... some hacker takes their fake mp3 networks down, and formats ALL their harddrives so when their Sys admin wakes up from his valium induced nap he wont have a clue except it is all gone...
what is with some of the people that post here, all they do is bitch about everything under the sun...
i bet they would bitch about being hung with a used piece of rope too...
Linux has it too, in Redhat-7.3 take a look at redhat-config-date it is in there just disabled by default, which is normal to be disabled by default, since i as a concerned Linux user i would not want something accessing the internet without my concent...
is that everybody capable, to open the cover on your computer and use a vaccume and a small paint brush for cleaning out all the dustbunnys from the inside of your computer atleast once every 3 months...
i surely hope Palladium falls apart at the seams before it gets off the ground...
i for one refuse to buy any hardware or software that implements Palladium, and if i can not surf the internet and check my frequently spammed email in box with Linux on my home built computer then i will open the cover and remove all networking devices & cancel my account with my ISP, i have been using the internet & computers for three years out of 42 years of existence on planet Earth and i am sure i can survive without the internet for a long long time, besides computers run fine without the internet, they make great digital file cabinets for record keeping, accounting, address', word processing & printing, photo editing, the list can go on & on & on...
you could very well be right, since M$FT has not built a OS from the ground up since Win3.x & WinNT3.x and M$FT has just been piling crud code on top of them with every release and calling it a new OS including XP
hey rudy, anyone, including me, you and everyone else, are only going to get out of a computer what you put in to it...
if someone is too ignorent to open a script file and edit it with a text editor then maybe they should stay away from computers and stick to watching television, and if someone is dissatisfied with their computer the way it is then they should do something about it (find a solution & fix it), i seen tech BBSs, usenet, and other places for help where some Windoze user is complaing about their computer using vague terms that no one on earth could figure out, (some people are just not getting it when it comes to computers and it don't matter if it is Windoze or Linux they just don't have what it takes to figure em out) like my mother i could show her step by step how to copy & paste and a few minutes later she forgets, but she can make anything on a sewing machine better, than can be bought in a clothing store, but if i got on a sewing machine i would probably drive the needle thru my finger...
Redhat needs to make their distro be able to more easily add other Desktop WMs, as it stands now with 7.3 Redhat dropped Enlightenment, and now only comes with KDE, Gnome, and WindowMaker, (twm if you can stand to use it), what i do with Redhat7.3 is i uncheck Gnome, and leave KDE unchecked too, so there is no WM except for twm (yuck) then i install Blackbox and run switchdesk, then Xclients-default will have to manually edited to point to/usr/bin/blackbox, because the switchdesk command only looks in/usr/X11R6/bin for WMs...
one other thing, if Redhat does to its distro what Mandrake & SuSE done with theirs, i will be looking for another distro, because i have had nothing but grief with Mandrake & SuSE because their distro specific hand-holding applications totally suck and cause more problems than good...
can we say Slackware???
well installing Gnome's desktop will take most all the RPMs in the Gnome-2.0 tree which can be a little daunting for a newbie Linux user, go to http://www.ximian.org/ and download Ximian's red-carpet and/or download their XimianGnome installer you will have better results and more likely to succeed in getting Gnome installed...
(this will do until you have become much more familiar with Linux)
what is this user friendly crap all about anyway, I can install Linux with only Blackbox for a desktop, No Gnome No KDE, no other desktop whatsoever and it will be just as user friendly as any of the big desktops with all their fancy widgets & gismoes...
"user friendly" is a weapon so be carefull where you point it...
wait till Gnome gets over the X.0 hump, maybe 2.1 or higher up the 2.x branch, i am sure there will be added features and widgets & gismoes & gadgets plus plenty of whatnots & whohows too!!!
Brick & Mortar, the real thing (not online)...
The store proprietor been running his store for over 10 years at the same location, just a short drive to the city for me.
yeah...
right...
buy your computer parts from a carnival gypsy, and if something goes wrong the carnival gypsey has left town- then what?, i prefer to buy from a store that sells computers parts for a modest profit, sure these stores have a little overhead but they got eat and pay bills too, and atleast he will be in the same place if i need make a return or exchange something or just call for advise...
924 comments...
whew!!! thats a bunch of comments, well here is one more, my first computer was a Gateway with Win98, when I bought it I did not have a clue about computers, but it was a springboard of education that taught me computers, software, OSs both Windoze & Linux, since I bought that computer I learned a lot, I learned what a bunch of ripoffs OEMs & M$FT both are, now I have built my own since then, and I can build a better quality machine and it could cost less money than what a OEM could produced equivalent...
lets see:
piece of junk OEM $2,500 (made from questionable parts)
VSs'
home built with top quality parts $475.oo
friends don't let friends buy OEM & M$FT
GO Linux!!!
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found another source for this news article, M$NBC sucks dirt clods...
i don't want nothing to do with AL Gore's rithm... and i don't want it in my computer..
The Russians really want M$FT's Monkeys... http://mslinux.org/
... some hacker takes their fake mp3 networks down, and formats ALL their harddrives so when their Sys admin wakes up from his valium induced nap he wont have a clue except it is all gone...
what is with some of the people that post here, all they do is bitch about everything under the sun... i bet they would bitch about being hung with a used piece of rope too...
I hope the Simputer makes it to the USA, i want one!!! and they run Linux too!!! COOL!!!
Linux has it too, in Redhat-7.3 take a look at redhat-config-date it is in there just disabled by default, which is normal to be disabled by default, since i as a concerned Linux user i would not want something accessing the internet without my concent...
is that everybody capable, to open the cover on your computer and use a vaccume and a small paint brush for cleaning out all the dustbunnys from the inside of your computer atleast once every 3 months...
i surely hope Palladium falls apart at the seams before it gets off the ground... i for one refuse to buy any hardware or software that implements Palladium, and if i can not surf the internet and check my frequently spammed email in box with Linux on my home built computer then i will open the cover and remove all networking devices & cancel my account with my ISP, i have been using the internet & computers for three years out of 42 years of existence on planet Earth and i am sure i can survive without the internet for a long long time, besides computers run fine without the internet, they make great digital file cabinets for record keeping, accounting, address', word processing & printing, photo editing, the list can go on & on & on...
you could very well be right, since M$FT has not built a OS from the ground up since Win3.x & WinNT3.x and M$FT has just been piling crud code on top of them with every release and calling it a new OS including XP
Don't buy anything with Palladium inside!!!
he will be missed, this is most unfortunate...
hey rudy, anyone, including me, you and everyone else, are only going to get out of a computer what you put in to it... if someone is too ignorent to open a script file and edit it with a text editor then maybe they should stay away from computers and stick to watching television, and if someone is dissatisfied with their computer the way it is then they should do something about it (find a solution & fix it), i seen tech BBSs, usenet, and other places for help where some Windoze user is complaing about their computer using vague terms that no one on earth could figure out, (some people are just not getting it when it comes to computers and it don't matter if it is Windoze or Linux they just don't have what it takes to figure em out) like my mother i could show her step by step how to copy & paste and a few minutes later she forgets, but she can make anything on a sewing machine better, than can be bought in a clothing store, but if i got on a sewing machine i would probably drive the needle thru my finger...
Redhat needs to make their distro be able to more easily add other Desktop WMs, as it stands now with 7.3 Redhat dropped Enlightenment, and now only comes with KDE, Gnome, and WindowMaker, (twm if you can stand to use it), what i do with Redhat7.3 is i uncheck Gnome, and leave KDE unchecked too, so there is no WM except for twm (yuck) then i install Blackbox and run switchdesk, then Xclients-default will have to manually edited to point to /usr/bin/blackbox, because the switchdesk command only looks in /usr/X11R6/bin for WMs...
one other thing, if Redhat does to its distro what Mandrake & SuSE done with theirs, i will be looking for another distro, because i have had nothing but grief with Mandrake & SuSE because their distro specific hand-holding applications totally suck and cause more problems than good...
can we say Slackware???
well installing Gnome's desktop will take most all the RPMs in the Gnome-2.0 tree which can be a little daunting for a newbie Linux user, go to http://www.ximian.org/ and download Ximian's red-carpet and/or download their XimianGnome installer you will have better results and more likely to succeed in getting Gnome installed... (this will do until you have become much more familiar with Linux)
WindowMaker is cool, so is Blackbox, they are both my favorite light WMs, just waiting a few days for Gnome-2.0 to hit Ximian's...
what is this user friendly crap all about anyway, I can install Linux with only Blackbox for a desktop, No Gnome No KDE, no other desktop whatsoever and it will be just as user friendly as any of the big desktops with all their fancy widgets & gismoes... "user friendly" is a weapon so be carefull where you point it...
wait till Gnome gets over the X.0 hump, maybe 2.1 or higher up the 2.x branch, i am sure there will be added features and widgets & gismoes & gadgets plus plenty of whatnots & whohows too!!!
.....yeah.....right..... Like I am going to run right out and buy one of these crippled and castrated computers, When pigs fly...
Damn billy borg gates soul to hell, M$FT too...
damn!!!
Brick & Mortar, the real thing (not online)... The store proprietor been running his store for over 10 years at the same location, just a short drive to the city for me.
yeah... right... buy your computer parts from a carnival gypsy, and if something goes wrong the carnival gypsey has left town- then what?, i prefer to buy from a store that sells computers parts for a modest profit, sure these stores have a little overhead but they got eat and pay bills too, and atleast he will be in the same place if i need make a return or exchange something or just call for advise...
CompVisGuy i bet you work for a OEM, maybe Dell you surely mentioned them a few times, or you are a stock holder in Dell...
924 comments... whew!!! thats a bunch of comments, well here is one more, my first computer was a Gateway with Win98, when I bought it I did not have a clue about computers, but it was a springboard of education that taught me computers, software, OSs both Windoze & Linux, since I bought that computer I learned a lot, I learned what a bunch of ripoffs OEMs & M$FT both are, now I have built my own since then, and I can build a better quality machine and it could cost less money than what a OEM could produced equivalent... lets see: piece of junk OEM $2,500 (made from questionable parts) VSs' home built with top quality parts $475.oo friends don't let friends buy OEM & M$FT GO Linux!!!
when i go get a new body cloned i want it made from purely OpenSource GPLed genes, i don't want none of that copywrited/patented genes...