I know plenty of people that run OpenOffice.org on Windows. I attend a (mostly) art school, and many of my friends are not the most technical. When they ask me something like, "I need powerpoint!" or "My word is too old to open this thing my teacher sent me!" or anything of the sort, I always point them to OpenOffice.org.
I understand your point about "if Linux zealots are the only people making inroads...", but as long as we keep thinking that way, we'll just perpetuate our own problem. Go convert a friend to OpenOffice today! They'll thank you!
Anyone who cares about a decent resolution, refresh rate and physical screen size?
Find me an LCD that will do 2048x1536 with a 22" viewable and ~90hz refresh rate. Oh, and make sure it costs about $350, since that is how much this monitor cost me.
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With the possible exception of SCO, this encompasses everything that you are supposedly adverse to.
How do you know what I'm adverse to? Have you been reading my diary again?
Way to over generalize, buddy. I may have given your statement some thought until I got to that last line.
Why don't companies really concerned about security simply disconnect
Ummm... They do. If you've ever worked anywhere involving classified information, you'd know that EXTREME measures and controls are normally in place in order to completely eliminate possible bleeding between classified and unclassified networks...
It's not just law enforcement in the line of duty. There are plenty of individuals who work for the federal government who honestly have reason to "browse" porn:
I understand your logic, but that statement above sums up my point:
I work in the security industry. In security, you are ALWAYS paranoid. Someone doing security related work who isn't being paranoid is not doing their job.
But, he said, for such a scheme to be all-encompassing, there would have to be some provision for open standards, so that it is not proprietary to Microsoft.
Glad the guy from MessageLabs hit the nail on the head right away... what are the chances Microsoft will go along with THAT idea? They'll implement this as an Exchange/Outlook only feature, if they can get away with it...
And, a poster above me states that Microsoft basically invented this, giving me reason to believe there is no reason why they couldn't get away with keeping it all to themselves.
And (getting WAY ahead of myself here, but...) since it's encryption oriented, it would most likely be against the DMCA by default to even attempt to reverse engineer, and provide an open and compatible alternative...
You obviously have no understanding of security at all.
Of course there are still ways around the current security measures. And yes, you are right, there always will be. The problem with your logic is this:
Just cause you can come up with a way to circumvent current measures, does that mean you should drop those current measures? You might think it's ridiculous to ban all knives, but as soon as we drop that policy according to your logic, suddenly we provide a very simple and very accesible way for anyone to bring a weapon on board. ANYONE can get a hold of a knife.
It's not about stopping everything, cause that won't happen. It's about stopping as many things as you possibly can. I'd rather make the hijaker go through the effort of getting a soda can so he can hope against all chances he rips it just right so that it's actually sharp enough to do anything than let people get on board with knives.
I'm glad you're not protecting my network, you'd bring the firewall down cause "people could in theory get around it anyways..."
Seriously, check out Wine and WineX.
I know not every game will run, but a vast, vast, vast majority of the currently popular games run without a single hitch.
I remember watching that show in Holland as a kid! That show was just phenominal! Every few years I make an attempt to track them down on video or DVD, but so far I haven't had too much luck...
I did hear about a year ago (last time I did that search) that they were showing the show again somewhere in Canada...
I hope to find all the episodes on DVD someday...
What are you talking about? I'm a new Slackware convert, so maybe this has recently changed, but... With Slack you do have to fdisk manually... Besides that, it is the cleanest, quickest and easiest install I've ever seen. Best hardware detection I've ever seen too (the primary reason I switched to Slack).
I agree that noobs (and even some veterans) shouldn't have to fdisk themselves, but lumping it together with Gentoo and Debian is unfair.
Maybe someone can correct me here, but... I had always been under the impression that the Lord of the Rings books were heavily influenced by Christianity and the Bible? I'll be 100% honest, I haven't read the books since I was about 12, and way too young to get any possible deeper meaning... But I'm certain I've heard that on multiple occasions.
Didn't J.R.R. Tolkein and C.S. Lewis know each other? And didn't they both set out to accomplish the same task (convey Christian morals and stories through books) through slightly differtent mediums? (Chronicles of Narnia, i.e. Children's Books vs Novels)
I could be entirely wrong on this, so don't go flaming me if I am. I can't remember where I heard all of this, but... I know I heard it somewhere.:)
Doesn't have to be fake. People will pick up accents surprisingly quickly. I'm 21, so since high school many of my friends went many places for college. My friends who went to New York City have a slight New York accent, my friends who went to Richmond are developing Southern accents, and so on. It would be no surprise to me that if you add a few more years on to it, most of them would sound almost entirely native to those respective cities.
You've never heard of the Game of Life? You're right then, a Hacker Emblem doesn't apply to you.
Absolutely 100% true.
I'm a young one (21), yet I've known what the game of life is since I was about 6 or so. This doesn't even have anything to do with age, which is why I think it's so cool. If you're a hacker, you know what the game of life is. (And probably at some point in time spent hours figuring out how to produce super-gliders).
I, for one, think I'm going to go put this on my webpage right now. I like the idea, and it'll only catch on if we start using it.
"Over a 4% drop"? That seems practically insignificant.
Don't mean to be rude, but that is NOT insignificant at all. Do you follows stocks and financial news? 4% is a big drop, ESPECIALLY since no SCO-related financial news was released today (i.e. news of a bad quarter for SCO, etc, etc).
4% doesn't sound like a lot, but it is a very significant change.
...many of which were devoted more to role-playing (RP) than level advancement.
Exactly.
I spent several years playing NarniaMUSH, a MUSH based on the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. It was thouroughly enjoyable, mostly because the game didn't even HAVE a battle system. It was 100% roleplaying. And people there could actually roleplay. People created real characters with real traits, real strengths and real weaknesses... No one EVER talked "Out of Character" unless you were in a designated "Out of Character" location. If you did, everyone else just pretended to be really confused. It was a great crowd... I'd love to meet up with some of those people again.
This must have been close to 9 years ago or so, now, I guess. Great times, though... Are there still places like that out there?
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How am I moded -1 Overrated when I hadn't been moded at all yet? Someone is confused. :)
I know plenty of people that run OpenOffice.org on Windows. I attend a (mostly) art school, and many of my friends are not the most technical. When they ask me something like, "I need powerpoint!" or "My word is too old to open this thing my teacher sent me!" or anything of the sort, I always point them to OpenOffice.org.
I understand your point about "if Linux zealots are the only people making inroads...", but as long as we keep thinking that way, we'll just perpetuate our own problem. Go convert a friend to OpenOffice today! They'll thank you!
Anyone who cares about a decent resolution, refresh rate and physical screen size?
Find me an LCD that will do 2048x1536 with a 22" viewable and ~90hz refresh rate. Oh, and make sure it costs about $350, since that is how much this monitor cost me.
Way to over generalize, buddy. I may have given your statement some thought until I got to that last line.
Ummm... They do. If you've ever worked anywhere involving classified information, you'd know that EXTREME measures and controls are normally in place in order to completely eliminate possible bleeding between classified and unclassified networks...
It's not just law enforcement in the line of duty. There are plenty of individuals who work for the federal government who honestly have reason to "browse" porn:
URL Filter Software Administrators/Developers
Security Engineers
Email Admins
Infact, these could even be contractors on Government systems in a Government workplace.
No, no. You're wrong. IE 6.0 just hogs all resources by default.
You mean a Hot Cocoa Sampler Box?
I understand your logic, but that statement above sums up my point:
I work in the security industry. In security, you are ALWAYS paranoid. Someone doing security related work who isn't being paranoid is not doing their job.
Glad the guy from MessageLabs hit the nail on the head right away... what are the chances Microsoft will go along with THAT idea? They'll implement this as an Exchange/Outlook only feature, if they can get away with it...
And, a poster above me states that Microsoft basically invented this, giving me reason to believe there is no reason why they couldn't get away with keeping it all to themselves.
And (getting WAY ahead of myself here, but...) since it's encryption oriented, it would most likely be against the DMCA by default to even attempt to reverse engineer, and provide an open and compatible alternative...
You obviously have no understanding of security at all.
Of course there are still ways around the current security measures. And yes, you are right, there always will be. The problem with your logic is this:
Just cause you can come up with a way to circumvent current measures, does that mean you should drop those current measures? You might think it's ridiculous to ban all knives, but as soon as we drop that policy according to your logic, suddenly we provide a very simple and very accesible way for anyone to bring a weapon on board. ANYONE can get a hold of a knife.
It's not about stopping everything, cause that won't happen. It's about stopping as many things as you possibly can. I'd rather make the hijaker go through the effort of getting a soda can so he can hope against all chances he rips it just right so that it's actually sharp enough to do anything than let people get on board with knives.
I'm glad you're not protecting my network, you'd bring the firewall down cause "people could in theory get around it anyways..."
You SOOOO shouldn't have posted that with your website displayed publically on Slashdot.
;)
Seriously, check out Wine and WineX. I know not every game will run, but a vast, vast, vast majority of the currently popular games run without a single hitch.
I have a dell running Linux... I've never had a spyware problem...
Oh, wait. You mean it's the OPERATING SYSTEM that is at fault here, and not the machine?
Oh, wait. You mean that everyone here is flipping out cause Dell won't support users making bad decisions due to an insecure OS?
How is this Dell's fault again? Seriously...
I remember watching that show in Holland as a kid! That show was just phenominal! Every few years I make an attempt to track them down on video or DVD, but so far I haven't had too much luck... I did hear about a year ago (last time I did that search) that they were showing the show again somewhere in Canada... I hope to find all the episodes on DVD someday...
What's Comdex? For that matter, what is this BSD you speak of?
What are you talking about? I'm a new Slackware convert, so maybe this has recently changed, but... With Slack you do have to fdisk manually... Besides that, it is the cleanest, quickest and easiest install I've ever seen. Best hardware detection I've ever seen too (the primary reason I switched to Slack).
I agree that noobs (and even some veterans) shouldn't have to fdisk themselves, but lumping it together with Gentoo and Debian is unfair.
I used to work at the Department of Energy as a contractor, and we always refrerred to him as Spence.
Now, I've never even seen him in real life, I didn't work ANYWHERE near that high up, but...
Maybe someone can correct me here, but... I had always been under the impression that the Lord of the Rings books were heavily influenced by Christianity and the Bible? I'll be 100% honest, I haven't read the books since I was about 12, and way too young to get any possible deeper meaning... But I'm certain I've heard that on multiple occasions.
:)
Didn't J.R.R. Tolkein and C.S. Lewis know each other? And didn't they both set out to accomplish the same task (convey Christian morals and stories through books) through slightly differtent mediums? (Chronicles of Narnia, i.e. Children's Books vs Novels)
I could be entirely wrong on this, so don't go flaming me if I am. I can't remember where I heard all of this, but... I know I heard it somewhere.
Doesn't have to be fake. People will pick up accents surprisingly quickly. I'm 21, so since high school many of my friends went many places for college. My friends who went to New York City have a slight New York accent, my friends who went to Richmond are developing Southern accents, and so on. It would be no surprise to me that if you add a few more years on to it, most of them would sound almost entirely native to those respective cities.
Think it should be in pixels?
I agree. Made a 60x60 version in square blocks for everyone. Feel free to grab here.
I'm putting it on my webpage right now.
Absolutely 100% true.
I'm a young one (21), yet I've known what the game of life is since I was about 6 or so. This doesn't even have anything to do with age, which is why I think it's so cool. If you're a hacker, you know what the game of life is. (And probably at some point in time spent hours figuring out how to produce super-gliders).
I, for one, think I'm going to go put this on my webpage right now. I like the idea, and it'll only catch on if we start using it.
Here I go!
Don't mean to be rude, but that is NOT insignificant at all. Do you follows stocks and financial news? 4% is a big drop, ESPECIALLY since no SCO-related financial news was released today (i.e. news of a bad quarter for SCO, etc, etc).
4% doesn't sound like a lot, but it is a very significant change.
Exactly.
I spent several years playing NarniaMUSH, a MUSH based on the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. It was thouroughly enjoyable, mostly because the game didn't even HAVE a battle system. It was 100% roleplaying. And people there could actually roleplay. People created real characters with real traits, real strengths and real weaknesses... No one EVER talked "Out of Character" unless you were in a designated "Out of Character" location. If you did, everyone else just pretended to be really confused. It was a great crowd... I'd love to meet up with some of those people again.
This must have been close to 9 years ago or so, now, I guess. Great times, though... Are there still places like that out there?