I'd like this because where I live, my phone company is very lazy, my neighbors all around me can get dsl and highspeed, some reason, we're ineligible, yet the wiring in the houses are the same (and before people reply arguing how do I know, blah blah blah, you're a moron, etc trying to be righteous like so many people have done when I mention that) I've checked, and I also live in a condominium, we all have the same wiring specs. but anyways, this wuldb e a nice thing to have seeing as it goes faster than conventional dsl (IIRC) and it can go anywhere, it's a nice step towards gettong the nation connected so at least we can start heading for the bigger stuff (like fibre in the home, etc)
and maybe that's it, maybe a lot of the male gamers are anegerd by the fact women dont act like them, they might go "pwned" or some shit, but they act very nonchalant(sp?) and I think that cool calm attitude pisses off most already enraged men.
hell, look how pissed off your fellow gamers get when they lose a game.. they're like "GAAAAAH and throw a tantrum. (not necessarily in your own clan) while most women (depending on what time of the month it is, or just how they are) will be like "dammit, oh well, back into the fray."
And I think it's the fear of "being beaten by a girl" mostly.
women get treated like crap in both by sexist users and gamers.
doesnt suprise me that they get left out of the same brackets as males, because sadly, a lot of gaming geeks and geeks out there dont see women worth their time, not all, but a good handful do.
My kristen is into gaming and computers, she codes, and plays ragnarok online, some other rpg's and dance dance revolution. though, given the incentive, she can prolly kick anyone's ass in any FPS you throw at her.
It must be a male ego thing, girls toting around guns threatens men I guess, never has threatened me (except when they point them at me. yike.) virtual or not. not to mention you check several BBS' online and you see women getting treated like shit when they talk about something they accomplished in linux for being first time users, they get all sorts of trolling and sexist remarks. and these people wonder why they cant get laid.. sheesh..
anyways, I'd love to see some girls take on some dudes at UT2k4 for a few rounds. see who gets pwned.
as I recall, windows has been slammed with more junk and exploited in the past few months, how accurate is this survey? are they counting from day one or the past year?
honestly to me, seeing this coming from a mac site, where most mac fanboys are heavily biased, and biased against whatever is going to be their next rival, it wouldnt surprise me if this article was a le, though I bet the linux stats arent far off because there are so many n00bs that go over to linux, run a box, dont secure it because linux zealots tell them it's secure, giving them an impression that they dont have to do shit to secure it, or they run everything as root, and say "well, no one will hack me." it's the matter of the windows users who didnt secure windows, not securing linux, and running all the "cool" server stuff.
however, I question the merit of that study. noting how linux recently topped apple's marketshare on the desktop front, now linux is a threat, and since it has muscle, why not make it look really bad compared to windows and "befriend" windows a bit in this study?
I'm theorizing, but I think more distros need to add firewalling security policies (ones a normal user can understand) and asked what kind of system they'll be running on the install (desktop and entertainment or server or both) on the more newbie friendly systems, not to mention they didnt name a specific distro, another classic case of someone not understanding linux.they assume it's just an operating system like windows or mac. which distros did they look at or test? redhat? mandrake? systems that dont put good security up for a public server in the first place? (which most new users like using?)
I'm getting a ccna as a backup for my career (gonna work up to ccie), personally, I see certs as a pain in the ass, If I ran a company, I'd rather test out all hopeful applicants on a simulation before actually being hired, test their work in a situation where it's needed. not some fancy title saying they're smart, sadly, this is what my family goes on, and this is why I dont even get recognition with my inlaws about my knowledge on computers, and why my uncle in law's son gets all the recognition, because he attended one of these joke tech schools, paid 10 grand to get in, and got some pretty certs. that's about it, and not to mention he's been in jail a few times between graduation and now for drug possession, and other misc crap.
point is, I would be testing ability over a face plate, certs are all fine and nice, but does that mean you actually took the course or absorbed the information? Personally, I think companies need to check ability. sadly, for most computer related jobs, (schools, common businesses, etc) all you need to know is how to startup windows, get the network running and in order, and twiddle your thumbs. mostly in schools. our school tech is an MSCE, has a nice expensive car, etc.. but, he's insecure, he panics, he jumps to conclusions, accuses people for his shortcomings, etc. which isnt a good tech for you. he tried to have the computer repair class taken out because he though they were messing with "his" network.. so I get pissed, look at it one day (this is about after a week of network downtime and he still couldnt figure what happened.) it was so simple it hurt. he had plugged a patch cable into the back of a hub in the wrong port... should have been in the uplin port to the wall.
another case of "certification"
most people dont seem to understand, you may need certs, but the steps to get them are not what is gonna teach you, you gotta learn the good stuff on the side.
they have an xserver in the works, currently using the basic fbdev server for older systems for minute linux (well, the xserver is half done atm, trying to figure out a good way to package it atm)
it's under the xfree86 v1.0 license as well, so it's a bit friendlier.
Honestly, the management behind xfree86 is getting rediculous, and it wont survive into the next few years if the alternatives start showing improvement over it..
this reminds me EXACTLY of that, when guy montague was being chsed by the robotic hound, he jumped into a stream and the firemen and the hound lost him, so they went and found some random guy in the street, and killed him brutally just to ensure people would be satisfied that the firemen (who enforced the law and burned houses and books) did their job perfectly..
that's what will prolly happen with m$ as well.. get the wrong guy, the FBI will make up charges and shit on the man and ruin his life, throw him in jail for many years, while the real man goes free, and there's nothing anyone can do about it because thanks to president bush, the FBI has a police-state like power now and they're unquestionable, unless you want to be called a terrorist and be tortured to death in another country.
The real diamond people are gonna keep buying real diamonds as long as they have the money, this is a better solution to "OH SHIT! I forgot to pay the $20,000 wedding ring" problem, personally, I think this is great, because if I want to give my girl a nice ring, I can.
however, for them to waste this on the jewelry industry is what bothers me, the fact that now we can create diamond is something we need to embrace because we can now make diamond-tipped drills and saws cheaper, and can make quality car parts, (aka, racing parts for real muscle cars) etc.
That's where the money is.
of course, people do like shiny things so jewelry will prolly suffice, all I say is that it's a giant waste of a new source of one of the toughest elements in nature.
maybe what these zealots have been saying about bsd is true.. it's dead, and apple chose a dying horse to ride.
though apple has been a dying horse for a while now.
have to hand it to them for sticking in there for so long and trying to bend to new technologies, one of these days they may get it right before the last nail gets put in the coffin.
I've seen so many "yes, it will cause problems" and "no it wont"
and theer are people who get only binaries, but hey, if you're smart, and you have a system like debian,and keep email updates, you'll be fine, if the package servers get hacked, they shut them down, and tell people not to try to fetch packages...
with microsoft it's "holy shit! someone found a security leak!" "shhh, shut up moron! we knew about that leak already, wanna get us in trouble?!" "no... ok." "we'll release a patch once some damage has been done so we dont look bad." "Sounds like a plan!"
opensource, you might get a vulnerability, but, it'll get fixed quickly and you'll know about it asap.
is the fact that if new businesses try to start up here and offer new jobs, they quickly get bought out, the US workers get laid off and the job opputurnity goes to india or some random country.
I thought there were laws to stop monopolistic actions like these.
not to mention, this will also crush the big industries as well since their income relies on the US economy as well, dont poke a hole in the bottom of the feed bag that keeps your food. or else you'll just plain out starve because what's gonna keep these companies' monetary values up? the indian economy?
yeah right. if the US economny drops out, it hurts everyone. but of course, these guys only see what will benefit them at the moment, most of them do see what will happen and will take the company's money and jump ship.
As much as I'd love to see these bastards get what they deserve for ripping off customers and jerking around employees, the effect of their stupidity will result in everyone hurting, large corporations when they get monopolistic and start abusing their positions turn into life force draining leeches and destroy all competitors and grab money from all markets, and use foriegn resources to do the job..
what will this meta data do with older windows versions or other operating systems? will it lock them out from viewing longhorn only data?
you better bet the farm.
microsoft isnt only locking in the bios, they're locking everything in.
it's like if you read the libjpeg readme, jpeg isnt a concrete format it can be icompatible with itself. and microsoft will possibly create data on each file that their software will produce and any other programs on the system, or older windows versions or any other system will be locked out from viewing those file besides let's say....Microsoft photoready. (wouldnt be surprised if they came up with that cliched name)
personally, this winfs search crap is another front for lockIN, and really, I hope people react the way microsoft expects them not to do, flock to an alternate OS
not to mention once programs like photoshop need to use this technology to run on windows, and it would hurt their macos support, not to mention they'd have to pay royalties for it, I think Adobe would start shifting away, and many gaming companies would prolly start flocking as well, because they dont want to put up with this shit, I think atm, the way XP crashes (where if you need to poweroff the system, you cant because XP controls the power on and off of the system) is about how far people are gonna take it.
Teacher next to my third period class has had it with his current XP set up because it just keeps getting viruses that cripple the system, and he spendsmore money and time repairing it than actually being able to use it.
and microsoft wants to lock us into this sort of bullshit? riight, once I told him about linux, he started sound a bit interested in it.
You show people something they havent seen before, plus it being stable, and showing general advantages, they will use it. most people are trained to think you have to pay for quality.
hell, this woman was selling a bunch of computer parts for 5 bucks yesterday (got me a nice monitor, hehe) and she said that these old games she had for her children no longer worked on XP, so she just got new ones.
reason people havent flocked over to linux is because it's completely new to them and their neighbor doesnt use it, but your typical grandmother or parent or average joe will get it as long as it works garaunteed. to your more geekcentric user, it takes more convincing.
but to get back onto my original point, microsoft is gambling with this metadata crap. it's either going to make or break them. not to mention if another manufacturer offers support for older windows systems and linux and alternatives, epople would gladly flock to that instead of this new system which doesnt work well with their older stuff. though then again, they might just flock to it because it's the latest thing and they're willing to change. this is something I think all desktop linux companies need to keep in mind.
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I'm interested in it, can anyone give me any good links on clustering with linux?
and thus taco posted the link, killing it in the process.
lame, yeah I know.
I managed to hack an old cdrom drive back into silicon dust!
I misread that as "in case of a metroid strike"
I'd be like "HOLY SHIT, the life suckers are here! quick! get samus aran on the damn line!"
I'd like this because where I live, my phone company is very lazy, my neighbors all around me can get dsl and highspeed, some reason, we're ineligible, yet the wiring in the houses are the same (and before people reply arguing how do I know, blah blah blah, you're a moron, etc trying to be righteous like so many people have done when I mention that) I've checked, and I also live in a condominium, we all have the same wiring specs. but anyways, this wuldb e a nice thing to have seeing as it goes faster than conventional dsl (IIRC) and it can go anywhere, it's a nice step towards gettong the nation connected so at least we can start heading for the bigger stuff (like fibre in the home, etc)
well, in most emergencies, I think it wouldnt be an issue because usually when they're needed, the power's out anyways, so no powerline internet, ;)
and maybe that's it, maybe a lot of the male gamers are anegerd by the fact women dont act like them, they might go "pwned" or some shit, but they act very nonchalant(sp?) and I think that cool calm attitude pisses off most already enraged men.
hell, look how pissed off your fellow gamers get when they lose a game.. they're like "GAAAAAH and throw a tantrum. (not necessarily in your own clan)
while most women (depending on what time of the month it is, or just how they are) will be like "dammit, oh well, back into the fray."
And I think it's the fear of "being beaten by a girl" mostly.
women get treated like crap in both by sexist users and gamers.
doesnt suprise me that they get left out of the same brackets as males, because sadly, a lot of gaming geeks and geeks out there dont see women worth their time, not all, but a good handful do.
My kristen is into gaming and computers, she codes, and plays ragnarok online, some other rpg's and dance dance revolution.
though, given the incentive, she can prolly kick anyone's ass in any FPS you throw at her.
It must be a male ego thing, girls toting around guns threatens men I guess, never has threatened me (except when they point them at me. yike.)
virtual or not. not to mention you check several BBS' online and you see women getting treated like shit when they talk about something they accomplished in linux for being first time users, they get all sorts of trolling and sexist remarks. and these people wonder why they cant get laid..
sheesh..
anyways, I'd love to see some girls take on some dudes at UT2k4 for a few rounds. see who gets pwned.
funny seeing this kind of article...
as I recall, windows has been slammed with more junk and exploited in the past few months, how accurate is this survey?
are they counting from day one or the past year?
honestly to me, seeing this coming from a mac site, where most mac fanboys are heavily biased, and biased against whatever is going to be their next rival, it wouldnt surprise me if this article was a le, though I bet the linux stats arent far off because there are so many n00bs that go over to linux, run a box, dont secure it because linux zealots tell them it's secure, giving them an impression that they dont have to do shit to secure it, or they run everything as root, and say "well, no one will hack me." it's the matter of the windows users who didnt secure windows, not securing linux, and running all the "cool" server stuff.
however, I question the merit of that study.
noting how linux recently topped apple's marketshare on the desktop front, now linux is a threat, and since it has muscle, why not make it look really bad compared to windows and "befriend" windows a bit in this study?
I'm theorizing, but I think more distros need to add firewalling security policies (ones a normal user can understand) and asked what kind of system they'll be running on the install (desktop and entertainment or server or both) on the more newbie friendly systems, not to mention they didnt name a specific distro, another classic case of someone not understanding linux.they assume it's just an operating system like windows or mac.
which distros did they look at or test? redhat? mandrake? systems that dont put good security up for a public server in the first place? (which most new users like using?)
gimme a damn break.
I'm getting a ccna as a backup for my career (gonna work up to ccie), personally, I see certs as a pain in the ass, If I ran a company, I'd rather test out all hopeful applicants on a simulation before actually being hired, test their work in a situation where it's needed. not some fancy title saying they're smart, sadly, this is what my family goes on, and this is why I dont even get recognition with my inlaws about my knowledge on computers, and why my uncle in law's son gets all the recognition, because he attended one of these joke tech schools, paid 10 grand to get in, and got some pretty certs. that's about it, and not to mention he's been in jail a few times between graduation and now for drug possession, and other misc crap.
point is, I would be testing ability over a face plate, certs are all fine and nice, but does that mean you actually took the course or absorbed the information?
Personally, I think companies need to check ability. sadly, for most computer related jobs, (schools, common businesses, etc) all you need to know is how to startup windows, get the network running and in order, and twiddle your thumbs. mostly in schools. our school tech is an MSCE, has a nice expensive car, etc.. but, he's insecure, he panics, he jumps to conclusions, accuses people for his shortcomings, etc. which isnt a good tech for you. he tried to have the computer repair class taken out because he though they were messing with "his" network.. so I get pissed, look at it one day (this is about after a week of network downtime and he still couldnt figure what happened.) it was so simple it hurt. he had plugged a patch cable into the back of a hub in the wrong port... should have been in the uplin port to the wall.
another case of "certification"
most people dont seem to understand, you may need certs, but the steps to get them are not what is gonna teach you, you gotta learn the good stuff on the side.
sounds like you have too much free times on your hand, too much free time...
they have an xserver in the works, currently using the basic fbdev server for older systems for minute linux (well, the xserver is half done atm, trying to figure out a good way to package it atm)
it's under the xfree86 v1.0 license as well, so it's a bit friendlier.
Honestly, the management behind xfree86 is getting rediculous, and it wont survive into the next few years if the alternatives start showing improvement over it..
especially considering little rock looks like hell, and has a park called "toad suck"
little rock was kinda scary, actually.
Can you hear me now? .... ...
hello?
OH MY GOD! WHAT HAVE I DONE WITH MY LIFE?! *shoots self*
Verizon: dont use cell phone jammers!
I think that commercial would encourage cell phone jammers..
wonder how long until the guy gets interrogated for "stealing the win2k source code" for this.
seriously, he may or may not, but microsoft's on a witch hunt atm, and this guy releases this.
That and they might be pissed for not thinking of doing this sooner.
prolly more than likely get sued, then after they win, they'd come out with a live cd distro.
on another note, this could prove useful to those who dont know shit about linux and want to repair XP or other windows builds.
this reminds me EXACTLY of that, when guy montague was being chsed by the robotic hound, he jumped into a stream and the firemen and the hound lost him, so they went and found some random guy in the street, and killed him brutally just to ensure people would be satisfied that the firemen (who enforced the law and burned houses and books) did their job perfectly..
that's what will prolly happen with m$ as well..
get the wrong guy, the FBI will make up charges and shit on the man and ruin his life, throw him in jail for many years, while the real man goes free, and there's nothing anyone can do about it because thanks to president bush, the FBI has a police-state like power now and they're unquestionable, unless you want to be called a terrorist and be tortured to death in another country.
The real diamond people are gonna keep buying real diamonds as long as they have the money, this is a better solution to "OH SHIT! I forgot to pay the $20,000 wedding ring" problem, personally, I think this is great, because if I want to give my girl a nice ring, I can.
however, for them to waste this on the jewelry industry is what bothers me, the fact that now we can create diamond is something we need to embrace because we can now make diamond-tipped drills and saws cheaper, and can make quality car parts, (aka, racing parts for real muscle cars) etc.
That's where the money is.
of course, people do like shiny things so jewelry will prolly suffice, all I say is that it's a giant waste of a new source of one of the toughest elements in nature.
maybe what these zealots have been saying about bsd is true.. it's dead, and apple chose a dying horse to ride.
though apple has been a dying horse for a while now.
have to hand it to them for sticking in there for so long and trying to bend to new technologies, one of these days they may get it right before the last nail gets put in the coffin.
I have a biiig question, does anyone knowo f any good sip phones besides kphone?
stuff that doesnt rely on kde or anything besides GTK?
someone patent the english language!
I've seen so many "yes, it will cause problems" and "no it wont"
and theer are people who get only binaries, but hey, if you're smart, and you have a system like debian,and keep email updates, you'll be fine, if the package servers get hacked, they shut them down, and tell people not to try to fetch packages...
with microsoft it's "holy shit! someone found a security leak!" "shhh, shut up moron! we knew about that leak already, wanna get us in trouble?!" "no... ok." "we'll release a patch once some damage has been done so we dont look bad." "Sounds like a plan!"
opensource, you might get a vulnerability, but, it'll get fixed quickly and you'll know about it asap.
is the fact that if new businesses try to start up here and offer new jobs, they quickly get bought out, the US workers get laid off and the job opputurnity goes to india or some random country.
I thought there were laws to stop monopolistic actions like these.
not to mention, this will also crush the big industries as well since their income relies on the US economy as well, dont poke a hole in the bottom of the feed bag that keeps your food. or else you'll just plain out starve
because what's gonna keep these companies' monetary values up? the indian economy?
yeah right. if the US economny drops out, it hurts everyone. but of course, these guys only see what will benefit them at the moment, most of them do see what will happen and will take the company's money and jump ship.
As much as I'd love to see these bastards get what they deserve for ripping off customers and jerking around employees, the effect of their stupidity will result in everyone hurting, large corporations when they get monopolistic and start abusing their positions turn into life force draining leeches and destroy all competitors and grab money from all markets, and use foriegn resources to do the job..
it's gonna be a mess.
what do they think them shadows are made from?!
maybe on a small part of it..
jurassic park used mostly realistic models for most scenes and prolly used video toaster to add in the models for some scenes.
for most 3d stuff, they used SGI's technology.
what will this meta data do with older windows versions or other operating systems?
will it lock them out from viewing longhorn only data?
you better bet the farm.
microsoft isnt only locking in the bios, they're locking everything in.
it's like if you read the libjpeg readme, jpeg isnt a concrete format it can be icompatible with itself.
and microsoft will possibly create data on each file that their software will produce and any other programs on the system, or older windows versions or any other system will be locked out from viewing those file besides let's say....Microsoft photoready. (wouldnt be surprised if they came up with that cliched name)
personally, this winfs search crap is another front for lockIN, and really, I hope people react the way microsoft expects them not to do, flock to an alternate OS
not to mention once programs like photoshop need to use this technology to run on windows, and it would hurt their macos support, not to mention they'd have to pay royalties for it, I think Adobe would start shifting away, and many gaming companies would prolly start flocking as well, because they dont want to put up with this shit, I think atm, the way XP crashes (where if you need to poweroff the system, you cant because XP controls the power on and off of the system) is about how far people are gonna take it.
Teacher next to my third period class has had it with his current XP set up because it just keeps getting viruses that cripple the system, and he spendsmore money and time repairing it than actually being able to use it.
and microsoft wants to lock us into this sort of bullshit? riight, once I told him about linux, he started sound a bit interested in it.
You show people something they havent seen before, plus it being stable, and showing general advantages, they will use it. most people are trained to think you have to pay for quality.
hell, this woman was selling a bunch of computer parts for 5 bucks yesterday (got me a nice monitor, hehe) and she said that these old games she had for her children no longer worked on XP, so she just got new ones.
reason people havent flocked over to linux is because it's completely new to them and their neighbor doesnt use it, but your typical grandmother or parent or average joe will get it as long as it works garaunteed. to your more geekcentric user, it takes more convincing.
but to get back onto my original point, microsoft is gambling with this metadata crap.
it's either going to make or break them.
not to mention if another manufacturer offers support for older windows systems and linux and alternatives, epople would gladly flock to that instead of this new system which doesnt work well with their older stuff. though then again, they might just flock to it because it's the latest thing and they're willing to change. this is something I think all desktop linux companies need to keep in mind.