oh please! what they are doing is insane but not stupid. They are manipulating eveything from market to laws. If they are anything but stupid. I would say greedy, cunning but not stupid. They are actually making money off this. Pump and dump? The only people who are going to be affected are the programmers at sco but i am sure they would find alternate employment once this fiasco is over.
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Also, the bulk of people are against technology and change, as seen in the last elections. They want the old government which promotes anarchy and curruption. So, they will get what they want.
Oh come on! every other govt in the world is corrupt. True its a bit worse in India, but what makes you say that people are against technology? rampant anarchy? developments will be quenched pretty soon? pretty harsh there buddy. look at the technology growth in the past 10 years. Telecom, roadways, railways(for crying out loud India has the largest railroad network), computers... this is dispite the so called "anarchy" you mentioned.
That's why I run Unsolicited Commando [astrobastards.net]. It fills the inboxes of companies that pay for spam with spurious form fill-outs. I guess it's kind of like giving them a taste of their own medicine.
Unfortunately, I don't agree with this way. I don't want to start a flame war or anything but just my thoughts. Yes! I said attack the very foundation that supports spammers, which should be achieved not by doing the same thing that spammers are doing to us. Money and paper are traceable so can be fought with legislation, while defending ourselves against spam messages using technology.
Spammers are like a retrovirus. The will adapt to any system you construct. Creating a list of what every major isp will do to combat them will only serve to accelerate their evolution and make them more effective spammers.
Spammers always try to be one step ahead of the game. Just by keeping the best practices a *secret* wound't help to combat spam. Its the business model that needs to be attacked. Money is made somewhere and that is where we have to attack. Having said that, I think its important we keep these fighting techniques open. A lot of people would benefit from it. Also, just like security, obscurity would be of no help.
The poll indicates 62% of the/. crowd would happily fly in that ship on monday. It would be interesting to repeat the poll now and see if it is still this high.
Easier said than done. I bet a lot of people who said they would fly on the poll didn't really mean it.
same here but something has changed now. I sent myself an invitation but still haven't received it. well they might have started to do this after you had sent your friends the invitations. Hotmail hasn't increased their storage space yet so it figures.
quite literally, heh. I actually shelled out 25 bucks for 2 gmail accounts
he he. All I had to do was just loginto my blogger account to get my gmail account. I had used blogger about a year ago by changed to b2 after a while. So when I heard google was giving accounts to "active" blogger accounts, I just signed in did a first post and sure enough the next day I had a gmail account.
just because you have warranty doesn't mean that your data is safe. Sure you would have replacement in your warrenty period but data lost is lost forever unless you backup;)
1. An installation process as straightforward and simple as Windows
True. Simple installation yes. Like windows no. Why? I haven't come across a newbie who can do a clean installation with windows(I am not including those recovery disks that just dump an image into hdd). No one complains about windows because not many newbies install windows. it comes pre-installed on their system. In linux I really like the 4-click install of XandrOS.Its clean and simple and asks minimal questions.
2. The device compatibility offered by Windows
this is going to a problem because not all hardware manufacturers want to openup their drivers. A lot of them have given out binary only drivers(Think Nvidia) but the drivers suck. 3. The level of cooperation shared by Windows applications
agree. 4. The games available on Windows
chicken and egg problem
5. The simplicity of changing system configurations offered by Windows
I find apple give more simplicity when it comes to changing systems. But if we narrow our vision to what both apple and MS does for usability, then we are bound to make the same mistakes. There are other designs that are much more usable than windows and apple for that matter. We just shouldn't follow windows, just because people are used to it.
How is software development related to teaching in schools. If your argument is right, then every user is at mercy of the developer. Its the endusers who should dictate how the product should be. Afterall they are the ones who end up using it. only a blind person would know what he wants and more importantly what he needs. Unless you are blind you won't know those things.
Yahoo and MSN offer very good audio and video conf. Somehow I feel AIM is much more bloated than the other two. Yahoo IM has seen a lot of improvements lately. the voice is pretty clear and the video is pretty darn good. Initially it would be difficuly for some to use another messenger, not to mention add everyone in your buddy list but AIM would loose out the cost factor, atleast in audio and video conf.
Its never the programming language. True, you can write obscure code with perl but the same could be down with C.
Having said that, its the right tools for the right job. Perl would be good for certain situations, PHP would be good for certain other situations.
the one thing that's good about XandrOS is that its debian based. So Basically you can use testing repositories to install most of the open source "premium subscription" software. I am actually running gdm and gnome on a XandrOS desktop. Just google around before you install something other than from xandros network.
What's weird is that the infections are still climbing meaning that after almost 2 months (patch released on April 13) and a HUGE rash of infections from Sasser, there are some folks that have still refused to apply the Microsoft patch
I bet most of the those machines probably have pirated windows. I don't think Microsoft allows pirated users to patch their systems.
You might be right. This could take the same path as the "whitelist" feature(or whatever it was called). Look what happened to they they in-turn sold it to companies.
Here's the previous story on/.
'I downloaded the file in the hope that perhaps Microsoft had released some sort of public beta. The file unzipped, and to my delight the Microsoft icon looked genuine and trustworthy.'
Ah! the icon looked genuine and trustworth? from Limewire? Sounds like proof-of-concept for people are stupid.
"If the EU really does pass the software patent law under consideration and the U.S. adopts that treaty that Bush is pushing, won't MS just be able to sue any compatibility products out of business?"
If MS wanted to sue someone out of business they would have done so already. Wine and SAMBA have special spot. As someone mentioned earlier its a paradox. Both products are dependent on linux and windows to succeed. I doubt Microsoft would want to ruin something that makes people dependent on win32 applications. In any case they don't need any stinking laws to screw someone. They could buy them out.
Alright here's a conspiracy theory. Sony could be the reason behind the hike. New player enters a market dominated by apple and apple's price per song increases? I bet sony would remain at 99c and isn't sony a major music label? Also Ipods were the main target of apple not pusing songs so i guess they won't care much now.
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oh please! what they are doing is insane but not stupid. They are manipulating eveything from market to laws. If they are anything but stupid. I would say greedy, cunning but not stupid. They are actually making money off this. Pump and dump? The only people who are going to be affected are the programmers at sco but i am sure they would find alternate employment once this fiasco is over.
they should tag the monsters? Giant Robo? anyone?
Also, the bulk of people are against technology and change, as seen in the last elections. They want the old government which promotes anarchy and curruption. So, they will get what they want. Oh come on! every other govt in the world is corrupt. True its a bit worse in India, but what makes you say that people are against technology? rampant anarchy? developments will be quenched pretty soon? pretty harsh there buddy. look at the technology growth in the past 10 years. Telecom, roadways, railways(for crying out loud India has the largest railroad network), computers... this is dispite the so called "anarchy" you mentioned.
One of the most under used console app is Screen. http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ I am not a sys admin but Screen is still pretty handy.
That's why I run Unsolicited Commando [astrobastards.net]. It fills the inboxes of companies that pay for spam with spurious form fill-outs. I guess it's kind of like giving them a taste of their own medicine.
Unfortunately, I don't agree with this way. I don't want to start a flame war or anything but just my thoughts. Yes! I said attack the very foundation that supports spammers, which should be achieved not by doing the same thing that spammers are doing to us. Money and paper are traceable so can be fought with legislation, while defending ourselves against spam messages using technology.
As I said earlier, its just my thought.Spammers are like a retrovirus. The will adapt to any system you construct. Creating a list of what every major isp will do to combat them will only serve to accelerate their evolution and make them more effective spammers.
Spammers always try to be one step ahead of the game. Just by keeping the best practices a *secret* wound't help to combat spam. Its the business model that needs to be attacked. Money is made somewhere and that is where we have to attack. Having said that, I think its important we keep these fighting techniques open. A lot of people would benefit from it. Also, just like security, obscurity would be of no help.
The poll indicates 62% of the /. crowd would happily fly in that ship on monday. It would be interesting to repeat the poll now and see if it is still this high.
Easier said than done. I bet a lot of people who said they would fly on the poll didn't really mean it.
is this the first known spyware for linux...?
same here but something has changed now. I sent myself an invitation but still haven't received it. well they might have started to do this after you had sent your friends the invitations. Hotmail hasn't increased their storage space yet so it figures.
quite literally, heh. I actually shelled out 25 bucks for 2 gmail accounts
he he. All I had to do was just loginto my blogger account to get my gmail account. I had used blogger about a year ago by changed to b2 after a while. So when I heard google was giving accounts to "active" blogger accounts, I just signed in did a first post and sure enough the next day I had a gmail account.
chicks? where (looks around) where? where? where?
just because you have warranty doesn't mean that your data is safe. Sure you would have replacement in your warrenty period but data lost is lost forever unless you backup ;)
1. An installation process as straightforward and simple as Windows
True. Simple installation yes. Like windows no. Why? I haven't come across a newbie who can do a clean installation with windows(I am not including those recovery disks that just dump an image into hdd). No one complains about windows because not many newbies install windows. it comes pre-installed on their system. In linux I really like the 4-click install of XandrOS.Its clean and simple and asks minimal questions.
2. The device compatibility offered by Windows
this is going to a problem because not all hardware manufacturers want to openup their drivers. A lot of them have given out binary only drivers(Think Nvidia) but the drivers suck.
3. The level of cooperation shared by Windows applications
agree.
4. The games available on Windows
chicken and egg problem 5. The simplicity of changing system configurations offered by Windows
I find apple give more simplicity when it comes to changing systems. But if we narrow our vision to what both apple and MS does for usability, then we are bound to make the same mistakes. There are other designs that are much more usable than windows and apple for that matter. We just shouldn't follow windows, just because people are used to it.
How is software development related to teaching in schools. If your argument is right, then every user is at mercy of the developer. Its the endusers who should dictate how the product should be. Afterall they are the ones who end up using it. only a blind person would know what he wants and more importantly what he needs. Unless you are blind you won't know those things.
Yahoo and MSN offer very good audio and video conf. Somehow I feel AIM is much more bloated than the other two. Yahoo IM has seen a lot of improvements lately. the voice is pretty clear and the video is pretty darn good. Initially it would be difficuly for some to use another messenger, not to mention add everyone in your buddy list but AIM would loose out the cost factor, atleast in audio and video conf.
Its never the programming language. True, you can write obscure code with perl but the same could be down with C. Having said that, its the right tools for the right job. Perl would be good for certain situations, PHP would be good for certain other situations.
the one thing that's good about XandrOS is that its debian based. So Basically you can use testing repositories to install most of the open source "premium subscription" software. I am actually running gdm and gnome on a XandrOS desktop. Just google around before you install something other than from xandros network.
What's weird is that the infections are still climbing meaning that after almost 2 months (patch released on April 13) and a HUGE rash of infections from Sasser, there are some folks that have still refused to apply the Microsoft patch
I bet most of the those machines probably have pirated windows. I don't think Microsoft allows pirated users to patch their systems.
You might be right. This could take the same path as the "whitelist" feature(or whatever it was called). Look what happened to they they in-turn sold it to companies. Here's the previous story on /.
outsourced to India!
Baystar is gripping *somthing* of Darl's, though I'm not sure it's his tongue...
Can't be true. He doesn't have it.
'I downloaded the file in the hope that perhaps Microsoft had released some sort of public beta. The file unzipped, and to my delight the Microsoft icon looked genuine and trustworthy.'
Ah! the icon looked genuine and trustworth? from Limewire? Sounds like proof-of-concept for people are stupid.
"If the EU really does pass the software patent law under consideration and the U.S. adopts that treaty that Bush is pushing, won't MS just be able to sue any compatibility products out of business?"
If MS wanted to sue someone out of business they would have done so already. Wine and SAMBA have special spot. As someone mentioned earlier its a paradox. Both products are dependent on linux and windows to succeed. I doubt Microsoft would want to ruin something that makes people dependent on win32 applications. In any case they don't need any stinking laws to screw someone. They could buy them out.
Artists don't get a dime with itunes too. Okay i stand corrected, they get a dime after riaa take their share.
Alright here's a conspiracy theory. Sony could be the reason behind the hike. New player enters a market dominated by apple and apple's price per song increases? I bet sony would remain at 99c and isn't sony a major music label? Also Ipods were the main target of apple not pusing songs so i guess they won't care much now.