I would even use Mandrake again if it weren't from France!
You know, what with the "rebranding" of french fries to "freedom" fries, does this mean Mandrake gets rebranded from the French Distro to the "Freedom" distro? I actually like Mandrake, and if you won't use it due to some techincal point, fine, but if you won't use it because it is from France, well, you can Freedom kiss my ass!! I'll continue to use the distro from the country of France (or do we rebrand that also, and call it the country of Freedom?
Fuck "jingoism"!!
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As much as you'd like to believe it, you're not some square-jawed Ayn Rand hero supporting ungrateful parasites.
While I agree with your entire post, I do feel quite often I am supporting "ungrateful parasites." The parasites, are NOT the common man though, but the CEOs and Congressmen and the "privileged class." It really makes me sick when the **AA's whine about the "billions" they are losing, while eating one single dinner that cost them more than most people I know make in a month. When our Congressmen try to vote themselves a raise, using reasons like " I can no longer afford three house payments" (I don't remember which one of them said this, but one of them did,) I feel the rise of violent thoughts. It turns out, they had three houses, one in their district, one in Washington, D.C., and one, a vacation home in Aspen, CO!! That one they didn't even live in or rent out for most of the year!
Sidenote about Aspen: A few years ago, all the millionaire doctors, lawyers, and other business people who had made Aspen their playground of choice tried to get some sort of legal action going in the state, because they were slowly but surely getting pushed out of town by the billionaires, and could no longer afford houses there.
I get extremely angry when company CEOs claim their business is bad, and they have to lay off thousands of employees, and cut back the hours of those who get to stay, and then, then they have the gall to force the company to pay them millions of dollars in bonuses, whether they get fired, quit or stay on, and drive the company to the point where it goes bankrupt, which leads to the government bailing them out monetarily. That, in my mind is criminal, and makes me angry. Why should the taxes I pay go to these type people? I have no problem helping out some one who needs a hand, but that isn't where the money goes.
I have nothing against someone who earns millions of dollars. I hate, with every fiber of my being, any and all people who do what the "leaders" of Enron, MCI, and many more corporations, as well as the "leaders" of nations do on a daily basis. These people have enough money that if they never made another cent, could still live ten times better than any ten families I know could on what they make, yet they whine and cry, that they are going broke, or can't "afford" something.
All you so-called leaders out there, maybe you need to lead by example. You know, like, if you can own more than one house, but your employees or constituents have to work two or more jobs to rent a piece of a building to house their families in, and you don't try to help them in any way, you had better not ever whine about your finances, or claim life is hard. Until you get down in the shit with the common folk, you have NO right to your position in the community.
So, yeah, maybe I do feel like I'm "supporting ungrateful parasites," just not the ones you might think.
Newsbreak! You don't have the right to download free music! Where in the Hell did you get this idea?? You may not have the right to download copyrighted music that is being made available without the copyright holder's permission, but thera are THOUSANDS of sites online offering FREE music for download, with the permission of the copyright holder!
Anonymous Posters suck, but hey I'll reply any way... No, I'm not a very good gamer, but I can get Red Faction to run on a Cyrix 333 at 20FPS!!!(hint, minimum requirements listed: 400Mhz w/mmx)
Actually, If I recall right, the first Pentium chips hit in 1993, which would make it 10 years ago. And, yes, it would run real slow. Yeah, you're right, a G3/333 does run OSX faster than any K-6 *smile*. When you say "Mandrake will not run on less than a pentium" I hope you are meaning the latest versions, as I do have Mandrake 6.x somewhere, and it will run a a 386. *again, smile*.
There, you now maybe realize my point, in that you are making wide assumptions about all PC systems, just as I pointed out some assumptions about Mac systems. You may have known some people who shell out money every year for PC upgrades, but that doesn't mean all PC users do. And yeah, I run some Macs also. I have 53 total computers, everything from PowerPCs to Alpha Boxes, an AS/400, some Amigas, and a couple of PCs. I have Mac LC's etc., but I don't want to bore you with details.
Suffice it to say, I felt the need to reply to you, as you were spreading as much FUD about the PC world as I was about Macs. My preference is Linux, but so what? Yours is Mac.
Yep, you trolled me, as I feel the need to reply..... Let's see, $500.00 in upgrades every year, well, I've a K-6III 400Mhz that I've not spent a dime on in three years, and I keep "upgrading" my Linux distro every few months for....NO dollars!! Wow, try that running MacOS... They want a yearly fee for your "my mac" email, or homepage or whatever the hell it is.. and to keep your MacOSX up, you have to buy the upgrades?? Oh, and then comes along the OS upgrades that you want for your mac, and they won't run unless you buy a new machine. Hmmmm, I can install my Mandrake 9.1 distro on a machine 8 to 10 years old, can you do that with your MacOS?? I can actually use that same 8 to 10 year old machine for damn near anything I might want to.
And yeah, PC users shop by initial price only, just as Mac users shop by color matching their pullover sweaters to their Machines only.
Does anyone have any stories of how Linux customers of other distributions are being damaged?
Not some other distro but SCO's godforsaken own OpenLinux thingy...I've said this before, and I'll say it again, "SCO, where's my goddamn $20.00 rebate you promised would get to me in 3 or 6 or 8 weeks? I'm pretty goddamn sure you didn't mean 4 years!
Sco, just take the $20.00 and get some AIDS riddled crack whore, and have her do you like you want to do me!
PHB's love to buy "all-in-one" and "easy-to-use" solutions that can be used by morons Yeah, they may like that, but they could also do a little research before buying. Case in point: I am a compter tech. I fix the little beasts for a living. Many, many, many times, I have customers who've screwed up their systems, not so bad as to not boot, but definately in need of a format and reinstall. They have, many months or years ago, clicked the little helpful button in dial-up networking, or AOL that "remembers" their password for them.. When I ask for their password, they can't remember. Well, there are several programs out there to reveal the passwords hidden by the astericks. Most people who do this for a living have heard of Snadboy's Revelation. Well, it is too big to fit on a floppy (over 1.5MB last I checked) uses Windows installer and requires a reboot before use! I looked around on the Internet for another program to use, as I feel utility programs, especially utilities that are for one specific use, should at the very least fit on a floppy, and in less than three minutes had found a program called OpenPass. It does the same exact thing as SnadBoy, but was only 4KB, did not require installing or rebooting, and was hellaciously fast. Now, the point, OpenPass is also full GUI; one click, and you're done. How does this relate? Well, OpenPass, in my mind, is much easier to use, does exactly what it says it does, and fits every one of the requirements I have to label it a neccesary tool for my kit. I showed the two to my then boss, and he wanted to buy the Snadboy, as "It uses Windows installer, so doesn't that make it work better?" As long as people like that are in charge of the purse strings of any company, the software makers will continue to put out pure shit software, glitz up an ad campaign for it, and make gobs of money.
I think it's damn near criminal that companies are run by managers, and marketers. *flameon* I'd like to see a world where every single business major that came from school, and every single CEO or manager were required to be castrated with no sedation, and forced to live in isolation for a period of 40 years, and then hired and fired in the same day.*flame off* Seriously, anybody in management that's worth a shit, didn't get there intentionally.
My main system is about the same as yours (except only a 300W power supply), and it doesn't get very warm at all. Even if I run that system, a 400Mhz K-6 III, two Power PC clones, (180MHZ and 225MHZ) three mac laptops (old and slow) an old 21" NEC monitor (94 pounds!!) and three 17" monitors in my 8' by 10' office, it doesn't get noticably warmer than any other room (77deg F) in the house, and I don't have air conditioning. What am I doing wrong? Every AMD system I've ever built is actually cooler(figuratively and literally) than any intel system I've built. I don't use cheap parts, but I don't use the latest greatest overclocker stuff (think volcano fans) either (I run stock AMD fans that come with the processor.) I want to experience the heat too! tell me what I can do to fix my problem! And, I live in the Rocky Mountains. (Yes, one last set of parenthesis, this is supposed to be humorous. It's very true as well.)
Do you want WinXP at $200 or $50. I would rather have $50. YOU may want it for $50.00, I don't want it at all. I would much rather stab the splintered end of a broken two by four through my own head than run XP. Even if I were paid to have XP I would not use it. At my work, I am sent occasionally to conferences, mostly Microsoft ones. Since XP has been on the market, Microsoft has been giving free certificates for NFD copies of XP. I've received three of these. I've never redeemed them, I just tear them up when leaving the conference. Call me extreme, or whatever, but I won't run XP. I dug ditches and roofed houses before getting into computers, and if Microsoft gets their way, and they are the only software available, I can easily go back to digging ditches and roofing houses.
However, walmart/does not/ waste your time They may not waste my time, but they sure waste my money and patience. Their items are not usually as high in quality as other places (Tools, etc.) and, why in the hell would a game or audio cd I buy in one place be different than another? If Megadeth releases a new recording, it should sound the same no matter where I buy it right? XXXBMX or GTAIII should look and play the same right? Well, eware what you get at Walmart. They ACTIVELY engage in censorship, to the point that some game companies release two versions of their games, one for Walmart, one for everywhere else. All Walmarts audio section is censored. So, you say, you don't want your kids listening to bad words in music. Fine, that's your choice. That is your responsibility. Retailers have no business making that choice for their entire customer base. And, actually, Walmart DOES waste my time. I go there for a set of tires, and they don't carry the tires I want. I go there for a computer part, and they don't even carry it, even though they told me on the phone they had it in stock. I go there, and have a question about the difference between fishing poles, and their response is, "about ten dollars." Fuck them. I'd rather go visit the crabby bastard that's got a dark, cramped hole of a store at the end of a dirty alley, and pay a few extra dollars for some item, because that crabby bastard actually uses the items he's selling, and knows more about them than 400 Walmart employees put together would know about any item from Walmart.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!! Sorry man, but your post should have been modded funny, not insightful. Why, you might ask?? Well, you said "...you won't be suddenly blitzed with many more ads..." Your entire post there reads just like the arguments made for targeted e-mail and web-site ads. No shit! Well, it sounds real good now, just as targeted e-mail ads sounded pre-SPAM days. I guarantee you though, if RFID does go to advertising, you will NEVER get any rest from constant, overwhelming blitzes of advertising. I mean, hey, why don't we put RFID ads in your contacts? Then we can advertise to you even while your eyes are closed. With the advances in nanotech, organic displays, and other stuff these days, it could very well come to be (in just 2 to 5 years) that even buying a potted plant will result in "targeted" advertising. RFID, biogenetics, and organic displays suddenly transform your little tulip in the corner into leaves pulsating with the names of plant food to buy, windows to buy (based on their ability to direct the sunlight optimally towards said tulip), books to read (research shows tulip owners would maybe enjoy reading romances), and the ever changing colors strobing off the tulips delicate flower could paint your ceiling with beautiful cascades of colored light(slightly marred by the ticker tape style banner running around the edge, discreetly letting you know that all this was brought to you by super giant mega corp.) The very most sad thing about my little story here, is that some crack smoking CEO somewhere would think this would be great, and Joe-DumbAss (decendant of Joe Six-Pack) would just take it in stride, and buy one for each room in his housing project trailer.
It's all in that last phrase "only after a remedy is available" See, that's a very funny way to do it. They are trying to accomplish what by this? Remember the SQLSlammer?? How long has the "fix" for the vulnerablilty used by the SQLSlammer been available?? How hard did the worm hit?? I don't care what the group thinks it's going to achieve with their recommendations on vulnerability reporting, with the companies involved, it won't do any good. Even when Microsoft has the fix available, they are still embarassed and owned by the "next big worm". Unfortunately, it is starting to screw the rest of us as well. Case in point, the aforementioned Slammer worm. Even though there was a fix available, and the worm cannot infect my Linux box, it sure fucked up my internet access for a while. Humor follows, read at your own risk As an aside, I, as "the Finder", have discovered a huge vulnerability in the Internet itself, Microsoft products. Now, when can I get "the Vendor" to fix this? My recommendation is denying all Microsoft products access to anything, anywhere.
Would the team at SCO really keep pushing a lie know you're joking here, but I think the reason they are talking louder and louder, and threatening everybody they can with lawsuits is because their CEO just picked up "Poker for Dummies", which told him if you have squat in your hand and want to win, you must bluff everybody at the table, get them all to fold without showing your hand. Well, in the poker games of the old west, that usually got you shot by everybody at the table. Of course, SCO just read the back cover tips, and figured they know how to play now. Hell, they may even have a pair of treys in their hand, but I guarantee someone else at the table's got a full house........ DIE SCO!!!
When I was in the Marine Corps (mid-eighties) we were shown "motivational" videos. These videos were the entire Faces of Death series. If you aren't familiar with these videos, you can find them on the P2P networks, but be warned, they are extremely graphic. They are newsreels, and home movies that the news networks won't show, because they show actual murders, plane crashes, suicides, etc., you know, all the "Faces of Death." They are actually stomach turning, because they are the real deal, no editing at all. In my case, it actually made me more sensitive to violence. That doesn't take away my wanting at least one of every weapon known to man, or my enjoyment of FPS, especially the more realistic ones such as Soldier of Fortune, or Delta Force. Even though I am fascinated by weapons and war and tactics, etc., I still don't see any reason short of self-defense to actually use those weapons on someone. I do go big game hunting, but never for trophies. I go for food, and I never have looked at a downed animal without sadness and pity. That doesn't stop me from greatly enjoying eating their roasted flesh, but I do not get any enjoyment from the actual act of killing.
Darl McBride, SCO's chief executive stated] that unless more companies start licensing SCO's property, he may also sue Linus Torvalds, Isn't that outright criminal?? That's quite close to a criminal taking an innocent bystander in a bank, and saying, give me all the money or this bystander gets it in the head. That's usually called hostage taking, and carries a charge of kidnapping. Whereas in the SCO case, (I'm paraphrasing) "People better start buying licenses from us, or we'll go after Linus" is called extortion or, as the case may be, blackmail. If SCO has legitimate claim to sue somebody, they should sue, but to use threats against someone to get some other person to do something is illegal. Good God SCO, WTF is up with you?? At first I was skeptical of you, then I was disgusted with you, earlier today I was laughing at you, now, Jesus H Christ man, you people are treading on some seriously thin legal ground. Are you sure you have any legal counsel?? Outright extortion attempts are liable to get you some serious jail time that even Microsoft couldn't buy you out of. Give up now, while you still have a chance to at least do time in "Club Fed" for SEC violations and lying about IP ownership, don't push it until you do serious time for criminal acts....... Aww, what am I saying, keep it up you punks, then you can spend some "quality time" with felons who'll treat you like the bitch you are.
Disclamer: I'm an MCSD, MCSE but I'm a BSD/Linux admin too. So back off trolls... But what about OS/WARP....BeOS....QNX...AmigaOS... or what about an MCSF It's humor, laugh, or I WILL believe you are an MSCE...
Lets talk $400 boxen across the board that will give my users massive speedup and will still work well in the year that the $ is written off You know, over at Walmart's web site, they are offering decent boxes (somehwere around 850Mhz-1.3Ghz) with perfect specs for office workers for around $199 (everything but monitors) and they come preloaded with Lindows or Mandrake Linux. Or, if you don't think your users could handle Linux with Open Office, Walmart does offer about the same hardware base with Windows preinstalled for about the $400 you mentioned. You should check out Mandrake 9.1 sometime. I have it on my work machine, with links on the desktop to the internet, mail, OpenOffice, etc., and the boss' wife (it's a very small company I'm at) used that system for 3 hours before she realized it wasn't windows she was using. She is no computer lover either, she's just like you described; internet, e-mail, faxing, and invoicing is all she ever uses a system for. I know the easy way is to just give the end user what they want, but you could maybe try a system or two, see how it works for some of your end-users, who knows, you may end up with a decent place to run IT at. I mean, free Windows is all well and good, but you'd better keep track of the licenses and assorted stuff, because the BSA doesn't care if you have no money to get a file cabinet to hold the paperwork. Hopefully, you are just over worked and tired, but your arguments almost sound trollish, or apologetic
Makes sense to me. I got into Linux and OSS for a reason that even Bill Gates understands. It is the same reason he would rather see me run his stuff. POWER AND CONTROL. With Linux and OSS MY power and control over my machines is nearly limitless. I make the machine do what I want. Whereas Bill's version is that he has all the power and control over the machine. This is the reason I don't particularly care for the Mac OS(any of them). The hardware is mine, but if I were to run BGOS', well, the hardware would still be on my desk, but the control over it would lie in Redmond, and I don't feel that is right. As for giving away stuff to non-profit orgs, most of them couldn't even figure out Windows,and I guarantee you MS would not send around techs whenever needed. At least, if we get involved, and help setup the non-profits with Linux, and set it up properly, there is a much greater chance of them actually using the systems, as they would be much more resistant to both external threats (viruses, break-ins, etc.) and internal threats(people nosing around in the file system, installing every god-forsaken Yahoo! crap game, Gator, d/l'ed crap screensavers, weatherbug programs, and who knows what else.) Those things just kill a systems performance, but every Windows network I've worked on is so chock full of that crap that there are at least two systems the people don't want to use as the systems are always crashing, or are very slow or whatever. If someone feels the need to runn alll that crap on their machine, they can do it at home.
First off, all my macs run Linux, as they are too old to run OSX, and I don't have an iPod, so I don't really know the answer here: Are you saying that with Apple's music service, you can't swap out the songs whenever you like?? They are forever and only on that one iPod?? As for "owning the bits," with that comment, I feel you're attempting a large troll. I mean, I could say, gee, how much is worth owning a house to you?? $200,000 dollars to own, vs. $8,400 dollars a year to rent? In a major kharma burning move, I must say, you must be one of those people who like to lease their vehicles, rent their place of residence, and license their software on subscription terms, yet "own" a pet. Why don't you try owning something, anything.... Or you could just fuck off with your comments, and go back to your safe little world where you must enjoy the feeling of paying someone a monthly fee, forever, (at least until the lease is up), then having to do it all over again, with someone else, for the same thing, and never getting to do what you really would like to do with what ever it is you're renting. I have never seen a lease or rental agreement where I could add a patio deck to a house, or put a lift kit on a 4X4 that's leased, or on and on and on. Just go away......
You may not think it an interesting topic, but it is a topic that is very much ingrained with the topics you do find interesting. If those laws do pass, then you may very well lose the ability to even read about the topics you find interesting, and you may very well lose the ability to even post the fact that you find the topic at hand not interesting, so, now that you've said your piece, go to where you find the topics interesting and enjoy the rest of your day.
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I would even use Mandrake again if it weren't from France!
You know, what with the "rebranding" of french fries to "freedom" fries, does this mean Mandrake gets rebranded from the French Distro to the "Freedom" distro?
I actually like Mandrake, and if you won't use it due to some techincal point, fine, but if you won't use it because it is from France, well, you can Freedom kiss my ass!! I'll continue to use the distro from the country of France (or do we rebrand that also, and call it the country of Freedom?
Fuck "jingoism"!!
As much as you'd like to believe it, you're not some square-jawed Ayn Rand hero supporting ungrateful parasites.
While I agree with your entire post, I do feel quite often I am supporting "ungrateful parasites." The parasites, are NOT the common man though, but the CEOs and Congressmen and the "privileged class." It really makes me sick when the **AA's whine about the "billions" they are losing, while eating one single dinner that cost them more than most people I know make in a month. When our Congressmen try to vote themselves a raise, using reasons like " I can no longer afford three house payments" (I don't remember which one of them said this, but one of them did,) I feel the rise of violent thoughts. It turns out, they had three houses, one in their district, one in Washington, D.C., and one, a vacation home in Aspen, CO!! That one they didn't even live in or rent out for most of the year!
Sidenote about Aspen: A few years ago, all the millionaire doctors, lawyers, and other business people who had made Aspen their playground of choice tried to get some sort of legal action going in the state, because they were slowly but surely getting pushed out of town by the billionaires, and could no longer afford houses there.
I get extremely angry when company CEOs claim their business is bad, and they have to lay off thousands of employees, and cut back the hours of those who get to stay, and then, then they have the gall to force the company to pay them millions of dollars in bonuses, whether they get fired, quit or stay on, and drive the company to the point where it goes bankrupt, which leads to the government bailing them out monetarily. That, in my mind is criminal, and makes me angry. Why should the taxes I pay go to these type people? I have no problem helping out some one who needs a hand, but that isn't where the money goes.
I have nothing against someone who earns millions of dollars. I hate, with every fiber of my being, any and all people who do what the "leaders" of Enron, MCI, and many more corporations, as well as the "leaders" of nations do on a daily basis. These people have enough money that if they never made another cent, could still live ten times better than any ten families I know could on what they make, yet they whine and cry, that they are going broke, or can't "afford" something.
All you so-called leaders out there, maybe you need to lead by example. You know, like, if you can own more than one house, but your employees or constituents have to work two or more jobs to rent a piece of a building to house their families in, and you don't try to help them in any way, you had better not ever whine about your finances, or claim life is hard. Until you get down in the shit with the common folk, you have NO right to your position in the community.
So, yeah, maybe I do feel like I'm "supporting ungrateful parasites," just not the ones you might think.
Newsbreak! You don't have the right to download free music!
Where in the Hell did you get this idea?? You may not have the right to download copyrighted music that is being made available without the copyright holder's permission , but thera are THOUSANDS of sites online offering FREE music for download, with the permission of the copyright holder!
Stop stealing
That's kinda funny coming from someone who's sig is:
I pulled a jack move to cop this sig
Anonymous Posters suck, but hey I'll reply any way... No, I'm not a very good gamer, but I can get Red Faction to run on a Cyrix 333 at 20FPS!!!(hint, minimum requirements listed: 400Mhz w/mmx)
Actually, If I recall right, the first Pentium chips hit in 1993, which would make it 10 years ago. And, yes, it would run real slow.
Yeah, you're right, a G3/333 does run OSX faster than any K-6 *smile*.
When you say "Mandrake will not run on less than a pentium" I hope you are meaning the latest versions, as I do have Mandrake 6.x somewhere, and it will run a a 386. *again, smile*.
There, you now maybe realize my point, in that you are making wide assumptions about all PC systems, just as I pointed out some assumptions about Mac systems. You may have known some people who shell out money every year for PC upgrades, but that doesn't mean all PC users do. And yeah, I run some Macs also. I have 53 total computers, everything from PowerPCs to Alpha Boxes, an AS/400, some Amigas, and a couple of PCs. I have Mac LC's etc., but I don't want to bore you with details.
Suffice it to say, I felt the need to reply to you, as you were spreading as much FUD about the PC world as I was about Macs. My preference is Linux, but so what? Yours is Mac.
Yep, you trolled me, as I feel the need to reply..... Let's see, $500.00 in upgrades every year, well, I've a K-6III 400Mhz that I've not spent a dime on in three years, and I keep "upgrading" my Linux distro every few months for....NO dollars!! Wow, try that running MacOS... They want a yearly fee for your "my mac" email, or homepage or whatever the hell it is.. and to keep your MacOSX up, you have to buy the upgrades?? Oh, and then comes along the OS upgrades that you want for your mac, and they won't run unless you buy a new machine. Hmmmm, I can install my Mandrake 9.1 distro on a machine 8 to 10 years old, can you do that with your MacOS?? I can actually use that same 8 to 10 year old machine for damn near anything I might want to.
And yeah, PC users shop by initial price only, just as Mac users shop by color matching their pullover sweaters to their Machines only.
Does anyone have any stories of how Linux customers of other distributions are being damaged?
Not some other distro but SCO's godforsaken own OpenLinux thingy...I've said this before, and I'll say it again, "SCO, where's my goddamn $20.00 rebate you promised would get to me in 3 or 6 or 8 weeks? I'm pretty goddamn sure you didn't mean 4 years!
Sco, just take the $20.00 and get some AIDS riddled crack whore, and have her do you like you want to do me!
PHB's love to buy "all-in-one" and "easy-to-use" solutions that can be used by morons
Yeah, they may like that, but they could also do a little research before buying. Case in point: I am a compter tech. I fix the little beasts for a living. Many, many, many times, I have customers who've screwed up their systems, not so bad as to not boot, but definately in need of a format and reinstall. They have, many months or years ago, clicked the little helpful button in dial-up networking, or AOL that "remembers" their password for them.. When I ask for their password, they can't remember. Well, there are several programs out there to reveal the passwords hidden by the astericks. Most people who do this for a living have heard of Snadboy's Revelation. Well, it is too big to fit on a floppy (over 1.5MB last I checked) uses Windows installer and requires a reboot before use! I looked around on the Internet for another program to use, as I feel utility programs, especially utilities that are for one specific use, should at the very least fit on a floppy, and in less than three minutes had found a program called OpenPass. It does the same exact thing as SnadBoy, but was only 4KB, did not require installing or rebooting, and was hellaciously fast. Now, the point, OpenPass is also full GUI; one click, and you're done.
How does this relate? Well, OpenPass, in my mind, is much easier to use, does exactly what it says it does, and fits every one of the requirements I have to label it a neccesary tool for my kit. I showed the two to my then boss, and he wanted to buy the Snadboy, as "It uses Windows installer, so doesn't that make it work better?"
As long as people like that are in charge of the purse strings of any company, the software makers will continue to put out pure shit software, glitz up an ad campaign for it, and make gobs of money.
I think it's damn near criminal that companies are run by managers, and marketers.
*flameon* I'd like to see a world where every single business major that came from school, and every single CEO or manager were required to be castrated with no sedation, and forced to live in isolation for a period of 40 years, and then hired and fired in the same day.*flame off* Seriously, anybody in management that's worth a shit, didn't get there intentionally.
My main system is about the same as yours (except only a 300W power supply), and it doesn't get very warm at all. Even if I run that system, a 400Mhz K-6 III, two Power PC clones, (180MHZ and 225MHZ) three mac laptops (old and slow) an old 21" NEC monitor (94 pounds!!) and three 17" monitors in my 8' by 10' office, it doesn't get noticably warmer than any other room (77deg F) in the house, and I don't have air conditioning. What am I doing wrong? Every AMD system I've ever built is actually cooler(figuratively and literally) than any intel system I've built. I don't use cheap parts, but I don't use the latest greatest overclocker stuff (think volcano fans) either (I run stock AMD fans that come with the processor.) I want to experience the heat too! tell me what I can do to fix my problem! And, I live in the Rocky Mountains. (Yes, one last set of parenthesis, this is supposed to be humorous. It's very true as well.)
And that, my friend, is the one thing Microsoft could do that would please this Slashdot member!!>
Which one, female or male? Or do you care?
Do you want WinXP at $200 or $50. I would rather have $50.
YOU may want it for $50.00, I don't want it at all. I would much rather stab the splintered end of a broken two by four through my own head than run XP. Even if I were paid to have XP I would not use it. At my work, I am sent occasionally to conferences, mostly Microsoft ones. Since XP has been on the market, Microsoft has been giving free certificates for NFD copies of XP. I've received three of these. I've never redeemed them, I just tear them up when leaving the conference. Call me extreme, or whatever, but I won't run XP. I dug ditches and roofed houses before getting into computers, and if Microsoft gets their way, and they are the only software available, I can easily go back to digging ditches and roofing houses.
However, walmart /does not/ waste your time
They may not waste my time, but they sure waste my money and patience. Their items are not usually as high in quality as other places (Tools, etc.) and, why in the hell would a game or audio cd I buy in one place be different than another? If Megadeth releases a new recording, it should sound the same no matter where I buy it right? XXXBMX or GTAIII should look and play the same right? Well, eware what you get at Walmart. They ACTIVELY engage in censorship, to the point that some game companies release two versions of their games, one for Walmart, one for everywhere else. All Walmarts audio section is censored. So, you say, you don't want your kids listening to bad words in music. Fine, that's your choice. That is your responsibility. Retailers have no business making that choice for their entire customer base.
And, actually, Walmart DOES waste my time. I go there for a set of tires, and they don't carry the tires I want. I go there for a computer part, and they don't even carry it, even though they told me on the phone they had it in stock. I go there, and have a question about the difference between fishing poles, and their response is, "about ten dollars."
Fuck them.
I'd rather go visit the crabby bastard that's got a dark, cramped hole of a store at the end of a dirty alley, and pay a few extra dollars for some item, because that crabby bastard actually uses the items he's selling, and knows more about them than 400 Walmart employees put together would know about any item from Walmart.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!! Sorry man, but your post should have been modded funny, not insightful. Why, you might ask?? Well, you said "...you won't be suddenly blitzed with many more ads..." Your entire post there reads just like the arguments made for targeted e-mail and web-site ads. No shit! Well, it sounds real good now, just as targeted e-mail ads sounded pre-SPAM days. I guarantee you though, if RFID does go to advertising, you will NEVER get any rest from constant, overwhelming blitzes of advertising. I mean, hey, why don't we put RFID ads in your contacts? Then we can advertise to you even while your eyes are closed. With the advances in nanotech, organic displays, and other stuff these days, it could very well come to be (in just 2 to 5 years) that even buying a potted plant will result in "targeted" advertising. RFID, biogenetics, and organic displays suddenly transform your little tulip in the corner into leaves pulsating with the names of plant food to buy, windows to buy (based on their ability to direct the sunlight optimally towards said tulip), books to read (research shows tulip owners would maybe enjoy reading romances), and the ever changing colors strobing off the tulips delicate flower could paint your ceiling with beautiful cascades of colored light(slightly marred by the ticker tape style banner running around the edge, discreetly letting you know that all this was brought to you by super giant mega corp.) The very most sad thing about my little story here, is that some crack smoking CEO somewhere would think this would be great, and Joe-DumbAss (decendant of Joe Six-Pack) would just take it in stride, and buy one for each room in his housing project trailer.
It's all in that last phrase "only after a remedy is available"
See, that's a very funny way to do it. They are trying to accomplish what by this? Remember the SQLSlammer?? How long has the "fix" for the vulnerablilty used by the SQLSlammer been available?? How hard did the worm hit?? I don't care what the group thinks it's going to achieve with their recommendations on vulnerability reporting, with the companies involved, it won't do any good. Even when Microsoft has the fix available, they are still embarassed and owned by the "next big worm". Unfortunately, it is starting to screw the rest of us as well. Case in point, the aforementioned Slammer worm. Even though there was a fix available, and the worm cannot infect my Linux box, it sure fucked up my internet access for a while.
Humor follows, read at your own risk
As an aside, I, as "the Finder", have discovered a huge vulnerability in the Internet itself, Microsoft products. Now, when can I get "the Vendor" to fix this? My recommendation is denying all Microsoft products access to anything, anywhere.
Would the team at SCO really keep pushing a lie
know you're joking here, but I think the reason they are talking louder and louder, and threatening everybody they can with lawsuits is because their CEO just picked up "Poker for Dummies", which told him if you have squat in your hand and want to win, you must bluff everybody at the table, get them all to fold without showing your hand.
Well, in the poker games of the old west, that usually got you shot by everybody at the table. Of course, SCO just read the back cover tips, and figured they know how to play now. Hell, they may even have a pair of treys in their hand, but I guarantee someone else at the table's got a full house........
DIE SCO!!!
When I was in the Marine Corps (mid-eighties) we were shown "motivational" videos. These videos were the entire Faces of Death series. If you aren't familiar with these videos, you can find them on the P2P networks, but be warned, they are extremely graphic. They are newsreels, and home movies that the news networks won't show, because they show actual murders, plane crashes, suicides, etc., you know, all the "Faces of Death." They are actually stomach turning, because they are the real deal, no editing at all. In my case, it actually made me more sensitive to violence. That doesn't take away my wanting at least one of every weapon known to man, or my enjoyment of FPS, especially the more realistic ones such as Soldier of Fortune, or Delta Force. Even though I am fascinated by weapons and war and tactics, etc., I still don't see any reason short of self-defense to actually use those weapons on someone. I do go big game hunting, but never for trophies. I go for food, and I never have looked at a downed animal without sadness and pity. That doesn't stop me from greatly enjoying eating their roasted flesh, but I do not get any enjoyment from the actual act of killing.
Darl McBride, SCO's chief executive stated] that unless more companies start licensing SCO's property, he may also sue Linus Torvalds,
Isn't that outright criminal?? That's quite close to a criminal taking an innocent bystander in a bank, and saying, give me all the money or this bystander gets it in the head. That's usually called hostage taking, and carries a charge of kidnapping. Whereas in the SCO case, (I'm paraphrasing) "People better start buying licenses from us, or we'll go after Linus" is called extortion or, as the case may be, blackmail. If SCO has legitimate claim to sue somebody, they should sue, but to use threats against someone to get some other person to do something is illegal. Good God SCO, WTF is up with you?? At first I was skeptical of you, then I was disgusted with you, earlier today I was laughing at you, now, Jesus H Christ man, you people are treading on some seriously thin legal ground. Are you sure you have any legal counsel?? Outright extortion attempts are liable to get you some serious jail time that even Microsoft couldn't buy you out of. Give up now, while you still have a chance to at least do time in "Club Fed" for SEC violations and lying about IP ownership, don't push it until you do serious time for criminal acts.......
Aww, what am I saying, keep it up you punks, then you can spend some "quality time" with felons who'll treat you like the bitch you are.
Disclamer: I'm an MCSD, MCSE but I'm a BSD/Linux admin too. So back off trolls...
But what about OS/WARP....BeOS....QNX...AmigaOS...
or what about an MCS F
It's humor, laugh, or I WILL believe you are an MSCE...
Lets talk $400 boxen across the board that will give my users massive speedup and will still work well in the year that the $ is written off
You know, over at Walmart's web site, they are offering decent boxes (somehwere around 850Mhz-1.3Ghz) with perfect specs for office workers for around $199 (everything but monitors) and they come preloaded with Lindows or Mandrake Linux. Or, if you don't think your users could handle Linux with Open Office, Walmart does offer about the same hardware base with Windows preinstalled for about the $400 you mentioned. You should check out Mandrake 9.1 sometime. I have it on my work machine, with links on the desktop to the internet, mail, OpenOffice, etc., and the boss' wife (it's a very small company I'm at) used that system for 3 hours before she realized it wasn't windows she was using. She is no computer lover either, she's just like you described; internet, e-mail, faxing, and invoicing is all she ever uses a system for. I know the easy way is to just give the end user what they want, but you could maybe try a system or two, see how it works for some of your end-users, who knows, you may end up with a decent place to run IT at. I mean, free Windows is all well and good, but you'd better keep track of the licenses and assorted stuff, because the BSA doesn't care if you have no money to get a file cabinet to hold the paperwork. Hopefully, you are just over worked and tired, but your arguments almost sound trollish, or apologetic
Makes sense to me. I got into Linux and OSS for a reason that even Bill Gates understands. It is the same reason he would rather see me run his stuff. POWER AND CONTROL. With Linux and OSS MY power and control over my machines is nearly limitless. I make the machine do what I want. Whereas Bill's version is that he has all the power and control over the machine. This is the reason I don't particularly care for the Mac OS(any of them). The hardware is mine, but if I were to run BGOS', well, the hardware would still be on my desk, but the control over it would lie in Redmond, and I don't feel that is right.
As for giving away stuff to non-profit orgs, most of them couldn't even figure out Windows,and I guarantee you MS would not send around techs whenever needed. At least, if we get involved, and help setup the non-profits with Linux, and set it up properly, there is a much greater chance of them actually using the systems, as they would be much more resistant to both external threats (viruses, break-ins, etc.) and internal threats(people nosing around in the file system, installing every god-forsaken Yahoo! crap game, Gator, d/l'ed crap screensavers, weatherbug programs, and who knows what else.) Those things just kill a systems performance, but every Windows network I've worked on is so chock full of that crap that there are at least two systems the people don't want to use as the systems are always crashing, or are very slow or whatever.
If someone feels the need to runn alll that crap on their machine, they can do it at home.
First off, all my macs run Linux, as they are too old to run OSX, and I don't have an iPod, so I don't really know the answer here: Are you saying that with Apple's music service, you can't swap out the songs whenever you like?? They are forever and only on that one iPod?? As for "owning the bits," with that comment, I feel you're attempting a large troll. I mean, I could say, gee, how much is worth owning a house to you?? $200,000 dollars to own, vs. $8,400 dollars a year to rent?
In a major kharma burning move, I must say, you must be one of those people who like to lease their vehicles, rent their place of residence, and license their software on subscription terms, yet "own" a pet. Why don't you try owning something, anything....
Or you could just fuck off with your comments, and go back to your safe little world where you must enjoy the feeling of paying someone a monthly fee, forever, (at least until the lease is up), then having to do it all over again, with someone else, for the same thing, and never getting to do what you really would like to do with what ever it is you're renting. I have never seen a lease or rental agreement where I could add a patio deck to a house, or put a lift kit on a 4X4 that's leased, or on and on and on. Just go away......
You may not think it an interesting topic, but it is a topic that is very much ingrained with the topics you do find interesting. If those laws do pass, then you may very well lose the ability to even read about the topics you find interesting, and you may very well lose the ability to even post the fact that you find the topic at hand not interesting, so, now that you've said your piece, go to where you find the topics interesting and enjoy the rest of your day.