Too many children (all ages, Im talking mentally) are worried about what can I get. You work for a company. It is their resources, they get to determine how you can use it. If you are caught violating those rules... you should be fired. Why should an employer put up with people who cant even be trusted to obey the rules? I grant that I would love to surf freely from work, but if my employer doesn't want me to surf.. I wont. A school my wife works at is trying to stop people from visiting myspace.com, not because of the content but because but because of the bandwidth drain. Some people are actually trying to be productive but cant because some person wants to surf. When your surfing actually stops someone from being productive, you are hurting a company (or a persons senior project). Remember, you work for the company.. what is bad for the company is bad for you. If you are the cause... its real bad for you.
Magnifier. Comes in accessability group. The only realy hurdle is text to speach. JAWS is the most prevalent program, and it only works with MS software. I guess we just have to petition the manufacturer of JAWS for a plugin. They should be able to do it best and quickest (just like MS did with the plugin
Couple of problems with your post. 1) Windows doesnt connect to any wireless netowork... it just seeks them out. So I do agree on that point. The article only refers to low level code, could be firmware they are talking about. A flash should fix that.
2) My ubuntu (with kde installed after the fact) always has been configured to connect to the first (alphabetically) available wireless network. I didn't set it up that way. Luckily I always check what network I am hooked into. But it is still scanning. The vulnrability is for network cards scanning for networks... not connecting (If i read right).
3) They also said the mac native card was vulnerable. In an earlier post. I dont know how reliable that is. They mentioned that all OS's are vulerable... that would indicate a firmware bug, not a OS driver bug.
We agree... and we disagree. I have always said.. If your system is setup to connect to the net... you are vulnerable.
Sure I have thought of it. I just dont see the purpose. I have a mac yes, fanboy, nope. I dont even use it, I dont use my computers at home except for maybe an hour a week.
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I can use a true unix when runing osX. If that doesn't float your boat, run kde/gnome/windowmaker/blackbox/fluxbox/your choice of display managers on top of X that mac ships with its computers. I can run just about anything linux on a mac without having to completely install a linux system. I can see the want to run windows for certain programs/games/video codecs/just be cause I can run windows on a mac/pong emulator:)... etc. Can anyone tell me why I would want to run linux on a mac instead of running X.org and a gdm/xdm/kdm session?
Before you flame, I have an SusE/Win2K dual boot, an XP/Ubuntu dual boot (laptop), and a mac.
wasn't this basically the point of rhapsody. I also believe that this cringley whathisname guy is guessing not recoding the api's , but more like liscensing the actual ms code and having that run in the compatability layer. It's almost like rhapsody revised:)
1. I dont dance. 2. I only yell troll when they are unsubstantiated "facts" 3. I have all the support I need. I can even buy commercial support if I dont. I also have to option to have Dell, or IBM support any system they ship with Linux installed. Thats as much as they do for windows as well. 4. I dont emulate, I run a dedicated win2k server almost once a month to do menial tasks. 5. concede, unless you want to count pixar, dreamworks, and countless other rendering studios that use maya on redhat while using xserves. 6. concede 7. Mac and linux both use cups. It isn't that difficult to trasnfer drivers. try again. 8. I dont look at scripts. Never had to, all of my hardware works just as is (granted I only do basic stuff, dvd burning (no ripping, see #4), dvd erasing, watching movies, listem to music, surf the net. 9. I believe Jon "Maddog" hall would disagree. All of his books are done with TeX or LaTeX. 10. see #5. I dont know about live action, its not my area of interest. From what I hear, MAC is the way to go for that. 11. My idea of a riviting game is frozen bubble. But I concede on games only for this point. I contest the rest of #11. 12. I have no problems understanding windows, Im just to cheap to buy it. 13. Havent used KDE, CDE, or Gnome lately have you. 14. pure bull intended to incite fury. 15. troubled teenages, no.... then theyd be pns, psy, or other such diatribe. just shows a penchant for unintelligable acronyms. 16. I have had no problems playing wmv's. also, I have a win2k system. 17. access is a front end. the database is sql. We have db2, MySql, PostgreSQL, oracle. We dont have a pretty front end, we only have serious databases. You can do everything from pure sql on the database server that Access installs and uses without ever opening up the access application. 18. I personally have no need to pay 400 for a wordprocessor. Openoffice, wordperfect, dos editor work for my purposes. I have never needed to use vb script. 19. NeroLinux is ok, I like K3b. Both will do DVD-/+RW DL. 20. I dont know about dvd-ram. How popular is that format? see #19. 21. All of Linux, except the Kernel is 3rd party. dont see why that is bad as long as it is a quality offering. Why does 3rd party even matter when quality should be the main judging point? 22. I have yet to peronsaly kill a file domain, and I will call BS when I see it, regardless of OS it was typed on. 23. Almost non-existant, only Novell, Red-hat, and IBM will support most anybody. Dell will support theyre customers. I believe there are others as well, does connical offer support? 24. Companies are switch both directions. Many are leaving Windows because of virus problems, others are leaving linux because of dependancy hell. This statement chose to ignore one side of the arguement in order to make an arguement. This was pure bias. 25. Terminal service. That is microsofts name for VNC. Please check again for VNC options in Linux. I know X.org has a client. OpenVNC is another option. Please research your fud before you spout it. OpenVNC is compatible with windows terminal server I believe. 26. Setting up servers is quicker, but I have never had a windows install take a couple of minutes. My fastest OS install was a very minimal linux install. Point is basically substatiated, but misleading at the same time. 27. Have you ran a modern linux distro. I have had no problems using my usb minidisk drive as a removable hd, my usb hd's, my thumbdrives, my usb burners, usb modems, usb nics, and I only have usb printers. Not a problem since Kernel 2.6 came out. 28. Anyone is a moron if they take slashdot as gospel. Always do your own research. 29. attack the site when you cannot attack the os? you are sinking to the level of those you are flaming. 30. Strongly disagree. My sister has no clue, but is running linux (I set it up and taught her how to use the net). 31. Linux can crash. Just run anything from ATI. Windows still crashes too
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Problem is, most warrenties only cover the original purchaser. Without the purchase reciept, they can claim that I may not be the orig. purchaser, hense the warrenty doesn't apply. I may talk to the BBB, but I don't see that ending up anywhere.
It's not a total boat anchor. I can still network with wireless, burn cd's, just not dvd's (was I unclear on this earlier, if so, sorry), bluetooth, and I can use the firewire to hook up to my external burners. I also can use the comp for OBDCII applications for my car. I can watch dvd's also. Not a total loss, just seriously miffed for it. The DVD drive is slimline and not removeable (it was a T250, the very slimline one).
I bought a vaio laptop about a year ago. It was in May of last year to be exact. The dvd burner (+/-rw) will not read dvd-r's that have been burnt and will not burn anything. The onboard nic (intel proset) will not work. I have called them about getting warrenty service and while they see that my laptop has a one year warrenty, was bought in may, was built/released less than 1 year ago today, they will not give me my service because I sent in the reciept (had to be an original) to register the computer and I have to have the reciept in order to get warrenty service. They will not take a creditcard statement becuase it isn't itemized and the store didn't keep a record of the item number, just the amount paid. I may be SOL, but sony will never seen any of my money, or anyone who I consults money ever again.
I agree one hundred percent. I have taken "advanced" defensive driving and riding courses. I am a competent driver, but not great. I try to keep a 2 second distance (try to do that on I95). I drive an underpowered manual (98 honda civic ex) and am always worried when some idiot decides to pull up so close behind me on an incline while I am stopped that I can no longer see his hood.
Please people, if you live in VA, that stick on the left side of you wheel is the turn signal, familiarize your self with it. 1.5 car lengths !=2 seconds when traveling 80.
I learned on a car that no longer had power steering, no antilock breaks, and I have never had a traction control system. I grew up in IL and have a slight clue what it means to be driving on ice and snow without tire chains or salt. All that taught me was to drive for the conditions and recover a spinning vehicle.
Parent poster is correct!!!
ABS is a crutch... I have been driving this car for a few years and have only felt it activate once, when I was trying to see what it felt like and slammed on my breaks.
of course I couldn't bicycle across the country in 5 days.....that is just being dense. What my point was is that the motorcyclist will only be eating 5 days worth of food where the bicyclist would be eating a couple of months worth of food. By his own requirements for petrole usage... shipping of food and stuff, the motorcycle may be the cheapest route.
BTW, I could ride a motorcycle across country in probably 4 days if I had a windshield and a larger tank. The getting off to refuel ever 100 miles is a killer and 85 mile winds in the chest will wear one out after a couple of hours.
I have done Sierra Vista, AZ (near tombstone) to Peoria, IL (dead center) in 25 hours. I have done Peoria, IL to Pensylvania on a motorcycle with no windshield and had to quit because of rain/poor visibility. You can do a cross country trip on a bike in about 5 days.
I thought hybrids excelled at great milage in town and had the milage drop when on the highway.
You should feel really bad... my civic gets an average of about 35 miles to the gallon (I commute in DC, so its kinda like city driving with highway everynow and then). I actually got 45 miles to the gallon traveling from TN to IL a couple of weeks ago.
If you get the chance, learn to ride a bike... it can be a blast and its a fuel saver like no tomarrow
you can probably bet the two guys on the segway are going to eat a whole lot more, and the same shipping costs go for the motorcycles (granted, one can do 1000 miles a day on a comfortable motorcycle, so less there). The less amount that the motorcyclist eats will probably be offset by the gas he is buring plus the two oil changes it would take to cross the country and properly maintain your bike.
Hybrid cars rarely get what they are advertized to get in city and hwy milage. http://www.consumersearch.com/www/automotive/hybri d-cars/fullstory.html. Every motorcycle I have gets between 45 and 60 mpg in city and hwy. One is a 650 thumper (single piston) and the other is a 1100 v-twin. My buddies bike can get as good as 45 mpg if he is not pushing it hard and he rides a Yamaha YZF-R1. They may beat out the segway for oil usage, segways are battery hogs... they gotta be:) Bicycle gets it 100 percent due to long lasting lithium grease on the chains and only fabrication using oil (have to heat the metal somehow, have to power the welding machines some how, but motorcycles are more metal, and more welds).
The problem is that some places still dont have affordable broadband net. I have to pay almost 80 a month to get highspeed access. I have to get cable to get cable internet... I dont want the cable. I just have to chalk it up to the cost of the net. DSL doesn't exist where I live... about 2 miles from the nearist phone switch (the big ones, not just a repeater). It just isn't profitable to get DSL rolled out to my boondock yet.
Other than that it sounds nice:)
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" And if any of those newbie junkprogrammers out there that has no better to do than to destroy the medium they live in really become smart, than the internet will stop in its actual existance,"
I am rather suprized that you believe that the virus writers would even want to destroy their own enviroment. A clever virus would not destroy its own method of survival, that would be stupid. Instead, a clever virus will use as little resources as it can so it isn't caught because of performance hit.
Secondly, the internet uses redundant systems. For the internet to come to a grinding halt, you would either have to attack ports, hardware, or bandwith. You can stop a computer for accessing the net by attacking port 80 and shutting down the redirector service. That wouldn't work for all because of the many different OS's and levels of security on them. The net exists still. Hardware, the easiest way would be to infect the core level routers... would have to overwrite the OS to do that. Too bad they dont use a single brand which again means you would have to write many different versions. The virus would also have to shutdown the router after, and only after, it had replicated itself to all redundant systems, including the ones that dont come online till the active ones drop. Net would still stand, but be crippled like before. You could write a virus for the surfers computers, but you cant flash the bios from the OS on many mother boards. You could try to just flood the net... you would need a huge zombie network. The traffic would be analyzed. A definition would be put out in reaction. To stop that, you would have to block all virus scanners from being able to update. Net still stands.
To drop the net is an almost impossible feat. Besides, why would you bulldoze your playground.
Thirdly, virus writers can have the exact same education as you. They could have even taken the same classes as you at the same time. Don't assume they are only capable of writing idiotic code and you are the only one capable of writing clever code.
Fourthly, you are correct in saying that security is reactionary. It will most likely be nothing more than that. Virus writers already have the upper hand, they always have, and they always will.
I take serious offence to your post. I am a young male, 26 in 15 days. I remember my youth very well because it was a very short time ago. A simple generalization is always going to be wrong. A simple stero type you used in your post is also very wrong. Just because a person may be young compaired to you...does not mean that they are immature, ignorant, arrogant, or annoying. I must admit to being the last, usually on purpose. I would suggest that you keep any stereotypes that you have formed based upon youself to the source. I am not you. I have always been respected by my peers and my superiors (both in age in position). You may actually have known just about everything you know now when you about 30 (that age when your brain wasn't fully developed) but your personal experience colors your decisions more now. This may or maynot make your decisions better. I have on numerous occasions proven that age alone does not make you smarter, neither does expierence alone.
I hope I could be called mature for my age. I haven't had the go to college and get drunk every night, I must party till I die expierence of most of my peers. I instead went to Iraq. A persons world expierence is what makes them who they are. A teenager may or may not have the expierence to make dicisions as well thought out as you can, but they may just. Please keep your generalizations to a minimum. Your now fully developed brain may not be as developed (or may be decaying) as you think. They say hindsight is 20-20, but I know I remeber things either worse or better than they were. Maybe you are makeing the same mistake.
If I some how misunderstood your post, please disreguard this one. DaemoN128
Old age and trechory will overcome youth and vigor any day (my old man)
Take a look at the samsung phones. most of the ones I have played with and both that I own have nested address books. My (older) a460, sgh-e105, and SGH-c225 all have nested address books. You might notice they these phones only work with tmobile... but a little shopping around should find you what you are looking for.
Thanks for the links. I do have one question, I cannot test on my work computers, does the xml document for ms office perform as well in the oo.org? If we want a true and fair test, we should be using the same computer and file in the two different programs. Opendoc may take longer, but it can be done in OO.org where MS office cant do it. Does the test follow the same pattern of results when using the MS office file in openoffice? Is OO.org still slower?
I can see this as possible, but I would like to see a proper test where only one variable is tested instead of two. Untill that happens... this test is just spouting off. It may or maynot be true because we dont know how openoffice does against ms office in.doc files. I will testify that it takes longer to load on my Vaio laptop. But that is not a big deal to me. I havent checked the memory usage yet. OH, yeah, what verison of office and oo.org was he using?
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Too many children (all ages, Im talking mentally) are worried about what can I get. You work for a company. It is their resources, they get to determine how you can use it. If you are caught violating those rules... you should be fired. Why should an employer put up with people who cant even be trusted to obey the rules? I grant that I would love to surf freely from work, but if my employer doesn't want me to surf.. I wont. A school my wife works at is trying to stop people from visiting myspace.com, not because of the content but because but because of the bandwidth drain. Some people are actually trying to be productive but cant because some person wants to surf. When your surfing actually stops someone from being productive, you are hurting a company (or a persons senior project). Remember, you work for the company.. what is bad for the company is bad for you. If you are the cause... its real bad for you.
Magnifier. Comes in accessability group. The only realy hurdle is text to speach. JAWS is the most prevalent program, and it only works with MS software. I guess we just have to petition the manufacturer of JAWS for a plugin. They should be able to do it best and quickest (just like MS did with the plugin
1 command sudo (I know a lot of users who have blank password)
Couple of problems with your post.
1) Windows doesnt connect to any wireless netowork... it just seeks them out. So I do agree on that point. The article only refers to low level code, could be firmware they are talking about. A flash should fix that.
2) My ubuntu (with kde installed after the fact) always has been configured to connect to the first (alphabetically) available wireless network. I didn't set it up that way. Luckily I always check what network I am hooked into. But it is still scanning. The vulnrability is for network cards scanning for networks... not connecting (If i read right).
3) They also said the mac native card was vulnerable. In an earlier post. I dont know how reliable that is. They mentioned that all OS's are vulerable... that would indicate a firmware bug, not a OS driver bug.
We agree... and we disagree. I have always said.. If your system is setup to connect to the net... you are vulnerable.
Sure I have thought of it. I just dont see the purpose. I have a mac yes, fanboy, nope. I dont even use it, I dont use my computers at home except for maybe an hour a week. Later
its called goatse.cx (no link for a reason)
I can use a true unix when runing osX. If that doesn't float your boat, run kde/gnome/windowmaker/blackbox/fluxbox/your choice of display managers on top of X that mac ships with its computers. I can run just about anything linux on a mac without having to completely install a linux system. I can see the want to run windows for certain programs/games/video codecs/just be cause I can run windows on a mac/pong emulator :) ... etc. Can anyone tell me why I would want to run linux on a mac instead of running X.org and a gdm/xdm/kdm session?
Before you flame, I have an SusE/Win2K dual boot, an XP/Ubuntu dual boot (laptop), and a mac.
wasn't this basically the point of rhapsody. I also believe that this cringley whathisname guy is guessing not recoding the api's , but more like liscensing the actual ms code and having that run in the compatability layer. It's almost like rhapsody revised:)
1. I dont dance.
2. I only yell troll when they are unsubstantiated "facts"
3. I have all the support I need. I can even buy commercial support if I dont. I also have to option to have Dell, or IBM support any system they ship with Linux installed. Thats as much as they do for windows as well.
4. I dont emulate, I run a dedicated win2k server almost once a month to do menial tasks.
5. concede, unless you want to count pixar, dreamworks, and countless other rendering studios that use maya on redhat while using xserves.
6. concede
7. Mac and linux both use cups. It isn't that difficult to trasnfer drivers. try again.
8. I dont look at scripts. Never had to, all of my hardware works just as is (granted I only do basic stuff, dvd burning (no ripping, see #4), dvd erasing, watching movies, listem to music, surf the net.
9. I believe Jon "Maddog" hall would disagree. All of his books are done with TeX or LaTeX.
10. see #5. I dont know about live action, its not my area of interest. From what I hear, MAC is the way to go for that.
11. My idea of a riviting game is frozen bubble. But I concede on games only for this point. I contest the rest of #11.
12. I have no problems understanding windows, Im just to cheap to buy it.
13. Havent used KDE, CDE, or Gnome lately have you.
14. pure bull intended to incite fury.
15. troubled teenages, no.... then theyd be pns, psy, or other such diatribe. just shows a penchant for unintelligable acronyms.
16. I have had no problems playing wmv's. also, I have a win2k system.
17. access is a front end. the database is sql. We have db2, MySql, PostgreSQL, oracle. We dont have a pretty front end, we only have serious databases. You can do everything from pure sql on the database server that Access installs and uses without ever opening up the access application.
18. I personally have no need to pay 400 for a wordprocessor. Openoffice, wordperfect, dos editor work for my purposes. I have never needed to use vb script.
19. NeroLinux is ok, I like K3b. Both will do DVD-/+RW DL.
20. I dont know about dvd-ram. How popular is that format? see #19.
21. All of Linux, except the Kernel is 3rd party. dont see why that is bad as long as it is a quality offering. Why does 3rd party even matter when quality should be the main judging point?
22. I have yet to peronsaly kill a file domain, and I will call BS when I see it, regardless of OS it was typed on.
23. Almost non-existant, only Novell, Red-hat, and IBM will support most anybody. Dell will support theyre customers. I believe there are others as well, does connical offer support?
24. Companies are switch both directions. Many are leaving Windows because of virus problems, others are leaving linux because of dependancy hell. This statement chose to ignore one side of the arguement in order to make an arguement. This was pure bias.
25. Terminal service. That is microsofts name for VNC. Please check again for VNC options in Linux. I know X.org has a client. OpenVNC is another option. Please research your fud before you spout it. OpenVNC is compatible with windows terminal server I believe.
26. Setting up servers is quicker, but I have never had a windows install take a couple of minutes. My fastest OS install was a very minimal linux install. Point is basically substatiated, but misleading at the same time.
27. Have you ran a modern linux distro. I have had no problems using my usb minidisk drive as a removable hd, my usb hd's, my thumbdrives, my usb burners, usb modems, usb nics, and I only have usb printers. Not a problem since Kernel 2.6 came out.
28. Anyone is a moron if they take slashdot as gospel. Always do your own research.
29. attack the site when you cannot attack the os? you are sinking to the level of those you are flaming.
30. Strongly disagree. My sister has no clue, but is running linux (I set it up and taught her how to use the net).
31. Linux can crash. Just run anything from ATI. Windows still crashes too
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Problem is, most warrenties only cover the original purchaser. Without the purchase reciept, they can claim that I may not be the orig. purchaser, hense the warrenty doesn't apply. I may talk to the BBB, but I don't see that ending up anywhere. It's not a total boat anchor. I can still network with wireless, burn cd's, just not dvd's (was I unclear on this earlier, if so, sorry), bluetooth, and I can use the firewire to hook up to my external burners. I also can use the comp for OBDCII applications for my car. I can watch dvd's also. Not a total loss, just seriously miffed for it. The DVD drive is slimline and not removeable (it was a T250, the very slimline one).
I bought a vaio laptop about a year ago. It was in May of last year to be exact. The dvd burner (+/-rw) will not read dvd-r's that have been burnt and will not burn anything. The onboard nic (intel proset) will not work. I have called them about getting warrenty service and while they see that my laptop has a one year warrenty, was bought in may, was built/released less than 1 year ago today, they will not give me my service because I sent in the reciept (had to be an original) to register the computer and I have to have the reciept in order to get warrenty service. They will not take a creditcard statement becuase it isn't itemized and the store didn't keep a record of the item number, just the amount paid. I may be SOL, but sony will never seen any of my money, or anyone who I consults money ever again.
I agree one hundred percent. I have taken "advanced" defensive driving and riding courses. I am a competent driver, but not great. I try to keep a 2 second distance (try to do that on I95). I drive an underpowered manual (98 honda civic ex) and am always worried when some idiot decides to pull up so close behind me on an incline while I am stopped that I can no longer see his hood.
Please people, if you live in VA, that stick on the left side of you wheel is the turn signal, familiarize your self with it. 1.5 car lengths !=2 seconds when traveling 80.
I learned on a car that no longer had power steering, no antilock breaks, and I have never had a traction control system. I grew up in IL and have a slight clue what it means to be driving on ice and snow without tire chains or salt. All that taught me was to drive for the conditions and recover a spinning vehicle.
Parent poster is correct!!!
ABS is a crutch... I have been driving this car for a few years and have only felt it activate once, when I was trying to see what it felt like and slammed on my breaks.
of course I couldn't bicycle across the country in 5 days.....that is just being dense. What my point was is that the motorcyclist will only be eating 5 days worth of food where the bicyclist would be eating a couple of months worth of food. By his own requirements for petrole usage... shipping of food and stuff, the motorcycle may be the cheapest route.
BTW, I could ride a motorcycle across country in probably 4 days if I had a windshield and a larger tank. The getting off to refuel ever 100 miles is a killer and 85 mile winds in the chest will wear one out after a couple of hours.
I have done Sierra Vista, AZ (near tombstone) to Peoria, IL (dead center) in 25 hours. I have done Peoria, IL to Pensylvania on a motorcycle with no windshield and had to quit because of rain/poor visibility. You can do a cross country trip on a bike in about 5 days.
I thought hybrids excelled at great milage in town and had the milage drop when on the highway. You should feel really bad... my civic gets an average of about 35 miles to the gallon (I commute in DC, so its kinda like city driving with highway everynow and then). I actually got 45 miles to the gallon traveling from TN to IL a couple of weeks ago. If you get the chance, learn to ride a bike... it can be a blast and its a fuel saver like no tomarrow
you can probably bet the two guys on the segway are going to eat a whole lot more, and the same shipping costs go for the motorcycles (granted, one can do 1000 miles a day on a comfortable motorcycle, so less there). The less amount that the motorcyclist eats will probably be offset by the gas he is buring plus the two oil changes it would take to cross the country and properly maintain your bike.
Hybrid cars rarely get what they are advertized to get in city and hwy milage. http://www.consumersearch.com/www/automotive/hybri d-cars/fullstory.html. Every motorcycle I have gets between 45 and 60 mpg in city and hwy. One is a 650 thumper (single piston) and the other is a 1100 v-twin. My buddies bike can get as good as 45 mpg if he is not pushing it hard and he rides a Yamaha YZF-R1. They may beat out the segway for oil usage, segways are battery hogs... they gotta be:) Bicycle gets it 100 percent due to long lasting lithium grease on the chains and only fabrication using oil (have to heat the metal somehow, have to power the welding machines some how, but motorcycles are more metal, and more welds).
The problem is that some places still dont have affordable broadband net. I have to pay almost 80 a month to get highspeed access. I have to get cable to get cable internet... I dont want the cable. I just have to chalk it up to the cost of the net. DSL doesn't exist where I live... about 2 miles from the nearist phone switch (the big ones, not just a repeater). It just isn't profitable to get DSL rolled out to my boondock yet.
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Other than that it sounds nice
" And if any of those newbie junkprogrammers out there that has no better to do than to destroy the medium they live in really become smart, than the internet will stop in its actual existance,"
I am rather suprized that you believe that the virus writers would even want to destroy their own enviroment. A clever virus would not destroy its own method of survival, that would be stupid. Instead, a clever virus will use as little resources as it can so it isn't caught because of performance hit.
Secondly, the internet uses redundant systems. For the internet to come to a grinding halt, you would either have to attack ports, hardware, or bandwith. You can stop a computer for accessing the net by attacking port 80 and shutting down the redirector service. That wouldn't work for all because of the many different OS's and levels of security on them. The net exists still. Hardware, the easiest way would be to infect the core level routers... would have to overwrite the OS to do that. Too bad they dont use a single brand which again means you would have to write many different versions. The virus would also have to shutdown the router after, and only after, it had replicated itself to all redundant systems, including the ones that dont come online till the active ones drop. Net would still stand, but be crippled like before. You could write a virus for the surfers computers, but you cant flash the bios from the OS on many mother boards. You could try to just flood the net... you would need a huge zombie network. The traffic would be analyzed. A definition would be put out in reaction. To stop that, you would have to block all virus scanners from being able to update. Net still stands.
To drop the net is an almost impossible feat. Besides, why would you bulldoze your playground.
Thirdly, virus writers can have the exact same education as you. They could have even taken the same classes as you at the same time. Don't assume they are only capable of writing idiotic code and you are the only one capable of writing clever code.
Fourthly, you are correct in saying that security is reactionary. It will most likely be nothing more than that. Virus writers already have the upper hand, they always have, and they always will.
I take serious offence to your post. I am a young male, 26 in 15 days. I remember my youth very well because it was a very short time ago. A simple generalization is always going to be wrong. A simple stero type you used in your post is also very wrong. Just because a person may be young compaired to you...does not mean that they are immature, ignorant, arrogant, or annoying. I must admit to being the last, usually on purpose. I would suggest that you keep any stereotypes that you have formed based upon youself to the source. I am not you. I have always been respected by my peers and my superiors (both in age in position). You may actually have known just about everything you know now when you about 30 (that age when your brain wasn't fully developed) but your personal experience colors your decisions more now. This may or maynot make your decisions better. I have on numerous occasions proven that age alone does not make you smarter, neither does expierence alone.
I hope I could be called mature for my age. I haven't had the go to college and get drunk every night, I must party till I die expierence of most of my peers. I instead went to Iraq. A persons world expierence is what makes them who they are. A teenager may or may not have the expierence to make dicisions as well thought out as you can, but they may just. Please keep your generalizations to a minimum. Your now fully developed brain may not be as developed (or may be decaying) as you think. They say hindsight is 20-20, but I know I remeber things either worse or better than they were. Maybe you are makeing the same mistake.
If I some how misunderstood your post, please disreguard this one.
DaemoN128
Old age and trechory will overcome youth and vigor any day (my old man)
Take a look at the samsung phones. most of the ones I have played with and both that I own have nested address books. My (older) a460, sgh-e105, and SGH-c225 all have nested address books. You might notice they these phones only work with tmobile... but a little shopping around should find you what you are looking for.
Thanks for the links. I do have one question, I cannot test on my work computers, does the xml document for ms office perform as well in the oo.org? If we want a true and fair test, we should be using the same computer and file in the two different programs. Opendoc may take longer, but it can be done in OO.org where MS office cant do it. Does the test follow the same pattern of results when using the MS office file in openoffice? Is OO.org still slower? I can see this as possible, but I would like to see a proper test where only one variable is tested instead of two. Untill that happens... this test is just spouting off. It may or maynot be true because we dont know how openoffice does against ms office in .doc files. I will testify that it takes longer to load on my Vaio laptop. But that is not a big deal to me. I havent checked the memory usage yet. OH, yeah, what verison of office and oo.org was he using?
the problem is , the fatter I get, the less lap I have.
busted, xeon. better, you wasted a whole reply on correcting the fat fingering of a common processor. dont you feel fulfilled (/sarcasm)