I don't know, by reading the er... manual. How do they know not to open thier windows shares to the whole world? If they choose not to learn about how to lock down thier OS, I guess it will be insecure... The same goes for any operating system... Incomming portmap connections would be ignored anyway if they install IPTables, which is also installed by default on RedHat.
"Stallman only learned of de Icaza's intentions to slip the Mono project - based on Microsoft's.NET framework - into Gnome as "the natural technology upgrade" when asked by the audience."
Way to keep up to the date on news there, Rich.
Isn't this proof that he's "out of it" when it comes to technology?
I think that the people at Blizzard are real assholes when it comes to Linux... And that really gets to me, because I definately would have bought a Starcraft port.
When somebody writes in with an Outlook problem, steer them toward Pine or Mutt.
I use pine, but... Steer a clueless user with an Outlook problem to pine or mutt? I could see evolution or Kmail maybe, but pine??? There's a small minority of people who could prefer pine to outlook if they didn't have to use any of Outlook hundreds of other features... I mean, we've come a looooong way since ASCII terminals.
Because most of the morons commenting here are 16 year old kids who only know the name "John Romero" from all of the negative press that Diakatana got. They were never exposed to his more revolutionary work... At least not when it was most relevant. I'd be willing to bet that no one insulting him was around ten years ago paying 60 bucks for Wolfenstien 3d. Romero's done some great work... There's a reason he's got a Ferarri, you know.
Just the disks I have on hand... I'll make 10 copies of Red Hat, 10 copies of Mandrake, 10 copies of Suse, trek on down to the post office tomorrow and stuff them in the Microsoft ad. I encourage everyone to do the same:)
Maybe scribble a sign overhead and tape it to the MS ad. "...Or use Linux!"
This isn't a linux equiv, it's a hardware problem. It affects Microslut too. Someone didn't read the story... But it's slashdotted now anyway, so you're excused;)
It really shows up if you use the pre-empt kernel patch. Ever since I added the workaround, things have been pretty solid. (not that it's been that long)
So... How come after... 2? years Freenet hasn't become a standard or even a well known in the file-sharing world? I'm not trolling, I'm curious. Napster has come and gone, gnutella has come and gone, Now we have fasttrack... Meanwhile, the freenet site just chugs along...
I've found that KWord and Abiword both did a fine job of reading Word files - it's the being able to Save As Word where things get messy.
Not me, I've had a horrible time trying to get Abiword and Kword to display my files correctly. If you're working with a lot of.doc files, you'd go through hell working without MS Word. The 2 word processors do a fine job with thier own formats, but.doc is still unusable.
I predict that if Staroffice 6 really does kick some ass, and Ximian's exchange plugin works as promised... We will see a lot of corporations start switching to Linux. That's start don't expect it to happen overnight. It will take a kick ass office app and exchange compatibility though.
Yes, CUPS is amazing. I just set up a print server at my work using CUPS. There were a few quirks, but I wouldn't be suprised if CUPS became the linux printing "standard" within the next year or so... We've got a cross platform print server now, and it runs great. A little more work and CUPS printing will be hands down better than anything you can find on Windows.
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I've probably got more computers in my basement than they do in the whole continent. Ok, mod me down. I thought it was funny. :P
I don't know, by reading the er... manual. How do they know not to open thier windows shares to the whole world? If they choose not to learn about how to lock down thier OS, I guess it will be insecure... The same goes for any operating system... Incomming portmap connections would be ignored anyway if they install IPTables, which is also installed by default on RedHat.
No offense, but I felt that I was pretty proficient after 8 months too ;)
Maybe you're better at it than I was though... I don't exactly dedicate 16 hours a day to programming.
"Stallman only learned of de Icaza's intentions to slip the Mono project - based on Microsoft's .NET framework - into Gnome as "the natural technology upgrade" when asked by the audience."
Way to keep up to the date on news there, Rich.
Isn't this proof that he's "out of it" when it comes to technology?
Not trolling, just a thought.
Yes
FUD
chkconfig --del portmap
I think that the people at Blizzard are real assholes when it comes to Linux... And that really gets to me, because I definately would have bought a Starcraft port.
When somebody writes in with an Outlook problem, steer them toward Pine or Mutt.
I use pine, but... Steer a clueless user with an Outlook problem to pine or mutt? I could see evolution or Kmail maybe, but pine??? There's a small minority of people who could prefer pine to outlook if they didn't have to use any of Outlook hundreds of other features... I mean, we've come a looooong way since ASCII terminals.
I just bought Quake for Linux a few weeks ago. The metal box was only 10 bucks. I doubt they're making much of a profit on that
There's obviously not too much of a demand.
Is it really so difficult for a person who really wants to play games to get a copy of Windows and slap it on their machine for playing games?
Are you suggesting piracy or purchasing an OS just for an occasional game? Either solution seems like a dumb idea...
Because most of the morons commenting here are 16 year old kids who only know the name "John Romero" from all of the negative press that Diakatana got. They were never exposed to his more revolutionary work... At least not when it was most relevant. I'd be willing to bet that no one insulting him was around ten years ago paying 60 bucks for Wolfenstien 3d. Romero's done some great work... There's a reason he's got a Ferarri, you know.
Just the disks I have on hand... I'll make 10 copies of Red Hat, 10 copies of Mandrake, 10 copies of Suse, trek on down to the post office tomorrow and stuff them in the Microsoft ad. I encourage everyone to do the same :)
Maybe scribble a sign overhead and tape it to the MS ad. "...Or use Linux!"
This isn't a linux equiv, it's a hardware problem. It affects Microslut too. Someone didn't read the story... But it's slashdotted now anyway, so you're excused ;)
It really shows up if you use the pre-empt kernel patch. Ever since I added the workaround, things have been pretty solid. (not that it's been that long)
Won't it be nice when things like giFT and freenet are standards and we won't have to worry about the man keeping us down?
So... How come after... 2? years Freenet hasn't become a standard or even a well known in the file-sharing world? I'm not trolling, I'm curious. Napster has come and gone, gnutella has come and gone, Now we have fasttrack... Meanwhile, the freenet site just chugs along...
Duh. OpenFT does though. giFT needs help testing thier network.
Plain text? What planet are you living on? While we're at it we can go back to dumb terminals and line printers. All we need is Vi and Lynx
I've found that KWord and Abiword both did a fine job of reading Word files - it's the being able to Save As Word where things get messy.
.doc files, you'd go through hell working without MS Word. The 2 word processors do a fine job with thier own formats, but .doc is still unusable.
Not me, I've had a horrible time trying to get Abiword and Kword to display my files correctly. If you're working with a lot of
Mod this up. This guy's a genius.
There should be a registry-like means of keeping track of what's on a linux box.
OMFG! Have you hacked the Windows registry?!? Barf.
I predict that if Staroffice 6 really does kick some ass, and Ximian's exchange plugin works as promised... We will see a lot of corporations start switching to Linux. That's start don't expect it to happen overnight. It will take a kick ass office app and exchange compatibility though.
Yes, and show me an Atari 2600 viewer and I'll use that. I wonder what percentage of home users have Solaris boxes.
It is only in .mov format so far, so mpg linux people will have to move to a windows box until they post the other formats."
You mean you didn't buy Crossover?
Yes, CUPS is amazing. I just set up a print server at my work using CUPS. There were a few quirks, but I wouldn't be suprised if CUPS became the linux printing "standard" within the next year or so... We've got a cross platform print server now, and it runs great. A little more work and CUPS printing will be hands down better than anything you can find on Windows.