PKZip, while perfectly good, is running a distant second in popularity based on my observations.
I think the reality is that PKZip is running far behind. I'll go so far to say that RAR is ahead of them. I use RAR over ZIP any chance I can; if it werent for compatibility with "administrative assistant" types, I would do everything in RAR. Better compression, better features.
So if they got around the encryption to decypher the conversations, they violated the DMCA and should be punished. Right? Hillary where are you now, bitch!??
Would it have been so hard to create a few images showing what the fonts actually look like?
I never understood how open source/*nix misses the usability bandwagon again and again, even with something as simple as releasing a new font. Please tell me I'm wrong and somewhere, clearly marked, is a picture of this font.
Any programmer will say this is totally irresponsible. People like to broadcast holes, especially in MS products, simply because its a hole in a MS product. The whole "screw them" attitude gets tired after about the age of 15, and dangerously irresponsible for any half-witted person. Just because you hate MS is no reason to put computers at risk. If you think you're not at risk, go to the machine room in your university (where I happen to work) or you bank and you'll be surprised to see just how much of your "safe unix data" really runs on Win98 and NT4 Server.
I cant help thinking of that line in A Few Good Men where Nicholson's character says "All you did was weaken a country today. That's all you did."
While I'm all for Linux where applicable, all my primary systems are XP for the following reasons:
1) Cost is footed by work. (Also, ActiveDirectory domain support is necessary)
2) Huge selection of apps (Cakewalk's Guitar Tracks Pro on Linux? I wish.) and games.
3) Desktop usability that blows Linux out of the water.
4) Intuitive application paths, no dependency hell.
5) Wide selection of hardware drivers not written by 14-year-old Koreans.
6) Years of familiarity, for what its worth.
While I run several 2000 Adv Svrs including IIS servers, I do feel that Linux/Apache is a killer combo and look forward to mastering Apache 2.0.
So while I am primary a Windows guy, I dont knock either Linux or Windows just for the sake of knocking.
"I checked the IBM PC Camera by starting xawtv and sure enough, Red Hat had it working without any effort on my part, just as it had done with the PCMCIA NIC. The install was soup -- no dependency insanity, and just one stinkin' reboot."
If you think a typical box comes with hardware RH detects right out of the box, youre fucking insane. Let an average user build a box and see what works under XP/2k and what doesnt under RH. It's a sad fact but an unignorable one. Of course there was no "dependency insanity" moron, it solved all your dependencies for you during install. Idiot.
This comparison fails on so many levels.
Ignoring that it was done by someone from linuxworld.com and not an independent, neutral, 3rd party, it's biggest failure is comparing a brand-spanking newest build of RedHat against a 2-year-old Win2k Pro.
Are we *supposed* to be surprised that in 2 years there are more patches for win2k than there are for RH7.3? The Sony Vaio and McAfee popups have absolutely nothing to do with either OS, so their popups should be ignored on both OS's. Should MS be penalized because their vendors write launchers with horrible usability such as this? He also knew everything about setting up mount points and partitions; is the average user supposed to know how big to make a swap, usr, or boot partitions? Why didnt he accept the defaults like he did with the Win2k install?
Put the install up against XP and try it again, chief. 1 cd, I think a total of 3 mouse clicks for the entire XP installation, a far superior and smoother installation process than either 2k or RH.
I'm sorry, but as much as I use both Windows and RH, this just wasnt even close to a neutral benchmark test. Not by far.
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I think the reality is that PKZip is running far behind. I'll go so far to say that RAR is ahead of them. I use RAR over ZIP any chance I can; if it werent for compatibility with "administrative assistant" types, I would do everything in RAR. Better compression, better features.
So if they got around the encryption to decypher the conversations, they violated the DMCA and should be punished. Right? Hillary where are you now, bitch!??
I predict now that the first early adapters of this technology will be for HD porn.
I never understood how open source/*nix misses the usability bandwagon again and again, even with something as simple as releasing a new font. Please tell me I'm wrong and somewhere, clearly marked, is a picture of this font.
Is your friend normally in the habit of writing trojans and giving them to the public?
Sun Java (JVM) is crap. What a step backwards.
I cant help thinking of that line in A Few Good Men where Nicholson's character says "All you did was weaken a country today. That's all you did."
1) Cost is footed by work. (Also, ActiveDirectory domain support is necessary) 2) Huge selection of apps (Cakewalk's Guitar Tracks Pro on Linux? I wish.) and games. 3) Desktop usability that blows Linux out of the water. 4) Intuitive application paths, no dependency hell. 5) Wide selection of hardware drivers not written by 14-year-old Koreans. 6) Years of familiarity, for what its worth.
While I run several 2000 Adv Svrs including IIS servers, I do feel that Linux/Apache is a killer combo and look forward to mastering Apache 2.0.
So while I am primary a Windows guy, I dont knock either Linux or Windows just for the sake of knocking.
Because we all know no other OS ships with bugs, right?
How is white the advantage? I always did a coin toss to see who went first :(
If you think a typical box comes with hardware RH detects right out of the box, youre fucking insane. Let an average user build a box and see what works under XP/2k and what doesnt under RH. It's a sad fact but an unignorable one. Of course there was no "dependency insanity" moron, it solved all your dependencies for you during install. Idiot.
This comparison fails on so many levels. Ignoring that it was done by someone from linuxworld.com and not an independent, neutral, 3rd party, it's biggest failure is comparing a brand-spanking newest build of RedHat against a 2-year-old Win2k Pro. Are we *supposed* to be surprised that in 2 years there are more patches for win2k than there are for RH7.3? The Sony Vaio and McAfee popups have absolutely nothing to do with either OS, so their popups should be ignored on both OS's. Should MS be penalized because their vendors write launchers with horrible usability such as this? He also knew everything about setting up mount points and partitions; is the average user supposed to know how big to make a swap, usr, or boot partitions? Why didnt he accept the defaults like he did with the Win2k install? Put the install up against XP and try it again, chief. 1 cd, I think a total of 3 mouse clicks for the entire XP installation, a far superior and smoother installation process than either 2k or RH. I'm sorry, but as much as I use both Windows and RH, this just wasnt even close to a neutral benchmark test. Not by far.