If your windows PC is locked up it is because you are too dumb to unlock it, i run both linux and windows and there is nothing my linux box does that my windows box can not be made to do.
Most of the "blue screen of death - windoze sucks and is unstable" complainees haven't messed around with a windows PC since Win 95, man would you be scared if you actually took a look at what a technologically competent user can do with a windows 2003/XP/Vista box.
As for the BSoD, that only happens when you have hardware failure or install buggy drivers, the same goes for my linux box, it is just a multi colored graphics mess when that crashes.
Get out of your nerdy corner and realize that for normal people, the PC is just as exciting as the water/electrical supply system and how the traffic lights syncronize. People simply don't care and they probably shouldn't.
You find your PC's inner workings exciting, other people play with trains or model planes, stop forcing your interest on the rest of the planet's computer users.
Final rant, It's really nothing to be so upset about, there is much more to life than your chosen brand of operating system:-)
They tap your phones to protect you from terrorists, they limit your rights to research encryption technology and software protection to protect the economy and they monitor your every move to protect you from a pandemic.
Wonderful with all the protection we get.
Politicians are all starting the following receipe:
1 Create fictional threat.
2 Create solution to fictional threat that preferably also include increased population control
3 Increase popularity in fool demographic
4 goto 1
The fact that the earth hasn't seen levels like this in half a million years is like stating that it will never snow because the last three days has been 20 degrees celcius. Half a million year is nothing on a timescale measured in billions of years.
What is interesting in the article however is that we see a shift from blaming carbon dioxide to blaming methane. This is done because a lot of evidence has been accumulated that contradict the doomsday scenarios of climate change caused by CO2.
This is basically another article that is aimed at increasing funding for research into a change that is quite natural and has occurred over and over again for a long long time.
Not to forget that the following people could contribute to society forever:
Dr. Phil
Castro
Ricky Lake
Jerry Springer
George Bush.....
A great future indeed.
Everybody is slamming the music industry because they repackage the same old crap and expect us to pay for it, over and over.
This is IMHO no different, software companies and developers want to write an application and then sit back and watch the money roll in, while the consumer pays for it over and over.
This will seriously damage development of new software. The current evolutionary system seems to work quite well, unless you are one of the people trying to receive money for nothing.
Writing an app once and getting rich off it forever is like the 18 year olds on MTV, they sing one crappy hit song and are made for life, is this fair ?
Go ahead, troll me...
Yes, and all the extra jobs and consulting hours it produces for the IT business. How can this be bad for/.ers ?
Stop whining and start making some money instead.
Microsoft is placing Windows 2000 on the lost species list so in a couple of years you will have 2 seconds from you boot a fresh install of Windows 2000 with all the latest patches until it bombs when hit by 100 new vulnerability xploits.
Server hardware is no longer becoming useless after 2 years so we make sure the operating systems are.
Next OS will require multicore and 3GB memory, Keep the industry going you know...
If you read the links in the original post, especially http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/ then it is clear that the people doing the scamming is very well connected to the elite within the government, it also seems that the elite in Nigerian society is covering the scammers legally. It would definately have a major and immediate effect to shut down the links.
I am sure there where brilliant and innocent people on the ISP's that were blacklisted for ignoring their spam problems, shutting down their service sure made them do something about the issue.
Sometimes you have to apply hard measures to get things moving in the right direction and the softie approach really is not doing it when it comes to the Nigerians.
As for all the examples you state above (this may come as a shock to you), people actually managed to talk to their grandparents, study and do business transactions before the internet were invented.
You may be in Japan but if you take a trip to Nigeria i am sure you will discover that it is not the common poor student/grandmother who is using the bandwidth.
It is sad that your colleague lost those five figures, perhaps next time they could even try to call him (Phone, also good for conducting business and talking to grand parents).
>Are you talking about selling something on a >website where they manage to get your email address >through?
No, they reply through the web site itself!!!
Shut down all connections to Nigeria until they clean up their act.
We do it with spammers and irresponsible ISP's, Why not a country ?
I receive Nigerian mails everytime i sell something locally here in Sweden, their translations are laughable (Drunken babelfish) and i can't believe anybody would fall for it, but people do.
I don't know why but i really feel pure hatred for the people who try to scam me with their rediculous mails, and it insults my intelligence as well.
Where can one turn to do some vigilante stuff on these people ?
Americans live in the richest country on the planet but you have no medical insurance or social security for the less fortunate, you chose not to educate 80 percent of your citizens so they can serve the remaining 20 percent who just keep getting richer and more environmentally destructive.
You ignore the rest of the planet and idea of national security is based on threats, violence, oppression and insanely stupid propaganda that does not work in a Europe with educated people.
Perhaps this is the breakthrough for a global micropayment currency that a *lot* of people and businesses worldwide has been waiting for.
Don't be evil!
I never expected my microsoft systems to be fixable by help of microsoft support, after all, the EULA pretty much dumps every responsibility on the end user.
I, like other decision makers did however get the impression that linux was free to buy and came without all the license issues we have with other software. This is not the case however, linux is getting pricey and the license rules are a jungle.
So when i purchase a product from one of countless linux enterprise vendors i simply get an overpriced product with yet more licensing issues from a company that is not very likely to be around in 2-5 years.
When i purchase a product from microsoft i get an overpriced product with annoying licensing rules from a vendor that is likely to be around in 2-5 years and it fits into my existing management infrastructure.
Most people here on/. seem to be idealists (Nothing wrong with that!) without a clue about large scale IT operations. we do not select our products based on ideologies but on numbers, adaptability, shelf life and ease of use, IT managers on large scale outfits are not clueless management nitwits but hardcore techies who had their hands in the dirt for many years and somehow got moved up in the system.
If linux were as problem free, easy to use and cheap as everybody says, it would be running all of our desktops and datacenters today. The fact that it is not should serve as a wake up call to the community.
I run a large datacenter and recently looked into setting up a linux environment, imagine my surprise when i found out that red hat enterprise linux cost the same as my microsoft licenses and then i even had to pay an additional yearly subscription fee to get support.
The distros are doing this to themselves, not the M$ FUD campaign.
Mark me down, i don't care:)
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Guys. Please RTFA, what they do makes complete sense and is something that could be considered for linux as well Your bashing is pure reflex.
I don't understand why microsoft even bothers about linux, with moron proponents like you it will self destruct
Most of the "blue screen of death - windoze sucks and is unstable" complainees haven't messed around with a windows PC since Win 95, man would you be scared if you actually took a look at what a technologically competent user can do with a windows 2003/XP/Vista box.
As for the BSoD, that only happens when you have hardware failure or install buggy drivers, the same goes for my linux box, it is just a multi colored graphics mess when that crashes.
Get out of your nerdy corner and realize that for normal people, the PC is just as exciting as the water/electrical supply system and how the traffic lights syncronize. People simply don't care and they probably shouldn't.
You find your PC's inner workings exciting, other people play with trains or model planes, stop forcing your interest on the rest of the planet's computer users.
Final rant, It's really nothing to be so upset about, there is much more to life than your chosen brand of operating system :-)
Somebody please mod up this post, god damn excellent writing. If linux wants a spot in the corporate space you guys better wisen up.
They tap your phones to protect you from terrorists, they limit your rights to research encryption technology and software protection to protect the economy and they monitor your every move to protect you from a pandemic. Wonderful with all the protection we get. Politicians are all starting the following receipe: 1 Create fictional threat. 2 Create solution to fictional threat that preferably also include increased population control 3 Increase popularity in fool demographic 4 goto 1
The fact that the earth hasn't seen levels like this in half a million years is like stating that it will never snow because the last three days has been 20 degrees celcius. Half a million year is nothing on a timescale measured in billions of years. What is interesting in the article however is that we see a shift from blaming carbon dioxide to blaming methane. This is done because a lot of evidence has been accumulated that contradict the doomsday scenarios of climate change caused by CO2. This is basically another article that is aimed at increasing funding for research into a change that is quite natural and has occurred over and over again for a long long time.
To allow this bullshit to be posted on /.
Perhaps digg is the future and /. the past.
That's right, troll me, this sucks!
What was all the fuss about.....
Who needs dell when 2006 will bring the Cell AMD and Intel will be obsolete....
Not to forget that the following people could contribute to society forever: Dr. Phil Castro Ricky Lake Jerry Springer George Bush .....
A great future indeed.
Don't tell the windows people that linux has security holes, they may decide it's payback time!
Everybody is slamming the music industry because they repackage the same old crap and expect us to pay for it, over and over. This is IMHO no different, software companies and developers want to write an application and then sit back and watch the money roll in, while the consumer pays for it over and over. This will seriously damage development of new software. The current evolutionary system seems to work quite well, unless you are one of the people trying to receive money for nothing. Writing an app once and getting rich off it forever is like the 18 year olds on MTV, they sing one crappy hit song and are made for life, is this fair ? Go ahead, troll me...
Yes, and all the extra jobs and consulting hours it produces for the IT business. How can this be bad for /.ers ?
Stop whining and start making some money instead.
Blades are the way of the future, 250 blades take up 3 racks, we are on the way to a whole new meaning of SAN - Server Area Network.
Turning AOL'ers into thinking beings would require one mother of a donation!
It may not work the way it is intended to but it will make me feel better to be able to do *something* Let the fun begin!
Microsoft is placing Windows 2000 on the lost species list so in a couple of years you will have 2 seconds from you boot a fresh install of Windows 2000 with all the latest patches until it bombs when hit by 100 new vulnerability xploits. Server hardware is no longer becoming useless after 2 years so we make sure the operating systems are. Next OS will require multicore and 3GB memory, Keep the industry going you know...
If you read the links in the original post, especially http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/ then it is clear that the people doing the scamming is very well connected to the elite within the government, it also seems that the elite in Nigerian society is covering the scammers legally. It would definately have a major and immediate effect to shut down the links.
I am sure there where brilliant and innocent people on the ISP's that were blacklisted for ignoring their spam problems, shutting down their service sure made them do something about the issue. Sometimes you have to apply hard measures to get things moving in the right direction and the softie approach really is not doing it when it comes to the Nigerians. As for all the examples you state above (this may come as a shock to you), people actually managed to talk to their grandparents, study and do business transactions before the internet were invented. You may be in Japan but if you take a trip to Nigeria i am sure you will discover that it is not the common poor student/grandmother who is using the bandwidth. It is sad that your colleague lost those five figures, perhaps next time they could even try to call him (Phone, also good for conducting business and talking to grand parents).
>Are you talking about selling something on a >website where they manage to get your email address >through? No, they reply through the web site itself!!!
Shut down all connections to Nigeria until they clean up their act.
We do it with spammers and irresponsible ISP's, Why not a country ?
I receive Nigerian mails everytime i sell something locally here in Sweden, their translations are laughable (Drunken babelfish) and i can't believe anybody would fall for it, but people do.
I don't know why but i really feel pure hatred for the people who try to scam me with their rediculous mails, and it insults my intelligence as well.
Where can one turn to do some vigilante stuff on these people ?
I'm in a mood to take the flamebait :-)
Let's begin.
Americans live in the richest country on the planet but you have no medical insurance or social security for the less fortunate, you chose not to educate 80 percent of your citizens so they can serve the remaining 20 percent who just keep getting richer and more environmentally destructive.
You ignore the rest of the planet and idea of national security is based on threats, violence, oppression and insanely stupid propaganda that does not work in a Europe with educated people.
But i like Scrubs, Simpsons and CSI
Perhaps this is the breakthrough for a global micropayment currency that a *lot* of people and businesses worldwide has been waiting for. Don't be evil!
I never expected my microsoft systems to be fixable by help of microsoft support, after all, the EULA pretty much dumps every responsibility on the end user. I, like other decision makers did however get the impression that linux was free to buy and came without all the license issues we have with other software. This is not the case however, linux is getting pricey and the license rules are a jungle. So when i purchase a product from one of countless linux enterprise vendors i simply get an overpriced product with yet more licensing issues from a company that is not very likely to be around in 2-5 years. When i purchase a product from microsoft i get an overpriced product with annoying licensing rules from a vendor that is likely to be around in 2-5 years and it fits into my existing management infrastructure. Most people here on /. seem to be idealists (Nothing wrong with that!) without a clue about large scale IT operations. we do not select our products based on ideologies but on numbers, adaptability, shelf life and ease of use, IT managers on large scale outfits are not clueless management nitwits but hardcore techies who had their hands in the dirt for many years and somehow got moved up in the system.
If linux were as problem free, easy to use and cheap as everybody says, it would be running all of our desktops and datacenters today. The fact that it is not should serve as a wake up call to the community.
I run a large datacenter and recently looked into setting up a linux environment, imagine my surprise when i found out that red hat enterprise linux cost the same as my microsoft licenses and then i even had to pay an additional yearly subscription fee to get support. The distros are doing this to themselves, not the M$ FUD campaign. Mark me down, i don't care :)