Image is one thing, I'm using an "antique Laptop" (may-2000 build) to post this. The poor thing maxes out at 288mb ram, only has a 12gb HD, and it weighs a ton. It does have a removable cdrw, upgradable to dvd; the FDD can be swappd for a second battery.
My only complaint is the video is not good enough for GL screensavers/games. I can still get batteries, and if I ever need more than 12 GB, 20-30GB harddrives are getting cheap.
I have been using it as my primary machine for the past 6 months, and If I really have to play a game, I chase the kids outside and play the PS2
I'll probably replace it when I can't find a version of linux that supports it, or if I change jobs and am forced to use windows.
In the dotcom days, We bought 50 desktops and two servers from them preloaded with Redhat. One of the servers had a bad load, and when we called tech support we were told that Gateway does not support third party software!
Since Gateway is not in the the software business, I took it to mean that they were a subsidiary of Microsoft. It took numerous calls to our "account executive" and threats of legal action to get it straight.
Flight 93 flew within spitting distance of the Shippensport Atomic plant. It was the first full scale atomic plant, online since 1957, and it is due west of Pittsburgh.
They wanted immediate casualties, a high body count. They wanted TV coverage of bloody people. Their supporters in the Arab Street do not understand radiological poisoning. Seeing an empty NCY would be good, but seeing distruction is better. The images of the mighty americans fleeing the center of power must have put them into fits of extasy.
If they precipitated a long term disaster, it would damage their cause.
They do not want to destroy us Infidels, but to rule us. They need our "decadence" as an example, and they need our money to fund their cause.
Except that trees have a finite life span, they are renewable, and as a nature lover I am in tuned with nature. It supports me, and I support it. I take from it, and I give back to it.
For every tree I cut down, I plant two. Yes I live on wooded land and heat with wood. How many trees did you plant last year?
The tone of the hit piece sounded like they wanted some kid named Bubba Gump from Bumpus Mills Tennessee to win a science contest for a new way of kicking field-goals.
Students who have neither the ambition nor the IQ to compete in something like the STS go to Liberal Arts Jr Colleges and end up writing tripe for Slate!
I'm glad that the link to the STS site was included, so we can read about the real acomplishments of these kids,
Well Done, you deserve the praise and envy of the geeks here.
That is why I always chose custom for redhat and fedora. Even as a newbie, I was concerned about installing "the wrong thing".
I'm now playing with mepis, a debian based distro and it installs ADSL/PPPOE on a laptop that only has a wireless Nic.
I find it amazing that it can see through two routers and figure out that we connect via DSL, but not know that PPOE is not an option on my business lines!
It's his company, and not a democratic organization? Maybe a better reason is that he signs your paycheck and not the other way around. No one promised that the real world would be fair.
Upper management don't get paid overtime, would you like to work for a flat rate?
I honestly think it is a sound rule, and one that the CEO will comply with. He would never use anything at work that the company didn't pay for, so why should you? That cellphone bill never has the CEO's home address on it, you can take that to the bank. Everything the CEO requires to function is provided by the company, his business lines at home, his cellphones, his vpn-broadband connection his company car, his corporate jet.
Now as far as taking personal calls, that is another story. That is a management issue.
The fact that the "top three" are not on the ball does not indicate that it is a hoax. They are targets of viral infections, and have been disabled by many viruses that they purport to detect.
they are probably sniffing and scrathing looking for ways to patch their code so that it is not disabled by phatbot. When they fix that, they will all rush to the pulpit to proclaim the fix.
If it is that important, then they will supply the Cellphone or pager. It's not that hard to live without your personal comms gear. If immediate notification is a job requirement, then it is incumbent on the employer to provide the equipment to notify you.
You do not have to provide the servers that can't exist without your immediate TLC, why should you provide the monitoring equipment?
---The grandparent post made the completely valid point that if Linux isn't perfect then you have no right to advocate it as secure and mock Windows for its flaws...It shows the BSDs as the preferred choice over both Linux and Windows, yet it doesn't have nearly as much hype as Linux.---
So since nothing is "perfect" then we should just STFU and accept the bull that MS sells us???
According to the quoted mindset, the Commodore vic-20 is more secure than either, since less people run it. How many evil hackers are out there breaking into vic-20 servers? What kind of warped logic is that? Security is a state of mind, a process, not a state of being.
You can't quantify "secureness" of a system. But you can rate the availability and complexity of the security exploits available for each OS.
They gave you the source code, and explained the vulnerability. Now Go exploit it if you can. If you can't then please sit down.
MS did NOT give out their source, yet everybody can exploit it. There are exploits coming in the email every day, I don't even have to search!
Learn to mitigate the vulnerabilities. I choose to do that by running linux and keeping up to date, some choose to run Windows and rely on MS to keep them secure. I have a better track record!
I received 5 emails today with attachments that I could not run, that did not auto load. I have yet to get a shell script in the mail that gained root access, and replicated itself to all of my email contacts.
Now if BSD does what people and Business need, then they will use it. I use BSD on my network, along with x86-Solaris, and Linux for the desktop (Redhat and Mepis). I choose not to use Microsoft products in my home or business, I only use them on site if my clients use them. It is not about "hype" it is all about choice. ZDnet chose Linux over BSD when they switched from Solaris for their webservers.
I can think of a lot of negatives: Noise of a jet that close to your head, An Intake that close, ditto for hot exhaust gasses the thought of injesting foreign objects and having a T-wheel cut me open is not fun. I would rather have the wing above, and not spoil the view, if I am going to lay prone.
What is wrong with a BD-5J with fold up wings as seen in James Bond? At least he can sit like a human.
Not being a mac user, maybe I'm off base here. My reasons to do this would be to access the wealth of software out there. Does OS-X have the ability to support gnome and/or Kde apps? I figure it can be done, but how much hassle would it be?
I know I'll get flamed for this but I dump a full KDE and Gnome development load on my machines, just to simplify the times when I want to add something cool I find out there. I never claim that Linux is lean and mean, my installs are huge! I just don't turn everything on.
Here's hoping that Apple does real well, so that there are a lot of cheap used PPCs out there. I like what I see on my friends powerbook, I just can't justify the price at this time.
Soccer mom can't figure out voice mail? I guess soccer mom can't go to the theater or to class because her kids are in school. God help her if she works in a hospital! Or in this enlightened age, if she is a flagger on a construction crew. Her cellphone is off in blasting areas! What happens to all those doctors who must turn off their phones when they are on the ward, or spending hours in the operating room?
I do some consulting at a university medical center, everyone has phones and everyone turns them off in certain areas. I carry a phone and a pager. I turn them both off - when I turn them on, I get alerted to missed calls and missed pages. It doesn't curtail my productivity, how can it hamper soccer-mom's?
There is no excuse for antisocial behavior, unless you are an immigrant from Elbonia
What cafes and restaurants do you frequent that do not have a land line for emergencies?
I don't care if you use a cellphone in public, I just watch you intently and take notes! I only interrupt if I miss part of the conversation.
You lose your right to privacy when you talk in public. I take advantage of that to embarrass the obnoxious by being just as obnoxious.
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Jamming sounds like a great solution at first. but wouldn't Faraday cages be simpler? I drive past a theater that overpowers my FM radio along a few hundred ft stretch of roadway. If they lined the theater with copper foil, it would stop the cell phones and the interference the theater itself is producing.
"or else there isn't a licenced copy to put on it."
So where does the license for the bootable cd come from? Am I going to be busted by the BSA for carrying a rogue copy of windows around and using it on PCs when the original license is running on another?
In Enterprise size installs this is no problem, but what about the freelance MCSE out there busting his tail working on small/medium lans and stand-alone installs?
Right now, a friend in that line of work carries copies of all his utilities and worries about uninstalling them after he is done using them. I felt the same way when I used PartitionMagic to configure for dualbooting before I found the latest GParted.
With a bootable Linux, either Knoppix or ones built on other distributions, there is never a licensing issue. The writing to NTFS is an issue at this moment, but in time that too will be a thing of the past.
If every PC you used could boot from usb, that would work. I'm lucky that the PCs boot from CD on some sites. It is amazing how many 350mhz compaqs are out there still chugging away!
I carry a mepis CD, my data on a usb drive. I haven't yet found a networked PC that can not boot from CD in the work environment. I also carry knoppix-std, penguin-sleuth kit and DSL linx on a credit card CD.
I would rather have the USB drive for data, and I keep it fat32 so I can use whatever windows box I am near when I must print something.
This would not stop them from photocopying, or photographing them as has been done all throughout the cold war. Proper document management stops the worker from leaving with classified docs. Well at least it did 10 years ago.
I can see ways to use and abuse this technology. Since it is a solution looking for a problem, I fear that the abuses will be perfected before the legitimate uses.
Biting this troll, I ask: Why is it better to pay for a support contract to use another companies geeks than your own? The other geeks are looking out for their corporate bottom line, not your bottom line. They have no vested interest in your success or failure. Every customer is just like the other.
In-house geeks should have a bit of loyalty to the provider of their next paycheck, they are focused on one company, and since they are already on the payroll, use these talents.
As a 3rd tier support geek, I spent many a fruitless hour on hold to the commercial-entities. It was more cost efffective to send us to vendor training than to rely on the vendor's helpdesk. Many of the issues ended up being resolved on the vendor's public forums. Why should the corporation pay big bucks for what is essentially a vendor supplied forum reader.
The step from in-house Cisco, Lucent, Openview/HP-UX and MS support to adding in-house linux, mySQL, and mrtg support was a natural, easy step. Searching the Microsoft KnowledgeBase or searching google for a SQL server error takes about the same time and effort - having to parse the google responses balances out the hoops MS makes you jump through.
The Subject matter experts tend to be those who use the product daily, not those who just read canned answers from the helpdesk ticket system. Sourcecode has nothing to do with it.
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Image is one thing, I'm using an "antique Laptop" (may-2000 build) to post this. The poor thing maxes out at 288mb ram, only has a 12gb HD, and it weighs a ton.
It does have a removable cdrw, upgradable to dvd; the FDD can be swappd for a second battery.
My only complaint is the video is not good enough for GL screensavers/games. I can still get batteries, and if I ever need more than 12 GB, 20-30GB harddrives are getting cheap.
I have been using it as my primary machine for the past 6 months, and If I really have to play a game, I chase the kids outside and play the PS2
I'll probably replace it when I can't find a version of linux that supports it, or if I change jobs and am forced to use windows.
It depends on how often she says that and to how many different men.
Some things just will not wash off with soap and water.
In the dotcom days, We bought 50 desktops and two servers from them preloaded with Redhat. One of the servers had a bad load, and when we called tech support we were told that Gateway does not support third party software!
Since Gateway is not in the the software business, I took it to mean that they were a subsidiary of Microsoft. It took numerous calls to our "account executive" and threats of legal action to get it straight.
18 Rabbit, Mayan ruler of Copan in Honduras beat you by about 1300 years.
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Flight 93 flew within spitting distance of the Shippensport Atomic plant. It was the first full scale atomic plant, online since 1957, and it is due west of Pittsburgh.
They wanted immediate casualties, a high body count. They wanted TV coverage of bloody people. Their supporters in the Arab Street do not understand radiological poisoning. Seeing an empty NCY would be good, but seeing distruction is better. The images of the mighty americans fleeing the center of power must have put them into fits of extasy.
If they precipitated a long term disaster, it would damage their cause.
They do not want to destroy us Infidels, but to rule us. They need our "decadence" as an example, and they need our money to fund their cause.
Except that trees have a finite life span, they are renewable, and as a nature lover I am in tuned with nature. It supports me, and I support it.
I take from it, and I give back to it.
For every tree I cut down, I plant two. Yes I live on wooded land and heat with wood. How many trees did you plant last year?
What do you expect from Slate?
The tone of the hit piece sounded like they wanted some kid named Bubba Gump from Bumpus Mills Tennessee to win a science contest for a new way of kicking field-goals.
Students who have neither the ambition nor the IQ to compete in something like the STS go to Liberal Arts Jr Colleges and end up writing tripe for Slate!
I'm glad that the link to the STS site was included, so we can read about the real acomplishments of these kids,
Well Done, you deserve the praise and envy of the geeks here.
That is why I always chose custom for redhat and fedora. Even as a newbie, I was concerned about installing "the wrong thing".
I'm now playing with mepis, a debian based distro and it installs ADSL/PPPOE on a laptop that only has a wireless Nic.
I find it amazing that it can see through two routers and figure out that we connect via DSL, but not know that PPOE is not an option on my business lines!
Other than that, mepis is a great learner system.
It's his company, and not a democratic organization? Maybe a better reason is that he signs your paycheck and not the other way around.
No one promised that the real world would be fair.
Upper management don't get paid overtime, would you like to work for a flat rate?
I honestly think it is a sound rule, and one that the CEO will comply with. He would never use anything at work that the company didn't pay for, so why should you? That cellphone bill never has the CEO's home address on it, you can take that to the bank. Everything the CEO requires to function is provided by the company, his business lines at home, his cellphones, his vpn-broadband connection his company car, his corporate jet.
Now as far as taking personal calls, that is another story. That is a management issue.
The fact that the "top three" are not on the ball does not indicate that it is a hoax. They are targets of viral infections, and have been disabled by many viruses that they purport to detect.
they are probably sniffing and scrathing looking for ways to patch their code so that it is not disabled by phatbot. When they fix that, they will all rush to the pulpit to proclaim the fix.
If it is that important, then they will supply the Cellphone or pager.
It's not that hard to live without your personal comms gear.
If immediate notification is a job requirement, then it is incumbent on the employer to provide the equipment to notify you.
You do not have to provide the servers that can't exist without your immediate TLC, why should you provide the monitoring equipment?
account suspended... at least we can still read it.
Isn't that line located outside of the unemployment office?
---The grandparent post made the completely valid point that if Linux isn't perfect then you have no right to advocate it as secure and mock Windows for its flaws...It shows the BSDs as the preferred choice over both Linux and Windows, yet it doesn't have nearly as much hype as Linux.---
So since nothing is "perfect" then we should just STFU and accept the bull that MS sells us???
According to the quoted mindset, the Commodore vic-20 is more secure than either, since less people run it. How many evil hackers are out there breaking into vic-20 servers? What kind of warped logic is that? Security is a state of mind, a process, not a state of being.
You can't quantify "secureness" of a system. But you can rate the availability and complexity of the security exploits available for each OS.
They gave you the source code, and explained the vulnerability. Now Go exploit it if you can. If you can't then please sit down.
MS did NOT give out their source, yet everybody can exploit it. There are exploits coming in the email every day, I don't even have to search!
Learn to mitigate the vulnerabilities. I choose to do that by running linux and keeping up to date, some choose to run Windows and rely on MS to keep them secure. I have a better track record!
I received 5 emails today with attachments that I could not run, that did not auto load. I have yet to get a shell script in the mail that gained root access, and replicated itself to all of my email contacts.
Now if BSD does what people and Business need, then they will use it. I use BSD on my network, along with x86-Solaris, and Linux for the desktop (Redhat and Mepis). I choose not to use Microsoft products in my home or business, I only use them on site if my clients use them. It is not about "hype" it is all about choice. ZDnet chose Linux over BSD when they switched from Solaris for their webservers.
I can think of a lot of negatives:
Noise of a jet that close to your head,
An Intake that close,
ditto for hot exhaust gasses
the thought of injesting foreign objects and having a T-wheel cut me open is not fun.
I would rather have the wing above, and not spoil the view, if I am going to lay prone.
What is wrong with a BD-5J with fold up wings as seen in James Bond? At least he can sit like a human.
Not being a mac user, maybe I'm off base here.
My reasons to do this would be to access the wealth of software out there. Does OS-X have the ability to support gnome and/or Kde apps? I figure it can be done, but how much hassle would it be?
I know I'll get flamed for this but I dump a full KDE and Gnome development load on my machines, just to simplify the times when I want to add something cool I find out there. I never claim that Linux is lean and mean, my installs are huge! I just don't turn everything on.
Here's hoping that Apple does real well, so that there are a lot of cheap used PPCs out there. I like what I see on my friends powerbook, I just can't justify the price at this time.
Soccer mom can't figure out voice mail? I guess soccer mom can't go to the theater or to class because her kids are in school.
God help her if she works in a hospital! Or in this enlightened age, if she is a flagger on a construction crew. Her cellphone is off in blasting areas!
What happens to all those doctors who must turn off their phones when they are on the ward, or spending hours in the operating room?
I do some consulting at a university medical center, everyone has phones and everyone turns them off in certain areas. I carry a phone and a pager. I turn them both off - when I turn them on, I get alerted to missed calls and missed pages. It doesn't curtail my productivity, how can it hamper soccer-mom's?
There is no excuse for antisocial behavior, unless you are an immigrant from Elbonia
What cafes and restaurants do you frequent that do not have a land line for emergencies?
I don't care if you use a cellphone in public, I just watch you intently and take notes! I only interrupt if I miss part of the conversation.
You lose your right to privacy when you talk in public. I take advantage of that to embarrass the obnoxious by being just as obnoxious.
Jamming sounds like a great solution at first. but wouldn't Faraday cages be simpler? I drive past a theater that overpowers my FM radio along a few hundred ft stretch of roadway. If they lined the theater with copper foil, it would stop the cell phones and the interference the theater itself is producing.
Tin foil may be an answer after all...
"or else there isn't a licenced copy to put on it."
So where does the license for the bootable cd come from? Am I going to be busted by the BSA for carrying a rogue copy of windows around and using it on PCs when the original license is running on another?
In Enterprise size installs this is no problem, but what about the freelance MCSE out there busting his tail working on small/medium lans and stand-alone installs?
Right now, a friend in that line of work carries copies of all his utilities and worries about uninstalling them after he is done using them. I felt the same way when I used PartitionMagic to configure for dualbooting before I found the latest GParted.
With a bootable Linux, either Knoppix or ones built on other distributions, there is never a licensing issue. The writing to NTFS is an issue at this moment, but in time that too will be a thing of the past.
If every PC you used could boot from usb, that would work. I'm lucky that the PCs boot from CD on some sites. It is amazing how many 350mhz compaqs are out there still chugging away!
I carry a mepis CD, my data on a usb drive. I haven't yet found a networked PC that can not boot from CD in the work environment. I also carry knoppix-std, penguin-sleuth kit and DSL linx on a credit card CD.
I would rather have the USB drive for data, and I keep it fat32 so I can use whatever windows box I am near when I must print something.
System Rescue CD is a great utility to download and keep handy.
This would not stop them from photocopying, or photographing them as has been done all throughout the cold war. Proper document management stops the worker from leaving with classified docs. Well at least it did 10 years ago.
I can see ways to use and abuse this technology. Since it is a solution looking for a problem, I fear that the abuses will be perfected before the legitimate uses.
Biting this troll, I ask:
Why is it better to pay for a support contract to use another companies geeks than your own? The other geeks are looking out for their corporate bottom line, not your bottom line. They have no vested interest in your success or failure. Every customer is just like the other.
In-house geeks should have a bit of loyalty to the provider of their next paycheck, they are focused on one company, and since they are already on the payroll, use these talents.
As a 3rd tier support geek, I spent many a fruitless hour on hold to the commercial-entities. It was more cost efffective to send us to vendor training than to rely on the vendor's helpdesk. Many of the issues ended up being resolved on the vendor's public forums. Why should the corporation pay big bucks for what is essentially a vendor supplied forum reader.
The step from in-house Cisco, Lucent, Openview/HP-UX and MS support to adding in-house linux, mySQL, and mrtg support was a natural, easy step. Searching the Microsoft KnowledgeBase or searching google for a SQL server error takes about the same time and effort - having to parse the google responses balances out the hoops MS makes you jump through.
The Subject matter experts tend to be those who use the product daily, not those who just read canned answers from the helpdesk ticket system. Sourcecode has nothing to do with it.