Get the ISO from http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1&front_id=12 for the Trinity Rescue Kit. Run it. Update it and save the updated ISO image. Burn that to a CD and give it to your friend. He can run it and disinfect his computer without an Internet connection. Give him an updated CD every month.
Does that mean that there are the occasional intrusive ads, expanding this way and that? Yes, sometimes we have to accept those ads.
Have the courage of your convictions if you want credibility and never accept those ads. Otherwise, all I hear from you is "Blah, blah,... adverts..., blah, blah,... more money..., blah, blah, blah."
Personally, I really like a 1972 Blazer...with a manual transmission. Minimal plastic, no electronics beyond the turn signal module, fix it myself and I can start it with a bit of a downhill run.
I drive this a lot: 1937 Plymouth business coupe, Corvette LT-1 powered. Emissions-legal and easy to work on. Plus, people let me have the good parking spaces. http://www.socuteurl.com/tinyfuzzbutterbug
Toyota should be more forthcoming with the black box info on these cars to validate exactly what the driver was doing at the time of the accident. But they won't because lawyers would be all over that data to file lawsuits. still, knowing the truth is best for all involved. Far less finger pointing; far better remediation of the problem.
I remember reading through all the bound volumes of Life Magazine in-between classes as an undergrad. That gave me a better sense of 20th century American history than anything I ever read in grade school. It would be wonderful for Time-Life to do the same as Popular Science.
Having attended grad school to secure a teaching certificate, I can tell you that the education culture will resist any attempt to cull poor performers from the pack. The emphasis is on never criticizing and being exceptionally inclusive. When peer review was done, all reviews were A+ while performance varied considerably. The instructors and students "accommodated" the poor performers because I was told "They need jobs too and it's our job to help them.".
And I'll bring up the other elephant in the room: it's because education is, in the USA at least, a very female culture. You can see the effect of this in the entire process, much to the detriment of the students: management by consensus, emphasis on behaving "well" and being quiet, institutional enforcement of the status quo, heavy reliance on social rules, reliance on strategies like "think of the children" when engaging in discussion and so on. Sadly, this aspect has been discussed for years and since the education/female culture is threatened by it, it is never fully addressed and typically dismissed as not relevant. The female culture of caring and nurturing is wonderful for day care, but not for educating. And what is it our schools appear to have become? Institutions of babysitting where the emphasis is on "getting along", "respecting diversity", improving "self esteem" and walking quietly in a straight line down the hall. The nod to learning is achieving a good score on a standardized test, which the teachers in Norfolk, VA have been manipulating (cheating) to artificially inflate score to keep their budgets and jobs. There's nothing wrong with female culture, it's simply misapplied in education.
Given that Bill Gates is not an educator, he is not aware that the characteristics of a good teacher have long been known (but he could "Bing" that, I suppose), it's how to communicate and teach those that is still undecided (RTFA). It's just that those characteristics seems to be at odds with the moribund education culture.
"Users of a certain proprietary software can now make eachother get Windows viruses on GNU/Linux and Mac OS X"
You say that in a way that indicates that not only are you uninformed, but you wish to spread FUD. I hope that's not the case.
WINE has progressed to the point where it can actually install and (kind of)run some viruses, but by using WINE instead of native Windows, there's little the virus can do in a malicious way. I have used WINE to "install" several infected apps that could easily be cleaned/disinfected and then run malware-free on WindowsXP.
Windows malware really can't hurt a Linux system although it might damage some ~/.wine files. No big deal.
Crossover even inhibits some malware attack vectors and enables safer default behavior for some notoriously unsafe win32 apps.
IIRC, Games was tweaked for games, especiall Steam stuff. Pro has broader admin functions and can "save" a bottle as an.RPM to easily re-install it or install it on another machine (very handy).
I'm not a big fan of Microsoft but when the application (word processing, spreadsheets, presentations) opens 3 times faster and is more responsive and reliable, I take notice.
I was amazed at the performance of Windows 98 when run under Win4Lin/Merge: fast and stable. If it offered 3D support it would have made a great gaming platform. And because it actually ran on a Linux filesystem rather than FAT, there were never any registry corruption or other file corruption problems and it was nice to be able to apply UNIX file permissions to the Win98 files.
It did offer an explorer shell replacement that allowed you to boot directly into an app instead of the desktop. Anybody have a link to that.exe?
I wish that QuickBooks Pro would work with Crossover, but MS must pay QB a boatload of money (or have embarrassing Polaroids of the QB devs) to unnecessarily integrate the app with every Windows API and DLL that exists.
I'm not going through the pain to submit it again if that's the kind of people that processes my bug report.
So the "pain" was caused by your failure to format a number to accommodate their bug report system and they should have be able to figure out your bonehead move and automagically fix it?
Now, since it's clearly your fault, you will not only fail to participate in the community, but publicly embarrass yourself with insight into your arrogance and cluelessness?
A small organization I belong to wanted to distribute their newsletter in PDF format. The newsletter editor used MS Word. He approached the group about purchasing for him a program to convert the Word docs to PDF. I mentioned that Open Office worked like Words' big brother Microsoft Office, worked fine with Word formats, could produce PDF files natively and cost nothing. The other members looked at me as if I were insane and voted to give the guy $250 to purchase the software (which he registered in his name and took with him when he moved, so the club popped for another $250 for the new newsletter editor). Yeah, I've seen it everywhere.
I'm able to control my IE deployments down to a microscopic level, all from a single scree (and tied in to many of my other deployed applications). I'm not able to do that with Firefox.
So why can't this kind of management be created for Firefox?
There's a fine line between promoting and being a big old pain in the ass.
There's also a line between good management and bad. If it was just one employee, it should have been handled one-on-one. A good manager could also re-channel the energy of that employee into something more productive.
This kind of response smacks of asshatery at the management level. The boss needs to learn how to stop pontificating and act professionally.
So your decisions are based on what is easier for you rather than what is best for a particular government facility and the taxpayer who funds it? Sounds to me like you are the worst type of government employee.
Among other things, you can't objectively judge if something is cheaper or not if you suppress any discussion of competing products.
Blocking discussion or use of FOSS is just a crass, unprofessional way of validating the choice made by the PHB. And it's a good indication that the PHB probably knows he would lose in a "fair fight".
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Get the ISO from http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1&front_id=12 for the Trinity Rescue Kit. Run it. Update it and save the updated ISO image. Burn that to a CD and give it to your friend. He can run it and disinfect his computer without an Internet connection. Give him an updated CD every month.
I see you want to install a Windows virus. Proceed?
meh
Does that mean that there are the occasional intrusive ads, expanding this way and that? Yes, sometimes we have to accept those ads.
Have the courage of your convictions if you want credibility and never accept those ads. Otherwise, all I hear from you is "Blah, blah, ... adverts ..., blah, blah, ... more money ..., blah, blah, blah."
Personally, I really like a 1972 Blazer...with a manual transmission. Minimal plastic, no electronics beyond the turn signal module, fix it myself and I can start it with a bit of a downhill run.
I drive this a lot: 1937 Plymouth business coupe, Corvette LT-1 powered. Emissions-legal and easy to work on. Plus, people let me have the good parking spaces. http://www.socuteurl.com/tinyfuzzbutterbug
Toyota should be more forthcoming with the black box info on these cars to validate exactly what the driver was doing at the time of the accident. But they won't because lawyers would be all over that data to file lawsuits. still, knowing the truth is best for all involved. Far less finger pointing; far better remediation of the problem.
Unless it can run on OSX and Linux as well, a consumer game is NOT 'cross platform'. Apparently, their development platform needs some work.
I remember reading through all the bound volumes of Life Magazine in-between classes as an undergrad. That gave me a better sense of 20th century American history than anything I ever read in grade school. It would be wonderful for Time-Life to do the same as Popular Science.
Having attended grad school to secure a teaching certificate, I can tell you that the education culture will resist any attempt to cull poor performers from the pack. The emphasis is on never criticizing and being exceptionally inclusive. When peer review was done, all reviews were A+ while performance varied considerably. The instructors and students "accommodated" the poor performers because I was told "They need jobs too and it's our job to help them.".
And I'll bring up the other elephant in the room: it's because education is, in the USA at least, a very female culture. You can see the effect of this in the entire process, much to the detriment of the students: management by consensus, emphasis on behaving "well" and being quiet, institutional enforcement of the status quo, heavy reliance on social rules, reliance on strategies like "think of the children" when engaging in discussion and so on. Sadly, this aspect has been discussed for years and since the education/female culture is threatened by it, it is never fully addressed and typically dismissed as not relevant. The female culture of caring and nurturing is wonderful for day care, but not for educating. And what is it our schools appear to have become? Institutions of babysitting where the emphasis is on "getting along", "respecting diversity", improving "self esteem" and walking quietly in a straight line down the hall. The nod to learning is achieving a good score on a standardized test, which the teachers in Norfolk, VA have been manipulating (cheating) to artificially inflate score to keep their budgets and jobs. There's nothing wrong with female culture, it's simply misapplied in education.
Given that Bill Gates is not an educator, he is not aware that the characteristics of a good teacher have long been known (but he could "Bing" that, I suppose), it's how to communicate and teach those that is still undecided (RTFA). It's just that those characteristics seems to be at odds with the moribund education culture.
"Users of a certain proprietary software can now make eachother get Windows viruses on GNU/Linux and Mac OS X"
You say that in a way that indicates that not only are you uninformed, but you wish to spread FUD. I hope that's not the case.
WINE has progressed to the point where it can actually install and (kind of)run some viruses, but by using WINE instead of native Windows, there's little the virus can do in a malicious way. I have used WINE to "install" several infected apps that could easily be cleaned/disinfected and then run malware-free on WindowsXP.
Windows malware really can't hurt a Linux system although it might damage some ~/.wine files. No big deal.
Crossover even inhibits some malware attack vectors and enables safer default behavior for some notoriously unsafe win32 apps.
IIRC, Games was tweaked for games, especiall Steam stuff. Pro has broader admin functions and can "save" a bottle as an .RPM to easily re-install it or install it on another machine (very handy).
I'm not a big fan of Microsoft but when the application (word processing, spreadsheets, presentations) opens 3 times faster and is more responsive and reliable, I take notice.
I was amazed at the performance of Windows 98 when run under Win4Lin/Merge: fast and stable. If it offered 3D support it would have made a great gaming platform. And because it actually ran on a Linux filesystem rather than FAT, there were never any registry corruption or other file corruption problems and it was nice to be able to apply UNIX file permissions to the Win98 files.
It did offer an explorer shell replacement that allowed you to boot directly into an app instead of the desktop. Anybody have a link to that .exe?
I wish that QuickBooks Pro would work with Crossover, but MS must pay QB a boatload of money (or have embarrassing Polaroids of the QB devs) to unnecessarily integrate the app with every Windows API and DLL that exists.
I'm not going through the pain to submit it again if that's the kind of people that processes my bug report.
So the "pain" was caused by your failure to format a number to accommodate their bug report system and they should have be able to figure out your bonehead move and automagically fix it?
Now, since it's clearly your fault, you will not only fail to participate in the community, but publicly embarrass yourself with insight into your arrogance and cluelessness?
Sounds good to me.
CompatAbility(tm) :)
FTFY
(Feel better now? There's a nap for that.)
Is the wacky gene associated with the longevity gene? Or is it just associated with the really smart gene?
You expose their lack of leadership for a choice that isn't yours to make.
FTFY
A small organization I belong to wanted to distribute their newsletter in PDF format. The newsletter editor used MS Word. He approached the group about purchasing for him a program to convert the Word docs to PDF. I mentioned that Open Office worked like Words' big brother Microsoft Office, worked fine with Word formats, could produce PDF files natively and cost nothing. The other members looked at me as if I were insane and voted to give the guy $250 to purchase the software (which he registered in his name and took with him when he moved, so the club popped for another $250 for the new newsletter editor). Yeah, I've seen it everywhere.
Bosses often do things that don't make any sense to their subordinates.
Because nothing is impossible to the man that doesn't have to do it himself.
This would be a lot funnier if it wasn't posted verbatim, in forum after forum, month after month. Think up a new joke!
No need. It remains pure comedy gold.
Naysayers, here is a hospital that runs on FOSS, so it can be done. http://www.laketaylor.org/index.php
I'm able to control my IE deployments down to a microscopic level, all from a single scree (and tied in to many of my other deployed applications). I'm not able to do that with Firefox.
So why can't this kind of management be created for Firefox?
There's a fine line between promoting and being a big old pain in the ass.
There's also a line between good management and bad. If it was just one employee, it should have been handled one-on-one. A good manager could also re-channel the energy of that employee into something more productive.
This kind of response smacks of asshatery at the management level. The boss needs to learn how to stop pontificating and act professionally.
It makes our lives easier
So your decisions are based on what is easier for you rather than what is best for a particular government facility and the taxpayer who funds it? Sounds to me like you are the worst type of government employee.
Microsoft is cheaper.
Among other things, you can't objectively judge if something is cheaper or not if you suppress any discussion of competing products.
Blocking discussion or use of FOSS is just a crass, unprofessional way of validating the choice made by the PHB. And it's a good indication that the PHB probably knows he would lose in a "fair fight".