Come on, the user willfully runs a program from an untrusted source. If this happened on Mac, they'd be asked to enter their password and the program could break the machine. On linux, the same thing could happen. In these three operating systems, there is the ability to run restricted accounts and the ability to run a program with superuser privileges.
This is like people complaining to their doctor that they got sick after they licked the toilet seat at a train station.
A user should know by now not to run any programs attached through email. Plain and simple.
between google and yahoo. Google's is clean and compact while yahoo's is all over the place. People want simplicity and when so much information is displayed at once like on lots of portals, it's difficult to find anything.
That's no moon. That's what $87 billion dollars looks like wrapped in a bundle.
I think eventually it will be cheaper just to throw money at "enemies" than to spend it on a $300,000 smart bomb. Think how heavy 300,000 $1 bills wrapped in rubber bands is.
I think Sun was stupid to try this so soon. They're trying to push openoffice AND java at the same time. They should have spent more time making openoffice more of a competitor to Microsoft office in terms of features and not just on cost. When it's good enough where office junkies can switch to OOo, then require Java.
They should have created the dependency for Java through openoffice, not try to bundle the two together. It's like a car dealer trying to sell the undercoating package before he's sold you on the car.
"Windows OneCare automatically takes care of key tasks such as running antivirus scans, updating the antivirus engine and virus definitions, updating the firewall, and running a monthly PC tune-up to improve and maintain your computer's performance."
they forgot to mention "patching all those OS holes so they can't be exploited by clicking on a random link in somebody's AIM profile"
Good point. I'd rather they hammer out the bugs and shortcomings in a market that's already looking for an alternative to Microsoft rather than a market asking "what's wrong with Microsoft anyway?"
In some semblance of serious though, that is troubling. Why would they not want to offer Linux to their American customers in this program? My hope is they are doing it for business reasons ($$) and not because they were quietly asked not to while renewing their contracts with Microsoft ($$$). Ubuntu is a nice distro that seems to "just work". Kubuntu (which does mean something, just just the standard "k+name" nomenclature) works well and looks damn good. I'm all for Ubuntu ending on laptops and desktops than that Linspire or Xandros crap.
Yeah every post that mentions JuK has somebody saying amarok is better. I've used both and I prefer juk for it's simplicity and overall feel. Nothing other than opinion really. However, since both are qt apps, they both look nice.
1. you don't have to buy mod chips anymore 2. connect to your computer with the media on it over ethernet 3. see #2 4. change the channel on the television, get a DVR from your cable company if they offer it 5. add some old nintendo games to keep you or your kids busy.
I use it primarily to play DVDs and downloaded videos and music. It also serves as a nice gaming console. I think these linux pvr solutions are overkill for what could be replaced by a tivo, xbox, and an ethernet cable. Just my two cents though.
and before people say "but windows sucks too!", linux and the desktop environment have to be a LOT better to win people over.
kioslaves is a major improvement. I plug a drive in, and an icon appears on the desktop. A thing I noticed randomly was if I scroll over the JuK tray icon, it skips to the next song. If I scroll over the speaker tray icon, the volume increases or decreases. When you go to rename a file, it highlights the name but not the extension because you rarely change the extension of a file. These of course are little things, but they do make a difference. There are also countless usability improvements that I can't think of right now.
KDE has come along way since the days of 1.0 and I'm sure the pace is going to increase as more people get involved.
So yeah, KDE is improving and at this pace, it may be a LOT better than windows. Of course that's before longhorn comes out and I'm sure a bunch of people are trying to get linux adoption up before that hype takes over.
"His promise: Longhorn, the next version of the Windows operating system, will make malicious software (malware) that gets onto computers without the users' knowledge "a thing of the past"." -Bill Gates
So longhorn isn't due out for a year or so or two or three. They expect their customers to wait that long? This shouldn't be such a complicated issue.
I use the spellbound extension a lot and every time I upgrade firefox it's always a pain in the ass to get it working again. I have to run firefox as root, install something, close it, and repeat the process a few times. It probably takes less than five minutes so it's not really a time issue, it's just aggravating because it feels like it really shouldn't have to happen.
I'm sure it will be and I'm wondering how they can easily cripple their software to do so. Google seems to be able to pretty much find anything on the subject of everything.
And I don't see how this is a sign of google being evil. They simply want to enter a large market but must play by China's rules. At most, the rules are just going to restrict what web pages the Chinese can access, not modify the pages themselves in that form of censorship.
In KDE 3.4 (may have appeared in previous versions, not sure) there is a protocol "fish://" that uses ssh. KDE treats it like a regular konq window and you can copy and move files around. Since it works over ssh it's already popular and easy to set up. Another nice trick they've done is you can open a text file from the remote computer, edit, and when you click save it saves it back to the remote computer.
It's easy to use and integrates well into the rest of KDE.
Which picture show it "clearly running" windows? The one mentioned in the article doesn't even have a hard drive. These look more like large PDAs to me than what we regularly think a laptop is. But if it works and people can afford it, I hope it goes well.
"An act making Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes."
When election season comes around and you see those ads of "He voted against helping the victims of the tragic Tsunami" you see why bills that combine "good" laws and "controversial" laws will get passed just so they don't receive flak later on.
Now I'm not saying I agree or disagree with this bill. All I am saying is that I think if it were split up, the vote probably would not have been 100-0.
Or you could find a live-cd that uses the ntfs.sys driver to read/write NTFS partitions. Knoppix will read them out of the box, but I'm not sure if it will write properly. Last I read, which was a few months ago, the NTFS write support with the driver in the kernel could only write to a file as long as the size didn't change. So I assume that means deleting is out of the question.
Another good tool is a boot cd called "Hiren's Boot Disk". It has lots of commercial software so I believe you'd have to look for it on P2P or torrent websites to obtain it, but it has some good tools on it.
As these people write better malware, it's going to get increasingly more difficult to remove them while windows is running.
Or, like the parent suggested, run linux and exchange this hassle for different hassles. I know I did. But it's more fun in the long run.
and the layman who saw "Independence Day" might also think so. Somehow aliens use the same wireless network protocols and our viruses are binary compatible. I guess that damn i386 just never goes away.
After a while, it becomes aggravating how many people see something having to do with any high "tech mumbo jumbo" and assume it really is just "random mumbo jumbo" that somehow works most of the time.
If by "duh" you mean anything can be argued, then I agree with you. My father, an attorney, hates that word: arguably. Makes sense though...anything can be argued!!!
Yeah, people got this impression years ago. It's been discussed a lot too. At least, for Microsoft's sake, it took a some of IBM's time and money for a little while which may have prevented them from getting new ideas out there. It's some pretty shitty competition if you ask me.
Imagine seeing Ronald McDonald staging false rear end collision with Dave Thomas and the Hamburgler. Instead of developing all of those new spicy sauces, he would have spent all that time in court fighting this bullshit.
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Come on, the user willfully runs a program from an untrusted source. If this happened on Mac, they'd be asked to enter their password and the program could break the machine. On linux, the same thing could happen. In these three operating systems, there is the ability to run restricted accounts and the ability to run a program with superuser privileges.
This is like people complaining to their doctor that they got sick after they licked the toilet seat at a train station.
A user should know by now not to run any programs attached through email. Plain and simple.
and according to linux zealots administrating networks in their basements: NO!!!! OMG!!! ROTFL!!! WTF mate?
and so before I get modded as troll, I'm sure most agree it's not so much the system but the person administrating it to keep it secure.
between google and yahoo. Google's is clean and compact while yahoo's is all over the place. People want simplicity and when so much information is displayed at once like on lots of portals, it's difficult to find anything.
until people remember the "tumble no heat" setting on their dryer while they're looking for the receipt to return the damn thing.
or, how about...
That's no moon. That's what $87 billion dollars looks like wrapped in a bundle.
I think eventually it will be cheaper just to throw money at "enemies" than to spend it on a $300,000 smart bomb. Think how heavy 300,000 $1 bills wrapped in rubber bands is.
I think Sun was stupid to try this so soon. They're trying to push openoffice AND java at the same time. They should have spent more time making openoffice more of a competitor to Microsoft office in terms of features and not just on cost. When it's good enough where office junkies can switch to OOo, then require Java.
They should have created the dependency for Java through openoffice, not try to bundle the two together. It's like a car dealer trying to sell the undercoating package before he's sold you on the car.
"Windows OneCare automatically takes care of key tasks such as running antivirus scans, updating the antivirus engine and virus definitions, updating the firewall, and running a monthly PC tune-up to improve and maintain your computer's performance."
they forgot to mention "patching all those OS holes so they can't be exploited by clicking on a random link in somebody's AIM profile"
Good point. I'd rather they hammer out the bugs and shortcomings in a market that's already looking for an alternative to Microsoft rather than a market asking "what's wrong with Microsoft anyway?"
That would be Unamerican! Go back to Africa!
In some semblance of serious though, that is troubling. Why would they not want to offer Linux to their American customers in this program? My hope is they are doing it for business reasons ($$) and not because they were quietly asked not to while renewing their contracts with Microsoft ($$$). Ubuntu is a nice distro that seems to "just work". Kubuntu (which does mean something, just just the standard "k+name" nomenclature) works well and looks damn good. I'm all for Ubuntu ending on laptops and desktops than that Linspire or Xandros crap.
I googled "satellite pager service" and got this:
S atellite+Pager+Service/page/6
http://www.wcclp.com/index.php/phpmPage/Services_
if by local to Washington you mean "anywhere on the planet", then this should work.
Yeah every post that mentions JuK has somebody saying amarok is better. I've used both and I prefer juk for it's simplicity and overall feel. Nothing other than opinion really. However, since both are qt apps, they both look nice.
my rebuttle as a happy xbox media center user:
1. you don't have to buy mod chips anymore
2. connect to your computer with the media on it over ethernet
3. see #2
4. change the channel on the television, get a DVR from your cable company if they offer it
5. add some old nintendo games to keep you or your kids busy.
I use it primarily to play DVDs and downloaded videos and music. It also serves as a nice gaming console. I think these linux pvr solutions are overkill for what could be replaced by a tivo, xbox, and an ethernet cable. Just my two cents though.
and before people say "but windows sucks too!", linux and the desktop environment have to be a LOT better to win people over.
kioslaves is a major improvement. I plug a drive in, and an icon appears on the desktop. A thing I noticed randomly was if I scroll over the JuK tray icon, it skips to the next song. If I scroll over the speaker tray icon, the volume increases or decreases. When you go to rename a file, it highlights the name but not the extension because you rarely change the extension of a file. These of course are little things, but they do make a difference. There are also countless usability improvements that I can't think of right now.
KDE has come along way since the days of 1.0 and I'm sure the pace is going to increase as more people get involved.
So yeah, KDE is improving and at this pace, it may be a LOT better than windows. Of course that's before longhorn comes out and I'm sure a bunch of people are trying to get linux adoption up before that hype takes over.
"His promise: Longhorn, the next version of the Windows operating system, will make malicious software (malware) that gets onto computers without the users' knowledge "a thing of the past"."
-Bill Gates
So longhorn isn't due out for a year or so or two or three. They expect their customers to wait that long? This shouldn't be such a complicated issue.
I use the spellbound extension a lot and every time I upgrade firefox it's always a pain in the ass to get it working again. I have to run firefox as root, install something, close it, and repeat the process a few times. It probably takes less than five minutes so it's not really a time issue, it's just aggravating because it feels like it really shouldn't have to happen.
I'm sure it will be and I'm wondering how they can easily cripple their software to do so. Google seems to be able to pretty much find anything on the subject of everything.
And I don't see how this is a sign of google being evil. They simply want to enter a large market but must play by China's rules. At most, the rules are just going to restrict what web pages the Chinese can access, not modify the pages themselves in that form of censorship.
In KDE 3.4 (may have appeared in previous versions, not sure) there is a protocol "fish://" that uses ssh. KDE treats it like a regular konq window and you can copy and move files around. Since it works over ssh it's already popular and easy to set up. Another nice trick they've done is you can open a text file from the remote computer, edit, and when you click save it saves it back to the remote computer.
It's easy to use and integrates well into the rest of KDE.
Which picture show it "clearly running" windows? The one mentioned in the article doesn't even have a hard drive. These look more like large PDAs to me than what we regularly think a laptop is. But if it works and people can afford it, I hope it goes well.
"An act making Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes."
When election season comes around and you see those ads of "He voted against helping the victims of the tragic Tsunami" you see why bills that combine "good" laws and "controversial" laws will get passed just so they don't receive flak later on.
Now I'm not saying I agree or disagree with this bill. All I am saying is that I think if it were split up, the vote probably would not have been 100-0.
Or you could find a live-cd that uses the ntfs.sys driver to read/write NTFS partitions. Knoppix will read them out of the box, but I'm not sure if it will write properly. Last I read, which was a few months ago, the NTFS write support with the driver in the kernel could only write to a file as long as the size didn't change. So I assume that means deleting is out of the question.
Another good tool is a boot cd called "Hiren's Boot Disk". It has lots of commercial software so I believe you'd have to look for it on P2P or torrent websites to obtain it, but it has some good tools on it.
As these people write better malware, it's going to get increasingly more difficult to remove them while windows is running.
Or, like the parent suggested, run linux and exchange this hassle for different hassles. I know I did. But it's more fun in the long run.
and the layman who saw "Independence Day" might also think so. Somehow aliens use the same wireless network protocols and our viruses are binary compatible. I guess that damn i386 just never goes away.
After a while, it becomes aggravating how many people see something having to do with any high "tech mumbo jumbo" and assume it really is just "random mumbo jumbo" that somehow works most of the time.
Tax break or tax deduction? I think it's a tax deduction which cuts that down to about a third or so. so 5000 - (600 to 700) is still a premium.
If by "duh" you mean anything can be argued, then I agree with you. My father, an attorney, hates that word: arguably. Makes sense though...anything can be argued!!!
I think you're looking too much into this. When a company licenses Microsoft's patents, it's good for Microsoft. Simple as that.
It's a smart move on Microsoft's part because it creates lots of dependencies with new startups.
Yeah, people got this impression years ago. It's been discussed a lot too. At least, for Microsoft's sake, it took a some of IBM's time and money for a little while which may have prevented them from getting new ideas out there. It's some pretty shitty competition if you ask me.
Imagine seeing Ronald McDonald staging false rear end collision with Dave Thomas and the Hamburgler. Instead of developing all of those new spicy sauces, he would have spent all that time in court fighting this bullshit.