Why should you have to BUY something to protect your company. You already paid a whole heck of a lot for your Microsoft servers and such and then you just had to pay more to make them secure from a child's worm.
CD's full of usenet porn, not a bad idea. Only problem is the large amount of shit in usenet mixed with good stuff. You'd have to write a program to analyze the picture for sexual content and beauty. It could even make a ratings scale. You could sell copies on e-bay or something.
I would agree. I started out in windows not knowing jack about much of anything. The linux man pages and other documentation seemed very complicated. Somewhere between my 9th install of Mandrake or Red Hat, and my install of Slackware, though, I started to understand. I was enlightened, I guess;-)
Yes, that is very true. But there is no reason why linux can't do it also. A free solution to a common problem, isn't that what we all want? Not to mention that microsoft didn't do a particularly good job as evidence by all the viri and stuff floating around the internet.
I think the most important thing to teach users, whether completely green or somewhat experienced, is to just try stuff once in a while. That's how I've learned most everything I know, and we all started out in life the same.
It is easy to go to the library and check out "Red Hat Linux For Dummies," and that gives easy to follow, step-by-step instructions on how to install linux, and it usually has the red hat cd's in the back.
With Windows, what's the worst you can do to your computer (the software side;-)? It's tough to do anything to it that can't be fixed with a simple format of the hard drive. I'll admit, the first time you do this is a little nerve wracking, but after that, it's not a problem.
We should encourage people to mess with their computers, isn't that how we all learn the best as a species? And everyone loves to press buttons. Meanwhile, Microsoft, with their bad and expensive licensing, security problems, nazi policies and monopoly-like stranglehold, can shove the glass shards from it's shattered windows up it's ass.
Information should be free, right? Or do you want to pay a "thinking" toll, or maybe pay to read that book in the library. Please return to downloading your pirated copy of Windows XP, Anonymous Coward.
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Why should you have to BUY something to protect your company. You already paid a whole heck of a lot for your Microsoft servers and such and then you just had to pay more to make them secure from a child's worm.
CD's full of usenet porn, not a bad idea. Only problem is the large amount of shit in usenet mixed with good stuff. You'd have to write a program to analyze the picture for sexual content and beauty. It could even make a ratings scale. You could sell copies on e-bay or something.
Jeez, $40 for 400 cds? That's around $.10 a cd! Lol, I'd never do it that cheap.
I would agree. I started out in windows not knowing jack about much of anything. The linux man pages and other documentation seemed very complicated. Somewhere between my 9th install of Mandrake or Red Hat, and my install of Slackware, though, I started to understand. I was enlightened, I guess ;-)
Yes, that is very true. But there is no reason why linux can't do it also. A free solution to a common problem, isn't that what we all want? Not to mention that microsoft didn't do a particularly good job as evidence by all the viri and stuff floating around the internet.
It is easy to go to the library and check out "Red Hat Linux For Dummies," and that gives easy to follow, step-by-step instructions on how to install linux, and it usually has the red hat cd's in the back.
With Windows, what's the worst you can do to your computer (the software side ;-)? It's tough to do anything to it that can't be fixed with a simple format of the hard drive. I'll admit, the first time you do this is a little nerve wracking, but after that, it's not a problem.
We should encourage people to mess with their computers, isn't that how we all learn the best as a species? And everyone loves to press buttons. Meanwhile, Microsoft, with their bad and expensive licensing, security problems, nazi policies and monopoly-like stranglehold, can shove the glass shards from it's shattered windows up it's ass.
Information should be free, right? Or do you want to pay a "thinking" toll, or maybe pay to read that book in the library. Please return to downloading your pirated copy of Windows XP, Anonymous Coward.