I am relatively computer literate, but if I have a choice between something that needs building from source, and a nice installer, well, computer savvy or not, I am also lazy.
You may be computer-literate, but obviously not Linux-literate. It's been years since I've had to build anything from source. The only thing I now choose to build from source is the kernel.
Linux has to compete against a company with such a huge reserve of cash, that the *plausible* endgame is that linux is a speck on the windshield.
Especially considering DMCA & the looming spectre of DRM.
I'm sorry to say this, because I both like and use Linux. But unlike alot of the fundamentalists on/., I'm a bit more of a realist.
Both my wife & I use Linux (she as a "user"), and I've had the same opinion for quite some time now. 56Bn USD is a lot of cash to buy congressmen and intimidate ISV/IHVs with.
Become a farmer. No one complains about them, and we certainly can't be outsourced.
You haven't looked carefully at package labels lately (or at all), have you?
The US imports a lot of food, from Viet Nam & China (shrimp, fish, crawfish), Central America (fruit, sugar), Argentina (beef, apples), Canada (beef, wheat), Brazil (beef), Mexico ("truck" farm vegetables), and countless other countries.
People will be coming to you, TO YOU, to buy things.
Yeah, like Archer Daniels Midland, General Mills, grocery mega-stores, and any other imaginable food processing giant.
Only he tinyist fraction of food in the US is sold at farmers' markets.
firewall to protect myself from all those x86-based Linux viruses around
Firewalls don't protect from viruses. They are one form of protection for internal networks (which may be running network daemons that have un-patched exploits) against Bad Guys trying to install rootkits, worms, etc onto hosts.
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It was only put there in the 2.4 kernel to boost static page speed rates, and was really meant as a demonstration.
khttpd was removed in the 2.5 kernel.
- billg is known to have told public lies.
- There is no proof that he said that about 640KB.
Thus, we can not say than it did happen, and we can't say that it didn't happen. I wouldn't be surprised if either was "truth".And sheep! Lots and lots of sheep!
In 1990, The Family Business paid ~8,000USD for an HP system that ran SCO Xenix, FoxBase+ and had:
- 486DX25
- 8MB RAM
- 2x 340MB HDD
- QIC-02 120MB tape drive
- an 8-port multi-serial card
- an HP dot-matrix printer
- 8x dumb terminals
Worked great for 8 years. HP made durable stuff back then....Umm, no.
My camera (a Kodak DX4530) was released just before Christmas, and it works fine with gphoto2.
There's no helping people who want to play the sims, though. (Hey, that works on two levels!)
Umm, no, again. http://www.transgaming.com/dogamesearch.php?keywor ds=sims&search=Search&working=0&order=work ing
You got a URL on that?
Guess you didn't RTFA, eh?
You may be computer-literate, but obviously not Linux-literate. It's been years since I've had to build anything from source. The only thing I now choose to build from source is the kernel.
"Not hot", on the other hand, she may get perturbed at.
Anyway, you can't tell much by looking at a professionally done, 75x100 thumbnail picture.
Especially considering DMCA & the looming spectre of DRM.
I'm sorry to say this, because I both like and use Linux. But unlike alot of the fundamentalists on /., I'm a bit more of a realist.
Both my wife & I use Linux (she as a "user"), and I've had the same opinion for quite some time now. 56Bn USD is a lot of cash to buy congressmen and intimidate ISV/IHVs with.
You haven't looked carefully at package labels lately (or at all), have you?
The US imports a lot of food, from Viet Nam & China (shrimp, fish, crawfish), Central America (fruit, sugar), Argentina (beef, apples), Canada (beef, wheat), Brazil (beef), Mexico ("truck" farm vegetables), and countless other countries.
People will be coming to you, TO YOU, to buy things.
Yeah, like Archer Daniels Midland, General Mills, grocery mega-stores, and any other imaginable food processing giant.
Only he tinyist fraction of food in the US is sold at farmers' markets.
What pray tell, shall he dye, after he's crashed? After all, he's dead...
Unless the internet is only a small part of his business, but relies heavily upon an intranet.
But it does, and it works perfectly....
Ummm, water wets you no matter where you are....
You really sounded like what you were talking about until this:commodores, 8086s,.
Firewalls don't protect from viruses. They are one form of protection for internal networks (which may be running network daemons that have un-patched exploits) against Bad Guys trying to install rootkits, worms, etc onto hosts.
IOW, serious, continuous number crunching (specifically, in this case, 64-bit integer and floating point numbers) where there's no need for a GUI.
Ummm, XEON isn't a 64-bit x86 chip.
And effectively prevent them from coming into my area....
Jeez, people, get a clue!
But SCO did kill Mother Teresa. Didn't you know that?
They were a crispy black by then. But then, we didn't blow them.