With Linux comes cheap x86 machines. Shortly after the x86 machines arrive people start running Windows. That is, the migration goes proprietary UNIX->Linux->Windows. Overall I have seen more Linux to Windows migrations than the other way around.
That's pretty interesting. I'd like to read what Microsoft's take is on this is since it would seem in some situations, Linux is actually expediting migration from Unix > Windows.
I'm curious, do you think that if Microsoft were to get into the OSS biz and release a distro of Linux, that they would be targeting this very migration pattern you're describing, or am I all wet on this?
If the evidence at our www.microsoft.com/getthefacts Web site doesn't sufficiently convey the benefits and value of the Microsoft platform, we want to hear from you so we can work even harder to get that information to you.
I can't wait to read the the response to his invitation.
Didn't the Guardian call for the assassination of the United States' President?
I agree with most of what you said, but the Guardian is not a good example. I don't think a US news outlet has ever called for the assassination of a British or European leader.
Funny you should ask........
Remember this little development last month?
The Pentagon doesn't want you to vote overseas http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/09/21/overs eas_voting/index_np.html A Web site maintained by the Department of Defense is blocking access to non-military Americans. Could it be worried that expatriates are leaning toward Kerry?
By Farhad Manjoo
Salon.com
Sept. 21, 2004
a marked down sale on used Minority Report DVDs.
Next thing you'll see is some bill proposing funding for a project to develop precognitive abilities in drug babies.
captnitro wrote: " there is no, no, no, no national politic. None. Your message will be either be forwarded to your state Senators' offices or discarded, and I don't want some aide doing tallies to think that everybody who contacted them was from every state but the one with their voters. "
Would you be also applying this advise to when this bill reaches a Senate Committee or Sub-Committee? With Senators who are Chairpersons and members from different states?
I've been able to correspond with the office of a Chairperson of a committee concerning legislation before their committee and have gotten replies.
In California, and in fact in most places in the world, the correlation between earthquakes and tides is considerably smaller, Vidale said. In California, tides may vary the rate of earthquakes at most one or two percent; the overall effect of the tides is smaller, he said, because the faults studied are many miles inland from the coast and the tides are not particularly large.
People are being warned about a scam e-mail which uses the US presidential poll to con them out of their money.
A junk e-mail invites people to dial a premium rate number to express their support for President George W Bush or rival John Kerry.
E-mail filtering firm BlackSpider estimates that almost a quarter of a million are being sent out every day.
In the past, net fraudsters have tried to use the 9/11 attacks and the tragedy in Beslan to get money.
900 number
At first glance, the presidential election message appears to be legitimate, saying it was sent from a Lycos.com address.
But BlackSpider Technologies said it had traced some of the e-mails to a server in the Czech Republic.
No doubt we will be seeing some messages like this in the next general election in the UK
John Cheney, BlackSpider Technologies
The mail reads: "Fellow Citizen: The extremely jubilant crowds in Baghdad appeared to vindicate President George Bush's belief that the military action in Iraq was the right move.
"But many questions still remain over the lack of hard evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. With these tough times before us, let us know."
It goes on to ask readers if they support President Bush, prompting them to call a 900 premium rate number.
It says votes will be sent to the Bush and Kerry campaigns.
In an effort to convince people it is a genuine message, the e-mail says who commissioned the poll.
The mail adds that the calls will cost $1.99, saying this is "a little price to pay for a better democracy".
"This is a relatively new scam," said BlackSpider CEO, John Cheney.
"The question is, are they breaking the law? In the UK they are, in the US they are not."
Sending unsolicited messages to personal e-mail is barred in the UK. But in the US, people have to opt out of receiving these sorts of messages.
Hotbed of scams
BlackSpider estimates that 240,000 of the presidential scam e-mails are being sent out worldwide a day.
The lack of any spelling mistakes and its resemblance to a genuine message means that it could slip through the spam filtering of home users.
This latest scam reflects how the nature of spam is changing.
In the past, spam was dominated by pornography. These days spam is a hotbed of financial scams, as well as a black market for fake pharmaceuticals and software.
E-mail scams known as phishing have tried to trick customers into giving away confidential bank details.
Other scams known as 419 try to part people from their cash by telling them they in line for millions from a deposed African leader.
The US presidential mail is just the latest trick used by spammers to part the unwary from their money.
"No doubt we will be seeing some messages like this in the next general election in the UK," said Mr Cheney.
I read the BBC piece and Piquepaille blog, but didn't see a list of countries. Did I miss it, and is the US counted among the 50 nations participating?
It is very powerful and accurate. In my community, Rancho Cordova, CA, gerrymandering in congressional redistricting is blatent, spliting the community into those in single family housing and those in Multi family housing.
Brown is used to represent multi family housing.
They basically cut out 80 % of the low income residents out of the city's state senate and congressional districts.
I notice that Mozilla Firefox is not included with this release or earlier versions of Move. Are more Linux distros going to include Firefox after v1.0's release?
I know we sure have a problem with star thistle in CA.
Our state even has it's own "Encycloweedia"
California Native Plant Society has a pretty good list of weed sites as well. I never knew how much you see growing in the countryside was a product of an invasion.
It would be a useful addition to add an FF Profile Manager that included FF Update and Extension Install/Update permissions for multi-user workstations . I looked through MozillaZine, but didn't find much. I can prohibit other users from updating FF and installing/updating extensions using NTFS permissions, User group settings and GP settings, but it would handy to have it included in a FF Profile Manager.
Alright, my faith in/. restored, it's been moddded back into reality, as "Interesting" and now my pot of coffee is ready. Yeah! Off to a good start today
has just been modded, within seconds of being posted, as "Flamebait".
How on earth is that post flamebait?
The article discusses a vulnerablility.
kertrats asks:
But what exactly is the worry here? It deletes files in your download directory? Does that really matter?
How is asking others on/. for their insight into this vulnerability "flamebait"? Isn't that what/. is all about, discussion? He/she didn't bash on Mozilla, or the whole open source effort, they just asked questions about the vulnerability after reading the summary from mozilla.
As to the last question asked by kertrats:
Could someone enlighten me on why its worth the bother to uninstall and reinstall for this?
Again, kertrats was ASKING A QUESTION, NOT INSULTING THE GECKO GOD OF MOZILLA AND OPEN SOURCE.
It's mods like this one that make you wonder if the person modding is either waging a mod war against another/. member, can't comprehend english as their native language is not English, or simply uses the moderation points like a video game weapon on hapless victims, then messaging their karma cabals to attack the same/. member.
People ask questions like this all the time. How is kertras being confrontational and "flamebaiting" by asking questions that did not contain words like "junk" or "piece of shit", or whatever.
Obviously, kertras is a firefox user, and wants to continue to use firefox, otherwise he/she wouldn't give a rats ass about it either way.
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With Linux comes cheap x86 machines. Shortly after the x86 machines arrive people start running Windows. That is, the migration goes proprietary UNIX->Linux->Windows. Overall I have seen more Linux to Windows migrations than the other way around.
That's pretty interesting. I'd like to read what Microsoft's take is on this is since it would seem in some situations, Linux is actually expediting migration from Unix > Windows.
I'm curious, do you think that if Microsoft were to get into the OSS biz and release a distro of Linux, that they would be targeting this very migration pattern you're describing, or am I all wet on this?
He's probably wanted to say:
"So I can get it through your thick skull."
or
"So I can drown you in self-serving case studies of companies we gave licensing deals."
daleks or R2s?
Excerpt from last paragraph of Ballmer memo:
If the evidence at our www.microsoft.com/getthefacts Web site doesn't sufficiently convey the benefits and value of the Microsoft platform, we want to hear from you so we can work even harder to get that information to you.
I can't wait to read the the response to his invitation.
Didn't the Guardian call for the assassination of the United States' President? I agree with most of what you said, but the Guardian is not a good example. I don't think a US news outlet has ever called for the assassination of a British or European leader.
Funny you should ask........ Remember this little development last month?
s eas_voting/index_np.html
The Pentagon doesn't want you to vote overseas
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/09/21/over
A Web site maintained by the Department of Defense is blocking access to non-military Americans. Could it be worried that expatriates are leaning toward Kerry?
By Farhad Manjoo
Salon.com
Sept. 21, 2004
a marked down sale on used Minority Report DVDs. Next thing you'll see is some bill proposing funding for a project to develop precognitive abilities in drug babies.
captnitro wrote: " there is no, no, no, no national politic. None. Your message will be either be forwarded to your state Senators' offices or discarded, and I don't want some aide doing tallies to think that everybody who contacted them was from every state but the one with their voters. "
Would you be also applying this advise to when this bill reaches a Senate Committee or Sub-Committee? With Senators who are Chairpersons and members from different states? I've been able to correspond with the office of a Chairperson of a committee concerning legislation before their committee and have gotten replies.
In California, and in fact in most places in the world, the correlation between earthquakes and tides is considerably smaller, Vidale said. In California, tides may vary the rate of earthquakes at most one or two percent; the overall effect of the tides is smaller, he said, because the faults studied are many miles inland from the coast and the tides are not particularly large.
E-mail scam plays on US elections3 714944.stm
By Alfred Hermida
Published: 2004/10/05 08:50:43 GMT
BBC News Online technology editor
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/technology/
People are being warned about a scam e-mail which uses the US presidential poll to con them out of their money.
A junk e-mail invites people to dial a premium rate number to express their support for President George W Bush or rival John Kerry.
E-mail filtering firm BlackSpider estimates that almost a quarter of a million are being sent out every day.
In the past, net fraudsters have tried to use the 9/11 attacks and the tragedy in Beslan to get money.
900 number
At first glance, the presidential election message appears to be legitimate, saying it was sent from a Lycos.com address.
But BlackSpider Technologies said it had traced some of the e-mails to a server in the Czech Republic.
No doubt we will be seeing some messages like this in the next general election in the UK John Cheney, BlackSpider Technologies The mail reads: "Fellow Citizen: The extremely jubilant crowds in Baghdad appeared to vindicate President George Bush's belief that the military action in Iraq was the right move.
"But many questions still remain over the lack of hard evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. With these tough times before us, let us know."
It goes on to ask readers if they support President Bush, prompting them to call a 900 premium rate number.
It says votes will be sent to the Bush and Kerry campaigns.
In an effort to convince people it is a genuine message, the e-mail says who commissioned the poll.
The mail adds that the calls will cost $1.99, saying this is "a little price to pay for a better democracy".
"This is a relatively new scam," said BlackSpider CEO, John Cheney.
"The question is, are they breaking the law? In the UK they are, in the US they are not."
Sending unsolicited messages to personal e-mail is barred in the UK. But in the US, people have to opt out of receiving these sorts of messages.
Hotbed of scams
BlackSpider estimates that 240,000 of the presidential scam e-mails are being sent out worldwide a day.
The lack of any spelling mistakes and its resemblance to a genuine message means that it could slip through the spam filtering of home users.
This latest scam reflects how the nature of spam is changing.
In the past, spam was dominated by pornography. These days spam is a hotbed of financial scams, as well as a black market for fake pharmaceuticals and software.
E-mail scams known as phishing have tried to trick customers into giving away confidential bank details.
Other scams known as 419 try to part people from their cash by telling them they in line for millions from a deposed African leader.
The US presidential mail is just the latest trick used by spammers to part the unwary from their money.
"No doubt we will be seeing some messages like this in the next general election in the UK," said Mr Cheney.
I read the BBC piece and Piquepaille blog, but didn't see a list of countries. Did I miss it, and is the US counted among the 50 nations participating?
It is very powerful and accurate. In my community, Rancho Cordova, CA, gerrymandering in congressional redistricting is blatent, spliting the community into those in single family housing and those in Multi family housing.
S /CD03_NEW_SAC.PDF
S /SD01_NEW_SAC.PDF
d ova.pdf
n ing/vision_maps/large/current_land_use_inventory.j pg
This map shows the community by congressional districts.
http://www.sen.ca.gov/ftp/SEN/cngplan/PDF_CD_ATLA
This map shows the community by state senate districts.
http://www.sen.ca.gov/ftp/SEN/senplan/PDF_SD_ATLA
Now, This map shows the land use of the planning area.
http://www.saccounty.net/planning/cordova/pdf/cor
(smaller jpeg version)
http://gp.cityofranchocordova.org/documents/visio
Brown is used to represent multi family housing. They basically cut out 80 % of the low income residents out of the city's state senate and congressional districts.
Norton Ghost is what I use for multi-disk CD-R backups.
This has to be one of the most unoriginal hoaxes.....Come one, it's about as weak as W's WMD claims, and even he's stopped working that.
This is such a lame farse. How about we hold a contest to see how many things we can photoshop into the President's suit.
moveon.org is next?
I notice that Mozilla Firefox is not included with this release or earlier versions of Move. Are more Linux distros going to include Firefox after v1.0's release?
I know we sure have a problem with star thistle in CA. Our state even has it's own "Encycloweedia"
California Native Plant Society has a pretty good list of weed sites as well. I never knew how much you see growing in the countryside was a product of an invasion.
Ah, I found my answer. As usual, RIF http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=124046&cid =10408290
can you name any? or rather, did the authors(s) of your source name any of these companies?
Well just look at the responses he got.
I have, and most of them don't have the resentment you have, they actually answer the questions.
Stupid questions deserve stupid answers.
I assume this statement is still in Beta?
It would be a useful addition to add an FF Profile Manager that included FF Update and Extension Install/Update permissions for multi-user workstations . I looked through MozillaZine, but didn't find much. I can prohibit other users from updating FF and installing/updating extensions using NTFS permissions, User group settings and GP settings, but it would handy to have it included in a FF Profile Manager.
Alright, my faith in /. restored, it's been moddded back into reality, as "Interesting" and now my pot of coffee is ready. Yeah! Off to a good start today
has just been modded, within seconds of being posted, as "Flamebait".
How on earth is that post flamebait?
The article discusses a vulnerablility.
kertrats asks: How is asking others on
As to the last question asked by kertrats:
Again, kertrats was ASKING A QUESTION, NOT INSULTING THE GECKO GOD OF MOZILLA AND OPEN SOURCE.
It's mods like this one that make you wonder if the person modding is either waging a mod war against another
People ask questions like this all the time. How is kertras being confrontational and "flamebaiting" by asking questions that did not contain words like "junk" or "piece of shit", or whatever.
Obviously, kertras is a firefox user, and wants to continue to use firefox, otherwise he/she wouldn't give a rats ass about it either way.
Man, get with it with the damn mods.