So, first wow I'm on slashdot. Second, I'm shocked I'm not getting flamed more. Third, sorry I missed so many distros. MEPIS is super and definatly should have been included. It was late and caffine started wearing off. And I'm wrong about SuSE.
Give that man a 5 for funny!
i guess the end result is that as much as i love open source software, and as much as you CAN look at the code, most of us don't. nevertheless, i think the idea that the government CAN pay someone to investigate the code (above and beyond what the community does) makes me feel that open source software can provide a much safer base for high security issues. Mr. O'Dowd's comment holds some water for the fact that there isn't as much code reviewing as we would like to believe, but there is some and most importantly, the government can arrange for more.
they're going to get the source code!!!
i do hope this doesn't affect the release of gnome 2.6 though. i can't wait to see gnomes vision of a spatial file manager
so what are the interference ramifications of this?? i still hear people complain about this.
i think the biggest thing to note is the price. im under the impression that cable/dsl are typically 40-50 around the US. if this is an indication, then i think power internet will become prevelent quickly. cheaper and more widely available (theoretically)
he has done a great job of explaining a very big issue with linux right now. (with a poor job of proofreading)
cups is one of many linux gui helpers that makes the very default action VERY easy, easier than windows, but if you need to do anything outside of the norm, you are lost. i was able to use cups to get a test page to my printer faster than i can under windows. it was just easy. but as seen here, when you step outside of the dead normal, your lost.
ive told people that you can hand linux right now to either a TOTAL newb at computers, or a very experienced person. everybody in between, which is about 70% of the desktop computer market, will be very lost and frustrated.
this reminds me of the picture i saw of SCO CEO Darl McBride in teh Jan 2004 issue of MaximumPC. He seriously looks like a sleezeball villian from a kids movie. Of course right next to him they have a pic of Sam Palmisano from IBM that isn't exactly flattering. He looks like a poster boy for geeks...
i have 4 words...
DIAL UP TECH SUPPORT
does technology add stress to my life... absolutely
does technology add stress to the life of my customers.... without a doubt
its one more thing to complicate life. its something that certainly has teh capability to reduce stress, and often does, but many things are poorly executed *cough* windows tcp/ip stack *cough* and tend to BREAK ALL THE TIME and.....
grrrrrrrrrr.....
yes, it ads stress
i am glad to hear that they are going to strip out WMP, that is certainly a way to take advantage of thier monopoly (wma's are very quickly catching up with mp3's) but the virus stuff doesn't bother me. I think first off that a consumer shouldn't have to pay $50 per year to keep something off thier system that shouldn't be there in the first place, and second off that the big anti-virus companies have turned into shit. even the once hailed zone-alarm is putting out bad products.
i've kinda felt like in the past few weeks i've noticed my searching improved. it seemed for a while that i would never see a homemade page without going to page 6 of results.
in addition, even though.net.org and.com aren't followed as well as they were a few years ago, if you do a search that will just include.com sites, you will see more companies turn up
just put "site:com" in the search.
what im worried about right now is google doing the ipo thing and becoming a lot less useful. we will see.
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So, first wow I'm on slashdot. Second, I'm shocked I'm not getting flamed more. Third, sorry I missed so many distros. MEPIS is super and definatly should have been included. It was late and caffine started wearing off. And I'm wrong about SuSE.
Give that man a 5 for funny! i guess the end result is that as much as i love open source software, and as much as you CAN look at the code, most of us don't. nevertheless, i think the idea that the government CAN pay someone to investigate the code (above and beyond what the community does) makes me feel that open source software can provide a much safer base for high security issues. Mr. O'Dowd's comment holds some water for the fact that there isn't as much code reviewing as we would like to believe, but there is some and most importantly, the government can arrange for more.
they're going to get the source code!!! i do hope this doesn't affect the release of gnome 2.6 though. i can't wait to see gnomes vision of a spatial file manager
so what are the interference ramifications of this?? i still hear people complain about this. i think the biggest thing to note is the price. im under the impression that cable/dsl are typically 40-50 around the US. if this is an indication, then i think power internet will become prevelent quickly. cheaper and more widely available (theoretically)
he has done a great job of explaining a very big issue with linux right now. (with a poor job of proofreading) cups is one of many linux gui helpers that makes the very default action VERY easy, easier than windows, but if you need to do anything outside of the norm, you are lost. i was able to use cups to get a test page to my printer faster than i can under windows. it was just easy. but as seen here, when you step outside of the dead normal, your lost. ive told people that you can hand linux right now to either a TOTAL newb at computers, or a very experienced person. everybody in between, which is about 70% of the desktop computer market, will be very lost and frustrated.
this reminds me of the picture i saw of SCO CEO Darl McBride in teh Jan 2004 issue of MaximumPC. He seriously looks like a sleezeball villian from a kids movie. Of course right next to him they have a pic of Sam Palmisano from IBM that isn't exactly flattering. He looks like a poster boy for geeks...
i have 4 words... DIAL UP TECH SUPPORT does technology add stress to my life... absolutely does technology add stress to the life of my customers.... without a doubt its one more thing to complicate life. its something that certainly has teh capability to reduce stress, and often does, but many things are poorly executed *cough* windows tcp/ip stack *cough* and tend to BREAK ALL THE TIME and..... grrrrrrrrrr..... yes, it ads stress
i am glad to hear that they are going to strip out WMP, that is certainly a way to take advantage of thier monopoly (wma's are very quickly catching up with mp3's) but the virus stuff doesn't bother me. I think first off that a consumer shouldn't have to pay $50 per year to keep something off thier system that shouldn't be there in the first place, and second off that the big anti-virus companies have turned into shit. even the once hailed zone-alarm is putting out bad products.
i've kinda felt like in the past few weeks i've noticed my searching improved. it seemed for a while that i would never see a homemade page without going to page 6 of results. in addition, even though .net .org and .com aren't followed as well as they were a few years ago, if you do a search that will just include .com sites, you will see more companies turn up
just put "site:com" in the search.
what im worried about right now is google doing the ipo thing and becoming a lot less useful. we will see.