Foxit is a freeware, very light, no-install-needed pdf reader, loads ultra quick and does the job just fine. There's a foxit pdf editor too. The reader is free the editor is 99 bucks
But what happens to the car behind you who's too close and doesn't have this system and your car brakes sharply. There's a reason rear view mirrors exist and there's a reason humans drive cars.. because we know what's happening all around, computers don't
I always thought ISPs should at least be made to supply info on what a firewall, adware etc. is, and how to get the free apps (sygate etc) to combat it. I think that would help a lot.
Bet ya feel proud to have been smacking refresh now don't ya.
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First off, this is largely offtopic. this thread is about a help guide for Knoppix, it has nothing to do with Linux VS Microsoft.
I'd like to pick a few things out of yourpost.
I am what most people would consider a highly trained technical professional. Unlike most people who spout off at this site, I have the certificates to prove this, and furthermore they're issued by the biggest software company in existence.
Lets have a quick look at MS.
There have been more bugs in their various software than probably all other final software put together. Didn't Windows 95 have 6,000 bugs confirmed in the end? Windows 2000 needed 4 packs. And how about Windows ME? Even the latest Windows XP needs 2 packs - and even SP2 is so badly coded that on some computers it does more harm than good. Doesn't XP stand for "Experience". What experience was taken exactly?
Why did Microsoft take it upon themselves to deliberately send a bad stylesheet to Opera to make it look "broken". And why has MS designed Windows Update so incredibly badly that it will only work on IE. There are plenty of technologies you could use to make it cross browser. Hardly a fair player are you. So with that in mind, let's view your Linux vs Windows comparison.
You're stats are fascinating and may well be accurate however as has been mentioned several times before, are not realistic to the real world. After all, where are the various "features" you so often find with Windows, such as the viruses and adware that pre-sp2 IE just LOVED to allow to be installed? I suspect if the tests were done on a 3 month old SP1 version of Windows XP, the results would be very very different.
While Windows might have a slightly friendlier interface and may even be faster when it first starts out, to claim it is out and out better is complete bollocks. Linux has many many advantages over Windows. For one, security, good security (compared). Linux doesn't bug me for a.net password or bullshit activation the first time I boot up. Linux offers many great features already built in, such as virtual desktops. I'm not going to do a blow for blow comparison but you can begin to see my point that Linux isn't the heap of shit you're trying to make out.
Reliable companies with tried and tested products or that bedroom coder Thorwaldes who publicly admits that he is in fact A HACKER???
The fact you deliberately get his name wrong and try to imply he's some sort of illegal hacker makes you look like a petty little man and gives you very little credance. If you bother to do a bit of research you will see there is a big difference between what is accepted as a CRACKER and as a HACKER. The first being illegal the second being curiousity and learning. To answer your own question, I would rather trust someone who spends more time trying to make things work in the first place, than a company who has to spend time trying to fix things because they didn't work properly in the first place - when they should have. Oh and "tried and tested products"??? How many zoos did you raid to get these testers? The only people who think Windows is "reliable" are those who think that AOL is teh l77t 1nt3rnet!!!!!111111
From what I pickup, it changes something in viewtopic.php. If someone's gonna go to the effort of creating a self spreading "fix" then I should think they've tested to make sure it won't do any further damage. That is assuming it is a 'white' worm and if it only touches one file.
Ahh man you're a slashdotter. cool. I've wanted to tell you since they "moved" the search over that novasearch was seriously good.
Thier search is horrible, sometimes the page doesn't load properly leading to a just-give-me-5-mins-while-I-find-a-server refresh. On the occasion it does work it's not so fast. And all that is when the main suprnova site is up. The main domain and search domain don't seem to integrate properly meaning you can't directly click through without problems.
Whatever mistake you made, they made a huge one by moving it to thier servers. You did a superb job and it was sad to see novasearch go.
From the interview: It's also really amazing what artists can do at home now. A guy with a synthesizer and a sequencer can create his own music that sounds really good, upload it and sell it. I would assume that's where some comes from
While many of the 1,000 or so tracks now featured on the service are progressive rock artists and labels -- including content from his own label Some more from there.
And the rest I would guess are the same as how radio works... but one original and pay the record company every time you sell a copy (play the track)
Is it national mod down week or something? I keep seeing good comments like this and they've got 0/-1 as their score
It is true, everytime they bring out "the uncrackable", someone cracks it which makes you wonder why they don't concentrate time and effort on finding out why people pirate stuff rather than trying (and failing) to stop them.
I was watching a program about the future of our solar system the other day. They were saying in around 5 billion years (iirc) (about the time it takes to logon to aol) the sun will be hot enough to melt saturns rings. However Neptune is due to grow it's own rings sometime after that.
The article was put up at 3:39pm
The real first post came in at 3:43pm
Your comment came in at 3:47pm which all makes you wonder why the hell you bothered smacking refresh just to get the satisfaction of failing it.
Someone I know made a cracking point about that after I managed to download a fully cracked version of half life 2 - no auth needed, no cd needed. He said "so the ones that go legal get punished AGAIN while the cheap bastards [i.e. me] get it easy".
Which reminds me of a missing goof.. the sims 2 (and other games) conflict with cd writing software.
You have my apologies for being a dick. As you posted as AC and had "plz" in it, I assumed you were one of those that reads an faq then asks a question out of it.
Lemme ask you something, if you saw 10,000 names on a bit of paper, would you read them all? How about 2,500 names?
And once you'd read them all, if I made up a name would you be able to tell me if it was in there or not?
My point is although the names would be bigger in font, with even 2,500 on there it's gonna be bloody difficult to isolate just one - unless their in alphabetical order of course. But then even if they are your average joe who's reading isn't gonna care less about fred jones over richard davis.
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What's wrong with trying to make a little back off the company. It's not like he didn't answer the original question.
Foxit is a freeware, very light, no-install-needed pdf reader, loads ultra quick and does the job just fine. There's a foxit pdf editor too. The reader is free the editor is 99 bucks
Although that's vaguely insightful, if it wasn't for people like him, there would be no need for av software at all.
"The Linux Kernel is loading... why not have a spliff while you wait"
Like men's ego's follow that rule "But I'm a great driver"
like braking on a sharp turn because it sees a tree
another reason not to let machines drive
But what happens to the car behind you who's too close and doesn't have this system and your car brakes sharply. There's a reason rear view mirrors exist and there's a reason humans drive cars.. because we know what's happening all around, computers don't
No you're not, I was just about to post the same comment. I thought it was a story about someone patenting attitude or something
I always thought ISPs should at least be made to supply info on what a firewall, adware etc. is, and how to get the free apps (sygate etc) to combat it. I think that would help a lot.
And those who are power hungry will rig up their PCs so they can overclock them to the max anyway, remember the 5ghz clocker?
Bet ya feel proud to have been smacking refresh now don't ya.
I'd like to pick a few things out of yourpost.
I am what most people would consider a highly trained technical professional. Unlike most people who spout off at this site, I have the certificates to prove this, and furthermore they're issued by the biggest software company in existence.
Lets have a quick look at MS.
There have been more bugs in their various software than probably all other final software put together. Didn't Windows 95 have 6,000 bugs confirmed in the end? Windows 2000 needed 4 packs. And how about Windows ME? Even the latest Windows XP needs 2 packs - and even SP2 is so badly coded that on some computers it does more harm than good. Doesn't XP stand for "Experience". What experience was taken exactly?
Why did Microsoft take it upon themselves to deliberately send a bad stylesheet to Opera to make it look "broken". And why has MS designed Windows Update so incredibly badly that it will only work on IE. There are plenty of technologies you could use to make it cross browser. Hardly a fair player are you. So with that in mind, let's view your Linux vs Windows comparison.
You're stats are fascinating and may well be accurate however as has been mentioned several times before, are not realistic to the real world. After all, where are the various "features" you so often find with Windows, such as the viruses and adware that pre-sp2 IE just LOVED to allow to be installed? I suspect if the tests were done on a 3 month old SP1 version of Windows XP, the results would be very very different.
While Windows might have a slightly friendlier interface and may even be faster when it first starts out, to claim it is out and out better is complete bollocks. Linux has many many advantages over Windows. For one, security, good security (compared). Linux doesn't bug me for a .net password or bullshit activation the first time I boot up. Linux offers many great features already built in, such as virtual desktops. I'm not going to do a blow for blow comparison but you can begin to see my point that Linux isn't the heap of shit you're trying to make out.
Reliable companies with tried and tested products or that bedroom coder Thorwaldes who publicly admits that he is in fact A HACKER???
The fact you deliberately get his name wrong and try to imply he's some sort of illegal hacker makes you look like a petty little man and gives you very little credance. If you bother to do a bit of research you will see there is a big difference between what is accepted as a CRACKER and as a HACKER. The first being illegal the second being curiousity and learning. To answer your own question, I would rather trust someone who spends more time trying to make things work in the first place, than a company who has to spend time trying to fix things because they didn't work properly in the first place - when they should have.
Oh and "tried and tested products"??? How many zoos did you raid to get these testers? The only people who think Windows is "reliable" are those who think that AOL is teh l77t 1nt3rnet!!!!!111111
I hope they don't have forced patching that spreads itself, SP2 already bugs the crap out of me to install it, I don't want it just doing as it likes.
From what I pickup, it changes something in viewtopic.php. If someone's gonna go to the effort of creating a self spreading "fix" then I should think they've tested to make sure it won't do any further damage. That is assuming it is a 'white' worm and if it only touches one file.
My FF 1.0PR passed without problem
My SP1, not-patched-in-a-long-time IE6 had 1 high risk. IE's run also looked really messy.
Mod this up it's hillarious. Either he knows he's on very steady ground or he's just mouthing off and hoping
Thier search is horrible, sometimes the page doesn't load properly leading to a just-give-me-5-mins-while-I-find-a-server refresh. On the occasion it does work it's not so fast. And all that is when the main suprnova site is up. The main domain and search domain don't seem to integrate properly meaning you can't directly click through without problems.
Whatever mistake you made, they made a huge one by moving it to thier servers. You did a superb job and it was sad to see novasearch go.
It's also really amazing what artists can do at home now. A guy with a synthesizer and a sequencer can create his own music that sounds really good, upload it and sell it.
I would assume that's where some comes from
While many of the 1,000 or so tracks now featured on the service are progressive rock artists and labels -- including content from his own label
Some more from there.
And the rest I would guess are the same as how radio works... but one original and pay the record company every time you sell a copy (play the track)
It is true, everytime they bring out "the uncrackable", someone cracks it which makes you wonder why they don't concentrate time and effort on finding out why people pirate stuff rather than trying (and failing) to stop them.
Oh that's right. Same effect wrong explanation. It cools but expands so the heat moves outwards, and it moves outwards quicker than it drops temp.
That was the vague universe news.
The article was put up at 3:39pm
The real first post came in at 3:43pm
Your comment came in at 3:47pm which all makes you wonder why the hell you bothered smacking refresh just to get the satisfaction of failing it.
Which reminds me of a missing goof.. the sims 2 (and other games) conflict with cd writing software.
There is a possibility (s)he was just being helpful.
You have my apologies for being a dick. As you posted as AC and had "plz" in it, I assumed you were one of those that reads an faq then asks a question out of it.
How about 2,500 names?
And once you'd read them all, if I made up a name would you be able to tell me if it was in there or not?
My point is although the names would be bigger in font, with even 2,500 on there it's gonna be bloody difficult to isolate just one - unless their in alphabetical order of course. But then even if they are your average joe who's reading isn't gonna care less about fred jones over richard davis.