My sister just bought a Canon EOS 300 (I think it's called the Rebel in the US), anyways it was cheap (and better than the EOS 3000). But the real beauty is that it's lens fit the digital Rebels should you upgrade. The EOS 3000 is more in your price range, but has plastic where the lenses attach as opposed to the metal on the 300.
Canon lenses are real expensive though. That's why instead, I scored myself a Nikon F80 / N80 with two zoom lenses (28-80 + 80-300) for just a little more than the price of the EOS 300 & single lens. Nikon F80 / N80 is an awesome camera.
Do you really think $JoeAverageWindowsUser is able to use fdisk, format, cfdisk, etc? Or perhaps is $JoeAverageWindowsUser better suited to proprietary rescue cds (ala the ones that come with a laptop, etc)? It's amazing how many $JoeAverageWindowsUser's cannot even use these and wonder where their data is gone when they try to 'fix' their Windows install with these cds.
The argument that Debian is difficult to install is invalid. My first ever Linux install was Debian Potato. Sure it had no graphical auto-magical installer. However, it still was reasonably easy to install for a total n00b. Mind you, my distributor had given me a text file with some basic install info, gotchas and a list of info to find out about ym pc before commencing. This is not unreasonble. MS even has a manual for it's Windows installation. A little homework allowed the install of a functional Linux OS on my machine. I don't know why computer illiterate people even try to install an OS (or use fdisk/cfdisk) in the first place. These people are more suited to Compaq/HP/Acer/etc rescue cds.
Just a word of warning. AOpen drives are notoriously bad. You do get what you pay for. Buyer beware!
I previously bought AOpen 40x CDRW drives. This was that notorious model that dies completely with the blinking light after only a few months/weeks. Replaced under warranty a few times - with the same model! Only to have the same thing occur. My small-time retailer was getting at least one or two of these back a week. The 48x model was almost the same. However, before this model died, it would intermittantly not-read/write cds, before becoming completely dead. It took a little longer to die (a month or two more) than the 40x model. The AOpen distributors kept replacing with dead drives with more of these short-life span drive, until the warranty period was used up. Getting a refund is all but impossible as they claim to be able to rectify the situation with a new working CDRW drive. Your consumer laws may differ. Basically, it was not worth pursuing any further, so we just wrote these drives of and replaced with LG's. No more problems.
I still have an Acer 12x CDRW is still working fine after all this time. No matter how cheap an AOpen DVDrw becomes, I don't want it.
In addition, I would guess that most Linux users that use FAT/FAT32/NTFS would use it to access partitions/drives that already exist i.e. the partitions/drives formated by MS Windows products.
I know nothing of the mechanics of Linux swap partitions however, but presume that Linux users could get by without a utility to format a FAT partition. To read an existing FAT/FAT32/NTFS partition/drive would come under "fair use", wouldn't it?
Also, how has spam been redefined by this ISP? Perhaps they have tightened up their system, but spam still is defined as 'unsolicited commercial email' - isn't it?
If ISP's run spam filters (eg spam assassin) in their incoming servers, why doesn't BigPond run one on it's out going servers. Any emails with subjects like "G%@fasas!!131ah@#@ you wife will love this!" and etc should warrant a closer look. Or how about when their email servers receive about 3000 bounced emails for the same account in an hour.
...or you could have no harddrive, and boot Linux from the network via a remote desktop. Means that they can do what they will, and nothing to mess up. This works fine also. I run Windows 2000 and Photoshop via Citrix on the said Linux system no problems. My pc at work is a P166 with a tiny 32MB RAM. Everything is done on the server. Just can't do animations or play games. It's fine for academic/office work though.
That is funny, but also a very valid point also. Will my LG CD writer survive it? Or will it be smoked on first boot? Co-incidentally, I never found anything such as news, warning or firmware updates regarding their CD writers and Mandrake.
It depends. I submitted a patch (id of some hardware) to kernel 2.4.21 that was accepted. I have no idea whether it was added to 2.6. I guess we'll see.
Virus Checkers are lame these days also. I remember back about 15 years ago or more, that there was one particular virus checker on the 'Amiga 500' that would play a short sample of "We are the champions" by Queen. Nowdays, our highlights are the joys of 'Internet Explorer technology-dependant', activation-ware from Symantec - and the compulsary yearly subscription updates from most Anti-virus vendors. Yay!
> the second and third matrix movies, everyone was expecting a quasi-religious experience, and got a kung fu flick
I disagree. People didn't like 2 and 3 because they were complete garbage.
The reason for the world wide simultaneous release of Revolutions was that the producers knew it was garbage and didn't want ticket sales in other countries to be affected the imminent bad reviews.
Wrong! These "better" installers work only on the i386 platform. Do YOU want to port these to 10 other architectures for Debian? I guess not. Point ended.
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Dude, there is no such thing as "IP".
I scored a N80 / F80 for only a fraction more than the N55 / F55. So much more camera for not much more in price.
The EOS 300V is superior to the Rebel EOS 3000. Lense fit the Digital Rebel for future upgrades.
My sister just bought a Canon EOS 300 (I think it's called the Rebel in the US), anyways it was cheap (and better than the EOS 3000). But the real beauty is that it's lens fit the digital Rebels should you upgrade. The EOS 3000 is more in your price range, but has plastic where the lenses attach as opposed to the metal on the 300.
Canon lenses are real expensive though. That's why
instead, I scored myself a Nikon F80 / N80 with two zoom lenses (28-80 + 80-300) for just a little more than the price of the EOS 300 & single lens. Nikon F80 / N80 is an awesome camera.
Do you really think $JoeAverageWindowsUser is able to use fdisk, format, cfdisk, etc? Or perhaps is $JoeAverageWindowsUser better suited to proprietary rescue cds (ala the ones that come with a laptop, etc)? It's amazing how many $JoeAverageWindowsUser's cannot even use these and wonder where their data is gone when they try to 'fix' their Windows install with these cds.
The argument that Debian is difficult to install is invalid. My first ever Linux install was Debian Potato. Sure it had no graphical auto-magical installer. However, it still was reasonably easy to install for a total n00b. Mind you, my distributor had given me a text file with some basic install info, gotchas and a list of info to find out about ym pc before commencing. This is not unreasonble. MS even has a manual for it's Windows installation. A little homework allowed the install of a functional Linux OS on my machine. I don't know why computer illiterate people even try to install an OS (or use fdisk/cfdisk) in the first place. These people are more suited to Compaq/HP/Acer/etc rescue cds.
Just a word of warning. AOpen drives are notoriously bad. You do get what you pay for. Buyer beware!
I previously bought AOpen 40x CDRW drives. This was that notorious model that dies completely with the blinking light after only a few months/weeks. Replaced under warranty a few times - with the same model! Only to have the same thing occur. My small-time retailer was getting at least one or two of these back a week. The 48x model was almost the same. However, before this model died, it would intermittantly not-read/write cds, before becoming completely dead. It took a little longer to die (a month or two more) than the 40x model. The AOpen distributors kept replacing with dead drives with more of these short-life span drive, until the warranty period was used up. Getting a refund is all but impossible as they claim to be able to rectify the situation with a new working CDRW drive. Your consumer laws may differ. Basically, it was not worth pursuing any further, so we just wrote these drives of and replaced with LG's. No more problems.
I still have an Acer 12x CDRW is still working fine after all this time. No matter how cheap an AOpen DVDrw becomes, I don't want it.
In addition, I would guess that most Linux users that use FAT/FAT32/NTFS would use it to access partitions/drives that already exist i.e. the partitions/drives formated by MS Windows products.
I know nothing of the mechanics of Linux swap partitions however, but presume that Linux users could get by without a utility to format a FAT partition. To read an existing FAT/FAT32/NTFS partition/drive would come under "fair use", wouldn't it?
Ah nope, because you can forward emails as attachments to spamcop.
Also, how has spam been redefined by this ISP? Perhaps they have tightened up their system, but spam still is defined as 'unsolicited commercial email' - isn't it?
If ISP's run spam filters (eg spam assassin) in their incoming servers, why doesn't BigPond run one on it's out going servers. Any emails with subjects like "G%@fasas!!131ah@#@ you wife will love this!" and etc should warrant a closer look. Or how about when their email servers receive about 3000 bounced emails for the same account in an hour.
Now all the Microsoft people need is a bootable Windows XP Live CD. Only that would breach the EULA. D'oh!
...or you could have no harddrive, and boot Linux from the network via a remote desktop. Means that they can do what they will, and nothing to mess up. This works fine also. I run Windows 2000 and Photoshop via Citrix on the said Linux system no problems. My pc at work is a P166 with a tiny 32MB RAM. Everything is done on the server. Just can't do animations or play games. It's fine for academic/office work though.
That is funny, but also a very valid point also. Will my LG CD writer survive it? Or will it be smoked on first boot? Co-incidentally, I never found anything such as news, warning or firmware updates regarding their CD writers and Mandrake.
It depends. I submitted a patch (id of some hardware) to kernel 2.4.21 that was accepted. I have no idea whether it was added to 2.6. I guess we'll see.
To the pc thief: fdisk is your friend.
They use animated gifs to represent WiFi users.
Virus Checkers are lame these days also. I remember back about 15 years ago or more, that there was one particular virus checker on the 'Amiga 500' that would play a short sample of "We are the champions" by Queen. Nowdays, our highlights are the joys of 'Internet Explorer technology-dependant', activation-ware from Symantec - and the compulsary yearly subscription updates from most Anti-virus vendors. Yay!
> the second and third matrix movies, everyone was expecting a quasi-religious experience, and got a kung fu flick
I disagree. People didn't like 2 and 3 because they were complete garbage.
The reason for the world wide simultaneous release of Revolutions was that the producers knew it was garbage and didn't want ticket sales in other countries to be affected the imminent bad reviews.
I see that you've visited the wiki-pedia. ;-)
Password stealing is pretty OS independent.
So that's one security threat that you can safely say that has been ported to all platforms!
"Why don't we wait to hear how they got compromised, first, m'kay?"
Exactly. Good call. Some wisdom is needed before people jump to conclusions.
> RedMond Hat Linux?
Sorry, that's been trademarked by SCO already.
No, it's Old Man Whithers from the haunted amusement park.
"And I would've gotten away it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids!".
Wrong! These "better" installers work only on the i386 platform. Do YOU want to port these to 10 other architectures for Debian? I guess not. Point ended.