for instance, slapper requires that you install gcc on your server. if anyone installs a compiler on a production server, the response should be "WTF!!!".
linux flaws are more related to the applications, not the core operating system. this is the key point. most microsoft servers/services are integrated into the operating system. which makes patching a) harder and more time-consuming, and b) more prone to create other breakages with other software.
take for instance sendmail. lots of features, lots of holes. so, on linux, you can use postfix, or other MTA's. are there any other on windows? (please don't count novell/groupwise). i think exchange is a nightmare, eh?
comparing linux vs. windows holes is meaningless. one is application based, one is OS based.
m$ knows it can't win a lawsuit, but they have cash to burn. most of these companies are small, low cap startups. m$ is simply "sending a message" to people. they can crush you even if you win. think netscrape. they got money to burn baby.
way,way back in win95 time, don't remember the exact quote, but didn't bill gates say he wanted windoze to be THE gaming platform. that's why all the work into directx, etc.
btw, don't expect all the first tier games to work on linux/mac. if you need some, try transgaming's wineX.
but, of course isn't watching all the windoze users scramble at the latest virus problem a game?
in my classroom, i have several old p120's with 32MB. i have a p3 that i connect them to as clients and use a remote x session. that works great, but it sounds like you are not looking for a thin client solution. if however you do, an easy solution is install linux, any distro to the hard drive, and configure either/etc/inittab to start x, run level 5, and edit the last line so that it reads:/usr/X11R6/bin/X -query your.x.server
or backup your/etc.rc.local file and make your new rc.local file say:/usr/X11R6/bin/X -query your.x.server
it sounds as though these might be standalone boxen. For that I like IceWM. here's why:
1) looks like win95
2) low memory footprint
3) easy to configure
as for 3, each distro (i use mandrake here) puts the coinfig files in a separate spot. but icewm has config files like toolbar and menubar, and are easy to config. and that is all they can get. keep root pwd away from them, and limit there apps to the toolbar. i.e. browser, editor, etc.
it is a great solution and runs well on older pentium.
do you drive a car? should we make the streets blind accessible?
Rights do not impose burdens upon others. Laws like this, which can be easily be carried to extremes, can be stifling. For example, I am a public school teacher. We are being killed by special ed. There is no limit to what can be asked for, and gotten. Parents get "advocates" and lawsuits kill the schools. Most of these kids are totally fine, just that the parents abuse the laws.
Remember what Barry Goldwater said, "A government big enough to give you everything, is big enough to take it all away".
australia and europe have hundreds of thousands of people coming in every year? think not.
model for the world, Dec. of Independence, longest democracy, list goes on.
yes we have our poor. but by comparison, our poor don't suffer like say in Rio de Janeiro.
the rodney king comment, uh i believe the cops are still i jail.
unprejudiced view? you are simply jealour my friend, i can go into a store and have endless choices. pray tell, isn't that freedom? as for our schools, i'll give that one to you though...
nuked japan, uh pearl harbor, num nuts. and by the way, an invasion would have cost 10 million lives, and don't forget about nanking, phillipines, etc.
and by the way, who spent untold billions rebuilding japan, huh?
france, yes, great wines, cheeses, and anti-semitism. by the way, great job working for the nazis in ww2.
america is not perfect. we have much corruption in our politcial system. am i pleased that for instance the governor of my state, california, takes millions from businesses then does their bidding. no. am i pleased that corporate thieves get off while people's 401ki's are shot down in flames. no. throw their asses in jail for 20, hard time.
we have lots to fix. sure. just remember this. did you see mass round ups of arabs/muslims? no. did we drop more food than bombs on afghanistan. yes. and lastly, we play out our battles live, in front of the nation, in front of the world. and no other place on earth could have withstood an election scenario like we had in 2000, then just goten on with their lives and moved on. no riots, civil wars, etc. that folks is a model of democracy. which is what we are.
oh lastly this, i see where the brazilians are electing a former communist guerilla. nice.
not to be an a**hole, but i hope people quit bitching about American democracy. Are we perfect. no. But where else you gonna see people climb into rickety rafts, hop barbed wire fences and make a mad dash, or store up in the holds of cargo ships for weeks, just for a chance to live? remember, you all sit here, criticize the hell out of America, and guess what? If you live here, you're damn glad you do, and if you don't you most likely wish you did.
the world hates us because we have so much. it isn't because we're greedy. no. we have freedom. freedom to do whatever you want, take risks, go where you want, try anything, be anything. and we have laws that protect even the smallest minorities.
if arrested, what other country in the world would you want to be in. yeah, thoguht so.
where else you gonna see the most visible representative of a nation to the world(secretary of state), be a member of 10% of the population. huh?
what other country has freely admitted its wrongs, and expended more energy and money rectify said wrongs? well i'm waiting...
had algore won, you'd all be happy? did you check the party affiliation of berman and hollings lately? hmmm...
And what other country has given even one life, let alone thousands and thousands, to free people from other countries, to bring them democracy. American blood saved the world. A little thanks might be nice. Not that we're holding our breath...
America is the model for the world. Brazil is attempting to become a democratic society. Let's hope they do. I wonder who their model for democracy is?
windoze doesn't have to support every piece of crap hardware under the sun. they simply crete the driver API developers use to write the drivers. apple the same.
when hardware crashes a system, BLAME MICROSOFT. they wrote the crappy way drivers work. maybe not all hardware is supported in linux, but damnit, hardware drivers are stable, which is why my uptime on my desktop (a P3 933, 512MB,etc.) can run browsers, gimp, vim, apache/mod_perl, evolution, etc, and i can do heavy web testing asd not worry.
bullshit that m$ has to support hardware.
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for instance, slapper requires that you install gcc on your server. if anyone installs a compiler on a production server, the response should be "WTF!!!". linux flaws are more related to the applications, not the core operating system. this is the key point. most microsoft servers/services are integrated into the operating system. which makes patching a) harder and more time-consuming, and b) more prone to create other breakages with other software. take for instance sendmail. lots of features, lots of holes. so, on linux, you can use postfix, or other MTA's. are there any other on windows? (please don't count novell/groupwise). i think exchange is a nightmare, eh? comparing linux vs. windows holes is meaningless. one is application based, one is OS based.
i am a programming language, really i am, really, uncle bill says so,
m$ knows it can't win a lawsuit, but they have cash to burn. most of these companies are small, low cap startups. m$ is simply "sending a message" to people. they can crush you even if you win. think netscrape. they got money to burn baby.
way,way back in win95 time, don't remember the exact quote, but didn't bill gates say he wanted windoze to be THE gaming platform. that's why all the work into directx, etc.
btw, don't expect all the first tier games to work on linux/mac. if you need some, try transgaming's wineX.
but, of course isn't watching all the windoze users scramble at the latest virus problem a game?
you forgot one thing: establish net connection and download kazaa, then leech some warezed games from an 37337 haXor, to pass the time away.
in my classroom, i have several old p120's with 32MB. i have a p3 that i connect them to as clients and use a remote x session. that works great, but it sounds like you are not looking for a thin client solution. if however you do, an easy solution is install linux, any distro to the hard drive, and configure either /etc/inittab to start x, run level 5, and edit the last line so that it reads: /usr/X11R6/bin/X -query your.x.server
or backup your /etc.rc.local file and make your new rc.local file say: /usr/X11R6/bin/X -query your.x.server
it sounds as though these might be standalone boxen. For that I like IceWM. here's why:
1) looks like win95
2) low memory footprint
3) easy to configure
as for 3, each distro (i use mandrake here) puts the coinfig files in a separate spot. but icewm has config files like toolbar and menubar, and are easy to config. and that is all they can get. keep root pwd away from them, and limit there apps to the toolbar. i.e. browser, editor, etc.
it is a great solution and runs well on older pentium.
IMHO of course
dude sarcasm. haven't been laid in a while? us married guys forget about you young, single dudes havin to work for it.
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i guess a 4 helps my karma?
when you run the mozilla installer, just don't install all the things like mail, composer, etc. it loads much faster. IMHO of course.
do you drive a car? should we make the streets blind accessible?
Rights do not impose burdens upon others. Laws like this, which can be easily be carried to extremes, can be stifling. For example, I am a public school teacher. We are being killed by special ed. There is no limit to what can be asked for, and gotten. Parents get "advocates" and lawsuits kill the schools. Most of these kids are totally fine, just that the parents abuse the laws.
Remember what Barry Goldwater said, "A government big enough to give you everything, is big enough to take it all away".
you drive a car?
i expected what i got. but it seems that every now and then, the rest of the ungrateful world needs a reminder.
let's see. was it a european nation that went into somaila to relieve starvation? uh, no. europe talks a great game. they don't do crap.
australia and europe have hundreds of thousands of people coming in every year? think not.
model for the world, Dec. of Independence, longest democracy, list goes on.
yes we have our poor. but by comparison, our poor don't suffer like say in Rio de Janeiro.
the rodney king comment, uh i believe the cops are still i jail.
unprejudiced view? you are simply jealour my friend, i can go into a store and have endless choices. pray tell, isn't that freedom? as for our schools, i'll give that one to you though...
nuked japan, uh pearl harbor, num nuts. and by the way, an invasion would have cost 10 million lives, and don't forget about nanking, phillipines, etc.
and by the way, who spent untold billions rebuilding japan, huh?
france, yes, great wines, cheeses, and anti-semitism. by the way, great job working for the nazis in ww2.
america is not perfect. we have much corruption in our politcial system. am i pleased that for instance the governor of my state, california, takes millions from businesses then does their bidding. no. am i pleased that corporate thieves get off while people's 401ki's are shot down in flames. no. throw their asses in jail for 20, hard time.
we have lots to fix. sure. just remember this. did you see mass round ups of arabs/muslims? no. did we drop more food than bombs on afghanistan. yes. and lastly, we play out our battles live, in front of the nation, in front of the world. and no other place on earth could have withstood an election scenario like we had in 2000, then just goten on with their lives and moved on. no riots, civil wars, etc. that folks is a model of democracy. which is what we are.
oh lastly this, i see where the brazilians are electing a former communist guerilla. nice.
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not to be an a**hole, but i hope people quit bitching about American democracy. Are we perfect. no. But where else you gonna see people climb into rickety rafts, hop barbed wire fences and make a mad dash, or store up in the holds of cargo ships for weeks, just for a chance to live? remember, you all sit here, criticize the hell out of America, and guess what? If you live here, you're damn glad you do, and if you don't you most likely wish you did.
the world hates us because we have so much. it isn't because we're greedy. no. we have freedom. freedom to do whatever you want, take risks, go where you want, try anything, be anything. and we have laws that protect even the smallest minorities.
if arrested, what other country in the world would you want to be in. yeah, thoguht so.
where else you gonna see the most visible representative of a nation to the world(secretary of state), be a member of 10% of the population. huh?
what other country has freely admitted its wrongs, and expended more energy and money rectify said wrongs? well i'm waiting...
had algore won, you'd all be happy? did you check the party affiliation of berman and hollings lately? hmmm...
And what other country has given even one life, let alone thousands and thousands, to free people from other countries, to bring them democracy. American blood saved the world. A little thanks might be nice. Not that we're holding our breath...
America is the model for the world. Brazil is attempting to become a democratic society. Let's hope they do. I wonder who their model for democracy is?
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Reagan was the greatest president of the 20th century. The left hates him because to this day he is right.
windoze doesn't have to support every piece of crap hardware under the sun. they simply crete the driver API developers use to write the drivers. apple the same. when hardware crashes a system, BLAME MICROSOFT. they wrote the crappy way drivers work. maybe not all hardware is supported in linux, but damnit, hardware drivers are stable, which is why my uptime on my desktop (a P3 933, 512MB,etc.) can run browsers, gimp, vim, apache/mod_perl, evolution, etc, and i can do heavy web testing asd not worry. bullshit that m$ has to support hardware.