.how many of those in the thriving community are willing to travel to some third world country to teach people how to use linux? I don't see the volunteers...
I've got news for you... they already know how to install and use Linux. They don't need teaching. They've got plenty of local talent available.
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oh no... not the Lindows runs as root crap again... please, that is just so untrue... if anything does run as root out of the box these days it's XP Home Edition as an OEM install... and the vast majority of users don't even realise it either or that they should set a password for their admin account either...
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Kernel compiling??? yet another myth... I've been running Linux now on the desktop since 1999 and have yet to compile a kernel... there is no requirement at all for the vast majority of users to do this at all... The modular kernel supplied with your distro should fill all your needs... if not then you are one of a very small minority.
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oh fer heck's sake can we ditch this "run as root" crap...
No modern distro (Suse 9, Mandrake 10 etc.) lets you run as root now. They specifically exclude root from the login screen and even if you do manage to achieve root login, your menu and desktop options are severely restricted to maintenance tasks only.
you really have to be extremely determined to browse the net and do your email as root these days...
Microsoft had nothing to fear from Sun or their litigation.
wanna bet??? Sun had saved stuff from the shredder and had the real dirt on them... what's the bet's this settlement also involves Sun quitely destroying the real evidence that Microsoft would definitely not want seen dragged into open court...
I just wonder if IBM will be putting in a court order to rescue them from Sun's shredder...
and milk the syndication for ever... with all those episodes already in the can then there's no need to keep making them... The Beeb did it to the tellytubbies...
I'll have to point my father to that one... he's always believed that the spaghetti harvest was true. He never got to see the entire program because he had to rush my mother to hospital so that I could be "delivered"...
"Ever work for a company staffed entirely with "nothing gets in our way; we can break down any brick wall"-type people? Such people do not accept limitations on what they can do with "their" computer. And regardless of what policy document the boss agrees to sign and distribute, he actually rewards the people who violate the policy to "get the job done"."
then it's time to sic a BSA audit onto them then...
What counts is how fast it feels to the user... not bragging rights for processor speed... such a pity that it's competitors are going to push their clock speed to the fore on spec sheets and the proles aren't really going to notice the real speed.
Disallow connections to TCP port 81 through your network firewall. Blocking outbound port 81 connections stops computers on your network from downloading the worm from outside. Blocking inbound port 81 connections means that even if you do get infected you will not pass the virus on to others.
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later. Apache/1.3.27 Server at midnight.scalebeyond.com Port 80
"The latest Bagle incarnation has done away with the attachment altogether and spreads when a vulnerable user opens the e-mail using an unpatched version of Microsoft Outlook. If their Outlook preview pane is open, the victim's machine will be compromised automatically. Because of this change in tactics, experts fear the worm could spread very quickly.
Sophos's senior technology consultant, Graham Cluley, said: "This is a really sneaky, cunning trick. It's exploiting a five- or six-month-old Outlook security vulnerability so that just previewing an e-mail--not the attachment--in an unpatched copy of Outlook will result in the virus being dragged from an infected machine to your machine. This has the potential to spread very quickly because so many people, particularly home users, have not applied the patches.""
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I've got news for you... they already know how to install and use Linux. They don't need teaching. They've got plenty of local talent available.
oh no... not the Lindows runs as root crap again... please, that is just so untrue... if anything does run as root out of the box these days it's XP Home Edition as an OEM install... and the vast majority of users don't even realise it either or that they should set a password for their admin account either...
Kernel compiling??? yet another myth... I've been running Linux now on the desktop since 1999 and have yet to compile a kernel... there is no requirement at all for the vast majority of users to do this at all... The modular kernel supplied with your distro should fill all your needs... if not then you are one of a very small minority.
oh fer heck's sake can we ditch this "run as root" crap...
No modern distro (Suse 9, Mandrake 10 etc.) lets you run as root now. They specifically exclude root from the login screen and even if you do manage to achieve root login, your menu and desktop options are severely restricted to maintenance tasks only.
you really have to be extremely determined to browse the net and do your email as root these days...
yes, but a wiki requires that you click on the blue link... these shove a mouseover box in your face when you hover the mouse pointer over it...
not only that, but it smacks too much like what Microsoft wanted to do with their browser putting "Smart Tags" on top of ordinary webcontent. That got shot down very fast as a breach of the writers copyright as they were messing with original works in an unauthorised manner...
wanna bet??? Sun had saved stuff from the shredder and had the real dirt on them... what's the bet's this settlement also involves Sun quitely destroying the real evidence that Microsoft would definitely not want seen dragged into open court...
I just wonder if IBM will be putting in a court order to rescue them from Sun's shredder...
and milk the syndication for ever... with all those episodes already in the can then there's no need to keep making them... The Beeb did it to the tellytubbies...
yeah... just think of all those dollars/pounds worth of software that get given away free on magazine cover disks...
that Di-Hydrogen Oxide sure is deadly stuff...
I'll have to point my father to that one... he's always believed that the spaghetti harvest was true. He never got to see the entire program because he had to rush my mother to hospital so that I could be "delivered"...
I can't use the pdf reader for palm with my linux box... the acrobat for palm package only synchs via ms windows or mac...
then it's time to sic a BSA audit onto them then...
we don't want software vouchers though... we want real money if anything.
try carrying that in your pocket though...
What counts is how fast it feels to the user... not bragging rights for processor speed... such a pity that it's competitors are going to push their clock speed to the fore on spec sheets and the proles aren't really going to notice the real speed.
Your Lindows FUD is old... please get some new FUD.
Google gets sued for libel based upon it's search results summarising...
I wonder how much more FUD is going to be used against google???
oh boy... are you clueless or what... the latest worms are pull based with no attachments and just a carefully crafted link to the payload on the compromised machine that sent out the email...
take a littel look here... :)
That's what people like these are for... you get them to assume the risk in return for annual premiums...
finding half a maggot...
If it really doesn't work with Linux, then sell the thing on e-bay to some other sucker... you got it for nothing... get some value from it at least.
not quite. If you select LSB (Linux Standard Base) compatibility at package group selection then you can only have the 2.4 kernel.