At that point, the really popular game was Counterstrike. It was a strange experience to be writing home while the sound of gunfire came at me from a dozen directions...
I have to admit wondering at the time what effect it would have for an entire nation to grow up playing a game like that. They would be well-versed in squad combat techniques, for a start...
Uh, huh. Watch an average group of people playing Counterstrike. No squad tactics, just everyone rushes to the middle of the map and there's a big clash with little or no coordination.
1) Code for Macs 2) Realize that x86 laptops aren't as bad as you're claiming 3) Suffer
This isn't worthy of Ask Slashdot. It's nothing more than a bit of Apple brown-nosing -- and this is coming from someone who has a deep appreciation for what the original Mac team accomplished.
Sigh. More legalisms on the website, in their Usage Agreement:
Except as specifically permitted herein, no portion of the information on this Website maybe used, reproduced, broadcast, published or retransmitted in any form, or by any means, without prior written permission from Linksys. You are not permitted nor authorized to modify, distribute, publish, transmit or create derivative works of any materials found on this Website for any public or commercial purpose.
So the usage agreement states that the usage agreement is the sole authority to license information on the website. Which overrides any GPL licenses included with tarballs.
I can't make up my SSN and not give it to the government, since it would not be an identifier of anything.
You have a smart card. Gov't asks you for a unique identifier for use in draft registration. You make up a random number, append it to your actual ID number, send back a SHA-1 of the result.
I'm a little dubious that the double-click email worm will ever become a problem under Linux.
The reason that it's a problem in Windows is that Microsoft has followed a metaphor dictating that the whole OS should act like a big integrated productivity package. Web browser, word processor, database access, etc. You double-click on something, anywhere, and it opens, handled by the appropriate module. It has certain nice features from a usability point of view, but sucks from a security point of view when documents are flying all over.
That metaphor isn't really present in Linux, despite KDE.
He doesn't follow Linux news, so he'd have no idea that stuff like OpenOffice even exist unless some kindly folks took the time to dispel his false assumptions.
Or unless he uses the Windows version of OpenOffice.
He admittedly didn't word it in a very nice way, but there is a valid point there.
I don't see a problem with having two gurus install Linux for you. Most Joe Sixpack types get Windows preinstalled, and wouldn't be tremendously happy installing it and setting it up.
However, if you want to buy and use a new piece of hardware, you can generally just buy it and follow the directions on an included card. Yes, maybe in six years they won't work any more, and you may not be taking advantage of the product's features, but you can get it up and running without any issues.
That really isn't true for Linux, much as I hate to say it. Linux really is quite usable and good for a typical non-tech office workers (as long as they don't heavily use MS document formats with the rest of their workgroup), as long as there is an on-staff guru supporting the thing.
That isn't because of a fundamental flaw in Linux, but because, while you can get Linux talking to most hardware these days, it's not the supported, idiot-proof path that's put out for Windows.
This isn't an anti-Linux rant. I've used Linux exclusively for years now. I think it's a terrible waste when a techncially-oriented person decides to use Windows, because if you sit down and try out Unix and understand the way it's built, the whole operating-system-is-a-programming-environment metaphor is incredibly powerful. You really won't want to leave it again. However, for a typical user, Linux needs to be professionally supported to be workable.
And for the professional user (at least a large, large chunk of 'em), Linux needs better support for Office formats to be adopted. Yes, there's OO.org, and yes, MS formats really aren't very good for interchange, and yes, even MS has their own importing bugs. When it comes down to it, though, the general case is that a Windows-using user tends to be able to work with Microsoft-product-generated formats more easily and reliabily than their Linux counterpart. And that's a serious impediment in the current cubicle world.
I have to salute you. For the first time in recent memory, someone's made a legitimate "the record companies are out of touch with technology" post. This isn't just a "I'm not getting free music, so the record companies suck" post, but a good point.
if we would have taken care of Hitler BEFORE he became a world wide problem we would not have had world war II.
Maybe. I just finished a class on the German political struggles during and immediately before World War II:-), actually, and while perhaps such ambitions moves as Hitler made would have been postponed, to claim that things like the Rhineland and severe Jewish issues wouldn't have happened without Hitler is quite arguable.
Before or after my children are nuked, infected with smallpox, or whatever else this guy was working on.
That's ridiculous. Despite what it's pretty safe to say is probably the most exhaustive weapons hunt in the modern world, we haven't been able to turn up any of these hoards of WMD that Bush kept claiming that Saddam had.
Both US and British intelligence said that this guy needed to go and his regime with him.
US and British *executive leadership* said that he needed to go. The two are not synonymous.
No question. But when foreign agencies are willing to put me and my family at risk for personal and financial gain
I don't understand. When did this happen?
Sadam was a danger to the world and it's a better place without him.
Destine, a *brick* is a danger to the world. It could potentially slide down a hill and hit a goat, which would run in front of a car and cause a crash, giving someone a concussion.
Saddam was possibly the *least* likely world leader to take hostile measures against the United States, because the only reason he was hanging on to his regime was because world opinion was that the US shouldn't wipe him out. The claim of "defense" would be a blank check for the US to drop him. Saddam wasn't involved with al Queda. He hasn't instigated terrorist attacks against the United States. He has not taken foreign military action against the United States. As a matter of fact, the only conflict he's engaged the United States in has been defensive -- the only form of military conflict allowed under the United Nations charter, and incidently one that the United States has broken many, many times (see my sig).
Saddam was not particularly dangerous to the United States. He *was*, however, controlling the world's second largest supply of the United State's most crucial foreign import. Now, after our invasion of Iraq, we've decided that we need to control the government of Iraq for an indefinite period of time.
Granted, this could all be innocent concidence. There could be a reason we went after Iraq other than Libya, North Korea, etc.
But there IS a time for war. And while we can hope beyond all hope, we can't ignore danger just because we don't want conflict.
Two assumptions there I don't agree with -- first,, that I claimed that we should never have war (as a matter of fact, I specifically said that our involvement in WWII was justified, which was a mere sixty years ago). Second, that Saddam was a danger. Hell, Saudi Arabia has been *far* more involved with assaulting the United States (the Cole, 9/11) than Iraq has, but Saudi Arabia is a pushover when it comes to giving us oil. Not surprisingly, Saudi Arabia's role in all this has been neatly ignored.
[shrug] It's not really a matter of migration. If you were choosing to set up thousands of systems for the first time, yes, you could certainly choose to use IIS instead of Apache. Same with OO.org and Office.
I've used more debuggers than I can count on my fingers, and while gdb isn't the best out there, I can't stand GUI debuggers. I haven't used any CLI Windows application-level debuggers.
Oh, I have a question: what distro would you recommend?
I'd default to RH if you don't have a personal preference, just because the larger number of users tend to result in software that's best tested for it. Also, RH isn't going anywhere for years to come. It's also got the best support when it comes to that occasional rare binary-only package.
OTOH, if you have other strong preferences, you might follow them. If you're really into having a purely "Free" system, you might try out Debian, which has probably the best in-distro support for remote downloading and instllation, but tends to be less user-friendly. Gentoo is the same thing, less popular support, more modern. Mandrake and SuSE both aimed at desktop distros more...I'd recommend Mandrake over SuSE if you get a chance. Mandrake is probably better than Red Hat if you prefer KDE to GNOME. PLD tends to be very bleeding-edge, which might be your cup of tea.
Hehe. That's ironic -- server and network configuration has probably given me the *most* problems in Windows. Back with NT 4.0, I needed multiple network profiles to deal with moving my computer around, which couldn't be done. Disabling interfaces consistently resulted in a wrong routing table, and I ended up having to remove drivers.
And Apache is the easiest thing in the world to get up and running -- when I needed to set up IIS to do a couple of relatively basic things, all hell broke loose. Somehow, it lost the ability to log into the "web user account" that IIS runs as, and doing some (admittedly oddball) auth stuff took about a week to figure out.
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I'm impressed. You *did* beat *all* the modes, including the ones that you unlock once you beat the game, all without bullet time?
At that point, the really popular game was Counterstrike. It was a strange experience to be writing home while the sound of gunfire came at me from a dozen directions ...
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I have to admit wondering at the time what effect it would have for an entire nation to grow up playing a game like that. They would be well-versed in squad combat techniques, for a start
Uh, huh. Watch an average group of people playing Counterstrike. No squad tactics, just everyone rushes to the middle of the map and there's a big clash with little or no coordination.
Well, as I see it, you have three choices:
1) Code for Macs
2) Realize that x86 laptops aren't as bad as you're claiming
3) Suffer
This isn't worthy of Ask Slashdot. It's nothing more than a bit of Apple brown-nosing -- and this is coming from someone who has a deep appreciation for what the original Mac team accomplished.
Sigh. More legalisms on the website, in their Usage Agreement:
Except as specifically permitted herein, no portion of the information on this Website maybe used, reproduced, broadcast, published or retransmitted in any form, or by any means, without prior written permission from Linksys. You are not permitted nor authorized to modify, distribute, publish, transmit or create derivative works of any materials found on this Website for any public or commercial purpose.
So the usage agreement states that the usage agreement is the sole authority to license information on the website. Which overrides any GPL licenses included with tarballs.
Games don't eat time? This guy hasn't played Zangband...
The random "GNOME sucks" rant was totally unrelated to the post that you were responding to.
I can't make up my SSN and not give it to the government, since it would not be an identifier of anything.
You have a smart card. Gov't asks you for a unique identifier for use in draft registration. You make up a random number, append it to your actual ID number, send back a SHA-1 of the result.
You chose to use a credit card. Much like using a grocery store "savings" card, that's essentially an opt-in for monitoring.
I'm a little dubious that the double-click email worm will ever become a problem under Linux.
The reason that it's a problem in Windows is that Microsoft has followed a metaphor dictating that the whole OS should act like a big integrated productivity package. Web browser, word processor, database access, etc. You double-click on something, anywhere, and it opens, handled by the appropriate module. It has certain nice features from a usability point of view, but sucks from a security point of view when documents are flying all over.
That metaphor isn't really present in Linux, despite KDE.
With Linux users it seems to be a conversion of holy nature like they are becoming a shaolin priest and can't look back....why?
:-)
Clearly because it's so much better than *BSD that the thought of using anything else is simply silly.
He doesn't follow Linux news, so he'd have no idea that stuff like OpenOffice even exist unless some kindly folks took the time to dispel his false assumptions.
Or unless he uses the Windows version of OpenOffice.
He admittedly didn't word it in a very nice way, but there is a valid point there.
I don't see a problem with having two gurus install Linux for you. Most Joe Sixpack types get Windows preinstalled, and wouldn't be tremendously happy installing it and setting it up.
However, if you want to buy and use a new piece of hardware, you can generally just buy it and follow the directions on an included card. Yes, maybe in six years they won't work any more, and you may not be taking advantage of the product's features, but you can get it up and running without any issues.
That really isn't true for Linux, much as I hate to say it. Linux really is quite usable and good for a typical non-tech office workers (as long as they don't heavily use MS document formats with the rest of their workgroup), as long as there is an on-staff guru supporting the thing.
That isn't because of a fundamental flaw in Linux, but because, while you can get Linux talking to most hardware these days, it's not the supported, idiot-proof path that's put out for Windows.
This isn't an anti-Linux rant. I've used Linux exclusively for years now. I think it's a terrible waste when a techncially-oriented person decides to use Windows, because if you sit down and try out Unix and understand the way it's built, the whole operating-system-is-a-programming-environment metaphor is incredibly powerful. You really won't want to leave it again. However, for a typical user, Linux needs to be professionally supported to be workable.
And for the professional user (at least a large, large chunk of 'em), Linux needs better support for Office formats to be adopted. Yes, there's OO.org, and yes, MS formats really aren't very good for interchange, and yes, even MS has their own importing bugs. When it comes down to it, though, the general case is that a Windows-using user tends to be able to work with Microsoft-product-generated formats more easily and reliabily than their Linux counterpart. And that's a serious impediment in the current cubicle world.
not just to be subjected to "Microsoft sucks and Linux is the best".
"Martin Kallisti sucks and Linux is the best?"
Seems like reselling credit card service could be a profitable business.
I have to salute you. For the first time in recent memory, someone's made a legitimate "the record companies are out of touch with technology" post. This isn't just a "I'm not getting free music, so the record companies suck" post, but a good point.
I'm curious. What administration software do you use?
if we would have taken care of Hitler BEFORE he became a world wide problem we would not have had world war II.
:-), actually, and while perhaps such ambitions moves as Hitler made would have been postponed, to claim that things like the Rhineland and severe Jewish issues wouldn't have happened without Hitler is quite arguable.
Maybe. I just finished a class on the German political struggles during and immediately before World War II
Before or after my children are nuked, infected with smallpox, or whatever else this guy was working on.
That's ridiculous. Despite what it's pretty safe to say is probably the most exhaustive weapons hunt in the modern world, we haven't been able to turn up any of these hoards of WMD that Bush kept claiming that Saddam had.
Both US and British intelligence said that this guy needed to go and his regime with him.
US and British *executive leadership* said that he needed to go. The two are not synonymous.
No question. But when foreign agencies are willing to put me and my family at risk for personal and financial gain
I don't understand. When did this happen?
Sadam was a danger to the world and it's a better place without him.
Destine, a *brick* is a danger to the world. It could potentially slide down a hill and hit a goat, which would run in front of a car and cause a crash, giving someone a concussion.
Saddam was possibly the *least* likely world leader to take hostile measures against the United States, because the only reason he was hanging on to his regime was because world opinion was that the US shouldn't wipe him out. The claim of "defense" would be a blank check for the US to drop him. Saddam wasn't involved with al Queda. He hasn't instigated terrorist attacks against the United States. He has not taken foreign military action against the United States. As a matter of fact, the only conflict he's engaged the United States in has been defensive -- the only form of military conflict allowed under the United Nations charter, and incidently one that the United States has broken many, many times (see my sig).
Saddam was not particularly dangerous to the United States. He *was*, however, controlling the world's second largest supply of the United State's most crucial foreign import. Now, after our invasion of Iraq, we've decided that we need to control the government of Iraq for an indefinite period of time.
Granted, this could all be innocent concidence. There could be a reason we went after Iraq other than Libya, North Korea, etc.
But there IS a time for war. And while we can hope beyond all hope, we can't ignore danger just because we don't want conflict.
Two assumptions there I don't agree with -- first,, that I claimed that we should never have war (as a matter of fact, I specifically said that our involvement in WWII was justified, which was a mere sixty years ago). Second, that Saddam was a danger. Hell, Saudi Arabia has been *far* more involved with assaulting the United States (the Cole, 9/11) than Iraq has, but Saudi Arabia is a pushover when it comes to giving us oil. Not surprisingly, Saudi Arabia's role in all this has been neatly ignored.
[shrug] It's not really a matter of migration. If you were choosing to set up thousands of systems for the first time, yes, you could certainly choose to use IIS instead of Apache. Same with OO.org and Office.
I've used more debuggers than I can count on my fingers, and while gdb isn't the best out there, I can't stand GUI debuggers. I haven't used any CLI Windows application-level debuggers.
Linux has a Shoutcast server (as well as Icecast).
Sort of by its nature isn't good for Windows compatibility testing, though.
Use Control-L. I use it all the time in Galeon. Works a wonder.
It's better than Outlook, and it's better than recent Media Player releases. That's about as far as I'll go.
I'll grant that it's a bit more work (which might dissuade some folks), but you can just install an NTLM proxy on your system.
Oh, I have a question: what distro would you recommend?
I'd default to RH if you don't have a personal preference, just because the larger number of users tend to result in software that's best tested for it. Also, RH isn't going anywhere for years to come. It's also got the best support when it comes to that occasional rare binary-only package.
OTOH, if you have other strong preferences, you might follow them. If you're really into having a purely "Free" system, you might try out Debian, which has probably the best in-distro support for remote downloading and instllation, but tends to be less user-friendly. Gentoo is the same thing, less popular support, more modern. Mandrake and SuSE both aimed at desktop distros more...I'd recommend Mandrake over SuSE if you get a chance. Mandrake is probably better than Red Hat if you prefer KDE to GNOME. PLD tends to be very bleeding-edge, which might be your cup of tea.
Hehe. That's ironic -- server and network configuration has probably given me the *most* problems in Windows. Back with NT 4.0, I needed multiple network profiles to deal with moving my computer around, which couldn't be done. Disabling interfaces consistently resulted in a wrong routing table, and I ended up having to remove drivers.
And Apache is the easiest thing in the world to get up and running -- when I needed to set up IIS to do a couple of relatively basic things, all hell broke loose. Somehow, it lost the ability to log into the "web user account" that IIS runs as, and doing some (admittedly oddball) auth stuff took about a week to figure out.