Re:Join the Revolution
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Linux vs. Windows
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Actually, Wal Mart may be the only existing Megacorp that doesn't have some sort of hiden agenda(patents and stuff)... And the only one who don't think of getting more money from screwing customers, but instead aim for higher sales numbers...
That's because their business model is based on high sales instead of high profit margins. This allowed them to undercut K-Mart during their rise to promience, but has been detrimental in their fight against Target, which has managed to portray a public image of being classy with the same low prices as WalMart.
they are MUCH better than a lot of corporation in the sense they don't charge the customer, but pressure the distribution and manifacturing level
Yeah, WalMart's amazing. Just as long as you don't workforthem.
The block in China only lasted for a couple of days, until some administrators in the Chinese-language wikipedia appealed the ban.
My thinking on that is two-fold. First, it's a huge embarassment for the censors if they block Wikipedia, because we are none of the things that they claim to want to censor. Censoring Wikipedia is an admission that it is unbiased factual information itself that frightens you. We are not political propaganda, we are not online gambling, we are not pr0n. We are an encyclopedia.
Second, I consider it a moral imperative for our overall mission that we will not bend our principles of freedom, of the freedom of speech, of a commitment to inclusiveness and neutrality, to meet any possible demands of any government anywhere. We are a _free_ encyclopedia, with all that entails.
If only Google and Yahoo! would take such a stand...
There are already multiple Chinese search engines. However, localization will neither solve the problem of Chinese governmental censorship nor of American search engines' complicity in this totalitarian behavior.
Not surprisingly, Pratt's account maxed out at 102% or 1023 MB. Unlike Kevin Rose, Pratt's account filled up two months ago. Rose's test, however, was not about filling his account:
[THEORY] I have a feeling this had to do with mail message processing. Google knows that 80% of mail messages are text, and we all know that text is highly compressible. That said, they probably only have around 2-300MB of storage allocated for each 1GB account (obviously this will fluctuate up to 1GB depending on the user's mail content). My take on this, is that they have a huge series of RAID arrays at their server farm. Every time an email comes in, it is compressed and stored in that users account on the RAID. Upon account login the user's data is decompressed, indexed, and moved to some type of RAM/solid state drive for quick access. Once this is complete, it is then displayed to the end user (a 1-2 second process). I have a feeling that due to the huge number of incoming emails, I had some type of processing time out occur. The server was trying to write data to my library (thousands of new msgs), while retrieve and displaying data - resulting in errors. A few days after things settled down (and a few cron jobs later), Gmail was able to sort things out [END THEORY].
If you do a Stage 1 installation, you can configure the USE flags during installation, otherwise, I assume that you get some sort of Gentoo default. "Locked" is poor verb choice, since as AC grandparent mentions, you can change the flags.
This book is about Fedora. If you don't like Fedora, that's fine, it's your choice. But don't sit here and tell the author of the book that he *should* have chosen a different distribution. Maybe he's never used Mandrake. Maybe he didn't know the new version was coming out. Maybe he doesn't have a USB key. For whatever reason, he wrote about Fedora, so just cope with it, ok?
Which would be fine if the book was "Linux for Rickford Grant." However, the book is for "non-geeks" to help them use Linux. As you admit ("There are hundreds of distributions, and a dozen that are actually usable."), the distribution you choose *is* important. It is possible that Mandrake is more user-friendly than Fedora (in my personal experience, Mandrake 9.2 was more user-friendly than RedHat 9), which would make it better suited to non-technical users.
Suppose I wrote a book on Linux for non-technical users that used Gentoo, from a Stage 1 install. Using your reasoning, this would be fine, despite the fact that it would be a horrid book.
I think after that, nearly every Joe 6-pack finally realized that the thing in his "Start Menu" called "Windows Update" was something to use often.
Which is why the Sasser worm hit so few people? Yes, Blaster caused *some* people to realize it was necessary to run Windows Update, but others only downloaded the Blaster-specific RPC patch in August, causing them to get reinfected again in October and November with newer RPC worms like Gaobot, and again this spring with Sasser.
Re:Firefox + Thunderbird = Mozilla?
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Mozilla 1.7 Released
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What's the difference between Firefox and Mozilla?
Mozilla (Application Suite, also known as SeaMonkey) is a complete suite of web related applications, such as a browser, a mail/news client, a chat client and much more. Firefox is just a browser, which makes it a better choice if you already have a mail client for example. Also, since Firefox is smaller than the whole Mozilla suite, it's faster and easier to use.
Note, though, that Firefox is not just the standalone Mozilla browser. The user interface in Firefox differs from Mozilla in many ways. For example, Firefox has customizable toolbars.
Similarly, Thunderbird is a standalone mail client. For most people, Firefox and Thunderbird will fit just as well as (if not better than!) Mozilla; if you want a IRC client and a HTML editor, then I would suggest you use Mozilla.
The starting bid for the auction is $100,000, which is the 100k that the grandparent poster is referring to. Calm down, and do not be so quick to insult people.
When I read your previous comment (see great-grandparent), I assumed you were refusing to consider Pluto as a planet, assigning it the status of a Kuiper Belt object or planetoid.
Since so many new viruses, worms, and other examples of malware are being created by university graduates, instead of lonely immature teenagers, right?
I actually do; and could not find anything about spyware companies donating money to her. The vast majority of news articles making a reference to her are from the past few days, referring to this case.
Microsoft reasoning aside, the current ActiveX solutions for Mozilla (as described in this thread), either do not work in Windows Update, or, like Neptune, use Internet Explorer rendering engine and security model. This nullifies any possible benefit, and I assume that you would still need Internet Explorer.
Do you have any links to back up your assertion? While the cruise missile guy exists (although he did not actually build the missile, just asserted it was theoretically possible), I have found nothing about the stealth bomber's necessity to be repainted.
You also forget that cruise missiles do not carry passengers. Similarly, if your stealth bomber does show up on enemy radar, there is no guarantee that you will die. If your poorly made Russian reality TV spaceship has problems, then you are just screwed.
While this works for Windows Messenger, you simply *cannot* uninstall Internet Explorer from Windows XP; some components still remain, because the program is integrated into the operating system.
If you go to the MSKB article on uninstalling IE6, you'll note it only applies to:
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me)
Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows Advanced Server Limited Edition
It's there, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Some people don't like their carrier. For example, what if one day you wake up and realize that Cingular offers better service? Since it would cost AT&T money to change your number, it was more cost-effective for them to just let you keep it. If you switch a new carrier, it is cheaper for them to make you change.
However, the installation for the Google Toolbar clearly states that this will happen if you enable the advanced features. Secondly, those "advanced features" are optional, and not enabled by default.
Slashdot Mirror
It, isn't. You, however, are.
If you enable the "Slashdot Stats" slashbox, you would see the following information:
time: 22:37:59
uptime: 35 days, 16:35, 0 users,
load average: 0.08, 0.24, 0.26
processes: 78
totalhits: 1875194641
That uptime looks pretty good to me...
There are already multiple Chinese search engines. However, localization will neither solve the problem of Chinese governmental censorship nor of American search engines' complicity in this totalitarian behavior.
Not surprisingly, Pratt's account maxed out at 102% or 1023 MB. Unlike Kevin Rose, Pratt's account filled up two months ago. Rose's test, however, was not about filling his account:
What incentive does Google have to seriously reduce this type of fraud? The more clickthru's, the more they get paid!
You are thinking of Adwords, and ignoring AdSense.
Configuring the USE variable
If you do a Stage 1 installation, you can configure the USE flags during installation, otherwise, I assume that you get some sort of Gentoo default. "Locked" is poor verb choice, since as AC grandparent mentions, you can change the flags.
Suppose I wrote a book on Linux for non-technical users that used Gentoo, from a Stage 1 install. Using your reasoning, this would be fine, despite the fact that it would be a horrid book.
The starting bid for the auction is $100,000, which is the 100k that the grandparent poster is referring to. Calm down, and do not be so quick to insult people.
When I read your previous comment (see great-grandparent), I assumed you were refusing to consider Pluto as a planet, assigning it the status of a Kuiper Belt object or planetoid.
More information at Wikipedia.
I assume you missed "Is the Linux Desktop Getting Heavier and Slower?" from yesterday.
Since so many new viruses, worms, and other examples of malware are being created by university graduates, instead of lonely immature teenagers, right?
I actually do; and could not find anything about spyware companies donating money to her. The vast majority of news articles making a reference to her are from the past few days, referring to this case.
I personally like Robert Scoble's blog. Sure, he loves Microsoft, but he understand that there are some advantages to using Linux or Mac systems.
The Boston Tea Party happened before the American Revolution. It was not "a load of garbage," as you claim. Educate yourself.
Microsoft reasoning aside, the current ActiveX solutions for Mozilla (as described in this thread), either do not work in Windows Update, or, like Neptune, use Internet Explorer rendering engine and security model. This nullifies any possible benefit, and I assume that you would still need Internet Explorer.
Windows Update uses ActiveX controls to check which updates are installed on your computer, so you actually do need Internet Explorer to use it.
Do you have any links to back up your assertion? While the cruise missile guy exists (although he did not actually build the missile, just asserted it was theoretically possible), I have found nothing about the stealth bomber's necessity to be repainted.
You also forget that cruise missiles do not carry passengers. Similarly, if your stealth bomber does show up on enemy radar, there is no guarantee that you will die. If your poorly made Russian reality TV spaceship has problems, then you are just screwed.
- Microsoft Windows 2000
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
- Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me)
- Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows Advanced Server Limited Edition
It's there, and there is nothing you can do about it.Some people don't like their carrier. For example, what if one day you wake up and realize that Cingular offers better service? Since it would cost AT&T money to change your number, it was more cost-effective for them to just let you keep it. If you switch a new carrier, it is cheaper for them to make you change.
However, the installation for the Google Toolbar clearly states that this will happen if you enable the advanced features. Secondly, those "advanced features" are optional, and not enabled by default.
Different method, completely different use.