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...would anyone still give a shit?
SCO could create the Perfect Operating System. It could be blessed by God, Linus Torvalds, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates at a joint press conference. And I still wouldn't use it just because it was SCO that released it. They've shown us that just because they support it today doesn't mean they won't file a lawsuit against anyone using it tomorrow. Any business that trusts SCO is obviously being run by idiots.
Apples to oranges. Google.org is the philanthropic arm of Google the corperation, and uses the resources of Google the corporation. The Gates Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Bill and Melinda Gates, two people who got rich off of computers, not Microsoft the corporation.
Please tell us what you're drinking so we can send you the proper help. Its obviously distroying your brain and making you halucinate.
Microsoft is not dying. Its not even got a runny nose or a fever. And with the exception of "pundits" like John Dvorak, who really are irrelevant, the only people I ever here talking about Microsoft being dead or dying are people who post right here on Slashdot. When Microsoft starts having less than 90 percent of either the OS market or the office suite market, then they might be starting to have problems. Until then, y'all are sniffing glue.
Why are you so sure the problem is your ISP? Do you know for a fact that the speed test is accurate? Are you doing the speed tests during a time of peak internet usage? Are other sites that you are connecting to serving fast enough to fill your pipe at full speed? If you are connecting to a site that can only serve 1 mbps, I don't care how fast your speed is promised to be, you'll never get anything from that site faster than 1 mbps.
And be careful when making claims "no ISP delivers the speed they promise". My ISP is Comcast on a cable modem. They claim they are giving me 6 mbps. And 99 percent of the time when I'm doing big video or Linux iso downloads or such like that and can see a good test of my actual speed, I'm getting the speed they say they're selling me...6 mbps.
While I'm not defending the seller, the buyer **OBVIOUSLY** did not do his homework or use good judgement. Buying a laptop from someone you don't know for several hundred pounds/dollars and all they have for feedback (at the time of the auction) was one positive comment (the negatives did not get posted until *after* the auction in question) is not using good judgement.
I always check a seller's feedback, and always look at his previous auctions. I've bought items on eBay ranging from $2 computer components to $10,000 cars. What I expect to see in the way of lots of gleaming feedback goes up exponentially as the price tag goes up:-)
Yeah, what he says. Any time I set up a computer for a relative or a friend, I put AVG on it. Never had any problem other than drilling in to their heads "when it says it wants to update, **LET IT UPDATE**!!". I finally got my mother (dial-up) in the habit of every morning when she first dials up, update AVG...but it took almost a year of constant repitition and bitching to do it:-)
As I've said a number of times in here, ultimately it does not matter what anti-virus software you use, nor does it matter what OS you use. The most important component in the prevention of virus infections is the device located between the seat of the office chair and the keyboard. You can have the most effective software in the world running on the most secure OS in the world all behind the best firewall in the world, and an idiot can still fuck it up:-)
Nope, no troll at all. Just long-term observation. Although I'm expecting both my parent message and this reply to be marked as such, because that's the way everyone operates around here.
*MANY* has been the time where I've seen Microsoft, Novel, IBM, etc, put down for some move or another. And then Apple does the same thing a few months later and they are praised for doing it. I've also seen numerous instances of the reverse...Apple does something to control their product and get praised massively for it, then when Microsoft does the same thing six months later everyone starts dragging out the "M" word ("Monopoly") and cries for government intervention.
Bill Gates could eradicate world hunger and he would be chastized for it here on Slashdot. Steve Jobs could run over a group of nuns and orphans while on a naked drunken rampage and he would be praised for reducing the world's ever-growing population, supporting the alcohol industry, and becoming a nudist.
If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. This falls under that same statement.
If this were a case where someone who had only been *charged* was being asked to submit to a DNA database, I'd feel different. But that's not the case here. Its not a situation of someone who might be innocent being treated like a criminal. He is a convicted criminal.
I also don't buy the religious objections. I'm sure his religion also teaches not to break the law, and that didn't seem to cause him any moral issues.
Just as when he was first convicted, I have absolutely no sympathy now. In fact, I probably have even less than that. If he doesn't like the terms of his probation, put his ass in the clink.
This is a purely religious argument. For every reply here where someone has stated "[distribution] runs great on my laptop, but Mandriva turned it in to a brick", I can say "Mandriva worked perfectly on my laptop right out of the box, but [distribution] turned it in to a brick".
Everyone's Darling Linux Distribution of the Month, otherwise known as Ubuntu, can't even get through the early stages of installation. Gentoo won't either. Suse will install, but it will never boot again. Slackware installs, will boot, and works fine...so long as I'm happy with only a console and never want to have a GUI.
Mandriva, on the other hand, installs flawlessly and properly detects all the hardware (I guess I should mention this is a Toshiba Satellite A75-S213). The *only* tweek I have to do is tell xorg.conf I have a 1280 x 800 LCD instead of a 1280 x 768 LCD (but even without that change, X will still run and is useable).
And for that reason, yes, as a matter of fact I am a paying Mandriva Club member. I'd rather pay for something that works good than get something that works only half-assed (if at all) for free. Yes, I realize I could probably fiddle with other distributions and finally make them work, after varying degrees of effort. I can also build a car engine from scratch. That doesn't mean I want to have to.
When Slashdotters find pro-IE sites that display different for IE users than Firefox users, they raise hell and decry it as evil.
But when Firefox users make sites that render different, its okay.
I thought Slashdot was supposed to be the side that says everyone should stick to fucking standards that render the same under all browsers. But then as long as I've been a Slashdot member and reader, I should be used to the high degree of hypocrites here.
I think I need to go investigate Opera...I'm getting tired of the they-shouldn't-do-it-to-us-but-we-can-do-it-to-the m politics from both sides of the IE/Firefox turd pile.
Its only natural that Linux is too fat for that $100 laptop. Because that $100 laptop is so thin it doesn't even exist yet. When someone shows working hardware, then Linux can be shaved down appropriately.
I get a kick out of these stories. If this were Microsoft talking about a $100 laptop, everyone in Slashdot would be downing them because its vaporware at this point. But since its *not* Microsoft, its Way Cool and everyone acts like its the discovery of the fucking Holy Grail, the Second Coming of Christ, and secret documents about aliens stored at Roswell all rolled in to one.
Is this a late April Fools prank story? It must be. Somebody get CowboyNeal a new calendar.
All the Mac zealots I know keep telling me how, unlike PC hardware, Apple hardware never has design flaws. So there can't possibly be problems for Apple to fix.
I was going to say basically the same thing you say in your first few sentences. Sometimes in business you have to make hard and unpopular decisions, and control of stock upon death is one of them. Anyone who can't make decisions like that shouldn't be in a leadership position in a corporation.
That's true. And then when we do finally hear about it here, we get two or three times in succession. A day without dupes is like a day without sunshine:-)
I'm glad April 1st falls on a weekend this year. That lessens the chance that something important will happen in the tech world today. And so it won't get lost in all these lame-ass, and obvious, April Fools posts. I'm also thankful that it only comes once a year, thus making Slashdot totally fucking useless only one day a year.
While the caption was a joke, Kluttz now wonders whether the past two employers she interviewed with thought it was so funny.
Even though there's not a damned bit of indication that the employers in question even looked at the net for info. So let's make up some shit about why we didn't get the job so we can feel better about it. The picture was posted on a grassy knoll, right?
Lots of people apply for jobs and have the employer be really interested in them, but then don't get the job. It happens. Deal with it. Life sucks and then you die. But don't treat this as "news" unless you're sure this is what happened.
Is this a really slow news day at Slashdot or something?
I swear I'm not trying to be an ass. For what its worth, I run servers too...and mine are enterprise-class machines in a data center, not something sitting on the back of my desk. I just don't think you've thought this through all the way.
Your physical security would stop a police officer with a proper search warrent how? Likewise, let's pretend that officer shows up at your ISP with a warrent for all records concerning you and your net usage. The pen (especially when wielded by a judge) is mightier than the sword and all that. Your running your own server, and even where supposedly deleted email is concerned, makes you no more secure from a court order than Google is. I'm sure Google's facility is pretty damned secure physically...its not making much of a difference, is it?
Again, if you don't encrypt, its like putting a sign on the front of your house that says 'extra key is under doormat'.
You better re-examine your idea of security here. For starters, your ISP that you connect your server to can easily store both sides of a conversation...it has to pass through their server *both ways* for you to communicate. Then it has to pass through their upstream tap, and so on.
Unless you use strong encryption, your email server is no more safe than using gmail, and the only person you're kidding is yourself.
I don't see why everyone acts so surprised here. Expecting Microsoft to make it easy to use Apple products or Apple to make it easy to use Microsoft products would be like Ford announcing it will release a kit to allow Mustang owners to replace their current engine with products from Toyota.
Tesla and Edison were both right...and wrong. Like many Slashdotters do when debating which operating system is best for any given job, Tesla and Edison wanted to apply one power system to every job. Its like having a toolbox with only a screwdriver in it. Ever try to drive a nail with a screwdriver?
For moving power over long distances, AC is king. But for short distances with most modern electronics, DC would win. The first thing a desktop system or server does with AC is converts it to DC. So if you have a number of machines all in the same room, why not do the conversion in one spot, and eliminate the redundancy in every machine.
Would it benefit the average user with one or two machines? Not at all. But for a major center with many machines in the same room, I can see quite a bit of benefit with going with DC.
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...would anyone still give a shit?
SCO could create the Perfect Operating System. It could be blessed by God, Linus Torvalds, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates at a joint press conference. And I still wouldn't use it just because it was SCO that released it. They've shown us that just because they support it today doesn't mean they won't file a lawsuit against anyone using it tomorrow. Any business that trusts SCO is obviously being run by idiots.
Apples to oranges. Google.org is the philanthropic arm of Google the corperation, and uses the resources of Google the corporation. The Gates Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Bill and Melinda Gates, two people who got rich off of computers, not Microsoft the corporation.
Please tell us what you're drinking so we can send you the proper help. Its obviously distroying your brain and making you halucinate.
Microsoft is not dying. Its not even got a runny nose or a fever. And with the exception of "pundits" like John Dvorak, who really are irrelevant, the only people I ever here talking about Microsoft being dead or dying are people who post right here on Slashdot. When Microsoft starts having less than 90 percent of either the OS market or the office suite market, then they might be starting to have problems. Until then, y'all are sniffing glue.
Why are you so sure the problem is your ISP? Do you know for a fact that the speed test is accurate? Are you doing the speed tests during a time of peak internet usage? Are other sites that you are connecting to serving fast enough to fill your pipe at full speed? If you are connecting to a site that can only serve 1 mbps, I don't care how fast your speed is promised to be, you'll never get anything from that site faster than 1 mbps.
And be careful when making claims "no ISP delivers the speed they promise". My ISP is Comcast on a cable modem. They claim they are giving me 6 mbps. And 99 percent of the time when I'm doing big video or Linux iso downloads or such like that and can see a good test of my actual speed, I'm getting the speed they say they're selling me...6 mbps.
While I'm not defending the seller, the buyer **OBVIOUSLY** did not do his homework or use good judgement. Buying a laptop from someone you don't know for several hundred pounds/dollars and all they have for feedback (at the time of the auction) was one positive comment (the negatives did not get posted until *after* the auction in question) is not using good judgement.
:-)
I always check a seller's feedback, and always look at his previous auctions. I've bought items on eBay ranging from $2 computer components to $10,000 cars. What I expect to see in the way of lots of gleaming feedback goes up exponentially as the price tag goes up
35% of packaged software installed on PCs globally is pirated
And over 90% of statistics like these are made up on the spot.
Yeah, what he says. Any time I set up a computer for a relative or a friend, I put AVG on it. Never had any problem other than drilling in to their heads "when it says it wants to update, **LET IT UPDATE**!!". I finally got my mother (dial-up) in the habit of every morning when she first dials up, update AVG...but it took almost a year of constant repitition and bitching to do it :-)
:-)
As I've said a number of times in here, ultimately it does not matter what anti-virus software you use, nor does it matter what OS you use. The most important component in the prevention of virus infections is the device located between the seat of the office chair and the keyboard. You can have the most effective software in the world running on the most secure OS in the world all behind the best firewall in the world, and an idiot can still fuck it up
Nope, no troll at all. Just long-term observation. Although I'm expecting both my parent message and this reply to be marked as such, because that's the way everyone operates around here.
*MANY* has been the time where I've seen Microsoft, Novel, IBM, etc, put down for some move or another. And then Apple does the same thing a few months later and they are praised for doing it. I've also seen numerous instances of the reverse...Apple does something to control their product and get praised massively for it, then when Microsoft does the same thing six months later everyone starts dragging out the "M" word ("Monopoly") and cries for government intervention.
Bill Gates could eradicate world hunger and he would be chastized for it here on Slashdot. Steve Jobs could run over a group of nuns and orphans while on a naked drunken rampage and he would be praised for reducing the world's ever-growing population, supporting the alcohol industry, and becoming a nudist.
Its okay to make it closed source. This is, after all, Apple. They can do no wrong.
Now, if it had been any other company, Slashdotters would be demanding public hangings at dawn...
If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. This falls under that same statement.
If this were a case where someone who had only been *charged* was being asked to submit to a DNA database, I'd feel different. But that's not the case here. Its not a situation of someone who might be innocent being treated like a criminal. He is a convicted criminal.
I also don't buy the religious objections. I'm sure his religion also teaches not to break the law, and that didn't seem to cause him any moral issues.
Just as when he was first convicted, I have absolutely no sympathy now. In fact, I probably have even less than that. If he doesn't like the terms of his probation, put his ass in the clink.
So far everything Congress is talking about is as effective as trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube.
This is a purely religious argument. For every reply here where someone has stated "[distribution] runs great on my laptop, but Mandriva turned it in to a brick", I can say "Mandriva worked perfectly on my laptop right out of the box, but [distribution] turned it in to a brick".
Everyone's Darling Linux Distribution of the Month, otherwise known as Ubuntu, can't even get through the early stages of installation. Gentoo won't either. Suse will install, but it will never boot again. Slackware installs, will boot, and works fine...so long as I'm happy with only a console and never want to have a GUI.
Mandriva, on the other hand, installs flawlessly and properly detects all the hardware (I guess I should mention this is a Toshiba Satellite A75-S213). The *only* tweek I have to do is tell xorg.conf I have a 1280 x 800 LCD instead of a 1280 x 768 LCD (but even without that change, X will still run and is useable).
And for that reason, yes, as a matter of fact I am a paying Mandriva Club member. I'd rather pay for something that works good than get something that works only half-assed (if at all) for free. Yes, I realize I could probably fiddle with other distributions and finally make them work, after varying degrees of effort. I can also build a car engine from scratch. That doesn't mean I want to have to.
Let's see...
e m politics from both sides of the IE/Firefox turd pile.
When Slashdotters find pro-IE sites that display different for IE users than Firefox users, they raise hell and decry it as evil.
But when Firefox users make sites that render different, its okay.
I thought Slashdot was supposed to be the side that says everyone should stick to fucking standards that render the same under all browsers. But then as long as I've been a Slashdot member and reader, I should be used to the high degree of hypocrites here.
I think I need to go investigate Opera...I'm getting tired of the they-shouldn't-do-it-to-us-but-we-can-do-it-to-th
Its only natural that Linux is too fat for that $100 laptop. Because that $100 laptop is so thin it doesn't even exist yet. When someone shows working hardware, then Linux can be shaved down appropriately.
I get a kick out of these stories. If this were Microsoft talking about a $100 laptop, everyone in Slashdot would be downing them because its vaporware at this point. But since its *not* Microsoft, its Way Cool and everyone acts like its the discovery of the fucking Holy Grail, the Second Coming of Christ, and secret documents about aliens stored at Roswell all rolled in to one.
Is this a late April Fools prank story? It must be. Somebody get CowboyNeal a new calendar.
All the Mac zealots I know keep telling me how, unlike PC hardware, Apple hardware never has design flaws. So there can't possibly be problems for Apple to fix.
I was going to say basically the same thing you say in your first few sentences. Sometimes in business you have to make hard and unpopular decisions, and control of stock upon death is one of them. Anyone who can't make decisions like that shouldn't be in a leadership position in a corporation.
That's true. And then when we do finally hear about it here, we get two or three times in succession. A day without dupes is like a day without sunshine :-)
I'm glad April 1st falls on a weekend this year. That lessens the chance that something important will happen in the tech world today. And so it won't get lost in all these lame-ass, and obvious, April Fools posts. I'm also thankful that it only comes once a year, thus making Slashdot totally fucking useless only one day a year.
Pond scum by any other name is still pond scum. And no matter how they change their product line-up, pond scum is still pond scum.
Thanks for posting this, I'll have to go take a look.
While the caption was a joke, Kluttz now wonders whether the past two employers she interviewed with thought it was so funny.
Even though there's not a damned bit of indication that the employers in question even looked at the net for info. So let's make up some shit about why we didn't get the job so we can feel better about it. The picture was posted on a grassy knoll, right?
Lots of people apply for jobs and have the employer be really interested in them, but then don't get the job. It happens. Deal with it. Life sucks and then you die. But don't treat this as "news" unless you're sure this is what happened.
Is this a really slow news day at Slashdot or something?
I swear I'm not trying to be an ass. For what its worth, I run servers too...and mine are enterprise-class machines in a data center, not something sitting on the back of my desk. I just don't think you've thought this through all the way.
Your physical security would stop a police officer with a proper search warrent how? Likewise, let's pretend that officer shows up at your ISP with a warrent for all records concerning you and your net usage. The pen (especially when wielded by a judge) is mightier than the sword and all that. Your running your own server, and even where supposedly deleted email is concerned, makes you no more secure from a court order than Google is. I'm sure Google's facility is pretty damned secure physically...its not making much of a difference, is it?
Again, if you don't encrypt, its like putting a sign on the front of your house that says 'extra key is under doormat'.
You better re-examine your idea of security here. For starters, your ISP that you connect your server to can easily store both sides of a conversation...it has to pass through their server *both ways* for you to communicate. Then it has to pass through their upstream tap, and so on.
Unless you use strong encryption, your email server is no more safe than using gmail, and the only person you're kidding is yourself.
I don't see why everyone acts so surprised here. Expecting Microsoft to make it easy to use Apple products or Apple to make it easy to use Microsoft products would be like Ford announcing it will release a kit to allow Mustang owners to replace their current engine with products from Toyota.
Tesla and Edison were both right...and wrong. Like many Slashdotters do when debating which operating system is best for any given job, Tesla and Edison wanted to apply one power system to every job. Its like having a toolbox with only a screwdriver in it. Ever try to drive a nail with a screwdriver?
For moving power over long distances, AC is king. But for short distances with most modern electronics, DC would win. The first thing a desktop system or server does with AC is converts it to DC. So if you have a number of machines all in the same room, why not do the conversion in one spot, and eliminate the redundancy in every machine.
Would it benefit the average user with one or two machines? Not at all. But for a major center with many machines in the same room, I can see quite a bit of benefit with going with DC.