I'll run as root on my machine, but I think I'd better set up a seperate, non-privliged account, for Mr Robertson. I don't think he's quite ready for / power.
Is it Microsoft's position that there is no logical place for Linux in any computer market, that as computer users we have no need for anything other than Windows? What are the inherent flaws in Linux that render the various distributions of Linux broken at a single swipe; further, what qualities of Windows qualify the various versions and releases as singularly suitable for use?
Thank you - sumitted by Jonathan Green, Lone Tree, Iowa
I run about ten RSS feeds on my Firefox browser that run the day's headlines and whatnot from leading news outlets and niche content providers of interest to me.
I've tried some Blog RSS feeds, along with some other very-high-output feeds, and it strikes me as too damned much. RSS is great for something like Slashdot or The New York Times where there's an editor on the other end to hold back the content delivered to a sane amount, but the architecture (as in "really simply") of RSS, while certainly sufficently robust, just isn't well designed for a high volume of hits per feed. I feel like I've immediately OD'ed, badly, on information when I pull down the home feed for PRWeb.
The solution? I shitcanned the PRWeb feed, even though I spend a lot of time on their website. And that's the fix, right there. Continuing upon the example, PRWeb's homepage is much better suited to sifting through the zillions of things they update all of the time than an RSS feed. Might the same apply to bloglines?
I just got Sirius last month and I'm in love with it. Audio quality is just about as good as you can expect to get from digital, no commercials, great music and some other channels, too. Never played with XM, but my Kenwood deck plugged right into the radio and its beautifuly integrated.
Someone was contending that if you don't want to let the BSA in, you've obviously got something to hide. This, in fact, is hardly the case. Some organizations, my private school being one of them, simply don't want to have to jump through these hoops to prove to the BSA that our software is properly licensed, which it is.
And even if it was a quick and painless process, I would still resist it as fervorently as possible. Who wants to the bloody thought police on campus? This whole snafuu reminds me of an old rhetorical question. If everyone sent their mail in post cards, and one man sent a letter in an envelope, would he be hiding something? Really, now, who wants to have their privacy breeched?
As far as enforcibility of EULA's go, I'm skeptical about this issue, as well. I don't know what the likelihood is that a court is going to agree to let a business come in and tear apart my operation and install their own software on my boxes, my coworkers' boxes, and possible student boxes as well. Worst two cases I can imagine would be the school administration rolling over, or a court letting them in to look around after we gave them an invitation.
Its a violation of the XP EULA to run anything that remotely accesses your desktop on XP, if anyone cares. That said, VNC is real nice, although not quite as interwoven as Terminal Services. But its free! Try TightVNC for slow network connections (but you need decent video and a speedy CPU to compress the data):
Seems like people are sure getting wound up over this one, but not too many people are coming to a consensus. Most of the comments look like they're still modded' to 1.
At any rate, I would submit that we've got no more right pushing our system of beliefs on the Chineese (I know someone has already said this) than China has to pressure us to blow up France. The only advantage China has is that it is the sovergn power over its people and so its got the right to make those decisions. That's where this whole damn war is going - to convert the entire world into a Democracy. People are too stupid to rule themselves, hell, pay attention in America where people just sit back and let the government ream them. They're either too lazy or too stupid to do anything about it. URGH!
Indeed. I graduated from a small high school in SE Iowa, by Iowa City. 400 kids, K-12, all told. And the school has had a T3 and two T1's since 1996. What does the school do with those pipes? Not much of anything. They just sit and collect dust while the school board wonders why it is that the budget is always shoestring.
But, yeah, Iowa does usually have pretty damn good internet technology, unless you're in the Quad Cities area. I'm going to school in Sioux City now and I can tracert to my high school in four hops. That's pretty quick, and its all fibre from my desk to the router. Who could complain?
Mr Jonathan Green Esq
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I'll run as root on my machine, but I think I'd better set up a seperate, non-privliged account, for Mr Robertson. I don't think he's quite ready for / power.
Mr Taylor:
Is it Microsoft's position that there is no logical place for Linux in any computer market, that as computer users we have no need for anything other than Windows? What are the inherent flaws in Linux that render the various distributions of Linux broken at a single swipe; further, what qualities of Windows qualify the various versions and releases as singularly suitable for use?
Thank you - sumitted by Jonathan Green, Lone Tree, Iowa
I run about ten RSS feeds on my Firefox browser that run the day's headlines and whatnot from leading news outlets and niche content providers of interest to me.
I've tried some Blog RSS feeds, along with some other very-high-output feeds, and it strikes me as too damned much. RSS is great for something like Slashdot or The New York Times where there's an editor on the other end to hold back the content delivered to a sane amount, but the architecture (as in "really simply") of RSS, while certainly sufficently robust, just isn't well designed for a high volume of hits per feed. I feel like I've immediately OD'ed, badly, on information when I pull down the home feed for PRWeb.
The solution? I shitcanned the PRWeb feed, even though I spend a lot of time on their website. And that's the fix, right there. Continuing upon the example, PRWeb's homepage is much better suited to sifting through the zillions of things they update all of the time than an RSS feed. Might the same apply to bloglines?
I just got Sirius last month and I'm in love with it. Audio quality is just about as good as you can expect to get from digital, no commercials, great music and some other channels, too. Never played with XM, but my Kenwood deck plugged right into the radio and its beautifuly integrated.
Someone was contending that if you don't want to let the BSA in, you've obviously got something to hide. This, in fact, is hardly the case. Some organizations, my private school being one of them, simply don't want to have to jump through these hoops to prove to the BSA that our software is properly licensed, which it is. And even if it was a quick and painless process, I would still resist it as fervorently as possible. Who wants to the bloody thought police on campus? This whole snafuu reminds me of an old rhetorical question. If everyone sent their mail in post cards, and one man sent a letter in an envelope, would he be hiding something? Really, now, who wants to have their privacy breeched? As far as enforcibility of EULA's go, I'm skeptical about this issue, as well. I don't know what the likelihood is that a court is going to agree to let a business come in and tear apart my operation and install their own software on my boxes, my coworkers' boxes, and possible student boxes as well. Worst two cases I can imagine would be the school administration rolling over, or a court letting them in to look around after we gave them an invitation.
Its a violation of the XP EULA to run anything that remotely accesses your desktop on XP, if anyone cares. That said, VNC is real nice, although not quite as interwoven as Terminal Services. But its free! Try TightVNC for slow network connections (but you need decent video and a speedy CPU to compress the data):
http://www.tightvnc.com
Folks,
Seems like people are sure getting wound up over this one, but not too many people are coming to a consensus. Most of the comments look like they're still modded' to 1.
At any rate, I would submit that we've got no more right pushing our system of beliefs on the Chineese (I know someone has already said this) than China has to pressure us to blow up France. The only advantage China has is that it is the sovergn power over its people and so its got the right to make those decisions. That's where this whole damn war is going - to convert the entire world into a Democracy. People are too stupid to rule themselves, hell, pay attention in America where people just sit back and let the government ream them. They're either too lazy or too stupid to do anything about it. URGH!
Indeed. I graduated from a small high school in SE Iowa, by Iowa City. 400 kids, K-12, all told. And the school has had a T3 and two T1's since 1996. What does the school do with those pipes? Not much of anything. They just sit and collect dust while the school board wonders why it is that the budget is always shoestring. But, yeah, Iowa does usually have pretty damn good internet technology, unless you're in the Quad Cities area. I'm going to school in Sioux City now and I can tracert to my high school in four hops. That's pretty quick, and its all fibre from my desk to the router. Who could complain? Mr Jonathan Green Esq