I'm not sure if this is a new low or new *high*, but it's certainly not what I was expecting. I don't think I'll ever look at a unicorn the same again. Oh yeah, since it's April Fool's Day, can I be excused for saying they'll never get ahead with pictures like that? It certainly gives a new meaning to the phrase getting some head!
Am I missing something? How did Widows 2000 Server "change" networking? They mention AD, but if that's the case then LDAP could've been listed just as well. Claiming that Windows was susceptible to Code Red is no big deal either. You could claim the Morris internet worm had a longer lasting effect on networking in the long run.
Every version of windows since Windows NT was supposed to be better and more secure. Unfortunately that wasn't the case as we all know. How about we hold off on the hyperbole until Vista ships one of these days and we see how it actually works, not how some marketdroid claims it will.
Work with me here.. A mouse with laser beams for eyes!! And he flies, and with super strength shall lay the capitals of the world to waste! I shall call him.. MIGHTY MOUSE!!
Unless you pay me the sum of One Million Dollars!!
The only time I use Outlook at work is when I turn on my out of office notification, otherwise I use Mozilla for all my mail needs. What I find weird is that even though I get warnings about being over my mbox size limit from the Exchange server, everything works fine, and I can send and receive e-mail. If for some reason I switch to Outlook, it of course refuses to allow me to send any e-mail. Kinda makes me wonder what's the point of the 'over limit mbox' warnings if enforcement is dependant on the client.
Linus has not disguised the fact that he is more in the Open Source camp than the Free Software camp, yet he chose to license Linux under a Free Software license. Now, and I'm being honest here, he's bitching about the the folks he got into bed with. If you don't want to use GPLv3 (which isn't even out yet), then don't, that's your choice. But don't spit on the folks that got you where you are, and protected your software.
Older geeks on/. will remember that it used to be a mantra in the West that if we only showed how good it could be to have our consumer goods and other material things to the citizens of repressive regimes, they would ultimately overthrow their Evil Overlords. It was due to this pattern of that the we actually wanted companies such as Coca-Cola and McDonald's to do business in totalitarian countries like the USSR. Flash forward to now, and suddenly it's a bad thing? I'm sure US companies in the Soviet republics had to do their fair share of blinking previously, and it's still the price to pay when dealing with a repressive oligarchy like the current Chinese regime. I guess the big difference now is that I don't think having Microsoft or Google in China is advancing American interests much. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Amen to that! The current workaround is a script known as grub-reboot. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to come by default in Fedora, but you can download it off the net if you google it. Here's the man page
Oh, I see. Claim Linux can't do something, then wait for everyone to fall over themselves to prove Linux is teh r0x0rs!!! This almost seems a troll since SuSe, Mandriva, and Fedora have been doing exactly what you're asking about for quite some time. Anyway, check out Bootsplash, it does what you're looking for.
This is a great idea, honestly... but who runs NetBSD on their laptops? I'd posit that it's a relatively low amount of folks. So while this is cool, until the code migrates to a better known F/OSS OS it isn't much use in the real world.
FTFA: As has been true since the start.. What exactly is this generalization based on? It basically implies that all individuals owning an ipod/mp3 player are copyright infringers from the get go. Then, just because sales are down for a quarter, it's the sign of the Apocalypse! Are they not teaching logic in schools anymore?
Considering that bittorrent.com is not the first site you'd think of when searching for torrents, and that bittorrent itself is Open Source, how is this relevant to anyone other than Cohen? Call me when Vivid Videos start complaining about swapping their stuff, then I'll be worried!
This is common language in such filings to let investors know of worst case scenarios. For reference, see such filings by SCO on Groklaw. So no, it's not a threat or a conspiracy
Switching to a GNU/Linux distribution because you're anti-Microsoft is not a long-term reason to switch. I switched because GNU/Linux was the only stable OS I could run. I got sick of Win95 crashing, Win98 crashing, and WinNT crashing, and being a new computer user, figured *something* better had to be out there. I heard about RedHat, tried it, and never looked back. Because it was *stable* (or more so, relatively speaking). I started using computers in 1997 and was on GNU/Linux by 1997. It's the apps and the freedom, that's why people switch.
This only shows the low levels that American haters and Open Source communists will stoop to! In this post-Katrina pre-Rita world, how can our economy recover if the Euros and the hippies band together to take food out of the mouths of Billy Gate's kids? Sure, the furniture industry is safe (replacing all those chairs), but dammit, think of the children! And the developers.. Developers! Developers! Developers!
By 2000 Opera was old. I was using it in 1998, and then it was the bee's knees. You could (and still can) surf the web normally without ever touching your mouse. Opera taught me how much time is actually wasted by using a mouse, and what a crutch it is.
"but most of those who haven't gone probably don't know that saying that it's just a bunch of naked hippies meeting in the desert to smoke pot, is a very unfair description of the event"
Is pointing out that hippies are prone to grammatical torture redundant yet? Either way this post will be -1 Redundant or +5 Insightful!
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I'm never gonna get used to VOIP. Caffineated bacon? Baconated grapefruit? ADMIRAL Crunch?
Here's reference for you young whipper snappers
Why is the summary placing the word proof in single quotes? Did the definition change while I wasn't looking?
They could just as well have studied the United Nations to find that out. /. doesn't scare me enough to post anonymously.
I'm not sure if this is a new low or new *high*, but it's certainly not what I was expecting. I don't think I'll ever look at a unicorn the same again.
Oh yeah, since it's April Fool's Day, can I be excused for saying they'll never get ahead with pictures like that? It certainly gives a new meaning to the phrase getting some head!
Am I missing something? How did Widows 2000 Server "change" networking? They mention AD, but if that's the case then LDAP could've been listed just as well. Claiming that Windows was susceptible to Code Red is no big deal either. You could claim the Morris internet worm had a longer lasting effect on networking in the long run.
Every version of windows since Windows NT was supposed to be better and more secure. Unfortunately that wasn't the case as we all know. How about we hold off on the hyperbole until Vista ships one of these days and we see how it actually works, not how some marketdroid claims it will.
Work with me here.. A mouse with laser beams for eyes!! And he flies, and with super strength shall lay the capitals of the world to waste! I shall call him.. MIGHTY MOUSE!!
Unless you pay me the sum of One Million Dollars!!
**Warning: Off-Topic**
The only time I use Outlook at work is when I turn on my out of office notification, otherwise I use Mozilla for all my mail needs. What I find weird is that even though I get warnings about being over my mbox size limit from the Exchange server, everything works fine, and I can send and receive e-mail. If for some reason I switch to Outlook, it of course refuses to allow me to send any e-mail. Kinda makes me wonder what's the point of the 'over limit mbox' warnings if enforcement is dependant on the client.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
All of my base
Are belong to you
Linus has not disguised the fact that he is more in the Open Source camp than the Free Software camp, yet he chose to license Linux under a Free Software license. Now, and I'm being honest here, he's bitching about the the folks he got into bed with. If you don't want to use GPLv3 (which isn't even out yet), then don't, that's your choice. But don't spit on the folks that got you where you are, and protected your software.
I've got the results right here.
Interestingly enough, the first results all deal with being victimized by pornography. There goes my buzz.
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Older geeks on /. will remember that it used to be a mantra in the West that if we only showed how good it could be to have our consumer goods and other material things to the citizens of repressive regimes, they would ultimately overthrow their Evil Overlords. It was due to this pattern of that the we actually wanted companies such as Coca-Cola and McDonald's to do business in totalitarian countries like the USSR.
Flash forward to now, and suddenly it's a bad thing? I'm sure US companies in the Soviet republics had to do their fair share of blinking previously, and it's still the price to pay when dealing with a repressive oligarchy like the current Chinese regime.
I guess the big difference now is that I don't think having Microsoft or Google in China is advancing American interests much. Quite the opposite, in fact.
From Off-Topic to Redundant??
/. I could be useful in convincing people to disregard the DRM!
I for one welcome our new HD-DVD overlords, and remind them that as a member of
Amen to that! The current workaround is a script known as grub-reboot. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to come by default in Fedora, but you can download it off the net if you google it. Here's the man page
Oh, I see. Claim Linux can't do something, then wait for everyone to fall over themselves to prove Linux is teh r0x0rs!!! This almost seems a troll since SuSe, Mandriva, and Fedora have been doing exactly what you're asking about for quite some time.
Anyway, check out Bootsplash, it does what you're looking for.
This is a great idea, honestly... but who runs NetBSD on their laptops? I'd posit that it's a relatively low amount of folks. So while this is cool, until the code migrates to a better known F/OSS OS it isn't much use in the real world.
FTFA: As has been true since the start..
What exactly is this generalization based on? It basically implies that all individuals owning an ipod/mp3 player are copyright infringers from the get go. Then, just because sales are down for a quarter, it's the sign of the Apocalypse! Are they not teaching logic in schools anymore?
Considering that bittorrent.com is not the first site you'd think of when searching for torrents, and that bittorrent itself is Open Source, how is this relevant to anyone other than Cohen?
Call me when Vivid Videos start complaining about swapping their stuff, then I'll be worried!
This is common language in such filings to let investors know of worst case scenarios. For reference, see such filings by SCO on Groklaw.
So no, it's not a threat or a conspiracy
Switching to a GNU/Linux distribution because you're anti-Microsoft is not a long-term reason to switch. I switched because GNU/Linux was the only stable OS I could run. I got sick of Win95 crashing, Win98 crashing, and WinNT crashing, and being a new computer user, figured *something* better had to be out there. I heard about RedHat, tried it, and never looked back. Because it was *stable* (or more so, relatively speaking). I started using computers in 1997 and was on GNU/Linux by 1997.
It's the apps and the freedom, that's why people switch.
Done
This only shows the low levels that American haters and Open Source communists will stoop to! In this post-Katrina pre-Rita world, how can our economy recover if the Euros and the hippies band together to take food out of the mouths of Billy Gate's kids? Sure, the furniture industry is safe (replacing all those chairs), but dammit, think of the children! And the developers.. Developers! Developers! Developers!
By 2000 Opera was old. I was using it in 1998, and then it was the bee's knees. You could (and still can) surf the web normally without ever touching your mouse. Opera taught me how much time is actually wasted by using a mouse, and what a crutch it is.
Is pointing out that hippies are prone to grammatical torture redundant yet? Either way this post will be -1 Redundant or +5 Insightful!