just try and install a keylogger program remotely via email on a Linux system... IT CANNOT BE DONE... and as soon as more people who make the decisions start to realise that MS-windows is hopelessly borked as a secure platform there'll be more companies switching.
I look forward to the day when only having ms-office and windows experience on your resume gets it tossed in the bin... the cluefull ones will now be looking for Linux and OpenOffice.org experience.
If I'm not mistaken, hot Graphite burns when exposed in air (and this stuff is at 900 deg Celcius plus and under pressure, 8.4 Mega Pascals)...... and we've already had one too many of those "burning Graphite" disasters already... Windscale back in 1957, and they changed the name to get around the public memory of the original disaster.
Sorry, but I have no faith in any process which combines a combustible material run at high temperatures and relying on keeping air out...
"But if your job includes analysing your company's business and using information technology to solve business problems that affect the bottom line, then your job is very hard, very valuable, not exportable, and very secure. "
your job is just as exportable... they do do MBA's in India and other countries as well and they all speak/read/write English and can use IT... your skillset is NOT unique
"The current Linux desktop does NOT pass the Granny test."
It passes my test and I'm a granddad... and my parents (67) also use Linux.
Perhaps you should be asking yourself whether your mother passes the "Linux" test instead... or even if she should be left alone with any computer at all...
Stick a small maneouvering unit (low thrust with it's own guidance package) on it and put it into a safe parking orbit (it doesn't have to be geosynchronous... just well up and out of the way of all the junk and atmospheric drag).
That way we keep it safe for our grandkids to visit when we finally get space tourism off the ground...
I have a fondness for Penguins... unwrapped of course... and I did spend some time down in the Falklands standing penguins back up after they'd fallen over... you see they follow anything and fall over when trying to follow a helicopter that's flying overhead... and the pilots would be having bets with each other as to how many penguins they could get to fall over...
This of course is just an urban myth and there is absolutely no truth in it at all... in fact, my work down in the Falklands is classified and the "penguin stacking" thingy is just my cover story... we were really training up those flocks of killer attack penguins to defend the islands against further aggression from Argentine forces...
Yes... I'll gladly admit being a "nerd"... I've been a "Nerd" all my life... Yup... I watched eyes agog as Armstrong walked on the moon... I was given special permission to stay up late (3 in the morning for us Limeys) and the nerdy thing is that I knew right then that the major accomplishment that had actually happened then was not the fact that there was a man walking on the moon. No, it was the fact that anybody, anywher on the Earth who had access to a television set, could watch live as it happened... that was the single greatest accomplishement right then. We had become a Global Village right then at that moment.
am I glad I got there before this article appeared on slashdot... that's an awesome image and is now my desktop wallpaper... I'll be printing it out onto high quality paper later to hang on the wall... Next stop Saturn... set your calendars for July 2004... With images like this one from Jupiter, Saturn is going to be absolutely awesome... I'd love to see them fly it between the rings and Saturn itself to get the shot to end all shots...
"But Gentoo I simply couldn't be bothered with - I got it installed, rebooted, saw a ton of module loading errors and booted back to Windows to download something else."
well, deity know what you managed to do wrong, but I had no problems at all following the instructions, and I'm quite a newb when it comes to playing with the command line... Try it again but use the 1.4 reference disk set to start from... it's almost idiot proof... but there seem to be "better" idiots, with whole new ways of screwing things up, coming out all the time...
I've now got mandrake 9.2 going on one of my other boxes doing great guns as a Samba server and I'm happy with it, but after two years with SuSE, it's a bit strange finding familiar tools missing or subtly different...
Any road... I consider it an advantage to have a rich mix of Linux types on my home LAN as it means I'm better able to sort things out for others... just having one distro limits you a bit...
Everything worked fine except the two modded hard drives. They had died completely and would only be recognized randomly by BIOS and the arms just moving back and forward trying to find the start track... I got the system up and running fine using an old 10GB HDD. I have a theory why the drives worked at first right after the mod but not later on. After some surfing around I learned that no modern drive with 40GB platters had been windowed successfully. The high density with the combination of a removed screw from the centre of the platters was probably enough to get them un centered enough to make the head loose it's track after a very short usage...
I guess I will have the worlds most expensive HDD activity lights now as the drives will still be installed in the bug and used as eyes.
Basically, he discovered the hard way what any of us in here would have told him had he asked slashdot...
"No. Microsoft is a convicted monopolist. A US court actually found them guilty,"
Careful now... the apologists will be all over you for that statement because it was only a civil case and "Guilty" applies only to criminal cases... In fact, if you carefully look in the actual judgement, the word "Guilty" never appears... and that's what lets Microsoft continue to behave the way they do, cos in their eyes, strictly legally speaking, they were never guilty...
The Court having jurisdiction of the parties hereto and of the subject matter hereof and having conducted a trial thereon and entered Findings of Fact on November 5, 1999, and Conclusions of Law on April 3, 2000;
The Court having entered judgment in accordance with the Findings of Fact and the Conclusions of Law on April 3, 2000, that Microsoft has violated 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. 1, 2, as well as the following state law provisions:
So watch out for all those Microsoft Apologists cos they'd have been riding all over you if I hadn't stepped in with a correction...:)
Correct... I claimed Jupiter back in 1993 and my suit for damages and loss of amenity against the "owners" of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet is coming along quite nicely now...;)
"Non-enterprise RedHat fit the bill perfectly for small sites, but SuSE might be too expensive given the lack of a download-only release."
SuSE too expensive???????? just buy ONE box... you can install it on as many machines as you've got... sheesh it only looks expensive if you're looking at one machine... Don't forget you get the books and the 90 days support as part of the package as well for the money...
Sheesh, some people just seem to expect Linux to be completely free as in beer...
Slashdot Mirror
Is that a dongle in your pocket or are you pleased to see me???
They've "retired" them
Mandrake, cos of the encrypted swap partition... the others can encrypt the normal partitions, but leave stuff on the swap wide open...
Always on except during slashdottings...
just try and install a keylogger program remotely via email on a Linux system... IT CANNOT BE DONE... and as soon as more people who make the decisions start to realise that MS-windows is hopelessly borked as a secure platform there'll be more companies switching.
I look forward to the day when only having ms-office and windows experience on your resume gets it tossed in the bin... the cluefull ones will now be looking for Linux and OpenOffice.org experience.
If I'm not mistaken, hot Graphite burns when exposed in air (and this stuff is at 900 deg Celcius plus and under pressure, 8.4 Mega Pascals)...... and we've already had one too many of those "burning Graphite" disasters already... Windscale back in 1957, and they changed the name to get around the public memory of the original disaster.
Sorry, but I have no faith in any process which combines a combustible material run at high temperatures and relying on keeping air out...
your job is just as exportable... they do do MBA's in India and other countries as well and they all speak/read/write English and can use IT... your skillset is NOT unique
so we're all waiting for "innovation" number 3...
3. A secure Operating System "like Linux"...
It passes my test and I'm a granddad... and my parents (67) also use Linux.
Perhaps you should be asking yourself whether your mother passes the "Linux" test instead... or even if she should be left alone with any computer at all...
That way we keep it safe for our grandkids to visit when we finally get space tourism off the ground...
This of course is just an urban myth and there is absolutely no truth in it at all... in fact, my work down in the Falklands is classified and the "penguin stacking" thingy is just my cover story... we were really training up those flocks of killer attack penguins to defend the islands against further aggression from Argentine forces...
There is a simply s0dding enormous gap between Saturn's upper atmosphere and the lowest edge of the rings... some 6730 Km.
Yes... I'll gladly admit being a "nerd"... I've been a "Nerd" all my life... Yup... I watched eyes agog as Armstrong walked on the moon... I was given special permission to stay up late (3 in the morning for us Limeys) and the nerdy thing is that I knew right then that the major accomplishment that had actually happened then was not the fact that there was a man walking on the moon. No, it was the fact that anybody, anywher on the Earth who had access to a television set, could watch live as it happened... that was the single greatest accomplishement right then. We had become a Global Village right then at that moment.
am I glad I got there before this article appeared on slashdot... that's an awesome image and is now my desktop wallpaper... I'll be printing it out onto high quality paper later to hang on the wall... Next stop Saturn... set your calendars for July 2004... With images like this one from Jupiter, Saturn is going to be absolutely awesome... I'd love to see them fly it between the rings and Saturn itself to get the shot to end all shots...
Basically, have I got to ditch it and re-install to maintain compatibility with the new version???
well, deity know what you managed to do wrong, but I had no problems at all following the instructions, and I'm quite a newb when it comes to playing with the command line... Try it again but use the 1.4 reference disk set to start from... it's almost idiot proof... but there seem to be "better" idiots, with whole new ways of screwing things up, coming out all the time...
I've now got mandrake 9.2 going on one of my other boxes doing great guns as a Samba server and I'm happy with it, but after two years with SuSE, it's a bit strange finding familiar tools missing or subtly different...
Any road... I consider it an advantage to have a rich mix of Linux types on my home LAN as it means I'm better able to sort things out for others... just having one distro limits you a bit...
Basically, he discovered the hard way what any of us in here would have told him had he asked slashdot...
It's not a whole pack of 800lb Gorillas... it's worse... a flock of attack penguins backed with some loose Gnus...
what??? even if you've explicitly set it not to phone home??? wow, that's scary...
Bill Gates... doing Golf!!! he's too geeky to do golf...
Careful now... the apologists will be all over you for that statement because it was only a civil case and "Guilty" applies only to criminal cases... In fact, if you carefully look in the actual judgement, the word "Guilty" never appears... and that's what lets Microsoft continue to behave the way they do, cos in their eyes, strictly legally speaking, they were never guilty...
So watch out for all those Microsoft Apologists cos they'd have been riding all over you if I hadn't stepped in with a correction... :)
who in their right mind puts ice in their beer???
Actual "scenes of the crime" photos
SuSE too expensive???????? just buy ONE box... you can install it on as many machines as you've got... sheesh it only looks expensive if you're looking at one machine... Don't forget you get the books and the 90 days support as part of the package as well for the money...
Sheesh, some people just seem to expect Linux to be completely free as in beer...