As an addition to this, if the machine doing the attack has been hijacked (by a virus or hacker) who does the fault lie with? Is it the owner for not keeping his system secure or virus protected? The designer of the OS for the fault?
Farnsworth: Don't worry, the fat pig will do fine thanks to this flabbo-dynamic spandex bodysuit I've designed. It redistributes his weight, shifting his centre of gravity closer to his knees.
Hermes: Ooh that's snug! *creak* Oh. Those haven't descended in years.
But this is why FireFox still isn't onto release one. I also get problems on my XP box using some sites, especially forms; but there are also still sites that don't work correctly in any release.
IE has the usual MS philosophy in that if something doesn't comply with the way they've done it, who cares because everyone will change to their way of thinking. I agree with those who don't like that someone else has to clean up after MS but what else are you going to do? For better or worse it is, and will be for a while yet, what most non-techy people use.
And I'm English! I shall continue complaining about situations without making any efforts to correct them, while simultaneously expecting immediate results! And still feel superior!
It's what makes this country great. That and out out-dated monarchy.
Personally I'll be happy to move when there's a viable alternative for all the applications I run. Except there already are...so I guess I'm just idle.
Anyway the point is, or at least how I read your comment, that you aren't looking to ditch Windows because it suits your needs. I am, I just need the push. This could be it.
This is more the reason I was aiming for. I gave my mum my old Windows 2000 PC, and because she just uses it for e-mails on a dial up, she's still on SP3, and so a little open. Yeah she has a firewall etc, but I still had to talk her through patching, for example, the holes so she didn't get the blaster worm etc just in case.
While I agree there are other areas to overcome before something like Linux is adopted in the same manner as Windows, I'd love to just install a simple version of Linux (but not Lindows) and leave her be. It'd do all that she wants, she'd probably even understand it more, but it's the changes which would throw her. If these are eased, then it's one more user across and (for want of a better word) safe. Maybe now I can do this without a lot of calls...
I like the look of this Discovery package, if it lives up to it's promise.
The main thing putting most everyday users off Linux (arguably the people who need it most, just look at the reaaction to Blaster) is how to learn it. XP is dayglo and simple, that's why people use it.
If Discovery is attractive, easy, and comes with a nice little introduction to get started, that's got to be a good thing.
In other news... Microsoft has also just patented bitching about Microsoft, and is now contacting regular users of popular website slashdot.org for credit card details. More news as it happens....
I don't know if this is a cleat-cut as it could be, and the point about this filtering out sites on safe-sex is slightly preterbing.
The main thing is "children" is a very broad term, and while I wouldn't want a 4 year-old viewing information on contraceptives, I would if they are at an age where this information is relevant and important.
I think the definitions need to be tidied more than they are now, and also feel that this could possibly include sites to do with mutilation etc. With some of the horrific things out there, a child could easily see something really traumatic.
I don't know, this just feels a little like all the SPAM legislation, a nice idea but something which is going to take much more than a law to counteract.
I can't help but feel that better parenting would help. After all there are schemes in the UK which are predominantly to educate parents to watch what their children are doing etc.
Not being a US citizen, and not having anything like it in the UK, what are incoming minutes? Here if someone calls me, they pay, and that's all. What's the difference?
According to the BBC (this is the only reference I can find with the site down) "All stills in the archive are freely available to the public for research and teaching purposes." So if you can showhorn it into one of those catagories, you're fine.
Slashdot Mirror
"All your base are belong to us" said Allie Savarino, senior vice president of Unicast.
As an addition to this, if the machine doing the attack has been hijacked (by a virus or hacker) who does the fault lie with? Is it the owner for not keeping his system secure or virus protected? The designer of the OS for the fault?
I just had to search for the meaning of a 'Hot Pocket'. For a while there this industry sounded so much more exciting...
Farnsworth: Don't worry, the fat pig will do fine thanks to this flabbo-dynamic spandex bodysuit I've designed. It redistributes his weight, shifting his centre of gravity closer to his knees. Hermes: Ooh that's snug! *creak* Oh. Those haven't descended in years.
I was blinking, can they take it again?
But this is why FireFox still isn't onto release one. I also get problems on my XP box using some sites, especially forms; but there are also still sites that don't work correctly in any release.
IE has the usual MS philosophy in that if something doesn't comply with the way they've done it, who cares because everyone will change to their way of thinking. I agree with those who don't like that someone else has to clean up after MS but what else are you going to do? For better or worse it is, and will be for a while yet, what most non-techy people use.
Remember you're posting on /. so you're right on all counts here.
I bet they all are, he's building a fort!
Yeah way to rub salt in his wounds guys!
And I'm English! I shall continue complaining about situations without making any efforts to correct them, while simultaneously expecting immediate results! And still feel superior!
It's what makes this country great. That and out out-dated monarchy.
In all fairness, that's never going to happen.
Personally I'll be happy to move when there's a viable alternative for all the applications I run. Except there already are...so I guess I'm just idle.
Anyway the point is, or at least how I read your comment, that you aren't looking to ditch Windows because it suits your needs. I am, I just need the push. This could be it.
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Darl Mc Bride!
And the true classic: on a Superman costume "does not enable wearer to fly".
That could be folklore, but I hope not.
You must be new, when you waste your and everyone elses time by posting something nobody cares about, you should tick the Post Anonymously box.
Remember for next time.
It's worked for me, I trod on a loose power cable in the server room and the server flicked off. I just told everyone that it'd crashed.
It was a UNIX box but nobody knew that...
This is more the reason I was aiming for. I gave my mum my old Windows 2000 PC, and because she just uses it for e-mails on a dial up, she's still on SP3, and so a little open. Yeah she has a firewall etc, but I still had to talk her through patching, for example, the holes so she didn't get the blaster worm etc just in case.
While I agree there are other areas to overcome before something like Linux is adopted in the same manner as Windows, I'd love to just install a simple version of Linux (but not Lindows) and leave her be. It'd do all that she wants, she'd probably even understand it more, but it's the changes which would throw her. If these are eased, then it's one more user across and (for want of a better word) safe. Maybe now I can do this without a lot of calls...
I like the look of this Discovery package, if it lives up to it's promise.
The main thing putting most everyday users off Linux (arguably the people who need it most, just look at the reaaction to Blaster) is how to learn it. XP is dayglo and simple, that's why people use it.
If Discovery is attractive, easy, and comes with a nice little introduction to get started, that's got to be a good thing.
In other news... Microsoft has also just patented bitching about Microsoft, and is now contacting regular users of popular website slashdot.org for credit card details. More news as it happens....
I don't know if this is a cleat-cut as it could be, and the point about this filtering out sites on safe-sex is slightly preterbing.
The main thing is "children" is a very broad term, and while I wouldn't want a 4 year-old viewing information on contraceptives, I would if they are at an age where this information is relevant and important.
I think the definitions need to be tidied more than they are now, and also feel that this could possibly include sites to do with mutilation etc. With some of the horrific things out there, a child could easily see something really traumatic.
I don't know, this just feels a little like all the SPAM legislation, a nice idea but something which is going to take much more than a law to counteract.
I can't help but feel that better parenting would help. After all there are schemes in the UK which are predominantly to educate parents to watch what their children are doing etc.
Not being a US citizen, and not having anything like it in the UK, what are incoming minutes? Here if someone calls me, they pay, and that's all. What's the difference?
According to the BBC (this is the only reference I can find with the site down) "All stills in the archive are freely available to the public for research and teaching purposes." So if you can showhorn it into one of those catagories, you're fine.
Incidentally, did anyone else look at the third image and think it was just a behind the scenes picture from Blackadder? It's uncanny.
The BBC have a small article with a few pictures too.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/in_pictures/3
Yeah if you just want a CD player, then do this. But if you want have house an entire entertainment system then, why not have a radio too?
The NewQ 3379 Platinum does look rather swish, and fits into any other spare bays you may have.
I've also seen a tape player, but forget where.
I'm new to Linux and find this to be an all to common response if I use anything other than the paid for support lines.
If you want to know why people don't move across to Linux, then you could do with looking a little harder at yourself.
But this is off topic.