The way things are developing right now in Venezuela, in a couple months we'll have no electricity to power our violent video games anyway.
It's another violation of our rights, but it'll have to take the back seat while we deal with the hijacked supreme court, the lack of separation of powers, 12000+ violent deaths a year, the constants attacks on freedom on speech and the money unlawfully gifted by Chavez to foreign countries while lobbying for its revolution and the 21'st century socialism, and estimated over 50 billion dollars.
This could be called my two cents, but being in Venezuela I can't exchange local to foreign currency freely, another right violation that's 6 years old and counting.
How can you trust an election when Jorge Rodriguez, the president of the "National Voting Council" (You know, the people that counts the votes) is named vide-president of Venezuela, less than a month after the much disputed elections that reelected Chavez as a president. Talk about a conflict of interests / Lack of ethics.
Add that to the facts like the thousands of irregularities on the voters register http://infovenezuela.org/cap3_en_5.htm and you have at there goes the credibility of this government.
Google Earth has already been ported to MacOsX http://dl.google.com/earth/GoogleEarthMac.dmg, so I think that it would be quite possible to port it to Linux. Don't know how they do the HTML rendering on the Mac though.
We did something similar at my office, but redirected the pages to a 1x1 pixel transparent image. That way the frames just appear blank and the user does not get the error pages.
Glad to see we agree in several things, however...
1) Not possible, must use it to access Windowsupdate itself, for example. Even if you are not using it as your browser (which is good practice), it's the foundation for several OS features, and more to come. 2) Agree, I might, however, end users (grampa, random office guy, etc.) are not likely to do that. 3) 1. 4) Agree. 5) Again agree, not that bad on your desktop, in servers mean you have to work one nights or weekend:S 6) Agree, some might say you still have more control to remove or don't install components on other OS's. 7) Not critical, but coming from a company that has such a high position in the market, you might expect more. 8)... 9) Between windows and other server OS's for example, or windows and other types of clients. -MS discontinued MAPI support in Office mac, depending only on webdav, that offers limited functionality, and that's between two MS products. -SMB Support in samba (used by Linux, MacOS, Commercial UNIX, etc) is reverse engineered, and even though it works great, often breaks with new features, until they catch up (without any documentation, again) like encrypted SMB with 2003 server. 10) Again, I might not use any, but companies shell out big $$ every couple of years for that. 11) Agree, but they should stop comparing competing products that already exist with the ones they plan to release in 2 years, it just makes them look bad.
1, Ad-ware / Spyware. 2, Virus, worms, Trojans, etc. 3, Web browser components running in kernel mode (means more 1 and 2). 4, Difficulty to use non-privileged accounts for regular use. 5, Too much patches that require reboot. 6, Bloat. 7, Slow development model that still has not delivered simple things as a tabbed browser, or other already available features. 8, Obscene licensing terms (Ever read your EULA?). 9, Crappy interoperability because of the lack of documentation, hidden apis, "embrace and extend" model and obscure development. 10, 100$+ price tag, 50$ + renewal for antivirus, not even a basic office suite (add more $$)... 11, Stall of innovation (Only improvals to XP in the last 4 years have been a software firewall, update downloader app, support for DEP and a lot of bug-fixes. New features are hyped constantly but still remain at a very distant future, like WinFS)
So, yes, while I can and do keep several XP's machines running smoothly, it's too time consuming, very expensive (worst in enterprise environments) and definitely not worth the hassle.
While MS has made a lot of improvements in stability, and it's still capitalizing previous successes in the enterprise market (Active Directory for example, is a great product), they still have a long way to go before they accept their own weak spots and do something about it (if they ever do).
The way I see it, people could pay comparable amounts and use a superior platform and OS, or they could go with a cheaper (even free) option, and still have competitive features/performance while always getting a more secure and more dependable scenario (means no more sunday mornings cleaning parents PC, or less I.T. staff doing support only tasks).
Why would they, having their hardware listed there (properly listed) would save them a ton of tech support calls and mail from people who cant get it to work in linux.
As an actual Venezuelan (nationality AND residence) I'd have to admit being both surprised and offended that you refer to the actual administration as a democracy.
No flamewars intended, just a word about how easy is to play devil's advocate from a few hudred miles away.
The are my two cents. Which I'll have to owe you, since in my country the freedom to buy foreign currency is banned since february 5, 2003.
Further, according to The Xbox Linux Project, users who do not have an Xbox Live account may find themselves being patched without permission as well. If a gamer tries to access any part of a game that uses Xbox Live, the console can 'phone home' and install the patches anyway. While patching bugs can be a nice touch to poor software, I don't know if I feel comfortable with ANYONE installing software on my hardware without asking permission first."
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The way things are developing right now in Venezuela, in a couple months we'll have no electricity to power our violent video games anyway.
It's another violation of our rights, but it'll have to take the back seat while we deal with the hijacked supreme court, the lack of separation of powers, 12000+ violent deaths a year, the constants attacks on freedom on speech and the money unlawfully gifted by Chavez to foreign countries while lobbying for its revolution and the 21'st century socialism, and estimated over 50 billion dollars.
This could be called my two cents, but being in Venezuela I can't exchange local to foreign currency freely, another right violation that's 6 years old and counting.
How can you trust an election when Jorge Rodriguez, the president of the "National Voting Council" (You know, the people that counts the votes) is named vide-president of Venezuela, less than a month after the much disputed elections that reelected Chavez as a president. Talk about a conflict of interests / Lack of ethics.
Add that to the facts like the thousands of irregularities on the voters register http://infovenezuela.org/cap3_en_5.htm and you have at there goes the credibility of this government.
Google Earth has already been ported to MacOsX http://dl.google.com/earth/GoogleEarthMac.dmg, so I think that it would be quite possible to port it to Linux. Don't know how they do the HTML rendering on the Mac though.
Also useful for this purpose, arping (arp ping utility) that also allows you to probe mac addresses directly.
http://www.habets.pp.se/synscan/programs.php
We did something similar at my office, but redirected the pages to a 1x1 pixel transparent image. That way the frames just appear blank and the user does not get the error pages.
Totally!, as wrong as using free software with a 10.000$ server. Oh! wait...
Check out PfSense, originally based off M0n0wall, I've found it to have the best balance between features, stability and ease of use.
Right now it offers both Live CD or HD install option, and it's nearing a stable (1.0) release, try it...
http://www.pfsense.com/
Glad to see we agree in several things, however...
:S ...
1) Not possible, must use it to access Windowsupdate itself, for example. Even if you are not using it as your browser (which is good practice), it's the foundation for several OS features, and more to come.
2) Agree, I might, however, end users (grampa, random office guy, etc.) are not likely to do that.
3) 1.
4) Agree.
5) Again agree, not that bad on your desktop, in servers mean you have to work one nights or weekend
6) Agree, some might say you still have more control to remove or don't install components on other OS's.
7) Not critical, but coming from a company that has such a high position in the market, you might expect more.
8)
9) Between windows and other server OS's for example, or windows and other types of clients.
-MS discontinued MAPI support in Office mac, depending only on webdav, that offers limited functionality, and that's between two MS products.
-SMB Support in samba (used by Linux, MacOS, Commercial UNIX, etc) is reverse engineered, and even though it works great, often breaks with new features, until they catch up (without any documentation, again) like encrypted SMB with 2003 server.
10) Again, I might not use any, but companies shell out big $$ every couple of years for that.
11) Agree, but they should stop comparing competing products that already exist with the ones they plan to release in 2 years, it just makes them look bad.
OK,
1, Ad-ware / Spyware.
2, Virus, worms, Trojans, etc.
3, Web browser components running in kernel mode (means more 1 and 2).
4, Difficulty to use non-privileged accounts for regular use.
5, Too much patches that require reboot.
6, Bloat.
7, Slow development model that still has not delivered simple things as a tabbed browser, or other already available features.
8, Obscene licensing terms (Ever read your EULA?).
9, Crappy interoperability because of the lack of documentation, hidden apis, "embrace and extend" model and obscure development.
10, 100$+ price tag, 50$ + renewal for antivirus, not even a basic office suite (add more $$)...
11, Stall of innovation (Only improvals to XP in the last 4 years have been a software firewall, update downloader app, support for DEP and a lot of bug-fixes. New features are hyped constantly but still remain at a very distant future, like WinFS)
So, yes, while I can and do keep several XP's machines running smoothly, it's too time consuming, very expensive (worst in enterprise environments) and definitely not worth the hassle.
While MS has made a lot of improvements in stability, and it's still capitalizing previous successes in the enterprise market (Active Directory for example, is a great product), they still have a long way to go before they accept their own weak spots and do something about it (if they ever do).
The way I see it, people could pay comparable amounts and use a superior platform and OS, or they could go with a cheaper (even free) option, and still have competitive features/performance while always getting a more secure and more dependable scenario (means no more sunday mornings cleaning parents PC, or less I.T. staff doing support only tasks).
Who cares? does it play ogg?????
Why would they, having their hardware listed there (properly listed) would save them a ton of tech support calls and mail from people who cant get it to work in linux.
to control your sites transfer limit. ;)
The great thing about Google calculator is that you barely need to know math to use it ;).
BTW, is it google or Google
Well, just and extremely vague advise for your extremely vague problem description.
Try installing linux again, just do it right this time.
hehe, I just pictured a purple hamster in my mind...
As an actual Venezuelan (nationality AND residence) I'd have to admit being both surprised and offended that you refer to the actual administration as a democracy.
No flamewars intended, just a word about how easy is to play devil's advocate from a few hudred miles away.
The are my two cents. Which I'll have to owe you, since in my country the freedom to buy foreign currency is banned since february 5, 2003.
Why not?