You know I though no-one used Share Point either, that is until the fucking MCSE here at work whacked it onto the Intranet Server without telling me. AAAAARGGGGGHHHH, fucked everything up.
Let this be a lesson to you, the only good thing an MCSE can say to you is "Would you like fries with that?"
Gotta sell ad space? Have you seen the number of visual studio ads here?
Frankly, with Microsofts track record of fumbles and screw ups I wouldn't be surprised if they managed to bugger this up as well. They are going to basically tack on a shell programme to an OS that has gone all GUI, exactly the opposite of whats happening with Linux.
Just bear with me for a minute while I ramble. Microsoft has a reputation in this industry for shoddy code with no real attention paid to security. They have tied Internet Explorer into the core of the Operating System thus allowing a much wider range of attacks than if it was a stand alone application sitting above the kernel. Outlook express and Outlook are major avenues for virus propegation due to the same shoddy code and crappy OS design. Their answer to the problem has been to build a pretty GUI and call the bugs a feature.
And now they say they are going to re-build the shell. Let me just say that I'm glad I have the only Linux machine in the organisation because at least Linux has been built with the shell in mind when it comes to security. Whereas the MS version will be a tack on, no matter which way you look at it.
Winnt and XP are not only insecure because of the apps, thanks to tie ins with IE and Outlook/Express script kiddies have a handy avenue into the OS itself.
That and the slack approach to bug fixes and exploit alerts that MS has shown in the past makes Windows 2000 and XP less secure than Linux.
Umm no, not going to happen. For a start if they start offering minimum wage for software developers then they are going to get laughed at. For exactly the same reason if you tried offering minimum wage to doctors, scientists and other college educated professionals.
So some people are working for next to nothing or nothing during the slump, so what, good for them. They are trying to stay in the workforce rather than sit on their arses waiting for the next big thing.
Sure in some situations minimum wage might be justified - FrontPage jockies for a start, but any serious developer who uses more than the point and click crap from MS is going to laugh at the offer.
Which way do I go? Do I lambast yet another patent company for trying to patent the patently unpatentable? or should I revel in the fact that Microsoft is going to get slapped?
Alright Macros might != VBA but I still say that using what is essentially a hack of a hack of a weak language to run business applications on is not a good thing.
I realise that you were talking about Windows, but in regards to Open and Star Office, one of the major benefits they provide is the ability not to get locked into the whole Dual Boot nightmare. By allowing people to access Word Docs, Excel SpreadSheets and so on, on other platforms, it opens up the arena in terms of competition on the desktop. We've already replaced a lot of MS Office licenses around here with Open Office and will be replacing more once the lack of Scripting Support is remedied.
I hate to disappoint you but VBA is one of the biggest loads of crap I have ever seen. People write full blown apps in this shit because PHBs don't give them the fundage necessary to use proper development tools. Trust me on this one, I had to provide support once for a company whos two biggest apps were written using Word Macros and MS Access 2.
Seriously if someone in the company I work for said that they wanted a complete App written under VBA, I would have to tell them to think again. At the moment we're stuck with bloody excel macros for a lot of what we do and boy do they bite.
As for functionality, I think you'll find that Open Office offers all the functionality that your average user is going to need.
Have you looked at Open or Star Office running on anything but Windows? It runs fine on my Linux box and Im running a PII 450.
From what I understand, this new system decrypts the cache when you come within a certain distance and re-encrypts when you go past that distance, does this mean that doing the hokey pokey (you put your left foot in...) could lead to a system crash??
Um first off Im not American, I am Australian. I never said that you could excuse certain behaviours I said you could understand them better. If you have a better understanding why things happen then you can attempt to mould circumstances so they don't happen again.
You know I'm still trying to see the Marxist connection here?
I am not going to get into a my civilisation is bigger than you civilisation slanging match, its purile and wastes your time and mine. Let me just say this: Mono-culturilism is a dangerous idea, it makes the assumption that one culture is inherently better than the other, this has been shown time and time again to be wrong, witness the fall of the Roman and Chinese Empires, both dominated large portions of the world, both were the dominant powers and both let themselves fall by descending into corruption and despotism.
What makes you so sure that Western Culture will not follow the same path?
Okay I got very confused when you used the term multiculturism. What you are describing instead is a form of aparthied. True multiculturilism involves many different people from a huge variety of backgrounds living together peacefully without feeling the need to cut each others throats. We've managed to do that here pretty well, despite what the right wingers have to say.
As to your claim about Uni's trying to practice through diversity boosting the number of "racist incidents" could it be that because people are now aware of racism as a bad thing and something they don't have to put up with the number of reports has increased?
You say diversity is something that should happen on its own, but its not going to without someone leading the way, and why not the educational system? Get them while they're young is what I say, I went to school with kids from a huge range of cultural backgrounds and I can honestly so that I am better off for it. I now have a better understanding of why things in the world happen because I took the time to investigate and try to understand other cultures. I may not agree with them on certain things, but I understand how they came to be.
Short-sighted attacks on multi-culturilism and other mult-ethnic systems only lead to a continuation of segregation and attacks on other cultures. At this moment in time we most need to be able to understand why another culture works the way it does. Without true understanding we are doomed to make the same mistakes that have been made in the past, with understanding we can actually move beyond the need to blow shit out of each other and try to reach nuetral ground.
Just one more point before I sign off on my rant, on the subject of Western History and its good and bad points, you claim that the only thing being taught in Modern Unis is to hate Western Culture, I've got to say that is bullshit. What is happening is that people are no longer being taught the rose-coloured version of history, no longer did the white man bring civilisation to the noble savage, no instead they are being taught the truth, that in the majority of cases the white man fucked over the noble savage so badly that we have almost driven the various aboriginal peoples to exinction. Sure we've done great things and we should treat those things as they deserve, but hell we need to remember that our ancestors could be complete and utter bastards at times.
Up until now, it's been mostly the liberal arts and humanities that have been poisoned with this stupid brand of "liberalism"
Damn you mean that students are actually learning about different cultures as opposed to the white washed one sided point of view they got before?? Shame shame.
And how in the hell can multiculturism hurt the hard sciences? Do you actually have a problem with say an Indian doing geology or maybe an African doing heart surgery?
You are obviously someone has never gotten over the cold war. Guess what goodness and light won and badness lost, get over it.
Simple solution - cut the cord. Unless of course its a wireless device, in which case all the nieghbourhood will know about the three month old coleslaw in the back.
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How is Porn more insidious than a substance that coats your lungs with tar and slowly chokes you to death.
"In and of itself, sex is great, but then you involve people. People tend to screw things up."
This is such a great quote by the way, sex by yourself is fine but with others its dangerous?
Making that distro the de-facto standard, not because of the fact that it is the best but because that is the one on which most commercial software runs.
Isn't this what people do when they decide to build for Windows?
Seriously though, when building software you don't go into it trying to build for all the OS platforms out there, you go in and build for the one you feel most comfortable with and once that is finished you then port to the others. Or you join forces with some one else who can do the coding for another platform.
Competition is healthy, it gives you a choice rather than being stuck with the one vendor.
You know Im all for businesses trying to make money from Linux, it helps the development of the OS and provides much needed support for businesses wishing to make the change.
That said the only way that there is going to be a truly United Linux is if Linus takes the kernel closed source and tries to go down that path.
The United Linux organisation is just a business group, trying to drum up business for their product. Nothing more and nothing less. As a sys admin and software developer I can tell you now that I would much rather have a range of specialised tools in my pocket than a all-in-one that attempts to do everything but does nothing well.
We introduced our gun laws because we had one man kill 35 people in a small tourist area in Tasmania, and he didn't do it with knives, he loaded himself up with as mnay guns as he could find and then started out.
Geez you think tragedies such as Port Arthur and Columbine and every other nutbag with a gun would have taught people that guns are fucking dangerous, and should not be allowed in the community without severe restrictions.
The notion that it was just poorly armed rice farmers the Americans were facing in Vietnam is bullshit. Yes there was a heavy element of guerilla warfare, however the NVA also featured heavily, a fully trained and armed military force.
In terms of the genocide that occured during the second world war, you are assuming that an armed population would have risen up and struck back. Remember where the pogroms happened. The first real pogroms started in England for gods sake, the rest of Europe was no better.
Im sorry but the concept of an armed populouse protecting the nation in times of need just doens't hold true, unless you basically turn the entire country into a military encampment complete with constant training a la Sparta. Other wise what you get is a lot of hot heads with guns getting themselves killed or worse turning the country into a quagmire of warlords and fiefdoms a a la the Balkans or Africa.
Why would they need to roll over Switzerland?? It basically rolled over all by itself. Switzerland was not the nuetral country it wants to believe, it actively assisted the Nazi regime from beginning to end.
Im sorry but are you seriously saying that an armed citizens militia could have presented any hinderance to the might of a fresh German army?
The reason Germany was able to roll across Western Europe was because they had the best god damn military machine in the world at the time. How are poorly organised militias going to compete with Stukas, Panzers and the friggin SS???
As for using the Holocaust to justify gun ownership thats just bullshit, if anything it would be a good case for gun control. sheesh
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You know I though no-one used Share Point either, that is until the fucking MCSE here at work whacked it onto the Intranet Server without telling me. AAAAARGGGGGHHHH, fucked everything up.
Let this be a lesson to you, the only good thing an MCSE can say to you is "Would you like fries with that?"
Gotta sell ad space? Have you seen the number of visual studio ads here?
Frankly, with Microsofts track record of fumbles and screw ups I wouldn't be surprised if they managed to bugger this up as well. They are going to basically tack on a shell programme to an OS that has gone all GUI, exactly the opposite of whats happening with Linux.
Just bear with me for a minute while I ramble. Microsoft has a reputation in this industry for shoddy code with no real attention paid to security. They have tied Internet Explorer into the core of the Operating System thus allowing a much wider range of attacks than if it was a stand alone application sitting above the kernel. Outlook express and Outlook are major avenues for virus propegation due to the same shoddy code and crappy OS design. Their answer to the problem has been to build a pretty GUI and call the bugs a feature.
And now they say they are going to re-build the shell. Let me just say that I'm glad I have the only Linux machine in the organisation because at least Linux has been built with the shell in mind when it comes to security. Whereas the MS version will be a tack on, no matter which way you look at it.
Winnt and XP are not only insecure because of the apps, thanks to tie ins with IE and Outlook/Express script kiddies have a handy avenue into the OS itself.
That and the slack approach to bug fixes and exploit alerts that MS has shown in the past makes Windows 2000 and XP less secure than Linux.
WOuld that be an undergraduate text book from Microsoft Press?
Umm no, not going to happen. For a start if they start offering minimum wage for software developers then they are going to get laughed at. For exactly the same reason if you tried offering minimum wage to doctors, scientists and other college educated professionals.
So some people are working for next to nothing or nothing during the slump, so what, good for them. They are trying to stay in the workforce rather than sit on their arses waiting for the next big thing.
Sure in some situations minimum wage might be justified - FrontPage jockies for a start, but any serious developer who uses more than the point and click crap from MS is going to laugh at the offer.
Which way do I go? Do I lambast yet another patent company for trying to patent the patently unpatentable? or should I revel in the fact that Microsoft is going to get slapped?
Oh the confusion
Alright Macros might != VBA but I still say that using what is essentially a hack of a hack of a weak language to run business applications on is not a good thing.
I realise that you were talking about Windows, but in regards to Open and Star Office, one of the major benefits they provide is the ability not to get locked into the whole Dual Boot nightmare. By allowing people to access Word Docs, Excel SpreadSheets and so on, on other platforms, it opens up the arena in terms of competition on the desktop. We've already replaced a lot of MS Office licenses around here with Open Office and will be replacing more once the lack of Scripting Support is remedied.
Remember Competition Good, unlawfully Maintained Monopoly bad.
I hate to disappoint you but VBA is one of the biggest loads of crap I have ever seen. People write full blown apps in this shit because PHBs don't give them the fundage necessary to use proper development tools. Trust me on this one, I had to provide support once for a company whos two biggest apps were written using Word Macros and MS Access 2.
Seriously if someone in the company I work for said that they wanted a complete App written under VBA, I would have to tell them to think again. At the moment we're stuck with bloody excel macros for a lot of what we do and boy do they bite.
As for functionality, I think you'll find that Open Office offers all the functionality that your average user is going to need.
Have you looked at Open or Star Office running on anything but Windows? It runs fine on my Linux box and Im running a PII 450.
Does this mean that Linux and BSD are the second coming?
Im sorry I have to write this. Imagine an entire office of Cubicle dwellers doing the hokey pokey just to crash their machines.
Damnit I need a smoke.
From what I understand, this new system decrypts the cache when you come within a certain distance and re-encrypts when you go past that distance, does this mean that doing the hokey pokey (you put your left foot in...) could lead to a system crash??
Well thats one movie Im not going to go and see. Just watched the trailer and I had an amazing sense of deja vu all over again.
Basically it looks like Terminator 2 with tits.
Do you really care what brand of engine is on the jet you ride?
Hell Yes. I would not want to ride in a jet powered by M$ engines thats for sure.
Um first off Im not American, I am Australian. I never said that you could excuse certain behaviours I said you could understand them better. If you have a better understanding why things happen then you can attempt to mould circumstances so they don't happen again.
You know I'm still trying to see the Marxist connection here?
I am not going to get into a my civilisation is bigger than you civilisation slanging match, its purile and wastes your time and mine. Let me just say this: Mono-culturilism is a dangerous idea, it makes the assumption that one culture is inherently better than the other, this has been shown time and time again to be wrong, witness the fall of the Roman and Chinese Empires, both dominated large portions of the world, both were the dominant powers and both let themselves fall by descending into corruption and despotism.
What makes you so sure that Western Culture will not follow the same path?
Okay I got very confused when you used the term multiculturism. What you are describing instead is a form of aparthied. True multiculturilism involves many different people from a huge variety of backgrounds living together peacefully without feeling the need to cut each others throats. We've managed to do that here pretty well, despite what the right wingers have to say. As to your claim about Uni's trying to practice through diversity boosting the number of "racist incidents" could it be that because people are now aware of racism as a bad thing and something they don't have to put up with the number of reports has increased? You say diversity is something that should happen on its own, but its not going to without someone leading the way, and why not the educational system? Get them while they're young is what I say, I went to school with kids from a huge range of cultural backgrounds and I can honestly so that I am better off for it. I now have a better understanding of why things in the world happen because I took the time to investigate and try to understand other cultures. I may not agree with them on certain things, but I understand how they came to be. Short-sighted attacks on multi-culturilism and other mult-ethnic systems only lead to a continuation of segregation and attacks on other cultures. At this moment in time we most need to be able to understand why another culture works the way it does. Without true understanding we are doomed to make the same mistakes that have been made in the past, with understanding we can actually move beyond the need to blow shit out of each other and try to reach nuetral ground. Just one more point before I sign off on my rant, on the subject of Western History and its good and bad points, you claim that the only thing being taught in Modern Unis is to hate Western Culture, I've got to say that is bullshit. What is happening is that people are no longer being taught the rose-coloured version of history, no longer did the white man bring civilisation to the noble savage, no instead they are being taught the truth, that in the majority of cases the white man fucked over the noble savage so badly that we have almost driven the various aboriginal peoples to exinction. Sure we've done great things and we should treat those things as they deserve, but hell we need to remember that our ancestors could be complete and utter bastards at times.
Up until now, it's been mostly the liberal arts and humanities that have been poisoned with this stupid brand of "liberalism"
Damn you mean that students are actually learning about different cultures as opposed to the white washed one sided point of view they got before?? Shame shame.
And how in the hell can multiculturism hurt the hard sciences? Do you actually have a problem with say an Indian doing geology or maybe an African doing heart surgery?
You are obviously someone has never gotten over the cold war. Guess what goodness and light won and badness lost, get over it.
Simple solution - cut the cord. Unless of course its a wireless device, in which case all the nieghbourhood will know about the three month old coleslaw in the back.
How is Porn more insidious than a substance that coats your lungs with tar and slowly chokes you to death.
"In and of itself, sex is great, but then you involve people. People tend to screw things up."
This is such a great quote by the way, sex by yourself is fine but with others its dangerous?
Making that distro the de-facto standard, not because of the fact that it is the best but because that is the one on which most commercial software runs.
Isn't this what people do when they decide to build for Windows?
Seriously though, when building software you don't go into it trying to build for all the OS platforms out there, you go in and build for the one you feel most comfortable with and once that is finished you then port to the others. Or you join forces with some one else who can do the coding for another platform.
Competition is healthy, it gives you a choice rather than being stuck with the one vendor.
You know Im all for businesses trying to make money from Linux, it helps the development of the OS and provides much needed support for businesses wishing to make the change.
That said the only way that there is going to be a truly United Linux is if Linus takes the kernel closed source and tries to go down that path.
The United Linux organisation is just a business group, trying to drum up business for their product. Nothing more and nothing less. As a sys admin and software developer I can tell you now that I would much rather have a range of specialised tools in my pocket than a all-in-one that attempts to do everything but does nothing well.
We introduced our gun laws because we had one man kill 35 people in a small tourist area in Tasmania, and he didn't do it with knives, he loaded himself up with as mnay guns as he could find and then started out.
Geez you think tragedies such as Port Arthur and Columbine and every other nutbag with a gun would have taught people that guns are fucking dangerous, and should not be allowed in the community without severe restrictions.
The notion that it was just poorly armed rice farmers the Americans were facing in Vietnam is bullshit. Yes there was a heavy element of guerilla warfare, however the NVA also featured heavily, a fully trained and armed military force.
In terms of the genocide that occured during the second world war, you are assuming that an armed population would have risen up and struck back. Remember where the pogroms happened. The first real pogroms started in England for gods sake, the rest of Europe was no better.
Im sorry but the concept of an armed populouse protecting the nation in times of need just doens't hold true, unless you basically turn the entire country into a military encampment complete with constant training a la Sparta. Other wise what you get is a lot of hot heads with guns getting themselves killed or worse turning the country into a quagmire of warlords and fiefdoms a a la the Balkans or Africa.
Why would they need to roll over Switzerland?? It basically rolled over all by itself. Switzerland was not the nuetral country it wants to believe, it actively assisted the Nazi regime from beginning to end.
Im sorry but are you seriously saying that an armed citizens militia could have presented any hinderance to the might of a fresh German army?
The reason Germany was able to roll across Western Europe was because they had the best god damn military machine in the world at the time. How are poorly organised militias going to compete with Stukas, Panzers and the friggin SS???
As for using the Holocaust to justify gun ownership thats just bullshit, if anything it would be a good case for gun control. sheesh