It is simply unprofessional to use Windows in 2010.
This is very true.
Microsoft know that the end for them is coming. Once game developers move full time to Mac (and therefore Linux with SDL), Microsoft will die.
We're all looking forward to it.
I've talked with my coworkers about this a few times.
We agree that the future will involve something much like a Nokia N900 with a couple of USB ports on it.
The basic idea is that you get to the office, plug your 24" LCD into the mini-HDMI port on the device, plug your keyboard and mouse into the USB ports and away you go.
Network access would be provided either by wireless or VPN via HSDPA.
This happened to me as well.
The worst part is, they kept my entire address book in the To: line, so everybody could see what my address book contained.
It included the addresses of a few high-class escorts (for innocent reasons, mind you) and the email address for my department at work who also received the spam - I had some quick explaining to do on that one...
However, I doubt Ubuntu has the engineering experience or staff of Red Hat or Novell.
You're right.
However, they have the biggest community of any Linux distro and with that comes people (like myself) who are willing to give up their free time to provide free technical support to end-users on forums and wikis.
People like me want to see Ubuntu become more popular than Microsoft Windows - you may say that's just a dream or it's a bad idea but think about what our computing world would be like if that ever happened.
Gaming on Linux would become a reality, popular software would be released first on Linux, we would never pay for our operating system, we would be more secure by default due to the very strong user sandbox on Linux.
The world would be a better place and you know it.
This reminds me of those idiots who have ridiculously long and completely useless legalese email signatures.
Example:
Do you need to print this email?
-------
Scanned by some stupid fucking virus scanner
AV release: 21 July 2007
This E-mail and any attachments are private, intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, they have been sent to you in error: any use of information in them is strictly prohibited.
The employer reserves the right to monitor the content of the message and any reply received.
Great... I can has cheap 3G data access now? Don't know what it's like in the US, but this side of the pond I'm looking at at least £1 per Mb.
No idea where you pulled that number from - you only get charged that much if you go over your allowance.
I use HSDPA on 3 (three.co.uk) and I pay £15 for 3GB of data on Pay as you Go.
I use the 3G modem for my home computer and get speeds of 3MBit usually, if I run out I just buy a voucher from any shop and top up using my web browser. If you use data cards on contract, you're asking for trouble.
I have a Centos server with over 1180 days of uptime, and another of 760.
They are both thrashed pretty heavily by being used as data processing servers and the 760 days one (which has a quad Xeon with 16GB RAM) was used today to perform a MySQL load test and got to 321,000 queries per second when referencing tables with over 100 million rows, running at a load of 5-6.
Apparently Mark Shuttleworth has a 1Gbit connection to his home or thereabouts.
People often forget too that downloading at that speed is dependant on hard disk throughput. You'll struggle to get above 50MB/sec which is about 400MBit a sec.
I want to see the Chinese do something completely wild, like launch an 180-day orbit mission to Mars or something, completely blowing away anyone's expectations of what they're able to do, a la 2010.
Fuck you Criag Mundie. Fuck you in your tiny dick hole, you elitist, ruling class, piece of shit. Shall we require government licenses to use our toasters and our televisions so that we will never burn our toast, and will be capable of understanding that not all TV, including the news is real, or good for us?
It would probably be illegal for the US government to require "drivers licenses" for general Internet use.
Absolutely, the INTERNATIONALnetwork.
The moment any nation controls that, well we've lost. (and I'm looking at you, Network Solutions) richard@lara:~$ whois root-servers.net
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the.com and.net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net/
for detailed information.
Domain Name: ROOT-SERVERS.NET
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/
Name Server: A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
Name Server: F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
Name Server: J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
Name Server: K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
Status: serverDeleteProhibited
Status: serverTransferProhibited
[etc]
I had mod points for this story but screw it.
What the FUCK is going on in the Microsoft LALA Land these days?
You only have to look at the last 20 or so/. stories here and they are mostly about this company!
If anyone is still using their comedy Windows O/S for personal use, I'd have to question if they value their online safety and security. This is just ridiculous.
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If they employ 800,000 people, wouldn't that make them the biggest company in the world?
This is very true.
Microsoft know that the end for them is coming. Once game developers move full time to Mac (and therefore Linux with SDL), Microsoft will die.
We're all looking forward to it.
This should be marked as Insightful.
I've talked with my coworkers about this a few times.
We agree that the future will involve something much like a Nokia N900 with a couple of USB ports on it.
The basic idea is that you get to the office, plug your 24" LCD into the mini-HDMI port on the device, plug your keyboard and mouse into the USB ports and away you go.
Network access would be provided either by wireless or VPN via HSDPA.
It actually is fairly interesting.
Avatar was made on a huge server farm running Ubuntu.
This happened to me as well.
The worst part is, they kept my entire address book in the To: line, so everybody could see what my address book contained.
It included the addresses of a few high-class escorts (for innocent reasons, mind you) and the email address for my department at work who also received the spam - I had some quick explaining to do on that one...
You have bigger security problems than SSH.
Opera also does this.
You're right.
However, they have the biggest community of any Linux distro and with that comes people (like myself) who are willing to give up their free time to provide free technical support to end-users on forums and wikis.
People like me want to see Ubuntu become more popular than Microsoft Windows - you may say that's just a dream or it's a bad idea but think about what our computing world would be like if that ever happened.
Gaming on Linux would become a reality, popular software would be released first on Linux, we would never pay for our operating system, we would be more secure by default due to the very strong user sandbox on Linux.
The world would be a better place and you know it.
If the data is encrypted, it will be much harder to figure out though.
I think Opera still has versions for Win98.
Example:
Go die in a fire.
Etch-a-sketch.
No idea where you pulled that number from - you only get charged that much if you go over your allowance.
I use HSDPA on 3 (three.co.uk) and I pay £15 for 3GB of data on Pay as you Go.
I use the 3G modem for my home computer and get speeds of 3MBit usually, if I run out I just buy a voucher from any shop and top up using my web browser. If you use data cards on contract, you're asking for trouble.
I have a Centos server with over 1180 days of uptime, and another of 760.
They are both thrashed pretty heavily by being used as data processing servers and the 760 days one (which has a quad Xeon with 16GB RAM) was used today to perform a MySQL load test and got to 321,000 queries per second when referencing tables with over 100 million rows, running at a load of 5-6.
The London 2012 Olympics logo has been compared to Lisa Simpson giving head.
Apparently Mark Shuttleworth has a 1Gbit connection to his home or thereabouts.
People often forget too that downloading at that speed is dependant on hard disk throughput. You'll struggle to get above 50MB/sec which is about 400MBit a sec.
I can see it now...
"Checking my mail while sipping some nice tea... BUY authentic Indian TEA for only $4 a box! Click HERE"
Like, inter-continental nuclear missiles?
Welcome to the "United" Kingdom. (airquotes intentional)
Absolutely, the INTERNATIONALnetwork.
.com and .net domains can now be registered
The moment any nation controls that, well we've lost. (and I'm looking at you, Network Solutions)
richard@lara:~$ whois root-servers.net
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net/
for detailed information.
Domain Name: ROOT-SERVERS.NET
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/
Name Server: A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
Name Server: F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
Name Server: J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
Name Server: K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
Status: serverDeleteProhibited
Status: serverTransferProhibited
[etc]
I had mod points for this story but screw it. /. stories here and they are mostly about this company!
What the FUCK is going on in the Microsoft LALA Land these days?
You only have to look at the last 20 or so
1. Bill Gates Knows What You Did Last Summer
2. IE Flaw Gives Hackers Access To User Files
3. How Infighting Hampers Innovation At Microsoft
If anyone is still using their comedy Windows O/S for personal use, I'd have to question if they value their online safety and security. This is just ridiculous.
www.google.com/history/
Have you been searching Google Images for "megan fox nipslip?".
Sincerely,
Bill Gates.
Given their security record over the past week and several internal insights (see comments) into how their company operates, you would have to be happy to part with all your private information to run Windows these days.