I know the article says he speaks at universities, but I already had a laugh over this concept because a couple of years ago a friend of mine had him as an instructor at NC State in North Carolina. He said the guy was funny..
i personally love the palm os, and pocket pc isn't terrible, but after selling pdas at omax, i kinda felt like the market was stale. sharp wasn't really able to get the zarus outthere widespread, mainly because of cost
maybe amds stuff can fix this problem, and a unit with a free os will actually be cheaper than one with a closed os
Mike sure has got his mind set on toppling the giant, more than any other individual (or company for that matter) i don't personally find his actual products all that appealing, but i certainly have enjoyed his ideas.
ive really started to think (just in the past month) that ms is really going to lose a bunch of market share. between this kind of crap making them look bad, all of the security issues, ibm's open source push, and sony's drm lawsuit, ms is finally getting pushed around by some big boys. they are major, but the us government, the us public, ibm, and sony, are all bigger.....
ive installed a lot of different distro's and i like a lot of them for different reasons. i certainly don't think that red hat and mandrake users are stupid, although red hat does sometimes give me this icky "AOL Linux nine-point-oh" feeling.
slack just seems to hold up better, and i don't run into as many things telling me that they won't install (like mosfet's liquid)
it was easy to install, worked with most of my hardware, and seemed to have a good answer for all of my questions. i really like some of this simple little scripted console tools, like netconfig and wmconfig (or whatever its called) they just seemed to work simply, and work well.
in addition, im used to the bsd style because i have learned so much by using FreeBSD and Slackware.
blocking ports is just gonna change the way that attacks occur. i just read the other day about people running ssh on port 80 to get through security loops, and how it was the best way to lose a job. i work for an isp and actually had a customer call after she got the blaster worm, and she started bitching at me that "YOU PEOPLE should have some way to protect me!"
catch is, if we did block 135, the worm coder would have just had to work a tiny bit harder to get in through 80 or 21 or somethign else.
although most of the calls i get are clueless individuals, many of the users we have (we still offer things like static dial up) are tech savvy, and would absolutely kill us for doing something like that.
does anyone else remember when everyone had a NES but almost nobody had a computer??
i know this reflects console and pc gaming, but its kinda intersting to think how home computers went from a very geeky relm to everybodies living room, and it seems that consoles have backed off. or else im just getting older....
ok, so here's my 2 cents. i used to work at office max, and during my time there i realized that the real problem with MS is Office. Windows 2k and XP aren't really that bad as operating systems, to be honest. And taking over the browser market wasn't even that bad. the real problem was when a family would come in, driving a messed car, and you can tell they are fighting to get ends to meet. kid is in school and needs to have MS word to do thier work. the family then buys MS Office for $400. The situation is better because they now have a student edition, but many can't even use that.
Office is where they really take advantage of people, and the software is OK, but so many other programs could be just as good.
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well, good idea, but the hitch is the "BUY" a mac part.
I know the article says he speaks at universities, but I already had a laugh over this concept because a couple of years ago a friend of mine had him as an instructor at NC State in North Carolina. He said the guy was funny..
somebody can enforce this, i will be happy. and hopefully this will lead to some sort of fight against spam also
i personally love the palm os, and pocket pc isn't terrible, but after selling pdas at omax, i kinda felt like the market was stale. sharp wasn't really able to get the zarus outthere widespread, mainly because of cost maybe amds stuff can fix this problem, and a unit with a free os will actually be cheaper than one with a closed os
Mike sure has got his mind set on toppling the giant, more than any other individual (or company for that matter) i don't personally find his actual products all that appealing, but i certainly have enjoyed his ideas. ive really started to think (just in the past month) that ms is really going to lose a bunch of market share. between this kind of crap making them look bad, all of the security issues, ibm's open source push, and sony's drm lawsuit, ms is finally getting pushed around by some big boys. they are major, but the us government, the us public, ibm, and sony, are all bigger.....
maybe first?
one of the first things it says is to remove the turntable............
what would forrest gump think?
ive installed a lot of different distro's and i like a lot of them for different reasons. i certainly don't think that red hat and mandrake users are stupid, although red hat does sometimes give me this icky "AOL Linux nine-point-oh" feeling. slack just seems to hold up better, and i don't run into as many things telling me that they won't install (like mosfet's liquid) it was easy to install, worked with most of my hardware, and seemed to have a good answer for all of my questions. i really like some of this simple little scripted console tools, like netconfig and wmconfig (or whatever its called) they just seemed to work simply, and work well. in addition, im used to the bsd style because i have learned so much by using FreeBSD and Slackware.
Wait, wait!!! This is the first time in recent memory that MS has done ANYTHING that i was happy to hear. hip-hip-horray!!!!
blocking ports is just gonna change the way that attacks occur. i just read the other day about people running ssh on port 80 to get through security loops, and how it was the best way to lose a job. i work for an isp and actually had a customer call after she got the blaster worm, and she started bitching at me that "YOU PEOPLE should have some way to protect me!" catch is, if we did block 135, the worm coder would have just had to work a tiny bit harder to get in through 80 or 21 or somethign else. although most of the calls i get are clueless individuals, many of the users we have (we still offer things like static dial up) are tech savvy, and would absolutely kill us for doing something like that.
does anyone else remember when everyone had a NES but almost nobody had a computer?? i know this reflects console and pc gaming, but its kinda intersting to think how home computers went from a very geeky relm to everybodies living room, and it seems that consoles have backed off. or else im just getting older....
ok, so here's my 2 cents. i used to work at office max, and during my time there i realized that the real problem with MS is Office. Windows 2k and XP aren't really that bad as operating systems, to be honest. And taking over the browser market wasn't even that bad. the real problem was when a family would come in, driving a messed car, and you can tell they are fighting to get ends to meet. kid is in school and needs to have MS word to do thier work. the family then buys MS Office for $400. The situation is better because they now have a student edition, but many can't even use that. Office is where they really take advantage of people, and the software is OK, but so many other programs could be just as good.