I had a pranoid thought the other day. It seems that the MS policy for supporting products runs for about 5 years. Support for 2K pro was dropped earlier this year. XP was first released in May 2001, longhorn May 2006. Is this the forthcoming strategy for the forced upgrades the we all know and love?
make me a password is a pretty good site for these password things.
Though not always within password restrictions, you'll always get something eventually.
Well have they submitted one? It's a rhetorical question, but wasn't this one of the greatest strategys for proposing enhancements and furthering net technologies? It might just work for them/him.
In the United Kingdom there are many snooker players who bet on themselves to win at the bookies, these bets are accepted.
Some players enjoy, in fact need, the additional pressure and challenge it brings, strange but true.
It actually works OK, you may find a couple of packages that will need --force because of 'this will break your system' type warnings. The best thing is to strip the rpms to a bare minimum with urpme and build it back up from there.
Some of the ~/. will need mv or rm -r but other than that it's OK, I have done it three times in a row.
Thing with XP home is that there is no real scalable or tiered security levels like in 2k Pro, its either limited or administrator. Not sure about XP Pro's capabilities in that respect.
Dude. Its oh so simple. I have the choice which OS to use, I choose Linux. I have used them both, and been employed professionaly in the Windows field. I *choose* Linux.
If even half of what you said was true in terms of slating the Linux OS I would find it unusable.
20. You don't have DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW support in your pathetic OS.
yes I do.
28. You think that Linux is better because slashdot told you so
Nope. Choice, see above.
27. You cannot admit that support for USB on linux is laughable at best.
I actually find Linux USB support better, plug four different keydrives into XP, see the result, perhaps you meant crappy USB devices that need hardware emulating drivers.
Given that I guess I'm not a zealot, but factual flaming if any at all please/
From yesterdays slashdot story it is coincidental that this article addresses the same issues that a lot of the problems the IBM scholarship award posed.
Slashdot Mirror
That the fact you got modded informative makes it even funnier :))
so what, no other distribution uses source to compile its distro?
http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://lunar-linux.org/
Perhaps not what you meant, but gentoo is not the only dependency resolving source-based distro
I had a pranoid thought the other day. It seems that the MS policy for supporting products runs for about 5 years. Support for 2K pro was dropped earlier this year. XP was first released in May 2001, longhorn May 2006. Is this the forthcoming strategy for the forced upgrades the we all know and love?
press F2 boot: knoppix desktop=xfce
easyMan, It got +5 inforamtive. LOL. :D
You must be new here.
Hasn't the whole Island just become an aircraft carrier/first strike base for the US in recent years?
make me a password is a pretty good site for these password things.
Though not always within password restrictions, you'll always get something eventually.
not sure if you meant that, funny all the same... :D
I know this was yesterday's article. Isn't that the sort of mentality prevalent in 1930s Germany? Not a good sentiment at all.
Well have they submitted one? It's a rhetorical question, but wasn't this one of the greatest strategys for proposing enhancements and furthering net technologies? It might just work for them/him.
interesting
In the United Kingdom there are many snooker players who bet on themselves to win at the bookies, these bets are accepted.
Some players enjoy, in fact need, the additional pressure and challenge it brings, strange but true.
You are not alone with that one :)
Oh come on that is hilarious ... :D
Funnily enough I don't see any $100 machines in that list. Where have they gone?
getting into the elevator in my block, 18 storey flats, all 5 bars. Just about a garauntee really.
Some of the ~/. will need mv or rm -r but other than that it's OK, I have done it three times in a row.
Nope, mandrake, point your urpmi lists to the latest install...
urpmi.removemedia -a
urpmi.addmedia ftp://some/sites/path/to/latest/RPMS
urpmi --auto-select
not different from emerge -uD world IMO
I never played the sims, but all problems I encountered were solved by adding me to users with read/write priveleges, this is win2k I'm talking about.
Thing with XP home is that there is no real scalable or tiered security levels like in 2k Pro, its either limited or administrator. Not sure about XP Pro's capabilities in that respect.
If even half of what you said was true in terms of slating the Linux OS I would find it unusable.
20. You don't have DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW support in your pathetic OS.
yes I do.
28. You think that Linux is better because slashdot told you so
Nope. Choice, see above.
27. You cannot admit that support for USB on linux is laughable at best.
I actually find Linux USB support better, plug four different keydrives into XP, see the result, perhaps you meant crappy USB devices that need hardware emulating drivers.
Given that I guess I'm not a zealot, but factual flaming if any at all please/
From yesterdays slashdot story it is coincidental that this article addresses the same issues that a lot of the problems the IBM scholarship award posed.
,provided by MBCook yesterday.
link to PDF of problems