Finally, no more idiots @ Guitar Center churning up badly played AC/DC and Metallica riffs, with the guitar way out of tune. That will at least make the visit 5% more enjoyable! Now, only if we could tune the salespeople to actually learn more about what they are selling.
"I need a high-gain amp"
"Here, buy this Metal Zone pedal, turn off the mids, and crank everything else - it's like having a Marshall Stack in a pedal!"
"Anyway, why don't ISPs, just for the time being, ban connections to SCO.com? It's not like it's a huge Internet portal or anything, and us geeks who actually need access to the site can just set up a mirror or something."
Simple: It would only to serve to show how effective these viruses are. Kind of like a sick twist on martyrdom. It would encourage more people to make viruses to do the same thing, so that their "goal" (however moronic and insignificant it is) can be easily achieved, perhaps even with bunk code.
Get your child off of it. ADHD is a parental crutch - just be more active with your kids. The last thing you want to do is medicate them into being "good kids" - a child with ADHD can control it - they just need to learn how.
I'm planning on implementing DFS to hold user profiles for around 70 employees that use Terminal Services - This will avoid the "where's my favorites" and "I saved that file on the desktop, and now it's not there" issues.
"Troll"??
Bullshit - it is the parents responsibility to know what their children are doing. Calling me a Troll for that statement is absurd, unfounded, and uninformed.
Exactly the reason why we have kids taking guns to school along with other things...
How can people think that sharing someone's intellectual property, without thier permission or control, is legal?
If for instance, someone put Microsoft Office 2003 on Kazaa, and people downloaded and installed it as often as people download music, Microsoft would be doing the same thing, JUST AS ANY OTHER COMPANY THAT HAS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THAT IS BEING VIOLATED BY ILLEGAL USE.
Sorry for the caps, but I want to make my point clear that this isn't a "Microsoft" debate, but just using them as an example.
It gets duplicated, and duplication of intellectual property and copyrighted material is illegal, UNLESS is it for personal use. For example, making a copy of a CD to a tape. The key point is for PERSONAL use.
It IS the parent's responsibility to know what their kids are doing, and to guide them into doing what is moral.
Stealing is not moral, just as shooting your teacher becuase he caught you jerking off in the bathroom is not moral, but it happens because parents have lost the ability to be parents.
This, my friends, is what happens when hippies have sex. Society goes down the toilet, since a WHOLE generation of "parents" just let thier kids grow up without much guidance, and then those kids do the same for thier children, thinking, well I turned out fine...
Anyway, being a musician, I and whole-heartedly for the RIAA going after people. I think this article was a last ditch effort to get the RIAA to drop teh case due to bad publicity.
But, anyone notice the girl lives in a Housing Authority? Housing Authority = public housing or section 8 - meaning low to no income families. Ok, so they have no money - yet, they have a computer and internet...
hmm....
Since using port translation, you can get around it. For example, if you require port 135, you can use a router to re-route traffic for port 135 to another port, and on the other end, re-route it back to port 135.
This would prevent anyone without a router from being at risk of simple viruses.
I'm saying that with joe-user, they don't have the know-how to even open an application that is located in the start menu. Your business costs for IT would balloon with Linux on the desktop due to the increased support needed to hand-hold the users into doing what they are supposed to do. Sure, if you have somewhat intelligent people working at the company where it's installed, then yeah, it could be a blessing in the immediate cost savings, but in the end, what does it cost in support? At least Microsoft, with thier large foothold in the market on the desktop, corporate or otherwise, gives the corporate user more background working with a given operating system.
I'm not saying that Linux is insignificant, but I think that in all reality, in order to make it even more attractive to the corporates, that it should come preinstalled with support for the home user.
Like I said before, Linux on a server is one thing - I am in control of the system, I can operate it without much of an issue, but on the desktop - that's a whole can of worms I don't want to deal with, simply becuase of the amount of headaches the USERS would case me, not Linux.
Sorry, I missunderstood - I was thinking it was aimed at the home-consumer level.
Regarding corp use - I don't know about that - I mean for a business to make a switch to Linux on the server side is one thing, but on the desktop side?
I have enough problems with people not knowing the difference between a left-click on a mouse, and a right-click - let alone give them a difference office suite.
We were using CC Mail 6 before I moved everyone to Exchange 2K/Office2k - and some users grasped it pretty quickly, but some of the others...
Several months later, and I am still having to explain to some users how to clean out thier mailbox.
What did they do before... (roll-eyes)
Until a major player like HP can offer tech support and an actual pre-load, Linux will still be limited to the more hard-core user.
Anyone who would be using Linux, at least in the USA, would just build thier own system, download Linux off the net (or even buy the retail box of the OS) and have a higher performance/price system.
The whole reason why I would ever buy a retail computer would be for the warranty. Now for the common joe-user out there, the warranty and support is something they need. Put Linux on that system, then what's the point if there isn't support, let alone pre-installation.
You know, when I come across a document that I can't open, I ask the creator to send me one that is compatible with what I am using.
For example, we use MS Office 2000 at work - if someone emails me or a user a Microsoft Works file (.wks I think) - I ask them to contact the sender and have them save it in MS Word compatible format.
Basically, as I see it, Microsoft is going to pursuade more people to NOT upgrade to the latest verion since it would be incompatible with the previous versions of Office - plus, you don't have the option to save it in a "compatible format".
At least, this is how I am reading it.
All I know is, if MS is making this an issue, then what I would recommend is to NOT upgrade, but to purchase something like 10 licenses for it, and have some people act as the go-between in the instance that there is an issue.
That, or just skip it entirely, and stick with what we have. There's always RTF/TXT format, or HTML.
How badly some, if not most of us screamed at the thought of the X-Box?
It's pointless when you consider the tech/knowledgeable person, vesus the common joe computer user, is pretty high. In fact so high, that they slow down real innovation.
What's now considered innovative, is more user-friendly.
Why hasn't anyone mentioned the idea of using a hotplug HDD rotation?
It wouldn't be that big of an issue, buy the biggest hotplug drive that will work your system, backup your data, remove it, and treat it like any other tape.
Granted this would only cover a part of some of the larger backup requirements, but on the other hand, you could always have HDD1/HDD2/HDD3 for sequential media.
One thing I have been thinking about is building a win2k server box as a domain controller (no master roles) and setting it up as a "backup" server, meaning that it runs all the backup jobs and stores them to files on the HDD, then backs those up to tape. It would be just as easily done to a removable array. With the tools that are available, and it being a non influential server on the network, taking it down, yanking the drives (for backup) out and replacing them would be a minor issue for all the speed you would gain.
A truely random number would be one with an infinte number of digits, and since we have no way of comprehending that amount of data into a manageable amount of space/memory, then we can never have a true random number, in it's natural state. For example, you could hit to proverbial number generator button, and get a number with an infinte number of charactors - it might be 3 charactors long, it might be infinity -1 or infinity sqared, or the square root of infinity. I believe we will never be able to create a naturally occuring, random number.
Slashdot Mirror
Will the lag time be low enough to play Doom 5?
Who's side would they be on....
Hmmm....
That's what we keep saying about the floppy...
We'll still be limited to 2MB attachements...
Finally, no more idiots @ Guitar Center churning up badly played AC/DC and Metallica riffs, with the guitar way out of tune. That will at least make the visit 5% more enjoyable!
Now, only if we could tune the salespeople to actually learn more about what they are selling.
"I need a high-gain amp"
"Here, buy this Metal Zone pedal, turn off the mids, and crank everything else - it's like having a Marshall Stack in a pedal!"
Whateva~
These patents were just recently submitted and approved... /lame :-/
"Anyway, why don't ISPs, just for the time being, ban connections to SCO.com? It's not like it's a huge Internet portal or anything, and us geeks who actually need access to the site can just set up a mirror or something."
Simple: It would only to serve to show how effective these viruses are. Kind of like a sick twist on martyrdom. It would encourage more people to make viruses to do the same thing, so that their "goal" (however moronic and insignificant it is) can be easily achieved, perhaps even with bunk code.
(...when I was a child)
Get your child off of it. ADHD is a parental crutch - just be more active with your kids. The last thing you want to do is medicate them into being "good kids" - a child with ADHD can control it - they just need to learn how.
No matter how you look at it, theft is still theft, no matter what the justification is.
I'm planning on implementing DFS to hold user profiles for around 70 employees that use Terminal Services - This will avoid the "where's my favorites" and "I saved that file on the desktop, and now it's not there" issues.
"Troll"?? Bullshit - it is the parents responsibility to know what their children are doing. Calling me a Troll for that statement is absurd, unfounded, and uninformed. Exactly the reason why we have kids taking guns to school along with other things...
How can people think that sharing someone's intellectual property, without thier permission or control, is legal?
If for instance, someone put Microsoft Office 2003 on Kazaa, and people downloaded and installed it as often as people download music, Microsoft would be doing the same thing, JUST AS ANY OTHER COMPANY THAT HAS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THAT IS BEING VIOLATED BY ILLEGAL USE.
Sorry for the caps, but I want to make my point clear that this isn't a "Microsoft" debate, but just using them as an example.
It gets duplicated, and duplication of intellectual property and copyrighted material is illegal, UNLESS is it for personal use. For example, making a copy of a CD to a tape. The key point is for PERSONAL use.
It IS the parent's responsibility to know what their kids are doing, and to guide them into doing what is moral. Stealing is not moral, just as shooting your teacher becuase he caught you jerking off in the bathroom is not moral, but it happens because parents have lost the ability to be parents. This, my friends, is what happens when hippies have sex. Society goes down the toilet, since a WHOLE generation of "parents" just let thier kids grow up without much guidance, and then those kids do the same for thier children, thinking, well I turned out fine... Anyway, being a musician, I and whole-heartedly for the RIAA going after people. I think this article was a last ditch effort to get the RIAA to drop teh case due to bad publicity. But, anyone notice the girl lives in a Housing Authority? Housing Authority = public housing or section 8 - meaning low to no income families. Ok, so they have no money - yet, they have a computer and internet... hmm....
I don't think "Grandpa" would be stealing music off the internet.
Since using port translation, you can get around it.
For example, if you require port 135, you can use a router to re-route traffic for port 135 to another port, and on the other end, re-route it back to port 135.
This would prevent anyone without a router from being at risk of simple viruses.
Where did I say it was insignificant?
I'm saying that with joe-user, they don't have the know-how to even open an application that is located in the start menu.
Your business costs for IT would balloon with Linux on the desktop due to the increased support needed to hand-hold the users into doing what they are supposed to do.
Sure, if you have somewhat intelligent people working at the company where it's installed, then yeah, it could be a blessing in the immediate cost savings, but in the end, what does it cost in support?
At least Microsoft, with thier large foothold in the market on the desktop, corporate or otherwise, gives the corporate user more background working with a given operating system.
I'm not saying that Linux is insignificant, but I think that in all reality, in order to make it even more attractive to the corporates, that it should come preinstalled with support for the home user.
Like I said before, Linux on a server is one thing - I am in control of the system, I can operate it without much of an issue, but on the desktop - that's a whole can of worms I don't want to deal with, simply becuase of the amount of headaches the USERS would case me, not Linux.
Sorry, I missunderstood - I was thinking it was aimed at the home-consumer level. Regarding corp use - I don't know about that - I mean for a business to make a switch to Linux on the server side is one thing, but on the desktop side? I have enough problems with people not knowing the difference between a left-click on a mouse, and a right-click - let alone give them a difference office suite. We were using CC Mail 6 before I moved everyone to Exchange 2K/Office2k - and some users grasped it pretty quickly, but some of the others... Several months later, and I am still having to explain to some users how to clean out thier mailbox. What did they do before... (roll-eyes)
Until a major player like HP can offer tech support and an actual pre-load, Linux will still be limited to the more hard-core user.
Anyone who would be using Linux, at least in the USA, would just build thier own system, download Linux off the net (or even buy the retail box of the OS) and have a higher performance/price system.
The whole reason why I would ever buy a retail computer would be for the warranty. Now for the common joe-user out there, the warranty and support is something they need.
Put Linux on that system, then what's the point if there isn't support, let alone pre-installation.
You know, when I come across a document that I can't open, I ask the creator to send me one that is compatible with what I am using.
For example, we use MS Office 2000 at work - if someone emails me or a user a Microsoft Works file (.wks I think) - I ask them to contact the sender and have them save it in MS Word compatible format.
Basically, as I see it, Microsoft is going to pursuade more people to NOT upgrade to the latest verion since it would be incompatible with the previous versions of Office - plus, you don't have the option to save it in a "compatible format".
At least, this is how I am reading it.
All I know is, if MS is making this an issue, then what I would recommend is to NOT upgrade, but to purchase something like 10 licenses for it, and have some people act as the go-between in the instance that there is an issue.
That, or just skip it entirely, and stick with what we have. There's always RTF/TXT format, or HTML.
That should cut down on idiotic-cell-phone-tailgaters.
How badly some, if not most of us screamed at the thought of the X-Box? It's pointless when you consider the tech/knowledgeable person, vesus the common joe computer user, is pretty high. In fact so high, that they slow down real innovation. What's now considered innovative, is more user-friendly.
And who do you think will generate the most sales and money? /. members, or joe consumer?
Why hasn't anyone mentioned the idea of using a hotplug HDD rotation?
It wouldn't be that big of an issue, buy the biggest hotplug drive that will work your system, backup your data, remove it, and treat it like any other tape.
Granted this would only cover a part of some of the larger backup requirements, but on the other hand, you could always have HDD1/HDD2/HDD3 for sequential media.
One thing I have been thinking about is building a win2k server box as a domain controller (no master roles) and setting it up as a "backup" server, meaning that it runs all the backup jobs and stores them to files on the HDD, then backs those up to tape.
It would be just as easily done to a removable array.
With the tools that are available, and it being a non influential server on the network, taking it down, yanking the drives (for backup) out and replacing them would be a minor issue for all the speed you would gain.
A truely random number would be one with an infinte number of digits, and since we have no way of comprehending that amount of data into a manageable amount of space/memory, then we can never have a true random number, in it's natural state. For example, you could hit to proverbial number generator button, and get a number with an infinte number of charactors - it might be 3 charactors long, it might be infinity -1 or infinity sqared, or the square root of infinity.
I believe we will never be able to create a naturally occuring, random number.
That joke came out when Star Trek VI came out.
Booo....