As a native Edmontonian of 14 years (I've been living here 14 years, I'm not 14 years old), I can say that most entry level tech support jobs pay $10/hour, and $10/hour for 40 hours/week is PLENTY enough money to have an apartment, food to eat, and an internet connection. Ok, maybe "plenty" is an overstatement, but it's enough money to survive.
I'd *love* to be making $19/hour, that would be awesome.:)
The scariest part... is that Citibank apparently didn't even care.
That is pretty scary.
Something similar happened up here in Canada recently (ie, this week). I got very convincing looking mail from a spammer trying to impersonate a bank asking me for my account info (apparently they updated the system and needed to reactive my account... yeah right).
The spammer only made two mistakes, though: He spoofed a bank that I do not, nor have ever actually banked with. So it was an obvious fraud. Plus, the tricks he used to obscure the real URL in the links may have worked in Outlook, but they were pretty obvious in Mozilla.
So, I forwarded the mail to the bank's security department, and I got a response within the hour saying that it's a scam and that I should just ignore the mail. They also said that they'd help me avoid having any money stolen if I had already given the spammer my account info (ie, they'd help me close my account and start a new one).
There was also a big article about it in the paper the next day. That was pretty cool to read, after having gotten the spam.
he various Linux distros are wrong to include whatever media players they choose to include with their distros.
That's not the same, because the company that's releasing a given linux distro, is not the same company as the one making the media player, so there's nothing wrong there. Often, the group of people making the media player isn't even a company, and the group of people making the distro isn't a company either, so there's no commercial conflict-of-interest at all. Especially if they bundle 3 or more media players, and not just one.
MS, on the other hand, is using their monopoly in operating systems to force people into using WMP, another technology they produce. By bundling WMP with their OS, they're giving themselves an unfair advantage in the media player market; other companies that make media players have to advertise their product and get people to install it, whereas everybody using windows already has WMP to begin with.
Unless you live alone on a deserted island, chances are that there's a group of people in your city who meet on a regular basis to talk about linux, and one of them has burned the Fedora Core 1 (Yarrow) ISOs already.
Makes me wonder what would happen if by magic, all software piracy was suddenly impossible. I think we'd see a lot more people using free software.
It's true, though. Proprietary software is only as popular as it is because so many people are getting it without paying for it.
It really makes me sad when I see ISOs for Windows on warez sites, because I know that if those people were forced to choose between paying $200+ for a box of the product they're downloading, or downloading a linux ISO legitimately, they'd choose linux every time.
The resulting increase of linux usage would also solve the problem of few games being produced for the linux platform.
Mom's been using RH9 for about a month now, without any real issues. The only problem I've had so far is that I can't find a really decent, easy-to-use p2p client for her.
I just installed Fedora Core 1 on my box a couple days ago, and I have every intention of transitioning her over within the coming weeks. It really is a huge improvement.
But is there were no viruses to exploit the holes, then the holes would not need to be fixed.
Bullshit. If the viruses weren't there to draw attention to the holes, then the malicious human attackers would just continue to use the attacks in secret.
The GNU Project was conceived in 1983 as a way of bringing back the cooperative spirit that prevailed in the computing community in earlier days---to make cooperation possible once again by removing the obstacles to cooperation imposed by the owners of proprietary software.
No shit, sherlock. In 1983, GNU was a twinkle in RMS's eyes. You'll notice that the original announcement of GNU was on Sept 27th, 1983. They didn't have anything substantial until 1984.
How many engineering standards were there forty years after the advent of bridge building ?
I hear the Roman bridge-builders were required to stand under their bridges while the army marched over them.
It might just be a legend, but if it were true, then the people who built bad bridges would essentially be killed when it collapses, created a sort of Darwinism amongst bridge builders: only the good ones survived to build good bridges.
Maybe software developers should be shot when defects are found in the software. That would increase the quality pretty quick, I'd bet:)
The keys z, x, c, v, and b are mapped to the main buttons on the main window, ie, z goes to the previous song, x is play, c is pause, v is stop, and b goes to the next song.
4. No tool-tips when hoovering with the mouse.
You must have one of those combination mouse/vacuum cleaners. Unfortunately, support for them in linux is poor:)
6. Window decorations are not consistent with the rest of the world. Same thing with all other widgets.
Yeah, ok, I don't like that either. That's why I like Rhythmbox... it's a standard GTK2 app and it will look exactly consistent with all your other GTK2 apps. Though, if you're using RH9, there's an XMMS skin called Bluecurve (which is the default on a fresh RH9 install), which tries it's best to make XMMS look like all the other GTK2 apps.
Last year, our (Edmonton) first day of snow was the 22nd of October, this year it was the 29th... it was bad, I was working at the time, I went to work with a light jacket, and there was a good inch of snow by the time my shift was over.
Because Rhythmbox displays the play count. I can even sort the list by the number of times a song has been played.
I can easily look at the playlist and see that in a few short hours, one song has been played tens of times, and other songs have never been played, ever.
Also, it really gets to me when I hear the same song 3 times in recent memory. It's like, "Gah! I JUST heard this!"
Xmms takes the cake. Fast, sleek, extensable and easy to use. All the benifits of Winamp without the bad code.
Yeah, ok. I use XMMS, I like it. I wouldn't say it's the best thing in the world, though.
XMMS is good for when you have a huge playlist, and you just want to play your music and ignore your music player while you do other work. XMMS isn't that good if you have different playlists for different moods that you're in, or maybe sometimes you just only want to hear the songs that you really like. iTunes is great in that department, and Rhythmbox is catching up.
RB just has to fix a few small annoyances that I have with it, and I'll start using it as my primary music player.
And I'll be trying out JuK, too, I've never heard of it before today.
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As a native Edmontonian of 14 years (I've been living here 14 years, I'm not 14 years old), I can say that most entry level tech support jobs pay $10/hour, and $10/hour for 40 hours/week is PLENTY enough money to have an apartment, food to eat, and an internet connection. Ok, maybe "plenty" is an overstatement, but it's enough money to survive.
:)
I'd *love* to be making $19/hour, that would be awesome.
The scariest part ... is that Citibank apparently didn't even care.
That is pretty scary.
Something similar happened up here in Canada recently (ie, this week). I got very convincing looking mail from a spammer trying to impersonate a bank asking me for my account info (apparently they updated the system and needed to reactive my account... yeah right).
The spammer only made two mistakes, though: He spoofed a bank that I do not, nor have ever actually banked with. So it was an obvious fraud. Plus, the tricks he used to obscure the real URL in the links may have worked in Outlook, but they were pretty obvious in Mozilla.
So, I forwarded the mail to the bank's security department, and I got a response within the hour saying that it's a scam and that I should just ignore the mail. They also said that they'd help me avoid having any money stolen if I had already given the spammer my account info (ie, they'd help me close my account and start a new one).
There was also a big article about it in the paper the next day. That was pretty cool to read, after having gotten the spam.
he various Linux distros are wrong to include whatever media players they choose to include with their distros.
That's not the same, because the company that's releasing a given linux distro, is not the same company as the one making the media player, so there's nothing wrong there. Often, the group of people making the media player isn't even a company, and the group of people making the distro isn't a company either, so there's no commercial conflict-of-interest at all. Especially if they bundle 3 or more media players, and not just one.
MS, on the other hand, is using their monopoly in operating systems to force people into using WMP, another technology they produce. By bundling WMP with their OS, they're giving themselves an unfair advantage in the media player market; other companies that make media players have to advertise their product and get people to install it, whereas everybody using windows already has WMP to begin with.
I think that we need a complete X replacement. Forget about X compatability.
Wow, that's a great idea! When will you have a working implementation for us to see?
Ask your local LUG.
Unless you live alone on a deserted island, chances are that there's a group of people in your city who meet on a regular basis to talk about linux, and one of them has burned the Fedora Core 1 (Yarrow) ISOs already.
Not sure if your question is rhetorical, but you're probably thinking about Minority Report.
Makes me wonder what would happen if by magic, all software piracy was suddenly impossible. I think we'd see a lot more people using free software.
It's true, though. Proprietary software is only as popular as it is because so many people are getting it without paying for it.
It really makes me sad when I see ISOs for Windows on warez sites, because I know that if those people were forced to choose between paying $200+ for a box of the product they're downloading, or downloading a linux ISO legitimately, they'd choose linux every time.
The resulting increase of linux usage would also solve the problem of few games being produced for the linux platform.
I'd really like to install Linux on my mom's PC.
Mom's been using RH9 for about a month now, without any real issues. The only problem I've had so far is that I can't find a really decent, easy-to-use p2p client for her.
I just installed Fedora Core 1 on my box a couple days ago, and I have every intention of transitioning her over within the coming weeks. It really is a huge improvement.
You should be using Fedora Core. Bluecurve makes all the toolkits look the same, so it's a nonissue.
But is there were no viruses to exploit the holes, then the holes would not need to be fixed.
Bullshit. If the viruses weren't there to draw attention to the holes, then the malicious human attackers would just continue to use the attacks in secret.
wonder if they can prove it.
Those ads are obviously true, they just have a bit of a positive spin.
next time you see the "do more with less" ads, interpret them as "we give you so little, try to make the best of it"
What's the point? Among others, Proxomitron is free, takes 5 minutes to set up, and is massively configurable for popup/banner/script/etc. blocking.
Does Proxomitron come installed with the OS by default?
That's what I thought.
The GNU Project was conceived in 1983 as a way of bringing back the cooperative spirit that prevailed in the computing community in earlier days---to make cooperation possible once again by removing the obstacles to cooperation imposed by the owners of proprietary software.
No shit, sherlock. In 1983, GNU was a twinkle in RMS's eyes. You'll notice that the original announcement of GNU was on Sept 27th, 1983. They didn't have anything substantial until 1984.
Now I don't necessarily know what I'm talking about here, but this discussion makes the patent system seem relatively benign, doesn't it?
Just imagine what your life would be like if every piece of technology in your computer right now was 20+ years old.
That's 1983... GNU hadn't even been started yet, Apple hadn't even released the first Macintosh by then...
Longhorn should change this, with the rumoured next-gen command line implementation that approaches Unix-level capabilities.
That made me laugh... "The next generation command line will be better than any before it! It will be almost as good as UNIX!"
they favor it because of the advantages of a system with freely-available, license-free source.
You made a convincing argument, right up until you admitted that you have no idea what you're talking about.
These popup ads were NOT web popups but used the messaging service loaded automatically on WinXP and other microsoft OSes.
A popup is a popup is a popup is a popup. Does it matter what program popped it up?
How many engineering standards were there forty years after the advent of bridge building ?
:)
I hear the Roman bridge-builders were required to stand under their bridges while the army marched over them.
It might just be a legend, but if it were true, then the people who built bad bridges would essentially be killed when it collapses, created a sort of Darwinism amongst bridge builders: only the good ones survived to build good bridges.
Maybe software developers should be shot when defects are found in the software. That would increase the quality pretty quick, I'd bet
I doubt it will be long before people are selling equiptment that ignores the broadcast flag.
That's the funny part. Right now, *all* equipment ignores the broadcast flag...
2. How about keyboard navigation?
:)
The keys z, x, c, v, and b are mapped to the main buttons on the main window, ie, z goes to the previous song, x is play, c is pause, v is stop, and b goes to the next song.
4. No tool-tips when hoovering with the mouse.
You must have one of those combination mouse/vacuum cleaners. Unfortunately, support for them in linux is poor
6. Window decorations are not consistent with the rest of the world. Same thing with all other widgets.
Yeah, ok, I don't like that either. That's why I like Rhythmbox... it's a standard GTK2 app and it will look exactly consistent with all your other GTK2 apps. Though, if you're using RH9, there's an XMMS skin called Bluecurve (which is the default on a fresh RH9 install), which tries it's best to make XMMS look like all the other GTK2 apps.
XMMS is a shining example of what happens when an open source project copies a Windows app created by amateurs that know nothing about usability.
:)
So, in other words, what you're saying is that XMMS is an extremely high-quality piece of crap?
Yeah, that's about right.
Last year, our (Edmonton) first day of snow was the 22nd of October, this year it was the 29th... it was bad, I was working at the time, I went to work with a light jacket, and there was a good inch of snow by the time my shift was over.
how do you know how many times a song played? :>
Because Rhythmbox displays the play count. I can even sort the list by the number of times a song has been played.
I can easily look at the playlist and see that in a few short hours, one song has been played tens of times, and other songs have never been played, ever.
Also, it really gets to me when I hear the same song 3 times in recent memory. It's like, "Gah! I JUST heard this!"
Xmms takes the cake. Fast, sleek, extensable and easy to use. All the benifits of Winamp without the bad code.
Yeah, ok. I use XMMS, I like it. I wouldn't say it's the best thing in the world, though.
XMMS is good for when you have a huge playlist, and you just want to play your music and ignore your music player while you do other work. XMMS isn't that good if you have different playlists for different moods that you're in, or maybe sometimes you just only want to hear the songs that you really like. iTunes is great in that department, and Rhythmbox is catching up.
RB just has to fix a few small annoyances that I have with it, and I'll start using it as my primary music player.
And I'll be trying out JuK, too, I've never heard of it before today.
works better then anything I've been able to use on my Windows pc here at work.
Ever tried... Winamp 2?
Nullsoft liked XMMS so much they decided to make a cheap clone of it for Windows, so there you go.
(Yeah, it's a joke, I know XMMS is the clone).