you need beating with a cluestick...:)
have a play around with Knoppix first to test the ice before you take the plunge.:)
and above all ditch that "Designed for XP" computer and build yourself a proper one from scratch... that way you can make sure that everything is fully Linux compatible first:)
Amazing how they all come out with tales of woe with this or that picky hardware... or bemoan that it's just too subtly different... when the task is the same and just about everything can be done with similar methods they moan about this little bit being in a different menu label or that terminology being different... (Folders vs Directories)
wondered why I got the hostile greeting when i attempted to access your front page... Sounds like you need some burstable hosting for the big files... this slashdot effect was discussed just a couple of days ago when we were looking at ways to slashdot proof a site...
no, not redundant at all... optimisation will make it work fast on only the machine you built it for... try booting an "optimised" CD on the machines in a mixed environment... one where you have no real idea of what is in the box until you fire it up... like at a friends or clients place.
Those binary packaged tools also have the source available on the web and you can check each package out yourself there. the list of packages is available on the download site...
The guy who put the distro together has merely taken the trouble to save you a lot of time by assembling all the packages himself. I'm sure he will be just as keen to keep it up to date as well keeping track of major holes and also making sure you have the documentation available so you can keep it up to date yourself as well like you can with Knoppix.
I take it from your tirade that you've never enjoyed the advantage of Knoppix in being able to boot up the disk on someone elses computer without having to actually mess with the hard disk at all??? Just try turning up at a clients site with a CD stuffed with source code and expecting to be able to install it all on the hard disk before you can conduct your tests... and having to wait whilst it all compiles...
The prepackaged binary CD is far more convenient... and you can leave a copy behind for him to use himself... I've left behind some twenty knoppix CDs now for friends and relatives to play around with so they can experience Linux without having to mess with their hard disk. I've since gone back and installed it properly for seven of those people as duel boot setups.
"Obviously, we don't have the $350 million Intel has" to spend on marketing, he said.
$350 million buys a lot of presence in magazines etc... Similar problem for linux in trying to get past the reams of Microsoft bought advertorials etc. in the magazines as well...
Transmeta's Efficeon will have to compete on it's technical merits, and when people who matter realise that it offers a much better power consumption, lower temperatures and much longer battery life they'll start to take it up. 3 hours or so with Intel Celeron 1500 is just not on when I was used to some 24 hours or so battery life on my old 8086. Hopefully, the Efficeon will enable them to make notebooks that can cope with a complete working day or more away from the mains outlet... RAM's cheap enough these days to enable them to give it a seriously large cache so as to minimise HD usage, and sticking the OS in a bootable flash disk will improve matters as well. Now we just need a very low power display technology such as high res colour "electronic ink" based thin displays
yes... if it's necessary for work then they can get it downloaded via a "Gateway" machine that is set up to do this and is strictly controlled and airgapped...
Can you afford all the time wasted trying to firefight virus and trojan infections??? Can your business stay running if you take a major hit and your servers go down big time???
Lock those machines down so tight that nothing can be downloaded or executed online... have a very strict white list of permitted sites... and let me tell you now... Developers in general and "graphic artists" on Macs are the worst. They think they know what's what and they are really dangerous because of it. Keep them at arms length from the real corporate network on their own separate nets with good firewalls between if necessary... treat their networks as "red zones", don't trust them at all... They'll always be trying to sneak on dialup modems just to do this cos it's so much hassle going through "the man"...
and there's none so blind as refuse to see in the first place, even when it's so obvious you can fall over it easily...
everyones' been pussyfooting around the real issue here... Not kiddieporn but OS default security settings. XP Home sucks, to put it politely. And Microsoft don't go out of their way to educate the users on the dangers at all. Just a bland little para lurking in that booklet that gets tossed out with the rest of the packaging in the rush to get the box out, up and online...
(because setting different users and privileges would be too cumbersome for them)
wow... such faith in the capabilities of your fellow users... If however, they'd been accustomed to using a decent OS in the first place then this would be second nature for them and we wouldn't have this problem now would we???
you are still guilty, because it is your damned responsibility to have working brakes. Why on Earth with the computers it should be any different?
and if the car is defective in the first place by having poorly designed brakes??? For Microsoft to shift the blame on to the user is just not on. They are responsible for the parlous state of their software, not the user... a car manufacturer who knowingly supplied a defective product would get hammered in the courts... So should Microsoft, for failing to supply a secure default email and internet client...
No Adds??? no, it's stuffed to the brim with promos for their own stuff though... (Gardening magazine, History magazine, Nature magazine, Radio times, TellyTubby toys, Fimbles stuff, trailers for upcoming programmes and series)
Quality programming??? it's gone really downmarket in the last few years..
Small fee??? That fee is your license for receiving _all_ television programs, even cable and satellite... not just the BBC. Although that license money goes to the BBC, really a goodly share of it should go to the other service providers as well.
Did you read the review? They couldn't edit Palm notepade entries in the KDE PIM tool, nor was Mozilla and the rest of the system on speaking terms about cut/copy/paste most of the time.
These are serious kinks.
Picky... f*cking picky... serious kinks my @rse..
anyone with any sense uses jpilot with palms, not the KDE stuff, and if you will mix GUI libraries then you will have problems cutting and pasting with the mouse. Ctrl C, Ctrl X and Ctrl V work consistently though now don't they... I notice that MS-Windows doesn't let you use the mouse as easily to cut and paste like you can in Linux now can you... you have to mess with the right click sub menu, nowhere near as convenient as highlighting the text and middle clicking at the target point now is it...
I was under the misassumption that winzip was the windows version of PKzip... I guess a lot of other people were under that misassumption as well...
Perhaps he should have got his @rse in gear, made a gui wrapper and trademarked winzip as soon as windows appeared on the scene... rather than resting on his laurels.
this topic has just been posted to comp.os.linux.advocacy... let's see the winvocates wriggle out of this one...:)
I'm not going to troll it over in alt.os.windows-xp though... would disturb them too much and disrupt their wibblings about where to look for pron and illegal downloads...
You're doing it wrong... you should be charging them an hourly rate... that soon brings them to their senses... either that or you should be calling in your favours every now and again...
Just take a video camera in and then sell copies of the lecture to those who've skipped/missed it...
Who needs to take notes when you can zoom in on the whiteboard to capture the formulae/diagrams...
Then again... Why don't they just webcast the lecture campus wide and instead of attending, you just log it to it??? that way you can stay in your skivvies and don't have to bother getting up and dressed for those 11 O'clockers...
got a nice little icon in my panel that changes colour if there are any updates from SuSE. It goes amber for bugfixes and ordinary programs updates, and goes red for security updates... automatically logs itself on and check with the SuSE site when I log in on my box. It can be configured to do the installation automatically as well, but I do like to manually examine the list of applicable files myself first.
No chance of that with the current compensation culture... Motor manufacturers are extremely unlikely to contemplate building vehicles that the ordinary Joe can afford when there is the slightest possibility of one falling onto a building. Remember, aircraft parts are very tightly controlled during the design and manufacturing process so that failure is designed out or else designed so that it will fail safe. Cars built to similar tolerances would be ridiculously expensive. Also the FAA wouldn't like the prospect of hundreds of thousands of ordinary Joes taking to the skies either... if there is enough trouble at the moment driving on simple roads imagine the chaos if it were to be expanded into 3 dimensions...
yet more robots to maintain them??? If they can replace a human then they can assemble and maintain themselves... Shades of Skynet here... humans will be redundant.
there must come a time when everything that can be outsourced, has, and everywhere than could be outsourced to is just as expensive as home labour. This will then be the spur to finally robotise jobs and give us all the life of leisure promised in those film from the 50's and 60's...
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have a play around with Knoppix first to test the ice before you take the plunge.
and above all ditch that "Designed for XP" computer and build yourself a proper one from scratch... that way you can make sure that everything is fully Linux compatible first :)
So many trolls... so few mod points
Amazing how they all come out with tales of woe with this or that picky hardware... or bemoan that it's just too subtly different... when the task is the same and just about everything can be done with similar methods they moan about this little bit being in a different menu label or that terminology being different... (Folders vs Directories)
wondered why I got the hostile greeting when i attempted to access your front page... Sounds like you need some burstable hosting for the big files... this slashdot effect was discussed just a couple of days ago when we were looking at ways to slashdot proof a site...
Those binary packaged tools also have the source available on the web and you can check each package out yourself there. the list of packages is available on the download site...
The guy who put the distro together has merely taken the trouble to save you a lot of time by assembling all the packages himself. I'm sure he will be just as keen to keep it up to date as well keeping track of major holes and also making sure you have the documentation available so you can keep it up to date yourself as well like you can with Knoppix.
I take it from your tirade that you've never enjoyed the advantage of Knoppix in being able to boot up the disk on someone elses computer without having to actually mess with the hard disk at all??? Just try turning up at a clients site with a CD stuffed with source code and expecting to be able to install it all on the hard disk before you can conduct your tests... and having to wait whilst it all compiles...
The prepackaged binary CD is far more convenient... and you can leave a copy behind for him to use himself... I've left behind some twenty knoppix CDs now for friends and relatives to play around with so they can experience Linux without having to mess with their hard disk. I've since gone back and installed it properly for seven of those people as duel boot setups.
$350 million buys a lot of presence in magazines etc... Similar problem for linux in trying to get past the reams of Microsoft bought advertorials etc. in the magazines as well...
Transmeta's Efficeon will have to compete on it's technical merits, and when people who matter realise that it offers a much better power consumption, lower temperatures and much longer battery life they'll start to take it up. 3 hours or so with Intel Celeron 1500 is just not on when I was used to some 24 hours or so battery life on my old 8086. Hopefully, the Efficeon will enable them to make notebooks that can cope with a complete working day or more away from the mains outlet... RAM's cheap enough these days to enable them to give it a seriously large cache so as to minimise HD usage, and sticking the OS in a bootable flash disk will improve matters as well. Now we just need a very low power display technology such as high res colour "electronic ink" based thin displays
Can you afford all the time wasted trying to firefight virus and trojan infections??? Can your business stay running if you take a major hit and your servers go down big time???
Lock those machines down so tight that nothing can be downloaded or executed online... have a very strict white list of permitted sites... and let me tell you now... Developers in general and "graphic artists" on Macs are the worst. They think they know what's what and they are really dangerous because of it. Keep them at arms length from the real corporate network on their own separate nets with good firewalls between if necessary... treat their networks as "red zones", don't trust them at all... They'll always be trying to sneak on dialup modems just to do this cos it's so much hassle going through "the man"...
so you never set your system policies to prevent the downloading of certain file types then??? More fool you.
everyones' been pussyfooting around the real issue here... Not kiddieporn but OS default security settings. XP Home sucks, to put it politely. And Microsoft don't go out of their way to educate the users on the dangers at all. Just a bland little para lurking in that booklet that gets tossed out with the rest of the packaging in the rush to get the box out, up and online...
wow... such faith in the capabilities of your fellow users... If however, they'd been accustomed to using a decent OS in the first place then this would be second nature for them and we wouldn't have this problem now would we???
OK... what idiot modded me Offtopic??? it's highly _ontopic_... obviously someone with modpoints couldn't cope with the truth...
and if the car is defective in the first place by having poorly designed brakes??? For Microsoft to shift the blame on to the user is just not on. They are responsible for the parlous state of their software, not the user... a car manufacturer who knowingly supplied a defective product would get hammered in the courts... So should Microsoft, for failing to supply a secure default email and internet client...
Microsoft... if it was secure in the first place then this sort of thing couldn't happen...
No Adds??? no, it's stuffed to the brim with promos for their own stuff though... (Gardening magazine, History magazine, Nature magazine, Radio times, TellyTubby toys, Fimbles stuff, trailers for upcoming programmes and series)
Quality programming??? it's gone really downmarket in the last few years..
Small fee??? That fee is your license for receiving _all_ television programs, even cable and satellite... not just the BBC. Although that license money goes to the BBC, really a goodly share of it should go to the other service providers as well.
Picky... f*cking picky... serious kinks my @rse..
anyone with any sense uses jpilot with palms, not the KDE stuff, and if you will mix GUI libraries then you will have problems cutting and pasting with the mouse. Ctrl C, Ctrl X and Ctrl V work consistently though now don't they... I notice that MS-Windows doesn't let you use the mouse as easily to cut and paste like you can in Linux now can you... you have to mess with the right click sub menu, nowhere near as convenient as highlighting the text and middle clicking at the target point now is it...
Perhaps he should have got his @rse in gear, made a gui wrapper and trademarked winzip as soon as windows appeared on the scene... rather than resting on his laurels.
I'm not going to troll it over in alt.os.windows-xp though... would disturb them too much and disrupt their wibblings about where to look for pron and illegal downloads...
You're doing it wrong... you should be charging them an hourly rate... that soon brings them to their senses... either that or you should be calling in your favours every now and again...
makes them feel comfortable by reinforcing their prejudices...
they run on Microsoft operating Systems...
Who needs to take notes when you can zoom in on the whiteboard to capture the formulae/diagrams...
Then again... Why don't they just webcast the lecture campus wide and instead of attending, you just log it to it??? that way you can stay in your skivvies and don't have to bother getting up and dressed for those 11 O'clockers...
Already sorted... SuSEWatcher.
got a nice little icon in my panel that changes colour if there are any updates from SuSE. It goes amber for bugfixes and ordinary programs updates, and goes red for security updates... automatically logs itself on and check with the SuSE site when I log in on my box.
It can be configured to do the installation automatically as well, but I do like to manually examine the list of applicable files myself first.
move along now folks... nothing new here...
mind you... the particular buffer overflow is unusual...MIDI files... who'd have thought???
No chance of that with the current compensation culture... Motor manufacturers are extremely unlikely to contemplate building vehicles that the ordinary Joe can afford when there is the slightest possibility of one falling onto a building. Remember, aircraft parts are very tightly controlled during the design and manufacturing process so that failure is designed out or else designed so that it will fail safe. Cars built to similar tolerances would be ridiculously expensive.
Also the FAA wouldn't like the prospect of hundreds of thousands of ordinary Joes taking to the skies either... if there is enough trouble at the moment driving on simple roads imagine the chaos if it were to be expanded into 3 dimensions...
yet more robots to maintain them??? If they can replace a human then they can assemble and maintain themselves... Shades of Skynet here... humans will be redundant.
there must come a time when everything that can be outsourced, has, and everywhere than could be outsourced to is just as expensive as home labour. This will then be the spur to finally robotise jobs and give us all the life of leisure promised in those film from the 50's and 60's...