I have been using Mandrake 8.0 for about six monthes now (first Linux install) and I have not needed to go to the command line for anything. I am not a particularly great computer person, but other than learning the whole mount unmount floppy disk disaster (what dya mean I can't just put the disk in the drive?). The transition from windows has been pretty smooth. Using gnome the menus are all in the same place (almost) as they were with windows, useing star office is almost exactly the same as using MSOffice, the Gimp does my phot editing easier than photoshop ever did. Abd contrary toevery thing I have heard every thing just worked straight out of the box with less fuss than trying to get it to work on my hideously boken windows partition.
I actualy live in Oxnard, and my father is a farmer. My family has known the folks at Aspen as long as I can remeber. I am also pretty familiar with GPS's and Helicopters.
one more thing I am familiar with; Anacapa Island, and I just can't see how GPS would help with this job. Anacapa is little more than a rock that juts out of the ocean about 14 miles off the coast of California, you can see it from anywhere in ventura county that has a clear view of the ocean.The island is broken up into 3 smaller islands each not much larger than a couple of hundred yards. Any sufficently detailed map should be all you would need to precisley dump your poison.
1st off yes I run a horribly outdated machine built from the cast off bin at my work (hey this hard drive has only been running in a web server for two years!) , but hey I am a student and if I could afford better I would have better.
2nd yes that is what that program is doing _right_now_ the concern was raised earlier that it could change what it does once it recieves some sort of ping from a master server. I don't find that to be an unreasonable concern this thing could incubate for years before it does this,(version 1.0 dosn't log what about 1.1?)
Of course as long as I am being hyper paranoid how do I know other programs aren't already logging my keystrokes. Well I guess I don't but I sure as hell will not add a program that I know does.
You know this might be the first _good_ stupid patent.
There are few things I dislike more than having some stupid piece of flash animation sent to me by email, or wore notification of said flash animation.
If this Patent stops webisites from getting my mom to send me anymore dancing hamsters, or singing chiefs I will be only too happy.
Um dood did you forget that patents expire after 20 years so your g-g-g-grandfathers patent would only have mattered until 1822.
and even then it would only matter to prostitutes who were breaking the law anyways.
or maybe I didn't get the joke
We won't get much anti Red Hat from this for a number of reasons.
1. This is red hat here and not M$, Red Hat rarely gets bashed here.
2.Red Hat isn't trying to cop out of punishment for abusing a monopoly.
3. I think most people see this for what it is. It is a grab for publicity by calling M$'s bluff on giving money "to the Children". This puts M$ in an uncomfortable position of exposing their true intentions or blowing off the Red Hat deal alltogether.
I would like to see this come together, but I know it won't
I Feel bad replying to such an obvious troll, but now, despite all that has happened, is the time to protect our rights with greater vigalance than ever before.
This includes things that are minor and trivial, and if building a lego model or playing D&D helps bring a sense of normalness back to my life, then it is a step twords undoing the damage done by the terrorists on 9/11.
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I have been using Mandrake 8.0 for about six monthes now (first Linux install) and I have not needed to go to the command line for anything. I am not a particularly great computer person, but other than learning the whole mount unmount floppy disk disaster (what dya mean I can't just put the disk in the drive?). The transition from windows has been pretty smooth. Using gnome the menus are all in the same place (almost) as they were with windows, useing star office is almost exactly the same as using MSOffice, the Gimp does my phot editing easier than photoshop ever did.
Abd contrary toevery thing I have heard every thing just worked straight out of the box with less fuss than trying to get it to work on my hideously boken windows partition.
Ok now I will go back in my corner and shut up
I actualy live in Oxnard, and my father is a farmer. My family has known the folks at Aspen as long as I can remeber.
I am also pretty familiar with GPS's and Helicopters.
one more thing I am familiar with; Anacapa Island, and I just can't see how GPS would help with this job. Anacapa is little more than a rock that juts out of the ocean about 14 miles off the coast of California, you can see it from anywhere in ventura county that has a clear view of the ocean.The island is broken up into 3 smaller islands each not much larger than a couple of hundred yards. Any sufficently detailed map should be all you would need to precisley dump your poison.
1st off yes I run a horribly outdated machine built from the cast off bin at my work (hey this hard drive has only been running in a web server for two years!) , but hey I am a student and if I could afford better I would have better.
2nd yes that is what that program is doing _right_now_ the concern was raised earlier that it could change what it does once it recieves some sort of ping from a master server. I don't find that to be an unreasonable concern this thing could incubate for years before it does this,(version 1.0 dosn't log what about 1.1?)
Of course as long as I am being hyper paranoid how do I know other programs aren't already logging my keystrokes. Well I guess I don't but I sure as hell will not add a program that I know does.
but that doesn't make me trust them. While it's all well and good that they have this privacy policy, do they actualy follow it?
Without running a packet sniffer how would you know?
How do I know they won't change their policy once things get going without telling me? (like thats never happened)
This is way to big a security risk to even think of installing on my box, not to mention a waste of precious CPU cycles
You know this might be the first _good_ stupid patent.
There are few things I dislike more than having some stupid piece of flash animation sent to me by email, or wore notification of said flash animation.
If this Patent stops webisites from getting my mom to send me anymore dancing hamsters, or singing chiefs I will be only too happy.
Next up I want someone to Patent SPAM
Um dood did you forget that patents expire after 20 years so your g-g-g-grandfathers patent would only have mattered until 1822.
and even then it would only matter to prostitutes who were breaking the law anyways.
or maybe I didn't get the joke
We won't get much anti Red Hat from this for a number of reasons.
1. This is red hat here and not M$, Red Hat rarely gets bashed here.
2.Red Hat isn't trying to cop out of punishment for abusing a monopoly.
3. I think most people see this for what it is. It is a grab for publicity by calling M$'s bluff on giving money "to the Children". This puts M$ in an uncomfortable position of exposing their true intentions or blowing off the Red Hat deal alltogether.
I would like to see this come together, but I know it won't
This includes things that are minor and trivial, and if building a lego model or playing D&D helps bring a sense of normalness back to my life, then it is a step twords undoing the damage done by the terrorists on 9/11.
Nate