I guess that depends on your definition of "better". For me, a company that sues its competition into oblivion rather than actually try to compete with them is not worthy of my business.
Yeah, offtopic, ok I know... I guess I'm still pissed that they crushed Aureal before the win2k and linux drivers were finished.
I've been told, though I don't have an official source, that as of recently companies are no longer allowed to declare a sale as income until the warranty has expired. I imagine this is why maxtor and wd are reducing their warranties. In fact, I noticed in the last Dell catalog that found its way into my house that they're doing the same sort of thing.
In Linux, something goes awry and you have to go to the console, start editing files, all that stuff... yes, thats true. But I think your characterization of fixing Windows problems is way off. If something goes wrong, sure, you have pretty buttons, but you still don't necessarily have any idea which ones to press and when. And I have to laugh at the "huge company to support you" part. I have never in my whole life met someone who had a good tech support experience with Microsoft. So with Windows, you really have no information, so you just press whatever random pretty buttons you can find until it works, or until you've rebooted so many times that you just don't care anymore. Sure Windows installers don't break much, certainly a lot less than the average rpm-related trainwreck, but when the system does break down, I have to argue with the notion that its easy to fix.
I'm a big fan of OpenBSD and all, but point of order: ssh is NOT in the OpenBSD ports tree, which is why the vulnerability was discovered by a FreeBSD guy (its in their ports tree). I haven't heard how far this thing got into the OpenBSD system, for instance if it got into the patch branch. Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems to me that if it did get into the OpenBSD cvs tree, no amount of md5sums would help us.
Maybe my memory is fuzzy, but wasn't Sen. Leahy the one who basically said there's no way in hell the SSSCA/CBDTPA/whatever that bill is called would be passed this year? Sure I'm disappointed he's in favor of this one, but credit where credit is due.
Funny, I always felt Gnome was more MacOS-like than anything else, though that may be because I have some weird natural tendancy to make my desktop look as Mac-ish as possible.
For performance, yeah its not the fastest, and I wouldn't run it on my P166... but Gnome looks so good (with nautilus) that I'm prepared to take the hit, which really isn't that bad on remotely recent hardware.
Over the past year I've become a gnome addict. I don't like being in KDE because I can't make it look like Gnome, and on those rare occasions where I boot windows I just want to hurt people. If I had more than $75 to my name right now, I'd definitely consider donating.
I'm on ATTbi too, though it was MediaOne back when I signed up. Back then, they had a daemon or something that ran around checking to see if it could bounce mail off people's computers, and if it could it would send a message to a bunch of account names that machine might have (root,webmaster, admin, etc.) explaining to the user that he/she is running a vulnerable mail server. It even had a link to a website that explained how to disable relaying for several different types of mailservers.
MediaOne was always cool like that... as long as I wasn't pulling my bandwidth cap both ways simultaneously, spamming people, and running DoS attacks they couldn't care less what I did. In fact, the license agreement used to say that they didn't support running servers, but they didn't forbid them either. Fortunately, AT&T seems to be perfectly happy to look the other way as well, but the second they start harassing me I'm cancelling the service.
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Looks like alternatives FOR p2p warfare to me, not alternatives TO p2p warfare...
I take that to mean evaluate different methods of p2p warfare and pick the best one.
I guess that depends on your definition of "better". For me, a company that sues its competition into oblivion rather than actually try to compete with them is not worthy of my business.
Yeah, offtopic, ok I know... I guess I'm still pissed that they crushed Aureal before the win2k and linux drivers were finished.
I've been told, though I don't have an official source, that as of recently companies are no longer allowed to declare a sale as income until the warranty has expired. I imagine this is why maxtor and wd are reducing their warranties. In fact, I noticed in the last Dell catalog that found its way into my house that they're doing the same sort of thing.
In Linux, something goes awry and you have to go to the console, start editing files, all that stuff... yes, thats true. But I think your characterization of fixing Windows problems is way off. If something goes wrong, sure, you have pretty buttons, but you still don't necessarily have any idea which ones to press and when. And I have to laugh at the "huge company to support you" part. I have never in my whole life met someone who had a good tech support experience with Microsoft. So with Windows, you really have no information, so you just press whatever random pretty buttons you can find until it works, or until you've rebooted so many times that you just don't care anymore. Sure Windows installers don't break much, certainly a lot less than the average rpm-related trainwreck, but when the system does break down, I have to argue with the notion that its easy to fix.
I'm a big fan of OpenBSD and all, but point of order: ssh is NOT in the OpenBSD ports tree, which is why the vulnerability was discovered by a FreeBSD guy (its in their ports tree). I haven't heard how far this thing got into the OpenBSD system, for instance if it got into the patch branch. Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems to me that if it did get into the OpenBSD cvs tree, no amount of md5sums would help us.
Maybe my memory is fuzzy, but wasn't Sen. Leahy the one who basically said there's no way in hell the SSSCA/CBDTPA/whatever that bill is called would be passed this year? Sure I'm disappointed he's in favor of this one, but credit where credit is due.
Funny, I always felt Gnome was more MacOS-like than anything else, though that may be because I have some weird natural tendancy to make my desktop look as Mac-ish as possible.
For performance, yeah its not the fastest, and I wouldn't run it on my P166... but Gnome looks so good (with nautilus) that I'm prepared to take the hit, which really isn't that bad on remotely recent hardware.
Over the past year I've become a gnome addict. I don't like being in KDE because I can't make it look like Gnome, and on those rare occasions where I boot windows I just want to hurt people. If I had more than $75 to my name right now, I'd definitely consider donating.
I'm on ATTbi too, though it was MediaOne back when I signed up. Back then, they had a daemon or something that ran around checking to see if it could bounce mail off people's computers, and if it could it would send a message to a bunch of account names that machine might have (root,webmaster, admin, etc.) explaining to the user that he/she is running a vulnerable mail server. It even had a link to a website that explained how to disable relaying for several different types of mailservers. MediaOne was always cool like that... as long as I wasn't pulling my bandwidth cap both ways simultaneously, spamming people, and running DoS attacks they couldn't care less what I did. In fact, the license agreement used to say that they didn't support running servers, but they didn't forbid them either. Fortunately, AT&T seems to be perfectly happy to look the other way as well, but the second they start harassing me I'm cancelling the service.