it's actually pretty easy to remember, after you type it in a few times. Write it down, you'll get it the third or fourth time you have to do it, and save yourself a lot of trouble in the future.
This exactly the middle-of-the-road approach that we need. I have no doubt that open-source software will blow away proprietary competition, I've experienced that over and over again myself. But there are some cases where open-source apps don't exist, or are not up to speed yet. This middle-of-the-road approach is perfect for opening up closed gov't doors. And for motivating developers to notch-up their efforts too. By not forcing the gov to take an all-or-nothing 'leap into the void', sincere choice should succeed where the DSSA initiative will fail.
If there weren't constant bugs in m$ products, why would anybody need to upgrade regularly? Was the paperclip's dance that much cooler in the latest m$ orifice?
Maybe they ARE intentional 'features', viewed from m$'s standpoint...
Hell, they made BSOD's commonplace, such that when win2K DOESN'T BSOD regularly, it seems a miraculous achievement.
Perhaps they're just lowering everyones' expections to further their own marketing efforts.
Hard to believe that that so much money, so many programmers, could be so completely inept...while unpaid volunteers can make nearly bulletproof applications...hmmm...
"When you talk of people en masse adopting Linux in the home, you need to have an installation routine that does all the hardware probing, configuration, etc. better than Windows. And even more importantly than that, when something does need its own driver, there'd better be some Linux drivers staring 'em in the face.
That's the world of Joe Average and Suzy Creamcheeze, folks."
Let me tell a little about my experiences with 'Joe Average' and 'Suzy Creamcheese'.
Linux IS in fact quite ready for 'Joe Average' and 'Suzy Creamcheese' and their offspring (bob rugrat?). I agree about Slackware being beyond most (found it lacking myself), and somewhat agree with the difficulty of upgrading from WinME, but let me relate 2 experiences for you.
I have given 2 'Joe Averages' Walmart Microtel/Mandrake PC's as gifts, and have yet to hear any complaints or problems from them. One individual is a plumber, who has never used a computer in his life. The other is a machinist who had web access for approx. 1 month via his son's Sega Dreamcast, a few years ago. Neither is describable as a power user, or knowledeable at all. Both have setup their own dial-up internet access without help from me. Both are able to do all they ever would want to do with windoze. The machinist's son (9 yrs old) has taken immediately to Mandrake, and in a few weeks knows more than I do about that distro (I run Debian on my boxen, never used Mandrake). His wife, a nurse who has used windoze at work, has taken to openoffice and gnucash quite well and prefers them to microsoft orifice. Neither has any idea of what viruses are, and are not likely to discover the horrors presented by them (firsthand, at least). My plumber friend has also found everything he needs, including informing me of some cool games that I didn't know about.
I am keeping jounals of both cases, noting problems/lacks they see (I plan to write an advocacy article based on these cases), but so far it is devoid of negatives. They have both been able to install software with only mere hints from me (such as "check out Freshmeat.net" or "google search it"). They simply haven't had any problems with their systems.
My point : When the user is isolated from installation issues (as we can assume about corporate installations such as in the article, or when preinstalled), Linux IS ready for desktop useage by both 'Joe Average' and 'Suzy Creamcheese'. I have yet to see ANY tangible arguments to the contrary. Hey, as far as they know IDE stands for 'Icecream Dessert Enhancement' and RAM means 'Raspberry-syrup Applied to Milk-chocolate'.
It is past time that windoze was relegated to its proper niche, which is as a platform for games and certain multimedia apps. And I would submit that other OSes (such as BeOS) can surpass it there, as well. It has no place whatsoever in a professional environment. Windoze is an insecure, broken piece of junk that serves no purpose beyond furthering the interests of microsoft and insecure executives ("nobody ever got fired for installing windoze")
Please inform me if I am missing anything. I may be a 'goddamned zealous linux hippy' type, but I welcome arguments which refute my own experiences. What am I missing?
"How many of us have even considered Base n != 2 computing?"
Ever heard of an analog computer?
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OK, it's long enough, but I have a hard time believing that a 1m wide x.1mm thick ribbon, fighting air resistance on the way down, could devastate a huge swath of anything. Ever drop a sheet of cardboard off a high-rise? There's not a whole lot of energy left in it by the time it hits the ground.
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RTFA
They're planning on building it in the middle of the Pacific, not Manhatten island.
I suppose it could kill some whales or something...
(offtopic, but) For linux video editing, you may want to check out MainActor http://www.mainconcept.com/products.sht ml Pretty cool video editor, windows & linux versions. It's proprietary, costs $99, but they have a free trial version...
(No I'm not affiliated with them in any way, just a satisfied customer and raving linux fanatic)
I don't think they want to get rid of it at all. They could filter out most of it if they wanted to. MS is all about marketing not making users happy. All that traffic could make for great statistics - "Hotmail moves 500000 times more traffic than any other webmail" (conveniently leaving out that 99.999% is spam...)
Stories like this keep affirming my decision to switch to Debian. Now it's a great laugh watching people bend over for Mr Bill! Can't wait for the upcoming story how an SP "accidentally" blows away everyone's MP3s!
Seriously, why do people stand for this crap? What's so damned great about windows that's worth clicking away all your rights?
I missed the spam about Brittany's orgy Could someone sign me up? I think she'll dig my 12" penis and maybe my large breasts too. I'll be back from Nigeria later this week, hope I don't miss it.
Both Snosoft and Phased mentioned that the vulnerability in question is only one of many they know of.
HP stated that they would fix THIS vuln in 48hrs, but how many more are they sitting on? And given HP's response, how long will it be until anyone hears about them?
I think this issue is far from over, if there is any truth to Snosoft's and Phased's claims.
"The Roads Must Roll" by Robert Heinlein c1940 First scifi I know of mentioning moving sidewalks. Great read if you can find it - it's in Science Fiction Hall of Fame volume I, but that's out of print.
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try pwgen -s 11
it's actually pretty easy to remember, after you type it in a few times. Write it down, you'll get it the third or fourth time you have to do it, and save yourself a lot of trouble in the future.
This exactly the middle-of-the-road approach that we need.
I have no doubt that open-source software will blow away proprietary competition, I've experienced that over and over again myself.
But there are some cases where open-source apps don't exist, or are not up to speed yet.
This middle-of-the-road approach is perfect for opening up closed gov't doors. And for motivating developers to notch-up their efforts too.
By not forcing the gov to take an all-or-nothing 'leap into the void', sincere choice should succeed where the DSSA initiative will fail.
Your obviously humorous intentions aside,
(don your tinfoil hats, please)
If there weren't constant bugs in m$ products, why would anybody need to upgrade regularly? Was the paperclip's dance that much cooler in the latest m$ orifice?
Maybe they ARE intentional 'features', viewed from m$'s standpoint...
Hell, they made BSOD's commonplace, such that when win2K DOESN'T BSOD regularly, it seems a miraculous achievement.
Perhaps they're just lowering everyones' expections to further their own marketing efforts.
Hard to believe that that so much money, so many programmers, could be so completely inept...while unpaid volunteers can make nearly bulletproof applications...hmmm...
(remove tinfoil hats now)
They keep going and going...
whoops, wrong bunnies...
"When you talk of people en masse adopting Linux in the home, you need to have an installation routine that does all the hardware probing, configuration, etc. better than Windows. And even more importantly than that, when something does need its own driver, there'd better be some Linux drivers staring 'em in the face.
That's the world of Joe Average and Suzy Creamcheeze, folks."
Let me tell a little about my experiences with 'Joe Average' and 'Suzy Creamcheese'.
Linux IS in fact quite ready for 'Joe Average' and 'Suzy Creamcheese' and their offspring (bob rugrat?). I agree about Slackware being beyond most (found it lacking myself), and somewhat agree with the difficulty of upgrading from WinME, but let me relate 2 experiences for you.
I have given 2 'Joe Averages' Walmart Microtel/Mandrake PC's as gifts, and have yet to hear any complaints or problems from them.
One individual is a plumber, who has never used a computer in his life. The other is a machinist who had web access for approx. 1 month via his son's Sega Dreamcast, a few years ago. Neither is describable as a power user, or knowledeable at all. Both have setup their own dial-up internet access without help from me. Both are able to do all they ever would want to do with windoze. The machinist's son (9 yrs old) has taken immediately to Mandrake, and in a few weeks knows more than I do about that distro (I run Debian on my boxen, never used Mandrake). His wife, a nurse who has used windoze at work, has taken to openoffice and gnucash quite well and prefers them to microsoft orifice. Neither has any idea of what viruses are, and are not likely to discover the horrors presented by them (firsthand, at least). My plumber friend has also found everything he needs, including informing me of some cool games that I didn't know about.
I am keeping jounals of both cases, noting problems/lacks they see (I plan to write an advocacy article based on these cases), but so far it is devoid of negatives. They have both been able to install software with only mere hints from me (such as "check out Freshmeat.net" or "google search it"). They simply haven't had any problems with their systems.
My point : When the user is isolated from installation issues (as we can assume about corporate installations such as in the article, or when preinstalled), Linux IS ready for desktop useage by both 'Joe Average' and 'Suzy Creamcheese'. I have yet to see ANY tangible arguments to the contrary. Hey, as far as they know IDE stands for 'Icecream Dessert Enhancement' and RAM means 'Raspberry-syrup Applied to Milk-chocolate'.
It is past time that windoze was relegated to its proper niche, which is as a platform for games and certain multimedia apps. And I would submit that other OSes (such as BeOS) can surpass it there, as well. It has no place whatsoever in a professional environment. Windoze is an insecure, broken piece of junk that serves no purpose beyond furthering the interests of microsoft and insecure executives ("nobody ever got fired for installing windoze")
Please inform me if I am missing anything. I may be a 'goddamned zealous linux hippy' type, but I welcome arguments which refute my own experiences.
What am I missing?
"How many of us have even considered Base n != 2 computing?"
Ever heard of an analog computer?
OK, it's long enough, but I have a hard time believing that a 1m wide x .1mm thick ribbon, fighting air resistance on the way down, could devastate a huge swath of anything. Ever drop a sheet of cardboard off a high-rise? There's not a whole lot of energy left in it by the time it hits the ground.
RTFA
They're planning on building it in the middle of the Pacific, not Manhatten island.
I suppose it could kill some whales or something...
From B5 - Garibaldi in interview with ISN reporter referring to Sherridan.
What is with this site anyways? Everytime I load it up there is a few articles on the main page talking about some criminal or illegal hacking tool.
Maybe you should stop coming here???
(offtopic, but)t ml
For linux video editing, you may want to check out MainActor
http://www.mainconcept.com/products.sh
Pretty cool video editor, windows & linux versions.
It's proprietary, costs $99, but they have a free trial version...
(No I'm not affiliated with them in any way, just a satisfied customer and raving linux fanatic)
I don't think they want to get rid of it at all.
They could filter out most of it if they wanted to.
MS is all about marketing not making users happy.
All that traffic could make for great statistics -
"Hotmail moves 500000 times more traffic than any other webmail"
(conveniently leaving out that 99.999% is spam...)
But I could be wrong...
Stories like this keep affirming my decision to switch to Debian.
Now it's a great laugh watching people bend over for Mr Bill!
Can't wait for the upcoming story how an SP "accidentally" blows away everyone's MP3s!
Seriously, why do people stand for this crap?
What's so damned great about windows that's worth clicking away all your rights?
I missed the spam about Brittany's orgy
Could someone sign me up? I think she'll dig my 12" penis and maybe my large breasts too.
I'll be back from Nigeria later this week, hope I don't miss it.
Both Snosoft and Phased mentioned that the vulnerability in question is only one of many they know of.
HP stated that they would fix THIS vuln in 48hrs, but how many more are they sitting on? And given HP's response, how long will it be until anyone hears about them?
I think this issue is far from over, if there is any truth to Snosoft's and Phased's claims.
"The Roads Must Roll"
by Robert Heinlein c1940
First scifi I know of mentioning moving sidewalks.
Great read if you can find it - it's in Science Fiction Hall of Fame volume I, but that's out of print.