I think you're hopelessly misguided if you believe nobody cares. The Times has one of the largest readerships in the world, and if you look at who is included, you'll see some interesting things, like:
A New York Times reader is about 36% more likely than the average affluent head of household to hold a college or postgraduate degree; 34% more likely to have a household income exceeding $100,000 and is 49% more likely to be a top manager.
These are the people who can actually do something about introducing linux into a company. Remember, there's no such thing as bad publicity, so if you even just make them aware that alternatives exist, that's a start. Providing a positive review is just bonus.
I might mention (though you probably know already), that it's not just the website that said it: the site is just a mirror for the actual print edition. It was kind of neat to flip through the paper and see a linux advocacy right in the middle of the editorials. I'd imagine the print version has a substantially higher readership too.
I got my learner's permit when I was 14, and my license when I was 16. The insurance rates were hardly unaffordable for the majority of motorists, let alone for me.
Of the top 5 sites (from Alexa, whatever that means), 3 are running Apache, one's MSN, and one's Google. I'd do more, but Netcraft's being very slow and making me cry.
No. Disappointed though. It's hard for people to take you seriously when you're pushing these cutesy little products. I use these programs, and I like them, but when everything's got a [gkx] in front of it, it feels like I'm back in daycare or something.
Not related to any of the above, but I figure Slashback's the place anyway... I showed my girlfriend (who just happens to want to go out by being hit by a meteorite), this story about the girl being hit by one. She was quite jealous, and wrote me an indignant email, thus:
>The odds against being hit by a meteorite are
>billions to one - but a teenager in North
>Yorkshire may have had one land on her foot.
BAH! Landed on her foot! Bullshit! If she still has a foot, then a meteor did not land on it. I think someone threw a lava rock at her and her parents (trying to make her feel better) lied to her and said that it was a meteor. I bet she gets beaten up at school a lot.
I used to smash a lot of computers in frustration. Now I run Linux, so it's ok.:-) Seriously though, if you pick what you're going to hit beforehand, it's not so bad. I got a pile of old IBM keyboards (the indestructible throw-it-in-a-dishwasher kind) from a job, and you can give them a pretty good double-axe-handle - at the worst some keys will fly off, but you can stick them back on. New keyboards are cheap anyway, so as long as you have a backup, you can jump up and down on one for a while if it makes you feel better.
As for frying chips, a little while ago a friend asked me to help throw in a new processor for him. Little did I know (and he wouldn't) that another friend who had donated the hardware had been overclocking a cheapo Pentium chip, and had taken all the jumpers off for the voltage settings. I put the new processor in (K62-400), and fired it up. Literally. When we both smelled burning, I lunged for the power cord. It wanted to be at 2.2V, so unfortunately, 3.5 was a wee bit much for it. Puny chips. Can't take a little extra juice.
Good idea, except as I look at the clock, and notice that it's ten to three on a Thursday morning, I can't help but wonder when these suckers are supposed to sleep. Maybe if they had a filter that would pass an official Slashdot email to a voice system, so you could wake them up or something. Any good admin's used to that anyway, right?:-P
That's fine. Don't come bitching to me though, when you buy a new CD, take it home, and you can't play it in your computer, or your car, or your discman - only in your living room stereo. It's ok, you'll be able to purchase separate discs for those players at a reduced price, I'm sure.
If they make it too hard to crack, alternative OS's will just become the path of least resistance, Office apps and games or not.
Why is that a bad thing? I can't wait for MS to bring out some uncrackable OS. The people I know who are running legit copies of Windows are pretty far in the minority.
So they can pick between one of two options: going out of business in 5 years, and going out of business in 80 years? As a stockholder, I know which one I'd go for...
In re: point number 6, I know you'll be sad to hear that 'N Sync guy's flight is no longer on. There was an article in the NY Times last Wednesday that made me laugh.
...
[Lance] Bass, of the pop group 'N Sync, had been training at the Star City cosmonaut complex outside Moscow; he was told today to pack his gear and leave after "failing to fulfill the conditions of his contract," a spokesman for the space agency told Reuters.
Adding insult to injury, the space agency said Mr. Bass, 23, would be replaced on the October mission by a cargo container.
Slashdot Mirror
I think you're hopelessly misguided if you believe nobody cares. The Times has one of the largest readerships in the world, and if you look at who is included, you'll see some interesting things, like:
A New York Times reader is about 36% more likely than the average affluent head of household to hold a college or postgraduate degree; 34% more likely to have a household income exceeding $100,000 and is 49% more likely to be a top manager.
These are the people who can actually do something about introducing linux into a company. Remember, there's no such thing as bad publicity, so if you even just make them aware that alternatives exist, that's a start. Providing a positive review is just bonus.
Soon as they installed Red Hat and Alicebot on it, silly. I guess the editorial would fall under the "shameless self-promotion" category.
I might mention (though you probably know already), that it's not just the website that said it: the site is just a mirror for the actual print edition. It was kind of neat to flip through the paper and see a linux advocacy right in the middle of the editorials. I'd imagine the print version has a substantially higher readership too.
I agree, and even before my qbasic days, there was Logo.
I got my learner's permit when I was 14, and my license when I was 16. The insurance rates were hardly unaffordable for the majority of motorists, let alone for me.
Is she cute? What's her email address? :-P
Because there's no such thing as bad publicity? Even your mother knows what Napster is (was).
Of the top 5 sites (from Alexa, whatever that means), 3 are running Apache, one's MSN, and one's Google. I'd do more, but Netcraft's being very slow and making me cry.
What the people want is free music. Why is it odd that the RIAA wouldn't want to offer them that service?
[* is anyone suprised by the name? :) ]
No. Disappointed though. It's hard for people to take you seriously when you're pushing these cutesy little products. I use these programs, and I like them, but when everything's got a [gkx] in front of it, it feels like I'm back in daycare or something.
LOL. Busi.
Best... comment... ever.
Not related to any of the above, but I figure Slashback's the place anyway... I showed my girlfriend (who just happens to want to go out by being hit by a meteorite), this story about the girl being hit by one. She was quite jealous, and wrote me an indignant email, thus:
>The odds against being hit by a meteorite are
>billions to one - but a teenager in North
>Yorkshire may have had one land on her foot.
BAH! Landed on her foot! Bullshit! If she still has a foot, then a meteor did not land on it. I think someone threw a lava rock at her and her parents (trying to make her feel better) lied to her and said that it was a meteor. I bet she gets beaten up at school a lot.
I quickly concurred.
You have an appointed president. How much more chronically broken can the current system get?
I wish I could power my CPU by getting wood. It would be like a perpetual energy system!
I used to smash a lot of computers in frustration. Now I run Linux, so it's ok. :-) Seriously though, if you pick what you're going to hit beforehand, it's not so bad. I got a pile of old IBM keyboards (the indestructible throw-it-in-a-dishwasher kind) from a job, and you can give them a pretty good double-axe-handle - at the worst some keys will fly off, but you can stick them back on. New keyboards are cheap anyway, so as long as you have a backup, you can jump up and down on one for a while if it makes you feel better.
As for frying chips, a little while ago a friend asked me to help throw in a new processor for him. Little did I know (and he wouldn't) that another friend who had donated the hardware had been overclocking a cheapo Pentium chip, and had taken all the jumpers off for the voltage settings. I put the new processor in (K62-400), and fired it up. Literally. When we both smelled burning, I lunged for the power cord. It wanted to be at 2.2V, so unfortunately, 3.5 was a wee bit much for it. Puny chips. Can't take a little extra juice.
He? (Hint: its name is 'SlashChick' :-P )
Good idea, except as I look at the clock, and notice that it's ten to three on a Thursday morning, I can't help but wonder when these suckers are supposed to sleep. Maybe if they had a filter that would pass an official Slashdot email to a voice system, so you could wake them up or something. Any good admin's used to that anyway, right? :-P
It's a hoax. That third shot (the giant fan) is wayyyy old. Still funny though.
That's fine. Don't come bitching to me though, when you buy a new CD, take it home, and you can't play it in your computer, or your car, or your discman - only in your living room stereo. It's ok, you'll be able to purchase separate discs for those players at a reduced price, I'm sure.
If they make it too hard to crack, alternative OS's will just become the path of least resistance, Office apps and games or not.
Why is that a bad thing? I can't wait for MS to bring out some uncrackable OS. The people I know who are running legit copies of Windows are pretty far in the minority.
So you bought 25 corporate copies of XP, but you're going to use a key you got off the net for all of them?
So they can pick between one of two options: going out of business in 5 years, and going out of business in 80 years? As a stockholder, I know which one I'd go for...
Because if the US didn't pollute so much, everybody else would have nothing to do.
You post like haiku
But still, what you say above
is nonsensical.
In re: point number 6, I know you'll be sad to hear that 'N Sync guy's flight is no longer on. There was an article in the NY Times last Wednesday that made me laugh.
...
[Lance] Bass, of the pop group 'N Sync, had been training at the Star City cosmonaut complex outside Moscow; he was told today to pack his gear and leave after "failing to fulfill the conditions of his contract," a spokesman for the space agency told Reuters.
Adding insult to injury, the space agency said Mr. Bass, 23, would be replaced on the October mission by a cargo container.