I've only seen a couple users' computers that had more than a few hundred Windows spybots, but last week I worked on a computer that had 8000+ variations of the latest Windows viruses and worms.
This is off topic, and I know it's been said before, but out of the box support for Linmodems is far larger of a problem for the non-technical user. JP
From the front he looks like the fat Elvis guy in the camel-toe thread above. And from the back he looks like Hank Hill in the episode 'Hank's Back Story".
DR. TATE: No. Mr. Hill, you were born with no muscle mass here, no cushioning. For years you've basically been sitting on your spine. You suffer from a disease called Diminished Gluteal Syndrome, or DGS.
HANK: I don't understand. What does that mean?
DR. TATE: Mr. Hill, you have no ass.
JP
It's an OK article to get curious Windows users to switch. The videos are a nice touch. But on the desktop usability page there's a reference to typing 'unmount' to unattach the drive. JP
boingboing.net is reporting that the BBC has entered into an agreement to provide an ad-free, spyware free version of Real Player, if you download it from the BBC's website. JP
The rover itself doesn't use java, but the program JPL uses to 'steer' the rover, SAP, is written in java, as is the public/freeware equivelent Maestro.
I took classes at a now defunct place called the Center for Creative Imaging in the early 90s. They were sponsored by Kodak.
The instructors, who worked for Kodak IIRC, were speculating on how long until film cameras were replaced by digital ones. We were editing and printing our photos digitally, but still developing them chemically, and scanning them in.
I'm suprised it took Kodak this long.
JP
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Mr. Bill was Mad TV by the way.....
...and was created way before Clippy.
I've only seen a couple users' computers that had more than a few hundred Windows spybots, but last week I worked on a computer that had 8000+ variations of the latest Windows viruses and worms.
first, d'oh
This is off topic, and I know it's been said before, but out of the box support for Linmodems is far larger of a problem for the non-technical user.
JP
DR. TATE: No. Mr. Hill, you were born with no muscle mass here, no cushioning. For years you've basically been sitting on your spine. You suffer from a disease called Diminished Gluteal Syndrome, or DGS.
HANK: I don't understand. What does that mean?
DR. TATE: Mr. Hill, you have no ass.
JP
It's an OK article to get curious Windows users to switch. The videos are a nice touch. But on the desktop usability page there's a reference to typing 'unmount' to unattach the drive.
JP
I don't know about anyone else, but the mp3s from this site caused my xmms to freeze...
I already did, and in true /. fashion, I didn't even read the article.
JP
boingboing.net is reporting that the BBC has entered into an agreement to provide an ad-free, spyware free version of Real Player, if you download it from the BBC's website.
JP
They announced at the press conference today that the corresponding files on Opportunity will be deleted before egress. JP
The rover itself doesn't use java, but the program JPL uses to 'steer' the rover, SAP, is written in java, as is the public/freeware equivelent Maestro.
JP
I took classes at a now defunct place called the Center for Creative Imaging in the early 90s. They were sponsored by Kodak. The instructors, who worked for Kodak IIRC, were speculating on how long until film cameras were replaced by digital ones. We were editing and printing our photos digitally, but still developing them chemically, and scanning them in. I'm suprised it took Kodak this long. JP
Don't they sing that song 'Bye Bye Bye'?
Wicked?? Is this virus writer from Boston or 1986?