Either the reviwer is an ignoramus, or he thinks his target audience is compused of computer-iliterate lusers. After downloading and installing Firefox (good) he tries to delete the install program and complains about the security warnings before he can delete a "shortcut." If the install program is on his desktop, it's because that's where he told IE to put it. It's a program, not a shortcut. Even Win 98 will warn you before you delete a program in case you didn't realize the possible consequences of your action. Once I saw that, I knew this wasn't a review by somebody who understands computers, just an opinion piece by a flack. Take it for what it's worth, if anything, but remember that the writer doesn't have a clue about how computers work, or what's going on when he clicks his mouse.
...it said some fairly negative things about me (loner, needs his hand held when given new tasks, tendency to run with scissors;-).
If you're going to work alone, rather than on a team, being a loner isn't a bad thing; it may be good. Needing your hand held may be bad, but not if your supervisor likes teaching because this gives him more chances to do what he likes. Either that, or he's a micro-manager, in which case, watch out! The last just shows you're enthusiastic, but can get carried away. Again, a good manager can keep you under control, so that's not too bad.
Actually, what they were doing is asking me for help while antagonizing me. I proved my superiority over them by not screwing up their computers. Generally, when I had to help lusers like that get on-line for the first time, I'd get them set up, get them on-line and end the call before they realized they didn't know how to get their email. That way, they'd have to call back again, and that made it Somebody Else's Problem.
The sort of people who say "I know nothing about computers."
I spent over seven years doing telephone tech support. The ones I hated the most were the ones who told me that with pride, as though their ignorance makes them superior to me. I'm sure they thought they were impressing me, and in a way they were right: they were impressing me with how stupid they were.
I hope I never meet any *real* right-wingers then!
I used to think I was a conservative. Then I worked for one. He was trying to put together a cable channel devoted to Conservatives. After getting to know him and a few of his friends, I realized that not only wasn't I a conservative, I was glad of it.
Now, I realize that I'm a moderate, slightly right of center.
How many mis-spelling "trap sites" have a link to the real site right at the top of the home page? That's what makes the difference. The owner of fallwell.com isn't trying to steal customers from falwell.com and isn't looking to offend them, either. He makes it plain that his site is devoted to showing why Rev. Falwell's position on gays and lesbians is wrong, and points those who agree with the reverend to the site they were looking for in the first place. If you'd bothered to click on the link in TFA, you'd have seen that, as I did.
Even if they didn't I've seen them and I don't see how it could possibly pick its self up with those arms.
Of course not, but it doesn't need to. It braces itself with its arms so that when it tries to get a foot under itself and lift, it doesn't slide forward. You don't need that much strength for that. Imagine lying on the floor with your hands tied behind you, but able to slither over to a wall. Once you've got your head braced, you can get a foot under you and lift. Your head provides no lift, it just keeps you in place. The same things with those small arms. They didn't lift the body, just kept it from moving while the legs did the work.
Its arms are too small to pick its self up. If it falls it probably dies.
Not so. Although small, those arms are large enough to brace itself against something well enough to give it traction, and with that it can get back on its feet again.
In the Us, we find it hilarious, because.biz means SPAM.
Yes, and that's a shame. With so many people using.com for non-commercial domains (I know a pair of yuppies that have a.com named after their baby daughter to post pictures and stuff about her.) the namespace is getting cramped. The idea of.biz was to open things up so more businesses could get domains with their name in them. Alas, it's been taken over by spammers, in Yet Another Example of the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Some people don't like the taste of corn sweetener. I have a friend who stopped drinking Coke when they changed to it, except for Passover because the tate's so different for him. Not everybody has that problem; I, for one, never could tell them apart.
Only for some Sephardic Jews. In general, corn and its products are not Kosher for Passover, which is why you can buy 2 liter bottles of Coke made with real sugar at Passover.
Zone Alarm's the same, if you take the home edition. Haven't tried AVG's firewall. Unlike XP's builtin excuse for a firewall, ZA warns you when unknown (or changed) applications try to phone home and lets you block them. The XP concept is that once a program's installed, it can do what it wants, including phone home. At least that's how it was the last time I checked. Might have been changed in the last few years; I wouldn't know.
you become root, in the same directory as you were in, without running root's login scripts. Of course, that means that you probably don't have/sbin on your $PATH, but if you're just installing software, you shouldn't need it.
I still agree with you though that he had better live a simple life, in touch with the real world, instead of off in his castle.
No, Bill Gates doesn't live at a castle. He just owns a mansion and a yacht. If you want a real American castle, check out Hearst Castle. Among other things, I doubt the Gates estate has grown to 250,000 acres, with a phone almost behind every tree.
Maybe I am missing something somewhere, but the 'use sudo if you absolutely need root' is crap.
You are. The right way to say it is, "Use sudo if you only need to run one command as root; log in as root only when you're going to need to do a number of things that require root."
As a side-note, somebody upstream noted that sudo doesn't change your environment, but becoming root does. If you don't need root's environment, just use su, instead of "su -" and you keep your current location, $PATH and other things.
But I'm sure the enviro-nazis will be gleefully saying "see, see, you stupid non phds, this is what earth will become unless we all go back to hunters and gathers"
I'd have a lot more respect for that type of fanatic if they'd just practice what they preach.
It got that way because there was too much greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. Way too much methane. The methane came from ponies. Lots and lots of pink ponies. OMG! PONIES!!!
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Either the reviwer is an ignoramus, or he thinks his target audience is compused of computer-iliterate lusers. After downloading and installing Firefox (good) he tries to delete the install program and complains about the security warnings before he can delete a "shortcut." If the install program is on his desktop, it's because that's where he told IE to put it. It's a program, not a shortcut. Even Win 98 will warn you before you delete a program in case you didn't realize the possible consequences of your action. Once I saw that, I knew this wasn't a review by somebody who understands computers, just an opinion piece by a flack. Take it for what it's worth, if anything, but remember that the writer doesn't have a clue about how computers work, or what's going on when he clicks his mouse.
If you're going to work alone, rather than on a team, being a loner isn't a bad thing; it may be good. Needing your hand held may be bad, but not if your supervisor likes teaching because this gives him more chances to do what he likes. Either that, or he's a micro-manager, in which case, watch out! The last just shows you're enthusiastic, but can get carried away. Again, a good manager can keep you under control, so that's not too bad.
Actually, what they were doing is asking me for help while antagonizing me. I proved my superiority over them by not screwing up their computers. Generally, when I had to help lusers like that get on-line for the first time, I'd get them set up, get them on-line and end the call before they realized they didn't know how to get their email. That way, they'd have to call back again, and that made it Somebody Else's Problem.
Cat litter is just as effective, although a bit slower. It's also considerably cheaper.
I spent over seven years doing telephone tech support. The ones I hated the most were the ones who told me that with pride, as though their ignorance makes them superior to me. I'm sure they thought they were impressing me, and in a way they were right: they were impressing me with how stupid they were.
I don't think so. No Linux distro does this, nor does UNIX, BSD or any other non-Microsoft OS that I know of.
That's a strange way to write "the Soviet Union."
I used to think I was a conservative. Then I worked for one. He was trying to put together a cable channel devoted to Conservatives. After getting to know him and a few of his friends, I realized that not only wasn't I a conservative, I was glad of it.
Now, I realize that I'm a moderate, slightly right of center.
If nothing else, there's always the deduction for charitable donations they get on their taxes.
How many mis-spelling "trap sites" have a link to the real site right at the top of the home page? That's what makes the difference. The owner of fallwell.com isn't trying to steal customers from falwell.com and isn't looking to offend them, either. He makes it plain that his site is devoted to showing why Rev. Falwell's position on gays and lesbians is wrong, and points those who agree with the reverend to the site they were looking for in the first place. If you'd bothered to click on the link in TFA, you'd have seen that, as I did.
Of course not, but it doesn't need to. It braces itself with its arms so that when it tries to get a foot under itself and lift, it doesn't slide forward. You don't need that much strength for that. Imagine lying on the floor with your hands tied behind you, but able to slither over to a wall. Once you've got your head braced, you can get a foot under you and lift. Your head provides no lift, it just keeps you in place. The same things with those small arms. They didn't lift the body, just kept it from moving while the legs did the work.
Maybe they were all trampled to death by a heard of wild ponies?
Not so. Although small, those arms are large enough to brace itself against something well enough to give it traction, and with that it can get back on its feet again.
Yes, and that's a shame. With so many people using .com for non-commercial domains (I know a pair of yuppies that have a .com named after their baby daughter to post pictures and stuff about her.) the namespace is getting cramped. The idea of .biz was to open things up so more businesses could get domains with their name in them. Alas, it's been taken over by spammers, in Yet Another Example of the Law of Unintended Consequences.
What do you mean Judiasm isn't ready for the desktop user? I hear they're going to start using it next year in Jerusalam.
Some people don't like the taste of corn sweetener. I have a friend who stopped drinking Coke when they changed to it, except for Passover because the tate's so different for him. Not everybody has that problem; I, for one, never could tell them apart.
Only for some Sephardic Jews. In general, corn and its products are not Kosher for Passover, which is why you can buy 2 liter bottles of Coke made with real sugar at Passover.
If you're trying to block those sites for a corporate LAN, just use a non-MS proxy that intercepts DNS and returns localhost for those sites.
Zone Alarm's the same, if you take the home edition. Haven't tried AVG's firewall. Unlike XP's builtin excuse for a firewall, ZA warns you when unknown (or changed) applications try to phone home and lets you block them. The XP concept is that once a program's installed, it can do what it wants, including phone home. At least that's how it was the last time I checked. Might have been changed in the last few years; I wouldn't know.
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you become root, in the same directory as you were in, without running root's login scripts. Of course, that means that you probably don't have /sbin on your $PATH, but if you're just installing software, you shouldn't need it.
No, Bill Gates doesn't live at a castle. He just owns a mansion and a yacht. If you want a real American castle, check out Hearst Castle. Among other things, I doubt the Gates estate has grown to 250,000 acres, with a phone almost behind every tree.
What I need to know more than anything else is if P=NP. Will this book tell me?
You are. The right way to say it is, "Use sudo if you only need to run one command as root; log in as root only when you're going to need to do a number of things that require root."
As a side-note, somebody upstream noted that sudo doesn't change your environment, but becoming root does. If you don't need root's environment, just use su, instead of "su -" and you keep your current location, $PATH and other things.
I'd have a lot more respect for that type of fanatic if they'd just practice what they preach.
It got that way because there was too much greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. Way too much methane. The methane came from ponies. Lots and lots of pink ponies. OMG! PONIES!!!