please. windows vulnerabilites are commonplace. we've all grown to know, love, and expect them. like death and taxes, if you will. are you shocked? not me?
i strongly recommend you read milton friedman. the greatest thing a company can do is maximize profit. if they do otherwise, then one, they misallocate resources, which hurts not only their workers who cannot receive the fullest compensation, they also hurt the economy because they waste scarce resources that could be used elsewhere. also, if they do not maximizr profit, they must make it up accordingly with higher prices, which does not "serve" the customer.
now, you choose, in a free market to work for a non-profit. but would youy like to live in a country that says you can only make X, and no more. for all the idealism that runs wild here at/., let's face it, the best economic system is capitalism. that's undeniable.
b) Companies exisiting for profit is the worst approach. They should exist for the customer. We should be their masters, not the other way around.
um, you're in college, right? maybe you want to get a job and work for a company that doesn't make a profit? companies that serv e the customer best (except in cases of monopolies) are the most profitable. but hey, we're all idealists here at/.
very few personal boxen get hacked, cracked, etc, from the outside. it is the servers they are after, and then, their not going to hack into someone's little web or battlenet server, because
it's a no reward hack
it's no challenge
now, they will hack a business site or a high traffic site. most problems, like the recent kiddieporn bot are trojans. which is where a ton of windows insecurities, even your precious win2k, come from. then of course there are the server problems, of which daily/. lore is made of.
it doesn't take an extremely intimate knowledge of the windows kernel. it just takes a little VBA.
it is truly an awesome SS, except for one little thing. you can't formt the cells to have vertical text. the dialog box says unfinished. which says alot about OSS because ni commercial app would ever have that, but it still remains undone. i wish that one little thing would get done. if i was good enough i'd work on it, but i ain't. could some one please!!
i am going to be teaching modern civ next year in high school (i have been at the junior high for 7 years) , and have already gone to the site and gotten works from aristotle, plato, locke, montesque, et al. thanks guys. there is still something to be said for a classical education. glad somebody is doing all they can to preserve the classics, especially with all the assaults on it from the social reconstructionists.
there is a difference between open source and open standards. if the email was saved in xml, let's say, than the app is non important. (of course that's why the.doc format is so precious. but then you already knew that.)
how? i don't have lookout, but i could of course use evolution or maybe kmail. i thought groupwise needed the GW client, or did they change it? of course, we are using an older verison of GW and netware. they keep saying we're going to upgrade. i doubt it.
measure a product on it's ease of use, stability, security, cost, etc. whether or not it is OSS or not shouldn't be an issue. it seems that exchange is a rather nasty program to admin, but it also seems that groupwise from novell is quite good. my school district uses it, and it is overkill for most teachers, we just need mostly simple email, but all the collaborative features are good. i think our problems have been on the admin side, since school districts aren't known for paying top dollar. if there was an OSS replacement fine. but it isn't the be all, end all. sorry. unless you're RMS or something, everything isn't about software philosophy. there are tons of good middleware apps for linux, and more to come. whether they are oracle, notes, db2, etc. just let the best program win.
i had a similar experience. i bought rh6 a long time ago. i was looking to share a dsl line about 1998, and nothing possible in the windows sphere. i kept playing with this linux thing. i thought it was the biggest piece of crap, but i kept coming back. it was so intriguing. when i finally got ipchains to work, i thought i conquered the world. then i just kept at it, boght mdk7.0, then 7.2 (still a great distro!!) and so on. i've been almost 4 years winfree on every computer. i have an ibook with jaguar and a P3/933 on my network i ssh -X into and i have the best of all worlds. it took a while. but i appreciate linux even more, having worked through all the earlier problems, i can say that linux actually makes computing fun as well as useful.
In the same machine class all of the MS Office apps load in about 1 second or less.
because all the of the resources are preloaded into memory. take a look inside your startup programs. lots of office stuff there. if i preloaded all the libs for OO.org, it'd be the same.
Plus OO is buggier than hell compared to MS Office.
please let me know where. i have found it at about the same level as office 2k.
I can't see how 9 seconds means "it's so ready for the corporate desktop"
ready menas the whole package. and having to wait 8 more seconds. wow, talk about worker productivity.
i ave never used StarOffice. however, my P3-933/512MB running RH9 loads OO.org in about 9 seconds. and it runs fast. and the menus are all anti-aliased. and i have never had a crash. and since i'm a teacher, i use OO.org for tons of things.
this desktop thing is really getting stupid. linux is so ready for the corporate desktop. and even the educational desktop. and lots of home users.
if you hired someone who "knows" Word, and they can't figure out Writer in a few minutes, they are idiots, and you hired a moron. this whole retraining things is pure bullshit.
i tried some time ago to get LRP to work. PITA. i tried freesco, a bit easier. i actually use an old P166/32MB RAM with RH 6.2. it seems now, the best of breed is smoothwall. having tested it recently, i am going to switch soon.(after comcast doesn't f*** up my internet when they switch over 6/30.) floppies are not reliable, and are very limiting. i always thought the micro linux projects were more about "hey, look, see what we can do". which is totally cool. no doubt. and practical? tom's rtboot was mildly, but now, knoppix is the shit.
so the guy needs work and there is little out there, and he feels he didn't get support for his pet project. boo f***in hoo. freedom means the ability to choose the best product. and people just weren't choosing his.
the grateful dead were the antithesis of anti-piracy. not only did they not discourage, hell, they actually encouraged people to tape their concerts. they conceivably lost billions in lost royalties, but would they have been around as long. now, i'm no dead fan. but they seemed to give people what they wanted, and their was a huge market for their concert tapes which they got squat for, excpet a legion of extremely loyal fans and very long careers. and what about bands like anthrax, judas priest, maiden, etc. they are thriving and still putting out music. how do many people hear them for the first time? mp3's.
very few artists, except for metallicunt and a few others, bitch about file trading. artists make their money on the road. in fact, most don't even own the music. they are treated like 2 dollar vegas whores, get paid for shit, and are turned out like a sorority girl in the morning when their records stop selling. file trading helps the artists by giving them more exposure, and generates fans which go see them live. in fact, i'm actually surprised the in the IP sense, they don't get a dime.
the music "industry" has lost far more due to artisits being able to produce their own albums and generate their own music. technology has hurt the music industry. iut has freed the artist to bypass the studios and go stright to the people. all the music industry has to do is look at the crap they are pushing and see they are dealing with a more discerning clientele. how many teeny-bopper, perky breasted teenagers and tatooed, skinny, psuedo-punk wannabee bands do they think we're gonna buy?
You can't blame the residents of the White House for everything that goes wrong or assign them credit for everything that goes right. The real world is just a whole lot more complex than that.
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i just bought an ipod. do i get a new beetle?
please. windows vulnerabilites are commonplace. we've all grown to know, love, and expect them. like death and taxes, if you will. are you shocked? not me?
i strongly recommend you read milton friedman. the greatest thing a company can do is maximize profit. if they do otherwise, then one, they misallocate resources, which hurts not only their workers who cannot receive the fullest compensation, they also hurt the economy because they waste scarce resources that could be used elsewhere. also, if they do not maximizr profit, they must make it up accordingly with higher prices, which does not "serve" the customer.
/., let's face it, the best economic system is capitalism. that's undeniable.
now, you choose, in a free market to work for a non-profit. but would youy like to live in a country that says you can only make X, and no more. for all the idealism that runs wild here at
b) Companies exisiting for profit is the worst approach. They should exist for the customer. We should be their masters, not the other way around.
/.
um, you're in college, right? maybe you want to get a job and work for a company that doesn't make a profit? companies that serv e the customer best (except in cases of monopolies) are the most profitable. but hey, we're all idealists here at
- it's a no reward hack
- it's no challenge
now, they will hack a business site or a high traffic site. most problems, like the recent kiddieporn bot are trojans. which is where a ton of windows insecurities, even your precious win2k, come from. then of course there are the server problems, of which dailyit doesn't take an extremely intimate knowledge of the windows kernel. it just takes a little VBA.
a beowolf, um, nevermind...
Where else can you get a PIII-733 with graphics and audio for $180?
um, i don't know, ebay?
it is truly an awesome SS, except for one little thing. you can't formt the cells to have vertical text. the dialog box says unfinished. which says alot about OSS because ni commercial app would ever have that, but it still remains undone. i wish that one little thing would get done. if i was good enough i'd work on it, but i ain't. could some one please!!
i am going to be teaching modern civ next year in high school (i have been at the junior high for 7 years) , and have already gone to the site and gotten works from aristotle, plato, locke, montesque, et al. thanks guys. there is still something to be said for a classical education. glad somebody is doing all they can to preserve the classics, especially with all the assaults on it from the social reconstructionists.
1. announce web defacement day
2. ???
3. profit
but when my laptop is downstairs, and the router is upstairs, wires don't work to well.
there is a difference between open source and open standards. if the email was saved in xml, let's say, than the app is non important. (of course that's why the .doc format is so precious. but then you already knew that.)
dude, grow up. it's software. it's important. it's not the meaning of life stuff though.
GroupWise 6.5 can also be accessed from Outlook.
how? i don't have lookout, but i could of course use evolution or maybe kmail. i thought groupwise needed the GW client, or did they change it? of course, we are using an older verison of GW and netware. they keep saying we're going to upgrade. i doubt it.
measure a product on it's ease of use, stability, security, cost, etc. whether or not it is OSS or not shouldn't be an issue. it seems that exchange is a rather nasty program to admin, but it also seems that groupwise from novell is quite good. my school district uses it, and it is overkill for most teachers, we just need mostly simple email, but all the collaborative features are good. i think our problems have been on the admin side, since school districts aren't known for paying top dollar. if there was an OSS replacement fine. but it isn't the be all, end all. sorry. unless you're RMS or something, everything isn't about software philosophy. there are tons of good middleware apps for linux, and more to come. whether they are oracle, notes, db2, etc. just let the best program win.
i had a similar experience. i bought rh6 a long time ago. i was looking to share a dsl line about 1998, and nothing possible in the windows sphere. i kept playing with this linux thing. i thought it was the biggest piece of crap, but i kept coming back. it was so intriguing. when i finally got ipchains to work, i thought i conquered the world. then i just kept at it, boght mdk7.0, then 7.2 (still a great distro!!) and so on. i've been almost 4 years winfree on every computer. i have an ibook with jaguar and a P3/933 on my network i ssh -X into and i have the best of all worlds. it took a while. but i appreciate linux even more, having worked through all the earlier problems, i can say that linux actually makes computing fun as well as useful.
with what? photoshop? gimp? MSPAint? please do tell.
In the same machine class all of the MS Office apps load in about 1 second or less.
because all the of the resources are preloaded into memory. take a look inside your startup programs. lots of office stuff there. if i preloaded all the libs for OO.org, it'd be the same.
Plus OO is buggier than hell compared to MS Office.
please let me know where. i have found it at about the same level as office 2k.
I can't see how 9 seconds means "it's so ready for the corporate desktop"
ready menas the whole package. and having to wait 8 more seconds. wow, talk about worker productivity.
i ave never used StarOffice. however, my P3-933/512MB running RH9 loads OO.org in about 9 seconds. and it runs fast. and the menus are all anti-aliased. and i have never had a crash. and since i'm a teacher, i use OO.org for tons of things.
this desktop thing is really getting stupid. linux is so ready for the corporate desktop. and even the educational desktop. and lots of home users.
if you hired someone who "knows" Word, and they can't figure out Writer in a few minutes, they are idiots, and you hired a moron. this whole retraining things is pure bullshit.
i thought they already were
i tried some time ago to get LRP to work. PITA. i tried freesco, a bit easier. i actually use an old P166/32MB RAM with RH 6.2. it seems now, the best of breed is smoothwall. having tested it recently, i am going to switch soon.(after comcast doesn't f*** up my internet when they switch over 6/30.) floppies are not reliable, and are very limiting. i always thought the micro linux projects were more about "hey, look, see what we can do". which is totally cool. no doubt. and practical? tom's rtboot was mildly, but now, knoppix is the shit.
so the guy needs work and there is little out there, and he feels he didn't get support for his pet project. boo f***in hoo. freedom means the ability to choose the best product. and people just weren't choosing his.
the grateful dead were the antithesis of anti-piracy. not only did they not discourage, hell, they actually encouraged people to tape their concerts. they conceivably lost billions in lost royalties, but would they have been around as long. now, i'm no dead fan. but they seemed to give people what they wanted, and their was a huge market for their concert tapes which they got squat for, excpet a legion of extremely loyal fans and very long careers. and what about bands like anthrax, judas priest, maiden, etc. they are thriving and still putting out music. how do many people hear them for the first time? mp3's.
very few artists, except for metallicunt and a few others, bitch about file trading. artists make their money on the road. in fact, most don't even own the music. they are treated like 2 dollar vegas whores, get paid for shit, and are turned out like a sorority girl in the morning when their records stop selling. file trading helps the artists by giving them more exposure, and generates fans which go see them live. in fact, i'm actually surprised the in the IP sense, they don't get a dime.
the music "industry" has lost far more due to artisits being able to produce their own albums and generate their own music. technology has hurt the music industry. iut has freed the artist to bypass the studios and go stright to the people. all the music industry has to do is look at the crap they are pushing and see they are dealing with a more discerning clientele. how many teeny-bopper, perky breasted teenagers and tatooed, skinny, psuedo-punk wannabee bands do they think we're gonna buy?
bo ahead, try and hack me. all the microsoft backdoors will be of no use. all my base are belong to me!!!!
You can't blame the residents of the White House for everything that goes wrong or assign them credit for everything that goes right. The real world is just a whole lot more complex than that.
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