I spent a slice of life attaining a City & Guilds (UK qualification) in C programming. As part of the course we were required to learn COBOL (ugh, if I ever see the word "pic" again in a variable...) and basic RSA grade 1 skills.
RSA skills required WP DB and SS. The only time in my life I had come accross these things, bearing in mind that my ZX-81 upgraded to a Spectrum+, and the next machine I had was an 8086... was when I "found" a copy of MS Works (v1.0 I believe, or 2.0. The college doing the RSA gave us DBase III, WP 5.1 and... I forget what SS we used.
I went home and acquired MS Office to play with and was all edumacated within a week.
The point is that MS software was more easily available to me at the time because everyone had it to rip from. Only businesses and organisations that were accountable for their licenses had anything else.
AC replied to you that XMMS is the Linux version of Winamp.
I don't believe this to be so. I tried XMMS when it was young, and it seemed to me that they were building it from their own code to be as much like Winamp as possible, from the UI POV.
XMMS is a direct replacement for Winamp for most people. It works well and plays tunes.
XMMS is one of the few programs that I actually say "as good as the Windows app" about.
I don't know if this still holds true, but the Communicator was one of the worst phone ever for returns due to breakages.
I wouldn't like to suggest a corelation with the workforce, because that would be racist, but was teh 8210 also made in Finland? That phone has to have the shortest life of any mobile device outside of a firecracker.
I agree for the main, but running your own SMTP server these days is a PITA when the person you sent to is on AOhelL. I keep my hotmail account just for those unlucky people that haven't found the internet yet.
MSN is the second most visited website (your claim) because Hotmail wipes your arse with it on the way out.
And with Hotmail being so popular, thats a whole load of arses to be wiping.
You mean I can break any license I want if it's unenforcable? I can just say "they can't catch me" and that's a valid legal reason to declare a license void?
That pretty much what the RIAA and other special interest groups are contributing the.GOV into doing to the Constitution, isn't it?
They think they can erode the rights of every Citizen in the US because no one can out-lawyer them, and its working.
Assuming this is product placement, do you not feel that this kind of targeted marketing is a much better solution than many others?
I put it to you that we are all here to read about nerdy stuff like digital photography and other assorted boys toys anyhow, so why not put interesting thoughts about those toys in our way?
I personally clicked on this article in the hopes that I would have advertising pointed at me because I know next to nothing about DSLR cameras, and feel that many many/. inteligentsia (and the other 99% of registered users) can do the monkey/typewriter thing with this topic as they have with all the others on the site.
Product placement is less offensive than spam, cold calling, TV/news/radio ads and even banner ads (which are the easiest of all to filter out).
Sorry to go off on you so undeservedly, but when an advertising medium that is bearable comes under fire merely for being advertising, I tend to try and elevate it from the gutter.
Working on the assumption that you didn't put this in just to troll...
Has the command line stripped out with EVERYTHING, I MEAN EVERYTHING possible for the GUI, NO EXCEPTIONS, not even for Emacs zealots)
There you go, spoiling it. You described the perfect OS until you said that.
The command line is NECESSARY you dolt. Necessary, as in, can't live without. As in no matter how pretty you make your OS it still runs on text, and you have to get to that text sometimes. If you want nothing but pictures, grab the funnypages. In this world the command line lets you fix problems that arise in ways that they never teach you in college. Its the command line that keeps people like me in employment while kids straight out of university are still scratching their heads over how to write shell scripts.
I download the ISO's so that I can use them as virtual CDs in many situations. Right now my Linux\Distros directory has RedHat, Gentoo, Slackware, Debian, SuSE, TinyLinux and Smoothwall in it. That's a lot of GB just full of ISOs and accumulated driver sources. I keep that HD formatted to fat32 so that I can use it read/write in Lin/Win.
Mount them after booting from a floppy and installing the system
Mount them with alcohol and share them in windows (or indeed FTP as you suggested)
Mount the ISOs as virtual CDs for VMware use
P2P the ISOs so that other people can get them too. After all, sharing the install files widens the userbase, no?
Then I can even (I think I have done this twice) burn them and post them to a friend that has dialup.
I advocate SuSE to people because it has KDE, and less RedHat proprietry software in it. SuSE works on my system right out of the box, and YOU is easy to use and works as well as any other update (including windowsupdate) I have tried.
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I don't really see how this one could be used for porn (at least not for the paralyzed person)
How about giving them the ability to masturbate? Does that count under the pr0n canopy?
According to an article I read recently its pr0n that makes all technological advances develop.
And yes, I am pissed that I can't find the URL of it. How did you guess?
3. Profit!!!!
Is it Firebird?
I see Firebird as the next big browser. Konqueror was almost a permanent replacement for IE, but Firebird IS.
Wasn't V7.0 of WMP supposed to be the one to keep a copy of because it did DVD playback? Subsequently removed via windowsupdate?
What you say rings true from life experience.
... I forget what SS we used.
I spent a slice of life attaining a City & Guilds (UK qualification) in C programming. As part of the course we were required to learn COBOL (ugh, if I ever see the word "pic" again in a variable...) and basic RSA grade 1 skills.
RSA skills required WP DB and SS. The only time in my life I had come accross these things, bearing in mind that my ZX-81 upgraded to a Spectrum+, and the next machine I had was an 8086... was when I "found" a copy of MS Works (v1.0 I believe, or 2.0. The college doing the RSA gave us DBase III, WP 5.1 and
I went home and acquired MS Office to play with and was all edumacated within a week.
The point is that MS software was more easily available to me at the time because everyone had it to rip from. Only businesses and organisations that were accountable for their licenses had anything else.
AC replied to you that XMMS is the Linux version of Winamp.
I don't believe this to be so. I tried XMMS when it was young, and it seemed to me that they were building it from their own code to be as much like Winamp as possible, from the UI POV.
XMMS is a direct replacement for Winamp for most people. It works well and plays tunes.
XMMS is one of the few programs that I actually say "as good as the Windows app" about.
I don't know if this still holds true, but the Communicator was one of the worst phone ever for returns due to breakages.
I wouldn't like to suggest a corelation with the workforce, because that would be racist, but was teh 8210 also made in Finland? That phone has to have the shortest life of any mobile device outside of a firecracker.
When Danny Glover goes into the predator ship, there is a whole shitload of dry ice filling up the floorspace, I suppose that's warm, right? lol
Can I ask a stupid question, and say
Why not jsut download it and install it yourself?
Actually, in predator 2, the predator feeds in a cold storage warehouse.
Remember the place with the radiation dust and predator changes his vision mode to UV?
I incorporated the search form from google. co.uk on my startpage.
I just fell in love with Mozilla Firebird because its fast and has a Google search box on the toolbar as standard, with incremental search terms.
I agree for the main, but running your own SMTP server these days is a PITA when the person you sent to is on AOhelL. I keep my hotmail account just for those unlucky people that haven't found the internet yet.
MSN is the second most visited website (your claim) because Hotmail wipes your arse with it on the way out.
And with Hotmail being so popular, thats a whole load of arses to be wiping.
To carry that further:
They acquire the secrets, build them into the next release, wait for the lawsuit, then buy the company out as a settlement.
In these cases, they need specialized, very vertical market software where there isn't a viable open source alternative. What do they do?
Write one? Or spend a little of that IT budget they just saved millions on to pay someone to write one?
You mean I can break any license I want if it's unenforcable? I can just say "they can't catch me" and that's a valid legal reason to declare a license void?
.GOV into doing to the Constitution, isn't it?
That pretty much what the RIAA and other special interest groups are contributing the
They think they can erode the rights of every Citizen in the US because no one can out-lawyer them, and its working.
How many people here know how to Google bomb?
How about Utter prick?
If you use Ad-Aware, the Pro version comes with Ad-Watch that will monitor for all kinds of Spyware installation as you use your Windows box.
LavaSoft Ad-Aware
Doesn't matter nobody RTFA anyway!!!
True, but we did all go to vector's site and download the ISO, right?
There is Mozilla Firebird in VL 4.0
Which, incidentally, won't partition a VMware hard drive without dropping to command line and using fdisk.
Its neat, pretty, fast and simple. Its a great distro for schools, I'm gonna give it to my kid to play with.
I'm a washed up comedian and use those jokes to survive on, you insensitive clod!
Assuming this is product placement, do you not feel that this kind of targeted marketing is a much better solution than many others?
I put it to you that we are all here to read about nerdy stuff like digital photography and other assorted boys toys anyhow, so why not put interesting thoughts about those toys in our way?
I personally clicked on this article in the hopes that I would have advertising pointed at me because I know next to nothing about DSLR cameras, and feel that many many /. inteligentsia (and the other 99% of registered users) can do the monkey/typewriter thing with this topic as they have with all the others on the site.
Product placement is less offensive than spam, cold calling, TV/news/radio ads and even banner ads (which are the easiest of all to filter out).
Sorry to go off on you so undeservedly, but when an advertising medium that is bearable comes under fire merely for being advertising, I tend to try and elevate it from the gutter.
Working on the assumption that you didn't put this in just to troll ...
Has the command line stripped out with EVERYTHING, I MEAN EVERYTHING possible for the GUI, NO EXCEPTIONS, not even for Emacs zealots)
There you go, spoiling it. You described the perfect OS until you said that.
The command line is NECESSARY you dolt. Necessary, as in, can't live without. As in no matter how pretty you make your OS it still runs on text, and you have to get to that text sometimes. If you want nothing but pictures, grab the funnypages. In this world the command line lets you fix problems that arise in ways that they never teach you in college. Its the command line that keeps people like me in employment while kids straight out of university are still scratching their heads over how to write shell scripts.
I download the ISO's so that I can use them as virtual CDs in many situations. Right now my Linux\Distros directory has RedHat, Gentoo, Slackware, Debian, SuSE, TinyLinux and Smoothwall in it. That's a lot of GB just full of ISOs and accumulated driver sources. I keep that HD formatted to fat32 so that I can use it read/write in Lin/Win.
Mount them after booting from a floppy and installing the system
Mount them with alcohol and share them in windows (or indeed FTP as you suggested)
Mount the ISOs as virtual CDs for VMware use
P2P the ISOs so that other people can get them too. After all, sharing the install files widens the userbase, no?
Then I can even (I think I have done this twice) burn them and post them to a friend that has dialup.
I advocate SuSE to people because it has KDE, and less RedHat proprietry software in it. SuSE works on my system right out of the box, and YOU is easy to use and works as well as any other update (including windowsupdate) I have tried.