I guess you don't know that the QWERTY layout was designed to be random so people would not jam typewriter arms from typing too fast. This was before the advent of electronic typewriters.
An easy parallel... Imagine having never used windows before. You go and install a version of Windows that doesnt have drivers built in for your wireless card. You would have the same amount of trouble. Good luck finding the driver without google as well. I have had more problems with drivers while installing Windows than Linux the majority of the time. Knoppix autodetected ALL of the hardware on my laptop, while I had to copy network drivers (among many others) to a floppy to make the system usable under Windows.
Your problem is that you don't want to learn..."I've been annoyed and bogged down with learning useless information that "Just Works" in other operating systems"...BAH!!!
To each their own...Linux is a hell of a lot easier to use for me, and I've been using Windows 5 times as long. How we get Linux mainstream is have it preinstalled on cheap computers targeted towards new computer users. People are too stubborn and stuck in their ways to change for the most part.
I just finished updating my Gentoo box to the current release....now another 2 days of compiling!!! oh well, i love watching the text scroll by anyway...
I used to be an MS pirate, but decided it would be a better value proposition to run a stable and secure free *nix system. Of course...a glimmer of morality as well. Stealing from a monopoly is still stealing.
IANAL...but...under US Code Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 108, nonprofits and libraries are allowed to make copies of a copyrighted work if the copies can only be used within premises.
Libraries don't make a profit from providing access to copyrighted works, this company making the software is.
"Copyright" is a legal priveledge temporarily granted to authors to promote "useful arts and sciences." As a part of copyright law, and partly in exchange for the priveledge of the author's temporary monopoly, nonprofits and libraries are allowed to give the public free access to creative works.
In short...everything is fair about it.
One word...trojans
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...now those mass mailing trojans will slow your computer down even more!!! A completely useless idea as I see it, except to pad Gates pocket book.
If MS is in charge of selling the distributed computer time, all those security holes and the trojans that take advantage of them will become their primary revenue stream.
...that one of the top lawyers defending the largest corporation in the world would chair the ABA?
Seriously...wouldn't MS hire the best lawyers available that would work for them? Consider the fact that he defended MS in an anti-trust case, wouldn't that be an indicator of his ability? (though not necessarily of his morals, *insert cliche lawyer morality joke here*)
And under a reasonably secured Linux install, these attachments would not be able to be run in the first place. First of all, the attachment must be manually given execute priveledges. If your home directory is a separate partition and mounted with the "noexec" option (as it SHOULD be), it still would not be able to execute. The only place where a user should have write access is their own home directory, and anywhere a user has write access, there should not be execute priveledges.
This is the way my home system is configured, and is the way any self-respecting distro should be set up as well.
KDE makes a really good Windows-alike, and Gnome makes an awesome Mac-alike (especially with the Panther themes).
What really draws me to KDE is its configurability (Gnome is decidedly restricted), ease of menu editing, and ease of file/program association. As an ex-long-time Windows user KDE makes a better desktop for me.
Gloom, doom, FUD, but no solutions. The easy solution, a heterogenous network. Windows, linux, *bsd in substantial amounts everywhere. Give DRM'ed, locked down Windows to the clueless home users, that what Windows market is for, those with more money than skills or sense. Linux and *BSD on the servers and the desktops of skilled workers and corporate drones.
The fear of backup systems going down is valid for Windows solutions, but a secure UNIX backup box should use a read-only filesystem, or any server for that matter.
I read this article the other day and it is very enlightening actually. Pretty much his reason to use FreeBSD is the coherent, tightly integrated, and heavily tested base system. *it just works* Of course that is all a matter of preference. I run Linux because I value high configurability, choice, and bleeding edge software else I would be running *BSD. Of course I am running Gentoo, whose package management is based on *BSD ports, the other major plus for BSD.
when it comes to the multimedia desktop, gentoo is the best. everything just works. the initial setup is horrifically long, but well worth it. aside from HD failure or catastrophic user error, you will never need to reinstall. the ENTIRE system can be updated, even across major releases. I haven't done gentoo on a production server, but debian stable serves me very well there. no need to reinstall debian for major releases either.
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I guess you don't know that the QWERTY layout was designed to be random so people would not jam typewriter arms from typing too fast. This was before the advent of electronic typewriters.
An easy parallel... Imagine having never used windows before. You go and install a version of Windows that doesnt have drivers built in for your wireless card. You would have the same amount of trouble. Good luck finding the driver without google as well. I have had more problems with drivers while installing Windows than Linux the majority of the time. Knoppix autodetected ALL of the hardware on my laptop, while I had to copy network drivers (among many others) to a floppy to make the system usable under Windows.
Your problem is that you don't want to learn..."I've been annoyed and bogged down with learning useless information that "Just Works" in other operating systems"...BAH!!!
To each their own...Linux is a hell of a lot easier to use for me, and I've been using Windows 5 times as long. How we get Linux mainstream is have it preinstalled on cheap computers targeted towards new computer users. People are too stubborn and stuck in their ways to change for the most part.
i am planning to do the same with debian and my MIL's computer (Pentium 90...ack...no compiling for me)
damn....i can so relate.
I just finished updating my Gentoo box to the current release....now another 2 days of compiling!!! oh well, i love watching the text scroll by anyway...
go ahead...mod me troll.
I used to be an MS pirate, but decided it would be a better value proposition to run a stable and secure free *nix system. Of course...a glimmer of morality as well. Stealing from a monopoly is still stealing.
IANAL...but...under US Code Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 108, nonprofits and libraries are allowed to make copies of a copyrighted work if the copies can only be used within premises.
Libraries don't make a profit from providing access to copyrighted works, this company making the software is.
"Copyright" is a legal priveledge temporarily granted to authors to promote "useful arts and sciences." As a part of copyright law, and partly in exchange for the priveledge of the author's temporary monopoly, nonprofits and libraries are allowed to give the public free access to creative works.
In short...everything is fair about it.
...now those mass mailing trojans will slow your computer down even more!!! A completely useless idea as I see it, except to pad Gates pocket book.
If MS is in charge of selling the distributed computer time, all those security holes and the trojans that take advantage of them will become their primary revenue stream.
try Morphix. Its a Knoppix clone with an emphasis on customizability. Its not too hard at all to roll your own iso. Just check out their docs.
How exactly is intolerance of ignorance a bad thing?
...that one of the top lawyers defending the largest corporation in the world would chair the ABA?
Seriously...wouldn't MS hire the best lawyers available that would work for them? Consider the fact that he defended MS in an anti-trust case, wouldn't that be an indicator of his ability? (though not necessarily of his morals, *insert cliche lawyer morality joke here*)
the new kernel is much faster than the old.
...you miss the point. there should be NO REASON AT ALL to execute a file in an email attachment.
In any case, sadly, it is either security or convenience. Metal detectors in airports are a hassle too.
And under a reasonably secured Linux install, these attachments would not be able to be run in the first place. First of all, the attachment must be manually given execute priveledges. If your home directory is a separate partition and mounted with the "noexec" option (as it SHOULD be), it still would not be able to execute. The only place where a user should have write access is their own home directory, and anywhere a user has write access, there should not be execute priveledges.
This is the way my home system is configured, and is the way any self-respecting distro should be set up as well.
It's not so much the OS as the email client: *cough* Outbreak *cough*
regarding the second paragraph...YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING!
I would mod this FUNNY...not insightful.
A verb oriented interface. A very interesting looking app, with a radically different paradigm.
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one word. Debian.
Why put up with what others want in a distro, when you can decide yourself. I don't see why people are so hung up on RPM either.
KDE makes a really good Windows-alike, and Gnome makes an awesome Mac-alike (especially with the Panther themes).
What really draws me to KDE is its configurability (Gnome is decidedly restricted), ease of menu editing, and ease of file/program association. As an ex-long-time Windows user KDE makes a better desktop for me.
try both, pick one. its vanilla or chocolate
Frosting on a cow-pie does not a cupcake make.
Gloom, doom, FUD, but no solutions. The easy solution, a heterogenous network. Windows, linux, *bsd in substantial amounts everywhere. Give DRM'ed, locked down Windows to the clueless home users, that what Windows market is for, those with more money than skills or sense. Linux and *BSD on the servers and the desktops of skilled workers and corporate drones.
The fear of backup systems going down is valid for Windows solutions, but a secure UNIX backup box should use a read-only filesystem, or any server for that matter.
I read this article the other day and it is very enlightening actually. Pretty much his reason to use FreeBSD is the coherent, tightly integrated, and heavily tested base system. *it just works* Of course that is all a matter of preference. I run Linux because I value high configurability, choice, and bleeding edge software else I would be running *BSD. Of course I am running Gentoo, whose package management is based on *BSD ports, the other major plus for BSD.
when it comes to the multimedia desktop, gentoo is the best. everything just works. the initial setup is horrifically long, but well worth it. aside from HD failure or catastrophic user error, you will never need to reinstall. the ENTIRE system can be updated, even across major releases. I haven't done gentoo on a production server, but debian stable serves me very well there. no need to reinstall debian for major releases either.
somebody is definitely on crack! =)
best experienced slightly left of sober.