They may run it on a gopher server, but they wrote it with html. Their "how to reach us" page has html formatting all over it, and the e-mail address doesn't display because it's a gopher site using html.
You don't get credit card or other account statments?
I was just going through all of my accounts today, and realized I had no way to shred the paper besides tearing it a few ways. Each of those statements has an account number, address, and other information that could easily let someone steal my identity.
It's source code is basically stolen from others work.
Stolen from those who freely contributed to it, right? Who has the source code been stolen from?
It is free and has no market(money) driving it's development so therefore it's not good for the economy and the public interest in general
And we should decide what OS we use on the basis of how good for the economy it should be? Please explain this "philosophy".
Desktop users want something that's usable but not too expensive. Companies who buy servers want something that will achieve their objectives and help them increase profits and customer base. Sure, the end result goes towards helping the economy, but what if Linux will help the company achieve those goals better than Linux or SunOS? I'd say Linux would be helping the economy.
The philosophy behind the distribution of Linux is Un-American and more like communism.
This cannot be good for our country.
I've heard this argument many times, and I'm still not convinced. Un-American is no competition. Linux has just added to the competition. It competes with Windows, SunOS, AIX, etc.
It allows terrorists just enough encryption and power to aid them in their efforts to KILL us.
If you know anything, you'll know that the CIA (and FBI, etc.) can break just about any encryption out there, regardless of who created it and how open/close it's source is.
The source is provided so ANYONE can create scripts and such to slam a linux system.
Anyone can do the same thing with Windows. You've heard about the recent attacks, right? I don't believe anything on Linux could easily propogate that quickly, that easily. Even if it's possible, it hasn't happened yet.
If a student writes in a paper in my class and lists Linux as one of the OS's that make up the major market then they get an F on that paper.
My emotional response is that professors like you (who think like this on any subject) should burn in Hell. Practially speaking, isn't college for coming up with ideas? How can you say that your idea is the RIGHT one? It's YOUR opinion, and there are many others out there with different opinions (and don't say you're the most qualified person to make such a judgment)
The reason is because Linux is not in the major Market it is in the minor market - the second rate
special purpose OS's. Linux is not general enough
to be considered an universal OS.
Then please explain IBM's strategy, and why it is a major leader in many different server markets?
In it's current state Linux is not ready for primetime. It will never be until Linus Torvalds
does the following.
1) Settle disputes with the IP holder of UNIX (SCO).
Ha! Like the Linux community can do anything about that until SCO actually gives the community something to change. Tell SCO to stop spreading rumors and actually show something concrete. What they have "shown" so far was way off track.
2) Restricted source license.
This is a benefit of Linux. Anyone can modify it if they so choose. However, there IS an official "kernel" (which is all Linux is, you know this, right?), and the releaser of this kernel (Linus) has been shown to be trustworthy.
3) Make it a TRUE commercail OS
Why does GNU/Linux have to be commercial? Sure, this is the current business model, but do you know that computers were developed in the university sytem, and that the developers of the first useful computer (the Whirlwind computer used by the US Air Force) was developed in a non-commercial way? There is not just one way to do things. Open Source (and therefore, Linux) is a new way of doing things.
Also, RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE and others ARE commercial. Yes, they release a base product for free, but there are extended products that you would need to pay for. RedHat's turned a profit, and I believe Mandrake has too (if not yet, then within the next half year they will). Programs written fo
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Eclipse can be good for other languages. My problem with it is that it's just too slow many times. I did have a problem in Windows getting C/C++ to compile, but I think it was looking for cygwin + gcc, and not the MSVC++ I had installed at the time.
I too have used it extensively for Java, and probably wouldn't use anything else on a decent-sized project.
Netscape has the same password management system that Mozilla does. The thing I like about it is that I set a master password to unlock the password database. It can ask the user for the master password before each use, once per session, or every X minutes a password hasn't been used. I like this last option, as I keep mozilla open most of the time, but don't always want to enter the master password. (oh, and it tells you how "strong" your master password is)
As I understand it, the miniseries was basically Spielberg's brainchild. Even if he wasn't responsible for the actual directing, it still came from his head. Credit is due.
It was a combination of Leslie Bohem (the writer of each episode) and Spielberg. CNN has a good article on where it came from.
I don't think stealing will work. Stealing is not civil disobedience, anyway, it's just taking what you want because you want it. Piracy is no noble protest. Surely there are better ways, more open ways of protest.
I rip my CDs not to share them with others, but to store them on my computer so I can listen to *any* song I want without having to go through the many CDs that I have. This new format is just plain idiotic. They've lost me as a customer, and I know I'm not alone.
b) they were transferring large amounts of data. Sounds to me like they were pirates and hackers, trading in illicit files, virii, mp3s, and hacking tools like BackOffice and PacketSniffer.
Did you even read the whole article? The Wirtz guy (who was tranferring large amounts of data) does a lot of work with Media Player and other projects he has. They mentioned nothing about anything illicit on the computers.
Sure, they should have their cable disconnected, but the FBI? That's overkill.
Since when do you have to have permission to browse public windows shares? The entire point of having them public (i.e., no password), is so you can do it with OUT permission. Sharing files publicly is the same thing as running a web server: anyone is able to access it, and they don't have to ask your permission to do so.
The reason is quite simple - as in any computer product, most of the time all money is spent on technology and advertising, leaving no money for proper visual design.
If you had read the whole article, you'd see that they are having students at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco come up with designs for what the computer should look like, while still fitting all the criteria for the computer.
I have never been checked in an airport by a "smith". I have always been checked by private security forces hired by the owner/manager of the airport for the purpose of maintaining security. The Guardsman with the AR-15 has never asked to see my bags.
Maybe you haven't been reading the news, but those security forces that check baggage will soon all be federal employees. Some already are, depending on which airport you go to.
Could someone write something to autodetect hardware, recompile or add a module for hardware?
There already is a piece of software to detect hardware and add the module. It's called kudzu. Recompiling the kernel to add support for a piece of software would be much harder. Instead, most distributions come with most common hardware enabled.
I don't know why his cd-rw drive wasn't detected. Mine was, and it works just fine (not to mention that Mandrake 8.2 came with a program called gcombust, which is a great cd burner interface)
All the rest of my hardware was automatically detected. Upon install, my HP printer was automatically set up with the correct drivers and all. The only thing I had to do was download the nvidia drivers, and that's only because the kernel nvidia drivers don't do 3D very well. However, I had to do the same when I reinstalled win98. With Linux, I wasn't stuck in 640x480 until I downloaded the drivers. I was with win98.
I'd have to agree with you, though, that Linux isn't for moms or grandmas yet. Five years from now, though, I'd expect it to be. I only started using linux a year ago, and it's 10 times better now than it was then. At this rate of development, people who know nothing about computers will soon be able to linux.
The same is with current bands.. I saw Nickleback this past tuesday, they insulted and made mad a large number of fans as they over searched everyone TWICE looking not for drugs,liquor,or weapons but CAMERAS. enough to get a large group to complain about it.
That's odd. I went to the Nickleback concert that 99x was putting on in Atlanta at the beginning of June, and they didn't even search us for anything. It was definitely a show worth video taping (especially since I don't think there's an official tape of it). I wonder why it was different.
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They may run it on a gopher server, but they wrote it with html. Their "how to reach us" page has html formatting all over it, and the e-mail address doesn't display because it's a gopher site using html.
You don't get credit card or other account statments?
I was just going through all of my accounts today, and realized I had no way to shred the paper besides tearing it a few ways. Each of those statements has an account number, address, and other information that could easily let someone steal my identity.
It's source code is basically stolen from others work.
Stolen from those who freely contributed to it, right? Who has the source code been stolen from?
It is free and has no market(money) driving it's development so therefore it's not good for the economy and the public interest in general
And we should decide what OS we use on the basis of how good for the economy it should be? Please explain this "philosophy".
Desktop users want something that's usable but not too expensive. Companies who buy servers want something that will achieve their objectives and help them increase profits and customer base. Sure, the end result goes towards helping the economy, but what if Linux will help the company achieve those goals better than Linux or SunOS? I'd say Linux would be helping the economy.
The philosophy behind the distribution of Linux is Un-American and more like communism. This cannot be good for our country.
I've heard this argument many times, and I'm still not convinced. Un-American is no competition. Linux has just added to the competition. It competes with Windows, SunOS, AIX, etc.
It allows terrorists just enough encryption and power to aid them in their efforts to KILL us.
If you know anything, you'll know that the CIA (and FBI, etc.) can break just about any encryption out there, regardless of who created it and how open/close it's source is.
The source is provided so ANYONE can create scripts and such to slam a linux system.
Anyone can do the same thing with Windows. You've heard about the recent attacks, right? I don't believe anything on Linux could easily propogate that quickly, that easily. Even if it's possible, it hasn't happened yet.
If a student writes in a paper in my class and lists Linux as one of the OS's that make up the major market then they get an F on that paper.
My emotional response is that professors like you (who think like this on any subject) should burn in Hell. Practially speaking, isn't college for coming up with ideas? How can you say that your idea is the RIGHT one? It's YOUR opinion, and there are many others out there with different opinions (and don't say you're the most qualified person to make such a judgment)
The reason is because Linux is not in the major Market it is in the minor market - the second rate special purpose OS's. Linux is not general enough to be considered an universal OS.
Then please explain IBM's strategy, and why it is a major leader in many different server markets?
In it's current state Linux is not ready for primetime. It will never be until Linus Torvalds does the following.
1) Settle disputes with the IP holder of UNIX (SCO).
Ha! Like the Linux community can do anything about that until SCO actually gives the community something to change. Tell SCO to stop spreading rumors and actually show something concrete. What they have "shown" so far was way off track.
2) Restricted source license.
This is a benefit of Linux. Anyone can modify it if they so choose. However, there IS an official "kernel" (which is all Linux is, you know this, right?), and the releaser of this kernel (Linus) has been shown to be trustworthy.
3) Make it a TRUE commercail OS
Why does GNU/Linux have to be commercial? Sure, this is the current business model, but do you know that computers were developed in the university sytem, and that the developers of the first useful computer (the Whirlwind computer used by the US Air Force) was developed in a non-commercial way? There is not just one way to do things. Open Source (and therefore, Linux) is a new way of doing things.
Also, RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE and others ARE commercial. Yes, they release a base product for free, but there are extended products that you would need to pay for. RedHat's turned a profit, and I believe Mandrake has too (if not yet, then within the next half year they will).
Programs written fo
Eclipse can be good for other languages. My problem with it is that it's just too slow many times. I did have a problem in Windows getting C/C++ to compile, but I think it was looking for cygwin + gcc, and not the MSVC++ I had installed at the time. I too have used it extensively for Java, and probably wouldn't use anything else on a decent-sized project.
Netscape has the same password management system that Mozilla does. The thing I like about it is that I set a master password to unlock the password database. It can ask the user for the master password before each use, once per session, or every X minutes a password hasn't been used. I like this last option, as I keep mozilla open most of the time, but don't always want to enter the master password. (oh, and it tells you how "strong" your master password is)
As I understand it, the miniseries was basically Spielberg's brainchild. Even if he wasn't responsible for the actual directing, it still came from his head. Credit is due.
It was a combination of Leslie Bohem (the writer of each episode) and Spielberg. CNN has a good article on where it came from.
I don't think stealing will work. Stealing is not civil disobedience, anyway, it's just taking what you want because you want it. Piracy is no noble protest. Surely there are better ways, more open ways of protest.
I rip my CDs not to share them with others, but to store them on my computer so I can listen to *any* song I want without having to go through the many CDs that I have. This new format is just plain idiotic. They've lost me as a customer, and I know I'm not alone.
b) they were transferring large amounts of data. Sounds to me like they were pirates and hackers, trading in illicit files, virii, mp3s, and hacking tools like BackOffice and PacketSniffer.
Did you even read the whole article? The Wirtz guy (who was tranferring large amounts of data) does a lot of work with Media Player and other projects he has. They mentioned nothing about anything illicit on the computers.
Sure, they should have their cable disconnected, but the FBI? That's overkill.
Since when do you have to have permission to browse public windows shares? The entire point of having them public (i.e., no password), is so you can do it with OUT permission. Sharing files publicly is the same thing as running a web server: anyone is able to access it, and they don't have to ask your permission to do so.
The reason is quite simple - as in any computer product, most of the time all money is spent on technology and advertising, leaving no money for proper visual design.
If you had read the whole article, you'd see that they are having students at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco come up with designs for what the computer should look like, while still fitting all the criteria for the computer.
I have never been checked in an airport by a "smith". I have always been checked by private security forces hired by the owner/manager of the airport for the purpose of maintaining security. The Guardsman with the AR-15 has never asked to see my bags.
Maybe you haven't been reading the news, but those security forces that check baggage will soon all be federal employees. Some already are, depending on which airport you go to.
Could someone write something to autodetect hardware, recompile or add a module for hardware?
There already is a piece of software to detect hardware and add the module. It's called kudzu. Recompiling the kernel to add support for a piece of software would be much harder. Instead, most distributions come with most common hardware enabled.
I don't know why his cd-rw drive wasn't detected. Mine was, and it works just fine (not to mention that Mandrake 8.2 came with a program called gcombust, which is a great cd burner interface)
All the rest of my hardware was automatically detected. Upon install, my HP printer was automatically set up with the correct drivers and all. The only thing I had to do was download the nvidia drivers, and that's only because the kernel nvidia drivers don't do 3D very well. However, I had to do the same when I reinstalled win98. With Linux, I wasn't stuck in 640x480 until I downloaded the drivers. I was with win98.
I'd have to agree with you, though, that Linux isn't for moms or grandmas yet. Five years from now, though, I'd expect it to be. I only started using linux a year ago, and it's 10 times better now than it was then. At this rate of development, people who know nothing about computers will soon be able to linux.
The same is with current bands.. I saw Nickleback this past tuesday, they insulted and made mad a large number of fans as they over searched everyone TWICE looking not for drugs,liquor,or weapons but CAMERAS. enough to get a large group to complain about it.
That's odd. I went to the Nickleback concert that 99x was putting on in Atlanta at the beginning of June, and they didn't even search us for anything. It was definitely a show worth video taping (especially since I don't think there's an official tape of it). I wonder why it was different.