I agree. With companies providing support for Linux (read: Red Hat), I think that this is Linux's year. With Novell buying Suse, and distros like XPde, Fedora Core, and Mandrake delivering a familiar desktop look and feel to users, it will become eventually transparent. I am researching transitioning at least some of my boxes to Debian/Mozilla Firebird/Mozilla Mail/OOO. These are boxes for those employees who, you guess it, type up e-mail, surf the web, and type stuff up. Granted it will not be a solution for all or even some, but it is definitely worth looking into, not putting all your eggs into the MS basket. Users do not even have to know that the command line exists!
Dude. Chill. Where in the article, or the links did it say it was "OK"? It just stated a fact. Where was Microsoft mentioned in any way/shape/form/fashion? This is not comparable to MS releasing a "Linux upgrade kit", although they could, since linux's code is open-source, and their's is closed. This would be sort of like patching Windows 95 to Windows 98. No one is holding a gun to anyone's head to run this script. It is completely voluntary. If someone wants to run Debian, but already has a Red Hat box running (like me), would you prefer they were screwed, with no option save reinstall? The whole point of the "world domination" thing is completely not selfish, it is about everyone having software that does what they want it to, that is secure, and is stable. What does Linux have to gain? It is not like he is a glory hound or greedy. People just so happen to give him shares of their IPO, and jobs. Also, give Linus' biography a read sometime.
1) Please RTFA and don't jump to conclusions next time.
2) This IS a good thing, for those who want/need it. The name is tongue-in-cheek anyway.
3) Anyone can release anything they want, whether or not it gets run/bought is a different story. Now, if you will excuse me, I am going to drive my Lincoln Blackwood to the store for some New Coke.
Don't be so quick to jump the gun on this one. Expecting people to be honest is somehow less than human? What about the honest guys who see everyone else ripping off the system, while he has a clear conscience? This will only validate those of us in society who play by the rules, and hopefully stop those who do break the rules. The only problem I would have with such a system would be if it linked up to government databases, or something like that. I would not be surprised given "security" companies' stances lately of profits over privacy. This practice would also, inadvertantly, be able to defeat fraud by management, like cutting people's hours. Most of the time, technology should not be needed, because all you need to do is have communication in place between all members of management. Example "why is Joe-Bob still clocked in?" "he shouldn't be, he left at noon".
I said "etc". I am not going to list every fucking unzipping program there is. Natively Windoze XP does.zips. Roughly 50% of web traffic is generated by Windows XP boxes. And yes, mac os x unzips pretty damn much everything, I was just pointing out the woeful inadequacy of Windows built-in unzipping, which it only added in 2001. Would you be happy if they only released a.deb or a.rpm? Or perhaps an archive only readable on an OS they made themselves? Get real.
Let me break this down into bite size chunks. Any competent unzipping program for *NIX/*BSD/Mac OS will have the ability to open.zip files. How many Windows unzipping programs play nice with.tar.gz files? I know there are many (Winrar, winace, etc), but for most people, they don't know how to use things that are not a part of the core OS. So they want the most amount of people to be able to read the file. Let us say that 99% of people have cars that only take unleaded gas, but the other 1% have a car that can take leaded and unleaded, do you think they will sell only leaded gasoline? No, because they want to be able to sell their fuel to the greatest amount of people.
When you get here, look for a place called 7-11. Go in there and buy an el-cheapo prepaid phone with some minutes. There are roughly 8 billion 7-11 franchises in the U.S. so you will have plenty of places to refill should you run out of minutes. Plus you will be able to keep the P.O.S. phone as a souvenir! No issues of privacy that you would encounter were you to rent a phone.
The short answer is no. It may create millions of jobs temporarily, but there is no profit to be made from space exploration, so it is therefore unrealistic to expect that those jobs would be permanent. It is not like we going to pan for gold on Mars and our Moon, we are going there to poke around. The only profits will be made by Aerospace companies, and the taxpayers will foot the bill for all the jobs and working capital to get this thing off the ground. (Pun intended!)
Is anyone actually surprised by this? I was just as shocked when Oracle's Larry Ellison said that he would help set up the National I.D. card database. These companies are just profiting from stealing away what little chunks of our privacy we have left, after congress and the government have taken their share. I guess that in this economy they will do anything to survive. Sad. </conspiracy theories>
Why the heck would they hack together some gaudy looking contraption when a simple watch does the trick? I swear, sometimes/.ers need to take a step back and keep things simple. That would be like saying, "people drive cars, why don't they just strap rocket engines to their feet?". If it doesn't work for Wile E. Coyote, it isn't going to work for me.
My personal choice is Ebay. I had an old Gateway Solo 2500 I bought for $150. Catch? Bad keyboard, and bad touchpad. I scope out google, prices are like US$70-80 each! So then I hit up Ebay, got the touchpad for about US$16, and the keyboard for about US$10. On another occasion, I had some guy drop an old Compaq Armada E500, broke off all the plastic on the corner and ripped open the screwholes holding the hinge together. Estimates ran like US$800 for a new screen, which would not even address the dead plastic! So I hit up Ebay yet again, got an "as-is" unit that was only missing a cd-rom drive, floppy drive, battery, and hard drive, all of which were good on my unit with the dead plastic. I buy it for US$160, open it up, swap the good floppy, hdd, cd drive, and battery, works splendidly. So I guess I am 2/2. It honestly depends on what sort of part you are looking for. If it is a relatively simple part like a keyboard or a touchpad, do not expect to get reamed, but if it is like a screen, or processor, seriously consider getting a new laptop. It may just be too much hassle to justify the expense. My advice is to keep checking Ebay, try changing up your search terms, look for "as-is" or "for parts" units. Also, check if your laptop manufacturer sells a "plastics kit" for you particular unit, I have had luck with those before, they have all sorts of plastic doodads that tend to break off. Good luck man!
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Four words. O'Reilly Pocket PHP Reference. This sounds like your kind of book then. It comes in terribly handy, it has a place right next to my Obj-C pocket reference.
I can see both sides of the equation. It is very difficult to convey emotion and literal meanings of the written word. We just plain do not know if there was any malicious intent, or if the intern was just kidding around. I would lean heavily toward the latter as well. I just can't see where there would be blackmail in the RFID field. That would be kind of lame. That would be like trying to blackmail a polka dancer IMHO.
Don't overreact. These are not the Diebold memos, it is just some woman who sent a non-funny joke back to the victim of the joke by accident. I don't see what the hubub is about. Granted, getting RFID awareness is good, but this story was a waste of time save for some of the info about RFID technology.
This should be title "Ask Slashdot: Where can I buy LSD?". Seriously, what is the asker on? I read the post at least three times and I still do not fully grasp it.
Just use Squid for *nix. You can use any old box you have laying around. You don't even need an x-window-environment. You can do everything from the CLI. I use it for a 250 user network and it works splendidly. Squid=$0. Your favorite Linux distro. (Don't want to start a war, but look at Debian, easy to update/secure/install programs.)=$0. Old PC laying around =$0. So $3,000 vs. $0 and you would have to do the same amount of reading and studying up on both. $3,000 could buy an awful lot of better things.
You are correct. A price quoted on a website is an offer. It is not binding. They can check it over and then if they accept it they charge you and you get your goods.
I am not a huge fan of Adobe telling me what I can and can't photoshop. What are they gonna do, have a 99USD "American currency" expansion pack? The software should scan things, not tell you whether or not you can scan them. What is next, copyright watermarks that make it so you can't scan magazines, or a 'pornography' filter?
Well the PSX is shaping up to be a much less powerful/feature packed machine than was originally promised. Honestly, (I am officially waving bye-bye to Karma), for all the things that the PSX is trying to be, the XBOX did at launch or shortly thereafter, so Sony is late to a game they will have a hard time winning. If anyone can pull it off, it is Sony. The first thing they need to do (and will not do) is standardize the online portion of their service a la XBOX live. For instance, you go on XBOX live playing Crimson Skies, and someone can send you a message to play Rainbow Six. If you are on your PS2 playing Tony Hawk 4, no one can message you to say "Hey, come play SOCOM with us". That is a huge difference. Yes I am praising a Microsoft product. While the XBOX may be the size of a house, and the controller almost comically-sized for our American gorilla hands, they did get the online portion of their console spot on. My current favorite Japanese export? Ichi The Killer.
This could be part of the "jobless economic recovery" that we have been hearing about. Seriously though, the $4,000 chairs and plasma monitors have to get sold by someone, right?
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I agree. With companies providing support for Linux (read: Red Hat), I think that this is Linux's year. With Novell buying Suse, and distros like XPde, Fedora Core, and Mandrake delivering a familiar desktop look and feel to users, it will become eventually transparent. I am researching transitioning at least some of my boxes to Debian/Mozilla Firebird/Mozilla Mail/OOO. These are boxes for those employees who, you guess it, type up e-mail, surf the web, and type stuff up. Granted it will not be a solution for all or even some, but it is definitely worth looking into, not putting all your eggs into the MS basket. Users do not even have to know that the command line exists!
Between my Digital VT420 terminal, or my Vintage 1993 CTX 14" CRT hooked up to a 386 40mhz/8mb ram box.
Then put your address at the bottom, with just your name at the top. At least then they will look at it.
Dude. Chill. Where in the article, or the links did it say it was "OK"? It just stated a fact. Where was Microsoft mentioned in any way/shape/form/fashion? This is not comparable to MS releasing a "Linux upgrade kit", although they could, since linux's code is open-source, and their's is closed. This would be sort of like patching Windows 95 to Windows 98. No one is holding a gun to anyone's head to run this script. It is completely voluntary. If someone wants to run Debian, but already has a Red Hat box running (like me), would you prefer they were screwed, with no option save reinstall? The whole point of the "world domination" thing is completely not selfish, it is about everyone having software that does what they want it to, that is secure, and is stable. What does Linux have to gain? It is not like he is a glory hound or greedy. People just so happen to give him shares of their IPO, and jobs. Also, give Linus' biography a read sometime.
1) Please RTFA and don't jump to conclusions next time.
2) This IS a good thing, for those who want/need it. The name is tongue-in-cheek anyway.
3) Anyone can release anything they want, whether or not it gets run/bought is a different story. Now, if you will excuse me, I am going to drive my Lincoln Blackwood to the store for some New Coke.
Don't be so quick to jump the gun on this one. Expecting people to be honest is somehow less than human? What about the honest guys who see everyone else ripping off the system, while he has a clear conscience? This will only validate those of us in society who play by the rules, and hopefully stop those who do break the rules. The only problem I would have with such a system would be if it linked up to government databases, or something like that. I would not be surprised given "security" companies' stances lately of profits over privacy. This practice would also, inadvertantly, be able to defeat fraud by management, like cutting people's hours. Most of the time, technology should not be needed, because all you need to do is have communication in place between all members of management. Example "why is Joe-Bob still clocked in?" "he shouldn't be, he left at noon".
I have also noticed nonsense senders, like "Lascivious P. Eviscerated". Weird, wild stuff.
Besides, they were comparisons.
I said "etc". I am not going to list every fucking unzipping program there is. Natively Windoze XP does .zips. Roughly 50% of web traffic is generated by Windows XP boxes. And yes, mac os x unzips pretty damn much everything, I was just pointing out the woeful inadequacy of Windows built-in unzipping, which it only added in 2001. Would you be happy if they only released a .deb or a .rpm? Or perhaps an archive only readable on an OS they made themselves? Get real.
Let me break this down into bite size chunks. Any competent unzipping program for *NIX/*BSD/Mac OS will have the ability to open .zip files. How many Windows unzipping programs play nice with .tar.gz files? I know there are many (Winrar, winace, etc), but for most people, they don't know how to use things that are not a part of the core OS. So they want the most amount of people to be able to read the file. Let us say that 99% of people have cars that only take unleaded gas, but the other 1% have a car that can take leaded and unleaded, do you think they will sell only leaded gasoline? No, because they want to be able to sell their fuel to the greatest amount of people.
The DoubleSight Dual 15" LCD Display from Thinkgeek. How about a good old fashioned side-by-side dual LCD mounting arm?
When you get here, look for a place called 7-11. Go in there and buy an el-cheapo prepaid phone with some minutes. There are roughly 8 billion 7-11 franchises in the U.S. so you will have plenty of places to refill should you run out of minutes. Plus you will be able to keep the P.O.S. phone as a souvenir! No issues of privacy that you would encounter were you to rent a phone.
The short answer is no. It may create millions of jobs temporarily, but there is no profit to be made from space exploration, so it is therefore unrealistic to expect that those jobs would be permanent. It is not like we going to pan for gold on Mars and our Moon, we are going there to poke around. The only profits will be made by Aerospace companies, and the taxpayers will foot the bill for all the jobs and working capital to get this thing off the ground. (Pun intended!)
Is anyone actually surprised by this? I was just as shocked when Oracle's Larry Ellison said that he would help set up the National I.D. card database. These companies are just profiting from stealing away what little chunks of our privacy we have left, after congress and the government have taken their share. I guess that in this economy they will do anything to survive. Sad.
</conspiracy theories>
Why the heck would they hack together some gaudy looking contraption when a simple watch does the trick? I swear, sometimes /.ers need to take a step back and keep things simple. That would be like saying, "people drive cars, why don't they just strap rocket engines to their feet?". If it doesn't work for Wile E. Coyote, it isn't going to work for me.
My personal choice is Ebay. I had an old Gateway Solo 2500 I bought for $150. Catch? Bad keyboard, and bad touchpad. I scope out google, prices are like US$70-80 each! So then I hit up Ebay, got the touchpad for about US$16, and the keyboard for about US$10. On another occasion, I had some guy drop an old Compaq Armada E500, broke off all the plastic on the corner and ripped open the screwholes holding the hinge together. Estimates ran like US$800 for a new screen, which would not even address the dead plastic! So I hit up Ebay yet again, got an "as-is" unit that was only missing a cd-rom drive, floppy drive, battery, and hard drive, all of which were good on my unit with the dead plastic. I buy it for US$160, open it up, swap the good floppy, hdd, cd drive, and battery, works splendidly. So I guess I am 2/2. It honestly depends on what sort of part you are looking for. If it is a relatively simple part like a keyboard or a touchpad, do not expect to get reamed, but if it is like a screen, or processor, seriously consider getting a new laptop. It may just be too much hassle to justify the expense. My advice is to keep checking Ebay, try changing up your search terms, look for "as-is" or "for parts" units. Also, check if your laptop manufacturer sells a "plastics kit" for you particular unit, I have had luck with those before, they have all sorts of plastic doodads that tend to break off. Good luck man!
Four words. O'Reilly Pocket PHP Reference. This sounds like your kind of book then. It comes in terribly handy, it has a place right next to my Obj-C pocket reference.
I can see both sides of the equation. It is very difficult to convey emotion and literal meanings of the written word. We just plain do not know if there was any malicious intent, or if the intern was just kidding around. I would lean heavily toward the latter as well. I just can't see where there would be blackmail in the RFID field. That would be kind of lame. That would be like trying to blackmail a polka dancer IMHO.
Don't overreact. These are not the Diebold memos, it is just some woman who sent a non-funny joke back to the victim of the joke by accident. I don't see what the hubub is about. Granted, getting RFID awareness is good, but this story was a waste of time save for some of the info about RFID technology.
This should be title "Ask Slashdot: Where can I buy LSD?". Seriously, what is the asker on? I read the post at least three times and I still do not fully grasp it.
Just use Squid for *nix. You can use any old box you have laying around. You don't even need an x-window-environment. You can do everything from the CLI. I use it for a 250 user network and it works splendidly. Squid=$0. Your favorite Linux distro. (Don't want to start a war, but look at Debian, easy to update/secure/install programs.)=$0. Old PC laying around =$0. So $3,000 vs. $0 and you would have to do the same amount of reading and studying up on both. $3,000 could buy an awful lot of better things.
You are correct. A price quoted on a website is an offer. It is not binding. They can check it over and then if they accept it they charge you and you get your goods.
Dude! Where? Are they Compaq Ultra 3(20)?
I am not a huge fan of Adobe telling me what I can and can't photoshop. What are they gonna do, have a 99USD "American currency" expansion pack? The software should scan things, not tell you whether or not you can scan them. What is next, copyright watermarks that make it so you can't scan magazines, or a 'pornography' filter?
Well the PSX is shaping up to be a much less powerful/feature packed machine than was originally promised. Honestly, (I am officially waving bye-bye to Karma), for all the things that the PSX is trying to be, the XBOX did at launch or shortly thereafter, so Sony is late to a game they will have a hard time winning. If anyone can pull it off, it is Sony. The first thing they need to do (and will not do) is standardize the online portion of their service a la XBOX live. For instance, you go on XBOX live playing Crimson Skies, and someone can send you a message to play Rainbow Six. If you are on your PS2 playing Tony Hawk 4, no one can message you to say "Hey, come play SOCOM with us". That is a huge difference. Yes I am praising a Microsoft product. While the XBOX may be the size of a house, and the controller almost comically-sized for our American gorilla hands, they did get the online portion of their console spot on. My current favorite Japanese export? Ichi The Killer.
This could be part of the "jobless economic recovery" that we have been hearing about. Seriously though, the $4,000 chairs and plasma monitors have to get sold by someone, right?