Most Linux users have migrated from Windows or are users of both Windows and Linux. You find more blind faith (religion) on the opposite side. I have users of 67+ and 78+ years old amongst others who use Linux. The big difference is that those older ones are new to PC's. For the 78+ one, it's his first PC, so he wasn't even familiar with a keyboard but now uses Linux for Skype, Yahoo IM, word docs, spreadsheets, playing and burning CD's, surfing the web, email, digital camera work and more. One guy who is 66 years old, one year older than I and a long time Windows user has the most trouble with Linux simply because he tries to translate everything possible into a Windows framework. Linux is not harder than Windows, it's just different and my advice to new users has always been to approach Linux repeating the mantra "I know JACK about Linux". Myself, I don't use Windows and haven't done so for over 10 years, but it's the one for which I get calls for help and is most imposing on my time. When Vista is in the wild and I get a call for help, as I'm bound to, my response will be, "you have a problem, don't ask me" - I wont touch it with a barge pole so they'll have to rely on paying dearly for Microsoft or dealership for support, keeping true to their religion.
It's of minimal use to me if I can't have the Documentation CD which also means you can't get patches and have to wait for the next version to be put up for download. When surveyed via a phone call by Sun about Solaris 10, I told them I had no interest in Solaris x86 (last one I installed was Solaris 7) and I only run the 10 SPARC version. Both for myself and colleagues who use Linux, Solaris is cumbersome to admin. Now retired, my colleagues (ex-) tell me Solaris 10 is as buggy as hell, a daily pain when they have to support the great number of customers with top end SPARC hardware.
As a Tech Support guy for over 30 years, mainframes of all sizes and large Sun/Fujitsu SPARC servers, the funniest stories come from Support Desk personnel. Like the guy who tried telling me that running an Oscilloscope off 110 Volt rather than 240V would have damaged it - this was on a faulty return from the manufacturer's annual service. Next was when I reported that the CD/DVD-ROM drive on my new 64-bit laptop was not being recognised by the BIOS - on hearing that I was running Linux, the guy's supervisor asked him to tell me that Linux wrote to the BIOS and may have corrupted it. Just as I was about to tell him his supervisor was talking out the top of his hat, it started working - problem appeared to be a bad contact as I only had to press hard on the caddy whenever I got the problem - since reseated and OK.
Lenovo can't control the PC industry worldwide and they can't sell to the US government. May be IBM sold them a pup. Linux has never depended on any hardware franchise so their decision is a non-event.
May be we have more sympathy for the poor Chinese oppressed by such laws under a dictatorship than we have for ourselves with the same laws under democracies.
It's amazing that no one has taken up the idea and marketed it, it seems so simple now all the hard work has been done. Standard bit of hardware and get a production line going. If TIVO sells, so should this solution, it beats anything else available.
Mythtv/mythplugins, Knoppmyth in a box that's is suitable to be placed in her ladyship's living room will reliably do it all. I guess it's a rush to get something out there from a well-known hardware maker. Pity they could have used the good stuff mentioned above and spared themselves blushes. What comes next, a patent?
Somone said similar about the transistor, so I am trying to repeat history, hoping I'll be proved wrong.
I can remember all those years ago when we were promised laser home lighting, brighter than the mid-day sun, consuming very little power and everlasting. Obviously not an attractive business model when stacked against the under-rated fuses that pass for light bulbs. Here's hoping some startup can gain the finance to bring OLED lights to market in a big way.
Seems it's not the only thing he lied about, the Microsoft "Linux Reference Center" advert says he saved millions by choosing Windows over Linux, but we already knew that was a falsehood.
When you produce crud you have also to produce FUD as the easy way to try to defray the perception that your products are singularly bad. The sole job and raison-d'etre for their Linux lab is to produce factitious/fictitious data showing that Linux is more insecure, vulnerable and unstable, more costly and limited in terms of every metric known to man than Windows.
You have to give them 5/10 for their efforts at FUD and 10/10 for their advertising of Linux as I'm sure here are many who hadn't heard of Linux or paid it any attention before Microsoft alerted them to it.
I'm not sure whether this is a "dog bites man" or "man bites dog" story. Many governments are doing this. In the UK, it was used successfully to trace IRA bombers and others and in one case to prove the accused in one case were no where near the crime scene. UK, US, China, Russia and wherever, personal technology like the web and email records store copies of what we do. It has good and bad sides, the bad side is when something you said is misconstrued and you are made to suffer, e.g if this communication is picked up, traced for certain keywords and I'm placed on a list of dangerous persons. Posting anonymously won't hide anyone either.
Incorrect, names were based on the ability of people to learn their meanings. Remember the computer users at the time were not the modern 2 finger dummies, but pretty quick on the uptake types.
More like the latter. Over price your product by 250%, give a 20% discount and you you can with luck be viewed as contributing something worthwhile. I bet the outflow of cash from those receiving the so-called charity dwarfs the cash back.
He perhaps is unaware of what his company is doing with regarding to content and no one told him that the MPAA and the movie studios are his close partners. May be he used the word "Consumers", in Microsoft speak, it means the captives.
Wembley Stadium, perhaps Nottingham next where he can come back as the Sheriff of Nottingham, except these days he would be loved for stealing from the poor and doling them back a pittance.
Lawmakers are increasingly trying to put as much power over our lives into fewer and fewer hands, substituting big government and Soviet style central control with small government and control by monopolies. Both systems call themselves democratic and both stink.
Simply, the organised groups are too slippery for them and they don't have access to the guys who buy one DVD and make many copies to give to friends and family. It's almost like speed cameras, speeding motorists present themselves, most armed robbers do not.
I met the first one back in 1978 as site engineer called in to a mainframe customer's site. I was just about to put in a diagnostic floppy when he collared me into making some phone calls to our management. The upshot of it all, we got a Director to load his car up with spares heading off on a 130+ mile journey, we had a support guy travelling and a Jet standing by at Amsterdam airport read to fly in a spare. I sat down, put in the floppy and the diags called a board that we had in the cupboard. Machine up and working, we turned everyone around. Next day I asked the shift leader about this mysterious problem they had earlier in the week, he told me the guy didn't know what he was talking about. The Manager was very pleased at the way he had handled the problem. In retrospect, I think he was groomed for failure by a literate and knowlegeable IT Director who was leaving the company, this Manager was fired some months later.
The Shift Leader resigned earlier after the Manager had insisted he did his appraisal and he objected on the grounds that the Manager didn't know enough to give him an appraisal.
Unless he's the boss' close relative, he'll be found out and fired, if he is a relative, he'll get a job in some other department.
Don't you just love those companies whose businesses are solidly based on Linux, whose products run on Linux, but don't cater for the Linux user? Google, TomTom and even some Linux-based firewalls that don't support Linux clients.
I remember when the Evil Empire of the Soviet Union was doing even more moderate restrictive things and how we reviled them.
It seems the objections were not based on what they did, but on the one-party system under which they were done and being a Democracy legitimises the same vile practices for us.
Welcome to the Lunatic Asylum we call Planet Earth.
Judge on what they do not what they say. They propagandise, slander and dismiss everything OSS. Their deeds speak to me louder, their words don't comfort or appease me.
At times their actions and words coincide, it's all anti-OSS.
I've often said that you can always tell where the most objectionable regimes are, their names start off with "The Democratic Republic of.....". We now hear "Freedom" and "Democracy" dripping from the lips of politicians like the sweetest sauce. May be no one owns these politicians, but like whores, they are paid. Freedom is a straight-jacket and Democracy is more of a Shamocracry. Perhaps we are moving into a world where the unauthorised writing of software will be a criminal offence.
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Most Linux users have migrated from Windows or are users of both Windows and Linux. You find more blind faith (religion) on the opposite side. I have users of 67+ and 78+ years old amongst others who use Linux. The big difference is that those older ones are new to PC's. For the 78+ one, it's his first PC, so he wasn't even familiar with a keyboard but now uses Linux for Skype, Yahoo IM, word docs, spreadsheets, playing and burning CD's, surfing the web, email, digital camera work and more. One guy who is 66 years old, one year older than I and a long time Windows user has the most trouble with Linux simply because he tries to translate everything possible into a Windows framework. Linux is not harder than Windows, it's just different and my advice to new users has always been to approach Linux repeating the mantra "I know JACK about Linux". Myself, I don't use Windows and haven't done so for over 10 years, but it's the one for which I get calls for help and is most imposing on my time. When Vista is in the wild and I get a call for help, as I'm bound to, my response will be, "you have a problem, don't ask me" - I wont touch it with a barge pole so they'll have to rely on paying dearly for Microsoft or dealership for support, keeping true to their religion.
It's of minimal use to me if I can't have the Documentation CD which also means you can't get patches and have to wait for the next version to be put up for download. When surveyed via a phone call by Sun about Solaris 10, I told them I had no interest in Solaris x86 (last one I installed was Solaris 7) and I only run the 10 SPARC version. Both for myself and colleagues who use Linux, Solaris is cumbersome to admin. Now retired, my colleagues (ex-) tell me Solaris 10 is as buggy as hell, a daily pain when they have to support the great number of customers with top end SPARC hardware.
As a Tech Support guy for over 30 years, mainframes of all sizes and large Sun/Fujitsu SPARC servers, the funniest stories come from Support Desk personnel. Like the guy who tried telling me that running an Oscilloscope off 110 Volt rather than 240V would have damaged it - this was on a faulty return from the manufacturer's annual service. Next was when I reported that the CD/DVD-ROM drive on my new 64-bit laptop was not being recognised by the BIOS - on hearing that I was running Linux, the guy's supervisor asked him to tell me that Linux wrote to the BIOS and may have corrupted it. Just as I was about to tell him his supervisor was talking out the top of his hat, it started working - problem appeared to be a bad contact as I only had to press hard on the caddy whenever I got the problem - since reseated and OK.
Lenovo can't control the PC industry worldwide and they can't sell to the US government. May be IBM sold them a pup. Linux has never depended on any hardware franchise so their decision is a non-event.
May be we have more sympathy for the poor Chinese oppressed by such laws under a dictatorship than we have for ourselves with the same laws under democracies.
It's amazing that no one has taken up the idea and marketed it, it seems so simple now all the hard work has been done. Standard bit of hardware and get a production line going. If TIVO sells, so should this solution, it beats anything else available.
Mythtv/mythplugins, Knoppmyth in a box that's is suitable to be placed in her ladyship's living room will reliably do it all. I guess it's a rush to get something out there from a well-known hardware maker. Pity they could have used the good stuff mentioned above and spared themselves blushes. What comes next, a patent?
Somone said similar about the transistor, so I am trying to repeat history, hoping I'll be proved wrong. I can remember all those years ago when we were promised laser home lighting, brighter than the mid-day sun, consuming very little power and everlasting. Obviously not an attractive business model when stacked against the under-rated fuses that pass for light bulbs. Here's hoping some startup can gain the finance to bring OLED lights to market in a big way.
Seems it's not the only thing he lied about, the Microsoft "Linux Reference Center" advert says he saved millions by choosing Windows over Linux, but we already knew that was a falsehood.
When you produce crud you have also to produce FUD as the easy way to try to defray the perception that your products are singularly bad. The sole job and raison-d'etre for their Linux lab is to produce factitious/fictitious data showing that Linux is more insecure, vulnerable and unstable, more costly and limited in terms of every metric known to man than Windows. You have to give them 5/10 for their efforts at FUD and 10/10 for their advertising of Linux as I'm sure here are many who hadn't heard of Linux or paid it any attention before Microsoft alerted them to it.
I'm not sure whether this is a "dog bites man" or "man bites dog" story. Many governments are doing this. In the UK, it was used successfully to trace IRA bombers and others and in one case to prove the accused in one case were no where near the crime scene. UK, US, China, Russia and wherever, personal technology like the web and email records store copies of what we do. It has good and bad sides, the bad side is when something you said is misconstrued and you are made to suffer, e.g if this communication is picked up, traced for certain keywords and I'm placed on a list of dangerous persons. Posting anonymously won't hide anyone either.
Incorrect, names were based on the ability of people to learn their meanings. Remember the computer users at the time were not the modern 2 finger dummies, but pretty quick on the uptake types.
More like the latter. Over price your product by 250%, give a 20% discount and you you can with luck be viewed as contributing something worthwhile. I bet the outflow of cash from those receiving the so-called charity dwarfs the cash back.
He perhaps is unaware of what his company is doing with regarding to content and no one told him that the MPAA and the movie studios are his close partners. May be he used the word "Consumers", in Microsoft speak, it means the captives. Wembley Stadium, perhaps Nottingham next where he can come back as the Sheriff of Nottingham, except these days he would be loved for stealing from the poor and doling them back a pittance.
Microsoft advising Nigeria on security? ... Forgive them father for they know what they do.
Lawmakers are increasingly trying to put as much power over our lives into fewer and fewer hands, substituting big government and Soviet style central control with small government and control by monopolies. Both systems call themselves democratic and both stink.
Simply, the organised groups are too slippery for them and they don't have access to the guys who buy one DVD and make many copies to give to friends and family. It's almost like speed cameras, speeding motorists present themselves, most armed robbers do not.
I met the first one back in 1978 as site engineer called in to a mainframe customer's site. I was just about to put in a diagnostic floppy when he collared me into making some phone calls to our management. The upshot of it all, we got a Director to load his car up with spares heading off on a 130+ mile journey, we had a support guy travelling and a Jet standing by at Amsterdam airport read to fly in a spare. I sat down, put in the floppy and the diags called a board that we had in the cupboard. Machine up and working, we turned everyone around. Next day I asked the shift leader about this mysterious problem they had earlier in the week, he told me the guy didn't know what he was talking about. The Manager was very pleased at the way he had handled the problem. In retrospect, I think he was groomed for failure by a literate and knowlegeable IT Director who was leaving the company, this Manager was fired some months later. The Shift Leader resigned earlier after the Manager had insisted he did his appraisal and he objected on the grounds that the Manager didn't know enough to give him an appraisal. Unless he's the boss' close relative, he'll be found out and fired, if he is a relative, he'll get a job in some other department.
Don't you just love those companies whose businesses are solidly based on Linux, whose products run on Linux, but don't cater for the Linux user? Google, TomTom and even some Linux-based firewalls that don't support Linux clients.
I remember when the Evil Empire of the Soviet Union was doing even more moderate restrictive things and how we reviled them. It seems the objections were not based on what they did, but on the one-party system under which they were done and being a Democracy legitimises the same vile practices for us. Welcome to the Lunatic Asylum we call Planet Earth.
Judge on what they do not what they say. They propagandise, slander and dismiss everything OSS. Their deeds speak to me louder, their words don't comfort or appease me. At times their actions and words coincide, it's all anti-OSS.
I've often said that you can always tell where the most objectionable regimes are, their names start off with "The Democratic Republic of .....". We now hear "Freedom" and "Democracy" dripping from the lips of politicians like the sweetest sauce. May be no one owns these politicians, but like whores, they are paid. Freedom is a straight-jacket and Democracy is more of a Shamocracry. Perhaps we are moving into a world where the unauthorised writing of software will be a criminal offence.
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