It only makes sense that 98 is still widely used, as upgrading to 2K/XP costs more than my mother-in-law is willing to spend on the stuff that lets her read her email... I ran 98SE for *years* before switching to Linux, and for John Q. Homeuser who has AOL and doesn't use the internet for anything more than checking local movie start times and ordering flowers for his wife's birthday, it's enough.
the only thing worse than a jpg background on a page is a *tiled* jpg background on a page (and invariably it's some candid of Johnny Depp or a picture of somebody's dog wearing a sweater and mittens or something...)
i think the "learning curve" for using apps like kazaa and naptser is much lower (and much more highly publicized) than regular downloads via http. and with more publicity comes (naturally) a larger number of users, and subsequently, a larger number of files being downloaded. the RIAA was probably able to deal with a small amount of "piracy" the same way a software company would be (since it's just the nature of the business). but once P2P gained international notoriety and everybody and their 12-year-old cousin got broadband, a cd burner, and kazaa, the number of files and instances of filesharing shot right past the "acceptable" level
did somebody buy a 100gb drive with the intent of using EVERY LAST BYTE of it when they realized it actually works out to a touch less? if i tell somebody it's 100 degrees outside and it's actually 97, it's HOT.
so what if somebody develops a way to decrease boot time by half? it's not like it takes 3 hours!!
booting up in 2 minutes instead of 4 is somewhere near that bitchin' clear case mod on my list of priorites, honestly...
My eyes never roll back as far as they do when I hear about somebody complaining about "racial profiling". Apparently, these people forgot that all 19 of the 9/11 hijackers were young, middle-eastern men, so that's who they should be looking at the closest (aaaand duh).
i'm almost more afraid of the PC fanatics than i am of the religious fanatics, since the former seems to be trying it's damndest to make sure the latter don't feel obstructed when carrying out their "missions".
whether it's a (perceived) good idea or not is irrelevant. if the companies don't want third-party clients connecting to a network that they own, that's their decision. all it would do is drive more folks to jabber anyway, don't we want to support free and open standards? (most of us, anyway...)
Michael Moore seems to have hit it on the head about the U.S. news organizations jumping from remote possibility to remote possibility getting everybody as scared shitless as they can. film at 11.
shouldn't there be a time frame given for how long it will take you to learn? how the hell am i supposed to give my client an accurate lead time if i can't tell him (10 Minutes | 24 Hours | 21 Days)!?!?
while i'm all about microsoft taking it in the shorts, who cares about a free copy of lindows? it's a proprietary piece of software (not that being proprietary is necessarily a bad thing), and, um, linux is free?
it's almost like buying fake dog shit when i've got a perfectly healthy dog producing the real thing every day before lunch...
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They got rid of the old guy with his knee that "acts up" right before an earthquake?
It only makes sense that 98 is still widely used, as upgrading to 2K/XP costs more than my mother-in-law is willing to spend on the stuff that lets her read her email...
I ran 98SE for *years* before switching to Linux, and for John Q. Homeuser who has AOL and doesn't use the internet for anything more than checking local movie start times and ordering flowers for his wife's birthday, it's enough.
Yahoo *still runs on it* :)
the only thing worse than a jpg background on a page is a *tiled* jpg background on a page (and invariably it's some candid of Johnny Depp or a picture of somebody's dog wearing a sweater and mittens or something...)
i think the "learning curve" for using apps like kazaa and naptser is much lower (and much more highly publicized) than regular downloads via http. and with more publicity comes (naturally) a larger number of users, and subsequently, a larger number of files being downloaded. the RIAA was probably able to deal with a small amount of "piracy" the same way a software company would be (since it's just the nature of the business). but once P2P gained international notoriety and everybody and their 12-year-old cousin got broadband, a cd burner, and kazaa, the number of files and instances of filesharing shot right past the "acceptable" level
did somebody buy a 100gb drive with the intent of using EVERY LAST BYTE of it when they realized it actually works out to a touch less? if i tell somebody it's 100 degrees outside and it's actually 97, it's HOT.
people need to get a life, seriously...
so what if somebody develops a way to decrease boot time by half? it's not like it takes 3 hours!!
booting up in 2 minutes instead of 4 is somewhere near that bitchin' clear case mod on my list of priorites, honestly...
if you can't beat 'em, pretend you want to be friends so you don't look as bad (and hopefully they'll let you in on a small piece of the pie)
My eyes never roll back as far as they do when I hear about somebody complaining about "racial profiling". Apparently, these people forgot that all 19 of the 9/11 hijackers were young, middle-eastern men, so that's who they should be looking at the closest (aaaand duh).
i'm almost more afraid of the PC fanatics than i am of the religious fanatics, since the former seems to be trying it's damndest to make sure the latter don't feel obstructed when carrying out their "missions".
whether it's a (perceived) good idea or not is irrelevant. if the companies don't want third-party clients connecting to a network that they own, that's their decision. all it would do is drive more folks to jabber anyway, don't we want to support free and open standards? (most of us, anyway...)
Michael Moore seems to have hit it on the head about the U.S. news organizations jumping from remote possibility to remote possibility getting everybody as scared shitless as they can. film at 11.
you forget free snow cones for the kids
shouldn't there be a time frame given for how long it will take you to learn? how the hell am i supposed to give my client an accurate lead time if i can't tell him (10 Minutes | 24 Hours | 21 Days)!?!?
:)
what a crock...
/me whips out brainfuck, all flee in terror
sadly, you're probably right (in most cases)
while i'm all about microsoft taking it in the shorts, who cares about a free copy of lindows? it's a proprietary piece of software (not that being proprietary is necessarily a bad thing), and, um, linux is free?
it's almost like buying fake dog shit when i've got a perfectly healthy dog producing the real thing every day before lunch...
i smell something SCO-ish brewing here...
/me watches RedHat, Debian, Gentoo, and Slack all play pin-the-tail-on-the-distro and take turns swinging at the "lynched bill" pinata...
am i the only one getting a distinct "for dummies" vibe off of this book?
no comment on the book itself, it's just that "head-first" seems like it could very easily be the next "complete idiot's guide"...
dude, somebody mod that post up... /me almost fell from his chair
Red Hat uses python in it's installer (anaconda, iirc)
the government is going to tell the public anything they don't want to. period.
we'll only know what they want us to and that's pretty much that, "declassified" documents or not...
that's great and all, but if i can't have my AWT, forget it...
it's ok, just about everybody here would choke (no, NOT the chicken - that's later) if she showed up at their front door...
i can't even imagine what a nightmare it'd be getting that thing wired for cable...