Exactly... You can get 2000 fast food meals at $4.30 each or 1000 nicer meals for $8.60.. or possibly have 250 meals with a date at $34.40 (disclaimers-- yeah I know were talking about slashdot readers -- and yeah I know 34 bucks a bit cheap.. but it's an imaginary woman.. work with me)
Just so we are clear here.. What you are saying is that after switching to Linux, it allowed you to monitor these attacks to a dialup connection using logs.
You are NOT saying that Linux is easier to attack.
You are NOT saying that these attacks infected the Linux system
You are NOT saying that Linux is not safer
I mean I get it, but someone who is not a Linux user may get the wrong idea from your post. Actually, switching to Linux with broadband was going to be my advice for the virii paranoid, it's not foolproof by no means, but I like them odds.
I've been around the block a few times with Linux, but I am by no means an expert, and I use Debian as my primary OS at home. I think it is true not only for all Linux distro's but the Windows side too.. that you will run into "power users" who will try and demean someone with their superior knowledge when you are asking a question.
It is my experience, that Debian is no harder to learn and use than Ubuntu. Ububtu has some polish "out of the box" that Debian doesn't, but really they are not that different. I think any Ubuntu user could run Debian with about zero hours training
As to getting help from other users, I haven't really had any problems with contempt. When I have looked for help, I went to linuxquestions.org because I was used to going there on other distros.. so perhaps it is different where you looked for help.
hmmm.. A story praising Debian, you post your agreement and praise, and you are modded troll ? Is there some bad history here or is this an attempt to stop discussion of what distro each person likes ? If it is trolling to state your Distro preference, then why post stories about a distro in the first place. sheesh
In my drinking days, I often went to work with a hangover, and spent way too much money at the bar. To work with a hangover is stressful, and to juggle the finances and get your bills paid is also stressful. Maybe it could also be concluded that drinking causes stress
As they say, drinking doesn't solve any problems. You still have the problems, plus the drinking.
What's more meaningful, would be to know the number of eploited vulnerabilies.
Perhaps someday they'll get me, but I have never had to re-install, or fix my Linux system because of a virus or other malware. I do know of six Windows users that have told me their particuler virus woes (so reported to me anyway.. who knows about those too ashamed to admit it).. So I conclude from this, that Windows is at least six times more likely to have a virus..
What I run into often is this.. You want someone on the phone to open explorer, so then you have to specify "not Internet explorer". They should have left the name "file manager" from 3.x days. I know they intended some merge thing between the browser and the file manager, but sheesh they made that confusing, I think that is why they came up with the "My Computer" folder.. so they wouldn't have to say "not Internet explorer" on their support calls.
I worked in a company with 50 employees. Two of us ran Linux, and about 15 more employees even had a home computer. (talking about 5 years ago). Now when you do your statistics, of 4000 people, with 1 Linux user, it's a pretty bleak picture. However if you do my statistics with 2 of 17 computer users using Linux,it's a might better. Not mainstream of course, so that point is taken.
If you average my yearly salary, and Bill Gates salary, the average American earns how much per year ??
btw.. not my beleifs, mine ?.. mine are my own, and I don't pester people with em. but since your into it, you can compare your scriptures to theirs... and damn if your both not right.
Up until a few years ago, I would never in my wildest dreams think about having a rat as a pet. My girlfreind thogh had had them before, so we went to the petstore and saved a little white baby from becoming snake-food. I still had my doubts, especially when it raised up with it's paws together and looked so "ratlike". However the 2 years that we had this creature were awsome. Rat's have a personality, show affection, and are smart. The drawback as a pet, is the lifespan. When our rat died it was really traumatic, because she was like part of the family.
I suppose that the reason people are opposed to animal testing, is because the relate it to the animals they care about. I think there would be even greater outrage if it were dogs and cats. Regardless of my story though, I think that if testing leads to safty and cures, well then I guess we gotta do it.
I am not Canadian, and this is not to defend their healthcare system, but come on.
MRI machines are not "THAT" plentyful, it takes over an hour to do a scan, and generaly
they are well booked for this expensive scan.
In a critical or life threatening situation, sure an ER or physician may find a way to get you scanned more quickly. My girlfreind freaked
out and moved (ashthma cough) during the last few minutes of the hour long scan.. This equals worthles scan.. next opening for rescan was 2 weeks.
Exactly correct ! Dells suppliers have warehouses "in the neighborhood" and supply parts as they are ordered by customers. It's an awsome system really.
Although you are probably right, that a certain amount of "hollywood" charisma will help sell shares of stock. I beleive this is more for companies trying to sell "promises" than actual product.
A CEO with a "track record" obviously helps build cofidence, and raises money for the company he comes to save. So really he is selling himself and the possibility that he will make share holders money.
There is a serious problem with this "hollywood" buiseness mentality, in that putting a high paid "star" in the role of a bad movie, may make it more interesting to watch, but it will still be a bad movie. Putting an overpriced "star" into an already decent movie, is also a waste of money.
A good company, with a good product, making decent profits, does not need to pay their CEO millions of dollars a year. PERIOD. why ? for what ?
Try a knoppix disk. Runs from the CD player, only 1 disk required. no hard drive setup, which can be scary on some distros
Some distro's are better at hardware detection than others. I had good luck with Debian based (knoppix.. XFLD.. Xandros.. Mepis.. Ubuntu.. and stock Debian sarge) If you have a good net connection, all of these can be installed from one disk (base install, and then it downloads rest from net)
I am not a laptop user, however I would do a google search, and put in your laptop model, and something like "linux install" and find out what others have installed on your type machine. And see what problems or success they have had. Some distros are more laptop freindly than others.
You download your applications from repositories that range from stable to experimental.. However I think you'l find the applications that are in the "testing" and stable repositories are all very stable regardless of the word "testing". everything is tested to work together, and it takes care of all the dependency problems, so that everything you need is installed. It also manages updates for your system, and for new versions of applications
I find this a much safer way to install programs than windows, because these apps are tested and go through a lot to get into the repository in the first place.. (besides, it's a matter of honor to provide clean programs) You can always go to a "respected" place like download.com and well download all the spyware you want for windows. Perhaps some day the windows world will have a look at the Debian way, and some enterprising person will set up a safe spyware-free download site who knows.
CAD programs usually have their own format, and a (supposedly) generic format called DXF. The whole idea behind the DXF format was to allow different CAD programs to open and read the drawings created on a different program... It was a good idea, but I don't think the CAD developers want it to work well, because even their own programs have alot of problems with DXF after an upgrade (though usualy an older version trying to read a newer version). This of course locks you into the upgrade cycle if you want to continue exchanging drawings with other companies. And of course to be a big player you need to have multiple cad programs to handle em all.
IF it worked as designed though.. DXF would be great !
I like the "create this" part.. but the time pressure too much for my basic (literaly) skills.
I learned basic many moons ago (apple IIC if you want to calculate that), and other than a little python recently, I haven't done much coding. I find as an individual not doing it for a living, programming gets to the point where you say.. ok I can do this, but now what do I do ?
A few years back, I had a freind who wanted a program to mactch up roosters for fighting, It had the following requirements...
must randomly match
must match within 2 ozs
each participant had 2 entries, must not match into same "owner"
avoid matching 2 owners against each other twice if possible
Altough probably simple for most of you hard core coders, it was a challange for me, and I did it in qbasic.. my reason for bringing this up is that if I had other challenges like this, I probably would have kept at it more. I like the idea behind contests like these.. perhaps I will try to do this challenge just for my own fun and not part of the competition.
You hit the nail on the head with this one. Doom as single player when it came out was a cool game.. but when you finaly got to play multiplayer (modem or ipx at the time) you realized that it was an awsome game ! so much more fun to outsmart and kill people you know !!
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Exactly ... You can get 2000 fast food meals at $4.30 each or 1000 nicer meals for $8.60 .. or possibly have 250 meals with a date at $34.40
(disclaimers-- yeah I know were talking about slashdot readers -- and yeah I know 34 bucks a bit cheap.. but it's an imaginary woman.. work with me)
What you are saying is that after switching to Linux, it allowed you to monitor these attacks to a dialup connection using logs.
You are NOT saying that Linux is easier to attack.
You are NOT saying that these attacks infected the Linux system
You are NOT saying that Linux is not safer
I mean I get it, but someone who is not a Linux user may get the wrong idea from your post. Actually, switching to Linux with broadband was going to be my advice for the virii paranoid, it's not foolproof by no means, but I like them odds.
It is my experience, that Debian is no harder to learn and use than Ubuntu. Ububtu has some polish "out of the box" that Debian doesn't, but really they are not that different. I think any Ubuntu user could run Debian with about zero hours training
As to getting help from other users, I haven't really had any problems with contempt. When I have looked for help, I went to linuxquestions.org because I was used to going there on other distros.. so perhaps it is different where you looked for help.
As they say, drinking doesn't solve any problems. You still have the problems, plus the drinking.
I do get your point about the survey though,
"Brack's group" "is exclusively Mandriva" I take it., and
"the overall lab" "actually run more Red Hat Linux"
Perhaps he should write drivers tests for the DMV
Perhaps someday they'll get me, but I have never had to re-install, or fix my Linux system because of a virus or other malware. I do know of six Windows users that have told me their particuler virus woes (so reported to me anyway.. who knows about those too ashamed to admit it).. So I conclude from this, that Windows is at least six times more likely to have a virus..
After reading both you post, and your sig.
What I run into often is this.. You want someone on the phone to open explorer, so then you have to specify "not Internet explorer". They should have left the name "file manager" from 3.x days. I know they intended some merge thing between the browser and the file manager, but sheesh they made that confusing, I think that is why they came up with the "My Computer" folder.. so they wouldn't have to say "not Internet explorer" on their support calls.
If you average my yearly salary, and Bill Gates salary, the average American earns how much per year ??
regards
dbcad7
btw.. not my beleifs, mine ?
I suppose that the reason people are opposed to animal testing, is because the relate it to the animals they care about. I think there would be even greater outrage if it were dogs and cats. Regardless of my story though, I think that if testing leads to safty and cures, well then I guess we gotta do it.
I am not Canadian, and this is not to defend their healthcare system, but come on.
MRI machines are not "THAT" plentyful, it takes over an hour to do a scan, and generaly they are well booked for this expensive scan.
In a critical or life threatening situation, sure an ER or physician may find a way to get you scanned more quickly. My girlfreind freaked out and moved (ashthma cough) during the last few minutes of the hour long scan.. This equals worthles scan.. next opening for rescan was 2 weeks.
regards dbcad7
I hope they can reclaim their country. It would would be a loss to see the Minervan culture disappear. Damn it the UN should do something !
dbcad7
All you need is a boat, lots of rocks and dirt, and voila "instant country"
strap a shotgun onto the boat, and have yourself a navy too.
You can then declare war on the US.. get invaded, and have your country rebuilt for free !
dbcad7
1.) Get Xandros, run the install, and it will allow you to resize the XP partition making room for Xandros.
2.) Use Xandros for a bit, and see how you like it.
3.) Then install whatever flavor of Linux you want over it.
Or you can spend the bucks, and get partion magic or something like that. But the Xandros thing can be done for the cost of burning your own ISO
regards
dbcad7
A CEO with a "track record" obviously helps build cofidence, and raises money for the company he comes to save. So really he is selling himself and the possibility that he will make share holders money.
There is a serious problem with this "hollywood" buiseness mentality, in that putting a high paid "star" in the role of a bad movie, may make it more interesting to watch, but it will still be a bad movie. Putting an overpriced "star" into an already decent movie, is also a waste of money.
A good company, with a good product, making decent profits, does not need to pay their CEO millions of dollars a year. PERIOD. why ? for what ?
regards
dbcad7
Some distro's are better at hardware detection than others. I had good luck with Debian based (knoppix.. XFLD.. Xandros.. Mepis.. Ubuntu.. and stock Debian sarge) If you have a good net connection, all of these can be installed from one disk (base install, and then it downloads rest from net)
I am not a laptop user, however I would do a google search, and put in your laptop model, and something like "linux install" and find out what others have installed on your type machine. And see what problems or success they have had. Some distros are more laptop freindly than others.
You download your applications from repositories that range from stable to experimental.. However I think you'l find the applications that are in the "testing" and stable repositories are all very stable regardless of the word "testing". everything is tested to work together, and it takes care of all the dependency problems, so that everything you need is installed. It also manages updates for your system, and for new versions of applications
I find this a much safer way to install programs than windows, because these apps are tested and go through a lot to get into the repository in the first place.. (besides, it's a matter of honor to provide clean programs) You can always go to a "respected" place like download.com and well download all the spyware you want for windows. Perhaps some day the windows world will have a look at the Debian way, and some enterprising person will set up a safe spyware-free download site who knows.
This sure sounds like Componentized Linux which is Ian Murdock's other project besides progeny.
IF it worked as designed though.. DXF would be great !
I learned basic many moons ago (apple IIC if you want to calculate that), and other than a little python recently, I haven't done much coding. I find as an individual not doing it for a living, programming gets to the point where you say.. ok I can do this, but now what do I do ?
A few years back, I had a freind who wanted a program to mactch up roosters for fighting, It had the following requirements...
must randomly match
must match within 2 ozs
each participant had 2 entries, must not match into same "owner"
avoid matching 2 owners against each other twice if possible
Altough probably simple for most of you hard core coders, it was a challange for me, and I did it in qbasic.. my reason for bringing this up is that if I had other challenges like this, I probably would have kept at it more. I like the idea behind contests like these.. perhaps I will try to do this challenge just for my own fun and not part of the competition.
that said, I guess I'm old
Brings up an interesting question.. "If you travel at or above the speed of light on your ship.. what happens when you turn on the headlights ?"