Companies do things all the time "just for the good of it." That's why they participate in Charities, that's why they offer customer support which makes them no money. In their books they can actually valuate this as "GoodWill" which increases the value of their company and thus increases shareholder value.
Yes, all the other companies jumped on the same bandwagon as you say. -- However the rest are following through with their words. -- Dell is not, and Dell made a bigger fanfare than any of the other big computer makers and never did one single thing except put a page on their site that rarely worked.
And don't worry, this "naive person" stopped buying, recommending, and supporting Dell a year ago. The "bottom line" for me is not just to stop buying their products, I also have the right to tell others why they should stop being Dell zealots and get a clue as to what this company is really all about --> making Michael Dell rich.
First they jumped on the almighty Linux bandwagon a few years ago, claimed open source this and that, but in reality they never did anything to help the cause.
In fact, when they were selling linux on machines you could configure two exact systems - one with linux and one with windows, and the windows box was always around $200 less than the same linux box! It makes economic sense to buy the window box then wipe the drive and install your own linux. No wonder they had no demand.
Dell does not give a sh*t about their customers, their employees, or GNU/Linux.
My bad, mis-read the small b for a big b on the box.
But still 400 Mbps / 8 bits = 50 MBps Firewire PCMCIA card is still much faster on the laptop than the 20 MBps PCMCIA card, and half the price to boot.
On a laptop the difference is even higher, since the fastest SCSI PCMCIA adapter you can get is the Adaptec SlimSCSI 1480 at $150 with throughput only 20 MBps vs. the firewire at less than $100 for a PCMCIA card.
Also you can daisy-chain 60 peripherials with firewire vs. 8 with SCSI.
It addresses the problems, but says that there is not yet a good solution.
The 25 year anniversary edition has a lot of extra updated information that basically says not much has changed over the 25 years since the problems were originally addressed.
The real problem starts when a project gets delayed, and none of the developers are willing to tell any other entities because of pride, ego, etc.
So the marketing people keep preparing for product launch, or the sales people are selling vapor-ware, or the support people are saying the fix is 'right around the corner' and the customers and end-users are screaming for their software all because the developers did not update them on the timing.
Ultimately the project will be released too soon because of the lack of communication and the bugs will cause another rapid release, and the cycle continues.
And yes I do believe that X-Programming addresses these problems the best.
Reiser4, which says to be released Sep 30, 2002 will support plugins to the file system for things like ACL's, compression, and yes encryption. Looks like a great concept.
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JDEE, the Java Development Environment for Emacs has auto-complete built-in to it.
Many other programming modes for Emacs have the same thing.
I agree, they started the
Secure Windows Initiative [zdnet.com] 6 months ago -- and how many people here knew it would be a nothing done , status quoe marketing ploy that ultimately would lead to another disaster such as Code Red and Nimda.
No need to download. It's called Microsoft Windows and the infamous NSA implanted key.
Just think how bad it would hurt Microsoft if it got out that they have been planting this for years into Windows. That's what the government is worried about, not that they have a program that captures keystrokes.
These laws and corporations are getting more and more screwed up. However, I would say that if they start charging "copying tax" for CD-R media then it would legitamize the act of downloading any song you want at will and burning them to a CD-R because you already paid for the act of doing burning the music when you bought the CD-R.
IANAL. It wouldn't be considered illegal under copyright law. However, it could be considered a trademark violation because it is "purposely misleading" people from a site that I am assuming has trademarks.
Isn't this why M$ pulled the Smart Tags feature?
Mythical Man Month has been posted, but for some of the oldtimers out there who read this many years ago - there is a 2nd Ed. [1995] that came out for the 20 year anniversary. Reading it again.
A lot of/.'ers have mentioned security issues, and that tux has no valid uses.
However, this is a perfect solution for embedded or Linux running on a CD-ROM. Look at ThinkNIC, they use the fast boa webserver to locally serve the "desktop" of the NIC. The faster and small footprint the better in this situation.
If tux is bound only to the local loopback and is only serving local pages fast, then there are no security issues.
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Imagine a beowulf cluster of cloned me's.
>> and I, being a marketing person, would say
Nuff said.
I hope your Dell telephone sales are better this holiday season. Oops, your phone's ringing, better get back to work.
Companies do things all the time "just for the good of it." That's why they participate in Charities, that's why they offer customer support which makes them no money. In their books they can actually valuate this as "GoodWill" which increases the value of their company and thus increases shareholder value.
Yes, all the other companies jumped on the same bandwagon as you say. -- However the rest are following through with their words. -- Dell is not, and Dell made a bigger fanfare than any of the other big computer makers and never did one single thing except put a page on their site that rarely worked.
And don't worry, this "naive person" stopped buying, recommending, and supporting Dell a year ago. The "bottom line" for me is not just to stop buying their products, I also have the right to tell others why they should stop being Dell zealots and get a clue as to what this company is really all about --> making Michael Dell rich.
Dell has been losing face for a while IMHO.
First they jumped on the almighty Linux bandwagon a few years ago, claimed open source this and that, but in reality they never did anything to help the cause.
In fact, when they were selling linux on machines you could configure two exact systems - one with linux and one with windows, and the windows box was always around $200 less than the same linux box! It makes economic sense to buy the window box then wipe the drive and install your own linux. No wonder they had no demand.
Dell does not give a sh*t about their customers, their employees, or GNU/Linux.
My bad, mis-read the small b for a big b on the box.
But still 400 Mbps / 8 bits = 50 MBps Firewire PCMCIA card is still much faster on the laptop than the 20 MBps PCMCIA card, and half the price to boot.
400 MBps for firewire vs. 160 MBps for SCSI.
On a laptop the difference is even higher, since the fastest SCSI PCMCIA adapter you can get is the Adaptec SlimSCSI 1480 at $150 with throughput only 20 MBps vs. the firewire at less than $100 for a PCMCIA card.
Also you can daisy-chain 60 peripherials with firewire vs. 8 with SCSI.
D*mn-it! Now you tell me about this setting. I had been going into the code and disabling the nag. That got old quick.
For the last month or so it has been popping up in the background, so I have not worried about it too much, though.
Hint: Next time check the mailing lists. Not deja.
It addresses the problems, but says that there is not yet a good solution.
The 25 year anniversary edition has a lot of extra updated information that basically says not much has changed over the 25 years since the problems were originally addressed.
The real problem starts when a project gets delayed, and none of the developers are willing to tell any other entities because of pride, ego, etc.
So the marketing people keep preparing for product launch, or the sales people are selling vapor-ware, or the support people are saying the fix is 'right around the corner' and the customers and end-users are screaming for their software all because the developers did not update them on the timing.
Ultimately the project will be released too soon because of the lack of communication and the bugs will cause another rapid release, and the cycle continues.
And yes I do believe that X-Programming addresses these problems the best.
Reiser4, which says to be released Sep 30, 2002 will support plugins to the file system for things like ACL's, compression, and yes encryption. Looks like a great concept.
JDEE, the Java Development Environment for Emacs has auto-complete built-in to it.
Many other programming modes for Emacs have the same thing.
Paying taxes are actually written in federal law as voluntary. But we know what happens if you don't pay.
You can get desktop icons and a trashcan in icewm by running
.xinitrc file right before starting icewm. I assume the same type of setup can be done with nautilus, although never tried.
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in your
I agree, they started the Secure Windows Initiative [zdnet.com] 6 months ago -- and how many people here knew it would be a nothing done , status quoe marketing ploy that ultimately would lead to another disaster such as Code Red and Nimda.
.Net? .Not me.
Who is ever going to trust
No need to download. It's called Microsoft Windows and the infamous NSA implanted key.
Just think how bad it would hurt Microsoft if it got out that they have been planting this for years into Windows. That's what the government is worried about, not that they have a program that captures keystrokes.
These laws and corporations are getting more and more screwed up. However, I would say that if they start charging "copying tax" for CD-R media then it would legitamize the act of downloading any song you want at will and burning them to a CD-R because you already paid for the act of doing burning the music when you bought the CD-R.
This is an excellent suggestion© You're not changing any files but an alert will pop-up warning them of the virus©
Mod this parent up©
In reality, the people who are infected are probably also dumb enough to have port 139 open to where you could send the `net send©©©' directly to their IP and technically never touch their machine©
IANAL. It wouldn't be considered illegal under copyright law. However, it could be considered a trademark violation because it is "purposely misleading" people from a site that I am assuming has trademarks. Isn't this why M$ pulled the Smart Tags feature?
Mythical Man Month has been posted, but for some of the oldtimers out there who read this many years ago - there is a 2nd Ed. [1995] that came out for the 20 year anniversary. Reading it again.
A lot of /.'ers have mentioned security issues, and that tux has no valid uses.
However, this is a perfect solution for embedded or Linux running on a CD-ROM. Look at ThinkNIC, they use the fast boa webserver to locally serve the "desktop" of the NIC. The faster and small footprint the better in this situation.
If tux is bound only to the local loopback and is only serving local pages fast, then there are no security issues.