"For those of you who have used all of them, I'm sorry." Has it ever dawned to you that some people actually like using Windows??? Not everyone is a Microsoft bashing Linux freak like you Michael.
Ummm... dude.. You haven't used any Windows before Windows 2000 have you?
Windows 3.xx is what turned me into a Microsoft-bashing UNIX/Linux freak.
Your going to to mention "Blue Screen" one day and no one will know what you are talking about. I have not seen one for over a year now
I've seen plenty of blue screens under Win2k, and under WinXP the few times I've used it. Granted these were generally caused by hardware or driver issues, but the blue screen lives on. I don't think we can blame Microsoft for them anymore.
Isn't that a bit like saying. It isn't your car - the money used to buy it was given to you by your employer.
Well, no.. its more like you split the cost of your car and its maintainence with 200 million other people. And also you elected a driver and split the cost of this as well. You're not allowed to drive the car, but you can be one of the mechanics but you have to give up some of your rights as a passenger. You also have some input as to where the driver takes you, but this is split between all the people as well. This might have to be a larger vehicle, because 200 million people don't fit that easilly into a car; in which case everyone has to spend a little bit more.
The way that I see it, ISP's are heading the way of cable companies. In the future you will have one state covered by, say, AOL and a local teleco ISP; another state covered by MSN and a local teleco.
Hmmm.. Well, then how does wireless fit into the picture? Considering that the standard method of Internet access will eventually be wireless. Are we going to have one wireless provider for each region? I would hope not.
I was about to complain about there being no Opera 7 for Linux yet, but I checked and they have a preview available. Will have to try it, if the final release ends up being as good as Opera 7 for Windows (which was the best browser I've ever used), I will definitely buy it. For now I'm using Phoenix.
Users can use whatever they want Except if they use Redhat, of course.
Though its not my personally choice, I have used Redhat 8.0 (and 6.x, 7.x) a bit, and it makes it very easy to install and use KDE. I don't see where this is coming from. Under RH8.0, the defaults make Gnome and KDE look almost exactly the same, with the same items on the menu, the same theme (Bluecurve), etc. I don't see how anyone using Redhat is forced to use Gnome, unless I missed something.
But I already have the network adapter, a HD, keyboard, and mouse. So if I want to run linux, I'm effectively paying $200 for GNU software. I don't quite understand how that works within the GPL. Please explain it to me.
The GPL only claims that the software is free. You can make copies of this software and distribute them (the GPL parts anyway). You can run the software on whatever it'll work on, be it a PS2 or a PS2 emulator if one existed. Now as I understand Sony's Linux distro has some proprietary components such as the runtime environment and system manuals. This is where Sony gets you. They also have a EULA that places some restrictions on the distribution of software you develop. Seems like with BlackRhino you shouldn't be restricted, as the EULA should not apply to the hardware.
Anyhow I can't bring myself to spend $200 for a bunch of hardware I don't need, so I won't be running linux on my PS2 anytime soon.
Yeah, everyone I talked to who has Sony's Linux kit said that it was a waste of money. I've toyed around with Dreamcast Linux, though. That is kinda nice and didn't cost as much for the necessary hardware and the software is free as in beer and speech.
Just make sure you don't leave your weed next to the monitor. It may mysteriously disappear. If the monitor starts acting funny, you may not want to believe the excuse that its just degaussing itself. If you notice that there is a lot of red in the picture, or a glazed over look in your screen, your monitor could very well be a pot smoker.
In that case, hey, let the monitor smoke, you may notice improvements when playing games.
I've always used GAIM for UNIX/Linux instant messaging. It was kinda buggy in the beginning, but it is really nice these days. GAIM for Windows will be good once they get some of the bugs out of it. Besides GAIM, I haven't tried much else except the standard clients, I'll have to give Kopete a try, it looks pretty smooth.
Well, sure for "phone monkeys" this may not be a good idea. But in a development environment it can be useful for someone to be on the phone and sending IM's at the same time. For example, someone will be on the phone with a client, discussing a bug that they are experiencing, and at the same time sending me an IM telling me about the bug so that I can start investigating it immediately. We use IM extensively here, and its often that someone will be teleconferencing and sending out IM's at the same time. A lot of our communication is done through IM. Its faster than e-mail, is more conducive to discussing software development than voice, and it gets logged.
AIM copied ICQ, which was the first 'real' and popular IM.
Well, true. But ICQ, though not as technical as IRC, was a little too complicated feature-wise and by design. AIM basically took the same concept and simplified it, taking some of the unnecessary components out and adding something here and there. For example, they removed the ability to send a message to someone who is offline (reducing the burden on their servers). They produced a very simple interface without a ton of options. They made your userid the same as your screenname, rather than making you keep track of a number (I've long forgetten and lost my old ICQ number). They kept your list of friends on their servers, so you didn't have to worry about losing your list.
ICQ tended to be overburdened with its featured, and thus had a lot of bugs, and it was rather unstable under Win95/98. I liked ICQ more at first, but when a lot of my friends using AIM caused me to use it, too, I found its simplicity (after disabling the ads) made it a lot nicer than ICQ. Now I use GAIM, which over the years has evolved into a very nice IM client.
I remember back in the pre-ICQ days, writing scripts to finger all my friends accounts to see if they are online, so that I could send a talk request to them if they were online. I thought about writing software that would maintain a list of online friends. Then ICQ was released which answered my requirements.
If so, this can be extrememly expensive for Microsoft if they are then forced to change the name of Windows as they've spent untold bucks on establishing the Windows name.
They could always change the name to Windoze and trademark that.
when it becomes affordable a 240gb hard drive will be standard. tape rules. i'm not using 10 dvd-blue's to backup a single drive.
Well, it may not be good for a direct backup of your drive, but for archival purposes. The thing that is nice about 23 GB is that I would be able to fit my entire porn collection on one disc, my mp3 collection will barely fit on one disc, my downloads directory will fit on one disc, etc. So I'll effectively be able to archive everything in an organized way. My system partitions are generally pretty small (though they contain all my important data), and I could back them up on one or two discs, so it would actually work as a good backup solution if everything else is already archived. At least in my case.
Now the thing is, when these drives become affordable, my porn collection may be 100 GB, and I don't want to have to spread my porn collection out of over 5 discs. Its kinda difficult to swap discs in the middle of... uh, nevermind:)
It's a Flash animation that demonstrates how to exploit the sendmail vulnerability. They went through all this trouble to make a flash animation just because they found a vulnerability? They must not find vulnerabilities very often and this is a big deal. Or maybe they just have an overstaffed graphics/web design department with too much time on their hands.
I think you can generally expect bugs with a.0 release. Personally, I'm going to wait until Debian unstable adds it; that is generally a good indicator as to when something is usable.
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Also, note that an 17" LCD is actually 17" viewable, whereas a 17" CRT is generally about 16" viewable.
"For those of you who have used all of them, I'm sorry." Has it ever dawned to you that some people actually like using Windows??? Not everyone is a Microsoft bashing Linux freak like you Michael.
Ummm... dude.. You haven't used any Windows before Windows 2000 have you?
Windows 3.xx is what turned me into a Microsoft-bashing UNIX/Linux freak.
Your going to to mention "Blue Screen" one day and no one will know what you are talking about. I have not seen one for over a year now
I've seen plenty of blue screens under Win2k, and under WinXP the few times I've used it. Granted these were generally caused by hardware or driver issues, but the blue screen lives on. I don't think we can blame Microsoft for them anymore.
Isn't that a bit like saying. It isn't your car - the money used to buy it was given to you by your employer.
Well, no.. its more like you split the cost of your car and its maintainence with 200 million other people. And also you elected a driver and split the cost of this as well. You're not allowed to drive the car, but you can be one of the mechanics but you have to give up some of your rights as a passenger. You also have some input as to where the driver takes you, but this is split between all the people as well. This might have to be a larger vehicle, because 200 million people don't fit that easilly into a car; in which case everyone has to spend a little bit more.
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The way that I see it, ISP's are heading the way of cable companies. In the future you will have one state covered by, say, AOL and a local teleco ISP; another state covered by MSN and a local teleco.
Hmmm.. Well, then how does wireless fit into the picture? Considering that the standard method of Internet access will eventually be wireless. Are we going to have one wireless provider for each region? I would hope not.
Sorry, that wasn't the latest Opera 7.0.0 for Linux preview, but this is.
I was about to complain about there being no Opera 7 for Linux yet, but I checked and they have a preview available. Will have to try it, if the final release ends up being as good as Opera 7 for Windows (which was the best browser I've ever used), I will definitely buy it. For now I'm using Phoenix.
Users can use whatever they want
Except if they use Redhat, of course.
Though its not my personally choice, I have used Redhat 8.0 (and 6.x, 7.x) a bit, and it makes it very easy to install and use KDE. I don't see where this is coming from. Under RH8.0, the defaults make Gnome and KDE look almost exactly the same, with the same items on the menu, the same theme (Bluecurve), etc. I don't see how anyone using Redhat is forced to use Gnome, unless I missed something.
- The manure is not burned, rather it is "cooked" at 100 degrees
I'm pretty sure McDonald's has prior art for this.
It's funny because its true.
But I already have the network adapter, a HD, keyboard, and mouse. So if I want to run linux, I'm effectively paying $200 for GNU software. I don't quite understand how that works within the GPL. Please explain it to me.
The GPL only claims that the software is free. You can make copies of this software and distribute them (the GPL parts anyway). You can run the software on whatever it'll work on, be it a PS2 or a PS2 emulator if one existed. Now as I understand Sony's Linux distro has some proprietary components such as the runtime environment and system manuals. This is where Sony gets you. They also have a EULA that places some restrictions on the distribution of software you develop. Seems like with BlackRhino you shouldn't be restricted, as the EULA should not apply to the hardware.
Anyhow I can't bring myself to spend $200 for a bunch of hardware I don't need, so I won't be running linux on my PS2 anytime soon.
Yeah, everyone I talked to who has Sony's Linux kit said that it was a waste of money. I've toyed around with Dreamcast Linux, though. That is kinda nice and didn't cost as much for the necessary hardware and the software is free as in beer and speech.
Just make sure you don't leave your weed next to the monitor. It may mysteriously disappear. If the monitor starts acting funny, you may not want to believe the excuse that its just degaussing itself. If you notice that there is a lot of red in the picture, or a glazed over look in your screen, your monitor could very well be a pot smoker.
In that case, hey, let the monitor smoke, you may notice improvements when playing games.
Yeah, like adding advertisements.
True, but they've alway made it very easy to remove:
grep -vU advert aim.odl > noadvert.odl
copy noadvert.odl aim.odl
I've always used GAIM for UNIX/Linux instant messaging. It was kinda buggy in the beginning, but it is really nice these days. GAIM for Windows will be good once they get some of the bugs out of it. Besides GAIM, I haven't tried much else except the standard clients, I'll have to give Kopete a try, it looks pretty smooth.
Well, sure for "phone monkeys" this may not be a good idea. But in a development environment it can be useful for someone to be on the phone and sending IM's at the same time. For example, someone will be on the phone with a client, discussing a bug that they are experiencing, and at the same time sending me an IM telling me about the bug so that I can start investigating it immediately. We use IM extensively here, and its often that someone will be teleconferencing and sending out IM's at the same time. A lot of our communication is done through IM. Its faster than e-mail, is more conducive to discussing software development than voice, and it gets logged.
AIM copied ICQ, which was the first 'real' and popular IM.
Well, true. But ICQ, though not as technical as IRC, was a little too complicated feature-wise and by design. AIM basically took the same concept and simplified it, taking some of the unnecessary components out and adding something here and there. For example, they removed the ability to send a message to someone who is offline (reducing the burden on their servers). They produced a very simple interface without a ton of options. They made your userid the same as your screenname, rather than making you keep track of a number (I've long forgetten and lost my old ICQ number). They kept your list of friends on their servers, so you didn't have to worry about losing your list.
ICQ tended to be overburdened with its featured, and thus had a lot of bugs, and it was rather unstable under Win95/98. I liked ICQ more at first, but when a lot of my friends using AIM caused me to use it, too, I found its simplicity (after disabling the ads) made it a lot nicer than ICQ. Now I use GAIM, which over the years has evolved into a very nice IM client.
I remember back in the pre-ICQ days, writing scripts to finger all my friends accounts to see if they are online, so that I could send a talk request to them if they were online. I thought about writing software that would maintain a list of online friends. Then ICQ was released which answered my requirements.
If so, this can be extrememly expensive for Microsoft if they are then forced to change the name of Windows as they've spent untold bucks on establishing the Windows name.
They could always change the name to Windoze and trademark that.
when it becomes affordable a 240gb hard drive will be standard. tape rules. i'm not using 10 dvd-blue's to backup a single drive.
:)
Well, it may not be good for a direct backup of your drive, but for archival purposes. The thing that is nice about 23 GB is that I would be able to fit my entire porn collection on one disc, my mp3 collection will barely fit on one disc, my downloads directory will fit on one disc, etc. So I'll effectively be able to archive everything in an organized way. My system partitions are generally pretty small (though they contain all my important data), and I could back them up on one or two discs, so it would actually work as a good backup solution if everything else is already archived. At least in my case.
Now the thing is, when these drives become affordable, my porn collection may be 100 GB, and I don't want to have to spread my porn collection out of over 5 discs. Its kinda difficult to swap discs in the middle of... uh, nevermind
The proof of concept is right here.
It's a Flash animation that demonstrates how to exploit the sendmail vulnerability. They went through all this trouble to make a flash animation just because they found a vulnerability? They must not find vulnerabilities very often and this is a big deal. Or maybe they just have an overstaffed graphics/web design department with too much time on their hands.
Yes, makes for a good slogan Linux kills better than Windows, doesn't it ?
Kill them all and let root sort them out.
I've applied for many fake jobs. I can tell they are fake because I never get a response back.
One word:
warez
I think you can generally expect bugs with a .0 release. Personally, I'm going to wait until Debian unstable adds it; that is generally a good indicator as to when something is usable.