I was able to switch to Linux on my desktop at work about three months ago, because I use rdesktop to terminal into a server to run Exchange (the only think holding me back from switching before). At this point in time, 4 other employees have followed and are now running Linux full-time, and using a terminal service to run exchange. rdesktop is honestly a BAD ASS project. I cannot name a single problem I've had with it.
the PDF documents I come across could have been done just as well in HTML, where the user has control over font size
I'm really honestly not sure what PDF viewer you are using but... since when don't you have control over font size? I mean, I'm only familiar with Adobe Acrobat and xpdf but... come on buddy! It's called zoom!:)
I am no microsoft fan. I run Linux at home, my work desktop, and almost every server I build... However...
Christ Almighty couldn't make WinME stable with the help of a dozen M$ software engineers and Gates himself. A stable WinME box? Heh. If such an animal existed, up would be down, black would be white, and I'd be able to get a tan.
My place of employment utilizes two Windows ME boxes to display NetView statistics on HUGE plasma screens in our main support center. Now, I know that they don't do much but display netview, but in my year and a half there, I have never seen them go down or crash. We've only had to reboot them due to power outages.
This is not a troll. Honestly please listen to me. You listed a ton of apps above. You have also been moded +5. You are also wrong about many of these apps:
- I have been using the Linux Cisco VPN client from 3.51 untill the most recent 4.0.2. It's been easier to use than the Windows client. - MS-Office: I don't care what people say: If OpenOffice.Org doens't do it, Abiword and Gnumerics do it. - Who in God's name still uses Lotus Notes? - Full Acrobat is available for Linux. I've never had a crash or a problem. - Photoshop is argueable vs. Gimp, depending on exactly what we are talking about. If we are talking about "desktop" use (as the article is supposed to be about) Gimp is MORE than sufficient enough. - Who the HELL do you know that uses PageMaker or FrameMaker? If so, they have much bigger problems than not having Linux versions available...
Seriously... Have you done ANY research as to what large, major corporations have been supporting Linux for years?
A world with linux, apple, and microsoft--having the three of them is much better than having any two. New ideas, new flow, new users.
On one hand, this may sound like selfless self-promotion... but on the other hand, I think this is really honestly relevant.
In response to what you had to say, read my practical for my GSEC. I covers some of the same points: Opensource, Closesource, or the competition that exists because of the two?
It's not so much that AOL made the internet popular (as in a lot of people use it), it's that it made it 'popular' (as in the hip and trendy thing to do). This created a whole (and by now, several) internet-aware but still functionally illiterate people.
This is another thing to upsets me. People that get so very upset about any sort of evolution of language.
Last time I checked, the point of language was to convey thoughts. Does it really make any difference what so ever how this is accomplished if it's accomplished?
Reminds me a lot of those people that used to bitch about the Millenium thing. "No, no! That's not 2000! It's 2001! See, like, there was no year zero and..."
Yeah, yeah. Shut up.
Point is does it make any difference if I spell it "u" our "you"? You still know what I mean.
Does it make any difference if I wanted to party New Year's Eve 2000 instead of 2001? None at all, really.
People have to remember that although facts obviously matter, it is the intention and meaning behind someone's actions that actually count.
I don't personally do this, but if I use "u" instead of "you", you damn well know what I mean. Therefore, I am accomplishing what language was intended to do: convey thought. If anything, I would be a more efficient person if I always used "u" instead of "you".
Are we as geeks going to help stop progression by becomming so stuck in our roots that we have to automatically dismiss anything that is different...
Isn't that exactly what many of us spent our youth rebelling against in the first place...?
AOL is to computer culture what Little Boy was to Hiroshima.
Oh, come on! I hear stuff like this constantly, and it's just complete and total BS.
Sure, I kinda miss the days when "The Internet" was "our" thing. But you have to realize that is already over. So stop dwelling on it.
In the mean time, the Internet-boom happened. And overall this has been a good thing. It was provided us with wonderful conveniences (like web-retailers), wonderful innovations (like Java), wonderful social impact (Instant Messaging and being able to email even your grandparents in Europe), and holds in store plenty of new possibilities. We have IPv6 around the corner, imbedded systems are popping up everywhere, and wireless technologies are ushering in a whole new era of connectivity.
Without companies like AOL, we may have never seen the explosion that we have seen, and concepts that we now take for granted that enrich our lives every day may have never seen light.
We all get nostalgic sometimes, but don't go belitteling a company for "ruining" the internet as you are attempting to imply, when they may very well have been one of the most important players period in the construction of what many of us now base much of our lives around.
I'll be honest: I agree with ya. This one is doing a damn good job. When you read through the full description of all the stuff it does... it's like an uber-virus with the strength of 10 normal virii.
Can anyone tell me why it bothers to try connecting to the internet so hard?
It installs a keylogger, as well as a backdoor that allows people to connect and download the keylogs. It hasn't been fully determined, but you might be able to execute other commands while connected to the backdoor, too.
This doesn't do the author's much good if you aren't online, does it?
I'm sorry, you guys are all wrong. This exploits the relatively new (Well - from November of 2002 - not 2 years in any case) iframe vulnerability in IE.
I did this once, too, although not as intense. On a local bulletin board I got the Sysop to put up a simple program I wrote that loaded up as "Legend of the Red Dragon" and then appeared as if it "crashed" into a C:\ prompt. It allowed you to "dir" and "cd" and a few other things, but that's about it.
You'd still be surprised how many people we logged trying to "deltree */y":)
I recompile my kernel over and over in the background, fullscreened. That much text flying by makes it look like you're doing something REALLY important. Then I browse Slashdot on top in the bottom right-hand corner.:)
Although overall I agree that better NTFS support is needed, you can most easily accomplish this with SMB. It's what I use everytime I need to write to NTFS. If we're doing this over a network anyway - why not just use what Windows has already provisioned for usage?
I know someone people may still have a biase against samba, cause I know it used to be horribly confusing to use. I haven't had an issue for a very long time, however.
smb-client//IP.HERE/
It'll prompt you for a password if needed, and you're on your way.
You travel south in the morning, and north in the evening. You're going with traffic. I live in Sterling and travel to Germantown (Department of Energy - Exit 15), so I get to travel north on 270 in the morning, and south in the evening. It's normally pretty damn quiet in my direction... (on 270 that is - 495 is always shit)
Hell with 95, it's 270 right after the split off of 495 (also NoVa area - I guess we're talking MD now.) 495 is always packed as hell, and then suddenly glorious 270 with 6 lanes and no traffic opens up...
To me, a big part of purchasing DVD's is OWNING the DVD. I have hundreds upon hundreds of CD's, and I haven't stopped buying those in the age of MP3's. I still purchase atleast a dozen CD's a month, because to me the collecting is part of the fun. I also know I'm not the only one...many people enjoy having a sizeable DVD or CD collection. Why do you think there are so many pieces of display furniture available? There is a reason people don't keep their DVD's and CD's in cardboard boxes, but on display next to their entertainment centers.
I'm seriously surprised that there is always so much discussion that goes on about spam-mail.
I swear to God, I have NEVER received a SINGLE piece of spam. This is because I'm not stupid, and I don't ever submit my email address to anything but companies that I do business with. I promise you that it is TRULY that simple.
Slashdot Mirror
Hell with any of that! What about rdesktop?
I was able to switch to Linux on my desktop at work about three months ago, because I use rdesktop to terminal into a server to run Exchange (the only think holding me back from switching before). At this point in time, 4 other employees have followed and are now running Linux full-time, and using a terminal service to run exchange. rdesktop is honestly a BAD ASS project. I cannot name a single problem I've had with it.
I'm really honestly not sure what PDF viewer you are using but... since when don't you have control over font size? I mean, I'm only familiar with Adobe Acrobat and xpdf but... come on buddy! It's called zoom!
I am no microsoft fan. I run Linux at home, my work desktop, and almost every server I build... However...
Christ Almighty couldn't make WinME stable with the help of a dozen M$ software engineers and Gates himself. A stable WinME box? Heh. If such an animal existed, up would be down, black would be white, and I'd be able to get a tan.
My place of employment utilizes two Windows ME boxes to display NetView statistics on HUGE plasma screens in our main support center.
Now, I know that they don't do much but display netview, but in my year and a half there, I have never seen them go down or crash. We've only had to reboot them due to power outages.
This is not a troll. Honestly please listen to me. You listed a ton of apps above. You have also been moded +5. You are also wrong about many of these apps:
- I have been using the Linux Cisco VPN client from 3.51 untill the most recent 4.0.2. It's been easier to use than the Windows client.
- MS-Office: I don't care what people say: If OpenOffice.Org doens't do it, Abiword and Gnumerics do it.
- Who in God's name still uses Lotus Notes?
- Full Acrobat is available for Linux. I've never had a crash or a problem.
- Photoshop is argueable vs. Gimp, depending on exactly what we are talking about. If we are talking about "desktop" use (as the article is supposed to be about) Gimp is MORE than sufficient enough.
- Who the HELL do you know that uses PageMaker or FrameMaker? If so, they have much bigger problems than not having Linux versions available...
Seriously... Have you done ANY research as to what large, major corporations have been supporting Linux for years?
On one hand, this may sound like selfless self-promotion... but on the other hand, I think this is really honestly relevant.
In response to what you had to say, read my practical for my GSEC. I covers some of the same points: Opensource, Closesource, or the competition that exists because of the two?
Destroy the conspiracy theories? I think not!
You guys just all wait untill the Bildeberg Group unleashes Space Gozilla to finally rid us of the Nazi UFO's! Then we will all know who killed JFK and you puny mortals will finally believe that the Moon Landings were all a hoax!
Give up on conspiracy theories? Yeah right!
This is another thing to upsets me. People that get so very upset about any sort of evolution of language.
Last time I checked, the point of language was to convey thoughts. Does it really make any difference what so ever how this is accomplished if it's accomplished?
Reminds me a lot of those people that used to bitch about the Millenium thing. "No, no! That's not 2000! It's 2001! See, like, there was no year zero and..."
Yeah, yeah. Shut up.
Point is does it make any difference if I spell it "u" our "you"? You still know what I mean.
Does it make any difference if I wanted to party New Year's Eve 2000 instead of 2001? None at all, really.
People have to remember that although facts obviously matter, it is the intention and meaning behind someone's actions that actually count.
I don't personally do this, but if I use "u" instead of "you", you damn well know what I mean. Therefore, I am accomplishing what language was intended to do: convey thought. If anything, I would be a more efficient person if I always used "u" instead of "you".
Are we as geeks going to help stop progression by becomming so stuck in our roots that we have to automatically dismiss anything that is different...
Isn't that exactly what many of us spent our youth rebelling against in the first place...?
Oh, come on! I hear stuff like this constantly, and it's just complete and total BS.
Sure, I kinda miss the days when "The Internet" was "our" thing. But you have to realize that is already over. So stop dwelling on it.
In the mean time, the Internet-boom happened. And overall this has been a good thing. It was provided us with wonderful conveniences (like web-retailers), wonderful innovations (like Java), wonderful social impact (Instant Messaging and being able to email even your grandparents in Europe), and holds in store plenty of new possibilities. We have IPv6 around the corner, imbedded systems are popping up everywhere, and wireless technologies are ushering in a whole new era of connectivity.
Without companies like AOL, we may have never seen the explosion that we have seen, and concepts that we now take for granted that enrich our lives every day may have never seen light.
We all get nostalgic sometimes, but don't go belitteling a company for "ruining" the internet as you are attempting to imply, when they may very well have been one of the most important players period in the construction of what many of us now base much of our lives around.
Just message:
You can even add the phone numbers to your buddy list.
It's a good list, but a few things are wrong:
PSINet has been gone for quite a while now. I don't know who owns their space now, though.
DoD owns two class A's.
Genuity owns a class A.
Not trying to steal your thunder in any way what so ever, but QuakeC, as it's called, has been around since the original Quake. I promise.
I'll be honest: I agree with ya. This one is doing a damn good job. When you read through the full description of all the stuff it does... it's like an uber-virus with the strength of 10 normal virii.
The virus installs without you needing to click on anything. It uses the iframe vulnerability in IE to run as soon as outlook opens the mail.
Rather irrelevant, really. The iframe vulnerability was discovered in November of 2002. Either way it's no where near 2 years.
It installs a keylogger, as well as a backdoor that allows people to connect and download the keylogs. It hasn't been fully determined, but you might be able to execute other commands while connected to the backdoor, too.
This doesn't do the author's much good if you aren't online, does it?
I'm sorry, you guys are all wrong. This exploits the relatively new (Well - from November of 2002 - not 2 years in any case) iframe vulnerability in IE.
I did this once, too, although not as intense. On a local bulletin board I got the Sysop to put up a simple program I wrote that loaded up as "Legend of the Red Dragon" and then appeared as if it "crashed" into a C:\ prompt. It allowed you to "dir" and "cd" and a few other things, but that's about it.
/y" :)
You'd still be surprised how many people we logged trying to "deltree *
I recompile my kernel over and over in the background, fullscreened. That much text flying by makes it look like you're doing something REALLY important. Then I browse Slashdot on top in the bottom right-hand corner. :)
Although overall I agree that better NTFS support is needed, you can most easily accomplish this with SMB. It's what I use everytime I need to write to NTFS. If we're doing this over a network anyway - why not just use what Windows has already provisioned for usage?
//IP.HERE/
I know someone people may still have a biase against samba, cause I know it used to be horribly confusing to use. I haven't had an issue for a very long time, however.
smb-client
It'll prompt you for a password if needed, and you're on your way.
You travel south in the morning, and north in the evening. You're going with traffic. I live in Sterling and travel to Germantown (Department of Energy - Exit 15), so I get to travel north on 270 in the morning, and south in the evening. It's normally pretty damn quiet in my direction... (on 270 that is - 495 is always shit)
Hell with 95, it's 270 right after the split off of 495 (also NoVa area - I guess we're talking MD now.) 495 is always packed as hell, and then suddenly glorious 270 with 6 lanes and no traffic opens up...
To me, a big part of purchasing DVD's is OWNING the DVD. I have hundreds upon hundreds of CD's, and I haven't stopped buying those in the age of MP3's. I still purchase atleast a dozen CD's a month, because to me the collecting is part of the fun.
I also know I'm not the only one...many people enjoy having a sizeable DVD or CD collection. Why do you think there are so many pieces of display furniture available? There is a reason people don't keep their DVD's and CD's in cardboard boxes, but on display next to their entertainment centers.
Sometimes I wish modding didn't stop at 5! This deserves much higher!
I'm seriously surprised that there is always so much discussion that goes on about spam-mail.
I swear to God, I have NEVER received a SINGLE piece of spam. This is because I'm not stupid, and I don't ever submit my email address to anything but companies that I do business with. I promise you that it is TRULY that simple.
Really? I could have sworn...