Keyboards and drinks have always been natural enemies. O yes, being able to whipe your desk IS going to be easier than to clean a keyboard, and I'll be thankfull JUST for that. But enemies they will stay.... I can just look forward to colleges placing their coffee mug on the reboot corner of my desk.
-ph.. who was forced to clean tomato juice off a very dusty keyboard once!
What is the state of the world when a paying slashdot member still falls victim the the slashdot effect.
Of course we should lock any site referenced by slashdot until all the paying members are done reading it, keeping the savage hordes of barabarians out of the Internet!
You paid for that. Not to that site, but to slashdot. That should count for something! How can we be so unconsiderate of you and actually try to check it up for ourselfs.
Trolling aside, what is it your truly complaining about? You want a longer "members only" period of/.? You want a period of time where you can chech the site before the hordes of "members" hit it?
Enlighten us, because the only thing I can see at the moment, is that you want to hand holding to click on the mirror link that is set up by a volonter.
I like Linux - but there's a lot of hidden support costs...
A TCO is about all the cost. Installation, configuration, operation.
"oh - there's a GUI tool for that... if you installed the right package... did you pick gnome or KDE?... X isn't starting? it might just be easier to modify the.conf file with Pico... don't have that? try vi - httpd.conf should be under/etc/httpd - unless you..."
Yes, X can be a pain to start if it is not already configured. To release that job from the beginning users, many distributions now have hardware detection tools and configure X for you. I invite you to check most popular distributions that have been released since 1999.
On the other hand, I'm quite curious if you ever had to deal with a MS-Windows computer that crashed during the loading of the graphic card driver/window server/window manager. On GNU/Linux you have to use one of the many editors, surf for some references and write the proper parameters to a file. On MS-Windows, my own experience is that searching for information will mostly lead you to "my graphic card is not working" kinda-post, no extra help, that the only editor is EDIT, and that you have to be very lucky for the problem to be located in a file that EDIT can open and modify without totally destroying (ie: binaries are out of the question). Most knowledgeble MS-Windows user have an answer about this. Re-install.
Maybe its just me, but I prefer the option of 45 minutes from browsing for the information to the end of the problem, vs sitting in front of the computer for 1 hour(OS) 1 hour (Office Suite) 3 hours (archiving utility, acrobat, IM client and other favorite miscalineous utilities) watching the progress bar slowly moving.
Any idiot (like myself) can fumble through doing this stuff on Windows.
Any idiot (like yourself) can do EXACTLY the same in GNU/Linux. Many GNU/Linux distributions target idiots just like yourself. Just to name one, Mandrake has a full set of utilities that will allow you to click your way to the configuration of your dreams.
And Webmin that will allow you to configure your machine from a browser. And you still have access to the configuration files through text editors.
Security? Go to Windowsupdate.com once a month and install all the patches. I wish I had as straight forward a solution for my Linux boxes.
Security? make a cron job that check the security updates every night on your computer, and install them for you. You dont even need to go to some web site. You dont even need to wait a whole month to fix a hole.
Cron is too complex for you, again, just click your way to an updated system. Many distributions will inform you by email of every security update available, based on the software you have on your machine. Which mean you keep your OS _AND_ your applications up to date and bug free, rather than your OS and office suite.
Again, cron is a bit old school. I'm betting is most distribution do not offer you a clickable way to tell the update system to run at regular interval, its a matters of weeks before you see it.
don't get me wrong - I want to see open source crush microsoft - it's just there's some significant work that needs to be done on the usability / supportability front.
I think you have listened to one too many bad opinion and are due to actually try it on your own. Go to www.distrowatch.com and get yourself a desktop distribution. I am saying desktop as you seem font of having kde/gnome and X. A desktop distribution would (Fedora/Mandrake/Suse/LInspire/many other) include hardware detection and configuration of the X server for you.
Try it up, its not longer 1999. And next time your system decide to play a trick on you, you will have an other option than watching countless progress bar as your only fix.
I remeber one winter in Montreal. Police officer where walking aside the cars parked on the street, checking that the doors where locked. She ran to them, shouting at them not to lock and close her door. No keys where able to open them anymore.
I've never considered what these officiers where doing could be illegal. But then I'm Canadian, and in Canada we have the Good Samaritan law, which states that you cant be procecuted for trying to help somebody. Personally, I prefer that to a "I'll sue your ass of and then some more" law system.
The same way that if you smell gas coming from a private garage you'd better tell its owner that he might have a fire hazard on its hands, why not tell someone that he has a hacking hasard on their hands?
Yes, I agree with you, but the problem is, theses 2 or 3 distros wont be the ones you (or I) want. So you will end up forking one of them to address your own needs.
Slashdot Mirror
Keyboards and drinks have always been natural enemies. O yes, being able to whipe your desk IS going to be easier than to clean a keyboard, and I'll be thankfull JUST for that. But enemies they will stay.... I can just look forward to colleges placing their coffee mug on the reboot corner of my desk.
.. who was forced to clean tomato juice off a very dusty keyboard once!
-ph
I mean, poor lil you.
/.? You want a period of time where you can chech the site before the hordes of "members" hit it?
What is the state of the world when a paying slashdot member still falls victim the the slashdot effect.
Of course we should lock any site referenced by slashdot until all the paying members are done reading it, keeping the savage hordes of barabarians out of the Internet!
You paid for that. Not to that site, but to slashdot. That should count for something! How can we be so unconsiderate of you and actually try to check it up for ourselfs.
Trolling aside, what is it your truly complaining about? You want a longer "members only" period of
Enlighten us, because the only thing I can see at the moment, is that you want to hand holding to click on the mirror link that is set up by a volonter.
A TCO is about all the cost. Installation, configuration, operation.
Yes, X can be a pain to start if it is not already configured. To release that job from the beginning users, many distributions now have hardware detection tools and configure X for you. I invite you to check most popular distributions that have been released since 1999.
On the other hand, I'm quite curious if you ever had to deal with a MS-Windows computer that crashed during the loading of the graphic card driver/window server/window manager. On GNU/Linux you have to use one of the many editors, surf for some references and write the proper parameters to a file. On MS-Windows, my own experience is that searching for information will mostly lead you to "my graphic card is not working" kinda-post, no extra help, that the only editor is EDIT, and that you have to be very lucky for the problem to be located in a file that EDIT can open and modify without totally destroying (ie: binaries are out of the question). Most knowledgeble MS-Windows user have an answer about this. Re-install.
Maybe its just me, but I prefer the option of 45 minutes from browsing for the information to the end of the problem, vs sitting in front of the computer for 1 hour(OS) 1 hour (Office Suite) 3 hours (archiving utility, acrobat, IM client and other favorite miscalineous utilities) watching the progress bar slowly moving.
Any idiot (like yourself) can do EXACTLY the same in GNU/Linux. Many GNU/Linux distributions target idiots just like yourself. Just to name one, Mandrake has a full set of utilities that will allow you to click your way to the configuration of your dreams.
And Webmin that will allow you to configure your machine from a browser.
And you still have access to the configuration files through text editors.
Security? make a cron job that check the security updates every night on your computer, and install them for you. You dont even need to go to some web site. You dont even need to wait a whole month to fix a hole.
Cron is too complex for you, again, just click your way to an updated system. Many distributions will inform you by email of every security update available, based on the software you have on your machine. Which mean you keep your OS _AND_ your applications up to date and bug free, rather than your OS and office suite.
Again, cron is a bit old school. I'm betting is most distribution do not offer you a clickable way to tell the update system to run at regular interval, its a matters of weeks before you see it.
I think you have listened to one too many bad opinion and are due to actually try it on your own. Go to www.distrowatch.com and get yourself a desktop distribution. I am saying desktop as you seem font of having kde/gnome and X. A desktop distribution would (Fedora/Mandrake/Suse/LInspire/many other) include hardware detection and configuration of the X server for you.
Try it up, its not longer 1999. And next time your system decide to play a trick on you, you will have an other option than watching countless progress bar as your only fix.
-ph
Aren't the laws to be observed the ones on the country where the server is located? Isn't it how the online gambling industry operate.
Just curious about this point, if anyone cares to clarify it.
I remeber one winter in Montreal. Police officer where walking aside the cars parked on the street, checking that the doors where locked. She ran to them, shouting at them not to lock and close her door. No keys where able to open them anymore.
I've never considered what these officiers where doing could be illegal. But then I'm Canadian, and in Canada we have the Good Samaritan law, which states that you cant be procecuted for trying to help somebody. Personally, I prefer that to a "I'll sue your ass of and then some more" law system.
The same way that if you smell gas coming from a private garage you'd better tell its owner that he might have a fire hazard on its hands, why not tell someone that he has a hacking hasard on their hands?
-ph
Yes, I agree with you, but the problem is, theses 2 or 3 distros wont be the ones you (or I) want. So you will end up forking one of them to address your own needs.
Why do I have a chill running down my spine about a new patent concerning "Zero click navigating"
-ph