I've been reading this thread. OK linux is great as a geek playground. I used to set up PCs for home users and all they wanted was the same box they use at work with the same software. Their kids wanted to play the latest games that they sell at K-mart etc. This all equals Windoze. Apple and Linux don't have cred with kids and kids drive a lot of computer sales.
Geeks say who cares if its mainstream I can make it work. Well that won't do in the real world. So keep up the geek pissing contest that makes slashdot what it is, but once in a while get out and have a look at the real world. Because Microsoft owns the real world.
so what your saying is your linux box is a terminal for your citrix environment so you can use MS apps on your linux box. sounds to me like you just reinvented the wheel. linux makes a great thin client everyone woohooo.
I used linux on my second PC for 6 months and even got it networked and sharing my DSL connection but eventualy I got sick of the hassle and put my old copy of WinMe back on. WinMe networked fine with my XP box and everything just worked. My second PC is my wife's main work PC so she was happy to have windows back too. Still I miss the warm fussy counter culture 1337 kind of feeling using linux gave me and all the hacking and command line stuff reminded me of my C64 and Amiga days.
But when it comes down to it i just want it to work. Now all our printers and drives are shared without any probs. If I could have done that with linux without wading through endless command lines and man pages I would still have it there. Oh well now all you linux zelots can start flaming me. Let the stoning commence.
So why does this rate a slash dot? Check any PC casemodding site and you can see better. I've even seen a PC inside a remote control car and the car still drives! Seen far nicer clear case mods too. Apple's own cube was cool, this is just fugly.
This might be novel for the average Apple 'tard but its old news for us 1337 PC types.
I have ADSL in Oz with iprimus and it's great. I pay AU$100 (US$50) a month for 125/512 upstream downstream and a 5 gig cap. Its rare that I have problems.
You can get cheaper, but I'm willing to pay for good service.
Apart from that Oz really is the best country in the world.:)
well braniac, my point is that throwing more technology at a grunt will not always make him the dominant player on the battlefield. In Iraq the mobile armoured part of the war was quickly over and done with due mainly to superior firepower. But note that US forces are still taking casualties in towns in Iraq and Afganistan. Look at Isreal's experience in Palestine, they can make incursions into the occupied territories but does it stop the suicide bombers?
In an urban environment up against lightly equipped perps with a death wish whose aim is to take a few yanks to hell with them, the technology provides less of an edge. I think in that envionment traditional soldiering skills keep you alive, not some roboyank suit.
If you look at military history superior firepower and equipment can count for zip if you are up against superior motivation and leadership. Look at the French and Americans in Vietnam, The lightly armed German paras in Crete, The British v French at Agencourt, etc etc.
Am I making myself clear now? Duh. Future wars will not be conventional wars, they will most likely be irregulars v regulars. ffs. *sigh*
yeah right maybe you should read my statement, a overloaded grunt compared to a ideologicaly motivated perp with an AK47 and two magazines, using hit and run tactics in an urban environment.
I can just imagine the scenario, poor grunt struggling under the load of all this extra crap can hardly move on the battlefield, and some 12 year old raghead with an AK jumps up and fills the grunt full of lead.
btw is all this tech going to stop the yanks from shooting each other and their allies?
its a swindle, once M$ have the installed user base the NPOs well have to pay big $$ like everyone else. I finally moved to redhat because I got sick of forking out more money to M$. I've also moved my gaming over to the PS2 because I got tired of trying to keep my game box 1337 with the latest hardware specs.
I pay about $50 US a month and have a 5 gig cap. I've got ADLS 128 upload 512 download. I'm with iprimus and have only experienced one or two problems in about 6 months.
There is something awesome about the purity and simplicity of these objects. It makes you realise so much of your life is just over-complex crap.
In the same vein I value the pure driving experience my Miata MX5 gives me, as opposed to my luxo barge Camry family transport pod.:)
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I can't believe the code was on a PC that had a connection to the internet. Its just insane.
I've been reading this thread. OK linux is great as a geek playground. I used to set up PCs for home users and all they wanted was the same box they use at work with the same software. Their kids wanted to play the latest games that they sell at K-mart etc. This all equals Windoze. Apple and Linux don't have cred with kids and kids drive a lot of computer sales.
Geeks say who cares if its mainstream I can make it work. Well that won't do in the real world. So keep up the geek pissing contest that makes slashdot what it is, but once in a while get out and have a look at the real world. Because Microsoft owns the real world.
it will never happen, software sells computers and 99% of software ppl want runs on windoze.
so what your saying is your linux box is a terminal for your citrix environment so you can use MS apps on your linux box. sounds to me like you just reinvented the wheel. linux makes a great thin client everyone woohooo.
I used linux on my second PC for 6 months and even got it networked and sharing my DSL connection but eventualy I got sick of the hassle and put my old copy of WinMe back on. WinMe networked fine with my XP box and everything just worked. My second PC is my wife's main work PC so she was happy to have windows back too. Still I miss the warm fussy counter culture 1337 kind of feeling using linux gave me and all the hacking and command line stuff reminded me of my C64 and Amiga days.
But when it comes down to it i just want it to work. Now all our printers and drives are shared without any probs. If I could have done that with linux without wading through endless command lines and man pages I would still have it there. Oh well now all you linux zelots can start flaming me. Let the stoning commence.
lol, yeah that mini-itx site is really cool, the millinium falcon mod is the greatest.
let me guess wq is leet speak for wanker.
So why does this rate a slash dot? Check any PC casemodding site and you can see better. I've even seen a PC inside a remote control car and the car still drives! Seen far nicer clear case mods too. Apple's own cube was cool, this is just fugly.
This might be novel for the average Apple 'tard but its old news for us 1337 PC types.
PS f@rk you!
cue predictable anti MS bitching, security jokes etc. *yawn*
I have ADSL in Oz with iprimus and it's great. I pay AU$100 (US$50) a month for 125/512 upstream downstream and a 5 gig cap. Its rare that I have problems.
:)
You can get cheaper, but I'm willing to pay for good service.
Apart from that Oz really is the best country in the world.
Life's a package deal, and mine is OK as a whole.
well braniac, my point is that throwing more technology at a grunt will not always make him the dominant player on the battlefield. In Iraq the mobile armoured part of the war was quickly over and done with due mainly to superior firepower. But note that US forces are still taking casualties in towns in Iraq and Afganistan. Look at Isreal's experience in Palestine, they can make incursions into the occupied territories but does it stop the suicide bombers?
In an urban environment up against lightly equipped perps with a death wish whose aim is to take a few yanks to hell with them, the technology provides less of an edge. I think in that envionment traditional soldiering skills keep you alive, not some roboyank suit.
If you look at military history superior firepower and equipment can count for zip if you are up against superior motivation and leadership. Look at the French and Americans in Vietnam, The lightly armed German paras in Crete, The British v French at Agencourt, etc etc.
Am I making myself clear now? Duh. Future wars will not be conventional wars, they will most likely be irregulars v regulars. ffs. *sigh*
yeah right maybe you should read my statement, a overloaded grunt compared to a ideologicaly motivated perp with an AK47 and two magazines, using hit and run tactics in an urban environment.
I can just imagine the scenario, poor grunt struggling under the load of all this extra crap can hardly move on the battlefield, and some 12 year old raghead with an AK jumps up and fills the grunt full of lead.
btw is all this tech going to stop the yanks from shooting each other and their allies?
its a swindle, once M$ have the installed user base the NPOs well have to pay big $$ like everyone else. I finally moved to redhat because I got sick of forking out more money to M$.
I've also moved my gaming over to the PS2 because I got tired of trying to keep my game box 1337 with the latest hardware specs.
duh! as if it was real. imagine iLoos at woodstock 2k (whatever) they would have been the first thing the wanna be hippies torched.
its called a vacuum cleaner :)
Windows is already rooted, it don't need no stinkin' root kit. btw in Australia root = f@#k.
Well, when you put it that way I agree with you.
BTW my brother is in China and he has ADSL for 80 bucks a YEAR with NO cap at all and its 1 meg each way. So we're worse than a 3rd world country.
Then again I've been using the net since the 2600 baud rate days so I'm just grateful to have any broadband at all
Forget Audi, go for a BMW M3 or any Mercedes SL
Yeah right, troll
Its good here and I live in the sticks, maybe its because we have an Army and Airforce base here
I pay about $50 US a month and have a 5 gig cap. I've got ADLS 128 upload 512 download. I'm with iprimus and have only experienced one or two problems in about 6 months.
There is something awesome about the purity and simplicity of these objects. It makes you realise so much of your life is just over-complex crap. In the same vein I value the pure driving experience my Miata MX5 gives me, as opposed to my luxo barge Camry family transport pod. :)
I like it, but I'm a redhat newbie so maybe I'm just lame.
I think we slashdotted the hirez bra pic on the luminex site. :)