Now I know I am going to probably be moderated down for this....
I am sick of hearing this violent video games and violence in movies blah blah blah cause kids to become violent. You know what would solve the problem nicely? If parents would do a better job of raising their kids, and people would stop !@#$% judging all kids as bad.
I'm 19, some people still consider me a kid. Alot of people look at me and think instantly that because I am a 'kid' that I am instant trouble. Well guess what? I'm a productive member of the community that has spent 90% of his earnings in the last year trying to help others and make a difference in the community.
I've also been playing 'violent' video games and computer games all my life, and I dont go around shooting people all day long. Why? because my parents took the time to ensure I was raised correctly, to know the difference between what is right and wrong, what is real what is fake. Should other parents actually do the same thing rather then moaning and groaning, maybe more kids would be better off!
But god forbid we blame the parents for raising their kids bad! Lets blame it on the kids! Lets lock them all up and not let any kid have any kind of rights or anything until they are 30!
Now, enough with my rant... Thats my view on this.
Well, if what this man says comes true, and prices of windows do rise, maybe people will get a clue finally.
Cost of Linux: $0 (will always be $0 regardless of the market)
So Linux popularity suddenly shoots up overnight. Not a bad thing at all. (of course, *BSD could follow too, I dont care what it is, as long as its not windows).
The Mac should also hit a newtime high too. I mean, Macs have really had a lower total cost of ownership in reality (ie: hardware that lasts on average years longer then x86, cheaper OS - usually below 100 US for MacOS - which includes not only a full version in the package, but also *ghasp* an upgrade for older products!).
How is this a bad thing for the consumer? They get better products all around and everyone sees how pathetic Windows and M$ in general is.
ohh nifty! I totally forgot about that. I'll have to go find a local place. CompUSA should be authorized, should have to check. Any idea what is the specific fix?
I have a Mac Performa 400, a Mac SE, a Mac PB 145B, and a Quadra 800, all of which could be considered 'classic' Macs in the sense of how old they are.
I can take the software from any of them (remember, the Mac doesn't have a registry and these are the days before Microsoft liked to spew Mac versions of DLLs and crap all over the hard drive when you installed Office or Internet Explorer), copy it over LocalTalk to my Powerbook 3400 running MacOS 8.6 and it will work _perfectly_ with no problems. My Powerbook 3400 rarely crashes, even with old software, and is like a model of why Apple's systems are superior. Even my insanely buggy Performa 5215CD (yes, the one with the bad motherboard part that causes it to crash randomly) runs classic software like Microsoft Works 1.0 and Stunt Copter (remember that game? One of my favorites).
Most times people who say Macs suck have never even really used one, and because they lack the direction to actually use a Mac right, of course they will have problems! It would be like me, an avid anti-Windows person ripping out kernel32.dll from Windows 98 and then giving it a bad review because it refused to boot.
Who says you have to buy it? You can go and download updates like everyone else does, or go and the CD installer and run the update. With everyone getting high speed access these days, ISOs shouldn't be that bad.
If I remember correctly, Blue Light was vaporware. Supposedly could do things at speeds like that of a real PC (*cough* bullshit *cough*). I could be thinking of something else (since there has been alot of vaporware emulators for the mac).
I can remember 4 years ago, when I first got on the Internet. I was using my Performa 400 which was ancient as far as everyone else was concerned. I didn't have much money, so I used what I got. I had a 2400 bps modem, then got a 14.4 as a gift from a friend. I had Netscape 2.02. It fit nicely on my 80 meg drive, and into the 8 MB of RAM I had. It worked flawlessly for the most part, and displayed more pages perfectly fine.
Then I was stupid and I installed IE 3.x, and my system never worked right until I reinstalled MacOS 7.5.5 from scratch.
I didn't have browser integration, I didn't have active desktop. I had my telnet client, which I used for everything from mail to usenet to lynx on large pages and I had my ftp client.
I miss those days quite a bit, and this helps me relive them a bit. Regardless of how some people say how good new technology and this and that is good, sometimes simplicity is the best...
Why did I write this? I dont know, just felt like making an interesting comment on how I used to do things.
If the beta is anything like the latest Rawhide Releases I have been seeing, I wont be upgrading to 7.0 any time soon.
So far, one major change has broken any and all RPMS I have made for things like BIND and sendmail, etc. They changed the layout of/etc, so rc.d no longer exists, and its/etc/rc.3 or something of that nature (I lost one of my good boxes to that). So I'd have to redo all of my rpms with the new layout, and build one set for RedHat 6.x and one set for 7.0.
Well, so much for me having MageNet Linux Server 2.0 (ftp://ftp.magenet.com/pub) out anytime soon and having it work on anything but RedHat 6.1/6.2 boxes.
Sometimes 'progress' forces us two steps back, and this is one time it does. Why cant RedHat just leave well enough alone? Its the same thing Microsoft does. Why fix what isn't broken?
Your right, I do have bad social skills, but I am a very good tech support person and I do give help to people who need it. I'm really not a tech support person, I'm a systems administrator who was forced into tech support by companies who were to lazy to hire actual tech support people (which is becoming more and more common these days).
I'm not doing this for the convience of myself, because if anything, by making the customer learn how to do things, I'm losing money from possible business.
I have gotten many thanks from people though for my approach to making people do things that way.
When people do things for themselves they get confidence in that they can do it and that the computer really isn't that hard once you know it, they learn how to read and use the tools they have to make things happen, they can go and teach other people how to do the things they know, and more.
It all comes back to the point I have been trying to make:
People wont learn how to use the computer if they have someone else to do it for them. If they are forced to do common tasks themselves, they become more experenced and better members of the computer using community.
My customer was also highly lacking in knowledge of how to turn on a computer. My feeling is that she _needed_ to learn how to do something.
She refused to learn how to install her own programs (and threw a fit when I told her it would cost her 40 bucks for me to come install it for her), refused to learn how to make a shortcut, refused to learn how to enter in a password and username, I could go on for an hour.
Sometimes unless you force someone to learn, you are doing them no good.
I make all of my customers do the connection manually, because I dont want to be getting calls whenever the automatic dialup fails (and it does, quite often from experence) and they get weird errors.
At least they learn something, and maybe once they learn one thing, they might realize how much fun (and cheaper) it is to do it themselves.
Frankly, I dont want my computer to be dumbed down as much as Microsoft thinks it should be.
When a computer is dumbed down, it is bad for everyone. Newbies dont learn anything from a dumbed down computer, and they cant use the stuff they figure out in a big company or most places on the net. Its bad for power users because a dumbed down computer is not powerful at all.
What happens when that newbie goes to use a computer from another vendor, and has to double click rather then single click on an icon, and has a heart attack because its too 'hard' for them? (On a side note, I actually did have a customer call up once and cancel her service with me because she had to double click on the Dialup Networking icon then double click Netscape before she could browse the web. She claimed 'why cant it just dialup to the internet when I want to use it and open netscape automatically, why do I have to do anything?')
When you force a newbie to learn how to use a computer, the right way, they can take the information they learned and use it in a company, on the net, anywhere they find a computer.
EFnet is a good example of where this dumbed down software has caused a problem. Large channels, which are inhabited by long time *NIX geeks who use the tried and true methods of chatting with ircII or some variant, have to deal with newbies who think that color and bold and all sorts of stuff in mIRC is cool (its even worse hearing them call IRC, mIRC).
So now I'm gonna stop blabbering on, and just ask one question, Is dumbing down computers with things like this really worth it? Do we want people so computer illiterate suring the net, opening themselves to attacks, etc?
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Now I know I am going to probably be moderated down for this....
I am sick of hearing this violent video games and violence in movies blah blah blah cause kids to become violent. You know what would solve the problem nicely? If parents would do a better job of raising their kids, and people would stop !@#$% judging all kids as bad.
I'm 19, some people still consider me a kid. Alot of people look at me and think instantly that because I am a 'kid' that I am instant trouble. Well guess what? I'm a productive member of the community that has spent 90% of his earnings in the last year trying to help others and make a difference in the community.
I've also been playing 'violent' video games and computer games all my life, and I dont go around shooting people all day long. Why? because my parents took the time to ensure I was raised correctly, to know the difference between what is right and wrong, what is real what is fake. Should other parents actually do the same thing rather then moaning and groaning, maybe more kids would be better off!
But god forbid we blame the parents for raising their kids bad! Lets blame it on the kids! Lets lock them all up and not let any kid have any kind of rights or anything until they are 30!
Now, enough with my rant... Thats my view on this.
Well, if what this man says comes true, and prices of windows do rise, maybe people will get a clue finally.
Cost of Linux: $0 (will always be $0 regardless of the market)
So Linux popularity suddenly shoots up overnight. Not a bad thing at all. (of course, *BSD could follow too, I dont care what it is, as long as its not windows).
The Mac should also hit a newtime high too. I mean, Macs have really had a lower total cost of ownership in reality (ie: hardware that lasts on average years longer then x86, cheaper OS - usually below 100 US for MacOS - which includes not only a full version in the package, but also *ghasp* an upgrade for older products!).
How is this a bad thing for the consumer? They get better products all around and everyone sees how pathetic Windows and M$ in general is.
ohh nifty! I totally forgot about that. I'll have to go find a local place. CompUSA should be authorized, should have to check. Any idea what is the specific fix?
Does this guy know when to shut the h*** up?
I have a Mac Performa 400, a Mac SE, a Mac PB 145B, and a Quadra 800, all of which could be considered 'classic' Macs in the sense of how old they are.
I can take the software from any of them (remember, the Mac doesn't have a registry and these are the days before Microsoft liked to spew Mac versions of DLLs and crap all over the hard drive when you installed Office or Internet Explorer), copy it over LocalTalk to my Powerbook 3400 running MacOS 8.6 and it will work _perfectly_ with no problems. My Powerbook 3400 rarely crashes, even with old software, and is like a model of why Apple's systems are superior. Even my insanely buggy Performa 5215CD (yes, the one with the bad motherboard part that causes it to crash randomly) runs classic software like Microsoft Works 1.0 and Stunt Copter (remember that game? One of my favorites).
Most times people who say Macs suck have never even really used one, and because they lack the direction to actually use a Mac right, of course they will have problems! It would be like me, an avid anti-Windows person ripping out kernel32.dll from Windows 98 and then giving it a bad review because it refused to boot.
Go looking for problems, your gonna find em.
Who says you have to buy it? You can go and download updates like everyone else does, or go and the CD installer and run the update. With everyone getting high speed access these days, ISOs shouldn't be that bad.
If I remember correctly, Blue Light was vaporware. Supposedly could do things at speeds like that of a real PC (*cough* bullshit *cough*). I could be thinking of something else (since there has been alot of vaporware emulators for the mac).
I can remember 4 years ago, when I first got on the Internet. I was using my Performa 400 which was ancient as far as everyone else was concerned. I didn't have much money, so I used what I got. I had a 2400 bps modem, then got a 14.4 as a gift from a friend. I had Netscape 2.02. It fit nicely on my 80 meg drive, and into the 8 MB of RAM I had. It worked flawlessly for the most part, and displayed more pages perfectly fine.
Then I was stupid and I installed IE 3.x, and my system never worked right until I reinstalled MacOS 7.5.5 from scratch.
I didn't have browser integration, I didn't have active desktop. I had my telnet client, which I used for everything from mail to usenet to lynx on large pages and I had my ftp client.
I miss those days quite a bit, and this helps me relive them a bit. Regardless of how some people say how good new technology and this and that is good, sometimes simplicity is the best...
Why did I write this? I dont know, just felt like making an interesting comment on how I used to do things.
If the beta is anything like the latest Rawhide Releases I have been seeing, I wont be upgrading to 7.0 any time soon.
/etc, so rc.d no longer exists, and its /etc/rc.3 or something of that nature (I lost one of my good boxes to that). So I'd have to redo all of my rpms with the new layout, and build one set for RedHat 6.x and one set for 7.0.
So far, one major change has broken any and all RPMS I have made for things like BIND and sendmail, etc. They changed the layout of
Well, so much for me having MageNet Linux Server 2.0 (ftp://ftp.magenet.com/pub) out anytime soon and having it work on anything but RedHat 6.1/6.2 boxes.
Sometimes 'progress' forces us two steps back, and this is one time it does. Why cant RedHat just leave well enough alone? Its the same thing Microsoft does. Why fix what isn't broken?
Your right, I do have bad social skills, but I am a very good tech support person and I do give help to people who need it. I'm really not a tech support person, I'm a systems administrator who was forced into tech support by companies who were to lazy to hire actual tech support people (which is becoming more and more common these days).
I'm not doing this for the convience of myself, because if anything, by making the customer learn how to do things, I'm losing money from possible business.
I have gotten many thanks from people though for my approach to making people do things that way.
When people do things for themselves they get confidence in that they can do it and that the computer really isn't that hard once you know it, they learn how to read and use the tools they have to make things happen, they can go and teach other people how to do the things they know, and more.
It all comes back to the point I have been trying to make:
People wont learn how to use the computer if they have someone else to do it for them. If they are forced to do common tasks themselves, they become more experenced and better members of the computer using community.
-- Nuff Said --
My customer was also highly lacking in knowledge of how to turn on a computer. My feeling is that she _needed_ to learn how to do something.
She refused to learn how to install her own programs (and threw a fit when I told her it would cost her 40 bucks for me to come install it for her), refused to learn how to make a shortcut, refused to learn how to enter in a password and username, I could go on for an hour.
Sometimes unless you force someone to learn, you are doing them no good.
I make all of my customers do the connection manually, because I dont want to be getting calls whenever the automatic dialup fails (and it does, quite often from experence) and they get weird errors.
At least they learn something, and maybe once they learn one thing, they might realize how much fun (and cheaper) it is to do it themselves.
Frankly, I dont want my computer to be dumbed down as much as Microsoft thinks it should be.
When a computer is dumbed down, it is bad for everyone. Newbies dont learn anything from a dumbed down computer, and they cant use the stuff they figure out in a big company or most places on the net. Its bad for power users because a dumbed down computer is not powerful at all.
What happens when that newbie goes to use a computer from another vendor, and has to double click rather then single click on an icon, and has a heart attack because its too 'hard' for them? (On a side note, I actually did have a customer call up once and cancel her service with me because she had to double click on the Dialup Networking icon then double click Netscape before she could browse the web. She claimed 'why cant it just dialup to the internet when I want to use it and open netscape automatically, why do I have to do anything?')
When you force a newbie to learn how to use a computer, the right way, they can take the information they learned and use it in a company, on the net, anywhere they find a computer.
EFnet is a good example of where this dumbed down software has caused a problem. Large channels, which are inhabited by long time *NIX geeks who use the tried and true methods of chatting with ircII or some variant, have to deal with newbies who think that color and bold and all sorts of stuff in mIRC is cool (its even worse hearing them call IRC, mIRC).
So now I'm gonna stop blabbering on, and just ask one question, Is dumbing down computers with things like this really worth it? Do we want people so computer illiterate suring the net, opening themselves to attacks, etc?
There is a good program for Windows (shudder) that can help with those annoying popups.
NoAds
http://www.FirasE.com
Very handy, and free too!
Lynx doesn't appear to be affected by this crap - all the more reason to use it. :-)