I can write a perl script to extract the details from Pine or most other UNIX mail programs just as easily - the actual problem is getting the virus launched on the victims PC in the first place. ..and I thought the most difficult bit would be getting the victim to down load the modules from CPAN.
1) Being useful on the desktop means that packaging methods, configuration files etc need to be standardized.
Pick a distro and stick with it.
2) Consistent, thorough and up to date documentation for programs.
Find the worst offender and sort it out, I'm sure the developers would appreciate the help
3) Number 1 and 2 will help in the other major stumbling block. Support for hardware.
This is backwards, It should be hardware support for linux. As more people use linux the more the manufacturers will be inclined to release drivers with their hardware. Creative, Epson, Lexmark to name a few now provide drivers for linux.
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Say what you will about Windows but it is intuitive
There is NOTHING intuitive about current input devices and methods.
What you MEAN is:
"It's like the previous version"
From the article.
"It is also a new front in a war waged by THOSE who want to preserve the open-source Linux operating system."
I indeed want to preserve and encourage the open-source Linux operating system.
Therefore I am one of THOSE.
I, like the vast majority of Linux users/contributors do not engage in illegal activities as your story claims.
I'm not "at war" with anyone.
Is there any possibility that this article could be re-written to include some facts rather than ill-formed opinion disguised as fact.
I does the reputation of the bbc no good at all to pass off shoddy work of this nature as professional journalism.
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Worse they've given away the ending of the 5th LOTR film
"Sauron strikes back"
Pfff, we're saved. printf("Hello world\n") will still work on all platforms. Isn't it the standard portability test after all?
Doesn't this fail the microsoft portability test?
I can write a perl script to extract the details from Pine or most other UNIX mail programs just as easily - the actual problem is getting the virus launched on the victims PC in the first place.
..and I thought the most difficult bit would be getting the victim to down load the modules from CPAN.
And designing things to be thrown away is good practice?
Works for boomerangs
Any idea how to help this problem?
Use a cluster of nis/nfs servers.
Trial, Trial, Trial again.
Micropayments are ok
But what we REALLY need are micro bills
I wish you would have given us a little insight as to the specific ways that you find Solaris superior.
They way it handles threads, and virtual memory management and.......
1) Being useful on the desktop means that packaging methods, configuration files etc need to be standardized.
Pick a distro and stick with it.
2) Consistent, thorough and up to date documentation for programs.
Find the worst offender and sort it out, I'm sure the developers would appreciate the help
3) Number 1 and 2 will help in the other major stumbling block. Support for hardware.
This is backwards, It should be hardware support for linux.
As more people use linux the more the manufacturers will be inclined to release drivers with their hardware. Creative, Epson, Lexmark to name a few now provide drivers for linux.
People should be accountable to the laws of the nation they reside in, and only those laws.
I'm sure Saddam would agree with you there. Production of weapons of mass destruction if not legal could well be when you control the legal system.
The principal here is very simple:
You really think so??
It's dangerous to underestimate the power of apathy.
Like any new technology, it's a bit pricey at $6K
Looks like the price will drop as soon as a cheap source of platinum is found.
Lucky he didn't mention the ent tripping over a tree root.
How about a metcalfe's law for spam also:
the usefulness, or utility, of a network equals the (inverse)square of the number of spammers.
Justice gets served, to big corporations
This is what happens when you have the best legal system money can buy.
Don't let all those Windows Folks in on the secret.
Unix is MUCH harder to admin.
No GUI's so I'm forced to let the scripts do all the work.
It just makes us look like insecure teenagers
Maybe we should apply the SECURE teenager patch I thought I saw somewhere....
Maybe the size of the marketing budgets behind the licenses could have some influence.
6) How do you counter the charge that modern Information Theory (IT) renders evolution all but impossible?
Simple...
Modern Information Theory is full of bugs........