Way to flame someone. Just create a fake account in the ID of someone who wrote an article, and then point to it and use it as character assasination because you disagree with the article.
I have found that bad hardware or incompatable hardware can cause all sorts of hard to troubleshoot problems. I once had a CD-ROM issue that curropted the Linux install files. I tried many different distros, and one person was kind enough to email me some CDRs with different distros on them. Each one lead to a problem of a different sort of error message. I was called an idiot, et al, because I was unable to get Linux working and I followed all advice I was given. Later I replaced the CD-ROM drive with a brand name one and the install finally worked. Only then did I learn that there was an incompatability problem between Linux and that generic CD-ROM drive I had tried to use, and none of the Linux experts had figured that out or even suspected it. All they could do was bash me, for not being able to get Linux working. So much for the experts, people like that just scare people away from Linux. They'd do better to just STFU when it comes to blame, and just try to figure out what is causing the problem, or just STFU in general and let someone without emotional problems take a shot at it.
I run a Linux web server now, it works great. I found that the Fedora Forums are very good, and they helped me troubleshoot through some network problems that I had when I switched to Fedora. Nobody called me an idiot, et al, there they just took ownership of the problem and figured it out.
out of work, because Vista breaks a lot of software. What software that does run, runs with issues and phones home to Microsoft via Vista's own built in Spyware software that reports errors.
Sure Vista will break Spyware and Anti-Spyware programs from working, until Spyware companies learn how to adapt to the new Vista system. Make no mistake about it, a new API will only break things until people are able to adapt to a new API. Only Spyware companies can adapt the quickest and the best, because of all the money they steal using Spyware which gives it a big return on investment. Software companies won't have much of a ROI because they will be busy troubleshooting the problems that are caused by their rush to market ahead of the others that leads to quick and dirty programming that is sloppy and causes more problems than it fixes. Unlike the spyware companies, they don't have a budget to allow them to properly train programmers and give them the time to do a quality job.
I tried Beta 2 of Windows Vista, and I didn't really find any software that did not have an issue with running on Vista, even Anti-Spyware programs had issues running, and Vista wanted to phone home about that. Plus Vista ran very slow on a 2.4Ghz Pentium 4 system with 512M of RAM, which tells me that only bleeding edge hardware can run it at a decent speed. So much for Vista protection of hardware made in the past few years or so, even if they run Vista, they will run it too slow to really matter anyway.
I do most of my posting under my handle. Yet people with an axe to grind against me have used my real name to post false information about me on the Internet that is searchable via Google. Since I have no control over those web sites, I cannot change them or even reply to them.
So much for free speech, they can say whatever they want about me and get away with it scot-free. If I disagree with people on issues, I am told that I have no right to free speech when they post false info about me on the Internet in reaction to what I have to say.
All kinds of things have been written about me, even some who created false profiles in my real name with false information about me on them. While I was able to get the company who hosted the site that had the false profile on me remove them, Google still has them in its cache. Some of the people against me have written porn fiction stories about me on various forums and scoop sites, and the admins refuse to remove them. Potential employers can scan for that via Google using my real name, and think that I am a porn star or something, because someone wrote a fictational porn story on me. I even got ex-bullies from grade school and high school posting about me and making fun of me on blogs.
Not much I can do, a lot of false information was made about me by jealous ex-coworkers because I had a higher salary than they had. That was mostly due to me doing a better job of programming than they did in quality and analysis and design and research, which co-workers skipped. They reported false information about me, and harassed, abused, and threatened me, until I got sick. Eventually I was fired due to having medical problems and the false claims against me. I asked for proof, but management claimed that they believe rumors. I asked for proof and evidence, and management said they didn't need any. That I was getting too sick to work, and that they could easily replace me with someone who does not get sick because programmers are a dime a dozen.
Then again, I really do not want to work for am employer that believes rumor and gossip over facts and proof anyway. All kinds of things are posted in Google. If I was an employer, I'd trust a search of public records over Google anyway because public records are harder to forge and post falsehoods about anyway. Public records are based on facts and proof, Google is mostly rumor and gossip and sometimes people joke about you. Take anything posted in Google with a grain of salt because there is a lot of fictacious stuff posted to Google that has not been verified, proven, or even based on facts.
If I did a background check on someone and his record came up clean, and Google had a picture of his friend saying he got high in a picture, I'd see that the fact that he was not arrested for drug use would show that the Myspace picture possibly is a joke or fictacious. I'd be more interested in his ability to get the job done anyway, what he does on his own time is really none of my business unless it affects his work or job or abilities.
Ok so what if the new PS3 controller has three unbalanced weights in it instead of two? Heeheheheehehehe, Sony beat the system, pwned! Now how about four, five, six, ehehehehehehe, just keep adding unbalanced weights to make it a totally new patent!
See how silly that sounds? Like making a car with five wheels and then saying the four wheel patent does not apply to it.
Possibly, but people would still criticse it for being a Windows type "registry" even if it is searchable text files.
You also could have a reglinux executable file that takes arguments to print out the registry key values on the command line, and can input and output text files for those who need to tweak things via Perl, etc.
There was a cartoon that someone once wrote that had Easy Reader from The Electric Company, a TV show for children on PBS that was educational, say that "print is dead".
Still I find newspapers good for coupon sections, and I like to read stories on paper format over screen format.
Newspapers are slowly being replaced with blogs, and blogs are popular because anyone can write them. The problem is that blogs have no jounralistic standard and don't always check the facts, it is style over substance, and most blogs post contraversial views to get readers. The newspapers tried to compete with blogs, by writing their stories the same way blogs did and not check the facts like they used to like The New York Times. Some newspapers even have their own blogs run by editors.
Radiostations and Cable TV channels already have those type of things, MP3/Real Player files, mobile and laptop designed web pages, etc. It is only a matter of time before a newspaper company catches up, but then could it honestly be called a newspaper company when it is mostly web based?
But what distingises your company from the others? Why would a customer choose your Internet Hosting Company over Yahoo Geocities, Pair.net, GoDaddy, and many others? It would only be because you are filling a need that the others are not filling. Who knows maybe you support PHP, ASP.NET (via Novel Mono), JSP, and Perl for scripting languages and the others do not? Maybe you have a different pricing plan? Maybe you designed an easier to use web based HTML creation program?
I wanted to make the better eCommernce store, but lots of luck, too many people doing that. I wanted to make an ERP program, and a logistics inventory control program better than Wal-Mart uses. Yet doing so would infring upon patents and other companies who had the same ideas as me. So I look for something different, or do those things differently than the others and fill different needs.
While I respect your view and opinion, I disagree with it.
If a program needs to access a text file of another program, how can it find it? Say Firefox wants to load info from OpenOffice.org to open up documents. Is the text file in/var/lib/openoffice.org/etc/openoffice.org/usr/shared/openoffice.org or someplace else?
Accessing a database is not that complex, and a registry library can be written for Linux to access the registry database for you.
I guess:
"SELECT ooo.defaultdocumentdirectory from ooo.OpenOffice_Org INNER JOIN lr.linuxreg ON lr.registry_key = ooo.registry_key WHERE lr.application = 'OpenOffice.org'"
Is just way too complex for you. We could write a library that turns this into a function like so:
Which returns the default document directory of OpenOffice.Org so Firefox knows where to place document files that are downloaded.
Otherwise, where is that special text file located that tells us where the default directory is located and is user configurable and could change at any time?
Mostly cutting edge developers under the age of 30 starting companies up to do what nobody else was doing. They formed Dotcom corporations but had an Underpants Gnomes type Business Model:
#1 Develop cutting edge applications that nobody else are doing.
#2 ?
#3 Profit
If you are going to develop cutting edge programs that nobody else is doing, make sure that there is a market for it. You will find a market for it if it is meeting customers' needs. What you need to do is find needs that nobody else is filling, and design cutting edge programs to fill those needs. Only then will you avoid a Dotcom bubble burst.
There are people who claim they were discrimanted against by that guild for being straight. They don't want their names used, because of harassment, abuse, and threats against them. They have been bullied into keeping quiet.
There are many cases of heterosexual discrimination:
Many heterosexual women are discriminated against for having a heterosexual lifestyle that gets them pregnate and they are fired for it or let go. There are many cases of that. Had they been a lesbian, and only had lesbian relations, and adopted a child, they would not have been let go.
Student is discriminated against for being heterosexual while I admit what he said could be considered offensive and I do not agree with the remarks, he was discriminated against. This led to more discrimination against white male Christian students, even if they do not make comments like that student did. I have found a hostility from some homosexuals towards white male Christians which sometimes leads to discriminations.
Just like his rants in Infoworld and IWETHEY forums, he is short sighted and cannot see the bigger picture. I tried to comment on his rant, only to see that Linuxmafia had removed the ability to comment in an attempt to censor critics of Mr. Petreley.
Anyone who took Information Systems or Computer Science knows that you develop software to the needs of the customers, you don't just tell the customers what they need. If your customers want a software that is easier to use, or works a bit like a Windows counter-part, you develop it for them. Find a need, and fill it. Quite simple.
Take Linspire for example, their success has been that they made Linspire work a lot like Windows does, so much that they have helped switch people over to it. While critics claim that Linspire is a commercial Linux, Linspire did give away free copies via BitTorrents at times, and the install CD costs $50. Linspire has also helped bring Linux to the masses with their $300USD Linux PC sold at discount stores. What has Mr. Petreley done to bring Linux to the masses, over that be a Mad Prophet of Linux who spouts out negative things?
Ever wonder that Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird are popular because they work a bit like Internet Explorer and Outlook/Outlook Express? Why there are even Windows versions of those software programs to help ween users off Windows and onto Linux where they can use the Linux versions of those programs. Novel Mono helps bring a.NET development environment for Linux to help Windows developers use existing code for Windows over to Linux, without having to re-learn a new language.
No, Mr. Petreley, we will help people decide to convert to Linux by meeting their needs, rather than ranting and raving and yelling at them. Your way does not meet their needs.
Take Mac OSX for example, see how it tried to catch up to Microsoft Windows when Mac OS 9.0 and Copeland failed to do so. See how Microsoft tries to make Windows Vista work like OSX. Linux is not the only OS on the block, as Mac OSX now runs on X86 hardware (Apple branded Mactel boxes) which could take marketshare away from Linux.
No rather, Linux needs to evolve in order to adapt to change. Customers are changing to wanting software that is easier to use, and works like Microsoft Windows. Refuse to adapt to change, and risk becoming a dinosaur. Would Mr. Petreley like Linux to become the next Plan 9 type operating system? Different from Windows, but hardly anyone uses it? Don't focus on the negative, but on the positive. If you are not meeting customers' needs, someone else will.
Besides a registry if done right, need not bite us on our behinds. Make it an OSS database based registry on MySQL, Postgres, Firebird, etc. When I developed software I had a fax program that used a most recently used name and number list. The way Microsoft does a registry is a flat file, which is sort of like using an INI or Text file. If I stored 50 names on a file, it took a long time to load and sort them. When I migrated to a database, I was able to use more than 50 names, and was able to load and sort them faster.
Just remember to change the administrative password, take away administrative access from manager accounts, and shut down the servers before doing the walkout.
US Management abuses IT workers and has H1B/L1 Visaed and offshored a lot of IT work putting a lot of native IT workers out of work. Then only paying a fraction of what IT slaries used to be paid, and taking away benfits and forcing native IT workers to work 60 to 80 hours a week with no overtime pay.
Screw them, change the passwords, remove administrator access, and shut down the servers and then leave for a week. See what happens.
Isn't it funny that the phrases "GLBT Friendly" and "GLBT Pride" are actually bigoted and full of hate towards heterosexuals who are not included and called inferior as a result? That they actually try to promote the superiority of GLBT people. Then we have people like you who deny that GLBT discriminate even once against heterosexuals. All I am asking for is equal rights for everyone, not superiority of one group over another just because they are a minority or majority.
If there are sexual oriented chats in the public chatroom, by all means report it to the administrators because children play these games and everyone has access to public chat. Guild chat is different because it is private to the guild, and the guild monitors guild chat.
Did you know that there are discriminations against heterosexuals for jobs, promotions, and even they are fired for being so. That heterosexuals can be sexually harassed by GLBT people as well. That is why sexual oritentation discrimination laws are written for GLBTH people and not just GLBT people. Taking the H out of it, means that it is H Hostile when someone says GLBT Friendly.
Equal rights for everyone, not just selected groups.
So basically what it is, is a rootkit designed to run in a virtual machine (like VMWare, VirtualPC, Bochs, QEMU, etc) that takes root control of the virtual machine, but the host OS is unable to detect the malware because it runs under a virtual machine and not on the host OS itself.
Microsoft had tested code under VMWARE for Linux, and VirtualPC for Windows that allowed them to gain root access to the host OS from the virtual machine, and run the rootkit malware under the virtual machine.
Yet what they are not telling you, is that the virtual machine has to run on the host OS, and that can be detected, even if the malware cannot. If you are really paranoid, just don't run a VMWARE or Virtual PC virtual machine or any other virtual machine, and if you find one on your OS, remove it. The problem with that is that malware scanners will be looking for virtual machine files and suspect them of being malware and warn the user. Besides any virtual machine has to be installed on Linux with root access anyway, and VMWARE Server apparently when I installed it on my Linux box had to compile a part of itself to match my kernel, and asked me to download a few libraries before it would continue. I doubt someone can use VMWARE to install as a regular user on Linux without someone with root access allowing it. Still, Xen is a virtual machine and is becoming popular with Linux, I wonder if it is vulnerable as well?
The whole VM rootkit fails, unless the malware author finds a way to install a VM on a host OS without being detected, and without Root or Administrator access. The only way I can see that happening on Linux and Unix systems is if they use a trojan horse method of making it part of a program the user or administrator wants to install and they use root or administrator access to install it. On Windows it would just use an exploit to get Administrator access.
if there was a hetrosexual friendly guild in the game that discussed hetrosexuality on public chat channels in the same way that GLBT friendly guild and discussing GLBT sexuality on public chat channels?
You would think, under equal rights, that one does not need to say X-Friendly in their guild or chats and just accept everyone equally? Doing so is sort of starting a segigation between groups of people, saying one type they are friendly to, but not mentioning what other types they are friendly to. It makes people get the perception that if you are X-Friendly that you are not Y-Friendly because you did not even mention Y. Sort of like having a company of all GLBT people, and not hiring any Hetrosexuals is still discrimination even if you claim to be GLBT Friendly.
Thanks I was using WinPT via one of those Open Source CDs from the Internet. I am trying to switch to OSS solutions for Windows, and I still use Windows because I support Windows and have programs that only run on Windows. I have a Linux box, but it is mostly a server and it runs my web server, etc.
I tried the latest update and it works now. Only the updated GNUPG does not work with Windows Privacy Tools.
Anyway I have some PGP keys that I cannot revoke and I never set an expire date on them. Since they were not created with OpenPG, I cannot revoke them with GNUPG but I can disable them. Can I upload a disabled key to public key servers and let people know I am not using those keys anymore, or does that only work for revoked keys?
usually in a hard to read font and after 15 or 30 minutes of reading on my computer, I need to take a break and rest my eyes. It is better to print them out and use a binder to bind the pages together and then read it like a book. My college had eBooks and that is what I had to do.
A trick is to print out all the even numbered pages, and then flip the pages upside down and back into the printer and then print out the odd numbered pages. That way I got two sided printings and can save paper than one sided printings with a blank side on each page.
DRM can be beat really easilly using a PDF printer type program like PDF Factory or an OSS PDF printing program. The new PDF file will not have the DRM in it anymore. The Acrobat Reader will think it is printing to a printer and not include the DRM parts.
I tried the Windows version of GNUPG and it refuses to recognize any public or private keys that it generates or that I imported from PGP. I counted on using it after switching to Thunderbird, but GNUPG broke and the updates do not seem to fix it. Maybe it has issues with XP SP2, NTFS or something?
Ah well, maybe I can install it on my Linux machine?
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Way to flame someone. Just create a fake account in the ID of someone who wrote an article, and then point to it and use it as character assasination because you disagree with the article.
I have found that bad hardware or incompatable hardware can cause all sorts of hard to troubleshoot problems. I once had a CD-ROM issue that curropted the Linux install files. I tried many different distros, and one person was kind enough to email me some CDRs with different distros on them. Each one lead to a problem of a different sort of error message. I was called an idiot, et al, because I was unable to get Linux working and I followed all advice I was given. Later I replaced the CD-ROM drive with a brand name one and the install finally worked. Only then did I learn that there was an incompatability problem between Linux and that generic CD-ROM drive I had tried to use, and none of the Linux experts had figured that out or even suspected it. All they could do was bash me, for not being able to get Linux working. So much for the experts, people like that just scare people away from Linux. They'd do better to just STFU when it comes to blame, and just try to figure out what is causing the problem, or just STFU in general and let someone without emotional problems take a shot at it.
I run a Linux web server now, it works great. I found that the Fedora Forums are very good, and they helped me troubleshoot through some network problems that I had when I switched to Fedora. Nobody called me an idiot, et al, there they just took ownership of the problem and figured it out.
out of work, because Vista breaks a lot of software. What software that does run, runs with issues and phones home to Microsoft via Vista's own built in Spyware software that reports errors.
Sure Vista will break Spyware and Anti-Spyware programs from working, until Spyware companies learn how to adapt to the new Vista system. Make no mistake about it, a new API will only break things until people are able to adapt to a new API. Only Spyware companies can adapt the quickest and the best, because of all the money they steal using Spyware which gives it a big return on investment. Software companies won't have much of a ROI because they will be busy troubleshooting the problems that are caused by their rush to market ahead of the others that leads to quick and dirty programming that is sloppy and causes more problems than it fixes. Unlike the spyware companies, they don't have a budget to allow them to properly train programmers and give them the time to do a quality job.
I tried Beta 2 of Windows Vista, and I didn't really find any software that did not have an issue with running on Vista, even Anti-Spyware programs had issues running, and Vista wanted to phone home about that. Plus Vista ran very slow on a 2.4Ghz Pentium 4 system with 512M of RAM, which tells me that only bleeding edge hardware can run it at a decent speed. So much for Vista protection of hardware made in the past few years or so, even if they run Vista, they will run it too slow to really matter anyway.
I do most of my posting under my handle. Yet people with an axe to grind against me have used my real name to post false information about me on the Internet that is searchable via Google. Since I have no control over those web sites, I cannot change them or even reply to them.
So much for free speech, they can say whatever they want about me and get away with it scot-free. If I disagree with people on issues, I am told that I have no right to free speech when they post false info about me on the Internet in reaction to what I have to say.
All kinds of things have been written about me, even some who created false profiles in my real name with false information about me on them. While I was able to get the company who hosted the site that had the false profile on me remove them, Google still has them in its cache. Some of the people against me have written porn fiction stories about me on various forums and scoop sites, and the admins refuse to remove them. Potential employers can scan for that via Google using my real name, and think that I am a porn star or something, because someone wrote a fictational porn story on me. I even got ex-bullies from grade school and high school posting about me and making fun of me on blogs.
Not much I can do, a lot of false information was made about me by jealous ex-coworkers because I had a higher salary than they had. That was mostly due to me doing a better job of programming than they did in quality and analysis and design and research, which co-workers skipped. They reported false information about me, and harassed, abused, and threatened me, until I got sick. Eventually I was fired due to having medical problems and the false claims against me. I asked for proof, but management claimed that they believe rumors. I asked for proof and evidence, and management said they didn't need any. That I was getting too sick to work, and that they could easily replace me with someone who does not get sick because programmers are a dime a dozen.
Then again, I really do not want to work for am employer that believes rumor and gossip over facts and proof anyway. All kinds of things are posted in Google. If I was an employer, I'd trust a search of public records over Google anyway because public records are harder to forge and post falsehoods about anyway. Public records are based on facts and proof, Google is mostly rumor and gossip and sometimes people joke about you. Take anything posted in Google with a grain of salt because there is a lot of fictacious stuff posted to Google that has not been verified, proven, or even based on facts.
If I did a background check on someone and his record came up clean, and Google had a picture of his friend saying he got high in a picture, I'd see that the fact that he was not arrested for drug use would show that the Myspace picture possibly is a joke or fictacious. I'd be more interested in his ability to get the job done anyway, what he does on his own time is really none of my business unless it affects his work or job or abilities.
I am trying to be funny.
Ok so what if the new PS3 controller has three unbalanced weights in it instead of two? Heeheheheehehehe, Sony beat the system, pwned! Now how about four, five, six, ehehehehehehe, just keep adding unbalanced weights to make it a totally new patent!
See how silly that sounds? Like making a car with five wheels and then saying the four wheel patent does not apply to it.
Possibly, but people would still criticse it for being a Windows type "registry" even if it is searchable text files.
/home/peterley/ooo/documents/
You also could have a reglinux executable file that takes arguments to print out the registry key values on the command line, and can input and output text files for those who need to tweak things via Perl, etc.
reglinux -k="OpenOffice.Org" -sk"defaultdocumentdir"
might echo back:
You could also do a:
reglinux -k="OpenOffice.Org" -w -f=/home/peterley/ooo.txt
which writes out a file, which can be modified and then:
reglinux -k="OpenOffice.Org" -r -f=/home/peterley/ooo.txt
read back in to modify the database.
There is also an option to have a Linux program use both a text file and a registry, and have the user specifiy which one to use if they want to.
It is all a matter of programming it to be designed better. Yet if designed correctly, a registry need not be like the Windows registry.
There was a cartoon that someone once wrote that had Easy Reader from The Electric Company, a TV show for children on PBS that was educational, say that "print is dead".
Still I find newspapers good for coupon sections, and I like to read stories on paper format over screen format.
Newspapers are slowly being replaced with blogs, and blogs are popular because anyone can write them. The problem is that blogs have no jounralistic standard and don't always check the facts, it is style over substance, and most blogs post contraversial views to get readers. The newspapers tried to compete with blogs, by writing their stories the same way blogs did and not check the facts like they used to like The New York Times. Some newspapers even have their own blogs run by editors.
Radiostations and Cable TV channels already have those type of things, MP3/Real Player files, mobile and laptop designed web pages, etc. It is only a matter of time before a newspaper company catches up, but then could it honestly be called a newspaper company when it is mostly web based?
But what distingises your company from the others? Why would a customer choose your Internet Hosting Company over Yahoo Geocities, Pair.net, GoDaddy, and many others? It would only be because you are filling a need that the others are not filling. Who knows maybe you support PHP, ASP.NET (via Novel Mono), JSP, and Perl for scripting languages and the others do not? Maybe you have a different pricing plan? Maybe you designed an easier to use web based HTML creation program?
I wanted to make the better eCommernce store, but lots of luck, too many people doing that. I wanted to make an ERP program, and a logistics inventory control program better than Wal-Mart uses. Yet doing so would infring upon patents and other companies who had the same ideas as me. So I look for something different, or do those things differently than the others and fill different needs.
While I respect your view and opinion, I disagree with it.
/var/lib/openoffice.org /etc/openoffice.org /usr/shared/openoffice.org or someplace else?
If a program needs to access a text file of another program, how can it find it? Say Firefox wants to load info from OpenOffice.org to open up documents. Is the text file in
Accessing a database is not that complex, and a registry library can be written for Linux to access the registry database for you.
I guess:
"SELECT ooo.defaultdocumentdirectory from ooo.OpenOffice_Org INNER JOIN lr.linuxreg ON lr.registry_key = ooo.registry_key WHERE lr.application = 'OpenOffice.org'"
Is just way too complex for you. We could write a library that turns this into a function like so:
Linuxreg("OpenOffice.Org", "defaultdocumentdirectory")
Which returns the default document directory of OpenOffice.Org so Firefox knows where to place document files that are downloaded.
Otherwise, where is that special text file located that tells us where the default directory is located and is user configurable and could change at any time?
Mostly cutting edge developers under the age of 30 starting companies up to do what nobody else was doing. They formed Dotcom corporations but had an Underpants Gnomes type Business Model:
#1 Develop cutting edge applications that nobody else are doing.
#2 ?
#3 Profit
If you are going to develop cutting edge programs that nobody else is doing, make sure that there is a market for it. You will find a market for it if it is meeting customers' needs. What you need to do is find needs that nobody else is filling, and design cutting edge programs to fill those needs. Only then will you avoid a Dotcom bubble burst.
there are cutting edge developers over the age of 30, why are they not being covered as well? Yet again, another discrimination issue.
Note, I am a cutting edge developer over the age of 30, and I know of many others as well.
There are people who claim they were discrimanted against by that guild for being straight. They don't want their names used, because of harassment, abuse, and threats against them. They have been bullied into keeping quiet.
There are many cases of heterosexual discrimination:
Heterosexual couples who are not married are not given the same rights as homosexual couples who are not married. The couple lived together in a partnership, like a homosexual couple does, but was denied the same rights given to a homosexual couple.
You will find That laws give all sexial orienations equal rights, even homosexual and heterosexual rights. That is because heterosexuals are discriminated against as well. If you allow Homosexuals to have a civil union/domestic partnership, then you must allow heterosexuals the same right.
In fact unmarried heterosexual couples face a lot of discrimination.
Many heterosexual women are discriminated against for having a heterosexual lifestyle that gets them pregnate and they are fired for it or let go. There are many cases of that. Had they been a lesbian, and only had lesbian relations, and adopted a child, they would not have been let go.
Student is discriminated against for being heterosexual while I admit what he said could be considered offensive and I do not agree with the remarks, he was discriminated against. This led to more discrimination against white male Christian students, even if they do not make comments like that student did. I have found a hostility from some homosexuals towards white male Christians which sometimes leads to discriminations.
People can be fired for being heterosexual or homosexual legally.
Just like his rants in Infoworld and IWETHEY forums, he is short sighted and cannot see the bigger picture. I tried to comment on his rant, only to see that Linuxmafia had removed the ability to comment in an attempt to censor critics of Mr. Petreley.
.NET development environment for Linux to help Windows developers use existing code for Windows over to Linux, without having to re-learn a new language.
Anyone who took Information Systems or Computer Science knows that you develop software to the needs of the customers, you don't just tell the customers what they need. If your customers want a software that is easier to use, or works a bit like a Windows counter-part, you develop it for them. Find a need, and fill it. Quite simple.
Take Linspire for example, their success has been that they made Linspire work a lot like Windows does, so much that they have helped switch people over to it. While critics claim that Linspire is a commercial Linux, Linspire did give away free copies via BitTorrents at times, and the install CD costs $50. Linspire has also helped bring Linux to the masses with their $300USD Linux PC sold at discount stores. What has Mr. Petreley done to bring Linux to the masses, over that be a Mad Prophet of Linux who spouts out negative things?
Ever wonder that Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird are popular because they work a bit like Internet Explorer and Outlook/Outlook Express? Why there are even Windows versions of those software programs to help ween users off Windows and onto Linux where they can use the Linux versions of those programs. Novel Mono helps bring a
No, Mr. Petreley, we will help people decide to convert to Linux by meeting their needs, rather than ranting and raving and yelling at them. Your way does not meet their needs.
Take Mac OSX for example, see how it tried to catch up to Microsoft Windows when Mac OS 9.0 and Copeland failed to do so. See how Microsoft tries to make Windows Vista work like OSX. Linux is not the only OS on the block, as Mac OSX now runs on X86 hardware (Apple branded Mactel boxes) which could take marketshare away from Linux.
No rather, Linux needs to evolve in order to adapt to change. Customers are changing to wanting software that is easier to use, and works like Microsoft Windows. Refuse to adapt to change, and risk becoming a dinosaur. Would Mr. Petreley like Linux to become the next Plan 9 type operating system? Different from Windows, but hardly anyone uses it? Don't focus on the negative, but on the positive. If you are not meeting customers' needs, someone else will.
Besides a registry if done right, need not bite us on our behinds. Make it an OSS database based registry on MySQL, Postgres, Firebird, etc. When I developed software I had a fax program that used a most recently used name and number list. The way Microsoft does a registry is a flat file, which is sort of like using an INI or Text file. If I stored 50 names on a file, it took a long time to load and sort them. When I migrated to a database, I was able to use more than 50 names, and was able to load and sort them faster.
See the bigger picture, learn to grow and evolve.
So then just install a VM on your OS, and only use the VM not the original OS. Then the malware VM cannot install under your VM.
Just remember to change the administrative password, take away administrative access from manager accounts, and shut down the servers before doing the walkout.
US Management abuses IT workers and has H1B/L1 Visaed and offshored a lot of IT work putting a lot of native IT workers out of work. Then only paying a fraction of what IT slaries used to be paid, and taking away benfits and forcing native IT workers to work 60 to 80 hours a week with no overtime pay.
Screw them, change the passwords, remove administrator access, and shut down the servers and then leave for a week. See what happens.
Ah but can VMWARE run under Xen or Virtual PC? What about a homebrew VM that a malware author writes?
As I recall Xen cannot run Windows virtual machines, so it would have to be a Unix type OS running in the VM.
Isn't it funny that the phrases "GLBT Friendly" and "GLBT Pride" are actually bigoted and full of hate towards heterosexuals who are not included and called inferior as a result? That they actually try to promote the superiority of GLBT people. Then we have people like you who deny that GLBT discriminate even once against heterosexuals. All I am asking for is equal rights for everyone, not superiority of one group over another just because they are a minority or majority.
If there are sexual oriented chats in the public chatroom, by all means report it to the administrators because children play these games and everyone has access to public chat. Guild chat is different because it is private to the guild, and the guild monitors guild chat.
Did you know that there are discriminations against heterosexuals for jobs, promotions, and even they are fired for being so. That heterosexuals can be sexually harassed by GLBT people as well. That is why sexual oritentation discrimination laws are written for GLBTH people and not just GLBT people. Taking the H out of it, means that it is H Hostile when someone says GLBT Friendly.
Equal rights for everyone, not just selected groups.
So basically what it is, is a rootkit designed to run in a virtual machine (like VMWare, VirtualPC, Bochs, QEMU, etc) that takes root control of the virtual machine, but the host OS is unable to detect the malware because it runs under a virtual machine and not on the host OS itself.
Microsoft had tested code under VMWARE for Linux, and VirtualPC for Windows that allowed them to gain root access to the host OS from the virtual machine, and run the rootkit malware under the virtual machine.
Yet what they are not telling you, is that the virtual machine has to run on the host OS, and that can be detected, even if the malware cannot. If you are really paranoid, just don't run a VMWARE or Virtual PC virtual machine or any other virtual machine, and if you find one on your OS, remove it. The problem with that is that malware scanners will be looking for virtual machine files and suspect them of being malware and warn the user. Besides any virtual machine has to be installed on Linux with root access anyway, and VMWARE Server apparently when I installed it on my Linux box had to compile a part of itself to match my kernel, and asked me to download a few libraries before it would continue. I doubt someone can use VMWARE to install as a regular user on Linux without someone with root access allowing it. Still, Xen is a virtual machine and is becoming popular with Linux, I wonder if it is vulnerable as well?
The whole VM rootkit fails, unless the malware author finds a way to install a VM on a host OS without being detected, and without Root or Administrator access. The only way I can see that happening on Linux and Unix systems is if they use a trojan horse method of making it part of a program the user or administrator wants to install and they use root or administrator access to install it. On Windows it would just use an exploit to get Administrator access.
if there was a hetrosexual friendly guild in the game that discussed hetrosexuality on public chat channels in the same way that GLBT friendly guild and discussing GLBT sexuality on public chat channels?
You would think, under equal rights, that one does not need to say X-Friendly in their guild or chats and just accept everyone equally? Doing so is sort of starting a segigation between groups of people, saying one type they are friendly to, but not mentioning what other types they are friendly to. It makes people get the perception that if you are X-Friendly that you are not Y-Friendly because you did not even mention Y. Sort of like having a company of all GLBT people, and not hiring any Hetrosexuals is still discrimination even if you claim to be GLBT Friendly.
Thanks I was using WinPT via one of those Open Source CDs from the Internet. I am trying to switch to OSS solutions for Windows, and I still use Windows because I support Windows and have programs that only run on Windows. I have a Linux box, but it is mostly a server and it runs my web server, etc.
I'll give GPGShell a try, thanks again.
I tried the latest update and it works now. Only the updated GNUPG does not work with Windows Privacy Tools.
Anyway I have some PGP keys that I cannot revoke and I never set an expire date on them. Since they were not created with OpenPG, I cannot revoke them with GNUPG but I can disable them. Can I upload a disabled key to public key servers and let people know I am not using those keys anymore, or does that only work for revoked keys?
usually in a hard to read font and after 15 or 30 minutes of reading on my computer, I need to take a break and rest my eyes. It is better to print them out and use a binder to bind the pages together and then read it like a book. My college had eBooks and that is what I had to do.
A trick is to print out all the even numbered pages, and then flip the pages upside down and back into the printer and then print out the odd numbered pages. That way I got two sided printings and can save paper than one sided printings with a blank side on each page.
DRM can be beat really easilly using a PDF printer type program like PDF Factory or an OSS PDF printing program. The new PDF file will not have the DRM in it anymore. The Acrobat Reader will think it is printing to a printer and not include the DRM parts.
Are those the same kids that you could fool by saying your IP address is 127.0.0.1 and challenging them to hack it or DDoS it offline?
"If you are so Elite, hack me at IP address 127.0.0.1, punk!"
Then laugh as their IRC connection goes dead as they plug that IP into their scripts used for attacking.
I tried the Windows version of GNUPG and it refuses to recognize any public or private keys that it generates or that I imported from PGP. I counted on using it after switching to Thunderbird, but GNUPG broke and the updates do not seem to fix it. Maybe it has issues with XP SP2, NTFS or something?
Ah well, maybe I can install it on my Linux machine?