While I do use vibrate a lot, I also like to have it ring certain times. That being the case I like to distinguish my cell phone from the millions of others around me. I've yet to hear someone with the same ringtone as me. (Of course I made it myself which helps)
I dunno, mine didn't cost me anything. (Unless you count the original cost of the cd that the clip of the song came from) I created it and uploaded it to the phone myself. A friend had the USB->phone cable and I already had the song. A quick edit and voila!
Of course not, anything I hear or read "Gartner Says..." I just groan. I think everyone knows that there are currently two browsers competing right now, if you don't and need Gertner to tell you that I hope your job doesn't involve computers at all.
Also this doesn't work if you use tabbed browsing. If you open the link in a new tab and then click the button you get the citibank popup, not the infected one. It only seemed to work if you opened their link in a new window.
I'm also confident that this will be fixed soon but it's also not really a big issue for me because I do mostly tabbed browsing. It is very rarely that I open a new site in a seperate window anymore.
*Real* Pro photographers don't use linux! There, I've said it. I'm sortof an advanced hobbyist when it comes to photography. As much as I love Linux, this is one aspect where it falls a little short.
Most pro photographers need to calibrate their monitor and printer... I have yet to see anything describing how to do that in linux. Sure linux will work if you are just taking some shots for personal use and want to print them out or put them on the web or even burn a disc. I like the link and I will probably try out the bibblelabs software because as a hobbyist it doesn't matter as much if my colors are a little off and if it was something really important I would use my tiBook.
OS X is the best OS in my opinion followed by windows. The Gimp really isn't a replacement for photoshop on the professional level.
Ahhh... yes, job security with windows. I work for a small software company and we sell our program to medium sized businesses. Most of the companies have a fairly good IT department and some are better than others. However one in particular has one IT guy managing the windows machines. He cannot even figure out how to install Oracle! Let me say that again so it sinks in.... Their windows IT guy *CANNOT INSTALL ORACLE*. Their machines were cracked into about 6 months ago so now they pay $30k/year to a consulting group to fix things for them.
So yes, if that's what you want then by all means throw out the linux boxes and become a wintel shop. However one person can easily manage several linux boxes *assuming* they know what they are doing. The same goes for windows, however linux has several more advantages in the area of remote administration.
You would know why. It sucks. You do it for money, not because you enjoy it. I work on computers because I enjoy it. The nice part is that I also get to make money doing it.
I've done some plumbing (personal, not professional) and let me tell you that it sucks. Little things I can fix but if it's something that will most likely take me all day, I'd probably call a plumber.
I don't think you know what you are talking about. Patents have nothing to do with the source code being open, they have to do with functionality. Like amazon's 1-click shopping patent. I don't need the source code to see if I am violating it or not.
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Heck I've used linux to repair all sorts of windows machines. And people have the gall to be upset when they find out that windows is no longer on their computer.
I would love to pay for *just the channels I watch*. I could care less about ESPN, EWTN, The Gameshow network, and pretty much most of the rest of the channels. I would get: Fox (the simpsons), Comedy channel, AMC, FoodTV, The Discovery channel and the History Channel. So instead of raping me for 100 channels I don't want to watch, charge me the $20/month for the 10 channel package which as you can see, would be more than enough. However now that I'm paying for them take out the commercials. Not gonna happen, instead they'll still rape me for all the channels I don't want and then thow ads at me that I have to watch because it's now law.
Heck I'd even be happy if I had a pay-per-view for TV. (providing it was reasonably priced) You might actually see people get off their ass and go outside once in a while.
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First I would learn most UNIX commands. UNIX Powertools is an excellent book.
Then I would also learn an editor. I would recommend learning the minimum ammount you need to get by in either vi or emacs as this will save you time.
Then skim through the linux from scratch HOWTO.
After that try and find howtos or books for specific programs. After figuring out how say apache works, you will have a better understandinng of how other programs work in linux.
Remember, most programs come with their own documentation and that will usually tell you where those programs are. If XFree86's log is in/var/log/ I'd take a look in there and see what else is in/var/log/. Hey look at that, logfiles. Sure it takes a while to learn, but that's what they mean when they say there's a steep learning curve.
and in NYC you pretty much can't dig anywhere. I got to see a section of a NYC street that was being excavated and there were wires and pipes everywhere.
Ok, I read the article and this guy has his tinfoil hat on a little too tight I think. That and I'd be willing to bet he's just a liar.
He won't give anyone anything that he has either electronically or burned to a cd because it would be piracy. WTF!?!?!? He says he doesn't even let his kids load up their iPods with his music. However he listened to the new U2 album to death before it hit the shelves. He said he was going to buy that one but I'd be willing to bet he's enjoyed countless hours of music and never paid for it. That my friend is piracy. Trading with your friends only makes you not a leech!
I also highly doubt people just give him new torrents and such because they believe in his "cause." A lot of file sharing programs won't even let you login unless you have X gigs shared and this guy's poilicy is that he doesn't share.
This guy would have to spend all day getting new music. Let's do some math. The guy said he's been doing this for 10 months which means he's been averaging 90,000 songs every month. Now if we assume 30 days in a month that gives us 3000 songs a day and he claims to now get 1000 songs a day. Oh and he works as an attorney for 16 hours a day. So assuming this guy get's only 5 hours of sleep a night he might be able to spend 3 hours a day to start the downloads. Sure it's pretty easy to find the first few thousand songs but after that it's pretty hard to find 1000 songs a day that you don't already have especially all at 256kbits. I mean come on... April is still 5 months away.
Oh and someone should clue him in to the fact that when the nuclear blast hits his collection, it's gonna be gone too. So he should share the wealth.;-)
I suggest you read: How to read exit polls and then go back and look at the exit poll data. Both Ohio and Florida went to Bush according to exit poll information.
It's called a network PC... it was tried, it failed. It's rumored to be making a comeback but people want to own things... not rent them, and here I would classify software as a thing.
The other bad thing about network computers is that you are at the mercy of the people who maintain the programs to install the latest programs and hopefully have what you want. I could see it work in an office environment but not for home use.
The only reason he claims this is that a lower cost of hardware would allow them to raise the price of their software. Personally I think it's the high price of software that causes rampant piracy. I mean if you could get windows for $20 would you pirate it?
Well considering many of the developers would not work under a BSD license I say your argument is flawed. There is a BSD licensed UNIX that runs on x86. I think not as many developers work on it because what incentive does a large comany have to return it's modifications back into the free version as opposed to just saying FU, I have my fork.
Granted it does happen (as in the case of apple) but it is kindof enforced under the GPL and I think that gives the developers some solice that they wouldn't have under a BSD style license.
How would you feel if someone took your work, made a change or two and sold it as their own? I'd be pretty pissed.
hehe... yeah, my school did that with the mail server back when I was in school still. Took a perfectly good/working/stable UNIX mail server and made it an exchange server. Before the switch I never had any problems getting mail. After the switch I had tons of issues mostly not being able to get to it at times.
Yes, I had this discussion with one of my coworkers when he was telling me how his mom was confused about why you had to click the start button in the shutdown process. I said it kindof makes sense because you are starting the shutdown process.
Now if there was a button that said Start and all you did was click it and it shutdown, that would be stupid. But clicking Start->Shutdown to me, indicates that you start the shutdown process. Same thing with init 6. You initialize runlevel 6 which in most cases causes the computer to shutdown.
I think saying my naming convention is better than yours is just silly. If you really don't like the Start->shutdown method, just use ctrl-alt-del->shutdown instead. Just like if you don't like init 6 use 'shutdown -h now'
Now in terms of customizing the shutdown process Linux is hands down the winner but in terms of method that the end user shuts down it's a wash.
Sure you could install cygwin and get most of this functionality... however it's already there in linux. I spend a lot of time going from computer to computer and installing a custom oracle database. Unfortunately I am forced to use windows. My install time could be cut in half at least by having available to me all the tools that linux provides on a default install. Cygwin is great, and I have it on my work computer but no one else does. (Well that I have to install on) Besides, why spend a boatload of money on an inferior OS and only have to spend more time installing more tools that should have come with the OS. By installing cygwin, you are just trying to make windows like linux. Why not just go straight to the source?
And then of course having the source code to everything... you can't get that in windows.
Also most hackers like to customize their system. In windows, your GUI is limited to one choice with a few themes. In Linux, if you don't like one of the many existing Window Managers, you could code your own. I like to laugh at the gnome/kde debate because I don't use either.
Sure the windows GUI is more polished and generally easy to use. However everything else about windows generally sucks. For the average user I've been recommending Macs since about OS 10.2 because they offer a UNIX base (with all those great tools) and a polished GUI that is generally easy to use. However for most hacker types, I'd still recommend Linux.
Up in VT they had a similar issue. All the environmentalists were up in arms because they wanted to put up more wind farms to reduce the load on nuclear because imagine what the environment nuts would do about a second nuclear reactor. However they didn't like the wind solution because of the possibility of bird deaths. The real problem comes from the first windmills put up had nice little perches for the birds to sit on. 20 years ago in CA a windfarm was set up with this problem. Bird deaths per yer? 1-2. OMG! one or two birds died... it's horrible, you can't use that!
Really they just don't want to spoil their view. Vermonters don't really care about the environment, they care about the view that they have.
I think the savings we get both monetarily and environmentally outweigh one or two birds a year. besides, the new windmills don't have nice places for birds to sit so the risk to birds is probably even less. Most "green's" are a bunch of crotchety wackos that make people that want to actually do something about the environment embarrased.
I personally think that anytime a large ammount of data is involved (like when using a database) it is reasonable to want some sort of client/server setup so that all the data isn't transferred to the client, but rather only the information they want. A web interface does this nicely. It also allows you to access it from anywhere. Using web based forms is nice but it's not always practical.
At work we've been experimenting with Oracle Application Server and I think it really is the Holy Grail. If only someone else would put together a nice open source version of AS for something like PostgreSQL or mySQL I would jump on it.
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While I do use vibrate a lot, I also like to have it ring certain times. That being the case I like to distinguish my cell phone from the millions of others around me. I've yet to hear someone with the same ringtone as me. (Of course I made it myself which helps)
I dunno, mine didn't cost me anything. (Unless you count the original cost of the cd that the clip of the song came from) I created it and uploaded it to the phone myself. A friend had the USB->phone cable and I already had the song. A quick edit and voila!
What did you expect? Microsofts security chief to say that linux is more secure?
I don't think this article said anything useful.
Of course not, anything I hear or read "Gartner Says..." I just groan. I think everyone knows that there are currently two browsers competing right now, if you don't and need Gertner to tell you that I hope your job doesn't involve computers at all.
I think Starbucks realized if you charge a lot of money for your product and call it better, yuppies will flock to it and become coffee snobs.
Also this doesn't work if you use tabbed browsing. If you open the link in a new tab and then click the button you get the citibank popup, not the infected one. It only seemed to work if you opened their link in a new window.
I'm also confident that this will be fixed soon but it's also not really a big issue for me because I do mostly tabbed browsing. It is very rarely that I open a new site in a seperate window anymore.
*Real* Pro photographers don't use linux! There, I've said it. I'm sortof an advanced hobbyist when it comes to photography. As much as I love Linux, this is one aspect where it falls a little short.
Most pro photographers need to calibrate their monitor and printer... I have yet to see anything describing how to do that in linux. Sure linux will work if you are just taking some shots for personal use and want to print them out or put them on the web or even burn a disc. I like the link and I will probably try out the bibblelabs software because as a hobbyist it doesn't matter as much if my colors are a little off and if it was something really important I would use my tiBook.
OS X is the best OS in my opinion followed by windows. The Gimp really isn't a replacement for photoshop on the professional level.
Ahhh... yes, job security with windows. I work for a small software company and we sell our program to medium sized businesses. Most of the companies have a fairly good IT department and some are better than others. However one in particular has one IT guy managing the windows machines. He cannot even figure out how to install Oracle! Let me say that again so it sinks in.... Their windows IT guy *CANNOT INSTALL ORACLE*. Their machines were cracked into about 6 months ago so now they pay $30k/year to a consulting group to fix things for them.
So yes, if that's what you want then by all means throw out the linux boxes and become a wintel shop. However one person can easily manage several linux boxes *assuming* they know what they are doing. The same goes for windows, however linux has several more advantages in the area of remote administration.
You would know why. It sucks. You do it for money, not because you enjoy it. I work on computers because I enjoy it. The nice part is that I also get to make money doing it.
I've done some plumbing (personal, not professional) and let me tell you that it sucks. Little things I can fix but if it's something that will most likely take me all day, I'd probably call a plumber.
I don't think you know what you are talking about. Patents have nothing to do with the source code being open, they have to do with functionality. Like amazon's 1-click shopping patent. I don't need the source code to see if I am violating it or not.
Heck I've used linux to repair all sorts of windows machines. And people have the gall to be upset when they find out that windows is no longer on their computer.
I would love to pay for *just the channels I watch*. I could care less about ESPN, EWTN, The Gameshow network, and pretty much most of the rest of the channels. I would get:
Fox (the simpsons), Comedy channel, AMC, FoodTV, The Discovery channel and the History Channel. So instead of raping me for 100 channels I don't want to watch, charge me the $20/month for the 10 channel package which as you can see, would be more than enough. However now that I'm paying for them take out the commercials. Not gonna happen, instead they'll still rape me for all the channels I don't want and then thow ads at me that I have to watch because it's now law.
Heck I'd even be happy if I had a pay-per-view for TV. (providing it was reasonably priced) You might actually see people get off their ass and go outside once in a while.
First I would learn most UNIX commands. UNIX Powertools is an excellent book.
/var/log/ I'd take a look in there and see what else is in /var/log/. Hey look at that, logfiles. Sure it takes a while to learn, but that's what they mean when they say there's a steep learning curve.
Then I would also learn an editor. I would recommend learning the minimum ammount you need to get by in either vi or emacs as this will save you time.
Then skim through the linux from scratch HOWTO.
After that try and find howtos or books for specific programs. After figuring out how say apache works, you will have a better understandinng of how other programs work in linux.
Remember, most programs come with their own documentation and that will usually tell you where those programs are. If XFree86's log is in
and in NYC you pretty much can't dig anywhere. I got to see a section of a NYC street that was being excavated and there were wires and pipes everywhere.
Ok, I read the article and this guy has his tinfoil hat on a little too tight I think. That and I'd be willing to bet he's just a liar.
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He won't give anyone anything that he has either electronically or burned to a cd because it would be piracy. WTF!?!?!? He says he doesn't even let his kids load up their iPods with his music. However he listened to the new U2 album to death before it hit the shelves. He said he was going to buy that one but I'd be willing to bet he's enjoyed countless hours of music and never paid for it. That my friend is piracy. Trading with your friends only makes you not a leech!
I also highly doubt people just give him new torrents and such because they believe in his "cause." A lot of file sharing programs won't even let you login unless you have X gigs shared and this guy's poilicy is that he doesn't share.
This guy would have to spend all day getting new music. Let's do some math. The guy said he's been doing this for 10 months which means he's been averaging 90,000 songs every month. Now if we assume 30 days in a month that gives us 3000 songs a day and he claims to now get 1000 songs a day. Oh and he works as an attorney for 16 hours a day. So assuming this guy get's only 5 hours of sleep a night he might be able to spend 3 hours a day to start the downloads. Sure it's pretty easy to find the first few thousand songs but after that it's pretty hard to find 1000 songs a day that you don't already have especially all at 256kbits. I mean come on... April is still 5 months away.
Oh and someone should clue him in to the fact that when the nuclear blast hits his collection, it's gonna be gone too. So he should share the wealth.
I suggest you read: How to read exit polls and then go back and look at the exit poll data. Both Ohio and Florida went to Bush according to exit poll information.
It's called a network PC... it was tried, it failed. It's rumored to be making a comeback but people want to own things... not rent them, and here I would classify software as a thing.
The other bad thing about network computers is that you are at the mercy of the people who maintain the programs to install the latest programs and hopefully have what you want. I could see it work in an office environment but not for home use.
The only reason he claims this is that a lower cost of hardware would allow them to raise the price of their software. Personally I think it's the high price of software that causes rampant piracy. I mean if you could get windows for $20 would you pirate it?
Well considering many of the developers would not work under a BSD license I say your argument is flawed. There is a BSD licensed UNIX that runs on x86. I think not as many developers work on it because what incentive does a large comany have to return it's modifications back into the free version as opposed to just saying FU, I have my fork.
Granted it does happen (as in the case of apple) but it is kindof enforced under the GPL and I think that gives the developers some solice that they wouldn't have under a BSD style license.
How would you feel if someone took your work, made a change or two and sold it as their own? I'd be pretty pissed.
hehe... yeah, my school did that with the mail server back when I was in school still. Took a perfectly good/working/stable UNIX mail server and made it an exchange server. Before the switch I never had any problems getting mail. After the switch I had tons of issues mostly not being able to get to it at times.
What, you don't have the machine name in your prompt? Talk about sinning...
Yes, I had this discussion with one of my coworkers when he was telling me how his mom was confused about why you had to click the start button in the shutdown process. I said it kindof makes sense because you are starting the shutdown process.
Now if there was a button that said Start and all you did was click it and it shutdown, that would be stupid. But clicking Start->Shutdown to me, indicates that you start the shutdown process. Same thing with init 6. You initialize runlevel 6 which in most cases causes the computer to shutdown.
I think saying my naming convention is better than yours is just silly. If you really don't like the Start->shutdown method, just use ctrl-alt-del->shutdown instead. Just like if you don't like init 6 use 'shutdown -h now'
Now in terms of customizing the shutdown process Linux is hands down the winner but in terms of method that the end user shuts down it's a wash.
Tab Completion!, bash, csh, sed, awk, perl, grep, man, diff, gcc, vi, etc...
Sure you could install cygwin and get most of this functionality... however it's already there in linux. I spend a lot of time going from computer to computer and installing a custom oracle database. Unfortunately I am forced to use windows. My install time could be cut in half at least by having available to me all the tools that linux provides on a default install. Cygwin is great, and I have it on my work computer but no one else does. (Well that I have to install on) Besides, why spend a boatload of money on an inferior OS and only have to spend more time installing more tools that should have come with the OS. By installing cygwin, you are just trying to make windows like linux. Why not just go straight to the source?
And then of course having the source code to everything... you can't get that in windows.
Also most hackers like to customize their system. In windows, your GUI is limited to one choice with a few themes. In Linux, if you don't like one of the many existing Window Managers, you could code your own. I like to laugh at the gnome/kde debate because I don't use either.
Sure the windows GUI is more polished and generally easy to use. However everything else about windows generally sucks. For the average user I've been recommending Macs since about OS 10.2 because they offer a UNIX base (with all those great tools) and a polished GUI that is generally easy to use. However for most hacker types, I'd still recommend Linux.
Except for XM commercials... so not really 100% commercial free.
Up in VT they had a similar issue. All the environmentalists were up in arms because they wanted to put up more wind farms to reduce the load on nuclear because imagine what the environment nuts would do about a second nuclear reactor. However they didn't like the wind solution because of the possibility of bird deaths. The real problem comes from the first windmills put up had nice little perches for the birds to sit on. 20 years ago in CA a windfarm was set up with this problem. Bird deaths per yer? 1-2. OMG! one or two birds died... it's horrible, you can't use that!
Really they just don't want to spoil their view. Vermonters don't really care about the environment, they care about the view that they have.
I think the savings we get both monetarily and environmentally outweigh one or two birds a year. besides, the new windmills don't have nice places for birds to sit so the risk to birds is probably even less. Most "green's" are a bunch of crotchety wackos that make people that want to actually do something about the environment embarrased.
I personally think that anytime a large ammount of data is involved (like when using a database) it is reasonable to want some sort of client/server setup so that all the data isn't transferred to the client, but rather only the information they want. A web interface does this nicely. It also allows you to access it from anywhere. Using web based forms is nice but it's not always practical.
At work we've been experimenting with Oracle Application Server and I think it really is the Holy Grail. If only someone else would put together a nice open source version of AS for something like PostgreSQL or mySQL I would jump on it.