Ok, I understand if your a network provider you might have a legit beef with spammers and spyware makers, but end users are just being lazy jerks.
Computers are no different then cars. If you drive a car recklessly sooner or later you wrek the car. Everyone acepts they have to learn the controlls of their car, dive at safe speeds, and pay attention, and that to do otherwise is to take their chances. The computer is no different you should take the time to disable activeX and set the other security settings related to cookies and stuff appropriatly. You should look at the subjects and the senders before opening those e-mails especially those with attachments. Read that SSL cert before selecting alwats trust XXXXX. Think about where you are posting your e-mail address. Ask questions like "who made this CD?" before you put it in the drive and let autoplay do its thing. You should consider running a more secure operating system. The list goes on. I take just the most basic precaution and care and I do just fine without shelling out big bucks for anti-spamm/spayware/virus. For anyone who has taken the time to read the docs follow the recomendations and is basicly careful this stuff is not a problem. Its the Lusers that have all the trouble, and its thier own damn fault. All of this type of stuff is no different then the bag of nails in the road which fell off the truck, slow down watch what you're doing and go around it.
Actually that is a really good idea. Spam generate s replies at a rate of about 1/10th of one percent If your junk mail filter had a random from address gererater and an auto reply function along with a good variety of different but Fake come ones filling in random text from the original spam so that it becomes differcult to counter filter the replies then it will cost spammers tons of time/money to filter though the anit-spam noise destroying there buisiness model. We just got to get this to be a standard feature of mozilla mail and spam is dead.
This is a man who came up with a way to make a living for himself doing nothing wrong. There is nothing wrong at all with trying to support yourself as a spammer. The if people don't like it they will try and stop you by vilifing you, and doing anything they can to disrupt the distribution of your product. Look at Big Tabacco for example there have been some regulations but for the most part, its been a smear campaigns, public opinion and education working most strongly against them. The only difference is the spammers don't have multibillion dollar war chests to lobby with and protect them from crap laws. Letting Uncle Sam regulate much of anything is a generally a bad idea. He does not understand what he is doing because all the career politicians that make him up need a good smack with the clue bat, I don't care what party they belong too, I am not aware of anyone in Washington who has not either been there too long or should never have been eleceted at all. Remember slashbots these are mostly the same folks who brought you great ideas like DMCA, Campain Finance reforme, Orange Alerts, the Patriot act, ignored an offer to have Bin Ladden turned over to us, etc, etc. Turst me these are not they guys you want to encorage to play in the tech-sector.
If you don't want some spamers crap flowing over your network do something for yourself for a change, drop a few packets, install a filter.
They actually don't cost that much. Take you M$ reps out to lunch when they visit. Tell one of the interns to walk by the cube at around 3:10 and casually mention something about the "linux server" banter with the reps mindlessly for another hour discussing your problems things you'd like to see etc, then ask for some software licenses, chances are they will give them too you. We do this every year or so, we call it our "M$ shake down", it works.
It sounds like a great idea at first but I don't want sending an e-mail to be computationally expensive. So if it takes my desktop PC 10s to caclulate this hash it means it takes my IPAQ 45s+ and that assumes its an interger function, if you go floating point it will really put the hurt on mobile devices. I don't really want sending mail to be compuationally expensive on my PC or laptop, having my MP3 skip or my recording from my capture card dropping frams sounds like it could get irritating real fast. I realize that the article talks about it being more memory intensive then cpu intensive but lots of fast memory I/O will bother mulitmedia stuff. My other issue is even though memory speed does not increase as rapidly as cpu speeds, memory is getting faster how long untill the delay becomes usesless on bleeding edge hardware and what will that mean for older boxes when the have to make the hash more complex to slow things down again.
What I don't understand is how some other firm is supposed to be able to pick up the source and start maintaining it. I develop *really small* projects at work and even though I do careful documention, and comment all of my code well, mostly because I am required too, when I have to get another team member involved as an expert, It often takes me more time to familiarize him/her with the codebase then it ends up taking us to write whatever module we are working on together when we final sit down to witeboard and then code. So if the IT director walks into my cube on monday and says "SmallSoftwareHouse went belly up, here is the code form our escrow account." It could be days, weeks, or months before we could make even trivial changes safely deployable in a production enviornment, depending on size of the codebase. That would be with good documentaion. If something had to get fixed fast we would be fu-bar.
People did think this would happen eventually, iff thoses systems were still in operation. Nobody thought they would be still in operation. So it was thought safe to save on the memory. Remember that lots of these big old mainframes that sometimes have hundreds of terminals have less then 16megs of memory. I think it was not till 1960 that a computer was even build with that much ram and and it was common into the late 70's to have much less on big iron. Disk/tape capacitys were just as limited. Memory was EXPENSIVE and LIMITED that is why it was done the way it was.
Why would I want to run Linux if all I use is windows software. Gnu/Linux is more powerful and scaleable OS, especially Slackware. Its a better value especially for the home users, but one thing is not so good at is running windows software. Wine is a great project but winelib is much more valueable then wine itself. I mean ever windows app I have built agains winelib if It would compile at all was infintely more stable then its windows binary running with wine. There are a few good FOSS windows apps out there. The real question is why run M$ Oriface. I know its the standard and all that jaz but OO or Abiword will read word docs quite well, Gunmeric can handle most or all excel sheets. M$ office is a big pice of shit, I use it at work on windows 2000(which is actaully quite nice IMHO) and all it does is loockup and shred my work. I now use Abiword even on winders. I just can't understand why after finally freeing your self from Microshaft people rush into running unsuported configs of there crap software on their nice FOSS operating system. I don't know if Xandros is free but it looks line gnu/Linux + xfree + KDE + wine + scrips and front ends to look like windows. I can't see paying for scripts and front ends. I buy Slackware evertime I upgrade for the fact that its well put together and its worth paying someone to spend time testing configurations and doing nice builds so I can install it and have it work. While I like it alot, I certainly am not paying Pat becasue I want pkgtool so bad it hurts.
Say what you like about KDE but there is one line of your post which is total crap!
"KDE has lost the only major commercial Linux distributor to support it" SUSE may have been bigger but never forget SUSE is just the BASTARD step child of Slackware and Slackware is a major commercial distro on which KDE is still the primary desktop, even though I don't install any of that KDE crap.
Space flight is a huge *waste* of valueable research dollars. We have basic space filight now. Its fairly safe and the costs are resonable. There is simple no return on investment in continued research. We have a space station or will very soon, we have the shuttle which works well enough. These things give us the ability to do the observation and transmission we need to from outside the atmosphere and conduct zero-g experiments etc, imporovements will cost more then they can ever return. There is nothing valueable in space within our grasp as far as anyone knows if that changes so does my thesis but untill then the status quo is best left to persist. Time travel is more likely possible then us ever being able to visit other galaxies or even soloar systems not and return anyway espically with anykind of freight. I read in some physics journal once that even if you could travel faster then the speed of light you probably need around 1 1/3 times the sqare of the mass you will be moving in fule. This is hopeless, there is not enough fule on earth to reach the nearest fule stop out in the universe and bring any back. Space travel is worthless becase there is too much space we cannot cope with crossing those distances , we need point to point transport if we are ever going to do any useful exploration out of sight of our little Sun. Experiments have been done with moving single protons form one place to the other without crossing the space between. That is where we should focus. That or manipulation of time, we could travel slowly with good fule efficency if we could control the time experienced by the craft.
What, that was the best OS ever on any hardware platform I mean was an OS an Basic interpreter, an OS with a basic interpeter an OS that was a basic interpeter. It was amazing and actually the most useful thing the could have done at the time. BASIC actually made a good shell. I would be happy to see BASIC become the shell again on a modern system,.
Yea, but whitelists can be a pain too, so grany is going to get little Timmy suber-mega-warrior for his X-box, this christmas she goes to legit-video-game-dealer.com because its the most popular game of the year and is sold out everywhere else. She places her order and never recives the confirmation because that domin is not on her white list and because she is barely confortable with the internet at all gets very nervouse something has gone horribly wrong. She does not know she needs to keep adding to her white list and eventually starts getting spam from the business she has whitelisted. See, it helps but its not perfect.
Imagine if the RFID numbers got leaked to the wrong people. An assassin could have the exact location of their target at all times. The consiquense of such immoral behavior as undisclosed RFID tags could have been disasterous. Seeing as how nobody got hurt though this is probably a good thing. This happend to alot of high level people with power to do something about this privacy threat as apposed to having happened to the rest of us where we would just be ignored. This is the type of thing that could really put the fear of God into these people too as far as the entire technology.
Imagine I want to knock someone off. I bribe the store clerk at a place he frequents to leave the tag on something he buys turn off the alarm and phone me the item number. He now has a nice homeing device that I can use to trak him all around town and stike at the first good opertunity, fumbling with the keys to his appartment garage or something when noone are around. Not only are there privacy risks when important people are being taged it could easily prove dangerous, that was just one potential situation.
The reason the US has problems paying for IRAQ et al, is that its not a BIG enough war. If it were bigger like we had a draft, (probably would be neccecary if we had to take on a Korean conflic as well) and we had to start producing wepons, and replacing equipment in mass the economy would take off like a shot especially with war time embargos and the like which would give domestic manufacturers a huge if tempory advantage. Remember economically speaking its not important wether Ford is building cars or tanks just that they are building something in large quantity. The steel industry would double in size over night. I am not saying this a situation anyone should hope we get into, but in a strict ecomic sense its ok. We can afford actally better then we ever could have before a world scale war.
Why would you want a rack for home use. Racks and rack gear really only became major space savers when you have a lot of gear. I don't know what you're doing with your home network but if you have more then webserver/mail server, PDC, NAS server, and one other misc box I would be really suprised. No I assume you either have a bunch of cheapy "workgroup" hubs and swiches which won't "rack" anyway or perhaps one good 24 port rackable swich. Then throw in a UPS or two. So at most you have like 8 things to put in the rack. That is not much and you will not see much if any space savings. Don't for get racking hardware takes up space too. Mid towers and AT formfactor computers stack well with no rack UPS usually don't need to be in a place where you can get at them so they can go behind the boxen and even the office max special of the week swichs have holes for wall mounting. You could safely put that much gear in most any room of your house with A/C.
The other thing to cosider is *alot* more engineering goes into rackable hardware vs. standalone and it shows in the price tag, goto dell.com and price comparable poweredge serves in rack/mini_tower configurations putting it into a 1U or 2U rack mount chasis adds $1000USD to the price. Your best bet for the home is a closet shelf system, you know the wire mesh kind so everything can breath, and standard hardware. It will allow you to stack things to the celing the same way a rack would take up less space itself and be avalible at Home Depot for a couple hundred bucks.
Miguel had lots of other stupid positions as well, I for one am really glad to see him gone. Especially becase he probably would have been re-elected otherwise.
I have used notes and Outlook, trust me if you think notes has issues you are really in for it when you get outlook. To get outlook to do ANYTHING remotely useful to a technical worker you need al sorts of plugins, half of which don't like each other and when enabled at the same time will cause Outlook to crash at odd times at best and not start at worst. Oh and god help you when things start getting marked read that you have not read or when your entire inbox is just magically marked unread in the morning, when you have infact only recived 2 new mails over night. Outlook is the worst pice of shit you will ever enconter, you have been worned. I just wish we could go back to notes but its too pricy. Notes has a long way to go as a mail client but Outlook has a long way to go before, its ready to be caled a rc-1 class. They fact that M$ gets away with packageing a pre-beata level contact manager with each release of office is astonding.
And do you think M$ of M$ fan boys would alert an OS project if they had a security flaw before telling the Rags. I don't, they would instead run around going "see OS is dangerous look at all the users getting cracked see see" Any one knows with a lick of sense that any development model can produce buggy software as a general rule open development is better but by no means perfect. They use the discovery of bugs to damage OS, we should use it to damage them. Fact is the more M$ hosts that get cracked the better, there is nothin g like getting burned badly to make you want to switch platforms to something with at least* fewer security bugs. In general I am not a big zelot who goes about demanding everyone switch platforms especially switching away from something they are confortable with but the OS community REALLY needs some big players to switch right now otherwise we are gonna see more problems like with DVD which commercially was only supported on WIN/MAC and for all I know still is, but getting a bios designed only to boot windows working with alternate platforms will likely be alot harder then deCSS, not to mential all the highly proprietary authentication scemes and MS-TCP, the list gones on...
Computers fit a particular definition - they are general purpose ordination devices - make them any less capable and they are no longer computers and cannot be sold as such.
This is a good point. My computer is a general perpose symbolic manipulator. Telling my what symbols I can manipulate and in what way is a bit like selling a coffee maker that only works with Starbucks brand beans, its not a coffee maker anymore its a starbucks maker. A few successful law suits against manufactures of this new non-computer machines demanding they not be sold as computers would interesting.
Card is my favorite writer but there are a few problems, with your idea.
One: even if you do the original virus in machine code by hand something complex enough to do what you describe would be a rather big program. A virus needs to be in the sub 10KB range if its really gonna be un-noticed long enough for it to mutate into something not easily stamped out.
Two: We won't have Young Val and Peter to save us.
Minority rights with majority rule, this is the concept upon which our democracy is based. Minorites have certain rights, these are clearly spelled out for them in a document we call "The Constitution" One of such rights is coved in the first amendment, the are allowed to whine, moan and complain all they wan't. The mojority however RULES and if we DON'T GIVE A FLYING F*** about what words they like or don't like then they have NO RIGHT to change how we speak. I for one will use words pairs like "master/slave", "male/female" , "Arab/terrorist" all I like regardless of who I offend, because if you are such a moron as to be offended by words used in a totally in-offensive context and fail to recognize that or you don't like generalization which ARE supported by legitimate statistics, then you are stupid. I her e would like to freely state I don't like stupid people and consider them less then regualar people, but do not proffer this fact as a reason to deny them their rights. I would now like to conclude my post with a prayer.
Lord have mery on the dumb ones, especially members of LA city council.
Dude, if in the next 18000 years no operating systems, or complete alternate computing methods reach maturity then humanity has some really problems on its hands, men of our day like Linus have seen Linux grow from a simple terminal emulater with some disk I/O features into a full blown multi users OS, in only 11 years or so. I really hope inovation does not slow to the point that 18000 is insufficent to reaplace Linux with the next great thing.
Ah, no more RH. Well it will be interesting to see how this all shakes out. I mean Readhat has been THE word people outside of the community assoicate with Linux Distro. ManRake has its name recognition too but most new Linux users still start on Readhat, this is a huge oppertunity for Slackware and Debian to PICKUP MARKET SHARE. Lets hope my good old distro of choice capitializes and I would be happy to see debian grow as well.
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Ok, I understand if your a network provider you might have a legit beef with spammers and spyware makers, but end users are just being lazy jerks.
Computers are no different then cars. If you drive a car recklessly sooner or later you wrek the car. Everyone acepts they have to learn the controlls of their car, dive at safe speeds, and pay attention, and that to do otherwise is to take their chances. The computer is no different you should take the time to disable activeX and set the other security settings related to cookies and stuff appropriatly. You should look at the subjects and the senders before opening those e-mails especially those with attachments. Read that SSL cert before selecting alwats trust XXXXX. Think about where you are posting your e-mail address. Ask questions like "who made this CD?" before you put it in the drive and let autoplay do its thing. You should consider running a more secure operating system. The list goes on. I take just the most basic precaution and care and I do just fine without shelling out big bucks for anti-spamm/spayware/virus. For anyone who has taken the time to read the docs follow the recomendations and is basicly careful this stuff is not a problem. Its the Lusers that have all the trouble, and its thier own damn fault. All of this type of stuff is no different then the bag of nails in the road which fell off the truck, slow down watch what you're doing and go around it.
Actually that is a really good idea. Spam generate s replies at a rate of about 1/10th of one percent If your junk mail filter had a random from address gererater and an auto reply function along with a good variety of different but Fake come ones filling in random text from the original spam so that it becomes differcult to counter filter the replies then it will cost spammers tons of time/money to filter though the anit-spam noise destroying there buisiness model. We just got to get this to be a standard feature of mozilla mail and spam is dead.
This is a man who came up with a way to make a living for himself doing nothing wrong. There is nothing wrong at all with trying to support yourself as a spammer. The if people don't like it they will try and stop you by vilifing you, and doing anything they can to disrupt the distribution of your product. Look at Big Tabacco for example there have been some regulations but for the most part, its been a smear campaigns, public opinion and education working most strongly against them. The only difference is the spammers don't have multibillion dollar war chests to lobby with and protect them from crap laws. Letting Uncle Sam regulate much of anything is a generally a bad idea. He does not understand what he is doing because all the career politicians that make him up need a good smack with the clue bat, I don't care what party they belong too, I am not aware of anyone in Washington who has not either been there too long or should never have been eleceted at all. Remember slashbots these are mostly the same folks who brought you great ideas like DMCA, Campain Finance reforme, Orange Alerts, the Patriot act, ignored an offer to have Bin Ladden turned over to us, etc, etc. Turst me these are not they guys you want to encorage to play in the tech-sector.
If you don't want some spamers crap flowing over your network do something for yourself for a change, drop a few packets, install a filter.
They actually don't cost that much. Take you M$ reps out to lunch when they visit. Tell one of the interns to walk by the cube at around 3:10 and casually mention something about the "linux server" banter with the reps mindlessly for another hour discussing your problems things you'd like to see etc, then ask for some software licenses, chances are they will give them too you. We do this every year or so, we call it our "M$ shake down", it works.
It sounds like a great idea at first but I don't want sending an e-mail to be computationally expensive. So if it takes my desktop PC 10s to caclulate this hash it means it takes my IPAQ 45s+ and that assumes its an interger function, if you go floating point it will really put the hurt on mobile devices. I don't really want sending mail to be compuationally expensive on my PC or laptop, having my MP3 skip or my recording from my capture card dropping frams sounds like it could get irritating real fast. I realize that the article talks about it being more memory intensive then cpu intensive but lots of fast memory I/O will bother mulitmedia stuff. My other issue is even though memory speed does not increase as rapidly as cpu speeds, memory is getting faster how long untill the delay becomes usesless on bleeding edge hardware and what will that mean for older boxes when the have to make the hash more complex to slow things down again.
What I don't understand is how some other firm is supposed to be able to pick up the source and start maintaining it. I develop *really small* projects at work and even though I do careful documention, and comment all of my code well, mostly because I am required too, when I have to get another team member involved as an expert, It often takes me more time to familiarize him/her with the codebase then it ends up taking us to write whatever module we are working on together when we final sit down to witeboard and then code. So if the IT director walks into my cube on monday and says "SmallSoftwareHouse went belly up, here is the code form our escrow account." It could be days, weeks, or months before we could make even trivial changes safely deployable in a production enviornment, depending on size of the codebase. That would be with good documentaion. If something had to get fixed fast we would be fu-bar.
People did think this would happen eventually, iff thoses systems were still in operation. Nobody thought they would be still in operation. So it was thought safe to save on the memory. Remember that lots of these big old mainframes that sometimes have hundreds of terminals have less then 16megs of memory. I think it was not till 1960 that a computer was even build with that much ram and and it was common into the late 70's to have much less on big iron. Disk/tape capacitys were just as limited. Memory was EXPENSIVE and LIMITED that is why it was done the way it was.
Why would I want to run Linux if all I use is windows software. Gnu/Linux is more powerful and scaleable OS, especially Slackware. Its a better value especially for the home users, but one thing is not so good at is running windows software. Wine is a great project but winelib is much more valueable then wine itself. I mean ever windows app I have built agains winelib if It would compile at all was infintely more stable then its windows binary running with wine. There are a few good FOSS windows apps out there. The real question is why run M$ Oriface. I know its the standard and all that jaz but OO or Abiword will read word docs quite well, Gunmeric can handle most or all excel sheets. M$ office is a big pice of shit, I use it at work on windows 2000(which is actaully quite nice IMHO) and all it does is loockup and shred my work. I now use Abiword even on winders. I just can't understand why after finally freeing your self from Microshaft people rush into running unsuported configs of there crap software on their nice FOSS operating system. I don't know if Xandros is free but it looks line gnu/Linux + xfree + KDE + wine + scrips and front ends to look like windows. I can't see paying for scripts and front ends. I buy Slackware evertime I upgrade for the fact that its well put together and its worth paying someone to spend time testing configurations and doing nice builds so I can install it and have it work. While I like it alot, I certainly am not paying Pat becasue I want pkgtool so bad it hurts.
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Say what you like about KDE but there is one line of your post which is total crap!
"KDE has lost the only major commercial Linux distributor to support it" SUSE may have been bigger but never forget SUSE is just the BASTARD step child of Slackware and Slackware is a major commercial distro on which KDE is still the primary desktop, even though I don't install any of that KDE crap.
Mods on crack, this is the most Insightful post I have seen in weeks yet it got moded intersting! at least the moded it up.
Space flight is a huge *waste* of valueable research dollars. We have basic space filight now. Its fairly safe and the costs are resonable. There is simple no return on investment in continued research. We have a space station or will very soon, we have the shuttle which works well enough. These things give us the ability to do the observation and transmission we need to from outside the atmosphere and conduct zero-g experiments etc, imporovements will cost more then they can ever return. There is nothing valueable in space within our grasp as far as anyone knows if that changes so does my thesis but untill then the status quo is best left to persist. Time travel is more likely possible then us ever being able to visit other galaxies or even soloar systems not and return anyway espically with anykind of freight. I read in some physics journal once that even if you could travel faster then the speed of light you probably need around 1 1/3 times the sqare of the mass you will be moving in fule. This is hopeless, there is not enough fule on earth to reach the nearest fule stop out in the universe and bring any back. Space travel is worthless becase there is too much space we cannot cope with crossing those distances , we need point to point transport if we are ever going to do any useful exploration out of sight of our little Sun. Experiments have been done with moving single protons form one place to the other without crossing the space between. That is where we should focus. That or manipulation of time, we could travel slowly with good fule efficency if we could control the time experienced by the craft.
What, that was the best OS ever on any hardware platform I mean was an OS an Basic interpreter, an OS with a basic interpeter an OS that was a basic interpeter. It was amazing and actually the most useful thing the could have done at the time. BASIC actually made a good shell. I would be happy to see BASIC become the shell again on a modern system,.
Its not like it runs linux
Yea, but whitelists can be a pain too, so grany is going to get little Timmy suber-mega-warrior for his X-box, this christmas she goes to legit-video-game-dealer.com because its the most popular game of the year and is sold out everywhere else. She places her order and never recives the confirmation because that domin is not on her white list and because she is barely confortable with the internet at all gets very nervouse something has gone horribly wrong. She does not know she needs to keep adding to her white list and eventually starts getting spam from the business she has whitelisted. See, it helps but its not perfect.
Imagine if the RFID numbers got leaked to the wrong people. An assassin could have the exact location of their target at all times. The consiquense of such immoral behavior as undisclosed RFID tags could have been disasterous. Seeing as how nobody got hurt though this is probably a good thing. This happend to alot of high level people with power to do something about this privacy threat as apposed to having happened to the rest of us where we would just be ignored. This is the type of thing that could really put the fear of God into these people too as far as the entire technology.
Imagine I want to knock someone off. I bribe the store clerk at a place he frequents to leave the tag on something he buys turn off the alarm and phone me the item number. He now has a nice homeing device that I can use to trak him all around town and stike at the first good opertunity, fumbling with the keys to his appartment garage or something when noone are around. Not only are there privacy risks when important people are being taged it could easily prove dangerous, that was just one potential situation.
The reason the US has problems paying for IRAQ et al, is that its not a BIG enough war. If it were bigger like we had a draft, (probably would be neccecary if we had to take on a Korean conflic as well) and we had to start producing wepons, and replacing equipment in mass the economy would take off like a shot especially with war time embargos and the like which would give domestic manufacturers a huge if tempory advantage. Remember economically speaking its not important wether Ford is building cars or tanks just that they are building something in large quantity. The steel industry would double in size over night. I am not saying this a situation anyone should hope we get into, but in a strict ecomic sense its ok. We can afford actally better then we ever could have before a world scale war.
Why would you want a rack for home use. Racks and rack gear really only became major space savers when you have a lot of gear. I don't know what you're doing with your home network but if you have more then webserver/mail server, PDC, NAS server, and one other misc box I would be really suprised. No I assume you either have a bunch of cheapy "workgroup" hubs and swiches which won't "rack" anyway or perhaps one good 24 port rackable swich. Then throw in a UPS or two. So at most you have like 8 things to put in the rack. That is not much and you will not see much if any space savings. Don't for get racking hardware takes up space too. Mid towers and AT formfactor computers stack well with no rack UPS usually don't need to be in a place where you can get at them so they can go behind the boxen and even the office max special of the week swichs have holes for wall mounting. You could safely put that much gear in most any room of your house with A/C.
The other thing to cosider is *alot* more engineering goes into rackable hardware vs. standalone and it shows in the price tag, goto dell.com and price comparable poweredge serves in rack/mini_tower configurations putting it into a 1U or 2U rack mount chasis adds $1000USD to the price. Your best bet for the home is a closet shelf system, you know the wire mesh kind so everything can breath, and standard hardware. It will allow you to stack things to the celing the same way a rack would take up less space itself and be avalible at Home Depot for a couple hundred bucks.
Miguel had lots of other stupid positions as well, I for one am really glad to see him gone. Especially becase he probably would have been re-elected otherwise.
I have used notes and Outlook, trust me if you think notes has issues you are really in for it when you get outlook. To get outlook to do ANYTHING remotely useful to a technical worker you need al sorts of plugins, half of which don't like each other and when enabled at the same time will cause Outlook to crash at odd times at best and not start at worst. Oh and god help you when things start getting marked read that you have not read or when your entire inbox is just magically marked unread in the morning, when you have infact only recived 2 new mails over night. Outlook is the worst pice of shit you will ever enconter, you have been worned. I just wish we could go back to notes but its too pricy. Notes has a long way to go as a mail client but Outlook has a long way to go before, its ready to be caled a rc-1 class. They fact that M$ gets away with packageing a pre-beata level contact manager with each release of office is astonding.
And do you think M$ of M$ fan boys would alert an OS project if they had a security flaw before telling the Rags. I don't, they would instead run around going "see OS is dangerous look at all the users getting cracked see see" Any one knows with a lick of sense that any development model can produce buggy software as a general rule open development is better but by no means perfect. They use the discovery of bugs to damage OS, we should use it to damage them. Fact is the more M$ hosts that get cracked the better, there is nothin g like getting burned badly to make you want to switch platforms to something with at least* fewer security bugs. In general I am not a big zelot who goes about demanding everyone switch platforms especially switching away from something they are confortable with but the OS community REALLY needs some big players to switch right now otherwise we are gonna see more problems like with DVD which commercially was only supported on WIN/MAC and for all I know still is, but getting a bios designed only to boot windows working with alternate platforms will likely be alot harder then deCSS, not to mential all the highly proprietary authentication scemes and MS-TCP, the list gones on...
Computers fit a particular definition - they are general purpose ordination devices - make them any less capable and they are no longer computers and cannot be sold as such.
This is a good point. My computer is a general perpose symbolic manipulator. Telling my what symbols I can manipulate and in what way is a bit like selling a coffee maker that only works with Starbucks brand beans, its not a coffee maker anymore its a starbucks maker. A few successful law suits against manufactures of this new non-computer machines demanding they not be sold as computers would interesting.
Card is my favorite writer but there are a few problems, with your idea.
One: even if you do the original virus in machine code by hand something complex enough to do what you describe would be a rather big program. A virus needs to be in the sub 10KB range if its really gonna be un-noticed long enough for it to mutate into something not easily stamped out.
Two: We won't have Young Val and Peter to save us.
Minority rights with majority rule, this is the concept upon which our democracy is based. Minorites have certain rights, these are clearly spelled out for them in a document we call "The Constitution" One of such rights is coved in the first amendment, the are allowed to whine, moan and complain all they wan't. The mojority however RULES and if we DON'T GIVE A FLYING F*** about what words they like or don't like then they have NO RIGHT to change how we speak. I for one will use words pairs like "master/slave", "male/female" , "Arab/terrorist" all I like regardless of who I offend, because if you are such a moron as to be offended by words used in a totally in-offensive context and fail to recognize that or you don't like generalization which ARE supported by legitimate statistics, then you are stupid. I her e would like to freely state I don't like stupid people and consider them less then regualar people, but do not proffer this fact as a reason to deny them their rights. I would now like to conclude my post with a prayer.
Lord have mery on the dumb ones, especially members of LA city council.
Dude, if in the next 18000 years no operating systems, or complete alternate computing methods reach maturity then humanity has some really problems on its hands, men of our day like Linus have seen Linux grow from a simple terminal emulater with some disk I/O features into a full blown multi users OS, in only 11 years or so. I really hope inovation does not slow to the point that 18000 is insufficent to reaplace Linux with the next great thing.
Ah, no more RH. Well it will be interesting to see how this all shakes out. I mean Readhat has been THE word people outside of the community assoicate with Linux Distro. ManRake has its name recognition too but most new Linux users still start on Readhat, this is a huge oppertunity for Slackware and Debian to PICKUP MARKET SHARE. Lets hope my good old distro of choice capitializes and I would be happy to see debian grow as well.