Isnt this a good thing?? When there are less people in the industry itself there are actually less jobs being taken away in the tech arena. Thats a good way to go for the american economy as all the surplus techies who are just there for the money or due to everyone else doing it are gonna contemplate and move to other viable fields.
Who provides support for the people who will dive on the linux bandwagon and don't know head or tail about Linux systems.I'm sure HP provides some support but to what exxtent does this go?What is they were expecting their windows media player and their MS word to run on it?
The big issue is going to be troubleshooting for these simple folks who will be unable to make out the diff between a rpm or an exe.
Are any of these guys sued fighting back or are they just making the $3000 settlements?
Would'nt it make sense if they got together and fought the RIAA? I know it seems easy to say n not to do when your sued by a giant but wouldnt they just keep suing people if no one fights back.
Maybe someone desperately wanted a copy of the original Open Source Gnome LOGO!
Besides what would one get out of breaking into an open source server.Source code thats already available? try to corrupt that? Not a good plan.
The only thing i've ever found remotely useful about the passport ID is that it lets me check my mail from MSN messenger without having to login again?
Do any one of you really use ur id for anything else? OR IS there anything else to use???:-)
The thing i like about PHP is that it derives a lot from a lot of scripting and programming languages.
Wonder whats new about PHP5 though that will help the average web scripter....? The changelog doesnt show anything sensational.
A portable video device just doesn't sound too good when you can buy a laptop with almost the same price!
Only people interested in this would be porn enthusiasts who don't care about MS bugs with 40-50gb of porn with them to tag along! heh;-)
I think what they intend to do is lick some govt ass and trick them into using localized language software and what happens eventually is that the govt files an anti-trust kind lawsuit againt MS! that would be nice.
Ther is at least an option in the X marketplace, uptill now (or whenever) there was no option to Xfree86 for all unix based distro's.Now with the xfree86 messing up the license theres some hope for a Mandrake and his buddies, don't you think?;-)
I work in a call center and in my previous organisation cell phones werent allowed due to people taking calls and they did not want the cell phone static or ringing to disturb the calls.Even though i was a sys admin i wasnt allowed to carry a cell phone.But after a lot of protesting they finally realised that there was no point in not allowing me to carry my cell phone.
THe point is that theres no reason to ban cellphones for everyone in any company.Besides if i had to leak insider info i could do it anyway.
I was wondering why they want a part of the cut a long as they are geting 'Free' advertising in other countries besides US & Canada.
Then it struck me that they are saving up and trying to gather moolah for future lawsuits(who sues whom, dun ask me!);-)
Does that mean I have to chuck my Mozilla T shirt i drew up, complete with a TM attatched?
Why is it that there are so many people out there who just don't like things the easy way?? Mostly i think they just pretend to like the harder command line interface and wag their tongues when they see a lovely easy click n go installer.heh.
But seriously , easy installation is one of the key factors through which Linux or unix based systems can gain more marketshare in the desktop section.
It might consume less power and that means its good for battery life, but i've heard no one say its got a power user-processor.
In performance it comes nowhere near a top of the line AMD(around the same price i think).Anyone looking for processing power and getting pulled into a Transmeta processor should definitely rethink and go in for an AMD based notebook or pc.
Palm probably has an easter egg which is a pre recorded message that says "Beam me up Scotty", a feature that capt kirk could have used in his days!!:-)
The problem with linux lagging behind the gaming scene is that it doesnt work out great for the average gamer.Problems with hardware support, not too many games available on Linux etc add to all this.
Once its easy enough of the average guy things will fall into place.The hardcore gamer can take care of himself by installing or buying the right hardware and he knows whats available on Linux before moving to the Linux platform.
If theres a good Distro that provides all this that would be just great.
Whether Shaw Cable has a messed up network or they respect the users privacy, its nice to see ISP's stand up against the music industry for a change instead of whimpering in a corner. At least they are not going out of the way to get some poor kid sued for a million dollars!
I would lay my money on this being a govt screwup rather than HP fooling them.Theres no way a big corp like HP would fool a prospective HUGE customer like the canadian govt and charge them for something that they didnt deliver.(and get caught!)
The world around govt's have know to screw things up due to the sheer laziness and absence of co-ordination between govt departments.Looks like one desk jockey for got to enter a few bills into the accounting system:-)
With the lack of paid services there is also a lack of laws in other countries.I live in India and i havent heard of anyone getting sued for mp3 downloads or any law wwhich prevents us from doing so.Of course US laws have no jurisdiction over here.
So theres nothing to stop us downloading from kazaa besides the guilt feeling (and adware).It would be nice to have something like iTunes especially as these services are very affordable.
While attacking random homeusers computers from the DDOS attacks usually originate doesnt make sense, what they should do is build a proactive system that instead of alerting the the admins takes some preliminary steps itself.Examples would be shutting down some ports, ignoring packets from external sources, allowing only local data transfer etc.
This would avoid a total crash of the server(even though it would be unavailable to the external world) and in the meantime more manual measures can be taken to tighten the perimeter around the target system.
I fail to understand whom will the system attack because the underlying feature of a DDOS attack is distributed networking.It might even prove to be worse for the system where whatever bandwidth it has left it will waste on throwing packets to random places which might be mere decoys by the DDOS attacker.
I can almost see Mr. Nikon saying "ohh shittt...!"
That means anyone who manufacters a device that clicks,compresses n stoes has to pay Sony ??
Thats the height of Nonsense Patentism.
As long as it doesnt use a patented algorithm , how can anyone patent a way or method of storage?
On one hand we talk about PDA's, cellphones and mobile computing which serve as reminders (or are sposed to) with their alarms, calendars etc and on the other hand we have a bunch of people trying to memorize the weirdest things.
These things things only numb your memory more than anything else and id love to have a nice memory lesson once in a while. Imagine carrying your HI TECH cellphone and having your whole phonebook memorized!:-)
it would have been more fun if the kids had learn it before the movie, then they could understand all the censored (elvish) horny talk between Aragorn and Arwen.
I havent tried FreeSBIE so i would'nt know how easy or tough iut is to get a copy up or running.But what I do know is the getting a relatively standard box running FreeBSD is very ease.
I would recommend all newbies who are trying out a unix OS for the first time to start with FreeBSD.There are a few reasons for this:
1. The installer (sysinstall) is ver easy and self explanatory.
2. FreeBSD gives you a lot of options in terms of how you want to install and from where.It can even pick up a the installation from a dos partition.(from c:)
3. The documentation is amazing.You will love the handbook.All my questions about the installation were answered by the handbook itself, i had to look nowhere else.
4. For any non-standard issues theres a very active FreeBSD mailing list.
For all the above reasons,i think FreeSBIE should be even smoother than a normal FreeBSD install.
Looking forward to givin it a spin, guess i dun have to try knoppix now;-)
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Isnt this a good thing?? When there are less people in the industry itself there are actually less jobs being taken away in the tech arena.
Thats a good way to go for the american economy as all the surplus techies who are just there for the money or due to everyone else doing it are gonna contemplate and move to other viable fields.
Who provides support for the people who will dive on the linux bandwagon and don't know head or tail about Linux systems.I'm sure HP provides some support but to what exxtent does this go?What is they were expecting their windows media player and their MS word to run on it?
The big issue is going to be troubleshooting for these simple folks who will be unable to make out the diff between a rpm or an exe.
Are any of these guys sued fighting back or are they just making the $3000 settlements?
Would'nt it make sense if they got together and fought the RIAA? I know it seems easy to say n not to do when your sued by a giant but wouldnt they just keep suing people if no one fights back.
Maybe someone desperately wanted a copy of the original Open Source Gnome LOGO!
Besides what would one get out of breaking into an open source server.Source code thats already available? try to corrupt that? Not a good plan.
The only thing i've ever found remotely useful about the passport ID is that it lets me check my mail from MSN messenger without having to login again? :-)
Do any one of you really use ur id for anything else? OR IS there anything else to use???
cant imagine playing warcraft or quake on a console system.Simply no fun. ;-)
The BIG gamers are still on pc's.
The thing i like about PHP is that it derives a lot from a lot of scripting and programming languages.
Wonder whats new about PHP5 though that will help the average web scripter....? The changelog doesnt show anything sensational.
A portable video device just doesn't sound too good when you can buy a laptop with almost the same price! ;-)
Only people interested in this would be porn enthusiasts who don't care about MS bugs with 40-50gb of porn with them to tag along! heh
I think what they intend to do is lick some govt ass and trick them into using localized language software and what happens eventually is that the govt files an anti-trust kind lawsuit againt MS! that would be nice.
Ther is at least an option in the X marketplace, uptill now (or whenever) there was no option to Xfree86 for all unix based distro's.Now with the xfree86 messing up the license theres some hope for a Mandrake and his buddies, don't you think? ;-)
I work in a call center and in my previous organisation cell phones werent allowed due to people taking calls and they did not want the cell phone static or ringing to disturb the calls.Even though i was a sys admin i wasnt allowed to carry a cell phone.But after a lot of protesting they finally realised that there was no point in not allowing me to carry my cell phone.
THe point is that theres no reason to ban cellphones for everyone in any company.Besides if i had to leak insider info i could do it anyway.
I was wondering why they want a part of the cut a long as they are geting 'Free' advertising in other countries besides US & Canada. ;-)
Then it struck me that they are saving up and trying to gather moolah for future lawsuits(who sues whom, dun ask me!)
Does that mean I have to chuck my Mozilla T shirt i drew up, complete with a TM attatched?
But don't you think a a graphic installer that guides you is still better than a tui? thats the point i was trying to convery :-)
Why is it that there are so many people out there who just don't like things the easy way?? Mostly i think they just pretend to like the harder command line interface and wag their tongues when they see a lovely easy click n go installer.heh.
But seriously , easy installation is one of the key factors through which Linux or unix based systems can gain more marketshare in the desktop section.
It might consume less power and that means its good for battery life, but i've heard no one say its got a power user-processor.
In performance it comes nowhere near a top of the line AMD(around the same price i think).Anyone looking for processing power and getting pulled into a Transmeta processor should definitely rethink and go in for an AMD based notebook or pc.
Palm probably has an easter egg which is a pre recorded message that says "Beam me up Scotty", a feature that capt kirk could have used in his days!! :-)
The problem with linux lagging behind the gaming scene is that it doesnt work out great for the average gamer.Problems with hardware support, not too many games available on Linux etc add to all this.
Once its easy enough of the average guy things will fall into place.The hardcore gamer can take care of himself by installing or buying the right hardware and he knows whats available on Linux before moving to the Linux platform.
If theres a good Distro that provides all this that would be just great.
Whether Shaw Cable has a messed up network or they respect the users privacy, its nice to see ISP's stand up against the music industry for a change instead of whimpering in a corner.
At least they are not going out of the way to get some poor kid sued for a million dollars!
I would lay my money on this being a govt screwup rather than HP fooling them.Theres no way a big corp like HP would fool a prospective HUGE customer like the canadian govt and charge them for something that they didnt deliver.(and get caught!) :-)
The world around govt's have know to screw things up due to the sheer laziness and absence of co-ordination between govt departments.Looks like one desk jockey for got to enter a few bills into the accounting system
With the lack of paid services there is also a lack of laws in other countries.I live in India and i havent heard of anyone getting sued for mp3 downloads or any law wwhich prevents us from doing so.Of course US laws have no jurisdiction over here.
So theres nothing to stop us downloading from kazaa besides the guilt feeling (and adware).It would be nice to have something like iTunes especially as these services are very affordable.
While attacking random homeusers computers from the DDOS attacks usually originate doesnt make sense, what they should do is build a proactive system that instead of alerting the the admins takes some preliminary steps itself.Examples would be shutting down some ports, ignoring packets from external sources, allowing only local data transfer etc.
This would avoid a total crash of the server(even though it would be unavailable to the external world) and in the meantime more manual measures can be taken to tighten the perimeter around the target system.
I fail to understand whom will the system attack because the underlying feature of a DDOS attack is distributed networking.It might even prove to be worse for the system where whatever bandwidth it has left it will waste on throwing packets to random places which might be mere decoys by the DDOS attacker.
I can almost see Mr. Nikon saying "ohh shittt...!" That means anyone who manufacters a device that clicks,compresses n stoes has to pay Sony ??
Thats the height of Nonsense Patentism.
As long as it doesnt use a patented algorithm , how can anyone patent a way or method of storage?
On one hand we talk about PDA's, cellphones and mobile computing which serve as reminders (or are sposed to) with their alarms, calendars etc and on the other hand we have a bunch of people trying to memorize the weirdest things. :-)
These things things only numb your memory more than anything else and id love to have a nice memory lesson once in a while.
Imagine carrying your HI TECH cellphone and having your whole phonebook memorized!
it would have been more fun if the kids had learn it before the movie, then they could understand all the censored (elvish) horny talk between Aragorn and Arwen.
I havent tried FreeSBIE so i would'nt know how easy or tough iut is to get a copy up or running.But what I do know is the getting a relatively standard box running FreeBSD is very ease. :
;-)
I would recommend all newbies who are trying out a unix OS for the first time to start with FreeBSD.There are a few reasons for this
1. The installer (sysinstall) is ver easy and self explanatory.
2. FreeBSD gives you a lot of options in terms of how you want to install and from where.It can even pick up a the installation from a dos partition.(from c:)
3. The documentation is amazing.You will love the handbook.All my questions about the installation were answered by the handbook itself, i had to look nowhere else.
4. For any non-standard issues theres a very active FreeBSD mailing list.
For all the above reasons,i think FreeSBIE should be even smoother than a normal FreeBSD install. Looking forward to givin it a spin, guess i dun have to try knoppix now