to go to college. Me? I did it the wrong way. I went through college all throughout the boom, and just recently graduated. And a college graduate has a tough time, in a market where a lot of people with good experience are roaming in droves looking for work. I guess I got lucky and got a decent job, but I know more than a couple of my friends whom I graduated with aren't so lucky. Then again I'm not exactly doing what I went to college for either...
Make the money while it's good, then go back to college when you probably wouldn't be able to get a job anyway? Sounds like a plan. And what is the big deal with the money anyhow? I mean sure making a decent money is important, but this article basically stressed that THAT is what the tech industry is all about (okay, and yeah it is to some extent). Thinking of my college experience, I saw more than a couple people who were CS type students who didn't even like programming much: they just wanted a high salary. To me, if you're really into tech stuff, the quality of your work will show through. If you're just in it for the money, then chances are you'll probably get the job done and nothing else (if that much), and that's what I think was wrong with the "dot com's" in the first place.
fresh in they're subjects? Hell, I tend to forget half of it over Christmas break. Over summer vacation most of it was totally lost. It's sort of sad, but really true how you tend to only retain about 10% of what you learned in college. Of course then again most of what you learn in college tends to be either garbage, or not even relavent to what you're going to do.
I think that would probably be "US XP" - upgrade or move to Canada.
For any developers out there that want to see what this is really capable of you've got to check out http://www.square1.nl, these guys have put together a really nice gallery.
I grabbed a GoLive license as soon as I saw this stuff!
"But the corporate desktop is a very small piece of the pie."
Maybe, but the corporate office is where most people learn to become dependent on Microsoft. I know of more than a few people that don't even realize that something other than M$ office exists. But, I think your right about people needing to find a new office suite. M$ is trying to squeeze more money out of their software, and stomp out all those not so legal copies of Office. But then a home user buying office is pretty unrealistic. I mean over $200 bucks for software that most people tend just to use for spellchecking and writing fairly simple reports? Most people I know wouldn't fork over $200 for ANY program. I used to think that M$ was going to be on top (seemingly) forever, but I'm starting to doubt that since they're basically corn-holeing themselves with all this "XP" crap.
perhaps it might be the right time, but not from that article, where they suggested you buy a Pentium 4 to put in a board which only supports AMD, along with SDRAM...
well I think this is something we can thank microsoft for (not expecting more). Most people are used to computers crashing and not working. Weither it's a hardware failure or just another windows blue screen of death: most people just generalize it as "computer problems" and don't know much about what's going on underneath. Either that, or when ANYTHING goes wrong they blame it on a virus.
tinkering is one thing, but dealing with things you shouldn't even have to tinker with is another. At work I was experimenting with converting a few older computers over to Linux terminals. So I installed Redhat 7.1 - everything goes smoothly and it's all set up until I log in and type "startx". X crashes, because there's a mouse problem. It's an MS intellimouse so it's not an uncommon mouse. Mouseconfig doesn't work so I download some patches and it still doesn't work. I select the "no mouse" option and X still doesn't work. Not to bitch about my problems (er... guess I just did), but all this just to get the MOUSE to work? I like to tinker with stuff too, but I don't want to screw with a computer for an hour just trying to get the freaking mouse to work - I mean that to me is something fundamental that should work right out of the box. And people ask me what I'm doing (as I use Vim to go though the xconfig file), and I tell them I'm trying to get the mouse to work - and they look at me like I'm completely insane.
I guess I'll also add that I've never had this problem installing Linux with any other computer.
Well I'll agree that windows 95 CAN be stable, but crashing only once a year? That I find hard to believe. I have an older computer (Pentium 133Mhz) with 95b and it crashes probably once every 2 boots although generally I don't use it that much - and I mean I watch that machine very carefully with a minimum of software installed. If I do anything semi serious (like heavy graphic editing) then it doesn't take long at all to go down for the count. If you have a computer that's above 250Mhz, then I think its probably best to use Windows 98 Lite, using the windows 98SE core with the windows 95 shell grafted in.
NT using an obscene ammount of resources is considered a feature - that way it can't allocate the resources to run viruses because NT is busy.. um... running.
This whole situation strikes me as very bad, and I am very disappointed in comedy central. Truthfully, I don't really care if this guy has "battlebots.org" or not, what pisses me off is that comedy central ALREADY has "battlebots.com". What gives them the write to take every domain name? .com is supposed to be reserved for commercial use, and if this guy had battlebots.com I could almost see the point. But not only does this guy have the .org extention, but commedy central already has the commercial one and therefore in my opinion have no right! I mean this is seriously wrong when regular people with .net and .org have to get trademarks to protect their domains from companies that already have the .com extention.
So now basically if any business wants to take my domain name, they just use my domain name for a product of some sort and take it away from me... It is certainly sad when some corperations are above the law, and can simply step on people as they please because they have a lot of money.
personally, I think I've seen much worse things happen in dorm bathrooms than in any stadium I can think of.
I think by this point viruses are just considered part of the cost of using Windows... Much like how you tend to pay the price in re-boots and program crashes for M$ user-friendly-ness.
I somehow doubt this would be true. Sure there would be a lot more worms for Unix, but just Unix permissions alone would block a lot of virus destruction.
hell, if they just get a consistent windowing system that doesn't have screwed up focus I'll be impressed. In X when a dialog pops up, where's the focus? Does it default to "okay" or "cancel"... generally, there isn't any focus at all. It's always sort of puzzled me how UNIX hackers can prefer VI and Emacs as text editors, yet end up with a windowing system / desktop which always requires the mouse. I hate to admit this but one of the things I really like about M$ Windows is that I can easily interact with almost every aspect of windows through the keyboard. Take for instance, a simple "ok" dialog. This is something pretty fundamental, and focus should be given to the only button on the widget. I should be able to press the enter key, or the space bar (preferably both) to dismiss it. Can I in X? As far as I've ever seen, no - and certainly not with any consistency. Unfortunately this is something which I don't think Gnome or KDE can really do on their own, it has to come at the base level with X, and as it hasn't been fixed in how many years, I doubt it ever will. In my opinion if Berlin can do this much, they've already got a big selling point (so to speak) with me.
that's too bad. I know that Free BSD 5 is actually going to be able to grow the filesystem on the fly (like AIX) and I really wanted to see how it works. Just recently I switched from Linux to Free BSD and I'm quite happy with what I already have, so I suppose waiting a year won't kill me...
hmm.... I might be blowing smoke out my ass, but I think you can do a headless install of free bsd which requires no VGA output. Okay, realistically no one would do this, but I mean it's possible.
mac users have been using 128 bits for a while... *shrug*