That's nice, but wouldn't it be great if they added the same functionality to IE that Mozilla already has? Or does MS not care that the IE-using masses are constantly bombarded by ads for the X11 spy-cam and whatnot? How many windows users are going to go out and download another program just to stop pop-ups? And if they do will they get some spyware riddled POS that's bundled with gator, or something decent?
With the Windows License (EULA) is there any cost benefit in using Linux as a thin client?
Huh? What do you mean by "With the Windows (EULA)"?. The way you phrased the question it sounds like you're implying that the Windows EULA is a good thing, or something. Also Citrix costs money, so I wouldn't think it would be a good comparison to the Linux vs. Windows debate. Except that it also a thin-client setup. As you probably know Linux is free and the GPL lets you pretty much do what you want with it. I'd think that would be a considerable benefit for a low-budget institution that wanted to set up a bunch of boxes just to do internet and word processing via a thin-client program. I know that I've saved thousands by installing Linux instead of buying tons of Windows licenses for those same boxes. Although my setup is not a thin-client one.
Bah! That's nothing. Open up a few directories in Nautilus that have lots of pics in them and you can get a truly massive memory footprint. I'm sure that'll be fixed sometime after they add NNTP support across the board.
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It works wonders for concentration. I took it more than a few times in high school and could focus in on homework or what have you very easily. It and dexedrine are pretty potent drugs. I know I wouldn't let my kids take them, regardless of the current craze to presribe it. I used to get it from a kid who was diagnosed with ADHD who knew that he didn't need to be taking it as it just zombified him. He's doing fine now, no ill effects for not having taken the magic pill that the doctors said he needed to make it through life. Kind of like the millions of people around the world who no doubt would be diagnosed with ADHD if they had health insurance and lived in the US.
Read my post in response to the AC in this thread. I said I blamed myself, as well as the ISP and worm writer. But thanks for pointing out my cluelessness anyway.
I imagine that cnet wouldn't mind if this drags on forever. What with all the hits they're gettting from all the *nix heads they must be rolling in ad-money... or something. Although I didn't bother to RTFA, as it sounds like more of the same old garbage. If you've read one story about SCO's insane claims of IBM/Linux malfeasance, you've read em all.
No, but when the story on liquid nitrogen cooling for overclocking a P4 up to some crazy speed like 4ghz, quite a few people mentioned making ice cream in this manner. I think there were also a few posts about some guy who drank the stuff and ended up getting a Darwin award. Not the good ones where you have to be killed, but some honorary award that didn't require death. Good stuff.
Well another thing to bring up is that some scientists think that homo sapiens, (us), and Neanderthals might have interbred. Certain genetic traits, and genes that are found in Europeans are also found in Neanderthals. There's some fossil evidence to back this up too, depending on who you ask. Of course this makes people even more uncomfortable than the idea that we killed them all off. As we tend to view Neanderthals as stupid and a lower life form. Googling for "mulitregional evolution", and "neanderthals" should get some good info on the subject. This might explaion GWB and some of the knuckle-draggers who live among us.
I never said he couldn't ask the question. However I did say that it should be modded down because it is a waste of space/time to the vast majority of/. readers. You could have googled for "FUD" as well, and you would have found out what it meant. I thought that was what geeks did when they wanted to find out the definition of a word like FUD, or to figure out who RMS is. And as for this "nonsence" discussion, I said in my post pretty much the exact same thing, (it's a waste of space/time), so thanks for chiming in to agree with me, and adding some more nonsense, (proper spelling), to this thread.
I hope that you were running the projector and didn't run out and actually pay for a ticket to see that piece-of-crap-looking-movie. Did the previews actually make you want to see it? The horror... the horror.
Well for the worm I got, I blame myself for not knowing about CR, or the patch, my ISP for being dipshits and being down for over a day, and the guy/guys who wrote it. However I can see how people might blame MS for writing some buggy pieces of software that in turn were at least partially to blame for them getting said worms. As I recall even MS's developers caught the slammer worm, (that's the SQL one?). BTW I just mentioned "folks like MS", in my post as I think that since they are a corporation they are swayed by public opinion/outrage that comes with each new worm/virus, as they want to make money, and people want to buy a more secure product. So my comment makes more sense with them as an example. But if you prefer "folks who sell software", will also work. Most linux developers I know couldn't about public opinion and try to write the most secure code that they can. I'm sure they sit up and take notice when the worms/viruses are being talked about on CNN, however I also think that they tend to hear about the exploits and whatnot that the general public doesn't hear about/couldn't give a rat's ass about and try and fix those too. MS on the other hand might not care about fixing something if it's not worth the $ to fix and if the general public doesn't care about it, or doesn't even know it exists.
Well a modding down for asking the question is allright with me. Your question clutters up the thread and doesn't really add anything to the discussion at all, (sort of like this post). A google search for "FUD" returns a very good selection of hits. The very first link would've answered your question and saved us all a tiny bit of bandwidth. You could have saved yourself some time as well as you would have found the answer right away, instead of waiting for someone to answer your simple query. I'm sure you've heard of google, it's how you find out answers to simple little questions like "Does SCO have any ties to MS?", or "Who is this Big Blue you refer to?". What I find hard to believe is that you never heard of FUD before as I've seen your posts around here as long as I've been a member, (I think). 42, IANAL, Stephen King is dead, *BSD is dying.
Maybe the "delinquents" are actually pretty damn smart. Smart enough to not get caught because they take proper security precautions. Like others have said this worm was a pretty smooth little hack. All over UDP and in a single packet. Anyway at least when a worm like this comes along people start paying attention to actually fixing the problem. If no one exploited the vulnerability then folks like MS might never get around to fixing it. When something like this is front-page news and on CNN normal folks sit up and take notice. Maybe enough notice to try and make their systems more secure, or perhaps switch to a more secure preogram/OS. Not that I like viruses and worms, quite the opposite is true. I remember when my ISP got a worm, (Code Red I think), and infected me. The incident certainly made me more security conscious, and I now have a new ISP that I hope has more of a clue than my old one.
3 billion scans? 15 minutes? Impressive numbers Mr. Worm Writer. In other news, scientists have found that even monkeys can memorize ten numbers. You're not stupider than a monkey, are you?
Ntop, jnettop, iptstate, iptraf... I'm sure there's many more, although most work on the CL. However there are no pretty pictures and whatnot you can see in your browser.
Cannabalism was pretty common among our ancestors. Various sites have large amounts of human bones that have marks from the butchering process left by tools, and have been cracked to extract the marrow. Fossilized human feces has been shown to contain human remains. Human bones have been found among the garbage pits where other animal bones were tossed after butchering. I forget the various places where ancient cannibalism took place, but a more recent example is the Anasazi. Some googling or looking through a recent SciAm I was reading will get you some good info.
That's why scientists use different criteria for establishing "intelligent" burials that were done for some purpose beyond just keeping the body safe from scavengers and whatnot. Presence of dyes, plants, tools, and various things are used to determine that sort of thing. Neanderthals buried their dead, but scientists cannot agree if it was done for a spiritual reason, or just to keep the sabre-toothed hyenas away. Neanderthals are quite often given the short end of the stick by scientists.
Drake has parted ways with Bastille and now uses, and includes shorewall on 9.0 and up. Just so folks know. It would be nice if they made a nicer GUI/curses interface for configuring shorewall. Bastille was quite nice in that regard.
You can install MDK 9.1 and 9.0 without X, urpmi or most anything else that you don't want. Just don't select any of the main package groups and hit "individual package selection" and whatever services/packages you want can be selected. Or if you don't hit the "individual..." button you'll be asked what kind of minimal install you want, with X, without X but with urpmi and minimal documentation, or a truly minimal install with just the base packages, (no X, no urpmi, no drak*). I recommend checking it out.
Makes me think about the articles here on/. with discussions of ETs and the theory that if life was common throughout the galaxy/universe we would have made contact with aliens by now, just based on numbers and whatnot. Maybe every civilization that was smart enough to be able to develop space travel also was "smart" enough to experimemt with artificial black holes and then it goes out of control and sucks the planet into a "real" black hole. That would be an evolutionary dead-end on a cosmic scale. Yes I read the article and I know the scientists say it won't happen. Just a random thought.
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That's nice, but wouldn't it be great if they added the same functionality to IE that Mozilla already has? Or does MS not care that the IE-using masses are constantly bombarded by ads for the X11 spy-cam and whatnot? How many windows users are going to go out and download another program just to stop pop-ups? And if they do will they get some spyware riddled POS that's bundled with gator, or something decent?
How about adding pop-up blocking to IE? That would show a real commitment to "eliminating spam".
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Bah! That's nothing. Open up a few directories in Nautilus that have lots of pics in them and you can get a truly massive memory footprint. I'm sure that'll be fixed sometime after they add NNTP support across the board.
It works wonders for concentration. I took it more than a few times in high school and could focus in on homework or what have you very easily. It and dexedrine are pretty potent drugs. I know I wouldn't let my kids take them, regardless of the current craze to presribe it. I used to get it from a kid who was diagnosed with ADHD who knew that he didn't need to be taking it as it just zombified him. He's doing fine now, no ill effects for not having taken the magic pill that the doctors said he needed to make it through life. Kind of like the millions of people around the world who no doubt would be diagnosed with ADHD if they had health insurance and lived in the US.
Read my post in response to the AC in this thread. I said I blamed myself, as well as the ISP and worm writer. But thanks for pointing out my cluelessness anyway.
I imagine that cnet wouldn't mind if this drags on forever. What with all the hits they're gettting from all the *nix heads they must be rolling in ad-money... or something. Although I didn't bother to RTFA, as it sounds like more of the same old garbage. If you've read one story about SCO's insane claims of IBM/Linux malfeasance, you've read em all.
No, but when the story on liquid nitrogen cooling for overclocking a P4 up to some crazy speed like 4ghz, quite a few people mentioned making ice cream in this manner. I think there were also a few posts about some guy who drank the stuff and ended up getting a Darwin award. Not the good ones where you have to be killed, but some honorary award that didn't require death. Good stuff.
Well another thing to bring up is that some scientists think that homo sapiens, (us), and Neanderthals might have interbred. Certain genetic traits, and genes that are found in Europeans are also found in Neanderthals. There's some fossil evidence to back this up too, depending on who you ask. Of course this makes people even more uncomfortable than the idea that we killed them all off. As we tend to view Neanderthals as stupid and a lower life form. Googling for "mulitregional evolution", and "neanderthals" should get some good info on the subject. This might explaion GWB and some of the knuckle-draggers who live among us.
I never said he couldn't ask the question. However I did say that it should be modded down because it is a waste of space/time to the vast majority of /. readers. You could have googled for "FUD" as well, and you would have found out what it meant. I thought that was what geeks did when they wanted to find out the definition of a word like FUD, or to figure out who RMS is. And as for this "nonsence" discussion, I said in my post pretty much the exact same thing, (it's a waste of space/time), so thanks for chiming in to agree with me, and adding some more nonsense, (proper spelling), to this thread.
I hope that you were running the projector and didn't run out and actually pay for a ticket to see that piece-of-crap-looking-movie. Did the previews actually make you want to see it? The horror... the horror.
Well for the worm I got, I blame myself for not knowing about CR, or the patch, my ISP for being dipshits and being down for over a day, and the guy/guys who wrote it. However I can see how people might blame MS for writing some buggy pieces of software that in turn were at least partially to blame for them getting said worms. As I recall even MS's developers caught the slammer worm, (that's the SQL one?). BTW I just mentioned "folks like MS", in my post as I think that since they are a corporation they are swayed by public opinion/outrage that comes with each new worm/virus, as they want to make money, and people want to buy a more secure product. So my comment makes more sense with them as an example. But if you prefer "folks who sell software", will also work. Most linux developers I know couldn't about public opinion and try to write the most secure code that they can. I'm sure they sit up and take notice when the worms/viruses are being talked about on CNN, however I also think that they tend to hear about the exploits and whatnot that the general public doesn't hear about/couldn't give a rat's ass about and try and fix those too. MS on the other hand might not care about fixing something if it's not worth the $ to fix and if the general public doesn't care about it, or doesn't even know it exists.
Well a modding down for asking the question is allright with me. Your question clutters up the thread and doesn't really add anything to the discussion at all, (sort of like this post). A google search for "FUD" returns a very good selection of hits. The very first link would've answered your question and saved us all a tiny bit of bandwidth. You could have saved yourself some time as well as you would have found the answer right away, instead of waiting for someone to answer your simple query. I'm sure you've heard of google, it's how you find out answers to simple little questions like "Does SCO have any ties to MS?", or "Who is this Big Blue you refer to?". What I find hard to believe is that you never heard of FUD before as I've seen your posts around here as long as I've been a member, (I think). 42, IANAL, Stephen King is dead, *BSD is dying.
Maybe the "delinquents" are actually pretty damn smart. Smart enough to not get caught because they take proper security precautions. Like others have said this worm was a pretty smooth little hack. All over UDP and in a single packet. Anyway at least when a worm like this comes along people start paying attention to actually fixing the problem. If no one exploited the vulnerability then folks like MS might never get around to fixing it. When something like this is front-page news and on CNN normal folks sit up and take notice. Maybe enough notice to try and make their systems more secure, or perhaps switch to a more secure preogram/OS. Not that I like viruses and worms, quite the opposite is true. I remember when my ISP got a worm, (Code Red I think), and infected me. The incident certainly made me more security conscious, and I now have a new ISP that I hope has more of a clue than my old one.
3 billion scans? 15 minutes? Impressive numbers Mr. Worm Writer. In other news, scientists have found that even monkeys can memorize ten numbers. You're not stupider than a monkey, are you?
Ntop, jnettop, iptstate, iptraf... I'm sure there's many more, although most work on the CL. However there are no pretty pictures and whatnot you can see in your browser.
Cannabalism was pretty common among our ancestors. Various sites have large amounts of human bones that have marks from the butchering process left by tools, and have been cracked to extract the marrow. Fossilized human feces has been shown to contain human remains. Human bones have been found among the garbage pits where other animal bones were tossed after butchering. I forget the various places where ancient cannibalism took place, but a more recent example is the Anasazi. Some googling or looking through a recent SciAm I was reading will get you some good info.
That's why scientists use different criteria for establishing "intelligent" burials that were done for some purpose beyond just keeping the body safe from scavengers and whatnot. Presence of dyes, plants, tools, and various things are used to determine that sort of thing. Neanderthals buried their dead, but scientists cannot agree if it was done for a spiritual reason, or just to keep the sabre-toothed hyenas away. Neanderthals are quite often given the short end of the stick by scientists.
Drake has parted ways with Bastille and now uses, and includes shorewall on 9.0 and up. Just so folks know. It would be nice if they made a nicer GUI/curses interface for configuring shorewall. Bastille was quite nice in that regard.
You can install MDK 9.1 and 9.0 without X, urpmi or most anything else that you don't want. Just don't select any of the main package groups and hit "individual package selection" and whatever services/packages you want can be selected. Or if you don't hit the "individual..." button you'll be asked what kind of minimal install you want, with X, without X but with urpmi and minimal documentation, or a truly minimal install with just the base packages, (no X, no urpmi, no drak*). I recommend checking it out.
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Makes me think about the articles here on /. with discussions of ETs and the theory that if life was common throughout the galaxy/universe we would have made contact with aliens by now, just based on numbers and whatnot. Maybe every civilization that was smart enough to be able to develop space travel also was "smart" enough to experimemt with artificial black holes and then it goes out of control and sucks the planet into a "real" black hole. That would be an evolutionary dead-end on a cosmic scale. Yes I read the article and I know the scientists say it won't happen. Just a random thought.
I heard about it from the Simpsons.
Damn buddy, you must going to the classy places. Seriously.