Where I work, a number of people have bought the Linux boxes from Wal-mart. I think the longest any of them ran Linux was a month. All of them installed the Windows from their previous computers. I suspect this is not uncommon...
When you buy a select license you are buying the right to use that software for a fixed amount of time (measured in years).
This is incorrect. There is no time limit on the basic licenses. If you buy licenses with upgrades included, there is a time limit to how long Microsoft will supply the new version, but there is no time limit on how long you can use the basic product - though Microsoft has said they would like to move to this model.
Wouldn't it have made more sense to give them an MP3 player that had builtin audio recording? This is why I didn't buy an Ipod (well, that and the lack of a builtin compact flash reader). My Archos has these features built in and cost less than the Ipod.
You beat me to the punch. This is only news to people who never look at Dell's site. The fact that a Dell partner in Italy is selling PC's with Linux is hardly newsworthy when Dell has been selling them here in the US direct for some time now.
As The southern hemisphere has its winter during our summer,
I am wondering if the seasons will flip flop as well ???
Huh, no as the seasons are caused by the tilt of the Earth's axis, not magnetic fields.
Customers were furious at the way it was simply thrown out there on a population who had no idea it was coming and suddenly struggled to make their wonderful, creative and innovative (not to mention terminally cute*) design meet the needs the previous interface did rather better in some aspects (some aspects which are now gone completely, which were far better.)
The changes were announced a month earlier, and users were invited to try the new site and comment on the changes before they went into effect. It was not "unannounced".
It feels like 10K a year is what it takes just maintaining five Windows computers.
Boy, i wish you'd sell that formula to my boss! I'd be making $300,000/year!
IMHO, the metric system is doomed in the US because it's not American. That's not meant to be funny, sarcastic, or anything other than a simple fact. Well, perhaps it's meant to be a comment on the American psyche...
Another solution to this would be to use scramble keyboards, where the positions of the letters would change every 5 minutes.
God,I hope my boss doesn't read this, he might put it into the budget...
Waht's news here is that the attack uses commonly available equipment and is hard to trace. A large antenna blanketing the spectrum is not hard to trace.
A thin client is a client where some of the processing takes place on the client side. 3270 does this.
This is rather like calling a little red wagon a sports car because they both have 4 wheels.
> Why, after reading that, do I suspect Ursus Maximus will benefit if to buy this book you click a link that embeds Ursus's "associate promoter" id
I don't know why you suspect that, since it's obvious the tag on all Shashdot reviews have Slashdot's asscociate code in the links.
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Where I work, a number of people have bought the Linux boxes from Wal-mart. I think the longest any of them ran Linux was a month. All of them installed the Windows from their previous computers. I suspect this is not uncommon...
When you buy a select license you are buying the right to use that software for a fixed amount of time (measured in years).
This is incorrect. There is no time limit on the basic licenses. If you buy licenses with upgrades included, there is a time limit to how long Microsoft will supply the new version, but there is no time limit on how long you can use the basic product - though Microsoft has said they would like to move to this model.
Wouldn't it have made more sense to give them an MP3 player that had builtin audio recording? This is why I didn't buy an Ipod (well, that and the lack of a builtin compact flash reader). My Archos has these features built in and cost less than the Ipod.
You beat me to the punch. This is only news to people who never look at Dell's site. The fact that a Dell partner in Italy is selling PC's with Linux is hardly newsworthy when Dell has been selling them here in the US direct for some time now.
As The southern hemisphere has its winter during our summer, I am wondering if the seasons will flip flop as well ??? Huh, no as the seasons are caused by the tilt of the Earth's axis, not magnetic fields.
Customers were furious at the way it was simply thrown out there on a population who had no idea it was coming and suddenly struggled to make their wonderful, creative and innovative (not to mention terminally cute*) design meet the needs the previous interface did rather better in some aspects (some aspects which are now gone completely, which were far better.)
The changes were announced a month earlier, and users were invited to try the new site and comment on the changes before they went into effect. It was not "unannounced".
Absolutely. There have been stories on all the TV news magazines, and a program on the History channel. This is hardly "little known".
Who said anything was deleted?
I can't tell you what upgrade, but the backend is on HP Nonstop S Series servers, running a Unix variant.
Only if you're completely and totally incompetent. Seriously.
It feels like 10K a year is what it takes just maintaining five Windows computers.
Boy, i wish you'd sell that formula to my boss! I'd be making $300,000/year!
IMHO, the metric system is doomed in the US because it's not American. That's not meant to be funny, sarcastic, or anything other than a simple fact. Well, perhaps it's meant to be a comment on the American psyche...
Nah, just a boom box with volume on 11 playing Spinal Tap.
Another solution to this would be to use scramble keyboards, where the positions of the letters would change every 5 minutes. God,I hope my boss doesn't read this, he might put it into the budget...
Waht's news here is that the attack uses commonly available equipment and is hard to trace. A large antenna blanketing the spectrum is not hard to trace.
A thin client is a client where some of the processing takes place on the client side. 3270 does this. This is rather like calling a little red wagon a sports car because they both have 4 wheels.
Perhaps you should research what thin client computing is before posting on this topic again, if you think 3270=thin client computing.
You're a liar. He isn't. Big difference...
I thought there already was a campaign to get everyone to turn off their TV's??? It's called "reality tv"...
Brilliant? no way At best, functional...
Not much more... None of their models come close to my Archos Gmini 220, which is cheaper by far.
And the first Linux presentation I saw (at MIT), the machine continually crashed and they had to switch to a second machine.
So is the one mentioned above running .JSP - but no comment about that?
Wasn't that fraud? They said they were actresses!
> Why, after reading that, do I suspect Ursus Maximus will benefit if to buy this book you click a link that embeds Ursus's "associate promoter" id I don't know why you suspect that, since it's obvious the tag on all Shashdot reviews have Slashdot's asscociate code in the links.