And by then the Chinese alternative will cost just as much as the (current) major brands. You didn't complete the other section of your trend analysis.
That's about as troll-ish as I ever expected to see a post on slashdot, and it isn't even about Microsoft. Ok, here's a number of replies.
If you can't get past the installer, the rest of the OS doens't matter. You'll never see it.
Yep, this is true. Which is why the Debian installer goes for the lowest common denominator instead of trying something fancy and high-faluting like, say, the Mandrake installer, which when I used it last kept dumping core after package selection.
dselect is insufficient. It may be powerful, but when I have to WADE through 8600+ packages manually, one at a time, something is wrong. It shouldn't take me a DAY to just pick my packages.
Then don't use it. There's aptitude, deity, or just plain apt-get with some judicious usage of debfoster or deborphan. Who says you have to use dselect? And as for manual wading-through of packages--that's what the task metapackages are there for. Want to install a standard server setup? Here's sshd, apache, ftp, etc. Want to install a desktop environment? Here's the entire set of XFree86 standard packages. Want gnome? Want KDE? Same thing. Dselect SHOWS YOU all this.
Grabbing the release via jigdo on my Windows box (all 7 bin CDs) and tyrign to instlal the first time rsultied in SOMETHING causing all my selceted packages to be 'corrupt' in somebody's eyes.. (I suspect the hardening packages). Purchasing someone elese's burnm of the images revealed my CDs were fine, and I had to REPEAT the entire process from scratch ot get the OS to install.
Are you nuts? The 7 CDs contain the packages for all the different arches--which you'll never need as a regular user. Stick with just downloading and burning the first CD--install the rest from the 'net. Or go one step further--install only the base package (which at last check is a mere 30-odd megs or so) and do the rest from the 'net. You've got the bandwidth to burn, since you dl'd all 7 CDs without batting an eye, so this method shouldn't faze you at all.
That's the demo package for the ISPs, which includes an access point and 3 subscriber modules. The access point is for a single location, and it covers a fairly large area of service.
As a customer you have the choice of buying your own subscriber module for $500 (which I've done) or lease one for some additional amount of money per month, and then here you can get a guy to do the installation for $100 (it needs to be mounted on the roof).
I recently moved to the boonies, where there was no cable internet and I was too far from the nearest CO for DSL.
What was left to me was AOL, so I signed up for that 1025 hours, and then did some shopping around online for another internet provider... I eventually ended up with a wireless internet service provider that uses the Motorola Canopy system, which gives me sustained performance comparable to a decent cable or DSL service, plus even more nice things like static IP and RDNS allocation.
Needlessly to say, then it was "Goodbye, AOL!"... "The call" was pretty funny to me, since I had (ab)used their service to leap to a competitor. The rep on the other end tried in vain to convince me to keep my AOL account, and even tried to use the argument that "a dynamic ip is good because it's more secure." I got tired in the end and basically told him to cut the crap and just cancel my account.
There aren't that many true vulnerabilities for IIS either.
Don't forget that entire waves of worms starting from Code Red were targetted solely at one single vulnerability (which was actually patched a couple of months before Code Red actually struck).
History? A history of words taken from other languages and other words butchered to such a degree that they don't even conform to basic rules that are taught in grade school!
The English language is a mess--don't try to defend it.
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We can't have VM problems until we can actually compile the kernel. Why have a 2.5.x release if it doesn't even compile?
NASA had their share of setbacks... Apollo 1, Apollo 13, Challenger, recent Mars probes... hell the Boeing Delta 3 rocket that blew up on a launch back in 1998.
To accomplish something major like this setbacks (sometimes expensive) are inevitable.
And to be able to process and use enough information to score a certification in a given language wouldn't impart the concepts behind programming well enough, is it?
Do you honestly believe that in the complicated situations these working professionals today that they won't have the reference material by their side? Why, say, is the ability to work with documentation for reference any less valuable than being able to do basic CS shit like writing a function to read a file without reading dev manpages?
Do you honestly believe some random BCS degree can design a skiplist in some random programming language he has never used before by the end of the day, when he is taught nothing but modula-3 and/or java in college?
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Their level of technology is not particularly high--the USA has much better toys.
And by then the Chinese alternative will cost just as much as the (current) major brands. You didn't complete the other section of your trend analysis.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Talk to us again once they get to censoring everything Hollywood puts out for sexual content and violence.
1) clean up all socks, underwear, pizza boxes, AOL disks, rejection notices, banana peels, etc.
2) vacuum
3) Profit!
It's a Friday, therefore we love the MPAA.
As a customer you have the choice of buying your own subscriber module for $500 (which I've done) or lease one for some additional amount of money per month, and then here you can get a guy to do the installation for $100 (it needs to be mounted on the roof).
What was left to me was AOL, so I signed up for that 1025 hours, and then did some shopping around online for another internet provider... I eventually ended up with a wireless internet service provider that uses the Motorola Canopy system, which gives me sustained performance comparable to a decent cable or DSL service, plus even more nice things like static IP and RDNS allocation.
Needlessly to say, then it was "Goodbye, AOL!" ... "The call" was pretty funny to me, since I had (ab)used their service to leap to a competitor. The rep on the other end tried in vain to convince me to keep my AOL account, and even tried to use the argument that "a dynamic ip is good because it's more secure." I got tired in the end and basically told him to cut the crap and just cancel my account.
Look here.
Looks like they worked pretty fast to smooth that little PR gaffe over.
Frankly, I've got several computers, Linux or otherwise, all performing their tasks and they're Working Just Fine(tm). Why risk them?
They may not have been infected at all.
Laws aren't applied retroactively you poltroon.
Which FTP? The one big name in "bug-ridden doomware" in the panoply of FTP servers is wu-ftpd, a decidedly *nix ftp server ...
There aren't that many true vulnerabilities for IIS either.
Don't forget that entire waves of worms starting from Code Red were targetted solely at one single vulnerability (which was actually patched a couple of months before Code Red actually struck).
I've also heard that a virtual processor requires its own CPU license, at least in Win2K.
Principles? Every other word has a different way to spell a single common sound.
"I before E, except after C ... and excepting words such as seize, either, weird, height ..."
History? A history of words taken from other languages and other words butchered to such a degree that they don't even conform to basic rules that are taught in grade school!
The English language is a mess--don't try to defend it.
We can't have VM problems until we can actually compile the kernel. Why have a 2.5.x release if it doesn't even compile?
To accomplish something major like this setbacks (sometimes expensive) are inevitable.
Disclaimer: There are various (unofficial) levels of MCSE-- Some may not know how to play Minesweeper or Solitaire.
Disclaimer #2: I'm studying for a MCSE.
The key word is "or". He would not have the license for all of the above, just one of the above.
And to be able to process and use enough information to score a certification in a given language wouldn't impart the concepts behind programming well enough, is it?
Do you honestly believe that in the complicated situations these working professionals today that they won't have the reference material by their side? Why, say, is the ability to work with documentation for reference any less valuable than being able to do basic CS shit like writing a function to read a file without reading dev manpages?
Do you honestly believe some random BCS degree can design a skiplist in some random programming language he has never used before by the end of the day, when he is taught nothing but modula-3 and/or java in college?