do we have a slashdot users day ? after all, there are'nt many blessed souls to share our passion and celebrating our geek stature ! someday in the year, where its totally ignored and forgotten, godforsaken day could be ours!
yeah. ouch, i cant stare at the screen for long....aaaargh! the beige is killing me.... "can...t reach...the button"(scream in the same tune like Dexter does whenever he is out of reach)
yeah right said. i can imagine winzip hacking into every major database across the world. who knows ? going by o'dawd's statements if i were the president of a small terrorist island - i should be rubbing my hands in glee and try & infilterate into the winzip office! oh the dreadfull little archiver!!! (winzip has been on top of the downloads charts in cnet and other major sites for eons!)
nothing could be further from the truth than Dan O'Dowd's claims. a) he hasnt quite grasped the basic premises of OSS . or. b) this is a blatant lie, FUD of the most common kind. or. c) he is another guy fond of conspiracy theories, he should really try one of his own hacks with spielberg for his next project,who knows, he might get hired and make millions. seriously, now, it might be true that a vast majority of linux users - may not even peek at the code. but, it is subject to the most intense scrutiny than any software ever written (by most, i mean the most number of countries, groups etc. as opposed to a single country, groups. etc), and it is open for everyone to see. It might actually be the guys at redmond who have incorporated quite a lot of hidden stuff in the OSes and its become so big that they simply cannot handle the complexity, hence the large holes and the security mess! "This too shall pass..."
the gut feeling. nope, no conspiracy theories here. every other guy has this hunch. "what if", and then follows it by "duh, can't be". well, one in a million times it just happens that the gut feeling/ conspiracy theory comes true. and in this game of cloak and dagger, both held by the little guy in redmond... it just might be true! the odd guy has been sighted in many places stabbing small people for the odd change. too far fetched ? well, maybe:)
... in splits after i read the groklaw article. "REPORT 1, from eggplant37:...." onwards was such a delightful read! especially the part where they say we dint run it for the last 7 years. i wish the sco lawyer and our old friend (fiend ?) darl...had all of 7 ears to get an earful of that. i can listen to the daimler guys yelling..."eat that scum, we aint running no crappy sco! "
one of my frens'dad is really a cool chap. he has had problems with his dsl line, and his machine was heavily infected with a rich assortment of viruses. when we introduced him to linux, and asked him not to bother abt a few things in linux. he managed it pretty well, he's abt 60+ but he's taken to it remarkably well. he still has to figure a few things out and needs our help. but its ok, he needed help with windows too! k3b was equal to nero. gaim , xmms, evolution, firefox, abiword. he absolutely loves the games on it. but he had his reservations abt openoffice not quite standing upto msoffice, and the associated problems of opening the MS docs. well, cant blame him there. well, in all it wasnt all that tough. it would have costed him the amount he spent on his new PC for MS's sfware! he saved quite a lot there, he still has his old win98 on it, but again, he stays happy on linux. he doesnt get nasty - viruses, XXXtoolbars, dialers, browserjackers, trojans. and he calls us less often to fix his machine. we dont have to clean up his registry with adaware, daily virus updations, windows updates... and worse - go to his place that time of the day when we seem to be busy most.no re-installs, no cleaning up, no swearing at bill gates!!! now this does not necessarily mean that all the other people will have such a smooth transition to linux. half of them shudder to see anything other than windows! they simply have seen one thing, and they are pertified by it in the first place. now they dont want to learn another new thing which is equal to learning to drive on a busy street during the rush hours! but there are plenty of people who just do that much - chat, listen to music, play solitaire, email, surf websites, read news, and then edit a few documents. its a tough ask for all those teeming masses to tell 'em that its not all that tough shifting to linux! just need the patience of a few young kids to help them out.
dead right. i was one of the first guys to get infected by the darn blaster, while i was online. i dint know what hit me until 3 days later, when it was reported as such a thing as the blasted blaster. well, luckily for me, i had linux to save my arse (i have dual boot).
i've had this happen to me a few times in my office (where my pc has access to dumb guys downloading attachments, siwtching AV off, and other mindless doings), and linux saved me all the while - its the magic button that helps me recover my pc.
well, i have my own difficulties not to let go of windows - but linux has surely had me insured against windows and its vagaries! methinks the least any knowledgeable developer or comp user should have a dual boot if not have linux exclusively. its one way to increase the user base, so that the manufacturers are forced to release drivers and its good to have variety in the market, as opposed to windows only with all the advantage of support from the vendors. i really wish this would happen soon. i remember the first time i used/installed linux 5-6 yrs back, and how different things were then, i will not complain abt it - i enjoyed the way linux has been evolving!
are they guinea pigs or something? this is bordering on the insane. thus begins the cyborg race! i presume we will see an early cyborg who's got the recent MS chips so that the employers and identify how much time an employee spends (no, make that wastes) in the loo. or how many times the kid doesnt attend school.the govt needs to know what you are doing... and other associated "useful things" using the chips... help!
well, it is microsofts' responsibility afterall! well, not the part where the stoopid average joe doesnt update his stuff, cant blame good ol' bill for joe's misery. but yes definetley the part where people pay gobs of money to write something good and billy doesnt write good stuff. writing a GRAND "daddy" browser that is integrated with everything in the system, while there are doors and windows everywhere for everyone to come and peek is billy's fault. billy cant feign ignorance for that. surely he could have changed things as he proceeded with 95/me/2k/xp/2k3/..."longhorn" now ?
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do we have a slashdot users day ? after all, there are'nt many blessed souls to share our passion and celebrating our geek stature ! someday in the year, where its totally ignored and forgotten, godforsaken day could be ours!
yeah. ouch, i cant stare at the screen for long....aaaargh! the beige is killing me.... "can...t reach...the button"(scream in the same tune like Dexter does whenever he is out of reach)
i got the point....but, naah, i was kidding really all the while ;)
yeah right said. i can imagine winzip hacking into every major database across the world. who knows ? going by o'dawd's statements if i were the president of a small terrorist island - i should be rubbing my hands in glee and try & infilterate into the winzip office! oh the dreadfull little archiver!!! (winzip has been on top of the downloads charts in cnet and other major sites for eons!)
nothing could be further from the truth than Dan O'Dowd's claims.
a) he hasnt quite grasped the basic premises of OSS . or.
b) this is a blatant lie, FUD of the most common kind. or.
c) he is another guy fond of conspiracy theories, he should really try one of his own hacks with spielberg for his next project,who knows, he might get hired and make millions.
seriously, now, it might be true that a vast majority of linux users - may not even peek at the code. but, it is subject to the most intense scrutiny than any software ever written (by most, i mean the most number of countries, groups etc. as opposed to a single country, groups. etc), and it is open for everyone to see. It might actually be the guys at redmond who have incorporated quite a lot of hidden stuff in the OSes and its become so big that they simply cannot handle the complexity, hence the large holes and the security mess!
"This too shall pass..."
the gut feeling. nope, no conspiracy theories here. every other guy has this hunch. "what if", and then follows it by "duh, can't be". well, one in a million times it just happens that the gut feeling/ conspiracy theory comes true. and in this game of cloak and dagger, both held by the little guy in redmond... it just might be true! the odd guy has been sighted in many places stabbing small people for the odd change. too far fetched ? well, maybe :)
... in splits after i read the groklaw article. "REPORT 1, from eggplant37:...." onwards was such a delightful read! especially the part where they say we dint run it for the last 7 years. i wish the sco lawyer and our old friend (fiend ?) darl...had all of 7 ears to get an earful of that. i can listen to the daimler guys yelling ..."eat that scum, we aint running no crappy sco! "
one of my frens'dad is really a cool chap. he has had problems with his dsl line, and his machine was heavily infected with a rich assortment of viruses. when we introduced him to linux, and asked him not to bother abt a few things in linux. he managed it pretty well, he's abt 60+ but he's taken to it remarkably well. he still has to figure a few things out and needs our help. but its ok, he needed help with windows too! k3b was equal to nero. gaim , xmms, evolution, firefox, abiword. he absolutely loves the games on it. but he had his reservations abt openoffice not quite standing upto msoffice, and the associated problems of opening the MS docs. well, cant blame him there. well, in all it wasnt all that tough. it would have costed him the amount he spent on his new PC for MS's sfware! he saved quite a lot there, he still has his old win98 on it, but again, he stays happy on linux. he doesnt get nasty - viruses, XXXtoolbars, dialers, browserjackers, trojans. and he calls us less often to fix his machine. we dont have to clean up his registry with adaware, daily virus updations, windows updates... and worse - go to his place that time of the day when we seem to be busy most.no re-installs, no cleaning up, no swearing at bill gates!!! now this does not necessarily mean that all the other people will have such a smooth transition to linux. half of them shudder to see anything other than windows! they simply have seen one thing, and they are pertified by it in the first place. now they dont want to learn another new thing which is equal to learning to drive on a busy street during the rush hours! but there are plenty of people who just do that much - chat, listen to music, play solitaire, email, surf websites, read news, and then edit a few documents. its a tough ask for all those teeming masses to tell 'em that its not all that tough shifting to linux! just need the patience of a few young kids to help them out.
dead right. i was one of the first guys to get infected by the darn blaster, while i was online. i dint know what hit me until 3 days later, when it was reported as such a thing as the blasted blaster. well, luckily for me, i had linux to save my arse (i have dual boot). i've had this happen to me a few times in my office (where my pc has access to dumb guys downloading attachments, siwtching AV off, and other mindless doings), and linux saved me all the while - its the magic button that helps me recover my pc. well, i have my own difficulties not to let go of windows - but linux has surely had me insured against windows and its vagaries! methinks the least any knowledgeable developer or comp user should have a dual boot if not have linux exclusively. its one way to increase the user base, so that the manufacturers are forced to release drivers and its good to have variety in the market, as opposed to windows only with all the advantage of support from the vendors. i really wish this would happen soon. i remember the first time i used/installed linux 5-6 yrs back, and how different things were then, i will not complain abt it - i enjoyed the way linux has been evolving!
are they guinea pigs or something? this is bordering on the insane. thus begins the cyborg race! i presume we will see an early cyborg who's got the recent MS chips so that the employers and identify how much time an employee spends (no, make that wastes) in the loo. or how many times the kid doesnt attend school.the govt needs to know what you are doing... and other associated "useful things" using the chips... help!
right on point there.
well, it is microsofts' responsibility afterall! well, not the part where the stoopid average joe doesnt update his stuff, cant blame good ol' bill for joe's misery. but yes definetley the part where people pay gobs of money to write something good and billy doesnt write good stuff. writing a GRAND "daddy" browser that is integrated with everything in the system, while there are doors and windows everywhere for everyone to come and peek is billy's fault. billy cant feign ignorance for that. surely he could have changed things as he proceeded with 95/me/2k/xp/2k3/..."longhorn" now ?